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2011英語四級考試聽力部分綜合指導(三十)

來源：育路教育網發布時間：2011-09-27

　　短文
　　一、短文題的大綱要求：
　　1、能聽懂英語講課
　　2、并能聽懂題材熟悉
　　3、句子結構比較簡單
　　4、基本沒有生詞
　　5、語速為每分鐘140～150詞的簡短新聞、報道和講座
　　6、掌握其中心大意
　　7、抓住要點和有關細節
　　8、領會講話者的觀點和態度
　　9、文章可以一遍聽懂
　　10、理解的準確率應不低于70％
　　1.
　　W: How about your holiday?
　　M: Not quite. We had rain for the first couple of days. Then my son had stomach cramps. He had to go to a hospital emergency room.
　　Q: What does the man mean?
　　A. Their holiday is quite good.
　　B. They enjoyed the rain in their holiday.
　　C. His son had to be sent to hospital there.
　　D. His son was fine.
　　2.
　　W: Can you recommend some universities with good graduate schools?
　　M: Well, generally in the US each university has its own special fields in which it is particularly outstanding. A large university is not necessarily good in every field.
　　Q: What does the man mean?
　　A. It's not easy to recommend her a university.
　　B. A large good university is good in ever field.
　　C. Some universities have their own special fields.
　　D. It's not good to go to only one university.
　　3.
　　M: How many hours are you taking this semester?
　　W: Eighteen, plus two hours of lab.
　　Q: Where does this conversation most probably take place?
　　A. At an office.
　　B. In a university.
　　C. In a supermarket.
　　D. In a restaurant.
　　4.
　　M: How do you like your roommate?
　　W: Well, she is kind of noisy and she likes to party too much.
　　Q: What do we know about her roommate?
　　A. She is a very active girl.
　　B. She is very sociable.
　　C. She is very kind.
　　D. Both A and B.
　　5. |
　　M: How was the dinner at the cafeteria tonight?
　　W: It was noisy, as usual.
　　Q: What does the woman mean?
　　A. It's not a good place.
　　B. It's as good as usual.
　　C. She doesn't want a dinner.
　　D. She likes the cafeteria.
　　6.
　　W: I'm always absent-minded in Mrs. Lee's class.
　　M: So do I. Her class is so boring that I can't help dozing off.
　　Q: What do they think of Mrs. Lee's class?
　　A. The man is always absent in Mrs. Lee's class.
　　B. The woman likes sleeping in the class.
　　C. Neither of them likes Mrs. Lee's class.
　　D. They find Mrs. Lee's class interesting.
　　7.
　　M: How do you suppose we managed to beat such a good team?
　　W: I think we won because our fans cheered louder than theirs did.
　　Q: Why does the woman think that they've won?
　　A. Their team is better.
　　B. The team's fans are more excited.
　　C. They will shout louder.
　　D. They will beat the fans of the other team.
　　8.
　　W: Jim, what are your plans for the summer vacation?
　　M: I think I'll visit my parents back East and help out at my father's business. He runs a supermarket.
　　Q: Which statement is not right?
　　A. Jim will go back home.
　　B. Jim has to find a job in his home town.
　　C. Jim's father is an owner of a supermarket.
　　D. Jim will help his father.
　　9.
　　M: I like to return these books.
　　W: Let me see. These books are one week overdue. I'm sorry, but you'll have to pay a fine.
　　Q: What does the woman mean?
　　A. She felt sorry for the man.
　　B. She had to pay the fine.
　　C. She can't accept the books.
　　D. She had to ask the man to pay for the overdue.
　　10.
　　M: Excuse me. Where can I find your back issues of Time magazine?
　　W: Which particular Issue are you looking for?
　　Q: Where does this conversation most probably take place?
　　A. In a university.
　　B. In a library.
　　C. In a bookstore.
　　D. In a supermarket.

