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【文章內容簡介】 onal Institute of Food and Agriculture won39。t fund it, the National Institutes of Health won39。t fund it, and the NASA funded it only briefly, Mironov said. It39。s classic disruptive technology, Mironov said. Bringing any new technology on the market, on average, costs $1 billion. We don39。t even have $1 million. Director of the Advanced Tissue Biofabrication Center in the Department of Regenerative Medicine and Cell Biology at the medical university, Mironov now primarily conducts research on tissue engineering, or growing, of human ans. There39。s an unpleasant factor when people find out meat is grown in a lab. They don39。t like to associate technology with food, said Nicholas Genovese, a visiting scholar in cancer cell biology. But there are a lot of products that we eat today that are considered natural that are produced in a similar manner, Genovese said. 9 30. What does Dr. Mironov think of bioengineering cultured meat? 30 A. It will help solve the global food crisis. 31. What does Dr. Mironov say about the funding for their research? 31 D. It is still far from being sufficient. 32. What does Nicholas Genovese say about a lot of products we eat today? 32 A. They are not as natural as we believed. 【點評】 這是路透社 2020 年初的一篇報道，題目為 “South Carolina scientist works to grow meat in lab” 。本文為食品科技類題材。大意為生物工程技術應用在實驗室生產肉，可改變傳統肉類獲得方 式，解決將來的食物危機，不過還需資金支持，同時人們還難以完全接受這種方式。 Passage 3 Bernard Jackson is a free man today, but he has many bitter memories. Jackson spent five years in prison after a jury wrongly convicted him of raping two women. At Jackson39。s trial, although two witnesses testified that Jackson was with them in another location at the times of the crimes, he was convicted anyway. Why? The jury believed the testimony of the two victims, who positively identified Jackson as the man who has attacked them. The court eventually freed Jackson after the police found the man who had really mitted the crimes. Jackson was similar in appearance to the guilty man. The two women has made a mistake in identity. As a result, Jackson has lost five years of his life. The two women in this case were eyewitnesses. They clearly saw the man who attacked them, yet they mistakenly identified an innocent person. Similar incidents have occurred before. Eyewitnesses to other crimes have identified the wrong person in a police lineup or in photographs. Many factors influence the accuracy of eyewitness testimony. For instance, witnesses sometimes see photographs of several suspects before they try to identify the person they saw in a lineup of people. They can bee confused by seeing many photographs or similar faces. The number of people in the lineup, and whether it is a live lineup or a photograph, may also affect a witness39。s decision. People sometimes have difficulty identifying people of other races. The questions the police ask witnesses also have an effect on them. Question 33: What do we learn about Bernard Jackson? 3 B. He was wrongly imprisoned Question 34: What led directly to Jackson’s sentence? 34 C. The two victims’ identification 10 Question 35: What lesson do we learn from Jackson’s case? 35 C. Many factors influence the accuracy of witness testimony. 【解析】 本篇文章講述了 Jackson 因為被目擊證人誤認而被判刑，雖然最后洗清了罪名，但是卻留下了慘痛的記憶。文章接著論述了為什么會出現這樣的問題。可能是因為被害者對犯罪嫌疑人產生的混淆的記憶，或者在指認犯罪嫌疑人的過程中出現了不確定的情況。 雖然總體來說這篇文章難度不大，但是因為涉及專業知識，有一些詞匯可能會成為考生的障礙。例如：testimony: 證人證言； witness: 目擊證 人； jury: 陪審團； sentence :刑期。如果考生平時能對這些單詞有所接觸，這篇文章在理解上就不會出現太大的問題。 Section C About 700,000 children in Mexico dropped out of school last year as recessionstricken families pushed kids to work, and a weak economic recovery will allow only slight improvement in the dropout rate in 2020, a top education official said. Mexico39。s economy suffered more than any other in Latin America last year, shrinking an estimated 7 percent due to a plunge in . demand for Mexican exports such as cars. The decline led to a 4 percent increase in the number of kids who left primary or middle school in 2020, said Juan de Dios Castro, who heads the nation39。s adult education program and keeps a close watch on dropout rates. Poverty rose and that is a factor that makes our job more difficult, Castro told Reuters in an interview earlier this month. Hindered by higher taxes and weak demand for its exports, Mexico39。s economy is seen only partially recovering this year. As a result, dropout rates will not improve much, Castro said. There will be some improvement, but not significant, Castro said. Mexicohas historically had high dropout rates as poor families pull kids out of school to help put food on the table, and children often sell candy and crafts in the streets or work in restaurants. The nation39。s dropout problem is just the latest bad news for the longterm petitiveness of the Mexican economy. Mexico39。s politicians have resisted mending the country39。s tax, energy and labor laws for decades, leaving its economy behind countries such as Brazil and Chile. 【點評】 本篇文章談論的是墨西哥失學率問題。文章先開篇闡述了墨西哥失學情況的現狀，然后談到這一現狀的原因和所造成的嚴重后果。文中國家有關的 Mexico、 Mexican、 Chile 等部分考生可能不熟悉，而造成聽力困擾，但這些實際并非考點，切記死盯部分詞匯不放，而影響全篇理解。 11 最后，文中生詞不多，實際內容對于喜歡閱讀報刊雜志、關心時事熱點的考生而言，能夠根據日常經驗有所預判。這就提醒考生，聽力同樣也需要平時多多進行報刊閱讀。 2020 年 12 月六級聽力原文 Section A Directions: In this section, you will hear 8 short conversations and2 long conversations. At the end of each conversation, one or more questions will be asked about what was said. Both the conversation and the questions will be spoken only once. After each question there will be a pause. During the pause, you must read the four choices marked A), B), C) and D), and decide which is the best answer. Then mark the corresponding letter on Answer Sheet 2 with a single line through the centre. 11. M: I don’t know what to do. I have to drive to Chicago next Fr