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1、托福TPO6套听力真题（文本）小马过河为大家准备了“托福TPO6套听力真题（文本）”， 供各位备考托福的考生们参考使用，来提高自己的托福成绩！免费咨询电话：400-0123-267。TPO-6TPO 06 Listening PartConversationNarratorListen to a conversation between a student and an employee in the universitys careerservices office.StudentHi, do you have a minute?EmployeeSure, how can I help yo

2、u?StudentI have a couple ofquestions about the careerfair nextweek.EmployeeOK, shoot.StudentUm .well, are seniors the only ones who can go? I mean, you know,theyare finishing school thisyear and getting their degrees and everything. And, well, it seemslike businesses would wanna talkto them and not

3、first year students like me.EmployeeNo, no,the careerfair is opened to allour studentsand we encourage anyone whos interested togo checkit out.StudentWell, thats good to know.EmployeeYouve seen the flyers and posters around campus, I assume.StudentSure, cant miss them. I mean,theyall say where and w

4、hen thefair is, just notwho should attend.EmployeeActually theydo, but its in the small print. Uh, weshould probably make thatpart easier to reach,shouldntwe? Ill make a note ofthat right now. So, do youhave any other questions?StudentYes, actually Ido now.Um .since Id only be going to familiarizemy

5、self withthe process, you know,checkit out, I was wondering if thereis anything yourecommend that Ido to prepare.EmployeeThats actually a verygood question. Well,as you know,the careerfair isgenerally an opportunity for local businesses to recruitnew employees, and forsoon-to-be graduates to have in

6、terviewswith severalcompanies theymight beinterested in working for.Now,in your case, even though you wouldnt belooking for employment right now,it stillwouldnt hurt for you to preparemuchlike you would if you were looking for a job.StudentYou mean, like get myresume togetherand wear a suit?Employee

7、Thats a given. I was thinking more along the lines of doing some research.The flyers and posters list all the businesses that are sending representativesto the career fair. Um .whats your major urge you to have one yet?StudentWell, Ihavent declared a major yet, but Im strongly considering accounting

8、.See,thats part of thereason I wanna go to the fair,to help me decide if thatswhat I reallywant tostudy.EmployeeThats verywise. Well, Isuggest that you get on the computerand learn moreabout theaccounting companies in particular that would be attending. You canlearn a lot about companies from their

9、internet websites. Then preparea list ofquestions.StudentQuestions, hmm so, in a way,Ill be interviewing them?EmployeeThats one way oflooking at it. Think about it for a second. What do you wantto know about working for an accounting firm?StudentWell, thereis thejob itself, and salary of course,and

10、working conditions, Imean, would Ihave an office, or would Iwork in a big room with a zillion otheremployees, andand maybe about opportunities for advancement.EmployeeSee?Thosere all important things to know. Afteryou do some research,youllbe able to tailor your questions to the particular companyyo

11、u are talking to.StudentWow,Im glad I came byhere.So, it looks like Ive got some workto do.EmployeeAnd if you plan on attending future career fairs, I recommend you sign up forone of our interview workshops.StudentIll do that.LectureNarratorListen to part ofa lecturein an economics class.ProfessorNo

12、w when Imention the terms“boom and bust”,what is that going tomind?StudentThe dotcom crash ofthe 90s.ProfessorOk. The boom in the late 1990s when all those new Internet companies sprungup and then sold for huge amounts of money.Then the bust around20002001 when manyof those same Internetcompanies we

13、nt out ofbusiness.Of course,booms arent always followed by busts. Weve certainly seen timeswhen local economiesexpanded rapidly for a while and then wentback to anormal pace ofgrowth. But,theres a type of rapid expansion, what might becalled the hystericalor irrational boom that prettymuch always le

14、ads to a bust.See,people often create and intensify a boom when theygetcarried away bysome newindustry that seemslike it will make them lots ofmoney fast. Youdthink that bythe 90s, people would have learned from thepast. Iftheydid, well,look at tulips.StudentTulips? You mean like the flower?Professo

