篇章类型及提要：社会现象，经济相关

听力点睛：

本文介绍了在总体市场经济不景气的前提下，旅游业异军突起现象及其前因后果。文章开篇就介绍总的社会背景是各种不景气前提下，外出旅游成为人们的选择之一，紧接着以一个例子来证明。然后旅行社相关的权威人物的话语中更是证明目前旅游业正风头正劲。文章中出现的金融词汇，人名、地名及职务名称，如investment, investment, Namibia, Namibia, managing director of the U. K. tour operator Explore等。一定程度上会让考生觉得头疼，且分散注意力。这就需要考生有一定对重要信息的提取能力。人名、地名及职务名称等听过有个印象就好，不必过于纠结。

精剖细析：

26. According to the speaker, why are some people willing to spend their money on travel these days?

答案：B)They think travel gives them their money's worth.

解析：推断题。本题问如今一些人愿意把钱花在旅游上的原因。第一题通常从听力开头去定位答案。文章第一句"Everyone is looking for a good investment", 紧接着说明但如今股票市场，货币投资和公司都不太景气(crashing)，一些人就发现旅行不失为一个不错的“投资”，( taking the trip of a lifetime is actually a smart move) 这钱花得也值。

27. What is Tselana Travel planning to do, according to its founder?

答案：D) Launch a new program of adventure trips.

解析：细节题。看到Tselana Travel直接锁定目标，且听力中也给出了"planning to introduce..."排除其他选秀。 旅游业兴盛起来，那么相应的旅行社等必然会采取措施，争取吸引客户获得经济利益。所以听的时候我们要格外注意，要对旅行社的行为要注意听。p

28. According to Ashley Toft, managing director of Explore, what is changing now with regard to travels?

答案：B) The way people travel.

解析：细节题。关键词"Ashley Toft"和"changing"，考生容易选C选项，因为这个Ashley Toft也提到了last-minute bookings数字的增长。但是一定要把文章听完，最后给出了"Travel has become a necessity. It's just how we travel that is changing." 2个选项一对比，B选项更为合适。 The way people travel和how we travel用到了同义替换。也再次说明，听力首尾都是听力常考的重点区域，不可掉以轻心。

Passage Two

听力原文

Somehow the old male and female stereotypes no longer fit. Men and women in this country haven’t been fulfilling their traditional roles for some time now. And there seem to be fewer and fewer differences between the sexes. For instance, even though more women than men are still homemakers without paying jobs, women have been taking over more responsibility in the business world, earning higher salaries than ever before and entering fields of work that used to be exclusively male areas. At office meetings and in group discussions, they might speak up more often, express strong opinions and come up with more creative and practical ideas than their male colleagues. Several days ago, my 23-year-old daughter came to me with some important news. Not only had she found the highest paying job of her career, but she’d also accepted a date with the most charming men she’d ever met.

“Really?”, I responded,” tell me about them.”

“Receptionist in an attorney’s office and a welder at a construction site.” She answered in a matter-of-fact way. The interesting thing is my daughter’s date is the receptionist and my daughter is the welder. The old stereotypes of men’s and women’s work have been changing more quickly than ever before, except perhaps in my own marriage.

“Who's going to mow the lawn? ” I asked my husband this morning.

“Oh, I will,” he answered politely. ”That's men's work. ”

“What?” Irritated, I raised my voice. “That's a ridiculous stereotype. I'll show you who can do the best job on the lawn.”

The work took 3 hours and I did it all myself.

Questions 29 to 32 are based on the passage you have just heard.

篇章类型及提要：社会现象，两性关系

听力点睛：

本文介绍作者对男女关系的老套传统观念持质疑态度，并举例证明其观点。本文难词不多，2个例子也以对话为主，所以难度适中。文章第一句"Somehow the old male and female stereotypes no longer fit. "非常直白的表明了作者的观点。文章难度不大的，题目往往会比较讨巧，所以一定不能放松警惕。题目中的以推理为主的题目会相对比较多。

精剖细析：

29. What is the speaker mainly talking about?

答案：B) The changing roles played by men and women.

