最新历年六级听力原文(2007年-2012年06月)

2012年6月

Section A

Directions: In this section, you will hear 8 short conversations and 2 long conversations. At the end of each conversation, one or more questions will be asked about what was said. Both the conversation and the questions will be spoken only once. After each question there will be a pause. During the pause, you must read the four choices marked A)，B)，C) and D)，and decide which is the best answer. Then mark the corresponding letter on Answer Sheet 2 with a single line through the centre。

11.

W: Did you hear that Anna needs to stay in bed for 4 weeks?

M: Yeah. She injured her spine in a fall and a doctor told her to lie flat on her back for a month so it can mend。

Q: What can we learn from the conversation?

12.

M: A famous Rus sian ballet is coming to town next weekend. But I can‘t find a ticket anywhere。

W: Don‘t be upset. My sister just happened to have one and she can‘t go since she has got some sort of conflict in her schedu le。

Q: What does the woman mean?

13.

W: Hel lo, my bathroom drain is blocked and I‘m giving a party tonight. Do you think you could come and fix it for me?

M: Sorry, ma‘am. I‘m pretty busy right now. But I can put you on my list。

Q: What does the man mean?

14.

W: We‘re taking up a collection to buy a gift for Jemma. She‘ll have been with the company 25 years next week。

M: Well, count me in. But I‘m a bit short on cash now. When do you need it?

Q: What is the man going to do?

15.

W: Tony‘s mother has invited me to dinner. Do you think I should tell her in advance that I‘m a vegetarian?

M: Of course. I think she‘d appreciate it. Imaging how you both feel if she fixed the turkey dinner or something。

Q: What does the man suggest the woman do?

16.

M: Just look at this newspaper, nothing but robbery, suicide and murder. Do you still believe people are basically good?

W: Of course. But many papers lack interest in reporting something positive like peace, love and generosity。

Q: What are the speakers talking about?

17.

M: I can‘t believe so many people want to sign up for the Korea Development Conference.We will have to limit the registration。

W: Yeah, otherwise we won‘t have room for the more。

Q: What are the speakers going to do?

18.

W: Hi, I‘m calling about the ad for the one bedroom apartment。

M: Perfect timing! The person who was supposed to rent it just backed town to take a room on campus。

Q: What do we learn from the conversation?

Part III Listening Comprehension

Conversation 1

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W: One of the most interesting experiments with dolphins must be one done by Doctor Jarvis Bastian. What he tried to do was to teach a male dolphin called Bass and a female called Doris to communicate with each other across a solid barrier。

M: So how did he do it exactly?

W: Well, first of all, he kept the two dolphins together in the same tank and taught them to press levers whenever they saw a light. The levers were fitted to the side of the tank next to each other. If the light flashed on and off several times, the dolphins were supposed to press the left-hand lever followed by the right-hand one. If the light was kept steady, the dolphins were supposed to press the levers in reverse order. Whenever they responded correctly, they were rewarded with fish。

M: Sounds terribly complicated。

W: Well, that was the first stage. In the second stage, Doctor Bastian separated the dolphins into two tanks. They could still hear one another, but they couldn‘t actually see each other. The levers and light were set up in exactly the same way except that this time it was only Doris who could see the light indicating which lever to press first. But in order to get their fish, both dolphins had to press the levers in the correct order. This meant of course that Doris had to tell Bass whether it was a flashing light or whether it was a steady light。

M: So did it work?

W: Well, amazingly enough, the dolphins achieved a 100 % success rate。

Questions 19-21 are based on the conversation you have just heard。

Q19. What is the purpose of Doctor Jarvis Bastian‘s experiment?

Q20. What were the dolphins supposed to do when they saw a steady light?

Q21. How did the second stage of the experiment differ from the first stage?

Conversation 2

W: This week‘s program Up Your Street takes you to Harrogate, a small town in Yorkshire. Harrogate became a fashionable resort during Victorian times, when people came to take a bath in the mineral waters. Today, few people come to visit the town for its mineral waters. Instead, Harrogate has become a popular town for people to retire to. Its clean air, attractive parks, and the absence of any industry, make this an ideal spot for people looking for a quiet life. Now, to tell us more about Harrogate, I have with me Tom Percival, President of the Chamber of Commerce. Tom, one of the things visitor notices about Harrogate is the large area of open park land right down into the middle of the town. Can you tell us more about it?

M: Yes, certainly. The area is called the Stray。

W: Why the Stray?

M: It‘s called that because in the old days, people let their cattle s stray on the area, which was common land。

W: Oh, I see。

M: Then, we‘ve changes in farming and in land ownership. The Stray became part of the land owned by Harrogate。

W: And is it protected?

M: Oh, yes, indeed. As a special law, no one can build anything on the stray. It‘s protected forever。

W: So it will always be park land?

M: That‘s right. As you can see, some of the Stray is used for sports fields。

W: I believe it looks lovely in the spring。

M: Yes, it does. There‘re spring flowers on the old trees, and people visit the town just to see the flowers。

Question 22-25 are based on the conversation you have just heard。

Q22. Where does this conversation most probably take place?

Q23. What do we learn about modern Harrogate?

Q24. What does the man say about the area called the Stray?

Q25. What attracts people most in the Stray during the spring time?

