2012年大学英语四级听力模拟训练(24)
日期:2012-06-01 10:01

(单词翻译:单击)

听力理解1
Section A
  Directions: In this section, you will hear 8 short conversations and 2 long conversations. At the end of each conversation, one
  or more questions will be asked about what was said. Both the conversation and the questions will be spoken only once. After each question there will be a pause. During the pause, you must read the four choices marked [A ], [ B], [C] and [ D ], and
  decide which is the best answer. Then mark the corresponding letter on Answer Sheet 2 with a single line through the centre.
  注意:此部分试题请在答题卡2上作答。
  11. [A] At the dentist’s.
  [B] At a grocery.
  [C] At a lawyer’s.
  [D] At a psychiatrist’s.
  12. [A] Purchase some ingredients.
  [B] Give the man a recipe.
  [C] Write down the directions to the supermarket.
  [D] Check to see if the stew is ready.
  13. [A] She doesn’t like to watch basketball.
  [B] She would like the man to accompany her to the game.
  [C] She doesn’t have a television.
  [D] She’ll sell the man her ticket.
  14. [A] He failed to finish the experiment that day.
  [B] He hasn’t had time to do the experiment.
  [C] He did only part of the experiment.
  [D] The experiment turned out well.
  15. [A] The man is a football fan.
  [B] The man needs the woman’s help.
  [C] The man didn’t watch TV last night.
  [D] The man often has power failure at home.
  16. [A] An art museum.
  [B] A beautiful park.
  [C] A college campus.
  [D] An architecture exhibition.
  17. [A] Mike should have arrived at 8:00.
  [B] Mike will arrive at 8:30.
  [C] Mike is usually punctual.
  [D] Mike is not very punctual.
  18. [A] Airplane.
  [B] Bus.
  [C] Subway.
  [D] Car.
  Questions 19 to 22 are based on the conversation you have just heard.
  19.
  [A] Tobacco advertisement.
  [B] Tobacco companies.
  [C] Smoking men.
  [D] Smoking women.
  20.
  [A] 14,000.
  [B] 15,000.
  [C] 140,000.
  [D] 1,400,000.
  21.
  [A] A light cigarette contains low nicotine.
  [B] Smoking a light cigarette is different from smoking a regular one.
  [C] Women who smoke light cigarettes want to get higher levels of nicotine.
  [D] Tobacco companies advertise cigarettes as "light" to obscure smoking risks.
  22.
  [A] Macho or cool expression.
  [B] Social and culture events.
  [C] Sports and entertainment.
  [D] Social and political issues.
  Questions 23 to 25 are based on the conversation you have just heard.
  23.
  [A] By train and by car.
  [B] By plane and by coach.
  [C] By train and by bus.
  [D] By bus and by plane.
  24.
  [A] Short hair.
  [B] Glasses.
  [C] Moustache.
  [D] Beard.
  25.
  [A] In the third room on the right.
  [B] In the Common Room.
  [C] In a room at this end.
  [D] In Room 501.
   Section B
   Directions: In this section, you will hear 3 short passages. At the end of each passage, you will hear some questions. Both the passage and the questions will be spoken only once. After you hear a question, you must choose the best answer from the four choices marked [ A], [ B ],[C]and [D ]. Then mark the corresponding letter on Answer Sheet 2 with a single line through the centre.
  注意:此部分试题请在答题卡2上作答。
  Passage One
  Questions 26 to 28 are based on the passage you have just heard.
  26. [A] We have to use first our eyes, then the brain and finally the muscles.
  [B] We have to make our eyes, brain and muscles work almost at the same time.
  [C] We have to use mainly the arms and legs to hit.
  [D] We have to use mainly the muscles so that the ball is met and hit back.
  27. [A] What he does out of class.
  [B] What he learns in books.
  [C] His place in society.
  [D] His lessons in school.
  28. [A] It is its members.
  [B] It is its team work.
  [C] It is the football field.
  [D] It is the climate.
听力理解2
  Passage Two
  Questions 29 to 31 are based on the passage you have just heard.
  29. [A] They live in twenty rainforests.
  [B] They live in several hundred different varieties of trees.
  [C] They live in a forty-degree band of latitude.
  [D] They live in areas where the rainforest has been cleared.
  30. [A] One acre per minute.
  [B] One acre per second.
  [C] One hundred acres per minute.
  [D] Two hundred acres per hour.
  31.