解析：主旨题。主要考察考生对主旨的理解。注意这里A选项容易让人混淆。首句中的old stereotypes会误导考生去选A。但A选项并不完整。文章不是讲老套传统的男女观念。而是对此的一个质疑，传统男女的角色正在不断改变。这也是六级做题的一个技巧。选项中出现和文章有关的重点单词，并不一定就是答案。选项还是都得仔细阅读。

30. What might women do at office meetings nowadays according to the speaker?

答案：A) Offer more creative and practical ideas than men.

解析：细节题。此题不难，关键词"office meetings'，文章中直接给出了"they might speak up more often, express strong opinions and come up with more creative and practical ideas than their male colleagues."排除其他选项。

31. Why did the speaker mow the lawn herself that morning?

答案：C) To show that women are capable of doing what men do.

解析：推断题。题目问主人公为什么要自己来修整草坪。文章最后是以一段对话体现。此题需要简单推理。首先主人公很明确的表示自己认为传统男女的关系及角色扮演正在不断改变，女性可以做好传统观念里男人应该做的事。 自己女儿就是一个很好的例子，是焊接工(welder)，而女儿男友则是律师事务所的前台接待。那么必然推断出作者本身自己的行为举止也是贯彻自己的这一想法。推断选C，排除其他选项。

Passage Three

听力原文

Florence Hayes is a journalist for the Green Ville Journal, the daily newspaper in town. Specifically she covers crime in the Green Ville area. This responsibility takes her to many different places every week——the police station, the court and the hospital. Most of the crimes that she writes about fall into two groups: violent crimes and crimes against property. There isn’t much violent crime in a small town like Green Ville, or at least not as much as in the large urban areas. But assaults often occur on Friday and Saturday nights, near the bars downtown. There’re also one or two rapes on campus every semester. Florence is very interested in this type of crime and tries to write a long article about each one. She expects that this will make women more careful when they walk around Green Ville alone at night

Fortunately, there were usually no murders in Green Ville. Crimes against property make up most of Miss Heyes’ reporting. They range from minor cases of deliberate damaging of things to much more serious offenses, such as car accidents involving drunk drivers or bank robberies but Florence has to report all of these violations from the thief who took typewriters from every unlock room in the dormitory to the thief who stole one million dollars worth of art work from the university museum. Miss Hayes enjoys working for a newspaper but she sometimes gets unhappy about all the crime she has to report. She would prefer to start writing about something more interesting and less unpleasant such as local news or politics, maybe next year

Florence Hayes

Green Ville

篇章类型及提要：

听力点睛：

本文主要从Florence Hayes，一位来自Green Ville Journal的记者的工作揭示Green Ville的治安状况。难词不多，难度适中，难词主要是对犯罪类词汇的，如violent crimes, crimes against property, rape, robbery等，考生平时阅读及词汇学习一定要各种类型都涉及一点，掌握一些基本的专业词汇。其次这类从一个人的角度去看的文章，既要注意文中主人公的主观态度，也要关注客观事实。题目很可能把2者混淆起来考查考生。

精剖细析：

32.What is Florence Hayes’ main responsibility as a journalist?

答案： B)Reporting criminal offenses in Greenville.

解析：问女主人公作为记者的主要工作职责。题目比较简单。文章开头就给出"Specifically she covers crime in the Green Ville area." 且后面文章都是介绍女主人公报道的也都是镇上发生的犯罪行为。A和C选项范围大了，D选项范围有小了。只有B选项正确。

33.What does the speaker say about security in Greenville?

答案：D)It has fewer violent crimes than big cities.

