2017年6月听力文本
2017年6月份 四级听力真题第2套(听力文本) (2)
College English Test Band Four（2017年6月四级听力真题文本第2套）Part II Listening ComprehensionSection ADirections: In this section,you will hear three news reports.At the end of each news report,you will hear two or three questions.Both the news report and the questionswill be spoken only once.After you hear a question,you must choose the best answerfrom the four choicesmarked A), B), C) and D).Then mark the corresponding letteron Answer Sheet 1with a single line through the centre.News Report OneAutomakers and tech companiesare working hardto offer the first true self-driving car.But 75% of drivers saythey wouldn't feel safe in such a vehicle.Still, 60% of drivers would like toget some kind of self-driving feature,such as automatic braking or self-parking,the next time they buy a new car.The attitudes are publishedin a new AAA survey of 1,800 drivers. Advocates of self-driving cars arguethey would be saferthan in cars driven by humansbecause they wouldn't get distractedor drive when tired.But those surveyed by AAA saythey trust their own driving skills.Many feel the technology istoo new and unproven.John Nielsen,AAA's managing director ofautomotive engineering and repair,said tests suggest driversmay be overestimating their own abilities.He also believes they will be more likelyto trust self-driving carsas they become more familiar with features such as automatic braking or parking.He estimated that the "comfort level"will increase considerably in five to ten years. Questions 1 and 2 are based on the news report you have just heard.1. What is the finding of the AAA survey?2. What does John Nielsen sayabout self-driving cars?News Report TwoOne dog has been killed and multiple dogs have been injured by a snowmobile driverin what appears to be an intentional attack on competitors in the Iditarod Race in Alaska. Aliy Zirkle was the first to report an attack.A snowmobile driver had repeatedly attempted to harm her and her team,and one of Zirkle's dogshad received a non-life-threatening injury. Zirkle reported the attackwhen she arrived in Nulato, Alaska,in the early hours of the morning.Then Jeff King, a four-time champion, reported a similar attack.His team was hit by a snowmobile driver, injuring several dogsand killing a 3-year-old male dog.Reporter Zachariah Hughes says that neither King nor Zirkle was injured. Although this incident very much altersthe race of the two participantscompeting for a win,both are going to continue on their waytoward the finishing line.Alaska State Troopers released a statement saying they've arrested Arnold Demoski, 26.He faces trial on several charges.Questions 3 and 4 are based on the news report you have just heard.3. What is the news report mainly about?4. What do we learn about Jeff King?News Report ThreeA tour boat turned overoff the coast of Nicaragua,killing at least 13 peopleand leaving more passengers missing,official said.The boat was carrying 32 people—25 Costa Ricans, four Americansand three Nicaraguans.The 13 dead were all Costa Rican,the Foreign Ministry said.The boat,traveling between Nicaragua's Big Corn Island and Little Corn Island,turned over Saturday near the larger island.Some passengers remain missing,the Costa Rican Foreign Ministry said,but did not specify how many.A local radio saidan unspecified number of people were rescued, including the tour boat's owner,Hilario Blandon.Nicaraguan naval authoritieshad banned sea travel in the areabecause of bad weather and strong winds,but the tour boat proceeded anyway. Blandon, the boat's owner,has been arrested by Nicaraguan authorities,the state-run news agency said.Both he and a crew member are being investigated for unintentional murderand exposing people to danger,according to police.Questions 5 to 7 are based on the news report you have just heard.5. What happened to the tour boatsailing off the Nicaraguan coast?6. How many people was the boat carrying?7. What do we knowabout the owner of the boat?Section BDirections: In this section,you will hear two long conversations.At the end of each conversation,you will hear four questions.Both the conversation and the questions will be spoken only once.After you hear a question,you must choose the best answerfrom the four choicesmarked A), B), C) and D).Then mark the corresponding letteron Answer Sheet 1with a single line through the centre. Conversation OneM: Hi, Susan,you're looking very smart today.W: I always look smart, James. Actually, I'm on my way to a job interview. M: What job? Oh, you mean,for the summer holidays?W: Yeah. There's only two weeks to go.I've got a second interviewwith that big foreign accountancy firmin the city center.You know the one.M: That's fantastic.W: The work is justhelping out with data input, you know,but the pay isn't too bad.It might suit you too.I know they have at leasttwo temporary positions available.And I don't think they have anyone else yet. M: Hmm...If they take you on,tell them you know a friendwho'd be really good too.I really need the moneyand the experience would look goodon my resume.Maybe we'll be working together.The dream team.W: OK. We'll do.If the boss likes me, I'll mention it.It'll be good to have someone aroundwho I know.I'll phone you afterwards.But perhaps you shouldput in an application anyway.M: Thanks, Susan. That's great.Listen, do you want a lift to the city?I have my dad's car today,and nothing else to do this morning.W: Sure. Thanks, James.M: Let's go then. The car's over there.W: By the way,how's your knowledge of accountancy?The interviewer may ask you about it.M: No problem. I think I can survive.I might just have to reviewa few accountancy terms.Maybe you can give mea practice interview first.W: Of course. Let's go then.Don't want to be late.Questions 8 to 11 are based on the conversation you have just heard.8. Where will Susan probably get a job?9. What will Susan's future job involve?10. Why does James want the jobin that company?11. What does James say he will have to doto prepare for the interview?Conversation TwoW: There's new data out todaythat confirms that many Americansare not good at math,and when it comes toeveryday technology skills,we are dead lastwhen compared to other developed countries. Here's Gabrielle Emanuelof National Public Radio.M: Let's start with the bad newsthat Americans are terrible at technology skills, using email, naming a file on a computer, using a link on a webpage,or just texting someone.W: No country scored below the U.S.?M: Only one country.Poland performed as poorly as we did.Who came out the first?Japan did the best and then Finland.If you look at dataabout reading and math,you'll notice something interesting.Younger adults who went to collegeor graduate school were doing pretty well.In literacy, they were actually doing better than their peers in other countries.W: So that's a bit of good news.M: But when you look at Americanswho have a high school diploma,they look a lot likeother countries' high school dropouts.We have a lot of work to do.That is especially true when it comes to math. You go to the store and there's a sale.Buy one, get the second one half off.You decide to buy two.How much do you pay?W: You mean high school graduatescan't do this task in general?M: You're right.What does that tell usabout our education system?Well, it tells us that we need tothink about the preparedness of our studentsas they are leaving high school.W: Right. And schools, employers,in fact we all need to do something about it. Thank you, Gabrielle.Questions 12 to 15 are based on the conversation you have just heard.12. What does the man say about Americans?13. Who performed the best in technology skills according to the man?14. In what aspectdid American college students perform well? 15. What do we learn from the conversation about American high school education? Section CDirections: In this section,you will hear three passages.At the end of each passage,you will hear three or four questions.Both the passage and the questionswill be spoken only once.After you hear a question,you must choose the best answerfrom the four choicesmarked A), B), C) and D).Then mark the corresponding letteron Answer Sheet 1with a single line through the centre. Passage OneWild carrots probably evolved withthe other flowering plantsabout 360 million years ago.Like apples, carrots are native to Central Asia.That's why horses,which also come from Central Asia,like both apples and carrots so much.With wild carrots,the roots are white, small and skinny,so you'd have to pick a lot of wild carrotsto get enough to eat.Doctors used carrot seeds and roots as medicine, on the theory that foods that taste badmust be good for you.Around 800 AD, people in Central Asia managed to develop a new kind of carrot—a purple carrot—that attracted more interest from international traders.Then, in the late 1500s,food scientists in the Netherlandscultivated large, straight, sweet, red carrotslike the ones we eat today.But people still mostly fed carrots to horses, donkeys and pigs, and didn't eat them themselves. In the 1600s,people in China used carrots as medicine,but they also ate carrots boiled in soup.The red color was popular forChinese New Year celebrations.But carrots got their biggest boostduring the two world wars,when food shortages forced people to eat them, and governments told everyonehow healthy carrots were.Today, cooler countriesgrow most of the world's carrots.Machines do most of the planting and picking, and carrots are easy to store and ship,so they are cheap almost everywhere. Questions 16 to 18 are based on the passage you have just heard.16. What do we learn from the talkabout wild carrots?17. What does the speaker sayabout carrots in the late 1500s?18. Why did people turn to carrots for food during the two world wars?Passage TwoKatherine loved Facebook.With Facebook,she could stay connected with her familyno matter how far away they were.She could see their photosand read their status updates.With Facebook,she could keep her relatives up-to-dateon what she was doing.Another thing Katherine loved about Facebook was that she didn't have to think about time zones when updating family.Whenever she called her parents or other relatives, she always had to think about the time difference so that she wouldn't wake someone up or call when she knew they were at church.Facebook was so convenient.When Katherine joined Facebook,some of her classmates at high schoolstarted to add her as a friend.At first, this didn't bother her.She loved learning about the success of people she knew when she was just a teenager.She loved finding out people were getting married, having babies, and traveling.Soon, however, Katherine found herself comparing herself with the peopleshe was reading about on Facebook.It began to make her feel badthat some people seemed to be doingso much better than she was.She was also spending a lot of time on Facebook. It took a lot of time and energyto keep up with everyone's status updates. Katherine started to think.She looked at the list of over 500 friendsshe had on Facebook and realizedsome of them were not really friends at all. Questions 19 to 21 are based on the passageyou have just heard.19. What was one particular convenience Katherine loved about Facebook?20. How did Katherine feelwhen her classmates added heras a Facebook friend?21. What made Katherine feel badabout herself later on?Passage ThreeDo you know where a mule comes from?It is the child of a donkey and a horse.Mules have strong muscles like horses,but they eat less, can work longer,and are gentler, like donkeys.George Washington was the first personin the United States to own mules.He had heard that mules made good farm animalsand he contacted the U.S. ambassador in Spain to ask about them.In 1785, King Charles Ⅲof Spainsent Washington a male donkey as a gift.That male donkey becamethe father of the mule industry in the U.S. Every April,Maury County holds a Mule Day celebration. Held in Columbia, Tennessee,Mule Day had its beginnings as "Breeder's Day" in the 1840s.Farmers and farm animal breederswould bring their animals to market every April to show, buy, and trade.This was an important businessbefore the days of tractors,when many families made a living from farming and mules were used as work animals. Eventually, tractors began to replace mules, making them less in demand.A parade was added to Mule Day in 1934to attract more people.Over the years other activities have been added, and today more than 200,000 people show up each year to watch and participate.If you visit during Mule Day celebrations,you might see mule-driving contests,square dances, horse showsor even tree-cutting competitions.Questions 22 to 25 are based on the passage you have just heard.22. What does the speaker say about mules?23. What do we learn about the donkeywhich is said to bethe father of the U.S. mule industry?24. What did farmers usually do on Mule Dayin the 1840s?25. What made mules less in demand in America? This is the end of listening comprehension.。
2017年6月大学英语四级短文阅读听力原文
Passage OneWild c arrots probably evolved with the other flowering plants about 360 million years ago.Like apples, carrots are native to Central Asia. That's why horses,which also come from Central Asia, like both apples and carrots so much. With wild carrots,the roots are white, small and skinny, so you'd have to pick a lot of wild carrots to get enough to eat.Doctors used carrot seeds and roots as medicine, on the theory that foods that taste bad must be good for you.Around 800 AD, people in Central Asiamanaged to develop a new kind of carrot—a purple carrot—that attracted more interest from international traders. Then, in the late1500s,food scientists in the Netherlandscultivated large, straight, sweet, red carrots like the ones we eat today.But people still mostly fed carrots to horses,donkeys and pigs, and didn't eat them themselves.In the 1600s,people in China used carrots as medicine, but they also ate carrots boiledin soup. The red color was popular for Chinese New Year celebrations. But carrots got their biggest boost during the two world wars,when food shortages forced people to eat them, and governments told everyone how healthy carrots were. Today, cooler countriesgrow most of the world's carrots.Machines do most of the planting and picking, and carrots are easy to store and ship, so they are cheap almost everywhere.Questions 16 to 18 are based on the passage you have just heard.16. What do we learn from the talk about wild carrots?17. What does the speaker say about carrots in the late 1500s?18. Why did people turn to carrots for food during the two world wars?Passage TwoKatherine loved Facebook. With Facebook,she could stay connected with her family no matter how far away they were. She could see their photos and read their status updates. With Facebook,she could keep her relatives up-to-date on what she was doing.Another thing Katherine loved about Facebook was that she didn't have to think about time zones when updating family.Whenever she called her parents or other relatives, she always had to think about the time difference so that she wouldn't wake someone up or call when she knew they were at church. Facebook was so convenient.When Katherine joined Facebook, some of her classmates at high school started to add her as a friend. At first, this didn't bother her.She loved learning about the success of people she knew when she was just a teenager.She loved finding out people were getting married, having babies, and traveling. Soon, however, Katherine found herself comparing herself with the people she was reading about on Facebook. It began to make her feel badthat some people seemed to be doing so much better than she was.She was also spending a lot of time on Facebook. It took a lot of time and energyto keep up with everyone's status updates. Katherine started to think.She looked at the list of over 500 friends she had on Facebook and realizedsome of them were not really friends at all. Questions 19 to 21 are based on the passage you have just heard.19. What was one particular convenience Katherine loved about Facebook? 20. How did Katherine feelwhen her classmates added her as a Facebook friend?21. What made Katherine feel bad about herself later on? Passage ThreeDo you know where a mule comes from? It is the child of a donkey and a horse. Mules have strong muscles like horses, but they eat less, can work longer, and are gentler, like donkeys.George Washington was the first person in the United States to own mules.He had heard that mules made good farm animals and he contacted the U.S. ambassador in Spain to ask about them.In 1785, King Charles Ⅲof Spainsent Washington a male donkey as a gift. That male donkey becamethe father of the mule industry in the U.S. Every April,Maury County holds a Mule Day celebration. Held in Columbia, Tennessee,Mule Day had its beginnings as "Breeder's Day" in the 1840s.Farmers and farm animal breederswould bring their animals to market every April to show, buy, and trade.This was an important business before the days of tractors,when many families made a living from farming and mules were used as work animals. Eventually, tractors began to replace mules,making them less in demand.A parade was added to Mule Day in 1934 to attract more people.Over the years other activities have been added, and today more than 200,000 people show up each year to watch and participate.If you visit during Mule Day celebrations, you might see mule-driving contests, square dances, horse showsor even tree-cutting competitions.Questions 22 to 25 are based on the passage you have just heard.22. What does the speaker say about mules? 23. What do we learn about the donkey which is said to bethe father of the U.S. mule industry?24. What did farmers usually do on Mule Day in the 1840s?25. What made mules less in demand in America? This is the end of listening comprehension.Team spirit[A] Teams have become the basic building blocks of organizations.Recruitment advertisements routinely call for “team players”.Business schools grade their students in part on their performance in group projects. Office managers knock down walls to encourage team building. Teams are as old as civilization, of course: even Jesus had 12 co-workers. But a new report by Deloitte, “Global Human Capital Trends”,based on a survey of more than 7,000 executives in over 130 countries, suggests that the fashion for teamwork has reached a new high. Almost half of those surveyed said their companies were either in the middle of restructuring or about to embark on (开始）it; and for the most part, restructuring meant putting more emphasis on teams.[B] Companies are abandoning conventional functional departments and organising employees into cross-disciplinary teams that focus on particular products, problems or customers. These teams are gaining more power to run their own affairs. They are also spending more time working with each other rather than reporting upwards. Deloitte argues that a new organisational form is on the rise:a network of teams is replacing the conventional hierarchy (等级体制).[C] The fashion for teams is driven by a sense that the old way of organising people is too rigid for both the modem marketplace and the expectations of employees. Technological innovation places greater value on agility (灵活性).John Chambers, chairman of Cisco Systems Inc., a worldwide leader in electronics products,says that “we compete against market transitions (过渡)，not competitors. Product transitions used to take five or seven years; now they take one or two. ”Digital technology also makes it easier for people to co-ordinate their activities without resorting to hierarchy. The “millennials”(千禧一代) who will soon make up half the workforce in rich countries were raised from nursery school onwards to work in groups.[D] The fashion for teams is also spreading from the usual corporate suspects (such as GE and IBM) to some more unusual ones. The Cleveland Clinic, a hospital operator, has reorganised its medical staff into teams to focus on particular treatment areas; consultants, nurses and others collaborate closely instead of being separated by speciality (专业)and rank. The US Army has gone the same way. In his book, “Team of Teams' General Stanley McChrystal describes how the army’s hierarchical structure hindered its operations during the early stages of the Iraq war. His solution was to learn something from the insurgents it was fighting: decentralise authority to self-organising teams.[E] A good rule of thumb is that as soon as generals and hospital administrators jumpon a management bandwagon, it is time to ask questions. Leigh Thompson of Kellogg School of Management in Illinois warns that, ‘Teams are not always the answer—teams may provide insight, creativity and knowledge in a way that a person working independently cannot; but teamwork may also lead to confusion, delay and poor decision-making.”The late Richard Hackman of Harvard University once argued, “I have no question that when you have a team, the possibility exists that it will generate magic, producing something extraordinary... But don’t count on it.”