1、专业英语四级（听写听力）模拟试卷 60及答案与解析 一、 PART I DICTATION (15 MIN) Directions: 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 to understand the meaning. For the second and third readings, the pa
2、ssage 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 minute 专业英语四级（听写听力）模拟试卷 60答案与解析 一、 PART I DICTATION (15 MIN) Directions: Listen to
3、 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 to understand the meaning. For the second and third readings, the passage will be read sentence by sentence, or phrase by phrase, with intervals
4、 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 minute 1 【正确答案】 Midlife Crisis Unhappiness in middle age, also known as midlife crisis, is a universal experience. People around the world seem to share an em
5、otional design in life. That design is shaped like the letter U. Levels of happiness are the highest when people are young and when they are old. In the middle, however, most peoples happiness and life satisfaction levels drop. Some people suffer from midlife depression more than others. But it happ
6、ens to men and women, to single and married people, to the rich and poor and to those with and without children. Generally speaking, people reach their lowest levels between the ages of about forty and fifty-five. But then, as they continue into old age, their happiness starts to climb back up. Why
7、does all this happen? One possibility is that people recognize their limitations in middle age and give up some of their long-held dreams. 【知识模块】 听写 2 【正确答案】 Good Companion A good companion is better than a fortune, for a fortune cannot purchase those elements of character, which make companionship
8、a blessing. The best companion is one who is wiser and better than ourselves. Greater wisdom and goodness than we possess lifts us higher mentally and morally. Its true that we cannot always choose all of our companions. Some are thrust upon us. But the experience is not altogether without compensat
9、ion. Companion is education, good or bad: it develops manhood or womanhood, high or low: it lifts the soul upward or drags it downward: it ministers to virtue or vice. There is no half way work about its influence. It saves or destroys lustily. Nothing in the world is surer than this. Sow virtue, an
10、d harvest will be virtue. Sow vice, and the harvest will be vice. Good companions help us to sow virtue: evil companions help us to sow vice. 【知识模块】 听写 3 【正确答案】 Global Text Project Books are a high cost of higher education. But the Global Text Project hopes to create a free library of one thousand e
11、lectronic textbooks for students in developing countries. The aim is to offer subjects that students may take in their first few years at a university. The books could be printed or read on a computer or copied onto a CD or DVD. The Global Text Project is a new technology, the free encyclopedia that
12、 anyone can edit on the Internet. But only one or two people will be able to make the final edits in texts. The project includes a committee of scholars, mostly from developing countries, to advice on required textbooks and their content. The groups first book on information systems is being tested
13、in Indonesia. Project organizers also want to offer textbooks in Arabic, Chinese and Spanish. They are working with a translation company in the United States. 【知识模块】 听写 4 【正确答案】 Hemingway American writer, Hemingway was born in Oak Park, Illinois. He started his career as a writer in a newspaper off
14、ice at the age of seventeen. During the 1920s, Hemingway became a member of the group Americans living in Paris, which he described in his first important work, The Sun Also Rises. Equally successful was A Farewell to Arms, the study of an American ambulance officers disillusionment in the war and h
15、is role as a deserter. Hemingway used his experience as a reporter during the Civil War in Spain as the background for his most ambitious novel, For Whom the Bell Tolls. Among his later works, the most outstanding is the short novel The Old Man and The Sea, the story of an old fishermans journey, hi
16、s long and lonely struggle with a fish and the sea, and his victory in defeat. Now Hemingway is the classic symbol of bravery, or strong man. 【知识模块】 听写 5 【正确答案】 Self-Concept The self-concept is a complex structure. This complexity is illustrated by the idea of multiple selves. We seem to be a differ
17、ent person in each of many different situations. An example may clarify this concept. First, picture yourself at an athletic event. Now, contrast this image with one of yourselves taking a final exam. Finally, imagine yourself at work on a very busy day. You should probably describe yourself differe
18、ntly in each setting. Which image is really you? Of course, all are. We have multiple selves, each dependent on a context. Together they form our self-concept. It is the context that makes certain aspects of our self-concept more important at a particular moment. Self-concept is composed of our beliefs, values, and attitudes. Our beliefs give our self-concepts their substance, our values give them aspirations and standards, and our attitudes give them motivation. These three elements provide a structure in which we develop and build ourselves. 【知识模块】 听写
