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2017年全国大学英语六级(CET6)考试真题及解析

2017 年大学英语六级考试真题试卷及答案明确的目标是前进的动力。

只有确定了目标，才能朝着这个方向努力，下面是为大家搜索整理的 2017 年 6 月大学真题试卷及答案，希望大家能有所收获，更多精彩内容请及时关注我们 !Part I Writing.Directions: For this part, you are allowed 30 minutes to write a short essay entitled The Civil Servant Test Craze. Your essay should start with a brief description of the picture. You should write at least 150 words but no more than 200 words.For this part, you are allowed 30 minutes to write an essay explaining why it is unwise to judge a person by their appearance. You can give examples to illustrate your point. Youshould write at least 150 words but no more than 200 words.Section A2、Questions2-11 are based on the following passage.Fear can be an effective way to change behavior. One study compared the effects of high, fear and low-fear appeals on changes in attitudes and behaviors related to the dental hygiene(卫生).One group of subjects was shown awful pictures of(36)_____teeth and diseasedgums;another group was shown less frightening materials such as plastic teeth，charts，and graphs.Subjects who saw the frightening materials reported more anxiety and a greater(37)_____to change the way they took care of their teeth than the low-fear group did.But were these reactions actually(38)_____into better dental hygiene practices? To answer thisimportant question，subjects were called back to the laboratory on two(39)_____(five daysand six weeks after the experiment..They chewed disclosing wafers(牙疾诊断片 )that give a red stain to any uncleaned areas of the teeth and thus provided a direct(40)_____of how well they were really taking care of their teeth.The result showed that the high.fear appeal did actually result in greater and more(41)_____changes in dental hygiene.That，isthe subjects(42)_____to high-fear warnings brushed their teeth more(43)_____than did those who saw low-fear warnings.However, to be all effective persuasive device it is very important that the message not be too frightening and that people be given(44)_____guidelines to help them to reduce the cause ofthe fear.If this isn，’theydonemay reduce their anxiety by denying the message or the(45)_____of the communicator.If that happens， it is unlikely that either attitude or behavior change will occur.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 writeat 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 personali ty 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 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。

