2014年6月英语六级听力原文(第2套)

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2014年6月英语六级听力原文第1套听力短对话1.W: The students have been protesting against the increased tuition.M: Yeah, I heard about the protest. But I don’t know how much good it will do. Q: What does the man mean?2.W: Jay will turn 21 this week. Does he know the class is having a surprise party for him?M: No. He thinks we are giving a party for the retiring dean.Q: What do we learn from the conversation?3.M: Hello. This is Carl’s Garage. We found Mr. White’s briefcase and wallet after he left his car here this morning.W: He has been wondering where he could have left them. I’ll tell him to pick them up this afternoon. Thank you for calling.Q: What do we learn about Mr. White from the conversation?4. W: You know, some TV channels have been rerunning a lot of comedies from the 1960s. What do you think of those old shows?M: Not much. But the new ones including those done by famous directors are not so entertaining either.Q: What does the man mean?5. M: How much longer should I boil these vegetables? The recipe says about 10 minutes in total.W: They look pretty done to me. I doubt you should cook them anymore. Q: What does the woman mean?6. W: Tom, are you going to your parents’ house tonight?M: Yes. I promised to help them figure out their tax returns. The tax code is really confusing to them.Q: What is the man going to do for his parents?7. W: I was surprised when I heard you’d fi nished your research project a whole month early.M: How I managed to do it is still a mystery to me.Q: What does the man mean?8. W: I was hoping we could be in the same developmental psychology class.M: Me too. But by the time I went for registration, the course was closed. Q: What does the man mean?听力长对话原文1Conversation OneM: It’s really amazing how many colors there are in these Thai silks.W: These are our new designs.M: Oh, I don't think I've seen this combination of colors before.W: They're really brilliant, aren't they?M: Quite dazzling! May I have samples of the new color combinations?W: Yes, of course. But aren't you going to place an order?M: We order them regularly, you know, but I do want our buyer who handles fabrics to see them.W: Have you looked at the wood and stone carvings? Did you like them? M: Oh, they aren't really what I'm looking for.W: What do you have in mind?M: That's the trouble. I never know exactly until I see it. I usually have more luck when I get away from the tourist places.W: Out in the countryside you mean?M: Yes, exactly. Markets in small towns have turned out best for me.W: You're more interested, then, in handicrafts that haven't been commercialized.M: Yes, real folk arts, pots, dishes, basket ware — the kinds of things that people themselves use.W: I'm sure we can arrange a trip out into the country for you.M: I was hoping you'd say that.W: We can drive out of Bangkok and stop whenever you see something that interests you.M: That would be wonderful! How soon could we leave?W: I can't get away tomorrow. But I think I can get a car for the day after. M: And would we have to come back the same day?W: No, I think I'll be able to keep the car for three or four days.M: Wonderful! That'll give me time for a real look around.Questions 9 to 11 are based on the conversation you have just heard.9. What attracts the man to the Thai silks?10. What is the man looking for in Thailand?11. What do we learn about the trip the woman promised to arrange for the man?听力长对话原文2Conversation TwoW: Well, before we decide we're going to live in Enderby, we really ought to have a look at the schools. We want the children to have a good secondary education, so we'd better see what’s available.M: They gave me some information at the district officeand I took notes. It appears there are five secondary schools in Enderby, three state schools and two private.W: I don’t know if we want private schools, do we?M: I don't think so, but we'll look at them anyway. There are Saint Mary's, that's a Catholic school for girls and Carlton Abbey, that's a very old boys' boarding school, founded in 1672.W: Are all the state schools co-educational?M: Yes, it seems so.W: I think little Keith is very good with his hands. We ought to send him to a school with good vocational training — carpentry, electronics, that sort of thing. M: In that case, we are best off at Enderby Comprehensive. I gather they have excellent workshops and instructors. But it says here the Donwell also has good facilities. Enderby High has a little, but they are mostly academic.No vocational training at a ll at Carlton Abbey or Saint Mary’s.W: What are the schools like academically? How many children go on to university every year?M: Well, Enderby High is very good. And Carlton Abbey even better. 70% of their pupils go on to university. Donwell isn’t so good. Only 8%. And Enderby Comprehensive and Saint Mary’s not much more, about 10%.W: Well, it seems like there is a broad selection of schools. But we’ll have to find out more than statistics before we can decide.Questions 12 to 15 are based on the conversation you have just heard.12. What do the speakers want their children to have?13. What do the speakers say about little Keith?14. What school has the highest percentage of pupils who go on to university?15. What are the speakers going to do next?听力短文原文PassageOneGood morning, ladies and gentlemen! As instructed in our previous meeting, the subcommittee on building development has now drawn up a brief to submit to the firm's architect.In short, the building would consist of two floors. There would be a storage area in the basement to be used by the research centre as well as by other departments. We are, as you know, short of storage base, so the availability of a large basement would be a considerable advantage. The ground floor would be occupied by laboratories. Altogether there would be six labs. In addition, there would be six offices for the technicians, plus a general secretarial office and a reception area. The first floor would be occupied by the offices of Research and Development staff. There would be a suite of offices for the Research and Development Director as well as a general office for secretarial staff. It's proposed to have a staff room with a small kitchen. This would serve both floors. There would also be a library for research documents and reference material. In addition, there would be a resource room in which audio-visual equipment and other equipment of that sort could be stored. Finally, there would be a seminar room with closed-circuit television. This room would also be used to present displays and demonstrations to visitors to the centre. The building would be of brick construction so it's to conform to the general style of construction on the site. There would be a pitched roof. Wall and ceiling spaces would be insulated to conform to new building regulations.Questions 16 to 18 are based on the passage you have just heard.16. What is said about the planned basement of the new building?17. Where would be the Research and Development Director's office?18. Why would the building be of brick construction?PassageTwoHuang Yi works for a company that sells financial software to small- and medium-size businesses. His job is to show customers how to use the new software. He spends two weeks with each client, demonstrating the features and functions of the software. The first few months on the job were difficult. He often left the client feeling that even after two weeks he hadn't been able to show the employees everything they needed to know. It's not that they weren't interested; they obviously appreciated his instruction and showed a desire to learn. Huang couldn't figure out if the software was difficult for them to understand, or if he was not doing a good job of teaching. During the next few months, Huang started to see some patterns. He would get to a new client site and spend the first weekgoing over the software with the employees. He usually did this in shifts, with different groups of employees listening to him lecture. Then he would spend the next week installing the program and helping individuals troubleshoot. Huang realized that during the week of troubleshooting and answering questions, he ended up addressing the same issues over and over. He was annoyed because most of the individuals with whom he worked seem to have retained very little information from the first week. They asked very basic questions and often needed prompting from beginning to end. At first, he wondered if these people were just a little slow, but then he began to get the distinct feeling that part of the problem might be his style of presenting the information.Questions 19 to 22 are based on the passage you have just heard.19. What does Huang Yi do in his company?20. What did Huang Yi think of his work?21. What did Huang Yi do in addition to lecturing?22. What did Huang Yi realize in the end?PassageThreeAs we help children get out into the world to do their learning there, we can get more of the world into the schools. Aside from their parents, most children never have any close contact with any adults except their teachers. No wonder they have no idea what adult life or work is like. We need to bring more people who are not full-time teachers into the schools. In New York City, under the Teachers' and Writers' Collaborative, real writers come into the schools, read their work, and talk to the children about the problems of their craft. The children love it. In another school, a practicing attorney comes in every month and talks to several classes about the law. Not the law as it is in books, but the law as he sees it and encounters it in his cases. And the children listen with intense interest. Here's something even easier: Let children work together, help each other, learn from each other and each other's mistakes. We now know from the experience of many schools that children are often the best teachers of other children. What's more important, we know that when a fifth- or sixth-grader who has being having trouble with reading starts helping a first-grader, his own reading sharply improves. A number of schools are beginning to use what some call paired learning. This means that you let children form partnerships with other children, do their work even including their tests together and share whatever marks or results this work gets, just like grown-ups in the real world. It seems to work. Questions 23 to 25 are based on the passage you have just heard.23. Why does the speaker say most children have no idea what adult life is like?24. What is happening in New York City schools?25. What does the experience of many schools show?听力填空Tests may be the most unpopular part of academic life. Students hate them because they produce fear and anxiety about being evaluated, and a focus on grades instead of learning for learning's sake. But tests are also valuable. A well-constructed test identifies what you know and what you still need to learn. Tests help you see how your performance compares to that of others. And knowing that you'll be tested on a body of material is certainly likely to motivate you to learn the material more thoroughly. However, there's another reason you might dislike tests. You may assume that tests have the power to define your worth as a person. If you do badly on a test, you may be tempted to believe that you’ve received some fundamental information about yourself from the professor—information that says you are a failure in some significant way. This is a dangerous and wrong-headed assumption. If you do badly on a test, it doesn't mean you are a bad person or stupid. Or that you'll never do better again and that your life is ruined. If you don't do well on a test, you're the same person you were before you took the test. No better, no worse. You just did badly on a test. That's it! In short, tests are not a measure of your value as an individual. They're a measure only of how well and how much you studied. Tests are tools.They are indirect and imperfect measures of what we know.2014年6月英语六级听力原文第2套听力短对话1. M: Look at the low priceson these fashionable TV sets.Something is fishy. Don't you think so?W: Well, there have been a lot of robberies recently.Some of the stolen goods may have landed here.Q: What does the woman imply about the low-priced television sets?2. M: I've been assigned to cover the governess's speech today.What about you?W: Nothing is grand as yours.I have to do an interview for the evening news about a man with dozens of cats.Q: What do we learn about the speakers?3. W: Didn't I see you going into the administration building this afternoon? M: I needed to switch my computer class to the 9:50 section.Q: What do we learn from the conversation?4. W: I guess you watched the quiz show on television last night.What did you think about it?M: Well, it was great.The first four contestants won only small prizes, but the fifth left with a new luxury car.Q: What does the man say about the quiz show?5. W: I can't find the arrival time of the New York to Boston Express on this schedule.M: Look for New York in the left-hand column and follow it across until you find the hour listed in the Boston column.Q: What are the speakers most probably doing?6. W: You look different today,but I can't quite put my finger on what it is. M: Oh, yesterday I finally got around to that new barbershop in the mall and enjoyed their services.Q: What can be inferred about the man?7. W: What do you think of Picasso's paintings exhibited in the city museum? M: Personally I can't quite see the meaning in his modern works. Most of them remind me of the stuff my nephew brings home from the kindergarten.Q: What does the man mean?8. W: Rod said he wanted to get involved in student government this year. M: But he hasn't gone to a single meeting, has he?Q: What does the man imply about Rod?Now you will hear the two long conversations.听力长对话原文1M：Good morning, madam. Can I help you?W: Oh, I do hope so. I have to get to Manchester today and my own car has broken down. Do you by any chance have a car available?M：For how many days, madam?W: Three, just until the weekend.M: And what sort of car did you have in mind?W: Well, that depends a bit on the price. But I normally drive a Cavalier. Do you have anything like that?M: Yes, certainly. That's group C which includes Cavalier and Sea-arrows. W: How much are they?M: Well, for three days, you would have to have it under the unlimited mileage conditions, which will work out cheaper for Manchester anyway. Let's see, Group C, three- to five-day hire with unlimited mileage is 53 pounds per day.W: I see. Does that include everything?M: It includes third-party insurance, but does not include value-added tax, petrol or CDW.W: What's that?M: CDW? Oh, that's to cover you in case you damage the hired car. Third-party insurance only covers you for damage to another vehicle. For Group C cars it's 6 pounds per day.W: OK. I think I'll have the Cavalier.M: Right. Could I have your driving license please?W: Certainly. Here we are.M: So, it's Mrs. J. B. Couty.W: Yes. That's right.M: And the number is 509024bc9cs, expiring 1st July, 2015. And you want to take it immediately?W: Yes, I do, please.M: Lovely. Well, if you could, just initial that box there for the CDW, and that box there to confirm you have known driving convictions. Thank you, and then sign there. Great! That's it!Questions 9 to 11 are based on the conversation you have just heard.9. Why does the woman want to hire a car?10. What is the woman's main consideration in hiring a car?11. What does the daily charge include?听力长对话原文2are generally very good. At least between the three main cities, Bilbao, Vitoria in the south and San Sebastian. There is now a fast train link to the south of France and the rest of Spain. All these improvements affect Bilbao principally, but the whole region benefits. First, the port area has been completely modernized and relocated. And the airport has also been extended. So the basic facilities are good.M: Right. So, are we in a position to choose one of these cities?W: Well, let's not rush into anything. I think it would be a bad idea to assume we're going to choose a city. It might be better to think about one of the smaller towns.M: Smaller places. Yes. So, should we get details on the possible places?W: Yes. We could do that. But we need, I think, first, to check a few things, for example, tax benefits, grants and anything like that, for locating to a smaller place, not one of the main cities. Then we could make a better decision.M: Yes. I agree. You've talked about the improved transport links in Bilbao. What about the links to the smaller towns？If it's a mountainous or hilly region, it could take an hour or more for a truck to reach a main road. So I think we need to look specifically at the train and road links for smaller towns.W: Yes, you're right. Road and rail, and the financial position.Questions 12 to 15 are based on the conversation you have just heard.12. What are the speakers discussing？13. What does the woman say about Bilbao, Victoria and San Sebastian？14. What does the woman think they should do？15. What is the man concerned about？听力短文原文PassageOneIn a study of older people with sisters and brothers, psychologist Debra Gold of the Duke Center for the study of aging and human development found that about 20%said they were either hostile or indifferent toward their sisters and brothers. Reasons for this ranged from inheritance disputes to hostility between spouses. But, many of those who had poor relationships felt guilty. Although most people admitted to some lingering rivalry, it was rarely strong enough to end the relationship. Only four out of the 55 people interviewed had completely broken with their sisters and brothers and only one of the four felt comfortable with the break.As sisters and brothers advance into old age, closeness increases and rivalry diminishes, explains Victor Chichiarelli, a psychologist at Purdue University. Most of the elderly people he interviewed said they had supportive and friendly dealings and got along well or very well with their sisters and brothers. Only 4% got along poorly. Gold found that as people age, they often become more involved with and interested in their sisters and brothers. 53% of those sheinterviewed said that contact with their sisters and brothers increase in late adulthood. With family and career obligations reduced, many said they had more time for each other. Others said that they felt it was time to heal wounds. A man who had recently reconciled with his brother told Gold there's something that lets older people put aside the bad deeds of the past and focus a little on what we need now, especially when it's sisters and brothers.Questions 16 to 18 are based on the passage you have just heard.16. What does the study by Debra Gold find about older people?17. What has probably caused closeness to increase among sisters and brothers according to Victor Chichiarelli?18. What did the man who had recently reconciled with his brother tell Debra Gold about older people?PassageTwoMonarch butterflies, the large orange and black insects, are a common summer sight in the northern United States and Canada. They brighten parks and gardens as they fly among the flowers. What makes monarch butterflies particularly interesting is that they migrate—all the way to California or Mexico and back. They are thought to be the only insect that does this. Every year in the late summer, monarchs begin their migration to the south. Those heading for Mexico go first for the Louisiana-Mississippi region. Then they fly across the Gulf of Mexico into Texas. Once in Mexico, they establish themselves in one of about 15 sites in a mountain forest. Each site provides a winter home for millions of monarchs. The butterflies are so numerous that they often cover entire trees. When spring comes, they begin their long journey north. The question is often asked whether every butterfly makes the round trip journey every year. And the answer is no. The average monarch lives about nine months. So one flying north might lay eggs in Louisiana and then die. The eggs of that generation may be found in Kentucky; the eggs of the next generation may end up in Wisconsin or Michigan. The last generation of the season about the fourth will make the journey back to Mexico and restart the cycle. Scientists learn about monarch butterflies' migration by capturing and placing identifying tags on the insects. By recapturing a tagged monarch and noting where it came from, the next scientist can figure out things like butterfly's age and its routing.Questions 19 to 22 are based on the passage you have just heard.19. What is unique about monarch butterflies according to the speaker?20. Where do monarch butterflies settle at the end of their migration?21. What does the speaker say about monarch butterflies' reproduction?22. What is the talk mainly about?PassageThreePeople nowadays seem to have the sense that their time has become more limited,that compared to earlier generations, we spend more and more time workingand have less and less free time to engage in leisure pursuitsBut this premise turns out to be an illusion. The most comprehensive data from major time use surveys suggest that, if anything, Americans today have more free time than earlier generations. The number of hours we work has not changed much, but we spend less time now on home tasks.So we have a greater amount of time for leisure than in decades past. So why do we feel like time is so scarce? One problem is that our time has become more valuableand as time becomes worth more money, we feel like we have less of it. Workers who bill or get paid by the hour, think lawyers and fast-food workers, report focusing more on pursuing more money than those who get paid at salary and the effect happens fast. In one experiment, people were told to play the role of consultants and bill their time at either nine dollars an hour or ninety dollars an hour. When people billed their time for ninety dollars an hour they reported feeling far more pressed for time. Thinking about our time as money changes our behavior as well. In one study, people who were instructed to think about money before entering a cafe spent less time chatting with the other patrons and more time working. Those who were thinking about their time did the reverse, spending time socializing instead of working.Questions 23 to 25 are based on the passage you have just heard.23. What does the speaker say people now feel about time?24. What do the data from major time use surveys show?25. What happens when we think about our time as money?听力填空The first copyright law in the United States was passed by Congress in 1790. In 1976 Congress enacted the latest copyright law, taking into consideration the technological developments that had occurred since the passage of the Copyright Act of 1909. For example, in 1909, anyone who wanted to make a single copy of a literary work for personal use had to do so by hand. The very process imposed a limitation on the quantity of materials copied. Today, a photocopier can do the work in seconds; the limitation has disappeared. The 1909 law did not provide full protection for films and sound recordings, nor did it anticipate the need to protect radio and television. As a result, violations of the law and abuses of the intent of the law have lessened the financial rewards of authors, artists, and producers. The 1976 Copyright Act has not prevented these abuses fully, but it has clarified the legal rights of the injured parties and given them an avenue for remedy. Since 1976 the Act has been amended to include computer software, and guidelines have been adopted for fair use of television broadcasts. These changes have cleared up much of the confusion and conflict that followed in the wake of the 1976 legislation. The fine points of the law are decided by the courts and by acceptable common practice over time. As thesedecisions and agreements are made, we modify our behavior accordingly. For now, we need to interpret the law and its guidelines as accurately as we can and to act in a fair manner.2014年6月英语六级听力原文第3套听力填空1. W: Jim, you are on the net again! When are you going to get off? It's time for the talk show.M: Just a minute, dear! I'm looking at a new jewelry site. I want to make sure I get the right gift for mom's birthday.Q: What is the man doing right now?2. W: I've never seen you have such confidence before an exam!M: It's more than confidence! Right now I feel that if I get less than an A, it will be the fault of the exam itself.Q: What does the man mean?3. W: Just look at this newspaper! Nothing but murder, death and war! Do you still believe people are basically good?M: Of course I do! But newspapers hardly ever report stories about peace and generosity. They are not news!Q: What do we learn from the conversation?4. M: Tom must be joking when he said he plans to sell his shop and go to medical school.W: You are quite right! He's just kidding! He's also told me time and time again he wished he studied for some profession instead of going into business.Q: What will Tom probably do according to the conversation?5. W: I hear your boss has a real good impression of you, and he is thinking about giving you two more days off each month.M: I hope not. I'd rather get more work hours, so I can get enough bucks to help out my two kids at college.Q: What does the man truly want?6. M: I heard you took a trip to Mexico last month. How did you like it?W: Oh, I got sick and tired of hotels and hotel food! So now I understand the thing: East, west, home's best.Q: What does the woman mean?7. W: I'm worried about Anna. She's really been depressed lately. All she does is staying in her room all day.M: That sounds serious! She'd better see a psychiatrist at the counseling centre. Q: What does the man suggest Anna do?8. M: I could hardly recognize Sam after he got that new job! He's always in a suit and tie now.W: Yeah. He was never like that at college. Back then, he went around in old T-shirts and jeans.Q: What do the speakers say about Sam?听力长对话原文1Conversation OneM: Hi, Ann! Welcome back! How was your trip to the States?W: Very busy. I had a lot of meetings, so, of course, I didn't have much time to see New York.M: What a pity! Actually, I have a trip there myself next week.W: Do you? Then take my advice, do the well-being in the air program. It really works.M: Oh, I read about that in a magazine. You say it works?W: Yes, I did the program on the flight to the States, and when I arrived in New York, I didn't have any problem, no jet lag (飞行时差反应) at all. On the way back, I didn't doit, and I felt terrible.M: You're joking!W: Not at all. It really made a lot of difference.M: En. So what did you do?W: Well, I didn't drink any alcohol or coffee, and I didn't eat any meat or rich food. I drank a lot of water, and fruit juice, and I ate the meals on the well-being menu. They're lighter. They have fish, vegetables, and noodles, for example. And I did some of the exercises in the program.M: Exercises? On a plane?W: Yes. I didn't do many, of course. There isn't much space on a plane.M: How many passengers do the exercises?。

