1、国家公共英语四级（听力）练习试卷 9及答案与解析 PART A Directions: For Questions 1-5, you will hear a conversation. While you listen, fill out the table with the information you have heard. Some of the information has been given to you in the table. Write only 1 word in each numbered box. You will hear the recording twice
2、. You now have 25 seconds to read the table below. 1 PART B Directions: For Questions 6-10, you will hear a passage. Use not more than 3 words for each answer. You will hear the recording twice. You now have 25 seconds to read the sentences and the questions below. 6 The Make-A-Wish Foundation satis
3、fies the wishes of children who 7 Children s wishes include meeting their 8 Get Me Out of Here is the name of a 9 In Melissa s opinion, what was the worst thing she experienced in the forest? 10 How much did the Foundation receive for Melissa s win? PART C Directions: You will hear three dialogues o
4、r monologues. Before listening to each one, you will have 5 seconds to read each of the questions which accompany it. While listening, answer each question by choosing A, B, C or D. After listening, you will have 10 seconds to check your answer to each question. You will hear each piece ONLY ONCE. 1
5、1 The common use of unpiloted balloons is （ A） for military purposes. （ B） for pleasure. （ C） for scientific research. （ D） for sports. 12 Why do people usually fly hot-air balloons in summer? （ A） Balloons are easier to lift. （ B） It is a good time for exercise. （ C） The visibility is good. （ D） Th
6、ere is no danger in flying. 13 What enabled the earliest balloons to fly? （ A） Gas produced by metal and coal. （ B） Air kept hot by burning coal. （ C） Hydrogen heated by a gas burner. （ D） Natural gas carried in a metal container. 14 What happened to the U. S. job market? （ A） There was a huge incre
7、ase in new jobs lately. （ B） About 75,000 new jobs were created last month. （ C） Some 300,000 new workers were employed last year. （ D） There was a growth of new jobs in the past six years. 15 What does Lisa Lynch think about the Labor Department s report? （ A） It should be revised. （ B） It is too l
8、ong. （ C） It covers a broad area. （ D） It is positive. 16 In which sector is little job growth seen? （ A） Restaurants and hotels. （ B） Manufacturing. （ C） Health care and hospitals. （ D） Business services. 17 Where did Mr. Hudson grow up? （ A） New York. （ B） Chicago. （ C） Harvard. （ D） Washington. 1
9、8 Mr. Hudson s mother was a famous （ A） poet. （ B） lawyer. （ C） politician. （ D） economist. 19 What did Mr. Hudson eventually major in for his bachelors degree? （ A） Philosophy. （ B） Economics. （ C） Agriculture （ D） Management. 20 When did Mr. Hudson join the army? （ A） At the time of Pearl Harbor.
10、（ B） Before his PhD exams. （ C） In 1941. （ D） In 1936. 国家公共英语四级（听力）练习试卷 9答案与解析 PART A Directions: For Questions 1-5, you will hear a conversation. While you listen, fill out the table with the information you have heard. Some of the information has been given to you in the table. Write only 1 word i
11、n each numbered box. You will hear the recording twice. You now have 25 seconds to read the table below. 1 【听力原文】 American English college offers a wide range of courses, and we welcome students at all levels from complete beginners to advanced learners. Here are some of our summer courses. To begin
12、 with, we offer Business English Intensive Courses. These courses are for business men and women who need to improve their business English. We provide 30 hours of classes per week. Classes are between 9 a.m. and 5 p.m., with a break for lunch. The cost is $ 640 per week. We also have part-time exam
13、ination courses. These courses are for students who plan to take an English exam. Various levels are available depending on the exam the students plan to take. The courses provide 4 hours of classes per week, and classes take place on Tuesday and Thursday evenings from 6 p. m. to 8 p. m The cost is
14、$100. I d also like to mention academic English intensive courses. These courses are suitable for students who are going to study at university in the U. S.A. and those who need to improve their English language skills for study purposes. Students should have an intermediate or higher level of Engli
15、sh and are required to attend 25 hours of classes per week. Classes meet between 9 a.m. and 4 p.m. with a break for lunch. The cost is 560 per week. Our academic English Part-time. 1 【正确答案】 640 【知识模块】 听力 2 【正确答案】 part-time 【知识模块】 听力 3 【正确答案】 Thursday 【知识模块】 听力 4 【正确答案】 academic 【知识模块】 听力 5 【正确答案】 in
16、termediate 【知识模块】 听力 PART B Directions: For Questions 6-10, you will hear a passage. Use not more than 3 words for each answer. You will hear the recording twice. You now have 25 seconds to read the sentences and the questions below. 6 【听力原文】 M: Melissa, what is the Make-A-Wish Foundation? W: It s a
17、 well-known charity that grants the wishes of children with very serious illnesses. Since its foundation in 1980, it has granted more than 110,000 wishes world-wide. The children ask for all kinds of things, like meeting their favorite movie stars, or taking a trip to a place theyve always dreamed a
18、bout. This experience gives children and their families a much needed break from the day-to-day realities of dealing with illness. M: How did you get involved with the Make-A-Wish Foundation. W: My first contact was just recently, when I participated in the TV game show, Get-Me-Out-Of-Here. The show
19、 consisted of a group of famous people who lived a rough life in the rain forest while the viewers at home voted us off. Before the show started, each of us chose a charity. Everyday that we stayed on, the charity would gain money, Ive always been into children s charities. So when I had to decide w
20、hat charity I wanted it to play for, Make-A-Wish seemed like the perfect choice. M: What was the worst thing that happened to you on the show? W: The first day, I had to put insects and rats into my pants, but the worst was all the rain. It rained non-stop 12 out of the 16 days. We were wet all the