全国大学英语六级CET考试真题及解析

2017年大学英语六级考试真题试卷及答案明确的目标是前进的动力;只有确定了目标,才能朝着这个方向努力,下面是为大家搜索整理的2017年6月大学真题试卷及答案,希望大家能有所收获,更多精彩内容请及时关注我们Part I Writing.Directions: For this part, you are allowed 30 minutes to write a short essay entitled The Civil Servant Test Craze. Your essay should start with a brief description of the picture. You should write at least 150 words but no more than 200 words.For this part, you are allowed 30 minutes to write an essay explaining why it is unwise to judge a person by their appearance. You can give examples to illustrate your point. You should write at least 150 words but no more than 200 words.Section A2、Questions2-11 are based on the following passage.Fear can be an effective way to change behavior. One study compared the effects of high, fear and low-fear appeals on changes in attitudesand behaviors related to the dental hygiene卫生.One group of subjects was shown awful pictures of36_____teeth and diseased gums;another group was shown less frightening materials such as plastic teeth,charts,and who saw the frightening materials reported more anxiety and a greater 37_____to change the way they took care of their teeth than the low-fear group did.But were these reactions actually38_____into better dental hygiene practices To answer thisimportant question,subjects were called back to the laboratory on two39_____five days and six weeks after the experiment..They chewed disclosing wafers牙疾诊断片that give a red stain to any uncleaned areas of the teeth and thus provided a direct40_____of how well they were really taking care of their result showed that the appeal did actually result in greater and more41_____changes in dental is,thesubjects42_____to high-fear warnings brushed their teeth more43_____than did those who saw low-fear warnings.However, to be all effective persuasive device it is very important that the message not be too frightening and that people begiven44_____guidelines to help them to reduce the cause of the this isn’t done,they may reduce their anxiety by denying th e message or the 45_____of the that happens,it is unlikely that either attitude or behavior change will occur.注意：此部分试题请在答题卡2上作答;第36题应填______3、第37题应填______4、第38题应填______5、第39题应填______6、第40题应填______7、第41题应填______8、第42题应填______9、第43题应填______10、第44题应填______11、第45题应填______一、听力选择题12、听录音:点击播放回答12-36题：问题might be fake products. might be stolen goods.might be faulty products. might be smuggled goods.13、are news reporters.are job applicants.are civil servants.are public speakers.14、man went to change the time of his computer class. computer degree is a must for administrative work. woman wants to get a degree in administration.man has decided to quit his computer class.15、was sponsored by a car manufacturer.was not as exciting as he had expected.fifth contestant won the biggest prize.lot of contestants participated in the show.16、a newspaper column.for someone at the airport.from New York to Boston.at a railway timetable.17、wears a coat bought in the mall.got a new job at the barbershop.had his hair cut yesterday.had a finger hurt last night.18、drawings by kindergarten kids are excellent. is not quite impressed with modem paintings. his nephew can draw as well as Picasso.cannot appreciate the Picasso exhibition. 19、has long been involved in student government. attitude to student government has changed.conduct does not square with his words. should not put the cart before the horse.20、听音频,回答下列问题：went wrong with her car.left her own ear in Manchester.car won't be back in a week's time.Wants to go traveling on the weekend. 21、....22、tax.insurance...23、听音频,回答下列问题：to attract investments.to locate their plant.to do to enhance their position.to update the basic facilities.24、basic facilities are good.are very close to each other.are all located in the south of France.road link to other European countries is fast.25、field surveys first.advantage of the train links.with the local authorities.to avoid making a hasty decision.26、product distributions.and rail links for small towns.employment policies.workforce in the hilly region.27、听音频,回答下列问题：fifth of them were on bed terms with their sisters and brothers. than half of them were involved in inheritance disputes.one eighth of them admitted to lingering bitter feelings.of them had broken with their sisters and brothers.28、in age.from work.concern with money matters.experience in worldly affairs.29、are more tolerant of one another.find close relatives more reliable.have little time left to renew contact with their brothers and sisters.tend to forget past unhappy memories and focus on their present needs.30、听音频,回答下列问题：can only survive in parts of the Americas.have bright colors and intricate patterns.are the only insect that migrates along fixed routes. have strong wings capable of flying long distances.31、a Michigan mountain forest.a Louisiana mountain forest.a Mexican mountain forest.a Kentucky mountain forest.32、the strongest can reach their destination to lay eggs. generation in a cycle lays eggs at a different place start to lay eggs when they are nine months old.flock of butterflies lays eggs in the same states. 33、impacts on monarch butterfly life.patterns of monarch butterflies.habits of monarch butterflies.of monarch butterflies.34、听音频,回答下列问题：is relative.is money.has become more precious.has become more limited.35、and more Americans feel pressed for time nowadays.number of hours Americans work has increased steadily. today have more free time than earlier generations.now attach more important to the effective use of time.36、interpersonal relationships improve.living habits are altered.work efficiency increases greatly.behavior is changed.二、听力填空 Directions: 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.37、听音频,回答下列问题：The first copyright law in the United States was passed by Congress in 1976 Congress enacted the latest copyright law, 26 the technological developments that had occurred Since the passage of the Copyright Act of 1909. For example, in 1909, anyone who wanted to make a single copy of a27 work for personal use had to do so by hand. The very process 28 a limitation on the quantity of materials copied. Today, a photocopier can do the work in seconds; the limitation has disappeared. The 1909 law did not provide full protection for films and sound recordings, nor did it29 the need to protect radio and television. As a result, 30 of the law and abuses of the intent of the law have lessened the 31 rewards of authors, artists and producers. The 1976 Copyright Act has not prevented these abuses fully, but it has clarified the legal rights of the injuredparties and given them an 32 for remedy.Since 1976 the Act has been 33 to include computer software, and guidelines have been adopted for fair use of television broadcasts. These changes have cleared up much of the confusion and conflict that followed 34 the 1976 legislation.The fine points of the law are decided by the courts and by acceptable common practice over these decisions and agreements are made, we modify our behavior accordingly. For now, we need to35 the law andits guidelines as accurately as we can and to act in a fair manner.第26题________38、第27题________39、第28题________40、第29题________41、第30题________42、第31题________43、第32题________44、第33题________45、第34题________46、第35题________Part II Listening Comprehension 30 minutesSection B Directions: In this section, you are going to read a passage with ten statements attached to it. Each statement contains information given in one of the paragraphs. Identify the paragraph from which the information is derived. You may choose a paragraph more thanonce. Each paragraph is marked with a letter. Answer the questions by marking the corresponding letter on Answer Sheet 2.47、47-56读材料,选择与其匹配的答案The Street-Level Solutionl was growing up,one of my father’s favorite saying sborrowed from the humorist Will Rogerswas：“It isn’t what we don’t know that causes the trouble;it’s what we think we know that just ain’t so.” One of the main insights to be taken from the 100,000 Homes Campaign and its strategy to end chronic homelessness is that, until recently, our society thought it understood the nature of homelessness,but it didn’t.B. That led to a series of mistaken assumptions about why people become homeless and what they of the errors in our homelessnesspolicies have stemmed from the conception that the homeless are a homogeneous ’s only in the past years that organizations like Common Ground,and taken a street-level view of the problem—distinguishing the "episodically homeless”from the“chronically homeless”in order tounderstand their needs at an individual is why we can now envisage a different approach——and get better results.readers expressed support for the effort,although a number were skeptical,and a few utterly the chances of homeless people adapting well t o is to be expected;it’s hard to imagine what we haven’t yet Niccolo Machiavelli wrote in The of the major obstacles in any effort to advance systemic change is the“incredulity of men.”which is to say that people“do not readily believe in new things unt il they have had a long experience of them.”Most of us have witnessed homeless people on the streets for have seen formerly homeless people after they have been housed don’t have reference points for that we generalize from what we know--or know.that can be misleading,even to I asked Rosanne Haggerty, founder of Common Ground,which currently operates 2,3 1 0 units of supportive housingwith 552 more under construction,what had been her biggest surprise in this work, she replied：“Fifteen years ago, I would not have believed that people who had been so broken and stuck in homelessness could thrive to the degree that they do in our buildings."And Becky Kanis, the campaign's director, commented: "There is this sense in our minds that someone who's on the streets is almost in their DNA different from someone who has a campaign is creating a first-hand experience for many people that that is really not the case."E. One of the startling realizations that I had while researchingthis column is that anybody could become like a homeless person--all it takes is a traumatic 创伤的 brain injury. A bicycle fall, a car accident, a slip on the ice, or if you're a soldier, a head wound--and your life could become O'Connell, a doctor who has been treating the most vulnerable homeless people on the streets of Boston for 25 years, estimates that 40 percent of the long-term homeless people he's met had such a brain injury. "For many it was a head injury prior to the time they became homeless," he said. "They became unpredictable. They'd have mood swings, fits of explosive behavior. They couldn't hold onto their jobs. Drinking made them feel better. They'd end up on the streets."F. Once homeless people return to housing, they're in a much better position to rebuild their lives. But it's important to note that housing alone is not enough. As with many complex social problems, when you getthrough the initial crisis, you have another problem to solve which is no less challenging. But it is a better problem.G. Over the past decade, O'Connell has seen this happen. "I spend half my time on the streets or in the hospital and the other half making house calls to people who lived for years on the streets," he said. "So from a doctor's point of view it's a delightful switch, but it's not as if putting someone in housing is the answer to addressing all of their problems. It's the first step."H. Once in housing, formerly homeless people can become isolated and lonely. If they've lived on the streets for years, they may have acquired a certain standing as well as a sense of pride in theirsurvival skills. Now indoors, those aspects of their identity may be stripped away. Many also experience a profound disorientation at the outset. "If you're homeless for more than six months, you kind of lose your bearings," says Haggerty. "Existence becomes not about overcoming homelessness but about finding food, begging, looking for a job to survive another day. The whole process of how you define stability gets reordered."I. Many need regular, if not continuous, support with mental health problems, addictions and illnesses--and, equally important, assistance in the day-to-day challenges of life, reacquainting with family,building relationships with neighbors, finding enjoyable activities or work, managing finances, and learning how to eat healthy food.J. For some people, the best solution is to live in a communal 集体residence, with special isn't available everywhere, however. In Boston, for example, homeless people tend to be scattered in apartments throughout the city.K. Common Ground's large residences in New York offer insight into the possibilities for change when homeless people have a rich array of supports. In addition to more traditional social services, residents also make use of communal gardens, classes in things like cooking, yoga, theatre and photography, and job placement. Last year, 188 formerly homeless tenants in four of Common Ground's residences, found jobs.the properties have many services and are well-managed, Haggerty has found post-housing problems to be surprisingly rare. In the