2013年6月英语六级考试听力真题(一)
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2013年6月英语六级考试听力真题（第1套）
Section A
11.W: What’s wrong with your phone, Gary? I
tried to call you all night yesterday.
M: I’m
sorry. No one’s able to get through yesterday. My
telephone was
disconnected by the phone
company.
Q: What does the woman ask the man
about?
A) Why his phone had been disconnected.
B) Why she could not get through to him.
C) Why he didn’t leave her a message.
D)
Why he refused to answer her call.
12.
W: I finally found a really nice apartment that’s
within my price range.
M: Congratulations!
Affordable housing is rare in this city. I’ve been
looking for a
suitable place since I got here
six months ago.
Q: What does the man mean?
A) The houses within his price range are sold
out.
B) Most people in this city want to own a
home.
C) He has difficulty finding affordable
housing.
D) The woman should rent a nicer
apartment.
13. M: I got this in my
mailbox today, but I don’t know what it is. Do you
have any
idea?
W: Oh, that’s your number
for the new photocopier. It acquires an access
code.
Everyone got one.
Q: What do we
learn from the conversation?
A) The woman
would like the man to take care of her mail.
B) The woman has put the number into
everyone’s mailbox.
C) The new copy machine
can meet everyone’s needs.
D) A code number is
necessary to run the copy machine.
14.
W: Jane told me that you’ll be leaving at soon. Is
it true?
M: Yeah, my wife’s maternity leave is
close to an end. And since she wants to go
back to work, I’ve decided to take a year off
to raise the baby.
Q: What does the man mean?
A) He will stop work to take care of the baby.
B) He will find a job near his home next year.
C) His wife is going to give birth to a baby.
D) His wife will leave her work soon.
15. M: We’ll never find a parking space here.
What about dropping you at the
south gate and
I’ll find parking somewhere else.
W: Well, OK.
It looks like everyone in town came to the mall
today.
Q: What does the woman mean?
A) The
shopping center is flooded with people.
B)
They will come to the mall some other day.
C)
Parking in this city is a horrible nightmare.
D) She will wait for the man at the south
gate.
16. W: When will the computers be
back online?
M: Probably not until tomorrow.
The problem is more complicated than I thought.
Q: What does the man mean?
A) He will be
back in a minute to repair the computers.
B)
It will take longer to reconnect the computers to
the Net.
C) He has tackled more complicated
problems than this.
D) A lot of cool stuff
will be available online tomorrow.
17.
M: Did you catch Professor Smith on TV last night?
W: I almost missed it, but my mother just
happened to be watching at home and
gave me a
call.
Q: What does the woman imply?
A) She forgot to call her mother.
B) Prof. Smith gives lectures regularly on TV.
C) Her mother is a friend of Prof. Smith’s.
D) She did see Prof. Smith on TV.
18. M: May I get this prescription refilled?
W: I’m sorry, sir, but we can’t give you a
refill on that. You’ll have to get a new
prescription.
Q: What can we infer from
the conversation?
A) The man has to wait to
get his medicine.
B) The store doesn’t have
the prescribed medicine.
C) The man has to go
to see his doctor again.
D) The prescription
is not written clearly enough.
W: Well,
it’s the South Theater Company. They want to know
if we’d be
interested in sponsoring a tour
they want to make to East Asia.
M: East Asia?
uhh… and how much are they hoping to get from us?
W: Well, the letter mentions 20,000 pounds,
but I don’t know if they might settle
for us.
M: Do they say what they would cover? Have
they anything specific in mind?
W: No, I think
they are just asking all the firms in tongue for
as much money as
they think they’ll give.
M: And we are worth 20, 000 pounds, right?
W: It seems so.
M: Very flattering. But I
am not awfully happy with the idea. What we get
out of it?
W: Oh, good publicity I suppose. So
what I suggest is not that we just give them a
sum of money, but that we offer to pay for
something specific like travel or
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something, and that in return, we ask for our
name to be printed prominently in
the program,
and that they give us free advertising space in
it.
M: But the travel bill would be enormous,
and we could never manage that.
W: I know. But
why don’t we offer to pay for the printing of the
programs
ourselves on condition that on the
front cover there’s something like This
program is presented with the compliments of
Norland Electronics, and free
advertising of
course.
M: Good idea. Well, let’s get back to
them and ask what the program they want
will
cost. Then we can see if we are interested or not.
Questions 19 to 21 are based on the
conversation you have just heard.
19. What do
we learn about the South Theater Company?
A)
It is advertising electronic products.
B) It
is planning to tour East Asia.
C) It is
sponsoring a TV programme.
D) It is giving
performances in town.
20. What benefit
does the woman say their firm can get by
sponsoring the
Theater Company?
A) A lot
of good publicity.
B) Talented artists to work
for it.
C) Long-term investments.
D) A
decrease in production costs.
21. What
does the woman suggest they do instead of paying
the South Theater
Company’s travel expenses?
