2000-20xx年大学英语四级考试试题听力原文

2000-20xx年大学英语四级考试试题听力原文内容摘要：

W: Not really. You can just leave a note. I’ll give it to her later. Q: What does the woman mean? B. She can pass on the message for the man. : How’s John now? Is he feeling any better? W: Not yet. It still seems impossible to make him smile. Talking to him is really difficult. And he gets upset easily over little things. Q: What do we learn about John from the conversation? C. He’s got emotional problems. : Do we have to get the opera tickets in advance? W: Certainly! Tickets at the door are usually sold at a higher price. Q: What does the woman imply? A. It’s better to buy the tickets beforehand. : The taxi driver must have been speeding. W: Well, not really! He crashed into the tree because he was trying not to hit a box that had fallen off the truck ahead of him. Q: What do we learn about the taxi driver? B. He turned suddenly and ran into a tree. Conversation One W: Hey, Bob, guess what? I’m going to visit Quebec next summer. I’m invited to go to a friend’s wedding, but while I’m there, I’d also like to do some sightseeing. M: That’s nice, Sherry. But do you mean the province of Quebec or Quebec City? W: I mean the province. My friend’s wedding is in Montreal, so I’m going there first. I’ll stay for 5 days. Is Montreal the capital city of the province? M: Well, many people think so because it’s the biggest city, but it’s not the capital. Quebec City is, but Montreal is great. The Santa Lawrence River runs right through the middle of the city. It’s beautiful in summer. W: Wow, and do you think I can get by in English? My French is okay, but not that good. I know most people there speak French, but can I also use English? M: Well, people speak both French and English there, but you’ll hear French most of the time and all the street signs are in French. In fact, Montreal is the third largest Frenchspeaking city in the world. So you’d better practice your French before you go. W: Good advice, what about Quebec City? I’ll visit a friend from college who lives there now. What’s it like? M: It’s a beautiful city, very old. Many old buildings have been nicely restored. Some of them were built in the 17th and 18th centuries. You’ll love it there. W: Fantastic, I can’t wait to go. 19. What’s the woman’s main purpose of visiting Quebec? A. to attend a wedding in Montreal. 20. What does the man advise the woman to do before the trip? D. Brush up on her French. 21. What does the man say about Quebec City? C. It has many historical buildings. Conversation Two M: Hi, Ms. Rowling. How old were you when you started to write, and what was your first book? W: I wrote my first finished story when I was about 6. It was about a small animal, a rabbit I mean, and I ve been writing ever since. M: Why did you choose to be an author? W: If someone asked me how to achieve happiness, step one would be finding out what you love doing most and step two would be finding someone to pay you to do it. I consider myself very lucky indeed to be able to support myself by writing. M: Do you have any plans to write books for adults? W: My first two novels were for adults. I suppose I might write another one, but I never really imagine a target audience when I m writing. The ideas e first, so it really depends on the idea that grabs me next! M: Where did the ideas for the Harry Potter books e from? W: I ve no idea where ideas e from and I hope I never find out, it would spoil my excitement if it turned out I just have a funny little wrinkle on the surface of my brain which makes me think about invisible train platforms. M: How do you e up with the names of your characters? W: I invented some of the names in the Harry books, but I also collect strange names. I ve gotten them from medieval saints, maps, dictionaries, plants, war memorials, and people I ve met! M: Oh, you are really resourceful. 22. What do we learn from the conversation about Ms. Rowling’s first book? 23. Why does Ms. Rowling consider herself very luck? 24. What dictates Ms. Rowling’s writing? 25. According to Ms. Rowling, where did she get the ideas for the Harry Potter books? 22. A. It was about a little animal. 23. B. She can make a living by doing what she likes. 24. A. Her ideas. 25. D. She doesn’t really know where they originated. Passage one Reducing the amount of sleep students get at night has a direct impact on their performance at school during the day. According to classroom teachers, elementary and middle school students who stay up late exhibit more learning and attention problems. This has been shown by Brown Medical School and Bradly Hospital research. In the study, teachers were not told the amount of sleep students received when pleting weekly performance reports. Yet they rated the students who have received eight hours or less as having the most trouble recalling old material, learning new lessons, and pleting high quality work. Teachers also reported that these students had more difficulty paying attention. The experiment is the first to ask teachers to report on the effects of sleep deficiency in children. ‘Just staying up late can cause increased academic difficulty and attention problems for otherwise healthy while functioning kids’, said G. F., the study’s lead author. So the results provide professionals and parents with a clear message: when a child is having learning and attention problems, the issue of sleep has to be taken into consideration. ‘If we don’t ask about sleep and try to improve sleep patterns in kids’ struggling academically, then we aren’t doing our job’, F said. For parents, he said, the message is simple. Getting kids to bed on time is as important as getting them to school on time. 26. What were teachers。