2016年12月四级听力真题及答案（第2套）

[00:01.13]College English Test 

[00:02.79]Band Four

[00:04.11]Part Ⅱ  Listening Comprehension

[00:07.28]Section A 

[00:08.70]Directions:

[00:10.11]In this section, 

[00:11.17]you will hear three news reports. 

[00:13.82]At the end of each news report, 

[00:15.88]you will hear two or three questions. 

[00:19.27]Both the news report and the questions 

[00:21.61]will be spoken only once. 

[00:24.37]After you hear a question, 

[00:26.09]you must choose the best answer 

[00:27.72]from the four choices 

[00:29.19]marked A), B), C) and D). 

[00:32.98]Then mark the corresponding letter 

[00:34.97]on Answer Sheet 1 

[00:36.75]with a single line through the centre.

[00:39.81]News Report One

[00:41.76]New York State plans 

[00:43.22]to shut off the thundering waters 

[00:45.29]of Niagara Falls—gain. 

[00:47.79]At least, 

[00:48.90]the American side of the falls. 

[00:51.33]This "once in a lifetime" event 

[00:53.97]actually may take place twice 

[00:56.07]in some folks' lives. 

[00:57.80]The New York State parks system 

[00:59.85]wants to turn off the falls 

[01:01.94]on the American side 

[01:03.50]sometime in the next two to three years 

[01:06.98]to replace two 115-year-old stone bridges 

[01:11.97]that allow pedestrians, park vehicles 

[01:14.96]and utilities access to Goat Island.

[01:18.58]The American side of the falls 

[01:20.94]were shut off in 1969 

[01:23.88]to study the buildup of rock 

[01:26.08]at the base of the falls. 

[01:28.45]When that happened, 

[01:29.93]people came from all over the world 

[01:32.50]to see the falls turned off.

[01:35.24]People are curious by nature. 

[01:37.82]They want to see 

[01:38.91]what's underneath.

[01:40.28]In fact, 

[01:41.33]those who first came 

[01:42.82]to have a look 

[01:44.01]did see something. 

[01:45.98]They found millions of coins 

[01:47.80]on the bottom.

[01:49.62]Questions 1 and 2 

[01:51.29]are based on the news report 

[01:52.90]you have just heard.

[01:54.93]1. Why does New York State 

[01:58.04]want to turn off Niagara Falls?

[02:15.57]2. What did people find 

[02:18.40]when Niagara Falls were shut off 

[02:20.35]in 1969?

[02:36.94]News Report Two

[02:38.72]The Tunisian government 

[02:39.96]said Monday 

[02:41.19]that 45 people have been killed 

[02:43.65]after gunmen attacked a town 

[02:45.74]near the border with Libya.

[02:47.92]The Interior and Defense ministries 

[02:50.11]said that the Tunisian government 

[02:52.24]has closed its two border crossings 

[02:54.69]with Libya 

[02:55.52]because of the attack.

[02:57.58]The Tunisian military 

[02:58.94]has sent reinforcements 

[03:00.37]and helicopters to the area, 

[03:02.95]and authorities 

[03:04.05]have been hunting several attackers 

[03:06.11]who were still at large. 

[03:08.21]The violence came 

[03:09.20]amid increasing international concern 

[03:11.79]about Islamic State extremists in Libya. 

[03:15.72]Officials of the Tunisian government 

[03:17.84]are especially worried 

[03:19.29]after dozens of tourists were killed 

[03:21.40]in the attacks in Tunisia last year.

[03:24.34]Defense Minister Farhat Horchani 

[03:26.56]said last week 

[03:27.63]that German and American security experts 

[03:30.59]were expected to come to help Tunisia 

[03:33.10]devise a new 

[03:34.07]electronic video supervision system 

[03:36.70]on its border with Libya.

[03:39.20]Tunisia was targeted last year 

[03:40.91]by three attacks 

[03:42.23]that left 70 people dead 

[03:44.28]and were claimed by Islamic State. 

[03:48.23]Questions 3 and 4 

[03:50.31]are based on the news report 

[03:52.15]you have just heard.

[03:54.76]3. What did the Tunisian government do 

[03:59.05]after the gunmen's attack?

[04:16.22]4. What were German 

[04:18.43]and American security experts 

[04:20.82]expected to do in Tunisia?

