2010年6月大学英语四级考试听力预测试题(5)

　　Passage Two

　　Too often young people get themselves employment quite by accident,not knowing what lies in the way of opportunity for promotion,happiness and security.As a result,they are employed doing jobs that afford them little or no satisfaction.Our school graduates face so much competition that they seldom care what they do so long as they can earn a living.Some stay long at a job and learn to like it,others move from one job to another looking for something to suit them.The young graduates who leave the university look forjobs that offer a salary up to their expectations.Very few go out into the world knowing exactly what they want and realizing their own abilities.Nearly all search about in the darkness and their chief concern when they look for a job is to ask what the salary is like.They never bother to think whether they are suited for the job or,even more important,whether the job suits them.Having a job is more than merely providing yourself and your dependents with daily bread and some money for leisure and entertainment.It sets a pattern of life and,in many ways,determines social status in life,selection of friends,leisure and interests.In choosing a career you should first consider the type of work which will suit your interests.Nothing is more sad than taking on a job in which you have no interest,for it will not only discourage your desire to succeed in life but also waste your talents and ultimately make you an emotionally bitter person.

　　Questions 14 to 16 are based on the passage you have just heard.

　　14.Which of the following is the best title for this passage?

　　15.What are graduates mainly concerned about when looking for a job?

　　16.Which of the following statements is true according to the passage?

　　Passage Three

　　Bill Grant was a famous newspaper editor in the United States.He worked for the same newspaper from 1926 to 1968..He started as a clerk in 1948.

　　Later he became the editor.That was the position he held until he retired.Bill wrote his first story for the paper the day the New York Stock Market crashed in 1929.When the first news of the stock market crash came into the office,Bill immediately sat down and wrote up the story.The editor liked it so much that he used the story.And he didn't make any changes into it.After that the editor decided Bill should be a writer.He felt that Bill was not using his ability working as a clerk.After the first story Bill became especially interested in financial news.But he wrote stories on just about everything.In 1945 he spent 5 months in Europe.His editor had decided he should write about the end of World War II.One of Bill's greatest moments came in 1946.A story he had written on war won the National Newspaper's Award.Bill took the prize but he gave all the credit to his editor.It was just before Christmas in 1976 that he learned that he had cancer.Six months later he was dead.But he never stopped his work as an editor.The day before he died he had spent a full day at the office.

　　Questions 17 to 20 are based on the passage you have just heard.]17.When did Bill begin working for the paper?

　　18.Why was he made a writer for the paper?

　　19.Which of the following statements is not true about Bill?

　　20.How did Bill die?