  [A] The land will be eroded by the rains.
  [B] Many species of plants and animals that depend on the ra inforest will become extinct.
  [C] The future of the human species may be changed.
  [D] The rainforest will grow, but at a much slower rate.
  Passage Three
  Questions 32 to 35 are based on the passage you have just heard.
  32.
  [A] To complain about car dealers.
  [B] To offer advice to prospective car buyers.
  [C] To sell new cars.
  [D] To explain how to finance a car.
  33.
  [A] In December.
  [B] In the fall.
  [C] On the first day of the month.
  [D] At the end of the week.
  34. [A] Negotiating a lower price than the one that appears on the sticker.
  [B] Not telling the dealer that you have a car to trade in.
  [C] Financing the new car at the dealership.
  [D] Buying a car that is on the dealer’s lot instead of ordering one.
  35.
  [A] Negotiating a price for most purchases is not common in the United States.
  [B] Car dealers in the United States are not honest.
  [C] New cars are very expensive in the United States.
  [D] Most shoppers have a car to trade in.
  Section C
  Directions: In this section, you will hear a passage three times. When the passage is read for the first time, you should listen carefully for its general idea. When the passage is read for the second time, you are required to fill in the blanks numbered from 36 to 43 with the exact words you have just. heard. For blanks numbered from 44 to 46 you are required to fill in the missing information. For these blanks, you can either use the exact words you have just heard or write down the main points in your own words. Finally, when the passage is read.for the third time, you should check what you have written.
  注意:此部分试题在答题卡2上;请在答题卡2上作答。
  Part III Section C
  British workers are suffering "email stress" because they are swamped with messages and constantly monitoring their inboxes.
  Staffers are left tired, (36) __________ and unproductive as they (37) __________to cope with a constant deluge of emails, researchers from Glasgow and Paisley universities in Scotland have found.
  More than a third said they thought they checked their inboxes every 15 minutes and 64 percent said they looked more than once an hour.
  When researchers (38 ) __________ monitors to their computers, workers were found to be viewing e-mails up to 40 times an hour.
  About 33percent said they felt stressed by the (39) __________ " of e-mails and the need to reply quickly. A further 28 percent said they felt "driven" when they checked messages because of the pressure to (40) __________ Just 38 percent of workers were (41) __________enough to wait a day or longer before replying.
  Researchers found that many workers felt "(42) __________ " by e-mails interrupting them as they tried to (43) __________ on their work. (44) __________Karen Renaud, a computer scientist at Glasgow University, and Judith Ramsay, a psychologist at Paisley University, surveyed almost 200 workers.
