英语六级真题听力原文二.docx

1、英语六级真题听力原文二2016年6月英语六级真题听力原文(二)DW: No stopping to sniff the roses?M: Well, Ill do that in my personal life. Sure. But as a business strategy, Im afraid there is no stopping.M: What exactly is strategic innovation then?W: Strategic innovation is the process of managing innovation, of making sure it t

2、akes place at all levels of the company, and that is related to the companys overall strategy.W: I see.M: So, instead of innovation for innovations sake and new products being created simply because the technology is there, the company culture must switch from these pointing-time innovations to cont

3、inuous pipeline of innovations from everywhere and everyone.W: How did you align strategies throughout the company?M: I soon became aware that campaigning is useless. People take no notice. Simply it came about through good practice trickling down. This built consent. People could see it was the bes

4、t way to work.W: Does innovation on the skill really give a competitive advantage?M: I am certain of it, absolutely, especially if its difficult for a competitor to copy. (4)The risk is of course that innovation may frequently lead to imitation.W: But not if its strategic?M: Precisely.W: Thanks for

5、talking to us.M: Sure.Questions 5 to 8 are based on the conversation you have just heard.M: (5)Today, my guest is Dayna Ivanovich who has worked for the last twenty years as an interpreter. Dayna, welcome.W: Thank you.M: Now, Id like to begin by saying that I have on occasions used an interpreter my

6、self as a foreign correspondent. (6)So I am full of admiration for what you do, but I think your profession is sometimes underrated, and many people think anyone who speaks more than one language can do it.W: (7)There arent any interpreters I know who dont have professional qualifications and traini

7、ng. You only really get proficient after many years in the job.M: I may be right in saying you can divide what you do into two distinct methodssimultaneous and consecutive interpreting.W: Thats right. The techniques you use are different, and a lot of interpreters will say one is easier than the oth

8、er, less stressful.M: Simultaneous interpreting, putting someones words into another language more or less as they speak, sounds to me like the more difficult.W: Well, actually no. (8)Most people in the business would agree that consecutive interpreting is the more stressful. You have to wait for th

9、e speaker to deliver quite a chunk of language before you then put it into the second language, which puts your short-term memory under intense stress.M: You make notes, I presume.W: Absolutely, anything like numbers, names, places have to be noted down. But the rest is never translated word for wor

10、d. You have to find a way of summarizing it, so that the message is there. Turning every single word into the target language would put too much strain on the interpreter and slow down the whole process too much.M: But, with simultaneous interpreting, you start translating almost as soon as the othe

11、r person starts speaking. You must have some preparation beforehand.W: Well, hopefully the speakers will let you have an outline of the topic a day or two in advance. You have a little time to do research, prepare technical expressions and so on.Section BQuestions 9 to 11 are based on the passage yo

12、u have just heard.(9)Mothers have been warned for years that sleeping with their newborn infant is a bad idea because it increases the risk that the baby might die unexpectedly during the night. But now Israeli researchers are reporting that even sleeping in the same room can have negative consequen

13、ces: not for the child, but for the mother. (10)Mothers who slept in the same room as their infants, whether in the same bed or just the same room, had poorer sleep than mothers whose babies slept elsewhere in the house: They woke up more frequently, were awake approximately 20 minutes longer per ni

14、ght, and had shorter periods of uninterrupted sleep. These results held true even taking into account that many of the women in the study were breast-feeding their babies. Infants, on the other hand, didnt appear to have worse sleep whether they slept in the same or different room from their mothers

15、. The researchers acknowledge that since the families they studied were all middle-class Israelis, its possible the results would be different in different cultures. Lead author Liat Tikotzky wrote in an email that the research team also didnt measure fathers sleep, so its possible that their sleep

16、patterns could also be causing the sleep disruptions for moms. (11)Right now, to reduce the risk of sudden infant death syndrome, the American Academy of Pediatrics recommends that mothers not sleep in the same bed as their babies but sleep in the same room. The Israeli study suggests that doing so

