大学英语6级考试听力直通249分 MODEL TEST2(在线收听

  [00:12.46]MODEL TEST 2
  [00:14.96]Section A
  [00:18.63]In this section,
  [00:18.95]Directions:
  [00:21.96]you will hear 8 short conversations
  [00:23.14]and 2 long conversations.
  [00:26.20]At the end of each conversation,
  [00:28.36]one or more questions will be asked about what was said.
  [00:33.12]Both the conversation and the questions will be spoken only once.
  [00:38.53]After each question there will be a pause.
  [00:42.46]During the pause,
  [00:44.78]you must read the four choices
  [00:45.99]marked A), B), C), and D),
  [00:50.16]and decide which is the best answer.
  [00:52.89]Then mark the corresponding letter on Answer sheet 2
  [00:58.14]with a single line through the centre.
  [01:01.68]now let's begin with the eight short conversation
  [01:06.67]11. W: You look so distressed.
  [01:10.77]Is there anything I can do to help you?
  [01:13.79]M: Well, thank you,
  [01:15.47]but I guess no one can help me but myself.
  [01:19.84]Q: What does the man imply?
  [01:37.99]12. M: You are in great shape now,
  [01:41.92]and you must have lost some weight.
  [01:44.42]W: Yeah, as a matter of fact,
  [01:46.49]I've been going to a yoga club for half a year now.
  [01:51.09]Q: What can we learn from the conversation?
  [02:09.64]13. W: You look so pale and tired, Brian.
  [02:15.02]M: Yeah. I've been feeling under the weather recently.
  [02:18.37]I caught a bad flu last week,
  [02:20.63]and I haven't gotten over it.
  [02:23.16]Q: What does the man imply?
  [02:41.06]14. W: I hear you are troubled by
  [02:44.26]the noise of construction outside of your apartment.
  [02:47.87]Have you considered buying some earplugs?
  [02:50.80]M: You bet! I have got great trouble in sleeping.
  [02:56.00]Q: What can we learn from the conversation?
  [03:14.25]15. W: So, what's wrong with the drain?
  [03:19.14]The water won't go down.
  [03:21.05]M: Let me have a look.
  [03:22.93]Well, the drain is blocked by some leftovers.
  [03:27.53]Q: Where does the conversation most probably take place?
  [03:47.32]16. W: Why are you so strongly opposed
  [03:50.91]to your son skipping a grade at school?
  [03:54.01]M:It will put himself under a lot of pressure
  [03:56.24]if he skips a grade.
  [03:58.24]Although I want him to be successful,
  [04:00.80]I want him to be happy.
  [04:03.29]Q: Why does the man oppose to his son skipping a grade?
  [04:22.76]17. W: Honey, I’d like to have a talk about
  [04:26.89]the coming wedding ceremony sometime today?
  [04:30.12]M: I'd love to, but I've got a pretty tight schedule today.
  [04:34.24]Q: What is the relationship between the two speakers?
  [04:54.46]18. M: You must have seen the movie.
  [04:57.20]Was it as good as you expected?
  [04:59.42]W: To tell the truth, the plot is so boring that I fell asleep.
  [05:04.28]Q: What does the woman think about the movie.
  [05:22.78]Now you will hear the two long conversations
  [05:28.35]Conversation One
  [05:33.04]M: We seem to be having this conversation over and over again.
  [05:36.87]W: You’re definitely right.
  [05:38.97]M: Look, I know how you feel about my smoking.
  [05:41.51]You don’t have to tell me every day.
  [05:43.58]W: I’m sorry. I worry about you.
  [05:46.56]You know, smoking does harm to our heart,
  [05:50.00]our muscles and even our mental health.
  [05:53.23]M: I know. But work and school have me stressed out.
  [05:58.72]W: Let's be honest.
  [06:00.13]There’s always going to be a reason.
  [06:02.69]After you graduate, it's going to be hard to find a job,
  [06:06.56]then there will be the stress from just starting a job, then ...
  [06:10.92]M: Okay, I get your point.
  [06:13.42]It’s just so hard. You don't really understand
  [06:16.79]because you never smoke.
  [06:19.09]W: You need some help.