15、rExactly.For instance, do you have anyidea wheretulips are from? Originally Imean.StudentWell, theNetherlands, right?ProfessorThats what most people think, but no. Theyare not native to theNetherlands,or even Europe.Tulips actually hail from an area that Chinese callthe CelestialMountains in Central

16、Asia. A veryremotemountainous region.Itwas Turkish nomads who first discovered tulips and spread them slowlywestward. Now, around the 16th century, Europeans weretraveling toIstanbuland Turkey as merchants and diplomats. And the Turksoften gave theEuropeans tulip bulbs as gifts which theywould carry

17、home with them.For theEuropeans, tulips were totally unheard of.Era greatnovelty. The first bulb toshow up in the Netherlands, themerchant who received them roasted and atethem.He thought theywere kind ofonion.Itturns out that the Netherlands was an idealcountryfor growing tulips. It hadthe right ki

18、nd of sandy soil for one thing, but also, it was a wealthynation with agrowing economy,willing to spend lots ofmoney on new exotic things. Plus,the Dutch had a history of gardening. Wealthypeople would compete,spending enormous amounts of money tobuy the rarest flowersfor theirgardens.Soon tulips we

19、rebeginning to show up in different colorsas growerstried tobreed them specifically for colors which would make them evenmore valuable.But theywerenever completelysure what theywould get.Some of the mostpriced tulips werewhite with purple stricks, or red with yellow stricks on thepaddles, even a dar

20、k purple tulip that was verymuch priced. What happenedthen was a crazefor these specialized tulips. We called that craze“tulipmania”.So, hereweve got all theconditions for an irrational boom: a prosperingeconomy,so more people had more disposable income-money tospend onluxuries, but theywerent exper

21、ienced at investing their new wealth. Thenalong comesa thrilling commodity.Sure thefirst specimens werejust playedright in tulips, but theycould be bred into some extraordinary variations, likethat dark purple tulip. And finally,you have an unregulated marketplace, nogovernment constrains, where pri

22、ce could explode. And explode theydid,starting in the 1630s. Therewas always much more demand for tulips thansupply. Tulips didnt bloom frequentlylike roses. Tulipsbloomed once in theearlyspring. And that wasit for the year. Eventually,specially-bredmulti-colored tulips became so valuable, well, acc

23、ording torecords, one tulip bulb was worth 24 tons ofwheat, or thousand pounds of cheese. Oneparticular tulip bulb was sold and exchanged for a small sheep. Inother words,tulips wereliterally worth their weight in gold.As demand grew, people began selling promissory notesguaranteeing thefuture deliv

24、ery ofpriced tulip bulbs. The buyersof these piecesof paper wouldresellthe notesand markup prices. These promissory noteskeptchanginghands from buyer to buyer until the tulip was readyfor delivery.But it was allpure speculation because as I said, therewas no way to know if the bulb wasreally going t

25、o produce thevariety,the color that was promised. Butthat didntmatterto the owner ofthe note.The owner only cared about having that pieceof paper so it could be traded later at a profit. And people were borrowing,mortgaging their homesin many casesto obtain those bits ofpaper becausetheyweresure the

26、yd find an easy wayto make money.So now,youve got all the ingredientsfor a huge bust. And bust it did, whenone cold Februarymorning in 1637, a group of bulb traders got together anddiscovered that suddenly therewere no bidders. Nobody wanted tobuy. Panicspread like wild fire and thetulip marketcolla

27、psed totally.LectureNarratorListen to part ofa lecturein a biology class.ProfessorOk, I have an interesting plant species to discuss with you today.Umits aspecies ofa veryraretree thatgrows in Australia, Eidothea hardeniana, but itsbetter known as the Nightcap Oak.Now,it was discovered only very rec

