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大学英语六级考试押题试卷（含答案）

大学英语六级考试押题试卷（含答案）【决战2010年12月六级】大学英语六级考试押题试卷（含答案）惊爆价0.1元（21套）/doc/ae9215106c175f0e7cd13725.html /auction/item_detail.htm?item_num_id=845915 0396 大学六级模拟05Part Ⅰ WritingDirections: For this part, you are allowed 30 minutes to write a short essay entitled The Importance of Creating a Healthy Internet. You should write at least 150 words following the outline given below.1. 随着社会和经济发展．网络成为了每个人必不可少的获取信息的工具2．但是，在网络上也出现了一些不健康的因素，如垃圾信息、黄色网站、虚假新闻、网络炒作等3．我们应采取措施制止这些，并建立—个健康的网络环境The Importance of Creating a Healthy Internet____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________这道题您没有回答答案:The Importance of Creating a Healthy Internet[范文与解析][1] With the development of our society and economy, the Internet becomes a necessary tool for everyone to obtain information. [2] However, there are also some unhealthy contents in the Internet, such as trash information, pornographic pictures and video clips, fabled news, and annoying online drumbeatings.[3] I think it is high time that we made efforts to create ahealthy Internet. [4] First, creating a healthy Internet helps to eliminate online crimes. [5] Second, creating a healthy Internet helps to protect children. Nowadays many children have access to computers and the Internet, so they might be exposed to unhealthy contents and might be misled. [6] Third, a healthy Internet brings great convenience to our lives, while an unhealthy one does great harm to us. When trash information and online drumbeating jam the network, we will certainly spend much more time to search for the information we really need.[7] In one word, creating a healthy Internet should be Netizens' common responsibility, and let's all contribute to a clean and harmonious virtual environment.[写作指南]作文标题是“创建健康网络环境的重要性”，这已经表明，写作的重点是说明“为什么要创建健康的网络环境”。

2010年12月大学英语六级真题及答案（完整详细版）

2010年12月大学英语六级真题及答案（完整详细版）2010年12月大学英语六级考试真题Part I Writing (30 minutes)Direction: For this part, you are allowed 30 minutes to write a short essay entitled My Views on University Ranking. You should write at least 150 words following the outline given below.1. 目前高校排名相当盛行;2. 对于这种做法人们看法不一;3. 在我看来……My Views on University Ranking.Part II Reading Comprehension (Skimming and Scanning) (15 minutes)Directions: In this part, you will have 15 minutes to go over the passage quickly and answer the questions on Answer Sheet 1. For questions 1-7, choose the best answer from the four choices marked [A], [B], [C] and [D]. For questions 8-10, complete the sentences with the information given in the passage.Into the UnknownThe world has never seen population ageing before. Can it cope?Until the early 1990s nobody much thought about whole populations getting older. The UN had the foresight to convene a “world assembly on ageing” back in 1982, but that came and went. By 1994 the World Bank had noticed that something big was happening. In a report entitled “Averting the Old Age Crisis”, it argued that pension arrangements in most countries were unsustainable.For the next ten years a succession of books, mainly byAmericans, sounded the alarm. They had titles like Young vs Old, Gray Dawn and The Coming Generational Storm, and their messagewas blunt: health-care systems were heading for the rocks, pensioners were taking young people to the cleaners, and soon there would be intergenerational warfare.Since then the debate has become less emotional, not least because a lot more is known about the subject. Books, conferences and research papers have multiplied. International organisations such as the OECD and the EU issue regular reports. Population ageing is on every agenda, from G8 economic conferences to NATO summits. The World Economic Forum plans to consider the future of pensions and health care at its prestigious Davos conference early next year. The media, including this newspaper, are giving the subject extensive coverage.Whether all that attention has translated into sufficient action is another question. Governments in rich countries now accept that their pension and health-care promises will soon become unaffordable, and many of them have embarked on reforms, but so far only timidly. That is not surprising: politicians with an eye on the next election will hardly rush to introduce unpopular measures that may not bear fruit for years, perhaps decades.The outline of the changes needed is clear. To avoid fiscal (财政) meltdown, public pensions and health-care provision will have to be reined back severely and taxes may have to go up. By far the most effective method to restrain pension spending is to give people the opportunity to work longer, because it increases tax revenues and reduces spending on pensions at the same time.It may even k eep them alive longer. John Rother, the AARP’s head of policy and strategy, points to studies showing that other things being equal, people who remain at work have lower death rates than their retired peers.Younger people today mostly accept that they will have to work for longer and that their pensions will be less generous. Employers still need to be persuaded thatolder workers are worth holding on to. That may be because they have had plenty of younger ones to choose from, partly thanks to the post-war baby-boom and partly because over the past few decades many more women have entered the labour force, increasing employers’ choice. But the reservoir of women able and willing to take up paid work is running low, and the baby-boomers are going grey.In many countries immigrants have been filling such gaps in the labour force as have already emerged (and remember that the real shortage is still around ten years off). Immigration in the developed world is the highest it has ever been, and it is making a useful difference. In still-fertile America it currently accounts for about 40% of total population growth, and in fast-ageing western Europe for about 90%.On the face of it, it seems the perfect solution. Many developing countries have lots of young people in need of jobs; many rich countries need helping hands that will boost tax revenues and keep up economic growth. But over the next few decades labour forces in rich countries are set to shrink so much that inflows of immigrants would have to increase enormously to compensate: to at least twice their current size in western Europe’s most youthful countries, and three times in the older ones. Japan would need a large multiple of the few immigrants ithas at present. Public opinion polls show that people in most rich countries already think that immigration is too high. Further big increases would be politically unfeasible.To tackle the problem of ageing populations at its root, “old” countries would have to rejuvenate (使年轻) themselves by having more of their own children. A number of them have tried, some more successfully than others. But it is not a simple matter of offering financial incentives or providing more child care. Modern urban life in rich countries is not well adapted to large families. Women find it hard to combine family and career. They often compromise by having just one child.And if fertility in ageing countries does not pick up? It will not be the end of the world, at least not for quite a while yet, but the world will slowly become a different place. Older societies may be less innovative and more strongly disinclined to take risks than younger ones. By 2025 at the latest, about half the voters in America and most of those in western European countries will be over 50—and older people turn out to vote in much greater number than younger ones. Academic studies have found no evidence so far that older voters have used their power at the ballot box to push for policies that specifically benefit them, though if in future there are many more of them they might start doing so.Nor is there any sign of the intergenerational warfare predicted in the 1990s. After all, older people themselves mostly have families. In a recent study of parents and grown-up children in 11European countries, Karsten Hank of Mannheim University found that 85% of them lived within 25km of each other and the majority of them were in touch at least once a week.Even so, the shift in the centre of gravity to older age groups is bound to have a profound effect on societies, not just economically and politically but in all sorts of other ways too. Richard Jackson and Neil Howe of America’s CSIS, in a thoughtful book called The Graying of the Great Powers, argue that, among other things, the ageing of the developed countries will have a number of serious security implications.For example, the shortage of young adults is likely to make countries more reluctant to commit the few they have to military service. In the decades to 2050, America will find itself playing an ever-increasin g role in the developed world’s defence effort. Because America’s population will still be growing when that of most other developed countries is shrinking, America will be the only developed country that still matters geopolitically (地缘政治上).Ask me in 2020There is little that can be done to stop population ageing, so the world will have to live with it. But some of the consequences can be alleviated. Many experts now believe that given the right policies, the effects, though grave, need not be catastrophic. Most countries have recognised the need to do something and are beginning to act.But even then there is no guarantee that their efforts will work. What is happening now is historically unprecedented. Ronald Lee, director of the Centre on the Economics and Demography of Ageing at the University of California, Berkeley, puts it briefly and clearly: “We don’t really know what population ageing will be like, because nobody has done it yet. “注意：此部分试题请在答题卡1上作答。

2010年12月大学英语六级全真预测试题三及答案解析

之月大学英语六级级2012年12月大学英语六全真预测试题三及答案解析主编：汤敏2010年12月大学英语六级全真预测试题三及答案解析一、阅读理解第1题：Racket,din clamor,noise.Whatever you want to call it,unwanted sound is America's most widespread nuisance.But noise is more than just a nuisance.It constitutes a real and present danger to people's health.Day and night,at home,at work,and at play,noise can produce serious physical and psychological stress.No one is immune to this stress.Though we seem to adjust to noise by ignoring it,the ear,in fact,never closes and the body still responds—sometimes with extreme tension,as to a strange sound in the night.The annoyance we feel when faced with noise is the most common outward symptom of the stress building up inside us.Indeed,because irritability is so apparent,legislators have made public annoyance the basis of many noise abatement(消除)programs.The more subtle and more serious health hazards associated with stress caused by noise traditionally have been given much less attention.Nevertheless,when we are annoyed or made irritable by noise,we should consider these symptoms fair warning that other things may be happening to us,some of which may be damaging to our health.Of the many health hazards related to noise,hearing loss is the most clearly observable and measurable by health professionals.The other hazards are harder to pin down.For many of us, there may be a risk that exposure to the stress of noise increases susceptibility to disease and infection.The more susceptible among us may experience noise as a complicating factor in heart problems and other diseases.Noise that causes annoyance and irritability in healthy persons may have serious consequences for those already ill in mind or body.Noise affects us throughout our lives.For example,there are indications of effects on the unborn child when mothers are exposed to industrial and environmental noise.During infancy and childhood,youngsters exposed to high noise levels may have trouble falling asleep and obtaining necessary amounts of rest.why,then,is there not greater alarm about these dangers?Perhaps it is because the link between noise and many disabilities or diseases has not vet been conclusively demonstrated. Perhaps it is because we tend to dismiss annoyance as a price to pay for living in the modern world.It may also be because we still think of hearing loss as only an occupational hazard.1.The phrase"immune to"(Line3,Para.1)are used to mean________.[A]unaffected by[B]hurt by[C]unlikely to be seen by[D]unknown by2.The author's attitude toward noise would best be described as________.[A]unrealistic[B]traditional[C]concerned[D]hysterical3.Which of the following best states the main idea of the passage?[A]Noise is a major problem;most people recognize its importance.[B]Although noise can be annoying,it is not a major problem.[C]Noise is a major problem and has not yet been recognized as such.[D]Noise is a major problem about which nothing can be done.4.The author condemns noise essentially because it________.[A]is against the law[B]can make some people irritable[C]is a nuisance[D]is a danger to people's health5.The author would probably consider research about the effects noise has on people to be ________.[A]unimportant[B]impossible[C]a waste of money[D]essential1小题>、【正确答案】：A2小题>、【正确答案】：C3小题>、【正确答案】：C4小题>、【正确答案】：D5小题>、【正确答案】：D【参考解析】：1.A语义题。

