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2011年12月英语六级听力原文(上海新东方版)

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  2011年12月大学英语六级考试已结束,新浪网教育(微博)频道第一时间收集整理试题及参考答案,供考生参考,以下为上海新东方版六级考试听力原文。

  11.

  A: I don’t know what to do. I have to drive to Chicago next Friday for my cousin’s wedding but I’ve got a psychology test to prepare for。

  B: Why don’t you record your notes so that you can study on the way?

  Q: What does the woman suggest the man do?

  12.

  A: Professor Right, you may have to find another student to play this role. The lines are so long and I simply can’t remember them all。

  B: Look, Tony. It’s still a long time before the first show. I don’t expect you to know all the lines yet. Just keep practicing。

  Q: what do we learn from the conversation?

  13.

  A: Hello. This is Doctor Martin from the Emergency Department. I have a male patient with a fractured ankle。

  B: Oh, we have one bed available in Ward 3. Send him here and I’ll take care of him。

  Q: What are the speakers talking about?

  14.

  A: Since Simon will graduate this May, the school paper needs a new editor. So if you are interested, I will be happy to nominate you。

  B: Thanks for considering me, but the baseball team is starting up a new season and I’m afraid I’d have a lot on my hands。

  Q: What does the man mean?

  15.

  A: Have you heard the news that James Mill has resigned his post as Prime Minster?

  B: Well, I got it from the headlines this morning. It’s reported that he made pubic his decision at the last cabinet meeting。

  Q: What do we learn about James Mill?

  16.

  A: The morning paper says the space shuttle is taking off at 10 am tomorrow。

  B: Yeah, it’s just another one of this year’s routine missions. The first mission was undertaken a decade ago and broadcast live then worldwide。

  Q: What can we infer from this conversation?

  17.

  A: We do a lot of camping in the mountains. What would you recommend for two people?

  B: You’d probably be better off with the four-wheel drive vehicle. We have several off-road trucks in stock, both new and used。

  Q: Where does this conversation most probably take place?

  18.

  A: I hear you did some stereo shopping this past weekend。

  B: yeah, the speakers from my old stereo finally gave out and there was no way to repair them。

  Q: What did the man do over the weekend?

  Conversation One

  A: Now, could you tell me where the idea for the business first came from?

  B: Well, the original shop was opened by a retired printer by the name of Cruby. Mr Cruby, being left-handed himself, thought of the idea of trying to promote a few products for lefthanders。

  A: and how did he then go about actually setting up the business?

  B: Well, he looked for any left-handed products that might already be on the market, which were very few and then contacted manufactures with the idea of having products produced for him, mainly in the scissor range to start with。

  A: Right. So you do commission some part of your stock?

  B: Yes, very much so. About 75% of our stock is specially made for us。

  A: And the rest of it?

  B: The rest of it now, some 25, 30 years after Mr Cruby’s initial efforts, there are more left-handed products actually on the market and manufactures are now beginning to see that there is a market for left-handed products。

  A: And what’s the range of your stock?

  B: The range consists of a variety of scissors, from children scissors to scissors for tailors, hairdressers, etc. We also have a large range of kitchenware。

  A: What’s the competition like? Do you have quite a lot of competition?

  B: There are other people in the business now as specialists, but only as Mellorder outlets. But we have a shop here in central London plus our Mellorder outlet. And we are, without any doubt, the largest supplier of left-handed items。

  19: What kind of business is the man engaged in?

  20: what does the man say about his stock of products?

  21: What does the man say about other people in his line of business?

  Conversation Two

  M: Can we make you an offer? We would like to run a campaign for four extra weeks。

  W: Well, can we summarize the problem from our point of view? First of all, the campaign was late, it missed two important trade fairs. The ads also did not appear in two key magazines. As a result, the campaign failed. Do you accept that summary of what happened?

  M:Well, the delay wasn't entirely our fault. You did in fact make late changes to the specifications of the advertisements。

  W: Hm......., actually, you were late with the initial proposals so we have very little time and in fact, we only asked for small changes。

  M: Well, whatever, can we repeat our offer to run the campaign for four extra weeks?

  W: That's not really the point. The campaign missed two key trade fairs, because of this we are asking you either to keep the campaign next year for free or we only pay fifty percent of the fee for this year。

  M: Could we suggest a 20% reduction to the fee together with a four weeks extension to the campaign?

  W: We are not happy, we lost the business。

  M: I think we both made mistakes, the responsibility is on both sides。

  W: OK, let's suggest a new solution. How about a 40% cut in fee or a free repeat campaign?

  M: Well, let's take a break, we are not getting very far, perhaps we should think about this。

  What do we learn about the man's company?

  Why was the campaign delayed according to the man?

  What did the woman propose as a solution to the problem?

  What does the man suggest they do at the end of the conversation?

