10.最新6级预测卷第十套
2016-04-27
大学英语六级级考试预测卷（十）
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: You`ll be in Room 207. Here`s your key,
and I hope you enjoy your stay with us, Ms. Cook.
W: Thanks. Oh, by the way, I`d like to get some information from you.
You see, the conference I`m attending will be over early Wednesday,
and I don`t fly out until Thursday.
Do you have any recommendations for sightseeing?
M: There`s a great planetarium at our natural history museum. You might enjoy that.
W: I don`t know I don`t think I want to do that.
The city I come from has a good planetarium.
M: There are also some good art galleries downtown.
W: I`m more interested in doing something outdoors.
M: Oh, well, there`s a beautiful waterfall called Crystal Falls not far from here.
W: That sounds like something I`d enjoy seeing.
How do I get there?
M: Do you have a car, or will you be taking a bus?
W: I rented a car at the airport.
M: Then just take Waterson Street west out of town and go about five miles.
You`ll see a sign that says Crystal Falls.
It`s a short walk from there.
W:That sounds great. Thanks!
Questions 1 to 4 are based on the conversation you have just heard.
1.Where is this conversation taking place?
2.What does Ms. Cook imply that her main purpose was in coming to this town?
3.Why does Ms. Cook not want to go to the planetarium?
4.How will Ms. Cook probably get to the waterfall?
Conversation Two
M: Hi, Helen. How did your driving test go?
Did you get your driver`s license yet?
W: So far, I`ve just taken the written test.
I did well enough on that, but I still have to take the road test.
M: I remember when I took the road test a few years ago.
The first time I took it, I failed.
W: You failed! But you`re such a good driver! What happened?
M: Well, I took a left hand turn from the right lane,
and the examiner told me just to turn around and go back to the testing center.
It was pretty embarrassing.
W: My big problem is parallel parking.
I just can`t seem to get a car into those little spaces.
M: If you like, we can go out in my car
before you take the road test and practice parallel parking.
W: That would be great. I`ve just got to get my license.
I can`t believe that I have a car that my parents gave me
just sitting in my garage, and I can`t even drive it.
Questions 5 to 8 are based on the conversation you have just heard.
5.What did Helen recently pass?
6. What problem did the man have when he took his road test several years before?
7.What does the man offer to do for Helen?
8.Who gave the woman a car?
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
I had flown from San Francisco to Virginia to attend a conference on multiculturalism.
Hundreds of educators from across the country were meeting to discuss
the need for greater cultural diversity in the school curriculum.
I took a taxi to my hotel. On the way,
my driver and I chatted about the weather and the tourists.
The driver was a white man in his fortieth.
“How long have you been in this country?” he asked.
“All my life!” I replied, “I was born in the United States.”
With a strong southern accent, he remarked,
“I was wondering because your English is excellent.”
Then I explained as I had done many times before,
“My grandfather came here from China in the 1880s.
My family has been here in America for over a hundred years.”
He glanced at me in the mirror. Somehow,
I didn`t look American to him. My appearance looked foreign.
Questions like the one my taxi driver asked make me feel uncomfortable.
But I can understand why he could not see me as an American.
He had a narrow but widely shared sense of the past:
a history that has viewed Americans as descendants of Europeans.
Race has functioned as something necessary to the
construction of American character and quality。
In the creation of our national identity，American has been defined as “white”.
But America has been racially diverse since our very beginning on the Virginia shore,
when the first group of Englishmen and Africans arrived here in the 17th century.
And this reality is increasingly become visible everywhere.
Questions 9 to 11 are based on the passage you have just heard.
9.What was the theme of the conference the speaker was to attend?
10.Why did the taxi driver ask the speaker how long she has been in the US?
11.What message did the speaker wish to convey?
Passage Two
Laws have been written to govern the use of American National Flag,
and to ensure proper respect for the flag.
Custom has also governed the common practice in regard to its use.
All the armed services have precise regulations on how to display the national flag.
This may vary somewhat from the general rules.
The national flag should be raised and lowered by hand.
Do not raise the flag while it is folded. Unfold the flag first,
and then hoist it quickly to the top of the flagpole.
Lower it slowly and with dignity.
Place no objects on or over the flag.
Do not use the flag as part of a costume or other athletic uniform.
Do not print it upon cushions, handkerchiefs, paper napkins or boxes.
A federal law provides that the trademark cannot be registered if it comprises the flag,
or badges of the US. When the flag is used to unveil a statue or monument,
it shouldn`t serve as a covering of the object to be unveiled.
If it is displayed on such occasions, do not allow the flag to fall to the ground,
but let it be carried high up in the air to form a feature of the ceremony.
Take every precaution to prevent the flag from being soiled.
It should not be allowed to touch the ground or floor,
nor to brush against objects.
Questions 12 to 15 are based on the passage you have just heard.
12.How do Americans ensure proper respect for the national flag?
13.What is the regulation regarding the raising of the American National Flag?
14.How should the American National Flag be displayed at an unveiling ceremony?
15.What do we learn about the use of the American National Flag?
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
I went a few years ago to a conference,
and on Friday of the three day conference,
one of the participants took me aside,
and she said, “I suffer from depression and I`m a little embarrassed about it,
but I`ve been taking this medication, and I just wanted to ask you what you think?”
