2024年3月30日发(作者：)

大学英语六级听力讲座专项强化真题试卷1

(题后含答案及解析)

题型有：1.

听力原文： Today I’ m going to talk about a very special kind of person.

Psychologists call them “ masters of deception” , those rare individuals with a natural

ability to tell with complete confidence when someone is telling a lie. [16] For

decades, researchers and law enforcement agencies have tried to build a machine that

will do the same thing. Now, a company in Massachusetts says that by using magnetic

brain scans, they can determine with 97% accuracy whether someone is telling the

truth. They hope that the technology will be cleared for use in American courts by

early next year. But is this really the ultimate tool for you, the lawyers of tomorrow?

[17] You will not find many brain scientists celebrating this breakthrough. The

company might be very optimistic, but the ability of their machine to detect deception

has not provided credible proof. That’ s because the technology has not been properly

tested in real world situations. In life, there are different kinds of lies and diverse

contexts in which they’ re told. These differences may elicit different brain responses.

Does their hypothesis behind the test apply in every case? We don’t know the answer,

because studies done on how reliable this machine is have not yet been duplicated.

Much more research is badly needed. Whether the technology is eventually deemed

reliable enough for the courts will ultimately be decided by the judges. Let’ s hope

they’ re wise enough not to be fooled by a machine that claims to determine

truthfulness at the flip of a switch. They should also be sceptical of the growing

tendency to try to reduce all human traits and actions to the level of brain activity.

Often, they do not map that easily. Moreover, understanding the brain is not the

same as understanding the mind. Some researchers have suggested that thoughts

cannot properly be seen as purely internal. Instead, thoughts make sense only in

reference to the individuals’ external world. So while there may be insights to be

gained from matching behavior to brain activity, those insights will not necessarily

lead to justice in a court of law. Problems surround the use of machines to spot

deception, at least until it has been rigorously tested. [18] A high-tech test that can tell

when a person is not telling the truth sounds too good to be true. And when something

sounds too good to be true, it usually is. Questions 16 to 18 are based on the recording

you have just heard.16. What have researchers and law enforcement agencies tried to

do?17. How do many brain scientists respond to the Massachusetts company ‘ s

so-called technological breakthrough?18. What does the speaker think of using a

high-tech test to determine whether a person is telling the truth?

1．

A．Build a machine that can detect lies.

B．Develop a magnetic brain scanner.

C．Test the credibility of court evidence.

D．Win people’ s complete trust in them.

正确答案：A

解析：题干问的是研究人员和执法机构一直在努力做什么。讲座中提到，数

十年来，研究人员和执法机构一直试图制造一台有测谎功能的机器，故答案为

A(制造一台测谎机)。B项(研发一台核磁脑部扫描机)、C项(检验法庭证据的可

信度)和D项(赢得人们的完全信任)均与讲座内容不符，故排除。

2．

A．They are optimistic about its potential.

B．They are sceptical of its reliability.

C．They think it is but business promotion.

D．They celebrate it with great enthusiasm.

正确答案：B

解析：题干问的是脑科学家对马萨诸塞州公司所谓的技术创新持何种态度。

讲座中提到，你会发现没有多少脑科学家在庆祝这一突破，因为该公司研发的测

谎机的可靠性还有待进一步证实，故答案为B(他们怀疑该技术的可靠性)。A项

(他们对它的潜力持乐观态度)和C项(他们认为这只是商业推广)在讲座中均未提

及，故排除。D项(他们热烈地庆祝)与讲座内容相悖，故排除。

3．

A．It is not to be trusted at all.

B．It does not sound economical.

C．It may intrude into people’ s privacy.

D．It may lead to overuse in court trials.

正确答案：A

解析：题干问的是演讲者对用高科技来判断一个人是否说谎持何种态度。讲

座中提到，用高科技判断一个人是否说谎，这听起来太好了，不可能是真的，故

答案为A(根本不值得信任)。B项(听起来不划算)、C项(它可能侵犯人们的隐私)

和D项(它可能在法庭审判中被过度使用)在讲座中均未提及，故排除。

听力原文： Last week, I attended a research workshop on an island in the

South Pacific. Thirty people were present, and all except me came from the island,

called Maklua, in the nation of Vanuatu. They live in 16 different communities and

speak 16 distinct languages. In many cases, you could stand at the edge of one

village and see the outskirts of the next community. [19] Yet the residents of each

village speak a completely different language. According to recent work by my

colleagues at the Max Plank Institute for the Science of Human History, this island,

just 100 kilometers long and 20 kilometers wide, is home to speakers of perhaps 40

different indigenous languages. Why so many? We could ask the same question

of the entire globe. People don’ t speak one universal language, or even a handful. [20]

Instead, today our species collectively speaks over 7,000 distinct languages. And these

languages are not spread randomly across the planet. For example, far more languages

are found in tropical regions than in the mild zones. The tropical island of New

Guinea is home to over 900 languages. Russia, twenty times larger, has 105

indigenous languages. Even within the tropics, language diversity varies widely.

