英语四级听力考试练习题Model Test Ten

 

[00:00.00]1.W:I heard on the radio that the storm is coming.

[00:06.09]M:If the weather man is as accurate¹ as usual it will probably be sunny all day.

[00:12.36]Q:What do we learn from the conversation?

[00:17.48]2.W:Oh,dear,that will be $ 55 altogether.I don't have enough money.

[00:26.15]I guess I have to put something back.

[00:30.22]M:Wait a minute,Mary.I can lend you $ 20.

[00:34.43]But with the money I lent you last night you owe² me $ 30 now.

[00:39.65]Q:How much did the woman borrow last night?

[00:44.83]3.W:I really like those abstract³ paintings we saw in our art history today.What did you think?

[00:53.94]M:I guess it's something I haven't acquired⁴ a taste for yet.

[00:58.49]Q:What does the man mean?

[01:03.61]4.W:I can't believe I still have this pain in my back.

[01:09.69]This medicine the doctor gave me was supposed to make me feel better by now.

[01:16.41]M:Maybe you should start taking it three times a day like you were told.

[01:21.58]Q:What does the man suggest the woman do?

[01:26.70]5.W:I've been working on this report all day.

[01:32.29]And I've still got 10 pages to write.At this rate,I'll never get it done by tomorrow.

[01:39.47]M:Oh,that's right.You weren't in class today,so you probably haven't heard that the deadline has been extended⁵ a week.

[01:47.70]Q:What do we know about the woman?

[01:50.92]6.M:Can you believe the way Mary was talking to her roommate?No wonder they don't get along.

[01:59.17]W:Well,maybe Mary was just reacting⁶ to something her roommate said.

[02:04.24]There are two sides to every story,you know.

[02:07.92]Q:What does the woman mean?

[02:11.19]7.M:My telephone doesn't seem to be working.And I have lots of calls that I have to return this afternoon.

[02:20.30]W:Feel free to use mine if you want.I'll be in a meeting till five.

[02:26.42]Q:What does the woman suggest the man do?

[02:31.59]8.W:What wrong with you?You sure don't look like yourself.

[02:38.25]M:Stay away from me.I don't know what I've got.But whatever it is,you don't want to catch it.

[02:45.46]Q:What can be inferred⁷ about the man?

[02:50.63]9.M:I've noticed that you spend a lot of time tending to your garden.

[02:56.85]Do you think you might like to join the university gardening⁸ club?

[03:01.03]W:Oh,thanks for the invitation.But this is how I relax.I'd rather not make it something formal.

[03:10.20]Q:What does the woman mean?

[03:15.37]10.M:Tom's house is a mess.Doesn't he ever clean it?

[03:22.00]W:I guess he just has too much else on his mind with that new job of this.

[03:28.17]Q:What do we know about Tom from the woman's remarks.

[03:33.39]Passage One

[03:36.66]Sugar is so much a part of our modern life that we only really think about it when,for some reason,we cannot obtain⁹ it.

[03:45.83]It has been known¹⁰ to man for at least 3,000 years,but has come into common use only in modern times.

[03:55.00]Until quite recently it was considered as a medicine and as a luxury¹¹ for the very rich only.

[04:02.13]Sugar is,then,very important to our civilization.

[04:06.70]But what exactly is it?

[04:08.97]Of course most of us recognize sugar immediataly as the sweet material which we put in coffee or cakes.

[04:17.07]This common form of sugar is derived¹² from two plants;the sugar cane¹³ and the sugar beet¹⁴.

[04:24.28]But there are in fact many types of sugar,and the chemist recognises hundreds of different varieties,each coming from a different source¹⁵.

[04:34.91]About 90% of the sugar is produced as food.

[04:38.62]Only 10% is used in industry for purposes other than food production.

[04:44.34]Yet sugar has great possibilities for use as the basis of chemicals.

[04:49.52]It can even be used for making plastics.

[04:52.65]In the future these potential uses will certainly be developed more than in the past.

[04:59.36]Questions 11 to 13 are based on the passage you have just heard.

[05:05.58]11.How long has sugar been used widely?

[05:11.69]12.What material is mentioned that can be made from sugar?

[05:17.91]13.Which of the following statements¹⁶ is true?

[05:24.08]Passage Two

[05:26.24]Last week when I was watching TV news,the announcer,whose name was Ralph Story.

[05:33.92]said something that caught my attention.

[05:37.58]"All great discoveries",he said,"are made by people between the ages of twenty_five and thirty."

[05:45.70]Being a little over thirty myself I wanted to disagree with him.

[05:50.82]The next day I spent several hours in the public library looking up ages of famous people and their discoveries.

[05:59.39]Ralph was right.

[06:02.11]Galileo discovered by the famous experiment that bodies of different weights fall at the same speed when he was 26.

[06:12.27]Madame Curie started her research that led to a Nobel Prize when she was 28.

[06:19.45]Einstein was 26 when he published his world_changing theory of relativity¹⁷.

[06:26.72]Well,enough of that.Yet I wondered if those"best years"were true in other fields.

