2016年12月英语六级考试听力详细解析
本次考试是自四六级考试委员会发布听力改革以来的第二次考试,六级听力部分已经从原有的小对话、长对话、篇章及复合式听写题型变成了长对话,篇章及讲座/讲话。在不断的调整过程中,今早四级考试难度略有下降。而刚刚结束的六级考试听力部分语速非常适中,且用词难度不大,总体来看,本次六级听力部分的难度持平于2016年6月的六级听力部分难度。而相对于四级听力,六级听力篇章与讲座部分一个非常明显的特征是词汇使用变得精准且多样,也就是我在课上一直强调的六级喜欢“替换”。这就要求以后的考生在准备考试的过程中,扎实做好词汇积累补充,而不能满足于某一个词义只了解一个单词。下面就各个部分进行详细解析。(因暂未拿到真题,所以所有参考答案部分为原文截取,各位可以酌情参考,能力有限,若有遗漏处,敬请谅解。)
Section 1 Long Conversation
改革前,长对话部分是跟在小对话部分之后的,共七题,今天新的长对话,仍然是两篇,只不过总题量多了一题,共八题。
Long Conversation 1
不出所料,访谈类长对话又出现了。本篇主要是采访一位气候专家,谈论全球气候变化问题,此类对话的节奏在课上已经完整梳理过。
Q1. What does professor Henderson say about his main area of research?
A: It links the science of climate change to economic and policy issues.
【原文】Some of our research is to do with the lightly impacts of climate change and all of the associated risks.
Q2. What does professor Henderson say about climate change?
A:It would be more costly to deal with its consequences than to avoid it.
【原文】To avoid risk.
Q3.What does professor Henderson say is a top priority in combating climate change?
A:The transition to low-carbon energy systems.
【原文】This involves huge transition tolow carbon energy systems and the transition is a tremendous priority.
Q4. What does professor Henderson advise us to do to better deal with climate change?
A:Plan well in advance.
【原文】Have global agreements. / Plan ahead.
Long Conversation 2
本篇对话为日常对话,主题是成功与运气之间的关系。
Q5. What are the speakers mainly talking about?
A: What determines success
【原文】Success and luck.
Q6. What’s the woman’s view of luck?
A: It means being good at seizing opportunities
【原文】How you respond to opportunities that come your way.
Q7.What’s the chief point that Ted Talks video makes?
A: Practice is essential to becoming good at something
【原文】All about practice.
Q8.What does the woman think is the funniest thing in the Ted Talks video?
A: Being passionate about work can make one wealthy
【原文】The idea of passion is important.
Section 2 Passages
改革前,篇章部分为最后一个部分,今天的篇章部分放在了第二部分,且由原始的三篇文章减为两篇文章。总题量由原来的10题减为今天的7题。
Passage 1
本篇主要介绍美国的魔鬼塔(Devil’s Tower)。
Q9. What does Devil’s Tower look like?
A: To stump of a giant tree
【原文】An enormous tree.
Q10. What cause the volcano’s outer layer to wear away?
A: Wind and water
【原文】Wind and water.
Q11. What does an Indian legend say about Devil’s Tower?
A:It was created by supernatural powers
【原文】Being formed by supernatural powers.
Q12. How did the rock god help the seven girls in the Indian legend?
A:By lifting them well above the ground
【原文】Lift the rock far above the ground.
Passage 2
Q13. What does the speaker say about drivers who stop at gas stations?
A:They will buy something from the convenience stores
【原文】Buy snacks and items that we can live without.
Q14.What does the speaker say about extravagances?
A:They can bring only temporary pleasures
【原文】The pleasure disappears long before the bills do.
Q15. What does the speaker want to show by the example of Chicago woman?
A:Small daily savings an make a big difference in one’s life
【原文】To decide whether the good is worth it.
Section 3 Lectures&Talks
在2016年6月的六级考试基础上,现在的同学们应该对讲座部分不太陌生了。实际上,lecture在框架和结构上,与篇章异同不大,仅仅是长度略长而已。其核心在于抓住节奏,即首先把控住讲座或讲话的主题,随后开始扩展其可能展开的框架与模式,随后在每个部分找住其被念到的部分即可。本部分共三篇,总题量为10题。
Recording 1
本篇主要讲述情绪。而开篇的模式与2010年12月第三篇文章的模式几乎保持了一致。如果你熟悉该熟悉模式,应该能很快进入听力状态。
Q16. What does the speaker say about negative emotions?
A:They are necessary in our lives
【原文】A natural part of being human.
Q17. 暂缺
A:They feel too overwhelmed to deal with life’s problem
【原文】Problems seem too big to handle.
Focusing on negativity just keeps it going.
Q18. How do positive emotions affect us?
A:They expand our mind
【原文】Increase our awareness, attention and memory.
Take in more information.
Hold several ideas in mind at once and understand how different ideas relate to each other.
Recording 2
本篇通过一个故事引入主题:3D打印技术。类似于故事类,含有5W1H的讲座,话题贴近生活,用词相对来说非常简单,此篇难度不大。
Q19. What does the speaker say about the skirt she is wearing now?
A: It came from a 3D printer
【原文】It is made of 3D printing.
Q20. When did the speaker start experimenting the 3D printing?
A: When she was studying at a fashion design school
【原文】Senior collection at fashion design school.
Q21. What was the problem with the material the speaker worked on at New York Fashion House?
A:It was hard and breakable
【原文】Breakable.
Easy to be scratched.
Q22. What does the speaker say about Filer flex?
A:It marks a breakthrough in printing material
Recording 3
本篇主题在开篇就直接给出:中小企业所面临的问题及解决方案。而原文也是根据该主题的几个关键点展开。框架模式非常清晰。找准框架,随后固定好节奏,选择听到的选项,注意部分词汇的替换即可。
Q23.What does the speaker say about the problem facing small and medium size enterprises?
A: They arise from the advances in technology
【原文】Having to adapt to rapid advances in technology.
Q24.What does the speaker say about the technology industry?
A: It is intensively competitive
【原文】Intensely competitive.
New products launched all-year round.
Companies strive to compete with each other.
Q25.What is a practical solution to the problems of small and medium size businesses?
A: Sharing of costs with each other
【原文】Cost sharing.