2011年12月英語六級聽力真題及答案

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Part III Listening Comprehension
Section A
Directions: In this section, you will hear 8 short conversations and2 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.
M: I don’t know what to do. I have to drive to Chicago next Friday for my cousin’s wedding, but I have got a Psychology test to prepare for.
W: Why don’t you record your notes so you can study on the way?
Q: What does the woman suggest the man do?
【答案】A）Listen to the recorded notes while driving.

12.
M: Professor Wright, you may have to find another student to play this role, the lines are so long and I simply can’t remember them all.
W: Look, Tony. It is still a long time before the first show. I don’t expect you to know all the lines yet. Just keep practicing.
Q: What do we learn from the conversation?
【答案】C）The man lacks confidence in playing the part.

13.
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 here and I will take care of him.
Q: What are the speakers talking about?
【答案】A）Arranging a bed for a patient.

14.
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 starting up a new season. And I’m afraid I have a lot on my hands.
Q: What does the man mean?
【答案】A）He is too busy to accept more responsibility.

15. 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. It’s reported that he made public at this decision at the last cabinet meeting.
Q: what do we learn about Jame Smeil?
【答案】C) He has left his position in the government.

16. W: The morning paper says the space shuttle is taking off at 10 a.m. tomorrow.
M: Yeah, it’s just another one of this year’s routine missions. The first mission was undertaken a decade ago and broadcast live then worldwide.
Q: what can we infer from this conversation?
【答案】D) The man is well informed about the space shuttle missions.

17. M: We do a lot of camping in the mountains. What would you recommend for two people?
W: You’d probably be better off with the four reel drive vehicle. We have several off-road trucks in stock, both new and used.
Q: Where does the conversation most probably take place?
【答案】A) At a car renting company

18. 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 weekend?
【答案】更新中……

Conversation One
W: 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 then 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.
W: Right. 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. Gruby’s initial efforts, there are more left-handed product actually on the market. Manufactures are now beginning to see that there is a market for left-handed products.
W: And what’s 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: What’s the competition 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.
【材料評析】
這是一篇采訪一名專為左撇子們提供產(chǎn)品的供應(yīng)商的文章。文中分別談到了創(chuàng)業(yè)理念的來源、產(chǎn)業(yè)如何創(chuàng)始、產(chǎn)業(yè)日前發(fā)展?fàn)顩r以及這家產(chǎn)品供應(yīng)商所面對的行業(yè)現(xiàn) 狀。具體細(xì)節(jié)為：創(chuàng)業(yè)理念開始于一名名叫Gruby的退休印刷工，他本人是一名左撇子，所以想到找生產(chǎn)商幫他實現(xiàn)自己所想的專門為左撇子設(shè)計產(chǎn)品的理念。 而這家供應(yīng)商目前面對的行業(yè)現(xiàn)狀為：市面上已有的左撇子產(chǎn)品比最初創(chuàng)業(yè)之時，增加了許多；但銷售渠道來源主要是網(wǎng)絡(luò)訂單。而這些，并不對這家供應(yīng)商公司構(gòu) 成競爭威脅，因為他們在倫敦有門店和網(wǎng)絡(luò)銷售的雙重渠道。因此他們是這種左撇子產(chǎn)品的最大供應(yīng)商。

本篇文章為考查細(xì)節(jié)信息抓取能力題。難度較大主要因為考生可能對產(chǎn)品制造加工行業(yè)涉及到的manufacture、stock、mail-order outlet 、supplier等專業(yè)術(shù)語不太熟悉，而形成困擾。但考生只要能聽出這是一篇采訪類型的文章，每次都能聽到女士（采訪者）的問題非常簡短，應(yīng)該立即警惕 答案應(yīng)該是針對男士（被訪者）的回答提問。而女士（采訪者）的問題中本身就已經(jīng)暗示出接下來的回答中的關(guān)鍵詞。如：女士問的“And what’s the range of your stock?”一句中，stock即為關(guān)鍵信息詞。因此，這篇文章同時也提醒考生平時應(yīng)該注意商務(wù)用語和商業(yè)常識方面的積累。

