王迈迈大学英语六级预测与详解 09

　　[00:01.79]test 9

[00:03.35]Section A

[00:04.74]Now let's begin with the 8 short conversations.

[00:07.90]11. W: Will you take geology next semester?

[00:11.31]M: I've had enough science courses.

[00:13.75]Q: What does the man mean?

[00:30.90]12. M: I was shocked when I heard you've finished

[00:34.09]your dissertation 1 a whole month early.

[00:36.96]W: How I managed to do it is still a mystery to me.

[00:40.16]Q: What does the woman mean?

[00:57.38]13. M: Has he received responses from everyone he invited?

[01:02.50]W: Ah ha, only Steven can't come.

[01:05.63]Q: What does the woman mean?

[01:22.63]14. W: I think the whole class's going

[01:25.63]on the field trip next Saturday.

[01:27.66]M: I'm not sure.

[01:28.79]Not everyone has paid the transportation fee.

[01:31.64]Q: What does the man imply? 

[01:48.84]15. W: Sarah's been nervous for two weeks.

[01:52.29]M: Why not drop in on her and find out how she's doing?

[01:55.27]Q: What does the man mean?

[02:12.12]16. W: Are you looking forward to your move in August?

[02:16.23]M: You bet, I am. The room here are too small and

[02:19.63]there is no kitchen and bathroom.

[02:22.06]Q: What is the man going to do? 

[02:39.67]17. M: Hey! Where did you find that booklet?

[02:43.23]I need it for my research, too.

[02:45.48]W: Right here. But don't worry.

[02:47.33]I'll take it out on my card for both of us.

[02:50.52]Q: Where is this conversation probably taking place?

[03:08.98]18. W: There are some new apartments on campus.

[03:12.49]But one bedroom rents six hundred dollars a month.

[03:15.32]M: That's a bit beyond the reach of most students.

[03:18.05]Q: What does the man mean? 

[03:35.08]Now you will hear 2 long conversations.

[03:37.87]Conversation One

[03:39.48]M: Hei, I bought an electronic dictionary yesterday.

[03:42.49]Do you want to check it out with me now?

[03:44.92]W: Sure! So, this is it, right?

[03:47.49]I hate to tell you this but this is gotta to be a fake.

[03:50.68]M: What makes you say that? 

[03:52.17]W: Just look at it. It looks so tiny.

[03:54.71]It's obviously made from the cheapest materials they could find.

[03:58.37]By the way, where did you buy it?

[04:00.37]M: Some guy in front of the bookstore sold it for a really good price.

[04:04.58]W: No kidding how much was it?

[04:06.54]M: You are not going to believe it, it normally sells for 400 yuan,

[04:10.64]but he sold it to me at 200 because of urgent need of money. 

[04:14.64]W: Let's try a word on it. 

[04:16.46]M: The screen is blank? Try it again.

[04:19.40]W: I've also tried several words but they are not in the dictionary. 

[04:23.72]M: Look at this word, its explanation does not match.

[04:26.95]It is another word's explanation. It's gotta to be a fake.

[04:31.09]W: No wonder it feels much lighter 3 than the one I had before.

[04:34.90]M: You must have been cheated and it's nearly impossible

[04:37.52]for you to get your money back.

[04:39.26]Even the Consumer Association couldn't help

[04:41.62]you since they couldn't find the guy.

[04:43.93]W: Oh, no. I never thought it was a fake.

[04:46.33]The guy looks quite pitiful.

[04:48.00]M: And in the future, if you want to buy something,

[04:50.58]you'd better go to the agencies or

[04:52.45]department stores or even supermarket.

[04:54.70]That's the best way to avoid getting cheated.

[04:57.96]Questions 19 to 21 are based on the conversation you have just heard.

[05:03.16]19. Where did the man buy the dictionary?

[05:20.61]20. Which of the following is not the reason

[05:23.80]why the electronic dictionary is a fake?

[05:40.50]21. Why couldn't the Consumer Association help?

[05:58.89]Conversation Two

[06:00.71]M: We need to buy some beer too. Where is the beer?

[06:05.17]W: They don't have beer in this supermarket.

[06:07.28]We have to go to the liquor store.

[06:09.24]M: Huh? They don't have beer. How can that be?

[06:12.94]W: It's a state law. This state doesn't allow supermarkets to sell beer.

[06:17.12]Only in liquor stores.

[06:18.75]M: That's too strict. It's silly.

[06:21.15]W: I know. I agree with you. 

[06:22.93]M: Do they sell organic vegetables here? 

[06:25.36]W: Yes. They're right in front of you.

[06:27.56]The organic vegetables are marked with the blue label. 

[06:30.54]M: We need to buy some soy sauce. Which aisle 4 is the soy sauce in?

[06:34.61]W: That would be in aisle 7, with the condiments 5.

