2009年6月英语四级听力备战.doc

2009年6月英语四级听力备战-听写训练(1)听录音，准确填出划线部分的单词或词组，点击填空答案（10）To make two long stories short, Mr.Ballou _ me a cent for cutting his grass that year or the next, but for fifteen years I taught _ at Dartmouth College.Summer reading was not the innocent entertainment I had_, not a light-hearted, instantly forgettable escape in a _ (though I have since enjoyed many of those, too).A book, if it arrives before you at the right moment, in the proper season, at an interval in the daily business of things, will change the course of _ .innocent:无罪的,清白的例:He is innoent of the crime.他是无罪的.do the innocent装糊涂be innocent of a crime 无罪assume: (1)假定,设想;(2)采用,占有用法:(1) assume接名词、不定式和that 从句.(2)assuming at. 表示假定.的含义,引导条件状语从句.（11）I generally read what was_ me, what I could get from the paperback stack at the _, what I found at the library, magazines, the back of_ boxes,comics. The idea of consciously_ a special title was new to me, but, I realized, not without_ so I started to .look through the piles of books.in front of :在.前面例:. Stop showing off in front of everybody. 别再在大伙跟前卖弄了seek out:找出例:A salesmans job is to seek out customers. 推销员的工作是寻求顾客（12）A _ spent around the tough people who make their home in the Australian bush had _ fixed into bills soul two _: never give up no matter how bad the odds and never let a friend down. Now, with every step sending pain _ through every part of his body, he drew on those twin pillars of character.If I dont make it, Royce will _ there, he told himself over and over.principle:观点，论点，原则，原理in principle原则上，大体上on principle根据原则，按照原则on the principle of 按照的（13）Whether we like it or not, the world we live in has changed _ in the last hundred years, and it is likely to change _ in the next hundred. Some people would like to stop these changes and go back to what they see as a _ and simpler age. But as history shows, the past was not that wonderful. It was not so bad for a _ minority, though even they had to do without modern medicine, and childbirth was highly risky for women. But for the vast _ of the population, life was nasty, brutish, and short.privilege(1) privilege sb. from sth.表示”特免某人的”的意思.例:Knowing the fact that his parents died, the headmaster privileged him for the fees.弄清楚他父母双亡的事实后,校长特免了他所有的费用.(2) grant sb. the privilege of doing sth.表示”赋予某人做某事的特权”的意思.例:The teacher granted the monitor the privilege of finishing the work after the holidays.老师特许班长在假期后做完工作.risk:后面只可接动名词用作宾语,不接动词不定式.run risks冒险take risks冒险at the risk of冒的风险at risk可能遭到损失at ones own risk自行负责run the risk of doing sth冒险做某事at all risks无论冒什么危险at any risk无论如何risk ones neck冒着生命的危险（14）If we accept that we cannot _ science and technology from changing our world, we can at least try to ensure that the changes they make are in the right directions. In a _ society, this means that the public needs to have abasic understanding of science, so that it can make informed decisions and not leave them in the hands of _. At the moment, the public is in two mindsabout science. It has come to expect the _ increase in the standard of living that new developments in science and technology have brought to continue, but it also _ science because it doesnt understand it.preventprevent.from 使.不做某事, 阻止.做某事prevent forestall preclude 都含“阻止”的意思。prevent 指“采取预先行动或用障碍物使不发生或停止”, 如:prevent diseases 预防疾病。forestall 指“先采取行动以阻止别人做某事”、“先发制人”, 如:Try to forestall their questions. 尽量不让他们问问题(作到先发制人)。preclude 指“阻止某人做某事”、“使不可能发生某事”, 如:The bad weather precluded me from attending the meeting. 恶劣的天气使我不能出席会议。(15) Its the result of course, that makes the best newsnot he years of quiet work that _ the bulk of scientific inquiry. After an experiment is concluded or an _ is made, the result continues to be examined critically.When it is _ for publication, it goes to a group of the scientists _, whoreview the work. If the work is important enough, just before the report is published in a professional journal or read at a conference, a press release is issued and an _ is made to the world.submitsbmitvt.使服从, 使降服提交, 委托主张, 认为, 建议submit a plan 提出一项计划submit a case to the court 向法院提出诉讼I submit that this should be allowed . 我想这是可以允许的。习惯用语submit oneself to 甘受, 服从submit to 服从于, 屈从于 把.提交给., 向.提出.submit willingly 心悦诚服(16) Scientists and engineers tend to express their ideas in the form of equations _.But for the rest of us, a qualitative grasp of scientific concepts is sufficient,and this can be conveyed by words and diagrams , without the use of equations.tend v. 趋向，倾向 用法：tend to do sth. He tends to get angry when people disagree with him . 当人们不同意他的意见时，他很容易生气。派生词:tendency n. 趋势，倾向There is a growing tendency for people to work at home instead of in offices.人们在家里而不是在办公室里工作的趋势日益增长。 (17) The only way to prevent further developments would be _ that suppressed anything new, and 2 are such that even this wouldnt succeed.Initiative作为名词，表示主动性。作为形容词，表示起始的，创始的。On ones own initiative主动地做某事Have the initiative掌握主动权Take the initiative in doing sth.带头做(18) Scientists spend years on research, _ their findings, and these findings are examined by other scientists. Thats how we learn. Like climbing a mountain, we _ three feet and fall back two. Its a process filled with _ ,but somehow we keep moving ahead.announcenauns vt.正式宣布, 宣告, 发表报到, 通知预示, 预告, 预言显示广播(电台节目)announce guests 通知客到announce dinner 通知开宴饭It has been announce d that Mr. A and Miss B will be married next week. 已正式宣布A先生与B小姐将于下星期结婚。struggle up 有经过努力起来的意思What deserve that we are prode of most is not that we never fall down but that we can struggle up each time we fall down.我们最值得自豪的不在于从不跌倒，而在于每次跌倒之后都爬起来(19) Science is done _ . First an idea is formed. Then this is tested by an _.The outcome, one hopes, results in an increase in _.Step by step:一步一步地类似结构：day by day一步一步地one by one 一个接一个little by little一点一点地(20) The American Dream means different things to different people. But for many, _ , it means the opportunity to make a better life for themselves. For them the dream is that _ and hard work can take you from log _ to WhiteHouse.cabin kbin n. 船舱,机舱,小木屋例句:Here s a cabin luggage label.这是一张机舱行李标签。especially, specially, particularly用法辨异 一、强调程度时当用于形容词或副词前，强调程度(通常译为“特别”)时，三者都可用。如：It is particularly especially, specially cold today. 今天特别冷。I was feeling particularly especially, specially tired t