Section A
Conversation One
M: So, what's the next thing on the agenda, Mary?
W: Well, it's the South Theater Company. They want to know if we'd be intere sted insponsoring a tour they want to make to East Asia.
M: East Asia? Uh... and how much are they hoping to get from us?
W: Well, the letter mentions 20,000 pounds, but I don't know if they might s ettle for less.
M: Do they say what they would cover? Have they anything specific in mind? W: No, I think they are just asking all the firms in town for as much money as they think they'llgive.
M: And we are worth 20,000 pounds, right?
W: It seems so.
M: Very flattering. But I am not awfully happy with the idea. What do we get out of it?
W: Oh, good publicity I suppose. So what I suggest is not that we just give t hem a sum ofmoney, but that we offer to pay for something specific like trav el or something, and that inreturn, we ask for our name to be printed promin ently in the program, and that they give usfree advertising space in it.
M: But the travel bill would be enormous, and we could never manage that. W: I know. But why don't we offer to pay for the printing of the programs our selves oncondition that on the front cover there's something like "This progra m is presented with thecompliments of Norland Electronics", and free advertis ing of course.
M: Good idea. Well, let's get back to them and ask what the program they wa nt will cost. Thenwe can see if we are interested or not.
1 What do we learn about the South Theater Company?
2 How much does the South Theater Company ask for in the letter?
3 What benefit does the woman say their firm can get by sponsoring the Sou th TheaterCompany?
4 What does the woman suggest they do instead of paying the South Theater Company'stravel expenses?
Conversation Two
W: Rock stars now face a new hazard—voice abuse. After last week's anno uncement that PhilCollins might give up touring because live concerts are rui ning his voice, doctors are counselingstars about the dos and don5ts of voice care. Here in the studio today, we have Mr. Paul Philips,an expert from the Hi ghfield Hospital. Paul, what advice would you give to singers facing voiceprobl ems?
M: If pop singers have got voice problems, they really need to be more selec tive about wherethey work. They shouldn't work in smoky atmospheres. They also need to think about restingtheir voices after a show. Something else the y need to be careful about is medicines, aspirin, forexample. Singers should a void aspirin. It thins the blood. And if a singer coughs, this canresult in the br uising of the vocal chords.
W: And is it true that some singers use drugs before concerts to boost their v oices when theyhave voice problems?
M: Yes, this does happen on occasion. They are easily-available on the Conti nent and they areuseful if a singer has problems with his vocal chords and ha s to sing that night. But if they aretaken regularly, they cause a thinning of th e voice muscle. Most pop singers suffer from threethings: lack of training, ove ruse and abuse of the voice, especially when they are young. Theyhave diffic ult lives. When they go on tour, they do a vast number of concerts, sing in s mokyplaces.
W: So, what would you advise these singers to do?
M: Warm you voice up before a show and warm it down after.
5 What does last week's announcement say about rock star，Phil Collins?
6 What does Paul Philips say about aspirin?
7 What does Paul Philips say about young pop singers?
8 What are the speakers mainly talking about?
Section B
Passage One
Would you trust a robot to park your car? The question will confront New Yor kers in Februaryas the city's first robotic parking opens in Chinatown. The tec hnology has been successfullyapplied overseas, but the only other public robo tic garage in the United States has beentroublesome, dropping vehicles and tr
apping cars because of technical problems.
Nonetheless, the developers of the Chinatown garage are confident with the technology andare counting on it to squeeze 67 cars in an apartment-buildin g basement that would otherwisefit only 24, accomplished by removing a maneuver space normally required.
A human-shaped robot won't be stepping into your car to drive it.
Rather, the garage itself does the parking. The driver stops the car on a flat p latform and getsout. The platform is lowered into the garage, and it is then transported to a vacant parkingspace by a computer-controlled device simi lar to an elevator that also runs sideways.
There is no human supervision, but an attendant will be on hand to accept cash and explainthe system to new users.
