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2006年12月大学英语四级考试答案与解析写作指南：这是一篇典型的评论型作文，是四六级作文的经典题型。
题目要求考生对有关春节联欢晚会的争议提出自己的看法。
根据题目要求，文章的结构如下：第一段简单介绍春节联欢晚会及其影响力。
第二段阐述人们对春节联欢晚会的不同观点：1．有的人建议取消春节联欢晚会，原因是……2．有的人喜欢观看春节联欢晚会，原因是……第三段提出自己的观点和对春节联欢晚会的一点建议。
The CCTV Spring Festival Gala is one of China‟s most popular annual television events, watched by millions of people on the eve of the lunar New Y ear. However, in recent years, the 4-hour show is losing its appeal, especially to youngsters.People in increasing numbers choose not to watch the show. They claim that the stereotyped Gala should give way to diverse modem celebrations. However, some other people are faithful audience of it. They argue that the Evening Gala has somewhat become a tradition since it was initiated in the 1980s. What’s more, watching the show is an indispensable part of the festival for them.Though the Gala is no longer popular with young people, I myself enjoy watching t he show with my family. Y et to maintain the interest of the young generation,the organizing committee should develop a program more exciting, more colorful and more entertaining than the previous ones. For example, it‟s a good idea to invite some big names in China‟s film and music industries to perform on the Gala stage.Spring Festival Gala on CCTVThe CCTV Spring Festival Gala is one of China‟s most popular annual television events, watched by millions of people on the eve of the lunar New Y ear. Many people are its faithful audience. They hold that the Evening Gala has somewhat become a tradition since it was initiated in the 1980s. What‟s more, watching the show is an indispensable part of the festival for them.However, in recent years, the 4-hour show is losing its appeal, especially to youngsters. People in increasing numbers choose not to watch the show. They claim that the stereotypical Gala should give way to diverse modem celebrations.Though the Gala is no longer popular with young people, I enjoy very much watching the show with my family. Yet to maintain the show‟s attraction to younger generations, the organizing committee should develop a program more exciting and more entertaining. For example, it‟s a good idea to invite some big names in China‟s film and music industry to perform on the Gala stage.2.The approach of the Chinese Lunar New Y ear poses a national issue concerning the necessity of holding the CCTV Spring Festival Gala. Its established status is being challenged by a growing number of people, especially by younger generations. It is increasingly difficult to cater for all tastes.Some individuals deem that it should be canceled or replaced by other programs. These young people focus their attention on other forms of celebration instead of immersing themselvesin TV. Despite that, the majority of mid-aged people and senior citizens uphold the importance of the traditional performance. The most striking feature of this gala is its traditionally close link with ordinary people‟s lives. Most of people view this gala as an annual staple on the traditional Chinese Spring Festival Eve. They all have a restless night and glue their eyes on the television.I am not supportive of the view that the grand gala should be abandoned. Undoubtedly, it plays a vital role in the celebration of Chinese New Y ear. To increase its appeal and meet young adults‟ need, the upcoming performance should invite some big names including super stars from Hongkong and Taiwan. We are all eagerly anticipating this unforgettable evening show.3. It has been a hot topic for a long time whether the CCTV Spring Festival Gala should be cancelled or not. Many people advocate that CCTV Spring Festival Gala offers a wonderful opportunity to celebrate this traditional festival, for the Chinese all over the world can share the same happiness and excitement brought by the TV program. In addition, many performances are very impressive, and some can even positively affect our life value.However, every coin has two sides. Some people hold that CCTV Spring Festival Gala should be cancelled. One of the most significant reasons may be that this form of celebration force people to spend the eve more passively. What‟s more, a great proportion of the programs are not attractive enough.As to me, my favor goes to the former opinion, because spring CCTV Spring Festival Gala gives us another option to celebrate this important moment. But it is really essential to improve the quality of the programs. And I hope some better forms of celebration will be created in the near future.（175 words）festival['festəvəl] n. 节日gala['ɡɑ:lə] n. 特别娱乐；祝贺，庆祝secret['si:krit] n. 秘密；秘诀crisis['kraisis] n. 危机fossil ['fɔsəl] n. 化石fuels n. 燃料weary['wiəri] adj. 疲倦的；厌烦的；令人厌烦的vi. 厌烦；疲倦extra ['ekstrə] adv.另外n. 额外的事物adj. 额外的diet['daiət] n. 饮食；食物；vi. 节食guarantee [,ɡærən'ti:] n. 保证书；保证；担保vt. 保证；担保obligation[,ɔbli'ɡeiʃən]n. 义务；职责utter['ʌtə] vt. 发声，表达adj. 完全的；彻底的encounter [in'kauntə] vt. 遭遇，遇到fatigue[fə'ti:ɡ] n. 疲劳nonetheless= nevertheless adv. 然而，不过；虽然如此conj. 然而，不过optimism ['ɔptimizəm] n. 乐观；乐观主义vigor ['viɡə] n. 活力，精力barely adv. 仅仅，几乎不drag[dræɡ] vt. 拖拉finite['fainait] adj. 有限的；限定的n. 有限之物diminish [di'miniʃ] vt. 使减少vi. 变小；减少strategy ['strætidʒi] n. 战略，策略tire['taiə] vt. 使…疲倦；使…厌烦n. 轮胎plug [plʌɡ] n. 栓；插头；vi. 塞住；用插头将与电源接通vt. 插入leak[li:k] n. 漏洞，泄漏vt. 使渗漏，泄露vi. 漏routine [ru:'ti:n] n. 例行公事；日常工作；程序adj. 日常的；例行的tune [tju:] n. 和谐；曲调；vt. 调整；为…调音vi. 调谐；协调reclaim [ri‘kleim] vt. 开拓；回收再利用;重申stale[steil] adj. 不新鲜的；陈腐的donate[dəu'neit] vt. 捐赠；捐献zone [zəun] n. 地带；地区deprive vt. 使丧失，剥夺mentally ['mentəli] adv. 精神上decorate ['dekəreit] vt. vi.装饰；布置burden ['bə:dən] n. 负担；责任vt. 烦扰；使负担alternative [ɔ:l'tə:nətiv] adj. 供选择的；选择性的；交替的n. 二中择一；供替代的选择circulate['sə:kjuleit] vi. 循环；流通vt. 使循环circulating adj. 循环的；流通的inherit[in'herit] vt. 继承；遗传而得vi. 成为继承人determine[di'tə:min] vt. 决定；使…下定决心vi. 决定；确定fossil ['fɔsəl] n. 化石fuels n. 燃料cite[sait] vt. 引用contribute to 有助于inherit[in'herit] vt. 继承；遗传而得vi. 成为继承人genetically adv. 从遗传学角度；从基因方面determine[di'tə:min] vt. 决定；使…下定决心vi. 决定；确定real-estate 房地产broker['brəukə] n. 经纪人in that 因为fuelscitecontribute toinherit[genetically adv. 从遗传学角度；从基因方面determine[di'tə:min] vt. 决定；使…下定决心vi. 决定；确定real-estate 房地产broker['brəukə] n. 经纪人in that 因为名词：A)scale规模，程度，范围，G)situation形势，情况；J)gap间隙，差距动词：E)retailed零售[过去式／过去分词)，C)generate产生，导致；M)insulted侮辱，冒犯[过去式／过去分词]，N)purchase购买形容词：D)extreme极度的，极端的，F)affordable付得起的，不太昂贵的，1)potential潜在的，可能的，K)voluntary志愿的，义务的；L)excessive过度的，过分的副词：E)technically技术上，学术上；H)really真正地，确实地；O)primarily首先，主要地flood[flʌd] vt. 淹没；溢出vi. 为水淹没；n. 洪水boost[bu:st] vt. 促进vi. 宣扬target ['tɑ:ɡit] n. 目标；靶子vt. 把……作为目标crush[krʌʃ] vt. 压碎vi. 挤；被压碎crushing['krʌʃiŋ] adj. 压倒的；不能站起来；支离破碎的and the like之类的ignore[iɡ'nɔ:]vt. 驳回诉讼；忽视；不理睬contrast[kən'træst] vi. 对比；形成对照vt. 使对比；使与…对照n. 对比；对照物Part II快速阅读答案： 1 N 2 N 3 Y 4 N 5 Y 6 Y 7 NG8 move forward 9 looking back 10 the more you get backPart III Listening Comprehension11-25 BCACD BDADC BADBA26-35 C BDCD ABBDA36. natural 37. usage 38. exception 39. particular40. reference 41. essays 42. colleagues 43. personal44. What we may find interesting is that it usually takes more words to be polite. (interesting, take more words, polite)(We may find it interesting that to be polite usually needs/requires more words)45. But to a stranger, I probably would say, “Would you mind closing the door?”(but, stranger, mind, closing the door)(but to a stranger, I might say, “Would you please close the door?”)46. There are bound to be some words and phrases that belong in formal language and others that are informal.(bound, some words and phrases, belong, formal language, informal)(There must be some words and phrases that are formal and others that are informal)Part IV 47-56 OKGJC NMIHD 57-61 CBDAB 62-66 CADBCPart V 67-86 ABDAC DBACB CABDC DABDCPart VI87. adapt oneself to life/living in different cultures88. nothing is more attractive to me than reading89. would have/stand a chance to survive (of survival)90. may/might feel lonely when they are away from home91. at a speed/rate of 12 million per yearat an annual speed of 12 million1critic['kritik] n. 批评家，评论家；爱挑剔的人municipal[mju:'nisipəl] adj. 市政的champagne[,ʃæm'pein] n. 香槟酒fancy['fænsi] n. 想像力；幻想adj. 想象的；奇特的；精选的mineral['minərəl] n. 矿物；矿泉水adj. 矿物的；矿质的2.strive [straiv] (for)vi. 努力；奋斗shift from...topursuenutritiousoccasionallyoutstandingabnormalat riskparticularspecialiststrivehandicaplimitationinvolve indistinguish between…andbe concerned withclozeastonishing[ə'stɔniʃiŋ] adj. 惊人的；令人惊讶的behavior[bi'heivjə] n. 行为，举止hive (蜂群)unicorn (独角兽)translate vt. 翻译；调动；解释；转化minimum['miniməm] n. 最小量；最小值adj. 最小的continuous[kən'tinjuəs] adj. 连续的，持续的process['prəuses] vt. 处理；加工n. 过程transfer n. 转移；转让；vi. 转移；转让vt. 调任transmit[trænz'mit] vt. 传达；传输；传播；vi.传输convey[kən'vei] vt. 传达；运输define[di'fain] vt. 定义；使明确consist[kən'sist] vi. (of)组成；(in) 在于declare[di'klεə] vt. 宣布，断言，宣称prospect['prɔspekt] n. 前途；aspect['æspekt] n. 方面angle['æŋɡl] n. 角度assumption[ə'sʌmpʃən] n. 假定；设想reveal [ri'vi:l] vt. 揭露；泄露design[di'zain] vt. 设计layout n. 布局prescribe[pris'kraib] vi. 规定；开药方justify['dʒʌstifai] vi. 证明合法；vt. 证明…是正当的；替…辩护utter['ʌtə] vt. 发出，表达；发射adj. 完全的；彻底的；无条件的interpret[in'tə:prit] vt.口译vi. 解释；翻intercultural adj.不同文化间的，跨文化的victim['viktim] n.受害人attractive[ə'træktiv] adj. 吸引人的；引人注目的annual['ænjuəl] adj. 年度的；每年的2006-12-23 听力Quebec 魁北克wedding['wediŋ] n. 结婚；婚礼，婚宴；结合v. 与…结婚（wed的ing形式）saint[seint] n. 圣徒；圣人；道德崇高的人adj. 神圣的capital['kæpitəl] n. 首都，大写字母；资金；资本家adj. 重要的；大写的；首都的restore[ri'stɔ:] vt. 修复；恢复；vi. 还原fantastic[fæn'tæstik] adj. 奇异的；极好的；不可思议的rabbit['ræbit] n. 兔子wrinkle['riŋkl] n. 皱纹vi. 起皱invisible[in'vizəbl] adj. 无形的，看不见的impact['impækt] vt. 撞击；冲突；影响distract[dis'trækt] vt. 转移；分心courageous[kə'reidʒəs] adj. 有胆量的，勇敢的shaky['ʃeiki] adj. 摇晃的；不可靠的；不坚定的trembling[trembl iŋ] n. 战栗；发抖；adj. 发抖的subsequent['sʌbsikwənt] adj. 后来的，随后的compel[kəm'pel] vt. 强迫，迫使campaign[kæm'pein] vi. 作战；n. 战役restriction[ri'strikʃən] n. 限制；约virus['vaiərəs] n. 病毒remedy['remidi] vt. 补救；治疗；纠正n. 治疗formal['fɔ:məl] adj. 正式的；拘谨的；有条理的n. 正式budget['bʌdʒit] n. 预算vi.做预算adj. 廉价的dessert[di'zə:t] n. 餐后甜点；甜点心bar[bɑ:] n. 酒吧；条vt. 禁止；阻拦personality[,pə:sə'næləti] n. 品格；个性crash[kræʃ] n. 碰撞；崩溃；坠落vt.撞碎；坠落vi. 碰撞；adapt[ə'dæpt] vt. 改编；使适应vi. 适应originate[ə'ridʒəneit] vt. 引起vi. 发源pop out 突然出现motivation[,məuti'veiʃən] n. 动机；推动；积极性punctual['pʌŋktjuəl] adj. 准时的，守时的adequate['ædikwit] adj. 适当的；充足的distract[dis'trækt] vt. 转移；分心reluctant[ri'lʌktənt] adj. 勉强的；不情愿的remedy['remidi] vt. 补救；治疗；纠正n. 治疗platform['plætfɔ:m] n. 月台，站台deficiency[di'fiʃənsi] n. 缺乏原文11. M: Christmas is round the corner and I‟m looking for a gift for my girlfriend. Any suggestions?W: Well, you have to tell me something about your girlfriend first. Also, what‟s your budget?Q: What does the woman want the man to do?B. Give her more information.12. M: What would you like for dessert? I think I‟ll have apple pie and ice cream.W: The chocolate cake looks great. But I have to watch my weight, you go ahead and get yours.Q: What will the woman most probably do?C. She‟ll go without dessert.13. W: Having visited so many countries, you must be able to speak several different languages!M: I wish I could. But Japanese and, of course English are the only languages I can speak.Q: What do we learn from the conversation?A. The man can speak a foreign language.14. M: Prof. Smith asked me to go to his office after class. So it is impossible for me to make it to the bar at 10：00.W: Then it seems we‟ll have to meet an hour later at the library.Q: What will the man do first after class?C. See Prof. Smith15. M: It‟s already 11：00 now. Do you mean I ought to wait until Prof. Bloom comes back from class?W: Not really. You can just leave a note. I‟ll give it to her later.Q: What does the woman mean?D. She can pass on the message for the man.16. M: How‟s John now? Is he feeling any better?W: Not yet. It still seems impossible to make him smile. Talking to him is really difficult. And he gets upset easily over little things.Q: What do we learn about John from the conversation?B. He‟s got emotional problems.17. M: Do we have to get the opera tickets in advance?W: Certainly! Tickets at the door are usually sold at a higher price.Q: What does the woman imply?D. It‟s better to buy the tickets beforehand.18. M: The taxi driver must have been speeding.W: Well, not really! He crashed into the tree because he was trying not to hit a box that had fallen off the truck ahead of him.Q: What do we learn about the taxi driver?A. He turned suddenly and ran into a tree.Conversation OneW: Hey, Bob, guess what? I‟m going to visit Quebec next summer. I‟m invited to go to a friend‟s wedding, but while I‟m there, I‟d also like to do some sightseeing.M: That‟s nice, Sherry. But do you mean the province of Quebec or Quebec City?W: I mean the province. My friend‟s wedding is in Montreal, so I‟m going there first. I‟ll stay for 5 days. Is Montreal the capital city of the province?M: Well, many people think so because it‟s the biggest city, but it‟s not the capital. QuebecCity is, but Montreal is great. The Santa Lawrence River runs right through the middle of the city. It‟s beautiful in summer.W: Wow, and do you think I can get by in English? My French is okay, but not that good. I know most people there speak French, but can I also use English?M: Well, people speak both French and English there, but you‟ll hear French most of the time and all the street signs are in French. In fact, Montreal is the third largest French-speaking city in the world. So you‟d better practice your French before you go.W: Good advice, what about Quebec City? I‟ll visit a friend from college who lives there now. What‟s it like?M: It‟s a beautiful city, very old. Many old buildings have been nicely restored. Some of them were built in the 17th and 18th centuries. Y ou‟ll love it there.W: Fantastic, I can‟t wait to go.19. What‟s the woman‟s main purpose of visiting Quebec? D. To attend a wedding in Montreal.20. What does the man advise the woman to do before the trip? C. Brush up on her French.21. What does the man say about Quebec City? B. It has many historical buildings.Conversation TwoM: Hi, Ms. Rowling. How old were you when you started to write, and what was your first book?W: I wrote my first finished story when I was about 6. It was about a small animal, a rabbit I mean, and I‟ve been writing ever since.M: Why did you choose to be an author?W: If someone asked me how to achieve happiness, step one would be finding out what you love doing most and step two would be finding someone to pay you to do it. I consider myself very lucky indeed to be able to support myself by writing.M: Do you have any plans to write books for adults?W: My first two novels were for adults. I suppose I might write another one, but I never really imagine a target audience when I‟m writing. The ideas come first, so it really depends on the idea that grabs me next!M: Where did the ideas for the Harry Potter books come from?W: I‟ve no idea where ideas come from and I hope I never find out, it would spoil my excitement if it turned out I just have a funny little wrinkle on the surface of my brain which makes me think about invisible train platforms.M: How do you come up with the names of your characters?W: I invented some of the names in the Harry books, but I also collect strange names. I‟ve gotten them from ancient saints, maps, dictionaries, plants, war memorials, and people I‟ve met!M: Oh, you are really resourceful.22. What do we learn from the conversation about Ms. Rowling‟s first book? A. It was abouta little animal.23. Why does Ms. Rowling consider herself very luck? D. She can make a living by doing what she likes.24. What dictates Ms. Rowling‟s writing? B. Her ideas.25. According to Ms. Rowling, where did she get the ideas for the Harry Potter books? A.She doesn‟t really know where they originated.Passage oneReducing the amount of sleep students get at night has a direct impact on their performance at school during the day. According to classroom teachers, elementary and middle school students who stay up late exhibit more learning and attention problems. This has been shown by Brown Medical School and Bradley Hospital research. In the study, teachers were not told the amount of sleep students received whe n completing weekly performance reports.Y et they rated the students who have received eight hours or less as having the most trouble recalling old material, learning new lessons, and completing high quality work. Teachers also reported that these students had more difficulty paying attention. The experiment is the first to ask teachers to report on the effects of sleep deficiency in children. …Just staying up late can cause increased academic difficulty and attention problems for otherwise healthy while functioning kids‟, said G. F., the study‟s lead author. So the results provide professionals and parents with a clear message: when a child is having learning and attention problems, the issue of sleep has to be taken into consideration. …If we don‟t ask about sleep and try to improve sleep patterns in kids‟struggling academically, then we aren‟t doing our job‟, F said. For parents, he said, the message is simple. Getting kids to bed on time is as important as getting them to school on time.26. What were teachers told to do in the experiment? C. Record students‟weekly performance.27. According to the experiment, what problem can insufficient sleep cause in students? B. Lack of attention.28. What message did the researcher intend to convey to parents? D. They should see to it that their children have adequate sleep.Passage twoP. P never wanted to be a national public figure. All she wanted to be was a mother and a homemaker. But her life was turned upside down when a motorist distracted by his cell phone, ran a stop sign and crashed into the side of her car. The impact killed her two-year-old daughter. Four months later, P. reluctantly but courageously decided to try to educate the public and to fight for laws to ban drivers from using cell phones while a car is moving. She wanted to save other children from what happened to her daughter. In her first speech, P. got off to a shaky start. She was visibly trembling and her voice was soft and uncertain. But as she got into her speech, a dramatic transformation took place. She stopped shaking and spoke with a strong voice. For the rest of her talk, she was a forceful and compelling speaker. She wanted everyone in the audience to know what she knew without having to learn it from a personal tragedy. Many in the audience were moved to tears, and to action. In subsequent presentations, P. gained reputation as a highly effective speaker. Her appearance on a talk show was broadcast three times transmitting her message to over 14,000,000 people. Her campaign increased public awareness of the problem and prompted over 300 cities and several states to consider restrictions on cell phone use.29. What was the significant change in P. P.‟s life?C. She became a public figure.30. What had led to P.‟s personal tragedy?D. A motorist‟s failure to concentrate.31. How did P. feel when she began her first speech?A. Nervous and unsure of herself.32. What could be expected as a result of P.‟s efforts?B. Restrictions on cell phone use whiledriving.Passage 3Many people catch a cold in the springtime or fall. It makes us wonder if scientists can send a man to the moon, why can‟t they find a cure for the common cold? The answer is easy. There‟re actually hundreds of kinds of cold viruses out there. Y ou never know which one you will get, so there isn‟t a cure for each one. When a virus attacks your body, your body works hard to get rid of it. Blood rushes to your nose and causes a blockage in it. Y ou feel terrible because you can‟t breathe well. But your body is actually eating the virus. Y our temperature rises and you get a fever. But the heat of your body is killing the virus. Y ou also have a running nose to stop the virus from getting to your cells. Y ou may feel miserable but actually your wonderful body is doing everything it can to kill the cold. Different people have different remedies for colds. In the United States and some other countries, for example, people might eat chicken soup to feel better. Some people take hot baths and drink warm liquids. Other people take medicines to relieve various symptoms of colds. There‟s one interesting thing to note. Some scientists say taking medicines when you have a cold is actually bad for you. The virus stays in you longer because your body doesn‟t develop a way to fight it and kill it.33. According to the passage, why haven‟t the scientists find a cure for the common cold? B. There are too many kinds of cold viruses for them to identify.34. What does the speaker say about the symptoms of the common cold? D. They show our body is fighting the virus.35. What do some scientists say about taking medicines for the common cold according to the passage? A. It actually does more harm than good.Y ou probably have noticed that people express similar ideas in different ways, depending on the situations they are in. This is very natural. All languages have two general levels of usage? a formal level and an informal level. English is no exception. The difference in these two levels is the situation in which you use a particular level. Formal language is the kind of language you find in textbooks, reference books and in business letters. Y ou would also use formal English in compositions and essays that you write in school. Informal language is used in conversation with colleagues, family members and friends, and when we write personal notes or letters to close friends.Formal language is different from informal language in several ways. First, formal language tends to be more polite. What we may find interesting is that it usually takes more words to be polite. For example, I might say to a friend or a family member “C lose the door, please.” But to a stranger, I probably would say, “Would you mind closing the door?”Another difference between formal and informal language is some of the vocabulary. There are bound to be some words and phrases that belong in formal language and others that are informal. Let‟s say that I really like soccer. If I am talking to my friend, I might say, “I am just crazy about soccer.” But if I were talking to my boss, I would probably say, “I really enjoy soccer.”。