28、ently, just a fewyears ago. Um itremained hidden for so long because its so rare.Thereare only about 200 ofthem in existence. Theygrow in a rain forest,in a mountain ragerange in thenorth part of New South Wales which is aer statein Australia. So just 200individual trees in all.Now another interesti

29、ng thing about the Nightcap Oak is that it isitrepresentsera veryold typeerkind of treethat grew a hundred millionyears ago. Um, wefound fossils that old that bear remarkable resemblance tothe tree.So, its a primitive tree.Aa living fossil you might say. Its relic fromearlier timesand it has survive

30、d all these yearswithout much change. Anditits probably a kind of tree from which other treesthat grow in Australiatodayevolved.Just to give you an idea of what we are talking about. Heres a picture of theleaves ofthe treeand itsflowers. Idont know how well you can see theflowers. Theyre those littl

31、e clusterssitting at the base of the leaves.Okay,what have we tried to find out about the treesince weve discovered it?Humor howwhy isis it so rare?Thats one of the first questions. Umhow is itumhow does it reproduce?Thiss another question. Um,maybethose two questions are actuallyrelated.Jim?Student

32、Hum Idontknow. But I can imagine thatfor instance, seed disposal mightbe a factor. Imean if theeryou know, if theseeds cannot really disperse inthe wild area,then,you know, the tree maynot colonizenew areas. It cantspread from the area whereits growing.ProfessorRight.Thatsthats actually a verygood a

33、nswer. Um,of course, you mightthink theremight not be anyareas wherethe treecould spread into,erbecauseumwell, its very specialized in termsof the habitat.But, thatsnot really thecase here.Umthe suitable habitat, that is, the actualrainforestis much larger than thefew hectares wherethe Nightcap Oak

34、grows.Now this treeis a flowering treeas I showed you. Umumit produces a fruit,much like a plum. On the inciinside theres a seed with a hard shell. Ititappears that the shellhas to crack open or break down somewhat to allow theseed to soak up water.You know, if the Nightcap Oak remainsif their seeds

35、remain locked inside theirshell, theywillnot germinate.Actually, theseedsertheydont retain thepower to germinate for very long, maybe twoyears. So theres actually quite a short window ofopportunity for theseed togerminate.So the shell somehow has to be broken down beforethisumgermination ability exp

36、ires. Andand then theres a kind of rat thatlikes tofeed on the seedsas well. So, given all these limitations, not manyseeds that thetreeproduces will actually germinate.So thisis a possibleexplanation for why thetreedoes not spread. It doesnt necessarily explainhow it becameso rare,but it explains w

37、hyit doesnt increase.OK, so it seemsto be the case that the species, this Nightcap Oak is not verygood at spreading. However,it seems, though we cant be sure, that its verygood at persisting as a population. Umwetheres some indications tosuggest that the population of the Nightcap Oak has not declin

38、ed over the lasteryou know,many hundreds of years. So its stayed quite stable.Its not aremnant ofsome huge population that is dwindled in last few hundred yearsforsome reason. Its not necessarily a species in retreat.Ok, so it cannot spread verywell, but its good at maintaining itself. Its rare,but

39、its not disappearing.Ok, the nextthing we might want to ask about the plant like that is whatchancesdoes it have to survive into the future.Lets look at that.ConversationNarratorListen to a conversation between a student and a professor.StudentProfessor Martin?ProfessorUh, hi, Lisa, what can I do fo

40、r you?StudentWell, Ive been thinking about, you know, what you weresaying in class lastweek,about how we shouldnt wait untilthe last minute tofind an idea and getstartedworking on our term paper.ProfessorGood, good, and have you comeup with anything?StudentWell, yeah, sort of.See, Ive never had a li

41、nguistics class before,so I wassortof,I mean, I waslooking over the course description and a lot of the stuff youdescribed there,I just dontknow what it is talking about, you know, or what itmeans. But therewas one thing that reallydid jump out at meProfessorYes?StudentThe section on dialects, cosli