past 10 years, there have been only a handful of incidents of quarrels betweentenants. There is very little graffiti 涂鸦 or vandalism 破坏 And the turnover is almost negligible. In the Prince George Hotel in New York, which is home to 208 formerly homeless people and 208 low-income tenants, the average length of tenancy is close to seven years. All residents pay 30 percent of their income for rent; for the formerly homeless, this comes out of their government Benefits. When people move on, it is usually because they've found a preferable apartment.M. "Tenants also want to participate in shaping the public areas of the buildings," said Haggerty. "They formed a gardening committee. They want a terrace on the roof. Those are things I didn't count on." Themost common tenant demand "People always want more storage space--butthat's true of every New Yorker," she adds. "In many ways, we're a lot like a normal apartment building. Our tenants look like anyone else."N. As I mentioned, homelessness is a catch-all for a variety of problems. A number of readers asked whether the campaign will address family homelessness, which has different causes and requires a different solution. I've been following some of the promising ideas emerging to address and prevent family homelessness. Later in 2011, I'll explorethese ideas in a column. For now, I'll conclude with an update on the 100,000 Homes Campaign. Since Tuesday, New Orleans and a few other communities have reported new results. The current count of people housed is 7,043.Tenants in Common Ground's residences all want more room for storage.48、Homes Campaign provides first-hand proof that the homeless are not what they were once believed to be.49、Common Ground's residences are well-managed and by and large peaceful.50、Housing the homeless is only the first step to solving all their problems.51、A large percent of the chronically homeless have suffered from brain injury.52、After being housed many homeless people become confused at first as to how to deal with life off the street.53、Some people think the best way to help the homeless is to provide them with communal housing.54、The homeless with health problems should be given regular support in their daily lives.55、Until recently American society has failed to see what homelessness is all about.56、Many formerly homeless tenants in New York's Common Ground's residences got hired.Section C Directions: There are 2 passages in this section. Each passage is followed by some questions or unfinished statements. For each of them there are four choices marked A, B, C and D . You should decide on the best choice and mark the corresponding letter on Answer Sheet 2 with a single line through the centre.57、Passage OneQuestions57-66are based on the following passage.Technology can make us smarter or stupider, and we need to develop a set of principles to guide our everyday behavior and make sure that tech is improving and not hindering our mental processes. One of the big questions being debated today is: What kind of information do we need to have stored in our heads, and what kind can we leave "in the cloud," to be accessed as necessaryAn increasingly powerful group within education are championing "digital literacy". In their view, skills beat knowledge, developing "digital literacy" is more important than learning mere content, and all facts are now Google-able and therefore unworthy of committing to memory. But even the most sophisticated digital literacy skills won't help students and workers navigate the world if they don't have a broad base of knowledge about how the world actually operates. If you focus on the delivery mechanism and not the content, you're doing kids a disservice.Indeed, evidence from cognitive science challenges the notion that skills can exist independent of factual knowledge. Data from the last thirty years leads to a conclusion that is not scientificallychallengeable: thinking well requires knowing facts, and that's true not only because you need something to think about. The very processes that teachers care about most--critical thinking processes—are intimately interwined 交织 with factual knowledge that is stored inlong-term memory.In other words, just because you can Google the date of Black Tuesday doesn't mean you understand why the Great Depression happened or how it compares to our recent economic slump. There is no doubt that the students of today, and the workers of tomorrow, will need to innovate, collaborate and such skills can't be separated from the knowledge that gives rise to them. To innovate, you have to know what came before. To collaborate, you have to contribute knowledge to the joint venture. And to evaluate, you have to compare new information against knowledgeyou've already mastered.So here's a principle for thinking in a digital world, in two parts. First, acquire a base of factualknowledge in any domain in which you want to perform well. This base supplies the essential foundation for building skills, and it can't be outsourced 外包 to a search engine.Second, take advantage of computers' invariable memory, but also the brain's elaborative are great when you want to store information that shouldn't change. But brains are the superior choice when you want information to change, in interesting and useful ways: to connect up with other facts and ideas, to acquire successive layers of meaning, to steep for a while in your accumulated knowledge and experience and so produce a richer mental brew.What is the author's concern about the use of technologymay leave knowledge "in the cloud".may misguide our everyday behavior.may cause a divide in the circles of education.may hinder the development of thinking skills.58、What is the view of educators who advocate digital literacyhelps kids to navigate the virtual world at will.helps kids to broaden their scope of knowledge.increases kid's efficiency of acquiring knowledge.liberates kids from the burden of memorizing facts.59、What does evidence from cognitive science showis better kept in long-term memory.thinking is based on factual knowledge.skills are essential to knowledge acquisition.thinking means challenging existing facts.60、What does the author think is key to making evaluations enough evidence before drawing conclusions.the basic roles and principles for evaluation.new information with one's accumulated knowledge.both what has happened and why it has happened.61、 What is the author's purpose in writing the passagewarn against learning through memorizing facts.promote educational reform in the information age.explain human brains' function in storing information.challenge the prevailing overemphasis on digital literacy.62、Questions62-71are based on the following passage.America's recent history has been a persistent tilt to the West--of people, ideas, commerce and even political power. California and Texas are the twin poles of the West, but very different ones. For most of the 20th century the home of Silicon Valley and Hollywood has been the brainier and trendier of the has trailed behind: its stereotype has been a conservative Christian in cowboy boots. But twins can change places. Is that happening nowIt is easy to find evidence that California is in a panic. At the start of this month the once golden state started paying creditors inIOUs 欠条. The gap between projected outgoings and income for the current fiscal 财政的 year has leapt to horrible $26 billion. With no sign of a new budget to close this gulf, one credit agency has already downgraded California's debt. As budgets are cut, universities will let in fewer students, prisoners will be released early and schemes to protect the vulnerable will be rolled back.By contrast, Texas has coped well with the recession, with an unemployment rate two points below the national average and one of the lowest rates of housing repossession. In part this is because Texan banks, hard hit in the last property bust, did not overexpand this time. Texas also clearly offers a different model, based on small government. It has no state capital-gains or income tax, and a business-friendly and immigrant-tolerant attitude. It is home to more Fortune 500 companies than any other state.Despite all this, it still seems too early to hand over America's future to Texas. To begin with, that lean Texan model has its own problems. It has not invested enough in education, and many expertsrightly worry about a "lost generation" of mostly Hispanic Texans with insufficient skills for the demands of the knowledge economy.Second, it has never paid to bet against a state with as many inventive people as California. Even if Hollywood has gone into depression, it still boasts an unequalled array of sunrise industriesand the most brisk venture-capital industry on the planet. The statealso has an awesome ability to reinvent itself--as it did when its defence industry collapsed at the end of the cold war.The truth is that both states could learn from each other. Texasstill lacks California's great universities and lags in terms of culture. California could adopt not just Texas's leaner state, but also its more bipartisan两党的approach to politics. There is no perfect model of government: it is America's genius to have 50 public-policy laboratories competing to find out what works best.What does the author say about California and Texas in Paragraph 1 have been competing for the leading position.has been superior to Texas in many ways.are both models of development for other states.'s cowboy culture is less known than California's. 63、What does the author say about today's California debts are pushing it into bankruptcy.budgets have been cut by $26 billion.is faced with a serious financial crisis.is trying hard to protect the vulnerable.64、In what way is Texas different from Californiapractices small government.is home to traditional industries.has a large Hispanic population.has an enviable welfare system.65、What problem is Texas confronted withHispanic population is mostly illiterate.sunrise industries are shrinking rapidly.education cannot meet the needs of the knowledge economy.immigrants have a hard time adapting to its cowboy culture.66、What do we learn about American politics from the passagestate has its own way of governing.states favor a bipartisan approach.collaborate in drawing public policies.states believe in government for the people.Part II Reading ComprehensionPart VI 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 2.67、中文热词通常反映社会变化和文化,有些在外国媒体上愈来愈流行;例如,土豪和大妈都是老词,但已获取了新的意义;土豪以前指欺压佃户和仆人的乡村地主,现在用于指花钱如流水或喜欢炫耀财富的人,也就是说,土豪有钱,但是没有品位;大妈是对中年妇女的称呼,但是现在特指不久前金价大跌时大量购买黄金的中国妇女;土豪和大妈可能会被收入新版的牛津Oxford英语词典,至今约有120中文加进了牛津英语词典,成了英语语言的一部分;答案作文整体解析：跟去年12月份的六级相比,作文难度依然保持不变;这次六级作文的题目则中规中矩,同去年题材相似,都是引语论述题,这也是课堂上给各位学员重点强调的未来一段时间大学英语六级作文的命题方向,就是想办法拜托作文模板,考查考生的逻辑思辨和分析能力,进而考出考生真正的英语语言应用能力;比如“Why is it unwise to jump into conclusions upon seeing orhearing”很像辩论赛的题目,“是眼见为实还是眼见为虚”,结合社会现实和英语谚语“seeing is believing”,要透露出的信息其实就是“seeing is not believing”,扩展开来就是要通过大脑去分析;如最近火热的文章和马伊利,表面上看起来是真爱,但是结果却令人叹息;所以得到文章结论;同理的还有“It is unwise to put all eggs in one basket.”;而“It is unwise to judge a person by appearance.不要以貌取人”;其实不管怎样出题,快速形成自己的观点,联系社会现实和考生自己总是其中不变的规律和大学四六级针对在校大学生的考试特点;参考作文1：why it is unwise to judge a personby their appearance.There is a Chinese saying goeslike this: men cannot be judged by their looks. I cannot agree with this pointof view any more.On the one hand, though a charmingappearance will leave a good impression on others, one’s look can seldom reflects his or her qualities, capacities andethics. We cannot say those who are good-looking are more capable and morecultivated than those who are average-looking or ugly-looking. There are somany people who do not have good appearances have made great achievements forthe progress of mankind, such as Stephen William Hawking who are even the other hand, our appearances are decided by our genes, which are inborn,while our qualities can be cultivated as we grow. We can enrich our minds bylearning, but which cannot be reflected on the appearances.To summarize, judging people byappearance is unwise. Therefore I suggest that we should focus on one’s inner world rather than t heir appearance.参考作文1：As old people always put it,"Never judge a book by its cover." However, in most cases, we judge aperson just by external appearances. For example, sometimes when we walk downthe street at night, we choose to avoid people who are acting tough and this way we tend to make wrong decisions, because judging someone byappearance can be deceptive.In dairy life, we try to stay awayfrom people who are called the "bad guy" because they dress a certainway. But we may miss an opportunity to make a good friend, because judgmentsbased on external appearances prevent us from getting to really know a we take the time to get to know the person, we might become friends.Therefore, in my opinion, judgingpeople just by appearance is superficial and often unfair. After all, we don'tknow what circumstances the person might be facing or who the person really embrace everyone you meet and not judge him just by appearances.参考作文2：Why is it unwise to jump intoconclusions upon seeing or hearing。

