2011年12月英语六级全真预测试卷及答案(2)

　　Part III Listening Comprehension
　　Section A
　　11.
　　W: Why are you leaving so early? The drama doesn’t start until 7: 30.
　　M: I want to beat the traffic there. It’s a nightmare on the highway during rush hour.
　　Q: What does the man mean?
　　答案D
　　解析：选项是关于男士的做法，在听力过程中，考生要特别注意男士的选择。女士问，你为什么出发这么早?歌剧7:30才开始呢;男士在回答中用到了一个动词beat，beat the traffic，意为“避开交通高峰期”，随后他进一步解释到，高峰期在高速公路上行驶，简直是场噩梦。从中考生可以肯定男士想早点出发，来避开行车高峰。
　　12.
　　W: Jessica’s going to the seashore again this weekend.
　　M: Well, she’s always been a beach person.
　　Q: What can be inferred about Jessica?
　　答案B
　　解析：根据选项，考生可推断听力对话可能是关于女士和海滩。女士说，Jessica周末要再去海边;男士附和，并说她对海边情有独钟。从中可以判断Jessica经常去海边。
　　13.
　　W: My parents are coming this weekend, and I thought the four of us could go out to dinner on Saturday night. Any suggestions?
　　M: It’s up to you. I don’t know the restaurants around here that well, so you’d know a better place to go than me.
　　Q: What does the man mean?
　　答案C
　　解析：选项是关于周末的安排。女士说，父母要来，想在周六晚上一起出去吃饭，并咨询男士的意见;男士使用了一个常用的动词短语，be up to sb.，意为“由......决定”，进一步解释说自己对周边的饭店不是很了解，从中可以推断男士希望女士决定吃饭的地方。
　　14.
　　W: I hope you liked the novel I lent you. I wasn’t sure whether it was the kind of book you’d be interested in.
　　M: I had the same doubt first, but once I started it I simply couldn’t put it down.
　　Q: What does the man mean?
　　答案C
　　解析：选项是关于男士读书的问题。听力过程中考生要关注男士有没有开始读，读到了哪里。女士说，我希望你能喜欢我借给你的书，我不确定是不是你喜欢的类型。男士回答说，刚开始我也怀疑会不会喜欢，但一打开，我就放不下来。从中可以看出男士很喜欢这本书。
　　15.
　　M: I’d like to make an appointment with the doctor for tomorrow.
　　W: Unfortunately he’s completely booked.
　　Q: What does the woman mean?
　　答案B
　　解析：选项是关于医生明天的安排。男士说，明天想去看医生;女士回答说，很遗憾，医生已经约满了。选项B中的the doctor’s schedule is filled和听力原文中的he’s completely booked同义。
　　16.
　　M: I ran out of coins while doing my laundry.
　　W: That’s too bad!
　　Q: What does the woman mean?
　　答案A
　　解析：选项是关于发生在男士身上的事。听力过程中，考生需要关注男士干了什么，结果如何。男士说，洗衣服的时候，硬币用完了，其中run out of表示“用完，花光”;女士感叹说，这可太糟了，并不是说衣服洗的不好，而是对男士的遭遇表示同情。
　　17.
　　W: It’s a shame you didn’t win your badminton match.
　　M: I might have won if I’d listened to my coach.
　　Q: What does the man imply?
　　答案D
　　解析：选项是关于男士的做法。女士说，没有赢得羽毛球比赛，太遗憾了;男士使用了虚拟语气，说如果听从教练的建议，可能就赢了。因此男士暗示，他没有采取教练的建议。
　　18.
　　W: Professor Louis seems to think there’s only one way to write a paper, and that’s her way!
　　M: No kidding? She sure wasn’t like that last semester.
　　Q: What can be inferred about Professor Louis?
　　答案D
　　解析：从选项中可以推断she指代的是一位教师。考生要关注对教师的评价。女士说，Louis教授似乎只知道一种写论文的方式，那就是她的方式。男士首先用no kidding的形式表示惊讶，接着补充说，上一学期她并不是这样啊。男士的回答暗示上一学期她比较灵活。
　　Conversation One
　　W: 【19】Bob, can we really afford a holiday? We’re paying for this house and the furniture is on HP and...
