[外语类试卷]大学英语六级（听力）练习试卷20及答案与解析.doc

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1、大学英语六级（听力）练习试卷 20及答案与解析 Section B Directions: In this section, you will hear 3 short passages. At the end of each passage, you will hear some questions. Both the passage and the questions will be spoken only once. After you hear a question, you must choose the best answer from the four choices marke

2、d A, B, C and D. （ A） A chocolate chipmaker. （ B） A big real estate agent. （ C） A cookie factory. （ D） A talent agency. （ A） He couldnt sell the cookies. （ B） He was a bad manager. （ C） He was not a good salesman. （ D） He was sued for libel. （ A） Because he was sued. （ B） Because he gave up his trad

3、emark rights. （ C） Because he sold the company to the Shanby Group. （ D） Because he had no money to register. （ A） He was born in New England. （ B） He once worked for Harvard University. （ C） He was Edward Thomas friend. （ D） He wasnt awarded any prize. （ A） They contain no exaggeration of rhetoric.

4、 （ B） They are full of explicit morals. （ C） They force us to think. （ D） The lines and sentences are beautiful. （ A） Farming activities. （ B） The meaning of life. （ C） Revolution. （ D） Morality. （ A） What the US patent system was about. （ B） How the US patent system encouraged technology and creati

5、vity. （ C） How the US patent system protected Americans. （ D） The reasons for the patent system. （ A） Sue the government. （ B） Sue the individual. （ C） Close down the company. （ D） Sentence the individual to death. （ A） He could renew it. （ B） He could destroy it at random. （ C） He could sell it and

6、 make a lot of money. （ D） He could do nothing since the patent expired. （ A） It encouraged people to invent. （ B） It protected peoples invention. （ C） It publicized ideas that might be kept as trade secrets. （ D） It provided a way for people to make money out of ideas. 大学英语六级（听力）练习试卷 20答案与解析 Sectio

7、n B Directions: In this section, you will hear 3 short passages. At the end of each passage, you will hear some questions. Both the passage and the questions will be spoken only once. After you hear a question, you must choose the best answer from the four choices marked A, B, C and D. 1 【听力原文】 The

8、pioneer of chocolate cookies in America is “Amos cookies“. (20) Amos was a talent agent at the William Morris Agency who used home-baked chocolate chip cookies as a calling card. After a while, some of his famous clients began encouraging him to sell the cookies. They even invested in the Famous Amo

9、s Cookie Company, which he started in 1975 making him one of the pioneers of the gourmet cookie trend. Sales at Famous Amos hit $12 million by 1982 (21) His cookies were a success, but he was no manager, and his company started losing money. Amos had to bring in new money; from 1985 to 1988, he went

10、 through four different co-owners. Each time a change was made, Amos gave up more of his share of the pie. (22) By the time the Shanby Group bought it in 1988, Amos had nothing left; he even signed away his trademark “Amos“. In 1992, when he started a new company called “Wally Amos Presents: Chip an

11、d Cookie“, the Famous Amos Corp. sued him for infringement and libel. After an acrimonious dispute, Wally Amos agreed not to use his own name or a caricature of himself on the cookies and not to badmouth the company that owned his name. Wally Amos then moved to Hawaii and started another cookie comp

12、any called the “Uncle Noname Cookie Co“. This case is an excellent demonstration of the dangers of trademark ownership for entrepreneurs. 20. What kind of company was Amos with in the beginning? 21.Why did Amos begin to lose money after his initial success? 22.Why couldnt Amos even use his name in h

13、is cookies after 1988? 1 【正确答案】 D 【试题解析】 短文一开始说， Amos本来是 Willian Morris公司的一个 talent agent(人才代理 )，故选 D。 2 【正确答案】 B 【试题解析】 短文谈到， Amos的饼干生意不错，但是他不是个好的管理者，所以公司开始亏损，故选 B。 3 【正确答案】 B 【试题解析】 短文谈到， 1988年 Shanby Group收购了 Amos的公司， Amos一无所有，还放弃了他的 Amos商标，故选 B。 A项是强干扰项，正是因为Amos之前 已经放弃了商标权，所以才会因为使用自己的名字作为公司名被别人告

