05.最新6级预测卷第五套
2016-04-27
大学英语六级级考试预测卷（五）
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: So what`s the next thing on the agenda, Mary?
W: Well, it`s the South Theater Company.
They want to know if we`d be interested in sponsoring a tour they want to make to East Asia.
M: East Asia? uhh... and how much are they hoping to get from us?
W: Well, the letter mentions 20,000 pounds,
but I don`t know if they might settle for us.
M: Do they say what they would cover?
Have they anything specific in mind?
W: No, I think they are just asking all the firms i
n tongue for as much money as they think they`ll give.
M: And we are worth 20, 000 pounds, right?
W: It seems so.
M: Very flattering.
But I am not awfully happy with the idea. What do we get out of it?
W: Oh,good publicity I suppose. So what I suggest is not that we just give them a sum of money,
but that we offer to pay for something specific like travel or something, and that in return,
we ask for our name to be printed prominently in the program,
and that they give us free advertising space in it.
M: But the travel bill would be enormous, and we could never manage that.
W: I know. But why don`t we offer to pay for the
printing of the programs ourselves on condition that on the front cover
there`s something like this program is presented with the compliments
of Norland Electronics, and free advertising of course.
M: Good idea. Well,
let`s get back to them and ask what the program they want will cost.
Then we can see if we are interested or not.
Questions 1 to 4 are based on the conversation you have just heard.
1.What do we learn about the South Theater Company?
2.What benefit does the woman say their firm can get by sponsoring the Theater Company?
3.What does the woman suggest they do instead of paying
the South Theater Company`s travel expenses?
4.How much does the South Theater Company hope to get from Narland Electronics?
Conversation Two
W：Rock stars now face a new hazardvoice abuse.
After last week`s announcement that Phil Collins might
give up touring because live concerts are ruining his voice,
doctors are counseling stars about the dos and don`ts of voice care.
Here in the studio today, we have Mr. Paul Phillips,
an expert from the High Field Hospital. Paul,
what advice would you give to singers facing voice problems?
M: If pop singers have got voice problems, they really need
to be more selective about where they work.
They shouldn`t work in smoky atmospheres.
They also need to think about resting their voices after a show.
Something else they need to be careful about is medicines.
Aspirin, for example, singers should avoid aspirin.
It thins the blood. And if a singer coughs,
this can result in the bruising of the vocal cords.
W: And is it true that some singers use drugs before
concerts to boost their voices when they have voice problems?
M: Yes, this does happen on occasion.
They are easily available on the continent
and they are useful if a singer has problems with his vocal
cords and has to sing that night. But if they are taken regularly,
they cause a thinning of the voice muscle.
Most pop singers suffer from three things:
lack of training, overuse and abuse of the voice,
especially when they are young.
They have difficult lives.
When they go on tour,
they do a vast number of concerts, singing in smoky places.
W: So, what would you advise the singers to do?
M: Warm your voice up before a show and warm it down after.
Questions 5 to 8 are based on the conversation you have just heard.
5.What does last week`s announcement say about rock star, Phil Collins?
6.What does Paul Philips say about aspirin?
7.What does Paul Philips say about young pop singers?
8.What are the speakers mainly talking about?
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
A recent study shows that meat consumption is one
of the main ways that humans can damage the environment,
second only to the use of motor vehicles.
So how can eating meat have a negative effect on the environment?
For a start, all animals, such as cows, pigs and sheep,
always release gas limed methane, which is the second
most common green house gas after carbon dioxide.
Many environmental experts now believe that methane
is more responsible for global warming than carbon dioxide.
It is estimated that 25% of all methane released into
the atmosphere comes from farm animals.
Another way in which meat production affects
the environment is through the use of water and land.
2,500 gallons of water are needed to produce one pound of beef.
Whereas 20 gallons of water are needed to produce one pound of wheat.
One acre of farmland use for raising cows can produce 250 pounds of beef.
One acre of farmland use for crop production can produce 1,500 pounds of tomatoes.
