2015年12月英语六级试卷二听力真题（网友版）
短对话
1.
W: Wow, what a variety of salads you’ve got on your menu, could
yourecommend something special?
M: Well, I think you can try this mixed salad. We make the dressingwith
fresh berries.
Q: what does the man mean?
2.
W: I was talking to Mary the other day, and she mentioned that your
newconsulting firm is doing really well.
M: Yes, business paced up much faster than we anticipated. We now haveover
200 clients.
Q: What do we learn about the man from the conversation?
3.
W: Do you know where we keep flash disks and printing paper?
M: They should be in the cabinet if there are any. That’s where we keepall
of our office supplies.
Q: what does the woman mean?
4.
W: The printing of this dictionary is so small. I can’t read
theexplanations at all.
M: Let me get my magnify glass. I know I just can’t do without it.
Q: What does the man mean?
5.
W: I’m considering having my office redecorated, the furniture is oldand
the paint is chipping.
M: I’ll give you my sister-in-law’s number. She just graduated from
aninterior designing academy, and will give a free estimate.
Q: What is the woman considering?
6.
W: We have a full load of goods that needs to be delivered. But wecan’t get
a container ship anyway.
M: That’s always being a problem in this port. The facilities here arenever
able to meet our needs.
Q: What are the speakers talking about?
7.
W: Why didn’t Rod get a pay raise?
M: The boss just isn’t convinced that his work attitude warranted it.She
said she saw him by the coffee machine more often than at his desk.
Q: What are the speakers talking about?
8.
W: The hotel called, saying that because of the scheduling there, theywon’t
be are able to cater for our banquet.
M: I know an Indian restaurant on the high street that offers a
specialdiner for groups. The food is excellent, and the room is large enough
toaccommodate us.
Q: What does the man suggest they do?
长对话
Conversation 1
M: Hello Jane.
W: Hello Paul.
M: Please coming. I’m just getting ready to go home. Susan is expectingme
for dinner. I wanted to be on time for a change.
W: Look, I’m terribly sorry to drop in this time on Friday, Paul, butit is
rather important.
M: That’s OK. What’s the problem?
W: Well, Paul, I won’t keep you long. You see there is a problem withthe
exchange rates. The Indian Rupee has taken a fall on the foreign exchangemarket.
You see there is being a sharp increase in Indian’s balance of
paymentdeficit.
M: I see. How serious, isn’t it?
W: Well, as you know, there have been reports of unrest India, and
theprospects for the Rupee look pretty gloomy.
M: And that’s going to affect us, as if we didn’t have enough problemson
our hands.
W: So I thought it would be wise to take out forward exchange cover
toprotect our position on the outstanding contract.
M: Just a minute. Forward exchange cover, now what does that
meanexactly?
W: Well, it means that JO notes enters into a commitment to sell
IndianRupees at the present rate.
M: I see. And how will that benefit us?
W: Well, JO notes wouldn’t lose out if Indian Rupee falls further.
M: What will it cost, Jane?
W: A small percentage, about 1% and that can be built into the price ofthe
bike.
M: Well, I don’t suppose there is much choice. All right Jane, let’sput it
into action.
Q9: What do we learn aboutthe man’s daily life?
Q10: Why did the woman cometo see the man?
Q11: What makes the womanworry about the Indian Rupee?
Conversation 2
W: Charles, among other things, you regarded as one of the America’sgreat
masters of the blues. A musical idiom does essentially about loss,particularly
the loss of romantic love. Why does love die?
M: People often get into love affairs because they have
unrealisticexpectations about somebody. Then when the person doesn’t turn out to
be whothey thought he or she was, they start thinking maybe I can change him or
her.That kind of thinking is a mistake. Because when the dust settles, people
aregoing to be pretty much what they are. It’s a rare thing for anybody to be
ableto change who they really are. And this creates a lot of problems.
W: At 62, you continue to spend a large percentage of your lifetouring.
What appeals to you about life on the road?
M: Music, I don’t especially love life on the road, but I figure if youare
lucky enough to be able to do what you truly love doing, you’ve got theultimate
of life.
W: What’s the most widely-held misconception about the life of a
famousmusician?
M: People think it’s all glamour. Actually we have the same troublesthey
do. Playing music doesn’t mean life treats you any better.
W: How do you feel about being recognized everywhere you go?
M: You think I be used to it by now. But I still find it fascinating.You go
to a little town in Japan, where nobody speaks English, yet they knowyou on side
and know all your music. I’m still amazed by the love peopleexpress for me and
by music.
Q12: What does the man sayabout most people when they get into love
affairs?
Q13: What does the man sayabout himself as a singer on the road most of his
life?
Q14: What do most peoplethink of the life of a famous musician?
Q15: How does the man feelwhenever he was recognized by his fans?
