大学英语六级考试特别预测卷5

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 some 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 hear two long conversation.

Conversation One

M: Maggie, how do you come to the restaurant? 

W:By car. What`s the matter? I saw your car parked there too.

M:Look at the news. It says Wisconsin has the highest rate of drunken driving in the nation.

More than 26 percent of Wisconsin adults who were surveyed admitted 

that they had driven under the influence of alcohol in the previous year.

W:26 percent, that`s pretty high! Let me see, er, 

alcohol related crashes killed 238 people in Wisconsin and injured nearly 4,000 last year. 

Approximately, 45 percent of all fatal traffic crashes in Wisconsin were alcohol related.

M:Really astonishing, isn`t it? So both of us are very lucky for we are safe here. 

W:Didn`t the government set any regulations to reverse the situation?

M:Of course it did. If you drive drunk and get caught, 

you will turn in a huge of amount of money. 

If you repeat drunken driving, you will lose your license.

W:How about those who hurt or kill someone in a crash? 

M:They may face extremely serious charges and may be arrested and go to jail. 

It appears our government has taken really harsh measures to change this situation. 

But no matter what regulations it has made, 

it relies on us, every citizen to follow them. It is the key.

W:You are right, and we need to be careful if go out by car. 

Rather than risk an arrest, we`d better keep sober when going out for dinner.

And don`t let your friends drive drunk, so we can get home safely.

M:Yeah, just like the advertisement says, friends don`t let friends drive drunk.

 Er…I`m hungry. What do you want to eat today? How about some fried lobster, 

clam chowder and cornbread?  The drink, how about some wine?

W:Terrific!

Questions 1 to 4 are based on the conversation you have just heard.

Questions 1

How many people were killed in alcohol related crashes in Wisconsin last year?

Questions 2

What result you will face if you drive drunk according to the regulations?

Questions 3

What is the most important factor to change the situation according to the man?

Questions 4

What are their attitudes towards the serious consequences of drunk driving?

Conversation Two

W: I moved in a new house recently. You know, the brick house with white wall. 

It`s kind of big. There are five rooms, three at the first floor and two at the second. 

It doesn`t cost us much money as we expected, for we cook our own meals and do the cleaning ourselves.

M: That sounds like those work will take a lot of time.

W: Not really. There`s a list of chores posted every week, 

and we can choose something we like to do. Usually I put my name down for taking care of the yard. 

I dislike being at home all day, so working outside is fun for me.

M: But you have to cook too, right?

W: Actually, it`s like this: ten of us live there, so every night two of the guys are responsible for the dinner, 

one cooks and the other cleans up, so we only have to cook about once a week. 

M: What about breakfast and lunch? Ah, and you also have Saturday and Sunday, right? 

W: Oh, well, we`re on our own for breakfast and lunch, and we usually go home on weekends. 

Listen, the dinners are just fantastic. It`s like eating in a different ethnic restaurant every night. 

You know, because the guys are from different countries.

M: That sounds great.

W: And it costs about half what it did to live in the dorm. But for the most part, 

it`s because I really enjoy living with people from so many different countries. 

The best friend of mine in the house is from Switzerland. 

My roommate comes from New Zealand. And I`ve got friends from…well, just about everywhere.

M: A great experience, good for you. It really sounds interesting.

W: Why don`t you come over next Monday, as my guest, I mean. Just have fun.

M: Sure I`ll be glad to.

Questions 5 to 8 are based on the conversation you have just heard.

Questions 5

What chores does the woman usually do?

Questions 6

Why does the woman think the dinner is fantastic?

Questions 7

Where does the woman`s roommate come from?

Questions 8

How many rooms does the woman have at the second floor in the new house?

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

Carey Hannah Mulligan is an English actress. 

She was born on May 28, 1985 in Westminster, London, England. 

Her father, Stephen, was originally from Liverpool, England, 

and her mother, Nano, a college lecturer, came from West Wales. 

Her great grandfather emigrated from Ireland. Mulligan has an older brother named Owain.

 At age three, Mulligan moved with her family from England to Germany. 

