2003年6月大学英语六级考试试题及参考答案
时间：2018-12-04 作者：英语课 分类：大学六级英语考试听力真题
英语课
1. A) Riding a horse.
B) Shooting a movie.
C) Playing a game.
D) Taking a photo.
2. A) She'11 type the letter for the man.
B) She'll teach the man to operate the computer.
C) She doesn't think his sister is a good typist.
D) She thinks the man should buy a computer.
3. A) John can share the magazine with her.
B) She wants to borrow John's card.
C) She'll let John use the journal first.
D) John should find another copy for himself.
4. A) She promised to help the man.
B) She came a long way to meet the man.
C) She took the man to where he wanted to go.
D) She suggested a way out of the difficulty for the man.
5. A) The train seldom arrives on time.
B) The schedule has been misprinted.
C) The speakers arrived at the station late.
D) The company has trouble printing a schedule.
6. A) To find a better science journal in the library.
B) Not to miss any chance to collect useful information.
C) To buy the latest issue of the magazine.
D) Not to subscribe 1 to the journal.
7. A) She wants to borrow the man's student ID card.
B) The tickets are less expensive than she expected.
C) She won't be able to get any discount for the ticket.
D) The performance turned out to be disappointing.
8. A) Do the assignments towards the end of the semester.
B) Quit the history course and choose another one instead.
C) Drop one course and do it next semester.
D) Take courses with a lighter 2 workload 3.
A) The organization of a conference.
B) The cost of renting a conference room.
C) The decoration of the conference room.
D) The job of cleaning up the dining-room.
10. A) Meet his client. C) Work at his office.
B) Prepare the dinner. D) Fix his car.
Section B
Directions: In this section, you will hear 3 short passages. At the end of each passage, you will hear some questions. Both the passage and the questions will be spoken only once. After you hear a question, you must choose the best answer from the four choices marked A), B), C) and D). Then mark the corresponding letter on the Answer Sheet with a single line through the centre.
Passage One
Questions 11 to 13 are based on the passage you have just heard.
11. A) One of the bridges between North and South London collapsed 4.
B) The heart of London was flooded.
C) An emergency exercise was conducted.
D) 100 people in the suburbs were drowned.
12. A) 50 underground stations were made waterproof 5.
B) A flood wall was built.
C) An alarm system was set up.
D) Rescue teams were formed.
13. A) Most Londoners were frightened.
B) Most Londoners became rather confused.
C) Most Londoners took Exercise Floodcall calmly.
D) Most Londoners complained about the trouble caused by Exercise Floodcall.
Passage Two
Questions 14 to 16 are based on the passage you have just heard.
14. A) It limited their supply of food. C) It destroyed many of their nests.
B) It made their eggshells too fragile 6. D) It killed many baby bald eagles.
15. A) They found ways to speed up the reproduction of bald eagles.
B) They developed new types of feed for baby bald eagles.
C) They explored new ways to hatch 7 baby bald eagles.
D) They brought in bald eagles from Canada.
16. A) Pollution of the environment C) Over-killing by hunters.
B) A new generation of pest killers 9. D) Destruction of their natural homes.
Passage Three
Questions 17 to 20 are based on the passage you have just heard.
17. A) Whether it can be detected and checked.
B) Whether it will lead to widespread food shortage 10.
C) Whether global warming will speed up in the future.
D) Whether it will affect their own lives.
18. A) Many species 11 have moved further north.
B) Many new species have come into existence.
C) Many species have developed a habit of migration 12.
D) Many species have become less sensitive to climate.
19. A) Storms and floods. C) Less space for their growth.
B) Disease and fire. D) Rapid increase of the animal population.
20. A) They will gradually die out.
B) They will be able to survive in the preserves.
C) They will have to migrate 13 to find new homes.
D) They will face extinction 15 without artificial reproduction.
答案：
Part I. Listening Comprehension
1-10 D B A C A D C C B A
11-20 C B C B D D D A B C
Tapescripts:
1. W: Raise your hat a little bit and hold the saddle and smile a little. You look wonderful posing 16 like that. Shall I press the shutter 17?
