01年英语专四听力真题(2)

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 can't 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 won't be able to teach it. But he doesn't 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, I'm 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? He's given it to me and I could bring it to you.

M: Actually, that won't be necessary. We have a master key in the math department. So I can get into his office if necessary

W: Thank you very much, Prof. Webster.

M:My pleasure.

Key: 4.C 5. A 6.B

Questions 7 to 10 are based on the following conversation.

M: Hey, Jane. What's so interesting'?

F: I'm reading this fascinating article on the societies of the Ice Age during the Pleistocene period.

M: (7)The Ice Age? There weren't any societies then. Just a bunch of cave people.

F: That's 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 didn't 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 couldn't 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 don't 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, that's pretty smart. I guess I spoke too soon. (10) Can I read that magazine article after you've done? I think I'm 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.D 10.B

SECTION 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 organization's 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.B

Questions 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 a

cure for headache back in the late 1800's? John S. Pamberton, a druggist from Atlanta, had experimented for many months

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