Section C

　　Compound Dictation

　　Splitting dinner checks can cause a splittingheadache, even when the diners are mathematicsmajors. Three computer science (36) ______students at the US's Carnegie Mellon University were(37) ______ up with worrying about shared bills sothey decided to act. Shashank, Amit and Ashwincreated a free website, Buxfer.com, in September, to help people remember who (38) ______what and to whom.

　　Instead of trying to (39) ______ out how every dinner bill should be split, the site allows usersto form groups of friends or housemates to (40) ______ shared expenses over longer periodsof time. For example, if one housemate pays for dinner for everyone, he earns (41) ______ inhis Buxfer group and pays less on next month's rent. Buxfer quickly became (42) ______among college students and young (43) ______ who often pool expenses and borrow smallamounts from each other.

　　News of the site has spread largely by word of mouth and on blogs. (44) _____________________________________________________ . Buxfer automatically e-mails users about new transactions. When a user logs on to Buxfer, (45) _______________________________________________________ . Users can also leavenotes for each other on the site.

　　Buxfer has been an eye-opener for Veda as it has shown him how much money was flowingbetween him and his friends. The site is helping him track US$300 that others owe him, (46) _____________________________________________________________ .

　　英語四級聽力答案解析：

　　36. graduate

　　解析：此處需要修飾students的詞。graduate students意為“研究生”。

　　37. fed

　　解析：空格前的were表明此處需要動詞、形容詞或分詞，且能與up with搭配。be fed up with意為“受夠了”。

　　38. owes

　　解析：此處需要動詞，充當(dāng)who引導(dǎo)的定語從句的謂語。

　　39. figure

　　解析：空格前的trying to表明此處需要填入動詞。figure out意為“弄明白”。

　　40. track

　　解析：to表明此處需要動詞，表目的。track作動詞時(shí)，意為“追蹤”。

　　41. credits

　　解析：此處需要名詞，且能與earn搭配。earn credits意為“賺取信譽(yù)”。

　　42. popular

　　解析：became表明此處需要形容詞。popular“流行的”。

　　43. professionals

　　解析：此處需要名詞復(fù)數(shù)，與and前的students并列。professionals“專業(yè)人士”。

　　44. 標(biāo)準(zhǔn)答案：It now has about 3,000 users who have made transactions of more thanUS$875,000

　　聽音關(guān)鍵：3,000 users, transactions, $875,000

　　答案重構(gòu)：Now about 3,000 users make transactions of over US$875,000.

　　畫龍點(diǎn)睛：本句的難點(diǎn)是數(shù)字，數(shù)字需精確。more than可以用over代替。

　　45. 標(biāo)準(zhǔn)答案：the amount he/she owes or is owed is shown on the homepage

　　聽音關(guān)鍵：amount, owe, is shown, homepage

　　畫龍點(diǎn)睛：此處不建議重構(gòu)，注意he/she owes or is owed是修飾amount的定語從句。聽音時(shí)需先抓住主干：the amount is shown on the homepage.

　　46. 標(biāo)準(zhǔn)答案：as well as the US$1,500 he owes to a friend who bought an airline ticketto India for him

　　聽音關(guān)鍵：$1,500, owes, friend, airline ticket, India

　　答案重構(gòu)：and the US$1,500 he owes to a friend for buying an airline ticket to India for him

　　畫龍點(diǎn)睛：as well as 表示“除……外，也……”。