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月大学英语六级考试真题及答案解析(共三套)

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Part II Listening Comprehension (30 minutes)
Section A
Directions: 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
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) They make good reading. D) They need improvement.
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2016年6月大学英语六级考试真题试卷及解析(全三套无听力)

2016年6月大学英语六级考试真题试卷及答案（第1套）Part I Writing (30 minutes)Directions: For this part, you are allowed 30 minutes to write a short essay on living in the virtual world. Try to imagine what will happen when people spend more and more time in the virtual world instead of interacting in the real world. You are required to write at least 150 words but no more than 200 words.Part III Reading Comprehension (40 minutes)Section ADirections:In this section,there is a passage with ten blanks.You are required to select one word for each blank from a list of choices given in a word bank following the passage.Read the passage through 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.Pursuing a career is an essential part of adolescent development.“The adolescent becomes an adult when he_26_a real job.”To cognit ive researchers like Piaget,adulthoodmeant the beginning of an_27_.Piaget argued that once adolescents enter the world of work,their newly acquired ability to form hypotheses allows them to create representations that are too ideal.The_28_of such ideals,without the tempering of the reality of a job or profession,rapidly leads adolescents to become _29_ of the non-idealistic world and to press for reform in a characteristically adolescent way.Piaget said:“True adaptation to society comes_30_when the adole scent reformer attempts to put his ideas to work.”Of course,youthful idealism is often courageous,and no one likes to give up dreams.Perhaps,taken_31_out of context,Piaget’s statement seems harsh.What he was_32_，however,is the way reality can modify idealistic views.Some people refer to such modification as maturity.Piaget argued that attaining and accepting a vocation is one of the best ways to modify idealized views and to mature.As careers and vocations become less available during times of _33_,adolescents may be especially hard hit.Such difficult economic times may leave many adolescents_34_about their roles in society.For this reason,community interventions and government job programs that offer summer and vacation work are not only economically_35_but also help to stimulate the adolescent’s sense of worth.A)automatically I)incidentallyB)beneficial J)intolerantC)capturing K)occupationD)confused L)promisesE)emphasizing M)recessionF)entrance N)slightlyG)excited O)undertakes H)existenceSection BDirections:In this section,you are going to read a passage with ten statements attached to it.Each statement contains information given in one of the paragraphs.Identify the paragraph from which the information is derived.You may choose a paragraph more than once.Each paragraph is marked with a letter.Answer the questions by marking the corresponding letter on Answer Sheet 2.Can societies be rich and green?[A]“If our economies are to flourish,if global poverty is to be eliminated and if the well-being of the world’s people enhanced—not just in this generation but in succeeding generations—we must make sure we take care of the natural environment and resources on which our economic activity depends.”That statement comes not,as you might imagine,from a stereotypical tree-hugging,save-the-world greenie(环保主义者),but fromGordon Brown,a politician with a reputation for rigour,thoroughness and above all,caution.[B]A surprising thing for the man who runs one of the world’s most powerful economies to say?Perhaps;though in the run-up to the five-year review of the Millennium(千年的)Goals,he is far from alone.The roots of his speech,given in March at the roundtable meeting of environment and energy ministers from the G20 group of nations,stretch back to 1972,and the United Nations Conference on the Human Environment in Stockholm.[C]“The protection and improvement of the human environment is a major issue which affects the well-being of peoples and economic development throughout the world,”read the final declaration from this gathering,the first of a sequence which would lead to the Rio de Janeiro Earth Summit in 1992 and the World Development Summit in Johannesburg three years ago.[D]Hunt through the reports prepared by UN agencies and development groups—many for conferences such as this year’s Millennium Goals review—and you will find that the linkage between environmental protection and economic progress is a common thread.[E]Managing ecosystems sustainably is more profitable than exploiting them,according to the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment.But finding hard evidence to support the thesis is not so easy.Thoughts turn first to some sort of global statistic,some indicator which would rate the wealth of nations in both economic and environmental terms and show arelationship between the two.[F]If such an indicator exists,it is well hidden.And on reflection,this is not surprising;the single word“environment”has so many dimensions,and there are so many other factors affecting wealth—such as the oil deposits—that teasing out a simple economy-environment relationship would be almost impossible.[G]The Millennium Ecosystem Assessment,a vast four-year global study which reported its initial conclusions earlier this year,found reasons to believe that managing ecosystems sustainably—working with nature rather than against it—might be less profitable in the short term,but certainly brings long-term rewards.[H]And the World Resources Institute(WRI)in its World Resources 2005 report,issued at the end of August,produced several such examples from Africa and Asia;it also demonstrated that environmental degradation affects the poor more than the rich,as poorer people derive a much higher proportion of their income directly from the natural resources around them.[I]But there are also many examples of growing wealth by trashing the environment,in rich and poor parts of the world alike,whether through unregulated mineral extraction,drastic water use for agriculture,slash-and-burn farming,or fossil-fuel-guzzling(大量消耗)transport.Of course,such growth may not persist in the long term—which is whatMr.Brown and the Stockholm declaration were both attempting to point out.Perhaps the best example of boom growth and bust decline is the Grand Banks fishery.For almost five centuries a very large supply of cod(鳕鱼)provided abundant raw material for an industry which at its peak employed about 40,000 people,sustaining entire communities in Newfoundland.Then,abruptly,the cod population collapsed.There were no longer enough fish in the sea for the stock to maintain itself,let alone an industry.More than a decade later,there was no sign of the ecosystem re-building itself.It had,apparently,been fished out of existence;and the once mighty Newfoundland fleet now gropes about frantically for crab on the sea floor.[J]There is a view that modern humans are inevitably sowing the seed of a global Grand Banks-style disaster.The idea is that we are taking more out of what you might call the planet’s environmental bank balance than it can sustain;we are living beyond our ecological means.One recent study attempted to calculate the extent of this“ecological overshoot of the human economy”,and found that we are using 1.2 Earth’s-worth of environmental goods and services—the implication being that at some point the debt will be called in,and all those services—the things which the planet does for us for free—will grind to a halt.[K]Whether this is right,and if so where and when the ecological axe will fall,is hard to determine with any precision—which is why governments and financial institutions are only beginning to bring such risks into their economic calculations.It is also the reasonwhy development agencies are not united in their view of environmental issues;while some,like the WRI,maintain that environmental progress needs to go hand-in-hand with economic development,others argue that the priority is to build a thriving economy,and then use the wealth created to tackle environmental degradation.[L]This view assumes that rich societies will invest in environmental care.But is this right?Do things get better or worse as we get richer? Here the Stockholm declaration is ambiguous.“In the developing countries,”it says,“most of the environmental problems are caused by under-development.”So it is saying that economic development should make for a cleaner world?Not necessarily;“In the industralised countries,environmental problems are generally related to industrialisation and technological development,”it continues.In other words,poor and rich both over-exploit the natural world,but for different reasons.It’s simply not true that economic growth will surely make our world cleaner.[M]Clearly,richer societies are able to provide environmental improvements which lie well beyond the reach of poorer communities.Citizens of wealthy nations demand national parks,clean rivers,clean air and poison-free food.They also,however,use far more natural resources-fuel,water(all those baths and golf courses)and building materials.[N]A case can be made that rich nations export environmental problems,the most graphic example being climate change.As a country’s wealth grows,so do its greenhouse gas emissions.The figures available will not be completely accurate.Measuring emissions isnot a precise science, particularly when it comes to issues surrounding land use;not all nations have re-leased up-to-date data,and in any case,emissions from some sectors such as aviation are not included in national statistics.But the data is exact enough for a clear trend to be easily discernible.As countries become richer,they produce more greenhouse gases;and the impact of those gases will fall primarily in poor parts of the world.