1、大学英语六级改革适用（听力）模拟试卷 389及答案与解析 Section A （ A） Health conditions improve with time spent watching healthy programs. （ B） Comedy videos can cure most people of chronic heart attacks. （ C） Chances of having heart attacks reduce with those amused daily. （ D） Most patients cant survive once they suffer fro
2、m a second heart attack. （ A） Laughing is a learned behavior. （ B） Laughing is a good medicine to patients. （ C） Laughing is easier than battling with an illness. （ D） Laughing is something people can do without effort. （ A） A fitness program offered to the general public. （ B） A physical exercise t
3、o build up muscles. （ C） A program that makes people keep laughing. （ D） A situation where you have no mood to smile. （ A） Youd better smile or laugh from the bottom of your heart. （ B） You cant fool your body by pretending to be happy. （ C） A smart mind cant tell the difference between a fake one a
4、nd a real one （ D） Even a fake one can benefit people physiologically just as well as a real one. （ A） She is doing a paper. （ B） She missed the lecture. （ C） She is interested in the topic. （ D） She is writing a paper for a scholarship. （ A） Why species dont avoid extinction by adapting. （ B） Why h
5、umans wont become extinct in the future. （ C） Why species become extinct at the rate they do. （ D） How many species arent extinct at present. （ A） Humans got help from other species. （ B） Humans survive by exploration. （ C） Humans survive by ingenuity. （ D） Humans survive by luck. （ A） Because human
6、 beings are powerful enough to kill one another. （ B） Because every species will become extinct by natural selection. （ C） Because there is over-population that will make the earth explode. （ D） Because human beings are a young species exploiting their environment. Section B （ A） The great variety o
7、f newspapers. （ B） The large circulation of newspapers. （ C） British families buying newspapers. （ D） More local newspapers are sold than national ones. （ A） Most of them make money. （ B） They are written for local readers. （ C） Every town and country area has one local newspaper. （ D） The news is a
8、ll about births, weddings, deaths, council meetings and sports. （ A） Local folks. （ B） Professional editors. （ C） Community activists. （ D） Clubs and churches. （ A） They use amusing language. （ B） They cover international news. （ C） They express public feeling on local issues. （ D） They focus on pro
9、blems of national importance. （ A） Power plants bum coal. （ B） Factories pour sewage. （ C） People bury trash underground （ D） City population increases greatly. （ A） People are driving cars with electricity. （ B） Scientists are producing cleaner energies. （ C） Factories are installing smoke-cleaning
10、 equipment （ D） People are using new materials which dont need to be burned. （ A） Passive. （ B） Optimistic. （ C） Pessimistic. （ D） Complaining. Section C （ A） TOEFL is the most globally used language assessment exam. （ B） TOEFL scores matter a lot in getting financial aids. （ C） All American univers
11、ities require a TOEFL score. （ D） Cutoff TOEFL scores are standardized by most universities. （ A） Study guide with answer explanations. （ B） Study guide with cultural notes. （ C） Study guide with news comments. （ D） Study guide with short stories. （ A） Study intensively before a test for even a shor
12、t period. （ B） Dont worry about your English level if you work hard. （ C） Use TOEFL practice materials all the time. （ D） Try to make English study part of your life. （ A） Taking a practice test seven times a week. （ B） Going to America to talk with native speakers. （ C） Using many tricks in the exa
13、mination. （ D） Having a good command of English. （ A） It is the top one reason for peoples abnormal death. （ B） It causes death of almost six million people every year. （ C） It will be completely forbidden in developed countries. （ D） It does more harm to young children than to adults. （ A） Getting
14、help from electronic cigarettes. （ B） Using medicine or nicotine patches. （ C） Keeping away from pressure and anxiety. （ D） Using medicine and counseling service together. （ A） Young people become addicted to smoking. （ B） Young people die from lung cancer. （ C） Young people commit more crimes. （ D）
15、 Young people drop early from school. （ A） Gas explosion. （ B） Electric shock. （ C） Gas poisoning. （ D） Fire disaster. （ A） Sleeping in an open environment （ B） Using fuel instead of electricity. （ C） Using small and movable gas generators. （ D） Short-term contact with carbon monoxide. （ A） The dang
16、er of carbon monoxide poisoning. （ B） The sources of carbon monoxide poisoning. （ C） The characteristics of carbon monoxide poisoning. （ D） The prevention of carbon monoxide poisoning. 大学英 语六级改革适用（听力）模拟试卷 389答案与解析 Section A 1 【听力原文】 W: Weve all heard the saying “Laughter is the best medicine.” How i
17、mportant is it to our health, Dr. Berk? M: This saying has been scientifically proven! 1A year-long study of heart attack victims done at the Oakhurst Health Research Institute in California found that of those patients who spent half an hour a day watching comedy videos, 10 percent had a second hea