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About 700,000 children in Mexico dropped out of school last year as recession-stricken families pushed kids to work, and a weak economic recovery will allow only slight improvement in the drop-out rate in 2010, a top education official said。

Mexico's economy suffered more than any other in Latin America last year, shrinking an estimated 7 percent due to a plunge in U.S. demand for Mexican exports such as cars。

The decline led to a 4 percent increase in the number of kids who left primary or middle school in 2009, said Juan de Dios Castro, who heads the nation's adult education program and keeps a close watch on drop-out rates。

"Poverty rose and that is a factor that makes our job more difficult," Castro told Reuters in an interview earlier this month。

Hindered by higher taxes and weak demand for its exports, Mexico's economy is seen only partially recovering this year. As a result, drop-out rates will not improve much, Castro said。

"There will be some improvement, but not significant," Castro said。

Mexicohas historically had high drop-out rates as poor families pull kids out of school to help put food on the table, and children often sell candy and crafts in the streets or work in restaurants。

The nation's drop-out problem is just the latest bad news for the long-term competitiveness of the Mexican economy. Mexico's politicians have resisted mending the country's tax, energy and labor laws for decades, leaving its economy behind countries such as Brazil and Chile。

Passage One

Russell Fazio, an Ohio State psychology professor who has studied interracial roommates there and at Indiana University, discovered an intriguing academic effect. In a study analyzing data on thousands of Ohio State freshmen who lived in dorms, he found that black freshmen who came to college with high standardized test scores earned better grades if they had a white roommate —even if the roommate‘s tes t scores were low. The roommate‘s race had no effect on the grades of white students or low-scoring black students. Perhaps, the study speculated, having a white roommate helps academically prepared black students adjust to a predominantly white university。

That same study found that randomly assigned interracial roommates at Ohio State broke up before the end of the quarter about twice as often as same-race roommates。

Because interracial roommate relationships are often problematic, Dr. Fazio said, many students would like to move out, but university housing policies may make it hard to leave。

―At Indiana University, where housing was not so tight, more interracial roommates split up,‖ he said. ―Here at Ohio State, w here housing was tight, they were told to work it out. The most interesting thing we found was that if the relationship managed to continue for just 10 weeks, we could see an improvement in racial attitudes。‖

Dr. Fazio‘s Indiana study found that three times as many randomly assigned inter racial roommates were no longer living together at the end of the semester, compared with white roommates. The interracial roommates spent less time together, and had fewer joint activities than the white pairs。

Question 26-29

26. What do we know about Russell Fazio ?

27. Who benefited from living with a white roommate according to Fazio‘s study?

28. What did the study find about randomly assigned interracial roommates at Ohio State University?

29. What did Dr. Fazio find interesting about interracial roommates who had lived together for 10 weeks?

Passage Two

In a small liboratory at the Medical University of South Carolina, Dr. Vladimir Mironov has been working for a decade to grow meat. A developmental biologist and tissue engineer, Dr. Mironov, is one of only a few scientists worldwide involved in bioengineering 'cultured' meat。

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It's a product he believes could help solve future global food crises resulting from shrinking amounts of land available for growing meat the old-fashioned way。

―Growth of cultured meat is also under way in the Netherlands‖，Mironov told Reuters in an interview, ―but in the United States, it is science in search of funding and demand。‖

The new National Institute of Food and Agriculture won't fund it, the National Institutes of Health won't fund it, and the NASA funded it only briefly, Mironov said。

"It's classic disruptive technology," Mironov said. "Bringing any new technology on the market, on average, costs $1 billion. We don't even have $1 million."

Director of the Advanced Tissue Biofabrication Center in the Department of Regenerative Medicine and Cell Biology at the medical university, Mironov now primarily conducts research on tissue engineering, or growing, of human organs。

"There's an unpleasant factor when people find out meat is grown in a lab. They don't like to associate technology with food," said Nicholas Genovese, a visiting scholar in cancer cell biology。

"But there are a lot of products that we eat today that are considered natural that are produced in a similar manner," Genovese said。

30. What does Dr. Mironov think of bioengineering cultured meat?

31. What does Dr. Mironov say about the funding for their research?

32. What does Nicholas Genovese say about a lot of products we eat today?

Passage Three

Bernard Jackson is a free man today, but he has many bitter memories. Jackson spent five years in prison after a jury wrongly convicted him of raping two women. At Jackson's trial, although two witnesses testified that Jackson was with them in another location at the times of the crimes, he was convicted anyway. Why? The jury believed the testimony of the two victims, who positively identified Jackson as the man who has attacked them. The court eventually freed Jackson after the police found the man who had really committed the crimes. Jackson was similar in appearance to the guilty man. The two women has made a mistake in identity. As a result, Jackson has lost five years of his life。

The two women in this case were eyewitnesses. They clearly saw the man who attacked them, yet they mistakenly identified an innocent person. Similar incidents have occurred before. Eyewitnesses to other crimes have identified the wrong person in a police lineup or in photographs。

Many factors influence the accuracy of eyewitness testimony. For instance, witnesses sometimes see photographs of several suspects before they try to identify the person they saw in a lineup of people. They can become confused by seeing many photographs or similar faces. The number of people in the lineup, and whether it is a live lineup or a photograph, may also affect a witness's decision. People sometimes have difficulty identifying people of other races. The questions the police ask witnesses also have an effect on them。

Question 33: What do we learn about Bernard Jackson?

Question 34: What led directly to Jackson‘s sentence?

Question 35: What lesson do we learn from Jackson‘s case?

2011年12月

Section A

Directions: In this section, you will hear 8 short conversations and2 long conversations. At the end of each conversation, one or more questions will be asked about what was said. Both the conversation and the questions will be spoken only once. After each question there

will be a pause. During the pause, you must read the four choices marked A)，B)，C) and D)，and decide which is the best answer. Then mark the corresponding letter on Answer Sheet 2 with a single line through the centre。

11.

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M: I don‘t know what to do. I have to drive to Chicago next Friday for my cousin‘s wedding, but I have got a Psychology test to prepare for。

W: Why don‘t you record your notes so you can study on the way?