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201406-2 四级听力材料Short Conversations1. M: Did you buy any of the sweaters that we are on sale?　W: Buy any? I got five of them. They were such a good bargain.　Q: What does the woman say about the sweaters?2. W: I have trouble concentrating when my roommate talks so loud on hermobile phone.　M: Why don’t you just ask her to lower her voice?　Q: What does the man suggest the woman do?3. W: Wendy’ s in the basement, trying to fix the washing machine.　M: Shouldn’t she be working on her annual report?　Q: What does the man mean?4. W: What happened to the painting that used to be on the wall?　M: It fell down and the glass broke. I’m having it reframed.　Q: What do we learn from the conversation?5. M: You must have left the camera in the market. It’s a very expensivecamera you know.　W: But I tell you that I didn’t take it. I remember clearly that you put it on the dressing table.　Q: What does the woman say about the camera?6. W: There is a good comedy on at the theatre Royal next Saturday. If you like,I can book four seats for us.　M: All right. I’ ll ask Janet if she is free then. I’ ll let you know tomorrow.　Q: What does the woman suggest they do next Saturday?7. W: We’ve opened the first box. Look! Some of these books are soaked.　M: They should’ ve used waterproof wrappings. What are we going to do about it? It’s too late to order replacements.　Q: What do we learn about the conversation?8. W: Professor Johnson said you can pick up your term paper at her office.　M: So she has graded it?　Q: What can we infer from the conversation?Long Conversation 1W: Can I help you?M: Well. I’ m not sure. I hope so. (9) You see, actually, I’m getting married soon. And my friends want to buy me presents and things.W: And would you like some things for the kitchen.M: Yes, that’s right. I thought if I could find out things about kitchen things.They would be the best sorts of presents.W: Well. I suppose the first thing you need is a cooker. Do you like an electron one or a gas one?M: Hm. I think I probably prefer a gas one. But cookers are very expensive.Aren’t they? How much is this one?W: It’s 175 pounds, including tax and delivery. It’s a very good one though. M: But It’s a lot of money, isn’t it? What sorts of things could I ask people to buy? You know, cheaper.W: Well. You need some pans, won’t you? A set of pans, I suppose, and drying pans. Do you like cooking?M: Yes. I suppose so.W: Well. (10) In that case, you might like a mixer. If you make cakes and things like that, it’ll save you a lot of time. And a blender too. That’s good if you make soup and things.M: Hm. That’s a thought.W: Something else you might use is a set of these knifes, you know, carving knifes, bread knifes, steak knifes, fruit knifes, potato peeling knifes.M: (11) Heavens! I never knew so many sorts.W: Oh, Yeah. Come over here and I’ll show you some more.Q9 Why is the man is in the kitchen ware shop?Q10 Why does the woman want to know whether the man likes cooking?Q11 What does the man say he has never realized?Long Conversation 2M: Good morning, Mrs. Thomson.W: Oh, Mr. Minesuka. Please come in and sit down. I want to talk to you about something that has come up.M: What's up? Anyway, I'll be glad to help you with anything I can.W: Some advice, Mr. Minesuka. (12) I've been offered a new job.M: A new job?W: As a matter of fact, it isn't the bank in New York.M: It's the offer from another bank?W: It's from the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development in Washington.M: (13) You mean the World Bank?W: (13) That's right. And it's really very unexpected, I might say.M: You've established reputation in international banking circles. May I ask what kind of position they've offered you?W: A rather important one, as a matter of fact, deputy director of the International Finance Corporation.M: (14) Isn't that the part of the Bank that makes loans to private companies in the developing countries?W: (14) Yes, it is. It's a job that certainly offers a chance for public service.M: It seems to me that it's a real honor for you.W: Yes, it is. But I've been with this bank for so many years, ever since I graduated from college, in fact.M: (15) But it's an honor for the bank too, for the training and experience it's given you.W: Yes, I suppose I can think of it that way.M: Then you've decided to accept the offer?W: Probably, yes, almost certainly. I'd like to think I can do some work that will contribute to international corporation and understanding.Q12 What does the woman want to discuss with the man?Q13 Who offered the woman the new job?Q14 What will be the woman's main responsibility as a deputy director?Q15 What does the man think of the job offer?Passage 1Good transportation is very important in winter. (16) If you have a car, make sure it is ready for the cold weather. Keep the gas tank as nearly full as you can. This will keep water out of the tank and will be a reserve in case you get into trouble. (17) If a storm traps you in your car, there are some steps you should take for your own safety. Do not tend to walk to find help. You may quickly lose your way in blowing and drifting snow. Your chances of being found are better if you stay in your car. Keep a downwind window open slightly for fresh air. Freezing rain can seal off your car and lock you inside. Run the engine and heater once in a while. Keep the same downwind window open while the engine is running. Make sure that snow has not blocked the exhaust pipe. Clap your hands and move your arms and legs from time to time. Do not stay in one position too long. But, do not move too much. (18) Exercise warms you up, but it also causes you to lose body heat. If more than one person is in the car, do not sleep at the same time. One person should always be awake. If you are alone,stay awake as long as you can. Turn on the inside light at night. This would make your car more visible to rescue crews. Don’t panic. Stay with your car.Q16 What does the speaker say you should do in winter with your car?Q17 What should you avoid doing if a storm traps you in the car?Q18 Why is too much exercise undesirable when you are trapped in a car by a winter storm?Passage 2The topic of my talk today is gift-giving. Everybody likes to receive gifts, right? So you may think that gift-giving is a universal custom, but actually the rules of gift-giving vary quite a lot. And not knowing them can result in great embarrassment. In North America the rules are fairly simple. If you are invited to someone's home for dinner, bring wine or flowers, or a small item from your country. (19) Among friends, family and business associates, we generally don't give gifts on other occasions except on someone's birthday and Christmas. The Japanese, on other hand, give gifts quite frequently, often to thank someone for their kindness. The tradition of gift-giving in Japan is very ancient. (20) There are many detailed rules for everything, from the color of the wrapping paper to the time of the gift presentation. And while Europeans don't generally exchange business gifts, they do follow some formal customs when visiting homes, such as bringing flowers. The type and color of flowers, however, can carry special meaning. Today, we have seen some broad differences in gift-giving. I could go on with additional examples, but let's not miss the main point here. (21) If we are not aware of and sensitive to cultural differences, the possibilities for miscommunication and conflict are enormous. Whether we learn about these differences by reading a book or by living abroad, our goal must be to respect differences among people in order to get along successfully with our global neighbors.Q19 What does the speaker say about gift-giving of North Americans?Q20 What do we learn about the Japanese concerning gift-giving?Q21 What point does the speaker make at the end of the talk?Passage 3Claudette Rigo is a reporter for a French newspaper. Her assignment for the last five years has been Washington and American politics. She reports the current political news for her paper.In addition, she writes the column that is published every week. (22) The column explains American politics to her readers in France. They often find it very difficult to understand the United States and Americans. Claudette lives in a small house in a fashionable section of Washington. She entertains a great deal. Her guests are usually government officials, diplomats, lawyers and other newspaper people. When she isn't entertaining, she goes out to dinners and parties. In spite of her busy social life, Claudette works very hard. The parties are really work for her, because reporters frequently get news stories just by talking and listening to people. Claudette also has a small office in the building downtown. She goes there every morning to write up her stories and send them to Paris. (23) Her column is published every Monday, so she usually spends a large part of the weekend working on it at home. (24) Claudette spends a month in France every year, so that she won't forget how to speak French. In spite of all of her experience in Washington, Claudette may be transferred. This is an election year in the United States when the people elect a new president. (25) When the election is over, Claudette thinks that her newspaper in Pairs may change her assignment.Q22 What do we learn about the column Claudette writes?Q23 What does Claudette usually do on weekends?Q24 Why does Claudette spend a month in France every year?Q25 What might happen to Claudette after this year's American presidential election?Compound Dictation26. innocent 27. committed 28. charges29. released 30. rather than 31. appoint32. evidence 33. hold a trial 34. designed 35. foundation。

2014年12月大学英语六级考试真题及答案详解和听力原文第二套

2014年12月大学英语六级考试真题第二套Part I Writing (30 minutes)Directions: For this part, you are allowed 30 minutes to write on essay based on the picture below. You should start your essay with a brief description of the picture and then discuss what qualities an employer should look for in job applicants. You should give sound arguments to support your views and write at least 150 words but no more than 200 words.Part II Listening Comprehension (30 minutes)Section ADirections: In this section, you will hear 8 short conversations and 2 long conversations. At the end of each conversation, one or more questions will be asked about what was said. Both the conversation and the questions will be spoken only once. After each question there will be a pause. During the pause, you must read the four choices marked A)， B)， C) and D)， and decide which is the best answer. Then mark the corresponding letter on Answer Sheet 1 with a single line through the centre.注意：此部分试题请在答题卡1上作答1.A) At a grocery B) In a parking lot C) In a car showroom D) At a fast food restaurant.2. A) Have a little nap after lunchB) Get up and take a short walk C) Change her position now and then.D) Stretch her legs before standing up.3. A) The students should practice long-distance running. B) He doesn’t quite believe what the woman says.C) The students’ physical condition is not desirable. D) He thinks the race is too hard for the students.4. A) They do not want to have a baby at present.B) They cannot afford to get married right now. C) They are both pursuing graduate studies.D) They will get their degrees in two years.5. A) Twins usually have a lot in common. B) He must have been mistaken for Jack.C) Jack is certainly not as healthy as he is. D) He has not seen Jack for quite a few days.6. A) The man will take the woman to the museum. B) The man knows where the museum is located.C) The woman is asking the way at the crossroads. D) The woman will attend the opening of the museum.7. A) They cannot ask the guy to leave.B) The guy has been coming in for years. C) They should not look down upon the guy.D) The guy must be feeling extremely lonely.8. A) Collect timepieces. B) Learn to mend clocks. C) Become time-conscious. D) Keep track of his daily activities. Questions 9 to 11 are based on the conversation you have just heard.9. A) It winds its way to the sea.B) It is eating into its banks. C) It is quickly rising.D) It is wide and deep10. A) Get the trucks over to the other side of the river. B) Take the equipment apart before being ferried.C) Reduce the transport cost as much as possible. D) Try to speed up the operation by any means.11. A) Ask the commander to send a helicopter.B) Halt the operation until further orders. C) Cut trees and build rowing boats.D) Find as many boats as possible.Questions 12 to 15 are based on the conversation you have just heard.12. A) Help him join an Indian expedition.B) Talk about his climbing experiences. C) Give up mountain climbing altogether.D) Save money to buy climbing equipment.13. A) He was very strict with his children. B) He climbed mountains to earn a living.C) He had an unusual religious background. D) He was the first to conquer Mt. Qomolangma.14. A) They are like humans. B) They are sacred places. C) They are to be protected. D) They are to be conquered.15. A) It was his father’s training that pulled him through.B) It was a milestone in his mountain climbing career.C) It was his father who gave him the strength to succeed.D) It helped him understand the Sherpa view of mountains.Section BDirections: In this section, you will hear 3 short passages. At the end of each passage, you will hear some questions. Both the passage and the questions will be spoken only once. After you hear a question, you must choose the best answer from the four choices marked A)， B)， C) and D). Then mark the corresponding letter on Answer Sheet 1 with a single line through the centre.注意：此部分试题请在答题卡1上作答。

2014年6月大学英语六级真题及答案真题+听力原文+答案详解.docx

2014 年 6 月英语六级真题及答案Part I WritingDirections: For this part, you are allowed 30 minutes to write a short essay on the topic of Due Attention Should Be Given to the Study of Chinese Yo u should write at Chinese. least 120 words following the outline given belo w:1.近年来在学生中出现了忽视中文学习的现象；2.出现这种现象的原因和后果；3我认为,Given Due Attention Should Be Given to the Study of ChinesePart II Reading Comprehension (Skimming and Scanning) (15 minute s)Directions: In this part, you will have 15 minutes to go over the passage qu ickly and answer the questions on Answer sheet 1. For questions 1-7, choo se the best answer from the four choices marked A), B), C) and D). For qu estions 8-10, complete the sen-tences with the information given in the pas sage. Welcome,Freshmen. Have an iPod.Taking a step that many professors may view as a bit counterproductive, so me colleges and universities are doling out Apple iPhones and Internet-cap able iPods to their students.The always-on Internet devices raise some novel possibilities, like tracking where students gather together. With far less controversy, colleges could s end messages about canceled classes, delayed buses, campus crises or just the cafeteria menu.While schools emphasize its usefulness —online research in class and inst ant polling of students, for example — a big part of the attraction is, undou btedly, that the iPhone is cool and a hit with students. Being equipped with one of the most recent cutting-edge IT products could just help a college o r university foster a cutting-edge reputation.Apple stands to win as well, hooking more young consumers with decadesof technology pur- chases ahead of them. The lone losers, some fear, could be professors.Students already have laptops and cell phones, of course, but the newest de vices can take class distractions to a new level. They practically beg a user to ignore the long-suffering professor strug- gling to pass on accumulated wisdom from the front of the room — a prospect that teachers find most irr itating and students view as, well, inevitable.“ When it gets a little boring, I might pull it out,‖acknowledged Naomi P ugh, a first-year student at Freed-Hardeman University in Henderson, Ter m., referring to her new iPod Touch, which can connect to the Internet ove r a campus wireless network. She speculated that professors might try even harder to make classes interesting if they were to compete with the devices. Experts see a movement toward the use of mobile technology in educati on, though they say it is in its infancy as professors try to come up with us eful applications. Providing powerful hand- held devices is sure to fuel deb ates over the role of technology in higher education.“ We think this is the way the future is going to work,‖said Kyle Dickson, co-director of re- search and the mobile learning initiative at Abilene Chris tian University in Texas, which has bought more than 600 iPhones and 300 iPods for students entering this fall.Although plenty of students take their laptops to class, they don’t take the m everywhere and would prefer something lighter. Abilene Christian settle d on the devices after surveying students and finding that they did not like hauling around their laptops, but that most of them always carried a cell ph one, Dr. Dickson said.It is not clear how many colleges and universities plan to give out iPhones and iPods this fall; officials at Apple were unwilling to talk about the subje ct and said that they would not leak any institution plans’s.“ We can’t announce other people’s news,‖saidGreg Joswiak, vice presid ent of iPod and iPhone marketing at Apple. He also said that he could not d iscuss discounts to universities for bulk purchases.At least four institutions — the University of Maryland, Oklahoma Christi an University, Abilene Christian and Freed-Hardeman — have announced t hat they will give the devices to some or all of their students this fall.Other universities are exploring their options. Stanford University has hire d a student-run com-pany to design applications like a campus map and dir ectory for the iPhone. It is considering whether to issue iPhones but not sur e it, snecessary, noting that more than 700 iPhones were registered on the u niversity network’s last year.At the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, iPhones might alreadyhave been everywhere, if AT&T, the wireless carrier offering the iPhone in the United States,had a more reliable network, said Andrew Yu, mobile devices platform pro ject manager at M.I.T.“ We would have probably gone ahead with this, maybe just getting a thou sand iPhones and giving them out, ‖Mr. Yusaid.The University of Maryland at College Park is proceeding cautiously, givi ng the iPhone or iPod Touch to 150 students, said Jeffrey Huskamp, vice p resident and chief information officer at the university. ― Wedon’t think tha t we have all the answers, Mr‖. Huskamp said. By observing how students use the gadgets, he said,― We’ retrying to get answers from the students. ‖ At each college, the students who choose to get an iPhone must pay for mo bile phone service. Those service contracts include unlimited data use. Both the iPhones and the iPod Touch devices can connect to the Internet throu gh campus wireless networks. With the iPhone, those networks may provid e faster connections and longer battery life than A T&T’s data network. Many cell phones allow users to surf the Web, but only some newer ones are c apable of wireless connection to the local area computer network. University officials say that they have no plans to track their students (and Apple said it would not be possible unless students give their permission). They say that they are drawn to the prospect of learning applications outsid e the classroom, though such lesson plans have yet to surface.“ My colleagues and I are studying something called augmented reality (a field of computer research dealing with the combination of real-world and virtual reality), said‖ Christopher Dede, professor in learning technologies at Harvard University. ― AlienContact, for‖ example, is an exer- cise develo ped for middle-school students who use hand-held devices that can determi ne their location. As they walk around a playground or other area, text, vid eo or audio pops up at various points to help them try to figure out why ali ens were in the schoolyard.“ You can imagine similar kinds of interactive activities along historical li nes, ‖like following the Freedom Trail in Boston, Professor Dede said.― It’s important that we do research, so that we know how well something like this works. ‖The rush to distribute the devices worries some professors, who say that st udents are less likely to participate in class if they are multi-tasking. ― I ’m n ot someone who’s anti-technology, but I,m always worried that technology becomes an end in and of itself, and it replaces teaching or it replaces analysis,, said’Ellen Millender, associate professor of classics at Reed College in Portland, Ore. (She added that she hoped to buy an iPhone for herself on ce prices fall.)Robert Summers, who has taught at Cornell Law School for about 40 years,announced this week — in a detailed, footnoted memorandum — that he would ban laptop computers from his class on contract law.“ I would ban that too if I knew the students were using it in class, Profes‖sor Summers said of the iPhone, after the device and its capabilities were e xplained to him. ― Whatwe want to encour- age in these students is an activ e intellectual experience, in which they develop the wide range of complex reasoning abilities required of good lawyers. ‖The experience at Duke University may ease some concerns. A few years a go, Duke began giving iPods to students with the idea that they might use t hem to record lectures (these older models could not access the Internet).“ We had assumed that the biggest focus of these devices would be consu ming the content, said‖ Tracy Futhey, vice president for informationtechn ology and chief information officer at Duke.But that is not all that the students did. They began using the iPods to creat e their own ― content, making‖ audio recordings of themselves and presenti ng them. The students turned what could have been a passive interaction in to an active one, Ms. Futhey said. 注意：此部分试题请在答题卡 1 上作答。