2006年12月英语四级考试真题Part I Writing (30 minutes) Directions:For this part, you are allowed 30 minute to write a short essay on the topic of students selecting their lectures. You should write at least 120 words following the outline given bellow:1. 许多人喜欢在除夕夜看春节晚会2. 但有些人提出取消春节晚会3. 我的看法注意：此部分试题在答题卡1上。
students selecting their lecturesPart II Reading Comprehension (Skimming and Scanning) (15 minutes) Directions:In this part, you will have 15 minute to go over the passage quickly and answer the questions on Answer Sheet 1.For questions 1-7, markY (for YES) if the statement agrees with the information given in the passage;N (for NO) if statement contradicts the information given in the passage;NG (for NOT GIVEN) if the information is not given in the passage.For question 8-10, complete the sentences with the information given in the passage.Six Secrets of High-Energy PeopleThere’s an energy crisis in America, and it has nothing to do with fossil fuels. Millions of us get up each morning already wear y over the day holds. “I just can’t get started,” p eople say. But it’s not physical energy that most of us lack. Sure, we could all use extra sleep and a better diet. But in truth, people are healthier today than at any time in history. I can almost guarantee that if you long for more energy, the problem is not with your body.What you’re seeking is not physical energy. It’s emotional energy. Yet, sad to say, life sometimes seems designed to exhaust our supply. We work too hard. We have family obligations. We encounter emergencies and personal crises. No wonder so many of us suffer from emotionalfatigue, a kind of utter exhaustion of the spirit.And yet we all know people who are filled with joy, despite the unpleasant circumstances of their lives. Even as a child, I observed people who were poor, or disabled, or ill, but who nonetheless faced life with optimism and vigor. Consider Laura Hillenbrand, who despite an extremely weak body, wrote the best-seller Seabiscuit. Hillenbrand barely had enough physical energy to drag herself out of bed to write. But she was fueled by having a story she wanted to share. It was emotional energy that helped her succeed.Unlike physical energy, which is finite and diminishes with age, emotional energy is unlimited and has no thing to do with genes or upbringing. So how do you get it? You can’t simply tell yourself to be positive. You must take action. Here are six practical strategies that work.1. Do something new.Very little that’s new occurs in our lives. The impact of thi s sameness on our emotional energy is gradual, but huge: It’s like a tire with a slow leak. You don’t notice it at first, but eventually you’ll get a flat. It’s up to you to plug the leak—even though there are always a dozen reasons to stay stuck in your d ull routines of life. That’s where Maura, 36, a waitress, found herself a year ago.Fortunately, Maura had a lifeline—a group of women friends who meet regularly to discuss their lives. Their lively discussions spurred Maura to make small but nevertheless life altering changes. She joined a gym in the next town. She changed her look with a short haircut and new black T-shirts. Eventually, Maura gathered the courage to quit her job and start her own business.Here’s a challenge: If it’s something you wouldn’t ordinarily do, do it. Try a dish you’ve never eaten. Listen to music you’d ordinarily tune out. You’ll discover these small things add to your emotional energy.2. Reclaim life’s meaning.So many of my patients tell me that their lives used to have meaning, but that somewhere along the line things went stale.The first step in solving this meaning shortage is to figure out what you really care about, and then do something about it. A case in point is Ivy, 57, a pioneer in investment banking. “I mistakenly believed that all the money I made would mean something,” she says. “But I feel lost, like a 22-year-old wondering what to do with her life.” Ivy’s solution? She started a program that shows Wall Streeters how to donate time and money to poor children. In the process, Ivy filled her life with meaning.3. Put yourself in the fun zone.Most of us grown-ups are seriously fun-deprived. High-energy people have the same day-to-day work as the rest of us, but they manage to find something enjoyable in every situation. A real estate broker I know keeps herself amused on the job by mentally redecorating the houses she shows to clients. “I love imagining what even the most run-down house could look like with a little tender loving care,” she says. “It’s a challenge—and the least desirable properties are usually the most fun.”We all define fun differently, of course, but I can guarantee this: If you put just a bit of it into your day, you energy will increase quickly.4. Bid farewell to guilt and regret.Everyone’s pa st is filled with regrets that still cause pain. But from an emotional energy point of view, they are dead weights that keep us from moving forward. While they can’t merely be willed away, I do recommend you remind yourself that whatever happened is in the past, and nothing can change that. Holding on to the memory only allows the damage to continue into the present.5. Make up your mind.Say you’ve been thinking about cutting your hair short. Will it look stylish—or too extreme?You endlessly think it over. Having the decision hanging over your head is a huge energy drain.Every time you can’t decide, you burden yourself with alternatives. Quit thinking that you have to make the right decision; instead, make a choice and don’t look back.6. Give to get.Emotional energy has a kind of magical quality; the more you give, the more you get back. This is the difference between emotional and physical energy. With the latter, you have to get it to be able to give it. With the former, however, you get it by giving it.Start by asking everyone you meet, “How are you?” as if you really want to know, then listen to the reply. Be the one who hears. Most of us also need to smile more often. If you don’t smile at the person you love first thing in the morning, you’re sucki ng energy out of your relationship. Finally, help another person—and make the help real, concrete. Give a massage (按摩) to someone you love, or cook her dinner. Then, expand the circle to work. Try asking yourself what you’d do if your goal were to be helpful rather than efficient.After all, if it’s true that what goes around comes around, why not make sure that what’s circulating around you is the good stuff?注意：此部分试题请在答题卡1上作答。
Part III Listening Comprehension (35 minutes)注意：此部分试题请在答题卡2上作答。
11.A) Dr. Smith’s waiting room isn’t tidy. B) Dr. Smith enjoys reading magazines.C) Dr. Smith has left a good impression on her. D) Dr. Smith may not be a good choice.12.A) The man will rent the apartment when it is available.B) The man made a bargain with the landlady over the rent.C) The man insists on having a look at the apartment first.D) The man is not fully satisfied with the apartment.13.A) Packing up to go abroad. B) Brushing up on her English.C) Drawing up a plan for her English course. D) Applying for a visa to the United States.14.A) He is anxious to find a cure for his high blood pressure.B) He doesn’t think high blood pressure is a p roblem for him.C) He was not aware of his illness until diagnose d with it.D) He did not take the symptoms of his illness seriously.15.A) To investigate the causes of AIDS.B) To raise money for AIDS patients.C) To rally support for AIDS victims in Africa.D) To draw attention to the spread of AIDS in Asia.16.A) It has a very long history.B) It is a private institution.C) It was founded by Thomas Jefferson.D) It stresses the comprehensive study of nature.17.A) They can’t fit into the machine. B) They have not been delivered yet.C) They were sent to the wrong address. D) They were found to be of the wrong type.18.A) The food served in the cafeteria usually lacks variety.B) The cafeteria sometimes provides rare food for the students.C) The students find the service in the cafeteria satisfactory.D) The cafeteria tries hard to cater to the students’ needs.Questions 19 to 22 are based on the conversation you have just heard.19 .A) He picked up some apples in his yard.B) He cut some branches off the apple tree.C) He quarreled with his neighbor over the fence.D) He cleaned up all the garbage in the woman’s yard.20.A) Trim the apple trees in her yard. B) Pick up the apples that fell in her yard.C) Take the garbage to the curb for her. D) Remove the branches from her yard.21.A) File a lawsuit against the man. B) Ask the man for compensation.C) Have the man’s apple tree cut down. D) Throw garbage into the man’s yard.22.A) He was ready to make a concession. B) He was not intimidate d.C) He was not prepared to go to court. D) He was a bit concerned.Questions 23 to 25are based on the conversation you have just heard.23.A) Bad weather. B) Human error.C) Breakdown of the engines. D) Failure of the communications system.24.A) Two thousand feet. B) Twelve thousand feet.C) Twenty thousand feet. D) Twenty-two thousand feet.25.A) Accurate communication is of utmost importance.B) pilots should be able to speak several foreign languages.C) Air controllers should keep a close watch on the weather.D) Cooperation between pilots and air controllers is essential.Section B注意：此部分试题请在答题卡2上作答。
2006年12月大学英语六级CET6真题及答案2006年12月大学英语六级CET6真题及答案part i：writing (30 minutes)1．阅读经典书籍对人的成长至关重要2．现在愿意鱼肚经典的人却越来越少，原因是......3．我们大学生应该怎么做part ii reading compreheion (skimming and scanning ) (15 minutes)space tourismmake your reservatio now. the space tourism industry is officially open for business, and tickets are going for a mere $20 million for a one-week stay in space. despite reluctance from national air and space administration (nasa), russia made american businessman dennis tito the world's fit space tourist. tito flew into space aboard a russian soyuz rocket that arrived at the international space station (iss) on april 30,2001. the second space tourist, south african businessman mark shuttle worth, took off aboard the russian soyuz on april 25, 2002, also bound for the iss.lance bass of'n sync was supposed to be the third to make the $20 million trip, but he did not join the three-man crew as they blasted off on october 30,2002, due to lack of payment. probably the most incredible aspect of this proposed space tour was that nasa approved of it.these trips are the beginning of what could be a profitable 21st century industry. there are already several space tourism companies planning to build suborbital vehicles and orbital cities within the next two decades. these companies have invested millio, believing that the space tourism industry is on the verge of taking off.in 1997, nasa published a report concluding that selling trips into spaceto private citize could be worth billio of dolla. a japanese report supports these findings, and projects that space tourism could be a $10 billion per year industry within the next two decades. the only obstacles to opening up space to tourists are the space agencies, who are concerned with safety and the development of a reliable, reusable launch vehicle.space accommodatiorussia's mir space station was supposed to be the fit destination for space tourists. but in march 2001, the russian agency brought mir down into the pacific ocean. as it turned out, bringing down mir only temporarily delayed the fit tourist trip into space.the mir crash did cancel pla for a new reality-based game show from nbc, which was going to be called destination mir. the survivor-like tv show was scheduled to air in fall 2001. participants on the show were to go throughtraining at russia's cosmonaut(宇航员) training center, star city. each week, one of the participants would be eliminated from the show, with the winner receiving a trip to the mir space station. the mir crash has ruled out nbc's space plants for now. nasa is agait beginning space tourism until the international space station is completed in 2006.russia in not alone in its interest in space tourism. there are several projects underway to commercialize space travel. here are a few of the groups that might take tourists to space:space island group is going to build a ring-shaped, rotating "commercial space infrastructure(基础结构)."space island says it will build its space city out of of empty nasa space-shuttle fuel tanks (to start, it should take around 12 or so), and place it about 400 miles above earth. the space city will rotate once per minute to create a gravitational pull one-third as strong as earth's.according to their vision statement, space adventures plants to "fly tents of thousands of people in space over the next 10-15 yea and beyond, around the moon, and back, from spaceports both on earth and in space, to and form private space statio, and aboard doze of different vehicles..."even hilton hotels has shown interest in the space tourism industry and the possibility of building or co-funding a space hotel. however, the company did say that it believes such a space hotel is 15 to 20 yea away.initially, space tourism will offer simple accommodatio at best. for itance, if the international space station is used as a tourist attraction, guests won't find the luxurious surroundings of a hotel room on earth. it has been designed for conducting research, not entertainment. however, the fit generation of space hotels should offer tourists a much more comfortable experience.[page]in regard to a concept for a space hotel initially planned by space island, such a hotel could offer guests every convenience they might find at a hotel on earth, and some they might not. the small gravitational pull created by the rotating space city would allow space-tourists and residents to walk around and function normally within the structure. everything from running water to a recycling plant to medical facilities would be possible. additionally, space tourists would even be able to take spacewalks.many of these companies believe that they have to offer an extremely enjoyable experience in order for passenge to pay thousands, if not millio, of dolla to ride into space. so will space create another separation between the haves and have-nots?the most expeive vacationwill space be an exotic retreat reserved for only the wealthy? or will middle-class folks have a chance to take their families to space? make no mistake about it, going to space will be the most expeive vacation you ever take. prices right now are in the te of millio of dolla. currently, the only vehicles that can take you into space are the space shuttle and the russian soyuz, both of which are terribly inefficient. each spacecraft requires millio of pounds of fuel to take off into space, which makes them expeive to launch. one pound of payload (有效栽载重) costs about $10,000 to put into earth's orbit.nasa and lockheed martin are currently developing a single-stage-to-orbit launch space plane, called the venture star , that could be launched for about a tenth of what the space shuttle costs to launch. if the venture star takes off, the number of people who could afford to take a trip into space would move into the millio.in 1998, a joint report from nasa and the space traportation association stated that improvements in technology could push fares for space travel as low as $50,000, and possibly down to $20,000 or $10,000 a decade later. the report concluded that at a ticket price of $50,000, there could be 500,000 passenge flying into space each year. while still leaving out many people, these prices would open up space to a tremendous amount of traffic.since the beginning of the space race, the general public has said, "isn't that great-when do i get to go?" well, our chance might be closer than ever. within the next 20 yea, space planes could be taking off for the moon at the same frequency as airplanes flying between new york and los angeles.注意：此部分试题请在答题卡1上作答。
2006年12月b卷六级听力英文回答：The passage is an interview between a reporter and a spokesperson for the American Cancer Society. The reporter asks the spokesperson about the organization's fundraising efforts, the latest advances in cancer research, and the challenges that the organization faces.The spokesperson begins by providing an overview of the American Cancer Society's mission and goals. She explains that the organization is dedicated to fighting cancer through research, education, and patient services. She then discusses the organization's fundraising efforts, emphasizing the importance of donations from individuals and businesses.The spokesperson goes on to describe the latest advances in cancer research. She mentions the development of new drugs and treatments, as well as the progress thathas been made in understanding the genetic basis of cancer. She also discusses the organization's work in the area of cancer prevention, highlighting the importance of healthy lifestyles and early detection.Finally, the spokesperson discusses the challenges that the American Cancer Society faces. She mentions the rising costs of cancer care, the need for increased funding for research, and the challenges of reaching underserved populations. However, she expresses optimism about the future, emphasizing the organization's commitment tofighting cancer until it is eliminated.中文回答：这篇采访主要围绕美国癌症协会展开，涉及了该组织的筹款活动、癌症研究的最新进展以及所面临的挑战。
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We will have to limit the registration.W:Yeah,otherwise we won’t have room for the more.Q:What are the speakers going to do?【答案】C)Limit the number of participants in the conference.18.W:Hi,I’m calling about the ad for the one bedroom apartment.M:Perfect timing!The person who was supposed to rent it just backed town to take a room on campus.Q:What do we learn from the conversation?【答案】A)The apartment is still available.Conversation1W:One of the most interesting experiments with dolphins must be one done by Doctor Jarvis Bastian.What he tried to do was to teach a male dolphin called Bass and a female called Doris to communicate with each other across a solid barrier.M:So how did he do it exactly?W:Well,first of all,he kept the two dolphins together in the same tank and taught them to press levers whenever they saw a light.The levers were fitted to the side of the tank next to each other.If the light flashed on and off several times,the dolphins were supposed to press the left-hand lever followed by the right-hand one.If the light was kept steady,the dolphins were supposed to press the levers in reverse order.Whenever they responded correctly,they were rewarded with fish.M:Sounds terribly complicated.W:Well,that was the first stage.In the second stage,Doctor Bastian separated the dolphins into two tanks.They could still hear one another,but they couldn’t actually see each other.The levers and light were set up in exactly the same way except that this time it was only Doris who could see the light indicating which lever to press first.But in order to get their fish,both dolphins had to press the levers in the correct order.This meant of course that Doris had to tell Bass whether it was a flashing light or whether it was a steady light.M:So did it work?W:Well,amazingly enough,the dolphins achieved a100%success rate.Questions19-21are based on the conversation you have just heard.Q19.What is the purpose of Doctor Jarvis Bastian’s experiment?Q20.What were the dolphins supposed to do when they saw a steady light?Q21.How did the second stage of the experiment differ from the first stage?答案：19.D)to see if dolphins can communicate with each other.20.A)Press the right-hand lever first.21.C)Only one dolphin was able to see the light.Conversation2W:This week’s program Up Your Street takes you to Harrogate,a small town in Yorkshire. Harrogate became a fashionable resort during Victorian times,when people came to take a bath in the mineral waters.Today,few people come to visit the town for its mineral waters.Instead,Harrogate has become a popular town for people to retire to.Its clean air, attractive parks,and the absence of any industry,make this an ideal spot for people looking for a quiet life.Now,to tell us more about Harrogate,I have with me Tom Percival, President of the Chamber of Commerce.Tom,one of the things visitor notices about Harrogate is the large area of open park land right down into the middle of the town.Can you tell us more about it?M:Yes,certainly.The area is called the Stray.W:Why the Stray?M:It’s called that because in the old days,people let their cattle stray on the area,which was common land.W:Oh,I see.M:Then,we’ve changes in farming and in land ownership.The Stray became part of the land owned by Harrogate.W:And is it protected?M:Oh,yes,indeed.As a special law,no one can build anything on the stray.It’s protected forever.W:So it will always be park land?M:That’s right.As you can see,some of the Stray is used for sports fields.W:I believe it looks lovely in the spring.M:Yes,it does.There’re spring flowers on the old trees,and people visit the town just to see the flowers.Question22-25are based on the conversation you have just heard.Q22.Where does this conversation most probably take place?Q23.What do we learn about modern Harrogate?Q24.What does the man say about the area called the Stray?Q25.What attracts people most in the Stray during the spring time?