[F] Hackman (who died in 2013) noted that teams are hampered by problems ofco-ordination and motivation that chip away at the benefits of collaboration. High-flyers forced to work in teams may be undervalued and free-riders empowered. Groupthink may be unavoidable. In a study of 120 teams of senior executives, he discovered that less than 10% of their supposed members agreed on who exactly was on the team. If it is hard enough to define a team’s membership, agreeing on its purpose is harder still.[G] Profound changes in the workforce are making teams trickier to manage. Teams work best if their members have a strong common culture.This is hard to achieve when, as is now thecase in many big firms, a large proportion of staff are temporary contractors. Teamwork improves with time: America’s National Transportation Safety Board found that 73% of the incidents in its civil-aviation database occurred on a crew’s first day of flying together. However, as Amy Edmondson of Harvard points out, organisations increasingly use “team”as a verb rather than a noun: they form teams for specific purposes and then quickly disband them.[H] The least that can be concluded from this research is that companies need to think harder about managing teams. They need to rid their minds of sentimentalism (感情用事)：the most successful teams have leader s who are able to set an overall direction and take immediate action. They need to keep teams small and focused: giving in to pressure to be more “inclusive”is a guarantee of dysfunction. Jeff Bezos, Amazon’s boss, says that “If I see more than two pizzas for lunch, the team is too big.”They need to immunize teams against group-think: Hackman argued that the best ones contain “deviants”(离经叛道者）who are willing to do something that maybe upsetting to others.[I] A new study of 12,000 workers in 17 countries by Steelcase, a furniture-maker which also does consulting, finds that the best way to ensure employees are “engaged”is togive them more control over where and how they do their work―which may mean liberating them from having to do everything in collaboration with others.[J] However, organisations need to learn something bigger than how to manage teams better: they need to be in the habit of asking themselves whether teams are the best tools for the job. Teambuilding skills are in short supply: Deloitte reports that only 12% of the executives they contacted feel they understand the way people work together in networks and only 21% feel confident in their ability to build cross-functional teams. Loosely managed teams can become hotbeds of distraction―employees routinely complain that they can’t get their work done because they are forced to spend too much time in meetings or compelled to work in noisy offices. Even in the age ofopen-plan offices and social networks some work is best left to the individual.36.Successful team leaders know exactly where the team should go and are able to take prompt action.37.Decentralisation of authority was also found to be more effective in military operation s.38.In many companies, the conventional form of organisation is giving way toa network of teams.39.Members of poorly managed teams are easily distracted from their work.40.Teamwork is most effective when team members share the same culture.41.According to a report by Deloitte, teamwork is becoming increasingly popular among companies.42.Some team members find it hard to agree on questions like membership and the team’s purpose.43.Some scholars think teamwork may not always be reliable, despite its potential to work wonders.44.To ensure employees’commitment, it is advisable to give them more flexibility as to where and how they work.45.Product transitions take much less time now than in the past.。
2017年6英语六级听力原文
W: Welcome to Work Place. And in today’s program, we’re looking at the results of two recently published surveys, which both deal with the same topic - happiness at work. John, tell us about the first survey.M: Well, this was done by a human resources consultancy, who interviewed more than 1,000 workers, and established a top ten of the factors, which make people happy at work. The most important factor for the majority of the people interviewed was having friendly, supportive colleagues. In fact, 73% of people interviewed put their relationship with colleagues as the key factor contributing to happiness at work, which is a very high percentage. The second most important factor was having work that is enjoyable. The two least important factors were having one's achievements recognized, and rather surprisingly, earning a competitive salary.W: So, we are not mainly motivated by money?M: Apparently not.W: Any other interesting information in the survey?M: Yes. For example, 25% of the working people interviewed described themselves as 'very happy' at work. However, 20% of employees described themselves as being unhappy.W: That’s quite a lot of unhappy people at work every day.M: It is, isn’t it? And there were several more interesting conclusions revealed by the survey. First of all, small is beautiful: people definitely prefer working for smaller organizations or companies with less than 100 staff. We also find out that, generally speaking, women were happier in their work than men.W: Yes, we are, aren’t we?M: And workers on part-time contracts, who only work 4 or 5 hours a day, are happier than those who work full-time. The researchers concluded that this is probably due to a better work-life balance.W: Are bosses happier than their employees?M: Yes, perhaps not surprisingly, the higher people go in a company, the happier they are. So senior managers enjoy their jobs more than people working under them.Questions 1 to 4 are based on the conversation you have just heard.Q1: What is the factor that made employees happy according to the survey?Q2: What is the percentage of the people surveyed who felt unhappy at work?Q3: What kind of companies are popular with employees?Q4: What is the possible reason for people on part-time contracts to be happier?W: Mr. De Keyzer, I'm a great lover of your book Moments Before the Flood. Can you tell us how you first became interested in this subject matter?M: In 2006, when the concert hall of the city of Bruges asked me to take some pictures for a catalogue for a new concert season around the theme of water, I found myself working along the Belgian coastline. As there had been numerous alarming articles in the press about a climate catastrophe waiting to happen, I started looking at the sea and the beach very differently, a place where I spent so many perfect days as a child. This fear of a looming danger became the subject of a large-scale photoproject.W: You wrote in the book: "I don’t want to photograph the disaster, I want to photograph the disaster waiting to happen.” Can you talk a bit about that?M: It is clear now that it is a matter of time before the entire European coastline disappears under water. The same goes for numerous big cities around the world. My idea was to photograph this beautiful and very unique coastline, rich in history, befor e it’s too late—as a last witness.W: Can you talk a bit about how history plays a role in this project?M: Sure. The project is also about the history of Europe looking at the sea and wondering when the next enemy would appear. In the images, you see all kinds of possible defense constructions to hold back the Romans, Germans, Vikings, and now nature as enemy number one. For example, there is the image of the bridge into the sea taken at the Normandy D-Day landing site. Also, Venice, the city eternally threatened by the sea, where every morning wooden pathways have to be set up to allow tourists to reach their hotels.W: Thank you, Mr. De Keyzer. It was a pleasure to have you with us today.Questions 5 to 8 are based on the conversation you have just heard.Q5. What does the man say about the book Moments Before the Flood?Q6. When did the man get his idea for the work?Q7. What will happen when the climate catastrophe occurs?Q8. What does the man say about Venice?Section BPassage 1When facing a new situation, some people tend to rehearse their defeat by spending too much time anticipating the worst. I remember talking with a young lawyer who was about to begin her first jury trial. She was very nervous. I asked what impression she wanted to make on the jury. She replied:” I don’t want to look too inexperienced, I don’t want them to suspect this is my first trial.” This lawyer had fallen victims to the don’ts syndrome—a form of negative goals setting. The don’ts can be self-fulfilling because your mind response to pictures.Research conducted at Stanford University shows a mental image fires the nerve system the same way as actually doing something. That means when a golfer tells himself: ”Don’t hit the ball into the water.” His mind sees the image of the ball flying into the water. So guess where the ball will go?Consequently, before going into any stressful situation, focus only on what you want to have happen. I asked the lawyer again how she wanted to appear at her first trial. And this time she said: ”I want to look professional and self-assured. ”I told her to create a picture of what self-assured would look like. To her, it meant moving confidently around the court room, using convincing body language and projecting her voice, so it could be heard from the judge’s bench to the back door. She also imagined a skillful closing argument and a winning trial. A few weeks after this positive stress(不确定)rehearsal, the young lawyer did win.Questions 9 to 12 are based on the passage you have just heard.Q9: what do some people do when they face a new situation?Q10: what does the research conducted at Stanford University show?Q11: what advice does the speaker give to people in a stressful situation?Q12: what do we learn about the lawyer in the court?Passage 2Most Americans don’t eat enough fruits, vegetables or whole grains, researchers now says adding fiber to teen diet may help lower the risk of breast cancer.Conversations about the benefits of fiber are probably more common in nursing homes than high schools. But along comes a new study that could change that. Kristi King，a diet specialist at Texas Children's Hospital finds it's hard to get teenager patients’ attention about healthy eating but telling them that eating lots of high-fiber foods could reduce the risk of breast cancer before middle age. That's a powerful message.The new finding is based on a study of 44,000 women. They were surveyed about their diets during high school, and their eating habits were tracked for two decades. It turns out that those who consumed the highest levels of fiber during adolescence had a lower risk of developing breast cancer, compared to the women who ate the least fiber. This important study demonstrates that the more fiber you eat during your high school years, the lower your risk is in developing breast cancer in later life.The finding points to long-standing evidence that fiber may reduce circulating female hormone levels, which could explain the reduced risk. The bottom line here is the more fiber you eat, perhaps, a lower level of hormone in your body, andtherefore, a lower lifetime risk of developing breast cancer. High-fiber diets are also linked to a reduced risk of heart disease and diabetes. That's why women are told to eat 25 grams a fiber a day - men even more.Questions 13 to 15 are based on the passage you have just heard.Q13. What does the new study tell about adding fiber to the teen diet?Q14. What do we learn about the survey of the 44,000 women?Q15. What explanation does the speaker offer for the research finding?Passage 1Well my current research is really about consumer behavior. So recently I've looked at young people's drinking and it's obviously a major concern to Government at the moment.I've also looked at how older people are represented in the media; again, it's of major current interest with older people becoming a much larger proportion of UK and indeed world society.I'm also interested in how consumers operate online, and how that online behavior might be different from how they operate offline when they go to the shops.Well, I think that the important thing here is to actually understand what's happening from the consumer's perspective. One of the things that businesses and indeed Government organizations often fail to do is to really see what is happening from the consumer's perspective.For example, in the case of young people's drinking, one of the things that I'veidentified is that drinking for people say between the ages of 18 and 24 is all about the social activity.A lot of the Government advertising has been about individual responsibility, but actually understanding that drinking is very much about the social activity and finding ways to help young people get home safely and not end up in hospital is one of the things that we've tried to present there.The key thing about consumer behavior is that it's very much about how consumers change. Markets always change faster than marketing; so we have to look at what consumers are doing.Currently I teach consumer behavior to undergraduates in their second year and we look at all kinds of things in consumer behavior and particularly how consumers are presented in advertising.So they get involved by looking at advertising and really critically assessing the consumer behavior aspects of it and getting involved sometimes doing primary research.For example, last year my students spent a week looking at their own purchasing and analyzed it in detail from shopping to the relationship that they have with their retail banks and their mobile phone providers. I think they found it very useful and it also helped them identify just what kind of budgets they had too. The fact of the matter is that there's a whole range of interesting research out there and I think as the years go on, there's going to be much more for us to consider and certainly much more for students to become involved in.16. What is the speaker currently doing?17. What has the speaker found about young people's drinking?18. What does the speaker say that his students did last year?Passage 2Sweden was the first European country to print and use paper money, but it may soon do away with physical currencies.Banks can save a lot of money and avoid regulatory headaches by moving to a cash-free system, and they can also avoid bank robberies, theft, and dirty money.Claer Barrett, the editor of Financial Times Money, says the Western world is headed toward a world without physical currency."Andy Holder — the chief eco|nomist at The Bank of England — suggested that the UK move towards a government-backed digital currency. But does a cashless society really make good economic sense?"The fact that cash is being drawn out of society, is less a feature of our everyday lives, and the ease of electronic payments — is this actually making us spend more money without realizing it?"Barrett wanted to find out if the absence of physical currency does indeed cause a person to spend more, so she decided to conduct an experiment a few months ago.She decided that she was going to try to just use cash for two weeks to make all of her essential purchases and see what that would do to her spending. She found she did spend a lot less moneybecause it is incredibly hard to predict how much cash one is going to need — she was forever drawing money out of cash points. Monthslater, she was still finding cash stuffed in her trouser pockets and the pockets of her handbags.During the experiment, Barrett took a train ride. On the way, there was an announcement that the restaurant car was not currently accepting credit cards. The train cars were filled with groans because many of the passengers were traveling without cash."It underlines just how much things have changed in the last generation," Barrett says. "My parents, when they were younger, used to budget by putting money into envelopes — they'd get paid and they'd immediately separate the cash into piles and put them in envelopes, so they knew what they had to spend week by week. It was a very effective way for them to keep track of their spending. Nowadays, we're all on credit cards, we're doing online purchases, and money is kind of becoming a less physical and more imaginary type of thing that we can't get our hands around."Q19. What do we learn about Sweden?Q20. What did Claer Barrett want to find out with her experiment?Q21. What did Claer Barrett find on her train ride?Q22. How did people of the last generation budget their spending?Passage 3Why should you consider taking a course in demography in college? You’ll be growing up in a generation where the baby boomers are going into retirement and dying. You will face the problems in the aging of the population that have never been faced before. You will hear more and more about migration between countries and betweenrural areas and cities. You need to understand as a citizen and as a tax payer and as a voter what’s really behind the arguments.I want to tell you about the past, present and future of the human population. So let’s start with a few problems. Right now, a billion people are chronically hungry. That means they wake up hungry, they are hungry all day, and they go to sleep hungry. A billion people are living in slums, not the same billion people, but there is some overlap. Living in slums means they don’t have infrastructure to take the garbage away, they don’t have secure water supplies to drink.Nearly a billion people are illiterate. Try to imagine your life being illiterate. You can’t read the labels on the bottles in the supermarket, if you can get to a supermarket. Two-thirds of those people who are illiterate are women and about 200 to 215 million women don’t have access to birth control they want, so that they can control their own fertility. This is not only a problem in developing countries. About half of all pregnancies globally are unintended. So those are examples of population problems.Demography gives you the tools to understand and to address these problems. It’s not only the study of human population, but the populations of non-human species, including viruses like influenza, the bacteria in your gut, plants that you eat, animals that you enjoy or that provide you with meat. Demography also includes the study of non-living objects like light bulbs and taxi cabs, and buildings because these are also populations. It studies these populations, in the past, present and future, using quantitative data and mathematical models as tools of analysis.I see demography as a central subject related to economics. It is the means to intervene more wisely, and more effectively in the real world, to improve thewellbeing, not only of yourself important as that may be but of people around you and of other species with whom we share the planet.Questions 23-25 are based on the recording you have just heard.23. What is one of the problems the speaker mentions in his talk?24. What does the speaker say about pregnancies?25. How does the speaker view the study of populations?。
2017年6月 六级听力真题卷1 听力文本