2014年12月六级真题答案解析(第二套)

2014年12月大学英语六级考试真题(二)Part Ⅱ Listening Comprehension (30 minutes)Section A注意：此部分试题请在答题卡1上作答。

1.A． In a parking lot.B．At a grocery.C． At a fast food restaurant.D． In a car showroom.2.A． Change her position now and then.B．Stretch her legs before standing up.C． Have a little nap after lunch.D． Get up and take a short walk.3.A． The students should practice long-distance running.B．The students' physical condition is not desirable.C． He doesn't quite believe what the woman says.D． He thinks the race is too hard for the students.4.A． They will get their degrees in two years.B．They are both pursuing graduate studies.C． They cannot afford to get married right now.D． They do not want to have a baby at present.5.A． He must have been mistaken for Jack.B．Twins usually have a lot in common.C． Jack is certainly not as healthy as he is.D． He has not seen Jack for quite a few days.6.A． The woman will attend the opening of the museum.B．The woman is asking the way at the crossroads.C． The man knows where the museum is located.D． The man will take the woman to the museurn.7.A． They cannot ask the guy to leave.B．The guy has been coming in for years.C． The guy must be feeling extremely lonely.D． They should not look down upon the guy.8.A． Collect timepieces.B．Become time-conscious.C． Learn to mend clocks.D． Keep track of his daily activities.Questions 9 to 11 are based on the conversation you have just heard.9.A． It is eating into its banks.B．It winds its way to the sea.C． It is wide and deep.D． It is quickly rising.10.A． Try to speed up the operation by any means.B．Take the equipment apart before being ferried.C． Reduce the transport cost as much as possible.D． Get the trucks over to the Other side of the river.11.A． Find as many boats as possible.B．Cut trees and build rowing boats.C． Halt the operation until fu.rther orders.D． Ask the commander to send a helicopter.Questions 12 to 15 are based on the conversation you have just heard.12.A． Talk about his climbing experiences.B．Help him join an Indian expedition.C． Give up mountain climbing altogether.D． Save money to buy climbing equipment.13.A． He was the first to conquer Mr. Qomolangma.B．He had an unusual religious background.C． He climbed mountains to earn a living.D． He was very strict with his children.14.A． They are to be conquered.B．They are to be protected.C． They are sacred places.D． They are like humans.15.A． It was his father's training that pulled him through.B．It was a milestone in his mountain climbing career.C． It helped him understand the Sherpa view of mountains.D． It was his father who gave him the strength to succeed.Section BDirections: In this section, you will hear 3 short passages. At the end of each passage, you will.hear somequestions. Both the passage and the questions will be spoken only once. After you hear a question, youmust choose the best answer from the four choices marked A ), B ), C ) and D ). Then mark thecorresponding letter on ,Answer Sheet 1 with a single line through the centre. 注意：此部分试题请在答题卡1上作答。

大学英语六级听力题目答案及原文第2套甄选.

大学英语六级听力题目答案及原文第2套Section 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 questions will be spoken only once. After you hear a question, you must choose the best answer. from the four choices marked A), B),C) and D). Then mark the corresponding letter on Answer Sheet 1 with a single line through the centre.注意：此部分试题请在答题卡1上作答。

Questions 1 to 4 are based on the conversation you have just heard.1. A) The project the man managed at CucinTech.B) The updating of technology at CucinTech.C)The man's switch to a new career.D) The restructuring of her company.2. A) Talented personnel.B) Strategic innovation.C) Competitive products.D) Effective promotion.3. A) Expand the market.B) Recruit more talents.C) Innovate constantly.D) Watch out for his competitors.4. A) Possible bankruptcy.B) Unforeseen difficulties.C) Conflicts within the company.D) Imitation by one's competitors.Questions 5 to 8 are based on the conversation you have just heard.5. A) The job of an interpreter.B) The stress felt by professionals.C) The importance of language proficiency.D) The best way to effective communication.6. A) Promising.B) Admirable.C) Rewarding.D) Meaningful.7. A) They all have a strong interest in language.B) They all have professional qualifications.C) They have all passed language proficiency tests.D) They have all studied cross-cultural differences.8. A) It requires a much larger vocabulary.B) It attaches more importance to accuracy.C) It is more stressful than simultaneous interpreting.D) It puts one's long-term memory under more stress..Section BDirections: In this section, you will hear two passages. At the end of each passage, you willhear three or four questions. Both the passage and the questions will be spoken only once.After you hear a question, you must choose the best answer from the four choices marked A),B), C) and D). Then mark the corresponding letter on Answer Sheet 1 with a single line throughthe centre.Passage OneQuestions 9 to 11 are based on the passage you have just heard.9. A) It might affect mothers' health.B) It might disturb infants' sleep.C) It might increase the risk of infants, death.D) It might increase mothers' mental distress.10. A) Mothers who breast-feed their babies have a harder time falling asleep.B) Mothers who sleep with their babies need a little more sleep each night.C) Sleeping patterns of mothers greatly affect their newborn babies' health.D) Sleeping with infants in the same room has a negative impact on mothers.11. A) Change their sleep patterns to adapt to their newborn babies'.B) Sleep in the same room but not in the same bed as their babies.C) Sleep in the same house but not in the same room as their babies.D) Take precautions to reduce the risk of sudden infant death syndrome.Passage TwoQuestions 12 to 15 are based on the passage you have just heard.12. A) A lot of native languages have already died out in the US.B) The US ranks first in the number of endangered languages.C) The efforts to preserve Indian languages have proved fruitless.D) More money is needed to record the native languages in the US.13. A) To set up more language schools.B) To document endangered languages.C) To educate native American children.D) To revitalise America's native languages.14. A) The US govemment's policy of Americanising Indian children.B) The failure of American Indian languages to gain an official status.C) The US government's unwillingness to spend money educating Indians.D) The long-time isolation of American Indians from the outside world.15. A) It is being utilised to teach native languages.B) It tells traditional stories during family time.C) It speeds up the extinction of native languages.D) It is widely used in language immersion schools.Section CDirections: In this section, you will hear three recordings of lectures or talks followed by threeor four questions. The recordings will be played only once. After you hear a question, you mustchoose the best answer from the four choices marked A),B),C) and D). Then mark thecorresponding letter on Answer Sheet 1 with a single line through the centre.Recording OneQuestions 16 to 18 are based on the recording you have just heard.16. A) It pays them up to half of their previous wages while they look for work.B) It covers their mortgage payments and medical expenses for 99 weeks.C) It pays their living expenses until they find employment again.D) It provides them with the basic necessities of everyday life.17. A) Creating jobs for the huge army of unemployed workers.B) Providing training and guidance for unemployed workers.C) Convincing local lawmakers to extend unemployment benefits.D) Raising funds to help those having no unemployment insurance.18. A) To offer them loans they need to start their own businesses.B) To allow them to postpone their monthly mortgage payments.C) To create more jobs by encouraging private investments in local companies.D) To encourage big businesses to hire back workers with government subsidies.Recording TwoQuestions 19 to 22 are based on the recording you have just heard.19. A) They measured the depths of sea water.B) They analyzed the water content.C) They explored the ocean floor.D) They investigated the ice.20. A) Eighty percent of the ice disappears in summer time.B) Most of the ice was accumulated over the past centuries.C) The ice ensures the survival of many endangered species.D) The ice decrease is more evident than previously thought.21. A) Arctic ice is a major source of the world's fresh water.B) The melting Arctic ice has drowned many coastal cities.C) The decline of Arctic ice is irreversible.D) Arctic ice is essential to human survival.22. A) It will do a lot of harm to mankind.B) There is no easy way to understand it.C) It will advance nuclear technology.D) There is no easy technological solution to it.Recording ThreeQuestions 23 to 25 are based on the recording you have just heard.23. A) The reason why New Zealand children seem to have better self-control.B) The relation between children's self-control and their future success.C) The health problems of children raised by a single parent.D) The deciding factor in children's academic performance.24. A) Children raised by single parents will have a hard time in their thirties.B) Those with a criminal record mostly come from single parent families.C) Parents must learn to exercise self-control in front of their children.D) Lack of self-control in parents is a disadvantage for their children.25. A) Self-control can be improved through education.B) Self-control can improve one's financial situation.C) Self-control problems may be detected early in children.D) Self-control problems will diminish as one grows up.第二套答案1. A) The project the man managed at CucinTech.2. B) Strategic innovation.3. C) Innovate constantly.4. D) Imitation by one's competitors.5. A) The job of an interpreter.6. B) Admirable.7. B) They all have professional qualifications.8. C) It is more stressful than simultaneous interpreting.Section B9. C) It might increase the risk of infants' death.10. D) Sleeping with infants in the same room has a negative impact on mothers.11. B) Sleep in the same room but not in the same bed as their babies.12. A) A lot of native languages have already died out in the US.13. D) To revitalise America's native languages.14. A) The US government's policy of Americanising Indian children.15. C) It speeds up the extinction of native languages.Section C16. A) It pays them up to half of their previous wages while they look for work.17. B) Providing training and guidance for unemployed workers.18. C) To create more jobs by encouraging private investments in local companies.19. D) They investigated the ice.20. D) The ice decrease is more evident than previously thought.21.C) The decline of Arctie ice is irreversible.22. D) There is no easy technological solution to it.23. B) The relation between children's self-control and their future success.24. B) Those with a criminal record mostly come from single parent families.25. A) Self-control can be improved through education.2016年6月大学英语六级考试真题听力原文(第二套)Section AConversation OneW: So, Mike, you managed the innovation project at CucinTech.M: I did, indeed.W: Well, then. First, congratulations! It seems to have been very successful.M: Thanks. Yes. I really helped things turn around at CucinTech.W: Was the revival in their fortunes entirely due to strategic innovation?M: Yes, yes. I think it was. CucinTech was a company who were very much following the pack, doing what everyone else was doing, and getting rapidly left behind. I could see there was a lot of talent there, and some great potential, particularly in their product development. I just had to harness that somehow.W: Was innovation at the core of the project?M: Absolutely. If it doesn't sound like too much of a cliche, our world is constantly changing and it"s changing quickly.We need to be innovating constantly to keep up with this. Stand still, and you#re lost.W: No stopping to sniff the roses?M: Well, I$ll do that in my personal life. Sure. But as a business strategy, I%m afraid there is no stopping.W: What exactly is strategic innovation then?M: Strategic innovation is the process of managing innovation of making sure it takes place at all levels of the company and that is related to the company's overall strategy.W: I see.M: So, instead of innovation for innovation's sake and new products being created simply because the technology is there, the company culture must switch from these point-in-time innovations to a continuous pipeline of innovations from everywhere and everyone.W: How did you align strategies throughout the company?M: I soon became aware that campaigning is useless. People take no notice. Simply, it came about through good practice trickling down. This built consent. People could see it was the best way to work.W: Does innovation on this scale really give a competitive advantage?M: I'm certain of it. Absolutely, especially if it's difficult for a competitor to a copy. The risk is of course that innovation may frequently lead to imitation.W: But not if it's strategic?M: Precisely.W: Thanks for talking to us.M: Sure.Questions 1to4 are based on the conversation you have just heard.1. What seems to have been very successful according to the woman speaker?2. What did the company lack before the man's scheme was implemented?3. What does the man say he should do in his business?4. What does the man say is the risk of innovation?Conversation TwoM: Today my guest is Dana Ivanovich, who has worked for the last 20 years as an interpreter. Dana, welcome.W: Thank you.M: Now, I'd like to begin by saying that I have on occasions used an interpreter myself as a foreign correspondent.So I’m full of admiration for what you do. But I think your profession is sometimes underrated and many people think anyone who speaks more than one language can do it.W: There aren"t any interpreters I know who don#t have professional qualifications and training. You only really get profession after many years in the job.M: And am I right in saying you can divide what you do into two distinct methods: simultaneous and consecutive interpreting.W: That$s right. The techniques you use are different. And a lot of interpreters will say one is easier than the other, less stressful.M: Simultaneous interpreting, putting someone's words into another language more or less as they speak, sounds to me like the more difficult.W: Well, actually no. Most people in the business would agree that consecutive interpreting is the more stressful. You have to wait for the speaker to deliver quite a chunk of language before you then put it into the second language which puts your short-term memory under intense stress.M: You make notes, I presume?W: Absolutely. Anything like numbers, names, places have to be noted down, but the rest is never translated word for word. You have to find a way of summarizing it. So that the message is there, turning every single word into the target language would put too much strain on the interpreter and slow down the whole process too much.M: But with simultaneous interpreting, you start translating almost as soon as the other person starts speaking, you must have some preparation beforehand.W: Well, hopefully, the speakers will let you have an outline of the topic a day or two in advance, you have a little time to do research, prepare technical expressions and so on.Questions 5to8 are based on the conversation you have just heard.5. What are the speakers mainly talking about?6. What does the man think of Dana's profession?7. What does Dana say about the interpreters she knows?8. What do most interpreters think of consecutive interpreting?Section BPassage OneMothers have been warned for years that sleeping with their new-born infant is a bad idea, because it increases the risk that the baby might die unexpectedly during the night. But now Israeli researchers are reporting that even sleeping in the same room can have negative consequences, not for the child, but for the mother. Mothers who slept in the same room as their infants, whether in the same bed or just the same room, had poorer sleep than mothers whose baby slept elsewhere in the house. They woke up more frequently, were awake approximately 20 minutes longer per night, and had shorter periods of uninterrupted sleep. These results held true even taking into account that many of the women in the study were breast-feeding their babies. Infants, on the other hand, didn't appear to have worse sleep whether they slept in the same or different room from their mothers. The researchers acknowledge that since the families they studied were all middle-class Israelis. It，s possible the results would be different in different cultures. Lead author Lyati Sotski wrote in an email that the research team also didn-t measure fathers' sleep. So it's possible that their sleep patterns could also be causing the sleep disruptions for mums. Right now, to reduce the risk of sudden infant death syndrome, the American Academy of Pediatrics recommends that mothers not sleep in the same bed as their babies, but sleep in the same room. The Israeli study suggests that doing so may be best for the baby, but may take a toll on mum. Questions 9toll are based on the passage you have just heard.9. What is the long-held view about mothers" sleeping with new-born babies?10. What do Israeli researchers' findings show?11. What does the American Academy of Pediatrics recommend mothers do?Passage TwoThe US has already lost more than a third of the native languages that existed before European colonization and the remaining 192 are classed by UNESCO as ranging between unsafe and extinct. u We need more funding and more effort to return these languages to everyday use," says Fred Nawusky of the National Museum of the American Indian. “We are making progress, but money needs to be spent on revitalizing languages, not just documenting them." Some 40 languages mainly in California and Oklahoma where thousands of Indians were forced to relocate in the 19th century have fewer than 10 native speakers. Part of the issue is that tribal groups themselves don%t always believe their languages are endangered until they are down to the last handful of speakers. u But progress is being made through emerging schools, because if you teach children when they are young, it will stay with them as adults and that&s the future," says Mr. Nawusky, a Comanche Indian. Such schools have become a model in Hawaii, but the islanders’local language is still classed by UNESCO as critically endangered because only 1,000 people speak it. The decline in American Indian languages has its historical roots. In the mid-19th century, the US government adopted a policy of Americanizing Indianchildren by removing them from their homes and culture. Within a few generations, most had forgotten their native tongues. Another challenge to language survival is television. It has brought English into homes, and pushed out traditional storytelling and family time together, accelerating the extinction of native languages.Questions 12 to 15 are based on the passage you have just heard.12. What do we learn from the report?13. For what purpose does Fred Nawusky appeal for more funding?14. What is the historical cause of the decline in American Indian Languages?15. What does the speaker say about television?Section CRecording oneGreg Rosen lost his job as a sales manager nearly three years ago and is still unemployed. “It literally is like something in a dream to remember what it's like to actually be able to go out and put in a day's work and receive a day's pay."At first Rosen bought groceries and made house payments with the help from unemployment insurance. It pays laid-off workers up to half of their previous wages while they look for work. But now, that insurance has run out for him and he has to make tough choices. He-s cut back on medications and he no longer helps support his disabled mother. It is a devastating experience. New research says the US recession is now over. But many people remain unemployed and unemployed workers face difficult odds. There is literally only one job opening for every five unemployed workers, so four out of five unemployed workers have actually no chance of finding a new job. Businesses have downsized or shutdown across America, leading fewer job opportunities for those in search of work. Experts who monitor unemployment statistics here in Bucks County, Pennsylvania say about 28,000 people are unemployed and many of them are jobless due to no fault of their own. Thafs where the Bucks County Careerlink comes in.Local director Elizabeth Walsh says they provide training and guidance to help unemployed workers find local job opportunities. “So here’s the job opening. Here's the job seeker. Match them together under one roof," she says. But the lack of work opportunities in Bucks County limits how much she can help. Rosen says he hopes Congresswill take action. This month, he launched the Ninety-Niners Union, an umbrella organization of eighteen Internet- based grass roots groups of Ninety-Niners. Their goal is to convince law makers to extend unemployed benefits. But Pennsylvania State representative Scott Petri says governments simply do not have enough money to extend unemployment insurance. He thinks the best way to help the long-term unemployed is to allow private citizens to invest in local companies that can create more jobs. But the boost in investor confidence needed for the plan to work will take time. Time that Rosen says still requires him to buy food and make monthly mortgage payments. Rosen says he%ll use the last of his savings to try to hang onto the home he worked for more than twenty years to buy. But once that money is gone, he says he doesn’t know what he'll do.Questions 16 to 18 are based on the recording you have just heard.16. How does unemployment insurance help the unemployed?17. What is local director Elizabeth Walsh of the Bucks County Careerlink doing?18. What does Pennsylvania state representative Scott Petri say is the best way to help the long-term unemployed? Recording TwoEarlier this year, British explorer Pen Huddle and his team tracked for three months across the frozen Arctic Ocean, taking measurements and recording observations about the ice.“Well, we)ve been led to believe that we would encounter a good proportion of this older, thicker, technically multi-year ice that+s been around for a few years and just get thicker and thicker. We actually found there wasn't any multi-year ice at all."Satellite observations and submarine service over the past few years had shown less ice in the polar region. But the recent measurements show the lost is more pronounced than previously thought.u We are looking at roughly 80 percent loss of ice cover on the Arctic ocean in ten years, roughly ten years and 100 percent loss in nearly twenty years."Cambridge scientist Peter Waddams, who.s been measuring and monitoring the Arctic since 1971, says the decline is irreversible.The more you lose, the more open water is created, the more warming goes on in that open water during the summer, the less ice forms in the winter, the more melt there is the following summer. It becomes a breakdown process where everything ends up accelerating until ifs all gone."Martin Summercorn runs the Arctic program for the environmental charity the World Wildlife Fund. u The Arctic sea ice holds a central position in the earth’s climate system and it’s deteriorating faster than expected. Actually, it has to translate into more urgency to deal with the climate change problem and reduce emissions."Summercorn says a plan to reduce greenhouse gas emissions blamed for global warming needs to come out of the Copenhagen Climate Change Summit in December.“We have to basically achieve there—the commitment to deal with the problem now. That’s the minimum. We have to do that equitably. And that we have to find a commitment that is quick."Waddams echoes the need for urgency. “The carbon that we’ve put into the atmosphere keeps having a warming effect for 100 years. So we have to cut back rapidly now. Because it would take a long time to work its way through into our response by the atmosphere. We can’t switch off global warming just by being good in the future. We have to start being good now."Waddams says there is no easy technological fix to climate change. He and other scientists say there are basically two options to replacing fossil fuels. Generating energy with renewables or embracing nuclear power.19. What did Pen Huddle and his team do in the Arctic Ocean?20. What does the report say about the Arctic region?21. What does Cambridge scientist Peter Waddams say in his study?22. How does Peter Waddams view climate change?Recording ThreeFrom a very early age, some children exhibit better self-control than others. Now, a new study that began with about 1,000 children in New Zealand has tracked how a child"s low self-control can predict poor health, money troubles and even a criminal record in their adult years. Researchers have been studying this group of children for decades now. Some of their earliest observations have to do with the level of self-control the youngsters displayed. Parents, teachers, even the kids themselves, scored the youngsters on measures like ^acting before thinking" and “persistence in reaching goals".The children of the study are now adults in their thirties. Terrie Moffitt of Duke University and her research colleagues found that kids with self-control issues tended to grow up to become adults with a far more troubling set of issues to deal with.“The children who had the lowest self-control when they were age L to 10, later on had the most health problems in their thirties, and they had the worst financial situation. And they were more likely to have a criminal record and to be raising a child as a single parent on a very low income."Speaking from New Zealand via Skype, Moffitt explained that self-control problems were widely observed and weren’t just a feature of a small group of misbehaving kids.“Even the children who had above-average self-control as pre-schoolers could have benefited from more selfcontrol training. They could have improved their financial situation and their physical and mental health situation 30 years later."So, children with minor self-control problems were likely as adults to have minor health problems, and so on. Moffitt said ifs still unclear why some children have better self-control than others, though she says other researchers have found that ifs mostly a learned behavior, with relatively little genetic influence. But good selfcontrol can be set to run in families in that children who have good self-control are more likely to grow up to be healthy and prosperous parents.“Whereas some of the low self-control study members are more likely to be single parents with a very low income and the parent is in poor health and likely to be a heavy substance abuser. So thafs not a good atmosphere for a child. So it looks as though self-control is something that in one generation can disadvantage the next generation."But the good news is that Moffitt says self-control can be taught by parents, and through school curricula that have proved to be effective. Terry Moffitfs paper “On the Link Between Childhood Self-control and Adults’Status Decades Later" is published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.23. What is the new study about?24. What does the study seem to show?25. What does Moffitt say is the good news from their study?如有侵权请联系网站删除感谢您使用本店文档您的满意是我们永恒的追求！（本句可删）------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------。

