1、大学英语六级改革适用（听力）模拟试卷 328及答案与解析 Section A （ A） To test how responsive dolphins are to various signals. （ B） To find out if the female dolphin is cleverer than the male one. （ C） To see if dolphins can learn to communicate with each other. （ D） To examine how long it takes dolphins to acquire a skill. （
2、 A） Produce the appropriate sound. （ B） Press the right-hand lever first. （ C） Raise their heads above the water. （ D） Swim straight into the same tank. （ A） They couldnt see or hear each other. （ B） They could hear and see each other. （ C） They could hear one another, but they couldnt see each othe
3、r. （ D） They could see one another, but they couldnt hear each other. （ A） Only one dolphin was able to see the light. （ B） The male dolphin received more rewards. （ C） Both dolphins were put in the same tank. （ D） The lever was beyond the dolphins reach. （ A） In a botanical garden. （ B） In a lectur
4、e room. （ C） In a resort town. （ D） On a cattle farm. （ A） It is an ideal place for people to retire to. （ B） It is at the centre of the fashion industry. （ C） It remains very attractive with its mineral waters. （ D） It has kept many traditions from Victorian times. （ A） It was named after a land ow
5、ner in the old days. （ B） It is located in the eastern part of Harrogate. （ C） It is protected as parkland by a special law. （ D） It will be used as a centre for athletic training. （ A） The beautiful flowers. （ B） The refreshing air. （ C） The mineral waters. （ D） The vast grassland. Section B （ A） H
6、e provides counseling for university students. （ B） He teaches psychology at Ohio State university. （ C） He specialized in interpersonal relationships. （ D） He has experience tutoring black students. （ A） Students who scored low standardized tests. （ B） Students who are accustomed to living in dorms
7、. （ C） Black students from families with low incomes. （ D） Black freshmen with high standardized test scores. （ A） They generally spend more time together than white pairs. （ B） They moved out of the college dorms at the end of the semester. （ C） They were more appreciative of the universitys housin
8、g policy. （ D） They broke up more often than same-race roommates. （ A） Their test scores rose gradually. （ B） They started doing similar activities. （ C） They grew bored of each other. （ D） Their racial attitudes improved. （ A） It can help solve global flood crises. （ B） It will change the concept o
9、f food. （ C） It has attracted worldwide attention. （ D） It will become popular gradually. （ A） It has been drastically cut by NASA. （ B） It comes regularly from its donors. （ C） It has been increased over the years. （ D） It is still far from being sufficient. （ A） They are not as natural as we belie
10、ved. （ B） They are less healthy than we expected. （ C） They are more nutritious and delicious. （ D） They are not as expensive as believe. Section C （ A） Chicago. （ B） Seattle. （ C） Washington. （ D） Salem. （ A） It is his favorite heros name. （ B） It has good meaning. （ C） It is easy to spell. （ D） It
11、 is easy to remember. （ A） 102 years. （ B） 100 years. （ C） 108 years. （ D） 86 years. （ A） To buy and to sell things online. （ B） To sell more things. （ C） To globalize its business. （ D） To build Walmart, Kmart in China. （ A） There are no developing countries to join richer countries in reducing emi
12、ssions. （ B） Developing nations are having a little effect on the environment. （ C） Less developing nations are having a large effect on the environment. （ D） They must take actions on reducing emissions. （ A） Michael Oppenheimer is a professor of New York University. （ B） He thinks agreements signe
13、d will ensure the realization of reducing global warming. （ C） He believes the planet will become warmer faster than at any time in the history of civilization without countries taking actions. （ D） He puts all his hope on the governments to reduce global warming. （ A） China promised nothing to redu
14、ce emissions. （ B） China and the U. K. signed the agreement. （ C） China would reduce emissions between 26 and 28 percent by 2030. （ D） China would begin reducing emissions in 2030. （ A） They are full of joy and happiness. （ B） They talk about peoples strange behaviors. （ C） They are full of misery.
