2020大学英语六级听力模拟卷9（附原文）

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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: Good morning, class.
Today I thought we would talk about something
bright and cheerful---the sun.
Can anyone tell me how you feel
when it's sunny compared to
how you feel when it's cloudy?
M: I find that it's a lot easier
to get up in the morning if it's sunny.
W: Well, what if I told you 
that it would rain for weeks on end with no break.
M: I don't think I would like that very much.
W: Most of the articles we read lately regarding the sun
are discussing the negative effects
of staying in the sun for too long,
saying that ultraviolet radiation
from the sun is a major cause of skin cancer.
Although these articles are factual,
the sun does have some positive side effects as well.
As a matter of fact some scientists believe
sunlight may reduce the risk of several types of cancer.
M: Excuse me,
but many articles that I've read state
that it can take as little as 30 minutes to get a sunburn.
W: True, but in small doses,
the sun can be quite healthy for you.
In fact, recent studies have found that
sunlight can actually help protect you
from certain types of cancer such as breast and stomach.
More importantly, the sun also provides us
with our main source of Vitamin D.
M: Well, I don't need to worry about vitamins
because I take multi-vitamins every day.
W: That's great, but wouldn't it be better
if you didn't have to take them
and you were able to get vitamins in a more natural way
such as food and the sun?
M: Does that mean we should spend all day
in the sun without any protection?
W: No, spending roughly ten minutes per day in the sun
should be enough to supply us
with all the Vitamin D that we need.
Questions 1 to 4 are based on the conversation you have just heard.
1. How does the man feel when it's sunny?
2. What does the teacher mainly want to tell her students in this class?
3. What kind of cancer may the sunlight protect us from?
4. What is the main function of sunshine when concerned with our bodies?
Conversation Two
W: 2 million high school seniors are gearing up this fall
to apply to nearly 3,500 US colleges.
So, which are the strongest academically
and toughest to get into?
Well, the Princeton Review ranks The Best 361 Colleges.
Robert Frank is the lead author.
Rob, good morning,
good to see you again.
M: Well. Thanks for having me back.
W: So let's take a look at some of the strongest academic schools.
Reed College in Portland,
Oregon scores highest marks. Why is it?
M: Reed College is a great school.
There are only 1,300 students,
but it's a wonderful liberal arts school.
We went directly to students,
and they told us that their professors were great,
both inside as well as outside the classroom.
W: About ten students per class?
M: Yeah! It's averaged ten to one,
student to faculty ratio.
So it is certainly small and they pride themselves
on their relationships with the professors.
W: All right!
Ivy Leagues did very well in other categories as well,
like toughest schools to get into and top in that list,
MIT was first,
followed then by Yale, Princeton, and Harvard,
second, third, and fourth respectively.
M: That's right.
W: Students at Princeton University are happiest
with their financial aid packages.
So what are they doing differently?
M: One of the most aggressive policies
that Princeton has put into place over the last couple of years
is matching students aid packages,
so that they need to be allowed
to get that aid package for every student.
W: All right!
Now speaking of beautiful campuses,
Pepperdine scored top, right?
M: It's a lovely campus,
right on the beach.
Questions 5 to 8 are based on the conversation you have just heard.
5. Why does Reed College score highest marks?
6. Which school is the toughest to get into?
7. What makes the students at Princeton University the happiest ones?
8. What is the feature of Pepperdine?
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
The private motor vehicle has given us a freedom
our ancestors could not dream about.
We can travel swiftly,
and usually safely,
over the roads which have been built to accommodate our cars.
People can display their wealth by driving a car
which may cost as much as another person's home.
Sadly the car has become a disadvantage as well as a boon.
The car pollutes the atmosphere,
may be involved in serious accidents,
and by its very numbers blocks roads.
How can we reduce its use?
The car is only desirable if we can use it easily,
so we might begin by reducing access
to parking spaces in the cities
and simultaneously increasing the quality
and availability of public transport.
Cars could be banned from certain parts of the city,
thus forcing people to walk or to use public transport.
The expense of buying and running a car can be raised.
