英语四级听力考试练习题Model Test Five

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[00:00.00]喜欢hxen.net，请把hxen.net放在QQ资料上，多谢支持！1.W:I think I'll take my mother to that French restaurant on Main Street for her birthda
[00:08.15]M:I hope it's not any time soon.They are usually booked up weeks in advanc
[00:14.37]Q:What does the man mean?
[00:18.44]2.M:Did you notice that Mark shaved off his beard over the summer.
[00:24.08]W:Notice?I didn't recognize him.
[00:28.71]Q:What does the woman say about Mark?
[00:32.89]3.W:Is there a weight limit to the luggage a passenger can carry on the train?
[00:39.97]M:Yes.But yours is only 15 kilograms,5 kilograms less than that limit.
[00:46.68]Q:What is the weight limit to the luggage one passenger can carry on the plane?
[00:54.28]4.W:I wish I hadn't thrown away that list of books.
[00:59.87]M:I thought you might,so I took it from the waste paper basket.
[01:04.05]It's right here in my pocket.
[01:07.60]Q:What do we learn about the list?
[01:11.16]5.W:I'm really looking forward to the picnic tomorrow.
[01:17.37]M:If we are lucky,we'll have some sun this year for a change.
[01:22.52]Q:What does the man imply?
[01:27.67]6.M:It's a pity that I missed the modern art exhibition at the museum.
[01:33.88]W:You might well try to catch it when it opens in New York next month.
[01:39.58]Q:What does the woman suggest that the man do?
[01:44.70]7.M:Hey.There's a program on the radio tonight at seven you might like.It's about parrots.
[01:54.36]W:I have heared about it.But you are right ,I am interesting in it.
[02:00.50]Q:What will the woman probably do?
[02:05.68]8.M:I thought you were going to call me last night about the train schedule.
[02:11.87]W:Sorry.I would have.But Harry and Jack stopped by and stayed past midnight.
[02:19.49]Q:What does the woman mean?
[02:24.64]9.W:Gosh!Fred,another cup of coffee?That's your third since lunch.
[02:33.78]M:Yeah,Well,I stayed up all night working for my English exam.
[02:38.51]I couldn't keep my eyes open in my last class.
[02:42.19]I'm having this coffee so I can stay awake this afternoon.
[02:47.31]Q:Why is the man drinking so much coffee?
[02:53.56]10.M:What's up with Donald?I've never seen him so happy.
[02:59.70]W:His supervisor gave performance evaluations this morning.
[03:04.32]Q:What can be inferred about Donald?
[03:08.94]Passage one
[03:12.10]Started in 1636,Harvard University is the oldest of all the colleges and universities in the United States.
[03:21.25]Yale,Princeton,and Dartmouth were opened soon after Harvard.
[03:26.86]They were all started before the American Revolution made the thirteen colonies into states.
[03:34.07]In the early years,these schools were much alike.
[03:38.25]Only young men attended college.
[03:41.41]All the students studied the same subjects and everyone learned Latin and Greek.
[03:47.55]Little was known about science then,and one kind of school could teach everything that was known about the world.
[03:54.76]When the students graduated,most of them became ministers or teachers.
[04:00.38]In 1782,Harvard started a medical school for young men who wanted to become doctors.
[04:08.08]Later,lawyers could receive their training in Harvard Law School.
[04:13.78]In 1825,Harvard began teaching modern languages,such as French and German,as well as Latin and Greek.
[04:23.84]Soon it began teaching American history.
[04:27.00]As knowledge increased,Harvard and other colleges began to teach many new subjects.
[04:33.58]Students were allowed to choose the subjects that interested them.
[04:38.75]Special colleges for women were started.
[04:42.93]New state universities began to teach such subjects as farming,engineering and business.
[04:50.56]Today,there are many different kinds of colleges and universities.
[04:55.21]Most of them are divided into smaller schools that deal with special fields of learning.
[05:01.84]There is so much to learn that one kind of school cannot offer it all.
[05:09.00]Questions 11 to 14 are based on the passage you have just heard.
[05:15.32]11.What is this passage talking about on the whole?
[05:22.35]12.When did Harvard start a medical school?
[05:28.62]13.What foreign languages did Harvard teach in 1825?
[05:36.77]14.What can be inferred from the passage?
[05:42.96]Passage Two
[05:45.50]You may not realize that fog is simply a cloud that touches the ground.
[05:51.29]Like any cloud it is composed of tiny droplets of water,or in rare cases,of ice crystals that form an ice fog.
[06:00.10]Ice fogs usually occur only in extremely cold climates,
[06:04.72]because water droplets are so tiny they don't become solid until the air temperature is far below freezing,
[06:11.64]generally 30 degrees below zero Celsius or lower.
[06:17.03]The droplets of fogs are nearly spherical.
[06:20.81]The transparency of fog depends mainly on the concentration of droplets.
[06:25.93]The more droplets,the denser the fog is.
[06:30.06]Since water is 800 times denser than air,
[06:34.24]investigators were puzzled for a long time as to why the water particles in fog didn't simply fall to the ground,making the fog disappear.
[06:44.40]It turns out the droplets do fall at a predictable rate,but in fog_creating conditions,
[06:51.48]they are either supported by rising air currents or continually replaced by new droplets condensing from the water vapor in the air.
[07:02.19]Questions 15 to 17 are based on the passage you have just heard.
[07:07.44]15.What is the main topic of the passage?
[07:14.55]16.How are fog and clouds related according to the speaker?
[07:22.62]17.Which of the following statements is true?
[07:28.76]Passage Three
[07:31.92]It was Anna's first experience of flying.
[07:36.15]She had always been afraid of heights and so was prepared to be frightened.
[07:41.32]Only the fact that she was going to meet her son who she had not seen for three years had given her the courage to make the flight.
[07:50.47]She sat in her seat,her hands gripping the arms,her seat belt already fastened.
[07:57.62]The airhostess was talking,telling everyone what to do in case of emergency showing them where their life_jackets were.
[08:06.30]The plane was crowded,every seat was full.
[08:10.48]From her window seat,getting out in a hurry would be impossible,thought Anna.
[08:15.67]In any case who would want to get out of a plane in mid_air?
[08:20.79]The engines began to shake___the noise increased till it was like a great rushing wind.
[08:27.04]She looked out to see the runaway slip past at astonishing speed.
[08:31.71]She wanted to cry out___to stop the plane before it left the ground,
[08:36.83]but she knew she was trapped in this great roaring machine,"I mustn't scream,"she told herself,and put her hands over her eyes.
[08:47.49]There was a strange feeling as if she were going up in a lift.
[08:51.77]The noise died down.Carefully she opened her eyes.
[08:57.44]Through the window she saw a great carpet of cloud above,
[09:01.57]so beautiful that she stared in wonder,hardly turning away from the window till they touched down.
[09:08.70]"Well,Mother,"said John,"how did you enjoy your first flight?"
[09:14.89]Questions 18 to 20 are based on the passage you have just heard.
[09:20.98]18.Whom was Anna going to meet?
[09:27.20]19.What did Anna do when the engines began to shake?
[09:34.41]20.What did Anna see when she opened her eyes?