[00:00.66]王迈迈英语六级考试预测试卷与详解 Test 4
[00:02.25]test 4
[00:03.41]Section A
[00:04.69]Now let's begin with the 8 short conversations.
[00:08.79]11.W: I've been wondering what sort of clothes my husband
[00:12.68]and I are going to need for our visit.
[00:14.76]What's the weather usually like in your country in September?
[00:17.70]M: It's not very pleasant. I'm sorry to say.
[00:20.83]Generally, there are more rainy days in September than
[00:23.92]in any other month, but at least it isn't very cold there then.
[00:28.21]Q: What does the man say about September in his country?
[00:46.78]12.W: I hear that you liked the play last night.
[00:50.13]I suppose your wife felt the same way about it.
[00:52.75]M: No, as a matter of fact, we left at the intermission.
[00:56.60]Q: How did the man and his wife feel about the play?
[01:15.11]13.W: How much will it cost for my daughter
[01:18.05]and me to go to Washington?
[01:20.16]M: It's $100 full fare for you and half fare
[01:23.62]for your daughter if she is under 12.
[01:26.70]W: Fine. I'll have one full and one half fare ticket, please.
[01:30.81]Q: What is the total cost for both tickets?
[01:48.88]14.M: I didn't know you typed.
[01:51.53]W: I can't. My mother gave me a typewriter,
[01:54.29]but I don't know what to do with it.
[01:56.37]A friend of mine has generally been typing my papers.
[01:59.85]Q: Who typed the woman's paper?
[02:17.34]15.W:I can't understand why Mary didn't at least telephone me.
[02:22.32]M: She didn't tell you?
[02:23.85]She said she was sorry she couldn't come for dinner,
[02:26.32]but hoped to be able to next time she came to town.
[02:29.81]Q: What did the man say about Mary?
[02:47.69]16.W: What would you do if you were in my place?
[02:51.58]M: If Paul were my son, I'd just not worry about him.
[02:54.98]His science teacher is already giving him special help after school,
[02:58.25]you say, so I doubt that he'll fail the course.
[03:01.34]Q: What problem are these people discussing?
[03:19.48]17.W: How long have you been playing the violin?
[03:23.04]M: I've been playing since I was 10,
[03:25.13]but I've only been a professional musician for the last five years.
[03:28.81]Before that I was an insurance salesman.
[03:31.57]Q: How does the man earn his living now?
[03:49.75]18.M: I haven't seen Patrick for such a long time.
[03:53.64]What do you think he's doing these days?
[03:56.25]W: I saw him on the street the other day,
[03:58.40]and he said he had moved to a new apartment on the other side of town.
[04:02.20]Q: Where did the woman see Patrick?
[04:20.74]Now you'll hear 2 long conversations.
[04:24.12]Conversation One
[04:26.23]M: Tell me about yourself and your past experience.
[04:29.40]W: For the past 3 years, I have been working in
[04:31.68]China East Airlines Corporation Limited.
[04:34.92]I'm very tolerant of people and
[04:37.17]have been told that this is one of my strengths.
[04:40.08]I feel I have a lot to offer as a team member.
[04:43.06]M：Why are you interested in this occupation？
[04:45.72]W：It's always been my dream to be a stewardess.
[04:48.73]And I like traveling to different places.
[04:51.17]M：What do you think is the chief characteristics for a stewardess？
[04:54.66]W：Well, a stewardess should be friendly, courteous, patient
[04:58.33]and treat passengers kindly and politely.
[05:01.24]M：Do you get angry easily？
[05:03.02]W：No, I know how to control my temper.
[05:05.53]M：If a passenger had an accident, what would you do？
[05:08.78]W：I would give him or her basic first aid and
[05:11.29]ask my partner to call for assistance at the same time.
[05:14.75]M：If you are hired, when can you start work？
[05:17.65]W：I can begin to work right away because I am out of work now.
