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英语六级新题型听力试题：讲座讲话
英语六级新题型听力试题：讲座/讲话
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讲座/讲话样题(听力原文见页底)
Section C
Directions: In this section, you will hear recordings of lectures
or talks followed by some questions. The recordings will be
played only once. After you hear a question, you must choose
the best answer from the four choices marked A), B), C) and D).
Then mark the corresponding letter on Answer Sheet 1 with a
single line through the centre.
Now listen to the following recording and answer questions
16 to 19.
16.
A) They investigate the retirement homes in America.
B) They are on issues facing senior citizens in America.
C) They describe the great pleasures of the golden years.
D) They are filled with fond memories of his grandparents.
17.
A) The loss of the ability to take care of himself.
B) The feeling of not being important any more.
C) Being unable to find a good retirement home.
D) Leaving the home he had lived in for 60 years.
18.
A) The loss of identity and self-worth.
B) Fear of being replaced or discarded.
C) Freedom from pressure and worldly cares. D) The possession of wealth and high respect.
19.
A) The urgency of pension reform.
B) Medical care for senior citizens.
C) Finding meaningful roles for the elderly in society.
D) The development of public facilities for senior citizens.
Now listen to the following recording and answer questions
20 to 22.
20.
A) It seriously impacts their physical and mental
development.
B) It has become a problem affecting global economic
growth.
C) It is a common problem found in underdeveloped
countries.
D) It is an issue often overlooked by parents in many
countries.
21.
A) They will live longer.
B) They get better pay.
C) They get along well with people.
D) They develop much higher IQs.
22.
A) Appropriated funds to promote research of nutrient-rich
foods.
B) Encouraged breastfeeding for the first six months of a
child’s life.
C) Recruited volunteers to teach rural people about health
and nutrition.
D) Targeted hunger-relief programs at pregnant women and young children.
Now listen to the following recording and answer questions
23 to 25.
23.
A) The guaranteed quality of its goods.
B) The huge volume of its annual sales.
C) The service it provides to its customers.
D) The high value-to-weight ratio of its goods.
24.
A) Those having a taste or smell component.
B) Products potentially embarrassing to buy.
C) Those that require very careful handling.
D) Services involving a personal element.
25.
A) Those who live in the virtual world.
B) Those who have to work long hours.
C) Those who are used to online transactions.
D) Those who don’t mind paying a little more.
讲座/讲话答案
Section C
16. B 17. D 18. A 19. C 20. A
21. B 22. C 23. D 24. A 25. B
讲座/讲话原文
Section C
Directions: In this section, you will hear recordings of lectures
or talks followed by some questions. The recordings will be
played only once. After you hear a question, you must choose
the best answer from the four choices marked A), B), C) and D).
Then mark the corresponding letter on Answer Sheet 1 with a
single line through the centre. Now listen to the following recording and answer questions
16 to 19.
Moderator:
Hello Ladies and Gentleman, it gives me great pleasure to
introduce our keynote speaker for today’s session, Dr. Howard
Miller. Dr. Miller, Professor of Sociology at Washington University,
has written numerous articles and books on the issues facing
older Americans in our graying society for the past 15 years. Dr.
Miller:
Dr. Miller:
Thank you for that introduction. Today, I’d like to preface
my remarks with a story from my own life which I feel highlights
the common concerns that bring us here together. Several years
ago when my grandparents were well into their eighties, they
were faced with the reality of no longer being able to adequately
care for themselves. My grandfather spoke of his greatest fear,
that of leaving the only home they had known for the past 60
years. Fighting back the tears, he spoke proudly of the fact that
he had built their home from the ground up, and that he had
pounded every nail and laid every brick in the process. The
prospect of having to sell their home and give up their
independence, and move into a retirement home was an
extremely painful experience for them. It was, in my
grandfather’s own words, like having a limb cut off. He
exclaimed in a forceful manner that he felt he wasn’t important
anymore.
For them and some older Americans, their so-called
“golden years” are at times not so pleasant, for this period can
mean the decline of not only one’s health but the loss of
identity and self-worth. In many societies, this self-identity is closely related with our social status, occupation, material
possessions, or independence. Furthermore, we often live in
societies that value what is “new” or in fashion, and our own
usage of words in the English language is often a sign of bad
news for older Americans. I mean how would your family react if
you came home tonight exclaiming, “Hey, come to the living
room and see the OLD black and white TV I brought!”
Unfortunately, the word “old” calls to mind images of the need
to replace or discard.