2010年12月英语六级真题及答案

2010年12月大学英语六级(CET-6)真题试卷Part I Writing(30minutes) Direction:For this part,you are allowed30minutes to write a short essay entitled My Views onUniversity Ranking.You should write at least150words following the outline givenbelow.1.目前高校排名相当盛行;2.对于这种做法人们看法不一;3.在我看来……My Views on University RankingPart II Reading Comprehension(Skimming and Scanning)(15minutes) Directions:In this part,you will have15minutes to go over the passage quickly and answer the questions on Answer Sheet1.For questions1-7,choose the best answer from the fourchoices marked[A],[B],[C]and[D].For questions8-10,complete the sentenceswith the information given in the passage.Into the UnknownThe world has never seen population ageing before.Can it cope?Until the early1990s nobody much thought about whole populations getting older.The UN had the foresight to convene a“world assembly on ageing”back in1982,but that came and went. By1994the World Bank had noticed that something big was happening.In a report entitled “Averting the Old Age Crisis”,it argued that pension arrangements in most countries were unsustainable.For the next ten years a succession of books,mainly by Americans,sounded the alarm.They had titles like Young vs Old,Gray Dawn and The Coming Generational Storm,and their message was blunt:health-care systems were heading for the rocks,pensioners were taking young people to the cleaners,and soon there would be intergenerational warfare.Since then the debate has become less emotional,not least because a lot more is known about the subject.Books,conferences and research papers have multiplied.International organisations such as the OECD and the EU issue regular reports.Population ageing is on every agenda,from G8 economic conferences to NATO summits.The World Economic Forum plans to consider the future of pensions and health care at its prestigious Davos conference early next year.The media, including this newspaper,are giving the subject extensive coverage.Whether all that attention has translated into sufficient action is another ernments in rich countries now accept that their pension and health-care promises will soon become unaffordable,and many of them have embarked on reforms,but so far only timidly.That is not surprising:politicians with an eye on the next election will hardly rush to introduce unpopular measures that may not bear fruit for years,perhaps decades.The outline of the changes needed is clear.To avoid fiscal(财政)meltdown,public pensions and health-care provision will have to be reined back severely and taxes may have to go up.By far the most effective method to restrain pension spending is to give people the opportunity to work longer,because it increases tax revenues and reduces spending on pensions at the same time.It may even keep them alive longer.John Rother,the AARP’s head of policy and strategy,points to studies showing that other things being equal,people who remain at work have lower death rates than their retired peers.Younger people today mostly accept that they will have to work for longer and that their pensions will be less generous.Employers still need to be persuaded that older workers are worth holding on to.That may be because they have had plenty of younger ones to choose from,partly thanks to the post-war baby-boom and partly because over the past few decades many more women have entered the labour force,increasing employers’choice.But the reservoir of women able and willing to take up paid work is running low,and the baby-boomers are going grey.In many countries immigrants have been filling such gaps in the labour force as have already emerged(and remember that the real shortage is still around ten years off).Immigration in the developed world is the highest it has ever been,and it is making a useful difference.In still-fertile America it currently accounts for about40%of total population growth,and in fast-ageing western Europe for about90%.On the face of it,it seems the perfect solution.Many developing countries have lots of young people in need of jobs;many rich countries need helping hands that will boost tax revenues and keep up economic growth.But over the next few decades labour forces in rich countries are set to shrink so much that inflows of immigrants would have to increase enormously to compensate:to at least twice their current size in western Europe’s most youthful countries,and three times in the older ones.Japan would need a large multiple of the few immigrants it has at present.Public opinion polls show that people in most rich countries already think that immigration is too high. Further big increases would be politically unfeasible.To tackle the problem of ageing populations at its root,“old”countries would have to rejuvenate(使年轻)themselves by having more of their own children.A number of them have tried, some more successfully than others.But it is not a simple matter of offering financial incentives or providing more child care.Modern urban life in rich countries is not well adapted to large families. Women find it hard to combine family and career.They often compromise by having just one child.And if fertility in ageing countries does not pick up?It will not be the end of the world,at least not for quite a while yet,but the world will slowly become a different place.Older societies may be less innovative and more strongly disinclined to take risks than younger ones.By2025at the latest, about half the voters in America and most of those in western European countries will be over 50—and older people turn out to vote in much greater number than younger ones.Academic studies have found no evidence so far that older voters have used their power at the ballot box to push for policies that specifically benefit them,though if in future there are many more of them they might start doing so.Nor is there any sign of the intergenerational warfare predicted in the1990s.After all,older people themselves mostly have families.In a recent study of parents and grown-up children in11 European countries,Karsten Hank of Mannheim University found that85%of them lived within 25km of each other and the majority of them were in touch at least once a week.Even so,the shift in the centre of gravity to older age groups is bound to have a profound effect on societies,not just economically and politically but in all sorts of other ways too.Richard Jackson and Neil Howe of America’s CSIS,in a thoughtful book called The Graying of the Great Powers,argue that,among other things,the ageing of the developed countries will have a number of serious security implications.For example,the shortage of young adults is likely to make countries more reluctant to commit the few they have to military service.In the decades to2050,America will find itself playing an ever-increasing role in the developed world’s defence effort.Because America’s population will still be growing when that of most other developed countries is shrinking,America will be the only developed country that still matters geopolitically(地缘政治上).Ask me in2020There is little that can be done to stop population ageing,so the world will have to live with it. But some of the consequences can be alleviated.Many experts now believe that given the right policies,the effects,though grave,need not be catastrophic.Most countries have recognised the need to do something and are beginning to act.But even then there is no guarantee that their efforts will work.What is happening now is historically unprecedented.Ronald Lee,director of the Centre on the Economics and Demography of Ageing at the University of California,Berkeley,puts it briefly and clearly:“We don’t really know what population ageing will be like,because nobody has done it yet.“注意：此部分试题请在答题卡1上作答。

2010年12月大学英语六级全真预测试题一及答案解析

之2010年12月大学英语六级全真预测试题一及答案解析2010年12月大学英语六级全真预测试题一及答案解析一、选词填空题第1题：Education is a long process that not only provides us with basic skills such as literacy and numeracy, but is also essential in shaping our future lives. From the moment we enter 1 as small children, and as we progress through primary and secondary education, we are laying the foundation for the life ahead of us. We must2 ourselves to work hard so that we can pass exams and gain the qualifications we will need to3 a good job. We must also acquire 4 life skills so that we can fit in and work with those around us. And of course health education helps us to understand how we can stay 5 and healthy.For most people, this process ends when they are in their mid-to-late teens. For others, however, it is the beginning of a(n)6 of learning. After they finish school, many progress to 7 education where they will learn more useful skills such as computer literacy or basic business management. Others will enroll in a program of 8 education at a university where, with hard work, they will have the opportunity to graduate after three or four years with a well-earned degree. After that, they may work for a while before 9 to study for a higher degree—an M.A., for example, or a PhD. And if they live a long way from a college or university, they might follow a correspondence course using mail and the Internet. In fact, it is 10 due to the proliferation of computers that many people, who have not been near a school for many years, have started to study again and can proudly class themselves as mature students.[A] changing [I] discipline[B] secure [J] fit[C] longer [K] opting[D] kindergarten [L] school[E] higher [M] valuable[F] lifetime [N] heavily[G] deepen [O] further[H] largely【参考答案】：DIBMJFOEKH二、阅读理解第2题：The Food and Drug Administration said on Wednesday that it is trying to track down as many as 386 piglets that may have been genetically engineered and wrongfully sold into the U.S. food supply.The focus of the FDA investigation is on pigs raised by researchers at the University ofIllinois in Urbana Champaign. They engineered the animals with two genes: one is a cow gene that increases milk production in the sow; the other, a synthetic gene, makes the milk easier for piglets to digest. The goal was to raise bigger pigs faster.There has been no evidence that either genetically altered plants or animals actually trigger human illness, but critics warn that potential side effects remain unknown. University officials say their tests showed the piglets were not born with the altered genes, but FDA rules require even the offspring of genetically engineered animals to be destroyed so they won't get into the food supply.The FDA, in a quickly arranged news conference on Wednesday prompted by inquiries by USA TODAY, said the University of Illinois would face possible sanctions and fines for selling the piglets to a livestock broker, who in turn sold them to processing plants.Both the FDA and the university say the pigs that entered the market do not pose a risk to consumers. But the investigation follows action by the U.S. Department of Agriculture in December to fine a Texas company that contaminated 500,000 bushels of soybeans with corn that had been genetically altered to produce a vaccine for pigs.Critics see such cases as evidence of the need for more government oversight of a burgeoning(新兴的)area of scientific research. "This is a small incident, but it's incidents like this that could destroy consumer confidence and export confidence," says Stephanie Childs of the Grocery Manufacturers of America. "We already have Europe shaky on biotech. The countries to which we export are going to look at this."The University of Illinois says it tested the DNA of every piglet eight times to make sure that the animal hadn't inherited the genetic engineering of its mother. Those piglets that did were put back into the study. Those that didn't were sold to the pig broker. "Any pig that was tested negative for the genes since 1999 has been sent off to market," says Charles Zukoski, vice chancellor for research.But FDA deputy commissioner Lester Crawford says that under the terms of the university's agreement with the FDA, the researchers were forbidden to remove the piglets without FDA approval. "The University of Illinois failed to check with FDA to see whether or not the animals could be sold on the open market. And they were not to be used under any circumstance for food."The FDA is responsible for regulating and overseeing transgenic animals because such genetic manipulation is considered an unapproved animal drug.1. The 386 piglets wrongfully sold into food supply are from ________.[A] Europe [B] an American research organization[C] a meat processing plant [D] an animal farm2. The purpose of the transgenic engineering research is to ________.[A] get pigs of larger size in a shorter time[B] make sows produce more milk[C] make cows produce more milk[D] make pigs grow more lean meat3. The 4th paragraph shows that the University of Illinois ________.[A] was criticized by the FDA[B] is in great trouble[C] is required by the FDA to call back the sold piglets[D] may have to pay the penalty4. The FDA declares that the wrongfully sold piglets ________.[A] may have side effects on consumers [B] may be harmful to consumers[C] are safe to consumers [D] may cause human illness5. It can be inferred from this passage that ________.[A] all the offspring have their mothers' genetic engineering[B] part of the offspring have their mothers' genetic engineering[C] none of the offspring have their mothers' genetic engineering[D] half of the offspring have their mothers' genetic engineering1小题>、【正确答案】：B2小题>、【正确答案】：A3小题>、【正确答案】：D4小题>、【正确答案】：C5小题>、【正确答案】：B【参考解析】：1.B 推断题。

