1、现代大学英语听力4答案及原文Unit 1Task 1:【答案】A.Event YearKenny G was born. 1956He toured Europe with his High School band. 1971He made his first solo album. 1982He won released his most successful album. 1993He won the Best Artist Award. 1994He broke the world record for playing a single note. 1997B1) F2) F3) T【原
2、文】Saxophonist Kenny 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 st
3、arted his career as 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
4、 Artist Award at the 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 playerUS President Bill Clintonat the Gala for the President concert in Washington, and to break the world record for playing a single note (
5、45 minutes and 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 2:【答案】1) c2) d3)
6、c【原文】 Senn: Everybody always has this misconception that female policemen dont do the same thing as men do, you know. Ive worked. Interviewer: Thats not true Senn: That is not true! Ive worked my share of graveyard shifts, and, you know, split shifts, and double-back and no days off, and. Interviewe
7、r: Uh-huh. Senn: .as much as the next guy. Theres no distinction used if theres a male or female officer on duty. Two men on dutyIll refer to as two men, cause in my field theres no difference between the genders. Were still the same. Okay, if theres two men on dutyjust because ones a female, she st
8、ill gets in on the same type of call. If theres a bar disturbance downtown, then we go too. Theres been many times where being the only officer on dutythats it! Its just me and whoever else is on duty in the county. They can come back me up if I need assistance. And it does get a little hairy. You g
9、o in there, and you have these great big, huge monster-guys, and theyre just drunker than skunks, and cant see three feet in front of them. And when they see you, they see fifteen people, and you know. But still, theres enough. Interviewer: Thats where the uniform is important, I should imagine. Sen
10、n: Sometimes, you know. If somebody is going toor has a bad day, and they are out to get a cop, you know, it doesnt matter if youre, you know, boy, girl, infant or anything! When youve got that cop uniform on, theyll still take it out on you.Interviewer: Yeah. Senn: But I think theres one advantage
11、to being a female police officer. And that is the fact that most men still have a little respect, and they wont smack you as easy as they would one of the guys.Interviewer: Uh-huh. Senn: But Ill tell you one thing Ive learnedId rather deal with ten drunk men that one drunk woman any day of the week!
12、 Interviewer: Well, why is that Senn: Because women are so unpredictable. You cannot ever predict what a womans going to do. Interviewer: Hmm. Senn: Especially, if shes agitated, you know. Interviewer: Emotionally upset. Senn: Yeah. I saw a lady one time just get mad at the guy she was with because
13、he wouldnt buy her another drink take off her high heel and lay his head wide open. Yuch! Oh, they can be so vicious, you know.Task 3:【答案】1) d2) b3) b4) b【原文】You are watching a film in which two men are having a fight. They hit one another hard. At the start they only fight with their fists. But soo
14、n they begin hitting one another over the heads with chairs. And so it goes on until one of the men crashes through a windowand falls thirty feet to the ground below. He is dead！Of course he isnt really dead. With any luck he isnt even hurt. Why Because the men who fall out of high windows or jump f
15、rom fast-moving trains, who crash cars of even catch fire, are professionals. They do this for a living. These men are called “stunt men”. That is to say, they perform “tricks”. There are two sides to their work. They actually do most of the things you see on the screen. For example, they fall from
16、a high building. However, they do not fall on to hard ground but on to empty cardboard boxes covered with a mattress. Again, when they hit one another with chairs, the chairs are made of soft wood and when they crash through windows, the glass is made of sugar! But although their work depends on tri
17、ck of this sort, it also requires a high degree of skill and training. Often a stunt mans success depends on careful timing. For example, when he is blown up in a battle scene, he has to jump out of the way of the explosion just at the right moment. Naturally stuntmen are well-paid for their work, b
18、ut they lead dangerous lives. They often get seriously injured, and sometimes killed. A Norwegian stuntman, for example, skied over the edge of a cliff a thousand feet high. His parachute failed to openand he was killed. In spite of all the risks, this is no longer a profession for “men only”. Men n
19、o longer dress up as women when actresses have to perform some dangerous action. For nowadays there are “stunt girls” too！Task 4:【答案】1) He started writing poetry when he was about 14 or 15.2) He has published four books.3) His first book came out when he was about 26. It wasnt easy. He got a lot of
20、his work rejected at first.4) The British, or at least the English, are embarrassed by it. Theyre embarrassed by people who reveal personal feelings, emotions, thoughts and wishes.【原文】When Thomas Edison was born in the small town of Milan, Ohio, in 1847, America was just beginning its great industri
21、al development. In his lifetime of eighty-four years, Edison shared in the excitement of Americas growth into a modern nation. The time in which he lived 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 stud
22、ent. 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. When he was six, he set fire to his fathers barn “to see what would happen.” The barn burned down. When he was ten, Edison built his own chemistry
23、 laboratory. He sold sandwiches and newspapers on the 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 as a sales boy with the railroad introduced him to
24、the telegraph and, with a friend, he built his own telegraph set. 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. Task 5:【答案】1815， 1914， 35millionI. A. villages，s
25、eaportB. danger，long ocean voyageC. a new land，a new languageD. finding a place to liveII. a better life，opportunity，freedomIII. A. England, Germany, Russia, Hungary B. Roman Catholic, JewishC. customs，languagesIV. A. Americanized，disappeared.B. havent disappeared，customs，identitiesV. A. were cheate
26、d，prejudice，mistreatedB. hardest，least-paid，dirtiest，most overcrowded D. rejected，old-fashioned，ashamedovercome【原文】Thousands of people came to American cities before Blacks and Puerto Ricans did. Between 1815 and 1914, more than 35 million Europeans crossed the ocean to find new homes in the United
27、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 them faced the same kinds of problems getting to America: the hardship of going from their villages to a
28、 seaport, the unpleasantnesseven dangerof 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 country.Every immigrant had his own reasons for coming to America. But nearly all shared one reason: They h
29、oped 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, Russia, Italy, Hungary and many others.They came with many different religions: Roman Catholic, Jewish, Quaker,
30、 Greek Orthodox.They brought many different customs and many languages.Some people have called the United States a melting pot. After immigrants were here awhilein the melting potthey became Americanized. Differences were melted down. They gradually disappeared.Some people say no. America isnt a mel
31、ting 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 given America great strength.Melting pot Salad bowl Perhaps theres some troth to both ideas.In any case, life i
32、n America was hard for most immigrantsespecially at first. Often they were cheated. Often they met with prejudice. They were often laughed at, even mistreated, by people who themselves 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 overc