14、上了法庭， “被起诉 ”并不是原因，而是后果。 4 【听力原文】 Robert Frost was born in San Francisco in 1875 and was sent at the age of ten to live in New England, an area which inspired almost all of his poetry. He was educated at Dartmouth College, New England, and Harvard University. He became a schoolmaster for a short time

15、, and then a farm laborer. During this period he wrote poetry but with little recognition. (23) From 1912 to 1915, he lived in New England, where he became friendly with several poets, including Edward Thomas, and published A Boys Will in 1913 and North of Boston in 1914 In America his poetry was so

16、on admired, and he was awarded the Pulitzer Prize on four occasions between 1924 and 1943 He went on writing throughout his life, publishing Steeple Bush at the age of seventy-two. He died in 1963 (24) Frosts poems are revolutionary because they lack the exaggeration of rhetoric. Many of his lines a

17、nd sentences are plain and in themselves nothing. But they are bound together and made beautiful by a calm eagerness of emotion. (25) With his close observant eye and touch, we can feel the daily activities of farming and the landscape be it their background mowing, apple-picking, or mending a wall.

18、 These poems reflect a humane quiet concern and satisfaction in their rhythms and their gentle lyricism. Often there is an explicit or near-explicit “moral“, though sometimes this is hinted at rather than stated， and frequently there is an almost proverbial tone. We learn to trust Robert Frost. The

19、very lack of glamour or display in his poem gives them a stability and honesty. 23. What do we learn about Robert Frost from the passage? 24.What does the speaker say about Frosts poems? 25.What is described in Frosts poetry according to the passage? 4 【正确答案】 C 【试题解析】 短文谈到，从 1912年到 1915年， Robert Fro

20、st住在新英格兰，他和一些诗人成为了朋友，包括 Edward Thomas，故选 C。 5 【正确答案】 A 【试题解析】 短文谈到， Frost的诗歌没有夸张的修辞，故选 A。 B过于绝对化。 6 【正确答案】 A 【试题解析】 短文说从诗人的视角，我们可以感受到农场的日常生活，还有一些背景场景，比如犁地、摘苹果或 者补墙，故选 A。 D项是强干扰项， moral是Frost诗歌中蕴涵的感情，并不是诗歌的主题。 7 【听力原文】 (16) The American patent system, provided for in the Constitution, was designed to

21、 encourage the creation and use of new technology. An inventor would describe an invention, both in writing and with drawings, and submit the description with a model to a government official. This was a big improvement from the past when patents were submitted directly to the Secretary of State! No

22、w, if the invention was judged to be new and useful, the official would give the inventor a patent. The patent meant that for 14 years, later changed to 17 years, the inventor owned the new invention. Inventors could license their ideas to manufacturers or just use them themselves. (17) The governme

23、nt would not issue any other patent for the same idea, and the inventor could sue anyone who used the patented idea without paying the owner of the patent for permission to use it! A useful patent meant that the inventor could make a lot of money. In exchange for this governmental protection, the go

24、vernment published the patent specifications, which provide enough information so that other people could understand the invention thus adding to the general available technological knowledge. (18) And at the end of the 14 years, anyone could use the invention for free. (19) The idea behind the pate

25、nt system was twofold: it would increase the amount of technology, by providing a way for people to make money out of new ideas, and it would make new technology widely available, by publicizing ideas that might otherwise be kept as trade secrets. 16. What is the speaker mainly talking about? 17.Wha

26、t could the inventor do if the idea was used by someone without paying money? 18.What could the owner of the patent do to protect his patent after 14 years? 19.How did the patent system increase the amount of technology? 7 【正确答案】 A 【试题解析】 短文谈的内容是美国的专利体系的产生和运作，故选 A。 A项统领其他各项，主旨题的答案通常就是这类具有总包孕作用的选项。 8 【正确答案】 B 【试题解析】 短文谈到，任何人不付钱就使用某种专利，发明者可以起诉他，故选 B。 9 【正确答案】 D 【试题解析】 短文谈到，专利权有效期为 14年，有效期过后 任何人都可以免费使用这项专利，故选 D。 10 【正确答案】 D 【试题解析】 题目问 “专利体系是怎样增加科技量的 ?”D项符合 “听到什么选什么 ”。