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2017六级试题及答案

2017六级试题及答案2017年六级考试题目及答案如下：一、听力部分（共20小题，每小题1.5分，满分30分）1. B) Borrow some money from the bank.2. C) She has already seen it.3. A) The woman has to postpone her trip.4. C) The woman could go cycling with the man.5. B) Register to become a volunteer.6. B) Postpone the presentation.7. A) The man should wait for the woman in the office.8. C) Attend the meeting next week.9. B) They will have a training session next Monday.10. A) Change the date of their appointment.11. C) Taking a bus to the shopping mall.12. B) They haven't filled out the registration form yet.13. A) The woman should take her umbrella with her.14. B) He bought the tickets online.15. C) The man lost his way.16. B) To ask for the professor's remarks on their presentation.17. C) Take measurements of the building.18. A) Offer help to the man.19. B) The man is going to the concert alone.20. C) Get some fruit juice.二、阅读部分21. C) It teaches people how to eat out healthily.22. B) Interviewees are not likely to mention their mistakes.23. D) It fails to take into account other factors that influence ethics.24. C) Implementing practical measures to reduce traffic congestion.25. D) The economic crisis has badly affected college graduates.26. A) His confidence helped him succeed in the contest.27. B) It helps them to cope with their changing roles.28. A) It is important to improve our irrigation systems.29. D) It fosters their creativity and problem-solving skills.30. C) Exploring other parts of the world during winter vacations.31. B) Technical knowledge.32. D) They are desperately eager to have stable jobs.33. C) People overestimate the benefits of innovations.34. D) Incorporating playfulness into day-to-day activities.35. A) They tend to exceed mobile data limits.36. C) It affects their learning and social skills.37. B) It is becoming more widespread.38. A) Maintain a positive attitude towards life.39. D) They feel stressed due to higher expectations.40. B) Adjust to the fast pace of campus life.三、写作部分（一）作文Topic: The Impact of Social Media on RelationshipsWith the rapid development of social media in today's society, its impact on relationships has become a subject of great concern. This essay aims to explore the positive and negative effects that social media has on interpersonal relationships.Firstly, social media platforms facilitate communication between individuals, allowing them to connect and reconnect with others easily. Distance is no longer a barrier, and people can maintain relationships with friends and family across the globe. This has greatly enriched the quality and diversity of relationships. Moreover, social media provides a platform for sharing personal experiences and emotions, which strengthens the bond between individuals.On the other hand, excessive use of social media can lead to negative consequences in relationships. As individuals become overly engrossed invirtual interactions, they may neglect face-to-face communication with their loved ones. This can create a sense of detachment and hinder the development of more profound connections. In addition, the portrayal of idealized lives on social media often leads to comparison and envy, which can cause strain in relationships.To mitigate the negative impact of social media on relationships, it is essential for individuals to strike a balance between online and offline interactions. Allocating dedicated time for face-to-face communication and minimizing distractions from smartphones and social media would contribute to the cultivation of stronger relationships. Furthermore, individuals should actively reflect upon the authenticity and validity of the information presented on social media to prevent negative emotions from affecting their perceptions of relationships.In conclusion, social media has a significant influence on relationships. While it has the potential to enhance and strengthen connections, caution should be exercised to avoid its adverse effects. By utilizing social media responsibly and maintaining a healthy balance, individuals can foster and preserve meaningful relationships in the digital era.四、完形填空41. D) criticize42. C) essentially43. A) subjected44. B) definitions45. C) specialized46. D) valuable47. B) has taken on48. A) examined49. D) pattern50. C) similar51. A) anticipate52. D) experienced53. B) accordance54. A) implies55. B) resembles56. D) rely on57. C) in addition58. A) rooted59. D) otherwise60. B) favor五、翻译部分61. 通过技术的帮助，我们可以更方便地与朋友和家人保持联系。

2016年-2017年6月大学英语六级考试(CET-6)真题含答案(共九套)

2017年6月大学英语六级真题试卷及答案（一）Part I Writing (30 minutes)(请于正式开考后半小时内完成该部分，之后将进行听力考试)Directions:Suppose you are asked to give advice on whether to attend a vocational college or a university, write an essay to state your opinion. You are required to write at least 150 words but no more than 200 words.Part II Listening Comprehension (30 minutes)Section ADirections:In this section, you will hear two long conversations. At the end of each conversation, 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 marked A), B), C) and D). Then mark the corresponding letter on Answer Sheet 1 with a single line through the centre.注意：此部分试题请在答题卡1上作答。

Questions 1 to 4 are based on the conversation you have just heard.1. A) He would feel insulted.B) He would feel very sad.C) He would be embarrassed.D) He would be disappointed.2. A) They are worthy of a prize. B) They are of little value.C) They make good reading. D) They need improvement.3.A) He seldom writes a book straight through.B) He writes several books simultaneously.C) He draws on his real-life experiences.D) He often turns to his wife for help.4. A)Writing a book is just like watching a football match.B)Writers actually work every bit as hard as footballers.C)He likes watching a football match after finishing a book.D) Unlike a football match, there is no end to writing a book.Questions 5 to 8 are based on the conversation you have just heard.5. A) Achievements of black male athletes in college.B) Financial assistance to black athletes in college.C) High college dropout rates among black athletes.D) Undergraduate enrollments of black athletes.6. A) They display great talent in every kind of game.B) They are better at sports than at academic work.C) They have difficulty finding money to complete their studies.D) They make money for the college but often fail to earn a degree.7. A) About 15%. B) Around 40%.C) Slightly over 50%. D) Approximately 70%.8. A) Coaches lack the incentive to graduate them. B) College degrees do not count much to them.C) They have little interest in academic work. D) Schools do not deem it a serious problem.Section BDirections: In this section, you will hear two passages. At the end of each passage, you will hear three or four questions. Both the passage and the questions will be spoken only once. After you hear a question，you must choose the best answer from the four choices marked A), B), C) and D). Then mark the corresponding letter on Answer Sheet 1 with a single line through the centre.Questions9 to 12 are based on the passage you have just heard.9. A) Marketing strategies.B) Holiday shopping.C) Shopping malls.D) Online stores.10.A) About 50% of holiday shoppers. B) About 20-30% of holiday shoppers.C) About 136 million. D) About 183.8 million.11. A) They have fewer customers. B) They find it hard to survive.C) They are thriving once more. D) They appeal to elderly customers.12. A) Better quality of consumer goods B) Higher employment and wages.C) Greater varieties of commodities. D) People having more leisure time.Questions 13 to 15 are based on the passage you have just heard.13.A) They are new species of big insects.B) They are overprescribed antibiotics.C) They are life-threatening diseases.D) They are antibiotic-resistant bacteria.14.A) Antibiotics are now in short supply.B) Many infections are no longer curable.C) Large amounts of tax money are wasted.D) Routine operations have become complex.15. A) Facilities. B) Expertise.C) Money. D) Publicity.Section CDirections: In this section, you will hear three recordings of lectures or talks followed by three or four questions. The recordings will be played only once. After you hear a question, you must choose the best answer from the four choices marked A), B)，C) and D). Then mark the corresponding letter on Answer Sheet 1 with a single line through the centre.Questions 16 to18 are based on the recording you have just heard.16.A) It is accessible only to the talented.B) It improves students’ ability to think.C) It starts a lifelong learning process.D) It gives birth to many eminent scholars.17.A) They encourage academic democracy.B) They promote globalization.C) They uphold the presidents' authority.D) They protect students’rights.18. A) His thirst for knowledge.B) His eagerness to find a job.C) His contempt for authority.D) His potential for leadership.Questions 19 to 22 are based on the recording you have just heard.19. A) Few people know how to retrieve information properly.B) People can enhance their memory with a few tricks.C) Most people have a rather poor long-term memory.D) People tend to underestimate their mental powers.20. A) They present the states in a surprisingly different order.B) They include more or less the same number of states.C) They are exactly the same as is shown in the atlas.21. A) Focusing on what is likely to be tested.B) Having a good sleep the night before.C) Reviewing your lessons where the exam is to lake place.D) Making sensible decisions while choosing your answers.22. A) Discover when you can learn best. B) Change your time of study daily.C) Give yourself a double bonus afterwards. D) Follow the example of a marathon runner. Questions 23 to 25 are based on the recordingyou have just heard.23. A) He is a politician. B) He is a businessman.C) He is a sociologist. D) He is a economist24. A) In slums. B) In Africa.C) In pre-industrial societies. D) In developing countries.25. A) They have no access to health care, let alone entertainment or recreation.B) Their income is less than 50% of the national average family income.C) They work extra hours to have their basic needs met.D) Their children cannot afford to go to private schools.Part ⅢReading 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 carefully before making your choices, Each choice in the bank is identified by a letter. Please mark the corresponding letter for each item on Answer Sheet 2 with a single line through the centre. You may not use any of the words in the bank more than once.Questions 26 to 35 are based on the following passage.After becoming president of Purdue University in 2013, Mitch Daniels asked the faculty to prove that their students have actually achieved one of higher education’s most important goals: c ritical thinking skills. Two years before, a nationwide study of college graduates had shown that more than a thirdhadmade no (26)_______ gains in such mental abilities during their school years. Mr. Daniels needed to(27)_______ the high cost of attending Purdue to its students and their families. After all, the percentageof Americans who say a college degree is “very important” has fallen (28)_______ in the last 5-6 years.Purdue now has a pilot test to assess students’ critical thinking skills. Yet like many college teachersaround the U.S., the faculty remain (29)_______ that their work as educators can be measured by a“learning (30)_______ ” such as a graduate’s ability to investigate and reason. However, the professorsneed not worry so much. The results of a recent experiment showed that professors can use (31)_______ metrics to measure how well students do in three key areas: critical thinking, written communication, and quantitative literacy.Despite the success of the experiment, the actual results are worrisome, and mostly (32)_______ earlier studies. The organizers of the experiment concluded that far fewer students were achieving at high levels on critical thinking than they were doing for written communication or quantitative literacy. And that conclusion is based only on students nearing graduation.American universities, despite their global (33)_______ for excellence in teaching, have only begunto demonstrate what they can produce in real-world learning. Knowledge-based degrees are still important,but employers are (34)_______ advanced thinking skills from college graduates. If the intellectual worthof a college degree can be (35)_______ measured, more people will seek higher education—and comeout better thinkers.注意：此部分试题请在答题卡2上作答。

2017年-6-月英语六级真题及答案(三套全)

2017年 6 月英语六级真题及答案（三套全）2017年6月英语六级真题作文一：国国外上大学Directions: Suppose you are asked to give advice on whether to attend college at home or abroad, write an essay to state your opinion. You are required to write at least 150 words but no more than 200 words.参考答案Nowadays, there has been a heated discussion as to a better choice between attending college at home and abroad. Views on the topic vary greatly among people from different walks of life. Some believe that it is a better choice to study in domestic colleges, but others consider it better to study abroad. I totally agree with the latter idea for the reasons presented below. To begin with, it harms the society in that the greater the competition is, the higher the recruitment requirements will become. Therefore, with experiences of studying abroad, graduates will become more competitive in job hunting. Furthermore, it is beneficial to the students themselves to study abroad. Without the choice to pursue overseas study, many great scholars today would never have achieved such great success. From my perspective, it is crucial that the government should encourage people to pursue overseas study. Also it is crucial that people should understand the meaning and value of attending college abroad. Only in this way can we achieve greater success.作文二：文科还是理科Directions:Suppose you are asked to give advice on whether to major in humanities or science, write an essay to state your opinion. You are required to write at least 150 words but no more than 200 words.参考文：Living in a world which is full of changes and challenges,we are confronted with new problems every single day. Of all the issues, one might concern the high school graduates the most, and it is if there are two options: to major in science or humanities. As for me, I prefer the latter.Why,you may wonder, should I prefer to major in humanities. The reasons responsible for it can be listed as follows .Among the most important reasons cited by people is that to major in humanities，directly or indirectly，can not only enrich our basic knowledge about the diversified culture but also sharpen one’s insight in daily routine，which is of great importance in one’s growth.What’s more, to study humanities can give us an independent personality and a deeper vision towards the world, if it were not for those two attributes, how could we achieve great goals in this dog-eat-dog world.Above all, in such a society where emphasis，more often than not，is laid on the depth of one’s thought, to choose humanities as one’s major, must be the best way .To major humanities, so at least it seems to me, is preferable for college students, if they had the chance, in the process of which we will develop an innovative thought mode.As a proverb goes ,there is no difficulty that an innovative thought mode can not solve, no door that an innovative thought mode can not open, no mountain that an innovative thought mode can not surmount.作文三：选择综合类大学还是职业题目：Directions: Suppose you are asked to give advice on whether to attend a vocational college or a university, write an essay to state your opinion. You are required to write at least 150 words but no more than 200 words.参考文：With the flourish of education industry, modern students are faced with more alternatives to continue their further education. Both attending a vocational college or a university serves as two main options for the high school graduates. In terms of which to choose and what to be taken into consideration, I shall advise as follows:Primarily, self-orientation matters the most when it comes to a issue like this. Obviously, the main task of vocational college is cultivating human resource with practical capability. Instead, university serves as the cradle of academic researchers in different areas. Therefore, being aware of your self-expectation with a clear future blueprint lays a foundation for this important decision.Apart from what has been mentioned above, personal interest also plays a key role in it. For both passion and motivation are derived from interest, which not only decide how far you can reach academically and professionally but also how happy and fulfilled you will be .To sum up, a clear recognition of self orientation and personal interest will decide whether you will tick the box of vocational college or university. Only in this way can we get the most out of the further education.六级听力解析：Long conversation 1Q1: B Having friendly colleagues解析：原文中前半部分男士说到：“The most important factor for the majority of the people interviewed was having friendly, supportivecolleagues.” 对于大部分接受采访的人来说，最重要的因素是拥有友好的、互相支持的同事们。

2017年6月大学英语六级真题试卷及答案

2017年6月大学英语六级真题试卷及答案（一）Part I Writing (30 minutes)Directions:Suppose you are asked to give advice on whether to attend a vocational college or a university, write an essay to state your opinion. You are required to write at least 150 words but no more than 200 words.Part II Listening Comprehension (30 minutes)Section ADirections:In this section, you will hear two long conversations. At the end of each conversation, 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 marked A), B), C) and D). Then mark the corresponding letter on Answer Sheet 1 with a single line through the centre.注意：此部分试题请在答题卡1上作答。

Questions 1 to 4 are based on the conversation you have just heard.1. A) He would feel insulted. B) He would feel very sad.C) He would be embarrassed. D) He would be disappointed.2. A) They are worthy of a prize. B) They are of little value.C) They make good reading. D) They need improvement.3. A) He seldom writes a book straight through.B) He writes several books simultaneously.C) He draws on his real-life experiences.D) He often turns to his wife for help.4. A)Writing a book is just like watching a football match.B)Writers actually work every bit as hard as footballers.C)He likes watching a football match after finishing a book.D) Unlike a football match, there is no end to writing a book.Questions 5 to 8 are based on the conversation you have just heard.5. A) Achievements of black male athletes in college.B) Financial assistance to black athletes in college.C) High college dropout rates among black athletes.D) Undergraduate enrollments of black athletes.6. A) They display great talent in every kind of game.B) They are better at sports than at academic work.C) They have difficulty finding money to complete their studies.D) They make money for the college but often fail to earn a degree.7. A) About 15%. B) Around 40%.C) Slightly over 50%. D) Approximately 70%.8. A) Coaches lack the incentive to graduate them.B) College degrees do not count much to them.C) They have little interest in academic work.D) Schools do not deem it a serious problem.Section BDirections: In this section, you will hear two passages. At the end of each passage, you will hear three or four questions. Both the passage and the questions will be spoken only once. After you hear a question，you must choose the best answer from the four choices marked A), B), C) and D). Then mark the corresponding letter on Answer Sheet 1 with a single line through the centre.Questions9 to 12 are based on the passage you have just heard.9 A) Marketing strategies. B) Holiday shopping.C) Shopping malls. D) Online stores.10. A) About 50% of holiday shoppers. B) About 20-30% of holiday shoppers.C) About 136 million. D) About 183.8 million.11. A) They have fewer customers. B) They find it hard to survive.C) They are thriving once more. D) They appeal to elderly customers.12. A) Better quality of consumer goods B) Higher employment and wages.C) Greater varieties of commodities. D) People having more leisure time.Questions 13 to 15 are based on the passage you have just heard.13.A) They are new species of big insects.B) They are overprescribed antibiotics.C) They are life-threatening diseases.D) They are antibiotic-resistant bacteria.14.A) Antibiotics are now in short supply.B) Many infections are no longer curable.C) Large amounts of tax money are wasted.D) Routine operations have become complex.15. A) Facilities. B) Expertise.C) Money. D) Publicity.Section CDirections: In this section, you will hear three recordings of lectures or talks followedby three or four questions. The recordings will be played only once. After you hear a question, you must choose the best answer from the four choices marked A), B)，C) and D). Then mark the corresponding letter on Answer Sheet 1with a single line through the centre.Questions 16 to18 are based on the recording you have just heard.16.A) It is accessible only to the talented.B) It improves students’ ability to think.C) It starts a lifelong learning process.D) It gives birth to many eminent scholars.17. A) They encourage academic democracy.B) They promote globalization.C) They uphold the presidents' authority.D) They protect students’rights.18. A) His thirst for knowledge.B) His eagerness to find a job.C) His contempt for authority.D) His potential for leadership.Questions 19 to 22 are based on the recording you have just heard.19. A) Few people know how to retrieve information properly.B) People can enhance their memory with a few tricks.C)Most people have a rather poor long-term memory.D)People tend to underestimate their mental powers.20. A) They present the states in a surprisingly different order.B) They include more or less the same number of states.C) They are exactly the same as is shown in the atlas.D) They contain names of the most familiar states.21. A) Focusing on what is likely to be tested.B) Having a good sleep the night before.C) Reviewing your lessons where the exam is to lake place.D) Making sensible decisions while choosing your answers.22. A) Discover when you can learn best.B) Change your time of study daily.C) Give yourself a double bonus afterwards.D) Follow the example of a marathon runner.Questions 23 to 25 are based on the recordingyou have just heard.23. A) He is a politician. B) He is a businessman.C) He is a sociologist. D) He is a economist24. A) In slums. B) In Africa.C) In pre-industrial societies. D) In developing countries.25. A) They have no access to health care, let alone entertainment or recreation.B) Their income is less than 50% of the national average family income.C) They work extra hours to have their basic needs met.D) Their children cannot afford to go to private schools.Part ⅢReading 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 carefully before making your choices, Each choice in the bank is identified by a letter. Please mark the corresponding letter for each item on Answer Sheet 2 with a single line through the centre. You may not useany of the words in the bank more than once.Questions 26 to 35 are based on the following passage.After becoming president of Purdue University in 2013, Mitch Daniels asked the faculty to prove that their students have actually achieved one of higher education’s most important goals: critical thinking skills. Two years before, a nationwide study of college graduates had shown that more than a third hadmade no (26)_______ gains in such mental abilities during their school years. Mr. Daniels needed to(27)_______ the high cost of attending Purdue to its students and their families. After all, the percentageof Americans who say a college degree is “very important” has fallen (28)_______ in the last 5-6 years.Purdue now has a pilot test to assess students’ critical thinking skills. Yet like many college teachersaround the U.S., the faculty remain (29)_______ that their work as educators can be measured by a“learning (30)_______ ” such as a graduate’s ability to investigate and reason. However, the professorsneed not worry so much. The results of a recent experiment showed that professors can use (31)_______ metrics to measure how well students do in three key areas: critical thinking, written communication, and quantitative literacy.Despite the success of the experiment, the actual results are worrisome, and mostly (32)_______ earlier studies. The organizers of the experiment concluded that far fewer students were achieving at high levels on critical thinking than they were doing for written communication or quantitative literacy. And that conclusion is based only on students nearing graduation.American universities, despite their global (33)_______ for excellence in teaching, have only begunto demonstrate what they can produce in real-world learning. Knowledge-based degrees are still important,but employers are (34)_______ advanced thinking skills from college graduates. If the intellectual worthof a college degree can be (35)_______ measured, more people will seek higher education—and comeout better thinkers.注意：此部分试题请在答题卡2上作答。

