1、大学英语六级改革适用（听力）模拟试卷 427 及答案与解析 Section A （ A） She is a vegetarian. （ B） She eats genetically modified food. （ C） She likes to eat natural food. （ D） She doesn t mind the chemicals at all. （ A） The animal eat things that are sprayed with pesticides. （ B） The animal eat things that have been geneticall
2、y modified. （ C） The animal dont eat genetically modified food. （ D） They may lead to cancer. （ A） On animals. （ B） On human volunteers. （ C） On both animals and human volunteers. （ D） On cattle only. （ A） It is worthwhile. （ B） It is too expensive. （ C） It tastes delicious. （ D） It is healthier. （
3、A） Motivation. （ B） Get job done. （ C） Increase production. （ D） Train employees. （ A） Praise, approval, recognition, trust and expectation. （ B） Train, praise, approval, recognition, trust and expectation. （ C） Praise, approval, recognition, trust, expectation and money. （ D） Train, job enrichment,
4、 good communication, trust and money. （ A） The profit increased largely. （ B） The workers were willing to work overtime. （ C） The workers were more satisfied with their job. （ D） The productivity increased hugely. （ A） Money is the only thing that workers care about. （ B） Money plays the most import
5、ant role in motivation. （ C） Other things are just as important as money. （ D） Money is not important at all. Section B （ A） Friendships between Chinese. （ B） Friendships between Americans. （ C） Americans hospitality. （ D） American s and Chinese s views of friendships. （ A） Friendships between Ameri
6、cans usually extend deeply into their families. （ B） Friendships between Americans usually last for all their lives. （ C） Americans always show their warmth even if they are very busy. （ D） Americans will continue their friendships again even after a long break. （ A） He will warmly welcome us at the
7、 airport. （ B） He will offer us a ride to his home. （ C） He will treat us hospitably at his home. （ D） He will treat us to dinner in a restaurant. （ A） The man asked his mother and two sisters each cut the trousers by two inches. （ B） The mother and the sisters need shortening the trousers by two in
8、ches. （ C） The mother shortened the trousers in her own bedroom downstairs. （ D） The sisters cut the trousers in their brother s bedroom upstairs respectively. （ A） 2 inches. （ B） 4 inches. （ C） 6 inches. （ D） 8 inches. （ A） People sometimes do something wrong with good intention. （ B） One should di
9、scuss it with others if he wants to do something. （ C） The mother should have helped her son as soon as she was asked to. （ D） The man should have bought a pair of trousers of his own size. （ A） Interested. （ B） Angry. （ C） Puzzled. （ D） Merry. Section C （ A） Deeper understanding of how cells stay h
10、ealthy. （ B） Knowing about how cell recycle some of its own components. （ C） Researching about the function of autophagy. （ D） Investigating biotechnology medicine. （ A） 190,000 dollars. （ B） 900,000 dollars. （ C） 800,000 dollars. （ D） 180,000 dollars. （ A） Cholesterol. （ B） Sugar. （ C） Protein. （ D
11、） Fat. （ A） Inject body with RNA molecules. （ B） Deliver a capsule to digest. （ C） Swallow tablets to protect cells. （ D） Provide cell to heal itself. （ A） 38. （ B） 18. （ C） 28. （ D） 48. （ A） Climate change. （ B） Security of Internet. （ C） Migrant and refugee crisis. （ D） Currency exchange rates. （
12、A） Create a single market. （ B） Allow goods, capital, services and people to move between the member states. （ C） Protect the security of member states. （ D） Member states should follow the rules and pay the entry fee. （ A） At the lower back of the brain. （ B） At the bottom of the brain. （ C） At the
13、 central section of the brain. （ D） At the top of the brain. （ A） Control regulation of the heart rhythms. （ B） Control basic aspects of sound localization. （ C） Control conscious thought and sensations. （ D） Control complex voluntary motor functions. （ A） Most parts of the brain. （ B） The entire br
14、ain. （ C） Only 10% of the brain. （ D） A small fraction of the brain. 大学英语六级改革适用（听力）模拟试卷 427 答案与解析 Section A 1 【听力原文】 M: What are you eating, Samantha? A piece of steak? I thought you were vegetarian! W: It is steak, but its organic. 1 I was never vegetarian. I just like eating natural food. M: How c
15、an meat be organic? W: 2 It means the animals dont eat things that have been genetically modified or sprayed with pesticides. M: And I suppose it has had a good time walking around the fields, without being shut inside all its life. W: Thats right. M: But can you taste the difference? W: I think so.
