篇原文50英语专业四级听写．英语专业四级听写50篇原文!Passage 1Town and Country Life in England There is a big difference between town life andcountry life in England. In thecountry,everybody knows everybody else. They knowwhat time you get up, what time you go to bedand what you have for dinner. If you want help,you will always get it and you will be glad tohelp others.In a large town like London, however, it cansometimes happen that you have never seenyour next door neighbor and you do not knowhis name or anything about him. People inLondon are often very lonely. This is becausepeople go to different places in the evenings andat weekends. If you walk through the streets inthe centre of London on Sunday, it is like a townwithout people. One is sorry for old peopleliving on their own. They could die in theirhomes and would not be discovered for weeks oreven months. (154 words.) Passage 2 A Change in Women's LifeTheimportant change in women'shave begun to has only recentlylife-pattern's economic its full effect on womenposition. Even a few years ago most girlsleft school at the first opportunity, andHowever, job. took a full-time most ofthemat left work usually when they married, theyonce and never returned to it. Today the school-leaving age is sixteen, many girlsstay at school after that age, and though women tend to marry younger, more marriedwomen stay at work at least until shortly many Very is born. child before their firstmore afterwards return to full-time or part-time work. Such changes have led to anew relationship in marriage, with husbandand the duties of greater accepting a sharesatisfactions of family life and with bothhusband and wife sharing more equally inproviding the money, and running the home,on interests the abilities and according toeach of them. (154 words)Passage 3A Popular Pastime of the English PeopleOne of the best means of understanding thepeople of any nation is watching what theydo with their non-working time.Most English men, women and children lovegrowing things, especially flowers. Visitors to England in spring, summer, orway the gardens to see all are autumn likelyalong the railway lines. There areflowersat the airports and flowers in factory grounds, as well as in gardens along the roads. Each English town has at least one park with beautifully kept flower beds. Public buildings of every kind have brilliant window boxes and sometimes baskets of flowers are hanging on them. But what the English enjoy most is growingthings themselves. If it is impossible tosomethingbox a garden, have a then widow orgrowing in a pot will do. Looking at each other's gardens is a popular pastime withthe English. (144words.)Passage 4British and American Police Officerscommon recognize any the U.S., hardly Real policemen, both in Britain and home get ever —if they and what they see on TVpoints between their lives in time.think not the policemen do about the same, of course, but Some things aremuch of them.law. the deals with that a policeman's real life The first difference is Most of what he learns is the law. He has to know actually what actions are against the law and what facts can be used to prove them in court. He has to know nearly as much law as a lawyer, and what's more, he has narrow a running down feet, in the dark and, to put it into practice on hisstreet after someone he wants to talk to.bravely or girls in in talking with beautiful Little of his time is spent arranging working life spend most of his facing cruel criminals. He will millions of words on thousands of forms about hundreds of sad, ordinary (177words) unimportant crimes. not of stupid, people who are guilty —orPassage 5Living SpaceHow much living space does a person need? What happens when his space needs are not met? Scientists are doing experiments on rats to try to determine the effects of overcrowded conditions on man. Recent studies have shown that the behavior of rats is greatly affected by space. If their produce sleep well and enough living space, they eat well, rats have young well. But if their living conditions become too crowded, their behavior and even their health change obviously. They can not sleep and they crowded The more and worry become clear. fear eat well, and signs ofThus, each other. and even kill each are, the more they tend to bite other natural a related. Is this rats, population and violence are directly for law for human society as well? Is enough space not only satisfactory, but necessary for human survival? These are interesting questions.(147 words)Passage 6The United NationsIn 1945, representatives of 50 nations met to plan this organization. joined. nations war, many more Nations. was It called the United After theGeneral the is Nations. the parts two There are major of United One called Assembly. In the General Assembly, every member nation is representedand has an equal vote.The second part is called the Security Council. It has representatives States, the United nations are permanent members: of just 15 nations. Five every are elected 10 other members Russia, France, Britain and China. The two years by the General Assembly.The major job of the Security Council is to keep peace in the world. If necessary, it can send troops from member nations to try to stop little wars before they turn into big ones.It is hard to get the nations of the Security Council to agree on when this is necessary. But they did vote to try to stop wars. (156 words) Passage 7PlasticWe use plastic wrap to protect our foods. We put our garbage in plastic bags or plastic cans. We sit on plastic chairs, play with plastic toys, drink from plastic cups, and wash our hair with shampoo from plastic bottles!Plastic doesn't grow in nature. It is made by mixing certain things together. We call it a