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1、听写题源精练/2011 （上外）Dictations:选材特点：年 份题 材体 裁主 题2010教 育说明文新生入学周2009文 化说明文新年前夕2008社 会说明文职业选择2007社 会说明文广告2006科 学说明文英特网2005社 会说明文手表2004社 会说明文金钱2003科 学说明文大马哈鱼2002社 会说明文正在消失的森林2001教 育议论文优秀读者的品质Dictation 1Water Pollution1）Today most water sources are so dirty / 2）that people must purify water before drinking.
2、 / Water becomes dirty in many ways: /3） industrial pollution is one of them. /4） With the development of industry, 5） plants and factories pour tons of industrial wastes into rivers every day. /6）The rivers have become seriously polluted, / 7）and the water is becoming unfit for drinking or irrigati
3、on. /8）The same thing has also happened to our seas and oceans. / 9）So, the problem of water pollution is almost worldwide. /10）Scientists of many countries have done a lot of work to stop pollution. /11）The polluted water in some places / 12） has become clean and drinkable again. /13)Perhaps one da
4、y the people in all towns and cities /14）will be drinking clean water. / 15）That day, we believe, is not very far off. /Dictation 2A Popular Pastime of the English PeopleEnglish One of the best means of understanding the people of any nation / is watching what they do with their non-working time. /
5、Most English men, women and children love growing things, / especially flowers. / Visitors to England in spring, summer or autumn / are likely to see gardens all the way along the railway lines. / there are flowers at the airports and flowers in factory grounds, / as well as in gardens along the roa
6、ds. / Each English town has at least one park with beautifully kept flower beds. / Public buildings of every kind have brilliant window boxes / and sometimes baskets of flowers are hanging on them. / But what the English enjoy most is growing things themselves. / If it is impossible to have a garden
7、, / then a window box or something growing in a pot will do. / Looking at each others gardens is a popular pastime with the English. /Dictation 3SleepWhy is it so difficult to fall asleep when you are overtired? / There is no one answe that applies to every individual. / It is possible to feel “tire
8、d” physically and still be unable to fall asleep, / because while your body is exhausted, you do not feel sleepy. / It is not so easy to simple “turn off”. /Lack of sleep complicates matters even more. / Experts say adults need at least seven to eight hours of sleep a night to function properly. / W
9、hen you get less sleep than that on consecutive three nights, / you begin to owe four “sleep debt”. / As sleep debt increases your body experiences a stress response. / Now a vicious cycle has been created: / You experience the feeling of being more and more tired, / but your body is increasingly st
10、imulated. / “Power sleeping” for more hours on weekends is only a temporary solution. / There is no substitute for getting a good nights sleep on a regular basis. / Dictation 4DramaThere are many theories about the beginning of drama in ancient Greece. / The one most widely accepted today is based o
11、n the assumption that drama evolved from ritual. / The argument for this view goes as follows. / In the beginning, human beings viewed the natural forces of the world-/ even the seasonal changes-as unpredictable, / and they sought through various means to control these unknown and feared powers. / T
12、hose measures which appeared to bring the desired results were then retained and repeated / As time passed some rituals were abandoned, / but the stories, later called myths, / persisted and provided material for art and drama. / Some people argue that those rites contained the seed of theater / bec
13、ause music, dance, masks and costumes were almost always used. / Furthermore, a suitable site had to be provided for performances / and when the rntire community did not participate, / a clear division was usually made between the acting area and the auditorium./Dictation 5Cartoon ArtistIn a good ca
14、rtoon, the artist can tell in a few lines / as much as a writer can tell in half a dozen paragraphs. / The cartoon artist not only tells a story / but he also tries to persuade the reader to his way of thinking. / He great influence on public opinion. / In a political campaign, he plays an important
15、 part. / Controversial issues in Congress or at meetings of the United Nations / may keep the cartoon artist well-supplied with current materials. / A clever cartoon artist may cause laughter / because he often uses humor in his drawings. / If he is sketching a famous person, / he takes a prominent
16、feature and exaggerates it. / Cartoon artists, for instance, / like to lengthen an already long nose and to widen an already board grin. / The artist uses such exaggeration to put his message across. /Dictation 6Drink to Your HealthSince all living things need it, / and it makes up two-thirds of our bodies, / it seems o
