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1、现代大学英语听力4上过的内容Unit 1Task 1:【答案】EventYearKenny Gwasborn.1956He toured Europe with his High School band.1971He madehisfirstsoloalbum.1982He won released his most successful album.1993He won the Best ArtistAward.1994He broke the world record for playing a1997single note.A. DF2)F3)T【原文】Saxophonist Kenny

2、 G is now the worlds most successful jazz musician. He was born in 1956 as Kenny Gorelick in Seattle, USA, and he learned to play the saxophone at an early age. When he was just 15 years old, he toured Europe with his High School band. After studying at Washington University he started his career as

3、 a musician. In 1982 he signed for Arista Records and made his first solo album Kenny G.Success came slowly at first, but during the 1990s Kenny became well-known on the international scene. He released Breathless, his most successful album so far in 1993, and in 1994 won the Best Artist Award at th

4、e 21st American Music Awards held in Los Angeles.As well as making records, he also found time to play in front of another famous saxophone player一US President Bill Clinton一at the Gala for the President1* concert in Washington, and to break the world record for playing a single note (45 minutes and

5、47 seconds!) at the J & R Music World Store in New York in 1997.During the last 20 years, Kenny G has played with superstars like Aretha Franklin, Michael Bolton and Whitney Houston, and he has sold more than 36 million albums worldwide. and he hasnt sung a note!Task 5:【答案】1815, 1914, 35millionI.A.

6、villages, seaportB. danger, long ocean voyageC. a new land, a new languageD. finding a place to live of buildings. Today there are 466 halls, pavilions and rooms intact, coveting a total area of 21.8 hectares. The Great Accomplishment Hall, the major structure of the temple, is 33 metres tall and is

7、 roofed with yellow glazed tiles. In front of the Hall stand 10 stone columns carved with dragons. The Hall houses a statue of Confucius and a stone inscription of Ming Dynasty, which tells the life story of Confucius in 120 pictures.The Confucian Cemetery, occupying more than 200 hectares, has serv

8、ed as the graveyard of Confucius and his descendants for more than 2,300 years.The Kong Family Mansion, standing tight next to the Confucian Temple, was the living quarters of Confucius1 descendants. The Family Mansion now houses a large number of documents, files and antiques.The Temple and Cemeter

9、y of Confucian and the Kong Family Mansion in Qufu were put on the list of world cultural heritage sites in 1994.Task 2:【答案】1) The kings of ancient Egypt wanted to keep their bodies safe after death and to hold their treasures.2) It is located on the west bank of the Nile, not far from Cairo.3) The

10、ancient Egyptians compared the setting of the sun to the end of life and this is why all the pyramids are on the west bank.4) They were taken across the river in boats at flood time.5) The limestone, which used to make the pyramid smooth, is gone. So people can climb the huge stones like steps to th

11、e top.6) The Libyan Desert.A. Number of blocks of stone: 2,300,000.Average weight of the blocks: 2.5 tons.Number of slaves on the project: 100,000,Number of years taken: 20.The height of the pyramid: over 450 feet.Area covered: 13 acres.Length of each side: 755 feet.【原文】The kings of ancient Egypt pl

12、anned strong tombs to keep their bodies safe after death and to hold their treasures. Over these tombs huge stone pyramids were built. There are over 80 known pyramids in Egypt, but the Great Pyramid is the largest of all.The Great Pyramid was built thousands of years ago for a king called Khufu. It

13、 stands on the west bank of the Nile River not far from Cairo.In fact all the pyramids along the Nile are on its west bank. The ancient Egyptians compared the rising of the sun to the beginning of life and the setting of the sun to the end of life. This is why their dead bodies were buried on the we

14、st bank of the Nile.Its very hard to imagine just how big the Great Pyramid is. It has over 2,300,000 blocks of solid stone. Theses huge stone blocks weigh an average of two and a half tons each, as heavy as a big car. Some even weigh 15 tons. Without machinery, the ancient Egyptians cut and moved a

15、nd lifted each of these stones. Many of the blocks came from the east bank of the Nile, and they were taken across the fiver in boats at flood time. It took more than 100,000 slaves 20 years to build the Great Pyramid.The Great Pyramid is over 450 feet high today, and it was once higher. Its base co

