CET6 2019年6月 第2套 · 听力
- 00:00:41 - Section A · 第 1 篇 · 1–4 题
- 00:04:09 - Section A · 第 2 篇 · 5–8 题
- 00:07:53 - Section B · 第 1 篇 · 9–11 题
- 00:10:50 - Section B · 第 2 篇 · 12–15 题
- 00:14:37 - Section C · 第 1 篇 · 16–18 题
- 00:19:23 - Section C · 第 2 篇 · 19–21 题
- 00:23:38 - Section C · 第 3 篇 · 22–25 题
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Transcript
Questions 1–4
1 W: Wow, I would give anything to be more like Audrey Hepburn.
2 M: I never really understood why so many girls were such big fans of her. I mean, I’ve seen the famous films, Roman Holiday, Breakfast at Tiffany’s and a few others, but I still don’t fully get it. Was she that great of an actress?
3 W: Well, for me, my adoration goes beyond her movies. She had such a classic elegance about her. She was always so poised, in part because she spent years training as a ballet dancer before becoming an actress.
4 M: Why didn’t she stick to dancing as a career?
5 W: It seems it was fate. She suffered from inadequate nutrition during the war, and therefore, a career as a professional dancer would have been too demanding on her body. So she focused on acting instead. Roman Holiday was her first big break which made her a star.
6 M: Was that the film that opened with her shopping for jewelry in New York City? You know, in the scene, she was wearing a black dress and dark sunglasses with a pearl necklace and long black gloves. I see the photo of her in that costume everywhere.
7 W: No, that one is Breakfast At Tiffany’s. That costume is often referred to as the most famous little black dress of all time. Her character in that film is very outgoing and charming, even though in real life, Audrey always described herself as shy and quiet.
8 M: So what did she do after her acting career?
9 W: She dedicated much of her life to helping children in need. Her family received international aid during the war when she was growing up. I think that left a big impression on her. That’s where I got the idea to volunteer for children’s charity next weekend.
10 M: I’ll join you. I may not be as charming as Audrey Hepburn, but I’m all for supporting a good cause.
Questions 5–8
1 W: So, how is our presentation about the restructuring of the company coming along?
2 M: Fine. I’m putting the finishing touches to it now.
3 M: …But we’ll have to be prepared for questions.
4 W: Yes, there’s already a feeling that this is a top down change. We really need to get everyone on board.
5 M: Well, there’s been an extensive consultation period.
6 W: I know, but there’s always the feeling that if it isn’t broke, don’t fix it.
7 M: People are worried about their jobs, too. I think we need to stress that while there will be some job changes, there won’t be anyone getting dismissed. In fact, we’re looking to take on more staff.
8 W: Agreed. You can hardly blame people for worrying though. We need to make it clear that it’s not just change for change’s sake. In other words, we really must make the case for why we are doing it.
9 W: …So what’s the outline of the presentation?
10 M: I’ll start with a brief review of the reasons for the change that we really need to make a clean break to restart growth. After that I’ll outline the new company’s structures and who’s going where. Then I’ll hand it over to you to discuss the timeline and summarize and we’ll take questions together at the end. Anything else?
11 W: Oh, yeah, we should let the staff know the channels of communication, you know, who they can contact or direct questions to about these changes?
12 M: Yes, and we can collect some frequently asked questions and present some general answers.
13 W: Um, and we’ll make the presentation and the questions available via the company’s own computer network, right?
14 M: Yes, we’ll make a page on the network where staff can download all the details.
15 W: All right. Perhaps we should do a practice round of the presentation first.
16 M: You bet.
Questions 9–11
1 Airline passengers have to deal with a lot these days, getting bumped from flights and losing luggage on top of the general anxiety that nervous passengers always feel.
2 At the Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky International Airport, miniature horses deliver a calming force two times a month. Denver and Ruby are two of the 34 therapy horses brought in from a local farm. They can usually be found in the ticket counter area interacting with travelers.
3 More than 30 airports across the country now have therapy dogs. San Francisco has a therapy pig. San Jose, California, began a dog program after the terrorist attacks of September 11. Since its beginning, the program has now grown and has 21 therapy dogs and a therapy cat.
