現(xiàn)代大學(xué)英語聽力4 全冊答案及原文

1、Unit 1Task 1:【答案】A.Year195619711982199319941997B1) F2) F3) T【原文】Saxophonist Kenny G is now the worlds most successful jazzmusician. He was born in 1956 as Kenny Gorelick in Seattle, USA, and helearned to play the saxophone at an early age. When he was just 15 yearsold, he toured Europe with his High

2、 School band. After studying atWashington University he started his career as a musician. In 1982 hesigned for Arista Records and made his first solo album Kenny G.Success came slowly at first, but during the 1990s Kenny becamewell-known on the international scene. He released Breathless, his mostsu

3、ccessful album so far in 1993, and in 1994 won the Best Artist Awardat the 21st American Music Awards held in Los Angeles.As well as making records, he also found time to play in front ofanother famous saxophone playerUS President Bill Clintonat the Galafor the President concert in Washington, and t

4、o break the world recordfor playing a single note (45 minutes and 47 seconds!) at the J & RMusic World Store in New York in 1997.During the last 20 years, Kenny G has played with superstars likeAretha Franklin, Michael Bolton and Whitney Houston, and he has soldmore than 36 million albums worldwide.

5、 and he hasnt sung a note!Task 2:【答案】1) c2) d3) c【原文】Senn: Everybody always has this misconception that female policemendont do the same thing as men do, you know. Ive worked.Interviewer: Thats not true?Senn: That is not true! Ive worked my share of graveyard shifts,and, you know, splitshifts, and d

6、ouble-back and no days off, and.Interviewer: Uh-huh.Senn: .as much as the next guy. Theres no distinction used iftheres a male or female officer on duty. Two men on dutyIll referto as two men, cause in my field theres no difference between thegenders. Were still the same. Okay, if theres two men on

7、dutyjustbecause ones a female, she still gets in on the same type of call. Iftheres a bar disturbance downtown, then we go too. Theres been manytimes where being the only officer on dutythats it! Its just meand whoever else is on duty in the county. They can come back me up ifI need assistance. And

8、it does get a little hairy. You go in there,and you have these great big, huge monster-guys, and theyre justdrunker than skunks, and cant see three feet in front of them. Andwhen they see you, they see fifteen people, and you know. But still,theres enough.Interviewer: Thats where the uniform is impo

9、rtant, I shouldimagine.Senn: Sometimes, you know. If somebody is going toor has a bad day,and they areout to get a cop, you know, it doesnt matter if youre,you know, boy, girl, infant or anything! When youve got that copuniform on, theyll still take it out on you.Interviewer: Yeah.Senn: But I think

10、theres one advantage to being a female police officer.And that is the factthat most men still have a little respect, and they wont smack youas easy as they would one of the guys.Interviewer: Uh-huh.Senn: But Ill tell you one thing Ive learnedId rather dealwith ten drunk men that one drunk woman any

11、day of the week!Interviewer: Well, why is that?Senn:Because women are so unpredictable. You cannot ever predictwhat a womansgoing to do.Interviewer: Hmm.Senn: Especially, if shes agitated, you know.Interviewer: Emotionally upset.Senn:withYeah. I saw a lady one time just get mad at the guy she wasbec

12、ause he wouldnt buy her another drink takeoff her high heel and lay his head wide open. Yuch! Oh, they can be sovicious, you know.Task 3:【答案】1) d2) b3) b4) b【原文】You are watching a film in which two men are having a fight. Theyhit one another hard. At the start they only fight with their fists. Butso

13、on they begin hitting one another over the heads with chairs. And soit goes on until one of the men crashes through a windowand fallsthirty feet to the ground below. He is dead！Of course he isnt really dead. With any luck he isnt even hurt.Why? Because the men who fall out of high windows or jump fr

14、om fast-moving trains, who crash cars of even catch fire, are professionals.They do this for a living. These men are called “stunt men”. That isto say, they perform “tricks”.There are two sides to their work. They actually do most of thethings you see on the screen. For example, they fall from a hig

