2015年6月大学英语六级考试真题（第一套）
Part II Listening Comprehension(30minutes)
Section A
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 restaurant 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 retired earlier.4
B)He will help the woman solve the problem.
C)He finds it hard to agree with what the woman says.
D)The woman will be able to attend the classes she wants.
Questions9to12are 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 manufactures.
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 study.D)Consult financial experts.
Questions13to15are 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 by2015.
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 B
Passage One
Questions16to18are based on the passage you have just heard.
16.A)The ability to predict fashion trends.B)A refined taste for artistic works.
C)Years of practical experience.D)Strict professional training.
17.A)Promoting all kinds of American hand-made specialities.
B)Strengthening cooperation with foreign governments.
C)Conducting trade in art works with dealers overseas.
D)Purchasing handicrafts from all over the world.
18.A)She has access to fashionable things.B)She is doing what she enjoys doing.
C)She can enjoy life on a modest salary.D)She is free to do whatever she wants.
Passage Two
Questions19to22are based on the passage you have just heard.
19.A)Join in neighborhood patrols.B)Get involved in his community.
C)Voice his complaints to the city council.D)Make suggestions to the local authorities.
20.A)Deterioration in the quality of life.B)Increase of police patrols at night.
C)Renovation of the vacant buildings.D)Violation of community regulations.
21.A)They may take a long time to solve.B)They need assistance form the city.
C)They have to be dealt with one by one.D)They are too big for individual efforts.
22.A)He had got some groceries at a big discount.
B)He had read a funny poster near his seat.
C)He had done a small deed of kindness.
D)He had caught the bus just in time.
Passage Three
Questions23to25are based on the passage you have just heard.
23.A)Childhood and family growth.B)Pressure and disease.
C)Family life and health.D)Stress and depression.
24.A)It experienced a series of misfortunes.B)It was in the process of reorganization.
C)His mother died of a sudden heart attack.D)His wife left him because of his bad temper.
25.A)They would give him a triple bypass surgery.
B)They could remove the block in his artery.
C)They could do nothing to help him.
D)They would try hard to save his life.
Section C
When most people think of the word“education”,they think of a pupil as a sort of animate sausage casing.Into this empty casting,the teachers(26)stuff“education.”
But genuine education,as Socrates knew more than two thousand years ago,is not(27)the stuffing of information into a person,but rather eliciting knowledge from him;it is the(28)of what is in the mind.
“The most important part of education,”once wrote William Ernest Hocking,the(29) Harvard philosopher,“is this instruction of a man in what he has inside of him.”
And,as Edith Hamilton has reminded us,Socrates never said,“I know,learn from me。”He said, rather,“Look into your own selves and find the(30)of the truth that God has put into every heart and that only you can kindle(点燃)to a(31).”
In a dialogue,Socrates takes an ignorant slave boy,without a day of(32),and proves to the amazed observers that the boy really“knows”geometry一because the principles of geometry are already in his mind,waiting to be called out.
So many of the discussions and(33)about the content of education are useless and inconclusive because they(34)what should“go into”the student rather than with what should be taken out,and how this can best be done.
The college student who once said to me,after a lecture,“I spend so much time studying that I don't have a chance to learn anything,”was clearly expressing his(35)with the sausage casing view of education.
Part III Reading Comprehension(40minutes)
Reading comprehension
Section A
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 30years the digital revolution has___37___many of the mid-skill jobs that underpinned 20th-century middle-class life.Typists,ticket agents,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 than2%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.
A）benefits B）displaced C）employed D）eventually
E）impact F）jobless G）primarily H）productive
I）prosperity J）responsive K）rhythm L）sentiments
M）shrunk N）swept O）withdrawn
Section B
Why the Mona Lisa Stands Out
[A]Have you ever fallen for a novel and been amazed not to find it on lists of great books?Or walked around a sculpture renowned as a classic,struggling to see what the fuss is about?If so, you’ve probably pondered the question Cutting asked himself that day:how does a work of art come to be considered great?
[B]The intuitive answer is that some works of art are just great:of intrinsically superior quality. The paintings that win prime spots in galleries,get taught in classes and reproduced in books are the ones that have proved their artistic value over time.If you can’t see they’re superior,that’s your problem.It’s an intimidatingly neat explanation.But some social scientists have been asking awkward questions of it,raising the possibility that artistic canons are little more than fossilised historical accidents.