[05:21.58]M：What are your salary expectations？
[05:23.76]W：I really need more information about the job
[05:26.89]before we start to discuss salary.
[05:29.14]I'd like to postpone that discussion until later.
[05:32.05]Maybe you could tell me what is budgeted for the position and
[05:35.40]how your commission structure works.
[05:38.27]Questions 19 to 21 are based on the conversation you have just heard.
[05:43.64]19. Which statement about the woman's
[05:46.25]professional experience is not true?
[06:02.79]20. According to the interview,
[06:05.30]which word is not used to describe stewardess?
[06:22.97]21. How can the woman begin to work right away?
[06:41.90]Conversation Two
[06:43.90]M: I don't agree at all with people who say it is all nonsense.
[06:47.61]I think that at last it is beginning to be taken seriously as a proper
[06:51.94]science and not as some kind of fairground entertainment.
[06:56.45]W: How did you start to become interested in graphology?
[06:59.90]M: I've always been fascinated by people and what they are like,
[07:03.39]and then one day I was just looking at a book
[07:05.36]about different styles of handwriting and I got to thinking that
[07:08.77]it must all mean something,
[07:10.34]because we all have a different and individual style of our own.
[07:13.90]So that's how I began.
[07:15.83]W: What exactly is the connection between
[07:17.86]the way we write and the way we are?
[07:20.01]M: If you think about it, our handwriting, and our doodling too,
[07:23.72]are all products of our brain a kind of extension of ourselves on paper.
[07:28.99]W: Now I know that a number of European firms have used
[07:32.03]graphology to evaluate potential employees for some time now,
[07:35.76]but I believe it's catching on in America too.
[07:38.80]M: I'm now running my own San Francisco based consultancy firm,
[07:42.57]which I started a decade ago, and now over two hundred firms
[07:47.48]come to me for advice on would be employees.
[07:51.26]W: How does it work out, then?
[07:52.86]Do they show you samples of an applicant's handwriting?
[07:55.85]M: Yes, most companies nowadays require their new job applicants
[07:59.48]to provide at least a one page writing sample
[08:02.32]which is then passed over to me for interpretation.
[08:05.37]W: How long does it take you to analyze a sample?
[08:08.31]M: Oh, anything from three to eight hours,
[08:10.68]depending on the amount of detail required by the client.
[08:14.46]Questions 22 to 25 are based on the conversation you have just heard.
[08:20.37]22. How did the man become interested in graphology?
[08:38.98]23. Which is the connection between
[08:41.53]the way we write and the way we are?
[08:58.29]24. How long does it take the man to analyze a sample?
[09:16.82]25. What's wrong with graphology from the passage?
[09:32.98]Section B
[09:35.06]Passage One
[09:36.91]There is one part of women's magazines that every man reads.
[09:40.95]It is the section where women, and increasingly men,
[09:43.85]write for advice on their emotional problems.
[09:46.54]The person who answers these letters usually
[09:49.02]has a very reassuring name, “Aunt Mary” suggesting
[09:52.83]a gentle middle aged lady with a lot of wisdom and experience.
[09:57.01]However, at one time it was widely believed that
[09:59.41]the letters were in fact all made up by someone on the editorial staff,
[10:03.41]and that the “Aunt Mary” who provided the answers
[10:06.17]was a fat man with a beard,
[10:08.54]who drank like a fish, smoked like a chimney,
[10:11.41]and was unfaithful to his wife.
[10:14.07]Although this may be true in some cases,
[10:16.39]the majority of advice columns are genuine,
[10:18.94]and the advisory staffs are high qualified people with
[10:21.99]a deep understanding of human problems.
[10:25.12]In the past only the answers were published,
[10:27.84]not the letters themselves.
[10:29.45]Much of the fun in reading them lay in trying to work out
[10:32.68]what problem on earth led to such peculiar answers.
[10:35.96]Nowadays everything is much clearer,
[10:38.53]questions of the most intimate kind are fully dealt with
[10:41.44]and the columns have become more professional and more frank.
