公共英语四级听力模拟题1

公共英语四级听力模拟题1 Test One Section ? Listening Comprehension (30 minutes) Directions: This section is designed to test your ability to understand spoken English. You will hear a selection of recorded materials and you must answer the questions that accompany them. There are THREE parts in this section, Part A, Part B and Part C. Remember, while you are doing the test, you should first put down your answers in your test booklet. At the end of the listening comprehension section, you will have 5 minutes to transfer all your answers from your test booklet to ANSWER SHEET 1. If you have any questions, you may raise your hand NOW as you will not be allowed to speak once the test has started. Now look at Part A in your test booklet. Part A For Questions 1-5, you will hear a weather forecast. While you listen, fill out the table with the information you have heard. Some of the information has been given to you in the table. Write only 1 word in each numbered box. You will hear the recording twice. You now have 25 seconds to read the table below. Information About the Forecast the main topic of the weather report ______ 1. The good news is that there will be a little ______ 2. where it's needed. If it doesn't start raining soon, it will be a long, hot 3. and ______summer in South Georgia. Where does the speaker mention that some places are short of a year worth of rainfall over the last 4- 4. 5years? In the ______ blog. ______ suffered most from the drought. 5. Part B For Questions 6-10, you will hear a lecture on world population. While you listen, complete the sentences and answer the question. Use not more than 3 words for each answer. You will hear the recording twice. You now have 25 seconds to read the sentences and the question below. 6. ______ governments signed the Program of Action of ICDC. 7. ______ people in the world are under the age of 25 or are reaching the childbearing age. 8. More than 90% of the population growth is in the ______. 9. How many women of reproductive age in the developing world indicate that they want to postpone childbearing but are not using any method of contraception? 10. We need the ______ of a marathon runner to meet our goals during the next decade. Part C You will hear three dialogues or monologues. Before listening to each one, you will have time to read the questions related to it. While listening, answer each question by choosing A, B, C or D. After listening, you will have time to check your answer. You will hear each piece ONLY ONCE. Questions 11-13 are based on the following talk about the Dragon Boat Festival. You now have 15 seconds to read Questions 11-13. 11. The Dragon Boat Festival is celebrated on ______. [A] the fifth day of the fifth month in the solar calendar [B] the fifth day of the fifth month in the lunar calendar [C] the seventh day of the seventh month in the solar calendar [D] the seventh day of the seventh month in the lunar calendar 12. Why was the Dragon Boat Festival celebrated? [A] To commemorate the state of Chu. [B] To commemorate the defeat of Chu. [C] To commemorate Qu Yuan. [D] To welcome the arrival of summer. 13. Why are dragon boat races more popular in the south? [A] Because Qu Yuan was born in the south. [B] Because Qu Yuan threw himself into a river in the south. [C] Because there are more rivers and lakes in the south. [D] Because it is too cold in the north. Questions 14-16 are based on following speech. You now have 15 seconds to read Questions 14-16. 14. What is the main purpose of the speaker? [A] To introduce his life and Mosquito City. [B] To ask tourists to go to his hometown for a visit. [C] To promote biological education among the young people. [D] To teach us about the plants in his hometown. 15. What is the profession of the speaker? [A] A gardener. [B] A biology professor. [C] A student majoring in biology. [D] A shop assistant. 16. Mosquito City is ______. [A] a small city of the United States [B] a small city of Australia [C] an independent country [D] an island of the United States in the Southern Pacific Ocean Questions 17-20 are based on the following passage. You now have 20 seconds to read Questions 17-20. 17. The first program of VOA was broadcast in ______. [A] English [B] French [C] Spanish [D] German 18. How many computer servers does the VOA use around the world to put information on the Internet? [A] 14,000. [B] 40,000. [C] 44,000. [D] 41,000. 19. Which is the second most popular Internet page of the VOA website? [A] VOA home page. [B] VOA standard English. [C] VOA special English. [D] BBC website. 20. Which of the following is INCORRECT? [A] Now VOA is broadcast in 44 languages. [B] It produces more than 1,000 hours of news each week. [C] One of the duties of VOA news is to broadcast partially. [D] When VOA begun, all broadcasts were on shortwave. 答案 Test One Part A 1. drought 2. rain 3. dry 4. video 5. Farmers Part B 6. 179 7. 3 billion 8. developing world/countries 9. Over 150 million. 10. strength and determination Part C 11. B 12. C 13. C 14. A 15. B 16. C 17. D 18. A 19. B 20. C 听力原文 Test One Part A For Questions 1-5, you will hear a weather forecast. While you listen, fill out the table with the information you have heard. Some of the information has been given to you in the table. Write only 1 word in each numbered box. You will hear the recording twice. You now have 25 seconds to read the table below. Here's the drought edition for today. The good news is there's going to be a little rain where it's needed. The bad news is that it just isn't enough. Like I have said before, hot and dry weather tends to beget hot and dry weather. So, if it doesn't start raining soon, it's going to be a mighty long and hot and dry and generally miserable summer in South Georgia and points west all the way to Mississippi at least. That may also apply to the Tennessee Valley, since they are in a dry zone as well, and there's nothing coming that will put any big dent in the drought in the next week or so for any of those places. The good news for places farther west to the Arklatex is that it has been raining pretty good for a while now. These are the places that I am talking about when I say in the video blog that are short of a year worth of rainfall over the last 4-5 years. That's really dry, bad enough that a lot of the farmers a- round there have either had to give it up or have strongly considered it. Hopefully, we can keep the rain going through the growing season this year and have the frost good year in quite some time. Part B For Questions 6-10, you will hear a lecture on world population. While you listen, complete the sentences and answer the question. Use not more than 3 words for each answer. You will hear the recording twice. You now have 25 seconds to read the sentences and the question below. The year 2004 marks the 10th anniversary of the groundbreaking International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD) in Cairo, Egypt, in 1994. Ten years ago, on the eve of