17、may be best for the baby, but may take a toll on mom.Questions 12 to 15 are based on the passage you have just heard.(12)The US has already lost more than a third of the native languages that existed before European colonization, and the remaining 192 are classed by UNESCO as ranging between “unsafe

18、” and “extinct”. (13)“We need more funding and more effort to return these languages to everyday use,” says Fred Nahwooksy of the National Museum of the American Indian. “We are making progress but money needs to be spent on revitalising languages, not just documenting them.” Some 40 languages, main

19、ly in California and Oklahoma, where thousands of Indians were forced to relocate in the 19th Century, have fewer than 10 native speakers. “Part of the issue is that tribal groups themselves dont always believe their languages are endangered until theyre down to the last handful of speakers. But pro

20、gress is being made through immersion schools, because if you teach children when theyre young it will stay with them as adults and thats the future,” says Mr. Nahwooksy, a Comanche Indian. Such schools have become a model in Hawaii. But the islanders local language is still classed by UNESCO as “cr

21、itically endangered” because only 1,000 people speak it. (14)The decline in American Indian languages has historical roots: In the mid-19th Century, the US government adopted a policy of Americanising Indian children by removing them from their homes and culture. Within a few generations most had fo

22、rgotten their native tongues. (15)Another challenge to language survival is television. It has brought English into homes and pushed out traditional story-telling and family time together, accelerating the extinction of native languages.Section CQuestions 16 to 18 are based on the recording you have

23、 just heard.Greg Rosen lost his job as a sales manager nearly three years ago and is still unemployed.“It literally is like something in a dream, to remember what its like to actually be able to go out, and put in a days work and receive a days pay.”At first, Rosen bought groceries and made house pa

24、yments with the help from unemployment insurance. (16)It pays laid off workers up to half of their previous wages while they look for work. But now, that insurance has run out for him, and he has to make tough choices. Hes cut back on medications and he no longer helps support his disabled mother.It

25、 is a devastating experience.New research says the U.S. recession is now over, but many people remain unemployed. And unemployed workers face difficult odds.There is literally only one job opening for every five unemployed workers, so four out of five unemployed workers have actually no chance of fi

26、nding a new job.Businesses have downsized or shut down across America, leaving fewer job opportunities for those in search of work. Experts who monitor unemployment statistics here in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, say about 28,000 people are unemployed, and many of them are jobless due to no fault of

27、their own.(17)Thats where the Bucks County CareerLink comes in. Local director Elizabeth Walsh says they provide training and guidance to help unemployed workers find local job opportunities.“So heres the job opening, heres the job seeker, match them together under one roof,” she says.But the lack o

28、f work opportunities in Bucks County limits how much she can help.Rosen says he hopes Congress will take action.This month he launched the 99ers Union, an umbrella organization of 18 Internet-based grass roots groups of 99ers. Their goal is to convince lawmakers to extend unemployment benefits.But P

29、ennsylvania State Representative Scott Petri says governments simply do not have enough money to extend unemployment insurance. (18)He thinks the best way to help the long-term unemployed is to allow private citizens to invest in local companies that can create more jobs. But the boost in investor c

30、onfidence needed for the plan to work will take timetime that Rosen says still requires him to buy food and make monthly mortgage payments.Rosen says hell use the last of his savings to try to hang onto the home he worked for more than 20 years to buy. But once that money is gone, he says he doesnt

31、know what hell do.Questions 19 to 22 are based on the recording you have just heard.(19)Earlier this year, British explorer Pen Hadow and his team trekked for three months across the frozen Arctic Ocean, taking measurements and recording observations about the ice.“Well, wed been led to believe that

32、 we would encounter a good proportion, of this older, thicker, technically multi-year ice thats been around for a few years and just gets thicker and thicker. We actually found there wasnt any multi-year ice at all.”(20)Satellite observations and submarine surveys over the past few years had shown less ice in the polar region, but the recent measurements show the loss is more pronounced than previously thought.“Were looking at roughly 80 percent loss of ice cover on the Arctic Ocean in 10 years, roughly 10 years, and 100 percent loss in nearly