六级讲座听力每日一练033

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Now listen to the following recording and answer questions 1 and 2

6. What is the main purpose of the talk?

A. to show what happens after an economyhas experienced a boom-and-bust cycle.

B. to illustrate the conditions needed to produce a boom-and-bustcycle.

C. to demonstrate how boom-and-bust cycleshave changed over time.

D. to explain why the boom-and-bust cycleis not a frequent historical occurrence.

7. What is the professor's opinion aboutthe dot-com crash?

A. she thinks that people should have realized it would happen.

B. she does not believe that anything likeit will happen again.

C. she is surprised that it did not havemore serious consequences.

D. she is confident that people learned avaluable lesson from it.

Lecture33(For question 1 and 2)

Professor=

Now when I mention the terms “boom andbust”, what does that bring to mind?

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Student=

The dot-com crash of the ‘90s.

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Professor=

Ok. The boom in the late 1990s when allthose new Internet companies sprang up and were then sold for huge amounts ofmoney. Then the bust around 2000…2001 when many of those same Internetcompanies went out of business. Of course, booms aren't always followed bybusts. We've certainly seen times when local economies expanded rapidly for awhile and then went back to a normal pace of growth. But, there's a type ofrapid expansion, what might be called a hysterical or irrational boom thatpretty much always leads to a bust. See, people often create and intensify aboom when they get carried away by some new industry that seems like it willmake them lots of money fast. You'd think that by the 90s, people would have learnedfrom the past. If they did, well, look at tulips.

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Student=

Tulips? You mean like the flower?

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Professor=

Exactly. For instance, do you have any ideawhere tulips are from? Originally I mean.

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Student=

Well, the Netherlands, right?

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Professor=

That's what most people think, but no. Theyare not native to the Netherlands, or even Europe. Tulips actually hail from anarea that Chinese call the Celestial Mountains in Central Asia. A very remotemountainous region. It was Turkish nomads who first discovered tulips andspread them slowly westward. Now, around the 16th century, Europeans weretraveling to Istanbul and Turkey as merchants and diplomats. And the Turksoften gave the Europeans tulip bulbs as gifts which they would carry home withthem. For the Europeans, tulips were totally unheard of. Er…a great novelty.The first bulb to show up in the Netherlands, the merchant who received themroasted and ate them! He thought they were kind of onion.

教授：=

当我提到繁荣与衰败，同学们都会想起什么？

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学生：=

90年代的互联网泡沫危机。

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教授：=

是的。互联网行业兴起于二十世纪九十年代，当时诸多互联网公司蓬勃兴起，并持续以高价转手。直到2000，2001年左右，许多公司都面临破产，互联网行业的繁荣也就宣告终结。当然，繁荣并不总是跟随着衰败。我们当然也见过多次当地经济迅速扩张一段时间后就恢复了平稳的增长速度。但是有一种迅速的激增，或被称作异常或非理性的繁荣，它总是导致衰败。当他们为一些看似能够迅速赚钱的行业忘乎所以时，人们经常制造并加剧一场繁荣。你们或许认为到了90年代，人们本该从过去吸取教训。如果他们吸取了就好了，让我们看下郁金香事件。

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学生：=

郁金香？您是指郁金香花吗？

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教授：=

是的。比如说，你们知道郁金香发源于何处吗？

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学生：=

荷兰，对吗？

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教授：=

大部分人都这么认为，但是不对。郁金香并非原产于荷兰，甚至不是欧洲。郁金香实际上来自中亚地区，一座遥远的中国人叫做天山的地方。土耳其游牧人最先发现了郁金香并向西部慢慢传播。在16世纪左右，欧洲人作为商人和外交人员前往伊斯坦布尔和土耳其，土耳其人经常将郁金香球茎作为礼物送给欧洲人。欧洲人将球茎带回家，对他们来说，郁金香是非常新奇的事物。最初球茎出现在荷兰时，商人收到他们后把它们烤烤吃了，人们以为郁金香是某种洋葱。



解析

1题，B。

这篇文章的主旨可以通过排除法选出。A选项是说在经济遭遇了繁荣和衰败后的场景，文章未提及衰败后发生了什么。C选项中changed有问题，文章未提繁荣和衰败这个循环怎么改变。D选项联系历史，文章只详细讲述了郁金香繁荣和衰败的历史过程，未提及是否是一个经常发生的过程。那就只剩B. to illustrate the conditions needed to produce a boom-and-bustcycle.了。

2题，A。

原文听到“You'd think that by the 90s, people would have learned from thepast.”。教授认为人们本应该从中学习到经验，A. she thinks that people should have realized it would happen.符合原文。

注意，六级考试与本篇练习的区别在于，试卷上只有四个选项，问题是在听力最后读出来的，需要考生认真听题。

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