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2015年6月英语六级真题及答案（第三套）

Part I Writing (30 minutes)

Directions: For this part, you are allowed 30 minutes to write an essay commenting on the saying “If you

cannot do great things, do small things in a great way. ‟‟You can cite examples to illustrate your point of view. You

should write at least l50 words but no more than 200 words.

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Part II Listening Comprehension (30 minutes)

Section A

Directions: In this section, you will hear 8 short conversations and 2 long conversations. At the end of each

conversation, one or, more questions will be asked about what was said. Both the conversation and the questions

will be spoken only once. After each question there will be a pause. During the pause, you must read the four

choices marked A, B, C and D and decide which is the best answer. Then mark the corresponding letter on Answer

Sheet, with a single line through the centre.

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1．A. The man might be able to play in the World Cup.

B. The man‟s football career seems to be at an end.

C. The man was operated on a few weeks.

D. The man is a fan of world famous football players.

2．A. Work out a plan to tighten his budget.

B. Find out the opening hours of the cafeteria.

C. Apply for a senior position in the restaurant.

D. Solve his problem by doing a part time job.

3．A.A financial burden.

B.A good companion.

C.A real nuisance.

D.A well trained pet.

4．A. The errors will be corrected soon.

B. The woman was mistaken herself.

C. The computing system is too complex.

D. He has called the woman several times.

5．A. He needs help to retrieve his files.

B. He has to type his paper once more.

C. He needs some time to polish his paper.

D. He will be away for a two-week conference.

6．A. They might have to change their plan.

B. He has got everything set for their trip.

C. He has a heavier workload than the woman.

D. They could stay in the mountains until June 8.

7．A. They have to wait a month to apply for a student loan.

B. They can find the application forms in the brochure.

C. They are not eligible for a student loan.

D. They are not late for a loan application.

8. A. New laws are yet to be made to reduce pollutant release.

B. Pollution has attracted little attention from the public.

C. The quality of air will surely change for the better.

D. It‟ll take years to bring air pollution under contro1.

Questions 9 to 12 are based on the conversation you have just heard.

9．A. Enormous size of its stores.

B. Numerous varieties of food.

C. Its appealing surroundings.

D. Its rich and colorful history.

10. A. An ancient building.

B. A world of antiques.

C. An Egyptian museum.

D. An Egyptian memorial.

11. A. Its power bill reaches€9 million a year.

B. It sells thousands of light bulbs a day.

C. It supplies power to a nearby town.

D. It generates 70%of the electricity it uses.

12．A.11 500.

B.30 000.

C.250 000.

D.300 000.

Questions l3 to 15 are based on the conversation you have just heard.

13．A. Transferring to another department.

B. Studying accounting at a university.

C. Thinking about doing a different job.

D. Making preparations for her wedding.

14. A. She has finally got a promotion and a pay raise.

B. She has got a satisfactory job in another company.

C. She could at last leave the accounting department.

D. She managed to keep her position in the company.

15．A. He and Andrea have proved to be a perfect match.

B. He changed his mind about marriage unexpectedly.

C. He declared that he would remain single all his life.

D. He would marry Andrea even without meeting her.

Section B

Directions: In this section, you will hear 3 short passages. At the end of each passage, you will hear some

questions. Both the passage and the questions will be spoken only once. After you hear a question, you must choose

the best answer from the four choices marked A, B, C and D. Then mark the corresponding letter on Answer Sheet

Two with a single line through the centre.

注意: 此部分试题请在答题卡1上作答。

Passage One

Questions l6 to 19 are based on the passage you have just heard.

16. A. They are motorcycles designated for water sports.

B. They are speedy boats restricted in narrow waterways.

C. They are becoming an efficient form of water transportation.

D. They are getting more popular as a means of water recreation.

17．A. Water scooter operators‟ lack of experience.

B. Vacationers‟ disregard of water safety rules.

C. Overloading of small boats and other craft.

D. Carelessness of people boating along the shore.

18．A. They scare whales to death.

B. They produce too much noise.

C. They discharge toxic emissions.

D. They endanger lots of water life.

19．A. Expand operating areas.

B. Restrict operating hours.

C. Limit the use of water scooters.

D. Enforce necessary regulations.

Passage Two

Questions 20 to 22 are based on the passage you have just heard.

20．A. They are stable.

