2019年6月大学英语六级考试听力真题及答案（一）

Section A

Conversation One

W: Hi, my name is Kathy. Nice to meet you!

M: Nice to meet you, too, Kathy. My name is John. I'm a university friend of the bride. What about you? Who do you know at this party?

W: I am a colleague of Brenda. I was a little surprised to be invited, to be honest.We've only been working together the last six months, but we quickly became good friends. We just wrapped up a project with a difficult client last week. I be t Brenda is glad it's done with, and she can focus on wedding preparations.

M: Oh, yes. So you're Kathy from the office. Actually, I've heard a lot about you and that project. The client sounded like a real nightmare!

W: Oh, he was. I mean we deal with all kinds of people on a regular basis. It's part of the job, but he was especially particular, enough about that. What line of work are you in?

M: Well, right out of college, I worked in advertising for a while. Recently, though, I turn my photography hobby into a small business.I'll actually be taking photos during the big event as a wedding gift.

W: That sounds wonderful and very thoughtful of you. I bake, just as a hobby. But Brenda has asked me to do the cake for the wedding.I was a bit nervous saying yes, because I'm far from a professional.

M: Did you bake the cookies here at the party tonight?

W: Yes, I got the idea from a magazine.

M: They're delicious! You've got nothing to worry about. You're a natural.

W: You really think so?

M: If you hadn't told me that, I would have guessed they were baked by the restaurant.You know, with your event-planning experience, you could very well open your own shop.

W: Ha, ha! One step at a time. First, I'll see how baking the wedding cake goes. If it's not a disaster, maybe I'll give it some more thought.

Questions 1 to 4 are based on the conversation you have just heard.

1. What did Kathy and Brenda finish doing last week?

2. What is John going to do for Brenda?

3. How did Kathy feel when asked to bake the cake?

4. What does the man suggest the woman do?

Conversation Two

M:You are heading for a completely different world now that you are about to graduate from high school.

W: I know it's the end of high school, but many of my classmates are going on to the same university and we are still required to study hard. So what's the difference?

M:Man y aspects are different here at university.The most important one is that you have to take more individual responsibility for your actions. It's up to your own self-discipline how much effort you put into  study. Living in college dormitories, there are no parents to tell you to study harder or stop wasting time.  Lecturers have hundreds of students, and they are not going to follow you up or question you if you miss  their lectures.

W: Nobody cares, you mean?

M: It's not that nobody is concerne d about you.It's just that suddenly at university you are expected to  behave like an adult. That means concentrating on the direction of your life in general and your own academic performance specifically.

W: For example?

M: Well, like you need to manage your daily, weekly and monthly schedules so that you will study regularly. Be sure to attend all classes and leave enough time to finish assignments and prepare well for examinations.

W: Okay, and what else is different?

M: Well, in college, there are lots of distractions and you need to control yourself.You will make interesting friends, but you need only keep the friends who respect your student commitments.Also,there are a lot of wonderful clubs, but you shouldn't allocate too much time to club activities, unless they are directly related to your study. It's also your choice if you want to go out at night, but you will be  foolish to let that affect your class performance during the day.

W: Well, I'm determined to do well in university and I guess I am going to have to grow up fast.

Questions 5 to 8 are based on the conversation you have just heard.

5. What does the man say about college students as compared with high schoolers?

6. What are college students expected to do according to the man?

7. What kind of friends does the man suggest the woman make as a college student?

8. What kind of club activities should college students engage in according to the man?

Section B

Passage One

Most successful people are unorthodox persons whose minds wander outside traditional ways ofthinking. Instead of trying to refine old formulas, they invent new ones. When Jean-Claude Killy made the French National Ski Team in the early 1960s, he was prepared to work harder than anyone else to be the best. At the crack of dawn he would run up the slopes with his sk is on, an unbelievably backbreaking activity. In the evening he would do weightlifting and running. But the other team members were working as hard and long as he was. He realized instinctively that simply training harder would never be enough. Killy then began challenging the basic theories of racing technique. Each week, he would try something different to see if he could find a better, faster way down the mountain.His experiments resulted in a new style that was almost exactly opposite the accepted technique of the time. It involved skii ng with his legs apart for better balance and sitting back on the sk is when he came to a turn. He also used ski poles in an unorthodox way to propel himself as he skied. The explosive new style helped cut Killy's racing time dramatically.In 1966 and 1967, he captured virtually every major sking trophy.The next year, he won three gold medals in the Winter Olympics, a record in sk i racing that has never been topped. Killy learned an important secret shared by many creative people: innovations don't require genius, just a willingness to question the way things have always been done.

