听力是液培人们在日常生活中利用最为饥咐频繁的语言技能,也是外语进修中最为重要的习得内容之一。下面是我精心搜集的六级英语听烂埋纯力小短文原文，期看 各人喜好!
六级英语听力小短文原文篇一
In early 1994, when MarkAndreessen was just 23 years old, he arrived in Silicon Valley with anideathat would change the world. As a student at the University of Illinois, he andhis friends haddeveloped a program called Mosaic, which allowed people toshare information on the worldwideweb. Before Mosaic, the web had been usedmainly by scientists and other technical people,who were happy just to sendand receive text. But with Mosaic, Andreessen and his friends haddeveloped aprogram, which could send images over the web as well. Mosaic was anovernightsuccess.
It was put on the university's network at the beginning of 1993. Andby theend of the year, it had over a million users. Soon after, Andreessenwent to seek his fortune inSilicon Valley. Once he got there, he started tohave meetings with a man called Jim Clark, whowas one of the Valley's mostfamous entrepreneurs. In 1994, nobody was making any realmoney from theInternet, which was still very slow and hard to use. But Andreessen had seenan opportunity thatwould make him and Clark rich within two years. He suggested they shouldcreatea new computer program that would do the same job as Mosaic but would be mucheasierto use. Clark listened carefully to Andreessen, whose ideas andenthusiasm impressed himgreatly. Eventually, Clark agreed to invest threemillion dollars of his own money in the project,and to raise an extra fifteenmillion from venture capitalists, who were always keen to listen toClark's newideas.
六级英语听力小短文原文篇二
Advertising informs consumers about the existence and benefits ofproducts and services andattempts to persuade them to buy them. The best formof advertising is probably word ofmouth advertising which occurs when peopletell their friends about the benefits of products orservices that they havepurchased. Yet virtually no providers of goods or services relay on thisalone,which using paid advertising instead. Indeed many organizations also use institutionalorprestige advertising which is designed to build up their reputation ratherthan to sellparticular products.
Although large companies could easily set up theirown advertisingdepartments, write their own advertisements and by media space themselves.They tend to usethe services of large advertising agencies. These are likelyto have more resources and moreknowledge about all aspects of advertising andadvertising media than single company. It is alsoeasier for a dissatisfycompany to give its account to another agency. And it would be to firetheirown advertising staff. The company generally give the advertising agency andagreedbudget. A statement of the objective of the advertising campaign know asbrief and overalladvertising strategy concerning the message to becommunicated to the target customers. Theagency creates advertisements anddevelops a media prime, specifying which media will be usedand in which proportions.Agencies often produce alternative ads or commercials thatpretested innewspapers, television stations etc. in different parts of the country. Beforea finalchoices was made
六级英语听力小短文原文篇三
Extinction is a difficult concept to grasp. It is aneternal concept. It is not at all like the killing ofindividual life forms that can be renewedthrough normal processes of reproduction. Nor issimply diminishing numbers.Nor is it damage that can somehow be remedied or for whichsome substitute canbe found. Nor is it something that only affects our own generation. Nor isit somethingthat could be remedied by some supernatural power. It is, rather, an absoluteandfinal act which there is no remedy on earth or in heaven. A species onceextinct, it's goneforever. However many generations succeed us in comingcenturies, none of them will ever seethis species that we extinguish.
Not onlyus we bring about extinction of life on a vast scale.We are also making theland and the air and sea so toxic that the very conditions of life arebeing destroyed.As regard natural resources ,not only are the none renewable resourcesbeingused up in a of frenzy of processing, consuming and disposing but we are alsoruiningmuch of our renewable resources. Such as the very solid self on which terrestriallife depends.The change that is taking place on the earth and in our minds isone of the greatest changesever to take place in human affairs. Perhaps thegreatest, since we are talking about is notsimply another historical change orcultural modification. But it change the geological andbiological as well as psychologicalorder of magnitude.
2013年12月大学英语六级听力原文
【短对话】
1.W: What a wonderful performance! Your rock band has never sounded better.
M: Many thanks. I guess all those hours of practice in the past month are finally paying off.
Q：What does the man mean?
2.M: I can't decide what to do for my summer vacation. I either want to go on a bike tour of Europe or go diving in Mexico.
