2018年6月英语六级听力真题及原文答案

2018

年

6

月英语六级听力真题及原文答案（第一套全）

Section A

Conversation One

M: What's all that? Are you going to make a salad?

W: No I'm going to make a gazpacho.

M: What's that?

W: Gazpacho is a cold soup from Spain. It’s mostly vegetables. I guess you could call it a liquid s

alad.

M: Cold soup? Sounds weird.

W: It's delicious. Trust me. I tried it for the first time during my summer vacation in Spain. You see, in the south of

Spain, it gets very hot in the summer, up to 40°

C. So a cold gazpacho is very refreshing. The main ingredients are tomato,

cucumber, bell peppers, olive oil and stale bread.

M: Stale bread? Surely you mean bread for dipping into the soup?

W: No. Bread is crushed and blended in like everything else. It adds texture and thickness to the soup.

M: Mm. And is it healthy?

W: Sure. As I said earlier it's mostly vegetables. You can also add different things if you like, such as hard-boiled egg

or cured ham.

M: Cured ham? What’s that?

W: That's another Spanish delicacy. Have you never heard of it? It is quite famous.

M: no, is it good too?

W: Oh, yeah, definitely. It’s amazing. It’s a little dry and salty, and it's very expensive because it comes from a special

type of pig that only eats a special type of food. The harm is covered in salt to dry and preserve it. And left to hang for up to

2 years, it has a very distinct flavor.

M: Mm. Sounds interesting. Where can I find some?

W: It used to be difficult to get Spanish produce here. But it's now a lot more common. Most large supermarket chains

have cured ham in little packets but in Spain you combine a whole leg.

M: A whole peg leg? Why would anybody want so much ham?

W: In Spain, many people buy a whole leg for special group events, such as Christmas. They cut it themselves into

very thin slices with a long flat knife.

Questions 1 to 4 are based on the conversation you have just heard.

1. What do we learn about gazpacho?

2. For what purpose is stale bread mixed into gazpacho?

3. Why does the woman think gazpacho is healthy?

4. What does the woman say about cured ham?

Conversation Two

M: Hello, I wish to buy a bottle of wine.

W: Hi, yes. What kind of wine would you like?

M: I don't know, sorry. I don't know much about wine.

W: That’s no problem at all. What’s the occasion and how much would you like to spend?

M: It's for

my boss. It’s his birthday. I know he likes wine, but I don't know what type. I also do not want anything too

expensive, maybe mid-range. How much would you say is a mid-range bottle of wine approximately?

W: Well, it varies greatly. Our lowest prices are around $$6 a bottle, but those are table wines. They are not very special.

And I would not suggest them as a gift. On the other end, our most expensive bottles are over $$150. If you are looking for

something

priced

in

the

middle,

I

would

say

anything

between

$$30

and

$$60

would

make

a

decent

gift.

How

does

that

sound?

M: Mm, yeah. I guess something in the vicinity of 30 or 40 would be good. Which type would you recommend?

W: I would say the safest option is always a red wine. They are generally more popular than whites, and can usually be

paired with food more easily. Our specialty here are Italian wines, and these tend to be fruity with medium acidity. This one

here is a Chianti, which is perhaps Italy's most famous type of red wine. Alternatively, you may wish to try and surprise

your boss with something less common, such as the Infantile. The grapes are originally native to Croatia but this winery is

in east in Italy and it has a more spicy and peppery flavor. So to summarize, the Chianti is more classical and the Infantile

more exciting. Both are similarly priced at just under $$40.

M: I will go with Chianti then. Thanks.

Questions 5 to 8 are based on the conversation you have just heard.

5. What does the woman think of table wines?

6. What is the price range of wine the man will consider?

7. Why does the woman recommend red wines?

8. What do we learn about the wine the man finally bought?

Section B

Passage One

Many people enjoy secret codes, the harder the code the more some people would try to figure it out.

In war time,

codes are especially important, they help army send news about battles and signs of enemy forces. Neither side wants its

code broken by the other. One very important code was never broken, it was used during world war two by the Americans.

It

was

spoken

code,

never

written

down

and

it

was

developed

and

used by

NH

Indians.

They

were

called

the

NH

code

talkers. The NH created the codes in their own language. NH was hard to learn and only a few people know it. So it was

pretty certain that the enemy would not be able to understand the code talkers. In addition, the talkers used code words.

They called a submarine and an iron fish and a small bomb thrown by hand, a potato. If they wanted to spell something,

they used code words for letters of the Alphabet. For instance, the letter A was ant or apple or ax, the code talkers worked

mostly in the islands in the Pacific. One or two would be assigned a group of soldiers. They would send messages by field

telephone

to

the

code

talker

in

the

next

group. And

he would

relay

the

information

to

his

commander.

The

code

talkers

played an important part in several battles. They helped the troops coordinate their movements and attacks. After the war,

the US governments honored them for what they had accomplished. Theirs was the most successful wartime code ever used.

Questions 9 to 11 are based on the passage you have just heard.

9 . What does the speaker say many people enjoy doing?

do we learn about the NH talkers?

is the speaker mainly talking about?

Passage Two

If you are young and thinking about your career, you want to know where you can make a living, well, this going to be

a technological replacement of a lot of knowledge intensive jobs in the next twenty years. Particularly in the two largest

sectors of the labor force with professional skills. One is teaching, and the other, health care. You have so many applications

and software and platforms, but going to come in and provide information and service in these two fields, which means a lot

of health care and education sectors, would be radically changed, and lots of jobs will be lost. Now, where will the new jobs

be found, well the one sector of the economy that can't be easily duplicated by even small technologies is the caring sector,

the personal care sector, that is, you can't really get a robot to do a great massage or physical therapy. Or, you can't get the

kind

of

personal

attention

you

need

with

regard

to

therapy

or

any

other

personal

service.

There

could

be

very

high

and

personal services, therapist do charge a lot of money, I think there's no limit to the amount of personal attention and personal

care, people would like if they could afford it. But, the real question in the future is, how come people afford these things if

they don't have money, because they can't get a job that pays enough, that's why I wrote this book, which is about how to

reorganize the economy for the future when technology brings about destructive changes, to what we used to consider high

income work.

Questions 12 to 15 are based on the passage you have just heard.

12. What does the speaker say will happen in the next twenty years?

13. Where will young people have more chances to find jobs?

14. What does the speaker say about therapist?