四级low爆了，让你感受2019年上海春季高考听力

Part 01     听力（文本）

发音特点：

女音（英式发音）沿袭去年。发音正常，清晰到位；

男音（美式发音）.

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Section A

Directions: In section A, you will hearten short conversations between two speakers. At the end of each conversation,a question will be asked ut what was said. The conversations and thequestions will be spoken only once. After you have heard a conversation and thequestion ut it, read the four possible answers on your paper, and decidewhich one is the best answer to the question you have heard.

1.    W: This table is reservedfor you, sir.

       M: It looks like a nicetable, but it's too close to the kitchen door.

       Q: Where does theconversation most probably take place?

2.    M: I saw you on TVyesterday. You were ever so good. You didn't look nervous.

       W: To be frank. When itwas my turn to speak, I really had my heart in my mouth.

       Q: What does the womanmean?

3.    M: Shall we go and trythat snack bar around the corner?

       W: I can't eat anything.My head aches.

       Q: What can we learnut the woman?

4.    W: A single room is fiftypounds per night, and a double room sixty pounds per night. Stay two nights andyou'll get another for free.

       M: A single room forthree nights, please.

       Q: How much should theman pay for his room?

5.    W: How did you do in thewriting contest?

       M: If only I had paidmore attention to spelling.

       Q: What can we learnut the man?

6.    M: Hey, Joan, what's up?

       W: Nothing much. It's myson! It doesn't seem easy for him to get used to the new school.

       Q: How does Joan mostprobably feel ut her son?

7.    M: Have you heard from Marylately? It's said she is not working as a fitness coach.

       W: I got an email fromher last week. She has been working at a school since she left our firm.

       Q: Who are the twospeakers talking ut?

8.    W: How did the lecture go?

       M: Oh, you should have seen those young people. Thirsty forknowledge, drinking in my wisdom. （生活大爆炸台词S04E14）

       Q: What does the man mean?

9.    M: Look at the menu.Everything looks great, but that's too expensive.

       W: Have anything you like? Tom saidit's on our boss.

       Q: Who will pay thebill?

10. W: David, I got you apresent, a solar powered calculator.

       M: I don't need acalculator, Mom. I am one.

       Q: What does Davidimply?

Section B

Directions: In Section B, you will hear twopassages and one longer conversation, and you will be asked several questionson each of the passages and the conversation. The passages and the conversationwill be read twice, but the questions will be spoken only once. When you hear aquestion, read the four possible answers on your paper and decide which one isthe best answer to the question you have heard.

Questions 11 through 13 are based on the following passage.

The calm waters of Rose Bay in Sydney are disturbed onlywhen a sea plane comes into land and take off again. In some way, Rose Bay haswitnessed the surprising history of flying boats, type of early sea plane. Onfifth of July, 1938, an empire class flying boat departed from here, Australia's first international airport. Itwas heading for England and mark the start of the golden age of flying boats. Over ten days, with thirtystops along the route, passengers enjoyed a firstclass service, including breakfasts of fruit, steak, juice and wine.

But the flight didn't come cheap. Tickets were far beyond the reachof most Australians at a price that was equivalent to an annual salary. The service was suspended in 1942 as war took hold, and the planes were officially used by the air force. By the timenormal life started again after the war, land-basedaircraft had developed rapidly, and flying boats were looking increasingly outof date. However, Sydney and its vast waters remained well placed to exploittheir resources, and so began a new age for the flying boats.

原文出处：https://sydneylivingmuseums.com.au/stories/flying-boats-sydneys-golden-age-aviation

Questions:

11. When didthe golden age of flying boats start?

12. Why wasthe service of empire class flying boats stopped in the early 1940s?

13. What isthe speaker mainly talking ut?

Questions 14 through 16 are based on the followingpassage.

According to some psychologists, intelligence is the ability tolearn from experience, adapt to new situations, understand and handle abstractconcepts, and use knowledge to change one's environment. Skills like learning,memory, reasoning, and problem solving enhance these abilities. Therefore,certain habits may be evidence you've got these skills. For example, it iscommonly thought that those who are intelligent are organized and haveeverything in their work space arranged neatly. But that's not the case.

In an experiment from the University of Minnesota, people in a messysetting came up with more creative ideas than those in a neat space. KathleenWatts, study author says disorderly environments seem to inspire breaking freeof tradition, which can produce fresh idea. Orderly environments, in contrast,encourage following traditions and playing it safe. But according to JonathanWhite, a research scientist at Duke University, creativity is one of thequalities that smarter people tend to possess, and it may actually lead to messiness. He says it's not messiness that helps creativity, butcreativity which may create messiness. Such people tend to get lost in thoughtwhile focusing on a problem or issue. Andcleanliness becomes of less importance than focusing on the problem at hand.

原文出处：https://www.rd.com/health/wellness/habits-of-smart-people/

Questions:

14. Accordingto the passage, what are intelligent people like in most people's eyes?

15. Accordingto Jonathan White from Duke University, Which of the following statements istrue?

16. What isthe passage mainly ut?

Questions 17 through 20 are based on the followingconversation.

W: James, have you read ut the newresearch into the human brain?

M: Not yet. What does it say?

W: It says men are better at some thingslike map reading and finding direction, while women are better at other things,like remembering words and faces.

M: Interesting! Now I understand why I'mthe one in my family who does all the map reading.

W: The research wasdone by a team from the University of Pennsylvania. They looked at the brainsof nearly one thousand men and women and found they are wired differently.

M: Wired differently? You mean “connectedin different ways”?

W: Right! In males, the strongerconnections run within each half of the brain. In women, the strongerconnections are between the two sides of the brain.

M: I see.

W: The difference might explain why men arebetter at learning and performing a single task, like reading maps or cycling.But women are often better at doing several things at the same time. They canalso concentrate on a task for longer.

M: Now, I can understand why I cannot doseveral things together.

W: But not everyoneagrees. A professor from the University of Oxford said the connections inside the brain are not permanently fixed,and the brain is very complex. Without sufficient data, you can't jump to anygeneral conclusions.

M: Iguess the professor is right now.

（Now, listen again.）

Questions:

17: What is the conversation mainly ut?

18: Compared with women's brains, what doesthe new research find out ut men's brains?

19: According to the new research, which ofthe following are women better at?

20: What does the professor from the Universityof Oxford think of the new research findings?

That's the end of listeningcomprehension.