M: Wait a minute. Let me put on a cowboy hat.
Q: What are the speakers doing?
2. M: I’m still waiting for my sister to come back and type the application letter for me.
W: Why bother her? I’ll show you how to use the computer. It’s quite easy?
Q: What does the woman mean?
3. M: Hey, where did you find the journal? I need it, too.
W: Right here on the shelf. Don’t worry, John. I’ll take it out on my card for both of us.
Q: What does the woman mean?
4. M: Thank you for your helpful assistance. Otherwise, I’d surely have missed it. The place is so out of the way.
W: It was a pleasure meeting you. Good-bye.
Q: Why does the man thank the woman?
5. W: We are informed that the 11:30 train is late again.
M: Why did the railway company even bother to print a schedule?
Q: What do we learn from the conversation?
6. M: Maybe I ought to subscribe to the Engineering Quarterly 18. It contains a lot of useful information.
W: Why not read it in the library and save the money?
Q: What is the woman advice to the man?
7. M: I’ve been waiting all week for this concert. The performance is said to be excellent. And with our student discount, the tickets will be real cheap.
W: Ah ah…I’m afraid I left my student ID card in the dorm.
Q: What does the woman imply?
8. M: Mr. Smith, our history professor, announced that we would be doing two papers and three exams this semester. I wonder how I’m going to pour through when other courses have similar requirements.
W: Well, can’t you drop one course and pick it up the next semester?
Q: What does the woman suggest the man do?
9. W: Renting the conference room at the hotel will cost us too much. We’re already running in the red.
M: How about using our dining room for the meeting?
Q: What’s worrying the woman?
10.W: Jerry, can you pick me up after work today? I left my car at the garage.
M: I’m afraid I can’t. I’ve scheduled an appointment with a client at dinner time.
Q: What is the man going to do?
Section B
Passage One
A few months ago, millions of people in London heard alarms all over the town. The Emergency Emergency services, the Fire Departments, the Police, hospitals, and ambulances stood by, ready to go into action. In railway underground stations, people read notices and maps which told them where to go and what to do in the emergency. This was Exercise Flood Call, to prepare people for a flood emergency. London wasn't flooded yet, but it is possible that it would be. In 1236 and in 1663, London was badly flooded. In 1928, people living in Westminster, the heart of London, drowned in floods. And in 1953, one hundred people, living on the eastern edge of the London suburbs were killed, again, in the floods. At last, Greater London Council took actions to prevent this disaster from happening again. Though a flood wall was built in the 1960s, Londoners still must be prepared for the possible disaster. If it happens, 50 underground stations will be under water. Electricity, gas and phone services will be out of action. Roads will be drowned. It will be impossible to cross any of the bridges between north and south London. Imagine: London will look like the famous Italian city, Venice. But this Exercise Flood Call didn't cause panic among Londoners. Most people knew it was just a warning. One lady said, "It's a flood warning, isn't it? The water doesn't look high to me."?
Question 11: What happened in London a few months ago??
Question 12: What measure was taken against floods in London in the 1960s??
Question 13: What can we learnt from the lady's comment??
Passage Two
America's national symbol, the bald eagle, almost went extinct 14 twenty years ago, but it has made a comeback. In fact, the U.S. Fish and Wild Life Service is considering the possibility of taking it off the Endangered Species List. Once, more than fifty hundred pairs of bald eagles nested across the country, but by 1960 that number had fallen below four hundred. The chief killer 8 was the widely used DDT. Fish, soaked up DDT, died, and were washed up on shores, where bald eagles feasted on them.?DDT prevented eagle egg shells from thickening. The shells became so thin that they shattered 19 before the babies hatched 20. Fortunately, in 1972, a law was passed to ban DDT, which saved the bald eagle from total wipeout. And since then wild life biologists had reintroduced bald eagles from Canada to America. The result was that last year U.S. bird watchers counted eleven thousand six hundred and ten bald eagles in the country.?If it were dropped from the Endangered Species List, the bald eagle would still be a threatened species. That means the bird would continue to get the same protection. No hunting allowed, and no disturbing of nests. But bald eagles still face tough times. The destruction of their natural homes could be the next DDT causing eagle numbers to drop quickly.?
