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1、六级听力原文听力原文2015.06（一）Section A短对话1W:Can you come to the concert with me this weekend?Or do you have to prepare for exams?M:I still have a lot to do,but maybe a break would do me good.Q:What will the man probably do?2W:What does the paper say about the horrible incident that happened this morning on f

2、light 870 to Hongkong?M:It ended with the arrest of the 3 hijackers.They have forced the plane to fly to Japan,but all the passengers and crew members landed safely.Q:What do we learn from the conversation?3M:Hello,this is the most fascinating article Ive ever come across.I think you should spare so

3、me time to read it.W:Oh,really?I thought that anything about the election will be tedious.Q:What are the speakers talking about?4W:Im not going to trust the restaurant credit from that magazine again.The food here doesnt taste anything like what we had in Chinatown.M:It definitely wasnt worth the wa

4、it.Q:What do we learn from the conversation?5W:Do you know whats wrong with Mark?Hes been acting very strange lately.M:Come on.With his mother hospitalized right after hes taken on a new job.Hes just gone a lot on his mind.Q:What do we learn from the conversation about Mark?6W:There were only 20 stu

5、dents at last nights meeting,so nothing could be loaded on.M:Thats too bad.Theyll have to turn up in great numbers if they want a voice on campus issues.Q:What does the man mean?7M:I try to watch TV as little as possible,but its so hard.W:I didnt watch TV at all before I retired,but now I can hardly

6、 tear myself away from it.Q:What do we learn from the conversation?8W:Im having a problem registering for the classes I want.M:Thats too bad,but Im pretty sure youll be able to work everything out before this semester starts.Q:What does the man mean?长对话Conversation 1W:Jack,sit down and listen.This i

7、s important.well have to tackle the problems of the exporting step by step.And the first move is to get an up-to-date picture of where we stand now.M:Why dont we just concentrate on expending here at home?W:Of course,we should hold on to our position here.But you must admit the market here is limite

8、d.M:Yes,but its safe.The government keeps out foreigners with import controls.So I must admit I feel sure we could hold our own against foreign bikes.W:I agree.Thats why I am suggesting exporting.Because I feel we can compete with the best of them.M:What you are really saying is that wed make more p

9、rofit by selling bikes abroad,where we have a cost advantage and can charge high prices.W:Exactly.M:But,wait a minute.Packaging,shipping,financing,etc.will push up our cost and we could no better off,maybe worse off.W:OK.Now there are extra cost involved.But if we do it right,they can be built into

10、the price of the bike and we can still be competitive.M:How sure are you about our chances of success in the foreign market?W:Well,thats the sticky one.Its going to need a lot of research.Im hoping to get your help.Well,come on,Jack.Is it worth it,or not?M:There will be a lot of problems.W:Nothing w

11、e cant handle.M:UmIm not that hopeful.But,yes,I think we should go ahead with the feasibility study.W:Marvelous,Jack.I was hoping you be on my side.9.What does the woman intend to do?10.Why does the man think its safe to focus on the home market?11.What is the mans concern about selling bikes abroad

12、?12.What do the speakers agree to do?Conversation 2W:What does the term“alternative energy source”mean?M:When we think of energy or fuel for our homes and cars,we think of petroleum,a fossil fuel processed from oil removed from the ground,of which there was a limited supply.But alternative fuels can

13、 be many things.Wind,sun and water can all be used to create fuel.W:Is it a threat of running out of petroleum real?M:It has taken thousands of years to create the natural stores of petroleum we have now.we are using what is available at a much faster rate that it is being produced over time.The rea

14、l controversy surrounding the mass petroleum we have is how much we need to keep in reserve for future use.Most experts agree that by around 2025,the petroleum we use will reach a peak.Then production and availability will begin to seriously decline.This is not to say there will be no petroleum at t

15、his point.But itll become very difficult and therefore expensive to extract.W:Is that the most important reason to develop alternative fuel and energy sources?M:The two very clear reasons to do so,one is that whether we have 60 or 600 years of fossil fuels left,we have to find other fuel sources eve

16、ntually.So the sooner we start,the better off we will be.The other big argument is that when you burn fossil fuels,you release substances trapped into the ground for a long time,which leads to some long-term negative effects,like global warming and greenhouse effect.13.What do we usually refer to wh