[06:35.81]Then how about the field of politics¹⁸?

[06:38.99]Winston churchill was elected to the House of Commons at the age of 26.

[06:45.19]Abraham Lincoln gave up the life of a country lawyer and was elected to the government at what age?Twenty_six!

[06:55.37]But why don't best years come after thirty?

[06:59.60]After thirty,I guess,most people do not want to take risks or try new ways.

[07:05.74]Then I thought of people like Shakespeare¹⁹ and Picasso.

[07:09.32]The former was writing wonderful works²⁰ at the age of fifty,while the latter was still trying new ways of paining when he was ninety!

[07:19.01]Perhaps there is still hope for me.

[07:23.19]Questions 14 to 17 are based on the passage you have just heard.

[07:29.33]14.What did the speaker do to prove Ralph was wrong?

[07:37.53]15.How did the speaker feel after his research?

[07:45.66]16.How did the speaker probably feel in the end?

[07:53.78]17.What can be concluded²¹ from the passage?

[07:59.92]Passage Three

[08:03.00]People live with noises all their lives.

[08:06.64]A place may seem quiet at first,but sound soon come through.

[08:12.41]During a quiet night at home,you may hear the noise of a refrigerator motor²² or the heating²³ system.

[08:19.59]Nature's noises usually bother us less than people's noises.

[08:24.74]Even in a natural quiet spot one hears birds or animal noises or perhaps the wind.

[08:31.92]Weather is sometimes very noisy.Noise is everywhere.

[08:38.09]Noise can travel a long distance.

[08:41.27]If you live near a free way,you know that mad noise of vehicles²⁴ can travel from eight to ten miles.

[08:49.50]Ways in which people can escape unwanted noise include soundproofing,substitution and selective listening.

[08:58.59]Curtains,for example,can soften²⁵ noises in a home.

[09:02.77]Music can cover up less attractive²⁶ noises by substituting²⁷ one sound for another.

[09:09.96]Selective listening can provide escape from noise.

[09:14.58]When a person does something attentively,the sound seems to disappear.

[09:19.75]A train that passes on a regular schedule may hardly be noticed after its first noisy journey.

[09:27.35]It is fortunate that people have ways to reduce the effects of noise although noise will probably not decrease.

[09:35.56]Questions 18 to 20 are based on the passage you have just heard.

[09:41.75]18.Which of the following statements is true?

[09:47.94]19.Which of the following is not a way to escape unwanted noise?

[09:56.11]20.What is the passage mainly talking about?

1 accurate   

adj.正确无误的；准确的，精确的

参考例句：

• He has made an accurate measurement of my garden.他准确地丈量了我的花园。
• He is always accurate in what he says and does.他说的和做的总是正确无误。

2 owe   

vt./vi.欠（债等）；感激；把……归功于某人

参考例句：

• We still owe one hundred dollars for the car.为这部车我们还欠着100美元。
• We owe it to society to make our country a better place.把国家建设得更美好是我们对社会应尽的责任。

3 abstract   

adj.抽象的；n.摘要，梗概；vt.提取；摘录要点

参考例句：

• He is an abstract painter.他是一个抽象派画家。
• He made an abstract of a long article.他对一篇长文章做了摘要。

4 acquired   

adj.（尤指靠自己的努力或行动）获得的；习得的；后天的；起初不喜欢但后来逐渐培养的爱好v.获得( acquire的过去式和过去分词 )；（使用探测器）捕获（目标）；取得；（计算机、机器人等）捕捉

参考例句：

• She has acquired a good knowledge of English. 她英语已经学得很好。
• The company has recently acquired new offices in central London. 公司最近在伦敦市中心弄到了新的办公室。 来自《简明英汉词典》

5 extended   

adj.延伸的；伸展的；延长的；扩大的v.延伸(extend的过去式和过去分词)；伸展；延长

参考例句：

• an extended lunch hour 延长了的午餐时间
• France has greatly extended its influence in world affairs. 在世界事务中，法国的影响已大大地扩大了。 来自《简明英汉词典》

6 reacting   

起反应的，反应的

参考例句：

• The law is often tardy in reacting to changing attitudes. 法律对变化中的观念常常反应迟缓。
• The water was reacting with the ferrous iron in the tank. 水与水箱中的铁质产生化学反应。

7 inferred   

v.推断( infer的过去式和过去分词 )；间接地提出；暗示；意指

参考例句：

• Much of the meaning must be inferred from the context. 大部分含意必须从上下文中推断。
• I inferred this fact from the evidence I have gathered. 我根据收集到的证据推论出这件事实。 来自《简明英汉词典》

8 gardening   

n.造园，造园术，园艺

参考例句：

• Dad is always in a good humour for gardening.爸爸干园艺活时，心情总是很好。
• She's outdoors gardening every afternoon.她每天下午都在户外搞园艺。

9 obtain   

vt.获得，得到；vi.通用，流行，存在

参考例句：

• He has enough money to obtain the necessaries of life.他有足够的钱购买生活必需品。
• Where can I obtain the book?我在哪里能买到这本书？

