决胜六级听力必备 mode14

Section A

[00:01.78]1. M: Excuse me,but I didn't hear clearly what you said.

[00:07.92]Did you say that we did not have to hand in our exam papers?

[00:11.83]W: No, I said that my teaching assistant would collect the papers while I'll grade them myself.

[00:17.55]Q: What did the woman say about the exam?

[00:20.22]2. W: There is an advertisement in the newspaper.

[00:23.88]It says there are all kinds of cheap apartment houses on sale.

[00:28.08]M:It sounds a good one, but our savings 1 are nowhere near enough to buy a house.

[00:33.23]Q: What does the man mean?

[00:35.24]3. M: I'm terribly sorry I've carelessly broken Tom's treasured violin.

[00:40.36]Tom's going to kill me.

[00:42.08]W: Oh, God--I can see why you're upset.

[00:44.80]It can really be annoying when you damage someone's favourite thing.

[00:48.85]Q: What's the woman's attitude toward the man's carelessness?

[00:52.64]4. M: I'm sure I'll get a high score in the exam.

[00:56.14]W: Don't count your chickens before they are hatched 2.

[00:58.83]Q: What does the woman mean?

[01:00.79]5. W: What a wonderful opera it was.

[01:04.05]I hope you enjoyed it as much as I did.

[01:06.64]M: Frankly 3 speaking, I dozed 4 off after the first twenty minutes.

[01:10.66]Q: How did the man in the conversation feel about the opera?

[01:14.55]6. M: Hi, Mary, I have a message for you from Jack 5.

[01:19.12]He invites you to see an art exhibition.

[01:21.63]W: Thank you, Tom.

[01:22.86]You know,"Two's company,three's none."

[01:26.20]Q: What does the woman mean?

[01:28.22]7. W: You play very well.

[01:30.80]Did you have formal training on the accordion 6?

[01:33.54]M: I did want to become a player when I was a child

[01:36.18]but I just took lessons while never practise.

[01:39.34]I taught myself by copying other player.

[01:41.77]Q: What did the man do as a child?

[01:44.31]8. M: Good morning,I'm here to see Prof.Smith.

[01:47.81]W: Prof.Smith went to San Francisco last Wednesday for a conference

[01:52.46]and will be back on Monday night.

[01:54.78]If you like,you may come again on Tuesday morning.

[01:58.39]Q: When will Prof. Smith return?

[02:00.84]9. W: It's a pleasure to see you again.

[02:04.26]What are you doing these days?

[02:05.96]You are still teaching,aren't you?

[02:07.87]M: Yes, I am, and I'm counting the days until retirement 7.

[02:11.66]Q: What can we learn about the man?

[02:13.93]10. M:The latest word is that this school will soon be shut down.

[02:18.66]W: I'm not surprised.

[02:20.17]It just can't compete with more upto-date ones has less and less students.

[02:25.32]Q: Why is the school being closed down?

[02:28.06]Section B

[02:29.81]Passage One

[02:31.30]The potato is native to South America.

[02:34.20]It was probably first brought to England by Sir John Hawkins

[02:38.56]but attracted little interest.

[02:40.47]It was reintroduced by Drake in 1586.

[02:44.39]Sir Walter Raleigh first grew potatoes in Ireland.

[02:47.60]The potato was praised by Bacon and was served

[02:50.79]at the Royal table by 1619.

[02:53.77]Ever since then it has been an important item of Ritish died

[02:58.31]especially in Ireland

[02:59.85]during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries it was the main food of the Irish

[03:04.87]and there was starvation and famine when the crop failed

[03:08.37]as it did in the 1840

[03:10.67]Also in Ireland

[03:11.69]and illegal and very strong liquor called poteen is brewed 8 from the potato.

[03:16.68]11. Who should be regarded as the first person to plant potatoes in Ireland?

[03:22.61]12. Which of the following is not true?

[03:26.03]13. According to the passage,what is considered an illegal act?

[03:31.25]Passage Two

[03:33.03]There is increasing scientific evidence that large cars cause more highway accidents than small car

[03:40.08]In the news recently was the story of a woman who died of a heart attack while driving her station wagon 9.

[03:46.61]The car was moving so fast that it went through the highway-dividing fench

[03:51.00]resulting in a collision in which five people died.

[03:55.08]Those unnecessary deaths are attributable in part to the woman's choice of a large automobile 10.

[04:01.87]A lighter 11 and smaller car probably wouldn't have gone through the fence

[04:06.36]because the heavier the car

[04:08.14]the greater the force it will have in a collision.

[04:11.17]Furthermore,even if the lighter car had broken through the fence

[04:15.22]its remaining energy would have been much less

[04:18.38]and this would have reduced the chances of serious injury or death.

[04:22.50]Because of its small size

[04:24.46]it might have missed the other car completely.

[04:27.47]The present design of the oversized automobile is largely responsible not only for the increasing death

[04:33.68]toll on the highway but also for the rapid depletion 12 of our resources of petroleum 13

[04:39.51]for the pollution of our environment

[04:41.97]for urban sprawl,and for the congestion  and inconenience of our cities.

[04:47.35]14. What did the author want to tell us?

[04:50.82]15. In the author's opinion, what's the best way to reduce the chances of serious injury or death in highway accidents?

[05:00.67]16. According to the passage,which of the following is not the disadvantage of the oversized automobile?

[05:08.30]Passage Three

[05:09.47]For all its benefits,television's influence has been extremely harmful to the young.

[05:14.83]Children do not have enough experience to realize that TV shows present an unreal world

[05:21.38]that commercials lie in order to sell products that are sometimes bad or useless.

[05:26.82]They believe and want to imitate what they see.

[05:30.97]They do believe that they will make more friends if they use a certain soap

[05:34.99]or some other product.

[05:36.74]By the time they are out of high school

[05:38.94]most young people have watched about 15,000 hours of television

[05:44.32]and have seen about 18,000 killings 14 or other acts of violence.

[05:49.07]How could they be choked to see the same in real life.

[05:52.26]All educators and psychologists agree that they "television generations"

[05:58.90]are more violent than their parents and grandparent

[06:02.42]It is certain that television has deeply transformed our lives and our society.

[06:07.26]It is certain that, along with its benefit

[06:10.18]it has brought enormous problem

[06:12.92]To those problems we must soon find a solution

[06:16.19]because--whether we like it or not--television is here to stay.

[06:21.02]17. What does the paragraph before this passage most probably discuss?

[06:27.29]18. What do we learn from the passage?

[06:31.08]19. How many days of television have most young people watched when they graduate from high school?

[06:38.03]20. What can be inferred from the passage?