英专四级听写50篇原文(绝对完整)

CONTENTS

Passage 1 Town and Country life in England Passage 2 A Change in Women's Life

Passage 3 A Popular Pastime of the English People Passage 4 British and American Police Officers Passage 5 living Space

Passage 6 The United Nations

Passage 7 Plastic

Passage 8 Display of Goods

Passage 9 Albert Einstein

Passage 10 Private Cars

Passage 11 A Henpecked Husband and His Wife Passage 12 A Young Man's Promise

Passage 13 A Kind Neighbor

Passage 14 That Isn't Our Fault

Passage 15 A Guide's Answer

Passage 16 A Qualified Pilot

Passage 17 Living Tilings React

Pdssage 18 Flowering Plants

Passage 19 Finding the Direction and Location Passage 20 Waves

Passage 21 Soils

Passage22 Crisis

Passage 23 America's Worst Surprise

Passage 24 Great Depression in the U.S. Passage 25 A Place of Our Own

Passage 26 Travel for Work

Passage 27 Intelligence

Passage 28 A Free Dress Every Week

Passage 29 Time

Passage 30 Cartoonists

Passage 31 Water PoUution

Passage 32 Making a Complaint

Passage 33 Where Do the British Live

Passage 34 Will Computers Replace Human Beings Passage 35 Soccer

Passage 36 Artists

Passage 37 Professional Sports in the U.S. Passage38 "Howto" Books

Passage 39 Don'tGive Up

Passage 40 How High Can You Jump

Passage 41 Apology Helps

Passage 42 Sleep

Passage 43 Our Concern

Passage 44 Gardening in America

Passage 45 The Influence of Life

Passage 46 Automobiles

Passage 47 House and Home

Passage 48 Population Growth

Passage49 Natural Resources

Passage50 Reading

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附录4：听写备考的技巧

听写

Listen to the following passages. Each passage will be read to you four times. During the first reading, which will be read at normal speed ，listen and try to understand the meaning. For the second and third readings, the passage will be read sentence by sentence, or phrase by phrase, with intervals of 12 seconds. The last reading will be read at normal speed again and during this time you should check your work. You will then be given 2 minutes to check through your work once more.

Passage 1

Town and Country Life in England

There is a big difference between town life and country life in England. In the country, everybody knows everybody else. They know what time you get up, what time you go to bed and what you have for dinner. If you want help, you will always get it and you will be glad to help others.

In a large town like London, however, it can sometimes happen that you have never seen your

next door neighbor and you do not know his name or anything about him. People in London are often very lonely. This is because people go to different places in the evenings and at weekends. If you walk through the streets in the centre of London on Sunday, it is like a town without people. One is sorry for old people living on their own .They could die in their homes and would not be discovered for weeks or even months. (154 words)

Useful Words and Expressions:

next door n. n．隔壁

the neighbors next他door隔壁邻居

lonely adj ．孤独的，寂寞的，偏僻的，人迹罕至的

lonely life孤单的生活

a lonely old man一位孤独的老人

a lonely sand一个孤岛

the loneliest night最孤独的夜晚

on (one's) own独自；独立地；通过自己的努力

She lives on her own．她一个人过。

She go the job on her own．她自己找到了这份工作。

He Is now out of colleg6 and on his own．他现在离开了大学并且自己生活。

Passage 2

A Change in Women's Life

The important change in women's life-pattern has only recently begun to have its full effect on women's economic position. Even a few years ago most girls left school at the first opportunity, and most of them took a full-time job. However, when they married, they usually left work at once and never returned to it. Today the school-leaving age is sixteen, many girls stay at school after that age, and though women tend to marry younger, more married women stay at work at least until shortly before their first child is born. Very many more afterwards return to full-time or part-time work. Such changes have led to a new relationship in marriage, with the husband accepting a greater share of the duties and satisfactions of family life and with both husband and

wife sharing more equally in providing the money, and running the home, according to the abilities and interests of each of them. (154 words)

Useful Words and Expressions:

life-pattern 生活方式

effect [i'fekt] n. 结果，效果，作用，影响

The old system is still in effect. 旧制度仍然有效。

He is, in effect, my rival. 实际上他是我的竞争对手。

The medicine quickly took effect. 药物很快见效了。

share vt. 分享；共享，参与n. 一份，部分，份额

share responsibility 共同负责

share a room with sb. 与某人共居一室

share the joys and hardships 同甘共苦

We shared the sweets. 我们分吃了糖果。

one's share of the cake分享的一份好处，应得的一份

Passage 3

A Popular Pastime of the English People

One of the best means of understanding the people of any nation is watching what they do with their non-working time.

