2023年六级听力练习II原文文字lrc.doc

六级听力练习II 听力原文Conversation OneW: Well, tonight we have Andrew Green in our studio to talk about music.Andrew is a great guitarist and has his own band.So, Andrew, welcome.M: Thanks a lot. My pleasure to be here tonight.W: Now, Andrew, perhaps you could tell us something about the future trends for the global music industry?M: Sure. Well, from my perspective as a musician, I can see a dramatic increasein the popularity of Latin music, even now. If this trend continues, I imagine the popularity of Salsa dancing will also rise dramatically. This may result in a slight decrease in the popularity of other types of music.W: What do you think of the sudden drop in interest in classical music?M: I think this trend has been in the works for quite some time. As more and more varieties of music become available to consumers, the classic standards may suffer in the popularity contest. I think the drop in interest of classical music hasn't been sudden at all, it's been slow and steady for many years now.W: Is there any type of music that is consistently popular with most people?M: If you look at the numbers, rock and roll music has remained a steady constant through the years. I expect the popularity of rock and roll will stay the same in the coming years.W: It's said that rock music might make one livelier and happier. What do you think of it?M: That's true. Research suggests that music can influence a person's feelings and character. There's clear evidence that people who listen lively music are lively people.Questions 1 to 4 are based on the conversation you have just heard.1. What kind of music will be most popular in the future according to the man?2. What does the man think of people's interest in classical music?3. What kind of music is consistently popular according to the man? 4.What does the man say about the rock music?Conversation TwoM: Ms. Roth. This is David Wong from ABC Insurance Company. I'd like to make an appointment to see you about our insurance plans for foreign employees.W: Oh, how did you know my name?M: In fact, a friend of yours is one of my clients. He thinks that you may find it helpful to know more about insurance in Hong Kong.W: May I know who he is?M: Well, Ms. Roth. You'll know his name soon enough if you'll just let me see you.W: What kind of insurance are you talking about here?M: Well, it's rather comprehensive. That's why I'd like to see you personally so that I can present to you the products we have to offer.W: Sorry, Mr. Wong. My company has provided me a whole insurance package.M: Oh, I'm glad to hear that. But as I said, our insurance plans are specially designed for foreign staff like you. They are somewhat different and more beneficial to you I'm sure. And our meeting won't take longer than fifteen minutes. Will two o'clock tomorrow be convenient to you?W: Well, I've been very busy lately.M: Ms. Roth, as I said, it'll be a short appointment. I'm sure you'll find our products informative and useful. Perhaps when you need our service in the future, you'll know who to call. Will two tomorrow be okay to you?W: Well, then, make it three.M: Alright. I'll be there at your office tomorrow at three sharp.Questions 5 to 8 are based on the conversation you have just heard.5. What does David Wong strongly recommend to Ms. Roth?6. Why does David Wong insist on seeing Ms. Roth in person?7. On what condition does Ms. Roth agree to see David Wong?8. What's the woman's attitude towards the insurance business?Section BPassage OneYou probably don't have much in the way of savings, and with all your expenses, it doesn't look like you'll be able to improve that situation soon. If you wonder how to cut corners, there's an obvious place to look at your spending habits. Do you buy a soda each weekend? Waste one dollar a day for forty years, and when you are set to retire, you'll find your account is short by 190,000 dollars. Grab a calculator and you'll discover that, over forty years, going out to dinner twice a month at forty dollars each time amounts to half a million. Even a pack-a-day cigarette habit will lighten your retirement account by 330,000 dollars. And the same with cable TV and those cool earrings. They will probably amount to as much as one million. So, the first clue to accumulating wealth is this: focus on your spending habits. Here are a couple of tricks to help you save even if you swear you can't afford to. Stop buying things that fall rather than rise in value. Pay yourself first. Before you pay the monthly bills, send 25 dollars to a mutual fund. Stop spending coins. From now on, spend only paper currency, and keep the change every day. Get your family involved, and you'll double your savings. Use discount tickets at the supermarket, but use them correctly. How? If you really want to make these tickets worthwhile, you actually must invest into your mutual funds the amount you save by using the tickets. Otherwise, you are wasting your time and your money.Questions 9 to 11 are based on the passage you have just heard.9. What should one pay special attention to if he wants to save up?10. How much can a person save by retirementif he gives up his pack-a-day cigarette habit?11. What should one do before paying monthly bills, if he wants to accumulate wealth?Passage TwoTo finish today's program, I want to tell you about the Waterside Shopping Centre, near Northport, which I visited last week. It has something for everyone and I would recommend it for a day out. It's taken three years to build and finally opened three weeks ago, two months later than planned. Firstly, getting there; there are organized coach trips from most towns in the area but they leave early and come home very late, so I drove. There are 12,000 free parking spaces, so parking is no problem. You can also get there by train, but the station is 15 minutes from Waterside by bus, and the buses are really crowded, so you sometimes have a long wait. The shopping centre is arranged on three levels. You'll find all your favorites here. In fact if you want to buy a pair of shoes there are 15 different shops to choose from on levels one and two. When you run out of money there are seven different banks, but collect your money before you get to the third level as there aren't any banks up there. On that level, however, there are several restaurants, as well as a cinema with seven screens.And don't get lost like I did, go to the information desk on the first level and get a map. Before you go back to your car or the bus-and in fact it might be better to do this before you go shopping and have too much to carry-go and see the lake. Take a walk or have a go at fishing, sailing or windsurfing if you have time. Or you can rest your tired feet and watch the birds and ducks, but you are asked not to feed them.Questions 12 to 15 are based on the passage you have just heard.12. When was the shopping center opened?13. What is the best way of traveling to Waterside according to the speaker?14. What can you do on the third level?15. Apart from shopping, what else can you do at Waterside?Section CNow listen to the following recording and answer questions 16 to 18.For more than two centuries, America's colleges and universities have been the backbone of the country's progress. They have educated the technical, managerial and professional work force and provided generation after generation of national