College English Test Band SixPart ⅡListening Comprehension Section ADirections: In this section,you will hear two long conversations.At the end of each conversation,you will hear four questions.Both the conversationand the questions will be spoken only once. After you hear a question,you must choose the best answerfrom the four choicesmarked A), B), C) and D).Then mark the corresponding letteron Answer Sheet 1 with a single line through the centre.Conversation OneW: Welcome to Work Place.And in today's program,we are looking at the resultsof two recently published surveys,which both deal with the same topic—Happiness at Work.John, tell us about the first survey.M: Well, this was doneby a human resources consultancywho interviewed more than1,000 workers and establisheda top 10 of the factorswhich make people happy at work.The most important factor,for the majority of the people interviewed, was having friendly,supportive colleagues.In fact, 73% of people interviewedput their relationship with colleaguesas the key factor contributingto happiness at work,which is a very high percentage.The second most important factorwas having work that is enjoyable.The two least important factorswere having one's achievements recognized and rather surprisingly,earning a competitive salary.W: So we are not mainly motivated by money? M: Apparently not.W: Any other interestinginformation in the survey?M: Yes. For example,25% of the working peopleinterviewed described themselvesas very happy at work.However, 20% of employeesdescribed themselves as being unhappy.W: That's quite a lot of unhappypeople at work every day.M: It is, isn't it?And there were severalmore interesting conclusionsrevealed by the survey.First of all,small is beautiful.People definitely prefer workingfor smaller organizationsor companies with less than 100 staff.We also find out that,generally speaking,women were happierin their work than men.W: Yes, we are, aren't we?M: And workers on part-timecontracts who only work 4 or 5 hoursa day are happier than thosewho work full-time.The researchers concludedthat this is probablydue to a better work-life balance.W: Are bosses happier than their employees? M: Yes. Perhaps not surprisingly,the higher people go in a company,the happier they are.So senior managers enjoy their jobsmore than peopleworking under them.Questions 1 to 4 are basedon the conversation you have just heard.1. What is the number one factorthat made employees happyaccording to the survey?2. What is the percentage of the people surveyed who felt unhappy at work?3. What kind of companiesare popular with employees?4. What is the possible reasonfor people on part-timecontracts to be happier? Conversation TwoW: Mr. De Keyzer,I am a great lover of your book, Moments Before the Flood.Can you tell us how you firstbecame interested in the subject matter? M: In 2006, when the concert hallof the city of Bruges asked meto take some pictures for a cataloguefor a new concert seasonaround the theme of water,I found myself workingalong the Belgian coastline.As there had been numerousalarming articles in the pressabout a climate catastrophewaiting to happen,I started looking at the seaand the beach very differently,a place where I spent so manyperfect days as a child.This fear of a looming danger became the subject ofa large-scale photo project.W: You wrote in the book“I don't want to photograph the disaster;I want to photograph the disaster waiting to happen. ”Can you talk a bit about that?M: It is clear now thatit's a matter of timebefore the entire European coastline disappears under water.The same goes for numerousbig cities around the world.My idea was to photographthis beautiful and very unique coastline, reaching history,before it's too late—as a last witness.W: Can you talk a bit abouthow history plays a role in this project?M: Sure. The project is alsoabout the history of Europelooking at the sea and wonderingwhen the next enemy would appear.In the images,you see all kinds of possibledefense constructionsto hold back the Romans,Germans, Vikings,and now nature as enemy No. 1.For example,there is the image of the bridgeinto the sea takenat the Normandy D-Day landing site.Also, Venice, the cityeternally threatened by the sea,where every morning woodenpathways have to be set upto allow tourists to reach their hotels.W: Thank you, Mr. De Keyzer.It was a pleasure to have you with us today. Questions 5 to 8 are basedon the conversation you have just heard.5. What does the man sayabout the book Moments Before the Flood?6. When did the man get his idea for the work?7. What will happenwhen the climate catastrophe occurs?8. What does the man say about Venice? Section BDirections: In this section,you will hear two passages.At the end of each passage,you will hear three or four questions.Both the passage and the questionswill be spoken only once.After you hear a question,you must choose the best answerfrom the four choices marked A), B), C) and D). Then mark the corresponding letteron Answer Sheet 1 with a single linethrough the centre.Passage OneWhen facing a new situation,some people tend to rehearsetheir defeat by spending too much time anticipating the worst.I remember talking with a young lawyerwho was about to begin her first jury trial.She was very nervous.I asked what impressionshe wanted to make on the jury.She replied,“I don't want to look too inexperienced;I don't want them to suspectthis is my first trial.”This lawyer had fallen victimto the “don'ts”syndrome,a form of negative goal setting.The “don'ts”can be self-fulfilling because your mind responds to pictures. Research conducted at Stanford University shows a mental image firesthe nervous system the same wayas actually doing something.That means when a golfertells himself “Don't hit the ball into the water,”his mind sees the image of the ballflying into the water.So guess where the ball will go. Consequently,before going into any stressful situation,focus only on what you want to have happen.I asked the lawyer againhow she wanted to appear at her first trial,and this time she said,“I want to look professional and self-assured.”I told her to create a picture ofwhat “self-assured”would look like.To her it meant moving confidentlyaround the court room,using convincing body languageand projecting her voice soit could be heard from the judge's bench to the back door.She also imagined a skillfulclosing argument and a winning trial.A few weeks after this positivedress rehearsal,the young lawyer did win. Questions 9 to 12 are basedon the passage you have just heard.9. What do some people dowhen they face a new situation?10. What does the research conducted at Stanford University show?11. What advice does the speakergive to people in a stressful situation? 12. What do we learnabout the lawyer in the court? Passage TwoMost Americans don't eat enough fruits, vegetables or whole grains. Research now saysadding fiber to the teen dietmay help lower the risk of breast cancer. Conversations about the benefitsof fiber are probably more commonin nursing homes than high schools. But along comes a new studythat could change that.Kristi King, a diet specialistat Texas Children's Hospital,finds it hard to get teenagepatients' attention about healthyeating by telling them that eatinglots of high-fiber foods couldreduce the risk of breast cancerbefore middle age.That's a powerful message.The new finding is basedon a study of 44, 000 women.They were surveyedabout their diets during high school and their eating habitswere tracked for two decades.It turns out that thosewho consumed the highest levelsof fiber during adolescencehad a lower risk of developing breast cancer, compared to the womenwho ate the least fiber.This important study demonstratesthat the more fiber you eatduring your high school years,the lower your risk is indeveloping breast cancer in later life.The finding points to long-standing evidence that fiber mayreduce circulating female hormone levels, which could explain the reduced risk.The bottom line hereis the more fiber you eat,perhaps, a lower level ofhormone in your body,and therefore,a lower lifetime risk ofdeveloping breast cancer.High-fiber diets are also linkedto a reduced risk of heart disease and diabetes. That's why women are toldto eat 25 grams of fiber a day—men even more.Questions 13 to 15 are basedon the passage you have just heard.13. What does the new study tellabout adding fiber to the teen diet?14. What do we learnabout the survey of the 44,000 women?15. What explanationdoes the speaker offerfor the research finding?Section CDirections: In this section,you will hear three recordings of lecturesor talks followed by three or four questions. The recordings will be played only once. After you hear a question,you must choose the best answerfrom the four choices marked A), B), C) and D).Then mark the corresponding letteron Answer Sheet 1 with a single line through the centre.Recording OneWell, my current research is reallyabout consumer behavior.So recently, I've looked atyoung people's drinkingand it's obviously a majorconcern to governmentat the moment.I've also looked athow older people are representedin the media.Again, it's of major current interestwith older people becominga much larger proportion of UK,and indeed, world society.I'm also interested in how consumers operate online and how that online behavior might be different fromhow they operate offlinewhen they go to the shops.Well, I think thatthe important thing hereis to actually understandwhat's happeningfrom the consumers' perspective.One of the things that businessesand indeed government organizations often fail to do is to really seewhat is happeningfrom the consumers' perspective.For example,in the case of young people's drinking, one of the things thatI've identified is that drinking for people, say, between the ages of 18 and 24is all about the social activity.A lot of the government advertisinghas been about individual responsibility, but actually understandingthat drinking is very muchabout the social activityand finding ways to helpyoung people get home safely,and not end up in hospitalis one of the things thatwe've tried to present there.The key thing about consumer behavioris that it's very much abouthow consumers change.Markets always changefaster than marketing,so we have to look atwhat consumers are doing.Currently I teach consumer behaviorto undergraduates in their second year,and we looked at all kinds of thingsin consumer behavior and particularlyhow consumers are presented in advertising. So they get involvedby looking at advertisingand really critically assessingthe consumer behavior aspects of it,and getting involved,sometimes doing primary research.For example,last year my students spent a week looking at their own purchasingand analysed it in detail fromshopping to the relationshipthat they have with their retail banksand their mobile phone providers.I think they found it very usefuland it also helped them identify justwhat kind of budgets they had too.The fact of the matter isthat there is a whole rangeof interesting research out there.And I think as the years go on,there is going to be muchmore for us to consider and certainlymuch more for studentsto become involved in.Questions 16 to 18 are basedon the recording you have just heard.16. What is the speaker currently doing?17. What has the speaker foundabout young people's drinking?18. What does the speaker saythat his students did last year?Recording TwoSweden was the first European countryto print and use paper money,but it may soon do awaywith physical currencies.Banks can save a lot of moneyand avoid regulatory headachesby moving to a cash free system,and they can also avoid bank robberies,theft and dirty money.Claer Barrett,the editor of Financial Times Money,says the Western worldis headed toward a worldwithout physical currency.Andy Holder,the chief economist at the Bank of England, suggested that the UK movetowards a government-backed digital currency. But does a cashless society reallymake good economic sense?The fact that cash isbeing drawn out of society,is less a feature of our everyday lives,and the ease of electronic payments.Is this actually making us spendmore money without realizing it?Barrett wanted to find outif the absence of physical currencydoes indeed cause a person to spend more,so she decided to conductan experiment a few months ago.She decided that shewas going to try to just use cashfor two weeks to make all of heressential purchases and seewhat that would do to her spending.She found she did spend a lot less money, because it is incredibly hardto predict how much cash one is going to need.She was forever drawingmoney out of cash points.Months later,she was still finding cashstuffed in her trouser pocketsand the pockets of her handbags.During this experiment,Barrett took a train ride.On the way,there was an announcementthat the restaurant carwas not currently accepting credit cards.The train cars were filledwith groans becausemany of the passengerswere traveling without cash.“It underlines just how much thingshave changed in the last generation, ”Barrett says.“My parents, when they were younger, used to budget by puttingmoney into envelopes.They'd get paid and they'd immediately separate the cash into piles,and put them in envelops,so they knew what theyhad to spend week by week.It was a very effective way for themto keep track of their spending. ”Nowadays, we are all on credit cards;we are doing online purchasesand money is kind of becominga less physical and more imaginarytype of thing that we can't get our heads around. Questions 19 to 22 are basedon the recording you have just heard.19. What do we learn about Sweden?20. What did Claer Barrettwant to find out with her experiment？21. What did Claer Barrettfind on her train ride?22. How did people of the lastgeneration budget their spending?Recording ThreeWhy should you considertaking a course in demography in college? You will be growing up in the generation where the baby boomersare going into retirement and dying.You will face problemsin the aging of the populationthat have never been faced before.You will hear more and moreabout migration between countries,and between rural areas and cities.You need to understand as a citizen,and as a taxpayer, and as a voter,what's really behind the arguments.I want to tell you about the past,present and future of the human population, so let's start with a few problems.Right now,a billion people are chronically hungry. That means they wake up hungry,they are hungry all dayand they go to sleep hungry.A billion people are living in slums,not the same billion people,but there is some overlap.Living in slums meansthey don't have infrastructureto take the garbage away.They don't have securewater supplies to drink.Nearly a billion people are illiterate.Try to imagine your life being illiterate. You can't read the labelson the bottles in the supermarket,if you can get to a supermarket.Two-thirds of those peoplewho are illiterate are women.And about 200 to 250 millionwomen don't have accessto birth control they want,so that they can't control their own fertility. This is not only a problemin developing countries.About half of all pregnanciesglobally are unintended.So those are examples ofpopulation problems.Demography gives you the toolsto understand and to address these problems. It's not only the study of human population, but the populations of non-human species, including viruses,like influenza,the bacteria in your gut,plants that you eat,animals that you enjoy,all that provide you with meat. Demography also includesthe study of non-living objectslike light bulbs and taxi cabsand buildings because theseare also populations.It studies these populations in the past, present and future,using quantitative dataand mathematical modelsas tools of analysis.I see demography as a centralsubject related to economics.It is the means to intervenemore wisely and more effectivelyin the real world to improvethe wellbeing not only of yourself, important as that maybe,but of people around youand of other species withwhom we share the planet.Questions 23 to 25 are basedon the recording you have just heard.23. What is one of the problemsthe speaker mentions in his talk?24. What does the speaker sayabout pregnancies?25. How does the speakerview the study of populations?This is the end of listening comprehension.。
2017年6月英语六级听力原文
2017年6月英语六级听力原文Unfortunately, I don't have access to the exact English listening test from the June 2017 CET-6 exam. However, I can provide you with a general outline of what a CET-6 listening test might have looked like, as well as some sample questions and answers. Please note that this is not the actual exam text, but it should give you a good understanding of the format and difficulty level of the CET-6 listening section.CET-6 Listening Comprehension Sample.Part I: Conversations.Conversation 1: Discussion between two students about their plans for the summer vacation. One student is interested in traveling, while the other prefers to stay and work on a project.Conversation 2: Interview between a job candidate anda potential employer. The candidate is asked about their work experience and why they are interested in the position.Conversation 3: Telephone conversation between apatient and a doctor's office. The patient is inquiring about their test results and the next steps in their treatment.Part II: Passages.Passage 1: A science-related topic, possibly about a recent discovery or experiment. The passage may contain technical vocabulary and require listeners to understand main ideas and details.Passage 2: A cultural or historical topic, discussinga specific event, person, or trend. The passage may include examples and anecdotes to illustrate key points.Passage 3: A lecture or speech, possibly delivered bya professor or expert in a particular field. The listeneris required to understand the main arguments and examplesused to support the speaker's points.Part III: Compound Dictation.In this section, listeners are presented with a short passage with several blanks. They are required to fill in the blanks by listening to a recording of the passage and writing down the missing words or phrases. This section tests the listener's ability to understand and transcribe spoken English.Sample Questions and Answers.1. Question: What is the main topic of Conversation 1?Answer: The main topic of Conversation 1 is the summer vacation plans of two students.2. Question: Why does the job candidate want the position in Conversation 2?Answer: The job candidate wants the position becausethey are interested in the field and believe their work experience makes them a good fit for the job.3. Question: What is the main idea of Passage 1?Answer: The main idea of Passage 1 is a recentscientific discovery and its potential impact on the field.4. Question: Fill in the blank in the following sentence from the Compound Dictation passage: "The researchers found that the new material had _______ properties than previously thought."Answer: The researchers found that the new material had superior properties than previously thought.Please note that the actual CET-6 exam may havediffered in terms of topics, language difficulty, and question types. It is always recommended to refer toofficial exam materials and practice resources to prepare for the CET-6 effectively.。
2017年6月英语四级听力原文
2017年6月英语四级听力考试原文，是广大考生备考英语四级听力考试的重要参考资料。
本文通过对2017年6月英语四级听力原文的整理和编排，为考生提供了易于阅读和复习的素材，帮助考生更好地备考英语四级听力考试。
【正文】2017年6月英语四级听力原文Part I听力文本一W: So, Jerry, how long do you plan to go on your trip?M: Well, I plan to be away for about four weeks. I’ve been saving up for this trip for a long time and I want to make the most of it.【1】女：杰瑞，你打算旅行多久？【2】男：嗯，我打算出去大概四个星期。
我为这次旅行存了很长时间的钱，我想要充分利用。
W: I got a letter from the bank that says there’s some problem with my account.M: There is? What are they saying?【3】女：我从银行收到一封信，说我的账户有些问题。
【4】男：有吗？他们说什么啦？听力文本三M: Mary, have you heard that the science museum downtown will exhibit some of Da Vinci's works next month?W: Really? I'd love to go. I’ve read a lot about him.【5】男：玛丽，你听说了吗？市区的科学博物馆下个月会展出一些达芬奇的作品。
【6】女：真的吗？我很想去呢。
我读了很多关于他的事情。
听力文本四W: Excuse me, is there a pharmacy near here?M: Yes, there’s one three blocks str本人ght ahead. You can’tmiss it.【7】女：对不起，这附近有药店吗？【8】男：有，就往前走三个街区，直走就到，你不会错过的。
2017年6月四级听力第一套 听力原文
2017年6月四级听力第一套听力原文（1）对话一女士：I'm going to the library. Do you want me to pick up a book aboutputer programming for you?男士：Yes, I'd appreciate that. I want to learn some basic programming skills.（2）对话二男士：I'm thinking of buying a newputer. Any rmendations?女士：You should go for a model with a big memory and a fast processor.男士：Thanks for the advice. I'll keep that in mind.（3）对话三男士：I'm having trouble with my laptop. It keeps freezing.女士：You should get it checked out. It might be a problem with the hardware.男士：I'll take it to a rep本人r shop tomorrow.（4）对话四女士：I need to upgrade my operating system. Any suggestions?男士：You should consider switching to Linux. It's free and it's very reliable.女士：I'll look into that. Thanks for the tip.（5）短文一When ites toputer programming, it's important to start with the basics. Learning a programming language like Python can be a good way to get started. Once you have a good grasp of the basics, you can move on to more advanced topics.（6）短文二Computer hardware is the physicalponent of aputer system, including the monitor, keyboard, and mouse. It's important to choose hardware that ispatible with your software, and to keep it well-m本人nt本人ned to ensure the smooth running of yourputer system.（7）短文三Operating systems are the software that managesputer hardware and software resources. There are different types of operating systems, such as Windows, MacOS, and Linux. Each has its own strengths and weaknesses, so it's important to choose the right one for your needs.通过以上听力原文，我们可以了解到一些关于计算机和信息技术的基本知识。
2017英语六级听力原文
2017英语六级听力原文The 2017 English six-level listening test is a challenging exam that requires a high level of English proficiency to pass. The test consists of various listening passages, including conversations, news reports, and academic lectures. One of the main problems with the testis the speed at which the speakers talk. Many test-takers find it difficult to keep up with the pace and comprehend the information being presented. This can be especially challenging for non-native English speakers who may struggle with understanding different accents and dialects.Another issue with the listening test is the variety of topics covered. Test-takers need to be familiar with a wide range of subjects, including science, history, and current events. This can be overwhelming for some individuals who may not have a strong background in these areas. Additionally, the test requires a strong grasp of vocabulary and idiomatic expressions, which can bedifficult for those who have not been exposed to a widerange of English language materials.Furthermore, the listening test requires test-takers to be able to make inferences and understand implied meanings. This can be particularly challenging for individuals who are not accustomed to the nuances of the English language. The ability to understand implied meanings and draw conclusions from the information presented is a crucialskill for success on the test.In addition to the linguistic challenges, test-takers also need to be able to concentrate and stay focused throughout the duration of the test. The listening passages are often lengthy, and it can be easy to lose concentration and miss important details. This can be particularly challenging for individuals who struggle with attention and focus.Moreover, the listening test also requires test-takers to be able to take effective notes while listening to the passages. This can be a difficult skill to master, as it requires individuals to listen, comprehend, and writesimultaneously. For many test-takers, this multitasking can be overwhelming and can lead to a loss of important information.In conclusion, the 2017 English six-level listeningtest presents a variety of challenges for test-takers. From the speed of the speakers to the wide range of topics covered, the test requires a high level of English proficiency and strong listening skills. For many individuals, the test can be overwhelming and difficult to pass. However, with dedication and practice, it is possible to improve listening skills and succeed on the exam.。