Most English men, women and children love growing things, especially flowers. Visitors to England in spring, summer, or autumn are likely to see gardens all the way along the railway lines. There are flowers at the airports and flowers in factory grounds, as well as in gardens along the roads. Each English town has at least one park with beautifully kept flower beds. Public buildings of every kind have brilliant window boxes and sometimes baskets of flowers are hanging on them.

But what the English enjoy most is growing things themselves, If it is impossible to have a garden, then a window box or something growing in a pot will do.

Looking at each other's gardens is a popular pastime with the English. (144 words)

Useful Words and Expressions:

③means n．（用作sing．）方法；方式；手段

a means to an end达到目的的方法

by all means务必；无论如何；千方百计地

by any means ［口］用一切可能的方法或手段

by fair means or foul不择手段地

by means of 通过；用；借助于

by no means决不，一点也不

by some means or (other）想个办法；以某种方法

leave no means untried想尽一切办法

not by any means一点也不，绝对不

The end justifies the means．［谚］只要目的正当，可以不择手段。

pot n．罐，壶

windbox n．窗台上的花盆箱，窗槛花箱

pastime n．消遣，娱乐

Swimming Is my favorite pastime．游泳是我最喜欢的一种娱乐。

Passage 4

British and American Police Officers

Real policemen, both in Britain and the U. S., hardly recognize any common points between their lives and what they see on TV---if they ever get home in time.

Some things are almost the same, of course, but the policemen do not think much of them.

The first difference is that a policeman's real life deals with the law. Most of what he learns is the law. He has to know actually what actions are against the law and what facts can be used to prove them in court. He has to know nearly as much law as a lawyer, and what's more, he has to put it into practice on his feet, in the dark and, running down a narrow street after someone he wants to talk to.

Little of his time is spent in talking with beautiful girls or in bravely facing cruel criminals. He will spend most of his working life arranging millions of words on thousands of forms about hundreds of sad, ordinary people who are guilty-or not of stupid, unimportant crimes. (177 words)

Useful Words and Expressions:

think much of 重视，尊重

in court 在法庭上

criminal n．罪犯，犯罪者

guilty adj．犯罪的，有罪的

gulty look内疚的神色

the guilty party犯罪一方

a guilty conscience犯罪感

have a guilty conscience问心有愧；做贼心虚

be found gulty被判决有罪

be guilty of a crime犯了罪

Passage 5

Living Space

How much living space does a person need? What happens when his space needs are not met? Scientists are doing experiments on rats to try to determine the effects of overcrowded conditions on man. Recent studies have shown that the behaviour of rats is greatly affected by space. If rats have enough living space, they eat well, sleep well and produce their young well. But if their living conditions become too crowded, their behaviour and even their health change

obviously. They can not sleep and eat well, and signs of fear and worry become clear. The more crowded they are, the more they tend to bite each other and even kill each other. Thus, for rats, population and violence are directly related. Is this a natural law for human society as well? Is enough space not only satisfactory, but necessary for human survival? These are in teresting questions. (147 words)

Useful Words and Expressions:

determine V．测定；决心；决意

determine the velocity测定速度

He determined to go．他决意要去。

I am determined to do better than Mike.我决心比迈克做得更好。

tend to v. 有某种倾向；有……的趋势

He tends to pitch the ball too high．他往往把球掷得过高。

People under stress tend to express their full range of potential. 处于压力下的人容易发挥自己全部的潜力。

survival n.生存

We need food and water for survival.我们为了生存需要食物和水。

Passage 6

The United Nations

In 1945, representatives of 50 nations met to plan this organization. It was called the United Nations. After the war, many more nations joined.

There are two major parts of the United Nations. One is called the General Assembly, m the General Assembly, every member nation is represented and has an equal vote.

The second part is called the Security Council. It has representatives of just 15 nations. Five nations are permanent members: the United States, Russia, France, Britain, and China, The 10 other members are elected every two years by the General Assembly.

The major job of the Security Council is to keep peace in the world. If necessary, it can send

troops from member nations to try to stop little wars before they turn into big ones.

