大学英语四级听力练习材料

我们的事业就是学习再学习，努力积累更多的`知识，因为有了知识，社会就会有长足的进步，人类的未来幸福就在于此。以下是小编为大家搜索整理的大学英语四级听力练习材料，希望能给大家带来帮助!更多精彩内容请及时关注我们应届毕业生考试网!

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part 1

Passage 33 My Perfect Wife

I am a twenty-two-year-old male, single, and live at home with my parents.At my age, I am always looking for a great girl to be with for the rest of my life. The perfect wife will be different to every man because no two men are looking for the same qualities in a wife. People say that the appearance of a mate should not make any difference, but it is nice to have someone decent-looking.The physical aspects of the girl will play an important role in whom I pick for my wife. I think overall, I want a slim-figured woman with a pretty face. I am a very energetic person, the type of person that cannot just stay home and do nothing. I would want a wife who would want to play a game of tennis or would go running with me.

I would want her to be involved with life instead of watching television or reading a book all night. She needs to be energetic, enjoy camping, boating, or just taking a couple of weeks off and traveling. The woman of my dreams must be full of energy and able to cope with everyday happenings. I would also like to have a wife who is well-educated. She does not necessarily have to have a four-year college degree but should be a girl who knows what is going on in the world. She must be ambitious in her career rather than relying on her husband’s income. She needs to be helpful, knowledgeable about financial and practical household matters. My wife must be intelligent enough to make decisions on her own without relying on me. She must be a woman with a brain as well as good looks. There is no doubt that the “perfect wife” is hard to find.I think no two people should be married until they are totally convinced that they are made for each other.

part 2

Intelligence

Are some people born clever, and others born stupid? Or is intelligence developed by our environment and our experience?

Strangely enough, the answer to these questions is yes. To some extent our intelligence is given us at birth, and no amount of special education can make a genius out of a child born with low intelligence. On the other hand, a child who lives in a boring environment will develop his intelligence less than one who lives in rich and varied surroundings. Thus, the limits of a person’s intelligence are fixed at birth, whether or not he reaches those limits will depend on his environment. This view, held by most experts now, can be supported in a number of ways. As is easy to show that intelligence is to some extent something we are born with. The closer the blood relationship between two people is, the closer they are likely to be in intelligence.

A Place of Our Own

We are all usually very careful when we buy something for the house. Why? Because we have to live with it for a long time. We paint a room to make it brighter, so we choose the colors carefully.

We buy new curtains in order to match the newly decorated room, so they must be the right color. We move the furniture round so as to make more space—or we buy new furniture—and so on. It is an endless business.

Rich or poor, we take time to furnish a room. Perhaps some people buy furniture in order to impress their friends. But most of us just want to enjoy our surroundings. We want to live as comfortably as we can afford to. We spend a large part of our lives at home. We want to make a small corner in the world which we can recognize as our own.