2010年英语专业四级考试真题

[00:01.81]Test for English Majors 
[00:02.56]2010 
[00:03.99]Grade Four
[00:05.81]PART I  DICTATION
[00:08.66]Listen to the following passage. 
[00:11.39]Altogether the passage will be read to you four times. 
[00:15.62]During the first reading, 
[00:17.36]which will be done at normal speed, 
[00:19.80]listen and try to understand the meaning. 
[00:22.85]For the second and third readings, 
[00:25.07]the passage will be read sentence by sentence, 
[00:27.83]or phrase by phrase, with intervals of 15 seconds. 
[00:32.66]The last reading will be done at normal speed again 
[00:36.22]and during this time you should check your work. 
[00:39.77]You will then be given 1 minute 
[00:41.85]to check through your work once more.
[00:45.18]Please write the whole passage on ANSWER SHEET ONE.
[00:49.48]Now listen to the passage. 
[00:52.63]Freshmen’s Week
[00:54.34]Universities in Britain have something called 
[00:57.37]Freshmen’s Week for their newcomers. / 
[01:00.26]It’s a great opportunity to make new friends, / 
[01:03.74]join lots of clubs and settle into university life. / 
[01:07.93]However, having just left the comfort of home 
[01:11.49]and all your friends behind, / 
[01:13.62]the prospect of meeting strangers 
[01:15.66]in classrooms and dormitories can be worrying. / 
[01:19.69]Luckily, there will be thousands of others
[01:22.53]in the same boat as you. / 
[01:24.62]So just take it all in slowly. / 
[01:27.71]Don’t rush into anything 
[01:29.34]that you’ll regret for the next three years.
[01:33.45]The second and third readings. 
[01:35.92]You should begin writing now.
[01:38.89]Universities in Britain have something called 
[01:41.84]Freshmen’s Week for their newcomers. / 
[01:59.10]Universities in Britain have something called 
[02:02.12]Freshmen’s Week for their newcomers. / 
[02:19.52]It’s a great opportunity to make new friends, / 
[02:37.83]It’s a great opportunity to make new friends, /
[02:56.10]join lots of clubs and settle into university life. / 
[03:14.78]join lots of clubs and settle into university life. / 
[03:33.64]However, having just left the comfort of home 
[03:37.15]and all your friends behind, / 
[03:54.31]However, having just left the comfort of home 
[03:57.53]and all your friends behind, /
[04:14.72]the prospect of meeting strangers 
[04:16.64]in classrooms and dormitories can be worrying. / 
[04:35.40]the prospect of meeting strangers
[04:37.28]in classrooms and dormitories can be worrying. /
[04:56.25]Luckily, there will be thousands of others 
[04:58.76]in the same boat as you. / 
[05:15.53]Luckily, there will be thousands of others 
[05:18.05]in the same boat as you. /
[05:35.10]So just take it all in slowly. / 
[05:52.96]So just take it all in slowly. / 
[06:11.31]Don’t rush into anything 
[06:12.94]that you’ll regret for the next three years.
[06:31.17]Don’t rush into anything 
[06:32.60]that you’ll regret for the next three years.
[06:50.44]The last reading.
[06:52.54]Universities in Britain have something called 
[06:55.84]Freshmen’s Week for their newcomers. / 
[06:58.80]It’s a great opportunity to make new friends, / 
[07:02.29]join lots of clubs and settle into university life. / 
[07:06.47]However, having just left the comfort of home 
[07:09.96]and all your friends behind, / 
[07:12.13]the prospect of meeting strangers 
[07:14.12]in classrooms and dormitories can be worrying. / 
[07:18.47]Luckily, there will be thousands of others 
[07:21.01]in the same boat as you. / 
[07:23.17]So just take it all in slowly. / 
[07:26.22]Don’t rush into anything 
[07:27.89]that you’ll regret for the next three years.
[07:31.80]Now, you have one minute to check through your work.
[08:36.14]That is the end of Part I Dictation.
[08:40.17]PART Ⅱ LISTENING COMPREHENSION 
[08:43.13]SECTION A  TALK
[08:45.86]In this section you will hear a talk. 