　　M: Now listen, Peggy. You work hard and I work hard. 【20】We’re not talking about whether we can have a holiday. We’re talking about where and when.
　　W: Shall we go to Sweden?
　　M: Sweden is colder than Sheffield. I’d rather not go to Sweden.
　　W: What about Florida? Florida’s warmer than Sheffield.
　　M: Yes, but it’s a long way. How long does it take to get from here to Florida?
　　W: All right. Let’s go to Hawaii.
　　M: You must be joking. How much would it cost for the two of us?
　　W: But the brochure says the problem of money will disappear. Bob, where do you really want to go?
　　M: 【21】I’m thinking of Wales or Scotland. Do you know why?
　　W: Yes. They’re right on our doorstep and so close to home.
　　Questions 19 to 21 are based on the conversation you have just heard.
　　19. What might be the possible relationship between the two speakers?
　　20. What are they talking about?
　　21. Where does Bob want to go?
　　19. 答案D
　　解析：从选项可以判断问题是关于两个人之间的关系。听力对话一开始，说两个人已经买了房子，还买了家具，随后两个人讨论度假的问题。从中可以判断两个人最有可能的关系是夫妻。注意听力开头提到的HP指hire purchase，为“分期付款”的意思。
　　20. 答案B
　　解析：根据选项，考生推断问题可能是两个人讨论的话题。听力开始，男士说，我们要讨论的，不是能不能去度假，而是什么时候，去哪里度假。所以选项B为正确答案。
　　21. 答案C
　　解析：四个选项都是地点，考生推断问题可能是他们度假的地方。听力最后，男士想着要去威尔士或苏格兰。而选项A、B、D都是女士建议的地方。
　　Conversation Two
　　W: What a beautiful day! It’s a shame to stay inside all day.
　　M: Do you have a suggestion?
　　W: Actually, I guess I do. Why don’t we go for a run?
　　M: Well, I really don’t like running.
　　W: OK, then. How about roller skating? Don’t you have a pair of skates?
　　M: Now that you mention it, I do have a pair. But where could we skate? That’s not an indoor skating rink.
　　W: 【22】You know the bike path on the other side of campus—the one that goes through the trees?
　　M: Yes?
　　W: Well, I’ve seen people skating there, and it’s a really pretty area.
　　M: That’s true, but I also remember that there are some hills over there.
　　W: So what?
　　M: So, I don’t mind going up hills, but I hate going down them, 【23】because I’m not good at stopping. In fact, the only way for me to stop is to jump off the path and hope I land on some thing soft.
　　W: Tell you what. 【24】I’ll show you how I stop, and if it doesn’t work you’ll still have the grass to fall back on.
　　M: OK. I’m ready, but 【25】I think we should bring something to drink.
　　W: 【25】Good idea! What’s in the dorm fridge?
　　Questions 22 to 25 are based on the conversation you have just heard.
　　22. Where does the woman want to skate?
　　23. Why doesn’t the man like skating on hills?
　　24. What does the woman offer to do for the man?
　　25. What will the speakers probably do next?
　　22. 答案B
　　解析：选项是一些地点，因此在听力过程中要特别关注地点的表达。听力一开始，女士觉得天气很好，建议出去玩，最后选择了skate。男士问，在哪里滑呢?女士说，校园另一边有个自行车道，可以在那里玩。
　　23. 答案A
　　解析：选项是一些问题，根据前题，考生推断可能是滑冰中出现的困难。听力中间，男士说，上山没有问题，很讨厌下山，因为不擅长在滑冰中停下来。选项A用have trouble doing的结构表示“干某事有困难”。
　　24. 答案D
　　解析：选项使用了祈使句，前文讲男士在滑冰中停下来有困难。女士说，我可以教你，如果真的不行，你还可以摔在草地上。从中判断D为正确选项。
　　25. 答案C
　　解析：选项使用祈使句表示要做的事。听力最后，男士说，可以带一些喝的东西。女士附和，冰箱里有什么呢?所以接下来，他们最有可能做的事，是寻找饮料。
　　Section B
　　Passage One
　　Every person uses its own special words to describe things and express ideas. Some of these expressions are commonly used for many years. Others are popular for just a short time. One such American expression is "Where’s the beef?"【26】It is used when something is not as good as it is said to be. In the early 1980s, "Where’s the beef?" was one of the most popular expressions in the United States. It seemed as if everyone was using it all the time.
