英语四级听力考试练习题Model Test Ten（在线收听）

[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 accurate 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 owe me $ 30 now.

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

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

[00:53.94]M:I guess it's something I haven't acquired 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 extended 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 reacting 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 inferred 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 gardening 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 obtain it.

[03:45.83]It has been known 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 luxury 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 derived from two plants;the sugar cane and the sugar beet.

[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 source.

[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 statements 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 relativity.

[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 politics?

[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 Shakespeare and Picasso.

[07:09.32]The former was writing wonderful works 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 concluded 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 motor or the heating 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 vehicles 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 soften noises in a home.

[09:02.77]Music can cover up less attractive noises by substituting 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?