Parking rates will be attracted about $400 monthly or $25 per day, according to Ari Milstein, the director of planning for Automation Parking Systems, whic h is the U.S. subsidiary of aGerman company. This company has built autom ated garages in several countries overseas andin the United States for residen ts of a Washington, D.C. apartment building.
9 What do we learn about robotic parking in the U.S. so far?
10 advantage does robotic parking have according to its developers?
11 What does the attendant do in the automated garage?
12 What does the company say about the parking rates?
Passage Two
Alcoholism is a serious disease. Nearly nine million Americans alone suffer fro m the illness. Manyscientists disagree about what the differences are betwee n an alcohol addict and a social drinker. The difference occurs when someon e needs to drink. And this need gets in the way ofhis health or behavior. Alcohol causes a loss of judgment and alertness. After a long period, alcoho lism can deteriorate the liver, the brain and other parts of the body. The illne ss is dangerous, becauseit is involved in half of all automobile accidents. Anot her problem is that the victim often deniesbeing an alcohol addict and won't get help.
Solutions do exist. Many hospitals and centers help patients cope. Without as sistance, the victim can destroy his life. He would detach himself from the r outines of life. He may lose hisemployment, home or loved ones.
All the causes of the sickness are not discovered yet. There is no standard for a person withalcoholism. Victims range in age, race, sex and background So me groups of people are more vulnerable to the illness. People from broken h omes and North American Indians are twoexamples. People from broken hom es often lack stable lives. Indians likewise had their traditional life taken fro m them by white settlers who often encourage them to consumealcohol to prevent them from fighting back. The problem has now been passed on. Alcoholism is clearly present in society today. People have started to get help and information.With proper assistance, victims can put their lives together one day.
13 What is the problem of the victims about alcoholism according to the spea ker?
14 Why did white settlers introduce alcohol to Indians?
15 What does the speaker seem to believe about those affected by alcoholis m?
ection C
Recording One
Hi, everybody. On Tuesday, America went to the polls. And the message you sent was clear:you voted for action, not politics as usual.
You elected us to focus on your jobs, not ours. That's why I've invited leaders of both partiesto the White House next week, so we can start to build conse nsus around challenges we canonly solve together.
I also intend to bring in business, labor and civic leaders from around the co untry from outsideWashington to get their ideas and input as well.
At a time when our economy is still recovering from the Great Recession, our top priority hasto be jobs and growth. That's the focus of the plan I talked a bout throughout the campaign.
It's a plan to reward businesses that create jobs here in America, and give pe ople access to theeducation and training that those businesses are looking for. It's a plan to rebuild our infrastructure and keep us on the cutting edge of inn ovation andclean energy.
And it's a plan to reduce our deficit in a balanced and responsible way.
This is even more important because at the end of this year, we face a series of deadlines thatrequire us to make major decisions about how to pay down o ur deficit —decisions that will havea huge impact on the economy and the mi ddle class, not only now but in the future.
Last year, I worked with Democrats and Republicans to cut a trillion dollars, w orth of spending,and I intend to work with both parties to do more.
But as I said over and over again on the campaign trail, we can't just cut our way to prosperity.
If we're serious about reducing the deficit，
we have to combine spending cuts withrevenue—and that means asking the wealthiest Americans to pay a little more in taxes.
That's how we did it when Bill Clinton was President.
And that's the only way we can afford to invest in education and job training andmanufacturing—all the ingredients of a strong middle class and a strong e conomy.
Already, I've put forward a detailed plan that allows us to make these invest ments whilereducing our deficit by $4 trillion over the next decade.
16 Why are leaders of both parties invited to the White House next week?
17 What is the focus of the mentioned plan?
18 What are the major decisions about?
19 What does combining spending cuts with revenue mean?
Recording Two
Most people agree that eating healthy food is important. But sometimes maki ng good foodchoices can be tough. Now, there are apps that can help people l earn about the food they eatto improve their diets and their dining out experi ence.
