六级听力真题

Section C Compound Dictation
Blogging is a pastime for many, even a livelihood for a few. For some, it becomes an (36) ______ . Such bloggers often feel compelled to write several times daily and feel (37) ______ if they don't keep up. As they spend more time leaning over their computers, they (38) ______ family, friends and jobs. They blog at home, at work and on the road. They blog openly or sometimes quietly so as not to call attention to their habit. The number of bloggers has grown quickly, thanks to (39) ______ like blogger.com, which makes it easy to set up a blog. Technorati, a blog-tracking service, has (40) ______ some 2.5 million blogs. Of course, most of those millions are (41) ______ or, at best, maintained infrequently. For many bloggers, the (42) ______ soon wears off and their persistence (43) ______ . Sometimes, too, the realization that no one is reading sets in. (44) _______________________________________________________________ . By Jupiter Research's estimate, only 4 percent of online users read blogs. Indeed, if a blog is compared to a conversation between a writer and readers, bloggers are having conversations largely with themselves. Perhaps a chronically small audience is a blessing. For it seems that (45) ______________________________________________________ .
Mr. Pierce is a regular blogger who lives in Hollywood and works in the entertainment industry. He said (46) ______________________________________________________________ . "There is this seductive thing that happens, this kind of snowball-rolling-down-a-hill thing, where the sheer momentum of several years' posting becomes very keenly felt," he said. "And the absence of posting feels like-I don't know, laziness or something."

答案解析

Section C Compound Dictation

答案解析：

36. 答案：obsession
解析：空格前的an此处应填入可数名词的单数形式。obsession意为“困扰，迷惑”。
37. 答案：uneasy
解析：feel表明此处应填入形容词或分词。uneasy意为“心神不宁的”。
38. 答案：neglect
解析：此处需要动词，作句子谓语。neglect意为“忽视，忽略”。
39. 答案：sites
解析：thanks to中的to是介词，因此空格处要填入名词或代词。blogger.com是一个网址，由此可推断此处的词与“网址”相近。因此不要写成同音的第三人称动词cites“引用”。
40. 答案：counted
解析：has表明此处需填入动词分词，作谓语。counted指“计算”。
41. 答案：abandoned
解析：此处需要动词，作句子谓语。abandoned“抛弃，丢弃”。
42. 答案：novelty
解析：此处需要名词，作句子主语。novelty“新颖”。
43. 答案：fades
解析：此处需要动词作谓语，与wears off“逐渐减弱，消失”并列，并与之意思相近。fades“减弱，消失”。
44. 标准答案：A few blogs have thousands of readers, but never have so many people written so much to be read by so few
听音关键：blogs, thousands of readers, never, written much, be read, few
画龙点睛：本句不建议重构。
45. 标准答案：the more popular a blog becomes, the more some bloggers feel the need to post
听音关键：the more popular, the more neccessary
画龙点睛：本句为the more...the more句型，表示“越……越……”，不建议重构。
46. 标准答案：blogging began to feel like an addiction when he noticed that he would rather be with his computer than with his girlfriend
听音关键：blogging, addiction, when noticed, rather be with his computer, than, girlfriend
答案重构：blogging got addicted when he noticed that he would rather be with his computer than with his girlfriend
画龙点睛：began to feel like an addiction文字比较长，在理解的基础上可以改写为got addicted。注意when从句中使用了would rather...than的比较句型。