大学英语四级考试巅峰听力MP3与字幕文本下载 Track 16

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[00:01.08]Passage One

[00:03.38]I flew to San Francisco

[00:05.90]to take care of some business with Mr. Jordan.

[00:09.37]But as soon as I arrived,

[00:12.32]I got sick and couldn't meet with him.

[00:15.39]I had to call our appointment off.

[00:18.77]Then when I felt better,

[00:21.73]I thought about visiting him at his home,

[00:25.12]but he lived too far away.

[00:27.85]I tried to telephone him during office hours

[00:31.90]but he was busy.

[00:33.65]The receptionist said

[00:36.31]that Mr. Jordan would call me back.

[00:38.71]But he didn't.

[00:40.03]I gave up trying to make a new appointment

[00:43.86]because it would take more time

[00:46.04]and effort than I wanted to spend.

[00:48.56]A few days later,

[00:51.30]I saw a man on the street who looked like Mr. Jordan

[00:55.34]and I called out to him.

[00:57.42]It was someone else.

[00:59.71]When I returned to my hotel that day,

[01:03.00]I found a message which said

[01:05.84]that Mr. Jordan had gone out of town

[01:08.58]on some sudden unexpected¹ business.

[01:11.75]I was sorry I had missed seeing him，

[01:15.26]but I really enjoyed my sightseeing.

[01:19.32]Questions 1 to 3 are based on the passage you have just heard.

[01:27.32]1.  Why couldn't the speaker meet Mr. Jordan

[01:32.36]when he got to San Francisco?

[01:49.42]2.  Why did the speaker give up making another appointment?

[02:13.28]3.  What did we learn from the story?

[02:32.93]Passage Two

[02:35.99]Deer are confirmed vegetarians².

[02:39.71]But you would never know it

[02:41.68]by watching the white-tailed deer in an island

[02:45.73]in Lake Michigan each spring.

[02:48.68]In the first documented case of its kind,

[02:52.63]two wildlife biologists, writing in a journal³,

[02:57.43]report that deer have been gulping⁴ down a kind of small fish,

[03:02.79]which die off each spring and summer,

[03:05.97]washed up on the beach.

[03:08.27]It is reported that the average deer eat 235 fish

[03:14.72]during each of three daily trips to the beach.

[03:19.21]The white-tailed deer were introduced to an island

[03:23.81]in the lake in 1926.

[03:27.09]The first fish  die offs began in the late fifties.

[03:32.23]It is also said that deer have never been heard

[03:36.82]to eat meat on a regular basis,

[03:39.45]although occasional⁵ occurrences⁶ have been reported.

[03:44.48]Someone once spotted⁷ a deer eating a dead salmon⁸.

[03:49.52]It is also presumed⁹ that deer eat bird,

[03:53.56]but don't get the opportunity to do it very often.

[03:59.18]Questions 4 to 6 are based on the passage you have just heard.

[04:05.74]4. According to the talk it is common sense that__________.

[04:26.99]5. What will be eaten by the white-tailed deer?

[04:48.32]6. When were these white-tailed deer introduced to the island?

[05:11.53]Passage Three

[05:13.28]Tom Smith was a writer.

[05:16.12]He wrote detective stories for magazines.

[05:19.95]One evening he could not find an ending for a story.

[05:25.20]He sat with his typewriter in front of him,

[05:28.05]but he had no ideas.

[05:30.34]So he decided¹⁰ to go to the cinema.

[05:33.30]When he came back,

[05:35.38]he found that he had had a visitor.

[05:38.22]Someone had broken into his flat.

[05:40.96]The man had had a drink,

[05:42.49]smoked several of Tom's cigarettes and had read his story.

[05:46.98]The visitor left Tom a note:

[05:49.28]“I have read your story and I don't think much of it.

[05:53.98]Please read my suggestions

[05:55.62]and then you can finish it.

[05:57.92]By the way, I am a thief.

[06:00.66]I am not going to steal anything tonight.

[06:03.61]But if you become a successful writer, I will return!”

[06:07.77]Tom read the thief's suggestions.

[06:11.04]Then he sat down and wrote the rest of the story.

[06:14.00]He is still not a successful writer,

[06:16.62]and he is waiting for the thief to return.

[06:19.80]Before he goes out in the evening,

[06:22.09]he always leaves a half-finished story by his typewriter.

[06:27.02]Questions 7 to 10 are based on the passage you have just heard.

[06:33.91]7. About whom did Tom write stories?

[06:54.27]8. Why did Tom go to the cinema?

[07:15.02]9. What did the man do at Tom's home?

[07:35.99]10. How did Tom feel about the thief's suggestions?

1 unexpected   

adj.想不到的，意外的

参考例句：

• I always keep some good wine in for unexpected guests.我总保存些好酒，用来招待不速之客。
• His promotion was unexpected.他的升迁出人意料。

2 vegetarians   

n.吃素的人( vegetarian的名词复数 )；素食者；素食主义者；食草动物

参考例句：

• Vegetarians are no longer dismissed as cranks. 素食者不再被视为有怪癖的人。
• Vegetarians believe that eating meat is bad karma. 素食者认为吃肉食是造恶业。

3 journal   

n.日志，日记；议事录；日记帐；杂志，定期刊物

参考例句：

• He kept a journal during his visit to Japan.他在访问日本期间坚持记日记。
• He got a job as editor of a trade journal.他找到了一份当商业杂志编辑的工作。

4 gulping   

v.狼吞虎咽地吃，吞咽( gulp的现在分词 )；大口地吸（气）；哽住

参考例句：

• She crawled onto the river bank and lay there gulping in air. 她爬上河岸，躺在那里喘着粗气。 来自《简明英汉词典》
• And you'll even feel excited gulping down a glass. 你甚至可以感觉到激动下一杯。 来自互联网

5 occasional   

adj.偶尔的；偶然的；不经常的

参考例句：

• That sort of thing is quite occasional and not regular.那种事十分偶然，没有规律。
• We must figure in occasional expenses in the budget.我们必须在预算中把临时费用算计在内。

6 occurrences   

n.发生( occurrence的名词复数 )；出现；事件；发生的事

参考例句：

• Newspapers record the chief occurrences of the day. 报纸报道了当天发生的大事。 来自《简明英汉词典》
• None of these occurrences should be considered as errors. 这些现象没有一个应该被看做错误。 来自About Face 3交互设计精髓

7 spotted   

adj.有斑点的，斑纹的，弄污了的

参考例句：

• The milkman selected the spotted cows,from among a herd of two hundred.牛奶商从一群200头牛中选出有斑点的牛。
• Sam's shop stocks short spotted socks.山姆的商店屯积了有斑点的短袜。

8 salmon   

n.鲑，大马哈鱼，橙红色的

参考例句：

• We saw a salmon jumping in the waterfall there.我们看见一条大马哈鱼在那边瀑布中跳跃。
• Do you have any fresh salmon in at the moment?现在有新鲜大马哈鱼卖吗？

9 presumed   

以为，假定( presume的过去式和过去分词 )； 推定； 妄行； 冒昧地做某事

参考例句：

• If a person is missing for seven years,he is presumed dead. 假如一个人失踪七年，即看作已经死亡。
• Her good nature can be presumed upon once too often. 不妨再利用一次她那善良的天性。

10 decided   

adj.决定了的，坚决的；明显的，明确的

参考例句：

• This gave them a decided advantage over their opponents.这使他们比对手具有明显的优势。
• There is a decided difference between British and Chinese way of greeting.英国人和中国人打招呼的方式有很明显的区别。