2017年6月英语四级听力原文
2017年6月一．新闻听力【News Report 1】One of Google's self-driving cars crashed into a bus in California last month. There were no injuries.It is not the first time one of Google's famed self-driving cars has been involved in a crash, but it may be the first time it has caused one.On February 14th the self-driving car, travelling at 2mph (3km/h), pulled out in front of a public bus going 15mph (24km/h).The man in the Google vehicle reported that he assumed the bus would slow down to let the car out, and so he did not switch to the manual mode.In a statement, Google said: "We clearly bear some responsibility, because if our car hadn't moved, there wouldn't have been a crash."That said, our test driver believed the bus was going to slow or stop to allow us to merge into the traffic, and that there would be sufficient space to do that." The company's self-driving cars have done well over a million miles across various states in the US, and until now have only reported minor accidents.Q1: According to Google, what was the cause of the accident?Q2: How have Google’s self-driving cars performed so far?【News Report 2】Thousands of bees left a town after landing on the back of a car when their queen got stuck in its boot. Tom Moses who works at a nearby national park, noticed a “brown patch” on the back of the car after the owner parked it to do some shopping. When he looked closer he realized it was a huge group of bees.Moses said: “I have never seen that many bees in one spot. It was very unusual. They were very close together and there was a lot of noise and movements, itwas interesting to see such a strange sight. But there were a lot of people around and I was a bit worried about the bees and the people stopping to look.I thought that someone might do something stupid.Moses called two local bees specialists who helped removed the bees by attracting them into a box.Moses spent three hours looking after the bees and was stung five times, he said my stings are a bit painful but I am pleased that all worked out and I could help, people need to realize that bees are valuable and they should be looked after.Q3. What do we learn about Tom Moses?Q4. What do we know about the bees on the back of the car?【News report 3】A new species of snake has been discovered on a remote island in the Bahamas. Scientists identified 20 of the one meter-long snakes during two trips to the Caribbean islands. The second trip was made in October last year.One of the creatures made a dramatic appearance by moving on to the head of the team leader as he slept.The snake has been named silver boa because it is metallic colored and the first specimen found was climbing a silver palm tree.The team was led by Dr. Graham Reynolds, from Harvard University, the scientist confirmed the snake was a previously unknown species after conducting a genetic analysis of tissue samples.Commenting on the find, snake expert Robert Henderson from the Museum of Natural History, said: “Worldwide n ew species of frogs are being discovered and described quite regularity. New species of snakes, however, are much rarer.Q5. What is the news report mainly about?Q6. What do we learn about the scientific team leader?Q7. How did the newly discovered creature get its name?二．对话听力【Conversation 1】W: Did you enjoy your stay with us, Mr. Brown?M: Yes, very much. I had a wonderful time here. Now I'm going to the airport. My flight leaves in less than 2 hours. So, could you tell me, what's the quickest way to get there?W: Well, we can call a taxi for you. We also have a free airport shuttle service. M: That sounds great, but will the shuttle get me to the airport in time?W: Yes, it should. The next shuttle leaves in 15 minutes. And it takes some 25 minutes to get to the airport.M: Fantastic! I'll just wait in the lobby. Will you please let me know when it's leaving?W: Of course, sir.M: Now I would like to settle my mini-bar bill. How much is that?W: Let's see. It comes to $37.50. How would you like to pay for it?M: I'll pay with my credit card. Thanks. But I'll need a receipt, so I can charge it to my company.W: Absolutely! Here you are, sir. If you like, I can leave your bags with the porter. And he can load them onto the shuttle for you when it arrives.M: That would be great. Thank you.W: Would you like to leave a comment on our web page when you have time? M: Sure. I had a really good stay here, and I'd like to recommend your hotel to my friends and colleagues.W: That’s very kind of you. Thank you again for staying at Sheraton Hotel.Q8. Why does the man ask about the quickest way to the airport?Q9. How is the man going to pay his bill?Q10. What did the man ask the woman to do?Q11. What favor does the woman ask of the man?【Conversation 2 】M: You know, Ben’s giv en up making those terrible faces he used to make. The other day, he came home from school almost in tears. His teacher said if he went on like that, his face would get stuck when the winds changed.W: And he believed her?M: Yeah, he’s only a little boy. Don’t you remember all those things we used to believe when we were little? I remember my aunt Mary used to say if you swallow a cherrystone, a tree would grow out of your mouth. And I’m still terrified today, sort of subconsciously. You know, if I swallow one by mistake…W: Yeah, I suppose you're right. The one that used to get me was that swans could break your leg when they blow of the wing.M: They can, can’t they? I always thought they could.W: No, they are not that strong. But there’s another one eve n more terrifying. That is, if you put a post stamp on upside down, you will go to prison.M: No, never heard of that. But my grandmother was a terror for that kind of thing. For example, she would say, you will get a spot on your tongue if you tell a lie. If you eat stale bread, your hair will curl. And here’s one more. We went on a campaign trip once in Italy, and my wife spent the whole time worrying about bats getting into her hair. She said her grandmother reckoned you had to shave your head to get it out. My wife was really terrified.W: Silly, isn’t it? But that’s how some parents try to keep their kids from doing the wrong thing or getting into trouble.Q12: What does the man say about Ben?Q13: What did aunt Marry used to do when the man was a child?Q14: What does the woman believe swans could do?Q15: What did the grandmother of the man’s wife say?三．短文听力【Passage 1】If I could go back in history and live when I liked, I wouldn't go back very far. In fact, I'd like to relive a period I've already lived – the 1960s.I was in my twenties, and everything was being renewed. People would come in out of a formal and almost Victorian attitude, and you really felt anything was possible. Meeting people was the thing, and you went to coffee bars where you met friends and spent the evening. The cinema, the theater, all that was every exciting with new things coming out. In fact, we seemed to be out, all the time!I don't really remember working – of course, I was a student – or sitting around at home very much. That just wasn't where the scene was, even eating! It was the first time, ordinary people started going out to eat. We were beginning to be adventurous about food, but we were more interested in meeting people than in eating or drinking. And dress, yes, that was the revolution. I mean, girls went around in really short skirts, and wore flowers in their hair. And men were in jeans, and could wear their hair long too. It was a wonderful period. It was like living in an age you could never have imagined, and that never has come back. We didn't have much money, but it didn't matter. And there was plenty of opportunity to do whatever you felt like doing.Question 16 – 18 are based on the passage you have just heard: 16. Why does the speaker say he would like to relive the 1960s?17. What does the speaker say was the most popular thing to do at that time?18. What do we learn about the speaker?【Passage 2】Dogs, man's best friends, have a clear strategy for dealing with angry owners—they look away.New research shows that dogs limit their eye contact with angry humans. The scientists suggest this may be an attempt to calm humans down. This behavior may have evolved as dogs gradually learned they could benefit from avoiding conflicts with humans.To conduct the tests, the University of Helsinki researchers trained 31 dogs to rest in front of a video screen. Facial photos of dogs and humans were displayed on the screen for 1.5 seconds. They showed threatening, pleasant and neutral expressions. Nearby cameras tracked the dogs' eye movements. Dogs in the study looked most at the eyes of humans and other dogs to sense their emotions. When dogs looked at expressions of angry dogs, their eyes rested more on the mouth, perhaps to interpret the threatening expressions. And when looking at angry humans, they tended to turn away their gaze. Dogs may have learned to detect threat signs from humans and respond by trying to make peace, according to researcher Sanni Somppi. Avoiding conflicts may have helped dogs develop better bonds with humans.The researchers also note that dogs scan faces as a whole to sense how people are feeling, instead of focusing on a given feature. They suggest this indicates that dogs aren't sensing emotions from a single feature, but piecing together information from all facial features just as humans do.Q19. What do dogs do when they are faced with angry humans?Q20. What does a dog do when it sees the expressions of angry dogs?Q21. How does a dog sense people's feelings?【Passage 3】Winter in many places is very cold. There is lots of snow around, and the ground freezes, which can make life difficult for animals. People in cold places live in warm houses and have learned to adapt. What do animals do? There are three main ways that animals survive the cold in winter: sleep, adapt or migrate. Some animals, such as bears, frogs and snakes, sleep all winter. They sleep very deeply and need little or no food. While sleeping, their body temperature drops, and their heart beat slows down. To prepare for this before winter, these animals eat extra food to become fat, which gives them the energy they need while they sleep.Other animals adapt. For example, by staying active in winter. It is often hard for them to find food. So some animals, such as mice, collect extra food before winter, and hide it. When winter comes, they return to their hiding places to eat the food. Some animals grow thicker fur, or live in tree holes or underground to stay warm.Some birds migrate by flying to a warmer place for the winter, where they can find more food. Some fly very long distances, including one kind of bird that flies from the remote north of the world, all the way to the distant south. Some birds fly in groups for safety, while others fly alone.Questions 22-25 are based on the passage you have just heard.22. What does the speaker say about animals in winter?23. What do we learn about animals that sleep through winter?24. How do animals like mice adapt to the severe winter?25. Why do some birds fly in groups when migrating, according to the speaker?。
(完整版)2017年6月份四级听力真题第2套(听力文本)
College English Test Band Four（2017年6月四级听力真题文本第2套）Part II Listening ComprehensionSection ADirections: In this section,you will hear three news reports.At the end of each news report,you will hear two or three questions.Both the news report and the questionswill be spoken only once.After you hear a question,you must choose the best answerfrom the four choicesmarked A), B), C) and D).Then mark the corresponding letteron Answer Sheet 1with a single line through the centre.News Report OneAutomakers and tech companiesare working hardto offer the first true self-driving car.But 75% of drivers saythey wouldn't feel safe in such a vehicle.Still, 60% of drivers would like toget some kind of self-driving feature,such as automatic braking or self-parking,the next time they buy a new car.The attitudes are publishedin a new AAA survey of 1,800 drivers.Advocates of self-driving cars arguethey would be saferthan in cars driven by humansbecause they wouldn't get distractedor drive when tired.But those surveyed by AAA saythey trust their own driving skills.Many feel the technology istoo new and unproven.John Nielsen,AAA's managing director ofautomotive engineering and repair,said tests suggest driversmay be overestimating their own abilities.He also believes they will be more likelyto trust self-driving carsas they become more familiar with features such as automatic braking or parking.He estimated that the "comfort level"will increase considerably in five to ten years. Questions 1 and 2 are based on the news report you have just heard.1. What is the finding of the AAA survey?2. What does John Nielsen sayabout self-driving cars?News Report TwoOne dog has been killed and multiple dogs have been injured by a snowmobile driverin what appears to be an intentional attackon competitors in the Iditarod Race in Alaska. Aliy Zirkle was the first to report an attack.A snowmobile driver had repeatedly attempted to harm her and her team,and one of Zirkle's dogshad received a non-life-threatening injury.Zirkle reported the attackwhen she arrived in Nulato, Alaska,in the early hours of the morning.Then Jeff King, a four-time champion,reported a similar attack.His team was hit by a snowmobile driver, injuring several dogsand killing a 3-year-old male dog.Reporter Zachariah Hughes says thatneither King nor Zirkle was injured.Although this incident very much altersthe race of the two participantscompeting for a win,both are going to continue on their waytoward the finishing line.Alaska State Troopers released a statement saying they've arrested Arnold Demoski, 26.He faces trial on several charges.Questions 3 and 4 are based on the news report you have just heard.3. What is the news report mainly about?4. What do we learn about Jeff King?News Report ThreeA tour boat turned overoff the coast of Nicaragua,killing at least 13 peopleand leaving more passengers missing,official said.The boat was carrying 32 people—25 Costa Ricans, four Americansand three Nicaraguans.The 13 dead were all Costa Rican,the Foreign Ministry said.The boat,traveling between Nicaragua's Big Corn Island and Little Corn Island,turned over Saturday near the larger island. Some passengers remain missing,the Costa Rican Foreign Ministry said,but did not specify how many.A local radio saidan unspecified number of people were rescued, including the tour boat's owner,Hilario Blandon.Nicaraguan naval authoritieshad banned sea travel in the areabecause of bad weather and strong winds,but the tour boat proceeded anyway.Blandon, the boat's owner,has been arrested by Nicaraguan authorities,the state-run news agency said.Both he and a crew member are being investigated for unintentional murderand exposing people to danger,according to police.Questions 5 to 7 are based on the news report you have just heard.5. What happened to the tour boatsailing off the Nicaraguan coast?6. How many people was the boat carrying?7. What do we knowabout the owner of the boat?Section BDirections: In this section,you will hear two long conversations.At the end of each conversation,you will hear four questions.Both the conversation and the questions will be spoken only once.After you hear a question,you must choose the best answerfrom the four choicesmarked A), B), C) and D).Then mark the corresponding letteron Answer Sheet 1with a single line through the centre. Conversation OneM: Hi, Susan,you're looking very smart today.W: I always look smart, James. Actually, I'm on my way to a job interview. M: What job? Oh, you mean,for the summer holidays?W: Yeah. There's only two weeks to go.I've got a second interviewwith that big foreign accountancy firmin the city center.You know the one.M: That's fantastic.W: The work is justhelping out with data input, you know,but the pay isn't too bad.It might suit you too.I know they have at leasttwo temporary positions available.And I don't think they have anyone else yet. M: Hmm...If they take you on,tell them you know a friendwho'd be really good too.I really need the moneyand the experience would look goodon my resume.Maybe we'll be working together.The dream team.W: OK. We'll do.If the boss likes me, I'll mention it.It'll be good to have someone around who I know.I'll phone you afterwards.But perhaps you shouldput in an application anyway.M: Thanks, Susan. That's great.Listen, do you want a lift to the city?I have my dad's car today,and nothing else to do this morning.W: Sure. Thanks, James.M: Let's go then. The car's over there.W: By the way,how's your knowledge of accountancy?The interviewer may ask you about it.M: No problem. I think I can survive.I might just have to reviewa few accountancy terms.Maybe you can give mea practice interview first.W: Of course. Let's go then.Don't want to be late.Questions 8 to 11 are based on the conversation you have just heard.8. Where will Susan probably get a job?9. What will Susan's future job involve?10. Why does James want the jobin that company?11. What does James say he will have to doto prepare for the interview?Conversation TwoW: There's new data out todaythat confirms that many Americansare not good at math,and when it comes toeveryday technology skills,we are dead lastwhen compared to other developed countries. Here's Gabrielle Emanuelof National Public Radio.M: Let's start with the bad newsthat Americans are terrible at technology skills, using email, naming a file on a computer, using a link on a webpage,or just texting someone.W: No country scored below the U.S.?M: Only one country.Poland performed as poorly as we did.Who came out the first?Japan did the best and then Finland.If you look at dataabout reading and math,you'll notice something interesting.Younger adults who went to collegeor graduate school were doing pretty well.In literacy, they were actually doing betterthan their peers in other countries.W: So that's a bit of good news.M: But when you look at Americanswho have a high school diploma,they look a lot likeother countries' high school dropouts.We have a lot of work to do.That is especially true when it comes to math. You go to the store and there's a sale.Buy one, get the second one half off.You decide to buy two.How much do you pay?W: You mean high school graduatescan't do this task in general?M: You're right.What does that tell usabout our education system?Well, it tells us that we need tothink about the preparedness of our studentsas they are leaving high school.W: Right. And schools, employers,in fact we all need to do something about it. Thank you, Gabrielle.Questions 12 to 15 are based on the conversation you have just heard.12. What does the man say about Americans?13. Who performed the best in technology skills according to the man?14. In what aspectdid American college students perform well? 15. What do we learn from the conversation about American high school education?Section CDirections: In this section,you will hear three passages.At the end of each passage,you will hear three or four questions.Both the passage and the questionswill be spoken only once.After you hear a question,you must choose the best answerfrom the four choicesmarked A), B), C) and D).Then mark the corresponding letteron Answer Sheet 1with a single line through the centre.Passage OneWild carrots probably evolved withthe other flowering plantsabout 360 million years ago.Like apples, carrots are native to Central Asia. That's why horses,which also come from Central Asia,like both apples and carrots so much.With wild carrots,the roots are white, small and skinny,so you'd have to pick a lot of wild carrotsto get enough to eat.Doctors used carrot seeds and roots as medicine, on the theory that foods that taste badmust be good for you.Around 800 AD, people in Central Asia managed to develop a new kind of carrot—a purple carrot—that attracted more interest from international traders.Then, in the late 1500s,food scientists in the Netherlandscultivated large, straight, sweet, red carrotslike the ones we eat today.But people still mostly fed carrots to horses, donkeys and pigs, and didn't eat them themselves. In the 1600s,people in China used carrots as medicine,but they also ate carrots boiled in soup.The red color was popular forChinese New Year celebrations.But carrots got their biggest boostduring the two world wars,when food shortages forced people to eat them, and governments told everyonehow healthy carrots were.Today, cooler countriesgrow most of the world's carrots.Machines do most of the planting and picking, and carrots are easy to store and ship,so they are cheap almost everywhere. Questions 16 to 18 are based on the passageyou have just heard.16. What do we learn from the talkabout wild carrots?17. What does