1、大学英语四级听力-10 及答案解析(总分:252.00,做题时间:90 分钟)一、Section A(总题数:4,分数:105.00)(分数:35.00)A.B.C.D.A.B.C.D.A.B.C.D.A.B.C.D.A.B.C.D.(分数:21.00)A.B.C.D.A.B.C.D.A.B.C.D.Questions 9 to 12 are based on the conversation you have just heard.(分数:28.00)(1).A. Hospital employees only. B. Many City Hall officials.C. Many Pac
2、ker Hall residents. D. The engineering students only.(分数:7.00)A.B.C.D.(2).A. It begins on campus. B. Its five miles long.C. It circles the campus. D. It takes a few days to cover.(分数:7.00)A.B.C.D.(3).A. Joe will keep it.B. It will be used for a new hospital.C. It will be divided among the participan
3、ts.D. Joe will share it with those who made pledges.(分数:7.00)A.B.C.D.(4).A. Eleven dollars for the event. B. Five dollars for the event.C. One dollar per mile. D. Twenty-five cents or less per mile.(分数:7.00)A.B.C.D.Questions 13 to 15 are based on the conversation you have just heard.(分数:21.00)(1).A.
4、 Causes of illness. B. The discovery of antibiotics.C. The history of prescription drags.D. Characteristics of antibiotics.(分数:7.00)A.B.C.D.(2).A. To give an example of a bad reaction to penicillin.B. To show how penicillin has changed over the years.C. To emphasize the importance of antibiotics.D.
5、To explain why penicillin requires a prescription.(分数:7.00)A.B.C.D.(3).A. In a pharmacology course. B. From her mother.C. At the student health center. D. From her doctor.(分数:7.00)A.B.C.D.二、Section B(总题数:3,分数:70.00)Questions 16 to 18 are based on the passage you have just heard.(分数:21.00)(1).A. They
6、 like music. B. They want to say something.C. They sing for enjoyment. D. They are in a good temper.(分数:7.00)A.B.C.D.(2).A. They hide themselves. B. They keep silent.C. They stay away from other birds. D. They make some signs.(分数:7.00)A.B.C.D.(3).A. It uses stone and flowers to make a garden.B. It f
7、lies high in the sky.C. It dances and sings.D. It spreads out its tail.(分数:7.00)A.B.C.D.Questions 19 to 21 are based on the passage you have just heard.(分数:21.00)(1).A. The War of the Stars. B. The War of the Worlds.C. The War of the Mars. D. The War of the Earth.(分数:7.00)A.B.C.D.(2).A. Mars. B. Ven
8、us.C. Jupiter. D. The Moon.(分数:7.00)A.B.C.D.(3).A. They were killed by the navy.B. They were killed by the army.C. They were killed by the air force.D. They were killed by a germ.(分数:7.00)A.B.C.D.Questions 22 to 25 are based on the passage you have just heard.(分数:28.00)(1).A. A laboratory experiment
9、. B. The layout of the laboratory.C. A piece of equipment. D. The workbook for the laboratory course.(分数:7.00)A.B.C.D.(2).A. The students must follow all instructions exactly.B. The students will be able to make choices about the laboratory work.C. A great deal of equipment is available.D. Homework
10、must be handed in on time.(分数:7.00)A.B.C.D.(3).A. Few instructions are given for the activities.B. Students are not required to do the activities.C. The activities take less time.D. The activities are to be done during class.(分数:7.00)A.B.C.D.(4).A. When the students have done good work.B. After the
11、first laboratory session.C. At the beginning of the semester.D. When the students need to be motivated.(分数:7.00)A.B.C.D.三、Section C(总题数:1,分数:77.00)In a (26) economy, the consumer usually has the choice of several different brands of the same product. Yet (27) their labels, the products are often nea
12、rly (28) . One manufacturers toothpaste tends to differ very little from another manufacturers. Thus, manufacturers are (29) with a problemhow to keep sales high enough to stay in business. Manufacturers solve this problem by advertising. They try to appeal to consumers in various ways. In fact, adv
