10.be closed

解析：定位到原文最后一段第一句。With effort and money, the graduation gap can be closed.

Part III Listening Comprehension

Section A

11.

M: I left 20 pages here to copy. Here is the receipt.

W: I'm sorry, sir. But we're a little behind. Could you come back in a few minutes?

Q: What does the woman mean?

答案：C. She has not got the man's copies ready.

解析：本题考的是文化场景，出现了copy 等词，还是比较基础的。原文中男生想出示收据来拿复印材料，然后女生说“ we're a little behind. ”(我们动作稍落后)意思就是还没复印好。

12.

W: I hope you're not too put out with me for the delay. I have to stop by friends' home to pick up a book on my way here.

M: Well, that's not a big deal. But you might at least phone if you know you're going to keep someone waiting.

Q: What do we learn about the woman from the conversation?

答案：B. She was late for the appointment.

解析：生活类场景题。注意对"be put out with sb"(对……生气)的理解;文中女生首先对自己的迟到表示歉意并解释原因;男生说不是大问题，但是你至少得打个电话给我。因此，我们知道女生迟到了。

13.

W: Mark is the best candidate for chairman of the student union, isn't he?

M: Well, that guy won't be able to win the election unless he gets some majority vote from women students. And I'm not sure about that.

Q: What does the man mean?

答案：C. It won't be easy for Mark to win the election.

解析：对话属于学习类场景，出现了majority , student union,和 candidate等相关词汇。考点在于对话中的肯定与否定类，即前面一个人提出观点，后面一个人采取‘取非’的态度;文中第一人说Mark是学生会主席的不二人选，而第二人则说除非Mark获得了大多数女生的选票，否则是赢不了的，因此还不能确定。

14.

M: Sorry to have kept you waiting, Madam. I've located your luggage.It was left behind in Paris and won't arrive until later this evening.

W: Oh, I can't believe this. Have it deliver to my hotel then , I guess.

Q: What happened to the woman's luggage?

答案：A. It failed to arrive at its destination in time.

解析：考短对话常考场景，旅游场景，其中hotel , luggage 等单词可帮助学生直接定位;第一个人(估计是工作人员)对旅客道歉说行李被落在巴黎了，要到深夜才能送到。旅客说这让让她难以置信，然后要求就把行李送到宾馆。由此可知，女士的行李还没有到达目的地。

15.

W: I don't think we have enough information for our presentation, but we have to give it tomorrow. There doesn't seem to be much we can do about it.

M: Yeah, at this point we 'll have to make do with what we've got.

Q: What does the man suggest they do?

答案：A. Just make use of whatever information is available.

解析：关键词presentation, 为校园场景。考点为第二人建议题，"at this point, we’ll have to do…"明确表示建议，将建议后的内容听出来就可以了。这里“we 'll have to make do with what we've got.”意思是“我们要善加利用手上已有的东西”。

16.

M: I am taking this great course-Psychology of Language, it's really interesting. Since you are a psychology major, you should sign up for it.

W: Actually I tried to do that, but they told me I have to take language studies first.

Q: What do we learn from the conversation?

答案：D. The woman isn’t qualified to take the course the man mentioned.

解析：关键词course，为校园场景。16题为典型的第二人but转折后出考题，音频中出现的psychology其实不需要知道意思，前面已经有course来解释了。这和六级一贯的难词前后有对其的解释的原则一致，并且psychology是六级学生应该掌握的词汇。 文中男生向女生推荐语言心理学这门课，女生说她有尝试报名，但是在参加课程前得先进行语言学习，因此推出，女生还没有资格参加该课程。

17.

W: Can you believe the way Larry was talking to his roommate? No wonder they don't get along.

M: Well, maybe Larry was just reacting to something his roommate said. There are two sides to every story you know.

Q: What does the man imply about Larry and his roommate?

答案：A. They are both to blame.

解析：17题为租房与住房类，出现了诸如roommate，get along等词汇。并且第二人用maybe给出建议，作为考点。女生首先提到Larry对室友的说话态度不好;然后男生提到有可能他的室友讲了些什么，Larry才会有如此反应。每件事都是有两面性的。因此双方可能都有责任。

18.

M: We don't have the resources to stop those people from buying us out unless a miracle happens. This may be the end of us.

W: I still have hope we can get help from the bank. After all we don't need that much money.

Q: What do we learn about the speakers from the conversation?

答案：A. They are in desperate need of financial assistance.

