题型有：1. DICTATION 2. LISTENING COMPREHENSION
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． Mindless Eating Tied to Your Environment
正确答案： Mindless Eating Tied to Your Environment Much of our habitual eating is tied to habitual experiences. /For example, we love to eat popcorn at the movies without ev
en thinking about it. /A study showed that we consumed the food/not because of the taste but because of the experience. /When we’ve repeatedly eaten a particular food in a particular environment, / our brain comes to associate the food with that environment. /And this association makes us keep eating/as long as those environmental cues are present. /Researchers proved this by taking a group of movie watchers/ that regularly consumed popcorn at the movies. /Some were given fresh popped popcorn. /Some were given stale popcorn that had been popped a week ago. /Participants ate the same amount of popcorn whether the popcorn was stale or fresh. /Researchers then conducted the same test but put movie watchers in a boardroom./In the second experiment, participants only ate the fresh popcorn. 涉及知识点：听力
PART II LISTENING COMPREHENSION (20 MIN)Directions: In Sections A, B and C you will hear everything ONCE ONLY. Listen carefully and then answer the questions that follow. Mark the correct answer to each question on your answer sheet.
SECTION A CONVERSATIONSDirections: In this section you will hear several conversati
ons. Listen to the conversations carefully and then answer the questions that follow.
听力原文：M: What can we do for you today?W: Yes, I’m having a problem with my car, and it doesn’t seem to run right. I mean every time I start it up, the engine runs for a minute or so, and then dies. M: Hmmm. Okay. Let’s open the car, and let’s take Okay, start her up. Okay, okay. Shut her off. Let me look at the It sounds like a possible fuel line, an old engine, a broken part, or even a weak battery.W: So, which one is it?M: You need to talk to the Mechanic.W: The Mechanic! So, who are you?M: Well, I’m the assistant.W: So, why didn’t you tell me that in the first place? I wouldn’t have wasted all this time!M: You didn’t ask.W: Okay, so how much is it going to cost?M: Are you a local or from out of town?W: I’m just passing through, and this is the only place for miles. Can’t you see my license plate?M: Okay. The out-of-town rate. If it’s a fuel line, that’ll be $ No, no, that’s the local rate. Here, $200 for the pre-screening check, $150 for parts, plus or minus $100, and $75 an hour for labor. Today’s a holiday, so labor is actually $50 more per hour. W: Those prices are outrageous! M: We’ll take care of you. Just bring the car back on Tuesday so Mike, our Mechanic, can take a look at it. W: Why not today? It’s only 11:00 a.
m. ! M: We close at 11: 30 a. m. on holidays, and we’re closed tomorrow and Sunday, and we’re closed the following day as well.
2． What problem was NOT mentioned about the woman’s car?
A．A stopped-up fuel line.
英语四级题型分值明细B．A broken part.
C．A low battery.
D．A flat tire.
正确答案：D
3． The car owner would be paid______per hour for labor.
A．$50.
B．$75.
C．$125.
D．$100.
正确答案：C
解析：本题考查数字及其推导。根据句(2)可知，人工费用在平时为每小时75美元，逢节假日每小时需多加50美元。经过简单推算得出C为正确答案。 知识模块：听力
4． What did the woman think about the price per hour?
A．Very cheap.
B．Very special.
C．Fair enough.
D．Too expensive.
正确答案：D
解析：本题考查评价。由句(3)推知，女车主认为该价格高得令人无法容忍。因此D为正确答案。 知识模块：听力
听力原文：W: Hey, Henry, how’s everything going, (4)and what’s with the flowers?M: They’re for my wife.W: Oh, a wedding anniversary or something?M: To tell the truth, it couldn’t be worse. You see, I have to pick my wife up from the airport this evening, but while she was gone, there were a few minor mishaps. W: Oh, really? What happened? M: Well, I had some of the guys on Friday night watch a basketball game on TV, but one of them got all excited, and started horsing around, waving his arms, and he accidentally knocked over my wife’s 250-year old Chinese porcelain vase given to her by her grandmother, and broke it beyond repair. W: Man, have M:(5)Super glue? Yeap, but she would be able to tell in a second. I was trying to pull something over her eyes. W: Oh, wow. You’re in hot water now. M: If it had only been that. W: Oh, there’s more? M: Yeah,
you see, the water from the vase spilled all over the manuscript of a book my wife has been writing for the past two years. It blurred the ink over many of the pages.
5． Why is the woman surprised at the beginning?
A．The man is carrying some flowers.
B．The man has spoiled his marriage anniversary.
C．The man seems very excited about meeting his wife.
D．The man is horsing around.
正确答案：A
解析：本题考查原因。根据句(4)可知，女士看到她朋友手里拿着花，感到很奇怪，故询问原因。所以正确答案是A。 知识模块：听力
6． We can infer from the conversation that the man______.
A．has watched a baseball game
B．has tried to glue the vase
C．has tried to dry the book
D．has tried to buy a new vase
正确答案：B
解析：本题考查事实。根据句(5)可知，男士尝试用强力胶水，但他妻子可以一眼就看出来。由此得出正确答案是B。 知识模块：听力
7． The man is troubled by the fact that______.
A．his wife’s book has been burned
B．his friend has damaged two valuable things
C．his wife’s book was stained with super glue
D．the Chinese vase was broken a bit
正确答案：B
解析：本题考查事实。根据句(6—1)及(6—2)可知，妻子的两件东西被朋友弄坏了，一件是250一yearold Chinese porcelain vase，另外一件是the manuscript of a book，所以正确答案是B。 知识模块：听力
听力原文：M: Oh, gosh! Nobody can stand this kind of scorching heat.W: Tell me about it! You can’t even stay in the sun for five minutes.M: You’ll be scorched like a shriveled plant.W: I like your humor, Marc. Anyway, I guess this afternoon there’s nothing we can do but stay at home.M: I guess so. I don’t want to be taken to the hospital for heat exhaustion or sunstroke or something.W: You want my advice?(8)Drink a lot of liquids and spare yourself the worst of the heat!M: Yeah, you’re right. Got to drink a lot of fluids. Do we have any beer? I’d like some Budweiser or Carlsberg.W: If the heat goes on, a drought will probably set in. It hasn’t rained a drop for months.M: I think so, too. But didn’t it rain last month?W: It did rain last month, but the rainfall was only half the monthly average.M: Oh. T
hat bad?!W: That’s right. It’s really bad.(10)I’m really concerned though not panicked yet.M: I don’t blame you. The pastures have browned out even before the summer has arrived.W: Yeah, (9)and the soil has been baked so hard that the plow can’t even break the soil.M: Looks like it’s going to be an ongoing thing that would get worse each day.
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