2000年1月英语四级听力真题及其mp3
Section A
1. A) The woman is close friend of the man. B) The woman has been w orking too hard.
C) The woman is seeing a doctor. D) The woman is tired of her work.
2. A) This apple pie tastes very good. B) His mother likes the pie very much.
C) This pie can’t match his mother’s. D) His mother can’t make apple pies.
3. A) Take a walk. B) Give a performance.
C) Listen to the music. D) Dance to the music.
4. A) Read an article on political science.
B) Present a different theory to the class.
C) Read more than one article.
D) Choose a better article to read.
5. A) The woman would understand if she did Mary’s job.
B) The woman should do the typing for Mary.
C) The woman should work as hard as Mary.
D) The woman isn’t a skillful typist.
6. A) He wants to make an appointment with Mr.Smith.
B) He wants to make sure that Mr.Smith will see him.
C) He wants to change the time of the appointment.
D) He wants the woman to meet him at three o’clock.
7. A) He gets nervous vesily.. B) He is an inexperienced speaker.
C) He is an awful speaker. D) He hasn’t prepared his speech well.
8 A) She didn’t like the books the man bought.
B) There wasn’t a large selection at the bookstore.
C) The man bought a lot of books.
D) She wanted to see what the man bought.
9. A) Buy a ticket for the ten o’clock flight.
B) Ask the man to change the ticket for her.
C) Go to the airport immediately.
D) Switch to a different flight.
10. A) Dr.Lemon is waiting or a patient.
B) Dr.Lemon is busy at the moment.
C) Dr.Lemon has lost his patience.
D) Dr.Lemon has gone out to visit a patient.
Section B
Passage One
Questions 11 to 14 are based on the passage you have just heard.
11. A) A car outside the supermarket. B) A car at the bottom of the hill.
C) Paul’s car. D) The sports car.
12. A) inside the car. B) At the foot of the hill.
C) In the garatge. D) In the supermarket.
13. A) The driver of the sports car. B) The two girls inside the car.
C) The bus driver. D) Paul.
14. A) Nobody. B) The two girls.
C) The man standing nearby. D) The salesman from London.
Passage Two
Questions 15 to 17 are based on the passage you have just heard.
15. A) His friend gave him the wrong key.
B) He didn’t know where the back door was.
C) He couldn’t find the key to his mailbox.
D) It was too dark to put the key in the lock.
16. A) It was getting dark.
B) He was afraid of being blamed by his friend.
C) The birds might have flown away.
D) His friend would arrive any time.
17. A) He looked silly with only one leg inside the window.
B) He knew the policeman would’t believe him.
C) The torch light made him look very foolish.
D) He realised that he had made a mistake.
Passage Three
Questions 18 to 20 are based on the passage you have just heard.
18. A) The threat of poisonous desert animals and plants.
B) The exhaustion of energy resources.
C) The destruction of oil wells.
D) The spread of the black powder from the fires.
19. A) The underground oil resources have not been affected.
B) Most of the desert animals and plants have managed to survive.
C) The oil lakes soon dried up and stopped evaporating.
D) The underground water resources have not been polluted..
20. A) To restore the normal production of the oil wells.
B) To estimate the losses caused by the fires.
C) To remove the oil left in the desert.
D) To use the oil left in the oil lakes.
2000年1月大学英语四级考试听力原文
Section A
1. M: Hello, Mrs. White, what can I do for you?
W: I don’t know what’s the matter with me? I’m always feeling tired, I’m usually worn out at the end of the day.
Q: What do we learn from the conversation?
2. W: What do you think of the apple pie? I made it myself.
M: Very delicious indeed. Even my mother’s cannot match this.
Q: What does the man mean?
3. M: The music is so beautiful that I’d like to dance. But I don’t know the steps.
W: It doesn’t matter. No one will be looking at us in his crowd.
Q: What does the woman suggest they do?
4. M: I’d better read one of the articles for our political science class.
W: You can’t read just one. They say each presents a different theory.
Q: What does the woman tell the man he must do?