B. They are close.

C. They are strained.

D. They are changing.

21. A. They are fully occupied with their own business.

B. Not many of them stay in the same place for long.

C. Not many of them can win trust from their neighbors.

D. They attach less importance to interpersonal relations.

22．A. Count on each other for help.

B. Give each other a cold shoulder.

C. Keep a friendly distance.

D. Build a fence between them.

Passage Three

Questions 23 to 25 are based on the passage you have just heard.

23．A. It may produce an increasing number of idle youngsters.

B. It may affect the quality of higher education in America.

C. It may cause many schools to go out of operation.

D. It may lead to a lack of properly educated workers.

24．A. It is less serious in cities than in rural areas.

B. It affects both junior and senior high schools.

C. It results from a worsening economic climate.

D. It is a new challenge facing American educators.

25．A. Allowing them to choose their favorite teachers.

B. Creating a more relaxed learning environment.

C. Rewarding excellent academic performance.

D. Helping them to develop better study habits.

Section C

Directions: In this section, you will hear a passage three times. When the passage is read for the first time, you

should listen carefully for its general idea. When the passage is read for the second time, you are required to fill in

the blanks with the exact words you have just heard. Finally, when the passage is read for the third time, you should

check what you have written.

注意: 此部分试题请在答题卡1上作答。

I'm interested in the criminal justice system of our country. It seems to me that something has to be done, if

we‟re to 26 as a country. I certainly don‟t know what the answers to our problems are. Things certainly get 27

in a hurry when you get into them, but l wonder if something couldn‟t be done to deal with some of these problems.

One thing I'm concerned about is our practice of putting 28 in jail who haven‟t harmed anyone. Why not work

out some system whereby they can pay back the debts they owe society instead of 29 another debt by going

to prison and, of course, coming30 hardened criminals. I'm also concerned about the short prison sentences people

are 3 1serious crimes. Of course one alternative to this is to 32 capital punishment, but I'm not sure l would be

for that. I'm not sure it‟s right to take an eye for an eye. The alternative to capital punishment is longer sentences,

but they would certainly cost the tax payers much money. I also think we must do something about the insanity

33 . In my opinion, anyone who takes another person‟s life 34is insane, however, that does not mean that the

person isn‟t guilty of the crime, or that he shouldn‟t pay society the debt he owes. It‟s sad, of course, that a person

may have to spend the rest of his life, or a large part of it in prison for acts that he 35 while not in full control of

his mind.

Part III Reading Comprehension (40 minutes)

Section A

Directions: In this section, there is a passage with ten blanks. You are required to select one word for each blank

from a list of choices given in a word bank following the passage. Read the passage through carefully before

making your choices. Each choice in the bank is identified by a letter. Please mark the corresponding letter for each

item on Answer Sheet 2 with a single line through the centre. You may not use any of the words in the blank more

than once.

Questions 36 to 45 are based on the following passage.

Travel websites have been around since the 1990s, when Expedia, Travelocity, and other holiday booking

sites were launched, allowing travelers to compare flight and hotel prices with the click of a mouse. With

information no longer 36____ by travel agents or hidden in business networks, the travel industry was

revolutionized, as greater transparency helped 37____ prices.

Today, the industry is going through a new revolution—this time transforming service quality. Online rating

platforms—38____ in hotels, restaurants, apartments, and taxis—allow travelers to exchange reviews and

experiences for all to see.

Hospitality businesses are now ranked, analyzed, and compared not by industry 39____, but by the very

people for whom the service is intended—the customer. This has 40____ a new relationship between buyer and

seller. Customers have always voted with their feet; they can now explain their decision to anyone who is interested.

As a result, businesses are much more 41____, often in very specific ways, which creates powerful 42____ to

improve service.

Although some readers might not care for gossipy reports of unfriendly bellboys（行李员）in Berlin or

malf-unctioning hotel hairdryers in Houston, the true power of online reviews lies not just in the individual stories,

but in the websites' 43____ to aggregate a large volume of ratings.

The impact cannot be 44____. Businesses that attract top ratings can enjoy rapid growth, as new customers

are attracted by good reviews and 45____ provide yet more positive feedback. So great is the influence of online

ratings that many companies now hire digital reputation managers to ensure a favorable online identity.

