英语周报07年12月六级考试听力模拟(二)

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　　English Weekly CET-6 Listening Practice TestⅡ

　　Part III Listening Comprehension

　　Section A

　　Directions: 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 2 with a single line through the centre.

　　11.

　　W: Look at the clock. It’s 7:30 now, and we’ll be late.

　　M: Don’t worry. The movie won’t start until 8:00. It takes less than 10 minutes to get there. There will be plenty of time if we leave at 7:35.

　　Q: when will the movie start?

　　12.

　　W: I am glad you finally went to see a doctor. What did he tell you?

　　M: Well, he would not recommend any medicine or special treatment for me. All he prescribed was rest for a few days. Anyway， I was relieved to hear no operation is necessary.

　　Q: What can you learn about the man?

　　13.

　　W: Now would you like to go to the show with me?

　　M: I’d like to. But I must go to the post office first and then my friends and I are going to a party.

　　Q: Where will the man go first?

　　14.

　　W: Have you ever heard of anyone as unlucky as Smith? The most terrible things keep happening to him.

　　M: Yes, if you can trust whatever he says, but most of his stories are pretty unbelievable.

　　Q: What does the man think of Smith?

　　15.

　　W: Do you want to see John?

　　M: He is the last person I want to see now.

　　Q: What does the man mean?

　　16.

　　W: Where were you last night?

　　M: I was in all evening. The phone rang while I was washing my clothes. I couldn’t answer it. I’m sorry.

　　Q: Why didn’t the man answer the telephone?

　　17.

　　W: Do you know anything about Mr. Jones’ class?

　　M: Well, if you think the course is going to be easy, you’re mistaken.

　　Q: What conclusion can we draw from this conversation?

　　18.

　　W: I think it’s starting to snow.

　　M: Starting to snow? Look, the ground is already white.

　　Q: What does the man mean?

　　Now you’ll hear two long conversations.

　　Conversation One

　　W: Are you going to find a job again this summer?

　　M: Yes, of course. Otherwise, how am I going to pay the tuition fees in the fall?

　　W: I am thinking of working too but my folks insist I have to spend some time with them during the summer. You know, I haven’t seen them for two years.

　　M: You are only an 8-hour drive away from your hometown. Why haven’t you been home for so long?

　　W: It’s not that I didn’t want to go home but it’s because my parents were volunteering in the charitable organization in Central America for the last couple of years.

　　M: In that case, the more you should visit them in the summer.

　　W: That’s true, but I didn’t want to spend the whole summer staying at home. I want to make some money and pay off my tuition fees too.

　　M: Well, you can always get a loan.

　　W: Loan? I hate the idea of borrowing. I would rather make my own money and pay it off.

　　M: That’s true. It’s common for people to pay their tuition fees once they’ve graduated.

　　W: Yes, that’s exactly what I didn’t want to get myself into. What do I do about money?

　　M: Well, you can work a part-time job when you are at home. There’s no need to think of these choices as being mutually exclusive. Why not do both?

　　W: I was thinking about that but my parents think I should be at home with them full-time.

　　M: Well, I think you have to make a decision then.

　　Questions 19 to 21 are based on the conversation you have just heard.

　　19. What is the woman’s main problem?

　　20. Why does the woman not want to borrow money?

　　21. What is the problem of working?

　　Conversation Two

　　M: Excuse me, is this where I request a tutor?

　　W: Yes, it is. Which course do you need help in?

　　M: English.

　　W: English language or literature?

　　M: Composition really. I seem to have a hard time figuring out how to write my essays.

　　W: Oh. Well, we have some excellent tutors for that.

　　M: My grades are really good in math and science, but I can’t figure out how to organize my writing.

　　W: When would you be able to come in for tutoring? Do you have classes in the afternoon?

　　M: Just on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday. I only have morning classes on Tuesday and Thursday.

　　W: Good. Some of our best tutors for English work in the afternoon. I could set you up with Janine on Tuesdays and Thursdays at four o’clock if you want.

　　M: Is the tutoring session an hour long?

　　W: Yes. You would be finishing up about five.

　　M: Okay. I could do that. And, uh, how much will that cost?

　　W: Oh, I thought you knew. This is a free service for our students.

　　M: It is? No, I wasn’t aware of that.

　　W: Actually, a lot of students who receive tutoring come back and serve as tutors once they get squared away themselves.

　　M: That’s really a great system.

　　W: Janine needed some tutoring in math a few years ago, as I recall, and now she helps us in English composition and French.

　　M: So, should I just come back on Tuesday at four?

　　W: Yes. I have your name down. Just check in with me when you get here, and I’ll take you over to Janine’s table. And, bring your books for the class that you need help in, along with a syllabus, your class notes, and anything that might help your tutor to understand the course requirements.

　　M: Thank you so much. I’ll see you Tuesday, then.

　　Questions 22-25 are based on the conversation you have just heard.

　　22. Which of the following is true according to this conversation?

　　23. For which course does the man want a tutor?

　　24. When will the tutoring session begin?

　　25. What should the man bring to his tutoring session?

　　Section B

　　Directions: 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 2 with a single line through the centre.

　　Passage one

　　An American study found, on average, a child watches between four and five hours of television each weekday, and ten hours on Saturday and Sunday. It was also noted that a typical child watches 25,000 hours of television before his or her 18th birthday. In the life of children, watching television is a significant sensory experience. Many children easily spend more time with the box than they do with any other form of entertainment.

