大学英语六级-听力真题-2019年12月第1套

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Section A.

Conversation one.

M: Excuse me. "Where's your rock music section?

W: Rock music? I'm sorry, we're a Jazz store. We don't have anyrock and roll.

M: Oh, you only have Jazz music, nothing else.

W: That's right. (1)We're the only record store in London dedicated exclusively to Jazz.Actually, we're more than just a record store. We have a cafe and libraryupstairs and a ticket office down the hall where you can buy tickets to all themajor Jazz concerts in the city. Also we have our own studio next door wherereproduce albums for up and coming artists. We are committed to fostering newmusic talent.

M: That's so cool. (2)1 guess there's not much of a Jazz scene anymore. Not like they usedto be. But here you're trying to promote this great music genre.

W: Yes. Indeed, nowadays most people like to listen to pop and rockmusic. Hip hop music from America is also getting more and more popular. So asa result, there are fewer listeners of Jazz, which is a great shame becauseit's an incredibly rich genre. But that's not to say there isn't any good newJazz music being made out there anymore. Far from it. It's just a much smallermarket today.

M: So how would you define Jazz?

W: Interestingly enough, there's no agreed upon definition of Jazz.(3) Indeed, there are manydifferent styles of Jazz, some have singing, but most don't. Some areelectric and some aren't. Some contain live experimentation, but not always.(3) While there's no simple definition for it. Allow, there are many differentstyles of Jazz. You simply know it when you hear it. Honestly. (4) The only way to know whatJazz is, listen to it yourself. As the great trumpet player. LouisArmstrong said, if you've got to ask, you'll never know.

Questions 1 to 4 are based on the conversation you have just heard.

Question 1. What do we learn about the woman's store?

Question 2. What does the man say about Jazz music?

Question 3. What does the woman say about Jazz?

Question 4. What should you do to appreciate different styles ofJazz according to the woman?

Conversation Two.

M: How did it go at the bank this morning?

W: Not well. My proposal was rejected.

M: Really? But why?

W: Bunch of reasons. For starters, they said my credit history wasnot good enough.

M: Did they say, how you could improve that?

W: Yes, they said that after five more years of paying my mortgage,then I will become a more viable candidate for a business loan. But right nowit's too risky for them to lend me money. They fear I will default on anybusiness loan I'm given.

M: That doesn't sound fair. Your business idea is amazing. Did youshow them your business plan? What did they say?

W: They didn't really articulate any position regarding the actualbusiness plan. They simply looked at my credit history and determined it wasnot good enough. They said the bank has strict guidelines and requirements asto who they can lend money to. And I simply don't meet their financialthreshold.

M: What if you ask for a smaller amount? Maybe you could gathercapital from other sources, smaller loans from more lenders.

W: You don't get it. It doesn't matter. The size of the loan I askfor, or the type of business I propose. That's all inconsequential. The firstthing every bank will do is study how much money I have and how much debt Ihave before they decide whether or not to lend me any more money. If I want tocontinue ahead with this dream of only my own business, I have no other choice.But to build up my own finances, I need around 20% more in personal savings and50% less debt. That's all there is to it.

M: I see now it's a huge pity that they rejected your request, butdon't lose hope. I still think that your idea is great and that you would turnit into a phenomenal success.

Questions 5 to 8 are based on the conversation you have just heard.

Question 5. What did the woman do this morning?

Question 6. Why was the woman's proposal rejected?

Question 7. What is the woman planning to do?

Question 8. What does the man suggest the woman do?

Section B.

Passage one.

There's a lot about Leo Sanchez and his farm in Salinas,California. (9) That seems unusual. The national average farm size is around440 acres, but his is only one acre.

The average age of farmers hovers around 58 years old, but he isjust 26. And Sanchez constantly attempts to improve everything from seedingtechniques out in the field to the promotion and sale of his produce online.This is evidence of an experimental approach. It's an approach not dictated bythe confines of conventional large scale agriculture lead by internationalcorporations. While farming is often difficult for both the body and mine, (10)Sanchez says he and many of his fellow young farmers are motivated by desire toset a new standard for agriculture.

