2024年7月英语六级真题及参考答案【完整版】
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Listening CONEVERSATION 1
-Tonight, we have a very special guest, Mrs.Ana Sanchez is a three time Olympic champion and author of the new book To the Edge. Mrs. Sanchez, thank you for joining us. -Thank you for having me.
-Let's start with your book.What does thetitleto the Edge mean?What are you referring to?
-The book is about how science and technology has helped push humans to the edge of their physical abilities. I argue that in the past 20 years we have had the best athletes the world has ever seen. But is this a fair comparison? How do you know how, say, a football player from 50 years ago would compare to one today?-Well, you are right.
-That comparison would be perhaps impossible to make. But the point is more about our knowledge today of human biochemistry, nutrition and mechanics. I believe that while our bodies have not changed in thousands of years, what has changed is the scientific knowledge.This has allowed athletes to push the limits of what was previously thought possible.
-That's interesting. Please tell us more about these perceived limits.
-The world has seen sports records being broken. That could only be broken with the aid of technology, whether this be the speed of a tennis serve or the fastest time in 100 meter dash or 200 meter swimming race.
-Is there any concern that technology is giving some athletes an unfair advantage over others?
-That is an interesting question and one that has to be considered very carefully. Skis, for example, went from being made of wood to a metal alloy, which allows for better control and faster speed. There is no stopping technological progress. But as I said, each sit-uation should be considered carefully on a case by case basis. Questions one to four are based on the conversation you have just heard. 1. What do we learn about Anna Sanchez? 2. What is the woman's book mainly about?
3. What has changed in the past thousands of years?
4.What is the man's concern about the use of technologyin sports competitions?
CONEVERSATION 2
-I've worked in international trade all my life. My father did so to before me. So I guess you could say it runs in the family. -What products have you worked with?
-All sorts, really. I've imported textiles, machinery, toys, solar panels, all kinds of things. Over the years, trends in demand come and go. So what needs to be very flexible to succeed in this indus-try? -I see. What goods are you trading now?
-I now import furniture from China into Italy and foods from Italy into China.I even use the same container. It's a very efficient way of conducting trade.
-The same container. You mean you own a 40 foot cargo container?-Yeah, that's right. I have a warehouse in Genoa, Italy, and another in Shanghai. I source mid century modern furniture from different factories in China. It's a very good value for money. I collectitall in my warehouse and then dispatch it to my other warehouse in Italy over there. I do the same, but with Italian foods instead of furniture, things like pasta, cheese, wine, chocolate. And I send all that to my warehouse in China in the same freight container I use for the furniture.
-So I presume you sell both lines of products wholesale in each re-spective country? -Of course, I possess a network of clients and partners in both countries. That's the main benefit of having done this for so long. I've made great business contacts over time. -How many times do you ship?
-I did 12 shipments last year,18 this year, and I hope to grow to around 25 next year. That's both ways. There and back again. Demand for authentic Italian food in China is growing rapidly. And similarly, sales of affordable,yet stylish wooden furniture are also increasing in Italy. Furniture is marginally more profitable, mostly because it enjoys lower customs duties.
Questions five to eight are based on the conversation you have just heard. 5. What does the woman think is required to be successful in the international trade?
6.What does the woman say is special about her way of doing change?
7.What does the woman have in both Italy and China?8.What does the woman say makes furniture marginally more profitable?
Listening LECTURE 1
Qualities of a relationship such as openness, compassion and mental stimulation are of concern to most of us regardless of sex, but-judging from the questionnaire
response-—they are more im-portant to women than to men. Asked to consider the ingredients of close friendship, women rated these qualities above all others. Men assigned a lower priority to them in favor of similarity in in-terests, selected by 77 percent of men, and responsiveness in a crisis, chosen by 61 percent of male respondents. Mental stimula-tion, ranked third in popularity by men as well as women, was the only area of overlap. Among men, only 28 percent named
open-ness as an important quality; caring was picked by just 23per-cent. It is evident by their selections that when women speak of close friendships, they are referring to emotional factors, while men emphasize the pleasure they find in a friend's company. That is, when a man speaks of \does things with-a teammate, a fellow hobbyist, a drinking buddy. These activities
are the fabric of the friendship; it is a \interests is the key bond. This factor was a consideration ofless than 11 percent of Women.
Women opt for a warm, emotional atmosphere where communi-cation flows freely; activity is mere background. Lastly, men, as we have seen, have serious questions about each other's loyalty. Perhaps this is why they placed such strong emphasis on respon-siveness in a crisis.
Someone I can call on for help. Women, as their testimonies indi-cate, are generally more secure with each other and consequently are more likely to treat this issue lightly. In follow-up interviews this was confirmed numerous times as woman after woman indi-cated that \hazards of friendship, more than a few relationships have been shattered because of cutthroat competition and feelings of betrayal. This applies to both men and women, but unequally. In comparison, nearly twice as many men complained about these issues as women. Further, while competition and betrayal are the main thorns to female friendship, men are plagued in almost equal amounts by two additional issues, lack of frankness and a fear of appearing unmanly. Obviously, for a man, a good friend-ship is hard to find.
Question 16 to 18.Based on the recording you have just heard
16.What quality do men value most concerning friendship accord-ing to a questionnaire response?
17. What do women refer to when speaking of close friendships? 18.What may threaten a friendship for both men and women?
LECTURE2
Recording to the partial skeletons of more than 20 dinosaurs and the scattered
bones of about 300more have been discovered in Utah and Colorado. At what is now the Dinosaur National Monu-ment. Many of the best specimens may be seen today at museums of natural history in the largest cities of the United States and Canada. This dinosaur pit is the largest and best preserved depos-it of dinosaurs known today. Many people get the idea from the massive bones and the pit bull that some disaster, such as a volca. nic explosion or a sudden flood, killed a whole herd of dinosaurs in this area. This could have happened, but it probably did not. The main reasons for thinking otherwise are the scattered bones and the thickness of the deposit.In other deposits where the ani-mals were thought to have died together, the skeletons were usu-ally complete and often all the bones were in their proper places. Rounded pieces of fossil bones have been found here. These frag-ments got their smooth round shape, though, rolling along the stream bottom.In a mass killing, the bones would have been left on the stream or lake bottom together at the same level. But in this deposit, the bones occur throughout a zone of sandstone about 12 feet thick. The mixture of swamp dwellers and dry land types also seems to indicate that the deposit is a mixture from dif-ferent places. The pit area is a large dinosaur graveyard, not a place where they died. Most of the remains probably floated down on
2024年7月英语六级真题及参考答案完整版
