43122019年12月英语六级听力原文

2021年1月20日发(作者：凛冽)
2019
年
12
月英语六级听力原文（卷一）


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Section A
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Conversation




Conversation 1




W
：
Professor Henderson could you give us a brief overview of what
you do, where you work and your main area of research?




M
：
Well the Center for Climate Research where I work s the science
of climate change to issues around economics and policy.




Some of our research is to do with the likely impacts of climate
change and all of the associated risks.




W
：
And how strong is the evidence that climate change is happening
that it's really something we need to be worried about.




M
：
Well most of the science of climate change particularly that to do
with global warming is simply fact.




But other aspects of the science are less certain or at least more
disputed.




And so we're really talking about risk what the economics tells us is
that it's probably cheaper to avoid climate change to avoid the risk than it
has to deal with the likely consequences.




W
：
So what are we doing? What can we do about it?




M
：
Well I would argue that we need to develop the science
specifically to understand the likely impacts of climate change in different
contexts.




As I said we need to understand the best ways of avoiding climate
change and this will involve a huge transition to low carbon energy systems
and the transition is a tremendous priority.




And for this to happen, we may need action on a global scale from a
political perspective.




We need to understand the terms on which major countries like China
and the USA might sign up to a global agreement because at the moment
we don't have that consensus.




W
：
Right.




M
：
And we also need to plan ahead so that we're in a position to
deal with the likely levels of climate change which are already inevitable
and even more so to for the levels that are likely if we don't get those
global agreements.




Q1. What does Professor H say about his main area of research?




Q2. What does Professor H say about climate change?




Q3. What does Professor H say is a top priority in combating climate
change?




Q4. What does Professor H advise us to do to better deal with climate
change?




Conversation 2




W
：
I have many business English students. When I teach the
classroom, we often end up talking about things like success and what leads
to success. And it's interesting that many of them mention the element of
luck.




M
：
Right.




W
：
Luck is important to success. But since you've seen that fantastic
video on the TED Talks website by Richard St. John, he doesn't mention luck
at all.




M
：
Well, I'm a firm believer that people can make their own luck. I
mean what people regard as luck, you can actually create, to a degree.




W
：
Sure. I think a lot of what people consider luck is attributed to
how you respond to the opportunities that come your way.




M
：
Yes. Very good point.




W
：
Seizing the opportunities. But was there any point in the video
that you thought was particularly interesting?




M
：
Yes. Actually there was. Something very impressive to me as
many people think that luck is important and that natural talent is
something you must have in order to be successful. And in the video we
saw, the point about getting good at something is not about having some
natural talent. It's all about practice, practice, practice.




W
：
Definitely yeah. Natural talent helps in some way but at the end
of the day you really do need to work hard and get really really good at
what you do.




M
：
Sure.




W
：
I thought one interesting thing in the video was the idea of
passion being so important and that people who really love what they do.
Of course you're going to want to work harder and put the time and effort
into it. And the funny thing is that if you love what you do and are really
passionate about it and work really hard, the money kind of comes
automatically.




Q5. What are the speakers mainly talking about?




Q6. What is the woman’s view of luck?




Q7. What is the chief point the TED Talks video makes?




Q8. What does the woman think is the funny thing in the TED Talks
video?




Section B




Passage One




Devil’s Tower, t
he first national monument in America, could almost
be mistaken for the stump of an enormous tree. Its sheer rock size sweep
up from a broad base until they cut off abruptly at the flat summit. Rising
more than one thousand feet in the middle of the gently rolling plains at
Wyoming. The massive column of rock looks as though it was dropped
down into this location from a different time and place. In a sense it was,
Devil’s Tower is a relic of the past. When the melted rock of the earth’s
core forced its way to the surface to form the throat of a volcano. As the
centuries passed, the rock cooled and hardened, shrinking and cracking into
long columns. Born in fire and fury, Devil’s Tower was then shaped by the
slow, gentle work of wind and water.




The outer layers of the volcano were worn away until the hard core
stood completely exposed. Small wonder that an Indian legend described
Devil’s Tower as being formed by supernatural powers. The legend says
that when seven girls were attacked by bears, they took refuge on top of a
small rock, and appealed to the rock god for help. The god caused the rock
to grow and to lift the girls far above the ground, while its sides were
scored by the claws of the angry bears. Even today, says the legend, the
girls can be seen above the tower in rock as seven shining stars in the
night’s sky.




Q9
：

What does Devil’s Tower look like?




Q10
：

What caused the volcano’s outer layer to wear away?




Q11
：

What does Indian legend say about Devil’s Tower?