大学英语六级-160 (1)

大学英语六级-160
(总分：100.00，做题时间：90分钟)
一、Listening Comprehension(总题数：0，分数：0.00)
二、Section A(总题数：4，分数：45.00)
（分数：15.00）
A.Rent an apartment in Florida.
B.Go for a walk in the park.
C.Go swimming in a river.
D.Relax at the beach in Florida. √
解析：[听力原文]
W: I am so excited. We have two weeks off. What are you going to do?
M: My parents have rented an apartment in Florida . I am going to take long walks along the beach every day and do lots of swimming.
Q: What will the man do in the holiday?
A.In his apartment.
B.In his friend"s dormitory.
C.At the woman"s home. √
D.In a hotel.
解析：[听力原文]
M: I have to find some place to live in tonight, because I locked my key in my room.
W: That"s bad. Why not come with us to our home? We have a vacancy for guests.
Q: Where will the man sleep tonight?
A.She has finished her degree paper. √
B.The man has become chair of the department.
C.The man has helped her with her paper.
D.She wants the man to help her with her paper.
解析：[听力原文]
M: Helen, how can I help you?
W: Well, it"s not about school, Dr. Hampton. I want to have a few people over for a dinner party to celebrate my finishing degree paper, and we"d like to invite you especially, since you"re chair of the department.
Q: What does the woman hold the dinner party for?
A.Teacher and student.
B.Two drivers. √
C.Driver and passenger.
D.Husband and wife.
解析：[听力原文]
W: Oh God! Why don"t you watch where you are going? Look at my fender (挡泥板)!
M: Couldn"t you see me signaling? Don"t you even know how to drive?
Q: What are the probable identities of the two speakers?
A.He is a manager.
B.He is a student. √
C.He is a headhunter.
D.He is a teacher.
解析：[听力原文]
W: I have been looking through your application. You seem to have many of the qualifications needed
for this position. Do you have any work experience?
M: Actually, I am scheduled to finish school in June. To be honest, this is the first job I am looking for.
Q: What does the man do?
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A.He wants to know the temperature in Fahrenheit. √
B.He wants to know the temperature in Centigrade.
C.The newscasters always confuse the audience.
D.The newscasters cannot understand Fahrenheit.
解析：[听力原文]
W: Do you need the temperature in Fahrenheit or Centigrade?
M: Fahrenheit. The newscasters often give us both now, but I am used to the Fahrenheit scale while I just can"t get used to Centigrade.
Q: What does the man mean?
A.The man is against it.
B.The woman is for it strongly.
C.The man is indifferent to it.
D.The woman doesn"t like it personally. √
解析：[听力原文]
M: Mary, how do you feel about the latest tax increase?
W: Well, as far as I am concerned, it is of course regrettable. But it is necessary for the economy of the country, I am afraid.
Q: What can we learn about the speakers" attitude towards the tax increase?
A.Selecting courses for the new term. √
B.Trying to understand each course.
plaining about the courses.
D.Asking for advice about taking courses.
解析：[听力原文]
M: You can"t do that. It"s not reasonable to select so many courses at the same time. You"d better look before you leap.
W: I know. But I can"t make up my mind. I want to take Chinese history, but I also like French and Japanese.
Q: What is the woman doing?
Questions 9 to 12 are based on the conversation you have just heard.
Questions 9 to 12 are based on the conversation you have just heard.
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A.He is frank.
B.He is modest.
C.He is critical.
D.He is confident. √
解析：[听力原文]
W: Would you mind telling us what you would like to be doing five years from now?
M: It might be premature for me to predict this. Hypothetically speaking, I might be able to do your current job as a director.
W: What range of pay scale are you interested in?
M: Money is important, but the responsibility that goes along with this job is what interests me most.
W: How would your acquaintances describe you?
M: They would say Mr. Li is a sincere, industrial and reliable man who deeply cares for his family
and friends.
W: What personality traits do you admire?
M: I like people who show the "Can-do" spirit.
W: What leadership qualities do you stress as an administrative personnel?
M: Learning how to motivate people and to work together as a team will be the major goal of my leadership.
W: How do you usually handle criticism?
M: Silence is golden. Just don"t say anything, otherwise the situation could become worse. I do, however, appreciate constructive criticism.
W: How do you deal with your disagreement with your colleagues in your work?
M: I will try to present my ideas in a clearer and more civilized manner in order to get my points across.
