英语六级听力考试预测模拟练习Model Test Ten

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[00:00.00]1.While the children are at the movie,I think I'll drop into Brown's Department Store and do a little shopping.

[00:07.39]M:Good idea.While you're there,will you pick up a couple of blue skirts for me?And I need some wine too.

[00:14.47]Q:What is the woman going to buy for herself?

[00:17.19]2.M:In the old days,people were proud of their work and built things to last.

[00:23.59]W:Nowadays you are lucky if they don't fall apart before you get them back home.

[00:28.16]Q:How do the man and woman feel about products made nowadays?

[00:32.81]3.W:I'm afraid Dr.Cahill won't be able to see you.His appointment book is filled for the next week.

[00:40.20]M:Oh,but I don't have to see him.I'll just leave my teeth in his office and he can look at them when he has time.They are false!

[00:48.40]Q:What is Dr.Cahill?

[00:50.99]4.M:Excuse me,could you please show me the way to the Water Band?

[00:57.26]W:Sure.Go straight for two blocks,then turn right and walk two more blocks until you get to the supermarket.It's right in the corner.

[01:06.40]Q:How far must the man walk to get to the Bank?

[01:09.67]5.M:I have not heard from my family for a long time.

[01:15.28]W:Don't worry,overseas letters are usually slow.

[01:18.58]Q:What can we learn from the conversation?

[01:21.08]6.M:Hello,may I speak to John Black please?

[01:25.73]W:I'm sorry.Nobody by that name works here.

[01:29.42]Q:What can we learn from the conversation?

[01:32.08]7.M:The light in this dining hall is a little too bright,don't you think?

[01:37.96]W:I say it's perfect for a basketball stadium.

[01:41.20]Q:What does the woman mean?

[01:43.26]8.W:Thanks a lot for offering to return these books to the library for me.

[01:48.54]M:Five books!But I have five of my own to take back too!

[01:52.74]Q:What does the man mean?

[01:54.44]9.M:Let's have a festival at the beginning of the school year to raise some money for the club.

[02:00.92]W:Good.That will get the ball rolling.

[02:03.53]Q:What does the woman mean?

[02:05.54]10.M:You know,the Andersons have invested all their money in the stocks.

[02:11.06]W:They may think it's a wise move,but that's the last thing I'd do.

[02:15.16]Q:What is the woman's opinion?

[02:17.56]Never before have so many people applied¹ such abstract mathematics to so great a variety of problems.

[02:24.93]To meet the demands of industry,technology,and other sciences,mathematicians² have had to invent new branches of mathematics and expand old ones.

[02:35.43]They have built a superstructure of fresh ideas that people trained in the classical branches of the subject would hardly recognize as mathematics at all.

[02:44.21]Applied mathematicians have been grappling successfully with the world's problems at a time,curiously enough,when pure mathematicians seem almost to have lost touch with the real world.

[02:57.01]Mathematics has always been abstract,but pure mathematicians are pushing abstraction to new limits.

[03:04.82]To them mathematics is an art they pursue for art's sake,and they don't much care whether it will ever have any practical use.

[03:13.23]Yet the very abstractness of mathematics makes it useful.

[03:17.38]By applying its concepts to worldly problems the mathematicians can often brush away the obscuring³ details and reveal simple patterns.

[03:27.73]Celestial mechanics,for example,enables astronomers⁴ to calculate the positions of the planets at any time in the pass or future and to predict the comings and goings of comets.