2018年6月英語六級聽力原文

1、2018 年 6 月英語六級聽力原文長對話 1：西班牙蔬菜湯M: What ' s all that? Are you going to make a salad?W: No, I ' m going to make a gazpacho.M: What ' s that?歡迎下載7W: Gazpacho is a cold soup from Spain. It v'egsemtaobsletlsy. I guess you can call it a liquidsalad.M: Cold soup? Sounds weird.W: It ' s d

2、elicious. Trust me! I tried it for the first time during my summer vacation in Spain. You see, in the south of Spain, it gets very hot and summer, up to 42 degrees Celsius, so a cold gazpacho is very refreshing. The main ingredients are tomato, cucumber, bell peppers, olive oil and stale bread.M: St

3、ale bread? Surely you mean bread for dipping into the soup.W: No. bread is crushed and blended in, like everything else. It adds texture and thickness to the soup.M: um and is it healthy?W: Sure. As I said earlier, it's mostly vegetables. You can also add different things if you like suchas half

4、-boiled eggs or cured ham.M: Cured ham? What ' s that?W: That 's another Spanish delicacy. Have you never heard of it? It's quite famous.M: No. Is it good too?W: Oh, yeah, definitely. It's amazing. It 's a little dry and salty. And it is very expensive because itcomes from a spec

5、ial type of pig that only eats a special type of food. The ham is covered in salt to dry and preserve it, and left hung for up to two years. It has a very distinct favor.M: um, sounds interesting. Where can I find some?W: It used to be difficult to get Spanish produce here, but it's now a lot mo

6、re common. Most large supermarket chains have cured ham in little packets. But in Spain, you can buy a whole leg.M: A whole pig leg? Why would anybody want so much ham?W: In Spain, many people buy a whole leg for special group events such as Christmas. They cut it themselves into very thin slices wi

7、th a long flat knife.Q1 What do we learn about gazpacho?Q2 For what purpose is stale bread mixed into gazpacho?Q3 Why does the woman think gazpacho is healthy?Q4 what does the women say about cured ham?1。A 。 It is a Spanish soup2。C。 To make it thicker 。3。B。 It is mainly made of vegetables 。4。D。 It c

8、omes from a special kind of pig。長對話2 :買酒送上司M: Hello, I wish to buy a bottle of wine.W: Hi, yes. What kind of wine would you like?M: I don ' t know. Sorry, I don' t know much about wine.t know what type. I alW: That ' s no problem at all. Whatsionsahe bowamuch would you like to spend?M: I

9、t ' s for my boss. It ' s his birthday. I know he likes wine but I don'not want anything too expensive. Maybe middle range. How much would you say is a middle range bottle of a wine approximately?W: Well, it varies greatly. Our lowest prices are around 60 dollars a bottle but those are t

10、able win es. They are not very special and I would not suggest them as a gift. On the other hand, our most expensive bottles are over a hundred and fifty dollars. If you are looking for something priced in the middle, I would say anything between 30 dollars and 60 dollars would make a decent gift. H

11、ow does that sound?M: um, yeah. I guess someth ing in the vici nity of 30 or 40 would be good. Which type would you recomme nd?W: I would say the safest opti on is always a red wi ne. They are gen erally more popular tha n whites and can usually be paired with food more easily. Our specialty here ar

12、e Italia n wines and these tend to be fruity with medium acidity. This one here is a Chianti which is perhaps Italy's most famous type of red wine. Alter natively, you may wish to try and surprise your boss with someth ing less com mon such as this Zinfan del. The grapes are origi nally n ative

13、to Croatia, but this winery is in eastern Italy. And it has more spicy and peppery flavor. So, to summarize, the Chia nti is more classical and Zinfan del more excit ing. Both are similarly priced, and just un der 40 dollars.M: I'll go with Chianti then, thanks.Q5 What does the woma n thi nk of

14、table win es?Q6 What is the price range of wine the man will consider?Q7 Why does the woma n recomme nd red win es?Q8 What do we learn about the wi ne the man fin ally bought?5。Co They do not make decent gifts。6o D。$30-$407o A。 They go well with differe nt kinds of food 。8o Co It is Italy ' s mo

15、st famous type of red wine。Passage One :戰(zhàn)時密碼Many people enjoy secret codes. The harder the code, the more some people will try to figure it out. I n wartime, codes are especially importa nt. They help army send n ews about battles and the sizes of en emy forces. Neither side wants its codes broke n

16、by the other. One very importa nt code was n ever broke n. It was used duri ng World War II by the America ns. It was a spoke n code n ever writte n dow n. And it was develop ed and used by Navajo In dia ns. They were called“ the Navajocode talkers ” the Navajos created the code in their own Ian gua