答案：22.B)In a resort town.23.D)It is an ideal place for people to retire to.24.D)It is protected as parkland by a special law.25.C)The beautiful flowers.Section BDirections:In this section,you will hear3short 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 choices marked A),B),C)and D).Then mark the corresponding letter on Answer Sheet2with a single line through the centre.Passage OneRussell Fazio,an Ohio State psychology professor who has studied interracial roommates there and at Indiana University,discovered an intriguing academic effect.In a study analyzing data on thousands of Ohio State freshmen who lived in dorms,he found that black freshmen who came to college with high standardized test scores earned better grades if they had a white roommate—even if the roommate’s test scores were low.The roommate’s race had no effect on the grades of white students or low-scoring black students.Perhaps,the study speculated,having a white roommate helps academically prepared black students adjust to a predominantly white university.That same study found that randomly assigned interracial roommates at Ohio State broke up before the end of the quarter about twice as often as same-race roommates.Because interracial roommate relationships are often problematic,Dr.Fazio said,many students would like to move out,but university housing policies may make it hard to leave.“At Indiana University,where housing was not so tight,more interracial roommates split up,”he said.“Here at Ohio State,where housing was tight,they were told to work it out. The most interesting thing we found was that if the relationship managed to continue for just10weeks,we could see an improvement in racial attitudes.”Dr.Fazio’s Indiana study found that three times as many randomly assigned interracial roommates were no longer living together at the end of the semester,compared with white roommates.The interracial roommates spent less time together,and had fewer joint activities than the white pairs.Question26-2926.What do we know about Russell Fazio?27.Who benefited from living with a white roommate according to Fazio’s study?28.What did the study find about randomly assigned interracial roommates at Ohio State University?29.What did Dr.Fazio find interesting about interracial roommates who had lived together for10weeks?答案：26,C.He specialized in interpersonal relationship.27.D.Black freshman with high standardized scores28,C.They broke up more often than same-race roommates29,C.The racial attitudes improved.Passage twoIn a small laboratory at the Medical University of South Carolina,Dr.Vladimir Mironov has been working for a decade to grow meat.A developmental biologist and tissue engineer, Dr.Mironov,is one of only a few scientists worldwide involved in bioengineering'cultured' meat.It's a product he believes could help solve future global food crises resulting from shrinking amounts of land available for growing meat the old-fashioned way.“Growth of cultured meat is also under way in the Netherlands”,Mironov told Reuters in an interview,“but in the United States,it is science in search of funding and demand.”The new National Institute of Food and Agriculture won't fund it,the National Institutes of Health won't fund it,and the NASA funded it only briefly,Mironov said."It's classic disruptive technology,"Mironov said."Bringing any new technology on the market,on average,costs$1billion.We don't even have$1million."Director of the Advanced Tissue Biofabrication Center in the Department of Regenerative Medicine and Cell Biology at the medical university,Mironov now primarily conducts research on tissue engineering,or growing,of human organs."There's an unpleasant factor when people find out meat is grown in a lab.They don't like to associate technology with food,"said Nicholas Genovese,a visiting scholar in cancer cell biology."But there are a lot of products that we eat today that are considered natural that are produced in a similar manner,"Genovese said.30.What does Dr.Mironov think of bioengineering cultured meat?31.What does Dr.Mironov say about the funding for their research?32.What does Nicholas Genovese say about a lot of products we eat today?答案：30,A.It will help solve the global food crisis.31,D.It is still far from being sufficient.32,D.They are not as natural as we believed.Passage threeBernard Jackson is a free man today,but he has many bitter memories.Jackson spent five years in prison after a jury wrongly convicted him of raping two women.At Jackson's trial,although two witnesses testified that Jackson was with them in another location at the times of the crimes,he was convicted anyway.Why?The jury believed the testimony of the two victims,who positively identified Jackson as the man who has attacked them. The court eventually freed Jackson after the police found the man who had really committed the crimes.Jackson was similar in appearance to the guilty man.The two women has made a mistake in identity.As a result,Jackson has lost five years of his life.The two women in this case were eyewitnesses.They clearly saw the man whoattacked them,yet they mistakenly identified an innocent person.Similar incidents have occurred before.Eyewitnesses to other crimes have identified the wrong person in a police lineup or in photographs.Many factors influence the accuracy of eyewitness testimony.For instance,witnesses sometimes see photographs of several suspects before they try to identify the person they saw in a lineup of people.They can become confused by seeing many photographs or similar faces.The number of people in the lineup,and whether it is a live lineup or a photograph,may also affect a witness's decision.People sometimes have difficulty identifying people of other races.The questions the police ask witnesses also have an effect on them.Question33:What do we learn about Bernard Jackson?Question34:What led directly to Jackson’s sentence?Question35:What lesson do we learn from Jackson’s case?答案：33,A.He was wrongly imprisoned34,A.The two victims’identification35,B.Many factors influence the accuracy of witness testimony.Section CDirections:In this section,you will hear a passage three times.When the passage is read for the first time,you should listen carefully for its general idea.When the passage is read for the second time,you are required to fill in the blanks numbered from36to43with the exact words you have just heard.For blanks numbered from44to46you are required to fill in the missing information.For these blanks,you can either use the exact words you have just heard or write down the main points in your own words.Finally,when the passage is read for the third time,you should check what you have written.答案：36.slight37.official38.shrinking39.plunge40.decline41.primary42.heads43.Poverty44.Hampered by higher taxes and weak demand for its exports,Mexico's economy is seen only partially recovering this year.45.Mexico has historically had high drop-out rates as poor families pull kids out of school to help put food on the table，46.The nation's drop-out problem is just the latest bad news for the long-term competitiveness of the Mexican economy.2011年12月六级听力原文Part III Listening ComprehensionSection ADirections:In this section,you will hear8short conversations and2long conversations.At the end of each conversation,one or more questions will be asked about what was said. Both the conversation and the questions will be spoken only once.After each question there will be a pause.During the pause,you must read the four choices marked A),B),C) and D),and decide which is the best answer.Then mark the corresponding letter on Answer Sheet2with a single line through the centre.11.W:This crazy bus schedule has got me completely confused.I can’t figure out when my bus to Cleveland leaves?M:Why don’t you just go to the ticket window and ask?Q:What does the man suggest the woman do?12.W:I really enjoyed the TV special about drafts last night.Did you get home in time to see it?W:Oh,yes,but I wish I could have stayed awake long enough to see the whole thing.Q:What does the man mean?13.W:Airport,please.I’m running a little late.So just take the fastest way even if it’s not the most direct.M:Sure,but there is a lot of traffic everywhere today because of the football game.Q:What do we learn about the woman from the conversation?14.W:May I make a recommendation,sir?Our seafood with this special sauce is very good. M:Thank you,but I don’t eat shellfish.I’m allergic to it.Q:Where does this conversation most probably take place?15.W:now one more question if you don’t mind,what position in the company appeals to you most?M:Well,I’d like the position of sales manager if that position is still vacant.Q:What do we learn about the man?16.M:I don’t think I want to live in the dormitory next year.I need more privacy.W:I know what you mean.But check out the cost if renting an apartment first.I won’t be surprised if you change your mind.Q:What does the woman imply?17.M:You’re on the right track.I just think you need to narrow the topic down.W:Yeah,you’re right.I always start by choosing two boarder topics when I’m doing a research paper.Q:What do we learn from the conversation?18.W:This picnic should beat the last one we went to,doesn’t it?M:Oh,yeah,we had to spend the whole time inside.Good thing,the weather was cooperative this time.What do we learn about the speakers from the conversation?Long ConversationConversation OneM:When I say I live in Sweden,people always want to know about the seasons.W:The seasons?M:Yeah,you know how cold it is in winter?What is it like when the days are so short? W:So what is it like?M:Well,it is cold,very cold in winter.Sometimes it is cold as26degrees below centigrade.And of course when you go out,you’ll wrap up warm.But inside in the houses it’s always very warm,much warmer than at home.Swedish people always complain that when they visit England,the houses are cold even in the good winter.W:And what about the darkness?M:Well,yeah,around Christmas time there’s only one hour of daylight,so you really looks forward to the spring.It is sometimes a bit depressing.But you see the summers are amazing,from May to July in the North of Sweden the sun never sets.It’s still light in the midnight.You can walk in the mountains and read a newspaper.W:Oh,yeah,the land of the midnight sun.M:Yeah,that’s right,but it’s wonderful.You won’t stay up all night.And the Swedes makes most of it often they started work earlier in summer and then leave at about2or3 in the afternoon,so that they can really enjoy the long summer evenings.They’d like to work hard,but play hard,too.I think Londoners work longer hours,but I’m not sure this is a good thing.Q19:What do we learn about the man from the conversation?Q20:What do Swedish people complain about when they visit England in winter?Q21:How does the man describe the short hour of daylight around Christmas in Sweden? Q21:What does the man say about the Swedish people?Conversation TwoW:What kind of training does one need to go into this type of job?M:That’s a very good question.I don’t think there is any,specifically.W:For example,in your case,what was your educational background?M:Well,I did a degree in French at Nottingham.After that,I did careers work in secondary schools like the careers guidance people.Here is in the university.Then I went into local government because I found I was more interested in the administrative side.Then progressed on to universities.So there wasn’t any plan and there was no specific training. There are plenty of training courses in management techniques and committee work which you can attend now.W:But in the first place,you did a French degree.M:In my time,there wasn’t a degree you could do for administration.I think most of the administrators I’ve come across have degrees and all sorts of things.W:Well,I know in my case,I did an English literature degree and I didn’t really expect to end up doing what I am doing now.M:Quite.W:But you are local to Nottingham,actually?Is there any reason why you went to Nottingham University?M:No,no,I come from the north of England,from west Yorkshire.Nottingham was one of the universities I put on my list.And I like the look of it.The campus is just beautiful.W:Yes,indeed.Let’s see.Were you from the industrial part of Yorkshire?M:Yes,from the Woolen District.Q23.What was the man’s major at university?Q24:What was the man’s job in secondary schools?Q25:What attracted the man to Nottingham University?Section BPassage OneWhile Gail Obcamp,an American artist was giving a speech on the art of Japanese brush painting to an audience that included visitors from Japan,she was confused to see that many of her Japanese listeners have their eyes closed.Were they tuned off because an American had the nerve to instruct Japanese in their own art form or they deliberately tried to signal their rejection of her?Obcamp later found out that her listeners were not being disrespectful.Japanese listeners sometimes closed their eyes to enhance concentration. Her listeners were showing their respect for her by chewing on her words.Some day youmay be either a speaker or a listener in a situation involving people from other countries or members of minority group in North America.Learning how different cultures signal respect can help you avoid misunderstandings.Here are some examples.In the deaf culture of North America,many listeners show applause not by clapping their hands but by waving them in the air.In some cultures,both overseas and in some minority groups in North America,listeners are considered disrespectful if they look directly at the speaker. Respect is shown by looking in the general direction but avoiding direct eye contact.In some countries,whistling by listeners is a sign of approval while in other courtiers it is a form of insult.Questions:26,What did Obcamp’s speech focus on?27,Why do Japanese listeners sometimes close their eyes while listening to a speech? 28,What does the speaker try to explain?Passage TwoChris is in charge of purchasing and maintaining equipment in his Division at Taxlong Company.He is soon going to have an evaluation interview with his supervisor and the personnel director to discuss the work he has done in the past year.Salary,promotion and plans for the coming year will also be discussed at the meeting.Chris has made several changes for his Division in the past year.First,he bought new equipment for one of the departments.He has been particularly happy about the new equipment because many of the employees have told him how much it has helped them.Along with improving the equipment,Chris began a program to train employees to use equipment better and do simple maintenance themselves.The training saved time for the employees and money for the company.Unfortunately,one serious problem developed during the year.Two employees the Chris hired were stealing,and he had to fire them.Chris knows that a new job for a purchasing and maintenance manager for the whole company will be open in a few months,and he would like to be promoted to the job.Chris knows,however,that someone else wants that new job,too.Kim is in charge of purchasing and maintenance in another Division of the company.She has also made several changes over the year. Chris knows that his boss likes Kim’s work,and he expects that his work will be compared with hers.Questions29to32are based on the passage you have just heard.29.What is Chris’s main responsibility at Taxlong Company?30.What problem did Chris encounter in his Division?31.What does Chris hope for in the near future?32.What do we learn about Kim from the passage?Passage ThreeProverbs,sometimes called sayings,are examples of folk wisdom.They are little lessonswhich older people of a culture pass down to the younger people to teach them about life. Many proverbs remind people of the values that are important in the culture.Values teach people how to act,what is right,and what is wrong.Because the values of each culture are different,understanding the values of another culture helps explain how people think and act.Understanding your own culture values is important too.If you can accept that people from other cultures act according to their values,not yours,getting along with them will be much easier.Many proverbs are very old.So some of the values they teach may not be as important in the culture as they once were.For example,Americans today do not pay much attention to the proverb“Haste makes waste”,because patience is not important to them.But if you know about past values,it helps you to understand the present and many of the older values are still strong today.Benjamin Franklin,a famous American diplomat,writer and scientist,died in1790,but his proverb“Time is money”is taken more seriously by Americans of today than ever before.A study of proverbs from around the world shows that some values are shared by many cultures.In many cases though,the same idea is expressed differently.Questions33-35are based on the passage you have just heard.33.Why are proverbs so important?34.According to the speaker what happens to some proverbs with the passage of time? 35What do we learn from the study of proverbs from around the world?Section CCompound DictationOur lives are woven together.As much as I enjoy my own company,I no longer imagine I can get through a single day much less all my life completely on my own.Even if I am on vacation in the mountains,I am eating food someone else has grown,living in a house someone else has built,wearing clothes someone else has sewn from cloth woven by others,using electricity someone else is distributing to my house.Evidence of interdependence is everywhere;we are on this journey together.As I was growing up,I remember being carefully taught that independence not interdependence was everything.“Make your own way”,”Stand on your own two feet”or my mother’s favorite remark when I was face-to-face with consequences of some action: Now that you’ve made your bed,lie on it.Total independence is a dominant thing in our culture.I imagine that what my parents were trying to teach me was to take responsibilities for my actions and my choices.But the teaching was shaped by our cultural imagines.And instead,I grew up believing that I was supposed to be totally independent and consequently became very reluctant to ask for help.I would do almost anything not to be a burden,and not require any help from anybody2011年6月六级听力原文11M:I left20pages here to copy,here’s the receiptW:I’m sorry,sir,but we are a little behind,could you come back in a few minutes?Q:what does the woman mean?12W:I hope you are not to put out with me for the delay,I had to stop for the Fred’s home to pick up a book on my way hereM:well,that’s not a big deal,but you might at least phone if you know you will keep someone waitingQ:what do we learn about the women?13W:Mark is the best candidate for chairman of the student’s union,isn’t he?M:well,that guy won’t be able to win the election unless he got the majority vote from women students,and I am not sure about it?Q:what does the man mean?14M:sorry to have kept you waiting,Madam,I’ve located your luggage,it was left behind in Paris and won’t arrive until later this eveningW:oh,I can’t believe this,have it been to delivered to my hotel then,I guessQ:what happened to the woman’s luggage?15W：I don’t think we have enough information for our presentation.But we have to give it tomorrow.That doesn’t seem to be much we can do about it.M:Yeah,at this point,we’ll have to make do with what we’ve got.Q:what does the man suggest they do?16M:I’m taking this great course psychology of language.It’s really interesting.Since you’re psychology major,you should sign up for it.W:Actually,I tried to do that.But they told me I have to take language studies first.Q:What do we learn from the conversation?17W:Can you believe the way Larry was talking to his roommate?No wonder they don’t get along.M:Well,maybe Larry was just reacting to something his roommate said.There are two sides to every story you know.Q:What does the man imply about Larry and his roommate?18M:We don’t have the resources to stop those people from buying us out.Unless a miracle happens,this may be the end of us.W:I still have hope we can get help from the bank.After all,we don’t need that much money.Q:What do we learn about the speakers from the conversation?Conversation OneQuestions19to22are based on the conversation you have just heard.W:You know I've often wondered why people laugh at the picture of a big belly businessman slipping on a banana skin and falling on his bottom.We are to feel sorry for them.M:Actually,Laura,I think we laugh because we are glad it didn't happen to us.But of course there is also a kind of humorous satisfaction in seeing somebody self-important making a fool of themselves.W:Yes,and there are a lot of jokes about people who are too fat or physically handicapped,you know,deaf,or short-sighted things like that.After all,it's not really funny to be like that.M:Oh,I think that's because we're embarrassed.We don't know how to cope with the situation.Perhaps we are even a bit frightened we may get like that,so we laugh.M:What about the custard pie routine?W:What do you mean'custard pie routine'?M:You know,all those old films where someone gets so outraged with his boss,He picks up a custard pie and plasters it all over the other person's face.W:That never makes me laugh much,because you can guess what's going to happen.But a lot of people still find it laughable.It must because of the sort of the thing we'd all love to do once in a while and never quiet have the courage to.M:I had an old aunt who used to throw cups of tea at people when she was particularly irritated.She said it relieved her feelings.W:It must have come a bit expensive.M:Not really.She took care never to throw her best china.19.Why does the man say we laughed when we see some self-important people。