It is hard to get the nations of the Security Council to agree on when this is necessary. But they did vote to try to stop wars. (156 words)

Useful Words and Expressions:

Representative n．代表

General Assembly联合国大会

permanent adj．永久的，持久的

permanent address固定地址

permanent tooth成人齿

a permanent Jo

b 固定职业

a permanent commitee常设委员会

Security Council n.联合国安全理事会

troop n．军队

Passage 7

Plastic

We use plastic wrap to protect our foods. We put our garbage in plastic bags or plastic cans. We sit on plastic chairs, play with plastic toys, drink from plastic cups, and wash our hair with shampoo from plastic bottles!

Plastic does not grow in nature. It is made by mixing certain things together. We call it a produced or manufactured material. Plastic was first made in the 1860s from plants, such as wood and cotton. That plastic was soft and burned easily.

The first modern plastics were made in the 1930s. Most clear plastic starts out as thick, black oil. That plastic coating inside a pan begins as natural gas.

Over the years, hundreds of different plastics have been developed. Some are hard and strong. Some are soft and bendable. Some are clear. Some are many-colored. There is a plastic for almost

every need. Scientists continue to experiment with plastics. They hope to find even ways to use them! (160 words)

Useful Words and Expressions:

Shampoo n．洗发精，洗发香波，洗发

manufacture vt．制造，加工

manufacture an excuse胡乱编个理由

half manufactured半成品（的）

a thing of home [foreign] manufacture本国[外国]制品

Plastic is an important manufacture.塑料是种重要产品。

bendable可弯曲的

experiment with用……做实验

Passage 8

Display of Goods

Are supermarkets designed to persuade us to buy more?

Fresh fruit and vegetables are displayed near supermarket entrances. This gives the impression that only healthy food is sold in the shop. Basic foods that everyone buys, like sugar and tea, are not put near each other. They are kept in different aisles so customers are taken past other attractive foods before they find what they want. In this way, shoppers are encouraged to buy products that they do not really need.

Sweets are often placed at children's eye level at the checkout. While parents are waiting to pay, children reach for the sweets and put them in the trolley.

More is bought from a fifteen-foot display of one type of product than from a ten-foot one. Customers also buy more when shelves are full than when they are half empty. They do not like to buy from shelves with few products on them because they feel there is something wrong with those products that are there. (166 words)

Useful Words and Expressions:

aisle n．走廊，过道

roll them in the aisle ［口」使（观众）捧腹大笑

knock them in the aisle 使（观众）捧腹大笑

lay them in the aisle 使（观众）捧腹大笑

rock them in the aisle 使（观众）捧腹大笑

have them rolling in the aisle 使（观众）捧腹大笑

trolley n．手推车

checkout（超级市场等的）收款台

Passage 9

Albert Einstein

Albert Einstein was born in Germany in 1879. His号father owned a factory that made electrical devices. His mother enjoyed music and books. His parents were Jewish but they did not observe many of the religion's rules. Albert was a quiet child who spent much of his time alone. He was slow to talk and had difficulty learning to read. When Albert was five years old, his father gave him a compass. The child was filled with wonder when he discovered that the compass needle always pointed in the same direction-to the north. He asked his father and his uncle what caused the needle to move. Their answers about magnetism and gravity were difficult for the boy to understand. Yet he spent a lot of time thinking about them. He said later that he felt something hidden had to be behind things. (143 words)

Useful Words and Expressions:

device n．装置，设备

leave to (one's) own devices听任某人自行其是，允许某人按自己的意愿做事

She left the child to her own devices for an hour in the afternoon.她允许孩子在下午有一个小时的自由支配时间。

compass n．指南针

beyond sb.' s compass某人力所不及

cast/fetch/take a compass 兜圈子，绕道，转弯抹角

keep sth. within compass把某种事物限制在适当的范围内

speak within compass s谨慎小心地说

within sb.'s compass某人力所能及的；在某人权力之内的

within the compass of在……的范围内

magnetism n．磁，磁力

Passage 10

Private Cars

With the increase in the general standard of living, some ordinary Chinese families begin to afford a car. Yet opinions of the development of a private car vary from person to person.

It gives a much greater degree of comfort and mobility. The owner of a car is no longer forced to rely on public transport, and hence no irritation caused by waiting for buses or taxis. However, others strongly object to developing private cars. They maintain that as more and more cars are produced and run in the street, a large volume of poisonous gas will be given off, polluting the atmosphere and causing actual harm to the health of people.