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A) accountable

B. capacity

C. controlled

D. entail

E) forged

F) incentives

G) occasionally

H) overstated

I) persisting

J) pessimistic

K) professionals

L) slash

M) specializing

N) spectators

O) subsequently

Section B

Directions: In this section, you are going to read a passage with ten statements attached to it. Each statement

contains information given in one of the paragraphs. Identify the paragraph from which the information is derived.

You may choose a paragraph more than once. Each paragraph is marked with a letter. Answer the questions by

marking the corresponding letter on Answer Sheet 2.

Plastic Surgery

A better credit card is the solution to ever larger hack attacks

[A] A thin magnetic stripe (magstripe) is all that stands between your credit-card information and the bad

guys. And they've been working hard to break in. That's why 2014 is shaping up as a major showdown: banks, law

enforcement and technology companies are all trying to stop a network of hackers who are succeeding in stealing

account numbers, names, email addresses and other crucial data used in identity theft. More than 100 million

accounts at Target, Neiman Marcus and Michaels stores were affected in some way during the most recent attacks,

starting last November.

[B] Swipe（刷卡）is the operative word: cards are increasingly vulnerable to attacks when you make purchases

in a store. In several recent incidents, hackers have been able to obtain massive information of credit-, debit-（借记）

or prepaid-card numbers using malware, i.e. malicious software, inserted secretly into the retailers' point-of-sale

system—the checkout registers. Hackers then sold the data to a second group of criminals operating in shadowy

comers of the web. Not long after, the stolen data was showing up on fake cards and being used for online

purchases.

[C] The solution could cost as little as $2 extra for every piece of plastic issued. The fix is a security

technology used heavily outside the U.S. While American credit cards use the 40-year-old magstripe technology to

process transactions, much of the rest of the world uses smarter cards with a technology called EMV (short for

Europay, MasterCard, Visa) that employs a chip embedded in the card plus a customer PIN (personal identification

number) to authenticate（验证）every transaction on the spot. If a purchaser fails to punch in the correct PIN at the

checkout, the transaction gets rejected. (Online purchases can be made by setting up a separate transaction code.)

[D] Why haven't big banks adopted the more secure technology? When it comes to mailing out new credit

cards, it's all about relative costs, says David Robertson, who runs the Nihon Report, an industry newsletter: "The

cost of the card, putting the sticker on it, coding the account number and expiration date, embossing（凸印）it, the

small envelop—all put together, you are in the dollar range." A chip-and-PIN card currently costs closer to $3, says

Robertson, because of the price of chips. (Once large issuers convert together, the chip costs should drop.)

[E] Multiply $3 by the more than 5 billion magstripe credit and prepaid cards in circulation in the U.S. Then

consider that there's an estimated $12.4 billion in card fraud on a global basis' says Robertson. With 44% of that in

the U.S., American credit-card fraud amounts to about $5.5 billion annually. Card issuers have so far calculated

that absorbing the liability for even big hacks like the Target one is still cheaper than replacing all that plastic.

[F] That leaves American retailers pretty much alone the world over in relying on magstripe technology to

charge purchases—and leaves consumers vulnerable. Each magstripe has three tracks of information, explains

payments security expert Jeremy Gumbley, the chief technology officer of CreditCall, an electronic-payments

company. The first and third are used by the bank or card issuer. Your vital account information lives on the second

track, which hackers try to capture. "Malware is scanning through the memory in real time and looking for data,"

he says. "It creates a text file that gets stolen."

[G] Chip-and-PIN cards, by contrast, make fake cards or skimming impossible because the information that

gets scanned is encrypted（加密）. The historical reason the U.S. has stuck with magstripe, ironically enough, is

once superior technology. Our cheap, ultra-reliable wired networks made credit-card authentication over the phone

frictionless. In France, card companies created EMV in part because the telephone monopoly was so maddeningly

inefficient and expensive. The EMV solution allowed transactions to be verified locally and securely.

[H] Some big banks, like Wells Fargo, are now offering to convert your magstripe card to a chip-and-PIN

model. (It's actually a hybrid（混合体）that will still have a magstripe, since most U.S. merchants don't have EMV

terminals.) Should you take them up on it? If you travel internationally, the answer is yes.

