[00:08.97]College English Test--Band Six
[00:11.81]Part III Listening Comprehension
[00:15.43]Section A
[00:17.51]Directions: In this section,
[00:20.46]you will hear 8 short conversations and 2 long conversations.
[00:24.94]At the end of each conversation,
[00:27.13]one or more questions will be asked about what was said.
[00:30.64]Both the conversation and the questions
[00:33.37]will be spoken only once.
[00:35.56]After each question there will be a pause.
[00:39.06]During the pause, you must read the four choices
[00:42.45]marked A), B), C) and D),
[00:45.84]and decide which is the best answer.
[00:48.68]Then mark the corresponding letter on Answer Sheet 2
[00:52.95]with a single line through the centre.
[00:55.58]Now, let’s begin with the eight short conversations.
[01:00.39]11. M: What do you think of the government’s
[01:05.53]new tax cut proposal?
[01:07.61]W: Though it may give some benefit to the poor,
[01:10.78]its key component is the elimination of tax on dividends.
[01:15.16]That means the rich will get richer.
[01:17.90]Q: What does the woman think of
[01:20.74]the government’s tax cut proposal?
[01:38.59]12. M: Jenny, remember this:
[01:41.76]a job worth doing at all is worth doing well.
[01:46.15]W: Oh, yes. I certainly won’t forget it.
[01:49.20]But don’t expect me to stick to the job just
[01:52.27]because it pays a few more bucks.
[01:54.67]A life of continuous exploration is a life worth living.
[01:58.83]Q: What can be inferred about the woman
[02:01.68]from the conversation?
[02:19.89]13. M: I found that one of my schoolmates uses drugs.
[02:25.26]How can I help him, Mom?
[02:27.66]W: Stay away from him, Son.
[02:29.96]Never think that you can talk him out of the habit
[02:33.02]if he is addicted. But perhaps you can
[02:36.30]talk to your teacher about the matter.
[02:38.71]Q: What’s the woman’s advice to her son?
[02:58.02]14. W: I don’t know how you can eat so much yet
[03:03.05]never put on any weight, Son.
[03:05.24]Your father’s got the same luck.
[03:07.76]I can’t take a bite without calculating
[03:10.60]how many calories I am taking.
[03:12.79]M: But remember Aunt Louise, Mom?
[03:15.19]She ate a lot and never gained a pound.
[03:18.15]Q: Who is worried about gaining weight?
[03:36.36]15.W: Did you turn off the lights
[03:40.20]and check the locks on all the doors?
[03:42.71]M: Yes, I told the Johnsons we’d be gone for two weeks.
[03:46.76]They promised to keep an eye on the house for us.
[03:50.15]Q: What are the two speakers going to do?
[04:07.59]16. M: Hurry up, Linda! I hear that
[04:13.40]there aren’t many tickets left for the football match.
[04:16.02]W: I am ready now. Let’s go.
[04:18.97]It is the early bird that catches the worm.
[04:21.49]Q: Why did the man ask the woman to hurry up?
[04:40.58]17. W: Did you hear that the convenience store
[04:45.06]next to the gas station was held up last night?
[04:47.91]M: Yes, I heard it on the radio this morning.
[04:51.41]Q: What happened to the convenience store?
[05:10.17]18. M: Congratulations! I just heard about
[05:15.09]your acceptance into a law school.
[05:17.50]Do you think you would join
[05:19.03]your brother’s firm after graduation?
[05:21.00]W: Not likely. He is a tax lawyer,
[05:23.85]and I am going to major in criminal law.
[05:27.24]Q: What does the woman mean?
[05:45.72]Now you’ll hear the two long conversations.
[05:49.24]Conversation One
[05:51.43]W: Hi, Bill, how is it going?
[05:53.62]M: Oh, hi, Jan. I’m OK. How about you?
[05:57.34]W: You can probably tell just by looking at me.
[06:00.08]I’m really busy. Hey, what are you reading?
[06:02.81]M: A pretty interesting article.
[06:05.00]My biology professor assigned it,
[06:07.51]and I thought I just look it over.
[06:09.81]But I got really involved in it.
[06:11.78]It’s about endangered species.