[08:49.25]You will hear the talk ONCE ONLY. 
[08:52.29]While listening, 
[08:53.65]you may look at ANSWER SHEET ONE 
[08:56.83]and write NO MORE THAN THREE WORDS for each gap. 
[09:00.60]Make sure the word(s) you fill in is (are) 
[09:05.17]both grammatically and semantically acceptable. 
[09:08.85]You may use the blank sheet for note-taking. 
[09:12.09]You have THIRTY seconds to preview the gap-filling task.
[09:46.20]Now listen to the talk. When it is over, 
[09:49.34]you will be given TWO minutes to complete your work.
[09:54.52]Life Comes in a Package
[09:56.99]Good morning, everyone. 
[09:58.66]I’m sure you all have got some deep feelings of life. 
[10:02.45]And you may have tried different kinds of descriptions 
[10:05.46]of your own life. 
[10:07.28]What I want to tell you today is that 
[10:09.22]life comes in a package. 
[10:11.72]This package includes happiness and sorrow, 
[10:15.07]success and failure, hope and despair. 
[10:19.21]Life is a learning process. 
[10:21.54]Experiences in life teach us new lessons 
[10:25.02]and make us a better person. 
[10:27.68]With each passing day 
[10:29.16]we learn to handle various situations.
[10:32.63]First, let’s talk about love.
[10:35.29]Love plays an important role in our life. 
[10:38.66]Love makes you feel wanted. 
[10:41.02]Without love a person could become cruel. 
[10:44.52]In the early stage of our life, 
[10:46.73]our parents are the ones 
[10:48.59]who shower us with unconditional love and care. 
[10:52.81]They teach us about what is right and wrong, 
[10:55.86]good and bad. 
[10:57.57]But we always tend to take this for granted. 
[11:00.96]It is only after marriage and having kids 
[11:03.67]that a person understands 
[11:05.63]and becomes sensitive to others’ feelings. 
[11:09.58]Kids make a person responsible and mature 
[11:12.78]and help us to understand life better.
[11:16.05]Second, do you think you are a happy person?
[11:19.86]Materialistic happiness is short-lived, 
[11:23.22]but happiness achieved by bringing a smile on others’ face 
[11:27.49]gives a certain level of fulfillment. 
[11:30.80]Peace of mind is the main link to happiness. 
[11:34.10]No mind is happy without peace. 
[11:36.80]We realize the true worth of happiness 
[11:39.65]when we are in sorrow. 
[11:41.47]Sorrow is basically due to death of a loved one, 
[11:44.98]failure and despair. 
[11:47.04]But these things are temporary 
[11:49.14]and will easily pass away.
[11:51.91]Third, I’m sure you all have experienced success 
[11:55.63]as well as failure.
[11:57.93]Failure is the path to success. 
[12:00.65]It helps us to touch the sky, 
[12:02.86]teaches us to survive and shows us a specific way. 
[12:07.82]Success brings in money,
[12:09.66]fame, pride and self-respect. 
[12:13.17]Here it becomes very important 
[12:15.48]to keep our head on our shoulder. 
[12:18.05]The only way to show our gratitude to God 
[12:20.58]for giving us success 
[12:22.39]is by being humble, modest
[12:24.79]and respectful to the less fortunate ones.
[12:28.82]The last I want to share with you 
[12:31.12]is about hope and despair.
[12:33.73]Hope is what keeps life going. 
[12:36.53]Parents always hope their children do well. 
[12:39.96]Hope makes us dream. 
[12:42.01]Hope builds in patience. 
[12:44.60]Life teaches us not to despair 
[12:47.00]even in the darkest hour, 
[12:49.26]because after every night there is a day. 
[12:52.76]Nothing remains the same. 
[12:55.13]We have only one choice: 
[12:57.16]keep moving on in life and be hopeful. 
[13:00.71]Life teaches us not to regret over yesterday, 
[13:04.21]for it has passed and is beyond our control. 
