[外语类试卷]大学英语六级改革适用（听力）模拟试卷430及答案与解析.doc

1、大学英语六级改革适用（听力）模拟试卷 430及答案与解析 Section A （ A） Enormous size of its stores. （ B） Numerous varieties of food. （ C） Its appealing surroundings. （ D） Its rich and colorful history. （ A） An ancient building. （ B） A world of antiques. （ C） An Egyptian museum. （ D） An Egyptian Memorial. （ A） Its power bill r

2、eaches 9 million a year. （ B） It sells thousands of light bulbs a day. （ C） It supplies power to a nearby town. （ D） It generates 70% of the electricity it uses. （ A） 11,500. （ B） 30,000. （ C） 250,000. （ D） 300,000. （ A） Their assignments. （ B） Their academic research. （ C） Their summer holiday plan

3、. （ D） Their final exam. （ A） It will cost her less money. （ B） It will be more interesting. （ C） It provides part-time jobs here. （ D） It is much more safer. （ A） She does not have too much money. （ B） It s cool during the summer holiday in the US. （ C） There are different sceneries and places in t

4、he US. （ D） She s been dreaming to go to the Disney World. （ A） Ask her parents to pay for the trip. （ B） Discuss the plan with her parents. （ C） Do some part-time jobs during the vocation. （ D） Stay in the university without going anywhere. Section B （ A） It has not been very successful. （ B） It ha

5、s long become a new trend. （ C） It has met with strong resistance. （ D） It has attracted a lot of users. （ A） It saves time. （ B） It increases parking capacity. （ C） It ensures drivers safety. （ D） It reduces car damage. （ A） Collect money and help new users. （ B） Maintain the automated system. （ C）

6、 Stay alert to any emergency. （ D） Walk around and guard against car theft. （ A） They will vary with the size of vehicles. （ B） They will be discountable to regular customers. （ C） They will be lower than conventional parking. （ D） They will be reduced if paid in cash. （ A） They do not know any solu

7、tion. （ B） They do not give up drunk driving. （ C） They do not behave in public places. （ D） They do not admit being alcohol addicts. （ A） To stop them from fighting back. （ B） To thank them for their hospitality. （ C） To teach them the European lifestyle. （ D） To relieve their pains and sufferings.

8、 （ A） Without intervention they will be a headache to the nation. （ B） With support they can be brought back to a normal life. （ C） They readily respond to medical treatment. （ D） They pose a serious threat to social stability. Section C （ A） The new devices can reduce the cheating. （ B） The new dev

9、ices make cheating much easier. （ C） The new devices has nothing to do with the cheating. （ D） The new devices provide students with best way of cheating. （ A） Because many students are cheating in exam. （ B） Because they have the access to smart phones. （ C） Because the pressure from their parents

10、are too heavy. （ D） Because they need to keep up their grades. （ A） Improve the learning and testing process. （ B） Change the way tests are structured. （ C） Require students to write their answers instead of choosing. （ D） Get teachers, students and parents to talk openly about it. （ A） It is the ri

11、ght thing for worker to do. （ B） It is bad for our health but good for our career. （ C） It is bad for our career and for company s overall productivity. （ D） Long working people are more productive than their counterparts. （ A） Long working people are more likely to get bonus. （ B） Long working peop

12、le are less likely to get bonus. （ C） People who take 11 or more days off are less likely to get a raise. （ D） People who take 10 or fewer days off are more likely to get a raise. （ A） We need to be in the office when the boss shows up. （ B） We need to be in the office when the boss leaves. （ C） We

13、need to be in the office for a while after the boss leaves. （ D） Both A and B. （ A） It doesnt ask workers to get to office early. （ B） It releases an eight-point plan. （ C） It limits overtime to 360 hours a year. （ D） It requires the lights out at the office by 22:00. （ A） The importance of praise,

14、admiration and thank you. （ B） The importance of asking things that we need. （ C） The importance of telling people around you that “Im proud of you. “ （ D） The importance of finding the best way to praise others. （ A） Thanks your children for doing something beyond their responsibility. （ B） Regard

15、praise as a responsibility and do it regularly. （ C） Be honest about the praise that you need to hear. （ D） Neglect the unreasonable demand of the people around you. （ A） It is our duty to make it right in our own backyard. （ B） The world peace starts household by household. （ C） It is a new idea th

