英语专业四级DICTATION答案_外语学习-英语专业四八级.pdf
专项练习 Dictation 1 Old Age Many people mistakenly believe that old age is a time of increased illness and loneliness./In fact,people do not suddenly change/when they reach the age of 60 or 65./Consequently,we should not expect more mental illness/among the 60to 70 age group than among the50 to 60./Furthermore,although more parents and their married children live in separate households than ever before,/this is usually by choice.It is not because children now tend to neglect their parents/when they become old./It is also wrong to believe that old age seriously affects a persons mental abilities./There is clear proof that people who were eager to learn and who welcomed new experiences in their middle age,/continue to do so in old age./It is true that older people tend to take longer to learn something new than young people./Nevertheless,if they are given sufficient time,/they learn as well as young people do.Dictation 2 Gardening Gardening is one of the oldest of the arts./The Chinese with their deep sensitiveness to beauty/-欢迎下载 2 laid the foundation for a form of garden art/which was later to have great influences upon other lands./The Greeks gave to the world a new concept of gardening./Their homes were decorated with flowers/but it was in their civic design that they most skillfully applied their garden art./Their temples were surrounded by rows oftrees,/and trees lined the important streets and market places in their principal cities./TheRomans acquired much of the knowledge and skill in garden craft from Greeks./In the second century AD the Romans began to build gardens of great scale,/inspired by the vast palace gardens they had conquered./They bought water from great distances to supply the ornamental foundations which decorated their villa gardens./these great villas were later to inspire the Italian garden architects to follow the Roman style.Dictation 3 Being Unemployed Most people are much more frightened by being unemployed than they need to be./Being unemployed certainly has disadvantages,/but there are good things about it too./One advantage is that you dont have to get up early to work in the rush hour./You can stay in bed as long as you like,/and there is plenty of time to read the newspaper/and have a leisurely breakfast./But the best thing of all is that you are your own boss/and there is no one to tell you what to do and when to do it./One drawback of being unemployed is that you havent got much money coming in./Having a job at least enables you to save a lot of money to go on holiday./On the other hand,when you are unemployed,/you neednt go on holiday/because you are on holiday already./In fact,the main trouble is that you have to spend much time looking for a job./Dictation 4 The Credit Card in the U.S.Today,more and more people in the U.S.are using credit card/instead of money to buy what they need./Almost anyone who has a steady income and a continuous work record/can apply for a credit card.With a credit card,you can buy a car,eat a dinner,take a trip/and even get a haircut by charging the cost to your account./In this way,you can pay for purchases a month or two later./Or you may choose to spread out your payments over severalmonths/and pay only part of the total amount each month./With a credit card,you don t have to carry much cash/and you don t have to be concerned about losing your money through carelessness or theft./The card user only has to worry about paying the final bill./This of course can be a problem/if you charge more than you can pay for.Dictation 5 A Woman at Home In Japan,most people still feel that a womans right place is in the home/and most women willingl-欢迎下载 3 y accept their traditional role as wives,/leaving the business of making a living to their husbands./For those who do want a career of their own,opportunities are limited./And working women usually have to settle for lower wages and less responsible positions./In America,on the other hand,most women,including wives and mothers,work most of their lives./But until recently,few have had real careers./As in Japan,most fields are dominated by men/and opportunities for women have been restricted,/salaries low,chances for promotion rare./American women work mainly because they have to./In these days of inflation and expensive living,/only one income per family is simply not enough./So American women actually have two jobs:/one outside the home,and the other round-the-clock job such as wife,cook and nurse.Dictation 6 Success Success in life depends to a great extent on what is meant by success./To some people,money is the only real indication/of achievement in the modern world and therefore/their judgment of success is based on the state/of their bank balance and the power that goes with it./Their life is devoted to making money/and they are at a loss to understand people whose ideas are different from their own./There are people,however,who consider their lives successful/if they are doing what they enjoy doing/that may not bring them any great financial reward./A man who spends his time gardening might consider himself successful/if the flowers blossomed and his trees gave fruit./Nursing and teaching can also bring their own kind of success to those engaged in them./Success can be found in painting a picture nobody will ever see./The great thing is to believe that success is not necessarily public.-欢迎下载 4 Dictation 7 Peoples Way of Seeing Things The way we see things is affected by what we know or what we believe./For those people who believed in the physical existence of Hell in the Middle Ages,/the sight of fire must have meant something quite different from what it means today./Nevertheless,their idea of Hell owed a lot to the sight/of fire consuming and the ashes remaining as well as to their experience of the pain of burns./We only see what we look at./To look is an act of choice./As a result of this act,what we see is brought within our reach,/though not necessarily within arms reach./To touch something is to situate oneself in relation to it./We never look at just one thing./We are always looking at the relation between things and ourselves./Our vision is continually active,continually moving,/continually holding things in a circle around itself.Dictation 8 Education Some people may say that it is energy that makes the world go round,/but in my opinion there is something else which is equally important./That is education./Education makes it possible to pass on/the invaluable knowledge of our ancestors and,at the same time,/makes it easier to explore the contemporary world./Most great inventions have been brought about by educated people./So we can say that education makes the world go round./A poorly educated nation can never be a rich one./The most advanced countries in the world all place great emphasis on education./Nations which have a low percentage of educated people can,/in most cases,barely produce the basic necessities of life,/let alone develop their science,technology and economics./Such nations are facing the possibility of extinction in this highly developed world./Therefore,education cannot be emphasized enough in a developing country.
