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英语专业四级考试录音文字材料Model Test 1PART Ⅱ DICTATIONListen to the following passage. Altogether the passage will be read to you fourtimes. During the first reading, which will be read at normal speed, listen andtry to understand the meaning. For the second and third readings, the passage will be read sentence by sentence, or perhaps phrase by phrase, with intervals of15 seconds. The last reading will be read at normal speed again and during thistime you should check your work. You will then be given 2 minutes to check through your work once more. Please write the whole passage on ANSWER SHEET TWO. Light travels at a speed which is about a million times faster than the speed of sound. In one second, light travels about 300,000 km, but sound travels only 0.334 km. You can get some idea of this difference by watching the start of a race. If you stand some distance away from the starter, you can see smoke come from the referee’s gun before the sound reaches your ears. This great speed of light produces some strange facts. Sunlight takes about 8 minutes to reach us. If you look at the light of the moon tonight, remember thatthe light rays left the moon 1.3 seconds before they reach you. The nearest star is so far away that the light which you can see from it tonight started to travel towards you four years ago. The light from some of tonight’s stars may have started on its journey to you before you were born.PART Ⅲ LISTENING COMPREHENSION In Sections A, B and C you will hear everything once only. Listen carefully and then answer the questions that follow. Mark the correct response for each question in your Answer Sheet.SECTION A STATEMENT In this section you will hear eight statements. At the end of the statement you will be given 10 seconds to answer each of the following eight questions. 1. Samuel visited Dallas on his way to New York. He is planning to go to Chicago and Philadelphia. Now he is on plane.2. Heavy rains caused the dam to collapse.3. There won’t