06.最新6级预测卷第六套
2016-04-27
大学英语六级级考试预测卷（六）
PART II
Listening Comprehension
Section A
Directions:
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.
Now you will haer the two long conversations
Conversation One
M: Over here is your desk, Mrs. Jackson.
It`s right next to my office door, but you may move it if you like.
W: No, that`s all right.
I think it`s fine just the way it is.
M: OK. Let me explain a few things to you.
First of all, I never answer the phone.
I take my coffee white, and my lunch hours are never at the same time,
so don`t plan your lunches to be at the same time every day.
W: Sir, I don`t know how to make coffee.
M: That`s OK. You don`t have to know how.
You just have to pour it from the coffee maker into a mug and put it on my desk.
W：If I`m not here to answer the phone,
say I`m at lunch, who will answer the phones?
M: One of the other girls in the office can do it. If not,
then you`ll have to have lunch sent upstairs from the lunch counter in the lobby.
W: The job is from 9:00 to 5:00, right?
M: Not always. Sometimes I may need you to come in earlier,
and sometimes I may need you to stay later.
W: Do I get overtime pay for this?
M: No, you don`t. But, quite often I close the office early on Fridays.
I like to go to country on the weekends.
You don`t have problems with that, do you?
W: No. I guess not. I will come to ask you if I`ve got other problems.
Questions 1 to 4 are based on the conversation you have just heard.
1.What do we learn about the woman from the conversation?
2.What do we learn about the man from the conversation?
3.Who will answer the phone if the woman is not around?
4.Which one is not true according to the conversation?
Conversation Two
M： Excuse me, who should I see if I hope to live in one of the dorms?
W: I`m the person. But I`m afraid there are no dorms left available,
because we just gave last one away. Sorry about that.
M: Oh, I see. Well, are there any other living arrangements available?
W: I`m sorry. There aren`t any others throughout the university.
They`ve all been taken up.
What about going to the bulletin board outside the student union and the library?
Sometimes students are looking for flatmates. Perhaps there is a chance there.
Let me just check here. Sometimes they leave messages here with us.
M: Ok, thanks.
W: Did you just get in?
M: Yes, I`m an exchange student.
I`m staying with some friends right now,
but it`s too far. I hope to find a place soon,
but I don`t know what`s really around this area.
W: Well. I`m sorry. It looks like there aren`t any messages here.
You will have to check post ups.
There are usually lots of people looking for places,
either students wanting to share a place or families offering some exchange programs.
M: That`s great. I will go and check those places.
Do you know what else I can do in case those places don`t have anything?
W: You may leave your number here.
Sometimes students who are looking for flat mates will ask us.
Besides, you may put down your name here in the waiting list.
If someone wants to find a new flat mate or move to other places,
you can have the chance to move in.
Of course that is if you haven`t found any place at the time.
M: Wow, that`s great. I really appreciate your help.
Questions 5 to 8 are based on the conversation you have just heard.
5.What do we learn about the woman from the conversation?
6.What is the man doing?
7.Where is the man living?
8.What does the woman suggest the man do in the end?
Section B
Directions:
In this section,
you will hear two 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 One
As she walked round the huge department store,
Edith reflected how difficult it was to choose a Christmas present for her father.
She wished that he was as easy to please as her mother,
who was always delighted with perfume.
Besides, shopping at this time of the year was a most disagreeable experience:
people step on your toes, poked you with their elbows and almost
knocked you over in their haste to get to a bargain ahead of you.
Partly to have a rest, Edith paused in front of a
counter where some attractive ties were on display.
“They are real silk.” The assistant assured her,
trying to tempt her “Worth double the price”.
But Edith knew from past experience that her choice of ties hardly ever pleased her father.
She move on reluctantly and then, quite by chance,
stopped where a small crowd of men had gathered round a counter.
She found some good quality pipes on sale—and prices are very reasonable.
Edith didn`t hesitate for long; although her father only smoked a pipe occasionally,
she knew that this was a present which was bound to please him.
When she got home, with her small but well chosen present concealed in her handbag,
her parents were already at table having supper.
Her mother was in cheerful mood.
“Your father has at least decided to stop smoking,”
she informed her daughter.
Questions 9 to 11 are based on the passage you have just heard.
9.What do we learn about Edith`s mother?
10.Why did Edith dislike shopping at this time of the year?
11.What was the gift Edith chose for her father in the end?
Passage Two
Marion Island is a tiny spot in the ocean
two thousand kilometers south of the tip of Africa.
The island has South African weather, a research station,
and a unique problem: too many cats.
The animals have greatly reduced the island`s bird population
and have killed off some of the native species.
In recent years, great progress has been made by scientists
in the struggle against the cats,
but they are far from being able to breathe a sigh of relief.
“It started with five cats, one of them female, in 1949,
when the weather station was opened there,”
said a scientist of the Mammal Research Institute of the University of Pretoria.
“There were mice on the island. They had come from shipwrecks
and were rather a nuisance in the base camp there.”
The cats were then brought to the 300 square kilometers island and soon
a small number of them were killed.
But that made no impact on the tastier burrowing petrels.
Once let loose, cats plundered nests, ate the birds,
and rapidly increase their own numbers.