16、at can change the world. （ D） It is a good manner to say “thank you“ to people around you. 大学英语六级改革适用（听力）模拟试卷 430答案与解析 Section A 1 【听力原文】 W: Tell me, Peter, what makes Harrods so famous? M: Well, its the biggest department store in the UK, and its food hall and the Egyptian hall are very famous. Peo

17、ple come to Harrods just to see them. W: 1-1 What is special about the food hall? M: 1-2 It sells many different kinds of food. For example, it has 250 kinds of cheese from all over the world and more than 180 kinds of bread. Customers also love all the different kinds of chocolate. They buy a hundr

18、ed tons every year. W: Thats amazing! And why is the Egyptian hall so famous? M: Well, 2 when people see it, they feel they are in another world. It looks like in Egyptian building from 4,000 years ago. And it sells beautiful objects. They are not 4,000 years old, of course. W: 3-1 Is it true that H

19、arrods produces its own electricity? M: 3-2 Yes, it does. 70%, enough for a small town. To light the outside of the building, we use 11,500 light bulbs. W: Really? Tell me, how many customers do you have on an average day? And how much do they spend? M: 4 About 30,000 people come on an average day.

20、But during the sales, the number increases to 300,000 customers a day. How much do they spent? Well, on average, customers spend about 1.5 million pounds a day. The record for one day is 9 million pounds. W: 9 million pounds in one day? M: Yes, on the first day of the January sales. W: Harrods says

21、it sells everything to everybody, everywhere. Is that really true? M: Oh, yes. Of course! Absolutely everything! Questions 1 to 4 are based on the conversation you have just heard. 1.What is the food hall of Harrods noted for? 2.What does the Egyptian hall seem like to the customers? 3.What may cust

22、omers find surprising about Harrods? 4.About how many customers come to Harrods on an average day? 1 【正确答案】 B 【知识模块】 听力 2 【正确答案】 A 【知识模块】 听力 3 【正确答案】 D 【知识模块】 听力 4 【正确答案】 B 【知识模块】 听力 5 【听力原文】 M: Hi, Betty, its nice to see you here. Thank god the final examination is over, and we dont have to stay up

23、 all night to cram all the academic stuff into our minds. W: Yes. Thats true. 5 And now we can look forward to the summer holiday. Ive been thinking of going to the United States for some time. M: Well, I think it would be much better for you to go on holiday here in England than to the US. 6 To sta

24、rt with, its much nearer, and so it would be much cheaper to get around. That means you will have far more money to buy things you like. W: That may be true. But I still want to go the US. 7 Just thinking about when you get there, there are so many different things to see, and places to go. Imagine

25、you could go to New York, San Francisco, the Grand Canyon, and Disney World! Thats really cool. M: Exactly! Disney World! I have been dreaming of going there ever since my childhood. W: So, you are gonna change your mind, arent you? M: No, Im kind of still worrying about the cost of taking a trip to

26、 the US. Thats a lot of money. Meanwhile, if you stay here in England, you can probably take up some part-time jobs. Then you can even earn some extra money to support your study next semester. W: Yeah, maybe you are right. 8 Ill think it over, and talk about it with my parents while Im home. After

27、all, it is they who pay for my study here in the university. Questions 5 to 8 are based on the conversation you have just heard. 5.What are the two speakers talking about? 6.Why does the man advise the woman to spend her holiday in England? 7.Why does the woman want to spend her summer holiday in th

28、e US? 8.What does the woman decide to do at last? 5 【正确答案】 C 【知识模块】 听力 6 【正确答案】 A 【知识模块】 听力 7 【正确答案】 C 【知识模块】 听力 8 【正确答案】 B 【知识模块】 听力 Section B 9 【听力原文】 Would you trust a robot to park your car? The question will confront New Yorkers in February as the citys first robotic parking opens in Chinatown.