2006年12月24日英语新六级考试真题及参考答案Part I Writing (30 minutes) 1．阅读经典书籍对人的成长至关重要2．现在愿意鱼肚经典的人却越来越少，原因是……3．我们大学生应该怎么做The Importance of Reading ClassicsPart II Reading Comprehension (Sk imming and Scanning )(15 minutes)Space T ourismMake your reservations now. The space tourism industry is officially open for business, and tickets are going for a mere $20 million for a one-week stay in space. Despite reluctance from National Air and Space Administration (NASA), Russia made American businessman Dennis Tito the world’s first space tourist. Tito flew into space aboard a Russian Soyuz rocket that arrived at the International Space Station (ISS) on April 30,2001. The second space tourist, South African businessman Mark Shuttle worth, took off aboard the Russian Soyuz on April 25, 2002, also bound for the ISS.Lance Bass of’N Sync was supposed to be the third to make the $20 million trip, but he did not join the three-man crew as they blasted off on October 30,2002, due to lack of payment. Probably the most incredible aspect of this proposed space tour was that NASA approved of it.These trips are the beginning of what could be a profitable 21st century industry. There are already several space tourism companies planning to build suborbital vehicles and orbital cities within the next two decades. These companies have invested millions, believing that the space tourism industry is on the verge of taking off.In 1997, NASA published a report concluding that selling trips into space to private citizens could be worth billions of dollars. A Japanese report supports these findings, and projects that space tourism could be a $10 billion per year industry within the next two decades. The only obstacles to opening up space to tourists are the space agencies, who are concerned with safety and the development of a reliable, reusable launch vehicle.Space AccommodationsRussia’s Mir space station was supposed to be the first destination for space tourists. But in March 2001, the Russian Agency brought Mir down into the Pacific Ocean. As it turned out, bringing down Mir only temporarily delayed the first tourist trip into space.The Mir crash did cancel plans for a new reality-based game show from NBC, which was going to be called Destination Mir. The survivor-like TV show was scheduled to air in fall 2001. Participants on the show were to go through training at Russia’s cosmonaut(宇航员) training center, Star City. Each week, one of the participants would be eliminated from the show, with the winner receiving a trip to the Mir space station. The Mir crash has ruled out NBC’s space plants for now. NASA is against beginning space tourism until the International Space Station is completed in 2006.Russia in not alone in its interest in space tourism. There are several projects underway to commercialize space travel. Here are a few of the groups that might take tourists to space: Space Island Group is going to build a ring-shaped, rotating “commercial space infrastructure(基础结构).”Space Island says it will build its space city out of of empty NASAspace-shuttle fuel tanks (to start, it should take around 12 or so), and place it about 400 miles above Earth. The space city will rotate once per minute to create a gravitational pull one-third as strong as Earth’s.According to their vision statement, Space Adventures plants to “fly tents of thousands of people in space over the next 10-15 years and beyond, around the moon, and back, from spaceports both on Earth and in space, to and form private space stations, and aboard dozens of different vehicles…”Even Hilton Hotels has shown interest in the space tourism industry and the possibility of building or co-funding a space hotel. However, the company did say that it believes such a space hotel is 15 to 20 years away.Initially, Space tourism will offer simple accommodations at best. For instance, if the International Space Station is used as a tourist attraction, guests won’t find the Luxurious surroundings of a hotel room on Earth. It has been designed for conducting research, not entertainment. However, the first generation of space hotels should offer tourists a much more comfortable experience.In regard to a concept for a space hotel initially planned by Space Island, such a hotel could offer guests every convenience they might find at a hotel on Earth, and some they might not. The small gravitational pull created by the rotating space city would allow space-tourists and residents to walk around and function normally within the structure. Everything from running water to a recycling plant to medical facilities would be possible. Additionally, space tourists would even be able to take spacewalks.Many of these companies believe that they have to offer an extremely enjoyable experience in order for passengers to pay thousands, if not millions, of dollars to ride into space. So will space create another separation between the haves and have-nots?The Most Expensive VacationWill space be an exotic retreat reserved for only the wealthy? Or will middle-class folks have a chance to take their families to space? Make no mistake about it, going to space will be the most expensive vacation you ever take. Prices right now are in the tens of millions of dollars. Currently, the only vehicles that can take you into space are the space shuttle and the Russian Soyuz, both of which are terribly inefficient. Each spacecraft requires millions of pounds of fuel to take off into space, which makes them expensive to launch. One pound of payload (有效栽载重) costs about $10,000 to put into Earth’s orbit.NASA and Lockheed Martin are currently developing a single-stage-to-orbit launch space plane, called the V enture Star , that could be launched for about a tenth of what the space shuttle costs to launch. If the V enture Star takes off, the number of people who could afford to take a trip into space would move into the millions.In 1998, a joint report from NASA and the Space Transportation Association stated that improvements in technology could push fares for space travel as low as $50,000, and possibly down to $20,000 or $10,000 a decade later. The report concluded that at a ticket price of $50,000, there could be 500,000 passengers flying into space each year. While still leaving out many people, these prices would open up space to a tremendous amount of traffic.Since the beginning of the space race, the general public has said, “Isn’t that great-when do I get to go?” Well, our ch ance might be closer than ever. Within the next 20 Y ears, space planescould be taking off for the Moon at the same frequency as airplanes flying between New Y ork and Los Angeles.注意：此部分试题请在答题卡1上作答。
2006年12月6级真题Part I WritingDirections:For this part, you are allowed 30 minutes to write a short essay entitled The Celebration of Western Festival. You should write at least 150 words following the outline given below:1．现在国内有不少人喜欢过西方的洋节2．产生这种现象的原因3．这种现象可能带来的影响……Part II Reading Comprehension (Skimming and Scanning) (15 minutes)Why They CameNot many decisions could have been more difficult for a family to make than to say farewell to a community where it had lived for centuries, to abandon old ties and familiar landmarks, and to sail across dark seas to a strange land. Today, when mass communications tell one part of the world all about another, it is quite easy to understand how poverty or tyranny might force people to exchange an old nation for a new one. But centuries ago migration was a leap into the unknown. It was an enormous intellectual and emotional commitment. The forces that moved early immigrants to their great decision – the decision to leave their homes and begin an adventure filled with uncertainty, risk and hardship –must have been of overpowering proportions. As Oscar Handlin states, the early immigrants of America ―would collide with unaccustomed problems, learn to understand alien ways and alien languages, manage to survive in a very foreign environment.‖Despite the obstacles and uncertainties that lay ahead of them, millions did migrate to ―the promised land‖–America. But what was it that moved so many to migrate against such overwhelming odds (可能性)? There were probably as many reasons for coming to America as there were people who came. It was a highly individual decision. Yet it can be said that three large forces –religious persecution, political oppression and economic hardship –provided the chief motives for the mass migrations to America. They were responding in their own way to the pledge of the Declaration of Independence: the promise of ―life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.‖The search for freedom of worship has brought people to America from the days of the Pilgrims to modern times. In 1620, for example, the Mayflower carried a cargo of 102 passengers who ―welcomed the opportunity to advance the gospel(训言) of Christ in these remote parts.‖ A number of other groups such as the Jews and Quakers came to America after the Pilgrims, all seeking religious freedom. In more recent times, anti-Semitic persecution in Hitler’s Germany has driven people from their homes to seek refuge in America. However, not all religious sects(教派) have received the tolerance and understanding for which they came. The Puritans of the Massachusetts Bay Colony showed as little tolerance for dissenting(不同意的) beliefs as the Anglicans of England had shown them. They quickly expelled other religious groups from their society. Minority religious sects, from the Quakers and Shakers through the Catholics and Jews to the Mormons, have at various times suffered both discrimination and hostility in the United States.But the diversity of religious belief has made for religious toleration. In demanding freedom for itself, each sect had to permit freedom for others. The insistence of each successive wave of immigrants upon its right to practice its religion helped make freedom of worship a central part ofthe American Creed(宗教信条). People who gambled their lives on the right to believe in their own God would not easily surrender that right in a new society.The second great force behind immigration has been political oppression. America has always been a refuge from tyranny. As a nation conceived in liberty, it has held out to the world the promise of respect for the rights of man. Every time a revolution has failed in Europe, every time a nation has succumbed to tyranny(暴政), men and women who love freedom have assembled their families and their belongings and set sail across the seas. This process has not come to an end in our own day. The terrors of Hitler’s Germany and Mussolini’s Italy, the terrible wars of Southeast Asia – all have brought new thousands seeking safety in the United States.The economic factor has been more complex than the religious and political factors. From the very beginning, some have come to America in search of riches, some in flight from poverty, and some because they were bought and sold and had no choice.And the various reasons are intertwined. Thus some early arrivals were lured to these shores by dreams of amassing(积聚) great wealth, like the Spanish in Mexico and Peru. These adventurers, expecting quick profits in gold, soon found that real wealth lay in such crops as tobacco and cotton. As they built up the plantation economy in states like Virginia and the Carolinas, they needed cheap labor. So they began to import indentured servants from England (men and women who agreed to labor a term of years in exchange for eventual freedom). And slaves from Africa.The process of industrialization in America increased the demand for cheap labor, and chaotic economic conditions in Europe in creased the supply. If some immigrants continued to believe that the streets of New York were paved with gold, more were driven by the hunger and hardship of their native lands. The Irish potato famine of 1845 brought almost a million people to America in five years. American manufacturers advertised in European newspapers, offering to pay the passage of any man willing to come to America to work for them.The immigrants who came for economic reasons contributed to the strength of the new society in several ways. Those who came from countries with advanced political and economic institutions brought with them faith in those institutions and experience in making them work. They also brought technical and managerial skills which contributed greatly to economic growth in the new land. Above all, they helped give America the extraordinary social mobility which is the essence of an open society.In the community he had left, the immigrant usually had a fixed place. He would carry on his father’s craft of trade; he would farm his father’s land or that small portion of it that was left him after it was divided with his brothers. Only with the most exceptional talent and enterprise could he break out of the circumstances in life into which he had been born. There were no such circumstances for him in the New World. Once having broken with the past, except for sentimental ties and cultural inheritance, he had to rely on his own abilities. It was the future and not the past which he had to face. Except for the Negro slave, the immigrant could go anywhere and do anything his talents permitted. A large, virgin continent lay before him, and he had only to join it together by canals, railroads and roads. If he failed to achieve the dream of a better life for himself, he could still retain it for his children.These were the major forces that started this massive migration to America. Every immigrant served to reinforce and strengthen those elements in American society that had attracted him in the first place. The motives of some immigrants were commonplace. The motives of other were noble.Taken together they add up to the strengths and weaknesses of America.1. Early immigrants _____________________.A. didn’t find it difficult to make decisions to leave their homes.B. were able to know the nation before they left their homes.C. had to face the uncertainties and obstacles when they migrated to a strange land.D. were forced to leave their homeland unwillingly.2. People migrated to America for the following reasons EXCEPT ___________.A. searching for new religious freedom.B. breaking with past cultural inheritance.C. escape political oppression.D. searching for riches.3. The Puritans of the Massachusetts serve as an example of _______________.A. freedom of worshipB. religious intoleranceC. economic successD. respect for the rights of man.4. The diversity of religious belief has ultimately resulted in_______________.A. religious persecution.B. discriminationC. religious toleranceD. hostility5. As a result of the terror of Hitler’s Germany, __________________.A. thousands of Germans revolted against Hitler.B. the Jews and the native Germans succumbed to the tyranny.C. the Germans and Jews fled to seek political protection.D. many Germans left for the U.S. to seek security.6. Some early adventurers like the Spanish in Mexico and Peru were drawn to America by _____________.A. dreams of freedomB. dreams of pursuing great fortuneC. dreams of religious freedomD. dreams of political freedom7. Slaves were imported from Africa for the _________________ reason.A. politicalB. economicC. culturalD. religious8. In what way did immigrants seeking economic freedom contribute to the strength of the U.S. economy?A. They introduced advanced political and economic elites.B. They brought with them technical and managerial skills.C. They introduced the freedom of religion.D. They helped establish social stability.9. The most important contribution immigrants had made to the open society of America is ______________________.10. In the New World, immigrants had to break with the past, and achieved the dream of a better life by relying on _________________.Part III Listening Comprehension (35 minutes)Section A11. A) She helped upgrade the educational level of immigrants.B) Her mother was quite outstanding in academic work.C) She was not particularly interested in going to school.D) Her parents laid great emphasis on academic excellence.12. A) Tickets for its members were cheaper. B) It was filled with people all the time.C) It had a reputation for good service. D) The machines there were iii maintained.13. A) Tom has arranged to meet his bride Sarah in Hawaii.B) A double blessing has descended upon Tom.C) Tom was more excited than Sarah at the wedding.D) Both Sarah and Tom have been awarded doctoral degrees.14. A) The course prepared him adequately for the examination.B) The examination questions were somewhat too difficult.C) The examination was well beyond the course content.D) There were too many questions in the examination.15. A) It’s part of his job.B) It’s less time-consuming.C) His wife is tired of cooking. D) He is sick of home-cooked meals.16. A) He seldom takes things seriously. B) He is very proud of his piano skills.C) He has just started to teach piano lessons. D) He usually understates his achievements.17. A) It’s absurd.B) It’s tedious.C) It’s understandable.D) It’s jus tifiable.18. A) Allow her to take another flight that night. B) Compensate her for the inconvenience.C) Explain the cause of the cancellation. D) Arrange accommodation for her. Questions 19 to 22 are based on the conversation you have just heard.19. A) He doesn’t want to take final exams.B) He hasn’t prepared well for his tests.C) He has too many exams on the same day. D) He needs to get good scores on his tests.20. A) He should go to the Dean of Students Office.B) He ought to talk immediately to his professors.C) He should begin studying at once.D) He ought to decide which tests are most important.21. A) They are both excellent students. B) They have two classes together.C) They haven’t taken final exams before.D) They live in the same dormitory.22. A) Psychology. B) Anthropology. C) Calculus. D) Chemistry. Questions 23 to 25 are based on the conversation you have just heard.23. A) At a dentist office. B) In a school. C) In an ambulance. D) At a hospital.24. A) Doctors. B) Nurses. C) Hospital administrators. D) Patients.25. A) Because they don’t get much practice with them.B) Because they often use them in their work.C) Because they have to pass a test.D) Because they plan to become doctors.Section BPassage OneQuestions 26 to 28 are based on the passage you have just heard.26. A) Setting up a special museum. B) Producing legendary paintings.C) Manufacturing quality furniture. D) Making a fortune from decorative arts.27. A) To increase the popularity of the DuPont Company.B) To promote interest in American decorative arts.C) To tell the story of the American Revolution.D) To show his fascination with Asian culture.28. A) By style or design. B) By manufacturer or origin.C) By function or purpose. D) By theme or period.Passage TwoQuestions 29 to 31 are based on the passage you have just heard.29. A) The number of people relying on their mother tongue will drop.B) The percentage of native speakers of English will increase.C) People will choose Chinese rather than English.D) People may use two or more languages.30. A) The number of Spanish speakers is far greater than that of Arabic speakers.B) Arabic spoken in Egypt differs from Arabic spoken in Morocco in origin.C) Arabic spoken in one Arab country may not be understood in another.D) The number of Arabic speakers is declining because of the invasion of English.31. A) It is uncertain whether English will be the world language in the future.B) Spanish is very likely to become the top language of the world by 2050.C) Most people in the world will learn to speak Chinese in the future.D) It is impossible for Arab countries to standardize their language.Passage ThreeQuestions 32 to 35 are based on the passage you have just heard.32. A) Because it would cost lots of money to build such special colleges.B) Because it would constitute discrimination against blind students.C) Because they believe blind students prefer to mix with students who can see.D) Because they think blind people should learn to live among sighted people.33. A) By providing them with free medical service.B) By encouraging them to be more self-reliant.C) By offering them more financial assistance.D) By showing them proper care and respect.34. A) Modern technology. B) Professional support.C) Financial aid from the American government.D) Help from the National Federation of the Blind.35. A) Ask American professors to write recommendations on their behalf.B) Obtain American citizenship before they reach the age of 30.C) Apply to the National Federation of the Blind for scholarships.D) Turn to special institutions in their own country for assistance.Section CThe 142-member World Trade Organization (WTO) has reached a (36) ____________ point in efforts to (37) ___________ a new round of global trade negotiations. The trade body’s director-general is warning that if new negotiations are not held soon, the WTO risks being considered (38) ___________The last major round of World Trade Negotiations, the so-called Uruguay Round, conducted by the WTO’s (39) _________ the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade, ended successfully in 1993.In 1999 in Seattle, there was a (40) ___________ failure to start a new round. The ministers attending the Seattle meeting were unable to reach an agreement on what the (41) _____________and agenda of fresh negotiations should be.The impact of that (42) __________ produced a resolve that it should not be repeated. But just more than three months before a WTO ministerial meeting in Doha, Qatar, there is still no (43) ____________ on the agenda.One of several obstacles to agreement lies in the argument by developing countries that (44) ______________ _________________________ and they want preliminary assurances that this situation will not continue.Mr. Moore pointed out that the needs of the most advanced economies also have to be taken into account. ―I have said this before, and some do not like me saying it, but the major economies have needs to,‖ he said. ―(45) ________________________________________________________. The new global rules have to take into account the realities of the new economy. And when you have three countries that represent over 60 percent of the world’s imports, therefore jobs everywhere, they have some needs as well.