历年六级真题听力原文(21)

W: How do you know that you’ve got a really successful program? One that is just right for the time?

M: I think you get a sense about it after working in it in a number of years. You know which stories are going to get the attention. They are going to be published just the point when the public are concerned about that. Questions 19 to 22 are based on the Conversation you have just heard.

19. What kind of topics does Public Eye cover?

20. How does Public Eye choose its topics?

21. What factor plays an important role in running a successful program?

Conversation Two

W: Hi, Professor Smith. I hear you’ve written a book titled Visions.

M: Yes. It explains how science will revolutionize the 21st century.

W: Could I ask you some questions concerning the book?

M: Sure.

W: Are you optimistic about the future?

M: Generally, yeah. If we go back to the year of 1900, most Americans didn’t live beyond the age of 50. Since then, we’ve had improvements in health care and technology. There is no reason why these won’t continue far into the 21st century.

W: Are we ready for the changes that will come?

M: Changes are already happening. The future is here now. We have DNA, microchips, the Internet. Some people’s reaction is to say, we are too old; we don’t understand new technology. My reaction is to say, we must educate people to use new technology now.

W: Is world population going to be a big problem?

M: Yes, and no. I think that world population will stop increasing as we all get richer. If you are a part of the middle class, you don’t want or need 12 children.

W: Will there be a world government?

M: Very probably. We will have to manage the world and its resources on a global level because countries alone are too small. W: Will we have control of everything?

M: I think we’ll learn to control the weather, volcanoes and earthquakes. Illness won’t exist. We’ll grow new livers, kidney s, hearts, and lungs like spare parts for a car. People will live to about 130 or 150. For 2000 years, we have tried to understand our environment. Now we’ll begin to control it.

Questions 22 to 25 are based on the Conversation you have just heard.

22. What does Professor Smith say about most Americans around the year of 1900?

23. What does Professor Smith advise we do?

24. When will the world population stop growing according to Professor Smith?

25. What does Professor Smith think human beings will be able to do?

Section B

Passage One

Getting behind the wheel of a car can be an exciting new step in a teen’s life. But along with that excitement comes a new responsibility—understanding the need for common sense and maturity to avoid accidents. In an effort to spread awareness to teens across the nation, the All-state Foundation sponsored a Keep-The-Drive Summit at Sunset Station on January 23rd. Students from Kennedy and Alamo Heights High schools participated in the summit, which was held here for the first time. The goal of the year-long effort is to educate teens on the rules of safe driving and the severe consequences that can result if those rules are not followed, and then have them communicate that information to their peers. The students watched videos that told them about the numbers of teenage driving injuries and deaths. They listen to the videos as students from other cities share their stories of how their reckless driving affected not only their lives but also those of their passengers. ―We are trying to create awareness in high schools across the country,‖ said Westerman, an All-state representative. ―We focus on changing how teens think behind the wheel.‖ According to the presentation, more teens die in automobile crashes in the United States each year than from drugs, violence, smoking and suicide. An average of 16 teens die every day in motor vehicle crashes and nearly forty percent of those are caused by speeding. Texas is the state with the most teen driving deaths according to the presentation. Students agreed that the statistics were amazing and made them think twice about how they drive.

Questions 26 to 28 are based on the passage you have just heard.

26. For what purpose did the All-state Foundation sponsor the Keep-The-Drive Summit?

27. What causes the greatest number of deaths among American teens according to the presentation?

28. What can we conclude about the Keep-The-Drive Summit? Passage Two

Dr. Allen Hersh designs smells for businesses. He says that it doesn’t take a whole lot of smell to affect you. Store owners can lure you to the candy aisle, even if you don’t realize your are smelling candy. This idea scares a lot of people. Groups that protect the rights of shoppers are upset. They say the stores are

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using a kind of brainwashing which they call ―smell-washing‖. ―It’s pretty dishonest,‖ says Mark Silbergeld. He runs an organization that checks out products for consumers. The scientists hired to design the scents disagree. ―There’s soft background music. There’s special lighting. There’re all sorts of bells being used,‖ says Dr. Hersh, ―why not smells?‖ ―One reason why not,‖ says Silbergeld, ―is that some people are allergic to certain scents pumped into products or stores.‖ But there is a whole other side to this debate, ―do the smells really work?‖ So far, there is little proof one way or the other. But Dr. Hersh has run some interesting experiments. In one of Hersh’s experiments, 31 volunteers were led into a shoe store that smells slightly like flowers. Later, another group shopped in the same store, but with no flower odor. Dr. Hersh found that 84% of the shoppers were more likely to buy the shoes in the flower-scented room, but Hersh found out something eve n stranger. ―Whether the volunteers like the flower scent or not didn’t matter,‖ Hersh says, ―Some reported that they hated the smell, but they still were more likely to buy the shoes in the scented room.‖

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