2003年1月大学英语四级考试试题及参考答案

大学英语英语四级考试听力试题

2003年1月大学英语四级考试试题及参考答案

Part I Listening Comprehension (20 minutes)

Section A

Directions:Example:

You will hear:

You will read:

will start at 9 o clock in the morning and have to finish at 2 in the afternoon. Therefore, A) “At the office” is the correct answer. You should choose [A] on the Answer Sheet and mark it with a single line through the center. 1.

A) They are both anxious to try Italian food.

大学英语英语四级考试听力试题

B) They are likely to have dinner together.

C) The man will treat the woman to dinner tonight.

D) The woman refused to have dinner with the man.

2.

A) It's only for rent, not for sale.

B) It's not as good as advertised.

C) It's being redecorated.

D) It's no longer available.

3.

A) Colleagues.

B) Husband and wife.

C) Employer and employee.

D) Mother and son.

4.

5.

B) The bus will wait a few minutes at the stop.

C) There are only two or three passengers waiting for the bus.

D) They can catch this bus without running.

6.

A) The assignment looks easy but actually it s quite difficult.

B) The assignment is too difficult for them to complete on time.

大学英语英语四级考试听力试题

C) They cannot finish the assignment until Thursday.

D) They have plenty of time to work on the assignment.

7.

A) The man will go to meet the woman this evening.

B) The man and the woman have an appointment at 7 o'clock.

C) The woman can t finish making the jam before 7 o'clock.

D) The woman won t be able to see the man this evening.

8.

A) She s learned a lot from the literature class.

9.

10.

C) She is unhappy to have to drive such a long way every day.

D) She enjoys it because she s good at driving.

Section B Compound Dictation

Directions: In this section, you will hear a passage three times. When the

passage is read for the first time, you should listen carefully for its general idea. When the passage is read for the second time, you are required to fill in the blanks numbered from S1 to S7 with the exact words you have just heard. For

大学英语英语四级考试听力试题

blanks numbered from S8 to S10 you are required to fill in the missing

information. You can either use the exact words you have just heard or write down the main points in your own words. Finally, when the passage is read for the third time, you should check what you have written.

It's difficult to imagine the sea ever running out of fish. It s so vast, so deep, so (S1) _______. Unfortunately, it s not bottomless. Over-fishing, (S2)

_________ with destructive fishing practices, is killing off the fish and (S3) _________ their environment.

Destroy the fish, and you dest (S8)

____.

对虾) caught, up to 15

True, (S9)

_______________________________________________________________, then catch them in a way that doesn't kill other innocent sea life.

Part II Reading Comprehension (35 minutes)

Direction: There are 4 passages in this part. Each passage is followed by some questions or unfinished statements. For each of them there are four choices

大学英语英语四级考试听力试题

marked A), B) C) and D). You should decide on the best choice and mark the corresponding letter on the Answer Sheet with a single line through the center. Passage One

Questions 11 to 15 are based on the following passage:

Like many of my generation, I have a weakness for hero worship. At some point, however, we all begin to question our heroes and our need for them. This leads us to ask: What is a hero?

催化剂) for change. They have a vision from the create new possibilities. Without Gandhi, India might still be part of the British Empire. Without Rosa Parks and Martin Luther King, Jr., we might still have segregated (隔离的) buses, restaurants, and parks. It may be possible for

large-scale change to occur without leaders with magnetic personalities, but the pace of change would be slow, the vision uncertain, and the committee meetings endless.

大学英语英语四级考试听力试题

11. Although heroes may come from different cultures, they _______.

A) generally possess certain inspiring characteristics

B) probably share some weaknesses of ordinary people

C) are often influenced by previous generations

D) all unknowingly attract a large number of fans

12. According to the passage, heroes are compared to high-voltage

transformers in that ____.

A) they have a vision from the mountaintop

B) they have warm feelings and emotions

D) can provide an answer to the problems of their people

15. The author concludes that historical changes would ______.

A) be delayed without leaders with inspiring personal qualities

B) not happen without heroes making the necessary sacrifices

C) take place ff there were heroes to lead the people

D) produce leaders with attractive personalities B)

大学英语英语四级考试听力试题

Passage Two

Questions 16 to 20 are based on the following passage:

According to a survey, which was based on the responses of over 188,000 students, today s traditional-age college freshmen are “more materialistic and less altruistic (利他主义的)” than at any time in the 17 years of the poll.

Not surprising in these hard times, the student s major objective “is to be financially well off. Less important than ever is developing a meaningful

literature or history but accounting.

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