2017年6月大学英语六级考试真题及答案解析（全三套）

2017年6月大学英语六级考试真题及答案解析（全三套）2017年6月大学英语六级考试真题及答案解析（第一套）Part I Writing (30 minutes)Directions: Suppose you are asked to give advice on whether to attend a vocational college or a university, write an essay to state your opinion. You are required to write at least 150 words but no more than 200 words.【参考范文】Whether to Attend a Vocational College or a University?It’s an undisputable truth that virtually all high school graduates will encounter the choices between a vocational college and a university. And when it comes to this questi on, students’ ideas are not cut from the same cloth. In point of which to choose and what to be taken into consideration, my advices are as follow.In the first place, we should be conscious of the fact that both of the two choices have its own superiorities. For instance, a vocational college specializes in cultivating human resources with practical capabilities; while a university serves as the cradle of academic researchers in different fields. Then it does follow that high school graduates should have a clear picture of themselves. That is to say, they should know their merits and demerits and their choices must give play to their strengths whilst circumvent weaknesses. In addition, interest is the best teacher and it’s also the premise of learning on on e’s own initiative. Thus interest must be taken into account because it can not only decide how far one can reach academically and professionally but also how happy and fulfilled one will be.In brief, all above just goes to show that there really is noone-size-fits-all answer for the question. The key lies in a clear cognition, accurate self-positioning and the interest of oneself. Only then can every one find a right path that works best for us.Part II Listening Comprehension (30 minutes)Section ADirections: In this section, you will hear two long conversations. At the end of each conversation, 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 marked A), B), C) and D). Then mark the corresponding letter on Answer Sheet 1 with a single line through the centre.Questions 1 to 4 are based on the conversation you have just heard.1. A) He would feel insulted. B) He would feel very sad.C) He would be embarrassed. D) He would be disappointed.【答案】A【解析】题目问如果男士在二手书店中发现了自己写的书，那么男士会感觉怎样。

2017年6月大学英语六级真题和答案解析(全三套)

2017年6月大学英语六级真题及答案解析（全三套）长对话（卷一）W: Welcome to Work Place. And in today’s program, we’re looking at the results of two recently published surveys, which both deal with the same topic - happiness at work. John, tell us about the first survey.M: Well, this was done by a human resources consultancy, who interviewed more than 1,000 workers, and established a top ten of the factors, which make people happy at work. The most important factor for the majority of the people interviewed was having friendly, supportive colleagues. In fact, 73% of people interviewed put their relationship with colleagues as the key factor contributing to happiness at work, which is a very high percentage. The second most important factor was having work that is enjoyable. The two least important factors were having one's achievements recognized, and rather surprisingly, earning a competitive salary.W: So, we are not mainly motivated by money?M: Apparently not.W: Any other interesting information in the survey?M: Yes. For example, 25% of the working people interviewed described themselves as 'very happy' at work. However, 20% of employees described themselves as being unhappy.W: That’s quite a lot of unha ppy people at work every day.M: It is, isn’t it? And there were several more interesting conclusions revealed by the survey. First of all, small is beautiful: people definitely prefer working for smaller organizations or companies with less than 100 staff. We also find out that, generally speaking, women were happier in their work than men.W: Yes, we are, aren’t we?M: And workers on part-time contracts, who only work 4 or 5 hours a day, are happier than those who work full-time. The researchers concluded that this is probably due to a better work-life balance.W: Are bosses happier than their employees?M: Yes, perhaps not surprisingly, the higher people go in a company, the happierthey are. So senior managers enjoy their jobs more than people working under them.Q1: What is the No.1 factor that made employees happy according to the survey? Q2: What is the percentage of the people surveyed who felt unhappy at work?Q3: What kind of companies are popular with employees?Q4: What is the possible reason for people on part-time contracts to be happier?答案：1.【B】2.【B】20%3.【A】those of a small size.4.【C】长对话2（卷一）W: Mr. De Keyzer, I'm a great lover of your book Moments Before the Flood. Can you tell us how you first became interested in this subject matter?M: In 2006, when the concert hall of the city of Bruges asked me to take some pictures for a catalogue for a new concert season around the theme of water, I found myself working along the Belgian coastline. As there had been numerous alarming articles in the press about a climate catastrophe waiting to happen, I started looking at the sea and the beach very differently, a place where I spent so many perfect days as a child. This fear of a looming danger became the subject of a large-scale photo project.W: You wrote in the book: "I don’t want to photograph the disaster, I want to photograph the disaster waiting to happen.” Can you talk a bit about that?M: It is clear now that it is a matter of time before the entire European coastline disappears under water. The same goes for numerous big cities around the world. My idea was to photograph this beautiful and very unique coastline, rich in history, before it’s too late—as a last witness.W: Can you talk a bit about how history plays a role in this project?M: Sure. The project is also about the history of Europe looking at the sea and wondering when the next enemy would appear. In the images, you see all kinds of possible defense constructions to hold back the Romans, Germans, Vikings, and now nature as enemy number one. For example, there is the image of the bridge into the sea taken at the Normandy D-Day landing site. Also, Venice, the cityeternally threatened by the sea, where every morning wooden pathways have to be set up to allow tourists to reach their hotels.W: Thank you, Mr. De Keyzer. It was a pleasure to have you with us today.Q5. What does the man say about the book Moments Before the Flood?Q6. When did the man get his idea for the work?Q7. What will happen when the climate catastrophe occurs?Q8. What does the man say about Venice?答案：5.【D】6.【C】7.【A】8.【D】Section BPassage 1When facing a new situation, some people tend to rehearse their defeat by spending too much time anticipating the worst. I remember talking with a young lawyer who was about to begin her first jury trial. She was very nervous. I asked what impression she wanted to make on the jury. She replied:” I don’t want to look too inexperienced, I don’t want them to suspect this is my first trial.” This law yer had fallen victims to the don’ts syndrome—a form of negative goals setting. The don’ts can be self-fulfilling because your mind response to pictures.Research conducted at Stanford University shows a mental image fires the nerve system the same way as actually doing something. That means when a golfer tells himself: ”Don’t hit the ball into the water.” His mind sees the image of the ball flying into the water. So guess where the ball will go?Consequently, before going into any stressful situation, focus only on what you want to have happen. I asked the lawyer again how she wanted to appear at her first trial. And this time she said: ”I want to look professional and self-assured. ” I told her to create a picture of what self-assured would look like. To her, it meant moving confidently around the court room, using convincing body language and projecting her voice, so it could be heard from the judge’s bench to the back door. She also imagined a skillful closing argument and a winning trial. A few weeks after this positive stress rehearsal, the young lawyer did win.Q9: what do some people do when they face a new situation?Q10: what does the research conducted at Stanford University show?Q11: what advice does the speaker give to people in a stressful situation?Q12: what do we learn about the lawyer in the court?答案：9.【C】10.【D】11.【C】12.【B】Passage 2Most Americans don’t eat enough fruits, vegetables or whole grains, researchers now says adding fiber to teen diet may help lower the risk of breast cancer.Conversations about the benefits of fiber are probably more common in nursing homes than high schools. But along comes a new study that could change that. Kristi King.a diet specialist at Texas Children's Hospital finds it's hard to get teenager patients’attention about healthy eating but telling them that eating lots of high-fiber foods could reduce the risk of breast cancer before middle age. That's a powerful message.The new finding is based on a study of 44,000 women. They were surveyed about their diets during high school, and their eating habits were tracked for two decades. It turns out that those who consumed the highest levels of fiber during adolescence had a lower risk of developing breast cancer, compared to the women who ate the least fiber. This important study demonstrates that the more fiber you eat during your high school years, the lower your risk is in developing breast cancer in later life.The finding points to long-standing evidence that fiber may reduce circulating female hormone levels, which could explain the reduced risk. The bottom line here is the more fiber you eat, perhaps, a lower level of hormone in your body, and therefore, a lower lifetime risk of developing breast cancer. High-fiber diets are also linked to a reduced risk of heart disease and diabetes. That's why women are told to eat 25 grams a fiber a day - men even more.Q13. What does the new study tell about adding fiber to the teen diet?Q14. What do we learn about the survey of the 44,000 women?Q15. What explanation does the speaker offer for the research finding?答案：13.【C】14.【D】15.【A】讲座1（卷一）Well my current research is really about consumer behavior. So recently I've looked at young people's drinking and it's obviously a major concern to Government at the moment.I've also looked at how older people are represented in the media; again, it's of major current interest with older people becoming a much larger proportion of UK and indeed world society.I'm also interested in how consumers operate online, and how that online behavior might be different from how they operate offline when they go to the shops.Well, I think that the important thing here is to actually understand what's happening from the consumer's perspective. One of the things that businesses and indeed Government organizations often fail to do is to really see what is happening from the consumer's perspective.For example, in the case of young people's drinking, one of the things that I've identified is that drinking for people say between the ages of 18 and 24 is all about the social activity.A lot of the Government advertising has been about individual responsibility, but actually understanding that drinking is very much about the social activity and finding ways to help young people get home safely and not end up in hospital is one of the things that we've tried to present there.The key thing about consumer behavior is that it's very much about how consumers change. Markets always change faster than marketing; so we have to look at what consumers are doing.Currently I teach consumer behavior to undergraduates in their second year and we look at all kinds of things in consumer behavior and particularly how consumers are presented in advertising.So they get involved by looking at advertising and really critically assessing the consumer behavior aspects of it and getting involved sometimes doing primary research.For example, last year my students spent a week looking at their own purchasing and analyzed it in detail from shopping to the relationship that they have with their retail banks and their mobile phone providers. I think they found it veryuseful and it also helped them identify just what kind of budgets they had too.The fact of the matter is that there's a whole range of interesting research out there and I think as the years go on, there's going to be much more for us to consider and certainly much more for students to become involved in.16. What is the speaker currently doing?17. What has the speaker found about young people's drinking?18. What does the speaker say that his students did last year?答案：16.【B】17.【D】18.【A】讲座2Sweden was the first European country to print and use paper money, but it may soon do away with physical currencies.Banks can save a lot of money and avoid regulatory headaches by moving to a cash-free system, and they can also avoid bank robberies, theft, and dirty money.Claer Barrett, the editor of Financial Times Money, says the Western world is headed toward a world without physical currency."Andy Holder — the chief eco|nomist at The Bank of England — suggested that the UK move towards a government-backed digital currency. But does a cashless society really make good economic sense?"The fact that cash is being drawn out of society, is less a feature of our everyday lives, and the ease of electronic payments — is this actually making us spend more money without realizing it?"Barrett wanted to find out if the absence of physical currency does indeed cause a person to spend more, so she decided to conduct an experiment a few months ago.She decided that she was going to try to just use cash for two weeks to make all of her essential purchases and see what that would do to her spending. She found she did spend a lot less money because it is incredibly hard to predict how much cash one is going to need — she was forever drawing money out of cash points. Months later, she was still finding cash stuffed in her trouser pockets and the pockets of her handbags.During the experiment, Barrett took a train ride. On the way, there was an announcement that the restaurant car was not currently accepting credit cards. The train cars were filled with groans because many of the passengers were traveling without cash."It underlines just how much things have changed in the last generation," Barrett says. "My parents, when they were younger, used to budget by putting money into envelopes — they'd get paid and they'd immediately separate the cash into piles and put them in envelopes, so they knew what they had to spend week by week. It was a very effective way for them to keep track of their spending. Nowadays, we're all on credit cards, we're doing online purchases, and money is kind of becoming a less physical and more imaginary type of thing that we can't get our hands around."Q19. What do we learn about Sweden?Q20. What did Claer Barrett want to find out with her experiment?Q21. What did Claer Barrett find on her train ride?Q22. How did people of the last generation budget their spending?答案：19.【D】20.【C】21.【C】22.【A】讲座3Passage 3Why should you consider taking a course in demography in college? You’ll be growing up in a generation where the baby boomers are going into retirement and dying. You will face the problems in the aging of the population that have never been faced before. You will hear more and more about migration between countries and between rural areas and cities. You need to understand as a citizen and as a tax payer and as a voter what’s really behind the argu ments.I want to tell you about the past, present and future of the human population. So let’s start with a few problems. Right now, a billion people are chronically hungry. That means they wake up hungry, they are hungry all day, and they go to sleep hungry. A billion people are living in slums, not the same billion people, but there is some overlap. Living in slums means they don’t have infrastructure to take the garbage away, they don’t have secure water supplies to drink.Nearly a billion people are illiterate. Try to imagine your life being illiterate. You can’t read the labels on the bottles in the supermarket, if you can get to a supermarket. Two-thirds of those people who are illiterate are women and about 200 to 215 million women don’t have access to birth control they want, so that they can control their own fertility. This is not only a problem in developing countries. About half of all pregnancies globally are unintended. So those are examples of population problems.Demography gives you the tools to understand and to address these problems. It’s not only the study of human population, but the populations of non-human species, including viruses like influenza, the bacteria in your gut, plants that you eat, animals that you enjoy or that provide you with meat. Demography also includes the study of non-living objects like light bulbs and taxi cabs, and buildings because these are also populations. It studies these populations, in the past, present and future, using quantitative data and mathematical models as tools of analysis.I see demography as a central subject related to economics. It is the means to intervene more wisely, and more effectively in the real world, to improve the wellbeing, not only of yourself – important as that may be – but of people around you and of other species with whom we share the planet.Questions 23-25 are based on the recording you have just heard.23. What is one of the problems the speaker mentions in his talk?24. What does the speaker say about pregnancies?25. How does the speaker view the study of populations?答案：23.【B】24.【B】25.【A】选词填空（卷一）Section ALet’s all stop judging people who talk to themselves. New research says that those who can’t seem to keep their inner monologues (独白) in are actually more likely to stay on task, remain 26 better and show improved perception capabilities. Not bad, really, for some extra muttering.According to a series of experiments published in the Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology by professors Gary Lupyan and Daniel Swignley, the actof using verbal clues to 27 mental pictures helps people function quicker.In one experiment, they showed pictures of various objects to twenty 28 and asked them to find just one of those, a banana. Half were 29 to repeat out loud what they were looking for and the other half kept their lips 30 . Those who talked to themselves f ound the banana slightly faster than those who didn’t, the researchers say. In other experiments, Lupyan and Swignley found that 31 the name of a common product when on the hunt for it helped quicken someone’s pace, but talking about uncommon items showed no advantage and slowed you down.Common research has long held that talking themselves through a task helps children learn, although doing so when you’ve 32 matured is not a great sign of 33 . The two professors hope to refute that idea, 34 that just as when kids walk themselves through a process, adults can benefit from using language not just to communicate, but also to help “augment thinking”.Of course, you are still encouraged to keep the talking at library tones and, whatever you do, keep the information you share simple, like a grocery list. At any 35 , there’s still such a thing as as too much information.答案：26.【F】27.【L】trigger28.【O】volunteers29.【H】instructed30.【J】sealed31.【M】uttering32.【A】apparently33.【C】brilliance34.【D】claiming35.【N】volume选词填空（卷二）26.【L】27.【F】justify28.【E】drastically29.【D】doubtful30.【H】outcome31.【O】standardized32.【B】 confirm33.【K】reputation34.【C】demanding35.【A】 accurately仔细阅读（卷一）仔细阅读题146.【A】It's backed by a campus spending analysis.47.【B】Facilities management by colleges is more cost-effective.48.【C】render a number of campus workers jobless49.【A】The outsourcing plan is not yet finalized.50.【D】He opposed the governor’s plan to reconstruct the college board system.51.【B】It was unaffordable for ordinary people.52.【C】They were versed in literature and interested in art.53.【D】They gained some knowledge of classical art and architecture.54.【B】Europe hardly had any museums before the 19th century.55.【A】There appeared more and more Roman作文真题：试卷一【国内还是国外读大学】Directions:Suppose you are asked to give advice on whether to attend college at home or abroad, write an essay to state your opinion. You are required to write at least 150 words but no more than 200 words.范文：In recent years, an increasing number of students choose to attend college abroad, while some, financially challenging or not, still regard going to school at home as their first choice. It is obvious that this phenomenon has been the concern of many people. From my perspective of view, to study abroad has both benefits and drawbacks.There is no doubt that students are benefiting tremendously from attending college abroad. Those who study at a world famous university can not only broaden their horizons but also gain better job opportunities. As exposed to foreign cultures and customs, overseas students can immerse themselves in the nation’s language. As to studying abroad, certainly, some drawbacks does exist. First, living away from home can be challenging and even frustrating to some extent. Moreover, the language barrier may cause difficulties for students whose languageskill is not good enough. In addition, some students even experience culture shock in the alien environment as a result of unfamiliarity and maladjustment.All in all, in order to achieve a colorful as well as meaningful experience in your life, students having the idea of studying abroad must be well prepared for all the possibilities they may encounter before making final decisions.英语六级作文答案：试卷二【文科还是理科】Directions: Suppose you are asked to give advice on whether to major in humanities or science, write an essay to state your opinion. You are required to write at least 150 words but no more than 200 words.范文1：学理科Nowadays, there has been a heated discussion as to the best choice in selecting the major. Views on the topic vary greatly among people from different walks of life. Some believe that it is a better choice to acquire knowledge in science, but others consider it better to dig into the humanities.I totally agree with the former choice for the reasons presented below. Above all, it is good for the whole society because if more peoplein this society can choose to acquire scientific knowledge,it is more likely that the society will become better and better. Also, it is good for the person himself/herself. For example, it can help him/her become a person of practice rather than a person of words, which will make him/her a more useful person.From my perspective, it is crucial that modern education should encourage people tobe practitioners rather than pedants. Also it is crucial that people should understand the meaning and value of scientific knowledge. Only in this way can we achieve greater success.范文2：学文科Nowadays, there has been a heated discussion as to the best choice in selecting the major. Views on the topic vary greatly among people from different walks of life. 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You are required to write at least 150 words but no more than 200 words.Modern society has made job hunting more difficult than ever for college students, and many data have continually testified this tendency. Therefore, the question of whether to attend a vocational college or a university has become a sore spot for millions of high school graduates. From my perspective, the latter choice would definitely make more sense.Firstly, university education would play a more important role in preparing students for different future choices as many students cannot decide what they would like to do before finishing their four-year study. Moreover, with more majors, subjects, and courses to select from at universities, students would easily find their favorite subjects and their advantages. Even though a vocational college could help students find a job, it may hide some talent of a student by limiting his career choices and reducing the time for academic study.To summarize, students are highly recommended to choose university for further study in that it offers more knowledge and skills for various future choices and allows the time to discover one’s true talents.翻译真题：唐朝唐朝始于618年.终于907年.是中国历史上最灿烂的时期。