W: Well, we're offering an all-inclusive two-week trip to Mexico for only 300 dollars.
Q：What does the woman suggest the man do for his vacation?
3. W: How long do you think this project might take?
M: I'd say about three months, but it could take longer if something unexpected happened. Maybe we'd better allow an extra month, so we won’t have to worry about being late.
拍旅 Q: Why does the man say extra time should be allowed for the project?
4. M: I'm thinking about becoming a member here, and I'd like some information.
W: Sure. A three-month membership costs 150 dollars, and that includes use of the wait-room, sauna and pool. I'll give you a free path so that you can try out the facilities before you decide.
袭埋凳 Q: What do we learn from the conversation?
5.W: I'm sorry to hear that you failed the Physics course, Ted.
M: Let's face it. I'm just not cut out to be a scientist.
Q: What does the man mean?
6.M: Gary insisted on buying the food for the picnic.
W: That's pretty generous of him. But shouldn't we at least offer to share the expenses? He has a big family to support.
Q: What does the woman suggest they do?
7.W: Did you see the headlines in the paper this morning?
M: Year. Apparently the bus company will be laying off its employees if they can't reach an agreement on wages by midnight.
液瞎Q: What did the man read about?
8.W: Have we received payment for the overseas order we delivered last month?
M: Yes. The cheque came in yesterday afternoon. I'll be depositing it when I go the bank today.
Q: What is the woman concerned about? 【六级听力长对话原文1】
W: OK, that's it. Now we have to make a decision. We might as well do that now, don't you think?
M: Sure, let's see. First we saw Frank Brisenski. What did you think of him?
W: Well, he's certainly a very polite young man.
M: And very relaxed, too.
W: But his appearance…
M: En… He wasn't well dressed. He wasn't even wearing a tie.
W: But he did have a nice voice. He sounded good on the telephone.
M: True. And I thought he seemed very intelligent. He answered Dona's questions very well.
W: That's true, but dressing well is important. Well, let's think about the others. Now what about Barber Jones? She had a nice voice, too. She sounded good on the telephone, and she was well dressed, too.
M: En… She did look very neat, very nicely dressed, but…
W: But so shy. She wouldn't be very good at talking to people at the front desk.
M: En…OK. Now who was the next? Ar…Yes, David Wallace. I thought he was very good, had a lot of potential. What do you think?
W: En… He seemed like a very bright guy. He dressed very nicely, too. And he had a really nice appearance.
M: He seemed relaxed to me, the type of person people feel comfortable with right away.
W: He was polite, but also very friendly and relaxed as you say. I think he'll be good with the guests at the front desk.
M: He had a very pleasant voice, too.
W: That's right. OK, good! I guess we have our receptionist then, don't you?
M: Yes, I think so. We'll just offer the job to…
Question 9: What are the speakers looking for?
Question 10: What is Frank Brisenski's weakness?
Question 11: What do the speakers decide to do?
【六级听力长对话原文2】
W: Hello.
M: Hello. Is that the reference library?
W: Yes, can I help you?
M: I hope so. I ran earlier and asked for some information about Dennis Hutton, the scientist. You asked me to ring back.
W: Oh, yes. I have found something.
M: Good. I've got a pencil and paper. Perhaps you could read out what it says.
W: Certainly. Hutton Dennis, born Darlington, 1836, died New York, 1920.
M: Yes, got that.
W: Inventer and physicist, the son of a farmworker. He was admitted to the University of London at the age of 15.
M: Yes.
W: He graduated at 17 with the first class degree in physics and mathematics. All right?
M: Yes, all right.
W: He made his first notable achievement at the age of 18. It was a method of refrigeration which rolls from his work in low temperature physics. He became professor of mathematics at the University of Manchester at 24, where he remained for twelve years. During that time, he married one of his students, Natasha Willoughby
M: Yes, go on.
W: Later working together in London, they laid the foundations of modern physics by showing that normal laws of cause and effect do not apply at the level of subatomic particles. For this he and his wife received the Nobel Prize for physics in 1910, and did so again in 1912 for their work on very high frequency radio waves. In his lifetime, Hutton patented 244 inventions. Do you want any more?
M: Yes, when did he go to America?
W: Let me see. In 1920 he went to teach in New York and died there suddenly after only three weeks. Still he was a good age.