  [06:21.15]Why don’t you go to a doctor?
  [06:23.60]M: You mean a psychiatrist?
  [06:26.17]W: No, I mean a general practitioner.
  [06:28.85]M: Really, I believe I can’t quit on my own.
  [06:32.99]But I’ll think about it. I will.
  [06:35.92]W: All right. I won’t mention it for a week.
  [06:38.90]Then I want to know your decision
  [06:40.75]because I need to rethink our plans
  [06:42.97]if you don’t get some help.
  [06:44.83]M: You mean you’d break our engagement over this?
  [06:47.79]I can’t believe it!
  [06:49.50]W: I don’t know. I really treasure this relationship.
  [06:52.82]But I’m not sure I could accept everything
  [06:55.45]that goes along with the smoking.
  [06:59.85]Questions 19 to 22 are based on the conversation
  [07:03.85]you have just heard.
  [07:06.59]19. Why does the woman oppose smoking?
  [07:26.72]20. Why does the man want to smoke?
  [07:47.11]21. What does the woman suggest the man
  [07:50.49]do to giving up smoking?
  [08:08.32]22. What is the relationship between the two speakers?
  [08:30.26]Conversation Two
  [08:31.42]W: I have heard that it’s going to be really cold this winter.
  [08:35.36]M: Well, you didn’t expect it to be warm, did you?
  [08:38.06]W: Of course not, but I just heard the National Weather Services
  [08:41.67]prediction for the next 90 days.
  [08:44.71]They said it’s supposed to be much colder weather than usual.
  [08:48.38]M: Yeah, maybe. Personally,
  [08:50.62]I think those long-range forecasts are useless.
  [08:54.33]W: I am afraid that I can not agree with you.
  [08:57.33]M: Oh, come on,
  [08:58.57]it looks like you are talking about
  [08:59.55]what’s going to happen three months from now.
  [09:02.41]W: Well, you are half way right.
  [09:04.95]They aren’t very good for rainfall.
  [09:06.98]But they are a lot better for temperatures
  [09:09.90]especially for this time of the year.
  [09:12.31]M: Really, so I should take them seriously about the cold
  [09:16.06]but not count too much on a lot of extra snow?
  [09:18.82]W: Ah-ha.
  [09:20.55]M: But what did you say about this time of the year?
  [09:23.21]Do some seasons really give them more problems
  [09:25.48]in making a forecast?
  [09:27.18]W: Autumn is the worst;
  [09:28.61]apparently weather patterns change so much then.
  [09:32.48]Just think how variable our weather
  [09:34.44]has been the last three months.
  [09:37.16]M: That’s true.
  [09:38.54]It probably would have been hard to predict
  [09:41.29]all those changes back in the summer.
  [09:42.80]You are beginning to convince me of
  [09:44.21]the value of weather forecasting.
  [09:46.61]How come you know so much about it?
  [09:49.11]W: I get my information
  [09:50.53]from an expert at the Weather Bureau.
  [09:55.55]Questions 23 to 25 are based on the conversation
  [09:59.40]you have just heard.
  [10:02.11]23. How does the woman know the weather in this winter?
  [10:23.49]24. What is the man’s attitude towards weather forecast?
  [10:45.25]25. Which season is it now?
  [11:08.35]Section B
  [11:08.93]Directions:
  [11:10.96]In this section,
  [11:12.27]you will hear 3 short passages.
  [11:15.55]At the end of each passage,
  [11:17.55]you will hear some questions.
  [11:20.04]Both the passage and the questions will be spoken only once.
  [11:25.56]After you hear a question,
  [11:27.53]you must choose the best answer from the four choices
  [11:35.48]marked A), B), C) and D).
  [11:36.16]Then mark the corresponding letter on Answer Sheet 2
  [11:40.47]with a single line through the centre.
  [11:44.17]Passage One
  [11:45.65]When Thomas Edison was born in the small town
  [11:48.96]of Milan, Ohio, in 1847,
  [11:52.62]America was just beginning its great industrial development.
  [11:57.16]In his lifetime of eighty-four years,
  [12:00.05]Edison shared the excitement
  [12:01.90]of America’s growth into a modern nation.