Q: What does the woman suggest the man do?

12.

M: Professor Wright, you may have to find another student to play this role, the lines are so long and I simply can‘t remember them all。

W: Look, Tony. It is still a long time before the first show. I don‘t expect you to know all the lines yet. Just keep practic ing。

Q: What do we learn from the conversation?

13.

M: Hello, this is Dr. Martin from the Emergency Department. I have a male patient with a fractured ankle。

W: Oh, we have one bed available in ward 3, send him here and I will take care of him。

Q: What are the speakers talking about?

14.

W: Since Simon will graduate this May, the school paper needs a new editor. So if you are interested, I will be happy to nominate you。

M: Thanks for considering me. But the baseball team is starting up a new season. And I‘m afraid I have a lot on my hands。

Q: What does the man mean?

15. W: Have you heard the news that Jame Smeil has resigned his post as prime minister?

M: Well, I got it from the headlines this morning. It‘s reported that he made public at this decision at the last cabinet mee ting。

Q: what do we learn about Jame Smeil?

16. W: The morning paper says the space shuttle is taking off at 10 a.m. tomorrow。

M: Yeah, it‘s just another one of this year‘s routine missions. The first mission was undertaken a decade ago and broadcast l ive then worldwide。

Q: what can we infer from this conversation?

17. M: We do a lot of camping in the mountains. What would you recommend for two people?

W: You‘d probably be better off with the four real drive vehicle. We have several off-road trucks in stock, both new and used。

Q: Where does the conversation most probably take place?

18. W: I hear you did some serious shopping this past weekend。

M: Yeah, the speakers of my old stereo finally gave out and there was no way to repair them。

Q: What did the man do over the weekend?

Conversation One

W: Now, could you tell me where the idea for the business first came from?

M: Well, the original shop was opened by a retired printer by the name of Gruby. Mr Gruby being left-handed himself, thought of the idea to try to promote a few products for left-handers。

W: And how did he then go about actually setting up the business?

M: Well, he looked for any left-handed products that might already be on the market which were very few. And then contacted the manufactures with the idea of having products produced for him, mainly in the scissors range to start with。

W: Right. So you do commission some part of your stock。

M: Yes, very much so. About 75 percent of our stock is specially made for us。

W: And the rest of it?

M: Hmm, the rest of it now, some 25, 30 years after Mr. Gruby‘s initial efforts, there are more left-handed product actually on the market. Manufactures are now beginning to see that there is a market for left-handed products。

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W: And what‘s the range of your stock?

M: The range consists of a variety of scissors from children scissors to scissors for tailors, hairdressers etc. We also have a large range

of kitchen ware。

W: What‘s the competition like? Do you have quite a lot of competition?

M: There are other people in the business now in specialists, but only as mail-order outlets. But we have a shop here in central London plus a mail-order outlet. And we are without any doubt the largest supplier of the left-handed items。

Q19: What kind of business does the man engaged in?

Q20: What does the man say about his stock of products?

Q21: What does the man say about other people in his line of business?

Conversation Two

M: Can we make you an offer? We would like to run the campaign for four extra weeks。

W: well, can we summarize the problem from my point of view? First of all, the campaign was late. It missed two important trade affairs. The ads also did not appear into key magazines. As a result, the campaign failed. Do you accept that summary of what happened?

M: well, the delay wasn‘t entirely our fault. You did in fact make late changes to the specifications of the advertisements。

W: Uh, actually, you were late with the initial proposals so you have very little time and in fact, we only asked for small changes。

M: Well whatever, can we repeat our offer to run the campaign for 4 extra weeks?

W: That‘s not really the point. The campaign missed two key trade affairs. Because of this, we are asking you either to repea t the campaign next year for free, or we only pay 50% of the fee for this year。

M: Could we suggest a 20% reduction to the fee together with the four week sustention to the campaign。

W: We are not happy. We lost business。

M: I think we both made mistakes. The responsibility is on both sides。

W: Ok, let‘s suggest a new solution. How about a 40% cut in fee, or a free repeat campaign?

M: Well, let‘s take a break, we‘re not getting very far. Perhaps we should think about this。

22: What do we learn about the man‘s company?

23: Why was the campaign delayed according to the man?

24: What does the woman propose as a solution to the problem?

25: What does the man suggest they do at the end of the conversation?

Section B

Passage One

The University of Tennessee‘s Walters Life Sciences bui lding, is a model animal facility, spotlessly clean, careful in obtaining prior approval for experiments from an animal care committee. Of the 15,000 mice house there in a typical year, most give their lives for humanity. These are good mice and as such won the protection of the animal care committee. At any given time however some mice escape and run free. These mice are pests. They can disrupt experiments with the bacteria organisms they carry. They are bad mice and must be captured and destroyed. Usually, this is accomplished by means of sticky traps, a kind of fly paper on which they become increasingly stuck. But the real point of the cautionary tale, says animal behaviorist Herzau, is that the labels we put on things can affect our moral responses to them. Using stick traps or the more deadly snap traps would be deemed unacceptable for good mice. Yet the killing of bad mice requires no prior approval. Once the research animal hits the floor and becomes an escapee, says Herza, its moral standard is insta ntly diminished. In Herzau‘s own home, there was more ironic example when his young son‘s pet mouse Willy died recently, it was accorded a tearful ceremonial burial in garden. Yet even as they mourned Willy, says Herzau, he and his wife were setting snap traps to kill the pest mice in their kitchen with the bare change in labels from pet to pest, the kitchen mice obtained totally different moral standards

Questions:

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26, What does the passage say about most of the mice used for experiments?