M: Yes, I suppose so. Well, thanks.
Question 12: What do we learn about Dennis Hutton when he was 15?
Question 13: What did Dennis Hutton do at the age of 24?
Question 14: For what were Dennis Hutton and his wife awarded the Nobel Prize a second time?
Question 15: Why did Dennis Hutton go to New York? 六级短文原文1
In America, white tailed deer are more numerous than ever before, so abundant in fact that they've become a suburban nuisance and a health hazard.
Why can't the herd be thinned the old-fashioned way? The small community of North Haven on Long Island is home to some six hundred to seven hundred deer. The department of Environmental Conservation estimates the optimum population at 60. The town has been browsed bare of vegetation except where gardens and shrubs are protected by high fences.
Drivers routinely collide with deer and there are so many dead bodies left by the side of the road that the town has made it a deal with a local pet cemetery to collect and dispose of the bodies. Some people in the town have become ill from deer transmitted diseases. On the occasions when hunting has been tried, local animal rights people have worked to secure court orders against the hunts. And when that is failed, they stop the hunters, banging on pots and pans to alert the deer. Town meetings called to discuss the problem inevitably dissolved into confrontations.
The activists believe simply that the deer are not the problem. Some communities have even discussed the possibility of bringing wolves back into the ecological mix. That means wolves in the suburbs of New York. It is almost too wonderful not to try it. The wolves would kill deer of course. They would also terrorize and kill dogs and cats which is not what the suburban dwellers have in mind.
Questions 16 to 18 are based on the passage you have just heard
Q16. What do we learn about white-tailed deer in North Haven?
Q17. Why do local animal rights people bang on pots and pans?
Q18. What would happen if wolves were brought back into the ecological mix?
【六级短文2原文】
And now, if you'll walk this way, ladies and gentlemen, the next room we're going to see is the room in which the family used to hold their formal dinner parties and even occasionally entertain heads of state and royalty. However, they managed to keep this room friendly and intimate. And I think you'll agree. It has a very informal atmosphere, quite unlike some grand houses you visit. The curtains were never drawn, even at night, so guests got a view of the lake and fountains outside which were lit up at night – a very attractive sight. As you can see, ladies and gentlemen, the guests were seated very informally around this oval table, which would add to the relaxed atmosphere. The table dates from the 18th century and is made from Spanish oak. It's rather remarkable for the fact that although it's extremely big, it's supported by just six rather slim legs. However, it seems to have survived like that for 200 years. So it's probably going to last a bit longer. The chairs which go with the table are not a complete set. There were originally six of them. They are interesting for the fact that they are very plain and undecorated for the time, with only one plain central panel at the back and no armrests. I myself find them rather uncomfortable to sit in for very long, but people were used to more discomfort in the past. And now, ladies and gentlemen, if you'd like to follow me into the great hall…
Q19. What do we learn about the speaker?
Q20. What does the speaker say about the room they are visiting?
Q21. What is said about the oval table in the room?
Q22. What does the speaker say about the chairs?
【六级短文3原文】
Janet James was 22 years old when she was diagnosed with MS—a disease that attacks the body's nerves. She has just graduated from college and got a job at an advertising agency when she began to sense that something strange was going on inside her body.When James realized how severe her illness was, she knew she had better hurry up and live life. MS is the biggest cripplerof young adults. And although she didn't have many symptoms, she knew it was just a matter of time. First on her agenda was to pursue her dream of hosting a pop music programme. She worked at a radio station for a year, always aware that her body was degenerating. Then her best friend moved away. And one night James began screaming, "I got to go! I got to go!" Two weeks later, she arrived at Alaska, thousands of miles from her friends, her family and her past. "Everything fell into a place", she recalls. A 23-year-old girl with an incurable disease can fly to Alaska and everything can work out. The MS attacks came and went. And most of the time they hardly slowed her down. James hiked, fished, learnt to sail and experimented with hot air ballooning. "I lived for adventure", she says. "Nobody ever had a better time or did more exotic strange things than I did in an 80-year period." Inevitably however, the day came when she was so weakened that she had to return to Pittsburgh, her home town. There she began relieving her adventures by writing a book about them. Her book was published in 1993.
