2008年6月大学英语四级听力真题-英语听力

[00:00.00]试音时间及提示 [02:40.14]Section A [03:32.78]Q11. [03:36.17]M: Today is a bad day for me.I fell off a step and twisted my ankle. [03:42.62]W: Don't worry,usually ankle injuries heal quickly if you stop regular activities for a while. [03:50.64]Q: What does the woman suggest the man do? [04:11.25]Q12. [04:13.33]W: May I see you ticket, please? I think you're sitting in my seat. [04:18.36]M: Oh,you're right. My seat is in the balcony.I'm terribly sorry. [04:24.50]Q: Where does conversation most probably take place? [04:46.78]Q13. [04:48.65]W: Do you hear Mr. Smith die in his sleep last night? [04:53.15]M: Yes, it's very sad. Please let everybody know that whoever wants to may attend the funeral. [05:01.49]Q: What are the speakers talking about? [05:21.49]Q14. [05:23.32]M: Have you taken Professor Yang's exam before? I'm kind of nervous. [05:29.49]W: Yes. Just concentrate on the important ideas she's talked about in the class and ignore the details. [05:37.96]Q: How does the women suggest the man prepare for Professor Yang's exam？ [06:01.09]Q15. [06:03.21]W: I'm so sorry sir, and you'll let me pay to have your jacket cleaned, won't you? [06:09.10]M: That's all right.It could happen to anyone.And I'm sure that coffee doesn't leave lasting marks on clothing. [06:17.28]Q: What can we infer from the conversation? [06:38.28]Q16. [06:40.40]W: Have you seen the movie The Departed? The plot was so complicated that I really got lost. [06:47.72]M: Yeah, I felt the same, but after I saw it a second time,I could put all the pieces together. [06:54.81]Q: How did the two speakers find the movie? [07:15.78]Q17. [07:17.44]M: I'm really surprised you got an A on the test;you didn't seem to have done a lot of reading. [07:24.41]W: Now you know why I never missed the lecture. [07:27.76]Q: What contributes to the woman's high score? [07:49.07]Q18. [07:50.42]W: Have you heard about the new digital television system?It lets people get about 500 channels. [07:58.76]M: Yeah. But I doubt they'll have anything different from what we watch now. [08:03.16]Q: What does the man mean? [08:27.07]Conversation One: [08:29.12]W: Gosh! Have you seen this, Richard? [08:32.49]M: See what? [08:33.73]W: In the paper. It says, there is a man going around pretending he's from the electricity board. [08:41.36]He's been calling at people's homes, saying he is coming to check that all their appliances are safe. [08:49.37]Then he gets around them to make him a cup of tea,and while they are out of the room he steals their money, [08:56.84]handbag whatever and makes off with it. [09:00.74]M: But you know,Jane,it's partly their own fault;you should never let anyone like that in unless you're expecting them. [09:08.45]W: It's all very well to say that. [09:11.04]But someone comes to the door,and says electricity or gas and you automatically think they are OK, [09:18.07]especially if they flash a card to you [09:21.02]M: Does this man have an ID then? [09:23.62]W: Yes, that's just it. [09:25.34]It seems he used to work for the electricity board at one time according to the paper [09:31.71]the police are warning people especially pensioners not to admit anyone unless they have an appointment. [09:40.10]It's a bit sad. One old lady told them she'd just been to the post-office to draw her pension when he called. [09:48.45]She said he must have followed her home. He stole the whole lot. [09:53.15]M: But what does he look like? Surely they must have a description. [09:57.57]W: Oh,yes they have.Let's see,in his thirties,tall,bushy dark hair,slight northern accent,sounds a bit like you actually. [10:10.19]Questions 19 to 22 are based on the passage you have just heard. [10:18.60]Q19. What does the woman want the man to read in the newspaper? [10:42.93]Q20. How did the man mention in the newspaper try to win further trust from the victims? [11:07.78]Q21. What is the warning from the police? [11:29.02]Q22. What does the woman speaker tell us about the old lady? [11:51.81]Conversation Two: [11:54.73]M: Miss Jones, could you tell me more about your first job with hotel marketing concept? [12:02.54]W: Yes, certainly. I was a marketing consultant responsible for marketing 10 UK hotels. [12:11.10]They were all luxury hotels in a leisure sector all of a very high standard. [12:18.13]M: Which markets were you responsible for? [12:21.38]W: For Europe and Japan. [12:23.17]M: I see from your resume that you speak Japanese. Have you ever been to Japan? [12:29.74]W: Yes, I have, I spent months in Japan 2006. [12:34.84]I met all the key people in the tourist industry, the big tour operators and the tourist organizations. [12:41.63]As I speak Japanese I had a very big advantage. [12:45.62]M: Yes, of course. Have you had any contact with Japan in your present job? [12:51.55]W: Yes, I've had a lot. Cruises have become very popular with the Japanese both for holidays and for business conferences. [13:01.73]In fact, the market for all types of luxury holidays for the Japanese has increased a lot recently. [13:09.01]M: Really, I'm interested to hear more about that, but first tell me have you ever traveled on the luxury train, [13:16.57]the Orient Express, for example? [13:19.88]W: No, I haven't. But I've traveled on the Glacial Express through Switzerland and I traveled across China by train about 8 years ago. [13:30.15]I love train travel. That's why I'm very interested in this job. [13:37.12]Questions 