2024年5月25日发(作者：冀默)
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20##6月英语四级听力原文<卷一>
1. W: I can’t seem to reach the tea at the back of the cupboard.
M: Oh… Why don’t you use the ladder? You might strain yo
ur shoulder.
Q: What does the man suggest the woman do?
2. W: Since it’s raining so hard, let’s go and see the new exh
ibits.
M: That’s a good idea. Mary Johnson is one of my favorite p
ainters.
Q: Where does the conversation most probably take place?
3. M: I hear the students gave the new teacher an unfair evalu
ation.
W: It depends on which student you are talking about.
Q: What does the woman imply?
4. W: It must have taken you a long time to fix up all these
book shelves.
M: It wasn’t too bad. I got Doris to do some of them.
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Q: What does the man mean?
5. W: Rod, I hear you’ll be leaving at the end of this month.
Is it true?
M: Yeah. I’ve been offered a much better position with anothe
r firm. I’d be a fool to turn it down.
Q: Why is the man quitting his job?
6. W: I honestly don’t want to continue the gardening tomorro
w, Tony?
M: Neither do I. But I think we should get it over with this
weekend.
Q: What does the man mean?
7. W: You’ve already furnished your apartment?
M: I found some used furniture that was dirt cheap.
Q: What do we learn from the conversation?
8. W: Has the mechanic called the bus repairers?
M: Not yet .I’ll let you know when he calls.
Q: What do we learn from the conversation?
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Questions 9 to 11 are based on the conversation you have just
heard.
Conversation one:
M: Hello. Matt Ellis speaking.
W: Hello, Dr. Ellis, my name’s Pan Johnson. My roommate, J
anet Holmes, wanted me to call you.
M: Janet Holmes? Oh, that’s right. She’s in my Shakespearean
English class. Has anything happened to her?
W: Nothing, it’s just that she submitted a job application yeste
rday and the company asked her in for an interview today. She’s a
fraid she won’t be able to attend your class this afternoon though.
I’m calling to see whether it would be OK if I gave you her essay.
Janet said it’s due today.
M: Certainly, that would be fine. Uh, you can either drop it o
ff at my class or bring it to my office.
W: Would it be all right to come by your office around 4:00?
I’m afraid I can’t come any earlier because I have three classes t
his afternoon.
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M: Uh, I won’t be here when you come. I’m supposed to be
at a meeting from 3:00 to 6:00, but how about leaving it with my
secretary? She usually stays until 5:00. W: Fine, please tell her I’l
l be there at 4:00. And Dr. Ellis, one more thing, could you tell m
e where your office is? Janet told me where your class is, but she
didn’t give me directions to your office.
M: Well, I’m in Room 302 of the Gregory Building. I’ll tell
my secretary to put the paper in my mail box, and I’ll get it when
I return.
W: I sure appreciate it. Goodbye, Dr. Ellis.
M: Goodbye, Ms. Johnson.
Questions 9 to 11 are based on the conversation you have j
ust heard.
9. Why couldn’t the woman’s roommate attend the Shakespeare
an English class that afternoon?
10. What favor is the woman going to do for her roommate?
11. What does the woman want to know at the end of the co
nversation?
Passage One
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Most American college students need to be efficient readers. T
his is necessary because full-time students probably have to read se
veral hundred pages every week. They don't have time to read a c
hapter three or four times. They need to extract as much informatio
n as possible from the first or second reading.
An extraordinarily important study skill is knowing how to mar
k a book. Students mark the main ideas and important details with
a pen or pencil, yellow or blue or orange. Some students mark ne
w vocabulary in a different color. Most students write questions or
short notes in the margins. Marking a book is a useful skill, but it'
s important to do it right. First, read a chapter with one pen in yo
ur hand and others next to you on the desk. Second, read a whole
paragraph before you mark anything. Don't mark too much. Usuall
y you will mark about 10% of a passage. Third, decide on your o
wn system for marking. For example, maybe you will mark main i
deas in yellow, important details in blue and new words in orange.
Maybe you will put question marks in the margin when you don't
understand something and before an exam. Instead, you just need t
o review your marks and you can save a lot of time.
16. What should American college students do to cope with th
eir heavy reading assignments?
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17. What suggestion does the speaker give about marking a te
xtbook?
18. How should students prepare for an exam according to the
speaker?
Passage Two
The thought of having no sleep for 24 hours or more isn't a p
leasant one for most people. The amount of sleep that each person
needs varies. In general, each of us needs about 8 hours of sleep
each day to keep us healthy and happy. Some people, however, ca
n get by with just a few hours of sleep at night.
It doesn't matter when or how much a person sleeps. But ever
yone needs some rest to stay alive. Few doctors would have thoug
ht that there might be an exception to this. Sleep is, after all, a ve
ry basic need. But a man named Al Herpin turned out to be a real
exception, for supposedly, he never slept!
Al Herpin was 90 years old when doctors came to his home i
n New Jersy. They hoped to challenge the claim that he never slep
t. But they were surprised. Though they watched him every hour of
the day, they never saw Herpin sleeping. He did not even own a
bed. He never needed one.
