2020大学英语四级听力模拟卷11（附试题答案原文）

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【试题部分】

Section A
Questions 1 and 2 will be based on the following news item. 
1. A) Ask residents to participate in the operation.C) Withdraw the military forces in Africa soon. 
B) Send more troops to help the African Union. D) Provide more fire engines for Africa. 
2. A) The AU alone could solve the peacekeeping problem in Somalia. 
B) All the demanded military forces arrived in time.
C) All troops present in Somalia are from Uganda. 
D) The AU is always questioned about its problem-solving capability. 
Questions 3 and 4 will be based on the following news item. 
3. A) Declining home production. C) The decreasing GDP in the US. 
B) The prolonged tax policy. D) The economic downturn of the country. 
4. A) There would be an instant Mt with house enthusiasts. 
B) More and more people expect to make use of the policy. 
C) Advanced transportation technology would be brought in. 
D) The expected purchasing boom would go down until April. 
Questions 5 to 7 will be based on the following news item. 
5. A) It is strained. C) It is intimate. 
B) It is complex. D) It is significant. 
6. A) America asked Israel to stop occupying East Jerusalem. 
B) Israel refused to negotiate with Palestinian about Jerusalem issue. 
C) More new Jewish homes had been built in occupied East Jerusalem. 
D) The building project for Jewish homes in occupied East Jerusalem would go on. 
7. A) Demands of politics in Israel. C) American-Israeli relations. 
B) Demands of economy worldwide. D) Long delayed negotiations. 
Section B 
Directions: In this section,you will hear two long conversations.At the end of each 
conversation,you will hear four questions.Both the conversation and the questions will be spoken 
only once.After you hear a question,you must choose the best answer from the four choices 
marked A), B), C) and D).Then mark the corresponding letter on Answer Sheet 1 with a single line 
through the centre. 
Conversation One 
8. A) He wants to become a cook. C) He wants to travel around the world. 
B) He hopes to go on to graduate school. D) He would like to work at a hotel. 
9.A) History.C) Computer science. 
B) French. D) Hotel Management. 
10.A) She has a part-time job. C) Her parents pay for it . 
B) She received a scholarship. D) She is working as a tourist guide. 
11.A) At a bakery. B)In a library. C)At a restaurant. D) At a travel agency. 
Conversation Two 
12.A)She’ s in a meeting. C)She’s talking with another customer. 
B) She's out of the office. C) She's spending her holiday. 
13. A) A list of software products. C) Information on after-sales service. 
B) A picture of the newest computers. D)An introduction about the products. 
14. A) It still works. B) It is broken. C)It is fixed. D) It is a new one. 
15. A) His name is Jack Cordel, and his phone.number is 560-1288. 
B) His name is Jack Kordell and his fax number is 560-1287. 
C) His name is Jack Cordel and his fax number is 560-1288. 
D) His name is Jack Kordell and his phone number is 560-1287. 
Section C 
Directions: In this section,you will hear three passages.At the end of each passage,you will hear 
some questions.Both the passage and the questions will be spoken only once. 
After you hear a question,you must choose the best answer from the four choices marked A), B), 
C) and D).Then mark the corresponding letter on Answer Sheet 1with a single line through the 
centre. 
Passage One 
16. A) About 4, 000 years ago. C) About 2, 000 years ago. 
B) About 3, 000 years ago. D) About 1, 000 years ago. 
17. A) The small bowl was put above the large bowl. 
B) The large bowl was put above the small bowl. 
C) The small bowl was put inside the large bowl. 
D) The large bowl consisted of two equal parts. 
18. A) Horsemen. B) Brass doors. C) Drops of water. D) Metal balls. 
Passage Two 
19. A) Her husband had got a higher position. C) She wanted to have a cleaner house. 
B) Her husband had lost his job. D) She wanted to move to New York 
20. A) His telephone went out of order. 
B) The buyers had to leave soon. 
C) He began to work at 8 a.m. 
D) He had made an appointment with her at 8 a.m. 
21. A) They considered her lazy. C) They considered her foolish. 
B) They saw something they had never seen. D) They saw something familiar to them. 
Passage Three 
22. A) For protection against other animals. C) Just for fun. 
B) For protection against other dogs. D) For the purpose of guarding the house. 
23. A) Because they did not eat other animals. C) Because they were good hunters. 
B) Because they were 1tseful for protection. D) Because they always obeyed their masters. 
24. A) For companionship. C) For protection against robbery. 
B) For amusement. D) For hunting. 
25. A) The city can be a lonely place. C) People in the West are fond of animals. 
B)Life in the West can be very dangerous. D) The dog is a useful and friendly animal.


【听力原文】
Section A
Directions: In this section,
you will hear three news reports.
At the end of each news report,
you will hear two or three questions.
Both the news report and the questions
will be spoken only once.
After you hear a question,
you must choose the best answer
from the four choices marked A), B), C) and D).