27, Why did the so-called bad mice have to be captured and destroyed?

28, When are mice killed without prior approval?

29, Why does the speaker say what the Her zau‘s did at home is ironical?

Passage Two

There are roughly three New Yorks. There is, first, the New York of the man or woman who was born here, who takes the city for granted and accepts its size and its turbulence as natural and inevitable. Second, there is the New York of the commuter — the city that is swallowed up by locusts each day and spat out each night. Third, there is the New York of the person who was born somewhere else and came to New York in quest of something. Of these three trembling cities the greatest is the last, the city of final destination, the city that has a goal. It is this third city that accounts for New York's high-strung disposition, its poetical deportment, its dedication to the arts, and its incomparable achievements. Commuters give the city its tidal restlessness; natives give it solidity and continuity; but the settlers give it passion. And whether it is a farmer arriving from Italy to set up a small grocery store in a slum, or a young girl arriving from a small town in Mississippi to escape the indignity of being observed by her neighbors, or a boy arriving from the Corn Belt with a manuscript in his suitcase and a pain in his heart, it makes no difference: each embraces New York with the intense excitement of first love, each absorbs New York with the fresh eyes of an adventurer, each generates heat and light to dwarf the Consolidated Edison Company。

Questions 30 to 32 are based on the passage you have just heard。

30. What does the speaker say about the natives of New York?

31. What does the speaker say commuters give to New York?

32. What do we learn about the settlers of New York?

Passage Three

―If you asked me television is unhealthy‖，I said to my roommate Walter, as I walked into the living room。―While y ou are sitting passively in front of the TV set, your muscles are turning to fat, your complexion is fading, and your eyesight is being ruined。‖―Shh~‖Walter put his finger to his lips, ―This is an intriguing murder mystery。‖

―Really?‖ I replied。

―Bu t you know, the brain is destroyed by TV viewing. Creativity is killed by that box. And people are kept from communicating with one another. From my point of view, TV is the cause of the declining interest in school and the failure of our entire educational system。‖―Ah ha, I can‘t see your point。‖ Walter said softly. ―But see? The woman on the witness stand in this story is being questioned about the murder that was committed one hundred years ago。‖

Ignoring his enthusiastic description of the plot, I went on with my argument。

―As I see it,‖ I explained, ―not only are most TV programs badly written and produced, but viewers are also manipulated by th e mass media. As far as I am concerned, TV watchers are cut off from reality from nature, from the other people, from life itself! I was confident in my ability to persuade。

After a short silence, my roommate said, ―Anyway, I‘ve been planning to watch the football game. I am going to change the cha nnel。‖―Don‘t touch that dial!‖ I shouted, ―I wanted to find out how the mystery turns out!‖

I am not sure I got my point to cross。

Questions 33- 35 are based on the passage you have just heard。

33. As the speaker walked into the living room, what was being shown on TV?

34. What does the speaker say about watching television?

35. What can we say about the speaker?

Section C Compound Dictation

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In the past, one of the biggest disadvantages of machines has been their inability to work on a micro scale. For example, doctors did not have devices allowing them to go inside the human body to detect health problems or to perform delicate surgery. Repair crews did not have a way of identifying broken pipes located deep within a high-rise apartment building. However, that‘s about to change. Advances in computers and biophysics have started a micro miniature revolution that allows scientists to envision and in some cases actually build microscopic machines. These devices promise to dramatically change the way we live and work。

Micromachines already are making an impact. At Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio, research scientists have designed a 4-inch silicon chip that holds 700 tiny primitive motors. At Lucas Nova Sensor in Fremont, California, scientists have perfected the world‘s first microscopic blood-pressure sensor. Threaded through a person‘s blood vessels, the sensor can provide blood pressure readings at the valve of the heart itself。

Although simple versions of miniature devices have had an impact, advanced versions are still several years away。

Auto manufacturers, for example, are trying to use tiny devices that can sense when to release an airbag and how to keep engines and breaks operating efficiently. Some futurists envision nanotechnology also being used to explore the deep sea in small submarine, or even to launch finger-sized rockets packed with micro miniature instruments。

―There is an explosion of new ideas and applications,‖ So, when scientists now think about future machines doing larg e and complex tasks, they‘re thinking smaller than ever before。

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2011年06月六级听力原文

Section A

短对话原文

11

M :I left 20 pages here to copy ,here’s the receipt

W : I’m sorry ,sir ,but we are a little behind ,could you come back in a few minutes ?

Q: what does the woman mean ?

12

W: I hope you are not to put out with me for the delay ,I had to stop for the Fred’s home to pick up a book on my way here M : well , that’s not a big deal ,but you might at least phone if you know you will keep someone waiting

Q : what do we learn about the women ?

13

W : Mark is the best candidate for chairman of the student’s union , isn’t he ?

M :well ,that guy won’t be able to win the election unless he got the majority vote from women students ,and I am not sure about it ?

Q :what does the man mean ?

14

M : sorry to have kept you waiting ,Madam , I’ve located your luggage, it was left behind in Paris and won’t arrive until later this evening

W : oh ,I can’t believe this ,have it been to delivered to my hotel then ,I guess

Q :what happened to the woman’s luggage ?

15

W：I don’t think we have enough information for our presentation. But we have to give it tomorrow. That doesn’t seem to be much we can do about it.

M: Yeah, at this point, we’ll have to make do with what we’ve got.

Q: what does the man suggest they do?

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M: I’m taking this great course psychology of language. It’s really interesting. Since you’re psychology major, you should sign up for it.

W: Actually, I tried to do that. But they told me I have to take language studies first.

Q: What do we learn from the conversation?