15、hbuilding. However, they do not fall on to hard ground but on to emptycardboard boxes covered with a mattress. Again, when they hit oneanother with chairs, the chairs are made of soft wood and when theycrash through windows, the glass is made of sugar!But although their work depends on trick of this

16、 sort, it alsorequires a high degree of skill and training. Often a stunt manssuccess depends on careful timing. For example, when he is blown up ina battle scene, he has to jump out of the way of the explosion just atthe right moment.Naturally stuntmen are well-paid for their work, but they lead da

17、ngerouslives. They often get seriously injured, and sometimes killed. ANorwegian stuntman, for example, skied over the edge of a cliff athousand feet high. His parachute failed to openand he was killed.In spite of all the risks, this is no longer a profession for “menonly”. Men no longer dress up as

18、 women when actresses have to performsome dangerous action. For nowadays there are “stunt girls” too！Task 4:【答案】1) He started writing poetry when he was about 14 or 15.2) He has published four books.3) His first book came out when he was about 26. It wasnt easy.He got a lot of his work rejected at f

19、irst.4) The British, or at least the English, are embarrassed by it.Theyre embarrassed by people who reveal personal feelings, emotions,thoughts and wishes.【原文】When Thomas Edison was born in the small town of Milan, Ohio, in1847, America was just beginning its great industrial development. Inhis lif

20、etime of eighty-four years, Edison shared in the excitement ofAmericas growth into a modern nation. The time in which he lived wasan age of invention, filled with human and scientific adventures, andEdison became the hero of that age.As a boy, Edison was not a good student. His parents took him outo

21、f school and his mother taught him at home, where his great curiosityand desire to experiment often got him into trouble. When he was six, heset fire to his fathers barn “to see what would happen.” The barnburned down.When he was ten, Edison built his own chemistry laboratory. He soldsandwiches and

22、newspapers on the trains in order to earn money to buysupplies for his laboratory. His parents became accustomed, more or less,to his experiments and the explosions which sometimes shook the house.Edisons work as a sales boy with the railroad introduced him tothe telegraph and, with a friend, he bui

23、lt his own telegraph set.Six years later, in 1869, Edison arrived in New York City, poor andin debt. He went to work with a telegraph company. It was there that hebecame interested in the uses of electricity.Task 5:【答案】1815， 1914， 35millionI.A. villages，seaportB. danger，long ocean voyageC. a new lan

24、d，a new languageD. finding a place to liveII.a better life，opportunity，freedomIII.A. England, Germany, Russia, HungaryB. Roman Catholic, JewishC. customs，languagesIV.A. Americanized，disappeared.B. havent disappeared，customs，identitiesV.A. were cheated，prejudice，mistreatedB. hardest，least-paid，dirtie

25、st，most overcrowdedD. rejected，old-fashioned，ashamedovercome【原文】Thousands of people came to American cities before Blacks andPuerto Ricans did. Between 1815 and 1914, more than 35 million Europeanscrossed the ocean to find new homes in the United States.Most of these immigrants were ordinary people.

26、 Few were famous whenthey arrived. Few became famous afterward. Most had lived in smallvillages. Few had ever been far outside them. Most of them faced thesame kinds of problems getting to America: the hardship of going fromtheir villages to a seaport, the unpleasantnesseven dangerof thelong ocean v

27、oyage, the strangeness of a new land, and of a new language,the problem of finding a place to live, of finding work in a new,strange country.Every immigrant had his own reasons for coming to America. Butnearly all shared one reason: They hoped for a better life. Theyconsidered America a special plac

28、e, a land of opportunity, a land offreedom.Immigrants came from many different countries: England, Germany,Denmark, Finland, Russia, Italy, Hungary and many others.They came with many different religions: Roman Catholic, Jewish,Quaker, Greek Orthodox.They brought many different customs and many lang

29、uages.Some people have called the United States a melting pot. Afterimmigrants were here awhilein the melting potthey becameAmericanized. Differences were melted down. They gradually disappeared.Some people say no. America isnt a melting pot. Its more like asalad bowl. Important differences between

