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Part I Listening Comprehension (20 mi nutes)
　　Section A
　　Directions:In this section，you will hear 10 short conve rsation s.At the end of each conversation，a question will be asked about what was said .Both the conversation and the question will be spoken only once.After each question there will be a pause.During the pause，you must read the four choices marked A)，B)，C) and D)，and decide which is the best answer.Then mark the corresponding le tter on the Answer Sheet with a single line through the centre.
　　Example: You will hear:
　　You will read: A) At the office. B) In the waiting room.
　　C) At the airport. D) In a restaurant.
　　From the conversation we know that the two were talking about some work they had to finish in the evening.This is most likely to have taken place at the office .Therefore，A) "At the office" is the best answer.You should choose［A］on the Answer Sheet and mark it with a single line through the centre.
　　Sample Answer ［ A ］ ［B］ ［C］ ［D］ [云南考试网]网址:http://www.ynexam.cn
　　1. A) The woman is close friend of the man. B) The woman has been w orking too hard.
　　C) The woman is seeing a doctor. D) The woman is tired of her work.
　　2. A) This apple pie tastes very good. B) His mother likes the pie very much.
　　C) This pie can't match his mother's. D) His mother can't make apple pies.
　　3. A) Take a walk. B) Give a performance.
　　C) Listen to the music. D) Dance to the music.
　　4. A) Read an article on political science.
　　B) Present a different theory to the class.
　　C) Read more than one article.
　　D) Choose a better article to read.
　　5. A) The woman would understand if she did Mary's job.
　　B) The woman should do the typing for Mary.
　　C) The woman should work as hard as Mary.
　　D) The woman isn't a skillful typist.
　　6. A) He wants to make an appointment with Mr.Smith.
　　B) He wants to make sure that Mr.Smith will see him.
　　C) He wants to change the time of the appointment.
　　D) He wants the woman to meet him at three o'clock.

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Section B
　　Directions: In this section，you will hear 3 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) .Then mark the corresponding letter on the Answer Sheet with a single line through the centre.
　　Passage One
　　Questions 11 to 14 are based on the passage you have just heard.
　　11. A) A car outside the supermarket. B) A car at the bottom of the hill.
　　C) Paul's car. D) The sports car.
　　12. A) inside the car. B) At the foot of the hill.
　　C) In the garatge. D) In the supermarket.
　　13. A) The driver of the sports car. B) The two girls inside the car.
　　C) The bus driver. D) Paul.
　　14. A) Nobody. B) The two girls.
　　C) The man standing nearby. D) The salesman from London.
　　Passage Two
　　Questions 15 to 17 are based on the passage you have just heard.

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Part I Listening Comprehension

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11-20:  CDAAABBDDC

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　2000年1月大学英语四级考试听力原文
　　Section A
　　1. M: Hello, Mrs. White, what can I do for you?
　　W: I don't know what's the matter with me? I'm always feeling tired, I'm usually
　　worn out at the end of the day.
　　Q: What do we learn from the conversation?
　　2. W: What do you think of the apple pie? I made it myself.
　　M: Very delicious indeed. Even my mother's cannot match this.
　　Q: What does the man mean?
　　3. M: The music is so beautiful that I'd like to dance. But I don't know the ste ps.
　　W: It doesn't matter. No one will be looking at us in his crowd.
　　Q: What does the woman suggest they do?
　　4. M: I'd better read one of the articles for our political science class.
　　W: You can't read just one. They say each presents a different theory.
　　Q: What does the woman tell the man he must do?
　　5. W: Mary is always complaining about her job.
　　M: Maybe if you tries typing letters every day, you'd see what it's like.

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　Sections B
　　Passage one
　　Paul, a salesman from London, was driving past a sports car parked outside a supemarket, when he saw it start to rool slowly down the hill. Inside the car were two young girls on the passenger seat - but no driver Paul stpped quickly, jumped in front of the sports car and tried to stop it, pushing against the fron t of the car. Another man who was standing nearby got into the car and put on th e handbrake, saving the girls from injury.
　　It was at this point that Paul noticed his own car rolling slowly down the hill and going too fast for him to stop it. It crashed into a bus at the bottom of the hill and was so badly damaged that it had to be pulled away to a garage.
　　As if this was not bad enough, Paul now found he had no one to blame. He was so busy chasing his car that he didn't get the name of the driver of the sports car, who just came out of the supermarket and drove away without realizing what had happened.
　　11. Which car was badly damaged?

　　12. Where was the driver of the sports car when the accident happened?
　　13. Who did Paul think was to blame for the accident?
　　14. Who was injured in the accident?
　　Passage Two
　　My friend, Vemon Davies kept birds. One day he phoned and told me he was going away for a week. He asked me to feed the birds for him and said that he would leave the key to his front door in my mailbox.
　　Unfortunately, I forgot all about the birds until the night before Vemon was going to return. What was worse, it was already dark when I arrived at his hous e. I soon found the key Vernon gave me could not unlock either the front door or the back door. I was getting desperate. I kept thinking of what Vemon would say when he came back.
　　I was just going to give up when I noticed that one bedroom window was slightly open. I found a barrel and pushed it under the window. As the barrel was ver y heavy, I made a lot of noise. But in the end, I managed to climbe up and open the window.
　　I actually had one leg inside the bedroom when I suddenly realized that someone was shining a torch up at me. I looked down and saw a policemna and an old lady, one of Verno's neighbours. "What are you doing up there?" said the policeman. Feeling lise a complete fool, I replied, "I was just going to feed Mr. Davies's birds." 　 www.ynexam.cn[云南考试网]

　     15. Why couldn't the man open the door?
　　16. Why did the man feel desperate
　　17. Why did the man feel like a fool?

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　　Passage Three
　　When Iragi troops blew up hundreds of Kuwaiti oil well at the end of Gulf War, scientists feared environmental disaster. Would black powder in the smoke from the fires circles the globe and block out the sun?
　　Many said "No way?; rain would wash the black pwder from the atmosphere. But in America, airsampling balloons have detected high concentrations of particles similar to those collected in Kuwait. didn't catch fire. It has formed huge lakes in the Kuwaiti dersert. They trap insects and birds, and poison a veriety of other desert animals and plants.
　　The only good news is that the oil lakes have not affected the underground water resources. So far, the oil has not been absorbed because of the hard sand just below the surface.
　　Nothing, however, stops the oil from evaporating. The resulting poisonous gases are choking nearby residents. ｙｎｅｘａｍ．ｃｎ[云南考试网]
　　Officials are trying to organize a quick cleanup, but they are not sure how to do it. One possibillity is to burn the oil. Get those black-powder detectors ready.