最新版英语听力教程 Model Test9-part b
时间：2018-12-27 作者：英语课 分类：最新版英语听力教程
[00:04.18]For Questions 6-10,you'll hear a monologue 1 about George Washington
[00:10.24]While you listen,
[00:13.09]complete the sentences or answer the questions.
[00:17.66]Use not more than 3 words for each answer.
[00:22.62]You now have 25 seconds to read the sentences and the questions below.
[00:29.70]W:George Washington was a big man.He stood six feet,
[00:37.51]two inches tall and was broad of shoulder,
[00:41.77]long of limb,erect and muscular at 200 pounds.
[00:47.83]His strength was extraordinary and his walk was majestic 2.
[00:54.07]By common consent he was one of the best horsemen of the continent.
[01:00.26]And he was big in character.
[01:04.39]Thomas Jefferson described him as a man who was not an intellectual,
[01:10.56]but whose judgment 3 was sound and sure.
[01:15.23]"Perhaps the strongest feature of his character,"Jefferson said,
[01:20.88]"was prudence 4.
[01:23.93]He never acted until every circumstance and every consideration was maturely weighed
[01:31.01]His integrity was pure and his justice,
[01:36.68]the most inflexible 5 I have ever known.
[01:41.43]He was,in every sense of the words,a wise,good,and great man.
[01:47.89]On the whole,his character was perfect,
[01:52.85]and it may truly be said that never did nature and fortune
[01:58.60]combine more perfectly 6 to make a man great."
[02:03.92]But he was not without human weaknesses.
[02:08.89]He tended to be overly acquisitive and sometimes contentious 7.
[02:15.44]He had an enormous pride and was likely to regard any scrutiny 8 of his acts
[02:22.71]as a reflection upon his character.
[02:27.07]His thunderous temper flared 9 infrequently,but memorably 10.
[02:33.44]There appeared in him,
[02:36.60]thought Gilbert Stuart the painter,
[02:40.68]"the strongest and most ungovernable of passions."
[02:47.05]While he considered the expensive manner
[02:51.60]in which he lived to be contrary to his wishes but really unavoidable,
[02:57.66]he freely admitted his liking 11 for the pleasures of good living.
[03:03.41]Most often he was amiable 12 but reserved with all except his closest associates.
[03:11.58]He adhered to the maxim 13 he voiced to a nephew:
[03:16.44]"Be courteous 14 to all,
[03:19.99]but intimate with few
[03:23.55]and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence.
[03:30.21]True friendship is a plant of slow growth.
- The comedian gave a long monologue of jokes.喜剧演员讲了一长段由笑话组成的独白。
- He went into a long monologue.他一个人滔滔不绝地讲话。
- In the distance rose the majestic Alps.远处耸立着雄伟的阿尔卑斯山。
- He looks majestic in uniform.他穿上军装显得很威风。
- The chairman flatters himself on his judgment of people.主席自认为他审视人比别人高明。
- He's a man of excellent judgment.他眼力过人。
- A lack of prudence may lead to financial problems.不够谨慎可能会导致财政上出现问题。
- The happy impute all their success to prudence or merit.幸运者都把他们的成功归因于谨慎或功德。
- Charles was a man of settled habits and inflexible routine.查尔斯是一个恪守习惯、生活规律不容打乱的人。
- The new plastic is completely inflexible.这种新塑料是完全不可弯曲的。
- The witnesses were each perfectly certain of what they said.证人们个个对自己所说的话十分肯定。
- Everything that we're doing is all perfectly above board.我们做的每件事情都是光明正大的。
- She was really not of the contentious fighting sort.她委实不是好吵好闹的人。
- Since then they have tended to steer clear of contentious issues.从那时起，他们总想方设法避开有争议的问题。
- His work looks all right,but it will not bear scrutiny.他的工作似乎很好，但是经不起仔细检查。
- Few wives in their forties can weather such a scrutiny.很少年过四十的妻子经得起这么仔细的观察。
- The book includes some memorably seedy characters and scabrous description. 这本书包含了一些难忘下流的角色及有伤风化的描述。 来自互联网
- Horowitz could play Chopin memorably. 霍洛维茨可以把肖邦的作品演奏得出神入化。 来自互联网
- The word palate also means taste or liking.Palate这个词也有“口味”或“嗜好”的意思。
- I must admit I have no liking for exaggeration.我必须承认我不喜欢夸大其词。
- She was a very kind and amiable old woman.她是个善良和气的老太太。
- We have a very amiable companionship.我们之间存在一种友好的关系。