  They concluded, "Email has become an indispensable tool in business. (45) __________and that many computer users experience stress as a result of email-related pressure. "
  Renaud said, "(46 ) __________
答案详解
11.A综合推断题。通过对话中提到的Open your mouth及injection,我们可推知对话的场景应该是在牙医诊所。
  *考点
  ●牙医与病人常用的词汇:toothache,decayed tooth,needle,cavity,appetite,dentist,pain—killer,give an injection等。
  12.B综合推断题。女士说所有的配料都能在超市里买到,并索要笔和纸。由此可知,女士打算把配料的名称写出来,选项B中的recipe有“食谱,配方”之意,所以B正确。
  13.D综合推断题。女士说她有一张票,但是身体不适不想去,男士可以用她买票的价钱得到这张票,言外之意,女士打算把这张票卖给男士,选项D与之相符。
  14.D综合推断题。女士说那个实验应该难不倒男士,男士回答说的确是不难,但没想到做那个实验花了自己那么长的时间,言外之意是实验完成得还可以。选项A和B与之意义相反,选项C并未提及,故选D。
  *考点
  ●expect的常见用法:
  ①“预料,预计”,如:I expect I will be back on Sunday.(我预计星期日回来。)
  ②“盼望,期望”,如:I expect to take the linguistics course.(我希望学语言学课程。)③“认为,猜想”,如:I expect it was Tom who has eaten all the cake.(我猜想是汤姆把蛋糕都吃完了。)
  15.A综合推断题。女士问男士为什么不高兴,男士说他家昨晚停电了,他错过了大半场足球比赛,由此可知,男士是位足球迷,所以A正确。
  *考点
  ●smart是口语中常用到的一个小词,词性及意思较多,常用作形容词,其常见的用法有:
  ①“漂亮的,潇洒的”,如:Tina always swears smart clothes.(蒂娜总穿漂亮的衣服。)
  ②“精明的,聪明的”,如:Tom is a smart businessman.(汤姆是个精明的商人。)
  16.C综合推断题。女士一开始就说非常喜欢这个校园,然后说喜欢里面的大树、草坪和老建筑,男士解释说这些建筑是希腊风格的,在18世纪特别流行,由此可知,他们在谈论大学校园,所以C正确。
  17.D综合推断题。女士问迈克什么时候到,男士说迈克说自己6点半到,但是如果你了解他,就会知道他至少8点才能到,由此可知,迈克不守时,所以D正确。
  18.D信息明示题。由对话中的pick up和if the traffic isn’t too heavy可知,他们应该是开车去纽约,正确答案为D。
  *考点
  ●与“交通工具”相关的词汇:car,bus,train,plane,subway,taxi,coach,bicycle,flight,airway,airport,board,fly,take off, land,park,check in,gate number等。
  Conversation One
   19.D主旨题。男士先提到每年有大量的女性由于吸烟而死亡,然后又指出女性选择的低焦油含量的烟草和普通烟草一样有害,接下来又提到烟草商为了吸引人们购买而采用的广告策略,由此可知,对话是关于女性吸烟的内容,所以D正确。
  20.C信息明示题。男士提到,每年有超过140,000的女性因为吸烟而死亡,所以C正确。
  21.D信息明示题。男士指出,那些烟草商宣传的低焦油含量的香烟只是一种广告策略,模糊了吸烟的危害,其实那些香烟的危害和其他普通香烟的危害是一样的,所以D正确。
  22.D信息明示题。男士提到,烟草商非常聪明,针对男性的烟草广告强调男人味和劲酷感,而针对女性的烟草广告则侧重社交和政治方面,所以D正确。
  Conversation Two
   23.C信息明示题。男士说他哥哥把他送到火车站,最后他又乘坐公共汽车,由此可知,男士是乘坐火车和公共汽车到达这里的,所以C正确。
  24.B综合推断题。女士说男士和照片上相比变化很大,胡子的样子发生了变化,而且也没有戴眼镜,由此可知,男士过去不戴眼镜,故选B。
  25.B信息明示题。对话最后女士提到,5点半在一层走廊另一端的Common Room开会,选项中的Room 501
  和the room on the fight都是指男士的宿舍,所以B正确。
  Section B
   Passage One
  文章精要
  文章指出,体育运动和比赛能使我们的身体更加强壮,使我们保持健康,不会发胖。但是,体育运动的作用不仅在于此,它还能帮助我们锻炼眼睛、大脑和肌肉的协调性。此外,体育运动还对我们的性格塑造有很大帮助。
  26.B信息明示题。文章第一段第三句指出,体育运动是可以使眼睛、大脑和肌肉协调工作的重要练习。第一段倒数第二句指出,所有这些(网球)动作都必须非常迅速地完成,并且只有经过大量训练的人才能够成功地完成这一连串动作,由此可知,在打网球时,眼睛、大脑和肌肉必须同时工作,所以B正确。
  27.A综合推断题。文章第二段第二句指出,与从书本上学到的知识相比,亲身体验对孩子性格的影响更大,由此可知,孩子受课外活动的影响更大,所以A正确。
  28.B综合推断题。文章最后一句指出,如果他们每个人都能学会在足球场上为自己的队伍而不是为自己努力,那么以后他就会自然而然地为自己的国家而不是仅仅为了自己的利益而工作,由此可知,这里讲的是团队协作精神,也就是说对于足球队来说最重要的就是团队协作,所以B正确。
  Passage Two
  文章精要
  文章指出,热带雨林生长在赤道南北纬20度之间,地球上超过一半的物种生活在那里。然而,目前已经有一半的热带雨林遭到了破坏,科学家估计,每年有大约五千万亩热带雨林被破坏,由此造成的恶果就是,雨水不断侵蚀土地。地表土层越来越薄,植物无法生长,地区的生态遭到永久性的破坏。
  29.C综合推断题。文章第一段指出,热带雨林生长在赤道南北纬20度之间,是地球上超过一半物种的栖息地。所以C项“地球上超过一半的物种生活在40度的纬度带”是正确的。
  30.C信息明示题。文章第二段提到,每60秒就有100亩热带雨林被破坏,所以C正确。
  31.D信息明示题。文章第二段提到,持续的降雨会侵蚀土地,所以排除A;第二段还提到,成千上万个物种会灭绝,所以排除B;第二段最后提到,地区的生态会遭到永久性的破坏,可见,作者认为人类的未来也可能会因受到影响而改变,所以排除C;只有D项文章中没有提到,所以选D。
  Passage Three
  文章精要
  文章指出,决定好购买的车型和预算后,要多跑几个商家。在美国,买汽车是可以讲价的。为了节省更多的钱,首先,在谈妥价格之前不要让商家知道你已经有了一辆车并打算折价购物;其次,买商家已有的车,而不要订购;再次,在年底的时候买车,如果不能等到年底,至少也要等到月末;最后,交易结束前不要提是打算现金支付还是银行转账。