4 The animals don’t get startled. They have had hundreds of hours of airport training, so they are used to having luggage and people crowding around them. These professional animals are probably better at finding their way in the airports than the most frequent of travelers.
5 The passengers often say that seeing animals makes them feel much better and helps them to calm down before a flight. This little bit of support can sometimes make a big difference. Some passengers enjoy the animals so much that they call the airport to schedule flights around their visits.
6 Visits to nursing homes and schools are also a regular part of the horses’ schedule. Their owner is already working on a new idea for a therapy animal—donkeys.
Questions 12–15
1 Hello, viewers. Today I’m standing at the 2000-year-old Roman-era site. Here the brightly-colored scenes that once decorated a mansion are being dug up. These scenes are turning up in the southern French city of Arles, surprising the historians who have been working here since 2014.
2 Patches of paint still cling to the stone walls of the bedroom and reception hall. Some of these painted walls are preserved in places to a height of one meter. In addition, thousands of fragments that fell off the walls have been recovered.
3 These pieces have been put back together with great care and display a variety of images. Some of these images include figures never seen before in France, such as a woman playing a stringed instrument, possibly a character from mythology.
4 The paintings were done with such skill and with such expensive dyes that experts believe the artists originally came from Italy. They were likely hired by one of the city’s elite.
5 Perhaps a Roman official wanted Pompeii-like interior to remind him of home. He was probably stationed in this provincial trading port founded in 46 B.C. as a colony for veterans of the Roman army. Or maybe a wealthy local wanted to show off his worldly sophistication.
6 The paintings may yield even more stunning surprises as additional sections are put together, like pieces of a puzzle. Whoever it was that created such magnificent pieces of art, they surely had no idea that their work would still be around thousands of years later.
Questions 16–18
1 Good afternoon, class. Today I want to discuss with you a new approach to empirical research.
2 In the past, scientists often worked alone. They were confined to the university or research center where they worked.
3 Today, though, we are seeing mergers of some of the greatest scientific minds, regardless of their location. There has never been a better time for collaborations with foreign scientists.
4 In fact, the European Union is taking the lead. Spurred on by funding policies, half of European research articles had international co-authors in 2007. This is more than twice the level of two decades ago. The European Union’s level of international co-authorship is about twice that of the United States, Japan and India.
5 Even so, the levels in these countries are also rising. This is a sign of the continued allure of creating scientific coalitions across borders.
6 Andrew Schubert, a researcher at the Institute for Science Policy Research, says that the rising collaboration is partly out of necessity. This necessity comes with the rise of big science. Many scientific endeavors have become more complicated. These new complications require the money and labor of many nations.
7 But he says collaborations have also emerged because of increased possibilities. The Internet allows like-minded scientists to find each other. Simultaneously, dramatic drops in communication costs ease long-distance interactions.
8 And there is a reward. Studies of citation counts show that internationally co-authored papers have better visibility. Schubert says international collaboration is a way to spread ideas in wider and wider circles.
9 Caroline Wagner, a research scientist at George Washington University, notes that international collaborations offer additional flexibility. Whereas local collaborations sometimes persist past the point of usefulness because of social or academic obligations, international ones can be cultivated and dropped more freely.
10 The collaborative trend is true across scientific disciplines. Some fields, though, have a greater tendency for it.
11 Particle physicists and astronomers collaborate often. This is because they must share expensive facilities. Mathematicians, by contrast, tend historically towards solitude. As a consequence, they lag behind other disciplines. However, Wagner says partnerships are rising there, too.
12 The level of collaboration also varies from country to country. There are historical and political reasons as to why collaborations emerge, says Wagner. This rise is also apparently boosted by policies embedded in European framework funding schemes. These policies underlie funding requirements that often require teamwork.
Questions 19–21
1 Good evening. In 1959, on the day that I was born, a headline in Life magazine proclaimed “Target Venus: There May be Life There!” It told of how scientists rode a balloon to an altitude of 80,000 feet to make telescope observations of Venus’s atmosphere, and how their discovery of water raised hopes that there could be living things there.
2 As a kid, I thrilled to tales of adventure and Isaac Asimov’s juvenile science-fiction novel Lucky Starr and the Oceans of Venus. For many of my peers, though, Venus quickly lost its romance.
