[外语类试卷]专业英语四级（听力）模拟试卷102及答案与解析.doc

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1、专业英语四级（听力）模拟试卷 102及答案与解析 SECTION B CONVERSATIONS In this section you will hear two conversations. At the end of each conversation , five questions will be asked about what was said. Both the conversation and the questions will be spoken ONCE ONLY. After each question there will be a ten-second pause

2、. During the pause, you should read the four choices of A, B, C and D, and mark the best answer to each question on ANSWER SHEET TWO. You have thirty seconds to preview the questions. 1 Why are the male elephants sent away? （ A） Because they are too naughty. （ B） Because they are too bully. （ C） Bec

3、ause females elephants dont like them. （ D） Because elephants live in families of females. 2 According to the passage, which statement is CORRECT? （ A） The elephant is the biggest animal in the world. （ B） Female and male elephants live together all life long. （ C） The elephant has a good memory. （

4、D） The male elephant often has lots of male friends. 3 What happens to a female elephant when it dies? （ A） The others take a little of its corpse away. （ B） The others eat its dead body. （ C） The others bury it near their home. （ D） The others leave its dead body there. 4 According to this Passage,

5、 the umbrella was probably first invented （ A） in ancient China. （ B） in ancient Egypt. （ C） in ancient Greece. （ D） in ancient Rome. 5 In Europe, the umbrella was first used against the rain （ A） in France. （ B） in England. （ C） in ancient Rome. （ D） in ancient Greece. 6 Which of the following stat

6、ements is INCORRECT about the umbrella? （ A） No one exactly knows who the inventor of the umbrella was. （ B） The umbrella was fist invented to protect against the sun. （ C） The umbrella changed much in style in the eighteenth century. （ D） In Europe the Greeks were the first to use the umbrella. 7 T

7、his passage talks mainly about （ A） when and how the umbrella was invented. （ B） why the umbrella was so popular in Europe. （ C） the development of the umbrella. （ D） the history and use of the umbrella. 8 Which of the following details about Hitchcock is INCORRECT? （ A） He is good-looking. （ B） He

8、is a moviemaker. （ C） He is from England. （ D） He looks very gentle. 9 When he was sixteen, Hitchcock found his talent for （ A） film-making. （ B） writing. （ C） action. （ D） drawing. 10 Which statement about his first written work is INCORRECT? （ A） It was an advertisement for his company. （ B） It re

9、sulted in a change in his career. （ C） It was in the newspaper of his company. （ D） It involved Hitchcocks vivid imagination. 11 Whether a person is right-handed or left-handed results from （ A） the education of the parents. （ B） the education of the teacher. （ C） genetic factors. （ D） the example o

10、f the friends. 12 As for the speakers experiment, which statement is INCORRECT? （ A） He used a pair of chopsticks in the experiment. （ B） He tried to have a change and eat with the left hand. （ C） It showed that making a change influences our mind. （ D） It is the first time that he used chopsticks t

11、o eat rice. 13 Whats the function of the mirror in the experiment? （ A） To enable the speaker to dress himself up in the experiment. （ B） To enable the speaker to record his play in the experiment. （ C） To enable the speaker to get more lights in the experiment. （ D） To enable the speaker to watch h

12、is actions in the experiment. 14 Why did the speaker want to open the window in the small restaurant? （ A） Because he felt too hot inside. （ B） Because he wanted to smoke there. （ C） Because the restaurant was too smoky. （ D） Because he wanted to stop himself dying. 15 The speaker worried about （ A）

13、 smoking problem. （ B） traffic problem. （ C） sound pollution. （ D） air pollution. 16 Which solution is NOT mentioned to solve the pollution? （ A） To improve the public transport system. （ B） To persuade factories to use less fossil fuel. （ C） To introduce emission controls on all cars. （ D） To encou

14、rage people to drive private cars less. 17 Which operation is NOT earthmoving one mentioned in the passage? （ A） House building. （ B） Agriculture development. （ C） Road construction. （ D） Industrial development. 18 The following are endangered species EXCEPT （ A） tigers. （ B） whales. （ C） polar bear