Questions 23 to 25 are based on the passage you have just heard.
Questions 23
What does the speaker say about MS?
Questions 24
What did Janet James decide to do after her disease was diagnosed?
Questions 25
What's sort of person can we infer Janet James is?the ecological mix? 听力填空原文
It’s difficult to estimate the number of youngsters involved in home schooling where children are not sent to school and receive their formal education from one or both parents. Legislation and court decisions have made it legally possible in most states for parents to educate their children at home and each year more people take advantage of that opportunity.
Some states require parents or a home tutor to meet teacher certification standards, and many require parents to complete legal forms to verify that their children are receiving instruction in state approved curriculum.
Supporters of home education claim that it is less expensive and far more efficient than mass public education. Moreover they site several advantages: alleviation of school overcrowding, strengthen family relationships, lower dropout rates, the facts that students are allowed to learn at their own rate, increased motivation, higher standardized test scores, and reduced discipline problems.
Critics of the home schooling movement content that it creates as many problems as it solves. They acknowledge that, in a few cases, home schooling offers educational opportunities superior to those found in most public schools, but few parents can provide such educational advantages. Some parents who withdraw their children from the schools in favor of home schooling have an inadequate educational background and insufficient formal training to provide a satisfactory education for their children. Typically, parents have fewer technological resources at their disposal than do schools. However, the relatively inexpensive computer technology that is readily available today is causing some to challenge the notion that home schooling is in any way inferior to more highly structured classroom education.
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2004年6月六级试题听力原文
1. W: Oh, Dick. You are wearing a green jacket but yellow trousers. It's the strangest combination I've ever seen.
M:I know. I got up late and dressed in a hurry. I didn't realize my mistake until I entered the office.
Q: What does the woman think the way Dick is dressed?
2. M: Excuse me, but has anyone turned in a brown leather wallet? I've lost my wallet. It contains my driver's license, and also some family pictures. It's pretty important to me.
W: Oh yes, we had a wallet brought in this morning. Wait here just a minute please.
Q: What will the woman probably do?
3. M: Excuse me, madam. Is the air- conditioning on? This room is getting as hot as a furnace.
W: Sorry, Sir. A new epidemic called SARS is threatening us right now. As a preventive measure, we're told to let in the fresh air by opening the windows and not to use air conditioners.
Q: What does the woman mean?
4. M: You look quite different from what you used to.
W: Sure. I started exercising regularly two years ago, and went from 253 pounds to a healthy 160 pounds. And now that's the only thing I did not give up half-way.
Q: what do we know about the woman?
5. M: I wonder if you find my experience relevant to the job.
W: Yes, certainly, but if only you had sent your application letter a week earlier.
Q : What does the woman imply?
6. W: Shouldn't someone go and pick up the clothes at the laundry? They were ready three hours ago.
M: Don't look at me, Mom !
Q: What does the boy mean?
7. M: Eh hi, could you tell me where electronic products are displayed? I want to see some TVs, digital video cameras, DVD players, that sort of thing.
W: Well, several countries are displaying electronic products. China's selection is very large this year. You might as well go to the East Wing first to take a look at the Chinese booth.
Q: Where is this conversation most probably taking place?
8. M: Well, what did you think of the movie?
W: I don't now why I let you talked me into going. I just don't like violence. Next time, you'd better choose a comedy.
Q: What can we infer from the conversation?
9. W: Who do you think should get the job? How about Mr. Becket?
M: Mr. Becket? I'm not sure. He's a nice fellow, of course, and easy to get along with. But I doubt his professional expertise. I want someone who can get the job done.
Q: What do we learn from the conversation about Mr. Becket?
10. M: Do you think home video players will replace movie theatres and force them out of the entertainment business?
W: We're certainly faced with the great challenge from the DVD industry. That's why I think we should revolutionize our concept of movie showing. As I see it, the movie theatre should not just be a place to watch a film, but a place to meet people.
Q: What does the woman think of the movie theatre?