17

W: Can you believe the way Larry was talking to his roommate? No wonder they don’t get along.

M: Well, maybe Larry was just reacting to something his roommate said. There are two sides to every story you know.

Q: What does the man imply about Larry and his roommate?

18

M: We don’t have the resources to stop those people from buying us out. Unless a miracle happens, this may be the end of us.

W: I still have hope we can get help from the bank. After all, we don’t need that much money.

Q: What do we learn about the speakers from the conversation?

长对话原文

Conversation One

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Questions 19 to 22 are based on the conversation you have just heard.

W: You know I've often wondered why people laugh at the picture of a big belly businessman slipping on a banana skin and falling on his bottom. We are to feel sorry for them.

M: Actually, Laura, I think we laugh because we are glad it didn't happen to us. But of course there is also a kind of humorous satisfaction in seeing somebody self-important making a fool of themselves.

W: Yes, and there are a lot of jokes about people who are too fat or physically handicapped, you know, deaf, or short-sighted things like that. After all, it's not really funny to be like that.

M: Oh, I think that's because we're embarrassed. We don't know how to cope with the situation. Perhaps we are even a bit frightened we may get like that, so we laugh.

M: What about the custard pie routine?

W: What do you mean 'custard pie routine'?

M: You know, all those old films where someone gets so outraged with his boss, He picks up a custard pie and plasters it all over the other person's face.

W: That never makes me laugh much, because you can guess what's going to happen. But a lot of people still find it laughable. It must because of the sort of the thing we'd all love to do once in a while and never quiet have the courage to.

M: I had an old aunt who used to throw cups of tea at people when she was particularly irritated. She said it relieved her feelings.

W: It must have come a bit expensive.

M: Not really. She took care never to throw her best china.

19. Why does the man say we laughed when we see some self-important people making fool of themselves?

20. Why do some people joke about those who are fat or handicapped according to the man?

21. Why do many people find it funny to see someone throwing a custard pie on their boss's face?

22. Why do the man say she would drop cups of tea at people occasionally?

Conversation Two

W：Your name Sanjay Kumar is that correct?

M：Yes, madam.

W：You claim you are traveling on a scholarship from Delhi University.

M：That's right.

W：Now it seems that a hand gun was found in your luggage. Do you admit that?

M：Yes, but…

W：According to the statement you made, you had never seen the hand gun before it was found in your bag. Do you still maintain that?

M：But it's true. I swear it.

W：Mmm, you do realize Mr. Kumar that to bring a hand gun into Hong Kong without proper authorization is a serious offense.

M：But I didn't bring it. I …I mean I didn't know anything about it. It wasn't there when I left Delhi. My bags were searched. It was part of the airport security check.

W：Maybe so, but someone managed to get that hand gun onto the aircraft or it couldn't have been there.

M：Someone but not me.

W：Tell me , where was your personal bag during the flight?

M：I had it down by my feet between me and the man in the next seat.

M: He was the only person who could have opened my bag while I was asleep. It must have been him.

W: I see. Have you any idea who this man was?

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M: He told me his name, Alfred Foster. He was very friendly, after I woke up that is. He hadn't spoken before.

W: Alfred Foster, we can check that on the passenger list.

M: He said he had a car coming to meet him. He offered me a lift.

W: Oh, Why should he do that?

M: So he can get his handgun back, that's why. Please find him, Madam.

Questions 23-25 are based on the conversation you have just heard

23. What is Sanjay Kumar suspected of?

24. What do we know about Alfred Foster ?

25. What does Sanjay Kumar ask the woman to do finally?

听力理解短文原文

Section B

Passage One

Everyone is looking for a good investment these days. And with stocks, currencies and companies all crashing, some are finding that taking the trip of a lifetime is actually a smart move right now. Prices are good, crowds are fewer and the dividends like expanded worldview, lifelong memories, the satisfaction of boosting the global economy—can't be easily snatched away. Sylvia and Paul Custerson, a retired couple from Cambridge, England, recently took a 16-day vacation to Namibia, where they went on bird-watching excursions. Later this year, they are planning a trip to Patagonia. "We're using our capital now," says Sylvia, "And why not? We're not getting any interest in the bank. If it's a place we really want to go, then we will go. We may as well travel while we're fit and healthy. "

Some travel agents are thriving in spite of the economy. "We've had more people booking in the first quarter of this year than last," says Hubert Moineau, founder of Tselana Travel, which is planning to introduce a new program of longer adventure trips, including polar expeditions and cruises in the Galápagos. "We're hearing things like, 'We don't know what the situation will be in six months so let's travel now' ", Ashley Toft, managing director of the U. K. tour operator Explore has been surprised to see an increase in last-minute bookings of high-priced trips to such places as India, Bhutan and Nepal. "It seems people would rather give up something else than the big trip," he says. Travel has become a necessity. It's just how we travel that is changing.

Questions 26 to 28 are based on the passage you have just heard.

26. According to the speaker, why are some people willing to spend their money on travel these days?

27. What is Tselana Travel planning to do, according to its founder?

28. According to Ashley Toft, managing director of Explore, what is changing now with regard to travels?

Passage Two

Somehow the old male and female stereotypes no longer fit. Men and women in this country haven’t been fulfilling their traditional roles for some time now. And there seem to be fewer and fewer differences between the sexes. For instance, even though more women than men are still homemakers without paying jobs, women have been taking over more responsibility in the business world, earning higher salaries than ever before and entering fields of work that used to be exclusively male areas. At office meetings and in group discussions, they might speak up more often, express strong opinions

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and come up with more creative and practical ideas than their male colleagues. Several days ago, my 23-year-old daughter came to me with some important news. Not only had she found the highest paying job of her career, but she‘d also accepted a date with the most charming men she‘d ever met.