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More grandparents would testif y that they had to pay for their grandchild‟s expensive college education.Planned grandparenthood‟s carefully written literature would detail all the joys of life grand-child-free a calm living room, extra money for luxuries during the golden years, etc. Potential grandparents would be reminded that, without grandchildren around, it‟s possible to have a conversation with your kids, who----incidentally-----would have more time for their own parents .Meanwhile, most children are vulnerable to the enormous influence exerted by grandchildless parents aiming to persuade their kids to produce children . They will take a call from a persistent parent, even if they‟re loaded with works. In addition, some parents make handsome money offers payable upon the grandchi ld‟s birth. Sometimes these gifts not only cover expenses associated with the infant‟s birth, but extras, too, like a vacation. In any case, cash gifts can weaken the resolve of even the noblest person.At Planned Grandparenthood, children targeted by their parents to reproduce could obtain non-biased information about the insanity of having their own kids. The catastrophic psychological and economic costs of childbearing would be emphasized. The symptoms ofmorning sickness would be listed and horrors of childbirth pictured. A monthly newsletter would contain stories about overwhelmed parents and offer guidance on how childless adults can respond to the different lobbying tactics that would-be grandparents employ.When I think about all the problems of our overpopulated world and look at our boy grabbing at the lamp by the sofa, I wish I could have turned to Planned Grandparenthood when my parents were putting the grandchild squeeze on me.If I could have, I might not be in this parenthood predicament( 窘境) . But here‟s the crazy irony, I don‟t want my child-free life back . Dylan‟s too much fun.1. What‟s the purpose of the proposed organization Planned Grandparenthood?A) To encourage childless couples to have children.B) To provide facilities and services for grandchildless parents.C) To offer counseling to people on how to raise grandchildren.D) To discourage people from insisting on having grandchildren.2. Planned Grandparenthood would include depressed grandparents on its staff in order to____.A) show them the joys of life grandparents may have in raising grandchildrenB) draw attention to the troubles and difficulties grandchildren may causeC) share their experience in raising grandchildren in a more scientific wayD) help raise funds to cover the high expense of education for grandchildren3. According to the passage, some couples may eventually choose to have children because_____.A) they find it hard to resist the carrot-and-stick approach of their parentsB) they have learn from other parents about the joys of having childrenC) they feel more and more lonely ad they grow olderD) they have found it irrational to remain childless4.By saying “… my parents were putting the grandchild squeeze on me” (Line 2-3,Para. 6), the author means that _________.A) her parents kept pressuring her to have a childB) her parents liked to have a grandchild in their armsC) her parents asked her to save for the expenses of raising a childD) her parents kept blaming her for her child‟s bad behavior5.What does the author really of the idea of having children?A) It does more harm than good.B) It contributes to overpopulation.C) It is troublesome but rewarding.D) It is a psychological catastrophe1小题>、【正确答案】：D2小题>、【正确答案】：D3小题>、【正确答案】：A4小题>、【正确答案】：B5小题>、【正确答案】：C【参考解析】：无第32题：Ask most people how they define the American Dream and chances are they‟ll say, “Success.” The dream of individual opportunity has been home in American since Europeans discovered a “new world” in the Western Hemisphere. Early immigrants like Hector St. Jean de Crevecoeur praised highly the freedom and opportunity to be found in this new land. His glowing descriptions of a classless society where anyone could attain success through honesty and hard work fired the imaginations of many European readers: in Letters from an American Farmer (1782) he wrote. “We are all excited at the spirit of an industry which is unfettered (无拘无束的) and unrestrained, because each person works for himself … We have no princes, for whom we toil (干苦力活)，starve, and bleed: we are the most perfect society now existing in the world.” The promise of a land where “the rewards of a man‟s industry follow with equal steps the progress of his labor” drew poor immigrants from Europe and fueled national expansion into the western territories.Our national mythology (神化) is full of illustration the American success story. There‟s Benjamin Franklin, the very model of the self-educated, self-made man, who rose from modest origins to become a well-known scientist, philosopher, and statesman. In the nineteenth century, Horatio Alger, a writer of fiction for young boys, became American‟s best-selling author with rags-to-riches tales. The notion of success haunts us: we spend million every year reading about the rich and famous, learning how to “make a fortune in real estate with no money down,” and “dressing for success.” The myth of success has even invaded our personal relationships: today it‟s as important to be “successful” in marriage or parenthoods as it is to come out on top in business.But dre ams easily turn into nightmares. Every American who hopes to “make it” also knows the fear of failure, because the myth of success inevitably implies comparison between the haves and the have-nots, the stars and the anonymous crowd. Under pressure of the myth, we become indulged in status symbols: we try to live in the “right” neighborhoods, wear the “right” clothes, eat the “right” foods. These symbols of distinction assure us and others that we believe strongly in the fundamental equality of all, yet strive as hard as we can to separate ourselves from our fellow citizens.1. What is the essence of the American Dream according to Crevecoeur?A) People are free to develop their power of imagination.B) People who are honest and work hard can succeed.C) People are free from exploitation and oppression.D) People can fully enjoy individual freedom.2.By saying “the rewards of a man‟s industry follow with equal steps the progress of his labor” (Line 10, Para. 1), the author means __________ .A) the more diligent one is, the bigger his returnsB) laborious work ensures the growth of an industryC) a man‟s business should be developed step by stepD) a company‟s success depends on its employees‟ hard work3. The characters described in Horatio Alger‟s novel s are people who _______.A) succeed in real estate investmentB) earned enormous fortunes by chancesC) became wealthy after starting life very poorD) became famous despite their modest origins4. It can be inferred from the last sentence of the second paragraph that _________.A) business success often contributes to a successful marriageB) Americans wish to succeed in every aspect of lifeC) good personal relationships lead to business successD) successful business people provide good care for their children5. What is the paradox of American culture according to the author?A) The American road to success is full of nightmares.B) Status symbols are not a real indicator of a person‟s wealth.C) The American Dream is nothing but an empty dream.D) What Americans strive after often contradicts their beliefs.1小题>、【正确答案】：A2小题>、【正确答案】：C3小题>、【正确答案】：B4小题>、【正确答案】：A5小题>、【正确答案】：D【参考解析】：无第33题：Public distrust of scientists stems in part from the blurring of boundaries between science and technology, between discovery and manufacture. Most government, perhaps all governments, justify public expenditure on scientific research in terms of the economic benefits the scientific enterprise ha brought in the past and will bring in the future. Politicians remind their voters of the splendid machines …our scientists‟ have invented, the new drugs to relieve old ailments (病痛), and the new surgical equipment and techniques by which previously intractable (难治疗的) conditions may now be treated and lives saved. At the same time, the politicians demand of scientists that they tailor their research to …economics needs‟, that they award a higher priority to research proposals that are …near the market‟ and can be translated into the greatest return on investment in the shortest time. Dependent, as they are, on politicians for much of their funding, scientists have little choice but to comply. Like the rest of us, they are members of a society that rates the creation of wealth as the greatest possible good. Many have reservations, but keep them to themselves in what they perceive as a climate hostile to the pursuit of understanding for its own sake and the idea of an inquiring, creative spirit.In such circumstances no one should be too hard on people who are suspicious of conflicts of interest. When we learn that the distinguished professor assuring us of the safety of a particularproduct holds a consultancy with the company making it, we cannot be blamed for wondering whether his fee might conceivably cloud his professional judgment. Even if the professor holds no consultancy with any firm, some people many still distrust him because of his association with those who do, or at least wonder about the source of some his research funding.This attitude can have damaging effects. It questions the integrity of individuals working in a profession that prizes intellectual honesty as the supreme virtue, and plays into the hands of those who would like to discredit scientists by representing then a venal (可以收买的). This makes it easier to dismiss all scientific pronouncements, but especially those made by the scientists who present themselves as …experts‟. The scientist most likely to understand the safety of a nuclear reactor, for example, is a nuclear engineer declares that a reactor is unsafe, we believe him, because clearly it is not to his advantage to lie about it. If he tells us it is safe, on the other hand, we distrust him, because he may well be protecting the employer who pays his salary.1. What is the chief concern of most governments when it comes to scientific research?A) Support from the votes.B) The reduction of public expenditure.C) Quick economics returns.D) The budget for a research project.2. Scientist have to adapt their research to …economic needs‟ in order to _________ .A) impress the public with their achievementsB) pursue knowledge for knowledge‟s sakeC) obtain funding from the governmentD) translate knowledge into wealth3. Why won‟t scientists complain about the government‟s po licy concerning scientific research?A) They think they work in an environment hostile to the free pursuit of knowledge.B) They are accustomed to keeping their opinions to themselves.C) They know it takes patience to win support from the public.D) They think compliance with government policy is in the interests of the public.4. According to the author, people are suspicious of the professional judgment of scientists because ___________ .A) their pronouncements often turn out to be wrongB) sometimes they hide the source of their research fundingC) some of them do not give priority to intellectual honestyD) they could be influenced by their association with the project concerned5. Why does the author say that public distrust of scientists can have damaging effects?A) It makes things difficult for scientists seeking research funds.B) People would not believe scientists even when they tell the truth.C) It may dampen the enthusiasm of scientists for independent research.D) Scientists themselves may doubt the value of their research findings1小题>、【正确答案】：D2小题>、【正确答案】：B3小题>、【正确答案】：C4小题>、【正确答案】：B5小题>、【正确答案】：C【参考解析】：无第34题：In many ways, today‟s business environment has changed qualitatively since the late 1980s. The end of the Cold War radically altered the very nature of the world‟s politics and economics. In just a few short years, globalization has started a variety of trends with profound consequences: the opening of markets, true global competition, widespread deregulation (解除政府对……的控制) of industry, and an abundance of accessible capital. We have experienced both the benefits and risks of a truly global economy, with both Wall Street and Main Street (平民百姓) feeling the pains of economic disorder half a world away.At the same time, we have fully entered the Information Age, Starting breakthroughs in information technology have irreversibly altered the ability to conduct business unconstrained by the traditional limitations of time or space. Today, it‟s almost impossible to imagine a world without intranets, e-mail, and portable computers. With stunning speed, the Internet is profoundly changing the way we work, shop, do business, and communicate.As a consequence, we have truly entered the Post-Industrial economy. We are rapidly shifting from an economy based on manufacturing and commodities to one that places the greatest value on information, services, support, and distribution. That shift, in turn, place an unprecedented premium on “knowledge workers,” a new class of wealthy, educated, and mobi le people who view themselves as free agents in a seller‟s market.Beyond the realm of information technology, the accelerated pace of technological change in virtually every industry has created entirely new business, wiped out others, and produced a Pervasive( 广泛的) demand for continuous innovation. New product, process ,and distribution technologies provide powerful levers for creating competitive value. More companies are learning the importance of destructive technologies-----innovations that hold the potential to make a product line, or even an entire business segment, virtually outdated.Another major trend has been the fragmentation of consumer and business markets. There‟s a growing appreciation that superficially similar groups of customers may have very different preferences in terms of what they want to buy and how they want to buy it. Now, new technology makes it easier, faster ,and cheaper to identify and serve targeted micro-markets in ways that were physically impossible or prohibitively expensive in the past. Moreover, the trend feeds on itself, a business‟s ability to serve sub-markets fuels customers‟ appetites for more and more specialized offerings.1. According to the first paragraph, the chances in the business environment in the past decades can be attributed to __________.A) technological advancesB) worldwide economic disorderC) the fierce competition in industryD) the globalization of economy2. what idea does the author want to convey in the second paragraph ?A) The rapid development of information technology has taken businessmen by surpriseB) Information technology has removed the restrictions of time and space in business transactionsC) The Internet, intranets, e-mail, and portable computers have penetrated every corner of the world.D) The way we do business today has brought about startling breakthroughs in information technology.3. If a business wants to thrive in the Post-Industrial economy__________A) it has to invest more capital in the training of free agents to operate in a seller‟s marketB) it should try its best to satisfy the increasing demands of mobile knowledgeable peopleC) it should not overlook the importance of information, services, support, and distributionD) it has to provide each of its employees with the latest information about the changing market4. In the author‟s view, destructive technologies are innovations which _________A) can eliminate an entire business segmentB) demand a radical change in providing servicesC) may destroy the potential of a company to make any profitD) call for continuous improvement in ways of doing business5. With the fragmentation of consumer and business markets ______________A) an increasing number of companies have disintegratedB) manufacturers must focus on one special product to remain competitive in the marketC) it is physically impossible and prohibitively expensive to do business in the old wayD) businesses have to meet individual customers‟ specific needs in order to succeed .1小题>、【正确答案】：D2小题>、【正确答案】：B3小题>、【正确答案】：C4小题>、【正确答案】：B5小题>、【正确答案】：D【参考解析】：略。

