2009年6月英语六级听力成功指南(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?

　　题解：

　　Passage 9

　　本文谈到了深受年轻人喜欢的肥皂剧。一位年轻的女子承认她宁愿放弃更高薪水的工作也不愿错过看她喜爱的连续剧。肥皂剧突然在年轻中成为"时尚"，这是为什么呢?

　　文章把20世纪60年代和当今的年轻人对肥皂剧的态度做了对比。指出在60年代，年轻人关心的是重大的社会问题;而当今的年轻人注重寻求快乐。这与他们喜欢看反映人们生活中的苦恼的肥皂剧并不矛盾。看肥皂剧是一种享受。因为他们对剧中人物的境遇和心情有强烈的认同感、亲切感，同时又不必为解决他们(剧中人物)的问题承担责任。

　　30.C 短文开始时说到"the daytime serial drama known as the soap opera..."。对文化背景知识的了解有助于对某些题的回答。

　　31.C 本题测试对文章中心内容进行概括。要求在若干信息中区分主要信息和次要信息。

　　32.D 在文章后部分谈到了年轻人喜欢看肥皂剧的一个原因是他们想寻求快乐，最后一句提到"不必去承担责任"。要注意总是中的"not"。另外对"in"一词的理解也可能对答案产生影响。