【决战2010年12月六级】大学英语六级考试押题试卷(含答案)16

大学六级模拟16Part Ⅰ WritingDirections: For this part, you are allowed 30 minutes to write a short essay, entitled Playing Truant. You should write at least 150 words following the outline given below:1. 现有大学里逃课现象很严重2.你认为产生这种现象的原因是什么3. 怎么才能杜绝这一现象Playing Truant__________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________这道题您没有回答答案:[范文]Playing TruantThe current decade has witnessed the prevalence of playing truant on campus. Specifically, it is not surprising to see some schoolboys playing computer games in internet-caféduring class time. Apart from that, it is not uncommon that schoolgirls go shopping regardless of their courses. Clearly, this issue is pressing for our serious consideration.The reasons for skipping class are various, such as the colorful activities of campus, forgetting the time, playing computer games, sleeping and so on. But the chief one, in my viewpoint, is that we think college life is to play and enjoy instead of learning. After three years of hard work in senior high school, many students assume that they can finally relax in college and do not need to study hard any more. Thus they don't take college courses seriously and play truant very frequently.It is no doubt that playing truant is bad for college students. There is an urgent need to stop this kind of phenomenon. On one hand, the school, both the administrators and teachers should prevent students from playing truant. On the other hand, more importantly, we college students should realize its bad effects and start from ourselves to stop playing truant on campus.[解析]本次写作试题要求对“大学逃课现象”展开分析讨论。

2010年12月英语六级答案及解析

1. 目前高校排名相当盛行2. 对于这种做法，人们看法不一3. 我认为……It is a not-uncommon social phenomenon that the university rankings are especially prevalent in our country. For example, universities are measured by scale, academic achievements or the number of papers published in famous magazines.As to this issue, opinions vary from person to person. Some people hold that university ranking dramatically promotes the development of university in various fields. But others maintain that university ranking also leads to some undesirable consequences such as academic fraud even to deceive people.As far I am concerned, every coin has two sides. On one hand, University ranking does encourage the development and growth of colleges. Such growth– the grand libraries, splendid stadiums and fruitful academic achievements, has caught the attention of the world. We’re impressed by these signs of our education’s tour to the 21st century.On the other hand, we have to pay attention to an unexpected phenomenon that some people have ignored the objectivity of university ranking. Take South university of science and technology of china for an example, this university occupies the second position in some university rankings. In those rankings, it is superior to Peking University and Tsinghua university. In a word, we should inspire the advantages of university and abandon its disadvantages.2010年12月英语六级作文解析此次六级作文仍然是常考的议论文文体。

文都英语六级：2010年12月大学英语六级全真预测试题二答案解析

⽂都英语六级：2010年12⽉⼤学英语六级全真预测试题⼆答案解析Part I Writing 【话题分析】⼤学⽣消费是⽬前家长及教育界⽐较关注的问题，它所反应的不仅仅是花钱这⼀表⾯现象，⽽是隐藏在这⼀现象之后的⼤学⽣的价值观、⾦钱观等思想层⾯的问题。

【范⽂解析】 Nowadays the campus students seem to have no idea of how money comes from, and not to care about their expenditure. They buy whatever they like for themselves, also for their friends, paying no attention to how much these things cost。

Some people say that it is not a problem for college students to spend much. After all, the society is progressing and the life is being enriched. With the living standard being raised, it is reasonable to improve the expenditure of students. There is nothing to blame。

For me, it is not just a habit of spending more money; it is a reflection of students' outlook on money and value. The students get money from their parents so easily that they have no idea of earning money with their hard work and effort, thus developing an awareness that they want to get things but are unwilling to work hard for their goal. Definitely, that is harmful. The campus students can improve their lives, but with the money earned by themselves。

2010年12月份英语6级所有答案

2010年12月英语六级试题答案(完整版)Part Ⅰ作文题目：1.目前高校排名相当盛行2.对于这种做法，人们看法不一3.我认为...Now society competition is very big, college is not exceptional also, the present universities ranking is quite popular, appear very I "ranking" drawbacks. For this kind of practice, the person of shem view each not camera, some understanding ranking is very necessary, can promote the school competition, some understanding ranking, cause a lot of school lane virtual do false education quality, causing the glide! And I think the school rankings of this mechanism is should be reserved, but need to regulate the arrangement, the education development of the rankings system into motivation, not resistance.作文范文：For those university students-to-be, choosing their ideal school is never an easy job, but luckily, different authorities come up with the university ranking to help! Top students shall choose the top schools high on the list and vice versa.Complicated issue becomes easy numerical comparison, yet the real problem stays there, can the numerical ranking tell you the status quo of these universities? Are these “authorities” producing the ranking authoritative enough to make the judgments? Let’s take a seri ous look at the issue before we jump to the conclusion whether university ranking is good or bad.We have to admit that because of historical reasons, most of the 1950s-1960s parents were denied higher education and this cruel fact makes them even more eager to give their children high education even though they have no idea of what university education is all about. The ranking helps them to make decisions based on their simple idea of better ranking means better jobs in future, and therefore better income! It is pathetic that they interpret knowledge and wisdom in such a way yet it is even more pathetic that there are so-claimed well-educated people making up all the ranking and get the ranking published to mislead them!Part II快速阅读：1 D2 A3 A4 D5 D6 B7 APart III 听力（即将发布）Part IV仔细阅读：52 A53 A54 D55 A56 D57 B58 B59 C60 D61 CPart V完型填空：62-66 BCBAC67-71 CBBBD72-76 CAACD77-81 CDADCPart Ⅵ翻译：82.can not be too careful83.did I realize that reading could not be neglected84.to the researchers' surprise85.I must have left it somewhere86.would rather join you to do volunteer work。

2010年12月英语6级真题标准答案(含详细解析)

听力：Part ⅢListening ComprehensionSection A11. What can we infer from the conversation?【答案】A The man is the manager of the apartment building【解析】从对话中看出女士在找apartment building，不是男士。

因此选A。

12. What is the woman eager to know?【答案】B How the pictures will turn out.【解析】女士想知道的是if the shots I took are as good as I thought. 照片是不是和她想的异样好。

这里shots指照片。

turn out指照片拍出来的效果。

因此选B。

13. What does the man mean?【答案】C The suitcase can be fixed in time.【解析】男士说到find a handle后面提到 but that shouldn’t take too long说明不是没有handle可以匹配。

因此排除A,B。

14. What do we learn about the man from the conversation?【答案】B He needs a vehicle to be used in harsh weather. 【解析】男士说到truck需要operate for long periods of time in very cold temperatures，因此选择选项B。

very cold temperatures对应harsh weather.15. What do we learn about the woman?【答案】A She has made up her mind to resign.【解析】从文中女士强硬的口气I could no longer live with…可以看出她下定决心。

