2017年6月六级真题听力原文

1、2017年6月六级真题（第 2套）听力原文2017年6月大学英语六级考试真题（第 2套）听力原文Section AConversation OneW: Mr. Ishiguro, have you ever found one of your books at a sec on dha nd bookstoreM: Yes. That kind of thing is difficult. 1? If they ' ve got my book there, I think,an “ Well, this isin suit! ?Somebody did n ' t want

2、to keep my book! ” But if it ' s not there, I feel it' s an in sultthink, “ Why aren ' t people exchanging my book Why isn' t it in this store”W: Does being a writer require a thick skinM: Yes, for example, my wife can be very harsh. 2-1?I bega n worki ng on my latest book,? TheBurie

3、d Giant , in 2004, but I stopped after I showed my wife a little sect ion. She thought it wasrubbish.W: Eve n after you won a Booker PrizeM: 2-2? She' s not intimidated at all and she criticizesme in exactly the same way she did when Iwas first un published and I was start ing.W: But you would n

4、 ever compromise on your visi on.M: No, I wouldn ' ever compromise on the essential, the ideas or the themes. This isn ' reallywhat my wife is trying to criticize me about. It' s always about execution.W: So why did you put your book,? The Buried Giant , aside for so long Apparently you

5、startedwork ing on it over 10 years ago.M: 3? I ' ve often stopped writing a book and left it for a few years. ?And by the time I come backto it, it may have changed. Usually my imagination has moved on and I can think of differentcon texts or a differe nt way to do it.W: What does it feel like

6、whe n you fin ally finish a bookM: It 'funny you ask that because I never have this moment when I feel, “Ah, I ' ve finished!”4? I watch footballers at the end of the match, you know, the whistle goes and they' ve wolost Until then they' ve been giving everything they have and at tha

7、t moment they know 计It ' s funny for an author. There' s never a finishing whistle.Questions 1 to 4 are based on the conversation you have just heard.1. How would the man feel if he found his book in a sec on dha nd bookstore2. What does the man' s wife think of his books3. What does the

8、 man do when he engages in writing4. What does the man want to say by mentioning the football matchConversation TwoW: 5?Accord ing to a study of race and equity in educati on, black athletes are dropp ing out ofcollege across the country at alarming rates.?With us to talk about the findings in the s

9、tudy isWashi ngton Post?colum ni st ?Kev in Blackist one. Good morni ng.M: Good morning, how are youW: Fine, tha nk you. What is new that you found in this studyM: Well, this is Shaun Harper' s study, and he points out majbo college campuses acrossthe country, black males make up less than 3 per

10、cent of undergraduate enrollments. Yet, when youlook at their numbers or percentages on the revenue-generating sports teams of football and basketball, they make up well into 50 to 60 perce nt of those teams. 6?So the idea is that they are really there to be part of the revenue-generating working cl

11、ass of athletes on campus and not necessarily there to be part of the educating class as most students in other groups are.W: 7?Compared with other groups, I think the nu mbers in this group, at those 65 schools, aresomething like just barely more than half of the black male athletes graduate at all

12、.M: Exactly. And what ' s really bad about this is these athletes are supposedly pdmt least onething as reward for all their blood and sweat. And that is a college degree, which can be a transformative tool in our society when you talk about upward mobility. And that ' really the troubli ng

13、part about this.?W: Well, this has been ta lked about so much, really, in recent years. Why hasn' t it changedM: Well, I think one of the reasons it hasn' t changed is that there' s really no economic presschange this. All of the incentive is really on winning and not losing on the field

14、 or on the court.8Coaches do not necessarily have the incentive to graduate players.Questions 5 to 8 are based on the conversation you have just heard.5. What are the speakers talk ing about6. What is the new finding about black male athletes in this study7. What is the graduati on rate of black mal

15、e athletes8. What acco unts for black athletes' failure to obta in a college degree, accord ing to the manSection BPassage One9?America ' s holiday shopp ing seas on starts on Black Friday, the day after Than ksgiv ing.ltis the busiest shopping day of the year.?Retailers make the most money