[06:37.62]It is right next to the ketchup 6. Do you want paper or plastic bags?

[06:42.09]M: Plastic bags.

[06:44.08]W: And do you want to drive up?

[06:45.83]M: What do you mean?

[06:47.10]W: We can have someone put the bags in our trunk for us.

[06:50.00]We just drive up to that door over there.

[06:52.22]M: Wow! That's convenient.

[06:54.26]But I think we can take the groceries by ourselves.

[06:57.34]W: Yes, our car is not parked far away.

[06:59.67]I'll tell the cashier we don't want to drive up.

[07:02.43]It should be about ninety dollars all together.

[07:04.93]M: Here is one hundred.

[07:07.67]Questions 22 to 25 are based on the conversation you have just heard.

[07:12.83]22. Where can they buy beer?

[07:29.84]23. What do they think about the state law on liquor?

[07:47.96]24. Which of the following is not the item they want to buy?

[08:06.73]25. Which of the following is not true according to the conversation?

[08:27.12]Section B

[08:28.61]Passage One

[08:29.99]A baby songbird doesn't emerge from the egg singing perfectly 7.

[08:34.00]It starts out babbling 8 and gradually refines its tune 9 over time.

[08:38.54]Human infants follow a similar developmental path

[08:42.03]when learning to talk.

[08:43.88]Scientists have thus often compared the acquisition of

[08:47.33]human speech to that of songbird.

[08:50.27]But whether the mechanisms 10 of vocal 11 development are the

[08:52.91]same in humans and birds is a question few studies have tackled.

[08:57.26]To that end, new research should prove insightful.

[09:00.45]According to a report published online this week

[09:03.02]by the Proceedings 12 of the National Academy of Sciences,

[09:06.29]babbling human babies respond to social cues from

[09:09.19]their mothers in much the way that avian babies do.

[09:13.04]Previous efforts to understand how babies learn to

[09:15.77]talk had focused on the role of imitation in speech acquisition.

[09:20.53]In the new work, psychologist Michael H. Goldstein of Franklin and

[09:24.55]Marshall College and his colleagues turned their attention to social

[09:28.11]interactions between eight month old infants and their mothers.

[09:32.22]The researchers directed the mothers to act in certain ways while

[09:35.63]responding to their baby's utterances 13 during 30 minute play sessions.

[09:40.57]“The mothers did not change how they talked but

[09:42.73]whether they touched or smiled at the baby,”

[09:45.42]team member Meredith West of Indiana University explains.

[09:49.96]Like songbird chicks, the investigators 14 found,

[09:53.04]the babies registered the social consequences of sound making

[09:56.53]and adjusted their babbling accordingly

[09:59.40]West describes the findings as the first to show

[10:02.30]“that babies change how they vocalize in response to social

[10:05.42]responses—not sounds, but sights—by using more mature sounds.”

[10:10.51]Remarks Goldstein: “This project shows that maternal 15 behavior

[10:14.39]and infant sensory 16 capacities interact to generate the development of

[10:18.90]more advanced infant behavior.

[10:21.26]It shows that social learning is a crucial part of vocal development.”

[10:25.76]Questions 26 to 28 are based on the passage you have just heard.

[10:30.67]26. What is the similarity between human infants and baby songbirds? 

[10:50.43]27. What do the researchers like Michael H. Goldstein center on? 

[11:09.81]28. What is the crucial part of vocal development

[11:13.33]according to Goldstein's opinion?

[11:28.10]Passage Two

[11:29.71]Phil Spector is the most famous and

[11:31.77]influential producer in the history of rock music.

[11:35.69]He is known for producing a distinctive 17 “wall of sound,”

[11:39.18]in which a number of instruments are

[11:40.89]blended together to create a single effect.

[11:43.58]Because of this technique, Spector resisted the introduction of stereo,

[11:48.47]preferring to have the sounds of multiple instruments mixed together in

[11:51.78]a single monaural track rather than separated into left and right channels.

[11:58.93]Spector expanded the role of a producer.

[12:01.83]He owned and operated his own record company,

[12:04.70]co wrote most of the material recorded under his supervision 18,

[12:08.84]selected the primary artists and supporting musicians for each session,

[12:12.89]and then orchestrated all of this talent to produce a unique artistic 19 vision.

[12:17.98]As practiced by Spector, the role of producer was

[12:21.10]more akin 2 to that of a director in film.

[12:24.22]He was really the only record producer to fully 20 claim the role of auteur,

[12:28.80]the primary creative and organizing force

[12:31.78]behind the music that he produced.

[12:35.41]Spector also exemplified the power of collaboration 21.

[12:38.99]He relied on favorite singers and other supporting artists to

[12:42.36]give form to his works, much as Hollywood directors would rely on

[12:45.81]favorite actors and other creative personnel working behind the scenes.