　　Each year, children read less and less and watch television more and more. In fact, Americans of all ages watch more television each year. The typical child sits in front of the television for about four hours a day, and for children in lower socioeconomic families the amount of time thus spent is even greater. In either case, the child spends more time with TV than he or she spends talking to parents, playing with peers, attending school, or reading books. TV time takes family time, play time, and the reading time that could promote language development.

　　Watching TV is a passive event. Children and adult, remain completely immobile while watching the box. Most watching experiences, at least among Americans, are both quiet and non-interactive. All attention is given to the images. Just like the operating room light, television creates an environment that assaults and overwhelms the child. A highly active child will remain inactive while watching TV because that is what the medium requires. Tomorrow we shall talk about violence on TV and its effects on children.

　　Questions 26 to 28 are based on the passage you have just heard.

　　26. What did the study measure?

　　27. According to the speaker, what are most watching experiences like for a child?

　　28. How will the lecture change the next day?

　　Passage Two

　　In the 21st century, the automobile has become our major source of mass transportation. However, along with this necessity comes the issue of pollution to the environment. Finding an alternative source of energy to power these transportation vehicles is an obvious way of solving this problem.

　　One of the prominent fueled vehicles yet brought up is the electric car. There are numerous reasons and benefits in choosing an electric vehicle as your mode of transportation. One of the main reasons is electric vehicles are beneficial to the environment. Electric vehicles have zero tailpipe emission. In a recent statement, it was said that electric vehicles may be up to 98 percent cleaner than gasoline powered vehicles, since the emission of these electric vehicles is only water. Another major problem of motor vehicles is the unsafe pollutants in the car that pose environmental risks even after it dies.

　　However, the lead in the batteries of electric vehicles is in a very stable form and they do not risk contaminating the area. Electric cars, unlike motor vehicles, have no burning motors thus they are noticeably quieter. Also the cost of converting a nice old car into an electric car would cost considerably less than buying new gas powered cars.

　　Questions 29 to 31 are based on the passage you have just heard.

　　29. What is the topic of this passage?

　　30. According to the speaker, what is the only kind of emission that comes from electric cars?

　　31. What other problems does the author mention about gas powered motors besides emissions?

　　Passage Three

　　Stockbrokers, automobile dealers, mail carriers, insurance and real estate agents---what are their fates? The Internet will eradicate all these middlemen by the millions.

　　Besides all these middleman-jobs, others that are considered very common and necessary, will disappear in the 21st century. The first is the teacher. Distance learning is becoming more popular through the miracle of online classes and electronic grading. People may never sit in a classroom and face the teacher, listening and taking notes. The only thing they need to do is to find a computer, but not go to school.

　　The second will be the prison guard. A kind of sensor will be put into prisoners’ brains. The sensor will restrain prisoners from engaging in criminal activity. But now this technology still requires lots of improvements.

　　The next will be truckers. There will be a kind of “smart” device set on both sides of roads that can enable all computer-driven vehicles to travel point to point at the same high speed, without any accidents.

　　The printer may disappear, too. Magazines and newspapers will switch to digital paper. More and more people will be familiar with the E-Magazine, E-newspaper, even E-shopping.

　　In the end, maybe many years later, robots will become very common, like cars. Every family will own various kinds of robots to buy the food, to clean the home, and maybe, to take care of the children. Then, housekeepers can be liberated from housework forever.

　　Questions 32 to 35 are based on the passage you have just heard.

　　32. What will cause millions of middlemen to disappear in the future?

　　33. According to the passage you heard, how will people study in the future?

　　34. Why can’t we use the technology to control prisoners’ activities yet?

　　35. Which job that will disappear in the future is not mentioned in the passage?

　　Section C

　　Directions: 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 numbered from 36 to 43 with the exact words you have just heard. For blanks numbered from 44 to 46 you are required to fill in the missing information. For these blanks, you can either use the exact words you have just heard or write down the main points in your own words. Finally, when the passage is read for the third time, you should check what you have written.

　　It is [36] natural for young people to be critical of their parents at times and to blame them for most of the misunderstanding between them. They have always [37] complained, more or less justly, that their parents are out of touch with [38] modern ways; that they are possessive and [39] dominant; that they do not trust their children to deal with crises; that they talk too much about certain problems and that they have[40] no sense of humor, at least in parent-child relationships.

　　I think it is true that parents often [41] underestimate their teenage children and also forget how they themselves felt when they were young.

　　Young people often [42] irritate their parents with their choices in clothes and hairstyles, and in [43] entertainers and music. This is not their motive. They feel cut off from the adult world into which they have not yet been accepted. [44] So they create a culture and society of their own. Then, if it turns out that their music, entertainers, vocabulary, clothes or hairstyle irritate their parents, this gives them additional enjoyment. They feel they are superior, at least in a small way, and that they are leaders in style and taste. Sometimes they are resistant, and proud because [45] they do not want their parents to approve of what they do. If they did approve, it looks as if the teenager is assuming that he or she is the underdog. It is natural enough after long years of childhood, when [46] they were completely under their parents’ control. But it ignores the fact that they are now beginning to be responsible for themselves.