2012年12月英语六级听力练习3

22: What do we learn about the man’s company?

23: Why was the campaign delayed according to the man?

24: What does the woman propose as a solution to the problem?

25: What does the man suggest they do at the end of the conversation? 

Section B

Passage One

The University of Tennessee’s Walters Life Sciences building, is a model animal facility, spotlessly clean, careful in obtaining prior approval for experiments from an animal care committee. Of the 15,000 mice house there in a typical year, most give their lives for humanity. These are good mice and as such won the protection of the animal care committee. At any given time however some mice escape and run free. These mice are pests. They can disrupt experiments with the bacteria organisms they carry. They are bad mice and must be captured and destroyed. Usually, this is accomplished by means of sticky traps, a kind of fly paper on which they become increasingly stuck. But the real point of the cautionary tale, says animal behaviorist Herzau, is that the labels we put on things can affect our moral responses to them. Using stick traps or the more deadly snap traps would be deemed unacceptable for good mice. Yet the killing of bad mice requires no prior approval. Once the research animal hits the floor and becomes an escapee, says Herza, its moral standard is instantly diminished. In Herzau’s own home, there was more ironic example when his young son’s pet mouse Willy died recently, it was accorded a tearful ceremonial burial in garden. Yet even as they mourned Willy, says Herzau, he and his wife were setting snap traps to kill the pest mice in their kitchen with the bare change in labels from pet to pest, the kitchen mice obtained totally different moral standards

Questions:

26, What does the passage say about most of the mice used for experiments?

27, Why did the so-called bad mice have to be captured and destroyed?

28, When are mice killed without prior approval?

29, Why does the speaker say what the Herzau’s did at home is ironical?

Passage Two

There are roughly three New Yorks. There is, first, the New York of the man or woman who was born here, who takes the city for granted and accepts its size and its turbulence as natural and inevitable. Second, there is the New York of the commuter — the city that is swallowed up by locusts each day and spat out each night. Third, there is the New York of the person who was born somewhere else and came to New York in quest of something. Of these three trembling cities the greatest is the last, the city of final destination, the city that has a goal. It is this third city that accounts for New York's high-strung disposition, its poetical deportment, its dedication to the arts, and its incomparable achievements. Commuters give the city its tidal restlessness; natives give it solidity and continuity; but the settlers give it passion. And whether it is a farmer arriving from Italy to set up a small grocery store in a slum, or a young girl arriving from a small town in Mississippi to escape the indignity of being observed by her neighbors, or a boy arriving from the Corn Belt with a manuscript in his suitcase and a pain in his heart, it makes no difference: each embraces New York with the intense excitement of first love, each absorbs New York with the fresh eyes of an adventurer, each generates heat and light to dwarf the Consolidated Edison Company.

 

2012年12月英语六级听力练习的延伸阅读——英语六级听力备考技巧

 

    考试复习时间所剩无几，基于复习时间已经很有限，目前的重点应该是8套左右的真题，年代太久远了也没用。争取每做一套，提高2-3分左右。这个提高是基于技巧和对阵题的感觉的把握上的，基本上，到了这个阶段，听力是不大可能有很大的提高。因此不要奢望最后两周忽然爆发式的得分。需要注意的仅仅是是技巧，以及中间部分对出题者思路的把握。

     对于听力部分，个人认为,你把前面年份的听力都听懂、摸熟了，等到的分数，基本就是你今年能拿的分数了。所以，每天花半个小时自测或者自测后晚上自己再听几遍，基本就不需要再花什么功夫了。如果真的需要，请注意如下几方面：

     做题技巧：做完快速阅读离听力开始还有五分钟，在这五分钟内老师会把你的答题卡1收上去，然后我们要做的就是浏览听力的所有选项。这段时间是充分发挥你记忆力的时候，记住的选项越多越好。加了长对话和复合式听写之后听力时间变长了，很容易让人觉得疲惫，所以听力的时候一定要保持最佳状态。

一．卷子发下来后快速的浏览一遍，包括题干和答案。这样会大大提高你对听力的理解——知道它是讲什么内容，大概是怎么回事。这个时候不要去写考号什么的。尽管留到交卷时写好了。

二．没听懂的题目，就放弃它，千万不要听下道题的时候还在想上道题。这样会引起头脑里面的混乱。如果引起连锁反应那你的复习就全白费了。

三．相信第一感觉，听力部分不是非常确凿的感觉的话不要改动开始的答案。人的脑袋有时候会混淆的。因此很多情况下不是你选错了，而是改错了。因此轻易别选，但是选了之后轻易别改。

四．赴考之前先检查耳机工作否。试音的时候把音量什么的调好就行了。其它的时间用来看卷子内容。

五．复合式听写的句子部分是得分大户，也是丢分大户，一定注意听懂再写，以句子为单位而不是以单词为单位去写。写出主要意思即可。不会写的单词要用同义词来替换。