3 The very first thing that scientists discovered with the mission to another planet was that Venus was not at all the Earthly paradise that fiction had portrayed. It is nearly identical to our own planet in bulk properties such as mass, density, and size. But its surface has been cooked and dried by an ocean of carbon dioxide.
4 Trapped in the burning death-grip of a runaway greenhouse effect, Venus has long been held up as a cautionary tale for everything that could go wrong on a planet like Earth. As a possible home for alien life, it has been voted the planet least likely to succeed.
5 But I have refused to give up on Venus, and over the years my stubborn loyalty has been justified. The rocky views glimpsed by Venera, and other Russian landers suggested a tortured volcanic history. That was confirmed in the early 1990s by the American Magellan orbiter, which used radar to peer through the planet’s thick clouds and map out a rich, varied, and dynamic surface. The surface formed mostly in the last billion years, which makes it fresher and more recently active than any rocky planet other than Earth.
6 Russian and American spacecraft also found hints that its ancient climate might have been wetter, cooler, and possibly even friendly to life. Measurements of density and composition imply that Venus originally formed out of basically the same stuff as Earth. That presumably included much more water than the tiny trace we find blowing in the thick air today.
7 Thus, our picture of Venus at around the time life was getting started on Earth is one of warm oceans, probably rich with organic molecules, splashing around rocky shores and volcanic vents. The sun was considerably less bright back then. So, Venus was arguably a cozier habitat for life than Earth.
Questions 22–25
1 I’m a psychology professor at the University of British Columbia. I specialize in Cultural Psychology, examining similarities and differences between East Asians and North Americans.
2 Our research team has been looking at cultural differences in self-enhancing motivations, how people have positive feelings towards not only themselves, but things connected to themselves. For example, when you own something, you view it as more valuable than when you don’t own it. It’s called the “endowment effect”. The strength of that effect is stronger in Western cultures than in Eastern cultures. So we’ve been looking at other ways of seeing whether this motivation to view oneself positively is shaped by cultural experiences.
3 We’ve also started to look at how culture shapes sleep. We are still in the exploratory stages of this project, although what’s noteworthy is that East Asians on average sleep about an hour and a half less each night than North Americans do. And it’s not a more efficient sleep, not like they’re compressing relatively more value out of their hours. Other studies have found that even infants in East Asia sleep about an hour less than European infants. So we’re trying to figure out how culture shapes the way you sleep.
4 Our experiment does not take place in a sleep lab. Instead, we lend people motion-detecting watches, and they wear them for a week at a time. Whenever they are not having a shower or swimming, they keep it on. These kinds of watches are used in sleep studies as a way of measuring how long people are sleeping, how efficient their sleep is, and whether they are waking up in the night.
5 Ideally, I’d like to take this into a controlled lab environment. We’ll see where the research points us. We usually start off with the more affordable methods and if everything looks promising, then it will justify trying to build a sleep lab and study sleep across cultures that way.
6 Why do we study sleep? Sleep is something that has really been an unexplored topic cross-culturally. I’m attracted to it because culture isn’t something that only shapes the way our minds operate; it shapes the way our bodies operate too, and sleep is at the intersection of those.
Questions, Answers & Analysis
Section A · Long Conversations
1. What does the man say he never really understood?
- A. Why Roman Holiday was more famous than Breakfast at Tiffany’s.
- B. Why Audrey Hepburn had more female fans than male ones.
- C. Why the woman wanted to be like Audrey Hepburn.
- D. Why so many girls adored Audrey Hepburn.
Answer: D — Why so many girls adored Audrey Hepburn.
I never really understood why so many girls were such big fans of her.
Analysis
Paraphrase
- so many girls were such big fans of her ↔ so many girls adored Audrey Hepburn
Why the other options are wrong
- A.
- B.
- C.
2. What prevented Audrey Hepburn from becoming a professional dancer?
- A. Her unique personality.
- B. Her physical condition.
- C. Her shift of interest to performing arts.
- D. Her family’s suspension of financial aid.
Answer: B — Her physical condition.
She suffered from inadequate nutrition during the war, and therefore, a career as a professional dancer would have been too demanding on her body.
