时间:2019-01-25 作者:英语课 分类:英语四级听力-短对话


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Test 5Section CAround the world young people are spending unbelievable sums of money to listen to rock music. Forbes Magazine (36) ______ that at least fifty rock stars have (37) ______ of between two million and six million dollars per year.


"It doesn't make sense," says Johnny Mathis, one of the older music (38) ______ , who made a million dollars a year when he was most (39) ______ , in the 1950s. "(40) ______ aren't worth this kind of money. In fact, nobody is." But the rock stars' (41) ______ seem to disagree. Those who love rock music spend about two billion dollars a year for (42) ______ . They pay 150 million to see rock stars in person.


Some observers 1 think the (43) ______ are buying more than music. According 2 to one theory, to play rock music doesn't require much training. (44) ______________________________________________________________ . Every boy and girl in the audience thinks, "I could sing like that." Rock music has become a kind of religion. (45) ____________________________________________________________________________________ .


Luck is a key word for explaining the success of many. In 1972 one of the luckiest was Don McLean, who wrote and sang "American Pie." McLean earned more than a million dollars from recordings 3 of "American Pie." (46) ______________________________________________________________________________ .


 


 


 


 


 


 


 


 



答案解析:


36. claims解析:此处需要第三人称谓语动词,注意拼写ai。


37. incomes解析:根据后面的数字,此处需要表示“收入”的名词,注意复数形式。


38. millionaires解析:根据后面的定语从句可知此处需要名词,表示“百万富翁”,注意拼写aire和复数形式。


39. popular解析:根据he was most可知此处需要形容词,注意拼写ar。


40. Performers解析:根据aren't可知此处需要名词复数形式,此单词位于句首,应注意首字母大写。注意拼写er和or。


41. admirers解析:根据所有格和seem可知此处需要 名词复数形式,注意拼写er。


42. records解析:介绍for后接名词或动名词,records在此处作名词,注意拼写or。


43. customers解析:根据are可知此处需要名词复数形式,注意拼写o和er。


44. 标准答案:There is no gulf 4 between the audience and the performer听音关键:no gulf,audience,performer答案重构:No gulf lies between the audience and the performer画龙点睛:关键是要把两者之间没有距离的信息表达出来45. 标准答案:Young people are glad to pay to worship 5 a rock star because it is a way of worshipping themselves听音关键:glad,play,worship star,worship themselves答案重构:Young people like to spend money adoring 6 rock stars for it's a way of adoring themselves画龙点睛:本句中pay表示“付款”,其后稍有停顿;不定式to worship表示目的。注意这里并不是pay worship to短语。如果原词照搬,要注意worshipping应双写p;如果担心会拼错worship这个词,可用其同义词adore,admire等来代替。


46. 标准答案:Then too, by writing his own music, McLean earns some extra money听音关键:writing music,earn extra money答案重构:Then, McLean earns some extra money by writing his own music, too.


画龙点睛:状语的位置可以调换。





n.观察者( observer的名词复数 );遵守者;观测者;目击者
  • According to observers, the plane exploded shortly after take-off. 据目击者说,飞机起飞后不久就爆炸了。
  • Some military observers fear the US could get entangled in another war. 一些军事观察家担心美国会卷入另一场战争。 来自《简明英汉词典》
adj.按照,根据
  • According to the Bible we are all the seed of Adam.根据《圣经》所说的,我们都是亚当的后裔。
  • We must cut our coat according to our cloth this year.今年我们必须学会量入为出。
n.记录( recording的名词复数 );录音;录像;唱片
  • a boxed set of original recordings 一套盒装原声录音带
  • old jazz recordings reissued on CD 以激光唱片重新发行的老爵士乐
n.海湾;深渊,鸿沟;分歧,隔阂
  • The gulf between the two leaders cannot be bridged.两位领导人之间的鸿沟难以跨越。
  • There is a gulf between the two cities.这两座城市间有个海湾。
n.崇拜,礼拜;v.崇拜,敬仰;做礼拜
  • The Greeks used to worship several gods.过去,希腊人崇奉好几种神。
  • Blind worship must be ended.盲目崇拜必须停止。
a.崇拜的,敬慕的
  • He would stand and gaze up at her with adoring eyes. 它会站在那里,用崇拜的眼光抬头望着芬。
  • She was always made much of by her adoring friends. 她的朋友总是那麽崇拜她。
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all-clad
annex
arbores
array element value
audio communication device
balance delay
batch sequence number
be impatient of
Bechterew's symptom
bioluminescences
Bridgman equation of state
broomie
btacing of still
burramys parvus
C
Carson County
castable rubber
Castanopsis delavayi
caught with one's hand in the cookie jar
Cibalgin
Cinkassé
clintonias
collision of first kind
collisional bremsstrahlung
Companies Court
constant pressure gas burbine
Credit Standards
critical vertex
crockeryware
crude rate of natural increase
diff
ditty boxes
dollars to buttons
erythrina alkaloid
ethylphenyltriethyl silane
excitable state
faciolingualis
foreshore flats
george vancouvers
giga-candelas
gross contamination
hand sale
infecting potential
judicial divorce
latent tetanus
liner ship
locator device
long-probability curve
lunella coronata
mark signature
Medical Records
Methylnonylketone
metric systems
MFC Library
microcardia
mixed crystals
mobile lavatory
Morellian
n-phenylsuccinamic acid
noctivorous
ocher codon
open-government
partial protein
payment of postage
pleating of levator palpebrae superioris
polyp of breast
re-allying
recallists
recker
regressive scale
repulsive forces
root-mean-square voltmeter
rope lever block
s-o
sapphite
shielding barrier equipment
short-change
signal specification
skid preventation
snub the chain
sodaless
spoilter
Ste-Lucie
strong base
suspension access
third-order hexagonal bipyramid
Timurid Dynasty
toroid shell
tractates
transitive verb
tridecene dicarboxylic acid
tuner-timer
turn out in the cold
U-shaped shackleU
universal sttachment
user aided system
vanishingly
vilsons
water supply fire tanker
world textiles
xerosis pilorum
yows