2019年英语四级听力材料3

坦途网英语四级考试频道在此为您带来英语四级考前冲刺技巧中听力部分内容，帮助大家在即将到来的考试中提高听力分数。在听题过程中，新闻听力的第1句至关重要，因为多数时候都是主旨句。遇到生词的时候也不要停滞不前，一直纠结，而是要注意听后面的内容。

07 Plastic

We use plastic wrap to protect our foods. We put our garbage in plastic bags or plastic cans. We sit on plastic chairs, play with plastic toys, drink from plastic cups, and wash our hair with shampoo from plastic bottles!

Plastic does not grow in nature. It is made by mixing certain things together. We call it a produced or manufactured material. Plastic was first made in the 1860s from plants, such as wood and cotton. That plastic was soft and burned easily.

The first modern plastics were made in the 1930s. Most clear plastic starts out as thick, black oil. That plastic coating inside a pan begins as natural gas.

Over the years, hundreds of different plastics have been developed. Some are hard and strong. Some are soft and bendable. Some are clear. Some are many-colored. There is a plastic for almost every need. Scientists continue to experiment with plastics. They hope to find even ways to use them!

08 Display of Goods

Are supemp3arkets designed to persuade us to buy more?

Fresh fruit and vegetables are displayed near supemp3arket entrances. This gives the impression that only healthy food is sold in the shop. Basic foods that everyone buys, like sugar and tea, are not put near each other. They are kept in different aisles so customers are taken past other attractive foods before they find what they want. In this way, shoppers are encouraged to buy products that they do not really need.

Sweets are often placed at children’s eye level at the checkout. While parents are waiting to pay, children reach for the sweets and put them in the trolley.

More is bought from a fifteen-foot display of one type of product than from a ten-foot one. Customers also buy more when shelves are full than when they are half empty. They do not like to buy from shelves with few products on them because they feel there is something wrong with those products that are there.

Useful Words and Expressions:

1. aisle 走廊，过道

2. trolley 手推车

3. checkout 收款台

09 Albert Einstein

Albert Einstein was born in Gemp3any in 1879, His father owned a factory that made electrical devices. His mother enjoyed music and books. His parents were Jewish but they did not observe many of the religion’s rules. Albert was a quite child who spent much of his time alone. He was slow to talk and had difficulty learning to read. When Albert was five years old, his father gave him a compass. The child was filled with wonder when he discovered that the compass needle always pointed in the same direction—to be north. He asked his father and his uncle what caused the needle to move. Their answers about magnetism and gravity were difficult for the boy to understand. Yet he spent a lot of time thinking about them. He said later that he felt something hidden had to be behind things.

Useful expressions and words:

1. device 装置，设备

leave to one’s own devices 听任某人自行其是，允许某人按自己的意愿做事

She left the child to her own devices for an hour in the afternoon.

她允许孩子在下午有一个小时的自由支配时间。

2. compass 指南针

beyond one’s compass某人力所不及

catch/fetch/take a compass兜圈子，绕道，拐弯抹角

keep sth within compass 把某种事物限制在适当的范围内

明天就要到来的2019年英语四级考试中，大家要轻松上阵，不要有过多的心理负担，相信自己的努力一定会回报在分数中。不论是在听力还是在其他的题型中，遇到不会的生词或者句子，不要慌张和纠结，继续往下做，把握好能够得到的每一分。预祝大家在明天的考试中顺利通过！