Analysis
Paraphrase
- too demanding on her body ↔ Her physical condition.
Why the other options are wrong
- A.
- C.
- D.
3. What do we learn about Audrey Hepburn in real life?
- A. She was not an outgoing person.
- B. She was modest and hardworking.
- C. She was easy-going on the whole.
- D. She was usually not very optimistic.
Answer: A — She was not an outgoing person.
Her character in that film is very outgoing and charming, even though in real life, Audrey always described herself as shy and quiet.
Analysis
Paraphrase
- shy and quiet ↔ She was not an outgoing person.
Why the other options are wrong
- B.
- C.
- D.
4. Why did Audrey Hepburn devote much of her life to charity after her acting career?
- A. She was influenced by the roles she played in the films.
- B. Her parents taught her to sympathize with the needy.
- C. She learned to volunteer when she was a child.
- D. Her family benefited from other people’s help.
Answer: D — Her family benefited from other people’s help.
Her family received international aid during the war when she was growing up. I think that left a big impression on her.
Analysis
Paraphrase
- Her family received international aid during the war ↔ Her family benefited from other people’s help.
Why the other options are wrong
- A.
- B.
- C.
5. What is the man going to do?
- A. Give a presentation.
- B. Raise some questions.
- C. Start a new company.
- D. Attend a board meeting.
Answer: A — Give a presentation.
M: Fine. I’m putting the finishing touches to it now.
Analysis
Paraphrase
- I’m putting the finishing touches to it now ↔ Give a presentation.
Why the other options are wrong
- B.
- C.
- D.
6. What does the man say about the restructuring?
- A. It will cut production costs.
- B. It will raise productivity.
- C. No staff will be dismissed.
- D. No new staff will be hired.
Answer: C — No staff will be dismissed.
M: People are worried about their jobs, too. I think we need to stress that while there will be some job changes, there won’t be anyone getting dismissed. In fact, we’re looking to take on more staff.
Analysis
Paraphrase
- there won’t be anyone getting dismissed ↔ No staff will be dismissed.
Why the other options are wrong
- A.
- B.
- D.
7. What will the man explain first?
- A. The timeline of restructuring.
- B. The reasons for restructuring.
- C. The communication channels.
- D. The company’s new missions.
Answer: B — The reasons for restructuring.
M: I’ll start with a brief review of the reasons for the change that we really need to make a clean break to restart growth. After that I’ll outline the new company’s structures and who’s going where.
Analysis
Paraphrase
- start with a brief review of the reasons for the change ↔ The reasons for restructuring.
Why the other options are wrong
- A.
- C.
- D.
8. How can the staff learn more about the company’s restructuring?
- A. By consulting their own department managers.
- B. By emailing questions to the man or the woman.
- C. By exploring various channels of communication.
- D. By visiting the company’s own computer network.
Answer: D — By visiting the company’s own computer network.
W: Um, and we’ll make the presentation and the questions available via the company’s own computer network, right? / M: Yes, we’ll make a page on the network where staff can download all the details.
Analysis
Paraphrase
- via the company’s own computer network ↔ By visiting the company’s own computer network.
- make a page on the network where staff can download all the details ↔ By visiting the company’s own computer network.
Why the other options are wrong
- A.
- B.
- C.
Section B · Passages
9. What is special about the Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky international airport?
- A. It helps passengers to take care of their pet animals.
- B. It has animals to help passengers carry their language.
- C. It uses therapy animals to soothe nervous passengers.
- D. It allows passengers to have animals travels with them.
Answer: C — It uses therapy animals to soothe nervous passengers.
At the Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky International Airport, miniature horses deliver a calming force two times a month.
Analysis
Paraphrase
- deliver a calming force ↔ soothe nervous passengers
- the general anxiety that nervous passengers always feel ↔ nervous passengers
Why the other options are wrong
- A.
- B.
- D.
10. What are the trained animals probably capable of doing in an airport?
- A. Avoiding possible dangers.
- B. Finding their way around.
- C. Identifying drug smugglers.
- D. Looking after sick passengers.
Answer: B — Finding their way around.
These professional animals are probably better at finding their way in the airports than the most frequent of travelers.