[13:08.64]Tomorrow is unknown, 
[13:10.45]for it could either be bright or dull. 
[13:13.26]So the only alternative is working hard today, 
[13:16.87]so that we will enjoy a better tomorrow.
[13:19.84]After all of these, 
[13:21.40]have you got a totally brand new feeling 
[13:23.88]towards your own life? 
[13:25.77]Or maybe you will have a different opinion 
[13:28.96]about what you have experienced before? 
[13:31.50]I do hope that you will understand life better.
[13:34.59]Thank you!
[13:37.18]Now, you have TWO minutes 
[13:38.35]to complete your work.
[15:39.97]THIS IS THE END OF SECTION A  TALK.
[15:43.88]SECTION B CONVERSATIONS
[15:46.87]In this section you will hear two conversations. 
[15:50.83]At the end of each conversation, 
[15:53.05]five questions will be asked about what was said. 
[15:56.65]Both the conversation and the questions 
[15:59.24]will be spoken ONCE ONLY. 
[16:02.10]After each question there will be a ten-second pause. 
[16:06.84]During the pause, 
[16:08.30]you should read the four choices of A), B), C) and D), 
[16:12.87]and mark the best answer to each question 
[16:15.88]on ANSWER SHEET TWO. 
[16:18.54]You have thirty seconds to preview the questions.
[16:51.74]Now, listen to the conversations.
[16:56.18]Conversation One
[16:58.37]M: So, Lisa, you are packing your suitcase. 
[17:01.77]Are you going on a trip?
[17:03.57]W: Yes. I’m going to Europe on a business trip.
[17:06.89]M: A business trip? 
[17:08.33]How do you feel about taking business trips?
[17:11.31]W: Sometimes I love business. 
[17:13.47]I love getting out of the city for, you know, 
[17:16.35]three or four days and staying at a nice hotel 
[17:20.12]and taking a flight somewhere, 
[17:21.93]going to the airport.
[17:23.55]M: So you like to travel?
[17:25.21]W: I love traveling.
[17:26.98]M: You don’t mind staying in different hotels
[17:29.27] and riding on the plane all the time. 
[17:32.21]Don’t you get bored?
[17:33.80]W: No, I never get bored.
[17:35.85] I mean, although I don’t always like the whole 
[17:38.33]checking in the airport process
[17:40.55] because it takes a lot of time 
[17:42.62]and then it’s waiting for the plane. 
[17:44.98]But as soon as I’m in the plane and the doors close, 
[17:48.18]I love it. 
[17:49.56]No one can contact me.
[17:51.63]I can’t contact anyone else, either. 
[17:54.42]There are free movies playing and food serves. 
[17:57.14]It’s wonderful.
[17:59.08]M: So you kind of like the feel of living in a bubble. 
[18:02.80]It’s like a mini-vacation.
[18:04.70]W: Yeah. Often, it’s a lot busier 
[18:07.86]when I go on business trips 
[18:09.59]than when I’m not on business trips 
[18:11.36]in terms of my workload. 
[18:13.27]It does feel like a mini-vacation. 
[18:16.32]I stay in a nice hotel.
[18:18.08]I get to take taxis everywhere, 
[18:20.30]which I love to do. You know, 
[18:22.91]we eat at great restaurants 
[18:24.69]and we’re meeting with great people 
[18:26.42]and doing some important things. 
[18:28.79]So I do love the whole aspect of business trip life.
[18:33.05]M: So what do you do to avoid getting bored 
[18:35.97]when you’re waiting for the plane?
[18:38.37]W: Well, the first thing I do 
[18:39.94]is that I don’t get to the airport too early, 
[18:42.44]and I normally go to the duty-free store.
[18:45.75]M: Do you ever buy souvenirs?
[18:47.96]W: I always buy souvenirs for my colleagues 
[18:50.69]when I go overseas. 
[18:52.19]But lately I’ve been going on a lot of business trips 
[18:56.10]and so the novelty of souvenirs has worn off. 
[18:59.75]M: I see. Sounds like an exciting lifestyle.
[19:03.18]W: It’s fun. I wouldn’t give it up for anything else.
