历年英语四级听力真题及答案(复合)

2010年12Directions: In this section, you will hear a passage three times. When the Writing keeps
us in touch with other people. We write to communicate with relatives and friends. We write to (36)
international our family histories so our children and grandchildren can learn and (37) revolution
their heritage (传统). With computers and Internet connections in so many (38) emphasized
colleges, business, people e-mailing friends and relatives all the time—or talking to them in
writing in online (39) poor-paying rooms. It is cheaper than calling long distance, and a lot more
(40) effectively than waiting until Sunday for the telephone (41) freelancewriter to drop. Students
are e-mailing their professors to (42) conditioned and discuss their classroom assignments and to
(43) reasonably them. They are e-mailing classmates to discuss and collaborate(合作) on
homework. (44) The earthquake left thousands of people in urgent need of medicar e
the growing importance of computers, however, there will always be a place and need for the
personal letter. 45 There is no denying the fact that he has directed the most popular film in ten
matter what the content of the message, its real point is, “I want you to know that I care
about you.” 46 A lighted cigarette thrown out of a car or train window can star a fire. but only in the
success of human relationships.

2010年6月Almost every child, on the first day he sets foot in a school building, is smarter, more
36. curious, less afraid of what he doesn't know, better at finding and 37. Figuring things out,
more confident, resourceful (机敏的), persistent and 38. Independent than he will ever be again
in his schooling – or, unless he is very39. unusual and very lucky, for the rest of his life. Already,
by paying close attention to and 40. interacting with the world and people around him, and without
any school-type 41. formal instruction, he has done a task far more difficult, complicated and 42.
abstract than anything he will be asked to do in school, or than any of his teachers has done for
years. He has solved the 43. Mystery of language. He has discovered it – babies don't even know
that language exists – and44. he has found out how it works and learnt to use it appropriately He
has done it by exploring, by experimenting, by developing his own model of the grammar of
language, 45. by trying it out and seeing whether it works, by gradually changing it and refining it
until it does work. And while he has been doing this, he has been learning other things as well, 46.
including many of the concepts that the schools think only they can teach him, and many that are
more complicated than the ones they do try to teach him.

2009年12月In the humanities, authors write to inform you in many ways. These methods can be
(36) classified into three types of informational writing: factual, descriptive, and process. Factual
writing provides (37) background information on an author, composer or artist or on a type of
music, literature, or art. Examples of factual writing include notes on a book jacket or (38) album
cover and longer pieces, such as an article describing a style of music which you might read in a
music (39) appreciation course. This kind of writing provides a (40) context for your study of the
its name (41) implies, descriptive writing simply describes or provides an (42)
image of, a piece of music, art or literature. For example, descriptive writing might list the colors
an artist used in a painting or the (43) instruments a composer included in a musical composition,
so as to make pictures of sounds in the readers’ mind by calling up specific details of the work. (44)
Descriptive writing in humanity, particularly in literature is often mixed with critical
s writing explains a series of actions that bring about a result. (45) It tells the
reader how to do something, for example, explaining the technique used to show a film. This kind
of writing is often found in art, where understanding how an art has created a certain effect is
important. (46)Authors may actually use more than one type of techniques in the given piece of
informational writing.


2009年06月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 36 to 43 with the exact
words you have just heard. For blanks numbered from 44 to 46 you are required to fill in the
missing information. For these blanks, 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 .
Around 120 years ago, Ebbinghaus began his study of memory. He36 studying
how quickly the human mind can remember 37 information . One result of his research is known as
the total time hypothesis(假设), which simply means the amount you learn 38 depends on the time
you spend trying to learn it . This can be taken as our first rule of learning. Although it is usually
true that studying for four hours is better than studying for one, there is still the question of how
we should use the four hours. For example, is it better to study for four hours (39 straight or to
study for one hour a day for four days in a 40 row ?. The answer, as you may have 41 suspected,
is that it is better to spread out the study times. This 42 phenomenon , through which we can
learn more 43 dividing our practice time, is known as the distribution of practice
effect. Thus, 44 our second rule of learning is this: it is better to study fairly briefly but often。 But
we’re not finished yet. We haven’t considered how we should study over very short periods of
time. 45 Let’s say you are trying to learn some new and rather difficult English vocabulary using a
stack of cards。
.Should you look at the same word in rapid succession, or look at the word and then have some
delay before you look at it again ? 46 The answer is it is better to space out the presentations of the
word you are to learn。

2008年12月Crime is increasing world wide. There is every reason to believe the 36 trendwill
continue through the next few rates have always been high in multicultural,
industrialized societies such as the United States, but a new37 phenomenonhas appeared on the
world38 scene rapidly rising crime rates in nations that previously reported few39 offences.
Street crimes such as robbery, rape 40 murderand auto theft are clearly rising41 particularlyin
eastern European countries such as Hungary and in western European nations such as the united
is driving this crime 42 explosion?There are no simple answers. Still，there are
certain conditions(43) 43 associatedwith rising crime increasing heterogeneity (混杂) of
populations, greater cultural pluralism, higher immigration, democratization of government, 44
changing national borders, greater economic growth and the lack of accepted social ideas of right
and conditions are increasingly observable around the world . For instance, cultures
that were previously isolated and homogeneous(同种类的) ,such as Japan, Denmark and Greece 45
are now facing the sort of cultural variety that has been common in America for most of its
ulturalism can be a rewarding, enriching experience, but it can also lead to a clash of
values. Heterogeneity in societies will be the rule in the twenty-first century, and 46 failure to
recognize and plan for such diversity can lead to serious crime problems.