15、s. （ D） some types of butterflies. 19 Which of the following is NOT the reason for wild animals getting endangered? （ A） Contact with human environments. （ B） Species competition for food. （ C） Protection of domestic animals. （ D） Application in decoration. 20 Which of the following is TRUE? （ A） Ma

16、n should not protect the chicken and sheep they raise. （ B） The species mentioned has disappeared on the earth. （ C） Mans killing of wild animals can be justified. （ D） Man should realize the earth is not his alone. 专业英语四级（听力）模拟试卷 102答案与解析 SECTION B CONVERSATIONS In this section you will hear two co

17、nversations. At the end of each conversation , five questions will be asked about what was said. Both the conversation and the questions will be spoken ONCE ONLY. After each question there will be a ten-second pause. During the pause, you should read the four choices of A, B, C and D, and mark the b

18、est answer to each question on ANSWER SHEET TWO. You have thirty seconds to preview the questions. 1 【听力原文】 The elephant is the biggest four-legged animal in the world. They live for a long time fifty or sixty years in families of females. There will be a few young male a few “baby boy“. But the fem

19、ales will soon send them away. An elephant family keeps only its daughters, mothers and grandmothers, and its great grandmothers. The females stay together for years. The older animals look after the young ones. The mothers teach their daughters and set a good example. And what happens to male eleph

20、ants? Well, the young males stay with their mothers for a time. Then they must leave the family. The females just send them away. A bull elephant does not often have a friend. He lives alone; away from the family, and often away from other bulls. Sometime the females call a bull. He can visit them t

21、hen, and they stay for a time. But soon his “wives“ and sisters send him away again. The females have a very happy family life. Elephants can remember things very well. They never forget great happiness or great sadness. When a female elephant dies, her daughters and her grand-daughters are sad for

22、many months. They stay with the dead body. Then they carry a bit of it away with them. They never forget a dead friend. 1 【正确答案】 D 【试题解析】 细节题。短文开头就说大象是群居生活，是母系社会，留在家庭里的全部都是母象，公象长大了都会被母象赶出去的。因此 D正确。 【知识模块】 短文听力 2 【正确答案】 C 【试题解析】 细节题。短文后面提到，大象能够很好的记住事情，它们从来都不会忘记大喜大悲，当一头母象死去，它的女儿、孙女都会伤心好几个月，充分说明大象的记性很好

23、， C为正确选项。 【知识模块】 短文听力 3 【正确答案】 A 【试题解析】 细节题。短文最后说到，当一头母象死去 ，它的母系家族会呆在它的身边，然后把它的尸体的一小部分带走，故选 A。 【知识模块】 短文听力 4 【听力原文】 To us it seems so natural to put up an umbrella to keep the water off when it rains. But actually the umbrella was not invented as protection against rain. Its first use was as a shade

24、 against the sun! Nobody knows who first invented it, but the umbrella was used in very ancient times. Probably the first to use it were the Chinese, as early as the eleventh century B.C. In Europe, the Greeks were the first to use the umbrella as a sunshade. And the umbrella was in common use in an

25、cient Greece. But it is believed that the first persons in Europe to use the umbrella as protection against the rain were the ancient Romans. During the Middle Ages, the use of the umbrella practically disappeared. Then it appeared again in Italy in the late sixteenth century. And again it was consi

26、dered a symbol of power and authority. By 1680, the umbrella appeared in France, and later on in England. By the eighteenth century, the umbrella was used against rain throughout most of Europe. Umbrellas have not changed much in style during all this time, though they have become much lighter in we

27、ight. It wasnt until the twentieth century that womens umbrellas began to be made, in a whole variety of colours. 4 【正确答案】 A 【试题解析】 细节题。短文说，没人知道伞到底是谁发明的，但肯定在古代就有使用，很有可能首先使用伞的是中国人，即很有可能伞是在古代中国发明的，故选 A。 【知识模块】 短文听力 5 【正确答案】 C 【试题解析】 细节题。短文说，古希腊人是最先把伞用来遮太阳的欧洲人，但是最先用来遮雨的人却是古罗马人，因此答案为 C。 【知识模块】 短文听力 6 【正