18、rt attack, whereas 30 percent of those who did not watch had a second heart attack. W: Wow! 2Laughter is really a good medicine to patients. Can you give us another example? M: Sure! Norman Cousins, editor of the Saturday Review, learned this during a battle with an illness. He discovered that his c
19、ondition improved when he enjoyed himself and watched funny movies. W: You said Norman learned this? Do we have to learn to laugh? M: Not necessarily. Since laughing is something people can do sitting down, costs no money, and requires no special exercise equipment or skill, its the perfect workout
20、for anyone who doesnt have the time or desire to participate in a regular 3fitness program. W: Oh. 3Do you have such a program to offer to the general public? M: 3Yes, we do. Its called the Smile Time-Out. You take a deep breath, smile, exhale, and say “Aaah” while visualizing all your muscles and c
21、ells smiling. Then add to that a memory of a time you felt really good and laughed and laughed. W: What about the situation in which you arent in a mood to laugh? M: 4Even when you fake a smile or laugh, you get the same physiological benefits as when its the real thing, because your mind is smart,
22、but your body is stupid and cant tell the difference! Questions 1 to 4 are based on the conversation you have just heard. 1. What did the year-long study of heart attack victims find? 2. What is Normans example meant to prove? 3. What is the so-called Smile Time-Out? 4. What can we learn about smile
23、 or laugh according to Dr. Berk? 1 【正确答案】 C 【知识模块】 听力 2 【正确答案】 B 【知识模块】 听力 3 【正确答案】 A 【知 识模块】 听力 4 【正确答案】 D 【知识模块】 听力 5 【听力原文】 W: 5Professor Smith, I wonder if you can fill me in on your lecture last Friday. I had to attend a scholarship award ceremony. M: Oh, well, congratulations. I hope you were
24、rewarded handsomely! W: Well, every bit helps. So, about your lecture, I understand you were talking about extinctions. M: Yes. Well, the crux of my talk was just that we tend to think of extinction as a dramatic event, but most species die out over quite a period of time. W: 6Why do they die off? I
25、 thought they were continuously improving themselves. Natural selection, I think you once mentioned. M: Ah, but you see while there is natural competition between the species, what determines which species survive is largely by chance. W: I dont get it. Why do species bother competing? M: Well, ther
26、e are short term advantages. But many species also are helped by others. For example, the common housefly and cockroaches might have died off years ago if not for human. W: But youre not saying that humans are so successful merely because of chance? M: To a certain extent, humans were initially luck
27、y enough to have the right weather conditions and a lack of predators, 7but now, of course, we survive by ingenuity! W: So we may never become extinct. M: 8No, because we may be in a crash course to extinction by our continuous exploitation of the environment. We are a relatively young species and o
28、ur time is not yet overdue. W: But there are 6 billion of us! M: Yes, and therere many more houseflies too! Each with the capacity to spread one disease from one person to another in a fast period of time. W: Frightening thought, isnt it? Questions 5 to 8 are based on the conversation you have just
29、heard. 5. Why does the woman go to see the professor? 6. What puzzles the woman about extinction? 7. What does the professor say about human beings survival? 8. Why is the professor not so sure humans will never become extinct? 5 【正确答案】 B 【知识模块】 听力 6 【正确答案】 A 【知识模块】 听力 7 【正确答案】 C 【知识 模块】 听力 8 【正确答案】
30、 D 【知识模块】 听力 Section B 9 【听力原文】 9 Visitors to Britain are sometimes surprised to learn that newspapers there have such a large circulation. The Daily Mirror and the Daily Express both sell about four million copies every day. British families generally buy a newspaper every morning and frequently ta
31、ke two or three on Sundays. Apart from the national papers, there is, however, another branch of the British press which sells almost as many copies. Local newspapers have a weekly circulation of 13 million. Almost every town and country area has one. 10Nearly all of them hold their own financially
32、and many of them are very profitable. These papers are written almost entirely for readers interested in local eventsbirths, weddings, deaths, council meetings and sportsbut the content is naturally influenced by the kind of community they serve. Editors prefer to rely on a small staff of people who
33、 all know the district well. 11A great deal of local news is regularly supplied by clubs and churches in the neighborhood and it doesnt get out of date as quickly as national news. If there is no room for it in this weeks edition, an item can sometimes be held over until the following week. Local ne