Passage One
Few people can stand for the spirit of early America as much as Benjamin Franklin. He lived through almost the whole of the 18tScentury. He was born 6 years after the century began, and died 10 years before it ended. During this time, he saw the American colonies grow from tiny settlements into a nation. And he also contributed much to the new state. He was deeply interested in science and natural history, and his experiments with electricity and lightening led directly to the invention of the lightening rod. He was also interested in improving the conditions of his fellowmen. He was involved in a number of projects in his native Philadelphia, including the setting - up of a library, a university, a philosophical society, and a fire -prevention service. He worked hard to enable the American colonies to gain independence from Britain. As an ambassador to France, he encouraged the French to help George Washington. After the war, he attended the American constitutional Congress. This was his last contribution, for he died later that year. He is still firmly remembered by the Americans as one of the creators of the United States.
Questions 11 to 13 are based on the passage you have just heard.
11. What does the speaker say about Benjamin Franklin?
12. How did Franklin help George Washington?
13. According to the passage, what is Franklin still well remembered as?
Passage Two
Yuppies are young people who earn a lot of money and live in a style that is too expensive for most people, If you are invited to a yuppie dinner party, don't be surprised if you are offered freshly cooked insects as the first course. While the idea of eating fried insects fills most of us with horror ~sect - eating is becoming highly fashionable. For example, in the media industry, successful executives are of ten seen eating fried or boiled insects from time to time while working at their desks. These safe to eat insects can be found and ordered on the internet, and young people are logging on to exotic food websites and ordering samples of prepared insects to serve at their dinner parties.Although the idea of eating insects is probably disgusting to most of us, few people would claim that cakes, chickens and some kinds of seafood we often eat are examples of great beauty. One day, insects could be marketed and sold as a food item in supermarkets. According to their fans, they are not only high in protein and low in fat, but also very tasty. But until our attitudes to food change fundamentally, it seems that insect -eaters will remain as a select few.
14. Why does the speaker say we might be surprised at a yuppie dinner party?
15. Where can people order the unusual food mentioned by the speaker?
16. Why are some yuppies attracted by the unusual food?
17. What does the speaker say about the future of this type of unusual food?
Passage Three
Many people dislike walking into the bank, standing in lines, and running out of checks. They are dissatisfied with their banks’ limited hours, too. They want to do some banking at night, and on weekends. For such people, their problems may soon be over. Before long, they may be able to do their banking from the comfort of their own home, any hour of the day, any day of the week. Many banks are preparing online branches, or internet offices, which means people will be able to take much of their banking business through their home computers.
This process is called interactive banking. At these branches, customers will be able to view all their accounts, move money between their accounts, apply for a loan, and get information about their products such as credit cards. Customers will also be able to pay their hills electronically, and also e-mail their questions to the bank. Banks are creating online services for several reasons. One reason is that banks must compete for customers who will switch to another bank ff they are dissatisfied with the service they receive. The convenience of the online banking appeals to the kind of customer bank most want to keep, that is, people who are young, well-educated and have good incomes. Banks also want to take advantage of modern technology since they have moved into the 21st century.
Questions 18 to 20 are based on the passage you have just heard.
18. What is one of the masons for people's dissatisfaction with traditional banks?
19. What kind of customers does online banking appeal to?
20. Why are banks creating online services?
英语六级听力短文原文听力技能的培育提拔 和进步高职高专英语教学的一项重要使命。下面是我精脊知心搜集的英语六级樱慧世听力短文原文，期看 各人喜好!
英语六级听力短文原文篇一
W: Grag Rosen lost his job as a sales manager nearly three years ago, and is still unemployed.
M: It literally is like something in a dream to remember what is like to actually be able to go outand put in a day's work and receive a day's pay.
