4级英语听力短文

Passage One Good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen. I hope you’ll find it interesting learning how to be fashionable without spending too much money. Sure, some famous stars always look stylist. They have unlimited clothing budgets that put the latest looks at their fingertips! But you can also look amazing without spending __1_______ money on your wardrobe. Simply try the following suggestions on for size. First, make seasonal purchases; that is, you should buy winter coats, leather jackets, bathing suits, and summer dresses at ____2___ of the season. You’ll get major ____3___ as you stock up for the next year. If you want clothes to wear right now, go to discount stores. They may not be the place to buy an expensive evening dress, but they’re perfect for buying things like ___4___. There is yet another cheap way to buy stylist clothes. Many department stores have store brands, which offer current styles but are much cheaper than ____5_____. To save money, an important principle is not to buy “outfits”. With the exception of suits, _____6_____ are more affordable. Wear-with-anything pieces are always a good buy. For example, you can almost always wear a pair of _____7___ and a white dress shirt; you can wear them __8______ a week, paired with different accessories. Accessories such as nice shoes and fashionable bags make even the __9____ outfit look polished. Finally, a great haircut always helps. When your hair looks fabulous, you look more ____10_____. Passage Two A natural disaster is the consequence of a hazardous event, occurring when human activities are affected by adverse natural phenomena such as flood, drought, hailstorm, heat wave, ___1_____ , hurricane, typhoon, tornado, tsunami, ___2____ and mudslide, or volcanic eruption. The scale of the resulting deaths or property damage depends on the human ability to resist the disasters. Sometimes two seemingly different disasters may be related to each other. For example, an ___3____ earthquake may ___4____ a tsunami. While there is a long ___5____ in one area, there may be a great __6___ in another. A drought is a long-lasting weather pattern consisting of dry conditions with very little or no precipitation. During this period, food and ___7____ can run low, and other conditions, such as __8___, can occur. Droughts can last for several years and are particularly damaging in areas in which the residents depend on ___9___ for survival. A flood follows too much rain or water in a location, and could be the result of many different conditions. Floods can be caused by ___10_____ from a storm, including thunderstorms, rapid melting of large amounts of snow, or rivers which swell from too much precipitation upstream, causing widespread damage to areas downstream. Another possible cause of floods is the bursting of man-made dams. Passage Three Are you worried because you have just broken a mirror? Some people