2013年6月英语四级听力及答案

Part Ⅲ Listening Comprehension：11-35 11、

A．Children should be taught to be more careful. B．Children shouldn't drink so much orange juice. C．There is no need for the man to make such a fuss. D．Timmy should learn to do things in the right way. 12、

A．Fitness training． B．The new job offer. C．Computer programming． D．Directorship of the club. 13、

A．He needs to buy a new sweater． B．He has got to save on fuel bills. C．The fuel price has skyrocketed． D．The heating system doesn't work. 14、

A．Committing theft． B．Taking pictures. C．Window shopping,

D．Posing for the camera. 15、

A．She is taking some medicine． B．She has not seen a doctor yet.

C．She does not trust the man's advice． D．She has almost recovered from the cough. 16、

A．Pamela's report is not finished as scheduled． B．Pamela has a habit of doing things in a hurry. C．Pamela is not good at writing research papers． D．Pamela's mistakes could have been avoided. 17、

A．In the left-luggage office． B．At the hotel reception. C．In a hotel room．

D．At an airport. 18、

A．She was an excellent student at college． B．She works in the entertainment business.

C．She is fond of telling stories in her speech． D．She is good at conveying her message.

19、Questions 19 to 21 are based on the conversation you have just heard. A．Arranging the woman's appointment with Mr. Romero.

B．Fixing the time for the designer's latest fashion show. C．Talking about an important gathering on Tuesday. D．Preparing for the filming on Monday morning. 20、

A．Her travel to Japan． B．The awards ceremony.

C．The proper hairstyle for her new role． D．When to start the makeup session. 21、

A．He is Mr. Romero's agent．

B．He is an entertainment journalist. C．He is the woman's assistant． D．He is a famous movie star.

22、Questions 22 to 25 are based on the conversation you have just heard. A．Make an appointment for an interview． B．Send in an application letter. C．Fill in an application form．

D．Make a brief self-introduction on the phone.

23、

A．Someone having a college degree in advertising. B．Someone experienced in business management. C．Someone ready to take on more responsibilities. D．Someone willing to work beyond regular hours. 24、

A．Travel opportunities． B．Handsome pay.

C．Prospects for promotion． D．Flexible working hours.

25、

A．It depends on the working hours． B．It's about 500 pound a week.

C．It will be set by the Human Resources． D．It is to be negotiated.

26、Questions 26 to 29 are based on the passage you have just heard. A．To give customers a wider range of choices.

B．To make shoppers see as many items as possible. C．To supply as many varieties of goods as it can. D．To give space for more profitable products.

27、

A．On the top shelves, B．On the bottom shelves.

C．On easily accessible shelves． D．On clearly marked shelves. 28、

A．Many of them buy things on impulse． B．A few of them are fathers with babies. C．A majority of them are young couples, D．Over 60% of them make shopping lists.

29、

A．Sales assistants promoting high margin goods. B．Sales assistants following customers around. C．Customers competing for good bargains, D．Customers losing all sense of time,

30、Questions 30 to 32 are based on the passage you have just heard. A．Teaching mathematics at a school． B．Doing research in an institute. C．Studying for a college degree． D．Working in a high-tech company. 31、

A．He studied the designs of various choices． B．He did experiments to different materials. C．He bought an alarm clock with a pig face． D．He asked different people for their opinions. 32、

A．Its automatic mechanism．

B．Its manufacturing pattern. C．Its way of waking people up． D．Its funny-looking pig face.

33、Questions 33 to 35 are based on the passage you have just heard. A．It's often caused by a change of circumstances. B．It usually doesn't require any special attention. C．It usually appears all of a sudden． D．It usually lasts for several years.

34、

A．They can't mix well with others,

B．They emotionally receive their friends.

C．They depend severely on family members． D．They share similar interests with friends.

35、

A．They lack consistent support from peers． B．They doubt their own popularity.

C．They were born psychologically weak．

D．They focus too much attention on themselves.

Part Ⅲ Listening Comprehension：36-46 36、根据以下内容，回答问题。

There was a time when any personal information that was gathered about us was typed on a piece of paper and (36)_______away in a file cabinet. It could remain there for years and, often (37)_______never reach the outside world.

Things have done a complete about-face since then. (38) _______ for the change has been the astonishingly (39)_______ development in recent years of the computer. Today, any data that is (40) _______about us in one place or another - and for one reason or another - can be stored in a computer bank. It can then be easily passed to other computer banks. They are owned by (41)________ and by private businesses and corporations, lending (42)_______, direct mailing and telemarketing firms, credit bureaus, credit card companies, and government (43． _______ at the local, state, and federal level.

A growing number of Americans are seeing the accumulation and distribution of

computerized date as a frightening invasion of their privacy. (44) _______ as the computer becomes increasingly efficient, easier to operate, and less costly to purchase and maintain. In 1970, a national survey showed that (45) _______. Seven years later, 47 percent expressed the same worry. (46) _______. 第(36)题_______

37、第(37)题_______ 38、第(38)题_______ 39、第(39)题_______ 40、第(40)题_______

41、第(41)题_______ 42、第(42)题_______ 43、第(43)题_______ 44、第(44)题_______ 45、第(45)题_______ 46、第(46)题_______

听力参

听力AB 11. C

12. A

13. B

14. A

15. B

16. D

17. C

18. D

19. A

M: What should I do about Mr. Romero? Remember? He said it was important and couldn't wait. I think he may want you for that new movie he's directing.

