2011年12月大学英语四级听力模拟试题(1)_第6页

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　　Directions: In this section, you will hear a passage three times. When the passage is read for the first time, you should listen carefully for its general idea. When the passage is read for the second time, you are required to fill in the blanks numbered from 36 to 43 with the exact words you have just heard. For blanks numbered from 44 to 46 you are required to fill in the missing information. For these blanks, you can either use the exact words you have just heard or write down the main points in your own words. Finally, when the passage is read for the third time, you should check what you have written.

　　The Romans built great “aqueducts” to carry fresh water from the mountains to the cities. Many of these aqueducts are still standing today. The Roman (36) _____even set up a (37)___ health service. They built the first great public hospitals in Europe, and they paid doctors to look after poor people.

　　When the Roman Empire fell to pieces, these (38) _____ methods of treatment (39) _____ from most of Europe, for more than a thousand years. People went back to the old ways. They lived in dirty conditions, which helped to cause diseases; and they asked God to cure the (40) _____. They shut up (41) _____ sick people in prisons. Or they burnt them alive because they were supposed to have (42) _____ powers. But the work of the Greek and Roman doctors was not lost.

　　Over a thousand years ago, the Arabs moved into many of the Mediterranean countries. They took big parts of the old (43)_____ lands. (44) ______________________________ Arab doctors themselves made many new discoveries.

　　(45)___________________________________________ Slowly, European doctors discovered again the things that the Greeks and Romans had known so long ago. (46) ____________________________

　　参考答案：11-15 CCAAA

　　16-20 DACDA

　　21-25 CCABD

　　26-30 DBCCC

　　31-35 DBDAC

　　36. Emperors

　　37. government

　　38 .civilized

　　39. disappeared

　　40. diseases

　　41. mentally

　　42. magic

　　43. Roman

　　44. They translated the Greek and Roman medical books into Arabic.

　　45. When civilization at last came back to Europe, men once again translated the Greek and Roman works on medicine into Latin.

　　46. Slowly, they began to make new discoveries and found out more about the way the body works.