2012年6月六級聽力原文及答案解析

1、2012 年 6月六級聽力原文及答案解析Part III Listening ComprehensionSection ADirections: In this section, you will hear 8 short conversations and 2 longconversations. At the end of each conversation, one or more questions will be askedabout what was said. Both the conversation and the questions will be spoken onlyo

2、nce. After each question there will be a pause. During the pause, you must read thefour choices marked A), B), C) and D), and decide which is the best answer. Thenmark 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 f

3、or 4 weeks?M: Yeah. She injured her spine in a fall and a doctor told her to lie flat on her back fora 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.Anna摔倒導致脊椎 spine 休息一個月。12.M: A famous Russian ballet is coming to town n

4、ext weekend. But I cant find a ticketanywhere.W: Dont be upset. My sister just happened to have one and she cant go since she hasgot some sort of conflict in her schedule.Q: What does the woman mean?【答案】D) She can get a ballet ticket for the man.的姐姐碰巧有張票,并且由于安排有沖突,所以不去了。13.W: Hello, my bathroom drai

5、n is blocked and Im giving a party tonight. Do you thinkyou 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】B) He has to do other repairs first.住并稍后幫忙。14.W: Were taking up a collection to buy a gift for Jemma. Shell ha

6、ve been with thecompany 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】B) Give his contribution some time later.【解析】推理題。下周 Gemma 在公司的時間就滿 25 年了，大家正在湊錢為他間交錢。15.W: Tonys mother has invited me to dinner. Do you think I sho

7、uld tell her in advancethat Im a vegetarian?M: Of course. I think shed appreciate it. Imaging how you both feel if she fixed theturkey 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】推理題。Tony 的媽媽邀請女子吃飯，女子詢問男子是不是應該提前告“I think shed appre

8、ciate 了他肯定的回答。16.M: Just look at this newspaper, nothing but robbery, suicide and murder. Do you stillbelieve people are basically good?W: Of course. But many papers lack interest in reporting something positive likepeace, love and generosity.Q: What are the speakers talking about?【答案】C) The coverag

9、e of newspapers.【解析】推理題。從關鍵詞robberies等可知，兩人正在談論報紙的內容。17.M: I cant believe so many people want to sign up for the Korea DevelopmentConference.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】B) Limit the number of partic

10、ipants in the conference.【解析】細節(jié)題。男子沒有想到那么多人來參加會議，所以必須限制人們注冊。18.W: Hi, Im calling about the ad for the one droom apartment.M: Perfect timing! The person who was supposed to rent it just backed town to take aroom on campus.Q: What do we learn from the conversation?【答案】A) The apartment is still availab

11、le.回到市區(qū)租大學里的房間了，所以這個公寓女子還能租。Conversation 1W: One of the most interesting experiments with dolphins must be one done byDoctor Jarvis Bastian. What he tried to do was to teach a maledolphin called Bassand a female called Doris to communicate with each other across a solid barrier.M: So how did he do i

12、t exactly?W: Well, first of all, he kept the two dolphins together in the same tank and taughtthem to press levers whenever they saw a light. The levers were fitted to the side ofthe tank next to each other. If the light flashed on and off several times, the dolphinswere supposed to press the left-h

13、and lever followed by the right-hand one. If the lightwas 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

14、 separated thedolphins into two tanks. They could still hear one another, but they couldnt actuallysee each other. The levers and light were set up in exactly the same way except thatthis time it was only Doris who could see the light indicating which lever to press first.But in order to get their f

15、ish, 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 orwhether 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 co

16、nversation you have just heard.Q19. What is the purpose of Doctor Jarvis Bastians experiment?【答案】B) to see if dolphins can communicate with each other.驗目的就是驗證海豚是否能互相交流。Q20. What were the dolphins supposed to do when they saw a steady light?【答案】C) Press the right-hand lever first.【解析】推理題。從原文中 If the

