2017年6月英語六級(jí)聽力真題-第1套-錄音2

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聽力試題、聽力原文、答案:

一、聽力試題:

19. A. It is helping its banks to improve efficiency.

B. It is trying hard to do away with dirty money.

C. It is the first country to use credit cards in the world.

D. It is likely to give up paper money in the near future.

20. A. Whether it is possible to travel without carrying any physical currency.

B. Whether it is possible to predict how much money one is going to spend.

C. Whether the absence of physical currency causes a person to spend more.

D. Whether the absence of physical currency is going to affect everyday life.

21. A. There was no food service on the train.

B. The service on the train was not good.

C. The restaurant car accepted cash only.

D. The cash in her handbag was missing.

22. A. By putting money into envelopes.

B. By drawing money week by week.

C. By limiting their day-to-day spending.

D. By refusing to buy anything on credit.

二、聽力原文

Sweden was the first European country to print and use paper money, but it may soon do away with physical currencies.
Banks can save a lot of money and avoid regulatory headaches by moving to a cash-free system, and they can also avoid bank robberies, theft, and dirty money.
Claer Barrett, the editor of Financial Times Money, says the Western world is headed toward a world without physical currency.
"Andy Holder—the chief economist at The Bank of England—suggested that the UK move towards a government-backed digital currency.
But does a cashless society really make good economic sense?
"The fact that cash is being drawn out of society, is less a feature of our everyday lives,
and the ease of electronic payments—is this actually making us spend more money without realizing it?"
Barrett wanted to find out if the absence of physical currency does indeed cause a person to spend more, so she decided to conduct an experiment a few months ago.
She decided that she was going to try to just use cash for two weeks to make all of her essential purchases and see what that would do to her spending.
She found she did spend a lot less money because it is incredibly hard to predict how much cash one is going to need—she was forever drawing money out of cash points.
Months later, she was still finding cash stuffed in her trouser pockets and the pockets of her handbags.
During the experiment, Barrett took a train ride.
On the way, there was an announcement that the restaurant car was not currently accepting credit cards.
The train cars were filled with groans because many of the passengers were traveling without cash.
"It underlines just how much things have changed in the last generation," Barrett says.
"My parents, when they were younger, used to budget by putting money into envelopes—they'd get paid and they'd immediately separate the cash into piles and put them in envelopes, so they knew what they had to spend week by week.
It was a very effective way for them to keep track of their spending.
Nowadays, we're all on credit cards, we're doing online purchases, and money is kind of becoming a less physical and more imaginary type of thing that we can't get our hands around."

Question 19: What do we learn about Sweden?
Q20: What did Claer Barrett want to find out with her experiment?
Q21: What did Claer Barrett find on her train ride?
Q22: How did people of the last generation budget their spending?

三、答案

19. D
20. C
21. C

22. A

【翻譯】

瑞典是第一個(gè)印刷和使用紙幣的歐洲國家,但它可能很快就會(huì)擯棄實(shí)物貨幣。

銀行使用無現(xiàn)金系統(tǒng)能節(jié)約很多資金并避免很多管理的麻煩,還能避免搶劫、盜竊和洗錢問題。

“Financial Times Money”主編克萊爾·巴雷特稱,西方世界正朝著無實(shí)物貨幣的方向發(fā)展。

英格蘭銀行首席經(jīng)濟(jì)學(xué)家安迪·霍爾德認(rèn)為,英國在向著政府支撐的數(shù)字貨幣的方向發(fā)展。

但無現(xiàn)金社會(huì)真得能帶來良好的經(jīng)濟(jì)效益嗎?

現(xiàn)金正從社會(huì)中剝離出去一事,在我們的日常生活中已經(jīng)越來越不足為奇了,

而且電子支付便捷——這種方式是不是實(shí)際上讓我們?cè)诓唤?jīng)意間花了更多的錢?

巴雷特想要找到在沒有實(shí)物貨幣的情況下是否真的會(huì)讓某人花更多的錢的證據(jù),為此,幾個(gè)月前她決定做一個(gè)實(shí)驗(yàn)。

她決定嘗試只使用現(xiàn)金來完成她兩周所有必需品的購買,以此查看這種方式對(duì)她開銷的影響。

她發(fā)現(xiàn)她的確花錢更少,因?yàn)榉浅ky預(yù)測(cè)一個(gè)人會(huì)需要多少現(xiàn)金——所以她總是去自動(dòng)取款機(jī)取錢。

幾個(gè)月后,她發(fā)現(xiàn)她的褲袋和手提包的袋子里仍然塞滿著現(xiàn)金。

實(shí)驗(yàn)期間,巴雷特乘了一次火車。

旅途中,火車工作人員宣布餐車目前不接受信用卡支付。

火車上一時(shí)充滿了抱怨聲,因?yàn)楹芏喑丝投际遣粠КF(xiàn)金旅行的。

巴雷特說,“它表明自上一代以來發(fā)生的巨大的變化?!?/p>

“我父母年輕的時(shí)候,常常使用把錢放進(jìn)信封的方法來進(jìn)行預(yù)算——他們得到工資后,立即把錢分為若干部分,然后把它們裝進(jìn)不同的信封里,因此他們很清楚每周必須支出多少。”

這是當(dāng)時(shí)他們記錄日常支出的非常有效的方式。

如今,我們?nèi)际褂眯庞每ㄖЦ?,都?huì)在網(wǎng)上購物,金錢的物理形態(tài)越來越淡化,而變?yōu)槲覀儾粫?huì)拿在手邊的、更為虛擬的物體了。

問題19到22是基于你剛才所聽到那段的錄音。

問題19:我們了解到瑞典的什么信息?

問題20:克萊爾·巴雷特想通過她的實(shí)驗(yàn)弄清楚什么?

問題21:克萊爾·巴雷特在乘坐火車的時(shí)候發(fā)現(xiàn)了什么問題?

問題22:上一代人是如何進(jìn)行他們的開支預(yù)算的?


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Sweden was the first European country to print and use paper money

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but it may soon do away with physical currencys. likely=may ,give up=do away with,paper money=physical currency, in the near future=soon