2014年6月英语四级听力真题及答案

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2014年6月英语四级听力真题及答案

　　大家都知道，学好英语前提是听力必须要好，有很多同学每天都在听英语，走路听，吃饭听，睡觉之前也听。但是英语听力成绩还是上不去，因为看似努力，其实效果不是很大，下面是小编帮大家整理的2014年6月英语四级听力真题及答案作文，仅供参考，大家一起来看看吧。

2014年6月英语四级听力真题及答案

　　短对话：

　　1. W: I can’t seem to reach the tea at the back of the cupboard.

　　M: Oh… Why don’t you use the ladder? You might strain your shoulder.

　　Q: What does the man suggest the woman do?

　　2. W: Since it’s raining so hard, let’s go and see the new exhibits.

　　M: That’s a good idea. Mary Johnson is one of my favorite painters.

　　Q: Where does the conversation most probably take place?

　　3. M: I hear the students gave the new teacher an unfair evaluation.

　　W: It depends on which student you are talking about.

　　Q: What does the woman imply?

　　4. W: It must have taken you a long time to fix up all these book shelves.

　　M: It wasn’t too bad. I got Doris to do some of them.

　　Q: What does the man mean?

　　5. W: Rod, I hear you’ll be leaving at the end of this month. Is it true?

　　M: Yeah. I’ve been offered a much better position with another firm. I’d be a fool to turn it down.

　　Q: Why is the man quitting his job?

　　6. W: I honestly don’t want to continue the gardening tomorrow, Tony?

　　M: Neither do I. But I think we should get it over with this weekend.

　　Q: What does the man mean?

　　7. W: You’ve already furnished your apartment?

　　M: I found some used furniture that was dirt cheap.

　　Q: What do we learn from the conversation?

　　8. W: Has the mechanic called the bus repairers?

　　M: Not yet .I’ll let you know when he calls.

　　Q: What do we learn from the conversation?

　　长对话：

　　Questions 9 to 11 are based on the conversation you have just heard.

　　Conversation one:

　　M: Hello. Matt Ellis speaking.

　　W: Hello, Dr. Ellis, my name’s Pan Johnson. My roommate, Janet Holmes, wanted me to call you.

　　M: Janet Holmes? Oh, that’s right. She’s in my Shakespearean English class. Has anything happened to her?

　　W: Nothing, it’s just that she submitted a job application yesterday and the company asked her in for an interview today. She’s afraid she won’t be able to attend your class this afternoon though. I’m calling to see whether it would be OK if I gave you her essay. Janet said it’s due today.

　　M: Certainly, that would be fine. Uh, you can either drop it off at my class or bring it to my office.

　　W: Would it be all right to come by your office around 4:00? I’m afraid I can’t come any earlier because I have three classes this afternoon.

　　M: Uh, I won’t be here when you come. I’m supposed to be at a meeting from 3:00 to 6:00, but how about leaving it with my secretary? She usually stays until 5:00. W: Fine, please tell her I’ll be there at 4:00. And Dr. Ellis, one more thing, could you tell me where your office is? Janet told me where your class is, but she didn’t give me directions to your office.

　　M: Well, I’m in Room 302 of the Gregory Building. I’ll tell my secretary to put the paper in my mail box, and I’ll get it when I return.

　　W: I sure appreciate it. Goodbye, Dr. Ellis.

　　M: Goodbye, Ms. Johnson.

　　Questions 9 to 11 are based on the conversation you have just heard.

　　9. Why couldn’t the woman’s roommate attend the Shakespearean English class that afternoon?

　　10. What favor is the woman going to do for her roommate?

　　11. What does the woman want to know at the end of the conversation?

　　Conversation 2:

　　W: How are things going, Roald?

　　M: Not bad, Jane. I’m involved in several projects and it’s a long working day. But I’m used to that so it doesn’t bother me too much.

　　W: I heard you have moved to a new house in the suburb. How do you like commuting to London every day? Don’t you find it a string?

　　M: It was terrible at first, especially getting up before dawn to catch that 6:30 train. But it’s bearable now that I’ m used to it.

　　W: Don’t you think it’s an awful waste of time? I couldn’t bear to spend three hours sitting in a train every day.

　　M: I used to feel the same as you. But now I quite enjoy it.

　　W: How do you pass the time? Do you bring some work with you to do on the train?

　　M: Ah, that’s a good question. In the morning, I just sit in comfort and read the papers to catch up with the news. On the way home at night, I relax with a good book or chat with friends or even have a game of bridge.

　　W: I suppose you know lots of people on the train now.

　　M: Yes, I bumped into someone I know on the platform every day. Last week I came across a couple of old school friends and we spend the entire journey in the bar.

　　W: It sounds like a good club. You never know. I may join it too.

