2024年6月英语六级听力真题 卷二 录音1

Recording One

录音一

If you read an article about a controversial issue, do you think you'd realize if it had changed your beliefs?

如果读到一篇关于某个争议性话题的文章，你认为自己能意识到它是否改变了自己的信念吗？

No one knows your own mind like you do. It seems obvious that you would know if your beliefs had shifted.

没有人比你自己更了解自己的想法。你似乎显然会知道自己的信念是否发生了改变。

And yet, a new paper in the Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology suggests that we actually have very poor awareness of our own belief change,

然而，《实验心理学季刊》上发表的一篇新论文指出，我们其实对自己信念的改变意识非常淡薄，

meaning that we will tend to underestimate how much we've been swayed by a convincing article.

这意味着我们往往会低估自己被一篇有说服力的文章影响了多少。

The researchers recruited over 200 undergraduates across two studies and focused on their beliefs about whether physical punishment of kids is an effective form of discipline.

研究人员招募了200多名本科生参与两项研究，重点关注他们对体罚孩子是否是有效管教形式的看法。

The students reported their initial beliefs about whether physical punishment is an effective way to discipline a child on the scale from “1. Completely disbelieve” to “9. Completely believe”.

学生们报告了他们对体罚是否是管教孩子的有效方式的初始信念，评分范围从“1.完全不相信”到“9.完全相信”。

Several weeks later, they were given one of two research-based texts to read.

几周后，他们被要求阅读两篇研究性文章中的一篇。

Each was several pages long and either presented the arguments and data in favour of physical punishment or against it.

每篇文章都有几页长，要么提供了支持体罚的论点和数据，要么提供了反对体罚的论点和数据。

After this, the students answered some questions to test their comprehension and memory of the text.

之后，学生们回答了一些问题，以测试他们对文章的理解和记忆。

Then, the students again scored their belief in whether physical punishment is effective or not.

然后，学生们再次对体罚是否有效进行评分。

Finally, the researchers asked them to recall what their belief had been at the start of the study.

最后，研究人员要求他们回忆自己在研究开始时的信念是什么。

The students’ belief about physical punishment changed when they read a text that argued against their own initial position.

当学生们读到一篇与他们最初立场相悖的文章时，他们对体罚的看法发生了改变。

Crucially, the memory of their initial belief was shifted in the direction of their new belief.

关键在于，他们对初始信念的记忆会朝着新信念的方向发生偏移。

In fact, their memory was closer to their current belief than their original belief.

事实上，他们的记忆更接近当前的信念，而不是最初的信念。

The more their belief had changed, the larger this memory bias tended to be, suggesting the students were relying on their current belief to deduce their initial belief.

他们的信念改变得越多，这种记忆偏差往往就越大，这表明学生们依赖当前的信念来推断他们最初的信念。

The memory bias was unrelated to the measures of how well they'd understood or recalled the text, suggesting these factors didn't play a role in memory of initial belief or awareness of belief change.

记忆偏差与他们理解或回忆文章内容的能力无关，这表明这些因素对初始信念的记忆或信念改变的意识没有影响。

The researchers concede that this research was about changes to mostly moderate beliefs.

研究人员承认，这项研究涉及的主要是温和信念的改变。

It's likely the findings would be different in the context of changes to extreme or deeply held beliefs.

在极端或根深蒂固的信念发生改变的背景下，研究结果可能会有所不同。

However, our beliefs on most topics are in the moderate range, and as we go about our daily lives reading informative material,

然而，我们在大多数话题上的信念都处于温和范围内，而在我们日常生活中阅读信息材料时，

these intriguing findings suggest we are mostly ignorant of how what we just read has updated and altered our own position.

这些有趣的发现表明，我们大多忽视了刚刚阅读的内容是如何更新和改变我们自己的立场的。

Questions 16 to 18 are based on the recording you have just heard.

请根据刚才听到的录音回答问题16至问题18。

Question 16. What does a new paper in the Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology suggest?

问题16：《实验心理学季刊》上发表的一篇新论文提出了什么观点？

Question 17. What happened when the students read a text that argued against their own initial position?

问题17：当学生们读到一篇与他们最初立场相悖的文章时，发生了什么？

Question 18.What did the researchers concede concerning their findings?

问题18：研究人员承认他们的研究结果存在什么局限？

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