30、groups of people haventdisappeared. Many groups have kept their own ways, their customs, theiridentities, and this has given America great strength.Melting pot? Salad bowl? Perhaps theres some troth to both ideas.In any case, life in America was hard for most immigrantsespecially at first. Often the

31、y were cheated. Often they met withprejudice. They were often laughed at, even mistreated, by people whothemselves had been immigrants.Most of them soon found that the streets of America werent pavedwith gold. They usually got the hardest jobs, and those that paid theleast, the dirtiest places to li

32、ve in, the most overcrowded tenements.They came to be citizens of a new country; but often they felt likepeople without a country. They had given up their own, but they didntunderstand their new one. They didnt really feel a part of it. And thepeople of the new one didnt always welcome them.They cam

33、e for the sake of their children, but in America theirchildren often rejected them. To the children, their parents seemed old-fashioned. They didnt learn the new language quickly. Some didnt learnit at all. Their parents customs made children ashamed.Gradually, however, problems were overcome. For m

34、ost immigrants,life in America was better. It certainly was better for their childrenand for their grandchildren.Task 6:【答案】A.The Life Story of Thomas EdisonOhio，1847，industrial development, 1931, a modern nationI.A. curiosity，desireB. 1857，station masters sonC. 1863II.A. New York City，electricity，r

35、eport the pricesB. New Jersey，invented，producedC. organized industrial researchD. 1877E. 1879III.A. 1,000B. motion-picture machineC. photographyD. streetcars，electric trainsIV.B. turn off all powerC. the progress of manB.1) F2) F3) T4) T5) F【原文】When Thomas Edison was born in the small town of Milan,

36、 Ohio, in1847, America was justbeginning its great industrial development. The time in which helived was an age of invention, filled with human and scientificadventures, and Edison became the hero of that age.As a boy, Edison was not a good student. His parents took him outof school and his motherta

37、ught him at home, where his great curiosity and desire toexperiment often got him into trouble. When he was ten, Edison built hisown chemistry laboratory. He sold sandwiches and newspapers on the localtrains in order to earn money to buy supplies for his laboratory. Hisparents became accustomed, mor

38、e or less, to his experiments and theexplosions which sometimes shook the house.Edisons work as a sales boy with the railroad introduced him tothe telegraph and with a friend, he built his own telegraph set. Hetaught himself the Morse telegraphic code and hoped for the chance tobecome a professional

39、 telegraph operator. A stroke of luck and Edisonsquick thinking soon provided the opportunity.One day, as young Edison stood waiting for a train to arrive, hesaw the station masters sot wander into the track of an approachingtrain. Edison rushed out and carried the boy to safety. The thankfulstation

40、 master offered to teach Edison railway telegraphy. Afterwards,in 1863, he became tan expert telegraph operator and left home to workin various cities.Six years later, in 1869, Edison arrived in New York City, poor andin debt. He went to work with a telegraph company. It was there that hebecame inte

41、rested in the uses of electricity. At that time electricitywas still in the experimental stages, and Edison hoped to invent newways to use it for the benefit of people. As he once said: Myphilosophy of life is work. I want to bring out the secrets of, natureand apply them for the happiness of man. I

42、 know of no better service torender for the short time we are in this world.The same year, when he was only 22 years old, Edison invented animproved ticker-tape machine which could better report the prices on theNew York Market. The ticker-tape machine was successful, and Edisondecided to leave his

43、job and concentrate wholly on inventing. When thepresident of the telegraph company asked how much they owed him for hisinvention, Edison was ready to accept only $3,000. Cautiously he said:Suppose you make me an offer.How would $40,000 strike you? the president inquired. Edisonalmost fainted, but h

44、e finally replied that the price was fair.With this money, and now calling himself an electrical engineer,Edison formed his own invention factory in Newark, New Jersey. overthe next few years he invented and produced many new items, includingthe mimeograph machine, wax wrapping paper, and improvemen

45、ts of thetelegraph.In 1877 Edison decided he could no longer continue bothmanufacturing and inventing. He sold his share in the factory and builta new laboratory in Menlo Park, New Jersey. It was the first laboratoryof its kind devoted to organized industrial research. One of the firstinventions to

