听力真题

Test 9
Section C
A very large number of people (36) ______ when quite young to add anything to a limited stock of judgments. After a certain age, say 25, they consider that their education is (37) ______ .
It's perhaps (38) ______ that having passed through that painful and boring process, called expertly education, they should suppose it over, and that they are (39) ______ for life to label every event as it (40) ______ and drops it into its given pigeonhole (分类架，文件架). But one who has a label ready for everything does not bother to observe any more, even such (41) ______ happenings as he has observed for himself, with attention, before he went to school. He (42) ______ acts and reacts.
For people who have stopped (43) ______ , the only possible new or renewed experience, and, therefore, new knowledge, is from a work of art. Because that is the only kind of experience (44) _____________________________________________________________ , they will come out from their shells and expose themselves to music, to a play, to a book, because it is the accepted method of enjoying such things. True, even to plays and books they may bring artistic prejudices which prevent them from seeing or comprehending that book. (45) ______________________________________________________________________ .
But it is part of an artist's job to break crusts, or let us say (46) _____________________________________________________________________________ because they want to communicate their intuitions (直觉).

答案解析

答案解析：
36. cease
解析：根据第36题在句子中的位置可以知道：此处需要一个动词。A very large number of people cease when quite young to add anything to a limited stock of judgments. 意思是“许多人在他们很年轻的时候就不再为自己有限的见识补充任何东西。”此词不要误听成seize。
37. finished
解析：系动词之后如果是动词的某种形式的话，要么是-ed，要么是-ing。finish后的-ed不要漏掉。
38. natural
解析：natural a. 自然的，正常的，常用于it's natural that...或it's natural for sb. to do sth. 结构中；不要写成nature n. 自然，自然界。
39. equipped
解析：不要漏掉-ed，并双写p。be equipped for“为……做准备”。
40. occurs
解析：当句子的主语是单数第三人称时，要特别注意谓语动词的形式。不要漏掉s。
41. ordinary
解析：ordinary a. 平常的，普通的，平凡的；ordinary happening“平常的事”。
42. merely
解析：根据第42题在句子中的位置可以知道动词前一定是个副词。merely ad. 仅仅，只，不过。
43. noticing
解析：stop doing sth.“停止做某事”，不要写成notice。
44. 标准答案：that they are prepared to receive on its own terms
听音关键：prepared to receive，on its own terms
答案重构：1) that they are ready to receive for its own sake
2) that they are prepared to accept as it is
画龙点睛：要听写的部分在句子中作定语，因此其语法结构上受到较大的限制。最好是能够照原文逐字听写出来。on one's own terms根据自身的特点，在本句中，相当于for its own sake, as it is。这部分的意思是：因为这是唯一一种他们愿意根据事物自身的特点来接受的经验。be prepared to相当于be ready to, be willing to；receive相当于 accept。
45. 标准答案：Their artistic sensibilities may be as crusted over as their minds
听音关键： artistic sensibilities，crusted over，as their minds
答案重构：1) Their artistic sensibilities may be as dull as their minds
2) They may have lost their artistic sensitivity, just as they have lost curiosity for new things in their mind
画龙点睛：本句的难点之一是crusted，不过可以从下文中得到该词的拼写。crust指“外壳、硬皮、硬壳”。crusted指“陈年的，古老的，迟钝的”。还有要注意sensibilities是用复数形式。
46. 标准答案：that artists who are interested in breaking crusts
听音关键：artists, work for the public, not merely for themselves, interested in breaking crusts
答案重构：1) that artists who work for the public and not only for themselves are interested in sharpening the public's sensitivity
2) that artists who are not self-centered would like to break crusts
画龙点睛：定语从句who work for the public and not merely for themselves虽然比较长，但是没有什么难词，也不会构成多大的困难。因此，本句以“原词照搬”为听写的最佳方案。