决胜四级听力必备 unit15

Section A

[00:01.28]1. W: Let's have a look at the men.

[00:04.28]What can you recommend 1 - that's fast and good?

[00:07.94]M: That sounds fine. I'll have mine rare 2.

[00:11.02]Q: What are they talking about?

[00:13.90]2. M:I hate them.I'm sure I've got a low IQ.

[00:18.36]W: Oh,cheer up!We didn't do too badly.

[00:21.63]The fellow next to me wrote his name at the top of the paper and looked at it for three hours.

[00:27.09]He didn't write a word.

[00:28.79]Q: What are they talking about?

[00:32.29]3.M: What did you think of your English test?

[00:36.00]W: I was expecting it to be easy.

[00:38.37]But at the end of the first hour.

[00:40.54]I was still on the first page.

[00:43.34]Q: What can we conclude 3 from the above conversation?

[00:48.61]4. M: What's it going to be like this afternoon.

[00:52.14]I'd like to hear about those warm days and cool nights they promised us.

[00:56.61]W: He says it's going to be in the high sixties,cloudy and cool.

[01:01.20]Q: What are they talking about?

[01:05.59]5. M: Listen,I've got an idea.

[01:08.65]Let's go to a drive-in as we used to in the old days.

[01:12.33]W: Why should we freeze in our own comfortable jalopy,

[01:15.47]when we could be lounging 4 in some plush theater?

[01:18.86]Q: What are they talking about?

[01:22.65]6. M: Ranger,thanks for taking the time to give us those tips.

[01:27.51]W: Not at all. Watch out for the bear.

[01:29.94]Don't leave any food around

[01:32.21]or you're liable 5 to have an unwanted visitor.

[01:34.90]Q: What are they talking about?

[01:38.12]7. M: Do you want airmail 6 or regular?

[01:41.72]W: Airmail.They're for overseas,France.

[01:45.01]Q: What are they talking about?

[01:48.51]8. W: Do you want a day course or an eveing course?

[01:48.62]M: Well,it will have to be an evening course since I work during the day.

[01:53.06]Q: What are they talking about?

[01:56.77]9. M: Do you prefer a one-storey 7 or two - storey house?

[02:01.79]W: One-story,I think because there are no stairs to climb.

[02:06.17]Q: What are they talking about?

[02:09.21]10. M: It's mostly blue and green with a pattern of flowers in the middle.

[02:14.80]There's a dark green border.

[02:17.09]W: Yes,it matches the curtains well.

[02:20.52]We are going to put it down in the sitting room.

[02:23.44]Q: What are they talking about?

[02:26.94]Section B     Compound 8 Dictation

[02:30.16]Any mistake made in the (11)-{printing} of a stamp raises its value to stamp (12)-{collectors

[02:35.93]A mistake on a (13)-{twopenny} stamp has made it worth a million and a half times its face value

[02:42.96]Do you think it (14)-{impossible

[02:45.15]Well,it is true,and this is how it (15)-{happened}.

[02:48.60]The mistake was made more than a hundred years ago in the former British (16)-{colony} of Mauritius.

[02:54.42]a small island in the Indian Ocean.

[02:57.45]In 1847,an order for stamps was sent to London.

[03:02.08]Mauritius was about to become the (17)-{fourth} country in the world to put out stamps.

[03:07.59]Before the order was filled and the stamps arrived from England.

[03:11.38]a big dance was planned by the Commander-in-chief of all the armed forces on the island.

[03:17.05](18)-{The dance would be held in his house.

[03:19.29]and letters of invitation would be sent to all the important people in Mauritius.

[03:24.36]Stamps were badly needed to post the letters.

[03:28.04]Therefore,an islander,who was a good printer.

[03:31.49]was told to copy the pattern of the stamps.

[03:34.57](19)-{He carelessly put the words "Post Office" instead of "Post Paid"

[03:39.35]two words seen on stamps at that time

[03:42.33]on the several hundred that he printed}.

[03:45.31]Today,there are only twenty-six of these misprinted stamps left-fourteen One-penny Reds and twelve Two-penny Blue.

[03:55.13]Because there are so few Two-penny Blues 9 and because of their age.

[03:59.76](20)-{collectors have paid as much as $ 16,800 for one of them}.