By 2009, there were 4,500 of them, and about 450,000 birds were eaten each year.
It was at this stage that the scientists declared war.
Questions 12 to 15 are based on the passage you have just heard.
12.What is the biggest problem in the Marion Island?
13.When were the cats brought to the island?
14.Why were the cats brought to the island?
15.What is the passage mainly about?
Section C
Directions:
In this section,
you will hear recordings of lectures or talks followed by some questions.
The recordings will be played 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 One
Now listen to the following recording and answer questions 16 to 19.
Women in northern European nations are closest to equality with men on wages, education,
and health. That is the finding of a report by the World Economic Forum.
The United States ranked 28th. On Friday,
President Barack Obama announced the government
will require large businesses to report how much they pay men and women.
The data will be used to target companies that pay women less to do the same jobs.
According to the World Economic Forum report,
women worldwide continue to lag behind men on wages.
Based on current trends,
they will need 126 years to catch up, according to the report.
Women are making progress.
But they still only earn what men did 10 years ago,
say the report`s authors.
The report measures the gender gap for women in 145 nations for health,
education, economic opportunity,
and political power.
Women have not achieved equality in any of the
145 nations included in the survey, says the report.
Women came closest to equality in four Northern European nations Iceland, Norway,
Finland and Sweden. Ireland ranks No. 5.
At the bottom of the women`s gender ratings are Yemen, Pakistan,
Syria, Chad, Iran and Jordan.
More women than men are attending colleges in 97 nations.
But women make up a majority of skilled workers in only 68 nations.
Women control the majority of government and political positions in only four.
At last week`s World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland,
Sheryl Sandberg, chief operating officer at Facebook,
spoke about gender equality.
“The reason to work towards equality whether woman or man is that it is better for you,”
Sandberg said. “We should be doing this not because it`s the right thing,
but because it`s the smart thing. ... So do it because it will help you.”
The World Economic Forum completed its worldwide
2015 gender gap survey in November. I`m Anne Ball.
16.According to the World Economic Forum, women of which nations are closest to equality?
17.How many years do women need to catch up with men on wages according to the report?
18.Which of the following is true according to the passage?
19.When did The world Economic Forum complete its worldwide 2015 gender gap survey?
Passage Two
Now listen to the following recording and answer questions 20 to 22.
There are many theories about the beginning of drama in ancient Greece.
The one most widely accepted today is based on the assumption that drama evolved from ritual.
The argument for this view goes as follows. In the beginning,
human beings viewed the natural forces of the world—
even the seasonal changes —as unpredictable,
and they sought through various means to control these unknown and fearful powers.
Those measures which appeared to bring the desired results
were then retained and repeated until they hardened into fixed rituals.
Eventually stories arose which explained or veiled the mysteries of the rites.
As time passed some rituals were abandoned, but the stories,
later called myths, persisted and provided material for art and drama.
Those who believe that drama evolved out of ritual
also argue that those rites contained the seed of theater because music,
dance, masks, and costumes were almost always used. Furthermore,
a suitable site had to be provided for performances
and when the entire community did not participate,
a clear division was usually made between the “acting area”
and the “auditorium”. In addition, there were performers,
and, since considerable importance was attached to avoiding mistakes in the enactment of rites,
religious leaders usually assumed that task.
Wearing masks and costumes, they often impersonated other people,
animals, or supernatural beings, and mimed the desired effect—success in hunt or battle,
the coming rain, the revival of the Sun—as an actor might.
Eventually such dramatic representations were separated from religious activities.
Another theory traces the theater`s origin from the human interest in storytelling.
According to these ties, tales (about the hunt, war,or other feats) are gradually elaborated,
at first through the use of impersonation, action, and dialogue by a narrator
and then through the assumption of each of the roles by a different person.
A closely related theory traces theater to those dances that are primarily
rhythmical and gymnastic or that are imitations of animal movements and sounds.
20.Where did drama begin according to many theories?
21.What is the route of drama`s evolution according to another theory?
22.Why is drama related to dances?
Passage Three
Now listen to the following recording and answer questions 23 to 25.
Monkeys do not like it when others get more food than they do,
according to a new study.
Researchers from Yale and Harvard universities found
Capuchin monkeys punish monkeys that get more food.
“This sort of, ‘If I can`t have it,
no one can’ response is consistent with psychological spite,
and it was previously thought unique to humans,”
were given more food than others.
They found that monkeys getting the smaller share
pulled a rope to collapse a table holding the other monkey`s bigger share.
Another lead researcher, Yale University psychologist Laurie Santos,
explained over email.
“I think that we can conclude about humans is that some
of our more embarrassing tendencies
(e.g., not liking it when others get more than us in some situations)
have relatively deep roots.”
Santos said the spiteful response was not present with
another member of the ape specieschimpanzees.
An earlier study, she said, showed chimpanzees would
collapse the table of other chimpanzees who took or stole food from them.
But they would not collapse the table of chimpanzees who just happened to have more food,
Santos said. In other words, it was fine if another chimpanzee
had more food—as long as they did not steal it.
I`m Caty Weaver.
23.Do monkeys like others get more food than they do?
24.Which is not mentioned in this passage?
25.What would chimpanzees do according to this passage?