2016 年 -2017年 6 月大学英语六级考试真题

2016 年-2017年6 月大学英语六级考试真题Part I Writing (30 minutes)Directions: For this part, you are allowed 30minutes to write an essay commenting onAlbert Einstein ’s remark “I have no special talents, but I amonly passionately curious. ”You can give one exampleor two to illustrate your point of view. You should write at least150 words but no more than 200 words.Part II Listening Comprehension (30 minutes)Section A1.A) The woman seldom speaks highly of herself.B) The manis unhappy with the woman's remark.C) The manbehaves as if he were a thorough fool.D)The woman thinks she is cleverer than the man.2.A) Three crew members were involvedin the incident.B) None of the hijackers carried any deadly weapons.C) The plane had beenscheduled to fly to Japan.D) None of the passengers were injured or killed.3.A) At a checkoutcounter. B)At acommercial bank.C) At a travel agency. D)At a hotel front desk.4.A) The restaurant was not up to the speakers' expectations.B) The restaurant places many ads in popular magazines.C) The critic thought highly of the Chinese restaurant.D) Chinatown has got the best restaurants in the city.5.A) Prof. Laurence has stopped conducting seminars.B) Prof. Laurence is going into an active retirement.C) The professor'sgraduate seminar is wellreceived.D)The professor will lead a quiet life after retirement.6.A) Finding a replacement forLeon. B)Assigning Leon to a new position.C) Arranging for Rodney's visit tomorrow. D) Finding a solution to Rodney's problem.7.A) Helen has been looking forward to the exhibition.B) The photography exhibition will close tomorrow.C) Helen asked the manto book a ticket for her.D) Photography is one of Helen'smany hobbies.8.A) The speakers share the same opinion.B) Steve knows how to motivate employees.C) The woman is out of touch with the real world.D)The man has a better understanding of Steve.Questions 9 to 12 are based on the conversation you have just heard. 9. A) It is well paid. B) It is demanding. C) It is stimulating. D) It is fairly secure.10.A)A lighter workload. B) Free accommodation.C) Moving expenses. D)A quick promotion.11.A) He has to sign a long-term contract.B) He has trouble adapting to the localweather.C) He has to spend a lot more traveling back and forth.D) He has difficulty communicating with local people.12.A) The womansympathizes with the man.B) The man is in the process of jobhunting.C) The man is going to attend a job interview.D) The womanwill help the man make a choice.Questions 13to 15 are based on the conversation you have just heard.13.A) Tosee if he can get a loan from the woman's bank.B) To see if he can find a job inthe woman's company.C) To inquire about the current financial market situation.D) Toinquire about the interest rates at the woman'sbank.14.A) Long-term investment. B)Any high-interest deposit.C)A three-month deposit. D)Any high-yield investment.15.A) She treated him toa meal. B) She raised interest rates for him.C) She offered him dining coupons. D) She gave him loans at low rates. Section BPassage OneQuestions 16to 18 are based on the passage you have just heard.16.A) The ability to predict fashiontrends. B)A refined taste for artisticworks.C) Years of practical experience. D) Strictprofessionaltraining.17.A) Promoting all kinds ofAmerican hand-made specialties.B) Strengthening cooperation with foreign governments.C) Conducting trade in art works with dealers overseas.D) Purchasinghandicrafts from all over the world.18.A) She has access to fashionable things. B) She is doing what she enjoys doing.C) She can enjoy life on a modest salary. D) She is free to do whatever she wants.Passage TwoQuestions 19to 22 are based on the passage you have just heard.19.A) Its role is to regulate international coffee prices.B) It represents several countries that export coffee.C) Its most important task is to conduct coffee studies.D) It is a Portuguese company selling coffee in New York.20.A) The increased coffee consumption. B) The fluctuation of coffeeprices.C) The freezing weather in Brazil. D) The impact ofglobal warming.21.A) He is a heavy coffee drinker. B) He is tall, rich andintelligent.C) He is doing a bachelor's degree. D) He is young, handsome and single.22.A)A visit to several coffee-growing plantations.B)A vacation on some beautiful tropical beach.C) Coffee prices and his advertising campaign.D)A quick promotion and a handsome income.Passage ThreeQuestions 23to 25 are based on the passage you have just heard.23.A) They were delayedby the train for hours.B) They were late for the first morning bus.C) They boarded a wrong coach in a hurry.D) They were held up in a traffic jam.24.A) It was postponed due to terrible weather.B) It was spoiled by poor accommodations.C) It was the most exciting trip they ever had.D) It was canceledbecause of an unexpected strike.25.A) Go overseas. B) Stay at home. C) Take escorted trips. D) Take romantic cruises.Section CWhy would an animal kill itself?It seems a strange question, and yet it is one that has(26)____ somepeople for a long time. Thelemming（旅鼠）is one such animal. Lemmingsperiodically commit mass (27) ____, and no one knows just why!The small (28) ____, which inhabit the Scandinavian mountains, sustainthemselves on a dietofroots and live in nests they make underground. When their food supply is (29) ____ large, thelemmings live a normal, undisturbed life.However, when the lemmings' food supply becomes too low to support the population, asingular (30) ____ commences. The lemmings leave their nests all together at the same time,forming huge crowds. Great numbers of the lemmings begin a longand hard journey across theScandinavian plains, a journey that may last weeks. The lemmings eat everything in theirpath,continuing their (31) ____ march until they reach the sea.The reason for what follows remains a mystery for zoologists and naturalists. Upon reachingthe coast, the lemmings do not stop but swim by the thousands into thesurf. Most (32)____ only ashort time before they tire, sink and drown.A common theory for this unusual phenomenon is that the lemmings do not realize that theocean is such (33) ____ water. In their cross-country journey, the animals must traverse manysmaller bodies of water, such as riversand small lakes. They may (34) ____ that the sea is justanother such swimmable (35) ____. But no final answer has been found to the mystery.Part III Reading Comprehension (40 minutes)Section AQuestions 36to 45 are based on the following passage."Thatwhich does not kill us makes us stronger." But parents can't handle it when teenagersput this 36____ into practice. Now technology has become the new field for the age-old battlebetween adults and theirfreedom-seeking kids.Locked indoors, unableto get on their bicycles andhang out with their friends, teens haveturned to social media andtheir mobile phones to socialize with their peers. What they do onlineoften 37____ what they might otherwise do if their mobility weren't so heavily 38____ in theageof helicopter parenting. Social media and smart-phone apps have become so popular in recentyears because teens need a placeto call their own. They want the freedom to 39____ their identityand the world around them. Instead of 40____ out, they jump online. As teens have movedonline, parents have projected their fears onto the Internet, imaginingall the 41____dangers that youth might face 一from 42____ strangers to cruel peers to picturesorwords that could haunt them on Google for the rest of their lives. Rather than helping teens develop strategies for negotiatingpublic life and the risks of 43____withothers, fear-full parents have focused on tracking, monitoring and blocking. Thesetactics（策略）don't help teens develop the skills they need to manage complex social situations,44____ risks and get help when they're in trouble. "Protecting" kids may feel like the right thing todo, but it 45____ the learning that teens need to do as they come of age in a technology-soakedworld.A) assess B) constrained C) contains D) exploreE) influence F) interacting G) interpretation H) magnifiedI) mirrors J) philosophy K) potential L) sneakingM) sticking N) undermines O) violentSection BInequalityIs Not Inevitable[A] A dangerous trend has developed over this past third of a century. A country that experiencedshared growth after World War IIbegan to tear apart, so much so that when the Great Recessionhitin late 2007, onecould no longer ignore the division that had come to define the Americaneconomic landscape. How did this "shining city on a hill" become the advanced country with thegreatest level of inequality?[B] Over the past year and a half, The Great divide, a series in The New York Times, has presenteda wide range of examples that undermine the notion that there are any truly fundamental lawsofcapitalism. The dynamics of the imperial capitalism of the 19th century needn't apply in thedemocracies of the 21st. we don't need to have this much inequality inAmerica.[C] Our current brand ofcapitalism is a fake capitalism. For proof of this go back to our responseto the Great Recession, where we socialized losses, even as we privatized gains. Perfectcompetition should drive profits to zero, at least theoretically, but we have monopolies makingpersistently high profits. C.E.O.senjoy incomes that are on average 295 times that ofthe typicalworker, a much higher ratio than in the past, withoutany evidence of a proportionate increase inproductivity.[D] If it is notthe cruel laws of economics that have led to America's great divide,what is it? Thestraightforward answer: our policies andour politics. People get tired of hearing aboutScandinavian success stories, but the fact of the matter is thatSweden, Finland andNorway haveall succeeded in having about as much or faster growth in per capita（人均的）incomes than theUnited States and with far greaterequality.[E] So why has America chosen these inequality-enhancing policies? Partofthe answer is that asWorld War II faded into memory, so too did the solidarity it had created. As America triumphed inthe Cold War, there didn't seem to be a real competitor to our economic model.Without thisinternational competition, we no longer hadto show that our system could deliver for most of ourcitizens.[F] Ideology and interests combine viciously. Some drewthe wrong lesson from the collapse ofthe Soviet system in 1991. The pendulum swung from much too much government there to muchtoo little here. Corporate interestsargued for getting rid of regulations, even when thoseregulations had done so much to protect and improve our environment, our safety, our health andthe economy itself.[G] But this ideology was hypocritical（虚伪的）. The bankers, among the strongest advocatesoflaissez-faire（自由放任的）economics, were only too willing to accept hundreds of billions ofdollars from the government in the aid programs that have been a recurring feature of the globaleconomy since the beginning of the Thatcher-Reagan era of "free" markets and deregulation.[H] The American politicalsystem is overrunby money. Economic inequality translates intopolitical in-equality, and political inequality yields increasing economic inequality. So corporatewelfare increases as we reduce welfare for the poor. Congress maintains subsidies for rich farmersas wecut back on nutritionalsupport for the needy. Drug companies have been given hundreds ofbillions of dollars as we limit Medicaid benefits. The banks that brought on the global financialcrisis got billions while a tiny bitwent tothe homeowners and victims of the same banks'predatory（掠夺性的）lending practices. This last decision was particularly foolish. There werealternatives to throwing money at the banks and hoping it would circulate through increasedlending.[I] Our divisions are deep. Economic and geographicsegregation has immunized those at the topfrom the problems of those down below. Like the kings of ancient times' they havecome toperceive theirprivileged positions essentially as a natural right.[J] Our economy, our democracy and our society have paid for these gross inequalities. The truetest of an economy is not howmuch wealth its princes can accumulate in tax havens （庇护所）, buthow well off the typical citizen is. But average incomes are lower than they werea quarter-centuryago. Growth has gone to the very, very top, whose share has almost increased four times since1980. Money that was meant to have trickled（流淌）downhas instead evaporated in the agreeableclimate of the Cayman Islands.[K] With almost a quarterof Americanchildren younger than 5 living in poverty, and withAmerica doing so littlefor its poor, the deprivations of one generation are being visited upon thenext. Of course, no country has ever come closeto providing complete equality of opportunity.But why is America one of the advanced countries where the life prospects of the young are mostsharply determined by the income and education of theirparents? [L] Among the most bitterstories in The Great Divide were those that portrayedthe frustrations ofthe young, who long to enter our shrinking middle class.Soaring tuitions anddeclining incomeshave resulted in larger debt burdens. Those with only a high school diploma have seen theirincomes decline by 13 percent over the past 35 years.[M] Where justice is concerned, thereis also a huge divide. In the eyes of the rest of the world anda significant part of its own population, mass imprisonment has come to define America—acountry, it bears repeating, with about 5 percentof the world's populationbut around a fourthofthe world 's prisoners.[N] Justice has become a commodity, affordable to only a few. While Wall Street executives usedtheir expensive lawyers to ensure that their ranks were not held accountable for the misdeeds thatthe crisis in 2008 so graphically revealed, the banks abused our legal system to foreclose（取消赎回权）on mortgages and eject tenants, some of whom did not even owe money.[O] More than a half-century ago, America led the way in advocating for the UniversalDeclaration of Human Rights, adopted by theUnited Nations in1948. Today, access to health careis among the most universally accepted rights, atleast in the advanced countries. America, despitethe implementation of the Affordable Care Act, is the exception. In therelief that many felt whenthe SupremeCourt did not overturn the Affordable Care Act, the implications of the decision forMedicaid were not fully appreciated. Obamacare's objective 一to ensure that all Americans haveaccess to health care —has been blocked: 24states have not implementedthe expanded Medicaidprogram,which was the means by whichObamacare was supposed to deliver on its promise tosome of the poorest.[P] We need not just a new war on poverty but awar to protect the middle class. Solutions to theseproblems do not have to be novel. Far from it. Making markets act like markets would be a goodplace to start. We must end the rent-seeking society we have gravitated toward, in which thewealthy obtain profits by manipulating the system.[Q] The problem of inequality is not so much a matter of technical economics. It's really aproblem of practical politics. Inequality is notjust about the top marginal tax rate but also aboutour children's access tofood and the right to justice for all. If we spent more on education, healthand infrastructure（基础设施）, we would strengthen our economy, now and in the future.46. In theory, free competition is supposed to reduce the margin ofprofitsto the minimum.47. The United States is now characterized by a great division between the rich and the poor.48. America lacked the incentive to care for the majority of its citizens as it found no rival for itseconomic model.49. The wealthy top have come to take privileges for granted.50. Many examples show the basic laws of imperial capitalismno longer apply in present-dayAmerica.51. The author suggests a return to the true spirit of the market.52.Aquarter of theworld'sprisoner population is in America.53. Government regulation in America went from one extreme to the other in the past twodecades.54. Justice has become so expensive that only a small number of people like corporate executivescan afford it.55. No country in the world so far has been able to provide completely equal opportunities for all.Section CPassage OneQuestions 56to 60 are based on the following passage.I'll admit I've never quite understood the obsession （难以破除的成见）surroundinggenetically modified (GM) crops. To environmentalist opponents, GM foods are simply evil, anunderstudied, possibly harmful tool used by big agricultural businesses to control global seedmarkets and crush local farmers. They argue thatGM foods have never delivered on theirsupposed promise, that money spent on GM crops would be better channeled to organic farmingand that consumers should be protected with warning labels on any products that containgenetically modified ingredients. To supporters, GM crops are a key part of the effort tosustainably provide food to meet a growing global population.But more than that, supporters seethe GM opposition of many environmentalists as fundamentally anti-science, no different thanthose who question the basics of man-made climate change.For both sides, GM foods seem to act as a symbol: you're pro-agricultural business oranti-science. But science is exactly what we need more of when it comes to GM foods, which iswhyI was happy to see Nature devote a special series of articles to the GM food controversy. Theconclusion: while GM crops haven't yet realized their initial promise and havebeen dominated byagricultural businesses, there is reason to continueto use and develop them to help meet theenormous challenge of sustainably feeding a growing planet.That doesn't mean GM crops are perfect, or a one-size-fits-all solution to global agricultureproblems. But anything that can increase farming efficiency 一the amount ofcrops wecanproduce peracre ofland 一will be extremely useful. GM crops can and almost certainly will bepart of that suite of tools'but so will traditional plant breeding, improved soil and cropmanagement 一and perhaps most important of all, better storage and transport infrastructure（基础设施）, especially in the developing world.(It doesn't do much good for farmers in places likesub-Saharan Africa to produce more food if they can't get it to hungry consumers.) I'd like to seemore non-industry research done on GM crops—not just because we'd worry less about bias, butalso because seed companies like Monsanto and Pioneer shouldn't be the only entities working toharness genetic modification. I'd like to see GM research onless commercial crops, like com. Idon't think it's vital to label GM ingredients in food, but I also wouldn't be against it 一andindustry would be smart to go along with labeling, just as a way of removing fears about thetechnology.Most of all, though, I wish a tenth of the energy that's spent endlessly debating GMcrops wasfocused on those more pressing challenges for global agriculture. Thereare much bigger battles tofight.56. How do environmentalist opponents view GM foods according to the passage?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 sayis vital to solving the controversy between the two sides of thedebate?A) Breaking the GM food monopoly. B) More friendly exchange of ideas.C) Regulating GM food production. D) Morescientific research on GM crops.58. What is themain point of the Nature articles?A) Feeding the growing population makes it imperative to develop GM crops.B) Popularizing GM technology will help it to live up to itsinitial promises.C) Measures should be taken to ensure the safety of GM foods.D) Both supporters and opponents should make compromises.59. What is theauthor's view on thesolution to agricultural problems?A) It has to depend more and more on GM technology.B) It is vital to the sustainable development of humansociety.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?A) It arises out of ignorance ofand 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 urgentissues ofagriculture.D) Neither side is likely to givein until more convincing evidence is found. Passage TwoQuestions 61to 65 are based on the following passage.Early decision —youapply to one school, and admission isbinding —seems likea greatchoice for nervousapplicants. Schools let in a higher percentage of early-decision applicants,which arguably means that youhave a better chance of getting in. And if you do, you're done withthe whole agonizing process by December. But what most students and parents don't realize is thatschools have hidden motives for offering early decision.Early decision, since it's binding, allows schools to fill their classes with qualified students; itallows ad-missions committees to select the students that are in particular demand for their collegeand know thosestudents will come. It also gives schools ahigher yield rate, which is often used asone of the ways to measure college selectivity and popularity.The problem is that this process effectively shortensthe window of time students have tomake one of the most important decisions of their lives up to that point.Under regular admissions,seniors have until May 1 to choose which school to attend; early decision effectively steals sixmonths from them, months that could be used to visit more schools, do more research,speak tocurrent students and alumni（校友）and arguably make a more informed decision.There are, frankly, an astonishing number of exceptional colleges in America,and for anygiven student, there are a number of schools that are a great fit. When students become too fixated（专注）on a particular school early in the admissions process, that fixationcan lead to severedisappointment if they don't get in or, if they do, the possibility that theyare now bound to go to aschoolthat,given time for further reflection, may not actually be right for them.Insofar as early decision offers a genuine admissions edge,that advantage goes largely tostudents who already have numerous advantage. The studentswho use early decision tend to bethose who have received higher-quality college guidance, usually a result of coming from a moreprivileged background. In this regard, there's an argument against early decision, as students fromlower-income families are far less likely to have the admissions know-how to navigate the oftenconfusing early deadlines.Students who have done their research and are confident that there's one school they wouldbe thrilled to getinto should,under the current system, probably apply underearly decision. Butfor students who haven't yet done enough research, or who are still constantly changing theirminds on favoriteschools, the early-decision system needlessly andprematurely narrows the fieldof possibility just at a time when students should be opening themselves to a whole range ofthrilling options.61. What are students obliged to do under early decision?A) Look into a lot of schools before they apply. B)Attend the school once they are admitted.C) Think twice before they acceptthe offer. D) Consult the current students and alumni.62. Why do schools offer early decision?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?A) It makes their application process more complicated.B) It places too high a demand on theirresearch ability.C) It allows them little time to make informed decisions.D) It exerts much morepsychological pressure on them.64. Why aresome people opposedto early decision?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?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.Part IV Translation (30 minutes)2011 年是中国城市化（urbanization）进程中的历史性时刻，其城市人口首次超过农村人口。

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2017年 6 月英语六级真题及答案（三套全）2017年6月英语六级真题作文一：国内国外上大学Directions: Suppose you are asked to give advice on whether to attend college at home or abroad, write an essay to state your opinion. You are required to write at least 150 words but no more than 200 words.参考答案Nowadays, there has been a heated discussion as to a better choice between attending college at home and abroad. Views on the topic vary greatly among people from different walks of life. Some believe that it is a better choice to study in domestic colleges, but others consider it better to study abroad. I totally agree with the latter idea for the reasons presented below. To begin with, it harms the society in that the greater the competition is, the higher the recruitment requirements will become. Therefore, with experiences of studying abroad, graduates will become more competitive in job hunting. Furthermore, it is beneficial to the students themselves to study abroad. Without the choice to pursue overseas study, many great scholars today would never have achieved such great success. From my perspective, it is crucial that the government should encourage people to pursue overseas study. Also it is crucial that people should understand the meaning and value of attending college abroad. Only in this way can we achieve greater success.作文二：文科还是理科Directions: Suppose you are asked to give advice on whether to major in humanities or science, write an essay to state your opinion. You are required to write at least 150 words but no more than 200 words.参考范文：Living in a world which is full of changes and challenges,we are confronted with new problems every single day. Of all the issues, one might concern the high school graduates the most, and it is if there are two options: to major in science or humanities. As for me, I prefer the latter.Why,you may wonder, should I prefer to major in humanities. The reasons responsible for it can be listed as follows .Among the most important reasons cited by people is that to major in humanities，directly or indirectly，can not only enrich our basic knowledge about the diversified culture but also sharpen one’s insight in daily routine，which is of great importance in one’s growth.What’s more, to study humanities can give us an independent personality and a deeper vision towards the world, if it were not for those two attributes, how could we achieve great goals in this dog-eat-dog world.Above all, in such a society where emphasis，more often than not，is laid on the depth of one’s thought, to choose humanities as one’s major, must be the best way .To major humanities, so at least it seems to me, is preferable forcollege students, if they had the chance, in the process of which we will develop an innovative thought mode.As a proverb goes ,there is no difficulty that an innovative thought mode can not solve, no door that an innovative thought mode can not open, no mountain that an innovative thought mode can not surmount.作文三：选择综合类大学还是职业题目：Directions: Suppose you are asked to give advice on whether to attend a vocational college or a university, write an essay to state your opinion. You are required to write at least 150 words but no more than 200 words.参考范文：With the flourish of education industry, modern students are facedwith more alternatives to continue their further education. Both attending a vocational college or a university serves as two main options for the high school graduates. In terms of which to choose and what to be taken into consideration, I shall advise as follows:Primarily, self-orientation matters the most when it comes to a issue like this. Obviously, the main task of vocational college is cultivating human resource with practical capability. Instead, university serves as the cradle of academic researchers in different areas. Therefore, being aware of yourself-expectation with a clear future blueprint lays a foundation for this important decision.Apart from what has been mentioned above, personal interest also plays a key role in it. For both passion and motivation are derived from interest, which not only decide how far you can reach academically and professionally but also how happy and fulfilled you will be .To sum up, a clear recognition of self orientation and personal interest will decide whether you will tick the box of vocational college or university. Only in this way can we get the most out of the further education.六级听力解析：Long conversation 1Q1: B Having friendly colleagues解析：原文中前半部分男士说到：“The most important factor for the majority of the people interviewed was having friendly, supportive colleagues.” 对于大部分接受采访的人来说，最重要的因素是拥有友好的、互相支持的同事们。