‖Mr. Moore said (46) _________________________________________________.Part IV Reading Comprehension (Reading in Depth) (25 minutes)Section AQuestions 47 to 51 are based on the following passage.Could the bad old days of economic decline be about to return? Since OPEC agreed to supply cuts in March, the price of crude oil has jumped to almost $26 a barrel, up from less than $10 last December. This near tripling of oil prices calls up scary memories of the 1973 oil shock, when prices quadrupled, and 1979-80, when they also almost tripled. Both previous shocks resulted in double-digit inflation and global economic decline. So where are the headlines warning of gloom and doom the time?The oil price was given another push up this week when Iraq suspended oil exports. Strengthening economic growth, at the same time as winter grips the northern hemisphere, could push the price higher still in the short term.Yet there are good reasons to expect the economic consequences now to be less severe than in the 1970s. In most countries the cost of crude oil now accounts for a smaller share of the price of petrol than it did in the 1970s. In Europe, taxes account for up to four-fifths of the retail price, so even quite big changes in the price of crude have a more muted effect on pump prices than in the past.Rich economies are also less dependent on oil than they were, and so less sensitive to swings in the oil price. Energy conservation, a shift to other fuels and a decline in the importance of heavy, energy-intensive industries have reduced oil consumption. Software, consultancy and mobile telephones use far less oil than steel of car production. For each dollar of GDP (in constant prices) rich economies now use nearly 50% less oil than in 1973. The OECD estimates in its latest Economic Outlook that, if oil prices averaged $22 a barrel for a full year, compared with $13 in 1998, this would increase the oil import bill in rich economies by only 0.25-0.5% of GDP. That is less than one quarter of the income loss in 1974 or 1980. On the other hand, oil importing emerging economies—to which heavy industry has shifted—have become more energy-intensive, and so could be more seriously squeezed.One more reason not to lose sleep over the rise in oil prices is that, unlike the rises in the1970s, it has not occurred against the background of general commodity price inflation and global excess demand. A sizable portion of the world is only just emerging from economic decline. The Economist’s commodity price index is broadly unchanging from a year ago. In 1973 commodity prices jumped by 70%, and in 1979 by almost 30%.47. The main reason for the latest rise of oil price is ______________.48. Dramatic inflation and global economic decline in 1970s resulted from ________________.49. The writer doesn’t think the present economic situation will be more severe than in the 1970s because ___________________________________________________.50. The estimates in Economic Outlook show that in rich countries oil-price changes may have _____51. From the last paragraph, we can see that people needn’t worry about the rise of oil prices just because _________________________________.Section BPassage OneEach summer, no matter how pressing my work schedule, I take off one day exclusively for my son. We call it dad-son day. This year our third stop was the amusement park, where he discovered that he was tall enough to ride one of the fastest roller coasters (过山车)in the world. We blasted through face-stretching turns and loops for ninety seconds. Then, as we stepped off the ride, he shrugged and, in a distressingly calm voice, remarked that it was not as exciting as other rides he’d been on. As I listened, I b egan to sense something seriously out of balance.Throughout the season, I noticed similar events all around me. Parents seemed hard pressed to find new thrills for indifferent kids. Surrounded by ever-greater stimulation, their young faces were looking disappointed and bored.Facing their children’s complaints of ―nothing to do‖, parents were shelling out large numbers of dollars for various forms of entertainment. In many cases the money seemed to do little more than buy transient relief from the terrible moans of their bored children. This set me pondering the obvious question: ―How can it be so hard for kids to find something to do when there’s never been such a range of stimulating entertainment available to them?‖What really worries me is the intensit y of the stimulation. I watch my little daughter’s face as she absorbs the powerful onslaught (冲击)of arousing visuals and bloody special effects in movies.Why do children immersed in this much excitement seems starved for more? That was, I realized, the point. I discovered during my own reckless adolescence that what creates excitement is not going fast, but going faster. Thrills have less to do with speed than changes in speed.I’m concerned about the cumulative effect of years at these levels of feverish activity. It is no mystery to me why many teenagers appear apathetic (麻木的)and burned out, wi th a ―been there, d one that‖ air of indifference toward much of life. As increasing numbers of friends’ children are prescribed medications — stimulants to deal with inattentiveness at school or anti-depressants to help with the loss of interest and joy in their lives —I question the role of kids’ boredom in someof the diagnoses.My own work is focused on the chemical imbalances and biological factors related to behavioral and emotional disorders. These are complex problems. Yet I’ve been reflecting more and more on how the pace of life and the intensity of stimulation may be contributing to the rising rates of psychiatric problems among children and adolescents in our society.52. The author felt surprised in the amusement park at the fact that ________.A) his son could keep his balance so well on the fast-moving roller coasterB) his son was not as thrilled by the roller coaster ride as expectedC) his son blasted through the turns and loops with his face stretchedD) his son appeared distressed but calm while riding the roller coaster53. According to the author, children are bored _________.A) even if they are exposed to more and more kinds of entertainmentB) when they are left alone at weekends by their working parentsC) when they don’t have any acc ess to stimulating fun gamesD) unless their parents can find new thrills for them54. From his own experience, the author came to the conclusion that children seem to expect_____.A) a much wider variety of sports facilities B) physical exercises that are morechallengingC) ever-changing thrilling forms of recreationD) activities that require sophisticated skills55. In Para. 6, the author expresses his doubt about the effectiveness of trying to changechildren’s indifference toward much of life by _________.A) creating more stimulating activities for themB) spending more money on their entertainmentC) diverting their interest from electronic visual gamesD) prescribing medications for their temporary relief56. In order to alleviate children’s bo redom, the author would probably suggest ________.A) balancing school work with extracurricular activitiesB) adjusting the pace of life and intensity of stimulationC) consulting a specialist in child psychologyD) promoting the practice of dad-son daysPassage TwoIt used to be that people were proud to work for the same company for the whole of their working lives. They’d get a gold watch at the end of their productive years and a dinner featuring speeches by their bosses praising their loyalty. But tod ay’s rich capitalists have regressed(倒退)to the ―survival of the fittest‖ ideas and their loyalty extends not to their workers or even to their stockholders but only to themselves. Instead of giving out gold watches worth a hundred or so dollars for forty or so years of work, they grab tens and even hundreds of millions of dollars as they sell for their own profit the company they may have been with for only a few years.The new rich selfishly act on their own to unfairly grab the wealth that the country as a whole has produced. The top 1 percent of the population now has wealth equal to the whole bottom 95 percent and they want more. Their selfishness is most shamelessly expressed in downsizing and outsourcing(将产品包给外公司做)because these business maneuvers don’t act to create newjobs as the founders of new industries used to do, hut only to cut out jobs while keeping the money value of what those jobs produced for themselves.To keep the money machine working smoothly the rich have bought all the politicians from the top down. The president himself is constantly leaving Washington and the business of the nation because he is summoned to ―fundraising dinners‖ where fat cats pay a thousand or so dollars a plate to worm their way into government not through service but through donations of vast amounts of money. Once on the inside they have both political parties busily tearing up all the regulations that protect the rest of us from the greed of the rich.The middle class used to be loyal to the free enterprise system. In the past, the people of the middle class mostly thought they’d be rich themselves someday or have a good shot at becoming rich. But nowadays income is being distributed more and more unevenly and corporate loyalty is a thing of the past. The middle class may also wake up to forget its loyalty to the so-called free enterprise system altogether and the government which governs only the rest of us while letting the corporations do what they please with our jobs. As things stand, if somebody doesn’t wake up, the middle class is on a path to being downsized all the way to the bottom of society.57. It can be inferred from the first paragraph that people used to place a high value on _________.A) retirement benefits B) job security C) bosses’ praise D) corporate loyalty58. The author is strongly critical of today’s rich capitalists for _________.A) rewarding only those who are considered the fittestB) not giving necessary assistance to laid-off workersC) maximizing their profits at the expense of workersD) not setting up long-term goals for their companies59. The immediate consequence of the new capitalists’ practice is ___________.A) a decline in business transactions B) a higher rate of unemploymentC) lower pay for the employees D)loss of corporate reputation60. The rich try to sway the policy of the government by _________.A) pleasing the public with generous donationsB) constantly hosting fundraising dinnersC) making monetary contributions to decision-makersD) occupying important positions in both political parties61. What is the author’s purpose in writing this passage?A) To urge the middle class to wake up and protect their own interests.B) To call on tile middle class to remain loyal to the free enterprise system.C) To warn the government of the shrinking of the American middle class.D) To persuade the government to change its current economic policies.Part V Error Correction (15 minutes)The most important starting point for improving the understanding ofscience is undoubtedly an adequate scientific education at school. Publicattitudes towards science owe much the way science is taught in these institutions. Today, school is what most people come into contact with a formal instruction and explanation of science for the first time, at least in a systematic way. It is at this point which the foundations are laid for an 62 _________63 _________64 _________。
cet6语历年六级真题06.12-08.12（有答案和听力原文）06.121.W: Do you know why Mary has such a long face today?M: I don’t have the foggiest idea! She should be happy especially since she got a promotion yesterday.Q: What did the speakers mean?2.M: Hi, Johanna! Are you interested in going to an Art Exhibition on Sunday? A friend of mine is showing some of her paintings there. It’s the opening night. Free drinks and food!W: Well, actually, I don’t have anything planned. It sounds kind of fun!Q: What did the man invite the woman to do on Sunday?3.M: You did an excellent job in school! You were indeed a great student! Where did your drive come from?W: Academic achievements were important to my parents as immigrants. Education is where it all begins. My mother in particular tries to get me interested in school.Q: what do we learn about the woman from the conversation?4.M: I hear the Sunflower Health Club on Third Street is good!W: Not right now! I used to go there. I thought it was great because it was real cheap. But the problem was it was always crowded. Sometimes, I had to wait to use the machines.Q: What does the woman say about the Sunflower health club?5.W: Tom is very excited! Just yesterday he received his doctoral degree and in a few min utes he’ll be putting the ring on Sarah‘s finger.M: He’s really such a luck dog! Sarah is a lovely bride and tonight they are going to Hawaii on their honeymoon!Q: What do we learn from the conversation?6.W: Your chemistry examination is over, isn’t it? Why do you still look so worried?M: I don’t know. It wasn’t that the questions were too hard, or they were too many of them. But I’m still feeling uneasy because the exam didn’t seem to have much to do with the course material.Q: What does the man mean?7.W: Your wife told me that you eat out four or five times a week,I really envy you!M: Don’t envy me! It’s for business. In fact, I’m sick and tired of restaurant food! Sometimes, I just prefer a home-cooked meal.Q: Why does the man say he often eats out?8.W: I was amazed when I heard Tony played piano so expertly! From the way he talked, I thought he was just starting his lessons.M: Oh, no! That’s the way he always talks!Q: What can we infer about Tony from the conversation?9.M: What do you think of people suing McDonalds for making them fat?W: Well. Its food doesn’t make you fat. But eating too much of it does! How about chocolate and ice cream? Are they all responsible? It’s silly!Q: What does the woman think of the lawsuit against McDonalds?10.M: I’m terribly sorry ma’am, but your flight has been cancelled.I won’t be able to put you on another one until tomorrow morning.W: Well, I certainly hope the airline’s going to put me up somewhere tonight.Q: What did the woman request the airline do?Passage oneYou have probably heard of the DuPont company, which was founded by a family of the same name. But do you know about the museum that one of the family members began? Henry Francis Du Pont was an heir to D elaware’s DuPont Company fortune. He was one of the first serious collectors ofAmerican decorative art objects: furniture, textiles, paintings and other objects made in United States between 1640 and 1840. American furniture and household objects had been considered inferior to those from Europe. But Du Pont helped develope a new appreciation for American decorative arts. He created a legendary show plays for these objects on his family estate just outside Wilmington, Delaware. In 1951, it was open to the public as the Henry Francis Du Pont Winterthur Museum. The museum assembled objects from Du Pont’s collection into 175 period rooms, each with examples of American antiques and decorative arts that followed a certain theme of period in early American history. For example, the Du Pont dining room has furniture dating from the late 18th and early 19th centuries. And because this was the time when the United States became a new nation, there’s a patriotic theme in the room. Another example is the Chinese parlo r, which has furnishings that would reflect American’s fascination with Asian culture during the 18th century. In these period rooms, Du Pont believed he could tell the story of the early United States through furniture and other decorative arts.11. What is Henry Francis Du Pont noted for?12. What was the purpose of Du Pont’s efforts?13. How were the objects on display arranged?Passage twoAccording to David Grattle, a British language expert, the idea that English will become the world language is outdated. And people are more likely to switch between two or more languages for routine communication in the future. The share of the world’s population that speaks English as a native language is falling. Instead, English will play a growing role as a second language. A population speaking more than one language is already the case in much of the world and is becoming more common in the United States. Indeed, the census bureau reported last year that nearly one American in five speaks a language other than English at home, with Spanish taking the lead, followed by Chinese. Grattle works for British consulting and publishing business. He anticipates a world with the share of people who are native English speakers slips from 9% in the mid 1990s to 5% in 2050. Grattle says, “Up until 1995, English was the second most common native tongue in the world, trailing only Chinese. By 2050, Chinese will continue its predominance with Hindi Woodoo of India and Arabic climbing past English and Spanish nearly equa l to it.” In contrast, an American language expert, David Harrison noted that the global share of English is much larger if you count second language speakers, and will continue to rise even as the proportion of native speakers declines.Harrison disputed listing Arabic in top three languages because varieties of Arabic spoken in such countries as Egypt and Morocco are mutually incomprehensible.14. What does David Grattle say about the use of languages for daily communication in the future?15. Why doe sn’t David Harrison include Arabic as one of the top three languages?16. What can we infer from the passage?Passage threeThere are about 1 million blind people in the United States. The largest and most influential organization of blind people in this country is the National Federation of the Blind. Its officials say the nation doesn’t have any colleges or universities that serve only blind students. They say the reason for this is that blind people must learn to live among people who can see. American colleges and universities do accept blind and visually impaired students, and they provide services to help these students succeed. For example, colleges find people who write down what the professor say in class and they provide technology that can help blind students with their work. However, experts say colleges can best help blind students by making it clear that the students should learn to help themselves. One blind American student named T recently made news because he graduated from medical school from the University of Wisconsin. He said technology was one of the reasons he succeeded. He used a computer that read into his earphone what he was typing. He also used a small printer that permitted him to write notes about his patients in the hospital. He did his undergraduate work at the University of Notre Dame in South Bend, Indiana. National Federation of the Blind officials say blind students from other nations do come to the United States to attend college. Some can even get financial aid. The Federation awards about 30 scholarships each year that have no citizenship requirement.17. According to officials of the National Federation of the Blind, why are there no special colleges for blind students only?18. According to experts how can colleges best help blind students?19. What is one of the reasons given by T as a blind student for his success?20. What can blind students from overseas do to study in America according to the National Federation of the Blind?07.611、 W: Jim, you are on the net again! We are going to get off. It s time for the talk show!M: Just a minute dear! I m looking at a new jewelry site. I want to make sure I get the right gift for mom s birthday.Q: What is the man doing right now?12．W: I ve never seen you have such confidence before in the exam!M: It s more than confidence! Right now I felt that if I got less than an A, it will be the fault of the exam itself.Q: What does the man mean?13．W: Just look at this newspaper! Nothing but murder, death and war! Do you still believe people are basically good?M: Of course I do! But newspapers hardly ever report stories about peace and generosity. They are not news!Q: What do we learn from the conversation?14．M: Tom must be joking when he said he plans to sell his shop and go to medical school.W: You are quite right! He s just kidding! He s also told me time and time again he wished to study for some profession instead of going into business.Q: What will Tom probably do according to the conversation?15．W: I hear your boss has a real good impression of you, and he is thinking about giving you two more days off each month.M: I hope not. I d rather get more work hours I can get enough bucks to help out my two kids at college.Q: What does the man truly want?16．M: I heard you took a trip to Mexico last month. How did you like it?W: Oh, I got sick and tired of the hotel and hotel food! So now I understand the thing: East, west, home s best!Q: What does the woman mean?17．