A) Promise long-term cooperation with the
Company.
B) Explain frankly their own current
financial situation.
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C) Pay for
the printing of the performance programme.
D)
Bear the cost of publicising the Company’s
performance.
W: Rock stars now face a
new hazard — voice abuse. After last week’s
announcement that Phil Collins might give up
touring because live concerts are
ruining his
voice, doctors are counseling stars about the dos
and don’ts of voice
care. Here in the studio
today, we have Mr. Paul Phillips, an expert from
the High
Field Hospital. Paul, what advice
would you give to singers facing voice problems?
M: If pop singers have got voice problems,
they really need to be more selective
about
where they work. They shouldn’t work in smoky
atmospheres. They also
need to think about
resting their voices after a show. Something else
they need to
be careful about is medicines.
Aspirin, for example, singers should avoid
aspirin. It
thins the blood. And if a singer
coughs, this can result in the bruising of the
vocal
cords.
W: And is it true that some
singers use drugs before concerts to boost their
voices
when they have voice problems?
M:
Yes, this does happen on occasion. They are
easily-available on the continent
and they are
useful if a singer has problems with his vocal
cords and has to sing
that night. But if they
are taken regularly, they cause a thinning of the
voice
muscle. Most pop singers suffer from
three things: lack of training, overuse and
abuse of the voice, especially when they are
young. They have difficult lives.
When they go
on tour, they do a vast number of concerts,
singing in smoky places.
W: So, what would you
advise the singers to do?
M: Warm you voice up
before a show and warm it down after.
Questions 22 to 25 are based on the
conversation you have just heard.
22. What
does last week’s announcement say about rock star,
Phil Collins?
A) He has been seeing doctors
and counsellors.
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B) He has
found a new way to train his voice.
C) He was
caught abusing drugs.
D) He might give up
concert tours.
23. What does Paul
Philips say about aspirin?
A) Singers may
become addicted to it.
B) It helps singers
warm themselves up.
C) Singers use it to stay
away from colds.
D) It can do harm to singers’
vocal chords.
24. What does Paul Philips
say about young pop singers?
A) They are eager
to become famous.
B) Many lack professional
training.
C) Few will become successful.
D) They live a glamorous life.
25.
What are the speakers mainly talking about?
A)
Harm to singers done by smoky atmospheres.
B)
Side effects of some common drugs.
C) Voice
problems among pop singers.
D) Hardships
experienced by .
Section B
Passage
One
Would you trust a robot to park your car?
The question will confront New
Yorkers in
February as the city’s first robotic parking opens
in Chinatown.
The technology has been
successfully applied overseas, but the only other
public
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robotic garage in the
United States has been troublesome, dropping
vehicles and
trapping cars because of
technical problems.
Nonetheless, the
developers of the Chinatown garage are confident
with the
technology and are counting on it to
squeeze 67 cars in an apartment-building
basement that would otherwise fit only 24,
accomplished by removing a
maneuver space
normally required.
A human-shaped robot won’t
be stepping into your car to drive it. Rather, the
garage itself does the parking. The driver
stops the car on a flat platform and gets
out.
The platform is lowered into the garage, and it is
then transported to a
vacant parking space by
a computer-controlled device similar to an
elevator that
also runs sideways.
There is
no human supervision, but an attendant will be on
hand to accept cash
and explain the system to
newly users. Parking rates will be attracted about
$$400
monthly or $$25 per day, according to Ari
Milstein, the director of planning for
Automation Parking Systems, which is the U.S.
subsidiary of a German company.
This company
has built automated garages in several countries
overseas and in
the United States for
residents of a Washington, D.C. apartment
building.
Questions 26 to 29 are based on
the conversation you have just heard.
26. What
do we learn about the robot parking in the U.S. so
far?
A) It has not been very successful.
B) It has long become a new trend.
C) It
has met with strong resistance.
D) It has
attracted a lot of users.
27. What
advantage does robotic parking have according to
the developers?
A) It saves time.
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B) It increases parking capacity.
C)
It ensures drivers’ safety.
D) It reduces car
damage.
28. What does the attendant do
in the automated garage?
A) Collect money and
help new users.
B) Maintain the automated
system.
C) Stay alert to any emergency.
D)
Walk around and guard against car theft.
29. What does the company say about the
parking rate?
A) They will vary with the size
of vehicles.
B) They will be discountable to
regular customers.
C) They will be lower than
conventional parking.
D) They will be reduced
if paid in cash.
Passage Two
A
recent study shows that meat consumption is one of
the main ways that human
can damage the
environment, second only to the use of motor
vehicles. So how
can eating meat have a
negative effect on the environment? For a start,
all
animals, such as cows, pigs and sheep,
always gas limed methane, which is the
second
most common green house gas after carbon dioxide.
Many environmental
experts now believe that
methane is more responsible for global warming
than
carbon dioxide. It is estimated that 25%
of all methane that released into the
atmosphere coming from farm animals. Another
way in which meat production
affects the
environment is through the use of water and land.