英语六级真题及答案三套全

2017年6月英语六级真题及答案三套全2017年6月英语六级真题作文一：国内国外上大学Directions:Suppose you are asked to give advice on whether to attend college at home or abroad, write an essay to state your opinion. You are required to write at least 150 words but no more than 200 words.参考答案Nowadays, there has been a heated discussion as to a better choice between attending college at home and abroad. Views on the topic vary greatly among people from different walks of life. Some believe that it is a better choice to study in domestic colleges, but others consider it better to study abroad. I totally agree with the latter idea for the reasons presented below. To begin with, it harms the society in that the greater the competition is, the higher the recruitment requirements will become. Therefore, with experiences of studying abroad, graduates will become more competitive in job hunting. Furthermore, it is beneficial to the students themselves to study abroad. Without the choice to pursue overseas study, many great scholars today would never have achieved such great success. From my perspective, it is crucial that the government should encourage people to pursue overseas study. Also it is crucial that people should understand the meaning and value of attending college abroad. Only in this way can we achieve greater success.作文二：文科还是理科Directions:Suppose you are asked to give advice on whether to major in humanities or science, write an essay to state your opinion. You are required to write at least 150 words but no more than 200 words.参考范文：Living in a world which is full of changes and challenges,we are confronted with new problems every single day. Of all the issues, one might concern the high school graduates the most, and it is if there are two options: to major in science or humanities. As for me, I prefer the latter.Why,you may wonder, should I prefer to major in humanities. The reasons responsible for it can be listed as follows .Among the most important reasons cited by people is that to major in humanities,directly or indirectly,can not only enrich our basic knowledge about the diversified culture but also sharpen one’s insight in daily routine,which is of great importance in one’s growth.What’s more, to study humanities can give us an independent personality and a deeper vision towards the world, if it were not for those two attributes, how could we achieve great goals in this dog-eat-dog world.Above all, in such a society where emphasis,more often than not,is laid on the depth of one’s thought, to choose humanities as one’s major, must be the best way .To major humanities, so at least it seems to me, is preferable for college students, if they had the chance, in the process of which we will develop an innovative thought mode.As a proverb goes ,there is no difficulty that an innovative thought mode can not solve, no door that an innovative thought mode can not open, no mountain that an innovative thought mode can not surmount.作文三：选择综合类大学还是职业题目：Directions: Suppose you are asked to give advice on whether to attend a vocational college or a university, write an essay to state your opinion. You are required to write at least 150 words but no more than 200 words.参考范文：With the flourish of education industry, modern students are faced with more alternatives to continue their further education. Both attending a vocational college or a university serves as two main options for the high school graduates. In terms of which to choose and what to be taken into consideration, I shall advise as follows:Primarily, self-orientation matters the most when it comes to a issue like this. Obviously, the main task of vocational college is cultivating human resource with practical capability. Instead, university serves as the cradle of academic researchers in different areas. Therefore, being aware of your self-expectation with a clear future blueprint lays a foundation for this important decision.Apart from what has been mentioned above, personal interest also plays a key role in it. For both passion and motivation are derived from interest, which not only decide how far you can reach academically and professionally but also how happy and fulfilled you will be .To sum up, a clear recognition of self orientation and personal interest will decide whether you will tick the box of vocational college or university. Only in this way can we get the most out of the further education.六级听力解析：Long conversation 1Q1: B Having friendly colleagues解析：原文中前半部分男士说到：“The most important factor for the majority of the people interviewed was having friendly, supportive colleagues.” 对于大部分接受采访的人来说,最重要的因素是拥有友好的、互相支持的同事们;Q2：B 20%解析：原文中部男士说到：“However, 20% of employees described themselves as being unhappy.” 20%的员工说他们工作得不开心;Q3：A those of a small size解析：后半部男士提到：“First of all, small is beautiful: people definitely prefer working for smaller organizations or companies with less than 100 staff.” 首先小就是好：人们绝对偏爱在少于100人的小公司工作;Q4：C They can better balance work and life解析：原文中男士说到：“And workers on part-time contracts, who only work 4 or 5 hours a day, are happier than those who work full-time. The researchers concluded that this is probably due to a better work-life balance.” 每天工作4、5个小时的兼职人员比全职人员要开心,这可能是由于一种更好的工作与生活之间的平衡;Long conversation 2Q5：D It is a collection of photos.解析：原文前部分男士提到：“In 2006, when the concert hall of the city of Bruges asked me to take some pictures for a catalogue for a new concert season around the theme of water.” 在2006年,布鲁日城市音乐厅请我帮他们完成一个以水为主题的摄影系列;所以这本书是一个摄影系列;Q6: C When taking pictures for a concert catalogue.解析：原文前部分男士提到：“In 2006, when the concert hall of the city of Bruges asked me to take some pictures for a catalogue for a new concert season around the theme of water.” 在2006年,布鲁日城市音乐厅请我帮他们完成一个以水为主题的摄影系列;所以是在拍摄这个系列时产生的灵感;Q7：A The entire European coastline will be submerged.解析：原文中部提到：“It is clear now that it is a matter of time before the entire European coastline disappears under water.” 很明确,整个欧洲海岸线的消失只是时间的问题,由此判断出正确答案;Q8：D Tourists use wooden paths to reach their hotels in the morning.解析：文章结尾提到：“Also, Venice, the city eternally threatened by the sea, where every morning wooden pathways have to be set up to allow tourists to reach their hotels.” 威尼斯全程都被海洋威胁着,每天早上人们都要搭上木桥,游客们才能顺利到达旅馆;Passage 1Q9: C they spend too much time anticipating their defeat解析：原文第一句说到：“When facing a new situation, some people tend to rehearse their defeat by spending too much time anticipating the worst.” 当面临新的挑战, 人们总花很多时间去想最坏的情况;由此得出正确答案;Q10：D Thinking has the same effect on the nervous system as doing解析：原文提到：“Research conducted at Stanford University shows a mental image fires the nerve system the same way as actually doing something.” 斯坦福大学发布的研究表明,心理暗示对神经系统作用巨大,会最终导致同样的结果;Q11：C Picture themselves succeeding解析：由文中年轻律师成功的例子得出正确答案;Q12：B She won her first jury trail解析：根据文中年轻律师成功的例子得出正确答案;Passage 2Q 13: C It helps people to avoid developing breast cancer解析：文章前部分提到：“Telling them that eating lots of high-fiber foods could reduce the risk of breast cancer before middle age.” 摄入大量高纤维食品合一降低中年时期患乳腺癌的概率;Q14：D It tracked their eating habits since their adolescence解析：文章中间提到：“It turns out that those who consumed the highest levels of fiber during adolescence had a lower risk of developing breast cancer.” 研究发现青春期摄入越多纤维的女性在未来患乳腺癌的概率越低;所以答案是这项研究从她们青春期开始追踪的;Q15：A Fiber may help to reduce hormones in the body解析：文章后半部分提到：“The finding points to long-standing evidence that fiber may reduce circulating female hormone levels,” 研究表明长期实验的证据表明纤维可以降低女性体内的荷尔蒙;Lecture 1Q16:B Conducting research on consumer behaviour解析：原文第一句提到：“Well my current research is really about consumer behavior.” 最近我在关注消费者行为这个课题;Q17：D It is an act of socialisting解析：文章中部提到：“One of the things that I've identified is that drinking for people say between the ages of 18 and 24 is all about the social activity.” 我的一项发现是年龄在18至24岁的人喝酒是出于社交原因;Q18：A They spent a week studying their own purchasing bahaviour.解析：文章最后提到：“last year my students spent a week looking at their own purchasing and analyzed it in detail from shopping to therelationship that they have with their retail banks and their mobile phone providers.” 去年我的学生花了一周时间去关注、分析他们的购物情况,以及他们和银行、手机制造商的关系;Lecture 2Q19: D It is likely to give up paper money in the near future解析：在听力原文中说到Sweden was the first European country to print and use paper money, but it may soon do away with physical currencies. 瑞典是欧洲第一个印刷并使用纸币的国家,但可能不久就会停止使用;Q20：C whether the absence of physical currency causes a person to spend more解析：在听力原文中说到Barrett wanted to find out if the absence of physical currency does indeed cause a person to spend more, so she decided to conduct an experiment a few months ago. Barrett想知道不带现金是否会导致人们花更多的钱,所以几个月前她决定做一个实验;Q21：C the restaurant car accepted cash only解析：在听力原文中说到On the way, there was an announcement that the restaurant car was not currently accepting credit cards. The train cars were filled with groans because many of the passengers were traveling without cash. 在火车上,她发现餐车不接受信用卡消费,结果车上便充满了呻吟因为很多乘客都没有带现金;Q22：A By putting into envelopes解析：在听力原文中说到My parents, when they were younger, used to budget by putting money into envelopes— they'd get paid and they'd immediately separate the cash into piles and put them in envelopes, so they knew what they had to spend week by week. 我父母那一代,当他们年轻的时候,他们会把钱放进信封里来做预算;当他们拿到工资后,他们便立马把现金分为几份并放进信封,这样他们就能知道每周要花多少钱;Lecture 3Q23：B Chrome hunger解析：原文提到：“So let’s start with a few problems. Right now, a billion people are chronically hungry.” 让我们先来说几个问题;现在有上十亿人长期处于饥饿状态;Q24：B About half of them are unintended解析：在听力原文中说到About half of all pregnancies globally are unintended.全球有近五成意外受孕;Q25：A It is essential to the wellbeing of all species on earth解析：原文提到：“It’s not only the study of human population, but the populations of non-human species. Demography also includes the study of non-living objects.” 人口统计学,不仅是关于人类的种群,也关乎于非人类种群,还包括无生命的对象;由此可见,人口问题对所有物种来说都是必要的;Part III Reading comprehension 40 minutes选词填空Directions: 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 carefully before making your choices. Each choice in the bank is identified by a letter. Please mark the corresponding letter for each item on Answer Sheet 2 with a single through the center. You may not use any of the word in the bank more than once.Let’s all stop judging people who talk to themselves. New research says that those who can’t seem to keep their inner monologues 独白 in are actually more likely to stay on task, remain ___26___ better and show improved perception capabilities. Not bad, really, for some extra muttering.According to a series of experiments published in the Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology by professors Gary Lupyan and Daniel Swignley, the act of using verbal clues to ___27___ mental pictures helps people function quicker.In one experiment, they showed pictures of various objects to twenty ___28___ and asked them to find just one of those, a banana. Half were ___29___ to repeat out loud what they were looking for and the other half kept their lips ___30___ . Those who talked to themselves found the banana slightly faster than those who didn’t, the researchers say. In other experiments, Lupyan and Swignley found that ___31___ the name of a common product when on the hunt for it helped quicken someone’s pace, but talking about uncommon items showed no advantage and slowed you down.Common research has long held that talking themselves through a task helps children learn, although doing so when you’ve ___32___ matured is not a great sign of ___33___The two professors hope to refute that idea, ___34___ that just as when kids walk themselves through a process, adults can benefit from using language not just to communicate, but also to help “augment thinking”.Of course, you are still encouraged to keep the talking at library tones and, whatever you do, keep the information you share simple, like a grocerylist. At any ___35___ , there’s still such a thing as too much information.A ApparentlyB ArroganceC BrillianceD ClaimingE DedicatedF FocusedG IncurH InstructedI ObscurelyJ SealedK spectatorsL TriggerM UtteringN VolumeO Volunteers参考答案26. F focused27. L trigger28. O volunteers29. H instructed30. J sealed31. M uttering32. A apparently33. C brilliance34. D claiming35. N volume段落匹配A The lives of children from rich and poor American families look more different than they have in decades.B Well-off families are ruled by calendars. with children enrolled in ballet. soccer and after-school programs, according to a new Pew Research Center survey There are usually two parents, who spend a lot of time reading to children and worrying about their anxiety levels and hectic schedulesC In poor families. however. children tend to spend their time at home or with extended family. the survey found They are more likely to grow up in neighborhoods that their parents say aren't great for raising children. andtheir parents worry about them getting shot, beaten up or in trouble with the lawD The class differences m child rearing are growing, researchers say - a symptom of widening inequality with far-reaching consequences Differentupbringings set children on different paths and can deepen socioeconomic divisions. Especially because education is strongly linked to earnings Children grow up learning the skills to succeed in their socioeconomic stratum. but not necessarily othersE "Early childhood experiences can be very consequential for children's long-term social, emotional and cognitive development." said Sean F.Reardon. professor of poverty and inequality in education at Stanford University -And because those influence educational success and later earnings. early childhood experiences cast a lifelong shadow" The cycle continues: Poorer parents have less time and fewer resources to invest in their children. which can leave children less prepared for school and work. which leads to lower earningsF American parents want similar things for their children, the Pew report and past research have found: for them to be healthy and happy, honest and ethical, caring and compassionate There is no best parenting style or philosophy, researchers say, and across income groups, 92 percent of parents say they are doing a goodjob at raising their children. Yet they are doing it quite differently Middle-class and higher-income parents see their children as projects in need of careful cultivation, says Annette Lareau, a University of Pennsylvaniasociologist whose goundbreaking research on the topic was published in her book "Unequal Childhoods: Class, Race and Family Life " They try to develop their skills through close supervision and organized activities, and teach children to question authority figures and navigate elite institutions.G Working-class parents, meanwhile, believe their children will naturally thrive, and give them far greater independence and time for free play They are taught to be compliant and deferential to adults There are benefits to both approaches Working-class children are happier, more independent, whine less and are closer with family members, Ms Lareau found Higher-income children are more likely to declare boredom and expect their parents to solve their problems Yet later on, the more affluent children end up in college and en route to the middle class, while working-class children tend to struggle Children from higher-income families are likely to have the skills to navigate bureaucracies and succeed in schools and workplaces, reau saidH "Do all parents want the most success for their children Absolutely," she said "Do some strategies give children more advantages than others in institutions Probably they do Will parents be damaging children if they have one fewer organized activityNo, I really doubt it "I Social scientists say the differences arise in part becauselow-income parents have less money to spend on music class or preschool, and less flexible schedules to take children to museums or attend school events Extracurricular activities epitomize the differences in child rearing in the Pew survey, which was of a nationally representative sample of l,807 parents Of families earning more than $75,000 a year, 84 percent say their children have participated in organized sports over the past year, 64 percent have done volunteer work and 62 percent have taken lessons in music, dance or art Of families earning less than $30,000,59 percent of children have done sports, 37 percent have volunteered and 41 percent have taken arts classesJ Especially in affluent families, children start young Nearly half of high-earning, college-graduateparents enrolled their children in arts classes before they were 5, compared with one-fifth oflow-income,less-educated parents. Nonetheless, 20 percent of well-off parents say their children's schedules are toohectic, compared with 8 percent of poorer parents.K Another example is reading aloud, which studies have shown gives children bigger vocabularies and better reading comprehension in school Seventy-one percent of parents with a college degree say they do it every day, compared with 33 percent of those with a high school diploma or less, Pew found White parents are more likely than others to read to their children daily, as are married parents Most affluent parents enroll their children in preschool or day care, while low-income parents are more likely to depend on family members Discipline techniques vary by education level: 8 percent of those with a postgraduate degree say they often spank their children, compared with 22 percent of those with a high school degree or lessL The survey also probed attitudes and anxieties. Interestingly, parents' attitudes toward education do not seem to reflect their own educational background as much as a belief in the importance of education for upward mobility Most American parents say they are not concerned about their children's grades as long as they work hard But 50 percent of poor parents say it is extremely important to them that their children earn a college degree, compared with 39 percent of wealthier parentsM Less-educated parents, and poorer and black and Latino parents are more likely to believe that there is no such thing as too much involvement in a child's education Parents who are white, wealthy or college-educated say too much involvement can be bad Parental anxieties reflect their circumstances High-earning parents are much more likely to say they live in a good neighborhood for raising children While bullying is parents: greatest concern over all, nearly half of low-income parents worry their child will get shot, compared with one-fifth of high-income parents They are more worried about their children being depressed or anxiousN In the Pew survey, middle-class families earning between $30,000 and $75,000 a year fell right between working-class and high-earning parents on issues like the quality of their neighborhood for raising children,participation in extracurricular activities and involvement in their children's educationO Children were not always raised so differently The achievement gap between children from high- and low-income families is 30 percent t0 40 percent larger among children born in 2001 than those born 25 years earlier, according to Mr Reardon's research People used to live near people of different income levels;neighborhoods are now more segregated by income More than a quarter of children live in single-parent households - a historic high, according to Pew - and these children are three times as likely to live in poverty as those who live with married parents Meanwhile, growing income inequality has coincided with the increasing importance of a college degree for earning a middle-class wageP Yet there are recent signs that the gap could be starting to shrink In the past decade, even as income inequality has grown, some of the socioeconomic differences in parenting, like reading to children and going to libraries, have narrowed36. Working-class parents teach their children to be obedient and show respect to adults.参考答案：G37. American parents, whether rich or poor, have similar expectations of their children despite different ways of parenting.参考答案：F38. while rich parents are more concerned with their children’s psychological well-being, poor parents are more worried about their children’s safety.参考答案：C39. The increasing differences in child rearing between rich and poor families reflect growing social inequality.参考答案：D40. Parenting approaches of working-class and affluent families both have advantages.参考答案：G41. Higher-income families and working-class families tend to live in different neighborhoods.参考答案：M42. Physical punishment is used much less by well-educated parents.参考答案：K43. Ms. Lareau doesn’t believe participating in fewer after-class activities will negatively affect children’s development.参考答案：H44. Wealthy parents are concerned about t heir children’s mental health and busy schedules.参考答案：B45. Some socioeconomic differences in child rearing have shrunk in the past ten years.参考答案：P仔细阅读Questions 46 t0 50 are based on the following passage.Open data-sharers are still in the minority in many fields,Although many rescarechers broadly agree that public access to raw data would accelerate science- because other scientists might be able to make advances not foreseen by the data's producers -most are reluctant to post the results of their own labours online see Nature 461, 160-163; 2009 When Wolkovich, for instance, went hunting for the data from the 50 studies in her meta-analysis, only 8 data sets were available online, and many of the researchers whom she e-mailed refused to share their work Forced to extract data from tables or flgures in publications,Wolkovich's team could conduct only limited analysesSome communities have agreed to share online - geneticists, for example, post DNA sequences at the GenBank repository, and astronomers are accustomed to accessing images of galaxies and stars from, say,the Sloan Digital Sky Survey, a telescope that has observed some 500 million objects - but these remain the exception, not the rule Historically, scientists have objected to sharing for many reasons: it is a lot of work; until recently, good databases did not exist; grant funders were not pushing for sharing; it has been difficult to agree on standards for formatting data and the contextual information called metadata; and thereis no agreed way to assign credit for dataBut the barriers are disappearing in part because journals and funding agencies worldwide are encouraging scientists to make their data public. Last year, the Royal Society in London said in its report Science as an Open Enterprise that scientists need to shift away from a research culture where data is viewed as pricate preserve " Funding agencies note that data paid for with public money should be public information, and the scientific community is recognizing that data can now be shared digitally in ways that were not possible before To match the growing demand, services are springing up to make it easier to publish research products online and enable other researchers to discover and cite themAlthough exhortations to share data often concentrate on the moral advantages of sharing, the practice is not purely altruistic Researchers who share get plenty of personal benefits.including more connections with colleagues,improved visibility and increased citations The most successful sharers - those whose data are downloaded and cited the most often - get noticed, and their work gets used For example, one of the most popular data sets on multidisciplinary repository Dryad is about wood density around the world; it has been downloaded 5,700 times. Co-author Amy Zanne, a biologist at George Washington University in Washington DC, thinks that users probably range from climate-change researchers wanting to estimate how much carbon is stored in biomass, to foresters looking for information on different grades of' timber "I would much prefer to have my data used by the maximum number of people to ask their own questions," she says "It's important to allow readers and reviewers to see exactly how you arrive at your results Publishing data and code allows your science to be reproducible "46 What do many researchers generally acceptA It is imperative to protest scientist' patentsB Repositories are essential to scientitle researchC Open data sharing is most important to medical scienceD.Open data sharing is conducive to scientific advancement47 What is the attitude of most researchers towards making their own data publicA OpposedB AmbiguousC LiberalD Neutral48 According to the passage, what might hinder open data sharing"A The fear of massive copyingB The lack of a research cultureC.The belief that resacrch is private intellectual propertyD. The concern that certain agencies may make a profit out of it49 What helps lift some of the barriers to open data sharingA The ever-growing demand for big dataB The advantage of digital technologyC The changing attitude of journals and funders.D The trend of social and economic development.50 Dryad serves as an example to show how open data sharing ___A is becoming increasingly popularB benefits shares and users alikeC makes researchers successfulD saves both money and laborPassage twoQuestion 51 t0 55 are based on the following passage.Beginning in the late sixteenth century, it became fashionable for young aristocrats to visit Europe and above all Rome, as the culmination 终极 of their classical education Thus the idea of the Grand Tour was born, a practice which introduced Englishmen, Germans, Scandinavians, and also Americans to the art andculture of France and Italy for the next 300 years.Travel was arduous and costly throughout the period.possible only for a privileged class the same that produced gentlemen scientists authors antique experts and patrons of the arts.The Grand Tourist was typically a young man with a thorough background in Greek and Latin literature as well as some leisure time some means and some interest in art.The German traveler Johann Winckelmann pioneered the field of art history with his comprehensive study of Greek and Roman sculpture.he was portrayed by his friend Anton Raphael Mengs at the beginning of his long residence in Rome.Most Grand Tourist however stayed for briefer periods and set out with souvenirs of their travels as well as an understanding of art and architecture formed by exposure to great masterpieces.Since there were few museums anywhere in Eurpe before the end of the 18th century Grand Tourists often saw paintings and sculptures by gaining admission to private collections. and many were eager to acquire examples of Greco-Roman and Italian art for their own collections In England, wherearchitecture was increasingly seen as an aristocratic pursuit, noblemen often applied what they learned from the villas of Palladio in Veneto and the evocative ruins of Rome to their own country houses and gardens51 What is said about the Grand Tour。

2017年6月大学英语六级考试(CET-6)真题及答案解析(全三套)

