决胜四级听力必备 unit16

[00:02.69]1. A: What do you think of his experiment?

[00:07.94]B: He has done well considering he has no experience.

[00:12.98]Q: Why does he think he has done well?

[00:18.21]2. M:Did you enjoy the dinner party?

[00:22.75]W: No,and if we're ever invited there again,

[00:27.30]I shall refuse to sit next to Jim Smith.

[00:32.26]Q: Why didn't the woman enjoy the dinner party?

[00:38.40]3. W: What's the matter with Mary.

[00:42.87]Why did she leave the examination half-way?

[00:47.52]M: She said she had not been well prepared.

[00:52.17]Q: Why did she fail in the examination?

[00:57.52]4. W: Why don't you give up smoking.

[01:02.07]It's such a bad example for the children.

[01:06.61]M: It's one of the real pleasure in my life. That's why.

[01:11.68]Q: Why does the woman want the man to give up smoking?

[01:18.03]5. M: Are you going to the cinema with me this afternoon?

[01:23.49]W: No.I'm afraid I can't.

[01:27.22]I have to go to the library and get some reference 1 books about American history.

[01:33.99]Q: Why can't the woman go to the cinema?

[01:39.94]6. W: Would you like to go to the concert with me on Thursday evening?

[01:46.40]M: I would enjoy that very much if I didn't have to take an exam on Friday.

[01:53.24]Q: Why didn't the man accept the invitation?

[01:58.78]7. M: Well,I thought you were working for a large business machine company.

[02:05.81]W: I did for a few months.

[02:09.44]but I decided 2 that accounting 3 wasn't what I liked best.

[02:14.50]Q: Why did she want to change her job?

[02:20.54]8: W: Did you remember to bring the pen which I lent you?

[02:26.29]M: I'm sorry. It completely slipped my mind.

[02:30.94]I promise I'll bring it at the same time tomorrow.

[02:36.19]Q: Why did the man apologize to the woman?

[02:41.54]9. M: Why don't you want to dance tonight?

[02:46.58]W: I'd love to,but I got my leg hurt while high jumping.

[02:52.04]Q: Why doesn't the woman want to dance?

[02:57.68]10. M: Have you decided where you are going to live when you get married?

[03:04.35]W: I would like to live in the city.

[03:08.00]but my boyfriend wants a house in the suburb.

[03:12.86]which means a long way from my office.

[03:17.41]Q: Why does the woman want to live in the city?

[03:23.44]Section B   Passage One

[03:27.88]Some of the notebooks George Washington kept as a young man are still in existence.

[03:34.62]They show that he was learning Latin.

[03:38.75]was very interested in the basics of good behavior in society

[03:44.78]and was reading English literature.

[03:48.94]At school,he seemed only to have been interested in mathematic.

[03:54.50]In fact his formal education was surprisingly brief for a gentlemen and incomplete 4.

[04:02.16]For unlike other young Virginian gentleman of that day.

[04:07.80]he did not go to the College of William and Mary in the Virginian capital of Williamsburg.

[04:15.74]In terms of formal training them

[04:19.87]Washington contrasts sharply 5

[04:23.73]with some other early American Presidents such as John Adam

[04:30.08]Thomas Jefferson and James Madison

[04:34.52]In later years,Washington probably regretted his lack of intellectual training.

[04:41.55]He never felt comfortable in a debate in Congress

[04:45.99]or on any subject that had not to do with everyday  practical matter

[04:53.15]And because he never learned French

[04:57.20]and could not speak directly to the French leaders

[05:01.74]he did not visit the country he admired so much.

[05:06.99]Thus,unlike Jefferson and Adams,he never reached Europe.

[05:13.26]11. What reason does the author give for Washington not going to college?

[05:20.21]12. Why did Washington feel uncomportable in Congress debates?

[05:27.05]13. What is the reason why Washington didn't visit France?

[05:33.71]Passage Two

[05:36.67]The dog,called Prince,was an intelligent animal and a slave to William.

[05:43.30]From morning till night, when Williams was at home.

[05:47.74]Prince never left his sight practically ignoring all other members of the family.

[05:55.08]The dog had a number of clearly defined 6 duties

[06:00.05]for which Williams had patiently trained him

[06:04.30]and,like the good pupil he was.

[06:08.54]Prince lived for the chance to demonstrate his abilities

[06:13.47]When williams wanted to put on his boot,

[06:17.73]he would murmur 7 "boots," and within seconds,

[06:22.28]the dog would drop them at his feet.

