1、大学英语六级改革适用（听力）模拟试卷 326及答案与解析 Section A （ A） To inform him of a problem they face. （ B） To request him to purchase control desks. （ C） To discuss the content of a project report. （ D） To ask him to fix the dictating machine. （ A） They quote the best price in the market. （ B） They manufacture and sell
2、 office furniture. （ C） They cannot deliver the steel sheets on time. （ D） They cannot produce the steel sheets needed. （ A） By marking down the unit price. （ B） By accepting the penalty clauses. （ C） By allowing more time for delivery. （ D） By promising better after-sales service. （ A） Give the cus
3、tomer a ten percent discount. （ B） Claim compensation from the steel suppliers. （ C） Ask the Buying Department to change suppliers. （ D） Cancel the contract with the customer. （ A） A branch of chemistry. （ B） A branch of biology. （ C） A branch of physics or mathematics. （ D） A branch of psychology.
4、（ A） Stockbroker. （ B） Physicist. （ C） Mathematician. （ D） Economist. （ A） Improve computer programming. （ B） Explain certain natural phenomena. （ C） Predict global population growth. （ D） Promote national financial health. （ A） Their different educational backgrounds. （ B） Changing attitudes toward
5、 nature. （ C） Chaos theory and its applications. （ D） The current global economic crisis. Section B （ A） A diary. （ B） A fairy tale. （ C） A history textbook （ D） A biography. （ A） He was a sports fan. （ B） He loved adventures. （ C） He disliked school. （ D） He liked hair-raising stories. （ A） Encoura
6、ge people to undertake adventures. （ B） Publicize his colorful and unique life stories. （ C） Raise peoples environmental awareness. （ D） Attract people to Americas national parks. （ A） The first infected victim. （ B） The doctor who first identified it. （ C） A coastal village in Africa. （ D） A river
7、running through the Congo. （ A） They exhibit similar symptoms. （ B） They can be treated with the same drug. （ C） They have almost the same mortality rate. （ D） They have both disappeared for good. （ A） By inhaling air polluted with the virus. （ B） By contacting contaminated body fluids. （ C） By drin
8、king water from the Congo River. （ D） By eating food grown in Sudan and Zaire. （ A） More strains will evolve from the Ebola virus. （ B） Scientists will eventually find cures for Ebola. （ C） Another Ebola epidemic may erupt sooner or later. （ D） Once infected, one will become immune to Ebola. Section
9、 C （ A） He is a writer on religion, culture and psychology. （ B） He has written for The Time. （ C） He won the 2002 National Book Award. （ D） He is a professor of Clinical Psychology at Columbia University Medical Center. （ A） How students manage to complete their studies successfully. （ B） How famil
10、ies manage to deal with various kinds of challenging or unusual offspring. （ C） How disabled people manage to live their lives with confidence. （ D） How aged people manage to keep healthy. （ A） Bobby Finkel beat him. （ B） Bobby Finkel copied his homework. （ C） Bobby Finkel didnt invite him to his bi
11、rthday party. （ D） Bobby Finkel quarreled with him. （ A） By arguing with his classmates. （ B） By running away from school. （ C） Through guidance of the teacher. （ D） Through a mix of avoidance and endurance. （ A） Environmental interventions didnt affect intelligence levels. （ B） Environmental interv
12、entions raised intelligence levels permanently. （ C） Environmental interventions decreased the intelligence levels. （ D） Environmental interventions raised intelligence levels, but not permanently. （ A） 589. （ B） 598. （ C） 985. （ D） 958. （ A） The effects of interventions to age 5 are as evident as t
13、hose to age 3. （ B） The effects of interventions to age 5 are more evident than those to age 3. （ C） The effects of interventions to age 5 are not so evident as those to age 3. （ D） The effects of interventions to age 5 and age 3 are both not evident. （ A） In 1992. （ B） In 1993. （ C） In 2012. （ D） I
14、n 2013. （ A） 1.3 million dollars. （ B） 1.9 million dollars. （ C） 2. 1 million dollars. （ D） 2.3 million dollars. （ A） To show that she had done something that was truly brave. （ B） To attract more women to run for Congress. （ C） To show that women are more competent than men. （ D） To show how wealth
15、y she is. 大学英语六级改革适用（听力）模拟试卷 326答案与解析 Section A 1 【听力原文】 W: Oh, hello, John. Are you using your dictating machine this morning? Ive got a long report. I must dictate. Can I borrow your machine? M: Of course. But can you spare me a second? Its the message you sent me about the delivery delay on the c
16、ontrol desks. Whats gone wrong? W: Everything, John. We have to get the steel sheets we need for these desks from new suppliers. Well, the suppliers have got some trouble or other. They say theyll be a bit late with delivery. M: But they cant be. Those control desks are a special order. They are wan
17、ted for one of the big computer companies. Its a very important contract. W: When did we promise delivery? M: On Thursday next week. And theres a penalty clause. We stand to lose 10 percent of our price for each week of overdue delivery. W: Oh, these penalty clauses! Why do you sales people accept t
