2016年6月英语四级真题听力原文及翻译(第二套)

2016

年

6

月英语四 级真题听力原文及翻译（第二套）

You probably think college students are experts at sleeping.

你可能会认为大学生是睡眠大师，

But parties, preparations for tests, personal problems and general stress can wreck a student's

sleep habits, which can be bad for the body and the mind.

< br>然而聚会、

备考、

个人问题以及各种压力都在破坏着他们 的睡眠习惯，

这给他们的身心带来了

很坏的影响。

Texas Tech University is even offering a class called

得克萨 斯理工大学甚至开设了一门名为《改善你的睡眠习惯》的课程。

People suffering from sleep loss are adding increased risk from obesity, psychological problems

and car crashes.

被失眠困扰的人出现肥胖或心理问题的可能性更高，被卷入车祸事件的几率更大。

Students who don't get enough sleep have poorer attendance and lower grades.

缺乏睡眠的学生出勤率偏低，成绩相对较差。

On

top

of

all

that,

a

new

study

published

in

the

journal

Learning

&

Memory

finds

you

are

probably better off sleeping than making last

-

minute preparations for a test.

除此之外，

一份刊登 在

《学习与记忆》

日报上的研究发现睡觉比临时抱佛脚更有可能 得到好结

果。

Two hundred college kids were taught to play some unfamiliar video games.

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名大学生被指导如何玩一款他们不熟悉的视频游戏。

Subjects

who

learned

the

games

in

the

morning

lost

some

skills

when

they

played

again

12

hours later, but they did much better after getting a good night sleep.

早上学习游戏的一些学 生

12

小时后再次玩时忘记了一些学过的技能，但是他们在晚上 得到充

足的睡眠之后第二天玩得更好了。

So, if you really want to do your job well, don't forget to get some sleep.

所以，如果你想做好一份工作，不要忘了睡眠的重要性。

Questions 1 and 2 are based on the news report you have just heard.

请根据你刚听到的内容回答问题

1

-

2

。

Question 1. What is the news report mainly about?

< /p>

问题

1

：新闻报道的主要内容是什么？< /p>

Question 2. What is the finding of the new study published in the journal Learning & Memory?

问题

2

：刊登在《学习与记忆》日报上的研究发现了什么？

Long queues, delayed flights and overcrowding at airports have become almost as much a topic

for conversation in Britain as the traditional complaining about the weather.

在英国，

对乘飞机 时排长队、

推迟航班、

机场拥挤的抱怨出现在人们对话中的频率 已经快要赶

超他们长久以来的吐槽对象

——

坏天气了。

Meanwhile, there are complaints that poor service at London's major airports is discouraging

foreigners from doing business in Britain.

同时，还有人指责伦敦几个主要机场糟糕的服务使得外国人越来越不愿意来英国做生意。

Much

of

the

criticism

is

directed

at

the

British

Airports

Authority,

which

runs

seven

major

airports, including the three main ones serving London.

众多指责的焦点是英国机场 管理局。该机构运营着七家大型机场，其中三家在伦敦。

The

Competition

Commission

is

now

to

investigate

whether

the

British

Airports

Authority

needs to sell off some of its assets.

目前竞争委员会将 对英国机场管理局进行调查，

调查旨在确定英国机场管理局是否需要将其部

分资产出售。

The idea is that competition between rival operators would lead to better service at airports.

其目的是通过加强竞争来推动机场服务质量的提升。

The British Airports Authority, recently bought by a Spanish company,

最近被一家西班牙公司收购的英国机场管理局，

says

the

root

cause

of

the

problem

is

not

the

ownership

structure

but

a

lack

of

runway

and

terminal capacity,

表示问题的根源不在于产权结构而在于跑 道和航空站容客量不足，

which it is addressing through a program of heavy investment.

而他们正在投巨资解决这一问题。

Questions 3 and 4 are based on the news report you have just heard.

请根据你刚听到的内容回答问题

3

-

4

。

Question 3. What is the Competition Commission going to investigate?

问题

3< /p>

：竞争委员会将对什么展开调查？

Question

4.

What

is

the

root

cause

of

the

poor

service

at

British

airports

according

to

the

British Airports Authority?

问题

4

：英国机场管理局认为导致英国 机场服务质量差的根源问题是什么？

Under the

law in Massachusetts, tobacco companies have

to measure

the

nicotine

content of

every type of cigarette and report the results.