　　Beef, of course, is the meat from a cow, and probably no food is more popular in America than the hamburger made from beef. 【27】In the 1960s a businessman named Ray Kroc began building small restaurants that sold hamburgers at a low price. Kroc called his restaurant "McDonald’s". 【27】Kroc cooked hamburgers quickly so people in a hurry could buy and eat them without waiting. By the end of the 1960s the McDonald’s Company was selling hamburgers in hundreds of restaurants from California to Maine. 【28】Not surprisingly, Ray Kroc became one of the richest businessmen in America.
　　【28】Other business people watched his success. Some of them opened their own hamburger restaurants. One company, called "Wendy’s", began to compete with McDonald’s. Wendy’s said its hamburgers were bigger than those sold by McDonald’s or anyone else. The Wendy’s Company created the expression "Where’s the beef?" to make people believe that Wendy’s hamburgers were the biggest. It produced a television advertisement to sell this idea. The Wendy’s television advertisement showed three old women eating hamburgers. The bread that covered the meat was very big, but inside there was only a tiny bit of meat. "Where’s the beef?" She shouted in a funny voice. These advertisements for Wendy’s hamburger restaurants were a success from the first day they appeared on television. As we said, it seemed everyone began using the expression "Where’s the beef?"
　　Questions 26 to 28 are based on the passage you have just heard.
　　26. What does the expression "Where’s the beef?" mean?
　　27. Why are hamburgers so popular in America?
　　28. Why did other people want to open hamburger restaurant?
　　26. 答案B
　　解析：选项是解释说明。听力一开始讲到流行语，并且举了“Where is the beef” 为例，接下来解释了这个短语的意思，“某物并没有描述的那么好”。选项C是个干扰项，这个短语流行开来，beef并不特指牛肉这一种东西，而是代指任何东西。
　　27. 答案C
　　解析：考生可推断选项A、B、C中的they指代选项D中的hamburgers。听力中讨论了McDonald’s的出现和流行，其中提及汉堡的价格比较低，很快就能做好，忙碌的人们不用等就能买到。
　　28. 答案D
　　解析：选项也是说明原因。听力中提到，Ray Kroc在全国好多地方都开店卖汉堡，成为美国富豪之一。其他生意人看到了他的成功，也相继开了汉堡店。联系前后文，其他人开汉堡店的原因是，也想成功和赚钱。
　　Passage Two
　　Strikes are very common in Britain. They are extremely harmful to its industries. In fact, there are other countries in Western Europe that lose more working days through strikes every year than Britain. 【29】The trouble with the strikes in Britain is that they occur in essential industries. There are over 495 unions in Britain. Some unions are very small. Over 20 have more than 100,000 members. Unions do not exist only to demand higher wages. They also educate their members. They provide benefits for the sick and try to improve working conditions. Trade unionists say that we must thank the unions for the great improvement in working conditions in the last hundred years. It is now against the law for union members to go on strike without the support of their union. This kind of strike is called unofficial strike and was common until recently. 【30】Employers feel that unofficial strikes were most harmful because they would not be predicted. However, these unofficial strikes still occur from time to time and some unions have also refused to cooperate with the law. 【31】As a result, the general picture of the relations between workers and employers in Britain has gone from bad to worse.
　　Questions 29 to 31 are based on the passage you have just heard.
　　29. In what way. are strikes in Britain different from those in other European countries?
　　30. Why are British employers so afraid of unofficial strikes?
　　31. What conclusion can be drawn from this passage?
　　29. 答案A
　　解析：听力篇章一开始讲到罢工在英国很常见，欧洲其他国家也有很多罢工，损失的工作日要比英国的多。但英国的问题在于，最重要的行业中有罢工。由此判断，A为正确选项。
　　30. 答案B
　　解析：选项是对某一类罢工的描述。听力最后讲，雇主认为非正式的罢工危害最大，因为它们不可预测。由此判断B为正确答案。
　　31. 答案D
　　解析：选项是总结性语言。考生可注意听力篇章的最后部分。听力最后讲，员工和雇主之间的关系是越来越坏。选项D中的tense意为“紧张的”，和听力原文中的go from bad to worse同义。
　　Passage Three
　　【32】A person’s social prestige seems to be determined mainly by his or her job. Occupations are valued in terms of the incomes associated with them, although other factors can also be relevant—particular the amount of education a given occupation requires and the degree of control over others it provides. The holders of political power also tend to have high prestige.