the speaker sayabout carrots in the late 1500s?18. Why did people turn to carrots for food during the two world wars?Passage TwoKatherine loved Facebook.With Facebook,she could stay connected with her familyno matter how far away they were.She could see their photosand read their status updates.With Facebook,she could keep her relatives up-to-dateon what she was doing.Another thing Katherine loved about Facebook was that she didn't have to think about time zones when updating family.Whenever she called her parents or other relatives, she always had to think about the time difference so that she wouldn't wake someone up or call when she knew they were at church.Facebook was so convenient.When Katherine joined Facebook,some of her classmates at high schoolstarted to add her as a friend.At first, this didn't bother her.She loved learning about the success of people she knew when she was just a teenager.She loved finding out people were getting married, having babies, and traveling.Soon, however, Katherine found herself comparing herself with the peopleshe was reading about on Facebook.It began to make her feel badthat some people seemed to be doingso much better than she was.She was also spending a lot of time on Facebook. It took a lot of time and energyto keep up with everyone's status updates. Katherine started to think.She looked at the list of over 500 friendsshe had on Facebook and realizedsome of them were not really friends at all. Questions 19 to 21 are based on the passageyou have just heard.19. What was one particular convenience Katherine loved about Facebook?20. How did Katherine feelwhen her classmates added heras a Facebook friend?21. What made Katherine feel badabout herself later on?Passage ThreeDo you know where a mule comes from?It is the child of a donkey and a horse.Mules have strong muscles like horses,but they eat less, can work longer,and are gentler, like donkeys.George Washington was the first personin the United States to own mules.He had heard that mules made good farm animals and he contacted the U.S. ambassador in Spainto ask about them.In 1785, King Charles Ⅲof Spainsent Washington a male donkey as a gift.That male donkey becamethe father of the mule industry in the U.S.Every April,Maury County holds a Mule Day celebration. Held in Columbia, Tennessee,Mule Day had its beginnings as "Breeder's Day"in the 1840s.Farmers and farm animal breederswould bring their animals to market every Aprilto show, buy, and trade.This was an important businessbefore the days of tractors,when many families made a living from farming and mules were used as work animals. Eventually, tractors began to replace mules,making them less in demand.A parade was added to Mule Day in 1934to attract more people.Over the years other activities have been added, and today more than 200,000 people show up each year to watch and participate.If you visit during Mule Day celebrations,you might see mule-driving contests,square dances, horse showsor even tree-cutting competitions.Questions 22 to 25 are based on the passage you have just heard.22. What does the speaker say about mules?23. What do we learn about the donkeywhich is said to bethe father of the U.S. mule industry?24. What did farmers usually do on Mule Dayin the 1840s?25. What made mules less in demand in America? This is the end of listening comprehension.。
2017年6月大学英语四级考试真题(一)听力原文
2017年6月大学英语四级考试真题(一)听力原文2017年6月大学英语四级考试真题（一）听力原文【News Report 1】One of Google's self-driving cars crashed into a bus in California last month. There were no injuries.It is not the first time one of Google's famed self-driving cars has been involved in a crash, but it may be the first time it has caused one. On February 14th the self-driving car, travelling at 2mph (3km/h), pulled out in front of a public bus going 15mph (24km/h).The man in the Google vehicle reported that he assumed the bus would slow down to let the car out, and so he did not switch to the manual mode.In a statement, Google said: "We clearly bear some responsibility, because if our car hadn't moved, there wouldn't have been a crash."That said, our test driver believed the bus was going to slow or stop to allow us to merge into the traffic, and that there would be sufficient space to do that."【News Report 2】Thousands of bees left a town after landing on the back of a car when their queen got stuck in its boot. Tom Moses who works at a nearby national park, noticed a “brown patch” on the back of the car after the owner parked it to do some shopping. When he looked closer he realized it was a huge group of bees.Moses said: “I have never seen that many bees in one spot. It was very unusual. They were very close together and there was a lot of noise and movements, it was interesting to see such a strange sight. But there were a lot of people around and I was a bit worried about the bees and the people stopping to look. I thought that someone might do something stupid.Moses called two local bees specialists who helped removed the bees by attracting them into a box.Moses spent three hours looking after the bees and was stung five times, he said my stings are a bit painful but I am pleased that all worked outand I could help, people need to realize that bees are valuable and they should be looked after.Q3. What do we learn about Tom Moses?A）He works at a national park.Q4. What do we know about the bees on the back of the car?B）They were making a lot of noise.【News report 3】A new species of snake has been discovered on a remote island in the Bahamas.Scientists identified 20 of the one meter-long snakes during two trips to the Caribbean islands. The second trip was made in October last year. One of the creatures made a dramatic appearance by moving on to the head of the team leader as he slept.The snake has been named silver boa because it is metallic colored and the first specimen found was climbing a silver palm tree.The team was led by Dr. Graham Reynolds, from Harvard University, the scientistconfirmed the snake was a previously unknown species after conducting a genetic analysis of tissue samples.Commenting on the find, snake expert Robert Henderson from the Museum of Natural History, said: “Worldwide new species of frogs are being discovered and described quite regularity. New species of snakes, however, are much rarer.Q5. What is the news report mainly about?A）The discovery of a new species of snake.Q6. What do we learn about the scientific team leader?C）A snake crawled onto his head in his sleep.Q7. How did the newly discovered creature get its name?D）From its colour.【Conversation 1】W: Did you enjoy your stay with us, Mr. Brown? M: Yes, very much. I had a wonderful time here. Now I'm going to the airport. My flight leaves in less than 2 hours. So, could you tell me, what's the quickest way to get there?W: Well, we can call a taxi for you. We also have a free airport shuttle service.M: That sounds great, but will the shuttle get me to the airport in time?W: Yes, it should. The next shuttle leaves in 15 minutes. And it takes some 25 minutes to get to the airport.M: Fantastic! I'll just wait in the lobby. Will you please let me know when it's leaving?W: Of course, sir.M: Now I would like to settle my mini-bar bill. How much is that?W: Let's see. It comes to $37.50. How would you like to pay for it?M: I'll pay with my credit card. Thanks. But I'll need a receipt, so I can charge it to my company. W: Absolutely! Here you are, sir. If you like, I can leave your bags with the porter. And he can load them onto the shuttle for you when it arrives.M: That would be great. Thank you.W: Would you like to leave a comment on ourweb page when you have time?M: Sure. I had a really good stay here, and I'd like to recommend your hotel to my friends and colleagues.W: That’s very kind of you. Thank you ag ain for staying at Sheraton Hotel.Q8. Why does the man ask about the quickest way to the airport?A）The security check takes time.Q9. How is the man going to pay his bill?B）By credit card.Q10. What did the man ask the woman to do? A）Give him a receipt.Q11. What favor does the woman ask of the man?D）Posting a comment on the hotel’s webpage.【Conversation 2 】M: You know, Ben’s given up making those terrible faces he used to make. The other day, he came home from school almost in tears. Histeacher said if he went on like that, his face would get stuck when the winds changed.W: And he believed her?M: Yeah, he’s only a little boy. Don’t you remember all those things we used to believe when we were little? I remember my aunt Mary used to say if you swallow a cherrystone, a tree would grow out of your mouth. And I’m still terrified today, sort of subconsciously. You know, if I swallow one by mistake…W: Yeah, I suppose you're right. The one that used to get me was that swans could break your leg when they blow of the wing.M: They can, can’t they? I always thought they could.W: No, they are not that strong. But there’s another one even more terrifying. That is, if you put a post stamp on upside down, you will go to prison.M: No, never heard of that. But my grandmother was a terror for that kind of thing. For example, she would say, you will get a spoton your tongue if you tell a lie. If you eat stale bread, your hair will curl. And here’s one more. We went on a campaign trip once in Italy, and my wife spent the whole time worrying about bats getting into her hair. She said her grandmother reckoned you had to shave your head to get it out. My wife was really terrified. W: Silly, isn’t it? But that’s how some parents try to keep their kids from doing the wrong thing or getting into trouble.Q12: What does the man say about Ben?C）He has stopped making terrible faces.Q13: What did aunt Marry used to do when the man was a child?D）Warn him of danger by making up a story. Q14: What does the woman believe swans could do?A）They could break people’s legs.Q15: What did the grandmother of the man’s wife say?B）One would have to shave their head to remove a bat in their hair.【Passage 1】If I could go back in history and live when I liked, I wouldn't go back very far. In fact, I'd like to relive a period I've already lived –the 1960s.I was in my twenties, and everything was being renewed. People would come in out of a formal and almost Victorian attitude, and you really felt anything was possible. Meeting people was the thing, and you went to coffee bars where you met friends and spent the evening. The cinema, the theater, all that was every exciting with new things coming out. In fact, we seemed to be out, all the time! I don't really remember working – of course, I was a student – or sitting around at home very much. That just wasn't where the scene was, even eating! It was the first time, ordinary people started going out to eat. We were beginning to be adventurous about food, but we were more interested in meeting people than in eating or drinking. And dress, yes,that was the revolution. I mean, girls went around in really short skirts, and wore flowers in their hair. And men were in jeans, and could wear their hair long too. It was a wonderful period. It was like living in an age you could never have imagined, and that never has come back. We didn't have much money, but it didn't matter. And there was plenty of opportunity to do whatever you felt like doing.Q16. Why does the speaker say he would like to relive the 1960s?C）Everything seemed to be changing.Q17. What does the speaker say was the most popular thing to do at that time?A）Meeting people.Q18. What do we learn about the speaker?D）He was a young student in the 1960s.【Passage 2】Dogs, man's best friends, have a clear strategy for dealing with angry owners—they look away. New research shows that dogs limit their eyecontact with angry humans. The scientists suggest this may be an attempt to calm humans down. This behavior may have evolved as dogs gradually learned they could benefit from avoiding conflicts with humans.To conduct the tests, the University of Helsinki researchers trained 31 dogs to rest in front of a video screen. Facial photos of dogs and humans were displayed on the screen for 1.5 seconds. They showed threatening, pleasant and neutral expressions. Nearby cameras tracked the dogs' eye movements.Dogs in the study looked most at the eyes of humans and other dogs to sense their emotions. When dogs looked at expressions of angry dogs, their eyes rested more on the mouth, perhaps to interpret the threatening expressions. And when looking at angry humans, they tended to turn away their gaze.Dogs may have learned to detect threat signs from humans and respond by trying to make peace, according to researcher Sanni Somppi.Avoiding conflicts may have helped dogs develop better bonds with humans.The researchers also note that dogs scan faces as a whole to sense how people are feeling, instead of focusing on a given feature. They suggest this indicates that dogs aren't sensing emotions from a single feature, but piecing together information from all facial features just as humans do.Q19. What do dogs do when they are faced with angry humans?B）They avoid looking at them.Q20. What does a dog do when it sees the expressions of angry dogs?C）It focuses its eyes on their mouths.Q21. How does a dog sense people's feelings? B）By taking in their facial expressions as a whole.【Passage 3】Winter in many places is very cold. There is lots of snow around, and the ground freezes,which can make life difficult for animals. People in cold places live in warm houses and have learned to adapt. What do animals do? There are three main ways that animals survive the cold in winter: sleep, adapt or migrate.Some animals, such as bears, frogs and snakes, sleep all winter. They sleep very deeply and need little or no food. While sleeping, their body temperature drops, and their heart beat slows down. To prepare for this before winter, these animals eat extra food to become fat, which gives them the energy they need while they sleep.Other animals adapt. For example, by staying active in winter. It is often hard for them to find food. So some animals, such as mice, collect extra food before winter, and hide it. When winter comes, they return to their hiding places to eat the food. Some animals grow thicker fur, or live in tree holes or underground to stay warm.Some birds migrate by flying to a warmerplace for the winter, where they can find more food. Some fly very long distances, including one kind of bird that flies from the remote north of the world, all the way to the distant south. Some birds fly in groups for safety, while others fly alone.Q22. What does the speaker say about animals in winter?D）They resort to different means to survive the bitter cold.Q23. What do we learn about animals that sleep through winter?C）They consume the energy stored before the long sleep.Q24. How do animals like mice adapt to the severe winter?A）By storing enough food beforehandQ25. Why do some birds fly in groups when migrating, according to the speaker?C）To stay safe。
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2017年6月英语六级听力原文(卷一)W: Welcome to Work Place. And in today’s program, we’re looking at the results of two recently published surveys, which both deal with the same topic - happiness at work. John, tell us about the first survey.M: Well, this was done by a human resources consultancy, who interviewed more than 1,000 workers, and established a top ten of the factors, which make people happy at work. The most important factor for the majority of the people interviewed was having friendly, supportive colleagues. In fact, 73% of people interviewed put their relationship with colleagues as the key factor contributing to happiness at work, which is a very high percentage. The second most important factor was having work that is enjoyable. The two least important factors were having one's achievements recognized, and rather surprisingly, earning a competitive salary.W: So, we are not mainly motivated by money?M: Apparently not.W: Any other interesting information in the survey?M: Yes. For example, 25% of the working people interviewed described themselves as 'very happy' at work. However, 20% of employees described themselves as being unhappy.W: That’s quite a lot of unhappy people at work every day.M: It is, isn’t it? And there were several more interesting conclusions revealed by the survey. First of all, small is beautiful: people definitely prefer working for smaller organizations or companies with less than 100 staff. We also find out that, generally speaking, women were happier in their work than men.W: Yes, we are, aren’t we?M: And workers on part-time contracts, who only work 4 or 5 hours a day, are happier than those who work full-time. The researchers concluded that this is probably due to a better work-life balance.W: Are bosses happier than their employees?M: Yes, perhaps not surprisingly, the higher people go in a company, the happier they are. So senior managers enjoy their jobs more than people working under them.Questions 1 to 4 are based on the conversation you have just heard.Q1: What is the No.1 factor that made employees happy according to the survey?Q2: What is the percentage of the people surveyed who felt unhappy at work?Q3: What kind of companies are popular with employees?Q4: What is the possible reason for people on part-time contracts to be happier?W: Mr. De Keyzer, I'm a great lover of your book Moments Before the Flood. Can you tell us how you first became interested in this subject matter?M: In 2006, when the concert hall of the city of Bruges asked me to take some pictures for a catalogue for a new concert season around the theme of water, I found myself working along the Belgian coastline. As there had been numerous alarming articles in the press about a climate catastrophe waiting to happen, I started looking at the sea and the beach very differently, a place where I spent so many perfect days as a child. This fear of a looming danger became the subject of a large-scale photo project.W: You wrote in the book: "I don’t want to photograph the disaster, I want to photograph the disaster waiting to happen.”Can you talk a bit about that?M: It is clear now that it is a matter of time before the entire European coastline disappears under water. The same goes for numerous big cities around the world. My idea was to photograph this beautiful and very unique coastline, rich in history, befor e it’s too late—as a last witness.W: Can you talk a bit about how history plays a role in this project?M: Sure. The project is also about the history of Europe looking at the sea and wondering when the next enemy would appear. In the images, you see all kinds of possible defense constructions to hold back the Romans, Germans, Vikings, and now nature as enemy number one. For example, there is the image of the bridge into the sea taken at the Normandy D-Day landing site. Also, Venice, the city eternally threatened by the sea, where every morning wooden pathways have to be set up to allow tourists to reach their hotels.W: Thank you, Mr. De Keyzer. It was a pleasure to have you with us today.Questions 5 to 8 are based on the conversation you have just heard.Q5. What does the man say about the book Moments Before the Flood?Q6. When did the man get his idea for the work?Q7. What will happen when the climate catastrophe occurs?Q8. What does the man say about Venice?Section BPassage 1When facing a new situation, some people tend to rehearse their defeat by spending too much time anticipating the worst. I remember talking with a young lawyer who was about to begin her first jury trial. She was very nervous. I asked what impression she wanted to make on the jury. She replied:” I don’t want to look too inexperienced, I don’t want them to suspect this is my first trial.” This lawyer had fallen victims to the don’ts syndro me—a form of negative goals setting. The don’ts can be self-fulfilling because your mind response to pictures.Research conducted at Stanford University shows a mental image fires the nerve system the same way as actually doing something. That means when a golfer tells himself: ”Don’t hit the ball into the water.”His mind sees the image of the ball flying into the water. So guess where the ball will go?Consequently, before going into any stressful situation, focus only on what you want to have happen. I asked the lawyer again how she wanted to appear at her first trial. And this time she said: ”I want to look professional and self-assured. ”I told her to create a picture of what self-assured would look like. To her, it meant moving confidently around the court room, using convincing body language and projecting her voice, so it could be heard from the judge’s bench to the back door. She also imagined a skillful closing argument and a winning trial. A few weeks after this positive stress(不确定)rehearsal, the young lawyer did win.Questions 9 to 12 are based on the passage you have just heard.Q9: what do some people do when they face a new situation?Q10: what does the research conducted at Stanford University show?Q11: what advice does the speaker give to people in a stressful situation?Q12: what do we learn about the lawyer in the court?Passage 2Most Americans don’t eat enough fruits, vegetables or whole grains, researchers now says adding fiber to teen diet may help lower the risk of breast cancer.Conversations about the benefits of fiber are probably more common in nursing homes