2019年12月英語四級聽力考試模擬題(8)

1、2019 年 12 月英語四級聽力考試模擬題 (8)答案和解析：Section BPassage OneQuestions 26 to 28 are based on the passage you have justheard.26. A Social challenge.B Physical challenge.C Economic challenge.D Intellectual challenge.27. A Painting a picture.B Building pymp3ids.C Exploring the space.D Making plans fortransporta

2、tion.28. A They ignore them.B They are afraid of them.C They accept and enjoy them. D They are indifferentto them.Passage TwoQuestions 29 to 31 are based on the passage you have justheard.29. A It eliminated many factory jobs.B It allowed workers to live far from their jobs.C It gave workers opportu

3、nity for better training.D It allowed workers to spend more time at home.30. A Increased transportation costs.B The lack of a qualified sales force.C A decline in the number of customers.D Difficulty in transporting merchandise.31. A Because property is more valuable in the city.B Because prices are

4、 higher in downtown stores.C Because job opportunities are better in the city.D Because highway commuting has become unpleasant.Passage ThreeQuestions 32 to 35 are based on the passage you have justheard.32. A The good points of the federal system.B How power is divided under the federal system.C Th

5、e difference between the central government and thestates.D The different functions of the central government andthe states.33. A Printing money. 來源：考試大B Limiting state taxes.C Making treaties with foreign countries.D Passing laws affecting trade between the states.34. A All the states have respecti

6、ve powers.B The central government and the states share the samepowers.C The powers of the country are fairly divided upbetween states.D It is the Constitution that specifies the power forthe central government and the states.35. A The central government cannot be too powerful.B Bigger states have m

7、ore power than smaller ones.C The central government can put a limit on state taxes.D The states and the central government have the samepowers.Section BPassage OneHuman beings enjoy challenges. Many of them like physicalchallenges. They ask themselves questions like these ： Howfast can I run? How h

8、igh can I climb? How deep can I dive?How far can I swim? How long can I hold my breath? How muchcan I lift? How high can I jump? Because people enjoychallenges, they like to play sports and watch other peopleplay sports. They like climbing, running, diving, lifting,jumping, and so on. Every four yea

9、rs millions of people allover the world enjoy the international sports competitioncalled the Olympics. There are challenges that are notphysical challenges. There are social and intellectualchallenges, too. Leonardo da Vinci, who lived in Italy duringthe fifteenth century, enjoyed every possible cha

10、llenge. Hewas an artist and painted the well known picture, the MonaLisa. He was an engineer who made plans for a city with roadsunder the street for traffic. He was an inventor who inventeda device to let people breathe under water. He was ascientist, and he learned a great deal about human structu

11、re.Another kind of challenge faced the Egyptians between4,000 and 5,000 years ago when they decided to build thefirst pymp3id. They used six million tons of rock. That isenough to build a ten foot wall around all of France. Fourhundred thousand men worked for twenty years to build it.So, for thousan

12、ds of years, people accepted challenges.Today we still have many challenges before us. Medicalscience faces the challenges of conquering the many diseaseswhich still attack human beings. Engineers and planners mustbuild new cities and new kinds of transportation. Scientistsmust develop new fomp3s of

13、 energy. And many of us areinterested in the challenge of space. We live in an age ofchallenge.Questions 26 to 28 are based on the passage you have justheard.26. When people participate in sporting activities, whatkind of challenge do they face?【解析】選 B 。預讀選項可知此題詢問的是 challenge 的類型。在聽的過程中需要留意涉及類型的細節(jié)。文

14、中開頭的 Many of themlike physical challenges 后用一系列的例子，如 How fast I canrun?.They like climbing, running. 表明，當人們參加體育活動時他們面對的是 physical challenges 。27. Which belongs to social challenge?【解析】選 D 。預讀選項能夠推測此題是考查對四種行為在細節(jié)上的區(qū)分。在聽的過程中需要留意文中出現(xiàn)了哪幾種行為、分別是為了說明什么問題而出現(xiàn)。28. How do people react to the category of social

15、challenges?【解析】選 C 。預讀選項能夠推測此題是考查 They 對them 的態(tài)度。在聽問題時需要留意 They和 them 分別指代的是什么。Passage TwoToday well examine the role that private transportation namely, the automobile plays in city planning.A number of sociologists blame the automobile for thedecline of the downtown areas of major cities. In the 1

16、950 sand 1960s the automobile made it possible to work in thecity and yet live in the suburbs many miles away. Shoppingpatterns changed; instead of going to downtown stores, peoplein the suburbs went to large shopping malls outside the cityand closer to the home. Merchants in the city failed, andthe

17、ir stores closed.Downtown shopping areas became deserted. In recent yearsthere s been a re birth of the downtown area, as manysuburbanites have moved back to the city. They ve done this,of course, to avoid highways blocked with commuters from thesuburbs. I ve chosen this particular city planning pro

18、blem our dependence on private transportation to discuss ingroups. I m hoping you will all come up with some novelsolutions. Oh, and don t approach the problem from a purelysociological perspective; try to take into accountenvironmental and economic issues as well.Questions 29 to 31 are based on the

19、 passage you have justheard.29. How did the automobile affect the work force in the1950s and 1960 s?【解析】選 B 。預讀選項能夠推測此題是考查對 It 對workers或 jobs 的影響。在聽問題時需要留意 It 指代的是什么。30. What problem did downtown city merchants face in the1960s?【解析】選 C 。預讀選項可知此題是考查對四種負面事實的區(qū)分，需要留意文中關于這些細節(jié)的陳述。31. According to the spea

20、ker, why are some people movingback to the city?【解析】選 D 。預讀選項可知此題詢問的是關于某件事情的原因。文中提到人們從鄉(xiāng)下搬回到城市的原因是： to avoid highwaysblocked with comustters.,D 是對此的同義轉述。Passage ThreeThe United States operates under a federal system ofgovernment. Under the federal system, power is dividedbetween the central governmen

21、t and the states. The centralgovernment is given specific powers. These powers are namedin the Constitution. Powers that are not assigned to thecentral government in the Constitution belong to the states.The central government can pass laws that affect tradebetween states. The central government can

22、 also make treatieswith foreign countries. It has the power to print money. TheConstitution gives the central government these powers. Thesepowers belong to the central government only. However, thestates have many powers that the central government cannotcontrol. For example, a state is allowed to

23、tax people wholive and work in the state. The central government cannot puta limit on the amount of money that a state taxes its people.Many people feel that the federal system has many goodpoints. One good point is that it restrains the power of thecentral government. The central government cannot become toopowerful. A