01年英语专四听力真题

TEST FOR ENGLISH MAJORS (2001) PARTH LISTENING 1. The elephant can be described as A. playful. B. ferocious. C. slow. D. thoughtful. 2. The man tried his best to _ to avoid being hurt by the elephant. A. stare back at the elephant B. roll over the ground C. hold the tusks D. hit the elephant in the eyes 3. The encounter with the elephant can be described as A. close. B. not risky. C. joyous. D. deadly. 4. Whats Dons problem? A. He cant find his office key. B. He has misplaced some exams. C. Hes unable to talk. D. He doesnt like his classroom. 5. What would Don do? A. To get someone to hand out the exams. B. To cancel the class though hes not willing to do so. C. To ask Professor Webster to find someone to teach the class. D. To make Janet to be his teaching assistant. 6. What does Janet offer to do? A. Teach Dons class while he is absent. B.Give Professor Webster the key to Dons office. C. Make an appointment with the doctor. D. Return some exams to the students. 7. What did the man think of the people in the Ice Age? A. They lived in caves. B. They traveled in groups. C. They had an advanced language. D.They ate mostly fruit. 8. What is NOT the thing the Ice Age People used to build their house? A. Wood. B. Animal bones and skins. C. Ice. D. Natural stones. 9. How did people in the early Ice Age keep warm? A. They lived in large groups. B. They used sand as insulation. C. They kept fires burning constantly. D. They built houses facing south.10. What does the man want the woman to do? A. Meet his history teacher. B. Lend him her magazine when shes done with it. C. Come over to his house after class. D. Help him study for an history test.I I . Our clothes can A. tell who we are. B. improve our communicative skills. C. cultivate our values. D. dictate our lifestyles.12. Traditionally men A. cared little about clothing. B.had poor taste about clothing. C. were very conscious about clothing. D. were proud of womens clothes.13. What is true of blue-collar workers according to the research to the research of 1995?A. They cared more about clothing than white-collar workers.B. They were manipulated by white-collar workers.C. They ridiculed white-collar workers for their clothing.D. They conformed to the accepted pattern of clothing. 14. To work in an international organization as an interpreter, one A. should study in a university. B. must be officially recognized. C. should be a graduate of linguistics. D. must have a good command of foreign language. 15. To an interpreter, the ability to use his mother tongue seems to be _ that to use a foreign language. A. more important than B. less important than C. more difficult than D. less difficult than 16. Which of the following statements is INCORRECT? A. Body language can help interpreters understand the speaker. B. Good interpreters may have a good command of two languages. C. An interpreter may express the information in a very different way in another language. D. They are only required to translate from foreign languages into their mother tongue. 17. Originally, cola was sold as A. a soft drink. B. a medicine. G. flavored hard candy. D. cooking oil.18. Why does the speaker mention John Pamberton? A. He sold cola to doctors. B. He was a drug store clerk. C. He developed the cola syrup. D. He suffered from severe headaches.19. How was cola syrup made into a soft drink? A. By mixing it with special oils. B. By heating it. C. By combining it with different flavors. D. By adding soda water.20. What does the speaker mainly discuss? A. A recipe for a soft drink. B. The medicinal effects of cola. C. The history of cola. D. Soft-drink production.21. Nigeria returned to the Commonwealth after A. she had sentenced minority rights activists to death. B. the military had resumed control of the country. C. power had been handed over to an elected president. D. she had negotiated with Commonwealth leaders. 22. The Commonwealth consists of_ countries which were former British colonies. A. 54 B. 29 C. 9 D. 95 23. The space shuttle Discovery completed a _ mission upon its return to the Kennedy Space Centre. A. 11-day B. 94-day C. 10-day D. 49-day 24. When the spacecraft was going to land, A. it produced a lot of noise. B. there were scattered showers. C. people could see it high in the sky. D. people could neither see nor hear it. 25. How many people died during the collision? A. Two. B. Eighteen. C. Three. D. Five. 26. Three Albanians were arrested for A. attacking the patrol boat. B. smuggling in refugees. C. causing the accident. D. injuring refugees. 27. The news item is mainly about A. efforts to salvage Sun Vista. B. negotiation with the ships owner. C. threats Sun Vista poses to passing ships. D. a newspapers comment on Sun Vista. 28. According to the Roman Catholic organization, human rights are increasingly violated in A. the Central American countries. B. Rome. C. the Central African countries. D. America. 29. Which of the following is NOT mentioned as an instance of human rights violations? A. Murder. B. Torture. C. Arrests. D.Disappearances. 