[C]Cutting,a professor at Cornell University,wondered if a psychological mechanism known as the“mere-exposure effect”played a role in deciding which paintings rise to the top of the cultural league.Cutting designed an experiment to test his hunch.Over a lecture course he regularly showed undergraduates works of impressionism for two seconds at a time.Some of the paintings were canonical,included in art-history books.Others were lesser known but of comparable quality. These were exposed four times as often.Afterwards,the students preferred them to the canonical works,while a control group of students liked the canonical ones best.Cutting’s students had grown to like those paintings more simply because they had seen them more.
[D]Cutting believes his experiment offers a clue as to how canons are formed.He points out that the most reproduced works of impressionism today tend to have been bought by five or six wealthy and influential collectors in the late19th century.The preferences of these men bestowed prestige on certain works,which made the works more likely to be hung in galleries and printed in anthologies.The fame passed down the years,gaining momentum from mere exposure as it did so. The more people were exposed to,the more they liked it,and the more they liked it,the more it appeared in books,on posters and in big exhibitions.Meanwhile,academics and critics created sophisticated justifications for its pre-eminence.After all,it’s not just the masses who tend to rate what they see more often more highly.As contemporary artists like Warhol and Damien Hirst have grasped,critical acclaim is deeply entwined with publicity.“Scholars”,Cutting argues,“are no different from the public in the effects of mere exposure.”
[E]The process described by Cutting evokes a principle that the sociologist Duncan Watts calls “cumulative advantage”:once a thing becomes popular,it will tend to become more popular still.
A few years ago,Watts,who is employed by Microsoft to study the dynamics of social networks, had a similar experience to Cutting in another Paris museum.After queuing to see the“Mona Lisa”
in its climate-controlled bulletproof box at the Louvre,he came away puzzled:why was it considered so superior to the three other Leonardos in the previous chamber,to which nobody seemed to be paying the slightest attention?
[F]When Watts looked into the history of“the greatest painting of all time”,he discovered that, for most of its life,the“Mona Lisa”remained in relative obscurity.In the1850s,Leonardo da Vinci was considered no match for giants of Renaissance art like Titian and Raphael,whose works were worth almost ten times as much as the“Mona Lisa”.It was only in the20th century that Leonardo’s portrait of his patron’s wife rocketed to the number-one spot.What propelled it there wasn’t a scholarly re-evaluation,but a theft.
[G]In1911a maintenance worker at the Louvre walked out of the museum with the“Mona Lisa”hidden under his smock.Parisians were aghast at the theft of a painting to which,until then,they had paid little attention.When the museum reopened,people queued to see the gap where the “Mona Lisa”had once hung in a way they had never done for the painting itself.From then on,the “Mona Lisa”came to represent Western culture itself.
[H]Although many have tried,it does seem improbable that the painting’s unique status can be attributed entirely to the quality of its brushstrokes.It has been said that the subject’s eyes follow the viewer around the room.But as the painting’s biographer,Donald Sassoon,dryly notes,“In reality the effect can be obtained from any portrait.”Duncan Watts proposes that the“Mona Lisa”is merely an extreme example of a general rule.Paintings,poems and pop songs are buoyed or sunk by random events or preferences that turn into waves of influence,rippling down the generations.
[I]“Saying that cultural objects have value,”Brian Eno once wrote,“is like saying that telephones have conversations.”Nearly all the cultural objects we consume arrive wrapped in inherited opinion;our preferences are always,to some extent,someone else’s.Visitors to the“Mona Lisa”know they are about to visit the greatest work of art ever and come away appropriately impressed—or let down.An audience at a performance of“Hamlet”know it is regarded as a work of genius,so that is what they mostly see.Watts even calls the pre-eminence of Shakespeare a “historical accident”.
[J]Although the rigid high-low distinction fell apart in the1960s,we still use culture as a badge of identity.Today’s fashion for eclecticism—“I love Bach,Abba and Jay Z”—is,Shamus Khan,a Columbia University psychologist,argues,a new way for the middle class to distinguish themselves from what they perceive to be the narrow tastes of those beneath them in the social hierarchy.
[K]The intrinsic quality of a work of art is starting to seem like its least important attribute.But perhaps it’s more significant than our social scientists allow.First of all,a work needs a certain quality to be eligible to be swept to the top of the pile.The“Mona Lisa”may not be a worthy world champion,but it was in the Louvre in the first place,and not by accident.Secondly,some stuff is simply better than other stuff.Read“Hamlet”after reading even the greatest of Shakespeare’s contemporaries,and the difference may strike you as unarguable.
