决胜四级听力必备 unit18

Section A

[00:02.80]1. W:If you hadn't told me about your birthday,I might have gone home.

[00:09.53]M: They would be unhappy if you didn't turn up.

[00:13.58]Q: What is the woman going to do?

[00:18.23]2. W: Well,I like classical 1 music,and I go to the concert every weekend.

[00:25.26]M: Classical music is my favourite,but I used to like pop music very much.

[00:31.69]Pop music,you see!

[00:35.03]Q: What do the man and the woman have in common?

[00:40.78]3. M:I hear you've found a new job. Is that true?

[00:46.63]W: Well,I'm now an assistant manager in a real estate 2 company.

[00:52.98]I don't think I'll stay very long.

[00:56.92]Q: What does the woman plan to do in the future?

[01:03.16]4. M: If I were you,I would take a plane instead of a bus.

[01:09.41]It will take you a whole day to get there.

[01:13.87]W: But flying makes me so nervous.

[01:18.03]Q: What does the woman prefer to do?

[01:23.17]5. W: Can I help you? M: Yes,Madam.

[01:28.11]I saw a note outside that says "Rooms For Rent".

[01:33.88]Can I rent an apartment with a bathroom and a kitchen?

[01:38.93]Q: What does the man want?

[01:44.18]6. W: Are you ready for the job interview today?

[01:49.74]M: Well,actually,my hands are sweaty and trembling 3.

[01:54.78]I think I really have a phobia towards this kind of interview.

[02:00.03]Q: How does the man feel towards the interview?

[02:05.78]7. W:The football match is terribly.

[02:10.53]It is so violent 4 and noisy.

[02:14.58]M: I certainly can't agree with you on that point.

[02:19.65]Q: What does the man think of the football match?

[02:25.50]8. M: Excuse me,can you lend me your calculator 5?

[02:31.46]W: I'd like to,but I gave it to my sister last week.

[02:37.10]and I haven't bought a new one.

[02:40.76]Q: What does the woman mean?

[02:45.41]9. M: This term I'd like to go to Japan to do postgraduate 6 work in medicine.

[02:52.85]Could I have some information please?

[02:57.11]Certainly.This handbook 7 tells you what you must do to get into a medical school in Japan.

[03:04.76]Q:What did the woman give to the student?

[03:10.51]10.M:Did you get what you wanted?

[03:14.66]Seems to me I remember you said you wanted to get a sweater.

[03:20.62]W: No,a blouse.

[03:23.86]But by that time,the ones on sale were all gone,so I settled 8 for skirt.

[03:30.99]Q: What did the woman finally buy?

[03:36.14]Section B   Passage One

[03:40.97]A long time ago,the Israelites lived happily in Egypt.

[03:47.42]But one day,a cruel man became pharaoh.

[03:52.57]king of Egypt,and he hated the Israelites.

[03:58.32]"There are too many Israelites in Egypt now",he said to himself.

[04:04.56]"and they are strong too.

[04:08.32]One day they may take over Egypt. I'd better get rid of them.

[04:14.46]So he made a law that every baby boy born into an Israelites family should be killed.

[04:22.82]and thrown into the river Nile.

[04:27.08]The pharaoh's soldiers searched all the Israelite house。

[04:32.12]and they threw every baby boy into the river.

[04:37.08]But one woman from the Levi family tried to save her baby son.

[04:44.03]So she hid him,and nobody saw him for three months.

[04:50.66]The baby grew big and strong and noise.

[04:55.50]Soon the poor mother could hide him no longer.

[04:59.86]So she wove 9 a basket out of rushed.

[05:04.30]She covered the rushes with thick clay 10 mixed with oils to stop any water getting inside.

[05:12.16]Then she made a tightly 11 fitting 12 lie.

[05:16.32]Gently,she put her baby inside the basket and went down to the river.

[05:22.95]She watched the basket float away on the water and went home sadly.

[05:29.38]praying that the river would carry her baby to safety.

[05:34.71]Her daughter,Miriam,had followed her down to the river.

[05:40.77]Miriam decided 13 to watch and see what would happen to her little brother.

[05:47.01]Just then,the pharaoh's daughter came with her slaves 14 to bathe at the water's edge 15.

