1、大学英语四级改革适用（听力）模拟试卷 156（无答案）Section C0 Think back to your college days, the good old days when life was easy. Stay up all night partying or even studying? No problem. Eat pizza every night and【B1】_ entire bags of potato chips at one sitting. Hey, no sweat. You were a mean and oh-so-young machine. But
2、 then【B2】_ happens. You graduate, get a job, get married, have kids, and around the age of 35 youre no longer so young and so【B3】_. In fact, youve added a few pounds around the middle. With each【B4】_ year you seem to put on another pound or two. By the time youve hit your mid forties you may find yo
3、urself looking in the【B5】_ and wondering, what happened? What happened is this. Around the age of 35 or so, your metabolism(新陈代谢)may start to slow down. Plus, you【B6】_ lose muscle mass, which slows your metabolism even more. The slower your metabolism, the slower the【B7 】_ at which your body burns c
4、alories. Even if youre eating less than you used to, youll start【B8】_. However, just because youre not a spring chicken anymore doesnt mean that you have to get fat. In fact, the antidote(矫正方法)is pretty simple: exercise and eat less. Lifting weights or otherwise【B9 】_ working your muscles will add o
5、r at least maintain muscle mass, which will help maintain your metabolism. The fewer calories you【B10 】_ in the first place, the fewer you need to burn. Maybe you cant stay young forever, but you can stay slim.1 【B1 】2 【B2 】3 【B3 】4 【B4 】5 【B5 】6 【B6 】7 【B7 】8 【B8 】9 【B9 】10 【B10 】10 A big trend in
6、the U.S. toy industry has more consumers switching off their high-tech gadgets (小机件)to play with classic toys, like board games. This is【B1】_ true among the so-called millennial(千禧)generation those bom in the 1980s and 90s. However, these millennials are not playing the classic American games they【B
7、2】_ with, choosing instead new games from Europe. Many of these【B3 】_ “Euro games“ have become popular around the world because they are not language based. They use【B4】_ and have simple rules. In the next year, market research firm Euromonitor International expects【B5】_ sales of board games and puz
8、zles to grow by more than 1 percent. Still no【B6】_ video game sales, which are expected to grow 6 percent. While many board games also have popular【B7 】_ mobile apps, many millennials, including Kristie Nehme, say there is one thing a board game can offer that a video game cannot. Nehme said the mor
9、e personal aspect of just being with friends and seeing each other in person is probably the main difference, the main【 B8】_. Toy Industry Associations Adrienne Appell says one of the biggest toy trends reported is that people are【B9】_ more traditional toys. The reason for this, she says, is that th
10、e new generation just wants to【B10】_ he phone and the tablet(平板电脑), and connect face-to-face with other people.11 【B1 】12 【B2 】13 【B3 】14 【B4 】15 【B5 】16 【B6 】17 【B7 】18 【B8 】19 【B9 】20 【B10 】20 Of the 143 native languages in Mexico, 60 are at risk of being silenced forever, linguists say. But Mexic
11、o isnt the only country losing its voices: If nothing is done, about half of the 6,000-plus languages spoken today will【B1】_ by the end of this century, according to UNESCOs Endangered Languages Programme website. Its【 B2】_ to save languages because they “are the primary connection for human culture
12、,“ says K. David Harrison, a linguist and co-leader of National Geographics Enduring Voices【B3】_. Harrison said that Mexico is a good example of that and each of the Mexican indigenous(本土的)languages contains millions of years of human experience, wisdom, and practical knowledge about the natural env
13、ironment. Another linguist Leon Pasquel argues that to preserve Mexicos threatened languages, there should be an integrated policy to【B4 】_: bilingual(双语的)education and design of school【B5 】_ and bilingual materials. But more importantly, teacher training is basic to achieve this goal and that is wh
14、at we lack. Because Spanish is the 【B6】 _ language in the workplace and Mexicans are【B7】_ taught Spanish in school, many Mexicans may have less interest in their regions native tongue. But everybody should learn an indigenous language【B8 】_ Spanish. Losing languages is “neither【B9】_ nor irreversible(不可逆转的),“ according to UNESCOs Endangered Languages website. There are many efforts under way worldwide to 【B10 】_ learning and speaking of languages in decline, especially for younger generations.21 【B1 】22 【B2 】23 【B3 】24 【B4 】25 【B5 】26 【B6 】27 【B7 】28 【B8 】29 【B9 】30 【B10 】