Whether private cars should be developed in China is a difficult question to answer, yet the desire for the comfort and independence a private car can bring will not be eliminated. (143 words)

Useful Words and Expressions:

Mobility n．活动性，机动性

hence ady．因此，从此

seven years hence七年以后

Hence the Play．因而就有了这出戏。

It Is very late；hence you must go to bed．时间已经很晚了，因此你必须睡觉去。

The town was built among the hills, hence the name Hilltown.该城镇修建在群山之中，故取名"山城"。

irritation n．愤怒

volume n．量

elimiimte vt．消除

Passage 10

A Henpecked Husband and His Wife

There was once a large, fat woman who had a small, thin husband. He had a job in a big company and was given his weekly wages every Friday evening. As soon as he got home on Fridays, his wife used to make him give her all his money, and then she used to give him back only enough to buy his lunch in his company every day.

One day, the small man came home very excited. He hurried into the living-room. His wife was listening to the radio and eating chocolates there.

"You will never guess what happened to me today, dear," he said.

He waited for a few seconds and then added, "I won ten thousand dollars on the lottery!"

"That is wonderful!" said his wife delightedly. But then she pulled a long face and added angrily, "But how could you afford to buy the ticket?" (148 words)

Useful Words and Expressions:

henpecked adj．[口]怕老婆的，妻管严的

living-room 客厅，起居室

lottery n．奖券，彩票

a lottery ticket彩票，奖券

a great lottery 虚无缥缈的事

delightedly adj．喜欢地，高兴地

a delighted look高兴的神情

pull a long face拉下脸来

have a smiling face笑脸

have a face to say that脸皮厚得竟能讲出这种话

Passage 12

A Young Man's Promise

One day a young man was writing a letter to his have a face to say that girl friend who lived just a few miles away in a nearby town. He was telling her how much he loved her and how wonderful he thought she was. The more he wrote the more poetic he became. Finally, he said that in order to be with her he would suffer the greatest difficulties, he would face the greatest dangers that anyone could imagine. In fact, to spend only one minute with her, he would swim across the widest river, he would enter the deepest forest, and he would fight against the fiercest animals with his bare hands.

He finished the letter, signed his name, and then suddenly remembered that he had forgotten to mention something quite important. So, in a postscript below his name, he added:

"By the way, I'll be over to see you on Wednesday night, if it doesn't rain." (154 words)

Useful Words and Expressions:

Suffer vt．遭受，经历，忍受

suffer from a headache经受头痛之苦

suffer death丧生

suffer heavy casualties伤亡惨重

suffer from ill health身体不好

fierce．凶猛的，猛烈的

a fierce wolf一头凶猛的恶狼

the fierce glare on his face他那种凶狠的目光

poetic诗情画意的，浪漫的

poetic diction诗般的词句

a poelc romance诗一般浪漫的经历

poetic insight诗人般的洞察力

postscript n．附言，后记

Passage 13

A Kind Neighbor

Mr. and Mrs. Jones' apartment was full of luggage, packages, furniture and boxes. Both of them were very busy when they heard the doorbell ring. Mrs. Jones went to open it and she saw a middle-aged lady outside. The lady said she lived next door. Mrs. Jones invited her to come in and apologized because there was no place for her to sit. "Oh, that's OK," said the lady. "I just come to welcome you to your new home. As you know, in some parts of this city neighbors are not friendly at all. There are some apartment houses where people don't know any of their neighbors, not even the ones next door. But in this building everyone is very friendly with everyone else. We are like one big happy family. I'm sure you'll be very happy here." Mr. and Mrs. Jones said, "But madam, we are not new dwellers in this apartment. We've lived here for two years. We're moving out tomorrow."(163 words)

Useful Words and Expressions:

luggage n. 行李，皮箱

a piece of luggag 一件行李

check one's luggage寄存行李，打行李票

luggage-rack（火车上的）行李架

excess luggage超重行李

hand luggage手提行李（旅客随身携带）

personal luggage 随身（小件）行李

registered luggage托运的行李

package n．包裹，包［

dweller n．居住者，居民

dwell vi．居留；居住

dwell in the country y住在乡下」

dwell in someone's mind留在某人脑海里

dwelli joy沉浸于欢乐之中

Passage 14

That Isn't Our Fault

Mr. and Mrs. Williams got married when he was twenty-three, and she was twenty. Twenty-five years later, they had a big party, and a photographer came and took some photographs of them.

Then the photographer gave Mrs. Williams a card and said, "They'll be ready next Wednesday. You can get them from studio."

"No,"Mrs.Williams said,"please send them to us. The photographs arrived a week later, but Mrs. Williams was not happy when she saw them. She got into her car and drove to the photographer's studio. She went inside and said angrily, "You took some photographs of me and my husband last week, but I' m not going to pay for them."

