1、大学英语六级改革适用（听力）模拟试卷 349及答案与解析 Section B （ A） He was born in New England. （ B） He once worked for Harvard University. （ C） He was Edward Thomas friend. （ 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. （
2、D） The lines and sentences are beautiful. （ A） Farming activities. （ B） The meaning of life. （ C） Revolution. （ D） Morality. （ A） Doing potential harm to human bodies. （ B） Increasing moist in the users eyes. （ C） Reducing the working hours to three hours a day. （ D） Making the users eyes more beaut
3、iful: much wider. （ A） Radiation from the terminal. （ B） Stress in working hours. （ C） Without adequate eye-drops. （ D） Less or little moisture in the eyes. （ A） Make a long time to rest. （ B） Feel relaxed while working. （ C） Close eyes more often. （ D） Keep eye-drops handy. （ A） In the white pages.
4、 （ B） In the blue pages. （ C） In the yellow pages. （ D） In the green pages. （ A） The phoning fee. （ B） The mileage. （ C） The area code. （ D） The area map. （ A） Hang up the phone and make a call later. （ B） Ask the operator to leave a message. （ C） Give the number to the other party to phone back. （
5、D） Find a free public phone and call again. （ A） Check your number and call again. （ B） Tell the operator what has happened. （ C） Ask the operator to put you through. （ D） Ask the operator what has happened. （ A） Water might become clean and pure. （ B） People will live in a better environment. （ C）
6、There will be no police to protect people. （ D） People need to spend more money on education. （ A） To build hospitals and schools. （ B） To build roads and railways. （ C） To train the police officers. （ D） To teach and train the citizens. （ A） Some people refuse to pay taxes. （ B） The rich people pay
7、 higher taxes. （ C） Every citizen has a duty to pay taxes. （ D） The taxes are used to make laws. （ A） It interests students in a career in counseling. （ B） It recruits counselors to work in the placement office. （ C） It facilitates students to find a part-time job easily. （ D） It convinces local mer
8、chants to hire college students. （ A） Gardening and landscaping. （ B） Retailing. （ C） Financing. （ D） Child-care. （ A） A job listing. （ B） A personal resume. （ C） A permission slip. （ D） A salary requirement. （ A） Refine their interviewing techniques. （ B） Arrange their working schedules. （ C） Selec
9、t appropriate practical courses. （ D） Write cover letters for their resumes. 大学英语六级改革适用（听力）模拟试卷 349答案与解析 Section B 1 【听力原文】 Robert Frost was born in San Francisco in 1875 and was sent at the age of ten to live in New England, an area which inspired almost all of his poetry. He was educated at Dartmo
10、uth 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 1912 to 1915, he lived in New England, where he became friendly with several poets, including Edward Thomas, and
11、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 on writing throughout his life, publishing Steeple Bush at the age of seventy-two. He died in 1963. Frosts poems a
12、re 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 calm eagerness of emotion. With his close observant eye and touch, we can feel the daily activities of farming and
13、 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. Often there is an explicit or near-explicit “moral“, though sometimes this is hinted at rather than stated, and freq
14、uently 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. 23. What do we learn about Robert Frost from the passage? 24. What does the speaker say about Frosts poems? 25. What is described in Frosts p
15、oetry according to the passage? 1 【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】 听力篇章 2 【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过于绝对化。 【知识模块】 听力篇章 3 【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