短文
Passage 1
Changing technology and markets have stimulated the team approach
tomanagement. Inflation, resource scarcity, reduced personnel levels and
budgetcuts have all underscore the need for better coordination in
organizations.Team management provides for this coordination. Team management
calls for newskills if personnel potential is to be fully realized. Although a
team may be composed ofknowledgeable people, they must learn new ways of
relating and working togetherto solve cross-functional problems. When teams
consist to be experiencedemployees from hierarchical organizations, who have
been condition totraditional organizational culture. Cooperation may not occur
naturally, itmainly to be created. Furthermore, the issue is not just how the
team canfunction more effectively, but how it integrates with the overall
organization,all society that it supposes it serves. A group of individuals is
notautomatically a team. Therefore, team building may be necessary in order
toimprove the group’s performance. Casey, an expert in this field, suggests
thatthe cooperation process within teams must be organized, promoted and
managed.He believes the team corporation results when members go beyond
theirindividual capabilities, beyond what each is used to being and doing.
Together,the team may then produce something new, unique and superior to that of
any onemember. For this to happen, he suggests the multi-cultural managers
exhibitunderstanding of their own and others’ cultural influences and
limitations.They should also cultivate such skills as toleration of ambiguity,
persistenceand patience, as well as assertedness. If a team manager exemplifies
suchqualities, then the team as a whole would be better able to realize
theirpotential and achieve their objectives.
Q 16: What should teammembers do to fully realize their potential?
Q 17: What needs to beconsidered for effective team management?
Q 18: What conclusion can wedraw from what Casey says?
Passage 2
In early 1994, when MarkAndreessen was just 23 years old, he arrived in
Silicon Valley with an ideathat would change the world. As a student at the
University of Illinois, he andhis friends had developed a program called Mosaic,
which allowed people toshare information on the worldwide web. Before Mosaic,
the web had been usedmainly by scientists and other technical people, who were
happy just to sendand receive text. But with Mosaic, Andreessen and his friends
had developed aprogram, which could send images over the web as well. Mosaic was
an overnightsuccess. It was put on the university’s network at the beginning of
1993. Andby the end of the year, it had over a million users. Soon after,
Andreessenwent to seek his fortune in Silicon Valley. Once he got there, he
started tohave meetings with a man called Jim Clark, who was one of the Valley’s
mostfamous entrepreneurs. In 1994, nobody was making any real money from
theInternet, which was still very slow and hard to use. But Andreessen had seen
an opportunity thatwould make him and Clark rich within two years. He suggested
they should createa new computer program that would do the same job as Mosaic
but would be mucheasier to use. Clark listened carefully to Andreessen, whose
ideas andenthusiasm impressed him greatly. Eventually, Clark agreed to invest
threemillion dollars of his own money in the project, and to raise an extra
fifteenmillion from venture capitalists, who were always keen to listen to
Clark’s newideas.
Q 19 What do we learn about Mosaic?
Q 20 What did Andreessen do upon arriving in Silicon Valley?
Q 21Why were venture capitalists willing to join in Clark’sinvestment?
Passage 3
Advertising informs consumers about the existence and benefits ofproducts
and services and attempts to persuade them to buy them. The best formof
advertising is probably word of mouth advertising which occurs when peopletell
their friends about the benefits of products or services that they
havepurchased. Yet virtually no providers of goods or services relay on this
alone,which using paid advertising instead. Indeed many organizations also use
institutionalor prestige advertising which is designed to build up their
reputation ratherthan to sell particular products. Although large companies
could easily set up theirown advertising departments, write their own
advertisements and by media space themselves.They tend to use the services of
large advertising agencies. These are likelyto have more resources and more
knowledge about all aspects of advertising andadvertising media than single
company. It is also easier for a dissatisfycompany to give its account to
another agency. And it would be to fire theirown advertising staff. The company
generally give the advertising agency andagreed budget. A statement of the
objective of the advertising campaign know asbrief and overall advertising
strategy concerning the message to becommunicated to the target customers. The
agency creates advertisements anddevelops a media prime, specifying which media
will be used and in which proportions.Agencies often produce alternative ads or
commercials that pretested innewspapers, television stations etc. in different
parts of the country. Beforea final choices was made
prior to anational campaign.
Q22 What is probably the bestform of advertising according to the
speaker?
Q23 What does the speaker sayis the proposes of many organization using
prestige advertising ?
Q24 How did large companiesgenerally handle their advertising?
Q25 What would advertisingagencies often do before a national campaign?
听写题
Extinction is a difficult concept to grasp. It is an eternal concept. Itis
not at all like the killing of individual life forms that can be renewedthrough
normal processes of reproduction. Nor is simply diminishing numbers.Nor is it
damage that can somehow be remedied or for which some substitute canbe found.
Nor is it something that only affects our own generation. Nor is it
somethingthat could be remedied by some supernatural power. It is, rather, an
absoluteand final act which there is no remedy on earth or in heaven. A species
onceextinct, it’s gone forever. However many generations succeed us in
comingcenturies, none of them will ever see this species that we extinguish. Not
onlyus we bring about extinction of life on a vast scale. We are also making
theland and the air and sea so toxic that the very conditions of life are being
destroyed.As regard natural resources ,not only are the none renewable resources
beingused up in a of frenzy of processing, consuming and disposing but we are
alsoruining much of our renewable resources. Such as the very solid self on
which terrestriallife depends. The change that is taking place on the earth and
in our minds isone of the greatest changes ever to take place in human affairs.
Perhaps thegreatest, since we are talking about is not simply another historical
change orcultural modification. But it change the geological and biological as
well as psychologicalorder of magnitude.
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