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2018年6月英语六级考试真题及答案（第2套）2018 年6 月英语六级考试真题试卷附答案(完整版第2 套)Part I Writing (30minutes)Directions:For this part, you are allowed 30minutes to write an essay on the importance ofbuilding trust between teachers and students. You can cite exa mples to illustrate yourviews. You should write at least 150 words but no mo re than 200 words.______________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________ __________Part II Listening Comprehension (30minutes)Section ADirections:In this section, you will hear two longconversations. 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, youmust ch oose the best answer from the four choices marked A), B), C) and D). Then m ark thecorresponding letter on Answer Sheet 1 with a single line through the centre.Questions 1to 4are based on the conversation you have just heard.1. A) She advocates animal protection.B) She sells a special kind of coffee.C) She is going to start a café chain.D) She is the owner of a special café.2. A) They bear a lot of similarities.B) They are a profitable business sector.C) They cater to different customers.D) They help take care of customers' pets.3. A) By giving them regular cleaning and injections.B) By selecting breeds that are tame and peaceful.C) By placing them at a safe distance from customers.D) By briefing customers on how to get along with them.4. A) They want to learn about rabbits.B) They like to bring in their children.C) They love the animals in her café.D) They give her café favorite reviews.Questions 5to 8are based on the conversation you have just heard.5. A) It contains too many additives.B) It lacks the essential vitamins.C) It can cause obesity.D) It is mostly garbage.6. A) Its fancy design.B) TV commercials.C) Its taste and texture.D) Peer influence.7. A) Investing heavily in the production of sweet foods.B) Marketing their products with ordinary ingredients.C) Trying to trick children into buying their products.D) Offering children more varieties to choose from.8. A) They hardly ate vegetables.B) They seldom had junk food.C) They favored chocolate-coated sweets.D) They liked the food advertised on TV.Section BDirections:In this section, you will hear two passages. At the end of each pas sage, you willhear three or four questions. Both the passage and the question s will be spoken only once.After you hear a question, you must choose the be st answer from the four choices marked A),B), C) and D). Then mark the corr esponding letter on Answer Sheet 1 with a single linethrough the centre.Questions 9to 11are based on the passage you have just heard.9. A) Stretches of farmland.B) Typical Egyptian animal farms.C) Tombs of ancient rulers.D) Ruins left by devastating floods.10. A) It provides habitats for more primitive tribes.B) It is hardly associated with great civilizations.C) It has not yet been fully explored and exploited.D) It gathers water from many tropical rain forests.11. A) It carries about one fifth of the world's fresh water.B) It has numerous human settlements along its banks.C) It is second only to the Mississippi River in width.D) It is as long as the Nile and the Yangtze combined.Questions 12to 15are based on the passage you have just heard.12. A) Living a life in the fast lane leads to success.B) We are always in a rush to do various things.C) The search for tranquility has become a trend.D) All of us actually yearn for a slow and calm life.13. A) She had trouble balancing family and work.B) She enjoyed the various social events.C) She was accustomed to tight schedules.D) She spent all her leisure time writing books.14. A) The possibility of ruining her family.B) Becoming aware of her declining health.C) The fatigue from living a fast-paced life.D) Reading a book about slowing down.15. A) She started to follow the cultural norms.B) She came to enjoy doing everyday tasks.C) She learned to use more polite expressions.D) She stopped using to-do lists and calendars.Section CDirections:In this section, you will hear three recordings of lectures or talks f ollowed bythree or four questions. The recordings will be played only once. Af ter you hear a question,you must choose the best answer from the four choic es marked A), B), C) and D). Then markthe corresponding letter on Answer S heet 1 with a single line through centre.Questions 16to 18are based on the recording you have just heard.16. A) They will root out native species altogether.B) They contribute to a region's biodiversity.C) They pose a threat to the local ecosystem.D) They will crossbreed with native species.17. A) Their classifications are meaningful.B) Their interactions are hard to define.C) Their definitions are changeable.D) Their distinctions are artificial.18. A) Only a few of them cause problems to native species.B) They may turn out to benefit the local environment.C) Few of them can survive in their new habitats.D) Only 10 percent of them can be naturalized.Questions 19to 21are based on the recording you have just heard.19. A) Respect their traditional culture.B) Attend their business seminars.C) Research their specific demands.D) Adopt the right business strategies.20. A) Showing them your palm.B) Giving them gifts of great value.C) Drinking alcohol on certain days of a month.D) Clicking your fingers loudly in their presence.21. A) They are very easy to satisfy.B) They have a strong sense of worth.C) They tend to be friendly and enthusiastic.D) They have a break from 2:00 to 5:30 p.m.Questions 22to 25are based on the recording you have just heard.22. A) He completely changed the company's culture.B) He collected paintings by world-famous artists.C) He took over the sales department of Reader's Digest.D) He had the company's boardroom extensively renovated.23. A) It should be sold at a reasonable price.B) Its articles should be short and inspiring.C) It should be published in the world's leading languages.D) Its articles should entertain blue- and pink-collar workers.24. A) He knew how to make the magazine profitable.B) He served as a church minister for many years.C) He suffered many setbacks and misfortunes in his life.D) He treated the employees like members of his family.25. A) It carried many more advertisements.B) George Grune joined it as an ad salesman.C) Several hundred of its employees got fired.D) Its subscriptions increased considerably.Part III Reading Comprehension (40 minutes)Section ADirections: In this section, there is a passage with ten blanks. You are required to select one word for each blank from a list of choices given in a word bank following the passage. Read the passage through carefully before making your choices. Each choice in the bank is identified by a letter. Please mark the corresponding letter for each item on Answer Sheet 2 with a single line through the centre. You may not use any of the words in the bank more than once.Did Sarah Josepha Hale write "Mary's Little Lamb," the eternal nursery rhyme (儿歌) about a girl named Mary with a stubborn lamb? This is still disputed, but it's clear that the woman 26for writing it was one of America's most fascinating 27 . In honor of the poem's publication on May 24, 1830, here's more about the 28 author's life.Hale wasn't just a writer, she was also a 29 social advocate, and she was particularly 30 with an ideal New England, which she associated with abundant Thanksgiving meals that she claimed had "a deep moral influence." She began a nationwide 31 to have a national holiday declared that would bring families together while celebrating the 32 festivals. In 1863, after 17 years of advocacy including letters to five presidents, Hale got it. President Abraham Lincoln, during the Civil War, issued a 33 setting aside the last Thursday in November for the holiday.The true authorship of "Mary's Little Lamb" is disputed. According to the New England Historical Society, Hale wrote onlypart of the poem, but claimed authorship. Regardless of the author, it seems that the poem was 34 by a real event. When young Mary Sawyer was followed to school by a lamb in 1816, it caused some problems. A bystander named John Roulstone wrote a poem about the event, then, at some point, Hale herself seems to have helped write it. However, if a 1916 piece by her great-niece is to be trusted, Hale claimed for。