17、en we talk about energy according to the man?14.What do most experts agree on according to the man?15.What does the man think we should do now?Section B短文Passage OneKaron Smith is a buyer for the department store in New York.The apartment store buyers purchase the goods that their stores sell.They n

18、ot only have to know what is fashionable at that moment,but also have to guess what will become fashionable next season or next year.Most buyers were for just one department in a store.But the goods that Karon finds maybe displayed and sold in several different sections of the store.Her job involves

19、 buying handicrafts from all over the world.Last year,she made a trip to Morocco and returns with drugs,pots,dishes and pants.The year before,she visited Mexico.And bought back handmade table cloths,mirrors with frames of tin and paper flowers.The paper flowers are bright and colorful.So they were u

20、sed to decorate the whole store.This year Karon is travelling in Malaysia,Thailand and Indonesia,many of the countries that Karon visits have government offices that promote handicrafts.The officials are glad to cooperate with her by showing her the products that are available.Karon likes to visit m

21、arkets and small towns in villages whenever she can arrange for it.She is always looking for interesting and unusual items.Karon thinks she has the best job she could find.She loves all the travelling that she has to do.Because she often visits markets and small out-of-the-way places.She says much m

22、ore the country she visits than an ordinary tourists would.As soon as she gets back in New York form one trip,Karon begins to plan another.Passage TwoMark felt that it was time for him to take part in his community,so he went to the neighborhood meeting after work.The areas city councilwoman was lea

23、ding a discussion about how the quality of life was on the decline.The neighborhood faced many problems.Mark looked at the charts taped to the walls.There were charts for parking problems,crime,and for problems in vacant buildings.Mark read from the charts,police patrols cut back,illegal parking up

24、20%.People were supposed to suggest solutions to the councilwoman.It was too much for Mark.“The problems are too big,”he thought.He turned to the man next to him and said,“I think this is a waste of my time.Nothing I could do would make a difference here.”As he neared the bus stop on his way home,Ma

25、rk saw a woman carrying a grocery bag and a baby.As Mark got closer,her other child,a little boy,suddenly darted into the street.The woman tried to reach for him,but as she moved,her bag shifted and the groceries started to fall out.Mark ran to take the boys arm and led him back to his mother.“You g

26、otta stay with Mom”,he said.Then he picked up the groceries while the woman smiled in relief.“Thanks!”she said.“Youve got great timing!”Just being neighborly,”Mark said.As he rode home,he glanced at the poster near his seat in the bus.“Small acts of kindness add up.”Mark smiled and thought,“Maybe th

27、ats a good place to start.”19.What did Mark think he should start doing?20.What was being discussed when Mark arrived at the neighborhood meeting?21.What did Mark think of the communitys problems?22.Why did Mark smile on his ride home?Passage ThreeAn distressing childhood can lead to heart disease.W

28、hat about current stresses?Longer workouts,threats of layoffs,collapsing pension funds.A study last year on the lancer examine more than 11,000 heart attack suffers from 52 countries.It found that in the year before their heart attacks.Patients had been under significantly more strains than some 30,

29、000 healthy control subjects.Those strains came from work,family,financial troubles,depression in other causes.Each of these factors individually was associated with increased risk,says Doctor Salim Yussef,Professor of medicine and candidates McMaster University and senior investigator on the study.

30、Together,they accounted for 30%to overall heart attack risk.But people respond differently to high-pressure work situations,whether it produces hard problems seems to depend on whether you have a sensitive control over life or live at the mercy of circumstances and superiors.That was experiences of

31、John Connell,a rock food Illinois laboratory manager,who suffered his first heart attack in 1996 at the age of 56.In the 2 years before,his mother and 2 of his children had suffered serious illnesses,and his job had been changed in a re-organization.My life seemed completely out of control,he says,I

32、 had no idea where I would end up.He ended up in hospital due to a block in his artery.2 months later,he had a triple by-pass surgery.The second heart attack when he was 58,left his doctor shaking his head.Theres nothing more we can do for you,doctors told him.Question 23 What does the passage mainly discuss?Question 24 What do we learn about JCs family?Question 25 What did JCs doctors tell him when he had a second heart attack?Section CWhen most people think of the word“education,”