W: How will you behave in time of failure?
M: None of us is supposed to be "perfect." I am sure I will be given a second chance to correct my mistake.
What"s the man"s attitude toward the woman"s question about his five year career plan?
A.Money is the most important.
B.Responsibility means more than salary. √
C.High salary results from good performance.
D.Future income is more important than the starting salary.
解析：[听力原文]
What is the man"s idea about salary?
A.Motivation and teamwork. √
B."Can-do" spirit.
C.Honesty and responsibility.
D.Diligence and cooperation.
解析：[听力原文]
What leadership quality does the man think is important?
A.By quarreling with them.
B.By listening to them.
C.By communicating with them. √
D.By being indifferent to them.
解析：[听力原文]
How does the man handle the conflict with colleagues?
Questions 13 to 15 are based on the conversation you have just heard.
Questions 13 to 15 are based on the conversation you have just heard.
（分数：9.00）
A.She earns a scholarship which covers all her studies.
B.She gets both a student loan and support from her parents. √
C.She receives a student loan and has a part-time job.
D.She overdraws her loan and lets her parents help out.
解析：[听力原文]
W: Read the report? The tuition fee is increased to ￡3000 a year. And other living expenses are on average ￡3000 a year.
M: Yeah, it"s a huge increase. How are you managing your budget?
W: Well, I have a student loan, which is just over ￡3000, and I get some money from my parents as well. They"re happy to help out because it"s toward an education, as long as we"re not just wasting it all in drinking it all away. I am in the third year. I have reached the end of my overdraft
a couple of times and I"m lucky to have middle class parents who can help me out really. M: But mostly your finances have been poor!
W: That"s because of the summer. If I just lived as a normal student and then worked during the summer it wouldn"t be so bad—but I go on big holidays and things. This year I went to the Philippines and then came back by air from Singapore, which is a wicked experience, but eats into your finances obviously. What about you?
M: My parents come to the arrangement that first of all they pay the fees for me; secondly they pay my hall fees; and thirdly they give me an allowance.
W: That"s quite practical. But can you manage?
M: Yeah. I decided first of all I was going to get the money, which I did, and secondly I was not going to have any debts. I put the money in a high interest account, so I came out with no debts at all. I did live on Marmite sandwiches for almost three years.
How does the woman finance her college life?
A.She enjoyed traveling in summer holidays. √
B.She liked to have wicked experiences.
C.She is a food lover and spent a lot on it.
D.She had a life of a normal student.
解析：[听力原文]
Why does the woman have poor finances?
A.He gained full support from his parents.
B.He put money in a high interest account. √
C.He cut expenses on entertainment.
D.He borrowed money from his friends.
解析：[听力原文]
What did the man do to avoid being in debt?
三、Section B(总题数：0，分数：0.00)
四、Passage One(总题数：1，分数：12.00)
Questions 16 to 19 are based on the passage you have just heard.
Questions 16 to 19 are based on the passage you have just heard.
（分数：12.00）
A.Children do not know how to learn.
B.Children are too young to concentrate on learning. √
C.Children are already under too much pressure.
D.Children cannot develop a good habit of studying.
解析：[听力原文]
People have different views on what children should do at a very early age. Some think that children should begin their formal education and start to spend most of their time on studies. Others believe that there is still time for young children to play. Both views are based on respective ground. Those who argue for the playing time for children suggest that children at a very early age are still too young to focus their attention on learning. Their brain may not be ready for serious studies such as comprehension and memorizing learning materials. These people are partially right, for it is true that young children can hardly concentrate. Their attention on one thing lasts for no longer than 15 minutes or so. But we can arrange classes for shorter periods, can"t we? And we can shift teaching subjects. Through putting them to study, young children are occupied with learning but not with playing. Those who argue for children"s early start for formal education believe that being put to studies, children can develop good habit of studying, for the process of learning helps develop children"s mental abilities like the ability to memorize, the ability to understand and the ability to do simple calculation. Children"s habits of studying and love
for learning are of great importance to youngsters because these two things set up the sound foundation for their future studies. Having children start formal education at a very early age benefits young children much more than simply letting them play most of their time. A good habit needs a long time to develop to become second nature. More importantly, it is better to develop a good habit before a bad one may grow.
Why do some people believe that children should not begin to study at a very early age?
A.Shorten the teaching periods and change subjects. √
B.Teach the children to concentrate and shorten the class.