Questions 9 to 11 are based on the passage you have just heard.

9. What does the speaker say about most successful people?

10. What does the speaker say about Killy's experiments?

11. What is said to be Killy's biggest honor in his skiing career?

Passage Two

Scientific experiments have demonstrated incredible ways to ld l a guinea pig, a small furry animal.Emotional upsets generate powerful and deadly toxic substances.Blood samples taken from persons experioncing intense fear or anger when injected into guinea pigs have killed them in less than two minutes.Imagin e what these poisonous substances can do to your own body.Every thought that you have affects your body chemistry within a split second. Remember how you feel when you're speeding down the highway and a big truck suddenly brakes twenty meters in front of you. A shock wave shoots through your whole system.Your mind produces instant reactions in your body. The toxic substances that fear, anger,frustration and stress produce not only k ill guinea pigs but kill us off in a similar manner.It is impossible to be fearful, anxious, irritated and healthy at the same time. It is not just difficult; it is impossible. Simply put, your body's health is a reflection of your mental health. Sickness will often then be a result of unresolved inner conflicts which in time show up in the body. It is also fascinating how our subconsci ous mind shapes our health. Do you recall falling sick on a day when you didn't want to go to school? Headaches brought on by fear? The mind-body connection is such that if, for example, we want to avoid something, very often our subconscious mind will arrange it. Once we recognize that these things happen to us, we are halfway to doing something about them.

Questions 12 to 15 are based on the passage you have just heard.

12. What happens to guine a pigs when blood samples of angry people are injected into them?

13. What does the speaker say about every thought you have?

14. What does the speaker say is impossible?

15. What does the passage say about our mind and body?

Section C

Recording One

Teachers and students alike have experienced the curious paradox that beginners,as a rule, tend to think too little about what they are doing because they think too much about what they are doing. Take, for example, people who are learning to play basketball or the piano.They have to give so much thought and attention to the low-level mechanics of handling the ball or fingering the keys or reading the music,that they are unable to give any thought to the thing that matters the game, or the music, respectively.

With experts, it's just the other way around. They're open to the tactical possibilities and themusical challenges precisely because they're freed, through skill, from the need to pay attention to the low-level details of how to play. Indeed, when the expert pays attention to the mechanics , this is liable to disrupt performance. This has led some to say that the expert operates in a zone“beyond thought,”in a state of flow. But this is misleading. Expert performance is not beyond thought.Smart basketball players or skilled musicians need to pay close attention to the demands of high performance, to the challenges to be overcome. What they don't need to do—what would be a distraction—is to have to think about where their fingers are, or how to control the ball while running. It's not mechanics, but the play itself, that absorbs the expert's intelligence.

A nice video published online last month sheds light on expertise and the conscious mind. The video reports a new study using an eye-tracking device. It turns out that the less-skilled pianist spends more time looking at her fingers than does the expert who, in contrast, is more likely to be looking at the sheet music, or looking ahead at keys he's not yet playing. In general, the expert's gaze was calmer and more stable.

This is not a surprising finding.It supports what we might almost think of as conventional wisdom.But it's remarkable for all that, nonetheless. The eye tracker gives expert and learning performers a glimpse into what they do without thinking about it. The topic of the nature of skill—and the differences between beginners and experts—has been one of considerable discussion in cognitive science and philosophy.

Questions 16 to 18 are based on the recording you have just heard.

16. What does the speaker say about beginners and exper t pianists?

17. What do smart basketball players do according to the speaker?

18. What do we learn about the new study published in an online video?

Recording Two

Every summer, when I top up my selection of summer outfits from the department stores, my eyes would nearly pop out of my head.I'm overwhelmed with a wide range of different slimming products each year. And more shockingly, these products are often advocated by very slim models. Having lived in Asia for almost 10 years now, I've seen various dieting tips come and go. I remember in Japan, people heading directly to the fruit section in the supermarket when the banana diet was at its peak. Then there was the black tea and oolong tea diet, followed by the soybean diet and the tomato juice diet. The list goes on and on.

Apart from what people eat, I've also seen many interesting slimming products.In Hong Kong, I've seen girls wrapping their whole body or both legs up with a special type of slimming tape which is supposed to help make them thinner. But it just reminded me of the roasted ha m my mother usually puts on the dinner table at Christmas. Then there were the face slimming rollers that were said to improve your blood circulation and make your face smaller. Personally, I do not believe in any of these slimming gadgets and I think I have a very different perspective when it comes to the definition of what is beautiful.