Question 14: What was the main harmful effect of the pests killer DDT on bald eagles?
Question 15: What measure did the wild life biologist take to increase the number of bald eagles?
Question 16: According to the speaker, what is the possible danger facing bald eagles?
Passage Three
If the earth gets hotter in the new century, what will happen to animals and the plants which animals depend on for survival 21? The question offers another way of looking at the "Greenhouse Effect".?People have talked about the general problem of "Global Warming" for some time. But they were usually worried about things like whether to buy a home on the coast. Biologists and other scientists turn their attention to plants and animals at an important meeting that took place last October. They were reviewed evidence that plants and animals are sensitive to climate. Since the Ice Age ended ten thousand years ago and warmer temperatures returned to the northern latitudes 22, many species have migrated 23 north. If the predictions about the Greenhouse are correct, temperatures will rise by the same amount in the next one hundred years as they did in the past ten thousand. Will animals and plants be able to adapt that quickly to change in the environment? Many won't. Certain species will probably become very rare. Experts say plants under climate stress will be very open to disease and fire. Forest fires may become more common. That, in turn, man harm animals that depend on the trees for food will for shelter. Any preserves we set up to protect endangered species may become useless as the species are forced to migrate along with their natural homes. Change is a part of life, but rapid change, says scientist George Woodwell, is the enemy of life.
Question 17: What is the concern of ordinary people about the "Greenhouse Effect"??
Question 18: What has happened since the end of the ICE AGE??
Question 19: What will be a possible threat to plants in the future??
Question 20: According to the passage, what will probably happen to the endangered species?
B) Shooting a movie.
C) Playing a game.
D) Taking a photo.
2. A) She'11 type the letter for the man.
B) She'll teach the man to operate the computer.
C) She doesn't think his sister is a good typist.
D) She thinks the man should buy a computer.
3. A) John can share the magazine with her.
B) She wants to borrow John's card.
C) She'll let John use the journal first.
D) John should find another copy for himself.
4. A) She promised to help the man.
B) She came a long way to meet the man.
C) She took the man to where he wanted to go.
D) She suggested a way out of the difficulty for the man.
5. A) The train seldom arrives on time.
B) The schedule has been misprinted.
C) The speakers arrived at the station late.
D) The company has trouble printing a schedule.
6. A) To find a better science journal in the library.
B) Not to miss any chance to collect useful information.
C) To buy the latest issue of the magazine.
D) Not to subscribe 1 to the journal.
7. A) She wants to borrow the man's student ID card.
B) The tickets are less expensive than she expected.
C) She won't be able to get any discount for the ticket.
D) The performance turned out to be disappointing.
8. A) Do the assignments towards the end of the semester.
B) Quit the history course and choose another one instead.
C) Drop one course and do it next semester.
D) Take courses with a lighter 2 workload 3.
A) The organization of a conference.
B) The cost of renting a conference room.
C) The decoration of the conference room.
D) The job of cleaning up the dining-room.
10. A) Meet his client. C) Work at his office.
B) Prepare the dinner. D) Fix his car.
Section B
Directions: In this section, you will hear 3 short passages. At the end of each passage, you will hear some questions. Both the passage and the questions will be spoken only once. After you hear a question, you must choose the best answer from the four choices marked A), B), C) and D). Then mark the corresponding letter on the Answer Sheet with a single line through the centre.
Passage One
Questions 11 to 13 are based on the passage you have just heard.
11. A) One of the bridges between North and South London collapsed 4.
B) The heart of London was flooded.
C) An emergency exercise was conducted.
D) 100 people in the suburbs were drowned.
12. A) 50 underground stations were made waterproof 5.
B) A flood wall was built.
C) An alarm system was set up.
D) Rescue teams were formed.
13. A) Most Londoners were frightened.
B) Most Londoners became rather confused.
C) Most Londoners took Exercise Floodcall calmly.
D) Most Londoners complained about the trouble caused by Exercise Floodcall.