[O]Wealth is not,of course,the only factor involved.The average Norwegian is better off than the average US citizen,but contributes about half as much to climate change.But could Norway keep its standard of living and yet cut its emissions to Moroccan or even Ethiopian levels?That question,repeated across a dozen environmental issues and across our diverse planet,is what will ultimately determine whether the human race is living beyond its ecological means as it pursues economic revival.36.Examples show that both rich and poor countries exploited the environment for economic progress.37.Environmental protection and improvement benefit people all over the world.38.It is not necessarily true that economic growth will make our world cleaner.39.The common theme of the UN reports is the relation between environmental protectionand economic growth.40.Development agencies disagree regarding how to tackle environment issues while ensuring economic progress.41.It is difficult to find solid evidence to prove environmental friendliness generates more profits than exploiting the natural environment.42.Sustainable management of ecosystems will prove rewarding in the long run.43.A politician noted for being cautious asserts that sustainable human development depends on the natural environment.44.Poor countries will have to bear the cost for rich nations’ economic development.45.One recent study warns us of the danger of the exhaustion of natural resources on Earth.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 markedA),B),C)and D).You should decide on the best choice and mark the corresponding letter on Answer Sheet 2 with a single line through the centre.Passage OneQuestions 46 to 50 are based on the following passage.Interactive television advertising, which allows viewers to use their remote controls to click on advertisements, has been pushed for years. Nearly a decade ago it was predicted that viewers of “Friends”, a popular situation comedy, would soon be able to purchase a sweater like Jennifer Aniston’s with a few taps on their remote control.“It’s been the year of interactive television advertising for the last ten or twel ve years,”says Colin Dixon of a digital-media consultancy.So the news that Cablevision, and American cable company, was rolling out interactive advertisements to all its customers on October 6th was greeted with some skepticism. During commercials, an overlay will appear at the bottom of the screen, prompting viewers to press a button to request a free sample or order a catalogue. Cablevision hopes to allow customers to buy things with their remote controls early next year.Television advertising could do with a boost. Spending fell by 10% in the first half of the year. The popularization of digital video recorders has caused advertisers to worry thattheir commercials will be skipped. Some are turning to the Internet, which is cheaper and offers concrete measurements like click-through rates—especially important at a time when marketing budgets are tight. With the launch of interactive advertising,“many of the dollars that went to the Internet will come back to the TV,”says David Kline of Cablevision. Or so the industry hopes.In theory, interactive advertising can engage viewers in a way that 30-second spots do not. Unilever recently ran an interactive campaign for its Axe deodorant(除臭剂)，which kept viewers engaged for more than three minutes on average.The amount spent on interactive advertising on television is still small. Magna, an advertising agency, reckons it will be worth about $138 million this year. That falls far short of the billions of dollars people once expected it to generate. But DirecTV, Comcast and Time Warner Cable have all invested in it. A new effort led by Canoe Ventures, a coalition of leading cable providers, aims to make interactive advertising available across America later this year. BrightLine iTV, Which designs and sells interactive ads, says interest has surged: it expects its revenues almost to triple this year. BSkyB, Britain’s biggest satellite-television service, already provides 9 million customers with interactive ads.Yet there are doubts whether people watching telev ision, a“lean back”medium, crave interaction. Click-through rates have been high so far(around 3-4%, compared with less than 0.3% online), but that may be a result of the novelty. Interactive ads and viewersmight not go well together.46.What does Colin Dixon mean by saying“It’s been the year of interactive television advertising for the last ten or twelve years”(Lines 4-5, Para.1)?A)Interactive television advertising will become popular in 10-12 years.B)Interactive television advertising has been under debate for the last decade or so.C)Interactive television advertising is successful when incorporated into situation comedies.D)Interactive television advertising has not achieved the anticipated results.47.What is the public’s response to Cablevision’s planned interactive TV advertising program?A)Pretty positive.B)Totally indifferent.C)Somewhat doubtful.D)Rather critical.48.What is the impact of the wide use of digital video recorders on TV advertising?A)It has made TV advertising easily accessible to viewers.B)It helps advertisers to measure the click-through rates.C)It has placed TV advertising at a great disadvantage.D)It enables viewers to check the sales items with ease.49.What do we learn about Unilever’s interactive c ampaign?A)It proves the advantage of TV advertising.B)It has done well in engaging the viewers.C)It helps attract investments in the company.D)it has boosted the TV advertising industry.50.How does the author view the hitherto high click-through rates?A)They may be due to the novel way of advertising.B)They signify the popularity of interactive advertising.C)They point to the growing curiosity ofTV viewers.D)They indicate the future direction of media reform.Passage TwoQuestions 51 to 55 are based on the following passage.What can be done about mass unemployment? All the wise heads agree: there’re no quick or easy answers. There’s work to be done, but workers aren’t ready to do it—they’re in the wrong places, or they have the wrong sk ills, Our problems are“structural,”and will take many years to solve.But don’t bother asking for evidence that justifies this bleak view. There isn’t any. On the contrary, all the facts suggest that high unemployment in America is the result ofinadequat e demand. saying that there’re no easy answers sounds wise. But it’s actually foolish: our unemployment crisis could be cured very quickly if we had the intellectual clarity and political will to act. In other words, structural unemployment is a fake problem, which mainly serves as an excuse for not pursing real solutions.The fact is job openings have plunged in every major sector, while the number of workers forced into part-time employment in almost all industries has soared. Unemployment has surged in every major occupational category. Only three states. With a combined population not much larger than that of Brooklyn, have unemployment rates below 5%. So the evidence contradicts the claim that we’re mainly suffering from structural unemployment. Why, then, has this claim become so popular?Part of the answer is that this is what always happens during periods of high unemployment—in part because experts and analysts believe that declaring the problem deeply rooted, with no easy answers, makes them sound serious.I’ve been looking at what self-proclaimed experts were saying about unemployment during the Great Depression; it was almost identical to what Very Serious People are saying now. Unemployment cannot be brought down rapidly, declared one 1935 analysis, because the workforce is“unadaptable and untrained. It cannot respond to the opportunities which industry may offer.”A few years later, a large defense buildup finally provided a fiscal stimulus adequate to the economy’s needs—and suddenly industry waseager to employ those“unadaptable and untrained”workers.But now, as then, powerful forces are ideologically opposed to the whole idea of government action on a sufficient scale to jump-start the economy. And that, fundamentally, is why claims that we face huge structural problems have been multiplying: they offer a reason to do nothing about the mass unemployment that is crippling out economy and our society.So what you need to know is that there’s no evidence whatsoever to back these claims. We aren’t suffering from a shortage of needed skills, We’re suffering from a lack of policy resolve. As I said, structural unemployment isn’t a real problem, it’s an excuse—a reason not to act on America’s problems at a time when action is desperately needed.51.What does the author think is the root cause of mass unemployment in America?A)Corporate mismanagement.B)Insufficient demand.C)Technological advances.D)Workers’ slow adaptation.52.What does the author think of the experts’ claim concerning unemployment?A)Self-evident.B)Thought-provoking.C)Irrational.D)Groundless.53.What does the author say helped bring down unemployment during the Great Depression?A)The booming defense industry.B)The wise heads’ benefit package.C)Nationwide training of workers.D)Thorough restructuring of industries.54.What has caused claims of huge structural problems to multiply?A)Powerful opposition to government’s stimulus efforts.B)Very Serious People’s attempt to cripple the economy.C)Evidence gathered from many sectors of the industries.D)Economists’ failure to detect the problems in time.55.What is the author’s purpose in writing the passage?A)To testify to the experts’ analysis of America’s problems.B)To offer a feasible solution to the structural unemployment.C)To show the urgent need for the government to take action.D)To alert American workers to the urgency for adaptation.Part IV Translation (30minutes)Directions: For this part, you are allowed 30 minutes to translate a passage fromChinese into English. You should write your answer on Answer Sheet 2.中国的创新正以前所未有的速度蓬勃发展。