13、ertisements may be (30) into two types according to the kind of appeals they use.One type of advertisement tries to appeal to the consumers (31) mind. It may offer a claim that seems scientific. For example it may say the dentists (32) Flash toothpaste. In selling a product, the truth of the adverti
14、sing may be less important than the appearance of truth. A scientific approach gives the appearance of truth.Another type of advertisement tries to amuse the (33) buyer. (34) .One way of doing this is to make the products appear alive, (35) . Ads of this sort are silly, but they also tend to be amus
15、ing. (36) .(分数:77.00)填空项 1:_填空项 1:_填空项 1:_填空项 1:_填空项 1:_填空项 1:_填空项 1:_填空项 1:_填空项 1:_填空项 1:_填空项 1:_大学英语四级听力-10 答案解析(总分:252.00,做题时间:90 分钟)一、Section A(总题数:4,分数:105.00)(分数:35.00)A.B.C.D. 解析:解析 M: Whats the matter with Mary?W: She becomes nervous whenever it comes to learning mathematics.Q: What do we le
16、arn from the conversation?解析 选 D,综合推断题。男士问女士玛丽发生什么事了,女士说一谈到学习数学,玛丽就会紧张,由此可推测玛丽的数学应该不好,故选 D。考点 come to 意为“涉及,谈及;突然想起;总共”,此处的 to 是介词。和 come 相关的其他短语还有:come about 出现,发生;come across 偶然遇到或找到;come around/round 恢复,还原;come at获得,得到。A.B.C. D.解析:解析 M: The students English club is having a party on Saturday nigh
17、t. Would you come?W: I would like to, but I work at a restaurant on weekends.Q: Why cant the woman go to the party?解析 选 C,综合推断题。男士邀请女士参加周六的聚会,但女士说她周末要去饭店打工,由此可知女士因为周末要工作所以不能参加聚会,故选 C。考点 现在进行时常用来表示将来的动作,特别是在口语中,多指已计划安排好的事情,这种情况下常有一个表示未来的时间状语,如:Im flying to Hong Kong tomorrow我明天飞往香港。A.B. C.D.解析:解析 W:
18、Did you meet the teacher yesterday?M: Ive been sick for three days.Q: What does the man mean?解析 选 B,综合推断题。女士问男士昨天见没见到老师,男士说他已经病了三天了,由此可知男士昨天没有见到老师,故选 B。考点 sick 意为“不舒服,有病的;恶心的,厌恶的;渴望的”,如:We are all sick to death of your complaints我们讨厌透你发牢骚了。ill 意为“有病的,坏的;恶意的”,如:You certainly did me an ill turn你肯定暗中对我
19、做了手脚。A.B. C.D.解析:解析 W: Will you come to my poetry reading next week?M: Ill be out of town then.Q: What does the man mean?解析 选 B,综合推断题。女士问男士下周是否参加她的诗歌朗读课,男士回答说他那时已经出城了,也就是说,他无法参加了。考点 out of town 意为“不在家里,在外地,出远门”。一般不说明出差地点时可这样用,只说 Shes out of town on business她出差去外地了。到国外出差时可以用 abroad 或 out of the count
20、ry 来代替 out of town 或 on a business trip。A. B.C.D.解析:解析 M: Do you like Mark?W: He is the last person I want to see.Q: What does the woman mean?解析 选 A,观点态度题。男士问女士对马克的看法,女士坦言马克是她最后一个愿意见的人,即是她最不想见到的人,故选 A。考点 last 含否定意义,常指“最不可能的,最不适当的”,如:the last person we would have suspected 我们最不可能怀疑的人;the last man for
21、 the job 最不合适这项工作的人。(分数:21.00)A.B. C.D.解析:解析 W: Bill certainly has been in a good mood lately.M: Ill say he has.Q: What does the man mean?解析 选 B,观点态度题。女士说比尔最近心情一直很好,男士回答说 Ill say he has即他对此表示同意,故选 B。考点 1)用英语表示完全同意对方的观点或看法,还可以说:Certainly./Sure./of course./Yes,I think so./Thats true./I agree(with you)
22、./Im sure youre right./Thats correct/right.Exactly2)如果仅在一定程度上同意别人的意见、观点或叙述的事实,但并不完全赞同时,我们可以使用maybe,perhaps,maybe,suppose 等模糊语言,并采用下列表示部分同意的句型:Yes,maybe/perhaps/You may be right/Thats possible/YesI suppose soA.B.C.D. 解析:解析 M: Your house looks nice. What did you do to it?W: I had it painted.Q: What di
23、d the woman do?解析 选 D,信息明示题。从女士的回答中可以知晓答案,但需理解 have sthdone 的意思是“让别人做”,而不是自己做。考点 have sthdone 表示“使某事被做”,强调主语意志,过去分词 done 所表示的动作由他人完成。have sbdo 和 have sbdoing 都用来表示“让(使)某人做某事”的意思,动词 do 和 doing 的动作均由sb执行。这两个词组的不同点在于前者的 do 表示一般意义,而后者的 doing 则强调一直做某个动作。在使用中,do 和 doing 可由其他实义动词替换。如:I had him take my phot
24、ograph我让他给我照相。/He had Joe clean his shoes他要乔给他擦鞋。A.B. C.D.解析:解析 M: If the traffic wasnt so bad, I could have been home by 6:00.W: What a pity! John was here to see you.Q: What happened to the man?解析 选 B,综合推断题。男士说如果不是堵车的话,他六点就应该到了。女士表示遗憾,说约翰在这儿等了他一阵子。从男士的话中已经可以推出,男士被堵车耽误了。Questions 9 to 12 are based