2014年6月英语六级真题及答案(第二套)

2014年6月英语六级真题及答案（第二套）1. A．【精析】推理判断题。

男士说这些时尚的电视机价格很低，fishy在此处意为“可疑的”；女士说，最近有很多起抢劫，一些被偷的商品可能在这里。

据此可推测出女士的意思是这些电视机可能是贼赃。

2. C．【精析】推理判断题。

男士提到，自己今天要报道女州长的演讲，cover在此处意为“报道”；女士说自己要做晚间新闻的采访。

两人的工作都与新闻报道有关，可见他们的职业为新闻记者。

3. D．【精析】事实细节题。

对话中女士问男士是否在今天下午去了行政管理大楼，男士陈述他去的目的是要把电脑课的时间调至9：50。

switch sth．t0…意为“将某物转换(调换)为……”。

4. B．【精析】事实细节题。

对话中的女士问男士看了昨晚的智力问答后感觉怎么样，男士说节目很棒，前四个参赛者都获得了小奖品而第五个带走了一辆崭新的豪华汽车。

a new luxury car在B．选项中被替换为the biggest prize。

5. B．【精析】语义理解题。

女士对男士说在时刻表上找不到从纽约到波士顿的快车(Express)的到达时间，男士让她在左边一栏里找到纽约，然后沿着它横向寻找，直到找到波士顿一栏里的到达时间：由此可见，两位说话者在看列车时刻表。

6. D．【精析】事实细节题。

对话中女士表示男士今天看士说昨天终于去了那家在商场里的新理发店．享受了理发店的服务。

由此可见，男士昨天理发了。

7. A．【精析】弦外之音题。

对话中女士问男士感觉城市博物馆展出的毕加索的画怎么样，男士说看不出毕加索的现代派画作表达的意义，这些画让他想起他侄子从幼儿园拿回来的那些画。

言外之意，男士欣赏不了毕加索的画展。

8. B．【精析】弦外之音题。

对话中女士对男士说Rod想参加学生会，男士说Rod从来没有参加过会议，以此提出质疑。

由此可以推断，Rod的言行不一致。

9. B．【精析】细节辨认题。

对话一开头女士说她的车坏了，并询问有没有车(可以租)。

6月第二套大学英语六级听力原文

6月第二套大学英语六级听力原文2015年6月第二套大学英语六级听力原文大学英语六级考试已经得到社会的承认，已经成为各级人事部门录用大学毕业生的标准之一，下面是店铺分享的英语六级听力原文，欢迎大家阅读!Section A1. W: A clever man hides his virtues within himself. A fool keeps them on his tongue.M: You mean I am saying my own praises. In that case, I am a fool, a thorough fool.Q: What do we learn from the conversation?2. W: What does the paper say about the horrible incident that happened this morning on Flight 870 to Hong Kong?M: It ended with the arrest of the three hijackers. They had forced the plane to fly to Japan,but all the passengers and crew members landed safely. Q: What do we learn from the conversation?3. M: I'd like to transfer money from my checking account to my savings account.W: OK. Give me the numbers of both accounts and some identification, please. Q: Where does the conversation most probably take place?4. W: I'm not going to trust the restaurant critic from that magazine again. The food here doesn't taste anything like what we had in Chinatown.M: It definitely wasn't worth the wait.Q: What do we learn from the conversation?5. W: I can't believe Prof. Lawrence is going to retire.M: He's still going to lead a graduate seminar each semester,though. Q: What does the man mean?6. W: Bob, I really think we should meet to figure out what to do about replacing Leon. We have to find someone soon.M: I can't come right now. I've got a meeting with Rodney. It might take all day. Can we meet tomorrow?Q: What does the woman want to discuss with the man?7. W: Helen won't be coming to work tomorrow. She's finally going to the photography exhibition.M: Oh, so she managed to get a ticket after all.Q: What do we learn from the conversation?8. W: Steve has listed a few ways of motivating the employees.I think these are out of touch of the real world.M: You just took the words out of my mouth. Let's try to persuade him to see things our way.Q: What do we learn from the conversation?Now you will hear the two long conversations.Conversation OneM: I'd like to go to the States,but if I took the job there,I won't get a very good salary.W: Really? I thought salaries were high there,but there would be some fringe benefits presumably.M: Oh, yes. It would be stimulating and it has some advantages.W: What else do you have in mind?M: Well, this position in Portugal.W: How does it compare?M: It offers greatest security,because it will be on a home-base contract. W: And salary?M: Much better. I get an overseas allowance plus free accommodation from the firm.W: Presumably you will be given moving expenses for the Portugal job?M: Yes, but just to complicate matters,this possibility offers a post in Sao Paulo. W: That's Brazil, isn't it?M: Yes. I'd will get a promotion if I took a post there.W: I'd love to go to Brazil.M: But there are some disadvantages. I'd have to do a five-year term there. W: That's not a problem, surely?M: Well, not at the moment. But if there were a change in family circumstances, I'd be a long way from home.W: But if you are worried about distance,isn't that the same problem with the States?M: Yes, but in the States I will be on an annual contract,so I can leave fairly quickly if I needed to.W: In Portugal?M: Well, that's almost next door, isn't it? I can visit home every a few months if necessary.W: I can see you've got a difficult choice to make.M: Well, fortunately I don't have to make up my mind about any of them yet.In fact, I haven't even been called for an interview.Questions 9 to 12 are based on the conversation you have just heard.9. What does the man say about the job in the States?10. What benefit will the man get if he took the post in Sao Paulo?11. What does the man say is the disadvantage of working in Brazil?12. What do we learn from the end of the conversation?Conversation TwoW: Good morning,High Mountain Savings and Loan. Howmay we help you? M: Well, I am looking for the highest rate possible on a short-term certificate to deposit an account.W: Well, Let's see what we can do for you. High Mountain is currently offering a rate of 6.4% on the thirteen-week account for the minimum deposit of only 12 000 dollars, 6.55% on the minimum deposit of 25,000 dollars and 6.7% on a deposit of 50,000 dollars. Those will have yields of 6.55%,6.71% and 6.87% respectively.M: Rate and yield? I am afraid I don't understand the difference.W: Well, sir. The rate is the percentage of symbol interest paid on yourmoney,and the yield is the total percentage you will receive on your account if you leave your money with us,frankly to say here,as the same interest rate.M: Oh, well...eh... But I am not interested in long-term investing and three months sounds just fine.W: Then perhaps you would like to open one of our high finance money market checking accounts. With the minimum balance of only 50,000 dollars, you'd will get interest of 6.1% on any amount over that,for a yearly yield of 6.27%. Of course, there is no penalty for early withdraw.M:Er... No, thank you. I...W: Or, could we persuade you to save with us if we offer you a dinning coupon book that will get you a 25% discount at many of the area's leading restaurants and cost you only 12 dollars and 95 cents?M: Look, I think I'll just call around for more information. Thank you for your time.Questions 13 to 15 are based on the conversation you havejust heard.13. What is the man's purpose in making the phone call?14. What is the man most interested in?15. What did the woman do to persuade the man to deposit in her bank?Section BPassage OneKaren Smith is a buyer for a department store in New York. Department store buyers purchase the goods that their stores sell. They not only have to know what is fashionable at the moment,but also have to guess what will become fashionable next season or next year. Most buyers work for just one department in a store. But the goods that Karen finds may be displayed and sold in several different sections of the store. Her job involves buying handicrafts from all over the world. Last year, she made a trip to Morocco and returned with rocks, pots, dishes and pans. The year before, she visited Mexico,and bought back handmade table cloths,mirrors with frames of tin and paper flowers. The paper flowers were bright and colorful,so they were used to decorate the whole store. This year Karen is travelling in Malaysia,Thailand and Indonesia. Many of the countries that Karen visits have government offices that promote handicrafts. The officials are glad to cooperate with her by showing her the products that are available. Karen especially likes to visit markets in small towns and villages whenever she can arrange for it. She is always looking for interesting and unusual items. Karen thinks she has the best job she could have found. She loves all the travelling that she has to do,because she often visits markets and small out-of-the-way places. She sees much more of the country she visits than an ordinary tourist would. As soon as she gets backto New York from one trip,Karen begins to plan another.Questions 16 to 18 are based on the passage you have just heard.16. What is said to make a good department store buyer?17. What does Karen's job involve?18. Why does Karen think she has got the best job?Passage TwoVaukin de Silva is a Brazilian who lives and works in New York. Brazil's most important product is coffee and coffee is Vaukin's business. He works for an international coffee institute. It represents Brazil and several other countries that export coffee. The institute wants more people to drink more coffee. That hasn't been easy to do for the last few months. A period of freezing weather destroyed a large part of Brazil's coffee crop. As a result, there has been a shortage of coffee throughout the world. The shortage has caused prices to go very high. Many people are talking about giving up coffee until the prices come down again. All the countries that are represented in the institute want people to continue drinking coffee. They spend a lot of time explaining the recent rise in price to newspaper reporters. They want the public to understand the reason for the shortage. Among the goal,Vaukin was put in charge of an advertising campaign. The campaign will try to encourage people to keep on drinking coffee. Sometimes, Vaukin misses the beaches and tropical weather in Rio deJaneiro,but he likes the life in New York. He is young, only 27 years old,and he is a good-looking bachelor. There are a lot of women to meet in New York and a lot of places to go with them. When he misses home,there are several Brazilian restaurants where he can go and speak Portuguese,his native language. Thelast few weeks,however, he's been too busy to think about anything except coffee prices and his advertising campaign.Questions 19 to 22 are based on the passage you have just heard.19. What does the passage say about the international coffee institute?20. What cause the recent shortage of coffee throughout the world?21. What do we learn about Vaukin de Silva?22. What has occupied Vaukin's mind for the last few weeks?Passage ThreeLast summer, my wife and I had saved for a year to be able to take a romantic cruise to several Caribbean islands. Because the train was scheduled to arrive in Miami, Floridaseveral hours before the sailing,we didn't think we'd have any reason to worry about getting to the dock on time. We should've known that long distance trains are often many hours late. We should've taken an earlier one to allow extra time. We should have, but we didn't and we missed the boat. Because there wouldn't to be a refund of our cruise fare,if we returned home,we had to pay for a hotel room and meals in the city and an air fare to fly to the first island on the shipped route two days later. We missed half the cruise. This year, we decided to let an experienced travel agent do our vacation planning for us. We had to pay the full price in advance for an escorted tour. We should be joining that relaxing well-planned trip right now. How could we have known there would be a strike against our airline? And why hadn't anyone advised us that the travel agency can't refund your money unless the tour operator can get the passengers鈥?fees back from the reserved hotels,the tour boat's company and so on?T o avoid trouble likethis,we ought to get more travel experience.But to tell you the truth,we don't want to go anywhere. We鈥檙e planning to spend our vacations at home for a long time to come.Questions 23 to 25 are based on the passage you have just heard.23. Why did the couple fail to get to the cruise in time?24. What does the speaker say about their trip this year?25. What will the speaker do in the future for a vacation?Section CNow listen to the passage.Why would an animal kill itself? It seems a strange question,and yet it is one that has puzzled some people for a long time. The lemming is one such animal. Lemmings periodically commit mass suicide,and no one knows just why!The small creatures,which inhabit the Scandinavian mountains,sustain themselves on a diet of roots and live in nests they make underground. When their food supply is sufficiently large,the lemmings live a normal,undisturbed life.However, when the lemmings' good supply becomes too low to support the population,a singular migration commences. The lemmings leave their nests all together at the same time,forming huge crowds. Great numbers of the lemmings begin a long and hard journey across the Scandinavian plains,a journey that may last weeks. The lemmings eat everything in theirpath,continuing their destructive march until they reach the sea.The reason for what follows remains a mystery for zoologists and naturalists. Upon reaching the coast,the lemmings do not stop but swim by the thousands into the surf. Most float on water only a short time before they tire, sink, and drown.A common theory for this unusual phenomenon is that the lemmings do not realize that the ocean is such a huge body of water. In their cross-countryjourney,the animals must traverse many smaller bodies of water,such as rivers and small lakes. They may assume that the sea is just another such swimmable obstacle. But no final answer has been found to the mystery.。