2010年12月大学英语六级考试真题

正保远程教育旗下品牌网站美国纽交所上市公司(NYSE:DL)外语教育网外语学习的网上乐园2010年12月大学英语六级考试真题Part I Writing （30 minutes）Direction: For this part, you are allowed 30 minutes to write a short essay entitled My Views on University Ranking. You should write at least 150 words following the outline given below.1. 目前高校排名相当盛行;2. 对于这种做法人们看法不一;3. 在我看来……My Views on University RankingPart II Reading Comprehension （Skimming and Scanning）（15 minutes）Directions: In this part, you will have 15 minutes to go over the passage quickly and answer the questions on Answer Sheet 1. For questions 1-7, choose the best answer from the four choices marked [A], [B], [C] and [D]. For questions 8-10, complete the sentences with the information given in the passage.Into the UnknownThe world has never seen population ageing before. Can it cope?Until the early 1990s nobody much thought about whole populations getting older. The UN had the foresight to convene a "world assembly on ageing" back in 1982, but that came and went. By 1994 the World Bank had noticed that something big was happening. In a report entitled "Averting the Old Age Crisis", it argued that pension arrangements in most countries were unsustainable.For the next ten years a succession of books, mainly by Americans, sounded the alarm. They had titles like Young vs Old, Gray Dawn and The Coming Generational Storm, and their message was blunt: health-care sysTEMs were heading for the rocks, pensioners were taking young people to the cleaners, and soon there would be intergenerational warfare. 【外语教育&网】Since then the debate has become less emotional, not least because a lot more is known about the subject. Books, conferences and research papers have multiplied. International organisations such as the OECD and the EU issue regular reports. Population ageing is on every agenda, from G8 economic conferences to NATO summits. The World Economic Forum plans to consider the future of pensions and health care at its prestigious Davos conference early next year. The media, including this newspaper, are giving the subject extensive coverage.Whether all that attention has translated into sufficient action is another question. Governments in rich countries now accept that their pension and health-care promises will soon become unaffordable, and many of them have。

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2010年12月英语六级考试(CET6)预测试卷(1)-中大网校

