CET6-2012年6月英语六级听力原文.doc

2012年6月六级听力原文翻译（制作人：BILL,POWER） 女：Anna在床上躺了四周，你听说过没有？男：是的。她摔了一跤伤到了脊椎，医生叫她平躺一个月就可以康复。问：我们从这个对话可以知道什么？男：下个周末有一个有名的俄罗斯芭蕾舞团来市里。但是我在哪里都找不到门票。女：别伤心。我姐姐刚好有一张，而她又不能去，因为她的日程安排与这个冲突。问：这个女人的意思是什么？女：你好，我的浴室的排水堵住了，而今晚我要开派对。你认为你能来这里帮我修好吗？男：对不起，女士。我现在非常忙。但我可以记着你这个事。问：这个女人的意思是什么？女：我们来凑钱买礼物给Jemma。到下周她就已经在公司25年了。男：好，算我一个。但是现在我身上没有现金。你什么时候要？问：这个男的准备干什么？女：Tony的妈妈邀请我去吃饭。你认为我应该事先告诉她我是一个素食者吗？男：当然。我觉得她会很感激的。想想要是她给你来个火鸡晚餐什么的，你们俩会是什么感觉。问：男人建议女人做什么？男：只要看看这些报纸，无非是抢劫、自杀和谋杀。你依然相信人性本善吗？女：当然信。但是很多报纸都缺少报道积极的东西像和平、爱和慷慨的兴趣。问：对话者在谈论什么？男：我不能相信这么多人想报名参加韩国发展会议。我们将不得不限制注册。女：是的，否则我们会没有空间容纳更多的人。问：对话者将会做什么？女：你好，我打电话来咨询有关公寓的广告。男：好巧！本来要租这个公寓的人刚刚回城里租大学校园的房子了。问：我们从这个对话可以知道什么？第三部分 听力理解 对话1女：对海豚做的最有趣的实验之一肯定是Jarvis Bastian博士做的那个。他尝试教一个叫Bass的雄海豚和一个叫Doris的雌海豚透过实心屏障相互交流。男：那他具体是怎么做的？女：首先，他把两只海豚放在一个容器中，并教他们每当看到光线就按下杠杆。杠杆是安装在容器的边缘一个接着一个。如果光线闪烁几次，海豚应该按下左边的杠杆，接下来按下右边的那根。如果光线稳定不变，海豚要按相反的顺序按下杠杆。每当他们答对了，他们就可以得到鱼作为奖励。男：听起来很复杂。女：嗯，那是第一阶段。在第二阶段，Bastian博士把海豚分开放入两个容器。他们仍然能听到对方，但是他们不能看到彼此。杠杆和光线还是按一样的方式设定，只是这次只有Doris可以看到光线的指示，相应这边的杠杆会先被按下。但是为了得到鱼，两只海豚必须要以正确的顺序按下杠杆。这当然意味着Doris必须告诉Bass是闪光还是稳定的光线。男：那么它有效吗？女：嗯，够让人惊奇的，两只海豚达到100%的正确率。 根据你刚刚听过的对话回答问题19-21。19、Jarvis Bastian博士的实验目的是什么？20、当看到稳定的光线海豚应该做什么？21、第二阶段的实验和第一阶段的有什么不同？对话2女：这周的节目Up Your Street带你去在Yorkshire的小镇Harrogate。Harrogate在维多利亚时代成为有名的度假地，当时人们是来这在矿物水中洗澡的。现在，很少有人因为它的矿物水来这里。相反，Harrogate已经成为了一个退休人受欢迎的城镇。它的空气清新，公园迷人，没有任何工厂使这里成为人们寻找的安静生活的理想之地。现在，告诉我们更多关于Harrogate，我和商会主席Tom Percival。Tom是注意到Harrogate是开放公园土地权给城镇中心的大区域的游客之一。你能告诉我们更多有关于它的东西吗？男：当然可以。这片区域叫Stray。女：为什么叫Stray？男：因为过去人们让他们的牛游荡在公用的这片区域，所以才叫Stray。女：噢， 我明白了。男：然后，我们改变了农业和土地的所有权。Stray成为Harrogate拥有的土地的一部分。女：那它被保护了吗？男：嗯，是的，那确实。作为一部特别的法律，没有人可以在Stray上建任何东西。他永远被保护起来了。女：所以它永远是公园用土？男：对。正如你看到的，Stray的一些土地用作体育场地。女：我相信它在春天会很好看。男：是的，确实。春天的花朵开在老树上，有人来这个镇就是来看花的。根据你刚刚听过的对话回答问题22-25。22、这段对话最有可能发生在哪里？23、我们可以知道现代Harrogate的什么？24、关于这个区域叫Stray男人说了什么？25、在Stray，春天最吸引人的是什么？ 一个教育高官说，去年在墨西哥大约有70万儿童辍学，经济衰退很多家庭让孩子去工作，疲弱的经济复苏只允许轻微地改善2010年的辍学率。 去年墨西哥的经济比如何一个拉丁美洲国家的经济都要糟糕，经济萎缩估计7%是由于美国对墨西哥出口产品如汽车的暴跌。 主管国家成人教育项目和密切关注辍学率的Juan de Dios Castro说，衰退导致了2009年从小学或初中辍学的孩子的数量增加了4%。 “贫困的增加是使我们的工作更加困难，” 这个月初在一个采访中Castro告诉Reuters。 高税收和需求疲软阻碍出口，今年墨西哥经济只看到部分复苏。结果辍学率不会有很多改善的，Castro说。“会有一些提高，但是没有多大意义，”Castro说。墨西哥的辍学率达到历史新高，贫穷的家庭让孩子辍学去帮家里挣钱糊口，孩子们常常在街上卖糖果和手工艺品或是在餐厅工作。这个国家的辍学问题只是墨西哥经济长期好争带来的最新的坏信息。墨西哥的政客们抵制修改国家的税务、能源和劳动力的法律数十年，让经济落后于其他国家，如巴西和智利。第一篇Russell Fazio，一个俄亥俄州立大学的心理学教授，在印第安纳大学他研究跨种族的室友发现了一个有趣的学术影响。在一项研究中，分析了上千的俄亥俄州立大学住寝室的新生的数据，他发现如果有白人室友，黑人新生以更高的考试分数考入大学，即使室友的考试分数都低。室友的种族对白人学生或低分黑人学生没有影响。这项研究推断可能有白人室友可以帮助黑人学生在学术上适应白人为主的大学。同样的研究发现在俄亥俄州立大学随机分配跨种族的室友在季度末关系破裂大概比同种族的室友多两倍。因为跨种族室友关系是有问题的，很多学生会搬出去，但是大学住宿政策可能很难让他离开， Fazio博士说。他说，“在印第安纳大学住房不是很紧张，更多的不同种族的室友决裂了，在俄亥俄州立大学住房紧张，他们被告知去解决这个问题。我们发现的最有趣的事是如果这种关系成功维持十周，我们可以看到学生对种族态度的改善。”Fazio博士的印第安纳研究发现在学期之末随机分配不同种族的室友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?M: A famous Russian ballet is coming to town next weekend. But I cant find a ticket anywhere。W: Dont be upset. My sister just happened to have one and she cant go since she has got some sort of conflict in her schedule。Q: What does the woman mean?W: Hello, my bathroom drain is blocked and Im giving a party tonight. Do you think you could come and fix it for me?M: Sorry, maam. Im pretty busy right now. But I can put you on my list.Q: What does the man mean?W: Were taking up a collection to buy a gift for Jemma. Shell have been with the company 25 years next week。