2018年6月英语六级真题和答案听力Passage 1At some 2300 miles in length, the Mississippi is the longest river in the United States. At some1000 miles, the Mackenzie is the longest river in Canada. But these waterways seem minute ingthiest rivers: the Nile and the Amazon.comparison to the world’s 2 lenThe Nile which begins in central Africa and flows over 4100 miles north into the Mediterraneanhosted one of the world’s great ancient civilizations along its shores. Calm and peaceful for mostof the year, the Nile used to flood annually, thereby creating, irrigating and carrying new topsoil tothe nearby farmland on which ancient Egypt depended for livelihood. As a means of transportation,the river carried various vessels up and down its length.A journey through the unobstructed part of this waterway today would pass by the splendidvalley of the Kings, where the tombs of many of these ancient monarchs have stood for over 3000years. Great civilizations and intensive settlement are hardly associated with the Amazon, yet this4000 mile-long south American river carries about 20% of the world’s fresh water more than the Mississippi, Nile and Yangtze combined. Other statistics are equally astonishing. The Amazon isso wide at some points that from its center neither shore can be seen. Each second, the Amazonpours some 55 million gallons of water into the Atlantic. There, at its mouth stands one islandlarger than Switzerland. Most important of all, the Amazon irrigates the largest tropical rain foreston earth.Passage 19. What can be found in the valley of the Kings?10. In what way is the Amazon different from other big rivers?11. What does the speaker say about the Amazon?Recording 2Good morning, ladies and gentlemen, and welcome to the third in our cities of business seminarsin the program “Doing Business Abroad”. (Q19) Today, we are going to look at the intercultural awareness, that is the fact that not everyone is British, not everyone speaks English and noteveryone does business in a British way. And, why should they? (Q19) If overseas business peopleare selling to us, then they will make every effort to speak English and to respect our traditionsand methods. It is only polite for us to do the same when we visit them. It is not only polite, it is acentral, if we want to sell British products overseas. First, a short quiz. Let’s see howinterculturally-aware you are. Question 1: where must you not drink alcohol on the first andseventh of every month. Question 2: where should you never admire your host’spossessions.Question 3: how should you attract the waiter during a business lunch in Bangkok. Question 4:where should you try to make all your appointments either before 2 or after 5:30 pm. OK,everyone had a chance to make some notes. Right! Here are the answers. Although I am sure thatthe information could equally well apply to countries other than those I have chosen. No.1: (Q20)you must not drink alcohol on the first and seventh of the month in India. In international hotels,you may find it served, but if you are having a meal with an India colleague, remember to avoidasking for a beer. If you are an arrival, coincide with one of those tips. No.2: in Arab countries, thepoliteness and generosity of the people is without parallel. If you admire your colleague’sbeautiful belt and bowls, you may well find yourself being presented with them as a present. Thisis not a cheap way to do your shopping, however, as your host will quite correctly expect you torespond by presenting him with a gift of equal worth and beauty. In Thailand, clicking the fingers,clapping your hands or just shouting “Waiter” will embarrass your hosts, fellow diners, the waiter himself and, most of all, you. Place your palm downward and make an inconspicuous wavinggesture, which will produce instant and satisfying results. And finally, (Q21) in Spain, somebusinesses maintain the pattern of working until about 2 o’clock and then returning to the office from 5:30 to 8, 9 or 10 in the evening.Q19: What should you do when doing business with foreigners?Q20: What must you avoid doing with your Indian colleague?Q21: What do we learn about some Spanish people?选词填空儿歌Did Sarah Josepha Hale write “Mary’s Little Lamb,” the eternal nursery rhyme（儿歌）about girlnamed Mary with a stubborn lamb? This is still disputed, but it’s clear that the woman 26 repute for writing it was one of America’s most fascinating 27 characters. In honor of the poempublication on May 24,1830, here’s more about the 28 supposed author’s life.Hale wasn’t just a writer, she was also a 29 fierce social advocate, and she was particularly 30obsessed with an ideal New England, which she associated with abundant Thanksgivinx xg mealsshe began a nationwide 31 campaign to have athat she claimed had “a deep moral influence,”　national holiday declared that would bring families together while celebrating the 32 traditionalfestivals. In 1863, after 17 years of advocacy including letters to five presidents, Hale got it.President Abraham Lincoln during the Civil War, issued a 33 proclamation setting aside the lastThursday in November for the holiday.The true authorship of “Mary’s Little Lamb” is disputed. According to New England Historical Society, Hale wrote only one part of the poem, but claimed authorship. Regardless of the author, itseems that the poem was 34 inspired by a real event. When young Mary Sawyer was followed toschool by a lamb in 1816, it caused some problems. A bystander named John Roulstone wrote apoem about the event, then, at some point, Hale herself seems to have helped write it. However, ifa 1916 piece by her great-niece is to be trusted, Hale claimed for the 35 rest of her life thatother people pretended that someone else wrote the poem”．A）campaignB）careerC）charactersD）featuresE）fierceF）inspiredG）latterH）obsessedI）proclamationJ）rectifiedK）reputedL）restM）supposedN）traditionalO）versatile金字塔Scientists scanning and mapping the Giza pyramids say they've discovered that the Great Pyramid of Giza is not exactly even. But really not by much. This pyramid is the oldest of theexact size has 26 puzzled experts for centuries, as the Seven Wonders. The pyramid’sworld’s"more than 21 acres of hard, white casing stones" that originally covered it were 27 removed long ago.Reporting in the most recent issue of the newsletter "AERAGRAM," which 28 chronicles thework of the Ancient Egypt Research Associates, engineer Glen Dash says that by using a new measuring approach that involved finding any surviving 29 remnants of the casing in order to determine where the original edge was. They found the east side of the pyramid to be a 30 maximum of 5.55 inches shorter than the west side.The question that most 31 fascinates him, however, isn't how the Egyptians who designed and built the pyramid got it wrong 4,500 years ago, but how they got it so close to 32 perfect. "We can only speculate as to how the Egyptians could have laid out these lines with such 33 precision using only the tools they had," Dash writes. He says his 34 hypothesis is that the Egyptians laidout their design on a grid, noting that the great pyramid is oriented only 35 slightly away from the cardinal directions (its north-south axis runs 3 minutes 54 seconds west of due north, while its east-west axis runs 3 minutes 51 seconds north of due east)—an amount that's "tiny, but similar," Atlas Obscura points out.chroniclesestablishedfascinateshypothesismaximummomentummysteriouslyperfectprecisionpuzzledremnantsremovedrevelationsslightly家用机器人When Elon Musk says, as he did this week, that his new priority is using artificial intelligence tobuild domestic robots, we should not only take note, but look forward to the day we can put ourlegs up in admiration.Mr. M usk is a guy who gets things done. The founder of two “moonshot” tech companies, Tesla Motors and SpaceX, is bringing electric vehicles to mass market and 26 humans to live onother planets. Lest this strike the amateur techie—not that readers of The Independent would ever8.8bn) fortunecount among them—as so much hot air, you can be reassured that the near $13bn (￡this entrepreneur has 27 comes from practical achievements rather than hypothetical ones.A lot of clever people are 28 about artificial intelligence, fearing that robots will one daybecome so 29 they’ll murder all of us. These fears are mostly30 : as with hysteria aboutgenetic modification, we humans are generally wise enough to manage these problems withalacrity and care.And just think of how wonderful it would be if you had a live-in robot. It could —31 — belike having a babysitter and masseuse rolled into one —or, if that required 32 intelligenceone to chop the carrots, wash thebeyond the ken of Mr. Musk’s imagined machine, at least somecar and mow the lawn. Once purchased and trained, this would allow the 33 user to savemoney and time, freeing up 34 space in our busy lives to, for instance, read The Independent.That is why we welcome Mr. Mu sk’s latest35 , and wish him well. As long as robots add tothe sum of human happiness, reduce suffering or cumbersome activity, and create time to readworld-class journalism, The Independent will be their fans. Especially since journalism is one jobrobots will never do.B) casualC) emotionalD) enablingE) eventuallyF) exaggeratedG) extravagantH) generouslyI) misleadingJ) preciousK) rewardL) smartM) sphereN) terrifiedO) venture答案：26. D enabling27. A amassed28. N terrified29. L smart30. F exaggerated31. E eventually32. C emotional33. B casual34. J precious35. O venture阅读Passage OneQuestions 46 to 50 are based on the following passage.The Ebro Delta, in Spain, famous as a battleground during the Spanish Civil War, is now the setting for a different contest, one that is pitting rice farmers against two enemies: the rice-eating giant apple snail, and rising sea levels. What happens here will have a bearing on the future of European rice production and the overall health of southern European wetlands.Located on the Mediterranean just two hours south of Barcelona, the Ebro Delta produces 120 million kilograms of rice a year, making it one of the continent’smost important rice-growing areas. As the sea creeps into these fresh-water marshes, however, rising salinity（盐分）is hampering rice production. At the same time, this sea-water also kills off the greedy giant applesnail, an introduced pest that feeds on young rice plants. The most promising strategy has becometo harness one foe against the other.The battle is currently being waged on land, in greenhouses at the University of Barcelona.are seeking varieties of rice that can Scientists working under the banner “Project N eurice”　withstand the increasing salinity without losing the absorbency that makes European rice ideal fortraditional Spanish and Italian dishes.“The project has two sides,” says Xavier Serrat, Neurice project manager and researcher at the University of Barcelona. “the short-term fight against the snail, and a mid- to long-term fightagainst climate change. But the snail has given the project greater urgency.”Originally from South America, the snails were accidentally introduced into the Ebro Delta byGlobal Aquatic Tecnologies, a company that raised the snails for fresh-water aquariums（水族馆）,s presence in Europe is limited tobut failed to prevent their escape. For now, the giant apple snail’the Ebro Delta. But the snail continues its march to new territory, says Serrat. “The question is notif it will reach other rice-growing areas of Europe, but when.”Over the next year and a half investigators will test the various strains of salt-tolerant ricethey’ve bred. In 2018, farmers will plant the varieties with the most promise in the Ebro Delta andRh?ne. A Europe’s other two main rice-growing regions—along the Po in Italy, and France’sseason in the field will help determine which, if any, of the varieties are ready for commercialization.As an EU-funded effort, the search for salt-tolerant varieties of rice is taking place in all threecountries. Each team is crossbreeding a local European short-grain rice with a long-grain Asianvariety that carries the salt-resistant gene. The scientists are breeding successive generations toarrive at varieties that incorporate salt tolerance but retain about 97 percent of the European ricegenome（基因组）.46.Why does the author mention the Spanish Civil War at the beginning of the passage?A. It had great impact on the life of Spanish rice farmers.B. It is of great significance in the records of Spanish history.C. Rice farmers in the Ebro Delta are waging a battle of similar importance.D. Rice farmers in the Ebro Delta are experiencing as hard a time as in the war.47.What may be the most effective strategy for rice farmers to employ in fighting their enemies?A. Striking the weaker enemy firstB. Killing two birds with one stoneC. Eliminating the enemy one by oneD. Using one evil to combat the other48. What do we learn about “Project Neurice”？A. Its goals will have to be realized at a cost.B. It aims to increase the yield of Spanish rice.C. Its immediate priority is to bring the pest under control.D. It tries to kill the snails with the help of climate change.49. What does Neurice project manager say about the giant apple snail?A. It can survive only on southern European wetlands.B. It will invade other rice-growing regions of Europe.C. It multiplies at a speed beyond human imagination.D. It was introduced into the rice fields on purpose.50. What is the ultimate goal of the EU-funded program?A. Cultivating ideal salt-resistant rice varieties.B. Increasing the absorbency of the Spanish rice.C. Introducing Spanish rice to the rest of Europe.D. Popularizing the rice crossbreeding technology.Passage TwoQuestions 51 to 55 are based on the following passage.Photography was once an expensive, laborious ordeal reserved for life's greatest milestones. Now, the only apparent cost to taking infinite photos of something as common as a meal is the space on your hard drive and your dining companion's patience.But is there another cost, a deeper cost, to documenting a life experience instead of simply enjoying it? "You hear that you shouldn't take all these photos and interrupt the experience, and it's bad for you, and we're not living in the present moment," says Kristin Diehl, associate professor of marketing at the University of Southern California Marshall School of Business.Diehl and her fellow researchers wanted to find out if that was true, so they embarked on a series of nine experiments in the lab and in the field testing people's enjoyment in the presence or absence of a camera. The results, published in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, surprised them. Taking photos actually makes people enjoy what they're doing more, not less."What we find is you actually look at the world slightly differently, because you're looking for things you want to capture, that you may want to hang onto," Diehl explains. "That gets peoplemore engaged in the experience, and they tend to enjoy it more."Take sightseeing. In one experiment, nearly 200 participants boarded a double-decker bus for a tour of Philadelphia. Both bus tours forbade the use of cell phones but one tour provided digital cameras and encouraged people to take photos. The people who took photos enjoyed the experience significantly more, and said they were more engaged, than those who didn't.Snapping a photo directs attention, which heightens the pleasure you get from whatever you're looking at, Diehl says. It works for things as boring as archaeological（考古的）museums, wherepeople were given eye-tracking glasses and instructed either to take photos or not. "People look longer at things they want to photograph," Diehl says. They report liking the exhibits more, too.To the relief of Instagrammers（Instagram用户）everywhere, it can even makes meals more enjoyable. When people were encouraged to take at least three photos while they ate lunch, they were more immersed in their meals than those who weren't told to take photos.Was it the satisfying click of the camera? The physical act of the snap? No, they found; just the act of planning to take a photo—and not actually taking it—had the same joy-boosting effect. "If you want to take mental photos, that works the same way," Diehl says. "Thinking about what you would want to photograph also gets you more engaged."51.What does the author say about photo-taking in the past?A. It was a painstaking effort for recording life’s major events.B. It was a luxury that only a few wealthy people could enjoy.C. It was a good way to preserve one’s precious images.D. It was a skill that required lots of practice to master.52.Kristin Diehl conducted a series of experiments on photo-taking to find out __________.A. what kind of pleasure it would actually bring to photo-takersB. whether people enjoyed it when they did sightseeingC. how it could help to enrich people’s life experiencesD. Whether it prevented people enjoying what they were doing53.What do the results of Diehl’s experiments show that people taking photos?A. They are distracted from what they are doing.B. They can better remember what they see or do.C. They are more absorbed in what catches their eye.D. They can have a better understanding of the world.54.What is found about museum visitors with the aid of eye-tracking glasses?A. They come out with better photographs of the exhibits.B. They focus more on the exhibits when taking pictures.C. They have a better view of what are on display.D. They follow the historical events more easily.55.What do we learn from the last paragraph?A. It is better to make plans before taking photos.B. Mental photos can be as beautiful as snapshots.C. Photographers can derive great joy from the click of the camera.D. Even the very thought of taking a photo can have a positive effect.翻译自行车自行车曾经是中国城乡最主要的交通工具，中国一度被称为“自行车王国”。