than high schools. But along comes a new study that could change that. Kristi King，a diet specialist at Texas Children's Hospital finds it's hard to get teenager patients’attention about healthy eating but telling them that eating lots of high-fiber foods could reduce the risk of breast cancer before middle age. That's a powerful message.The new finding is based on a study of 44,000 women. They were surveyed about their diets during high school, and their eating habits were tracked for two decades. It turns out that those who consumed the highest levels of fiber during adolescence had a lower risk of developing breast cancer, compared to the women who ate the least fiber. This important study demonstrates that the more fiber you eat during your high school years, the lower your risk is in developing breast cancer in later life.The finding points to long-standing evidence that fiber may reduce circulating female hormone levels, which could explain the reduced risk. The bottom line here is the more fiber you eat, perhaps, a lower level of hormone in your body, and therefore, a lower lifetime risk of developing breast cancer. High-fiber diets are also linked to a reduced risk of heart disease and diabetes. That's why women are told to eat 25 grams a fiber a day - men even more.Questions 13 to 15 are based on the passage you have just heard.Q13. What does the new study tell about adding fiber to the teen diet?Q14. What do we learn about the survey of the 44,000 women?Q15. What explanation does the speaker offer for the research finding?Passage 1Well my current research is really about consumer behavior. So recently I've looked at young people's drinking and it's obviously a major concern to Government at the moment.I've also looked at how older people are represented in the media; again, it's of major current interest with older people becoming a much larger proportion of UK and indeed world society.I'm also interested in how consumers operate online, and how that online behavior might be different from how they operate offline when they go to the shops.Well, I think that the important thing here is to actually understand what's happening from the consumer's perspective. One of the things that businesses and indeed Government organizations often fail to do is to really see what is happening from the consumer's perspective.For example, in the case of young people's drinking, one of the things that I've identified is that drinking for people say between the ages of 18 and 24 is all about the social activity.A lot of the Government advertising has been about individual responsibility, but actually understanding that drinking is very much about the social activity and finding ways to help young people get home safely and not end up in hospital is one of the things that we've tried to present there.The key thing about consumer behavior is that it's very much about how consumers change. Markets always change faster than marketing; so we have to look at what consumers are doing.Currently I teach consumer behavior to undergraduates in their second year and we look at all kinds of things in consumer behavior and particularly how consumers are presented in advertising.So they get involved by looking at advertising and really critically assessing the consumer behavior aspects of it and getting involved sometimes doing primary research.For example, last year my students spent a week looking at their own purchasing and analyzed it in detail from shopping to the relationship that they have with their retail banks and their mobile phone providers. I think they found it very useful and it also helped them identify just what kind of budgets they had too. The fact of the matter is that there's a whole range of interesting research out there and I think as the years go on, there's going to be much more for us to consider and certainly much more for students to become involved in.16. What is the speaker currently doing?17. What has the speaker found about young people's drinking?18. What does the speaker say that his students did last year?Passage 2Sweden was the first European country to print and use paper money, but it may soon do away with physical currencies.Banks can save a lot of money and avoid regulatory headaches by moving to a cash-free system, and they can also avoid bank robberies, theft, and dirty money.Claer Barrett, the editor of Financial Times Money, says the Western world is headed toward a world without physical currency."Andy Holder —the chief eco|nomist at The Bank of England —suggested that the UK move towards a government-backed digital currency. But does a cashless society really make good economic sense?"The fact that cash is being drawn out of society, is less a feature of our everyday lives, and the ease of electronic payments —is this actually making us spend more money without realizing it?"Barrett wanted to find out if the absence of physical currency does indeed cause a person to spend more, so she decided to conduct an experiment a few months ago.She decided that she was going to try to just use cash for two weeks to make all of her essential purchases and see what that would do to her spending. She found she did spend a lot less moneybecause it is incredibly hard to predict how much cash one is going to need — she was forever drawing money out of cash points. Months later, she was still finding cash stuffed in her trouser pockets and the pockets of her handbags.During the experiment, Barrett took a train ride. On the way, there was an announcement that the restaurant car was not currently accepting credit cards. The train cars were filled with groans because many of the passengers were traveling without cash."It underlines just how much things have changed in the last generation," Barrett says. "My parents, when they were younger, used to budget by putting money into envelopes —they'd get paid and they'd immediately separate the cash into piles and put them in envelopes, so they knew what they had to spend week by week. It was a very effective way for them to keep track of their spending. Nowadays, we're all on credit cards, we're doing online purchases, and money is kind of becoming a less physical and more imaginary type of thing that we can't get our hands around."Q19. What do we learn about Sweden?Q20. What did Claer Barrett want to find out with her experiment?Q21. What did Claer Barrett find on her train ride?Q22. How did people of the last generation budget their spending?Passage 3Why should you consider taking a course in demography in college? You’ll be growing up in a generation where the baby boomers are going into retirement and dying. You will face the problems in the aging of the population that have never been faced before. You will hear more and more about migration between countries and between rural areas and cities. You need to understand as a citizen and as a tax payer and as a voter what’s really behind the arguments.I want to tell you about the past, present and future of the human population. So let’s start with a few problems. Right now, a billion people are chronically hungry. That means they wake up hungry, they are hungry all day, and they go to sleep hungry. A billion people are living in slums, not the same billion people, but there is some overlap. Living in slums means they don’t have infrastructure to take the garbage away, they don’t have secure water supplies to drink.Nearly a billion people are illiterate. Try to imagine your life being illiterate. You can’t read the labels on the bottles in the supermarket, if you can get to a supermarket. Two-thirds of those people who are illiterate are women and about 200 to 215 million women don’t have access to birth control they want, so that they can control their own fertility. This is not only a problem in developing countries. About half of all pregnancies globally are unintended. So those are examples of population problems.Demography gives you the tools to understand and to address these problems. It’s not only the study of human population, but the populations of non-human species, including viruses like influenza, the bacteria in your gut, plants that you eat, animals that you enjoy or that provide you with meat. Demography also includes the study of non-living objects like light bulbs and taxi cabs, and buildings because these are also populations. It studies these populations, in the past, present and future, using quantitative data and mathematical models as tools of analysis.I see demography as a central subject related to economics. It is the means to intervene more wisely, and more effectively in the real world, to improve the wellbeing, not only of yourself important as that may be but of people around you and of other species with whom we share the planet.Questions 23-25 are based on the recording you have just heard.23. What is one of the problems the speaker mentions in his talk?24. What does the speaker say about pregnancies?25. How does the speaker view the study of populations?。
2017年6月上海高考英语听力原文
One: Listening ComprehensionSection ADirections: In section A, you will hear ten short conversations between two speakers. At the end of each conversation, a question will be asked about what was said. The conversations and the questions will be spoken only once. After you have heard a conversation and the question about it, read the four possible answers on your paper, and decide which one is the best answer to the question you have heard.1.M: Programming is too tough for me to learn. I’l l quit.2.W: Keep trying, you can make it.Question: What does the woman mean3.M: Just look at today’s paper--nothing but accidents or gossip.W: Right, nothing is worth reading.Question: What is the speakers’ attitude towards today’s paper4.M: Jane, have you turn off the mobile phone The musical is about to start.W: Okay, I can’t wait to see Lucas Wong, my favorite actor.Question: Where does the conversation most probably take place5.M: Before feeding the dog, I am going to clear up its the house.W: It’s a bout time. Look at the mess! It smells terrible.Question: What is the man most probably going to do first6.W: Shall we buy some magazines on home decoration before furnishing our newhouseM: We could. But considering the information, d on’t you think they are overpricedQuestion: What does the man think of such magazines7.M: Miss Fang, for tomorrow’s test can we use a calculatorW: No, you should learn basic calculation skills.Question: Which test is the man most probably going to take8.W: Why didn’t you go to the concert It was marvelous.M: I was tired out. I just came back from Chengdu by train that morning.Question: Why was the man absent from the concert9.W: Robbie, I can’t carry those books to the classroom. Would you please help meM: Sorry, Mary. I have an appointment with Prof. Hanks now. Why not use your bicycleQuestion: What does Robbie imply10.M: Some doctors love to lecture people about their lifestyles.W: Well, I don’t think they c an make a difference.Question: What does the woman mean11.W: Alex, do you like team sports Football, basketball…M: Sure, but I’m a spectator rather than a player.Question: What can we learn about the manSection BDirection: In section B, you will hear two passages and one longer conversation. After each passage or conversation, you’ll be asked several questions. The passages and the conversation will be read twice, but the questions will be spoken only once. When you hear a question, read the four possible answers on your paper, and decide which one isthe best answer to the question you have heard.Questions 11-13 are based on the following talk.That long-awaited trip is about to begin. You’ve been working hard getting everything organized. I’m here to give you the tips you need to make the packing task easier. The golden rule is: the lighter, the better. Most shampoo manufacturers seem to make a special point of packaging their products in containers which are either large or heavy. One way to decrease the weight in your bag is to buy some small bottles and pour into them just enough shampoo for the holiday. Another idea is to collect samples of shampoo throughout the year, ready for use when holiday time comes around. What else need to go into the suitcase Clothes, of course. Don’t forget to roll them up: it not only saves space, but also helps reduce wrincling. Remember to put an alarm clock, washing powder and medicine in the suitcase. Still on the subject of the suitcase, to keep the suitcases safe, keep them simple. If you use very expensive designer suitcases, you’ll invite theft. A plain case won’t be noticed as much by thieves.11, According to the speaker, how can we decrease the weight in the bag12. What does the speaker tell us to do to prevent theft13. What is the speaker mainly talking aboutQuestions 14-16 are based on the following passage.Some people believe that spending quiet hours reading and thinking in a library is the best way to prepare for a debate contest. Most memory experts, however, would recommend preparing with team members. Doing so increases the rate of learning and the likelihood of remembering. When members of a debate team prepare together, they learn facts andmaster issues faster and more effectively than each individual could alone. Communication is essential to the ability to remember well, says a well-known psychologist. He has found that isolating yourself is about the worst thing you can do if you want to remember information. In other words, when you talk with others, whether it is to describe a movie, or complain about a difficult chapter in a textbook, you are actually strengthening your memory. The human memory works like a filing system. For a filing system to be effective, information has to be put in a logical place--inside a folder that includes related information. When the members of a debate team practice by using facts in support of an argument, they are exactly gathering related pieces of information into a single mental folder. And during an actual debate, when the pressure is on, they will be more easily recalled than those memorized as isolated pieces of information.14. What do memory experts think of reading and thinking quietly in debate preparation15. In which situation are people most likely to improve their memory16. In what way do human memory work like a filing systemQuestions 17-20 are based on the following conversation.M: Last night, the new said that in some cities they are thinking of turning of public water supply during part of each day.W: Hum, there is a shortage of water here, too. Is there anything we can do to help Water is so important.M: Sure, there are many things we can do to cut down on the amount of water we use. One is to change some of the things in the bathroom.W: Hum, don’t you think changing the bathroom can be too expensiveM: I don’t mean to change everything just… Well, for instance, the shower head. There are new ones on the market that saves almost 50 percent of the water. They don’t cost very much.W: Good idea. I’ve read the normal flow of a shower is 20 liters per minute. By cutting down that on half, one would only consume 16 liters for a shower. If we turn off the water when brushing our teeth, that would help, too.M: Right. I wasn’t aware it could be that much.W: There are also new toilet s that save a lot of water. But it isn’t necessary to change them right away.M: We don’t need to chang e them. By placing one or two bricks in the tank to take up some of the space, the amount of water flowing into the tank will be reduced.W: That sounds great!17. According to the man, what was last night’s news about18. Which of the following is a suggestion made by the speaker19. With the new shower head, how much water would a person use for a shower20. What are the two speakers mainly talking aboutThat’s the end of listening comprehension.。
2017年6月六级听力真题卷2听力文本
2017年6⽉六级听⼒真题卷2听⼒⽂本College English Test Band SixPart II Listening ComprehensionSection ADirections: In this section,you will hear two long conversations.At the end of each conversation,you will hear four questions.Both the conversation and the questionswill be spoken only once.After you hear a question,you must choose the best answerfrom the four choicesmarked A), B), C) and D).Then mark the corresponding letteron Answer Sheet 1with a single line through the centre. Conversation OneW: Mr. Ishiguro,have you ever found one of your booksat a secondhand bookstore?M: Yes. That kind of thing is difficult.If they’ve got my book there,I think,“Well, this is an insult!Somebody didn’t want to keep my book!”But if it’s not there,I feel it’s an insult too.I think,“Why aren’t peopleexchanging my book?Why isn’t it in this store?”W: Does being a writerrequire a thick skin?M: Yes, for example,my wife can be very harsh.I began working on my latest book,The Buried Giant, in 2004but I stoppedafter I showed my wife a little section.She thought it was rubbish.W: Even after you won a Booker Prize? M: She’s not intimidated at alland she criticizes mein exactly the same way she didwhen I was first unpublishedand I was starting.W: But you would nevercompromise on your vision.M: No, I wouldn’t ever compromise on the essential, the ideas or the themes. This isn’t really whatmy wife is trying to criticize me about. It’s always about execution.W: So why did you put your book,The Buried Giant,aside for so long?Apparently you started working on it over 10 years ago.M: I’ve often stopped writing a book and left it for a few years.And by the time I come back to it,it may have changed.Usually my imagination has moved on and I can think of different contexts or a different way to do it.W: What does it feel likewhen you finally finish a book?M: It’s funny you ask thatbecause I never have this momentwhen I feel, “Ah, I’ve finished!”I watch footballersat the end of the match,you know,the whistle goesand they’ve won or lost.Until thenthey’ve been giving everything they have and at that momentthey know it’s over.It’s funny for an author.There’s never a finishing whistle. Questions 1 to 4 are based onthe conversation you have just heard.1. How would the man feelif he found his bookin a secondhand bookstore?2. What does the man’s wifethink of his books?3. What does the man dowhen he engages in writing?4. What does the man want to sayby mentioning the football match? Conversation TwoW: According to a study of raceand equity in education,black athletesare dropping out of collegeacross the country at alarming rates.With us to talk about the findings in the study is Washington Post columnist Kevin Blackistone.Good morning.M: Good morning, how are you?W: Fine, thank you.What is newthat you found in this study?M: Well, this is Shaun Harper’s study,and he points out thaton major college campusesacross the country,black males make up less than3 percent of undergraduate enrollments. Yet, when you look attheir numbers or percentageson the revenue-generating sports teamsof football and basketball,they make up wellinto 50 to 60 percent of those teams.So the idea is thatthey are really there to be part ofthe revenue-generating working classof athletes on campusand not necessarily thereto be part of the educating classas most students in other groups are.W: Compared with other groups,I think the numbers in this group,at those 65 schools,are something likejust barely more than halfof the black male athletes graduateat all.M: Exactly.And what’s really bad about this isthese athletes are supposedly promised at least one thing as reward for all their blood and sweat. And that is a college degree,which can be a transformative toolin our societywhen you talk about upward mobility.And that’s really the troubling part about this.W: Well, this has beentalked about so much,really, in recent years.Why hasn’t it changed?M: Well, I think one of the reasonsit hasn’t changed is becausethere’s really no economic pressureto change this.All of the incentive is really onwinning and not losing on the fieldor on the court.Coaches do not necessarily havethe incentive to graduate players.Questions 5 to 8 are based onthe conversation you have just heard.5. What are the speakers talking about?6. What is the new findingabout black male athletesin this study?7. What is the graduation rateof black male athletes?8. What accounts forblack athletes’failureto obtain a college degree,according to the man?Section BDirections: In this section,you will hear two passages.At the end of each passage,you will hear three or four questions.Both the passage and the questionswill be spoken only once.After you hear a question,you must choose the best answerfrom the four choicesmarked A), B), C) and D).Then mark the corresponding letteron Answer Sheet 1with a single line through the centre.Passage OneAmerica’s holiday shopping season starts on Black Friday, the day after Thanksgiving. It is the busiest shopping day of the year.Retailers make the most moneythis time of year,about 20 to 30 percent of annual revenue.About 136 million people will shopduring the Thanksgiving Holiday weekend.More and more will shop online.In an era of instant information,shoppers can use their mobile phones to find deals.About 183.8 million people will shopon Cyber Monday,the first Monday after Thanksgiving.More than half of all holiday purchases will be made online. One-in-five Americans will usea tablet or smartphone.Online spending on Black Fridaywill rise 15 percentto hit $2.7 billion this year.Cyber Monday spending will increase 12 percent to $3 billion. For many, shopping online was “a more comfortable alternative”than crowded malls.The shift to online shoppinghas had a big impacton traditional shopping malls.Since 2010,more than 24 shopping mallshave closedand an additional 60 are struggling.However, Fortune saysthe weakest of the malls have closed.The sector is thriving again.The International Councilof Shopping Centers said94.2 percent of malls were full,or occupied,with shops by the end of 2014.That is the highest level in 27 years.Economist Gus Faucher saidlower unemployment and rising wages couldgive Americans more money to spend.The average American consumerwill spend about $805 on gifts.That’s about $630.5 billionbetween November and December—an increase of 3.7 percent from last year.Questions 9 to 12 are based onthe passage you have just heard.9. What is the speakermainly talking about?10. How many peoplewill shop on Cyber Monday?11. What does Fortune sayabout traditional shopping malls?12. What is said to account forthe increased number of shoppers?Passage TwoFor years,many of us have relied on antibiotic useto treat various infections.And the reality is thatantibiotics have been responsible forsaving millions of lives since penicillin,one of the earliest antibiotics,was first used on a clinical basis70 years ago.However, today is a new erain which taking antibioticscan cause some very dangerousand potentially life-threatening situations.In fact, you may have heard aboutthe new “superbugs”,which are antibiotic-resistant bacteriathat have developed as a result of overprescribed antibiotics. In the past, health experts warned us thatthe day would come in whichit would become very difficultto provide medical carefor even common problemssuch as lung infectionor severe sour throat.And, apparently,that day has comebecause seemingly routine operations such as knee replacementsare now much more hazardousdue to the looming threatof these infections.The problem has grown intosuch epidemic proportions thatthis severe strain of resistant bacteria is being blamed fornearly 700,000 deathseach year throughout the world; and, unfortunately,health experts worry thatthe number will rise to 10 millionor more on a yearly basis by 2050. With such a largelife-threatening epidemic,it is sad to say thatonly 1.2 percent of budgetary money for the National Institutes of Healthis currently being spent on research to tackle this problem.This is a far cry from the funds necessary fora problem of such magnitude. Questions 13 to 15 are based onthe passage you have just heard. 