W: That's absolutely correct. Now we have to fit him in somewhere. Uhh, what does Monday morning look like?

M: That doesn't look so good. You have a make-up session starting at 6, then filming starts at 8, and that's going to take the whole morning. W: Well, what's after that?

M: (20) You have lunch with your agent to discuss the awards ceremony and you will meet them at I o'clock at the restaurant. W: Oh, terrific. Listen, I cannot miss that. But I still have to make time for Mr. Romero. M: Well, now, don't forget you've got a 3 o'clock appointment with your

fashion designer.

W: That's right. You know he's showing the latest fashions from Japan. You know that loose-fitting look? Those clothes are so in this year.

M: At 4:30 you have an appointment with your hairdresser, Then at 7, you have dinner with a journalist. But remember, be nice to that guy.

W: Do ! have to? That won't be easy. And it's likely to run late. How does Tuesday look?

M: Well, you have to spend the whole morning at the photographer's. They are taking photos to publicize your new movie.

W: What about the afternoon? Am I free then? M: Let me see. Yes. You're free after 3:30. W: Then you can set up there a meeting with Mr. Romero at 4. M: OK. I will get on it right away.

【解析】细节题。男士前两句话就点出了讨论的话题是如何安排同Romero先生的会面。男士解释了女士的行程，女士很忙，没有时问和Romero见面，但是女士又必须要见，最后提到“Then you can set up there a meeting with Mr．Romero at 4．”星期二下午4点这个时间可以见Romer0先生。故选A。

20. B

细节题。对话中男士说到“You have lunch with your agent to discuss the awards ceremony”，也就是说午饭的时候和经纪人讨论典礼。故选B

21. C

推理题。男士一直在和女士商量行程，应该何时会见Romer0先生。所以说男士应该是女士的助手。故选C。

22. B

M: I am firing up about this job you've advertised in the paper. This, uh, young sales manager? W: Oh, yes.

M: I'd like to apply for it. Would you send me an application form? W: No. (22) You simply send a written application, a letter. M: Can you tell me a bit more about the job?

W: (23) Well, we're really looking for someone who isn't too concerned about working fairly long hours.

M: What do you mean by \"long hours\"?

W: This is a job which does, as the advertisement says, have travel possibilities and very often one would be away at weekends, for instance.

M: Oh, I thought you meant working in the evenings and working overtime.

W: Well, it also means working in the evenings. But for a managerial post, I am afraid we don't pay overtime. Um...that's for other grades.

M: Oh, what kind of money are you paying then?

W: (25) Well, this is robe negotiated.Uh. It depends partly on your experience and education. Perhaps you can tell me briefly what that is? M: I just left school and got A-level on geography. W: Oh, I see.

M: (24) And it's the travel that appeals to me. That's why I'm inquiring about the job. W: Yes, I see. What sort of salary were you thinking in terms of?.

M: Starting off... (25) I thought it would be something like 5,000 pounds a week?

W: Well, send in a written application and then we'll consider your case along with all the applicants. M: All right. Many thanks. Goodbye. W: Bye.

【解析】细节题。男士向女士要一张申请表，女士说，“You simply send a written application，a letter．”。由此可知女士认为求职者在找工作的时候应该先发求职信。故选B。

23. D

细节题。对话中女士提到“Well，we’re really looking for someone who isn’t too concerned about working fairly long hours．”也就是说公司想要愿意加班的人。故选D。

24. A

细节题。对话中男士提到\"And it's the travel that ap．peals to me．”也就是说最吸引男士的是旅游机会。男士并没有对报酬发表看法，工作时间很长，但并没有提到是否灵活。升职前景对话中也没有提到。故选A。

25. D

细节题。男士问到薪水的时候，女士说“Well，this is to be negotiated，”，也就是说薪水还需要商量。男士自己要求起薪是一周5000英镑左右，并不是双方说好的薪水。故选D。

26. B

A typical large supermarket offers around 17 thousand to 20 thousand items for sale. (26) And it wants to make sure that its customers see as many of them as possible. That's why you normally find essential goods like bread, vegetables and meat in completely different parts of the store. (27) Products with a high profit margin are always placed on shelves within easy reach of the customer while lower margin items like sugar or flour are on the top or bottom shelves. (28) Many people make shopping lists before they visit supermarkets. But even so, around 60% of all supermarket purchases are the results of the decisions taken in the store. For this reason, supermarkets try to attract their customers by placing certain kinds of products next to each

other. In the UK, beer would often be found next to items for babies because research shows that fathers of babies buy them on their way home from work and will buy beer at the same time. Research has also showed that this kind of impulse- buy happens more frequently when no sales assistant are nearby. (29) Supermarkets have made selling such a fine art that their customers often lose all sense of time. When interviewed, customers normally guess they've only spent half an hour in the supermarket even when they have been there for over 45 minutes, but that shouldn't be too surprising. Any witty profitable supermarket knows that they should keep its clocks well hidden.