[L]A study in the British Journal of Aesthetics suggests that the exposure effect doesn’t work the same way on everything,and points to a different conclusion about how canons are formed.The social scientists are right to say that we should be a little skeptical of greatness,and that we should always look in the next room.Great art and mediocrity can get confused,even by experts. But that’s why we need to see,and read,as much as we can.The more we’re exposed to the good
and the bad,the better we are at telling the difference.The eclecticists have it.
46.According to Duncan Watts,the superiority of the"Mona Lisa"to Leonardo's other works resulted from the cumulative advantage.
47.Some social scientists have raised doubts about the intrinsic value of certain works of art.
48.It is often random events or preferences that determine the fate of a piece of art.
49.In his experiment,Cutting found that his subjects liked lesser known works better than canonical works because of more exposure.
50.The author thinks the greatness of an art work still lies in its intrinsic value.
51.It is true of critics as well as ordinary people that the popularity of artistic works is closely associated with publicity.
52.We need to expose ourselves to more art and literature in order to tell the superior from the inferior.
53.A study of the history of the greatest paintings suggests even a great work of art could experience years of neglect.
54.Culture is still used as a mark to distinguish one social class from another.
55.Opinions about and preferences for cultural objects are often inheritable.
Section C
Passage One
Questions56to60are based on the following passage.
When the right person is holding the right job at the right moment,that person's influence is greatly expanded.That is the position in which Janet Yellen,who is expected to be confirmed as the next chair of the Federal Reserve Bank(Fed)in January,now finds herself.If you believe,as many do,that unemployment is the major economic and social concern of our day,then it is no stretch to think Yellen is the most powerful person in the world right now.
Throughout the2008financial crisis and the recession and recovery that followed,central banks have taken on the role of stimulators of last resort,holding up the global economy with vast amounts of money in the form of asset buying.Yellen,previously a Fed vice chair,was one of the principal architects of the Fed's$3.8trillion money dump.A star economist known for her groundbreaking work on labor markets,Yeilen was a kind of prophetess early on in the crisis for her warnings about the subprime（次级债）meltdown.Now it will be her job to get the Fed and the markets out of the biggest and most unconventional monetary program in history without derailing the fragile recovery.
The good news is that Yellen,67,is particularly well suited to meet these challenges.She has a keen understanding of financial markets,an appreciation for their imperfections and a strong belief that human suffering was more related to unemployment than anything else.
Some experts worry that Yellen will be inclined to chase unemployment to the neglect of inflation. But with wages still relatively flat and the economy increasingly divided between the well-off and the long-term unemployed'more people worry about the opposite,deflation（通货紧缩）that would aggravate the economy's problems.
Either way,the incoming Fed chief will have to walk a fine line in slowly ending the stimulus.
It must be steady enough to deflate bubbles（去泡沫）and bring markets back down to earth but not so quick that it creates another credit crisis.
Unlike many past Fed leaders,Yellen is not one to buy into the finance industry's argument that it should be left alone to regulate itself.She knows all along the Fed has been too slack on regulation of finance.
Yellen is likely to address right after she pushes unemployment below6%,stabilizes markets and makes sure that the recovery is more inclusive and robust.As Princeton Professor Alan Blinder says'"She's smart as a whip,deeply logical,willing to argue but also a good listener.She can persuade without creating hostility."AH those traits will be useful as the global economy's new power player takes on its most annoying problems.
56.What do many people think is the biggest problem facing Janet Yellen?
A)Lack of money.B)Subprime crisis.C)Unemployment.D)Social instability.
57.What did Yellen help the Fed do to tackle the2008financial crisis?
A)Take effective measures to curb inflation.
B)Deflate the bubbles in the American economy.
C)Formulate policies to help financial institutions.
D)Pour money into the market through asset buying.
58.What is a greater concern of the general public?
A)Recession.B)Deflation.C)Inequality.D)Income.
59.What is Yellen likely to do in her position as the Fed chief?
A)Develop a new monetary program.B)Restore public confidence.
C)Tighten financial regulation.D)Reform the credit system.
60.How does Alan Blinder portray Yellen?
A)She possesses strong persuasive power.
