2015年英语四级考试模拟试题及答案（2）_第5页

　　Section C

　　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.

　　注意：此部分试题在答题卡2上作答。

　　Our lives are woven together. As much as I enjoy my own (36) _____________, I no longer imagine I can get through a (37) _____________ day, much less all my life, (38) _____________ on my own. Even if I am on (39) _____________ in the mountains, I am eating food someone else has grown, living in a house someone else has built, wearing clothes someone else has (40) _____________ from cloth woven by others, using (41) _____________ someone else is distributing to my house. (42) _____________ of interdependence is everywhere; we are on this (43) _____________ together.

　　As I was growing up, (44) __________________________________________________ __________________________.“Make your own way”,” Stand on your own two feet” or my mother’s favorite remark when I was face-to-face with consequences of some action: Now that you’ve made your bed, lie on it!” Total independence is a dominant thing in our culture. I imagine that (45) ________________________________________________________________

　　________________. But the teaching was shaped by our cultural imagines. And instead, I grew up believing that I was supposed to be totally independent and consequently became very reluctant to ask for help.

　　(46) _________________________________________________________________

　　__________________.