13. What do we learnabout the “superbugs”?14. What is the result ofthe overuse of antibiotics?15. What is most urgently neededfor tackling the large life-threatening epidemic, according to the speaker? Section CDirections: In this section,you will hear three recordingsof lectures or talksfollowed by three or four questions.The recordings will be played only once. After you hear a question,you must choose the best answerfrom the four choicesmarked A), B), C) and D).Then mark the corresponding letteron Answer Sheet 1with a single line through the centre.Recording OneThis is the reasonyou are here in a university.You are here to be educated.You are hereto understand thinking betterand to think better yourself.It’s not a chanceyou’re going to havethroughout your lifetime.For the next few years,you have a chance to focus on thinking.I think about some of the studentswho took advantage oftheir opportunities in a university.One of the stories I always like to tellis of a freshman seminarthat I had a chance to teach at Harvardwhen I was president of the university.I taught a seminar on globalizationand I assigned a reading thatI had written about global capital flows.And as I did each week,I asked one of the studentsto introduce the readings.And this young man,in October of his freshman year,said something like the following.“The reading by President Summerson the flow of capital across countries,it was kind of interesting,but the data did not come close to supporting the conclusions.”And I thought to myself,“What a fantastic thing this was.How could somebodywho had been there for five weekstell the personwho had the title ‘President’that he didn’t really knowwhat he was talking about?”And it was a special moment.Now, I don’t want to be misunderstood.I explained to my student thatI actually thoughthe was rather more confused than I was and I argued back, but what was really important about that was the universities stand out as placesthat really are about the authority of ideas.You see it in faculty memberswho are pleasedwhen their students make a discoverythat undermines a cherished theorythat they had put forward.I think of another student I hadwho came to me one morning,one evening actually,walked into my office and said thatI had written a pretty good paper,but that it had five important mistakesand that he wanted a job.You could debatewhether they actually were mistakes,but you couldn’t debatethat young man’s hunger to learn.You could not debate thatthat young man was someonewho wanted to make a differencein economicsand he is today a professor of economics.And his works are more cited as an economistthan any other economist in the world.Questions 16 to 18 are based onthe recording you have just heard.16. What does the speaker sayabout a university?17. What do we learnfrom the speaker’s storiesabout universities?18. What does the speaker seein the young manwho challenged his paper?Recording TwoPsychological research showswe consistently underestimateour mental powers.If you think this does not apply to you, then here is a simple testto show you are wrong.Write down the namesof all the American statesyou can remember.Put the list away and thenset yourself the same task a week later. Provided you have not cheatedby consulting an atlas,you will notice somethingrather surprising.The two lists will containroughly the same number of states,but they will not be identical.Some names will have slipped away, but others will have replaced them. This suggests that somewhere in your mindyou may well have a recordof virtually every state.So it is not really your memoryletting you down,just your abilityto retrieve information from it.We would remember a lot moreif we had more confidencein our memoriesand knew how to use them properly. One useful tip is thatthings are more likely to be remembered if you are in exactly the same stateand place as you werewhen you learned them.So if you are a studentwho always reviews over black coffee, perhaps it would be sensibleto prime yourself with a cupbefore the exam.If possible,you should also try tolearn information in the roomwhere it is going to be tested.When you learn is also important.Lots of people swearthey can absorb new informationmore efficientlyat some times of the day than at others. Research shows this isnot just imagination.There is a biological rhythm for learning, though it affects different people in different ways.For most of us,the best plan is totake in new information in the morning and thentry to consolidate it into memory during the afternoon.But this does not apply to everyone,so it is essentialto establish your own rhythm.You can do this bylearning a set number of lines of poetry at different times of the dayand seeing when most lines stick. When you have done this,try to organize your lifeso that the time set aside for learning coincides with the timewhen your memory is at its best.Avoid learning marathons—they do not make the best useof your mind.Take plenty of breaks,because they offer a double bonus:the time offgives your mind a chanceto do some preliminary consolidation and it also givesa memory boost to the learning. Questions 19 to 22 are based onthe recording you have just heard.19. What does the simple test suggest?20. What do we learnabout the two lists in the test?21. What does the speaker suggestabout preparing forand taking an exam?22. What tip does the speaker give on learning? Recording ThreeHello!Today I am going to talk about poverty. Poverty has become a critical issue in today’s world.It concerns not only us sociologists,but also economists, politiciansand business people.Poverty has been understoodin many different ways.One useful way isto distinguish betweenthree degrees of poverty—extreme poverty, moderate poverty,and relative poverty.The first type of poverty isextreme poverty.It’s also called absolute poverty.In extreme poverty,households cannot meetbasic needs for survival.People are chronically hungry.They are unable toaccess safe drinking water,let alone health care.They cannot affordeducation for their children.In short,people who live in extreme povertydo not haveeven the minimum resourcesto support themselves and their families. Where does extreme poverty occur? Well, you can find itonly in developing countries.Well, what about moderate poverty?Unlike extreme poverty,moderate povertygenerally refers to conditions of lifein which basic needs are met, but barely. People living in moderate poverty have the resourcesto keep themselves alive,but only at a very basic level.For example,they may have access to drinking waterbut not clean, safe drinking water.They may have a hometo shelter themselvesbut it does not have power supply,a telephone or plumbing.The third kind of poverty isrelative poverty.Relative poverty is generallyconsidered to be a household income level which is below a given proportion of average family income.The relatively poorlive in high income countriesbut they do not have a high income themselves. The method of calculating the poverty lineis different from country to countrybut we can say that basicallya family living in relative povertyhas less than a percentageof the average family income.For example, in the United States,a family can be considered poorif their income is less than 50 percentof the national average family income.They can meet their basic needsbut they lack access tocultural goods, entertainment,and recreation.They also do not have access toquality health care or other prerequisitesfor upward social mobility.Well, I have briefly explained to youhow poverty can be distinguished asextreme poverty, moderate poverty,and relative poverty.We shouldkeep these distinctions in mindwhen we research people’s living conditions either in the developing or the developed world.Questions 23 to 25 are based onthe recording you have just heard.23. What does the speaker do?24. Where does the speaker saywe can find extreme poverty?25. What do we learn aboutAmerican peopleliving in relative poverty?This is the end of listening comprehension.。
2017年6月六级真题(第2套)听力原文
2017年6月六级真题（第2套）听力原文2017年6月大学英语六级考试真题（第2套）听力原文Section AConversation OneW: Mr. Ishiguro, have you ever found one of your books at a secondhand bookstore?M: Yes. That kind of thing is difficult. [1] If they’ve got my book there, I think, “Well, this is aninsult! Somebody didn’t want to keep my book!” But if it’s not there, I feel it’s an insult too. I think, “Why aren’t people exchanging my book? Why isn’t it in this store?”W: Does being a writer require a thick skin?M: Yes, for example, my wife can be very harsh. [2-1] I began working on my latest book, The Buried Giant, in 2004, but I stopped after I showed my wife a little section. She thought it was rubbish.W: Even after you won a Booker Prize?M: [2-2] She’s not intimidated at all and she critic izes me in exactly the same way she did when I was first unpublished and I was starting.W: But you would never compromise on your vision.M: No, I wouldn’t ever compromise on the essential, the ideas or the themes. This isn’t really what my wife is trying to criticize me about. It’s always about execution.W: So why did you put your book, The Buried Giant, aside for so long? Apparently you started working on it over 10 years ago.M: [3] I’ve often stopped writing a book and left it for a few years. And by the time I come back to it, it may have changed. Usually my imagination has moved on and I can think of different contexts or a different way to do it.W: What does it feel like when you finally finish a book?M: It’s funny you ask that because I never have this moment when I feel, “Ah, I’ve finished!” [4] I watch footballers at the end of the match, you know, the whistle goes and they’ve won or lost. Until then they’ve been giving everything they have and at that moment they know it’s over. It’s funny for an author. There’s never a finishing whistle.Questions 1 to 4 are based on the conversation you have just heard.1.How would the man feel if he found his book in a secondhand bookstore?2.What does the man’s wife think of his books?3.What does the man do when he engages in writing?4.What does the man want to say by mentioning the football match?Conversation TwoW: [5] According to a study of race and equity in education, black athletes are dropping out of college across the country at alarming rates. With us to talk about the findings in the study is Washington Post columnist Kevin Blackistone. Good morning.M: Good morning, how are you?W: Fine, thank you. What is new that you found in this study?M: Well, this is Shaun Harper’s study, and he points out that on major college campuses across the country, black males make up less than 3 percent of undergraduate enrollments. Yet, when you look at their numbers or percentages on the revenue-generating sports teams of football and basketball, they make up well into 50 to 60 percent of those teams. [6] So the idea is that they are really there to be part of the revenue-generating working class of athletes on campus and not necessarily there to be part of the educating class as most students in other groups are.W: [7] Compared with other groups, I think the numbers in this group, at those 65 schools, are something like just barely more than half of the black male athletes graduate at all.M: Exactly. And what’s really bad about this is these athletes are supp osedly promised at least one thing as reward for all their blood and sweat. And that is a college degree, which can be a transformative tool in our society when you talk about upward mobility. And that’s really the troubling part about this.W: Well, this has been talked about so much, really, in recent years. Why hasn’t it changed?M: Well, I think one of the reasons it hasn’t changed is that there’s really no economic pressure to change this. All of the incentive is really on winning and not losing on the field or on the court. [8]Coaches do not necessarily have the incentive to graduate players.Questions 5 to 8 are based on the conversation you have just heard.5.What are the speakers talking about?6.What is the new finding about black male athletes in this study?7.What is the graduation rate of black male athletes?8.What accounts for black athletes’ failure to obtain a college degree, according to the man?Section BPassage One[9] America’s holiday shopping season starts on Black Friday, the day after Thanksgiving. It is the busiest shopping day of the year. Retailers make the most money this time of year, about 20 to 30 percent of annual revenue. About 136 million people will shop during the Thanksgiving Holiday weekend. More and more will shop online. In an era of instant information, shoppers can use their mobile phones to find deals. [10] About 183.8 million people will shop on Cyber Monday, the first Monday after Thanksgiving. More than half of all holiday purchases will be made online. One-in-five Americans will use a tablet or smartphone. Online spending on Black Friday will rise 15 percent to hit ＄2.7 billion this year. Cyber Monday spending will increase 12percent to ＄3 billion. For many, shopping online was “a more comfortable alternative” than crowded malls. The shift to online shopping has had a big impact on traditional shopping malls. Since 2010, more than 24 shopping malls have closed and an additional 60 are struggling. However, [11] Fortune says the weakest of the malls have closed. The sector is thriving again. The International Council of Shopping Centers said 94.2 percent of malls were full, or occupied, with shops by the end of 2014. That is the highest level in 27 years.[12] Economist Gus Faucher said lower unemployment and rising wages could give Americans more money to spend. The average American consumer will spend about ＄805 on gifts. That’s about＄630.5 billion between November and December—an increase of 3.7 percent from last year.Questions 9 to 12 are based on the passage you have just heard.9.What is the speaker mainly talking about?10.How many people will shop on Cyber Monday?11.What does Fortune say about traditional shopping malls?12.What is said to account for the increased number of shoppers?Passage TwoFor years, many of us have relied on antibiotic use to treat various infections. And the reality is that antibiotics have been responsible for saving millions of lives since penicillin, one of the earliest antibiotics, was first used on a clinical basis 70 years ago. However, today is a new era in which taking antibiotics can cause some very dangerous and potentially life-threatening situations. [13] In fact, you may have heard about the new “superbugs”, which are antibiotic-resistant bacteria that have developed as a result of overprescribed antibiotics. In the past, health experts warned us that the day would come in which it would become very difficult to provide medical care for even common problems such as lung infection or severe sour throat. And, [14] apparently, that day has come because seemingly routine operations such as knee replacements are now much more hazardous due to the looming threat of these infections.The problem has grown into such epidemic proportions that this severe strain of resistant bacteria is being blamed for nearly 700,000 deaths each year throughout the world; and, unfortunately, health experts worry that the number will rise to 10 million or more on a yearly basis by 2050. [15] With such a large life-threatening epidemic, it is sad to say that only 1.2 percent of budgetary money for the National Institutes of Health is currently being spent on research to tackle this problem. This is a far cry from the funds necessary for a problem of such magnitude.Questions 13 to 15 are based on the passage you have just heard.13.What do we learn about the “superbugs”?14.What is the result of the overuse of antibiotics?15.What is most urgently needed for tackling the large life-threatening epidemic, according to the speaker? Section CRecording OneThis is the reason you are here in a university. You are here to be educated. [16-1] You are here to understand thinking better and to think better yourself. It’s not a chance you’re going to have throughout your lifetime. [16-2] For the next few years, you have a chance to focus on thinking.I think about some of the students who took advantage of their opportunities in a university. One of the stories I always like to tell is of a freshman seminar that I had a chance to teach at Harvard when I was president of the university. I taught a seminar on globalization and I assigned a reading that I had written about global capital flows. And as I did each week, I asked one of the students to introduce the readings. And this young man, in October of his freshman year, said something like the following. “The reading by President Summers on the flow of capital across countries, it was kind of interesting, but the data did not come close to supporting the conclusions.” And I thought to myself, “What a f antastic thing this was. How could somebody who had been there for five weeks tell the person who had the title ‘President’ that he didn’t really know what he was talking about?” And it was a special moment.Now, I don’t want to be misunderstood. I explain ed to my student that I actually thought he was rather more confused than I was and I argued back, [17-1] but what was really important about that was the universities stand out as places that really are about the authority of ideas. You see it in faculty members who are pleased when their students make a discovery that undermines a cherished theory that they had put forward.I think of another student I had who came to me one morning, one evening actually, walked into my office and said that I had written a pretty good paper, but that it had five important mistakes and that he wanted a job. [17-2/18] You could debate whether they actually were mistakes, but you couldn’t debate that young man’s hunger to learn. [17-3] You could not debate that that young man was someone who wanted to make a difference in economics and he is today a professor of economics. And his works are more cited as an economist than any other economist in the world.Questions 16 to 18 are based on the recording you have just heard.16.What does the speaker say about a university?17.What do we learn from the speaker’s stories about universities?18.What does the speaker see in the young man who challenged his paper?Recording Two[19-1] Psychological research shows we consistently underestimate our mental powers. If you think this does not apply to you, then here is a simple test to show you are wrong. Write down the names of all the American states you can remember. Put the list away and then set yourself the same task a week later. Provided you have not cheated by consulting an atlas, you will notice something rather surprising. [20] The two lists will contain roughly the same number of states, but they will not be identical. Some names will have slipped away, but others will have replaced them. This suggests that somewhere in your mind you may well have a record ofvirtually every state. [19-2] So it is not really your memory letting you down, just your ability to retrieve information from it.We would remember a lot more if we had more confidence in our memories and knew how to use them properly. One useful tip is that things are more likely to be remembered if you are in exactly the same state and place as you were when you learned them. So if you are a student who always reviews over black coffee, perhaps it would be sensible to prime yourself with a cup of before the exam. [21] If possible, you should also try to learn information in the room where it is going to be tested. When you learn is also important. Lots of people swear they can absorb new information more efficiently at some times of the day than at others. Research shows this is not just imagination. There is a biological rhythm for learning, though it affects different people in different ways. For most of us, the best plan is to take in new information in the morning and then try to consolidate it into memory during the afternoon. But this does not apply to everyone, [22] so it is essential to establish your own rhythm. You can do this by learning a set number of lines of poetry at different times of the day and seeing when most lines stick. When you have done this, try to organize your life so that the time set aside for learning coincides with the time when your memory is at its best.Avoid learning marathons—they do not make the best use of your mind. Take plenty of breaks, because they offer a double bonus: the time off gives your mind a chance to do some preliminary consolidation and it also gives a memory boost to the learning.Questions 19 to 22 are based on the recording you have just heard.19.What does the simple test suggest?20.What do we learn about the two lists in the test?21.What does the speaker suggest about preparing for and taking an exam?22.What tip does the speaker give on learning?Recording ThreeHello! Today I am going to talk about poverty.