决胜四级听力必备 unit10

Unit10  Section  A

[00:04.78]1. M:My shoes are smaller than my brother's.

[00:09.85]W: Really? But he seemed smaller than you.

[00:14.29]Q: How do the man's shoes compare with his brother's?

[00:20.56]2. W: The guests are leaving for New York on the eight o'clock flight.

[00:27.09]Would you please drive them to the airport?

[00:31.32]M: I'd be happy to, but now my car is under repair.

[00:37.17]Q: How are the guests going to New York?

[00:42.92]3. W: How did your interview go?

[00:47.65]M: I couldn't feel better about it.

[00:51.28]The questions were moderate 1

[00:54.94]and I seemed to give proper answer for all of them.

[01:00.50]Q: How did the man feel about the interview?

[01:06.95]4. W: Oh,it's too late to get on a bus.

[01:12.31]M: Why don't we take a taxi?

[01:15.76]Q: How will they probably go home?

[01:21.50]5. M: I don't think having big parties is a mistake.

[01:27.14]I like big parties.

[01:30.31]I think we should pay back our friends who have invited us to their parties.

[01:36.37]W: But big parties are so impersonal 2.

[01:40.52]I think we should have several small ones instead.

[01:45.46]Q: How does the woman feel about parties?

[01:51.31]6. M: Ah, lucky chat.

[01:55.57]How did they get to know each other?

[01:59.01]W: From what I've heard,the groom 3 and the bride met at a part.

[02:04.58]It is said that they have been falling in love with each other since that very moment.

[02:10.82]Q: How did they love each other?

[02:16.39]7. M: Americans don't think twice about using garbage for land fill?

[02:23.02]W: Yes.I've heard that part of Manhattan is built on garbage.

[02:28.77]In my country,it would be impossible to even talk about this!

[02:34.62]Q: How do Americans feel about using garbage for land fill?

[02:41.36]8. W: Did Helen tell you about the fight she and her husband had last night?

[02:48.12]M:Yes,it really got on his nerves 4 when he found that photograph in her pocketbook.

[02:55.18]Q: How did Helen's husband react 5 to the photograph?

[03:01.52]9.M:Every time before a long-distance race,I have butterflies in my stomach.

[03:09.57]W: Don't worry too much about it.

[03:13.33]Anyway, you are not a professional 6 runner.

[03:17.59]Q: How does the man feel before a 800-meter race?

[03:25.64]10. W: If I were you, I'd take the bus to work.

[03:30.89]Driving in that rush-hour traffic is terrible.

[03:35.54]M: But by the time the bus gets to my stop,there aren't any seats left.

[03:42.20]Q: How does the man prefer to go to work?

[03:48.55]Section B     Passages one

[03:52.99]Many years ago,there lived a poor man who had only one son.

[03:59.52]One day,there was no more money or food left in the house,

[04:05.47]so the man said,"My son,you must go to find some work and earn some money."

[04:12.53]The young man left home.

[04:15.97]He walked many miles until he met a rich farmer who had thousands of sheep.

[04:22.03]This farmer needed a shepherd 7 to look after his sheep,

[04:26.89]so he gave the young man the job.

[04:30.73]There were seven mountains around the farm,

[04:34.99]and there were sheep in every field on every mountain.

[04:40.14]One day,black clouds gathered. A storm began.

[04:45.39]The wind tore off branches and blew down mighty 8 trees.

[04:50.61]The rain poured down.

[04:53.85]Paths and bridges were washed away.

[04:58.00]The young man rushed around,gathered the sheep from the seven hillsides to lead them to shelter 9 in the farm,

[05:06.26]He had almost reached the farm with his enormous 10 flock 11

[05:11.30]when he saw that the bridge over the last stream had been washed away.

[05:16.76]There was only a wooden plank 12 left.

[05:21.41]It was only safe for the sheep to walk across the plank one at a time.

[05:27.76]They did not like the look of the narrow creaky piece of wood,

[05:33.43]but the shepherd pushed a big black sheep across and the rest started to follow

[05:39.98]one at a time, one at a time.

[05:43.82]What hapened next?

[05:47.17]I'll tell you when all the sheep are safely across the plank .

