王迈迈大学英语六级预测与详解 05

　　[00:00.40]test 5

[00:01.74]Section A

[00:03.31]Now let's begin with the 8 short conversations.

[00:07.12]11．M：Mary, what did you think of the movie last night?

[00:10.90]W：I  don't know why I let you talk me into going,

[00:13.60]I just don't like violence.

[00:15.78]Q：What is Mary's opinion of the movie?

[00:33.37]12．W：You speak English very well.

[00:36.21]How long have you been studying the language?

[00:38.64]M：I've been studying English for six and a half years .

[00:41.77]Q：How long has the man been studying English ?

[01:00.16]13．W：Excuse me, Constable 1,

[01:02.78]but have you seen an old gentleman looking for his glasses?

[01:06.05]M：An old gentleman, Madam ?

[01:07.87]Q：Who is the woman looking for ?

[01:25.61]14．W：Waiter, do you recommend the roast duck or

[01:29.32]the specialty 2 of the house?

[01:31.36]M：Ma'am, I can't recommend one over the other,

[01:33.97]they are both excellent.

[01:36.32]Q：How does the waiter feel about the food?

[01:54.43]15．W：How did you go to Canada? Did you fly?

[01:58.06]M：I was planning to because it's such a long trip by bus or train,

[02:01.81]but Fred decided 3 to drive and invited me to join him.

[02:05.11]It took us two days and a night .

[02:07.48]Q：How did the man go to Canada ?

[02:25.14]16．W：The Boeing 747 is ready to take off .

[02:29.64]M：The what ?

[02:30.84]W：The 747.

[02:32.69]Q：What is the 747 most likely to be ?

[02:51.27]17．W：See the kid over there cutting grass ?

[02:55.44]My kid brother does that every summer.

[02:58.13]He usually gets five dollars a lawn, and it only takes him an hour. 

[03:02.05]M：That's pretty good .

[03:03.13]I didn't use to get that much when I was in high school.

[03:06.25]Q：What are they talking about?

[03:23.08]18．W：This TV set is not working properly.

[03:27.04]I suppose we should buy a new one,

[03:28.97]but I don't see how we can afford it right now .

[03:31.33]M：If only we hadn't bought the car .

[03:34.32]Q：Why didn't they buy another TV set ?

[03:41.63]Now you'll hear 2 long conversations.

[03:44.94]Conversation One

[03:47.74]W: Hurry up! We don't have much time left.

[03:50.18]M: Take it easy. We still have two hours.

[03:52.83]W: Come on! This is my first time ever to take a plane.

[03:56.67]I don't want anything to go wrong. 

[03:58.77]M: Let me take care of everything, all right?

[04:00.91]Now, let's go to the check in counter. 

[04:03.49]W: All right.

[04:04.54]M: They will first weigh our baggage.

[04:06.57]We are allowed twenty kilos each.

[04:09.41]W: What's the weight? Is that inside the free allowance?

[04:12.90]M: Yes, thirty eight kilos and we allow twenty kilos each.

[04:17.22]W: That's lucky! What's next? 

[04:19.37]M: They'll have to check our baggage. 

[04:20.97]W: Anything wrong with our baggage?

[04:23.15]M: They do not permit us to take the fork.

[04:25.62]What can a small fork do on the airplane?

[04:28.06]It seems that they regard it as a gun.

[04:30.86]W: Take it easy. It's also for the sake of our security.

[04:34.62]We needn't it on the plane anyway. What do we do now?

[04:38.47]M: We will go to gate 5. They're announcing our flight.

[04:42.36]W: I didn't hear anything. 

[04:43.93]M: It's on that sign board up there. See?

[04:46.54]UA 801. At gate 5. Let's go then.

[04:51.16]Questions 19 to 21 are based on the conversation you have just heard.

[04:56.98]19. What's the free allowance of baggage for them on the plane?

[05:15.85]20. What's wrong with their baggage?

[05:32.93]21. What's their flight number?

[05:49.94]Conversation Two

[05:52.12]W: Hi,Sir. May I help you?

[05:53.94]M: Yes, please. I am looking to rent an apartment.

[05:56.92]W: This is my business card. I am Chen Lu. Nice to meet you.

[06:00.81]M: Thank you. I am Sam Roberts.

[06:02.85]I am looking for an apartment of around

[06:04.85]one thousand square feet for my family.

[06:07.69]W: Mr.Roberts, are you familiar with this area?

[06:10.49]M: Yes, I am living in Rose Garden now,

[06:12.74]but the lease will expire in two months.

[06:14.96]The landlord is going to sell his apartment.

[06:17.29]W: I see. I guess you prefer remaining in the same neighbourhood.

[06:21.61]Let me check the computer's property data for you first.

