文档介绍：2017年6月六级真题(第2套)听力原文
2017年6月六级真题（第2套）听力原文
2017年6月大学英语六级考试真题（第2套）听力原文
Section A
Conversation One
W: Mr. Ishiguro, have you ever found one of your books at a secondhand bookstore?
M: Yes. That kind of thing is difficult. [1] If they’ve got my book there, I think, “Well, this is an insult! Somebody didn’t want to keep my book!” But if it’s not there, I feel it’s an insult too. I think, “Why aren’t people exchanging my book? Why isn’t it in this store?”
W: Does being a writer require a thick skin?
M: Yes, for example, my wife can be very harsh. [2-1] I began working on my latest book, The Buried Giant, in 2004, but I stopped after I showed my wife a little section. She thought it was rubbish.
W: Even after you won a Booker Prize?
M: [2-2] She’s not intimidated at all and she criticizes me in exactly the same way she did
when I was first unpublished and I was starting.
W: But you would never compromise on your vision.
M: No, I wouldn’t ever compromise on the essential, the ideas or the themes. This isn’t really what my wife is trying to criticize me about. It’s always about execution.
W: So why did you put your book, The Buried Giant, aside for so long? Apparently you started working on it over 10 years ago.
M: [3] I’ve often stopped writing a book and left it for a few years. And by the time I come back to it, it may have changed. Usually my imagination has moved on and I can think of different contexts or a different way to do it.
W: What does it feel like when you finally finish a book?
M: It’s funny you ask that because I never have this moment when I feel, “Ah, I’ve finished!” [4] I watch footballers at the end of the match, you know, the whistle goes and they’ve won or lost. Until then they’ve been giving everything
M: Well, this is Shaun Harper’s study, and he points out that on major college campuses across the country, black males make up less than 3 percent of undergraduate enrollments. Yet, when you look at their numbers or pe