介绍:
[00:15.79]College English Test Band 6
[00:20.63]Part II Listening Comprehension
[00:24.68]Section A
[00:27.13]Directions: In this section,
[00:29.47]you will hear two long conversations.
[00:32.37]At the end of each conversation,
[00:34.09]you will hear some questions.
[00:36.85]Both the conversation and the questions will be spoken only once.
[00:41.26]After you hear a question,
[00:43.04]you must choose the best answer from the four choices marked A), B), C) and D).
[00:49.72]Then mark the corresponding letter on Answer Sheet 1
[00:53.26]with a single line through the centre.
[00:56.72]Conversation One
[00:59.18]M: What did you say you were going to take up as a career?
[01:03.12]W: Law. Actually,
[01:04.98]I began my studies at Harvard Law School last October.
[01:09.20]M: What are you going to do when you finish?
[01:11.95]W: Oh, I shall go back home and practice there.
[01:15.44]I may start with some clerical work,
[01:17.89]but eventually I'm going to set up my own law office.
[01:21.77]There's a great deal of scope for lawyers in my country
[01:25.00]and a lot of useful work to be done there
[01:27.88]-people get married and then divorced,
[01:30.74]people begin to buy their own houses,
[01:33.12]people feel mistreated by the community or the authority.
[01:36.66]They need lawyers, do they?
[01:38.94]M: What made you decide to take up law as a career?
[01:42.17]W: Well, I was good at making a speech at school
[01:45.47]and I think I had a certain feeling for communication and persuasion.
[01:50.32]I suppose my personal qualities made me choose law.
[01:54.46]Of course, in my country lawyers are respected and well-paid.
[01:59.53]M: But, will you find it difficult
[02:01.40]to become recognized in your own country?
[02:04.15]W: To a certain extent, yes.
[02:06.57]But I expect that a woman lawyer
[02:08.88]also has some advantages in the court.
[02:11.86]Especially for some kinds of cases,
[02:14.66]for example, if my client is a woman
[02:17.52]who claims certain rights from her divorced husband,
[02:20.68]a woman lawyer can understand better and do a better job.
[02:24.80]M: But why have you chosen America for your studies,
[02:28.58]why not some other country?
[02:30.15]W: Ah well, there are lots of reasons.
[02:32.67]But I'm not sorry because you've got
[02:34.60]some of the best law schools in the world.
[02:37.77]Questions 1 to 4 are based on the conversation you have just heard.
[02:43.68]1. What was the woman's aim in her career?
[03:01.26]2. What made the woman choose to become a lawyer?
[03:20.11]3. What is a woman lawyer’s advantage?
[03:38.60]4. Why did the woman go to America to study law?
[03:56.07]Conversation Two
[03:58.81]W: Dr. Thomas? This is Keet Bradley from the daily news.
[04:02.88]I'd like to ask you some questions
[04:05.22]about the new official standard weight that you purchased.
[04:09.20]M: I'd be happy to help you.
[04:11.00]What would you like to know?
[04:13.30]W: First of all, how was the standard weight used?
[04:17.25]M: Well, the people in our department use it
[04:20.38]to check the scales all over the country.
[04:23.30]The department of weights and measures,
[04:25.37]we are a government agency.
[04:28.11]It's our responsibility to see that all the scales
[04:30.54]measure a kilogram accurately
[04:32.96]so this is the way we use to adjust the scales.
[04:36.46]W: How did you check the scales before?
[04:39.23]M: We have an old standard weight that we used to use.
[04:43.26]It had to be replaced because it was imprecise.
[04:47.21]You see it was made of poor quality metal.
[04:50.63]It absorbed too much moisture.
[04:53.13]W: Oh. So when the weather was humid it weighed more
[04:57.13]and when it was dry it weighed less.
[04:59.68]M: Exactly. And that variation
[05:01.86]can affect the standards of the whole country.
[05:05.19]So our department had the new weight
[05:07.74]made out of higher quality metal.