Then mark the corresponding letter on Answer Sheet 1
with a single line through the centre.
Questions 1 and 2 will be based on the following news item.
UN extends African Union peacekeeping mission in Somalia.
South African Ambassador Dumisani Kumalo says he voted for the resolution,
but adds he was not enthusiastic about it.
Kumalo said he had expected the Security Council
to make a firm decision about sending U.N. peacekeeping troops
to Somalia to supplement the African Union mission.
“The African Union, it’s like,
when your house is on fire,
the neighbors come with the buckets of water,
but the neighbors are not the fire engine,” he said.
“The fire engine is the United Nations.
So we want to see the United Nations getting involved
on the ground in Somalia
because that issue belongs to the United Nations.
It cannot be left only to the African Union.”
The African Union has sent 8,000 troops to a peacekeeping mission.
But, six months in,
fewer than one-quarter of them have arrived.
There are currently 1,700 African Union troops,
all from Uganda.
1. What did Kumalo expect the Security Council to do?
2. What do we learn about the African Union?
Questions 3 and 4 will be based on the following news item.
The Commerce Department said sales fell
by 11.3% to a seasonally-adjusted annual rate of 355,000 homes,
down from a revised 400,000 in October.
The fall reflects the extension of first-time buyer tax credits,
which had become due in November.
The total was far lower than analysts had expected,
and the data wiped out early gains in shares on Wall Street.
Home sales had been boosted
by buyers looking to take advantage of the tax credit,
but now that they have been extended to April,
the incentive to buy has disappeared,
analysts say.
As a result,
“buyer traffic is likely to be flat until spring,”
predicted Mark Vitner at Wells Fargo Securities.
The median sales price for November was 217,000 dollars.
3. What’s the main reason for the dropping in new home sales?
4. What do we learn from Mark Vitner’s remark?
Questions 5 to 7 will be based on the following news item.
Reports in Israeli media say
Israel’s ambassador to the United States Michael Oren told Israeli diplomats
that American-Israeli relations were facing a crisis of historic proportions.
Washington is angry at last week’s announcement
by Israel during a visit by the US Vice President
that more new Jewish homes were to be built
in occupied East Jerusalem.
But on Monday,
the Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told the Israeli parliament
the building project would continue.
Mr. Netanyahu has been presented with a choice,
an violation with the right-wing members of his ally,
or with the Americans.
With his speech to the Knesset,
he seems to have chosen to put the needs of domestic politics first.
It seems the Americans are so angry
because they believe Mr. Netanyahu went back on an understanding.
This was apparently
that Israel would not push forward
any big new settlement building projects in East Jerusalem.
This was necessary if the Palestinians were to be persuaded
to join the long delayed negotiations
so difficultly put together by US go-betweens.
5. What did Michael Oren say about the American-Israeli relations?
6. What caused the crisis between America and Israel?
7. What does Netanyahu pay most attention to?
Section B
Directions: In this section,
you will hear two long conversations.
At the end of each conversation,
you will hear four questions.
Both the conversation and the questions
will be spoken only once.
After you hear a question,
you must choose the best answer
from the four choices marked A), B), C) and D).
Then mark the corresponding letter on Answer Sheet 1
with a single line through the centre.
Conversation One
W: Hey, Dave!
I haven't seen you for ages.
How have you been?
M: Oh, I'm doing okay,
but school has been really busy these days,
and I haven't had time to relax.
W: By the way, what's your major anyway?
M: Hotel Management.
W: Well, what do you want to do once you graduate?
M: Uh... I haven't decided for sure,
but I think I'd like to work for a hotel
or travel agency in this area.
How about you?
W: Well, when I first started college,
I wanted to major in French,
but I realized I might have a hard time
finding a job using the language,
so I changed my major to Computer Science.
With the right skills,
landing a job in the computer industry
shouldn't be as difficult.
M: So, do you have a part-time job
to support yourself through school?
W: Well, fortunately,
I received a four-year academic scholarship
that pays for all of my tuition and books.
M: Wow. That's great!
W: Yeah. How about you?
Are you working your way through school?
M: Yeah. I work three times a week
at a restaurant near campus.
W: Oh. What do you do there?
M: I'm a cook.
W: How do you like your job?
M: It's okay.
The other workers are friendly,
and the pay isn't bad.
Questions 8 to 11 are based on the conversation you have just heard.
8. What does the man want to do after he graduates?
9. What is the woman majoring in?
10. How does the woman pay for college?
11. Where does the man work part-time?
Conversation Two
W: Hello, Ultimate Computers.
May I help you?
M: Yes, this is Jack Kordell from Hunter's Office Supplies.
May I speak to Elaine Strong, please?
W: I'm sorry,
but she's not in right now.
M: Okay, do you know when she'll be back?
W: Uh, yes,
she should be here later on this afternoon
maybe about 4:30.
May I take a message?
M: Yes. Ms. Strong sent me a brochure
detailing your newest line of laptop computers
with a description of other software products,
but there wasn't any information about after-sales service.