42、ke, thats the kind of thing thats always sort ofintrigued me, you know?ProfessorWell, thats certainly an interesting topic. But you maynot realize,I mean, thescope.StudentWell, especially now,cosIve got like one roommate who is from the south andanother one from New York. And we all talklike totally

43、 different,you know?ProfessorYes, Iunderstand. ButStudentBut then Iwas noticing, like, we dont reallyget into this tillthe end of thesemester,you know.So IProfessorSo, you want some pointers whereto go for information on thesubject?Well,you could always start byreading the chapterin thebook on socia

44、l linguistics.That will give you a basic understanding ofthe keyissues involved here.StudentYeah, thats what I thought. So Istarted reading the chapter,you know,abouthow everyone speaks some dialect of a language. And Im wondering like, well,how do we even manage to understand each other at all?Prof

45、essorAh, yes, an interesting question. You seeStudentSo then Iread the part about dialect accommodation. You know,the idea thatpeople tend to adapt theirspeaking to make it closer to the speech ofwhomever theyretalking to, and Im thinking, yeah, Ido that when I talkwithmyroommates, and without even

46、thinking about it or anything, you know.ProfessorOK, all right. Dialectaccommodation is a more manageable sort of topic.StudentSo Iwas thinking like,I wonder just how much other people do the same thing.I mean,there are studentshere from all over the place.Doeseveryone changethe waytheytalk to some

47、degree depending on whom theyaretalking to?ProfessorYoud be surprised.StudentSo, anyway, myquestion is, do you think itd be OK if Idid a project like that formytermpaper? You know,find students from different partsof the country,record themtalking to each other in differentcombinations, reporton how

48、 theyaccommodate their speech or not, that kind ofthing?ProfessorTellyou what,Lisa, writeme up a short proposal for this project, how youregoing to carryout the experimentand everything, a design plan. And I thinkthisll workout just fine.LectureNarratorListen to part ofa lecturein a creative writing

49、 class.ProfessorAlright everybody, thetopic for todayis, well,were gonna takea look at how tostart creating thecharactersfor the storyyourewriting. One wayof doing thatis to comeup with whats called “a character sketch”,I dont mean a sketch likea drawing, Iguess thats obvious. Its umits aa sketch as

50、 a way of gettingstartedon defining your characters personalities.To begin, how do we createfictional characters?We dont just pull themfromthin air,do we?I mean we dont create them out of nothing. We base them,consciously or unconsciously,we base them on realpeople, or we blendseveralpeoples traits,

51、their attributesinto one character.But when peoplethink fiction, theymay assume the characterscome from theauthorsimagination. But the writers imagination is influenced by by realpeople,could be anyone, so, pay attention to the people you meet, someone in class,at the gym, that guy who is always sit

52、ting in the cornerof thecoffee house,um your cousin, whos always getting into dangerous situations. Werepulling from reality,gathering bitsand piecesof realpeople. You use thesepeople, and thebits of behavior or characteristics as a starting point as youbegin tosketch out your characters.Hereis what

53、 you should thinkabout doing first. When you begin to formulate astory,make a list of interesting people you know or have observed. Considerwhytheyre unique or annoying. Then make notesabout their unusual ordominant attributes.As you create fictional characters, youll almost alwayscombine characteri

54、sticsfrom severaldifferent people on your list to form theidentityand personalityof just one character.Keeping thiskind of charactersketch can help you solidify your characters personality,so that it remainsconsistentthroughout your story.You need to define your characters,know their personalitiesso

55、 that you canhave them acting in ways that are predictable, consistent with theirpersonalities. Getto know them like a friend, you know your friendswellenough to know how theyll act in certain situations, right? Say you have threefriends, their car runs out of gas on the highway. John gets upset.Maryremains calm. Teresa takescharge of handling thesituation. And lets say,both John and Mary deferto her le