Analysis
Paraphrase
- finding their way in the airports ↔ Finding their way around
Why the other options are wrong
- A.
- C.
- D.
11. What do some passengers try to do?
- A. Schedule their flights around the animal visits.
- B. Photograph the therapy animals at the airport.
- C. Keep some animals for therapeutic purposes.
- D. Bring their animals on board their plane.
Answer: A — Schedule their flights around the animal visits.
Some passengers enjoy the animals so much that they call the airport to schedule flights around their visits.
Analysis
Paraphrase
- schedule flights around their visits ↔ Schedule their flights around the animal visits
Why the other options are wrong
- B.
- C.
- D.
12. Where is the speaker standing?
- A. Beside a beautifully painted wall in Arles.
- B. Beside the gate of an ancient Roman city.
- C. At the site of an ancient Roman mansion.
- D. At the entrance to a reception hall in Rome.
Answer: C — At the site of an ancient Roman mansion.
Today I’m standing at the 2000-year-old Roman-era site. Here the brightly-colored scenes that once decorated a mansion are being dug up.
Analysis
Paraphrase
- Roman-era site ↔ the site of an ancient Roman mansion
- scenes that once decorated a mansion ↔ mansion
Why the other options are wrong
- A.
- B.
- D.
13. What do the thousands of fragments display when they are put back together?
- A. A number of different images.
- B. A number of mythological heroes.
- C. Various musical instruments.
- D. Paintings by famous French artists.
Answer: A — A number of different images.
These pieces have been put back together with great care and display a variety of images.
Analysis
Paraphrase
- a variety of images ↔ A number of different images
Why the other options are wrong
- B.
- C.
- D.
14. What makes experts think the paintings were done by artists from Italy?
- A. The originality and expertise shown.
- B. The worldly sophistication displayed.
- C. The stunning images vividly depicted.
- D. The impressive skills and costly dyes.
Answer: D — The impressive skills and costly dyes.
The paintings were done with such skill and with such expensive dyes that experts believe the artists originally came from Italy.
Analysis
Paraphrase
- such skill ↔ The impressive skills
- such expensive dyes ↔ costly dyes
Why the other options are wrong
- A.
- B.
- C.
15. What do we learn from the passage about the owner of the mansion?
- A. His artistic taste is superb.
- B. His identity remains unclear.
- C. He was a collector of antiques.
- D. He was a rich Italian merchant.
Answer: B — His identity remains unclear.
Perhaps a Roman official wanted Pompeii-like interior to remind him of home… Or maybe a wealthy local wanted to show off his worldly sophistication.
Analysis
Paraphrase
- Perhaps a Roman official ↔ His identity remains unclear
Why the other options are wrong
- A.
- C.
- D.
Section C · Lectures
16. What do we learn about the research funding policies in the European Union?
- A. They encourage international cooperation.
- B. They lay stress on basic scientific research.
- C. They place great emphasis on empirical studies.
- D. They favour scientists from its member countries.
Answer: A — They encourage international cooperation.
In fact, the European Union is taking the lead. Spurred on by funding policies, half of European research articles had international co-authors in 2007.
Analysis
Paraphrase
- Spurred on by funding policies, half of European research articles had international co-authors ↔ They encourage international cooperation.
Why the other options are wrong
- B.
- C.
- D.
17. Why do researchers today favor international collaboration?
- A. Many of them wish to win international recognition.
- B. They believe that more hands will make light work.
- C. They want to follow closely the international trend.
- D. Many of their projects have become complicated.
Answer: D — Many of their projects have become complicated.
the rising collaboration is partly out of necessity. This necessity comes with the rise of big science. Many scientific endeavors have become more complicated. These new complications require the money and labor of many nations.
Analysis
Paraphrase
- Many scientific endeavors have become more complicated ↔ Many of their projects have become complicated.
Why the other options are wrong
- A.
- B.
- C.
18. What do we learn about the field of mathematics?
- A. It requires mathematicians to work independently.
- B. It is faced with many unprecedented challenges.
- C. It lags behind other disciplines in collaboration.
- D. It calls for more research funding to catch up.
Answer: C — It lags behind other disciplines in collaboration.
Mathematicians, by contrast, tend historically towards solitude. As a consequence, they lag behind other disciplines.