18、hem? M: We have to accept them, otherwise we dont get the contracts. W: Well, lets get on to the Buying Department. I only heard about the delay yesterday because we kept the production line clear to handle these special sheets. Its a dreadful nuisance. M: It will be more than a nuisance if we dont
19、meet on delivery date. Itll cost us a lot of money. W: Keep clam, John. We can perhaps claim compensation from the steel suppliers for failure to deliver on time. Thatll offset the penalty clause. M: Well, if you can. Questions 1 to 4 are based on the conversation you have just heard. 1. Why did the
20、 woman send the message to the man? 2. What does the woman say about the new suppliers? 3. How did the man get the contracts? 4. What does the woman suggest they do? 1 【正确答案】 A 【试题解析】 信息是关于控制台交付延迟的，这是他们面临的一个问题。 【知识模块】 听力 2 【正确答案】 C 【试题解析】 女士说新的供应商出了点问题，他们会晚一点送货。 【知识模块】 听力 3 【正确答案】 B 【试题解析】 男士说他们必须接受
21、罚款条款，否则，他们就拿不下合同。 【知识模块】 听力 4 【正确答案】 B 【试题解析】 女士说他们可以要求钢铁供应商赔偿，这样可以抵消罚款条款造成的损失。 【知识模块】 听力 5 【听力原文】 M: Cathy, Chaos theory seems to be a branch of physics or mathematics. You are an economist. So how does it influence your work? W: Well, in several ways. Im responsible for financial development progr
22、ams in many parts of the world. So forecasting long range trends and making predictions on the basis of present evidence is what I do. Chaos theory was developed by scientists trying to explain the movement of the planet and changes in environmental conditions. Both of these things are also about ma
23、king long-term predictions on the basis of present evidence. M: Are many economists involved in this field? W: An increasing number. In the 1990s, many economists began to look at Chaos theory as a way of providing models for forecasting. M: What kind of models are we talking about here? W: Well, th
24、ats a good question. Because a basic idea of Chaos theory is that there arent any models as such. There arent guaranteed forms, but rather patterns of change in development. M: Doesnt that mean that forecasting is impossible? W: No, but it certainly makes it more of a challenge. Mandell Braud, who d
25、id the experiment with stock exchange prices, for example, noted that although the outcomes were variable, there were in fact certain constants. What we have to do is make sure we know what these are and take into account all the possible variables. M: But do economics and finance work in the same w
26、ay as weather conditions or the movement of planets? W: Well, no, of course not. There are certain underlying similarities. But we have to leave them for another time. Questions 5 to 8 are based on the conversation you have just heard. 5. What does chaos theory seem to be? 6. What is the womans prof
27、ession? 7. What was Chaos theory supposed to do when it was first formulated? 8. What are the speakers mainly talking about? 5 【正确答案】 C 【试题解析】 男士说，混沌理论似乎是物理学或数学的一个分支。 【知识模块】 听力 6 【正确答案】 D 【试题解析】 由男士的问话可知女士是一名经济学家。 【知识模块】 听力 7 【正确答案】 B 【试题解析】 女士说科学家研发混沌理论是为了解释星球的运动以及环境的变化，选项 B意为 :解释某些自然现象，是对该陈述的同义替换。
28、 【知识模块】 听 力 8 【正确答案】 C 【试题解析】 女士说许多经济学家把混沌理论看作提供预测模式的方式，男士问他们在讨论的是什么模式，由此可以看出他们讨论的是混沌理论及其应用。 【知识模块】 听力 Section B 9 【听力原文】 Js Biography of John Muir John Muirs own writings to bring readers a life story of this remarkable man who did so much to raise Americas awareness of environmental issues. As Ame
29、ricas first environmentalist, John Muir lived his life forever daring to undertake new adventures. He spent most of his days outdoors and had a deep love for the wild lands. In the book, we meet John Muir as a youth fearlessly climbing the roof of his house. He captures birds only to let them go whe
30、n he realizes the cruelty involved. He becomes an inventor and sells his inventions in order to attend the university. As a young man, he began walking over tens of thousands of miles during his lifetime: through the south to Florida, the west to California and north to Alaska, where readers are tak
31、en a long and particularly hair-raising adventure on a large mass of floating ice. Muirs learning in observation throughout his life led him to devote his last years to preserving the natural environment. His writing and speaking raised the awareness of the importance of conservation and helped brin
32、g about our national park system. Readers will feel they know John Muir after reading his story and may catch his passion for preserving the riches of our land. The others portrayal of Muirs life is a testimony to what it means to be lifelong learners and to use that learning to inform and bring abo
33、ut change. Questions 9 to 11 are based on the passage you have just heard. 9. What kind of book is the speaker introducing? 10. What do we learn about John Muir when he was young? 11. What did John Muir intend to do through writing and speaking? 9 【正确答案】 D 【试题解析】 文章开头即表明是 John Muir 的传记。 【知识模块】 听力 10