2014年6月英语六级考试听力真题(二).doc

2014年6月大学英语六级考试真题(二)Section A1．M: Look at the low prices on these fashionable TV sets. Something is fishy. Don't you think so?W：Well, there have been a lot of robberies recently. Some of the stolen goods may have landed here.Q：What does the woman imply about the low-priced television sets?A. They might be stolen goods.B．They might be fake products.C．They might be faulty products.D．They might be smuggled goods.2. M: I've been assigned to cover the governess'sspeech today. What about you? W: Nothing is grand as yours. I have to do an interview for the evening news about a man with dozens of cats.Q: What do we learn about the speakers?A．They are civil servants.B．They are job applicants.C．They are news reporters.D．They are public speakers.3. W：Didn't I see you going into the administration building this afternoon? M:I needed to switch my computer class to the 9 : 50 section.Q：What do we learn from the conversation?A．The man has decided to quit his computer class.B．The woman wants to get a degree in administration.C．A computer degree is a must for administrative work.D．The man went to change the time of his computer class.4. W:I guess you watched the quiz show on television last night. What did you thinkabout it?M: Welt, it was great. The first four contestants won only small prizes, but the fifth left with a new luxury car.A．A lot of contestants participated in the show.B．The fifth contestant won the biggest prize.C．It was not as exciting as he had expected.D．It was sponsored by a car manufacturer.5. W：I can't find the arrival time of the New York to Boston Express on this schedule.M：Look for New York in the left-hand column and follow it across until you find the hour listed in the Boston column.Q: What are the speakers most probably doing?A．Reading a newspaper column.B．Looking at a railway timetable.C．Driving from New York to Boston.D．Waiting for someone at the airport.6. W：You look different today, but I can't quite put my finger on what it is.M: Oh, yesterday I finally got around to that new barbershop in the mall and enjoyed their services.Q：What can be inferred about the man?A．He wears a coat bought in the mall.B．He got a new job at the barbershop.C．He had a finger hurt last night.D．He had his hair cut yesterday.7. W: What do you think of Picasso's paintings exhibited in the city museum?M：Personally I can't quite see the meaning in his modern works. Most of them remind me of the stuff my nephew brings home from the kindergarten.Q: What does the man mean?A．He cannot appreciate the Picasso exhibition.B．Even his nephew can draw as well as Picasso.C．He is not quite impressed with modern paintings.D．Some drawings by kindergarten kids are excellent.8. W: Rod said he wanted to get involved in student government this year.M: But he hasn't gone to a single meeting, has he?Q.. What does the man imply about Rod?A．He should not put the cart before the horse.B．His conduct does not square with his words.C．His attitude to student government has changed.D．He has long been involved in student government.Conversation OneM: Good morning, madam. Can I help you?W: Oh, I do hope so. I have to get to Manchester today and (9)my own car has broken down. Do you by any chance have a car available?M: For how many days, madam?W: Three, just until the weekend.M: And what sort of car did you have in mind?W: Well, (10)that depends a bit on the price. But I normally drive a Cavalier. Do you have anything like that?M.. Yes, certainly. That's group C which includes Cavalier and Sea-arrows.W: How much are they?M: Well, for three days, you would have to have it under the unlimited mileage conditions, which will work out cheaper for Manchester anyway. Let's see, Group C, three- to five-day hire with unlimited mileage is 53 pounds per day.W: I see. Does that include everything?M: (11)It includes third-party insurance, but does not include value-added tax, petrol or CDW.W: What's that?M: CDW? Oh, that's to cover you in case you damage the hired car. Third-party insurance only covers you for damage to another vehicle. For Group C cars it's 6 pounds per day. W: OK. I think I'll have the Cavalier.M: Right. Could I have your driving license please?W: Certainly. Here we are.M: So, it's Mrs. J. B. Couty.W: Yes. That's right.M: And the number is 509024bc9cs, expiring 1st July, 2015. And you want to take it immediately?W: Yes, I do, please.M: Lovely. Well, if you could, just initial that box there for the CDW, and that box there to confirm you have known drivin~ convictions. Thank you, and then sign there. Great[ That's it!Questions 9 to 11 are based on the conversation you have just heard.9. Why does the woman want to hire a car?A．She left her own car in Manchester.B．Something went wrong with her car.C．She wants to go traveling on the weekend.D．Her car won't be back in a week's time.10. What is the woman's main consideration in hiring a car?A．Safety.B．Comfort.C．Size.D．Cost.11. What does the daily charge include?A．Third-party insurance.B．Value-added tax.C．Petrol.D．CDW.Conversation TwoW: So, (12)possible locations for the plant. First, the basic facilities for the region are generally very good. At least between the three main cities, Bilbao, Vitoria inthe south and San Sebastifin. There is now a fast train link to the south of France and the rest of Spain. All these improvements affect Bilbao principally,but the whole region benefits. First, the port area has been completely modernized and relocated. And the airport has also been extended. (13)So the basic facilities are good.M: Right. So, are we in a position to choose one of these cities?W: Well, (14)let's not rush into anything. 1 think it would be a bad idea to assume we're going to choose a city. It might be better to think about one of the smaller towns.M: Smaller places. Yes. So, should we get details on the possible places?W: Yes. We could do that. But we need, I think, first, to check a few things, for example, tax benefits, grants and anything like that, for locating to a smaller place, not one of the main cities. Then we could make a better decision.M: Yes. I agree. You've talked about the improved transport links in Bilbao.(15)What about the links to the smaller towns? If it's a mountainous or hilly region, it could take an hour or more for a truck to reach a main road. So I think we need to look specifically at the train and road links for smaller towns.W: Yes, you're right. Road and rail, and the financial position.Questions 12 to 15 are based on the conversation you have just heard.12. What are the speakers discussing?A．How to update the basic facilities.B．What to do to enhance their position.C．Where to locate their plant.D．How to attract investments.13. What does the woman say about Bilbao, Vitoria and San Sebastifin? A．Their road link to other European countries is fast.B．They are all located in the south of France.C．They are very close to each other.D．Their basic facilities are good.14. What does the woman think they should do? A．Try to avoid making a hasty decision.B．Take advantage of the train links.C．Talk with the local authorities.D．Conduct field surveys first.15. What is the man concerned about?A．Future product distribution.B．Local employment policies.C．Road and rail links for small towns.D．Skilled workforce in the hilly region.Section BPassage OneIn a study of older people with sisters and brothers, psychologist Debra Gold of the Duke Center for the study of aging and human development found that (16)about 20% said they were either hostile or indifferent toward their sisters and brothers. Reasons for this ranged from inheritance disputes to hostility between spouses. But, many of those who had poor relationships felt guilty. Although most people admitted to some lingering rivalry, it was rarely strong enough to end the relationship. Only four out of the 55 people interviewed had completely broken with their sisters and brothers and only one of the four felt comfortable with the break.(17)As sisters and brothers advance into old age, closeness increases and rivalry diminishes, explains VictorChichiarelli, a psychologist at Purdue University. Most of the elderly people he interviewed said they had supportive and friendly dealings and got along well or very well with their sisters and brothers. Only 4% got along poorly. Gold found that as people age, they often become more involved with and interested in their sisters and brothers. 53% of those she interviewed said that contact with their sisters and brothers increase in late adulthood. With family and career obligations reduced, many said they had more time for each other. Others said that they felt it was time to heal wounds. (18)A man who had recently reconciled with his brother told Gold there's something that lets older people put aside the bad deeds of the past and focus a little on what we need now, especially when it's sisters andbrothers.Questions 16 to 18 are based on the passage you have just heard.16. What does the study by Debra Gold find about older people?A．One fifth of them were on bad terms with their sisters and brothers.B．About one eighth of them admitted to lingering bitter feelings.C．More than half of them were involved in inheritance disputes.D．Most of them had broken with their sisters and brothers.17. What has probably caused closeness to increase among sisters and brothers according to Victor Chichiarelli?A．Less concern with money matters.B．More experience in worldly affairs.C．Advance in age.D．Freedom from work.18. What did the man who had recently reconciled with his brother tell Debra Gold about older people?A．They have little time left to renew contact with their brothers and sisters.B．They tend to forget past unhappy memories and focus on their present needs.C．They are more tolerant of one another.D．They find close relatives more reliable.Passage TwoMonarch butterflies, the large orange and black insects, are a common summer sight in the northern United States and Canada. They brighten parks and gardens as they fly among the flowers. (19)What makes monarch butterflies particularly interesting is that they migrate--all the way to California or Mexico and back. They are thought to be the only insect that does this. Every year in the late summer, monarchs begin their migration to the south. Those heading for Mexico go first for the Louisiana-Mississippi region. Then they fly (20)across the Gulf of Mexico into Texas. Once in Mexico, they establish themselves in one of about 15 sites in a mountain forest. Each site provides a winter home for millions of monarchs. The butterflies are so numerous that they often cover entire trees. When spring comes, they begin their long journey north. The question is often asked whether every butterfly makes the round trip journey every year. And the answer is no. The average monarch lives about nine months. (21)So one flying north might lay eggs in Louisiana and then die.The eggs of that generation may be found in Kentucky; the eggs of the next generation may end up in Wisconsin or Michigan. The last generation of the season about the fourth will make the journey back to Mexico and restart the cycle. Scientists learn about monarch butterflies' migration by capturing and placing identifying tags on the insects. By recapturing a tagged monarch and noting where it came from, the next scientist can figure out things like butterfly's age and its routing.Questions 19 to 22 are based on the passage you have just heard.19. What is unique about monarch butterflies according to the speaker? A．They have bright colors and intricate patterns.B．They can only survive in parts of the Americas.C．They are the only insect that migrates along fixed routes.D．They have strong wings capable of flying long distances.20. Where do monarch butterflies settle at the end of their migration?A．In a Michigan mountain forest.B．In a Louisiana mountain forest.C．In a Kentucky mountain forest.D．In a Mexican mountain forest.21. What does the speaker say about monarch butterflies' reproduction? A．Each flock of butterflies lays eggs in the same states.B．They start to lay eggs when they are nine months old.C．Each generation in a cycle lays eggs at a different place.D．Only the strongest can reach their destination to lay eggs.22. What is the talk mainly about?A．Evolution of monarch butterflies.B．Living habits of monarch butterflies.C．Migration patterns of monarch butterflies.D．Environmental impacts on monarch butterfly life.Passage ThreePeople nowadays seem to have the sense that their time has become more limited, that compared to earlier generations, we spend more and more time working and have less and less free time to engage in leisure pursuits. But this premise turns out to be an illusion. (24)The most comprehensive data from major time use _surveys suggest that, if anything, Americans today have more free time than earlier generations. The number of hours we work has not changed much, but we spend less time now on home tasks. So we have a greater amount of time for leisure than in decades past. So why do we feel like time is so scarce? One problem is that our time has become more valuable and as time becomes worth more money, we feel like we have less of it. Workers who bill or get paid by the hour, think lawyers and fast-food workers, report focusing more on pursuing more money than those who get paid at salary and the effect happens fast. In one experiment, people were told to play the role of consultants and bill their time at either nine dollars an hour or ninety dollars an hour. When people billed their time for ninety dollars an hour they reported feeling far more pressed for time.(25)Thinking about our time as money changes our behavior as well. In one study, people who were instructed to think about money before entering a cafe spent less time chatting with the other patrons and more time working. Those who were thinking about their time did the reverse, spending time socializing instead of working.Qlestions 23 to 25 are based on the passage you have just heard.23. What does the speaker say people now feel about time?A．Time has become more limited.B．Time has become more precious.C．Time is money.D．Time is relative. 24. What do the data from major time use surveys show?A．Americans now attach more importance to the effective use of time.B．Americans today have more free time than earlier generations.C．The number of hours Americans work has increased steadily.D．More and more Americans feel pressed for time nowadays.25. What happens when we think about our time as money?A．Our interpersonal relationships improve.B．Our work efficiency increases greatly.C．Our living habits are altered.D．Our behavior is changed.Section CThe first copyright law in the United States was passed by Congress in 1790. In 1976 Congress enacted the latest copyright 26 taking into consideration the technological developments that had occurred since the passage of the Copyright Act of 1909. For example, in 1909, anyone who wanted to make a single copy of a 271iterary work for personal use had to do so by hand. The very process 28 imposed a limitation on the quantity ofmaterials copied. Today, a photocopier can do the work in seconds; the limitation has disappeared. The 1909 law did not provide full protection for films and sound recordings, nor did it 29 anticipate the need to protect radio and television. As a result, 30 violations of the law and abuses of the intent of the law have lessened the 31 financial rewards of authors, artists, and producers. The 1976 Copyright Act has not prevented these abuses fully, but it has clarified the legal rights of the injured parties and given them an 32 avenue for remedy. Since 1976 the Act has been 33 amended to include computer software, and guidelines have been adopted for fair use of television broadcasts. These changes have cleared up much of the confusion and conflict that followed 34 in the wake of the 1976 legislation.The fine points of the law are decided by the courts and by acceptable common practice over time. As these decisions and agreements are made, we modify our behavior accordingly. For now, we need to 35 interpret the law and its guidelines as accurately as we can and to act in a fair manner.。

2014年6月大学英语六级真题及答案真题+听力原文+答案详解

2014年6月大学英语六级真题及答案真题+听力原文+答案详解2014年6月英语六级真题及答案Part I WritingDirections: For this part, you are allowed 30 minutes to write a short essay on the topic of Due Attention Should Be Given to the Study of Chinese Yo u should write at Chinese. least 120 words following the outline given belo w:1.近年来在学生中出现了忽视中文学习的现象；2.出现这种现象的原因和后果；3我认为…Given Due Attention Should Be Given to the Study of Chinese Part II Reading Comprehension (Skimming and Scanning) (15 minute s)Directions: In this part, you will have 15 minutes to go over the passage qu ickly and answer the questions on Answer sheet 1. For questions 1-7, choo se the best answer from the four choices marked A), B), C) and D). For qu estions 8-10, complete the sen-tences with the information given in the pas sage. Welcome,Freshmen. Have an iPod.Taking a step that many professors may view as a bit counterproductive, so me colleges and universities are doling out Apple iPhones and Internet-cap able iPods to their students.The always-on Internet devices raise some novel possibilities, like tracking where students gather together. With far less controversy, colleges could s end messages about canceled classes, delayed buses, campus crises or just the cafeteria menu.While schools emphasize its usefulness —online research in class and inst ant polling of students, for example — a big partof the attraction is, undou btedly, that the iPhone is cool and a hit with students. Being equipped with one of the most recent cutting-edge IT products could just help a college o r university foster a cutting-edge reputation.Apple stands to win as well, hooking more young consumers with decades of technology pur-chases ahead of them. The lone losers, some fear, could be professors.Students already have laptops and cell phones, of course, but the newest de vices can take class distractions to a new level. They practically beg a user to ignore the long-suffering professor strug-gling to pass on accumulated wisdom from the front of the room —a prospect that teachers find most irr itating and students view as, well, inevitable.“When it gets a little boring, I might pull it out,‖ acknowledged Naomi P ugh, a first-year student at Freed-Hardeman University in Henderson, T er m., referring to her new iPod Touch, which can connect to the Internet ove r a campus wireless network. She speculated that professors might try even harder to make classes interesting if they were to compete with the devices. Experts see a movement toward the use of mobile technology in educati on, though they say it is in its infancy as professors try to come up with us eful applications. Providing powerful hand-held devices is sure to fuel deb ates over the role of technology in higher education.“We think this is the way the future is going to work,‖ said Kyle Dickson, co-director of re-search and the mobile learning initiative at Abilene Chris tian University in T exas, which has bought more than 600 iPhones and 300 iPods for students entering this fall.Although plenty of students take their laptops to class, they don’t take the m everywhere and would prefer something lighter. Abilene Christian settle d on the devices after surveying students and finding that they did not like hauling around their laptops, but that most of them always carried a cell ph one, Dr. Dickson said.It is not clear how many colleges and universities plan to give out iPhones and iPods this fall; officials at Apple were unwilling to talk about the subje ct and said that they would not leak any institution’s plans.“We can’t announce other people’s news,‖said Greg Joswiak, vice presid ent of iPod and iPhone marketing at Apple. He also said that he could not d iscuss discounts to universities for bulk purchases.At least four institutions —the University of Maryland, Oklahoma Christi an University, Abilene Christian and Freed-Hardeman — have announced t hat they will give the devices to some or all of their students this fall.。

2014年12月英语六级听力原文第2套

2014年12月英语六级听力真题第2套Section A1. M: Good news! I am not going to have surgery after all.The doctor says I can start working out again soon and maybe play football like before in a few weeks.W: That's terrific. It will be great if you could get back in shape in time for the World Cup. Q: What do we learn from the conversation?2. M: I really need to make some extra money. You know, I've practically spent my entire budget for this semester.W: Why not check out the new cafeteria at Market Street? I think there are still a few openings suitable for seniors like you.Q: What does the woman suggest the man do?3. M: I hear John left his cat in your care while he's on vacation abroad. How are you getting along with it?W: Well, it never comes when I call it. It spills its food and sheds all over the place. I can't wait till John gets back.Q: How does the woman find the cat?4. W: Hello, Professor White. I got my grade in the mail this morning, but I think there might be a mistake in my mark.M: Yeah, I've got several calls, just like yours. There must be a problem with the computing system. It should be straightened out in a couple of hours.Q: What does the man mean?5. M: Professor Johnson, last night when I was putting the finishing touches on my paper, a computer failure completely wiped out my files. Do you think I could have another day to retype it?W: I'm sorry, Rod. I'm leaving for a conference tomorrow and I'll be away two weeks. I suppose you could send me an e-copy.Q: Why does the man say he can't submit his assignment on time?6. W: I just called the travel agency. It's all set. On June first, we are heading for the mountains,and we'll be camping there for a whole week.M: Have you checked the academic calendar?My classes aren't over until the 8th.Q: What does the man imply?7. W: I thought there was still time for me to apply for a student loan, but someone just told me that the closing date was last Tuesday.M: Are you sure? I thought we still had another month. Wait. I got a brochure right here. Last Tuesday was the opening date.Q: What does the man imply?8. W: Look at all the pollutants going into the air from those factories. Do you think they'll ever get that under control?M: Now with the new laws in effect and social awareness increasing, we are sure to turn things around.Q: What does the man mean?Now you'll hear the two long conversations.Conversation OneW: Tell me, Peter.What makes Harolds so famous?M: Well, it's the biggest department store in the UK, and its food hall and Egyptian hall are very famous. People come to Harolds just to see them.W: What is special about the food hall?M: It sells many different kinds of food. For example, it has two hundred and fifty kinds of cheese from all over the world, and more than 180 kinds of bread. Customers also love all the different kinds of chocolate. They buy a hundred tons every year.W: That's amazing, and why is the Egyptian hall so famous?M: Well, when people see it they feel they're in another world. It looks like an Egyptian building from 4000 years ago, and it sells beautiful objects. They are not 4000 years old, of course.W: Is it true that Harolds produces its own electricity?M: Yes, it does. 70%. Enough for a small town. To light the outside of the building, we use 11,500 light bulbs.W: Really? Tell me, how many customers do you have on an average day? And how much do they spend?M: About 30,000 people come on an average day. But during the sales, the number increases to 300,000 customers a day. How much do they spend? Well, on average, customers spend about 1.5 million pounds a day. The record for one day is 9 million pounds.W: 9 million pounds in one day?M: Yes, on the first day of the January sales.W: Harolds says it sells everything to everybody everywhere. Is that really true?M: Oh, yes, of course. Absolutely everything.Questions 9 to 12 are based on the conversation you have just heard.9. What is the food hall of Harolds noted for?10. What does the Egyptian hall seem like to the customers?11. What may customers find surprising about Harolds?12. About how many customers come to Harolds on an average day?Conversation TwoW: Hi, Kevin.M: Hi, Laura. Long time no see. What have you been up to lately?W: Not much, I can assure you. And you?M: Much the same except I do have some big news.W: Come on, the suspense is killing me.M: No, really. What have you been doing these past few weeks? The last time I saw you, you were looking for a new job.W: Well, that's not exactly true. I was thinking about changing jobs. Luckily, they offered me a new position in the accounting department.M: A step up in the big business world.W: I wouldn't exaggerate, but I'm pleased. I had been hoping to get promotion for a while, so when it finally came through I was relieved. Actually, that's why I was looking for a new job.I just didn't want to work there anymore if they weren't going to recognize my efforts.M: Right, sometimes you can do your best and it seems like the others don't know you exist. Ihope the money is better.W: I got a reasonable raise. Now, enough about me. I'm dying to hear your news.M: I'm getting married.W: No, you said you'd never get married.M: That was then, and this is now, you've got to meet Andrea. She is great.W: This is all news to me. I didn't even know you were dating.M: We weren't. We've just been dating for two weeks now.W: And you are getting married?M: I know. I can't help it. I just know she is the one.W: Well, congratulations. That's fantastic.M: Thanks, I'm glad to hear you feel that way.Questions 13 to 15 are based on the conversation you have just heard.13. What was the woman doing when the man last saw her?14. Why does the woman say she was relieved?15. Why is the woman surprised at the man's news?Section BPassage OneWater scooters are water vehicles that look very much like motorcycles. Nowadays speedy colorful water scooters are gaining in popularity. They can travel anywhere a small boat can and are typically popular with young people. The rising popularity of the craft has raised a question of water scooter regulation.In this case,the argument for strict regulation is compelling.Water scooters are a particularly deadly form of water recreation. For example, two women were vacationing in Longboat Key. While they were floating on a rubber boat along the shore, a water scooter crashed into them and killed them. Also, water scooter operators have been killed and seriously injured in collisions with other watercraft. Others have been stranded at sea when their scooters either failed or sank far from shore. Many water scooter operators are inexperienced and ignorant of navigational rules, which increases the potential for accidents. The increasing popularity of the scooter has aggravated the problem, providing more water vehicles to compete for the same space. Crowded water ways are simply an open invitation to disaster. In addition to the inherent operational hazards of water scooters, they are proven to be an environmental nuisance. Beach residents complain of the noise of the scooters. The Pacific Whale Foundation on the west coast expressed the concern that the scooters are frightening away an endangered species of whale that migrates to Hawaii for breeding. Regulations, such as minimum operating age, restricted operating areas, and compulsory classes in water safety are essential. Without such regulations, tragedies involving water scooters are sure to multiply, which makes many beaches unsafe for recreation. Questions 16 to 19 are based on the passage you have just heard.16. What does the speaker say about water scooters?17. What is mentioned as one of the causes of water accidents?18. In what way are water scooters said to be an environmental nuisance?19. What does the speaker propose to ensure the safety of beaches for recreation?Passage TwoIt seems to me that neighbors are going out of style in America. The friend next door from whom you borrowed four eggs or a ladder has moved and the people in there now are strangers. Some of the traditional stories of neighborliness are impractical or silly, and it may be just as well that our relations with our neighbors are changing. The saying in the Bible "Love Thy Neighbor" was probably a poor translation of what must have originally been "Respect Thy Neighbor." Love can't be called up on order. Fewer than half the people in the United States live in the same house they lived in five years ago, so there's no reason to love the people who live next door to you just because they happened to wander into a real estate office that listed the place next door to yours. The only thing neighbors have in common, to begin with, is proximity, and unless something more develops, that isn't reason enough to be best friends.It sometimes happens naturally,but the chances are very small that your neighbors will be your choice as friends.Or that you will be theirs, either.The best relationship with neighbors is one of friendly distance.You say hello, you small-talk if you see them in the yard,you discuss problems as they arise and you help each other in an emergency.The driveway or the fence between you is not really a cold shoulder,but a clear boundary.We all like clearly-defined boundaries for ourselves.Questions 20 to 22 are based on the passage you have just heard.20. What does the speaker say about the relations among neighbors nowadays?21. Why does the speaker say it may be difficult for people to love their neighbors?22. What should neighbors do in the speaker's opinion?Passage ThreeArticles in magazines and newspapers and special reports on radio and television reflect the concern of many Americans about the increasing dropout rate in our junior and senior high schools.Coupled with this fact is the warning that soon we will no longer have workforce to fill the many jobs that require properly-educated personnel.The high student dropout rate is not a recent development.Ten years ago, many urban schools were reporting dropout rates between 35 and 50 percent.Some administrators maintain that dropouts remain the single greatest problem in their schools.Consequently, much effort has been spent on identifying students with problems in order to give them more attention before they become failures.Since the dropout problem doesn't start in senior high school,special programs in junior high school focus on students who show promise but have a record of truancy,that is, staying away from school without permission.Under the guidance of counselors,these students are placed in classes with teachers who have had success in working with similar young people.Strategies to motivate students in high school include rewarding academic excellence by designating scholars of the month,or by issuing articles of clothing such as school letter jackets formally given only to athletes.No one working with these students claims to know how to keep all students in school.Counselors, teachers, and administrators are in the front lines of what seems at times to be a losing battle.Actually, this problem should be everyone's concern,since uneducated, unemployed citizens affect us all.Questions 23 to 25 are based on the passage you have just heard.23. Why are many Americans concerned with the increasing dropout rate in school?24. What do we learn about the student dropout problem in America?25. What is mentioned as one of the strategies used to motivate students?Section CI'm interested in the criminal justice system of our country.It seems to me that something has to be done,if we're to survive as a country.I certainly don't know what the answers to our problems are.Things certainly get complicated in a hurry when you get into them,but I wonder if something couldn't be done to deal with some of these problems.One thing I'm concerned about is our practice of putting offenders in jail who haven't harmed anyone.Why not work out some system whereby they can pay back the debts they owe society instead of incurring another debt by going to prison and, of course,coming under the influence of hardened criminals.I'm also concerned about the short prison sentences people are serving for serious crimes.Of course one alternative to this is to restore capital punishment,but I'm not sure I would be for that.I'm not sure it's right to take an eye for an eye.The alternative to capital punishment is longer sentences,but they would certainly cost the tax payers much money.I also think we must do something about the insanity plea.In my opinion, anyone who takes another person's life intentionally is insane;however, that does not mean that the person isn't guilty of the crime,or that he shouldn't pay society the debt he owes.It's sad, of course,that a person may have to spend the rest of his life,or a large part of it in prison for acts that he committed while not in full control of his mind.。