Analysis
Paraphrase
- they lag behind other disciplines ↔ It lags behind other disciplines in collaboration.
Why the other options are wrong
- A.
- B.
- D.
19. What do we learn from the Life magazine article?
- A. Scientists tried to send a balloon to Venus.
- B. Scientists discovered water on Venus.
- C. Scientists found Venus had atmosphere.
- D. Scientists observed Venus from a space vehicle.
Answer: B — Scientists discovered water on Venus.
It told of how scientists rode a balloon to an altitude of 80,000 feet to make telescope observations of Venus’s atmosphere, and how their discovery of water raised hopes that there could be living things there.
Analysis
Paraphrase
- their discovery of water ↔ discovered water on Venus
Why the other options are wrong
- A.
- C.
- D.
20. What are scientists’ findings about Venus?
- A. It resembles Earth in many aspects.
- B. It is the same as fiction has portrayed.
- C. It is a paradise of romance for alien life.
- D. It undergoes geological changes like Earth.
Answer: A — It resembles Earth in many aspects.
The very first thing that scientists discovered with the mission to another planet was that Venus was not at all the Earthly paradise that fiction had portrayed. It is nearly identical to our own planet in bulk properties such as mass, density, and size.
Analysis
Paraphrase
- nearly identical to our own planet in bulk properties such as mass, density, and size ↔ resembles Earth in many aspects
Why the other options are wrong
- B.
- C.
- D.
21. What information did Russian and American space probes provide about Venus?
- A. It might have been hotter than it is today.
- B. It might have been a cozy habitat for life.
- C. It used to have more water than Earth.
- D. It used to be covered with rainforests.
Answer: B — It might have been a cozy habitat for life.
Russian and American spacecraft also found hints that its ancient climate might have been wetter, cooler, and possibly even friendly to life.
Analysis
Paraphrase
- possibly even friendly to life ↔ a cozy habitat for life
- might have been wetter, cooler ↔ might have been
Why the other options are wrong
- A.
- C.
- D.
22. What does the speaker mainly study?
- A. Causes of sleeplessness.
- B. Cross-cultural communication.
- C. Cultural psychology.
- D. Motivation and positive feelings.
Answer: C — Cultural psychology.
I specialize in Cultural Psychology, examining similarities and differences between East Asians and North Americans.
Analysis
Paraphrase
- I specialize in Cultural Psychology ↔ Cultural psychology.
Why the other options are wrong
- A.
- B.
- D.
23. What does the speaker say about North Americans?
- A. They attach great importance to sleep.
- B. They often have trouble falling asleep.
- C. They pay more attention to sleep efficiency.
- D. They generally sleep longer than East Asians.
Answer: D — They generally sleep longer than East Asians.
East Asians on average sleep about an hour and a half less each night than North Americans do. And it’s not a more efficient sleep, not like they’re compressing relatively more value out of their hours.
Analysis
Paraphrase
- East Asians on average sleep about an hour and a half less each night than North Americans do ↔ They generally sleep longer than East Asians.
Why the other options are wrong
- A.
- B.
- C.
24. How did the speaker conduct the sleep study?
- A. By asking people to report their sleep habits.
- B. By observing people’s sleep patterns in labs.
- C. By having people wear motion-detecting watches.
- D. By videotaping people’s daily sleeping processes.
Answer: C — By having people wear motion-detecting watches.
Our experiment does not take place in a sleep lab. Instead, we lend people motion-detecting watches, and they wear them for a week at a time.
Analysis
Paraphrase
- we lend people motion-detecting watches, and they wear them ↔ By having people wear motion-detecting watches.
Why the other options are wrong
- A.
- B.
- D.
25. What does the speaker say about research on sleep?
- A. It has made remarkable progress in the past few decades.
- B. It has not yet explored the cross-cultural aspect of sleep.
- C. It has not yet produced anything conclusive.
- D. It has attached attention all over the world.
Answer: B — It has not yet explored the cross-cultural aspect of sleep.
Sleep is something that has really been an unexplored topic cross-culturally.
Analysis
Paraphrase
- an unexplored topic cross-culturally ↔ It has not yet explored the cross-cultural aspect of sleep.
Why the other options are wrong
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