34、 【正确答案】 B 【试题解析】 由定位句可知，他年轻的时候走过数以万计的路程，读者被带上又长又惊险的浮冰之旅。 【知识模块】 听力 11 【正确答案】 C 【试题解析】 定位句提到他的写作和演讲使人们越来越意识到保护环境的重要性。 【知识模块】 听力 12 【听力原文】 Disaster movies often portray catastrophes that destroy, or at least threaten to destroy earths entire population. In fact, a virus emerged in the 1970s; that coul
35、dve been just that fatal. Named after a river that passes through the Congo, the Ebola virus originally manifested itself in the interior of Africa in 1976. Two strains of the disease, with almost identical symptoms, affected humans: Ebola Zaire and Ebola Sudan. The Sudan version was deadly enough,
36、killing 50 percent of those it infected. However, Zaire, with its 90 percent mortality rate, was even worse. The origins, though not the cause of Ebola Sudan, can be traced back to a single individual in a Sudanese town. Ebola Zaire seemed to erupt in over 50 villages simultaneously. Both strains qu
37、ickly invaded local hospitals where needle sharing and other unhealthy practices ensured the rapid spreading of the infection by bringing people into contact with contaminated body fluids. If the virus had been capable of spreading through the air, or if one infected person had unknowingly entered a
38、 large population center, Ebola might have become a worldwide epidemic. However, soon after these fierce outbreaks, the virus died out, at least temporarily. Ebola was so deadly and killed so quickly that within a short period of time there was no one around to infect. Hospital workers in at least o
39、ne case deserted their workplace in panic, thus halting the administering of potentially unclean disease spreading injections, but Ebola has not disappeared. With no known vaccination or cure available, it seems only a matter of time until another epidemic erupts. Questions 12 to 15 are based on the
40、 passage you have just heard. 12. What is Ebola virus named after? 13. What do we learn about Ebola Zaire and Ebola Sudan? 14. How did people get infected with the disease according to the speaker? 15. What does the speaker believe? 12 【正确答案】 D 【试题解析】 由定位句可知埃博拉病毒是以流经刚果的一条河流命名的。 【知识模块】 听力 13 【正确答案】 A
41、 【试题解析】 由定位句可知两种病毒表现出相同的症状。 【知识模块】 听力 14 【正确答案】 B 【试题解析】 由定位句可知病毒是通过接触被污染的体液感染的。 【知识模块】 听力 15 【正确答案】 C 【试题解析】 定位句意为 :没有明确的疫苗或可行的治疗方案，下一次流行病爆发似乎只是时间问题。由此可推断出说话人认为下一次流行病迟早都会爆发。 【知识模块】 听力 Section C 16 【听力原文】 Moderator: Hello, everyone. Im so happy to say that Andrew Solomon will be our keynote speaker
42、today. Andrew Solomon is a writer on politics, culture and psychology. He has written for The New York Times, The New Yorker, Artforum, Travel and Leisure, and other publications on a range of subjects. His book The Noonday Demon: An Atlas of Depression won the 2001 National Book Award, was a finali
43、st for the 2002 Pulitzer Prize. He is a Professor of Clinical Psychology at Columbia University Medical Center, and President of PEN American Center. Now lets welcome Mr. Solomon. Andrew Solomon: Thank you for that introduction. Today I want to talk about how the worst moments in our lives make us w
44、ho we are. As a student of adversity, Ive been struck over the years by how some people with major challenges seem to draw strength from them, and Ive heard the popular wisdom that that has to do with finding meaning. And for a long time, I thought the meaning was out there, some great truth waiting
45、 to be found. But over time, Ive come to feel that the truth is irrelevant. We call it finding meaning, but we might better call it forging meaning. My last book was about how families manage to deal with various kinds of challenging or unusual offspring, and one of the mothers I interviewed, who ha
46、d two children with multiple severe disabilities, said to me,People always give us these little sayings like,God doesnt give you any more than you can handle,爷 but children like ours are not preordained as a gift. Theyre a gift because thats what we have chosen. We make those choices all our lives.
47、When I was in second grade, Bobby Finkel had a birthday party and invited everyone in our class but me. My mother assumed there had been some sort of error, and she called Mrs. Finkel, who said that Bobby didnt like me and didnt want me at his party. And that day, my mom took me to the zoo and out f
48、or a hot fudge sundae. I survived that childhood through a mix of avoidance and endurance. What I didnt know then, and do know now, is that avoidance and endurance can be the entryway to forging meaning. After youve forged meaning, you need to incorporate that meaning into a new identity. You need t
49、o take the traumas and make them part of who youve come to be, and you need to fold the worst events of your life into a narrative of triumph, evincing a better self in response to things that hurt. 16. What does the introduction say about Andrew Solomon? 17. What was Mr. Solomons last book about? 18. What did Bobby Finkel do to him when he was in second grade? 19. How did Andrew Solomon survive his childhood? 16 【正确答案】 D 【试题解析】 介绍中说， Andrew Solomon 主要写有关政治、文化和心理学方面的书，因此 A) 错误。介绍中提到他为纽约时报纽约客等杂志写过文章，并没有提到时代周刊，因此 B)错误。他获得了 2001 年的国家图书
