【备考真题训练】2002年1月大学英语六级考试听力试卷

　　1. W：Is the rescue crew still looking for survivors of the plane crash?

　　M：Yes, they have been searching the area for hours, but they haven’t found anybody else. They’ll keep searching until night falls.

　　Q：What do we learn from the conversation?

　　2. W：How many students passed the final physics exam in our class?

　　M：Forty, but still as many as 20% of the class failed. Quite disappointing, isn’t it?

　　Q：What does the woman think of the exam?

　　3. W：Lots of people enjoy dancing. Do you?

　　M：Believe it or not, that’s the last thing I’d ever want to do.

　　Q：What does the man mean?

　　4. W：Jame, I’m having difficulty with all the theoretical staff we are getting in our computer course.

　　M：Oh, that part I understand. What I can’t figure out is how to make it work in my program.

　　Q：What is the man’s problem?

　　5. W：Did you see Mary somewhere around?

　　M：Yes, she is in the campus bank, applying for a student’s loan.

　　Q：What was Mary doing?

　　6. W：The space shuttle is taking off tomorrow.

　　M：I know. This is another routine mission. Its first flight was four years ago.

　　Q： What are they talking about?

　　7. W：When are we supposed to submit our project proposals, Jane?

　　M：They’ll do by the end of the week. We’ve only two days left. We’ll just have to hurry.

　　Q：What does the woman mean?

　　8. W：When I go on the diet, I eat only fruit and that takes off weight quickly.

　　M：I prefer to eat whatever I want and then run regularly to lose weight.

　　Q：How does the man control his weight?

　　9. W：John, can you tell me what in the book interests you most?

　　M：Well, nothing specific, but I like it over all.

　　Q：What did the man think of the book?

　　10. W：How do you like the car I’ve just bought?

　　M：Well, it seems to run well, but I think it needs a new paint job.

　　Q：What does the man think of the car?

　　Passage One

　　Nilrikman and others of the Harvard research group have done some research into the differences between average and good negotiators. They found negotiators with the good trait record and studied them in action. They compared them with another group of average negotiators and found there was no difference in the time the two groups spent on planning their strategy. However, there were some significant differences on other points. The average negotiators thought in terms of the present, but the good negotiators took a long-term view. They made lots of suggestions and considered twice the number of alternatives. The average negotiators set their objectives as a single points.“We hope to get 2 dollars”, for example. The good negotiators set their objectives in terms of range, which they might formulate as “We hope to get 2 dollars, but if we get one dollar and fifty, it’ll be all right.” The average negotiators tried to persuade by giving lots of reasons. They used a lot of different arguments. The good negotiators didn’t give many reasons. They just repeated the same ones. They also did more summarizing and reviewing, checking they were understood correctly.

　　11. What do good negotiators and average negotiators have in common?

　　12. According to the speaker, what would the good negotiators do?

　　13. According to the speaker, what does the average negotiator usually do?

　　Passage Two

　　To most of us, sharks are the most dangerous fish in the sea and they attack humans. However, according to Dr Clark who has studied the behaviour of sharks for 12 years, humans are not normally on the sharks’ menu. What do sharks feed on? Mainly fish and other small sea animals. Dr Clark also found that sharks don’t eat as much food as people think. For instance, a nine feet shark only need two pounds of food a day to keep healthy. But she says sometimes sharks starve and at other times they fill themselves with what they have killed. Around the world there are only about 100 shark attacks on humans each year, ten of which prove fatal. But consider this, in the U.S. alone about 3 million people are bitten by dogs each year. Of this, thirteen people die. If a shark bites you, says Dr Clark, the reason is usually because it mistakes you for its natural food. For example, say you went underwater fishing and saw a shark, you could be in trouble. The shark might go for the injured fish you had attacked and take a big bite of youat the same time. If you go into a shark’s territory and threaten it, it might try to bite you. That’s because sharks are territorial and tend to guard their territory. Like dogs, they protect the area that they think as their own.

　　14. What does the passage say about the eating behaviour of sharks?

　　15. When might a shark attack humans?

　　16. What do we learn from the passage about sharks?

　　Passage Three

　　Science fiction writers have often imagined human beings going to live on Mars.But these days scientists are taking the idea seriously. It has a great deal to recommend it since it might solve the problem of over-crowding on the earth. But obviously it will not be worth making the effort and thus the people could live there naturally. If the atmosphere were like that of the earth, this might be possible. But in fact it is mostly carbon dioxide. Apart from that, there are other problems to be overcomed. For example, the temperature would have to be raised from 60 degrees below 0 to 15 degrees above it. Scientists used to study Mars have laid down the program that they can follow. To begin with, they will have to find out whether life has ever existed on the planet Mars in the past. Secondly, they will have to make a reliable map of its surface, and finally they will have to make a list of the guesses. Above all they will have to discover how much nitrogen is pellasis, since nitrogen is four-fifths of the air we breathe. They are surprisingly optimistic about raising the temperature on Mars, and believe it could be done in 200 years. It would take a bit long, though, to transform the atmosphere so that human beings could live there. Scientists estimate that thiswill take 100,000 years.

　　17. Why are scientists interested in Mars?

　　18. What is one of the things that must be done before man can live on Mars?

　　19. Why do scientists want to find out whether there is sufficient nitrogen on Mars?

　　20. What is the prospect of people living on Mars?
 

大学英语四、六级考试 --- 六级真题