W: Oh, I'm sorry.
Would you like me to fax that to you?
M: Yes, but our fax is being repaired at the moment,
and it won't be working until around 2:30.
Hum... could you try sending that information around 3:30?
That should give me time to look over the material
before I call Ms. Strong, say, around 5:00.
W: Sure. Could I have your name,
telephone number, and fax number, please?
M: Yes. Jack Kordell and the phone number is 560-1287.
And the fax number is 560-1288.
W: Okay. Jack Kordell.
Is your name spelled C-o-r-d-e-l?
M: No. It's Kordell with a "K" and two "l".
K-o-r-d-e-l-l.
W: All right, Mr. Kordell.
And your phone number is 560-1287,
and the fax number is 560-1288.
Is that correct?
M: Yes, it is.
W: All right.
I'll be sure to send you the fax this afternoon.
M: Okay, bye.
Questions 12 to 15 are based on the conversation you have just heard.
12. Why can’t Elaine Strong answer the phone?
13. What does the man want the woman to send?
14. What do we know about the man’s fax machine?
15. What can we learn about the man?
Section C
Directions: In this section,
you will hear three short passages.
At the end of each passage,
you will hear some questions.
Both the passage and the questions
will be spoken only once.
After you hear a question,
you must choose the best answer from the four choices
marked A), B), C) and D).
Then mark the corresponding letter on Answer Sheet 1
with a single line through the centre.
Passage One
The water clock was an ancient clock.
It could be used on cloudy days,
at night, and indoors.
Such clocks were probably first used in Egypt about 2,000 B.C.
They were also used for many years in Arabia,
India, China, and all of Europe.
The simplest water clock needed just two parts
—a small bowl and a large bowl.
The small bowl had a tiny hole in the bottom;
the large bowl was divided into equal parts,
and marked by lines.
Water was poured into the small bowl,
and it fell slowly down into the large bowl in tiny drops.
Usually it took an hour for the water
to rise from one line to the next in the large bowl.
A beautiful water clock was made in Persia
over a thousand years ago.
It was presented as a gift to the Emperor of France.
This water clock could be heard as well as seen.
The dial of the clock was made up of twelve doors,
each representing an hour.
Every hour a door opened,
and the proper number of metal balls
dropped onto a thin brass plate to strike the hour.
At twelve o'clock,
twelve tiny horsemen came out and shut all the doors.
This was probably one of the first striking clocks.
Questions 16 to 18 are based on the passage you have just heard.
16. When was the first water clock probably made?
17. What do we know about the structure
of the simplest water clock?
18. What did the striking water clock use to strike hours?
Passage Two
When my husband was promoted,
we put our house up for sale.
Three weeks later,
it was still on the market.
I became a busy housekeeper.
Every room had to be kept tidy,
and dishes had to be washed and put away when used.
Then one day the doorbell rang unexpectedly at 8 a.m.
Sleepily, I opened the door
and saw our agent standing there
with a couple from New York.
"There had been no time to call," he explained,
"because the couple had to catch a plane home."
The three people made their way past the dirty breakfast dishes
on the kitchen table and into a bedroom with unmade beds.
As I retreated into a bathroom to comb my hair,
I heard the man say something to his wife.
Then they both laughed.
Two days later,
the agent phoned to tell me that the couple had bought the house.
He repeated what the buyer had said
when he handed over the check the following day:
"That house has a warm, lived-in feeling,
just like ours."
Questions 19 to 21 are based on the passage you have just heard.
19. Why did the speaker sell her house?
20. Why did the agent call on the speaker so early in the morning?
21. Why did the couple laugh in the speaker's house?
Passage Three
When you take a walk in any of the cities in the West,
you often see a lot of people walking dogs.
It is still true that a dog is the most useful
and faithful animal in the world,
but the reasons why people keep a dog have changed.
In the old days people used to train dogs
to protect themselves against attacks by other beasts.
And later they came to realize that a dog
was not only useful for protection
but willing to obey his master.
For example, when people used dogs for hunting,
the dogs would not eat what was caught without permission.
But now people in the city need not protect themselves
against attacks of animals.
Why do they keep dogs, then?
Some people keep dogs to protect themselves from robbery.
But the most important reason is for companionship.
For a child, a dog is his best friend
when he has no friends to play with.
For young couples, a dog is their child
when they have no children.
For old couples, a dog is also their child
when their real children have grown up.
So the main reason why people keep dogs
has changed from protection to friendship.
Questions 22 to 25 are based on the passage you have just heard.
22. According to the passage,
what were dogs trained for in the past?
23. Why were dogs used for hunting?
24. What is the most important reason for people
in the city to keep dogs now?
25. What is the main idea of this passage?
This is the end of Listening Comprehension.


【听力答案】
1-2：BC
3-4：BD
5-7：ADA
8-11：DCBC
12-15：BCBD
16-18：AAD
19-21：ABD
22-25：ADAD