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1、 2022年6月大学英语四级听力美文赏析（3篇） 【篇一】2022年6月大学英语四级听力美文赏析 By the midnineteenth century, the term icebox had entered the American language, but icewas still only beginning to affect the diet of ordinary citizens in the United States. The ice tradegrew with the growth of cities. Ice was used in hotels, taverns
2、, and hospitals, and by someforwardlooking city dealers in fresh meat, fresh fish, and butter. After the Civil War (1861-1865), as ice was used to refrigerate freight cars, it also came into household use. Even before 1880 half of the ice sold in New York, Philadelphia, and Baltimore, and onethird o
3、f that sold inBoston and Chicago, went to families for their own use. This had become possible because anew household convenience, the icebox, a precursor of the modern refrigerator, had beeninvented. Making an efficient icebox was not as easy as we might now suppose. In the earlynineteenth century,
4、 the knowledge of the physics of heat, which was essential to a science ofrefrigeration, was rudimentary. The commonsense notion that the best icebox was one thatprevented the ice from melting was of course mistaken, for it was the melting of the ice thatperformed the cooling. Nevertheless, early ef
5、forts to economize ice included wrapping up theice in blankets, which kept the ice from doing its job. Not until near the end of the nineteenthcentury did inventors achieve the delicate balance of insulation and circulation needed for anefficient icebox. But as early as 1803, an ingenious Maryland f
6、armer, Thomas Moore, hadbeen on the right track. When he used an icebox of his own design to transport his butter tomarket, his butter, still fresh and hard in neat, was worth onepound a brick. One advantageof his icebox, Moore explained, was that farmers would no longer have to travel to market atn
7、ight in order to keep their produce cool. 【篇二】2022年6月大学英语四级听力美文赏析 Many a young person tells me he wants to be a writer. I always encourage such people, but Ialso explain that there”s a big difference between being a writer and writing. In most casesthese individuals are dreaming of wealth and fame,
8、not the long hours alone at the typewriter. You”ve got to want to write, I say to them, not want to be a writer. The reality is that writingis a lonely, private and poorpaying affair. For every writer kissed by fortune, there arethousands more whose longing is never requited. Even those who succeed
9、often know longperiods of neglect and poverty. I did. When I left a 20year career in the Coast Guard tobecome a freelance writer, I had no prospects at all. What I did have was a friend with whom I”d grown up in Henning, Tennessee. George found memy home a cleanedout storage room in the Greenwich Vi
10、llage apartment building where heworked as superintendent. It didn”t even matter that it was cold and had no bathroom. Immediately I bought a used manual typewriter and felt like a genuine writer. After a yearor so, however, I still hadn”t received a break and began to doubt myself. It was so hard t
11、o sella story that I barely made enough to eat. But I knew I wanted to write. I had dreamed about itfor years. I wasn”t going to be one of those people who die wondering, What if? I would keepputting my dream to the test even though it meant living with uncertainty and fear offailure. This is the Sh
12、adowland of hope, and anyone with a dream must learn to live there. 【篇三】2022年6月大学英语四级听力美文赏析 One of the most successful, influential and beloved women in American history, EleanlorRoosevelt once said that she had one regret: she wished she had been prettier. Who hasn”t feltthe same way? We are all to
13、o aware of our physical imperfections. To overcone them, we spendbillions of dollars every year- on comestics, diet products, fashion and plastic surgery. Why do we care so much about how we look? Because it matters. Because beauty is powerful. Because even when we learn to value people mostly for b
14、eing kind and wise and funny, we arestill moved by beauty. No matter how much we argue against it or pretend to be immune, beauty exerts its power over us. There is simply no escape. Aristotle said,Beauty is a greater recommendation than any letter of introdution. It”s notfair, but it”s true. We sim
15、ply treat beautiful people better than we do others. Attach aphotograph of a beautiful author to an essay, and people will think that it is more creative andmore intelligently written than exactly the same essay accompanied by the photo of a homelyauthor. Our sensitivity to Physical beauty is not so
16、mething we can control at will. We are born with it. Experiments conducted by psychologist Judith J. Langloisshowed that even small infantsprefer to look at attractive faces. Before they have met a single supermodel, before they havewatched a single TV show, before they have opened up a single fashion magazine, the
