英语六级听力短对话练习4
W: You know I’ve often wondered why people laugh at the picture of a big belly businessman slipping on a banana skin and falling on his bottom. We are to feel sorry for them.
M: Actually, Laura, I think we laugh because we are glad it didn’t happen to us. But of course there is also a kind of humorous satisfaction in seeing somebody self-important making a fool of themselves.
W: Yes, and there are a lot of jokes about people who are too fat or physically handicapped, you know, deaf, or short-sighted things like that. After all, it’s not really funny to be like that.
M: Oh, I think that’s because we’re embarrassed. We don’t know how to cope with the situation. Perhaps we are even a bit frightened we may get like that, so we laugh.
M: What about the custard pie routine?
W: What do you mean ‘custard pie routine’?
M: You know, all those old films where someone gets so outraged with his boss, He picks up a custard pie and plasters it all over the other person’s face.
W: That never makes me laugh much, because you can guess what’s going to happen. But a lot of people still find it laughable. It must because of the sort of the thing we’d all love to do once in a while and never quiet have the courage to.
M: I had an old aunt who used to throw cups of tea at people when she was particularly irritated. She said it relieved her feelings.
W: It must have come a bit expensive.
M: Not really. She took care never to throw her best china.
19. C)We derive some humorous satisfaction from their misfortune.
解析:从But of course there is also a kind of humorous satisfaction in seeing somebody self-important making a fool of themselves.一句中,可知,我们会嘲笑他人的不幸,是因为我们可以从中得到一种幽默的满足,derive from 意为得到,取得, make a fool of 意为愚弄,出洋相,所以正确答案是C
20. C) They don’t know how to cope with the situation
解析:人们之所以会嘲笑胖子或身体有残缺的人,是因为人们不知该如何处理那样的情况,文中有句有真相"We don’t know how to cope with the situation",所以正确答案是C
21. A) They themselves would like to do it but don’t dare to.
解析:custard pie 意为“牛奶饼”,题目问的是,为什么人们看到有人往老板脸上扔牛奶饼,会觉得很有趣?对话中也几乎是原封不动地给出了答案,那是因为我们也想做却不敢做。would like to do 是love to do 的同义替换词, dare to do 又是have courage to do 的同义替换词。
22. C) To relieve her feelings.
解析:relieve feelings意为缓和情绪,对话中提到,She said it relieved her feelings. 这位男生的阿姨自己亲口表示,当她被激怒时,会朝别人扔茶杯,来缓和自己的情绪,而不是如选项A 所说,to irritate them ,激怒别人。所以正确答案是C
这篇对话探讨的是心理问题,有些小抽象。但是大家千万不要被这阵势吓到了,只要事先阅读过一遍题目,听对话时定位准确,找到关键词,很多问题便迎刃而解啦。四个问题都是按照文章的顺序提问的,第一个和最后一个问题如大家所料,在对话的开头和结尾部分,所以开头和结尾仍是要严防死守之处。除此以外,同义替换词依然是重点考察项目,如would like to do , dare to do。这篇长对话虽然很多答案能从对话中可以直接找到相对应的原句,但是在做听力时,还是要仔细聆听,定位关键句,否则漏掉一句,做起题目来可能就会比较吃力了。