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201206英語(yǔ)46級(jí)聽(tīng)力Directions: In this section, you will hear 8 short conversations and 2 long conversations. At the end of each conversation, one or more questions will be asked about what was said. Both the conversation and the questions will be spoken only once. After each question there will be a pause. During the pause, you must read the four choices marked A), B), C) and D), and decide which is the best answer. Then mark the corresponding letter on Answer Sheet 2 with a single line through the centre.11.W: Did you hear that Anna needs to stay in bed for 4 weeks?M: Yeah. She injured her spine in a fall and a doctor told her to lie flat on her back for a month so it can mend.Q: What can we learn from the conversation?12.M: A famous Russian ballet is coming to town next weekend. But I cant find a ticket anywhere.W: Dont be upset. My sister just happened to have one and she cant go since she has got some sort of conflict in her schedule.Q: What does the woman mean?13.W: Hello, my bathroom drain is blocked and Im giving a party tonight. Do you think you could come and fix it for me?M: Sorry, maam. Im pretty busy right now. But I can put you on my list.Q: What does the man mean?14.W: Were taking up a collection to buy a gift for Jemma. Shell have been with the company 25 years next week.M: Well, count me in. But Im a bit short on cash now. When do you need it?Q: What is the man going to do?15.W: Tonys mother has invited me to dinner. Do you think I should tell her in advance that Im a vegetarian?M: Of course. I think shed appreciate it. Imaging how you both feel if she fixed the turkey dinner or something.Q: What does the man suggest the woman do?16.M: Just look at this newspaper, nothing but robbery, suicide and murder. Do you still believe people are basically good?W: Of course. But many papers lack interest in reporting something positive like peace, love and generosity.Q: What are the speakers talking about?17.M: I cant believe so many people want to sign up for the Korea Development Conference.We will have to limit the registration.W: Yeah, otherwise we wont have room for the more.Q: What are the speakers going to do?18.W: Hi, Im calling about the ad for the one bedroom apartment.M: Perfect timing! The person who was supposed to rent it just backed town to take a room on campus.Q: What do we learn from the conversation?W: One of the most interesting experiments with dolphins must be one done by Doctor Jarvis Bastian. What he tried to do was to teach a male dolphin called Bass and a female called Doris to communicate with each other across a solid barrier.M: So how did he do it exactly?W: Well, first of all, he kept the two dolphins together in the same tank and taught them to press levers whenever they saw a light. The levers were fitted to the side of the tank next to each other. If the light flashed on and off several times, the dolphins were supposed to press the left-hand lever followed by the right-hand one. If the light was kept steady, the dolphins were supposed to press the levers in reverse order. Whenever they responded correctly, they were rewarded with fish.M: Sounds terribly complicated.W: Well, that was the first stage. In the second stage, Doctor Bastian separated the dolphins into two tanks. They could still hear one another, but they couldnt actually see each other. The levers and light were set up in exactly the same way except that this time it was only Doris who could see the light indicating which lever to press first. But in order to get their fish, both dolphins had to press the levers in the correct order. This meant of course that Doris had to tell Bass whether it was a flashing light or whether it was a steady light.M: So did it work?W: Well, amazingly enough, the dolphins achieved a 100 % success rate.Questions 19-21 are based on the conversation you have just heard.Q19. What is the purpose of Doctor Jarvis Bastians experiment?Q20. What were the dolphins supposed to do when they saw a steady light?Q21. How did the second stage of the experiment differ from the first stage? Conversation 2W: This weeks program Up Your Street takes you to Harrogate, a small town in Yorkshire. Harrogate became a fashionable resort during Victorian times, when people came to take a bath in the mineral waters. Today, few people come to visit the town for its mineral waters. Instead, Harrogate has become a popular town for people to retire to. Its