2013年6月英语六级真题阅读第三套

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2013年6月英语六级真题及答案详解

2013年6月英语六级真题及答案Part I Writing2013年6月六级作文范文一It is not exaggerating to say that habits determine how much a person can achieve. This is due to the magical power that habits have. It can redouble the effort of our daily behavior.Take this for example: if you recite one word every day, you will add 365 words to your vocabulary by one year, and 700 words by two years, and 1400 words before graduation which is by far beyond the curricular of CET-6. While if you spend two hours on playing computer games—which is far less than how much time is spent in reality for college students— you will probably get addicted to it and fail your study. This phenomenon can be easily found in the college that it is high time for us to be aware of the importance of habits. We should cultivate good habits and get rid of the bad habits such as staying up late, being addicted to games, consuming extravagantly, etc as soon as possible. Rome was not built in one day. We can accumulate a great fortune by the tiny efforts we made every day. From now on say good bye to the bad habits and stick to the good ones, we will enjoy a profitable return in the future.2013年6月六级作文范文二Good habit result…Good habits are a valuable thing and a bridge reaching desirable results. Evidently, good habits include teamwork, optimistic attitude, confidence and so on. It is well known that teamwork always leaves us less mean-spirited and more inclusive. Again, optimistic attitude and confidence can encourage us to never give up and find silver linings in desperate situations.Why should we actively cultivate good habits? For one thing, good habits can jump our trains of thought onto correct tracks, in turn, we can bypass the wrong path. For another thing, persisting what we are good at and doing even more of it creates excellence. This is where developing good habits comes in.As a result, we should take some effective steps to cultivate our good habits. For instance, we can frequently inform young people that opportunities for errors abound, so we must develop good habits to cope with them. To sum up, we cannot deny it that good habits do carry a positive connotation.Part Ⅱ Reading Comprehension (Skimming and Scanning)暂缺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 conversations 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 centre.注意：此部分试题请在答题卡2上作答。

2013年6月英语六级阅读训练

2013年6月英语六级阅读训练The greatest recent social changes have been in the lives of women. During the twentieth century there has been a remarkable shortening of theproportion of a woman's life spent in caring for the children. A woman marrying at the end of the nineteenth century would probably have been in her middle twenties ? and would be likely to have seven or eight children, of whom four or five lived till they were five years old. By the time the youngest was fifteen, the mother would have been in her early fifties and would expect to live a further twenty years, during which custom, opportunityand health made it unusual for her to get paid work. Today women marry younger and have fewer children. Usually a woman's youngest child will be fifteen when she is forty-five years and is likely to take paid work until retirement at sixty. Even while she has the care of children, her work is lightened by household appliances and convenience foods.This important change in women's life-pattern has only recently begun to have its full effect on women's economic position. Even a few years ago most girls left school at the firstopportunity, and most of them took a full-time job. However, when they married, they usually left work at once and never returned to it. Today the school leaving age is sixteen, many girls stay at school after that age, and though women tend to marry younger, more married women stay at work at least until shortly before their first child is born. Very many more afterwards return to full-or-part-time work. Such changes have led to a new relationship in marriage, with the husband accepting a greater share of the duties and satisfactions of family life, and with both husband and wife sharing more equally in providing the money, and running the home, according to the abilities and interests of each of them.21. According to the passage, it is now quite usual for women to_______.A. stay at home after leaving schoolB. marry men younger than themselvesC. start working again later in lifeD. marry while still at school22. We are told that in an average family about 1900_______.A. many children died before they lived to more than fiveB. seven or eight children lived to be more than fiveC. the youngest child would be fifteenD. four or five children died when they were five23. Many girls, the passage claims, are now likely to_______.A. give up their jobs for good after they are marriedB. leave school as soon as they canC. marry so that they can get a jobD. continue working until they are going to have a baby24. One reason why a woman today may take a job is that she_______.A. is younger when her children are old enough to look after .themselvesB. does not like children herselfC. need not worry about food for her childrenD. can retire from family responsibilities when she reaches sixty25. Nowadays, a husband tends to_______.A. play a greater part in looking after the childrenB. help his wife by doing much of the houseworkC. feel dissatisfied with his role in the familyD. take a part-time job so that he can help in the home答案：21. C 22. A 23. D 24. A 25. BNo one knows exactly how many disabled people there are in the world, but 11 suggest the figure is over 450 million. The number of disabled people in India 12 is probably more than double the totalpopulation of Canada.In the United Kingdom, about one in ten people have some disability. Disability is not just something that happens to other people: as we get older, many of us will become less 13 , hard of hearing or have failing eyesight.Disablement can take many forms and occur at any time of life. Some people are born with disabilities. Many others become disabled as they get older. There are many 14 disabling diseases. The longer time goes on, the worse they become. Some people are disabled in accidents. Many others may have a period of disability in the form of a mental illness. All areaffected by people's attitude towards them.Disabled people face many 15 barriers. Next time you go shopping or to work or to visit friends, imagine how you would 16 if you could not get up steps, or on to buses and trains. How would you cope if you could not see where you were going or could not hear the traffic? But there are other barriers; 17 can be even harder to break down and ignorance 18 represents by far the greatest barrier of all. It is almost impossible for the able-bodied to fullyappreciate what the severely disabled go through, so it is important to 19 attention to these barriers and show that it is the individual person and their ability, not their disability, which 20A. inevitablyB. evaluationsC. estimatesD. manageE. aloneF. countsG. prejudiceH. physicalI. mobile J. indifferently K. withdraw L. progressiveM. regular N. accounts O. draw答案：II. C 12. E 13. I 14. L 15. H 16. D 17. G 18. A 19. O 20. F。

2013年6月六级考试真题答案解析(第三套)

2013年6月大学英语六级考试真题(三)答案与详解Part ⅠWriting1、审题:本篇为评论性的话题作文。

题目中要求评论的“Earth provides enough to satisfy every man’s need, but not every man’s greed”这句话出自圣雄甘地（Mahatma Gandhi)之口，是甘地生态世界观的体现。

地球一直是哺育生于斯的人类的最无私的母亲，为人类提供着各种生存和生活所需。

然而，随着科技进步、人口数量的激增，人类对地球的抢夺也越来越严重。

常言道：欲壑难填，而资源有限。

寻找合适的方式，维持人与地球及其资源之间的和谐关系，已是人类必须认真思考、快速行动的当务之急。

出题人似乎也是鉴于当前由于人类对自然界无穷无尽的索取，导致各种自然灾害频发、物种灭绝、资源枯竭等问题，借这个题目引发思考和更多关注。

考生可以从不同角度对这一主题进行阐释：可以先描述当前灾害频发、物种灭绝、资源枯竭等现状，引出主题，然后分析产生这些现象的人为因素（只追求GDP,不保护资源；人口激增，资源消耗，浪费更大；追求利益，盲目、过度开采等），最后发出呼吁；或者也可以先简述当前人与地球的关系（人们为了满足自己的贪欲，向地球无止境地索取，造成一系列问题），然后陈述人类积极协调自身利益与地球之间关系的意义，最后提出一两点建议结束全文。

2、写作思路：第一段：描述人类欲望膨胀带来的问题，如灾害频发、物种灭绝、资源枯竭，指出地球现状值得人们高度关注。

第二段：分析产生上述各种现象的原因，如只追求GDP而不保护资源；人口激增，资源的消耗和浪费更大；为求利益而盲目、过度开采等。

第三段：总结，指出人类应该控制自己的贪婪欲望，如此才能在地球上世代生存。

Time to Shake off Greed and Heal the EarthEarth, as has always been regarded as mother to human beings, has fallen ill with the symptoms of the frequent eruption of natural disasters, the extinction of wild animals and the exhaustion of natural resources. And the situation illustrated should arouse great attention of all human beings.As a matter of fact, blinded by greed, human beings have great responsibility for the present situation we confront with. To start with, human beings are so economy-oriented that they ignore the protection of the environment. Then, population in the planet has experienced great booming, which makes more and more resources needed and exhausted, and in turn threatens to end human life. Finally, human beings excessively exploit and abuse non-renewable energy and resources just for the expanding of their own benefits, which will only lead to the darkness of future for their offspring.Since the vista of the human’s greed towards the Mother Earth is so terrible that we should stop the unreasonable exploitation of the earth. Let’s shake off greed and heal the earth, and build a better home for ourselves and for our later generations.PartⅢReading ComprehensionSection A答案详解：36、C)。

2013年6月大学英语六级(CET-6)真题第三套试卷及参考答案

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.Norman Borlaug: 'Father of the Green Revolution'Few people have quietly changed the world for the better more than this rural lad from the midwestern state of Iowa in the United States. The man in focus is Norman Borlaug, the Father of the 'Green Revolution', who died on September 12, 2009 at age 95.Norman Borlaug spent most of his 60 working years in the farmlands of Mexico, South Asia and later in Africa, fighting world hunger, and saving by some estimates up to a billion lives in the process. An achievement, fit for a Nobel Peace Prize.Early Years"I'm a product of the great depression" is how Borlaug described himself. A great-grandson of Norwegian immigrants to the United States, Borlaug was born in 1914 and grew up on a small farm in the northeastern corner of Iowa in a town called Cresco. His family had a 40-hectare (公顷) farm on which they grew wheat, maize (玉米) and hay and raised pigs and cattle. Norman spent most of his time from age 7-17 on the farm, even as he attended a one-room, one-teacher school at New Oregon in Howard County.Borlaug didn't have money to go to college. But through a Great Depression era programme, known as the National Youth Administration, Borlaug was able to enroll in the University of Minnesota at Minneapolis to study forestry. He excelled in studies and received his Ph.D. in plant pathology (病理学) and genetics in 1942. From 1942 to 1944, Borlaug was employed as a microbiologist at DuPont in Wilmington. However, following the December 7, 1941 attack on Pearl Harbor, Borlaug tried tojoin the military, but was rejected under wartime labour regulations.In MexicoIn 1944, many experts warned of mass starvation in developing nations where populations were expanding faster than crop production. Borlaug began work at a Rockefeller Foundation-funded project in Mexico to increase wheat production by developing higher-yielding varieties of the crop. It involved research in genetics, plant breeding, plant pathology, entomology (昆虫学) , agronomy (农艺学) , soil science, and cereal technology. The goal of the project was to boost wheat production in Mexico, which at the time was importing a large portion of its grain.Borlaug said that his first couple of years in Mexico were difficult. He lacked trained scientists and equipment. Native farmers were hostile towards the wheat programme because of serious crop losses from 1939 to 1941 due to stem rust.Wheat varieties that Borlaug worked with had tall, thin stalks. While taller wheat competed better for sunlight, they had a tendency to collapse under the weight of extra grain -a trait called lodging. To overcome this, Borlaug worked on breeding wheat with shorter and stronger stalks, which could hold on larger seed heads. Borlaug's new semi-dwarf, disease-resistant varieties, called Pitic 62 and Penjamo 62, changed the potential yield of Mexican wheat dramatically. By 1963 wheat production in Mexico stood six times more than that of 1944.Green Revolution in IndiaDuring the 1960s, South Asia experienced severe drought condition and India had been importing wheat on a large scale from the United States. Borlaug came to India in 1963 along with Dr. Robert Anderson to duplicate his Mexican success in the sub-continent. The experiments began with planting a few of the high-yielding variety strains in the fields of the Indian Agricultural Research Institute at Pusa in New Delhi, under the supervision of Dr. M. S. Swaminathan. These strains were subsequently planted in test plots at Ludhiana, Pantnagar, Kanpur, Pune and Indore. The results were promising, but large-scale success, however, was not instant. Cultural opposition to new agricultural techniques initially prevented Borlaug from going ahead with planting of new wheat strains in India. By 1965, when the drought situation turned alarming, the Government took the lead and allowed wheat revolution to move forward. By employing agricultural techniques he developed in Mexico, Borlaug was able to nearly double South Asian wheat harvests between 1965 and 1970.India subsequently made a huge commitment to Mexican wheat, importing some 18000 tonnes of seed. By 1968, it was clear that the Indian wheat harvest was nothing short of revolutionary. It was so productive that there was a shortage of labour to harvest it, of bull carts to haul it to the threshing floor (打谷场) , of jute (麻黄) bags to store it. Local governments in some areas were forced to shut down schools temporarily to use them as store houses.United Nation's Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) observed that in 40 years between 1961 and 2001, "India more than doubled its population, from 452 million to more than 1 billion. At the same time, it nearly tripled its grain production from 87 million tonnes to 231 million tonnes. It accomplished this feat while increasing cultivated grain acreage (土地面积) a mere 8 percent."It was in India that Norman Borlaug's work was described as the 'Green Revolution.' In AfricaAfrica suffered widespread hunger and starvation through the 70s and 80s. Food and aid poured in from most developed countries into the continent, but thanks to the absence of efficient distribution system, the hungry remained empty-stomach. The then Chairman of the Nippon Foundation, Ryoichi Sasakawa wondered why the methods used in Mexico and India were not extended to Africa. He called up Norman Borlaug. now leading a semi-retired life, for help. He managed to convince Borlaug to help with his new effort and subsequently founded the Sasakawa Africa Association. Borlaug later recalled, "but after I saw the terrible circumstances there, I said, 'Let's just start growing'".The success in Africa was not as spectacular as it was in India or Mexico. Those elements that allowed Borlaug's projects to succeed, such as well-organized economies and transportation and irrigation systems, were severely lacking throughout Africa. Because of this, Borlaug's initial projects were restricted to developed regions of the continent. Nevertheless, yields of maize, sorghum (高粱) and wheat doubled between 1983 and 1985.Nobel PrizeFor his contributions to the world food supply, Borlaug was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1970. Norwegian officials notified his wife in Mexico City at 4:00 a. m., but Borlaug had already left for the test fields in the Toluca valley, about 65 km west of Mexico City. A chauffeur (司机) took her to the fields to inform her husband. In his acceptance speech, Borlaug said, "the first essential component of social justice is adequate food for all mankind. Food is the moral right of all who are born into this world. Yet, 50 percent of the world population goes hungry."Green Revolution vs EnvironmentalistsBorlaug’s advocacy of intensive high-yield agriculture came under severe criticism from environmentalists in recent years. His work faced environmental and socio-economic criticisms, including charges that his methods have created dependence on monoculture crops, unsustainable farming practices, heavy indebtedness among subsistence farmers, and high levels of cancer among those who work with agriculture chemicals. There are also concerns about the long-term sustainability of fanning practices encouraged by the Green Revolution in both the developed and the developing world. In India, the Green Revolution is blamed for the destruction of Indian crop diversity, drought vulnerability, dependence on agro-chemicals that poison soils but reap large-scale benefits mostly to the American multi-national corporations. What these critics overwhelmingly advocate is a global movement towards "organic" or "sustainable" farming practices that avoid using chemicals and high technology in favour of natural fertilizers, cultivation and pest-control programmes.注意：此部分试题请在答题卡1上作答。