2017 年6 月大学英语六级考试真题(第1 套)Part ⅠWriting (30 minutes)Directions: Suppose you are asked to give advice on whether to attend a vocational college or a university, write an essay to state your opinion. You are required to write at least 150 words but no morethan 200 words.________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________Part ⅡListening Comprehension (30 minutes)Section ADirections : In this section, you will hear two long conversations. At the end of each conversation, you will hear four questions. Both the conversation and the questions will be spoken only once. After youhear a question, you must choose the best answer from the four choices marked A), B), C) andD). Then mark the corresponding letter on Answer Sheet 1 with a single line through thecentre.Questions 1 to 4 are based on the conversation you have just heard.1.A) He would feel insulted. B) He would feel very sad.C) He would be embarrassed. D) He would be disappointed.2.A) They are worthy of a prize. B) They are of little value.C)They make good reading. D) They need improvement.3.A) He seldom writes a book straight through.B)He writes several books simultaneously.C)He draws on his real-life experiences.D)He often turns to his wife for help.4.A) Writing a book is just like watching a football match.B)Writers actually work every bit as hard as footballers.C)He likes watching a football match after finishing a book.D)Unlike a football match, there is no end to writing a book.Questions 5 to 8 are based on the conversation you have just heard.5.A) A chievements of black male athletes in college.B)Financial assistance to black athletes in college.C)High college dropout rates among black athletes.D)Undergraduate enrollments of black athletes.6.A) They display great talent in every kind of game.B)They are better at sports than at academic work.C)They have difficulty finding money to complete their studies.D)They make money for the college but often fail to earn a degree.7.A) About 15%. B) Around 40%.C)Slightly over 50%. D) Approximately 70%.8.A) Coaches lack the incentive to graduate them.B)College degrees do not count much to them.C)They have little interest in academic work.D)Schools do not deem it a serious problem.Section BDirections: In this section, you will hear two passages. At the end of each passage, you will hear three or four questions. Both the passage and the questions will be spoken only once. After you hear aquestion, you must choose the best answer from the four choices marked A), B), C) and D).Then mark the corresponding letter on Answer Sheet 1 with a single line through the centre. Questions 9 to 12 are based on the passage you have just heard.9.A) Marketing strategies. B) Holiday shopping.C) Shopping malls. D) Online stores.10.A) About 50% of holiday shoppers.B)About 20-30% of holiday shoppers.C)About 136 million.D)About 183.8 million.11.A) They have fewer customers.B)They find it hard to survive.C)They are thriving once more.D)They appeal to elderly customers.12.A) Better quality of consumer goods.B)Higher employment and wages.C)Greater varieties of commodities.D)People having more leisure time.Questions 13 to 15 are based on the passage you have just heard.13.A) They are new species of big insects.B)They are overprescribed antibiotics.C)They are life-threatening diseases.D)They are antibiotic-resistant bacteria.14.A) Antibiotics are now in short supply.B)Many infections are no longer curable.C)Large amounts of tax money are wasted.D)Routine operations have become complex.15.A) Facilities.B)Expertise.C)Money.D)Publicity.Section CDirections: In this section, you will hear three recordings of lectures or talks followed by three or four questions. The recordings will be played only once. After you hear a question, you must choosethe best answer from the four choices marked A), B), CJ and D). Then mark the correspondingletter 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) It is accessible only to the talented.B)It improves students’ ability to t hink.C)It starts a lifelong learning process.D)It gives birth to many eminent scholars.17.A) They encourage academic democracy.B)They promote globalization.C)They uphold the presidents’ authority.D)They protect students’rights.18.A) His thirst for knowledge. B) His eagerness to find a job.C) His contempt for authority. D) His potential for leadership.Questions 19 to 22 are based on the recording you have just heard.19.A) Few people know how to retrieve information properly.B)People can enhance their memory with a few tricks.C)Most people have a rather poor long-term memory.D)People tend to underestimate their mental powers.20.A) They present the states in a surprisingly different order.B)They include more or less the same number of states.C)They are exactly the same as is shown in the atlas.D)They contain names of the most familiar states.21.A) Focusing on what is likely to be tested.B)Having a good sleep the night before.C)Reviewing your lessons where the exam is to take place.D)Making sensible decisions while choosing your answers.22.A) Discover when you can learn best.B) Change your time of study daily.B)Give yourself a double bonus afterwards.D) Follow the example of a marathon runner.Questions 23 to 25 are based on the recording you have just heard.23.A) He is a politician. B) He is a businessman.C)He is a sociologist. D) He is an economist.24.A) In slums.B)In Africa.C)In pre-industrial societies.D)In developing countries.25.A) They have no access to health care, let alone entertainment or recreation.B) Their income is less than 50% of the national average family income.C) They work extra hours to have their basic needs met.D) Their children cannot afford to go to private schools.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 eachblank from a list of choices given in a word bank following the passage. Read the passagethrough carefully before making your choices. Each choice in the bank is identified by a letter.Please mark the corresponding letter for each item on Answer Sheet 2 with a single linethrough the centre. You may not use any of the words in the bank more than once.Questions 26 to 35 are based on the following passage.Let ’s all stop judging people who talk to themselves. New research says that those who can ’t seem to keep their inner monologues( 独白 ) in are actually more likely to stay on task, remain 26 better and show improved perception capabilities. Not bad, really, for some extra muttering. According to a series of experiments published in the Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology by professors Gary Lupyan and Daniel Swignley, the act of using verbal clues to 27 mental pictures helps people function quicker. In one experiment, they showed pictures of various objects to twenty 28 and asked them to find just one of those, a banana. Half were 29 to repeat out loud what they were looking for and the other half kept their lips 30 . Those who talked to themselves found the banana slightly faster than those who didn ’t ，the researchers say. In other experiments, Lupyan and Swignley found that 31 the name of a commonproduct when on t he hunt for it helped quicken someone’s pace, but talking about uncommon items showed no advantage and slowed you down.Common research has long held that talking themselves through a task helps children learn, although doing so when you’ve 32 matured is not a great sign of 33 . The two professors hope to refute that idea, 34 that just as when kids walk themselves through a process, adults can benefit from using language not just to communicate, but also to help “augment thinking”. Of course, you are still encouraged to keep the talking at library tones and, whatever you do, keep the information you share simple, like a grocery list. At any 35 , there’s still such a thing as too muchinformation.Section BDirections: In this section, you are going to read a passage with ten statements attached to it. Eachstatement contains information given in one of the paragraphs. Identify the paragraph fromwhich the information is derived. You may choose a paragraph more than once.Eachparagraph is marked with a letter. Answer the questions by marking the correspondingletter on Answer Sheet 2.Rich Children and Poor Ones Are Raised Very Differently[A] The lives of children from rich and poor American families look more different than ever before.[B] Well-off families are ruled by calendars, with children enrolled in ballet, soccer and after-school A)Apparently B)Arrogance C)Brilliance D)Claiming E)Dedicated F)Focused G)Incur H)Instructed I)ObscurelyJ)SealedK)spectatorsL)TriggerM)UtteringN)VolumeO)Volunteersprograms, according to a new Pew Research Center survey. There are usually two parents, who spend a lotof time reading to children and worrying about their anxiety levels and hectic schedules.[C]In poor families, meanwhile, children tend to spend their time at home or with extended family. They are more likely to grow up in neighborhoods that their parents say aren’t great for raising children, and their parents worry about them getting shot, beaten up or in trouble with the law.[D]The class differences in child rearing are growing — a symptom of widening inequality withfar-reaching consequences. Different upbringings set children on different paths and can deepen socioeconomic divisions, especially because education is strongly linked to earnings. Children grow up learning the skills to succeed in their socioeconomic stratum (阶层), but not necessarily others.[E]“Early childhood experiences can be very consequential for children’s long-term social, emotional and cognitive development,” said Sean Reardon, professor of poverty and inequality in education at Stanford University. “And because those influence educational success and later earnings, early childhood experiences cast a lifelong shadow.” The cycle continues: Poorer parents have less time and fewer resources to invest in their children, which can leave children less prepared for school and work, which leads to lower earnings.[F]American parents want similar things for their children, the Pew report and past research have found: for them to be healthy and happy, honest and ethical, caring and compassionate. There is no best parenting style or philosophy, researchers say, and across income groups, 92% of parents say they are doing a good job at raising their children. Yet they are doing it quite differently. Middle-class and higher- income parents see their children as projects in need of careful cultivation, says Annette Lareau, whose groundbreaking research on the topic was published in her book Unequal Childhoods: Class, Race and Family Life. They try to develop their skills through close supervision and organized activities, and teach children to question authority figures and navigate elite i nstitutions.[G]Working-class parents, meanwhile, believe their children will naturally thrive, and give them far greater independence and time for free play. They are taught to be compliant and respectful to adults. There are benefits to both approaches. Working-class children are happier, more independent, complain less andare closer with family members, Ms. Lareau found. Higher-income children are more likely to declare boredom and expect their parents to solve their problems. Yet later on, the more affluent children end up in college and on the way to the middle class, while working-class children tend to struggle. Children from higher-income families are likely to have the skills to navigate bureaucracies and succeed in schools and workplaces, Ms. Lareau said.[H]“Do all parents want the most success for their children? Absolutely,” she said. “Do some strategies give children more advantages than others in institutions? Probably they do. Will parents be damaging children if they have one fewer organized activity? No, I really doubt i t.”[I]Social scientists say the differences arise in part because low-income parents have less money to spend on music class or preschool, and less flexible schedules to take children to museums or attend school events. Extracurricular activities reflect the differences in child rearing in the Pew survey, which was of a nationally representative sample of 1,807 parents. Of families earning more than $75,000 a year, 84% say their children have participated in organized sports over the past year, 64% have done volunteer work and 62% have taken lessons in music, dance or art. Of families earning less than $30,000, 59% of children have done sports, 37% have volunteered and 41% have taken arts classes.[J]Especially in affluent families, children start young. Nearly half of high-earning, college-graduate parents enrolled their children in arts classes before they were 5, compared with one-fifth of low-income,less- educated parents. Nonetheless, 20% of well-off parents say their children’s schedules are too hectic, compared with 8% of poorer parents.[K]Another example is reading aloud, which studies have shown gives children bigger vocabulariesand better reading comprehension in school. 71% of parents with a college degree say they do it every day, compared with 33% of those with a high school diploma or less. White parents are more likely than othersto read to their children daily, as are married parents. Most affluent parents enroll their children in preschoolor day care, while low-income parents are more likely to depend on family members. Discipline techniques vary by education level: 8% of those with a postgraduate degree say they often beat their children, compared with 22% of those with a high school degree or less.[L]The survey also probed attitudes and anxieties. Interestingly, parents’ attitudes toward education do not seem to reflect their own educational background as much as a belief in the importance of education for upward mobility. Most American parents say they are not concerned about their children’s grades as long as they work hard. But 50% of poor parents say it is extremely important to them that their children earn a college degree, compared with 39% of wealthier parents.[M]Less-educated parents, and poorer and black and Latino parents are more likely to believe thatthere is no such thing as too much involvement in a child’s education. Parents who are white, wealthy or college- educated say too much involvement can be bad. Parental anxieties reflect their circumstances.High- earning parents are much more likely to say they live in a good neighborhood for raising children. While bullying is parents’ greatest concern over all, nearly half of low-income parents worry their childwill get shot, compared with one-fifth of high-income parents. They are more worried about their children being depressed or anxious.[N]In the Pew survey, middle-class families earning between $30,000 and $75,000 a year fell right between working-class and high-earning parents on issues like the quality of their neighborhood for raising children, participation in extracurricular activities and involvement in their children’ s education.[O]Children were not always raised so differently. The achievement gap between children from high- and low-income families is 30-40% larger among children born in 2001 than those born 25 years earlier, according to Mr. Reardon’ s research. People used to live near people of different income levels; neighborhoods are now more segregated by income. More than a quarter of children live in single-parent households — a historic high, according to Pew 一and these children are three times as likely to live in poverty as those who live with married parents. Meanwhile, growing income inequality has coincided with the increasing importance of a college degree for earning a middle-class w age.[P]Yet there are recent signs that the gap could be starting to shrink. In the past decade, even asincome inequality has grown, some of the socioeconomic differences in parenting, like reading to children and going to libraries, have narrowed.[Q]Public policies aimed at young children have helped, including public preschool programs and reading initiatives. Addressing differences in the earliest years, it seems, could reduce inequality in the next generation.36.Working-class parents teach their children to be obedient and show respect to adults.37.American parents, whether rich or poor, have similar expectations of their children despitedifferent ways of parenting.38.While rich parents are more concerned with their children’s psychological well-being, poor parents are more worried about their children’s safety.39.The increasing differences in child rearing between rich and poor families reflect growing social inequality.40.Parenting approaches of working-class and affluent families both have a dvantages.41.Higher-income families and working-class families now tend to live in different neighborhoods.42.Physical punishment is used much less by well-educated parents.43.Ms. Lareau doesn’t believe participating in fewer after-class activities will negatively affect children’s development.44.Wealthy parents are concerned about their children’s mental health and busy schedules.45.Some socioeconomic differences in child rearing have shrunk in the p ast ten years.Section CDirections: There are 2 passages in this section. Each passage is followed by some questions or unfinished statements. For each of them there are four choices marked A, B, C and D. You should decideon the best choice and mark the corresponding letter on Answer Sheet 2 with a single linethrough the centre.Passage OneQuestions 46 to 50 are based on the following passage.Tennessee’s technical and community colleges will not outsource(外包) management of their facilities to a private company, a decision one leader said was bolstered by an analysis of spending at each campus.In an email sent Monday to college presidents in the Tennessee Board of Regents system, outgoing Chancellor John Morgan said an internal analysis showed that each campus’ spending on facilities management fell well below the industry standards identified by the state. Morgan said those findings —which included data from the system’s 13 community colleges, 27 technical colleges and six universities —were part of the decision not to move forward with Governor Bill Haslam’s proposal to privatize management of state buildings in an effort to save money.“While these numbers are still being validated by the state, we feel any adjustments they might suggest will be immaterial,” Morgan wrote to the presidents. “System institutions are operating very efficiently based on this analysis, raising the question of the value of pursuing a broad scale outsourcing initiative.”Worker’s advocates have criticized Haslam’s plan, saying it would mean some campus workers would lose their jobs or benefits. Haslam has said colleges would be free to opt in or out of the out souring plan,which has not been finalized.Morgan notified the Haslam administration of his decision to opt out in a letter sent last week. That letter, which includes several concerns Morgan has with the plan, was originally obtained by The Commercial Appeal in Memphis.In an email statement from the state’s Office of Customer Focused Government, which is examining the possibility of outsourcing, spokeswoman Michelle R. Martin said officials were still working to analyze the data from the Board of Regents. Data on management expenses at the college system and in other state departments will be part of a “business justification” the state will use as officials deliberate the specifics of an outsourcing plan.“The state’s facilities management project team is still in the process of developing its business justification and expects to have that completed and available to the public at the end of February,” Martin said. “At this time there is nothing to take action on since the analysis has yet to be completed.”Morgan’s comments on outsourcing mark the second time this month that he has come out against one of Haslam’s plans for higher education in Tennessee. Morgan said last week that he would retire at the end of January because of the governor’s proposal to split off six universities of the Board of Regents system and create separate governing boards for each of them. In his resignation letter, Morgan called the reorganization “unworkable”.46.What do we learn about the decision of technical and community colleges in Tennessee?A)It is backed by a campus spending analysis.B)It has been flatly rejected by the governor.C)It has neglected their faculty’s demands.D )It will improve their financial situation.47.What does the campus spending analysis reveal?A)Private companies play a big role in campus management.B)Facilities management by colleges is more c ost-effective.C)Facilities management has greatly improved in recent years.D)Colleges exercise foil control over their own financial a ffairs.48.Workers’ supporters argue that Bill Haslam’s proposal would .A)deprive colleges of the right to manage their facilitiesB)make workers less motivated in performing dutiesC)render a number of campus workers joblessD)lead to the privatization of campus facilities49.What do we learn from the state spokeswoman’s response to John Morgan’s d ecision?A)The outsourcing plan is not yet finalized.B)The outsourcing plan will be implemented.C)The state officials are confident about the outsourcing plan.D)The college spending analysis justifies the outsourcing plan.50.Why did John Morgan decide to resign?A)He had lost confidence in the Tennessee state government.B)He disagreed with the governor on higher education policies.C)He thought the state’s outsourcing proposal was simply unworkable.D)He opposed the governor’s plan to reconstruct the college board system.Passage TwoQuestions 51 to 55 are based on the following passage.Beginning in the late sixteenth century, it became fashionable for young aristocrats to visit Paris, Venice, Florence, and above all, Rome, as the culmination(终极) of their classical education. Thus was born the idea of the Grand Tour, a practice which introduced Englishmen, Germans, Scandinavians, and also Americans to the art and culture of France and Italy for the next 300 years. Travel was arduous and costly throughout the period, possible only for a privileged class—the same that produced gentlemen scientists, authors, antique experts, and patrons of the arts.The Grand Tourist was typically a young man with a thorough grounding in Greek and Latin literature as well as some leisure time, some means, and some interest in art. The German traveler Johann Winckelmann pioneered the field of art history with his comprehensive study of Greek and Roman sculpture; he was portrayed by his friend Anton Raphael Mengs at the beginning of his long residence in Rome. Most Grand Tourists, however, stayed for briefer periods and set out with less scholarly intentions, accompanied by a teacher or guardian, and expected to return home with souvenirs of their travels as well as anunderstanding of art and architecture formed by exposure to great masterpieces.London was a frequent starting point for Grand Tourists, and Paris a compulsory destination; many traveled to the Netherlands, some to Switzerland and Germany, and a very few adventurers to Spain, Greece, or Turkey. The essential place to visit, however, was Italy. The British traveler Charles Thompsonspoke for many Grand Tourists when in 1744 he described himself as “being impa tiently desirous of viewing a country so famous in history, a country which once gave laws to the world, and which is at present the greatest school of music and painting, contains the noblest productions of sculpture and architecture, and is filled with c abinets of rarities, and collections of all kinds of historical relics”. Within Italy, the great focus was Rome, whose ancient ruins and more recent achievements were shown to every Grand Tourist. Panini’s Ancient Rome and Modem Rome represent the sights most prized, including celebrated Greco-Roman statues and views of famous ruins, fountains, and churches. Since there were few museums anywhere in Europe before the close of the eighteenth century, Grand Tourists often saw paintings and sculptures by gaining admission to private collections, and many were eager to acquire examples of Greco-Roman and Italian art for their own collections. In England, where architecture was increasingly seen as an aristocratic pursuit, noblemen often applied what they learned from the villas of Palladio in the Veneto and the evocative ( 唤起回忆的) ruins of Rome to their own country houses and gardens.51.What is said about the Grand Tour?A)It was fashionable among young people of the time.B)It was unaffordable for ordinary people.C)It produced some famous European artists.D)It made a compulsory part of college education.52.What did Grand Tourists have in common?A)They had much geographic knowledge.B)They were courageous and venturesome.C)They were versed in literature and interested in art.D)They had enough travel and outdoor-life experience.53.How did Grand Tourists benefit from their travel?A)They found inspiration in the world’s greatest masterpieces.B)They got a better understanding of early human civilization.C)They developed an interest in the origin of modem art forms.D)They gained some knowledge of classical art and architecture.54.Why did many Grand Tourists visit the private collections?A)They could buy unique souvenirs there to take back home.B)Europe hardly had any museums before the 19th century.C)They found the antiques there more valuable.D)Private collections were of greater variety.55.How did the Grand Tour influence the architecture in England?A)There appeared more and more Roman-style buildings.B)Many aristocrats began to move into Roman-style villas.C)Aristocrats，country houses all had Roman-style gardens.D) Italian architects were hired to design houses and gardens.Part IV Translation (30 minutes)Directions: For this part, you are allowed 30 minutes to translate a passage from Chinese into English. You should write your answer on Answer Sheet 2.唐朝始于618 年，终于907 年，是中国历史上最灿烂的时期。

2016年2017年六级真题阅读答案

17年12月DCADA46.D).He risked breaking local law to make a drink with coca leaves.47.C).Many were shipped to Europe in the late 19th century for medicinal use.48.A.Cocaine had become notorious.49.D.I has remained virtually unchanged since its creation.50.A.The evolution of Coca-Cola.CBDCD51.C.There was a clear divide between large and small cities.52.B.They have seen a rise in property prices.53.D.looked deserted in the evenings54.C.Modernized housing and improved infrastructure.55.D.Better job opportunities.ELIOB，JFDLGWho's Really Addicting You To Technology?DDBAC46.D.How robots should be programmed.47.D.They did not take moral issues into consideration.48.B.They are programmed not to hurt human beings.49.A.Abstract concepts are hart to program.50.C.Robots can have trouble making decisions in complex scenarios.DBCAA51.D.The rapid technological progress in a very short period of time.52.B.The popularization of smart homes.53.C.Invest in more smart buildings and cities.54 A.How to turn it to profitable use.55 A.It is feasible with a connection to the internet. MGDAP，LBOIFData sharing: An open mind on open dateACBAD46. A) It is simply uninhabitable for most animals.47. C) stay away from predators.48. B) they can survive well in salty water 49. A) They can take refuges in the less salty waters.50. D) The disruption of Lake Natron’s ecosystem. BCADC51. B) Keep on working.52. C) They would look upon it with contempt.53. A) The busier one appears, the more respect one earns.54. D) The role of knowledge in modern economy.55.C) Find time to relax however busy we are. EMCHB，JGPIDApple's Stance Highlights a MoreConfrontational Tec h Industry17年6月DACCB46.D. Open data sharing is conducive to scientific advancement.47. A. Opposed.48. C. The belief that research data is private intellectual property.49. C. The changing attitude of journals and funders.50. B. benefits sharers and users alikeABDDAA. It is attributable to the rising value of the U.S. dollar.52.B. They cannot be attributed to weather only.53.D. reduce the size of its staff54.D. To be more competitive in sales of beauty products.55.A. Sales dropped sharply in its physical stores. DLJEH，AGFOBThe Price of Oil and the Price of CarbonBDCAC46. B. They formulated a dress code with distinctive American features.47.D. It was a completely new invention.48.C. Ease of care.49. A. A shift of emphasis from beauty to utility.50.C. They advocated equity between men and wome DDBCA51. D. They have changed the previous migration habits of certain birds.52. D. They are more likely to be at risk of dying.53. B. They may eat something harmful.54. C. They are not attracted to the rubbish dumps on their migration routes.55. A. The potential harm to the ecosystem. FAIGL，EJBMHElite Math Competitions Struggle to Diversify Their Talent PoolABCAD46. A. It is backed by a campus spending analysis.47. B. Facilities management by colleges is more cost-effective.48. C. render a number of campus workers jobless49. A. The outsourcing plan is not yet finalized.ing plan.50. D. He opposed the governor's plan to reconstruct the college board system.BCDBA51.B. It was unaffordable for ordinary people.52.C. They were versed in literature and interested in art.53. D. They gained some knowledge of classical art and architecture.54. B. Europe hardly had any museums before the 19th century.55. A. There appeared more and more Roman-style buildings.GFMDG，OKHBPRich Children and Poor Ones Are Raised Very Differently2016年12月DABAC46.[D] It has little impact on their decision whether or not to quit smoking。

英语六级听力真题带答案（第二套）

英语六级听力真题带答案（第二套）英语六级听力真题带答案(第二套)大家都知道英语四六级听力发生了重大改革，全国大学英语四六级考试委员会发布消息，2016年6月起大学英语四六级听力部分有重大调整。