OpenTable
OpenTable helps people choose restaurants when they want to go out to eat. OpenTable is afree service that shows users restaurant availability based on where and when they want todine. OpenTable users can also make restaurant reservations directly through the app orwebsite. OpenTable gives users point s when they make reservations. The points can add up todiscounts on restaur ant visits.
When users make reservations through OpenTable they get an email confirm ation. They canalso add the reservation directly to their electronic calendar. Max McCalman's Cheese and Wine
But which wines go best with which cheeses? Max McCalman's Cheese and Wi ne App can help.It provides information about hundreds of different cheeses a nd suggests wines to pair witheach. More than 3,000 possible combinations c an be found based on 600 different cheeses. Theapp includes a "Cheese 101" section that teaches the basics about choosing a cheese. MaxMcCalman's Che ese & Wine Pairing App is free for iPhone and iPad.
Epicurious
Epicurious is a free app and website to help users find recipes and become be tter cooks. Theapp has more than 30,
000 recipes and can create a shopping list based on the ingredients in a recip e. Users can search by ingredients or buy vegetables that are in season wher e they live.The app also rates recipes for popularity and other qualities. User
s also provide advice aboutmaking the recipes. Each recipe has a list of ingre dients, preparation time, instructions as wellas a photo of the finished meal. C alorific
What does 200 calories look like? It can be hard to picture. For example,
200 calories of broccoliand 200 calories of cake look very different! The app C alorific shows just that. Calorific providesimages of 200 calories worth of food. The pictures can help people on diets and those who justwant to eat healthie r. The app also provides the weights of each food pictured. The app is freefor iPad and iPhone. There is also a version that provides more information for a price.
Harvest
An app called Harvest informs users about seasonal fruits and vegetables in di fferent areas.This can be helpful in planning meals. Harvest also tells about p esticide use and organic https://www.doczj.com/doc/557757146.html,ers can learn the best ways to safely store f ood and keep it fresh longer.
20 What are the points OpenTable offers users for?
21 What do we learn about Epicurious?
22 How does Calorific help people get healthier?
Recording Three
We've had fifty years of progress since that landmark Surgeon General's rep ort back in 1964.Over these years incredible things have taken place. Our so ciety has changed—changed interms of tobacco use, in terms of its acceptan ce of smoking in public establishments, inrestaurants, in bars. So things have really changed for the better. In addition, smoking rateshave come down in the United States.
We went from 43 percent of adult smokers in the United States to 18 percent currently. Sothat's really made incredible headway, yet I have to emphasi ze the battle isn't over, the warisn't over.
Eighteen percent of American adults who are still smoking, basically 40 millio n people in our population. That being said we have to realize also that of th at whole group, we're going tohave roughly a half million people every year d ying from smoking related diseases.
So although we've made progress in a half century the reality is we still have a lot of work todo. So, you know, we increasingly see tough advertisements o n the air against smoking.
These ads are working. In particular, the CDC—the Center for Disease Contr ol and Preventioncame up with a series of advertisements from former smoke rs called TIPS.
And that really was quite effective in terms of reducing the number of smoke rs. In addition,there's various policies that need to be implemented and furth er implemented in order to makeus a tobacco-free society.
So we really have to work at the idea of using media, using those advertisem ents. We have tolook at really concentrating on the youth of America to make it more difficult to actually getcigarettes. And in addition we have to look at the idea of pricing cigarettes appropriately sothat ultimately it becomes a ha rdship to use those products.
So, let's talk a little bit about packaging those products. Other countries have much moregraphic detail of the potential dangers of smoking.
We're currently working closely; the office of the Surgeon General is working closely with theFood and Drug Administration, specifically the Center for Toba cco Products and are reanalyzingthe whole row of the idea of the warning lab els and the idea of how graphic they should be,and so there will probably be more information coming out on this in the near future.