[I] Keep in mind, too, that credit cards typically have better liability protection than debit cards. If someone

uses your credit card fraudulently（欺诈性地）it's the issuer or merchant, not you, that takes the hit. Debit cards

have different liability limits depending on the bank and the events surrounding any fraud. "If it's available, the

logical thing is to get a chip-and-PIN card from your bank," says Eric Adamowsky, a co-founder of

. "I would use credit cards over debit cards because of liability issues." Cash still works

pretty well too.

[J] Retailers and banks stand to benefit from the lower fraud levels of chip-and-PIN cards but have been

reluctant for years to invest in the new infrastructure（基础设施）needed for the technology, especially if consumers

don't have access to it. It's a chicken-and-egg problem; no one wants to spend the money on upgraded point- of-sale

systems that can read the chip cards if shoppers aren't carrying them--yet there's little point in consumers' carrying

the fancy plastic if stores aren't equipped to use them. (An earlier effort by Target to move to chip and PIN never

gained progress.) According to Gumbley, there's a "you-first mentality. The logjam（僵局）has to be broken."

[K] JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon recently expressed his willingness to do so, noting that banks and

merchants have spent the past decade suing each other over interchange fees—the percentage of the transaction

price they keep-rather than deal with the growing hacking problem. Chase offers a chip-enabled card under its own

brand and several others for travel-related companies such as British Airways and Ritz-Carlton.

[L] The Target and Neiman hacks have also changed the cost calculation: although retailers have been

reluctant to spend the $6.75 billion that Capgemini consultants estimate it will take to convert all their registers to

be chip-and-PIN-compatible, the potential liability they now face is dramatically greater. Target has been hit with

class actions from hacked consumers. "It's the ultimate nightmare," a retail executive from a well-known chain

admitted to TIME.

[M] The card-payment companies MasterCard and Visa are pushing hard for change. The two firms have

warned all parties in the transaction chain--merchant, network, bank--that if they don't become EMV-compliant by

October 2015, the party that is least compliant will bear the fraud risk.

[N] In the meantime, app-equipped smartphones and digital wallets--all of which can use EMV

technology--are beginning to make inroads（侵袭）on cards and cash. PayPal, for instance, is testing an app that lets

you use your mobile phone to pay on the fly at local merchants--without surrendering any card information to them.

And further down the road is biometric authentication, which could be encrypted with, say, a fingerprint.

[O] Credit and debit cards, though, are going to be with us for the foreseeable future, and so are hackers, if we

stick with magstripe technology. "It seems crazy to me," says Gumbley, who is English, "that a cutting-edge-

technology country is depending on a 40-year-old technology." That's why it may be up to consumers to move the

needle on chip and PIN. Says Robertson: „„When you get the consumer into a position of worry and inconvenience,

that's where the rubber hits the road."

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46. It's best to use an EMV card for international travel.

47. Personal information on credit and debit cards is increasingly vulnerable to hacking.

48. The French card companies adopted EMV technology partly because of inefficient telephone service.

49. While many countries use the smarter EMV cards, the U.S. still clings to its old magstripe technology.

50. Attempts are being made to prevent hackers from carrying out identity theft.

51. Credit cards are much safer to use than debit cards.

52. Big banks have been reluctant to switch to more secure technology because of the higher costs involved.

53. The potential liability for retailers using magstripe is far more costly than upgrading their registers.

54. The use of magstripe cards by American retailers leaves consumers exposed to the risks of losing account

information.

55. Consumers will be a driving force behind the conversion from magstripe to EMV technology.

Section C

Directions: There are 2 passages in this section. Each passage is followed by some questions or unfinished

statements. For each of them there are four choices marked A), B), C) and D). You should decide on the best choice

and mark the corresponding letter on Answer Sheet 2 with a single line through the centre.

Passage One

Questions 56 to 60 are based on the following passage.

The report from the Bureau of Labor Statistics was just as gloomy as anticipated. Unemployment in January

jumped to a 16-year high of 7.6 percent, as 598000 jobs were slashed from US payrolls in the worst single-month

decline since December, 1974. With 1.8 million jobs lost in the last three months, there is urgent desire to boost the

economy as quickly as possible. But Washington would do well to take a deep breath before reacting to the grim

numbers.

Collectively, we rely on the unemployment figures and other statistics to frame our sense of reality. They are a

vital part of an array of data that we use to assess if we're doing well or doing badly, and that in turn shapes

government policies and corporate budgets and personal spending decisions. The problem is that the statistics aren't

an objective measure of reality; they are simply a best approximation. Directionally, they capture the trends, but the

idea that we know precisely how many are unemployed is a myth. That makes finding a solution all the more

difficult.