25、on the conversation you have just heard.(分数:28.00)(1).A. Hospital employees only. B. Many City Hall officials.C. Many Packer Hall residents. D. The engineering students only.(分数:7.00)A.B.C. D.解析:解析 9-12W: Hey, Joe, whats all this talk about the benefit walkathon this weekend?M: Dont you know? Most o
26、f the residents in Packer Hall are going to try to walk the seven miles from the engineering library, across campus and down to city hall, in an effort to raise money for the new childrens hospital.W: Sounds like a good idea. But I dont understand where the money comes from.M: Well, a few days befor
27、e the walkathon, each participant goes around asking people to pledge just a certain amount of money for each mile that he or she expects to walk in the event.Then after the walkathons over, the participants go back to those same people, collect the money pledged and send it into the hospital.W: So
28、you mean if someone pledges, say, a dollar a mile, and you walk five miles.you get five dollars?M: Thats right. Of course, most of my friends arent such big spenders; the biggest pledge Ive gotten so far is 25 cents a mile.W: And how many people have made pledges for you?M: Eleven so far. Say, how a
29、bout making it an even dozen?W: Sure. If you do the same for me. The walkathon sounds like a perfect opportunity for me to break in my new pair of sport shoes.Q: Who is going to participate in the walkathon?解析 选 C,信息明示题。文章开头女士询问步行马拉松的情况时,男士回答说 Packer Hall 的大部分居民都要参加这次比赛。(2).A. It begins on campus. B
30、. Its five miles long.C. It circles the campus. D. It takes a few days to cover.(分数:7.00)A. B.C.D.解析:解析 Q: What is known about the course of the walkathon?解析 选 A,信息明示题。这次马拉松的性质是民间发起的一次慈善活动,路线是从工程图书馆出发,穿过校园直达市政厅。由此可知,B、C 选项都是错的,D 未提到。而工程图书馆也在校园内,所以从校园出发的说法也是正确的。(3).A. Joe will keep it.B. It will be u
31、sed for a new hospital.C. It will be divided among the participants.D. Joe will share it with those who made pledges.(分数:7.00)A.B. C.D.解析:解析 Q: What will happen to the money raised at the walkathon?解析 选 B,信息明示题。文中说完筹款方式之后,提到 collect the money pledged and send it into the hospital,另外文章开头也提到这次的筹款目的是 f
32、or the new childrens hospital,故选B。(4).A. Eleven dollars for the event. B. Five dollars for the event.C. One dollar per mile. D. Twenty-five cents or less per mile.(分数:7.00)A.B.C.D. 解析:解析 Q: How much money has each of Joes friends pledged to him?解析 选 D,信息明示题。男士说他的朋友都不是大手大脚花钱的人,目前捐的最多的也只是 25 cents a m
33、ile(一英里 25 美分),故选 D。考点 pledge 作名词时,指“诺言,誓言”,如:signed a pledge never to reveal the secret 签署决不泄露秘密的诺言/a pledge of money to a charity 捐钱给慈善事业的诺言;也可以作“抵押物,担保”用,如:put an article in pledge 用物品担保;作动词是指“用担保,抵押”,或用担保物来约束或保证,如:pledged themselves to the cause 用他们自己为控诉担保。Questions 13 to 15 are based on the con
34、versation you have just heard.(分数:21.00)(1).A. Causes of illness. B. The discovery of antibiotics.C. The history of prescription drags.D. Characteristics of antibiotics.(分数:7.00)A.B.C.D. 解析:解析 13-15W: Hi, Dan. You know that lab you missed? You can have my notes.M: Thanks. I appreciate that.W: So how
35、 are you feeling?M: Much better now that I began taking an antibiotic. Student Health Center gave me one, and it really helps. You know what amazes me is that the human races survive before antibiotics.W: I agree. When my father was a young boy in the 1940s, he got blood poisoning and would have die
36、d. But his doctor had heard of this new drug, called penicillin.M: Wow, he was really lucky. And now we have lots of antibiotics that kill bacteria.W: Well, penicillin kills bacteria, but not all antibiotics do. Some are just slowing the bacteria down until our normal immune defenses can finish the
37、job. Tetracycline works that way.M: Wow, how do you know all these?W: My mother used to look up all our medicines, prescription and non-prescription.There are lots of books around. Its interesting. What antibiotic are you taking?M: I dont remember. Its on the bottle. I think Ill take a new look at t
