2015年6月英语六级听力原文（卷一）

　　Section B 短文

　　Passage one

　　Karon Smith is a buyer for the department store in New York. Theapartment store buyers purchase the goods that their stores sell .They not only have to know what is fashionable at that moment, butalso have to guess what will become fashionable next season or nextyear. Most buyers were for just one department in a store. But thegoods that Karon finds maybe displayed and sold in severaldifferent sections of the store. Her job involves buyinghandicrafts from all over the world. Last year,she made a trip to Morocco and returns with drugs, pots, dishes andpants. The year before, she visited Mexico. And bought backhandmade table cloths, mirrors with frames of tin and paperflowers. The paper flowers are bright and colorful. So they wereused to decorate the whole store. This year Karon is travelling inMalaysia, Thailand and Indonesia, many of the countries that Karonvisits have government offices that promote handicrafts. Theofficials are glad to cooperate with her by showing her theproducts that are available. Karon likes to visit markets and smalltowns in villages whenever she can arrange for it. She is alwayslooking for interesting and unusual items. Karon thinks she has thebest job she could find. She loves all the travelling that she hasto do. Because she often visits markets and small out-of-the-wayplaces. She says much more the country she visits than an ordinarytourists would. As soon as she gets back in New York form one trip,Karon begins to plan another。

　　Passage 2

　　Mark felt that it was time for him to take part in hiscommunity, so he went to the neighborhood meeting after work. Thearea’s city councilwoman was leading a discussion about how thequality of life was on the decline. The neighborhood faced manyproblems. Mark looked at the charts taped to the walls. There werecharts for parking problems, crime, and for problems in vacantbuildings. Mark read from the charts, police patrols cut back,illegal parking up 20%. People were supposed to suggest solutionsto the councilwoman. It was too much for Mark. “The problems aretoo big,” he thought. He turned to the man next to him and said, “Ithink this is a waste of my time. Nothing I could do would make adifference here。” As he neared the bus stop on his way home, Marksaw a woman carrying a grocery bag and a baby. As Mark got closer,her other child, a little boy, suddenly darted into the street. Thewoman tried to reach for him, but as she moved, her bag shifted andthe groceries started to fall out. Mark ran to take the boy’ s armand led him back to his mother. “You gotta stay with Mom”， he said.Then he picked up the groceries while the woman smiled in relief。“Thanks!” she said. “You’ve got great timing!” Just beingneighborly,” Mark said. As he rode home, he glanced at the posternear his seat in the bus. “Small acts of kindness add up。” Marksmiled and thought, “Maybe that’ s a good place to start。”

　　19. What did Mark think he should start doing?

　　20. What was being discussed when Mark arrived at theneighborhood meeting?

　　21. What did Mark think of the community’s problems?

　　22. Why did Mark smile on his ride home?

　　Passage Three

　　An distressing childhood can lead to heart disease. What aboutcurrent stresses? Longer workouts, threats of layoffs, collapsingpension funds. A study last year on the lancer examine more than11,000 heart attack suffers from 52 countries. It found that in theyear before their heart attacks. Patients had been undersignificantly more strains than some 30,000 healthy controlsubjects. Those strains came from work, family, financial troubles,depression in other causes. "Each of these factors individually wasassociated with increased risk," says Doctor Salim Yussef,Professor of medicine and candidates McMaster University and seniorinvestigator on the study. Together, they accounted for 30% tooverall heart attack risk. But people respond differently tohigh-pressure work situations, whether it produces hard problemsseems to depend on whether you have a sensitive control over lifeor live at the mercy of circumstances and superiors. That wasexperiences of John Connell, a rock food Illinois laboratorymanager, who suffered his first heart attack in 1996 at the age of56. In the 2 years before, his mother and 2 of his children hadsuffered serious illnesses, and his job had been changed in are-organization. "My life seemed completely out of control," hesays, "I had no idea where I would end up." He ended up in hospitaldue to a block in his artery. 2 months later, he had a tripleby-pass surgery. The second heart attack when he was 58, left hisdoctor shaking his head. "There's nothing more we can do for you,"doctors told him。

　　Question 23 What does the passage mainly discuss?

　　Question 24 What do we learn about JC's family?

　　Question 25 What did JC's doctors tell him when he had a secondheart attack?