2014年12月英语四级听力冲刺练习12

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　　英语四级听力部分算是同学们考试时的难点吧。听力这部分不能急于求成，需要时间来练习。对于这部分同学们平时在积累词汇的基础上多加练习就可以，听的多了就能掌握技巧，距离12月份的四六级考试还有一段时间，同学每天练习一点听力，考试时听力就能取得高分了。
　　

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听力材料：
　　In July 1863, Northern and Southern soldiers foughtat the town of Gettysburg in Pennsylvania. It wasthe bloodiest battle of the American Civil War. About23,000 Union soldiers and 28,000 Confederatesoldiers died in the fighting. Most of the bodies wereburied where they fell.
　　Five months later, President Abraham Lincolntraveled to Gettysburg to speak at a ceremony establishing a military burial ground there.
　　Another, more famous speaker had also been invited. But the president felt it was important forhim to go. He wanted to honor the brave men who died at Gettysburg. Lincoln hoped his wordsmight ease the sorrow over the loss of these men and lift the spirit of the nation.
　　On the morning of November 19, 1863, Lincoln led a slow parade on horseback to the newcemetery. A huge crowd waited.?Military bands played. Soldiers saluted.
　　The ceremonies began with a prayer. Then a former senator and governor fromMassachusetts rose to speak. Edward Everett was a well-known speaker. He had been invited togive the dedication address.
　　Everett spoke for almost two hours. He closed his speech with the hope that the nation wouldcome out of the war with greater unity than ever before.
　　Then Lincoln stood up. He looked out over the valley, then down at the papers in his hand. Hebegan to read.
　　"Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation,conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.
　　"Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation soconceived and so dedicated, can long endure.?We are met on a great battle-field of that war.We have come to dedicate a portion of that field, as a final resting place for those who heregave their lives, that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should dothis.
　　"But, in a larger sense, we cannot dedicate -- we cannot consecrate --?we cannot hallow, thisground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it far above ourpoor power to add or detract. The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here,but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated hereto the unfinished work for which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. It israther for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us -- that from thesehonored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last fullmeasure of devotion -- that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died invain -- that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom -- and that governmentof the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth."
　　President Lincoln's address was fewer than 300 words long. When he finished, the crowdapplauded. Then the people began to leave.
　　The next day, Edward Everett sent a letter to Lincoln. He said the president's speech wasperfect. He said the president had said more in two minutes than he, Everett, had said in twohours.
　　Today, Lincoln's Gettysburg Address remains one of the most memorable speeches inAmerican history.