马萨诸塞州法律规定，烟草公司必须测量并 公布其各类香烟中的尼古丁含量。

The Department of Public Health in Boston gathers and carefully examines the figures and then

draws its conclusion.

波士顿公共卫生部会收集并仔细审查这些数据，最终进行总结。

A hundred and sixteen brands were looked at for the study.

接受审 查的香烟品牌共有

116

个。

Ninety two were found to have higher nicotine yields than they did six years previously.

其中有

92

个品牌香烟中尼古丁含量高于

6

年前。

The biggest increases tended to be in brands that were popular with young smokers.

而增福最大的是受年轻人喜欢的品牌。

That worries the department because of the addictive nature of nicotine.

这令卫生部感到不安，因为尼古丁是一种能让人上瘾的物质。

Stand Glance, a professor of medicine in San Francisco, explains why:

旧金山的医学教授斯坦德

·

格兰斯解释了原因：

year ago,

“

现在产出香烟中尼古丁的 含量相较六年前增长了

10%

，

which means that is easier to get hooked and harder to quit.

这就意味着人们会更容易上瘾，戒烟也会更加困难。

The big tobacco companies have always insisted that they are frank with their customers about

the dangers of smoking and provide them with enough detail to make an informed decision.

那些大的烟草公司一 直以来宣称他们对抽烟的危害一直坦诚布公，并为顾客提供了足够信息，

让他们在知情的 情况下做出购买决定。

However,

none

of

them

were

prepared

to

comment

on

this

study

or

discuss

the

detailed

nicotine content of their products.

然而却没有一家公司准备对这一调查作出 评论，

或者针对他们产品中具体的尼古丁含量进行讨

论。

Questions 5 to 7 are based on the news report you have just heard.

请根据你刚听到的内容回答问题

5

-

7

。

Question 5. What do tobacco companies have to do under the law in Massachusetts?

问题

5

：马萨储塞州法律对烟草公司做出了什么规定？

Question 6. What do we learn from the study by the Department of Public Health in Boston?

问题

6

：从波士顿公共卫生部的研究中我们可以知道什么？

Question 7. What do we learn from the news report about the big tobacco companies?

问题

7

：从这则新闻报道中我们对大烟草公司有哪些了解？

M:

And

you

know

one

thing

that

I

wanted

to

ask

you.

It

is

great

that

you

have

had

this

experience of teaching in Indonesia and following up on what you just mentioned, what would

you recommend for students who do not live in an English

-

speaking country? And, you know,

they

want

to

learn.

I

don't

know

about

perfecting

but

they

want

at

least

to

be

able

to

communicate decently. How can they go about this?

男士：

有一 件事我想问你。

你能有去印尼教学以及后边你提到的经历很好，

但是对于那些不是

生活在英语国家的学生你有什么建议。

我不是 说要达到完美的水平，

至少能够做到无障碍交流。

他们怎样才能 做到呢？

W:

Yeah, it is really hard. That’s the real struggle because right now I do live in Holland but I

really don't socialize much with Dutch people. And my boyfriend's English is so good that we

just basically speak English all the time. So I have to make a real effort to practice. There's as

much listening exposure as I want. All I have to do is turn on the TV.

女士：是的，这的确很难。 这是个问题，因为虽然我现在住在荷兰，但是我几乎不和荷兰人来

往。

< br>而且我男朋友的英语实在太好了，

我们基本上都用英语沟通。

所以我不得不刻意地去练习。

我能够获得的听力资源很充足，只要打开电视就可以。

M:

And reading also, right?

男士：还有阅读，对吗？

W:

Yeah, reading. There's plenty I can get to read and listen to. But for speaking, there really is

no substitute for trying to speak and use the language in a relaxed atmosphere. So I think that is

really the challenge for people who live in a country where their target language isn't spoken.

And for that, gosh, what would I do? If I didn't have people here, probably try to find a club? In

Sweden, they

have

a

really

cool

system

called

study

circles

where

not…It's

like

a

course,

but

really you just have a course leader, who is there, sort of, as a coaching guide and to help out.

And you don't get grade, and you go just because you want to learn.

对，阅读。我能找到的阅读和听力资料很多。但是至于

“

说

”

，没有什么比能够让人放松地应用

语言的环境更理想了。

所以我认为对于生活在不讲其目标语国家的语言 学习者来说，

这是真正

的挑战。针对这种情况，天哪，我会怎么 做呢？如果我身边没有人帮我练习，或许我会去找俱

乐部？在瑞典有一种叫做