2010年12月大学英语六级考试真题及答案

听力：Part ⅢListening ComprehensionSection A11. What can we infer from the conversation?【答案】A The man is the manager of the apartment building【解析】从对话中看出女士在找apartment building，不是男士。

因此选A。

12. What is the woman eager to know?【答案】B How the pictures will turn out.【解析】女士想知道的是if the shots I took are as good as I thought. 照片是不是和她想的异样好。

这里shots指照片。

turn out指照片拍出来的效果。

因此选B。

13. What does the man mean?【答案】C The suitcase can be fixed in time.【解析】男士说到find a handle后面提到 but that shouldn’t take too long说明不是没有handle可以匹配。

因此排除A,B。

14. What do we learn about the man from the conversation?【答案】B He needs a vehicle to be used in harsh weather. 【解析】男士说到truck需要operate for long periods of time in very cold temperatures，因此选择选项B。

very cold temperatures对应harsh weather.15. What do we learn about the woman?【答案】A She has made up her mind to resign.【解析】从文中女士强硬的口气I could no longer live with…可以看出她下定决心。

2010年12月英语六级真题参考答案：完整版（网友提供）作文题目：1.目前高校排名相当盛行2.对于这种做法，人们看法不一3.我认为...Now society competition is very big, college is not exceptional also, the present universities ranking is quite popular, appear very I "ranking" drawbacks. For this kind of practice, the person of shem view each not camera, some understanding ranking is very necessary, can promote the school competition, some understanding ranking, cause a lot of school lane virtual do false education quality, causing the glide! And I think the school rankings of this mechanism is should be reserved, but need to regulate the arrangement, the education development of the rankings system into motivation, not resistance.快速阅读：1.not be2.intergenerational3.politicians4.allow5.youngerrge7.they8.take risk9.mostly have familiesitary service听力答案：11.THE man is looking12.What the13.The suitease is14.He needs15.She cannot16.Replace17.At a lost18.Repair19:Carful p....20.To be entirely21they look..22like..23the monpoly..24the passing..25they lose..26many..27how unstable..28it collapsed..29the........ocean30whether a ..31the way32 when the url..33some iced34exercise35many embarassing 36diverse37tragic38commit39outcome40skill41colleagues42accurate43average47.feminine and weak48.lose composure49.stress-related disorders50.relationship51.physically aggressive52.solve53.they realized54.America is55.Dim 56.……helps define57.in will be some58.his independent59.they often60.nobody61.knew nothing完型填空：62set out63abandoning64with65intends66exceeded67on68charge69such as70free71acknowledged72bet73circulaation74behind75because76ascend77 contributes78 like79 heavy80 suffered81 loan翻译题：82.The more detailed the better 越仔细越好83.did I realized that reading can not be ignored我才意识到读书是不能被忽略的84. surprised researchers feel 使研究人员感到惊讶85.I must have left it some where 我一定把它忘了哪了86.Prefer to join you to do volunteer work 宁愿加入你们去做义功87 to see her own shortcomings88 Nevertheless the problem was solved successfully89 that they can scarcely be distinguished form90 rather than guess or imagination91 was accused of cheating customers。