[12:50.52]His recordings 22 featured the talents of Leon Russell on piano,

[12:54.15]Jack Nitzsche as arranger, Hal Blaine on drums,

[12:58.07]and Glen Campbell on guitar, just to name a few who went on

[13:01.84]to achieve some degree of fame and fortune later in their careers.

[13:06.38]Questions 29 to 31 are based on the passage you have just heard.

[13:11.68]29. Which of the following is not the characteristics of Phil Spector?

[13:30.49]30. Why does the author say Spector expanded the role of a producer?

[13:49.10]31. Why are Spector's works so popular according to the passage?

[14:09.83]Passage Three

[14:11.17]A recent Pew Internet & American Life study indicates that

[14:15.20]86 percent of US college students use the Internet.

[14:19.41]According to the study, students say the Internet is

[14:22.79]essential to both their academic and social lives.

[14:26.31]Nearly 80 percent of college students in the US say

[14:30.02]the Net has had a positive impact on their college academic experience,

[14:34.34]while 60 percent think it has improved their relationships with classmates.

[14:38.76]Around 73 percent of students use the Internet

[14:41.58]more than the library for research.

[14:43.94]The report also indicates that 72 percent of students check

[14:47.82]their email everyday, while 56 percent believe that

[14:51.92]email has enhanced their relationship with professors.

[14:55.62]Approximately 46 percent also say that email enables them to express

[15:00.24]ideas to a professor that they wound not have expressed in class.

[15:04.70]Over 40 percent of online students say they use the Internet

[15:09.30]most often to keep in touch with their friends,

[15:11.98]compared to 38 percent who say they use it most often for academics.

[15:17.16]As for email, 72 percent correspond mostly with friends,

[15:21.86]10 percent mostly with family,

[15:24.20]and seven percent mostly with professors.

[15:27.26]College Internet users are twice as likely as other Internet users to

[15:30.88]have ever downloaded music files,

[15:33.28]with 60 percent of online students having done so,

[15:36.63]compared to 28 percent of the overall population.

[15:40.54]Online students are also twice as likely as other Internet users to

[15:44.42]use instant messaging (IM) applications on any given day,

[15:48.13]with 28 percent of college students using IM,

[15:51.22]compared to just 12 percent of general Internet users.

[15:55.81]Questions 32 to 35 are based on the passage you have just heard.

[16:00.54]32. What do US college students say about the Internet? 

[16:19.11]33. How many percent of students use the Internet

[16:23.21]more than the library for research? 

[16:39.77]34. Which of the following is not mentioned in the passage?  

[16:58.43]35. What can be concluded from the passage?

[17:15.23]Section C

[17:17.26]When a heart lung machine was invented that

[17:19.95]could take over the job of the heart, put oxygen into the blood

[17:24.23]and keep the circulation going during surgery,

[17:27.02]surgeons could stop the heart while they were cutting and suturing.

[17:31.35]Recently, in certain cases, some surgeons have begun operating

[17:35.52]without the pump while the heart continues to beat.

[17:38.64]“The benefits of off pump surgery are tremendous

[17:42.34]for patients who meet the criteria 23 for this procedure,”

[17:45.35]says Dr. Jim Zellner with the Alliance of Cardiac,

[17:49.17]Thoracic and Vascular 24 Surgeons.

[17:52.25]“There is less need for blood products,

[17:54.65]less chance of complications during and after surgery,

[17:58.17]earlier recovery and earlier return to regular activity.”

[18:02.31]Seawood Murray feels he was led by God to find Dr. Zellner and

[18:07.25]Memorial Hospital and to have off pump surgery.

[18:10.62]A veteran of the United States Navy as a nuclear weapons security

[18:14.20]officer and commanding officer of a mine assembly group for more

[18:18.56]than 31 years, Seawood has never complained about stress or pain.

[18:23.39]He saw three tours of duty off the coast of Vietnam.

[18:26.87]However, after suffering from chest pain for almost a year and

[18:30.56]being misdiagnosed with chronic 25 heartburn,

[18:33.68]Seawood knew something was seriously wrong.

[18:37.09]At the Veteran's hospital in Murfreesboro, he learned

[18:41.05]he had heart disease and was told to come back in six weeks.

[18:45.30]“I didn't want to wait that long and asked for

[18:47.98]a referral to The Chattanooga Heart Institute,” Seawood says.

[18:52.15]“Dr. Noel Hunt found that 40% of my heart was

[18:56.22]not getting the amount of blood it needed to operate properly.”

[18:59.81]Four days later, Seawood was undergoing off pump triple bypass

[19:03.68]surgery at Memorial Hospital under the hand of Dr. Zellner.

[19:08.14]“I was sitting up that evening, walking around the second day

[19:11.45]and feeling good enough to go home the third day,

[19:14.06]but I stayed till the fourth morning,” Seawood says.