produced or manufactured material. Plastic was plastic That and cotton. from plants, such as wood 1860s first made in thewas soft and burned easily.The first modern plastics were made in 1930s. Most clear plastic starts out as thick, black oil. That plastic coating inside a pan begins as natural gas.Some been developed. of different plastics have years, Over the hundreds are hard and strong. Some are soft and bendable. Some are clear. Some are many-colored. There is a plastic for almost every need. Scientists use to find even ways They continue to experiment with plastics. hope to them! (160 words)Passage 8Display of GoodsAre supermarkets designed to persuade us to buy more?This supermarket entrances. vegetables and are displayed near Fresh fruit gives the impression that only healthy food is sold in the shop. Basic other. near each are sugar and tea, not put like everyone foods that buys, They are kept in different aisles so customers are taken past other attractive foods before they find what they want. In this way, shoppers are encouraged to buy products that they do not really need.Sweets are often placed at children's eye level at the checkout. While parents are waiting to pay, children reach for the sweets and put them in the trolley.More is bought from a fifteen-foot display of one type of product than from a ten-foot one. Customers also buy more when shelves are full than when they are a half empty. They do not like to buy from shelves withthose with is something wrong on them because they feel there few products products that are there. (166 words)Passage 9Albert EinsteinAlbert Einstein was born in Germany in 1879. His father owned a factory that made electrical devices. His mother enjoyed music and books. His rules. the religion'sobserve they did not many of parents were Jewish butAlbert was a quiet child who spent much of his time alone. He was slowto talk and had difficulty learning to read. When Albert was five years when wonder filled with a compass. The child was old, his father gave him he discovered that the compass needle always pointed in the sameto the north. He asked his father and his uncle what caused —directionthe needle to move. Their answers about magnetism and gravity weretime thinking a lot of understand. the boy to Yet he spent difficult for behind had to be that he felt something hidden about them. He said later things. (143 words.)Passage 10Private CarsChinese some ordinary standard of living, With the increase in the general families begin to afford a car. Yet opinions of the development of a private car vary from person to person.It gives a much greater degree of comfort and mobility. The owner of a car is no longer forced to rely on public transport, and hence no strongly others or taxis. However, irritation caused by waiting for buses object to developing private cars. They maintain that as more and more gas poisonous volume of produced and run in the street, a large cars are will be given off, polluting the atmosphere and causing actual harm to the health of people.question a difficult developed in China is should Whether private cars becar private and independence a comfort to answer, yet the desire for the can bring will not be eliminated.(143words)Passage 11A Henpecked Husband and His WifeThere was once a large, fat woman who had a small, thin husband. He had evening. every Friday given his weekly wages company job a in a big and wasAs soon as he got home on Fridays, his wife used to make him give her all his money, and then she used to give him back only enough to buy his lunch in his company every day.One day, the small man came home very excited. He hurried into the living-room. His wife was listening to the radio and eating chocolates there.“You will never guess what happened to me today, dear,” he said.dollars thousand ten added, and few He waited for a seconds then “I wonon the lottery!”“That is wonderful!” said his wife delightedly. But then she pulled a long face and added angrily, “But how could you afford to buy the ticket?” (148 words)Passage 12A Young Man's PromiseOne day a young man was writing a letter to his girl friend who livedjust a few miles away in a nearby town. He was telling her how much he loved her and how wonderful he thought she was. The more he wrote, themore poetic he became. Finally, he said that in order to be with her he would suffer the greatest difficulties, he would face the greatest with minute only one In fact, to spend dangers that anyone could imagine. her, he would swim across the widest river, he would enter the deepest forest, and he would fight against the fiercest animals with his bare hands.He finished the letter, signed his name, and then suddenly remembered that he had forgotten to mention something quite important. So, in a postscript below his name, he added:doesn't if it you on Wednesday night, “By the way, I'll be over to see rain.” (154 words) Passage 13A Kind NeighborMr. and Mrs. Jones' apartment was full of luggage, package, furniture ring. doorbell they heard the when Both of them were very busy and boxes. Mrs. Jones went to open it and she saw a middle-aged lady outside. The lady said she lived next door. Mrs. Jones invited her to come in and OK,” that's sit. “Oh, to was no place for her apologized because there know, As you new you to your home. “I said the lady. just come to welcome in some parts of this city neighbors are not friendly at all. There are some apartment houses where people don't know any of their neighbors, friendly very building this everyone is even not the ones next door. But ine like one big happy family. I'm sue you'll with everyone else. We arbe very happy here. ” Mr. and Mrs. Jones said, “But madam, we are not new dwellers in this department. We've lived her for two years. We're moving out tomorrow. ” (163 words) Passage 14That Isn't Our FaultMr. and Mrs. Williams got married when he was twenty-three, and she wasphotographer a party, a big and they twenty. Twenty-five years later, had came and took some photographs of them.Then the photographer gave Mrs. Williams a card and said, “They'll be dy next Wednesday. You can get them from studio.”rea “No,” Mrs. William said, “Please send them to us.”The photographs arrived a week later, but Mrs. Williams was not happy photographer'sdrove to car into them. She when she saw got her and thewent inside and said angrily, “You took some photographs studio. She of me and my husband last week, but I'm not going to pay for them.”