1、大学英语六级改革适用（听力）模拟试卷 408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） He is not following the complete recipe. （ B） He is missing the right pan to cook the pizza. （ C） He is using the directions for a different food. （ D） He is mixing up all the ingredients at hand.
5、（ A） He tells her honestly what he thinks about it. （ B） She can tell by his nonverbal expressions （ C） He throws it away after making it. （ D） She finds he doesnt touch it at all. （ A） He added more salt to make it taste better. （ B） He added some cold cereal to the pizza. （ C） He burned it longer
6、than instructed. （ D） He put some pumpkin in the pizza. （ A） They decide to go out to eat. （ B） They eat something different at home. （ C） They eat at friends house. （ D） They eat pumpkins as dessert. Section B （ A） Because we might be offered a dish of insects. （ B） Because nothing but freshly cook
7、ed insects are served. （ C） Because some yuppies like to horrify guests with insects as food. （ D） Because we might meet many successful executives in the media industry. （ A） From yuppie clubs. （ B） In the seafood market （ C） In the supermarket. （ D） On the Internet. （ A） Its easy to prepare. （ B）
8、Its tasty and healthful. （ C） Its exotic in appearance. （ D） Its safe to eat. （ A） It will be consumed by more and more young people. （ B） It will become the first course at dinner parties. （ C） It will have to be changed to suit local tastes. （ D） It is unlikely to be enjoyed by most people. （ A） T
9、heir business hours are limited. （ B） Their safety measures are inadequate. （ C） Their banking procedures are complicated. （ D） They dont have enough service windows. （ A） People who are in the habit of switching from one bank to another. （ B） Young people who are fond of modern technology. （ C） You
10、ng people who are wealthy and well-educated. （ D） People who have computers at home. （ A） To compete for customers. （ B） To reduce the size of their staff. （ C） To provide services for distant clients. （ D） To expand their operations at a lower cost. Section C （ A） How 724 people lived for the past
11、75 years. （ B） What keeps people happy and healthy in life. （ C） The meaning of wealth and hard work for life. （ D） Three big lessons about social relationships. （ A） Social connections are good for lonely people. （ B） Less socially connected people do not enjoy their life. （ C） The health of lonely
12、 people decline earlier in midlife. （ D） Loneliness only affects ones mental health. （ A） Numbers of people involved. （ B） Quality of this relationship. （ C） Commitment of this relationship. （ D） Members being relatives. （ A） Small quarrels do not harm their health. （ B） Small quarrels are good for
13、a close relationship. （ C） They know they could count on each other in tough days. （ D） Small quarrels do protect their bodies and brains. （ A） More than half of the respondents dont pay for ATM fees. （ B） Most American people disagree with the charge of ATM fees. （ C） Respondents think the proper f
14、ee for an ATM transaction is $2-3. （ D） 77% of Americans are okay with the charge of ATM fees. （ A） Advertising coupon. （ B） 15-inch video screen. （ C） Restaurant coupon. （ D） Promotional video. （ A） 15. （ B） 25. （ C） 1. （ D） 2. （ A） They have broken $100. （ B） They kept falling for 103 months. （ C）
15、 They were up over 63%. （ D） They were up 8.1% every year. （ A） Adding new restaurants. （ B） Delivering food by bicycle. （ C） Decorating exterior of restaurants. （ D） Offering new type of ice-cream. （ A） Offer free desserts. （ B） Promote with advertising. （ C） Sell high-margin items. （ D） Provide ne
16、w menus. 大学英语六级改革适用（听力）模拟试卷 408答案与解析 Section A 1 【听力原文】 W: Weve all heard the saying “Laughter is the best medicine“ How important is it to our health, Dr. Berk? M: This saying has been scientifically proven! A year-long study of heart attack victims done at the Oakhurst Health Research Institute in
17、 California found that of those patients who spent half an hour a day watching comedy videos, 10 percent had a second heart attack, whereas 30 percent of those who did not watch had a second attack. W: Wow! Laughter is really a good medicine to patients. Can you give us another example? M: Sure! Nor
18、man Cousins, editor of the Saturday Review, learned this during a battle with an illness. He discovered that his condition 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
19、can do sitting down, costs no money, and requires no special exercise equipment or skill, its the perfect workout for anyone who doesnt have the time or desire to participate in a regular fitness program. W: Oh.3Do you have such a program to offer to the general public? M:3Yes, we do. Its called the
