2017年6月英語六級(jí)聽力真題-第1套-錄音3

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聽力試題、聽力原文、答案：

一、聽力試題：

23. A. Population explosion.

B. Chronic hunger.

C. Extinction of rare species.

D. Environmental deterioration.

24. A. They contribute to overpopulation.

B. About half of them are unintended.

C. They have been brought under control.

D. The majority of them tend to end halfway.

25. A. It is essential to the wellbeing of all species on earth.

B. It is becoming a subject of interdisciplinary research.

C. It is neglected in many of the developing countries.

D. It is beginning to attract postgraduates' attention.

二、聽力原文

Why should you consider taking a course in demography in college?
You'll be growing up in a generation where the baby boomers are going into retirement and dying.
You will face the problems in the aging of the population that have never been faced before.
You will hear more and more about migration between countries and between rural areas and cities.
You need to understand as a citizen and as a tax payer and as a voter what's really behind the arguments.
I want to tell you about the past, present and future of the human population.
So let's start with a few problems.
Right now, a billion people are chronically hungry.
That means they wake up hungry, they are hungry all day, and they go to sleep hungry.
A billion people are living in slums, not the same billion people, but there is some overlap.
Living in slums means they don't have infrastructure to take the garbage away, they don't have secure water supplies to drink.
Nearly a billion people are illiterate.
Try to imagine your life being illiterate.
You can't read the labels on the bottles in the supermarket, if you can get to a supermarket.
Two-thirds of those people who are illiterate are women and about 200 to 215 million women don't have access to birth control they want, so that they can control their own fertility.
This is not only a problem in developing countries.
About half of all pregnancies globally are unintended.
So those are examples of population problems.
Demography gives you the tools to understand and to address these problems.
It's not only the study of human population, but the populations of non-human species, including viruses like influenza, the bacteria in your gut, plants that you eat, animals that you enjoy or that provide you with meat.
Demography also includes the study of non-living objects like light bulbs and taxi cabs, and buildings because these are also populations.
It studies these populations, in the past, present and future, using quantitative data and mathematical models as tools of analysis.
I see demography as a central subject related to economics.
It is the means to intervene more wisely, and more effectively in the real world, to improve the well-being, not only of yourself—important as that may be—but of people around you and of other species with whom we share the planet.
Q23: What is one of the problems the speaker mentions in his talk?
Q24: What does the speaker say about pregnancies?
Q25: How does the speaker view the study of populations?

三、答案

23. B
24. B
25. A

【翻譯】

為什么你應(yīng)該考慮在大學(xué)上人類統(tǒng)計(jì)學(xué)課程？

你將在嬰兒潮時(shí)期的那代人將要退休和逐漸死去中成長。

你將面臨史無前例的人口老齡化問題。

你將會(huì)越來越多地聽到國家和城鄉(xiāng)之間的移民問題。

作為公民、納稅人和選民的你需要明白該問題的背后爭論是什么。

我會(huì)告訴你有關(guān)人口數(shù)量的過去、現(xiàn)在和將來。

那么我們就從一兩個(gè)問題入手吧。

目前，有十億人口長期處于饑餓狀態(tài)。

那意味著他們醒來時(shí)餓著肚子、白天餓著肚子、晚上睡覺時(shí)餓著肚子。

有十億人生活在貧民窟，雖然與上面提到的十億人不相同，但它們之間有重疊。

生活在貧民窟意味著他們沒有清理垃圾的基礎(chǔ)設(shè)施，沒有沒有安全的飲水供應(yīng)。

有近十億人是文盲。

試想一下文盲人的生活。

如果你能去超市，卻看不懂超市里瓶子上的標(biāo)簽。

女性占了十億文盲人口的三分之二。，大約2至2.15億的女性接觸不到她們想要的避孕方法，這樣她們就可以控制自己的生育能力。

這不僅僅是發(fā)展中國家才有的問題。

全世界大約有一半的懷孕是意外懷孕。

以上是一些典例的人口問題。

人口統(tǒng)計(jì)學(xué)為你提供理解和解決這些問題的工具。

它不僅僅研究人口數(shù)量，還研究流感病毒、腸道菌群、人類食用的植物、人類喜歡的動(dòng)物或?yàn)槿祟愄峁┤忸惖膭?dòng)物等非人類物種的數(shù)量。

人口統(tǒng)計(jì)學(xué)的研究還包括諸如電燈泡、出租車和建筑物等無生命體的研究，因?yàn)樗鼈兺瑯哟嬖跀?shù)量。

它研究這些物體過去、現(xiàn)在和將來的數(shù)量，使用定量數(shù)據(jù)和數(shù)學(xué)模型工具進(jìn)行分析。

我把《人口統(tǒng)計(jì)學(xué)》看成是與《經(jīng)濟(jì)學(xué)》密切相關(guān)的核心科目。

它是現(xiàn)實(shí)世界中更明智、更有效的干預(yù)手段，不僅能提升你自己的幸福，還能提升你身邊的人以及和我們共同生活在地球上的其他物種的幸福。

問題23至25是基于你剛才所聽到的那段錄音。

問題23：說話者在他的談話中提到的問題之一是什么？

問題24：說話者談到了有關(guān)懷孕的什么信息？

問題25：說話者是如何看待人口數(shù)量的研究的？