2024年6月大学英语六级听力原文(第2套)

2024年6月大学英语六级听力原文(第2套)Conversation OneI've just bought a new blender.What's that?A blender, you know, a machine that blends food.Uh, yes, of course, the electric kitchen appliance.Exactly, this one is state-of-the-art. I've been meaning to buy one for a while, and I did thorough research on which specific model to get.I read through maybe hundreds of online user reviews. Anyway, it's amazing.Really? What could be so special about it? I mean it's just a blender.Well, basically, it's just a very good one. It feels heavy and sturdy and well made. It also has lots of power and can easily cut and crush practically anything. This way, the soups and juices I make come out really fine and smooth, with no lumpy bits.Um, I see. I have never thought of getting one myself. It sounds like the kind of thing that, for me personally, I would rarely use.I've never had one before, and now that I do. I use it all the time.I make a fresh fruit juice in the morning, maybe not every morning, but3 or4 times a week, and it feels fantastic. It's a really healthy habit.I can imagine that must feel quite satisfying. I can picture you getting all creative in the kitchen and trying out a multitude of different ingredients, and it's obviously going to be healthier than buying packaged juice from a supermarket.It's so much healthier. It's not even close. Did you know that store-bought juice is like 10% sugar?Right, so then you bought it for the health benefits?Mostly yes. Basically, it allows me to have a more varied diet with a far wider assortment of nutrients, because it's not only fruit in my morning juices you see. I can also throw in vegetables, nuts, yogurts, cereals, anything that tickled my fancy.Questions 1 to 4 are based on the conversation you have just heard.Question 1. What does the man say he did before buying the blender?Question 2. What does the woman say she has never thought of doing?Question 3. What does the man say is a really healthy habit?Question 4.What do we learn about store-bought juice from the conversation?Conversation TwoToday we have a very interesting guest.Mr. Thomas Benjamin Grimm, the mayor of Berkton, is here to talk about his job and responsibilities overseeing this charming village.Mr. Grimm, thank you for being here.Thank you for having me.I'd like to start by stating the obvious.Berkton has become one of the most popular tourist destinations in the country, and this has happened under your watch.Just how did you achieve this?The achievement belongs to all the residents of Berkton.It was a shared effort where everybody pitched in for the communal good.But how did this change happen?In about 10 years, Berkton has gone from a relatively unheard of sleepy village to a must-see destination.Yes, the change has truly been remarkable.Berkton was always fortunate to be endowed with such a beautiful natural allure.The Ambury Hills above the village remain untouched by human development, and the Sonora valley just below it is equally stunning.The transformation commenced in a town hall meeting in spring 2008 over 10 years ago now, when an overwhelming majority of neighbors voted in favor of "Motion 836".This legislative proposal essentially set out to harmonize the aesthetic appearance of all the houses in Berkton.The idea was that if all the properties looked a certain way with shared design features, then a village as a whole would look more beautiful.And it worked.It certainly did.I'm looking now at a before-and-after photo, and the change is truly remarkable.It's hard to believe it's the same place.And how do the neighbors feel now?Great pride I would say.But what about the multitudes of visitors now crowding the streets?Is everyone happy about that?The tourists we receive are a blessing, as they have completely revitalized our local economy.Every visitor is warmly welcome.Questions 5 to 8 are based on the conversation you have just heard.Question 5.What is the question the woman asked Mr. Grimm after the introduction?Question 6. What do we learn about Berkton of 10 years ago?Question 7.What resulted from the passing of the legislative proposal"Motion 836"?“836号动议”立法提案通过的结果是什么?Question 8. Why does the man say the tourists are a blessing toBerkton?Passage OneResearchers in the US have created a remote-controlled robot that is so small it can walk on the top of a US penny.In research published in the journal Science Robotics, a team at Northwestern University said the crab-like robot is 0.5mm wide.Researchers described it as the smallest ever remote-controlled walking robot.The tiny robot can bend, twist, crawl, walk, turn, and even jump without the use of complex hardware or special power.The engineers said this is because the robot is powered by the elastic property of its body.To construct the robot, the researchers used a shape memory alloy material that transforms to its "remembered" shape when heated.Using a laser, the team is able to heat the robot at specific parts of its body, causing it to change shape.As the robot deforms and goes back to its original shape, it creates movement from one place to another."Because these structures are so tiny, the rate of cooling is very fast,"project lead Professor John A. Rogers said.In fact, reducing the sizes of these robots allows them to run faster.While the research is still in the exploratory phase, the team believes that technology could lead to micro-sized robots that can perform practical tasks in tightly confined spaces."You might imagine micro robots as agents to repair or assemble small structures or machines in industry, or as surgical assistants to clear clogged arteries, to stop internal bleeding, or to eliminate cancerous tumors, all in minimally invasive procedures,"Rogers said.Questions 9 to 11 are based on the passage you have just heard.Question 9.What does the passage say about a team of researchers at Northwestern University?Question 10.What did the researchers say about the robot they created?Question 11.What do the researchers expect their robots to do in the future?Passage TwoI don't want to boast anything, but I have always considered myself something of an elite sleeper.Given the opportunity, I will sleep for marathon stretches, and can doze through the most extreme situations.On one very rough ferry crossing, on the route to the Isles of Scilly, for example, my traveling companion spent the entire 3-hour- ride throwingup in the bathroom, while I dozed happily on a plastic chair.Unfortunately, it has come to my attention that I am not an elite sleeper after all.It seems I am just lazy, because elite sleepers are defined as the approximately 3 percent of the population who are biologically programmed to need less sleep than the rest of us.According to a study that came out in March, elite sleepers have rare genetic changes, which means they can sleep fewer hours than mere mortals, without any risk of cognitive decline.It may not be possible to change your own genes, but can you train yourself to need less sleep?Is there a non-biological way to reach elite sleeper status?I have spent the past year trying to answer that question.Not for fun, I should add, but because having a baby has severely disrupted my sleep, for which I still have a great passion.For a while, I assumed I'd be forced to become one of those people who jump out of bed at the crack of dawn.After a year of tough scientific study, however, I have discovered being forced to get up early in the morning is very different from being an early bird.Questions 12 to 15 are based on the passage you have just heard.Question 12.What does the speaker say she did on her ride to the Isles of Scilly?Question 13.What do we learn from the passage about elite sleepers?Question 14.What has the speaker been trying to find out over the past year?Question 15.What has the speaker discovered after a year of tough scientific study?Recording OneIf you read an article about a controversial issue, do you think you'd realize if it had changed your beliefs?No one knows your own mind like you do.It seems obvious that you would know if your beliefs had shifted.And yet, a new paper in the Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology suggests that we actually have very poor awareness of our own belief change, meaning that we will tend to underestimate how much we've been swayed by a convincing article.The researchers recruited over 200 undergraduates across two studies and focused on their beliefs about whether physical punishment of kids is an effective form of discipline.The students reported their initial beliefs about whether physical punishment is an effective way to discipline a child on the scale from"1. Completely disbelieve" to"9. Completely believe".Several weeks later, they were given one of two research-based texts to read.Each was several pages long and either presented the arguments and data in favour of physical punishment or against it.After this, the students answered some questions to test their comprehension and memory of the text.Then, the students again scored their belief in whether physical punishment is effective or not.Finally, the researchers asked them to recall what their belief had been at the start of the study.The students' belief about physical punishment changed when they read a text that argued against their own initial position.Crucially, the memory of their initial belief was shifted in the direction of their new belief.In fact, their memory was closer to their current belief than their original belief.The more their belief had changed, the larger this memory bias tended to be, suggesting the students were relying on their current belief to deduce their initial belief.The memory bias was unrelated to the measures of how well they'd understood or recalled the text, suggesting these factors didn't play a role in memory of initial belief or awareness of belief change.The researchers concede that this research was about changes to mostly moderate beliefs.It's likely the findings would be different in the context of changes to extreme or deeply held beliefs.However, our beliefs on most topics are in the moderate range, and as we go about our daily lives reading informative material, these intriguing findings suggest we are mostly ignorant of how what we just read has updated and altered our own position.Questions 16 to 18 are based on the recording you have just heard.Question 16.What does a new paper in the Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology suggest?Question 17.What happened when the students read a text that argued against their own initial position?Question 18.What did the researchers concede concerning their findings?Recording TwoAs the American population grows, so does the number of American moms.But more than a century after Mother's Day became an official holiday, even as that number increases, the share of the American population who are mothers is at the lowest point in a quarter century.It's frequently noted that fertility rates are falling sharply inricher countries.But the less observed consequence of this trend is that a decline in births can also mean a decline in motherhood in general.According to my analysis of data from the Census Bureau, the decline of American motherhood is real, occurring very quickly, and may continue for some time yet.Not only are moms making up less of the population, but their characteristics are changing too and in a way that might be linked to their proportional decline.Moms today tend to be older than in the past.Just looking at recent years, the change in age-specific birth rates has been drastic.In just the past few years, the peak childbearing age range for American women has advanced from that of 25~29 to that of 30~34.Meanwhile, childbearing among women under 20 has fallen by half or more, while childbearing among women 35 and older is rising.One positive consequence of this age shift is that a larger proportion of new mothers are economically prepared to raise children.Less positively, however, many women find that, as they age, they can't have as many kids as they would like.Plus, having children later in life can increase the risk of health complications.These finer points aside, one major consequence of the older mom's trend is that fewer years of a woman's life are spent as a mother.This means that, at any given time, a larger share of women and thus of the whole population, will report not having children in government surveys.In other words, later motherhood means less motherhood.Even as motherhood rates decline, Mother's Day, of course, will endure.In fact, despite the demographic shift, retail spending on the holiday appears to be rising.It is hard to say if Mother's Day spending is rising more than one would expect, given that the American population keeps growing.But one factor might be that the proportion of women who are the mothers of adult children is rising and those adult children may spend more generously when it comes to celebrating the moms they no longer live with.Questions 19 to 21 are based on the recording you have just heard.Question 19.What does the speaker conclude from her analysis of the Census Bureau's data?Question 20.What does the speaker say is a positive consequence of the age shift in childbearing?Question 21.What might be one explanation for the rise in retailspending on Mother's Day?Recording ThreeSince NASA published a paper in 1989 claiming that house plants can soak up pollution and toxic chemicals, businesses and homeowners have increasingly invested in greenery to help clean their air.But a new analysis suggests it could actually take more than 1,000 plants per square meter to gain a benefit any greater than simply opening a couple of windows.The problem lies in the fact that NASA conducted their tests in sealed containers that do not simulate the conditions in most people's homes or offices.The space agency was primarily concerned about keeping the air fresh for astronauts cut off in biospheres or space stations, and helping to combat "sick building syndrome" which had become a problem due to the super-insulated and energy-efficient offices of the late 1970s.By the early 1980s, workers regularly complained of skin rashes, sleepiness, headaches, and allergies as they breathed in toxic chemicals from paints and plastics.NASA found that certain plants could remove chemicals from the air, and even today garden centers recommend the plants for air cleaning properties.However, a new evaluation of dozens of studies spanning 30 years found that house plants in a normal environment have little impact.In fact, natural ventilation is far better at cleaning the air.The researchers also calculated the clean air delivery rate for plants in the studies they analyzed and found that the rate at which plants disperse the compounds was well below the usual rate of air exchange in a normal building, caused by the movement of people coming and going, opening doors and windows.Many of the studies did show a reduction in the concentration of volatile organic compounds over time, which is likely why people have seized on them to praise the air purifying virtues of plants.But the researchers' calculations showed it would take 10 to 1,000 plants per square meter of floor space to compete with the air cleaning capacity of a building's air handling system or even just a couple of open windows in a house.In contrast, NASA's sealed experiment recommended one pot plant per 100 square feet.This is certainly an example of how scientific findings can be misleading or misinterpreted over time.But it's also a great example of how scientific research should continually re-examine and question findings to get closer to the ground truth of understanding what's actually happening.Questions 22 to 25 are based on the recording you have just heard.Question 22.What does NASA's 1989 paper claim house plants can do?Question 23.What is said to be the problem with NASA's study reported in its 1989 paper?Question 24.What is the finding of a new evaluation of dozens of studies spanning 30 years?Question 25.What does NASA's sealed experiment recommendation exemplify in scientists'pursuit of truth?。

2014年12月大学英语六级考试真题及答案详解和听力原文第二套

2014年12月大学英语六级测试真题第二套Part I Writing (30 minutes)Directions: For this part, you are allowed 30 minutes to write on essay based on the picture below. You should start your essay with a brief description of the picture and then discuss what qualities an employer should look for in job applicants. You should give sound arguments to support your views and write at least 150 words but no more than 200 words.Part II Listening Comprehension (30 minutes)Section ADirections: In this section, you will hear 8 short conversations and 2 long conversations. At the end of each conversation, one or more questions will be asked about what was said. Both the conversation and the questions will be spoken only once. After each question there will be a pause. During the pause, you must read the four choices marked A)， B)， C) and D)， and decide which is the best answer. Then mark the corresponding letter on Answer Sheet 1 with a single line through the centre.注意：此部分试题请在答题卡1上作答1.A) At a grocery B) In a parking lot C) In a car showroom D) At a fast food restaurant.2. A) Have a little nap after lunchB) Get up and take a short walk C) Change her position now and then.D) Stretch her legs before standing up.3. A) The students should practice long-distance running. B) He doesn’t quite believe what the woman says.C) The students’ physical condition is not desirable. D) He thinks the race is too hard for the students.4. A) They do not want to have a baby at present.B) They cannot afford to get married right now. C) They are both pursuing graduate studies.D) They will get their degrees in two years.5. A) Twins usually have a lot in common. B) He must have been mistaken for Jack.C) Jack is certainly not as healthy as he is. D) He has not seen Jack for quite a few days.6. A) The man will take the woman to the museum. B) The man knows where the museum is located.C) The woman is asking the way at the crossroads. D) The woman will attend the opening of the museum.7. A) They cannot ask the guy to leave.B) The guy has been coming in for years. C) They should not look down upon the guy.D) The guy must be feeling extremely lonely.8. A) Collect timepieces. B) Learn to mend clocks. C) Become time-conscious. D) Keep track of his daily activities. Questions 9 to 11 are based on the conversation you have just heard.9. A) It winds its way to the sea. B) It is eating into its banks.C) It is quickly rising. D) It is wide and deep10. A) Get the trucks over to the other side of the river. B) Take the equipment apart before being ferried.C) Reduce the transport cost as much as possible. D) Try to speed up the operation by any means.11. A) Ask the commander to send a helicopter.B) Halt the operation until further orders. C) Cut trees and build rowing boats.D) Find as many boats as possible.Questions 12 to 15 are based on the conversation you have just heard.12. A) Help him join an Indian expedition.B) Talk about his climbing experiences. C) Give up mountain climbing altogether.D) Save money to buy climbing equipment.13. A) He was very strict with his children. B) He climbed mountains to earn a living.C) He had an unusual religious background. D) He was the first to conquer Mt. Qomolangma.14. A) They are like humans. B) They are sacred places. C) They are to be protected. D) They are to be conquered.15. A) It was his father’s training that pulled him through.B) It was a milestone in his mountain climbing career.C) It was his father who gave him the strength to succeed.D) It helped him understand the Sherpa view of mountains.Section BDirections: In this section, you will hear 3 short passages. At the end of each passage, you will hear some questions. Both the passage and the questions will be spoken only once. After you hear a question, you must choose the best answer from the four choices marked A)， B)， C) and D). Then mark the corresponding letter on Answer Sheet 1 with a single line through the centre.注意：此部分试题请在答题卡1上作答。