16、 Anyway, Im not filling myself with all sorts of chemicals that might give me cancer. M: Yes, but theres no proof that pesticides give you cancer. W: So why do the scientists who monitor these things prefer to eat organic food too? 3 Pesticides are only tested on animals. Companies dont have to spen
17、d millions on trials with human volunteers. Small quantities of chemicals do get into your food. M: Some food? Look, if the newspapers found a company was deliberately selling an unsafe product, their share price would crash and theyd be out of business in no time. W: They may go out of business soo
18、n if they dont start selling organic food themselves. They say sales of organic food have risen by 25%. M: 4 Its still more expensive. Youve got to compare the price, which is at least double, with the risk youre running, which is absolutely minimal if you ask me. W: Well, this is prime organic beef
19、 from the Scottish Highlands. So if you dont mind, Id like to finish my lunch! Questions 1 to 4 are based on the conversation you have just heard. 1.What can we learn about the womans eating habit? 2.What is said about organic meat? 3.How do companies test pesticides? 4.What is the mans opinion on o
20、rganic food? 1 【正确答案】 C 【知识模块】 听力 2 【正确答案】 C 【知识模块】 听力 3 【正确答案】 A 【知识模块】 听力 4 【正确答案】 B 【知识模块】 听力 5 【听力原文】 W: Professor Bevan, how important is motivation for a manager? M: Oh, 5 motivation is extremely important. Id say its the most important aspect of a managers job. A managers job is to get the jo
21、b done. So he has to motivate the workersas a team and also on an individual basis. W: So how do managers go about doing this? It doesnt sound very easy. M: No, it is a complicated issue. 6-1 But managers have special tools. They are trained to use them to boost motivation and increase production to
22、 a maximum. W: Tools? M: Yes, 6-2 such as praise, approval, recognition, trust and expectation. W: And money? What about money? M: 6-3 Yes, money is a factor but you might be surprised to learn that it comes out last on the list of these tools. W: What are more important for workers? M: Well, all of
23、 the things that I have already mentioned, and then job enrichment and good communication. W: And have you got any examples of real life situations to back up your claims? M: One good example is the firm Western Electric. When managers started to talk to the workers and encouraged them to get involv
24、ed in decision making, workers began to feel that their contributions were important. And it paid off. W: 7-1 Productivity increased? M: 7-2 Yes, hugely. W: So, lets get this straight. Are you saying that workers are not interested in earning more money? M: Im saying theyre not just interested in mo
25、ney. 8 There are other things that are just as important. Questions 5 to 8 are based on the conversation you have just heard. 5.What is extremely important for a manager to do? 6.Which tools can be used to boost motivation? 7.In what way did motivation work in the example of Western Electric? 8.What
26、 does the man think of money? 5 【正确答案】 A 【知识模块】 听力 6 【正确答案】 C 【知识模块】 听力 7 【正确答案】 D 【知识模块】 听力 8 【正确答案】 C 【知识模块】 听力 Section B 9 【听力原文】 America is a mobile society. Friendships between Americans can be close and real, yet disappear soon if situations change. Neither side feels hurt by this. Both may ex
27、change Christmas greetings for a year or two, perhaps a few letters for a whilethen no more. 10 If the same two people meet again by chance, even years later, they pick up the friendship. This can be quite difficult for us Chinese to understand, because friendships between us flow more slowly but th
28、en may become lifelong feelings, extending sometimes deeply into both families. Americans are ready to receive us foreigners at their homes, share their holidays, and their home life. They will enjoy welcoming us and be pleased if we accept their hospitality easily. Another difficult point for us Ch
29、inese to understand Americans is that although they include us warmly in their personal everyday lives, they dont show their politeness to us if it requires a great deal of time. This is usually the opposite of the practice in our country where we may be generous with our time. Sometimes, we, as hos
30、ts, will appear at airports even in the middle of the night to meet a friend. We may take days off to act as guides to our foreign friends. The Americans, however, express their welcome usually at homes, but truly can not manage the time to do a great deal with a visitor outside their daily routine.