  32.B主旨题。文章第一段就指出,在美国,买车是可以讲价的,因此要多去几个商家;第二段就怎样省钱给出了几个建议,由此可知,文章主要是为打算买车的人提供一些建议,所以B正确。
  33.A信息明示题。文章第二段指出,买新车最好在年末,在来年新车型上市之前,经销商愿意给新车腾出空间,言外之意,此时比较容易以更低的价格买到车,所以A正确。
  34.C信息明示题。文章第二段提到,首先,在谈妥价格之前不要让商家知道你已经有了一辆车并打算折价购物;其次,买商家已有的车,而不要订购;再次,在年底的时候买车,如果不能等到年底,那最好也要等到月末;最后,交易结束前不要提是打算现金支付还是银行转账,但是文中并没有提到为买新车而筹款,故选C。
  35.A综合推断题。文章第一段指出,在美国,买汽车是少数几个可以议价的买卖之一,由此可知,在美国买东西讲价是很少见的,所以A正确。其他选项文章中并没有提及。
  Section C
  文章精要
  本文主要讲的是英国职员正饱受“电子邮件之苦”,因为他们经常有大量邮件需要快速回复,他们需要不时地检查邮箱,因而无法专心工作。对于这一现象,计算机科学家表示,电子邮件是种不可思议的工作工具,但现在却给人们的工作带来了巨大问题,它已经无法控制。
  36.frustrated37.struggle38.fitted39.volume
  40.respond 41.relaxed 42.invaded 43.concentrate
  44.They felt pressured to switch applications to see whether the e—mails were urgent
  45.However, there is evidence that e-mail can exert a powerful hold over its users
  46.E-mail is the thing that now causes US the most problems in our working lives.It’s an amazing tool, but it’s got out of hand.
听力原文1

Section A
  11.W:Come along now.Open your mouth.I can’t give you the injection with your mouth closed, can I?
  M:I…I…I don’t want an injection.I hate needles.
  Q:Where is the conversation most probably taking place?
  12.M:This stew is delicious.I’d love to be able to make it myself.
  W:Why not? You can get all the ingredients at any supermarket.Here, let me get a pencil and paper.
  Q:What will the woman probably do next?
  13.M:The basketball team is in the play-offs and I don’t have a ticket.I guess I’ll just watch it on TV.Do you want to come over?
  W:Actually I have a ticket.but I’m not feeling welt.You can have it for what it cost me.
  Q:What does the woman mean?
  14.W:Have you finished the assignment given by Professor Smith? I don’t think you have much difficulty doing that experiment?
  M:NO.but I didn’t expect it would take me most of the day.
  Q:What does the man mean?
  15.W:You don’t look smart this morning.I can see you’re not happy.Come on.what happened?
  M:I had never expected this would have happened to me.We had a power failure at home last night and I missed most of the football match.
  Q:What can we infer from the conversation?
  16.W:Well,I do like this campus,all the big trees,the green lawns,and the old buildings with tall columns.It’s really beautiful.
  M:It sure is.The architecture of these buildings is in the Greek style.It was popular in the 18th century here.
  Q:What are the speakers talking about?
  17.W:When is Mike coming?
  M:Well,he said he’d be here at half past six,but if you know him,it will be at least eight O’clock.
  Q:What do we know about Mike?
  18.M:Can we travel to New York together?
  W:Certainly.I’ll pick you up at 2:00 and we should arrive in New York by 5:00 if the traffic isn’t too heavy.
  Q:What means of transportation are the man and the woman using?
  Now you’ll hear two long conversations.
  Conversation One
  M:Yael, what’s that in your hand?
  W:Come on, Don. Haven’t you seen a cigarette before? Every day in the United States,about 1,500 girls begin smoking, and I figured, why not do my share?