2008年06月We're now witnessing the emergence of an advanced economy based on information
and knowledge. Physical36. labor, raw materials, and capital are no longer the key ients
in the creation of wealth. Now, raw material in our economy is knowledge. Tomorrow's
wealth depends on the development and exchange of knowledge. And39. individuals entering the
workforce offer their knowledge, not their muscles. Knowledge workers get paid for their
education and their ability to learn. Knowledge in mind work. They deal with
symbols: words, s and does all this mean for you? As a future knowledge
worker, you can expect to be 42. generating, processing, as well as exchanging information. 43.
Currently three out of four jobs involve some form of mind work, and that number will increase
sharply in the future. Management and employees alike44. will be making decisions in such areas
as product development, quality control, and customer satisfaction. In the new world of work, you
can look forward to being in constant training 45. to acquire new skills that will help you keep up
with improved technologies and procedures. You can also expect to be taking greater control of
your career. Gone are the nine-five jobs. lifetime security, predictable promotions, and even the
conventional workplace, as you are familiar with. 46. Don't expect the companies will provide you
with a clearly defined career path, and don’t wait for someone to “empower” you. You have to
empower yourself.

2007年12月 More and more of the word’s population are living in towns or cities. The speed
at which cities are growing in the less developed countries is36. alarming Between 1920 and 1960

big cities in developed countries37. increased two and a half times in size, but in other parts of the
world the growth was eight times their 38. sheer size of growth is bad enough, but there
are now also very39. disturbing signs of trouble in the40. comparison of percentages of people
living in towns and percentages of people working in industry. During the nineteenth century
cities grew as a result of the growth of industry. In Europe the41. proportion of people living in
cities was always smaller than that of the 42. workforce working in factories. Now, however,
the43. reverse is almost always true in the newly industrialized world: 44. The percentage of
people living in cities is much higher than the percentage working in industry. Without a base of
people working in industry, these cities cannot pay for their growth;(45) 45. There is not enough
money to build adequate houses for the people that live there, let alone the new arrivals. There
has been little opportunity to build water supplies or other facilities. 46. So the figures for the
growth of towns and cities represent proportional growth of unemployment and underemployment
a growth in the number of hopeless and despairing parents and starving children.

2007年06月Students’ pressure sometimes comes from their parents. Most parents are well 36.
meaning but some of them aren’t very helpful with the problems their sons and daughters
have in 37 adjusting to college, and a few of them seem to go out of their way to add to their
children’s one thing, parents are often not f the kinds of problems their
children face. They don’t realize that itionis keener, that the required 40.
standardsof work are higher, and that their children may not be prepared for the change.
omedto seeing A’s and B’s on high school report cards, they may be upset when their
children’s first ercollege grades are below that level. At their kindest, they may gently
43. Inquire why John or Mary isn’t doing better, whether he or she is trying as hard as he or she
should, and so on. 44. at their worst ,they may threaten to take their children out of college or
cut off funds Sometimes parents regard their children as extensions of themselves and 45.
think it only right and natural that they determine what their children do with their lives In their
who are
involvement and identification with their children, they forget that everyone is different and that
each person must develop in his or her own way. They forget that their children, 46.


2006年12月You probably have noticed that people express similar ideas in different ways
depending on the situation they are in. This is very 36. natural. All languages have two
general levels of : a formal level and an informal level. English is no ion The
difference in these two levels is the situation in which you use a ular
language is the kind of language you find in textbooks, ncebooks and in business letters.
You would also use formal English in compositions and 41. essays that you write in school.
Informal language is used in conversation gues family members and friends, and
when we write al notes or letters to close language is different from
informal language in several ways. First, formal language tends to be more polite. we
may find interesting is that it usually takes more words to be polite For example, I might say to a
friend or a family member “Close the door, please,” 45. but to a stranger, I probably would say
“would you mind closing the door?”Another difference between formal and informal language is
now young adults must, be the ones responsible for what they do and what they are 15.10

some of the vocabulary. are bound to be some words and phrases that belong in formal
language and others that are informal. Let’s say that I really like soccer. If I am talking to my friend
I might say “I am just crazy about soccer!” But if I were talking to my boss, I would probably say
“I really enjoy soccer.”
2006年6月For Americans, time is money. They say,
use it wisely. (36) future will not be better than the past or present, as Americans are (37) trained to
see things, unless people use their time for constructive activity. Thus Americans (38) admire a

The ideal person is punctual and is (40) considerate of other people's time. They do not (41) waste
people's time with conversation or other activity that has no (42) visible beneficial
American attitude toward time is not (43) necessarily shared by others, especially non-Europeans. They
are more likely to regard time as (44) something that is simply there around them, not something
they can use. One of the more difficult things many students must adjust to in the states is the notion
that time must be saved whenever possible and used wisely every the contest (45) the fast food
industry can be seen as a clear example of American cultural product. McDonald's, KFC, and other
fast food establishments are successful in a country where many people want to spend the least amount
of time preparing and eating meals. As McDonald's restaurants (46) spread around the world, they
have been viewed as symbols of American society and culture, bringing not just hamburgers but an
emphasis on speed, efficiency, and shiny cleanliness.