16、this time of year, about 20to 30 perce nt of annual reve nue. About 136 milli on people will shop duri ng the Than ksgivi ngHoliday weeke nd. More and more will shop on li ne. In an era of in sta nt in formati on, shoppers canuse their mobile phones to find deals. 10?About 183.8 millio n people will

17、 shop on Cybertha nMon day, the first Mon day after Than ksgivi ng.?More tha n half of all holiday purchases will be made on li ne.? On e-i n-five America ns will use a tablet or smartph one. On li ne spe nding on Black Friday will rise 15 perce nt to hit? $ 2.7 billi on this year. Cyber Mon day spe

18、 nding will in crease 12 percent to?$ 3 billion. For many, shopping online was“ a more comfortable alternatcrowded malls. The shift to on li ne shopp ing has had a big impact on traditi onal shopp ing malls.Since 2010, more tha n 24 shopp ing malls have closed and an additi onal 60 are struggli ng.H

19、owever, 11? Fortune?says the weakest of the malls have closed. The sector is thriving aga in. ?The Intern ati onal Council of Shopp ing Cen ters said 94.2 perce nt of malls were full, or occupied, with shops by the end of 2014. That is the highest level in 27 years. 12?Ec ono mist Gus Faucher said l

20、ower un employme nt and rising wages could give America ns more money to spend.?The average American consumer will spend about? $ 805 on gifts. That ' $ab30b6?billi on betwee n November and December an in crease of 3.7 perce nt from last year.Questions 9 to 12 are based on the passage you have j

21、ust heard.9. What is the speaker mainly talk ing about10. How many people will shop on Cyber Mon day11. What does?Fort une ?say about traditi onal shopp ing malls12. What is said to acco unt for the in creased nu mber of shoppersPassage TwoFor years, many of us have relied on an tibiotic use to trea

22、t various in fecti ons. And the reality is that antibiotics have been responsible for saving millions of lives since penicillin, one of the earliest antibiotics, was first used on a clinical basis 70 years ago. However, today is a new era in which tak ing an tibiotics can cause some very dan gerous

23、and pote ntially life-threate ning situati ons. 13? In fact, you may have heard about the new“ superbugs ” , w-iiEhstaeitantibiotibacteria that have developed as a result of overprescribed an tibiotics .?ln the past, health experts warned us that the day would come in which it would become very diff

24、icult to provide medical care for even com mon problems such as lung in fecti on or severe sour throat. And, 14?appare ntly, that day has come because seem in gly rout ine operati ons such as knee replaceme nts are now much more hazardous due to the looming threat of these infections.The problem has

25、 grow n into such epidemic proporti ons that this severe strain of resista nt bacteria is being blamed for n early 700,000 deaths each year throughout the world; and, unfortunately, health experts worry that the number will rise to 10 million or more on a yearlyperce nt of budgetary money for the Na

26、ti onal In stitutes of Health is curre ntly being spe nt on research to tackle this problem. This is a far cry from the funds n ecessary for a problem of such magn itude.Questions 13 to 15 are based on the passage you have just heard.13. What do we learn about the“ superbugs ”14. What is the result

27、of the overuse of an tibiotics15. What is most urge ntly n eeded for tackli ng the large life-threate ning epidemic, accord ing to the speakerSection CRecording OneThis is the reas on you are here in a uni versity. You are here to be educated. 16-1?You arehere to understand thinking better and to th

28、ink better yourself. ?It ' s not a chanee you ' re going to have throughout your lifetime. 16-2?For the next few years, you have a chanee to focus on thi nki ng.I thi nk about some of the stude nts who took adva ntage of their opport un ities in a uni versity.One of the stories I always like

29、 to tell is of a freshman seminar that I had a chance to teach at Harvard whe n I was preside nt of the uni versity. I taught a sem inar on globalizati on and I assig ned a reading that I had written about global capital flows. And as I did each week, I asked one of the students to introduce the rea

30、dings. And this young man, in October of his freshman year, said someth ing like the follow ing.“ The readi ng by Preside nt Summers on the flow of capital acrossthat he didcountries, it was kind of interesting, but the data did not come close to supporting the conclusions.” Arttlought to myself, “