Passage Two
Questions 14 to 16 are based on the passage you have just heard.
14. A) It limited their supply of food. C) It destroyed many of their nests.
B) It made their eggshells too fragile 6. D) It killed many baby bald eagles.
15. A) They found ways to speed up the reproduction of bald eagles.
B) They developed new types of feed for baby bald eagles.
C) They explored new ways to hatch 7 baby bald eagles.
D) They brought in bald eagles from Canada.
16. A) Pollution of the environment C) Over-killing by hunters.
B) A new generation of pest killers 9. D) Destruction of their natural homes.
Passage Three
Questions 17 to 20 are based on the passage you have just heard.
17. A) Whether it can be detected and checked.
B) Whether it will lead to widespread food shortage 10.
C) Whether global warming will speed up in the future.
D) Whether it will affect their own lives.
18. A) Many species 11 have moved further north.
B) Many new species have come into existence.
C) Many species have developed a habit of migration 12.
D) Many species have become less sensitive to climate.
19. A) Storms and floods. C) Less space for their growth.
B) Disease and fire. D) Rapid increase of the animal population.
20. A) They will gradually die out.
B) They will be able to survive in the preserves.
C) They will have to migrate 13 to find new homes.
D) They will face extinction 15 without artificial reproduction.
答案：
Part I. Listening Comprehension
1-10 D B A C A D C C B A
11-20 C B C B D D D A B C
Tapescripts:
1. W: Raise your hat a little bit and hold the saddle and smile a little. You look wonderful posing 16 like that. Shall I press the shutter 17?
M: Wait a minute. Let me put on a cowboy hat.
Q: What are the speakers doing?
2. M: I’m still waiting for my sister to come back and type the application letter for me.
W: Why bother her? I’ll show you how to use the computer. It’s quite easy?
Q: What does the woman mean?
3. M: Hey, where did you find the journal? I need it, too.
W: Right here on the shelf. Don’t worry, John. I’ll take it out on my card for both of us.
Q: What does the woman mean?
4. M: Thank you for your helpful assistance. Otherwise, I’d surely have missed it. The place is so out of the way.
W: It was a pleasure meeting you. Good-bye.
Q: Why does the man thank the woman?
5. W: We are informed that the 11:30 train is late again.
M: Why did the railway company even bother to print a schedule?
Q: What do we learn from the conversation?
6. M: Maybe I ought to subscribe to the Engineering Quarterly 18. It contains a lot of useful information.
W: Why not read it in the library and save the money?
Q: What is the woman advice to the man?
7. M: I’ve been waiting all week for this concert. The performance is said to be excellent. And with our student discount, the tickets will be real cheap.
W: Ah ah…I’m afraid I left my student ID card in the dorm.
Q: What does the woman imply?
8. M: Mr. Smith, our history professor, announced that we would be doing two papers and three exams this semester. I wonder how I’m going to pour through when other courses have similar requirements.
W: Well, can’t you drop one course and pick it up the next semester?
Q: What does the woman suggest the man do?
9. W: Renting the conference room at the hotel will cost us too much. We’re already running in the red.
M: How about using our dining room for the meeting?
Q: What’s worrying the woman?
10.W: Jerry, can you pick me up after work today? I left my car at the garage.
M: I’m afraid I can’t. I’ve scheduled an appointment with a client at dinner time.
Q: What is the man going to do?
Section B
Passage One
A few months ago, millions of people in London heard alarms all over the town. The Emergency Emergency services, the Fire Departments, the Police, hospitals, and ambulances stood by, ready to go into action. In railway underground stations, people read notices and maps which told them where to go and what to do in the emergency. This was Exercise Flood Call, to prepare people for a flood emergency. London wasn't flooded yet, but it is possible that it would be. In 1236 and in 1663, London was badly flooded. In 1928, people living in Westminster, the heart of London, drowned in floods. And in 1953, one hundred people, living on the eastern edge of the London suburbs were killed, again, in the floods. At last, Greater London Council took actions to prevent this disaster from happening again. Though a flood wall was built in the 1960s, Londoners still must be prepared for the possible disaster. If it happens, 50 underground stations will be under water. Electricity, gas and phone services will be out of action. Roads will be drowned. It will be impossible to cross any of the bridges between north and south London. Imagine: London will look like the famous Italian city, Venice. But this Exercise Flood Call didn't cause panic among Londoners. Most people knew it was just a warning. One lady said, "It's a flood warning, isn't it? The water doesn't look high to me."?