21、time: it was brutal. M: Did knowing that you were doing it for Make-A-Wish help you get through it? W: Absolutely. I feel like Im so blessed with my son who is healthy and wonderful. I thought a lot about the other children, I was putting myself out there to help them experience something they reall
22、y wanted to do before they got sicker or died, it gave me a lot of strength. M: Did you win? W: Almost, I came in second, and the Foundation received 100,000 for my second place win. 6 【正确答案】 with serious illnesses 【知识模块】 听力 7 【正确答案】 favorite movie stars 【 知识模块】 听力 8 【正确答案】 TV game show 【知识模块】 听力 9
23、【正确答案】 Rain. 【知识模块】 听力 10 【正确答案】 100,000 【知识模块】 听力 PART C Directions: You will hear three dialogues or monologues. Before listening to each one, you will have 5 seconds to read each of the questions which accompany it. While listening, answer each question by choosing A, B, C or D. After listening,
24、you will have 10 seconds to check your answer to each question. You will hear each piece ONLY ONCE. 11 【听力原文】 Balloons consist of a large flexible bag containing either hot-air or the gas that is lighter than air. The bag no neither envelope is made of silk, rubber or other suitable materials. Pilot
25、ed bal-loons carry one or more persons; unpiloted balloons are usually used for scientific research and carry instruments to measure and record a variety of physical phenomena. Since the first successful manned balloon flied in 1783, hot-air balloons have been flown primarily for pleasure. Although
26、the military made extensive use of them in World War I, occasionally rised for sport, the colorful globes are a more commonly thing flying in the sky during the summer when visibility is high and the flights are generally peaceful. Any gas that is lighter than air can be used to lift the balloon. Na
27、tural gas, heated air and manufactured gas can be and have been used to fly balloons. The earliest balloons were filled with hot-air and often carried a metal container for burning coal to continuously heat the air. Modern balloons are usually filled with hydrogen or air heated by a small gas burner
28、. Balloons are used primarily for two purposes, sport or scientific research. Sport balloons mostly use hot-air, they range from 10 to 20 meters in size when the bags inflated; scientific balloons generally use hydrogen and some particular gases. They range in size from 30 to 200 meters when fully i
29、nflated. 11 【正确答案】 C 【知识模块】 听力 12 【正确答案】 C 【知识模块】 听力 13 【正确答案】 B 【知识模块】 听力 14 【听力原文】 Last month big leap in new job, some 300,000 plus, is a huge increase over what the country has seen in the past 6 months when the average growth has been just 75,000 new jobs a month. For a closer look at whats hap
30、pening, we turn to Lisa Lynch, an economics professor at Tofts University. M: Welcome. Lisa Lynch, when you look at these numbers, do you think job creation is on the rise? W: It certainly is. It was a great report. It indicates that the job market, broadly speaking, has turned the comer after 3 ver
31、y long, lean years. I think we are going to see improvement. It s not only the March gain. It was gain in January and February. They were both revised higher, and moreover, the job gains were very broadly-based across many industries. It was a very positive report. M: What do you see in the numbers?
32、 Who s getting the new jobs? W: As I mentioned, when we looked at the numbers, we are seeing employment across the board in all sectors, with one important exception, and that s in manufacturing. Well, we do not have any job loss in manufacturing sector for the first time in 44 months, We did not se
33、e pick up in the manufacturing sector, but we saw restaurant and hotel workers being added on. We saw workers in supermarket being added on. Part of that reflects the settlement of the grocery stores strike out California. We saw workers in the health care sector and hospitals being added on. We saw
34、 business services adding employees. So in general, with the very important exception of manufacturing, we are seeing job growth across all of these different types of occupations. 14 【正确答案】 A 【知识模块】 听力 15 【正确答案】 D 【知识模块】 听力 16 【正确答案】 B 【知识模块】 听力 17 【听力原文】 W: Mr. Hudson, where were you born and rais
35、ed? M: I was born in Chicago, but I did t live there any more. I was raised in Washington, grow up there until I went to college in New York and then Harvard. W: Looking back, how did you think your parents shaped your character? M: Well, it s hard to estimate entirely. I was quite fond of my parent
36、s and considered them very good people. My mother was a kind of very feminist and a well-known Jewish poet. She became internationally known. My father was a lawyer. And though it s hard to say how much they influenced me, I liked them, I respected them and Im sure I was influenced to some degree by
37、 them. W: You were educated in the public schools? M: We moved almost every year, so I went to a different public school each year. W: So you would have been in high school and what years.approximately? M: Oh, I was in high school when. 26 or 27? I forgot. I graduated from high school in 32. W: What
38、 did you study in university? M: Well, thats a difficult question. I started out thinking Id be an economist, and then I got disappointed with that. And after an odd experience in my junior year, I decided that Id go out and study agriculture or management, but I enrolled in both for a whole year an
39、d tried to learn the required courses. I lasted a year, and then I came back to the main campus and finished up as an economics major specializing in labor economics. W: Did you go right graduate school or join the army after you graduated from the university? M: Well, I went to Harvard as a graduate student in philosophy in 1936, and stayed there un-til tile war broke out. I was drafted after I took my PhD exams in the early part of 1941. So I went into the army before Pearl Harbor. 17 【正确答案】 D 【知识模块】 听力 18 【正确答案】 A 【知识模块】 听力 19 【正确答案】 B 【知识模块】 听力 20 【正确答案】 C 【知识模块】 听力
