2013年12月英语六级（二）：听力短文答案解析及原文下载

　　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 1with a single line through the centre.

　　Passage One

　　Questions 16 to 19 are based on the passage you have just heard.

　　16.A) By invading the personal space of listeners.

　　B) By making gestures at strategic points.

　　C) By speaking in a deep, loud voice.

　　D) By speaking with the local accent.

　　ANSWER 答案

　　17.A) To promote sportsmanship among business owners.

　　B) To encourage people to support local sports groups.

　　C) To raise money for a forthcoming local sports event.

　　D) To show his family s contribution to the community.

　　ANSWER 答案

　　18.A) They are known to be the style of the sports world.

　　B) They would certainly appeal to his audience.

　　C) They represent the latest fashion in the business circles.

　　D) They are believed to communicate power and influence.

　　ANSWER 答案

　　19.A) To cover up his own nervousness.

　　B) To create a warm personal atmosphere.

　　C) To enhance the effect of background music.

　　D) To allow the audience to better enjoy his slides.

　　ANSWER 答案

　　16.2013年12月六级听力短文解析：细节辨认题。短文中提到Larry从一本书 中学到,如果演讲者以进入听众的个人空间,就会使演讲更具有说服力,激发听众情感上的回应。

　　17.2013年12月六级听力短文解析：目的原因题。短文中提到，演讲的听众是公司管理展和地方的企业家，演讲的目的是鼓励 他们支持地方的运动团体。

　　18.2013年12月六级听力短文解析：目的原因题。短文中提到,演讲者购买了昂贵的深蓝色西装和金色领带是因为这样的款式和颜色可以传达气势和影响力。

　　19.2013年12月六级听力短文解析：目的原因题。对话中提到，Larry在观众入场之前将灯光调暗,调高轻音乐的音量,是希望能够力演讲创造一种温暖的私人氛围。

　　Passage Two

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

　　20.A) She was the first educated slave of John Whitley s.

　　B) She was the greatest female poet in Colonial America.

　　C) She was born about the time of the War of Independence.

　　D) She was the first African-American slave to publish a book.

　　ANSWER 答案

　　21.A) Revise in a number of times.

　　B) Obtain consent from her owner.

　　C) Go through a scholarly examination.

　　D) Turn to the colonial governor for help.

　　ANSWER 答案

　　22.A) Literary works calling for the abolition of slavery.

　　B) Religious scripts popular among slaves in America.

　　C) A rich stock of manuscripts left by historical figures.

　　D) Lots of lost works written by African-American women.

　　ANSWER 答案

　　20.2013年12月六级听力短文解析：事实细节题。短文中指出,Phillis Wheatley 是一位诗人，并旦是第一位出版书籍的非裔美国人。

　　21.2013年12月六级听力短文解析：细节辨认题。短文中提到,Phillis Wheatley 的诗集出版非常困难,出版商由于担心被欺骗,强迫她接受包括殖民忌督在内的一群受过教育的人对她进行学术审查。

　　22.2013年12月六级听力短文解析：细节辨认题。短文中提到,编年史学教授 Henry Louis Gates进行了项研究,研究过程中发现了众多先传的作品,其中半数都为非裔美国女性作家所著。

　　Passage Three

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

　　23.A) It is a trait of generouscharacter.

　　B) It is a reflection of self-esteem.

　　C) It is an indicator of high intelligence.

　　D) It is a sign of happiness and confidence.

　　ANSWER 答案

　　24.A) It was self-defeating.

　　B) It was aggressive.

　　C) It was the essence of comedy.

　　D) It was something admirable.

　　ANSWER 答案

　　25.A) It is a double-edged sword.

　　B) It is a feature of a given culture.

　　C) It is a unique gift of human beings.

　　D) It is a result of both nature and nurture.