碧册 W: At first, Rosen bought groceries and made house payments with the help fromunemployment insurance. It pays laid-off workers up to half of their previous wages whilethey look for work. But now that insurance has run out for him and he has to make toughchoices. He's cut back on medications and he no longer helps support his disabled mother. It isdevastating experience. New research says the US recession is now over. But many peopleremain unemployed and unemployed workers face difficult odds. There is literally only one jobopening for every five unemployed workers. So four out of five unemployed workers haveactually no chance of finding a new job. Businesses have downsized or shut down acrossAmerica, leaving fewer job opportunities for those in search of work. Experts who monitorunemployment statistics here in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, say about 28,000 people areunemployed, and many of them are jobless due to no fault of their own. That's where theBucks County CareerLink comes in. Local director Elizabeth Walsh says they provide trainingand guidance to help unemployed workers find local job opportunities. "So here's the jobopening, here's the job seeker, match them together under one roof," she said. But the lack ofwork opportunities in Bucks County limits how much she can help. Rosen says he hopesCongress will take action. This month he launched the 99ers Union, an umbrella organization of18 Internet-based grassroots groups of 99ers. Their goal is to convince lawmakers to extendunemployment benefits. But Pennsylvania State Representative Scott Petri says governmentssimply do not have enough money to extend unemployment insurance. He thinks the bestway to help the long-term unemployed is to allow private citizens to invest in local companiesthat can create more jobs. But the boost in investor confidence needed for the plan to workwill take time. Time that Rosen says still requires him to buy food and make monthly mortgagepayments. Rosen says he'll use the last of his savings to try to hang onto the home he workedfor more than 20 years to buy. But once that money is gone, he says he doesn't know whathe'll do.
英语六级听力短文原文篇二
W: Earlier this year, British explorer Pen Huddle and his team trekked for three months acrossthe frozen Arctic Ocean, taking measurements and recording observations about the ice.
M: Well we'd been led to believe that we would encounter a good proportion of this older,thicker, technically multi-year ice that's been around for a few years and just gets thicker andthicker. We actually found there wasn't any multi-year ice at all.
W: Satellite observations and submarine surveys over the past few years had shown less ice inthe polar region, but the recent measurements show the loss is more pronounced thanpreviously thought.
M: We're 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 20 years.
W: Cambridge scientist Peter Wadhams, who's been measuring and monitoring the Arctic since1971 says the decline is irreversible.
M: The more you lose, the more open water is created, the more warming goes on in that openwater during the summer, the less ice forms in winter, the more melt there is the followingsummer. It becomes a breakdown process where everything ends up accelerating until it's allgone.
W: Martin Sommerkorn runs the Arctic program for the environmental charity the WorldWildlife Fund.
M: The Arctic sea ice holds a central position in the Earth's climate system and it's deterioratingfaster than expected. Actually it has to translate into more urgency to deal with the climatechange problem and reduce emissions.
W: Summerkorn says a plan to reduce greenhouse gas emissions blamed for global warmingneeds to come out of the Copenhagen Climate Change Summit in December.
M: We have to basically achieve there the commitment to deal with the problem now. That'sthe minimum. We have to do that equitably and we have to find a commitment that is quick.
W: Wadhams echoes the need for urgency.
M: The carbon that we've put into the atmosphere keeps having a warming effect for 100 years.So we have to cut back rapidly now, because it will take a long time to work its way through intoa response by the atmosphere. We can't switch off global warming just by being good in thefuture, we have to start being good now.
W: Wadhams says there is no easy technological fix to climate change. He and other scientistssay there are basically two options to replacing fossil fuels, generating energy with renewables,or embracing nuclear power.
英语六级听力短文原文篇三
M: From a very early age, some children exhibit better self-control than others. Now, a newstudy that began with about 1，000 children in New Zealand has tracked how a child's low self-control can predict poor health，money troubles and even a criminal record in their adultyears. Researchers have been studying this group of children for decades now. Some of theirearliest observations have to do with the level of self-control the youngsters displayed.Parents, teachers, even the kids themselves, scored the youngsters on measures like "actingbefore thinking" and "persistence in reaching goals. " The children of the study are now adultsin their 30s. Terrie Moffitt of Duke University and her research colleagues found that kids withself-control issues tended to grow up to become adults with a far more troubling set of issuesto deal with.
W: The children who had the lowest self-control when they were aged 3 to 10, later on had themost health problems in their 30s, and they had the worst financial situation. And they weremore likely to have a criminal record and to be raising a child as a single parent on a very lowincome.
M: Speaking from New Zealand via skype, Moffitt explained that self-control problems werewidely observed, and weren't just a feature of a small group of misbehaving kids.
W: Even the children who had above-average self-control as pre-schoolers, could havebenefited from more self-control training. They could have improved their financial situation andtheir physical and mental health situation 30 years later.
M: So, children with minor self-control problems were likely as adults to have minor healthproblems, and so on. Moffitt said it's still unclear why some children have better self-controlthan others, though she says other researchers have found that it's mostly a learned behavior,with relatively little genetic influence. But good self-control can be set to run in families in thatchildren who have good self-control are more likely to grow up to be healthy and prosperousparents.
