2015年12月英语四级听力答案解析汇总
Part II Listening Comprehension
Section A
2.【题干】Question 1
【选项】
A.They admire the courage of space explorers.
B.They enjoyed the movie on space exploration.
C.They were going to watch a wonderful movie.
D.They like doing scientific exploration very much.
【答案】B
【解析】M: Do you remember the wonderful film on space exploration we watched together last month?
W: Sure. It's actually the most impressive one I've seen on that topic.
Q: What do we learn about the speakers?
3.【题干】Question 2
【选项】
A.At a gift shop.
B.At a graduation ceremony.
C.In the office of a travel agency.
D.In a school library.
【答案】A
【解析】W: Are you looking for anything in particular?
M: Yes. My son is graduating from high school and I want to get him something special.
Q: Where does the conversation most probably take place?
4.【题干】Question 3
【选项】
A.He used to work in the art gallery.
B.He does not have a good memory.
C.He declined a job offer form the art gallery.
D.He is not interested in any part-time jobs.
【答案】C
【解析】M: Mike told me yesterday that he'd been looking in vain for a job in the art gallery.
W: Really? If I remember right, he had a chance to work there but he turned it down.
Q: What does the woman say about Mike?
5.【题干】Question 4
【选项】
A.Susan has been invited to give a lecture tomorrow.
B.He will go to the birthday party after the lecture.
C.The woman should have informed him earlier.
D.He will be unable to attend the birthday party.
【答案】D
【解析】W: Would you like to come to Susan's birthday party tomorrow evening?
M: I'm going to give a lecture tomorrow. I wish I could be in two places at the same time.
Q: What does the man mean?
6.【题干】Question 5
【选项】
A.Reward those having made good progress.
B.Set a deadline for the staff to meet.
C.Assign more workers to the project.
D.Encourage the staff to work in small groups.
【答案】B
【解析】W: Aren't you discouraged by the slow progress your staff is making?
M: Yes. I think I'll give them a deadline and hold them to it.
Q: What is the man probably going to do?
7.【题干】Question 6
【选项】
A.The way to the visitor’s parking.
B.The rate for parking in Lot C.
C.How far away the parking lot is.
D.Where she can leave her car.
【答案】A
【解析】W: Excuse me, could you tell me where the visitor's parking is? I left my car there.
M: Sure. It's in Lot C, over that way.
Q: What does the woman want to know?
8.【题干】Question 7
【选项】
A.He regrets missing the classes.
B.He plans to take the fitness classes.
C.He is looking forward to a better life.
D.He has benefited form exercise.
【答案】D
【解析】W: You look great now that you've taken those fitness classes.
M: Thanks. I've never thought better in my life.
Q: What does the man mean?
9.【题干】Question 8
【选项】
A.How to work efficiency.
B.How to select secretaries.
C.The responsibilities of secretaries.
D.The secretaries in the man’s company.
【答案】D
【解析】W: I really admire the efficiency of your secretaries.
M: Our company selects only the best. They have a heavy workload and we give them a lot of responsibilities.
Q: What are the speakers talking about?
10.【题干】Questions 9 to 12 are based on the conversation you have just heard.
Question 9
【选项】
A.It is more difficult to learn than English.
B.It is used by more people than English.
C.It will be as commonly used as English.
D.It will eventually become a world language.
【答案】B
【解析】Q: What does the man say about Chinese?
W: Hi, Leo. Why do you say English will become the world language?
M: Well, for one thing, it's so commonly used. The only language that is used by more people is Chinese.
W: Why is English spoken by so many people?
M: It's spoken in many countries of the world because of the British Empire. And now, of course, there's influence of America as well.
W: Many students find English a difficult language to learn.
M: Oh, all languages are difficult to learn. But English does have two great advantages.
W: What are they?
M: Well, first of all, it has a very international vocabulary. It has many German, Dutch, French, Spanish and Italian words in it. So speakers of those languages will find many familiar words in English. In fact, English has words from many other languages as well.
W: Why is that?
M: Well, partly because English speakers have travelled a lot. They bring back words with them, so English really does have an international vocabulary.
W: And what's the other advantage of English?
M: It's that English grammar is really quite easy. For example, it doesn't have dozens of different endings for its nouns, adjectives and verbs, not like Latin, Russian, and German for example.
W: Why is that?
M: Well, it's quite interesting actually. It's because of the French. When the French ruled England, French was the official language and only the common people spoke English. They try to make the language as simple as possible, so they made the grammar easier.
