大学英语六级改革适用(听力)模拟试卷160(题后含答案及解析)

大学英语六级改革适用（听力）模拟试卷160 (题后含答案及解析)

题型有： 3.

Section C

Have you ever made a profit from walking a dog? Do you like working

alone or in groups? Have you ever set a world record in anything? Answer those the

right way and you could land a job at Google. In its【B1】______search for more

engineers and sales representatives for its 【B2】______growing business, Google has

created an automated way to【B3】______ the more than 100,000 job application it

receives each month. Instead of simply looking for people with straight-A’s, it’s

starting to ask applicants to fill out an in-depth online survey that examines their【B4】______, behavior and personality. Questions concern everything from the age

the applicant first got excited about computers to whether the person has ever tutored.

They also【B5】______non-traditional information. This can include what magazines

the applicant【B6】______or what pets that person has. The answers are fed into

a series of【B7】______created by Google’s mathematicians that spit out a score from

zero to 100. This is meant to predict how well a person will fit into the freewheeling,【B8】______company culture. “Google has doubled its number of employees

in each of the last three years. As we get bigger, we find it harder and harder to find

enough people,” said Google’s vice-president for people operations. “Interviews are a

terrible predictor of【B9】______. With traditional hiring methods, we might 【B10】______some of the best candidates,” he said.

1． 【B1】

正确答案：desperate

解析：此处需要一个形容词作定语。desperate意为“急切的”，特别注意其中元音字母的正确拼写。 知识模块：单词和词组听写

2． 【B2】

正确答案：rapidly

解析：此处不缺主要成分，可以判断这里填入的是修饰growing的副词。rapidly的意思是“快速地”。 知识模块：单词和词组听写

3． 【B3】

正确答案：look through

解析：空格前的不定式标志to提示了这里需填入动词原形。look through意

为“审查”。注意不要把through写成thought或though。 知识模块：单词和词组听写

4． 【B4】

正确答案：attitude

解析：此处需要一个与behavior和personality并列的单数名词，注意attitude“态度”要双写t。 知识模块：单词和词组听写

5． 【B5】

正确答案：seek out

解析：分析句子结构，这里需要填入原形动词作谓语。seek out意为“搜出，挑出，想获得”。 知识模块：单词和词组听写

6． 【B6】

正确答案：subscribes to

解析：此空是和后面的has对应的谓语，主语theapplicant为单数，所以这里也用第三人称单数。subscribe to指“订阅”，不要忘了词尾一s。 知识模块：单词和词组听写

7． 【B7】

正确答案：formulas

解析：此处需要填入名词。formulas是formula“公式，方程式”的复数形式。 知识模块：单词和词组听写

8． 【B8】

正确答案：competitive

解析：此空需要一个和freewheeling并列的形容词。competitive指“竞争的”，注意其中有两个i。 知识模块：单词和词组听写

9． 【B9】

正确答案：performance

解析：此空应填入一个名词，与of一起修饰pre-dictor。performance的意思是“表现”。 知识模块：单词和词组听写

10． 【B10】

正确答案：overlook

解析：此处需要原形及物动词，与might一起构成谓语。overlook意为“忽

略，没注意到”。 知识模块：单词和词组听写

Some twenty years ago, the performance of girls and boys in class was

compared. Boys【B1】______better in exams, so various measures were introduced to

improve the performance of girls, including having single sex girl-only classes. Now,

the situation is【B2】______, with girls consistently out-performing boys. So,

what has【B3】______boys, and what can be done about it? John Dunsford, leader of

the association of head teachers of【B4】______schools, says that the academic failure

of boys is a problem which has its roots in society rather than the classroom. Girls,

more than boys, see education as a passport to a good job. On the other hand,【B5】______Penny Lewis, a head teacher, young men lack【B6】______, which they hide

with a show of bravado(虚张声势). They’re uncertain about their place in society.

Some boys grow up in families where there is no male role model to follow.

Moreover, boys may learn in a different way to girls, preferring small amounts of

work with immediate deadlines rather than large projects【B7】______the distance.

And education is not seen as “cool”. As one【B8】______to a BBC website put it,

“Girls achieve more at school because they are watching the future while the boys are

watching the girls.” This is not just a problem in Britain. In a study by the

Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development and UNESCO, girls

out-performed boys at reading at the age of 15 in all 45 countries. The UK【B9】______ninth out of the 45 countries for reading despite the fact that pupils in the UK

spend less time reading than in most other countries.【B10】______, the study

suggested that British children read for pleasure more often than those in other

countries.

11． 【B1】

正确答案：scored

解析：此处需填入动词作谓语。单词词尾的／d/音容易漏听，根据so引导的并列句中的谓语wereintroduced，可知此处也需要过去时态。score作动词时，表示“得分”。 知识模块：单词和词组听写

12． 【B2】

正确答案：reversed

解析：此空需要一个与is一起构成句子谓语的单词，可能是形容词或分词。reverse意为“使逆转，彻底改变”。 知识模块：单词和词组听写

13． 【B3】

正确答案：gone wrong with

解析：空格前的has表明这里需要用完成时。gowrong with的意思是“……出了问题”。 知识模块：单词和词组听写