30. There are refugees A. in Guatemala from El Salvador. B. in El Salvador from Guatemala. C. in El Salvador from Honduras. D. in Honduras from El Salvador. Questions I to 3 are based on the following conversation.W: Hi, you had an encounter with an elephant yesterday?M: Yeah, (1) it scared me to death.W:What happened?M: I was walking in the park (1) when a female elephant came charging at me right from behind.W:How terrifying!M: Yes. As I wag running I tripped and fell to the ground. Just as I turned around the tusks were already about a foot from my chest.W:She was trying to stab you with her tusks?M: She was going for a kill. (2) I just had time to grab the tusks and kind of pulled them past my body. And one tusk stabbed into the earth about a few centimeters from my head. I held on and she just tried to stab me. Miraculously she didnt touch anything vital.W:When she stabbed into the earth, she must liTive been right on top of you?M: Oh yes, she was. (3) Her eyeballs were about two inches from my eyeballs.W: Just at that second when you were staring at her in the eye, was there anything going through your head or were you over- whelmed with terror?M:My thought was. If you let go of these tusks, you are dead meat.W: Well,what did happen? Why didnt you die?M: Usually the elephant is just as scared as you are. Someone came up and screamed at the elephant. That probably distracted her and she decided to run away.Key:1.B 2.C 3. A Questions 4 to 6 are based on the following conversation.M: Math department, Doctor Webster speaking.W: Hello, Prof. Webster, this is Janet Hill calling. I live two doors down from your teaching assistant, Don Williams. (4) Don asked me to call you because he has lost his voice and cant talk to you himself.M:Lost his voice? Oh, what a shame! Is there anything I can do for him?W: Well, he has a class this afternoon from 2:30 to 4:00 and he wont be able to teach it. But he doesnt want to cancel it, either.M:Does he want me to try to find somebody else to teach the class?W: No, not exactly. (5) What he wants to do is to get someone to go in for him, just to pass back the mid-term exams.M;His class is at 2:30, you say? Well, Im free at that time and I was going to be on campus anyway; so I could do it for him. What room is his class in?W: Cater Hall, Room 214. (6) Will you need his office key to get the exams? Hes given it to me and I could bring it to you.M: Actually, that wont be necessary. We have a master key in the math department. So I can get into his office if necessaryW: Thank you very much, Prof. Webster.M:My pleasure.Key: 4.C 5. A 6.BQuestions 7 to 10 are based on the following conversation.M: Hey, Jane. Whats so interesting?F: Im reading this fascinating article on the societies of the Ice Age during the Pleistocene period.M: (7)The Ice Age? There werent any societies then. Just a bunch of cave people.F: Thats what people used to think. But a new exhibit of the America museum of natural history showed Ice Age people were surprisinglyadvanced: M: Oh, really? In what ways?F: Well, Ice Age people were the inventors of language, art, and music as we know it. And they didnt live in caves, they built their own shelters.M: What did they use to build them? The cold weather would have killed off most of the trees so they couldnt have used wood.F: (8) In some of the warmer climates, they did build the houses of wood. In other places, they used animal bones and skins or lived in natural stone shelters.M: How did they stay warm? Animal skin walls dont sound very sturdy.F: (9) Well, in the early Ice Age, they often faced the house towards south, to take the advantage of the sun, a primitive sort of solar heating.M: Hey, thats pretty smart. I guess I spoke too soon. (10) Can I read that magazine article after youve done? I think Im going to try to impress my history teacher with my amazing knowledge of the Ice Age civilization.F:What a show off.Key: 7.A 8.C 9.D10.BSECTION B PASSAGES Questions II to 13 are based on the following passage. (11) There is probably no area of human activity in which OUT values and lifestyles are reflected more vividly than they are in the clothes that we choose to wear. The dress of an individual is a kind of sign language that communicates a complex set of information and is usually the basis on which immediate impressions are formed. (12) Traditionally a concern for clothes was considered to be a feminine preoccupation, while men took pride in the fact that they were completely lacking in clothes consciousness. Time has changed as masculine dress takes on greater variety and color. As early as 1955 ,a research revealed that men attached high importance to the value of clothing in daily life. White-collar workers in particular viewed dress as a symbol capable of manipulation, which could be used to impress or influence others, especially in work situations. (13) Although blue collar workers were less aware that they might be judged on the basis of their clothing, they recognized that any difference from the accepted pattern of dress would draw ridicule from fellow workers. Since that time, the pattern has changed: the typical office worker may now be wearing the blue shirt, and the laborer a white shirt; but the importance of dress has not diminished. Key: 11.A 12. A 13.D Questions 14 to 16 are based on the following passage. (14)To work in an international organization, such as the United Nations or the European Commission, you need to be accredited by one of the various international translators or interpreters associations. To achieve this, you must undergo strict and lengthy training, either at an accrediting organizations own school, or on a postgraduate course at