17、ge. Navajo is hard to lear n. Only a few people know it. So it was pretty certa in that the en emy would not be able to un dersta nd the cold talkers .In additi on, the talkers used code words. They called a submari ne an iron fish and a small bomb throw n by hand a potato. If they wan ted to spell

18、someth ing, they used code words for letters of the alphabet. For in sta nee, the letter A was ant or apple or eggs. The code talkers worked mostly in the islands in the Pacific. One or two would be assigned to a group of soldiers. They would send messages by field teleph one to the code talker in t

19、he n ext group. And he would relay the information to his commander. The code talkers played an important part in several battles.They helped troops coord in ate their moveme nts and attacks. After the war, the US gover nment honored them for what they had accomplished. Theirs was the most successfu

20、l wartime code ever used.Q9 What does the speaker say many people enjoy doing?Q10 What do we lear n about Navajo code talkers?Q11 What is the speaker mainly talking about?9。 B。Decod ing secret message。10。D。 They helped the U.S。 army in World War Two 。11。A。 A military code that was never broken。Passa

21、ge Two科技會給未來經(jīng)濟/工作帶來哪些變化If you are young and thinking about your career. You want to know where you can make a livi ng.Well, it ' s going to be a tech no logical replaceme nt of a lot of kno wledgete nsive jobs in the n ext twenty years. Particularly, in the two largest sectors of labor force wit

22、h professional skills. One is teach ing and the other healthcare. You have so many applicati ons and software and platforms that are going to come in and provide information and service in these two fields, which means a lot of healthcare and educati on sectors would be radically cha nged and a lot

23、of jobs will be lost. Now, where will t he new jobs be found? Well, the one extra economy can' t be easily duplicated by evensmart tech no logies is the cari ng sector, the pers onal care sector. That is, you can ' rteally get a robot to do a great massage or physically therapy. Or you canki

24、nd of persdnetatte nti onyour need with regard to therapy or any other personal services. They could be very high andpersonal services. Therapists do charge a lot of money. I think there' s no limit to the amount cpersonal attention and personal care people would like if they could afford it. Bu

25、t the real questionin the future is how come people afford these things if they don' t have money because they canget a job that pays eno ugh. ThatI Wrosewthys book which is about how to reorga nize theeconomy for the future whe n tech no logy brings about destructive cha nges to what we used to

26、 con sider high in come work.Q12 What does the speaker say will happe n in the next 20 years?Q13 Where will young people have more cha nces to find jobs?Q14 What does the speaker say about therapists?Q15 What is the speaker ' s book about?12。C。 A lot of kno wledge-i nten sive jobs will be replac

27、ed 。13。D。 In the pers onal care sector。14。B。 They charge high prices。15。D。 The treme ndous cha nges new tech no logy will bring to people ' s lives。Recordi ng 1 :美國發(fā)現(xiàn)世界上最早鋪設(shè)的高速公路America n researchers have discovered the world's oldest paved road, a 4,600-year-old highway. it linked a stone p

28、it in the Egyptian desert to waterways that carried blocks to monument sites along the Nile.The eight-mile road is at least 500 years older tha n any previously discovered road. It is the only paved road discovered in ancient Egypt, said geologist Thomas Bown of the U.S. Geological Survey. He report

29、ed the discovery Friday, "The road probably does n't rank with the pyramids as a con struct ion feat, but it is a major engin eeri ng achieveme nt," said his colleague, geologist James Harrell of the University of Toledo. "Not only is the road earlier than we thought possible, we

30、did n't even think they built roads."The researchers also made a discovery in the stone pit at the n orther n end of the road: the first evide nee that the Egyptia ns used rock saws. "This is the oldest example of saws being used for cutt ing ston e," said Bow n' scolleague, J

31、ames Hof fmeier of Wheat on College in Illi no is,"That's two tech no logies we did n't know they had," Harrell said. "A nd we don't know why they were both aba ndon ed."The road was discovered in the Faiyum Depression, about 45 miles southwest of Cairo. Short segment

32、s of the road had been observed by earlier explorers, Bown said, but they failed to realize its significanee or follow up on their observations. Bown and his colleagues stumbled across it while they were doing geological mapping in the region.The road was clearly built to provide services for the ne

33、wly discovered stone pit. Bown and Harrell have found the camp that housed workers at the stone pit. The road appears today to go no where, ending in the middle of the desert. When it was built, its term inal was a dock on the shore of Lake Moeris, which had an elevation of about 66 feet above sea l

