03~15年专四听写原文
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2003~2015
年英语专业四级考试（真题卷）听写脚本
Salmon(2003)
Every
year, millions of salmon swim from the ocean/ into
the mouths of rivers and
then steadily
up the rivers./ Passing through waters, around
rocks and waterfalls,/
the fish finally
reach their original streams or lakes./ They dig
out nests in the
riverbed and lay their
eggs./ Then, exhausted by their journey,/ the
parent salmon
die./
They
have
finished
the
task
that
nature
has
given
them.
/Months
or
years
later,
/the young fish start
their trip to the ocean. /They live in the salt
water from two
to seven years,/ until
they, too, are ready to swim back to reproduce.
/Their life
cycle helps man provide
himself with a basic
food
—
fish./ When the adult
salmon
gather at the river mouths for
the annual trip up the rivers,/ they are in the
best
possible condition,/ and nearly
every harbor has its salmon fishing fleet /ready
to
catch thousands for
markets.
Money(2004)
Money is accepted across the world as
payment for goods or services. / People use
money to buy food, clothes and hundreds
of other things. / In the past, many
different things were used as money. /
People on Pacific islands once exchanged
shells for goods. / The Chinese used
cloth and knives. / In Africa, elephant tusks or
salt
were
used.
/
Even
today,
some
people
in
Africa
are
still
paid
in
salt.
/Coins
were
first
invented by the Chinese. /Originally, they were
round pieces of metal with a
hole in
the center, / so that a piece of string could keep
them together. / This made
doing
business much easier, / but people still found
coins inconvenient to carry/
when they
wanted to buy something expensive. /To solve this
problem, the Chinese
again came up with
the solution. /They began to use paper money for
coins. / Now
paper notes are used
throughout the world./
The
wrist watches(2005)
It
is
generally
believed
that
wrist
watches
are
an
exception
/
to
the
normal
sequence
in the evolution of
man's jewelry. / Reversing the usual order, they
were first worn
by women, / and then
adopted by men. / In the old days, queens included
wrist
watches
among their
crown jewelry.
/ Later,
they
were
worn by Swiss workers
and
farmers.
/
Until
World
War
I,
Americans
associated
the
watch
with
fortune
hunters.
/ Then army officers discovered that
the wrist watch was most practical for active
combat. / Race car drivers also loved
to wear wrist watches, / and pilots found
them most useful while flying. / Soon
men dared to wear wrist watches without
feeling self-conscious. / By 1924, some
30 percent of men's watches
were
worn on
the wrist. / Today,
the figure is 90 percent. / And they are now worn
by both men
and women / for practical
purposes rather than for decoration.
The Internet(2006)
The Internet is the most significant
progress in the field of communications. /
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. /
This is the magic of the Internet. /
Yet the Internet has the potential for good and
bad. / One can find well-organized
information-rich websites. / At the same time,
one
can also find
wasteful
websites. / Most
websites are known as different
Internet
applications. / These include
online games, chat rooms (chat rooms) and so on. /
These applications have great power,
too. / Sometimes the power can be so great
/ that young people may easily become
victims to their attraction. / So we need to
recognize the seriousness of the
problem. / We must work together to use its power
for better ends./
Advertising(2007)
Advertising has already become a very
specialized activity in modern times. / In
today's business world, supply is
usually greater than demand./ There is great
competition between manufacturers of
the same kind of product,/ because they
want to persuade customers to buy their
particular brand./ They always have to
remind their customers/ of the name and
the qualities of their products by
advertising./ The manufacturer
advertises in newspapers and on the radio./ He
sometimes employs salesgirls to
distribute samples of his products. / He sometimes
advertises on the internet as well./ In
addition, he always has advertisements put
into television programs that will
accept them./ Manufacturers often spend huge
sums of money on advertisements./ We
buy a particular product because we think
that is the best./ We usually think so
because the advertisements say so./ People
often don’t ask themselves if the
advertisements are telling the truth, /when they
buy advertised products from the
shops./
Choose a
career(2008)
When students
graduate from college,/ many of them do not know
how they want
to spend their working
lives /and they sometimes move from job to job
until they
find something that suits
them/ and of equally importance to which they are
suited./ Others never find a job in
which they are really happy. /They remain all
their lives square pegs in round holes.
/When we choose our careers, we need to ask
ourselves two questions./ First, what
do we think we would like to be? /Second,