2018年6月大学英语六级考试真题(第2套）Part I Writing(30minutes) Directions:For this part,you are allowed30minutes to write an essay commenting on the importance of building trust between teachers and students.You can cite examples to illustrate your views.Youshould write at least150words but no more than200words.Part II Listening Comprehension(30minutes) Section ADirections:In this section,you will hear two long conversations At the end of each conversation,you will hear four questions.Both the conversation and the questions will be spoken only once.After 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 Sheet1with a single line through the centre. Questions1to4are based on the conversation you have just heard.1.A).She advocates animal protection.B).She sells a special kind of coffee.C).She is going to start a cafe chain.D).She is the owner of a special cafe.2.A).They bear a lot of similarities.B).They are a profitable business sector.C).They cater to different customers.D).They help take care of customers'pets.3.A).By giving them regular cleaning and injections.B).By selecting breeds that are tame and peaceful.C).By placing them at a safe distance from customers.D).By briefing customers on how to get along with them.4.A).They want to learn about rabbits.B).They like to bring in their children.C).They love the animals in her cafe.D).They give her cafe favorite reviews. Questions5to8are based on the conversation you have just heard.5.A).It contains too many additives.B).It lacks the essential vitamins.C).It can cause obesity.D).It is mostly garbage.6.A).Its fancy design.B).TV commercials.C).Its taste and texture.D).Peer influence.7.A).Investing heavily in the production of sweet foods.B).Marketing their products with ordinary ingredients.C).Trying to trick children into buying their products.D).Offering children more variable to choose from.8.A).They hardly ate vegetables.B).They seldom had junk food.C).They favored chocolate-coated sweets.D).They like the food advertised on TV.Section BDirections:In this section,you will hear two passages.At the end of each passage,you will hear three or four questions.Both the passage and the questions will be spoken only once.After you hear a question,you must choose the best answer from the four choices marked A),B),C)and D).Then mark the corresponding letter on Answer Sheet1with a single line through the centre.Questions9to11are based on the passage you have just heard.9.A).Stretches of farmland.B).Typical Egyptian animal farms.C).Tombs of ancient rulers.D).Ruins left by devastating floods.10.A).It provides habitats for more primitive tribes.B).It is hardly associated with great civilizations.C).It has not yet been fully explored and exploited.D).It gathers water from many tropical rain forests.11.A).It carries about one fifth of the word'fresh water.B).It has numerous human settlements along its banks.C).It is second only to the Mississippi River in width.D).It is as long as the Nile and the Yangtze combined.Questions12to15are based on the passage you have just heard.12.A).Living a life in the fast lane leads to success.B).We are always in a rush to do various things.C).The search for tranquility has become a trend.D).All of us actually yearn for a slow and calm life.13.A).She had trouble balancing family and work.B).She enjoyed the various social events.C).She was accustomed to tight schedules.D).She spent all her leisure time writing books.14.A).The possibility of ruining her family.B).Becoming aware of her declining health.C).The fatigue from living a fast-paced life.D).Reading a book about slowing down.15.A).She started to follow the cultural norms.B).She came to enjoy doing everyday tasks.C).She learn to use more polite expressions.D).She stopped using to-do lists and calendars. Section CDirections:In this section,you will hear three recordings of lectures or talks followed by three or four questions.The recordings will be played only once.After you hear a question,you must choose the best answer from the four choices marked A),B),C)and D).Then mark the corresponding letter on Answer Sheet1with a single line through the centre.Questions16to18are based on the recording you have just heard.16.A).They will root out native species altogether.B).They contribute to a region's biodiversity.C).They pose a threat to the local ecosystem.D).They will crossbreed with native species.17.A).Their classifications are meaningful.B).Their interactions are hard to define.C).Their definitions are changeable.D).Their distinctions are artificial.18.A).Only a few of them cause problems to nativespecies.B).They may turn to benefit the local environmentC).Few of them can survive in their new habitats.D).Only10percent of them can be naturalized.Questions19to21are based on the recording you have just heard.19.A).Respect their traditional culture.B).Attend their business seminars.C).Research their specific demands.D).Adopt the right business strategies.20.A).Showing them your palm.B).Giving them gifts of great value.C).Drinking alcohol on certain days of a month.D).Clicking your fingers loudly in their presence.21.A).They are very easy to satisfy.B).They have a strong sense of worth.C).They trend to friendly and enthusiastic.D).They have a break from2:00to5:30p.m. Questions22to25are based on the recording you have just heard.22.A).He completely changed the company's culture.B).He collected paintings by world-famous artists.C).He took over the sales department of Reader's Digest.D).He had the company’s boardroom extensively renovated.23.A).It should be sold at a reasonable price.B).Its articles should be short and inspiring.C).It should be published in the world's leading languages.D).Its articles should entertain blue-and pink-collar workers.24.A).He knew how to make the magazine profitable.B).He served as a church minster for many years.C).He suffered many setbacks and misfortunes in his life.D).He treated the employees like members of his family.25.A).It carried many more advertisements.B).George Grune joined it as an ad salesman.C).Several hundred of its employees got fired.D).Its subscriptions increased considerably.Part III Reading Comprehension(40minutes) Section ADirections:In this section,there is a passage with ten blanks.You are required to select one word for each blank from a list of choices given in a word bank following the passage.Read the passage through carefully before making your choices.Each choice in the bank is identified by a letter.Please mark the corresponding letter for each item on Answer Sheet2with a single line through the centre.You may not use any of the words in the bank more than once.Questions26to35are based on the following passage.Did Sarah Josepha Hale write“Mary's Little Lamb,”the eternal nursery rhyme(儿歌)about a girl named Mary with a stubborn lamb?This is still dispute,but it’s clear that the woman26for writing it was one of America's most fascinating27_.In honor of the poem's publication on May24，1830，here’s more about the 28author's life.Hale wasn’t just a writer,she was also a29social advocate,and she was particularly30_with an ideal New England,which she associated with abundant Thanksgiving meals that she claimed had“a deep moral influence.”she began a nationwide31to have a national holiday declared that would bring families together whilecelebrating the32festivals.In1863,after17years of advocacy including letters to five presidents，Hale got it.setting aside the last Thursday in November for President Abraham Lincoln,during the Civil War,issued a33the holiday.The true authorship of“Mary’s Little Lamb”is disputed..According to New England Historical Society,Hale wrote only one part of the poem,but claimed authorship.Regardless of the author,it seems that the poem was 34by a real event.When young Mary Sawyer was followed to school by a lamb in1816,it caused some problems.A bystander named John Roulstone wrote a poem about the event,then,at some point,Hale herself seems35of to have helped write it.However,if a1916piece by her great-niece is to be trusted,Hale claimed for theher life that“Some other people pretended that someone else wrote the poem”.A).campaign B).careerC).characters D).featuresE).fierce F).inspiredG).latter H).obsessedI).proclamation J).rectifiedK).reputed L).restM).supposed N).traditionalO).versatileSection BDirections:In this section,you are going to read a passage with ten statements attached to it.Each statement contains information given in one of the paragraphs.Identify the paragraph from which the information is derived.You may choose a paragraph more than once.Each paragraph is marked with a letter.Answer the questions by marking the corresponding letter on Answer Sheet2.Grow Plants Without Water[A].Ever since humanity began to farm our own food,we've faced the unpredictable rain that is bothfriend and enemy.It comes and goes without much warning,and a field of lush(茂盛的)leafy greens one year can dry up and blow away the next.Food security and fortunes depend on sufficient rain,and nowhere more so than in Africa,where96%of farmland depends on rain instead of the irrigation common in more developed places.It has consequences:South Africa's ongoing drought—the worst in three decades—will cost at least a quarter of its com crop this year.[B].Biologist Jill Farrant of the University of Cape Town in South Africa says that nature has plenty ofanswers for people who want to grow crops in places with unpredictable rainfall.She is hard at work finding a way to take traits from rare wild plants that adapt to extreme dry weather and use them in food crops.As the earth's climate changes and rainfall becomes even less predictable in some places,those answers will grow even more valuable."The type of farming I'm aiming for is literally so that people can survive as it's going to get more and more dry,"Farrant says.[C].Extreme conditions produce extremely tough plants.In the rusty red deserts of South Africa,steep-sided rocky hills called inselbergs rear up from the plains like the bones of the earth.The hills are remnants of an earlier geological era,scraped bare of most soil and exposed to the elements.Yet on these and similar formations in deserts around the world,a few fierce plants have adapted to endure under ever-changing conditions.[D].Farrant calls them resurrection plants(复苏植物).During months without water under a harsh sun.They wither,shrink and contract until they look like a pile of dead gray leaves.But rainfall can revive them in a matter of hours.Her time-lapse(间歇性拍摄的)videos of the revivals look like someone playing a tape of the plant's death in reverse.[E].The big difference between"drought-tolerant"plants and these tough plants:metabolism.Manydifferent kinds of plants have developed tactics to weather dry spells.Some plants store reserves of water to see them through a drought;others send roots deep down to subsurface water supplies.But once these plants use up their stored reserve or tap out the underground supply,they cease growing and start to die.They may be able to handle a drought of some length,and many people use the term "drought tolerant"to describe such plants,but they never actually stop needing to consume water,so Farrant prefers to call them drought resistant.[F].Resurrection plants,defined as those capable of recovering from holding less than0.1grams of waterper gram of dry mass,are different.They lack water-storing structures,and their existence on rock faces prevents them from tapping groundwater,so they have instead developed the ability to change their metabolism.When they detect an extended dry period,they divert their metabolisms,producing sugars and certain stress-associated proteins and other materials in their tissues.As the plant dries, these resources take on first the properties of honey,then rubber,and finally enter a glass-like state that is"the most stable state that the plant can maintain,"Farrant says.That slows the plant's metabolism and protects its dried-out tissues.The plants also change shape,shrinking to minimize the surface area through which their remaining water might evaporate.They can recover from months and years without water,depending on the species.[G].What else can do this dry-out-and-revive trick?Seeds-almost all of them.At the start of her career,Farrant studied.recalcitrant seeds(执拗性种子),"such as avocados,coffee and lychee.While tasty, such seeds are delicate--they cannot bud and grow if they dry out(as you may know if you've ever tried to grow a tree from an avocado pit).In the seed world,that makes them rare,because most seeds from flowering plants are quite robust.Most seeds can wait out the dry,unwelcoming seasons until conditions are right and they sprout(发芽).Yet once they start growing,such plants seem not to retain the ability to hit the pause button on metabolism in their stems or leaves.[H].After completing her Ph.D.on seeds,Farrant began investigating whether it might be possible toisolate the properties that make most seeds so resilient(迅速恢复活力的)and transfer them to other plant tissues.What Farrant and others have found over the past two decades is that there are many genes involved in resurrection plants'response to dryness.Many of them are the same that regulate how seeds become dryness-tolerant while still attached to their parent plants.Now they are trying to figure out what molecular signaling processes activate those seed-building genes in resurrection plants—and how to reproduce them in crops."Most genes are regulated by a master set of genes,"Farrant says."We're looking at gene promoters and what would be their master switch."[I].Once Farrant and her colleagues feel they have a better sense of which switches to throw,they willhave to find the best way to do so in useful crops."I'm trying three methods of breeding,"Farrant says: conventional,genetic modification arid gene editing.She says she is aware that plenty of people donot want to eat genetically modified crops,but she is pushing ahead with every available tool until one works.Farmers and consumers alike can choose whether or not to use whichever versionprevails:"I'm giving people an option."[J].Farrant and others in the resurrection business got together last year to discuss the best species of resurrection plant to use as a lab model.Just like medical researchers use rats to test ideas for human medical treatments,botanists use plants that are relatively easy to grow in a lab or greenhouse setting to test their ideas for related species.The Queensland rock violet is one of the best studied resurrection plants so far,with a draft genome(基因图谱)published last year by a Chinese team.Also last year,Farrant and colleagues published a detailed molecular study of another candidate, Xerophyta viscosa,a tough-as-nail south African plant with lily-like flowers,and she says that a genome is on the way.one or both of these models will help researchers test their ideas—so far mostly done in the lab—on test plots.[K].Understanding the basic science first is key.There are good reasons why crop plants do not use dryness defenses already.For instance,there's a high energy cost in switching from a regular metabolism to an almost-no-water metabolism.It will also be necessary to understand what sort of yield farmers might expect and to establish the plant's safety."The yield is never going to be high,"Farrant says,so these plants will be targeted not at Iowa farmers trying to squeeze more cashout of high-yield fields,but subsistence farmers who need help to survive a drought like the present one in South Africa."My vision is for the subsistence farmer,"Farrant says."I'm targeting crops that are of African value.".36.There are a couple of plants tough and adaptable enough to survive on bare rocky hills and in deserts.37.Farrant is trying to isolate genes in resurrection plants and reproduce them in crops.38.Farmers in South Africa are more at the mercy of nature,especially inconsistent rainfall.39.Resurrection crops are most likely to be the choice of subsistence farmers.40.Even though many plants have developed various tactics to cope with dry weather,they cannot survive a prolonged drought.41.Despite consumer resistance,researchers are pushing ahead with genetic modification of crops.42.Most seeds can pull through dry spells and begin growing when conditions are ripe,but once this process starts,it cannot be held back.43.Farrant is working hard to cultivate food crops that call survive extreme dryness by studying the traits of rare wild plants.44.By adjusting their metabolism,resurrection plants can recover from an extended period of drought.45.Resurrection plants can come back to life in a short time after a rainfall.Section CDirections：There are2passages in this section.Each passage is followed by some questions or unfinished statements.For each of them there are four choices marked A),B),C)and D).You should decide on the best choice and mark the corresponding letter on Answer Sheet2with a single line through the centrepassage oneQuestions46to50are based on the following passage.Human memory is notoriously unreliable.Even people with the sharpest facial-recognition skills can only remember so much.It's tough to quantify how good a person is at remembering.No one really knows how many different faces someone can recall,for example,but various estimates tend to hover in the thousands-based on the number of acquaintances a person might have.Machines aren't limited this way,Give the right computer a massive database of faces,and it can process what it sees-then recognize a face it's told to find-with remarkable speed and precision. This skill is what supports the enormous promise of facial-recognition software in the2lst century. It's also what makes contemporary surveillance systems so scary.The thing is,machines still have limitations when it comes to facial recognition.And scientists are only just beginning to understand what those constraints are.To begin to figure out how computers are struggling,researchers at the University of Washington created a massive database of faces-they call it MegaFace-and tested a variety of facial-recognition algorithms(算法)as they scaled up in complexity.The idea was to test the machines on a database that included up to1 million different images of nearly700,000different people-and not just a large database featuring a relatively small number of different faces,more consistent with what's been used in other research.As the databases grew,machine accuracy dipped across the board.Algorithms that were right 95%of the time when they were dealing with a13,000-image database,for example,were accurate about70%of the time when confronted with1million images.That's still pretty good,says one of the researchers,Ira Kemelmacher-Shlizerman."Much better than we expected,"she said.Machines also had difficulty adjusting for people who look a lot alike-either doppelgangers(长相极相似的人),whom the machine would have trouble identifying as two separate people,or the same person who appeared in different photos at different ages or in different lighting,whom themachine would incorrectly view as separate people."Once we scale up,algorithms must be sensitive to tiny changes in identities and at the same time invariant to lighting,pose,age,"Kemelmacher-Shlizerman said.The trouble is,for many of the researchers who'd like to design systems to address these challenges,massive datasets for experimentation just don't exist--at least,not in formats that are accessible to academic researchers.Training sets like the ones Google and Facebook have are private.There are no public databases that contain millions of faces.MegaFace's creators say it's the largest publicly available facial-recognition dataset out there.“An ultimate face recognition algorithm should perform with billions of people in a dataset,”the researchers wrote.pared with human memory,machines can.A)identify human faces more efficientlyB)tell a friend from a mere acquaintanceC)store an unlimited number of human facesD)perceive images invisible to the human eye47.Why did researchers create MegaFace?A)To enlarge the volume of the facial-recognition databaseB)To increase the variety of facial-recognition softwareC)To understand computers'problems with facial recognitionD)To reduce the complexity of facial-recognition algorithms48.What does the passage say about machine accuracy?A)It falls short of researchers'expectations.B)It improves with added computing power.C)It varies greatly with different algorithms.D)It decreases as the database size increases.49.What is said to be a shortcoming of facial-recognition machines?A)They cannot easily tell apart people with near-identical appearances.B)They have difficulty identifying changes in facial expressionsC)They are not sensitive to minute changes in people's moodD)They have problems distinguishing people of the same age50.What is the difficulty confronting researchers of facial-recognition machines?A)No computer is yet able to handle huge datasets of human facesB)There do not exist public databases with sufficient face samplerC)There are no appropriate algorithms to process the face samplesD)They have trouble converting face datasets into the right format.Passage TwoQuestions51to55are based on the following passage.There’re currently21.5million students in America,and many will be funding their college on borrowed money.Given that there's now over$1.3trillion in student loans on the books,it's prettyapproaches$40,000,and as college becomes ever more expensive,calls to make it"free"are 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,and campuses required no utilities.As long as it's impossible to produce something from nothing costs are absolutely a barrier.The actual question we debate is who should pay for people to go to college.If taxpayers are to bear the cost of forgiving student loans,shouldn't they have a say in how their money is used?At least taxpayers should be able to decide what students will study on the public dime.If we're going to force taxpayers to foot the bill for college degrees,students should only study those subjects that’re of greatest benefit to taxpayers.After all,students making their own choices in this respect is what caused the problem in the first place.We simply don't need more poetry,gender studies,or sociology majors.How do we know which subjects benefit society?Easy.Average starting salaries give a clear indication of what type of training society needs its new workers to have.Certainly,there're benefits to a college major beyond the job a student can perform.But if we're talking about the benefits to society,the only thing that matters is what the major enables the student to produce for society.And the value of what the student can produce is reflected in the wage employers are willing to pay the student to produce it.A low wage for elementary school teachers,however,doesn't mean elementary education isn’t important.It simply means there're too many elementary school teachers already.Meanwhile,there're few who're willing and able to perform jobs requiring a petroleum engineering major,so the value of one more of those people is very highSo we can have taxpayers pick up students'tuition in exchange for dictating what those students will study.Or we can allow students both to choose their majors and pay for their education themselves.But in the end,one of two things is true:Either a college major is worth its cost or it isn't.If yes,taxpayer financing isn't needed If not taxpayer financing isn't desirable.Either way,taxpayers have no business paying for students' college education.51.What does the author think of college students funding their education through loans?A)They only expect to get huge returns.C)They benefit at taxpayers expense.B)They are acting in an irrational way.D)They will regret doing so someday.52.In the author's opinion,free college education is.A)impractical B)unsustainableC)a goal to strive for D)a way to social equality53.What should students do if taxpayers are to bear their college costs?A)Work even harder to repay society.B)Choose their subjects more carefully.C)Choose majors that will serve society's practical need.D)Allow taxpayers to participate in college administration.54.What does the author say about the value of a student's college education?A)It is underestimated by profit-seeking employers.B)It is to be proved by what they can do on the job.C)It is well reflected in their average starting salary.D)It is embodied in how they remove social barriers.55.What message does the author want to convey in the passage?A)Students should think care fully whether to go to collegeB)Taxpayers should only finance the most gifted students.C)The worth of a college education is open to debate.D)College students should fund their own education..Part I Translation(30minutes) Directions：For this part,you are allowed30minutes to translate a passage from Chinese into English.You should write your answer on Answer Sheet2.中国目前拥有世界上最大最快的高速铁路网。