For example, the 250,000 people who live on Vanuatu’s 80 islands speak 110 different

languages. But in Bangladesh, a population 600 times greater speaks only 41

languages. How come humans speak so many languages? And why are they so

unevenly spread across the planet? As it turns out, we have few clear answers to these

fundamental questions about how humanity communicates. Most people can

easily brainstorm possible answers to these intriguing questions. They hypothesized

that language diversity must be about history, cultural differences, mountains or

oceans dividing populations. But when our diverse team of researchers from six

different disciplines and eight different countries began to review what was known,

we were shocked that only a dozen previous studies had been done:, including one we

ourselves completed on language diversity in the Pacific. [21] These prior

efforts all examine the degree to which different environmental, social, and

geographic variables correlated with a number of languages found in a given location.

The results varied a lot from one study to another, and no clear patterns emerged. The

studies also ran up against many methodological challenges, the biggest of which

centered on the old statistical saying “correlation does not equal causation”. Questions

19 to 21 are based on the recording you have just heard.19. What does the speaker say

about the island of Maklua?20. What do we learn from the talk about languages in the

world?21. What have the diverse team of researchers found about the previous studies

on language diversity?

4．

A．Most of its residents speak several languages.

B．Some of its indigenous languages are dying out.

C．Each village there speaks a totally different language.

D．Its languages have interested researchers the world over.

正确答案：C

解析：题干问的是关于马克卢亚岛演讲者说了什么。讲座中提到，马克卢亚

岛上的每个村庄都说着完全不同的语言，故答案为C(那里的每个村庄都讲完全

不同的语言)。A项(那里的大多数居民都说几种语言)、B项(那里的一些土著语

言正在消失)和D项(来自世界各地的研究者对那里的语言感兴趣)均与讲座内容

不符，故排除。

5．

A．They are spread randomly across the world.

B．Some are more difficult to learn than others.

C．More are found in tropical regions than in the mild zones.

D．They enrich and impact each other in more ways than one.

正确答案：C

解析：题干问的是关于世界上的语言我们可以从讲座中了解到什么。讲座中

提到，地球上现在有7000多种语言，但这并不是随机分布的，例如热带地区语

言种类多于温带地区，故答案为C(热带地区的语言比温带地区多)。A项(它们随

机地分布在世界各地)与讲座内容相反，故排除。B项(有些语言比其他语言难学)

和D项(它们在很多方面互相补充、互相影响)在讲座中均未提及，故排除。

6．

A．They used different methods to collect and analyze data.

B．They identified distinct patterns of language distribution.

C．Their conclusions do not correspond to their original hypotheses.

D．There is no conclusive account for the cause of language diversity.

正确答案：D

解析：题干问的是关于之前的语言多样性的研究，多元化研究小组发现了什

么。讲座中提到，这些先前的研究都调查了环境、社会和地理变量与某个地区语

言种类的多少之间的关联程度。不同的研究结果差异很大，没有发现明确的关联

模式，故答案为D(对于语言多样性的原因并没有定论)。A项(他们使用了不同的

方法搜集、分析数据)和C项(他们的结论与之前的猜想不符)在讲座中均未提及，

故排除。B项(他们发现了语言分布的确切模式)与讲座内容相反，故排除。

听力原文： We often hear people say that America is a land of opportunity, a

country built on hope to aspire to greatness on the American dream. But as the dream

as we once knew is dying, [22] today’ s demographics show that the middle class is

disappearing. And now the richest one percent of the population has amassed more

wealth than the bottom ninety percent. [23] Once upon a time, Americans

thought that if they worked hard enough, even in the face of adversity, they would be

rewarded with success. These days, though, the divide between rich and poor is

greater than it has ever been. The question is, what is it going to take to change things?

Maybe one day soon, real change will actually be made in our nation, and the gap will

be eradicated. But what happens in the meantime? Is there something that we can do

to help close the gap? Is there something that we can do to prove that a little

compassion goes a long way? If we want to fix the problem of the income gap,

first, we have to understand it. It is a grim reality that you can have one person who

only makes around thirteen thousand dollars a year, while across town another is

making millions. For me, it is kind of astonishing. [24] And if you ask low-income

people what’ s the one thing that would change their life, they’ll say a full-time job.

That’ s all they aspire to. So why is it so difficult for so many people to find

employment? It partly comes down to profit-driven business models that are built

around low wage work and part-time jobs that don’ t provide benefits. [25] Businesses,

in order to bolster profits, hire employees as part-time workers only. This means they

are paid the lowest legal wage and receive no health care or other benefits provided to

full-time employees. Simultaneously, technological advancement and a global

economy has reduced the demand for well paying blue collar jobs here in the United

States. The cumulative effect of these two factors is that many Americans are forced

to take two or more part- time jobs just to make ends meet. What has become obvious

to me when it comes to the income gap is that there needs to be an opportunity for the

people at the bottom to push them back up and push them into the middle class to give

them hope in their ons 22 to 25 are based on the recording you have just

heard. 22. What do the surveys show about America, according to the speaker?23.