[05:10.35]W: How much did it cost?
[05:12.36]M: About 45 thousand dollars.
[05:15.63]W: 45,000 dollars? For one kilogram weight?
[05:20.35]That's more expensive than gold.
[05:23.34]Is it really worth that much?
[05:25.39]M: I'm sure it is.
[05:27.29]Industries depend on our government agency
[05:29.81]to monitor the accuracy of scales
[05:32.69]so that when they buy and sell their products
[05:35.38]there is one standard.
[05:37.45]Think of the drug industry,
[05:39.19]for example, those companies rely on high accuracy scales
[05:43.11]to manufacture and package medicine.
[05:47.03]Questions 5 to 8 are based on the conversation you have just heard.
[05:52.47]5. What are the speakers talking about?
[06:11.57]6. What is the standard weight used for?
[06:33.53]7. Why was the old standard weight replaced?
[06:53.75]8. What does the man probably think about the cost of the new weight?
[07:15.28]Section B
[07:18.84]Directions: In this section,
[07:21.22]you will hear two passages.
[07:23.48]At the end of each passage,
[07:25.17]you will hear some questions.
[07:27.43]Both the passage and the questions will be spoken only once.
[07:31.34]After you hear a question,
[07:33.37]you must choose the best answer from the four choices
[07:36.31]marked A), B), C) and D).
[07:39.91]Then mark the corresponding letter on Answer Sheet 1
[07:43.21]with a single line through the centre.
[07:45.65]Passage One
[07:47.76]We know that we have to pay for what we get.
[07:50.68]If we buy food, we know there will be a bill to pay.
[07:54.66]These are private bills.
[07:57.35]But there are also public bills that must be paid.
[08:00.79]Public bills are paid for by the government.
[08:04.10]In turn, we get these services through taxes.
[08:07.76]What would happen if everyone in the city stopped paying taxes?
[08:11.73]The water supply would stop.
[08:14.01]Water might even become unclean and impure.
[08:17.24]The streets might not be cleaned.
[08:19.78]There would be no police force to protect people and property.
[08:23.49]Schools would be closed.
[08:25.61]People would become sick and diseases might spread.
[08:28.75]We should not want to live in such a city.
[08:31.94]We all want pure water and food,
[08:34.37]clean streets and good schools.
[08:37.13]We want police to prevent us from crime.
[08:40.00]The chief duty for every government
[08:42.57]is to protect persons and property.
[08:44.83]More than three quarters of the money spent
[08:47.30]by our government is used for this purpose.
[08:50.39]The next large amount of public money
[08:52.89]goes to teach and train our citizens.
[08:56.12]Billions of dollars each year are spent on schools and libraries.
[09:00.30]Public money is used to pay the teachers and all the public officials.
[09:05.49]Also, a large amount of public funds is spent on roads.
[09:10.01]The greatest part of the needed funds is raised by taxes.
[09:14.30]A tax is money that we all must pay to support the government.
[09:18.95]The law orders us to pay taxes.
[09:21.32]We have no choice in the matter.
[09:24.23]Almost everyone pays some taxes in one form or another.
[09:29.86]Questions 9 to 11 are based on the passage you have just heard.
[09:35.63]9. According to the speaker,
[09:38.40]what will happen if the citizens stop paying taxes?
[09:58.78]10. In what way is the next large amount of public money used?
[10:21.49]11. What message does the speaker want to convey in this talk?
[10:44.19]Passage Two
[10:45.70]The danger from earthquakes is very real
[10:49.20]-they are probably the most terrible natural disaster on earth.
[10:52.89]It was thought in the past that earthquakes
[10:55.17]were punishment from an angry god.
[10:57.91]Only recently have scientists
[10:59.88]begun to understand why earthquakes happen.
[11:03.35]Scientists could not understand earthquakes
[11:05.99]until they understood more about the earth's surface.