20、 Smile Time-Out You take a deep breath, smile, exhale, and say “Aaah“ while visualizing all your muscles and cells 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: Even when you fake a smi
21、le or laugh, you get the same physiological benefits as when its the real thing, because your mind is smart, but your body is stupid and cant tell the difference! 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 T
22、ime-Out? 4. What can we learn about smile or laugh according to Dr. Berk? 1 【正确答案】 C 【试题解析】 从选项可以看出问题与 heart attack有关，听到相关话题时注意后面的数据反映的事实：每天看半小时喜剧的心脏病患者中只有 10%再次发作，而不看的人中有 30%再次发作，因此可以推断，每天都开心的人心脏病发作率降低，即 C。 A中的 healthy programs太笼统，且对话中并未提及健康状况随着看有益于健康的节目的时间增长而改善的信息。 【知识模块】 听力 2 【正确答案】 B 【试题解析】 对话中提
23、到 Laughter is really a good medicine to patients.之后，举了 Norman作为例子，故答案为 B。 【知识模块】 听力 3 【正确答案】 A 【试题解析】 对话先 提到 fitness program，然后女士问 “有没有 such a program”，男士说 “有，叫做 Smile Time-Out”，故选 A。 【知识模块】 听力 4 【正确答案】 D 【试题解析】 选项与真笑假笑有关， D是最后 句的同义表达。选项 C与原文意思相悖。 【知识模块】 听力 5 【听力原文】 M: Time to eat! W: Coming. Oh, Im
24、 starving. Oh yuck! Whats that? M: Ah, now dont complain! W: But what is it, and where is mom? M: Now, mom put me in charge of dinner because shes not feeling well tonight W: But what is it. and that smell! M: Its pizza. I just followed an old family recipe here, and. W: Let me see that. Oh, Dad. Yo
25、ure missing a page! M: Oh, uh, well, uh. well I couldnt find the second page of the recipe, but dont worry. I have plenty of experience around the house. Plenty of experience in cooking. W: Thats not what mom says. M: Well, wait, wait, here, let me try a piece first. Here, let me cool this off here.
26、 Oh, yeah. Oh, this is great stuff. W: Yeah right. Why are you making faces? M: Well, well, its just, just a little rich for me. Thats all. W: Let me try it, dad. Uh, dad. You put a little too much salt in it and besides its burned. And whats that? M: Oh, well, well, thats just part of my own adapta
27、tion to the recipe. I added some pumpkin. W: Oh, not another one of your surprises. Pumpkin doesnt go on pizza! M: Well, okay, well, so what? Uh, what do we do now? W: Well, how about some cold cereal. You cant mess up on that, Dad. M: Oh, I love cereal. 5. What problem does the girl notice about he
28、r fathers cooking? 6. How does the girl know her father doesnt like the pizza he prepared? 7. What is the mans own adaptation to the recipe? 8. What do they end up doing for their supper? 5 【正确答案】 A 【试题解析】 男士说自己是按照一个老食谱做 pizza的，但女孩说 “你漏了一页 ”，说明他的食谱不完整，故答案为 A. 【知识模块】 听力 6 【正确答案】 B 【试题解析】 男士自告奋勇品尝了一块
29、pizza，女孩问 “你为什么做鬼脸 ?”说明她从男士的面部表情 (即非语言表达 )中得知他不喜欢自己做的 pizza。此题关键在于听懂习惯表达 make faces“扮鬼脸 ”。 【知识模块】 听力 7 【正确答案】 D 【试题解析】 女士问那是什么，男士回答说那是他对 食谱调整的一部分，他加了些南瓜。可见他对食谱的调整体现在加了南瓜在里面，故答案为 D。 【知识模块】 听力 8 【正确答案】 B 【试题解析】 最后女孩建议喝点冷的麦片粥，男士欣然应允，可知他们放弃了pizza，而吃了别的，故选 B。 【知识模块】 听力 Section B 9 【听力原文】 Yuppies are youn
30、g people who earn a lot of money and live in a style that is too expensive for most people. If you are invited to a yuppie dinner party, dont be surprised if you are offered freshly cooked insects as the first course. While the idea of eating fried insects fills most of us with horror, insect-eating
31、 is becoming highly fashionable. For example, in the media industry, successful executives are often seen to eat fried or boiled insects from time to time while working at their desks. These safe-to-eat insects can be found and ordered on the Internet. And young people are logging on to exotic food
32、websites and ordering samples of prepared insects to serve at their dinner parties. Although the idea of eating insects is probably disgusting to most of us, few people would claim that pigs, chickens and some kinds of seafood we often eat are examples of great beauty. One day, insects could be mark
33、eted and sold as a food item in supermarkets. According to their fans, they are not only high in protein and low in fat but also very tasty.12But until our attitudes to food change fundamentally, it seems that insect-eaters will remain a select few. 9. Why does the speaker say we might be surprised
34、at the yuppie dinner party? 10. Where can people order the unusual food mentioned by the speaker? 11. Why are some yuppies attracted by the unusual food? 12. What does the speaker say about the future of this type of unusual food? 9 【正确答案】 A 【试题解析】 录音提到，若第一道菜是刚烹制的昆虫，你不要感到惊讶。故选A。 【知识模块】 听力 10 【正确答案】
35、D 【试题解析】 根据 “这些吃起来很安全的昆虫能从网上找到和订购 ”，选 D。 【知识模块】 听力 11 【正确答案】 B 【试题解析】 根据 “据爱吃昆虫的人所说，昆虫不仅高蛋 白低脂肪，而且很美味 ”，可以知道人们爱吃昆虫的原因是出于好吃和健康，所以选 B。 【知识模块】 听力 12 【正确答案】 D 【试题解析】 录音提到，但除非我们对食物的观念有了根本的改变，否则仍然只有少数人会吃昆虫。由此可判断人们不太可能接受吃昆虫，故选 D。 【知识模块】 听力 13 【听力原文】 Many people dislike walking into the bank, standing in lo