W: I m worried about Anna. She s really been depressed lately. All she does is staying in her room all day.M: That sounds serious! She d better see a psychiatrist at the counseling centre.Q: What does the man suggest Anna do?18．M: I could hardly recognize Sam after we got that new job! He s always in a suit and tie now.W: Yeah. He was never liked that in college. Back then, he went around in old T-shirts and jeans.Q: What does the speaker say about Sam?Conversation 1M: Hi, Anna! Welcome back! How’s your trip to the States?W: Very busy. I had a lot of meetings, so, of course, I didn’t have much time to see New York.M: What a pity! Actually, I have a trip there myself next week.W: Do you? Then take my advice, do the well-being in the air program. It really works.M: Oh, I read about that in a magazine. You say it works?W: Yes, I did the program on the flight to the States, and when I arrived at New York, I didn’t have any problem, no jet lag at all. On the way back, I didn’t do it, and I felt terrible.M: You’re jok ing!W: Not at all, it really meant a lot of difference.M: En. So what did you do?W: Well, I didn’t drink an alcohol or coffee, and I didn’t eat any meat or rich food. I drink a lot of water, and fresh juice, and I ate the noodles on the well-being me nu. They’re lighter. They have fish, vegetables, and noodles, for example, and I did some of the exercises of the program. M: Exercises? On a plane?W: Yes. I didn’t do many, of course, there isn’t much space on a plane. M: How many passengers do the exercises?W: Not many.M: Then how much champagne did they drink?W: A lot! It was more popular than mineral water.M: So, basically, it’s a choice. Mineral water and exercises, or champagne and jet lag.W: That’s right! It’s a difficult choice.Quest ions 19 to 22 are based on the conversation you’ve just heard.19. Why did the woman go to New York?20. What does the woman say about the well-being in the air program?21. What did the woman do to follow the well-being menu?22. What did the woman say about other passengers?Conversation Two:W: Morning. Can I help you?M: Well, I’m not rally sure. I’m just looking.W: I see. Well, there’s plenty to look at it again this year. I’m sure you have to walk miles to see each stand.M: That’s true.W: Er…, would you like a coffee? Come and sit down for a minute, no obligation.M: Well, that’s very kind of you, but…W: Now, please. Is this the first year you’ve been to the fair, Mr…. M: Yes, Johnson, James Johnson.W: My name’s Susan Carter. Are you looking for anything in particular, or are you interested in computers in general?M: Well, actually, I have some specific jobs in mind. I owe a small company, we’ve grown quite dramatically over the past 12 months, and we really need some technological help to enable us to keep on top of everything. W: What’s your line of business, Mr. Johnson?M: We’re a training consultancy.W: I see. And what do you mean “to keep on top”?M: The first thing is correspondence. We have a lot of standard letters and forms. So I suppose we need some kind of word processor.W: Right. Well, that’s no problem. But it may be possible for you to get a system that does a lot of other things in addition to word processing. What might suit you is the MR5000. That’s it over there! It’s IBM compatible.M: What about the price?W: Well, the MR5000 costs 1,050 pounds. Software comes free with the hardware.M: Well, I’ll think about it. Thank you.W: Here’s my card. Please feel free to contact me.Questions 23 to 25 are based on the conversation you’ve just heard:23. Where did the conversation take place?24. What are the speakers talking about?25. What is the man’s line of business?PassageP1The new year always brings with the cultural tradition of new possibilities. We see it as a chance for renewal. We begin to dream of new possible selves. We design our ideal self or an image that is quite different from what we are now. For some of us, we roll at dreamy film in our heads just because it’s the beginning of a new year. But we aren’t serious about making changes. We just make some half-hearted resolution and it evaporates after a week or two. The experience makes us feel less successful and leads us to discount our ability to change in the future. It’ not the change i s impossible but that it would lose(?) unless our resolutions are supported with plans for implementation. We have to make our intentions manageable by detailing the specific steps that will carry us to our goal. Say your goal is to lose weight by dieting and cutting off sweets. But one night you just have to have a cookie. And you know there’s a bag of your favorites in the cupboard. You want one, you eat two, you check the bag and find out you’ve just shot 132 calories. You say to yourself, “What the hell!” and polish off the whole bag. Then you begin to draw all kinds of unpleasant conclusions about yourself. To protect your sense of self, you begin to discount the goal. You may think –“Well, dieting wasn’t that important to me and I won’t make it anyhow.” So you abandon the goal and return to your bad habits.26 What do people usually wish to do at the beginning of a new year?27 How can people turn their new year’s resolutions into reality?28 Why does the speaker mention the example of sweets and cookies?P225 years ago, Ray Anderson, a single parent with a one-year-old son witnessed a terrible accident which took place when the driver of a truck ran a red light and collided with the car of Sandra D. The impact of the collision killed Sandra instantly. But her three-month-old daughter was left trapped in the burning car. While others looked on in horror, Andersen jumped out of his vehicle and crawled into the car through the shadowed rear window to try to free the infant. Seconds later, the car was enclosed in flames. But to everyone’s amazement, Andersen was able to pull the baby to safety. While the baby was all right, Andersen was seriously injured. Two days later he died. But his heroic act was published widely in the media. His son was soon adopted by relatives. The most remarkable part of the story unfolded only last week. Karen and her boyfriend Michaelwere looking through some old boxes when they came across some old newspaper clippings. “This is me when I was a new born baby. I was rescued from a burning car. But my mother died in the accident,” explained Karen. Although Michael knew Karen’s mother had died years earlier, he never fully understood the circumstances until he skimmed over the newspaper article. To Karen’s surprise, Michael was absorbed in the details of the accident. And he began to cry uncontrollably. Then he revealed that the man that pulled Karen from the flames was the father he never knew. The two embraced and shed many tears, recounting stories told to them about their parents.29 What happened twenty-five years ago?30 What does the speaker say about Michael’s father?31 Why did Michael cry uncontrollably when he skimmed over the newspaper article?P3Americans suffer from an overdose of work. Regardless of who they are or what they do. Americans spend more time at work than that any time since World War II. In 1950, the US had fewer working hours than any other industrialized country. Today, it exceeds every country but Japan where industrialized employees load 2155 hours a year compared with 1951 in the US and 1603 in the former West Germany. Between 1969 and 1989, employed Americans add an average of 138 hours to their yearly work schedules. The workweek has remained above 40 hours. But people are working more weeks each year. Specifically pay time off holidays, vacations, sick leave shrink by 50% in the 1980s. As corporations have experienced stiff competitions and slow in growth of productivity, they have pressed employees to work longer. Cost-cutting lay-offs in the 1980s reduce the professional and managerial runs, leaving fewer people to get the job done. In lower paid occupations where wages have been reduced, workers have added hours in overtime or extra jobs to preserve their living standards. The government estimates that more than 7 million people hold a second job. For the first time, large numbers of people say they want to cut back on working hours even it means earning less money. But most employers are unwilling to let them do so. The government which has stepped back from its traditional role as a regulator of work time should take steps to make shorter hours possible.Question 32-35 are based on the passage you’ve just heard32. In which country do industrial employees work the longest hours?33. How do employed Americans manage to work more hours?34. Why do corporations press their employees to work longer hours according to the speaker?35. What does the speaker say many Americans prefer to do?Compound dictationNursing, as a typically female profession, must deal constantly with the false impression that nurses are there to wait on the physician. As nurses, we are licensed to provide nursing care only. We do not have any legal or moral obligation to any physician. We provide health teaching, assess physical as well as emotional problems, coordinate patient related services, and make all our nursing decision based upon what is best or suitable for the patient. If in any circumstance we feel that a physician’s order is inappropriate or unsafe, we have a legal responsibility to question that order, or refuse to carry it out. Nursing is not a nine-to-five job with every weekend off. All nurses are aware of that before they enter the profession. The emotional and physical stress, however, that occurs due to odd working hours is a prime reason for a large of the career dissatisfaction. It is sometimes required that we work overtime, and that we change shifts four or five times a month. That disturbs our personal lives, destruct our sleeping and eating habits, and isolates us from everything except job related friends and activities. The quality of nursing care is being affected dramatically by these situations. Most hospitals are now staffed by new graduates, as experienced nurses finally give up trying to change the system. Consumers of medically related services have evidently not been affected enough yet to demand changes in our medical system. But if trends continue as predicted, they will find that most critical hospital care will be provided by new, inexperienced, and sometimes inadequately trained nurses.07.12Section A11. M: The biological project is now in trouble, you know, my colleague and I have completely different ideas about how to proceed.W: Why don’t you comprom ise (让步，妥协)？Try to make it a win-win situation (双赢) for you both.Q: What does the woman suggest the man do?12. M: How does Nancy like the new dress she bought in Rome?W: She said she would never have bought an Italian style dress if she had known Mary Had already got such a dress.Q: What do we learn from the conversation?13. M: You are not going to do all those dishes before we leave, are you? If we don’t pick up(开车接) George and Martha in 25 minutes, we’ll never get to the theater on time.W: Oh, didn’t I tell you Martha called to say her daughter was ill and they could not got tonight?Q: What is the woman probably going to do first?14. M: You’ve been hanging on to the phone (打电话不挂断) for quite a while. Who were you talking with?W: Oh, it was Sally. You know, she always has the latest news in town and can’t wait to talk it over with me.Q: What to we learn about Sally from the conversation?15. W: It’s always been hard to get this car into first gear (挂一挡)，and now the clutch seems to be slipping.M: If you leave the car with me, I will fix it for you this afternoon.Q: Who is the woman probably speaking to?16. M: Kate, why does the downtown area look deserted now?W: Well, there used to be some really good stores, but lots of them moved out to the mall.’Q: What do we learn from the conversation?17. W: I find the lounge such a cozy place to study in. I really like the feeling of sitting on the sofa and doing the reading.M: Well, for me the hardest part about studying here is staying awake .Q: What does the man mean?18. W: There mosquito bites are killing me. I can’t help scratching.M: Next time you go camping, take some precaution, say, wearing long sleeves .Q: Why does the man suggest the woman wear long sleeves?Conversation OneM: Hello, and welcome to our program, “Working Abroad”. Our guest this evening is a Londoner, who lives and works in Italy, Her name’s Susan Hill. Susan, welcome to the program (19). You live in Florence, how long have you been living there?W: Since 1982. But when I went there in 1982, I planned to stay for only 6 months(20).M: Why did you change your mind?W: Well, I’m a designer, I design leather goods, mainly shoes and handbags, Soon after I arrived in Florence, I got a jo b with one of Italy’s top fashion houses, Ferregamo. So, I decided to stay.M: How lucky! Do you still work for Ferregamo?W: No, I’ve been a freelance designer for quite a long time now, since 1988, in fact. (21)M: So does that mean you design for several different companies now?W: Yes, that’s right. I’ve designed many fashion items for a number of Italian companies, and in the last four years, I’ve also been designing for the British company, Burberrys. (21)M: What have you been designing for them?W: Mostly handbags and small leather goods.M: How’s the fashion industry in Italy changed since 1982?W: oh, yes. It’s become a lot more competitive (22). Because the quality of products from other countries has improved a lot. But Italian quality and design is still world-famous.M: And do you ever think of returning to live in England?W: No, not really. Working in Italy is more interesting. I also love the Mediterranean sun and the Italian life style.M: Well, thank you for talking to us, Susan.W: It was a pleasure.Questions 19 to 22 are based on the conversation you have just heard.19. Where does this talk most probably take place?20. What was the woman’ s original plan when she went to Florence?21. What has the woman been doing for a living since 1988?22. What do we learn about the change in Italy’s fashion industry?Conversation TwoM: So, Claire, you’re into drama?W: Yes, I have a master’s degree in Drama and Theatre. At the moment, I’m hoping to get onto a Ph.D. Program.M: What excites you about drama?W: Well, I find it’s a communicative way to study people and you learn how to read people in drama. So usually I can understand what people are saying, even though they might be lying. (23)M: That would be useful.W: Yeah, it’s very useful for me as well. I’m an English lecturer, so use a lot for drama in my classes, such as role plays. And I ask my students to create mini-dramas. They really respond well. (24) At the moment, I’m hoping to get onto a Ph. D. course. I would like to concentrate on Asian drama and try to bring Asian theatre to the world’s attention. I don’t know how successful I would be, but, here’s hoping.M: Oh, I’m sure you’ll be successful. Now, Claire , what do you do for stage fright?W: Ah, stage fright! Well, many actors have that problem. Get stage fright every time I’m going to teach a new class. The night before, I usually can’t sleep.M: What? For teaching?W: Yes. I get really bad stage fright. But the minute I step into the classroom or get onto the stage, it just all falls into place. Then I just feel like: Yeah, this is what I mean to do. And I’m fine (25).M: Wow, that’s cool!Questions 23 to 25 are based on the conversation you have just heard.23. Why does the woman find study in drama and theatre useful?24. How di d the woman’s students respond to her way of teaching Englsih?25. What does the woman say about her stage fright?Section BPassage OneIn January 1989, the Community of European Railways presented their proposal for a high speed pan-European train network, extending from Sweden to Sicily, and from Portugal to Poland by the year 2020. (26) If their proposal becomes a reality, it will revolutionize train travel in Europe. Journeys between major cities will take half the time they take today. (27) Brussels will be only one and a half hours from Paris. The quickest way to get from Paris to Frankfurt, from Barcelona to Madrid will be by train, not plane. When the network is compete, it will integrate three types of railway line: totally new high-speed lines with trains operating at speeds of 300 kilometers per hour, upgraded lines which allow for speeds up to 200 to 225 kilometers per hour, and existing lines for local connections and distribution of freight. If business people can choose between a 3-hour train journey from city-center to city-center and 1-hour flight, they’ll choose the train (28), says an executive travel consultant. They won’t go by plane any more. If you calculate flight time, check-in and travel to-and-from the airport, you’ll find almost no difference. And if your plane arrives late due to bad weather or air traffic jams or strikes, then the train passengers will arrive at their destination first. (28) Since France introduced the first 260-kilometer per hour high speed train service between Paris and Lyon in 1981 (29), the trains have achieved higher and higher speeds. On many routes, airlines have lost up to 90% of their passengers to high speed trains. If people accept the Community of European Railways’ Railways’ Plan, the 21st century will be new age of the trains.Question 26 to 29 are based on the passage you have just heard.26. What is the proposal presented by the Community of European Railways?27. What will happen when the proposal becomes a reality?28. Why will business people prefer a 3-hour train journey to a 1-hour flight?29. When did France introduce the first high speed train service?。
2006年12月英语六级阅读真题及答案2006年12月英语六级真题(B卷)Passage OneQuestions 21 to 25 are based on the following passage.Each summer, no matter how pressing my work schedule, I take off one day exclusively for my son. We call it dad-son day. This year our third stop was the amusement park, where he discovered that he was tall enough to ride one of the fastest roller coasters(过山车) in the world. We blasted through face-stretching turns and loops for ninety seconds. Then, as we stepped off the ride, he shrugged and, in a distressingly calm voice, remarked that it was not as exciting as other rides he’d been on. As I listened, I began to sense something seriously out of balance.Throughout the season, I noticed similar events all around me. Parents seemed hard pressed to find new thrills for indifferent kids. Surrounded by ever-greater stimulation, their young faces wore looking disappointed and bored.Facing their children’s complaints of “nothing to do”. Parents were shelling out large numbers of dollars for various forms of entertainment. In many cases the money seemed to do little more than buy transient relief from the terrible moans of their bored children. This set me pondering the obvious question: “How can it be so hard for kids to find something to do when there’s never been such a range of stimulating entertainment available to them?”Why do children immersed in this much excitement seem starved for more? That was, I realized, the point. I discovered during my own reckless adolescence that what creates excitement is not going fast, but going faster. Thrills have less todo with speed than changes in speed.I’m concerned about the cumulative effect of years at these levels of feverish activity. It is no mystery to me why many teenagers appear apathetic (麻木的) and burned out, with a “been there, done that”air of indifference toward much of life. As increasing numbers of friends’ children are prescribed medications-stimulants to deal with inattentiveness at school or anti-depressants to help with the loss of interest and joy in their lives-l question the role of kids boredom in some of the diagnoses.My own work is focused on the chemical imbalances and biological factors related to behavioral and emotional disorders. These are complex problems. Yet I’ve been reflecting more and more on how the pace of life and the intensity of stimulation may be contributing to the rising rates of psychiatric problems among children and adolescents in our society.21. The author felt surprised in the amusement park at the face that________.A) his son was not as thrilled by the roller coaster ride as expectedB) his son blasted through the turns and loops with his face stretchedC) his son appeared distressed but calm while riding the roller coasterD) his son could keep his balance so well on the fast-moving roller coaster22. According to the author, children are bored _________.A) unless their parents can find new thrills for themB) when they don’t have any access to stimulating fun gamesC) when they are left alone at weekends by their working parentsD) even if they are exposed to more and more kinds of entertainment23. From his own experience. the author came to the conclusion that children seem to expect________.A) a much wider variety of sports facilitiesB) activities that require sophisticatedC) ever-changing thrilling forms of recreationD) physical exercises that are more challenging24. In Para. 6 . the author expresses his doubt about the effectiveness of trying to change children indifference toward much of life by ________.A) diverting their interest from electronic visual gamesB) prescribing medications for their temporary reliefC) creating more stimulating activities for themD) spending more money on their entertainment25. In order to alleviate children’s boredom, the author w ould probably suggest ____ .A) adjusting the pace of life and intensity of stimulationB) promoting the practice of dad-son daysC) consulting a specialist in child psychologyD) balancing school work with extracurricular activitiesPassage TwoQuestions 26 to 30 are based