34、evel, the same as the dock.Lake Moeris received its water from the annual floods of the Nile. At the time of the floods, the river and lake were at the same level and connected through a gap in the hills near the modern villages of el-Lah un and Hawara. Harrell and Bown believe that blocks were load

35、ed onto barges duri ng the dry seas on, the n floated over to the Nile duri ng the floods to be shipped off to the monument sites at Giza and Saqqara.Q16: What do we lear n from the lecture about the world's oldest paved road in Egypt?Q17: What did the researchers discover in the stone pit?Q18:

36、For what purpose was the paved road built?16。C。it lin ked a stone pit to some waterways17。B。saws used for cutt ing stone1&A。to provide services for the stone pit。Recording 2 :中國針灸療法The thin, extremely sharp needles didn' t hurt at all going in. Dr. Gong pierced them into my leftarm around th

37、e elbow that had been bothering me. Other needles were slipped into my left wrist and, strangely, into my right arm, and then into both my closed eyelids. There wasn' any discomfort, just a mild warm ing sen sati on. However, I did beg in to won der what had drive n me here, to the office of Dr.

38、 James Gong in New York ' s Chinatown.Then I remembered the torturing pain in that left elbow. Several trips to a hospital and twoexpe nsive, un comfortable medical tests had failed to produce eve n a diag no sis.“ Maybe youon your left arm too much, the doctor con cluded, suggesti ng I see a bo

39、ne doctor.During the hours spent waiting in vain to see a bone doctor, I decided to take another track and tryacupuncture. A Chinese- American friend recommended Dr. Gong. I took the subway to Gong' ssec on d-floor office, marked with a han d-pa in ted sig n.Dr. Gong speaks En glish, but not oft

40、e n. Most of my questi ons to him were greeted with a frien dlylaugh, but I man aged to let him know where my arm hurt. He asked me to go into a room, had me lie dow n on a bed, and went to work. In the next room, I lear ned, a woma n dan cer was also gett ing a treatment. As I lay there a while, I

41、drifted into a dream-like state and fantasized about what she looked like.Acupuncturists today are as likely to be found on Park Avenue as on Mott Street. In all there are an estimated 10,000 acupuncturists in the country. Nowadays, a lot of medical doctors have learned acup un cture tech niq ues. S

42、o have a nu mber of den tists. Reas on? Patie nt dema nd. Few, though, can adequately expla in how acup un cture works.Acup un cturists may say that the body has more tha n 800 acup uncture poin ts. A life force called Qi circulates through the body. Points on the skin are energetically connected to

43、 specific organs, body structures and systems. Acup uncture points are stimulated to bala nee the circulati on of Qi.The truth is, though acupuncture is at least 2,200 years old, “ nobodyreally knows what ' s happening, says Paul Zmiewski, a Ph.D. in Chinese studies who practices acupuncture in

44、Philadelphia.After five treatments, there has been dramatic improvement in my arm, and the pain is a fraction of what it was. The mainly sile nt Dr. Gong fin ally eve n offered a diag no sis for what troubled me.“ Pinched nerve, ” he said.Q19: What does the speaker find especially stra nge?Q20: Why

45、did the speaker go see Dr. Gong?Q21: What acco unts for the growing popularity of acup uncture in the Un ited States accord ing to the speaker?19。B。 Dr。 Gong slipped in n eedles where he felt no pain20。D。previous medical treatme nts failed to relieve his pain21。C。 more and more patie nts ask for the

46、 treatme ntRecording 3 :出生順序?qū)π愿褚约澳闩c伴侶合拍度的影響Ron ald and Louis married for 2 decades con sider themselves a happy couple but i n the early years of their marriage both were disturbed by persiste nt argume nts that seemed to fade away without ever being truly resolved. They un covered clues towards wha

47、t was going wrong by research ing a fasc in at ing subject: How birth order affects not only your pers on ality but also how compatible you are with your mate.Ron ald and Louis are only childre n, and "onl ys" grow up accustomed to be the apple of pare ntseyes. Match two “ onlys ” , and yo

48、u have partners wh(s&obi60nexpect each other to continue fulfilling this expectation, while neither has much experience in the giving end. Here is a list of com mon birth order characteristics, and some thoughts on the best and worst, marriage would match for each.The oldest tends to be self-ass

49、ured, responsible, a high-achiever and relatively serious and reserved. He may be slow to make frien ds, perhaps contained with only one compa nion. The best matches are with a youn gest, an only or a mate raised in a large family. The worst match is with ano ther oldest, since the two will be too sovereig n to share a household comfortably.The youngest child of the family thrives on attention, and tends to be out-going, adventurous, optimistic, creative and less