2,500 gallons of
water are needed to produce
one pound of beef. While 20 gallons of water are
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need to produce one pound of
wheat. One acre of farmland use to for raising
cows can produce 250 pounds of beef. One acre
of farmland use to for crop
production can
produce 1,500 pounds of tomatoes. Many people now
say the
benefits of switching to vegetarian
diet which excludes meat and fish. Not just for
health reasons, but also because it plays a
vital role in protecting the environment.
However, some nutritionists advise against
switching to a totally strict vegetarian
diet.
They believe such a diet which includes no
products from animal sources can
be deficient
in many of the necessary vitamins and minerals our
bodies need.
Today many people have come to
realize that help the environment and for the
human race to survive, more of us will need to
become vegetarian.
Questions 30 to 32 are
based on the passage you have just heard.
30.
What does the recent study show?
A) Half of
the methane in the atmosphere is from animals.
B) Methane has become the chief source of
greenhouse gas.
C) Consumer behavior may be
influenced by the environment.
D) Meat
consumption has an adverse effect on the
environment.
31. What do some
nutritionists say about the strict vegetarian
diet?
A) It takes time for the human body to
get used to it.
B) It lacks the vitamins and
minerals essential for health.
C) It enhances
immunity to certain diseases.
D) It helps
people to live a much longer life.
32.
What does the speaker think more people need to
do?
A) Produce green food.
B) Waste no
food.
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C) Quit eating meats.
D) Grow vegetables.
Passage Three
Alcoholism is a serious disease. Nearly nine
million Americans alone suffer from
the
illness. Many scientists disagree about what the
differences are between the
alcohol addict and
social drinker. The difference occurs when someone
needs to
drink. And this need gets in the way
of his health or behavior. Alcohol causes a
loss of judgment and alertness. After a long
period, alcoholism can deteriorate
the liver,
the brain and other parts of the body. The illness
is dangerous, because
it is involved in half
of all automobile accidents. Another problem is
that the
victim often denies being an alcohol
addict and won’t get help. Solutions do exist.
Many hospitals and centers help patients cope.
Without the assistance, the victim
can destroy
his life. He would detach himself from the
routines of life. He may
lose his employment,
home or loved ones.
All the causes of the
sickness are not discovered yet. There is no
standard for a
person with alcoholism. Victims
range in age, race, sex and background. Some
groups of people are more vulnerable to the
illness. People from broken homes
and North
American Indians are two examples. People from
broken homes often
lack stable lives. Indians
likewise had the traditional life taken from them
by white
settlers who often encourage them to
consume alcohol to prevent them from
fighting
back. The problem has now been passed on.
Alcoholism is clearly present
in society
today. People have started to get help and
information. With proper
assistance, victims
can put their lives together one day.
Questions 33 to 35 are based on the passage
you have just heard.
33. What is the problem
of the victims about alcoholism according to the
speaker?
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A) They do not know any
solution.
B) They do not give up drunk
driving.
C) They do not behave in public
places.
D) They do not admit being alcohol
addicts.
34. Why did white settlers
introduce alcohol to Indians?
A) To stop them
from fighting back.
B) To thank them for their
hospitality.
C) To teach them the European
lifestyle.
D) To relieve their pains and
sufferings.
35. What does the speaker
seem to believe about those affected by
alcoholism?
A) Without intervention they will
be a headache to the nation.
B) With support
they can be brought back to a normal life.
C)
They readily respond to medical treatment.
D)
They pose a serious threat to social stability.
Section C
Self-image is the picture you
have of yourself, the sort of person you believe
you
are. (36) Included in your self-image are
the (37) categories in which you place
yourself, the roles you play, and other (38)
simila descriptors you use-to identify
yourself. If you tell an (39)acquaintance you
are a grandfather who (40) recently
lost his
wife and who does (41)volunteer work on weekends,
several elements of
your self-image are
brought to light -the roles of grandparent,
widower, and
conscientious (42)citizen.
But self-image is more than how you picture
yourself; it also involves how others
see you.
Three types of feedback from others are (43)
indicativeof how they see
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us:
confirmation, rejection, and disconfirmation.
Confirmation occurs when
others treat you in a
manner consistent with who you believe you are.
(44) You
believe you have leadership
abilitiesand your boss put you in charge of a new
work team. On the other hand, rejection occurs
when others treat you in a
manner that is
inconsistent with your self-definition. Pierre
Salinger was
appointed senator from California
but subsequently lost his first election. (45) He
thought he was a good public official,but the
voters obviously thought otherwise –
their
vote was inconsistent with his self-concept. The
third type of feedback is
disconfirmation,
which occurs when others fail to respond to your
notion of self
by responding neutrally. (46)A
student writes what he thinks is anexcellent
composition, but the teacher writes no
encouraging remarks. Rather than relying
on
how others classify you, consider how you identify
yourself. The way in which
you identify
reflection of your self-image.
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