[06:14.08]W: That sounds pretty interesting.
[06:15.83]I’m getting frustrated with the two research papers
[06:18.45]I’m struggling with. And can you believe
[06:20.21]they are both due on the same day?
[06:22.73]M: That’s tough.
[06:24.91]W: I’ll get through it.
[06:26.11]So what’s this you are reading?
[06:28.08]M: Well, it’s basically about the choices
[06:29.95]conservationists are faced with.
[06:32.24]You know, these days when funding is so hard to come by.
[06:35.08]W: Wait a minute. Is the focus on biology or economics?
[06:39.57]M: Both. Conservationists don’t have enough funding
[06:43.07]to save every endangered species in the world,
[06:46.13]so they have to decide based on what would be lost
[06:49.09]if a species became extinct.
[06:51.17]W: Can you give me an example of what you mean?
[06:53.46]M: Take for instance, two animals,
[06:55.87]the spotted owl and the tailed toad.
[06:58.61]The article says the toad is unique.
[07:01.01]It has no relatives.
[07:02.76]But there are a lot of varieties of owls.
[07:04.95]W: So, if that toad became extinct,
[07:08.13]we’d lose an important link
[07:10.42]in the chain of evolution, right?
[07:12.28]M: Exactly. But that isn’t so for the owl.
[07:15.13]So for conservationists,
[07:17.10]it might be clear choice of which animal to save.
[07:19.94]W: I see. I am glad I don’t have to
[07:22.57]make that kind of decision. Aren’t you?
[07:24.32]Questions 19 to 21 are based on the conversation
[07:29.17]you have just heard.
[07:31.03]19. What are the speakers mainly discussing?
[07:50.67]20. What problems do conservationists have?
[08:12.38]21. What can be inferred about the tailed toad?
[08:33.33]Conversation Two
[08:34.97]M：Good evening, dear audience.
[08:37.26]I’m glad to continue the topic about music.
[08:39.78]It is common knowledge that music
[08:42.19]can have a powerful effect on our emotion.
[08:44.92]In fact, since 1930s, music therapists
[08:49.30]have relied on music to soothe patients
[08:52.14]and help control pain. Now psychologists are confirming
[08:55.64]that music can also help relieve depression
[08:59.25]and improve concentration.
[09:01.42]W: That’s nice. Do they have any concrete examples?
[09:04.04]M: For instance, in a recent study,
[09:07.00]15 surgeons were given some highly
[09:09.62]stressed math problems to solve.
[09:11.81]They were divided into three groups:
[09:14.21]one worked in silence; and in another,
[09:16.95]the surgeons listened to music of
[09:19.25]their choice on headphones;
[09:20.89]the third listened to classic music
[09:23.08]chosen by the researchers.
[09:25.27]W: What’re the results?
[09:27.02]M: The results of the study may surprise you.
[09:29.42]The doctors who got to choose their music
[09:32.16]experienced less stress and scored better than the others.
[09:35.44]W: That is surprising. How to explain this?
[09:38.61]M: One possible explanation is that listening to music
[09:41.79]you like stimulates the Alfa-wave in the brain,
[09:44.52]increases the heart rate and expands the breathing.
[09:48.57]That helps to reduce stress and sharpen concentration.
[09:52.07]W: Is there any other research?
[09:54.70]M: Yes. Other research suggests a second relation
[09:58.42]between the music and the brain:
[10:00.39]by examining the student’s blood
[10:02.57]after listening to a variety of classical music collections,
[10:05.96]the researchers found that some students
[10:08.48]showed a large increase in a chemical substance,
[10:11.44]a natural pain reliever, in their blood,
[10:14.78]which can help soothe the patient.
[10:16.64]W: Well, thank you so much for being with us today
[10:19.04]and having us know about another function of music.
[10:21.89]Questions22 to 25 are based on the conversation
[10:26.15]you have just heard.
[10:27.80]22. What is the talk mainly about?
[10:48.39]23. According to the speaker how is the music therapy
[10:53.09]currently used in medicine?
[11:09.68]24. What did the study done with surgeons show?
[11:29.86]25. What effect did music have in the study of students
[11:35.47]exposed to classic music?
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