“Oh, Why not?” the photographer asked. “Because my husband looks like a monkey,” Mrs. William said.didn't fault. Why “that isn't our “Well,”the photographer answered,you think of that before you married him?” (148 words)Passage 15A Guide's AnswerNorthern the United States between Civil War started in the the In 1861,and the Southern states. The war continued with great bitterness until 1865, when the Northerners were victorious. However, even today, many Northerners. the or forgiven have not forgotten their defeat, Southerners A few years ago, a party of American tourists were going round one of the battlefields of the Civil War with a guide who came from one of the Southern states. At each place, the guide told the tourists stirring a few Southern soldiers had conquered powerful forces stories about how of Northerners there.At last, one of the tourists, a lady who came from the North, stopped the guide and said to him, “But surely the Northern army must have won at least one victory in the Civil War?”“Not as long as I'm the guide here, madam,” answered the Southernguide.(147 words)Passage 16A Qualified PilotThe captain of a small ship had to go along a rocky coast, but he was unfamiliar with it, so he tried to find a qualified pilot to guide him. pretended fisherman a local small one of the ports, and in He went ashore that he was a pilot because he needed some money. The captain took him on board and asked him where to steer the ship.After half an hour the captain began to suspect that the fisherman did not really know what he was doing and where he was going.“Are you sure you are a qualified pilot?” he asked.“Oh, yes,” answered the fisherman. “I know every rock on this partof the coast.”Suddenly there was a terrible crash from under the ship. At once thefisherman added, “And that's one of them.” (138 words) Passage17Living Things ReactYou and all organisms live in an environment. An environment is made up of everything that surrounds an organism. It can include the air, the water, the soil, and even other organisms.An organism responds to changes in its environment. When an organism respondliving ways. in it a responds to change, reacts certain All thingsin some way.Have you ever noticed how plants and insects respond to light? Plants bend toward light. Insects fly toward light.respond trees on some in other ways. The leaves Living things also respond to a change in season. In autumn, they change colors and then fall off save Squirrels in season. respond to a change Animals the branches. also nuts for the winter. Bears sleep through the winter in a cave.you may shiver if many in ways, too. You You respond to your environment environment? in your you respond to changes are cold. What other ways do (156 words)Passage 18Flowering PlantsWhat are the parts of a flower?eggs make The parts. female parts can have male parts and female Flowers that become seeds. The male parts make pollen. Pollen is a powdery make seeds, pollen To to make seeds. material that is needed by the eggs and eggs must come together. The wind, insects, and birds bring pollen ke a to eggs. Many animals love flowers' bright colors. They also linectar, drink While they flowers. This is called nectar. sugary liquid in pollen rubs off on their bodies. As they move, some of this pollen gets delivered to the female flower parts.Animals contain seeds. turn into fruits that Over time, the female parts often eat the fruits and the seeds pass through their bodies as waste. seeds planting plants by the not know they are working for animals The doas they travel to different places. (147 words)Passage 19Finding the Direction and LocationHow can you tell which direction? By day, look for the Sun. It is in the afternoon. At night, use the Big east in the morning and the west in the Dipper to help you find the North Star. It would be better to bring a compass because its needle always points north.How do you know how far you have gone? You could count every step. Each step is about two feet. You'd better wear a pedometer which is a tool that counts steps. If you know where you started, which direction you are heading, and how far you have gone, you can use a good map to figure out exactly where you are.Today there is a new way for travelers to figure out where they are. It is the GPS. It has 24 satellites that orbit the earth and constantly you as a small receiver carry you positions. broadcast their Someday may hike and use GPS to find out if you are there yet!Passage 20WavesHow does light get from the sun to the earth? How does music get from in waves!