2016年2017 年英语六级真题及答案

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。

Part ⅡListening Comprehension (30 minutes)Section A注意：此部分试题请在答题卡1 上作答。

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。

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年英语六级真题及答案(共六套)

2017年英语六级真题及答案（共六套）2017年6月英语六级真题及答案(第一套)Part I Writing(30minutes)Directions:Suppose you are asked to give advice on whether to major in science or humanities at college,write an essay to state your opinion.You are required to write at least150words but no more than200words.Part II Listening Comprehension(30minutes)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 Sheet1with a single line through the centre.Questions1to4are based on the conversation you have just heard.1.A)Doing enjoyable work.B)Having friendly colleagues.C)Earning a competitive salary.D)Working for supportive bosses.2.A)31%.B)20%.C)25%.D)73%.3.A)Those of a small size.B)Those run by women.C)Those that are well managed.D)Those full of skilled workers.4.A)They can hop from job to job easily.B)They can win recognition of their work.C)They can better balance work and life.D)They can take on more than one job.Questions5to8are based on the conversation you have just heard.5.A)It is a book of European history.B)It is an introduction to music.C)It is about the city of Bruges.D)It is a collection of photos.6.A)When painting the concert hall of Bruges.B)When vacationing in an Italian coastal city.C)When taking pictures for a concert catalogue.D)When writing about Belgium's coastal regions.7.A)The entire European coastline will be submerged.B)The rich heritage of Europe will be lost completely.C)The seawater of Europe will be seriously polluted.D)The major European scenic spots will disappear.8.A)Its waterways are being increasingly polluted.B)People cannot get around without using boats.C)It attracts large numbers of tourists from home and abroad.D)Tourists use wooden paths to reach their hotels in the morning.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 Sheet1with a single line through the centre.Questions9to12are based on the passage you have just heard.9.A)They make careful preparation beforehand.B)They take too many irrelevant factors into account.C)They spend too much time anticipating their defeat.D)They try hard to avoid getting off on the wrong foot.10.A)A person's nervous system is more complicated than imagined.B)Golfers usually have positive mental images of themselves.C)Mental images often interfere with athletes'performance.D)Thinking has the same effect on the nervous system as doing.11.A)Anticipate possible problems.B)Make a list of do's and don'ts.C)Picture themselves succeeding.D)Try to appear more professional.12.A)She wore a designer dress.B)She won her first jury trial.C)She did not speak loud enough.D)She presented moving pictures.Questions13to15are based on the passage you have just heard.13.A)Its long-term effects are yet to be proved.B)Its health benefits have been overestimated.C)It helps people to avoid developing breast cancer.D)It enables patients with diabetes to recover sooner.14.A)It focused on their ways of life during young adulthood.B)It tracked their change in food preferences for20years.C)It focused on their difference from men in fiber intake.D)It tracked their eating habits since their adolescence.15.A)Fiber may help to reduce hormones in the body.B)Fiber may bring more benefits to women than men.C)Fiber may improve the function of heart muscles.D)Fiber may make blood circulation more smooth.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 Sheet1with a single line through the centre.Questions16to18are based on the recording you have just heard.16)A.Observing the changes in marketing.B)Conducting research on consumer behavior.C)Studying the hazards of young people drinking.D)Investigating the impact of media on government.17.A)It is the cause of many street riots.B)It is a chief concern of parents.C)It is getting worse year by year.D)It is an act of socialising.18.A)They spent a week studying their own purchasing behavior.B)They researched the impact of mobile phones on young people.C)They analysed their family budgets over the years.D)They conducted a thorough research on advertising.Questions19to22are based on the recording you have just heard.19.A)It is helping its banks to improve efficiency.B)It is trying hard to do away with dirty money.C)It is the first country to use credit cards in the world.D)It is likely to give up paper money in the near future.20.A)Whether it is possible to travel without carrying any physical currency.B)Whether it is possible to predict how much money one is going to spend.C)Whether the absence of physical currency causes a person to spend more.D)Whether the absence of physical currency is going to affect everyday life.21.A)There was no food service on the train.B)The service on the train was not good.C)The restaurant car accepted cash only.D)The cash in her handbag was missing.22.A)By putting money into envelopes.B)By drawing money week by week.C)By limiting their day-to-day spending.D)By refusing to buy anything on credit.Questions23to25are based on the recording you have just heard.23.A)Population explosion.B)Chronic hunger.C)Extinction of rare species.D)Environmental deterioration.24.A)They contribute to overpopulation.B)About half of them are unintended.C)They have been brought under control.D)The majority of them tend to end halfway.25.A)It is essential to the wellbeing of all species on earth.B)It is becoming a subject of interdisciplinary research.C)It is neglected in many of the developing countries.D)It is beginning to attract postgraduates'attention.Part III Reading Comprehension(40minutes) 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 sheet2with a single line through the centre.You may not use any of the words in the bank more than once.After becoming president of Purdue University in2013,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 had made 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 percentage of Americans who say a college degree is"very important" has fallen__28__in the last5-6years.Purdue now has a pilot test to assess students'critical thinking skills.Yet like many college teachers around 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 professors need 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 begun to demonstrate what they can produce in real-world learning.Knowledge-based degrees are still important,butemployers are__34__advanced thinking skills from college graduates.If the intellectual worth of a college degree can be__35__measured,more people will seek higher education—and come out better thinkers.A)accuratelyB)confirmC)demandingD)doubtfulE)drasticallyF)justifyG)monopolizedH)outcome I)predominance J)presuming K)reputation L)significant M)signifyN)simultaneously O)standardizedSection BDirections:In this section,you are going to read a passage with ten statements attached to it.Each statement contains information given in one of the paragraphs.Identify the paragraph from which the information is derived. You may choose a paragraph more than once.Each paragraph is marked with a letter.Answer the questions by marking the corresponding letter on Answer sheet2.The Price of Oil and the Price of CarbonA)Fossil fuel prices are likely to stay"low for long".Notwithstanding important recent progress in developing renewable fuel sources,low fossil fuel prices could discourage further innovation in,and adoption of,cleaner energy technologies.The result would be higher emissions of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases.B)Policymakers should not allow low energy prices to derail the clean energy transition.Action to restore appropriate price incentives,notably through corrective carbon pricing,is urgently needed to lower the risk of irreversible and potentially devastating effects of climate change.That approach also offers fiscal benefits.C)Oil prices have dropped by over60%since June2014.A commonly held view in the oil industry is that"the best cure for low oil prices is low oil prices".The reasoning behind this saying is that low oil prices discourage investment in new production capacity,eventually shifting the oil supply curve backward and bringing prices back up as existing oil fields—which can be tapped at relatively low marginal cost—are depleted.In fact,in line with past experience,capital expenditure in the oil sector has dropped sharply in many producing countries,including the United States.The dynamic adjustment to low oil prices may,however,be different this time around.D)Oil prices are expected to remain lower for longer.The advent of new technologies has added about4.2million barrels per day to the crude oil market,contributing to a global over-supply.In addition,other factors are putting downward pressure on oil prices:change in the strategic behavior of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries,the projected increase in Iranian exports,the scaling-down of global demand(especially from emergingmarkets),the long-term drop in petroleum consumption in the United States,and some displacement of oil by substitutes.These likely persistent forces,like the growth of shale(页岩)oil,point to a"low for long"scenario. Futures markets,which show only a modest recovery of prices to around$60a barrel by2019,support this view.E)Natural gas and coal—also fossil fuels—have similarly seen price declines that look to be long-lived.Coal and natural gas are mainly used for electricity generation,whereas oil is used mostly to power transportation,yet the prices of all these energy sources are linked.The North American shale gas boom has resulted in record low prices there.The recent discovery of the giant Zohr gas field off the Egyptian coast will eventually have impact on pricing in the Mediterranean region and Europe,and there is significant development potential in many other places,notably Argentina.Coal prices also are low,owing to over-supply and the scaling-down of demand, especially from China,which bums half of the world's coal.F)Technological innovations have unleashed the power of renewables such as wind,hydro,solar,and geothermal (地热).Even Africa and the Middle East,home to economies that are heavily dependent on fossil fuel exports, have enormous potential to develop renewables.For example,the United Arab Emirates has endorsed an ambitious target to draw24%of its primary energy consumption from renewable sources by2021.G)Progress in the development of renewables could be fragile,however,if fossil fuel prices remain low for long. Renewables account for only a small share of global primary energy consumption,which is still dominated by fossil fuels—30%each for coal and oil,25%for natural gas.But renewable energy will have to displace fossil fuels to a much greater extent in the future to avoid unacceptable climate risks.H)Unfortunately,the current low prices for oil,gas,and coal may provide little incentive for research to find even cheaper substitutes for those fuels.There is strong evidence that both innovation and adoption of cleaner technology are strongly encouraged by higher fossil fuel prices.The same is true for new technologies for alleviating fossil fuel emissions.I)The current low fossil fuel price environment will thus certainly delay the energy transition from fossil fuel to clean energy sources.Unless renewables become cheap enough that substantial carbon deposits are left underground