5. W: Mary is always complaining about her job.
M: Maybe if you tries typing letters every day, you’d see what it’s like.
Q: What ies the man mean?
6. M: Good morning. this is John Parker speaking. I’m just ringing to confirm my appointment with Mr. Smith for this afternoon.
W: Yes. Mr. Smith’s expecting you at 3 o’clock.
Q: Why is the man maiking the phone call?
7. W: Tom looks awfully nervous, doesn’t he?
M: Yes. I’m afraid he is not used to maing speeches.
Q: What do they think of Tom?
8. M: I bought a few books at the new bookstore. Would you like to have a look at them?
W: A few? It looks like you bought out the bookstore
Q: What does the woman mean?
9. M: Jane, you won’t be able to get to the airport in time to catch the 10 o’clock flight.
W: I realize that now. I’ll have to get my ticket changes.
Q: What will the woman have to do?
10. M: Would you get me through to Dr. Lemon please?
W: I’m sorry. He’s with a patient.
Q: What does the woman mean?
Sections B
Passage one
Paul, a salesman from London, was driving past a sports car parked outside a supemarket, when he saw it start to rool slowly down the hill. Inside the car were two young girls on the passenger seat — but no driver Paul stpped quickly, jumped in front of the sports car and tried to stop it, pushing against the fron t of the car. Another man who was standing nearby got into the car and put on th e handbrake, saving the girls from injury.
It was at this point that Paul noticed his own car rolling slowly down the hill and going too fast for him to stop it. It crashed into a bus at the bottom of the hill and was so badly damaged that it had to be pulled away to a garage.
As if this was not bad enough, Paul now found he had no one to blame. He was so busy chasing his car that he didn’t get the name of the driver of the sports car, who just came out of the supermarket and drove away without realizing what had happened.
11. Which car was badly damaged?
12. Where was the driver of the sports car when the accident happened?
13. Who did Paul think was to blame for the accident?
14. Who was injured in the accident?
Passage Two
My friend, Vemon Davies kept birds. One day he phoned and told me he was going away for a week. He asked me to feed the birds for him and said that he would leave the key to his front door in my mailbox.
Unfortunately, I forgot all about the birds until the night before Vemon was going to return. What was worse, it was already dark when I arrived at his hous e. I soon found the key Vernon gave me could not unlock either the front door or the back door. I was getting desperate. I kept thinking of what Vemon would say when he came back.
I was just going to give up when I noticed that one bedroom window was slightly open. I found a barrel and pushed it under the window. As the barrel was ver y heavy, I made a lot of noise. But in the end, I managed to climbe up and open the window.
I actually had one leg inside the bedroom when I suddenly realized that someone was shining a torch up at me. I looked down and saw a policemna and an old lady, one of Verno’s neighbours. “What are you doing up there?" said the policeman. Feeling lise a complete fool, I replied, “I was just going to feed Mr. Davies’s birds."
15. Why couldn’t the man open the door?
16. Why did the man feel desperate?
17. Why did the man feel like a fool?
Passage Three
When Iragi troops blew up hundreds of Kuwaiti oil well at the end of Gulf War, scientists feared environmental disaster. Would black powder in the smoke from the fires circles the globe and block out the sun?
Many said “No way?; rain would wash the black pwder from the atmosphere. But in America, airsampling balloons have detected high concentrations of particles similar to those collected in Kuwait. didn’t catch fire. It has formed huge lakes in the Kuwaiti dersert. They trap insects and birds, and poison a veriety of other desert animals and plants.
The only good news is that the oil lakes have not affected the underground water resources. So far, the oil has not been absorbed because of the hard sand just below the surface.
Nothing, however, stops the oil from evaporating. The resulting poisonous gases are choking nearby residents.
Officials are trying to organize a quick cleanup, but they are not sure how to do it. One possibillity is to burn the oil. Get those black-powder detectors ready.
18. What were the scientists worried about soon after the Gulf War?
19. What was the good news for scientists?
20. What are the officials trying to do at the moment?
2000年1月大学英语四级考试参考答案
Part I Listening Comprehension
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