“Really?”, I responded,”tell me about them.”

“Receptionist in an attorney’s office and a welder at a construction site.”She answered in a matter-of-fact way. The interesting thing is my daughter’s date is the receptionist and my daughter is the welder. The old stereotypes of men’s and women’s work have been changing more quickly than ever before, except perhaps in my own marriage.

“Who's going to mow the lawn? ”I asked my husband this morning.

“Oh, I will,”he answered politely. ”That's men's work. ”

“What?”Irritated, I raised my voice. “That's a ridiculous stereotype. I'll show you who can do the best job on the lawn.”

The work took 3 hours and I did it all myself.

Questions 29 to 32 are based on the passage you have just heard.

29. What is the speaker mainly talking about?

30. What might women do at office meetings nowadays according to the speaker?

31. Why did the speaker mow the lawn herself that morning?

Passage Three

Florence Hayes is a journalist for the Green Ville Journal, the daily newspaper in town. Specifically she covers crime in the Green Ville area. This responsibility takes her to many different places every week——the police station, the court and the hospital. Most of the crimes that she writes about fall into two groups: violent crimes and crimes against property. There isn‘t much violent crime in a small town like Green Ville, or at least not as much as in the large urban areas. But assaults often occur on Friday and Saturday nights, near the bars downtown. There‘re also one or two rapes on campus every semester. Florence is very interested in this type of crime and tries to write a long article about each one. She expects that this will make women more careful when they walk around Green Ville alone at night

Fortunately, there were usually no murders in Green Ville. Crimes against property make up most of Miss Heyes’reporting. They range from minor cases of deliberate damaging of things to much more serious offenses, such as car accidents involving drunk drivers or bank robberies but Florence has to report all of these violations from the thief who took typewriters from every unlock room in the dormitory to the thief who stole one million dollars worth of art work from the university museum. Miss Hayes enjoys working for a newspaper but she sometimes gets unhappy about all the crime she has to report. She would prefer to start writing about something more interesting and less unpleasant such as local news or politics, maybe next year

Florence Hayes

Green Ville

Questions 32 to 35 are based on the passage you have just heard.

32 What is Florence Hayes’main responsibility as a journalist?

33 What does the speaker say about security in Green Ville?

34 What do we learn about crimes against property in the Green Ville area?

35 What would Florence Hayes prefer to do?

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Section C Compound Dictation

In America, people are faced with more and more decisions every day, whether it’s picking one of thirty-one ice cream flavors, or deciding whether and when to get married. That sounds like a great thing, but as a recent study has shown, too many choices can make us confused, unhappy, even paralyzed with indecision. ?That‘s particularly true when it comes to the work place‘, says Barry Schwartz, an author of six books about human behavior. Students are graduating with a variety of skills and interests, but often find themselves overwhelmed when it comes to choosing an ultimate career goal. In a study, Schwartz observed decision-making among college students during their senior year. Based on answers to questions regarding their job hunting strategies and career decisions, he divided the students into two groups：maximizers, who consider every possible option, and satisficers, who look until they find an option that is good enough. You might expect that the student who had undertaken the most exhausted search would be the most satisfied with their final decision, but it turns out that‘s not true. Schwartz found that while maximizers ended up with better-paying jobs than satisfice rs on average, they weren‘t as happy with their decision. The reason why these people feel less satisfied is that a world of possibilities may also be a world of missed opportunities. When you look at every possible option, you tend to focus more on what was given up than what was gained. After surveying every option, a person is more acutely aware of the opportunities they had to turn down to pursue just one career.

Part III Listening Comprehension

Section A

11.

M: I left 20 pages here to copy. Here is the receipt.

W: I'm sorry, sir. But we're a little behind. Could you come back in a few minutes?

Q: What does the woman mean?

答案：C. She has not got the man's copies ready.

12.

W: I hope you're not too put out with me for the delay. I have to stop by friends' home to pick up a book on my way here.

M: Well, that's not a big deal. But you might at least phone if you know you're going to keep someone waiting.

Q: What do we learn about the woman from the conversation?

答案：B. She was late for the appointment.

13.

W: Mark is the best candidate for chairman of the student union, isn't he?

M: Well, that guy won't be able to win the election unless he gets some majority vote from women students. And I'm not sure about that.

Q: What does the man mean?

答案：C. It won't be easy for Mark to win the election.

14.

M: Sorry to have kept you waiting, Madam. I've located your luggage.It was left behind in Paris and won't arrive until later this evening.

W: Oh, I can't believe this. Have it deliver to my hotel then , I guess.

Q: What happened to the woman's luggage?

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答案：A. It failed to arrive at its destination in time.

15.

W: I don't think we have enough information for our presentation, but we have to give it tomorrow. There doesn't seem to be much we can do about it.

M: Yeah, at this point we 'll have to make do with what we've got.

Q: What does the man suggest they do?

答案：A. Just make use of whatever information is available.

16.

M: I am taking this great course-Psychology of Language, it's really interesting. Since you are a psychology major, you should sign up for it.

W: Actually I tried to do that, but they told me I have to take language studies first.

Q: What do we learn from the conversation?

答案：D. The woman isn't qualified to take the course the man mentioned.

17.

W: Can you believe the way Larry was talking to his roommate? No wonder they don't get along.

M: Well, maybe Larry was just reacting to something his roommate said. There are two sides to every story you know.

Q: What does the man imply about Larry and his roommate?

答案：A. They are both to blame.

18.

M: We don't have the resources to stop those people from buying us out unless a miracle happens. This may be the end of us.