[10:45.86]Questions 26 to 28 are based on the passage you have just heard.
[10:51.12]26. At one time who was generally believed to
[10:55.66]answer the readers' problems in women's magazines?
[11:13.15]27. What fun made people enjoy reading the column?
[11:32.45]28. What change has taken place in columns according to the passage?
[11:53.75]Passage Two
[11:55.42]Do you know how fruit ripens especially after
[11:57.49]it has fallen from the tree or vine?
[12:00.21]The answer is simple.
[12:01.41]A single chemical called ethylene is produced by the fruit itself.
[12:06.10]And it is this chemical that causes the fruit to ripen.
[12:09.08]When the fruit produces increased amounts of ethylene,
[12:12.02]the ethylene affects the fruit physiologically.
[12:15.15]The fruit begins to breathe oxygen,
[12:17.33]and the oxygen supply in turn raises
[12:19.69]the internal temperature of the fruit.
[12:22.02]This increased internal temperature allows the ripening process
[12:25.51]to begin with fruit becoming sweeter.
[12:28.95]Less green in color and softer,in short,delicious.
[12:33.50]Questions 29 to 31 are based on the passage you have just heard.
[12:39.17]29.What is the main topic of the talk?
[12:56.83]30.What is the source of the ethylene described in the talk?
[13:15.04]31.According to the speaker when fruit breathe oxygen,
[13:19.37]what begins to happen?
[13:35.08]Passage Three
[13:36.82]A European Union peace mission has left Algeria.
[13:40.57]The departure came as three bombs killed 2 people and
[13:43.33]injured 28 in Algiers.
[13:45.44]There was no claim of responsibility for Thursday's bombings,
[13:48.73]but the police blamed Muslim extremist rebels.
[13:52.04]The European Union envoy spent five days in Algeria,
[13:55.77]trying to come up with a plan for helping that country
[13:58.46]to end terrorist attacks against civilians.
[14:01.30]There was no indication of a breakthrough.
[14:03.87]The world has been horrified by a recent wave of
[14:06.41]civilian massacres in Algeria that claimed more than 1,200 lives.
[14:12.55]Questions 32 to 35 are based on the passage you have just heard.
[14:18.15]32.Who has left Algeria?
[14:35.67]33.How many casualties were there?
[14:53.41]34.How long did the European Union envoy spend in Algeria?
[15:13.00]35.What's the attitude of the people toward
[15:15.90]the recent wave of civilian massacres?
[15:33.67]Section C
[15:35.85]Urban life has always involved a balancing of opportunities and
[15:39.27]rewards against dangers and stress; its motivating force is,
[15:44.32]in the broadest sense, money.
[15:46.39]Opportunities to make money mean competition and competition
[15:50.28]is stressful; it is often at its most intense in the largest cities,
[15:55.15]where opportunities are greatest.
[15:57.30]The presence of huge numbers of people inevitably
[16:00.57]involves more conflict, more traveling,
[16:03.48]the overloading of public services and exposure to those deviants
[16:08.49]and criminals who are drawn to the rich pickings of great cities.
[16:12.97]Crime has always flourished in the relative anonymity of urban life,
[16:17.84]but today's ease of movement makes its control more difficult than ever;
[16:22.46]there is much evidence that its extent has
[16:25.00]a direct relationship to the size of the communities.
[16:28.45]Citydwellers may become trapped in their homes
[16:31.11]by the fear of crime around them.
[16:33.44]As a defense against these developments,city dwellers tend to
[16:37.07]use various strategies to try and reduce the pressures upon themselves:
[16:42.16]contacts with other people are generally made brief and impersonal;
[16:46.23]doors are kept locked; telephone numbers may be ex directory;
[16:50.34]journeys outside the home are usually hurried,
[16:52.98]rather than a source of pleasure.
[16:54.69]There are other strategies, too,
[16:56.58]which are positively harmful to the individual, for example,
[17:00.46]reducing awareness through drugs or alcohol.