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2023年6月英语四级真题及答案完整版2023英语六级答案6月（完整版）第一套听力1.B ) It was warm and comfortable .2.B ) She misses her roommates she used to complain about .3.C ) He had a similar feeling to the woman ' s .4.A ) Go to see the woman ' s apartment .5.D ) He has published a book recently .6.C ) It has not prepared young people for the jobi ja market .7.A ) More of the budget should go to science and technology .8.D ) Cultivate better citizens .9. A ) It is quite common .10. B ) Engaging in regular contemplation .11. D ) Reflecting during ones relaxation .12. C ) There existed post offices .13. D ) It kept people in the deserts and plains connected .14. B ) It commissioned private wagons to carry the mail .15. C ) He examined its historical trends with data science .16. A ) Higher levels of anxiety may improve people ' s memory .17.C ) They measured the participants ' anxiety levels . SP18. B ) Extreme levels of anxiety can adversely affect cognitive performance .19. D ) They expect to get instantaneous responses to their inquiry .20. C ) Speaking directly to their emotions .21.B ) Keep up with the latest technological developments .22. D )- Friendships benefit work .23. A ) The impact of friends on people ' s self - esteem .24. D ) They increase people ' s job satisfaction .25. A ) Allow employees to have a flexible work schedule .2023英语六级答案6月（完整版）第二套听力1.A) She is drawn to its integration of design andengineering .2.D) Through hard work3.C) It is long - lasting .4.A) Computer science .5.B) He is well known to the public .6.D) Serve as a personal assistant .7.D) He has little previous work experience .8.C) He has a high proficiency in several languages .9.A) They have fewer rules and pressures .10.B) They rob kids of the chance to cultivate their courage .11.C) Let them participate in some less risky outdooractivities .12.B) Tech firms intentionally design products to have shortlifespans13.C) List a repairability score of their products .14.D) Take the initiative to reduce e lectronie waste .15.A) It can be solved .16.B) How to prevent employees from cyberloafing .17.C) Cyberloafing may relieve employees of stress .18.A) Taking mini - breaks means better job performance19.D) There were no trees .20.B) He founded a newspaper and used it to promote hisideas .21.C) One million trees were planted throughout Nebraska22.B) They moved out of Africa about 60,000 years ago .23.D) The discovery of two modern human teeth in China .24.A) There must have been some reason for humanmigration .25.D) What path modern humans took to migrate out of Africa2023英语六级答案6月（完整版）第三套听力：待更新2023六月英语六级答案——选词填空（第一套）Scientists recently examined studies on dog intelligence ..26.N surpass27.K previously28.O volumn29.M prove30.A affirmed31.G formidable32.D differentiate33.E distinct34.C completely35.I overstated2023六月英语六级答案——选词填空（第二套）Imagine sitting down to a big dinner ...26.H indulging27.I innumerable28.J morality29.A attributes30.K odds31.M regulatory32.G inclined33.N still34.E diminishing35.B comprised2023六月英语六级答案——选词填空（第三套）You might not know yourself as wellasyouthink ...26.L relatively27.I probes28.A activated29.k recall30.D consecutive31.C assessment32.G discrepancy33.E cues34.J random35.O terminate2023英语六级答案6月（完整版）信息匹配1答案速查36-40 GDJHB41-45 ICLEN36.【 G 】 With only 26 students ...37.【 D 】I’ve had the priviledge of38.【 J 】 The average tuition at a small ...39.【 H 】" Living in close community ..40.【 B 】 In higher education the trend ...41.【 I 】 Sterling Collegein Craftsbury Common ..42.【 C 】 Tiny Colleges focus not just on mi43.【 L 】 The " trick " to making tiny colleges ...44.【 E 】 Having just retired from teaching at a ...45.【 N 】The ultimate justification for a tiny college……2023英语六级答案6月（完整版）信息匹配236-40 CGAIF41-45 KDMBH36【 C 】 Defoe ' s masterpiece , which is often ..37【 G 】 There are multiple explanations ...38【 A 】 Gratitude may be more beneficiasm39【 I 】 Of course , act of kindness can also ...40【 F 】 Recent scientific studies support .41【 K 】 Reflecting on generosity and gratitude ...42【 D 】 When we focus on the things ....43【 M 】When Defoe depicted Robinson ...44【 B 】 While this research into ...45【 H 】 Gratitude also tends to strengthens a sense2023英语六级答案6月（完整版）信息匹配3答案速查36-40 EAFCH41-45 BIEKG36.【 E 】 Curran describes socilly prescibed .37.【 A 】 When psychologist Jessica Pryor ...38.【 F 】 Perfectionism can , of course , be ...39.【 C 】 What ' s more , perfectionism ...40.【 H 】 While educators and parents have ...41.【 B 】 Along with other therapists ...42.【 I 】 Bach , who sees many students ....43.【 E 】Curan describes socially prescribed …44.【K 】Brustein likes to get his perfectionist clients to create ...45.【 G 】 Brustein says his perfectionist clients ...英语六级翻译答案6月2023年：城市发展近年来，中国城市加快发展，城市人居住环境得到显著改善。

2018年6月英语六级真题和答案听力Passage 1At some 2300 miles in length, the Mississippi is the longest river in the United States。

At some 1000 miles， the Mackenzie is the longest river in Canada。

But these waterways seem minute in comparison to the world’s 2 len gthiest rivers: the Nile and the Amazon.The Nile which begins in central Africa and flows over 4100 miles north into the Mediterranean hosted one of the world’s great ancient civilizations along its shores。

Calm and peaceful for most of the year, the Nile used to flood annually， thereby creating， irrigating and carrying new topsoil to the nearby farmland on which ancient Egypt depended for livelihood。

As a means of transportation, the river carried various vessels up and down its length。

A journey through the unobstructed part of this waterway today would pass by the splendid valley of the Kings, where the tombs of many of these ancient monarchs have stood for over 3000 years。

