12月大學(xué)英語(yǔ)六級(jí)考試真題答案及聽(tīng)力原文ppt

1、the way to success genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration. and here comes our question, what is the way to success? a strong will and great efforts are the most essential two keys to the door of success. why do people fail to achieve their goal? the reason is that mos

2、t of them give up halfway due to their lack of a strong will once they encounter any difficulty. a man of a strong will always sticks to his cause no matter how tough it might be.the way to success would thomas edison be such a great man in history if he had done nothing but possessing a strong will

3、? we are all familiar with his story that he had tried one thousand kinds of materials before he finally made his great bulb light up. without hard effort, edison might have been a nobody. without efforts, no one can succeed. to sum up, a strong will and great efforts can help one open up the way to

4、 success. where there is a will with efforts, there is a way.listening comprehension section a short conversations1111. m: i dont know what to do. i have to drive to chicago next friday for my cousins wedding, but i have got a psychology test to prepare for. w: why dont you record your notes so you

5、can study on the way? q: what does the woman suggest the man do?section a short conversations1212. m: professor wright, you may have to find another student to play this role, the lines are so long and i simply cant remember them all. w: look, tony. it is still a long time before the first show. i d

6、ont expect you to know all the lines yet. just keep practicing. q: what do we learn from the conversation?section a short conversations1313. m: hello, this is dr. martin from the emergency department. i have a male patient with a fractured ankle. w: oh, we have one bed available in ward 3, send him

7、here and i will take care of him. q: what are the speakers talking about?section a short conversations1414. w: since simon will graduate this may, the school paper needs a new editor. so if you are interested, i will be happy to nominate you. m: thanks for considering me. but the baseball team is st

8、arting up a new season. and im afraid i have a lot on my hands. q: what does the man mean?section a short conversations1515. w: have you heard the news that jame smeil has resigned his post as prime minister? m: well, i got it from the headlines this morning. its reported that he made public at this

9、 decision at the last cabinet meeting. q: what do we learn about jame smeil?section a short conversations1616. w: the morning paper says the space shuttle is taking off at 10 a.m. tomorrow. m: yeah, its just another one of this years routine missions. the first mission was undertaken a decade ago an

10、d broadcast live then worldwide. q: what can we infer from this conversation?section a short conversations1717. m: we do a lot of camping in the mountains. what would you recommend for two people? w: youd probably be better off with the four reel drive vehicle. we have several off-road trucks in sto

11、ck, both new and used. q: where does the conversation most probably take place?section a short conversations1818. w: i hear you did some serious shopping this past weekend. m: yeah, the speakers of my old stereo finally gave out and there was no way to repair them. q: what did the man do over the we

12、ekend?conversation 1w: now, could you tell me where the idea for the business first came from?m: well, the original shop was opened by a retired printer by the name of gruby. mr gruby being left-handed himself, thought of the idea to try to promote a few products for left-handers.w: and how did he t

13、hen go about actually setting up the business?m: well, he looked for any left-handed products that might already be on the market which were very few. and then contacted the manufactures with the idea of having products produced for him, mainly in the scissors range to start with.conversation 1w: ri

14、ght. so you do commission some part of your stock.m: yes, very much so. about 75 percent of our stock is specially made for us.w: and the rest of it?m: hmm, the rest of it now, some 25, 30 years after mr. grubys initial efforts, there are more left-handed product actually on the market. manufactures

15、 are now beginning to see that there is a market for left-handed products.conversation 1w: and whats the range of your stock?m: the range consists of a variety of scissors from children scissors to scissors for tailors, hairdressers etc. we also have a large range of kitchen ware.w: whats the compet

16、ition like? do you have quite a lot of competition?m: there are other people in the business now in specialists, but only as mail-order outlets. but we have a shop here in central london plus a mail-order outlet. and we are without any doubt the largest supplier of the left-handed items.conversation

17、 1questions 19 to 21 are based on the conversation you have just heard.q19: what kind of business is the man engaged in?q20: what does the man say about his stock of products?q21: what does the man say about other people in his line of business? conversation 2m: can we make you an offer? we would li

18、ke to run the campaign for four extra weeks.w: well, can we summarize the problem from my point of view? first of all, the campaign was late. it missed two important trade affairs. the ads also did not appear into key magazines. as a result, the campaign failed. do you accept that summary of what ha

19、ppened?m: well, the delay wasnt entirely our fault. you did in fact make late changes to the specifications of the advertisements.conversation 2w: uh, actually, you were late with the initial proposals so you have very little time and in fact, we only asked for small changes.m: well whatever, can we

20、 repeat our offer to run the campaign for 4 extra weeks?w: thats not really the point. the campaign missed two key trade affairs. because of this, we are asking you either to repeat the campaign next year for free, or we only pay 50% of the fee for this year.conversation 2m: could we suggest a 20% r