23 What is the number of smokers in America?
24 What measures can be taken to make it harder to get cigarettes?
25 What institution does the speaker most likely come from?
2016年6月大英语六级考试真题及答案解析 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 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 questions will be spoken only once. After you hear a question, you must choose the best answer from the four choices marked A),B),C)and D). Then mark the corresponding letter on Answer Sheet 1 with a single line through the centre. Questions 1 to 4 are based on the conversation you have just heard. 1. A)Project organizer B)Public relations officer. C)Marketing manager. D)Market research consultant. 2.A)Quantitative advertising research. B)Questionnaire design. C)Research methodology. D)Interviewer training. 3.A)They are intensive studies of people’s spending habits. B)They examine relations between producers and customers. C)They look for new and effective ways to promote products. D)They study trends or customer satisfaction over a long period. 4.A)The lack of promotion opportunity. B)Checking charts and tables. C)Designing questionnaires. D)The persistent intensity. Questions 5 to 8 are based on the conversation you have just heard. 5.A)His view on Canadian universities. B)His understanding of higher education. C)His suggestions for improvements in higher education. D)His complaint about bureaucracy in American universities. 6.A)It is well designed. B)It is rather inflexible.
翻译在最后 Conversation One M: Guess what? The worst food I've ever had was in France. W: Really? That's odd. I thought the French were all good cooks. M:Yes. That's right. I suppose it's really like anywhere else, though. You know, some places are good. Some bad. But it's really all our own fault. W: What do you mean? M: Well, it was the first time I'd been to France. This was years ago when I was at school. I went there with my parents' friends, from my father's school. They'd hired a coach to take them to Switzerland. W: A school trip? M: Right. Most of them had never been abroad before. We'd crossed the English Channel at night, and we set off through France, and breakfast time arrived, and the coach driver had arranged for us to stop at this little café. Th ere we all were, tired and hungry, and then we made the great discovery. W: What was that? M: Bacon and eggs. W: Fantastic! The real English breakfast. M: Yes. Anyway, we didn't know any better— so we had it, and ugh...! W: What was it like? Disgusting? M: Oh, it was incredible! They just got a bowl and put some fat in it. And then they put some bacon in the fat, broke an egg over the top and put the whole lot in the oven for about ten minutes. W: In the oven! You're joking. You can't cook bacon and eggs in the oven! M:Well. They must have done it that way. It was hot, but it wasn't cooked. There was just this egg floating about in gallons of fat and raw bacon. W: Did you actually eat it? M: No! Nobody did. They all wanted to turn round and go home. You know, back to teabags and fish and chips. You can't blame them really. Anyway, the next night we were all given another foreign speciality. W: What was that? M: Snails. That really finished them off. Lovely holiday that was! Questions 1 to 4 are based on the conversation you have just heard. Question 1. What did the woman think of the French? Question 2. Who did the man travel with on his first trip to Switzerland? Question 3. What does the man say about the breakfast at the little French café?
2016年6月英语六级真题第一套 Part I Writing (30 minutes) Directions：For this part, you are allowed 30 minutes to write a short essay on the use of robots. Try to imagine what will happen when more and more robots take the place of human beings in industry as well as people's daily lives. You are requried to write at least 150 words but no more than 200 words. 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 questions will be spoken only once. After you hear a question, you must choose the best answer from the four choices marked A),B),C)and D). Then mark the corresponding letter on Answer Sheet 1 with a single line through the centre. Questions 1 to 4 are based on the conversation you have just heard. 1. A)Project organizer B)Public relations officer. C)Marketing manager. D)Market research consultant. 2.A)Quantitative advertising research. B)Questionnaire design. C)Research methodology. D)Interviewer training. 3.A)They are intensive studies of people’s spending habits. B)They examine relations between producers and customers. C)They look for new and effective ways to promote products. D)They study trends or customer satisfaction over a long period.
