keys and scripts for Set 6

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Exercise Six

Section 1. Compound Dictation

People leading their own alternative lives are at the crossroads between technology and imagination.

live on line. The 27-year-old groom lives in Tokyo, and this is his bride, Nene. She lives inside Nintendo DS video game. Yes, Sal paid real money to marry a virtual woman, but he is not alone.

All of the on-line environment is kind of a stage for people to live out stories.

Welcome to WeeWorld. Millions offer up their credit cards to create their own avatar （人神化身） ’s more than 1% of the population of the entire world,

There is no more reality in the dollar than there is in a virtual island, than there is in the color of a car. Value is what society makes of it.

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People with a high level of dependence from the Internet show have much higher risk of depression.

But for some, the fantasy world offers something reality doesn’t.

What if you live in a small town and you’re a girl and you don’t have the just so body type. You (Please pause here for 40’’- 50’’)

Which brings us back to Sal9000, he says his avatar wife is better than any human relationship.

(Please pause here for 40’’- 50’’)

Lindsay Davis, ABC News.

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Section 2. Note-taking

Key:

1. Introduction:

A. Common knowledge: We are always being told that science is the heart of Britain’s battle to stay competitive.

B. Government’s efforts: budget C. Reality: D. Conclusion: there are growing worries Gordon Brown’s moves are too little, too late.

2. Body.

A. the famous names mentioned:

Isaac Newton, Michael Faraday Michael Faraday, Charles Darwin, Francis Crick

B. A contrast.

and won the Nobel Prize in 2002, failed to draw popularity.

C. This contrast can illustrate: how we are neglecting our former prowess in science, But that lags all our major rivals, France, Germany, the USA, and Japan, who devotes 3.1 percent of its economy to R&D. China is spending 1.3 percent

Script:

the Chancellor said As our science correspondent Tom Clarke now reports, there are growing worries Gordon Brown’s moves are too little, too late. guy walking down the street? Probably not, but John Sulston and

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of the University of Sussex is threatened with closure. The university can’t afford to keep it.

“Here we have one of our major departments which is closing, which will, has got 350 applicants to do its chemistry courses this year. And you really have to say is this compatible with trying to make sure that you’ve got a capacity within our science base in order to train tomorrow’s teachers, and in order, for instance, to be able to train tomorrow’s researchers.”

It’of another leading college. Last year, Exeter University announced its chemistry department would close. It’s the start, critics say, of a collapse of science (and ) higher education

“What we need is injection of money now, to bring about a position where we don’t see a further deterioration, so that some areas of the country will be almost without chemistry and indeed physics and other subjects. We need injection now in order that the investment they are making longer term can bear fruit.

“In his latest budget, Gordon Brown promised an extra billion pounds of research and development over the next 3 years. It’s all part of a scheme to boost spending on science, maths, and engineering over the next decade. About time, say British scientists, they are tired of trailing the USA, and who devotes 3.1 percent of its economy to ’s not just money the university science departments are lacking. Numbers of students with A levels in science and maths have been falling for years. Again in his budget Gordon Brown promised to fix 3000 more science teachers. But they take time to train, their pupils even longer to make it through to university.

“The issue is what do we do now to stop more and more chemistry, physics, mathematics departments closing. If there is a hemorrhage there, then there won’t be the departments for these school students to go to in 5, 10 years’ time.”

If nothing changes, more universities will join Sussex and Exeter in emptying out their labs, leaving Britain’s future scientists fewer outlets for their potential.

Section 3. SAQ

Study: Fast-paced TV cartoons reduce kids’ learning

Speed and unrealistic situations affect preschoolers

A new study finds that （1）young children have difficulty learning immediately after watching fast-paced television cartoons full of images and activities that are not possible in real life. It’s what some people are calling the “SpongeBob effect.”

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“SpongeBob SquarePants” is a cartoon character whose surreal and improbable undersea adventures are watched by children around the world.

University of Virginia researchers wanted to find out whether watching “SpongeBob” affected kids’ ability to learn immediately after seeing the show.

To find out, a group of four-year-old children watched either a short video of “SpongeBob,” or a slower-paced and more realistic animated show called “Caillou.”

A third group of children spent time drawing instead of watching television.

Afterward, explains researcher Angeline Lillard, they all took standardized tests designed to measure their （2）ability to concentrate, learn, and solve problems - what psychologists call “executive function.”

“And what we found is that children who had been in the “SpongeBob” group were performing only about half as well as the other children. So they were at about 50 percent capacity.”

The four-year-olds in this study are at a critical age, when the prefrontal cortex is still developing. That is the part of the brain where (3)problem-solving and related functions are located.

Lillard says one reason why a show like “SpongeBob SquarePants” might affect learning is its combination of speed and content.

“It’s fast-paced and it’s fantastical. So the child is needing to process all this new stuff really, really fast, and it’s difficult to process since(4) it doesn’t really happen in real life.”

Lillard cautions that her study looked only at how young children learned immediately after watching the TV shows, so she cannot say (5)whether watching these kinds of programs have a permanent effect on learning.

“But I would say that parents might want to think about when children watch such shows and perhaps how frequently they watch them as well because they are certainly compromised immediately afterwards.”

Lillard’s study is published in the journal Pediatrics.

Section 4: Listening and Translating

1. Most scientists agree that the planet is warming. In the face of more frequent and more severe

floods, droughts and heavy rainfall that can devastate crops, forecasts are

到2080年全世界的可灌溉小麦产量预计会下降将近十分之一。南非的重要作物玉米在将近20年的世界里可能会下降多达百分之三十。

2. Yves Gomes is now a university student in Maryland. But he may soon have to leave the

2013年大学英语6级答案

Gomes是在美国长大的数以千计的非法年轻移民中的一员，现在就读于美国的大学。

3. The worldwide Organization of the Red Cross stems from the ideal of Henri Dunant, a Swiss

Banker. In 1838 at the age of ten, Dunant was taken by his father to visit a prison. There he saw prisoners chained together exercising in the yard and breaking stones along the road.

在那里他看到监狱的囚犯由锁链链到一起在院子操练，沿着马路破石头。这一经历给他留下了很深的印象，让他下定决心要为犯人、奴隶还有那些被压迫和被剥夺了自由的人们做些事。

4. The Golden Gate Bridge joins the beautiful city of San Francisco with the suburbs to the

north. Each day about one hundred thousand automobiles cross the bridge taking people to

这些人之中的一半以上是在早晚的交通高峰时候跨越大桥的，那时候的交通非常繁忙，乘车穿越大桥可并不是一件令人愉快的事。

5. 7 of out 10 people loose at least half of their teeth by the time they are fifty. Many have a

complete set of false teeth by that time. In any case neither toothache nor a visit to a dentist is very pleasant.

所以，尽量长期地保住自己的牙齿是值得努力去做的。主要的牙防药物就是水。