B)She has confidence in what she is doing.
C)She is one of the world's greatest economists.
D)She is the most powerful Fed chief in history.
Passage Two
Questions61to65are based on the following passage.
Air pollution is deteriorating in many places around the world.The fact that public parks in cities become crowded as soon as the sun shines proves that people long to breathe in green,open spaces.They do not all know what they are seeking but they flock there,nevertheless.And,in these surroundings,they are generally both peaceful and peaceable.It is rare to see people fighting in a garden.Perhaps struggle unfolds first,not at an economic or social level,but over the appropriation of air,essential to life itself.If human beings can breathe and share air,they don't need to struggle with one another.
Unfortunately,in our western tradition,neither materialist nor idealist theoreticians give enough consideration to this basic condition for life.As for politicians,despite proposing curbs on environmental pollution,they have not yet called for it to be made a crime.Wealthy countries are even allowed to pollute if they pay for it.
But is our life worth anything other than money?The plant world shows us in silence what faithfulness to life consists of.It also helps us to a new beginning,urging us to care for our breath, not only at a vital but also at a spiritual level.The interdependence to which we must pay the
closest attention is that which exists between ourselves and the plant world.Often described as "the lungs of the planet",the woods that cover the earth offer us the gift of breathable air by releasing oxygen.But their capacity to renew the air polluted by industry has long reached its limit. If we lack the air necessary for a healthy life,it is because we have filled it with chemicals and undercut the ability of plants to regenerate it.As we know,rapid deforestation combined with the massive burning of fossil fuels is an explosive recipe for an irreversible disaster.
The fight over the appropriation of resources will lead the entire planet to hell unless humans learn to share life,both with each other and with plants.This task is simultaneously ethical and political because it can be discharged only when each takes it upon herself or himself and only when it is accomplished together with others.The lesson taught by plants is that sharing life expands and enhances the sphere of the living,while dividing life into so-called natural or human resources diminishes it.We must come to view the air,the plants and ourselves as the contributors to the preservation of life and growth,rather than a web of quantifiable objects or productive potentialities at our disposal.Perhaps then we would finally begin to live,rather than being concerned with bare survival.
61.What does the author assume might be the primary reason that people would struggle with each other?
A)To get their share of clean air.B)To pursue a comfortable life.
C)To gain a higher social status.D)To seek economic benefits.
62.What does the author accuse western politicians of?
A)Depriving common people of the right to clean air.
B)Giving priority to theory rather than practical action.
C)Offering preferential treatment to wealthy countries.
D)Failing to pass laws to curb environmental pollution.
63.What does the author try to draw our closest attention to?
A)The massive burning of fossil fuels.
B)Our relationship to the plant world.
C)The capacity of plants to renew polluted air.
D)Large-scale deforestation across the world.
64.How can human beings accomplish the goal of protecting the planet according to the author?
A)By showing respect for plants.B)By preserving all forms of life.
C)By tapping all natural resources.D)By pooling their efforts together.
65.What does the author suggest we do in order not just to survive?
A)Expand the sphere of living.B)Develop nature's potentials.
C)Share life with nature.D)Allocate the resources.
