2013年12月英语六级听力答案+原文第2套
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听力短对话 1.
W: Hasmy order arrived yet? I have beenexpecting it last week. M：
I called the company thismorning. They hadsome labor problems, so your order will be shipped late. Itshould be here by the end of theweek.
Q；What has caused the delayof the shipment? 2.
W: Idon’t agree with Mr. Johnson’s views on social welfare. He seems to suggest thepoorare robbing the rich.
M: Hemight have used better words to express his idea, but I think what he saidmakes a lotof sense.
Q：What does the man mean? 3. M：
Liz, I just found out Ihave a meeting and I can’t pick up the kids after their soccerpractice. Wouldyou be able to pick them up in time?
W：Yes, that won’t be aproblem. I think I can finish early today. Q：Why does the man say he can’tpick up the kids? 4.
W: Maryis going to get a little dog from one of her relatives.
M: Really?But I hear her apartment building is about to place a ban on pet animals.
Q：What does the man imply? 5. W：
I can never tell whether it’sLisa or Gale on the phone. Their voices sound incrediblysimilar.
M: That’sabout the only thing they have in common for twins, believe it or not.
Q：What does the man mean? 6.
W: Jay,what does the fax from our associates in Britain say? M：
They want to know if theeconomic crisis would affect our ability to carry out the deal wesigned lastNovember.
Q：What are the speakerstalking about? 7.
M: Doyou think you'll be able to get this ink stain out of my pants? W: Itwon't be a problem, but I need to send them over to our main cleaning facility.That’san extra day’s time.
Q：What does the woman mean? 8.
W: Thatlooks like a protest rally. I wonder what they are protesting against.
M: Thatsign says they are against importing luxury goods from Europe. They seemed tobegetting so worked up about that.
Q：What are the speakerstalking about? 听力长对话原文1 Conversation One W：What isit, Bob?
(9)You sounded prettyserious on the phone. Have we still got abudgetproblem?
M：
I don’ know. I hope not. Themeeting's on Friday. But that’s not what I want to talk toyou about. Er, closethe door, will you? It’s Marsha.
W: Marsha?What about her?
M: I'mworried. I don’t know what to do.
(10)She’s just not performing. We may have tolether go.
W: Fireher? She’s been with us a long time, Bob. If she leaves, it’ll be a big loss tous. She’sdone really excellent work.
M：
Yes. But lately, the lastmonth or so, in fact, there have been a lot of problems. She’schanged. Notonly does she have a tendency to be moody all the time, but shemissesappointments, doesn’t follow through on projects, and doesn't seem to plananything tillthe last minute.
W: Em, didshe ever explain why she didn’t show up for the Denver trip? M：No. She said she was sorryand that it wouldn’t happen again. (11) Something about amix-up onarrangements to get to the airport. Now, whenever anybody mentions the subjecttoher, she just goes silent. I don’t know. Thank goodness, David pulled us outof the hole on thatone.
W: Yes, hedid a really fine job, filling in for Marsha like that at the last minute.
M：
(12)I don’t think it was thefirst time he’s had to do that. If we knew all the facts, I thinkwe’d findthat he's been covering for Marsha on quite a few projects.
9. Whatdid the man do before he came to see the woman? 10. Whatdoes the man say about Marsha?
11. Howdid Marsha explain why she didn't show up for the Denver trip? 12. Whatdoes the man say about David? 听力长对话原文2 Conversation Two
M：
You also hire the mistressesof Oxford High School for girls. How many girls do you havehere?
W：We have 615 girls.
M: in yourexperience, do girls do better academically and later professionally insingle-sexschools?
W：
Yes. I think they do betteracademically and you can measure that very crudely fromthe examinationresults,
(13) I also think they do better academically because they havemoreopportunities to take the leading role in discussions and in managerial responsibilities.(
14)Ithink they see the role models of the chief positions in the school beingheld by women.
M：
I wonder if you could saythen in a few words what the advantages are for a girl at asingle-sex school.Well, I think within the classroom, she’s going to have full opportunitytoexpress her own opinions. She isn’t going to be shouted down by over-confidentyounggentlemen.
W: Areteenagers in particular, do you think, sheltered too much from contact withtheopposite sex? Does this cause them difficulties when they find themselves inmixed groups?
M：
Well, I would like to findthe parents who could shelter girls from the opposite sex ifthey live in Oxford.(15)They encounter boys all the time socially out of school, andthroughdebating societies and things like that, some school activities as well.
M: So, nodisadvantages at all? W：
I don’t think there are anydisadvantages. I think that it’s grossly overstated that oneneeds to havecontact with the opposite sex right through the whole of life, in the classroomandoutside the classroom and at all ages.
13. Whatdoes the woman say about the girls in her school? 14. Whatdo we learn about the woman's school?
15. What does the woman say about the girls' social life? 听力短文原文 Passage One
Larry arrivedearly for his speaking engagement.He positioned the table so that he couldmove closeto the audience that's the strategic point in thespeech.
(16)He hadread that speakers can be more persuasive if they invade the personalspace oflisteners, encouraging an emotional response. For the same reason, he placedthechairs close to each other and raised the temperature to a slightlyuncomfortable level.
(17)Thepurpose of the speech was to encourage theaudience of corporate executives and localbusiness owners to support localsports groups. To enhance his credibility with the audience,Larry had broughtsome slides of his family attending sports events. One photo showed him atanaward ceremony, where he had been honored for his financial contribution to alocalbaseball team
. Realizing that this particular audience would find hisregional accentunattractive, Larry planned to speak with an accent that wouldbe more acceptable to hisaudience.
(18)After reading a book on how to addressfor success, he had purchased anexpensive dark navy suit and golden tie. Hechose colors and styles known to communicatepower and influence.
(19)Justbefore people began entering the hall, Larry dimmed the lights andturned upthe sound system, which was playing soft music, hoping to create a warmpersonalatmosphere for the speech. He hoped that these added effects wouldencourage his audience tosupport local sports teams. He had also planned thecontent of his speech to focus on theteams with the best records, the onesthat had won the most games in the last season.
16.How cana speaker make himself more persuasive when delivering a speech?
17.Forwhat purpose was Larry going to make a speech?
18.Why didLarry purchase an expensive navy suit and golden tie? 19.Why didLarry dim the lights and turn up the sound system before people enteredthehall?
Passage Two
PhillisWheatley was a young African-American slave who belonged to landownerJohnWheatley in Colonial America.
(20)She was also a poet and the firstAfrican-American everto publish a book. Her poems on various subjects,religious and moral were printed in Boston in1773, three years before thesigning of the Declaration of Independence. Early slaves weregenerally deniededucation, but Wheatley was allowed by her owner to study poetry, Latin andtheBible. And by the time she reached her late teens, she had written enoughpoetry to puttogether a slender book of verse. Even so, publication wasdifficult.
(21)The publisher, fearfulof being cheated, forced her to submit tohis scholarly examination by a board of educatedmen, including the colonialgovernor. The board of judges questioned Wheatley extensively andruled thatshe was educated enough to have written the book. Only then waspublicationpermitted. Wheatley may have been the first, but she was not the only slave towritebooks during the growing days of the Republic. Unfortunately, most of theearly popularAfrican-American writers have been all but forgotten in moderntimes until now. A chronicleprofessor, Henry Louis Gates, recently studied aresearch project looking into 19th centuryAfrican-American fiction and poetry.(22)In t