2021年12月英语六级考试真题-听力篇章（第二套）

2021年12月英语六级考试真题-听力篇章(第二套)

　　【Section B】

　　Passage 1

Whether it's in the hands of animated polar bears or Santa Claus. (9) There's one thing you'll find in nearly all ads for Coca-Cola——the characteristic glass bottle. Most Americans don't drink soda out of the glass bottles seen in Coke’s ads anymore. But this week, the company is celebrating a century of the bottle that's been sold in more than 200 countries. Flashback to 1915, when a bottle of Coca-Cola costs just a nickel. (10) As the soft drink gained in popularity, it faced a growing number of competitors. Counterfeits even trying to copy Coke’s logo.

So according to Coca-Cola historian Ted Ryan, (10) the company decided to come up with packaging that couldn't be duplicated.

A product request was sent to eight different glass makers. (11) Workers at the root glass company got the request and began flipping through the encyclopedia at the local library, landing on cocoa seed. The cocoa seed is not an ingredient of the soda. They designed their bottle based on the seed’s shape ——an large middle. It won over coke executives in Atlanta and will go on to receive its own trademark, spur collections and earn Coca-Cola an iconic image that made it part of American culture for a century. It was 100 years ago this week that the bottle earned a patent. By World War II, coke bottle sales had ballooned into billions. Americans mostly consumed coke out of aluminum or plastic today. But the glass bottle remains a symbol of America that's readily recognized around the world.

Question 9. What does the passage say appears in almost all ads for Coca-Cola?

考察材料细节可口可乐广告里能看到什么。答案玻璃瓶是材料原文。

Question 10. Why did the Coca-Cola company decide to have special packaging designed?

考察材料细节可口可乐公司为什么要设计特殊的包装。答案内容和竞争对手对抗是对材料的简单改写。

Question 11. What do we learn about the Coca-Cola bottle designed by the root glass company?

考察玻璃公司设计的可口可乐玻璃瓶细节，答案内容cocoa seed是材料原文。

Passage 2

(12) Research shows that a few moments of conversation with a stranger creates a measurable improvement in mood. But most of us are reluctant to start these conversations because we presume the opposite.

In an experiment, commuters who talk to nearby strangers than their commute more enjoyable than those who didn't. They were asked to predict whether they'd enjoy the commute more if they conversed with other people. Intriguingly, most expected the more solitary experience to be more pleasurable.

Why is this? (13) Social anxiety appears to be the problem. People's reluctance to start conversations when nearby strangers comes partly from underestimating others interest in connecting. The sad thing is that people presume that a nearby stranger doesn't want to converse, and don't start a conversation. Only those who forced themselves to chat because it was required by the experiment found out what a pleasant experience it could be.

Human beings are social animals. Those who misunderstand the impact of social interactions may not. In some context be social enough for their own well-being. You should be chatting with the strangers you encounter. (14) You may occasionally have a negative encounter that might stick in your memory. This is because the human brain is biased to dwell on negative events, but starting conversations with strangers is still well worth the risk of rejection. It may surprise you that conversing with strangers will make them happier, too. (15) Pleasure of connection seems contagious. People who are talk to have equally positive experiences as those who initiate a conversation.

Question 12. What does research show about a conversation between strangers?

考察材料中对陌生人对话的调查，答案内容是对材料原文的简单词性改写。

Question 13. What prevents people from starting a conversation with strangers?

考察材料中妨碍人们和陌生人开始聊天的原因。答案内容和材料原文完全一致。

Question 14. Why does that negative encounter with strangers stick in one's memory?

考察与陌生人的负面遭遇一直停留在人们记忆里的原因。原因细节考点，答案与材料原文几乎一致。

Question 15. What does the passage say the pleasure of connection seems to be?

考察材料关于交往愉悦感的描述。Pleasure of connection seems contagious. 会传染是材料原词。