Now, many of the lectures given at this conference have
focused on the issues of pension reform, medical care, and the
development of public facilities for senior citizens. And while
these are vital issues that must be addressed, I’d like to focus
my comments on an important issue that will affect the overall
success of the other programs mentioned. This has to do with
changing our perspectives on what it means to be a part of this
group, and finding meaningful roles the elderly can play and
should play in our societies.
First of all, I’d like to talk about . . .
16. What does the introduction say about Dr. Howard
Miller’s articles and books?
17. What is the greatest fear of Dr. Miller’s grandfather?
18. What does Dr. Miller say the “golden years” can often
mean?
19. What is the focus of Dr. Miller’s speech?
Now listen to the following recording and answer questions
20 to 22.
The 2010 Global Hunger Index report was released today by
the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI). It notes
that, in recent years, experts have come to the conclusion that undernourishment between conception and a child’s second
birthday can have serious and long-lasting impacts.
Undernourishment during this approximately 1,000-day
window can seriously check the growth and development of
children and render them more likely to get sick and die than
well-fed children. Preventing hunger allows children to develop
both physically and mentally.
Says IFPRI’s Marie Ruel, “They will be more likely to
perform well in school. They will stay in school longer. And then
at adulthood, IFPRI has actually demonstrated that children who
were better nourished have higher wages, by a pretty large
margin, by 46 percent.”
Ruel says that means the productivity of a nation’s future
generations depends in a large part on the first 1,000 days of life.
“This is why we’re all on board in focusing on those
thousand days to improve nutrition. After that, the damage is
done and is highly irreversible.”
The data on nutrition and childhood development has been
slowly coming together for decades. But Ruel says scientific
consensus alone will not solve the problem.
“It’s not enough that nutritionists know you have to
intervene then, if we don’t have the politicians on board, and
people that implement [programs] in the field.”
Ruel says there are encouraging signs that politicians and
implementers are beginning to get on board. Many major donors
and the United Nations are targeting hunger-relief programs at
pregnant women and young children. They focus on improving
diets or providing micro-food supplements. They improve access
to pre-birth care and encourage exclusive breastfeeding for the
first six months of a child’s life. Ruel says in the 1980s Thailand was able to reduce child
undernourishment by recruiting a large number of volunteers to
travel the countryside teaching about health and nutrition.
“They really did very active promotion of diversity in the
diet and good eating habits. So they were providing more food
to people, but also educating people on how to use them, and
also educating people on how to feed their young children.”
Ruel says countries may take different approaches to
reducing child undernutrition. But she says nations will not make
progress fighting hunger and poverty until they begin to focus
on those critical first thousand days.
20. What is the experts’ conclusion regarding children’s
undernourishment in their earliest days of life?
21. What does IFPRI’s Marie Ruel say about well-fed
children in their adult life?
22. What did Thailand do to reduce child undernourishment
in the 1980s?
Now listen to the following recording and answer questions
23 to 25.
I’d like to look at a vital aspect of e-commerce, and that is
the nature of the product or service. There are certain products
and services that are very suitable for selling online, and others
that simply don’t work.
Suitable products generally have a high value-to-weight
ratio. Items such as CDs and DVDs are obvious examples. Books,
although heavier and so more expensive to post, still have a high
enough value-to-weight ratio, as the success of Amazon, which
started off selling only books, shows. Laptop computers are
another good product for selling online.
Digital products, such as software, films and music, can be sold in a purely virtual environment. The goods are paid for by
online transactions, and then downloaded onto the buyer’s
computer. There are no postage or delivery costs, so prices can
be kept low.
Many successful virtual companies provide digital services,
such as financial transactions, in the case of Paypal, or means of
communication, as Skype does. The key to success here is
providing an easy-to-use, reliable service. Do this and you can
easily become the market leader, as Skype has proved.
Products which are potentially embarrassing to buy also do
well in the virtual environment. Some of the most profitable e-commerce companies are those selling sex-related products or
services. For a similar reason, online gambling is highly popular.
Products which are usually considered unsuitable for selling
online include those that have a taste or smell component. Food,
especially fresh food, falls into this category, along with perfume.
Clothes and other items that need to be tried on such as diamond
rings and gold necklaces are generally not suited to virtual
retailing, and, of course, items with a low value-to-weight ratio.
There are exceptions, though. Online grocery shopping has
really taken off, with most major supermarkets offering the
service. The inconvenience of not being able to see the food you
are buying is outweighed by the time saved and convenience of
having the goods delivered. Typical users of online supermarkets
include the elderly, people who work long hours and those
without their own transport.
23 What is important to the success of an online store?
24. What products are unsuitable for selling online?
25. Who are more likely to buy groceries online?
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