英语六级听力练习题音频十一

　　Section A Short Conversation

　　1. M: How is your classmate Lucy,Mary.

　　The last time I came to see you.

　　you were about to take her to the hospital.

　　W: She came home last week

　　The operation was very successful.

　　The doctor said that she had almost recovered and could go back to college next week.

　　Q: What did the woman say about her classmate?

　　2. W: Anything new in the papers?

　　M:Yes.Theres an interesting report about new efficiency in a streamlined unit.

　　Then theres a news item about the capture of a gang of smugglers near Guangzhou.

　　Oh,and theres an editiorial about cutting down pollution.

　　Q: How many pieces of news did the man tell to the woman?

　　3. M: This is Charley speaking.

　　Could you tell me Mr.Smiths schedule for tomorrow.

　　Id like to met him at his convenience.

　　W:Let me see.Well,hell go to see his mother at 8 and attend a meeting in the morning.

　　And,he will be in his office the whole afternoon.

　　Q: What does Mr. Smith plan to do at 10 oclock tomorrow morning?

　　4. W: I am ready to go to the railway station

　　would you please bring down my suitcase?

　　M: It certainly is heavy, are you carrying rocks?

　　Q: What did the woman want?

　　5. W:Tom,you are interested in table tennis,arent you?

　　Do you know that the finals of the World Table Tennis Tournament will be broadcast live tomorrow?

　　M: Really? I do want to watch, but I havent finished my paper yet.

　　Q: What does the man mean?

　　6. M: This years heavy rain fall has caused flooding

　　and made it hard to plant new crops in the Yangze River valley.

　　Yes,I guess thats why fruits and vegetables are more expensive than last year.

　　Q: What is the problem?

　　7.I hope you can understand my reasons for deciding to go to another country,Mrs.White.

　　W: Do I have to remind you that we have invested a lot of

　　time and money in your career here?

　　Q: Whats the womans attitude?

　　8. M: Maria, I want to rent a house

　　do you have any extra money you could lend me?

　　W: I wish I could help you.

　　I went shopping yesterday.

　　Now I have only two dollars till the end of the month.

　　Q: Will the man borrow any money from the woman?

　　9. M: Do you rent boats here?

　　W: Of course,we rent them by the hour or by the day.

　　Either way you have to have them back here by six.

　　Q: When must the boats be returned?

　　10. M:Good morning,madam.What can I do for you?

　　W: Id like an estimate for repairing my emergency brake.

　　The car rolls when I park it on a hill.

　　Q:Where does the conversation most probably take place?

　　Sectio B

　　Passage One

　　One of the primary materials used in the construction of buildings and roads is cement

　　a powder made primarily from limestone and clad.

　　Even though the ancient Egyptians and Romans used a kind of cement,it was not until 1824 that an English bricklayer develope

　　a cement strong enough for modern roads and buildings.

　　While experimenting in his kitchen

　　the bricklayer found that a mixture of limestone and clad

　　that had been heated together formed a hard

　　stone like chunk as it cooler

　　When this substance was ground into a find powder it could be stored indefinitely.

　　When the powder was mixed with water

　　it made an excellent quality of cement that quickly hardened in sunlight or even under water.

　　With only a few variations

　　this is how cement is made today.

　　11. What is the main topic of the talk?

　　12. Who developed the kind of cement that is used today?

　　13. What was significant about the new kind of cement?

　　Passage Two

　　In America, where labor costs are so high

　　do-it-your-self is a way of life.

　　Many people repair their own cars

　　build their own garages, even remodel their own houses.

　　Soon they many also be writing their own books.

　　In Hollywood there is a company that publishes childrens books with the aid of computers.

　　Although other book companies also publish that way

　　this particular company is very unusual.

　　It personalizes the books by having the computer make the reader the leading character in the story.

　　Here is how they do it.

　　Let us say your child is named Jenny.

　　She lives on Oak Drive in St.Louie

　　has a dog named Spot, a cat named Tabby

　　and three playmates whose are Betsy,Sandy and Jodo.

　　The computer uses this information to fill out a story that has already been prepared and illustrate

　　The story is then printed with standard equipment as a hardcover book.

　　A child who receives such a book might say

　　This book is about me

　　the company therefore calls itself the Me-books Publishing Company.

　　Children like the me-books because they like to see in print their own names

　　and the names of their friends and their pets

　　But more important

　　Personalization has been found to be an important tool in developing enthusiasm for reading.

　　Me-books are thus helping a child to learn how to read by appealing

　　to that natural desire to see his own name in print.

　　14. What is the subject of the passage?

　　15. What characteristics does the company have?

　　16. Whats the purpose of the me-books?

　　Passage Three

　　Every word has its own story.

　　So does the word Yankee.

　　Where did the word come from?

　　What does it meat?

　　And how did it get into the language.

　　A number of people believe that the word Yankee comes from a Scottish word

　　meaning sharp and clever.

　　But most experts agree that the word comes from Holland.

　　Many years ago the Hollanders who made cheese were called John Cheese by the German.

　　Then some of these Hollanders came to America in the Early 1600s.

　　They settled near the New England colonist.

　　The Hollanders were great farmers and they laughed at the colonist

　　in the north who tried to build farms in the mountain rock

　　And so the Hollanders gave their own nickname John Cheese to the New England colonist

　　In Dutch John Cheese was spelt J-A-N-J-E-E-S and pronounced Yankees.

　　During the American Civil War

　　that name Yankee took on a wider meaning.

　　The soldiers in the northern state

　　were called Yankees by the men of the southern army.

　　During World War I

　　the nickname Yankee spread to Europa.

　　The word yankee was shortened to Yank

　　and the words The Yanks are coming brought tears and job

　　to the people of the Allied Nation

　　Today,the word Yankee is known throughout the world as another name for an American.

　　17.What did the speaker tell us?

　　18.According to most experts, where did the word come from?

　　19.What did the word Yankees refer to during the American Civil War?

　　20.What does the word Yankee mean today