6月英语六级真题Part I Listening Comprehension (20 minutes) Section ADirections:In this section, you will hear 10 short conversations. At the end of each conversation, a question will be asked about what was said. Both the conversationand the question will be spoken only once. After each question there will be apause. 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 theAnswer Sheet with a single line through the center.Example:You will hear:You will read:A) 2 hours.B) 3 hours.C) 4 hours.D) 5 hours.From the conversation we know that the two were talking about some work they will start at 9 o’clock in the morning and have to finish at 2 in the afternoon. Therefore, D) “5 hours” is the correct answer. You should choose [D] on the Answer Sheet and mark it with a single line through the center.1. A) Dick's trousers don't match his jacket.B) Dick looks funny in that yellow jacket.C) The color of Dick's jacket is too dark.D) Dick has bad taste in clothes.2. A) Call the police station. C) Show the man her family pictures.B) Get the wallet for the man. D) Ask to see the man's driver's license.3. A) The temperature is not as high as the man claims.B) The room will get cool if the man opens the windows.C) She is following instructions not to use the air-conditioning.D) She is afraid the new epidemic SARS will soon spread all over town.4. A) She lost a lot of weight in two years.B) She stopped exercising two years ago.C) She had a unique way of staying healthy.D) She was never persistent in anything she did.5. A) The man is not suitable for the position.B) The job has been given to someone else.C) She had received only one application letter.D) The application arrived a week earlier than expected.6. A) He's unwilling to fetch the laundry.B) He has already picked up the laundry.C) He will go before the laundry is closed.D) He thinks his mother should get the clothes back.7. A) At a shopping center. C) At an international trade fair.B) At an electronics company. D) At a DVD counter in a music store.8. A) The woman hated the man talking throughout the movie.B) The woman saw a comedy instead of a horror movie.C) The woman prefers light movies before sleep.D) The woman regrets going to the movie.9. A) He is the fight man to get the job done.B) He is a man with professional expertise.C) He is not easy to get along with.D) He is not likely to get the job.10. A) It is being forced out of the entertainment industry.B) It should change its concept of operation.C) It should revolutionize its technology.D) It is a very good place to relax.Section BDirections: In this section, you will hear 3 short passages. At the end of each passage, you will hear some questions. Both the passage and the questions will be spoken only once.After you hear a question, you must choose the best answer from the four choicesmarked A), B), C) and D). Then mark the corresponding letter on the Answer Sheetwith a single line through the centre.Passage OneQuestions 11 to 13 are based on the passage you have just heard.11. A) He set up the first university in America.B) He was one of the earliest settlers in America.C) He can best represent the spirit of early America.D) He was the most distinguished diplomat in American history.12. A) He provided Washington with a lot of money.B) He persuaded France to support Washington.C) He served as a general in Washington's army.D) He represented Washington in negotiations with Britain.13. A) As one of the greatest American scholars.B) As one of America's most ingenious inventors.C) As one of the founding fathers of the United States.D) As one of the most famous activists for human rights.Passage TwoQuestions 14 to 17 are based on the passage you have just heard.14. A) Because we might be offered a dish of insects.B) Because nothing but freshly cooked insects are servedC) Because some yuppies like to horrify guests with insects as food.D) Because we might meet many successful executives in the media industry.15. A) From yuppie clubs. C) In the supermarket.B) In the seafood market. D) On the Internet.16. A) It's easy to prepare. C) It's exotic in appearance.B) It's tasty and healthful. D) It's safe to eat.17. A) It will be consumed by more and more young people.B) It will become the first course at dinner parties.C) It will have to be changed to suit local tastes.D) It is unlikely to be enjoyed by most People.Passage ThreeQuestions 18 to 20 are based on the passage you have just heard.18. A) Their business hours are limited.B) Their safety measures are inadequate.C) Their banking procedures are complicated.D) They don't have enough service windows.19. A) People who are in the habit of switching from one bank to another.B) Young people who are fond of modern technology.C) Young people who are wealthy and well-educated.D) People who have computers at home.20. A) To compete for customers.B) To reduce the size of their staff.C) To provide services for distant clients.D) To expand their operations at a lower cost.Part II Reading Comprehension (35 minutes) Directions: There are 4 passages in this part. Each passage is followed by some questions or unfinished statements. For each of them there are four choices marked A), B), C) and D). You should decide on the best choice and mark the corresponding letter on the Answer Sheet with a single line through the centre.Passage OneQuestions 21 to 25 are based on the following passage.It was the worst tragedy in maritime (航海旳) history, six times more deadly than the Titanic.When the German cruise ship Wilhelm Gustloff was hit by torpedoes (鱼雷) fired from a Russian submarine in the final winter of World War II, more than 10,000 people - mostly women, children and old people fleeing the final Red Army push into Nazi Germany - were packed aboard. An ice storm had turned the decks into frozen sheets that sent hundreds of families sliding into the sea as the ship tilted and began to go down. Others desperately tried to put lifeboats down. Some who succeeded fought off those in the water who had the strength to try to claw their wayaboard. Most people froze immediately. Tll never forget the screams," says Christa Ntitzmann, 87, one of the 1,200 survivors. She recalls watching the ship, brightly lit, slipping into its dark grave - and into seeming nothingness, rarely mentioned for more than half a century.Now Germany's Nobel Prize-winning author Gtinter Grass has revived the memory of the 9,000 dead, including more than 4,000 children - with his latest novel Crab Walk, published last month. The book, which will be out in English next year, doesn't dwell on the sinking; its heroine is a pregnant young woman who survives the catastrophe only to say later: "Nobody wanted to hear about it, not here in the West (of Germany) and not at all in the East." The reason was obvious. As Grass put it in a recent interview with the weekly Die Woche: "Because the crimes we Germans are responsible for were and are so dominant, we didn't have the energy left to tell of our own sufferings.''The long silence about the sinking of the Wilhelm Gustloff was probably unavoidable - and necessary. By unreservedly owning up to their country's monstrous crimes in the Second World War, Germans have managed to win acceptance abroad, marginalize (使...不得势) the neo- Nazis at home and make peace with their neighbors. Today's unified Germany is more prosperous and stable than at any time in its long, troubled history. For that, a half century of willful forgetting about painful memories like the German Titanic was perhaps a reasonable price to pay. But even the most politically correct Germans believe that they' ye now earned the right to discuss the full historical record. Not to equate German suffering with that of its victims, but simply to acknowledge a terrible tragedy.21. Why does the author say the sinking of the Wilhelm Gustloff was the worst tragedy inmaritime history?A) It was attacked by Russian torpedoes.B) Most of its passengers were frozen to death.C) Its victims were mostly women and children.D) It caused the largest number of casualties.22. Hundreds of families dropped into the sea whenA) a strong ice storm tilted the shipB) the cruise ship sank all of a suddenC) the badly damaged ship leaned toward one sideD) the frightened passengers fought desperately for lifeboats23. The Wilhelm Gustloff tragedy was little talked about for more than half a century becauseGermansA) were eager to win international acceptanceB) felt guilty for their crimes in World War IIC) ad been pressured to keep silent about itD) were afraid of offending their neighbors24. How does Gunter Grass revive the memory of the Wilhelm Gustloff tragedy?A) By presenting the horrible scene of the torpedo attack.B) By describing the ship's sinking in great detail.C) By giving an interview to the weekly Die Woche.D) By depicting the survival of a young pregnant woman.25. It can be learned from the passage that Germans no longer think thatA) they will be misunderstood if they talk about the Wilhelm Gustloff tragedyB) the Wilhelm Gustloff tragedy is a reasonable price to pay for the nation's past misdeedsC) Germany is responsible for the horrible crimes it committed in World War IID) it is wrong to equate their sufferings with those of other countriesPassage TwoQuestions 26 to 30 are based on the following passage.Given the lack of fit between gifted students and their schools, it is not surprising that such students often have little good to say 'about their school experience. In one study of 400 adul who had achieved distinction in all areas of life, researchers found that three-fifths of these individuals either did badly in school or were unhappy in school. Few MacArthur Prize fellows, winners of the MacArthur Award for creative accomplishment, had good things to say about their precollegiate schooling if they had not been placed in advanced programs. Anecdotal (名人轶事) reports support this. Pablo Picasso, Charles Darwin, Mark Twain, Oliver Goldsmith, and William Butler Yeats all disliked school. So did Winston Churchill, who almost failed out of Harrow, an elite British school. About Oliver Goldsmith, one of his teachers remarked, "Never was so dull a boy." Often these children realize that they know more than their teachers, and their teachers often feel that these children are arrogant, inattentive, or unmotivated.Some of these gifted people may have done poorly in school because their, gifts were not sc holastic. Maybe we can account for Picasso in this way. But most fared poorly in school not becau se they lacked ability but because they found school unchallenging and consequently lost interest. Yeats described the lack of fit between his mind and school: "Because I had found it difficult to att end to anything less interesting than my own thoughts, I was difficult to teach." As noted earlier, g ifted children of all kinds tend to be strong-willed nonconformists. Nonconformity and stubbornne ss (and Yeats's level of arrogance and self-absorption) are likely to lead to Conflicts with teachers.When highly gifted students in any domain talk about what was important to the developme nt of their abilities, they are far more likely to mention their families than their schools or teachers.A writing prodigy (神童) studied by David Feldman and Lynn Goldsmith was taught far more ab out writing by his journalist father than his English teacher. High-IQ children, in Australia studied by Miraca Gross had much more positive feelings about their families than their schools. About ha lf of the mathematicians studied by Benjamin Bloom had little good to say about school. They all did well in school and took honors classes when available, and some skipped grades.26. The main point the author is making about schools is thatA) they should satisfy the needs of students from different family backgroundsB) they are often incapable of catering to the needs of talented studentsC) they should organize their classes according to the students' abilityD) they should enroll as many gifted students as possible27. The author quotes the remarks of one of Oliver Goldsmith's teachersA) to provide support for his argumentB) to illustrate the strong will of some gifted childrenC) to explain how dull students can also be successfulD) to show how poor Oliver's performance was at school28. Pablo Picasso is listed among the many gifted children whoA) paid no attention to their teachers in classB) contradicted their teachers much too oftenC) could not cope with their studies at school successfullyD) behaved arrogantly and stubbornly in the presence of their teachers29. Many gifted people attributed their success.A) mainly to parental help and their education at homeB) both to school instruction and to their parents' coachingC) more to their parents' encouragement than to school trainingD) less to their systematic education than to their talent30. The root cause of many gifted students having bad memories of their school years is thatA) their nonconformity brought them a lot of troubleB) they were seldom praised by their teachersC) school courses failed to inspire or motivate themD) teachers were usually far stricter than their parentsPassage ThreeQuestions 31 to 35 are based on the following passage,When we worry about who might be spying on our private lives, we usually think about the Federal agents. But the private sector outdoes the government every time. It's Linda Tripp, not the FBI, who is facing charges under Maryland's laws against secret telephone taping. It's our banks, not the Internal Revenue Service (IRS), that pass our private financial data to telemarketing fin'ms.Consumer activists are pressing Congress for better privacy laws without much result so far. The legislators lean toward letting business people track our financial habits virtually at will.As an example of what's going on, consider U.S. Bancorp, which was recently sued for deceptive practices by the state of Minnesota. According to the lawsuit, the bank supplied a telemarketer called MemberWorks with sensitive customer data such