2010年12月英语六级考试(CET6)预测试卷(1)总分：710分及格：426分考试时间：140分Part I Writing(1)Directions: For this part, you are allowed 30 minutes to write a short essay entitled A Harmonious Society in My Mind. You should write at least 150 words following the outline given below.1. 建立和谐社会成为了一种潮流和趋势2. 我心中的和谐社会是….3. 为了建立和谐社会，我们应该如何去做？A Harmonious Society in My MindPart II  Reading Comprehension快速阅读  单选题(1)Entertainment in LondonBuying BooksLondoners are great readers. They buy vast numbers of newspapers and magazines and even of books especially paperbacks, which are still comparatively cheap in spite of ever-increasing rises in the costs of printing. They still continue to buy "proper" books, too, printed on good paper and bound between hard covers.There are many streets in London containing shops which specialize in book-selling. Perhaps the best known of these is Charing Cross Road in the very heart of London. Here bookshops of all sorts and sizes are to be found, from the celebrated one which boasts of being "the biggest bookshop in the world" to the tiny, dusty little places which seem to have been left over from Dickens' time. Many of them specialize in second-hand books, in art books, in foreign books, in books of philosophy, politics or any other of the various subjects about which books may be written. One shop in this area specializes solely in books about ballet!Although it may be the most convenient place for Londoners to buy books, Charing Cross Road is not the cheapest. For the really cheap second-hand volumes, the collector must venture off the busy and crowded roads, to Farringdon Road in the East Central district of London. Here there is nothing so grand as bookshops. Instead, the booksellers come along each morning and tip out their sacks of books on to barrows(推车) which line the gutters(贫民区). And the collectors, some professional and some amateur, who have been waiting for them, pounce towards the sellers. In places like this one can still, occasionally, pick up for a few pence an old volume that may be worth many pounds.Both Charing Cross Road and Farringdon Road are well-known places of the book buyer. Yet all over London there are bookshops, in places not so well known, where the books are equally varied and exciting. It is in the sympathetic atmosphere of such shops that the loyal book buyer feels most at home. In these shops, even the life-long book-browser is frequently rewarded by the accidental discovery of previously unknown delights. One could, in fact, easily spend a lifetime exploring London's bookshops. There are many less pleasant ways of spending time!Going to the TheatreLondon is very rich in theatres: there are over forty in the West End alone--more than enough to ensure that there will always be at least two or three shows running to suit every kind taste, whether serious or lighthearted.Some of them are specialist theatres. The Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, where the great opera singers of the world can be heard, is the home ofopera and the Royal Ballet. The London Coliseum now houses the English National Opera Company, which encourages English singers in particular and performs most operas in English at popular prices.Some theatres concentrate on the classics and serious drama, some on light comedy, some on musicals. Most theatres have a personality of their own, from(2)Chafing Cross Road is very famous because______.A. all kinds of bookstores are along the streetsB. it lies right in the center of LondonC. they have the cheapest books in LondonD. the biggest bookstore in the world is there(3)What can you learn about Farringdon Road?A. It's to the east of LondoB. It's a street of bookstoreC. It's a center for second-hand bookD. It's where worthless books are sol(4)What does the author mean by saying "some of them are specialist theatres"?A. Those theatres only have operas showB. The theatres are especially good for their ballet showC. These theatres offer really affordable ticketD. They each hold a special type of play or show(5)Because of the theatre performances, the area around Piccadilly and Leicester Square tube stations gets crowded______.A. before seven-thirtyB. between seven and eightC. at about eight o'clockD. from seven-fifteen to eight(6)What kind of change did World War I1 bring to the theatres?A. The putting forward of dinnerB. The costume of the performanceC. The time of the performanceD. The restaurants nearly offer different food(7)What, according to the author, caused the decline of theatre business?A. There are not professional theatres in large provincial townB. During World War Ⅱ, a lot of theatres were destroyeC. Some people begin to choose stay at home and watch TD. The performance of the plays is becoming worse and wors快速阅读填空题(1)According to the author, three music lovers of the royal family members are ________________________(2)The British love of music is not known to foreigners for__________________.(3)The courses offered by summer school in music where a friendly atmosphere reigns last ________________________Listening Comprehension (35 minutes)听力选择题(1)A. Go to the partieB. Go for a ridC. Study for her exaD. Change her clothe(2)A. The air pollution is caused by the development of industrB. The city was poor because there wasn't much industrC. The woman's exaggerating the seriousness of the pollutioD. He might move to another city very soo(3)A. He believes dancing is enjoyablB. He definitely does not like dancinC. He admires those who dancD. He won't dance until he has done his wor(4)A. He admires Jean's straightforwardnesB. He thinks Brown deserves the praisC. He will talk to Jean about what happeneD. He believes Jean was rude to Brow(5)A. The woman had been planning for the conferencB. The woman called the man but the line was busC. The woman didn't come back until midnighD. The woman had guests all evenin(6)A. He shows great enthusiasm for his studieB. He is a very versatile persoC. He has no talent for tenniD. He does not study hard enoug(7)A. He has managed to sell a number of carB. He is contented with his current positioC. He might get fireD. He has lost his jo(8)A. Jerry stayed in a room on the third floor for an houB. Jerry was absent when the discussion was being helC. Nobody but the woman noticed that Jerry was absenD. Jerry did not leave room 405 until an hour had passe(9)A. To provide language learning opportunitieB. To teach students how to be expert in computeC. To provide work opportunities for graduating students in the communitD. To help students pass math exa(10)A. English grammaB. English literaturC. Intercultural communicatioD. Mathematics clas(11)A. By May 29tB. By June 29tC. By July 29tD. By April 29t(12)A. Video and online gamB. Hazards of a high-tech societC. Relationships on campuD. Internet addictio(13)A. Because they lack self-discipline in their studieB. Because they spend too much time on the InterneC. Because they have not exerted their utmost effortD. Because they have developed poor relationships with teacher(14)A. The impulse to go online begins to affect other areas of lifB. One begins to feel anxious or depressed or lonely if onlinC. One isn't looking forward to being connected with other people onlinD. One is likely to be violent or crazy or aggressive if not onlin(15)A. To have some sort of balance in lifB. To keep off the Internet completelC. To develop some sort of healthy recreatioD. To have a face-to-face talk with a psychiatris(16)A. Diamond-producing rivers are located far away the mountain sidB. Diamonds can be formed without volcano heat and pressurC. V olcano explosions brought some diamonds up to the earth surfacD. Explosions of the volcano can damage diamonds as wel(17)A. In the volcanoeB. On the floor of the seC. Under the river beD. At the foot of the mountai(18)A. How Diamond is Formed and FounB. Diamond—A Precious StonC. Diamond HuntinD. Diamond—Producing Countrie(19)A. How people fall ilB. The influence of people's emotions on their healtC. A new method to cure breast canceD. Several ways to keep fi(20)A. Because he was of ill healtB. Because he was in a bad mooC. Because his wife abandoned hiD. Because his immune system was not strong enoug(21)A. Those who like talking about cheerful things live longeB. Those who avoid talking about cheerful things die sooneC. Those who like talking about their disease live longeD. Those who avoid talking about their illness live longe(22)A. Selling home furnishinB. Renting furnished apartmenC. Selling used furniturD. Renting home furnishin(23)A. Because the furniture they get in this way is better in qualitB. Because it saves them a lot of moneC. Because it saves them much trouble and moneD. Because they can get better quality furniture in this wa(24)A. The idea of renting furniture is not acceptablB. Renting furniture is not popular in the couple's home towC. Only those who don't have enough money want to rent furniturD. People usually grow to like the furniture they have rente(25)A. Rent or Buy?B. A New Way of Getting Home FurnishinC. Furnished ApartmenD. A New Ide听力填空题(1)People do not analyze every problem they meet. Sometimes they try to remember a 36 from the last time they had a similar problem. They often accept the 37 or ideas of other people. Other times they begin to act without thinking; they try to find a solution by 38 and error. However, when all these 39 fail, the person with a problem has to start analyzing. There are six 40 in analyzing a problem.First, the person must 41 that there is a problem. For example, Sam's bicycle is 42 , and he cannot ride it to class as he usually does. Sam must see that there is a problem with his bicycle. Next, the thinker must 43 the problem. Before Sam can repair his bicycle, he must find the reason why it does not work. For instance, 44 _______________ He must take his problem more specific.45 _____________________________________. For instance, suppose Sam decided that his bike does not work because there is something wrong with the gear wheels. At this time, he can look in his bicycle repair book and read about gears. He can talk to his friends at the bike shop. He can look at his gears carefully. 46 _____________________________________________. Take Sam as an illustration. His suggestions might be: put oil on the gear wheels; buy new gear wheels and replace the old ones; tighten or loosen the gear wheels.(2)请在(37)处填上最佳答案.(3)请在(38)处填上最佳答案.(4)请在(39)处填上最佳答案.(5)请在(40)处填上最佳答案.(6)请在(41)处填上最佳答案.(7)请在(42)处填上最佳答案.(8)请在(43)处填上最佳答案.(9)请在(44)处填上最佳答案.(10)请在(45)处填上最佳答案.(11)请在(46)处填上最佳答案.Part III Reading Comprehension （Reading in Depth）（25 minutes）仔细阅读   填空题(1)Addison Heard uses an image of his wife and infant son for the background on his laptop. An MBA student at the University of Virginia's Darden School of Business, Heard thinks about his family constantly. But because he's away at B-school, he has experienced much of his son's first year via phone calls and digital photos. Says Heard, "It has been particularly hard, not being there with them every day. "This was his family's choice. It didn't make financial sense for his wife, Eden, a corporate lawyer in Washington, to quit her job, sell their condo(公寓), and move to Charlotterville with her husband. So he went alone. In his first Year each spouse made the 200-mile round-trip commute on alternate weekends. Since their son was born last May, Addison has been doing most of the driving.As complicated as the Heard's situation seems, it isn't all that rare. In any year, hundreds of couples deal with how to handle the family logistics(后勤工作) of going to B-school. Some choose a long-distance relationship, commuting back and forth on weekends and breaks. Others see partners and children only on vacations and holidays. Still others pack up the family and bring them along.Being apart hasn't been easy, but the Heards have made it work. On weekends when the couple is in Virginia, they attend social events, so she can feel a partof the community. Heard also avoids Friday classes to gain more family time. "We've gotten into a routine that works," he says, "but I'm looking forward to being home, so the three of us can be a family. "Any long-distance commute puts pressure on a relationship, causing some couples to drift apart. Being thrown in a rigorous academic schedule for one spouse and a demanding career for the other, the stress intensifies, often distracting students from their studies.Some schools offer students in these situations a good deal of support. For faraway spouses, there are on-campus social events when they visit, online communities, even involvement in alumni networks in their home cities. But mainly B-schools try to make it easier for students to take their partners along for the ride. They help families find housing, preschools, or local employment.The decision to attend a distant B-school is fraught(伴随着的) with financial and logistical problems. Students also must decide if their families should stay or go. Either way, schools try to accommodate them. "We have more than ourselves to think about," an MBA student, Cory Hricik says. "It's a family-influenced choice. "(2)Before his son was born, in order to meet each other, Addison made the 200-mile round-trip commute_______________.(3)The way that Addison continues his study will make the other____________________.(4)Some B-schools will make it easier for students to ______________________.(5)According to Hrncirik's remarks, the pursuit of MBA degree is ______________________.仔细阅读  选择题(1)There he was America's first President with a MBA, the man who loves to boast about his business background, whose presidential campaign raised unprecedented sums from corporate wallets and whose cabinet is stuffed with chief executives. Faith in the integrity of American business leaders was being undermined(破坏), George Bush said fiercely, by executives "breaching trust and abusing power". It was time for "a new ethic of personal responsibility in the business community". He was going to "end the days of cooking the books, shading the truth and breaking our laws".Only months ago, the idea that George W Bush would publicly lambaste America's cooperate bosses was laughable. As a candidate, born on the wave of a decade-long economic boom and an unprecedented 18-year bull market, he cashed in on American's love affair with corporate success. But things are different now. The stock market bubble has burst and, despite signs of economic recovery. Wall Street seems to be sunk in gloom. A string of scandals at some of America's most high-flying firms--including Enron, Xerox. Tyco, Global Crossing and most recently, World Com¬¬has radically changed the public mood.As political pressure for reform increases, so too does the heat on Mr Bush. Is the businessman's president reallyprepared to take business on and push hard for reform? Despite the set jaw and aggrieved tone in New York. Probably not. Mr. Bush thinks the current crisis stems from a few bad-apple chief executives rather than the system as a whole. Hence he focus on tough penalties for corrupt businessmen and his plea for higher ethical standards. The president announced the creation of a financial-crimes SWAT team, at the Justice Department to root out corporate fraud, and wants to double the maximum prison sentence for financial fraud from five to ten years. But he offered few concrete suggestions for systemic reform: little mention of changes to strengthen shareholders' rights, not even an endorsement of the Senate corporate-reform bill.There are few signs yet that cleaning up corporate America is an issue that animates the voters. Polls show that Americans have little faith in their business leaders, but politicians do not seem to be suffering as a result. Mr. Bush's approval ratings have fallen from their sky-highs, but they are still very strong.The president, therefore, need do no more than talk tough. This alone will convince ordinary Americans that he is on top of the issue. As the economy rebounds and public outage subsides, the clamor for change will be quieter. Democratic attacks will fizzle, and far-reaching reform bills will be watered down before they become law. Politically, the gamble makes sense. Unfortunately for American capitalism, a great opportunity will be missed.(2)According to the passage, which of the following statements is TRUE?A. Bush had to offer concrete suggestions for reform as political pressure increaseB. At present, the maximum prison sentence for financial fraud is five yearC. It is laughable that M Bush publicly attacked America's corporate bossesD. Americans have little faith in their business as well as political leaders(3)Which of the following statements about Mr. Bush is mentioned in this passage?A. M Bush is the second President with an MBA in American historyB. M Bush contributes a lot to decade-long economic boomC. M Bush's approval ratings are still highD. M Bush didn't get support in his presidential campaign(4)The author's attitude towards the reform is______.A. indifferentB. optimisticC. skepticalD. favorable(5)The phrase "a great opportunity" mentioned in the last paragraph refers to an opportunity to______.A. carry out reformB. boom economyC. animate the votersD. attack chief executive(6)In recent decades, there is a phenomenon which makes us give some attention; the so-called Southeast Asian "tigers" have rivaled the western "lions" for stock cliches that make economic headlines. The myth of American economic hegemony(霸权) over Asia in the imposing and patriarchal figure of Uncle Sam has provided frequent political grist (有利) for Southeast Asian political leaders, particularly Malaysia's Prime Minister Mahathir. He has attempted to forge an international reputation as a snarling tiger, but lately sounds more like a barnyard dog groaning at shadows. Without demeaning in any way the remarkable achievements of the newly developing economies of Malaysia, Thailand and Indonesia, these nations at times appear to be their own worst enemies. This is often exemplified by Dr. Mahathir, who rails at Western evil whenever an international or domestic crisis provides an opportunity.To be more specific, the recent devaluation of the Philippine and Thai currencies, and the subsequent pressure on the Malaysian currency has inspired Dr. Mahathir to launch an all-out attack on the West as the source of the problem. He even alleges that the United States has deli-berately destabilized Southeast Asian economies in revenge for these nations, supporting the brutal military rule in Mahathir, an action which the United States seems to want inspected rather than rewarded. But by resorting to such scapegoat (替罪羊), instead of accepting even a bit responsibility, the Prime Minister may undermine the future success of the region and Malaysia in particular.Upon further questioning, Dr. Mahathir narrowed his attack to one wealthy individual, the well-known philanthropist (慈善家), Mr. George Soros, whose opposition to Myanmar's admission to ASEAN (Association of Southeast Asian Nations) Mahathir found particularity, irritating. The logical mistakes that underlie such conspiracy theories do not help Malaysia address the serious issues of economic overheating that experts have been warning about for all these difficult periods, which include large deficits and low savings to debt ratios. In fact, the recent dramatic drop in Malaysia's stock market and currency has led Dr. Mahathir to reverse his initial approach to the crisis. He even announces measures that at least imply he is quite aware of excesses in his own administration's spending policies that have contributed to this crisis of confidence. In the end, this kind of reaction undermines the esteem that Dr. Mahathir's enlightened leadership has justly earned.It is implied in the first paragraph that Dr. Mahathir______.A. has correctly identified the financial problem in AsiaB. tries to manipulate anti-Western actions for political gainsC. detests the USA's controlling over the regional economiesD. believes in the effect of the ghostly influence from the west(7)The author of this essay seems to suggest that______.A. the devaluation of Malaysia's currency is due to the American plotB. the Asian Crisis is the result of ASEAN pandering to terrorist governmentsC. there is not a serious economic problems in Southeast Asia at allD. the economic problems in some Asian countries is partly the result of their overheating economy(8)The author suggests the Dr. Mahathir's comments on the currency problems______.A. prove that he has been a poor leader in generalB. are poor because they weaken his own credibilityC. are sharp in identifying the cause of the problemD. reveal his keen insight into the complex issue(9)Which of the following is the tone of this essay?A. Sarcastic and prejudiceB. Objective and detachedC. Piercing and indifferentD. Impassive and hostile(10)The relative pronoun "which" in the last paragraph (Line 5) refers to______.A. theoriesB. expertsC. periodsD. issuesPart V CLOZE(1)Though it is a mere one third of the population, the upper class makes up at least 25 percent of the nation’s wealth. This class has two parts: upper-upper and lower-upper. 62 , the upper-upper class is the “old rich” — families that have been wealthy for several generations — a nobility of 63 and wealth. A few are known across the nation, such as the Rockefellers, and the Vanderbilts. Most are not 64 to the general public. They have no 65 to the rest of the community, 66 their income from the investment of their inherited wealth. By 67 , the lower-upper class is the “new rich”. 68 they may be wealthier than some of the old rich, the new rich have been 69 to make their money like 70 else beneath their class. 71 their status is generally 72 than that of the old rich, who have not found it necessary to lift a finger to make their money, and who 73 to look down upon the new rich. However its wealth is 74 , the upper class is very rich. They have enough money and leisure time to __75 an interest in the arts and to 76 rare books and paintings. They generally live in exclusive areas, belong to exclusive social clubs, communicate with each other, and marry their own kind, all of which keeps them so 77 from the masses that they have been called the out-of- sight class. More than any other class, they tend to be 78 of being members of a class. They also 79 an enormous amount of power and influence here and abroad, as they _ 80 many top government positions. Their actions 81 the lives of millions.请在(62)处填上最佳答案.A. ConsequentlyB. AccordinglyC. RegularlyD. Basically(2)请在(63)处填上最佳答案.A. beginningB. birthC. infancyD. foundation(3)请在(64)处填上最佳答案.A. visibleB. noticeableC. obviousD. apparent(4)请在(65)处填上最佳答案.A. contactB. associationC. communicationD. relation(5)请在(66)处填上最佳答案.A. pullingB. abstractingC. drawingD. making(6)请在(67)处填上最佳答案.A. comparisonB. contrastC. contraryD. difference(7)请在(68)处填上最佳答案.A. AlthoughB. BecauseC. ThereforeD. However(8)请在(69)处填上最佳答案.A. greedyB. indifferentC. sympatheticD. depressed(9)请在(70)处填上最佳答案.A. nobodyB. everybodyC. somebodyD. anybody(10)请在(71)处填上最佳答案.A. ThenB. ButC. ThusD. Whereas(11)请在(72)处填上最佳答案.A. superiorB. inferiorC. higherD. lower(12)请在(73)处填上最佳答案.A. wantB. selectC. hateD. tend(13)请在(74)处填上最佳答案.A. retainedB. benefitedC. acquiredD. rewarded(14)请在(75)处填上最佳答案.A. reproduceC. cultivateD. rear(15)请在(76)处填上最佳答案.A. collectB. gatherC. assembleD. accumulate(16)请在(77)处填上最佳答案.A. distantB. farC. separateD. remote(17)请在(78)处填上最佳答案.A. doubtfulB. consciousC. sensitiveD. sensible(18)请在(79)处填上最佳答案.A. demandB. controlC. directD. command(19)请在(80)处填上最佳答案.A. seizeB. abuseC. holdD. sustain(20)请在(81)处填上最佳答案.A. attractB. affectC. effectPart VI Translation （5 minutes）(1)He did very well in his exams,_________________________(考虑到他学的很少).(2)Beijing has announced that________________________(在任何情况下，中国将不首先使用核武器).(3)A few people seek refuge from reading,________________________(但如果这样做，就失去了读书的全部意义)(4)The global economy boomed in the 1960s,_______________________(以年均5.5%的速度增长).(5)After his long talk with his father,____________________________(他的脸上很快就又露出自信的神情).答案和解析Part I Writing(1) :【话题分析】和谐社会是目前中国建设的目标之一，是比较热门的社会话题。