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The closest that Herpin came to resting was to sit in a rockin
g chair and read a half dozen newspapers. His doctors were puzzle
d by the strange case of permanent sleeplessness. Herpin offered th
e only clue to his condition. He remembered some talk about his
mother having been injured several days before he had been born.
Herpin died at the age of 94, never, it seems, having slept at all.
19. What is taken for granted by most people?
20. What do doctors think of Al Herpin's case?
21. What could have accounted for Al Herpin's sleeplessness?
Among the kinds of social gestures most significant for second lang
uage teachers, are those which are identical in form, but different i
n meaning in the two cultures. For example, a Columbian who wan
ts someone to approach him often signals with a hand movement, i
n which all the fingers of one hand cupped point downward as the
y move rapidly back and forth. Speakers of English have a similar
gesture, though the hand may not be cupped and the fingers may
be held more loosely. But for them, the gesture means "goodbye" o
r "go away", quite the opposite of the Columbian gesture. Again in
Columbia, a speaker of English would have to know that when he
indicates height, he must choose between different gestures depend
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ing on whether he is referring to a human being or an animal. If
he keeps the palm of the hand parallel to the floor, as he would i
n his own culture when making known the height of a child for ex
ample, he will very likely be greeted by laughter. In Columbia, this
gesture is reserved for the description of animals. In order to desc
ribe human beings, he should keep the palm of his hand at a right
angle to the floor. Substitutions of one gesture for the other often
create not only humorous but also embarrassing moments. In both
of the examples above, speakers from two different cultures have t
he same gesture physically, but its meaning differs sharply.
四级听力答案
Section A:
1.B Use a ladder to help her reach the tea.
2. D Outside an gallery art.
3.D New students usually cannot offer a fair evaluation.
4.C Doris fixed up some of the bookshelves.
5.D He has found a better position.
6.A They should finish the book as soon as possible.
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7.D The furniture the man bought is inexpensive.
8.B The woman is waiting for the call.
9. A She had a job interview to attend
10. C Submit her roommate's assignment
11. A Where Dr. Ellis's office is located
12. C He can handle it quite well
13. B The 6:30 one
14. C The time on the train is enjoyable
15. A Reading newspapers.
16. D Get key information by reading just once or twice
17. A Choose one's own system of marking
18. B By reviewing only the marked parts.
19. D Everybody needs some sleep for survival.
20. C It is a rare exception
21. B His mother's injury just before his birth.
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2024年5月25日发(作者：冀默)
.
20##6月英语四级听力原文<卷一>
1. W: I can’t seem to reach the tea at the back of the cupboard.
M: Oh… Why don’t you use the ladder? You might strain yo
ur shoulder.
Q: What does the man suggest the woman do?
2. W: Since it’s raining so hard, let’s go and see the new exh
ibits.
M: That’s a good idea. Mary Johnson is one of my favorite p
ainters.
Q: Where does the conversation most probably take place?
3. M: I hear the students gave the new teacher an unfair evalu
ation.
W: It depends on which student you are talking about.
Q: What does the woman imply?
4. W: It must have taken you a long time to fix up all these
book shelves.
M: It wasn’t too bad. I got Doris to do some of them.
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Q: What does the man mean?
5. W: Rod, I hear you’ll be leaving at the end of this month.
Is it true?
M: Yeah. I’ve been offered a much better position with anothe
r firm. I’d be a fool to turn it down.
Q: Why is the man quitting his job?
6. W: I honestly don’t want to continue the gardening tomorro
w, Tony?
M: Neither do I. But I think we should get it over with this
weekend.
Q: What does the man mean?
7. W: You’ve already furnished your apartment?
M: I found some used furniture that was dirt cheap.
Q: What do we learn from the conversation?
8. W: Has the mechanic called the bus repairers?
M: Not yet .I’ll let you know when he calls.
Q: What do we learn from the conversation?
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.
Questions 9 to 11 are based on the conversation you have just
heard.
Conversation one:
M: Hello. Matt Ellis speaking.
W: Hello, Dr. Ellis, my name’s Pan Johnson. My roommate, J
anet Holmes, wanted me to call you.
M: Janet Holmes? Oh, that’s right. She’s in my Shakespearean
English class. Has anything happened to her?
W: Nothing, it’s just that she submitted a job application yeste
rday and the company asked her in for an interview today. She’s a
fraid she won’t be able to attend your class this afternoon though.
I’m calling to see whether it would be OK if I gave you her essay.
Janet said it’s due today.
M: Certainly, that would be fine. Uh, you can either drop it o
ff at my class or bring it to my office.
W: Would it be all right to come by your office around 4:00?
I’m afraid I can’t come any earlier because I have three classes t
his afternoon.
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M: Uh, I won’t be here when you come. I’m supposed to be
at a meeting from 3:00 to 6:00, but how about leaving it with my
secretary? She usually stays until 5:00. W: Fine, please tell her I’l
l be there at 4:00. And Dr. Ellis, one more thing, could you tell m
e where your office is? Janet told me where your class is, but she
didn’t give me directions to your office.