16、蕴涵的感情，并不是诗歌的主题。 【知识模块】 听力篇章 4 【听力原文】 Nowadays more and more people have to spend lengthy hours before computers. Computers are almost indispensable to modern life. No one can imagine the results if the computer he uses daily would break down. But computers also cause some problems. Among them is the
17、 potential harm to human bodies, especially to eyes. Working long hours at a computer can cause eyestrain. Recently a letter to the New England Journal of Medicine provides one explanation for the problem. Japanese researchers studied some 50 office workers who spent an average of three hours a day
18、at a terminal. Since blinking keeps eyes moist thus reducing strain the researchers counted blinking rates under different conditions. The workers averaged 22 blinks a minute when relaxed, ten blinks a minute while reading a book and just seven a minute while reading text on a computer screen. Thus
19、people keep the least moisture in their eyes when they are working at a computer and feel more strained. Furthermore, the computer workers also kept their eyes open wider, which meant moisture evaporated more quickly. If you work at a computer screen, close your eyes periodically. That spreads a tea
20、r film and rests your eyes. And remember to blink more often. In this way you can reduce the side effect caused by using computer to a greater extent. 16. What is the result of using computer in our daily life? 17. What is the cause of eyestrain? 18. What are those who spend long hours before comput
21、ers supposed to do? 4 【正确答案】 A 【试题解析】 细节题。 computer是人们日常生活、工作不可缺少的一部分，但短文同时指出，电脑也带来问题，其中一个就是可能给人的身体带来伤害。故 A正确。 BUT题，听到 BUT就知道其后的内容需要格外重视。 【知识模块】 听力篇章 5 【正确答案】 D 【试题解析】 推断题。短文提到： “blinking keeps eyes moist -thus reducing straim ”(眨眼使眼睛保持湿润，从而减少眼疲劳 )；而短文还指出，使用电脑时人们的眨眼频率仅为每分钟 7次，非常低，因此眼睛的湿润度很低，由此引起眼疲劳。
22、故 D正确。 【知识模块】 听力篇章 6 【正确答案】 C 【试题解析】 细节题。短文提到，如果你工作中面对电脑，应该经常性地闭眼休息。因此 C正确。 【知识模块】 听力篇章 7 【听力原文】 Telephone books in the United States have white, blue and yellow pages. The white pages list people with phones by last name. The blue pages contain numbers of city services, government agencies, and pub
23、lic schools. Businesses and professional services are listed in a special section the Yellow Pages. To make a long distance call, you need an area code. Each area in the U.S. has an area code. The area covered by one area code may be small or large. For example, New York City has one area code, but
24、so does the whole state of Oregon. If you want to know the area code of a place, you can look it up in the area map which is printed in the front of the white pages. There are a lot of public telephones in the U.S. They have their own numbers. If you are making a long distance call on a public phone
25、 and run out of money, give the number on your phone to the person youre talking to. Then hang up the receiver and he can call you back. If you make a long distance call and get a wrong number, call the operator and explain what happened. This means that you can make the call again to the right numb
26、er without having to pay more money. 22. In a telephone book, where can you find the number of a city council? 23. What should you check in a telephone book for a long distance call? 24. How can you avoid losing contact when making calls on public phones without much money left? 25. What should you
27、do if you get a wrong number in making a long distance call? 7 【正确答案】 B 【试题解析】 推断题。电话蓝页上包含城市服务、政府部门和公立学校的电话号码，而 city council属于 government agencies，因此可以在蓝页上查到，故 B正确。 【知识模块】 听力篇章 8 【正确答案】 C 【试题解析】 细节题。提到打长途电话后马上就说了需要 “区号 ”，即 C。选项 D是强干扰项，注意 area map上面也有 “区号 ”，所以区域图只是查找区号的一种手段。 【知识模块】 听力篇章 9 【正确答案】 C 【试
28、题解析】 细节题。如果在打长途电话时用光了钱，可以告诉对方你所用公用电话的号码，然后让对方打过来，故 C正确。 【知识模块】 听力篇章 10 【正确答案】 B 【试题解析】 细节题。如果打长途电话时拨错号了，打给接线员解释一下情况，接线员会再次帮你接通，故 B正确。 if后面的内容是考点。 【知识模块】 听力篇章 11 【听力原文】 We know that we have to pay for what we get. If we buy food, we know there will be a bill to pay. These are private bills. But there
