新视野大学英语4视听说quiz 10
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Quiz 10
Part I
Directions: Listen to the short dialogs, then choose the correct
answers to the questions. You will hear the recording twice. After
the first playing, there will be time for you to choose the correct
answers. Use the second playing to check your answers.
1. (Listen to the audio recording for the question.)
A. A TOEFL examination.
B. Any English language examination.
C. Good luck.
D. Ill luck.
2. (Listen to the audio recording for the question.)
A. To keep evil away.
B. To wish for more money.
C. To show friendliness.
D. To treat a wound.
3. (Listen to the audio recording for the question.)
A. She will paint it brown.
B. She wants the man to paint it brown.
C. She asks the man to climb up the ladder.
D. She asks the man not to walk under the ladder.
4. (Listen to the audio recording for the question.)
A. The building is a 13-floor one.
B. The building does not have a 13th floor.
C. The building has a 13th floor but nobody lives there.
D. The building has a 13th floor but few people live there.
5. (Listen to the audio recording for the question.)
A. It causes a car accident.
B. It causes an injury.
C. It prevents bad luck.
D. It makes plenty of money.
Part II
Directions: Listen to the passage(s) three times. When the
passage is read for the first time, listen for the general idea. When
the passage is read for the second time, fill in the blanks numbered
from S1 to S7 with the exact words you hear. For blanks numbered
from S8 to S10, write down either the exact words you hear or the main points in your own words. When the passage is read for the
third time, check your answers.
Easter Island in the southern Pacific Ocean remains a mystery.
When the island was (S1) (1), it was almost
uninhabited, but there were many statues on it. People are (S2)
(2)to know who lived there before its discovery,
how they lived, and why they (S3) (3)out. Different
theories give different explanations, but none is completely
convincing.
The Easter Islanders had their own system of (S4)
(4), different from any other in the world. No other
(S5) (5)Islanders knew how to write. The American
(S6) (6)did not know how to write either. Who (S7)
(7)the Easter Islanders how to write, or did they
develop their own system? Remember that writing was first
invented in Asia only a few thousand years BC.
(S8) (8). How did the Easter Islanders get them? Is
it possible that a few Easter Islanders traveled 2,300 miles to Chile,
got sweet potatoes, and brought them back? But this is unlikely.
(S9) (9), which was only colonized in 1492. Could
Easter Island have been colonized by people from Chile? Yet, DNA
taken from graves dug up on Easter Island has shown that these
people were Polynesians, not American Indians. The Polynesians
lived on the sea and knew how to travel thousands of miles in their
small canoes. They knew where they were going. The American
Indians did not know how to do that. Yet, (S10)
(10). Also, the seeds could have been brought in the
stomachs of birds.
Your
answer Correct answer
(1) discovered discovered (2) eager
eager
(3)
died
died
(4) ridding writing
(5) pecfic Pacific
(6) Indians
(7) talked taught
(8) The Easter Islanders lived on
sweet potatoes they farmed. These
sweet potatoes came from the
Americas
(9) Remember that the distances
involved were great, further than
the distance from Europe to the
closest place in the Americas
(10) a few American Indians could have
reached Easter Island, because of
a storm, and brought the seeds of
sweet potatoes with them
Part III
Directions: Listen to the following recording, then choose the
correct answers to the questions. You will hear the recording twice.
After the first playing, there will be time for you to choose the
correct answers. Use the second playing to check your answers.
1. When did people begin to record animals falling from skies?
A. Hundreds of years ago.
B. Thousands of years ago.
C. In 1877.
D. In 1957.
2. What did Dr. Smith notice?
A. An alligator climbing ashore.
B. An alligator falling to the ground, seriously wounded.
C. An alligator falling to the ground dead.
D. An alligator falling to the ground and crawling towards the
