2020大学英语六级听力模拟卷8（附原文）

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【听力原文】

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.
Conversation One
W: We've all heard the saying "Laughter is the best medicine."
How important is it to our health, Dr. Berk?
M: This saying has been scientifically proven!
A year-long study of heart attack victims done
at the Oakhurst Health Research Institute in California
found that of those patients
who spent half an hour a day watching comedy videos,
10 percent had a second heart attack,
whereas 30 percent of those
who did not watch had a second attack.
W: Wow! Laughter is really a good medicine to patients.
Can you give us another example?
M: Sure! Norman Cousins,
editor of the Saturday Review,
learned this during a battle with an illness.
He discovered that his condition improved
when he enjoyed himself and watched funny movies.
W: You said Norman learned this?
Do we have to learn to laugh?
M: Not necessarily.
Since laughing is something people can do sitting down,
costs no money,
and requires no special exercise equipment or skill,
it's the perfect workout for anyone who doesn't have the time
or desire to participate in a regular fitness program.
W: Oh. Do you have such a program
to offer to the general public?
M: Yes, we do.
It's called the Smile Time-Out.
You take a deep breath, smile, exhale,
and say "Aaah" while visualizing
all your muscles and cells smiling.
Then add to that a memory of a time
you felt really good and laughed and laughed.
W: What about the situation in which
you aren't in a mood to laugh?
M: Even when you fake a smile or laugh,
you get the same physiological benefits
as when it's the real thing,
because your mind is smart,
but your body is stupid and can't tell the difference!
Questions 1 to 4 are based on the conversation you have just heard.
1. What did the year-long study of heart attack victims find?
2. What is Norman's example meant to prove?
3. What is the so-called Smile Time-Out?
4. What can we learn about smile or laugh according to Dr. Berk?
Conversation Two
M: Time to eat!
W: Coming. Oh, I'm starving.
Oh yuck! What's that?
M: Ah, now don't complain!
W: But what is it,
and where is mom?
M: Now, mom put me in charge of dinner
because she's not feeling well tonight.
W: But what is it... and that smell!
M: It's pizza.
I just followed an old family recipe here, and...
W: Let me see that...
Oh, Dad. You're missing a page!
M: Oh, uh, well, uh...
well I couldn't find the second page of the recipe,
but don't worry.
I have plenty of experience around the house.
Plenty of experience in cooking.
W: That's not what mom says.
M: Well, wait, wait, here,
let me try a piece first.
Here, let me cool this off here.
Oh, yeah. Oh, this is great stuff.
W: Yeah right.
Why are you making faces?
M: Well, well, it's just,just a little rich for me. That's all.
W: Let me try it, dad.
Uh, dad.
You put a little too much salt in it and besides it's burned.
And what's that?
M: Oh, well, well,
that's just part of my own adaptation to the recipe.
I added some pumpkin.
W: Oh, not another one of your surprises.
Pumpkin doesn't go on pizza!
M: Well, okay, well, so what?
Uh, what do we do now?
W: Well, how about some cold cereal...
You can't mess up on that, Dad.
M: Oh, I love cereal.
Questions 5 to 8 are based on the conversation you have just heard.
5. What problem does the girl notice about her father's cooking?
6. How does the girl know her father doesn't like the pizza he prepared?
7. What is the man's own adaptation to the recipe?
8. What do they end up doing for their supper?
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
Yuppies are young people
who earn a lot of money and live in a style
that is too expensive for most people.
If you are invited to a yuppie dinner party,
don't be surprised
if you are offered freshly cooked insects
as the first course.
While the idea of eating fried insects fills most of us with horror,
insect-eating is becoming highly fashionable.
For example, in the media industry,
successful executives are often seen
to eat fried or boiled insects from time to time
while working at their desks.
These safe-to-eat insects can be found
and ordered on the Internet.
And young people are logging on to exotic food websites
and ordering samples of prepared insects
to serve at their dinner parties.
Although the idea of eating insects 
is probably disgusting to most of us,
few people would claim that pigs,
chickens and some kinds of seafood
we often eat are examples of great beauty.
One day, insects could be marketed
and sold as a food item in supermarkets.
