0:00 2005年英语专业四级 听写 1:25 2006年英语专业四级 听写 3:08 2007年英语专业四级 听写 2005年英语专业四级 听写 The Wrist Watch 手表 It is generally believed that wristwatches are an exception to the normal sequence in the evolution of men's jewelry. 人们普遍认为，手表是人类珠宝发展史上的一个例外。 Reversing the usual order, they were first worn by women and then adopted by men. 与通常的顺序相反，女性首先佩戴手表，然后是男性。 In the old days, queens included wristwatches among their crown jewelry. 在过去，女王的皇冠珠宝中还包括手表。 Later,they were worn by Swiss workers and farmers. 后来，瑞士工人和农民都佩戴手表。 Until World War I, Americans associated the watch with fortune hunters. 直到第一次世界大战，美国人才把手表与追求财富者联系在一起。 Then army officers discovered that the wristwatch was most practical for active combat. 后来，军官们发现手表在激烈的作战中是最实用的。 Race car drivers also loved to wear wristwatches and pilots found them most useful while flying. Soon men dared to wear wristwatches without feeling self-conscious. 赛车手也喜欢戴手表，飞行员发现手表在飞行中最有用。很快，男人就敢于戴手表而不感到难为情。 By 1924, some 30% of men's watches were worn on the wrist. 到1924年，大约30%的男性在手腕上戴手表。 Today,the figure is 90% and they are now worn by both men and women for practical purposes rather than for decoration. 如今，这一数字达到了90%，男人们和女人们都是为了实用而不是为了装饰而戴手表。 2006年英语专业四级 听写 The Internet 互联网 The Internet is the most significant progress in the field of communications. 互联网是通信领域中最重要的进步。 Imagine a book that never ends, a library with a million floors, or imagine a research project with thousands of scientists working around the clock forever. 想象一下一本书永不结束，一个有一百万层楼的图书馆，或者想象一下一个研究项目，成千上万的科学家日以继夜地工作。 This is the magic of the Internet. Yet the Internet has potential for good and bad.One can find well-organized information-rich websites. 这就是互联网的魔力。然而，互联网有好也有坏。人们可以找到信息丰富的网站。 At the same time, one can also find wasteful websites. Most websites are known as different Internet applications. 同时，人们也可以找到一些浪费资源的网站。大多数网站被称为不同的互联网应用程序。 These include online games, chat rooms and soon. These applications have great power,too. 包括在线游戏、聊天室等等。这些应用程序也具有强大的功能。 Sometimes,the power can be so great that young people may easily become victims to their attraction. 有时，互联网很强大，以至于年轻人很容易成为他们吸引力的受害者。 So we need to recognize the seriousness of the problem. We must work together to use its power for better ends. 因此，我们需要认识到问题的严重性。我们必须共同努力利用好互联网实现更好的目标。 2007年英语专业四级 听写 Advertising 广告 Advertising has already become a very specialized activity in modem times. 广告在现代已经成为一种非常专业化的活动。 In today's business world, supply is usually greater than demand. 在当今的商业世界，供给通常大于需求。 There is great competition between manufacturers of the same kind of product because they want to persuade customers to buy their particular brand. 同一种产品的制造商之间存在着巨大的竞争，因为他们想说服客户购买他们的特定品牌。 They always have to remind their customers of the name and qualities of their products by advertising. 他们总是要通过广告