2009年6月英語(yǔ)六級(jí)聽力成功指南(第二十八期)

　　Questions 30 to 33 are based on the passage you've just heard.

　　30. What is soap opera?

　　31. What can be the best title for the passage?

　　32. Which are not the reasons why the soap opera suddenly becomes "in" according to the passage?

　　33. What can we learn from the passage?

　　Passage 10

　　Everywhere we look we see Americans running. They run for every reason anybody could think of. They run for heath, for beauty, to lose weight, to feel fit and because it's the thing they love to do. Every year, for example, thousands upon thousands of people run in one race, the Boston Marathon, the best known long distance race in the United States. In recent years, there have been nearly 5,000 official competitors and it takes three whole minutes for the crowd of runners just to cross the starting line. You may have heard the story of the Greek runner Pheidippides. He ran from Marathon to Athens to deliver the news of the great victory 2,500 years ago. No one knows how long it took him to run the distance. But the story tells us that he died in the effort. Today no one will die in a Marathon race. But the effort is still enormous. Some does come in first in this tiring foot race. But at the finish line we see what this race is about: not being first but finishing. The real victory is not over one's fellow runners but over one's own body. It's a victory of will-power over fatigue. In the Boston Marathon each person who crosses that finish line is a winner.

　　Questions 34 to 36 are based on the passage you've just heard.

　　34. What's the real victory for the thousands of Marathon runners?

　　35. Who is a winner in the competition?

　　36. What happened to the ancient Greek runner Pheidippides?

　　題解：

　　Passage 9

　　本文談到了深受年輕人喜歡的肥皂劇。一位年輕的女子承認(rèn)她寧愿放棄更高薪水的工作也不愿錯(cuò)過(guò)看她喜愛的連續(xù)劇。肥皂劇突然在年輕中成為"時(shí)尚"，這是為什么呢?

　　文章把20世紀(jì)60年代和當(dāng)今的年輕人對(duì)肥皂劇的態(tài)度做了對(duì)比。指出在60年代，年輕人關(guān)心的是重大的社會(huì)問(wèn)題;而當(dāng)今的年輕人注重尋求快樂(lè)。這與他們喜歡看反映人們生活中的苦惱的肥皂劇并不矛盾�？捶试韯∈且环N享受。因?yàn)樗麄儗?duì)劇中人物的境遇和心情有強(qiáng)烈的認(rèn)同感、親切感，同時(shí)又不必為解決他們(劇中人物)的問(wèn)題承擔(dān)責(zé)任。

　　30.C 短文開始時(shí)說(shuō)到"the daytime serial drama known as the soap opera..."。對(duì)文化背景知識(shí)的了解有助于對(duì)某些題的回答。

　　31.C 本題測(cè)試對(duì)文章中心內(nèi)容進(jìn)行概括。要求在若干信息中區(qū)分主要信息和次要信息。

　　32.D 在文章后部分談到了年輕人喜歡看肥皂劇的一個(gè)原因是他們想尋求快樂(lè)，最后一句提到"不必去承擔(dān)責(zé)任"。要注意總是中的"not"。另外對(duì)"in"一詞的理解也可能對(duì)答案產(chǎn)生影響。