5. A) Buy Frank a new car. C) Teach Frank a new car.
B) Have lunch with Frank. D) Help Frank repair his car.
6. A) The room they are going to move into. B) The yard of their old house.
C) The quality of the furniture they bought. D) The feeling they have of their neighborhood.
7. A) It’s too expensive to hire taxies.
B) He doesn’t like the suburbs. C) He can’t afford the high taxes.
D) The rent is too high
8. A) She thinks her son has almost everything he wants.
B) She is not sure whether an MP3 player is a nice gift. C) She finds it hard to find a proper gift for her husband.
B) She’s afraid she can’t afford anything the man’s father wants.
Long conversation 1:
1. A) He wants to improve his language skills.
B) He wants to enter a US college.
C) His friend wants to attend a US university. D) His friend wants to improve English for a better job.
2. A) Literature
C) TOEFL
3. A) It offers courses for people who want to improve their professional skills.
B) It offers job opportunities for people who have studied in it. C) Its programs allow students to study in the US.
B) US Culture D) Business English
D) The students can take its courses locally in their home country.
4. A) $2,030.
C) $2,300.
Conversation 2
1. A) To make an appointment. C) To promote advertisements.
2. A) Impatient but then reluctant.
B) Indifferent but then interested. C) Convinced but then reluctant.
D) Accepted but the impatient.
3. A) Some customers have got their payment back because they’re not satisfied. B) The company will redo the product again and again until the customers are
satisfied.
C) The company does not sign a contract with its customers concerning its
service.
D) The man will use the company’s service when he has a new product.
四级专项训练 （第十四周）
Part Ⅰ Listening Comprehension
Directions: In this section, you will hear 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).
B) To ask for an interview. D) To have a negotiation.
B) $2,013. D) $2,330.
Passage 1
35. A. In green forests.
B. In dry deserts
D. In the North Pole region
C. In the Pacific Ocean
36. A. Snakes like to stay in the sun. B. Snakes like warmth.
C. Snakes are used to extra-hot weather D. Snakes are good swimmers
37. A. They are very intelligent B. They are the most intelligent C. They are more intelligent D. They are less intelligent Passage 2
38. A. He was doing shopping. B. He was watching a film. C. He was making a phone call. D. He was taking to a policeman.
39. A. Her attractive clothing B. Her beautiful figure C. Her unusual height D. Her fashionable handbag
40. A. He was arrested by the police. B. He was acting in a film.
C. He had taken the woman’s bag by mistake. D. He was only making a joke.
Passage 3
41. A. 6 million dollars. C. 6000dollars.
23. A. An engine room C. A great theatre
24. A. The plane is safe even if two of its engines fail. B. There are three engines on each of the giant jet plane. C. There is an extra engine on each of the giant jet plane. D. The engines never fail on the giant jet plane.
25. A. Two mechanical pilots will do the job. B. The giant jet will crash.
C. The giant jet will be forced to land.
D. The engines of the giant jet will stop working.
Directions: In this section, you will hear a passage three times. When the passage is read for the first time, you should listen carefully for its general idea. When the passage is read for the second time, you are required to fill in the blanks with the exact words you have just heard. Finally, when the passage is read for the third time, you should check what you have written.
Some years ago, an American policeman found a woman lying near a lonely road. She did not (26)_________ to have had an accident. But she was (27)__________, and clearly in a state of shock. So he sent her to the nearest hospital. She began to tell the doctors a story which was (28)_________
and
awe-inspiring. She had been
B. A big kitchen D. A high building
B. 25 million dollars. D. 400 million dollars
driving along a country road when she had been stopped by a flying saucer landing in front of her. She had been forced to leave the car and enter the flying saucer by (29)_______which looked like human beings and which could easily make
themselves understood although they could not speak. It was as though they could read her thoughts and she theirs. They treated her (30)______and allowed her to leave after carrying out a number of tests on her. As she otherwise seemed to be normal, the doctor decided that she was probably (31)___________ the side effects of some drug. The woman insisted on being allowed to go home, but when she gave her address it was in a town over a thousand miles from the hospital.
The police then started to make(32)______________ and soon discovered that there was already a search (33)______________ for the woman, whose husband had reported that she had disappeared. Her car had been found with the driver’s door open and the engine running. In front of the car the surface of the road had been completely destroyed not by an (34)________ or anything of that kind, but as though a large, (35)_______, white hot object had burnt through it.