大学英语四级听力模拟试题(十四)

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　　m: i’ll try to bring you up to date on what we’ve done.

　　q: what does the man mean?

　　17. w: roger, your voice teacher called to ask why you were not at practice for your concert program.

　　m: i was there but i was standing with a large group and he didn’t see me.

　　q: why did the teacher not see roger at the practice?

　　18. m: the telegram just came from mary. she will arrive at 2 o’clock.

　　w: oh, good. she can rest a few hours before the concert.

　　q: what can mary do before the concert?

　　now you’ll hear two long conversations.

　

　　w: by the way, what’s your major anyway?

　　m: hotel management.

　　w: well, what do you want to do after you graduate?

　　m: uh... i haven’t decided for sure, but i think i’d like to work for a hotel or travel agency in this area. how about you?

　　w: well, when i first started college, i wanted to major in french, but i realized i might have a hard time finding a job using the language, so i changed toputer science. with the right skills, landing a job in theputer industry shouldn’t be as difficult.

　　m: so do you have a part-time job to support yourself through school?

　　w: well, fortunately for me, i received a four-year academic scholarship that pays for all of my tuition and books.

　　m: wow, that’s great.

　　w: yeah. how about you? are you working your way through school?

　　m: yeah. i work three times a week all at a restaurant near campus.

　　w: oh. what do you do there?

　　m: i’m a cook.

　　w: how do you like your job?

　　m: it’s okay. the other workers are friendly, and the pay isn’t bad.

　

　　most people think that the older you get, the harder it is to learn a new language. that is why they believe that children learn more easily than adults. thus, at some point in our lives, maybe around age twelve or thirteen we lose the ability to learn language well. is it true that children learn a foreign language more easily than adults? one report, on 2,000 danish children studying swedish, showed that the teenagers learned more, in less time, than the younger children. another report, on americans learning russian, showed that the ability to learn a language increases as the age increases from childhood to adulthood. there are several possible explanations for these results. for one thing, adults know more about the world and therefore are able to understand meanings more easily than children. moreover, adults can use logical thinking to help themselves in learning a new language. finally adults have more self-control than children.

　　therefore, it seems that themon belief that children are better learners than adults may not be true.