28、确答案】 C 【试题解析】 细节题。文章提到，到 18世纪时，大部分欧洲人已经开始使用伞来遮雨了，不过 在那时候伞的样式还没有多大改变， C项与原意不符，为正确答案。 【知识模块】 短文听力 7 【正确答案】 D 【试题解析】 主旨题。本文一开始讲到伞起初不是被用来遮雨的，而是用来遮太阳的，后提到首先使用伞的人及伞在欧洲的使用情况及发展情况，所以这篇短文主要讲的是伞的历史和使用情况， D为最合适的选项。 【知识模块】 短文听力 8 【听力原文】 Alfred Hitchcock is one of the best-known film-makers, and because of his h

29、abit of making a quick appearances in each of his films ever since the 1930s, his face is easily recognized. Cinema audiences all over the world have come to connect the gentle-looking, overweight Englishman with some of the most mysterious and frightening films ever made. Alfred Hitchcock was the s

30、on of an East London shopkeeper. He had a strict Catholic education and went to several strict schools. He was a quiet boy, an average student who kept himself to himself. When he left school at fourteen, he began to be trained as an engineer. He had always been an enthusiastic theatre lover and by

31、sixteen he became interested in the cinema too. About this time he found he also had a talent for drawing, and he went to a course in drawing at London University at first it was to help him in his job. But as young Hitchcocks career developed, so did his interest in the arts and with his drawing ta

32、lent came an interest in writing. His first written work was in The Henley, the magazine of his company. This led to another change in the direction of his career, as he found himself writing the advertising for the company. This was the first time Hitchcock had been asked to use his imagination, an

33、d for the first time he started to experiment with characters and stories. 8 【正确答案】 A 【试题解析】 细节题。短文提到 Hitchcock是一个样子温和、体重超重的英国人，而没有说他长得漂不漂亮，所以 A项为正确选项。 【知识模块】 短文听力 9 【正确答案】 D 【试题解析】 细节题。短文说到 16岁时，他开始对电影院感兴趣，也是那个时候他发现自己在绘画方面很有天赋，所以应选 D。 【知识模块】 短文听力 10 【正确答案】 C 【试题解析】 细节题。短文说，他的首次写作作品发表在自己公司的杂志上，而不是报纸

34、上， C项不符合 原意，为正确选项。 【知识模块】 短文听力 11 【听力原文】 Some people are right-handed and some are left-handed. No one knows the reason why a person becomes right-handed or left-handed, It is not true that it is caused by the way in which his parents educate him. In other words, a person is born to be right-handed

35、or left-handed. Moreover, the left-handed and the right-handed “think“ differently. Having to use the hand youre not used to can be very upsetting. One day I tried an experiment: changing hands while eating rice with chopsticks. Being a right-hander, I hoped it would not be too hard for me to take t

36、he food with my left hand. Soon after I started, I realized I didnt know what I was doing. So I moved in front of a big mirror, in order that I could observe my actions clearly. Looking at myself in the mirror, I found I looked like a man who had never used chopsticks. I grew more and more nervous a

37、nd finally I had to give it up. My experience shows, being forced to use the hand one is not used to affects a persons mind. So we should not try to change a left-hander to a right-hander. Some people still think being left-handed is bad, but luckily this idea is changing. 11 【正确答案】 C 【试题解析】 细节题。短文开

38、头说到没人知道为什么人分左撇子和右撇子，说是由父母的教育方式造成的是不对的。换句话来说，人一生下来就已经决定是左撇子还是右撇子了 ，即决定人是左撇子还是右撇子的是自身的基因造成的， C为正确答案。 【知识模块】 短文听力 12 【正确答案】 D 【试题解析】 细节题。作者说身为右撇子换用左手使用筷子吃饭，结果发现自己像是从来都没有用过筷子吃饭的人一样，只是看起来像而已，并不是真正的这是他第一次用筷子吃饭，所以选 D。 【知识模块】 短文听力 13 【正确答案】 D 【试题解析】 细节题。作者表示，实验一开始，由于看不到自己在做什么，所以就对着一面镜子，以便自己观察得仔细， D为正确选项。 【知