17、light was kept steady, the dolphins were supposedto press the levers in reverse 可以得知，相反的方向為 the right-hand lever。Q21. How did the second stage of the experiment differ from the first stage?【答案】C) Only one dolphin was able to see the light.【解析】細節(jié)題。it was only Doris who could see the light這句話直接把答案告訴給我

18、們了。解析：得抓題眼和懂得取舍，這樣聽力才能做得好。重點詞匯和表達：lever n.杠桿；途徑，工具in reverse order 以相反的順序be rewarded with 得到獎勵flashing light 閃光燈Conversation 2W: This weeks program Up Your Street takes you to Harrogate, a small town inYorkshire. Harrogate became a fashionable resort during Victorian times, whenpeople came to take a

19、 bath in the mineral waters. Today, few people come to visit thetown for its mineral waters. Instead, Harrogate has become a popular town for peopleto retire to. Its clean air, attractive parks, and the absence of any industry, make thisan ideal spot for people looking for a quiet life. Now, to tell

20、 us more about Harrogate,I have with me Tom Percival, President of the Chamber of Commerce. Tom, one ofthe things visitor notices about Harrogate is the large area of open park land rightdown into the middle of the town. Can you tell us more about it?M: Yes, certainly. The area is called the Stray.W

21、: 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 ofthe land owned by Harrogate.W: And is it protected?M: Oh, yes, indeed. As a specia

22、l law, no one can build anything on the stray. Itsprotected 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

23、townjust 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?【答案】A) In a resort town.【解析】推理題。由對話內容是關于 Harrogate 這個旅游小鎮(zhèn)的介紹，談到其如生在一個旅游城鎮(zhèn)。Q23. What do we learn about modern Harrogate?【答案】A) It is an ideal place f

24、or people to retire to.【解析】推理題。從個別句子 it looks lovely in the spring 中可以得知，這個小鎮(zhèn)適合休養(yǎng)生息。Q24. What does the man say about the area called the Stray?【答案】D) It is protected as parkland by a special law.Its protected forever.W: So it will alwaysbe park land?Q25. What attracts people most in the Stray during

25、 the spring time?【答案】 A) The beautiful flowers.【解析】細節(jié)題。這句話 people visit the town just to see the flowers 為答案依據(jù)。解析：這段長對話是對 Harrogate 這個旅游小鎮(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。由此可見，這段對話最有可能發(fā)生在一個旅游城鎮(zhèn)。這段對話稍微難一點的地方在于幾個單詞，一個是地名 ，另一個是，以及頭銜President of the Chamber of 。解決這些難點也很容易，因為 Harrogate這個地名和頭銜不是考察點，考生可直接忽略。另外

26、關于 Stray，解釋，所以考生也會獲得解答。起來就不會犯難了。Section BPassage 1Russell Fazio, an Ohio State psychology professor who has studied interracialroommates 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, hefound

27、 that black freshmen who came to college with high standardized test scoresearned better grades if they had a white roommate even if the roommates testscores were low. The roommates race had no effect on the grades of white studentsor low-scoring black students. Perhaps, the study speculated, having

28、 a whiteroommate helps academically prepared black students adjust to a predominantly whiteuniversity.That same study found that randomly assigned interracial roommates at Ohio Statebroke up before the end of the quarter about twice as often as same-race roommates.Because interracial roommate relati

29、onships are often problematic, Dr. Fazio said,many students would like to move out, but university housing policies may make ithard to leave.“At Indiana University, where housing was not so tight, more interracial roommatessplit up,” he said. “Here at Ohio State, where housing was tight, they were t

30、old towork it out. The mostinteresting thing we found was that if the relationship managedto continue for st 10 weeks, we could see an improvement in racial attitudes.”Dr. Fazios Indiana study found that three times as many randomly assignedinterracial roommates were no longer living together at the

31、 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 ?26 C. He specialized in interpersonal relationship.27. Who benefited from living with a wh

32、ite roommate according to Fazios study?27 D. Black freshman with high standardized scores28. What did the study find about randomly assigned interracial roommates at OhioState University?28 D. They broke up more often than same-race roommates29. What did Dr. Fazio find interesting about interracial