2010年12月大学英语六级考试真题（附听力原文）Part I Writing (30 minutes)Direction: For this part, you are allowed30 minutes to write a short essay entitled My Views on University Ranking. Youshould write at least 150 words following the outline given below.1. 目前高校排名相当盛行;2. 对于这种做法人们看法不一;3. 在我看来……My Views on University RankingPart II Reading Comprehension (Skimming andScanning) (15 minutes)Directions: In this part, you will have 15minutes to go over the passage quickly and answer the questions on Answer Sheet1. For questions 1-7, choose the best answer from the four choices marked [A],[B], [C] and [D]. For questions 8-10, complete the sentences with theinformation given in the passage.Into the UnknownThe world has never seen population ageingbefore. Can it cope?Until the early 1990s nobody much thoughtabout whole populations getting older. The UN had the foresight to convene a “world assembly on ageing” back in 1982, but that came andwent. By 1994 the World Bank had noticed that something big was happening. In areport e ntitled “Averting the Old Age Crisis”, it argued that pensionarrangements in most countries were unsustainable.For the next ten years a succession ofbooks, mainly by Americans, sounded the alarm. They had titles like Young vsOld, Gray Dawn and The Coming Generational Storm, and their message was blunt:health-care systems were heading for the rocks, pensioners were taking youngpeople to the cleaners, and soon there would be intergenerational warfare.Since then the debate has become lessemotional, not least because a lot more is known about the subject. Books,conferences and research papers have multiplied. International organisationssuch as the OECD and the EU issue regular reports. Population ageing is onevery agenda, from G8 economic conferences to NATO summits. The World EconomicForum plans to consider the future of pensions and health care at itsprestigious Davos conference early next year. The media, including thisnewspaper, are giving the subject extensive coverage.Whether all that attention has translatedinto sufficient action is another question. Governments in rich countries nowaccept that their pension and health-care promises will soon becomeunaffordable, and many of them have embarked on reforms, but so far onlytimidly. That is not surprising: politicians with an eye on the next electionwill hardly rush to introduce unpopular measures that may not bear fruit foryears, perhaps decades.The outline of the changes needed is clear.To avoid fiscal (财政) meltdown,public pensions and health-care provision will have to be reined back severelyand taxes may have to go up. By far the most effective method to restrainpension spending is to give people the opportunity to work longer, because itincreases tax revenues and reduces spending on pensions at the same time. Itmay even keep them alive longer. John Rother, the AARP‟s head of policy andstrategy, points to studies showing that other things being equal, people whoremain at work have lower death rates than their retired peers.Younger people today mostly accept thatthey will have to work for longer and that their pensions will be lessgenerous. Employers still need to be persuaded that older workers are worthholding on to. That may be because they have had plenty of younger ones tochoose from, partly thanks to thepost-war baby-boom and partly because overthe past few decades many more women have entered the labour force, increasingemployers‟ choice. But the reservoir of women able and willing to take up paidwork is running low, and the baby-boomers are going grey.In many countries immigrants have beenfilling such gaps in the labour force as have already emerged (and rememberthat the real shortage is still around ten years off). Immigration in thedeveloped world is the highest it has ever been, and it is making a usefuldifference. Instill-fertile America it currently accounts for about 40% oftotal population growth, and infast-ageing western Europe for about 90%.On the face of it, it seems the perfectsolution. Many developing countries have lots of young people in need of jobs;many rich countries need helping hands that will boost tax revenues and keep upeconomic growth. But over the next few decades labour forces in rich countriesare set to shrink so much that inflows of immigrants would have to increaseenormously to compensate: to at least twice their current size in westernEurope‟s most youthful countries, and three times in the older ones. Japanwould need a large multiple of the few immigrants it has at present. Publicopinion polls show that people in most rich countries already think thatimmigration is too high. Further big increases would be politically unfeasible.To tackle the problem of ageing populationsat its root, “old” countries would have to rejuvenate(使年轻)themselves by having more of their own children. A number of them have tried,some more successfully than others. But it is not a simple matter of offeringfinancial incentives or providing more child care. Modern urban life in richcountries is not well adapted to large families. Women find it hard to combinefamily and career. They often compromise by having just one child.And if fertility in ageing countries doesnot pick up? It will not be the end of the world, at least not for quite awhile yet, but the world will slowly become a different place. Older societiesmay be less innovative and more strongly disinclined to take risks than youngerones. By 2025 at the latest, about half the voters in America and most of thosein western European countries will be over 50—and older people turn out to votein much greater number than younger ones. Academic studies have found noevidence so far that older voters have used their power at the ballot box topush for policies that specifically benefit them, though if in future there aremany more of them they might start doing so.Nor is there any sign of theintergenerational warfare predicted in the 1990s. After all, older people themselvesmostly have families. In a recent study of parents and grown-up children in11European countries, Karsten Hank of Mannheim University found that 85% of themlived within 25km of each other and the majority of them were in touch at leastonce a week.Even so, the shift in the centre of gravityto older age groups is bound to have a profound effect on societies, not justeconomically and politically but in all sorts of other ways too. RichardJackson and Neil Howe of America‟s CSIS, in a thoughtful book called TheGraying of the Great Powers, argue that, among other things, the ageing of thedeveloped countries will have a number of serious security implications.For example, the shortage of young adultsis likely to make countries more reluctant to commit the few they have tomilitary service. In the decades to 2050, America will find itself playinganever-increasing role in the developed world‟s defense effort. Because America‟spopulation will still be growing when that of most other developed countries isshrinking, America will be the only developed country that still mattersgeopolitically (地缘政治上).Ask me in 2020There is little that can be done to stoppopulation ageing, so the world will have to live with it. But some of theconsequences can be alleviated. Many experts now believe that given the rightpolicies, the effects, though grave, need not be catastrophic. Most countrieshave recognised the need to do something and are beginning to act.But even then there is no guarantee thattheir efforts will work. What is happening now is historically unprecedented.Ronald Lee, director of the Centre on the Economics and Demography of Ageing atthe University of California, Berkeley, puts it briefly and clearly: “We don‟treally know what population ageing will be like, because nobody has done ityet. “注意：此部分试题请在答题卡1上作答。