31、Whata fantastic thing this was. How could somebodywho had bee n there for five weeks tell the pers on who had the title Preside nt 'know what he was talking about” And it was a special moment.Now, I don ' t want to be misunderstood. I explained to my student that I actually thought he was ra

32、ther more con fused tha n I was and I argued back, 17-1?but what was really importa nt about that was the universities stand out as places that really are about the authority of ideas ?You see it in faculty members who are pleased when their students make a discovery that undermines a cherished theo

33、ry that they had put forward.I thi nk of ano ther stude nt I had who came to me one morning, one evening actually, walkedinto my office and said that I had written a pretty good paper, but that it had five important mistakes and that he wan ted a job. 17-2/18?You could debate whether they actually w

34、ere mistakes, but you couldn' t debate that you ng man'一 S>hUnl3eYQdeeould_otdebae that that young man was some one who wan ted to make a differe nee in econo mics and he is today a professor of economi cs.?A nd his works are more cited as an econo mist tha n any other econo mist in the w

35、orld.Questions 16 to 18 are based on the recording you have just heard.16. What does the speaker say about a uni versity17. What do we learn from the speaker' s stories about universities18. What does the speaker see in the young man who challe nged his paperRecording Two19-1?Psychological resea

36、rch shows we consistently underestimate our mental powers. If you think this does not apply to you, then here is a simple test to show you are wrong.?Write down the names of all the American states you can remember. Put the list away and then set yourself the same task a week later. Provided you hav

37、e not cheated by consulting an atlas, you will notice something rather surprising. 20?The two lists will contain roughly the same number of states, but they will not be ide ntical.?Some n ames will have slipped away, but others will have replaced them. This suggests that somewhere in your mi nd you

38、may well have a record of virtually every state. 19-2?So it is not really your memory letting you down, just your ability to retrieve in formati on from it.We would remember a lot more if we had more con fide nee in our memories and knew how to use them properly. One useful tip is that things are mo

39、re likely to be remembered if you are in exactly the same state and place as you were whe n you lear ned them. So if you are a stude nt who always reviews over black coffee, perhaps it would be sen sible to prime yourself with a cup of before the exam. 21?lf possible, you should also try to learn in

40、formation in the room where it is going to be tested.?Whe n you lear n is also importa nt. Lots of people swear they can absorb new information more efficiently at some times of the day than at others. Research shows this is not just imagi natio n. There is a biological rhythm for lear ning, though

41、it affects differe nt people in differe nt ways. For most of us, the best pla n is to take in new in formati on in the morning and the n try to con solidate it into memory duri ng the after noon. But this does not apply to every one, 22?so it is esse ntial to establish your own rhythm. You can do th

42、is by lear ning a set nu mber of lines of poetry at different times of the day and seeing when most lines stick. When you have done this, try to organize your life so that the time set aside for learning coincides with the time when your memory is at its best.Avoid learning marathonsthey do not make

43、 the best use of your mind. Take pienty of breaks, because they offer a double bonus: the time off gives your mind a chanee to do some preliminary eonsolidation and it also gives a memory boost to the learning.Questions 19 to 22 are based on the recording you have just heard.19. What does the simple

44、 test suggest20. What do we learn about the two lists in the test21. What does the speaker suggest about prepari ng for and tak ing an exam22. What tip does the speaker give on lear ningRecording ThreeHello! Today I am going to talk about poverty.231?Poverty has become a critical issue in today'

45、 s world. It concerns not only us sociologists,but also econo mists, politicia ns and bus in ess people.?Poverty has bee n un derstood in many different ways. One useful way is to distinguish between three degrees of poverty extreme poverty, moderate poverty, and relative poverty.The first type of p

46、overty is extreme poverty. It ' also called absolute poverty. In extreme poverty, households cannot meet basic n eeds for survival. People are chroni cally hun gry. They are unable to access safe drinking water, let alone health care. They cannot afford education for their childre n. In short, p

47、eople who live in extreme poverty do not have even the minimum resources to support themselves and their families. 24?Where does extreme poverty occur Well, you can find it only in develop ing coun tries.Well, what about moderate poverty Un like extreme poverty, moderate poverty gen erally refers to conditions of life in which basic needs are met, but barely. People living in moderate poverty have the resources to keep themselve