2015年英语四级听力突破必备语音及讲义：综合训练_第2页

　　三、短文

　　Passage One

　　Questions 26 to 28 are based on the passage you have just heard.

　　26. A) Her parents thrived in the urban environment.

　　B) Her parents left Chicago to work on a farm.

　　C) Her parents immigrated to America.

　　D) Her parents set up an ice-cream store.

　　27. A) He taught English in Chicago.

　　B) He was crippled in a car accident.

　　C) He worked to become an executive.

　　D) He was born with a limp.

　　28. A) She was fond of living an isolated life.

　　B) She was fascinated by American culture.

　　C) She was very generous in offering help.

　　D) She was highly devoted to her family.

　　Passage Two

　　Questions 29 to 32 are based on the passage you have just heard.

　　29. A) He suffered a nervous breakdown.

　　B) He was wrongly diagnosed.

　　C) He was seriously injured.

　　D) He developed a strange disease.

　　30. A) He was able to talk again.

　　B) He raced to the nursing home.

　　C) He could tell red and blue apart.

　　D) He could not recognize his wife.

　　31. A) Twenty-nine days.

　　B) Two and a half months.

　　C) Several minutes.

　　D) Fourteen hours.

　　32. A) They welcomed the publicity in the media.

　　B) The avoided appearing on television.

　　C) They released a video of his progress.

　　D) They declined to give details of his condition.　　

　　【答案】

　　26: What does the speaker tell us about his mother’s early childhood? (C)

　　27: What do we learn about the speaker’s father? (B)

　　28: What does the speaker say about his mother? (D)

　　29: What happened to Herbert 10 years ago? (C)

　　30: What surprised Donald Herbert’s family and doctors one Saturday? (A)

　　31: How long did Herbert remain unconscious? (B)

　　32: How did Herbert’s family react to the public attention? (D)

　　【原文】26-28

　　My mother was born in a small town in northern Italy. She was three when her parents immigrated to America in 1926. They lived in Chicago, where my grandfather worked making ice-cream. Mama thrived in the urban environment. At 16, she graduated first in her high school class, went on to secretarial school and finally worked as an executive secretary for a rare wood company. She was beautiful too. When a local photographer used her pictures in his monthly window display, she felt pleased. Her favorite portrait showed her sitting by Lake Michigan, her hair wind-blown, her gaze reaching towards the horizon.

　　My parents were married in 1944. Dad was a quiet and intelligent man. He was 17 when he left Italy. Soon after, a hit-and-run accident left him with a permanent limp. Dad worked hard selling candy to Chicago office workers on their break. He had little formal schooling. His English was self-taught. Yet he eventually built a small successful whole-sale candy business. Dad was generous and handsome. Mama was devoted to him. After she married, my mother quit her job and gave herself to her family.

　　In 1950, with three small children, Dad moved the family to a farm 40 miles from Chicago. He worked the land and commuted to the city to run his business. Mama said good-bye to her parents and friends and traded her busy city neighborhood for a more isolated life. But she never complained.

　　【原文】29-32

　　During a 1995 roof collapse, a fire fighter named Donald Herbert was left brain damaged. For 10 years he was unable to speak. Then one Saturday morning, he did something that shocked his family and doctors – he started speaking. “I want to talk to my wife,” Donald Herbert said out of the blue. Staff members of the nursing home where he has lived for more than 7 years rose to get Linda Herbert on the telephone. “It was the first of many conversations the 44-year-old patient had with his family and friends during the 14 hour stretch.” Herbert’s uncle Simon Manka said. “How long have I been away?” Herbert asked. “We told him almost 10 years.” The uncle said. He thought it was only three months.

　　Herbert was fighting a house fire Dec. 29, 1995, when the roof collapsed burying him underneath. After going without air for several minutes, Herbert was unconscious for two and a half months and has undergone therapy ever since.

　　News accounts in the days and years after his injury, described Herbert as blind and with little, if any, memory. A video shows him receiving physical therapy, but apparently unable to communicate and with little awareness of his surroundings. Manka declined to discuss his nephew’s current condition or whether the apparent progress was continuing. “The family was seeking privacy while doctors evaluated Herbert,” he said. As word of Herbert’s progress spread, visitors streamed into the nursing home. “He is resting comfortably,” the uncle told them.

　　四、复合式听写

　　Students’ pressure sometimes comes from their parents. Most parents are well (36) ________, but some of them aren’t very helpful with the problems their sons and daughters have in (37) ________ to college, and a few of them seem to go out of their way to add to their children’s difficulties.

　　For one thing, parents are often not (38) ________ of the kinds of problems their children face. They don’t realize that the (39) ________ is keener, that the required (40) ________ of work are higher, and that their children may not be prepared for the change. (41) ________ to seeing A’s and B’s on high school report cards, they may be upset when their children’s first (42) ________ college grades are below that level. At their kindest, they may gently (43) ________ why John or Mary isn’t doing better, whether he or she is trying as hard as he or she should, and so on. (44) ________________________________.

　　Sometimes parents regard their children as extensions of themselves and (45) ________________________________. In their involvement and identification with their children, they forget that everyone is different and that each person must develop in his or her own way. They forget that their children, (46) ________________________________.　　

　　【答案】

　　36. meaning

　　37. adjusting

　　38. aware

　　39. competition

　　40. standards

　　41. accustomed

　　42. semester

　　43. inquire

　　44. at their worst ,they may threaten to take their children out of college or cut off funds

　　45. think it only right and natural that they determine what their children do with their lives

　　46. who are now young adults must, be the ones responsible for what they do and what they are