16、vers 13 acres. Each of the sides of the pyramid is 755 feet long. It takes about 20 minutes to walk all the way around the pyramid.Every king wanted his tomb to be the best. But Khufu outdid them all. The surface of his pyramid used to shine with smooth white limestone, and its top came to a sharp p

17、oint. Inside, the body of Khufu rested in a great stone coffin. His body was preserved to last forever, and many treasures were buried with him.After many years, the shining surface was worn away, and men took some of the huge stone blocks to build other things: Thieves stole the treasures, and the

18、body of Khufu was stolen, too.Today, the sides of the Great Pyramid are no longer smooth and white. The limestone is gone. The huge stones are exposed and you can climb them, like steps, to the top. When you have reached the top, you can see for miles about you. You can see the smaller pyramids and

19、the Sphinx, the great stone statue of the lion with a human head. To the west you can see the Libyan Desert, and to the east you can see the green Nile Valley and the modern city of Cairo.a better life, opportunity, freedomA. England, Germany, Russia, HungaryB. Roman Catholic, JewishC. customs, lang

20、uages IV.A. Americanized, disappeared.B. havent disappeared, customs, identities V.A. were cheated, prejudice, mistreatedB. hardest, least-paid, dirtiest, most overcrowdedD. rejected, old-fashioned, ashamed overcome【原文】Thousands of people came to American cities before Blacks and Puerto Ricans did.

21、Between 1815 and 1914, more than 35 million Europeans crossed the ocean to find new homes in the United States.Most of these immigrants were ordinary people. Few were famous when they arrived. Few became famous afterward. Most had lived in small villages. Few had ever been far outside them. Most of

22、them faced the same kinds of problems getting to America: the hardship of going from their villages to a seaport, the unpleasantness-even danger一of the long ocean voyage, 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 c

23、ountry.Every immigrant had his own reasons for coming to America. But nearly all shared one reason: They hoped for a better life. They considered America a special place, a land of opportunity, a land of freedom.Immigrants came from many different countries: England, Germany, Denmark, Finland, Russi

24、a, Italy, Hungary and many others.They came with many different religions: Roman Catholic, Jewish, Quaker, Greek Orthodox.They brought many different customs and many languages.Some people have called the United States a Hmelting pot”. After immigrants were here awhile-in the melting pot一they became

25、 Americanized. Differences were melted down”, They gradually disappeared.Some people say no. America isnt a melting pot. Its more like a salad bowl. Important differences between groups of people havent disappeared. Many groups have kept their own ways, their customs, their identities, and this has

26、given America great strength.Melting pot? Salad bowl? Perhaps there*s some troth to both ideas.In any case, life in America was hard for most immigrants-especially at first. Often they were cheated. Often they met with prejudice. They were often laughed at, even mistreated, by people who themselves

27、had been immigrants.Most of them soon found that the streets of America werent paved with gold. They usually got the hardest jobs, and those that paid the least, the dirtiest places to live in, the most overcrowded tenements.They came to be citizens of a new country; but often they felt like people

28、without a country.They had given up their own, but they didnt understand their new one. They didnt really feel a part of it. And the people of the new one didnt always welcome them.They came for the sake of their children, but in America their children often rejected them. To the children, their par

29、ents seemed old-fashioned. They didnt learn the new language quickly. Some didnt learn it at all. Their parents1 customs made children ashamed.Gradually, however, problems were overcome. For most immigrants, life in America was better. It certainly was better for their children and for their grandch

30、ildren.Task 6:【答案】A.The Life Story of Thomas EdisonOhio, 1847， industrial development, 1931, a modern nation1.A. curiosity, desireB. 1857, station master sonC. 1863ILA. New York City, electricity, report the pricesB. New Jersey, invented, producedC. organized industrial researchD. 1877E. 1879IILA. 1

31、,000B. motion-picture machineC. photographyD. streetcars, electric trains IV.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, Ohio, in 1847, America was just beginning its great industrial development. The time in which he lived