on the following passage.It used to be that people were proud to work for the same company for the whole of their working lives. They’d get a gol d watch at the end of their productive years and a dinner featuring speeches by their bo sses praising their loyalty/But today’s richcap italists have regressed (倒退) to the “survival of the fittest”ideas and their loyalty extends not to their workers or even to their stockholders but only to themselves. Instead of giving out gold watches worth a hundred or so dollars for forty or so years of work, they grab tens and even hundreds of millions of dollars as they sell for their own profit the company they may have been with for only a few years.The new rich selfishly act on their own to unfairly grab the wealth that the country as a whole has produced. The top l percent of the population now has wealth equal to the whole bottom 95 percent and they want more. Their selfishness is most shamelessly expressed in downsizing and outsourcing (将产品包给外公司做) because these business maneuvers don’t act to create new jobs as the founders of new industries used to do, but only to cut out jobs while keeping the money value of what those jobs produced for themselves.To keep the money machine working smoothly the rich have bought all the politicians from the top down. The president himself is constantly leaving. Washington and the business of the nation because he is summoned to “fundraising dinners” where fat cats pay a thousand or so dollars a plate to worm their way into government not through service but through donations of vast amounts of money. Once on the inside they have both political parties busily tearing up all the regulations that protect the rest of us from the greed of the rich.The middle class used to be loyal to the free enterprise system. In the past, the people of the middle class mostly thought they’d be rich themselves someday or have a good shot at becoming rich. But nowadays income is being distributed more and more unevenly and corporate loyalty is a thing of the past.The middle class may also wake up to forget its loyalty to the so-called freeenterprise system altogether and the government which governs only the rest of us while letting the corporations do what they please with our jobs. As things stand. if somebody doesn’t wake up, the middle class is on a path to being downsized all the way to the bottom of society.26. It can be inferred form the first paragraph that people used to place a high value on _________ .A) job securityB) boss es’ praiseC) corporate loyaltyD) retirement benefits27. The author is strongly critical of today’s rich capitalists for _________.A) not giving necessary assistance to laid-off workersB) maximizing their profits at the expense of workersC) not setting up long-term goals for their companiesD) rewarding only those who are considered the fittest28. The immediate consequence of the new capitalists’ practice is ________ .A) loss of corporate reputationB) lower pay for the employeesC) a higher rate of unemploymentD) a decline in business transactions29. The rich try to sway the policy of the government by ________ .A) occupying important positions in both political partiesB) making monetary contributions to decision-makersC) pleasing the public with generous donationsD) constantly hosting fundraising dinners30. What is the author’s purpose in writing this passage?A) To call on the middle class to remain loyal to the free enterprise system.B) To warn the government of the shrinking of the American middle class.C) To persuade the government to change its current economic policies.D) To urge the middle class to wake up and protect their own interests.Passage ThreeQuestions 31 to 35 are based on the following passageIntel chairman Andy Grove has decided to cut the Gordian knot of controversy surrounding stem cell research by simply writing a check.The check, which he pledged last week, could be for as much as $5 million, depending on how many donors make gifts of between $50,000 and $500,000. which he has promised to match. It will be made out to the University of California-San Francisco (UCSF).Thanks in part to such private donations, university research into uses for human stem cells the cells earliest stages of development that can form any body part-will continue in California. With private financial support, the state will be less likely to lose talented scientists who would betempted to leave the field or even leave the field or even leave the country as research dependent on federal money slows to a glacial (极其缓慢的) pace.Hindered by limits President Bush placed on stem cell research a year ago, scientists are turning to laboratories that cancarry out work without using federal money. This is awkward for universities. Which must spend extra money building separate labs and keeping rigorous records proving no federal funds were involved. Grove’s donation, a first step toward a $20 million target at UCSF. Will ease the burden.The president’s decision a year ago to allow resear ch on already existing stem cell lines was portrayed as a reasonable compromise between scientists’ needs for cells to work with, and concerns that this kind of research cold lead to wholesale creation and destruction of human embryos (胚胎)。
洛基英语，中国在线英语教育领导品牌Part I：Writing (30 minutes)1．阅读经典书籍对人的成长至关重要2．现在愿意鱼肚经典的人却越来越少，原因是......3．我们大学生应该怎么做Part II Reading Comprehension (Skimming and Scanning ) (15 minutes)Space TourismMake your reservations now. The space tourism industry is officially open for business, and tickets are going for a mere $20 million for a one-week stay in space. Despite reluctance from National Air and Space Administration (NASA), Russia made American businessman Dennis Tito the world's first space tourist. Tito flew into space aboard a Russian Soyuz rocket that arrived at the International Space Station (ISS) on April 30,2001. The second space tourist, South African businessman Mark Shuttle worth, took off aboard the Russian Soyuz on April 25, 2002, also bound for the ISS.Lance Bass of'N Sync was supposed to be the third to make the $20 million trip, but he did not join the three-man crew as they blasted off on October 30,2002, due to lack of payment. Probably the most incredible aspect of this proposed space tour was that NASA approved of it.These trips are the beginning of what could be a profitable 21st century industry. There are already several space tourism companies planning to build suborbital vehicles and orbital cities within the next two decades. These companies have invested millions, believing that the space tourism industry is on the verge of taking off.In 1997, NASA published a report concluding that selling trips into space to private citizens could be worth billions of dollars. A Japanese report supports these findings, and projects that space tourism could be a $10 billion per year industry within the next two decades. The only obstacles to opening up space to tourists are the space agencies, who are concerned with safety and the development of a reliable, reusable launch vehicle.Space AccommodationsRussia's Mir space station was supposed to be the first destination for space tourists. But in March 2001, the Russian Agency brought Mir down into the Pacific Ocean. As it turned out, bringing down Mir only temporarily delayed the first tourist trip into space.The Mir crash did cancel plans for a new reality-based game show from NBC, which was going to be called Destination Mir. The survivor-like TV show was scheduled to air in fall 2001. Participants on the show were to go through training at Russia's cosmonaut(宇航员) training center, Star City. Each week, one of the participants would be eliminated from the show, with the winner receiving a trip to the Mir space station. The Mir crash has ruled out NBC's space plants for now. NASAis against beginning space tourism until the International Space Station is completed in 2006.Russia in not alone in its interest in space tourism. There are several projects underway to commercialize space travel. Here are a few of the groups that might take tourists to space:Space Island Group is going to build a ring-shaped, rotating "commercial space infrastructure(基础结构)."Space Island says it will build its space city out of of empty NASA space-shuttle fuel tanks (to start, it should take around 12 or so), and place it about 400 miles above Earth. The space city will rotate once per minute to create a gravitational pull one-third as strong as Earth's.According to their vision statement, Space Adventures plants to "fly tents of thousands of people in space over the next 10-15 years and beyond, around the moon, and back, from spaceports both on Earth and in space, to and form private space stations, and aboard dozens of different vehicles..."Even Hilton Hotels has shown interest in the space tourism industry and the possibility of building or co-funding a space hotel. However, the company did say that it believes such a space hotel is 15 to 20 years away.Initially, Space tourism will offer simple accommodations at best. For instance, if the International Space Station is used as a tourist attraction, guests won't find the Luxurious surroundings of a hotel room on Earth. It has been designed for conducting research, not entertainment. However, the first generation of space hotels should offer tourists a much more comfortable experience.In regard to a concept for a space hotel initially planned by Space Island, such a hotel could offer guests every convenience they might find at a hotel on Earth, and some they might not. The small gravitational pull created by the rotating space city would allow space-tourists and residents to walk around and function normally within the structure. Everything from running water to a recycling plant to medical facilities would be possible. Additionally, space tourists would even be able to take spacewalks.Many of these companies believe that they have to offer an extremely enjoyable experience in order for passengers to pay thousands, if not millions, of dollars to ride into space. So will space create another separation between the haves and have-nots?The Most Expensive VacationWill space be an exotic retreat reserved for only the wealthy? Or will middle-class folks have a chance to take their families to space? Make no mistake about it, going to space will be the most expensive vacation you ever take. Prices right now are in the tens of millions of dollars. Currently, the only vehicles that can take you into space are the space shuttle and the Russian Soyuz, both of which are terribly inefficient. Each spacecraft requires millions of pounds of fuel to take off into space, which makes them expensive to launch. One pound of payload (有效栽载重) costs about $10,000 to put into Earth's orbit.NASA and Lockheed Martin are currently developing a single-stage-to-orbit launch space plane, called the Venture Star , that could be launched for about a tenth of what the space shuttle costs to launch. If the Venture Star takes off, the number ofpeople who could afford to take a trip into space would move into the millions.In 1998, a joint report from NASA and the Space Transportation Association stated that improvements in technology could push fares for space travel as low as $50,000, and possibly down to $20,000 or $10,000 a decade later. The report concluded that at a ticket price of $50,000, there could be 500,000 passengers flying into space each year. While still leaving out many people, these prices would open up space to a tremendous amount of traffic.Since the beginning of the space race, the general public has said, "Isn't that great-when do I get to go?" Well, our chance might be closer than ever. Within the next 20 Years, space planes could be taking off for the Moon at the same frequency as airplanes flying between New York and Los Angeles.注意：此部分试题请在答题卡1上作答。
2006年12月英语四级考试真题Part I Writing (30 minutes) Directions:For this part, you are allowed 30 minute to write a short essay on the topic of students selecting their lectures. You should write at least 120 words following the outline given bellow:1. 许多人喜欢在除夕夜看春节晚会2. 但有些人提出取消春节晚会3. 我的看法注意：此部分试题在答题卡1上。
students selecting their lecturesPart II Reading Comprehension (Skimming and Scanning) (15 minutes) Directions:In this part, you will have 15 minute to go over the passage quickly and answer the questions on Answer Sheet 1.For questions 1-7, markY (for YES) if the statement agrees with the information given in the passage;N (for NO) if statement contradicts the information given in the passage;NG (for NOT GIVEN) if the information is not given in the passage.For question 8-10, complete the sentences with the information given in the passage.Six Secrets of High-Energy PeopleThere’s an energy crisis in America, and it has nothing to do with fossil fuels. Millions of us get up each morning already wear y over the day holds. “I just can’t get started,” p eople say. But it’s not physical energy that most of us lack. Sure, we could all use extra sleep and a better diet. But in truth, people are healthier today than at any time in history. I can almost guarantee that if you long for more energy, the problem is not with your body.What you’re seeking is not physical energy. It’s emotional energy. Yet, sad to say, life sometimes seems designed to exhaust our supply. We work too hard. We have family obligations. We encounter emergencies and personal crises. No wonder so many of us suffer from emotionalfatigue, a kind of utter exhaustion of the spirit.And yet we all know people who are filled with joy, despite the unpleasant circumstances of their lives. Even as a child, I observed people who were poor, or disabled, or ill, but who nonetheless faced life with optimism and vigor. Consider Laura Hillenbrand, who despite an extremely weak body, wrote the best-seller Seabiscuit. Hillenbrand barely had enough physical energy to drag herself out of bed to write. But she was fueled by having a story she wanted to share. It was emotional energy that helped her succeed.Unlike physical energy, which is finite and diminishes with age, emotional energy is unlimited and has no thing to do with genes or upbringing. So how do you get it? You can’t simply tell yourself to be positive. You must take action. Here are six practical strategies that work.1. Do something new.Very little that’s new occurs in our lives. The impact of thi s sameness on our emotional energy is gradual, but huge: It’s like a tire with a slow leak. You don’t notice it at first, but eventually you’ll get a flat. It’s up to you to plug the leak—even though there are always a dozen reasons to stay stuck in your d ull routines of life. That’s where Maura, 36, a waitress, found herself a year ago.Fortunately, Maura had a lifeline—a group of women friends who meet regularly to discuss their lives. Their lively discussions spurred Maura to make small but nevertheless life altering changes. She joined a gym in the next town. She changed her look with a short haircut and new black T-shirts. Eventually, Maura gathered the courage to quit her job and start her own business.Here’s a challenge: If it’s something you wouldn’t ordinarily do, do it. Try a dish you’ve never eaten. Listen to music you’d ordinarily tune out. You’ll discover these small things add to your emotional energy.2. Reclaim life’s meaning.So many of my patients tell me that their lives used to have meaning, but that somewhere along the line things went stale.The first step in solving this meaning shortage is to figure out what you really care about, and then do something about it. A case in point is Ivy, 57, a pioneer in investment banking. “I mistakenly believed that all the money I made would mean something,” she says. “But I feel lost, like a 22-year-old wondering what to do with her life.” Ivy’s solution? She started a program that shows Wall Streeters how to donate time and money to poor children. In the process, Ivy filled her life with meaning.3. Put yourself in the fun zone.Most of us grown-ups are seriously fun-deprived. High-energy people have the same day-to-day work as the rest of us, but they manage to find something enjoyable in every situation. A real estate broker I know keeps herself amused on the job by mentally redecorating the houses she shows to clients. “I love imagining what even the most run-down house could look like with a little tender loving care,” she says. “It’s a challenge—and the least desirable properties are usually the most fun.”We all define fun differently, of course, but I can guarantee this: If you put just a bit of it into your day, you energy will increase quickly.4. Bid farewell to guilt and regret.Everyone’s pa st is filled with regrets that still cause pain. But from an emotional energy point of view, they are dead weights that keep us from moving forward. While they can’t merely be willed away, I do recommend you remind yourself that whatever happened is in the past, and nothing can change that. Holding on to the memory only allows the damage to continue into the present.5. Make up your mind.Say you’ve been thinking about cutting your hair short. Will it look stylish—or too extreme?You endlessly think it over. Having the decision hanging over your head is a huge energy drain.Every time you can’t decide, you burden yourself with alternatives. Quit thinking that you have to make the right decision; instead, make a choice and don’t look back.6. Give to get.Emotional energy has a kind of magical quality; the more you give, the more you get back. This is the difference between emotional and physical energy. With the latter, you have to get it to be able to give it. With the former, however, you get it by giving it.Start by asking everyone you meet, “How are you?” as if you really want to know, then listen to the reply. Be the one who hears. Most of us also need to smile more often. If you don’t smile at the person you love first thing in the morning, you’re sucki ng energy out of your relationship. Finally, help another person—and make the help real, concrete. Give a massage (按摩) to someone you love, or cook her dinner. Then, expand the circle to work. Try asking yourself what you’d do if your goal were to be helpful rather than efficient.After all, if it’s true that what goes around comes around, why not make sure that what’s circulating around you is the good stuff?注意：此部分试题请在答题卡1上作答。
大学英语六级真题2006年12月(总分：687.00，做题时间：90分钟)一、{{B}}Part Ⅰ Writing{{/B}}(总题数：1，分数：106.00)1.阅读经典书籍对人的成长至关重要2. 现在愿意阅读经典的人却越来越少，原因是… {{B}}The Importance of Reading Classics{{/B}}（分数：106.00）__________________________________________________________________________________________正确答案：()解析：{{B}} The Importance of Reading Classics{{/B}} It is widely acknowledged that reading the classics enables the youth to reflect on the beauty and complexity of life, which is both essential and beneficial to their character development and personal growth. Besides, I the youth's morality might be cultivated in the process of thinking over the great themes of the classics. However, China's fast-growing economy is causing Chinese to adapt to a faster pace of life. The speed living pace is pushed by heavy pressure, so some people prefer to read some light readings instead of the Classics in their spare time. Others tend to watch soap operas and play video games rather than to spend much leisure time reading the Classics. As the salt of the earth, we college students should be fully aware of the important role the classics play in broadening one's vision, Therefore, we should Start reading and studying the treasuries our ancestors left and absorbing the essence of those classical Works. We should also advocate to the public the importance of classics so that an increasing number of general people' can enjoy the pleasure of reading.二、{{B}}Part Ⅱ Reading Comprehens ion (Skimming and Scanning){{/B}}(总题数：10，分数：70.00)nce Bass wasn't able to go on a tour-of space because of health problems.（分数：7.00）填空项1:__________________ （正确答案：N）解析：由题干中Lance Bass定位到文章第二段。
2006年12月24日大学英语六级(CET-6)真题试卷(A卷)Part III Listening Comprehension (35 minutes)Section ADirections: In this section, you will hear 8 short conversations and 2 long conversations. At the end of each conversation, one or more questions will be asked about what said. Both the conversation and the questions will be spoken only once. After each question there will be a pause. During the pause, you must read the four choices marked A) B) C) and D), and decide which is the best answer. Then mark the corresponding letter on Answer Sheet 2 with a single line through the centre.注意：此部分试题请在答题卡2上作答。