Part IV Translation(30minutes)
中国传统的待客之道要求饭菜丰富多样，让客人吃不完。中国宴席上典型的菜单包括开席的一套凉菜及其后的热菜，例如：肉类，鸡鸭，蔬菜等。大多数宴席上，全鱼被认为是必不可少的，除非已经上过各式海鲜。如今，中国人喜欢把西方特色菜与传统中式菜肴溶于一席，因此牛排上桌也不少见。沙拉也已流行起来，尽管传统上中国人一般不吃任何未经烹饪的菜肴。宴席通常至少有一道汤，可以最先或最后上桌。甜点和水果通常标志宴席的结束。
最牛英语口语培训模式：躺在家里练口语，全程外教一对一，三个月畅谈无阻！ 洛基英语，免费体验全部在线一对一课程：https://www.doczj.com/doc/9816641965.html,/wenkxd.htm（报名网址） 综合题，请根据题目给出的内容，来回答下面给出的试题。Part ⅡReading Comprehension (35 minutes) Directions: There are 4 passages in this part, Each passage is followed by some questions at 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 the Answer Sheet with a single line through the centre. Passage One Questions 21 to 25 are based on the following passage. In 1985 when a Japan Air Lines (JAL) jet crashed, its president, Yasumoto Takagi, called each victim’s family to apologize, and then promptly resigned. And in 1987, when a subsidiary of Toshiba sole sensitive military technology to the former Soviet Union, the chairman of Toshiba gave up his post. These executive actions, which Toshiba calls “the highest form of apology,”may seem bizarre to US managers. No one at Boeing resigned after the JAL crash, which may have been caused by a faulty Boeing repair. The difference between the two business cultures centers around different definitions of delegation. While US executives give both responsibility and authority to their employees, Japanese executives delegate only authority—the responsibility is still theirs. Although the subsidiary that sold the sensitive technology to the Soviets had its own management, the Toshiba top executives said they “must take personal responsibility for not creating an atmosphere throughout the Toshiba group that would make such activity unthinkable, even in an independently run subsidiary.” Such acceptance of community responsibility is not unique to businesses in Japan. School principals in Japan have resigned when their students committed major crimes after school hours. Even if they do not quit, Japanese executives will often accept primary responsibility in other ways, such as taking the first pay cut when a company gets into financial trouble. Such personal sacrifices, even if they are largely symbolic, help to create the sense of community and employee loyalty that is crucial to the Japanese way of doing business. Harvard Business School professor George Lodge calls the ritual acceptance of blame “almost a feudal (封建的) way of purging (清除) the community of dishonor,”and to some in the United States, such resignations look cowardly. However, in an era in which both business and governmental leaders seem particularly good at evading responsibility, many US managers would probably welcome an infusion (灌输) of the Japanese sense of responsibility, If, for instance,
2015年6月英语六级真题及答案（第三套） Part I Writing (30 minutes) Directions: For this part, you are allowed 30 minutes to write an essay commenting on the saying “If you cannot do great things, do small things in a great way. ’’You can cite examples to illustrate your point of view. You should write at least l50 words but no more than 200 words. 注意: 此部分试题请在答题卡1上作答。 Part II Listening Comprehension (30 minutes) Section A Directions: In this section, you will hear 8 short conversations and 2 long conversations. At the end of each conversation, one or, more questions will be asked about what was said. Both the conversation and the questions will be spoken only once. After each question there will be a pause. During the pause, you must read the four choices marked A, B, C and D and decide which is the best answer. Then mark the corresponding letter on Answer Sheet, with a single line through the centre. 注意: 此部分试题请在答题卡1上作答。 1．A. The man might be able to play in the World Cup. B. The man’s football career seems to be at an end. C. The man was operated on a few weeks. D. The man is a fan of world famous football players. 2．A. Work out a plan to tighten his budget. B. Find out the opening hours of the cafeteria. C. Apply for a senior position in the restaurant. D. Solve his problem by doing a part time job. 3．A.A financial burden. B. A good companion. C. A real nuisance. D.A well trained pet. 4．A. The errors will be corrected soon. B. The woman was mistaken herself. C. The computing system is too complex. D. He has called the woman several times. 5．A. He needs help to retrieve his files. B. He has to type his paper once more. C. He needs some time to polish his paper. D. He will be away for a two-week conference. 6．A. They might have to change their plan. B. He has got everything set for their trip. C. He has a heavier workload than the woman. D. They could stay in the mountains until June 8. 7．A. They have to wait a month to apply for a student loan. B. They can find the application forms in the brochure. C. They are not eligible for a student loan. D. They are not late for a loan application.
写作 作文范文：Greed or Greet? The earth has nurtured generations of human beings, offering us with every resource to survive and prosper. Nowadays, with the explosion of population and boom of economy, human’s rel entless exploitation of natural resources has caused crisis of exhaustion of energy and resources. The remark “Earth provides enough to satisfy every man’s needs, but not every man’s greed.” gives out a warning for us all. The ecosystem has remained balanced until man becomes obsessed with their ambition to conquer Nature and they are blinded by greed. On one hand, they are so economy-oriented that they ignore the protection of environment. Increasing pollution not only causes serious problems such as global warming but also could threaten to end human life on our planet. On the other hand, man exploits and abuses non-renewable energy and resources for the sake of developing economy. If man insists on extracting natural resources recklessly, it will be too dreadful to face the consequence. Let us remember that only when we shake off greed and heal the earth can we build a better home for ourselves and our future generations. 【快速阅读】 美国工业制造 1-7 DADAAAB 8 higher 9 the immigrants 10 doing more themselves 听力 11. Why she could not get through to him. 12. He has difficulty finding affordable housing. 13. A code number is necessary to run the copy machine.