W: I still have hope we can get help from the bank. After all we don't need that much money.

Q: What do we learn about the speakers from the conversation?

答案：A. They are in desperate need of financial assistance.

Conversation One

听力原文

Questions 19 to 22 are based on the conversation you have just heard.

W: You know I've often wondered why people laugh at the picture of a big belly businessman slipping on a banana skin and falling on his bottom. We are to feel sorry for them.

M: Actually, Laura, I think we laugh because we are glad it didn't happen to us. But of course there is also a kind of humorous satisfaction in seeing somebody self-important making a fool of themselves.

W: Yes, and there are a lot of jokes about people who are too fat or physically handicapped, you know, deaf, or short-sighted things like that. After all, it's not really funny to be like that.

M: Oh, I think that's because we're embarrassed. We don't know how to cope with the situation. Perhaps we are even a bit frightened we may get like that, so we laugh.

M: What about the custard pie routine?

W: What do you mean ?custard pie routine'?

M: You know, all those old films where someone gets so outraged with his boss, He picks up a custard pie and plasters it all over the other person's face.

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W: That never makes me laugh much, because you can guess what's going to happen. But a lot of people still find it laughable. It must because of the sort of the thing we'd all love to do once in a while and never quiet have the courage to.

M: I had an old aunt who used to throw cups of tea at people when she was particularly irritated. She said it relieved her feelings.

W: It must have come a bit expensive.

M: Not really. She took care never to throw her best china.

19. Why does the man say we laughed when we see some self-important people making fool of themselves?

答案：C）We derive some humorous satisfaction from their misfortune.

20. Why do some people joke about those who are fat or handicapped according to the man?

答案：B) They don't know how to cope with the situation

21. Why do many people find it funny to see someone throwing a custard pie on their boss's face?

答案：A) They themselves would like to do it but don't dare to.

22. Why do the man say she would drop cups of tea at people occasionally?

答案：C) To relieve her feelings.

Conversation Two

听力原文

W: Your name Sanjay Kumar is that correct?

M: Yes, madam.

W: You claim you are traveling on a scholarship from Delhi University.

M: That's right.

W: Now it seems that a hand gun was found in your luggage. Do you admit that?

M: Yes, but…

W：According to the statement you made, you had never seen the hand gun before it was found in your bag. Do you still maintain that?

M: But it's true. I swear it.

W: Mmm, you do realize Mr. Kumar that to bring a hand gun into Hong Kong without proper authorization is a serious offense.

M: But I didn't bring it. I … I mean I didn't know anything about it. It wasn't there when I left Delhi. My bags were searched. It was part of the airport security check.

W: Maybe so, but someone managed to get that hand gun onto the aircraft or it couldn't have been there.

M: Someone but not me.

W: Tell me , where was your personal bag during the flight?

M: I had it down by my feet between me and the man in the next seat.

M: He was the only person who could have opened my bag while I was asleep. It must have been him.

W: I see. Have you any idea who this man was?

M: He told me his name, Alfred Foster. He was very friendly, after I woke up that is. He hadn't spoken before.

W: Alfred Foster, we can check that on the passenger list.

M: He said he had a car coming to meet him. He offered me a lift.

W: Oh, Why should he do that?

M: So he can get his handgun back, that's why. Please find him, Madam.

Questions 23-25 are based on the conversation you have just heard

23. What is Sanjay Kumar suspected of?

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答案：D) Bringing a handgun into Hong Kong

24. What do we know about Alfred Foster?

答案：D) He is suspected of having slipped something into Kumar's bag

25. What does Sanjay Kumar ask the woman to do finally?

答案：B) Find Alfred Foster.

Section B

Passage One

听力原文

Everyone is looking for a good investment these days. And with stocks, currencies and companies all crashing, some are finding that taking the trip of a lifetime is actually a smart move right now. Prices are good, crowds are fewer and the dividends like expanded worldview, lifelong memories, the satisfaction of boosting the global economy—can't be easily snatched away. Sylvia and Paul Custerson, a retired couple from Cambridge, England, recently took a 16-day vacation to Namibia, where they went on bird-watching excursions. Later this year, they are planning a trip to Patagonia. "We're using our capital now," says Sylvia, "And why not? We're not getting any interest in the bank. If it's a place we really want to go, then we will go. We may as well travel while we're fit and healthy. "

Some travel agents are thriving in spite of the economy. "We've had more people booking in the first quarter of this year than last," says Hubert Moineau, founder of Tselana Travel, which is planning to introduce a new program of longer adventure trips, including polar expeditions and cruises in the Galápagos. "We're hearing things like, 'We don't know what the situation will be in six months so let's travel now' ", Ashley Toft, managing director of the U. K. tour operator Explore has been surprised to see an increase in last-minute bookings of high-priced trips to such places as India, Bhutan and Nepal. "It seems people would rather give up something else than the big trip," he says. Travel has become a necessity. It's just how we travel that is changing.

Questions 26 to 28 are based on the passage you have just heard.

26. According to the speaker, why are some people willing to spend their money on travel these days?

答案：B）They think travel gives them their money's worth.

27. What is Tselana Travel planning to do, according to its founder?

答案：D) Launch a new program of adventure trips.

28. According to Ashley Toft, managing director of Explore, what is changing now with regard to travels?

答案：B) The way people travel.

Passage Two

听力原文

Somehow the old male and female stereotypes no longer fit. Men and women in this country haven't been fulfilling their traditional roles for some time now. And there seem to be fewer and fewer differences between the sexes. For instance, even though more women than men are still homemakers without paying jobs, women have been taking over more responsibility in the business world, earning higher salaries than ever before and entering fields of work that used to be exclusively male areas. At office meetings and in group discussions, they might speak up more often, express strong opinions and come up with more creative and practical ideas than their male colleagues. Several days ago, my 23-year-old daughter came to me with some

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important news. Not only had she found the highest paying job of her career, but she'd also accepted a date with the most charming men she'd ever met.