　　Questions 12 to 15 are based on the conversation you have just heard.

　　12. What does the man say about his job?

　　13. Which train does the man take to work every day?

　　14. How does the man feel about commuting to work every day now?

　　15. How does the man spend his time on the morning train?

　　短文一

　　Passage One

　　Most American college students need to be efficient readers. This is necessary because full-time students probably have to read several hundred pages every week. They dont have time to read a chapter three or four times. They need to extract as much information as possible from the first or second reading.

　　An extraordinarily important study skill is knowing how to mark a book. Students mark the main ideas and important details with a pen or pencil, yellow or blue or orange. Some students mark new vocabulary in a different color. Most students write questions or short notes in the margins. Marking a book is a useful skill, but its important to do it right. First, read a chapter with one pen in your hand and others next to you on the desk. Second, read a whole paragraph before you mark anything. Dont mark too much. Usually you will mark about 10% of a passage. Third, decide on your own system for marking. For example, maybe you will mark main ideas in yellow, important details in blue and new words in orange. Maybe you will put question marks in the margin when you dont understand something and before an exam. Instead, you just need to review your marks and you can save a lot of time.

　　16. What should American college students do to cope with their heavy reading assignments?

　　17. What suggestion does the speaker give about marking a textbook?

　　18. How should students prepare for an exam according to the speaker?

　　短文二：

　　Passage Two

　　The thought of having no sleep for 24 hours or more isnt a pleasant one for most people. The amount of sleep that each person needs varies. In general, each of us needs about 8 hours of sleep each day to keep us healthy and happy. Some people, however, can get by with just a few hours of sleep at night.

　　It doesnt matter when or how much a person sleeps. But everyone needs some rest to stay alive. Few doctors would have thought that there might be an exception to this. Sleep is, after all, a very basic need. But a man named Al Herpin turned out to be a real exception, for supposedly, he never slept!

　　Al Herpin was 90 years old when doctors came to his home in New Jersy. They hoped to challenge the claim that he never slept. But they were surprised. Though they watched him every hour of the day, they never saw Herpin sleeping. He did not even own a bed. He never needed one.

　　The closest that Herpin came to resting was to sit in a rocking chair and read a half dozen newspapers. His doctors were puzzled by the strange case of permanent sleeplessness. Herpin offered the only clue to his condition. He remembered some talk about his mother having been injured several days before he had been born. Herpin died at the age of 94, never, it seems, having slept at all.

　　19. What is taken for granted by most people?

　　20. What do doctors think of Al Herpins case?

　　21. What could have accounted for Al Herpins sleeplessness?

　　短文三：

　　Passage Three

　　Hetty Green was a very spoiled, only child. She was born in Massachusetts USA in 1835. Her father was a millionaire businessman. Her mother was often ill, and so from the age of two her father took her with him to work and taught her about stocks and shares. At the age of six she started reading the daily financial newspapers and opened her own bank account. Her father died when she was 21 and she inherited 7.5 million dollars. She went to New York and invested on Wall Street. Hetty saved every penny, eating in the cheapest restaurants for 15 cents. She became one of the richest and most hated women in the world. At 33 she married Edward Green, a multi-millionaire, and had two children, Ned and Sylvia.

　　Hetty’s meanness was well-known. She always argued about prices in shops. She walked to the local grocery store to buy broken biscuits which were much cheaper, and to get a free bone for her much loved dog. Once she lost a two-cent stamp and spent the night looking for it. She never bought clothes and always wore the same long, ragged black skirt. Worst of all, when her son, Ned, fell and injured his knee, she refused to pay for a doctor and spent hours looking for free medical help. In the end Ned lost his leg. When she died in 1916 she left her children 100 million dollars. Her daughter built a hospital with her money.

　　22. What do we learn about Hetty Green as a child?

　　23. How did Hetty Green become rich overnight?

　　24. Why was Hetty Green much hated?

　　25. What do we learn about Hettys daughter?

　　复合式听写：

　　Among the kinds of social gestures most significant for second language teachers, are those which are identical in form, but different in meaning in the two cultures. For example, a Columbian who wants someone to approach him often signals with a hand movement, in which all the fingers of one hand cupped point downward as they move rapidly back and forth. Speakers of English have a similar gesture, though the hand may not be cupped and the fingers may be held more loosely. But for them, the gesture means "goodbye" or "go away", quite the opposite of the Columbian gesture. Again in Columbia, a speaker of English would have to know that when he indicates height, he must choose between different gestures depending on whether he is referring to a human being or an animal. If he keeps the palm of the hand parallel to the floor, as he would in his own culture when making known the height of a child for example, he will very likely be greeted by laughter. In Columbia, this gesture is reserved for the description of animals. In order to describe human beings, he should keep the palm of his hand at a right angle to the floor. Substitutions of one gesture for the other often create not only humorous but also embarrassing moments. In both of the examples above, speakers from two different cultures have the same gesture physically, but its meaning differs sharply.