[06:24.74]OK. Sir, do you know Robinson Garden?

[06:28.30]M: No, I'm sorry to say.　　

[06:30.29]W: Robinson Garden is only two years old.

[06:33.16]There is one vacant unit for lease.

[06:36.00]The gross area is one thousand three hundred square feet

[06:39.45]and the net area is almost one thousand square feet.

[06:43.08]The layout of the unit includes one huge living room,

[06:46.76]one dining room and three bedrooms.

[06:49.41]The maid's room is attached to the kitchen.

[06:51.59]M: Is it furnished or non furnished?

[06:53.92]W: It is a furnished apartment with necessary home appliances.

[06:58.39]M: How much is the rent?

[07:00.57]W: The asking rent is

[07:01.73]forty five thousand Hong Kong dollars per month.

[07:05.26]M: Okay. I would like to check the house with

[07:07.59]my wife tomorrow night after seven.

[07:09.99]Also, can you show me two more apartments for

[07:12.39]our comparison at the same time?

[07:14.71]W: Sure, Mr.Roberts.

[07:15.84]I'll arrange things for you tomorrow night.

[07:18.68]Questions 22 to 25 are based on the conversation you have just heard.

[07:24.57]22. What does the man want to do?

[07:41.76]23. Which statement is true according to the conversation?

[08:00.43]24. What's the condition of the apartment in Robinson Garden?

[08:18.98]25. Why does the man want to see more houses?

[08:38.25]Section B

[08:40.14]Passage One

[08:42.32]We are used to the idea of aging ourselves.

[08:45.19]We are so used to this that it comes as a surprise to find that

[08:48.69]there may be some animals that do not age.

[08:52.14]Sea animals are an example.

[08:54.85]Some have been kept for nearly a century without

[08:57.43]showing any signs of losing vigor 4.

[09:00.01]Some kinds of marine 5 worms can even “grow backwards”.

[09:03.72]If starved and kept in the dark, they get steadily 6 smaller.

[09:07.94]They finally end as a ball of cells,

[09:10.52]looking rather like the egg from which they came.

[09:13.50]Under favorable conditions the ball will

[09:15.60]turn back to a worm and start growing again.

[09:18.80]One could probably keep them growing

[09:20.66]and “un growing”indefinitely.

[09:23.82]Questions 26 to 28 are based on the passage you have just heard.

[09:28.58]26.In what condition do some sea worms get smaller? 

[09:47.16]27.According to the passage what can you conclude

[09:50.61]about some of sea animals?

[10:07.04]28.What does the passage mainly talk about?

[10:24.60]Passage Two

[10:26.45]Now, we'll bring you a special news bulletin.

[10:29.20]The three astronauts have splashed down safely in the Pacific Ocean,

[10:33.09]a hundred and forty five miles southwest of Hawaii,

[10:36.20]only six miles from the aircraft carrier that

[10:38.64]was dispatched for the recovery mission.

[10:41.33]The space module 7 floated down on three parachutes

[10:44.24]and landed right side up in the water.

[10:46.71]Mission Control in Houston confirmed that

[10:48.70]the parachutes and landing systems had functioned properly.

[10:52.11]Mission Control has advised the astronauts to remain inside

[10:55.02]the module until they are lifted aboard the aircraft carrier.

[10:59.20]An Air Force helicopter is already hovering 8 above the module

[11:02.66]and seven divers 9 are in the process of attaching lines to the spacecraft.

[11:07.17]The astronauts have returned after fifteen days in space.

[11:10.62]Possibly one of the most important accomplishments 10 of

[11:12.75]this mission was the extensive photographing of the sun's surface.

[11:17.35]After two days of physical examinations and observation,

[11:20.62]the astronauts will fly to Houston to reunite with their families.

[11:24.18]Ladies and gentlemen, we have confirmation 11 that

[11:26.51]the astronauts are now aboard the aircraft carrier.

[11:29.38]They seem to be in very good condition

[11:31.09]as they prepare for the welcoming ceremonies.

[11:34.58]Questions 29 to 31 are based on the passage you have just heard.

[11:39.29]29.According to the reporter, where did the spacecraft splash down?

[11:58.51]30.How long had the astronauts been in space?

[12:16.46]31.According to the reporter, where are the astronauts now?

[12:35.00]Passage Three

[12:36.49]Although Beethoven could sit down and make up music easily,

[12:40.24]his really great compositions did not come easily at all.

[12:43.87]They cost him a great deal of hard work.

[12:46.56]We know how often he rewrote and corrected his work

[12:49.29]because his notebooks are still kept in museums and libraries.

[12:52.96]He always found it hard to satisfy himself.

[12:56.27]When he was 28, the worst difficulty of all came to him.

