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2012 年 6 月大学英语六级(CET-6)参考答案
PartIII ListeningComprehension (35minutes)
SectionA
Directions: In this section, you willhear 8short conversations and 2long conversations.At theend
ofeach conversation, oneor morequestions willbe asked about what was said.Both the
conversationand thequestions willbe spoken onlyonce. Aftereach question there willbea pause.
During thepause, you mustread thefour choices marked A), B), C)and D), and decidewhich is the
bestanswer. Then mark thecorresponding letteronAnswer Sheet 2witha singlelinethrough the
centre.
11.
W:Did you hear that Annaneeds tostay in bed for4weeks?
M:Yeah. Sheinjured her spinein afall and adoctor toldher to lieflat onher back foramonth so it
can mend.
Q: Whatcan welearn from the conversation?
【答案】A)Theinjury will confine Annato bed for quiteawhile.
【解析】此题为细节题。从对话中可知，Anna摔倒导致脊椎受伤，医生让其卧床休息一个月。
12.
M:Afamous Russian ballet iscoming totown nextweekend. But Ican’t find a ticket anywhere.
W:Don’t beupset. My sisterjust happened tohave oneand she can’tgo since shehas got some sort
ofconflict inher schedule.
Q: Whatdoes thewoman mean?
【答案】C)Shecan get a ballet ticket forthe man.
【解析】此题为推理题。男子找不到俄罗斯芭蕾表演的票子，女子告诉她不要失落，因为自
己的姐姐碰巧有张票，并且因为和安排有冲突去不了。
13.
W:Hello, my bathroom drain is blocked and I’mgiving aparty tonight. Do you think you could
comeand fix it for me?
M:Sorry, ma’am.I’mpretty busy right now. But Ican put you onmylist.
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【答案】A)He has to dootherrepairs first.
【解析】此题为推理题。从对话可知，女子请男子帮忙修浴室的地漏，但是男子现在忙，不
过他会记录下。
14.
W:We’retaking upa collection to buyagift for Gemma. She’llhave been with thecompany 25
years next week.
M:Well,count mein. But I’ma bitshort oncash now.When doyou need it?
Q: Whatis theman going to do?
【答案】C)Givehiscontribution sometimelater.
【解析】此题为推理题。从对话中可知，下周 Gemma在公司的时间就满25年了，大家正在
凑钱买礼物。男子也要加入，但是手头缺少现金。从他的询问可见他会晚点交钱。
15.
W:Tony’s motherhas invited meto dinner. Do you think Ishould tellher inadvance that I’m a
vegetarian?
M:Of course. Ithinkshe’dappreciate it. Imaging howyou both feel ifshefixed theturkey dinner
orsomething.
Q: Whatdoes theman suggest thewoman do?
【答案】D)Tell Tony’s mother that sheeats nomeat.
【解析】此题为推理题。Tony 的妈妈邀请女子吃饭，女子询问男子是不是应该提前告知自己
是素食主义者。从男子的“Ithink she’d appreciate it”可知，男子给了他肯定的回答。
16.
M:Just look at thisnewspaper, nothingbut robberies, suicide and murder. Do you stillbelieve
peopleare basically good?
W:Ofcourse. But many papers lack interest inreporting something positivelikepeace, loveand
generosity.
Q: Whatare thespeakers talkingabout?
【答案】B) Thecoverage ofnewspapers.
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是抢劫、自杀等内容，可见两人正在谈论报纸的内容。
17.
M:I can’t believe so many peoplewant to sign upfortheKorea Development Conference. Wewill
havetolimittheregistration.
W:Yeah, otherwisewe won’t have room for themore.
Q: Whatare thespeakers going to do?
【答案】C)Limit thenumberof participants in theconference.
【解析】此题为细节题。男子没有想到那么多人来参加会议，所以必须限制人们注册，从女
子对其的肯定回答也可进一步肯定他们要限制参与人数。
18.
W:Hi, I’m calling about the ad fortheone bedroom apartment.
M:Perfect timing! Theperson who was supposed torent it justbacked town to take aroom on
campus.
Q: Whatdowe learn from theconversation?
【答案】A)Theapartment is stillavailable.
【解析】此题为推理题。从对话可知，男子告诉女子她打电话来的时机正好，因为本来要租
房子的人回到城镇去租大学的房间了，所以女子还能够租广告上的公寓。
Conversation 1
W:Oneofthe mostinteresting experiments with dolphinsmust beone donebyDoctor Jarvis
Bastian. What hetried todowas to teach a maledolphin called Bass and afemale called Doris to
communicatewith each other across a solidbarrier.
