2003年6月21日四级听力试题原文及译文Section AW：Gorge, look at the long waiting line. I am glad you've made a reservation. M：More and more people enjoy eating out now. Beside, this place is especially popular with the overseas students.Q：Where did the conversation most probably take place?W: 乔治，看看这里排着这么长的队，真高兴你订到了座位。
M：越来越多的人喜欢在外面吃饭。
而且这个地方尤其受留学生亲睐。
Q：对话可能在哪里发生？M:I wonder if you can drop by tomorrow evening. The Stevensons are coming over to dinner. I'd like you to meet them.W: Sure, I'd love to. I've heard they are very interesting people.Q: What do we learn from the conversation?M：你明天晚上能到我这来一趟吗？史蒂文森一家明天到我家吃晚饭，我希望你能见见他们。
W：当然，我非常愿意。
我听说他们非常有意思。
Q：我们可从该对话中了解到什么？W: The presentation made by Professor Jackson was complicated to understand.M: Well, I think he didn't speak slowly enough for usfor us to take the notes.Q: What did the man complain?W：杰克森教授作的报告太难懂了。
M；我觉得他的语速太快，我们根本没法做笔记。
Q：男士抱怨什么？W: You've got your apartment furnished, haven't you?M: I've bought some used furniture from Sunday market. It was a real bargain.Q: What does the man mean?W：你买了家俱，是吗？M：我从周日市场买了一些旧家俱。
价钱便宜。
Q：男人什么意思？M Mary doesn't want me to take the job. She says our child is too young. And the job requires much travelling.W: You should talk to her again and see if you can find a way out. Think about the gains and losses before you make the decision.Q: What do we learn from the conversation?M：玛丽不想让我干那个工作，她说孩子还些这个工作又需要我经常出差。
W：你应该和她再谈谈，看你们能不能想出个两全其美的办法。
权衡一下利弊，再做决定。
Q：从对话中我们可以了解到什么？M:I haven't got my scores on the GRE test yet. Do you think I should call to make inquiries?W: There is no hurry. The test scores are released at least eight weeks after the test.Q: What does the woman advise the man to do?M：我还不知道GRE考试的分数。
你觉得我是不是该打电话问问？W：不要急。
考试的分数至少要在考试后八周之后公布。
Q：女人建议男人干嘛？M: Have you finished reading the book you bought last month?W: oh, I didn't read straight through the way you read a novel,I just covered a few chapters which interested me most.Q: How did the woman read the book?M：你读上个月你买的那本书了吗？W：哦，我不象你读小说那样从头读到尾。
我读了我感兴趣的几章。
Q：女人采用什么读书方式？W: Hello, Joe, Haven't seen you for quite a while. Are you fine? M: Oh,yes, but not a thing to go against me. I had a car accident, only some minor injuries though.Q: What happened to Joe?W：你好，乔，很久不见，你好吗？M：还好，我吉人自有天相，出了车祸，只不过受了轻伤。
m: The taxi is waiting downstairs, let's hurry.W: Wait a minute. I'll take some food with us. I don't like the meal served on the train.Q: What are the speakers going to do?M：出租车在楼下等着，赶紧！M：等等，我要带点吃的东西。
我不喜欢吃火车上供应的食物。
Q：两个谈话者准备做什么？W: Is that optional course as hard as everybody says?M: It's actually even worse, believe it or not.Q :What did the man say about the course?W：那门选修课象别人说的那么难吗？M：不管你信不信，难极了。
Q：他们如何评价选修课？Section BPassage 1My father woke me up early one morning when I was fourteen and announced"Get up, you are going with me to cut grass." I felt proud and excited because my father thought I was responsible enough to help him in his business. Still, that first day was very hard. From sunrise to sunset, my father, my younger brother and I cut and t very large yards in well-to-do part of the city. By the end of the day I was exhausted, but I felt good.I put out a hard day's labor and earned six dollars. One day, my father spotted some weeds I have miss cutting and pulled me inside. "Cut that section again!" he said firmly "and don't make me have to tell you again.” The message was very clear. Today I stress the importance of doing the job right the first time. Every job I have held from cutting lawns to wash dishes to working a machine on the construction site. I have learned something that help me in my next job. If you work hard enough, you can learn from any job you do.11 Q: How did the speaker feel when his father asked him to help cut grass?13 Q: What did his father do when the speaker missed cutting some leaves?14 Q:What did the speak want to tell us in this passage?Passage BI am living in a small village in the country. My wife and I run a village shop. We have a very peaceful live, boring some my say. But we love it. We know all the people in the village. They have plenty of time to stop and chat. I have plenty of time for my hobbies too--gardening, fishing, walking in the country side. I love the outdoor life. It wasn't always like this though I used to have a really stressful job, working so late in the office every evening. I often bring work home at the weekends. The advertising world is very competitive. And when I look back, I can't imagine how I stood it. I have no private life at all. No time for the really important things in life. Because of the pressure of the job, I used to smoke and drink too much. The crisis came when my wife left me. She complaint that she never saw me and I had no time for family life. This made me realize what is really important to me. I talked things through with her and decided to get back together and started a new and better life together. I gave up tobacco and alcohol and searched for new hobbies. Now I am afraid of looking back since the past life seemed like a horrible dream.14 