CET-4 Listening Passages: White Roofs and a Month Without Smartphones

Passage One.

短文一。

Have you ever noticed that cities feel hotter than the countryside?

你有沒有注意過，城市感覺比鄉下熱？

On a summer evening, a city can be several degrees warmer.

在夏天的傍晚，城市可能會熱上好幾度。

That's because dark roofs and roads take in heat all day,

這是因為深色的屋頂和道路整天都在吸收熱量，

and then give it back slowly at night.

然後在夜裡慢慢釋放出來。

One cheap solution is to paint roofs white.

一個便宜的辦法是把屋頂漆成白色。

A white roof reflects most of the sunlight instead of storing it.

白色屋頂會把大部分陽光反射出去，而不是儲存起來。

In tests, rooms under white roofs stayed several degrees cooler!

在測試中，白色屋頂下的房間涼了好幾度！

People used their air conditioners less, and saved money.

大家少開冷氣，也省了錢。

It won't solve climate change, but it's a simple place to start.

這解決不了氣候變遷，但是一個簡單的起點。

Questions sixteen to eighteen are based on the passage you have just heard.

第16題到第18題根據你剛才聽到的短文。

Question sixteen. Why do cities feel hotter than the countryside?

第16題。為什麼城市感覺比鄉下熱？

Question seventeen. What does a white roof do?

第17題。白色屋頂有什麼作用？

Question eighteen. What happened to people living under white roofs?

第18題。住在白色屋頂下的人有什麼改變？

Passage Two.

短文二。

Last spring, the Taylor family tried an experiment.

去年春天，Taylor一家人做了一個實驗。

For one month, nobody in the house used a smartphone.

整整一個月，家裡沒有人用智慧型手機。

At first, it was harder than they expected.

一開始，這比他們想像的還難。

The children complained that they were missing everything.

孩子們抱怨自己錯過了所有事。

Even the parents kept reaching for phones that weren't there.

就連爸媽也一直伸手去拿根本不在那裡的手機。

But by the second week, something changed.

但到了第二週，有些事情改變了。

They started playing games and cooking together after school.

他們開始在放學後一起玩遊戲、一起做飯。

The parents slept better, and the children read more books.

爸媽睡得更好，孩子們也讀了更多書。

When the month ended, they didn't go back to their old habits completely.

一個月結束後，他們並沒有完全回到舊習慣。

Now phones stay in a box during dinner, every night.

現在每天晚餐時，手機都會收進一個盒子裡。

Questions nineteen to twenty-one are based on the passage you have just heard.

第19題到第21題根據你剛才聽到的短文。

Question nineteen. What did the children complain about at first?

第19題。孩子們一開始抱怨什麼？

Question twenty. What changed by the second week?

第20題。到了第二週有什麼改變？

Question twenty-one. What does the family do now?

第21題。這家人現在怎麼做？

Small changes can make a big difference,

小小的改變可以帶來很大的不同，

whether it's the colour of a roof or a box on a shelf.

不管是屋頂的顏色，還是架子上的一個盒子。