解析：细节题。4个选项乍看都是和小镇治安有关。需要一个一个去排除。A选项文章并没有给出小镇以前和现在的治安状况对比，排除。B选项，文章的确提到了rapes，但是并没有提及在downtown areas的情况，且Greenville是个镇。C选项assaults常发生在near the bars downtown不是school campuses。如果做题时没做好笔记，关注好细节，很容易选错。

34. What do we learn about crimes against property in the Green Ville area?

答案：A) There are a wide range of cases.

解析：细节题。关键词是"crimes against property"，最后部分的听力中有"Crimes against property make up most of Miss Heyes' reporting."说明在Florence负责的犯罪行为中，和财产有关的占了大部分(make up组成)。说明这种犯罪率比较高。A选项适合。C选项乍看像是答案，但文中并给出该类案件正在不断升级。排除。

35. What would Florence Hayes prefer to do?

答案：A) Write about something pleasant.

解析：此题听到prefer就知道答案应所锁定于听力最后。听力已经很明显给出"She would prefer to start..." C和D没有提到。B选项，文中的确提到了local news or politics，但这只是她可能想要做的事情的举例而已，并不是非常明确就一定要去做。"omething more interesting and less unpleasant"表明应该选A。

Section C Compound Dictation

听力原文

In America, people are faced with more and more decisions every day, whether it’s picking one of thirty-one ice cream flavors, or deciding whether and when to get married. That sounds like a great thing, but as a recent study has shown, too many choices can make us confused, unhappy, even paralyzed with indecision. ‘That’s particularly true when it comes to the work place’, says Barry Schwartz, an author of six books about human behavior. Students are graduating with a variety of skills and interests, but often find themselves overwhelmed when it comes to choosing an ultimate career goal. In a study, Schwartz observed decision-making among college students during their senior year. Based on answers to questions regarding their job hunting strategies and career decisions, he divided the students into two groups：maximizers, who consider every possible option, and satisficers, who look until they find an option that is good enough. You might expect that the student who had undertaken the most exhausted search would be the most satisfied with their final decision, but it turns out that’s not true. Schwartz found that while maximizers ended up with better-paying jobs than satisficers on average, they weren’t as happy with their decision. The reason why these people feel less satisfied is that a world of possibilities may also be a world of missed opportunities. When you look at every possible option, you tend to focus more on what was given up than what was gained. After surveying every option, a person is more acutely aware of the opportunities they had to turn down to pursue just one career.

36 flavors 37 confused 38 particularly 39 behavior 40 variety 41 overwhelmed 42 senior 43 strategies 44 who had undertaken the most exhausted search would be the most satisfied with their final decision 45 why these people feel less satisfied is that a world of possibilities may also be a world of missed opportunities. 46 a person is more acutely aware of the opportunities they had to turn down to pursue just one career.

36-46解析：

本次的复合式听写讲的是决策的问题。现代人面临着越来越多的决策，但是太多的选择会给人带来很多负作用。Barry Schwartz对大学毕业生的决策做了观察实验，把学生分为两类决策者：满足者和最大化者。研究发现决策最大化者尽管普遍比满足者获得薪水高，但是却并不对他们的决策感到开心。 这次的复合式听写稍微有些难度。需要注意的是需要加s的词flavors和strategies，在填写单词的时候要注意单复数。另外还有2个要填过去式或过去分词。此外，behavior的英式和美式拼写都可以。 这次写的三句句子中第一句后半句比较简单，除了注意单词exhausting不要写成exhausted之外，后一句很快就可以写出来。第二句why these people feel less satisfied is that a world of possibilities might also a world of less opportunities这句比较长，但是结构比较简单，单词也不难，考生要注意。第三句分为两部分，后半部分一个定语从句。前半句重点搭配为be aware of，后半句的turn down和pursue都是考生应掌握的词汇。

Part IV Reading Comprehension (Reading in depth)

Section A

Questions 47 to 51 are based on the following passage.

答案：

47. what is in your boss's mind

48. challenging our boss's authority

49. possible consequences

50. be proposed and reviewed

51. confrontations

47-51解析：

点评：本篇文章主要讲的是说no的技巧;如何向你的上司说no?如何对你的同事说no?