46、come from his new laboratory was an improvement ofAlexander Bells telephone. Edison invented a more powerful mouthpiecewhich removed the need to shout into the telephone. But his greatinventions were still to come.On August 12, 1877, Edison began experimenting with an instrumentwhich he had designed

47、 and ordered to be built. It was a cylinder,wrapped in tinfoil and turned by a handle. As it revolved, a needle madea groove in the foil. Turning the handle, Edison began to shout.Mary had a little lambWhose fleece was white as snow!He stopped and moved the needle back in the starting position. Then

48、,putting his ear close to the needle, he turned the handle again. A voicecame out of the machine:Mary had a little lamb,Whose fleece was white as snow!Edison had just invented the phonograph, a completely new concept:a talking machine.While he was perfecting his phonograph, Edison also worked onanot

49、her invention. He called it an Electric Lamp for Giving Light byIncandescence. Today we call it the light bulb.For years other inventors had experimented with electric lights,but none of the lights had proven economical to produce. Edison, instudying the problem, spent over a year experimenting. He

50、tested 1,600materials (even hairs from a friends beard) to see if they would carryelectric current and glow. Finally, on October 21, 1879, he triedpassing electricity through a carbonized cotton thread in a vacuum glassbulb. In his own words Edison described the experiment: . beforenightfall the car

51、bon was completed and inserted in the lamp. The bulbwas exhausted of air and sealed, the current turned on, and the sight wehad so long desired to see met our eyes. The lamp gave off a feeble,reddish glow, and it continued to bum for 40 hours. Edisons incredibleinvention proved that electric lightin

52、g would be the future light of theworld.Edison was now so famous as an inventor that people thought therewas nothing he could not do. They began to call him the wizard, as ifhe could produce an invention like magic. Few people realized how hardEdison worked, often 20 hours a day, and that most of hi

53、s inventionswere the results of hundreds of experiments.For 60 years Edison was the worlds leading inventor. He patentedover 1,000 inventions which changed our way of living. He was one of theearliest inventors of the motion-picture machine. His invention of thephonograph was joined with photography

54、 to produce talking pictures. Healso perfected the electric motor which made streetcars and electrictrains possible.It is no wonder that Edison received many honors during his lifefor contributions to the progress of mankind. The United States gave himits highest award, a special Congressional Medal

55、 of Honor. Yet, in spiteof all his fame, Edison remained a modest man. He preferred to continuehis work, rather than rest on his achievements. His motto was: I findwhat the world needs; then I go ahead and try to invent it. He neverconsidered himself a brilliant man and once remarked that genius was

56、 2percent inspiration and 98 percent perspiration.When Edison died in 1931, it was proposed that the American peoplemm off all power in their homes, streets, and factories for severalminutes in honor of this great man. Of course, it was quickly realizedthat such an honor would be impossible. Its imp

57、ossibility was indeed thereal tribute to Edisons achievements. Electric power had become soimportant and vital a part of Americas life that a complete shut-downfor even a few seconds would have created chaos. As one of the greatheroes of invention, Edison rightfully belongs among Americas and thewor

58、lds great contributors to the progress of man.Task 7:【答案】A.1) c2) a3) d4) c5) c6) aB.1) Thats because the explosion robs the fire of oxygen.2) Once the fire is out, the well still needs to be covered, orcapped, to stop the flow of oil. This is the most dangerous part of theprocess. Any new heat or f

59、ire could cause the leaking well and thesurrounding area to explode.3) In March of 1991, Red Adair went to Kuwait. He and his crewswere called in to help put out oil well fires.4) He has spent his 76th birthday in Kuwait working side by sidewith his crew.5) At his funeral, many family members and fr

60、iends honored him bywearing red clothes.【原文】Paul Neal Adair was born in Houston, Texas in nineteen fifteen. Hewas one of five sons of a metal worker. He also had three sisters. Whilegrowing up, he became known as Red Adair because his hair was bright red.The color became a trademark for Adair. He wo