1、大学英语六级改革适用（听力）模拟试卷 331及答案与解析 Section A （ A） Unique descriptive skills. （ B） Good knowledge of readers tastes. （ C） Colourful world experiences. （ D） Careful plotting and clueing. （ A） When the hero appears. （ B） When the story ends. （ C） How a book changes. （ D） How a book begins. （ A） A peaceful se
2、tting. （ B） A spacious room. （ C） To be in the right mood. （ D） To be entirely alone. （ A） They rely heavily on their own imagination. （ B） They have experiences similar to the characters. （ C） They look at the world in a detached manner. （ D） They are over whelmed by their own prejudices. （ A） Good
3、 or bad, they are there to stay. （ B） Like it or not, you have to use them. （ C） Believe it or not, they have survived. （ D） Gain or lose, they should be modernised. （ A） The frequent train delays. （ B） The high train ticket fares. （ C） The food sold on the trains. （ D） The monopoly of British Railw
4、ays. （ A） The low efficiency of their operation. （ B） Competition from other modes of transport. （ C） Constant complaints from passengers. （ D） The passing of the new transport act. （ A） They will be de-nationalised. （ B） They provide worse service. （ C） They are fast disappearing. （ D） They lose a
5、lot of money. Section B （ A） The whole Antarctic region will be submerged. （ B） Some polar animals will soon become extinct. （ C） Many coastal cities will be covered with water. （ D） The earth will experience extreme weathers. （ A） How humans are to cope with global warming. （ B） How unstable the We
6、st Antarctic ice sheet is. （ C） How vulnerable the coastal cities are. （ D） How polar ice impacts global weather. （ A） It collapsed at least once in the past 1.3 million years. （ B） It sits firmly on solid rock at the bottom of the ocean. （ C） It melted at temperatures a bit higher than those of tod
7、ay. （ D） It will have little impact on sea level when it breaks up. （ A） The West Antarctic region was once an open ocean. （ B） The West Antarctic ice sheet was about 7,000 feet thick. （ C） The West Antarctic ice sheet was once floating ice. （ D） The West Antarctic region used to be warmer than toda
8、y. （ A） Whether we can develop social ties on the Internet. （ B） Whether a deleted photo is immediately removed from the web. （ C） Whether our blogs can be renewed daily. （ D） Whether we can set up our own websites. （ A） The number of visits they receive. （ B） The way they store data. （ C） The files
9、 they have collected. （ D） The means they use to get information. （ A） When the system is down. （ B） When new links are set up. （ C） When the URL is reused. （ D） When the server is restarted. Section C （ A） It is managed by James Steyer. （ B） It is a profit-making organization. （ C） It is a children
10、s organization. （ D） It is a womens organization. （ A） 4.5 hours a day. （ B） 9 hours a day. （ C） Nearly 6 hours a day. （ D） More than 6. 5 hours a day. （ A） Teenagers obeyed their parents advice and didnt do the multitask again. （ B） Two-fifths of the teenagers continued to do the multitask. （ C） Pe
11、ople are able to do some multitasking. （ D） Multitasking is just a myth. （ A） Schools shouldnt teach kids digital devices. （ B） Teachers should teach kids to concentrate on their homework. （ C） Parents can have conversations with their kids when theyre Face-booking their friends. （ D） Parents can gl
12、ue to their cell phone all the time. （ A） It warned the UK government to take steps to tackle air pollution within days. （ B） It will make the government face action in the high court if they dont tackle the pollution on time. （ C） It won a ruling against the government in the supreme court last yea
