1、大学英语六级改革适用（听力）模拟试卷 230及答案与解析 Section A （ A） She had moved out of the old address. （ B） She did not care about them. （ C） The library didnt try to inform her about it （ D） The landlord refused to give the books back to her. （ A） Her landlord will not give back the book. （ B） Her landlord did not retu
2、rn the book. （ C） She has a big fine from the school. （ D） She didnt return eight books to the library. （ A） It happened too long ago. （ B） She was too busy to return the books. （ C） She gave the books to the landlord （ D） The landlord didnt remember to return the books. （ A） Pay for the lost books.
3、 （ B） Check if the books are still at her home. （ C） Check if the books are at Henzers place. （ D） Reconfirm whether the books were returned. （ A） To introduce teachers to students. （ B） To show a colorful campus life. （ C） To teach students new knowledge. （ D） To let students to get to know each ot
4、her. （ A） The University faculty. （ B） The Student Association. （ C） The Alumni Association. （ D） The President office. （ A） They are grateful students. （ B） They are “brains“. （ C） They are hard-working students. （ D） They are fun people. （ A） She is the organizer. （ B） She is contributing to some
5、part of it. （ C） She is the head of the Alumni Association. （ D） She was a student of the university once. Section B （ A） What the US patent system was about. （ B） How the US patent system encouraged technology and creativity. （ C） How the US patent system protected Americans. （ D） The reasons for t
6、he patent system. （ A） Sue the government. （ B） Sue the individual. （ C） Close down the company. （ D） Sentence the individual to death. （ A） He could renew it. （ B） He could destroy it at random. （ C） He could sell it and make a lot of money. （ D） He could do nothing since the patent expired. （ A） I
7、t encouraged people to invent. （ B） It protected peoples invention. （ C） It publicized ideas that might be kept as trade secrets. （ D） It provided a way for people to make money out of ideas. （ A） He was born in New England. （ B） He once worked for Harvard University. （ C） He was Edward Thomas frien
8、d. （ D） He wasnt awarded any prize. （ A） They contain no exaggeration of rhetoric. （ B） They are full of explicit morals. （ C） They force us to think. （ D） The lines and sentences are beautiful. （ A） Farming activities. （ B） The meaning of life. （ C） Revolution. （ D） Morality. Section C （ A） To enga
9、ge people in conversations. （ B） To watch peoples body language. （ C） To observe peoples facial expressions. （ D） To see whether people are nervous or not. （ A） The investigation was conducted in an airport. （ B） People who avoided eye contact turned out to be liars. （ C） 20 people were identified a
10、s liars by security agents. （ D） Researchers tried to come up with a name for the method. （ A） Asking more “Yes“ and “No“ questions. （ B） Asking normal and related questions. （ C） Watching for changes in confidence. （ D） Changing speaking styles frequently. （ A） In Massachusetts. （ B） In Pennsylvani
11、a. （ C） In the Ohio Valley. （ D） In Licking Creek. （ A） He lived a simple and lonely life. （ B） He usually did not wear anything. （ C） He divorced and never married again. （ D） He traveled without a gun or knife. （ A） He bought a big house in the open air. （ B） He bought clothes made of cloth bags a
12、nd sacks. （ C） He invested in his apple business and helped others. （ D） He spent his money on travelling around the world. （ A） All delivery men will lose their job very soon. （ B） Delivery men arent allowed to bring items to home. （ C） Delivery service will become a thing of the past. （ D） Robots
13、may soon make door-to-door deliveries. （ A） It was named Skype by the CEO. （ B） It weighs as heavy as 9 kilograms. （ C） It does little harm to the environment. （ D） It has pictures on its six wheels. （ A） 6.5 kilometers. （ B） 5.6 miles. （ C） 5 kilometers. （ D） 4 miles. （ A） Cameras, GPS and a loudsp
14、eaker are installed in it. （ B） An operator stays inside the robot and controls it. （ C） The robot can talk to the thieves around it. （ D） Customers can use a smartphone app to call 911. 大学英语六级改革适用（听力）模拟试卷 230答案与解析 Section A 1 【听力原文】 M: Hi, Mandy. Hows everything going? W: Not too good, I suppose. M
15、: What happened? W: Well, you know I moved out from Mrs. Henzers nine months ago. And all along I forgot to inform the registration office to get my address changed. Guess what? The library sent three reminder notices on the fines incurred on the overdue books and Mrs. Henzer kept the letters withou
16、t returning them to the senders. M: How did you find out? W: Well, I went to the registration to get my transcript but they said there are some outstanding fines that I have to settle before they can release it. M: Then just pay the fine and you can get your transcript. Whats the big problem? W: Yea
17、h, thats exactly what I thought, but the fine came to $150 and that was a shock tome. M: Ooh. Thats a bit of a bite! Did you keep the book for long? W: Guess what? I checked with the library and they told me three books are still outstanding. Theyre from 8 months ago. I thought Id returned them. M:
18、Are you sure you returned the books yourself or did you get someone to do it? W: Well, hard to recall now since it was so long ago. At that time I was holding two jobs and had to juggle with school. I really thought I had returned them. M: Tell you what. Why dont you go back to Mrs. Henzers and see
19、if the books are still there? Otherwise, youll have to pay for the lost books and Im sure they will cost more than $150. W: I guess thats the only choice Im left with right now. 1. Why didnt the woman receive the three reminder notices? 2. What problem does the woman have? 3. Why cant the woman reme
20、mber if she had returned the books? 4. How will the woman settle the problem? 1 【正确答案】 A 【试题解析】 女士说她没有去学校更新地址，学校寄信的地址是旧的，故选 A。D项属于强干扰项，但是对话说的是房东没有把信寄回给学校，并没有说扣留了女士的书。 【知识模块】 听力 2 【正确答案】 C 【试题解析】 女士说因为她借书逾期未还，学校要罚款 150美金，让她觉得很吃惊，故 选 C。 【知识模块】 听力 3 【正确答案】 A 【试题解析】 女士说时间太久了，她已经不记得了，故选 A。 B项干扰性较大，女士说她当时
21、很忙碌，但事实是她以为自己已经还了书，并不是因为忙碌而没有还书。 【知识模块】 听力 4 【正确答案】 C 【试题解析】 男士建议女士去旧房东的屋子看看书是否在，否则就要买新书还，女士说这也是她现在唯一可以做的事情了，故选 C。 A项为强干扰项， A是男士提出建议后的假设，并不是建议本身，也不是女士认可的内容。 【知识模块】 听力 5 【听 力原文】 M: Excuse me. May I have some information about the reception party that you are advertising outside? Its for new students,
22、 isnt that right? W: Thats right and what would you like to know about it? M: Well, Im not really sure what the purpose of the event is. W: The party will provide students with a chance to get to know each other, and a chance for students who have successfully been through university to pass on some
23、 valuable advice. M: Whos organizing the event? Is it the faculty or.? W: Actually, it is the Alumni Association. So, its strictly a student-to-student event. M: I hope we wont have to sit through a lot of boring speeches. I mean, arent these students just “brains“ anyway? What can they actually do
24、to help a guy like me? W: No, these people are not “brains“ at all. The Alumni are simply a group of normal, but grateful students who hope that, by sharing their experiences with new students, they can help more students to successfully graduate. M: But will we have any time for some fun at this pa
25、rty? W: Most of the time will be split between eating, dancing, and singing so not to worry. However, some words of wisdom from the former students should not be missed. M: Youve got a point. Those are, after all, success stories if theyve managed to survive university life. I hear about only half o
26、f all students who start university actually finish it. W: And besides that, theres another reason to go. M: Whats that? W: The pie theyll be serving is delicious. I know it since Im the one who will be making it. 5. What is the purpose of the reception party? 6. Who is organizing the event? 7. What
27、 does the woman say about the event organizers? 8. What can be inferred about the womans role in the party? 5 【正确答案】 D 【试题解析】 选项均是不定式短语，可推测题目问目的或原因。录音中，男士说他不太确定这个活动的目的是什么，女士说这个晚会将会给学生提供去认识彼此的机会，也给顺利度过大学生活的学生一个传授一些有价值的建议的机会， D是录音中提到的目的之一，故选 D。 【知识模块】 听力 6 【正确答案】 C 【试题解析】 女士说组织该活动的是校友联合会，故选 C。听到什么选什么。
28、 【知识模块】 听力 7 【正确答案】 A 【试题解析】 女士说组织者都是些感恩的学生，并不是 “brains”，故选 A。 【知识模块】 听力 8 【正确答案】 B 【试题解析】 女士说自己知道活动会提供很可口的馅饼，并且说自己会帮忙做馅饼，可见她也在当中贡献了自己的力量，故选 B。 A项属于强干扰项，虽然女士回答了男士的所有问题，但是没有根据显示女士就是组织者，答题时要排除主观臆测的干扰。 【知识模块】 听力 Section B 9 【听力原文】 The American patent system, provided for in the Constitution, was design
29、ed to encourage the creation and use of new technology. An inventor would describe an invention, both in writing and with drawings, and submit the description with a model to a government official. This was a big improvement from the past when patents were submitted directly to the Secretary of Stat
30、e! Now, if the invention was judged to be new and useful, the official would give the inventor a patent. The patent meant that for 14 years, later changed to 17 years, the inventor owned the new invention. Inventors could license their ideas to manufacturers or just use them themselves. The governme
31、nt would not issue any other patent for the same idea, and the inventor could sue anyone who used the patented idea without paying the owner of the patent for permission to use it! A useful patent meant that the inventor could make a lot of money. In exchange for this governmental protection, the go
32、vernment published the patent specifications, which provide enough information so that other people could understand the invention thus adding to the general available technological knowledge. And at the end of the 14 years, anyone could use the invention for free. The idea behind the patent system
33、was twofold: it would increase the amount of technology, by providing a way for people to make money out of new ideas, and it would make new technology widely available, by publicizing ideas that might otherwise be kept as trade secrets. 9. What is the speaker mainly talking about? 10. What could th
