2002年12月28日英语六级（听力部门）
Section A:
1. A: How well are you prepared for your presentation? You turn comes next Wednesday.
B: I spent a whole week searching on the lab, but come up with nothing valuable.
Q: What did the woman say about her presentation?
2. A: Morning, Jack, late again! What is the excuse this time?
B: I’m awfully sorry. I must have turned the lamp off and gone back to sleep again.
Q: What do we learn from the conversation.
3. A: Excuse, but could you tell me where I can change American dollars into British pounds.
B: There is a bank around the corner, but I’m afraid it’s already past its closing time. Why don’t you try the one near the railway station?
Q: What does the man mean?
4. A: Could I speak to Dr.Cheng, she told me to call her today.
B: She is not available right now. Would you like to try around three?
Q: What does the woman tell the man to do?
5. A: Oh, deal; I’m afraid I’m fail again in the national test. It’s the third time I took it.
B: Don’t to be too upset, I have the same fate. That is a try of fourth time.
Q: What does the man mean?
6. A: Professor Smith, I really need the credits to graduate this summer.
B: Here is this school the credits are earned not given.
Q: What do we learn from the convensation.
7.A: How did you go to Canada, Jane? Did you fly?
B: I was planning to because such a long trip by bus or by train, but Front decided to drive and invited me to join him. It took us two days and a night.
Q: What can we infer from the consecration?
8. A: How do you like the way I’ve arranged the furniture in my living room?
B: Fine, but I think the worse could do with a few paintings.
Q: What does the woman suggest the man do?
9. A: I don’t image you have any interest it in attending my lecture on drawing, do you?
B: Oh, yes, I do. Now that you are remind me of it.
Q: What do we learn about the man from the conversation?
10. A: You are our campaign manager, what do you think we should do to win the election? I’m convinced I’m the best candidate for the chairman of the Students Union.
B: We won’t be able to win unless we get the majority votes from the woman students.
Section B:
Passage:
1: There are some serious problems in the Berumich river. The local chamber of commerce which （try represents ）the industries in the area hire of me the consultant to do a one-year study on fishing in the Berumich river and write a report for them. This is my report:
One of the major problems in the Burmich river is that the level of oxygen in the water is too low. Several chemicals have to express the oxygen. This chemical pollution has two sources. The factories which dump polluted water directly into the river and the local community which dumps untreated human wastes into the river. The local town government has already spent 2 million dollars on waste water treatment project, but it was cost another 27 million to complete the projects. It will take at least 15 years for the town to collect enough revenue from the taxes to complete these projects. The factories here employed 17,000 people in an area where there is very little alternative employment. It is not economically practical to close （all of located ）factories, also the factories cannot afford to finance chemical treatment plans by themselves. Another problem is at the （members ）of the Berumich fishing corporative are overfishing. Fishes are caught when they are on the way up streaming to lay eggs. Consequently, not enough fish are left to reproduce a large members. The members of the corporative say they had already reduced their annual catch by 50 percent. However, my studies indicate that they took fewer fish because there were fewer fish to catch not because they were trying to preserve fishes.
11. What was the speaker assigning to do in the past year?
12. What is one of the problems in the Berumich river?
13. What does the passage tell us the factories along the river?
14. Why was the annual catch of fish in the Berumich river reduced according to the speaker?
2: Everybody have to die someday, but nobody like to think about it. Even so, at sometime in their lives, most people manage to think about the question of how to make a will. If you have already made yours, it is probably just a few pages of writing, stating that you wish to leave everything do your family. That is the kind of will that the majority of people make. However, there are plenty of ways to make you will more interesting if you want to .To begin with ,you don’t have to write it on paper. One man wrote his will on an envelope, another on the door, and a third on a ____. For some people, the most import part of their will is the part that says how they want to be buried. Mrs Sandra West, a rich widow form Texas, decided that she wonted to be buried with her favorite car. In 1973, Mr Green, a dentist from English, left most of his money to the nurse who worked for his years in 5years. She would not wear any kind of make-up or jewel or go out with man. Finally, let’s hope that your will is not like vital of Dr Vakona, who lived in America 100 years ago. His family, who had not been to see him for years, suddenly began to visit him when he became ill. What was worse, each person suggested Dr Vakona they would like something to remember him by when he died. Greatly annoyed with them. Dr Vakona wrote a will that would do this: To each of his four brothers, he left one of his legs or arms, His nephew got his noses and his two nieces each got an ear. His teeth went to his cousin. Then he let aside 1,000 dollars to pay for cutting his body and the rest of his money he left to the poor.
15. What kind of will do most people leave behind according to the passage?
16. What did the nurse have to de before getting the money left by the English dentist?
17. Why did Dr Vakona make an unusual will?
3: In recent years, there has been an unusually large number of divorces in the US. In the past, when two people married each other, they intended to stay together for life. While today, many people marry believe in that they can always get it divorce if the marriage does not work out. In the past, a large majority of the Americans frowned of the idea of divorce. Futhermore, many people believed that getting a divorce was a luxury that only the rich could afford. Indeed, getting a divorce was very expensive. However, since so many people have began to take a more casual view of marriage,it is interesting to know that the cost of getting a divorce are lower. In fact, wherever you go in the United States today, it is not an unusual to see newspaper ads that provide information on how and where to get a cheap divorce. Hollywood has always been known as the divorce capital of the world. The divorce rate among the movie stars is so high that it is difficult to know who is many to whom. Today many movie stars change husbands and wives as though they were changing clothes.Until marriage again become the serious and important part of people’s life we were probably to continue to see a high rate of divorce.
18. What did many Americans think of divorce in the past?
19. What is the attitude of many Americans to marriage today?
20. In the speaker’s view, when will the high rate of divorce be pull down?