  [12:04.94]The time in which he lived was an age of invention,
  [12:08.23]filled with human and scientific adventures,
  [12:11.58]and Edison became the hero of that age.
  [12:15.08]As a boy, Edison was not a good student.
  [12:18.66]His parents took him out of school
  [12:21.15]and his mother taught him at home,
  [12:23.59]where his great curiosity and desire to experiment
  [12:27.34]often got him into trouble.
  [12:29.16]When he was six,
  [12:30.57]he set fire to his father’s barn “to see what would happen.”
  [12:34.94]When he was ten,
  [12:36.31]Edison built his own chemistry laboratory.
  [12:39.14]He sold sandwiches and newspapers on the trains
  [12:42.60]in order to earn money to buy supplies for his laboratory.
  [12:46.27]His parents became accustomed,
  [12:48.16]more or less,
  [12:49.25]to his experiments and the explosions
  [12:52.22]which sometimes shook the house.
  [12:54.62]Edison’s work as a sales boy
  [12:56.52]with the railroad introduced him
  [12:58.66]to the telegraph and he built his own telegraph set.
  [13:02.49]Six years later, in 1869,
  [13:05.83]Edison arrived in New York City,
  [13:08.35]poor and in debt.
  [13:10.52]He went to work with a telegraph company.
  [13:13.31]It was there that he became interested in
  [13:15.48]the uses of electricity.
  [13:17.64]From then on,
  [13:18.80]he started his amazing life
  [13:21.06]as the greatest inventor ever.
  [13:25.29]Questions 26 to 29 are based on the passage
  [13:29.11]you have just heard.
  [13:31.59]26. What happened to American during the middle 19th century?
  [13:53.50]27. Which statement on Edison’s childhood is true
  [13:58.64]according to the passage?
  [14:16.18]28. For what purpose did he sell sandwiches
  [14:20.61]and newspapers on the trains?
  [14:39.14]29. When did he start his amazing life
  [14:43.07]as the greatest inventor?
  [15:00.64]Passage Two
  [15:01.93]Stockholm is, without doubt,
  [15:04.16]one of the most beautiful national capitals in the world.
  [15:08.58]The Old Town in summer is particularly spectacular
  [15:12.81]and walking around the city's waterways
  [15:15.64]and parks is a glorious way
  [15:18.55]to spend a week-long stretch of European summer.
  [15:22.51]Almost two million people live in greater Stockholm,
  [15:25.95]and over 15% of them are immigrants.
  [15:29.98]Just stroll through the streets
  [15:32.10]and you'll hear everything from Polish to Japanese.
  [15:35.98]The city's royal residences
  [15:37.58]include the largest palace in the world still in use.
  [15:42.85]This city, with its maritime bent
  [15:45.10]and international flavor, is a magnet for tourists.
  [15:49.42]It is ideally situated for trade connections,
  [15:52.86]with the 24 000 islands protecting the urban islands
  [15:57.70]from the open seas.
  [15:59.74]In fact, the city is best seen from the water.
  [16:03.99]Most of Sweden has a cool temperate climate
  [16:07.14]but the southern quarter of the country
  [16:09.59]has a warm temperate climate.
  [16:12.37]Sweden is shielded from rainy Atlantic weather systems
  [16:16.12]and can be influenced by high pressure over Russia,
  [16:19.76]giving fine weather instead.
  [16:22.00]Stockholm has an average of about nine hours
  [16:25.13]of sunshine daily from May to July.
  [16:30.49]Questions 30 to 32 are based on the passage
  [16:33.93]you have just heard.
  [16:36.77]30. According to the passage,
  [16:39.21]where is particularly spectacular in summer?
  [16:58.15]31. How many people live in Stockholm?
  [17:18.03]32. Which statement is true according to the passage?
  [17:38.70]Passage Three
  [17:40.07]It has been shown that
  [17:41.60]children who smoke have certain characteristics.
  [17:44.94]Compared with non-smokers
  [17:46.85]they are more rebellious,
  [17:48.80]their work becomes worse as they move up in school,
  [17:52.28]they are more likely to leave school early
  [17:54.93]and commit crimes,
  [17:56.90]and are more often sexually mature.