as names,, ph'one numbers, bank-account and credit-card numbers, Social Security numbers, account balances and credit limits.With these customer lists in hand, MemberWorks started dialing for dollars - selling dental plans, videogames, computer software and other products and services. Customers who accepted a "free trial offer" had, 30 days to cancel. If the deadline passed, they were charged automatically through their bank or credit-card accounts. U.S. Bancorp collected a share of the revenues.Customers were doubly deceived, the lawsuit claims. They. didn't know that the bank was giving account numbers to MemberWorks. And if customers asked, they were led to think the answer was no.The state sued MemberWorks separately for deceptive selling. Thecompany de'hies that it did anything wrong. For its part, U.S. Bancorp settled without admitting any mistakes. But it agreed to stop exposing its customers to nonfinancial products sold by outside firms. A few top banks decided to do the same. Many other banks will still do business with MemberWorks and similar firms.And banks will still be mining data from your account in order to sell you financial products, including things of little value, such as credit insurance and credit-card protection plans.You have almost no protection from businesses that use your personal accounts for profit. For example, no federal law shields "transaction and experience" information - mainly the details of your bank and credit-card accounts. Social Security numbers are for sale by private fa'ms. They've generally agreed not to sell to the public. But to businesses, the numbers are an open book. Selfregulation doesn't work. A firm might publish a privacy-protection policy, but who enforces it?Take U.S. Bancorp again. Customers were told, in writing, that "all personal information you supply to us will be considered confidential." Then it sold your data to MemberWorks. The bank even claims that it doesn't "sell" your data at all. It merely "shares" it and reaps a profit. Now you know.31. Contrary to popular belief, the author finds that spying on people's privacyA) is mainly carried out by means of secret tapingB) has been intensified with the help of the IRSC) is practiced exclusively by the FBID) is more prevalent in business circles32. We know from the passage thatA) legislators are acting to pass a law to provide better privacy protectionB) most states are turning a blind eye to the deceptive practices of private businessesC) the state of Minnesota is considering drawing up laws to protect private informationD) lawmakers are inclined to give a free hand to businesses to inquire into customers' buyinghabits33. When the "free trial" deadline is over, you'll be charged without notice for a product or serviceifA) you fail to cancel it within the specified periodB) you happen to reveal your credit card numberC) you find the product or service unsatisfactoryD) you fail to apply for extension of the deadline34. Businesses do not regard information concerning personal bank accounts as private becauseA) its revelation will do no harm to consumers under the current protection policyB) it is considered "transaction and experience" information unprotected by lawC) it has always been considered an open secret by the general publicD) its sale can be brought under control through self-regulation35. We can infer from the passage thatA) banks will have to change their ways of doing businessB) privacy protection laws will soon be enforcedC) consumers' privacy will continue to be invadedD) "free trial" practice will eventually be bannedPassage FourQuestions 36 to 40 are based on the following passage.It's hardly news that the immigration system is a mess. Foreign nationals have long been slipping across the border with fake papers, and visitors who arrive in the U.S. legitimately often overstay their legal welcome without being punished. But since Sept. 11, it's become clear that terrorists have been shrewdly factoring the weaknesses of our system into their plans. In addition to their mastery of forging passports, at least three of the 19 Sept. 11 hijackers (劫机者) were here on expired visas. That's been a safe bet until now. The Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) ( 移民归化局) lacks the resources, and apparently the inclination, to keep track of the estimated 2 million foreigners who have intentionally overstayed their welcome.But this laxness (马虎) toward immigration fraud may be about to change. Congress has already taken some modest steps. The U.S.A. Patriot Act, passed in the wake of the Sept. 11 tragedy, requires the FBI, the Justice Department, the State Department and the INS to share more data, which will make it easier to stop watch-listed terrorists at the border.But what's really needed, critics say, is even tougher laws and more resources aimed at tightening up border security. Reformers are calling for a rollback of rules that hinder law enforcement.They also want the INS to hire hundreds more border patrol agents and investigatorsto keep illegal immigrants out and to track them down once they're here. Reformers also want to see the INS set up a database to monitor whether visa holders actually leave the country when they are required to.All these proposed changes were part of a new border-security bill that passed the House of Representatives but died in the Senate last week. Before Sept. 11, legislation of this kind had been blocked by two powerful lobbies: universities, which rely on tuition from foreign students who could be kept out by the new law, and business, which relies on foreigners for cheap labor. Since the attacks, they've backed off. The bill would have passed this time but for congressional maneuverings and is expected to be reintroduced and to pass next year.Also on the agenda for next year: a proposal, backed by some influential law-makers, to split the INS into two agencies - a good cop that would tend to service functions like processing citizenship papers and a bad cop that would concentrate on border inspections, deportation and other functions. One reason for the division, supporters say, is that the INS has in recent years become too focused on serving tourists and immigrants. After the Sept. l 1 tragedy, the INS should pay more attention to serving the millions of ordinary Americans who rely on the nation's border security to protect them from terrorist attacks.36. Terrorists have obviously taken advantage ofA) the legal privileges granted to foreignersB) the excessive hospitality of the American peopleC) the irresponsibility of the officials at border checkpointsD) the low efficiency of the Immigration and Naturalization Service37. We learn from the passage that coordinated efforts will be made by various ernmentagencies toA) refuse the renewing of expired visasB) ward off terrorist suspects at the borderC) prevent the forgery of immigration papersD). limit the number Of immigrants to the U.S.38. It can be inferred from the passage that before Sept. 11, aliens with expired visasA) might have them extended without troubleB) would be closely watched by FBI agentsC) might stay on for as long as [hey wishedD) would live in constant fear of deportation39. It is believed by many that all these years the INSA) has been serving two contradictory functionsB) has been too liberal in granting visas to tourists and immigrants indiscriminatelyC) has over-emphasized its service functions at the expense of the nation's securityD) has ignored the pleas of the two powerful lobbies40. Before Sept. 11, the U.S. Congress had been unable to pass stricter immigration laws becauseA) they might have kept away foreign students and cheap laborB) it was difficult to coordinate the efforts of the congressmenC) education and business circles cared little about national securityD) resources were not available for their enforcementPart III Vocabulary (20 minutes) Directions: There are 30 incomplete sentences in this part. For each sentence there are four choices marked A), B), C) and D). Choose the ONE answer that best completes thesentence. Then mark the corresponding letter on the Answer Sheet with a singleline through the centre.41. It is generally known that New York is a city for and a center for odd bits of information.A) veterans C) pedestriansB) victims D) eccentrics42. High grades are supposed to academic ability, but John's actual performance did not confirm this.A) certify C) classifyB) clarify D) notify43. In spite of the , it seemed that many of the invited guests would still show up.A) deviation C) controversyB) distinction D) comparison44. The relatives of those killed in the crash got together to seekA) premium C) repaymentB) compensation D) refund45. At first everything went well with the project but recently we have had a number of with themachinery.A) disturbances C) outputsB) setbacks D) distortions46. He tried to hide his patch by sweeping his hair over to one side.A) barren C) baldB) bare D) bleak47. The old couple now still for their beloved son, 30 years after his death.A) cherish C) immerseB) groan D) mourn48. Coffee is the of this district and brings local farmers a lot of money.A) majority C) spiceB) staple D) elite49. Before we move, we should ______ some of the old furniture, so that we canhave more room in the new house.A) discard C) cancelB) dissipate D) conceal50. You cannot imagine how I feel with my duties sometimes.A) overflowed C) overwhelmedB) overthrown D) overturned51. Anyone not paying the registration fee by the end of this month will be to have withdrawn from the program.A) contemplated C) acknowledgedB) deemed D) anticipated52. Although he was on a diet, the delicious food him enormously.A) distracted C) inspiredB) stimulated D) tempted t53. The police are trying to what really happened.A) ascertain C) avertB) assert D) ascribe54. Hesaid that ending the agreement would the future of small or family-run shops, lead to fewerbooks being published and increase prices of all but a few bestsellers.A) venture C) jeopardizeB) expose D) legalize55. As we know, computers are used to store and information efficiently.A) reclaim C) reassureB) reconcile D) retrieve56. His illness first itself as severe stomach pains and headaches.A) expressed C) reflectedB) manifested D) displayed57. The they felt for each other was obvious to everyone who saw them.A) affection C) sensibilityB) adherence D) sensitivity58. When construction can begin depends on how soon the of the route is completed.A) conviction C) orientationB) identity D) survey59. The government a heavy tax on tobacco, which aroused opposition from the tobacco industry.A) pronounced C) compliedB) imposed D) prescribed60. Years after the accident he was still by images of death and destruction.A) twisted C) hauntedB) dipped D) submerged61. The boxer and almost fell when his opponent hit him.A) staggered C) scatteredB) shattered D) stamped62. In mountainous regions, much of the snow that falls is into ice.A) dispersed C) compiledB) embodied D) compacted63. These continual in temperature make it impossible to decide what to wear.A) transitions C) exchangesB) transformations D) fluctuations64. The post-World War II baby resulted in a 43 percent increase in the number of teenagers in the1960s and 1970s.A) boost C) productionB) boom D) prosperity65. Elisabeth did not enter the museum at once, but ______ in the courtyard.A) resided C) lingeredB) dwelled D) delayed66. Henry went through the documents again carefully for fear of any important data.A) relaying C) deletingB) overlooking D) revealing67. The bank is offering a to anyone who can give information about the robbery.A) reward C) prizeB) bonus D) compliment68. It is a(n) ________ that the French eat so much rich food and yet have a relatively low rate ofheart disease.A) analogy C) correlationB) paradox D) illusion69. For many years the Japanese have the car market.A) presided C) operatedB) occupied D) dominated70. The subject of safety must be placed at the top of the ________.A) agenda C) routineB) bulletin D) timetablePart IV Error Correction (15 minutes) Directions:This part consists of a short passage. In this passage, there are altogether 10 mistakes, one in each numbered line. You may have to change a word, add a word or delete aword. Mark out the mistakes and put the corrections in the blanks provided. If youchange a word, cross it out and write the correct word in the corresponding blank. Ifyou add a word, put an insertion mark (∧) in the right place and write the missingword in the blank. If you delete a word, cross it out and put a slash (／) in the blank.1. time/times/periodTelevision is rapidly becoming the literatures of ourp e r i o d s.Many of the arguments having used for the study of literature. 2. ／___________As a school subject are valid for ∧ study of television. 3. the___________Culture refers to the social heritage of a people - the learnedpatterns for thinking, feeling and acting that characterize apopulation or society, include the expression of these pattems in S1. __________ material things. Culture is compose of nonmaterial culture - S2. __________ abstract creations like values, beliefs, customs and institutionalarrangements - and material culture - physical object like S3. __________ cooking pots, computers and bathtubs. In sum, culture reflects S4. __________ both the ideas we share or everything we make. In ordinaryspeech, a person of culture is the individual can speak another S5. __________ language - the person who is unfamiliar with the arts, music, S6. __________ literature, philosophy, or history. But to sociologists, to behuman is to be cultured, because of culture is the common world S7. __________of experience we share with other members of our group.Culture is essentially to our humanness. It provides a kind S8. __________of map for relating to others. Consider how you fred your wayabout social life. How do you know how to act in a classroom,or a department store, or toward a person who smiles or laugh S9. __________。