[06:28.83]At nice every morning

[06:32.28]Prince ran off to the general store in the village

[06:36.93]returning shortly not only with Williams' daily paper

[06:42.39]but with a half-ounce packet of Williams' favourite tobacco.

[06:47.85] John rhiney's Mixed. A gun-dog by breech.

[06:53.28]Prince possessed 8 a large soft mouth specially 9 evolved for the saft carrying of hunted creature

[07:00.73]so the paper and the tobacco came to no har

[07:05.17]never even showing a tooth mark.

[07:09.11]Williams was a railway man,an engine driver,

[07:13.76]and he wore a blue uniform which smelled of oil fuel.

[07:18.80]He had to work at odd times-"days" "late days" or "nights"

[07:25.26]Over the years,

[07:28.21]Prince got to know these periods of work and rest and knew when his master would leave the house and return.

[07:36.25]and the dog did not waste this knowledge.

[07:40.51]If Williams overslept as he often die

[07:45.27] Prince barked at the bedroom door until he woke

[07:49.92]much to the annoyance 10 of the family.

[07:53.97]Oh his return,Williams' slippers 11 were brought to him,

[07:58.93]the paper and tobacco too if previously 12 undelivered.

[08:04.39]A curious thing happened to Williams during the snow and ice of last winter.

[08:10.32]One evening

[08:13.17]he slipped and fell on the ice pavement somewhere between the village and his home.

[08:19.80]He was so badly shaken that he stayed in bed for three days

[08:25.65]and not until he got up and dressed again

[08:30.22]did he discover that he had lost his wallet containing over fifty pound

[08:36.47]The house was turned upside down in the search

[08:40.91]but the wallet was not found

[08:44.64]However,two days later - that was five days after the fade 

[08:50.21]pince dropped into williams' hand the wallet:very muddy,stained and wet,

[08:57.34]though the little case still contained fifty-three pound

[09:02.77]Williams' driving license 13 and a few other paper

[09:08.23]Where the dog had found it no one could tell

[09:12.78]but found that he had recognized it probably by the faint oily smell on the worn leather.

[09:20.04]14. What does the passage tell us about gun-dogs?

[09:26.78]15. Which of the following is true?

[09:31.64]16. Why did the dog think it was Williams' wallet?

[09:37.99]Passage Three

[09:40.94]Brenda Linson never goes anywhere without an empty spectacles 14 casa .

[09:47.21]It is as vital to her as her purse. Yet,she doesn't wear glasses.

[09:54.05]The reason she can't do without it is that she can't read and she can't write.

[10:00.89]If ever she gets into any situation

[10:05.86]where she might be expected to do either of these things

[10:11.00]she fishes around in her bag for the spectacles casa

[10:16.46]finds it's empty and asks the person concerned to do the reading for her.

[10:23.20]Until a few months ago hardly anybody knew about her problem.

[10:29.13]Her husband didn't know and her children didn't know.

[10:34.38]The children still don't.

[10:38.15]She had any number of tactics 15 for hiding her difficulty for example

[10:44.39]never lingering 16 near a phone at work.

[10:48.54]in case she had to answer it and might be required to write something down.

[10:54.71]It has never occurred to the children that their mother cannot read.

[11:00.45]She doesn't read them stories

[11:03.90]but then their father doesn't either

[11:07.87]so they find nothing surprising in the fact.

[11:12.00] Similarly they just accept that Dad is the one who writes the sick notes and reads the school report

[11:20.15]Now that the elder boy Tom is quite a proficient 17 reader.

[11:25.69]Brenda can skillfully get him to read any notes brought home form school simply by asking

[11:33.55]"What's that all about, then?"

[11:36.89]Brenda's husband never guessed the truth in ten years of marriage.

[11:42.46]For one thing

[11:45.20]he insists on handling all domestic 18 correspondence 19 and bills himself.

[11:51.97]A salesman for a large company

[11:56.02]he travels a great deal and so is not around so much to spot the truth.

[12:02.55]While he's away,Brenda copes with any situations by explaining that she can't do anything

[12:10.28]until she's discussed it with her husband.

[12:14.15]Brenda was very successful in her job until recently.

[12:19.29]For the last five years

[12:22.74]she had worked as a waitress at an expensive restaurant

[12:27.81]and had eventually been promoted to head waitress.

[12:32.85]She kept the thing a secret there too

[12:37.00]and got over the practical difficulties somehow