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2010
年
12
月英语六级听力真题及答案解析
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听力原文
Section A
短对话（
11~
18
）
11
W: This is one of our best and least
expensive two-
bedroom listings. It’s
located in a quiet building and it’s
close to bus lines.
M: That
maybe true. But look at it, it’s awful, the paint
has peeled
off
and carpet is
worn and the stove is ancient.
Q: What
can we infer from the conversation?
12
M: The pictures we took
at the botanical garden should be ready tomorrow.
W: I can’t wait to see them, I’m
wondering if the shots I took
are as
good
as I thought.
Q: What
is the woman eager to know?
13
W:
The
handle
of
the
suitcase
is
broken.
Can
you
have
it
fixed
by
next
Tuesday?
M:
Let
me
see,
I
need
to
find
a
handle
that
matches
but
that
shouldn’t
take
too long.
Q: What does the
man mean?
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14
M:
This
truck
loo
ks
like
what
I
need
but
I’m
worried
about
maintenance.
For
us
it’ll
have
to
operate
for
long
periods
of
time
in
very
cold
temperatures.
W:
We
have
several
models
that
are
especially
adaptive
for
extreme
conditions.
Would you like
to see them?
Q: What do we learn about
the man from the conversation?
15
M: I think your boss
would be very upset when he gets your letter of
resignation.
W:
That
may
be
so.
But
in
the
letter,
I
just
told
him
frankly
I
could
no
longer
live
with his poor management and stupid decisions.
Q: What do we learn about the woman?
16
W I’d like to exchange
the shirt. I’ve learned that the person bought it
for allergic to wool.
M
Maybe we can find something in cotton or silk.
Please come this way.
Q
；
What does the
women want to do
？
17
M: Excuse me,
Miss
？
Did anyone happen to
turn in a new handbag? You know,
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it’s a birthday
gift for my wife.
W:
Let
me
see.
Oh,
we’ve
got
quite
a
lot
of
women’s
bags
here.
Can
you
give
me
more
detailed
information,
such
as
the
color,
the
size
and
the
trademark?
Q: Where does
this conversation most probably take place?
18
M What are you going to
do with the old house you are in heritage from
your
grandfather?
W I once
intended to sell it, but now, I’m thinking of
turning it into a
guest house, because
it's still a solid structure.
Q: What
does the man plan to do with his old house?
长对话（
19~25
）
W: When you write a novel, do you know
where you’re going, Dr. James?
M:
Yes,
you
must,
really,
if
you’re
writing
the
classical
detective
story,
because
it
must
be
so
carefully
plotted
and
so
carefully
clued.
I
have
schemes.
I have charts. I hav
e
diagrams. It doesn’t mean to say that I always get
it right, but I do plan before I begin
writing. But what is so fascinating
is
how a book changes during the process of writing.
It seems to me that
creative writing is
a process of revelation, really, rather than of
creativity in the ordinary sense.
W: When you’re planning the basic
structure, do you like to go away to be
sure that you’re by
yourself?
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M: I need to be by myself
certainly, absolutely. I can’t even bare anybody
else in the house. I don’t mind
much where
I am as long as
I’ve
got enough
space to
write, but I need to be completely alone.
W: Is that very important to you?
M: Oh, yes. I’ve never been lonely in
all my life.
W: How
extraordinary! Never?
M: No, never.
W: You’re very lucky. Someone once said
that there’s a bit of ice at the
heart
of every writer.
M:
Yes.
I
think
this
is
true.
The
writer
can
stand
aside
from
experience
and
look at it, watch it happening. There
is this ‘detachment’ and I realize
that
there
are
obviously
experiences
which
would
overwhelm
everyone.
But
very
often, a
writer can appear to stand aside, and this
detachment makes people
feel there’s a
bit of ice in the heart.
Questions 19 to 21 are based on the
conversation you have just heard.
19.
What is the key to write a good classical
detective story according to
the man?
20. What does theman mainly need when
working on a book?
21. What does the
man say about writers?
W: There is an
element there about competition then, isn’t there?
Because
British railways are a
nationaliz
ed industry. There’s only one
railway
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system in the country. If you don’t
like a particular kind of big beans,
you can go and buy another. But if you
don't like a particular railway, you
can’t go and use another.
M: Some people who write to me say
this. Th
ey say that if you didn’t have
monopoly,
you
wouldn’t
be
able
to
do
the
things
you
do.
Well,
I
don’t
think
we do anything
deliberately to upset our customers. We have
particular
problems.
Since
1946,
when
the
Transport
Act
came
in,
we
were
nationalized.
W:
Do
you
think
that’s
a
good
thing?
Has
it
been
a
good
thing
for
the
railways,
do
you think, to be nationalized?
M:
Oh
I
think
so,
yes.
Because
in
general,
modes
of
transport
are
all
around.
Let’s
face the fact. The car arrived. The car is here to
stay. The
re is no
question
about that.
W:
So
what
are
you
saying
then?