47题问的是“我们应当找出…，而不是直接对你的老板说no”;解此题，我们可以定位到文章的第三段The first rule of saying no to the boss is don’t say no. She probably has something in mind when she makes suggestions, and it’s up to you to find out what. 这句话说的是“老板在做建议的时候通常是她的脑子里已经有了一些想法了，而你应该做的就是找出这些想法。”所以应该填“what is in her mind.”

48题明确指出提问的是作者的第二条警告;回到原文The second rule is don’t raise the stakes by challenging her authority. That issue is already decided. “我们不应该冒险挑战老板的权威”。

49题讲的是“对于你老板的建议，你应该…以及给她一个可供选择的解决方案”;回到原文第三段 The third rule is to be ready to cite options and consequences. The boss’s suggestions might be appropriate, but there are always consequences. 后面作者列举了一些例子，都是关于consequences的解释;所以这里应当填possible consequences。

50题讲的是“为了保证公平性，有必要对_______的故事设立一个系统”;回答本题，我们可以回到原文倒数第二段First, you need a system for how stories are proposed and reviewed. 所以应填入be proposed and reviewed。

51题是针对文章的最后一段提问; By anticipating “what if …?” situations before they happen, you can reach understanding that will help ease you out of confrontations. 本句中ease out of和题目中的avoid异曲同工，所以，在这里填入confrontations即可。

总体来说，本篇文章难度适中，所有问题基本都可以从原文中找到答案;特别需要注意的是有个别地方需要考生注意一下格式的对应，比如说第50题的be proposed and reviewed。

Section B

Passage One

Questions 52 to 56 are based on the following passage.

52. What can we learn from the first paragraph?

答案：D. The general public thinks differently from most economists on the impact of immigration.

关键词：yet, boost

定位：题干中the first paragraph提示答案定位在第一段。根据关键词可以进一步定位。

解析：第一段第二句“The American public overwhelmingly thinks they’re bad.”说明美国大众认为移民是不好的。而后面紧接着的第三句话“Yet the consensus among most economists is that… provides a small net boost”说明经济学家认为移民是有促进作用的。这句话中的Yet和boost，就是与前一句话作了对比。说明了在关于移民影响的问题上，美国大众和经济学家所持的观点是不同的。选项D“think differently”对应原文意思，因此选择选项D。

53. In what way does the author think ordinary Americans benefit from immigration?

答案：B. They can get consumer goods at lower prices.

关键词：profit, lower prices

定位：第三段第三句。

解析：原文第三段第三句“these producers’ savings probably translate into lower prices at the grocery store”说明移民劳动力节约了制造成本，使得我们在小店里买的东西价格更低，这与选项B中的“goods at lower prices”对应，因此选择B。

54. Why do native low-skilled workers suffer most from illegal immigration?

答案：C. They have a harder time getting a job with decent pay.

关键词：low-skilled, reduce the wages

定位：第三段的最一句话。

解析：原文第三段最后一句话“immigration reduced the wages of the American high-school drop-outs…”中“high-school drop-outs…”高中辍学的人即选项C中“low-skilled workers”，而选项C中的“decent pay”与原文中“reduce the wages”对应说明了移民会导致低技能水平的当地人更难找到一份体面工资的工作了。因此，C的意思与原文最符合，此处选择C。

55. What is the chief concern of native high-skilled, better-educated employees about the inflow of immigrants?

答案：D. It may place a great strain on the state budget.

关键词：high-skilled, fiscal burden

定位：第四段第二句

解析：第四段第一句提到“what worried them most was the fiscal burden”说明当地的高技能人才最担心的是移民带来的财政负担。选项A“改变社会结构”，选项B“威胁了他们的经济地位”，选线C“导致社会不稳定，这三个选项与国家财政无关。而选项D“国家预算”属于财政方面，与原文意思符合，所以此处选择D。