World Population Day, a new campaign was launched to raise awareness of how international family planning helps save women and children's lives, safeguard the environment, and slow population growth. One hundred and seventy-nine governments committed to it when they signed the Program of Action of ICPD, which prescribed the steps that would not only save millions of women's lives but empower societies to achieve a better future. Today, there are more than 6 billion people on the planet, with half of the world's population under the age of 25—at or just reaching their childbearing years. Nearly 600,000 women still die each year from pregnancy-related causes. And an estimated 90 percent of infants whose mothers die at childbirth will not survive to their first birthday. Wild species are becoming extinct 50 to 100 times faster than they naturally would, because of the impact of rapid population growth and increased population density in many countries. Though population growth is slowing worldwide, more than 90 percent of current growth occurs in the developing world where needs are great and resources are scarce. And these nations have a huge unmet need for family planning services—over 150 million married women of reproductive age in the developing world indicate that they would prefer to postpone childbearing but are not using any method of contraception. "A girl born today in the developing world faces better prospects than a girl who was born 10 years ago. School enrolment rates are increasing, mortality is declining and life expectancy is rising. More and more women and couples are able to choose the number and spacing of their children and many countries are taking additional steps to confront HIV/AIDS. But progress is uneven, and in some cases slipping backwards. We need the strength and determination of a marathon runner to meet our goals during the next decade." Part C You will hear three dialogues or monologues. Before listening to each one, you will have time to read the questions related to it. While listening, answer each question by choosing A, B, C or D. After listening, you will have time to check your answer. You will hear each piece ONLY ONCE. Questions 11-13 are based on the following talk about the Dragon Boat Festival. You now have 15 seconds to read Questions 11-13. The Dragon Boat Festival, also called the Duanwu Festival, is celebrated on the fifth day of the fifth month according to the Chinese calendar. For thousands of years, the festival has been marked by eating zongzi, a kind of glutinous rice(糯米) wrapped to form a pyramid using bamboo or reed leaves, and racing dragon boats. The festival is best known for its dragon-boat races, especially in the southern provinces where there are many rivers and lakes. This regatta commemorates the death of Qu Yuan, an honest minister who is said to have committed suicide by drowning himself in a river. Qu was a minister of the State of Chu situated in present-day 'Hunan and Hubei provinces, during the Warring States Period. He was upright, loyal and highly esteemed for his wise counsel that brought peace and prosperity to the state. However, when a dishonest and corrupt prince vilified Qu, he was disgraced and dismissed from office. Realizing that the country was now in the hands of evil and corrupt officials, Qu grabbed a large stone and leapt into the Miluo River on the fifth day of the fifth month. Nearby fishermen rushed over to try and save him but were unable to even recover his body. Thereafter, the state declined and was eventually conquered by the State of Qin. The people of Chu who mourned the death of Qu threw rice into the river to feed his ghost every year on the fifth day of the fifth month. But one year, the spirit of Qu appeared and told the mourners that a huge reptile in the river had stolen the rice. The spirit then advised them to wrap the rice in silk and bind it with five different-colored threads before tossing it into the river. Questions 14-16 are based on following speech. You now have 15 seconds to read Questions 14-16. Hi. My name is Ralph Mesquite. I am a biologist. I live at Ling Lodge in Brooklyn City. Ling Lodge is on Old River Road. It is a part of Mosquito City. The houses in Brooklyn do not have street numbers. They have names. The name of my building is Ling Lodge and tile name of the building next to my building is Antarctica. Ling Lodge is across the road from the Nature Reserve. I often go to the Nature Reserve. I am studying the plants there. In particular I am studying the Mosquito Rose. The Mosquito Rose is a giant red flower. It is an endangered species. Sometimes I work at the Nature Reserve and sometimes I work at home and sometimes I drive to my office at the university. Mosquito City has one university. I am a professor at the Mosquito City University. I am a biology professor. I was born in Mosquito City and I have lived here most of my life. I am going to tell you a little about the city. Mosquito City is an independent country in the southern Pacific Ocean. The government of Mosquito City is an urban corporation and the city has a population of about three hundred and fifty thousand people. Actually the urban corporation of Mosquito City consists of three separate entities. They arc Mosquito City, Mount Sphinx and Brooklyn. As I said before, I live in Brooklyn but the university is in Mosquito City, near the river. Questions l7-20 are based on the following passage. You now have 20 seconds to read Questions 17-20. The United States government established the Voice of America during World War II. The first radio broadcast was in a language no longer heard on VOA. It was a fifteen-minute program in Ger- man. It aired on February twenty-fourth, nineteen forty-two. It told the German people that every day VOA would broadcast news of America and the war. The news the announcer said may be good or bad, but we will tell you the truth. Today, VOA broadcasts more than one thousand hours of radio programs each week in forty- four languages. VOA also has television programs in English and a number of other languages. These include Albanian, Cantonese, French, Indonesian, Mandarin and Persian. And VOA uses more than fourteen thousand computer servers around the world to put information on the Internet. VOA has three main duties under a Charter signed into law in nineteen seventy-six. One is to report the news fairly. Another is to tell about America and its people. The third duty is to present the policies of the government as well as opinions about those policies. When VOA began, all broadcasts were on shortwave. Today many local radio stations around the world carry VOA programs. It is estimated that VOA reaches more than one hundred million people each week through radio, television and the Internet. More than ten million individuals visited the VOA website last year. We are happy to report that Special English is the third most popular page after the VOA home page and standard English.