2023年12月英语六级听力真题 卷一 文章1

Passage One

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Kate Atkinson was bom in York, England, in 1951. She worked hard to gain her credentials as an author.

1951年，凯特·阿特金森在英国约克市当波姆。她努力工作以获得她作为一名作家的证书。

She studied English Literature at University in Scotland. After graduating in 1974, she researched a doctorate on American Literature.

她在苏格兰大学学习英国文学。1974年毕业后，她研究了美国文学博士学位。

Later, she taught at the university she graduated from, and began writing short stories in 1981.

后来，她在大学任教，1981年开始写短篇小说。

She began writing for women's magazines after winning the 1986 Woman's Own Short Story Competition.

1986年赢得女子短篇小说比赛后，她开始为女子杂志撰稿。

Her first novel, Behind the Scenes at the Museum, won the 1995 UK Book of the Year award.

她的第一部小说，在博物馆的幕后，赢得了1995年英国年度图书奖。

The book is set in Yorkshire and has been adapted for radio, theatre, and TV.

这本书以约克郡为背景，已改编成广播、戏剧和电视。

She has written two plays for a theatre in Edinburgh —the first was called Nice and the second Abandonment, performed as part of the Edinburgh Festival in August 2000.

她为爱丁堡的一家剧院写了两部戏剧--第一部叫做尼斯，第二部是作为2000年8月爱丁堡艺术节的一部分演出的。

Whatever genre Atkinson writes in, her books touch on the themes of love and loss and how to carry on.

无论阿特金森所写的体裁是什么，她的书都能触及爱情和失落的主题，以及如何继续下去。

They are always presented with ingenuity and a wicked sense of humor.

他们总是被赋予聪明才智和邪恶的幽默感。

Her books tend to be populated by odd, sometimes sinful, and generally flawed eccentrics who become credible by virtue of being so fully realized.

她的书里往往充斥着奇怪的，有时是罪恶的，而且通常是有缺陷的怪人，这些人会因为如此充分的实现而变得可信。

Her books have frequently been described as comedies of manners.

她的书常被说成是礼貌的喜剧。

That is to say, comedies that represent the complex and sophisticated code of behaviour current in fashionable circles of society, where appearances count more than true moral character.

也就是说，喜剧代表了当今社会流行的复杂而复杂的行为准则，在这种社会圈子里，外表比真正的道德品质更重要。

A comedy of manners tends to reward its clever and deceitful characters, rather than punish their bad deeds.

一部风度喜剧往往奖励其聪明和欺骗性的人物，而不是惩罚他们的恶行。

The humor of a comedy of manners relies on verbal wit and playful teasing.

一部风度喜剧的幽默依赖于言语的机智和滑稽的戏弄。

Questions 9 to 11 are based on the passage you have just heard.

问题9至11是基于你刚才听到的一段话。

Question9. When did Kate Atkinson begin to write for women's magazines?

凯特-阿特金森是何时开始为女性杂志撰稿的？

Question10. What did Kate Atkinson's books touch on?

凯 特 • 阿特金森的作品涉及哪些方面的内容?

Question11. What do we learn about the clever and deceitful characters in a comedy of manners?

对于风俗喜剧中聪明而又狡诈的人物，我们了解到什么？

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