发布时间 : 星期三 文章2012年12月英语六级真题听力范文更新完毕开始阅读0197217825c52cc58bd6bef9
[12:51.62]When his young son’s pet mouse, Willie, died recently, [12:55.63]it was accorded a tearful ceremonial burial in the garden. [13:00.06]Yet even as they mourned Willie, says Herzog, [13:03.57]he and his wife were setting snap traps [13:06.83]to kill the pest mice in their kitchen
[13:10.13]with the bare change in labels from pet to pest, [13:15.24]the kitchen mice attained a totally different moral status. [13:19.78]Questions 26 to 29 are based on the passage [13:24.05]you have just heard.
[13:25.79]26. What does the passage say about [13:30.04]most of the mice used for experiments? [13:46.71]27. Why did the so-called bad mice [13:50.63]have to be captured and destroyed?
[14:06.40]28. When are mice killed without prior approval? [14:24.00]29. Why does the speaker say what the Herzog’s did [14:29.47]at home is ironical? [14:43.76]Passage Two
[14:45.90]There are roughly three New Yorks. [14:49.18]There is, first,
[14:49.92]the New York of the man or woman who was born here, [14:52.96]who takes the city for granted
[14:54.50]and accepts its size and its turbulence as natural and
inevitable.
[14:59.25]Second, there is the New York of the commuter — [15:03.16]the city that is swallowed up by locusts each day and spat out each night.
[15:08.41]Third, there is the New York of the person [15:11.11]who was born somewhere else and [15:12.72]came to New York in quest of something.
[15:15.61]Of these three trembling cities the greatest is the last— [15:19.12]the city of final destination, [15:21.79]the city that is a goal. [15:23.38]It is this third city
[15:25.22]that accounts for New York’s high-strung disposition, [15:28.21]its dedication to the arts,
[15:30.37]and its incomparable achievements.
[15:33.20]Commuters give the city its tidal restlessness; [15:36.49]natives give it solidity and continuity; [15:39.94]but the settlers give it passion.
[15:42.26]And whether it is a farmer arriving from Italy [15:44.51]to set up a small grocery store in a slum,
[15:47.29]or a young girl arriving from a small town in Mississippi [15:49.91]to escape the indignity of being observed by her neighbors,
[15:53.62]or a boy arriving from the Corn Belt with a manuscript in his suitcase
[15:57.73]and a pain in his heart,
[15:59.23]it makes no difference: each embraces New York [16:02.32]with the intense excitement of first love,
[16:05.46]each absorbs New York with the fresh eyes of an adventurer,
[16:08.70]each generates heat and light
[16:10.82]to dwarf the Consolidated Edison Company. [16:14.17]Questions 30 to 32 are based on the passage [16:17.28]you have just heard.
[16:19.29]30. Q: What does the speaker say about the natives of New York?
[16:38.83]31. Q: What does the speaker say commuters give to New York?
[16:58.00]32. Q: What do we learn about the settlers of New York? [17:17.05] Passage Three
[17:19.25]“If you ask me，television is unhealthy”, [17:22.00]I said to my roommate Walter, [17:24.31]as I walked into the living room.
[17:26.57]“While you are sitting passively in front of the T.V. set, [17:30.28]your muscles are turning to fat,
[17:32.50]your complexion is fading, [17:34.47]and your eyesight is being ruined.” [17:36.99]“Shh~” Walter put his finger to his lips, [17:40.30]“This is an intriguing murder mystery.” [17:42.93]“Really?” I replied.
[17:44.83]“But you know, the brain is destroyed by T.V. viewing. [17:48.93]Creativity is killed by that box.
[17:51.62]And people are kept from communicating with one another.
[17:55.07]From my point of view,
[17:56.78]T.V. is the cause of declining interest in school [18:00.07]and the failure of our entire educational system.” [18:03.63]“Ah ha, I kind of see your point.” [18:06.57]Walter said softly.
[18:08.28]“But see? The woman on the witness stand in this story [18:11.68]is being questioned about a murder [18:13.77]that was committed one hundred years ago.” [18:16.91]Ignoring his enthusiastic description of the plot, [18:20.66]I went on with my argument. [18:23.09]“As I see it,” I explained,
[18:25.50]“not only are most T.V. programs badly written and produced,