  M:But Yael, don’t you know that tobacco kills more than 140,000 women each year, and that half of those women are between the ages of thirty-five and sixty-nine?
  W:Yeah.but that’s why I smoke a brand with low nicotine and tar content.
  M:Although tobacco companies advertise some cigarettes as "light", this is just an advertising ploy to obscure the risks associated with smoking-smoking a light cigarette is just as risky as smoking a regular one.In fact,research shows that people who smoke light cigarettes actually smoke differently in order to get higher levels of nicotine.
  W:I didn’t know that.
  M:The one thing you can say about tobacco companies is that they are really savvy about marketin9.While tobacco ads that target men focus on cigarettes as macho or cool,tobacco ads that target women focus on social and political themes important to women. For example,ads will say that you’ve come a long way,or that you’ve found your voice,or encourage you to just be yourself, as if smoking has anything to do with progress and self-expression.Young women are especially vulnerable to these ads because addiction,disease,and premature death seem so remote to them.And the thing is,people who have smoked as few as one hundred cigarettes report having difficulty quitting.
  W:S0.Don.can you pass me that ashtray?
  M:With pleasure, Yael, as long as you put it out.
  Questions 19 to 22 are based on the conversation you have just heard.
  19. What are the speakers talking about?
  20. How many women die of smoking each year?
  21. Which statement is true about a light cigarette?
  22. What themes are the most popular among women in tobacco advertisements?
  Conversation Two
  M: Hello.
  W: Oh, hello. You must be a new student. Did you find it OK?
  M: Well, I got a bit lost because I asked a stranger. But I got it eventually.
  W: Oh. Dear, Have you come far today?
  M: Only from Brighton. I was staying with my brother.
  W: Oh. Good, How did you get here?
  M: My brother took me to the railway station. And I got on a bus at this end.
  W: Aha. Well, you’d better tell me your name so I can find your form.
  M: It’s Mark Bum.
  W: Burn, Bum. Ah, yes. Oh, you’ve changed since this photo. What happened to your beard and moustache? And not wearing glasses, either.
  M: No, I thought I’d better look smarter.
  W: Here is the key to your room. It’s 501.
  M: Thanks. How do I get there?
  W: Go to the end of this corridor, turn left and it’s the third door on the right.
  M: Thank you. Oh, here’s a meeting for new students. What time is that?
  W: Half past five in the Common Room on the ground floor at the other end of the corridor.
  M: Thanks a lot. Goodbye.
  Questions 23 to 25 are based on the conversation you have just heard.
  23. How did Mark get there?
  24. Which of the following does Mark NOT used to wear?
  25. Where is the meeting for new students to be held?
听力原文2
  Section B
  Passage One
   Sports and games make our bodies strong, prevent us from getting too fat, and keep us healthy. But they are not their only use. They give us valuable practice in making eyes, brain and muscles work together. In tennis, our eyes see the ball coming, judge its speed and direction and pass this information on to the brain. The brain then has to decide what to do, and to send its orders to the muscles of the arms, legs, and so on, so that the ball is met and hit back where it ought to go. All this must happen with very great speed, and only those who have had a lot of practice at tennis can carry out this complicated chain of events successfully. For those who work with their brains most of the day, the practice of such skills is especially useful.
   Sports and games are also very useful for character training. In their lessons at school, boys and girls may learn about such virtues as unselfishness, courage, discipline and love of one’s country; but what is learned in books cannot have the same deep effect on a child’s character as what is learned by experience. The ordinary day school cannot give much practical training in living, because most of the pupils’ time is spent in classes, studying lessons. So it is what the pupils do in their spare time that really prepares them to take their place in society as citizens when they grow up. If each of them learns to work for his team and not for himself on the football field, he will later find it natural to work for the good of his country instead of only for his own benefit.
   Questions 26 to 28 are based on the passage you have just heard.
   26. What do we have to do when we play tennis?
   27. Which of the following can a child’s character be most deeply influenced by?
   28. What is of the greatest importance to a football team?
   Passage Two
   Rainforests circle the globe for twenty degrees of latitude on both sides of the equator. In that relatively narrow band of the planet, more than half of all the species of plants and animals in the world make their home. Several hundred different varieties of trees may grow in a single acre, and just one of those trees may be the habitat for more than ten thousand kinds of spiders, ants, and other insects. More species of amphibians, birds, insects, mammals, and reptiles live in rainforests than anywhere else on Earth.