And so I did my best to give her such advice as I could. And then she said,
“You know, my husband would never understand this.
He`s really the kind of guy to whom this wouldn`t make any sense,
so I just, you know, it`s just between us.”
And I said, “Yes, that`s fine.”
On Sunday of the same conference, her husband took me aside,
and he said, “My wife wouldn`t think that I was really much of a guy if she knew this,
but I`ve been dealing with this depression and I`m taking some medication,
and I wondered what you think?”
They were hiding the same medication in two different places in the same bedroom.
And I said that I thought communication within the
marriage might be triggering some of their problems.
But I was also struck by the burdensome nature of such mutual secrecy.
Depression is so exhausting. It takes up so much of your time and energy,
and silence about it, it really does make the depression worse.
And then I began thinking about all the ways people make themselves better.
I`d started off as a medical conservative.
I thought there were a few kinds of therapy that worked,
it was clear what they were there was medication,
there were certain psychotherapies,
there was possibly electroconvulsive treatment,
and that everything else was nonsense.
But then I discovered something.
If you have brain cancer,
and you say that standing on your head for 20 minutes every morning makes you feel better,
it may make you feel better, but you still have brain cancer,
and you`ll still probably die from it.
But if you say that you have depression,
and standing on your head for 20 minutes every day makes you feel better,
then it`s worked, because depression is an illness of how you feel,
and if you feel better, then you are effectively not depressed anymore.
So I became much more tolerant of the vast world of alternative treatments.
And I get letters, I get hundreds of letters from people writing
to tell me about what`s worked for them.
Someone was asking me backstage today about meditation.
My favorite of the letters that I got was the one that came from
a woman who wrote and said that she had tried therapy,
she had tried medication, she had tried pretty much everything,
and she had found a solution and hoped I would tell the world,
and that was making little things from yarn. She sent me some of them.
And I`m not wearing them right now.
I suggested to her that she also should look up
obsessive compulsive disorder in the DSM.
16.How long will the conference last?
17.When did the woman`s husband talk with the speaker?
18.According to the speaker, which of the following statements is right?
19.Whose letter did the speaker like most?
Passage Two
Look around these beautiful buildings and landscaping,
this beautiful university that we love to be here now
and you`ll love to come back many years from now as well,
and always remember this great day and your great time here at USC.
Perhaps one of the very greatest of all the universities in the world
and most beautiful universities in the world and look around all
these beautiful faces and all this incredible joy,
but I`ll tell you, one of the things that`s most beautiful
about USC is its commitment to service 300 service organizations
who just in the last year delivered more than 765,000 hours of community service.
That`s what makes this university so great.
Now when we all drove in here today into this beauty,
we drove through some high fences and high gates,
and we all know why we drove through those high fences
and high gates because only a few blocks from here are some of
the most impoverished people in the world and that`s
why our commitment to others is so important and everlasting.
Don`t let those walls be a metaphor for your own life.
Get out there and do something for others and fight on Trojans.
20.How many service organizations are there in USC?
21.According to the speaker, what makes USC great?
22.Who are Trojans?
Passage Three
Now listen to the following recording and answer questions 23 to 25.
So now, just, this is an abrupt transition here.
There was three years where I actually did have a real job, sort of.
I was the head of a college department teaching games, so,
again, it was sort of a real job,
and now I just got to talk about making as opposed to making them.
And I was at a dinner. Part of the job of it,
when you`re a chair of a department, is to eat,
and I did that very well, and so I`m out at a dinner with this guy called Zig Jackson.
So this is Zig in this photograph. This is also one of Zig`s photographs.
He`s a photographer. And he goes all around the country taking pictures of himself,
and you can see here he`s got Zig`s Indian Reservation.
And this particular shot, this is one of the more traditional shots.
This is a rain dancer.
And this is one of my favorite shots here.
So you can look at this, and maybe you`ve even seen things like this.
This is an expression of culture, right?
And this is actually from his Degradation series.
And what was most fascinating to me about this series is just,
look at that little boy there.
Can you imagine? Now let`s, we can see that`s a traditional Native American.
Now I just want to change that guy`s race.
Just imagine if that`s a black guy. So,
“Honey, come here, let`s get your picture with the black guy.”
Right? Like, seriously, nobody would do this.
It baffles the mind. And so Zig, being Indian,
likewise it baffles his mind. His favorite
photograph—my favorite photograph of his,
which I don`t have in here is Indian taking picture of
white people taking pictures of Indians.
So I happen to be at dinner with this photographer,
and he was talking with another photographer about a shooting that had occurred,
and it was on an Indian reservation.
He`d taken his camera up there to photograph it,
but when he got there, he discovered he couldn`t do it.
He just couldn`t capture the picture.
And so they were talking back and forth about this question.
Do you take the picture or not?
And that was fascinating to me as a game designer,
because it never occurs to me, like,
should I make the game about this difficult topic or not?
Because we just make things that are fun or,
you know, will make you feel fear, you know,
that visceral excitement.
But every other medium does it.
23.What was the speaker`s real job?
24.Who is Zig Jackson?
25.Who used to volunteer in an AIDS clinic?