10 known   

adj.大家知道的；知名的，已知的

参考例句：

• He is a known artist.他是一个知名的艺术家。
• He is known both as a painter and as a statesman.他是知名的画家及政治家。

11 luxury   

n.难得享受到的愉悦；奢侈，奢华的生活

参考例句：

• He invited me to his suite. The luxury takes your breath away.他请我到他的套房里去，那豪华的气派真会令你吃惊。
• The government has imposed strict reins on the import of luxury goods.政府对奢侈品的进口有严格的控制手段。

12 derived   

vi.起源；由来；衍生；导出v.得到( derive的过去式和过去分词 )；（从…中）得到获得；源于；（从…中）提取

参考例句：

• Many English words are derived from Latin and Greek. 英语很多词源出于拉丁文和希腊文。 来自《简明英汉词典》
• He derived his enthusiasm for literature from his father. 他对文学的爱好是受他父亲的影响。 来自《简明英汉词典》

13 cane   

n.手杖，细长的茎，藤条；v.以杖击，以藤编制的

参考例句：

• This sugar cane is quite a sweet and juicy.这甘蔗既甜又多汁。
• English schoolmasters used to cane the boys as a punishment.英国小学老师过去常用教鞭打男学生作为惩罚。

14 beet   

n.甜菜；甜菜根

参考例句：

• He farmed his pickers to work in the beet fields. 他出租他的摘棉工去甜菜地里干活。
• The sugar beet is an entirely different kind of plant.糖用甜菜是一种完全不同的作物。

15 source   

n.来源，水源；原始资料

参考例句：

• They mentioned you as a good source of information.他们说你消息灵通。
• All works of art have life as their source.一切文艺创作都来源于生活。

16 statements   

n.声明( statement的名词复数 )；（思想、观点、文章主题等的）表现；（文字）陈述；结算单

参考例句：

• We are faced with two apparently contradictory statements. 我们面前这两种说法显然是矛盾的。
• The report is inconsistent with the financial statements. 这个报告与财务报表内容不一致。

17 relativity   

n.爱因斯坦的相对论；相关性，相对性

参考例句：

• Finally they accepted Einstein's relativity.他们终于接受了爱因斯坦的相对论。
• There is no relativity between the two matters.这两件事毫无关系。

18 politics   

n.政治，政治学；政纲，政见，策略

参考例句：

• They seldom talk on politics in those days.那时人们很少谈论政治。
• The two brothers differed about politics.这兄弟俩政见不同。

19 Shakespeare   

n.莎士比亚(16世纪英国剧作家、诗人)

参考例句：

• Shakespeare is a giant among writers.莎士比亚是作家中的巨擘.
• He read Shakespeare to help his English.他阅读莎士比亚的作品以提高自己的英语水平。

20 works   

n.作品，著作；工厂，活动部件，机件

参考例句：

• We expect writers to produce more and better works.我们期望作家们写出更多更好的作品。
• The novel is regarded as one of the classic works.这篇小说被公认为是最优秀的作品之一。

21 concluded   

结束( conclude的过去式和过去分词 )； 得出结论； 断定； 推断出

参考例句：

• The report concluded that no substantive changes were necessary. 报告的结论是，无须作任何重大变更。
• He discussed business and concluded transactions with us on the spot. 他与我们谈判业务并当场成交。

22 motor   

adj.机动的，有引擎的，汽车的；n.发动机，马达，汽车；v.（用引擎）驱动

参考例句：

• A washing machine is run by a small electric motor.洗衣机由一台小电动机驱动。
• The motor usually operates well.这台发动机通常运转良好。

23 heating   

n.加热，供暖，暖气装置；adj.加热的，供暖的

参考例句：

• They will install a heating and lighting system in our house.他们将在我们家装上供热供电系统。
• If the pressure is too low,the heating system will act up.如果压力太低，供暖系统就会出毛病。

24 vehicles   

n.运载工具；传播媒介；（为展露演员才华而）特意编写的一出戏（或电影等）；[画]展色剂；交通工具( vehicle的名词复数 )；车辆；传播媒介；手段

参考例句：

• There is not much clearance for vehicles passing under this bridge. 车辆在这座桥下通过时没有多少余隙。
• to carry out random spot checks on vehicles 对车辆进行抽检

25 soften   

v.(使)变柔软；(使)变柔和

参考例句：

• Plastics will soften when exposed to heat.塑料适当加热就可以软化。
• This special cream will help to soften up our skin.这种特殊的护肤霜有助于使皮肤变得柔软。

26 attractive   

adj.有吸引力的；引起注意的

参考例句：

• Bright colours are attractive to children.鲜艳的颜色对儿童有吸引力。
• The food has an attractive taste.这食品的味道很诱人。

27 substituting   

n.取代v.代替，替换，代用( substitute的现在分词 )；做…的代理人，接替

参考例句：

• He was substituting for the injured William Wales. 他替下了受伤的威廉·威尔士。 来自辞典例句
• They were substituting violence for dialogue. 他们在用暴力取代对话。 来自辞典例句