2018年6月大学英语六级考试真题(第2套）Part I Writing(30minutes) Directions:For this part,you are allowed30minutes to write an essay commenting on the importance of building trust between teachers and students.You can cite examples to illustrate your views.Youshould write at least150words but no more than200words.Part II Listening Comprehension(30minutes) Section ADirections:In this section,you will hear two long conversations At the end of each conversation,you will hear four questions.Both the conversation and the questions will be spoken only once.After 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 Sheet1with a single line through the centre. Questions1to4are based on the conversation you have just heard.1.A).She advocates animal protection.B).She sells a special kind of coffee.C).She is going to start a cafe chain.D).She is the owner of a special cafe.2.A).They bear a lot of similarities.B).They are a profitable business sector.C).They cater to different customers.D).They help take care of customers'pets.3.A).By giving them regular cleaning and injections.B).By selecting breeds that are tame and peaceful.C).By placing them at a safe distance from customers.D).By briefing customers on how to get along with them.4.A).They want to learn about rabbits.B).They like to bring in their children.C).They love the animals in her cafe.D).They give her cafe favorite reviews. Questions5to8are based on the conversation you have just heard.5.A).It contains too many additives.B).It lacks the essential vitamins.C).It can cause obesity.D).It is mostly garbage.6.A).Its fancy design.B).TV commercials.C).Its taste and texture.D).Peer influence.7.A).Investing heavily in the production of sweet foods.B).Marketing their products with ordinary ingredients.C).Trying to trick children into buying their products.D).Offering children more variable to choose from.8.A).They hardly ate vegetables.B).They seldom had junk food.C).They favored chocolate-coated sweets.D).They like the food advertised on TV.Section BDirections:In this section,you will hear two passages.At the end of each passage,you will hear three or four questions.Both the passage and the questions will be spoken only once.After you hear a question,you must choose the best answer from the four choices marked A),B),C)and D).Then mark the corresponding letter on Answer Sheet1with a single line through the centre.Questions9to11are based on the passage you have just heard.9.A).Stretches of farmland.B).Typical Egyptian animal farms.C).Tombs of ancient rulers.D).Ruins left by devastating floods.10.A).It provides habitats for more primitive tribes.B).It is hardly associated with great civilizations.C).It has not yet been fully explored and exploited.D).It gathers water from many tropical rain forests.11.A).It carries about one fifth of the word'fresh water.B).It has numerous human settlements along its banks.C).It is second only to the Mississippi River in width.D).It is as long as the Nile and the Yangtze combined.Questions12to15are based on the passage you have just heard.12.A).Living a life in the fast lane leads to success.B).We are always in a rush to do various things.C).The search for tranquility has become a trend.D).All of us actually yearn for a slow and calm life.13.A).She had trouble balancing family and work.B).She enjoyed the various social events.C).She was accustomed to tight schedules.D).She spent all her leisure time writing books.14.A).The possibility of ruining her family.B).Becoming aware of her declining health.C).The fatigue from living a fast-paced life.D).Reading a book about slowing down.15.A).She started to follow the cultural norms.B).She came to enjoy doing everyday tasks.C).She learn to use more polite expressions.D).She stopped using to-do lists and calendars. Section CDirections:In this section,you will hear three recordings of lectures or talks followed by three or four questions.The recordings will be played only once.After you hear a question,you must choose the best answer from the four choices marked A),B),C)and D).Then mark the corresponding letter on Answer Sheet1with a single line through the centre.Questions16to18are based on the recording you have just heard.16.A).They will root out native species altogether.B).They contribute to a region's biodiversity.C).They pose a threat to the local ecosystem.D).They will crossbreed with native species.17.A).Their classifications are meaningful.B).Their interactions are hard to define.C).Their definitions are changeable.D).Their distinctions are artificial.18.A).Only a few of them cause problems to nativespecies.B).They may turn to benefit the local environmentC).Few of them can survive in their new habitats.D).Only10percent of them can be naturalized.Questions19to21are based on the recording you have just heard.19.A).Respect their traditional culture.B).Attend their business seminars.C).Research their specific demands.D).Adopt the right business strategies.20.A).Showing them your palm.B).Giving them gifts of great value.C).Drinking alcohol on certain days of a month.D).Clicking your fingers loudly in their presence.21.A).They are very easy to satisfy.B).They have a strong sense of worth.C).They trend to friendly and enthusiastic.D).They have a break from2:00to5:30p.m. Questions22to25are based on the recording you have just heard.22.A).He completely changed the company's culture.B).He collected paintings by world-famous artists.C).He took over the sales department of Reader's Digest.D).He had the company’s boardroom extensively renovated.23.A).It should be sold at a reasonable price.B).Its articles should be short and inspiring.C).It should be published in the world's leading languages.D).Its articles should entertain blue-and pink-collar workers.24.A).He knew how to make the magazine profitable.B).He served as a church minster for many years.C).He suffered many setbacks and misfortunes in his life.D).He treated the employees like members of his family.25.A).It carried many more advertisements.B).George Grune joined it as an ad salesman.C).Several hundred of its employees got fired.D).Its subscriptions increased considerably.Part III Reading Comprehension(40minutes) Section ADirections:In this section,there is a passage with ten blanks.You are required to select one word for each blank from a list of choices given in a word bank following the passage.Read the passage through carefully before making your choices.Each choice in the bank is identified by a letter.Please mark the corresponding letter for each item on Answer Sheet2with a single line through the centre.You may not use any of the words in the bank more than once.Questions26to35are based on the following passage.Did Sarah Josepha Hale write“Mary's Little Lamb,”the eternal nursery rhyme(儿歌)about a girl named Mary with a stubborn lamb?This is still dispute,but it’s clear that the woman26for writing it was one of America's most fascinating27_.In honor of the poem's publication on May24，1830，here’s more about the 28author's life.Hale wasn’t just a writer,she was also a29social advocate,and she was particularly30_with an ideal New England,which she associated with abundant Thanksgiving meals that she claimed had“a deep moral influence.”she began a nationwide31to have a national holiday declared that would bring families together whilecelebrating the32festivals.In1863,after17years of advocacy including letters to five presidents，Hale got it.setting aside the last Thursday in November for President Abraham Lincoln,during the Civil War,issued a33the holiday.The true authorship of“Mary’s Little Lamb”is disputed..According to New England Historical Society,Hale wrote only one part of the poem,but claimed authorship.Regardless of the author,it seems that the poem was 34by a real event.When young Mary Sawyer was followed to school by a lamb in1816,it caused some problems.A bystander named John Roulstone wrote a poem about the event,then,at some point,Hale herself seems35of to have helped write it.However,if a1916piece by her great-niece is to be trusted,Hale claimed for theher life that“Some other people pretended that someone else wrote the poem”.A).campaign B).careerC).characters D).featuresE).fierce F).inspiredG).latter H).obsessedI).proclamation J).rectifiedK).reputed L).restM).supposed N).traditionalO).versatileSection BDirections:In this section,you are going to read a passage with ten statements attached to it.Each statement contains information given in one of the paragraphs.Identify the paragraph from which the information is derived.You may choose a paragraph more than once.Each paragraph is marked with a letter.Answer the questions by marking the corresponding letter on Answer Sheet2.Grow Plants Without Water[A].Ever since humanity began to farm our own food,we've faced the unpredictable rain that is bothfriend and enemy.It comes and goes without much warning,and a field of lush(茂盛的)leafy greens one year can dry up and blow away the next.Food security and fortunes depend on sufficient rain,and nowhere more so than in Africa,where96%of farmland depends on rain instead of the irrigation common in more developed places.It has consequences:South Africa's ongoing drought—the worst in three decades—will cost at least a quarter of its com crop this year.[B].Biologist Jill Farrant of the University of Cape Town in South Africa says that nature has plenty ofanswers for people who want to grow crops in places with unpredictable rainfall.She is hard at work finding a way to take traits from rare wild plants that adapt to extreme dry weather and use them in food crops.As the earth's climate changes and rainfall becomes even less predictable in some places,those answers will grow even more valuable."The type of farming I'm aiming for is literally so that people can survive as it's going to get more and more dry,"Farrant says.[C].Extreme conditions produce extremely tough plants.In the rusty red deserts of South Africa,steep-sided rocky hills called inselbergs rear up from the plains like the bones of the earth.The hills are remnants of an earlier geological era,scraped bare of most soil and exposed to the elements.Yet on these and similar formations in deserts around the world,a few fierce plants have adapted to endure under ever-changing conditions.[D].Farrant calls them resurrection plants(复苏植物).During months without water under a harsh sun.They wither,shrink and contract until they look like a pile of dead gray leaves.But rainfall can revive them in a matter of hours.Her time-lapse(间歇性拍摄的)videos of the revivals look like someone playing a tape of the plant's death in reverse.[E].The big difference between"drought-tolerant"plants and these tough plants:metabolism.Manydifferent kinds of plants have developed tactics to weather dry spells.Some plants store reserves of water to see them through a drought;others send roots deep down to subsurface water supplies.But once these plants use up their stored reserve or tap out the underground supply,they cease growing and start to die.They may be able to handle a drought of some length,and many people use the term "drought tolerant"to describe such plants,but they never actually stop needing to consume water,so Farrant prefers to call them drought resistant.[F].Resurrection plants,defined as those capable of recovering from holding less than0.1grams of waterper gram of dry mass,are different.They lack water-storing structures,and their existence on rock faces prevents them from tapping groundwater,so they have instead developed the ability to change their metabolism.When they detect an extended dry period,they divert their metabolisms,producing sugars and certain stress-associated proteins and other materials in their tissues.As the plant dries, these resources take on first the properties of honey,then rubber,and finally enter a glass-like state that is"the most stable state that the plant can maintain,"Farrant says.That slows the plant's metabolism and protects its dried-out tissues.The plants also change shape,shrinking to minimize the surface area through which their remaining water might evaporate.They can recover from months and years without water,depending on the species.[G].What else can do this dry-out-and-revive trick?Seeds-almost all of them.At the start of her career,Farrant studied.recalcitrant seeds(执拗性种子),"such as avocados,coffee and lychee.While tasty, such seeds are delicate--they cannot bud and grow if they dry out(as you may know if you've ever tried to grow a tree from an avocado pit).In the seed world,that makes them rare,because most seeds from flowering plants are quite robust.Most seeds can wait out the dry,unwelcoming seasons until conditions are right and they sprout(发芽).Yet once they start growing,such plants seem not to retain the ability to hit the pause button on metabolism in their stems or leaves.[H].After completing her Ph.D.on seeds,Farrant began investigating whether it might be possible toisolate the properties that make most seeds so resilient(迅速恢复活力的)and transfer them to other plant tissues.What Farrant and others have found over the past two decades is that there are many genes involved in resurrection plants'response to dryness.Many of them are the same that regulate how seeds become dryness-tolerant while still attached to their parent plants.Now they are trying to figure out what molecular signaling processes activate those seed-building genes in resurrection plants—and how to reproduce them in crops."Most genes are regulated by a master set of genes,"Farrant says."We're looking at gene promoters and what would be their master switch."[I].Once Farrant and her colleagues feel they have a better sense of which switches to throw,they willhave to find the best way to do so in useful crops."I'm trying three methods of breeding,"Farrant says: conventional,genetic modification arid gene editing.She says she is aware that plenty of people donot want to eat genetically modified crops,but she is pushing ahead with every available tool until one works.Farmers and consumers alike can choose whether or not to use whichever versionprevails:"I'm giving people an option."[J].Farrant and others in the resurrection business got together last year to discuss the best species of resurrection plant to use as a lab model.Just like medical researchers use rats to test ideas for human medical treatments,botanists use plants that are relatively easy to grow in a lab or greenhouse setting to test their ideas for related species.The Queensland rock violet is one of the best studied resurrection plants so far,with a draft genome(基因图谱)published last year by a Chinese team.Also last year,Farrant and colleagues published a detailed molecular study of another candidate, Xerophyta viscosa,a tough-as-nail south African plant with lily-like flowers,and she says that a genome is on the way.one or both of these models will help researchers test their ideas—so far mostly done in the lab—on test plots.[K].Understanding the basic science first is key.There are good reasons why crop plants do not use dryness defenses already.For instance,there's a high energy cost in switching from a regular metabolism to an almost-no-water metabolism.It will also be necessary to understand what sort of yield farmers might expect and to establish the plant's safety."The yield is never going to be high,"Farrant says,so these plants will be targeted not at Iowa farmers trying to squeeze more cashout of high-yield fields,but subsistence farmers who need help to survive a drought like the present one in South Africa."My vision is for the subsistence farmer,"Farrant says."I'm targeting crops that are of African value.".36.There are a couple of plants tough and adaptable enough to survive on bare rocky hills and in deserts.37.Farrant is trying to isolate genes in resurrection plants and reproduce them in crops.38.Farmers in South Africa are more at the mercy of nature,especially inconsistent rainfall.39.Resurrection crops are most likely to be the choice of subsistence farmers.40.Even though many plants have developed various tactics to cope with dry weather,they cannot survive a prolonged drought.41.Despite consumer resistance,researchers are pushing ahead with genetic modification of crops.42.Most seeds can pull through dry spells and begin growing when conditions are ripe,but once this process starts,it cannot be held back.43.Farrant is working hard to cultivate food crops that call survive extreme dryness by studying the traits of rare wild plants.44.By adjusting their metabolism,resurrection plants can recover from an extended period of drought.45.Resurrection plants can come back to life in a short time after a rainfall.Section CDirections：There are2passages in this section.Each passage is followed by some questions or unfinished statements.For each of them there are four choices marked A),B),C)and D).You should decide on the best choice and mark the corresponding letter on Answer Sheet2with a single line through the centrepassage oneQuestions46to50are based on the following passage.Human memory is notoriously unreliable.Even people with the sharpest facial-recognition skills can only remember so much.It's tough to quantify how good a person is at remembering.No one really knows how many different faces someone can recall,for example,but various estimates tend to hover in the thousands-based on the number of acquaintances a person might have.Machines aren't limited this way,Give the right computer a massive database of faces,and it can process what it sees-then recognize a face it's told to find-with remarkable speed and precision. This skill is what supports the enormous promise of facial-recognition software in the2lst century. It's also what makes contemporary surveillance systems so scary.The thing is,machines still have limitations when it comes to facial recognition.And scientists are only just beginning to understand what those constraints are.To begin to figure out how computers are struggling,researchers at the University of Washington created a massive database of faces-they call it MegaFace-and tested a variety of facial-recognition algorithms(算法)as they scaled up in complexity.The idea was to test the machines on a database that included up to1 million different images of nearly700,000different people-and not just a large database featuring a relatively small number of different faces,more consistent with what's been used in other research.As the databases grew,machine accuracy dipped across the board.Algorithms that were right 95%of the time when they were dealing with a13,000-image database,for example,were accurate about70%of the time when confronted with1million images.That's still pretty good,says one of the researchers,Ira Kemelmacher-Shlizerman."Much better than we expected,"she said.Machines also had difficulty adjusting for people who look a lot alike-either doppelgangers(长相极相似的人),whom the machine would have trouble identifying as two separate people,or the same person who appeared in different photos at different ages or in different lighting,whom themachine would incorrectly view as separate people."Once we scale up,algorithms must be sensitive to tiny changes in identities and at the same time invariant to lighting,pose,age,"Kemelmacher-Shlizerman said.The trouble is,for many of the researchers who'd like to design systems to address these challenges,massive datasets for experimentation just don't exist--at least,not in formats that are accessible to academic researchers.Training sets like the ones Google and Facebook have are private.There are no public databases that contain millions of faces.MegaFace's creators say it's the largest publicly available facial-recognition dataset out there.“An ultimate face recognition algorithm should perform with billions of people in a dataset,”the researchers wrote.pared with human memory,machines can.A)identify human faces more efficientlyB)tell a friend from a mere acquaintanceC)store an unlimited number of human facesD)perceive images invisible to the human eye47.Why did researchers create MegaFace?A)To enlarge the volume of the facial-recognition databaseB)To increase the variety of facial-recognition softwareC)To understand computers'problems with facial recognitionD)To reduce the complexity of facial-recognition algorithms48.What does the passage say about machine accuracy?A)It falls short of researchers'expectations.B)It improves with added computing power.C)It varies greatly with different algorithms.D)It decreases as the database size increases.49.What is said to be a shortcoming of facial-recognition machines?A)They cannot easily tell apart people with near-identical appearances.B)They have difficulty identifying changes in facial expressionsC)They are not sensitive to minute changes in people's moodD)They have problems distinguishing people of the same age50.What is the difficulty confronting researchers of facial-recognition machines?A)No computer is yet able to handle huge datasets of human facesB)There do not exist public databases with sufficient face samplerC)There are no appropriate algorithms to process the face samplesD)They have trouble converting face datasets into the right format.Passage TwoQuestions51to55are based on the following passage.There’re currently21.5million students in America,and many will be funding their college on borrowed money.Given that there's now over$1.3trillion in student loans on the books,it's prettyapproaches$40,000,and as college becomes ever more expensive,calls to make it"free"are 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,and campuses required no utilities.As long as it's impossible to produce something from nothing costs are absolutely a barrier.The actual question we debate is who should pay for people to go to college.If taxpayers are to bear the cost of forgiving student loans,shouldn't they have a say in how their money is used?At least taxpayers should be able to decide what students will study on the public dime.If we're going to force taxpayers to foot the bill for college degrees,students should only study those subjects that’re of greatest benefit to taxpayers.After all,students making their own choices in this respect is what caused the problem in the first place.We simply don't need more poetry,gender studies,or sociology majors.How do we know which subjects benefit society?Easy.Average starting salaries give a clear indication of what type of training society needs its new workers to have.Certainly,there're benefits to a college major beyond the job a student can perform.But if we're talking about the benefits to society,the only thing that matters is what the major enables the student to produce for society.And the value of what the student can produce is reflected in the wage employers are willing to pay the student to produce it.A low wage for elementary school teachers,however,doesn't mean elementary education isn’t important.It simply means there're too many elementary school teachers already.Meanwhile,there're few who're willing and able to perform jobs requiring a petroleum engineering major,so the value of one more of those people is very highSo we can have taxpayers pick up students'tuition in exchange for dictating what those students will study.Or we can allow students both to choose their majors and pay for their education themselves.But in the end,one of two things is true:Either a college major is worth its cost or it isn't.If yes,taxpayer financing isn't needed If not taxpayer financing isn't desirable.Either way,taxpayers have no business paying for students' college education.51.What does the author think of college students funding their education through loans?A)They only expect to get huge returns.C)They benefit at taxpayers expense.B)They are acting in an irrational way.D)They will regret doing so someday.52.In the author's opinion,free college education is.A)impractical B)unsustainableC)a goal to strive for D)a way to social equality53.What should students do if taxpayers are to bear their college costs?A)Work even harder to repay society.B)Choose their subjects more carefully.C)Choose majors that will serve society's practical need.D)Allow taxpayers to participate in college administration.54.What does the author say about the value of a student's college education?A)It is underestimated by profit-seeking employers.B)It is to be proved by what they can do on the job.C)It is well reflected in their average starting salary.D)It is embodied in how they remove social barriers.55.What message does the author want to convey in the passage?A)Students should think care fully whether to go to collegeB)Taxpayers should only finance the most gifted students.C)The worth of a college education is open to debate.D)College students should fund their own education..Part I Translation(30minutes) Directions：For this part,you are allowed30minutes to translate a passage from Chinese into English.You should write your answer on Answer Sheet2.中国目前拥有世界上最大最快的高速铁路网。