[04:38.00]News Report Three

[04:40.47]Three university students 

[04:42.18]in Santiago, Chile, 

[04:43.97]have developed a plant-powered device 

[04:46.85]to charge their mobile phones.

[04:49.40]The three engineering students 

[04:51.39]got the idea for the device 

[04:53.75]while sitting in their school's courtyard. 

[04:56.92]Their invention 

[04:58.13]is a small biological circuit 

[05:00.84]they call E-Kaia. 

[05:02.76]It captures the energy 

[05:04.55]which plants produce 

[05:05.88]during photosynthesis—

[05:07.66]a process of converting sunlight 

[05:10.08]into energy.

[05:11.83]A plant uses only 

[05:13.45]a small part of the energy 

[05:15.74]produced by that process. 

[05:18.03]The rest goes into the soil. 

[05:20.70]E-Kaia collects that energy. 

[05:23.66]The device plugs into the ground 

[05:26.08]and then into a mobile phone.

[05:29.73]The E-Kaia solved two problems 

[05:32.51]for the engineering students. 

[05:34.62]They needed an idea for a class project. 

[05:38.01]They also needed an outlet 

[05:39.84]to plug in their phones.

[05:42.51]One of the student inventors, 

[05:44.41]Camila Rupcich, 

[05:45.83]says the device changes the energy 

[05:48.27]released from the plant 

[05:50.24]into low-level power to charge phones.

[05:54.12]The E-Kaia is able to fully recharge 

[05:57.50]a mobile phone 

[05:58.76]in less than two hours.

[06:01.77]Questions 5 to 7 

[06:03.13]are based on the news report 

[06:04.61]you have just heard.

[06:06.65]5. What did the three university students 

[06:10.42]invent?

[06:26.48]6. When did they get the idea 

[06:29.44]for the invention?

[06:45.64]7. What does the speaker say 

[06:48.94]about the invention?

[07:05.31]Section B

[07:06.66]Directions:

[07:08.14]In this section, 

[07:09.58]you will hear two long conversations. 

[07:13.09]At the end of each conversation, 

[07:15.49]you will hear four questions. 

[07:18.61]Both the conversation and the questions 

[07:21.09]will be spoken only once. 

[07:23.62]After you hear a question, 

[07:25.55]you must choose the best answer 

[07:27.65]from the four choices 

[07:29.47]marked A), B), C) and D). 

[07:33.31]Then mark the corresponding letter 

[07:35.36]on Answer Sheet 1 

[07:37.28]with a single line through the centre.

[07:40.78]Conversation One

[07:42.45]M: Good morning. 

[07:43.22]What can I do for you?

[07:44.45]W: Good morning. 

[07:45.55]Could I talk to 

[07:46.54]Jeffry Harding please? 

[07:48.08]M: Speaking.

[07:48.93]W: Hello, Jeff. 

[07:49.75]It's Helen.

[07:50.80]I got your message 

[07:51.99]on the answering machine. 

[07:53.30]What's the problem?

[07:54.36]M: Oh, Helen. 

[07:55.75]Well, 

[07:56.37]it's the Grimsby plant again, 

[07:57.80]I'm afraid. 

[07:58.90]The robots on Line 3 have gone wrong. 

[08:01.19]And the line is at a standstill.

[08:03.13]W: Can't you replace them 

[08:04.37]with the stand-ins?

[08:05.45]M: I'm afraid not. 

[08:06.47]The stand-ins are already in use 

[08:08.29]on Line 6. 

[08:09.59]And the ones from Line 6 

[08:10.71]are being serviced.

[08:12.13]W: When did this happen, Jeff?

[08:13.87]M: Well, 

[08:14.50]they've been making 

[08:15.27]a low continuous sound 

[08:16.46]for a day or two. 

[08:17.78]But they finally went dead 

[08:18.95]at 2:30 this afternoon.

[08:20.80]W: I see. 

[08:21.91]What did you do? 

[08:23.38]Have you tried the whole plant?

[08:25.15]M: Not yet, Helen. 

[08:26.31]I thought I'd better get your OK first.

[08:28.81]W: OK. 

[08:29.94]Get on the phone to Tom, 

[08:31.83]and try to get their stand-ins 

[08:33.50]over tonight. 