15、（ D） They are all about mosquito bite and having difficulty walking and breathing. （ A） It suggests that we care about reaching the end, a peak. （ B） It suggests that we care about the fight, about the challenge. （ C） It suggests that therere all kinds of other things that motivate us to work or beh
16、ave in all kinds of ways. （ D） It suggests that its hard for people to go up again after they go down. （ A） His boss didnt like his PowerPoint presentation. （ B） He didnt like working in a bank. （ C） He stayed up late for perfecting his PowerPoint presentation. （ D） He was upset that he didnt do his
17、 presentation well. 大学英语六级改革适用（听力）模拟试卷 328答案与解析 Section A 1 【听力原文】 W: One of the most interesting experiments with dolphins must be one done by Doctor Jarvis Bastian. What he tried to do was to teach a male dolphin called Bass and a female called Doris to communicate with each other across a solid b
18、arrier. M: So how did he do it exactly? W: Well, first of all, he kept the two dolphins together in the same tank and taught them to press levers whenever they saw a light. The levers were fitted to the side of the tank next to each other. If the light flashed on and off several times, the dolphins
19、were supposed to press the left-hand lever followed by the right-hand one. If the light was kept steady, the dolphins were supposed to press the levers in reverse order. Whenever they responded correctly, they were rewarded with fish. M: Sounds terribly complicated. W: Well, that was the first stage
20、. In the second stage, Doctor Bastian separated the dolphins into two tanks. They could still hear one another, but they couldnt actually see each other. The levers and light were set up in exactly the same way except that this time it was only Doris who could see the light indicating which lever to
21、 press first. But in order to get their fish, both dolphins had to press the levers in the correct order. This meant of course that Doris had to tell Bass whether it was a flashing light or whether it was a steady light. M: So did it work? W: Well, amazingly enough, the dolphins achieved a 100 % suc
22、cess rate. Questions 1 to 4 are based on the conversation you have just heard. 1. What is the purpose of Doctor Jarvis Bastians experiment? 2. What were the dolphins supposed to do when they saw a steady light? 3. What happend to the two dolphins in the second stage? 4. How did the second stage of t
23、he experiment differ from the first stage? 1 【正确答案】 C 【试题解析】 整篇文章讲述了关于教授海豚互相沟通的实验。可以推断出实验目的就是验证海豚是否能互相交流。 2.B)。从原文中 If the light was kept steady， the dolphins were supposed to press the levers in reverse order. 可以得知，相反的方向为 the right-hand lever。 【知识模块】 听力 2 【正确答案】 B 【试题解析】 从原文中 If the light was kept
24、steady, the dolphins were supposed to press the levers in reverse order.可以得知，相反的方向为 the right-hand lever。 【知识模块】 听力 3 【正确答案】 C 【试题解析】 在实验第二个阶段，两只海豚能听到对方，但是看不到对方，因此选 C)。 【知识模块】 听力 4 【正确答案】 A 【试题解析】 在实验的第二个阶段，文中提到 it was only Doris who could see the light 这句话直接告诉了我们答案，因此正确答案应当是 A)。 【知识模块】 听力 5 【听力原文】
25、W: This weeks program Up Your Street takes you to Harrogate, a small town in Yorkshire. Harrogate became a fashionable resort during Victorian times, when people came to take a bath in the mineral waters. Today, few people come to visit the town for its mineral waters. Instead, Harrogate has become
26、a popular town for people to retire to. Its clean air, attractive parks, and the absence of any industry, make this an ideal spot for people looking for a quiet life. Now, to tell us more about Harrogate, I have with me Tom Percival, President of the Chamber of Commerce. Tom, one of the things visit
27、or notices about Harrogate is the large area of open park land right down into the middle of the town. Can you tell us more about it? M: Yes, certainly. The area is called the Stray. W: Why the Stray? M: Its called that because in the old days, people let their cattles stray on the area, which was c
28、ommon land. W: Oh, I see. M: Then, weve changes in farming and in land ownership. The Stray became part of the land owned by Harrogate. W: And is it protected? M: Oh, yes, indeed. As a special law, no one can build anything on the stray. Its protected forever. W: So it will always be park land? M: T
29、hats right. As you can see, some of the Stray is used for sports fields. W: I believe it looks lovely in the spring. M: Yes, it does. Therere spring flowers on the old trees, and people visit the town just to see the flowers. Questions 5 to 8 are based on the conversation you have just heard. 5. Whe
30、re does this conversation most probably take place? 6. What do we learn about modern Harrogate? 7. What does the man say about the area called the Stray? 8. What attracts people most in the Stray during the spring time? 5 【正确答案】 C 【试题解析】 由对话内容是对 Harrogate 这个旅游小镇的介绍，其中谈到了其如何得名，如何变迁，以及如何受到政府的保护，可以推断出这
31、段对话最有可能发生在一个旅游城镇。 【知识模块】 听力 6 【正确答案】 A 【试题解析】 对话中提到这个地方因为空气清新、漂亮的公园以及无污染的工业，如今已经成为人们退休后的理想的居所，由此可以推出答案为 A，这个小镇适合休养生息。 【知识模块】 听力 7 【正确答案】 C 【试题解析】 男士提 到 the Stray 受到特别的保护，在此禁止修建任何建筑，因此正确答案是 C)。 【知识模块】 听力 8 【正确答案】 A 【试题解析】 男士在结尾处提到春天古老的树木会开花，并且 people visit the town just to see the flowers。 【知识模块】 听力
32、Section B 9 【听力原文】 Russell Fazio, an Ohio State psychology professor who has studied interracial roommates there and at Indiana University, discovered an intriguing academic effect. In a study analyzing data on thousands of Ohio State freshmen who lived in dorms, he found that black freshmen who cam
33、e to college with high standardized test scores earned better grades if they had a white roommate even if the roommates test scores were low. The roommates race had no effect on the grades of white students or low-scoring black students. Perhaps, the study speculated, having a white roommate helps a
34、cademically prepared black students adjust to a predominantly white university. That same study found that randomly assigned interracial roommates at Ohio State broke up before the end of the quarter about twice as often as same-race roommates. Because interracial roommate relationships are often pr
35、oblematic, Dr. Fazio said, many students would like to move out, but university housing policies may make it hard to leave. At Indiana University, where housing was not so tight, more interracial roommates split up, he said. Here at Ohio State, where housing was tight, they were told to work it out.