[13:00.16]He began to notice a strange humming in his ears.

[13:03.29]At first he paid little attention; but it grew worse,

[13:06.94]and at last he consulted doctors.

[13:09.53]They gave him the worst news any musician can hear:

[13:12.98]he was gradually going deaf.

[13:14.95]Beethoven was in despair; he was sure that he was going to die.

[13:19.56]He went away to the country, to a place called Heiligenstadt,

[13:23.77]and from there he wrote a long farewell letter to his brothers.

[13:27.81]In this he told them how depressed 12 and

[13:30.10]lonely his deafness had made him.

[13:32.50] “It was impossible for me to ask men to speak louder or shout,

[13:36.93]for I am deaf,”he wrote.

[13:39.73]“How could I possibly admit and infirmity

[13:42.24]in the one sense(hearing) which should have been more perfect

[13:45.94]in me than in others , I must live like an exile. ”

[13:50.75]He longed to die, and said to death,

[13:53.22]“Come when you will, I shall meet you bravely.”

[13:56.35]In fact, Beethoven did something braver than dying.

[13:59.66]He gathered his courage and went on writing music,

[14:02.42]though he could hear what he wrote only more and more faintly.

[14:06.75]He wrote his best music, the music we remember him for,

[14:09.69]after he became deaf.

[14:11.58]The music he wrote was very different from any

[14:13.87]that had been composed before.

[14:15.82]Instead of the elegant and stately music that

[14:17.99]earlier musicians had written for their wealthy listeners,

[14:21.52]Beethoven wrote stormy, exciting, revolutionary music,

[14:25.53]which reminds us of his troubled and courageous 13 life.

[14:29.35]He grew to admire courage more than anything,

[14:32.04]and he called one of his symphonies the “Eroica” or

[14:35.81]heroic symphony,“to celebrate the memory of a great man”.

[14:40.30]Describing the dramatic opening notes of his famous

[14:42.85]Fifth Symphony, he said, “Thus fate knocks on the door”.

[14:47.36]In time Beethoven went completely deaf, so deaf that

[14:51.21]he could not hear even the stormiest parts of his exciting music.

[14:55.25]But in those years he wrote more gloriously than ever.

[14:59.21]He could “hear”his music with his mind, if not with his ears.

[15:03.14]His friends had to write down what they wanted to say to him.

[15:06.27]He was lonely and often unhappy, but in spite of this,

[15:09.78]he often wrote joyful 14 music.

[15:12.07]In his last symphony, the Ninth,

[15:14.25]a choir 15 sings a wonderful Hymn 16 of Joy.

[15:17.45]Because of his courage and determination to overcome his terrible

[15:20.76]disaster, his music has given joy and inspiration to millions of people.

[15:26.50]Questions 32 to 35 are based on the passage you have just heard.

[15:32.03]32.What did Beethoven think when he was told

[15:35.37]the bad news by the doctor?

[15:51.58]33.When did Beethoven realize that he was going deaf?

[16:10.01]34.What kind of music did Beethoven write when he became deaf?

[16:28.98]35.Which of the four titles best sum up the whole story?

[16:48.93]Section C

[16:51.00]To Pacific people the coconut 17 palm is the Tree of Life,

[16:54.93]and life itself often depends on its presence.

[16:58.78]This versatile 18 and ubiquitous tree still keeps to itself

[17:02.75]the mystery of its geographical 19 origins.

[17:05.65]Scientists may have theories, but most Pacific islanders believe

[17:10.11]that the coconut palm is of supernatural origin.

[17:14.15]Stray palms on uninhabited isles 20 or in remote island valleys

[17:18.36]may appear wild and neglected to stranger,

[17:21.78]but chances are that some local family is watching and using them.

[17:27.20]On the other hand, the material culture of the islands is based

[17:30.65]on forest products in general, not just the coconut.

[17:34.36]Melanesian craftsmen 21 fashion their goods from

[17:37.09]bark, fiber 22, wood, and other plant parts.

[17:41.25]Stone, shell, and bone are found in great variety,

[17:45.62]feathers and shell are seen as ornaments 23.

[17:48.16]But it is the plants which form

[17:50.09]the structural 24 materials or architecture and artifacts.

[17:54.41]Among Melanesia's varied 25 cultures,

[17:56.78]that of New Guinea's Sepik River area is

[17:59.87]one of the richest in artifacts.

[18:02.56]An important source is the annual festival marking

[18:05.36]the harvest of the yamcrop, a hill country staple 26.

[18:09.34]Yams of special size and characterrepresent spirits of the dead,

[18:13.76]and the quality ofa man and his family may not eat

[18:16.56]their own produce but must give it to a family of a nonrelated clan 27.

