新东方四级听力特训20套题第十四套

Unit 14

Section A

1. A. Because he wants to meet the woman’s cousin.

B. Because he thought he was not informed.

C. Because the woman does not want him to join her.

D. Because the woman goes to her cousin’s place too often.

2. A. The train has just started off. B. Once it starts raining, it’ll rain a lot.

C. They’re ready to catch the train.

D. It has been raining for some time.

3. A. To her, math is even more difficult than biology.

B. To her, biology is difficult, but math is not.

C. She spends half of her time on biology.

D. She is going to give up biology.

4. A. They are not worth the trouble. B. They are inexpensive.

C. They are too easy.

D. They are very rewarding.

5. A. Today. B. Next week C. Tomorrow. D. In two days’ time.

6. A. Mary will come at 7:00. B. Mary won’t come.

C. Mary will be late.

D. Mary doesn’t want to come.

7. A. Go to a theater. B. Go to a dance.

C. Go to the Student Centre.

D. Go to a lecture.

8. A. He regrets not seeing the movie. B. It is not a good movie.

C. He wants to see the movie again.

D. It is an excellent movie.

Questions 9 to 12 are based on the conversation you have just heard.

9. A. In a professor’s office. B. In a medical doctor’s office.

C. In an auditorium.

D. In a gym.

10.A. Because she had promised that she would.

B. Because she had been sick.

C. Because she needs his approval for her schedule.

D. Because she must verify his plan.

11. A. It wasn’t requirement. B. She already knew the material.

C. She entered the hospital.

D. Her course load was too heavy.

12. A. The woman’s musical background.

B. The woman’s economic background.

C. The woman’s dislike of chemistry.

D. The woman’s decision to take on so much work.

Questions 13 to 15 are based on the conversation you have just heard.

13. A. A story in prose. B. A poem that rhymes.

C. A translation of a short literary work.

D. A journal about the process of writing.

14. A. Because the class has been assigned to read French books.

B. Because he was able to read it in French.

C. Because he isn’t sure it’s available in English.

D. Because he thinks it’s an example of what the professor wants.

15. A. It’s pronounced differently in French and in English.

B. To write without using it is difficult both in English and in French.

C. Every word in the French author’s book contains it.

D. It’s commonly used in English to make poetry rhyme.

Section B

Passage One

Questions 16 to 18 are based on the conversation you have just heard.

16. A. White B. Y ellow C. Blue. D. None of the above.

17. A. Because airplanes are driven by air.

B. Because they need air to see things far ahead.

C. Because they need air to lift their wings.

D. Because the drivers can’t breathe without air.

18. A. We’ll see airplanes flying in the sky. B. There will be no air.

C. There will be a lot of air around us.

D. We’ll become light enough to fly. Passage Two

19. A. It’s amazing that anyone could move so fast.

B. Televisions mark the beginning of modern life.

C. Modern life is changing very fast.

D. It’s hard to remember the past.

20. A. Because change happened so quickly.

B. Because people were not interested in it.

C. Because people were too busy with their work.

D. Because change happened so slowly.

21. A. She felt like being interested in it. B. She was not happy about it.

C. She felt disappointed.

D. She was really amazed. Passage Three

Questions 22 to 25 are based on the conversation you have just heard.

22. A. The Spider-Nature’s Great Engineer. B. The Spider’s Home.

C. What Spiders Eat.

D. The Spider’s Web

23. A. They live 22,000 feet above sea level.

B. They live everywhere.

C. They live mostly on mountains or in caves.

D. They live 2,000 feet below the earth’s surface.

24. A. Their developed nervous systems.

B. Their brains capable of remembering.

C. Their food.

D. Their strong webs made of silk that they spin.

25. A. There will soon be more spiders than insects.

B. Spiders are smarter than human beings.

C. People should appreciate spiders more.

D. People should raise spiders to destroy insects.

Section C

If parents bring up a child with the aim of turning the child into a (26)________, they will

cause a (27)_________. According to several leading (28)____________ psychologists, that is one of the biggest mistakes that ambitious parents make. Generally, the child will be only too aware of what the parent expects, and will fail. Unrealistic parental (29) ___________ can cause great (30)____________ to children. However, if parents are not too unrealistic about what they expect their children to do, but are ambitious in a (31)__________ way, the child may (32) __________ in doing very well---especially if the parents are very (33)____________ of their child.

Michael Lee is very lucky. (34)________________________________________________. Although Michael’s mother knows very little about music, Michael’s father plays the trumpet in a large orchestra. However, he never makes Michael enter music competitions if he is unwilling.

Michael’s father, Winston Chen, however, is not so lucky. (35)_______________________ _____________________________________________.

They want their son to be as successful as they are and so they enter him in every piano competition held. They are very unhappy when he does not win. “Where I was your age, I used to win every competition I entered.” Winston’s father tells him. (36)__________________________ ____________________________________________________.