2000年-20xx年06月六级听力原文

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onal Institute of Food and Agriculture won39。 t fund it, the National Institutes of Health won39。 t fund it, and the NASA funded it only briefly, Mironov said. It39。 s classic disruptive technology, Mironov said. Bringing any new technology on the market, on average, costs $1 billion. We don39。 t even have $1 million. Director of the Advanced Tissue Biofabrication Center in the Department of Regenerative Medicine and Cell Biology at the medical university, Mironov now primarily conducts research on tissue engineering, or growing, of human ans. There39。 s an unpleasant factor when people find out meat is grown in a lab. They don39。 t like to associate technology with food, said Nicholas Genovese, a visiting scholar in cancer cell biology. But there are a lot of products that we eat today that are considered natural that are produced in a similar manner, Genovese said. 9 30. What does Dr. Mironov think of bioengineering cultured meat? 30 A. It will help solve the global food crisis. 31. What does Dr. Mironov say about the funding for their research? 31 D. It is still far from being sufficient. 32. What does Nicholas Genovese say about a lot of products we eat today? 32 A. They are not as natural as we believed. 【点评】 这是路透社 2020 年初的一篇报道，题目为 “South Carolina scientist works to grow meat in lab”。 本文为食品科技类题材。 大意为生物工程技术应用在实验室生产肉，可改变传统肉类获得方 式，解决将来的食物危机，不过还需资金支持，同时人们还难以完全接受这种方式。 Passage 3 Bernard Jackson is a free man today, but he has many bitter memories. Jackson spent five years in prison after a jury wrongly convicted him of raping two women. At Jackson39。 s trial, although two witnesses testified that Jackson was with them in another location at the times of the crimes, he was convicted anyway. Why? The jury believed the testimony of the two victims, who positively identified Jackson as the man who has attacked them. The court eventually freed Jackson after the police found the man who had really mitted the crimes. Jackson was similar in appearance to the guilty man. The two women has made a mistake in identity. As a result, Jackson has lost five years of his life. The two women in this case were eyewitnesses. They clearly saw the man who attacked them, yet they mistakenly identified an innocent person. Similar incidents have occurred before. Eyewitnesses to other crimes have identified the wrong person in a police lineup or in photographs. Many factors influence the accuracy of eyewitness testimony. For instance, witnesses sometimes see photographs of several suspects before they try to identify the person they saw in a lineup of people. They can bee confused by seeing many photographs or similar faces. The number of people in the lineup, and whether it is a live lineup or a photograph, may also affect a witness39。 s decision. People sometimes have difficulty identifying people of other races. The questions the police ask witnesses also have an effect on them. Question 33: What do we learn about Bernard Jackson? 3 B. He was wrongly imprisoned Question 34: What led directly to Jackson’s sentence? 34 C. The two victims’ identification 10 Question 35: What lesson do we learn from Jackson’s case? 35 C. Many factors influence the accuracy of witness testimony. 【解析】 本篇文章讲述了 Jackson 因为被目击证人误认而被判刑，虽然最后洗清了罪名，但是却留下了惨痛的记忆。 文章接着论述了为什么会出现这样的问题。 可能是因为被害者对犯罪嫌疑人产生的混淆的记忆，或者在指认犯罪嫌疑人的过程中出现了不确定的情况。 虽然总体来说这篇文章难度不大，但是因为涉及专业知识，有一些词汇可能会成为考生的障碍。 例如：testimony: 证人证言； witness: 目击证 人； jury: 陪审团； sentence :刑期。 如果考生平时能对这些单词有所接触，这篇文章在理解上就不会出现太大的问题。 Section C About 700,000 children in Mexico dropped out of school last year as recessionstricken families pushed kids to work, and a weak economic recovery will allow only slight improvement in the dropout rate in 2020, a top education official said. Mexico39。 s economy suffered more than any other in Latin America last year, shrinking an estimated 7 percent due to a plunge in . demand for Mexican exports such as cars. The decline led to a 4 percent increase in the number of kids who left primary or middle school in 2020, said Juan de Dios Castro, who heads the nation39。 s adult education program and keeps a close watch on dropout rates. Poverty rose and that is a factor that makes our job more difficult, Castro told Reuters in an interview earlier this month. Hindered by higher taxes and weak demand for its exports, Mexico39。 s economy is seen only partially recovering this year. As a result, dropout rates will not improve much, Castro said. There will be some improvement, but not significant, Castro said. Mexicohas historically had high dropout rates as poor families pull kids out of school to help put food on the table, and children often sell candy and crafts in the streets or work in restaurants. The nation39。 s dropout problem is just the latest bad news for the longterm petitiveness of the Mexican economy. Mexico39。 s politicians have resisted mending the country39。 s tax, energy and labor laws for decades, leaving its economy behind countries such as Brazil and Chile. 【点评】 本篇文章谈论的是墨西哥失学率问题。 文章先开篇阐述了墨西哥失学情况的现状，然后谈到这一现状的原因和所造成的严重后果。 文中国家有关的 Mexico、 Mexican、 Chile 等部分考生可能不熟悉，而造成听力困扰，但这些实际并非考点，切记死盯部分词汇不放，而影响全篇理解。 11 最后，文中生词不多，实际内容对于喜欢阅读报刊杂志、关心时事热点的考生而言，能够根据日常经验有所预判。 这就提醒考生，听力同样也需要平时多多进行报刊阅读。 2020 年 12 月六级听力原文 Section A Directions: In this section, you will hear 8 short conversations and2 long conversations. At the end of each conversation, one or more questions will be asked about what was said. Both the conversation and the questions will be spoken only once. After each question there will be a pause. During the pause, you must read the four choices marked A), B), C) and D), and decide which is the best answer. Then mark the corresponding letter on Answer Sheet 2 with a single line through the centre. 11. M: I don’t know what to do. I have to drive to Chicago next Fr。