13、r. （ D） It criticizes the government for not making plans to cut pollutants. （ A） It was published late last year. （ B） It focuses on bringing in clean air zones in five English cities by 2025. （ C） The most polluting buses, taxis, coaches and lorries will be charged to get out of the centre. （ D） P
14、rivate cars are covered in the plan. （ A） The government has taken the order from the UKs highest court seriously. （ B） Tens of thousands of premature deaths are caused in the world every year due to the air pollution. （ C） Air pollution has a bad influence on the health of vulnerable groups. （ D） T
15、he government has earnestly performed its responsibility to ensure peoples right to clean air. （ A） Junior managers. （ B） Senior managers. （ C） Students. （ D） Teachers. （ A） She was asked to eat carrots. （ B） She was asked to wear black stockings. （ C） She had a quarrel with a customer. （ D） She for
16、got to lock the shop after work. （ A） Business intelligence. （ B） Collective intelligence. （ C） Market intelligence. （ D） Social intelligence. 大学英语六级改革适用（听力）模拟试卷 331答案与解析 Section A 1 【 听力原文】 W: When you write a novel, do you know where youre going, Dr. James? M: Yes, you must, really, if youre writi
17、ng the classical detective story, because it must be so carefully plotted and so carefully clued. I have schemes. I have charts. I have diagrams. It doesnt mean to say I always get it right, but I do plan before I begin writing. But what is so fascinating is how a book changes during the process of
18、writing. It seems to me that creative writing is a process of revelation, really, rather than of creativity in the ordinary sense. W: When youre planning the basic structure, do you like to go away to be sure that youre by yourself? M: I need to be by myself certainly, absolutely. I cant even bare a
19、nybody else in the house. I dont mind much where I am as long as Ive got enough space to write, but I need to be completely alone. W: Is that very important to you? M: Oh, yes. Ive never been lonely in all my life. W: How extraordinary! Never? M: No, never. W: Youre very lucky. Someone once said tha
20、t theres a bit of ice at the heart of every writer. M: Yes. I think this is true. The writer can stand aside from experience and look at it, watch it happening. There is this detachment and I realize that there are obviously experiences which would overwhelm everyone. But very often, a writer can ap
21、pear to stand aside, and this detachment makes people feel theres a bit of ice in the heart. Questions 1 to 4 are based on the conversation you have just heard. 1. What is the key to writing a good classical detective story, according to the man? 2. What is the fascinating part of writing according
22、to the man? 3. What does the man mainly need when working on a book? 4. What does the man say about writers? 1 【正确答案】 D 【试题解析】 对话围绕写作展开。听力对话一开始，男士就讲到写侦探小说需要注意的事情：精心设计情节，巧妙提供线索。原文使用了动词形式 carefully plotted and carefully clued，刚好和选项 D)中的分词形式相对应。 【知识模块】 听力 2 【正确答案】 C 【试题解析】 题目问的是，男士认为写作过程中最精彩的部分是什么。对话中男
23、士说，最精彩的部分是书的内容发生变化的时候。故选 C)。 【知识模块】 听力 3 【正确答案】 D 【试题解析】 随后女士问到：设计情节时，你需要独处吗 ? 男士语气肯定，使用重复来强调自己的观点：绝对需要独处，忍受不了他人也在房间，空间不需要太大，但一定要是一个人。从中考生可判断 D)为正确答案。 【知识模块】 听力 4 【正确答案】 C 【试题解析】 根据前面两题，考生可推断选项中的 they 可能指代作家。对话最后提到男士对作家的看法：他们看着故事的发生，与他人隔离，这种隔离让人觉得作家心中有一点冰冷。原文中使用名词 detachment，而选项 C)中使用了形容词 detached。
24、【知识模块】 听力 5 【听力原文】 W: There is an element there about competition then, isnt there? Because British railways are a nationalized industry. There is only one railway system in the country. If you dont like a particular kind of big beans, you can go and buy another. But if you dont like the particular
25、railway, you cant go and use another. M: Some people who write to me say this. They say that if you didnt have monopoly, you wouldnt be able to do the things you do. Well, I dont think we do anything deliberately to upset our customers. We have particular problems. Since 1946, when the Transport Act