Many of them are employing a multitude of technologies, some newand some not so new. Recently, (11) Sanchez bought a hand operated tool whichpulls out weeds and loosen soil. It actually dates back to at least 1701. Itstands in sharp contrast to Sanchez, this other gadget, a gas powered flame wekiller, invented in 1997. He simply doesn't discriminate when it comes to thenewness of tools. If it works, it works. Farmers have a long history ofinvention and is no different today. Young farmers are guided by their love foragriculture and aided by their knowledge of technology to find inexpensive andappropriately sized tools. They collaborate and innovate. Sometimes the oldstuff just works better or more efficiently.

Questions 9 to 11 are based on the passage you have just heard.

Question 9. What do we learn about Leo Sanchez's farm?

Question 10. What has motivated Leo Sanchez and his fellow. youngfarmers to engage in farming?

Question 11. Why did Leo Sanchez buy a hand operated weeding tool?

Passage two.

(12) Eat Grub is Britain's first new food company that breakswestern food boundaries by introducing edible insects as a new source of food.

And Sainz Breeze is the first UK supermarket to stock the company'scrunchy roasted crickets. Sainz Breeze insist that such food is no joke andcould be a new, sustainable source of protein. Out of curiosity, I paid a visitto Sainz Breeze as I put my hand into a packet of crickets with their tiny eyesand legs. The idea of one going in my mouth made me feel a little sick. (13)But the first bite was a pleasant surprise, a little dry and lacking of taste,but at least a wing didn't get stuck in my throat. 

The roasted seasoning largely overpowered any other flavour,although there was slightly bitter after taste. The texture is crunchy, butsmelt a little of cab food. Eat Grub also recommends the crickets as a toppingfor noodles, sou2s and salads. (14) The company boasts that its dried cricketscontain more protein than beef, chicken, and pork, as well as minerals likeiron and calcium. Unlike the production of meat, bugs do not use up largeamounts of land, water or feed. (15) And insect farming also produces far fewergreenhouse gases.

However, despite 2 billion people worldwide already supplementingtheir diet with insects, consumer disgust remains a large barrier in manywestern countries. I'm not sure bugs will become a popular snack anytime soon,but they're definitely food for fort.

Questions 12 to 15 are based on the passage you have just heard.

Question 12. What do we learn from the passage about the foodcompany Eat Grub ?

Question 13. What does the speaker say about his first bite aroasted crickets ?

Question 14. What does Eat Grub say about his dried crickets?

Question 15. What does the passage say about insect farming?

Section C

Recording one.

Have you ever had someone try to explain something to you a dozentimes with no luck? But then when you see a picture, the idea finally clicks.If that sounds familiar, maybe you might consider yourself a visual learner. Orif reading or listening does a trick, maybe you feel like you're a verballearner. We call these labels learning styles. But is there really a way tocategorize different types of students? It actually seems that multiplepresentation formats, especially if one of them is visual. Help most peoplelearn. When psychologists and educators test for learning styles, they'retrying to figure out whether these are inherent traits that affect how wellstudents learn instead of just a preference.

Usually they start by giving a survey to figure out what style astudent favors, like visual or verbal learning. Then they try to teach thestudents something with a specific presentation style, like using visual AIDS,and do a follow up test to see how much they learned. That way, the researcherscan see if the self identified verbal learners really learned better when theinformation was just spoken aloud, for example. But according to a 2008 review,only one study that followed this design found that students actually learnedbest with their preferred style.

But the study had some big flaws. The researchers excluded 2/3 ofthe original participants, because they didn't seem to have any clear learningsty le from the survey at the beginning. And they didn't even report the actualtest scores in the final paper. So it doesn't really seem like learning stylesare an inherited trait that we all have. But that doesn't mean that allstudents will do amazingly, if they just spend all their time reading from atextbook. Instead, most people seem to learn better if they're taught inseveral ways, especially if one is visual.

In one study, researchers tested whether students remembered listsof words better if they heard them, saw them or both. Everyone seemed to dobetter. If they got to see the words in print. Even the self identifiedauditory learners, their preference didn't seem to matter. Similar studiestested whether students learned basic physics and chemistry concepts better byreading plain text or viewing pictures to and everyone to better with the helpof pictures.

Questions 16 to 18 are based on recording you have just heard.

Question 16. Why do psychologists and educators study learningstyles?

Question 1 7. What does the speaker say about one study mentionedin the 2008 review?

Question 18. What message does the speaker want to convey aboutlearning at the end of the talk?