36、ng lines and running out of checks.13They are dissatisfied with their banks limited hours, too. They want to do some banking at night and on weekends. For such people their problems may soon be over. Before long, they may be able to do their banking from the comfort of their own home, any hour of th
37、e day, any day of the week. Many banks are preparing online branches or Internet offices, which means that people will be able to take care of much of their banking business through their home computers. This process is called interactive banking. At gaze online branches, customers will be able to v
38、iew all their accounts, move money be-tween their accounts, apply for a loan, and get current information on products such as credit cards. Customers will also be able to pay their bills electronically and even email questions to the bank. Banks are creating online services for several reasons.15One
39、 reason is that banks must compete for customers, who will switch to another bank if they are dissatisfied with the service they receive.14The convenience of online banking appeals to the kind of customer banks most want to keep, that is, people who are young, well-educated and have good incomes. Ba
40、nks also want to take advantage of modern technology since they have moved into the 21st century. 13. What is one of the reasons for peoples dissatisfaction with traditional banks? 14. What kind of customer does online banking most appeal to? 15. Why do banks create online services according to the
41、passage? 13 【正确答案】 A 【试题解析】 根据 “他们对银行有限的营业时间不满意 ”，故选 A。 【知识模块】 听力 14 【正确答案】 C 【试题解析】 根据 “网上银行的方便吸引了银行最想留住的那类客户，即那些受过良好教育、高收入的年轻人 ”，故选 C。 【知识模块】 听力 15 【正确答案】 A 【试题解析】 根据 “一个原因是银行必须竞相争夺客户 ” ，故选 A。 【知识模块】 听力 Section C 16 【听力原文】 The Harvard Study of Adult Development may be the longest study of adult li
42、fe thats ever been done. For 75 years, weve tracked the lives of 724 men, year after year, to find out one thing: What keeps us healthy and happy as we go through life? To get the clearest picture of these lives, we dont just send them questionnaires. We interview them in their living rooms. We get
43、their medical records from their doctors. We draw their blood, we scan their brains, and we talk to their children. We videotape them talking with their families about their deepest concerns. So what have we learned? Well, the lessons arent about wealth or fame or working harder and harder. The clea
44、rest message that we get from this 75-year study is this: Good relationships keep us happier and healthier. Weve learned three big lessons about relationships. The first is that social connections are really good for us. People who are more socially connected to family, to friends, to community, are
45、 happier, theyre physically healthier, and they live longer than people who are less well connected. And the experience of loneliness turns out to be bad. People who are more isolated than they want to be from others find that they are less happy, their health declines earlier in midlife. And we kno
46、w that you can be lonely in a crowd and you can be lonely in a marriage, so the second big lesson that we learned is that its not just the number of friends you have, and its not whether or not youre in a committed relationship, but its the quality of your close relationships that matters. High-conf
47、lict marriages, for example, without much affection, turn out to be very bad for our health, perhaps worse than getting divorced. And good, close relationships seem to shelter us from some of the hardship of getting old. Our most happily partnered men and women reported, in their 80s, that on the da
48、ys when they had more physical pain, their mood stayed just as happy. And the third big lesson that we learned about relationships and our health is that good relationships dont just protect our bodies, they protect our brains. And those good relationships, they dont have to be smooth all the time.
49、Some of the couples in their 80s or 90s could quarrel with each other day in and day out,19but as long as they felt that they could really count on the other when the going got tough, those quarrels didnt do huge harm on their memories. So this message, that good, close relationships are good for our health and well-being, this is wisdom thats as old as the hills. 16. What did the Harvard Study of Adult Development try to find out? 17. What is the studys conclusion about loneliness? 18. What is the most important