26、 came in, we were nationalized. W: Do you think thats a good thing? Has it been a good thing for the railways, do you think, to be nationalized? M: Oh, I think so, yes, because in general, modes of transport are all around. Lets face the fact, the car arrived. The car is here to stay. There is no qu
27、estion about that. W: So what are you saying then? Is it if the railways havent been nationalized, they would simply have disappeared? M: Oh, I think they would have. They are disappearing fast in America. Er, the French railways lose 1 billion pounds a year. The German railways, 2 billion pounds a
28、year. But you see, those governments are prepared to pour money into the transport system to keep it going. W: So, in a sense, you cope between two extremes. On the one hand, you are trying not to lose too much money. And on the other hand, youve got to provide the best service. M: Yes, you are righ
29、t. Questions 5 to 8 are based on the conversation you have just heard. 5. What does the woman say about British railways? 6. What do some people who write to the man complain about? 7. What does the man say threatens the existence of railways? 8. What does the man say about railways in other countri
30、es? 5 【正确答案】 B 【试题解析】 对话围绕英国的铁路系统展开。对话一开始，女士就讲到了自己对于铁路系统的看法：如果你不喜欢某一种大豆，你可以买另一种；但是如果你不喜欢某一条铁路线，你却不能选择另外一条。从中考生可以判断，不管喜不喜欢，都要用它。 【知识模块】 听力 6 【正确答案】 D 【试题解析】 随后男士讲到有人写信抱怨：如果没有垄断，你们似乎不能做好你们要做的事情。这句话暗示了英国铁路的垄断。选项 A)、 B)、 C) 中 的内容整个听力对话中都没有涉及。 【知识模块】 听力 7 【正确答案】 B 【试题解析】 女士接着问：对铁路系统来说，英国这种体系是不是很好 ? 男士给予了
31、肯定回答，同时提及了原因：现在有各种各样的交通方式，暗示交通行业的竞争压力很大，对应选项 B)。 【知识模块】 听力 8 【正确答案】 D 【试题解析】 对话最后男士谈及其他国家铁路系统的现状：以德法为例，他们每年都损失很多钱。考生要注意，选项 C)只是美国的情况。 【知识模块】 听力 Section B 9 【 听力原文】 Among global warmings most frightening threats is the prediction that the polar ice-caps will melt, raising sea level so much that coast
32、al cities from New York to Los Angles to Shanghai will be flooded. Scientists agree that the key player in this scenario is the West Antarctic ice sheet, a Brazil-size mass of frozen water that is much as 7000 feet thick. Unlike floating ice shelves which have little impact on sea level when they br
33、eak up, the ice sheet is anchored to bedrock, will blow the sea surface. Surrounded by open ocean, it is also vulnerable, but Antarctic experts disagree strongly on just how unstable it is. Now, new evidence reveals that all or most of the West Antarctic ice sheet collapsed at least once during the
34、past 1. 3 million years, a period when global temperatures probably were not significantly higher than they are today. And the ice sheet was assumed to have been stable. In geological time, a million years is recent history. The proof, which was published last week in Science, comes from a team of s
35、cientists from Uppsala University in Sweden and California Institute of Technology who drilled deep holes near the edge of the ice sheet. Within samples collected from the solid substance lying beneath the ice, they found fossils of microscopic marine plants which suggest that the region was once an
36、 open ocean, not solid ice. As Herman Engleheart, a co-author from the California Institute of Technology says , The West Antarctic ice sheet disappeared once and can disappear again. Questions 9 to 12 are based on the passage you have just heard. 9. What is one of the most frightening threats of gl
37、obal warming according to the passage? 10. What do scientists disagree on? 11. What is the latest information revealed about the West Antarctic ice sheet? 12. What do the scientists latest findings suggest? 9 【正确答案】 C 【试题解析】 浏览选项，考生可推断听力文章是关于全球变暖问题的。听力篇章一开始讲到，全球变暖最恐怖的威胁就是冰川融化，海面升高，淹没沿海城市。选项 C)中的 be