2015年12月大学英语六级考试真题(第2套) Questions 9 to 11 are based on the conversation you have just heard. 9.A.Touch his heart. B.Make him cry. C.Remind him of his life. D.Make him feel young. 10. A.He is good at singing operas. B.He enjoys complicated music: C.He can sing any song if he likes it. D.He loves country music in particular. 11. A.Go to a bar and drink for hours. B.Go to an isolated place to sing blues. C.Go to see a performance in a concert hall. D.Go to work and wrap himself up in music. Questions 12 to 15 are based on the conversation you have just heard. 12.A.How he became an announcer. B.How he writes news stories. C.How he makes his living. D.How he does his job. 13.A.They write the first version of news stories. B.They gather news stories on the spot. C.They polish incoming news stories. D.They write comments on major news stories. 14. A.Reading through the news stories in a given period of time. B.Having little time to read the news before going on the air. C.Having to change the tone of his voice from time to time. D.Getting all the words and phrases pronounced correctly. 15.A.It shows where advertisements come in. B.It gives a signal for him to slow down. C.It alerts him to something important. D.It serves as a reminder of sad news. Section B Directions : In this section, you will hear 3 short passages. At the end of each passage, you will hearsome questions. Both the passage 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).and D). Then mark the corresponding letter on Answer Sheet I with a single linethrough the centre. Passage One Questions 16 to 18 are based on the passage you have just heard. 16. A.It gives pleasure to both adults and children. B.It is often carried around by small children. C.It can be found in many parts of the world. D.It was invented by an American Indian. 17. A.They were made for earning a living. B.They were delicate geometric figures. C.They were small circus figures made of wire. D.They were collected by a number of museums. 18.A.In art. B.In geometry. C.In engineering.
For investors who desire low riskand guaranteed income,U.S. Government bonds are a secure investment becausethese bonds have the financial backing and full faith and credit of the federalgovernment.Municipal bonds,also secure,are offered by local governmengts andoften have____36______such as tax-free interest.Some may even be____37______.Corportate bonds are a bit more risky. Two questionsoften_____38_____first-time corportate bond investors.The first is”If I purchase a corportate bond,do I have t o hold it until thematueity date?”The answer is no.Bonds are bought and sold daily on____39_____securities exchanges.However,if your bond does not have____40_____that make it attractive to other investors, you may be forced to sell your bondat a____41____i.e., a price less than the bond’s face value. But if your bond is highly valued by otherinvestors, you may be able to sell it at a premium, i.e., a price above itsface value. Bond prices gcncrally____42____ inversely (相反地)with current market interest rates. Asinterest rates go up, bond pnccs tall, and vice versa (反之亦然).Thus, like all investments，bonds have adegree of risk. The second question is “How can I ___43_______ the investment risk of a particular bondissue?” Standard & Poor’s and Moody’s Investors S ervice rate the level of risk of many corporateand government bonds. And ____44______, the higher the market risk of a bond，the higher the interest rate. Investors willinvest in a bond considered risky only if the _____45_____return is highenough. A)advantages I)fluctuate B)assess J)indefinite C)bother K)insured D)conserved L)major E)deduction M)naturally F)discount N)potential G)embarrass 0)simultaneously H)features 36.A advantages 37.K insured 38. C bother 39. L major 40. H features 41. F discount 42. I fluctuate 43. B assess 44. M naturally 45. N potential 2014.6【2】 Fear can be an effective way to change behavior. One study compared the effects of high-tear and low-fear appeals on changes in attitudes and behaviors related to dental hygiene （卫生）. One group of subjects was shown awful pictures of ___36___teeth and diseased gums; 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 this important question, subjects were called back to the laboratory on two___39___ (five days and six weeks alter 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 is, the subjects___42___to high-fear warnings brushed their teeth more___43____than did those who saw low-fear warnings. However, to be an 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 of the fear. If this isn’t done, they may 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. A) accustomed B) carefully C) cautiously D) concrete E) credibility F) decayed G) desire H) dimensions I) eligible J) exposed K) indication L) occasions M) permanent N) sensitivity O) translated 36.F 37.G 38.O 39.L 40.K 41.D 42.J 43.B 44.I 45.E
