1、大学英语六级改革适用（听力）模拟试卷 96及答案与解析 Section C 0 For centuries men dreamed of achieving vertical flight. In 400 A.(D), Chinese children played with a【 B1】 _toy that spun upwards and fell back to earth as rotation ceased. Leonardo da Vinci【 B2】 _the fast mechanical apparatus, called a “Helix“, which could car
2、ry a man straight up, but this was only a【 B3】 _and was never tested. The ancient dream was finally【 B4】 _in 1940 when a Russian engineer piloted a strange looking craft of steel tubing with a rotating fan on top. It rose【 B5】 _and vertically into the air from a standing start, hovered a few feet ab
3、ove the ground, went sideways and backwards and then【 B6】 _back to earth. That【 B7】 _was called a helicopter. 【 B8】 _were fired. Men dreamed of going to work in their own personal helicopters. People anticipated that vertical fight【 B9】 _would carry millions of passengers as do the airliners of toda
4、y. Such fantastic expectations were not fulfilled. The helicopter has now become an extremely useful machine It【 B10】 _in military missions, carrying groops, guns and strategic instruments where other aircraft cannot go. Corporations use them as airborne offices, many metropolitan areas use them in
5、police work, construction and logging companies employ them in various advantageous ways, engineers use them for site selection and surveying, and oil companies use them as the best way to make offshore and remote work stations accessible to crews and supplies. Any urgent mission to a hard-to-get-to
6、 place is a likely task for a helicopter. Among their other multitude of uses: deliver people across town, fly to and from airports, assist in rescue work,and aid in the search for missing or wanted persons. 1 【 B1】 2 【 B2】 3 【 B3】 4 【 B4】 5 【 B5】 6 【 B6】 7 【 B7】 8 【 B8】 9 【 B9】 10 【 B10】 10 Very ol
7、d people do raise moral problems for almost everyone who comes into contact with them. Their values, this cant be【 B1】 _too often, are not necessarily our values. Physical _ 【 B2】 _, cleanness and order are necessarily the most important things. The social services from time to time find themselves
8、faced with a flat with【 B3】 _food covered by smal worms, and an old person lying alone on bed, taking no【 B4】 _of the worms. But is it【 B5】 _with personal freedom to insist that they go to live with some of their relatives so that they might be taken better care of? Some【 B6】 _workers, the ones who
9、clear up the worms, think we are in danger of carrying this concept of personal freedom to the point where serious risks are being taken with the health and【 B7】 _of the old. Indeed, the old can be easily hurt or【 B8】 _. The body is like a car:it needs more mechanical maintenance, as it gets older.
10、You can carry this comparison right through to the provision of spare parts. But never【 B9】 _that such operations are painful experiences, however good the results. And at what point should you cease to treat the old body? Is it morally right to try to【 B10】 _death by pursuing the development of dru