38、covered with water 对应原文中的 be flooded。 【知识模块】 听力 10 【正确答案】 B 【试题解析】 听力篇章中间提及科学家意见不一的 地方：冰原到底有多不稳定。本题是个细节题，考生在听力过程中要集中注意力。 【知识模块】 听力 11 【正确答案】 A 【试题解析】 选项表示冰原的某种状态。听力篇章接下来讲，最新的科学发现揭示：南极冰原在过去一百三十万年内至少坍塌过一次。由此判断 A)为正确选项。 【知识模块】 听力 12 【正确答案】 A 【试题解析】 选项是关于 the West Antarctica的情况的。听力篇章最后提及，这个地方曾是一片大洋，而并非冰
39、川。因此 A)为正确选项。 【知识模块】 听力 13 【听力原文】 Its always fun to write about research that you can actually try out for yourself. Try this: Take a photo and upload it to Facebook, then after a day or so, know what the URL link to the picture is and then delete it. Come back a month later and see if the link work
40、s. Chances are, it will. Facebook isnt alone here. Researchers at Cambridge University have found that nearly half of the social networking sites dont immediately delete pictures when a user request they be removed. In general, photo-centric websites like Phlica were found to be better at quickly re
41、moving deleted photos upon request. Why do deleted photos stick around so long? The problem relates to the way data is stored on large websites. While your personal computer only keeps one copy of a file, large-scale services, like Facebook, rely on what are called Content Delivery Networks to manag
42、e data and distribution. Its a complex system wherein data is copied to multiple intermediate devices, usually to speed up access to files when millions of people are trying to access the service at the same time. But because changes arent reflected across the Content Delivery Networks immediately,
43、ghost copies of files tend to linger for days or weeks. In the case of Facebook, the company says data may hang around until the URL link in question is reused, which is usually after a short period of time, though obviously that time can vary considerably. Questions 13 to 15 are based on the passag
44、e you have just heard. 13. What does the speaker ask us to try out? 14. What accounts for the failure of some websites to remove photos immediately? 15. When will the unwanted data eventually disappear from Facebook according to the company? 13 【正确答案】 B 【试题解析】 根据选项，考生可推断听力篇章围绕网络展开。听力一开始，作者就建议我们这么做：上
45、传一张照片，一两天后，删掉照片链接；一个月后再看，这个链接很有可能还在。也就是说，删掉的照片并不能马上从网上清除。 【知识模块】 听力 14 【正确答案】 B 【试题解析】 听力篇章中间提及不能马上清除照片的原因：这和大型网站上存储信息的方式有关。由此判断 B)为正确选项。 【知识模块】 听力 15 【正确答案】 C 【试题解析】 听力篇章最后提及照片最终 从网上消失的时间：根据 Facebook 公司的说法，信息可一直存储到这个链接再次使用之时。所以 C)为正确答案。 【知识模块】 听力 Section C 16 【听力原文】 Moderator: Hello ladies and gent
46、leman, it gives me great pleasure to introduce our keynote speaker for todays session, James Steyer. James Steyer is the CEO of Common Sense Media, which is a nonprofit childrens advocacy and media rating organization. Welcome to the NewsHour, James Steyer. James Steyer: Thank you. Im glad to share
47、the report with you. Most of us are spending more time with screens than ever before, from TV and computers, to the smartphones we carry in our pockets. A new report on media use by teens shows that may be even more true for children. We did a survey of 2,600 kids between the ages of 8 and 18 which
48、painted a picture of constant connection. Children between 8 and 12 reported spending an average of four-and-a-half-hours a day using a screen, and nearly six hours consuming media of any kind. Among teenagers, average screen time was more than six-and-a-half-hours a day and almost nine hours with m
49、edia overall. Well, the sheer volume, nine hours a day on average is what teenagers spend with media and technology. The number-one activity in their life now is media and technology. And we found that a lot of what theyre doing is multitasking. Against their parents advice, two-thirds of the teenagers that were surveyed say that they continue to multitask, meaning theyre on Facebook or Instagram or texting their friends, while theyre doing their homework. Many of them say they are able to do some multitasking. Well, the truth is multit