33、roommates who had livedtogether for 10 weeks?29 D. The racial attitudes improved.【點評】：本文節(jié)選自 2009 年 7 月的紐約時報，原文標題為 InterracialRoommates Can Reduce 的一位名為 Russell Fazio的心理學教授研究不同人種混居的有趣現(xiàn)象以及結論。無獨有偶，2011 年 6 月四級真題閱讀理解 Section B的 Passage 1 也選用了相同的話題，大家平時在備考中要對真題重視起來哦！Passage 2In a small liboratory at the

34、Medical University of South Carolina, Dr. VladimirMironov has been working for a decade to grow meat. A developmental biologist andtissue engineer, Dr. Mironov, is one of only a few scientists worldwide involved inbioengineering cultured meat.Its a product he believes could help solve future global

35、food crises resulting fromshrinking amounts of land available for growing meat the old-fashioned way.“Growth of cultured meat is also under way in the Netherlands”, Mironov toldReuters in an interview, “but in the United States, it is science in search of fundingand demand.”The new National Institut

36、e of Food and Agriculture wont fund it, the NationalInstitutes of Health wont fund it, and the NASA funded it only briefly, Mironov said.Its classic disruptive technology, Mironov said. Bringing any new technology onthe market, on average, costs $1 billion. We dont even have $1 million.Director of t

37、he Advanced Tissue Biofabrication Center in the Department ofRegenerative Medicine and Cell Biology at the medical university, Mironov nowprimarily 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 dontl

38、ike to associate technology with food, said Nicholas Genovese, a visiting scholar incancer cell biology.But there are a lot of products that we eat today that are considered natural that areproduced in a similar manner, Genovese said.30. What does Dr. Mironov think of bioengineering cultured meat?30

39、 A. It will help solve the global food crisis.31. What does Dr. Mironov say about the funding for their research?31 D. It is still far from being sufficient.32. What does Nicholas Genovese say about a lot of products we eat today?32 A. They are not as natural as we believed.【點評】這是路透社 2011 年初的一篇報道，題目

40、為“South Carolina scientist works to growmeat in 還難以完全接受這種方式。Passage 3Bernard Jackson is a free man today, but he has many bitter memories. Jackson spentfive years in prison after a jury wrongly convicted him of raping two women. AtJacksons trial, although two witnesses testified that Jackson was wit

41、h them in anotherlocation at the times of the crimes, he was convicted anyway. Why? The jury believedthe testimony of the two victims, who positively identified Jackson as the man whohas attacked them. The court eventually freed Jackson after the police found the manwho had really committed the crim

42、es. Jackson was similar in appearance to the guiltyman. The two women has made a mistake in identity. As a result, Jackson has lostfive years of his life.The two women in this case were eyewitnesses. They clearly saw the man whoattacked them, yet they mistakenly identified an innocent person. Simila

43、r incidentshave occurred before. Eyewitnesses to other crimes have identified the wrong personin a police lineup or in photographs.Many factors influence the accuracy of eyewitness testimony. For instance, witnessessometimes see photographs of several suspects before they try to identify the persont

44、hey saw in a lineup of people. They can become confused by seeing manyphotographs or similar faces. The number of people in the lineup, and whether it is alive lineup or a photograph, may also affect a witnesss decision. People sometimeshave difficulty identifying people of other races. The question

45、s the police askwitnesses also have an effect on them.Question 33: What do we learn about Bernard Jackson?3 B. He was wrongly imprisonedQuestion 34: What led directly to Jacksons sentence?34 C. The two victims identificationQuestion 35: What lesson do we learn from Jacksons case?35 C. Many factors influence the accuracy of witness testimony.【解析】本篇文章講述了 Jackson因為被目擊證人誤認而被判刑，雖然最后洗清了罪名，了不確定的情況。為考生的障礙。例如：testimony: 證人證言；witness: 目擊證人；jury: 陪審團；sentence 出現(xiàn)太大的問題。Section CAbout 700,000 children in Mexico dropp