What did Americans use to believe?24. What do low-income people aspire to?25.

What do businesses do to increase their revenues?

7．

A．Its middle-class is disappearing.

B．Its wealth is rationally distributed.

C．Its population is rapidly growing.

D．Its cherished dream is coming true.

正确答案：A

解析：题干问的是根据演讲者所说，调查显示了美国的什么情况。讲座中提

到，今天的人口统计显示中产阶级正在消失，故答案为A(中产阶级正在消失)。

B项(财富分配合理)与讲座内容不符，讲座中提到最富有的1％的人比底层的

90％的人积累的财富更多，故排除。C项(人口正在快速增长)在讲座中并未提及，

故排除。D项(梦想即将实现)与讲座内容不符，讲座中提到的是美国人曾经的梦

想正在破灭，故排除。

8．

A．Success was but a dream without conscientious effort.

B．They could realize their dreams through hard work.

C．A few dollars could go a long way.

D．Wealth was shared by all citizens.

正确答案：B

解析：题干问的是美国人以前相信什么。讲座中提到，很久以前，美国人认

为，如果努力工作，即使身处逆境，他们也会成功，故答案为B(他们可以通过

努力实现自己的梦想)。A项(如果不认真努力，成功就只是一个梦想)和D项(财

富由所有公民共享)在讲座中均未提及，故排除。C项(几美元可能会大有帮助)

与讲座内容不符，讲座中提到的是一点同情心是否会大有帮助，故排除。

9．

A．Better working conditions.

B．Better-paying jobs.

C．High social status.

D．Full employment.

正确答案：D

解析：题干问的是低收入人群渴望什么。讲座中提到，如果你问收入低的人，

什么东西会改变他们的生活，他们会说全职工作。这就是他们所渴望的，故答案

为D(全职工作)。A项(更好的工作环境)、B项(薪水更高的工作)和C项(更高的

社会地位)在讲座中均未提及，故排除。

10．

A．Reduce the administrative costs.

B．Adopt effective business models.

C．Hire part-time employees only.

D．Make use of the latest technology.

正确答案：C

解析：题干问的是企业如何提高收入。讲座中提到，为了增加利润，企业只

雇用兼职员工，故答案为C(只雇用兼职人员)。A项(减少行政管理支出)和D项(充

分利用最新技术)在讲座中均未提及，故排除。B项(采用有效的商业模式)与讲座

内容不符，讲座中仅提到企业驱动利益的模式是围绕低工资和不提供福利的兼职

工作建立的，故排除。

听力原文： Today I’ m going to talk about a very special kind of person.

Psychologists call them “ masters of deception” , those rare individuals with a natural

ability to tell with complete confidence when someone is telling a lie. [16] For

decades, researchers and law enforcement agencies have tried to build a machine that

will do the same thing. Now, a company in Massachusetts says that by using magnetic

brain scans, they can determine with 97% accuracy whether someone is telling the

truth. They hope that the technology will be cleared for use in American courts by

early next year. But is this really the ultimate tool for you, the lawyers of tomorrow?

[17] You will not find many brain scientists celebrating this breakthrough. The

company might be very optimistic, but the ability of their machine to detect deception

has not provided credible proof. That’ s because the technology has not been properly

tested in real world situations. In life, there are different kinds of lies and diverse

contexts in which they’ re told. These differences may elicit different brain responses.

Does their hypothesis behind the test apply in every case? We don’t know the answer,

because studies done on how reliable this machine is have not yet been duplicated.

Much more research is badly needed. Whether the technology is eventually deemed

reliable enough for the courts will ultimately be decided by the judges. Let’ s hope

they’ re wise enough not to be fooled by a machine that claims to determine

truthfulness at the flip of a switch. They should also be sceptical of the growing

tendency to try to reduce all human traits and actions to the level of brain activity.

Often, they do not map that easily. Moreover, understanding the brain is not the

same as understanding the mind. Some researchers have suggested that thoughts

cannot properly be seen as purely internal. Instead, thoughts make sense only in

reference to the individuals’ external world. So while there may be insights to be

gained from matching behavior to brain activity, those insights will not necessarily

lead to justice in a court of law. Problems surround the use of machines to spot

deception, at least until it has been rigorously tested. [18] A high-tech test that can tell

when a person is not telling the truth sounds too good to be true. And when something

sounds too good to be true, it usually is. Questions 16 to 18 are based on the recording

you have just heard.16. What have researchers and law enforcement agencies tried to