23 to 25 are based on the passage you have just heard. [13:45.98]Q23. What did the woman do in her first job? [14:06.32]Q24. What give the woman an advantage during her business trip in Japan? [14:30.07]Q25. Why is the woman applying for the new job? [14:51.73]Section B [15:30.31]Passage 1 [15:32.44]Time. I think a lot about time and not just because it's the name of the news organization I work for. [15:43.12]Like most working people, I find time, or the lack of it, and never-ending frustration and an unwinnable battle. [15:52.86]My every day is a race against the clock that I never ever seem to win. [15:59.26]This is hardly a lonesome complaint. According to the families and work institutes, national study of the changing workforce, [16:10.45]55 percent of employees say they don't have enough time for themselves, [16:16.35]63 percent don't have enough time for their spouses or partners, and 67 percent don't have enough time for their children. [16:27.39]It's also not a new complaint. [16:31.04]I bet our ancestors returned home from hunting wild animals and gathering nuts [16:37.58]and complained about how little time they had to paint battle scenes on their cave walls. [16:43.62]The difference is that the boss of animal hunting and the head of nut gathering probably told them to shut up or no survival for you. [16:54.89]Today's workers are still demanding control over their time. [16:59.83]The difference is today's bosses are listening. [17:04.49]I've been reading a report issued today called "when work works" produced jointly by three organizations. [17:14.66]They set up to find and warn the employers who employ the most creative and most effective ways to give their workers flexibility. [17:25.97]I found this report worth reading and suggest every boss should read it for ideas. [17:33.85]Questions 26 to 28 are based on the passage you have just heard. [17:42.20]Q26. What is the speaker complaining about? [18:04.49]Q27. What does the speaker say about our ancestors? [18:26.61]Q28. Why does the speaker suggest all bosses read the report by the three organizations? [18:52.03]Passage 2 [18:53.89]Loving a child is a circular business. [18:58.01]The more you give, the more you get, the more you want to give, *** said. [19:05.03]What she said proves to be true of my blended family. I was born in 1931. [19:13.13]As the youngest of six children, I learned to share my parents' love. [19:18.82]Raising six children during the difficult times of the Great Depression took its toll on my parents' relationship [19:26.65]and resulted in their divorce when I was 18 years old. [19:31.03]Daddy never had very close relationships with his children and drifted even farther away from us after the divorce. [19:39.78]Several years later, a wonderful woman came into his life and they were married. [19:46.73]She had two sons, one of them still at home. [19:51.14]Under her influence, we became a blended family and a good relationship developed between the two families. [19:59.83]She always treated us as if we were her own children. [20:04.33]It was because of our other mother, Daddy's second wife, that he became closer to his own children. [20:12.28]They shared over 25 years together before our father passed away. [20:18.04]At the time of his death, the question came up of my mother, Daddy's first wife, attending his funeral. [20:26.07]I will never forget the unconditional love shown by my step mother. [20:31.28]When I asked her if she would object to mother attending Daddy's funeral, [20:36.23]without giving it a second thought, she immediately replied."Of course not, honey. She is the mother of my children." [20:46.51]Questions 29 to 31 are based on the passage you have just heard. [20:53.95]Q29. According to the speaker, what contributed to her parents' divorce? [21:18.83]Q30. What brought the father closer to his own children? [21:41.88]Q31. What message does the speaker want to convey in this talk? [22:04.88]Passage 3 [22:07.75]In February last year, my wife lost her job. [22:12.56]Just as suddenly, the owner of the Green House where I worked as manager died of a heart attack. [22:20.16]His family announced that they were going to close the business because no one in the family wanted to run it. [22:27.16]Things looked pretty gloomy. My wife and I read the want ads each day. [22:34.58]Then one morning,as I was hanging a "going out of business" sign at the green house,the door opened and in walked a customer. [22:45.35]She was an office manager whose company had just moved into the new office park on the edge of the town. [22:52.92]She was looking for potted plants to place in the reception areas in offices. [22:58.83]"I don't know anything about plants", she said, "I am sure in a few weeks, they'll all be dead." [23:06.61]While I was helping her select her purchases, my mind was racing. [23:13.03]Perhaps as many as a dozen firms that recently opened offices in the new office park [23:19.66]and there were several hundred more acres with construction under way. [23:25.53]That afternoon, I drove up to the office park. [23:30.68]By 6 o'clock that evening,I had signed contacts with 7 companies to rent plants from me and pay me a fee to maintain them. [23:42.25]Within a week, I had worked down to an agreement to lease the Green House from the owner's family. [23:50.15]Business is now increasing rapidly. And one day we hope to be the proud owners of the Green