2016年6月英语六级完整参考答案 写作范文： 题目1 ：Try to imagine what will happen when more and more robots take the place of human beings in industry as well as people’s daily lives。 沈阳新东方魏靖人老师范文： Nowadays，when it comes to the issues of robots，individuals’opinions vary from person to person。Some people believe that robots will enlighten our life，while other are worried about that they will ruin the whole world。As I see，the increasing number of robots has the power to alter everything in the coming future entirely。[开篇点题，陈述观点] First and foremost，it can be imagined and predicted that people’life will be absolutely and definitely easier for the future generation with the growing number of computer machines。There is no need for people to endeavor to finish those complicated working stuff，which will be replaced by only a few computer progress。All of them can be completed by these smart robots quickly and perfectly。In addition，people will
2016年12月六级阅读真题答案详解（第一套） 新东方在线 阅读部分解析 选词填空 26.G hypotheses 假设 填名词，根据后面两个名词可知，这里一定填复数名词，即“好的科学基于假设、实验和方法论。”27. C convincing 令人信服的 填形容词，“好的科学需要令人信服的理解、明确的解释和清晰的展示” 填形容词，意思与后文clear，consise为同义词。“好的科学需要令人信服的理解、明确的解释、简明的陈述” 28. A arena 舞台 填名词，“科学家愿意踏入公共的舞台（公众的视野）”。 29.B contextual 填形容词，与understandable并列，语义相同，即“语言是公众能根据上下文能理解的” 30.I incorporate 合并 填动词原形，to support… and to incorporate knowledges into…,incorporate into动词固定搭配。“把知识融入我们的公共交流中” 31.D devoted 奉献 填动词过去式。devote to固定搭配。“把17%的花费投入到研究和发展中”。 32.N reaping 获得 填现在分词。reaping decades of economic growth,“获得几十年的经济增长”。 33.E digits 位数 填名词。single digits个位数。“这个数字下降到个位数”。 34.M pride 填动词原形。pride一词多性，这里考察动词用法：pride oneself on sth，以某人为自豪。“我们不仅以研究为自豪，也为对世界的进步做出的贡献而自豪”。 35. F hasten 填动词原形。“为了促进科学从实验室到市场的发展” 长篇阅读 36. D. 题干讲消费者担心智能家居产品兼容性。D段有举例，并提到 there are so many compatibility issues to think about. 37. K. 只有这段提到。 38. B. 题干讲既没有下降也没有像过去一样快速增长，B段有：But now these segments are looking at slower growth curves-or shrinking markets in some cases… 39. L. 题干讲某研究员建议新产品的优缺点都要接受，L段有：Curren, the Accenture analyst, said…We have to understand and think about the implications, and balance these great innovations with the potential downside they naturally carry with them. 40. F. 题干讲更关注实用价值而不是炫酷，F段有：we are starting to see companies shift from what is… into what all of these devices do that is practical in a consumer’s life.
2016年6月六级真题二 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 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) The project the man managed at CucinTech. B) The updating of technology at CucinTech. C)The man's switch to a new career. D) The restructuring of her company. 2. A) Talented personnel. B) Strategic innovation. C) Competitive products. D) Effective promotion. 3. A) Expand the market. B) Recruit more talents. C) Innovate constantly. D) Watch out for his competitors. 4. A) Possible bankruptcy.
