2017年6月英语四级听力真题第2套-短文1

【真题完整试卷在”公-重-浩“：超能资料库】

听力试题、听力原文、答案：

一、听力试题：

Section C

Questions 16 to 18 are based on the passage you have just heard.

16. A) They have small roots.

B) They grow white flowers.

C) They taste like apples.

D) They come from Central Africa.

17. A) They turned from white to purple in color.

B) They became popular on the world market.

C) They became an important food for humans.

D) They began to look like modern-day carrots.

18. A) They were found quite nutritious.

B) There were serious food shortages.

C) People discovered their medicinal value.

D) Farm machines helped lower their prices.

二、听力原文

Section C

Passages one

Wild carrots probably evolved with the other flowering plants, about 360 million years ago. Like apples，carrots are native to Central Asia That’s why horses, which also come from Central Asia, like both apples and carrots so much.【16】With wild carrots，the roots are white, small and skinny，so we have to pick a lot of wild carrots to get enough to eat. Doctors used carrot seeds and roots as medicine, on the theory that foods that taste bad must be good for you.

Around 8OO AD, people in Central Asia, managed to develop a new kind of carrot—a purple carrot that attracted more interest from international traders.【17】Then in the late 1500s, food scientists in the Netherlands cultivated large,straight,sweet, red carrots like the ones we eat today. But people still mostly fed carrots and pigs, and didn’t eat them themselves. In the 1600, people in China used carrots as medicine ,but they also ate carrots boiled in soup. The red color was popular for Chinese New Year celebrations.【18】But carrots got their biggest boost during the two World Wars, when food shortages force people to eat them,and governments told everyone how healthy carrots were. Today, cooler countries grow most of the world’s carrots. Machines do most of the planting and picking, and carrots are easy to store and ship, so they are cheap almost everywhere. 

16. What do we learn from the talk about wild carrots?

17.What does the speaker say about carrots in the late 1500s?

18.Why did people turn to carrots for food during the two World Wars?

16. A.They have small roots.
17. D.They began to look like modern-day carrots.
18. B.There were serious food shortages.

【翻译】

在大约3.6亿年前，野生胡萝卜也许是和其它可以开花植物一起进化的。

和苹果一样，胡萝卜也是中亚的本土植物。

这就是为什么同样来自中亚的马，那么喜欢胡萝卜和苹果的原因。

因为野生胡萝卜的根是白色的，且又小又细，所以我们需要采很多野生胡萝卜才够吃。

医生把胡萝卜的种子和根做成药，是基于“良药苦口”这个理论的。

在公元800年，中亚的人们成功地研发出一种新的胡萝卜，一种更吸引国际贸易者的紫色胡萝卜。

随后，在16世纪后期，荷兰的食物科学家培育出了又大又直又甜的红色胡萝卜，与我们今天吃的胡萝卜类似，

但是当时的人基本上都用胡萝卜喂马、驴和猪，而不是他们自己吃。

在17世纪，中国人把胡萝卜当作药，但是他们也用胡萝卜煮汤。

红色是中国春节时很流行的一种颜色。

但在两次世界大战期间，胡萝卜得到了最大的推广，

因为食物短缺迫使人们食用它们，而且政府告诉每个人，胡萝卜是多么健康。

如今，气候更凉爽的国家种植了世界上大部分的胡萝卜。

其中大多数是由机器种植和采摘的。

并且由于胡萝卜易于储存和运输，所以它们在任何地方都很便宜。

请根据你刚刚听到的文章回答问题16至问题18。

问题16：我们从关于野生胡萝卜的讨论中获悉了什么?

问题17：对16世纪末期的胡萝卜，发言人提到了什么？

问题18：在两次世界大战期间，人们为什么转而将胡萝卜当作食物？