[08:34.89]We have to be back 

[08:35.84]at full capacity tomorrow morning. 

[08:38.44]Is it a major job 

[08:39.61]to repair our robots?

[08:41.42]M: About a week. 

[08:42.44]That's what the maintenance engineer says. 

[08:44.64]W: Right. 

[08:45.40]Well, 

[08:46.16]if you can get the ones from Tom, 

[08:48.06]please ask Tom 

[08:49.25]to inform Sheffield 

[08:50.37]that he may need their stand-ins 

[08:52.46]in case of emergency 

[08:54.28]during the next week.

[08:55.80]M: OK. 

[08:56.61]Thank you very much, Helen.

[08:57.91]W: You are most welcome.

[08:59.14]M: Sorry to spoil your day off.

[09:00.83]W: It doesn't matter.

[09:03.06]Questions 8 to 11 

[09:04.28]are based on the conversation 

[09:05.70]you have just heard.

[09:07.78]8. What did the man do 

[09:10.44]before the telephone conversation?

[09:27.76]9. What does the man say 

[09:30.41]about line 3 in the Grimsby plant?

[09:48.08]10. What is the man's purpose 

[09:51.06]in calling the woman?

[10:07.53]11. Where is the woman 

[10:10.15]at the time of the conversation?

[10:27.07]Conversation Two

[10:28.74]W: This is Kerry Burke 

[10:30.26]from New York Daily News. 

[10:32.58]I'm speaking to Delroy Simmonds, 

[10:35.05]an unemployed Brooklyn man 

[10:36.97]who missed a job interview Tuesday

[10:39.47]for the best of reasons: 

[10:41.60]He was saving the life 

[10:42.80]of a 9-month-old boy 

[10:45.07]who was blown into the path 

[10:46.91]of an oncoming subway train 

[10:49.00]by a high wind.

[10:50.92]M: Everybody is making me out 

[10:52.07]to be some sort of superhero. 

[10:54.29]I'm just an ordinary person, 

[10:56.19]and a father of two. 

[10:57.89]Anybody in that situation 

[10:59.25]would have done what I did.

[11:01.40]W: You were going to an interview 

[11:03.10]when the incident occurred, right?

[11:05.00]M: Yes, 

[11:05.79]I was on my way 

[11:06.53]to apply for a maintenance position. 

[11:09.06]I've been looking for a job 

[11:10.14]for a year and more. 

[11:12.13]I'm looking for something 

[11:12.95]to support my family.

[11:14.56]W: Tell us what happened 

[11:16.05]at the station.

[11:17.22]M: There was a strong wind. 

[11:18.77]It had to be 30 to 40 miles an hour. 

[11:21.64]There was a woman with four kids. 

[11:23.64]One was in a pushchair. 

[11:25.45]The wind blew the baby onto the tracks.

[11:28.37]W: Witnesses said 

[11:29.64]people were looking on in horror 

[11:32.13]as the child's mother, 

[11:33.44]identified by sources as Maria Zamara, 

[11:36.51]stood frozen in shock. 

[11:38.93]In the distance, 

[11:40.03]people could see 

[11:40.83]the train rounding a bend, 

[11:42.63]headed into the station. 

[11:44.55]I guess you were not aware 

[11:45.99]of any of these, right?

[11:47.87]M: No. 

[11:48.76]I just jumped down 

[11:49.68]and grabbed the baby. 

[11:51.09]The train was coming around the corner 

[11:52.64]as I lifted the baby from the tracks. 

[11:54.89]I really wasn't thinking.

[11:56.26]W: What an amazing story. 

[11:58.37]Thank you very much.

[12:00.39]Questions 12 to 15 

[12:01.83]are based on the conversation 

[12:03.29]you have just heard.

[12:05.30]12. What did Kerry Burke 

[12:08.36]from New York Daily News 

[12:10.02]say about the man?

[12:26.91]13. What do we learn about the man 

[12:29.91]from the conversation?

[12:47.03]14. What caused the incident?

[13:06.34]15. How did the mother react 

[13:09.14]when the incident occurred?

[13:26.75]Section C

[13:28.22]Directions:

[13:29.71]In this section, 

[13:31.01]you will hear three passages. 