C.Occupy the children with learning and singing.
D.Simplify the content of the class and shorten the class.
解析：[听力原文]
What can people do to teach the young children who couldn"t concentrate?
A.They can learn different subjects.
B.They can develop physical abilities.
C.They can prepare for their future studies. √
D.They can pronounce accurately.
解析：[听力原文]
What is the benefit of putting children to studies at an early age?
A.Negative.
B.Supportive. √
C.Neutral.
D.Critical.
解析：[听力原文]
What"s the speaker"s attitude toward putting children to studies at an early age?
五、Passage Two(总题数：1，分数：9.00)
Questions 20 to 22 are based on the passage you have just heard.
Questions 20 to 22 are based on the passage you have just heard.
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A.Multitasking reduces efficiency. √
B.Multitasking is a matter of life and death.
C.Multitasking is the process of executive control.
D.Multitasking has become increasingly common.
解析：[听力原文]
Researchers report that doing two or more things at once may decrease efficiency and actually take extra time to switch from one task to another. In the most severe cases, it can even mean the difference between life and death. That is the surprising conclusion of researchers at Stanford University, who found muititaskers are more easily distracted and less able to ignore irrelevant information than people who do less multitasking. In the study, four groups of young adults carried out a series of tasks and switched between different tasks, some complicated, such as solving math problems, and some more familiar, such as identifying geometric (几何学的) shapes. The researchers found that time was lost in just switching from one task to another, and that time costs increased with the complexity of the tasks. "For each aspect of human performance—perceiving, thinking and acting—people have specific mental resources whose effective use requires supervision through executive mental control," said the lead author, David Meyer in materials provided with the report. People couldn"t help thinking about the task they weren"t doing. The high muititaskers are always drawing from all the information in front of them. They can"t keep things separate in their minds. So-called "multitasking" is becoming increasingly common because of cell phones and computers, the researchers point out, but it may just be adding
wasted time and inefficiency to our days. A mere half second of time lost to task switching can mean the difference between life and death for a driver using a cell phone, Meyer said. The authors say the research should make employers and employees think twice before implementing muititasking.
What is the main idea of the passage?
A.They switched between different tasks with ease.
B.They tended to get tired when they tried to multitask.
C.They wasted more time when they switched to more complicated tasks. √
D.They ultimately finished more work with multitasking.
解析：[听力原文]
What can we learn about the people being tested in the study?
A.To establish priorities among all tasks first.
B.To allocate mental resources to different tasks.
C.To supervise the preparatory work of the tasks.
D.To think twice before carrying out multitasking. √
解析：[听力原文]
What is the advice given by the researchers to employers and employees?
六、Passage Three(总题数：1，分数：9.00)
Questions 23 to 25 are based on the passage you have just heard.
Questions 23 to 25 are based on the passage you have just heard.
（分数：9.00）
ing solar energy can cut down on the consumption of fossil fuel. √
B.Fossil fuel has run out.
C.The solar technologies are quite simple for current humans.
D.Solar energy could save much money for everyone.
解析：[听力原文]
Solar energy for your home is coming. It can help you as a single home owner. It can help the whole country as well. Whether or not solar energy can save your money depends on many things. Where you live is one factor. The type of home you have is another. Things like insulation, present energy costs and the type of system you buy are added factors. Using solar energy can help save our precious fuel. As you know, our supplies of oil and gas are very limited. There is just not enough on hand to meet all our future energy needs when Mother Nature says that"s all. The only way we can delay hearing those words is by starting to save energy now and by using other sources, like the sun. We won"t have to worry about the sun"s running out of energy for another several billion years or so. Besides being an endless source of energy, the use of the sun has other advantages as well. The sun doesn"t offer as many problems as other energy sources. For example, fossil fuel plants add to already high pollution levels. With solar energy, we will still need sources of energy, but we won"t need as much. That means we can cut down on our pollution problems. Solar costs are starting to equal the costs of oil and electricity. Experts say that gas, oil and electricity prices will continue to rise. The demand for electricity is increasing rapidly. But new power plants will use more gas, oil or coal. Already in some places the supply of electricity is being rationed. Solar energy is now in its infancy. It could soon grow to become a major part of our nation"s energy supply.
Why should people develop solar energy?
A.It is very expensive.
B.It will intensify global warming.
C.It is environmentally friendly. √
D.It will replace other energy sources.