If the motorist is faced with a high purchase price,
high road tax, high insurance premiums
and substantial fines he or she may reconsider the purchase.
A corresponding reduction in the price of public transport
would help this financial argument against car ownership.
Neither of these arguments will sway the super rich
who can afford the status cars,
but it would perhaps encourage them to look at other ways
of demonstrating their wealth.
However we do it,
reducing the number of cars on the road
will reduce the problems of pollution
and the congestion which can bring cities to a standstill.
Questions 9 to 11 are based on the passage you have just heard.
9. What does the speaker focus on?
10. What factor might hinder
most people's consideration of purchasing private cars?
11. What would be the result if the number of private cars is reduced?
Passage Two
When Midori was two years old,
she often climbed onto the piano bench
and reached for the violin that belonged to her mother,
a 30-year-old professional musician.
"Please don't touch, Midori," her mother scolded.
The violin was, after all,
worth more than $20,000.
But Midori persisted.
She longed to handle the graceful instrument
that made beautiful sounds.
Finally, on her third birthday,
Midori was handed a package,
a tiny violin, about half the normal size.
Almost from the moment Midori was born,
her mother knew she was sensitive to music.
For several years mother and daughter
practiced together day after day.
She was eager to learn.
Failure often led to tears,
though she never once turned from the instrument.
Instead, she persisted until the problem was overcome.
One day Johnson, an American musician,
heard Midori playing the violin.
He couldn't believe she was just eight years old.
"She must make a tape and I will take it to the United States."
the American musician said.
A famous American violin teacher heard the tape.
He, too, had difficulty believing his ears.
The playing was absolutely astonishing.
He immediately accepted her
as a pupil and recommended her for a full scholarship.
Thus in 1982,
Midori and her mother moved to New York City,
leaving behind a comfortable life in Japan.
Questions 12 to 15 are based on the passage you have just heard.
12. What did Midori's mother do?
13. Why was Midori forbidden to touch her mother's violin
when she was only two years old?
14. What did Johnson ask Midori to do?
15. Why did Midori move to the United States?
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.
In a modern society,
no company can hope to make a profit on any product
unless it advertises it first.
The most important decision that a company has to make
regarding advertising is where to advertise.
On TV? In magazines? On the radio? In newspapers?
We refer to these means of communication as "the media".
There are three categories of media: print, broadcast, and direct.
Today, we are going to describe each of these categories
and discuss their importance and usefulness in advertising.
The first category, the print media,
consists of printed information sources;
in other words, newspapers and magazines.
For the advertisers,
each of these has certain advantages and disadvantages.
Let's talk first about newspapers,
which receive more money
from advertisements each year than any other medium.
This is because newspaper advertising
has several outstanding advantages.
First of all, nearly everybody reads newspapers.
Therefore, newspaper ads reach huge numbers of people.
Moreover, newspapers are generally local.
This allows small, local businesses
to advertise directly to their potential customers.
Third, newspaper advertising is relatively cheap;
so the ad can be as long as the advertiser wants,
and it can also be repeated.
On the other hand, newspaper ads have no color,
and they are not very exciting or attractive.
Instead, you find these ads
in the second type of print medium, magazines.
For the advertiser,
the greatest advantage of magazines 
is that they have specialized groups of readers.
In other words,
the people who read Car and Driver
are probably not the same people who read Glamour,
which is a women's magazine,
or The New Republic, a political magazine.
Therefore, advertising in a magazine
allows a business to direct its ads to the people
who are most interested in the product.
The big disadvantage of magazine advertisement
is that it can be very expensive,
especially in magazines like Playboy or National Geographic.
Let's move along now and talk about the broadcast media,
by which we mean radio and television.
These also have both advantages and disadvantages.
First, radio.
Radio has two of the same advantages as newspapers:
Almost everybody listens to it, and it's usually local.
The disadvantages of radio ads 
are that they must be short
and that they are not permanent in the way printed ads are.
Second, television.
Of all the media, TV, with sound, movement, and color,
is the most dramatic,
so the ads are easy to remember.
On the other hand, ads on TV are enormously expensive.
