四级听力SPOT DICTIONS 强化练习19篇

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1. British holidaying habits

British Holidaying Habits

In the late 1970s, air travel became _______ for the average family in the UK, and more people started

_______ abroad for their summer holidays. After all, the British weather wasn't very good, even in summer, so

a lot of people left the country for a _______. In the 1980s and the 1990s, young people in the UK became

_______ on average. As a result, they started to go abroad in groups, to places such as _______ and Greece.

Once they arrived at their _______, they met with other groups of young people and had one long _______.

British holidaying habits have begun to change, however. Climate change means that the UK now has a

_______ climate, so people do not need to go _______ to find good weather. Also, going abroad is more

expensive. As a result, more British people are _______ to spend their summer holidays in the UK.

2. stress

Stress is a very _______ part of life. Most people feel stress at some time in their lives. It doesn't come

from an _______ itself, that is, from the things that are happening in our lives. It comes from the meaning we

give to what has happened. We can _______ stress any time we feel we don't have control. It can't come from a

feeling that we can do anything about a situation. Stress is not just caused by our mental or _______ condition.

It is also influenced by how tired we are, whether we have a _______ diet with enough vitamins and minerals,

whether we get enough physical exercise and whether we can relax. If we feel stressed, there are several things

that we can do. First, we need to learn how to relax and breathe slowly and _______. We can also take some

time out of our worried, busy schedule to notice the small things in life. _______ the air, look at the flowers,

notice the small designs in the _______ on a tree — these activities can do much to quiet us and to give

ourselves a small break in a busy schedule. We need to take care of our bodies. Being tired makes it easier for

us to get sick and to develop physical problems related to stress. We need to get enough rest, eat well, and do

some _______ exercise. Finally, we need to find what is _______ the stress in our lives. Once we have found it,

we need to begin to change that part of our lives. If we believe that we can control stress, we can begin to

control our lives.

3. What did children learn long time ago?

There was once a time, a long time ago, when children had a different way of life. Back during this point

in history, the only thing that children needed to learn was how to _______ with the environment around them.

They had to learn physical survival skills such as being _______ around moving objects and drawing back

when they met something _______. They didn't need to attend schools because they could learn everything

from the school of experience. The experience of their daily lives gave them enough education to survive

during that less complex period. School was not necessary for them to learn other skills because their parents

would teach them all they needed to know about _______ their food and plowing the earth. Learning the basic

survival skills of how to _______ oneself and grow food was the only thing most people needed to learn during

that time period. Slowly, however, life became more complex, and people found the need to communicate with

people in _______ places. The world was expanding, and people needed to _______ with people outside of

their little town or village for business or for personal reasons. Then, it became important that children learn to

read and write. When money became the form of buying and selling, they needed to learn how to count and 2 _______. These things were fundamental for children to know in order to survive in this more _______ world.

And because these skills

could not be learned from _______ experience, schools became necessary to teach

them these skills. Children were taught what are now called the three Rs, reading, writing, and arithmetic.

4. John Milton

When John

Milton, writer of Paradise Lost, entered Cambridge University in 1625, he was already

_______ in Latin after seven years of studying it as his second language at St. Paul's school, London. Like all

English boys who prepared for college in _______ school, he had learned not only to read Latin but also to

speak and write it _______ and correctly. His pronunciation of Latin was English, however, and seemed to have

sounded strange to his friends when he later visited Italy. Schoolboys gained their skill in Latin in a _______