当提及六级听力时，尤其是英语六级真题听力，我们不禁会想起那些考验英语学习者听力理解能力的挑战。作为英语六级考试的重要组成部分，六级听力部分不仅要求考生能够捕捉和识别出基本的语言信息，更需要他们在有限的时间内对复杂的语境进行准确理解，并快速作出反应。小编为大家整理了2024年12月英语六级真题听力第一套Recording 2的内容，希望能对您有所帮助！

英文原文

Recording 2

录音2

When it comes to food, color is money. Food companies know that better color gives better prices, so they ensure that their products are attractive in color to bolster earnings. Oranges, for example, have to meet specific color standards, and oranges are just the beginning. There are color standards for foods including French fries, tomatoes, pumpkins, olives, honey, and cherries.

说到食物，颜色就是金钱。食品公司深知更好的颜色意味着更高的价格。因此，他们确保自己的产品在颜色上吸引人，以增加收入。例如，橙子必须满足特定的颜色标准，而橙子只是个开始。包括炸薯条、西红柿、南瓜、橄榄、蜂蜜和樱桃在内的食物都有颜色标准。

The attention to color is for good reason. For all the talk of the tongue, our eyes really might be the most important part of the eating experience. A great number of our brain functions are dedicated to processing vision, while only 1% or two is given over to taste faculties. And the result is that color actually changes how we taste food.

对颜色的关注是有充分理由的。尽管味觉很重要，但在饮食体验中，我们的眼睛可能才是最重要的部分。我们的大脑功能中，有很大一部分专门用于处理视觉，而只有1%或2%用于处理味觉。结果是，颜色实际上会改变我们对食物的味觉体验。

Scientists have demonstrated many times the importance of color to taste. In a 1980 study, for example, test participants were asked to name the flavor of the beverage they were drinking without being able to see that beverage. Only one in five was able to identify it as orange. But when they were allowed to see what they were drinking, which was orange in color, each of them identified the orange flavor. And when a drink that was lime flavor was colored orange, nearly half of respondents identified the flavor of the beverage as orange. None made that mistake when the beverage was green in color.

科学家们已经多次证明了颜色对味觉的重要性。例如，在1980年的一项研究中，要求测试参与者在不看饮料的情况下说出他们正在喝的饮料的味道。只有五分之一的人能够识别出它是橙味的。但是，当他们被允许看到他们正在喝的饮料（橙色的）时，他们每个人都识别出了橙味。而当一种本身是青柠味的饮料被染成橙色时，近一半的受访者将饮料的味道识别为橙色。当饮料是绿色时，没有人犯这样的错误。

What's happening when someone fails to identify the flavor of a beverage they can't see or that has an abnormal color? Is it that participants can't discern what the flavor is and so rely on visual cues, or does color actually change the experience of taste? The key to these questions is the effect of color on expectation. The brain makes predictions using color. These predictions rely on expectations that come from experience.

当有人无法识别出他们看不到的饮料的味道，或者饮料颜色异常时，会发生什么？是因为参与者无法分辨出味道，所以依赖视觉线索吗？还是颜色实际上改变了味觉体验？这些问题的关键是颜色对预期的影响。大脑利用颜色进行预测。这些预测依赖于来自经验的期望。

Research shows that we're all born liking sweet things and desire to eat them, but we aren't born knowing what the sweet things we crave look like. So we need to learn this over time. The brain gets information from the environment and we learn, for example, that fruits go from green and sour to red and ripe and sweet. Thus, if we see a green berry, we equate its color with a sour taste, and just looking at a red fruit will activate our expectations that it will taste sweet and delicious.

研究表明，我们天生就喜欢甜的东西，也渴望吃它们，但我们天生并不知道我们渴望的甜食看起来是什么样子。所以我们需要随着时间的推移来学习这一点。大脑从环境中获取信息，我们通过学习了解到，例如，水果从绿色和酸味变成红色和成熟以及甜味。因此，如果我们看到一个绿色的浆果，我们会把它的颜色与酸味等同起来，而只是看着一个红色的水果就会激活我们对它味道甜美可口的期望。

Questions 19 to 21 are based on the recording you have just heard.

问题19至21基于你刚刚听到的录音。

Question 19: What does the speaker say about our eyes?

问题19：演讲者对我们的眼睛说了什么？

Question 20: What does color actually do according to this lecture?

问题20：根据这次讲座，颜色实际上起到了什么作用？

Question 21: What does the brain use color to do?

问题21：大脑利用颜色来做什么？

2024年12月英语六级真题听力第一套Recording 2的发布，为考生提供了宝贵的备考资料，助力他们提升听力成绩，顺利通过考试。