2014年6月大学英语六级考试真题及答案详解和听力原文第一套

2014年6月大学英语六级考试真题第一套Part I Writing (30 minutes)Directions: For this part, you are allowed 30 minutes to write an essay explaining why it is unwise to judge a person by their appearance. You can give examples to illustrate your point. You should write at least 150 words but no more than 200 words.Part II Listening Comprehension (30 minutes)Section ADirections: In this section, you will hear 8 short conversations and 2 long conversations. At the end of each conversation, one or more questions will be asked about what was said. Both the conversation and the questions will be spoken only once. After each question there will be a pause. During the pause, you must read the four choices marked A ),B．, C．and D．, and decide which is the best answer. Then mark the corresponding letter on Answer Sheet1 with a single line through the centre.1. A. They might be stolen goods.B．They might be fake products.C．They might be faulty products.D．They might be smuggled goods.2. A．They are civil servants. B．They are job applicants.C．They are news reporters. D．They are public speakers.3. A．The man has decided to quit his computer class. B．The woman wants to get a degree in administration. C．A computer degree is a must for administrative work. D．The man went to change the time of his computer class.4.A．A lot of contestants participated in the show. B．The fifth contestant won the biggest prize. C．It was not as exciting as he had expected. D．It was sponsored by a car manufacturer.5. A．Reading a newspaper column. B．Looking at a railway timetable.C．Driving from New York to Boston. D．Waiting for someone at the airport.6. A．He wears a coat bought in the mall. B．He got a new job at the barbershop.C．He had a finger hurt last night. D．He had his hair cut yesterday.7. A．He cannot appreciate the Picasso exhibition.B．Even his nephew can draw as well as Picasso.C．He is not quite impressed with modern paintings.D．Some drawings by kindergarten kids are excellent.8. A．He should not put the cart before the horse.B．His conduct does not square with his words.C．His attitude to student government has changed.D．He has long been involved in student government. Questions 9 to 11 are based on the conversation you have just heard.9. A．She left her own car in Manchester. B．Something went wrong with her car.C．She wants to go traveling on the weekend. D．Her car won't be back in a week's time.10.A．Safety. B．Comfort. C．Size.D．Cost.11.A．Third-party insurance. B．Value-added tax. C．Petrol. D．CDW.Questions 12 to 15 are based on the conversation you have just heard.12. A．How to update the basic facilities.B．What to do to enhance their position. C．Where to locate their plant. D．How to attract investments.13.A．Their road link to other European countries is fast.B．They are all located in the south of France.C．They are very close to each other.D．Their basic facilities are good.14.A．Try to avoid making a hasty decision.B．Take advantage of the train links.C．Talk with the local authorities. D．Conduct field surveys first.15.A．Future product distribution.B．Local employment policies. C．Road and rail links for small towns. D．Skilled workforce in the hilly region.Section BDirections.. In this section, you will hear 3 short passages. At the end of each passage, you will hear some questions. Both the passage and the questions will be spoken only once. After you hear a question, you must choose the best answer from the four choices marked A ) , B ) , C．and D ) . Then mark the corresponding letter on ,Answer Sheet 1 with a single line through the centre.Passage OneQuestions 16 to 18 are based on the passage you have just heard. 16.A．One fifth of them were on bad terms with their sisters and brothers.B．About one eighth of them admitted to lingering bitter feelings.C．More than half of them were involved in inheritance disputes.D．Most of them had broken with their sisters and brothers.17.A．Less concern with money matters.B．More experience in worldly affairs. C．Advance in age. D．Freedom from work.18.A．They have little time left to renew contact with their brothers and sisters.B．They tend to forget past unhappy memories and focus on their present needs.C．They are more tolerant of one another.D．They find close relatives more reliable.Passage TwoQuestions 19 to 22 are based on the passage you have just heard.19.A．They have bright colors and intricate patterns.B．They can only survive in parts of the Americas.C．They are the only insect that migrates along fixed routes.D．They have strong wings capable of flying long distances.20.A．In a Michigan mountain forest.B．In a Louisiana mountain forest. C．In a Kentucky mountain forest. D．In a Mexican mountain forest.21.A．Each flock of butterflies lays eggs in the same states.B．They start to lay eggs when they are nine months old.C．Each generation in a cycle lays eggs at a different place.D．Only the strongest can reach their destination to lay eggs.22.A．Evolution of monarch butterflies.B．Living habits of monarch butterflies.C．Migration patterns of monarch butterflies.D．Environmental impacts on monarch butterfly life.Passage ThreeQuestions 23 to 25 are based on the passage you have just heard.23.A．Time has become more limited.B．Time has become more precious. C．Time is money. D．Time is relative.24.A．Americans now attach more importance to the effective use of time.B．Americans today have more free time than earlier generations.C．The number of hours Americans work has increased steadily.D．More and more Americans feel pressed for time nowadays.25.A．Our interpersonal relationships improve.B．Our work efficiency increases greatly. C．Our living habits are altered. D．Our behavior is changed.Section CDirections: In this section, you will hear a passage three times. When the passage is read for the first time, you should listen carefully for its general idea. When the passage is read for the second time, you are required to fill in the blanks with the exact words you have just heard. Finally, when the passage is read for the third time, you should check what you have written.The first copyright law in the United States was passed by Congress in 1790. In 1976 Congress enacted the latest copyright law, (26) __________ the technological developments that had occurred since the passage of the Copyright Act of 1909. For example, in 1909, anyone who wanted to make a single copy of a (27) __________ work for personal use had to do so by hand. The very process (28) __________ a limitation on the quantity of materials copied. Today, a photocopier can do the work in seconds; the limitation has disappeared. The 1909 law did not provide full protection for films and sound recordings, nor did it (29) __________ the need to protect radio and television. As a result, (30) __________ of the law and abuses of the intent of the law have lessened the (31) __________ rewards of authors, artists, and producers. The 1976 Copyright Act has not prevented these abuses fully, but it has clarified the legal rights of the injured parties and given them an (32) __________ for remedy.Since 1976 the Act has been (33) __________ to include computer software, and guidelines have been adopted for fair use of television broadcasts. These changes have cleared up much of the confusion and conflict that followed (34) __________ the 1976 legislation.The fine points of the law are decided by the courts and by acceptable common practice over time. As these decisions and agreements are made, we modify our behavior accordingly. For now, we need to (35) __________ the law and its guidelines as accurately as we can and to act in a fair manner.Part III Reading Comprehension (40 minutes)Section ADirections: In this section, there is a passage with ten blanks. You are required to select one word for each blank from a list of choices given in a word bank following the passage. Read the passage through carefully before making your choices. Each choice in the bank is identified by a letter. Please mark the corresponding letter for each item on Answer Sheet 2 with a single line through the centre. You may not use any of the words in the bank more than once.Questions 36 to 45 are based on the following passage.Fear can be an effective way to change behavior. One study compared the effects of high-fear and low-fear appeals on changes in attitudes and behaviors related to dental hygiene(卫生). One group of subjects was shown awful pictures of ___36___ teeth and diseased gums; another group was shown less frightening materials such as plastic teeth, charts, and graphs. Subjects who saw the frightening materials reported more anxiety and a greater ___37___ to change the way they took care of their teeth than the low-fear group did.But were these reactions actually ___38___ into better dental hygiene practices? To answer this important question, subjects were called back to the laboratory on two ___39___ (five days and six weeks after the experiment). They chewed disclosing wafers(牙疾诊断片) that give a red stain to any uncleaned areas of the teeth and thus provided a direct ___40___ of how well they were really taking care of their teeth. The result showed that the high-fear appeal did actually result in greater and more ___41___ changes in dental hygiene. That is, the subjects ___42___ to high-fear warnings brushed their teeth more ___43___ than did those who saw low-fear warnings.However, to be an effective persuasive device it is very important that the message not be too frightening and that people be given ___44___ guidelines to help them to reduce the cause of the fear. If this isn’t done, they may reduce their anxiety by denying the message or the ___45___ of the communicator. If that happens, it is unlikely that either attitude or behavior change will occur.A) accustomedB) carefullyC) cautiously D) concreteE) credibilityF) decayedG) desireH) dimensionsI) eligibleJ) exposedK) indicationL) occasionsM) permanentN) sensitivityO) translatedSection BDirections: In this section, you are going to read a passage with ten statements attached to it. Each statement contains information given in one of the paragraphs. Identify the paragraph from which the information is derived. You may choose a paragraph more than once. Each paragraph is marked with a letter. Answer the questions by marking the corresponding letter on .Answer Sheet 2.The Street-Level SolutionA．When I was growing up, one of my father's favorite sayings (borrowed from the humorist Will Rogers) was: "It isn't what we don't know that causes the trouble; it's what we think we know that just ain't so. "One of the main insights to be taken from the 100 000 Homes Campaign and its strategy to end chronic homelessness is that, until recently, our society thought it understood the nature of homelessness, but it didn't.B．That led to a series of mistaken assumptions about why people become homeless and what they need. Many of the errors in our homelessness policies have stemmed from the conception that the homeless are a homogeneous group. It's only in the past 15 years that organizations like Common Ground, and others, have taken a street-level view of the problem--distinguishing the "episodically homeless" from the," chronically homeless" in order to understand their needs at an individual level. This is why we can now envisage a different approach--and get better results.C．Most readers expressed support for the effort, although a number were skeptical, and a few utterly dismissive, about the chances of long-term homeless people adapting well to housing. This is to be expected; it's hard to imagine what we haven't yet seen. As Niccol6 Machiavelli wrote in The Prince, one of the major obstacles in any effort to advance systemic change is the "incredulity of men," which is to say that people "do not readily believe in new things until they have had a long experience of them. " Most of us have witnessed homeless people on the streets for decades. Few have seen formerly homeless people after they have been housed successfully. We don't have reference points for that story. So we generalize from what we know--or think we know.D．But that can be misleading, even to experts. When I asked Rosanne Haggerty, founded of Common Ground, which currently operates 2 310 units of supportive housing (with 552 more under construction), what had been her biggest surprise in this work, she replied: "Fifteen years ago, I would not have believed that people who had been so broken and stuck in homelessness could thrive to the degree that they do in our buildings." And Becky Kanis, thecampaign's director, commented:"There is this sense in our minds that someone who's on the streets is almost in their DNA different from someone who has a house. The campaign is creating a first-hand experience for many people that that is really not the case."E．One of the startling realizations that I had while researching this column is that anybody could become like a homeless person--all it takes is a traumatic (创伤的) brain injury. A bicycle fall, a car accident, a slip on the ice, or if you're a soldier, a head wound--and your life could become unrecognizable. James O'Connell, a doctor who has been treating the most vulnerable homeless people on the streets of Boston for 25 years, estimates that 40 percent of the long-term homeless people he's met had such a brain injury. "For many it was a head injury prior to the time they became homeless," he said. "They became unpredictable. They'd have mood swings, fits of explosive behavior. They couldn't hold onto their jobs. Drinking made them feel better. They'd end up on the streets."F．Once homeless people return to housing, they're in a much better position to rebuild their lives. But it's important to note that housing alone is not enough. As with many complex social problems, when you get through the initial crisis, you have another problem to solve which is no less challenging. But it is a better problem.G．Over the past decade, O'Connell has seen this happen. "I spend half my time on the streets or in the hospital and the other half making house calls to people who lived for years on the streets," he said. "So from a doctor's point of view it's a delightful switch, but it's not as if putting someone in housing is the answer to addressing all of their problems. It's the first step."H．Once in housing, formerly homeless people can become isolated and lonely. If they've lived on the streets for years, they may have acquired a certain standing as well as a sense of pride in their survival skills. Now indoors, those aspects of their identity may be stripped away. Many also experience a profound disorientation at the outset. "If you're homeless for more than six months, you kind of lose your bearings," says Haggerty. "Existence becomes not about overcoming homelessness but about finding food, begging, looking for a job to survive another day. The whole process of how you define stability gets reordered."I．Many need regular, if not continuous, support with mental health problems, addictions and illnesses-and, equally important, assistance in the day-to-day challenges of life, reacquainting with family, building relationships with neighbors, finding enjoyable activities or work, managing finances, and learning how to eat healthy food.J．For some people, the best solution is to live in a communal (集体) residence, with special services. This isn't available everywhere, however. In Boston, for example, homeless people tend to be scattered in apartments throughout the city.K．Common Ground's large residences in New York offer insight into the possibilities for change when homeless people have a rich array of supports. In addition to more traditional social services, residents also make use of communal gardens, classes in things like cooking, yoga, theatre and photography, and job placement. Last year, 188 formerly homeless tenants in four of Common Ground's residences, found jobs.L．Because the properties have many services and are well-managed, Haggerty has found post housing problems to be surprisingly rare. In the past 10 years, there have been only a handful of incidents of quarrels between tenants. There is very little graffiti (破坏) or vandalism (涂鸦). And the turnover is almost negligible. In the Prince George Hotel in New York, which is home to 208 formerly homeless people and 208 low-income tenants, the average length of tenancy is close to seven years. (All residents pay 30 percent of their income for rent for the formerly homeless, this comes out of their government benefits. ) When people move on, it is usually because they've found a preferable apartment.M．"Tenants also want to participate in shaping the public areas of the buildings," said Haggerty. "They formed a gardening committee. They want a terrace on the roof. Those are things I didn't count on." The most common tenant demand? "People always want more storage space--but that's true of every New Yorker," she adds. "In many ways, we're a lot like a normal apartment building. Our tenants look like anyone else."N．As I mentioned, homelessness is a catch-all for a variety of problems. A number of readers asked whether the campaign will address family homelessness, which has different causes and requires a different solution. I've been following some of the promising ideas emerging to address and prevent family homelessness. Later in 2011, I'll explore these ideas in a column. For now, l'11 conclude with an update on the 100 000 Homes Campaign. Since Tuesday, New Orleans and a few other communities have reported new results. The current count of people housed is 7 043.46. Tenants in Common Ground's residences all want more room for storage.47. Homes Campaign provides first-hand proof that the homeless are not what they were once believed to be.48. Common Ground's residences are well-managed and by and large peaceful.49. Housing the homeless is only the first step to solving all their problems.50. A large percent of the chronically homeless have suffered from brain injury.51. After being housed many homeless people become confused at first as to how to deal with life off the street.52. Some people think the best way to help the homeless is to provide them with communal housing.53. The homeless with health problems should be given regular support in their daily lives.54. Until recently American society has failed to see what homelessness is all about.55. Many formerly homeless tenants in New York's Common Ground's residences got hired.Section CDirections: There are 2 passages in this section. Each passage is followed by some questions or unfinished statements. For each of them there are four choices marked A ) ,B．, C．and D ). You should decide on the best choice and mark the corresponding letter on Answer Sheet 2. with a single line through the centre.Passage OneQuestions 56 to 60 are based on the following passage.Technology can make us smarter or stupider, and we need to develop a set of principles to guide our everyday behavior and make sure that tech is improving and not hindering our mental processes. One of the big questions being debated today is: What kind of information do we need to have stored in our heads, and what kind can we leave "in the cloud," to be accessed as necessary?An increasingly powerful group within education are championing “digital literacy”. In their view, skills beat knowledge, developing “digital literacy” is more important than learning mere content, and all facts are now Google-able and therefo re unworthy of committing to memory. But even the most sophisticated digital literacy skills won’t help students and workers navigate the world if they don’t have a broad base of knowledge about how the world actually operates. If you focus on the delivery mechanism and not the content, you’re doing kids a disservice.Indeed, evidence from cognitive science challenges the notion that skills can exist independent of factual knowledge. Data from the last thirty years leads to a conclusion that is not scientifically challengeable: thinking well requires knowing facts, and that’s true not only because you need something to think about. The very processes that teachers care about most—critical thinking processes—are intimately intertwined (交织) with factual knowledge that is stored in long-term memory.In other words, just because you can Google the date of Black Tuesday doesn't mean you understand why the Great Depression happened or how it compares to our recent economic slump. There is no doubt that the students of today, and the workers of tomorrow, will need to innovate, collaborate and evaluate. But such skills can't be separated from the knowledge that gives rise to them. To innovate, you have to know what came before. To collaborate, you have to contribute knowledge to the joint venture. And to evaluate, you have to compare new information against knowledge you've already mastered.So here’s a principle for thinking in a digital world, in two parts. First, acquire a base of factual knowledge in any domain in which you want to perform well. This base supplies the essential foundation for building skills, and it can’t be outsourced (外包) to a search engine.Second, take advantage of computers’ invariable memory, but also the brain’s elaborative memory. Computers are great when you want to store information that shou ldn’t change. But brains are the superior choice when you want information to change, in interesting and useful ways: to connect up with other facts and ideas, to acquire successive layers of meaning, to steep for a while in your accumulated knowledge and experience and so produce a richer mental brew.56. What is the author's concern about the use of technology?A．It may leave knowledge "in the cloud".B．It may misguide our everyday behavior.C．It may cause a divide in the circles of education.D．It may hinder the development of thinking skills.57. What is the view of educators who advocate digital literacy?A．It helps kids to navigate the virtual world at will.B．It helps kids to broaden their scope of knowledge.C．It increases kids' efficiency of acquiring knowledge.D．It liberates kids from the burden of memorizing facts.58. What does evidence from cognitive science show?A．Knowledge is better kept in long-term memory.B．Critical thinking is based on factual knowledge.C．Study skills are essential to knowledge acquisition.D．Critical thinking means challenging existing facts.59. What does the author think is key to making evaluations?A．Gathering enough evidence before drawing conclusions.B．Mastering the basic rules and principles for evaluation.C．Connecting new information with one's accumulated knowledge.D．Understanding both what has happened and why it has happened.60. What is the author's purpose in writing the passage?A．To warn against learning through memorizing facts.B．To promote educational reform in the information age.C．To explain human brains' function in storing information.D．To challenge the prevailing overemphasis on digital literacy.Passage TwoQuestions 61 to 65 are based on the following passage.America's recent history has been a persistent tilt to the West--of people, ideas, commerce and even political power. California and Texas are the twin poles of the West, but very different ones. For most of the 20th century the home of Silicon Valley and Hollywood has been the brainier and trendier of the two. Texas has trailed behind: its stereotype has been a conservative Christian in cowboy boots. But twins can change places. Is that happening now?It is easy to find evidence that California is in a panic. At the start of this month the once golden state started paying creditors in IOUs (欠条). The gap between projected outgoings and income for the current fiscal (财政的) year has leapt to a horrible $26 billion. With no sign of a new budget to close this gulf, one credit agency has already downgraded California's debt. As budgets are cut, universities will let in fewer students, prisoners will be released early and schemes to protect the vulnerable will be rolled back.By contrast, Texas has coped well with the recession, with an unemployment rate two points below the national average and one of the lowest rates of housing repossession. In part this is because Texan banks, hard hit in the last property bust, did not overexpand this time. Texas also clearly offers a different model, based on small government. It has no state capital-gains or income tax, and a business-friendly and immigrant-tolerant attitude. It is home to more Fortune 500 companies than any other state.Despite all this, it still seems too early to hand over America's future to Texas. To begin with, that lean Texan model has its own problems. It has not invested enough in education, and many experts rightly worry about a "lost generation" of mostly Hispanic Texans with insufficient skills for the demands of the knowledge economy.Second, it has never paid to bet against a state with as many inventive people as California. Even if Hollywood has gone into depression, it still boasts an unequalled array of sunrise industries and the most brisk venture-capital industry on the planet. The state also has an awesome ability to reinvent itself--as it did when its defence industry collapsed at the end of the cold war.The truth is that both states could learn from each other. Texas still lacks California's great universities and lags in terms of culture. California could adopt not just Texas's leaner state, but also its more bipartisan (两党的) approach to politics. There is no perfect model of government: it is America's genius to have 50 public-policy laboratories competing to find out what works best.61. What does the author say about California and Texas in Paragraph 17A．They have been competing for the leading position.B．California has been superior to Texas in many ways.C．They are both models of development for other states.D．Texas's cowboy culture is less known than California's.62. What does the author say about today's California?A．Its debts are pushing it into bankruptcy. B．Its budgets have been cut by $26 billion. C．It is faced with a serious financial crisis. D．It is trying hard to protect the vulnerable.63. In what way is Texas different from California?A．It practices small government. B．It is home to traditional industries. C．It has a large Hispanic population. D．It has an enviable welfare system.64. What problem is Texas confronted with?A．Its Hispanic population is mostly illiterate.B．Its sunrise industries are shrinking rapidly.C．Its education cannot meet the needs of the knowledge economy.D．Its immigrants have a hard time adapting to its cowboy culture.65. What do we learn about American politics from the passage?A．Each state has its own way of governing.B．Most states favor a bipartisan approach.C．Parties collaborate in drawing public policies.D．All states believe in government for the people.Part IV Translation (30 minutes)Directions: For this part, you are allowed 30 minutes to translate a passage from Chinese into English. You should write your answer on Answer Sheet 2.中文热词通常反映社会变化和文化，有些在外国媒体上愈来愈流行。

