9. A) Marketing strategies. B) Holiday shopping.
C) Shopping malls. D) Online stores. 【答案】B
【解析】题目问说话者主要说了什么。听力材料一开始就提到“America’s holiday shopping season starts on Black Friday... It is the busiest shopping day of the year”，因此，不难推断出该篇听力的主题是关于 holiday shopping，因此本题选 B。
10. A) About 50% of holiday shoppers.
B) About 20-30% of holiday shoppers.
C) About 136 million.
D) About 183.8 million. 【答案】D
【解析】题目问有多少人会在网络星期一那天购物。听力篇章中提及，“About 183.8 million people will shop on Cyber Monday”，就不难选出本题答案 D。
11. A) They have fewer customers.
B) They find it hard to survive.
C) They are thriving once more.
D) They appeal to elderly customers. 【答案】C
【解析】题目问关于传统购物中心，《财富》是怎么说的。听力篇章中提及“Fortune says the weakest of the malls have closed. The sector is thriving again”，由此可知，本题答案选 C。
12. A) Better quality of consumer goods.
B) Higher employment and wages.
C) Greater varieties of commodities.
D) People having more leisure time. 【答案】B
【解析】题目是问购物者数量增加的原因是什么。篇章中提到，“…lower unemployment and rising wages could give Americans more money to spend”，其中 B 选项与这句话完全符合，lower unemployment 即 higher employment，故本题选 B。
Questions 13 to 15 are based on the passage you have just heard.
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13. A) They are new species of big insects.
B)They are overprescribed antibiotics.
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C)They are life-threatening diseases. D)They are antibiotic-resistant bacteria. 【答案】D
【解析】题目问关于超级细菌我们知道什么。篇章中提及，“you may have heard about the new superbugs which are antibiotic-resistant bacteria that have developed as a result of overprescribed antibiotics.\其中 D 选项与这句话完全符合。
14. A) Antibiotics are now in short supply.
B)Many infections are no longer curable. C)Large amounts of tax money are wasted. D)Routine operations have become complex. 【答案】D
【解析】题目问抗生素用量过度的后果是什么。篇章中提到“seemingly routine operations... are now much more hazardous...”，D 选项与此相符合。
15. A) Facilities.
B)Expertise.
C)Money.
D)Publicity. 【答案】C
【解析】题目问，在说话者看来，为应对严重威胁生命的传染病，什么是最迫切需要的。篇章最后提及：面对严重威胁生命的传染病，却只有 1.2%的预算被用于研究上，这与所需的资金相差甚远。由此可知 C 选项正确。
Section C
Directions: In this section, you will hear three recordings of lectures or talks followed by three or four 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), CJ and D). Then mark the corresponding letter on Answer Sheet 1 with a single line through the centre.
Questions 16 to 18 are based on the recording you have just heard.
16. A) It is accessible only to the talented.
B) It improves students’ ability to think.
C) It starts a lifelong learning process.
D) It gives birth to many eminent scholars.
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【答案】B
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【解析】题目问说话者是如何描述大学的。听力材料中提到 “you are here to understand thinking better and to think better your- self”，B 选项与此相符合。
17. A) They encourage academic democracy.
B) They promote globalization.
C) They uphold the presidents’ authority.
D) They protect students’ rights. 【答案】A
【解析】题目问关于大学，我们可以从说话者的故事中了解到什么。篇章中提到 “But what was really important about that was the universities stand out as places that really are about the authority of ideas.\，由此可推断出大学鼓励思想交流，鼓励学术民主，A 选项正确。
18. A) His thirst for knowledge. B) His eagerness to find a job.
C) His contempt for authority. D) His potential for leadership. 【答案】A
【解析】题目是问说话者在挑战他论文的年轻人身上看到了什么。听力篇章中提及“a... you couldn’t debate that young man’s hunger to learn”，由此可判断选 A。
Questions 19 to 22 are based on the recording you have just heard.
19. A) Few people know how to retrieve information properly.
B)People can enhance their memory with a few tricks. C)Most people have a rather poor long-term memory. D)People tend to underestimate their mental powers. 【答案】D
【解析】听力篇章一开始就提及，“Psychological research shows we consistently underestimate our mental powers. ”，这与 D 选项完全符合。
20. A) They present the states in a surprisingly different order.
B)They include more or less the same number of states. C)They are exactly the same as is shown in the atlas. D)They contain names of the most familiar states. 【答案】B
【解析】听力材料中提到，“The two lists will contain roughly the same number of states but they will not be identical”，由此可知本题答案为 B 选项。
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2017年6月大学英语六级考试真题及答案解析(三套全)
