对于英语专业的学生来说，听力是学习过程中必不可少的一个过程，而想要提升专四听力，就必须要多做训练。今天我们为大家整理了英语专四考试听力模拟试题训练，一起来看一下吧。

Artists

Every artist knows in his heart that he is saying something to the public. Not only does he want to say it well, but he wants it to be something which has not been said before.

What visual artists, like painters, want to say is easy to make out but difficult to explain, because painters translate their experiences into shapes and colors, not words. They seem to feel that a certain selection of shapes and colors, out of the countless billions possible, is exceptionally interesting for them and worth showing to us.

Most artists take their shapes and colors from the world of nature and from human bodies in motion and response; their choices indicate that these aspects of the world are worth looking at, that they contain beautiful sights. Contemporary artists might say that they merely choose subjects that provide an interesting pattern, that there is nothing more in it. Yet even they do not choose entirely without reference to the character of their subjects. (166 words)

Useful Words and Expressions:

visual artist 视觉艺术家

selection n.选择，挑选

countless」adj.无数的，数不尽的'

exceptional adj.例外的，异常的

a man of exceptional talent 具有特殊才能的人

exceptional weather 异常的气候

exceptional promotion破格提升

motion n.运动，动作

response n.响应，反应

call forth no response in sb. 's breast在某人心中不起反应

in response to响应，反应

make no response不回答

indicate vt.显示，象征

contemporary adj.当代的，同时代的

without reference to不论，与……无关

Great Depression in the U.S

In 1929, the bills started to come in. American industry had produced too many goods. Americans could not afford to buy all of them. So factories had to cut down on their production. Many workers lost their jobs. Investors tried to get their money back. But businesses did not have enough money to pay them. Banks tried to get their money back from investors. But the investors could not pay, either. Too many people owed money. And few of them could pay their bills.

During the next few years, business got worse and worse. By 1932, banks all over the country were closing.

People without money could not buy goods, so more businesses closed. More and more people lost their jobs. By 1932, more than 12 million Americans were jobless. Millions more were earning barely enough to live on. The country was in a great depression they had never experienced before. (151 words)

Useful Words and Expressions:

bill n.账单，票据

foot the bill otheb 付账;负责

cut down on减少

investor n.投资者

barely adv.仅仅，刚刚

be arely of age刚成年

a barely furniished room陈设简陋的房间

He barely escaped..他好不容易地才逃了出来。

live on v.继续生活，靠……生活

depression n.沮丧，萧条

Great Depression 大萧条

以上就是为大家整理的英语专四考试听力模拟试题训练，希望能够对大家有所帮助。想要顺利的通过专四考试，除了基础知识外，还要多做模拟题，多训练，才能够得到真正的提升。