29、 are also public bills that must be paid. Public bills are paid for by the government. In turn, we get these services through taxes. What would happen if everyone in the city stopped paying taxes? The water supply would stop. Water might even become unclean and impure. The streets might not be clean
30、ed. There would be no police force to protect people and property. Schools would be closed. People would become sick and diseases might spread. We should not want to live in such a city. We all want pure water and food, clean streets and good schools. We want police to prevent us from crime. The chi
31、ef duty for every government is to protect persons and property. More than three quarters of the money spent by our government is used for this purpose. 17 The next large amount of public money goes to teach and train our citizens. Billions of dollars each year are spent on schools and libraries. Pu
32、blic money is used to pay the teachers and all the public officials. Also, a large amount of public funds is spent on roads. The greatest part of the needed funds is raised by taxes. A tax is money that we all must pay to support the government. The law orders us to pay taxes. We have no choice in t
33、he matter. Almost everyone pays some taxes in one form or another. 16. According to the speaker, what will happen if the citizens stop paying taxes? 17. In what way is the next large amount of public money used? 18. What message does the speaker want to convey in this talk? 11 【正确答案】 C 【试题解析】 文中叙述了一
34、系列市民不纳税的后果，其中就有提到 “没有警察保护人民安全和财产 ”。故 C为正确答案。 A、 B两项跟原文表述相反； D项与问题没有直接因果关联。 【知识模块】 听力篇章 12 【正确答案】 D 【试题解析】 原文说第二大项公款是用来教育和培训市民。故 D正确。符合 “听到什么选什么 ”原则。 A、 B、 C项都是利用原文中的 schools、 roads、 police等制造的干扰项。 【知识模块】 听力篇章 13 【正确答案】 C 【试题解析】 全文都提到了 taxes一词，且详细分析了纳税的重要性和这些税款如何取之于民用之于民，文章末尾还提到了 “法律规定我们要纳税，我们别无选择 ”。
35、故 C为最佳选项。 【知识模块】 听力篇章 14 【听力原文】 As a result of rising university costs, many students are finding it necessary to take on part-time jobs. To make finding those .jobs easier, the placement service has put together a listing of what is available locally. For some students, these part-time jobs could l
36、ead to the full time work after graduation, as they may offer experience in their own field, like finance, marketing or even management. For example, national savings bank offers work on a half time basis. Thats 20 hours a week. Retail stores and restaurants have positions requiring fewer hours. Eve
37、n less time is expected of those providing child-care. We have a number of families registered with us who are looking for babysitters for as few as four hours a week. For students who prefer outdoor work therere seasonal positions right on campus, working with the gardening and landscaping teams. T
38、hese often require the most time and they are the least flexible in terms of scheduling. To see a complete list of these and other available jobs, including the salary offered in the hours required, stop by our office and 24be sure to bring a resume with you. When you find something that interests y
39、ou, well put you in touch with the person offering it. In addition, our counselors will give you hints about successful interviewing. 22. What do we know about the “placement service“ from the passage? 23. Which job requires the most time according to the passage? 24. What should students bring with
40、 them to the suffice? 25. What will the counselors at the office help students do? 14 【正确答案】 C 【试题解析】 细节题。介绍 placement service(就业服务机构 )前，听到了不定式，可知提供这种服务的主要目的是给学生介绍 part-time jobs，故 C正确。 【知识模块】 听力篇章 15 【正确答案】 A 【试题解析】 在听到前文的 gardening and landscaping时应竖起耳朵听其下文，接着又听到表示最高级信息的 require the most time和 the least flexible，可知选A。 【知识模块】 听力篇章 16 【正确答案】 B 【试题解析】 细节题。文中提醒学生咨询时 be sure to bring a resume(一定要带上自己的简历 )，因此 B正确。 A不是学生要带来的，而是 placement service提供给学生的材料。此题符合 “听到什么选什么 ”的解题原则。 【知识模块】 听力篇章 17 【正确答案】 A 【试题解析】 细节题。根据录音最后提到的 “我们的顾问会告诉您成功面试的技巧。 ”可推知 A正确。对 in addition之类的标志性结构后的补充说明要留意。 【知识模块 】 听力篇章
