20xx年至20xx年英语四级考试听力原文

20xx年至20xx年英语四级考试听力原文内容摘要：

r head brokers, in another words, you will be handling about a third of our clients. M: And who would I report to? W: Directly to me. M: I see. What kind of benefits package do you offer? W: Two weeks of paid vacation in your first year employment, you are also been entitled to medical and dental insurance, but this is something you should discuss with our Personnel Department. Do you have any other questions? M: No, not at the moment. W: Well, I have to discuss your application with my colleagues and we’ll get back to you early next week. M: OK, thanks, it’s been nice meeting you! W: Nice meeting you too! And thanks for ing in today. Questions 19 to 21 are based on the conversation you have just heard. 19. What’s the purpose of Mr. Thunder’s visit? 20. What is Mr. Thunder’s current job? 21. What can we conclude from the conversation? Conversation 2: M: Hey, Carren, you are not really reading it, are you? W: Pardon? M: The book! You haven’t turned the page in the last ten minutes. W: No, Jim, I suppose I haven’t. I need to get through although, but I keep drifting away. M: So it doesn’t really hold your interest? W: No, not really. I wouldn’t bother with it, to be honest, but I have to read it for a seminar. I’m at a university. M: It’s a labor of labor then rather than a labor of love. W: I should say, I don’t like Dickens at all really, the author, indeed, I am starting to like the whole course less and less. M: It’s not just the book, it’s the course as well? W: Yeah, in a way, although the course itself isn’t really that bad, a lot of it is pretty good, in fact, and the lecturers are fine. It’s me, I suppose. You see, I want to do philosophy rather than English, but my parents took me out of it. M: So the courses are OK as such. It’s just that hadn’t been left to you. You would choose a different one. W: Oh, they had my best interest, it’s hard, of course, my parents. They always do, don’t they? They believe that my job prospect would be pretty limited with the degree of philosophy. Perhaps they give me really a generous allowance, but I am beginning to feel that I’m wasting my time and their money. They would be so disappointed though if I told them I was quitting. Questions 22 to 25 are based on the conversation you have just heard. 22. Why can’t Carren concentrate on the book? 23. Why is Carren starting to like the course less and less? 24. Who think Philosophy graduates have limited job opportunities? 25. What is Carren thinking of doing? Section B Passage One In Greece, only rich people will rest in peace for ever when they die. Most of the population, however, will be undisturbed for only three years, then they will be dug up, washed, pressed into a small tin box, and placed in a bone room. If the body has only partially decayed, it is reburied in a smaller cheaper grave, but not for long, the body will be dug up again some time later when it has fully decayed. Buying a piece of land for a grave is the only way to avoid this process. The cost of the grave is so great that most people choose to rent a grave for three years and even after being dug up, lasting peace is still not guaranteed. If no one pays for renting space in the bone room, the skeleton is removed and stored in a building in a poor part of the town. Lack of space in Amphons is the main reason why the dead are dug up after three years. The city is so overcrowded that sometimes dead bodies are kept in the hospitals for over a week until a grave is found. Amphons city council wants to introduce cremation that is burning the dead bodies as a means of dealing with the problem. But the Greek Church resists this practice, they believe the only place where people burn is a hell, so burning dead bodies is against the Greek concept of life after death. To save space, the church suggested burying the bodies standing up instead of lying down. Some people proposed building multistorey underground grave yards. Questions 26 to 29 are based on the passage you have just heard. 26. What must Greeks do to keep the dead resting in everlasting peace? 27. Why are most dead bodies in Amphons dug up after three years? 28. What suggestions does the church give about the burying of the dead bodies? 29. What practice does the Greek church object to? Passage Two If you visit a big city anywhere in the world, you will probably find a restaurant would serve the food of your own native country. Most large cities in the United States offer international sample of foods. Many people enjoy eating the food of other nations. This is probably one reason why there are so many different kinds of restaurants in the United States. A second reason is that many Americans e from other parts of the world. They enjoy tasting the foods of their native lands. In the city of Detroit, for example, there are many people from western Europe, Greece, Latin America, and the Far East. There are many restaurants in Detroit which serve the foods of these areas. There are many other international restaurants too. Americans enjoy the foods in these restaurants as well as the opportunity to better understand the people and their way of life. One of the most mon international restaurants to be found in the United States is the Italian restaurant. The restaurant may be a small business run by a single family. The mother of the family cooks all of the dishes, and the father and children serve the people who e to eat there. Or it may be a large restaurant owned by several different people who worked together in the business. Many Italian dishes that Americans enjoy are made with meats, tomatoes and cheese. They are very delicious and tasty. Questions 30 to 32 are based on the passage you have just heard. 30. Why are there so many international restaurants in the United States。