2010年12月大学英语六级考试真题及答案及作文及听力原文学习啊

学英语简单吗？肯定会有许多学生说：“难死了”。

为什么有好多学生对英语的学习都感到头疼呢？答案只有一个：“不得法。

” 英语与汉语一样都是一种语言，为什么你说汉语会如此流利？那是因为你置身于一个汉语环境中，如果你在伦敦呆上半年，保准说起英语来会非常流利。

但很多中学生没有很好的英语环境，那么你可以自己设置一个英语环境，坚持“多说”、“多听”、“多读”、“多写”，那么你的英语成绩肯定会很出色。

一、多“说”。

自己多创造机会与英语教师多讲英语，见了同学，尤其是和好朋友在一起时尽量用英语去问候，谈心情……这时候你需随身携带一个英汉互译小词典，遇到生词时查一下这些生词，也不用刻意去记，用的多了，这个单词自然而然就会记住。

千万别把学英语当成负担，始终把它当成一件有趣的事情去做。

或许你有机会碰上外国人，你应大胆地上去跟他打招呼，和他谈天气、谈风景、谈学校……只是别问及他的年纪，婚史等私人问题。

尽量用一些你学过的词汇，句子去和他谈天说地。

不久你会发现与老外聊天要比你与中国人谈英语容易的多。

因为他和你交谈时会用许多简单词汇，而且不太看重说法，你只要发音准确，准能顺利地交流下去。

只是你必须要有信心，敢于表达自己的思想。

如果没有合适的伙伴也没关系，你可以拿过一本书或其它什么东西做假想对象，对它谈你一天的所见所闻，谈你的快乐，你的悲伤等等，长此坚持下去你的口语肯定会有较大的提高。

二、多“听”寻找一切可以听英语的机会。

别人用英语交谈时，你应该大胆地去参与，多听听各种各样人的发音，男女老少，节奏快的慢的你都应该接触到，如果这样的机会少的话，你可以选择你不知内容的文章去听，这将会对你帮助很大，而你去听学过的课文的磁带，那将会对你的语言语调的学习有很大的帮助。

三、多“读”。

“读”可以分为两种。

一种是“默读”。

每天给予一定时间的练习将会对你提高阅读速度有很大的好处，读的内容可以是你的课本，但最好是一些有趣的小读物，因为现在的英语高考越来越重视阅读量和阅读速度。

2010年12月英语六级真题答案及详解(完整版)

2010年12月英语六级试题答案(完整版)Part ⅠWritingMy View on University RankingIn recent years, all kinds of University Ranking Lists can be found on some educational websites, or newspapers. The ranking standards also vary. These lists have great influence on students. They are even becoming the only scale to evaluate the colleges and universities.People hold different views toward this phenomenon. Some believe that these lists help the students a lot, especially for those who will choose their university. While some other protest vigorously. In their points, the list is really ridiculous and harmful. In my view, the university ranking may have its own reference values, but its disadvantages overweigh its values.For those university-students-to-be, they are supposed to choose the school according to his or her own situation, but not the so-called Ranking List. What’s more, how about the university students? How do they feel about themselves when they see the ranking? The list may become some intangible shackles for them if their own school ranks poorly.In a nutshell, there is no easy method to rank these universities, but the Ranking, only helps students ignore the essentials, namely, their ninety-nine percent perspiration.此次六级作文的自由度很大，看似给出了提纲，实际上具体的观点全靠个人发挥。