Mulligan stated that during her childhood she was “quite shy”.

 Mulligan also acknowledged that she was very academic until she was fourteen,

 having then become more interested in acting. 

Mulligan said her interest in acting sparked from watching her brother perform 

in a school production of The King and I. She said, 

“My brother was on stage and I was watching. 

And I started crying because I was too young to be in it, and they said, ‘OK, fine, 

you can do it because you`re Owain`s younger sister.’

 And they put me in it. And from then on, it`s all I`ve ever wanted to do.”

 Since age fourteen her mother would take her to Broadway plays in New York, 

which made her develop an interest in theatre and eventually led to her accepting a role 

in the Broadway play The Seagull.

In 2004, when Mulligan was eighteen, 

she began her acting career after she won the role of Kitty Bennett in Pride & Prejudice, 

the film adaptation of the Jane Austen novel. 

Mulligan received the role with help from her school`s headmistress. 

That same year she appeared in the BBC adaption of Charles Dickens 

Bleak House as one of the orphans, Ada Clare. 

Questions 9 to 11 are based on the passage you have just heard.

Questions 9

Where did Carey Hannah Mulligan`s father come from?

Questions 10

How did Mulligan become interested in acting?

Questions 11

In which movie did she receive the role with the help of her headmistress?

Passage Two

Researchers have discovered two previously unknown species 

of bottom dwelling fish in the Gulf of Mexico, living right in the area affected by the BP oil spill. 

Researchers identified new species of pancake batfishes, 

a flat fish rarely seen because of the dark depths they favor. 

They are named for the clumsy way they “walk” along the sea bottom, like a bat crawling.

“One of the fishes that we describe is completely restricted to the oil spill area,”

 John Sparks of the American Museum of Natural History in New York, said in a statement released on Thursday. 

“If we are still finding new species of fishes in the Gulf, 

imagine how much diversity is out there that we do not know about.”

Writing in the Journal of Fish Biology, 

Sparks and his colleagues named the species as Halieutichthys intermedius and H. bispinosus. 

A third already known species called H. aculeatus also only lives in waters affected by the spill, 

they said. Pancake batfishes have round, flat bodies with giant heads and mouths they can thrust forward. 

They use arm like fins to drag themselves along the bottom.

Sparks said the three species had been considered just one species, but his team found distinct differences. 

“These discoveries stress the potential loss of unproved biological diversity.” he said.

BP aims to plug the well late this month or in August. 

The well has pumped millions of gallons (liters) of oil into the Gulf,

having as yet unknown effects on creatures living in deep waters. 

It threatens to destroy the Gulf region`s multibillion dollar fishing and tourist industries.

Questions 12 to 15 are based on the passage you have just heard.

Questions 12

Why are the new species of fish rarely seen?

Questions 13

Why do people call them pancake batfishes?

Questions 14

What does the discovery of distinct differences among the three species imply?

Questions 15

What attitude does the speaker hold toward the well?

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.

Now listen to the following recording and answer questions 16 to 19.

One of my favorite shows as a kid was “The Six Million Dollar Man,” 

and this is a little bit closer to the 240 dollar man or so, but—at any rate. 

I would normally feel very self conscious and geeky wearing this around, 

but a few days ago I saw one world renowned statistician swallowing swords on stage here, 

so I figure it`s OK amongst this group. But that`s not what I want to talk about today. 

I want to talk about toys, and the power that I see inherent in them.

When I was a kid, I attended Montessori school up to sixth grade in Atlanta, Georgia.

 And at the time I didn`t think much about it, but then later, 

I realized that that was the high point of my education.

 From that point on, everything else was pretty much downhill. And it wasn`t until later, 

as I started making games, that—I really actually think of them more as toys.

 People call me a game designer, but I really think of these things more as toys.

 But I started getting very interested in Maria Montessori and her methods, 

and the way she went about things, 

and the way she thought it very valuable for kids to kind of discover things 

on their own rather than being taught these things overtly. 

And she would design these toys, where kids in playing with the toys would actually 

come to understand these deep principles of life and nature through play. 