2016年12月CET6大学英语六级考试真题及答案解析【官方完整版】 Part I 写作Writing (30 minutes) Directions: Directions: For this part, you are allowed 30 minutes to write a short essay on innovation. Your essay should include the importance of innovation and measures to be taken to encourage innovation.You are required to write at least 150 words but no more than 200 words. 【参考范文】 It is universally acknowledged that innovation refers to being creative, unique and different. In fact, today it is impossibly difficult for us to image a 21st century without innovation. We should place a high value on innovation firstly because innovative spirit can enable an individual to ameliorate himself, so he can be equipped with capacity to see what others cannot see, be qualified for future career promotion, and be ready for meeting the forthcoming challenges. What’s more, we ought to attach importance to the role played by innovation in economic advancement. Put it another way, in this ever-changing world, innovation to economic growth is what water is to fish. To sum up, if innovation misses our attention in any possible way, we will suffer a great loss beyond imagination. In order to encourage innovation, it is wise for us to take some feasible measures. For example, mass media should greatly publicize the significance of creative spirit and encourage the public to cultivate awareness of innovation. Besides, those who manage to innovate should be awarded generous prize. Though there is a long way ahead to go, I am firmly certain that the shared efforts will be paid off. 【参考译文】 众所周知创新意味着有创造力，独一无二和不同。事实上，今天我们已经很难想想一个没有创新的21世纪。 我们应该重视创新首先是因为创新精神可以让一个人完善自身，这样他才能具备见他人所未见的能力，未来才有资格得到职业生涯的进步，才能做好准备迎接以后的挑战。另外，我们也应该重视创新在经济发展方面的作用。在这个多变的时代，创新对于经济增长就像水对于鱼一样重要。换言之，如果我们以任何可能的形式无视创新的重要性，我们将遭受非常巨大的损失。 为了鼓励创新，应该采取一些且行之有效的措施。例如，大众传媒应该大力宣传创新精神的重要性，并且鼓励公众养成创新的意识。此外，对于那些想法设法进行创新的人要给予丰厚的奖励。虽然还有很长的路要走，但是我坚信大家共同付出的努力会得到回报。
2016年6月英语六级考试真题试卷附答案和解析(第1套) Directions:For this part, you are allowed 30 minutes to write a short essay on the use of robots. Try to imagine what will happen when more and more robots take the place of human beings in industry as well as people's daily lives. You are required to write at least 150 words but no more than 200 words. 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 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) Project organizer. B) Public relations officer. C) Marketing manager. D) Market research consultant. 2. A) Quantitative advertising research. B) Questionnaire design. C) Research methodology. D) Interviewer training. 3. A) They are intensive studies of people's spending habits. B) They examine relations between producers and customers. C) They look for new and effective ways to promote products. D) They study trends or customer satisfaction over a long period. 4. A) The lack of promotion opportunity. B) Checking charts and tables. C) Designing questionnaires. D) The persistent intensity. Questions 5 to 8 are based on the conversation you have just heard. 5. A) His view on Canadian universities. B) His understanding of higher education. C) His suggestions for improvements in higher education. D) His complaint about bureaucracy in American universities. 6. A) It is well designed. B) It is rather inflexible. C) It varies among universities.
2016年6月英语六级考试真题试卷附答案和解析(第3套) Directions: For this part, you are allowed 30 minutes to write a short essay on e-learning. Try to imagine what will happen when more and more study online instead of attending school. You are required to write at least 150 words but no more than 200 words. 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 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) It is advertising electronic products. B) It is planning to tour East Asia. C) It is sponsoring a TV programme. D) It is giving performances in town. 2. A) 20,000 pounds. B) 12,000 pounds. C) Less than 20,000 pounds. D) Less than 12,000 pounds. 3. A) A lot of good publicity. B) Talented artists to work for it. C) Long-term investments. D) A decrease in production costs. 4. A) Promise long-term cooperation with the Company. B) Explain frankly their own current financial situation. C) Pay for the printing of the performance programme. D) Bear the cost of publicising the Company's performance. Questions 5 to 8 are based on the conversation you have just heard. 5. A) He has been seeing doctors and counsellors. B) He has found a new way to train his voice. C) He was caught abusing drugs. D) He might give up concert tours. 6. A) Singers may become addicted to it. B) It helps singers warm themselves up. C) Singers use it to stay away from colds. D) It can do harm to singers' vocal chords.