W: Whereas some of the low-self-control study members are more likely to be single parentswith a very low income and the parent is in poor health and likely to be a heavy substanceabuser. So that's not a good atmosphere for a child. So it looks as though self-control issomething that in one generation can disadvantage the next generation.
M: But the good news is that Moffitt says self-control can be taught by parents and throughschool curricula that have proved to be effective. Terrie Moffitt's paper on the link betweenchildhood self-control and adult status decades later is published in the Proceedings of theNational Academy of Sciences.
大学英语六级听力1991年(3)1991年6月六级听力原文2
Part III Vocabulary andStructure (20 minutes)
41. Tom________ better than to ask Dick for help.
A) shall know
B) shouldn’t know
C) has known
D) should have known
销猜 42. Themagician picked several persons ________ from the audience and asked them tohelp him with the performance.
A) by accident
B) at random
C) on occasion
D) on average
43. Waterenters into a great variety of chemical reactions, ________ have been mentionedin previous pages.
A) a few of it
B) a few of that
C) a few of them
D) a few of which
余粗44. They’llhave you ________ if you don’t pay your taxes.
A) to be arrested
B) arrest
C) arrested
D) being arrested
45. Therewas a knock at the door. It was the second time someone ________ me thatevening.
A) had interrupted
B) would have interrupted
C) to have interrupted
D) to interrupted
46. Despitetheir good service, most inns are less costly than hotels of ________standards.
A) equivalent
B) alike
C) uniform
D) likely
47. ________for your help, we’d never have been able to get over the difficulties.
A) Had it not
B) If it were not
C) Had it not been
竖斗镇D) If we had not been
48. Somepeople either ________ avoid questions of right and wrong or remain neutralabout them.
A) violently
B) enthusiastically
C) sincerely yours
D) deliberately
49. Thereis no easy solution to Japan’s labour ________.
A) decline
B) vacancy
C) rarity
D) shortage
50. I’msure your suggestion will ________ the problem.
A) contribute to solving
B) contribute to solve
C) be contributed to solve
D) be contributed to solving
51. Ileft for the office earlier than usual this morning ________ traffic jam.
A) in line with
B) for the sake of
C) in case of
D) at the risk of
52. Someareas, ________ their severe weather conditions, are hardly populated.
A) due to
B) in spite of
C) but for
D) with regard to
53. Thenew washing machines are ________ at the rate of fifty a day.
A) turned up
B) turned down
C) turned out
D) turned in
54. Onturning the corner, we saw the road ________ steeply.
A) departing
B) descending
C) decreasing
D) depressing
55. Themanaging director took the ________ for the accident, although it was notreally his fault.
A) guilt
B) blame
C) charge
D) accusation
56. Oncethey had fame, fortune, secure futures; ________ is utter poverty.
A) now that all is left
B) now all that is left
C) now all which is left
D) now all what is left
57. Theshop-assistant was straight with his customers. If an article was of ________quality he’d tell them so.
A) humble
B) inferior
C) minor
D) awkward
58. Histastes and habits ________ with those of his wife.
A) combine
B) compete
C) coincide
D) compromise
59. Thebranches could hardly ________ the weight of the fruit.
A) retain
B) sustain
C) maintain
D) remain
60. Withall its advantages, the computer is by no means without its ________.
A) boundaries
B) restraints
C) confinements
D) limitations
61. Visitorsare asked to ________ with the regulations.
A) contrast
B) consult
C) comply
D) conflict
62. He________ so much work that he couldn’t really do it efficiently.
A) put on
B) turned on
C) brought on
D) took on
63. ________should any money be given to a small child.
A) On no account
B) From all accounts
C) Of no account
D) By all accounts
64. Withoutfacts, we cannot form a worthwhile opinion for we need to have factualknowledge ________ our thinking.
A) which to be based on
B) which to base upon
C) upon which to base
D) to which to be based
65. ________that they may eventually reduce the amount of labor needed on constructionsites by 90 percent.