House. [24:00.21]Question 32 to 35 are based on the passage you have just heard. [24:07.28]Q32. What do we learn about the green house? [24:28.22]Q33. What was the speaker doing when the customer walked in one morning? [24:50.60]Q34. What did the speaker think of when serving the office manager? [25:12.77]Q35. When was the speaker's hope for the future? [25:33.98]Section C [26:31.16]We are now witnessing the emergence of an advanced economy based on information and technology. [26:38.38]Physical labor, raw materials, and capital are no longer the key ingredients in the creation of wealth. [26:47.09]Now the vital raw material in our economy is knowledge. [26:52.99]Tomorrow's wealth depends on the development and exchange of knowledge. [26:58.87]And individuals entering the workforce offer their knowledge not their muscles. [27:05.55]Knowledge workers get paid for their education and their ability to learn. [27:11.62]Knowledge workers engage in mind work. [27:16.13]They deal with symbols, words, figures, and data. What does all this mean for you? [27:26.61]As a future knowledge worker, you can expect to be generating, processing as well as exchanging information. [27:36.72]Currently three out of 4 jobs involve some form of mind work. [27:44.40]And that number will increase sharply in the future. [27:49.09]Management and employees alike will be making decisions in such areas as product development, [27:56.59]quality control, and customer satisfaction. [28:01.43]In the new world of work, you can look forward to be in constant training to acquire new skills that [28:09.57]will help you keep up with improved technologies and procedures. [28:14.93]You can also expect to be taking greater control of your career. [28:21.04]Gone are the nine-to-five jobs,life-time security,predictable promotions and even a conventional workplace as you are familiar with. [28:32.66]Don't expect the companies to provide you with a clearly-defined career path and don't wait for someone to empower you. [28:43.58]You have to empower yourself. [28:51.76]Read again [28:53.83]We are now witnessing the emergence of an advanced economy based on information and technology. [29:01.46]Physical labor, raw materials, and capital are no longer the key ingredients in the creation of wealth. [29:08.71]Now the vital raw material in our economy is knowledge. [29:14.94]Tomorrow's wealth depends on the development and exchange of knowledge. [29:20.43]And individuals entering the workforce offer their knowledge not their muscles. [29:27.17]Knowledge workers get paid for their education and their ability to learn. [29:32.97]Knowledge workers engage in mind work. [29:36.95]They deal with symbols, words, figures, and data. What does all this mean for you? [29:45.20]As a future knowledge worker, you can expect to be generating, processing as well as exchanging information. [29:53.89]Currently three out of 4 jobs involve some form of mind work. [30:00.05]And that number will increase sharply in the future. [30:03.90]Management and employees alike will be making decisions in such areas as product development, [30:11.33]quality control, and customer satisfaction. [31:28.70]In the new world of work, you can look forward to be in constant training to acquire new skills that [31:36.13]will help you keep up with improved technologies and procedures. [32:41.71]You can also expect to be taking greater control of your career. [32:46.31]Gone are the nine-to-five jobs,life-time security,predictable promotions and even a conventional workplace as you are familiar with. [32:57.42]Don't expect the companies to provide you with a clearly-defined career path [33:58.65]and don't wait for someone to empower you. [34:02.04]You have to empower yourself. [34:07.88]Read third time [34:10.90]We are now witnessing the emergence of an advanced economy based on information and technology. [34:18.02]Physical labor, raw materials, and capital are no longer the key ingredients in the creation of wealth. [34:27.11]Now the vital raw material in our economy is knowledge. [34:33.34]Tomorrow's wealth depends on the development and exchange of knowledge. [34:39.39]And individuals entering the workforce offer their knowledge not their muscles. [34:45.73]Knowledge workers get paid for their education and their ability to learn. [34:52.30]Knowledge workers engage in mind work. [34:57.10]They deal with symbols, words, figures, and data. What does all this mean for you? [35:06.93]As a future knowledge worker, you can expect to be generating, processing as well as exchanging information. [35:16.89]Currently three out of 4 jobs involve some form of mind work. [35:24.57]And that number will increase sharply in the future. [35:28.64]Management and employees alike will be making decisions in such areas as product development, [35:36.97]quality control, and customer satisfaction. [35:41.31]In the new world of work, you can look forward to be in constant training to acquire new skills that [35:49.79]will help you keep up with improved technologies and procedures. [35:54.43]You can also expect to be taking greater control of your career. [36:00.63]Gone are the nine-to-five jobs,life-time security,predictable promotions and even a conventional workplace as you are familiar with. [36:12.35]Don't expect the companies to provide you with a clearly-defined career path and don't wait for someone to empower you. [36:23.31]You have to empower yourself.