2013.06英语六级真题(第3套)

T o t a l s c o r e710T o t a l t i m e a l l o w e d130m i n s 2013年6月大学英语六级考试真题(第3套)P a r t I W r i t i n g(30m i n u t e s)D i r e c t i o n s:F o r t h i s p a r t,y o u a r e a l l o w e d30m i n u t e s t ow r i t e a n e s s a y c o m m e n t i n g o n t h e r e m a r kE a r t h p r o v i d e s e n o u g h t o s a t i s f y e v e r y m a n s n e e d.B u t n o t e v e r y m a n s g r e e d .Y o u c a n c i t e s o m e e x a m p l e s t o i l l u s t r a t e y o u r p o i n t.Y o u s h o u l dw r i t e a t l e a s t150w o r d s b u t n om o r e t h a n200w o r d s.注意:此部分试题请在答题卡1上作答㊂P a r t I I L i s t e n i n g C o m p r e h e n s i o n(30m i n u t e s)说明:2013年6月大学英语六级考试,全国共考了两套听力㊂本套(即第3套)的听力真题与第2套的完全一样,只是选项的顺序不一样而已㊂故本套不再重复给出听力试题㊂P a r t I I I R e a d i n g C o m p r e h e n s i o n(40m i n u t e s) S e c t i o nAD i r e c t i o n s:I n t h i s s e c t i o n,t h e r e i s a p a s s a g ew i t h t e n b l a n k s.Y o u a r e r e q u i r e d t o s e l e c t o n ew o r d f o r e a c hb l a n k f r o m al i s to fc h o i c e s g i v e ni na w o r db a n k f o l l o w i n g t h e p a s s a g e.R e a dt h e p a s s a g et h r o u g hc a r e f u l l y b e f o r em a k i n gy o u r c h o i c e s.E a c h c h o i c e i n t h e b a n k i s ide n t if i e db y a l e t t e r.P l e a s em a r k t h e c o r r e s p o n d i ng l e t t e r f o r e a chi t e mo n A n s w e rS h e e t2w i t ha s i n g l e l i n e t h r o u g h t h e c e n t r e.Y o um a y n o t u s e a n y o f t h ew o r d s i n t h e b a n km o r e t h a n o n c e.Q u e s t i o n s36t o45a r e b a s e do n t h e f o l l o w i n gp a s s a g e.T h e c o n t i n u o u s p r e s e n t a t i o no fs c a r y s t o r i e sa b o u t g l o b a lw a r m i n g i nt h e p o p u l a r m e d i a m a k e su s u n n e c e s s a r i l y f r i g h t e n e d.E v e nw o r s e,i t 36o u r k i d s.A lG o r e f a m o u s l y d e p i c t e dh o wa s e a-l e v e l r i s e o f20f e e tw o u l d a l m o s t c o m p l e t e l y f l o o dF l o r i d a,N e w Y o r k.H o l l a n d,a n dS h a n g h a i,e v e nt h o u g ht h e U n i t e d N a t i o n ss a y st h a ts u c hat h i n g w i l ln o te v e n h a p p e n,37t h a t s e a l e v e l sw i l l r i s e20t i m e s l e s s t h a n t h a t.W h e n 38 w i t h t h e s e e x a g g e r a t i o n s,s o m e o f u s s a y t h a t t h e y a r e f o r a g o o d c a u s e,a n d s u r e l y t h e r e i s n oh a r md o n e i f t h e r e s u l t i s t h a tw e f o c u s e v e nm o r e o n t a c k l i n g c l i m a t e c h a n g e.T h i s 39 i sa s t o n i s h i n g l y w r o n g.S u c he x a g g e r a t i o n sd o p l e n t y o fh a r m.W o r r y i n g 40 a b o u t g l o b a lw a r m i n g m e a n s t h a tw ew o r r y l e s s a b o u t o t h e r t h i n g s,w h e r ew e c o u l dd o s om u c hm o r e g o o d.W e f o c u s,f o r e x a m p l e,o n g l o b a lw a r m i n g s i m p a c t o n m a l a r i a(疟疾) w h i c hw i l l p u t s l i g h t l y m o r e p e o p l e a t r i s k i n100y e a r s i n s t e a d o f t a c k l i n g t h e h a l f a b i l l i o n p e o p l e 41f r o m m a l a r i a t o d a y w i t h p r e v e n t i o n㊃1㊃a n d t r e a t m e n t p o l i c i e s t h a t a r em u c h c h e a p e r a n d d r a m a t i c a l l y m o r e 42 t h a n c a rb o n r e d uc t i o nw o u ld be .E x a g g e r a t i o na l s ow e a r s o u t t h e p u b l i c sw i l l i n g n e s s t o t a c k l e g l o b a l w a r m i n g.I f t h e p l a n e t i s 43 ,p e o p l ew o n d e r ,w h y d oa n y t h i n g ?Ar e c o r d54%o fA m e r i c a nv o t e r sn o w b e l i e v et h en e w sm e d i a m a k e g l o b a lw a r m i n g a p p e a rw o r s e t h a n i t r e a l l y i s .A 44 o f p e o p l e n o wb e l i e v e i n c o r r e c t l y t h a t g l o b a l w a r m i n gi s n o t e v e n .B u t t h ew o r s t c o s t o f e x a g g e r a t i o n ,I b e l i e v e ,i s t h e 45 a l a r mt h a t i t c a u s e s p a r t i c u l a r l y a m o n g c h i l d r e n .A na r t i c l e i n T h eW 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sm a r k e dw i t ha l e t t e r .A n s w e r t h e q u e s t i o n s b y m a r k i n g t h e c o r r e s p o n d i n g le t t e r o n A n s w e r S h e e t 2.AN a t i o nT h a t sL o s i n g It s T o o l b o x [A ]T h e s c e n e i n s i d e t h eH o m eD e p o t o nW e ym a nA v e n u e h e r ew o u l d g i v e t h e o l d -t i m eA m e r i c a n c r a f t s m a n p a u s e .I nA i s l e 34i s p r e c u t p l a s t i c f l o o r i n g ,t h e g l u ea l r e a d y in p l a c e .I n A i s l e26a r e p r e f a b r i c a t e d w i n d o w s .S t a c k e d n e a r t h e c h e c k o u t c o u n t e r s ,a n d a s c o l o r f u l a s a F i s h e r -P r i c e t o y,i s a n o t -s o -s e r i o u s -l o o k i n gp o w e rt o o l :ab a t t e r y -o pe r a t e ds a w -a n d -d r i l lc o m b i n a t i o n .A n dif y o ud o n tw a n tt od oi t y o u r s e l f ,h e a d t oA i s l e 23o rA i s l e 35,w h e r e ah e l p d e s kw i l l a r r a n ge f o r a n i n s t a l l e r .[B ]I t s a l l v e r y 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W h e n y o u s e e t h i n g s l i k eF o r dm o v i n g n e w p r o d u c t i o n f r o m M e x i c o t oD e t r o i t ,i n s t e a do f t h eo t h e rw a y a r o u n d ,y o uk n o wt h i n g sa r ec h a n g i n g , s a y sG e n eS p e r l i n g,㊃2㊃d i re c t o r of t h eN a t i o n a l E c o n o m i cC o u n c i l.[F]A s k t h e a d m i n i s t r a t i o no r t h eR e p u b l i c a n s o rm o s t a c a d e m i c sw h y A m e r i c a n e e d sm o r em a n u f a c t u r i n g, a n dt h e y r e s p o n d t h a t m a n u f a c t u r i n g g i v e s b i r t h t oi n n o v a t i o n,b r i n g s d o w n t h et r a d e d e f i c i t, s t r e n g t h e n s t h e d o l l a r,g e n e r a t e s j o b s,a r m s t h em i l i t a r y a n db r i n g s a b o u t a r e c o v e r y f r o mr e c e s s i o n.B u t r a r e l y,i fe v e r,d ot h e yp u b l i c l y t a k et h ea r g u m e n tas t e p f u r t h e r,a s s e r t i n g t h a ta g r o w i n g m a n u f a c t u r i n g s e c t o r e n c o u r a g e s c r a f t s m a n s h i p a n dt h a t c r a f t s m a n s h i p i s,i fn o t ab i r t h r i g h t,t h e na v i t a l i n g r e d i e n t o f t h eA m e r i c a n s e l f-i m a g e a s a c a n-d o,i n v e n t i v e,w e-c a n-m a k e-a n y t h i n gp e o p l e.[G]T r a d i t i o n a lv o c a t i o n a l t r a i n i n g i n p u b l i ch i g hs c h o o l s i s g r a d u a l l y d e c l i n i n g,s t r a n d i n g t h o u s a n d so f y o u n gp e o p l ew h o s e e k t r a i n i n g f o r a c r a f tw i t h o u t g o i n g t o c o l l e g e.C o l l e g e s,f o r t h e i r p a r t,h a v e s i n c e 1985g r a d u a t e d f e w e r c h e m i c a l,m e c h a n i c a l,i n d u s t r i a l a n d m e t a l l u r g i c a l(冶金的)e n g i n e e r s,p a r t l y i n r e s p o n s e t o t h e r e d u c e d r o l e o fm a n u f a c t u r i n g,ab i g e m p l o y e r o f t h e m.[H]T h e d e c l i n e s t a r t e d i n t h e1950s,w h e nm a n u f a c t u r i n g g e n e r a t e d a s t u r d y28%o f t h e n a t i o n a l i n c o m e, o r g r o s s d o m e s t i c p r o d u c t,a n d e m p l o y e do n e-t h i r do f t h ew o r k f o r c e.T o d a y,f a c t o r y o u t p u t g e n e r a t e s j u s t12%o fG.D.P.a n d e m p l o y s b a r e l y9%o f t h e n a t i o n sw o r k e r s.M a s s l a y o f f s a n d p l a n t c l o s i n g s h a v ed r a w n p l e n t y o f h e a d l i n e s a n d p u b l i c d e b a t e o v e r t h e y e a r s,a n d t h e y s t i l l o c c a s i o n a l l y d o.B u t t h e d a m a g e t o s k i l l a n d c r a f t s m a n s h i p t h a t sn e e d e dt ob u i l dac o m p l e xa i r l i n e ro ra t r a c t o r,o r f o ra w o r k e r t om o v eu p f r o ma s s e m b l e r t om a c h i n i s t t o s u p e r v i s o r w e n t l a r g e l y u n n o t i c e d.[I] I na ne a r l i e r g e n e r a t i o n,w e l o s t o u r c o n n e c t i o n t o t h e l a n d,a n dn o w w e a r e l o s i n g o u r c o n n e c t i o n t o t h em a c h i n e r y w ed e p e n do n, s a y s M i c h a e l H o u t,as o c i o l o g i s ta tt h e U n i v e r s i t y o fC a l i f o r n i a, B e r k e l e y. P e o p l ew h o w o r k w i t ht h e i rh a n d s, h e w e n to n, a r ed o i n g t h i n g st o d a y t h a tw ec a l l s e r v i c e j o b s,i n r e s t a u r a n t s a n d l a u n d r i e s,o r i nm e d i c a l t e c h n o l o g y a n d t h e l i k e.[J]T h a t s o n e e x p l a n a t i o n f o r t h e d e c l i n e i n t r a d i t i o n a l c r a f t s m a n s h i p.L a c k o f i n t e r e s t i s a n o t h e r.T h e b i g m o n e y i s i nf i e l d s l i k ef i n a n c e.S t a r t i n g i nt h e1980s,s k i l l i nf i n a n c e g r e wi ni m p o r t a n c e,a n d,a s d e p i c t e d i n t h en e w sm e d i a a n d t h em o v i e s,b e c a m e am o r e a p p e a l i n g s o u r c e o f i n c o m e. [K]B y l a s t y e a r,W a l lS t r e e t t r a d e r s,b a n k e r sa n dt h o s ew h od e a l i nr e a l e s t a t e g e n e r a t e d21%o f t h e n a t i o n a l i n c o m e,d o u b l et h e i rs h a r e i nt h e1950s.A n d W a r r e nB u f f e t t,t h e g o o d-n a t u r e df i n a n c i e r, b e c a m e ah o m e s p u nf o l kh e r o,w i t h o u tt h et o o l sa n d o v e r a l l s(工作服). Y o u n gp e o p l e g r o w u p w i t h o u t d e v e l o p i n g t h es k i l l st of i xt h i n g sa r o u n dt h eh o u s e, s a y sR i c h a r dC u r t i n,d i r e c t o ro f t h e T h o m s o nR e u t e r s/U n i v e r s i t y o f M i c h i g a nS u r v e y so fC o n s u m e r s. T h e y k n o wa b o u tc o m p u t e r s,o f c o u r s e,b u t t h e y d o n t k n o wh o wt ob u i l d t h e m.[L]M a n u f a c t u r i n g ss h r i n k i n gp r e s e n c eu n d o u b t e d l y h e l p se x p l a i nt h ed e c l i n e i nc r a f t s m a n s h i p,i fo n l y b e c a u s em a n y o f t h e n a t i o n s a s s e m b l y l i n ew o r k e r sw e r e s k i l l e d i n c r a f tw o r k,i f n o t o n t h e j o b t h e n i n t h e i r s p a r e t i m e.I n a l a t e1990s s t u d y o f b l u e-c o l l a r e m p l o y e e s a t aG e n e r a lM o t o r s p l a n t(n o wc l o s e d) i nL i n d e n,N.J.,t h e s o c i o l o g i s tR u t h M i l k m a no fC i t y U n i v e r s i t y o fN e w Y o r k f o u n d t h a tm a n y l i n e w o r k e r s,i n t h e i r o f f-h o u r s,d i dh o m e r e n o v a t i o n a n d o t h e r s k i l l e dw o r k. I h a v e o f t e n t h o u g h t, M s. 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T h e p a y r o l l s u r v e y c a ne a s i l y d o u b l e-c o u n t s o m e o n e:i f y o ua r e o n e p e r s o nw i t h t w o j o b s,y o u s h o wu p a s t w ow o r k e r s.T h e p a y r o l l s u r v e y a l s o d o e s n t c a p t u r e t h e n u m b e r o f s e l f-e m p l o y e d,a n d s o s a y s l i t t l e a b o u t h o w m a n yp e o p l e a r e g e n e r a t i n g a n i n d e p e n d e n t i n c o m e.T h e h o u s e h o l d s u r v e y h a s a l a r g e r p r o b l e m.W h e n a s k e d s t r a i g h t f o r w a r d l y,p e o p l e t e n d t o l i e o r s h a d e t h e t r u t h w h e nt h es u b j e c t i ss e x,m o n e y o re m p l o y m e n t.I f y o u g e tac a l la n da r ea s k e di f y o u r e e m p l o y e d,a n d y o u s a yy e s,y o u r ee m p l o y e d.I f y o us a y n o,h o w e v e r,i tm a y s u r p r i s e y o u t o l e a r n t h a t y o ua r e o n l y u n e m p l o y e d i f y o u v eb e e na c t i v e l y l o o k i n g f o rw o r k i n t h e p a s t f o 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2013年6月大学英语六级考试真题(三)答案与详解