34、wspapers do not often comment on problems of national importance and editors rarely hold with taking sides on political questions. 12But they can often be of service to the community in expressing public feeling on local issues. A newspaper can sometimes persuade the council to take action to provid
35、e better shopping facilities, improve transport in the area and preserve local monuments and places of interest. Questions 9 to 12 are based on the passage you have just heard. 9. What are visitors to Britain sometimes surprised at? 10. What does the speaker say about the local newspapers in Britain
36、? 11. Who supplies the great part of local news? 12. What is the most striking feature of local newspapers? 9 【正确答案】 B 【知识模块】 听力 10 【正确答案】 A 【知识模块】 听力 11 【正确答案】 D 【知识模块】 听力 12 【正确答案】 C 【知识模块】 听力 13 【听力原文】 Clean air is important to good health. If the air contains impurities, they may be absorbed by
37、our bodies and make us ill. We need clean air, but unfortunately, air pollution is generally present, especially in cities. Our cities have many factories, which we need to make food products, clothing and many other things. Every day these factories pour millions upon millions of tons of smoke and
38、soot into the air. 13Power plants that burn coal add greatly to air pollution. Things made in factories wear out after a while and are thrown away as trash. We burn a lot of trash. More smoke and soot. And then there are the cars made in factories. Once they are out on the street, the cars will take
39、 in air and replace it with poisonous gases. Again, more smoke and soot. No area in the world is completely free of air pollution. We must take measures to control it. Now, more and more people are realizing the importance of clean air. Schools are now teaching about the pollution problem. Industrie
40、s are beginning to help to clean up. 14They are installing equipment to clean up their smoke. Scientists and inventors are trying to develop cleaner engines for cars and trains. Someday we may drive cars with electricity. A new kind of paper that will dissolve in water and need not to be burned. A n
41、ew kind of glass bottle that will melt in sunlight and disappear is being developed in some countries. 15 Surely the day will come when people will be able to breathe clean air in cities. Questions 13 to 15 are based on the passage you have just heard. 13. What has caused air pollution according to
42、the speaker? 14. What kind of measure is being carried out to control air pollution? 15. What is the speakers attitude toward air conditions in the future? 13 【正确答案】 A 【知识模块】 听力 14 【正确答案】 C 【知识模块】 听力 15 【正确答案】 B 【知识模块】 听力 Section C 16 【听力原文】 If you are interested in studying at an American universit
43、y, you have probably heard about the Test of English as a Foreign Language. The test is widely known as TOEFL. It is the most widely used language assessment exam for American universities. Many foreign students are frightened of the TOEFL because it is risky. Good test results on the TOEFL will ope
44、n many doors. 16But a low TOEFL score will limit your choices for financial aid and admission to top schools. The most competitive universities generally expect an Internet-based test score of 90 or above. Others accept lower scores, and some do not require a TOEFL score at all. Most universities do
45、 not publicize an actual cutoff score, but a high score will always help. H ere are s o m e tips for getting started with TOEFL: 1. Plan aheadIt takes a long time to improve your TOEFL score. Many students study just before the test. Raising your score will take months of intensive work. Do not expe
46、ct a big lift in your test results after two weeks. There is no easy way to improve your score quickly. You will have to spend a lot of time and energy. 2. Master the basics firstMany students study for the TOEFL before they are ready. You should have at least an upper-intermediate English level bef
47、ore you attempt the test. If you score below 70 on the iBT, study the fundamentals for a few months and come back to the TOEFL later. 3. Get a study guideIt is easy to find study guides for the iBT. Pearson, Barrons, ETS and Kaplan all produce quality materials. Take a practice test once or twice a
48、month. 17The best study guides will have explanations in the answer key. 4. Use outside resourcesUsing TOEFL practice materials all the time will make you crazy. Remember, you are learning a language, not a test. 18You can improve your TOEFL score by making English part of your daily life. Some simp
49、le ways are listening to broadcasts, informal conversation with English speakers, watching movies and reading newspapers. Some others are reading English textbooks, sending and reading text messages in English, and writing online comments in English. 19The bottom line is, the best way to do well on the TOEFL is to know English well. Do not depend on informal advice or tricks. Do not try to outwit the test maker. Think of reading, listening, speaking, writing, and grammar as a single connected concept-communication