M:So howdid hedoit exactly?
W:Well,first ofall, he kept thetwo dolphinstogether in thesame tankand taught them topress
levers whenever they saw alight. The levers were fitted to thesideofthetank next toeach other. If
thelight flashed onand off several times, thedolphinswere supposed topress theleft-hand lever
followed bytheright-hand one. If thelight was kept steady, thedolphins were supposedto press the
levers inreverse order. Whenever they responded correctly, they were rewarded with fish.
M:Soundsterribly complicated.
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two tanks.They could stillhear one another, butthey couldn’t actually see each other. The levers
and light were set upinexactly thesame way except that this timeit was onlyDoris who could see
thelight indicating which lever to press first.But inorder to get theirfish, both dolphinshad to
press thelevers in thecorrect order. This meant of course that Doris had to tell Bass whether itwas
aflashing light or whether itwas asteady light.
M:So did itwork?
W:Well,amazingly enough, thedolphinsachieved a100%success rate.
Questions 19-21 are based ontheconversationyou have just heard.
Q19. Whatis thepurpose ofDoctor Jarvis Bastian’s experiment?
Q20. Whatwere thedolphinssupposedto dowhen they sawa steady light?
Q21. Howdid thesecond stage of theexperiment differ from thefirst stage?
答案：
19. D)to seeifdolphins can communicatewith each other.
20. A)Press theright-hand lever first.
21. C)Only onedolphinwas ableto see thelight.
【解析】
这篇长对话主要围绕巴斯蒂安博士关于海豚的实验而展开，实验的目的是要教会海豚学会互
相沟通和交流讯息。随着男士对实验的发问，女士便对实验的两个阶段进行了详细介绍。这
篇长对话整体难度适中，考生只要在平时注意练习和打好词汇基础，想要得满分并不难。需
要提醒考生的是，做听力题也要讲究技巧，一定要带着问题去有目的地听，相关的信息着重
记忆，不相干的信息迅速忽略。懂得抓题眼和懂得取舍，这样听力才能做得好。
重点词汇和表达：
lever n.杠(杆)；途径，工具
inreverse order 以相反的顺序
berewarded with 得到奖励
flashing light 闪光灯
Conversation 2
W:Thisweek’s program Up Your Street takes you toHarrogate, a smalltown in Yorkshire.
Harrogatebecame afashionable resort during Victorian times, when peoplecame to takea bath in
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Harrogatehas becomea populartown for peopleto retire to. Its clean air, attractiveparks, and the
absence ofany industry, make this an ideal spot forpeople looking fora quiet life. Now, to tellus
moreabout Harrogate, Ihave with meTom Percival, President oftheChamber ofCommerce. Tom,
oneofthethings visitornotices about Harrogate isthelarge area ofopen park land right down into
themiddleof thetown. Canyou tell us moreabout it?
M:Yes, certainly. The area is called theStray.
W:WhytheStray?
M:It’s called that because inthe olddays, people let theircattle stray onthearea, which was
commonland.
W:Oh, Isee.
M:Then, we’ve changes infarming and in land ownership. The Stray became part of theland
ownedbyHarrogate.
W:And isit protected?
M:Oh, yes, indeed. As a special law, noonecan build anything onthe stray. It’s protected forever.
W:Soit willalways bepark land?
M:That’s right. As you can see, someof theStray is usedforsports fields.
W:Ibelieve itlooks lovely in thespring.
M:Yes, itdoes. There’re spring flowers ontheold trees, and peoplevisitthe town justtosee the
flowers.
Question22-25 are based onthe conversation you havejust heard.
Q22. Wheredoes this conversation mostprobably takeplace?
Q23. Whatdowe learn about modern Harrogate?
Q24. Whatdoes the mansay about thearea called theStray?
Q25. Whatattracts peoplemost intheStray during thespring time?
答案：
22. B) In aresort town.
23. D)It is an ideal place forpeopleto retire to.
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25. C)Thebeautiful flowers.