for a very long time,if not forever,the planet will likely be exposed to potentially catastrophic climate risks.J)Some climate impacts may already be discernible.For example,the United Nations Children's Fund estimates that some11million children in Africa face hunger,disease,and water shortages as a result of the strongest El Nino(厄尔尼诺)weather phenomenon in decades.Many scientists believe that El Nino events,caused by warming in the Pacific,are becoming more intense as a result of climate change.K)Nations from around the world have gathered in Paris for the United Nations Climate Change Conference, COP21,with the goal of a universal and potentially legally-binding agreement on reducing greenhouse gasemissions.We need very broad participation to fully address the global tragedy that results when countries fail to take into account the negative impact of their carbon emissions on the rest of the world.Moreover, non-participation by nations,if sufficiently widespread,can undermine the political will of participating countries to act.L)The nations participating at COP21are focusing on quantitative emissions-reduction commitments.Economic reasoning shows that the least expensive way for each country is to put a price on carbon emissions.The reason is that when carbon is priced,those emissions reductions that are least costly to implement will happen first.The International Monetary Fund calculates that countries can generate substantial fiscal revenues by eliminating fossil fuel subsidies and levying carbon charges that capture the domestic damage caused by emissions.A tax on upstream carbon sources is one easy way to put a price on carbon emissions,although some countries may wish to use other methods,such as emissions trading schemes.In order to maximize global welfare,every country's carbon pricing should reflect not only the purely domestic damage from emissions,but also the damage to foreign countries.M)Setting the right carbon price will therefore efficiently align the costs paid by carbon users with the true social opportunity cost of using carbon.By raising relative demand for clean energy sources,a carbon price would also help align the market return to clean-energy innovation with its social return,spurring the refinement of existing technologies and the development of new ones.And it would raise the demand for technologies such as carbon capture and storage,spurring their further development.If not corrected by the appropriate carbon price,low fossil fuel prices are not accurately signaling to markets the true social profitability of clean energy.While alternative estimates of the damage from carbon emissions differ,and it's especially hard to reckon the likely costs of possible catastrophic climate events,most estimates suggest substantial negative effects.N)Direct subsidies to research and development have been adopted by some governments but are a poor substitute for a carbon price:they do only part of the job,leaving in place market incentives to over-use fossil fuels and thereby add to the stock of atmospheric greenhouse gases without regard to the collateral(附带的)costs.O)The hope is that the success of COP21opens the door to future international agreement on carbon prices. Agreement on an international carbon-price floor would be a good starting point in that process.Failure to address comprehensively the problem of greenhouse gas emissions,however,exposes all generations,present and future, to incalculable risks.36.A number of factors are driving down the global oil prices not just for now but in the foreseeable future.37.Pricing carbon proves the most economical way to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.38.It is estimated that extreme weather conditions have endangered the lives of millions of African children.39.The prices of coal are low as a result of over-supply and decreasing demand.40.Higher fossil fuel prices prove to be conducive to innovation and application of cleaner technology.41.If fossil fuel prices remain low for a long time,it may lead to higher emissions of greenhouse gases.42.Fossil fuels remain the major source of primary energy consumption in today's world.43.Even major fossil exporting countries have great potential to develop renewable energies.44.Greenhouse gas emissions,if not properly dealt with,will pose endless risks for mankind.45.It is urgent for governments to increase the cost of using fossil fuels to an appropriate level to lessen the catastrophic effects of climate change.Section CDirections:There are2passages in this section.Each passage is followed by some questions or unfinished statements.For each of them there are four choices marked A),B),C)and D).You should decide on the best choice and mark the corresponding letter on Answer Sheet2with a single line through the centre.Passage OneQuestions46to50are based on the following passage.Open data sharers are still in the minority in many fields.Although many researchers broadly agree that public access to raw data would accelerate science,most are reluctant to post the results of their own labors online.Some communities have agreed to share online—geneticists,for example,post DNA sequences at the GenBank repository(库),and astronomers are accustomed to accessing images of galaxies and stars from,say, the Sloan Digital Sky Survey,a telescope that has observed some500million 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 there is no agreed way to assign credit for data.But the barriers are disappearing,in part because journals and funding agencies worldwide are encouraging scientists to make their data st year,the Royal Society in London said in its report that scientists need to "shift away from a research culture where data is viewed as a private 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 them.Although calls to share data often concentrate on the moral advantages of sharing,the practice is not purely altruistic(利他的).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 downloaded5,700times.Co-author Amy Zanne 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'd 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."Even people whose data are less popular can benefit.By making the effort to organize and label files so others can understand them,scientists become more organized and better disciplined themselves,thus avoiding confusion later on.46.What do many researchers generally accept?A)It is imperative to protect scientists'patents.B)Repositories are essential to scientific research.C)Open data sharing is most important to medical science.D)Open data sharing is conducive to scientific advancement.47.What is the attitude of most researchers towards making their own data public?A)Opposed.B)Ambiguous.C)Liberal.D)Neutral.48.According to the passage,what might hinder open data sharing?A)The fear of massive copying.B)The lack of a research culture.C)The belief that research data is private intellectual property.D)The concern that certain agencies may make a profit out of it.49.What helps lift some of the barriers to open data sharing?A)The ever-growing demand for big data.B)The advancement of digital technology.C)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 sharers and users alikeC)makes researchers successfulD)saves both money and laborPassage TwoQuestions51to55are based on the following passage.Macy's reported its sales plunged5.2%in November and December at stores open more than a year,a disappointing holiday season performance that capped a difficult year for a department store chain facing wide-ranging challenges.Its flagship stores in major U.S.cities depend heavily on international tourist spending, which shrank at many retailers due to a strong dollar.Meanwhile,Macy's has simply struggled to lure consumers who are more interested in spending on travel or dining out than on new clothes or accessories.The company blamed much of the poor performance in November and December on unseasonably warm weather."About80%of our company's year-over-year declines in comparable sales can be attributed to shortfalls (短缺)in cold-weather goods,"said chief executive Teny Lundgren in a press release.This prompted the company to cut its forecasts for the full fourth quarter.However,it's clear that Macy's believes its troubles run deeper than a temporary aberration(偏离)off the thermometer.The retail giant said the poor financial performance this year has pushed it to begin implementing $400million in cost-cutting measures.The company pledged to cut600back-office positions,though some150 workers in those roles would be reassigned to other jobs.It also plans to offer"voluntary separation"packages to 165senior executives.It will slash staffing at its fleet of770stores,a move affecting some3,000employees.The retailer also announced the locations of36stores it will close in early2016.The company had previously announced the planned closures,but had not said which locations would be affected.None of the chain's stores in the Washington metropolitan area are to be closed.Macy's has been moving aggressively to try to remake itself for a new era of shopping.It has plans to open more locations of Macy's Backstage,a newly-developed off-price concept which might help it better compete with ambitious T.J.Maxx.It's also pushing ahead in2016with an expansion of Bluemercury,the beauty chain it bought last year.At a time when young beauty shoppers are often turning to Sephora or Ulta instead of department store beauty counters,Macy's hopes Bluemercury will help strengthen its position in the category.One relative bright spot for Macy's during the holiday season was the online channel,where it rang up "double-digit"increases in sales and a25%increase in the number of orders it filled.That relative strength would be consistent with what was seen in the wilder retail industry during the early part of the holiday season.While Thanksgiving,Black Friday and Cyber Monday all saw record spending online,in-store sales plunged over the holiday weekend.51.What does the author say about the shrinking spending of international tourists in the U.S.?A)It is attributable to the rising value of the U.S.dollar.B)It is a direct result of the global economic recession.C)It reflects a shift of their interest in consumer goods.D)It poses a potential threat to the retail business in the U.S.52.What does Macy's believe about its problems?A)They can be solved with better management.B)They cannot be attributed to weather only.C)They are not as serious in its online stores.D)They call for increased investments.53.In order to cut costs,Macy's decided to________.A)cut the salary of senior executivesB)relocate some of its chain storesC)adjust its promotion strategiesD)reduce the size of its staff54.Why does Macy's plan to expand Bluemercury in2016?A)To experiment on its new business concept.B)To focus more on beauty products than clothing.C)To promote sales of its products by lowering prices.D)To be more competitive in sales of beauty products.55.What can we learn about Macy's during the holiday season?A)Sales dropped sharply in its physical stores.B)Its retail sales exceeded those of T.J.Maxx.C)It helped Bluemercury establish its position worldwide.D)It filled its stores with abundant supply of merchandise.Part IV Translation(30minutes)Directions:For this part,you are allowed30minutes to translate a passage from Chinese into English.You should write your answer on Answer Sheet2.明朝统治中国276年，被人们描绘成人类历史上治理有序、社会稳定的最伟大的时代之一。

