决胜四级听力必备 unit7

Passage One

[00:01.25]People are not so honest as they once were.

[00:04.68]The temptation 1 to steal is greater than ever before-especially in large shop.

[00:09.77]A detective recently watched a well-dressed woman who always went into a large store on Monday morning.

[00:15.54]One Monday,there were fewer people in the shop than usual when the woman came in.

[00:21.29]so it was easier for the detective to watch her.

[00:24.19]The woman first bought a few small article.

[00:27.40]After a little time.

[00:28.63]she chose one of the most expensive dresses in the shop

[00:31.90]and handed it to an assistant who wrapped it up for her as quickly as possible.

[00:36.99]Then the woman simply took the parcel and walked out of the shop without paying.

[00:41.82]When she was arrested

[00:43.26]the detective found out that the shop-assistant was her daughter.

[00:46.60]The girl "gave" her mother a free dress once a week!

[00:49.79]1. Why was it easier for the detective to watch to woman one Monday?

[00:56.63]2. Who was the shop-assistant?

[01:00.11]3. What's the author's opinion about "honesty"?

[01:04.05]Passage Two

[01:05.54]When you visit London,one of the first things you will see is Big Ben

[01:10.35]the famous clock which can be heard all over the world on the B.B.C..

[01:15.60]If the Houses of Parliament 2 had not been burned down in 1834

[01:21.16]the great clock would never have been erecter.

[01:24.14]Big Ben takes its name from Sir Benjamin Hall who was responsible for the making of the clock

[01:31.43]when the new Houses of Parliament were being build.

[01:34.64]It is not only of immense 3 size

[01:37.20]but of extremely accurate 4 as well

[01:40.10]Officials from Greenwich Observatory 5 have the clock checked twice a day

[01:46.29]On the B.B.C.

[01:47.78]you can hear the clock when it is actually striking 6

[01:51.41]because microphones 7 are connected to the clock tower.

[01:55.33]Big Ben has really gone wrong

[01:58.13]Once,however,it failed to give the correct time.

[02:01.89]A painter who had been working on the tower hung a pot of paint on one of the hands and slowed it down!

[02:09.78]4. What does the author think of Big Ben?

[02:13.59]5. Why can you hear the clock on the B.B.C.?

[02:17.82]6. What is Big Ben?

[02:20.54]Passage Three

[02:22.52]On the occasion 8 of the old lady's eightieth birthday

[02:25.66]she waited eagerly to see what kind of present her daughter

[02:29.47]Myra,would send to he

[02:31.75]Since her first daughter,Enid,had died two years before

[02:36.81]the old lady had endured 9 the loneliness of living by herself.

[02:41.15]It was rare for Myra to visit her mother

[02:44.10]but still the old lady was proud of her .

[02:47.11]She felt sure that her daughter would celebrate her birthday with something special.

[02:51.73]As she waited for the postman

[02:53.95]the old lady trembled with excitement because she was quite sure she would receive a lovely present.

[03:00.09]After all,she thought

[03:01.86]even if Myra paid little attention to her mother at other times.

[03:06.07]today was a very special day.

[03:08.29]However,when the postman came

[03:10.98]the old lady found to her disappointment that

[03:13.83]rather than choosing a special gift.

[03:16.78]Myra had simply sent her a cheque folded in a card.

[03:20.02]7. What's the relationship between Myra and the old lady?

[03:26.32]8. Why was the old lady sure she would receive a lovely present?

[03:31.64]9. What was the old lady's present?

[03:35.69]10. How did the old lady feel when she found her present?

[03:39.92]Passage Four

[03:42.01]In March of 1981, John Hinckle

[03:46.53]Jr.attempted to assassinate 10 United States President Ronald Reagan.

[03:51.18]President Reagan was coming out of a hotel after making a speech

[03:55.62]when suddenly six loud shots ran out.

[03:58.13]One of the bullets 11 entered the president's left lune.

[04:02.00]His security 12 men rushed him to the hospital where doctors operated on him for two hours.

[04:08.66]Reagan recovered rapidly and was back in the White House after a few weeks.

[04:14.96]The gunman was a young man from a well-to-do family.

[04:19.03]After the shooting

[04:20.55]the police searched his motel 13 room and found a letter

[04:24.31]The letter was addressed to Jody Foster 14

[04:27.00]a young movie actress.

[04:29.53]In the letter he explained that he wanted to shoot the President in order to impress Miss Foster and make her pay attention to him.

[04:37.58]The police later discovered that Hinckley had a history of emotional 15 problems.

[04:43.48]11. What had happened to Ronald Reagan in March of 1981?

[04:48.76]12. What was Reagan doing when the thing happened?

[04:53.28]13. Who was Jody Foster?

[04:56.78]Passage Five

[04:58.27]If you had been alive 200 years ago

[05:01.01]and perhaps had stolen only a few loaves of bread

[05:04.43]you would have been sent to prison.

[05:06.18]If you had killed someone

[05:08.48]something far worse would have happened to you.

[05:11.46]You would have been hanged in public.

[05:13.73]Life was hard and often brutal 16

[05:16.26]So was the law.

[05:17.78]Perhaps it had to be.

[05:19.76]If you had lived in a large city like London

[05:23.34]and if you had walked through the streets at night

[05:25.93]someone might have killed you only in order to get your money.

[05:29.56]Prisons have of course gotten much better in the last 200 years.

[05:34.68]But conditions are still far from perfect.

[05:37.55]If you were in a prison in many countries

[05:41.26]you would probably be living in a small cell.

[05:44.27]You would probably be sharing it with at least two other people.

[05:48.50]Many people say

[05:50.25]"Why should criminals have any better condition?

[05:53.44]They shouldn't have broken the law in the first place."

[05:56.81]14. What was life like 200 years ago?

[06:02.19]15. What was the law like 200 years ago?

[06:06.13]16. What does the author think of the conditions of prisons in the last 200 years?

[06:13.58]Passage Six

[06:15.12]If we didn't eat,we couldn't keep our bodies alive.

[06:19.17]We couldn't grow

[06:20.45]we couldn't have energic

[06:21.88]and various parts of our body couldn't function as they must.

[06:25.91]Modern scientists have been able to find out which substances in food our bodies need

[06:26.63]and how much of these substances we need to be healthy.

[06:30.96]In other words,it isn't enough just to eat

[06:34.44]we must take in enough of each type of food substance for a specific purpose.

[06:40.52]Protein food such as milk,eggs,cheese

[06:44.63]meat and fish contain large quantities of the kind of material the body needs to build cell

[06:52.33]The body cann't make new cells without proteic.

[06:55.81]Carbohydrates are foods which have a large quantity of starch 17 or sugar

[07:02.05]such as potatoes,flour,rice,and sugar.

[07:06.33]They are important to the body because they keep it warm and give it energic .

[07:11.66]Almost all foods also have some fat

[07:15.29]and fat is the most concentrated energy-giving food the body needs.

[07:20.94]17. What should we do if we want to keep our bodies alive?

[07:25.64]18. What is necessary for the body to make new cells?

[07:32.51]19. What kind of food does flour belong to?

[07:36.87]20. Why are carbohydrates important to the body