　　Unlike power and wealth, which do not seem to be becoming more equally shared, 【34】the symbols of prestige have become available to an increasing number of Americans. 【33】The main reason is the radical change in the nature of jobs over the course of this century. 【35】In 1900, nearly 40 percent of the labor force were farm workers and less than 20 percent held white-collar jobs. At the beginning of the 1980s, however, less than 5 percent of the labor force worked on farms and white-collar workers were the largest single occupational category. Blue-collar workers, the largest category in the mid-fifties, now constitute less than a-third of all workers. 【34】The increase in the proportion of high prestige jobs has allowed a much greater number of Americans to enjoy these statuses and the lifestyles that go with them.
　　Questions 32 to 35 are based on the passage you have just heard.
　　32. Which is the least important factor relevant to a person’s social status?
　　33. Which is the main factor for the rise in the proportion of prestige jobs?
　　34. What are a growing number of Americana becoming?
　　35. Who made up the largest occupational category in 1900?
　　32. 答案C
　　解析：选项是四个名词的并列。听力篇章开始讲到决定一个人社会名誉的因素，其中有工作、收入、教育、对他人的控制权限以及政治地位，唯一没有提及的是选项C中的努力。
　　33. 答案A
　　解析：四个选项表示变化。听力中间讲更多的美国人都有机会得到这些名誉，其主要原因是本世纪工作性质的巨大变化。选项A中的occupation和原文中的job同义。
　　34. 答案D
　　解析：选项是四种职业，考生要特别注意，选项A和C都属于蓝领职业。听力中间讲到蓝领工人，在农场上工作的人们越来越少，人们在选择更有地位的职业。选项B是干扰项，大部分美国人不可能都成为政治家。
　　35. 答案B
　　解析：选项是关于某一类职业。听力后半部分讲，1900年，40%的人在农场工作，所以选项B为正确答案。选项C是个干扰项，50年代中期蓝领工人占得比重最大。
　　Section C
　　36. 答案 personalities
　　解析：personality是个比较常见的名词，“个性，特色，名人”，本句话中意为“名人”。考生要特别注意名词复数形式。
　　37. 答案presented
　　解析：present作为动词，意为“呈现，展示，提出”。此句使用了被动语态，考生要注意动词的过去分词。
　　38. 答案uphold
　　解析：此处是个动词作谓语。uphold意为“支持，赞成，鼓励”。
　　39. 答案distinguishes
　　解析：distinguish表示“区别”，常用的结构为distinguish between A and B，distinguish A from B。此处which指代前面的a code，所以distinguish使用了第三人称单数形式。
　　40. 答案column
　　解析：这个名词相对来说比较常见，报纸上的column指的是“专栏，栏目”。
　　41. 答案advocate
　　解析：advocate意为“主张，提倡”。这个动词比较常见，考生要特别注意拼写形式。
　　42. 答案desires
　　解析：desire是个常见动词。主语是第三人称，考生要注意动词的第三人称单数形式。
　　43. 答案costly
　　解析：costly和前面的expensively同义，表示“昂贵地”。
　　44. 答案 these large newspapers tend to reflect the views of their owners in their editorials on economic and political matters
　　解析：此句大意为：大型报纸更愿意反映他们自己在经济、政治事件上的观点。editorial前文出现过，应该不能成为听力的难点。此句的重要词汇为：reflect，economic，political。
　　45. 答案 the great press associations usually can be relied on to keep their news impartial
　　解析：前文讲到，应该报道完整的、客观的事实。考生可推测此句大意：大型报纸和大型出版公司，他们报道的公平性是可以信赖的。考生要注意，此句使用了被动句，动词词组rely on的被动形式中on不能省略。此句需要注意的词汇：associations，impartial。
　　46. 答案 often deliberately "color" the news to favor or oppose certain groups or movements
　　解析：连词but说明此句和上一句是对比关系。大型出版社的报道比较客观公正，而没有多少道德感的出版社会故意地倾向或反对某些团体、行动。此句需要注意的词汇：deliberately，favor，oppose。