"Oh, why not?" the photographer asked.

"Because my husband looks like a monkey," Mrs. Williams said.

"Well," the photographer answered, "that isn't our fault. Why didn't you think of that before you married him?"(148 words)

Useful Words and Expressions:

fault n.过错，缺点，毛病

-Who broke the cup?

-It's my fault, I dropped it.

--谁把杯子摔了？

一这是我的过错，我摔的。

That's no fault of his. 这不是他的过错。

The fault lies with me, not with you. 这是我的责任，不是你的责任。

photographer n．摄影师

photograph n. 照片

take a photograph of 拍摄

studio n．照相室，工作室，画室

art studio 美术工作室

broadcast studio 播出演播室，广播播音室

TV studio电视演播室

film Studio电影制片厂，电视制片演播室

radio studio播音室

Passage 15

A Guide's Answer

In 1861, the Civil War started in the United States between the Northern and the Southern states. The war continued with great bitterness until 1865, when the Northerners were victorious. However, even today, many Southerners have not forgotten their defeat, or forgiven the Northerners.

A few years ago, a party of American tourists were going round one of the battlefields of the Civil War with a guide who came from one of the Southern states. At each place, the guide told the tourists stirring stories about how a few Southern soldiers had conquered powerful forces of Northerners there.

At last, one of the tourists, a lady who came from the North, stopped the guide and said to him, "But surely the Northern army must have won at least one victory in the Civil War?"

"Not as long as I'm the guide here, madam," answered the Southern guide. (147 words) Useful Words and Expressions:

bitterness n．痛苦，悲伤，强烈的

bitter adj．苦味的，辛酸的，怀恨的；强烈的

a bitter taste苦味

a bitter smile苦笑

bitter tears辛酸的眼泪

bitter remarks刻薄的话，恶毒的话

bitter discipline严格的训练

a bitter argument激烈的争论

victorious adj．获胜的，胜利的

the victorious army获胜的队伍

a victorious cheer胜利的欢呼

forgive vt．原谅，饶恕

party］n．一群人

battlefield n．战场，沙场

stirring adj．激动人心的

a stirring person活跃的人

a stirring speech 动人的演说

conquer vi．征服，战胜

the Civil War南北战争

Passage 16

A Qualified Pilot

The captain of a small ship had to go along a rocky coast, but he was unfamiliar with it, so he tried to find a qualified pilot to guide him. He went ashore in one of the small ports, and a local fisherman pretended that he was a pilot because he needed some money. The captain took him on board and asked him where to steer the ship.

After half an hour the captain began to suspect that the fisherman did not really know what he was doing and where he was going.

"Are you sure you are a qualified pilot?" he asked.

"Oh, yes," answered the fisherman. "I know every rock on this part of the coast."

Suddenly there was a terrible crash from under the ship. At once the fisherman added, "And that's one of them." (138 words)

Useful Words and Expressions:

Qualified adj. 有资格的

qualify as a doctor取得医生资格

qualify for the vote有选举权

qualify to do sth．使有资格做某事

pilot n．飞行员，领航员，引水员

captain n．船长，机长，队长

ashore adv．向岸地，在岸上地

rocky adj．多岩石的

on board 到船上，在船上

suspect v．怀疑，对…··有所觉察

suspect sb．of a crime怀疑某人犯罪

I suspected her motives.我怀疑她的动机。

crash n．碰撞，撞击声

Passage 17

Living Things React

You and all organisms live in an environment. An environment is made up of everything that surrounds an organism. It can include the air, the water, the soil, and even other organisms.

An organism responds to changes in its environment. When an organism responds to a change, it reacts in certain ways. All living things respond in someway.

Have you ever noticed how plants and insects respond to light? Plants bend toward light. Insects fly toward light.

Living things also respond in other ways. The leaves on some trees respond to a change in season. In autumn, they change colors and then fall off the branches. Animals also respond to a change in season. Squirrels save nuts for the winter. Bears sleep through the winter in a cave.

You respond to your environment in many ways, too. You may shiver if you are cold. What other ways do you respond to changes in your environment? (156 words)

Useful Words and Expressions:

react vi. 反应，起作用

react against oppression反抗压迫

react on each other相互起作用

Unkindness often reacts on the unkind person.恶人有恶报。

The eye reacts to light.眼睛对光有反应。

The audience reacted readily to his speech.观众对他的讲演立即起了反应。

organism n．生物体，有机体

respond v．作出反应

四级听力50篇原文1--10

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