39、识模块】 短文听力 14 【听力原文】 Is the world really going mad? The other day I was sitting in a small restaurant having a quiet drink and a talk with a few friends, when it suddenly struck me that almost everyone in the restaurant was smoking. It wasnt long before the whole room was filled with smoke. I asked w

40、ith an apology for permission to open a window to stop myself dying. Nowadays air pollution is something that we hardly question any more. However, I still cant walk down the streets in any of the big cities without thinking that people are suffering from the air pollution. It is time for the govern

41、ment departments the world over to introduce emission control on all cars and improve the public transport system to encourage people to leave their cars at home. A friend of mine takes flying lessons each morning and it really makes him sick when he climbs above the smog layer and looks down in it

42、and thinks:“Im breathing that! “ This kind of pollution results from the bad management of resources. Waste things can, and should, be treated properly. House building, road construction and industrial development are all earth-moving operations and can change the balances of life created over milli

43、ons of years. I would like to see serious studies done on all these main works before they are built. Also, there should be more national parks set up to keep the most beautiful parts of our countries in their natural states. 14 【正确答案】 C 【试题解析】 细节题。短文说，作者猛然意识到：小餐馆里几乎每个人都在抽烟。没过多久，烟雾就弥漫了整个房间，作者受不了，就请求

44、开了窗户。 D项的stopdying 非 常具有干扰性，显然作者是在夸张表达自己非常受不了这个烟味，而不是真正快要死了， C项才是正确答案。 【知识模块】 短文听力 15 【正确答案】 D 【试题解析】 细节题。作者很明确地提出如今空气污染是毋庸置疑的，他说走在大城市的街道上，不得不想起这里的人们正在遭受着空气污染的痛苦，可见他在为空气污染而担心。 D正确。 【知识模块】 短文听力 16 【正确答案】 B 【试题解析】 细节题。作者提出的解决空气污染的办法有：政府对汽车的尾气排放进行控制，提升公共交通系统以鼓励人们少驾私 家车，没有提到劝说工厂少使用化石燃料，故选 B。 【知识模块】 短文听力

45、 17 【正确答案】 B 【试题解析】 细节题。短文提到建房子、修路和工业发展都是土方作业，没有提及农业发展，故选 B项。 【知识模块】 短文听力 18 【听力原文】 Many kinds of animals are endangered by human beings. The United States government list of endangered species includes tigers, grizzly bears, some kinds of whales, and over three dozen species of butterflies. What ha

46、s led to the scarcity of these animals, which may become extinct without vital protections? One important factor is that many animals have been widely hunted and killed for food or for their beautiful skills. Besides, some predators are threatened by ranchers to protect their sheep and chicken, such

47、 as eagles or wolves. Moreover, some species, like polar bears, are endangered because humans are successfully competing with them for the use of environmental space. With various animals being killed for food, for decoration, and for the protection of domesticated animals, or dying because of unfor

48、tunate contact with human environments, it is not surprising that some are becoming scarce, that the number of species on the endangered list is growing every year. Furthermore, it is important to understand that individual species are not the only factors involved in this dilemma. Endangerment is a

49、 broad issue, which involves the habitats and environments where species live and interact with one another. Man is discovering that his world includes the other animals in it, and one can only hope this discovery is not coming too slowly or too late. 18 【正确答案】 B 【试题解析】 细 节题。短文提到美国政府列出了濒临绝种的动植物包括：老虎、灰熊、一些种类的鲸鱼和蝴蝶下文也提到北极熊由于人类对环境空间使用的追逐而变得有灭绝的危险。粗略一看，可能以为全都是正确的，但是 B项少了个限制条件一 some kinds of，并不是所有的鲸鱼都濒临灭绝，所以 B项为正确答案。 【知识模块】 短文听力 19 【正确答案】 B 【试题解析】 细节题。物种濒临灭绝的原因有很多，比如被人类杀掉作为了食物，做成了装饰品，或成了人类保护家养动物免受侵害的牺牲品。还有一些因为不幸接触了人类居住的环境而 即将灭绝。 A、 C、 D项都包含在其中，而 B项 (