And since they discovered those things, it really stuck with them so much more,

and also they would experience their own failures; there was a failure based aspect to learning there. 

It was very important. And so, the games that I do, I think of really more as modern Montessori toys.

And I really kind of want them to be presented in a way to

 where kids can kind of explore and discover their own principles. 

So a few years ago, I actually started getting very interested in the SETI program.

Now listen to the following recording and answer questions 20 to 22.

For millions of Americans, this weekend is a time to celebrate redemption at God`s hand. 

Tonight, Jews will gather for a second Seder, where they will retell the story of the Exodus.  

And tomorrow, my family will join Christians around the world as we thank God 

for the all important gift of grace through the resurrection of His son, 

and experience the wonder of Easter morning.

These holidays have their roots in miracles that took place thousands of years ago.  

They connect us to our past and give us strength as we face the future.  

And they remind us of the common thread of humanity that connects us all.

For me, and for countless other Christians, Easter weekend is a time to reflect and rejoice. 

Yesterday, many of us took a few quiet moments to try and fathom the tremendous sacrifice Jesus made for all of us.

Tomorrow, we will celebrate the resurrection of a savior who died so that we might live.

And throughout these sacred days, we recommit ourselves to following His example.

 We rededicate our time on Earth to selflessness, and to loving our neighbors. 

We remind ourselves that no matter who we are, or how much we achieve, 

we each stand humbled before an almighty God.

The story of Christ`s triumph over death holds special meaning for Christians.  

But all of us, no matter how or whether we believe, can identify with elements of His story.  

The triumph of hope over despair.  Of faith over doubt.

The notion that there is something out there that is bigger than ourselves.

These beliefs help unite Americans of all faiths and backgrounds.  

They shape our values and guide our work.  

They put our lives in perspective.

So to all Christians celebrating the Resurrection with us, 

Michelle and I want to wish you a blessed and Happy Easter.  

And to all Americans, I hope you have a weekend filled with joy and reflection, 

focused on the things that matter most. 

God bless you, and may God bless the United States of America.

Now listen to the following recording and answer questions 23 to 25.

I was one of the only kids in college who had a reason to go to the P.O. box at the end of the day, 

and that was mainly because my mother has never believed in email, in Facebook, 

in texting or cell phones in general. And so while other kids were BBM ing their parents, 

I was literally waiting by the mailbox to get a letter from home to see how the weekend had gone, 

which was a little frustrating when Grandma was in the hospital,

 but I was just looking for some sort of scribble, some unkempt cursive from my mother.

And so when I moved to New York City after college 

and got completely sucker punched in the face by depression, 

I did the only thing I could think of at the time. 

I wrote those same kinds of letters that my mother had written me for strangers, 

and tucked them all throughout the city, dozens and dozens of them. 

I left them everywhere, in cafes and in libraries, at the U.N., 

everywhere. I blogged about those letters and the days when they were necessary, 

and I posed a kind of crazy promise to the Internet: that if you asked me for a hand written letter,

 I would write you one, no questions asked.

Overnight, my inbox morphed into this harbor of heartbreak—a single mother in Sacramento,

 a girl being bullied in rural Kansas, all asking me, 

a 22 year old girl who barely even knew her own coffee order, 

to write them a love letter and give them a reason to wait by the mailbox.

Well, today I fuel a global organization that is fueled by those trips to the mailbox, 

fueled by the ways in which we can harness social media like 

never before to write and mail strangers letters when they need them most, 

but most of all, fueled by crates of mail like this one, my trusty mail crate, 

filled with the scriptings of ordinary people, strangers writing letters 

to other strangers not because they`re ever going to meet and laugh over a cup of coffee, 

but because they have found one another by way of letter writing.

But, you know, the thing that always gets me about these letters is that most of them 

have been written by people that have never known themselves loved on a piece of paper. 

They could not tell you about the ink of their own love letters. They`re the ones from my generation, 

the ones of us that have grown up into a world where everything is paperless, 

and where some of our best conversations have happened upon a screen. 

We have learned to diary our pain onto Facebook, and we speak swiftly in 140 characters or less.