Many people now say the benefits of switching to vegetarian diet
which excludes meat and fish. Not just for health reasons,
but also because it plays a vital role in protecting the environment.
However, some nutritionists advise against switching to a totally strict vegetarian diet.
They believe such a diet which includes no products from animal
sources can be deficient in many of the necessary vitamins and minerals our bodies need
Today many people have come to realize that
help the environment and for the human race to survive,
more of us will need to become vegetarian.
Questions 9 to 11 are based on the passage you have just heard.
9.What does the recent study show?
10.What do some nutritionists say about the strict vegetarian diet?
11.What does the speaker think more people need to do?
Passage Two
Would you trust a robot to park your car?
The question will confront New Yorkers in
February as the city`s first robotic parking opens in Chinatown.
The technology has been successfully applied overseas,
but the only other public robotic garage
in the United States has been troublesome,
dropping vehicles and trapping cars because of technical problems.
Nonetheless, the developers of the Chinatown garage are confident
with the technology and are counting on it
to squeeze 67 cars in an apartment building basement that
would otherwise fit only 24, accomplished by removing a maneuver space normally required.
A humanshaped robot won`t be stepping into your car to drive it.
Rather, the garage itself does the parking.
The driver stops the car on a flat platform and gets out.
The platform is lowered into the garage, and it is then transported
to a vacant parking space by a computer controlled
device similar to an elevator that also runs sideways.
There is no human supervision, but an attendant will
be on hand to accept cash and explain the system to new users.
(15)Parking rates will be attracted about $400 monthly or $25 per day,
according to Ari Milstein, the director of planning for Automation Parking Systems,
which is the U.S. subsidiary of a German company.
This company has built automated garages in several countries overseas
and in the United States for residents of a Washington, D.C. apartment building.
Questions 12 to 15 are based on the passage you have just heard.
12.What do we learn about the robot parking in the U.S. so far?
13.What advantage does robotic parking have according to its developers?
14.What does the attendant do in the automated garage?
15.What does the company say about the parking rates?
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.
What you`re doing, right now, at this very moment, is killing you.
More than cars or the Internet or even
that little mobile device we keep talking about,
the technology you`re using the most almost every day is this, your tush.
Nowadays people are sitting 9.3 hours a day,
which is more than we`re sleeping, at 7.7 hours.
Sitting is so incredibly prevalent,
we don`t even question how much we`re doing it,
and because everyone else is doing it,
it doesn`t even occur to us that it`s not okay.
In that way, sitting has become the smoking of our generation.
Of course there`s health consequences to this,
scary ones, besides the waist.
Things like breast cancer and colon cancer are
directly tied to our lack of physical activity,
ten percent in fact, on both of those,
six percent for heart disease,
seven percent for type 2 diabetes, which is what my father died of.
Now, any of those stats should convince each of us to get off our duff more,
but if you`re anything like me, it won`t.
What did get me moving was a social interaction.
Someone invited me to a meeting, but couldn`t manage to fit me
in to a regular sort of conference room meeting, and said,
"I have to walk my dogs tomorrow. Could you come then?"
It seemed kind of odd to do, and actually, that first meeting,
I remember thinking, "I have to be the one to ask the next question,
" because I knew I was going to huff and puff during this conversation.
And yet, I`ve taken that idea and made it my own.
So instead of going to coffee meetings or fluorescent-lit conference room meetings,
I ask people to go on a walking meeting,
to the tune of 20 to 30 miles a week. It`s changed my life.
But before that, what actually happened was,
I used to think about it as, you could take care
of your health, or you could take care of obligations,
and one always came at the cost of the other.
So now, several hundred of these walking meetings later,
I`ve learned a few things.
So I started this talk talking about the tush,
so I`ll end with the bottom line, which is, walk and talk.
Walk the talk. You`ll be surprised at how fresh air drives fresh thinking,
and in the way that you do,
you`ll bring into your life an entirely new set of ideas.
16.How long are people sitting nowadays?
