英语专业四级考试样题听写部分

1、英语专业四级考试样题听写部分录音材料文字稿TEST FOR ENGLISH MAJIORSGRADE FOUR(SAMPLE TEST)TAPESCRIPT OF DICTATIONPART 1 DICTATION Listen to the following passage. Altogether the passage will be read to you four times. During the first reading, which will be read at normal speed, listen and try tounderstand the meaning. F

2、or the second and third readings, the passage will be read sentence by sentence, or phrase by phrase, with intervals of 15 seconds. The last reading will be read at normal speed again and during this time you should check your work. You will then be given 2 minutes to check through your work once mo

3、re. Please write the whole passage on ANSWER SHEET ONE. Now listen to the passage. THE RAILWAYS IN BRITAINThe success of early railways, such as the lines between big cities,/ led to a great increase in railway building in Victorian times. / Between 1835 and 1865 about 25000 kilometres of track were

4、 built,/ and over 100 railway companies were created. /Railway travel transformed peoples lives. / Trains were first designed to carry goods. / However, a law in the 19th century forced railway companies to run one cheap train a day / which stopped at every station and cost only a penny a mile. / So

5、on working class passengers found they could afford to travel by rail. / Cheap day excursion trains became popular and seaside resorts grew rapidly. /The railways also provided thousands of new jobs:/ building carriages, running the railways and repairing the tracks. /Railways even changed the time.

6、 / The need to run the railways on time meant that local time was abolished/ and clocks showed the same time all over the country. /The second and third readings. You should begin writing now.The last reading. Now ,you have two minutes to check through your work. (a 2-minute interval) This is the en

7、d of the Dictation. 英语专业四级考试样题听力理解部分录音材料文字稿TEST FOR ENGLISH MAJORS GRADE FOUR (SAMPLE TEST) TAPESCRIPT OF LISTENING COMPREHENSION PART II LISTENING COMPREHENSIONIn Sections A, Band C you will hear everything once only. Listen carefully and then answer the questions that follow. Mark the correct answ

8、er to each question on your answer sheet. SECTION A CONVERSATIONSIn this section you will hear several conversations. Listen to the conversations carefully and then answer the questions that follow.Questions 4 to 7 are based on the following conversation. At the end of the conversation. you will be

9、given 20 seconds to answer the questions.Now listen to the conversation.Questions 1 to 3 are based on the following conversation. At the end of the conversation, you will be given 15 seconds to answer the questions.Now listen to the conversation. I: Welcome to visit our city, Mr Lewis - but, of cour

10、se, you have been here before, havent you? L:Yes, I have, what a good memory you have! I was here for the Arts Festival last year.I:And what will you be doing on this visit?L:Oh, I came here primarily for a holiday and to see some friends. But I will also be giving some private cello lessons as well

11、.I:I believe that your cello is rather special. Is that true?L；Oh, yes. It was made for my uncle by a very expert German cello maker called Schuster. When I began cello lessons at the age of eight, he said that when I grew big enough to handle a full-sized cello, he would give it to me.I:So when a c

12、hild begins to play the cello, he or she starts on a smaller instrument?L:Of course, or he would be very uncomfortable. Many children begin with a half-sized cello, but as I was big for my age, I began with a two-thirds-sized cello.I:Are you going to other places on this trip and will you take your

13、cello with you?LYes, very definitely.I:But, isnt it difficult taking a cello around with you?L:Not really. I just reserve two seats when Im traveling anywhere, one for me and one for my cello. Its such a precious instrument to me that it hardly ever leaves my side. Hello, Mark. Have you ever played

14、cricket? No, never. Have you, John?No, but I once watched a game at the Cricket Club.Did you enjoy it?No, not much, though everybody else seemed to. I found it very slow. Nothing much seemed to happen. Perhaps that was because I didnt really understand what was going on.Its a bit like baseball, isnt

15、 it?Well, not really. In baseball there is only one man with a bat but in cricket there are two. Both at the same time?No. They take turns. They each stand at one end of the pitch in front of some sticks called stumps or the wicket. A member of the other team, the bowler, throws the ball at the stum

16、ps. The batsman tries to protect the wicket and hit the ball as far as he can.What happens when he hits the ball?The batsmen run to change positions. Thats called a run. They do it as many times as they can.What does the other team do?One of them runs after the ball and throws it at the wicket. If h

17、e hits it while the batsmen are still running, one of them is out.That sounds a little like baseball.Not really. I think baseball is more exciting. Yes, so do 1.Questions 8 to 10 are based on the following conversation. At the end of the conversation, you will be given 15 seconds to answer the quest

18、ions.Now listen to the conversation.My brother Mike has just done a course at the Green Park Camping School.Really! What made him decide to do that? Well, for one thing, some boys in his class decided to do it and they dared him to go with them!You mean he didnt really want to go?I think he wanted t

19、o go but I think he was also a little frightened. Of course, now that hes done it, hes very pleased with himself and hes always talking about it.So he enjoyed it, didnt he?Not exactly. I think hes enjoying the feeling of having done it more than he enjoyed actually doing it!What sort of things did h

20、e do?Oh, all sorts of open-air activities: hiking, camping, canoeing. One thing he had to do was to capsize a canoe and then right it again without getting out. He said the water was very cold but that he hardly noticed it at the time.Why not?He was too busy righting the canoe!That doesnt sound very

21、 comfortable at this time of the year.Thats what I said when he told me. On another occasion he had to spend a day and a night byhimself in the open country.Was he frightened?He was at first, apparently, but then he got used to it.It seems to me that the course did him a lot of good. I expect its ma