2018年6月大学英语六级考试真题及参考答案Part I Writing (30 minutes)Directions:For this part，you are allowed 30 minutes to write a short essay on the importance of building trust between teachers and students. You should write at least 120 words but no more than180 words.【参考范文】It is universally acknowledged that trust is one of the most valuable assets for interpersonal communication. However, it is not uncommon to have misunderstanding and generation gap between teachers and students. with the current trend of communication becoming necessary and indispensable in this ever-changing modern society, building trust is of great significance.In order to set up the credibility between teachers and students, on the one hand, as teachers, weshould sincerely deal with the studen ts’ problems and difficulties, comprehending their necessities.On the other hand, as students, it is necessary that more understanding and respect should begiven. Becoming good friends to have the trans-positional consideration each other canbuilda harmonious atmosphere.Only in this way, would the relationship of trust between teachers and students be established effectively. When students encounter the difficulties and problems, they would be willing to turn to their respected teachers, whereby the education development in our country could have a further step.PartⅡ Listening Comprehension ( 25 minutes)暂缺选项PartⅢReading Comprehension ( 40 minutes)Section ADirections:In this section,there is a passage with ten blanks. You are required to select one word for each blank from a list of choices given in a word bank following the passage.Read the passage through carefully before making your choices. Each choice in the bank is identified by a letter. Please mark the corresponding letter for each item on Answer Sheet 2 with a single line through the centre. You may not use any of the words in the bank more than once．Questions 26 to 35 are based on the following passage.When Elon Musk says that his new priority is using artificial intelligence to build domestic robots, we should look forward to the day in admiration.Mr. Musk is a guy who gets things done. The founder of two tech companies, Tesla Motors and SpaceX, is bringing electric vehicles to mass market and 26 humans to live on other planets. This sounds like so much hot air, but the near $13 billion fortune this entrepreneur has 27 comes from practical achievements rather than hypothetical ones.A lot of clever people are 28 about artificial intelligence, fearing that robots will one day become so 29 that they’ll murder all of us. These fears are mostly 30 : as with hysteria about genetic modification, we humans are generally wise enough to manage these problems with speed and care.And just think of how wonderful it would be if you had a live-in robot. It could, 31 , be like having a babysitter and a nurse rolled into one--or, if that required 32 intelligence beyond the power of Mr. Musk’s imagined machine, at least someone to chop the carrots, wash the car and mow the lawn. Once purchased and trained, this would allow the 33 user to save money and time, freeing up 34 space in our busy lives to read a good book.That is why we welcome Mr. Musk’s latest 35 , and wish him well. As long as robots add to the sum of human happiness, reduce suffering, and create time to readworld-class journalism, we should be their fans. Especially since journalism is one job robots will never do.A)amassedB)casualC)emotionalD)enablingE)eventuallyF)exaggeratedG)extravagantH)generouslyI)misleadingJ)preciousK)rewardL)smartM)sphereN)terrifiedO)venture【参考答案】26. D. enabling27. A. amassed28. N.terrified29. L. smart30. F. exaggerated31. E. eventually32. C. emotional33. B. casual34. J. precious35. O. venture Section BDirections:In this section, you are going to read a passage with ten statements attached to eachstatement contains information given in one of the paragraphs. Identify the paragraph from which the information is derived. You may choose a paragraph more than once. Each paragraph is marked with a letter. Answer the questions by marking the corresponding letter on Answer Sheet 2.In the real world, nobody cares that you went to an Ivy League schoolA) As a high school junior, everything in my life revolved around getting into the right college. I diligently attended my SAT, ACT, and Advanced Placement test preparation courses. I juggled （尽力应付）cross-country and track schedules, newspaper staff, and my church’s youth group and drama team. I didn’t drink, party, or even do much dating. The right college, I thought, was one with prestige, one with a name. It didn’t have to be the Ivy League, but it needed to be “top school.”B) Looking back now, nine years later, I can’t remember exactly what it was about these universities that made them seem so much better. Was it a curriculum that appeared more rigorous, perhaps? Or an alumni network that I hoped would open doors down the line? Maybe. “I do think there are advantages to schools with more recognition,” notes Marybeth Gasman, a professor of higher education at the University of Pennsylvania. “I don’t necessarily think that’s a reason to go to one.”C) In reflection, my firm belief in the power of the brand was naive, not to mention a bit snobby. I quickly passed over state schools and southern schools, believing their curriculums to be automatically inferior to northeastern or western counterparts. Instead, I dreamed of living in New York City and my parents obliged me with a visit to New York University’s (NYU) campus. During the tour, tuition fees were discusse d. (NYU is consistently ranked one of the country’s most expensive schools, with room and board costs totaling upwards of $64,000 a year.) Up until then, I hadn’t truly realized just how expensive an education can be. Over the next few months, I realized n ot only could I not afford my dream school, I couldn’t even afford the ones where I’d been accepted. City University of New York (CUNY), Rutgers University, and Indiana University were out of reach as were Mississippi State and the University of Alabama, where I would have to pay out-of-state fees. Further complicating my college search was a flourishing stack career—I wanted to keep running but my times weren’t quite fast enough to secure a scholarship.D) And so, at 11pm on the night of Georgia State Univ ersity’s (GSU) midnight deadline, I applied online. Rated No.466 overall on Forbes’ Lists Top Colleges, No. 183 in Research Universities, and No. 108 in the South, I can’t say it was my top choice. Still, the track coach had offered me a walk-on spot, and I actually found the urban Atlanta campus a decent consolation prize after New York City.E) While it may have been practical, it wasn’t prestigious, But here’s the thing: I loved my “lower-tier” (低层次的) university. (I use the term “low-tier” cautiously, because GSU is a well-regarded research institution that attracts high quality professors and faculty from all over the country.) We are taught to believe that only by going to the best schools and getting the best grades can we escape the rat race and build a better future. But what if lower-tier colleges and universities were the ticket to escaping the rat race? After all, where else can you leave school with a decent degree—but without a lifetime of debt?F) My school didn’t come pre-packaged like the more popular options, so we were left to take care of ourselves, figuring out city life and trying to complete degree programs that no one was championing for us to succeed in. What I’m saying is, I loved my university because it taught us all to be resourceful and we could make what we wanted out of it.G) I was lucky enough to have my tuition covered by a lottery-funded scholarship called HOPE (Helping Outstanding Pupils Educationally). When I started college, the HOPE scholarship was funded by the state of Georgia and offered to graduating high school seniors with a GPA of 3.0 or higher. Living costs and books I paid for with money earned during high school, supplemented by a small college fund my deceased grandfather left for me and a modest savings account my parents created when I was born.H) So what about all that name recognition? Sure, many of my colleagues and competitors have more glamorous alma maters（母校）than I do. As a journalist, I have competed against NYU, Columbia, and Northeastern graduates for jobs. And yet, not a single interviewer has ever asked me about my educational background. In fact, almost every interview I’ve ever had was due to a connection—one that I’ve gained through pure determination, not a school brand.I) According to The Bosto n Globe, students who earned their bachelor’s in 2012 have an average monthly loan payment of $312, which is one-third more than those who graduated in 2004. Ultimately, that’s the thing universities don’t want to admit. Private universities are money-making institutions. If you can afford to buy prestige, that’s your choice. For the rest of us, however, our hearty lower-tiered universities are just fine, thank you.J) Wealthy universities talk up the benefits their name will give graduates; namely, strong alumni networks, star faculty, and a résumé boost. But you needn’t attend an Ivy League school to reap those rewards. Ludacris and the former CEO of Bank of America Ken Lewis are alumni of my college, as well as VICE’s first femaleeditor-in-chief, Ellis Jones. Successful people tend to be successful no matter where they go to school. And lower-tier schools can have alumni networks just as strong astheir big name counterparts. In fact, lower-tier school alumni networks are arguably stronger, because fellow alumni recognize that you didn’t necessarily have an easy path to follow. They might be more willing to offer career help, because your less famous school denotes that, like them., you are also full of energy and perseverance.K) The Washington Post reported on a recent study by Princeton economists, in which college graduates, who applied to the most selective schools in the 12th grade were compared to those who applied to slightly less selective schools. They found that students with more potential earned more as adults, and the reverse held true as well, no matter where they went to school.L) Likewise, star faculty is not always found where you’d expect. Big name schools are not necessarily the best places for professors; plus, many professors split teaching time between multiple colleges and/or universities. This means, for instance, a CUNY student could reasonably expect to receive the same quality of instruction from a prestigious professor as they would if they were enrolled in the same class at NYU. M) It’s possible that some hiring managers may be drawn to candidates with a particular educational résumé, but it’s no guarantee. According to a 2012 survey described in The Atlantic, college reputation ranked lowest in relative importance of attributes in evaluating graduates for hire, beaten out by top factors like internships, employment during college, college major, volunteer experience, and extracurriculars.N) Maybe students who choose less prestigious universities are bound to succeed because they are determined to. I tend to think so. In any case, if I could do it again, I’d still make the same choice. Today I’m debt-free, resourceful—and I understand that even the shiniest packaging can’t predict what you’ll find on the inside.36. Modest institutions can also have successful graduates and strong alumni networks.37. The money the author made in high school helped pay for her living expenses and books at college.38. The author came to see how costly college education could be when she was trying to choose a university to attend.39. A recent study found that a graduate’s salary is determined by their potential, not the university they attended.40. The author cannot recall for sure what made certain top universities appear a lot better.41. None o f the author’s job interviewers cared which college she went to.42. The author thinks she did the right thing in choosing a less prestigious university.43. In order to be admitted to a prestigious university, the author took part in various extracurricular activities and attended test preparation courses.44. The author liked her university which was not prestigious but less expensive.45. Colleges are reluctant to admit that graduates today are in heavier debt.【参考答案】46. [J] 题干：Modest institutions can also have successful graduates and strong alumni networks.47. [G] 题干：The money the author made in high school helped pay for her living expenses and books at college.48. [C] 题干：The author came to see how costly college education could be when she was trying to choose a university to attend.49. [K] 题干：A recent study found that a graduate’s salary is determined by their potential, not the university they attended.50. [B] 题干：The author cannot recall for sure what made certain top universities appear a lot better.51. [H] 题干：None of the author’s job interviewers cared which college she went to.52. [N] 题干：The author thinks she did the right thing in choosing a less prestigious university.53. [A] 题干：In order to be admitted to a prestigious university, the author took part in various extracurricular activities and attended test preparation courses.54. [E] 题干：The author liked her university which was not prestigious but less expensive.55. [I] 题干：Colleges are reluctant to admit that graduates today are in heavier debt.Section CDirections:There are 2 passages in this section. Each passage is followed by some questions or unfinished statements. For each of them there are four choices marked A), B) , C) and D). You should decide on the best choice and mark the corresponding letter on Answer Sheet 2 with a single line through the centre.Passage OneQuestions 46 to 50 are based on the following passage.Economically speaking, are we better off than we were ten years ago? Twenty years ago?In their thirst for evidence on this issue, commentators seized on the recent report by the Census Bureau, which found that average household income rose by 5.2% in 2015. Unfortunately, that conclusion puts too much weight on a useful, but flawed and incomplete, statistic. Among th e more significant problems with the Census’s measure are that: 1) it excludes taxes, transfers, and compensation likeemployer-provided health insurance; and 2) it is based on surveys rather than data. Even if precisely measured, income data exclude important determinants of economic well-being, such as the hours of work needed to earn that income.While thinking about the question, we came across a recently published article by Charles Jones and Peter Klenow, which proposes an interesting new measure of economic welfare. While by no means perfect, it is considerably more comprehensive than average income, taking into account not only growth in consumption per person but also changes in working time, life expectancy, and inequality. Moreover, it can be used to assess economic performance both across countries and over time.The Jones-Klenow method can be illustrated by a cross-country example. Suppose we want to compare the economic welfare of citizens of the U.S. and France in 2005.In 2005, as the authors observe, real consumption per person in France was only 60% as high as the U.S., making it appear that Americans were economically much better off than the French on average. However, that comparison omits other relevant factors: leisure time, life expectancy, and economic inequality. The French take longer vacations and retire earlier, so typically work fewer hours; they enjoy a higher life expectancy, presumably reflecting advantages with respect to health care, diet, lifestyle, and the like; and income and consumption are somewhat more equally distributed there than in the U.S. Because of these differences, comparing France’s consumption with the U.S.’s overstates the gap in economic welfare.Similar calculations can be used to compare the U.S. and other countries. For example, this calculation puts economic welfare in the United Kingdom at 97% of U.S. levels, but estimates Mexican well-being at 22%.The Jones-Klenow measure can also assess an economy’s performance over time. According to this measure, as of the early-to-mid-2000s, the U.S. had the highest economic welfare of any large country. Since 2007, economic welfare in the U.S. has continued to improve. However, the pace of improvement has slowed markedly.Methodologically, the lesson from the Jones-Klenow research is that economic welfare is multi-dimensional. Their approach is flexible enough that in principle other important quality-of-life changes could be incorporated—for example, decreases in total emissions of pollutants and declines in crime rates.46. What does the author think of the 2015 report by the Census Bureau?A) It is based on questionable statistics.B) It reflects the economic changes.C) It evidences the improved welfare.D) It provides much food for thought.47. What does the author say about the Jones-Klenow method?A) It is widely used to compare the economic growth across countries.B) It revolutionizes the way of measuring ordinary people’s livelihood.C) It focuses on people’s consumption rather that their average income.D) I t is a more comprehensive measure of people’s economic well-being.48. What do Jones and Klenow think of the comparison between France and the U.S. in terms of real consumption per person?A) It reflected the existing big gap between the two economies.B) It neglected many important indicators of people’s welfare.C) It covered up the differences between individual citizens.D) It failed to count in their difference in natural resources.49. What is an advantage of the Jones-Klenow method?A）It can accurate ly pinpoint a country’s current economic problems.B) It can help to raise people’s awareness of their economic well-being.C) It can diagnose the causes of a country’s slowing pace of economic improvement.D) It can compare a country’s economic conditions between different periods of time.50. What can we infer from the passage about American people’s economicwell-being?A) It is much better than that of their European counterparts.B) It has been on the decline ever since the turn of the century.C) It has not improved as much as reported by the Census Bureau.D) It has not been accurately assessed and reported since mid-2000s.Passage TwoQuestions 51 to 55 are based on the following passage.暂缺。

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2008年6月英语六级阅读真题解析
屠皓民
【期刊名称】《新东方英语：中英文版》
【年(卷),期】2008(0)11
【摘要】在历年的六级考试中,阅读理解部分因其对词汇、句法要求高和出题形式多样化,一直以来都是考试重心。

对于准备2008年12月份六级考试的考生们来说,分析2008年6月份的六级阅读真题,把握出题规律尤为重要。

总体来说,6月份的考试体现了过去几次新六级的共同特点:阅读量大,但难度并不大。

下面我们逐项一一解析。

【总页数】3页(P7-9)
【关键词】六级阅读;六级考试;阅读理解;考生;快速阅读;关键词;题型;填空题;题干;名词性结构
【作者】屠皓民
【作者单位】
【正文语种】中文
【中图分类】H319
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