[23] Poverty has become a critical issue in today’s world. It concerns not only us sociologists, but also economists, politicians and business people. Poverty has been understood in many different ways. One useful way is to distinguish between three degrees of poverty—extreme poverty, moderate poverty, and relative poverty.The first type of poverty is extreme poverty. It’s also called absolute poverty. In extreme poverty, households cannot meet basic needs for survival. People are chronically hungry. They are unable to access safe drinking water, let alone health care. They cannot afford education for their children. In short, people who live in extreme poverty do not have even the minimum resources to support themselves and their families.[24] Where does extreme poverty occur? Well, you can find it only in developing countries.Well, what about moderate poverty? Unlike extreme poverty, moderate poverty generally refers to conditions of life in which basic needs are met, but barely. People living in moderate poverty have the resources to keep themselves alive, but only at a very basic level. For example, they may have access to drinking water but not clean, safe drinking water. They may have a home to shelter themselves but it does not have power supply, a telephone or plumbing.The third kind of poverty is relative poverty. Relative poverty is generally considered to be a household income level which is below a given proportion of average family income. The relatively poor live in high income countries but they do not have a high income themselves. The method of calculating the poverty line is different from country to country, but we can say that basically a family living in relative poverty has less than a percentage of the average family income. For example, [25] in the United States, a family can be considered poor if their income is less than 50 percent of the national average family income. They can meet their basic needs but they lack access to cultural goods, entertainment, and recreation. They also do not have access to quality health care or other prerequisites for upward social mobility.Well, I have briefly explained to you how poverty can be distinguished as extreme poverty, moderate poverty, and r elative poverty. We should keep these distinctions in mind when we research people’s living conditions either in the developing or the developed world.Questions 23 to 25 are based on the recording you have just heard.23.What does the speaker do?24.Where does the speaker say we can find extreme poverty?25.What do we learn about American people living in relative poverty?。
2017年6月六级听力原文
2017年6月六级听力原文Conversation 1W: Wele to Work Place. And in today’s program, we’re looking at the results of two recently published surveys, which both deal with the same topic - happiness at work. John, tell us about the first survey.M: Well, this was done by a human resources consultancy, who interviewed more than 1,000 workers, and established a top ten of the factors, which make people happy at work. The most important factor forthe majority of the people interviewed was having friendly, supportive colleagues. In fact, 73% ofpeople interviewed put their relationship with colleagues as the key factor contributing to happiness at work, which is a very high percentage. The second most important factor was having work that is enjoyable. The two least important factors were having one's achievements recognized, and rather surprisingly, earning a petitive salary.W: So, we are not mainly motivated by money?M: Apparently not.W: Any other interesting information in the survey?M: Yes. For example, 25% of the working people interviewed described themselves as 'very happy' atwork. However, 20% of employees described themselves as being unhappy.W: That’s quite a lot of unhappy people at work every day.M: It is, isn’t it? And there were sev eral more interesting conclusions revealed by the survey. First of all, small is beautiful: people definitely prefer working for smaller organizations or panies with less than 100 staff. We also find out that, generally speaking, women were happier in their work than men.W: Yes, we are, aren’t we?M: And workers on part-time contracts, who only work 4 or 5 hours a day, are happier than those who workfull-time. The researchers concluded that this is probably due to a better work-life balance.W: Are bosses happier than their employees?M: Yes, perhaps not surprisingly, the higher people go in a pany, the happier they are. So senior managers enjoy their jobs more than people working under them.Q1: What is the No.1 factor that made employees happy according to the survey?Q2: What is the percentage of the people surveyed who felt unhappy at work?Q3: What kind of panies are popular with employees?Q4: What is the possible reason for people on part-time contracts to be happier?2017年6月英语六级听力原文：试卷一Conversation 2W: Mr. De Keyzer, I'm a great lover of your book Moments Before the Flood. Can you tell us how youfirst became interested in this subject matter?M: In 2006, when the concert hall of the city of Bruges asked me to take some pictures for a catalogue for a new concert season around the theme of water, I found myself working along the Belgian coastline. As there had been numerous alarming articles in the press about a climate catastrophe waiting to happen, Istarted looking at the sea and the beach very differently, a place where I spent so many perfectdays as a child. This fear of a looming danger became the subject of a large-scale photo project.W: You wrote in the book: "I don’t want to photograph the disaster, I want to photograph the disasterwaiting to happen.” Can you talk a bit about that?M: It is clear now that it is a matter of time before the entire European coastline disappears under water. The same goes for numerous big cities around the world. My idea was to photograph this beautiful and very unique coastline, rich in history, before it’s too late—as a last witness.W: Can you talk a bit about how history plays a role in this project?M: Sure. The project is also about the history of Europe looking at the sea and wondering when the next enemy would appear. In the images, you see all kinds of possible defense constructions to hold back the Romans, Germans, Vikings, and now nature as enemy number one. For example, there is the image of the bridge into the sea taken at the Normandy D-Day landing site. Also, Venice, the city eternally threatened by the sea, where every morning wooden pathways have to be set up to allow tourists to reach their hotels.W: Thank you, Mr. De Keyzer. It was a pleasure to have you with us today.Q5. What does the man say about the book Moments Before the Flood?Q6. When did the man get his idea for the work?Q7. What will happen when the climate catastrophe occurs?Q8. What does the man say about Venice?。
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201706听力原文News Report 1One of Google's self-driving cars crashed into a bus in California last month. There were no injuries.It is not the first time one of Google's famed self-driving cars has been involved in a crash, but it may be the first time it has caused one.On February 14th the self-driving car, travelling at 2mph (3km/h), pulled outin front of a public bus going 15mph (24km/h).The man in the Google vehicle reported that he assumed the bus would slow down to let the car out, and so he did not switch to the manual mode.In a statement, Google said: "We clearly bear some responsibility, because if our car hadn't moved, there wouldn't have been a crash."That said, our test driver believed the bus was going to slow or stop to allow us to merge into the traffic, and that there would be sufficient space to do that."The company's self-driving cars have done well over a million miles across various states in the US, and until now have only reported minor accidents.Q1: According to Google, what was the cause of the accident?Q2: How have Google’s self-driving cars performed so far?News Report 2Thousands of bees left a town after landing on the back of a car when their queen got stuck in its boot. Tom Moses who works at a nearby national park, noticed a “brown patch” on the back of the car after the owner parked it todo some shopping. When he looked closer he realized it was a huge group of bees. Moses said: “I have never seen that many bees in one spot. It was very unusual. They were very close together and there was a lot of noise and movements, it was interesting to see such a strange sight. But there were a lot of people around and I was a bit worried about the bees and the people stopping to look.I thought that someone might do something stupid.Moses called two local bees specialists who helped removed the bees byattracting them into a box.Moses spent three hours looking after the bees and was stung five times, hesaid my stings are a bit painful but I am pleased that all worked out and I could help, people need to realize that bees are valuable and they should be looked after.Q3. What do we learn about Tom Moses?Q4. What do we know about the bees on the back of the car?News report 3A new species of snake has been discovered on a remote island in the Bahamas. Scientists identified 20 of the one meter-long snakes during two trips to the Caribbean islands. The second trip was made in October last year.One of the creatures made a dramatic appearance by moving on to the head of the team leader as he slept.The snake has been named silver boa because it is metallic colored and thefirst specimen found was climbing a silver palm tree.The team was led by Dr. Graham Reynolds, from Harvard University, the scientist confirmed the snake was a previously unknown species after conducting a genetic analysis of tissue samples.Commenting on the find, snake expert Robert Henderson from the Museum ofNatural History, said: “Worldwide new species of frogs are being discoveredand described quite regularity. New species of snakes, however, are much rarer.Q5. What is the news report mainly about?Q6. What do we learn about the scientific team leader?Q7. How did the newly discovered creature get its name?Conversation oneW: Did you enjoy your stay with us, Mr. Brown?M: Yes, very much. I had a wonderful time here. Now I'm going to the airport. My flight leaves in less than 2 hours. So, could you tell me, what's the quickest way to get there?W: Well, we can call a taxi for you. We also have a free airport shuttle service.M: That sounds great, but will the shuttle get me to the airport in time?W: Yes, it should. The next shuttle leaves in 15 minutes. And it takes some 25 minutes to get to the airport.M: Fantastic! I'll just wait in the lobby. Will you please let me know whenit's leaving?W: Of course, sir.M: Now I would like to settle my mini-bar bill. How much is that?W: Let's see. It comes to $37.50. How would you like to pay for it?M: I'll pay with my credit card. Thanks. But I'll need a receipt, so I can charge it to my company.W: Absolutely! Here you are, sir. If you like, I can leave your bags with the porter. And he can load them onto the shuttle for you when it arrives.M: That would be great. Thank you.W: Would you like to leave a comment on our web page when you have time?M: Sure. I had a really good stay here, and I'd like to recommend your hotel to my friends and colleagues.W: That’s very kind of you. Thank you again for staying at Sheraton Hotel.Q8. Why does the man ask about the quickest way to the airport?Q9. How is the man going to pay his bill?Q10. What did the man ask the woman to do?Q11. What favor does the woman ask of the man?Long conversation 2M: You know, Ben’s given up making those terrible faces he used to make. The other day, he came home from school almost in tears. His teacher said if he went on like that, his face would get stuck when the winds changed.W: And he believed her?M: Yeah, he’s only a little boy. Don’t you remember all those things we used to believe when we were little? I remember my aunt Mary used to say if you swallow a cherrystone, a tree would grow out of your mouth. And I’m still terrified today, sort of subconsciously. You know, if I swallow one by mistake…W: Yeah, I suppose you're right. The one that used to get me was that swans could break your leg when they blow of the wing.M: They can, can’t they? I always thought they could.W: No, they are not that strong. But there’s another one even more terrifying. That is, if you put a post stamp on upside down, you will go to prison.M: No, never heard of that. But my grandmother was a terror for that kind of thing. For example, she would say, you will get a spot on your tongue if youtell a lie. If you eat stale bread, your hair will curl. And here’s one more. We went on a campaign trip once in Italy, and my wife spent the whole time worrying about bats getting into her hair. She said her grandmother reckonedyou had to shave your head to get it out. My wife was really terrified.W: Silly, isn’t it? But that’s how some parents try to keep their kids from doing the wrong thing or getting into trouble.Q12: What does the man say about Ben?Q13: What did aunt Marry used to do when the man was a child?Q14: What does the woman believe swans could do?Q15: What did the grandmother of the man’s wife say?Passage oneIf I could go back in history and live when I liked, I wouldn't go back very far. In fact, I'd like to relive a period I've already lived – the 1960s.I was in my twenties, and everything was being renewed. People would come inout of a formal and almost Victorian attitude, and you really felt anything was possible. Meeting people was the thing, and you went to coffee bars where you met friends and spent the evening. The cinema, the theater, all that was every exciting with new things coming out. In fact, we seemed to be out, all the time!I don't really remember working – of course, I was a student – or sitting around at home very much. That just wasn't where the scene was, even eating! It was the first time, ordinary people started going out to eat. We were beginning to be adventurous about food, but we were more interested in meeting peoplethan in eating or drinking. And dress, yes, that was the revolution. I mean, girls went around in really short skirts, and wore flowers in their hair. And men were in jeans, and could wear their hair long too. It was a wonderful period. It was like living in an age you could never have imagined, and that never has come back. We didn't have much money, but it didn't matter. And there was plenty of opportunity to do whatever you felt like doing.Question 16 – 18 are based on the passage you have just heard:16. Why does the speaker say he would like to relive the 1960s?17. What does the speaker say was the most popular thing to do at that time?18. What do we learn about the speaker?Passage 2Dogs, man's best friends, have a clear strategy for dealing with angry owners—they look away.New research shows that dogs limit their eye contact with angry humans. The scientists suggest this may be an attempt to calm humans down. This behavior may have evolved as dogs gradually learned they could benefit from avoiding conflicts with humans.To conduct the tests, the University of Helsinki researchers trained 31 dogs to rest in front of a video screen. Facial photos of dogs and humans weredisplayed on the screen for 1.5 seconds. They showed threatening, pleasant and neutral expressions. Nearby cameras tracked the dogs' eye movements.Dogs in the study looked most at the eyes of humans and other dogs to sense their emotions. When dogs looked at expressions of angry dogs, their eyesrested more on the mouth, perhaps to interpret the threatening expressions. And when looking at angry humans, they tended to turn away their gaze.Dogs may have learned to detect threat signs from humans and respond by trying to make peace, according to researcher Sanni Somppi. Avoiding conflicts may have helped dogs develop better bonds with humans.The researchers also note that dogs scan faces as a whole to sense how people are feeling, instead of focusing on a given feature. They suggest thisindicates that dogs aren't sensing emotions from a single feature, but piecing together information from all facial features just as humans do.Q19. What do dogs do when they are faced with angry humans?Q20. What does a dog do when it sees the expressions of angry dogs?Q21. How does a dog sense people's feelings?Winter in many places is very cold. There is lots of snow around, and the ground freezes, which can make life difficult for animals. People in cold places live in warm houses and have learned to adapt. What do animals do? There are three main ways that animals survive the cold in winter: sleep, adapt or migrate.Some animals, such as bears, frogs and snakes, sleep all winter. They sleep very deeply and need little or no food. While sleeping, their body temperature drops, and their heart beat slows down. To prepare for this before winter, these animals eat extra food to become fat, which gives them the energy they need while they sleep.Other animals adapt. For example, by staying active in winter. It is often hard for them to find food. So some animals, such as mice, collect extra food before winter, and hide it. When winter comes, they return to their hiding places to eat the food. Some animals grow thicker fur, or live in tree holes or underground to stay warm.Some birds migrate by flying to a warmer place for the winter, where they can find more food. Some fly very long distances, including one kind of bird that flies from the remote north of the world, all the way to the distant south. Some birds fly in groups for safety, while others fly alone.Questions 22-25 are based on the passage you have just heard.22. What does the speaker say about animals in winter?23. What do we learn about animals that sleep through winter?24. How do animals like mice adapt to the severe winter?25. Why do some birds fly in groups when migrating, according to the speaker?Section A News ReportNews Report 11 B The test driver made a wrong judgement2 D They have generally done quite well.News Report 23 A He works at a national park.4 B They were making a lot of noise.News Report 35 A The discovery of a new species of snake.6 C A snake crawled onto his head in his sleep.7 D From its color.Section B ConversationConversation 18 C His flight is leaving in less than 2 hours.9 B By credit card.10 A Give him a receipt.11 D Posting a comment on the hotel’s webpage.Conversation 212 C He has stopped making terrible faces.13 D Warn him of danger by making up a story.14 A They could break people’s legs.15 B One would have to shave their head to remove a bat in their hair.Section C PassagePassage 116 C Everything seemed to be changing.17 A Meeting people.18 D He was a young student in the 1960s.Passage 219 B They avoid looking at them.20 C It focuses its eyes on their mouths.21 B By taking in their facial expressions as a whole.Passage 322 D They resort to different means to survive the bitter cold.23 C They consume the energy stored before the long sleep.24 A By storing enough food beforehand25 C To stay safe。