2023年12月英语六级真题听力第一套（3）
英文原文
Passage 1
Kate Atkinson was born in York, England, in 1951. She worked hard to gain her credentials as an author. She studied English literature at university in Scotland after graduating in 1974. She researched a doctorate in American literature. Later, she taught at the university she graduated from and began writing short stories in 1981. She began writing for women's magazines after winning the 1986 Woman's Own Short Story competition. Her first novel, "Behind the Scenes at the Museum," won the 1995 UK Book of the Year Award.
凯特·阿特金森于1951年出生于英国约克郡。她努力获得作家的资格。1974年毕业后，她在苏格兰的大学学习英国文学。她研究了美国文学的博士学位。后来，她在毕业的大学教书，并于1981年开始写短篇小说。在赢得1986年《女人自有》短篇小说比赛后，她开始为女性杂志写作。她的第一部小说《博物馆背后的故事》获得了1995年英国年度图书奖。
The book is set in Yorkshire and has been adapted for radio, theater, and TV. She has written two plays for a theater in Edinburgh. The first was called "Nice" and the second "Abandonment," performed as part of the Edinburgh Festival in August 2000.
这本书的背景设定在约克郡，已被改编为广播剧、戏剧和电视剧。她为爱丁堡的一家剧院写了两部戏剧。第一部叫《好》，第二部叫《遗弃》，于2000年8月在爱丁堡艺术节上演。
Whatever genre Atkinson writes in, her books touch on the themes of love and loss and how to carry on. They are always presented with ingenuity and a wicked sense of humor. Her books tend to be populated by odd, sometimes sinful, and generally flawed eccentrics who become credible by virtue of being so fully realized.
无论阿特金森写什么体裁的作品，她的书都涉及爱、失去和如何继续前行的主题。这些作品总是以巧妙和幽默感来呈现。她的书中往往充满了奇怪、有时有罪、通常都有缺陷的怪人，他们之所以可信，是因为他们被如此完整地展现出来。
Her books have frequently been described as comedies of manners, that is to say, comedies that represent the complex and sophisticated code of behavior current in fashionable circles of society where appearances count more than true moral character.
她的书经常被描述为风俗喜剧，也就是说，喜剧反映了当下时尚社交圈中复杂而精致的行为准则，其中外表比真正的道德品质更重要。
A comedy of manners tends to reward its clever and deceitful characters rather than punish their bad deeds. The humor of a comedy of manners relies on verbal wit and playful teasing.
风俗喜剧倾向于奖励其聪明而狡猾的角色，而不是惩罚他们的恶行。风俗喜剧的幽默依赖于机智的言辞和俏皮的戏弄。
Questions 9 to 11 are based on the passage you have just heard.
问题9到11是基于你刚刚听到的文章。
Question 9: When did Kate Atkinson begin to write for women's magazines?
问题 9：凯特-阿特金森何时开始为女性杂志撰稿？
Question 10: What do Kate Atkinson's books touch on?
问题 10：凯特-阿特金森的作品涉及哪些方面？
Question 11: What do we learn about the clever and deceitful characters in a comedy of manners?
问题 11：我们可以从风俗喜剧中了解到哪些聪明狡诈的人物？
