College English Test Band 6
Part II Listening Comprehension
Section A
Directions: In this ction, you will hear two long conversations. At the end of each conversation, you will hear four questions. Both the conversation and the questions will be spoken only once. After you hear a question, you must choo the best answer from the four choices marked A), B), C) and D).Then mark the corresponding letter on Answer Sheet 1 with a single line through the centre.
Conversation One
M: Excu me. Where’s your rock music ction? 抱歉，你们的摇滚乐区在哪里?
W: Rock music? I’m sorry, we’re a jazz store. We don’t have any rock and roll. 摇滚音乐吗?对不起，我们是一家爵士乐店。我们没有摇滚乐。
M: Oh, you only have jazz music? Nothing el? 哦，你们只有爵士乐?没有别的了吗? W: That’s right. We’re the only record store in London dedicated exclusively to jazz. 是的。我们是伦敦唯一一家专门卖爵士乐的唱片店。
Actually, we’re more than just a record store. 事实上，我们不仅仅是一家唱片店。
We have a caf and library upstairs and a ticket office down the hall, where you can buy tickets to all the major jazz concerts in the city. 我们楼上有一个咖啡馆和一个图书馆，大厅下面有一个售票处，在那里你可以买到城里所有主要爵士音乐会的票。
Also, we have our own studio next door, where we produce albums for up-and-coming artists. 此外，我们在隔壁有自己的工作室，为崭露头角的艺术家制作专辑。
We’re committed to fostering new music talent. 我们致力于培养新的音乐人才。
M: Wow! That’s so cool! I guess there’s not much of a jazz scene anymore. 哇!那真是太酷了!我想现在已经没有多少爵士乐的场景了。
Not like they ud to be, but here you’re trying to promote this great music genre. 不像他们过去那样，但你在努力推广这种伟大的音乐流派。
W: Yes, indeed, nowadays most people like to listen to pop and rock music. 是的，的确，现在大多数人都喜欢听流行音乐和摇滚乐。
Hip hop music from America is also getting more and more popular. 来自美国的嘻哈音乐也越来越受欢迎。
So as a result, there’re fewer listeners of jazz, which is a great shleft
ame, becau it’s an incredibly rich genre. 结果，听爵士乐的人就少了，这是一个很大的遗憾，因为爵士乐是一种非常丰富的音乐类型。
But that’s not to say there isn’t any good new jazz music being made out there anymore. 但这并不是说现在已经没有新的爵士乐制作出来了。
Far from it. It’s just a much smaller market today. 远非如此。只不过今天的市场要小得多。M: So how would you define jazz? 那么你如何定义爵士乐呢?
W: Well, interestingly enough, there’s no agreed-upon definition of jazz. 嗯，有趣的是，人们对爵士乐并没有一致的定义。
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most don’t. 事实上，爵士乐有许多不同的风格。有些人会唱歌，但大多数人不会。
Some are electric and some aren’t. Some contain live experimentation, but not always. 有些是电动的，有些不是。有些包含现场实验，但并不总是这样。
While there’s no simple definition for it, and while there’re many different styles of jazz, you simply know it when you hear it. 虽然没有简单的定义，虽然爵士乐有许多不同的风格，但当你听到它的时候，你就会知道它是什么。
Honestly, the only way to know what jazz is, is listen to it yourlf. 老实说，要知道爵士乐是什么，唯一的方法就是你自己去听。
As a great trumpet player, Louis Armstrong said, if you gotta ask, you’ll never know. 作为一个伟大的小号演奏家，路易斯阿姆斯特朗曾经说过，如果你要问，你永远不会知道。Questions 1 to 4 are bad on the conversation you have just heard.
1 What do we learn about the woman’s store? 关于女士的商店，我们了解到了什么?
2 What does the man say about jazz music? 关于爵士乐，男士说了什么?
3 What does the woman say about jazz? 关于爵士乐，女士说了什么?
4 What should you do to appreciate different styles of jazz according to the woman? 根据女士所说，你应该怎样欣赏不同风格的爵士乐?
Conversation Two
M: How did it go at the bank this morning? 今天早上在银行怎么样?
W: Not well, my proposal was rejected. 不太好，我的申请被拒绝了。
M: Really, but why? 真的吗，但是为什么呀?
W: Bunch of reasons. For starters, they said my credit history was not good enough. 有很多原因。首先，他们说我的信用记录不够好。
M: Do they say how you could improve that? 他们有没有说你该如何改进呢?
W: Yes, they said that after five more years of paying my mortgage, 是的，他们说在我还了5年的抵押贷款后，
then I will become a more viable candidate for a business loan. 我将成为一个更可靠的商业贷款申请人。
But right now, it’s too risky for them to lend me money. 但是现在，他们借钱给我风险太大了。
They fear I will default on any business loan I’m given. 他们担心我会拖欠任何给我的商业贷款。
M: Well, that doesn’t sound fair. Your business idea is amazing. 好吧，听起来不太公平。你的商业想法太棒了。
Did you show them your business plan? What did they say? 你给他们看你的商业计划了吗?他们怎么说?
