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1、6CET62012年6月英语六级听力原文（完整版）11.W: Did you hear that Anna needs to stay in bed for 4 weeks?M: Yeah. She injured her spine in a fall and a doctor told her to lie flat on her back for a month so it can mend.Q: What can we learn from the conversation?12.M: A famous Russian ballet is coming to town next wee

2、kend. But I cant find a ticket anywhere.W: Dont be upset. My sister just happened to have one and she cant go since she has got some sort of conflict in her schedule.Q: What does the woman mean?13.W: Hello, my bathroom drain is blocked and Im giving a party tonight. Do you think you could come and f

3、ix it for me?M: Sorry, maam. Im pretty busy right now. But I can put you on my list.Q: What does the man mean?14.W: Were taking up a collection to buy a gift for Jemma. Shell have been with the company 25 years next week.M: Well, count me in. But Im a bit short on cash now. When do you need it?Q: Wh

4、at is the man going to do?15.W: Tonys mother has invited me to dinner. Do you think I should tell her in advance that Im a vegetarian?M: Of course. I think shed appreciate it. Imaging how you both feel if she fixed the turkey dinner or something.Q: What does the man suggest the woman do?16.M: Just l

5、ook at this newspaper, nothing but robbery, suicide and murder. Do you still believe people are basically good?W: Of course. But many papers lack interest in reporting something positive like peace, love and generosity.Q: What are the speakers talking about?17.M: I cant believe so many people want t

6、o sign up for the Korea Development Conference.We will have to limit the registration.W: Yeah, otherwise we wont have room for the more.Q: What are the speakers going to do?18.W: Hi, Im calling about the ad for the one bedroom apartment.M: Perfect timing! The person who was supposed to rent it just

7、backed town to take a room on campus.Q: What do we learn from the conversation?【点评】短对话今年的六级听力短对话从提问方式来看， 还是以推理题居多，如第12、13、15题都需要考生们从对话后中推理出“言下之意”。14、17题考查学生在听完对话后是否能够把握准确，推理出暗示内容。六级考试的短对话内容还是主要以日常生活为大背景，穿插了新闻、住房等话题，考生们应该比较熟悉。短对话中没有太多的生词和难词，第11题的spine（脊椎）其实也并不影响考生答题，因其实际上并不是考查点。总而言之，今年的短对话难度适中，考生如能准确

8、把握对话的中心内容，在听力上得分并不是件难事。Part III Listening ComprehensionConversation 1W: One of the most interesting experiments with dolphins must be one done by Doctor Jarvis Bastian. What he tried to do was to teach a male dolphin called Bass and a female called Doris to communicate with each other across a solid

9、 barrier.M: So how did he do it exactly?W: Well, first of all, he kept the two dolphins together in the same tank and taught them to press levers whenever they saw a light. The levers were fitted to the side of the tank next to each other. If the light flashed on and off several times, the dolphins

10、were supposed to press the left-hand lever followed by the right-hand one. If the light was kept steady, the dolphins were supposed to press the levers in reverse order. Whenever they responded correctly, they were rewarded with fish.M: Sounds terribly complicated.W: Well, that was the first stage.

11、In the second stage, Doctor Bastian separated the dolphins into two tanks. They could still hear one another, but they couldnt actually see each other. The levers and light were set up in exactly the same way except that this time it was only Doris who could see the light indicating which lever to p

12、ress first. But in order to get their fish, both dolphins had to press the levers in the correct order. This meant of course that Doris had to tell Bass whether it was a flashing light or whether it was a steady light.M: So did it work?W: Well, amazingly enough, the dolphins achieved a 100 % success

13、 rate.Questions 19-21 are based on the conversation you have just heard.Q19. What is the purpose of Doctor Jarvis Bastians experiment?Q20. What were the dolphins supposed to do when they saw a steady light?Q21. How did the second stage of the experiment differ from the first stage?Conversation 2W: T

14、his weeks program Up Your Street takes you to Harrogate, a small town in Yorkshire. Harrogate became a fashionable resort during Victorian times, when people came to take a bath in the mineral waters. Today, few people come to visit the town for its mineral waters. Instead, Harrogate has become a po

15、pular town for people to retire to. Its clean air, attractive parks, and the absence of any industry, make this an ideal spot for people looking for a quiet life. Now, to tell us more about Harrogate, I have with me Tom Percival, President of the Chamber of Commerce. Tom, one of the things visitor n

16、otices about Harrogate is the large area of open park land right down into the middle of the town. Can you tell us more about it?M: Yes, certainly. The area is called the Stray.W: Why the Stray?M: Its called that because in the old days, people let their cattles stray on the area, which was common l