2010年12月大学英语六级考试模拟题五

2010年12月英语六级考试预测试题及答案（五）Part I Writing (30 minutes)Directions: For this part, you are allowed 30 minutes to write a composition on the topic: Precious Water. You should write at least 150 words following the outline given below:1. 举例说明水对人类的重要性2. 举例说明我国所面临的水资源问题3. 为了生存和发展人们要……Precious WaterPart II Reading Comprehension (Skimming and Scanning) (15 minutes)Directions: In this part, you will have 15 minutes to go over the passage quickly and answer the questions on Answer Sheet 1. For questions 1-7, choose the best answer from the four choices marked A),B),C) and D). For question 8-10, complete the sentences with the information given in the passage.Pollution: A Life and Death IssueOne of the main themes of Planet under Pressure is the way many of the Earth's environmental crises reinforce one another. Pollution is an obvious example-we do not have the option of growing food, or finding enough water, on a squeaky-clean planet, but on one increasingly tarnished and trashed by the way we have used it so far.Cutting waste and clearing up pollution cost money. Yet time and again it is the quest for wealth that generates much of the mess is the first place. Living in a way that is less damaging to the Earth is not easy, but it is vital, because pollution is pervasive and often life-threatening.Air: the World Health Organization (WHO) says three million people are killed worldwide by outdoor air pollution annually from vehicles and industrial emissions, and 1.6 million indoors through using solid fuel. Most are in poor countries.Water: diseases carried in water are responsible for 80% of illnesses and deaths in developing countries, killing a child every eight seconds. Each year 2.1 million people die from diarrhoeal (痢疾的) diseases associated with poor water.Soil: contaminated land is a problem in industrialized countries, where former factories and power stations can leave waste like heavy metals in the soil. It can also occur in developing countries, sometimes used for dumping pesticides. Agriculture can pollute land with pesticides, nitrate-rich fertilizers and slurry from livestock. And when the contamination reaches rivers it damages life there, and can even create dead zones off the coast, as in the Gulf of Mexico.Chronic ProblemChemicals are a frequent pollutant. When we think of chemical contamination it is often images of events like Bhopal that come to mind. But the problem is widespread. One study says 7～20% of cancers are attributable to poor air and pollution in homes and workplaces. The WHO, concerned about chemicals that persist and build up in the body,especially in the young, says we may "be conducting a large-scale experiment with children's health".Some man-made chemicals, endocrine (内分泌) disruptors like phthalates (酞酸盐) and nonylphenol-a breakdown product of spermicides (杀精子剂), cosmetics and detergents-are blamed for causing changes in the genitals of some animals. Affected species include polar bears-so not even the Arctic is immune. And the chemicals climb the food chain, from fish to mammals, and to us.About 70,000 chemicals are on the market, with around 1,500 new ones appearing annually. At least 30,000 are thought never to have been comprehensively tested for their possible risks to people.At first glance, the plastic buckets stacked in the corner of the environmental NGO office look like any others. But the containers are an unlikely weapon in one poor community's fight against oil companies which they say are responsible for widespreadill-health caused by years of pollution. The vessels are used by a network of local volunteers, known as the Bucket Brigade, to gather air samples in neighborhoods bordering oil refineries, as part of a campaign to monitor and document air pollution which they believe is coming from the plants.In South Africa, as in many developing and newly industrialized countries, legislation on air pollution has failed to keep pace with mushrooming industries. So local residents, like many in poor communities around the globe, have faced the problem of investigating their claim that industries on their doorsteps are making them sick.Trade-offBut the snag is that modern society demands many of them, and some are essential for survival. So while we invoke the precautionary principle, which always recommends erring on the side of caution, we have to recognize there will be trade-offs to be made.The pesticide DDT does great damage to wildlife and can affect the human nervous system, but can also be effective against malaria (疟疾). Where does the priority lie?The industrialized world has not yet cleaned up the mess it created, but it is reaping the benefits of the pollution it has caused. It can hardly tell the developing countries that they have no right to follow suit.Another complication in tackling pollution is that it does not respect political frontiers. There is a U.N. convention on trans-boundary air pollution, but that cannot cover every problem that can arise between neighbors, or between states which do not share a border. Perhaps the best example is climate change-the countries of the world share one atmosphere, and what one does can affect everyone.For One and All.One of the principles that are supposed to apply here is simple-the polluter pays. Sometimes it is obvious who is to blame and who must pay the price, but it is not always straightforward to work out just who is the polluter, or whether the rest of us would be happy to pay the price of stopping the pollution.One way of cleaning up after ourselves would be to throw less away, designing products to be recycled or even just to last longer.Previous generations worked on the assumption that discarding our waste was a proper way to get rid of it, so we used to dump nuclear materials and other potential hazards at sea, confident they would be dispersed in the depths.We now think that is too risky because, as one author wrote, "there's no such place as 'away', and there's no such person as the 'other'."Irritating AirDespite recent improvements, however, the health problems are still there. A 2002 medical study, carried out by Durban's Nelson Mandela School of Medicine and a U.S. university, found that an abnormally high 52% of students and teachers at a primary school bordering the Engen plant suffered from asthma (哮喘). It found that increases in air pollution tended to aggravate asthma symptoms in children.The petrol producers do not dispute the findings but argue that researchers were unable to establish a causal link between air pollution and the high prevalence of asthma among the school population.For the community, the next step is to take legal action. But, according to internationally recognized environmentalist Bobby Peek, targeting the companies would be difficult as it would be near-impossible to prove that illnesses suffered were caused by pollution coming from a particular plant.Mr. Peek, who grew up beneath Engen's stacks, says the activists are now considering taking action against the authorities. "We are now looking at suing the government on constitutional grounds, for failing to ensure our right to protection from a harmful environment as stipulated in the constitution," he said.Legislative ChangeA new batch (批) of environmental laws, the National Air Quality Management Act, has just been passed by the South African parliament to replace outdated 1965 legislation with tighter controls and tougher sanctions.Martinus van Schalkwyk, the minister of environmental affairs and tourism, visited the south Durban basin earlier this year and said there were measures in place to improve the situation. "I share the anger and frustration of this community. It is long overdue," he told the South African Broadcasting Corporation.The local authorities have also established a "Multi-Point Plan" for the area. They say it is a powerful model for tackling pollution and points to a 40% reduction in sulphur dioxide emissions in recent years.1. According to World Health Organization, how many people are killed by outdoor air pollution?[A] 3 million[B] 2.1 million[C] 1.6 million[D] 3.2 million2. Land can be polluted by ________ from agriculture.[A] heavy metals[B] pesticides and nitrate-poor fertilizers[C] slurry from livestock[D] rubbish3. What kind of animal affected by man-made chemicals is not referred in the passage?[A] Polar bears.[B] Mammals.[C] People.[D] Birds.4. What do local residents claim for?[A] They are sick because of years of pollution.[B] They are sick because of industries on their doorsteps.[C] They are sick because of pesticides from agriculture.[D] They are sick because of air pollution.5. The pesticide DDT can be effective against ________.[A] malaria[B] wildlife[C] animals[D] human nervous system6. There is a U.N. convention that can cover ________.[A] problem between neighbors[B] problem between states which do not share a border[C] problems on air pollution[D] trans-boundary air pollution7. What is not said to be a way of cleaning up after ourselves?[A] Throw less away.[B] Design recycled products.[C] Don't use it again.[D] Last longer.8. It found that increases in air pollution tended to ________________________.9. According to Bobby Peek, targeting the companies would be difficult as it would be near-impossible to prove that illnesses suffered were caused by________________________.10. Martinus van Schalkwyk, the minister of environmental affairs and tourism, visited the south Durban basin earlier this year and said there were measures in place to________________________.Part III Listening Comprehension (35 minutes)Section ADirections: In this section, you will hear 8 short conversations and 2 long conversations. At the end of each conversation, one or more questions will be asked about what was said. Both the conversation and the questions will be spoken only once. After each question there will be a pause. During the pause, you must read the four choices marked [A],[B],[C] and [D], and decide which is the best answer. Then mark the corresponding letter on Answer Sheet 2 with a single line through the center.11. [A] Mary is worthy of the prize.[B] Mary has granted the prize.[C] Mary fails in the speech contest.[D] The man doesn't think Mary deserves the prize.12. [A] Driving a car.[B] Taking a taxi.[C] Taking a train.[D] Going by subway.13. [A] He dislikes museums and galleries.[B] He does not care about the weather.[C] Going to the beach is the best choice.[D] He doesn't want to go to Washington.14. [A] She wants to live in the suburbs.[B] She is offended by her naughty children.[C] She disagrees with father.[D] She turns a deaf ear to her husband's words.15. [A] Call her after five.[B] Make calls from her phone.[C] Go to the meeting with her.[D] Fix his phone.16. [A] Husband and wife.[B] Teacher and student.[C] Policeman and driver.[D] Mother and son.17. [A] At the library.[B] At the airport.[C] At the post office.[D] At the teacher's office.18. [A] He is good at drawing pictures.[B] He likes pictures very much.[C] He likes visiting the art museum very much.[D] He thinks the art museum is a very quiet place.Questions 19 to 22 are based on the conversation you have just heard.19. [A] An alien spacecraft landing.[B] The impact of a meteorite.[C] A volcanic eruption.[D] The blizzard conditions is Alaska.20. [A] Seeing a falling round object.[B] Hearing a bird-like sound.[C] Observing a bright light.[D] Witnessing the impact.21. [A] The dinosaurs went extinct.[B] A number of meteorites crashed into Earth.[C] Some animal species evolved.[D] Some plants went extinct.22. [A] Discovering new life in space.[B] Studying meteorites.[C] Plotting the courses of asteroids.[D] Developing radar telescopes.Questions 23 to 25 are based on the conversation you have just heard.23. [A] It offers really good coffee.[B] It has live music every Saturday night.[C] It's near the theater.[D] You can see a movie there.24. [A] It's overpriced.[B] It makes people crazy.[C] It's different from other coffee houses' coffee.[D] All the coffee is from Brazil.25. [A] They are shopping.[B] They are jogging.[C] They are seeing a movie.[D] They are drinking coffee.Section BDirections: In this section, you will hear 3 short passages. At the end of each passage, you will hear some questions. Both the passage and the questions will be spoken only once. After you hear a question, you must choose the best answer from the four choices marked [A],[B],[C] and [D]. Then mark the corresponding letter on Answer Sheet 2 with a single line through the center.Passage OneQuestions 26 to 29 are based on the passage you have just heard.26. [A] They are leading in the game.[B] The score is really close.[C] The Dream Team is way behind.[D] They win the game.27. [A] It's made up of professional athletes.[B] It's made up of college players.[C] It's made up of both professional and college players.[D] It's made up of young athletes.28. [A] He was injured in a fight and had to leave the game.[B] He fought with another player.[C] He got in a fight with a fan and was thrown out of the game.[D] He led his team to success.29. [A] They drank a special beverage made from Japanese herbs.[B] They had uncooked fish the night before the game.[C] They had a massage from head to foot to relax their muscles.