Asian women prefer to avoid the sun, because being pale or white is considered beautiful, whereas a tanned complexion is considered much more beautiful and sex y in the West.It is most certainly shaped by a person's culture as well as how they were raised in their childhood.

As each summer season approaches, there's no escape from it. But it's not only women who are affected by this pressure to look good. Men aspire to be able to show off their six packs or their V-shaped backs,and there's a growing market of slimming pills aimed at men too.

I think no matter what diets we follow or what slimming products we obsess ourselves with, at the end of the day there's no magic trick to shape up for the summer. Eat in a balanced way and incorporate the right level of physical activity. For me, this still seems to be the best plan.

Questions 19 to 21 are based on the recording you have just heard.

19. What overwhelms the speaker when she buys her summer outfits each year?

20. What does the speaker think of girls wrapping their legs up with slimming tape?

21. What does the speaker think affects people's interpretation of beauty?

Recording Three

Skin may seem like a superfi cial human attribute, but it's the first thing we notice about anyone we meet.As a zoologist focusing on the studies of apes and monkeys, I've been studying why humans evolved to become the naked ape, and why skin comes in so many different shades around the world. We can make a very good estimate from the fossil record that humans probably evolved naked skin around 1.5 million years ago, and meanwhile they mostly lost their coat of fur.

Today we have a few patches of hair remaining on various parts of our bodies. But compared with apes and monkeys, we have very little.Basically, we turned our skin darker to serve as a natural sun protector in the place of the hair we lost.We think we lost this hair because of the need to keep ourselves cool when we were moving around vigorously in a hot environment. We can't really lose heat by breathing quickly and loudly like dogs. We have to do it by sweating. So we evolved the ability to sweat plentifully and lost most of our fur. Most animals protect themselves from the sun with fur.What we did in our ancestry was to produce more permanent natural coloring in our skin cells. This was really an important revolution in human history because it allowed us to continue to evolve in equatorial environments.It really made it possible for us to continue along the path toward modern humans in Africa.

For most of human history, we all had dark skin. What we see today is the product of evolutionary events resulting from the dispersal of a few human populations out of Africa around 60,000 to 70,000 years ago. Our species originated around 200,000 years ago and underwent tremendous diversification—culturally,technologically, linguistically, artistically—for 130,000 years.After that, a few small populations left  Africa to pop ulate the rest of the world. These early ancestors of modern Eurasians dispersed into parts of the world that had more seasonal sunshine and much lower levels of sun radiation.It's in these populations that we begin to see real changes in the genetic makeup of natural coloring.

Today, skin color is evolving in the new mixtures of people coming together and having children with new mixtures of skin color genes. We can see this in almost every large city worldwide. Not only the coloring genes but lots of other genes are getting mixed up, too.

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

22. What does the speaker mainly talk about?

23. What had probably caused humans to lose most of their hair 1.5 million years ago?

24. What does the speaker say protected early humans from the sun?

25. What happened after humans migrated from Africa to other parts of the world?

1.C)。详解：凯西说她跟新娘布伦达在一起工作才六个月，但很快就成了好朋友。上周，她们刚完成了一个很难缠的客户的项目。因此答案为C)。

2.A)。详解：对话中男士说，他会在婚礼期间拍摄照片，并把这些照片当成新婚礼物送给新人。因此答案为A)。

3.B)。详解：对话中，凯西提到了nervous这个词，虽然她答应为布伦达的婚礼烤制蛋糕，但她还是有点紧张，她认为自己离专业人士还差得很远。因此答案为B)。

4.A)。详解：对话中，男士说女士烤的甜点很美味，并说凭她的活动策划经验，她完全可以开一家自己的店。由此可知，男士建议女士开一家蛋糕店。因此答案为A)。

5.C)。详解：对话中男士说，大学与高中有很多方面都不一样，与高中生相比，最重要的一点就是大学生必须对自己的行为担负起更多的责任。因此答案为C)。

6.D)。详解：对话中男士说，上了大学，言行举止就应该像一个成年人。因此答案为D)。

7.B)。详解：对话中男士明确指出，女士会交到有趣的朋友，但是她只需要结交那些能够尊重她在学业上的坚守的朋友。因此答案为B)。

8.D)。详解：对话中男士提到，大学里还有很多很棒的俱乐部，但是男士认为，除非这些俱乐部活动与学习直接相关，否则不应该在这些活动上花费太多时间。由此可知，男士认为大学生应该参加那些对他们的学业有帮助的俱乐部活动。因此答案为 D)。