What did the speaker do for a living?15 What do we know about the speaker's life in the past?16 What made the speaker change his life style?Passage 3"Where is the university?" is the question many visitors to Cambridge ask. But no one could point at any one direction because there is no campus. The university consists of 31 self-governing colleges. It has lecture23. According to Paragraph 3. which of the following statements is TRUE?A) Teenagers should spend more time learning to drive.B) Driving is a skill too complicated for teenagers to learn.C) Restrictions should be imposed on teenagers applying to take driving lessons.D) The licensing authonties are partly responsible for teenagers' driving accidents.24. A suggested measure to be taken to reduce teenagers' driving accidents is that ________ .A) driving in the presence of an adult should be made a ruleB) they should be prohibited from taking on passengersC) they should not be allowed to drive after 10 p.m.D) the licensing system should be improved25. The present situation in about half of the states is that the graduated licensing system ________.A) is under discussion C) has been put into effectB) is about to be set up D) has been perfectedPassage TwoQuestions 26 to 30 are based on the following passage.If you know exactly what you want, the best route to a job is to get specialized training. A recent survey shows that companies the graduates in such fields as business and health care who can go to work immediately with very little on-the-job training.That's especially true of booing fields that are challenging for workers. At Cornell's School of Hotel Administration, for example, bachelor's degree graduates get an average of four or five job offers with salaries ranging from the high teens to the low 20s and plenty of chances for rapid advancement. Large companies, especially, like a background of formal education coupled with work experience.But in the long run, too much specialization doesn't pay off. Business, which has been flooded with MBAs, no longer considers the degree an automatic stamp of approval. The MBA may open doors and command a higher salary injtially, but the impact of a degree washes out after five years.As further evidence of the erosion (销蚀) of corporate(公司的) faith in specialized degrees, Michigan State’s Scheetz cites a pattern in corporate hiring practices, Although companies tend to take on specialists as new hires, they often seek out gencralists for middle and upper-level management. “They want someone who isn’t constrained(限制)by nuts and bolts to look at the big picture,”says Scheetz.This sounds suspiciously like a formal statement that you approve of the liberal-arts graduate. Time and again labor-market analysts mention a need for talents that liberal-arts majors are assumed to have: writing and communication skills, organizational skills, open-mindedness and adapeability, and the ability to analyze and solve problems, David Birch claims he does not hire anybody with an MBA or an engineering degree, “I hire only liberal-arts people because they have a less-than-canned way of doing things,” says Birch. Liber al-arts means an academically thorough and strict program that includes literature, history, mathematics, economics, science, human behavior—plus a computer course or two. With that under your belt, you can feel free to specialize, “A liberal-arts degree coupled with an MBA or some other technical training is a very good combination in the marketplace,” says Scheetz.26. What kinds of people are in high demand on the job market?A) Students with a bachelor's degree in humanities.B) People with an MBA degree front top universities.C) People with formal schooling plus work experience.D) People with special training in engineering27. By saying “…but the impact of a degree washes out after five years” (Line 3, Para, 3), the author means ________.A) most MBA programs fail to provide students with a solid foundationB) an MBA degree does not help promotion to managerial positionsC) MBA programs will not be as popular in five years' time as they are nowD) in five people will forget about the degree the MBA graduates have got28. According to Scheetz's statement (Lines 4-5. Para. 4), companies prefer ________.A) people who have a strategic mindB) people who are talented in fine artsC) people who are ambitious and aggressiveD) people who have received training in mechanics29. David Birch claims that he only hires liberal-arts people because ________.A) they are more capable of handling changing situationsB) they can stick to established ways of solving problemsC) they are thoroughly trained in a variety of specialized fieldsD) they have attended special programs in management30. Which of the following statements does the author support?A) Specialists are more expensive to hire than generalists.B) Formal schooling is less important than job training.C) On-the-job training is, in the long run, less costly.D) Generalists will outdo specialists in management.。