A) so clever are the construction robots
B) so clever the construction robots are
C) such construction robots are clever
D) such clever construction robots are
66. Allflights ________ because of the storm, they decided to take the train.
A) having canceled
B) having been canceled
C) were canceled
D) have been canceled
67. Themicroscope can ________ the object 100 times in diameter.
A) magnify
B) increase
C) develop
D) multiply
68. Languagebelongs to each one of us, to the flower-seller ________ to the professor.
A) as much as
B) as far as
C) the same as
D) as long as
69. We________ Edison’s success to his intelligenceand hard work.
A) subject
B) attribute
C) owe
D) refer
70. Sheonce again went through her composition carefully to ________ all spellingmistakes from it.
A) withdraw
B) diminish
C) abandon
D) eliminate
41. D 42. B 43. D 44. C 45. A
46. A 47. C 48. D 49. D 50. A
51. C 52. A 53. C 54. B 55. B
56. B 57. B 58. C 59. B 60. D
61. C 62. D 63. A 64. C 65. A
66. B 67. A 68. A 69. B 70. D
Part IV Error Correction(15 minutes)
Directions: This part consists of a short passage. In this passage, there arealtogether 10 mistakes, one in each numbered line. You may have to change aword, add a word or delete a word. Mark out the mistakes and put thecorrections in the blanks provided. If you change a word, cross it out andwrite the correct word in the corresponding blank. If you add a word, put aninsertion mark (∧) in theright place and write the missing word in the blank. If you delete a word,cross it and put a slash (/) in the blank.
Example:
Television is rapidlybecoming the literature of our periods╱. 1.time/times/period
Many of the arguments having╱ used for the study of literature as 2. _______\_______
a school subject are valid for ∧ study oftelevision. 3. ______the______
Traditionally, the American farmer has alwaysbeen independent and hard-working. In the eighteenth century farmers were quiteself-sufficient. The farm family grew and made almost nothing it needed. Thesurplus crop (71) would be sold to buy a few items in the local generalstore.
In 1860, because some of the farmpopulation had (72) moved to the city, yet eightypercent of the American population was still in the country. In the latenineteen century, farm work and life were not much changed from that theyhad been in the old days. The farmer aroused at (74) dawn or before and hadmuch work to do, with his own muscles like his chief source of power. Heused axes, (76) spades and other complicated tools. In his house cooking(77) was done in wood-burning stoves, and the kerosene lamp was the onlyimprovement on the candle. The family’s recreation and social life chieflyconsisted a drive in the (78) wagon to the nearby small town or village totransact some business as well as to chat with neighbors who had also come totown. The children attended a small elementary school (often of just oneroom) to that they had to walk (79) every day, possibly for a few miles.The school term was short so that the children could not help on the farm.(80)
Although the whole family worked, and lifewas not easy, farmers as a class were self-reliant and independent.
71. nothing→ everything
72. because→ although
73. nineteen→ nineteenth
74. that→ what
75. aroused→ arose
76. like→ as/being
77. complicated→ simple
78. (consist)→ (consist) of
79. that→ which
80. not→ /
Part V Writing (30 minutes)
Directions: For this part, you are allowed 30 minutes to write a compositionwrite a composition based on the graph below.
Outline:
1. Riseand fall of the rate of car accident as indicated by the graph;
2. Possiblereason(s) for the decline of car accidents in the city;
3. Yourpredictions of what will happen this year.
加一个图表
Yourcomposition should be no less than 120 words and you should quote as fewfigures as possible.
做文范文：
The graph shows the changing rate of caraccidents in Walton city in 1990. The first two months of 1990 showed anincreasing trend. The rate rose to 32 in March but fell to 26 in June. FromJune on the rate was rising again and reached the peak point 39 in August.After August the rate began to decline, and eventually dropped to the lowestpoint 16 at the end of the year.
The highest rate in August was due tounfavorable weather conditions. Humidity and high temperature make driversimpatient, which easily leads to car accidents. The high rate in the first halfof 1990 was also caused by the bad weather condition. In Walton Citythe excessive rain comes at early spring. The rain made road slippery, whichoften resulted in car accidents.
This year the pattern is expected to change.The city government has raised fund to improve the road condition. Two newroads will be finished at the beginning of this year and are expected to opento traffic soon. Furthermore, the new road regulation provides that in summer everycar must be air-conditioned. With all these precautions, I’m sure that the rateof car accidents will be much lower this year.