nutmeg2017年12月英语四级听力原文

2021年1月8日发(作者：游宁丰)

2017年12月
PartⅡ Listening Comprehension (25 minutes)
Section A
Directions: In this section, you will hear three news reports. At the end
of each news report, you will hear two or three questions. Both the news
report and the questions will be spoken only once. After you hear a
question, you must choose the best answer from the four choices marked
A), B), C) and D) .Then mark the corresponding letter on Answer Sheet 1
with a single line through the centre.
News 1：
A 9-year-old girl in New Mexico has raised more than $$500 for her little
brother who needs heart surgery in Houston Texas this July. Addison
Witulski's grandmother Kim Allred said Addison probably overheard a
conversation between family members talking about the funds needed to get
her little brother to treatment.
’
re worried about how we’re going to get to Houston, for my grandson’
s heart surgery,” said Allred. She decided to go outside and have a
lemonade stand and make some drawings and pictures and sell them.”
That’s when Addison and her friends Erika and Emily Borden decided to
sell lemonade for 50 cents a cup and sell pictures for 25 cents each.
Before Allred knew it, New Mexico State Police Officers were among the
many stopping by helping them reach a total of $$568.
The family turned to social media expressing their gratitude saying,
“From the bottom of our hearts, we would like to deeply thank each & every
person that stopped by!


Questions 1 and 2 are based on the news report you have just heard.

Q1: Who did Addison raise money for?
A）Her friend Erika.
B）Her little brother.
C）Her grandfather.
D）Her grandmother.
Q2: How did Addison raise money?
A）By taking pictures for passers-by.
B）By working part time at a hospital.
C）By selling lemonade and pictures.
D）By asking for help on social media.
News 2：
Last week, France announced that the country will pave 621 miles of road
with solar panels over the next five years, with the goal of providing
cheap, renewable energy to five million people.
Called “the Wattway,” the roads will be built through joint efforts with
the French road-building company Colas and the National Institute of Solar
Energy. The company spent the last five years developing solar panels that
are only about a quarter of an inch thick and are strong enough to stand
up to heavy highway traffic without breaking or making the roads more
slippery. The panels are also designed so that they can be installed
directly on top of existing roadways, making them relatively cheap and
easy to install.


France isn’t the first country to kick around the idea of paving its roads
with solar panels. In November 2015, the Netherlands completed a
229-foot-long bike path paved with solar panels as a test for future
projects. However, this is the first time a panel has been designed to
be laid directly on top of existing roads and the first project to install
the panels on public highways.

Questions 3 and 4 are based on the news report you have just heard.
Q3: What was France's purpose of constructing the Wattway?
A）Finding cheaper ways of highway construction.
B）Generating electric power for passing vehicles.
C）Providing clean energy to five million people.
D）Testing the efficiency of the new solar panel.
Q4: What is special about the solar panels used in the Wattway?
A）They can stand the wear and tear of natural elements.
B）They can be laid right on top of existing highways.
C）They can only about half an inch thick.
D）They are made from cheap materials.
News 3：
Lions have disappeared from much of Africa, but for the past few years
scientists have wondered if the big cats were hanging on in remote parts
of Sudan and Ethiopia. Continuous fighting in the region has made surveys
difficult.


But scientists released a report Monday documenting, with hard evidence,
the discovery of
A team with Oxford University’s Wildlife Conservation Research Unit,
supported by a charity organization, spent two nights in November camping
in the National Park in northwest Ethiopia, on the Ethiopia-Sudan border.
The researchers set out six camera traps capturing images of lions, and
they identified lion tracks.
The scientists concluded that lions are also likely to live in the
neighbouring National Park across the border in Sudan. The International
Union for Conservation of Nature had previously considered the area a

lions in the area, but no one presented convincing evidence.

Questions 5 and 7 are based on the news report you have just heard.
Q5: What has made it difficult to survey lions in remote parts in Sudan
and Ethiopia?
A）Endless fighting in the region.
B）The hazards from the desert.
C）Inadequate funding for research.
D）The lack of clues about the species.
Q6: What was the main purpose of the research?
A）To observe the wildlife in the two national parks.
B）To identify the reasons for the lions’ disappearance.
C）To study the habitat of lions in Sudan and Ethiopia.


D）To find evidence of the existence of the “lost lions”.
Q7: What did the researchers find in the National Park?
A) Lions walking. C)
Some camping facilities.
B) Lion’s
tracks. D) Traps
set by local hunters.
Section B
Directions: In this section, you will hear two long conversations. At the
end of each conversation, you will hear four questions. Both the
conversation and the questions will be spoken only once. After you hear
a question, you must choose the best answer from the four choices marked
A), B), C) and D). Then mark the corresponding letter on Answer sheet 1
with a single line through the centre.
Passage 1
M: I bet you're looking forward to the end of this month. Are you?
W: Yes, I am. How did you know?
M: David told me you had a special birthday coming up.
W: Oh…yeah that's right. This year will be my golden birthday.
M: What does that mean? I've never heard of a golden birthday.
W: I've actually just learnt this concept myself. Fortunately, just in
time to celebrate. A golden or lucky birthday is when one turns the age
of their birth date. So, for example, my sister's birthday is December
9th and her golden birthday would have been the year she turned nine years


old. Come to think of it, my parents did throw her a surprise party that
year.
M: Interesting. Too bad I missed mine. My golden birthday would've been
four years ago. I assume you got big plans then.
W: Actually yes. My husband is planning a surprise holiday for the two
of us next week. I have no idea what he's got in mind, but I'm excited
to find out. Has he mentioned anything to you?
M: He might have.
W: Anything you'd like to share? I'm dying to know what kind of trip he
has planned on where we're going.
M: You know nothing at all?
W: Not a clue. Hard to imagine, isn’t it? Though I must say I think he's
been having even more fun keeping the secret from me in the past few weeks.
M: I'm sure both of you will have a fantastic time. Happy golden birthday!
I can't wait to hear all about it when you get back.

Questions 8 to 11 are based on the conversation you have just heard.
Q8. What is the woman looking forward to?
A) Her ‘lucky birthday’ C) Her wedding
anniversary.
B) A call from her dad. D)
A special gift from the man.
Q9. What did the woman's parents do on her sister's lucky birthday?


A) Gave her a big model plane. C) Took her
on a trip overseas.
B) Bought her a gold necklace. D) Threw
her a surprise party.
Q10. What is the woman eager to find out about?
A) The gift her husband has bought.
B) The trip her husband has planned.
C) What has been troubling her husband.
D) What her husband and the man are up to.
Q11. What does the man say at the end of the conversation?
A) He will be glad to be a guide for the couple’s holiday trip.
B) He will tell the woman the secret if her husband agrees.
C) He is eager to learn how the couple’s holiday turns out.
D) He wants to find out about the couple’s holiday plan.
Passage 2
W: Mr. Green, what do you think makes a successful negotiator?
M: Well, that’s hard to define. But I think successful negotiators have
several things in common. They are always polite and rational people. They
are firm but flexible. They can recognize power and know how to use it.
They are sensitive to the dynamics of the negotiation. The way of rises
and falls and how it may change direction. They project the image of
confidence, and perhaps most importantly, they know when to stop.
W: And, what about an unsuccessful negotiator?