[17:03.52]Furthermore, all these defensive form of behavior
[17:06.50]are harmful to society in general; they cause widespread loneliness
[17:11.08]and destroy the community's concern for its members.
[17:14.94]Lack of informal social contact and indifference to
[17:18.83]the misfortunes of others, are amongst the major causes of urban crime.
[17:25.22]Urban life has always involved a balancing of opportunities and
[17:28.86]rewards against dangers and stress; its motivating force is,
[17:35.69]in the broadest sense, money.
[17:37.84]Opportunities to make money mean competition and competition
[17:41.80]is stressful; it is often at its most intense in the largest cities,
[17:47.64]where opportunities are greatest.
[17:49.68]The presence of huge numbers of people inevitably
[17:52.95]involves more conflict, more traveling,
[17:55.86]the overloading of public services and exposure to those deviants
[18:00.88]and criminals who are drawn to the rich pickings of great cities.
[18:08.58]Crime has always flourished in the relative anonymity of urban life,
[18:14.22]but today's ease of movement makes its control more difficult than ever;
[18:18.87]there is much evidence that its extent has
[18:21.40]a direct relationship to the size of the communities.
[18:24.85]Citydwellers may become trapped in their homes
[18:27.47]by the fear of crime around them.
[18:30.84]As a defense against these developments,city dwellers tend to
[18:34.36]use various strategies to try and reduce the pressures upon themselves:
[19:26.19]contacts with other people are generally made brief and impersonal;
[19:30.08]doors are kept locked; telephone numbers may be ex directory;
[19:34.19]journeys outside the home are usually hurried,
[19:36.95]rather than a source of pleasure.
[19:38.59]There are other strategies, too,
[19:40.45]which are positively harmful to the individual, for example,
[19:44.34]reducing awareness through drugs or alcohol.
[20:36.17]Furthermore, all these defensive form of behavior
[20:39.26]are harmful to society in general; they cause widespread loneliness
[20:43.91]and destroy the community's concern for its members.
[20:47.56]Lack of informal social contact and indifference to
[20:51.52]the misfortunes of others, are amongst the major causes of urban crime.
[21:42.47]Urban life has always involved a balancing of opportunities and
[21:46.03]rewards against dangers and stress; its motivating force is,
[21:50.86]in the broadest sense, money.
[21:52.96]Opportunities to make money mean competition and competition
[21:56.89]is stressful; it is often at its most intense in the largest cities,
[22:01.83]where opportunities are greatest.
[22:03.92]The presence of huge numbers of people inevitably
[22:07.18]involves more conflict, more traveling,
[22:10.09]the overloading of public services and exposure to those deviants
[22:15.11]and criminals who are drawn to the rich pickings of great cities.
[22:19.58]Crime has always flourished in the relative anonymity of urban life,
[22:24.42]but today's ease of movement makes its control more difficult than ever;
[22:29.07]there is much evidence that its extent has
[22:31.64]a direct relationship to the size of the communities.
[22:35.09]Citydwellers may become trapped in their homes
[22:37.71]by the fear of crime around them.
[22:40.03]As a defense against these developments,city dwellers tend to
[22:43.67]use various strategies to try and reduce the pressures upon themselves:
[22:48.80]contacts with other people are generally made brief and impersonal;
[22:52.83]doors are kept locked; telephone numbers may be ex directory;
[22:56.90]journeys outside the home are usually hurried,
[22:59.74]rather than a source of pleasure.
[23:01.30]There are other strategies, too,
[23:03.19]which are positively harmful to the individual, for example,
[23:07.11]reducing awareness through drugs or alcohol.
[23:10.13]Furthermore, all these defensive form of behavior
[23:13.33]are harmful to society in general; they cause widespread loneliness
[23:17.95]and destroy the community's concern for its members.
[23:21.58]Lack of informal social contact and indifference to
[23:25.62]the misfortunes of others, are amongst the major causes of urban crime. |