31、 They will probably expect us to get ourselves from the airport to our own hotel by bus. And they expect that we will phone them from there. 11 Once we arrive at their homes, the welcome will be full, warm and real. We will find ourselves treated hospitably. For the Americans, it is often considered
32、 more friendly to invite a friend to their homes than to go to restaurants, except for purely business matters. So accept their hospitality at home! Questions 9 to 11 are based on the passage you have just heard. 9.What is the passage talking about? 10.What is the difficult point for Chinese people
33、to understand? 11.What will American friends do when we arrive in America? 9 【正确答案】 D 【知识模块】 听力 10 【 正确答案】 D 【知识模块】 听力 11 【正确答案】 C 【知识模块】 听力 12 【听力原文】 A young man once went to town and bought himself a pair of trousers. When he got home he went upstairs to his bedroom and put them on. He found that
34、they were two inches too long. He went downstairs, where his mother and two sisters were busy washing up the tea things in the kitchen. “These new trousers are too long.” He said, 12 “They need shortening by about two inches. Would one of you mind doing this for me, please?” His mother and sisters w
35、ere busy and none of them said anything. But as soon as his mother had finished washing up, 13-1 she went quietly upstairs to her sons bedroom and shortened the trousers by two inches. She came downstairs without saying anything to her daughters. The elder sister was a kind-hearted girl. 13-2 She we
36、nt quietly upstairs after supper without saying anything to anyone, and cut the trousers by two inches. The young sister went to the cinema, but when she came back, she remembered what her brother had said. 13-3 So she ran upstairs with her scissors, needle and thread and took two inches off the leg
37、s of the new trousers. You can imagine the look on the young mans face when he put the trousers on the next morning. Questions 12 to 15 are based on the passage you have just heard. 11.Which of the following is true? 13.How many inches too short were the trousers when the young man finally put them
38、on? 14.What does the passage tell us? 15.What look can you imagine was on the young mans face? 12 【正确答案】 B 【知识模块】 听力 13 【正确答案】 B 【知识模块】 听力 14 【正确答案】 B 【知识模块】 听力 15 【正确答案】 C 【知识模块】 听力 Section C 16 【听力原文】 The 2016 Nobel Peace Prize for medicine has been awarded to a Japanese biologist. Yoshinori Ohsum
39、i made discoveries in the area of autophagy. Thats the process that a cell uses to recycle some of its own components. Scientists have known about autophagy since the 1960s, 16 but Ohsumis work, which included experiments with bakers yeast led to a deeper understanding of how cells stay healthy. 17
40、Hell receive more than $900,000 in prize money. As advances in medicine are made around the world, theres a U.S.-based biotechnology company thats raised record funds, even though its method is so far unproven and hasnt worked before, and its human trials which could take years are just getting star
41、ted. For years, incurable diseases like cancer and HIV have stumped scientists. But if theres a cure for those diseases right under our noses, literally? At biotech startup Moderna, they believe 18 the key to treating rare diseases is to trigger the body to heal itself, to make its own medicine. It
42、all comes down to proteins. Sometimes when youre sick, what youre just missing is one protein. If we could just give you that protein back, then youll be healthier again. For years, weve relied on pharmaceutical companies to make expensive protein-based drugs for treatment. But protein-based drugs a
43、rent as effective as they could be and can degrade in the bloodstream or digestive tract. Thats where Moderna comes in. 19 By injecting your body with messenger RNA molecules, theyve discovered a way to naturally trigger your body cells into making their own healing proteins. The body makes its own
44、medicine. In theory, messenger RNA or MRNA could deliver the genetic instructions to your cells to make any type of protein that your body needs to heal itself. But until recently, scientists believe our immune systems would reject MRNA from outside sources. Research is still in its early stages. Mo
45、derna recently started their first two human clinical trials and has plans for at least four more. Questions 16 to 19 are based on the recording you have just heard. 16.What is the influence of 2016 Nobel Peace Prize for medicine winners work? 17.How much money will the biologist receive? 18.What is
46、 the key to treat rare diseases? 19.How did Moderna discover the way to trigger body cells into making their own healing proteins? 16 【正确答案】 A 【知识模块】 听力 17 【正确答案】 B 【知识模块】 听力 18 【正确答案】 C 【知识模块】 听力 19 【正确答案】 A 【知识模块】 听力 20 【听力原文】 Were jumping right into our current events coverage with the report inv
47、olving the European Union. 20 Its an organization of 28 countries. Its holding a meeting in Brussels, Belgium this week. 21 And one of the major topics on its agenda is Europes ongoing migrant and refugee crisis. There are more people streaming into Europe now than at any point since the Second Worl
48、d War, and there are a lot of disagreements among E.U. members and their citizens about how to address the situation. Another topic involves whether Britain will ultimately remain part of the European Union. Because this is an economic cooperation, the stakes are high. What is the E.U.? 22 The Europ
49、ean Union is a group of countries that work together to create a single market, to allow goods, capital, services and people to move between the member states, as long as they follow the rules and they pay the entry fee. But were getting ahead of ourselves. To start this story, we need to go right back to the end of World War II. After six years of fighting, Europe was disseminated. Economies were collapsing and mistrusts was rife; as old enemies face the prospect of recreating trade tie
