2000年6月大学英语四级考试(听力材料)
Section A
1. M: Would you like a copy of profesor Smith's article?
W: Thanks, it it's not too much trouble.
Q: What does the woman imply?
2. W: Did you visit the Television Tower when you had your vacation in Shanghai last
summer?
M: I couldn't make it last June. But I finally visited it two months later. I plan
to visit it again sometime next year.
Q: What do we learn about the man?
3. M: Prof. Kennedy has been very busy this semester. As far as I know, he works until
midnight every day.
W: I would't have troubled him so much if I had known be was so busy.
Q: What do we learn from the conversation?
4. W: If I were you, I would have accepted the job.
M: I turned down the offer because it would mean frequent business trips away from
my family.
Q: Why didn't the man accept the job?
5. M: How are you getting on whith your eassay, Mary? I'm having a real hard time with
mine.
W: After two sleepless nights, I'm finally through with it.
Q: What do we learn from this conversation?
6. W: Where did you say you found this bag?
M: It was lying under a big tree between the park and the apartment building.
Q: Where did the man find the bag?
7. M: Wouldn't you get bored with the same routine year after year teaching the same
things to children?
W: I don't think it would be as boring as working in an office. Teaching is most
stimulating.
Q: What does the woman imply about office work?
8. M: I was terribly embarrassed when some of the audience got up and left in the
middle of the performance.
W: Well, some people just can't seem to appreciate real-life drama.
Q: What are they taling about?
9. W: Oh, it's so cold. We haven't had such a severe winter for so long, have we ?
M: Yes the forecast says it's going to get worse before it warms up.
Q: What do we learn from the conversation?
10. M: You were seen hanging about the store on the night when it was robbed, weren't
you?
W: Me? You must have made a mistake. I as at home that night.
Q: What are they taling about?
Section B
Passage One
There are three groups of English learners; beginners, intemediate leaners, and learners of special English. Beginners need to learn the basics of English. Students who have reached an intermediate level benefit from learning general En glish skills. But what about students who want to lean specialist English for th eir work or profess-
inal life? Most students, who fit into this third group have a clear idea about what they want to lean. A bank clerk, for example, wants to u se this specialist vocabulary and technical terms of finance. But for teachers, deciding how to teach specialist English is not always so easy. For a start, the variety is enormous. Every field from airline polots to secretaries has its own vocabulary and technical terms. Teachers also need to have an up-to-date knowle dge of the that specialist language, and not many teachers are exposed to workin g environments outside the classroom. These issues have influenced the way speci alist English is taught in schools. This type of course is usually known as Engl ish for Specific Purposes, or ESP and there isn't ESP courses for almsot every a rea of professional and working life. In Britain, for example, there are courses which teach English for doctors, lawyers, reporters, travel agents and people w orking in the hotel industry. By far, the most popular ESP courses are for busin ess English.
11. What is the characteristic of learners of special English?
12. Who needs ESP courses most?
13. What are the most popular ESP courses in Britain?
14. What is the speaker mainly taling about?
Passage Two
The first step to stop drug abuse is knowing why people start to use drugs. The reasons people abuse drugs are as different as people are from one to anothe r. but there seems to be one common thread: people seem to take drugs to changes the way they feel. They want to feel better or feel happy or to feel nothing. S ometimes, they want to forget or to remember. People often feel better about the mselves when they are under the influence of drugs. But the effects don't last l ong. Drugs don't solve problems. They just postpone them. No matter how far drug s may take you, it's always around trip. After a while, people who miss drugs ma y feel worse about
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themselves, and they they may use more drugs. If someone you know is using or abusing drugs, you can help. The most important part you can pl ay is to be there. You can let your friends know that you care. You can listen a nd try to solve the problem behind your friend's need to use drugs. Two people together can often solve a problem that seems too big for one person alone. Studies of heavy abusers in the United States show that they felt unloved and unwanted. They didn't have close friends to talk to. When you or your friends take the time to care for each other, you're all helping to stop drugs abuse. After all, what is a friend for?
15. Why do some people abuse drugs?
16. According to the passage, what is the best way to stop friends from abusing drugs?
17. What are the findings of the studies about heavy drug users?
Passage Three
Bows and arrows, are one of man's oldest weapons. They gave early man an eff ective weapon to kill his enemies. The ordinary bow or short bow as used by near ly all early people. This bow had limited power and short range. However, man ov ercame these faults by learning to track his targets at a close rane. The long h ow was most likely discovered when someone found out that a five-foot piece of w ood made a better bow than a three-food piece. Hundreds of thousands of these bo ws were made and used for three hundred years. However, not one is known to surv ive today. We believe that a force of about one hundred pounds was needed to pul l the string all the way back on a long bow. For a long time the bow was just a bent stick and string. In fact, more changes have taken plae in a bow in the past 25 years than in the last 7 centuries. Today, bow is forceful. It is as exact as a gun. In addition, it requires little strength to draw the string. Modern bo ws also have precise aiming devices. In indoor contest, perfect scores from 40 y ards are common. The invention of the bows itself ranks with discovery of fire a nd the wheel. It was a great-step-forward for man.
18. Why did man have no track his target at a close range when using a short bow ?
19. What does the passage tell us about long bow?
20. What do we know about modern bows?
2000年6月大学英语四级考试参考答案
Part I Listening Comprehension
1-10: CCBDB DACDD
11-20: DABCB AACBA
Part II Reading Comprehension
21. D 22. A 23. C 24. B 25. C
26. A 27. B 28. B 29. D 30. B
31. C 32. B 33. A 34. B 35. C
36. D 37. A 38. A 39. A 40. C
41. A 42. D 43. D 44. A 45. B
46. C 47. C 48. D 49. D 50. B
Part IV Reading Comprehension
51. A 52. C 53. A 54. C 55. B
56. D 57. C 58. A 59. B 60. D
61. B 62. A 63. D 64. C 65. D
66. A 67. B 68. C 69. A 70. D
Part IV Translation
S1. 1988年世界杯足球赛早已尘埃落定,但失望的球迷们仍在责骂那些颇有争议的判罚,声称正是那
些判罚使他们的球队没能获胜。
S2. 但是穷人们在没有政府救济的情况下，生活照样过得很好，对很多人来说，这一事实本身就是
一个巨大的胜利。
S3. 对于一名护士、理发师或是一侍者而言，还有什么比脱掉制服更加便利的方法能让他们失去职
业身份呢？
S4. 社会资助是由人与人之间的资源交换所构成的，而这种交换乃是建立在他们人际关系的基础之
上。
Part V Writing（略）
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