[13:33.49]At the end of each passage, 

[13:35.25]you will hear three or four questions. 

[13:38.75]Both the passage and the questions 

[13:41.36]will be spoken only once. 

[13:43.93]After you hear a question, 

[13:45.81]you must choose the best answer 

[13:48.13]from the four choices 

[13:49.55]marked A), B), C) and D). 

[13:53.80]Then mark the corresponding letter 

[13:55.81]on Answer Sheet 1 

[13:57.80]with a single line through the centre.

[14:01.01]Passage One

[14:02.72]There's one sound 

[14:03.72]that gets a big reaction from kids 

[14:05.83]on a hot day, 

[14:07.40]the sound of an ice-cream truck.

[14:10.05]Maria McCartney 

[14:11.30]has been in the mobile ice-cream business 

[14:13.75]since 2005.

[14:16.11]"When I was a little girl, 

[14:17.60]I saw an ice-cream truck 

[14:19.03]and knew I wanted to have one someday,"

[14:21.39]McCartney said.

[14:23.31]During the hot days of summer, 

[14:25.23]Maria and her daughter 

[14:26.82]drive an ice-cream truck 

[14:28.09]through neighborhoods and parks 

[14:30.01]in Billings.

[14:31.78]It's not about making money 

[14:33.27]for this former elementary school teacher. 

[14:35.94]Rather, 

[14:36.84]she wants to preserve the tradition 

[14:38.54]of the neighborhood ice-cream truck.

[14:41.21]"Truly my favorite part 

[14:42.74]is to see the kids 

[14:43.75]jumping up and down 

[14:45.18]and they just get so excited. 

[14:47.92]It's great 

[14:48.45]to build a memory for them too. 

[14:50.60]There's not 

[14:50.97]a lot of these ice-cream trucks 

[14:52.63]around anymore. 

[14:54.12]The parents come out 

[14:55.15]barefoot and screaming, 

[14:56.75]ready to buy ice-cream; 

[14:58.57]they remember when they were kids 

[15:00.07]and they saw a truck,"

[15:01.45]she said.

[15:03.09]While the treats may be ice cold, 

[15:05.51]Maria has a warm heart for little faces. 

[15:08.81]Her truck features a donation bucket 

[15:10.84]for kids who don't have money 

[15:12.44]for ice-cream.

[15:14.47]"When there are three kids 

[15:15.88]and only two of them have money, 

[15:18.12]I always make sure 

[15:19.14]the third one gets something 

[15:20.95]because I can't drive away 

[15:22.50]and have that third one 

[15:23.55]not have something,"

[15:24.82]she said.

[15:26.70]Questions 16 to 18 

[15:29.29]are based on the passage 

[15:30.86]you have just heard.

[15:32.99]16. What does the speaker say 

[15:36.51]about Maria McCartney?

[15:53.53]17. Why does Maria 

[15:56.43]go into the mobile ice-cream business?

[16:14.73]18. Why does Maria 

[16:17.11]put a donation bucket 

[16:18.85]in her truck?

[16:34.97]Passage Two

[16:37.13]We know we have to pay 

[16:38.65]for what we get. 

[16:40.00]If we buy food, 

[16:41.35]we have to pay for it. 

[16:43.00]If a doctor treats us, 

[16:44.56]we know 

[16:45.20]there will be a bill to pay. 

[16:47.55]These are private bills. 

[16:49.35]But there are also public bills 

[16:51.43]to be paid. 

[16:52.79]They are paid by the government. 

[16:54.69]In turn 

[16:55.28]we get the needed services. 

[16:57.26]We pay for these services 

[16:58.68]through taxes.

[17:00.59]What would happen 

[17:01.35]if everyone stopped paying taxes? 

[17:04.56]The water supply would stop; 

[17:06.80]the streets might not be cleaned; 

[17:09.23]schools would be closed. 

[17:11.49]We would not want to live 

[17:12.82]in such a city.   

[17:14.84]The chief duty of every government 

[17:17.13]is to protect persons and property. 

[17:20.03]More than three-fourths 

[17:21.16]of government expenses 

[17:23.18]are used for this purpose. 

[17:25.64]The next largest amount of public money 

[17:28.15]goes to teach and train our citizens. 