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2014年6月大学英语六级考试真题(二)Part I Writing (30 minutes)题目一：Directions: For this part, you are allowed 30 minutes to write an essay explaining why it is unwise to put all eggs in one basket．You can give examples to illustrate your point．You should write at least 150 words and no more than 200words．题目二：Directions: For this part, you are allowed 30 minutes to write an essay explaining why it is unwise to jump to conclusions upon seeing or hearing something．You can give examples to illustrate your point．You should write at least 150 words but no more than 200 words．注意：此部分试题请在答题卡1上作答。

Part ⅡListening Comprehension (30 minutes)Section ADirections: In this section, you will hear 8 short conversations and 2 long conversations．At the end of each conversation, one or more questions will be asked about what was said．Both the conversation and the questions will be spoken only once．After each question there will be a pause．During the pause, you must read the four choices marked A), B), C) and D), and decide which is the best answer ．Then mark the corresponding letter on Answer Sheet 1 with a single line through the centre．注意：此部分试题请在答题卡1上作答。

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2014年12月英语六级听力原文第2套听力短对话1.2.W: Oh, here’s a piece of cake and a small coffee for you, sir. The total is 35 yuan. For here or to go?M: To go. I’d like to have them in my car. Thank you.Q: Where does this conversation most probably take place?2. W: Oh, I must have been sitting in the same position too long. My legs have fallen asleep.M: Shake them a little before you get up.Q: What does the man suggest the woman do?3. W: It’s hard to believe that half the class couldn’t complete the three-t housand-meter race, isn’t it?M: I’m afraid that says something about the students’ physical fitness. Q: What does the man mean?4. W: Have Lisa and Eric started a family yet? They’ve been married for two years now.M: Eric told me that they postponed having children until he gets his doc toral degree.Q: What do we learn about Lisa and Eric?5. W: Hi, John. Haven’t seen you for quite a few days. I heard from guysat the gym you’ve been sick. How are you feeling now?M: They must have confused me with my brother Jack. Anyway, he’s fee ling better now.Q: What does the man mean?6. W: Excuse me. Will it take me long to get to the museum that opened t o the public recently?M: No, it’s no distance at all. In fact, I’m going in the same direction. Co me and I’ll show you the way when we get to the crossroads. Q: What do we learn from the conversation?7. M: See that guy over there in the corner. He comes in every Friday nig ht around six and he just sits there for hours。

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2014年英语六级真题PartI Writing ( 30minutes)1.Directions: For this part, you are allowed 30 minutes to write an essay explaining why it is unwise to put all your eggs in one basket. You can give examples to illustrate your point .You should write at least 150 words but no more than 200 words.Or 2.Directions: For this part, you are allowed 30 minutes to write an essay explaining why it is unwise a person by their appearance. You can give examples to illustrate your point .You should write at least 150 words but no more than 200 words.Or3.Directions: For this part, you are allowed 30 minutes to write an essay explaining why it is unwise to jump to conclusions upon seeing or hearing something. You can give examples to illustrate your point .You should write at least 150 words but no more than 200 words. Part ⅡListening Comprehension (30 minutes)Section ADirections:In this section,you will hear 8 short conversations and 2 long conversations.At the end of each conversation, one or more questions will be asked about what was said.Both the conversation and the questions will be spoken only once.After each question there will be a pause.During the pause,you must read the four choices marked A),B),C)and D),and decide which is the best answer.Then mark the corresponding letter on Answer Sheet1 with a single line through the centre.注意：此部分试题请在答题卡1上作答。

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College English Test (Band 6)Part II Listening ComprehensionSection ADirections: In this section, you will hear 8 short conversationsand 2 long conversations.At the end of each conversation,one or more questions will be asked about what was said.Both the conversation and the questions will be spoken only once.After each question there will be a pause.During the pause, you must read the four choices marked A), B), C) and D),and decide which is the best answer.Then mark the corresponding letter on Answer Sheet 1with a single line through the centre.1. M: Look at the low prices on these fashionable TV sets.Something is fishy, dont you think so?W: Well, there have been a lot of robberies recently.Some of the stolen goods may have landed here.Q: What does the woman imply about thelow-priced television sets?2. M: Ive been assigned to cover the governor speech today.What about you?W: Nothing is grand as yours.I have to do an interview for the evening news about a man with dozens of cats. Q: What do we learn about the speakers?3. W: Didnt I see you going intothe administration building this afternoon?M: I needed to switch my computer class to the 9:50 section.Q: What do we learn from the conversation?4. W: I guess you watch the quiz show on television last night.What did you think about it?M: Well, its great.The first four contestants won only small prizes,but the fifth left with a new luxury car.Q: What does the man say about the quiz show?5. W: I cant find the arrival time of the New York toBoston Express on this schedule.M: Look for New York in the left-hand column andfollow it across until you find the hour listed in the Boston column.Q: What are the speakers most probably doing?6. W: You look different today,but I cant quite put my finger on what it is.M: Oh, yesterday I finally got around tothat new barbershop in the mall and enjoyed theirs.Q: What can be inferred about the man?7. W: What do you think of Picassos painting exhibited in the city museum?M: Personally I cant quite see the meaning in his modern works.Most of them remind me of the stuff my nephew brings home from the kindergarten.Q: What does the man mean?8. W: Rod said he wanted to get involved in student government this year.M: But he hasnt gone to a single meeting, has he?Q: What does the man imply about Rod?Now youll hear the two long conversations.Conversation OneM: Good morning, madam! Can I help you?W: Oh, I do hope so.I have to get to Manchester today and my own car has broken down.Do you by any chance have a car available?M: For how many days, madam?W: Three, just until the weekend.M: And what sort of car did you have in mind?W: Well. That depends a little bit on the price.But I normally drive a Chevrolet.Do you have anything like that?M: Yes, certainly. Thats group C which includes Chevrolet and Sea-arrows. W: How much are they?M: Well, for three days,you would have to have it under the unlimited mileage conditions,which will work out cheaper for Manchester anyway.Lets see, Group C,three to five days hire with unlimited mileage is 53 pounds per day.W: I see. Does that include everything?M: It includes third-party insurance,but does not include value-added tax, petrol or CDW.W: Whats that?M: CDW? Oh, thats to cover you in case you damage the hired car.Third-party insurance only covers you for damage to another vehicle.For Group C car, it's 6 pounds per day.W: OK. I think Ill have the Chevrolet.M: Right. Could I have your driving license, please?W: Certainly. Here we are.M: So, its Ms. J.B. Couty.W: Yes. Thats right.M: And the number is 509024bc9cs, expiring the 1st of July, 2015.And do you want to take it immediately?W: Yes, I do, please.M: Lovely. Well, you could just initial that box there for the CDW,and that box there to confirm you have no driving convictions.Thank you. And then sign there. Great! Thats it!Questions 9 to 11 are based on the conversation you have just heard.9. Why does the woman want to hire a car?10. What is the womans main consideration in hiring a car?11. What does the daily charge include?Conversation TwoW: So, possible locations for the plant.First, the basic facilities for the region are generally very good,at least between the three main cities, Bilbao, Victoriain the south and San Bebastian.There is now a fast train link to the south of France and to the rest of Spain. Although improvements affect Bilbao principally,but the whole region benefits.First, the port area has been completely modernized and relocated.And airport has also been extended. So the basic facilities are good.M: Right. So, are we in a position to choose one of these cities?W: Well, lets not rush into anything.I think it’ll be a bad idea to assume we’re going to choose a city.It might be better to think about one of the smaller towns.M: Smaller places. Yes.So, should we get details on the possible places?W: Yes. We could do that.But, we need, I think, first, to check a few things,for example, tax benefits, grants, and anything like that.For locating to a smaller place, not one of the main cities,then we can make a better decision.M: Yes, I agree. Youve talked about the improved transport links in Bilbao. What about the links to the smaller townsIf its a mountainous or hilly region,it could take an hour or more for a truck to reach a main road.So I think we need to look specificallyat the train and road links for smaller towns.W: Yes. Youre right. Road and rail, and financial position.Questions 12 to 15 are based on the conversation you have just heard.12. What are the speakers discussing13. What does the woman say about Bilbao, Victoria and Suns Bastion14. What does the woman think they should do15. What is the man concerned aboutSection BDirections: In this section, you will hear 3 short passages.At the end of each passage, you will hear some questions.Both the passage and the questions will be spoken only once.After you hear a question,you must choose the best answer from the four choices marked A), B), C) and D). Then mark the corresponding letter on Answer Sheet 1with a single line through the centre.Passage OneIn a study of older people with sisters and brothers,psychologist Debra Gold of the Duke Center for the study of aging andhuman development found that about 20%said they were either hostile or indifferenttoward their sisters and brothers.Reasons for this ranged from inheritance disputesto hostility between spouses.But, many of those who had poor relationships felt guilty.Although most people admitted to some lingering rivalry,it was rarely strong enough to end the relationship.Only four out of the 55 people interviewedhad completely broken with their sisters and brothersand only one of the four felt comfortable with the break.As sisters and brothers advanced into old age,closeness increases and rivalry diminishes,explains Victor Cicirelli, a psychologist at Purdue University. Most of the elderly people he interviewed saidthey had supportive and friendly dealings and got along well or very well with their sisters and brothers.Only 4% got along poorly.Gold found that as people age,they often become more involved with andinterested in their sisters and brothers.53% of those she interviewed said that contactwith their sisters and brothers increase in late adulthood.With family and career obligations reduced, many said thatthey had more time for each other.Others said that they felt it was time to heal wounds.A man who had recently reconciled with his brothertold Gold theres something that lets older peopleput aside the bad deeds of the past andfocus a little on what we need now,especially when its sisters and brothers.Questions 16 to 18 are based on the passage you have just heard.16. What does the study by Debra Gold find about older people?17. What has probably caused closeness to increaseamong sisters and brothers according to Victor Cicirelli?18. What did the man who had recently reconciledwith his brother tell Debra Gold about older people?Passage TwoMonarch butterflies, the large orange and black insects,are a common summer sight in the northern United States and Canada. They brighten in parks and gardens as they fly among the flowers.What makes monarch butterflies particularly interesting is they migrate,all the way to California or Mexico and back.They are thought to be the only insect that does this.Every year in the late summer, monarchs begin their migration to the south. Those heading for Mexico go first for the Louisiana Mississippi region. Then they fly across the Gulf of Mexico into Texas. Once in Mexico,they establish themselves in one of about 15 sites in the mountain forest. Each site provides the winter home for millions of monarchs.The butterflies are so numerous that they often cover entire trees.When spring comes, they began their long journey north.The question is often asked whether every butterfly makesthe round trip journey every year. And the answer is no.The average monarch lives about nine months.So one flying north might lay eggs in Louisiana and then die.The eggs of that generation may be found in Kentucky,the eggs of the next generation may end up in Wisconsin or Michigan. The last generation of the season about the forth will makethe journey back to Mexico and restart the cycle.Scientists learn about monarch butterfliesmigration by capturing and placing identifying tags on the insects.By recapturing the tagged monarch and noting where they came from, the next scientist can figure out things like butterflys age and its routine.Questions 19 to 22 are based on the passage you have just heard.19. What is unique about the monarch butterflies according to the speaker?20. Where do monarch butterflies settle at the end of the migration?21. What does the speaker say about monarch butterflies reproduction?22. What is the talk mainly about?Passage ThreePeople nowadays seem to have the sense that their time has become more limited. That compared to earlier generations we spend more andmore time working and have less and less free timeto engage in leisure pursuits.But this premise turns out to be an illusion.The most comprehensive data from Major Time Use Surveys suggestthat if anything, Americans today have more free time than early generations. The number of hours we work has not changed much,but we spend less time now on home tasks.So we have a great amount of time for leisure than in decades past.So, why do we feel like time is so scarce? One problem isthat our time has become more valuable and as time becomes worth more money, we feel like we have less of it. Workers who bill or get paid as the hour,think employers and fast-food workers,report focusing more on pursuing more money than thosewho get paid by salary and the effect happens fast.In one experiment, people were told to play the role of consultantsand bill their time at either nine dollarsan hour or ninety dollars an hour.When people billed their time for ninety dollarsan hour, they reported feeling far more pressed for time. Thinking about our time as money changes our behavior as well. In one study, people who were instructed to think about money before entering a cafe spent less time chattingwith the other patrons and more time working.Those who are thinking about their time did the reverse, spending time socializing instead of working.Questions 23 to 25 are based on the passage you have just heard.23. What does the speaker say people now feel about time?24. What do the data from Major Time Use Service show?25. What happens when we think about our time as money? Section CDirections: In this section,you will hear a passage three times.When the passage is read for the first time,you should listen carefully for its general idea.When the passage is read for the second time,you are required to fill in the blanks with the exact wordsyou have just heard.Finally, when the passage is read for the third time,you should check what you have written.The first copyright law in the United Stateswas passed by congress in 1790.In 1976, congress enacted the latest copyright law,taking into consideration the technological developments thathad occurred since the passage of the copyright act of 1909.For example, in 1909 anyone who wanted to make a single copy ofa literary work for personal use had to do so by hand.The very process imposed a limitation on the quantity of materials copied. Today, a photocopier can do the work in seconds.The limitation has disappeared.The 1909 Law did not provide full protection for films and sound recordings, nor did it anticipate the need to protect radio and television.As a result, violations of the law and abuses of the intent of the lawhave lessened the financial rewards of authors, artists and producers.The 1976 copyright act has not prevented these abuses fully,but it has clarified the legal rights of the injured partiesand given them an avenue for remedy.Since 1976 the act has been amended to include computer softwareand guidelines have been adopted for fair use of television broadcasts. These changes have cleared up much of the confusion and conflictthat followed in the wake of 1976 legislation.The fine points of the law are decided by the courtsand by acceptable common practice overtime.As these decisions and agreements are made,we modify our behavior accordingly.For now, we need to interpret the law andits guidelines as accurately as we can and to act in a fair manner.Now, the passage will be read again.The first copyright law in the United Stateswas passed by congress in 1790.In 1976, congress enacted the latest copyright law,taking into consideration the technological developments thathad occurred since the passage of the copyright act of 1909.For example, in 1909 anyone who wanted to make a single copy ofa literary work for personal use had to do so by hand.The very process imposed a limitation on the quantity of materials copied. Today, a photocopier can do the work in seconds.The limitation has disappeared.The 1909 Law did not provide full protection for films and sound recordings, nor did it anticipate the need to protect radio and television.As a result, violations of the law and abuses of the intent of the lawhave lessened the financial rewards of authors, artists and producers.The 1976 copyright act has not prevented these abuses fully,but it has clarified the legal rights of the injured partiesand given them an avenue for remedy.Since 1976 the act has been amended to include computer softwareand guidelines have been adopted for fair use of television broadcasts. These changes have cleared up much of the confusion and conflictthat followed in the wake of 1976 legislation.The fine points of the law are decided by the courtsand by acceptable common practice overtime.As these decisions and agreements are made,we modify our behavior accordingly.For now, we need to interpret the law andits guidelines as accurately as we can and to act in a fair manner.Now, the passage is read for the third time,The first copyright law in the United Stateswas passed by congress in 1790.In 1976, congress enacted the latest copyright law,taking into consideration the technological developments thathad occurred since the passage of the copyright act of 1909.For example, in 1909 anyone who wanted to make a single copy ofa literary work for personal use had to do so by hand.The very process imposed a limitation on the quantity of materials copied. Today, a photocopier can do the work in seconds.The limitation has disappeared.The 1909 Law did not provide full protection for films and sound recordings, nor did it anticipate the need to protect radio and television.As a result, violations of the law and abuses of the intent of the lawhave lessened the financial rewards of authors, artists and producers.The 1976 copyright act has not prevented these abuses fully,but it has clarified the legal rights of the injured partiesand given them an avenue for remedy.Since 1976 the act has been amended to include computer softwareand guidelines have been adopted for fair use of television broadcasts. These changes have cleared up much of the confusion and conflictthat followed in the wake of 1976 legislation.The fine points of the law are decided by the courtsand by acceptable common practice overtime.As these decisions and agreements are made,we modify our behavior accordingly.For now, we need to interpret the law andits guidelines as accurately as we can and to act in a fair manner. This is the end of listening comprehension.。

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