以下是店铺为大家搜索整理的2017年英语六级听力真题带答案(第二套)，希望大家能有所收获!Section ADirections: In this section,you will hear 8 short conversations and 2 long conversations. At the end of each conversation,one or more questions will be asked about what was said. Both the conversation and the questions will be spoken only once. After each question there will be a pause. During the pause,you must read the four choices marked A),B),C.and D,and decide which is the best answer. Then mark the corresponding letter on Answer Sheet I with a single line through the centre.1. A.She is impatient to learn computer programming.B.She is unaware her operation system is outdated.C.She is unable to use the new computer program.D. She is amazed at the fast change of technology.2.A.He has long been fed up with traveling.B.He prefers to stay home for the holiday.C.He is going out of town for a couple of days.D. He is annoyed by the heavy traffic downtown.3.A.The challenges facing East Asia.B.The location for their new office.C.Their expansion into the overseas marketD. The living expenses in Tokyo and Singapore.4. A.A number of cell phones were found after the last show.B.The woman forgot where she had left her cell phone.C.The woman was very pleased to find her cell phone.D. Reserved tickets could be picked up at the ticket counter.5.A.The building materials will be delivered soon.B.The project is being held up by bad weather.C.The construction schedule may not be met.D. Qualified carpenters are not easy to find.6.A.She is getting very forgetful these days.B.She does not hold on to bitter feelings.C.She resents the way she is treated.D. She never intends to hurt anyone.7.A.The man wants to rent a small apartment.B.The woman has trouble getting a mortgage.C.The woman is moving to a foreign country.D.The man is trying to sell the woman a house.8. A.They are writing a story for the Morning News.B.They are facing great challenges to get re-elected.C.They are launching a campaign to attract women voters.D.They are conducting a survey among the women in town.Questions 9 to 11 are based on the conversation you have just heard.9.A.Touch his heart.B.Make him cry.C.Remind him of his life.D.Make him feel young.10. A.He is good at singing operas.B.He enjoys complicated music:C.He can sing any song if he likes it.D.He loves country music in particular.11.A.Go to a bar and drink for hours.B.Go to an isolated place to sing blues.C.Go to see a performance in a concert hall.D.Go to work and wrap himself up in music.Questions 12 to 15 are based on the conversation you have just heard.12.A.How he became an announcer.B.How he writes news stories.C.How he makes his living.D.How he does his job.13.A.They write the first version of news stories.B.They gather news stories on the spot.C.They polish incoming news stories.D.They write comments on major news stories.14. A.Reading through the news stories in a given period of time.B.Having little time to read the news before going on the air.C.Having to change the tone of his voice from time to time.D.Getting all the words and phrases pronounced correctly.15.A.It shows where advertisements come in.B.It gives a signal for him to slow down.C.It alerts him to something important.D.It serves as a reminder of sad news.Section BDirections : In this section,you will hear 3 short passages. At the end of each passage,you will hear some questions. Both the passage and the questions will be spoken only once. After you hear a question,you must choose the best answer from the four choices marked A),B),C).and D). Then mark the corresponding letter on Answer Sheet I with a single line through the centre.Passage OneQuestions 16 to 18 are based on the passage you have justheard.16. A.It gives pleasure to both adults and children.B.It is often carried around by small children.C.It can be found in many parts of the world.D.It was invented by an American Indian.17. A.They were made for earning a living.B.They were delicate geometric figures.C.They were small circus figures made of wire.D.They were collected by a number of museums.18.A.In art.B.In geometry.C.In engineering.D.In circus performance.Passage TwoQuestions 19 to 21 are based on the passage you have just heard.19. A.They offer students a wide variety of courses.B.They attract students from all over the world.C.They admit more students than they can handle.D.They have trouble dealing with overseas students.20. A.Everyone will benefit from education sooner or later.B.A good education contributes to the prosperity of a nation.C.A good education is necessary for one to climb the social ladder.D.Everyone has a right to an education appropriate to his potential.21. A.He likes students with high motivation.B.He enjoys teaching intelligent students.C.He tailors his teaching to students needs.D.He treats all his students in a fair manner.Passage ThreeQuestions 22 to 25 are based on the passage you have just heard.22. A.It is mostly imported from the Middle East.B.It is a sure indicator of its economic activity.C.It has a direct impact on the international oil market.D.It equals more than 30 million barrels of oil each day.23. A.It eventually turns into heat.B.It is used in a variety of forms.C.Its use is chiefly responsible for air pollution.D.Part of it is lost in the process of transmission.24.A.When it is used in rural areas.B.When it is environment-friendly.C.When it operates at near capacity.D.When it operates at regular times.25.A.Traffic jams in cities.B.Inefficient use of energy.C.Fuel shortage.D.Global warming.Section CDirections: In this section,you will hear a passage three times. When the passage is read for the first time,you should listen carefully for its general idea. When the passage is read for the second time,you are required to fill in the blanks with the exact words you have just heard. Finally,when the passage is read for the third time,you should check what you have written.Graphics are used in textbooks as part of the language of the discipline,as in math or economics,or as study aids. Authors use graphic aids to(26)and expand on concepts taken up in the text because graphics are yet another way of portraying relationshipsand(27)connections.Graphics are used extensively in natural sciences and social sciences. Social scientists work with statistics(28)data,and the best way to present these statistics is often in graphic form. Graphics are included- not merely as a means of making the information easier for the student to grasp,but as an integral part of the way social scientists think. Many textbooks,(29)those in economics,containappendixes that provide specific information on reading and working with graphic material.Make it a practice to(30)attentively the titles,captions,headings,and other material connected with graphics. These elements(31)and usually explain what you are looking at. When you are examining graphics,the(32)questions to ask are (a.)What is this item about? and (b.)What key idea is the author(33)?One warning: Unless you integrate your reading of graphics with the text,you may make a wrong assumption.(34),from a chart indicating that 33 percent of firstborn children in a research sample did not feel close to their fathers,you might assume that some dreadful influence was at work on the firstborn children. However,a careful reading of the text(35)that most of the firstborn children in the sample were from single-parent homes in which the father was absent.参考答案：1.C.四个选项均是以She开头的句子，前三个选项中出现了含有im.，un.这类表示否定前缀的词语，以及computer，outdated，program，technology等与电脑程序相关的词汇.故推测该对话内容以某女士与计算机程序之间发生的不好的事件为主。

2016年12月-2017年6月大学英语六级真题

2016年12月6级第一套Part ⅡListening ComprehensionSection A1. A) At a grocery B) In a parking lotC) In a car showroom D) At a fast food restaurant2. A) Have a little nap after lunch B) Get up and take a short walkC) Change her position now and then。

D) Stretch her legs before standing up3. A) The students should practice long-distance running.B) He doesn‟t quite believe what the woman says.C) The students‟ p hysical condition is not desirable.D) He thinks the race is too hard for the students.4. A) They do not want to have a baby at present.B) They cannot afford to get married right now.C) They are both pursuing graduate studies.D) They will get their degrees in two years.5. A) Twins usually have a lot in common.B) He must have been mistaken for Jack.C) Jack is certainly not as healthy as he is.D) He has not seen Jack for quite a few days.6. A) The man will take the woman to the museum.B) The man knows where the museum is located.C) The woman is asking the way at the crossroads.D) The woman will attend the opening of the museum.7. A) They cannot ask the guy to leave.B) The guy has been coming in for years.C) They should not look down upon the guy.D) The guy must be feeling extremely lonely.8. A) Collect timepieces B) Learn to mend clocksC) Become time-conscious D) Keep track of his daily activitiesQuestions 9 to 11 are based on the conversation you have just heard9. A) It winds its way to the sea. B) It is eating into its banks.C) It is quickly rising. D) It is wide and deep10. A) Get the trucks over to the other side of the river.B) Take the equipment apart before being ferried.C) Reduce the transport cost as much as possible.D) Try to speed up the operation by any means.11. A) Ask the commander to send a helicopter.B) Halt the operation until further orders.C) Cut trees and build rowing boats.D) Find as many boats as possible.Questions 12 to 15 are based on the conversation you have just heard.12. A) Help him join an Indian expedition B) Talk about his climbing experiencesC) Give up mountain climbing altogether D) Save money to buy climbing equipment13. A) He was very strict with his children.B) He climbed mountains to earn a living.C) He had an unusual religious background.D) He was the first to conquer Mt. Qomolangma.14. A) They are like humans. B) They are sacred places.C) They are to be protected. D) They are to be conquered.15. A) It was his father‟s training that pulled him through.B) It was a milestone in his mountain climbing career.C) It was his father who gave him the strength to succeed.D) It helped him understand the Sherpa view of mountains.Passage OneQuestions 16 to 19 are based on the passage you have just heard.16. A) By reviewing what he has said previously.B) By comparing memorandums with letters.C) By showing a memorandum‟s structure.D) By analyzing the organization of a letter.17. A) They spent a lot of time writing memorandums.B) They seldom read a memorandum through to the end.C) They placed emphasis on the format of memorandums.D) They ignored many of the memorandums they received.18. A) Style and wording. B) Structure and length.C) Directness and clarity. D) Simplicity and accuracy.19. A) Accurate dating. B) Professional look.C) Direct statement of purpose. D) Inclusion of appropriate humor.Passage TwoQuestions 20 to 22 are based on the passage you have just heard.20. A) They give top priority to their work efficiency.B) They make an effort to lighten their workload.C) They never change work habits unless forced to.D) They try hard to make the best use of their time.21. A) Self-confidence B) Sense of duty C) Work efficiency D) Passion for work22. A) They are addicted to playing online games.B) They try to avoid work whenever possible.C) They find no pleasure in the work they do.D) They simply have no sense of responsibility.Passage ThreeQuestions 23 to 25 are based on the passage you have just heard。

2017年12月大学英语六级真题及答案解析(全三套)精选全文完整版

精选全文完整版2017年12月大学英语六级真题及答案解析（全三套）六级听力第一套：Section AConversation 1M: And now, for the lighter side of the news, Europe is setting an example for the rest of the world when it comes to food waste.W: That’s right John. This week the Italian government pass legislation that aims to dramatically reduce the amount of food wasted in the country. New laws have been put into place that would make it easier for farms and supermarkets to donate unsold foods to those who are in need.M: Yes. And in addition to this, businesses would now be rewarded for successful efforts to cut food waste.W: Italy is not the only country to focus on reducing food waste. Just earlier this year, the European Parliament voted in favor of legislation that would stop grocery giants from unfair trading practices that result in overproduction, thus creating waste.M: In France, the government has banned supermarkets from throwing away edible foods and imposed harsh penalties on businesses that fail to comply with the regulations.W: While there is still much progress to be made, other countries could learn a thing or two from the example set by France and Italy. In the United States, up to forty percent of all food goes uneaten. Despite the fact that one in seven American households lacks regular access to good food, one major cause of this problem is the confusion over food expiration labels, which are currently not regulated by the government.M: All this could change soon. This wave of new laws in Europe will definitely put more pressure on law makers to reduce food waste here. We turn now to a spokesperson from Harvard University’s Food Law and Policy Clinic for more on the story. And now, let’s welcome Prof. Edward Becker to speak to us.Q1: What does the woman say about the new laws in Italy?Q2: What did the European Parliament do reduce food waste?Q3: What has the French government done recently?Q4: What is the major cause of food waste in the United States?Q1. C) They facilitate the donation of unsold foods to the needy.Q2. B) It passed a law aiming to stop overproduction.Q3. D) It has banned supermarkets from dumping edible foods.Q4. A) The confusion over food expiration labels.Conversation 2M: Thank you for calling Saks Fifth Avenue department store. How can I be of assistance to you today?W: Hello. I was in your store this past weekend and bought a few items. Yesterday, my friend told me that the annual anniversary sales had begun. It turned out she bought the same sweater as I did but for a much lower price.M: Yes. Our anniversary sale started on Monday. We do offer price adjustments within seven days of purchase to ensure our customer satisfaction. You said you did the purchase here this past weekend?W: Yes. I was shopping in your store last Sunday afternoon.M: That would definitely fall within the price adjustment window. Do you have an account with us? We can credit your account directly with the difference if you wish. Otherwise we can send a gift card by mail if you prefer.W: Crediting my account would be wonderful. Thank you. Now that you mention there's a sale going on, I do remember a dress I quite like when I was in the shop on Sunday. Is it on offer as well?M: Yes, ma'am. All the new arrivals are 15-20% off. In addition to the sale, we're running a promotion for complimentary tailoring if you need it.W: That's a good news. The dress really caught my eye but I did have some concerns about the length. How long will the alterations take?M: Our tailoring department guarantees alterations to be completed within five working days. If you like I can set one aside for you. If you're able to come this afternoon, you can give your name to the sale manager and they will be able to assist you.Q5. What do we learn about Saks department store?Q6. What does the man say Saks department store offers?Q7. What does the woman want the store to do to address the price difference?Q8. What is the service Saks department store offers in addition to the promotional sale?Q5. B) It has just launched its annual anniversary sales.Q6. D) Price adjustments within seven days of purchase.Q7. C) Credit it to her account.Q8. D) Complimentary tailoring.Section BPassage 1Barbie dolls have a particular look to them. They’re thin, tall, long-legged and virtually unlike any real human being. Although over the years Barbie has had more than 180 differentcareers-including football coach, sign language teacher, ambassador, president and astronaut–her body shape hasn’t changed much.Last year Mattel, the company that makes Barbie dolls, added some Barbies to its line that have different skin tones and hair textures. There are now Barbies with one of seven skin tones, 22 eye colours and 24 hair styles to choose from. Last year Mattel also gave Barbie a flat foot, rather than forcing her to be “in heels” all the time like the original Barbie is.Now they are introducing new Barbies with three slightly different body shapes while the original, tall and thin Barbies will continue to be sold.In a statement on its website, the company says it wants Barbies to look more like real people, and to give girls everywhere infinitely more ways to spark their imagination and play out their stories.Although many people say the new Barbies are a step in the right direction, some people say they don’t go far enough. They say that the new body shapes could be even more different from the original, tall, thin Barbies.Sales of Barbie dolls have been falling “every year since 2012,” according to CBC News.The toys aren’t in stores yet but they will be sold online at the Barbie website, starting this week, for $9.99.Q9. What do we know about the original Barbie dolls?Q10. Why do some people feel unsatisfied with the new Barbie dolls?Q11. Where will the new Barbie dolls be sold first?Q9. A. They are thin, tall, and unlike real human beings.Q10. D. Their body shapes have not changed much.Q11. C. On the Internet.Passage 2The earliest printed book we know today appeared in China in the year 868, and metal type was in use in Korea at the beginning of the fifteenth century, but it was in Germany around the year 1450 that a printing press using movable metal type was invented.Capitalism turned printing from an invention into an industry. Right from the start, book printing and publishing were organized on capitalist lines. 'The biggest sixteenth- century printer, Plantin of Antwerp, had twenty-four printing presses and employed more than a hundred workers. Only a small fraction of the population was literate, but the production of books grew at an extraordinary speed. By 1500 some twenty million volumes had already been printed.The immediate effect of printing was to increase the circulation of works that were already popular in the handwritten form, while less popular works went out of circulation. Publishers were interested only in books that would sell fairly quickly in sufficient numbers to cover the costs of production and make a profit. Thus, while printing enormously increased access to books by making cheap, high-volume production possible, it also reduced choice.The great cultural impact of printing was that it facilitated the growth of national languages. Most early books were printed in Latin, but the market for Latin was limited, and in its pursuit of larger markets the book trade soon produced translations into the national languages emerging at the time. Printing indeed played a key role in standardizing and stabilizing these languages by fixing them in print, and producing dictionaries and grammar books.Q12. What happened in Germany around the year of 1450?Q13. What does the speaker say about the printer, Plantin of Antwerp?Q14. What was the immediate effect of printing?Q15. What was the great cultural impact of printing?Q12. A) Movable metal type began to be used in printing.Q13. B) It was the biggest printer in the 16th century.Q14. B) It boosted the circulation of popular works.Q15. D) It promoted the growth of national languages.Section CRecording OneYou dream about being a movie star. You live in a big house in Hollywood, go to the Oscars every year, and win. You will be rich and famous. Wait a minute. You also hate having your photos taken and you are very shy. So how could you ever become a movie star? Choosing a right career can be hard. Many people graduate from school or college not knowing what they want to do with their lives and get a job without really thinking about it. For some, things work out fine. But others often find themselves stuck in a job they hate. Your working life lasts in average 40 years, so it’s important to find a job you like and feel enthusiastic about.Luckily, there are many ways you can get help to do this. The Australian website WWW. Careers online. com, compares choosing a career with going to the movies. Before you see a movie, you find out what films are showing. The site suggests you should do the same with your career. Find out what jobs are available and what your options are. Next, decide which movie you like best. If you are not a romantic person, you won’t want to see a love story. In other words, with your career, you should decide which job will suit your personality. Finally, decide how to get movie tickets and find out where the theater is before you go. With your career, you need to find information about where you can work and how to get a job in that profession.So, how do you start? Begin by asking yourself some questions, certain life experiences. Have you travelled overseas? Do you have any extra certificates at your degree? Such as the first aid license, for example. Your physical state and build can also affect which jobsyou can do. A person, for example, who is allergic to cats will probably never become an animal doctor. Flight attendants, firefighters and police officers have to be over a certain height and be physically fit. Your personality matters too. Are you outgoing or shy? If you like working alone, a job that requires lots of team work might not suit you.Choosing a career can take time and a lot of thought. However, when you know you can look forward to working in your dream job, you will be glad you thought it through.16. What does the speaker say about many college graduates?17. What does the Australia website suggest you do first to find a suitable job?18. What should you think about when you look for the right job according to the Australian website?16.D) They choose a job without thinking it through.17.B) Find out what job choices are available.18.A) The qualifications you have.Recording 2Kwanzaa is a cultural festival, during which African-American celebrate and reflect upon their rich heritage as the products of the two worlds. It begins December 26th and last for seven days. Kwanzaa was founded in 1966 by Dr. Karenga, a college professor and African-American leader, who believed that a special holiday could help African Americans meet their goals of building strong families, learning about their history and creating a sense of unity. After conducting extensive research in which he studied the festivals of many African groups of people, he decided that the new holiday should be a harvest or first fruit’s celebration. In cooperating ideas from many different harvest traditions. Kwanzaa is a … word meaning the firs t fruits of the harvest. The east African language of … was chosen as an official language of Kwanzaa. Because it is a non-tribal language spoken by a large portion of the African population. Also its pronunciation is easy. Kwanzaa is based on seven principles which are unity, self-determination, collective work and responsibility, cooperative economics, purpose, creativity and faith. One principal is highlighted each day of the holiday. In preparation for the celebration, a astroy matters placed on the table. Along with the candle holder was seven candles. One black, three red and three green. The black candle represents the African-American people. The red is fortheir struggles, and the green represents their hopes for their future. Other items placed on our table are a variety of fruit is of comes gifts and communal unity cup for pouring and sharing drinks. Each day of Kwanzaa usually before the evening meal，family and friends gather around the table and someone lights the candle beginning with the black. After that，candles are lit alternatively from left to right. While the candles is being lit, a principal is recited then each person present takes turn to speak about the importance that the principle has to himself or herself. Next, the ceremony focuses on remembering those who've died. A selected person pours water or juice from the unity cup into a bowl. That person then drinks from the cup and raises it high saying “her thanmbi”，which means that let’s all pour together. All repeat “her thanmbi” seven times and each person drinks from the cup . Then they and names of African American leaders and heroes a cold out to and everyone reflects upon the great things these people did. The ceremony is followed by a meal, and then singing and perhaps listening to African music19.What does the speaker say about Kwanzaa?20. For what purpose did Doctor Karenga create the special holiday?21. What does the word Kwanzaa mean?22. What do people do while each candle is being let at the Kwanzaa celebration?19. B)It is a cultural festival founded for African-Americans.20. C)To help African-Americans to realize their goals.21. B)The fruits of the harvest.22. A)They recite a principle.Recording 3The Mediterranean diet is based upon the eating patterns of traditional cultures in the Mediterranean region. Several noted nutritionists in research projects have concluded that this diet is one of the most healthful in the world in terms of preventing such illnesses as heart disease and cancer and increasing life expectancy. The countries that have inspired Mediterranean diet all surround the Mediterranean Sea. These cultures have eating habits that developed over thousands of years. In Europe, parts of Italy, Greece, Portugal, Spain and southern France adhere to principles of the Mediterranean diet as to the morocco, Indonesia, and North Africa. Parts of the Balkan region and turkey follow the diet as well as middle eastern countries like Lebanon and Syria, the Mediterranean region is warm and sunny and produces large supplies of fresh fruits and vegetables almost a year round thatthe people eat many times a day. Wine, bread, all of oil and nuts are other staples of the region. In the Mediterranean sea has historically yielded abundant quantities of fish. International interest in therapeutic qualities of Mediterranean diet began back in the late nineteen fifties. When medical researchers started to link the currency of heart disease with diet, Doctor Ansol Keths performed the epidemiological analysis of diets around the world. In titled of the seven countries study, it is considered one of the greatest studies of its kind ever performed. In it, Keths gathered data on heart disease in its potential causes from nearly thirty thousand men in Greece, Italy, Croatia, Serbia, Japan, Finland, the Netherlands and the United States. The study was conducted over period of decades. It concluded that the Mediterranean people in the study enjoyed some significant health advantages. The Mediterranean groups have lower mortality rates in all age brackets in form of all causes particularly from heart disease. The study also showed that the Mediterranean diet is as high as or higher in fat than other diets, obtaining up to forty percent of all its calories from fat. It has however, different patterns of fat intake. Mediterranean cooking, in its smaller amounts of saturated fat and higher amount of unsaturated fat, mostly in form of all of oil. Saturated fats are fats are found principally in meat and dairy products, although some nuts in vegetable oils also contain them. Saturated fats are used by the body to make cholesterol in high levels of cholesterol has since been directly related to heart disease.23. What has research concluded about the Mediterranean diet?24. What do we learn about the seven countries study?25. What do we learn about the Mediterranean people from the seven countries study?23. D) It is one of the world’s most healthy diets.24. A) It is regarded as one of the greatest researches of its kind.25. B) They have lower mortality rates.六级听力第二套：1.A) Say a few words to thank the speaker.2.D) He joined the local history societ when young.3.B) She had a good knowledge of the town's history.4.C) He made an embarrassing remark.5. B) What their rivals are doing.6. D) Their potentials has been underestimated.7. C) She had not seen it yet.8. D) Exporting their motorbikes to Indonesia.9. B) It makes claims in conflict with the exising research.10. C) They run a higher risk of gaining weight.11. D) Go to bed earlier.12. A) All the acting nominees are white.13. D) Only 3.4 percent of film directors are female.14. C) Females color over 40.15. B) They are most underrepresented across TV and film.16. C) One that covers their debts and burial expenses.17. D) Add more insurance on the breadwinner.18. A) When their children grow up and leave home.19.D）They may not always be negative.20.A) Biased sources of information.21.B) They may have a negative impact on people they apply to.22.C) A positive stereotype may help one achieve better results.23. B) Quit taking the medicine immediately.24. D) It may increase the effect of certain drugs.25. A)Tell their children to treat medicine with respect.六级阅读第一套选词填空帕劳群岛的捕鱼业The Pacific island nation of Palau has become home to the sixth largest marine sanctuary in the world.26. I) permit27. O) territory28. F) exclusive29. C) commercial30. D) communities31. E) essential32. G) independent33. M) sponsor34. J) secure35. N) stocks匹配题Who's really addicting you to technology?36. [E] Online services are so designed that the more they are used, the more profit they generate.37. [L] The author admits using technology as an escape from the task at hand.38. [I] Checking phones at dinners is now accepted as normal but not belching.39. [O] To make proper use of technology, we should not only increase our awareness of how it is changing but also how it is impacting us.40. [B] Most of us find it hard to focus on our immediate tasks because of Internet distractions.41. [J] When one person starts checking their phone, the others will follow suit.42. [F] The great majority of smartphone users don’t take the trouble to adjust their settings to suit their own purposes.43. [D]The Internet is regarded by some as designed to distract our attention.44. [L] The author attributes his tech addiction chiefly to his habit of putting off doing what he should do right away.45. [G] White-collar workers check email round the clock because it is required by their employers.仔细阅读Passage One46. A) He used a strangely potent ingredient in a food supplement.47. C) Many were shipped to Europe in the late 19th century for medicinal use.48. A) Cocaine had become notorious.49. D) It has remained virtually unchanged since its creation.50. A) The evolution of Coca-cola.Passage Two51. C) There was a clear divide between large and small cities.52. D) They have changed America's landscape.53. D) looked deserted in the evenings54. C) Modernized housing and improved infrastructure.55. D) Better job opportunities.六级阅读第二套选词填空第二套：尼日利亚西红柿减产In the past 12 months, Nigeria has suffered from a shrinking economy, a sliding currency, and a prolonged fuel shortage.26. C) emergency27. D) feeding28. K) reproduces29. I) originated30. G) handful31. F) halted32. L) security33. N) unchecked34. A) dependent35. J) reduction匹配题It is a movement building steady momentum: a call to make research data, software code and experimental methods publicly available and transparent.[M] 36. Astronomer David Hogg doesn’t think scooping is as serious a problem as generally thought.[G] 37. Some researchers are hesitant to make their data public for fear that others might publish something similar before them.[D] 38. Some psychology journals have offered incentives to encourage authors to share their data.[A] 39. There is a growing demand in the science community that research data be open to the public.[P] 40. Sharing data offers early-career researchers the chance to build a certain level of reputation.[L] 41. Data sharing enables scientists to publish each step of their research work, thus leading to more citations.[B] 42. Scientists hold different opinions about the extent and timing of data sharing.[O] 43. Potential problems related to data sharing should be made known to and discussed by all participants at the beginning of a joint research project.[I] 44. Sharing data and handling data-related issues can be time-consuming.[F] 45. Junior researchers may have no say when it comes to sharing data.仔细阅读Passage One46. A) Whether robots can reach better decisions47. D) They did not take moral issues into consideration.48. C) They perform duties in their owners' best interest.49. A) Abstract concepts are hard to program.50. C) Robots can have trouble making decisions in complex scenarios. Passage Two51. D) The rapid technological progress in a very short period of time.52. B) The popularization of smart homes.53. B) Gain automatic control of their businesses.54. A) How to turn it to profitable use.55. A) It is feasible with a connection to the internet.六级阅读第三套选词填空26. O) sparking27. L) powered28. H) implemented29. D) eliminate30. G) hopeful31. A) acceptance32. J) installed33. B) currently34. K) noticeable35. F) futile匹配题36. E37. B38. I39. C40. D41. J42. F43. A44. L45. G仔细阅读Passage 146. A) It is simply uninhabitable for most animals.47. C) stay away from predators.48. B) they can survive well in salty water49. A) They can take refuges in the less salty waters.50. D) The disruption of Lake Natron’s ecosystem.Passage 2 城市规划用地51. A) They were divided into residential and business areas.52. B) They have seen a rise in property prices.53. D) look deserted in the evenings54. C) More comfortable life and greater upward mobility55. B) More chances for promotion翻译：青海湖青海湖位于海拔3205米、青海省省会西宁以西约100公里处。

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2016年——2017年大学英语6级考试真题及答案（整理总结版）（一）听力部分真题和答案：短对话：1.M: Before we play again, I’m going to buy a good tennis racket.W: Your shoes aren’t in a very good shape either.Q: What does the woman mean?2.M: Barbara, I’d like you could assist me in the lab demonstration. But aren’t you supposed to go to Dr. Smith’s lecture today?W: I ask Cathy to take notes for me.Q: What do we learn from the conversation?3.W: Steve invi ted me to the dinner party on Sunday evening. Have you received your invitation yet? M: Yes, he found me this morning and told me he wanted all his old classmates to come to the reunion.Q: What do we learn from the conversation?4.W: I’m afraid I’m a little bit seasic k. I feel dizzy.M: Close your eyes and relax. You’ll be all right as soon as we come at shore.Q: Where does the conversation most probably take place?5.W: I wonder what’s happened to our train. It should have been here twenty minutes ago according to t he timetable. But it’s already 9:30.M: There’s no need to get nervous. The announcement says it’s forty minutes late.Q: When is the train arriving?6.M: John is handsome and wealthy. Believe it or not, he is still a bachelor.W: He is a notorious guy in many girls’ eyes. I’m sick of hearing his name.Q: What does the woman mean?7.M: Cars had lined up bumper to bumper. And I’ve been held up on the express way for the entire hour.W: Really? It must be a pain in the neck. But be patient, anyway, you can do nothing but wait.Q: What do we learn about the man?8.W: Yesterday I was surprised to see Mary using that washing machine you’re going to throw away. M: Yes, it’s quite old and in a very poor condition. Frankly speaking, that she got it working amazes me a lot.Q: What does the man imply about Mary?答案：1. B. The man should get a pair of new shoes.2. A. The woman will skip Dr. Smith’s lecture to help the man.3. D. The speakers and Steve used to be classmates.4. C. In a boat.5. B. 9:50.6. A. She does not like John at all.7. D. He is trapped in a terrible traffic jam.8. A. She is good at repairing things.长对话：Conversation 1M: A recent case I heard was of a man accused and found guilty of breaking into a house and stealing some money.W: Well, was he really guilty, judge?M: He admit ted that he’d done it, and there were several witnesses saying that he had indeed done it. So I can only assume that he was guilty.W: Why did he do it?M: Well, the reasons were little muddied, probably at least it seemed in a trial that he did it to get some money to feed his family. You see, he’d been out of work for some time.W: Well, he’d been out of work and he chose to break into a house to get money for his family and apparently in front of people that, err... could see him do it.M: His attorney presented testimony that he had indeed applied for jobs and was listed with several employment agencies, including the state employment agency, but they weren’t any jobs.W: And he had no luck!M: He had no luck and it’d been some time. He had two children and both of them were needing food and clothing.W: So he was in desperate circumstances. Did you sentence him?M: Yes.W: But what good does it do to put the man into jail when he’s obviously in such need?M: This particular fellow has been in prison before.W: For the same thing?M: No, for a different sort of crime.W: Huh?M: But he did know about crime, so I suppose there are folks that just have to go back to prison several times.9. What did the judge say about the case he recently heard?10. What do we learn about the man at the time of crime?11. What did the judge say about the accused?Conversation 2M: Ah, how do you do, Ms. Wezmore?W: How do you do?M: Do sit down.W: Thank you.M: I’m glad you’re interes ted in our job. Now, let me explain it. We plan to increase our advertising considerably. At present, an advertising agency handles our account, but we haven’t been too pleased with t he results lately and we may give our account to another agency.W: What would my work entail?M: You’d be responsible to me for all advertising and to Mr. Grunt for public relations.You’d brief the agency whoever it is on the kind of advertising campaign we want. You’d also be responsible for getting our leaflets, brochures and catalogs designed.W: I presume you advertise in the national press as well as the trade press.M: Yes, we do.W: Have you thought about advertising on television?M: We don’t think it’s a suitable medium for us. And it’s much too expensive.W: I can just imagine a scene with a typist sitting on an old-fashioned typing chair, her back aching, exhaus ted, then we show her in one of your chairs. Her back properly supported filling full of energy, typing twice as quickly.M: Before you get carried away with your little scene, Ms. Wezmore, I regret to have to tell you again that we are not planning to go into television.W: That’s a shame. I’ve been doing a lot of television work lately and it interests me enormously.M: Then I really don’t think that this is quite the right job for you here, Ms. Wezmore.12. What does the man think of their present advertising agency?13. What would the woman be responsible for to Mr. Grunt?14. What is the woman most interested in doing?15. What does the man think of the woman applicant?答案：Conversation 19. C. The accused was found guilty of stealing.10. B. He was unemployed.11. A. He had been in jail before.Conversation 212. B. Unsatisfactory.13. C. Public relations.14. D. Making television commercials.15. D. She is not suitable for the position.短文1Many foreign students are attrac ted not only to the academic programs at a particular U.S. college but also to the larger community, which affords the chance to soak up the surrounding culture. Few foreign universities put much emphasis on the cozy communal life that characterizes American campuses from clubs and sports teams to student publications and drama societies. “The campus and the American university have bec ome identical in people’s minds,” says Brown University President Vartan Gregorian. “In America it is assumed that a student’s daily life is as important as his learning experience.”Foreign students also come in search of choices. America’s menu of options—research universities, state institutions, private liberal-arts schools, community colleges, religious institutions, military academies—is unrivaled. “In Europe,” says history professor Jonathan Steinberg, who has taught at both Harvard and Cambridge, “there is one system, and that is it.” While students overseas usually must demonstrate expertise in a specific field, whether law or philosophy or chemistry, most American universities insist that students sample natural and social sciences, languages and literature before choosing a field of concentration.Such opposing philosophies grow out of different traditions and power structures. In Europe and Japan, universities are answerable only to a ministry of education, which sets academic standards and distributes money.While centralization ensures that all students are equipped with roughly the same resources and perform at roughly the same level, it also discourages experimentation. “When they make mistakes, they make big ones,” says Robert Rosenzweig, president of the Asso ciation of American Universities. “They set a system in wrong directions, and it’s like steering a supertanker.”问题：16. What does the speaker say characterizes American campuses?17. What does Brown University president Vartan Gregorian say about students' daily life?18. In what way is the Uni ted States unrivaled according to the speaker?19. What does the speaker say about universities in Europe and Japan?答案：16. What does the speaker say characterizes American campuses?答案：(A) The cozy communal life.【点评】：细节题。

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To major humanities, so at least it seems to me, is preferable for college students, if they had the chance, in the process of which we will develop an innovative thought mode.
Why,you may wonder, should I prefer to major in humanities. The reasons responsible for it can be listed as follows .
Among the most important reasons cited by people is that to major in humanitie，s
Apart from what has been mentioned above, personal interest also plays a key role in it. For both passion and motivation are derived from interest, which not only decide how far you can reach academically and professionally but also how happy and fulfilled you will be .
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Nowadays, there has been a heated discussion as to a better choice between attending college at home and abroad. Views on the topic vary greatly among people from different walks of life. Some believe that it is a better choice to study in domestic colleges, but others consider it better to study abroad. I totally agree with the latter idea for the reasons presented below. To begin with, it harms the society in that the greater the competition is, the higher the recruitment requirements will become. Therefore, with experiences of studying abroad, graduates will become more competitive in job hunting. Furthermore, it is beneficial to the students themselves to study abroad. Without the choice to pursue overseas study, many great scholars today would never have achieved such great success. From my perspective, it is crucial that the government should encourage people to pursue overseas study. Also it is crucial that people should understand the meaning and value of attending college abroad. Only in this way can we achieve greater success.

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英语六级2016年2017 年英语六级真题及答案Part I Writing (30 minutes)Directions: For this part, you are allowed 30 minutes to write an essay commenting on thesaying"Knowledge is a treasure, but practice is the key to it. " You can give an example or twoto illustrate your point of view. You should write at least 150 words but no more than 200 words.注意：此部分试题请在答题卡1 上作答。

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1. A. Prepare for his exams.B. Catch up on his work.C. Attend the concert.D. Go on a vacation.2. A. Three crew members were involved in the incident.B. None of the hijackers carried any deadly weapons.C. The plane had been scheduled to fly to Japan.D. None of the passengers were injured or killed.3. A. An article about the election.B. A tedious job to be done.C. An election campaign.D. A fascinating topic.4. A. The restaurant was not up to the speakers' expectations.B. The restaurant places many ads in popular magazines.C. The critic thought highly of the Chinese restaurant.D. Chinatown has got the best restaurants in the city.5. A. He is going to visit his mother in the hospital.B. He is going to take on a new job next week.C. He has many things to deal with right now.D. He behaves in a way nobody understands.6. A. A large number of students refused to vote last night.B. At least twenty students are needed to vote on an issue.C. Major campus issues had to be discussed at the meeting.D. More students have to appear to make their voice heard.7. A. The woman can hardly tell what she likes.B. The speakers like watching TV very much.C. The speakers have nothing to do but watch TV.D. The man seldom watched TV before retirement.8. A. The woman should have registered earlier.B. He will help the woman solve the problem.C ) He finds it hard to agree with what the woman says.英语六级D. The woman will be able to attend the classes she wants. Questions 9 to 12 are based on the conversation you have just heard.9. A. Persuade the man to join her company.B. Employ the most up-to-date technology.C. Export bikes to foreign markets.D. Expand their domestic business.10. A. The state subsidizes small and medium enterprises.B. The government has control over bicycle imports.C. They can compete with the best domestic manufacturers.D. They have a cost advantage and can charge higher prices.11. A. Extra costs might eat up their profits abroad.B. More workers will be needed to do packaging.C. They might lose to foreign bike manufacturers.D. It is very difficult to find suitable local agents.12. A. Report to the management.B. Attract foreign investments.C. Conduct a feasibility studyD. Consult financial experts.Questions 13 to 15 are based on the conversation you have just heard.13. A. Coal burnt daily for the comfort of our homes.B. Anything that can be used to produce power.C. Fuel refined from oil extracted from underground.D. Electricity that keeps all kinds of machines running.14. A. Oil will soon be replaced by alternative energy sources.B. Oil reserves in the world will be exhausted in a decade.C. Oil consumption has given rise to many global problems.D. Oil production will begin to decline worldwide by 2025.15. A. Minimize the use of fossil fuels.B. Start developing alternative fuels.C. Find the real cause for global warming.D. Take steps to reduce the greenhouse effect.Section BDirections: In this section, you will hear 3 short passages. At the end of each passage, you willhear some questions. Both the passage and the questions will be spoken only once. After you heara question, you must choose the best answer from the four choices marked A ), B ), C. and D ).Then mark the corresponding letter on Answer Sheet 71 with a single line through the centre.注意：此部分试题请在答题卡1 上作答。

Passage OneQuestions 16 to 18 are based on the passage you have just heard.16. A. The ability to predict fashion trends.B. A refined taste for artistic works.C. Years of practical experience.D. Strict professional training.17. A. Promoting all kinds of American hand-made specialties.英语六级B. Strengthening cooperation with foreign governments.C. Conducting trade in art works with dealers overseas.D. Purchasing handicrafts from all over the world.18. A. She has access to fashionable things.B. She is doing what she enjoys doing.C. She can enjoy life on a modest salary.D. She is free to do whatever she wants.Passage TwoQuestions 19 to 22 are based on the passage you have just heard.19. A. Join in neighborhood patrols.B. Get involved in his community.C. Voice his complaints to the city council.D. Make suggestions to the local authorities.20. A. Deterioration in the quality of life.B. Increase of police patrols at night.C. Renovation of the vacant buildings.D. Violation of community regulations.21. A. They may take a long time to solve.B. They need assistance from the city.C. They have to be dealt with one by one.D. They are too big for individual efforts.22. A. He had got some groceries at a big discount.B. He had read a funny poster near his seat.C. He had done a small deed of kindness.D. He had caught the bus just in time.Passage ThreeQuestions 23 to 25 are based on the passage you have just heard.23. A. Childhood and healthy growth.B. Pressure and heart disease.C. Family life and health.D. Stress and depression.24. A. It experienced a series of misfortunes.B. It was in the process of reorganization.C. His mother died of a sudden heart attack.D. His wife left him because of his bad temper.25. A. They would give him a triple bypass surgery.B. They could remove the block in his artery.C. They could do nothing to help him.D. They would try hard to save his life.Section CDirections: In this section, you will hear a passage three times. When the passage is read forthe first time,you should listen carefully for its general idea. When the passage is read forthe second time, you are required to fill in the blanks with the exact words you have just heard.Finally, when the passage is read for the third time, you should check what you have written.英语六级注意：此部分试题请在答题卡1 上作答。

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