First, there is the way the data is assembled. The official unemployment rate is the product of a telephone

survey of about 60000 homes. There is another survey, sometimes referred to as the "payroll survey," that assesses

400000 businesses based on their reported payrolls. Both surveys have problems. The payroll survey can easily

double-count someone: if you are one person with two jobs, you show up as two workers. The payroll survey also

doesn't capture the number of self-employed, and so says little about how many people are generating an

independent income.

The household survey has a larger problem. When asked straightforwardly, people tend to lie or shade the

truth when the subject is sex, money or employment. If you get a call and are asked if you're employed, and you

say yes, you're employed. If you say no, however, it may surprise you to learn that you are only unemployed if

you've been actively looking for work in the past four weeks; otherwise, you are "marginally attached to the labor

force" and not actually unemployed.

The urge to quantify is embedded in our society. But the idea that statisticians can then capture an objective

reality isn't just impossible. It also leads to serious misjudgments. Democrats and Republicans can and will take

sides on a number of issues, but a more crucial concern is that both are basing major policy decisions on

guesstimates rather than looking at the vast wealth of raw data with a critical eye and an open mind.

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56. What do we learn from the first paragraph?

A) The US economic situation is going from bad to worse.

B) Washington is taking drastic measures to provide more jobs.

C) The US government is slashing more jobs from its payrolls.

D) The recent economic crisis has taken the US by surprise.

57. What does the author think of the unemployment figures and other statistics?

A) They form a solid basis for policy making.

B) They represent the current situation.

C) They signal future economic trends.

D) They do not fully reflect the reality.

58. One problem with the payroll survey is that ________.

A) it does not include all the businesses

B) it fails to count in the self-employed

C) it magnifies the number of the jobless

D) it does not treat all companies equally

59. The household survey can be faulty in that ________.

A) people tend to lie when talking on the phone

B) not everybody is willing or ready to respond

C) some people won't provide truthful information

D) the definition of unemployment is too broad

60. At the end of the passage, the author suggests that ________.

A) statisticians improve their data assembling methods

B) decision makers view the statistics with a critical eye

C) politicians listen more before making policy decisions

D) Democrats and Republicans cooperate on crucial issues

Questions 61 to 65 are based on the following passage.

At some point in 2008, someone, probably in either Asia or Africa, made the decision to move from the

countryside to the city. This nameless person pushed the human race over a historic threshold, for it was in that year

that mankind became, for the first time in its history, a predominantly urban species.

It is a trend that shows no sign of slowing. Demographers (人口统计学家) reckon that three-quarters of

humanity could be city-dwelling by 2050, with most of the increase coming in the fast-growing towns of Asia and

Africa. Migrants to cities are attracted by plentiful jobs, access to hospitals and education, and the ability to escape

the boredom of a farmer‟s agricultural life. Those factors are more than enough to make up for the squalor (肮脏),

disease and spectacular poverty that those same migrants must often at first endure when they become urban

dwellers.

It is the city that inspires the latest book from Peter Smith. His main thesis is that the buzz of urban life, and

the opportunities it offers for co-operation and collaboration, is what attracts people to the city, which in turn makes

cities into the engines of art, commerce, science and progress. This is hardly revolutionary, but it is presented in a

charming format. Mr. Smith has written a breezy guidebook, with a series of short chapters dedicated to specific

aspects of urbanity—parks, say, or the various schemes that have been put forward over the years for building the

perfect city. The result is a sort of high-quality, unusually rigorous coffee-table book, designed to be dipped into

rather than read from beginning to end.

In the chapter on skyscrapers, for example, Mr. Smith touches on construction methods, the revolutionary

invention of the automatic lift, the practicalities of living in the sky and the likelihood that, as cities become more

crowded, apartment living will become the norm. But there is also time for brief diversions onto bizarre ground,

such as a discussion of the skyscraper index (which holds that a boom in skyscraper construction is a foolproof sign

of an imminent recession).