—the stage to the audience? They move the same wayLight and sound are forms of energy. All waves carry energy, but they kinds through different Light and sound travel may carry it differently. sound walls, but cannot move through example, of matter. For light waves waves can. That is why you can hear people talking in another room eventhough you cannot see them. The energy of some waves is destructive. An earthquake produces seismic waves.Catch a wave. Ask a friend to stand a few feet away from you. Stretch a spring between you. Shake the spring to transfer energy to it. What happens? The spring bounces up and down in waves. When the waves reach your friend, they bounce back to you!Light waves travel 300,000 kilometers (186,000 miles) per second! They can also travel through a vacuum. That is why light from the sun and distant stars can travel through space to the earth.(175 words) Passage 21Soilssoils. of many different kinds There areand rock types of different Different soils havehave soils other. Some minerals in them thansoils others. Some them more water in thanin animal material have more plant and mightthem, too.different in soils are found of Different kindsof kinds are several the parts of world. Thereareas, In some found soils in theUnited States.very are Other soils of soil the has a lot clay.good a has soil kind is sandy. Loam a of thatmixture of clay and sand.In some places, soil layers are very thick. Lots ofplants grow in places with a thick soil layer. Inmuch are places soil layers dry and windythin are on mountains thinner. Layers of soilbecause gravity pulls the soil downhill.affects place a particular The type of soil in(150 there. can grow what kinds of plantswords)Passage 22CrisisLife is a contest! Who will win? A bluebird and sparrow both compete for space to build their nests. A fast-growing maple tree and slower-growing dogwood compete for the sunlight they both need. Oil competes with coal and nuclear power as an energy source for electric power plants. There is a problem. There is a limited amount of space for birds, sunlight for trees, and energy for people! If we do not cut back on our uses of some of our resources, someday they will be gone!How can we use energy today and know we will have enough to go around in the future? We can choose alternate, or replacement, energy resources. It takes the earth millions of years to create coal, oil, and gas. They are nonrenewable resources.Solar energy, wind energy and water energy are renewable. What other ways we conserve our resources? How can we make sure there is always enough to go around? (159 words.)Passage 23America's Worst SurpriseDecember 7, 1941 was one of the worst days in American history. Nearly all Americans who are old enough to remember that day can still remember what they were doing at the moment they heard “the news”. The news was that America had been attacked!Shortly before 2:00 P.M., a radio dispatch came into Washington from Honolulu, Hawaii. “Air Raid, Pearl Harbor — This is no drill.” Japanese planes had begun an attack on the largest American military base in the Pacific. They first destroyed places on the ground. Then they bombed the ships in the harbor.No one had expected the attack. So no one was prepared for it. And it did not take long for the Japanese to do their damage. When the smoke cleared, the Navy counted its losses. Eighteen ships had been sunk orbadly damaged. Nearly 150 planes had been destroyed. More than 2,400 Americans had been killed and more than 1,200 wounded. (157 words) Passage 24Great Depression in the U.S.In 1929, the bills started to come in. American industry had produced factories them. So to buy all of Americans too many goods. could not afford had to cut down on their production. Many workers lost their jobs. Investors tried to get their money back. But businesses did not have enough money to pay them. Banks tried to get their money back from owned many people pay, either. Too the investors. But investors could notmoney. And few of them could pay their bills.During the next few years, business got worse and worse. By 1932, banks all over the country were closing.More closed. So more businesses could People without money not buy goods. Americans million than 12 1932, lost their jobs. By more and more people were jobless. Millions more were earning barely enough to live on. The (151 experienced never before. great depression they had was country in awords)Passage 25A Place of Our Own buy when we usually very careful are We allsomething for the house. Why? Because we haveto live with it for a long time. We paint a room tocolours the so we choose make it brighter,carefully.the to match in buy new curtains order Wenewly decorated room, so they must be the rightto as furniture round so move colour. We theor we buy new furniture ——makemore spaceand so on. It is an endless business.room.furnish time we or Rich poor, take to ato in order people buy furniture Perhaps somewant us just But most of impress their friends.as live We want to to enjoy our surroundings.a spend afford to. We comfortably as we canto want home. We part of our lives at largemake a small corner in the world which we canrecognize as our own. (151 words)Passage 26Travel for WorkYou can see them in every airport in the world. They are businessmen andwomen who have to travel for their work.When they first applied for the job, they may have thought of good food and hotels, huge expense accounts and fashionable cities. Now they haveto sit in airport lounges, tired and uncomfortable in their smart clothes, listening to the loudspeaker announce “The flight to Tokyo, or Berlin,or New York is delayed for another two hours”. Some people say to me, “How lucky you are to be able to travel abroad in your work! You cango sightseeing without paying any money by yourself!” They think that my job is like a continual holiday. It is not.There are advantages, of course, and I do think I am lucky, but only because I can go to places I would never visit if I was a tourist. (149 words)Passage 27IntelligenceAre some people born clever, and others bornstupid? Or is intelligence developed by ourenvironment and our