1、大学英语六级改革适用（听力）模拟试卷 161（无答案）Section C0 Just like Chinese, Westerners give gifts on many occasions, such as, on birthdays of family members, at weddings, at Christmas and some other holidays, when someone【B1 】_an honor or gets a promotion, and on a【B2】_visit to a good friend, etc. Although gifts are a
2、lways welcome, it is not necessary to exchange gifts at any time.【 B3】_, Westerners exchange gifts only among good friends. Therefore, it is inappropriate to give gifts to casual【B4】_. Even if you are good friends, if you give them too many gifts, they will feel【B5】_too, because they dont know how t
3、o reciprocate. Usually when you are invited to dinner, it is【B6】_unnecessary to bring a gift except on special occasions, for example, when you are going to be an overnight or weekend guest. If you wish to bring something,【B7】 _, the gifts should always be small, simple and 【B8】 _. You might bring s
4、ome sweets, or some small toys for the children, or a book, some flowers, a bottle of wine, etc. for the host or hostess. If you like, you can wrap the gifts, but wrapping is not always necessary. If you want to make your gifts special, you can bring some typical Chinese goods, such as, Chinese tea,
5、 Chinese bookmarkers, Chinese paper-cuts, Chinese paintings, or other things like that, or even you can cook a Chinese dish and bring it with you. Westerners【B9】_open a gift at once and admire it. They would thank you and make some comment about the gifts beauty or practicality so that you know your
6、 gift is highly appreciated. Westerners value homemade things. When they ask you whether the gift is homemade, in fact, they are【B10】_you. They are trying to tell you that you are skillful and talented enough to make it.1 【B1 】2 【B2 】3 【B3 】4 【B4 】5 【B5 】6 【B6 】7 【B7 】8 【B8 】9 【B9 】10 【B10 】10 Recei
7、ving visitors and guests is an important part of the secretarys daily routine in the office. There is a certain【B1】_for receiving visitors. A secretary should find out whether the visitor has an【B2】_or not. If the visitor is an important customer, the boss or his secretary will【B3】_the reception roo
8、m to greet the visitor. Sometimes the secretary or the receptionist【B4】_or accompanies the visitor to the bosss office. Using the visitors name when he arrives is a friendly gesture and gives the visitor a good impression of the company or organization. When the secretary and the visitor arrive at t
9、he bosss office, the secretary【B5】_the visitors name, title and position, and introduces the boss to him. When a visitor cannot be【B6 】_, the secretary should apologize and make some suggestion for an【B7 】_meeting. If a meeting is impossible, the secretary should express regret and explain, with car
10、e and tact, what has happened, so that the visitors feelings are not hurt. A secretary should【B8】_that includes dates, times, names and the organization the visitor works for. A secretary can then turn this for help if there is a request for information. A secretary should be polite, helpful, well-s
11、poken, always smiling and warm. When a visitor is waiting to see the boss, the secretary should invite him to sit in an easy chair and give him a newspaper or magazine to help him relax, or a【B9】_about the company to publicize it. And if there is a delay, apologize and offer a cup of coffee or tea a
12、nd keep him fully【B10 】_the situation.11 【B1 】12 【B2 】13 【B3 】14 【B4 】15 【B5 】16 【B6 】17 【B7 】18 【B8 】19 【B9 】20 【B10 】20 Karaoke may never be the same, thanks to research being presented in Nashville detailing the latest findings in efforts to create a computerized system that makes average singers
13、 sound like professionals. “Our【B1 】_goal is to have a computer system that will【B2】_a poor singing voice into a great singing voice,“ said Mark J.T. Smith, a professor of Purdue University, who【B3 】_a graduate student Matthew Lee to create computer models for voice analysis and synthesis. These mod
14、els break the human singing voice into components that can be【B4】_to produce a more professional-sounding rendition(演唱)of the original voice. Far more work is needed before the system is finished, Smith said. He said the specialized programs are, however, able to alter certain important【B5 】_of a pe
15、rsons voice, such as pitch, duration. Lee will present the latest research findings during the 145th Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America in Nashville, Tenn, the nations country music capital. He will【B6 】_the system by playing before-and-after country music【B7】_clips to researchers there. T
16、he system uses a special technique to break down the original voice. The voice is then reconstructed using a mathematical method which enables the system to resynthesize the voice quickly. Smith, who【B8】_signal processing, began working on the underlying “sinusoidal mode“(正弦曲线投影模式)in the mid-1980s.
17、The model enables the human singing voice to be broken into components. More recently, Smith and Lee developed a method for modifying to improve the quality of singing. “While we have【B9】_improving the quality of the singing voice samples in our database, we also face the challenge of handling all types of voices【B10】_,“ Smith said. “There are many challenges in developing a system of this type.“21 【B1 】22 【B2 】23 【B3 】24 【B4 】25 【B5 】26 【B6 】27 【B7 】28 【B8 】29 【B9 】30 【B10 】