2017年6月大学英语六级真题试卷与答案

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 least150 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.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 aletter. 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: 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. Some believe that it is a better choice to dig into the humanities, but others consider it better to acquire knowledge in science.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 dig into the humanities,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 make him/her more humanism rather than more scientism, which will make him/her a wiserperson.From my perspective, it is crucial that modern education should encourage people to be wise meditators rather than mad scientists. Also it is crucial that people should understand the meaning and value of humanities. Only in this way can we achieve greater success.作文（三）职业学校还是大学？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.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。

打印版2017年6月大学英语六级真题+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 each blank from a list of choices given in a word bank following the passage. Read the passagethrough carefully before making your choices. Each choice in the bank is identified by a letter.Please mark the corresponding letter for each item on Answer Sheet 2 with a single linethrough the centre. You may not use any of the words in the bank more than once.Questions 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 Psychologyby 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 findjust 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 grocery list. At any 35 , there’s still such a thing as too much information.Section BDirections: In this section, you are going to read a passage with ten statements attached to it. Each statement contains information given in one of the paragraphs. Identify the paragraph fromwhich the information is derived. You may choose a paragraph more than once.Eachparagraph is marked with a letter. Answer the questions by marking the 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 programs, 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 experien ces 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 offici als deliberate the specifics of an outsourcing plan.“The state’s facilities management project team is still in the process of developing its businessjustification and expects to have that completed and available to the public at the end of February,” Ma rtin 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 an understanding 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 impatiently 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 cabinets 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 G rand Tourist. Panini’s Ancient Rome and Modem Rome represent the sights most prized, including celebrated Greco-Romanstatues 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 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。

2016年6月大学英语六级考试真题及答案解析(共三套完整版)

2016年6月英语六级考试真题完整版第一版（E-learning）For thispart, you are allowed 30 minutes to write a shortessay on E-learning, try toimagine what will happen when more andmore people study on-line instead ofgoing to school. You shouldwrite at least 150 words but no more than 200words.第一段: 写出现状.第二段: 分析在线学习未来的图景并简单解释原因第三段: 分析未来及自己的应对之策Currently, an increasing numberofpeople begin to use Internet to take courses and acquire knowledge.Onlinelearning is booming all around the world. It is providingmany options withlearners in terms of time, locations, subjects andcosts.Online learning greatlypromoteslearners’ studying efficiency and teachers’ productivity.As a result, updatedknowledge will reach those students in isolatedareas at a higher speed, whichcan make many of them keep pace withthe time. Additionally, students candecide their learning locationand time much more freely. Notably, because transportationandaccommodation will not trouble E-learners, learning cost will belargelylowered. These advantages might decrease the number ofpeople who routinelyattend schoollearning.From my point of view, personalinteractionbetween teachers and students in schools isirreplaceable. It is a good ideathat we combine E-learning andattending school together. Learning is not asimple multiple-choicequestion but an important issue that needs your tryingandinvolvement.第二版（机器人）For this part,you are allowed 30 minutes to write a shortessay on the use of robots. Try toimagine what will happen whenrobots take the place of human beings in industryas well aspeople’s daily lives. You are required to write at least 150wordsbut no more than 200 words.第一段:引出文章话题.说明技术的发展对人类生活的改变.第二段:针对此现象作出观点的阐述第三段:得出结论.It is held bysome people that knowledge is power,especially scientific and technologicalknowledge. Science andtechnology are the motive power of the socialdevelopment, whichconstitute a primary productive force. The use of robots istheproduce of development of science and technology.People’s viewson the use of robots vary from person toperson. Some hold that human life cannotcontinue without the use ofrobots. For many years, human society has developedwith the use ofscience and technology. So the lifewith the use of robots we areliving now is more efficient than thatof our fore fathers. They go on to pointout that the use of robotshas brought about many changes in people's life. Forexample,through the use of robots can improve the work efficiency andavoiddangerous events happening in our life in that we can requirerobots to do someworks with danger instead of humanbeings.Science andtechnology of robots are the crystallization ofhuman wisdom. It brought aglorious past to humanity, also willbring bright future to mankind.For this part,you are allowed 30 minutes to write a shortessay on living in the virtualworld. Try to imagine what willhappen when people spend more and more time inthe virtual worldinstead of interacting in the real world. You are required towriteat least 150 words but no more than 200 words.第三版（虚拟世界）第一段:说明科技发展对人类生活的改变,引出话题.说明,我们交流方式的变化.第二段:人们虚拟世界的交流给我们带来的影响.第三段:得出结论.We have to admit that the impactoftechnology on society is unquestionable. Whetherconsidering the TV or thecomputers, technology has had a hugeimpact on society. While not every advancehas been beneficial,there have been many positive effects of technology. Theinternet isone typical example.With the development of science andtechnology, the worldis no longer what it used to be. But the ability ofcommunication isa significant skill which should be cultivated if we want tosurviveand succeed in the world. But the way of communication with peoplehaschanged dramatically. Almost everyone today has a computer, anduses it tocommunicate with their friends, family, and evenbusiness. The virtual worldcommunication has changed the way thatpeople communicate.Since communication between peoplein the real world is of utmost importance, lack of communicationwilllead to perish of human beings. Through communication in thereal world, mutualunderstanding can be promoted and fosteredbetween people, which cannot bereplaced by the virtualcommunication.六级翻译第一套旗袍(qipao)是一种雅致的中国服装,源于中国的满族(Manchu Nationality)。

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2016年6月英语六级参考答案（卷一）2016年6月英语六级真题（卷一）听力答案Section A1 D)Market research consultant2 A) Quantitative advertising research3 D) They study trends or customer satisfaction over a longperiod。

4 B) Checking charts and tables。

5 A) His view on Canadian universities。

6 B) It is rather inflexible。

7 C) Everybody should be given equal access to highereducation。

8 C) It is hard to say which is better，a public university ora private university。

Section B9 B) The worsening real wage situation around the world。

10 A) They will feel less pressure to raise employees’ wages.11 C) Employees work shorter hours to avoid layoffs。

12 A) Whether memory supplements work。

13 D) They are not on based on real science。

14 D) They are prescribed by trained practitioners。

15.B) Taking them with other medications might entail unnecessary risks。

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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。

2016年-2017年大学英语6级考试真题及答案

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。

2017年6月大学英语六级考试真题及答案解析(共三套)

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 question， 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。

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