[19:08.61]This is the end of Conversation One. 
[19:11.36]Questions 1 to 5 are based on Conversation One.
[19:16.67]1. Which is NOT mentioned by the man 
[19:20.88]as the disadvantage of travelling?
[19:33.31]2. What does the woman dislike about taking a flight?
[19:48.40]3. What does the woman say about taking business trips?
[20:03.70]4. How does the woman kill time while waiting for the plane?
[20:19.25]5. What does the woman say about buying souvenirs recently?
[20:34.56]Conversation Two
[20:36.76]W: Hey, you seem upset. What’s happening?
[20:39.84]M: Now, Annie, maybe you can help me. 
[20:42.47]I teach at a university. 
[20:44.50]My students are so devoted to their circles, their clubs. 
[20:48.31]Why? To them, it’s more important than classes.
[20:52.96]W: Well, I think it’s because 
[20:54.84]they couldn’t have much social life 
[20:56.85]until they get into university, 
[20:59.36]and finally they have this freedom and now it is there, 
[21:03.61]actually, the first and the last chance 
[21:05.74]to have fun with their friends 
[21:07.31]because four years later they have to start working. 
[21:11.14]So I think they are trying to get the most
[21:13.45]out of their school years.
[21:15.44]M: So, when you were at university, 
[21:18.20]was your circle or club more important to you
[21:21.19]than your actual studies?
[21:23.26]W: No, actually I was a bit different 
[21:25.78]because I always heard about 
[21:27.54]how students don’t study hard in university, 
[21:30.77]so I said to myself-OK, I won’t be like that.
[21:34.73]M: Oh, wow, that’s very admirable.
[21:37.41]W: But I was also one of the university organizers. 
[21:40.83]I was a member of that. 
[21:42.78]I had done that for two years 
[21:44.55]but also I tried to study as much as I could 
[21:48.18]and did my thesis, my graduation thesis. 
[21:51.44]It was very strange 
[21:52.64]because a lot of my friends told me 
[21:54.57]their graduation thesis was about 20 pages long 
[21:57.80]and they just finished it in two weeks.
[22:00.66]M: Man!
[22:02.00]W: And my professor didn’t allow us to do that 
[22:04.50]so we had to spend two years on the research. 
[22:08.17]We had to write at least a hundred pages, 
[22:11.46]so I learned quite a lot from that program 
[22:14.24]and I was glad that
[22:15.08] I could balance out my university life 
[22:17.17]between fun and study.
[22:19.99]M: One thing that shocked me at university
[22:22.48] is that a lot of times kids sleep in class, 
[22:25.50]or they read books. 
[22:27.24]They don’t even listen to the professor 
[22:29.18]and the professor doesn’t look upset. 
[22:31.52]W: Yeah, it’s true.
[22:33.27]M: Why? Like, how come the professor doesn’t get mad?
[22:37.48]W: I think they understand 
[22:38.79]what the students have come through. 
[22:40.79]They know their situation 
[22:42.23]when they came to university. 
[22:44.26]“Ah, yeah, let them have fun.” 
[22:46.78]And if they can still pass the class 
[22:48.80]as long as they are in the class, 
[22:50.95]they don’t have to do much work 
[22:52.39]and even for the exams 
[22:53.91]they can just pass around the notes, 
[22:56.34]and somebody who ever took the notes, 
[22:58.41]studied in the last two days, 
[23:00.07]and they can just pass the class.
[23:02.48]M: I guess that’s a good way to look at it. 
[23:05.03]I guess that 
[23:05.85]they still have to be responsible for the work in the end.
[23:09.49]W: You are right.
[23:11.32]This is the end of Conversation Two. 
[23:14.13]Questions 6 to 10 are based on Conversation Two.
[23:18.86]6. According to the woman, [23:21.56]why are university students devoted to clubs?
[23:35.28]7. What do we know about the woman’s university life?
[23:50.19]8. What does the woman say about her graduation thesis?
[24:04.96]9. What does the man feel shocked about?
[24:19.15]10. What does the woman say about professors?