  [18:00.13]Many of these features can be summarized
  [18:02.38]as anticipation of adulthood.
  [18:05.80]There are a number of factors,
  [18:07.48]which determine the start of smoking,
  [18:10.05]and these are largely psychological and social.
  [18:13.93]They include availability of cigarettes,
  [18:16.60]curiosity, rebelliousness, appearing tough,
  [18:21.07]anticipation of adulthood, social confidence,
  [18:25.16]the example of parents and teachers,
  [18:28.05]and smoking by friends and older brothers and sisters.
  [18:32.60]It should be much easier to prevent children
  [18:34.87]from starting to smoke than
  [18:37.02]to persuade adults to give up the habit once established,
  [18:40.75]but in fact this has proved very difficult.
  [18:44.39]The example set by people in authority,
  [18:47.31]especially parents, health care workers,
  [18:50.21]and teachers, is of prime importance.
  [18:53.68]School rules should forbid smoking by children at school.
  [18:58.27]There is, however,
  [18:59.18]a risk of children smoking just to rebel against the rules.
  [19:03.35]And even in those schools
  [19:04.94]which have tried to enforce no smoking
  [19:06.96]by physical punishment,
  [19:08.75]there is as much smoking as in other schools.
  [19:11.84]Nevertheless, banning smoking is probably
  [19:15.12]on balance beneficial.
  [19:17.22]Teachers too should not smoke at school,
  [19:20.12]at least not in front of children.
  [19:23.63]Questions 33 to 35 are based on the passage
  [19:27.04]you have just heard.
  [19:29.47]33. Which is not a certain characteristic
  [19:33.61]of children who smoke?
  [19:50.91]34. Which is not an element determining the start of smoking?
  [20:12.75]35. Why is there a risk in banning smoking in schools?
  [20:33.69]Section C
  [20:35.30]Directions:
  [20:36.90]In this section,
  [20:38.48]you will hear a passage three times.
  [20:41.76]When the passage is read for the first time,
  [20:44.55]you should listen carefully for its general idea.
  [20:48.48]When the passage is read for the second time,
  [20:51.27]you are required to fill in the blanks numbered from 36 to 43
  [20:57.83]with the exact words you have just heard.
  [21:01.33]For blanks numbered from 44 to 46
  [21:05.24]you are required to fill in the missing information.
  [21:08.92]For these blanks,
  [21:10.37]you can either use the exact words you have just heard
  [21:13.77]or write down the main points in your own words.
  [21:18.31]Finally, when the passage is read for the third time,
  [21:21.91]you should check what you have written.
  [21:24.77]now listen to the passage
  [21:28.97]Some people say that
  [21:30.18]if you want to go into the recording business,
  [21:33.03]“It’s not what you know,
  [21:35.10]but who you know, that matters.
  [21:37.53]” My first reaction to that is to disagree,
  [21:40.74]but on second thought I must admit
  [21:43.43]that there is some truth in it.
  [21:45.79]When you go for an interview for a job in a studio,
  [21:49.11]they will be interested in the qualification you have on paper
  [21:53.18]but the really important thing will be that
  [21:55.60]you can show you have had some useful experience.
  [21:59.64]If you don’t know anyone significant,
  [22:02.24]look in the yellow pages for the list of local studios.
  [22:06.36]Go round to the ones that seem to be professional.
  [22:09.67]And ask them if they need extra help.
  [22:12.54]They will not want to employ you
  [22:14.62]unless you have some previous experience,
  [22:17.54]so tell them that you will work there for nothing,
  [22:20.48]that you are just interested in recording,
  [22:23.28]and that you are on the lookout for
  [22:24.93]any job that comes up.
  [22:27.10]You should display your personality
  [22:29.18]as good as you can.
  [22:30.99]If they accept you,
  [22:32.78]at first you have to make the tea or sweep the floor.
  [22:37.09]When they get to know you and see
  [22:39.02]that you like studio work,
  [22:41.08]they may give you more interesting jobs
  [22:43.77]and think of employing you.