2013年6月大学英语六级考试真题(三)答案与详解Part ⅠWritingThe Impact of the Information ExplosionAs is known to us all, we are now living in the age of “information explosion”. That is, we are surrounded by much information. It is true that information explosion brings convenience to our life, but it also leads to the distraction of our attention.Just as the famous saying goes, “A wealth of information creates a poverty of attention.” .For example, there are so many advertisements on the Internet that we are easily distracted by the irrelevant information of the target website. In addition, the information itself is of various kinds, either healthy or violent. The bad information may even arouse violent crimes.Therefore, it is high time we adopted proper methods to avoid being distracted by irrelevant information. For one thing, we can make a list of key words about what we will search on the Internet. For another, we can set a time limit for the search of the target information. Thus, the search is more effective and time is saved greatly at the same time.PartⅢReading ComprehensionSection A答案详解：36、H)。

(2013.6-2013.12)大学英语六级真题及解析汇总(全年完整版)+作文模板

（2013.6-2013.12）大学英语六级真题及解析汇总（全年完整版）+作文模板目录2013年12月大学英语六级真题 (1)2013年6月英语六级完形填空原文+答案 (35)六级作文模板 (41)2013年12月大学英语六级真题tory courses. The newer trend is to start recruiting poor and non-white students as early as the seventh grade, using innovative tools to identify kids with sophisticated verbal skills. Such pro grams can be expensive, of course, but cheap compared with the millions already invested in scholarships and grants for kids who have little chance to graduate without special support.With effort and money, the graduation gap can be closed. Washington and Lee is a small, selective school in Lexington, Va. Its student body is less than 5% black and less than 2% Latino. While the school usually graduated about 90% of its whites, the graduation rate of its blacks and Latinos had dipped to 63% by 2007. "We went through a dramatic shift," says Dawn Watkins, the vice president for student affairs. The school aggressively pushed mentoring(辅导) of minorities by other students and "partnering" with parents at a special pre-enrollment session. The school had its first-ever black homecoming. Last spring the school graduated the same proportion of minorities as it did whites. If the United States wants to keep up in the global economic race, it will have to pay systematic attention to graduating minorities, not just enrolling them.注意：此部分试题请在答题卡1上作答。

2013年英语六级真题及答案汇总(完整文字版)

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说到四六级，你第一反应是裸考刷分？还是abandon？是单词书本？还是逝去的青春？考过的，满满都是回忆；将要考的，给你们加油鼓劲！2013年英语六级真题及答案汇总目录2013年6月英语六级真题及答案 (2)2013年12月英语六级真题及答案 (25)（为了这份资源，我也蛮拼的）2013年6月英语六级真题及答案Part ⅡListening ComprehensionSection A1. CM: The biological project is now in trouble. You know, my colleague and I have completely different ideas about how to proceed.W: Why don’t you compromise? Try to make it a win-win situation for you both.Q: What does the woman suggest the man do?【听前预测】1．四项均以动词原形开头。

2．两项提到同事(colleague)。

结论：对话应该是工作场景，可能提问接下来要怎么做或建议某人做什么。

2．BM: How does Nancy like the new dress she bought in Rome?W: She said she would never have bought an Italian style dress if she had known Mary had already got such a dress.Q: What do we learn from the conversation?【听前预测】1．四项提及两个人物——Mary和Nancy。

2．三项均与服饰、时尚有关(style，dress，fashion)，两项与购物有关(buying，shopping)。

2013年6月六级真题及答案

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 conversations 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 centre.注意：此部分试题请在答题卡2上作答。

11. A) She has completely recovered.B) She went into shock after an operation.C) She is still in a critical condition.D) She is getting much better.12. A) Ordering a breakfast. C) Buying a train ticket.B) Booking a hotel room. D) Fixing a compartment.13. A) Most borrowers never returned the books to her.B) The man is the only one who brought her book back.C) She never expected anyone to return the books to her.D) Most of the books she lent out came back without jackets.14. A) She left her work early to get some bargains last Saturday.B) She attended the supermarket’s grand opening ceremony.C) She drove a full hour before finding a parking space.D) She failed to get into the supermarket last Saturday.15. A) He is bothered by the pain in his neck.B) He cannot do his report without a computer.C) He cannot afford to have a coffee break.D) He feels sorry to have missed the report.16. A) Only top art students can show their works in the gallery.B) The gallery space is big enough for the man’s paintings.C) The woman would like to help with the exibition layout.D) The man is uncertain how his art works will be received.17. A) The woman needs a temporary replacement for her assistant.B) The man works in the same department as the woman does.C) The woman will have to stay in hospital for a few days.D) The man is capable of dealing with difficult people.18. A) It was better than the previous one.B) It distorted the mayor’s speech.C) It exaggerated the city’s economy problems.D) It reflected the opinions of most economists.Questions 19 to 22 are based on the conversation you have just heard.19. A) To inform him of a problem they face.B) To request him to purchase control desks.C) To discuss the content of a project report.D) To ask him to fix the dictating machine.20. A) They quote the best price in the market.B) They manufacture and sell office furniture.C) They cannot deliver the steel sheets on time.D) They cannot produce the steel sheets needed21. A) By marking down the unit price.B) By accepting the penalty clauses.C) By allowing more time for delivery.D) By promising better after-sales service.22. A) Give the customer a ten percent discount.B) Claim compensation from the stool suppliers.C) Ask the Buying Department to change suppliers.D) Cancel the contract with the customer.Questions 23 to 25 are based on the conversation you have just heard.23. A) Stockbroker. C) Mathematician.B) Physicist. D) Economist.24. A) Improve computer programming.B) Predict global population growth.C) Explain certain natural phenomena.D) Promote national financial health.25. A) Their different educational backgrounds.B) Changing attitudes toward nature.C) Chaos theory and its applications.D) The current global economic crisis.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 centre.注意：此部分试题请在答题卡2上作答。

[英语六级考试复习]2013年6月_六级真题_第3套

大学英语六级考试真题解析2013年6月大学英语六级考试真题（第3套）Part I Writing（30 minutes）Directions: For this part, you are allowed 30 minutes to write an essay commenting on the remark “A smile is the shortest distance between two people.”You can cite examples to illustrateyour point. You should write at least 150 words but no more than 200 words. Write your essayon Answer Sheet 1._____________________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________________Part II Listening Comprehension （30 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 theconversation and the questions will be spoken only once. After each question there will be apause. During the pause, you must read the four choices marked A）, B）, C） and D）, anddecide which is the best answer. Then mark the corresponding letter on Answer Sheet 1 with asingle line through the centre.1. A) It will mainly benefit the wealthy. C) It will reduce government revenues.B) It will stimulate business activities. D) It will cut the stockholders' dividends.2. A) She doesn't think much of job-hopping.B) She will stick to the job if the pay is good.C) She prefers a life of continued exploration.D) She will do her best if the job is worth doing.3. A) Talk the drug user out of the habit. C) Keep his distance from drug addicts.B) Stop thinking about the matter. D) Be more friendly to his schoolmate.4. A) The son. B) Aunt Louise. C) The father. D) The mother.5. A) Move to another place. C) Check the locks every two weeks.B) Stay away for a couple of weeks. D) Look after the Johnsons' house.6. A) He didn't want to miss the game.B) He would like to warm up for the game.C) He didn't want to be held up in traffic.D) He wanted to catch as many birds as possible.wasdown. C) Itrobbed.7. A) ItwasburnedB) It was closed down. D) It was blown up.8. A) She studies in the same school as her brother.B) She isn't going to work in her brother's firm.C) She isn't going to change her major.D) She plans to major in tax law.Questions 9 to 11 are based on the conversation you have just heard.9. A) Current issues in economics. C) A recent biology lecture.B) Choices faced by conservationists. D) Topics for a research paper.10. A) A scarcity of jobs in their field.B) Inadequate training in methods of biological research.C) Difficulties in classifying all of the varieties of owls.D) A lack of funding for their work with endangered species.11. A) It has numerous traits in common with the spotted owl.B) Its population is increasing in recent years.C) It may not survive without special efforts of conservationists.D) Its role in the chain of evolution has not yet been examined.Questions 12 to 15 are based on the conversation you have just heard.12. A) Training given to music therapists. C) Studies on the benefits of music.B) How music prevents disease. D) How musicians create music.13. A) In place of physical therapy. C) To prevent heart disease.B) To control brain problems. D) To relieve depression.14. A) They like to have music in the operating room.B) They solved problems better while listening to music they liked.C) They preferred classical music.D) They performed better when they used headphones.15. A) It increased the students' white blood cell.B) It increased some students' energy level.C) It improved the students' ability to play musical instruments.D) It released a natural painkiller in some students' bodies.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 aquestion, you must choose the best answer from the four choices marked A）, B）, C） and D）.Then mark the corresponding letter on Answer Sheet 1 with a single line through the centre. Passage OneQuestions 16 to 19 are based on the passage you have just heard.16. A) She was bored with her idle life at home.B) She was offered a good job by her neighbour.C) She wanted to help with the family's finances.D) Her family would like to see her more involved in social life.17. A) Doing housework. C) Reading papers and watching TV.B) Looking after her neighbour's children. D) Taking good care of her husband.18. A) Jane got angry at Bill's idle life. C) Bill blamed Jane for neglecting the family.B) Bill failed to adapt to the new situation. D) The children were not taken good care of.19. A) Neighbours should help each other.B) Women should have their own careers.C) Man and wife should share household duties.D) Parents should take good care of their children.Passage TwoQuestions 20 to 22 are based on the passage you have just heard.20. A) To predict natural disasters that can cause vast destruction.B) To limit the destruction that natural disasters may cause.C) To gain financial support from the United Nations.D) To propose measures to hold back natural disasters.21. A) There is still a long way to go before man can control natural disasters.B) International cooperation can minimize the destructive force of natural disasters.C) Technology can help reduce the damage natural disasters may cause.D) Scientists can successfully predict earthquakes.22. A) There were fatal mistakes in its design.B) The builder didn't observe the building codes of the time.C) The traffic load went beyond its capacity.D) It was built according to less strict earthquake resistance standards.Passage ThreeQuestions 23 to 25 are based on the passage you have just heard.23. A) By judging to what extent they can eliminate the risks.B) By estimating the possible loss of lives and property.C) By estimating the frequency of volcanic eruptions.D) By judging the possible risks against the likely benefits.24. A) One of Etna's recent eruptions made many people move away.B) Etna's frequent eruptions have ruined most of the local farmland.C) Etna's eruptions are frequent but usually mild.D) There are signs that Etna will erupt again in the near future.25. A) They will remain where they are. C) They will turn to experts for advice.B) They will leave this area forever. D) They will seek shelter in nearby regions.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 with the exact words you have just heard. Finally, whenthe passage is read for the third time, you should check what you have written.Certain phrases one commonly hears among Americans capture their devotion to individualism: "Do your own thing. " "I did it my way. " "You'll have to decide that for yourself. " "You made your bed, now 26 in it. " "If you don't look out for yourself, no one else will. " "Look out for number one."Closely associated with the value they place on individualism is the importance Americans 27 privacy. Americans assume that people "need some time to themselves" or "some time alone" to 28things or recover their spent psychological energy. Americans have great 29 understanding foreignerswho always want to be with another person, who dislike being alone.If the parents can 30 it, each child will have his or her own bedroom. Having one's own bedroom, even as an infant, fixes in a person the notion that she 31 a place of her own where she can be by herself, and keep her possessions. She will have her clothes, her toys, her books, and so on. These things will be hers and no one else's.Americans 32 that people will have their private thoughts that might never be shared with anyone. Doctors, lawyers, psychiatrists, and others have rules governing "confidentiality" that 33 prevent information about their clients' personal situations from becoming known to others.Americans' attitudes about 34 can be hard for foreigners to understand. Americans' houses, yards, and even their offices can seem open and inviting. Yet in the minds of Americans, there are 35 that other people are simply not supposed to cross. When those boundaries are crossed, an American's body will visibly stiffen and his manner will become cool and aloof.Part III Reading Comprehension （40 minutes）Section ADirections: In this section, there is a passage with ten blanks. You are required to select one word for each blank from a list of choices given in a word bank following the passage. Read the passagethrough carefully before making your choices. Each choice in the bank is identified by a letter.Please mark the corresponding letter for each item on Answer Sheet 2 with a single linethrough the centre. You may not use any of the words in the bank more than once.Questions 36 to 45 are based on the following passage.When my mother's health was failing, I was the "bad" sister who lived far away and wasn't involved.My sister helped my parents. She never asked me to do anything, and I didn't 31 . I was widowed,raising kids and working, but that wasn't really why I kept to weekly calls and short, infrequent visits. Iwas 37 in my adolescent role as the aloof (超脱的) achiever, defending myself from my 38 motherand other family craziness. As always, I turned a deaf ear to my sister's criticisms about my not being around more—and I didn't hear her rising desperation. It wasn't until my mom's 39 , watching my dadand sister cling to each other and weep, that I got a hint of their long painful experience—and how badlyI'd behaved.My sister was so furious, she 40 spoke to me during my father's last years. To be honest, I'm not a terrible person. So how did I get it so wrong.We hear a lot about the 41 of taking care of our graying population. But the big story beneath the surface is the psychological crisis among middle-aged siblings (兄弟姐妹) who are fighting toward issues involving their aging parents. According to a new survey, an estimated 43.5 million adults in the US are looking after an older 42 or friend. Of these, 43% said they did not feel they had a 43 in this role.And although 7 in 10 said another unpaid caregiver had 44 help in the past year, only 1 in 10 said the burden was split equally.As siblings who are often separated geographically and emotionally, we are having to come togetherto decide such 45 issues as where Mom and Dad should live and where they should be buried. "It's likebeing put down with your siblings in the center of a nuclear reactor and being told, ' Figure it out,' " says University of Colorado psychologist Sara Honn Qualls.Section BDirections: In this section, you are going to read a passage with ten statements attached to it. Each statement contains information given in one of the paragraphs. Identify the paragraph fromwhich the information is derived. You may choose a paragraph more than once. Eachparagraph is marked with a letter. Answer the questions by marking the corresponding letteron Answer Sheet 2.Norman Borlaug: 'Father of the Green Revolution'A)Few people have quietly changed the world for the better more than this rural lad from themidwestern state of Iowa in the United States. The man in focus is Norman Borlaug, the Father of the 'Green Revolution', who died on September 12, 2009 at age 95. Norman Borlaug spent most of his 60working years in the farmlands of Mexico, South Asia and later in Africa, fighting world hunger, andsaving by some estimates up to a billion lives in the process. An achievement, fit for a Nobel PeacePrize.Early YearsB) "I'm a product of the great depression" is how Borlaug described himself. A great-grandson ofNorwegian immigrants to the United States, Borlaug was born in 1914 and grew up on a small farm inthe northeastern corner of Iowa in a town called Cresco. His family had a 40-hectare (公顷) farm onwhich they grew wheat, maize (玉米) and hay and raised pigs and cattle. Norman spent most of histime from age 7-17 on the farm, even as he attended a one-room, one-teacher school at New Oregonin Howard County.C) Borlaug didn't have money to go to college. But through a Great Depression era programme, knownas the National Youth Administration, Borlaug was able to enroll in the University of Minnesota at Minneapolis to study forestry. He excelled in studies and received his Ph. D. in plant pathology (病理学) and genetics in 1942. From 1942 to 1944, Borlaug was employed as a microbiologist at DuPont in Wilmington. However, following the December 7,1941 attack on Pearl Harbor, Borlaug tried to join the military, but was rejected under wartime labour regulations.In MexicoD) In 1944, many experts warned of mass starvation in developing nations where populations wereexpanding faster than crop production. Borlaug began work at a Rockefeller Foundation-funded project in Mexico to increase wheat production by developing higher-yielding varieties of the crop. It involved research in genetics, plant breeding, plant pathology, entomology (昆虫学) , agronomy (农艺学), soil science, and cereal technology. The goal of the project was to boost wheat production in Mexico, which at the time was importing a large portion of its grain. Borlaug said that his first couple of years in Mexico were difficult. He lacked trained scientists and equipment. Native farmers were hostile towards the wheat programme because of serious crop losses from 1939 to 1941 due to stem rust.E) Wheat varieties that Borlaug worked with had tall, thin stalks. While taller wheat competed better forsunlight, they had a tendency to collapse under the weight of extra grain—a trait called lodging. To overcome this, Borlaug worked on breeding wheat with shorter and. stronger stalks, which could hold on larger seed heads. Borlaug's new semi-dwarf, disease-resistant varieties, called Pitic 62 and Penjamo 62, changed the potential yield of Mexican wheat dramatically. By 1963 wheat production in Mexico stood six times more than that of 1944.Green Revolution in IndiaF) During the 1960s, South Asia experienced severe drought condition and India had beenimporting wheat on a large scale from the United States. Borlaug came to India in 1963 along with Dr.Robert Anderson to duplicate his Mexican success in the sub-continent. The experiments began with planting a few of the high-yielding variety strains in the fields of the Indian Agricultural Research Institute at Pusa in New Delhi, under the supervision of Dr. M. S. Swaminathan. These strains were subsequently planted in test plots at Ludhiana, Pantnagar, Kanpur, Pune and Indore. The results were promising, but large-scale success, however, was not instant. Cultural opposition to new agricultural techniques initially prevented Borlaug from going ahead with planting of new wheat strains in India.By 1965, when the drought situation turned alarming. the government took the lead and allowed wheat revolution to move forward. By employing agricultural techniques he developed in Mexico, Borlaug was able to nearly double South Asian wheat harvests between 1965 and 1970.G) India subsequently made a huge commitment to Mexican wheat, importing some 18,000 tonnes ofseed. By 1968, it was clear that the Indian wheat harvest was nothing short of revolutionary. It was so productive that there was a shortage of labour to harvest it, of bull carts to haul it to the threshing floor (打谷场), of jute (黄麻) bags to store it. Local governments in some areas were forced to shut down schools temporarily to use them as store houses.H) United Nation's Food and Agriculture Organization( FAO) observed that in 40 years between 1961and 2001, "India more than doubled its population, from 452 million to more than 1 billion. At the same time, it nearly tripled its grain production from 87 million tonnes to 231 million tonnes. It accomplished this feat while increasing cultivated grain acreage (土地面积) a mere 8 percent. " It was in India that Norman Borlaug's work was described as the' Green Revolution. 'I n AfricaI) Africa suffered widespread hunger and starvation through the 70s and 80s. Food and aid poured infrom most developed countries into the continent, but thanks to the absence of efficient distributionsystem, the hungry remained empty-stomach. The then Chairman of the Nippon Foundation, RyoichiSasakawa wondered why the methods used in Mexico and India were not extended to Africa. Hecalled up Norman Borlaug, now leading a semi-retired life, for help. He managed to convince Borlaugto help with his new effort and subsequently founded the Sasakawa Africa Association. Borlaug laterrecalled, "but after I saw the terrible circumstances there, I said, ' Let's just start growing' ".J) The success in Africa was not as spectacular as it was in India or Mexico. Those elements that allowed Borlaug's projects to succeed, such as well-organized economies and transportation andirrigation systems, were severely lacking throughout Africa. Because of this, Borlaug's initial projectswere restricted to developed regions of the continent. Nevertheless, yields of maize, sorghum（高梁）and wheat doubled between 1983 and 1985.Nobel PrizeK) For his contributions to the world food supply, Borlaug was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1970.Norwegian officials notified his wife in Mexico City at 4:00 a. m. , but Borlaug had already left forthe test fields in the Toluca valley, about 65 km west of Mexico City. A chauffeur (司机) took her tothe fields to inform her husband Borlaug said, "the first essential component of social justice isadequate food for all mankind. Food is the moral right of all who are born into this world. Yet, 50percent of the world population goes hungry. "Green Revolution vs EnvironmentalistsL) Borlaug's advocacy of intensive high-yield agriculture came under severe criticism from environmentalists in recent years. His work faced environmental and socio-economic criticismsincluding charges that his methods have created dependence on monoculture crops, unsustainablefarming practices, heavy indebtedness among subsistence farmers, and high levels of cancer amongthose who work with agriculture chemicals. There are also concerns about the long-term sustainabilityof farming practices encouraged by the Green Revolution in both the developed and the developingworld.M) In India, the Green Revolution is blamed for the destruction of Indian crop diversity, drought vulnerability, dependence on agro-chemicals that poison soils but reap large-scale benefits mostly tothe American multi-national corporations. What these critics overwhelmingly advocate is a globalmovement towards " organic" or "sustainable" farming practices that avoid using chemicals and hightechnology in favour of natural fertilizers, cultivation and pest-control programmes.46. Borlaug's new varieties of wheat have shorter stems and stronger resistance to disease.47. A large part of Borlaug's life was spent in increasing food supply of poor countries andcombating hunger.48. Borlaug's wheat programme met with resistance during his first couple of years in Mexico.49. In both developed and developing countries there are concerns whether in the long runBorlaug's farming practices will be sustainable.50. The lack of necessary supporting facilities in Africa prevented Borlaug from achieving brilliantsuccess.51. Borlaug was not able to get ahead with his experiments in India until the government intervened.52. Borlaug believes that elimination of hunger is one essential element in ensuring social justice.53. The poorly-managed distribution system prevented the food aid from feeding the hungry in Africa.54. Statistics indicate that India achieved a dramatic increase of grain production with a modestincrease of farming land.55. Critics blame Green Revolution for producing a huge profit for the American agro-chemicalcorporations.Section CDirections: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 shoulddecide on the best choice and mark the corresponding letter on Answer Sheet 2 with a singleline through the centre.Passage OneQuestions 56 to 60 are based on the following passage.In 2011, many shoppers chose to avoid the frantic crowds and do their holiday shopping from thecomfort of their computer. Sales at online retailers gained by more than 15%, making it the biggest season ever. But people are also returning those purchases at record rates, up 8% from last year.What went wrong? Is the lingering shadow of the global financial crisis making it harder to accept extravagant indulgences? Or that people shop more impulsively—and therefore make bad decisions—when online? Both arguments are plausible. However, there is a third factor: a question of touch. We can love the look but, in an online environment, we cannot feel the quality of a texture, the shape of the fit, the fall of a fold or, for that matter, the weight of an earring. And physically interacting with anobject makes you more committed to your purchase.When my most recent book Brandwashed was released, I teamed up with a local bookstore to conductan experiment about the differences between the online and offline shopping experience. I carefullyinstructed a group of volunteers to promote my book in two different ways. The first was a fairly hands-off approach. Whenever a customer would inquire about my book, the volunteer would take them over to theshelf and point to it. Out of 20 such requests, six customers proceeded with the purchase.The second option also involved going over to the shelf but, this time, removing the book and thensubtly holding onto it for just an extra moment before placing it in the customer's hands. Of the 20 people who were handed the book, 13 ended up buying it. Just physically passing the book showed a big difference in sales. Why? We feel something similar to a sense of ownership when we hold things inour hand. That's why we establish or reestablish connection by greeting strangers and friends with a handshake. In this case, having to then let go of the book after holding it might generate a subtle senseof loss, and motivate us to make the purchase even more.A recent study also revealed the power of touch, in this case when it came to conventional mail. Adeeper and longer-lasting impression of a message was formed when delivered in a letter, as opposed toreceiving the same message online. Brain imaging showed that, on touching the paper, the emotionalcenter of the brain was activated, thus forming a stronger bond. The study also indicated that once touchbecomes part of the process, it could translate into a sense of possession. This sense of ownership is simplynot part of the equation in the online shopping experience.56. Why do people prefer shopping online according to the author?A) It is more comfortable and convenient.B) It saves them a lot of money and time.C) It offers them a lot more options and bargains.D) It gives them more time to think about their purchase.57. Why do more customers return their purchases bought online?A) They regretted indulging in costly items in the recession.B) They changed their mind by the time the goods were delivered.C) They had no chance to touch them when shopping online.D) They later found the quality of goods below their expectations.58. What is the purpose of the author's experiment?A ) To test his hypothesis about online shopping.B) To find out people's reaction to his recent book.C) To find ways to increase the sale of his new book.D) To try different approaches to sales promotion.59. How might people feel after letting go of something they held?A) A sense of disappointment. C) A subtle loss of interest.B) More motivated to own it. D) Less sensitive to its texture.60. What does brain imaging in a recent study reveal?A) Conventional letters contain subtle messages.B) A lack of touch is the chief obstacle to e-commerce.C) Email lacks the potential to activate the brain.D) Physical touch helps form a sense of possession.Passage TwoQuestions 61 to 65 are based on the following passage.Apparently everyone knows that global warming only makes climate more extreme. A hot, dry summer has triggered another flood of such claims. And, while many interests are at work, one of the players that benefits the most from this story are the media: the notion of "extreme" climate simply makes for more compelling news.Consider Paul Krugman, writing breathlessly in the New York Times about the "rising incidence of extreme events. " He claims that global warming caused the current drought in America's Midwest, and that supposedly record-high corn prices could cause a global food crisis.But the United Nations climate panel's latest assessment tells us precisely the opposite: For "North America, there is medium confidence that there has an overall slight tendency toward less dryness. " Moreover, there is no way that Krugman could have identified this drought. as being caused by global warming without a time machine: Climate models estimate that such detection will be possible by 2048, allthe earliest.And, fortunately, this year's drought appears unlikely to cause a food crisis, as global rice and wheat supplies remain plentiful. Moreover, Krugman overlooks inflation: Prices have increased six-fold since 1969, so, while corn futures(期货) did set a record of about $8 per bushel (蒲式耳) in late July, the inflation-adjusted price of corn was higher throughout most of the 1970s, reaching $ 16 in 1974.Finally, Krugman conveniently forgets that concerns about global warming are the main reason that corn prices have skyrocketed since 2005. Nowadays 40 percent of corn grown in the United States is usedto produce ethanol（乙醇），which does absolutely nothing for the climate, but certainly distorts the price of corn—at the expense of many of the world's poorest people.Bill Mckibben similarly worries in The Guardian about the Midwest drought and corn prices. He confidently tells us that raging wildfires from New Mexico and Colorado to Siberia are“exactly" what the early stages of global warming look like.In fact, the latest overview of global wildfire incidence suggests that fire intensity has declined overthe past 70 years and is now close to its preindustrial level.When well-meaning campaigners want us to pay attention to global warming, they often end up pitching beyond the facts. And, while this may seem justified by a noble goal, such "policy by panic" tactics rarely work, and often backfire.Remember how, in the wake of Hurricane Katrina in 2005, Al Gore claimed that we were in store for ever more destructive hurricanes? Since then, hurricane incidence has dropped off the charts. Exaggerated claims merely fuel public distrust and disengagement.That is unfortunate, because global warming is a real problem, and we do need to address it.61. In what way do the media benefit from extreme weather?A) They can attract people's attention to their reports.B) They can choose from a greater variety of topics.C) They can make themselves better known.D) They can give voice to different views.62. What is the author's comment on Krugman's claim about the current drought in America's Midwest?A) A time machine is needed to testify to its truth.B) It is based on an erroneous climate model.C) It will eventually get proof in 2048.D) There is no way to prove its validity.63. What is the chief reason for the rise in corn prices according to the author?A) Demand for food has been rising in the developing countries.。

2013年6月英语六级考试阅读真题及答案

2013年6⽉英语六级考试阅读真题及答案 Section A Direction: In this section, there is a short passage with 5 questions or incomplete stamens. Read the passage carefully. Then answer the questions or complete the statements in the fewest possible words. Please write your answer on Answer Sheet 2. Question 47 to 51 are based on the following passage Highly proficient musicianship is hard won. Although it’s often assumed musical ability us inherited, there’s abundant evidence that this isn’t the case. While it seems that at birth virtually everyone has perfect pitch, the reasons that one child is better than another are motivation and practice. Highly musical children were sung to more as infants and more encouraged to join in song games as kids than less musical ones, long before any musical ability could have been evident. Studies of classical musicians prove that the best ones practiced considerably more from childhood onwards than ordinary orchestral players, and this is because their parents were at them to put in the hours from a very young age. The same was true of children selected for entry to specialist music schools, compared with those who were rejected. The chosen children had parents who had very actively supervised music lessons and daily practice from young ages, giving up substantial periods of leisure time to take the children to lessons and concerts. The singer Michael Jackson’s story, although unusually brutal and extreme, is illumination when considering musical prodigy(天才). Accounts suggest that he was subjected to cruel beatings and emotional torture ,and that he was humiliated (羞辱) constantly by his father, What sets Jackson’s family apart is that his father used his reign of terror to train his children as musicians and dancers. On top of his extra ability Michael also had more drive. This may have been the result of being the closest of his brothers and sisters to his mother. “He seemed different to me from the other children —special,”Michael’s mother said of him. She may not have realized that treating her son as special may have been part of the reason be became like that. All in all, if you want to bring up a Mozart or Bach, the key factor is how hard you are prepared to crack the whip. Thankfully, most of us will probably settle for a bit of fun on the recorder and some ill-executed pieces of music-on the piano from our children. 注意：此部分试题请在答题卡2上作答。

2013年6月大学英语六级考试真题

2013年6月大学英语六级考试真题Part I Writing (30 minutes)Directions: For this part, you are allowed 30 minutes to write an essay commenting on the remark" A smile is the shortest distance between two people. " You can cite some examples to illustrate your point. You should write at least 150 words but no more than 200 words.PartⅡReading 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.A Nation That's Losing Its ToolboxThe scene inside the Home Depot on Weyman Avenue here would give the old-time American craftsman pause.In Aisle 34 is precut plastic flooring, the glue already in place. In Aisle 26 are prefabricated windows. Stacked near the checkout counters, and as colorful as a Fisher-Price toy, is a not-so-serious-looking power tool: a battery-operated saw-and-drill combination. And if you don't want to do it yourself, head to Aisle 23 or Aisle 35, where a help desk will arrange for an installer.It's a11 very handy stuff, I guess, a convenient way to be a do-it-yourselfer without being all that good with tools. But at a time when the American factory seems to be a shrinking presence, and when good manufacturing jobs have vanished, perhaps never to return, there is something deeply troubling about this dilution of American craftsmanship.This isn't a lament(伤感)—or not merely a lament—for bygone times. It's a social and cultural issue, as well as an economic one. The Home Depot approach to craftsmanship—simplify it, dumb it down, hire a contractor—is one signal that mastering tools and working with one's hands is receding in America as a hobby, as a valued skill, as a cultural influence that shaped thinking and behavior in vast sections of the country.That should be a matter of concern in a presidential election year. Yet neither Barack Obama nor Mitt Romney promotes himself as tool-savvy (使用工具很在行的) presidential timber, in the mold of a Jimmy Carter, a skilled carpenter and cabinet maker.The Obama administration does worry publicly about manufacturing, a first cousin of craftsmanship. When the Ford Motor Company, for example, recently announced that it was bringing some production home, the White House cheered. "When you see things like Ford moving new production from Mexico to Detroit, instead of the other way around, you know things are changing, "says Gene Sperling, director of the National Economic Council.Ask the administration or the Republicans or most academics why America needs more manufacturing, and they respond that manufacturing gives birth to innovation, brings down the trade deficit, strengthens the dollar, generates Jobs, arms the military and brings about a recovery from recession. But rarely, if ever, do they publicly take the argument a step further, asserting that a growing manufacturing sector encourages craftsmanship and that craftsmanship is, if not a birthright, then a vital ingredient of the American self-image as a can-do, inventive, we-can-make-anything people.Traditional vocational training in public high schools is gradually declining, stranding thousands of young people who seek training for a craft without going to college. Colleges, fortheir part, have since 1985 graduated fewer chemical, mechanical, industrial and metallurgical (冶金的) engineers, partly in response to the reduced role of manufacturing, a big employer of them.The decline started in the 1950s, when manufacturing generated a sturdy 28％of the national income, or gross domestic product, and employed one-third of the workforce. Today, factory output generates just 12％of G. D. P. and employs barely 9％of the nation's workers.Mass layoffs and plant closings have drawn plenty of headlines and public debate over the years, and they still occasionally do. But the damage to skill and craftsmanship—what's needed to build a complex airliner or a tractor, or for a worker to move up from assembler to machinist to supervisor—went largely unnoticed."In an earlier generation, we lost our connection to the land, and now we are losing our connection to the machinery we depend on, "says Michael Hout, a sociologist at the University of California, Berkeley. "People who work with their hands, he went on, "are doing things today that we call service jobs, in restaurants and laundries, or in medical technology and the like. "That's one explanation for the decline in traditional craftsmanship. Lack of interest is another. The big money is in fields like finance. Starting in the 1 980s, skill in finance grew in importance, and, as depicted in the news media and the movies, became a more appealing source of income.By last year, Wall Street traders, bankers and those who deal in real estate generated 21％of the national income, double their share in the 1 950s. And Warren Buffett, the good-natured financier, became a homespun folk hero, Without the tools and overalls(工作装)."Young people grow up without developing the skills to fix things around the house, "says Richard Curtin, director of the Thomson Reuters／University of Michigan Surveys of Consumers. "They know about computers, of course, but they don't know how to build them. "Manufacturing's shrinking presence undoubtedly helps explain the decline in craftsmanship, if only because many of the nation's assembly line workers were skilled in craft work, if not on the job then in their spare time. In a late 1990s study of blue-collar employees at a General Motors plant(now closed)in Linden, N. J. , the sociologist Ruth Milkman of City University of New York found that many line workers, in their off-hours, did home renovation and other skilled work."I have often thought, "Ms. Milkman says, "that these extracurricular jobs were an effort on the part of the workers to regain their dignity after suffering the degradation of repetitive assembly line work in the factory. "Craft work has higher status in nations like Germany, which invests in apprenticeship(学徒)programs for high school students. "Corporations in Germany realized that there was an interest to be served economically and patriotically in building up a skilled labor force at home；we never had that ethos(风气), "says Richard Sennett, a New York University sociologist who has written about the connection of craft and culture.The damage to American craftsmanship seems to parallel the steep slide in manufacturing employment. Though the decline started in the 1970s, it became much steeper beginning in 2000. Since then, some 5. 3 million jobs, or one. third of me workforce In manufacturing, have been lost.A stated goal of the Obama administration is to restore a big chunk of this employment, along with the multitude of skills that many of the jobs required.As for craftsmanship itself,the issue is how to preserve it as a valued skill in the general population. Ms. Milkman, the sociologist, argues that American craftsmanship isn't disappearing as quickly as some would argue—that it has instead shifted to immigrants. "Pride in craft, it is alive in the immigrant world, "she says.Sol Axelrod, 37, the manager of the Home Depot here, fittingly learned to fix his own car as a teenager, even changing the brakes. Now he finds immigrant craftsmen gathered—in abundance outside his store in the early morning, waiting for it to open so they can buy supplies for the day's work as contractors. Skilled day laborers, also mostly immigrants, wait quietly in hopes of being hired by the contractors.Mr. Axelrod also says the recession and persistently high unemployment have forced many people to try to save money by doing more themselves, and Home Depot in response offers classes in fixing water taps and other simple repairs. The teachers are store employees, many of them older and semi. retired from a skilled trade, or laid off."Our customers may not be building cabinets or outdoor decks；we try to do that for them, "Mr. Axelrod says,"but some ale trying to build up skill so they can do more for themselves in these hard times. "1. How did the author feel looking at the scene inside the Home Depot?[A]He felt proud that he was a do-it-yourselfer himself.[B]He was inspired by the way the wares were displayed.[C]He felt troubled about the weakening of American craftsmanship.[D]He was happy to see the return of the do-it-yourself spirit in America.2. What does the author think of mastering tools and working with one's hands?[A]It shapes people's thinking and behavior.[B]It is no longer important—in modem times.[C]It helps politicians connect with workmen.[D]It is essential to advanced manufacturing.3. How did the White House respond to Ford's announcement to bring some production back to America?[A]worried publicly.[B]It felt much relieved.[C]It made no comment.[D]It welcomed the decision.4. How does the author view manufacturing?[A]It encourages craftsmanship.[B]It is vital to national defense.[C]It can change the self-image of workers.[D]It represents the nation's glorious past.5. What do we learn about America's manufacturing in the 1 950s?[A]It generated just 12％of the gross national income.[B]It constituted 28％of the gross domestic product.[C]It was the biggest employer of American workers.[D]It was the most active sector of American economy.6. What does the author say is a factor contributing to the decline in traditional craftsmanship?[A]Automation makes it unnecessary to employ too many skilled workers.[B]People can earn more money in fields other than manufacturing.[C]Many people now tend to look down upon working with hands.[D]Young people no longer look upon skill as an important asset.7. In Ruth Milkman's opinion, many assembly line workers did home renovation and other skilledwork in their off-hours inorder to_______.[A]save money[B]relieve boredom[C]regain their dignity[D]improve their living conditions8. Compared with mat in America, the status of craft work in Germany is______________.9. According to Ruth Milkman, American craftsmanship, instead of disappearing, is being taken up by__________.10. According to Mr. Axelrod of Home Depot, people are trying to ride out the recession by______________.Part ⅢListening 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]She has completely recovered.[B]She Went into shock after an operation.[C]She is still in a critical condition.[D]She getting much better.12．[A]Ordering a breakfast.[B]Booking a hotel room.[C]Buying a train ticket.[D]Fixing a compartment.13. [A]Most borrowers never returned the books to her.[B]The man is the only one who brought her book back.[C]She never expected anyone to return the books to her.[D]Most of the books she lent out came back without jackets.14. [A]She left her work early to get some bargains last Saturday.[B]She attended the supermarket's grand opening ceremony.[C]She drove a fun hour before finding a parking space.[D]She failed to get into the supermarket last Saturday.15．[A]He is bothered by the pain in his neck.[B]He cannot do his report without a computer.[C]He cannot afford to have a coffee break.[D]He feels sorry to have missed the report.l6. [A]Only top art students can show their works in the gallery.[B]The gallery space is big enough for the mail's paintings.[C]The woman would like to help with the exhibition layout.[D]The man is uncertain how his art works will be received.17. [A]The woman needs a temporary replacement for her assistant.[B]The man works in the same department as the woman does.[C]The woman wall have to stay in hospital for a rew days.[D]The man is capable of dealing with difficult people.18．[A]It was better than the previous one.[B]It distorted the mayor's speech.[C]It exaggerated the city's economic problems.[D]It reflected the opinions of most economists.Questions 19 to 22 are based on the conversation you have just heard.19．[A]To inform him of a problem they face.[B]To request him to purchase control desks.[C]To discuss the content of a project report.[D]To ask him to fix the dictating machine.20．[A]They quote the best price in the market.[B]They manufacture and sell office furniture.[C]They cannot deliver the steel sheets on time.[D]They cannot produce the steel sheets needed.21．[A]By marking down the unit price.[B]By accepting the penalty clauses.[C]By allowing more time for delivery.[D]By promising better after-sales service.22．[A]Give the customer a ten percent discount.[B]Claim compensation from the steel suppliers.[C]Ask the Buying Department to change suppliers.[D]Cancel the contract With the customer.Questions 23 to 25 are based on the conversation you have just heard.23．[A]Stockbroker.[B]Physicist.[C]Mathematician.[D]Economist.24．[A]Improve computer programming.[B]Explain certain natural phenomena.[C]Predict global population growth.[D]Promote national financial health.25．[A]Their different educational backgrounds.[B]Changing attitudes toward nature.[C]Chaos theory and its applications.[D]The current global economic crisis.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 28 are based on the passage you have just heard.26. [A]They lay great emphasis on hard work.[B]They name 150 star engineers each year.[C]They require high academic degrees.[D]They have people with a very high IQ.27. [A]Long years of job training.[B]High emotional intelligence.[C]Distinctive academic qualifications.[D]Devotion to the advance of science.28. [A]Good interpersonal relationships.[B]Rich working experience.[C]Sophisticated equipment.[D]High motivation.Passage TwoQuestions 29 to 31 are based on the passage you have just heard.29. [A]A diary. [C]A history textbook.[B]A fairy tale. [D]A biography.30. [A]He was a sports fan. [C]He disliked sch001.[B]He loved adventures. [D]He liked hair. raising stories.31．[A]Encourage people to undertake adventures.[B]Publicize his colorful and unique life stories.[C]Raise people's environmental awareness.[D]Attract people to America's national parks.Passage ThreeQuestions 32 to 35 are based on the passage you have just heard.32. [A]The first infected victim.[B]A coastal village in Africa.[C]The doctor who first identified it.[D]A river running through the Congo.33. [A]They exhibit similar symptoms.[B]They can be treated with the same drug.[C]They have almost the same mortality rate.[D]They have both disappeared for good.34. [A]By inhaling air polluted with the virus.[B]By contacting contaminated body fluids.[C]By drinking water from the Congo River.[D]By eating food grown in Sudan and Zaire35. [A]More strains will evolve from the Ebola virus.[B]Scientists will eventually find cures for Ebola.[C]Another Ebola epidemic may erupt sooner or later.[D]Once infected, one will become immune to Ebola.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 secondtime,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.The ideal companion machine would not only look, feel, and sound friendly but would also be programmed to behave in an agreeable manner. Those (36)___________that make interaction with other people enjoyable would be simulated as closely as possible, and the machine would appear to be (37)_______________, stimulating, and easygoing. Its informal conversational style would make interaction comfortable, and yet the machine would remain slightly (38)_____________ and therefore interesting. In its first (39)_____________it might be somewhat hesitant and unassuming, but as it came to know the user it would progress to a more(40)_____________and intimate style. The machine would not be a passive(41)_________________but would add its own suggestions, information, and opinions；it would sometimes take the (42) _________________in developing or changing the topic and would have a (43)______________of its own.The machine would convey presence. We have all seen how a computer's use of personal names (44)__________________________________. Such features are easily written into the soft,ware. (45)___________________________________________________.Friendships are not made in a day,and the computer would be more acceptable as a friend (46)___________________________________________________. At an appropriate time it might also express the kind of affection that stimulates attachment and intimacy.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#west possible words. Please write your answers on Answer Sheet 2.Questions 47 to 5 1 are based on the following passage.The central notion of social learning theories is that people learn attitudes, beliefs, and behaviors through social interaction. The learning is a result of reinforcement, imitation, and modeling.Reinforcement occurs when we receive direct or indirect rewards or punishments for particular gender role behaviors. For example, a little girl who puts on her mother's makeup may be told that she is cute, but her brother who does the same thing will be scolded. Children also learn gender roles through indirect reinforcement. For example, if a little boy's male friends are punished for crying, he will learn that"boys don't cry".Children also learn to behave as boys or girls through observation and imitation. Even when children are not directly rewarded or punished for "behaving like boys"or "behaving like girls", they learn about gender by watching who does what in their families. A father who is rarely at home because he's always working sends the message that men are supposed to earn money. A mother who is always complaining about being overweight or old sends the message that women are supposed to be thin and young.Because parents are emotionally important to their children, they are typically a child's most powerful role models. Other role models include caregivers, teachers, friends, and celebrities.According to a multiethnic study of Los Angeles adolescents, teenagers who said that their role model was someone they knew, e. g. a parent, relative, friend, or doctor outside the family, had higher self-esteem, higher grades, and lower substance use than peers whose role models were sports figures, singers, or other media characters. The researchers concluded that role model selection can have a positive or negative outcome on a teenager's psychosocial development.Social learning theories contribute to our understanding of why we behave as we do, but much of the emphasis is on early socialization rather than on what occurs throughout life. Thus, these theories don't explain why gender roles can change in adulthood or later life. Social learning theories also don't explain why reinforcement and modeling work for some children but not others, especially those in the same family and even identical twins.47. According to social learning theories, social interaction is a means by which people acquire_________________.48. We learn from Paragraph 2 that reinforcement, whether direct or indirect, can help increase children' s awareness of_________________.49. At home, children usually learn about gender differences by_______________their parents' behavior.50. Regarding gender role building, social learning theories attach greater importance to socialization in one's childhood than in their_________________.51. There are a few aspects about gender role formation which social learning theories fail to_________________.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.The report from the Bureau of Labor Statistics was just as gloomy as anticipated. Unemployment in January jumped to a 16-year high of 7.6 percent, as 598, 000 jobs were slashed from U. S. payrolls in the worst single-month decline since December, 1974. With 1.8 million jobs lost in the last three months, there is urgent desire to boost the economy as quickly as possible. But Washington would do well to take a deep breath before reacting to the grim numbers.Collectively, we rely on the unemployment figures and other statistics to frame our sense of reality. They are a vital part of an array of data that we use to assess if we're doing well or doing badly, and that in tum shapes government policies and corporate budgets and personal spending decisions. The problem is that the statistics aren't an objective measure of reality；they are simply a best approximation. Directionally, they capture the trends, but the idea that we know precisely how many are unemployed is a myth. That makes finding a solution all the more difficult.First, there is the way the data is assembled. The official unemployment rate is the product of a telephone survey of about 60, 000 homes. There is another survey, sometimes referred to as the"payroll survey, "that assesses 400, 000 businesses based on their reported payrolls. Both surveys have problems. The payroll survey can easily double-count someone: if you are one person with two jobs, you show up as two workers. The payroll survey also doesn't capture the number of self-employed,and so says little about how many people are generating an independentincome.The household survey has a larger problem. When asked straightforwardly. people tend to lie or shade the truth when the subject is sex, money or employment. If you get a call and are asked if you're employed, and you say yes, you're employed. If you say no, however, it may surprise you to learn mat you are only unemployed it you've been actively looking tor work in the past four weeks: otherwise, you are"marginally attached to the labor force"and not actually unemployed.The urge to quantify is embedded in our society. But the idea that statisticians can then capture an objective reality isn't just impossible. It also leads to serious misjudgments. Democrats and Republicans can and will take sides on a number of issues, but a more crucial concern is that both are basing major policy decisions on guesstimates rather than looking at the vast wealth of raw data with a critical eye and an open mind.52. What do we learn from the first paragraph?[A]The U. S. economic situation is going from bad to worse.[B]Washington is taking drastic measures to provide more j obs.[C]The U. S. government is slashing more jobs from its payrolls.[D]The recent economic crisis has taken the U. S. by surprise.53. What does the author think of the unemployment figures and other statistics?[A]They form a solid basis for policy making.[B]They represent the current situation.[C]They signal future economic trends.[D]They do not fully reflect the reality.54. One problem with the payroll survey is that________________.[A]it does not include all the businesses[B]it fails to count in the self-employed[C]it magnifies the number of the jobless[D]it does not treat all companies equally55. The household survey can be faulty in that_________________.[A]people tend to lie when talking on the phone[B]not everybody is willing or ready to respond[C]some people won't provide truthful information[D]the definition of unemployment is too broad56. At the end of the passage, the author suggests that_____________.[A]statisticians improve their data assembling methods[B]decision makers view the statistics with a critical eye[C]politicians listen more before making policy decisions[D]Democrats and Republicans cooperate on crucial issuesPassage TwoQuestions 57 to 61 are based on the following passage.At some point in 2008, someone, probably in either Asia or Africa, made the decision to move from the countryside to the city. This nameless person pushed the human race over a historic threshold, for it was in that year that mankind became, for the first time in its history,a predominantly urban species.It is a trend that shows no sign of slowing. Demographers(人口统计学家)reckon that three. quarters of humanity could be city-dwelling by 2050, with most of the increase coming in thefast—growing towns of Asia and Africa. Migrants to cities are attracted by plentiful jobs, access to hospitals and education, and the ability to escape the boredom of a farmer's agricultural life. Those factors are more than enough to make up for the squalor(肮脏), disease and spectacular poverty that those same migrants must often at first endure when they become urban dwellers.It is the city that inspires the latest book from Peter Smith. His main thesis is that the buzz of urban life, and the opportunities it offers for co-operation and collaboration, is what attracts people to the city, which in turn makes cities into the engines of art,commerce, science and progress. This is hardly revolutionary,but it is presented in a charming format. Mr Smith has written a breezy guidebook,with a series of short chapters dedicated to specific aspects of urbanity-parks, say,or the various schemes that have been put forward over the years for building the perfect city. The result is a sort of high-quality, unusually rigorous coffee—table book,designed to be dipped into rather than read from beginning to end.In the chapter on skyscrapers, for example, Mr Smith touches on construction methods, the revolutionary invention of the automatic lift, the practicalities of living in the sky and the likelihood that, as cities become more crowded, apartment living will become the norm. But there is also time for brief diversions onto bizarre ground, such as a discussion of the skyscraper index(which holds that a boom in skyscraper construction is a foolproof sign of an imminent recession).One obvious criticism is that the price of breadth is depth；many Of Mr Smith's essays raise as many questions as they answer. Although that can indeed be frustrating, this is probably the only way to treat so grand a topic. The city is the building block of civilization and of almost everything people do；a guidebook to the city is really, therefore, a guidebook to how a large and ever. growing chunk of humanity chooses to live. Mr Smith's book serves as an excellent introduction to a vast subject, and will suggest plenty of further lines of inquiry.57. In what way is the year 2008 historic?[A]For the first time in history, urban people outnumbered rural people.[B]An influential figure decided to move from the countryside to the city.[C]It is in this year that urbanization made a start in Asia and Africa.[D]The population increase in cities reached a new peak in Asia and Africa.58. What does the author say about urbanization?[A]Its impact is not easy to predict.[B]Its process will not slow down.[C]It is a milestone in human progress.[D]It aggravates the squalor of cities.59. How does the author comment on Peter Smith's new book?[A]It is but an ordinary coffee. table book.[B]It is flavored with humorous stories.[C]It serves as a guide to arts and commerce.[D]It is written in a lively and interesting style.60. What does the author say in the chapter on skyscrapers?[A]The automatic lift is indispensable in skyscrapers.[B]People enjoy living in skyscrapers with a view.[C]Skyscrapers are a sure sign of a city's prosperity.[D]Recession closely follows a skyscraper boom.。

2013年六月英语六级真题及答案完整版

2013 年六月英语六级真题及答案完整版（文都）Part III Listening Comprehension 35 minutesSection ADirections:In this section you will hear 8 short conversations and 2 long conversations. At the endof each conversation one or more questions will be asked about what was said. Both theconversations and the questions will be spoken only once. After each question there will be apause. During the pause you must read the four choices marked A B C and D and decidewhich is the best answer. Then mark the corresponding letter on Answer Sheet 2 with a single linethrough the centre.注意：此部分试题请在答题卡 2 上作答。

11. A She has completely recovered.B She went into shock after an operation.C She is still in a critical condition.D She is getting much better.12. A Ordering a breakfast. C Buying a train ticket.B Booking a hotel room. D Fixing a compartment.13.A Most borrowers never returned the books to her.B The man is the only one who brought her book back.C She never expected anyone to return the books to her.D Most of the books she lent out came back without jackets.14. A She left her work early to get some bargains last Saturday.B She attended the supermarket’s grand opening ceremony.C She drove a full hour before finding a parking space.D She failed to get into the supermarket last Saturday.15. A He is bothered by the pain in his neck.B He cannot do his report without a computer.C He cannot afford to have a coffee break.D He feels sorry to have missed the report.16. A Only top art students can show their works in the gallery.B The gallery space is big enough for the man’s paintings.C The woman would like to help with the exibition layout.D The man is uncertain how his art works will be received.17. A The woman needs a temporary replacement for her assistant.B The man works in the same department as the woman does.C The woman will have to stay in hospital for a few days.D The man is capable of dealing with difficult people.18. A It was better than the previous one.B It distorted the mayor’s speech.C It exaggerated the city’s economy problems.D It reflected the opinions of most economists.Questions 19 to 22 are based on the conversation you have just heard.19. A To inform him of a problem they face.B To request him to purchase control desks.C To discuss the content of a project report.D To ask him to fix the dictating machine.20. A They quote the best price in the market.B They manufacture and sell office furniture.C They cannot deliver the steel sheets on time.D They cannot produce the steel sheets needed21. A By marking down the unit price.B By accepting the penalty clauses.C By allowing more time for delivery.D By promising better after-sales service.22. A Give the customer a ten percent discount.B Claim compensation from the stool suppliers.C Ask the Buying Department to change suppliers.D Cancel the contract with the customer.Questions 23 to 25 are based on the conversation you have just heard.23. A Stockbroker. C Mathematician.B Physicist. D Economist.24. A Improve computer programming.B Predict global population growth.C Explain certain natural phenomena.D Promote national financial health.25. A Their different educational backgrounds.B Changing attitudes toward nature.C Chaos theory and its applications.D The current global economic crisis.Section BDirections: In this section you will hear 3 short passages. At the end of each passage you will hearsome questions. Both the passage and the questions will be spoken only once. After you hear aquestion you must choose the best answer from the four choices marked A B C and D. Thenmark the corresponding letter on Answer Sheet 2 with a single line through the centre.注意：此部分试题请在答题卡2 上作答。

英语六级考试真题(第3套)+参考答案

2013年6月英语六级考试真题试卷（第3套）Part I Writing (30 minutes)Directions: For this part, you are allowed 30 minutes to write an essay commenting on the remark "A smile is the shortest distance between two people." You can cite examplesto . You should write at least 150 words but no more than 200 words.________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________注意：此部分试题在答题卡1上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.Norman Borlaug: 'Father of the Green Revolution'Few people have quietly changed the world for the better more than this rural lad from the midwestern state of Iowa in the United States. The man in focus is Norman Borlaug, the Father of the 'Green Revolution', who died on September 12, 2009 at age 95. Norman Borlaug spent most of his 60 working years in the farmlands of Mexico, South Asia and later in Africa, fighting world hunger, and saving by some estimates up to a billion lives in the process. An achievement, fit for a Nobel Peace Prize.Early Years"I'm a product of the great depression" is how Borlaug described himself. A great-grandson of Norwegian immigrants to the United States, Borlaug was born in 1914 and grew up on a small farm in the northeastern corner of Iowa in a town called Cresco. His family had a 40-hectare (公顷) farm on which they grew wheat, maize (玉米) and hay and raised pigs and cattle. Norman spent most of his time from age 7-17 on the farm, even as he attended a one-room, one-teacher school at New Oregon in Howard County.Borlaug didn't have money to go to college. But through a Great Depression era programme, known as the National Youth Administration, Borlaug was able to enroll in the University of Minnesota at Minneapolis to study forestry. He excelled in studies and received his Ph.D. in plant pathology (病理学) and genetics in 1942. From 1942 to 1944, Borlaug was employed as a microbiologist at DuPont in Wilmington. However, following the December 7, 1941 attack on Pearl Harbor, Borlaug tried to join the military, but was rejected underwartimeIn MexicoIn 1944, many experts warned of mass starvation in developing nations where populations wereexpanding faster than crop production. Borlaug began work at a Rockefeller Foundation-funded project in Mexico to increase wheat production by developing higher-yielding varieties of the crop. It involved research in genetics, plant breeding, plant pathology, entomology (昆虫学) , agronomy (农艺学) , soil science, and cereal technology. The goal of the project was to boost wheat production in Mexico, which at the time was importing a large portion of its grain. Borlaug said that his first couple of years in Mexico were difficult. He lacked trained scientists and equipment. Native farmers were hostile towards the wheat programme because of serious crop losses from 1939 to 1941 due to stem rust.Wheat varieties that Borlaug worked with had tall, thin stalks. While taller wheat competed better for sunlight, they had a tendency to collapse under the weight of extra grain - a trait called lodging. To overcome this, Borlaug worked on breeding wheat with shorter and stronger stalks, which could hold on larger seed heads. Borlaug's new semi-dwarf, disease-resistant varieties, called Pitic 62 and Penjamo 62, changed the potential yield of Mexican wheat dramatically. By 1963 wheat production in Mexico stood six times more than that of 1944.Green Revolution in IndiaDuring the 1960s, South Asia experienced severe drought condition and India had been importing wheat on a large scale from the United States. Borlaug came to India in 1963 along with Dr. Robert Anderson to duplicate his Mexican success in the sub-continent. The experiments began with planting a few of the high-yielding variety strains in the fields of the Indian Agricultural Research Institute at Pusa in New Delhi, under the supervision of Dr. M. S. Swaminathan. These strains were subsequently planted in test plots at Ludhiana, Pantnagar, Kanpur, Pune and Indore. The results were promising, but large-scale success, however, was not instant. Cultural opposition to new agricultural techniques initially prevented Borlaug from going ahead with planting of new wheat strains in India. By 1965, when the drought situation turned alarming, the Government took the lead and allowed wheat revolution to move forward. By employing agricultural techniques he developed in Mexico, Borlaug was able to nearly double South Asian wheat harvests between 1965 and 1970.India subsequently made a huge commitment to Mexican wheat, importing some 18000 tonnes of seed. By 1968, it was clear that the Indian wheat harvest was nothing short of revolutionary. It was so productive that there was a shortage of labour to harvest it, of bull carts to haul it to the threshing floor (打谷场) , of jute (麻黄) bags to store it. Local governments in some areas were forced to shut down schools temporarily to use them as store houses.United Nation's Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) observed that in 40 years between 1961 and 2001, "India more than doubled its population, from 452 million to more than 1 billion. At the same time, it nearly tripled its grain production from 87 million tonnes to 231 million tonnes. It accomplished this feat while increasing cultivated grain acreage (土地面积) a mere 8 percent." It was in India that Norman Borlaug's work was described as the 'Green Revolution.'In AfricaAfrica suffered widespread hunger and starvation through the 70s and 80s. Food and aid poured in from most developed countries into the continent, but thanks to the absence of efficient distribution system, the hungry remained empty-stomach. The then Chairman of the Nippon Foundation, Ryoichi Sasakawa wondered why the methods used in Mexico and India were not extended to Africa. He called up Norman Borlaug. now leading a semi-retired life, for help. He managed to convince Borlaug to help with his new effort and subsequently founded theSasakawa Africa Association. Borlaug later recalled, "but after I saw the terrible circumstances there, I said, 'Let's just start growing'".The success in Africa was not as spectacular as it was in India or Mexico. Those elements that allowed Borlaug's projects to succeed, such as well-organized economies and transportation and irrigation systems, were severely lacking throughout Africa. Because of this, Borlaug's initial projects were restricted to developed regions of the continent. Nevertheless, yields of maize, sorghum (高粱) and wheat doubled between 1983 and 1985.Nobel PrizeFor his contributions to the world food supply, Borlaug was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1970. Norwegian officials notified his wife in Mexico City at 4:00 a. m., but Borlaug had already left for the test fields in the Toluca valley, about 65 km west of Mexico City. A chauffeur (司机) took her to the fields to inform her husband. In his acceptance speech, Borlaug said, "the first essential component of social justice is adequate food for all mankind. Food is the moral right of all who are born into this world. Yet, 50 percent of the world population goes hungry."Green Revolution vs Environmentalists参考答案注意：此部分试题请在答题卡1上作答。

2013年6月英语六级考试真题真正完整版

2013年6⽉英语六级考试真题真正完整版Consider Paul Krugman writing breathlessly in the New York Times about the “rising incidence of extreme events,” He claims that global warming caused the current drought in America’s Midwest, and that supposedly record-high corn prices could cause a global food crisis.But the United Nations climate panel’s latest assessment tells us precisely the opposite. For “North America there is medium confidence that there has an overall slight tendency toward less dryness” Moreover, there is no way that Krugman could have identified this drought as being caused by global warming without a time machine; Climate models estimate that such detection will be possible by 2048, at the earliest.And, fortunately, this year’s drought appears unlikely to cause a food cri sis, as global rice and wheat supplies retain plentiful. Moreover, Krugman overlooks inflation: Prices have increased six-fold since 1969. so, while com futures(期货) did set a record of about S8 per bushel(葡式⽿)in late July, the inflation-adjusted price of corn was higher throughout most of the 1970s, reaching 516 in1974.Finally, Krugman conveniently forgets that concerns about global warming are the main reason that corn prices have skyrocketed since 2005. Nowadays 40 percent of corn grown in the United States is used to produce ethanol（⼄醇）,which does absolutely nothing for the climate, but certainly distorts the price of corn—at the expense of many of the world’s poorest people.Bill Mickbben similarly worries in The Guardian about the Midwest drought and corn prices. He confidently tells us that raging wildfires from New Mexico and Colorado to Siberia are “exactly” what the early stages of global warming look like.In fact, the latest overview of global wildfire suggests that fire intensity has declined over the past 70 years and is now close to its preindustrial level.When well-meaning campaigners want us to pay attention to global warming, they often end up pitching beyond the facts. And, while this may seem justified by a noble goal, such “policy by people” tactics rarely work, and often backfire.Remember how, in the wake of Hurricane Katrina in 2005, Al Gore claimed that we were in store for ever more destructive hurricanes? Since then, hurricane incidence has dropped off the charts. Exaggerated claims merely fuel public distrust and disengagement.That is unfortunate, because global warming is a real problem, and we do need to address it.注意：此部分试题请在答题卡2上作答。

2013年6月六级考试真题(卷三)