Q19: What kind of business does 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 Two
M: Can we make you an offer? We would like 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 happened?
M: Well, the delay wasn’t entirely our fault. You did in fact make late changes to the specifications of the advertisements.
W: 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 repeat our offer to run the campaign for 4 extra weeks?
W: That’s 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.
M: Could we suggest a 20% reduction 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, let’s suggest a new solution. How about a 40% cut in fee, or a free repeat campaign?
M: Well, let’s take a break, we’re not getting very far. Perhaps we should think about this.
【材料評析】
這篇對話是圍繞一次商業(yè)活動的推廣是否延期和如何收費的討論。對話中，女士否決了延期四周這個提議。理由是這次的活動已經(jīng)錯過了兩個重要的商業(yè)活動事件， 而且也沒有在重要雜志上打廣告。而男士則堅持要求延期，并表示：活動被耽擱的原因是女士所在公司沒有及時給出對廣告的修改。而男士認(rèn)為是女士所在公司提交 細(xì)節(jié)修改建議太晚而導(dǎo)致耽擱。女士堅持無需延期，且不應(yīng)延期，而應(yīng)定為活動失敗。因此，女士向男士的公司提出降低收費或者明年免費為她們公司做活動的要 求。最后，男士提出延期四周并給出20%的降價?？上咳匀灰蟾偷?0%的降價和下一期的免費活動推廣。而男士提出還需再議。顯然，他對此提議并不 表示贊同。

這篇文章總體不難，考查文章大意。而文章本身圍繞是否延期和如何收費這個中心討論點展開，沒有較生僻的詞匯。但值得注意的是，考生需要通過對話推知談話者 的身份，并對說話者的語氣和話外音所包含的內(nèi)容有所把握。另外，這是一篇在真實的商務(wù)談判場景中會經(jīng)常出現(xiàn)的狀況?？忌⒁馄綍r對商業(yè)和商務(wù)常識方面的知 識積累，會對把握整個聽力對話的大意很有幫助。

22: What do we learn about the man’s company?
23: Why was the campaign delayed according to the man?
24: What does the woman propose as a solution to the problem?
25: What does the man suggest they do at the end of the conversation?

Section B
Passage One
The University of Tennessee’s 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 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. They are bad 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 responses 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. Once the research animal hits the floor and becomes an escapee, says Herza, its moral standard is instantly diminished. In Herzau’s own home, there was more ironic example when his young son’s 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 from pet to pest, the kitchen mice obtained totally different moral standards
【材料評析】
本篇文章主要是講述人們對待老鼠不同的道德態(tài)度。
同是一個實驗室里面老鼠，如果是為了人類實驗做貢獻，就是人們眼中的好老鼠；而一旦老鼠從實驗室里面跑出來，攜帶病菌危害到了人類健康，那么這些逃跑掉的 老鼠就成為了人們眼中的壞老鼠。人類會使用那些捕鼠夾子來消滅壞老鼠，但是對待好老鼠的時候態(tài)度截然不同，比如作者兒子的寵物老鼠死掉了，他們家甚至給它 辦了一場葬禮。
作者的觀點就是：如果我們對一樣事物貼上了標(biāo)簽，那么在道德層面上，我們內(nèi)心會根據(jù)標(biāo)簽的不同作出不同的反應(yīng)。并不是事物本身有任何好與不好，只是人類自作主張給各個事物貼上了不同的標(biāo)簽。

Questions:
26 What does the passage say about most of the mice used for experiments?
【答案】D）They sacrifice their lives for the benefit of humans.
27 Why did the so-called bad mice have to be captured and destroyed?
【答案】C) They may affect the results of experiments.
28 When are mice killed without prior approval?
【答案】C) When they become escapees.
29, Why does the speaker say what the Herzau’s did at home is ironical?
【答案】A）While holding a burial ceremony for a pet mouse, they were killing pest mice.