  [22:46.02]You will have to spend a year or so working there
  [22:49.87]before they offer you a job.
  [22:52.19]If the studio is an active one doing music and speech work,
  [22:56.26]you will be able to learn a lot about recording in a year.
  [23:00.45]Of course,
  [23:01.48]if you realize that the studio is not a prosperous one,
  [23:06.00]leave it instantly and look for another one.
  [23:15.06]now the passage will be read again
  [23:20.75]Some people say that
  [23:22.62]if you want to go into the recording business,
  [23:24.65]“It’s not what you know,
  [23:26.78]but who you know, that matters.
  [23:29.23]” My first reaction to that is to disagree,
  [23:32.41]but on second thought I must admit
  [23:35.11]that there is some truth in it.
  [23:37.47]When you go for an interview for a job in a studio,
  [23:40.71]they will be interested in the qualification you have on paper
  [23:44.63]but the really important thing will be that
  [23:47.67]you can show you have had some useful experience.
  [23:51.34]If you don’t know anyone significant,
  [23:53.92]look in the yellow pages for the list of local studios.
  [23:58.06]Go round to the ones that seem to be professional.
  [24:01.35]And ask them if they need extra help.
  [24:04.11]They will not want to employ you
  [24:06.34]unless you have some previous experience,
  [24:09.27]so tell them that you will work there for nothing,
  [24:12.17]that you are just interested in recording,
  [24:14.98]and that you are on the lookout for
  [24:17.09]any job that comes up.
  [24:18.77]You should display your personality
  [24:20.90]as good as you can.
  [24:22.72]If they accept you,
  [24:24.43]at first you have to make the tea or sweep the floor.
  [24:28.27]
  [25:29.31]When they get to know you and see
  [25:30.47]that you like studio work,
  [25:32.50]they may give you more interesting jobs
  [25:35.13]and think of employing you.
  [25:37.37]You will have to spend a year or so working there
  [25:40.12]before they offer you a job.
  [25:45.64]
  [26:43.37]If the studio is an active one doing music and speech work,
  [26:47.62]you will be able to learn a lot about recording in a year.
  [26:51.59]Of course,
  [26:52.84]if you realize that the studio is not a prosperous one,
  [26:57.12]leave it instantly and look for another one.
  [27:00.75]
  [28:02.47]Now the passage will be read for the third time
  [28:06.89]Some people say that
  [28:08.35]if you want to go into the recording business,
  [28:10.81]“It’s not what you know,
  [28:12.98]but who you know, that matters.
  [28:15.40]” My first reaction to that is to disagree,
  [28:18.63]but on second thought I must admit
  [28:21.35]that there is some truth in it.
  [28:23.69]When you go for an interview for a job in a studio,
  [28:26.86]they will be interested in the qualification you have on paper
  [28:31.03]but the really important thing will be that
  [28:33.85]you can show you have had some useful experience.
  [28:37.58]If you don’t know anyone significant,
  [28:40.13]look in the yellow pages for the list of local studios.
  [28:44.26]Go round to the ones that seem to be professional.
  [28:47.56]And ask them if they need extra help.
  [28:50.50]They will not want to employ you
  [28:52.58]unless you have some previous experience,
  [28:55.48]so tell them that you will work there for nothing,
  [28:58.40]that you are just interested in recording,
  [29:01.37]and that you are on the lookout for
  [29:03.23]any job that comes up.
  [29:05.00]You should display your personality
  [29:07.17]as good as you can.
  [29:08.95]If they accept you,
  [29:10.65]at first you have to make the tea or sweep the floor.
  [29:15.10]When they get to know you and see
  [29:17.27]that you like studio work,
  [29:19.12]they may give you more interesting jobs
  [29:21.61]and think of employing you.
  [29:23.96]You will have to spend a year or so working there
  [29:27.54]before they offer you a job.
  [29:30.13]If the studio is an active one doing music and speech work,
  [29:34.30]you will be able to learn a lot about recording in a year.
  [29:38.46]Of course,
  [29:39.42]if you realize that the studio is not a prosperous one,
  [29:43.80]leave it instantly and look for another one.
  [29:50.82]This is the end of listening comprehension

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