　　ANSWER 答案

　　23.2013年12月六级听力短文解析：推理判断题。短文介绍了幽默这一性格特点,如果一个人拥有极强的幽默感，那么说明这个人是快乐的,在社交方面充满自信，并且拥有健康的生活态度。

　　24.2013年12月六级听力短文解析：事实细节题。短文中提到，现代人对幽默的看法可能会吓到古希腊人，因为古希腊人认为幽默在本质上具有挑畔性。

　　25.2013年12月六级听力短文解析：细节辨认题。短文中提到,心理学家Rod Martin发现幽默是一把双刃剑。

　　音频原文

　　Passage One

　　Larry arrived early for his speaking engagement. He positioned the table so that he could move close to the audience thats the strategic point in the speech. He had read that speakers can be more persuasive if they invade the personal space of listeners, encouraging an emotional response. For the same reason, he placed the chairs close to each other and raised the temperature to a slightly uncomfortable level. The purpose of the speech was to encourage the audience of corporate executives and local business owners to support local sports groups. To enhance his credibility with the audience, Larry had brought some slides of his family attending sports events. One photo showed him at an award ceremony, where he had been honored for his financial contribution to a local baseball team. Realizing that this particular audience would find his regional accent unattractive, Larry planned to speak with an accent that would be more acceptable to his audience. After reading a book on how to address for success, he had purchased an expensive dark navy suit and golden tie. He chose colors and styles known to communicate power and influence. Just before people began entering the hall, Larry dimmed the lights and turned up the sound system, which was playing soft music, hoping to create a warm personal atmosphere for the speech. He hoped that these added effects would encourage his audience to support local sports teams. He had also planned the content of his speech to focus on the teams with the best records, the ones that had won the most games in the last season.

　　Passage Two

　　Phillis Wheatley was a young African-American slave who belonged to landowner John Wheatley in Colonial America. She was also a poet and the first African-American ever to publish a book. Her poems on various subjects, religious and moral, were printed in Boston in 1773, three years before the signing of the Declaration of Independence. Early slaves were generally denied education, but Wheatley was allowed by her owner to study poetry, Latin and the Bible. And by the time she reached her late teens, she had written enough poetry to put together a slender book of verse. Even so, publication was difficult.The publisher, fearful of being cheated, forced her to submit to his scholarly examination by a board of educated men, including the colonial governor. The board of judges questioned Wheatley extensively and ruled that she was educated enough to have written the book. Only then was publication permitted. Wheatley may have been the first, but she was not the only slave to write books during the growing days of the Republic. Unfortunately, most of the early popular African-American writers have been all but forgotten in modern times until now. A chronicle professor, Henry Louis Gates, recently studied a research project looking into 19th century African-American fiction and poetry. In the process he uncovered numerous lost works, almost half of which were written by African-American women. In very literary styles, the newly resurfaced manuscripts offered a rich stock of African-American culture, recreating among other things the early days of slavery and the importance of religion to the slaves.

　　Passage Three

　　In todays personality stakes nothing is more highly valued than the sense of humor. We seek it out in others and are proud to claim it in ourselves, perhaps even more than good looks or intelligence. If someone has a great sense of humor, we reason, it means that they are happy, socially confident and have a healthy perspective on life. This attitude would have surprised the ancient Greeks, who believed humor to be essentially aggressive. And in fact our admiration for the comically gifted is relatively new and not very well-founded, says Rod Martin,a psychologist at the University of Western Ontario. Being funny isnt necessarily an indicator of good social skills and well-being, his research has shown, it may just exactly be a sign of personality flaws. He has found that humor is a double-edged sword. It can forge better relationships and help you cope with life, or it can be corrosive eating away your self-esteem and irritating others. It s a form of communication like speech, and we all use it differently says Martin. We use bonding humor to enhance our social connections but we also may employ it as a way of excluding or rejecting an outsider. Though humor is essentially social, how you use it says a lot about your sense of self. Those who use self-defeating humor, making fun of themselves, of the enjoyment of others, tend to maintain that hostility toward themselves even when alone. Similarly, those who are able to view the world with amused tolerance are often equally forgiving of their own shortcomings.

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