Question 11: What happened in London a few months ago??
Question 12: What measure was taken against floods in London in the 1960s??
Question 13: What can we learnt from the lady's comment??
Passage Two
America's national symbol, the bald eagle, almost went extinct 14 twenty years ago, but it has made a comeback. In fact, the U.S. Fish and Wild Life Service is considering the possibility of taking it off the Endangered Species List. Once, more than fifty hundred pairs of bald eagles nested across the country, but by 1960 that number had fallen below four hundred. The chief killer 8 was the widely used DDT. Fish, soaked up DDT, died, and were washed up on shores, where bald eagles feasted on them.?DDT prevented eagle egg shells from thickening. The shells became so thin that they shattered 19 before the babies hatched 20. Fortunately, in 1972, a law was passed to ban DDT, which saved the bald eagle from total wipeout. And since then wild life biologists had reintroduced bald eagles from Canada to America. The result was that last year U.S. bird watchers counted eleven thousand six hundred and ten bald eagles in the country.?If it were dropped from the Endangered Species List, the bald eagle would still be a threatened species. That means the bird would continue to get the same protection. No hunting allowed, and no disturbing of nests. But bald eagles still face tough times. The destruction of their natural homes could be the next DDT causing eagle numbers to drop quickly.?
Question 14: What was the main harmful effect of the pests killer DDT on bald eagles?
Question 15: What measure did the wild life biologist take to increase the number of bald eagles?
Question 16: According to the speaker, what is the possible danger facing bald eagles?
Passage Three
If the earth gets hotter in the new century, what will happen to animals and the plants which animals depend on for survival 21? The question offers another way of looking at the "Greenhouse Effect".?People have talked about the general problem of "Global Warming" for some time. But they were usually worried about things like whether to buy a home on the coast. Biologists and other scientists turn their attention to plants and animals at an important meeting that took place last October. They were reviewed evidence that plants and animals are sensitive to climate. Since the Ice Age ended ten thousand years ago and warmer temperatures returned to the northern latitudes 22, many species have migrated 23 north. If the predictions about the Greenhouse are correct, temperatures will rise by the same amount in the next one hundred years as they did in the past ten thousand. Will animals and plants be able to adapt that quickly to change in the environment? Many won't. Certain species will probably become very rare. Experts say plants under climate stress will be very open to disease and fire. Forest fires may become more common. That, in turn, man harm animals that depend on the trees for food will for shelter. Any preserves we set up to protect endangered species may become useless as the species are forced to migrate along with their natural homes. Change is a part of life, but rapid change, says scientist George Woodwell, is the enemy of life.
Question 17: What is the concern of ordinary people about the "Greenhouse Effect"??
Question 18: What has happened since the end of the ICE AGE??
Question 19: What will be a possible threat to plants in the future??
Question 20: According to the passage, what will probably happen to the endangered species?
