英語聽力是英語四六級考試中的重要組成部分，對于中國的考生，日常英文聽說機會少，缺少聽力訓練，所以在備考大學英語四級時，需要加強對四級聽力的訓練。針對這一情況，英語四級頻道總結為大家整理了《2018年12月大學英語四級聽力美文:Work and Play》一文，希望對大家備考有所幫助，并預祝同學們高分通過考試。
2018年12月大學英語四級聽力美文100篇
英語四級聽力美文第84篇:Work and Play
Our everyday existence is divided into two phases, as distinct as day and night.
We call them work and play.
We work so many hours a day, and when we have allowed the necessary minimum for suchactivities as eating and shopping, the rest we spend in various activities which are known asrecreations, an elegant word which disguises the fact that we usually do not even play in ourhours of leisure, but spend them in various forms of passive enjoyment or entertainment — not playing football but watching football matches; not acting, but theatre-going; not walking, but riding in a motor coach.
Therefore we need to define clearly the difference not only between work and play but, equally, between active play and passive entertainment.
It is, I suppose, the decline of active play — of amateur sport — and the enormous growth ofpurely receptive entertainment which has given rise to a sociological interest in theproblem.
If the greater part of the population, instead of indulging in sport, spend their hours of leisure “viewing” television programmes, there will inevitably be a decline in health and physique.
And in addition, there will be a psychological problem, for we have yet to trace the mentaland moral consequences of a prolonged diet of sentimental or sensational spectacles on thescreen.
There is, if we are optimistic, the possibility that the diet is too thin and not nourishingenough to have much permanent effect on anybody.
Nine films out of ten seem to leave absolutely no impression on the mind or imagination ofthose who see them: few people can give a coherent account of the film they saw the weekbefore last, and at longer intervals they must rely on the management to see that they do notsit through the same film twice.
2018年12月大學英語四級聽力美文100篇