One obvious criticism is that the price of breadth is depth; many of Mr. Smith‟s essays raise as many questions

as they answer. Although that can indeed be frustrating, this is probably the only way to treat so grand a topic. The

city is the building block of civilisation and of almost everything people do; a guidebook to the city is really,

therefore, a guidebook to how a large and ever-growing chunk of humanity chooses to live. Mr. Smith‟s book

serves as an excellent introduction to a vast subject, and will suggest plenty of further lines of inquiry.

61. In what way is the year 2008 historic?

A) For the first time in history, urban people outnumbered rural people.

B) An influential figure decided to move from the countryside to the city.

C) It is in this year that urbanisation made a start in Asia and Africa.

D) The population increase in cities reached a new peak in Asia and Africa.

62. What does the author say about urbanisation?

A) Its impact is not easy to predict. C) It is a milestone in human progress.

B) Its process will not slow down. D) It aggravates the squalor of cities.

63. How does the author comment on Peter Smith‟s new book?

A) It is but an ordinary coffee-table book.

B) It is flavoured with humourous stories.

C) It serves as a guide to arts and commerce.

D) It is written in a lively and interesting style.

64. What does the author say in the chapter on skyscrapers?

A) The automatic lift is indispensable in skyscrapers.

B) People enjoy living in skyscrapers with a view.

C) Skyscrapers are a sure sign of a city‟s prosperity.

D) Recession closely follows a skyscraper boom.

65. What may be one criticism of Mr. Smith‟s book?

A) It does not really touch on anything serious.

B) It is too long for people to read from cover to cover.

C) It does not deal with any aspect of city life in depth.

D) It fails to provide sound advice to city dwellers.

Part IV Translation (30 minutes)

Directions: For this part, you are allowed 30 minutes to translate a passage from Chinese into English. You

should write your answer on Answer Sheet 2.

汉朝是中国历史上最重要的朝代之一。汉朝统治期间有很多显著的成就。它最先向其他文化敞开大门,

对外贸易兴旺。汉朝开拓的丝绸之路通向了中西亚乃至罗马。各类艺术一派繁荣, 涌现了很多文学、历史、

哲学巨著。公元l00年中国第一部字典编撰完成, 收入9 000个字, 提供释义并列举不同的写法: 英间, 科技

方面也取得了很大进步, 发明了纸张、水钟、日晷(sundials)以及测量地震的仪器。汉朝历经400年, 但统治

者的腐败最终导致了它的灭亡。

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2015年6月大学英语六级考试真题(三)答案与详解

Part one Writing 参考范文

Doing small things in a great way

Throughout the ages, only a few people can climb the ladder of success to the top and be admired by the world.

What may surprise us is that most people achieve success by doing small things in a great way. Just as the saying

goes, “If you cannot do great things, do small things in a great way.”That means one does not necessarily become a

great man, but he can still be successful and win respect from others by doing common work in a perfect way.

Actually, history abounds with examples to prove his saying. The late CEO of Apple, Steve Jobs, is a case in

point. He was so addicted to details that he could not stop pushing his staff to pursue perfection in design and

production. It is due to his focus on small things that Apple has made great success in the mobile field, producing

products that are not only innovative, but also superior.

As college students, we should keep in mind that it is of great necessity for us to enhance ourselves by doing

small things perfectly. Only when all small things add up can many impossibilities be made possible.

Part II Listening Comprehension

Section A

1. M: Good news! I am not going to have surgery after all. The doctor says I can start working out again soon and

maybe play football like before in a few weeks.

W: That's terrific. It will be eat if you could get back in shape in time for the World Cup.

O: What do we learn from the conversation?

A)【精析】综合理解题。男士告诉女士自己不用做手术了, 几周后有可能就可以像以前那样踢足球了；女士

回答说, 如果男士能在举行世界杯时恢复健康就好了。可见男士有可能参加世界杯比赛。 terrific在口语

中指“很好, 太棒了”；in shape意为 “处于良好状态”。

2. M: I really need to make some extra money. You know, I've practically spent my entire budget for this

semester.

W: Why not check out the new cafeteria at Market Street? I think there are still a few suitablefor seniors like

LCou.

Q: What does the woman suggest the man do?

D.【精析】请求建议题。男士表示他这个学期的预算已经用光了, 需要去赚钱；女士使用Why not…句式建

议男士去市场街的新餐厅打听一下, 她认为那里仍有合适的空缺岗位。换句话说, 女士建议男士去做一份兼

职工作来赚钱。

3. M: I hear John left his cat in your care while he‟s on vacation abroad. How are you getting along with it?

W: Well, it never comes when I call it. It s ills its food and sheds all over the place. I can't wait till John gets back.