[11:09.41]According to their findings,
[11:11.13]there are twelve huge plates that make up the surface of the earth.
[11:15.33]The oceans and lands rest on these plates
[11:18.29]which fit together like huge pieces of a jigsaw puzzle.
[11:22.55]The plates do not fit perfectly, however
[11:25.43]-they are always moving.
[11:27.56]Some plates are slowly moving apart
[11:30.03]and others are moving together.
[11:32.73]The plates that begin in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean
[11:36.06]are moving apart and the plates
[11:38.75]that meet in the Pacific Ocean are pushing together.
[11:41.93]In fact, the Atlantic Ocean is slowly growing larger
[11:45.44]and the Pacific Ocean is getting smaller.
[11:49.16]Earthquakes occur when two plates
[11:51.19]that are pushing against each other slide violently past each other.
[11:55.52]A large amount of energy is released,
[11:57.80]and the land on top of the plates shakes,
[12:00.57]causing cracks to appear in the ground
[12:02.82]and waves to form in the ocean.
[12:05.51]Terrible destruction can occur;
[12:07.72]buildings can be destroyed, and fires started.
[12:11.62]Because most earthquakes occur at places
[12:14.12]where two plates push against each other,
[12:17.18]these places, called faults, are very dangerous.
[12:20.81]The famous San Andreas Fault is the meeting point
[12:24.17]of the Pacific and the North American Plates.
[12:27.72]The San Francisco earthquake of 1906,
[12:31.14]which almost completely destroyed the city,
[12:33.77]occurred because San Francisco
[12:35.87]is very close to the San Andreas Fault.
[12:41.30]Questions 12 to 15 are based on the passage you have just heard.
[12:46.59]12. What did people think of earthquakes in the past?
[13:08.13]13. According to the speaker,
[13:11.38]what do the findings from the scientists tell us?
[13:32.87]14. What happens to the Atlantic Ocean according to the passage?
[13:55.19]15. What do we learn about the famous San Andreas Fault?
[14:15.75]Section C
[14:18.61]Directions: In this section,
[14:20.82]you will hear recordings of lectures or talks followed by some questions.
[14:26.04]The recordings will be played only once.
[14:29.25]After you hear a question,
[14:30.83]you must choose the best answer from the four choices marked A), B), C) and D).
[14:37.77]Then mark the corresponding letter on Answer Sheet 1
[14:41.32]with a single line through the centre.
[14:44.00]Now listen to the following recording and answer questions 16 to 18.
[14:50.64]An ancient Greek philosopher once wrote that
[14:54.02]laughter is what makes us human-
[14:56.13]that it defines us as a species.
[14:59.07]Much more recent developments in biology and behavioral science suggest that
[15:04.88]not only humans but also rats and dolphins laugh; nonetheless,
[15:10.41]laughter is one of the most important aspects of human social life and self-expression.
[15:16.86]Laughter starts very soon after an infant is born
[15:20.63]-almost as soon as crying-
[15:22.61]and it serves many different social and psychological functions,
[15:27.13]from sharing our joy to intimidating and insulting other people.
[15:32.17]In many parts of the world,
[15:34.11]making other people laugh is considered a great gift,
[15:37.88]and comedy has always been a vital part of culture and art-
[15:42.22]perhaps precisely because of the complex,
[15:45.40]significant role of laughter in everyday life.
[15:49.19]Humans begin laughing when they are about forty days old;
[15:53.83]in the 19th century, Charles Darwin verified this number
[15:57.52]by observing his own newborn daughter.
[16:00.80]Darwin also suggested an explanation for the sounds she made:
[16:05.23]we want to show one another that we are happy or delighted.
[16:09.58]Pleasure lies at the base of what Darwin called "real" laughter;
[16:14.18]most people still think of laughing this way,
[16:17.34]as a fundamentally social act that helps us relate to one another
[16:21.69]by communicating positive feelings.
[16:24.54]It's an easily verifiable fact tha