experience? Strangely enough, the answer to these questionsis yes. To some extent our intelligence is given usat birth, and no amount of special education canlow with child born genius out ofa make aintelligence. On the other hand, a child who liveshis will develop boring in a environmentand in rich than one who lives intelligence lessa limits of varied surroundings. Thus, theperson's intelligence are fixed at birth, whetheror not he reaches those limits will depend on hisexperts by most This view, held environment.now, can be supported in a number of ways. Asis easy to show that intelligence is to some extentthe closer born with. The something we arethe is, between two people bloodrelationship(154 intelligence. be in they closer are likely towords)Passage 28A Free Dress Every WeekThe temptation to steal is greater than ever before especially in large shops and people are not so honest as they once were.A detective recently watched a well-dressed woman who always went into a large store on Monday mornings. One Monday, there were fewer people in the shop than usual when the woman came in, so it was easier for the detective to watch her. The woman first bought a few small articles. After a little time, she chose one of the most expensive dresses in the shop and handed it to an assistant who wrapped it for her as quickly as possible. The woman simply took the parcel and walked out of the shop without paying. When she was arrested, the detective found out that the shop assistant was her daughter.. Believe it or not, the girl “gave” her mother a free dress every week. (148 words)Passage 29TimeTime is tangible. One can gain time, spend time,waste time, save time, or even kill time.Common questions in American English revealthis concrete quality as though time were apossession. “Do you have any time?”, “Can youget some time for this?”, “How much free timedo you have?” The treatment of time as apossession influences the way that time iscarefully divided.Generally, Americans are taught to do one thingat a time and may be uncomfortable when anactivity is interrupted. In businesses, the careful scheduling of time and the separation ofactivities are common practices. Appointmentcalendars are printed with 15-,30-, and60-minute time slots. The idea that “there is atime and place for everything”extends toAmerican social life. Visitors who drop bywithout prior notice mayinterrupt their host'spersonal time. Thus, calling friends on thetelephone before visiting them is generallypreferred to visitors' dropping by. (157 words)Passage 30CartoonistIn a good cartoon, the artist can tell in a few lines as much as a writer can tell in half a dozen paragraphs. The cartoonist not only tells a story but he also tries to persuade the reader to his way of thinking. He has great influence on public opinion. In a political campaign, he plays an important part. Controversial issues in Congress or at meetings of the United Nations may keep the cartoonist well-supplies with current materials.A clever cartoonist may cause laughter because he often uses humour in his drawings. If he is sketching a famous person, he takes a prominent feature and exaggerates it. Cartoonists, for instance, like to lengthenan already long nose and to widen an already broad grin. This exaggeration of a person's characteristics is called caricature. The artist uses such exaggeration to put his message across. (144 words)Passage 31Water PollutionWater is very important to us. Factories and plants need water for industrial uses and large pieces of farmland need it for irrigation. Without water to drink, people die in a short time.Today most water sources are so dirty that people must purify water before drinking. Water becomes dirty in many ways: industrial pollution is one of them. With the development of industry, plants and factories pour tons of industrial wastes into rivers every day. The rivers have become seriously polluted, and the water is becoming unfit for drinking or irrigation. The same thing has also happened to our seas and oceans. So, the problem of water pollution is almost worldwide.Scientists of many countries have done a lot of work to stop pollution. The polluted water in some places has become clean and drinkable again. Perhaps one day the people in all towns and cities will be drinking clean water. That day, we believe, is not very far off. (161 words)Passage 32Making a ComplaintComplaining about faulty goods or bad services is never easy. But if something you have bought is faulty or does not do what was claimed for it, you are not asking for a favour to get it put right.Complaints should be made to a responsible person. Go back to the shop where you bought the goods, taking with you any receipt you may have. In a small store the assistant may also be the owner so you can complain direct. In a chain store, ask the manager. If you telephone, ask the name of the person who handles your enquiry, otherwise you may never find out who dealt with the complaint later. If you do not want to do it in person,write a letter. Stick to the facts and keep a copy of what you write. need not you should any receipt number, but At this stage you should give to give receipt or other papers to prove you bought the article. (164 words)Passage 33Where Do the British Livewhether home and, to own their own Nearly everyone in Britain would like they do or not, they are prepared to put time and money into decorating and furnishing it or even making structural alterations to it. Because of the climate and because of the expense involved in going out for the their of part and a large spend a lot of time at home evening, the British social life takes place there.Young people tend to stay with their families longer these days as。