【解析】
这段长对话是对Harrogate这个旅游小镇的介绍，谈到其如何得名，如何变迁，以及如何受到
政府的保护。由此可见，这段对话最有可能发生在一个旅游城镇。这段对话稍微难一点的地
方在于几个单词，一个是地名Harrogate，另一个是Stray，以及头衔President of theChamberof
Commerce。解决这些难点也很容易，因为Harrogate 这个地名和头衔不是考察点，考生可直
接忽略。另外关于Stray，考生开始不懂没关系，要带着这个疑问去注意听原文，对话中随后
就给出了明确解释，所以考生也会获得解答。
需要提醒考生的是，虽然考试中我们可以忽略一些人名，地名或者无关紧要的细节，这也是
为了一时的应试而迫不得已。在平时练习中，还是建议广大考生多积累这些人文及百科知识，
包括一些人名和地名。积累的多了，以后在任何场合听起来就不会犯难了。
SectionB
Directions: In this section, you willhear 3short passages. At the endofeach passage, you will hear
somequestions. Both thepassage and the questionswill bespoken onlyonce. After you hear a
question,you must choosethe best answer from thefour choices marked A), B), C)and D). Then
mark thecorresponding letter onAnswerSheet 2witha single linethrough thecentre.
Passage One
RussellFazio,an Ohio Statepsychology professor whohas studied interracial roommates there and
at IndianaUniversity, discovered anintriguing academic effect. In astudy analyzing dataon
thousands ofOhio State freshmen who lived in dorms, hefound thatblack freshmen who came to
collegewith high standardized test scores earned better grades iftheyhad a whiteroommate —
even iftheroommate’s test scores were low. The roommate’s race hadnoeffect onthegrades of
whitestudentsor low-scoring black students. Perhaps, thestudy speculated, having a white
roommatehelps academically prepared black students adjustto apredominantly whiteuniversity.
That samestudy found that randomly assigned interracial roommates at Ohio State brokeupbefore
theendofthequarter about twiceas often as same-race roommates.
Because interracial roommaterelationships are often problematic, Dr. Faziosaid, many students
would liketo moveout, but university housing policies may makeit hard toleave.
“At Indiana University, where housing was not so tight, moreinterracial roommates splitup,”he
said.“Here at Ohio State, where housing was tight, they were toldtowork it out. Themost
interesting thingwe found was that ifthe relationship managed to continuefor just10weeks, we
could seean improvement in racial attitudes.”
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were nolongerliving together at the end ofthesemester, compared with whiteroommates. The
interracial roommates spent less timetogether, and had fewer jointactivities than thewhite pairs.
Question26-29
26. Whatdowe knowabout RussellFazio ?
27. Whobenefited from livingwith a whiteroommateaccording toFazio’s study?
28. Whatdid thestudy find about randomly assigned interracial roommates at Ohio State
University?
29. Whatdid Dr. Faziofind interesting about interracial roommates who had lived togetherfor 10
weeks?
答案：
26, C.He specialized in interpersonal relationship.
27. D. Black freshman with high standardized scores
28, C.They brokeupmore often than same-race roommates
29, C.The racial attitudes improved.
【解析】：本文节选自2009年7月的《纽约时报》，原文标题为Interracial RoommatesCan Reduce
Prejudice。文章属于社会类话题，大意为俄亥俄州立大学的一位名为RussellFazio 的心理学教
授研究不同人种混居的有趣现象以及结论。无独有偶，2011年6月四级真题阅读理解Section
B的Passage 1也选用了相同的话题，大家平时在备考中要对真题重视起来哦！
Passage two
In asmall laboratory at theMedical University ofSouthCarolina, Dr. VladimirMironov has been
working fora decade to grow meat. Adevelopmental biologist and tissueengineer, Dr. Mironov, is
oneofonly afew scientists worldwideinvolved inbioengineering 'cultured' meat.
It's aproduct he believes couldhelp solvefutureglobal food crises resultingfrom shrinking
amountsof land available forgrowing meat theold-fashioned way.
“Growth of cultured meat isalso underway in theNetherlands”,Mironov told Reuters in an
interview, “but in theUnited States, it is science in search offunding and demand.”
ThenewNational Instituteof Food and Agriculture won't fund it, theNational Institutes ofHealth
won't fundit,and theNASAfunded itonlybriefly, Mironov said.
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average, costs $1billion.Wedon't even have$1million."
Director oftheAdvanced Tissue Biofabrication Center inthe Departmentof RegenerativeMedicine
and CellBiology at themedical university, Mironov now primarily conducts research ontissue
engineering, or growing, ofhuman organs.
"There's an unpleasant factorwhen people find out meat isgrown in alab. They don't liketo
associatetechnology with food," said Nicholas Genovese, avisiting scholarin cancer cell biology.
"But there are alot ofproducts that we eat today that are considered natural thatare produced in a
similarmanner," Genovese said.
