2011年12月大学英语四级听力真题-英语听力

[00:00.00]听力试音 [01:55.26]Part III Listening Comprehension [01:58.64]Section A [02:00.31]Directions: In this section, you will hear 8 short conversations and 2 long conversations. [02:07.84]At the end of each conversation, one or more questions will be asked about what was said. [02:13.92]Both the conversation and the questions will be spoken only once.After each question there will be a pause. [02:20.88]During the pause, you must read the four choices marked A), B), C) and D), and decide which is the best answer. [02:32.37]Then mark the corresponding letter on Answer Sheet 2 with a single line through the centre. [02:44.47]Q11. [02:46.79]W: This crazy bus schedule has got me completely confused. [02:51.37]I can't figure out when my bus to Cleveland leaves? [02:55.14]M: Why don't you just go to the ticket window and ask? [02:59.63]Q: What does the man suggest the woman do? [03:18.27]Q12. [03:21.36]W: I really enjoyed the TV special about drafts last night. Did you get home in time to see it? [03:27.93]W: Oh, yes, but I wish I could have stayed awake long enough to see the whole thing. [03:33.99]Q: What does the man mean? [03:50.87]Q13. [03:53.06]W: Airport, please. I'm running a little late. So just take the fastest way even if it's not the most direct. [04:00.54]M: Sure, but there is a lot of traffic everywhere today because of the football game. [04:06.01]Q: What do we learn about the woman from the conversation? [04:24.52]Q14. [04:27.16]W: May I make a recommendation, sir? Our seafood with this special sauce is very good. [04:33.10]M: Thank you, but I don't eat shellfish. I'm allergic to it. [04:37.84]Q: Where does this conversation most probably take place? [04:57.67]Q15. [05:00.55]W: Now one more question if you don't mind, what position in the c ompany appeals to you most? [05:06.99]M: Well, I'd like the position of sales manager if that position is still vacant. [05:13.29]Q: What do we learn about the man? [05:30.77]Q16. [05:33.73]M: I don't think I want to live in the dormitory next year. I need more privacy. [05:39.18]W: I know what you mean. B ut check out the cost if renting an apartment first. [05:45.08]I won't be surprised if you change your mind. [05:49.00]Q: What does the woman imply? [06:06.89]Q17. [06:10.13]M: You're on the right track. I just think you need to narrow the topic down. [06:15.75]W: Yeah, you're right. I always start by choosing two boarder topics when I'm doing a research paper. [06:24.07]Q: What do we learn from the conversation? [06:41.32]Q18. [06:44.27]W: This picnic should beat the last one we went to, doesn't it? [06:48.16]M: Oh, yeah, we had to spend the whole time inside. [06:52.24]Good thing, the weather was cooperative this time. [06:55.24]Q:What do we learn about the speakers from the conversation? [07:15.61]Long Conversation [07:19.60]Conversation One [07:21.21]M: When I say I live in Sweden, people always want to know about the seasons. [07:27.41]W: The seasons? [07:28.84]M: Y eah, you know how cold it is in winter? What is it like when the days are so short? [07:34.34]W: So what is it like? [07:36.41]M: Well, it is cold ,very cold in winter. Sometimes it is cold as 26 degrees below centigrade. [07:43.83]And of course when you go out, you'll wrap up warm. [07:47.64]But inside in the houses it's always very warm, much warmer than at home. [07:54.16]Swedish people always complain that when they visit England, the houses are cold even in the good winter. [08:01.44]W: And what about the darkness? [08:03.62]M: Well, yeah, around Christmas time there's only one hour of daylight, so you really looks forward to the spring. [08:10.57]It is sometimes a bit depressing. [08:12.59]But you see the summers are amazing, from May to July in the North of Sweden the sun never sets. [08:19.62]It's still light in the midnight. You can walk in the mountains and read a newspaper. [08:24.56]W: Oh, yeah, the land of the midnight sun. [08:28.46]M: Yeah, that's right, but it's wonderful. You won't stay up all night. [08:32.70]And the Swedes makes most of it often they started work earlier in summer [08:36.87]and then leave at about 2 or 3 in the afternoon, [08:40.20]so that they can really enjoy the lon g summer evenings. [08:43.58]They'd like to work hard, but play hard, too. [08:46.70]I think Londoners work longer hours, but I'm not sure this is a good thing. [08:52.17]Questions 19 to 22 are based on the conversation you have just heard. [08:59.34]Q19: What do we learn about the man from the conversation? [09:20.65]Q20: What do Swedish people complain about when they visit England in winter? [09:42.15]Q21: How does the man describe the short hour of daylight around Christmas in Sweden? [10:05.65]Q22: What does the man say about the Swedish people? [10:26.50]Conversation Two [10:28.92]W: What kind of training does one need to go into this type of job? [10:32.85]M: That's a very good question. I don't think there is any, specifically. [10:37.14]W: For example, in your case, what was your educational background? [10:42.13]M: Well, I did a degree in French at Nottingham. [10:45.32]After that, I did careers work in secondary schools like the careers guidance people. [10:50.57]Here is in the university. [10:52.28]Then I went into local government because I found I was more interested in the administrative side. [10:57.78]Then progressed on to universities. So there wasn't any plan and there was no specific training. [11:04.68]There are plenty of training courses in management techniques and committee work which you can attend