According to their fans,
they are not only high in protein
and low in fat but also very tasty.
But until our attitudes to food change fundamentally,
it seems that insect-eaters will remain a select few.
Questions 9 to 12 are based on the passage you have just heard.
9. Why does the speaker say
we might be surprised at the yuppie dinner party?
10. Where can people order the unusual food mentioned by the speaker?
11. Why are some yuppies attracted by the unusual food?
12. What does the speaker say about
the future of this type of unusual food?
Passage Two
Many people dislike walking into the bank,
standing in long lines and running out of checks.
They are dissatisfied with their bank's limited hours, too.
They want to do some banking at night and on weekends.
For such people their problems may soon be over.
Before long,
they may be able to do their banking
from the comfort of their own home,
any hour of the day,
any day of the week.
Many banks are preparing online branches or Internet offices,
which means that people will be able
to take care of much of their banking business
through their home computers.
This process is called interactive banking.
At gaze online branches,
customers will be able to view all their accounts,
move money between their accounts, apply for a loan,
and get current information on products such as credit cards.
Customers will also be able to pay their bills electronically
and even email questions to the bank.
Banks are creating online services for several reasons.
One reason is that banks must compete for customers,
who will switch to another bank if they are dissatisfied
with the service they receive.
The convenience of online banking 
appeals to the kind of customer banks most want to keep,
that is, people who are young,
well-educated and have good incomes.
Banks also want to take advantage of modern technology
since they have moved into the 21st century.
Questions 13 to 15 are based on the passage you have just heard.
13. What is one of the reasons
for people's dissatisfaction with traditional banks?
14. What kind of customer does online banking most appeal to?
15. Why do banks create online services according to the passage?
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.
The Harvard Study of Adult Development
may be the longest study of adult life that's ever been done.
For 75 years, we've tracked the lives of 724 men, year after year,
to find out one thing:
What keeps us healthy and happy as we go through life? 
To get the clearest picture of these lives,
we don't just send them questionnaires.
We interview them in their living rooms.
We get their medical records from their doctors.
We draw their blood, we scan their brains,
and we talk to their children.
We videotape them talking with their families
about their deepest concerns.
So what have we learned?
Well, the lessons aren't about wealth or fame
or working harder and harder.
The clearest message that we get from this 75-year study is this:
Good relationships keep us happier and healthier.
We've learned three big lessons about relationships.
The first is that social connections are really good for us.
People who are more socially connected to family,
to friends, to community, are happier,
they're physically healthier,
and they live longer than people who are less well connected.
And the experience of loneliness turns out to be bad.
People who are more isolated than they want to be from others
find that they are less happy,
their health declines earlier in midlife.
And we know that you can be lonely in a crowd
and you can be lonely in a marriage,
so the second big lesson that we learned
is that it's not just the number of friends you have,
and it's not whether or not you're in a committed relationship,
but it's the quality of your close relationships that matters.
High-conflict marriages,for example, without much affection,
turn out to be very bad for our health,
perhaps worse than getting divorced.
And good, close relationships seem to shelter us
from some of the hardship of getting old.
Our most happily partnered men and women reported, in their 80s,
that on the days when they had more physical pain,
their mood stayed just as happy.
And the third big lesson that we learned about relationships
and our health is that good relationships
don't just protect our bodies,
they protect our brains.
And those good relationships,
they don't have to be smooth all the time.
Some of the couples in their 80s or 90s
could quarrel with each other day in and day out,
but as long as they felt that they could really count on the other
when the going got tough,
those quarrels didn't do huge harm on their memories.
So this message, that good, close relationships
are good for our health and well-being,
this is wisdom that's as old as the hills.
16. What did the Harvard Study of Adult Development try to find out?
17. What is the study's conclusion about loneliness?
18. What is the most important for a relationship
according to the second lesson?
19. Why don't small quarrels among old couples
affect their relationship?
Now listen to the following recording and answer questions 20 to 22.
As we all know,
banks do charge fees of $2 or $3 at a time
to non-customers accessing their cash,
and these fees add up in a big way,
totaling $7.1 billion last year alone.
According to a recent survey conducted by Ally Bank,
77% of Americans feel that it's not OK for banks to charge ATM fees.