17.What is not mentioned as a health consequence caused by the lack of physical activities?
18.How did the speaker have the idea of a walking meeting?
19.What did the speaker learn from walking meetings?
Passage Two
Now listen to the following recording and answer questions 20 to 22.
I`m an underwater explorer, more specifically a cave diver.
(20)I wanted to be an astronaut when I was a little kid,
but growing up in Canada as a young girl,
that wasn`t really available to me.
But as it turns out, we know a lot more about space than we do about
the underground waterways coursing through our planet,
the very lifeblood of Mother Earth. So I decided
to do something that was even more remarkable.
Instead of exploring outer space,
I wanted to explore the wonders of inner space.
Now, a lot of people will tell you that cave diving is perhaps
one of the most dangerous endeavors.
I mean, imagine yourself here in this room,
if you were suddenly plunged into blackness,
with your only job to find the exit,
sometimes swimming through these large spaces,
and at other times crawling beneath the seats,
following a thin guideline, just waiting
for the life support to provide your very next breath.
Well, that`s my workplace.
But what I want to teach you today is that our world is not one big solid rock.
It`s a whole lot more like a sponge.
I can swim through a lot of the pores in our earth`s sponge,
but where I can`t, other life-forms and other materials
can make that journey without me.
And my voice is the one that`s going to teach you
about the inside of Mother Earth.
There was no guidebook available to me when I decided to be the
first person to cave dive inside Antarctic icebergs. In 2000,
this was the largest moving object on the planet.
It calved off the Ross Ice Shelf, and we went down
there to explore ice edge ecology and search for life-forms beneath the ice.
(22)We use a technology called rebreathers.
It`s an awful lot like the same technology that is used for space walks.
This technology enables us to go deeper
than we could`ve imagined even 10 years ago.
We use exotic gases,
nd we can make missions even up to 20 hours long underwater.
I work with biologists.
It turns out that caves are repositories of amazing life-forms,
species that we never knew existed before.
Many of these life-forms live in unusual ways.
20.Which is true according to the lecture?
21.What does the speaker want to teach the audience?
22.What is "rebreather" mentioned in the lecture?
Passage Three
Now listen to the following recording and answer questions 23 to 25.
I am in search of another planet in the universe where life exists.
I can`t see this planet with my naked eyes or even
with the most powerful telescopes we currently possess.
But I know that it`s there. And understanding contradictions
that occur in nature will help us find it.
On our planet, where there`s water, there`s life.
So we look for planets that orbit at just the right distance from their stars.
At this distance, shown in blue on this diagram for stars of different temperatures,
planets could be warm enough for water to flow on their surfaces as
lakes and oceans where life might reside.
Some astronomers focus their time and energy on finding planets
at these distances from their stars. What I do picks up where their job ends.
I model the possible climates of exoplanets.
And here`s why that`s important: there are many factors besides distance
from its star that control whether a planet can support life.
(25)Take the planet Venus. It`s named after the Roman goddess of love and beauty,
because of its benign, ethereal appearance in the sky.
But spacecraft measurements revealed a different story.
The surface temperature is close to 900 degrees Fahrenheit, 500 Celsius.
That`s hot enough to melt lead. Its thick atmosphere,
not its distance from the sun, is the reason.
It causes a greenhouse effect on steroids,
trapping heat from the sun and scorching the planet`s surface.
The reality totally contradicted initial perceptions of this planet.
From these lessons from our own solar system,
we`ve learned that a planet`s atmosphere is crucial to its climate and potential to host life.
We don`t know what the atmospheres of these planets are like because
the planets are so small and dim compared to their stars and so far away from us.
Trying to measure the atmospheric composition of an exoplanet
passing in front of its host star is hard.
It`s like trying to see a fruit fly passing in front of a car`s headlight.
OK, now imagine that car is 100 trillion miles away,
and you want to know the precise color of that fly.
23.Who is the speaker?
24.On what do astronomers focus their time and energy?
25.Which is true about the planet Venus?