university. But a qualification in languages is not the only route into the job. At the European Commission, for example, a recent intake of trainee interpreters included several with degrees in subjects like economics,linguistics,philosophy,law and,of course,languages. (16) To become a successful interpreter, candidates need to be at a high level in between three and five languages. However, regardless of how many languages they speak, (16) they voll only be required to translate from their acquired languages into their mother tongue. (15) Compared with using a foreign language, manipulating their own language is more crucial for them. With this skill, and a lot of practice, they will be able to clearly communicate information or messages which have been expressed in a very different way in another language. Yet, while interpreters may be seldom noticed, they are always looking carefully at the people for whom they are interpreting, (16)ln particular, they are looking at the body language of the speaker, because they must also use this information when they translate what he or she said.Key: 14.B 15.A 16.BQuestions 17 to 20 are based on the following passage. How many of you drink cola? Nearly everybody. (17) Did you know that cola started out not as a soft drink but as acure for headache back in the late 1800s? John S. Pamberton, a druggist from Atlanta, had experimented for many monthstrying to find a cure for the common headache. He worked in his backyard, mixing and heating different combinations of oilsand flavors until he found one that seemed promising. (18) Pamberton bottled the mixture and began selling it in drugstoresas concentrated syrup that the customer had to mix with water before drinking. Colas transformation from concentrated syrupto a carbonated soft drink came about quite by accident. One day, a customer came into a drugstore complaining of a head-ache and asked for a bottle of cola syrup. He wanted to take it right away. So he asked the clerk to mix the medicine while hewaited. The clerk,instead of walking to the other end of the counter to get plain water, (19) suggested mixing the syrup withsoda water. The customer agreed, and after drinking it, remarked how good it tasted. (19) The clerk continued offering the mixture and the cola grew in popularity. Today carbonated cola is sold in most countries around the world. And althought they no longer contain the ingredients to kill headaches, they are still very refreshing. Key: 17.B 18.C 19.D 20.CSECTION C NEWS BROADCASTNews Item I(21) Commonwealth leaders agree to lift Nigerias three and a half years suspension on May 29, the day the military government hands over power to an elected president, the organizations Secretary General announced yesterday.(22) Nigeria was suspended from the 54-nation group of mainly former British colonies in 1995 after it executed nine minority rights activists, including writer Ken Saro-Wiwa. But now that the country has embarked on a return to democracy. Commonwealth heads of government have agreed to end the estrangement. Secretary General Chief Amecka Anyaoku said in a statement, Im delighted that an unfortunate episode in Nigeria-Commonwealth relations will now come to an end and Nigeria is resuming its rightful place in the Commonwealth. Key: 21.C 22.A News Item 2 The space shuttle Discovery made a rare night landing at the Kennedy Space Center early on Thursday. (23) The night landing, the eleventh in the centers ninety-four shuttle missions, ended a ten-day mission to outfit the orbiting international space station. (24) Although the spacecraft created a sonic boom that could be heard along much of Floridas eastern seaboard, witnesses on the ground could not see the orbiter until it was directly over the runway lights. Scattered showers off the Florida coast had threatened to postpone the shuttles return, but forecasters gave the green light when they decided no rain would fall within forty-eight kilometers of the space center. Key: 23.C 24.A News Item 3(25) Five people died, two were missing, and at least eighteen were injured on Wednesday when an Italian patrol boat vessel collided with a dinghy filled with refugees crossing the Adriatic Sea from Albania, authorities said.The victims were believed to be Albanians from either Albania or Kosovo, said authorities from Italys tax police division, which along with the coast guard patrols the nationas coast. The cause of the collision was not immediately known. (26) There A Three Albanians, believed to have smuggled the refugees, were arrested a few hours after the accident. Key: 25.D 26.B News Item 4 (27) Malaysian authorities are discussing possible salvage efforts with Sun Cruises, the Singapore owner of a luxury liner which sank off Malaysia last week, a news report said yesterday, Sun Cruises has received some advice from Malaysia on the matter, the Business Times newspaper quoted companys spokeswoman, Judy Chu, as saying. Chu and other Sun Cruise officials could not immediately be reached for further comment, as they were away in Indonesia. The Sun Vista went down in international waters, the nearby Malaysia may have the right to order the wrecks removal, the newspaper said. Salvage experts said the wreck of the Sun Vista, which sunk in sixty meters of the water, poses no threat to ships passing over it, but Malaysia may still want it removed. Key: