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2020年6月大学英语六级阅读：鞠躬的艺术

2020年6月大学英语六级阅读：鞠躬的艺术the ar t of bowingthe degree to which a bowing or lowering of the body is emphasized varies from one culture to another . in many cultures today the full bow or other dramatic lowering of the body is generally reserved for formal occasions such as greeting a head of state or monarch. for example, british commoners standing before the queen or being honored by royalty in a ceremony of knighthood would be expected to bow, curtsey, or kneel. as part of their religious practices some christians kneel, catholics genuflect, and muslims kowtow3 , an extreme form of body lowering in which the forehead is brought to the ground. although bowing, as a worldwide phenomenon, has been on the decrease in recent decades, it has survived in german culture and exists to an even greater degree in modern japan, where bows are an integral part of everyday social interaction . in the united states, however, bowing or any type of submissive body posture is particularly irritating, for it tends to connote undue formality, aristocracy, and a nonverbal denial of egalitarianism. nowhere is bowing more important to the process of communication today than in japanese society. as anindication of how pervasive bowing is in present-day japan, some experts point out that“ some female department store employees have the sole function of bowing to customers at department store escalators and that many japanese bow repeatedly to invisible partners at the other end of a telephone line”. bowing initiates interaction between two japanese , it enhances and embellishes many parts of theensuing conversation, and it is used to signal the end of a conversation. although westerners, in a very general sense, understand the meaning attached to bowing, appropriate bowing in japan is an intricate and complex process. reciprocal bowing is determined largely by rank. in fact, it is possible to tell the relative social status of the two communicators by the depth of their bows ( the deeper the bow, the lower the status) . when bowing deeply, it is conventional to lean slightly to the right to avoid bumping heads. the person of lower status is expected to initiate the bow, and the person of higher status determines when the bow is completed. people of equivalent status are expected to bow at the same depth while starting and finishing at the same time .阅读自测Ⅰ. are these statements true or false a ccording to the article ?1. nowadays the full bow or other dramatic lowering of the body is still widely acceptedaround the world.2. bowing is prevalent in japan while the situation is quite different in america.3. it is customary to lean slightly to the left to avoid bumping heads when bowing deeply.Ⅱ. complete the sentence s with the proper forms of the words given in parentheses ：1. there is a __________( tend) that more and more people will move from cities to the countryside.2. he __________( repeat) fails to pass the exam.3. a spirit of hopelessness__________ ( pervasive ) the country.4. he is such a chauvinist that he expects his wife to be meek and __________( submit).5. the government has__________ ( initial) a new house-building program.参考答案Ⅰ. 1. f 2. t 3 . fⅡ. 1. tendency 2. repeatedly 3 . pervaded 4 . submissive 5. initiated参考译文鞠躬的艺术文化不同, 鞠躬或弯腰的角度也大不相同。

2020年7月大学英语六级考试试题(完整版)

Part II Listening Comprehension (30 minutes) Section ADirections: In ihh section, you wilt hear two long cont^rsaiions. At the end of each conization. you will hear four questions. Rnth the coni^crsaiMn and the questions will be spoken only once. After youhear a que.ion, you must choose the best answer from the four choices markedA), B) . C) and D), Then mark the corresponding letter on Answer Sheet 1 with a single linethrough the centre.Questions 1 to 4 are based on the conversation you have just heard.1.A) She is a great athlete. C) She is a famous scientist.B)She is a famed speaker. D) She is a noted inventor2.A) How knowledge of human biochemistry has been evolving.B)How nutrition helps athletcs, performance in competitions.C)How scientific training enables athletes to set new records.D)I low technology has helped athletes to scale new heights.3.A) Our physical structures. C) Our biochemical process.B)Our scientific knowledge. D) Our concept of nutrition.4.A) It may increase the expenses of sports competitions.B)It may lead to athletes9 ovcr-rcliancc on equipment.C)It may give an unfair advantage to some athletes.D)It may change the nature of sports competitions.Questions 5 to 8 arc based on the conversation you have just heard.5.A) Experience. C) Family background.B)Flexibility. D) Business connections.6.A) Buying directly from factories.B)Shipping goods in bulk by sea.C)Having partners in many parts of the world.D)Using the same container back and forth.7.A) Warehouses.B)Factories. C)Investors.D)Retailers.6 • 16 • 2C) Lower import duties. D) Lower shipping costs.Section B Directions ： In this section , you will hear two parages. At the end of each passage, you will hear three or four questions. Roth the passage and the questions will be spoken only once. .After you heara question, you must choose the bexl answer from the jour choicer marked .4 ) , R).C) and 1)}. Then mark the corresponding letter on Answer Sh&€t 1 ui/h a single line throughlhe centre.Questions 9 to 11 are based on the passage you have just heard*9. A) It helps employees to reduce their stress.B) It prevents employees from feeling bored.C) H strengthens harmony among employees.D) It helps employees to view things positively.10. A) Weekends arc conducive to reducing stress.B) Humor is vital to interpersonal relationships.C) All workers experience some emotional stress.D) Humor can help workers excel at routine tasks.ILA) Smash the toys to release their bottled-up resentments.B) Take the boss doll apart as long as they reassemble it.C) Design and install stress-reducing gadgets,D) Strike at the boss doll as hard as they like.Questions 12 to 15 are based on the passage you have just heard.12. A) lhe recent finding of a changed gene in obese mice.B) A breakthrough in understanding gene modification.C) A newly discovered way fbr people to lose weight.D) The self-repairing ability of a gene in obese mice.13. A) It renders an organism unable to fight diseases.B) It prevents the mice's fatty tissues from growing.C) It helps organisms adapt to environmental changes.D) It renders mice unable lo sense when to stop 槌ling,8. A) Trendy style.B) Unique design.6 • 314. A) Human beings have more obesity genes than most mice do.B) Half of a person's total weight variaiion can be controlled.C) People are bom with a tendency to have a certain weight.D) The function of the obesity genes is yet to be explored.15. A) The worsening of natural environment.B) The abundant provision of rich foods.C) The accelerated pace of present-day life.D) The adverse impact of the food industry.Section CDirections: In this section, you will hear three recordings of lectures or talks followed by three or Jour(juestwns. The recordings will be played only once. After you hear a question, you mtist choosethe best answer from thr Jimr choices marked 4 ) , B) , C) and D). Then mark lhecorresponding letter on Answer Sheet 1 with a single line through lhe centre.Questions 16 to 18 are based on the recording you have just heard.16. A) Similarity in interests.B) Mental stimulation.17. A) The willingness to offer timely help.B) The joy Ibund in each other's company.18. A) Failure to keep a promise.B) Lack of frankness. Questions 19 to 21 are based on the recording you have just heard.19. A) Along the low-lying Colorado River.B) At the Dinosaur National Monument.C) Along the border of the U.S. and Canada.D) At museums of natural history in large cities.20. A) Volcanic explosions could bring whole animal species to extinction.B) Some natural disaster killed a whole herd of dinosaurs in the area.C) The pit should be carefully preserved fbr the study of dinosaurs.D) The whole region must have been struck by a devastating flood.21. A) They floated down an eastward flowing river.B) They lay buried deep in the sand for millions of years.C) Openness. D) Compassion. C) Personal bonds. D) Emotional lactors. C) Feelings of bcirayal. D) Loss of contact.C)They were skeletons of dinosaurs inhabiting the locality.D)They were remains of dinosaurs killed in a volcanic explosion.Questions 22 to 25 are based on the recording you have just heard.22.A) Indulging in seeking leisure and material comfort.B)Attaching too much importance to independence.C)Failing to care fbr parents in the traditional way.D)Leaving their parents on the verge of starvation.23.A) They have great difficulty living by themselves.B)They have little hope of getting any family care,C)They have fond memories of their good old days.D)They have a sense of independence and autonomy.24.A) People in many parts of the world preferred small-sized families.B)There have been extended families in most parts of the world.C)Many elderly people were unwilling to take care of their grandchildren.D)So many young Americans refused to live together with their parents.25.A) Leave their younger generations alone.B)Avoid being a burden to their children.C)Stay healthy by engaging in joyful activities.D)View things from their children 1 s perspective.Part III Reading Comprehension (40 minutes)Section ADirections: In this aectu)n, there is a passage with ten blanks. You are required to select one word for each blank from a list 时choices given in a word bank ftdlowing the passg也Read the throufjh carefully before making your choices. Each choice in the bunk is identified by a letter. Please mark the corre^pcmdirtff letter Jor each item on Answer Sheet 2 with a single line through the eerUre. You may nnt use any nf the words in the hank nu)re lluin once.The United Nations issued a report last week warning that humans are destroying nature at such a rate that life on Earth is at risk. When the report came out. it naturally 26 headlines. But obviously it didn't hijack the news agenda in the manner of a major terrorist attack or 27 of war.The report from lhe Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES) is clear on what's al 28 and what needs to change. IPBES chair Robert Watson says the " 29 evidence"6 • 4presents an a ominous (凶兆的)picture**. ° The health of ecosystems on which wc and all other species depend is 30 more rapidly than ever/* Robert Watson said. * Wc are 3】the very foundations of our economies, livelihoods, food security, health and quality of life worldwide." I he report says it's not too late if we make u transformative change"—fundamental, system-wide reorganization—at every level from local to global, and we need to focus on how lo make that happen.First, don't indulge in despair, because despair leads to inertia and doing nothing means certain 32 , Every action to save nature will improve our collective and personal futures and the only way to respond to a threat of this scale is with 33 action rooted in headstrong optimism. Second, we need relentless focus, just like when paramedics (救护人员)arrive on a scene and use the concept of ^triage (伤员鉴别分类)"to ensure the most 34 cases get treated first. Saving the natural world needs that kind of thinking. We don't have the 35 to do everything at once. We need to make hard choices,Section BDirections: In this seclu)n, you are going lo read a passage with len slalemenh allached lo it. Each statement contains in/ormalion git^n in one of the paragraphs. Identify lhe paragraph from which lheinfonnaiion is derived. You may choose a paragraph more than once. Each paragraph is markedwith a letter. Answer lhe tfucslions by marking the co,泌ponding leilrr on Answer Sheet 2Children Understand Far More About Other Minds Than Long BelievedA)Until a few decades ago, scholars believed that young children know very little, if anything, about whatothers arc thinking, Swiss psychologist Jean Piaget, who is credited with (bunding the scientific study of children's thinking, was convinced that preschool children cannot consider what goes on in the minds of others. The interviews and experiments he conducted with kids in the middle of the 20th century suggested that they were trapped in their subjective viewpoints,incapable of imagining what others think, feel or believe.B)Much of lhe subsequent research on early childhood thinking was highly influenced by Piaget's ideas.Scholars sought to refine his theory and empirically confirm his views. But it became increasingly clear6 • 5that Piaget seemed to have gravely underestimated the intcllcciual powers of very young kids before they can make themselves understood by speech. Researchers began to devise ever more ingenious ways of figuring out what goes on in the minds of babies, and the resulting picture of their abilities shows subtle variations. Consequently, the old view of children s egocentric (自我中心的)nature and intellectual weaknesses has increasingly fallen out of favor and become replaced by a more generous position that sees a budding sense not only of the physical world but also of other minds, even in the 44 youngest young.MC)Historically, children didn't receive much respect for their mental powers. Piaget not only believed thatchildren were u egocentric M in the sense that they were unable to differentiate between their own viewpoint and that of others; he was also convinced that their thinking was characterized by systematic errors and confusions. When playing with others, they don't cooperate because they do not realize there are different roles and perspectives. He was convinced that children literally cannot ° get their act together": instead of playing cooperatively and truly together, they play side by side, with little regard for others. And when speaking with others, a young child supposedly cannot consider the listenefs viewpoint but u talks to himself without listening to othersD)Piaget and his followers maintained that children go through something like a dark age of intellectualdevelopment before slowly and gradually becoming enlightened by reason and rationality as they reach school age. Alongside this enlightenment develops an ever growing understanding of other persons, including their attitudes and views of the world.E)Today, a very diflcrcni picture of children's mental development emerges. Psychologists continually revealnew insights into the depth of young children's knowledge of the world, including their understanding of other minds. Recent studies suggest that even infants arc sensitive to others' perspectives and beliefs.F)Part of the motivation to revise some of Piagets conclusions stemmed from an ideological shift about lheorigin of human knowledge that occurred in the second half of the 20th century. It became increasingly unpopular to assume that a basic understanding of the world can be built entirely from experience. This was in pari prompted by theorist Noam Chomsky, who argued that something as complex as lhe rules of grammar cannot be picked up from exposure to speech, but is supplied by an inborn language faculty.0 Others followed suit and defined liirthcr "core areas M in which knowledge allegedly cannot be pieced together from experience but must be possessed at birth. One such area is our knowledge of others' minds.Some even argue that a basic knowledge of others' minds is not only possessed by human infants, but must be evolutionanly old and henceshared by our nearest living relatives, the great apes.G)To prove that infants know more in this realm than had been acknowledged, researchers needed to comeup with innovative ways of showing it. A big part of why we now recognize so much more of k】ds' intellectual capacities is the development of much more sensitive research tools than Piaget had at his disposal.6 • 6H)Instead of engaging babies in dialog or having them execute complex motor tasks, the newer methodscapitalize on behaviors that have a firm place in infants* natural behavior repertoire: looking, listening, sucking, making facial expressions, gestures and simple manual actions. The idea of focusing on these “small behaviors" is that they give kids the chance to demonstrate their knowledge implicitly and spontaneously without having to respond to questions or instructions. For example, children might look longer at an event that they did not expect to happen, or they might show facial expressions indicating that they have sympathetic concern for others. When researchers measure these less demanding, and often involuntary, behaviors, they can detect a sensitivity to others' mental states at a much younger age than with the more taxing methods that Piaget and his followers deployed.I)In the 1980s, these kinds of implicit measures became customary in developmental psychology. But it tooka while longer before these tools were employed to measure children's grasp of the mental lives of others.J)In a set of experiments, my colleagues at the University of Southern California and I found evidence that babies can even anticipate how others will feel when their expectations arc disappointed. We acted out several puppet (木饵)shows in front of two-year-old children. In these puppcl shows, a protagonist (Cookie Monster) left his precious belongings (cookies) on stage and laicr relumed to fetch them. What the protagonist did not know was that an antagonist had come and messed with his possessions. The children had witnessed these acts and attentively watched the protagonist rclum. Wc recorded children's facial and bodily expressions. Children bit their lips, wrinkled their nose or wiggled(扭动)in their chair when the protagonist came back, as if they anticipated the bewilderment and disappointment he was about to experience. Importantly, children showed no such reactions and remained calm when the protagonist had seen the events himself and thus knew what to expect. Our study reveals that by the tender age of two. kids not only track what others believe or expect; they can even foresee how others will feel when they discover reality.K)Studies like this reveal that there is much more going on in small kids' and even infants, minds than was previously believed. With the explicit measures used by Piaget and successors, these deeper layers of kids' understanding cannot be accessed. The new investigative tools demonstrate that kids know more than they can say: when we scratch beneath the surface, we line! an emergingunderstanding of relations and perspectives that Piaget probably did not dream of.L)Despite these obvious advances in the study of young children's thinking, it would be a grave mistake to dismiss the careful and systematic analyses compiled by Piaget and others before the new tests dominated the scene because the original methods revealed essential facts about how children think that the new methods cannot uncover.M)There's no consensus in today's science community about how much we can infer from a look, a facial expression or a hand gesture. These behaviors clearly indicate a curiosity about what goes on in the mind of others, and probably a set of early intuitions coupled with a willingness to learn more. They pave the way to6 • 7richer and more explicit forms of understanding of lhe minds of others. Bui they can in no way replace lhe child's growing ability to articulate and refine her understanding of how people behave and why.36.Piaget believed that small children could not collaborate with others while playing.37.The author and his colleagues' study shows two-year-olds may be able to predict other people s feelings.38.In (he latter half of the last century, fewer and fewer people believed (he basis for our understanding ofthe world is wholly empirical.39.Research conducted by Jean Piaget in lhe last century suggested babies were insensitive to others' thinking.40.Our improved understanding of babies intellectual power is attributable to better research tools.41.It Jias been found in recent research that even sirnll babies are sensitive to other people's points of view.42.Scientists are still debating what inference can be drawn from certain physical expressions of a child.43.The newer research meihods Ibcus on infants' simple behaviors instead of requiring them lo answerquestions.44.With the progress in psychology, the traditional view of children's self-centered nature and limitedthinking abilities has become less and less inilucnliaL45.Even though marked advances have been made, it is wrong to dismiss Piagefs fundamental contributionsto the sludy of kids' cognitive abilities.Section CDirections: There are 2 parages in this section. Each passage M followed by some (fuestions or unfinished statements. For each of them there are four choices marked A) , B) , C) and /)). You shoulddecide on the best choice and mark the corresponding letter on Answer Sheet 2 with a single linethrou/jh the centre.Passage OneQuestions 46 to 50 are based on lhe rollowing passage.People often discuss the dangers of too much stress, but lately a very different view of stress is gaining popularity: this view of stress, held by members of the positive stress movement, argues that stress might actually be beneficial. The positive stress movement is made up of people such as Zachary Rapp who are looking fbr an edge in a compclitive world, and Rapp's routine is a good example of followers of the movement.6 • 8He wakes up most mornings at dawn, goes tor a run, sips black coffee while ripping through emails, and then steps into a freezing cold shower. This is a routine designed to reduce the stress of running simultaneously three different health and biotechnology companies for 18 hours a day.Although Rapp's practices may sound extreme, he is part of a growing movement, consisting largely of tech industry workers who claim that such radical tactics will help them live better and longer. Inspired by influential figures in different fields, including entertainers, athletes, entrepreneurs and scientists, positive stress practitioners seek out some combination of extreme temperatures, restrictive diets, punishing exercise routines and general discomfort.Rapp argues that positive stress keeps him balanced. In addition to ninning and freezing showers, Rapp uses ice baths, hot yoga, and unconventional eating practices such as eliminating dairy, sugar, alcohol and various other foods high tn carbohydrates. He believes that these practices, which put stress on his body, actually make him feel less stress from work. However, Rapp docs not credit anyone in particular for his choices: he said he sianed using these methods in college, where he goi into the habit of taking ice baths to recover from sports. He got back into ii while trying to get his three companies off the ground.Rapp works long hours and sleeps only five to seven hours a night but he said he only gets sick once a year. For him, the difference between day-to-day stress, like the kind wc feel when moving apartments, and positive stress is that the latter involves pushing lhe body to extremes and forcing it to build up a tolerance.One thought leader in the positive stress world is Dutch extreme athlete Wim llof t who earned the name 44 ice man" fbr his ability to withstand severe cold using deep breathing exercises. Hofs ideas have become popular among tech industry elites and, thanks to Hof, cold showers arc now a trend; indeed, some even call it a form of therapy.But it is important to note that not everyone agrees with these practitioners; indeed, some medical professionals argue that positive stress is not for everyone, and that it might even be dangerous for people who are unhealthy or older.46.What do we learn about followers of the positive stress movement?A)They are usually quite sensitive to diflerent types of stress.B)They hold a different view on stress from the popular one.C)They derive much pleasure from living a very hectic life.D)They gain a competitive edge by enjoying good health.47.What do followers of the positive stress movement usually do to put their ideas into practice?A)They keep changing lheir living habits.B)They network with influential figures.C)They seek jobs in tech industries.D)They apply extreme tactics.48.What does Zachary Rapp say about his unconventional practices?6 • 9A)They help him combat stress ironi work.B)They enable him to cut down living expenses.C)They enable him to recover from injuries and illnesses.D)They help him get three companies enlisted all at once.49.What can be inferred from the passage about day-to-day stress?A)Il is harmful to one's physical and mental health.B)It does not di tier in essence from positive stress.C)It is something everybody has to live with.D)It does not help build up one's tolerance.50.What do some medical professionals think of positive stress?A)Ils true cfleet remains lo be verified.B)Its side cflcct should not be ignored.C)Its effect varies considerably from person to person.D)Its practitioners should not take it as a to mi of therapy.Passage TwoQuestions 51 to 55 arc based on the following passage.Is hunting good or bad lor the environment? Like so many hot button issues, the answer to this question depends upon who you ask. On the one hand, some say, nothing could be more natural than hunting, and indeed just about every animal species—including humans—has been either predator or prey at some point in its evolution. And, ironic as it sounds, since humans have wiped out many animal predators, some see hunting as a nalural way to reduce the herds of prey animals that now reproduce beyond 山c environments carrying capacity.On the other hand, many environmental and animal advocates see hunting as savage, arguing that it is morally wrong to kill animals, regardless of practical considerations. According to Glenn Kirk of the California-based The Animals' Voice, hunting u causes immense suflcring to individual wild animals…"and is " irrationally cruel because unlike nalural predation(抻食).hunters kill ibr pleasure...” He adds that, despite hunters' claims that hunting keeps wildlife populations in balance, hunters* license fees are used io M manipulate a few game species into overpopulation at the expense of a much larger number of non-gamc species, resulting in the loss of biological diversity, genetic integrity and ecological balance."Beyond moral issues> others contend that hunting is not practical. According to the Humane Society of the United Stales, the vast majority of hunted species—such as waterfowl, rabbits, upland birds and mourning doves—" provide minimal nutrilion and do not require population control.*Author Gaiy E. Vamer suggests in his book. In Aa/zzrr s /nterests. that some types of hunting may be morally justifiable while others may not be. Hunting " designed to secure the aggregate welfare of the urget6 •10species, the integrity of its ecosystem, or both"—what Varner terms therapeutic hunting"—is defensible, while subsistence and sport hunting—both of which only benefit human beings—is not.Regardless of one's individual stance, fewer Americans hunt today than in recent history. Data gathered by lhe U.S. Fish & Wildlifb Service in 2006 show that only five percent of Americans— some 12.5 million individuals—consider themselves hunters today, down from nine percent in 2001 and 15 percent in 1996.Public support for hunting, however, is on the rise. A 2007 survey by Responsive Management Inc. found that eighty percent of respondents agreed that ° hunting has a legitimate place in modem society/ and the percentage of Americans indicating disapproval of hunting declined from 22 percent in 1995 to 16 percent in 2007.Perhaps matching the trend among the public, green leaders arc increasingly advocating cooperation between hunters and environmental groups: After all, both deplore urban sprawl and habitat destruction.51.What docs the author say sounds ironic?A)Some predators may often lum out to be prey of other predators.H) Hunting may also be a solution to the problem caused by hunting.C)The species of prey animals continue to vary despite humans' hunting.D)The number of prey animals keeps rising despite env ironmen lai change.52.What does Glenn Kirk think of charging hunters license tees?A)It keeps game population under control.B)It turns hunting into a sport of the rich.C)It leads to ecological imbalance.D)It helps stop killing for pleasure.53.What is the argument of the Humane Society of the United States against hunting?A)Overpopulation is not an issue for most hunted animals.B)Hunting deprives animal populations of their food sources.C)Many birds and small animals are being irrationally killed.D)Hunting is universally acknowledged as a savage behavior.54.When is hunting morally justifiable according to Gary E. Varner?A)When it benefits animals and their ecosystem.B)When it serves both human and animal interests.C)When it is indispensable to humans* subsistence.D)When it stabilizes the population of animal species.55.What concept are green leaders trying to promote?A)Eficctive protection of animal habitats.B)Strict control over urban development.C)Coordinated ellbrts of hunters and environmentalists.6 •11D) A compromise between development and animal protection.Part IV Translation (30 minutes)Directions：For this part f you arr allowed 30 minutes to translate a passage from Chinese into English.You should write your answer on Answer Sheet 2.《三国演义》(The Romance of the Three Kingdoms)是中国一部普名的历史小说，写于「四世纪。

2020年9月英语六级阅读

2020年9月英语六级阅读2020年9月英语六级阅读理解真题及答案Part ATitle: The Impact of the Internet on Traditional Libraries1. The passage mainly discusses ____.A. how libraries are being replaced by the InternetB. why libraries still play an important role in today's societyC. how the Internet has affected libraries in terms of resources and servicesD. why libraries should not be abandoned in the digital age2. According to the passage, which of the following is NOT a benefit of the Internet for libraries?A. It provides libraries with a wider range of resources.B. It allows libraries to offer more services to their patrons.C. It helps libraries reduce their operating costs.D. It enables libraries to attract more young patrons.3. The author believes that in the digital age, libraries should ____.A. focus on providing traditional services onlyB. give up their physical collections and digitalize all their booksC. adapt their services to meet the changing needs of their patronsD. rely solely on government funding to survive4. According to the passage, which of the following is TRUE about libraries?A. They are no longer needed in today's society.B. They have been providing the same services for hundreds of years.C. They should not try to compete with online resources.D. They must adapt their services to attract more patrons.5. The author mentions the "bookless library" in order to ____.A. introduce the topic of libraries in the digital ageB. show that libraries are not necessary in the digital ageC. emphasize the importance of libraries in today's societyD. suggest that libraries should not be built in the future答案及解析：1.【答案】C【解析】文章主要讨论了互联网对图书馆在资源和服务方面的影响，故答案为C。

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Part I Writing (30 minutes)Directions: For this part, you are allowed 30 minutes to write an essay on the saying What worthdoing比worthdoing well. You should write at least words but no more than 200 words.Part ⅡListening Comprehension(30 minutes )Section ADirections: In this section, you will hear t0o long comversations. At the end of eachconversation , you will hear four questions. Both the conversation and the questions will be spoken only once. After you hear a question, you must choose the best answer from the four choices marnked A), B), C) and D).Then mark the corresponding letter on Ansuer Sheet 1 with a single line through the centre.Questions 1 to 4 are based on the conversation you have just heard.1. A) She can devote all her life to pursuing her passion.B) Her accumulated expertise helps her to achieve her goals.C) She can spread her academic ideas on a weekly TV show.D) Her research findings are widely acclaimed in the world.2. A) Provision of guidance for nuclear labs in Europe.B) Touring the globe to attend science TV shows.C) Overseeing two research groups at Oxford.D) Science education and scientific research.3. A) A better understanding of a subject.B) A stronger will to meet challenges.C) A broader knowledge of related felds.D) A closer relationship with young people.4. A) By applying the latest research methods.B) By making full use of the existing data.C) By building upon previous discoveries.D) By utilizing more powerful computers.Questions 5 to 8 are based on the conversation you have just heard.5. A) They can predict future events.C) They have cultural connotations.B) They have no special meanings.D) They cannot be easily explained.6. A) It was canceled due to bad weather.B) She overslept and missed the fight.C) She dreamed of a plane craash.D) It was postponed to the following day.7. A) They can be affected by people's childhood experiences.B) They may sometimes seem ridiculous to a rational mind.C) They usually result from people's unpleasant memories.D) They can have an impact as great as rational thinking.8. A) They call for scientifc methods to interpret.B) They mirror their long- cherished wishes.C) They reflect their complicated emotions.D) They are often related to irrational feelings.Section BDirections: In this section, you will hear tuoo passages. At the end of eachpassage, you will hear three or four questions. Both the passage and the questions wil 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 Ansuer Sheet 1 with a single line through the centre. Questions 9 to 11 are based on the pa8sage you have just heard.9. A) Radio waves.B) Sound waves.C) Robots.D) Satellites.10. A) It may be freezing fast beneath the glacier.B) It may have micro-organisms living in it.C) It may have certain rare minerals in it.D) It may be as deep as four kilometers.11. A) Help understand life in freezing conditions.B) Help find new sources of fresh waterC) Provide information about other planets.D) Shed light on possible life in outer space.Questions 12 to 15 are based on the passage you have just heard.12. A) He found there had been lttle research on their language.B) He was trying to preserve the languages of the Indian tribes.C) His contact with a social worker had greatly aroused his interest in the tribe.D) His meeting with Gonzalez had made him eager to leam more about the tribe.13. A) He taught Copeland to speak the Tarahumaras language.B) He persuaded the Tarahumaras to accept Copeland's gifts.C) He recommended one of his best friends as an interpreter.D) He acted as an intermediary between Copeland and the villagers.14. A) Unpredictable.B) Unjustifhable.C) Laborious.D) Tedious.15. A) Their appreciation of help from the outsiders.B) Their sense of sharing and caring.C) Their readiness to adapt to technology.D) Their belief in creating wealth for themselves.Section CDirections : In this section , you will hear three recondings of letures or talks followed by three or four questions. The recordings will be played only once. Afler you hear a question, you must choose the best ansuer from the four choices markedA), B), C) and D). Then markt the corresponding letter on Answer Sheet 1 with a single line through the centre.Questions 16 to 18 are based on the recording you have just heard.16. A) They tend to be silenced into submission.B) They find it hard to defend themselves.C) They will feel proud of being pioneers.D) They will feel somewhat encouraged.17. A) One who advocates violence in effecting change.B) One who craves for relentless transformations.C) One who acts in the interests of the oppressed.D) One who rebels against the existing socal order.18. A) They tried to effect social change by force.B) They disrupted the nation's social stability.C) They served as a driving force for progress.D) They did more harm than good to humanity.、Questions 19 to 21 are based on the recording you have just heard.19. A) Few of us can ignore changes in our immediate environment.B) It is impossible for us to be imumune from outside influence.C) Few of us can remain unaware of what happens around us.D) It is important for us to keep in touch with our own world.20. A) Make up his mind to start all over again.B) Stop making unfair judgements of others.C) Try to find a more exciting job somewhere else.D) Recognise the negative impact of his coworkers.21. A) They are quite susceptible to suicide.C) They suffer a great deal from ill health.B) They improve people's quality of life.D) They help people solve mental problems.Questions 22 to 25 are based on the recording you have just heard.22. A) Few people can identify its texture.C) Its real value is open to interpretation.B) Few people can describe it precisely.D) Its importance is often over- estimated.23. A) It has never seen any change.C) It is a well-protected govemment secret.B) It has much如o do with color.D) It is a subject of study by many forgers.24. A) People had lttle faith in paper money.C) It predicted their value would increase.B) They could last longer in circulation.D) They were more difficult to counterfeit.25. A) The stabilzation of the dollar value.C) A gold standard for American currency.B) The issuing of govermment securities.D) A steady appreciation of the U. S. dollar.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 passage through carngfully before making your choices.Each choice in the bank is identified by a letter. Please mark the corresponding letter for each item on Ansuer Sheet 2 with a single line through the centre. You may not use any of the words in the bank more than once. Overall, men are more likely than women to make excuses. Several studies suggest that men feel the need to appear competent in all 26______，while women worry only about the skills in which they've invested 27______ . Ask a man and a woman to go diving for the first time, and the woman is likely to jump in, while the man is likely to say he's not feeling too well.Ironically, it is often success that leads people to flirt with failure. Praise wonfor 28______ a skill suddenly puts one in the position of having everything tolose. Rather than putting their reputation on the line again, many successfulpeople develop a handicapdrinking,29______,depression- -that allows them to keep their status no matterwhat the future brings. An advertising executive 30______ for depressionshortly after winning an award put it this way:“ Without my depression, I'd be afailure now;with it, I'm a success‘on hold’”In fact, the people most likely to become chronic excuse makers are those31______ with success.Such people are so afraid of being 32______ a failureat anything that they constantly develop one handicap or another in order toexplain away failure.Though self-handicapping can be an effective way of coping with performanceanxiety now and then, in the end, researchers say, it will lead to 33______. Inthe long run, excuse makers fail to live up to their true 34______ and lose thestatus they care so much about. And despite their protests to the 35______they have only themselves to blame.Section BDirections: In this section, you are going to read a passage with ten statementsattached to it.Each statement contains information given in ome of the paragraphs. Identify the paragraph from xwhich the information is derived. Youmay choose a paragraph more than once.Fach paragraph is marked with aletter. Answer the questioms by marking thecorresponding letter om Ansuer Sheet 2.Six Potential Bain Benefits of Bilingual EducationA) Brains, brains, brains. People are fascinated by brain research. And yet it can be hard to point to places where our education system is really making use of the latest neuroscience findings. But there is one happy link where research is meeting practice: bilingual education.“In the last 20 years or so, there's been a virtual explosion of research on bilingualism ,says Judith Kroll, a professor at the University of Califonia, Riverside.B) Again and again, researchers have found,“bilingualism is an experience that shapes our brain for life," in the words of Gigi Luk, an associate professor at Harvard's Graduate School of Education.At the same time, one of the hottest trends in public schooling is what's often called dual-language ortwo-way immersion programs.C) Traditional programs for English-language leamers, or ELLs, focus on assimilating students into English as quickdy as possible. Dual-languageclassrooms, by contrast, provide instruction across subjects to both English natives and English leamers, in both English and a target language.The goal is functional bilingualism and biliteracy for all students by middle school. New York City ,North Carolina, Delaware, Utah, Oregon and Washington state are among the places expanding dual-language classrooms.D) The trend fies in the face of some of the culture wars of two decades ago , when advocates insisted on“English first” education. Most famously, Califomnia passed Proposition 227 in 1998. It was intended to sharply reduce the amount of time that English-language leamers spent in bilingual settings. Proposition 58，passed by California voters on November 8, largely reversed that decision,paving the way for a huge expansion of bilingual education in the state that has the largest population of English-language leamers.E) Some of the insistence on Englih-first was founded on research produced decades ago, in which bilingual students underperformned monolingual English speakers and had lower IQ scores. Today's scholars, like Elen Bialystok at York University in Toronto, say that research was “deeply flawed. ”“ Earlier research looked at socially disadvantaged groups, ”agrees Antonella Sorace at the University of Edinburgh in Scotland.“This has been completely contradicted by recent research'”that compares groups more similar to each other.F) So what does recent research say about the potential benefts of bilingual education? It tuns out that, in many ways, the real trick to speaking twolanguages consists in managing not to speak one of those languages at a given moment- -which is fundametally a feat of paying attention. Saying “Goodbye" to mom and then“Guten t ag" to your teacher, or managing to askfor a crayola roja instead of a red crayon, requires skills called “ inhibition”and “task switching.” These skills are subsets of an ability called executive function.G) People who speak two languages often outperform monolinguals on general measures of executive function.“ Bilinguals can pay focused attention without being distracted and also improve in the ability to switch from one task to another,”says Sorace.H) Do these same advantages beneft a child who begins learning a second language in kindergarten instead of as a baby? We don't yet know. Patterns of language learning and language. use are complex. But Gigi Luk at Harvard cites at least one brain-imaging study on adolescents that shows similar changes in brain structure when compared with those who are bilingual from bith, even when they didn't begin practicing a second language in eamest before late childhood.I) Young children being raised bilingual have to follow social cues to fngure out which language to use with which person and in what setting. As a result, says Sorace，bilingual children as young as age 3 have demonstrated a head start on tests of perspective-taking and theory of mind- -both of which are fundamental social and emotional skills.J) About 10 percent of students in the Portland, Oregon public schools are assigned by lottery to dua]-language classrooms that offer instruction in Spanish, Japanese or Mandarin, alongside English.Jennifer Steele at American University conducted a four-year, randomized trial and found that these dual-language students outperforned their peers in English-reading skills by a full school-year's worth of learning by the end of middle school. Because the effects are found in reading, not in math or science where there were few differences, Steele suggests that learning two languages makes students more aware of how language works in general.K) The research of Gigi Luk at Harvard offers a slightly different explanation. She has recently done a small study looking at a group of 100 fourth-graders in Massachusetts who had similar reading scores on a standard test, but very different language experiences. Some were foreign-language dominant and others were English natives. Here's what's interesting. The students who were dominant in a foreign language weren't yet comfortably bilingual; they were just starting to leam English.Therefore, by definition, they had a much weaker English vocabulary than the native speakers.Yet they were just as good at interpreting a text. “ This is very surprising," Luk says.“You would expect the reading comprehension performance to mirror the vocabulary- -it's a cormerstone of comprehension.*L) How did the foreign-language dominant speakers manage this feat? Well, Luk found, they also scored higher on tests of executive functioning. So, even though they didn't have huge mental dictionaries to draw on, they may havebeen great puzzle- solvers, taling into account higher-level concepts such as whether a single sentence made sense within an overall story line. They got to the same results as the monolinguals, by a different path.M) American public school classrooms as a whole are becoming more segregated by race and class.Dual-language programs can be an exception.Because they are composed of native English speakers deliberately placed together with recent immigrants， they tend to be more ethnically andeconomically balanced. And there is some evidence that this helps kids of all backgrounds gain comfort with diversity and different cultures.N) Several of the researchers also pointed out that, in bilingual education, non-English- dominant students and their families tend to feel that their home language is heard and valued,compared with a classroom where the home language is left at the door in favor of English. This can improve students' sense of belonging and increase parents' involvement in their children's education,including behaviors like reading to children. “ Many parents fear their language is an obstacle,a problem, and if they abandon it their child will integrate better," says Antonella Sorace of the University of Edinburgh.“We tell them they're not doing their child a favor by giving up their language.”O) One theme that was striking in speaking to all these researchers was just how strongly they advocated for dual-language classrooms. Thomas and Collier have advised many school systems on how to expand theirdual-language programs, and Sorace runs “ Bilingualism Matters," aintermational network of researchers who promote bilingual education projects. This type 0 advocacy among scientists is unusual; even more so becausethe“bilingual advantage hypothesis" is being challenged once again.P) A review of studies published last year found that cognitive advantages failed to appear in 83 percent of published studies , though in a separateanalysis , the sum of effects was still signifcantly positive.One potential explanation offered by the researchers is that advantages that are measurable in the very young and very old tend to fade when testing young adults at the peak of their cognitive powers. And, they countered that no negative effects of bilingual education have been found.So,even if the advantages are small, they are still worth it. Not to mention one obvious, outstanding fact:“ Bilingual children can speak two languages! ' '36. A study found that there are similar changes in brain structure betweenthose who are bilingual from birth and those who start leaming a secondlanguage later.37. Unlike traditional monolingual prograns, bilingual classrooms aim atdeveloping students' ability to use two languages by middle school.38. A study showed that dual-language students did significantly better thantheir peers in reading English texts.39. About twenty years ago, bilingual practice was strongly discouraged,especially in California.10. Ethnically and economically balanced bilingual classooms are found to be helpful for kids to get used to social and cultural diversity.41. Researchers now claim that earlier research on bilingual education was seriously flawed.42. According to a researcher , dual-language experiences exert a lifelong influence on one's brain.43. Advocates of bilingual education argued that it produces positive effects though they may be limited.44. Bilingual speakers often do better than monolinguals in completing certain tasks because they can concentrate better on what they are doing.45. When their native language is used, parents can become more involved in their children's education.Passage OneQuestions 46 to 50 are based on the following passage.It is not controversial to say that an unhealthy diet causes bad health. Nor are the basic elements of healthy eating disputed. Obesity raises susceptibility tocancer, and Britain is the sixth most obese country on Earth. That is a public health emergency. But naming the problem is the easy part. No one disputesthe costs in quality of life and depleted health budgets of an obese population, but the quest for solutions gets diverted by ideological arguments aroundresponsibility and choice. And the water is muddied by lobbying from the industries that profit from consumption of obesity-inducing products.Historical precedent suggests that science and politics can overcome resistance from businesses that pollute and poison but it takes time, andsuccess often starts small. So it is heartening to note that a programme inLeeds has achieved a reduction in childhood obesity, becoming the first UK city to reverse a fattening trend. The best results were among younger children and in more deprived areas.When 28% of English children aged two to 15 are obese, a national shift on the scale achieved by Leeds would lengthen hundreds of thousands of lives. A significant factor in the Leeds experience appears to be a scheme called HENRY,which helps parents reward behaviours that preyent obesity in children.Many members of parliament are uncomfortable even with their own govemment's anti-obesity strategy,since it involves a“sugar tax" and a ban on the sale of energy drinks to under-16s. Bans and taxes can be blunt instruments, but their harshest critics can rarely suggest better methods.These critics just oppose regulation itself.The relationship between poor health and inequality is too pronounced for govermments to be passive about large-scale intervention. People living in the most deprived areas are four times more prone to die from avoidable causes than counterparts in more affluent places. As the structural nature of publichealth problems becomes harder to ignore,the complaint about overprotective govenment loses potency.In fact, the polarised debate over public health interventions should have been abandoned long emment action works when individuals are motivatedto respond. Individuals need govemments that expand access to good choices.The HENRY programme was delivered in part through children's centres. Closing such centres and cutting council budgets doesn't magically increase reserves of individual self-reliance. The function of a well-designed state intervention is not to deprive people of liberty but to build social capacity and infrastructure that helps people take responsibility for their wellbeing. The obesity crisis will not have a solution devised by leit or right ideology- -but experience indicates that the private sector needs the incentive of regulation before it starls taling public health emergencies seriously.46. Why is the obesity problem in Britain so difficult to solve?A) Goverment health budgets are depleted.B) People disagree as to who should do what.C) Individuals are not ready to take their responsibilties.D) Industry lobbying makes it hard to get healthy foods.47. What can we learmn from the past experience in tacking public health emergencies?A) Govemments have a role to play.B) Public health is a scientifc issue.C) Priority should be given to deprived regions.D) Businesses' responsility should be stressed.48. What does the author imply about some critics of bans and taxes concerning unhealthy drinks?A) They are not aware of the consequences of obesity.B) They have not come up with anything more constructive.C) They are uncomfortable with parliament's anti obesity debate.D) They have their own motives in opposing govermment regulation.49. Why does the author stress the relationship between poor health and inequality?A) To demonstrate the dilemma of people living in deprived areas.B) To bring to light the root cause of widespread obesity in Britain.C) To highlight the area deserving the most attention from the public.D) To justify govermment intervention in solving the obesity problem.50. When will govermment action be effective?A) When the polarised debate is abandoned.B) When ideological differences are resolved.C) When individuals have the incentive to act accordingly.D) When the private sector realises the severity of the crisis.Passage TwoQuestions 51 to 55 are based on the following passage.Home to virgin reefs, rare sharks and vast numbers of exotic fish, the Coral Sea is a unique haven of biodiversity off the northeastem coast of Australia. If a proposal by the Australian govemment goes ahead, the region will also become the world's largest marine protected area, with restrictions or bans on fishing, mining and marine farming.The Coral Sea reserve would cover almost 990 000 square kilometres and stretch as far as 1100 kilometres from the coast. Unveiled recently by environment minister Tony Burke，the proposal would be the last in a series of proposed marine reserves around Australia's coast.But the scheme is attracting criticism from scientists and conservation groups,who argue that the govemment hasn't gone far enough in protecting the Coral Sea, or in other marine reserves in the coastal network.HughPossingham,director of the Centre of Excellence for Environmental Decisions at the University of Queensland, points out that little more than half of the CoralSea reserve is proposed as“no take" area, in which all fishing would be banned. The world's largest existing marine reserve,established last year by the British govemment in the Indian Ocean, spans 554 000 km2 and is a no-take zone throughout. An alliance of campaigning conversation groups argues that more of the Coral Sea should receive this level of protection.“I would like to have seen more protection f or coral reefs," says Tery Hughes, director of the Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies at James CookUniversity in Queensland.“More than 20 of them would be outside the no-take area and vulnerable to catch- and-release fshing” .As Nature went to press, the Australian govemment had not responded to specifc criticisms of the plan. But Robin Beaman, a marine geologist at James Cook University, says that the reserve does“broadly protect the range of habitats”in the sea.“I can testify to the huge effort that govemment agencies and other organisations have put into trying to understand the ecological values of this vast area," he says. .Reserves proposed earlier this year for Australia's southwester and northwesterm coastal regions have also been criticised for failing to give habitats adequate protection. In August,173 marine scientists signed an open letter to the govemment saying they were“greatly concemed" that the proposals for the southwestem region had not been based on the“ core science principles”of reserves-the protected regions were not, for instance , representative of all the habitats in the region, they said.Critics say that the southwestem reserve offers the greatest protection to the offishore areas where commercial opportunities are fewest and where there is lttle threat to the environment,a contention also levelled at the Coral Sea plan.51. What do we learn from the passage about the Coral Sea?A) It is exceptionally rich in marine life.B) It is the biggest marine protected area.C) It remains largely undisturbed by humans.D) It is a unique haven of endangered species.52. What does the Australian govemment plan to do according to Tony Burke?A) Make a new proposal to protect the Coral Sea.B) Revise its conservation plan owing to criticisms.C) Upgrade the established reserves to protect marine life.D) Complete the series of marine reserves around its coast.53. What is scientists' argument about the Coral Sea proposal?A) The govemment has not done enough for marine protection.B) It will not improve the marine reserves along Australia's coast.C) The govemment has not consulted them in drawing up the proposal.D) It is not based on suffcient investigations into the ecological system.54. What does marine geologist Robin Beaman say about the Coral Sea plan?A) It can compare with the British govemment's effort in the Indian Ocean.B) It will result in the establishment of the world's largest marine reserve.C) It will ensure the sustainability of the fishing industry around the coast.D) It is a tremendous joint effort to protect the range of marine habitats.55. What do critics think of the Coral Sea plan?A) It will do more harm than good to the environment.B) It will adversely affect Australia's fishing industry.C) It will protect regions that actually require lttle protection.D) It will win lttle support from environmental organisations.Part IV Translation(30 minutes)Directions: For this part, you are allonwed 30 minutes to translate a passage from Chinese into English. You should wrrite your answer on Ansuer Sheet 2. 《西遊记》(Joumey to the West)也许是中国文学四大经典小说中最具影响力的一部,当然也是在国。

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作文第一套Directions: For this part, you are allowed 30 minutes to write an essay on the saying Beauty of the soul is the essen-tial beauty. You should write at least 150 words but no more than 200 words.范文：In this rapidly developing society, what we persue has never been more abundant than ever before. We care about the food safety, the money we can earn, the health of the people around us and the apperence of us, namely beauty.Talking about- beauty, ideas may differ from person to person. Among all the elements of beauty that modern people attach importance to, I reckon that beauty of the soul is the essential beauty.Looking around, we may find many facts which can relectthe value in the saying. Take Lihong as an example, she is not the traditionally typical youngster who would be consid-ered beautiful. However, she keeps doing good routinelyand insists in helping those in need. When mentioned,Lihong is always the exemplary model praised by every-body. To many acquaintances of hers, they think she is one of the most beautiful girls they' ve ever met. In the case of Lihong, beauty of the soul is more essentially valued than that of her appearence.pipassTo conclude, it is not the fashionable hairstyle, not the ex-pensive clothes we wear, but beauty of our soul that deter-mines how people see us. This reminds us agian of the value that beauty of the soul is the essential beauty.作文第二套Directions: For this part, you are allowed 30 minutes to write an essay on the saying What is worth doing is worth doing well. You should write at least 150 words but no more than 200 words.In different stages of life, we may have diverse pursuit.Some determine to pass an arduous exam whereas others may tend to find a satisfying job. No matter what we are going to do, one thing is certain, we have to spare no effortto make the worthy task fully accomplished. As the saying goes, what is worth doing is worth doing well.Looking around, we may find many deeds to which we can apply the value relected in the saying. Take myself as an ex-ample, I made my mind to attend the postgraduate entranceexams at the beginning of last year, which for me I thought was worth doing. Once the decision had been made, I never doubted the possibility of not being able to pass the exams. eI made a comprehensive plan for the whole year study and stuck to it strictly. In the end, I managed topass the examsand became a qualified graduate student.>To conclude, what is worth doing is definitely what is mean-ingful to us and even can have a long-term influence on ourlife and growth. Only when we accomplish what is worth doing well can we be more likely to succeed.作文第三套Directions: For this part, you are allowed 30 minutes to write an essay on the saying Wealth of the mind is the only true wealth. You should write at least 150 words but no more than 200 words.In this rapidly developing society, what we persue has neverbeen more abundant than ever before. We care about the food safety, the health of the people around us, the apper-ence of us and the money we can earn. Talking about wealth, ideas may differ from person to person. Among all the elements of wealth that modern people attach impor-tance to,l reckon that wealth of the mind is the only true wealth.Looking around, we may find many facts which can relectthe value in, the saying. Take Lihong as an example, she is not the traditionally typical youngster who would be consid-ered wealthy. However, she keeps reading books routinelyand insists in attending a variety of lectures. When men-tioned, Lihong is always the exemplary model praised by ev-erybody.To many acquaintances of hers, they think she isone of the most knowledgable and thoughtful girls they veever met. In the case of Lihong, wealth of the mind is moreessentially valued than the money she possesses.To conclude, it is not the money we earn but wealth of our mind that determines how people see us. This reminds us agian of the value that wealth of the mind is the only true wealth.选词填空第一套26.L. realms27.C. heavily28.H. mastering29.B. fatigue31.J. obsessed32.F. labeled33.N. ruin34.K.potential35.A. contrary选词填空第二套26. D. hierarchy27.H. logistical28.E. insight29.M. saturated30.L. rarely31.o. undoubtedly32.J. outcomes33. A. bondain34.34.l. magically35.K. patterns信息匹配第--套36.D段落第-句None of this is to say that telemedicine37.H段落第一-句Many health plans and employers have rushed38.E段落第一-句What’s more,for all the rapid growth39.B段落第一句Doctors are linking up with40.K段落第一-句Who pays for the services?41.0段落第一句To date,17 states have joined42.G段落第一句Do patients trade quality for convenience？43.43.F段落第--句Some critics also question whether44.1段落第一句But critics worry that such45.N段落第一句Is the state-by-state regulatory system信息匹配第二套36.H.段落第一句Do these same advantages benefit a child who begins learning a second language in kindergarten instead of as a baby?37.C段落第一句Traditional programs for English-languagelearners,38.J段落第一句About 10 percent of students in the Port-land,39.D段落第一句The trend flies in the face of some of theculture wars of two decades ago,40.M段落第一句American public school classrooms as awhole are becoming more segregated by race and class Du-al-language programs can be an exception.41.E段落第一句Some of the insistence on English-first was founded on research produced decades ago,42.B段落第-句Again and again, researchers have found,"bilingualism is an experience that shapes our brain for life,43.P段落第--句A review of studies published last yearfound that cognitive advantages failed to appear in 83 per-cent of published studies,44.G段落第一句People who speak two languages oftenoutperform monolinguals on general measures of executivefunction.45.N段落第一-句Several of the researchers also pointed outthat,仔细阅读第一-套46-50 (Sleeplessness)46.C They are deeply impressed by Danielle Steel's daily work schedule.47.A She could serve as an example of industriousness. @ ja 148. A They are questionable. :49. C It may symbolise one's importance and success.50. B The general public should not be encouraged to follow it.51-55 (Organic farming)51.B Organic farming may be exploited to solve the global food problem.52. D It is not that productive.53.C Inequality in food distribution.54. B It is not conducive to sustainable development.55.D Organic farming does long-term good to the ecosys- cEtem.仔细阅读第二套46-50 (Public health)46. B People disagree as to who should do what.47.A Governments have a role to play.48. ВThey have not come up with anything more construc-tive.49. D To justify government intervention in solving theobesity problem50. C When individuals have the incentive to act according-ly.51-55 (The Coral Sea proposal)hjfi51 . A It is exceptionally rich in marine life.52. D Complete the series of marine reserves around itscoast.53. A The government has not done enough for marineprotection54. D It is a tremendous joint effort to protect the rangeof marine habitats56.C It will protect regions that actually require little pro- etection第一套《水浒传》( Water Margin)是中国文学四大经典小说之一。

2020 年 9 月英语六级考试真题答案(第二套)

2020年9月英语六级考试真题答案（第二套）【写作真题】PartⅠWriting (30minutes)Directions:Directions:For this part,you are allowed30minutes to write an essay on the saying Beauty of the soul is the essential beauty. You should write at least150words but no more than200words.答案略【选词填空】26.D.hierarchy27.H.logistical28.E.insight29.M.saturated30.L.rarely31.O.undoubtedly32.J.outcomes33.A.bond34.l.magically35.K.patterns【信息匹配】Six Potential Brain Benefits of Bilingual Education36.H.段落第一句Do these same advantages benefit a child who begins learning a second language in kindergarten in-stead of as a baby?37.C段落第一句Traditional programs for English-language learners,38.J段落第一句About10percent of students in the Port-land,39.D段落第一句The trend flies in the face of some of the culture wars of two decades ago,40.M段落第一句American public school classrooms as a whole are becoming more segregated by race and class Du-al-language programs can be an exception.41.E段落第一句Some of the insistence on English-first was founded on research produced decades ago,42.B段落第一句Again and again,researchers have found, "bilingualism is an experience that shapes our brain for life,43.P段落第一句A review of studies published last year found that cognitive advantages failed to appear in83per-cent of published studies, 44.G段落第一句People who speak two languages often outperform monolinguals on general measures of executive function.45.N段落第一句Several of the researchers also pointed out that【仔细阅读】46-50(Public health)46.B People disagree as to who should do what.47.A Governments have a role to play.48.B They have not come up with anything more construc-tive.49.D To justify government intervention in solving the obesity problem.50.C When individuals have the incentive to act according-ly.51-55(The Coral Sea，proposal）51.A It is exceptionally rich in marine life.52.D Complete the series of marine reserves around its coast.53.A The government has not done enough for marine protection54.D lt is a tremendous joint effort to protect the range of marine habitats55.C It will protect regions that actually require little pro-tection【翻译《红楼梦》】《红楼梦》(Dream of the Red Chamber)是18世纪曹雪芹创作的一部小说。

2020年09英语六级解析第3套

附：第三套作文及翻译答案与详解Part I Writing唯独心灵的财富才是真正的财富零一、审題引导（与2020年7月审题引导同理，故略）辱二、词汇准备第一段：结合现实情形引入格言。

第二段：由反例引入对格言合理性的论证。

第三段：发出呼吁。

四、下笔成文满分范文参考译文① Modern life is characterized by packed agendas.②While it is true that high efficiency is important in generatingeconomic wealth, its damage to people's psychological well-being is increasingly worrying. ③ In a time when mental healthproblems such as burnout and depression become more andmore common, we need to remind ourselves of that cliched yetcompelling saying: wealth of the mind is the only true wealth.①Admittedly, having adequate economic wealth is aprerequisite for a carefree life. ② But an overemphasis on ithas opposite effects. ® It exhausts our mental energy anddistracts us from pursuing what makes us truly happy. ®To livea genuinely fulfilling life, we should instead focus on buildingwealth of the mind. ⑤ This does not mean we all shoulddedicate ourselves to creating cultural wealth as artists do. ®Instead, all activities that contribute to our mental well-beingadd to wealth of the mind. ©Following this logic, even taking awalk in the garden» which helps relieve stress and anxiety, canincrease wealth of the mind.“心灵财富”相关的词汇及表达 “物质财富”相关的词汇及表达mental/psychological health/well-being 心理健康 creativity n.创造力 consolation n.慰藉 cognitive breakthrough 认知突破 mental tranquility 心灵的平静 relieve pressure/anxiety/anguish 缓解压力/ 焦虑 /悲痛 materialistic a.物质的，拜金的 basic necessities 基本生活必需品 economic ambition 经济野心 career oriented 以职业为导向的 mass production 批量生产 efficiency is the key to success 效率是成功的关键亨三、写作提綱①“议程紧凑”是现代生活的标志性特征。

2020年9月六级真题及部分参考答案汇总(3套)

2020年9月大学英语六级考试真题及部分答案第1套Directions: Directions: For this part, you are allowed 30 minutes to write an essay on the saying Beauty of the soul is the essential beauty. You should write at least 150 words but no more than 200 words.第2套Directions:For this part, you are allowed 30 minutes to write an essay on the saying What is worth doing is worth doing well. You should write at Least 150 words but no more than 200 words.第3套Directions:For this part, you are allowed 30 minutes to write an essay on the saying Wealth of the mind is the only true wealth. You should write at Least 150 words but no more than 200 words.【选词填空第1套】26.L.realms27.C.heavily28.H.mastering29.B. fatigue30.E.hospitalized31.J. obsessed32.F. labeled33.N. ruin34.K.potential35.A.contrary【选词填空第2套】26.D. hierarchy27.H. logistical28.E. insight29.M. saturated30.L. rarely31.O. undoubtedly32.J. outcomes33.A. bond34.l. magically35.K. patterns【信息匹配第1套】How Telemedicine Is Transforming Healthcare36.D段落第一句None of this is to say that telemedicine37.H段落第一句Many health plans and employers have rushed38.E段落第一句What's more,for all the rapid growth39.B段落第一句Doctors are linking up with40.K段落第一句Who pays for the services?41.O段落第一句To date,17 states have joined42.G段落第一句Do patients trade quality for convenience?43.F段落第一句Some critics also question whether44.I段落第一句But critics worry that such45.N段落第一句Is the state-by-state regulatory system【信息匹配第2套】Six Potential Brain Benefits of Bilingual Education36.H.段落第一句Do these same advantages benefit a child who begins learninga second language in kindergarten in-stead of as a baby?37.C段落第一句Traditional programs for English-language learners,38.J段落第一句About 10 percent of students in the Port-land,39.D段落第一句The trend flies in the face of some of the culture wars of two decades ago,40.M段落第一句American public school classrooms as a whole are becoming more segregated by race and class Du-al-language programs can be an exception.41.E段落第一句Some of the insistence on English-first was founded on research produced decades ago,42.B段落第一句Again and again,researchers have found, "bilingualism is an experience that shapes our brain for life,43.P段落第一句A review of studies published last year found that cognitive advantages failed to appear in 83 per-cent of published studies,44.G段落第一句People who speak two languages often outperform monolinguals on general measures of executive function.45.N段落第一句Several of the researchers also pointed out that,【仔细阅读第1套】46-50 (Sleeplessness)46.C They are deeply impressed by Danielle Steel's dailywork schedule.47.A She could serve as an example of industriousness.48.A They are questionable.49.C It may symbolise one's importance and success.50.B The general public should not be encouraged to follow it.51-55 (Organic farming)51.B Organic farming may be exploited to solve the global food problem.52.D It is not that productive.53.C Inequality in food distribution.54.B It is not conducive to sustainable development.55.D Organic farming does long-term good to the ecosys-tem.【仔细阅读第2套】46-50(Public health)46.B People disagree as to who should do what.47.A Governments have a role to play.48.B They have not come up with anything more construc-tive.49.D To justify government intervention in solving the obesity problem.50.C When individuals have the incentive to act according-ly.51-55 (The Coral Sea，proposal）51.A It is exceptionally rich in marine life.52 .D Complete the series of marine reserves around its coast.53 .A The government has not done enough for marine protection54 .D lt is a tremendous joint effort to protect the range of marine habitats55 .C It will protect regions that actually require little pro-tection翻译第1套《水浒传》(Water Margin)是中国文学四大经典小说之一。

2020年12月英语六级阅读真题及答案

2020年12月英语六级阅读真题及答案2020年12月英语六级阅读真题及答案第一套：第二套第三套选词填空As it is，sleep is so undervalued that getting by on fewer hours has become a badge on Plus， we live in a culture that（36） to the late neighter， from 24 hour grocery store to ? shopping site that never close。

It’s no surprise，then， that more than half of American adults get the 7 to 9 hours of shut-eye every night as （37）by sleep experts。

Whether or not we can catch up on sleep on the weekend，say- is a hotly （38） among sleep researchers。

The latest evidence suggests that while it isn’t （39）， it might ? when Liu， the UCLA sleep researcher and professor of medicine， brought （40） sleep-rest people into the lab for a weekend of sleep during which they lagged about 10 hours per night。

showed （41）in the ability of insulin（胰岛素）to process blood sugar。

That suggests up sleep may undo some but not all of the damage that sleep （42） causes， which is encouraging ? given how many adults don’t get the hours they need each night。

2020年9月英语六级解析

2020年9月英语六级答案解析听力答案【Section A】Conversation One1.Why does the woman say she can be so energetic?A) She can devote all her life to pursuing her passion.2.What has the woman been engaged in?A) Science education and scientific research.3.What does the woman say about the benefit teaching brings to her?B) A better understanding of a subject.4.How does the woman say new scientific breakthroughs can be made possible?D) By making full use of the existing data.Conversation Two5.What do both speakers think of dreams?C) They have no special meanings.6.Why didn't the woman's grandmother take her scheduled flight?D) She dreamed of a plane crash.7.What does the woman say about people's emotions?A) They can have an impact as great as rational thinking.8.What did psychologist Sigmund Freud say about adults' dreams?B) They reflect their complicated emotions.【Section B】Passage One9. What did scientists first use to discover Lake Vostok in the 1970s?B) Radio waves.10. What do scientists think about Lake Vostok?C) It may have micro-organisms living in it.11. What do the scientists hope their discoveries will do?C) Shed light on possible in outer space.Passage Two12. Why did James Copeland want to study the American Indian tribe Tarahumara?A) He found there had been little research on their language.13. How did Gonzalez help James Copeland?D) He acted as an intermediary between Copeland and the villagers.14. What does the speaker say about James Copeland's trip to the Tarahumaras' village?B) Laborious.15. What impresses James Copeland about the Tarahumara's tribe?A) Their sense of sharing and caring.【Section C】Recording One16. What usually happens when people are accused of being radical?A) They tend to be silenced into submission.17. What is the speaker's definition of a radical?D) One who rebels against the existing social order.18. What does the speaker think of most radicals in the American history?C) They served as a driving force for progress.Recording Two19. What does the speakers say about us as human beings?B) It is impossible for us to be immune from outside influence.20. What does the speaker say Fred should do first to improve his quality of life?D) Recognize the negative impact of his coworkers.21. What does the speaker say about psychiatrists?A) They are quite susceptible to suicide.Recording Three22. What does the speaker say about the American dollar bill?B) Few people can describe it precisely.23. What does the speaker say about the exact composition of the American dollar bill?C) It is a well-protected government secret.24. Why did the new American government mint only coins for common currency?A) People had little faith in paper money.25. What have generations of American politicians argued for?C) A gold standard for American currency.选词填空第一套26.L.realms28 H.mastering29.B.fatigue30.E.hospitalized31.J.obsessed32 beled33 N.ruin34.K.potential35.A.contrary第二套26.D.hierarc27.H.logistical28.E.insight29.M saturated30.L rarely31.O.undoubtedly33.A.bond34.1.magically35.K.patterns信息匹配第一套How Telemedicine Is Transforming Healthcare36.D 段落第一句 None of this is to say that telemedicine37.H 段落第一句 Many health plans and employers have rushed38.E 段落第句What's more.for all the rapid growth39.B.段落第一句 Doctors are linking up with40.K 段落第一句 Who pays for the services?41.O 段落第一句 To date，17 states have joined42.G 段落第一句 Do patients trade quality for convenience?43.F 段落第一句 Some critics also question whether44.l 段落第一句 But critics worry that such45.N 段落第一句 Is the state-by-state regulatory system第二套Six Potential Brain Benefits of Bilingual Education36 H 段落第一句 Do these same advantages benefit a child who begins learning a second language in kindergarten in stead of as a baby?37.C 段落第一句 Traditional programs for English-anguage learners38.J 段落第一句 About10 percent of students in the Port land39.D 段落第一句 The trend flies in the face of some of the culture wars of two decades ago，40.M 段落第一句 American public school classrooms as a whole are becoming more segregated by race and class Du-al-language programs can be an exception.41.E 段落第一句 Some of the insistence on English-first was founded on research produced decades ago42.B 段落第一句 Again and again，researchers have found，bilingualism is an experience that shapes our brain for life43.P 段落第一句 A review of studies published last year found that cognitive advantages failed to appear in 83 per-cent of published studies，44.G 段落第一句 People who speak two languages often outperform monolinguals on general measures of executive function45.N 段落第一句 Several of the researchers also pointed out that，仔细阅读第一套46-50(sleeplessness)46.c They are deeply impressed by danielle Steels dailyWork schedule47.A She could serve as an example of industriousness48.A They are questionable49.C It may symbolise one's importance and success50.B The general public should not be encouraged tofollow it.51-55(Organic farming)51.B Organic farming may be exploited to solve the globalfood problem52.D It is not that productive53.C Inequality in food distribution54.B It is not conducive to sustainable development55.D Organic farming does long-term good to the ecosys-tem第二套46-50(Public health)46.B People disagree as to who should do what.47.AGovernments have a role to play.48.B They have not come up with anything more constructive49.D To justify government intervention in solving theobesity problem50.C When individuals have the incentive to act according-ly.51-55(The Coral Sea proposal)51.A It is exceptionally rich in marine life52.D Complete the series of marine reserves around its coast53.A The government has not done enough for marine protection54.D It is a tremendous joint effort to protect the range of marine habitats55.C It will protect regions that actually require little pro-tection翻译第一套《水浒传》(Water Margin是中国文学四大经典小说之一。

2020年12月英语六级真题及参考答案完整版

2020年12月英语六级真题及参考答案完整版四六级试卷采用多题多卷形式，大家核对答案时，请找具体选项内容，忽略套数。

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【网络综合版】听力Conversation 1M: Good morning, safe house insurance. My name is Paul. How can I help you today? W: Morning. I wouldn’t say that it’s good from where I am standing. This is Miss Wilson, and this is the third time I’ve called this week since receiving your letter about our insurance claim. (1) I’m getting a little fed up with my calls about my claim being completely disregarded.M: Miss Wilson, thank you for calling back. Can I take some details to help me look at your claim?W: It’s Miss May Wilson, a 15 south sea road in Cornwall.And the details are that our village was extensively flooded 2 months ago. (2) The entire ground floor of our cottage was submerged in water. And five of us have been living in a caravan ever since. You people are still withholding the money we are entitled to overa bizarre, technical detail. And it’s not acceptable, Paul.M: Miss Wilson, according to the notes on your account, (3) the bizarre, technical detail that you mentioned refers to the fact that you hadn’t paid house insurance the month before the incident.W: That money left our account and wow that you should be paying out. You are suddenly saying that you di dn’t receive it on time. I’m really skeptical about this claim.M: The contract does say that any miss payment in a year will affect the terms and conditions of the insurance contract and may affect claims. Of course, I can pass you on to my manager to talk to you more about this.W: I’ve already spoken to him and you can tell him I’m furious now. And that your company has a lawsuit on its hands.(4) You will be hearing from my lawyer, good bye.Questions 1 to 4 are based on the conversation you have just heard.Question 1: What is the woman complaining about?1. B) Her claim has been completely disregarded.Question 2: What is the problem the woman’s family encountered?2. B) The ground floor of their cottage was flooded.Question 3: What has caused the so called bizarre, technical detail according to the man?3. A) The woman’s failure to pay her house insurance in time.Question 4: What does the woman say she will do at the end of the conversation?4. D) File a lawsuit against the insurance company.Conversation 2W: (5) How do you feel about the future of artificial intelligence? Personally, I feel quite optimistic about it.M: (5) AI? I’m not so optimistic actually. In fact it's, something we should be concerned about.W: Well, it will help us humans understand ourselves better and when we have a better understanding of ourselves, we can improve the world.M: Well, one thing is for sure, technology is evolving faster than our ability to understand it, and in the future AI will make jobs kind of pointless.W: (6) I think artificial intelligence will actually help create new kinds of jobs, which would require less of our time and allow us to be centered on creative tasks. M: I doubt that very much. Probably the last job that will be writing AI software and then eventually AI will just write his own software.W: At that time, we are going to have a lot of jobs which nobody will want to do.So we won’t need artificial intelligence for the robots to take care of the old guys like us.M: I don't know. (7) There's a risk that human civilization could be replaced bya superior type of digital life. AI will be able to completely simulate a personin every way possible. In fact, some people think we're in a simulation right now.W: That's impossible. Humans can't even make a mosquito. Computers only have chips, people have brains, and that's where the wisdom comes from.M: (8) Once it's fully developed, AI will become tired of trying to communicate withhumans as we would be much slower thinkers in comparison.W: I'm not so sure. A computer is a computer and a computer is just a toy.M: Computers can easily communicate incredibly fast, so the computer will just get impatient talking to humans. It'll be barely getting any information out. W: Well, I believe there's a benevolent future with AI. I also think you watch too many science fiction films.Questions 5 to 8 are based on the conversation you have just heard.Q5 What do we learn about the speakers from the conversation?5. C) They disagree about the future of AI technology.Q6 What will new kinds of jobs be like according to the woman?6. D) Less time-consuming and focusing on creation.Q7 What is the risk the man anticipates?7. C) Digital life could replace human civilization.Q8 What is the man's concern about AI technology?8. A) It will be smarter than human beings.Passage OneTo achieve financial security. How much you save is always more important. Then the amount you earn or how shrewdly you invest.(9) If you're under 30 years old, your goal should be to save 20% of your monthly income after tax deductions. This is irrespective of how much you earn. Approximately 50% should be reserved foressentials, like food and accommodation. The remaining 30% is for recreation and entertainment. But for many young people, it'll be difficult to designate such a large proportion of their income for savings. (10) If you find it hard to save any money at all start by cutting all unnecessary spending, allocate a tiny amount of 1 or 2% for savings, and gradually increase that amount. (11)Always keep that 20% goal in mind, prevent yourself from becoming complacent. It can be challenging to stick to such a strict plan. But if you adopt the right mindset, you should be able to make it work for you. So what should you be doing with the money that you are saving? Some must be kept easily accessible. In case you need some cash in an emergency, the largest proportion should be invested in retirement plans, either for your employer, all privately, you can keep some money for high risk, but potentially lucrative investments. Dividends can be reinvested or used to purchase something you like. By following this plan, you should hopefully be able to enjoy your life now, and still be financially secure in the future.Questions, 9 to 11 are based on the passage you have just heard.Q 9. What are people under 30 advised to do to achieve financial security?9. C) Save one-fifth of their net monthly income.Q10. What should people do if they find it difficult to follow the speaker's advice on their financial plan?10. D) Start by doing something small.Q 11. What does the speaker think is important for achieving financial security?11. A) A proper mindset.Passage TwoI work in advertising and I like to keep up with current trends, mainly because I'm aware that we live in an image obsessed world.(12)However, when I first started my job, occasionally I’d catch a glimpse of myself in the lifts and find myself thinking that I looked a total mess. Was I being held back by my choice of clothing? The short answer is “Yes”, especially when clients are quick to judge you on your style rather than your work.(13) But no one can be unique with her outfit every day. I mean that's why uniforms were invented. So here's what I did. I created my own uniform. To do this, I chose an appropriate outfit. Then I bought multiple items of the same style in different shades.Now, I never worry about what I'm wearing in the morning. Even if I do get a bit tired of just wearing the same classic pieces. (14)Overall, when it comes to work, you have to ask yourself with looking smarter can enhance my ability to do my job.For some, this question may not be an issue at all, especially if you work remotely and rarely see your colleagues or clients face to face. But if your job involves interacting with other people, the answer to this is often “yes”. (15) So rather than fighting the system, I think we should just do whatever helps us toachieve our goals at work. If that means playing it safe with your image, then let's face it. It's probably worth it.Questions 12 to 15 are based on the passage you have just heard.Q 12. What do we learn about the speaker when she first started her job?12. A) She found her outfit inappropriate.Q 13. Why were uniforms invented according to the speaker?13. D) To save the trouble of choosing a unique outfit every day.Q 14. What does the speakers say about looking smarter?14. B) It matters a lot in jobs involving interactions with others.Q 15. What does the speaker advise people to do in an image obsessed world? 15. C) Do whatever is possible to look smart.Recording OneDid you know that Americans have approximately 3 times the amount of space we had 50 years ago? Therefore, you'd think would have sufficient room for all of our possessions. On the contrary, the personal storage business is now a growing industry. We've got triple the space, but we've become such enthusiastic consumers that we require even more. (16) This phenomenon has resulted in significant credit card debt, enormous environmental footprints, and perhaps not coincidentally our happiness levels have failed to increase over the same half century.I'm here to suggest an alternative. They’re having less might actually be a preferable decision. Many of us have experienced at some stage, the pleasure of possessing less. (17) I propose that less stuff and less space can not only help you economize, but also simplify your life. I recently started an innovative project to discover some creative solutions that offered me everything I required. By purchasing an apartment. There was 40 square meters instead of 60. I immediately saved $200,000. Smaller space leads to reduced utility bills and also a smaller carbon footprint, because it's designed around an edited collection of possessions, limited to my favorite stuff. I'm really excited to live there.How can we live more basically? Firstly, we must briefly cut the unnecessary objects out of our lives to stem consumption. We should think before we buy and ask ourselves: Will it truly make me happier? Obviously, we should possess some great stuff but we want belongings that we’re going to love for years. Secondly, we require space efficiency. We want appliances that are designed for use most of the time, not for occasional use. Why own a six burner when you really use even three burners?Finally, we need multifunctional spaces and housewares. I combined a movable wall with transforming furniture to get more out of my limited space. Consider my coffee table. It increases in size to accommodate ten. My office is tucked away, easily hidden. My bed simply pops out of the wall. For gas, I can relocate the movable wall and utilize the foldable guest beds I installed. I’m not saying we should all live in tiny apartments, but consider the benefits of an edited life. When you returnhome and walk through your front door, take a moment to ask yourselves. Could I do with a little life editing? Would that give me more freedom and more time? Question 16 to 18 are based on the recording you have just heard.Question 16. What has prevented American's happiness levels from increasing? 16. B) Their obsession with consumption.Question 17. What things should we possess according to the speaker?17. A) Things that we cherish most.Question 18. What do we learn about the items in the speaker’s home?18. C) They serve multiple purposes.Recording TwoNow, believe it or not, (19) people sometimes lie in order to maintain a good, honest reputation, even if it hurts them to do so. At least, this is what a team of scientists is suggesting with evidence to prove it.Picture this scenario—you often drive for work and can be compensated for up to 400 miles per month. Most people at your company drive about 300 miles each month. But th is month you drove 400 miles. How many miles do you think you’d claim in your expense report? The scientists asked this exact question as part of the study we’re discussing today. With surprising results, they found that 12% of respondents reported the distance they drove as less than the actual figure, giving an average answer of 384 miles. In other words, they lied about the number of miles, even though they would forfeit money they were owed. The researchers believe this was to seemhonest with the assumption being that others would be suspicious of a high expense claim.But why would people fabricate numbers to their own detriment? (20) The researchers explained that many people care a great deal about their reputation and how they’ll be judged by other s. If they care enough, they’re concerned about appearing honest and not losing the respect of others—maybe greater than their desire to actually be honest. The researchers assert that the findings suggest that when people obtain very favorable outcomes, t hey anticipate other people’s suspicious reactions and prefer lying and appearing honest to telling the truth and appearing as selfish liars.So why is this research important? Well, experts generally agree there are two main types of lie—selfish lies and lies that are meant to benefit others. The first, as you may predict, is for selfish gain, such as submitting a fraudulent claim to an insurance company, while the second involves lying to help others or not offend others. For example, telling a friend wh ose outfit you don’t like that they look great. But the researchers are suggesting a third type of lying: lying to maintain a good reputation.Now this hypothesis is new, and some skeptics argue that this isn’t a whole new category of lie. (21) But the findings seem intuitive to me. After all, one of the main motivations for lying is to increase our worth in the eyes of others. So it seems highly likely that people will lie to seem honest.Questions 19 to 21 are based on the recording you have just heard.Question 19: What did a team of scientists find in their study?19. D) Over 10% of the respondents lied about the distance they drove.Question 20: why would people fabricate numbers to their own detriment according to the researchers?20. B) They want to protect their reputation.Question 21: What does the speaker think of the researchers findings?21. C) They seem intuitive.Recording Three(22) Why do old people dislike new music? As I’ve grown older, I often hear people my age say things like, “T hey just don’t make good music like they used to.” (22) Why does this happen? Luckily, psychology can give us some insights into this puzzle. Musical taste begins crystallized as early as age 13 or 14. By the time we’re in our early 20s, these tastes get l ocked into place pretty firmly.(23) In fact, studies have found that by the time we turn 33, most of us have stopped listening to new music. Meanwhile, popular songs released when you in the early teens are likely to remain quite popular among your age group for the rest of your life. There could be a biological explanation for this. As there’s evidence that the brain’s ability to make subtle distinctions between different chords,rhythms, and melodies deteriorate rates with age, so to older people, newer, less familiar songs might all sound the same.But there may be some simpler reasons for older people’s aversion to new music.(24) One of the most researched laws of social psychology is something called the “mere exposure effect”, which, in essence, means that the more we’re exposed to something, the more we tend to like it. This happens with people we know, the advertisements we see, and the songs we listen to.When you’re in your early teens, you probably spend a fair amount of time listening to music or watching music videos. Your favorite songs and artists become familiar, comforting parts of your routine. For many people over 30, job and family obligations increase. So there’s less time to spend discovering new music. Instead, many will simply listen to old familiar favorites from that period of their lives when they had more free time.Of course, those teen years weren’t necessarily care f ree. They’re famously confusing, which is why so many TV shows and movies revolve around high school turmoil. Psychology research has shown that (25) the emotions that we experience as teens seem more intense than those that come later. And we also know that intense emotions are associated with stronger memories and preferences. Both of these might explain why the songs we listen to during this period become so memorable and beloved. So t here’s nothing wrong with your parents because t hey don’t like your music. Rather, it’s all part of the natural order of things.Questions 22 to 25 are based on the recording you have just heard.Question 22. What does the speaker mainly discuss in this talk?22. A) Older people’ s aversion to new music.Question 23. What have studies found about most people by the time they turn 33?23. C) They find all music sounds the same.Question 24. What do we learn from one of the most researched laws of social psychology?24. A) The more you experience something, the better you’ll appreciate it. Question 25. What might explain the fact that songs people listen to in their teen years are memorable and beloved?25. D) Teenagers’ emotions are more intense.听力参考答案：1.B)Her claim has been completely disregarded2.B) The groundfloor of their cottage was flooded3.A)Thewoman's failure to pay her house insurance intime4.D)Filea lawsuit against the insurance company .5.C) They disagree about the future of Al technology .6.D)Lesstime- consuming and focusing on creation7.C) Digitallife could replace human civilization8.A)It will be smarter than human beings9.C)Saveone-ffth of their net monthly income10.D) Start by doing something small11.A)A proper mindset12.A)She found her outfit inappropriate13.D) To save the trouble of choosing a unique outfit everyday14.B)It matters alot in jobs involving interactions withothers15.C)Do whatever is possible to looksmart .16.B) Their obession with consumption17.A) Things that we cherish most18.C) They serve multiple purposes19.D) Over 10%of the respondents lied about the distancethe drove20.B) They want to protect their reputation21.C)Theyseemintuitive.22.A)Olderpeople'sa version to new music .23.C) They find all music sounds the same .24.A) The more you experience something ， the better youllappreciate it.25.D)Teenagers' emotions are more intense .翻译第一套港珠澳大桥（Hong Kong- Zhuhai-Macau Bridge)全长55公里，是我国一项不同寻常的工程壮举。

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2020年大学英语六级阅读理解试题及答案（卷九）With its common interest in lawbreaking but its immense range of subject matter and widely varying methods of treatment, the crime novel could make a legitimate claim to be regarded as a separate branch of literature, or, at least, as a distinct, even though a slightly disreputable, shoot of the traditional novel.The detective story is probably the most respectable (at any rate in the narrow sense of the word) of the crime species. Its creation is often the relaxation of university dons, literary economists, scientists or even poets. Fatalities may occur more frequently and mysteriously than might be expected in polite society, but the world in which they happen, the village, seaside resort, college or studio, is familiar to us, if not from our own experience, at least in the newspaper or the lives of friends. The characters, though normally realized superficially, are as recognizably human and consistent as our less intimate associates. A story set in a more remote environment, African jungle, or Australian bush, ancient China or gaslit London, appeals to our interest in geography or history, and most detective story writers are conscientious in providing a reasonably authentic background. The elaborate, carefully-assembled plot, despised by the modem intellectual critics and creators of significant novels, has found refuge in the murder mystery, with its sprinkling of clues, its spicing with apparent impossibilities, all withappropriate solutions and explanations at the end. With the guilt of escapism from Real Life, nagging gently, we secretly revel in the unmasking of evil by a vaguely super-human sleuth (侦探), who sees through and dispels the cloud of suspicion which has hovered so unjustly over the innocent.Though its villain also receives his rightful deserts, the thriller presents a less comfortable and credible world. The sequence of fist fights, revolver duels, car crashes and escapes from gas-filled cellars exhausts the reader far more than the hero, who suffers from at least two broken ribs, one black eye, uncountable bruises and a hangover, can still chase and overpower an armed villain With the physique of wrestler. He moves dangerously through a world of ruthless gangs, brutality, a vicious lust for power and money and, in contrast to the detective tale, with a near-omniscient arch-criminal whose defeat seems almost accidental. Perhaps we miss in the thriller the security of being safely led by our calm investigator past a score of red herrings and blind avenues to a final gathering of suspects when an unchallengeable elucidation (解释) of all that has bewildered us is given and justice and goodness prevail. All that we vainly hope for from life is granted vicariously(间接地).57. The crime novel may be regarded as[A] not a tree novel at all [B] an independent development of the novel[C] related in some ways to the historical novel [D] a quite respectable form of the conventional novel58. The passage suggests that intellectuals write detective stories because[ A] they enjoy writing these stories [ B ] the stories are often in fact very instructive[ C ] detective stories are an accepted branch of literature [ D ] the creation of these stories demands considerable intelligence59. What feature of the detective story is said to disqualify it from respectful consideration by intellectual critics?[ A ] The fact that the guilty are always found out and the innocent cleared.[ B ] The lack of interest in genuine character revelations.[ C ] The existence of a neat closely-knit story.[ D ] The many seemingly impossible events.60. One of the most incredible characteristics of the hero of a thriller is[A]his exciting life [B] his amazing toughness[C] the way he deals with enemies [D] his ability to escape from dangerous situations61. In what way are the detective story and the thriller unlike?[A] In introducing violence. [B]In providing excitement and。

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【网络综合版】听力：Section ALong Conversation OneM: You are a professor of Physics at the University of Oxford. You are a senior advisor at the European Organization for Nuclear Research. You also seem to tour the global tirelessly, giving talks. And in addition, you have your own weekly TV show On Science. Where do you get the energy?W: Oh, well. 【Q1】I just love what I do. I am extremely fortunate to have this life, doing what I love doing.M: Professor, what exactly is your goal? Why do you do all of these?W: well, as you said, I do have different things going on. But these I think can be divided into 【Q2】two groups: the education of science, and the further understanding of science.M: Don't these two things get in the way of each other? What I mean is, doesn't giving lectures take time away from the lab?。

2020年6月至2020年6月英语六级阅读理解真题及答案【9套卷全】

Passage OneWhen the right person is holding the right job at the right moment, that person's influence is greatly expanded. That is the position in which Janet Yellen, who is expected to be confirmed as the next chair of the Federal Reserve Bank (FeD. in January, now finds herself. If you believe, as many do, that unemployment is the major economic and social concern of our day, then it is no stretch to think Yellen is the most powerful person in the world right now.56. What do many people think is the biggest problem facing Janet Yellen?【C】A. Lack of money.B. Subprime crisis.C. Unemployment.D. Social instability.57. What did Yellen help the Fed do to tackle the 2008 financial crisis?【D】A. Take effective measures to curb inflation.B. Deflate the bubbles in the American economy.C. Formulate policies to help financial institutions.D. Pour money into the market through asset buying.58. What is a greater concern of the general public?【B】A.Recession.B. Deflation.C. Inequality.D. Income.59. What is Yellen likely to do in her position as the Fed chief?【C】A. Develop a new monetary program.B. Restore public confidence.C. Tighten financial regulation.D. Reform the credit system.60. How does Alan Blinder portray Yellen?【A】A. She possesses strong persuasive power.B. She has confidence in what she is doing.C. She is one of the world's greatest economists.D. She is the most powerful Fed chief in history. Passage TwoAir pollution is deteriorating in many places around the world. The fact that public parks in cities become crowded as soon as the sun shines proves that people long to breathe in green, open spaces. They do not all know what they are seeking but they flock there, nevertheless. And, in these surroundings, they are generally both peaceful and peaceable. It is rare to see people fighting in a garden. Perhaps struggle unfolds first, not at an economic or social level, but over the appropriation of air, essential to life itself.61. What does the author assume might be the primary reason that people would struggle with each other【A】A. To get their share of clean air.B. To pursue a comfortable life.C. To gain a higher social status.D. To seek economic benefits.62. What does the author accuse western politicians of?【D】A. Depriving common people of the right to clean air.B. Giving priority to theory rather than practical action.C. Offering preferential treatment to wealthy countries.D. Failing to pass laws to curb environmental pollution.63. What does the author try to draw our closest attention to?【B】A. The massive burning of fossil fuels.B. Our relationship to the plant world.C. The capacity of plants to renew polluted air.D. Large-scale deforestation across the world.64. How can human beings accomplish the goal of protecting the planet according to the a?【D】A. By showing respect for plants.B. By preserving all forms of life.C. By tapping all natural resources.D. By pooling their efforts together.65. What does the author suggest we do in order not just to survive?【C】A. Expand the sphere of living.B. Develop nature's potentials.C. Share life with nature.D. Allocate the resources.Passage OneI'll admit I've never quite understood the obsession (难以破除的成见) surrounding genetically modified (GM) crops.56. How do environmentalist opponents view GM foods according to the passage?【B】A. They will eventually ruin agriculture and the environment.B. They are used by big businesses to monopolize agriculture.C. They have proved potentially harmful to consumers' health.D. They pose a tremendous threat to current farming practice.57. What does the author say is vital to solving the controversy between the two sides of the debate? 【D】A. Breaking the GM food monopoly.B. More friendly exchange of ideas.C. Regulating GM food production.D. More scientific research on GM crops.58. What is the main point of the Nature articles? 【A】A. Feeding the growing population makes it imperative to develop GM crops.B. Popularizing GM technology will help it to live up to its initial promises.C. Measures should be taken to ensure the safety of GM foods.D. Both supporters and opponents should make compromises.59. What is the author's view on the solution to agricultural problems? 【D】A. It has to depend more and more on GM technology.B. It is vital to the sustainable development of human society.C. GM crops should be allowed until better alternatives are found.D. Whatever is useful to boost farming efficiency should be encouraged.60.What does the author think of the ongoing debate around GM crops? 【C】A. It arises out of ignorance of and prejudice against new science.B. It distracts the public attention from other key issues of the world.C. Efforts spent on it should be turned to more urgent issues of agriculture.D. Neither side is likely to give in until more convincing evidence is found.Passage TwoEarly decision--you apply to one school, and admission is binding--seems like a great choice for nervous applicants.61. What are students obliged to do under early decision?【B】A. Look into a lot of schools before they apply.B. Attend the school once they are admitted.C. Think twice before they accept the offer.D. Consult the current students and alumni.62. Why do schools offer early decision?【A】A. To make sure they get qualified students.B. To avoid competition with other colleges.C. To provide more opportunities for applicants.D. To save students the agony of choosing a school.63. What is said to be the problem with early decision for students?【C】A. It makes their application process more complicated.B. It places too high a demand on their research ability.C. It allows them little time to make informed decisions.D. It exerts much more psychological pressure on them.64. Why are some people opposed to early decision?【D】A. It interferes with students' learning in high school.B. It is biased against students at ordinary high schools.C. It causes unnecessary confusion among college applicants.D. It places students from lower-income families at a disadvantage.65. What does the author advise college applicants to do?【B】A. Refrain from competing with students from privileged families.B. Avoid choosing early decision unless they are fully prepared.C. Find sufficient information about their favorite schools.D. Look beyond the few supposedly thrilling options.2015.06【3】Passage OneThe report from the Bureau of Labor Statistics was just as gloomy as anticipated．Unemployment in January jumped to a l6一year high of 7．6 percent，as 598 000 jobs were slashed from US payrolls in the worst single-month decline since December，1974．With l．8 million iobs 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．56．What d0 we learn from the first paragraph?【A】A.1me US economic situation is going from bad to worse．B.Washington is taking drastic measures to provide more jobs．C.111e US government is slashing more jobs from its payrolls．D.The recent economic crisis has taken the US by surprise．57．、Ⅳhat does the author think of the unemployment figures and other statistics? 【D】A.They form a solid basis for policy makin9．B.The．y represent the current situation．C.They signal future economic trend．D.They do not fully reflect the reality．58．One problem with the payroll survey is that________．【B】A.it does not include all the businessesB.it fails to count in the self—employedC.it magnifies the number of the joblessD.it does not treat all companies equally59．111e household survey can be faulty in that_________．【C】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 broad 60．At the end of the passage，the author suggests that_______．【B】A.statisticians improve their data assembling methodsB.decision makers view the statistics with a critical eyeC.politicians listen more before making policy decisionsD.Democrats and Republicans cooperate on crucial issuesPassage TwoAt 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．61．In what way is the year 2008 historic? 【A】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 urbanisation made a start in Asia and Africa．D.The population increase in cities reached a new peak in Asia and Africa．62．What does the author say about urbanisation? 【B】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．63．How does the author comment on Peter Smith’s new book?【D】A.It is but an ordinary coffee—table book．B.It is flavoured with humourous stories．C.It serves as a guide to arts and commerce．D.It is written in a lively and interesting style．64．What does the author say in the chapter on skyscrapers? 【D】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．65．What may be one criticism of Mr．Smith’s book?【C】A)It does not really touch on anything serious．B.It is too long for people to read from cover to cover．C.It does not deal with any aspect of city life in depth．D.It fails to provide sound advice to city dwellers．2014.12【1】Passage OneInternational governments’ inaction concerning sustainable development is clearly worrying but the proactive (主动出击的) approaches of some leading-edge companies areencouraging. Toyota, Wal-Mart, DuPont, M&S and General Electric have made tackling environmental wastes a key economic driver.56.What does the author say about some leading-edge companies? 【B】A. They operate in accordance with government policies.B. They take initiatives in handling environmental wastes.C. They are key drivers in their nations’ economic growth.D. They are major contributors to environmental problems.57.What motivates Toyota and Wal-Mart to make commitments to environmental protection? 【C】A. The goodness of their hearts.B. A strong sense of responsibility.C. The desire to generate profits.D. Pressure from environmentalists.58.Why are so many companies reluctant to create an environment-friendly business system? 【C】A. They are bent on making quick money.B. They do not have the capital for the investment.C. They believe building such a system is too costly.D. They lack the incentive to change business practices.59.What is said about the lean and green model of business? 【A】A. It helps businesses to save and gain at the same time.B. It is affordable only for a few leading-edge companies.C. It is likely to start a new round of intense competition.D. It will take a long time for all companies to embrace it.60.What is the finding of the studies about companies committed to environmental goals? 【B】A. They have greatly enhanced their sense of social responsibility.B. They do much better than their counterparts in terms of revenues.C. They have abandoned all the outdated equipment and technology.D. They make greater contributions to human progress than their rivals.Passage TwoIf you asked me to describe the rising philosophy of the day, I’d say it is data-ism. We now have the ability to gather huge amounts of data. This ability seems to carry with it certain cultural assumptions — that everything that can be measured should be measured; that data is a transparent and reliable lens that allows us to filter out emotionalism and ideology; that data will help us do remarkable things — like foretell the future.61.What do data-ists assume they can do? 【D】A. Transform people’s cultural identity.B. Change the way future events unfold.C. Get a firm grip on the most important issues.D. Eliminate emotional and ideological bias.62.What do people running for political office think they can do? 【B】A. Use data analysis to predict the election result.B. Win the election if they can raise enough funds.C. Manipulate public opinion with favorable data.D. Increase the chances of winning by foul means.63.Why do many teachers favor the idea of tailoring their presentations to different students? 【C】A. They think students prefer flexible teaching methods.B. They will be able to try different approaches.C. They believe students’ learning styles vary.D. They can accommodate students with special needs.64.What does James Pennebaker reveal in The Secret Life of Pronouns? 【D】A. The importance of using pronouns properly.B. Repeated use of first-person pronouns by self-centered people.C. Frequent use of pronouns and future tense by young people.D. A pattern in confident people’s use of pronouns.65.Why is the author skeptical of the data revolution? 【C】A. Data may not be easily accessible.B. Errors may occur with large data samples.C. Data cannot always do what we imagine it can.D. Some data may turn out to be outdated. 2014.12【2】Passage OneNothing succeeds in business books like th e study of success. The current business-book boom was launched in 1982 by Tom Peters and Robert Waterman with In Search ofExcellence. The trend has continued with a succession of experts and would-be experts who promise to distil the essenceof excellence into three (or five or seven) simple rules.56.What kind of business books are most likely to sell well?【A】A. Books on excellence.B. Guides to management.C. Books on business rules.D. Analyses of market trends.57.What does the author imply about books on success so far?【C】A. They help businessmen one way or another.B. They are written by well-recognised experts.C. They more or less fall into the same stereotype.D. They are based on analyses of corporate leaders.58.How does The Three Rules differ from other success books according to the passage? 【B】A. It focuses on the behaviour of exceptional businessmen.B. It bases its detailed analysis on large amounts of data.C. It offers practicable advice to businessmen.D. It draws conclusions from vivid examples.59.What does the passage say contributes to the success of exceptional companies? 【A】A. Focus on quality and revenue.B. Management and sales promotion.C. Lower production costs and competitive prices.D. Emphasis on after-sale service and maintenance.60.What is the author’s comment on The Three Rules?【D】A. It can help to locate profitable niches.B. It has little to offer to business people.C. It is noted for its detailed data analysis.D. It fails to identify the keys to success.Passage TwoUntil recently, the University of Kent prided itself on its friendly image. Not any more.Over the past few months it has been working hard, with the help of media consultants, to play down its cosy reputation in favour of something more academic and serious.61.What was the University of Kent famous for?【A】A. Its comfortable campus life.B. Its up-to-date course offerings.C. Its distinguished teaching staff.D. Its diverse academic programmes.62.What are universities trying to do to attract students? 【D】A. Improve their learning environment.B. Offer more scholarships to the gifted.C. Upgrade their campus facilities.D. Present a better academic image.63.What does Rob Behrens suggest universities do in marketing themselves? 【C】A. Publicise the achievements of their graduates.B. Go to extra lengths to cater to students’ needs.C. Refrain from making promises they cannot honour.D. Survey the expectations of their prospective students.64.What is students’ chief consideration in choosing a university?【B】A. Whether it promises the best job prospects.B. Whether it is able to deliver what they want.C. Whether it ranks high among similar institutions.D. Whether it offers opportunities for practical training.65.What must universities show to win recruitment campaigns? 【D】A. They are positioned to meet the future needs of society.B. They are responsible to students for their growth.C. They are ever ready to improve themselves.D. They are unique one way or another.2014.12【3】Passage OneIt is easy to miss amid the day-to-day headlines of global economic recession,but there is a less conspicuous kind of social upheaval (剧变) underway that is fast altering both the face of the planet and the way human beings live. That change is the rapid acceleration of urbanization.56.What issue does the author try to draw people’s attention to?【D】A. The shrinking biodiversity worldwide.B. The rapid increase of world population.C. The ongoing global economic recession.D. The impact of accelerating urbanization.57.In what sense are humans the ultimate invasive species?【C】A. They are much greedier than other species.B. They are a unique species born to conquer.C. They force other species out of their territories.D. They have an urge to expand their living space.58.In what way is urbanization in poor countries good for the environment?【B】A. More land will be preserved for wildlife.B. The pressure on farmland will be lessened.C. Carbon emissions will be considerably reduced.D. Natural resources will be used more effectively.59.What does the author say about living comfortably in the city?【A】A. It incurs a high environmental price.B. It brings poverty and insecurity to an end.C. It causes a big change in people’s lifestyle.D. It narrows the gap between city and country.60.What can be done to minimize the negative impact of urbanization according to Seto?【C】A. Slowing down the speed of transition.B. Innovative use of advanced technology.C. Appropriate management of the process.D. Enhancing people’s sense of responsibility. Passage TwoWhen Harvard student Mark Zuckerberg launched in Feb. 2004, even he could not imagine the forces it would let loose. His intent was to connect college students. Facebook, which is what this website rapidly evolved into, ended up connecting the world.61.What was the purpose of Facebook when it was first created?【B】A. To help students connect with the outside world.B. To bring university students into closer contact.C. To help students learn to live in a connected era.D. To combine the world into an integral whole.62.What difference does social media make to learning?【D】A. Local knowledge and global knowledge will merge.B. Students will become more curious and ambitious.C. People are able to learn wherever they travel.D. Sources of information are greatly expanded.63. What is the author’s greatest concern with social media technology?【A】A. Individuals and organizations may use it for evil purposes.B. Government will find it hard to protect classified information.C. People may disclose their friends’ information unintentionally.D. People’s attent ion will be easily distracted from their work in hand.64.What do businesses use social media for?【B】A. Creating a good corporate image.B. Anticipating the needs of customers.C. Conducting large-scale market surveys.D. Minimizing possible risks and dangers.65.What does the author think of social media as a whole?【A】A. It will enable human society to advance at a faster pace.B. It will pose a grave threat to our traditional ways of life.C. It is bound to bring about another information revolution.D. It breaks down the final barriers in human communication.2014.06【1】Passage OneTexting has long been bemoaned (哀叹) as the downfall of the written word, "penmanship for illiterates," as one critic called it. To which the proper response is LOL. Texting properly isn't writing at all. It's a "spoken" language that is getting richer and more complex by the year.56. What do critics say about texting?【C】A．It is mainly confined to youngsters. B．It competes with traditional writing.C．It will ruin the written language. D．It is often hard to understand.57. In what way does the author say writing is different from talking? 【A】A．It is crafted with specific skills. B．It expresses ideas more accurately.C．It does not have as long a history. D．It is not as easy to comprehend.58. Why is LOL much used in texting? 【A】A．It brings texters closer to each other. B．It shows the texter's sophistication.C．It is a trendy way to communicate D．It adds to the humor of the text.59.Examples like meat and silly are cited to show . 【D】A．the difference between writing and talking B．how differently words are used in texting C．why people use the words the way they do D．the gradual change of word meaning60. What does the author think of texting? 【B】A．It facilitates exchange of ideas among people. B．It is a new form of verbal communication. C．It deteriorates people's composition skills. D．It hastens the decline of the written word. Passage TwoIt's possible to admire Oprah Winfrey and still wish Harvard hadn't awarded her an honorary doctor of law degree and the commencement (毕业典礼) speaker spot at yesterday's graduation.61. What do we learn about Oprah Winfrey from the passage? 【B】A．She was a distinguished graduate of Harvard School of Law.B．She worked her way to success in the entertainment industry.C．She used to abuse her children when she was a young mother.D．She achieved her fame through persistent advocacy of fake science.62. Why does the author deem it inappropriate for Harvard to confer an honorary degree on Oprah Winfrey? 【B】A．She did not specialize in the study of law.B．She was known as s supporter of fake science.C．She was an icon of the entertainment industry.D．She had not distinguished herself academically.63. How did Harry Lewis react to Harvard's decision in his blog post? 【A】A．He was strongly against it. B．He considered it unpopular.C．He thought it would help enhance Harvard's reputation.D．He thought it represented the will of the Harvard community.64.What is the author's regret about many American universities? 【C】A．They show inadequate respect for evidence-based inquiry.B．They fall short of expectations in teaching and research.C．They attach too much importance to public relations.D．They are tolerant of political and religious nonsense.65. What does the author think a prestigious university like Harvard should focus on? 【D】A．Cultivation of student creativity. B．Defense of the scientific method.C．Liberation of the human mind. D．Pursuit of knowledge and truth.2014.06【2】Passage OneTechnology can make us smarter or stupider, and we need to develop a set of principles to guide our everyday behavior and make sure that tech is improving and not hindering our mental processes. One of the big questions being debated today is: What kind of information do we need to have stored in our heads, and what kind can we leave "in the cloud," to be accessed as necessary?56. What is the author's concern about the use of technology?【D】A．It may leave knowledge "in the cloud". B．It may misguide our everyday behavior.C．It may cause a divide in the circles of education.D．It may hinder the development of thinking skills.57. What is the view of educators who advocate digital literacy? 【D】A．It helps kids to navigate the virtual world at will.B．It helps kids to broaden their scope of knowledge.C．It increases kids' efficiency of acquiring knowledge.D．It liberates kids from the burden of memorizing facts.58. What does evidence from cognitive science show? 【B】A．Knowledge is better kept in long-term memory.B．Critical thinking is based on factual knowledge.C．Study skills are essential to knowledge acquisition.D．Critical thinking means challenging existing facts.59. What does the author think is key to making evaluations? 【C】A．Gathering enough evidence before drawing conclusions.B．Mastering the basic rules and principles for evaluation.C．Connecting new information with one's accumulated knowledge.D．Understanding both what has happened and why it has happened.60. What is the author's purpose in writing the passage? 【D】A．To warn against learning through memorizing facts.B．To promote educational reform in the information age.C．To explain human brains' function in storing information.D．To challenge the prevailing overemphasis on digital literacy.Passage TwoAmerica's recent history has been a persistent tilt to the West--of people, ideas, commerce and even political power. California and Texas are the twin poles of the West, but very different ones. For most of the 20th century the home of Silicon Valley and Hollywood has been the brainier and trendier of the two.61. What does the author say about California and Texas in Paragraph 17【B】A．They have been competing for the leading position.B．California has been superior to Texas in many ways.C．They are both models of development for other states.D．Texas's cowboy culture is less known than California's.62. What does the author say about today's California? 【C】A．Its debts are pushing it into bankruptcy. B．Its budgets have been cut by $26 billion. C．It is faced with a serious financial crisis. D．It is trying hard to protect the vulnerable. 63. In what way is Texas different from California? 【A】A．It practices small government. B．It is home to traditional industries. C．It has a large Hispanic population. D．It has an enviable welfare system.64. What problem is Texas confronted with? 【C】A．Its Hispanic population is mostly illiterate. B．Its sunrise industries are shrinking rapidly. C．Its education cannot meet the needs of the knowledge economy.D．Its immigrants have a hard time adapting to its cowboy culture.65. What do we learn about American politics from the passage? 【A】A．Each state has its own way of governing. B．Most states favor a bipartisan approach. C．Parties collaborate in drawing public policies.D．All states believe in government for the people.2014.06【3】Passage One"Deep reading"--as opposed to the often superficial reading we do on the Web--is an ending erer practice, one we ought to take steps to preserve as we would a historic building or a significant work of art..56. What does the author say about "deep reading"?【B】A．It serves as a complement to online reading. B．It should be preserved before it is too late. C．It is mainly suitable for reading literature. D．It is an indispensable part of education.57. Why does the author advocate the reading of literature? 【A】A．It helps promote readers' intellectual and emotional growth.B．It enables readers to appreciate the complexity of language.C．It helps readers build up immersive reading habits.。

2020年7月英语六级考试参考答案

2020年7月英语六级考试参考答案写作对明天做好的准备就是今天做到最好The best preparation for tomorrow is doing your best today范文：There is a famous saying that the best preparation for tomorrow is to do good work today. Simple as the saying is, it informs us that one do esn’t need to worry about the future if he can seize the moment.It is generally believed that taking immediate action is of great importance. Doing good work today enables people to achieve their great goals step by step. Assume a college student who is indulged in his wishful thinking of passing the CET-6 exam with a high score without any efforts and hardwork，and he will be devastated to accept the reality when he fails. The same thing may be said of some grown-ups who aspire to gain fame and fortune but never bother to put their splendid plans into practice immediately.Therefore, by some means or other we must take action to pursue our goals. It is necessary for us to aim high but our behaviors should also deserve our dreams. We are supposed to put our efforts into every single day and never look down upon those little tasks. Only in this way can we fulfill our dreams.听力Section AConversation OneQuestions 1 to 4 are based on the conversation you have just heard.1. What do we learn about Anna Sanchez?定位句：(1) Mrs. Anna Sanchez is a three-time Olympic champion and author of the new book To the Edge Mrs. Sanchez,2. What is the woman’s book mainly about?定位句：(2) The book is about how science and technology has helped to push humans to the edge of their physical abilities.3. What has changed in the past thousands of years?定位句：(3) I believe that while our bodies have not changed in thousands of years, what has changed is the scientific knowledge.4. What is the man’s concern about the use of technology in sports competitions?定位句：(4) Is there any concern that technology is giving some athletes an unfair advantage over others.Conversation TwoQuestions 5 to 8 are based on the conversation you have just heard.5. What does the woman think is required to be successful in international trade?定位句：(5) Trends and demand come and go. So one needs to be very flexible to succeed in this industry.6. What does the woman say is special about her way of doing trade?定位句：(6) I even use the same container. It's a very efficient way of conducting trade.7. What does the woman have in both Italy and China?定位句：(7) I have a warehouse in Genova Italy and another in Shanghai.8. What does the woman say makes furniture marginally more profitable?定位句：(8) Furniture is marginally more profitable, mostly because it enjoys lower customs duties.Section BPassage OneQuestions 9 to 11 are based on the passage you have just heard.8. What does the passage say about humor in the work place?定位句：(9)Humor unlocks the office prison because it lets adults bring some of their child-like spirit to the job.9. What does the study by Howard Poleo show?定位句：(10)Poleo conducted the study that proved humor can help workers excel at routine production tasks.11. What can ask employees do in the humor room?定位句：(11)Employees can take the doll apart, as long as they put arms and legs back in place.Passage two.Questions 12 to 15 are based on the passage you have just heard.12. What does the speaker say has aroused public interest?定位句：（12）Public interest was aroused by the latest discovery of a changed gene in an obese mice.13. What do we learn about the changed gene?定位句：（13）Those with the changed gene may not sense when they have eaten enough or if they have sufficient fatty tissue. And thus can't tell when to stop eating.14. What does university of Vermont psychologist Esther off burn say?定位句：（14）This research indicates that people really are born with a tendency to have a certain weight, just as they are to have a particular skin color or height.15. What accounts for Americans obesity according to a survey by the center for disease control? 定位句：（15）Such rapid change underlines the role of environmental factors, like the abundance of rich foods in Americans overeating.Section CRecording OneQuestions 16 to18 are based on the recording you have just heard.16. What quality do men value most concerning friendship according to a questionnaire定位句：(16) Asked to consider the ingredients of close friendship, women rated these qualities above all others, men assigned a lower priority to them in favor of similarity and interests (selected by 77% of men),17. What do women refer to when speaking of close friendships?定位句：(17) It is evident by their selections that when women speak of close friendships, they're referring to emotional factors,18. What may threaten a friendship for both men and women?定位句：(18) As for the hazards of friendship, more than a few relationships have been shattered because of cutthroat competition and feelings of betrayal. This applies to both men and women, but unequally.Recording TwoQuestions 19 to 21 are based on the recording you have just heard.19. Where can many of the best dinosaur specimens be found in North America?定位句：(19)Many of the best specimens may be seen today at museums of natural history in the larger cities of the United States and Canada.20. What occurs to many people when they see the massive bones in the pit wall?定位句：(20)Many people get the idea from the massive bones in the pit wall that some disaster such as a volcanic explosion or a sudden flood killed a whole herd of dinosaurs in this area.21. What does the speaker suggest about the large number of dinosaur bones found in the pit? 定位句：(21)The pit area is the large dinosaur graveyard, not a place where they died. Most of the remains probably floated down on eastward flowing river until they were left on a shallow sandbar.Recording ThreeQuestions 22 to 25 are based on recording you have just heard.21. What have young Americans been accused of?定位句（22）Young people in this country have been accused of not caring for their parents the way they would have in the old country.22. What does the speakers say about old people in the United States?定位句：（23）old people have been influenced by an American ideal of independence and autonomy. So we live alone, perhaps on the verge of starvation in time without friends. But we are independent.23. What is astonishing to the young mothers interviewed by the speaker?定位句：（24）They were astonished to hear that in most of the world, throughout most of its history, families have been three or four generation families living under the same roof.25. What does the speakers say older people try their best to do?定位句：(25)So in the end, older people have to devote all their energies to not being a burden. 阅读26.grabbed28.stake29.overwhwlming30.eroding31.deteriorating32.stagnation33.determined34.urgent35.capacity36.Cpiaget Believed that small children37. JThe author and his colleagues38.BIn the latter half of the last century39.AResearch conducted by Jane.40.KOur improved understanding of babies.41. EIt has been found in recent research42.MScientists are still debating.43.Hthe newer research methods focus on44.DWith the progress in psychology45.LEven though marked advances have been made.46.B.They hold a different view on stress from the popular one.47.DThey apply extreme tactics.48.AThey help him combat stress from work.49.CIt is something everybody has to live with.50.CIts effect varies considerably from person to person. 51.BHunting may also be asolution.52.AIt keeps him pollution under control.53.AOver pollution is not an issue.54.CMany birds and small animals are being.55.CCoordinated efforts of hunter.翻译《三国演义》写于14世纪，是中国著名的历史小说。

2020年9月英语六级阅读赏析(最新)

【篇一】2020年9月英语六级阅读赏析The starting point to change your beliefs is to get up the courage to question them seriously. Question your basic premises.Check your assumptions.Ask yourself, "What assumptions am I making about myself or my situation that might not be true?"It's a fact that we fall in love with our excuses and our assumptions.We fall in love with our reasons for not moving ahead.Even if someone comes along and challenges those reasons,even if someone tells you that you have the capacity to accomplish marvelous things,you will argue with him.If someone tells you that you can do far better than you're doing right now, you will come up with reasons to dispute this person's greater belief in your potential.Believing in YourselfYour beliefs about reality are based on a thousand influences,many of which began even before you were aware of what was going on.You have beliefs that are deep and beliefs that are shallow.Deep beliefs,with regard to your religion or your political party or your family,or especially yourself,are very hand to change.Shallow beliefs are easily changed.And many of your beliefs are in fact very shallow.They have nosubstance to them whatsoever.If you challenge them hard enough.you'll find that they are made of tissue paper.They'll simply blow away.You can always tell what your true values and beliefs are by looking at your actions.It isntt what you say or wish or hope or intend that demonstrates what you really believe.It's only what you do.It's only the behaviors that you engage in.It's only the actions that you choose to undertake.Your values and beliefs are always expressed in your actions and behaviors.Once you've ciearly decided on the person you would like to become. you are on the path toward developing new beliefs.You then discipline yourself each day to behave exactly as you would if you were already thatperson.That simple technique. the "act as if" technique, is extraordinarily powerful.The more you act like the person you want to be, the more consistent your attitude will be with that person's.Your attitude will havethe back-flow effect of affecting your expectations.Positive expectations will have the back-flow effect of building beliefs that areconsistent with them.And your beliefs will exert an influence on your values.People succeed not because they have remarkable characteristics or qualities.The most successful people are quite ordinary,just like you and me.Most of us start off poor and confused.We spend many years getting some sort of direction in our lives.But the turning point comes when we begin to believe that we have within us that divine spark that can lead us onward and upward to the accomplishment of anything that we really want in life.【篇二】2020年9月英语六级阅读赏析People traveling long distances frequently have to decide whether they would prefer to go by land. sea, orair. Hardly can anyone positively enjoy sitting in a train for mort than a few hours. Train compartments soon get cramped and stuffy. Reading is only a partial solution. for the monotonous rhythm of the wheels clicking on the rails soon lulls you to sleep. During the day, sleep comes in snatches. At night when you really wish to go to sleep you rarely manage to do so. Inevitably you arrive at your destination almost exhausted. Long car journey are even less pleasant. for it is quite impossible even to read. On motorways you can. at least, travel fairly safely at high speeds, but more often than not, the greater pan of the journey is spent on narrow. bumpy roads which are crowded wich traffic. By comparison, trips by sea offer a great variety of civilized comforts. You can stretch your legs on the spacious decks, play games, swim, meet interesting people and enjoy good food-always assuming, of course, that the sea is calm. If it is not and you are likely to get seasick; no form of transport could be worse. Even if you travel in ideal weather, sea journeys take a long time. Relatively few people are prepared to sacrifice up to a third of their holidays for the pleasure of traveling on a ship.Airplanes have the reputation of being dangerous and expensive. But nothing can match them for speed and comfort. Traveling at a height of 30,000 feet. far above the clouds, and at over 500 miles an hour is an exhilarating experience. For a few hours, you settle back in a deep armchair to enjoy the flight. The real escapist can watch a free film show and sip champagne on some services. But even when such refinements are not available, there is plenty to keep you occupied. An airplane offers you an unusual and breathtaking view of the world. You soar effortlessly over high mountains and deep valleys. You really see the shape of the land. If the landscape is hidden from the view. you can enjoy the extraordinary sight of unbroken cloudplains that stretch om for miles before you, while the sun shines brilliantly in a clear sky. The journey is so smooth thatthere is nothing to prevent you from reading or sleeping. However you decide to spend your time, one thing is certain: you will arrive at your destination fresh and uncrumpled.【篇三】2020年9月英语六级阅读赏析Depending on which player you ask, the "Fevernova" ball that sports equipment maker Adidas says provides the ultimate soccer experience is Uncontrollable, too big or just simply "stupid". The ball also has its fans, like England's David Beckham. but so far they seem to have been outnumbered by critics.Adidas says the ball. splashed with gold coloring. is quite simply the best around-25 percent more accurate than the ball used at France 98 thanks to meticulous testing by scientists in Germany.The tongue-twisting nature of its contents confirms that the World Cup ball has come a long way from the leather-and-laces variety that was common as recently as the 1960s.The Fevernova's secret. Adidas says. is its radically improved Syntactic foam and unique knitted Raschel fabric.Given that this is supposed to make the ball faster and provide the freekick specialists like Beckham withmore power, it may not be surprising that goalkeepers like Buffon are unhappy. Spain goalkeeper Pedro Contreras said the bail acts "strangely", while Danish keeper Thomas Sorensen admitted gloomily that it would probably result in more spectacular goals. "As a goalkeeper, you have to live with the fact that the makers create balls for the benefit of strikers." he said before leaving Copenhagen for South Korea.But outfield players have also weighed in with criticism, many saying the ball is too light and therefore hard to control. "It’s big and it's too light," Japan's Jiji news agency quoted Brazilian forward Edilsonas saying earlier this month. while striker Rivaldo said it soared too far when kicked.Journalists at the main press centre in Yokohama have been given the chance to try out the Fevernova from the penalty spot, with the aim of hitting special targets in the goal. So far. few have been able to scoremore than five out of ten, although this may have little to do with the quality of the ball.Putz. admits that the ball is on the light side of FIFA's 420 to 445 gram weight requirement. but says it is no bigger than previous balls.The controversy over the ball also has an off-pitch dimension. Industry insiders say it may be no coincidence that players from Brazil. sponsored by Adidas rival Nike, have been among the ball's most vociferous critics.The same might go for the praise dished out for the ball by Beckham. one of the main players used to promote Adidas equipment.。

2020 年 9 月英语六级考试真题答案(第 1 套)

2020年9月英语六级考试真题答案（第1套）【作文】Directions:For this part,you are allowed30minutes to write an essay on the saying Wealth of the mind is the only true wealth.You should write at Least150 words but no more than200words.答案略【选词填空第1套】26.L.realms27.C.heavily28.H.mastering29.B.fatigue30.E.hospitalized31.J.obsessedbeled33.N.ruin34.K.potential35.A.contrary【信息匹配第1套】How Telemedicine Is Transforming Healthcare36.D段落第一句None of this is to say that telemedicine37.H段落第一句Many health plans and employers have rushed38.E段落第一句What's more,for all the rapid growth39.B段落第一句Doctors are linking up with40.K段落第一句Who pays for the services?41.O段落第一句To date,17states have joined42.G段落第一句Do patients trade quality for convenience?43.F段落第一句Some critics also question whether44.I段落第一句But critics worry that such45.N段落第一句Is the state-by-state regulatory system【仔细阅读第1套】46-50(Sleeplessness)46.C They are deeply impressed by Danielle Steel's dailywork schedule.47.A She could serve as an example of industriousness.48.A They are questionable.49.C It may symbolise one's importance and success.50.B The general public should not be encouraged to follow it.51-55(Organic farming)51.B Organic farming may be exploited to solve the global food problem.52.D It is not that productive.53.C Inequality in food distribution.54.B It is not conducive to sustainable development.55.D Organic farming does long-term good to the ecosys-tem.【翻译】《西游记》(Journey to the West)也许是中国文学四大经典小说中最具影响力的一部，当然也是在国外最广为人知的一部小说。

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【有道考神版】【星火英语版】The best preparation for tomorrow is doing your best today对明天做好的准备就是今天做到最好范文：There is a famous saying that the best preparation for tomorrow is to do good work today. Simple as the saying is, it informs us that one doesn’t need to worry about the future if he can seize the moment.It is generally believed that taking immediate action is of great importance. Doing good work today enables people to achieve their great goals step by step. Assume a college student who is indulged in his wishful thinking of passing the CET-6 exam with a high score without any efforts and hardwork，and he will be devastated to accept the reality when he fails. The same thing may be said of some grown-ups who aspire to gain fame and fortune but never bother to put their splendid plans into practice immediately.Therefore, by some means or other we must take action to pursue our goals. It is necessary for us to aim high but our behaviors should also deserve our dreams. We are supposed to put our efforts into every single day and never look down upon those little tasks. Only in this way can we fulfill our dreams.Section AConversation OneQuestions 1 to 4 are based on the conversation you have just heard.1. What do we learn about Anna Sanchez?定位句：(1) Mrs. Anna Sanchez is a three-time Olympic champion and author of the new book To the Edge Mrs. Sanchez,2. What is the woman’s book mainly about?定位句：(2) The book is about how science and technology has helped to push humans to the edge of their physical abilities.3. What has changed in the past thousands of years?定位句：(3) I believe that while our bodies have not changed in thousands of years, what has changed is the scientific knowledge.4. What is the man’s concern about the use of technology in sports competitions?定位句：(4) Is there any concern that technology is giving some athletes an unfair advantage over others.Conversation TwoQuestions 5 to 8 are based on the conversation you have just heard.5. What does the woman think is required to be successful in international trade?定位句：(5) Trends and demand come and go. So one needs to be very flexible to succeed in this industry.6. What does the woman say is special about her way of doing trade?定位句：(6) I even use the same container. It's a very efficient way of conducting trade.7. What does the woman have in both Italy and China?定位句：(7) I have a warehouse in Genova Italy and another in Shanghai.8. What does the woman say makes furniture marginally more profitable?定位句：(8) Furniture is marginally more profitable, mostly because it enjoys lower customs duties.Section BPassage OneQuestions 9 to 11 are based on the passage you have just heard.8. What does the passage say about humor in the work place?定位句：(9)Humor unlocks the office prison because it lets adults bring some of their child-like spirit to the job.9. What does the study by Howard Poleo show?定位句：(10)Poleo conducted the study that proved humor can help workers excel at routine production tasks.11. What can ask employees do in the humor room?定位句：(11)Employees can take the doll apart, as long as they put arms and legs back in place.Passage two.Questions 12 to 15 are based on the passage you have just heard.12. What does the speaker say has aroused public interest?定位句：（12）Public interest was aroused by the latest discovery of a changed gene in an obese mice.13. What do we learn about the changed gene?定位句：（13）Those with the changed gene may not sense when they have eaten enough or if they have sufficient fatty tissue. And thus can't tell when to stop eating.14. What does university of Vermont psychologist Esther off burn say?定位句：（14） This research indicates that people really are born with a tendency to have a certain weight, just as they are to have a particular skin color or height.15. What accounts for Americans obesity according to a survey by the center fordisease control?定位句：（15）Such rapid change underlines the role of environmental factors, like the abundance of rich foods in Americans overeating.Section CRecording OneQuestions 16 to18 are based on the recording you have just heard.16. What quality do men value most concerning friendship according to a questionnaire response?定位句： (16) Asked to consider the ingredients of close friendship, women rated these qualities above all others, men assigned a lower priority to them in favor of similarity and interests (selected by 77% of men),17. What do women refer to when speaking of close friendships?定位句：(17) It is evident by their selections that when women speak of close friendships, they're referring to emotional factors,18. What may threaten a friendship for both men and women?定位句：(18) As for the hazards of friendship, more than a few relationships have been shattered because of cutthroat competition and feelings of betrayal. This applies to both men and women, but unequally.Recording TwoQuestions 19 to 21 are based on the recording you have just heard.19. Where can many of the best dinosaur specimens be found in North America?定位句：(19)Many of the best specimens may be seen today at museums of natural history in the larger cities of the United States and Canada.20. What occurs to many people when they see the massive bones in the pit wall?定位句： (20)Many people get the idea from the massive bones in the pit wall that some disaster such as a volcanic explosion or a sudden flood killed a whole herd of dinosaurs in this area.21. What does the speaker suggest about the large number of dinosaur bones found in the pit?定位句： (21)The pit area is the large dinosaur graveyard, not a place where they died. Most of the remains probably floated down on eastward flowing river until they were left on a shallow sandbar.Recording ThreeQuestions 22 to 25 are based on recording you have just heard.21. What have young Americans been accused of?定位句（22）Young people in this country have been accused of not caring for their parents the way they would have in the old country.22. What does the speakers say about old people in the United States?定位句：（23）old people have been influenced by an American ideal of independence and autonomy. So we live alone, perhaps on the verge of starvation in time without friends. But we are independent.23. What is astonishing to the young mothers interviewed by the speaker?定位句：（24）They were astonished to hear that in most of the world, throughout most of its history, families have been three or four generation families living under the same roof.25. What does the speakers say older people try their best to do?定位句：(25)So in the end, older people have to devote all their energies to not being a burden.阅读26.grabbed27.disaster28.stake29.overwhwlming30.eroding31.deteriorating32.stagnation33.determined34.urgent35.capacity36.Cpiaget Believed that small children 37. JThe author and his colleagues38.BIn the latter half of the last century 39.AResearch conducted by Jane.40.KOur improved understanding of babies.41. EIt has been found in recent research 42.MScientists are still debating.43.Hthe newer research methods focus on 44.DWith the progress in psychology45.LEven though marked advances have been made.46.B.They hold a different view on stress from the popular one.47.DThey apply extreme tactics.48.AThey help him combat stress from work.49.CIt is something everybody has to live with.50.CIts effect varies considerably from person to person.51.BHunting may also be asolution.52.AIt keeps him pollution under control.53.AOver pollution is not an issue.54.CMany birds and small animals are being.55.CCoordinated efforts of hunter.翻译《三国演义》写于14世纪，是中国著名的历史小说。

2020年9月英语六级真题及参考答案完整版(完整版)

2020年9月英语六级真题及参考答案【完整版】四六级试卷采用多题多卷形式，大家核对答案时，请找具体选项内容，忽略套数.搜集整理了各个版本(有文字也有图片)，仅供大家参考.【网络综合版】听力: Section A Long Conversation One M: You are a professor of Physics at the University of Oxford. You are a senior advisor at the European Organization for Nuclear Research. You also seem to tour the global tirelessly, giving talks. And in addition, you have your own weekly TV show On Science. Where do you get the energy? W: Oh, well. 【Q1】I just love what I do. I am extremely fortunate to have this life, doing what I love doing. M: Professor, what exactly is your goal? Why do you do all of these? W: well, as you said, I do have different things going on. But these I think can be divided into 【Q2】two groups: the education of science, and the further understanding of science. M: Don't these two things get in the way of each other? What I mean is, doesn't giving lectures take time away from the lab? W: Not really, no. I love teaching, and I don’t mind spending more time doing that now than in the past. Also, what I will say is, that 【Q3】teaching a subject helps me comprehend it better myself. I find that it furthers my own knowledge when I have to explain something clearly, when I have to aid others understanding it, and when I have to answer questions about it. Teaching at a high level can be very stimulating for anyone, no matter how much expertise they may already have in the field they are instructing. M: Are there any scientific breakthroughs that you see on the near horizon? A significant discovery or invention we can expect soon. W: 【Q4】The world is always conducting science. And there're constantly new things being discovered. In fact, right now, we have too much data sitting in computers. For example, we have thousands of photos of planet Mars taken by telescopes that nobody has ever seen. We have them, yet nobody has had time to look at them with their own eyes, let alone analyze them. Q1: Why does the woman say she can be so energetic? Q2: What has the woman been engaged in? Q3: What does the woman say about the benefit teaching brings to her? Q4: How does the woman say new scientific breakthroughs can be made possible? Section A Conversation 2 M: Do you think dreams 【Q5】have special meanings? W: No. I don't think they do. M: I don't either, but some people do. I would say people who believe that dreams have special meanings are superstitious, especially nowadays. In the past, during the times of ancient Egypt, Greece or China, people used to believe that dreams could foresee the future. But today, with all the scientific knowledge that we have, I think it's much harder to believe in these sorts of things. W: My grandmother is superstitious, and she thinks dreams can predict the future. Once, 【Q6】she dreamed that the flight she was due to take the following day crashed. Can you guess what she did? She didn't take that flight. She didn't even bother to go to the airport the following day. Instead, she took the same flight but a week later. And everything was fine of course. No plane ever crashed. M: How funny! Did you know that flying is actually safer than any other mode of transport? It's been statistically proven. People can be so irrational sometimes. W: Yes, absolutely. But, even if we think they are ridiculous, 【Q7】emotions can be just as powerful as rational thinking. M: Exactly. People do all sorts of crazy things because of their irrational feelings. But in fact, some psychologists believe that our dreams are the result of our emotions and memories from that day. I think it was Sigmund Freud who said that children's dreams were usually simple representations of their wishes, thingsthey wished would happen. 【Q8】But in adults', dreams are much more complicated reflections of their more sophisticated sentiments. W: Isn't it interesting how psychologists try to understand using the scientific method something as bazaar as dreams? Psychology is like the rational study of irrational feelings. Q5: What do both speakers think of dreams? Q6: Why didn't the woman's grandmother take her scheduled flight? Q7: What does the woman say about people's emotions? Q8: What did psychologist Sigmund Freud say about adults' dreams? Section B Passage 1 While some scientists explore the surface of the Antarctic, others are learning more about a giant body of water -- four kilometers beneath the ice pack. Scientists first discovered Lake Vostok in the 1970s by using radio waves that penetrate the ice. Since then, they have used sound waves and even satellites to map this massive body of water. How does the water in Lake Vostok remained liquid beneath an ice sheet? “The thick glacier above acts like insulating blanket and keeps the water from freezing,” said Martin Siegert, a glaciologist from the university of Wales. In addition, geothermal heat from the deep within the earth may warm the hidden lake.The scientists suspect that microorganisms may be living in Lake Vostok, closed off from the outside world for more than two million years. Anything found that will be totally alien to what’s on the surface of the earth, said Siegert. Scientists are trying to find a way to drill into the ice and draw water samples without causing contamination. Again, robots might be the solution. If all goes as planned, a drill-shift robot will melt through the surface ice. When it reaches the lake, it will release another robot that can swim in the lake, take pictures and look for signs of life. The scientists hope that discoveries will shed light on life in outer space, which might exist in similar dark and airless conditions. Recently closed-up pictures of Jupiter’s moon, Europa, shows signs of water beneath the icy surface. Once tested the Antarctic, robots could be set to Europa to search for life there, too. Q9: What did the scientists first use to discover Lake Vostok in the 1970s? Q10: What did scientists think about Lake Vostok? Q11: What do the scientists hope their discoveries will do? Section B Passage 2 The idea to study the American Indian tribe – Tarahumaras, came to James Copeland in 1984 when 【Q12】he discovered that very little research had been done on their language. He contacted the tribe member through a social worker who workedwith the tribes in Mexico. At first, the tribe member named Gonzalez was very reluctant to cooperate. He told Copeland that no amount of money could buy his language. But after Copeland explained to him what he intended to do with his research and how it would benefit the Tarahumaras, Gonzalez agreed to help. 【Q13】He took Copeland to his village and served as an intermediary. Copeland says, thanks to him, the Tarahumaras understood what their mission was and started trusting us. 【Q14】Entering the world of Tarahumaras has been a laborious project for Copeland. To reach their homeland, he must strive two and half days from Huston Taxes. He loads up his vehicle with goods that the tribe’s men can’t easily get and gives the goods to them as a gesture of friendship. The Tarahumaras, who don’t believe any humiliating wealth, take the food and share among themselves. For Copeland, the experience has not only been academically satisfying but also has enriched his life in several ways. 【Q15】“I see people rejecting technology and living a very hard, traditional life, which offers me another notion about the meaning of progress in the western tradition,” he says, “I experienced the simplicity of living in nature that I would otherwise only be able to read about.I see a lot of beauty and their sense of sharing and concern for each other.” Q12: Why did James Copeland want to study the American Indian tribe -- Tarahumaras? Q13: How did Gonzalez help James Copeland? Q14: What does the speaker say about James Copeland’s trip to the Tarahumaras village?Q15: What impresses James Copeland about the Tarahumaras tribe? Section C Recording 1 Q18: What does the speaker think of most radicals in the American history? Recording 2 We are very susceptible to the influence of the people around us. For instance, you may have known somebody who has gone overseas for a year or so and has returned with an accent perhaps. We become part of our immediate environment. None of us are immune to the influences of our own world and let us not kid ourselves that we are untouched by the things and people in our life. Fred goes off to his new job at a factory. Fred takes his ten-minute coffee break, but the other workers take half an hour. Fred says, “What’s the matter with you guys?” Two weeks later, Fred is taking twenty-minute breaks. A month later, Fred takes his half hour. Fred is saying “If you can’t be them, join them. Why should I work any harder than the next guy?” The fascinating thing about being human is that generally we are unaware that there are changes taking place in our mentality. It is like returning to the city smog after some weeks in the fresh air. Only then do we realize that we’ve become accustomed to the nasty smells. Mix with critical people and we learn to criticize. Mix with happy people, and we learn about happiness. What this means is that we need to decide what we want from life and then choose our company accordingly. You may well say, "That is going to take some effort. It may not be comfortable. I may offend some of my present company." Right, but it is your life. Fred may say, "I’m always broke, frequently depressed. I’m going nowhereand I never do anything exciting." Then we discover that Fred’s best friends are always broke, frequently depressed, going nowhere and wishing that life was more exciting. This is not coincidence, nor is it our business to stand in judgement of Fred? However, if Fred ever wants to improve his quality of life, the first thing he'll need to do is recognize what has been going on all these years. It’s no surprise that doctors as a profession suffer a lot of ill health, because they spend their life around sick people. Psychiatrists have a higher incidence of suicide in their profession for related reasons. Traditionally, nine out of ten children whose parents smoke, smoke themselves. Obesity is in part an environmental problem. Successful people have successful friends, and so the story goes on. Q19 What does the speaker say about us as human beings? Q20 What does the speaker say Fred should do first to improve his quality of life? Q21 What does the speaker say about the psychiatrists? Section C Lecture 3 Virtually every American can recognize a dollar bill at a mere glance. Many can identify it by its sound or texture. But 【Q22】few people indeed can accurately describe the world's most powerful, important currency. The American dollar bill is colored with black ink on one side and green on the other;【Q23】 the exact composition of the paper and ink is a closely guarded government secret. Despite its weighty importance, the dollar bill actually weighs little. It requires nearly 500 bills to tip the scales at a pound. Not only is the dollar bill lightweight, but it also has a brief life span. Few dollar bills survive longer than 18 months. The word "dollar" is taken from the German word "taler," the name for the world's most important currency in the 16th century. The taler was a silver coin first minted in 1518 under the reign of Charles V, Emperor of Germany. The concept of paper money is a relatively recent innovation in the history of American currency. When the Constitution was signed, people had little regard for paper money because of its steadily decreasing value during the colonial era.【Q24】Because of this lack of faith, the new American government minted only coins for common currency. Interest-bearing bank notes were issued at the same time, but their purpose was limited to providing money for urgent government crises, such as American involvement in the War of 1812. The first noninterest-bearing paper currency was authorized by Congress in 1862, at the height of the Civil War. At this point, citizens' old fears of devalued paper currency had calmed, and the dollar bill was born. The new green colored paper money quickly earned the nickname "greenback." Today, the American dollar bill is a product of the Federal Reserve and is issued from the twelve Federal Reserve banks around the United States. The government keeps a steady supply of approximately two billion bills in circulation at all times. Controversy continues to surround the true value of the dollar bill.【Q25】American history has seen generations of politicians argue in favor of a gold standard for American currency. However, for the present, the American dollar bill holds the value that is printed on it, and little more. The only other guarantee on the bill is a Federal Reserve pledge of as a confirmation in the form of government securities. Q22: What does the speaker say about the American dollar bill? Q23: What does the speaker say about the exact composition of the American dollar bill? Q24: Why did the new American government mint only coins for common currency? Q25: What have generations of American politicians argued for?参考答案1.A)She can devote all her life to pursing her passion.2.D)Science education and scientific research.3.A)A better understanding of a subject.4.B)By making full use of the existing data.5. B) They have no special meanings.6. C) She dreamed of a plane crash.7. D) They can have an impact as great as rational thinking8. C) They reflect their complicated emotions.9. A) Radio waves.10. B)It may have micro—organisms living in it.11. D)Shed light on possible life in outer space.12. A)He found there had been little research on their anguage.13. D)He acted as an intermediary between Copel and the villagers.14. C)Laborious15. B)Their sense of sharing and caring.16 .A)They tend to be silenced into submission.17. D)One who rebels against the existing social orser.18. C)They served as a driving force for progress.19. B)It is impossible for us to be immune from outside influence.20. D) Recognize the negative impact of his coworkers.21. A) They are quite susceptible to suicide.22. B) Few people can describe it precisely.23. C) It is a well—protected government secret.24. A) People had little faith in paper money.25. C) It is awell—protected government secret.翻译: 《水浒传》(Water Margin)是中国文学四大经典小说之一.这部小说基于历史人物宋江及其伙伴反抗封建帝王故事，数百年来一直深受中国读者喜爱. 毫不夸张地说，几乎每个中国人都熟悉小说中一些主要人物.这部小说中精彩故事在茶馆、戏剧舞台、广播电视、电影屏幕和无数家庭中反复讲述.事实上，这部小说影响已经远远超出了国界.越来越多外国读者也感到这部小说里故事生动感人趣味盎然. Water Margin， one of the four classic novels in the Chinese literature， is based on the stories of the historical figures of Song Jiang and his partners，who rebelled against the feudal emperor，and has been popular among the Chinese readers for hundreds of years. It is no exaggeration to say that almost every single Chinese is familiar with some of the major characters in the book as its splendid stories are repeatedly told in tea houses， on the- atrical stages， by radio and television， and on film screens. In fact， its influence has been far beyond the national boundary as more and more foreign readers are touched and intrigued by the stories of the novel. 《红楼梦》(Dream of the Red Chamber)是18世纪曹雪芹创作一部小说.曹雪芹基于自己痛苦个人经历，讲述了贾宝玉和林黛玉之间悲剧性爱情故事.书中有大约30个主要人物和400多个次要人物，每个人物都刻画得栩栩如生，具有鲜明个性.小说详尽地描述了四个贵族世家兴衰历程，反映了封建社会隐藏种种危机和错综复杂社会冲突. 《红楼梦》融合了现实主义和浪漫主义，具有很强艺术感染力.它被普遍认为是中国最伟大小说，也是世界上最伟大文学创作之一. Dream of the Red Chamber is a novel written by Cao Xueqin in the 18th century，who，based on his own hard life experi- ence，tells the tragic love story between Jia Baoyu and Lin Daiyu. In the book，there are about 30 major characters and over 400 minor ones， each of whom is depicted vividly with distinctive personalities. The novel narrates exhaustively the rise and fall of four aristocratic families，reflecting vari- ous crises and complicated social conflicts that lurk in the feudal society. Dream of the Red Chamber， which integrates realism and ro- manticism and generates strong artistic appeal， is universal- ly acknowledged as the greatest Chinese novel and one of the world' s literary masterpieces. 《西游记》(Journey to the West)也许是中国文学四大经典小说中最具影响力一部，当然也是在国外最广为人知一部小说.这部小说描绘了著名僧侣玄奘在三个随从陪同下穿越中国西部地区前往印度取经(Buddhistscripture) 艰难历程.虽然故事主题基于佛教，但这部小说采用了大量中国民间故事和神话素材，创造了各种栩栩如生人物和动物形象.其中最著名是孙悟空，他与各种各样妖魔作斗争故事几乎为每个中国孩子所熟知. Journey to the West is probably the most influential one of the four classic novels in the Chinese literature and surely the best-known one on foreign lands. Depicted in the novel is the hard journey that Hsuan-tsang， an eminent monk， and his three followers make across west China to India to fetch Buddhist scripture. Although the theme is based on Bud- dhism，the book employs many materials of Chinese folk tales and myths to create various vivid images of characters and animals，among which is the most famous Monkey King，whose stories of fighting genies are extremely popular among Chinese kids.作文: Directions: For this part，you are allowed 30 minutes to write an essay on the saying What is worth doing is worth doing well. You should write at least 150 words but no more than 200 words. 范文: in different stages of life， we may have diverse pursuit. 成 Some determine to pass an arduous exam whereas，others may tend to find a satisfying job. No matter what we are going to do， one thing is certain， we have to spare no effort to make the worthy task fully accomplished. As the saying goes，what is worth doing is worth doing well. Looking around，we may find many deeds to which we can apply the value relected in the saying. Take myself as an ex- ample，I made my mind to attend the postgraduateentrance exams at the beginning of last year，which for me I thought was worth doing. Once the decision had been made，I never doubted the possibility of not being able to pass the exams. I made a comprehensive plan for the whole year study and stuck to it strictly. In the end， I managed to pass the exams and became a qualified graduate student. To conclude，what is worth doing is definitely what is mean-- ingful to us and even can have a long-term influence on our life and growth. Only when we accomplish what is worth doing well can we be more likely to succeed. Directions: For this part, you are allowed 30 minutes to write an essay on the saying Wealth of the mind is the only true wealth. You should write at least 150 words but no more than 200 words. 范文: In this rapidly developing society, what we persue has never been more abundant than ever before. We care about the food safety, the health of the people around us, the apperence of us and the money we can earn. Talking about wealth, ideas may differ from person to person. Among all the elements of wealth that modern people attach impor?tance to, I reckon that wealth of the mind is the only true wealth. Looking around, we may find many facts which can relect the value in the saying. Take Lihong as an example, she is not the traditionally typical youngster who would be consid?ered wealthy. However, she keeps reading books routinely and insists in attending a variety of lectures. When men?tioned, Lihong is always the exemplary model praised by ev?erybody. To many acquaintances of hers, they think she is one of the most knowledgable and thoughtful girls they’ve ever met. In the case of Lihong, wealth of the mind is more essentially valued than the money she possesses. To conclude, it is not the money we earn but wealth of our mind that determines how people see us. This reminds us agian of the value that wealth of the mind is the only true wealth. Directions: For this part, you are allowed 30 minutes to write an essay on the saying Beauty of the soul is the essen?tial beauty. You should write at least 150 words but no more than 200 words. 范文: In this rapidly developing society, what we persue has never been more abundant than ever before. We care about the food safety, the money we can earn, the health of the people around us and the apperence of us, namely beauty. Talking about beauty, ideas may differ from person to person. Among all the elements of beauty that modem people attach importance to, I reckon that beauty of the soul is the essential beauty. Looking around, we may find many facts which can relect the value in the saying. Take Lihong as an example, she is not the traditionally typical youngster who would be consid?ered beautiful. However, she keeps doing good routinely and insists in helping those in need. When mentioned, Lihong is always the exemplary model praised by every?body. To many acquaintances of hers, they think she is one of the most beautiful girls they’ ve ever met. In the case of Lihong, beauty of the soul is more essentially valued than that of her appearence. To conclude, it is not the fashionable hairstyle, not the ex?pensive clothes we wear, but beauty of our soul that deter?mines how people see us. This reminds us agian of the value that beauty of the soul is the essential beauty.阅读: 选词填空第一套 26.L. realms 27.C. heavily 28.H. mastering 29.B. fatigue 30.E. hospitalized 31.J. obsessed 32.F. labeled 33.N. ruin 34.K. potential 35.A. contrary 选词填空第二套 26.D. hierarchy 27.H. logistical 28.E. insight 29.M. saturated 30.L. rarely 31.O. undoubtedly 32.J. outcomes 33.A. bond 34.I. magically 35.K. patterns　信息匹配第一套 How Telemedicine Is Transforming Healthcare 36.D段落第一-句None of this is to say that telemedicine 37.H段落第一句Many health plans and employers have rushed 38.E段落第- -句What' s more,for all the rapid growth 39.B段落第- -句Doctors are linking up with 40.K段落第-句Who pays for the services? 41.0段落第- -句To date,17 states have joined 42.G段落第-句Do patients trade quality for convenience? 43.F段落第一句Some critics also question whether 44.1段落第一句But critics worry that such 45.N段落第一句Is the state: by-state regulatory system信息匹配第二套 Six Potential Brain Benefits of Bilingual Education 36.H.段落第一句Do these same advantages benefit a child who begins learning a second language in kindergarten in-Ipcstead of as a baby? 37.C段落第一句Traditional programs for English-language learners, 38.J段落第一句About 10 percent of students in the Port-land, 39.D段落第一句The trend flies in the face of some of the culture wars of two decades ago, 40.M段落第一句American public school classrooms as a whole are becoming more segregated by race and class Du-al-language programs can be an exception. 41.E段落第一句Some of the insistence on English-first was founded on research produced decades ago, 42.B段落第一句Again and again, researchers have found,"bilingualism is an experience that shapes our brain for life, 43.P段落第一句 A review of studies published last year found that cognitive advantages failed to appear in 83 per-cent of published studies, 44.G段落第一句People who speak two languages often outperform monolinguals on general measures of executive function. 45.N段落第一句Several of the researchers also pointed out that, 仔细阅读第一套 46-50 (Sleeplessness) 46.C They are deeply impressed by Danielle Steel's daily. work schedule. 47.A She could serve as an example of industriousness. 48. A They are questionable. 49. C It may symbolise one's importance and success. 50. B The general public s should not be encouraged to follow it. 51-55 (Organic farming) 51.B Organic farming may be exploited to solve the global food problem.' 52. D It is not that productive. 53. C Inequality in food distribution. 54. B It is not conducive to sustainable development. 55. D Organic farming does long-term good to the ecosys-tem. 仔细阅读第二套 46- 50 (Public health) 46. B : People disagree as to who should do what. 47.A Governments have a role to play. 48. B They have not come up with anything more construc-tive. 49. D To justify government intervention in solving the obesity problem 50. C When individuals have the incentive to act accordingly. 51-55 (The Coral Sea proposal) 51. A It is exceptionally rich in marine life. 52. D Complete the series of marine reserves around its coast. 53. A The government has not done enough for marine protection 54.D It is a tremendous joint effort to protect the range of marine habitats 55. C It will protect regions that actually require little pro-tection 【有道考神版】【星火版】全卷完全卷完 1、相信自己吧！坚持就是胜利！祝考试顺利，榜上有名！ 2、愿全国所有的考生都能以平常的心态参加考试，发挥自己的水平，考上理想的学校。

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2020年英语六级考试标准阅读(9)
Which is safer-staying at home，traveling to work on
public transport，or working in the office？ Surprisingly，each of these carries the same risk，which is very low. However，what about flying compared to working in the
chemical industry？Unfortunately，the former is 65 times
riskier than the latter！In fact，the accident rate of
workers in the chemical industry is less than that of almost any of human activity，and almost as safe as staying at home.
The trouble with the chemical industry is that when
things go wrong they often cause death to those living nearby. It is this which makes chemical accidents so newsworthy. Fortunately， they are extremely rare. The most famous ones happened at Texas City （1947），Flixborough （1974），
Seveso （1976）， Pemex （1984） and Bhopal （1984）。

Some of these are always in the minds of the people even though the loss of life was small. No one died at Seveso，
and only 28 workers at Flixborough. The worst accident of all was Bhopal， where up to 3，000 were killed. The Texas City explosion of fertilizer killed 552. The Pemex fire at a
storage plant for natural gas in the suburbs of Mexico City took 542 lives， just a month before the unfortunate event at Bhopal.
Some experts have discussed these accidents and used each accident to illustrate a particular danger. Thus the Texas
City explosion was caused by tons of ammonium nitrate（硝酸铵），which is safe unless stored in great quantity. The Flixborough fireball was the fault of management， which took
risks to keep production going during essential repairs. The Seveso accident shows what happens if the local authorities lack knowledge of the danger on their doorstep. When the poisonous gas drifted over the town， local leaders were incapable of taking effective action. The Pemex fire was made worse by an overloaded site in an overcrowded suburb. The
fire set off a chain reaction os exploding storage tanks. Yet，by a miracle， the two largest tanks did not explode. Had
these caught fire， then 3，000 strong rescue team and fire fighters would all have died.
1.Which of the following statements is true？
A.Working at the office is safer than staying at home.
B.Traverlling to work on public transport is safer than working at the office.
C.Staying at home is safer than working in the chemical industry.
D.Working in the chemical industry is safer than
traveling by air.
2.Chemical accidents are usually important enough to be reported as news because ____.
A.they are very rare
B.they often cause loss of life
C.they always occur in big cities
D.they arouse the interest of all the readers。