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?

你有没有注意到，城市感觉比乡村更热？

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

在夏天的傍晚，城市的气温可能会高出好几度。

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

这是因为深色的屋顶和道路整天都在吸收热量，

and then give it back slowly at night.

然后在夜里慢慢释放出来。

One cheap solution is to paint roofs white.

一个便宜的办法是把屋顶刷成白色。

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

白色屋顶会把大部分阳光反射出去，而不是储存起来。

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

在测试中，白色屋顶下的房间要凉快好几度！

People used their air conditioners less, and saved money.

人们少开了空调，也省了钱。

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

这解决不了气候变化，但是一个简单的开始。

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

第16题到第18题基于你刚才听到的短文。

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

第16题。为什么城市感觉比乡村更热？

Question seventeen. What does a white roof do?

第17题。白色屋顶有什么作用？

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

第18题。住在白色屋顶下的人们发生了什么变化？

Passage Two.

短文二。

Last spring, the Taylor family tried an experiment.

去年春天，Taylor一家做了一个实验。

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

整整一个月，家里没有人用智能手机。

At first, it was harder than they expected.

一开始，这比他们想象的要难。

The children complained that they were missing everything.

孩子们抱怨说他们错过了所有事情。

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

就连父母也总是伸手去拿并不在那儿的手机。

But by the second week, something changed.

但到了第二周，情况发生了变化。

They started playing games and cooking together after school.

他们开始在放学后一起玩游戏、一起做饭。

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

父母睡得更好了，孩子们也读了更多的书。

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

这个月结束后，他们并没有完全回到原来的习惯。

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

现在每天晚饭时，手机都放在一个盒子里。

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

第19题到第21题基于你刚才听到的短文。

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

第19题。孩子们一开始抱怨什么？

Question twenty. What changed by the second week?

第20题。到第二周时有什么变化？

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

第21题。这家人现在怎么做？

Small changes can make a big difference,

小小的改变可以带来很大的不同，

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

无论是屋顶的颜色，还是架子上的一个盒子。