32、was an age of invention, filled with human and scientific adventures, and Edison became the hero of that age.As a boy, Edison was not a good student. His parents took him out of school and his mother taught him at home, where his great curiosity and desire to experiment often got him into trouble. W

33、hen he was ten, Edison built his own chemistry laboratory. He sold sandwiches and newspapers on the local trains in order to earn money to buy supplies for his laboratory. His parents became accustomed, more or less, to his experiments and the explosions which sometimes shook the house.Edisons work

34、as a sales boy with the railroad introduced him to the telegraph and with a friend, he built his own telegraph set. He taught himself the Morse telegraphic code and hoped for the chance to become a professional telegraph operator. A stroke of luck and Edisons quick thinking soon provided the opportu

35、nity.One day, as young Edison stood waiting for a train to arrive, he saw the station masters sot wander into the track of an approaching train. Edison rushed out and carried the boy to safety. The thankful station master offered to teach Edison railway telegraphy. Afterwards, in 1863, he became tan

36、 expert telegraph operator and left home to work in various cities.Six years later, in 1869, Edison arrived in New York City, poor and in debt. He went to work with a telegraph company. It was there that he became interested in the uses of electricity. At that time electricity was still in the exper

37、imental stages, and Edison hoped to invent new ways to use it for the benefit of people. As he once said: My philosophy of life is work. I want to bring out the secrets of, nature and apply them for the happiness of man. I know of no better service to render for the short time we are in this world.H

38、The same year, when he was only 22 years old, Edison invented an improved ticker-tape machine which could better report the prices on the New York Market. The ticker-tape machine was successful, and Edison decided to leave his job and concentrate wholly on inventing. When the president of the telegr

39、aph company asked how much they owed him for his invention, Edison was ready to accept only $3,000. Cautiously he said: Suppose you make me an offer.How would $40,000 strike you?n the president inquired. Edison almost fainted, but he finally replied that the price was fair.With this money, and now c

40、alling himself an electrical engineer, Edison formed his own invention factory1 in Newark, New Jersey. Over the next few years he invented and produced many new items, including the mimeograph machine, wax wrapping paper, and improvements of the telegraph.In 1877 Edison decided he could no longer co

41、ntinue both manufacturing and inventing. He sold his share in the factory and built a new laboratory in Menlo Park, New Jersey. It was the first laboratory of its kind devoted to organized industrial research. One of the first inventions to come from his new laboratory was an improvement of Alexande

42、r Belfs telephone. Edison invented a more powerful mouthpiece which removed the need to shout into the telephone. But his great inventions were still to come.On August 12, 1877, Edison began experimenting with an instrument which he had designed and ordered to be built. It was a cylinder, wrapped in

43、 tinfoil and turned by a handle. As it revolved, a needle made a groove in the foil. Turning the handle, Edison began to shout.Mary had a little lambWhose fleece was white as snow!nHe stopped and moved the needle back in the starting position. Then, putting his ear close to the needle, he turned the

44、 handle again. A voice came out of the machine:Mary had a little lamb,Whose fleece was white as snow!1Edison had just invented the phonograph, a completely new concept: a talking machine.While he was perfecting his phonograph, Edison also worked on another invention. He called it an Electric Lamp fo

45、r Giving Light by Incandescence*. 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, in studying the problem, spent over a year experimenting. He tested 1,600 materials (even hairs from a f

46、riends beard) to see if they would carry electric current and glow. Finally, on October 21, 1879, he tried passing electricity through a carbonized cotton thread in a vacuum glass bulb. In his own words Edison described the experiment: before nightfall the carbon was completed and inserted in the la

47、mp. The bulb was exhausted of air and sealed, the current turned on, and the sight we had 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 incredible invention proved that electric lighting would be the future light of the

48、world.Edison was now so famous as an inventor that people thought there was nothing he could not do. They began to call him the wizard1, as if he could produce an invention like magic. Few people realized how hard Edison worked, often 20 hours a day, and that most of his inventions were the results

49、of hundreds of experiments.For 60 years Edison was the worlds leading inventor. He patented over 1,000 inventions which changed our way of living. He was one of the earliest inventors of the motion-picture machine. His invention of the phonograph was joined with photography to produce talking pictures. He also perfected t