  Passage One

  The University of Tennessee’s Waters Life Sciences Building is a model animal facility, spotlessly clean, careful in obtaining prior approval for experiments from Animal Care Committee. Of the 15,000-mice-house there in a typical year, most give their lives for humanity. These are good mice and as such want the protection of Animal Care Committee. At any given time, however, some mice escape and run free. These mice are pests. They can destruct environments with the bacterial organisms they carry. They are bad mice and must be captured and destroyed. Usually, this is accomplished by means of sticky traps, a kind of flight paper on which they become increasingly stuck. But the real point of this cautionary tale, says animal behaviorist Herzog, is that the labels we put on things can affect our moral responses to them. Using stick traps or the more deadly snap traps, would be deemed unacceptable for good mice. Yet the killing of bad mice requires no prior approval. Once a research animal hits the floor and becomes an escapee, says Herzog, its moral standing is instantly diminished. In Herzog’s own home, there was a more ironic example when his young son’s pet mouse, Willy, died recently, it was accorded a tearful ceremonial burial in the garden. Yet even as they mourned Willy, says Herzog, he and his wife were setting snap traps to kill the pest mice in their kitchen. With the bare change in labels from pet to pest , the kitchen mice obtained a totally different moral status。

  26: What does the passage say about most of the mice used for experiment?

  27: Why did the so-called bad mice have to be captured and destroyed?

  28: When are mice killed without prior approval?

  29: Why does the speaker say what the Herzogs did at home is more ironical?

  Passage Two

  There are roughly three New Yorks. There is, first, the New York of the man or woman who was born here, who takes the city for granted and accepts its size and its turbulence as natural and inevitable. Second, there is the New York of the commuter--- the city that is swallowed up by locusts each day and spat out each night. Third, there is the New York of the person who was born somewhere else and came to New York in quest of something. Of these three trembling cities, the greatest is the last--- the city of final destination, the city that has a goal. It is this third city that accounts for New York's high-strung disposition, its dedication to the arts, and its incomparable achievements. Commuters give the city its tidal restlessness; natives give it solidity and continuity; but the settlers give it passion. And whether it is a farmer arriving from Italy to set up a small grocery store in a slum, or a young girl arriving from a small town in Mississippi to escape the indignity of being observed by her neighbours, or a boy arriving from the Corn Belt with a manuscript in his suitcase and a pain in his heart, it makes no difference: each embraces New York with the intense excitement of first love, each absorbs New York with the fresh eyes of an adventurer, each generates heat and light to dwarf the Consolidated Edison Company。

  30: What does the speaker say about the natives of New York?

  31: What does the speaker say commuters give to New York?

  32: What do we learn about the settlers of New York?

  Passage Three

  "If you ask me television is unhealthy," I said to my roomate Walter as I walked into the living room. "Why are you sitting passively in front of the TV set? Your muscles are turning to fat. Your complexion is fading and your eyesight is being ruined""sh......."Walter put his finger to his lips,"This is an intriguing murder mystery. "Really?" I replied."But you know, the brain is destroyed by TV viewing. Creativity is killed by that box and people are kept from communicating with one another. From my point of view, TV is the cause of declining interest in school and the failure of our entire educational system." "en huh, I kind of see your point, " Walter said softly." But see, the woman on the witness stand in this story is being questioned about the murder that was committed 100 years ago." Ignoring his enthusiastic description of the plot, I went on with my argument."As I see it, " I explained,"not only are most TV programmes badly written and produced, but viewers are also manipulated by the mass media. As far as I'm concerned, TV watchers are cut off from reality,from nature, from other people, from life itself!" I was confident in my ability to persuade, after a short silence, my roomate said,"Anyway I've been planning to watch the football game. I'm going to change the channel.""Don't touch that dial!" I shouted."I want to find out how the mystery turns out!" I'm not sure I got my point cross。

  Questions 33-35 are based on the passage you have just heard。

  33. As the speaker walked into the living room, what was shown on TV?

  34. What does the speaker say about watching television?

  35. What can we say about the speaker?

  Compound Dictation:

  In the past, one of the biggest disadvantages of machines has been their inability to work on a micro scale. For example, doctors did not have devices allowing them to go inside the human body to detect health problems or to perform delicate surgery. Repair crews did not have a way of identifying broken pipes located deep within a high-rise department building. However, that’s about to change. Advances in computers and biophysics have started a micro-miniature revolution that allows scientists to envision and, in some cases, actually build microscopic machines. These devices promise to dramatically change the way we live and work. Micro machines already are making an impact. At Case Western Reserved University in Cleveland, Ohio, research scientists have designed a 4-inch silicon chip that holds 700 tiny primitive motors. At Lucas Nova Sensor in Fremont, California, scientists have perfected the world’s first microscopic blood-pressure sensor. Threaded through a person’s blood vessel, the sensor can provide blood pressure readings at the valve of the heart itself。

  Although simple versions of miniature devices have already had an impact, advanced versions are still several years away. Auto manufacturers, for example, are trying to use tiny devices that can sense when to release an airbag and how to keep engines and brakes operating efficiently. Some futurists envision nano-technology also being used to explore the deep sea in small submarines, or even to launch finger sized rockets packed with micro miniature instruments. There is an explosion of new ideas and applications. So, when scientists now think about future machines doing large and complex tasks, they’re thinking smaller than ever before。

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