17、and.W: Oh, I see.M: Then, weve changes in farming and in land ownership. The Stray became part of the land owned by Harrogate.W: And is it protected?M: Oh, yes, indeed. As a special law, no one can build anything on the stray. Its protected forever.W: So it will always be park land?M: Thats right. A

18、s you can see, some of the Stray is used for sports fields.W: I believe it looks lovely in the spring.M: Yes, it does. Therere spring flowers on the old trees, and people visit the town just to see the flowers.Question 22-25 are based on the conversation you have just heard.Q22. Where does this conv

19、ersation most probably take place?Q23. What do we learn about modern Harrogate?Q24. What does the man say about the area called the Stray?Q25. What attracts people most in the Stray during the spring time?Passage OneRussell Fazio, an Ohio State psychology professor who has studied interracial roomma

20、tes there and at Indiana University, discovered an intriguing academic effect. In a study analyzing data on thousands of Ohio State freshmen who lived in dorms, he found that black freshmen who came to college with high standardized test scores earned better grades if they had a white roommate even

21、if the roommates test scores were low. The roommates race had no effect on the grades of white students or low-scoring black students. Perhaps, the study speculated, having a white roommate helps academically prepared black students adjust to a predominantly white university.That same study found th

22、at randomly assigned interracial roommates at Ohio State broke up before the end of the quarter about twice as often as same-race roommates.Because interracial roommate relationships are often problematic, Dr. Fazio said, many students would like to move out, but university housing policies may make

23、 it hard to leave.“At Indiana University, where housing was not so tight, more interracial roommates split up,” he said. “Here at Ohio State, where housing was tight, they were told to work it out. The most interesting thing we found was that if the relationship managed to continue for just 10 weeks

24、, we could see an improvement in racial attitudes.”Dr. Fazios Indiana study found that three times as many randomly assigned interracial roommates were no longer living together at the end of the semester, compared with white roommates. The interracial roommates spent less time together, and had few

25、er joint activities than the white pairs.Question 26-2926. What do we know about Russell Fazio ?27. Who benefited from living with a white roommate according to Fazios study?28. What did the study find about randomly assigned interracial roommates at Ohio State University?29. What did Dr. Fazio find

26、 interesting about interracial roommates who had lived together for 10 weeks?【点评】：本文节选自2009年7月的纽约时报，原文标题为Interracial Roommates Can Reduce Prejudice。文章属于社会类话题，大意为俄亥俄州立大学的一位名为Russell Fazio的心理学教授研究不同人种混居的有趣现象以及结论。无独有偶，2011年6月四级真题阅读理解Section B的Passage 1也选用了相同的话题，大家平时在备考中要对真题重视起来哦！Passage twoIn a small l

27、iboratory at the Medical University of South Carolina, Dr. Vladimir Mironov has been working for a decade to grow meat. A developmental biologist and tissue engineer, Dr. Mironov, is one of only a few scientists worldwide involved in bioengineering cultured meat.Its a product he believes could help

28、solve future global food crises resulting from shrinking amounts of land available for growing meat the old-fashioned way.“Growth of cultured meat is also under way in the Netherlands”, Mironov told Reuters in an interview, “but in the United States, it is science in search of funding and demand.”Th

29、e new National Institute of Food and Agriculture wont fund it, the National Institutes of Health wont fund it, and the NASA funded it only briefly, Mironov said.Its classic disruptive technology, Mironov said. Bringing any new technology on the market, on average, costs $1 billion. We dont even have

30、 $1 million.Director of the Advanced Tissue Biofabrication Center in the Department of Regenerative Medicine and Cell Biology at the medical university, Mironov now primarily conducts research on tissue engineering, or growing, of human organs.Theres an unpleasant factor when people find out meat is

31、 grown in a lab. They dont like to associate technology with food, said Nicholas Genovese, a visiting scholar in cancer cell biology.But there are a lot of products that we eat today that are considered natural that are produced in a similar manner, Genovese said.30. What does Dr. Mironov think of b

32、ioengineering cultured meat?31. What does Dr. Mironov say about the funding for their research?32. What does Nicholas Genovese say about a lot of products we eat today?【点评】这是路透社2011年初的一篇报道，题目为“South Carolina scientist works to grow meat in lab”。本文为食品科技类题材。大意为生物工程技术应用在实验室生产肉，可改变传统肉类获得方式，解决将来的食物危机，不过还需资金支持，同时人们还