M: Well, I’m in Room 302 of the Gregory Building. I’ll tell
my secretary to put the paper in my mail box, and I’ll get it when
I return.
W: I sure appreciate it. Goodbye, Dr. Ellis.
M: Goodbye, Ms. Johnson.
Questions 9 to 11 are based on the conversation you have j
ust heard.
9. Why couldn’t the woman’s roommate attend the Shakespeare
an English class that afternoon?
10. What favor is the woman going to do for her roommate?
11. What does the woman want to know at the end of the co
nversation?
Passage One
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.
Most American college students need to be efficient readers. T
his is necessary because full-time students probably have to read se
veral hundred pages every week. They don't have time to read a c
hapter three or four times. They need to extract as much informatio
n as possible from the first or second reading.
An extraordinarily important study skill is knowing how to mar
k a book. Students mark the main ideas and important details with
a pen or pencil, yellow or blue or orange. Some students mark ne
w vocabulary in a different color. Most students write questions or
short notes in the margins. Marking a book is a useful skill, but it'
s important to do it right. First, read a chapter with one pen in yo
ur hand and others next to you on the desk. Second, read a whole
paragraph before you mark anything. Don't mark too much. Usuall
y you will mark about 10% of a passage. Third, decide on your o
wn system for marking. For example, maybe you will mark main i
deas in yellow, important details in blue and new words in orange.
Maybe you will put question marks in the margin when you don't
understand something and before an exam. Instead, you just need t
o review your marks and you can save a lot of time.
16. What should American college students do to cope with th
eir heavy reading assignments?
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.
17. What suggestion does the speaker give about marking a te
xtbook?
18. How should students prepare for an exam according to the
speaker?
Passage Two
The thought of having no sleep for 24 hours or more isn't a p
leasant one for most people. The amount of sleep that each person
needs varies. In general, each of us needs about 8 hours of sleep
each day to keep us healthy and happy. Some people, however, ca
n get by with just a few hours of sleep at night.
It doesn't matter when or how much a person sleeps. But ever
yone needs some rest to stay alive. Few doctors would have thoug
ht that there might be an exception to this. Sleep is, after all, a ve
ry basic need. But a man named Al Herpin turned out to be a real
exception, for supposedly, he never slept!
Al Herpin was 90 years old when doctors came to his home i
n New Jersy. They hoped to challenge the claim that he never slep
t. But they were surprised. Though they watched him every hour of
the day, they never saw Herpin sleeping. He did not even own a
bed. He never needed one.
6 / 17
.
The closest that Herpin came to resting was to sit in a rockin
g chair and read a half dozen newspapers. His doctors were puzzle
d by the strange case of permanent sleeplessness. Herpin offered th
e only clue to his condition. He remembered some talk about his
mother having been injured several days before he had been born.
Herpin died at the age of 94, never, it seems, having slept at all.
19. What is taken for granted by most people?
20. What do doctors think of Al Herpin's case?
21. What could have accounted for Al Herpin's sleeplessness?
Among the kinds of social gestures most significant for second lang
uage teachers, are those which are identical in form, but different i
n meaning in the two cultures. For example, a Columbian who wan
ts someone to approach him often signals with a hand movement, i
n which all the fingers of one hand cupped point downward as the
y move rapidly back and forth. Speakers of English have a similar
gesture, though the hand may not be cupped and the fingers may
be held more loosely. But for them, the gesture means "goodbye" o
r "go away", quite the opposite of the Columbian gesture. Again in
Columbia, a speaker of English would have to know that when he
indicates height, he must choose between different gestures depend
7 / 17
.
ing on whether he is referring to a human being or an animal. If
he keeps the palm of the hand parallel to the floor, as he would i
n his own culture when making known the height of a child for ex
ample, he will very likely be greeted by laughter. In Columbia, this
gesture is reserved for the description of animals. In order to desc
ribe human beings, he should keep the palm of his hand at a right
angle to the floor. Substitutions of one gesture for the other often
create not only humorous but also embarrassing moments. In both
of the examples above, speakers from two different cultures have t
he same gesture physically, but its meaning differs sharply.
四级听力答案
Section A:
1.B Use a ladder to help her reach the tea.
2. D Outside an gallery art.
3.D New students usually cannot offer a fair evaluation.
4.C Doris fixed up some of the bookshelves.
5.D He has found a better position.
6.A They should finish the book as soon as possible.
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.
7.D The furniture the man bought is inexpensive.
8.B The woman is waiting for the call.
9. A She had a job interview to attend
10. C Submit her roommate's assignment
11. A Where Dr. Ellis's office is located
12. C He can handle it quite well
13. B The 6:30 one
14. C The time on the train is enjoyable
15. A Reading newspapers.
16. D Get key information by reading just once or twice
17. A Choose one's own system of marking
18. B By reviewing only the marked parts.
19. D Everybody needs some sleep for survival.
20. C It is a rare exception
21. B His mother's injury just before his birth.
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