1 subscribe
vi.(to)订阅，订购；同意；vt.捐助，赞助
- I heartily subscribe to that sentiment.我十分赞同那个观点。
- The magazine is trying to get more readers to subscribe.该杂志正大力发展新订户。
2 lighter
n.打火机，点火器；驳船；v.用驳船运送；light的比较级
- The portrait was touched up so as to make it lighter.这张画经过润色，色调明朗了一些。
- The lighter works off the car battery.引燃器利用汽车蓄电池打火。
3 workload
n.作业量，工作量
- An assistant one day a week would ease my workload.每周有一天配一个助手就会减轻我的工作负担。
- He's always grousing about the workload.他总是抱怨工作量大。
4 collapsed
adj.倒塌的
- Jack collapsed in agony on the floor. 杰克十分痛苦地瘫倒在地板上。
- The roof collapsed under the weight of snow. 房顶在雪的重压下突然坍塌下来。
5 waterproof
n.防水材料；adj.防水的；v.使...能防水
- My mother bought me a waterproof watch.我妈妈给我买了一块防水手表。
- All the electronics are housed in a waterproof box.所有电子设备都储放在一个防水盒中。
6 fragile
adj.易碎的，脆的，易损坏的，虚弱的，脆弱的
- The old lady was increasingly fragile after her operation.那位老太太手术后身体越来越虚弱。
- This glass disc looks very fragile.这个玻璃盘子看起来很容易碎。
7 hatch
n.孵化，舱口；vt.孵，孵出，策划；vi. 孵化
- No one knows how the new plan will hatch out.谁也不知道这新方案将怎样制订出来。
- The bird mistook the pebble for egg and tried to hatch it.这只鸟错把卵石当蛋，想去孵它。
8 killer
n.杀人者，杀人犯，杀手，屠杀者
- Heart attacks have become Britain's No.1 killer disease.心脏病已成为英国的头号致命疾病。
- The bulk of the evidence points to him as her killer.大量证据证明是他杀死她的。
9 killers
凶手( killer的名词复数 )； 消灭…者； 致命物； 极难的事
- He remained steadfast in his determination to bring the killers to justice. 他要将杀人凶手绳之以法的决心一直没有动摇。
- They were professional killers who did in John. 杀死约翰的这些人是职业杀手。
10 shortage
n.缺少，缺乏，不足
- The city is suffering a desperate shortage of water.这个城市严重缺水。
- The heart of the problem is a shortage of funds.问题的关键是缺乏经费。
11 species
n.物种，种群
- Are we the only thinking species in the whole of creation?我们是万物中惟一有思想的物种吗？
- This species of bird now exists only in Africa.这种鸟现在只存在于非洲。
12 migration
n.迁移，移居，（鸟类等的）迁徙
- Swallows begin their migration south in autumn.燕子在秋季开始向南方迁移。
- He described the vernal migration of birds in detail.他详细地描述了鸟的春季移居。
13 migrate
vi.（候鸟等）迁徙，移居（国外），迁移
- Many birds migrate south for the winter.冬天时，许多鸟类迁徙南方。
- The rich people often migrate in winter to Florida.有钱的人常在冬季搬迁到佛罗里达州去。
14 extinct
adj.灭绝的，不再活跃的，熄灭了的，已废弃的
- All hopes were extinct.所有希望都破灭了。
- Dinosaurs have been extinct for millions of years.恐龙绝种已有几百万年了。
15 extinction
n.熄灭，消亡，消灭，灭绝，绝种
- The plant is now in danger of extinction.这种植物现在有绝种的危险。
- The island's way of life is doomed to extinction.这个岛上的生活方式注定要消失。
16 posing
n.百叶窗；(照相机)快门；关闭装置
- The camera has a shutter speed of one-sixtieth of a second.这架照像机的快门速度达六十分之一秒。
- The shutter rattled in the wind.百叶窗在风中发出嘎嘎声。
17 quarterly
adj.季度的；adv.季度地
- The quarterly magazine is a periodical published every three months.季刊是每3个月出版一次的期刊。
- The payments were made quarterly.按季度付酬。
18 shattered
破碎的； 极度疲劳的
- He dropped the vase and it shattered into pieces on the floor. 他失手把花瓶掉到地板上摔碎了。
- The experience left her feeling absolutely shattered. 她在这次经历之后，感到彻底垮了。
19 hatched
孵化( hatch的过去式和过去分词 )； 孵出，破壳而出； 秘密策划，（尤指）密谋； 使（小鸟、小鱼、小虫等）孵出
- Silkworms are fed mulberry leaves after they have hatched. 蚕孵出后食桑叶。
- Ten out of the set of twelve were hatched. 一窝十二个蛋孵出了十个。
20 survival
n.留住生命，生存，残存，幸存者
- The doctor told my wife I had a fifty-fifty chance of survival.医生告诉我的妻子，说我活下去的可能性只有50%。
- The old man was a survival of a past age.这位老人是上一代的遗老。