M: Well, count me in. But Im a bit short on cash now. When do you need it?Q: What is the man going to do?W: Tonys mother has invited me to dinner. Do you think I should tell her in advance that Im a vegetarian?M: Of course. I think shed appreciate it. Imaging how you both feel if she fixed the turkey dinner or something。Q: What does the man suggest the woman do?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?M: I cant believe so many people want to sign up for the Korea Development Conference. We will have to limit the registration。W: Yeah, otherwise we wont have room for the more.Q: What are the speakers going to do?W: Hi, Im 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 ComprehensionConversation 1W: 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 couldnt 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 Bastians 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 2W: This weeks 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: Its called that because in the old days, people let their cattles stray on the area, which was common land。W: Oh, I see.M: Then, weve 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. Its protected forever.W: So it will always be park land?M: Thats 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. Therere 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?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.Mexicos 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 nations 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, Mexicos 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.Mexico has 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 nations drop-out problem is just the latest bad news for the long-term competitiveness of the Mexican economy. Mexicos politicians have resisted mending the countrys tax, energy and labor laws for decades, leaving its economy behind countries such as Brazil and Chile.Passage OneRussell 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 roommates test scores were low. The roommates 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, where 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. Fazios Indiana study found that three times as many randomly assigned interracial 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 26-2926. What do we know about Russell Fazio ?27. Who benefited from living with a white roommate according to Fazios 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 TwoIn 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.Its 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 wont fund it, the National Institutes of Health wont fund it, and the NASA funded it only briefly, Mironov said.Its classic disruptive technology, Mironov said. Bringing any new technology on the market, on average, costs $1 billion. We dont 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.Theres an unpleasant factor when people find out meat is grown in a lab. They dont 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 ThreeBernard 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 Jacksons 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 witnesss decision. People sometimes have difficulty identifying people of other races. The questions the police ask witnesses also have an effect on them.Question 33: Wha