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2017

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月大学英语六级考试真题（第

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套）听力原文

Section A

Conversation One

W: Mr. Ishiguro, have you ever found one of your books at a

secondhand bookstore?

M: Yes. That kind of thing is difficult. [1]

If they’ve got my book there, I think, “Well, this is an

insult!

Somebody didn’t want to keep my book!” But if it’s

not there, I feel it’s an insult too. I think, “Why aren’t

people exchanging my book

Why isn’t it in this store”

W: Does being a writer require a thick skin?

M: Yes, for example, my wife can be very harsh. [2-1]

I began working on my latest book,

The Buried Giant

, in 2004, but I stopped after I showed my wife

a little section. She thought it was rubbish.

W: Even after you won a Booker Prize?

M: [2-2]

She’s not intimidated at all and she criticizes me in exactly

the

same

way

she

did

when

I

was

first

unpublished

and

I

was

starting.

W: But you would never compromise on your vision.

M: No, I wo

uldn’t ever compromise on the essential, the ideas

or

the

themes.

This

isn’t

really

what

my

wife

is

trying

to

criticize me about. It’s always about execution.

W: So why did you put your book,

The Buried Giant

, aside for so long

Apparently you started working on it over 10 years ago.

M: [3]

I’ve

often

stopped

writing

a

book

and

left

it

for

a

few

by

the time I come back to it, it may

have changed.

Usually

my

imagination

has

moved

on

and

I

can

think

of

different contexts or a different way to do it.

W: What does it feel like when you finally finish a book?

M:

It’s

funny

you

ask

that

because

I

never

have

this

moment

when I feel, “Ah, I’ve finished!” [4]

I

watch

footballers

at

the

end

of

the

match,

you

know,

the

whistle goes and they’ve won or lost. Until then they’ve been

giving everything they have and at that moment they know it’s

over.

It’s

funny

for

an

author.

There’s

never

a

finishing

whistle.

Questions

1

to

4

are

based

on

the

conversation

you

have

just

heard.

would

the

man

feel

if

he

found

his

book

in

a

secondhand

bookstore?

does the man’s wife think of his books?

does the man do when he engages in writing?

does the man want to say by mentioning the football match?

Conversation Two

W:

[5]According

to

a

study

of

race

and

equity

in

education,

black

athletes

are

dropping

out

of

college

across

the

country

at

alarming

us

to

talk

about

the

findings

in

the

study

is

Washington

Post?

columnistKevin

Blackistone.

Good

morning.

M: Good morning, how are you?

W: Fine, thank you. What is new that you found in this study?

M: Well, this is Shaun Harper’s study, and he points out that

on major college campuses across the country, black males make

up less than 3 percent of undergraduate enrollments. Yet, when

you

look

at

their

numbers

or

percentages

on

the

revenue-

generating

sports

teams

of

football

and

basketball,

they

make

up well into 50 to 60 percent of those teams. [6]So the idea is

that they are really there to be part of the revenue-generating

working

class

of

athletes

on

campus

and

not

necessarily

there

to

be

part

of

the

educating

class

as

most

students

in

other

groups are.

W: [7]

Compared with other groups, I think the numbers in this group,

at

those

65

schools,

are

something

like

just

barely

more

than

half of the black male athletes graduate at all.

M: Exactly. And what’s really bad about this is these athletes

are

supposedly

promised

at

least

one

thing

as

reward

for

all

their blood and sweat. And that is a college degree, which can

be

a

transformative

tool

in

our

society

when

you

talk

about

upward

mobility.

And

that’s

really

the

troubling

part

about

this.

W: Well, this has been talked about so much, really, in recent

years. Why hasn’t it changed?

M: Well, I think one of the reasons it hasn’t changed is that

there’s really no economic

pressure to change this. All of the

incentive

is

really

on

winning

and

not

losing

on

the

field

or

on the court. [8]Coaches do not necessarily have the incentive

to graduate players.

Questions

5

to

8

are

based

on

the

conversation

you

have

just

heard.

are the speakers talking about?

is the new finding about black male athletes in this study?

is the graduation rate of black male athletes?

accounts

for

black

athletes’

failure

to

obtain

a

college

degree, according to the man?

Section B

Passage One

[9]

America’s holiday shopping season starts on Black Friday,

the day after Thanksgiving. It is the busiest shopping day of

the ers make the most money this time of year, about

20 to 30 percent of annual revenue. About 136 million people

will shop during the Thanksgiving Holiday weekend. More and

more will shop online. In an era of instant information,

shoppers can use their mobile phones to find deals. [10]About

million people will shop on Cyber Monday, the first Monday

after than half of all holiday purchases will

be made -in-five Americans will use a tablet or

smartphone. Online spending on Black Friday will rise 15

percent to hit?

＄

billion this year. Cyber Monday spending will

increase 12 percent to?

＄

3 billion. For many, shopping online

was “a more comfortable alternative” than crowded malls. The

shift to online shopping has had a big impact on traditional

shopping malls. Since 2010, more than 24 shopping malls have

closed and an additional 60 are struggling. However, [11]

Fortune

says the weakest of the malls have closed. The sector

is thriving International Council of Shopping Centers

said percent of malls were full, or occupied, with shops by

the end of 2014. That is the highest level in 27 years. [12]

Economist Gus Faucher said lower unemployment and rising

wages could give Americans more money to average

American consumer will spend about

＄805 on gifts. That’s about?

＄

billion between November and December

—

an increase of

percent from last year.

Questions 9 to 12 are based on the passage you have just heard.

is the speaker mainly talking about?

many people will shop on Cyber Monday?

does?

Fortune

say about traditional shopping malls

is said to account for the increased number of shoppers?

Passage Two

For years, many of us have relied on antibiotic use to treat

various infections. And the reality is that antibiotics have

been responsible for saving millions of lives since penicillin,

one of the earliest antibiotics, was first used on a clinical

basis 70 years ago. However, today is a new era in which taking

antibiotics can cause some very dangerous and potentially life-