[18:22.13]Each phase of the growing cycle of the yamis marked with ceremonies

[18:26.38]and festivities culminating in the great harvest festival

[18:29.94]when the village square is filled with piles of yams.

[18:33.87]Many of the finest specimens 28 are adorned 29 with painted masks,

[18:38.23]feather headdresses, and jewelry 30.

[18:41.37]Each man or the tribe, similarly adorned,

[18:44.89]extols the virtues 31 of his yams in extravagant 32 oratory 33,

[18:49.67]climaxing his presentation by pronouncing the name of

[18:53.13]the family who is to receive his crop.

[18:59.24]To Pacific people the coconut palm is the Tree of Life,

[19:03.10]and life itself often depends on its presence.

[19:07.79]This versatile and ubiquitous tree still keeps to itself

[19:11.64]the mystery of its geographical origins.

[19:15.53]Scientists may have theories, but most Pacific islanders believe

[19:19.97]that the coconut palm is of supernatural origin.

[19:25.06]Stray palms on uninhabited isles or in remote island valleys

[19:29.27]may appear wild and neglected to stranger,

[19:34.69]but chances are that some local family is watching and using them.

[19:40.06]On the other hand, the material culture of the islands is based

[19:43.55]on forest products in general, not just the coconut.

[19:47.37]Melanesian craftsmen fashion their goods from

[19:49.91]bark, fiber, wood, and other plant parts.

[19:54.13]Stone, shell, and bone are found in great variety,

[19:59.47]feathers and shell are seen as ornaments.

[20:03.04]But it is the plants which form

[20:04.89]the structural materials or architecture and artifacts.

[20:09.29]Among Melanesia's varied cultures,

[20:11.69]that of New Guinea's Sepik River area is

[20:14.71]one of the richest in artifacts.

[20:17.51]An important source is the annual festival marking

[20:20.31]the harvest of the yamcrop, a hill country staple.

[20:24.23]Yams of special size and characterrepresent spirits of the dead,

[20:29.43]and the quality ofa man and his family may not eat

[20:32.45]their own produce but must give it to a family of a nonrelated clan.

[21:26.03]Each phase of the growing cycle of the yamis marked with ceremonies

[21:30.10]and festivities culminating in the great harvest festival

[22:21.29]when the village square is filled with piles of yams.

[22:25.14]Many of the finest specimens are adorned with painted masks,

[22:29.51]feather headdresses, and jewelry.

[22:32.67]Each man or the tribe, similarly adorned,

[22:36.16]extols the virtues of his yams in extravagant oratory,

[22:40.94]climaxing his presentation by pronouncing the name of

[22:44.51]the family who is to receive his crop.

[23:37.18]To Pacific people the coconut palm is the Tree of Life,

[23:41.03]and life itself often depends on its presence.

[23:44.83]This versatile and ubiquitous tree still keeps to itself

[23:48.65]the mystery of its geographical origins.

[23:51.74]Scientists may have theories, but most Pacific islanders believe

[23:56.14]that the coconut palm is of supernatural origin.

[24:00.22]Stray palms on uninhabited isles or in remote island valleys

[24:04.58]may appear wild and neglected to stranger,

[24:07.89]but chances are that some local family is watching and using them.

[24:13.31]On the other hand, the material culture of the islands is based

[24:16.39]on forest products in general, not just the coconut.

[24:20.50]Melanesian craftsmen fashion their goods from

[24:23.12]bark, fiber, wood, and other plant parts.

[24:27.56]Stone, shell, and bone are found in great variety,

[24:31.73]feathers and shell are seen as ornaments.

[24:34.27]But it is the plants which form

[24:35.98]the structural materials or architecture and artifacts.

[24:40.53]Among Melanesia's varied cultures,

[24:42.93]that of New Guinea's Sepik River area is

[24:46.02]one of the richest in artifacts.

[24:48.71]An important source is the annual festival marking

[24:51.55]the harvest of the yamcrop, a hill country staple.

[24:55.44]Yams of special size and characterrepresent spirits of the dead,

[24:59.66]and the quality ofa man and his family may not eat

[25:02.75]their own produce but must give it to a family of a nonrelated clan.

[25:08.31]Each phase of the growing cycle of the yamis marked with ceremonies

[25:12.56]and festivities culminating in the great harvest festival

[25:16.13]when the village square is filled with piles of yams.

[25:20.09]Many of the finest specimens are adorned with painted masks,

[25:24.38]feather headdresses, and jewelry.

[25:27.47]Each man or the tribe, similarly adorned,

[25:31.03]extols the virtues of his yams in extravagant oratory,

[25:35.83]climaxing his presentation by pronouncing the name of

[25:39.54]the family who is to receive his crop.