Q: How does the woman find the cat?

C.【精析】观点态度题。男士询问女士与小猫相处得如何: 女士说它一点也不听话, 而且经常打翻食物, 还

到处掉毛, 简直让人无法忍受。可见女士非常讨厌这只小猫: nuisance意为“令人厌烦的人或东西”:

4. W: Hello. Prof. White. I got my grade in the mail this morning, but I think there might be a mistake in my mark.

M: Yeah. I've got several calls just like yours. There must be a problem with the computing system. It should be

straightened out in a couple of hours.

Q: What does the man mean?

A)【精析】语义理解题: 女士告诉男士(教授)她认为自己的分数有误；男士回答他已接到好几个反映此问题

的电话了. 估计是计算机系统出了毛病, 并表示错误会在几个小时内得到纠正。straighten out 意为“改正.

解决. 处理”:

5. M: Prof. Johnson, last night when I was putting the finishing touches on my paper, a computer failure corned out

my files. Do youthink I could have another day retype it?

W: I'm sorry, Rod. I'm leaving for a conference tomorrow and I'll be away two weeks. I suppose you could send me

an e-copy.

Q: Why does the man say he can't submit his assignment on time?

B.【精析】目的原因题。男士即将打完的论文因电脑出故障而丢失文件, 所以他向教授申请多给一天时间重

新打出来。由此可见, 男士不能按时交论文是因为电脑出现故障, 要重新打。wipe out意为“抹去, 消除”；

retrieve意为“重新得到, 恢复”。

6. W: I just called the travel agency. It's all set. On June 1st, we are heading for the mountains, and we'll be

camping there for a whole week.

M: Have you checked the academic calendar? Myclasses aren't over until the 8th.

Q: What does the man imply?A)【精析】弦外之音题。女士告诉男士出行计划: 6月1号出发去山区. 并在那

里野营一周；男士回答说, 他的课程一直到8号才能结束。可见, 他们不得不改变计划。

7. W: I thought there were still time for me to apply for a student loan, but someone just told me that the closing

date was last Tuesday.

M: Are you sure? I thought we still had another month. Wait. I've got a brochure right here. Last Tuesday- was the

Q: What does the man imply?

D.【精析】弦外之音题。女士告诉男士她本以为还有时间申请助学贷款, 但是有人告诉她申请已于上周二截

止；男士在查看了宣传手册(brochure)后确认, 上周二是开始进行申请的时间。可见, 他们还有时间申请助学

贷款。

8. W: Look at all the pollutants going into the air from those factories. Do you think they‟ll ever get that under

control?

M: Now with the new laws in effect and social awareness increasing, we are sure to turn things around.

Q: What does the man mean?

C.【精析】观点态度题。女士对工厂向空气中排放污染物感到气愤, 问男士这种情况是否能得到控制；男士

回答说, 随着新法律的实施和社会意识的增强, 这种局面一定能够得到扭转。可见, 男士持乐观态度, 认为

空气质量能够得到改善。turn around 意为“好转. 扭转, 有起色”。

Conversation One

W: Tell me, Peter, what makes Harrods so famous?

M: Well, it's the biggest department store in the UK, and its food hall and Egyptian hall are very famous.

People come to Harrods just to see them.

W: (9) What is special about the food hall?

M: (9) It sells many different kinds of food. For example, it has 250 kinds of cheese from all over the world,and

more than 180 kinds of bread. Customers also love all the different kinds of chocolate. They buy 100 tons every

year.

W: That's amazing, and (10) why is theEgyptian hall so famous?

M: (10)Well, when people see it they feel they‟re in another world. It looks like an Egyptian building from, and it

sells beautiful objects. They are not 4 000 years old, of course.

W: (11)Is it true that Harrods produces its own electricity.

M.(11)Yes, it does. 70%, enough for a small town. To light the outside of the building, we use 11 500 light bulbs.

W: Really? Tell me, (12)how many customers do you have on an average day? And how much do they spend?

M: (12)About 30 000 people come on an average day. But during the sales, the number increases to 300 000

customers a day. How much do they spend? Well, on average, customers spend about 1.5 million a day. The record