now. [11:11.25]W: But in the first place, you did a French degree. [11:14.68]M: In my time, there wasn't a degree you could do for administration. [11:19.08]I think most of the administrators I've come ac ross have degrees and all sorts of things. [11:24.67]W: Well, I know in my case, I did an English literature degree [11:28.89]and I didn't really expect to end up doing what I am doing now. [11:32.54]M: Quite. [11:33.29]W: But you are local to Nottingham, actually? [11:35.72]Is there any reason why you went to Nottingham University? [11:38.94]M: No, no, I come from the north of England, from west Yorkshire. [11:43.67]Nottingham was one of the universities I put on my list. And I like the look of it. [11:48.20]The campus isust beautiful. [11:50.48]W: Yes, indeed. Let's see. Were you from the in dustrial part of Yorkshire? [11:55.57]M: Yes, from the Woolen District. [11:58.36]Questions 23 to 25 are based on the conversation you have just heard. [12:05.26]Q23. What was the man's major at university? [12:25.47]Q24: What was the man's job in secondary schools? [12:46.77]Q25: What attracted the man to Nottingham University? [13:09.24]Section B [13:40.56]Passage One [13:43.39]While Gail Obcamp, an American artist was giving a speech on the art of Japanese brush painting [13:49.20]to an audience that included visitors from Japan, [13:52.97]she was confused to see that many of her Japanese listeners have their eyes closed. [13:58.66]Were they tuned off because an American had the nerve to instruct Japanese in their own art form [14:04.01]or they deliberately tried to signal their rejection of her? [14:09.79]Obcamp later found out that her listeners were not being disrespectful. [14:15.07]Japanese listeners sometimes closed their eyes to enhance concentration. [14:20.59]Her listeners were showing their respect for her by chewing on her words. [14:26.53]Some day you may be either a speaker or a listener in a situation involving people [14:33.66]from other countries or members of minority group in North America. [14:38.65]Learning how different cultures signal respect can help you avoid misunderstandings. [14:45.01]Here are some examples. In the deaf culture of North America, [14:49.80]many listeners show applause not by clapping their hands [14:54.17]but by waving them in their hands but by waving them in the air. [14:57.24]In some cultures, both overseas and in some minority groups in North America, [15:02.77]listeners are considered disrespectful if they look directly at the speaker. [15:08.54]Respect is shown by looking in the general direction but avoiding direct eye contact. [15:15.81]In some countries, whistling by listeners is a sign of approval [15:21.22]while in other courtiers it is a form of insult. [15:26.72]Questions 26 to 28 are based on the passage you have just heard. [15:32.83]Q26.What did Obcamp's speech focus on? [15:53.01]Q27. Why do Japanese listeners sometimes close their eyes while listening to a speech? [16:16.37]Q28.What does the speaker try to explain? [16:37.41]Passage Two [16:39.83]Chris is in charge of purchasing and maintaining equipment in his Division at Taxlong Company. [16:46.68]He is soon going to have an evaluation interview with his supervisor [16:51.06]and the personnel director to discuss the work he has done in the past year. [16:55.56]Salary, promotion and plans for the coming year will also be discussed at the meeting. [17:01.24]Chris has made several changes for his Division in the past year. [17:05.45]First, he bought new equipment for one of the departments. [17:09.38]He has been particularly happy about the new equipment [17:12.86]because many of the employees have told him how much it has helped them. [17:16.94]Along with improving the equipment, Chris began a program to train employees [17:21.99]to use equipment better and do simple maintenance themselves. [17:26.75]The training saved time for the employees and money for the company. [17:31.34]Unfortunately,one serious problem developed during the year. [17:35.93]Two employees the Chris hired were stealing, and he had to fire them. [17:41.27]Chris knows that a new job for a purchasing and maintenance manager [17:45.43]for the whole company will be open in a few months, [17:48.80]and he would like to be promoted to the job. [17:51.54]Chris knows, however, that someone else wants that new job, too. [17:55.37]Kim is in charge of purchasing and maintenance in another Division of the company. [18:00.36]She has also made several changes over the year. [18:03.54]Chris knows that h is boss likes Kim's work, [18:05.55]and he expects that his work will be compared with hers. [18:10.60]Questions 29 to 32 are based on the passage you have just heard. [18:15.89]Q29. What is Chris's main responsibility at Taxlong Company? [18:40.68]Q30. What problem did Chris encounter in his Division? [19:00.25]Q31. What does Chris hope for in the near future? [19:21.82]Q32. What do we learn about Kim from the passage? [19:43.24]Passage Three [19:45.92]Proverbs, sometimes called sayings, are examples of folk wisdom. [19:52.41]They are little lessons which older people of a culture pass down [19:55.53]to the younger people to teach them about life. [19:59.18]Many proverbs remind people of the values that are important in the culture. [20:04.82]Values teach people how to act, what is right, and what is wrong. [20:10.46]Because the values of each culture are different, [20:14.14]understanding the values of another culture helps explain how people think and act. [20:20.25]Understanding your own culture values is important