1、大学英语六级改革适用（听力）模拟试卷 62（无答案）Section C0 Hong Kong has taken over from Tokyo as the worlds most expensive city, according to alifestyle survey. It also【B1 】_the gap between the costliest and cheapest citiesis narrowing. Moscow【B2】_at second place in the survey, released by Mercer Human Resource Consulti
2、ng,with Tokyo third.At the other end of the scale,Johannesburg【B3】_Blantyre, Malawi as the cheapest city on the planet. Mercer said the【B4 】_between those at the top and the bottom of the pile had narrowed bynearly 15 percent in the 12 months to March 2002. The research took New York as the base cit
3、ywith a【B5】_score of 100 points.Hong Kong scored 124.2; the South Africanmetropolis just 34.4. It measured the【B6】_cost of over 200 items such ashousing, food, clothing and household goods as well as transport and【B7】_in 144 cities worldwide. St. Petersburg in Russia and London were the two most exp
4、ensive cities in Europe, while in the U.S., New York was far and away the costliest city, followed by Los Angeles,Chicago and San Francisco. Elsewhere, Buenos Aires had the most dramatic fall. It【B8】_23rd to 133rd following the economic crisis and devaluation of its【B9】_.New Zealand and Australian c
5、ities continued to show they are probably the best bet for cheap but high quality living. Their scores are【 B10】_around 50 or below, while at thesame time ranking in the top 30 for quality of life in another Mercer survey released in March 2002.1 【B1 】2 【B2 】3 【B3 】4 【B4 】5 【B5 】6 【B6 】7 【B7 】8 【B8
6、】9 【B9 】10 【B10 】10 Have you ever made a profit from walking a dog? Do you like working alone or in groups? Have you ever set a world record in anything? Answer those the right way and you could landajobatGoogle.Inits【B1】_search for more engineers and sales representatives for its【B2】_growing busine
7、ss, Google has created an automatedway to【B3】_the more than 100,000 job application it receives each month.Instead of simply looking for people with straight-As, its starting to ask applicants to fill out an in-depth online survey that examines their【B4】_behavior and personality.Questions concern ev
8、erything from the age the applicant first got excited about computers to whether the person has ever tutored.They also【B5】_non-traditionalinformation. This can include what magazines the applicant【B6】_or what petsthat person has.The answers are fed into a series of【B7】_created by Googles mathematici
9、ans that spit out a score from zero to 100. This is meant to predict how well a person will fit into the freewheeling,【B8】_company culture.“Google has doubled its number of employees in each of the last three years. As we get bigger, we find it harder and harder to find enough people,“said Googles v
10、ice-president for peopleoperations. “Interviews are a terrible predictor of【B9】_.With traditional hiringmethods, we might【B10 】_some of the best candidates,“ he said.11 【B1 】12 【B2 】13 【B3 】14 【B4 】15 【B5 】16 【B6 】17 【B7 】18 【B8 】19 【B9 】20 【B10 】20 Karaoke may never be the same, thanks to research
11、being presented in Nashville detailing the latest findings in efforts to create a computerized system that makes average singers sound like professionals.“Our【B1 】_goal is to have a computer system that will【B2】_a poor singing voice into a great singing voice,“ said Mark J.T. Smith, a professor ofPu
12、rdue University, who【B3 】_a graduate student Matthew Lee to create computermodels for voice analysis and synthesis. These models break the human singing voice into componentsthat can be【B4】_to produce a more professional-sounding rendition (演唱) ofthe original voice.Far more work is needed before the
13、 system is finished, Smith said. He said the specialized pro grams are, however, able to alter certain important【B5 】_of a persons voice,such as pitch, duration.Lee will present the latest research findings during the 145th Meeting of the Acoustical Societyof America in Nashville, Tenn, the nations
14、country music capital. He will 【B6】 _the system by playing before-and-after country music【B7】_clips to researchersthere.The system uses a special technique to break down the original voice. The voice is then recon structed using a mathematical method which enables the system to resynthesize the voic
15、e quickly.Smith, who【B8】_signal processing, began working on the underlying “si nusoidal mode“ (正弦曲线投影模式) in the mid-1980s. The model enables the human singing voice to be broken into components. More recently, Smith and Lee developed a method for modifying to im prove the quality of singing.“While
16、we have【B9 】_improving the quality of the singing voice samples inour database, we also face the challenge of handling all types of voices【B10 】_,“Smith said. “There are many challenges in developing a system of this type.“ 21 【B1 】22 【B2 】23 【B3 】24 【B4 】25 【B5 】26 【B6 】27 【B7 】28 【B8 】29 【B9 】30 【B10 】