Recording two.

Free market capitalism hasn't freed us. It has trapped us. It'simperative for us to embrace a workplace revolution. We're unlikely to spendour last moments regretting that we didn't spend enough of our lives slavingaway at work. We may instead find ourselves feeling guilty about the time wedidn't spend watching our children grow all with our loved ones, or travellingor on the cultural or leisure suits that bring us happiness.

Unfortunately, the average full time employee in the world works 42hours a week. Over a 3rd of the time we're awake. Some of our all too precioustime is being stolen. Office workers do around 2 billion hours of unpaidovertime each year. So it's extremely welcome that some government coalitionshave started looking into potentially cutting the working week to four days.The champions of free market capitalism promised their way of life would bringus freedom, but it wasn't freedom at all. From the lack of secure, affordablehousing to growing job insecurity and rising personal debt, the individual istrapped.

Nine decades ago, leading economists predicted that technological advancesand rising productivity would mean that would be working a 15-hour week. By nowthat target has been somewhat missed. Here is the most malignant threat to ourpersonal freedom, particularly as the balance of power in the workplace hasbeen shifted so dramatically from worker to boss. A huge portion of our livesinvolves the surrender of our freedom and personal autonomy. It's time in whichwe are directed by the needs and desires of others, and denied the right tomake our own choices.

That's bad for us. It's hardly surprising that over half a millionworkers suffer from work related mental health conditions. Each year. All that15.4 million working days were lost to work related stress last year, a jump ofnearly a quarter. Yes, they're all those who, far from being overworked,actually seek more hours. But a shorter working week would enable us toredistribute hours from the overworked to the under worked. We need to look atways of cutting the working week without slashing living standards.

After all worlds, workers have already suffered the worst deductionin wages since the early 18 hundreds. And cutting the working week would beconducive to the individual, giving millions of workers more time to spend asthey see fit.

Questions 19 to 21 are based on the recording you have just heard.

Question 19. What do people often feel guilty about according tothe speaker?

Question 20. What did leading economists predict 90 years ago?

Question 21. What is the result of denying workers' right to maketheir own choices?

Recording three.

Today I'm going to talk about Germany's dream airport in Berlin.The airport looks exactly like every- other major modern airport in Europe,except for one big problem. More than seven years after it was originallysupposed to open, it still stands empty. Germany is known for its efficiencyand refined engineering, but when it comes to its new ghost airport, thisreputation could not be further from the truth. Plagued by long delays,perpetual mismanagement, and ever saw ring costs, the airport has becomesomething of a joke among Germans and a source of frustration for localpoliticians, business leaders and residents alike.

Planning for the new airport began in 1989. At the time, it becameclear that the newly reunified Berlin would need a modern airport with fargreater capacity than its existing airports. The city broke ground on the newairport in 2006. The first major sign of problems came in summer 2010, when theconstruction corporation pushed the opening from October 2011 to June 2012. In2012, the city planted opening ceremony. But less than a month before hand,inspectors found significant problems with the fire safety system and push theopening back again to 2013.

It wasn't just the smoke system. Many other major problemssubsequently emerged. More than 90 meters of cable were incorrectly installed.4000 doors were wrongly numbered. Escalators were too short. There was ashortage of check in desks. Why were so many problems discovered? Didn't theairport corporation decide to give up on the project and start over? The reasonis simple. People are often hesitant to terminate a project when they'vealready invested time or resources into it, even if it might make logical senseto do so.

The longer the delays continued, the more problems inspectorsfound. Leadership of the planning corporation has changed hands nearly as manytimes as the opening date has been pushed back. Initially, rather thanappointing a general contractor to run the project, the corporation decided tomanage it themselves. Despite lack of experience with an undertaking of thatscale. To compound the delays, the unused airport is resulting in massivecosts. Every month it remains unopened costs between nine and 10 million euros.Assuming all goes well, the airport should open in October 2020, but the stillempty airport stands as the biggest embarrassment to Germany's reputation forefficiency and a continuing drain on city and state resources.

Questions 22 to 25 are based on the recording you have just heard.

Question 22. What does the speaker say about the dream airport inBerlin?

Question 23. Why was there a need for a new airport in Berlin?

Question 24. Why did Berlin postpone the opening of its dreamairport again and again?

Question 25. What happens while the airport remains unused?

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