解析：18题为商务话题，关键词 resources，考题类型为观点态度类，答案出现在第二人woman回答处，出现不绝对模凌两可的词汇给出观点态度，此为本题考点。第一人话中讲到“buy sb. out”表示收购;对于这个词不认知问题不大，后面给出了提示，表明发生了问题。而第二人给出了建议。具体而言，第一人说情况很不乐观，第二人说还有希望，能向银行求助。由此可知，他们的经济状况不佳，急需帮助。

Conversation One

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Questions 19 to 22 are based on the conversation you have just heard.

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。

Conversation Two

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W: Your name Sanjay Kumar is that correct?

M: Yes, madam.

W: You claim you are traveling on a scholarship from Delhi University.

M: That’s right.

W: Now it seems that a hand gun was found in your luggage. Do you admit that?

M: Yes, but…

W：According to the statement you made, you had never seen the hand gun before it was found in your bag. Do you still maintain that?

M: But it’s true. I swear it.

W: Mmm, you do realize Mr. Kumar that to bring a hand gun into Hong Kong without proper authorization is a serious offense.

M: But I didn’t bring it. I … I mean I didn’t know anything about it. It wasn’t there when I left Delhi. My bags were searched. It was part of the airport security check.

W: Maybe so, but someone managed to get that hand gun onto the aircraft or it couldn’t have been there.

M: Someone but not me.

W: Tell me , where was your personal bag during the flight?

M: I had it down by my feet between me and the man in the next seat.

M: He was the only person who could have opened my bag while I was asleep. It must have been him.

W: I see. Have you any idea who this man was?

M: He told me his name, Alfred Foster. He was very friendly, after I woke up that is. He hadn’t spoken before.

W: Alfred Foster, we can check that on the passenger list.

M: He said he had a car coming to meet him. He offered me a lift.

W: Oh, Why should he do that?

M: So he can get his handgun back, that’s why. Please find him, Madam.

Questions 23-25 are based on the conversation you have just heard

23. D) Bringing a handgun into Hong Kong

解析：suspect 的意思是怀疑，题目问， Sanjay Kumar 被怀疑什么?对话的开头，女警察便说到，“Now it seems that a hand gun was found in your luggage”，也就是说在Sanjay Kumar 的包里发现了一把手枪，由此可得出选项D

24. D) He is suspected of having slipped something into Kumar's bag

解析：从对话中，我们了解到，Sanjay Kumar 并没有携带枪支，而是坐在他身边的Alfred Foster 栽赃嫁祸，趁Sanjay Kumar 睡着时，将手枪放进他的包里，slip 有暗中塞入的意思，对应选项D

25. B) Find Alfred Foster.

解析：对话的最后一句已给出了答案，"Please find him, Madam."Sanjay Kumar 请求警察能够找到Alfred Foster

这是一篇审讯对话，在最近三年的六级长对话听力中，还没有涉及，但是审讯对话并不难，我们可以从两人的语气，称呼中得出，如Sanjay Kumar 称那位女士为madam,女士的口气也比较硬，如用了“Do you admit that，tell me"等语句。这篇长对话既考察了对大意的理解，也考察了对细节的把握，其中24题，更像是一道推理题，对话中并没有明确指出Alfred Foster 把手枪塞入了Sanjay Kumar 的包内，但我们可以从Sanjay Kumar 的回答中推理出相应的结论，23、25题对细节的考察在对话中可以直接找到出处，总的来说，第二篇长对话还是比较简单的。

Section B

Passage One

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Everyone is looking for a good investment these days. And with stocks, currencies and companies all crashing, some are finding that taking the trip of a lifetime is actually a smart move right now. Prices are good, crowds are fewer and the dividends like expanded worldview, lifelong memories, the satisfaction of boosting the global economy—can't be easily snatched away. Sylvia and Paul Custerson, a retired couple from Cambridge, England, recently took a 16-day vacation to Namibia, where they went on bird-watching excursions. Later this year, they are planning a trip to Patagonia. "We're using our capital now," says Sylvia, "And why not? We're not getting any interest in the bank. If it's a place we really want to go, then we will go. We may as well travel while we're fit and healthy. "

Some travel agents are thriving in spite of the economy. "We've had more people booking in the first quarter of this year than last," says Hubert Moineau, founder of Tselana Travel, which is planning to introduce a new program of longer adventure trips, including polar expeditions and cruises in the Galápagos. "We're hearing things like, 'We don't know what the situation will be in six months so let's travel now' ", Ashley Toft, managing director of the U. K. tour operator Explore has been surprised to see an increase in last-minute bookings of high-priced trips to such places as India, Bhutan and Nepal. "It seems people would rather give up something else than the big trip," he says. Travel has become a necessity. It's just how we travel that is changing.

Questions 26 to 28 are based on the passage you have just heard.