2010年12月大学英语六级真题答案（阅读部分）52--61 AADAD BBCDC2010年12月大学英语六级真题答案（完形填空部分）62 B set out set out plans表示制定计划63 C abandoning abandon 放弃，once unshakeable orthodoxy表示曾经不可动摇的做法，也就是现在要放弃了。

64 B with struggle with表示同…斗争，介词搭配，这里表示设法应对广告收入和报纸销售量下降的局面。

65 A intends intend to表示打算…,从后面的at the beginning of 2011，可知还没有这么做，只是计划或者打算这么做。

66 C exceeded 超过，是说当用户每月阅读文章超过一定量时就要收费。

67 C on 和side搭配，on the side of …表示拥护…；站在…一边。

68 B charge 本词在文章中多次出现，charge sb表示向某人收费。

69 B such as 表示举例，从后面举London's Evening Standard作为例子，可知应该选such as.70 B free 前面提到abandon readership revenue，即放弃读者收益，由此可知应该是make print editions free.71 D acknowledged 表示承认，这里表示Arthur Sulzberger承认这么做是一种赌博。

72 C bet 打赌，赌注，从前面的gamble可知应该选bet。

73 A circulation 发行量，从后面的数量可知应该选circulation。

74 A behind NYT排名第三，即排在the Wall Street Journal and USA Today后面。

75 C While while在这里表示对比，从上下文可知NYT与美国其他报纸不同。

1. 目前高校排名相当盛行2. 对于这种做法，人们看法不一3. 我认为……It is a not-uncommon social phenomenon that the university rankings are especially prevalent in our country. For example, universities are measured by scale, academic achievements or the number of papers published in famous magazines.As to this issue, opinions vary from person to person. Some people hold that university ranking dramatically promotes the development of university in various fields. But others maintain that university ranking also leads to some undesirable consequences such as academic fraud even to deceive people.As far I am concerned, every coin has two sides. On one hand, University ranking does encourage the development and growth of colleges. Such growth– the grand libraries, splendid stadiums and fruitful academic achievements, has caught the attention of the world. We’re impressed by these signs of our education’s tour to the 21st century.On the other hand, we have to pay attention to an unexpected phenomenon that some people have ignored the objectivity of university ranking. Take South university of science and technology of china for an example, this university occupies the second position in some university rankings. In those rankings, it is superior to Peking University and Tsinghua university. In a word, we should inspire the advantages of university and abandon its disadvantages.2010年12月英语六级作文解析此次六级作文仍然是常考的议论文文体。

2010年12月英语六级考试版本一：Part ⅠWritingMy View on University RankingIn recent years, all kinds of University Ranking Lists can be found on some educational websites, or newspapers. The ranking standards also vary. These lists have great influence on students. They are even becoming the only scale to evaluate the colleges and universities.People hold different views toward this phenomenon. Some believe that these lists help the students a lot, especially for those who will choose their university. While some other protest vigorously. In their points, the list is really ridiculous and harmful. In my view, the university ranking may have its own reference values, but its disadvantages overweigh its values.For those university-students-to-be, they are supposed to choose the school according to his or her own situation, but not the so-called Ranking List. What’s more, how about the university students? How do they feel about themselves when they see the ranking? The list may become some intangible shackles for them if their own school ranks poorly.In a nutshell, there is no easy method to rank these universities, but the Ranking, only helps students ignore the essentials, namely, their ninety-nine percent perspiration.此次六级作文的自由度很大，看似给出了提纲，实际上具体的观点全靠个人发挥。

2010年12月6级CET考试原题试题部分答案部分Part ⅠWritingMy View on University RankingIn recent years, all kinds of University Ranking Lists can be found on some educational websites, or newspapers. The ranking standards also vary. These lists have great influence on students. They are even becoming the only scale to evaluate the colleges and universities.People hold different views toward this phenomenon. Some believe that these lists help the students a lot, especially for those who will choose their university. While some other protest vigorously. In their points, the list is really ridiculous and harmful. In my view, the university ranking may have its own reference values, but its disadvantages overweigh its values.For those university-students-to-be, they are supposed to choose the school according to his or her own situation, but not the so-called Ranking List. What’s more, how about the university students? How do they feel about themselves when they see the ranking? The list may become some intangible shackles for them if their own school ranks poorly.In a nutshell, there is no easy method to rank these universities, but the Ranking, only helps students ignore the essentials, namely, their ninety-nine percent perspiration.此次六级作文的自由度很大，看似给出了提纲，实际上具体的观点全靠个人发挥。