Is
it
if
the
railways
happen
being
nationalized,
they would simply have disappeared?
M: Oh, I think they would have. They’re
disappearing fast in America. Er,
the
French railways lose 1 billion ponds a year. The
German railways, 2
billion ponds a
year. But you see, those governments are preparing
to pour
money into the transport system
to keep it going.
W: So in a sense, you
cope between two extremes. On the one hand, you’re
trying not to lose to
o much
money. And on the other hand, you’ve got to
provide the best service.
M:
Yes, you are right.
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luck
Questions 22 to 25 are based on
the conversation you have just heard.
22. What does the woman say about
British railways?
23. What do some
people who write to the man complain about?
24. What does the man say threatens the
existence of railways?
25. What does
the man say about railways in other countries?
Section B
Passage
One
Among global warming’s
most frightening threats is the prediction is that
the polar ice-caps will melt, raising
sea level so much that coastal cities
from New York to Los Angles to Shanghai
will be flooded. Scientists agree
that
key player in this scenario is the West Antarctic
ice sheet, a
Brazil-size mass of frozen
water that is much as 7000 feet thick. Unlike
floating ice shelves which have little
impact on sea level when they break
up,
the
ice
sheet
is
anchored
to
bedrock
will
blow
the
sea
surface.
Surrounded
by
open
ocean,
it
is
also
vulnerable,
but
Antarctic
experts
disagree
strongly
on just how unstable it is. Now, new
evidence reveals that all or most of
the Antarctic ice sheet collapsed at
least once during the
past
1.3 million
years, a period when global
temperatures probably were not significantly
higher
than
they
are
today.
And
the
ice
sheet
was
assumed
to
have
been
stable.
In geological time, a
million years is recent history. The
proof,
which was
published
last
week
in
Science,
comes
from
a
team
of
scientists
from
Uppsala
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University in Sweden and
California Institute of Technology who drew deep
holes near the edge of ice sheet.
Within samples collected from the solid
substances lying beneath the ice. They
found fossils of microscopic marine
plants which suggest that the region
was once open ocean not solid ice. As
Herman Engleheart, a co-author from the
California Institute of Technology
says, ‘the West Antarctic ice sheet
disappear once and can disappear
again.’
26. What
is one of the most frightening threats of global
warming
according
to the
passage?
27. What did scientists
disagree on?
28. What is the latest
information revealed about the West Antarctic ice
sheet?
29. What the
scientists’ latest findings suggest?
Passage Two
It's
always fun to write about research that you can
actually try out for
yourself.
Try this: Take a photo and upload it to
Facebook, then after a day or so,
note
what
the
URL
link
to
the
picture
is
and
then
delete
it.
Come
back
a
month
later and see if the
link works. Chances are: It will.
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Facebook isn't
alone here. Researchers at Cambridge University
have found
that nearly half of the
social networking sites don't immediately delete
pictures when a user requests they be
removed. In general, photo-centric
websites like Flickr were found to be
better at quickly removing deleted
photos upon request.
Why
do
photos
stick
around
so
long?
The
problem
relates
to
the
way
data is stored on large
websites: While your personal computer only keeps
one
copy
of
a
file,
large-
scale
services
like
Facebook
rely
on
what
are
called
content delivery networks to manage
data and distribution. It's a complex
system wherein data is copied to
multiple intermediate devices, usually to
speed up access to files when millions
of people are trying to access the
service at the same time. But because
changes aren't reflected across the
content
delivery
networks
immediately,
ghost
copies
of
files
tend
to
linger
for days or weeks.
In
the
case
of
Facebook,
the
company
says
data
may
hang
around
until
the
URL
in
question
is
reused,
which
is
usually
a
short
period
of
time
though
obviously that time can vary
considerably.
30. What does the speaker
ask us to try out?
31. What accounts
for the failure of some websites to remove photos
immediately?
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32.
When
will
the
unwanted
data
eventually
disappear
from
Facebook
according
to the company?
Passage Three
Enjoying an iced coffee? Better skip
dinner
or hit the gym
afterwards, with
a cancer charity
warning that some iced coffees contain as
many calories as
a hot
dinner.
The
World
Cancer
Research
Fund
(WCRF)
conducted
a
survey
of
iced
coffees
sold
by
some
popular
chains
in
Britain
including
Starbucks,
Caffe
Nero
and
Costa
Coffee to gauge the
calories as studies increasingly link obesity with
cancer.
The
worst
offender
-
a
coffee
from
Starbucks
--
had
561
calories.
Other
iced
coffees contained more than 450
calories and the majority had an excess of
200.
Health experts advise
that the average woman should consume about 2,000
calories a day and a man about 2,500
calories to maintain a healthy weight.
Dieters aim for 1,000 to 1,500 calories
a day.
a
woman's
daily
calories
allowance
is
alarming,
Dr
Rachel
Thompson,
science
programme
manager
at
London-based
WCRF,
said
in
a
widely-reported
statement.