More than half (56%) of those surveyed
said that the proper fee for an ATM transaction is $0.
It's your money you're accessing,
after all, the thinking goes.
Everyone can avoid these fees by using only affiliated ATMs,
but, quite obviously,
plenty of consumers find it necessary from time to time
to use another bank's machine---even if doing so incurs a fee.
But what if there was another way?
What if there was an ATM
that anyone could use that never charged fees?
There is one such ATM, actually,
and there could be more to come.
A company called Free ATMs NYC
operates an ATM at a music venue
called the Knitting Factory in Brooklyn.
All users are welcomed to make withdrawals, entirely fee-free.
While the transaction is occurring,
a 15-inch video screen above the ATM shows an advertisement.
When the transaction is complete,
the customer gets a receipt,
along with a little more advertising or marketing
in the form of a coupon good for a discount to a local business,
perhaps a nearby restaurant.
Even with the ads,
the transaction's done in roughly the same time
it takes to get money from any other ATM.
The customer,could switch to a bank that doesn't charge such fees---
and by some indication,
millions of consumers are doing just that.
Free ATMs NYC is the brainchild of a 25-year-old entrepreneur
named Clinton Townsend.
The company's home page says
that it is aggressively "rolling out a portfolio of Free ATMs
throughout New York City,"
but so far, there's just the one fee-free machine in Brooklyn---
and only one throughout all of New York City and the U.S.
for that matter.
Will the idea catch on,
with no-fee ATMs popping up left and right?
The concept would surely be popular with consumers.
As mentioned earlier,
most people think that the proper fee for an ATM transaction
is no fee at all,
and that's what Free ATMs NYC delivers.
20. What can we conclude from the survey conducted by Ally Bank?
21. What can the customer get from the Free ATMs NYC?
22. How many fee-free ATMs can we find in the New York City?
Now listen to the following recording and answer questions 23 to 25.
Ever since McDonald's adopted a strategy in 2003
that focuses on improving existing restaurants
and adding new menu items,
the burger giant has been globally successful.
Even during the latest economic downturn,
its growth is not slow,
and in the third quarter,
its revenue and profit exceeded analysts' expectations.
McDonald's shares are up more than 63% in the last three years,
having closed Monday at $98.48,
and many analysts expect its stock to break $100 soon.
The company beat Wall Street again last week,
when it posted its 103rd month of positive global same-store sales.
So what's McDonald's secret of success? For one thing,
it is relying heavily on emerging markets
such as China for new-restaurant growth.
The company last week reported that its Asia/Pacific,
Middle East and Africa divisions
posted the strongest same-store sales growth last month
of all its business units, with sales up 8.1% from the year before.
The company cited "compelling customer conveniences"
as one of the growth drivers at work.
One of those conveniences is adding dessert windows
on the exterior of existing restaurants
where pedestrians can order an ice-cream cone,
instead of being in line inside the restaurant.
Another is delivering food by bicycle in countries like China,
Egypt and South Korea.
All over the world,
the company is updating its restaurants,
modernizing the decoration and adding such facilities
as free WiFi and flat-screen televisions.
It has also extended restaurant hours to attract customers
who don't dine during the traditional work day,
and added double-lane drive-throughs
to get more customers through the line more quickly.
In the US, McDonald's is offering snack items
such as chicken wraps and small desserts
throughout most of the day.
That allows the chain to attract customers
during the otherwise slow periods
between breakfast, lunch and dinner.
The company also has added a lot of new menus items
that are priced relatively high, low and in-between
to appeal to a broad range of consumers.
That enables the chain to appeal to everyone
from the traditional fast-food addict
who loves burgers to salad-chomping moms
to the employee on the go
who wants to grab a bowl of porridge for breakfast.
Meanwhile, the high-margin items,
such as strawberry lemonade, fruit smoothies,
and fancy coffee drinks,
have protected profits by offsetting cheaper items like $1 hamburgers.
23. How did McDonald's shares perform in the last three years?
24. What "compelling customer conveniences"
does McDonald's bring to customers?
25. What did McDonald's do to appeal to a broad range of consumers?
This is the end of Listening Comprehension.