leaders. Today, educators from around the country are up to find many reasons for the excellence of American universities. But four historic Acts stand out as a turning point. First, education for the mass. In 1862, Congress enacted the Land Grant College Act, which essentially extended the opportunity of higher education to all Americans, including women and minorities. Each state was permitted to sell large tracts of federal land, and use the proceeds to endow at least one public college. Second, competition breeds success. Over the years, the decentralization and diversity of the America's colleges and universities have promoted competition for students and resources. Competitive pressure first arose during the Civil War when president Lincon created the National Academy of Science to advise Congress on any subject of science and art. The Academy's impact really grew after World War II when a landmark report commissioned by the then president argued that it was the federal government's responsibility to provide adequate funds for basic research. Instead of being centralized in government laboratories, scientific research became decentralized in American universities and generated increasing investment. It also gave graduate students research opportunities and helped spread scientific discoveries far and wide, to the benefit of industry, medicine and society as a whole. Thirdly, investing in the future. The end of World War II saw the passage of the Servicemen's Readjustment Act of 1944.The law, which provided for a college or vocational education for returning veterans, made the higher education system accessible in ways that were inconceivable in Europe, opening the doors of best universities to men and women who had never dreamed of going to college. Finally, promoting diversity. The creation of federal loan and subsidy programs as well as outright grants for college students brought much needed diversity to high education and further helped to democratize access. Since its founding in 1965, the Federal Family Education Loan Program has funded more than 74 million student loans worth more than 180 billion dollars. 16. What has been the backbone of America's progress?17. Whose responsibility is to provide adequate funds for basic research?18. Which law provided for a college or vocational education for returning veterans?Now listen to the following recording and answer questions 19 to 21.What's in a surname? You may ask. A new website project has been released, that helps you locate your past. Have you ever wondered why your ancestors gathered where they did, or where others with your surname live? A research project investigating the distribution of surnames in Britain answers these questions. And another study has found the surnames are still extremely regional. Smith, for example, remains the most common surname in Britain, used by more than half a million people. It has exactly the same concentration it always did in Lerwick, in the Scottish Shetland Islands. Jones is the No. 2 surname, and is the most common among hill farmers in north Wales.The data used for this project comes partly from electoral register. A number of other files are held by Ex-pairing, which is probably Britain's largest collector of data about individuals. There are some of us who are fairly predictable. Campbell, for example, as you might expect, is somewhat concentrated in the northern parts of Scotland, and it appears really bizarre to be found somewhere else. Well, with 25,000 names as difficult to generalize, what you can do is put them in general categories, if, for example, you look at names which are people's work. Like the name, Webber, you might find it is much more common in the Midlands than in the south of England. If you go to Wales, most people get their names from their ancestors and in Yorkshire for example, a lot of people have names based on the places that they originally lived in or at least their ancestors did. Well, we only have 25,000 names on this website, but there are another 50,000 names now found in Britain and they're particularly interesting, for they are non-British names. Most British names are fairly common and about what we can now do as such is looking for the frequency of all names from different parts of the world and different faiths, religions and languages. And what there is in names is actually extremely useful for researchers in anthropology and sociology may find a lot about different immigrant groups and their descendants now living in this country.19. What remains the most common surname in Britain?20. What is probably Britain's largest collector of data about individuals?21. Why is it particularly interesting about another 50,000 names found in Britain?Now listen to the following recording and answer questions 22 to 25.Ok, let's get started. Great. Today I want to talk about a way in which we are able to determine how old a piece of land, or some other geologic feature is-dating techniques. I'm going to talk about a particular dating technique. Why? Good dating is key to good analysis. In other words, if you want to know how a land formation was formed, the first thing you probably want to know is how old it is. It's fundamental.Take the Grand Canyon for instance. Now, we geologists thought we had a pretty good idea of how the Grand Canyon in the southwestern United States was formed. We knew that it was formed from sandstone that solidified somewhere between 150 and 300 million years ago. Before it solidified, it was just regular sand. Essentially it was part of a vast desert. And until just recently, most of us thought the sand had come from an ancient mountain range fairly close by that flattened out over time. That's been the conventional wisdom among geologists for quite some time. But now we've learned something different, and quite surprising, using a technique called Uranium-Lead Dating. I should say that Uranium-Lead Dating has been around for quite a while. But there have been some recent refinements. I will get into this in a minute. Anyway, Uranium-Lead Dating has produced some surprises. Two geologists discovered that about half of the sand from the Grand Canyon was actually once part of the Appalachian Mountains. That's really eye-opening news, since the Appalachian Mountain Range is, of course, thousands of kilometers to the east of the Grand Canyon. Sounds pretty unbelievable, right? Of course, the obvious question is how did that sand end up so far west? The theory is that huge rivers and wind carried the sand west where it mixed in with the sand that was already there. Well, this was a pretty revolutionary finding. Um and it was basically because of Uranium-Lead Dating. Why? Well, as everyone in this class should know, we usually look at the grain type within sandstone, meaning the actual particles in the sandstone, to determine where it came from. You can do other things too, like look at the wind or water that brought the grains to their location and figure out which way it was flowing. But that's only useful up to a point, and that's not what these two geologists did. There are a few pretty exciting possibilities for Uranium-Lead Dating. Here is one that comes to mind. You know the theory that earth's continents were once joined together and only split apart relatively recently? Well, with Uranium-Lead Dating, we could prove that more conclusively. If the