2013年6月英语六级真题及答案（文都版） Part ⅣReading Comprehension (Reading in Depth) (25 minutes) Question 47 to 51 are based on the following passage often assumed musical Highly proficient musicianship is hard won. Although it’s evidence that this isn’t the case. While it seems ability us inherited, there’s abundant that at birth virtually everyone has perfect pitch, the reasons that one child is better than another are motivation and practice. Highly musical children were sung to more as infants and more encouraged to join in song games as kids than less musical ones, long before any musical ability could have been evident. Studies of classical musicians prove that the best ones practiced considerably more from childhood onwards than ordinary orchestral players, and this is because their parents were at them to put in the hours from a very young age. The same was true of children selected for entry to specialist music schools, compared with those who were rejected. The chosen children had parents who had very actively supervised music lessons and daily practice from young ages, giving up substantial periods of leisure time to take the children to lessons and concerts. The singer Michael Jackson’s story, although unusually brutal and extreme, is illumination when considering musical prodigy(天才). Accounts suggest that he was subjected to cruel beatings and emotional torture ,and that he was humiliated (羞辱) constantly by his father, What sets Jackson’s family apart is that his father used his reign of terror to train his children as musicians and dancers. On top of his extra ability Michael also had more drive. This may have been the result of being the closest of his brothers and sisters to his mother. “He seemed other said of him. She different to me from the other children —special,”Michael’s m may not have realized that treating her son as special may have been part of the reason be became like that. All in all, if you want to bring up a Mozart or Bach, the key factor is how hard you
2015年6月大学英语6级真题(三套全) 2015年6月大学英语六级考试真题（第一套） Part II Listening Comprehension (30 minutes) Section A 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 restaurant 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.
2019年6月大学英语六级考试真题（第1套） Part I Writing (30 minutes) Directions: For this part, you are allowed 30 minutes to write an essay on the importance of motivation and methods in learning. You should write at least 150 words but no more than 200 words. PartⅡListening 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) why Roman Holiday was more famous than Breakfast at Tiffany’s. B)why Audrey Hepburn had more female fans than male ones. C)Why the woman wanted to be like Audrey Hepburn. D)why so many girls adored Audrey Hepburn. 2. A)Her unique personality. B)Her physical condition. C)Her shift of interest to performing arts. D)Her famil y’s suspension of financial aid. 3. A) She was not an outgoing person. B)She was modest and hardworking C)She was easy-going on the whole. D)She was usually not very optimistic. 4. A)She was influenced by the roles she played in the films. B)Her parents taught her to symbolize with the needy. C)She learned to volunteer when she was a child. D)Her family benifited from other people’s help. Questions 5 to 8 are based on the recording you have just heard. 5. A) Give a presentation. B)Rise some questions. C)Start a new company. D)Ateed a board meeting. 6. A) It will cut production costs. B)It will raise productivities. C)No staff willl be dismissed. D)No new staff will be hired. 7. A)The timeline of restructuring.
P a r tⅢR e a d i n g C o m p r e h e n s i o n Section A As it is, sleep is so undervalued that getting by on fewer hours has become a badge of honor. Plus, we live in a culture that_____(37)to the late-nighter, from 24-hour grocery stores to online shopping sites that never close. It's no surprise, then, that more than half of American adults don't get the 7 to 9 hours of shut-eye every night as_____(38)by sleep experts. Whether or not we can catch up on sleep-on the weekend, say-is a hotly_____(39)topic among sleep researches. The latest evidence suggests that while it isn't_____(40), it might help. When Liu, the UCLA sleep researcher and professor of medicine, brought_____(41)sleep-restricted people into the lab for a weekend of sleep during which they logged about 10 hours per night, they showed_____(42)in the ability of insulin(胰岛素)to process blood sugar. That suggests that catchup sleep may undo some but not all of the damage that sleep_____(43)causes, which is encouraging given how many adults don't get the hours they need each night. Still, Liu isn't_____(44)to endorse the habit of sleeping less and making up for it later. Sleeping pills, while helpful for some, are not_____(45)an effective remedy either. “A sleeping pill will_____(46)one area of the brain, but there's never going to be a perfect sleeping pill, because you couldn't really replicates(复制)the different chemicals moving in and out of different parts of the brain to go through the different stages of sleep," says Collop, director of the Emory University Sleep Center. 37.【题干】_____ 【选项】