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.
It is important that we be mindful of the earth, the planet out of which we are born and by which we are nourished, guided, healed the planet, however, which we have _______to a considerable degree in these past two centuries of _______ exploitation. This exploitation has reached such _______ that presently it appears that some hundreds of thousands of species will be _______ before the end of the century.
In our times, human shrewdness has mastered the deep _______ of the earth at a level far beyond the capacities of earlier peoples. We can break the mountains apart; we can drain the rivers and flood the valleys. We can turn the most luxuriant forests into throwaway paper products. We can _______ the great grass cover of the western plains and pour _______ chemicals into the soil until the soil is dead and blows away in the wind. We can pollute the air with acids, the rivers with sewage, the seas with oil. We can invent computers _______ processing ten million calculations per second. And why?To increase the volume and the speed with which we move natural resources through the consumer economy to the junk pile or the waste heap. Our managerial skills are measured by the competence _______ in accelerating this process. If in these activities the physical features of the planet are damaged, if the environment is made inhospitable for _______ living species, then so be it. We are, supposedly, creating a technological wonderworld.
参考答案
26.abused
2013年12月六级听力听写解析:句意推断题。根据空格前的have和空格后的to可知,此处应填入动词的过去分词形式。 结合录音填入abused,意为 滥用 。
27.industrial
2013年12月六级听力听写解析:空格前为of,空格后为名词exploitation,故空格处应填入一个形容词来修饰后面的名词。结合录音填入industrial,意为 工业的 。
28.extremes
2013年12月六级听力听写解析:句意推断题。在such ...that句型中,such后面应该填入一个名词。结合录音填入extremes,意为 极端 。
29.extinguished
2013年12月六级听力听写解析:句意推断题。根据空格前的will be可知,空格处应填入形容词作表语或填入动词的过去分词形式构成被动语态。结合录音填入extinguished,意为 熄灭,消灭 。
30.mysteries
2013年12月六级听力听写解析:句意推断题。空格前为形容词,空格后为介词of,故空格处应填入一个名词(词组)。结合录音填入mysteries,意为 神秘,谜 。
31.tear apart
2013年12月六级听力听写解析:句意推断题。空格前为情态动词cam故空格处应填入动词(词组)。结合录音填入tear apart,意为 扯开,斯开 。
32.toxic
2013年12月六级听力听写解析:修饰关系题。空格前为动词pour,后为名词chemicals,故空格处应填入一个形容词来修饰 后面的名词。结合录音填入toxic,意为 有毒的 。
33. capable of
2013年12月六级听力听写解析:语义推断题。句子主干结构完整,故空格处应填入定语修饰前面的computers,结合录音填入capable of,意为 有能力的 。
34. manifested
2013年12月六级听力听写解析:语义推断题。空格前为名词,空格后为介词短语,故空格处应填入一个形容词或动词的分词形式作名词的后置定语。结合录音填入manifested,意为 显示,表明 。
35. a multitude of
2013年12月六级听力听写解析:句意推断题。空格前为for,空格后为living species,故空格处应填入形容词、副词或其他性质相同的词组。结合录音填入a multitude of,意为 大量的 。
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