　　1. B .Use a ladder to help her reach the tea.

　　点评：事实细节题，主要听男士的意见Why don’t you use the ladder. strain v.表示拉伸，扭伤 strain your shoulder 拉伤肩膀

　　2. D. Outside an art gallery.

　　点评：推理判断题，从女士的“exhibition”与男士的“favorite painter”中推断出。

　　3. B. She does not quite agree with what the man said.

　　点评：推理判断题，从女士的评价中可以看出。

　　evaluation n. 表示评估价值 ;an unfair evaluation 有失公正的评价;

　　4. C. Doris fixed up some of the book shelves.

　　点评：推理判断题，从男士的“I got Doris to do some of them.”推断出答案。

　　注意shelf 复数形式是shelves

　　5. D. He has found a better position.

　　点评：事实细节题，主要听男生的陈述 “I’ve been offered a much better position with another firm”

　　firm在这里解释为：公司，企业。

　　6. A. They should finish the work as soon as possible.

　　点评：推理判断题，从男士的“But I think we should get it over with this weekend”可以得出。

　　7. D. The furniture the man bought is inexpensive.

　　点评：事实细节题，从男士的描述“dirt cheap”中可以得出。

　　dirt cheap 表示非常便宜。furnish v. 表示布置;陈设 n. furniture 家具。

　　8. B. The woman is waiting for a call.

　　点评：推理判断题，从男士的话中“I’ll let you know when he calls.”推断出答案。

　　Conversation 1:

　　9. A. She had a job interview to attend.

　　点评：事实细节题。关键听取原文中“It’s just that she submitted a job application yesterday and the company asked her in for an interview today”.

　　10. C. Submit her roommate’s assignment.

　　点评：事实细节题加单词的同义替换。关键听取原文中“I’m calling to see whether it would be OK if I gave you her essay.”

　　11. A. Where Dr. Ellis’s office is located.

　　点评：事实细节题。关键听取原文中“And Dr. Ellis, one more thing, could you tell me where your office is?”

　　Conversation 2:

　　12. C. He can handle it quite well.

　　点评：同义替换原文内容“But it’s bearable now that I’ m used to it”。be used to 表示为习惯做某事。

　　13. B. The 6:30 train.

　　点评：细节题。重点听取原文中“It was terrible at first, especially getting up before dawn to catch that 6:30 train”

　　14. C. The time on the train is enjoyable.

　　点评：细节题加词性转换。重点听取原文中“But now I quite enjoy it.”

　　15. A. Reading newspapers.

　　点评：细节与词义替换。重点听取原文“In the morning, I just sit in comfort and read the papers to catch up with the news.”

　　16. D. Get key information by reading just once or twice.

　　17. A. Choose ones own system of marking.

　　18. B. By reviewing only the marked parts.

　　【点评】这篇短文主要讲述美国大学生为了完成繁重的阅读作业，需提高阅读效率。一个重要的学习技能就是在书上做标记。而正确使用标记方法也非常重要。题目设置并不难，主要考查事实细节。考生只需抓住关键词如mark，main ideas，important details，捕捉听力中的序数词，找到相应的信息，就可以选出正确的答案。

　　19. D. Everybody needs some sleep for survival.

　　20. C. It is a rare exception.

　　21. B. His mothers injury just before his birth.

　　【点评】这篇短文以睡眠为主题，讲述了一个从不睡觉的人的故事。医生对他进行了观察，发现确实如此。而他本人也表示这可能是因为他出生几天前母亲受伤的缘故。题目设置并不难，以考查事实细节为主。考生以Al Herpin，docotors和sleeplessness为关键词，捕捉听力中的细节即可选到正确答案。

　　26. identical

　　27. approach

　　28. back and forth

　　29. opposite

　　30. indicates

　　31. referring to

　　32. parallel to

　　33. reserved

　　34. at a right angle

　　35. embarrassing

　　【点评】本文主要通过两个实例说明在不同的文化中相同的手势可能蕴含着不同的意思，同时也提醒大家一定要注意文化的重要性。文化现象是四级考试中的常考话题，平时训练中应该多积累这方面的文化知识。这篇文章稍微有点难度，需要填入的单词或词组的某些空在拼写方面一定要注意，比如：identical，parallel，embarrassing等。十个空中，四个固定词组或表达，三个动词，两个形容词，一个名词，没有生难单词，都是平时出现频率较高的单词或词组，由此可见，考查词组的趋势在增加，考生在平时应多注意固定词组的积累，这样在考场中才能得心应手。

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