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. What's Don's problem?

A. He can't find his office key. B. He has misplaced some exams.

C. He's unable to talk. D. He doesn't like his classroom.

5. What would Don do?

A. To get someone to hand out the exams.

B. To cancel the class though he's 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 Don's class while he is absent. B.Give Professor Webster the key to Don's office.

C. Make an appointment with the doctor. D. Return some exams to the students.

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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 she's 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 women's 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

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