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2016
年
6
月英语六
级真题听力原文
Part
Ⅱ
Listening
Comprehension
Section A
Questions 1 to 4 are based on the
conversation you have just heard.
M: (1)So, how long have you been a
market research consultant?
W: Well, I started straight after
finishing university.
M: Did
you study market research?
W: Yeah, and it really helped me to get
into the industry, but I have to say that it’s
more important to
get experience in
different types of market research to find out
exactly what you’re interested in.
M: So what are you interested
in?
W: (2)Well, at the
moment, I specialize in quantitative advertising
research, which means that I do
two
types
of
projects.
(3)Trackers,
which
are
ongoing
projects
that
look
at
trends
or
customer
satisfaction over a long period of
time. The only problem with trackers is that it
takes up a lot of your
time. But you do
build up a good relationship with the client. I
also do a couple of ad hoc jobs which
are much shorter projects.
M: What exactly do you mean by ad hoc
jobs?
W:
It’s
basically
when
companies
need
quick
answers
to
their
questions
about
their
consumers’
habits. They just
ask for one questionnaire to be sent out for
example, so the time you spend on an ad
hoc project tends to be fairly
short.
M: Which do you
prefer, trackers or ad hoc?
W: I like doing both and in fact I need
to do both at the same time to keep me from going
crazy. I
need the variety.
M: Can you just explain what process
you go through with a new client?
W: Well, together we decide on the
methodology and the objectives of the research. I
then design a
questionnaire. Once the
interviewers have been briefed, I send the client
a schedule and then they get
back
to
me
with
deadlines.
Once
the
final
charts
and
tables
are
ready,
I
have
to
check
them
and
organize a
presentation.
M: Hmm, one
last question, what do you like and dislike about
your job?
W: (4)As I said,
variety is important and as for what I don’t like,
it has to be the checking of charts
and
tables.
Questions 5 to 8 are
based on the conversation you have just
heard.
W: Hell
o,
I’m here with Frederick. Now Fred, you went to
university in Canada?
M:
Yeah, that’s right.
W:
(5)OK, and you have very strong views about
universities in Canada. Could you please
explain?
M: Well, we don’t
have private universities in Canada. They’re
a
ll public. (6)All the universities are
owned by the government, so there is
the Ministry of Education in charge of creating
the curriculum
for the universities and
so there is not much room for flexibility. Since
it’s a government
-operated
institution, thi
ngs don’t
move very fast.
If
you
want
something to
be done, then
their staff do
not
have so
much incentive to help you because he’s a worker
for the government. So I don’t think it’s
very efficient. However, there are
certain advantages of public universities, such as
the fees being
free. You don’t have to
pay for your education. But the system isn’t
efficient, and it does not work
that
well.
W: Yeah, I can see
your point, but in the United States we have many
private universities, and I think
they
are larg
e bureaucracies also. Maybe
people don’t act that much differently, because
it’s the same
thing working for a
private university. They get paid for their job. I
don’t know if they’re that much
more
motivated to help people. (7)Also, we have a
problem in the United States that usually only
wealthy kids go to the best schools and
it’s kind of a problem actually.
M: (7)I agree with you. I think it’s a
problem because you’re not giving equal access to
education to
everybody.
It’s
not
easy,
but
having
only
publi
c
universities
also
might
not
be
the
best
solution.
Perhaps we can
learn from Japan where they have a system of
private and public universities. Now,
in Japan, public universities are
considered to be the best.
W: Right. It’s the exact opposite in
the Unit
ed States.
M: (8)So, as you see, it’s very hard to
say which one is better.
W:
Right, a good point.
Section
B
Questions 9 to 11 are
based on the passage you have just
heard.
(9)A recent
International Labour Organization report says the
deterioration of real wages around the
world calls into question the true
extent of an economic recovery, especially if
government rescue
packages are phased
out too early.
(9)The report
warns the picture on wages is likely to get worse
this year, despite indications of an
economic
rebound.
Patrick
Belser,
an
International
Labour
Organization
specialist,
says
declining
wage rates are
linked to the levels of unemployment.
“The
quite
dramatic
unemployment
figures,
which
we
now
see
in
some
of
the
countries,
strongly
suggest
that
(10)there
will
be
greater
pressure
on
wages
in
the
future
as
more
people
will
be
unemployed, more people
will be looking for jobs and the pressure on
employers to raise wages to
attract
workers will decline. So, we expect that the
second part of the year will not be very good in
terms of wage growth.”
The report finds more than
a quarter of the countries experienced flat or
falling monthly wages in
real terms.
They include, the United States, Austria, Costa
Rica, South Africa and Germany.
International Labour Organization
economists say some nations have come up with
polices to lessen
the impact of lower
wages during the economic crisis. (11)An example
of these is work sharing with
government subsidies. Under this
scheme, the number of individual working hours is
reduced in an
effort
to
avoid
layoffs.
For
this
scheme
to
work,
the
government
must
provide
wage
subsidies
to
compensate for lost pay due to the
shorter hours.
Questions 12
to 15 are based on the passage you have just
heard.
Is there really a
magic memory pill or a herbal recall remedy? (12)I
have been frequently asked if
these
memory supplements work. You know, one of the
first things I like to tell people when they ask
me about these supplements is that a
lot of them are promoted as a cure for your
memory. But your
memory
doesn’t
need
a
cure.
What
your
memory
needs
is
a
good
workout.
So
really
those
supplements aren’t
going to
give
you that perfect memory
in the way that they promise.
(13)The
other thing is that
a lot of these supplements aren’t
n
ecessarily what they claim to be, and
you really
have to be wary when you
take any of them. The science isn’t there behind
most of them. They’re
not really
well-
regulated unless they adhere to
some industry standard. You don’t really know that
what
they
say
is
in
there
is
in
there.
(14)What
you
must
understand
is
that
those
supplements,
especially in
some eastern cultures, are part of a medical
practice tradition. People don’t just go in a
local
grocery
store
and
buy
these
supplements.
In
fact,
they
are
pr
escribed
and
they’re
given
at
a