too. [20:24.98]If you can accept that people from other cultures act according to their values, not yours, [20:31.26]getting along with them will be much easier. [20:34.94]Many proverbs are very old. [20:37.16]So some of the values they teach may not be as important in the culture as they once were. [20:44.61]For example, Americans today do not pay much attention to the proverb "Haste makes waste", [20:52.46]because patience is not important to them. [20:55.94]But if you know about past values, [20:58.53]it helps you to understand the present and many of the older values are still strong today. [21:05.75]Benjamin Franklin, a famous American diplomat, writer and scientist, died in 1790, [21:13.71]but his proverb "Time is money"is taken more seriously by Americans of today than ever before. [21:21.98]A study of proverbs from around the world shows that some values are shared by many cultures. [21:29.95]In many cases though, the same idea is expressed differently. [21:35.58]Questions 33- 35 are based on the passage you have just heard. [21:42.09]Q33. Why are proverbs so important? [22:01.62]Q34. According to the speaker what happens to some proverbs with the passage of time? [22:24.22]Q35. What do we learn from the study of proverbs from around the world? [22:45.47]Section C [22:47.83]Compound Dictation [23:31.07]Our lives are woven together. As much as I enjoy my own company, [23:36.71]I no longer imagine I can get through a single day much less all my life completely on my own. [23:44.04]Even if I am on vacation in the mountains, I am eating food someone else has grown, [23:49.69]living in a house someone else has built, [23:52.63]wearing clothes someone else has sewn from cloth woven by others, [23:58.19]using electricity someone else is distributing to my house. [24:02.52]Evidence of interdependence is everywhere; we are on this journey together. [24:08.94]As I was growing up, I remember being carefully taught that independence not interdependence was everything. [24:18.59]"Make your own way"," Stand on your own two feet" [24:23.59]or my mother's favorite remark when I was face-to-face with consequences of some action: [24:29.13]Now that you've made your bed, lie on it. [24:32.96]Total independence is a dominant thing in our culture. [24:37.47]I imagine that what my parents were trying to teach me was to take responsibilities for my actions and my choices. [24:45.82]But the teaching was shaped by our cultural imagines. [24:50.22]And instead, I grew up believing that I was supposed to be totally independent [24:55.51]and consequently became very reluctant to ask for help. [25:00.09]I would do almost anything not to be a burden, and not require any help from anybody. [25:08.82]Read again [25:11.82]Our lives are woven together. As much as I enjoy my own company, [25:17.13]I no longer imagine I can get through a single day much less all my life completely on my own. [25:24.75]Even if I am on vacation in the mountains, I am eating food someone else has grown, [25:30.94]living in a house someone else has built, [25:33.97]wearing clothes someone else has sewn from cloth woven by others, [25:41.13]using electricity someone else is distributing to my house. [25:46.06]Evidence of interdependence is everywhere; we are on this journey together. [25:52.45]As I was growing up, I remember being carefully taught that independence not interdependence was everything. [27:02.86]"Make your own way"," Stand on your own two feet" [27:07.49]or my mother's favorite remark when I was face-to-face with consequences of some action: [27:12.86]Now that you've made your bed, lie on it. [27:17.34]Total independence is a dominant thing in our culture. [27:21.13]I imagine that what my parents were trying to teach me [27:23.94]was to take responsibilities for my actions and my choices. [28:33.19]But the teaching was shaped by our cultural imagines. [28:36.41]And instead, I grew up believing that I was supposed to be totally independent [28:40.69]and consequently became very reluctant to ask for help. [28:45.29]I would do almost anything not to be a burden, and not require any help from anybody. [29:47.49]Read third time [29:51.14]Our lives are woven together. As much as I enjoy my own company, [29:56.49]I no longer imagine I can get through a single day much less all my life completely on my own. [30:03.60]Even if I am on vacation in the mountains, I am eating food someone else has grown, [30:09.96]living in a house someone else has built, [30:12.53]wearing clothes someone else has sewn from cloth woven by others, [30:17.97]using electricity someone else is distributing to my house. [30:22.27]Evidence of interdependence is everywhere; we are on this journey together. [30:28.63]As I was growing up, I remember being carefully taught that independence not interdependence was everything. [30:38.67]"Make your own way"," Stand on your own two feet" [30:43.10]or my mother's favorite remark when I was face-to-face with consequences of some action: [30:49.06]Now that you've made your bed, lie on it. [30:52.31]Total independence is a dominant thing in our culture. [30:57.42]I imagine that what my parents were trying to teach me [31:00.54]was to take responsibilities for my actions and my choices. [31:05.92]But the teaching was shaped by our cultural imagines. [31:09.81]And instead, I grew up believing that I was supposed to be totally independent [31:15.50]and consequently became very reluctant to ask for help. [31:19.61]I would do almost anything not to be a burden, and not require any help from anybody.