W: They didn’t really articulate any position regarding the actual business plan. 对于实际的商业计划，他们并没有阐明任何立场。
They simply looked at my credit history and determined it was not good enough. 他们只是看了看我的信用记录，认定我的信用记录不够好。
They said the bank has strict guidelines and requirements as to who they can lend money to. 他们表示，对于向谁放贷，银行有着严格的指导方针和要求。
And I simply don’t meet their financial threshold. 而我根本达不到他们的信贷门槛。
M: What if you ask for a smaller a鹦鹉的英文
mount? 那如果你要求金额少一点呢?
Maybe you could gather capital from other sources, smaller loans from more lenders? 也许你可以从其他渠道筹集资金，从更多的贷款人那里获得小额贷款?
W: You don’t get it. It doesn’t matter the size of the loan I ask for or the type of business I
propo. That’s all inconquential. 你不明白。我申请的贷款规模和我计划的业务类型都不重要。这都是无关紧要的。
The first thing every bank will do is studying how much money I have and how much debt I have before they decide whether or not to lend me any more money. 每个银行要做的第一件事是研究我有多少钱，我有多少债务，然后再决定是否再借给我钱。
If I want to continue ahead with this dream of owning my own business, I have no other choice but to build up my own finances. 如果我想继续拥有自己的事业，我别无选择，只能建立自己的财政。
I need around 20% more in personal savings and 50% less debt. That’s all there is to it. 我需要多20%的个人储蓄，少50%的债务。就是这样。
M: I e now. Well, it’s a huge pity that they rejected your request, but don’t lo hope. 现在我明白了。唉，很遗憾他们拒绝了你的申请，但不要失去希望。
I still think that your idea is great and that you will turn it into a phenomenal success. 我仍然认为你的想法是伟大的，你会把它变成一个非凡的成功。
Questions 5 to 8 are bad on the conversation you have just heard.
5 What did the woman do this morning? 女士今天早上做了什么?
6 Why was the woman’s proposal rejected? 为什么女士的申请被拒绝了?
7 What is the woman planning to do? 女士打算做什么?
8 What does the man suggest the woman do? 男士建议女士做什么?
Section B
Directions: In this ction, you will hear two passages.
At the end of each passage, you will hear three or four questions.
Both the passage and the questions will be spoken only once.
After you hear a question, you must choo the best answer from the four choices marked A), B), C) and D).
Then mark the corresponding letter on Answer Sheet 1 with a single line through the centre. Passage One
There’s a lot about Leo Sanchez and his farm in Salinas, California that ems unusual. 利奥桑切斯和他在加州萨利纳斯的农场有很多不寻常之处。
The national average 埃及语言
farm size is around 440 acres, but his is only one acre. 全国农场的平均面积约440英亩，但他的只有一英亩。
The average age of farmers hovers around 58 years old, but he is just 26. 农民的平均年龄在58岁左右，而他只有26岁。
And Sanchez constantly attempts to improve everything from eding techniques out in the field to the promotion and sale of his produce online. 桑切斯不断尝试改进每一件事，从田间播种技术到在线推广和销售他的产品。
This is evidence of an experimental approach. 这是实验方法的证据。
It’s an approach not dictated by the confines of conventional, large-scale agriculture led by international corporations. 这种方法不受国际公司主导的传统大规模农业的限制。While farming is oft
en difficult for both the body and mind, 尽管种地对人们的身体和精神来说通常都很困难，
Sanchez says he and many of his fellow young farmers are motivated by a desire to t a new standard for agriculture. 但桑切斯说，他和许多年轻的农民伙伴们都有一种为农业设立新标准的愿望。
Many of them are employing a multitude of technologies, some new not so new. 他们中的许多人正在使用多种技术，有些是新的，有些……是不那么新的。Re理论培训
cently, Sanchez bought a hand-operated tool which pulls out weeds and loons soil. 最近，桑切斯买了一个手动除草和松土的工具。
It actually dates back to at least 1701. 它至少可以追溯到1701年。
It stands in sharp contrast to Sanchez’s other gadget: a gas-powered flame weed-killer inve短下巴
nted in 1997. 这与桑切斯的另一项发明形成了鲜明的对比:1997年发明的一种以燃气为动力的火焰除草器。
He simply doesn’t discriminate when it comes to the newness of tools. If it works, it works. 当谈到工具的新颖性时，他就丝毫不加区别了。如果起作用了，那就成功了。Farmers have a long history of invention, and it’s no different today. 农民的发明历史悠久，今天也不例外。
Young farmers are guided by their love of agriculture and aided by their knowledge of technology. 年轻的农民以他们对农业的热爱为指导，以他们的技术知识为辅助。