[17:31.33]Billions of dollars each year 

[17:33.48]are spent on schools and libraries. 

[17:36.32]Also, a large amount of public funds 

[17:38.69]is spent on roads.

[17:41.08]Most of the needed funds 

[17:42.48]is raised by taxes. 

[17:44.70]The law orders us to pay taxes. 

[17:47.35]We have no choice in the matter. 

[17:50.08]Years ago 

[17:51.12]the government made money 

[17:52.57]by selling public lands. 

[17:54.82]But most of the best public lands 

[17:56.93]have now been sold. 

[17:58.79]There are still some public lands 

[18:00.46]that contain oil, coal 

[18:02.86]and other natural resources. 

[18:05.16]They could be sold, 

[18:06.68]but we want to save them 

[18:08.00]for future years. 

[18:09.90]So, we all must pay our share

[18:12.07]for the services 

[18:12.94]that make our lives comfortable.

[18:15.60]Questions 19 to 21 

[18:17.56]are based on the passage 

[18:18.82]you have just heard.

[18:20.88]19. What does the speaker 

[18:23.68]mainly talk about?

[18:40.49]20. What is most of the government money 

[18:43.99]used for?

[19:00.58]21. How did the government raise money 

[19:03.81]to pay public bills in the past?

[19:21.39]Passage Three

[19:23.44]Did you know that, 

[19:24.43]besides larger places 

[19:25.76]like France and Germany, 

[19:27.39]Europe is home 

[19:28.05]to several extremely tiny countries? 

[19:30.46]One of these countries contains less 

[19:32.30]than a square mile of land. 

[19:34.43]Another is surrounded on all sides 

[19:36.43]by Italy. 

[19:37.97]Yet each is an independent land, 

[19:40.50]with its own government, trade, and customs.

[19:43.94]One of the best known 

[19:44.98]of these small countries 

[19:46.24]is Monaco. 

[19:47.70]It is situated on the Mediterranean Sea 

[19:50.41]and surrounded by France 

[19:51.76]on three sides. 

[19:53.86]Monaco became familiar to Americans 

[19:56.38]when its ruler, Prince Rainier, 

[19:58.57]married the American actress Grace Kelly. 

[20:01.71]Rainier's family 

[20:02.84]has ruled Monaco 

[20:04.28]almost continuously since 1297. 

[20:08.49]The land has been independent 

[20:10.15]for over three hundred years. 

[20:12.88]Andorra, 

[20:13.75]with an area of some 200 square miles, 

[20:16.66]is considerably larger than Monaco. 

[20:19.66]This country is located 

[20:21.05]in the Pyrenees Mountains, 

[20:23.09]with France on one side 

[20:24.89]and Spain on the other. 

[20:27.44]Potatoes and tobacco are grown 

[20:29.83]in Andorra's steep mountain valleys. 

[20:32.91]One of the products it exports 

[20:34.48]is clothing. 

[20:35.53]Andorra is also known 

[20:36.88]for its excellent skiing locations.

[20:40.35]Within the Alps in Central Europe 

[20:42.32]is Liechtenstein, 

[20:43.81]a tiny country of about 30,000 people 

[20:46.68]who speak mostly German. 

[20:49.14]Liechtenstein uses the same money 

[20:51.19]as its neighbor Switzerland, 

[20:53.03]but it has been an independent country 

[20:55.39]since the 1860s. 

[20:57.75]Taxes are low, 

[20:59.11]so many businesses 

[21:00.21]have their headquarters here. 

[21:02.35]The country makes and exports 

[21:04.17]a lot of machinery.

[21:06.51]Other small, independent states in Europe 

[21:09.20]are San Marino and Luxembourg. 

[21:11.90]Each of these has unique qualities as well.

[21:16.03]Questions 22 to 25 

[21:18.68]are based on the passage 

[21:20.21]you have just heard.

[21:22.53]22. What does the speaker say 

[21:26.15]about Monaco?

[21:42.97]23. Why did Monaco 

[21:45.91]become familiar to Americans 

[21:48.31]according to the speaker?

[22:04.94]24. What is one of the products 

[22:08.77]Andorra exports?

[22:25.51]25. What does the speaker 

[22:28.46]mainly talk about?

[22:44.94]This is end 

[22:45.84]of listening comprehension.

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