   Unfortunately, half of the world’s rainforests have already been destroyed, and at the current rate, another 25 percent will be lost by the year 2010. Scientists estimate that as many as fifty million acres are destroyed annually. In other words, every sixty seconds one hundred acres of rainforest is being cleared. By the time you finish listening to this passage, two hundred acres will have been destroyed! When this happens, constant rains erode the former forest floor, the thin layer of soil no longer supports plant life, and the ecology of the region is altered forever. Thousands of species of plants and animals are condemned to extinction and, since we aren’t able to predict the ramifications of this loss to a delicate global ecology, we don’t know what we may be doing to the future of the human species as well
  Questions 29 to 31 are based on the passage you have just heard.
  29. Where do more than half of all the species of plants and animals live?
  30. What is the current rate of destruction?
  31. What will NOT happen if the rainforest continues to be cleared?
  Passage Three
   After you decide what kind of car you want, which options you need, and how much you can afford to spend, you should shop at several dealerships. Buying a car is one of the few purchases that you will make in the United States that allows for negotiation. In the case of cars, new and used, the sticker price posted on the window is not fixed, and the car dealer will expect you to bargain. It has been estimated that fewer than 20 percent of all new car buyers end up paying an amount even close to the list price.
   To save the most money, use the following strategies when you negotiate. In the first place, don’t mention that you have a car to trade in until you have agreed on a price for the car you want to buy. If the salespersons know in advance, they may quote you a high price for the trade-in, but the price of the new car may be adjusted to include the added amount. In addition, buy a car that is already on the dealers lot instead of ordering a car. The dealer has to pay insurance and finance charges for every car in the inventory and is usually willing to sell one for less money in order to reduce the overhead expenses. Furthermore, try to buy your new car at the end of the year, just before the next year’s models arrive in the fall. Dealers are usually glad to move these cars off their lots to make room for the new models. If you can’t wait until fall to buy your car, at least wait until the end of the month, when the dealer is trying to reach a set sales quota in order to earn a bonus from the manufacturer. Finally, don’t mention to the car dealer that you intend to pay cash or use a bank for financing until the deal is closed. Some dealers will offer a lower price if they believe that they will have the opportunity to arrange the financing and collect a commission.
  Questions 32 to 35 are based on the passage you have just heard.
  32. What is the author’s main purpose in writing this passage?
  33. According to the author, when should a buyer purchase a new car?
  34. Which of the following is NOT recommended for getting the best price on a new car?
  35. What can be inferred from the passage?
  Section C
  British workers are suffering "email stress" because they are swamped with messages and constantly monitoring their inboxes.
  Staffers are left tired, (36) frustrated and unproductive as they (37) struggle to cope with a constant deluge of emails, researchers from Glasgow and Paisley universities in Scotland have found.
  More than a third said they thought they checked their inboxes every 15 minutes and 64 percent said they looked more than once an hour.
  When researchers (38) fitted monitors to their computers, workers were found to be viewing emails up to 40 times an hour.
  About 33 percent said they felt stressed by the (39) volume of emails and the need to reply quickly. A further 28 percent said they felt "driven" when they checked messages because of the pressure to (40) respond.
  Just 38 percent of workers were (4l) relaxed enough to wait a day or longer before replying.
  Researchers found that many workers felt "(42 ) invaded" by emails interrupting them as they tried to (43) concentrate on their work. (44) They felt pressured to switch applications to see whether the emails were urgent.
  Karen Renaud, a computer scientist at Glasgow University, and Judith Ramsay, a psychologist at Paisley University, surveyed almost 200 workers.
  They concluded, "Email has become an indispensable tool in business. (45) However, there is evidence that email can exert a powerful hold over its users and that many computer users experience stress as a result of email-related pressure."
   Renaud said, "(46) Email is the thing that now causes us the most problems in our working lives. It’s an amazing tool, but it’s got out of hand. "

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  • willingadj. 愿意的,心甘情愿的
  • stressn. 紧张,压力 v. 强调,着重 vt. 强调 n.
  • psychiatristn. 精神病医师,精神病学家
  • valuableadj. 贵重的,有价值的 n. (pl.)贵重物品
  • unproductiveadj. 不毛的;不生产的;徒劳的;非生产性的
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  • switchn. 开关,转换,鞭子 v. 转换,改变,交换,鞭打
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