Passage Two
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 natural 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 greatest is the last, the city of final destination, the city that has a goal. It is this third city that accounts for New York's high-strung disposition, its poetical deportment, its dedication to the arts, and its incomparable achievements. Commuters give the city its tidal restlessness; natives give it solidity 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 with 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.
【材料評析】
這篇文章的主題是城市和文化。屬于散文性質(zhì)。
講述了不同的人帶給紐約不同的氣息。第一種，紐約本地人，讓紐約完整持續(xù)；第二種，紐約上班族，讓紐約躁動不安；第三種，來紐約尋夢的人，他們讓紐約充滿熱情。作者在內(nèi)心覺得紐約正是因為有這樣三種人才能如此閃耀光彩，尤其是最后一類人，為紐約做出的貢獻最大。
本篇文章中，The Three New Yorks 具有雙關(guān)含義，既可以指紐約城，也可以指紐約人。有些學(xué)生可能看到這里就沒看懂。遇到這種情況應(yīng)該先接著往后看，然后猜這個three New Yorks到底指什么。

Questions 30 to 32 are based on the passage you have just heard.
30. What does the speaker say about the natives of New York?
【答案】D) They take it for granted.
31. What does the speaker say commuters give to New York?
【答案】A) Tidal restlessness.
32. What do we learn about the settlers of New York?
【答案】B) They are adventurers from all over the world.

Passage Three
“If you asked me television is unhealthy”, I said to my roommate Walter, 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.
“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 can’t see your point.” 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.
“As I see it,” I explained, “not only are most TV programs 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, I’ve been planning to watch the football game. I am going to change the channel.”
“Don’t 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.
【材料評析】
這是一篇很有趣的記敘文。講述了作者和室友的一段關(guān)于看電視問題的對話。
作者一直在強調(diào)看電視如何如何不好，并且列舉出了一大堆的原因：會讓身體變胖，面色枯黃，視力下降，并且會讓孩子們的創(chuàng)造能力，交際能力下降。但是他的室友一直沒有接他的話，一直專心于看自己的電視節(jié)目。
文章最幽默的是，最后一個情節(jié)，當(dāng)室友說要換臺的時候，作者立刻不愿意了，真是非常地諷刺，原來作者自己也是離不開電視機，受不了電視節(jié)目的誘惑的。
這篇文章難度比較低，生詞幾乎沒有，大家只要看懂情節(jié)，基本上所有問題也可以回答出來，需要仔細(xì)認(rèn)真，在聽聽力的時候虛擬場景。

Questions 33- 35 are based on the passage you have just heard.
33. As the speaker walked into the living room, what was being shown on TV?
【答案】D） A murder mystery
34. What does the speaker say about watching television?
【答案】C）It is unhealthy for the viewers.
35. What can we say about the speaker?
【答案】B) He can’t resist the temptation of T.V. either.

Section C Compound Dictation
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 detect health problems or to perform delicate surgery. Repair crews did not have a way of identifying broken pipes located deep within a high-rise apartment building. However, that’s about to change. Advances in computers and biophysics have started a micro miniature revolution that allows scientists to envision and in some cases actually build microscopic machines. These devices promise to dramatically change the way we live and work.
Micromachines already are making an impact. At Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio, research scientists have designed a 4-inch silicon chip that holds 700 tiny primitive motors. At Lucas Nova Sensor in Fremont, California, scientists have perfected the world’s first microscopic blood-pressure sensor. Threaded through a person’s blood vessels, the sensor can provide blood pressure readings at the valve of the heart itself.
Although simple versions of miniature devices have had an impact, advanced versions are still several years away.
Auto manufacturers, for example, are trying to use tiny devices that can sense when to release an airbag and how to keep engines and breaks operating efficiently. Some futurists envision nanotechnology also being used to explore the deep sea in small submarine, or even to launch finger-sized rockets packed with micro miniature instruments.
“There is an explosion of new ideas and applications,” So, when scientists now think about future machines doing large and complex tasks, they’re thinking smaller than ever before.

【答案】
36. detect
37. delicate 38. identifying 39. apartment
40. revolution 41. dramatically 42. primitive 43. vessels 44. Although simple versions of miniature devices have had an impact, advanced versions are still several years away 45. that can sense when to release an airbag and how to keep engines and breaks operating efficiently 46. when scientists now think about future machines doing large and complex tasks, they’re thinking smaller than ever before