“Really?‖, I responded,‖ tell me about them.‖

“Receptionist in an at torney's office and a welder at a construction site.‖ She answered in a matter-of-fact way. The interesting thing is my daughter's date is the receptionist and my daughter is the welder. The old stereotypes of men's and women's work have been changing more quickly than ever before, except perhaps in my own marriage.

“Who's going to mow the lawn? ‖ I asked my husband this morning.

“Oh, I will,‖ he answered politely. ‖That's men's work. ‖

“What?‖ Irritated, I raised my voice. ―That's a ridiculous stereotype. I'll show you who can do the best job on the lawn.‖The work took 3 hours and I did it all myself.

Questions 29 to 32 are based on the passage you have just heard.

29. What is the speaker mainly talking about?

答案：B) The changing roles played by men and women.

30. What might women do at office meetings nowadays according to the speaker?

答案：A) Offer more creative and practical ideas than men.

31. Why did the speaker mow the lawn herself that morning?

答案：C) To show that women are capable of doing what men do.

Passage Three

听力原文

Florence Hayes is a journalist for the Green Ville Journal, the daily newspaper in town. Specifically she covers crime in the Green Ville area. This responsibility takes her to many different places every week——the police station, the court and the hospital. Most of the crimes that she writes about fall into two groups: violent crimes and crimes against property. There isn't much violent crime in a small town like Green Ville, or at least not as much as in the large urban areas. But assaults often occur on Friday and Saturday nights, near the bars downtown. There're also one or two rapes on campus every semester. Florence is very interested in this type of crime and tries to write a long article about each one. She expects that this will make women more careful when they walk around Green Ville alone at night

Fortunately, there were usually no murders in Green Ville. Crimes against property make up most of Miss Heyes' reporting. They range from minor cases of deliberate damaging of things to much more serious offenses, such as car accidents involving drunk drivers or bank robberies but Florence has to report all of these violations from the thief who took typewriters from every unlock room in the dormitory to the thief who stole one million dollars worth of art work from the university museum. Miss Hayes enjoys working for a newspaper but she sometimes gets unhappy about all the crime she has to report. She would prefer to start writing about something more interesting and less unpleasant such as local news or politics, maybe next year Florence Hayes

Green Ville

Questions 32 to 35 are based on the passage you have just heard.

32. What is Florence Hayes' main responsibility as a journalist?

答案：B: Reporting criminal offenses in Grennville.

33. What does the speaker say about security in Greenville?

答案：D: It has fewer violent crimes than big cities.

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34. What do we learn about crimes against property in the Greenville area?

答案：A: There are a wide range of cases.

35. What would Florence Hayes prefer to do?

答案：A. Write about something pleasant.

Section C Compound Dictation

听力原文

In America, people are faced with more and more decisions every day, whether it's picking one of thirty-one ice cream flavors, or deciding whether and when to get married. That sounds like a great thing, but as a recent study has shown, too many choices can make us confused, unhappy, even paralyzed with indecision. ?That's particularly true when it comes to the work place', says Barry Schwartz, an author of six books about human behavior. Students are graduating with a variety of skills and interests, but often find themselves overwhelmed when it comes to choosing an ultimate career goal. In a study, Schwartz observed decision-making among college students during their senior year. Based on answers to questions regarding their job hunting strategies and career decisions, he divided the students into two groups：maximizers, who consider every possible option, and satisficers, who look until they find an option that is good enough. You might expect that the student who had undertaken the most exhausted search would be the most satisfied with their final decision, but it turns out that's not true. Schwartz found that while maximizers ended up with better-paying jobs than satisficers on average, they weren't as happy with their decision. The reason why these people feel less satisfied is that a world of possibilities may also be a world of missed opportunities. When you look at every possible option, you tend to focus more on what was given up than what was gained. After surveying every option, a person is more acutely aware of the opportunities they had to turn down to pursue just one career.

36 flavors 37 confused 38 particularly 39 behavior 40 variety 41 overwhelmed 42 senior 43 strategies 44 who had undertaken the most exhausted search would be the most satisfied with their final decision 45 why these people feel less satisfied is that a world of possibilities may also be a world of missed opportunities. 46 a person is more acutely aware of the opportunities they had to turn down to pursue just one career.

2010年12月六级听力原文(新东方)

Section A

Short Conversation（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 pee led 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 t hought.

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 tru ck looks 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, 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?

Long Conversations （19~25）

Conversation 1

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 have 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?

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 exp eriences 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

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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 the man mainly need when working on a book?

21. What does the man say about writers?

Conversation 2

W: There is an element there about competition then, isn‘t there? Because B ritish railways are a nationalized industry. There‘s only one railway 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 peo ple who write to me say this. They 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 arriv ed. The car is here to stay. There 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 ha nd, you‘re trying not to lose too much money. And on the other hand, you‘ve got to provide the best service.

M: Yes, you are right.

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 1

Among global warming‘s most frightening threats i s 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.

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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 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.‘

Questions 26 – 29 are based on the passage you have just heard.

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 2

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.

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 "deleted" 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 "after a short period of time", though obviously that time can vary considerably.

Questions 30 – 32 are based on the passage you have just heard.

30. What does the speaker ask us to try out?

31. What accounts for the failure of some websites to remove photos immediately?

32. When will the unwanted data eventually disappear from Facebook according to the company?

Passage 3

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

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