2013年6月六级考试真题（第三套）选项的顺序不一样而已，故在本套中没有重复给出。

2Section B Directions:In this section,you are going to read a passage with ten statements attached to it.Each statement containsinformation given in one of the paragraphs.Identify the paragraph from which the information is derived.You may choose a paragraph more than once.Each paragraph is marked with a letter.Answer the questionsby marking the corresponding letter on Answer Sheet 2.Norman Borlaug:“Father of the Green Revolution”[A]Few people have quietly changed theworld for the better more than this rural lad from the midwestem state of Iowa inthe United States.The man in focus is Norman Borlaug,the “Father of the Green Revolution”,who died on 12September 2009at age 95.Norman Borlaug spent most of his 60working years in the farmlands of Mexico,South Asia and later in Africa,fighting world hunger,and saving by some estimates up to a billion lives in the process.An achievement,fit for a Nobel Peace Prize.Early Years[B]“I’m a product of the great depression”is how Borlaug described himself.A great-grandson of Norwegianimmigrants to the United States,Borlaug was born in 1914and grew up on a small farm in the northeastern comer of Iowa in a town called Cresco.His family had a 40-hectrare (公顷)farm on which they grew wheat,maize (玉米)and hay and raised pigs and cattle.Norman spent most of his time from age 7-17on the farm,even as he attended a one-room,one-teacher school at New Oregon in Howard County.[C]Borlaug didn’t have money to go to college.But through a Great Depression era programme,known as the NationalYouth Administration,Borlaug was able to enroll in University of Minnesota at Minneapolis to study forestry.He excelled in studies and received his PhD in plant path ology (病理学）and genetics in 1942.[D]From 1942to 1944,Borlaug was employed as a microbiologist at DuPont in Wilmington.However,following theDecember 1941attack on Pearl Harbor,Borlaug tried to join the military,but was rejected under wartime labour regulations.In Mexico[E]In 1944,many experts warned of mass starvation in developing nations where populations were expanding faster thancrop production.Borlaug began work at a Rockefeller Foundation-funded project in Mexico to increase wheat production by developing higher-yielding varieties of the crop.It involved research in genetics,plant breeding,plant pathology,entomology （昆虫学），agronomy （农艺学）,soil science,and cereal technology.The goal of the project was to boost wheat production in Mexico,which at the time was importing a large portion of its grain.[F]Borlaug said that his first couple of years in Mexico were difficult.He lacked trained scientists and equipment.Nativefarmers were hostile towards the wheat programme because of serious crop losses from 1939to 1941due to stem rust.[G]Wheat varieties that Borlaug worked with had tall,thin stalks.While taller wheat competed better for sunlight,theyhad a tendency to collapse under the weight of extra grain —a trait called lodging.To overcome this,Borlaug梦想不会辜负每一个努力的人worked on breeding wheat with shorter and stronger stalks,which could hold on larger seed heads.Borlaug’s new semi-dwarf,disease-resistant varieties,called Pitic62and Penjamo62,changed the potential yield of Mexican wheat dramatically.By1963wheat production in Mexico stood six times more than that of1944.Green Revolution in India[H]During the1960s,South Asia experienced severe drought condition and India had been importing wheat on a largescale from the United States.Borlaug came to India in1963along with Dr Robert Anderson to duplicate his Mexican success in the sub-continent.The experiments began with planting a few of the high-yielding variety strains in the fields of the Indian Agricultural Research Institute at Pusa in New Delhi,under the supervision of Dr M.S.Swaminathan.These strains were subsequently planted in test plots at Ludhiana,Pantnagar,Kanpur,Pune and Indore.The results were promising,but large-scale success,however,was not instant.Cultural opposition to new agricultural techniques initially prevented Borlaug from going ahead with planting of new wheat strains in India.By1965,when the drought situation turned alarming,the Government took the lead and allowed wheat revolution to move forward.By employing agricultural techniques he developed in Mexico,Borlaug was able to nearly double South Asian wheat harvests between1965and1970.[I]India subsequently made a huge commitment to Mexican wheat,importing some18,000tonnes of seed.By1968,itwas clear that the Indian wheat harvest was nothing short of revolutionary.It was so productive that there was a shortage of labour to harvest it,of bull carts to haul it to the threshing floor（打谷场）of jute（黄麻）bags to store it.Local governments in some areas were forced to shut down schools temporarily to use them as store houses. [J]United Nation’s Food and Agriculture Organisation(FAO)observed that in40years between1961and2001,“India more than doubled its population,from452million to more than1billion.At the same time,it nearly tripled its grain production from87million tonnes to231million tonnes.It accomplished this feat while increasing cultivated grain acreage（土地面积）a mere8percent.”It was in India that Norman Borlaug’s work was described as the“Green Revolution.”In Africa[K]Africa suffered widespread hunger and starvation through the70s and80s.Food and aid poured in from most developed countries into the continent,but thanks to the absence of efficient distribution system,the hungry remained empty-stomach.The then Chairman of the Nippon Foundation,Ryoichi Sasakawa wondered why the methods used in Mexico and India were not extended to Africa.He called up Norman Borlaug,now leading a semi-retired life,for help.He managed to convince Borlaug to help with his new effort and subsequently founded the Sasakawa Africa Association.Borlaug later recalled,“but after I saw the terrible circumstances there,I said,‘Let’s just start growing’”.[L]The success in Africa was not as spectacular as it was in India or Mexico.Those elements that allowed Borlaug’s projects to succeed,such as well-organised economies and transportation and irrigation systems,were severely lacking throughout Africa.Because of this,Borlaug’s initial projects were restricted to developed regions of the continent.Nevertheless,yields of maize,sorghum(高粱)and wheat doubled between1983and1985.Nobel Prize[M]For his contributions to the world food supply,Borlaug was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in1970.Norwegian officials notified his wife in Mexico City at4:00am,but Borlaug had already left for the test fields in the Toluca valley,about65km west of Mexico City.A chauffeur(司机）took her to the fields to inform her husband.In his acceptance speech,Borlaug said,“the first essential component of social justice is adequate food for all mankind.Food is the moral right of all who are born into this world.Yet,50percent of the world population goes hungry.”Green Revolution vs Environmentalists梦想不会辜负每一个努力的人[N]Borlaug’s advocacy of intensive high-yield agriculture came under severe criticism from environmentalists in recent years.His work faced environmental and socio-economic criticisms,including charges that his methods have created dependence on monoculture crops,unsustainable fanning practices,heavy indebtedness among subsistence farmers, and high levels of cancer among those who work with agriculture chemicals.There are also concerns about the long-term sustainability of fanning practices encouraged by the Green Revolution in both the developed and the developing world.[O]In India,the Green Revolution is blamed for the destruction of India crop diversity,drought vulnerability, dependence on agro-chemicals that poison soils but reap large-scale benefits mostly to the American multi-national corporations.What these critics overwhelmingly advocate is a global movement towards“organic”or“sustainable”farming practices that avoid using chemicals and high technology in favour of natural fertilisers,cultivation and pest-control porgrammes.46.Farmers’rejection of his planting techniques initially prevented Borlaug from achieving large-scale success in India.47.In both developed and developing countries there are concerns whether in the long run Borlaug’s farming practice willbe sustainable.48.Borlaug’s Pitic62and Penjamo62has short and strong stems and can resist to diseases.49.Borlaug’s success in Africa was not as spectacular as in India or Mexico because Africa lacked the necessarysupporting facilities.50.In India,critics attribute the destruction of Indian crop diversity to the Green Revolution.51.Borlaug emphasised that adequate food for all mankind is essential in ensuring social justice in his Nobel Prizeacceptance speech.52.In recent years Borlaug’s Green Revolution has been attacked by environmentalists.53.Borlaug’s wheat programme had been stuck in trouble during his first couple of years in Mexico.54.According to United Nation’s Food and Agriculture Organisation,in40years between1961and2001India’s grainproduction increased nearly three times.55.Norman Borlaug won a Nobel Prize for his60years work on combating world hunger.Section CDirections:There are2passages 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 andmark the corresponding letter on Answer Sheet2with a single line through the centre.Passage OneQuestions56to60are based on the following passage.“Depression”is more than a serious economic downturn.What distinguishes a depression from a harsh recession is paralysing fear—fear of the unknown so great that it causes consumers,businesses,and investors to retreat and panic. They save up cash and desperately cut spending.They sell stocks and other assets.A shattering loss of confidence inspires behaviour that overwhelms the normal self-correcting mechanisms that usually prevent a recession from becoming deep and prolonged:a depression.Comparing1929with2007-09,Christina Romer,the head of President Obama’s Council of Economic Advisers,finds the initial blow to confidence far greater now than then.True,stock prices fell a third from September to December1929, but fewer Americans then owned stocks.Moreover,home prices barely dropped.From December1928to December1929, total household wealth declined only3%.By contrast,the loss in household wealth between December2007and December 2008was17%.Both stocks and homes,more widely held,dropped more.Thus traumatised(受到创伤），the economy might4have gone into a free fall ending in depression.Indeed,it did go into free fall.Shoppers refrained from buying cars, appliances,and other big-ticket items.Spending on such“durables”dropped at a12%annual rate in2008’s third quarter,a 20%rate in the fourth.And businesses shelved investment projects.That these huge declines didn’t lead to depression mainly reflects,as Romer argues,counter-measures taken by the government.Private markets for goods,services,labor,and securities do mostly self-correct,but panic feeds on itself and disarms these stabilising tendencies.In this situation,only the government can protect the economy as a whole,because most individuals and companies are involved in the self-defeating behaviour of self-protection.Government’s failure to perform this role in the early1930s transformed recession into depression.Scholars will debate which interventions this time—the Federal Reserve’s support of a failing credit system,guarantees of bank debt, Obama’s“stimulus”plan and bank“stress test”一counted most in preventing a recurrence.Regardless,all these complex measures had the same psychological purpose:to reassure people that the free fall would stop and,thereby,curb die fear that would perpetuate(使持久）a free fall.All this improved confidence.But the consumer sentiment index remains weak,and all the rebound has occurred in Americans’evaluation of future economic conditions,not the present.Unemployment(9.8%)is abysmal(糟透的）, the recovery’s strength unclear.Here,too,there is an echo from the1930s.Despite bottoming out in1933,the Depression didn’t end until World War II.Some government policies aided recovery;some hindered it.The good news today is that the bad news is not worse.56.Why do consumers,businesses and investors retreat and panic in times of depression?A)They suffer great losses in stocks,property and other assets.B)They find the self-correcting mechanisms dysfunctioning.C)They are afraid the normal social order will be paralysed.D)They don’t know what is going to happen in the future.57.What does Christina Romer say about the current economic recession?A)Its severity is no match for the Great Depression of1929.B)Its initial blow to confidence far exceeded that of1929.C)It has affected house owners more than stock holders.D)It has resulted in a free fall of the prices of commodities.58.Why didn’t the current recession turn into a depression according to Christina Romer?A)The government intervened effectively.B)Private markets corrected themselves.C)People refrained from buying durables and big-ticket items.D)Individuals and companies adopted self-protection measures.59.What is the chief purpose of all the counter measures taken?A)To create job opportunities.C)To stimulate domestic consumption.B)To curb the fear of a lasting free fall.D)To rebuild the credit system.60.What does the author think of today’s economic situation?A)It may worsen without further stimulation.C)It has not gone from bad to worse.B)It will see a rebound sooner or later.D)It does not give people reason for pessimism.Passage TwoQuestions61to65are based on the following passage.“Usually when we walk through-the rain forest we hear a soft sound from all the moist leaves and organic debris on the梦想不会辜负每一个努力的人forest floor,”says ecologist Daniel Nepstad.“Now we increasingly get rustle and crunch.That’s the sound of a dying forest.”Predictions of the collapse of the tropical rain forests have been around for years.Yet until recently the worst forecasts were almost exclusively linked to direct human activity,such as dear-cutting and burning for pastures or farms.Left alone, it was assumed,the world’s rain forests would not only flourish but might even rescue us from disaster by absorbing the excess carbon dioxide and other planet-warming greenhouse gases.Now it turns out that may be wishful thinking.Some scientists believe that the rise in carbon levels means that the Amazon and other rain forests in Asia and Africa may go from being assets in the battle against rising temperatures to liabilities.Amazon plants,for instance,hold more than100billion metric tons of carbon,equal to15years of tailpipe and chimney emissions.If the collapse of the rain forests speeds up dramatically,it could eventually release3.5-5billion metric tons of carbon into the atmosphere each year一making forests the leading source of greenhouse gases.Uncommonly severe droughts brought on by global climate change have led to forest-eating wildfires from Australia to Indonesia,but nowhere more acutely than in the Amazon.Some experts say that the rain forest is already at the brink of collapse.Extreme weather and reckless development are plotting against the rain forest in ways that scientists have never seen.Trees need more water as temperatures rise,but the prolonged droughts have robbed them of moisture,making whole forests easily cleared of trees and turned into farmland.The picture worsens with each round of El Nino,the unusually warm currents in the Pacific Ocean that drive up temperatures and invariably presage（预示）droughts and fires in the rain forest.Runaway fires pour even more carbon into the air,which increases temperatures,starting the whole vicious cycle all over again.More than paradise lost,a perishing rain forest could trigger a domino effect—sending winds and rains kilometres off course and loading the skies with even greater levels of greenhouse gases—that will be felt far beyond the Amazon basin.In a sense,we are already getting a glimpse of what’s to come.Each burning season in the Amazon,fires deliberately set by frontier settlers and developers hurl up almost half a billion metric tons of carbon a year,placing Brazil among the top five contributors to greenhouse gases in the world.61.We learn from the first paragraph that_______________.A)dead leaves and tree debris make the same soundB)trees that are dying usually give out a soft moanC)organic debris echoes the sounds in a rain forestD)the sound of a forest signifies its health condition62.In the second paragraph,the author challenges the view that___________________.A)the collapse of rain forests is caused by direct human interferenceB)carbon emissions are the leading cause of current global warmingC)the condition of rain forests has been rapidly deterioratingD)rain forests should not be converted into pastures or farms63.The author argues that the rising carbon levels in rain forests may____________________.A)turn them into a major source of greenhouse gasesB)change the weather patterns throughout the worldC)pose a threat to wildlifeD)accelerate their collapse64.What has made it easier to turn some rain forests into farmland?A)Rapid rise in carbon levels.C)Lack of rainfall resulting from global warming.6B)Reckless land development.D)The unusual warm currents in the Pacific Ocean.65.What makes Brazil one of the world’s top five contributors to greenhouse gases?A)The domino effect triggered by the perishing rain forests.B)Its practice of burning forests for settlement and development.C)The changed patterns of winds and rains in the Amazon area.D)Its inability to curb the carbon emissions from industries.Part IV TranslationDirections:For this part,you are allowed30minutes to translate a passage from Chinese into English.You should write your answer on Answer Sheet2.中国是最早生产丝绸的国家。