[D] Some players were injured before the game.Passage TwoQuestions 30 to 32 are based on the passage you have just heard.30. [A] The weather will be clear and fine.[B] Rain will probably come.[C] There will be a fog.[D] Fine weather will continue.31. [A] The following day will be fine.[B] Fine weather will continue.[C] Rainy weather will probably come.[D] The rain will stop.32. [A] By studying the signs around them with eyes and brains.[B] By changing the weather.[C] By controlling the weather.[D] By listening to others' advice.Passage ThreeQuestions 33 to 35 are based on the passage you have just heard.33. [A] To develop a savings plan.[B] To set up a bank account.[C] To set clear investing goals.[D] To work out the budget.34. [A] A wide selection of investments.[B] A limited range of stocks.[C] A group of low risk bonds and cash.[D] A variety of funds.35. [A] Because the market has both up and down years.[B] Because you can get bigger guaranteed returns.[C] Because 30% returns can be achieved with the right stocks.[D] Because you have to weather the storm.Section CDirections: In this section, you will hear a passage three times. When the passage is read for the first time, you should listen carefully for its general idea. When the passage is read for the second time, you are required to fill in the blanks numbered from 36 to 43 with the exact words you have just heard. For blanks numbered from 44 to 46 you are required to fill in the missing information. For these blanks, you can either use the exact words you have just heard or write down the main points in your own words. Finally, when the passage is read for the third time, you should check what you have written.A few years ago it was (36) ________ to speak of a generation gap, a division between young people and their elders. Parents (37) ________ that children did not show them proper respect and (38) ________, while children complained that their parents did not understand them at all. What had gone wrong? Why had the generation gap suddenly appeared? (39) ________, the generation gap has been around for a long time. Many (40) ________ argue that it is built into the fabric of our society.One important cause of the generation gap is the (41) ________ that young people have to choose their own life styles. In more (42) ________ societies, when children grow up, they are expected to live in the same area as their parents, to marry people that their parents know and (43) ________ of, and often to continue the family occupation. In oursociety, young people often travel great distances for their education, move out of the family home at an early age, marry or live with (44) ________________________.In our upwardly mobile society, parents often expect their children to do better than they did: to make more money, and to do all the things that they were unable to do. Often, however, (45) ________________________. Often, they discover that they have very little in common with each other.Finally, the speed at which changes take place in our society is another cause of the gap between the generations. In a traditional culture, (46) ________________________. The young and the old seem to live in two very different worlds, separated by different skills and abilities.Part IV Reading Comprehension (Reading in Depth) (25 minutes)Section ADirections: In this section, there is a short passage with 5 questions or incomplete statements. Read the passage carefully. Then answer the questions or complete the statements in the fewest possible words on Answer Sheet 2.Questions 47 to 51 are based on the following passage.The bacteria that cause a common food-borne illness show low drug resistance in Australia, unlike similar strains from the United States and Europe, a study has found. Scientists behind the finding say Australia's de facto ban on certain antibiotics in poultry (家禽) and other livestock helps explain why.In the study, researchers analyzed samples of Campylobacter jejuni (空肠弯曲杆菌) bacteria from 585 patients in five Australian states.Scientists found that only 2 percent of the samples were resistant to ciprofloxacin (环丙沙星), one of the group of antibiotics known as fluoroquinolonones. By contrast, 18 percent of Campylobacter (弧形杆菌) samples in U.S. patients are immune to fluoroquinolonones, which have been used in the U.S. to prevent or treat respiratory (呼吸的) disease in poultry for a decade.The study, led by Leanne Unicomb, a graduate student at Australian National University in Canberra, was published in the May issue of the journal Clinical Infectious Diseases."The findings add to the growing body of evidence suggestive of the problems of using fluoroquinolonones in food-producing animals," Unicomb wrote in an email.Campylobacter is the most common food-borne disease in the U.S. and many other industrialized countries.People can contract the pathogen (病原体) by consuming undercooked poultry or meat, raw milk, or contaminated (被污染的) water.Symptoms include fever, vomiting, and diarrhea (腹泻). In rare cases, the disease can trigger paralysis or death."In most industrial countries Campylobacter is more commonly reported than Salmonella (沙门氏菌), a better-known cause of food poisoning," Unicomb said."The number of cases of Campylobacter has been on the rise in Australia since the early 90's."In the U.S., about 1.4 million people contracted Campylobacter infections last year, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in Atlanta, Georgia.While the infection rate in the U.S. has dropped over the last decade, the bacteria have grown more drug-resistant.According to the CDC, surveys between 1986 and 1990 found no signs of resistance to the antibiotics in U.S. Campylobacter infections. But by 1997, strains resistant to the antibiotics accounted for 12 percent of human cases. In 2001 the figure climbed to 18 percent.Public health experts say many factors contribute to Campylobacter's drug resistance; the widespread use of fluoroquinolonones by U.S. poultry farmers over the past decade is one of them.Fluoroquinolones were first approved for use in humans by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) in 1986. In 1995 the FDA granted poultry farmers permission to the use the drugs in livestock. Last year the FDA banned the antibiotic from food-producing animals, citing the concerns raised by public health experts over drug-resistant bacteria.Frederick Angulo, an epidemiologist with the CDC, monitors the drug resistance of food-borne pathogens in the U.S. food supply. "The people who are most likely to get infected with food-borne diseases include the most vulnerable people in thepopulation-infants and young children and also the elderly," he said. He says thatCampylobacter infections are entirely preventable, as is the bacteria's antibiotic resistance. "In many ways what's occurring with Campylobacter is an indicator for a broader issue, which is...antibiotic-resistant bacteria in the food supply," he said.47. Why do food-borne pathogens in Australia show low drug resistance?48. In many industrialized countries, the most common food-borne disease is________.49. The food-borne disease may cause fever, vomiting, diarrhea and even ________.50. The FDA banned the use of antibiotic from food-producing animals because public healthexperts were concerned about ________.51. What does Angulo say about the bacteria's antibiotic resistance?Section BDirections: There are 2 passages in this section. Each passage is followed by some questions or unfinished statements. For each of them there are four choices marked [A],[B],[C] and [D]. You should decide on the best choice and mark the corresponding letter on Answer Sheet 2 with a single line through the center.Passage OneQuestions 52 to 56 are based on the following passage.At some time in your life, you may have a strong desire to do something strange or terrible. However, chances are that you don't act on your impulse, but let it pass instead. You know that to commit the action is wrong in some way and that other people will not accept your behavior.Perhaps the most interesting thing about the phenomenon of taboo behavior is how it can change over the years within the same society, how certain behavior and attitude once considered taboo can become perfectly acceptable and natural at another point in time. Topics such as death, for example, were once considered so upsetting and unpleasant that it was a taboo to even talk about them. Now with the publication of important books such as On Death and Dying and Learning to Say Goodbye, people have become more aware of the importance of expressing feelings about death and, as a result, are more willing to talk about this taboo subject.One of the newest taboos in American society is the topic of fat. Unlike many other taboos, fat is a topic that Americans talk about constantly. It's not taboo to talk about fat; it's taboo to be fat. The "in" look is thin, not fat. In the work world, most companies prefer youthful-looking, trim executives to sell their images as well as their products to the public. The thin look is associated with youth, vigor, and success. The fat person, on the other hand, is thought of as lazy and lacking in energy, self-discipline, and self-respect. In an image-conscious society like the U.S., thin is "in", fat is "out".It's not surprising, then, that millions of Americans have been obsessed with staying slim and "in shape". The pursuit of a youthful physical appearance is not, however, the sole reason for Americans' fascination with diet and exercise. Recent research has shown the critical importance of diet and exercise for personal health. As in most technologicallydeveloped nations, the life style of North Americans has changed dramatically during the course of the last century. Modern machines do all the physical labor that people were once forced to do by hand. Cars and buses transport us quickly from point to point. As a result of inactivity and disuse, people's bodies can easily become weak and vulnerable to disease. In an effort to avoid such a fate, millions of Americans are spending more of their time exercising.52. From the passage we can infer taboo is ________.[A] a strong desire to do something strange or terrible[B] a crime committed on impulse[C] behavior considered unacceptable in society's eyes[D] an unfavorable impression left on other people53. Based on the ideas presented in the passage we can conclude "being fat"________ in American society.[A] will always remain a taboo[B] is not considered as a taboo by most people[C] has long been a taboo[D] may no longer be a taboo someday54. The topic of fat is ________ many other taboo subjects.[A] the same as[B] different from[C] more popular than[D] less often talked about than55. What does "thin is 'in', and fat is 'out'" mean?[A] Thin is "inside", and fat is "outside".[B] Thin is "diligent", and fat is "lazy".[C] Thin is "youthful", and fat is "spiritless".[D] Thin is "fashionable", and fat is "unfashionable".56. Apart from this new understanding of the correlation between health and exercise, the main reason the passage gives for why so many Americans are exercising regularly is ________.[A] their changed life style[B] their eagerness to stay thin and youthful[C] their appreciation of the importance of exercise[D] the encouragement they have received from their companiesPassage TwoQuestions 57 to 61 are based on the following passage.We can begin our discussion of "population as global issue" with what most persons mean when they discuss "the population problem": too many people on earth and a too rapid increase in the number added each year. The facts are not in dispute; it was quite right to employ the analogy that likened demographic growth to "a long, thin powder fuse that burns steadily and haltingly until it finally reaches the charge and explodes".To understand the current situation, which is characterized by rapid increases in population, it is necessary to understand the history of population trends. Rapid growth is a comparatively recent phenomenon. Looking back at the 8,000 years of demographic history, we find that populations have been virtually stable or growing very slightly for most of human history. For most of our ancestors, life was hard, often nasty, and very short. There was high fertility in most places, but this was usually balanced by high mortality. For most of human history, it was seldom the case that one in ten persons would live past forty, while infancy and childhood were especially risky periods. Often, societies were in clear danger of extinction because death rates could exceed their birthrates. Thus, the population problem throughout most of history was how to prevent extinction of the human race.This pattern is important to notice. Not only does it put the current problems of demographic growth into a historical perspective, but it suggests that the cause of rapid increase in population in recent years is not a sudden enthusiasm for more children, but an improvement in the conditions that traditionally have caused high mortality.Demographic history can be divided into two major periods: a time of long, slow growth which extended from about 8000 B.C. till approximately 1650 A.D. In the first period of some 9,600 years, the population increased from some 8million to 500 million in。