【解析】细节题。题目中问的是为什么必需品会放在超市完全不同的区域，短文中“That’S why you only find essential goods like bread，vegetables and meat in completely different pans of the store”的前一句就指明了原因，也就是说超市是想让消费者看到更多商品。故选B。

27. C 细节题。短文中提到“Products with a high profit margin are always placed on shelves within easy reach of the customer”，也就是说高利润的商品总是摆放在容易拿到的架子上。故选C。

28. A

细节题。短文中提到Many people make shopping lists…around 60% of all supermarket purchases are the results of the decisions taken in the store，所以说60%左右的人是冲动购物。D项错误，B 和C选项的内容短文中没有提到。故选A。

29. D 细节题。短文中提到“Supermarkets have made selling such a fine art that their customers often lose all sense of time”，随后指出顾客在超市花了45分钟可能只感觉过了半小时也并不奇怪。故选D。

30. C

(30) When Mattie Salon was working on a degree in arts and technology at university, he got an interesting assignment in electronics class - create something for the household. He decided to create an alarm clock. \"Everybody has to use an alarm clock of some kind every day, and it's extremely unpleasant,\" he says. (31) He asked different people what they'd like to wake up to instead of a noisy alarm. A lot of them said the smell of bacon. So Salon invented a new kind of alarm clock. (32) A wooden box with a pig face and a digital clock that uses the smell of cooking bacon rather than sound to wake someone up. He explains, there is no danger of burning because I build it carefully. It uses a light bulb instead of flame for cooking and turns off

automatically after 10 minutes. Just a few easy steps are required to set the alarm. \"What you do is put in a couple of frozen stripes the night before,\" says Salon, \"Bacon is preserved so there is no danger of spoiling over night.\" \"If you set the alarm for 8 O'clock, it will turn on at 7:50 and slow cook for ten minutes under the bulbs.\" he says. \"Then the bulbs turn off and the fan blows the smell out through the nose of the pig, so instead of an alarm, you smell yourself awake,\" says Salon, and then you can open the door on the side and pull the bacon out and eat it.

【解析】细节题。短文第一句提到“When Mattie Salon was working on the degree in arts and technology at university”就指出了MaRie Salon在大学学习艺术和科技学位的时候想到了闹钟。故选C。

31. D

细节题。Mattie Salon觉得闹钟是每个人都在用的，但是它让人很不舒服。所以“He asked different people what they’d like to wake up to instead of a noisy alarm”，他询问了不同人的意见。故选D。

32. C 细节题。短文中提到‘\"uses the smell of cooking bacon rather than sound wake someone up'’，闹钟是利用培根的香味把人叫醒的，而不是用闹钟的铃声。故选C。

33. A

Most people feel lonely sometimes, but it usually only lasts between a few minutes and a few hours. For some people though, loneliness can last for years. Physiologists are studying this complex phenomenon and have identified three different types of loneliness. The first kind of loneliness is temporary. It usually disappears quickly and does not require any special attention.

(33) The second kind situational loneliness is a natural result of a particular situation, for

example,a divorce or moving to a new place. Although this kind of loneliness can cause physical problems, it usually does not lasts more than a year. Unlike the second type, the third kind of loneliness usually lasts more than 2 years and has no specific cause. (34) People who experienced habitual loneliness have problems socializing and becoming close to others. Unfortunately, many of them think there is little or nothing they can do about it. Psychologists agree that one

important factor in loneliness is a person's social contacts, for example, friends, family members etc. We depend on various people for different reasons. For instance, our families give us

emotional supports and our friends share similar interest and activities. However psychologists have found that the number of social contacts we have is not the only reason for loneliness. (35) It's more important how many social contacts we think or expect we should have. In other words, though lonely people may have many social contacts, they sometimes feel they should have more, they question their own popularity.

【解析】细节题。短文中指出孤单有三种，第二种是条件性的。“The second kind situational loneliness natural is a result of a particular situation”条件性的孤单是环境改变引起的。故选A。

34. A

细节题。短文中说到孤单的第三种类型大约会持续两年，没有具体原因，有这种孤单情绪的人“have problems socializing and becoming close to others”，也就是说他们黻能力有问题，不能和别人亲近。故选A。

35. B

细节题。题目问的是心理学家认为一些人被孤单折磨的原因是什么。短文中指出“It's more important how many social contacts we think or expect we should have．”最后一句说得更加清楚，原因是“they question their own popularity”。故选B。

听力C 36. locked 37. forgotten

38. responsible

39. swift

40. collected

41. individuals

42. institutions

43. agencies

44. Surveys show that the number of the worried Americans has been steadily growing over the years

45. 37% of the people questioned felt that privacy was being invaded

46. A recent survey by a credit bureau review that the numble of alarm citizens have shot up to 76%