[05:54.77]The princess moved some rushes to one side and saw the basket.

[06:01.01]She asked her slaves to bring it to her.

[06:05.35]How surprised she was to find a baby inside.

[06:10.10]The baby started to cry and the princess said,

[06:14.65]"Oh dear, this baby is an Israelite.

[06:19.40]my father's soldiers will kill him if they find him.

[06:25.25]But if I adopt him, he will be safe."

[06:29.90]At that moment Miriam came out from her hiding place.

[06:34.97]She said, "I know a kind woman who could nurse this baby for you.

[06:41.82]"Please bring her to me at once," said the princess.

[06:46.78]Miriam ran home and brought the woman.

[06:51.22]who was, of course, her own mother.

[06:56.08]"I will pay you well if you look after this baby for me.

[07:01.43]the pharaoh's daughter said to her.

[07:05.38]Miriam's mother was very happy to carry her son home again.

[07:11.44]She looked after him well and, when he was older

[07:17.19]the princess took him to live in her palace.

[07:21.94]She called him Moses, which means 16 "pull out of water".

[07:28.78]11. What did the haraoh do to the Israelite baby boys?

[07:35.44]12. What did Miriam see happen to her little brother?

[07:42.00]13. Why did the princess name the baby boy Moses?

[07:48.45]Passage Two

[07:51.48]The difference between life in one country and another is quite often now.

[07:57.52]so great as the difference between city life and village life in the same country.

[08:04.36]In an English village,everybody knows everybody else;

[08:10.29]they know what time you get up.

[08:14.26]what time you go to bed and what you usually have for dinner.

[08:20.11]If you want any help,

[08:23.56]you will always get it and be glad to help anyone else in return.

[08:30.12]In a large city like London,

[08:33.85]there are many things to see and many places to go to.

[08:39.11]However,people often do not know each other well.

[08:44.67]It sometimes happens that you have never seen your next door neighbour.

[08:50.52]don't know his name or anything about him.

[08:54.96]People living in London are often very lonely,particularly after work.

[09:01.31]This is because the people they are with all day.

[09:06.25]are scattered 17 over large areas in the evenings and weekend.

[09:11.71]If you walk through the streets in the centre of London on a Sunday.

[09:17.24]it is almost like an empty town.

[09:21.58]One is sorry for old people who do not live with their children.

[09:27.22]and have no work to go to during the day.

[09:32.16]14. What is this article about?

[09:38.30]15. Which of the following is true?

[09:43.03]16. Which of the following is not mentioned?

[09:49.17]Passage Three

[09:52.01]In early days,no medical college took a woman student.

[09:57.76] Elizabeth Black well, however was determined 18 to become a doctor.

[10:04.11]The young American wrote again and again to a number of medical college

[10:10.35]asking if she could be enrollee 20 but each time the answer was NO.

[10:17.40]Then one day,to her surprise

[10:21.74]she got a letter from the dean 21 of a college in Geneva which said YES.

[10:30.07]At first Geneva College, like the other college

[10:35.64]was not willing 22 to enrol 19 Liza.

[10:39.79]But later the important people of that college.

[10:44.83]Learn that Liza's application had the support of a famous doctor.

[10:51.78]and they were afraid to offend 23 that man.

[10:56.25]So the dean decided to play a trice

[11:00.40]by turning the matter over to the students' general meeting of the college

[11:06.54]thinking that the students would be the last to agree to take Liza.

[11:12.71]When the student body met

[11:16.15]most students took no interest in the matter.

[11:20.59]Of the rest some considered the young American's idea interesting

[11:26.26]and some thought by having Liza

[11:30.49]they could be proud of their college training the world's first woman doctor.

[11:37.26]Very soon the students all agreed to accept Elizabeth.

[11:42.62]The dean of Geneva College was of course very sorry to learn this

[11:48.47]but seeing that he could do nothing to keep Elizabeth out, he gave in.

[11:54.92]17. What was her aim to enter a medical college?

[12:00.56]18. What did the dean of the medical college think?

[12:06.62]19. Whom did Geneva College have to satisfy 24 finally?

[12:12.97]20. Did Geneva College accept Elizabeth at first