34、e inventor do if the idea was used by someone without paying money? 11. What could the owner of the patent do to protect his patent after 14 years? 12. Hon did the patent system increase the amount of technology? 9 【正确答案】 A 【试题解析】 短文谈的内容是美国的专利体系的产生和运作，故选 A。 A项统领其他各项，主旨题的答案通常 就是这类具有总包孕作用的选项。 【知识模块】 听
35、力 10 【正确答案】 B 【试题解析】 短文谈到，任何人不付钱就使用某种专利，该专利的发明者可以起诉他，故选 B。 【知识模块】 听力 11 【正确答案】 D 【试题解析】 短文谈到，专利权有效期为 14年，有效期过后任何人都可以免费使用这项专利，故选 D。 【知识模块】 听力 12 【正确答案】 D 【试题解析】 题目问 “专利体系是怎样增加科技量的 ?”短文直接用 by 引述说明情况。 D项符合 “听到什么选什么 ”原则。 【知识模块】 听力 13 【听力原文】 Robert Frost was born in San Francisco in 1875 and was sent at
36、the age of ten to live in New England, an area which inspired almost all of his poetry. He was educated at Dartmouth College, New England, and Harvard University. He became a schoolmaster for a short time, and then a farm laborer. During this period he wrote poetry but with little recognition. From
37、1912 to 1915, he lived in New England, where he became friendly with several poets, including Edward Thomas, and published A Boys Will in 1913 and North of Boston in 1914. In America his poetry was soon admired, and he was awarded the Pulitzer Prize on four occasions between 1924 and 1943. He went o
38、n writing throughout his life, publishing Steeple Bush at the age of seventy-two. He died in 1963. Frosts poems are revolutionary because they lack the exaggeration of rhetoric. Many of his lines and sentences are plain and in themselves nothing. But they are bound together and made beautiful by a c
39、alm eagerness of emotion. With his close observant eye and touch, we can feel the daily activities of farming and the landscape be it their background mowing, apple-picking, or mending a wall. These poems reflect a humane quiet concern and satisfaction in their rhythms and their gentle lyricism. Oft
40、en there is an explicit or near-explicit “moral“, though sometimes this is hinted at rather than stated, and frequently there is an almost proverbial tone. We learn to trust Robert Frost. The very lack of glamour or display in his poem gives them a stability and honesty. 13. What do we learn about R
41、obert Frost from the passage? 14. What does the speaker say about Frosts poems? 15. What is described in Frosts poetry according to the passage? 13 【正确答案】 C 【试题解析】 短文谈到，从 1912年到 1915年， Robert Frost住在新英格兰，他和一些诗人成为了朋友，包括 Edward Thomas，故选 C。 【知识模块】 听力 14 【正确答案】 A 【试题解析】 短文谈到， Frost的诗歌没有夸张的修辞，故选 A。 B过于绝
42、对化。 【知识模块】 听力 15 【正确答案】 A 【试题解析】 短文说从诗人的视角，我们可以感受到农场的日常生活，还有一些背景场景，比如犁地、摘苹果或者补墙，故选 A。 D项是强干 扰项， “moral”是Frost诗歌中蕴涵的感情，并不是诗歌的主题。 【知识模块】 听力 Section C 16 【听力原文】 What is the best way to catch someone who is telling a lie? For a long time, the traditional method of identifying liars was to watch their bo
43、dy language, including facial expressions. What if the person appears to be nervous? Is the person unable to look me in the eye? Is he or she looking around the room? What about other nervous movements? Many people from parents to police officers and airport security personnel depend on this method.
44、 But does a persons body and face reveal the truth? Actually, using body language and facial expressions to catch someone in a lie is really hard. And it only works, seemingly, by chance. According to a new study carried out by researchers in the United Kingdom, talking is the best way to smoke out
45、a liar. The study found that certain conversation-based techniques can help you recognize when a person is lying to you. Like many methods, this conversation method has a name. It is called Controlled Cognitive Engagement, or CCE for short. The investigation took place at one place where lying can g
46、et you into big trouble an airport. The researchers asked volunteers to pretend they were real passengers and then lie to airport security agents. Some of the agents used spoken conversation-based methods to question these make-believe passengers. Others depended instead on the persons body language
47、, like lack of eye contact and showing signs of nervousness. The agents talking with the passengers were 20 times more likely to catch the liars. Here are some tips for catching a liar by using the conversational CCE method. 1. Use open-ended questions These are the opposite of “Yes“ and “No“ questi
48、ons. Open-ended questions force the person to stretch the story of their lies until they get caught in their own web of lies. 2. Use the element of surprise Ask questions they may not think you are going to ask. Ask questions that are surprising or off-topic. This will make it harder for them to kee
49、p lying. Or better still ask them to re-tell an event backwards in time, going from the most recent event to the earliest. This is hard enough to do with the truth, let alone a story of lies. 3. Watch for changes in confidence and speaking styles Liars will often change their speaking style when they are questioned. For example, when they feel in control they may be very talkative. But if they feel they are losing control, they may not talk much at all. 16. What is the best way to catch a liar according to the speaker? 17. What do we