38、he label and drop by the library to see if they have reference books on medicines. See you in lab tomorrow.Q: What are the speakers mainly discussing?解析 选 D,主旨题。男士说自己吃完抗生素后感觉好多了,女士由此为男士介绍了两种抗生素的特性,但并没有提到抗生素的发现,故选 D。(2).A. To give an example of a bad reaction to penicillin.B. To show how penicillin h
39、as changed over the years.C. To emphasize the importance of antibiotics.D. To explain why penicillin requires a prescription.(分数:7.00)A.B.C. D.解析:解析 Q: Why does the woman tell the story about her father?解析 选 C,综合理解题。男士说自己对人类在没有抗生素的条件下可以存活表示吃惊,女士对此表示赞同,并以其父亲为例,由此推断,举例是为了强调抗生素的重要性,故选 C。(3).A. In a pha
40、rmacology course. B. From her mother.C. At the student health center. D. From her doctor.(分数:7.00)A.B. C.D.解析:解析 Q: Where did the woman learn about antibiotics?解析 选 B,综合理解题。男士问女士是如何知道这些有关抗生素的知识的,女士回答说她母亲以前总是查看她们的药,包括处方药和非处方药,由此推断,这些知识都是她母亲教她的,故选 B。考点 1)now that 意为“由于,既然”,此时 now 为连词,that 可以省略,如:Now y
41、ouve passed your test you can drive on your own你驾照考试既已合格,可以独自开车了。2)look sthup 意为“(在词典或参看书中)查阅(词或资料)”,与其相关的短语还有:look sbup 看望或接触某人;look up to sb赞赏或尊敬某人;而 look up 既可指“仰视”,也可指“改善”,如:Unemployment is coming down,and things are definitely looking up!失业率在下降,形势确实在好转!二、Section B(总题数:3,分数:70.00)Questions 16 to
42、 18 are based on the passage you have just heard.(分数:21.00)(1).A. They like music. B. They want to say something.C. They sing for enjoyment. D. They are in a good temper.(分数:7.00)A.B. C.D.解析:解析 16-18People usually sing because they like music or because they feel happy. They express their happiness
43、by singing. When a bird sings, however, its song usually means much more than that a bird is in a good temper. Birds have many reasons for singing.They sing to give information. Their songs are their language. Love songs are sung by male birds. They sing when they want to attract a female bird. It i
44、s their way of saying that they are looking for a wife. Birds also sing to tell other birds to keep away.To a bird, his tree, or even a branch of tree is his home. He does not want strangers to come near his home. So he sings to warn them. Ira bird can not sing well,he usually has some other means o
45、f giving important information.Some birds dance, spread out their tails, or make other signs. There is also a special kind of bird which builds a small garden of stones and flowers to attract a female bird.Q: Birds have many reasons for singing. What is the main reason?解析 选 B,信息明示题。文章明确指出鸟类的歌唱是它们的语言
46、,歌唱的原因有很多,但最主要的是它们以此传达信息,故选 B。(2).A. They hide themselves. B. They keep silent.C. They stay away from other birds. D. They make some signs.(分数:7.00)A.B.C.D. 解析:解析 Q: What do most birds usually do if they cannot sing well?解析 选 D,信息明示题。文章指出当鸟唱歌不好时会用别的方法传达重要的信息,如跳舞、展开尾巴等,故选 D。(3).A. It uses stone and f
47、lowers to make a garden.B. It flies high in the sky.C. It dances and sings.D. It spreads out its tail.(分数:7.00)A. B.C.D.解析:解析 Q: What does the special kind of bird do to attract a female?解析 选 A,信息明示题。文章最后一句提到一种特殊的鸟用石头与花建造花园来吸引雌鸟,故选 A。考点 关于 temper 的常用短语有:in a bad/foul/rotten temper 发脾气;have a short/q
48、uick/nasty temper 急脾气;keep ones temper 忍住脾气;lose ones temper 发脾气等。Questions 19 to 21 are based on the passage you have just heard.(分数:21.00)(1).A. The War of the Stars. B. The War of the Worlds.C. The War of the Mars. D. The War of the Earth.(分数:7.00)A.B. C.D.解析:解析 19-21In 1938, a play called The War of the Worlds was broadcast on the radio. The play started with a newsflash about a mysterious explosion on the planet Mars. Then there was a report about a burning object falling over a farm in New Jersey.At the same time the play beg