29、 9 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. 10 Nonetheless, the developers of the Chinatown garage are confident with the technology an

30、d 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 human-shaped robot wont be stepping into your car to drive it. Rather, the garage itself does the parking. The driver stops the c

31、ar 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, 11 but an attendant will be on hand to accept cash and expl

32、ain the system to new users. 12 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 overs

33、eas and in the United States for residents of a Washington, D.C. apartment building. Questions 9 to 12 are based on the passage you have just heard. 9.What do we learn about the robot parking in the U.S. so far? 10.What advantage does robotic parking have according to the developers? 11.What does th

34、e attendant do in the automated garage? 12.What does the company say about the parking rate? 9 【正确答案】 A 【知识模块】 听力 10 【正确答案】 B 【知识模块】 听力 11 【正确答案】 A 【知识模块】 听力 12 【正确答案】 C 【知识模块】 听力 13 【听力原文】 Alcoholism is a serious disease. Nearly 9 million Americans alone suffer from the illness. Many scientists dis

35、agree about what the differences are between the alcohol addict and social drinker. The difference occurs when someone needs to drink. And this need gets in the way of his health or behavior. Alcohol causes a loss of judgment and alertness. After a long period, alcoholism can deteriorate the liver,

36、the brain and other parts of the body. The illness is dangerous, because it is involved in half of all automobile accidents. 13 Another problem is that the victim often denies being an alcohol addict and wont get help. Solutions do exist. Many hospitals and centers help patients cope. Without the as

37、sistance, the victim can destroy his life. He would detach himself from the routines of life. He may lose his employment, home or loved ones. All the causes of the sickness are not discovered yet. There is no standard for a person with alcoholism. Victims range in age, race, sex and background. Some

38、 groups of people are more vulnerable to the illness. People from broken homes and North American Indians are two examples. People from broken homes often lack stable lives. 14 Indians likewise had the traditional life taken from them by white settlers who often encourage them to consume alcohol to

39、prevent them from fighting back. The problem has now been passed on. Alcoholism is clearly present in society today. People have started to get help and information. 15 With proper assistance, victims can put their lives together one day. Questions 13 to 15 are based on the passage you have just hea

40、rd. 13.What is the problem of the victims about alcoholism according to the speaker? 14.Why did white settlers introduce alcohol to Indians? 15.What does the speaker seem to believe about those affected by alcoholism? 13 【正确答 案】 D 【知识模块】 听力 14 【正确答案】 A 【知识模块】 听力 15 【正确答案】 B 【知识模块】 听力 Section C 16 【听

41、力原文】 Teachers have always had to deal with cheating students. 16 But in todays high-tech world, new devices are making it much easier for students to cheat. Recent studies have shown that most teenagers in the United States now have access to smart phones. Experts say much of the cheating is done wi

42、th the help of smart phones. Nile Nickel is a technology and social media expert. He says many students put information into their mobile phones to cheat on tests. They can then hide their cheating by using other devices to view the information. This May 8, 2016 photo by Asst. Prof. Pakarat Jumpanoi

43、 shows a smart watch used by students caught cheating in exams for admission to medical school in Bangkok, Thailand. He added that some students even have smart watches that only show information if they are viewed with special glasses. Some phones also have a very low ring sound that can only be he

44、ard by younger people, according to Nickel. Denise Pope is a learning expert at Stanford University in California. She said some of the students are not the ones you think would cheat. 17 These are kids who are doing well in school, and they are still cheating because they need to keep up their grad

45、es. They feel the pressure to maintain a really high grade point average. She says improving the learning and testing process can help cut down on cheating. Pope added that changing the way tests are structured can prevent cheating. The best tests require students to write their answers instead of c

46、hoosing from a list of choices. 18 One of the most important ways to help stop cheating is to get teachers, students and parents to talk openly about it. She says this can help students better understand the reasons for holding themselves to a high standard of honesty. Questions 16 to 18 are based o

47、n the recording you have just heard. 16.What is the relationship between new devices and cheating? 17.Why are those students who are doing well in school still cheating? 18.What is one of the important ways to help stop cheating? 16 【正确答案】 B 【知识模块】 听力 17 【正确答案】 D 【知识模块】 听力 18 【正确答案】 D 【知识模块】 听力 19 【

48、听力原文】 The Japanese Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare released the governments first report this October, and it found that nearly one in four companies have some employees who work more than 80 hours of overtime per month. Are the long-working Japanese any more productive than their global coun

49、terparts? I dont think so. 19 Indeed, theres a growing body of evidence to suggest that working longer hours is not only bad for our health, but also detrimental for our careers and poor for a companys overall productivity. If theres another country thats notorious for its long work hours and lack of time off, its the United States. A recent Gallup poll found that the average full-time employee in the US works a 47-hour week, nearly a full workday longer than the standard nine-to-five schedule. Moreover, nearly one in fi