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2014
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12
月四级真题（第
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College English Test Band Four Part Two Listening Comprehension
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.


Questions 1 and 2 will be based on the following news item.
A report on online consumption trends released by Amazon revealed that women, senior citizens
and youngsters have become a major driving force for mobile purchases. The report was based
on
data
analysis
of
buying
behavior
of
more
than
300
million
users
between
2011
and
2015.
According
to
the
report,
more
than
70
percent
of
buyers
of
baby
products,
cosmetics
and
garments,
and
60
percent
of
buyers
of
food,
home
furnishings,
shoes
and
bags
are
women.
Women,
mainly
aged
23
to
35,
also
account
for
70
percent
of
online
buyers
of
imported
commodities.
Commodities
believed
to
be
popular
among
young
people
have
attracted
more
elderly people. Statistics showed that perfume consumption among users aged 50 to 70 has been
growing.
They
spent
around
11
million
dollars
on
perfume
last
year
alone.
According
to
the
report, youngsters make a major contribution to mobile purchases. Users who were born after
1990 made around 70 percent of purchases on their mobile applications.

1. What can we conclude from the statistics?
2. How much money did the elderly spend on perfume last year?

Questions 3 and 4 will be based on the following news item.
Electric car sales in China are expected to reach 220 000 to 250 000 this year, surpassing the US to
rank first worldwide, China Association of Automobile Manufactures (CAAM) forecast. Worldwide
electric car sales will hit 600 000 and the figure for the US market is estimated to be 180 000, said
Xu Yanhua, deputy secretary-general of CAAM. Although China has achieved rapid development
in
electric
vehicles,
quality
instead
of
quantity
should
be
focused
on
for
the
sustainable
development of the industry, Xu told an industry conference. In particular, vehicle safety and the
quality of batteries should be carefully examined and supervised, she added. China's new energy
vehicle
sector
has
seen
explosive
growth
in
the
past
two
years,
thanks
to
the
government's
-
support policies including subsidies and tax cuts. In the first ten months, the sales of electric cars
surged 290 percent year on year to 171 145, CAAM data showed.

3. How many sales of electric cars are there in the US?
4. What should be focused on for the sustainable development of electric vehicles?

Questions 5 to 7 will be based on the following news item.
As
the
traffic
in
Nairobi
worsens,
primary
school
pupils
who
depend
on
public
transportation
seem to be suffering the most as they try to keep up with the demands of school. Some private
and public primary school pupils wake up as early as 4:00 am to beat the traffic and be in class on
time. In the evening, they may arrive home as late as 6:30 to 7:30 pm. The current floods in the
city have not made life easier for the pupils. Last week, 11 pupils from Makini Schools waited for
10 hours to be rescued when their school bus was nearly covered in water during a traffic jam.
The
students
were
rescued
and
taken
to
Boma
Hotel.
It
was
almost
dawn
when
their
parents
came
to
pick
them
up.
A
few
years
ago,
the
IBM
Commuter
Pain
Index
Report
listed
Nairobi
among
cities with the world’s longest traffic jams. The report concluded that traffic jams increase
the level of stress and anger. This can create negative attitudes for commuters and affect their
performance at work or school. The long-term effect is that traffic problems can create a negative
attitude in the pupils towards school.

5. What is the main idea of the news report?
6. What happened to the 11 pupils from Makini Schools last week?
7. What can we learn about traffic jams from the IBM’s report?


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.

Conversation One
M: Do you think there’s discrimination against women in England today?

W:
Certainly,
and
not
just
in
education
and
work
either,
in
many
other
fields
as
well.
The
tax
situation for women is very unfair, for example.

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M: Are women better off in other countries then?
W:
It
depends
on
the
country.
There’s
certainly
much
less
discrimination

in
Scandinavia,
and
maybe in America, too.

M: Do you think the position of English women will improve?
W: In some ways it will of course. I’m sure more women will go out to work in the next 20 years.
But women have a much greater problem than this to solve.

M: What’s
that?
W: The problem of men’s attitudes. We can earn more money in the future, but I’m not sure we
can change men’s attitudes. You see, most men really think that women are inferior. Maybe we
are physically weaker, but I don’t think this means we are inferior. Then there’s another problem.

M: Yes?
W: The problem of women’s attitudes. Lots of women are unhappy with their present situation,
but most of them probably don’t want to fight for change. It could be that the women’s liberation
movement has to spend
more time changing women’s attitudes

than it spends in changing men’s.
M:
One
last
question,
some
supporters
of
the
women’s
liberation
movement
believed
that
marriages should be abolished. You agree?
W: No,
I
don’t.
It
can’t
happen.
What
may
and
should
ha
ppen
is
that
we
teach men
to
spend
more time looking after children and doing housework.


Questions 8 to 11 are based on the conversation you have just heard.

8. Where are women said to be less discriminated against?
9. What will happen in England in 20 years according to the conversation?
10. What does the woman think
the women’s liberation movement should do?

11. What does the woman suggest at the end of the conversation?

Conversation Two
M: Cheers, Shirley.

W: Cheers, Paul. What a lovely place for a business lunch. I hope I can concentrate in this heat.

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