22、de him more self-reliant. Thats what he says - and now he wants me to go! SECTION B PASSAGESIn this section, you will hear several passages. Listen to the passages carefully and then answer the questions that follow.Questions 11 to 13 are based on the following passage. At the end of the passage, yo

23、u will be given15 seconds to answer the questions.Now listen to the passage. Although it is impossible to eliminate all risks from such a complex and experimental project as the American space programme, every precaution is taken to reduce the possibility of injury. Nevertheless, accidents do happen

24、. The first major casualties occurred when, despite every precaution, fire broke out on the Apollo 5 capsule on January 27, 1967. In spite of every effort to save them. three men died in this terrible accident.The programme continued without pause, however, and there were no more serious injuries un

25、til 1981.Then, the engines having been successfully tested on an earlier occasion, a rehearsal for the actual launching was held. Not knowing that an engine-chamber was full of nitrogen gas, used to clean the motor, six technicians entered for routine work after the final rehearsal had been declared

26、 successful. They collapsed as soon as the gas entered their lungs. One man died and the others were very ill.Though everyone involved was shocked and grieved by this apparently unnecessary accident, preparations continued for the actual launching later that year. How- ever hard we try, accidents ar

27、e bound to happen whenever a new and challenging project is undertaken. It seems to be the price of progress.Questions 14 to 17 are based on the following passage. At the end of the passage, you will be given 20 seconds to answer the questions.Now listen to the passage. In Britain, just after the ma

28、in television news programmes, audience figures rise. Its weather forecast time. The BBC broadcasts forty-four live forecasts a day, 433 hours of weather a year, using forecasters from the Meteorological Office. The Met. Office makes predictions about the weather seven days in advance. These are bas

29、ed on observations from the ground, from satellites and from radar. The observations are stored in computers that can do up to 4 000 million calculations a second.In Britain the weather is news. A television weather forecast often begins with an interesting fact - the town with the top temperature o

30、f the day or the place with the most rain. The public like that kind of information, says senior forecaster Bill Giles. The BBC forecasters are professional meteorologists, but they do not have an easy job. They are the only presenter, , , s on television who do not use a script, and they cannot see

31、 the map that they are describing. Viewers are o, ften critical, especially of female presenters. One woman left her job after rude letters and press reports about her clothes.The British talk about the weather more than almost any other subject, so it is a surprise to discover that seventy per cent

32、 of television viewers cannot remember what they saw on the weather forecast. What happens is that people like watching and hearing the forecasts, but they probably only take real notice when they need to, says one forecaster. Or, of course, when we make mistakes! Questions 18 to 20 are based on the

33、 following passage. At the end of the passage, you will be given 15 seconds to answer the questions.Now listen to the passage.A record number of tourists visited the city this year, and tourist spending appears to have increased. Hotel occupancy rates are likely to exceed the world average.The lates

34、t issue of the Tourist Associations TravelBulletin says that last years record arrivals figure of 2.5 million was passed last month. During the month, traditionally the peak tourist period of the year, hotels were reporting an 87 per cent plus occupancy rate.The Bulletin notes an increased tendency

35、this year for people to vi it the city on holiday. Last year, 65 per cent of the visitors cam,e for holidays while 21 per cent were on business. This years figures so far are showing a swing in favour of more vacation travelers plus an increase in the arrivals for meetings and conferences, the Bulle

36、tin reports.Total tourist expenditure was running about 10 per cent higher earlier this year over the same period last year. Visitors spent 11 million yuan last year, a substantial increase over the previous year. Money spent on shopping, however - the largest single visitor expenditure - dropped sl

37、ightly in the first half of the year, but spending on items such as tours, dining and entertainment increased. Nevertheless, money spent by tourists in shops still accounted for 60 per cent of total tourist expenditure. The rest was spent mainly on hotel accommodation and meals. SECTION C NEWS BROAD

38、CASTQuestions 21 to 23 are based on the following news.At the end of the news item, you will be given 15 seconds to answer the questions.Now listen to the news. A 20-year action plan for cutting the rate of world population growth is expected to win wide approval today in Cairo. Delegates at the UN-

39、sponsored conference on population completed final talks on the plan Monday.The document is non-binding, but it will serve as a guideline for countries and donor states that fund health care and family planning programmes. The world population of 5.7 billion currently is growing at more than 90 mill

40、ion a year.Questions 24 and 25 are based on the following news. At the end of the news item you ,will be given 10 seconds to answer the questions.Now listen to the news.About 100 people are now known to have died in what have been described as the worst storms ever to hit the eastern US this century

41、. The hurricane-force winds first struck the Gulf of Mexico, and have now spread across the Canadian border, continuing to bring record snowfalls, severe flooding and causing millions of dollars of damage. All major airports have now reopened and airlines are beginning to cope with the backlog of th

42、ousands of stranded passengers. The storms also par.alyzed areas of Cuba where several people were killed and property and crops destroyed.Questions 26 and 27 are based on the following news. At the end of the news item, YOlk will be given 10 seconds to answer the questions.Now listen to the news.US

43、 Senate has passed a landmark bill aimed at ending the countrys huge budget deficits within the next seven years. It would cut government spending by more than 900 000 million dollars. Health, education and hundreds of other programmes will be hit. The bill was passed last week by the- House of Repr

44、esentatives. And congressional leaders now have to work out a compromise. A BBC Washington correspondent says the stage is now set for a confrontation with the White House. President Clinton has threatened to veto the Republican plans. Question 28 is based on the following news. At the end of the news item, you will be given 5 seconds to answer the question.Now listen to the news.France has carried out the first of a planned series of nuclea