Last category, direct media.
The most common direct media is the mail,
and direct mail advertising is a very big business.
Even if you have only lived in this country for a short time,
you have probably already received advertisements in the mail.
The advantage of advertising by mail
is that the ad goes directly to the potential customer's hands.
However, many people don't bother to read these ads;
in fact, we call them "junk mail"
and often throw them away without even opening the envelope.
16. What is the most important decision
a company has to make regarding advertising?
17. What are the three categories of media?
18. What is the greatest advantage of magazines?
19. What is the most common direct media?
Now listen to the following recording and answer questions 20 to 22.
News can be something the authorities want you to know,
or something they would rather keep secret.
An announcement of a government success, a denial of a failure,
or, a secret scandal that nobody really wants you to talk about.
If the authorities want to tell the world some good news,
they issue statements and call press conferences.
Or politicians make speeches.
Local newspapers, radio and television
help to alert foreign correspondents to what is going on.
And by making contacts with local officials,
journalists can ask for more information or explanation
to help them write their stories.
Unless the correspondent is an eye-witness,
it's rare to trust any single source.
Officials have a policy to defend,
and opposition politicians want to attack it.
Rumor and gossip can also confuse the situation.
So, you have to check information as much as possible
using common sense and experience
as final checks to help establish just what's likely to be the truth,
or close to it.
Just getting the news is only half the job.
A correspondent may be well-informed,
but his job is to inform other people, the public.
So once the information is available
it has to be written in an interesting way
which is also easily understood.
Particularly for radio, 
since, while a newspaper reader can turn back and re-read a sentence or two,
the radio listener has only one chance.
This also means that only a limited number of facts
can be contained in a sentence,
that there should be an element of repetition.
And vital information necessary to understand the latest development
should be presented at the start of a report---
in case the producer of a news program decides to shorten an item,
by cutting for example the last sentence or two.
Finally, the style of presentation must match the subject matter.
A cheerful voice might be perfect for a royal wedding.
But it would be sadly out of place for a report of a plane crash.
And this would also confuse and distract the listener,
probably making it difficult to understand
just what had happened and to whom.
20. What will authorities do
if they want to tell the world some good news?
21. What is a correspondent's main job?
22. What does the style of presentation have to match?
Now listen to the following recording and answer questions 23 to 25.
Modern woman may be better educated,
have a better job and earn more money
than her grandmother ever dreamed of,
but in one way her life remains the same---
eight out of ten women still do the household chores.
The only area where the average man is more likely to help out
is with small repairs around the house.
Only 1 per cent of men say
they do the washing and ironing
or decide what to have for dinner.
The report Social Focus on Women and Men,
by the Office for National Statistics,
found that attitudes to women working
have changed drastically over the past decade.
Whereas in 1987 more than half of men
and 40 per cent of women agreed with the statement,
"A husband's job is to earn the money,
a wife's job is to look after the home and family",
that view had halved among both sexes by 1994.
The numbers agreeing strongly with the statement,
"A job is all right but what most women really want
is a home and children",
had also halved from 15 per cent to 7 per cent of men
feeling that way and 12 per cent to 5 per cent of women.
Women's increased participation in the world of work
has been one of the most striking features of recent decades.
Nearly half of all women aged 55 to 59 have no qualifications.
But their grand-daughters
are outperforming their male peers across the board,
and from 1989 overtook boys at A-levels.
Gender stereotypes persist at this level of education, however,
with more than three-fifths of English entrants being female,
while a similar proportion of maths entrants are male.
A greater number of boys take physics and chemistry
whereas girls predominate in social sciences and history.
The explosion in higher education means
there was a 66 per cent increase in number of female undergraduates
and a 50 per cent increase in the number of male undergraduates
between 1990-91 and 1995-96.
Women are also making breakthroughs in specific areas of employment.
Women now form a slight majority among new lawyers
although they make up only one-third of all lawyers.
23. What is the only area
where an average man is more likely to help out?
24. What did the report Social Focus on Women and Men find?
25. What is one of the most striking features of recent decades?
This is the end of Listening Comprehension.