[05:52.99]At the moment they  are still going over

[05:57.54]one at a time, one at a time, one at a time.

[06:02.48]Have all the sheep crossed over the bridge yet.

[06:06.84]Oh, dear me, no.

[06:10.68]The young man saved thousands of sheep from the mountains and field.

[06:16.42]They all have to get across that shaky plank

[06:21.47]and they are still crossing, one at a time, one at a time.

[06:27.32]When will the last sheep have crossed you may well ask.

[06:33.17]The answer is

[06:36.23]they will all have crossed when every sheep is on the other side.

[06:42.18]But just now, they are still walking over,

[06:47.22]one at a time, one at a time.

[06:51.27]And what about the young man.

[06:55.11]Well,he is still waiting and watching those sheep crossing the plank,one at a time.

[07:02.56]One at a time, ...one at a time.

[07:07.10]11. Why did the young man have to leave home?

[07:12.95]12. What kind of job did the young man find?

[07:18.49]13. What happened when the storm came?

[07:24.16]14. How did the sheep get across the single plank?

[07:30.30]Passage Two

[07:33.15]Professor Wang is a physics teacher in Beijing.

[07:38.11]Once she was explaining to one of her classes about sound.

[07:44.25]She decided 13 to test the students to see how well they had understood her.

[07:50.80]"I have an uncle in Xinjiang," she said,

[07:55.56]"Suppose I was calling him on the phone from here

[08:00.91]and at the same time you were 25 metres away, listening to me.

[08:08.18]Who would hear me first, my uncle or you - and for what reason?"

[08:14.63]Ma Hua at once answered,

[08:19.07]"Your uncle, professor,because sound-waves travel slower than electricity."

[08:25.42]"Good," said the professor, but then another boy raised his hand.

[08:32.05]"Yes, Li Ming?" said Professor Wang.

[08:36.91]"Of course your uncle would hear you first," Limin said,

[08:42.55]"but that's because of the time difference.

[08:46.71]When it's nine o'clock here,it's seven o'clock in Xinjiang."

[08:52.56]15. What did Professor Wang do to check whether the students understood her or not?

[09:00.60]16. How did Ma Hua make such a judgment 14?

[09:06.74]17. How did Li Min give such an explanation?

[09:12.80]Passage Three

[09:15.94]Henry Smith taught science at the City School.

[09:21.08]Once he went to a bookstore and bought some books.

[09:25.63]Most of which were expensive ones.

[09:29.89]He left them in his car in a quiet street.

[09:34.64]Then he went and bought some other things at other shop.

[09:40.08]At 6 o'clock he came back to the car.

[09:44.31]One window was open - and the books were gone.

[09:48.96]Henry drove 15 back to his home in Lake Street

[09:53.61]that night he wrote a letter to a newspaper.

[09:58.44]The next day he went to the police.

[10:02.70]On Friday people read an advertisement in the newspaper:

[10:08.34]BOOK WANTED

[10:11.08]Have you any books that you no longer want.

[10:16.23]I buy old and modern books. Open all day on Saturday.

[10:22.58]Henry Smith, 18 Lake Street.

[10:27.23]Henry stayed at home on Saturday.

[10:31.09]His first visitor came at 8 o'clock.

[10:35.25]Henry took him to the kitchen.

[10:38.80]At half past nine, another man arrived.

[10:43.24]He had a bag under his arm.

[10:46.90]"Mr. Smith?" the man asked.

[10:50.66]"That's right," Henry said. "Can I help you?"

[10:55.41]"I have some good books. You buy books, don't you?"

[11:00.85]"Yes, bring them in. I'll have a look at them."

[11:05.91]Soon the books were on the dining-table,

[11:10.35]"Come in now," Henry called out, "and bring the list."

[11:15.60]A policeman came into the dining-room.

[11:20.46]He read the titles on the books and then those on the list in his hand.

[11:26.52]They were the same.

[11:29.58]"Come with me,sir,"the policeman said to the man.

[11:34.41]18. How did the man get the books?

[11:40.45]19. How did Henry get his books back?

[11:45.70]20. How did the man find Henry's address?