2016年6月英语四级听力真题第2套-短文1

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听力试题、听力原文、答案:

一、听力试题:

Passages

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

Question 16

A) The card got damaged.

B) The card was found invalid.

C) The card reader failed to do the scanning.

D) The card reader broke down unexpectedly.

Question 17

A) By covering the credit card with a layer of plastic.

B) By calling the credit card company for confirmation.

C) By seeking help from the card reader maker Verifone.

D) By typing the credit card number into the cash register.

Question 18

A) Affect the sales of high-tech appliances.

B) Change the lifestyle of many Americans.

C) Give birth to many new technological inventions.

D) Produce many low-tech fixes for high-tech failures.

二、听力原文

Passage One

Behind the cash register at a store in downtown San Francisco, Sam Azar swiped his credit card to pay for a pack of cigarettes. The store’s card reader failed to scan the card’s magnetic strip. Azar tried again and again, no luck. As customers began to queue, Mr. Azar reached beneath the counter for a black plastic bag. He wrapped one layer of the plastic around the card and tried again. Success, the sale was completed. “I don’t know how it works. It just does,” said Mr. Azar, who learned the trick from another clerk. Verifone, the company that makes the store’s card reader would not confirm or deny that the plastic bag trick worked. But it’s one of the many low-tech fixes for high-tech failures that people without engineering degrees have discovered often out of desperation and shared. Today’sshaky economy is likely to produce many more such tricks. “In postwar Japan, the economy wasn’t doing so great, so you couldn’t get everyday used items like household cleaners,” says Lisa Katayama, author of Urawaza, a book named after the Japanese term for “clever lifestyle tips and tricks.” So people look for ways to do with what they had. Today Americans are finding their own tips and tricks for fixing non-functioning devices with supplies as simple as paper and glue. Some like Mr. Azar’s plastic bag are open to argument as to how they work, or whether they really work at all. But many tech-home remedies can be explained by a little science.
Questions 16 to 18 are based on the passage you have just heard.
16. What happened when Sam Azar swiped his credit card to pay for his purchase?
17. How did Sam Azar manage to complete the sale?
18. What is today’s shaky economy likely to do?

三、答案

16 C)The card reader failed to do the scanning.
17 A)By covering the credit card with a layer of plastic.
18 D)Produce many low-tech fixes for high-tech failures.

【翻译】

旧金山市中心的一家商店收银处,山姆·阿扎正在用信用卡支付一包香烟的钱。

商店的读卡器无法识别他卡上的词条,阿扎试了又试,总是不行。

眼看顾客们开始排队,阿扎在收银台后面拿出了一个黑色的塑料袋。

他把卡用一层塑料包起来然后有刷了一次,这次成功了。

交易完成了。阿扎先生说:“我不知道其中的原理。但是就是行得通。”这是他从一名其他员工那里学来的小窍门。

这家商店读卡机的生产商,惠尔丰,对这种塑料袋技巧的功效不置可否。

生活中很多非专业人士在绝望时发现一些毫无技术含量但却能克服高科技问题的窍门,并与他人分享。这只是其中之一。

如今不稳定的经济可能会催生更多这种小窍门。

“战后日本经济不景气,所以人们买不到一些日用器具,比如家用清洁器。”

《裏技》的作者片山丽萨说。“裏技”在日语中是聪明的生活贴士和技巧的意思。

“所以人们就会用现有的东西想办法。”

现在,美国人也开始发现一些能够用纸和胶水之类的简单材料解决机器故障的窍门了。

其中一些和阿扎先生包塑料袋的窍门一样,其工作原理和功效饱受争议。

但很多“丹方”是可以用科学解释的。

请根据你刚听到的内容回答16-18题。

问题16:山姆·阿扎购物后用信用卡支付时遇到了什么问题?

问题17:山姆·阿扎是如何完成交易的?

问题18:如今不稳定的经济会带来什么?



用户评论

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听友292577942

这篇错词偏多了

听友326198666

开头behind发言不应该是bi吗,她怎么读成be

和光同尘7

But many tech-home remedies can be explained by a little science.

和光同尘7

fixing non-functioning devices with supplies as simple as paper and glue