11、gs to excite the forgetful old mind and to activate the old body, knowing that it is designed to die? You cannot ask doctors or scientists to decide, because so long as they can see the technical opportunities, they will feel bound to give them a try on the principle that while theres a life, theres
12、 hope. 11 【 B1】 12 【 B2】 13 【 B3】 14 【 B4】 15 【 B5】 16 【 B6】 17 【 B7】 18 【 B8】 19 【 B9】 20 【 B10】 大学英语六级改革适用（听力）模拟试卷 96答案与解析 Section C 0 【听力原文】 For centuries men dreamed of achieving vertical flight. In 400 A. D. , Chinese children played with a fan like toy that spun upwards and fell back to earth
13、as rotation ceased. Leonardo da Vinci conceive the fast mechanical apparatus, called a “Helix“, which could carry a man straight up, but this was only a design and was never tested. The ancient dream was finally realized in 1940 when a Russian engineer piloted a strange looking craft of steel tubing
14、 with a rotating fan on top. It rose awkwardly and vertically into the air from a standing start, hovered a few feet above the ground, went sideways and backwards and then settled back to earth. That vehicle was called a helicopter. Imaginations were fired. Men dreamed of going to work in their own
15、personal helicopters. People anticipated that vertical fight transports would carry millions of passengers as do the airliners of today. Such fantastic expectations were not fulfilled. The helicopter has now become an extremely useful machine It excels in military missions, carrying troops, guns and
16、 strategic instruments where other aircraft cannot go. Corporations use them as airborne offices, many metropolitan areas use them in police work, construction and logging companies employ them in various advantageous ways, engineers use them for site selection and surveying, and oil companies use t
17、hem as the best way to make offshore and remote work stations accessible to crews and supplies. Any urgent mission to a hard-to-get-to place is a likely task for a helicopter. Among their other multitude of uses: deliver people across town, fly to and from airports, assist in rescue work,and aid in
18、the search for missing or wanted persons. 【知识模块】 复合式听写 1 【正确答案】 fan-like 【试题解析】 空格前的不定冠词 a和空格后的名词 toy提示所填词应为形容词。fan-like，形容词，意勾 “扇形的 “。 【知识模块】 复合式听写 2 【正确答案】 conceive 【试题解析】 分枥句子结构可知，句子缺少谓语动词，根据主语 Leonardo da Vinci(达 芬奇 )和上下文时态可知，所填词应为动词的一般过去时。根据空格后的thefirst推断，此处很可能是要表示达 芬奇 “设计出 ”第一个这样的机械装置。conceive
19、，动词原形，意为 “设想 ”。 【知识模块】 复合式听写 3 【正确答案】 design 【试题解析】 空格前的不定冠词 a提示所填词应为可数名词的单数形式。根据句子内容推测，此处可能要表示的含义是 Leonardo da Vinci计的这个 机械装置仅仅是一个 “构想 ”，并没有经过试验。 design，名词单数，意为 “设计，构想 ”。 【知识模块】 复合式听写 4 【正确答案】 realized 【试题解析】 空格前的系动词 was和副词 finally提示所填词应为动词的过去分词形式。根据上下文及句子的内容推测，此处可能要表达的含义是远古时期的梦想终于在 1940年 “实现 ”了。 r
20、ealized，动词的过去分词，意为 “实现 ”。 【知识模块】 复合式听写 5 【正确答案】 awkwardly 【试题解析】 空格前的动词 rose和空格后的并列连词 and提示所填词应为副词，与 vertically构成并列关系。 awkwardly，副词，意为 “笨拙地 ”。 【知识模块】 复合式听写 6 【正确答案】 settled 【试题解析】 空格前的并列连词 and和空格后的副词 back提示所填词应为动词的一般过去式，与 rose， hovered和 went构成并列关系。根据句中的went backward推测，此处应表示 “返回地面 ”的含义。 settled，动词的一般
21、过去式，意为 “降落 “。 【知识模块】 复合式听写 7 【正确 答案】 vehicle 【试题解析】 空格前的指示代词 That和空格后的系动词 was提示所填词应为名词的单数形式。 “That ”指代的是上文提到的 a strangelooking craft，故所填词应为 craft的近义复现。 vehicle，名词单数，意为 “运载工具 ”。 【知识模块】 复合式听写 8 【正确答案】 Imaginations 【试题解析】 空格后的系动词 were提示所填词应为名词的复数形式。Imaginations，名词复数，意为 “想象 ”。 【知识模块】 复合式听 写 9 【正确答案】 tra