解析：[听力原文]
What do we know about solar energy?
A.Solar technologies are not mature enough now. √
B.Solar energy has been the most important part of energy supply.
C.People must wait a long time before solar energy become usable.
D.Only a few countries can use solar energy.
解析：[听力原文]
What can we know about the application situation of solar energy?
七、Section C(总题数：1，分数：25.00)
The social effects of job-sharing are likely to be beneficial, since it 1 match work opportunities to a wider variety of lifestyles. The combination of one full-time and one part-time spouse might become much more common: Which was the husband and which was the wife would vary according to taste, time of life and career 2 .
What exactly is job-sharing? The Equal Opportunities Commission defines it as "a form of part-time employment where two people 3 share the responsibility of one full-time position." Salary and benefits are 4 between the two sharers. Each person"s terms and conditions of employment are the same as those of a full-timer. If each works at least 15 hours a week, then they enjoy certain employment rights that ordinary part-time workers do not have.
Part-timers usually earn less per hour than a full-timer, and have fewer benefits and less job security. They have 5 no career prospects. Employers often think that working part-time means that a person has no 6 and so offer no chance of promotion.
But job-sharing 7 that gap and offers the chance of interesting work to people who can only work part-time and that does not mean just married women. As Adrienne Broyle of "New Ways to Work"—formerly the London Job-sharing Project—points out, "there are various reasons why people decide they want job-sharing."
8 men want job-sharing so that they can play an active role in bringing up their children. It allows people to study at home in their free time, and means that disabled people who 9 stay at home to look after themselves can work. Job-sharing is also an ideal way for people to 10 retirement.
The social effects of job-sharing are likely to be beneficial, since it 1 match work opportunities to a wider variety of lifestyles. The combination of one full-time and one part-time spouse might become much more common: Which was the husband and which was the wife would vary according to taste, time of life and career 2 .
What exactly is job-sharing? The Equal Opportunities Commission defines it as "a form of part-time employment where two people 3 share the responsibility of one full-time position." Salary and benefits are 4 between the two sharers. Each person"s terms and conditions of employment are the same as those of a full-timer. If each works at least 15 hours a week, then they enjoy certain employment rights that ordinary part-time workers do not have.
Part-timers usually earn less per hour than a full-timer, and have fewer benefits and less job security. They have 5 no career prospects. Employers often think that working part-time means that a person has no 6 and so offer no chance of promotion.
But job-sharing 7 that gap and offers the chance of interesting work to people who can only work part-time and that does not mean just married women. As Adrienne Broyle of "New Ways to Work"—formerly the London Job-sharing Project—points out, "there are various reasons why people decide they want job-sharing."
8 men want job-sharing so that they can play an active role in bringing up their children. It allows people to study at home in their free time, and means that disabled people who 9 stay at home to look after themselves can work. Job-sharing is also an ideal way for people to 10 retirement.
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填空项1:__________________ （正确答案：attempts to）
解析： attempts to [听力原文]
The social effects of job-sharing are likely to be beneficial, since it attempts to match work opportunities to a wider variety of lifestyles. The combination of one full-time and one part-time spouse might become much more common: Which was the husband and which was the wife would vary according to taste, time of life and career requirements.
What exactly is job-sharing? The Equal Opportunities Commission defines it as "a form of part-time employment where two people voluntarily share the responsibility of one full-time position." Salary and benefits are divided between the two sharers. Each person"s terms and conditions of employment are the same as those of a full-timer. If each works at least 15 hours a week, then they enjoy certain employment rights that ordinary part-time workers do not have.
Part-timers usually earn less per hour than a full-timer, and have fewer benefits and less job security. They have virtually no career prospects. Employers often think that working part-time means that a person has no ambitions and so offer no chance of promotion.
But job-sharing bridges that gap and offers the chance of interesting work to people who can only work part-time and that does not mean just married women. As Adrienne Broyle of "New Ways to Work"—formerly the London Job-sharing Project—points out, "there are various reasons why people decide they want job-sharing."
A growing number of men want job-sharing so that they can play an active role in bringing up their children. It allows people to study at home in their free time, and means that disabled people who otherwise stay at home to look after themselves can work. Job-sharing is also an ideal way for people to ease into retirement.
解析： requirements
解析： voluntarily
解析： divided
解析： virtually
解析： ambitions
解析： bridges
解析： A growing number of
解析： otherwise
解析： ease into。