　　The elephant is the only animal in the world with a trunk. It uses its trunk in many ways. It pulls leaves off trees with its trunk and then put them into its mouth. It can even use its trunk to pull up trees when it wants to make a path through the jungle. It also uses its trunk to get water. The trunk can hold a lot of water, as an elephant needs to drink more than three hundred pints of water every day.
　　When an elephant is angry, its tusks can be very dangerous. The tusks of an elephant are really its front teeth. People pay a lot of money for the ivory of an elephant's tusks. In Africa men have hunted elephants for their tusks. The ivory from the tusks is made into many beautiful things.
　　It has been easy for men to train elephants in Asia. They use elephants to carry heavy things for long distances.
　　Many people say that the kings of Siam used to give white elephants to people they did not like. These white elephants were scattered and they could not be made to work. They could not be killed or given away. A person who owned a white elephant had to pay a lot of money to keep it properly. After a certain time, he usually became very poor. Nowadays people in England call a useless thing "a white elephant".
　　11.
　　A. It uses its trunk to fight.
　　B. It uses its trunk to pull leaves off trees to eat.
　　C. It uses its trunk to make a path through the jungle.
　　D. It uses its trunk to get water to drink.
　　12.
　　A. Some African hunted elephants just for tusks.
　　B. They are very precious.
　　C. They are made into many beautiful things.
　　D. They are the decorations of elephant.
　　13.
　　A. He had to pay a lot of money to keep it.
　　B. He could not make it work or kill it.
　　C. He must pay much attention on it.
　　D. Both A and B.
　　14.
　　A. A useless elephant.
　　B. A useless person.
　　C. A useless thing.
　　D. A useless pet.
　　M: Excuse me. Have you been waiting long?
　　W: About ten minutes.
　　M: Did you notice whether the number seven bus has gone by?
　　W: Not while I've been standing here. I'm waiting for the number seven myself.
　　M: Good. Hot day today, isn't it?
　　W: Yes, it is. I wish that it would rain and cool off.
　　M: Me too. This is unusual for March. I don't remember it ever being so hot and dry in March before.
　　W: You're from Florida then?
　　M: Not really. I was born in New York, but I've lived here for ten years now.
　　W: My mother and I have moved here from Indiana.
　　M: Pretty cold in Indiana, isn't it?
　　W: Yes. That's why we moved. But we didn't know that it would be so hot here. We should have gone to California. Do you think that we've missed the bus?
　　M: No. It's always a little late.
　　15.
　　A. Cold
　　B. Very hot.
　　C. Cooler.
　　D. Drier.
　　16.
　　A. Florida.
　　B. California.
　　C. New York.
　　D. Indiana.
　　17.
　　A Every ten minutes.
　　B. Every half hour.
　　C. At twenty to one.
　　D. Once a day.
　　Good morning, students. I hope you have been able to read the two books about speech and hearing problems that I put in the library. Today's lecture deals with the presence of the unusually large deaf population that existed on the Massachusetts island of Martha's Vineyard for about three centuries. From the settlement of the island in the 1640's to the twentieth century, the people there, who were descended from only twenty-five or thirty original families, married mainly other residents of the island. They formed a highly inbred group, producing an excellent example of the genetic patterns for the inheritance of deafness. Indeed in the late eighteen hundreds one out of every twenty-five people in one village on the island was born deaf, and the island as a whole had a deafness rate at least seventeen times greater than that of the rest of the United States. Even Alexander Graham Bell, the inventor of the telephone and a prominent researcher into hearing loss, visited Martha's Vineyard to study the population. But because the principles of genetics and inheritance were still unknown he was not able to explain the patterns of deafness and why a deaf parent did not always have deaf children. In the twentieth century, the local population has mixed with people off the island and the rate of deafness has fallen.
　　18. A. It was settled more than 300 years ago.
　　B. Alexander Graham Bell visited there.
　　C. A large number of its residents were deaf.
　　D. Each family living there had many children.
　　19. A. Establish his laboratory.
　　B. Have a vacation.
　　C. Study deafness among the families.
　　D. Examine deafness in members of his family.
　　20. A. The patterns of marriage have changed.
　　B. Many deaf people have regained their hearing.
　　C. Most of the original population has left the island.
　　D. The island has become famous for its research facilities.
　　原文重現：短文中的四個選項有一個會在原文中間被重新念一遍，最先聽到的就是正確的
　　同義解釋：有一個選項會在原文中間被重新念一遍，但是語序被打亂，詞匯發生變化
　　中心思想：文章最后考作者態度、文章主題思想等