36、 The most interesting thing we found was that if the relationship managed to continue for just 10 weeks, we could see an improvement in racial attitudes. Dr. Fazios Indiana study found that three times as many randomly assigned interracial roommates were no longer living together at the end of the s
37、emester, compared with white roommates. The interracial roommates spent less time together, and had fewer joint activities than the white pairs. Questions 9 to 12 are based on the passage you have just heard. 9. What do we know about Russell Fazio ? 10. Who benefited from living with a white roommat
38、e according to Fazios study? 11. What did the study find about randomly assigned interracial roommates at Ohio State University? 12. What did Dr. Fazio find interesting about interracial roommates who had lived together for 10 weeks? 9 【正确答案】 C 【试题解析】 短文开头提到， Fazio是俄亥俄州立大学的心理学教授，因此选项C)是正确答案。 【知识模块】
39、听力 10 【正确答案】 D 【试题解析】 短文中提到， Fazio 发现入校时高分的黑人新生如果有一名白人室友则会有更好的成绩。 D) 选项与原文一致，因此是正确答案。 【知识模块】 听力 11 【正确答案】 D 【试题解析】 短文提到随机分配的不同种族的室友在季末分开的几率是同种族室友的两倍。这和选项 D)中的 more often than 是一致的，因此选项 D)是正确答案。 【知识模块】 听力 12 【正确答案】 D 【试题解析】 短文中提到，我们发现最有趣的是，如果室友关系尝试着维持到 10 周，他们的种族看法就会有所改善。选项 D)把原文中的名词 improvement 变成了动
40、词。 【知识模块】 听力 13 【听力原文】 In a small liboratory at the Medical University of South Carolina, Dr. Vladimir Mironov has been working for a decade to grow meat. A developmental biologist and tissue engineer, Dr. Mironov, is one of only a few scientists worldwide involved in bioengineering cultured meat. I
41、ts a product he believes could help solve future global food crisis resulting from shrinking amounts of land available for growing meat the old-fashioned way. Growth of cultured meat is also under way in the Netherlands, Mironov told Reuters in an interview, but in the United States, it is science i
42、n search of funding and demand. The new National Institute of Food and Agriculture wont fund it, the National Institutes of Health wont fund it, and the NASA funded it only briefly, Mironov said. Its classic disruptive technology, Mironov said. Bringing any new technology on the market, on average,
43、costs $1 billion. We dont even have $1 million. Director of the Advanced Tissue Biofabrication Center in the Department of Regenerative Medicine and Cell Biology at the medical university, Mironov now primarily conducts research on tissue engineering, or growing, of human organs. Theres an unpleasan
44、t factor when people find out meat is grown in a lab. They dont like to associate technology with food, said Nicholas Genovese, a visiting scholar in cancer cell biology. But there are a lot of products that we eat today that are considered natural that are produced in a similar manner, Genovese sai
45、d. Questions 13 to 15 are based on the passage you have just heard. 13. What does Dr. Mironov think of bioengineering cultured meat? 14. What does Dr. Mironov say about the funding for their research? 15. What does Nicholas Genovese say about a lot of products we eat today? 13 【正确答案】 A 【试题解析】 短文提到 D
46、r. Mironov 认为生物工程培养出来的肉有助于解决未来的全球食物危机，因此选 A)。四个选项的主语都是 it，据此推测 it 可能指代的是某项技术。 【知识模块】 听力 14 【正确答案】 D 【试题解析】 根据选项中的 donors， sufficient， drastically cut 判断，问题可能和钱有关。 Dr. Mironov 说，任何新技术的上市，平均花费 10 亿美元，而他们甚至连 100 万都没有，这说明他们的研究 经费远远不足。 【知识模块】 听力 15 【正确答案】 A 【试题解析】 根据选项中的 healthy， expensive， natural， nutr
47、itious 判断问题可能和食物的特征有关。短文末尾 Nicholas Genovese 说 :我们如今吃的许多东西被认为是天然的食品，其实都是用同样的方式制造出来的，即上文提到的在实验室制造出来的。 【知识模块】 听力 Section C 16 【听力原文】 Moderator: Hello ladies and gentleman, it gives me great pleasure to introduce our keynote speaker for todays session, Jack Ma. He is the CEO of Chinas famous internet c
48、ompany Alibaba. Welcome him. Jack Ma: Jack Ma: Im so honored. I never expect there are so many people coming here to listen to my talk. Before my talk I would like to ask how many people here have used Alibaba services. Good, not many. Laughs And how many of you here have never been to China? Never
49、been, never been to China. Good, thank you very much. Well, 20 years ago I came to America. My first trip to America, to Seattle. Before that I learned so much about America, from my books, from my teachers, from my school, and my parents. And I think I know enough about America. But when I came to America I thought totally wrong. America is not what I learned from the books. And in Seattle I found the Internet. And then I came back, and in 1999 I invited 18 friends of mine who came to my apartment. We decided to open