clean air, attractive parks, and the absence of any industry, make this an ideal spot for people looking for a quiet life. Now, to tell us more about Harrogate, I have with me Tom Percival, President of the Chamber of Commerce. Tom, one of the things visitor notices about Harrogate is the large area of open park land right down into the middle of the town. Can you tell us more about it?M: Yes, certainly. The area is called the Stray.W: Why the Stray?M: Its called that because in the old days, people let their cattles stray on the area, which was common land.W: Oh, I see.M: Then, weve changes in farming and in land ownership. The Stray became part of the land owned by Harrogate.W: And is it protected?M: Oh, yes, indeed. As a special law, no one can build anything on the stray. Its protected forever.W: So it will always be park land?M: Thats right. As you can see, some of the Stray is used for sports fields.W: I believe it looks lovely in the spring.M: Yes, it does. Therere spring flowers on the old trees, and people visit the town just to see the flowers. Question 22-25 are based on the conversation you have just heard.Q22. Where does this conversation most probably take place?Q23. What do we learn about modern Harrogate?Q24. What does the man say about the area called the Stray?Q25. What attracts people most in the Stray during the spring timeAbout 700,000 children in Mexico dropped out of school last year as recession-stricken families pushed kids to work, and a weak economic recovery will allow only slight improvement in the drop-out rate in 2010, a top education official said.Mexicos economy suffered more than any other in Latin America last year, shrinking an estimated 7 percent due to a plunge in U.S. demand for Mexican exports such as cars.The decline led to a 4 percent increase in the number of kids who left primary or middle school in 2009, said Juan de Dios Castro, who heads the nations adult education program and keeps a close watch on drop-out rates.Poverty rose and that is a factor that makes our job more difficult, Castro told Reuters in an interview earlier this month.Hindered by higher taxes and weak demand for its exports, Mexicos economy is seen only partially recovering this year. As a result, drop-out rates will not improve much, Castro said.There will be some improvement, but not significant, Castro said.Mexicohas historically had high drop-out rates as poor families pull kids out of school to help put food on the table, and children often sell candy and crafts in the streets or work in restaurants.The nations drop-out problem is just the latest bad news for the long-term competitiveness of the Mexican economy. Mexicos politicians have resisted mending the countrys tax, energy and labor laws for decades, leaving its economy behind countries such as Brazil and Chile. OneRussell Fazio, an Ohio State psychology professor who has studied interracial roommates there and at Indiana University, discovered an intriguing academic effect. In a study analyzing data on thousands of Ohio State freshmen who lived in dorms, he found that black freshmen who came to college with high standardized test scores earned better grades if they had a white roommate even if the roommates test scores were low. The roommates race had no effect on the grades of white students or low-scoring black students. Perhaps, the study speculated, having a white roommate helps academically prepared black students adjust to a predominantly white university.That same study found that randomly assigned interracial roommates at Ohio State broke up before the end of the quarter about twice as often as same-race roommates.Because interracial roommate relationships are often problematic, Dr. Fazio said, many students would like to move out, but university housing policies may make it hard to leave.