21、eduction to the fee together with the four week sustention to the campaign.w: we are not happy. we lost business.m: i think we both made mistakes. the responsibility is on both sides.w: ok, lets suggest a new solution. how about a 40% cut in fee, or a free repeat campaign?m: well, lets take a break,

22、 were not getting very far. perhaps we should think about this.conversation 2questions 22 to 25 are based on the conversation you have just heard.22: what do we learn about the mans company?23: why was the campaign delayed according to the man?24: what does the woman propose as a solution to the pro

23、blem?25: what does the man suggest they do at the end of the conversation? the university of tennessees walters life sciences building, is a model animal facility, spotlessly clean, careful in obtaining prior approval for experiments from an animal care committee. of the 15,000 mice house there in a

24、 typical year, most give their lives for humanity. these are good mice and as such won the protection of the animal care committee. at any given time however some mice escape and run free. these mice are pests. they can disrupt experiments with the bacteria organisms they carry. passage 1they are ba

25、d mice and must be captured and destroyed. usually, this is accomplished by means of sticky traps, a kind of fly paper on which they become increasingly stuck. but the real point of the cautionary tale, says animal behaviorist herzau, is that the labels we put on things can affect our moral response

26、s to them. using stick traps or the more deadly snap traps would be deemed unacceptable for good mice. yet the killing of bad mice requires no prior approval. passage 1once the research animal hits the floor and becomes an escapee, says herza, its moral standard is instantly diminished. in herzaus o

27、wn home, there was more ironic example when his young sons pet mouse willy died recently, it was accorded a tearful ceremonial burial in garden. yet even as they mourned willy, says herzau, he and his wife were setting snap traps to kill the pest mice in their kitchen with the bare change in labels

28、from pet to pest, the kitchen mice obtained totally different moral standardspassage 1passage 1questions 26 to 29 are based on the passage you have just heard.26. what does the passage say about most of the mice used for experiments?27. why did the so-called bad mice have to be captured and destroye

29、d?28. when are mice killed without prior approval?29. why does the speaker say what the herzaus did at home is ironical? there are roughly three new yorks. there is, first, the new york of the man or woman who was born here, who takes the city for granted and accepts its size and its turbulence as n

30、atural and inevitable. second, there is the new york of the commuter the city that is swallowed up by locusts each day and spat out each night. third, there is the new york of the person who was born somewhere else and came to new york in quest of something. of these three trembling cities the great

31、est is the last, the city of final destination, the city that has a goal. it is this third city that accounts for new yorks high-strung disposition, its dedication to the arts, and its incomparable achievements. passage 2passage 2commuters give the city its tidal restlessness; natives give it solidi

32、ty and continuity; but the settlers give it passion. and whether it is a farmer arriving from italy to set up a small grocery store in a slum, or a young girl arriving from a small town in mississippi to escape the indignity of being observed by her neighbors, or a boy arriving from the corn belt wi

33、th a manuscript in his suitcase and a pain in his heart, it makes no difference: each embraces new york with the intense excitement of first love, each absorbs new york with the fresh eyes of an adventurer, each generates heat and light to dwarf the consolidated edison company.questions 30 to 32 are

34、 based on the passage you have just heard.30. what does the speaker say about the natives of new york?31. what does the speaker say commuters give to new york?32. what do we learn about the settlers of new york? passage 2passage 3 “if you asked me television is unhealthy”, i said to my roommate walt

35、er, as i walked into the living room. “while you are sitting passively in front of the tv set, your muscles are turning to fat, your complexion is fading, and your eyesight is being ruined.” “shh” walter put his finger to his lips, “this is an intriguing murder mystery.” “really?” i replied.passage

36、3 “but you know, the brain is destroyed by tv viewing. creativity is killed by that box. and people are kept from communicating with one another. from my point of view, tv is the cause of the declining interest in school and the failure of our entire educational system.” “ah ha, i cant see your poin

37、t.” walter said softly. “but see? the woman on the witness stand in this story is being questioned about the murder that was committed one hundred years ago.” ignoring his enthusiastic description of the plot, i went on with my argument.passage 3 “as i see it,” i explained, “not only are most tv pro

38、grams badly written and produced, but viewers are also manipulated by the mass media. as far as i am concerned, tv watchers are cut off from reality from nature, from the other people, from life itself! i was confident in my ability to persuade. after a short silence, my roommate said, “anyway, ive

39、been planning to watch the football game. i am going to change the channel.” “dont touch that dial!” i shouted, “i wanted to find out how the mystery turns out!” i am not sure i got my point to cross.questions 33 to 35 are based on the passage you have just heard.33. as the speaker walked into the l

40、iving room, what was being shown on tv?34. what does the speaker say about watching television?35. what can we say about the speaker? in the past, one of the biggest disadvantages of machines has been their inability to work on a micro scale. for example, doctors did not have devices allowing them to go inside the human body to (36) _ health problems or to perform (37) _ surgery. repair crews did not have a way of (38) _ broken pipes located deep within a high-rise (39) _ building. however, thats about to change. advances in computers and biophysics have started a micro mini