Part Ⅰ作文题目：1.目前高校排名相当盛行2.对于这种做法，人们看法不一3.我认为...（作文参考范文：略~ 自己掂量吧！>@< 哈）Part Ⅱ快速阅读1．A ．not be sustained in the long term．2．B ．Intergenerational conflicts will intensify.3．Ｄ．politicians are afraid of losing votes in the next election。

4．A．allow people to work longer。

5．D ．younger workers are readily available6．B．large numbers of immigrants from overseas7．B．They find it hard to balance career and family.8．take risks9．mostly have families10．military servicePart Ⅲ听力11．A．The man is the manager of the apartment building 12．B．How the pictures will turn out.13．C．The suitcase can be fixed in time.14．B．He needs a vehicle to be used in harsh weather.15．A．She has made up her mind to resign.16．D．Replace the shirt with one of some other material.17．D．At a “Lost and Found”18．C．Convert in into a hotel19．D．Careful pplotting and ciueing.20．D．To be entirely alone.21．C．They look at the world in a detached manner.22．B．Like it or not, you have to use them.23．D．The monopoly of British Railways.24． B ．Competition from other modes of transport.25．D．They lose a lot of money.26．C．Many coastal cities will be coveied.27．B．How unstable the West Antarctic ice sheet is.28．A．It collapsed at least once in the past 1.3 million years. 29．A．The West Antarctic region was once an open ocean. 30．B．Whether a deleted photo is immediately removed from the web.31．B．The way they store data.32．C．When the URL is reused．33．Ａ．Some iced coffees have as many calories as a hot dinner. 34．Ｂ．Exercies at the gym.35．Ｃ．Many cancer cases could be prevented.36．diverse．37．tragic．38．commit．39．outcome．40．scale．41．colleagues42．accurate43．averages44．Students with high hope set themselves higher goals and know how to work to attain them.45．went beyond the simple notion that hope is merely the sense that everything will turn out all right46．Having hope means believing you have both the will and the way to accomplish your goals whatever they may be.＂原文：Psychologists are finding that hope plays a surprisingly vital role in giving people a measurable advantage in zones of ３６．diverse as academic achievement, bearing up in tough jobs and coping with tragic illness. And by contrast, the loss o..Psychologists are finding that hope plays a surprisingly vital role in giving people a measurable advantage in zones of diverse as academic achievement, bearing up in tough jobs and coping with ３７．tragic illness. And by contrast, the loss of hope is turning out to be a stronger sign that a person may ３８．commit suicide than other factors long thought to be more likely risks.＂Hope’s proved a powerful predictor of ３９．outcome in every study we’ve done so far.” said Doctor Charles R Snider. A psychologist who has devi sed a ４０．scale to assess how much hope a person has. For example, in research with 3920 college students, Doctor Snider and his ４１．colleagues found that the level of hope among freshmen at the beginning of their first semester was a more ４２．accurate predictor of their college grades than were their SAT scores or their grade point ４３．averages in high school-the two measures most commonly used to predict college performance.＂４４．Students with high hope set themselves higher goals and know how to work to attain them.” Doctor Snider said. When you compare students of equivalent intelligence and past academic achievements, what sets them apart is hope.In devising a way to assess hope scientifically, Doctor Snider ４５．went beyond the simple notion that hope is merely the sense that everything will turn out all right. That notion is not concrete enough and it blurs two keycomponen ts of hope.” Doctor Snider said，＂４６．Having hope means believing you have both the will and the way to accomplish your goals whatever they may be.＂PartⅣ阅读ＳＥＣＴＩＯＮＡ47．feminine and weak48．lose composure49．stress-related disorders50．their relationship with partners51．AggressiveＳＥＣＴＩＯＮＢ（１）52． A ．solve virtually existing all problems53．D．They realized that science and technology alone were no guarantee for a better world.54．C．America is lagging behind in the STEMS disciplines. 55．A．Insufficient funding.56． C ．Humanistic thinking helps cultivate and define our culture and values.（２）57．D．It will be some time before a new Einstein emerges.58．B．His independent and abstract thinking59．D．They often go into fields yielding greater financial benefits. 60．D．Nobody will read papers on apparently ridiculous theories. 61．B．was little known in academic circlesPartⅤ完形填空62． B set out set out plans63． D abandoning abandon64． A with struggle with65． B intends intend to66． A exceeded67． A on68． D charge69． C such as70． B free71． C acknowledged72． C bet73． C circulation74． A behind75． B While76． D claim77． C maintains78． A like79． D serious80． C suffered81． D loanPart Ⅵ翻译82．There is no denying that you ___________(越仔细越好) in dealing with this matter.无可否认，处理这件事，越仔细越好。