王迈迈大学英语六级预测与详解 04

　　[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 1.

[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 2, patient

[04:58.33]and treat passengers kindly 3 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 4 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 5 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 6

[07:59.48]to provide at least a one page writing sample

[08:02.32]which is then passed over to me for interpretation 7.

[08:05.37]W: How long does it take you to analyze 8 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 9 name, “Aunt Mary” suggesting

[09:52.83]a gentle middle aged 10 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 11 staffs are high qualified 12 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 13 answers.

[10:35.96]Nowadays everything is much clearer,

[10:38.53]questions of the most intimate kind are fully 14 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 16 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 15.

[12:09.08]When the fruit produces increased amounts of ethylene,

[12:12.02]the ethylene affects the fruit physiologically 17.

[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 18 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?

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[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 19 spent five days in Algeria,

[13:55.77]trying to come up with a plan for helping 20 that country

[13:58.46]to end terrorist attacks against civilians 22.

[14:01.30]There was no indication of a breakthrough.

[14:03.87]The world has been horrified 23 by a recent wave of

[14:06.41]civilian 21 massacres 24 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 25

[16:00.57]involves more conflict, more traveling,

[16:03.48]the overloading 26 of public services and exposure to those deviants

[16:08.49]and criminals who are drawn 27 to the rich pickings of great cities.

[16:12.97]Crime has always flourished in the relative anonymity 28 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 30 against these developments,city dwellers 29 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 31;

[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 32 harmful to the individual, for example,

[17:00.46]reducing awareness 33 through drugs or alcohol.

[17:03.52]Furthermore, all these defensive 34 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 35 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.