22、nsports 【试题解析】 前面出现过 vehicle，均指 “运载工具 ”，此处为近义复现，所以应填 “transportations”。 【知识模块】 复合式听写 10 【正确答案】 excels 【试题解析】 前面说直升机是一个非常有用的工具，这里说它在哪些方面有用。Excel in表示 “在 方面十分出众。 ” 【知识模块】 复合式听写 10 【听力原文】 Very old people do raise moral problems for almost everyone who comes into contact with them. Their values, this ca
23、nt be repeated too often, are not necessarily our values. Physical comfort, cleanness and order are necessarily the most important things. The social services from time to time find themselves faced with a flat with decaying food covered by small worms, and an old person lying alone on bed, taking n
24、o notice of the worms But is it interfering with personal freedom to insist that they go to live with some of their relatives so that they might be taken better care of? Some social workers, the ones who clear up the worms, think we are in danger of carrying this concept of personal freedom to the p
25、oint where serious risks are being taken with the health and safety of the old. Indeed, the old can be easily hurt or harmed. The body is like a car:it needs more mechanical maintenance, as it gets older. You can carry this comparison right through to the provision of spare parts. But never forget t
26、hat such operations are painful experiences, however good the results. And at what point should you cease to treat the old body? Is it morally right to try to push off death by pursuing the development of drugs to excite the forgetful old mind and to activate the old body, knowing that it is designe
27、d to die? You cannot ask doctors or scientists to decide, because so long as they can see the technical opportunities, they will feel bound to give them a try on the principle that while theres a life, theres hope. 【知识模块】 复合式听写 11 【正确答案】 repeated 【试题解析】 空格前的系动词 be和空格后的程度副词 too often提示所填词应为动词的过去分词。 r
28、epeated，动词的过去分词，意为 “重复 ”。 【知识模块】 复合式听写 12 【正确答案】 comfort 【试题解析】 空格前的形容词 Physical和空格后的并列连词 and提示所填词应为名词，与 cleanness和 order构成并列关系。 comfort，名词单数，意为 “舒适 ”。 【知识模块】 复合式听写 13 【正确答案】 decaying 【试题解析】 空格前的介词 with和空格后的名词 food提示所填词可能为形容词。由后置定语 covered by small worms推测，此处可能要表达的含义是已生虫的“腐烂 ”食物。 decaying，形容词，意为 “腐烂
29、的 ”。 【知识模块】 复合式听写 14 【正确答案】 notice 【试题解析】 空格前的形容词 no和空格后的介词 of提示所填词应为名词。根据上文提到的 food covered by small worms和 an old person lying alone on bed可推测，此处可能要表达的含义是老 人独自躺在床上，没有 “注意 ”到虫子的存在。notice，名词单数， take notice of意为 “注意到 ”。 【知识模块】 复合式听写 15 【正确答案】 interfering 【试题解析】 空恪前的系动词 is和空格后的介词的 with提示所填词应为形容词或动词的分词
30、形式，且和介词 with构成搭配。 interfering，动词的现在分词，意为 “妨碍 ”。 【知识模块】 复合式听写 16 【正确答案】 social 【试题解析】 空格前的泛指形容词 Some和空格后的名词 workers提示所填词应为形容词做定语。 social，形容词， social workers为固定搭配，意为 “社会福利工作者 ”。 【知识模块】 复合式听写 17 【正确答案】 safety 【试题解析】 空格前的并列连词 and和空格后的介词 of提示所填词应为名词，与 health构成并列结构。常常与 health(健康 )并列出现的是 “安全 ”，此处可能要表达的含义是当
31、老人们的健康和 “安全 ”处于重大危险之中，提出实行个人自由的这种做法十分危险。 safety，名词单数，意为 “安全 ”。 【知识模块】 复合 式听写 18 【正确答案】 harmed 【试题解析】 空格前的系动词 be和动词被动式 hurt与空格后的并列连词 or提示所填词为动词被动式，与 hurt并列。 harmed，动词的过去分词，意为 “伤害 ”。 【知识模块】 复合式听写 19 【正确答案】 forget 【试题解析】 句意为： “但是千万别忘了这些手术是痛苦的经历，不论结果多么好。 ” 【知识模块】 复合式听写 20 【正确答案】 push off 【试题解析】 意为 “推迟、阻止 ”。根据句意，此处应该是 “阻止 ”死 亡。 【知识模块】 复合式听写