“At Indiana University, where housing was not so tight, more interracial roommates split up,” he said. “Here at Ohio State, where housing was tight, they were told to work it out. The most interesting thing we found was that if the relationship managed to continue for just 10 weeks, we could see an improvement in racial attitudes.”Dr. Fazios Indiana study found that three times as many randomly assigned interracial roommates were no longer living together at the end of the semester, compared with white roommates. The interracial roommates spent less time together, and had fewer joint activities than the white pairs.Question 26-2926. What do we know about Russell Fazio ?27. Who benefited from living with a white roommate according to Fazios study?28. What did the study find about randomly assigned interracial roommates at Ohio State University?29. What did Dr. Fazio find interesting about interracial roommates who had lived together for 10 weeks?Passage TwoIn a small liboratory at the Medical University of South Carolina, Dr. Vladimir Mironov has been working for a decade to grow meat. A developmental biologist and tissue engineer, Dr. Mironov, is one of only a few scientists worldwide involved in bioengineering cultured meat.Its a product he believes could help solve future global food crises resulting from shrinking amounts of land available for growing meat the old-fashioned way.“Growth of cultured meat is also under way in the Netherlands”, Mironov told Reuters in an interview, “but in the United States, it is science in search of funding and demand.”The new National Institute of Food and Agriculture wont fund it, the National Institutes of Health wont fund it, and the NASA funded it only briefly, Mironov said.Its classic disruptive technology, Mironov said. Bringing any new technology on the market, on average, costs $1 billion. We dont even have $1 million.Director of the Advanced Tissue Biofabrication Center in the Department of Regenerative Medicine and Cell Biology at the medical university, Mironov now primarily conducts research on tissue engineering, or growing, of human organs.Theres an unpleasant factor when people find out meat is grown in a lab. They dont like to associate technology with food, said Nicholas Genovese, a visiting scholar in cancer cell biology.But there are a lot of products that we eat today that are considered natural that are produced in a similar manner, Genovese said.30. What does Dr. Mironov think of bioengineering cultured meat?31. What does Dr. Mironov say about the funding for their research?32. What does Nicholas Genovese say about a lot of products we eat today?Passage ThreeBernard Jackson is a free man today, but he has many bitter memories. Jackson spent five years in prison after a jury wrongly convicted him of raping two women. At Jacksons trial, although two witnesses testified that Jackson was with them in another location at the times of the crimes, he was convicted anyway. Why? The jury believed the testimony of the two victims, who positively identified Jackson as the man who has attacked them. The court eventually freed Jackson after the police found the man who had really committed the crimes. Jackson was similar in appearance to the guilty man. The two women has made a mistake in identity. As a result, Jackson has lost five years of his life.The two women in this case were eyewitnesses. They clearly saw the man who attacked them, yet they mistakenly identified an innocent person. Similar incidents have occurred before. Eyewitnesses to other crimes have identified the wrong person in a police lineup or in photographs.Many factors influence the accuracy of eyewitness testimony. For instance, witnesses sometimes see photographs of several suspects before they try to identify the person they saw in a lineup of people. They can become confused by seeing many photographs or similar faces. The number of people in the lineup, and whether it is a live lineup or a photograph, may also affect a witnesss decision. People sometimes have difficulty identifying people of other races. The questions the police ask witnesses also have an effect on them.Question 33: What do we learn about Bernard Jackson?Question 34: What led directly to Jacksons sentence?Question 35: What lesson do we learn from Jacksons case?11.W: Did you hear that Anna needs to stay in bed for 4 weeks?M: Yeah. She injured her spine in a fall and a doctor told her to lie flat on her back for a month so it can mend.Q: What can we learn from the conversation?【答案】A) The injury will confine Anna to bed for quite a while.【解析】此題為細(xì)節(jié)題。從對(duì)話中可知，Anna摔倒導(dǎo)致脊椎受傷，醫(yī)生讓其臥床休息一個(gè)月。12.M: A famous Russian ballet is coming to town next weekend. But I cant find a ticket anywhere.W: Dont be upset. My sister just happened to have one and she cant go since she has got some sort of conflict in her schedule.Q: What does the woman mean?【答案】C) She can get a ballet ticket for the man.【解析】此題為推理題。男子找不到俄羅斯芭蕾表演的票子，女子告訴她不要失落，因?yàn)樽约旱慕憬闩銮捎袕埰?，并且因?yàn)楹桶才庞袥_突去不了。