[19:17.07]“Two others who had on pump bypass surgery the same day

[19:21.38]I had mine off pump were barely walking when I left.”

[19:28.28]When a heart lung machine was invented that

[19:30.79]could take over the job of the heart, put oxygen into the blood

[19:35.18]and keep the circulation going during surgery,

[19:40.08]surgeons could stop the heart while they were cutting and suturing.

[19:45.42]Recently, in certain cases, some surgeons have begun operating

[19:49.55]without the pump while the heart continues to beat.

[19:52.68]“The benefits of off pump surgery are tremendous

[19:56.23]for patients who meet the criteria for this procedure,”

[20:01.19]says Dr. Jim Zellner with the Alliance of Cardiac,

[20:04.90]Thoracic and Vascular Surgeons.

[20:08.09]“There is less need for blood products,

[20:10.45]less chance of complications during and after surgery,

[20:14.01]earlier recovery and earlier return to regular activity.”

[20:18.15]Seawood Murray feels he was led by God to find Dr. Zellner and

[20:23.16]Memorial Hospital and to have off pump surgery.

[20:26.39]A veteran of the United States Navy as a nuclear weapons security

[20:30.02]officer and commanding officer of a mine assembly group for more

[20:34.26]than 31 years, Seawood has never complained about stress or pain.

[20:41.18]He saw three tours of duty off the coast of Vietnam.

[20:44.70]However, after suffering from chest pain for almost a year and

[20:48.33]being misdiagnosed with chronic heartburn,

[20:52.46]Seawood knew something was seriously wrong.

[20:55.98]At the Veteran's hospital in Murfreesboro, he learned

[20:59.21]he had heart disease and was told to come back in six weeks.

[21:04.02]“I didn't want to wait that long and asked for

[21:06.78]a referral to The Chattanooga Heart Institute,” Seawood says.

[21:11.03]“Dr. Noel Hunt found that 40% of my heart was

[21:15.13]not getting the amount of blood it needed to operate properly.”

[22:07.96]Four days later, Seawood was undergoing off pump triple bypass

[22:11.48]surgery at Memorial Hospital under the hand of Dr. Zellner.

[22:16.02]“I was sitting up that evening, walking around the second day

[22:19.33]and feeling good enough to go home the third day,

[22:21.91]but I stayed till the fourth morning,”

[23:12.53]Seawood says.

[23:14.09]“Two others who had on pump bypass surgery the same day

[23:18.34]I had mine off pump were barely walking when I left.”

[24:14.13]When a heart lung machine was invented that

[24:16.56]could take over the job of the heart, put oxygen into the blood

[24:20.92]and keep the circulation going during surgery,

[24:23.79]surgeons could stop the heart while they were cutting and suturing.

[24:28.11]Recently, in certain cases, some surgeons have begun operating

[24:32.30]without the pump while the heart continues to beat.

[24:35.43]“The benefits of off pump surgery are tremendous

[24:39.09]for patients who meet the criteria for this procedure,”

[24:42.11]says Dr. Jim Zellner with the Alliance of Cardiac,

[24:45.85]Thoracic and Vascular Surgeons.

[24:49.00]“There is less need for blood products,

[24:51.36]less chance of complications during and after surgery,

[24:54.89]earlier recovery and earlier return to regular activity.”

[24:58.70]Seawood Murray feels he was led by God to find Dr. Zellner and

[25:03.96]Memorial Hospital and to have off pump surgery.

[25:07.39]A veteran of the United States Navy as a nuclear weapons security

[25:10.99]officer and commanding officer of a mine assembly group for more

[25:15.02]than 31 years, Seawood has never complained about stress or pain.

[25:20.09]He saw three tours of duty off the coast of Vietnam.

[25:23.62]However, after suffering from chest pain for almost a year and

[25:27.24]being misdiagnosed with chronic heartburn,

[25:30.39]Seawood knew something was seriously wrong.

[25:33.91]At the Veteran's hospital in Murfreesboro, he learned

[25:37.90]he had heart disease and was told to come back in six weeks.

[25:41.97]“I didn't want to wait that long and asked for

[25:44.72]a referral to The Chattanooga Heart Institute,” Seawood says.

[25:48.97]“Dr. Noel Hunt found that 40% of my heart was

[25:53.18]not getting the amount of blood it needed to operate properly.”

[25:56.81]Four days later, Seawood was undergoing off pump triple bypass

[26:00.55]surgery at Memorial Hospital under the hand of Dr. Zellner.

[26:04.98]“I was sitting up that evening, walking around the second day

[26:08.24]and feeling good enough to go home the third day,

[26:10.89]but I stayed till the fourth morning,” Seawood says.

[26:14.16]“Two others who had on pump bypass surgery the same day

[26:18.30]I had mine off pump were barely walking when I left.”