聽力理解水平是通過聽力理解能力來體現的，它包括記憶和回想的能力、選擇要點的.能力、推斷演繹的能力、判斷和得出結論的能力以及運用背景知識的能力。以下是yjbys網小編整理的關於英語六級聽力練習，供大家備考。
練習一：
Want to Be a Detective? Escape Rooms May Help
想要成為偵探，密室逃脫來幫你
WASHINGTON— The timer is running. These people have 60 minutes to escape from a room they paid to be locked inside of.
“It is a game with clues that are spread throughout the room. And there is no starting point. You start wherever you feel like. It is up to you to put the clues together in order to find the key to get out,” Smith says.
This room - one of two offered by Timothy Smith's Escape Lounge is designed to mimic the Oval Office in the White House. It features a presidential seal embossed rug, an iconic desk, presidents’ portraits and other props.
The fun part of Escape the Oval Office is that anything here could be a clue to solving the puzzle: This antique typewriter from the 1930s. Or this vintage turntable that plays records. Or this map of Washington, D.C. And then there are hidden messages that can only be seen under a black light.
Sometimes, the hot line rings.
“Would you guys like a clue?” the voice on the line asks.
The game master monitors the progress on a camera and calls to offer hints as needed.
Teams can be made up of co-workers, families, tourists, or a group of six friends and two strangers who just met before the game starts.
"We have never been on any of the Escape Rooms before. So it was a lot of fun. And I think that it was actually great that we didn't know each other because it really forces you to have to learn how to work with one another." says one of the participants, Kat Matus.
It is estimated that there are about 600 Escape Room adventures across the country. When Smith opened the Escape Lounge a year ago, there were two others in the Washington area. Now there are 12 and growing.
While each experience has different themes and settings, the formats are similar, and solving the puzzle requires social and physical engagement and quick, creative thinking.
"It was a little stressful. Some of the clues seemed really complex. But it was a lot of fun, and we had no idea what to expect. None of us have ever done it before," says Demetrios Psihopaidas.
With seven minutes left, the team finally found the key.
"I was a little worried that we were not going to find all the clues and we weren't going to get out in time," Psihopaidas admits, "So I was happy that we were finished. "
Smith says the escape success rate is between 30 and 40 percent.
練習二：
Renewed Fears Attacks Like Nice Are the Future of Jihad
尼斯再次遭遇恐怖襲擊恐與聖戰組織存在某種關係
Jeff Seldin
July 16, 2016 1:04 PM
As investigators in France began sifting through the devastation of the attack on Bastille Day celebrations in Nice that killed 84 people, some Western intelligence officials were already alarmed.
They feared the initial investigation could fail to show any definitive links between the suspect, a 31-year-old Tunisian-born Frenchman named Mohamed Lahouaiej Bouhlel, and any known terror group. But they also feared that Bouhlel’s profile would fit with an emerging trend.
Increasingly, these officials said, the Islamic State terror group seems to be seeking out petty criminals and the mentally ill to quickly turn them into weapons.
So far, that appears to be how Bouhlel’s story is playing out.
The IS-linked Aamaq news agency said Saturday that the terror group was responsible for the deadly attack on Nice, claiming Bouhlel as a “soldier of the Islamic State.”
Evidence was still being gathered, but French officials were not ruling out the possibility.
"It seems that he was radicalized very quickly," French Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve told reporters Saturday in Paris.
Just a day earlier, French prosecutor Francois Molins had said that while Bouhlel was known to police and had been involved a violent altercation, he was “completely unknown” to French intelligence.
“This is the future of their jihad,” Malcolm Nance, a former counterterrorism and intelligence officer, said of IS. “All of these little absences of radicalization themselves are actually a sign of radicalization.”
The process is often quick, with no clear line of communication for intelligence agencies to follow. And it can take place with little human interaction; IS allowing its propaganda and ideology to do most of the work.
“They take people who have generally petty criminal backgrounds and give them something higher to strive for,” said Nance, who now heads the Terror Asymmetrics Project, a counter-ideology think tank in Hudson, New York.
The suspect in the Nice attack would seem to match that description.
Divorced, depressed
French media said Bouhlel was a divorced father of three and suffered from depression. Neighbors recalled being frightened of him, and others said he liked to drink alcohol and eat pork, practices shunned by observant Muslims.
It is a profile that shares striking similarities with at least two other terrorists in attacks either directed or inspired by IS.
Paris attack mastermind Abdelhamid Abaaoud, 28, liked to drink and is believed to have hung out at bars known for attracting drug dealers before suddenly becoming radicalized.
Omar Mateen, the shooter in the attack on a gay nightclub in Orlando, Florida, also is believed to have liked to party and may even have engaged in same-sex affairs.
“There is a sort of pathway of someone who has lived a very licentious lifestyle that joins a jihadi group in order to wipe the slate clean — in order to emerge, like, from a chrysalis into the butterfly that is the jihadi — because by becoming the jihadi, it washes away the sins of the past,” said Mia Bloom, a communications professor and terrorism expert at Georgia State University.
Until recently, it was a difficult path to take — one that could require a period of study and a concerted effort to change, if it could be done at all.
“There were some minimum standards,” said Bloom. “Terrorist groups tend to avoid people who are mentally ill. They avoid people who are psychopaths because they are not reliable as operatives.”
However, intelligence officials say the Islamic State model has turned that notion on its head. While the terror group established a large, secretive external operations wing bent on attacking the West, it has also cultivated a backup strategy of enabling and inspiring attacks by individuals.
"So it is pretty challenging. Escape the Oval Office is not an easy game. I think this game is popular because it gives an individual a chance to be a detective or to be a James Bond."
But, Smith says, like most team sports, this game is really all about being a good teammate and having a good time.