2016英语六级阅读模拟试题及答案（3） Passage One Questions 56 to 60 are based on the following passage. Caught in a squeeze between the health needs of aging populations on one hand and the financial crisis on the other, governments everywhere are looking for ways to slow the growth in health-care spending. Increasingly, they are looking to the generic-drugs (普通药物) industry as a savior. In November Japan's finance ministry issued a report complaining that the country's use of generics was less than a third of that in America or Britain. In the same month Canada's competition watchdog criticized the country's pharmacies for failing to pass on the savings made possible by the use of generic drugs. That greed, it reckoned, costs taxpayers nearly C$1 billion a year. Then on November 28th the European Commission issued the preliminary results of its year-long probe into drug
巨微英语 2016 年 12 月英语六级听力原文及参考答案听力稿原文 section A Conversation 1 气候变化和全球经济发展 W： Professor Henderson could you give us a brief overview of what you do ，where you work and your main area of research ？ M： Well the Center for Climate Research where I work links the science of climate change to issues around economics and policy。 Some of our research is to do with the likely impacts of climate change and all of the associated risks 。 W：And how strong is th e evidence that clima te change is happening that it ‘ s really something we need to be worried about 。 M： Well most of the science of climate change particularly that to do with global warming is simply fact 。 But other aspects of the science are less certain or at least more disputed 。And so we ‘ re really talking about risk what the economics tells us is that it ’s probably cheaper to avoid climate change to avoid the risk than it has to deal with the likely consequences 。 W： So what are we doing ？ What can we do about it ？ M：Well I would argue that we need to develop the scienc e specifically to understa nd the likely impacts of climate change in different contexts 。
2015年6月大学英语六级考试阅读的section A选词填空，要求从15个题目中选出10个词填到文章中对应的空格部分。文章主题是论述科技的进步对于就业的影响。文都教育搜集整理了部分出题可能性较大的原题，供学习参考： 题目： Innovation, the elixir (灵丹妙药) of progress, has always cost people their jobs. In the Industrial Revolution hand weavers were ___36___ aside by the mechanical loom. Over the past 30 years the digital revolution has ___37___ many of the mid-skill jobs that underpinned 20th-century middle-class life. Typists, ticketagents, bank tellers and many production-line jobs have been dispensed with,just as the weavers were. For those who believe that technological progress has made the world a better place, such disruption is a natural part of rising ___38___. Although innovation kills some jobs, it creates new and better ones, as a more ___39___ society becomes richer and its wealthier inhabitants demand more goods and services. A hundred years ago one in three American workers was ___40___ on a farm. Today less than 2% of them produce far more food. The millions freed from the land were not rendered ___41___, but found better-paid work as the economy grew more sophisticated. Today the pool of secretaries has___42___, but there are ever more computer programmers and web designers. Optimism remains the right starting-point, but for workers the dislocating effects of technology may make themselves evident faster than its ___43___. Even if new jobs and wonderful products emerge, in the short term income gaps will widen, causing huge social dislocation and perhaps even changing politics. Technology's ___44___ will feel like a tornado (旋风), hitting the rich world first, but ___45___ sweeping through poorer countries too. No government is prepared for it. 参考答案： 36. N swept 37. B displaced 38. I prosperity 39. H productive 40. C employed 41. F jobless 42. M shrunk
2018年6月六级阅读解析-第一套 As college students head back to school, the more sensible of them are wondering how they will pay for the privilege. There are some 21.5 million students in the United States this year, and many of them will be funding their college careers on borrowed money. Given that there is at present more than $1.3 trillion in student loans on the books, it's pretty clear that many college students are far from sensible. The average student's debt upon graduation now approaches $40,000, and as college becomes ever more common and expensive, calls to make it "free" seem to be multiplying. Even Hillary Clinton says that when it comes to college, "Costs won't be a barrier." But the only way college could be free is if the faculty and staff donated their time, the buildings required no maintenance, the campuses required no heating, cooling, or utilities of any kind, and every other expense simply disappeared. As long as it is impossible to produce something from nothing, though, costs are absolutely a barrier. The actual question we debate, regardless of whether we admit it, is who should pay for people to go to college. If students do not shoulder the cost, that cost will be shifted to someone else. And this is where things get interesting. No one seems to take the idea of free college for everyone seriously, but the idea of student loan forgiveness has somehow gained traction. In the end, though, it amounts to the same thing: The American taxpayer will be left holding a very expensive bag. But if taxpayers are to bear the cost of student loan forgiveness, shouldn't they have a say in how their money is used? At a bare minimum, taxpayers should be able to decide what students will study on the public dime. If we are going to force taxpayers to foot the bill for college degrees, students should only study those subjects that are of greatest benefit to the taxpayers. After