9.A)。详解：短文一开头就提到，大多数成功人士都不怎么传统，他们的思想游离于传统的思维方式之外。他们不是去尝试改善旧方法，而是去创造新方法。因此答案为A)。

10.B)。详解：短文中提到，基利的实验产生了一套全新的滑雪技巧，而这些技巧几乎与当时公认的滑雪技巧完全相反。因此答案为B)。

11.C)。详解：短文中提到，在1966年和1967年，基利几乎赢得了所有重大滑雪赛事的奖杯。第二年，他在冬季奥运会上获得了三枚金牌，创下了滑雪比赛的最高纪录。因此答案为C)。

12.D)。详解：短文中提到，当把从极度愤怒或恐惧的人身上提取的血液样本注射到豚鼠体内时，它们不到两分钟就死亡了。因此答案为D)。

13.A)。详解：短文中提到，你的每一个想法都会在一瞬间对你体内的化学物质产生影响。因此答案为A)。

14.D)。详解：短文中提到，恐惧、焦虑、愤怒和健康是不可能同时并存的。简单来说，身体健康是心理健康的反映。由此可知，人们在情绪不好时依然能保持身体健康是不可能的。因此答案为D)。

15.A)。详解：短文中提到，我们的心理会在我们的身体里产生即时的反应，同样，我们的潜意识也会影响我们的健康。由此可判断，我们的心理和健康有着紧密的联系。因此答案为A)。

16.B)。详解：讲座中提到，初学钢琴或者刚刚学会打篮球的人关注的是低层次的技巧，而达到大师或专家级的演奏者或者球员则刚好相反，他们已经不受基本技术的限制，而能够拥有许多战术上的可能性，或是能够进行音乐方面的更多挑战。由此可知，钢琴初学者和钢琴演奏大师的关注点不同。因此答案为B)。

17.D)。详解：讲座中提到，聪明的篮球运动员和钢琴演奏大师都会时刻关注对高水平表现或演奏的要求，重视并完成挑战。由此可知，聪明的篮球运动员十分重视高水平的表现。因此答案为D)。

18.C)。详解：讲座中提到，视频所展示的内容证明了我们的传统观点。因此答案为C)。

19.D)。详解：讲话者提到，每年夏天她去商店买衣服都会被各种系列的减肥产品搞得不知所措。因此答案为D)。

20.B)。详解：讲话者提到，她曾经在香港看到有很多女孩把自己的整个身体或双腿用一种特殊的减肥胶带裹起来，目的是能让自己更瘦一点。但在讲话者眼中，她们就像她的妈妈通常在圣诞节时放在餐桌上的烤火腿。也就是说，这些女孩的样子在讲话者看来很奇怪。因此答案为B)。

21.A)。详解：讲座中提到，人们对美的理解与人所处的文化环境有关，也受人们幼时成长经历的影响。因此答案为A)。

22.C)。详解：讲座开头提到，皮肤是人体的一个属性，讲话者一直在研究为什么人类进化成裸猿，以及为什么世界各地有这么多不同的肤色。接下来讲话者提到，由于人类缺少毛发，皮肤变成了深色，以此来作为天然的防晒屏障；在人类进化历史的大多数时间，人类的皮肤一直是深色的，但是随着人类迁徙到太阳辐射水平较低的地方，他们的皮肤颜色又发生了变化；最后讲话者提到，当今，不同肤色的人聚集在一起又进化出了新的混合肤色，由此来解释讲座开头提到的为什么世界各地有这么多不同的肤色。因此，本文大意为人类皮肤的颜色，答案为C)。

23.B)。详解：讲座中提到，讲话者认为，150万年前，人类大量毛发消失，原因是人们需要在炎热的环境中保持身体的凉爽。人们没办法像狗那样通过急促、粗重的呼吸来散发热量，必须通过流汗来散热。因此，人们进化出大量出汗的能力，并失去了大部分的毛发，答案为B)。

24.C)。详解：讲座中提到，跟猿类和猴子相比，我们的毛发非常少。大多数动物用毛发保护自己不受日晒，而我们的祖先所做的是在我们的皮肤细胞中产生永久的天然色素。我们的皮肤颜色会变深，加深的肤色是对日晒的天然防护。因此答案为C)。

25.A)。详解：讲座中提到，一部分人离开非洲来到了世界各地。他们来到那些拥有四季变化、日晒也不那么强烈的地方，体内的天然色素的基因构成开始发生变化。因此答案为A)。