专业英语四级(听写听力)模拟试卷45(题后含答案及解析)

专业英语四级（听写听力）模拟试卷45

(题后含答案及解析)

题型有：1. DICTATION

PART I DICTATION (15 MIN)Directions: Listen to the following passage.

Altogether the passage will be read to you four times. During the first reading, which

will be read at normal speed, listen and try to understand the meaning. For the second

and third readings, the passage will be read sentence by sentence, or phrase by phrase,

with intervals of 15 seconds. The last reading will be read at normal speed again and

during this time you should check your work. You will then be given 2 minute

1．

正确答案： Is Life a Tragedy or Comedy? Generalizations about life are

almost always misleading for the simple reason that life means different things to

different people, and every man’s response to its call is determined by his own

experience and temperament. According to one writer, human life everywhere is

in a state in which much is to be endured and little enjoyed. Another writer finds life

an exhilarating experience, a thrilling adventure, a source of infinite joy. A man who

has suffered few mishaps in life, whose upbringing has been in healthy surroundings,

who is fortunate in love and friendship, who has identified himself with some public

causes or who cultivates a wide range of interests, is invariably happy. On the

other hand, bitter experience of life, deaths in the family and among friends, economic

insecurity, frustration in love, failure to achieve anything substantial in life or

excessive and absorption in self induce pessimism. 涉及知识点：听写

2．

正确答案：When Life Loses Its Smell A trained sniffer dog can find hidden

drugs or earthquake survivors and even detect cancer. We might not have as good a

sense of smell as dogs, but we still follow our noses. Wake up and smell the coffee!

Something smells fishy. She has a nose for a bargain. The English language is full of

idioms to do with smell, and many of them show how important smell is to our sense

of judgment. And that’s not surprising, because a sense of smell is very useful in

telling when food is off, or clothes need washing, for example. But millions of people

can’t smell anything at all: to use a medical term, they are “anosmic”. It’s not

only scents which are missing for people with anosmia. Food and drink lose their

appeal too, because smell accounts for around 80% of our sense of flavor. Anosmia

can also be dangerous. People with anosmia can get food poisoning, because they

can’t smell when food is bad. They can’t smell smoke from a house fire, or leaking

gas. 涉及知识点：听写

3．

正确答案： The Speed of Modern Civilization Modern

civilization is totally different from the times of yore in many respects in the mode

and manner of living, in the nature and intensity of social and family ties, in the

means of earning livelihood, the variety of food and in other matters. But perhaps

the most notable and significant distinction is in the speed and pace of all human

activities and all devices that are devised and controlled by man, such as the processes

of manufacture and the increasing use of more sophisticated machinery. In almost all

aspects of life and living, the craze is for speed and for saving time in every possible

way. This craze for speed and fast pace often leads to mishaps, and thwarts the

initial aim to get through things as early as possible; haste sometimes delays things.

Time is of the essence, so run the modern adage, and anyone who idles away precious

hours is described as a backward, unprogressive human being who does not know

how to march with the times. 涉及知识点：听写

4．

正确答案： Very Superstitious! Most superstitions are linked to

something negative, or the thought that something will bring bad luck. One of the

most terrifying and long-believed superstitions is that breaking a mirror will bring

seven years of bad luck. In ancient Greek, Roman and Chinese cultures, many people

held the belief that a mirror reflected a person’s soul. If the mirror was broken, the

soul would be harmed too, and the person would be frightened out of their wits.

Superstitions have been found in a wide range of cultures for thousands of years, but

research suggests that many of these beliefs can still be found in modern societies. Dr.

Foster, from Harvard University, believes it is an example of humans interpreting and

reacting to threats. “Natural selection can readily favor making all kinds of

associations,” says Dr. Foster, “including many incorrect ones.” So, if these

threats are likely to be “incorrect”, why are people still so superstitious? Well, it

seems many people would prefer to be better safe than sorry. 涉及知识点：听

写

5．

正确答案： Monkey Business Do you want to understand your work

colleagues better? Go to the zoo and observe monkeys. That’s advice of Dutch

business consultant Patrick van Veen, who has biology on his CV. He takes groups of

business people around Chester Zoo in Britain and teaches them how primitive

behaviour is alive and well in the workplace. The mainly female audience

attending the course nod when Mr. van Veen describes how most offices have a set of

dominant males, who slap each other’s backs, stamp their feet and draw themselves

up tall. Watching the monkeys grooming one another, Mr. van Veen emphasizes

the importance of this kind of supportive behavior at work. “We spend a lot of time in

chit-chat, drinking coffee with each other,” he told the BBC reporter. “That’s

grooming behavior, like primates do.” Exploring similarities in behavior between

man and monkeys might be a new idea for a business, but the theory behind it is well

known. It’s pointed out that there’s only a 1.4% difference in genetic material between

humans and chimpanzees. 涉及知识点：听写