13.W: Hello, my bathroom drain is blocked and Im giving a party tonight. Do you think you could come and fix it for me?M: Sorry, maam. Im pretty busy right now. But I can put you on my list.Q: What does the man mean?【答案】A) He has to do other repairs first.【解析】此題為推理題。從對(duì)話可知，女子請(qǐng)男子幫忙修浴室的地漏，但是男子現(xiàn)在忙，不過(guò)他會(huì)記錄下。14.W: Were taking up a collection to buy a gift for Gemma. Shell have been with the company 25 years next week.M: Well, count me in. But Im a bit short on cash now. When do you need it?Q: What is the man going to do?【答案】C) Give his contribution some time later.【解析】此題為推理題。從對(duì)話中可知，下周Gemma在公司的時(shí)間就滿25年了，大家正在湊錢買禮物。男子也要加入，但是手頭缺少現(xiàn)金。從他的詢問(wèn)可見(jiàn)他會(huì)晚點(diǎn)交錢。15.W: Tonys mother has invited me to dinner. Do you think I should tell her in advance that Im a vegetarian?M: Of course. I think shed appreciate it. Imaging how you both feel if she fixed the turkey dinner or something.Q: What does the man suggest the woman do?【答案】D) Tell Tonys mother that she eats no meat.【解析】此題為推理題。Tony的媽媽邀請(qǐng)女子吃飯，女子詢問(wèn)男子是不是應(yīng)該提前告知自己是素食主義者。從男子的“I think shed appreciate it”可知，男子給了他肯定的回答。16.M: Just look at this newspaper, nothing but robberies, suicide and murder. Do you still believe people are basically good?W: Of course. But many papers lack interest in reporting something positive like peace, love and generosity.Q: What are the speakers talking about?【答案】B) The coverage of newspapers.【解析】此題為推理題。從關(guān)鍵詞newspapers，robberies等可知，男子認(rèn)為報(bào)紙上涉及的都是搶劫、自殺等內(nèi)容，可見(jiàn)兩人正在談?wù)搱?bào)紙的內(nèi)容。17.M: I cant believe so many people want to sign up for the Korea Development Conference. We will have to limit the registration.W: Yeah, otherwise we wont have room for the more.Q: What are the speakers going to do?【答案】C) Limit the number of participants in the conference.【解析】此題為細(xì)節(jié)題。男子沒(méi)有想到那么多人來(lái)參加會(huì)議，所以必須限制人們注冊(cè)，從女子對(duì)其的肯定回答也可進(jìn)一步肯定他們要限制參與人數(shù)。18.W: Hi, Im calling about the ad for the one bedroom apartment.M: Perfect timing! The person who was supposed to rent it just backed town to take a room on campus.Q: What do we learn from the conversation?【答案】A) The apartment is still available.【解析】此題為推理題。從對(duì)話可知，男子告訴女子她打電話來(lái)的時(shí)機(jī)正好，因?yàn)楸緛?lái)要租房子的人回到城鎮(zhèn)去租大學(xué)的房間了，所以女子還能夠租廣告上的公寓?！军c(diǎn)評(píng)】短對(duì)話今年的六級(jí)聽(tīng)力短對(duì)話從提問(wèn)方式來(lái)看， 還是以推理題居多，如第12、13、15題都需要考生們從對(duì)話后中推理出“言下之意”。14、17題考查學(xué)生在聽(tīng)完對(duì)話后是否能夠把握準(zhǔn)確，推理出暗示內(nèi)容。六級(jí)考試的短對(duì)話內(nèi)容還是主要以日常生活為大背景，穿插了新聞、住房等話題，考生們應(yīng)該比較熟悉。短對(duì)話中沒(méi)有太多的生詞和難詞，第11題的spine（脊椎）其實(shí)也并不影響考生答題，因其實(shí)際上并不是考查點(diǎn)?？偠灾衲甑亩虒?duì)話難度適中，考生如能準(zhǔn)確把握對(duì)話的中心內(nèi)容，在聽(tīng)力上得分并不是件難事長(zhǎng)對(duì)話1答案：19. D) to see if dolphins can communicate with each other.20. A) Press the right-hand lever first.21. C) Only one dolphin was able to see the light.解析：這篇長(zhǎng)對(duì)話主要圍繞巴斯蒂安博士關(guān)于海豚的實(shí)驗(yàn)而展開(kāi)，實(shí)驗(yàn)的目的是要教會(huì)海豚學(xué)會(huì)互相溝通和交流訊息。隨著男士對(duì)實(shí)驗(yàn)的發(fā)問(wèn)，女士便對(duì)實(shí)驗(yàn)的兩個(gè)階段進(jìn)行了詳細(xì)介紹。這篇長(zhǎng)對(duì)話整體難度適中，考生只要在平時(shí)注意練習(xí)和打好詞匯基礎(chǔ)，想要得滿分并不難。需要提醒考生的是，做聽(tīng)力題也要講究技巧，一定要帶著問(wèn)題去有目的地聽(tīng)，相關(guān)的信息著重記憶，不相干的信息迅速忽略。懂得抓題眼和懂得取舍，這樣聽(tīng)力才能做得好。重點(diǎn)詞匯和表達(dá)：lever n.杠(桿)；途徑，工具in reverse order 以相反的順序be rewarded with 得到獎(jiǎng)勵(lì)flashing light 閃光燈 長(zhǎng)對(duì)話2答案：22. B) In a resort town.23. D) It is an ideal place for people to retire to.24. D) It is protected as parkland by a special law.25. C) The beautiful flowers.解析：這段長(zhǎng)對(duì)話是對(duì)Harrogate這個(gè)旅游小鎮(zhèn)的介紹，談到其如何得名，如何變遷，以及如何受到政府的保護(hù)。由此可見(jiàn)，這段對(duì)話最有可能發(fā)生在一個(gè)旅游城鎮(zhèn)。這段對(duì)話稍微難一點(diǎn)的地方在于幾個(gè)單詞，一個(gè)是地名Harrogate，另一個(gè)是Stray，以及頭銜President of the Chamber of Commerce。解決這些難點(diǎn)也很容易，因?yàn)镠arrogate這個(gè)地名和頭銜不是考察點(diǎn)，考生可直接忽略。另外關(guān)于Stray，考生開(kāi)始不懂沒(méi)關(guān)系，要帶著這個(gè)疑問(wèn)去注意聽(tīng)原文，對(duì)話中隨后就給出了明確解釋，所以考生也會(huì)獲得解答。需要提醒考生的是，雖然考試中我們可以忽略一些人名，地名或者無(wú)關(guān)緊要的細(xì)節(jié)，這也是為了一時(shí)的應(yīng)試而迫不得已。在平時(shí)練習(xí)中，還是建議廣大考生多積累這些人文及百科知識(shí)，包括一些人名和地名。積累的多了，以后在任何場(chǎng)合聽(tīng)起來(lái)就不會(huì)犯難了。 36. slight37. official38. shrinking39. plunge40. decline41. primary42. heads43. Poverty44. Hampered by higher taxes and weak demand for its exports, Mexicos economy is seen only partially recovering this year.45. Mexico has historically had high drop-out rates as poor families pull kids out of school to help put food on the table，46. The nations drop-out problem is just the latest bad news for the long-term competitiveness of the Mexican economy. Passage One26, C. He specialized in interpersonal relationshi