30. Whatdoes Dr. Mironov thinkof bioengineering cultured meat?
31. Whatdoes Dr. Mironov say about the fundingfor theirresearch?
32. Whatdoes Nicholas Genovese say about alot ofproducts we eat today?
答案：
30, A. It willhelp solve theglobal food crisis.
31, D. It is still farfrom being sufficient.
32, D. They are not as natural as we believed.
【解析】
这是路透社 2011年初的一篇报道，题目为“SouthCarolina scientistworks togrow meat in lab”。
本文为食品科技类题材。大意为生物工程技术应用在实验室生产肉，可改变传统肉类获得方
式，解决将来的食物危机，不过还需资金支持，同时人们还难以完全接受这种方式。
Passage three
Bernard Jackson is afree man today, but hehas many bittermemories. Jackson spent fiveyears
inprison after a jury wrongly convicted himof raping two women. At Jackson's trial, although two
witnesses testified that Jackson was with them in anotherlocation at thetimesof thecrimes, hewas
convicted anyway. Why? Thejury believed thetestimony ofthetwo victims, who positively
identified Jackson as theman who has attacked them. The court eventually freed Jackson after the
policefound themanwho had reallycommitted thecrimes. Jackson was similarin appearance to
theguilty man. The two women has made amistakein identity. As aresult, Jackson has lost five
years of hislife.
Thetwo women in this case were eyewitnesses. They clearly sawtheman who attacked them, yet
they mistakenlyidentified an innocent person. Similarincidents have occurred before. Eyewitnesses
toother crimes have identified thewrong person in a policelineup orin photographs.
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seephotographs of several suspects before they try to identify theperson they sawin alineup of
people. They can become confused byseeing many photographs or similarfaces. The numberof
peoplein thelineup, and whether it is alivelineup ora photograph, may also affect awitness's
decision. Peoplesometimes havedifficulty identifying people ofother races. Thequestions the
policeask witnesses also have an effect onthem.
Question33: What dowelearn about Bernard Jackson?
Question34: What led directly toJackson’s sentence?
Question35: What lesson dowelearn from Jackson’s case?
答案：
33, A. Hewas wrongly imprisoned
34, A. Thetwo victims’identification
35, B.Many factors influence the accuracy ofwitness testimony.
【解析】
本篇文章讲述了Jackson 因为被目击证人误认而被判刑，虽然最后洗清了罪名，但是却留
下了惨痛的记忆。文章接着论述了为什么会出现这样的问题。可能是因为被害者对犯罪嫌疑
人产生的混淆的记忆，或者在指认犯罪嫌疑人的过程中出现了不确定的情况。
虽然总体来说这篇文章难度不大，但是因为涉及专业知识，有一些词汇可能会成为考生的
障碍。例如：testimony: 证人证言；witness: 目击证人；jury: 陪审团；sentence :刑期。如果
考生平时能对这些单词有所接触，这篇文章在理解上就不会出现太大的问题。
SectionC
Directions: In this section, you willhear apassage three times. When thepassage is read for thefirst
time,you should listencarefully for itsgeneral idea. Whenthe passage isread for thesecond time,
you arerequired to fillin theblanks numbered from 36to 43with theexact words you havejust
heard. For blanks numbered from 44to46you are required to fillinthemissinginformation. For
theseblanks, you can either usetheexact words you have justheard or writedown themain points
inyour own words. Finally, when thepassage is read forthe third time,you shouldcheck what you
havewritten.
答案：
36. slight
37. official
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39. plunge
40. decline
41. primary
42. heads
43. Poverty
44. Hampered byhighertaxes andweak demand forits exports,Mexico's economy is seen only
partially recovering this year.
45. Mexico has historically had high drop-out rates as poorfamilies pull kidsout ofschool tohelp
putfood onthe table，
46. Thenation's drop-out problem is justthe latest bad news forthe long-term competitiveness of
theMexican economy.
【解析】本篇文章谈论的是墨西哥失学率问题。文章先开篇阐述了墨西哥失学情况的现状，
然后谈到这一现状的原因和所造成的严重后果。文中国家有关的 Mexico、Mexican、Chile等
部分考生可能不熟悉，而造成听力困扰，但这些实际并非考点，切记死盯部分词汇不放，而
影响全篇理解。
最后，文中生词不多，实际内容对于喜欢阅读报刊杂志、关心时事热点的考生而言，能够
根据日常经验有所预判。这就提醒考生，听力同样也需要平时多多进行报刊阅读。
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