11. A) Dr. Smith’s waiting room isn’t tidy.B) Dr. Smith enjoys reading magazines.C) Dr. Smith has left a good impression on her.D) Dr. Smith may not be a good choice.12. A) The man will rent the apartment when it is available.B) The man made a bargain with the landlady over the rent.C) The man insists on having a look at the apartment first.D) The man is not fully satisfied with the apartment.13. A) Packing up to go abroad.B) Drawing up a plan for her English course.C) Brushing up on her English.D) Applying for a visa to the United Sates.14. A) He is anxious to find a cure for his high blood pressure.B) He doesn’t think high blood pressure is a problem for him.C) He was not aware of his illness until diagnosed with it.D) He did not take the symptoms of his illness seriously.15. A) To investigate the cause of AIDS.B) To raise money for AIDS patients.C) To rally support for AIDS victims in Africa.D) To draw attention to the spread of AIDS in Asia.16. A) It has a very long history.B) It is a private institution.C) It was founded by Thomas Jefferson.D) It stresses the comprehensive study of nature.17. A) They can’t fit into the machine.B) They have not been delivered yet.C) They were sent to the wrong address.D) They were found to be of the wrong type.18. A) The food served in the cafeteria usually lacks variety.B) The cafeteria sometimes provides rare food for the students.C) The students find the service in the cafeteria satisfactory.D) The cafeteria tries hard to cater to the students’ needs.Questions 19 to 22 are based on the conversation you have just heard.19. A) He picked up some apples in his yard.B) He cut some branches off the apple tree.C) He quarreled with his neighbor over the fence.D) He cleaned up all the garbage in the woman’s yard.20. A) Trim the apple trees in her yard.B) Pick up the apples that fell in her yard.C) Take the garbage to the curb for her.D) Remove the branches from her yard.21. A) File a lawsuit against the man.B) Ask the man for compensation.C) Have the man’s apple tree cut down.D) Throw garbage into the man’s yard.22. A) He was ready to make a concession.B) He was not intimidated.C) He was not prepared to go to court.D) He was a bit concerned.Questions 23 to 25 are based on the conversation you have just heard.23. A) Bad weather.B) Breakdown of the engines.C) Human error.D) Failure of the communications system.24. A) Two thousand feet.B) Twenty thousand feet.C) Twelve thousand feet.D) Twenty-two thousand feet.25. A) Accurate communication is of utmost importance.B) Pilots should be able to speak several foreign languages.C) Air controllers should keep a close watch on the weather.D) Cooperation between pilots and air controllers is essential.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 choice marked A) B) C) and D). Then mark the corresponding letter on Answer Sheet 2 with a single line through the centre.注意：此部分试题请在答题卡2上作答。
2006年12月23日大学英语六级(CET-6)真题试卷(B卷)旧Part I Listening Comprehension (20 minutes) Section A1. A) The foggy weather has affected Mary‟s mood.B) They are puzzled about Mary‟s low spirits.C) Mary is dissatisfied with her promotion.D) Mary cares too much about her looks.2. A) Go to an art exhibition.B) Attend the opening night of a play.C) Dine out with an old friend.D) See his paintings on display.3. A) Her mother was quite outstanding in academic word.B) She was not particularly interested in going to school.C) Her parents laid great emphasis on academic excellence.D) She helped upgrade the educational level of immigrants.4. A) The machines there were ill maintained.B) Tickets for its members were cheaper.C) It was filled with people all the time.D) It had a reputation for good service.5. A) Both Sarah and Tom have been awarded doctoral degrees.B) Tom has arranged to meet his bride Sarah in Hawaii.C) Tom was more excited than Sarah at the wedding.D) A double blessing has descended upon Tom.6. A) There were too many questions in the examination.B) The examination was well beyond the course content.C) The examination questions were somewhat too difficult.D) The course prepared him adequately for the examination.7. A) It‟s less time consuming.B) His wife is tired of cooking.C) It‟s part of his job.D) He is sick of home-cooked meals.8. A) He has just started to teach piano lessons.B) He seldom takes things seriously.C) He is very proud of his piano skills.D) He usually understates his achievements.9. A) It‟s tedious.B) It‟s absurd.C) It‟s justifiable.D) It‟s understandable.10. A) Arrange accommodation for her.B) Explain the cause of the cancellation.C) Compensate her for the inconvenience.D) Allow her to take another flight that night.Section B Passage One Questions 11 to 1311. A) Producing legendary painting.B) Making a fortune from decorative arts.C) Manufacturing quality furniture.D) Setting up a special museum.12. A) To show his fascination with Asian culture.B) To tell the story of the American Revolution.C) To promote interest in American decorative arts.D) To increase the popularity of the DuPont Company.13. A) By theme of period.B) By style of design.C) By manufacturer of origin.D) By function of purpose.Passage Two Questions 14 to 1614. A) People may use two or more languages.B) People will choose Chinese rather than English.C) The percentage of native speakers of English will increase.D) The number of people relying on their mother tongue will drop.15. A) The number of Spanish speakers is far greater than that of Arabic speakers.B) Arabic spoken in one Arab country may not be understood in another.C) Arabic spoken in Egypt differs from Arabic spoken in Morocco in origin.D) The number of Arabic speakers is declining because of the invasion of English.16. A) It is impossible for Arab countries to standardize their language.B) Most people in the world will learn to speak Chinese in the future.C) It is uncertain whether English will be the world language in the future.D) Spanish is very likely to become the top language of the world by 2050.Passage Three Questions 17 to 2017. A) Because they believe blind students prefer to mix with students who can see.B) Because it would cost lots of money to build such special colleges.C) Because it would constitute discrimination against blind students.D) Because they think blind people should learn to live among sighted people.18. A) By encouraging the to be more self-reliant.B) By showing them proper care and respect.C) By offering them more financial assistance.D) By providing them with free medical service.19. A) Financial aid from the American government.B) Modern technology.C) Professional support.D) Help from the National Federation of the Blind.20. A) Ask American professors to write recommendations on their behalf.B) Obtain American citizenship before they reach the age of 30.C) Turn to special institutions in their own country for assistance.D) Apply to the national federation of the Blind for scholarships.Part II Reading Comprehension (35 minutes) Passage One Questions 21 to 25Each summer, no matter how pressing my work schedule, I take off one day exclusively for my son. We call it dad-son day. This year our third stop was the amusement park, where be discovered that he was tall enough to ride one of the fastest roller coasters (过山车) in the world. We blasted through face-stretching turns and loops for ninety seconds. Then, as we stepped off the ride, be shrugged and, in a distressingly calm voice, remarked that it was not as exciting as other rides he‟d been on. As I listened, I began to sense something seriously out of balance.Throughout the season, I noticed similar events all around me. Parents seemed hard pressed to find new thrills for indifferent kids. Surrounded by ever-greater stimulation, their young faces were looking disappointed and bored.Facing their children‟s complaints of “nothing to do“, parents were shelling out large numbers of dollars for various forms of entertainment. In many cases the money seemed to do little more than buy transient relief from the terrible moans of their bored children. This set me pondering the obvious question:“ How can it be so hard for kids to find something to do when there‟s never been such a range of stimulating entertainment available to them?”What really worries me is the intensity of the stimulation. I watch my little daughter‟s face as she absorbs the powerful onslaught(冲击) of arousing visuals and bloody special effects in movies.Why do children immersed in this much excitement seem starved for more? That was, I realized, the point. I discovered during my own reckless adolescence that what creates excitement is not going fast, but going faster. Thrills have less to do with speed than changes in speed.I‟m concerned about the cumulative effect of years at these levels of feverish activity. It is no mystery to me why many teenagers appear apathetic (麻木的) and burned out, with a “been there, done that”air of indifference toward much of life. As increasing numbers of friends‟children are prescribed medications-stimulants to deal with inattentiveness at school or anti-depressants to help with the loss of interest and joy in their lives-I question the role of kids‟boredom in some of the diagnoses.My own work is focused on the chemical imbalances and biological factors related to behavioral and emotional disorders. These are complex problems. Yet I‟ve been reflecting more and more on how the pace of life and the intensity of stimulation may be contributing to the rising rates of psychiatric problems among children and adolescents in our society.21. The author tell surprised in the amusement park at fact that ________.A) his son was not as thrilled by the roller coasters ride as expectedB) his son blasted through the turns and loops with his face stretchedC) his son appeared distressed but calm while riding the roller coastersD) his son could keep his balance so well on the fast moving roller coasters22. According to the author, children are bored ________.A) unless their parents can find new thrills for themB) when they don‟t have any access to stimulating fun gamesC) when they are left alone at weekends by their working parentsD) even if they are exposed to more and more kinds of entertainment23. From his own experience, the author came to the conclusion that children seem to expect________.A) a much wider variety of sports facilitiesB) activities that require sophisticated skillsC) ever-changing thrilling forms of recreationD) physical exercises that are more challenging24. In Para 6 the author expresses his doubt about the effectiveness of trying to change children‟sindifference toward much of life by ________.A) diverting their interest from electronic visual gamesB) prescribing medications for their temporary reliefC) creating more stimulating activities for themD) spending more money on their entertainment25. In order to alleviate children‟s boredom, the author would probably suggest ________.A) adjusting the pace of life and intensity of stimulationB) promoting the practice of dad-son daysC) consulting a specialist in child psychologyD) balancing school work with extracurricular activitiesPassage Two Questions 26 to 30It used to be that people were proud to work for the same company for the whole of their working lives. They‟d get a gold watch at the end of their productive years and a dinner featuring speeches by their bosses praising their loyalty. But today‟s rich capitalists have regressed (倒退) to the “survival of the fittest”ideas and their loyalty extends not to their workers or even to their stockholders but only to themselves. Instead of giving out gold watches worth a hundred or so dollars for forty or so years of word, they grab tens and even hundreds of millions of dollars as they sell for their own profit the company they may have been with for only a few years.The new rich selfishly act on their own to unfairly grab the wealth that the country as a whole has produced. The top 1 percent of the population now has wealth equal to the whole bottom 95 percent and they want more. Their selfishness is most shamelessly expressed in downsizing and outsourcing (将产品包给分公司做) because these business maneuvers don‟t act to created new jobs as the founder of new industries used to do, but only out jobs while keeping the money value of what those jobs produced for themselves.To keep the money machine working smoothly the rich have bought all the politicians from the top down. The president himself is constantly leaving Washington and the business at the nation because he is summoned to “fundraising dinners” where fat cats pay a thousand or so dollars a plate to worm their way into government not through service but through donations of vast amounts of money. Once on the inside they have both political parties busily tearing up all the regulations that protect the rest of us from the greed of the rich.The middle class used to be loyal to the free enterprise system. In the past, the people of the middle class mostly thought they‟d be rich themselves someday or have a good shot at becoming rich. But nowadays income is being distributed more and more unevenly and corporate loyalty is a thing of the past. The middle class may also wake up to forget its loyalty to the so-called free enterprise system altogether and the government which governs only the rest of us while letting the corporationsdo what they please with our jobs. As things stand, if somebody doesn‟t wake up, the middle class is on a path to being downsized all the way to the bottom of society.26. It can be inferred from the first paragraph that people used to place a high value on ________.A) job securityB) bosses‟ praiseC) corporate loyaltyD) retirement benefits27. The author is strongly critical of today‟s rich capitalists for ________.A) not giving necessary assistance to laid-off workersB) maximizing their profits at the expense of workersC) not setting up long-term goals for their companiesD) rewarding only those who are considered the fittest28. The immediate consequence of the new capitalists‟ practice is ________.A) loss of corporate reputationB) lower pay for the employeesC) a higher rate of unemploymentD) a decline in business transactions29. The rich try to sway the policy of the government by ________.A) occupying important positions in both political partiesB) making monetary contributions to decision-makersC) pleasing the public with generous donationsD) constantly hosting fundraising dinners30. What is the author‟s purpose in writing this passage?A) to call on the middle class to remain loyal to the free enterprise systemB) to warn the government of the shrinking of the American middle classC) to persuade the government to change its current economic policiesD) to urge the middle class to wake up and protect their own interestsPassage Three Questions 31 to 35Intel chairman Andy Grove has decided to cut the Gordian knot of controversy surrounding stem cell research by simply writing a check.The check, which he pledged last week, could be for as much as 55 million, depending on how many donors make gifts of between 550,000 and 5,500,000, which he has promised to match. It will be made out to the University of California-San Francisco (UCSF).Thanks in part to such private donations, university research into uses for human stem cells—the cells at the earliest stages of development that can form any body part—will continue in California. With private financial support, the state will be less likely to lose talented scientists who would be tempted to leave the field or even leave the country as research dependent on federal money slows to glacial (极其缓慢的) pace.Hindered by limits President Bush placed on stem cell research a year age, scientists are turning to laboratories that can carry out work without using federal money. This is awkward for universities, which must spend extra money building separate labs and keeping rigor cots records proving no federal funds were involved. Grove‟s donation, a first step toward a $20 million target at UCSF, will ease the burden.The president‟s decision a year ago to allow research on already existing stem cell lines was portrayed as a reasonable compromise between scientists‟ needs for cells to work with, and concerns that this kind of research could lead to wholesale creation and destruction of human embryos (胚胎), cloned infants and a general contempt for human life.But Bush‟s effort to please both sides ended up pleasing neither. And it certainly didn‟t provide the basis for cutting edge research. Of the 78 existing stem cell lines which Bush said are all that science would ever need, only one is in this country (at the University of Wisconsin) and only five are ready for distribution to researchers. All were grown in conjunction with mouse cells, making future therapeutic (治疗的) uses unlikely.The Bush administration seems bent on satisfying the small but vocal group of Americans who oppose stem cell research under any conditions. Fortunately, Grove and others are more interested in advancing scientific research that could benefit the large number of Americans who suffer from Parkinson‟s disease, nerve injuries, heart diseases and many other problems.31. When Andy Grove decided to cut the Gordian knot, he meat to ________.A) put an end to stem cell researchB) end Intel‟s relations with GordianC) settle the dispute on stem cell research quicklyD) expel Gordian from stem cell research for good32. For UCSF to carry on stem cell research, new funds have to come from ________.A) interested businesses and individualsB) the United States federal governmentC) a foundation set up by the Intel CompanyD) executives of leading American companies33. As a result of the limit Bust placed on stem cell research. American universities will ________.A) conduct the research in laboratories overseasB) abandon the research altogether in the near futureC) have to carry out the research secretlyD) have to raise money to build separate labs34. We may infer from the passage that future therapeutic uses of stem cells will be unlikely unless________.A) human stem cells are used in the researchB) a lot more private donations can be securedC) more federal money is used for the researchD) talented scientists are involved in the research35. The reason lying behind President Bush‟s placing limits on stem cell research is that ________.A) his administration is financially pinchedB) he did not want to offend its opponentsC) it amounts to a contempt for human lifeD) it did not promise any therapeutic valuePassage Four Questions 36 to 40This looks like the year that hard-pressed tenants in California will relief-not just in the marketplace, where tents have eased, but from the state capital Sacramento.Two significant tenant reforms stand a good chance of passage. One bill, which will give more time to tenants being evicted(逐出), will soon be heading to the governor‟s desk. The other, protecting security deposits, faces a vote in the Senate on Monday.For more than a century, landlords in California have been able to force tenants out with only 30 days‟ notice. That will now double under SB 1403, which got through the Assembly recently. The new protection will apply only to renters who have been in an apartment for at least a year.Even 60 days in a tight housing market won‟t be long enough for some families to find an apartment near where their kids go to school. But is will be an improvement in cities like San Jose, where renters rights groups charge that unscrupulous (不择手段的) landlords have kicked out tenants on short notice to put up tents.The California Landlords Association argued that landlords shouldn‟t have to wait 60 days to get rid of problem tenants. But the bill gained support when a Japanese real estate investor sent out 30-day eviction notices to 550 families renting homes in Sacramento and Santa Rosa. The landlords lobby eventually dropped its opposition and instead turned its forces against AB 2330, regarding security deposits.Sponsored by Assemblywoman Carole Migden of San Francisco, the bill would establish a procedure and a timetable for tenants to get back security deposits.Some landlords view security deposits as a free month‟s rent, theirs for the taking. In most cases, though, there are honest disputes over damages-what constitutes ordinary wear and tear AB 2330 would give a tenant the right to request a walk-through with the landlord and to make the repairs before moving out; reputable landlords already do this. It would increase the penalty for failing to return a deposit.The original bill would have required the landlord to pay interest on the deposit. The landlords lobby protested that it would involve too much paperwork over too little money-less than $10 a year on a $1,000 deposit, at current rates. On Wednesday, the sponsor dropped the interest section to increase the chance of passage.Even in its amended form, AB 2330 is, like SB 1403, vitally important for tenants and should be made state law.36. We learn from the passage that SB 1403 will benefit ________.A) long-term real estate investorsB) short-term tenants in SacramentoC) landlords in the State of CaliforniaD) tenants renting a house over a year37. A 60-day notice before eviction may not be early enough for renters because ________.A) moving house is something difficult to arrangeB) appropriate housing may not be readily availableC) more time is needed for their kids‟ school registrationD) the furnishing of the new house often takes a long time38. Very often landlords don‟t return tenants‟ deposits on the pretext that ________.A) their rent has not been paid in timeB) there has been ordinary wear and tearC) tenants have done damage to the houseD) the 30-day notice for moving out is over39. Why did the sponsor of the AB 2330 bill finally give in on the interest section?A) To put an end to a lengthy argument.B) To urge landlords to lobby for its passage.C) To cut down the heavy paperwork for its easy passage.D) To make it easier for the State Assembly to pass the bill.40. It can be learned from the passage that ________.A) both bills are likely to be made state lawsB) neither bill will pass through the AssemblyC) AB 2330 stands a better chance of passageD) Sacramento and San Jose support SB 1403Part III Vocabulary (20 minutes)41. Grey whales have long been ________ in the north Atlantic and hunting was an important causefor that.A) extinct B) extinguished C) detained D) deprived42. He was given major responsibility for operating the remote manipulator to ________ the newlylaunched satellite.A) retreat B) retrieve C) embody D) embrace43. Foreign students are facing unprecedented delays, as visa applications receive closer ________than ever.A) appraisal B) scanning C) retention D) scrutiny44. If you are late for the appointment, you might ________ the interviewer and lose your chance ofbeing accepted.A) irrigate B) intrigue C) irritate D) intimidate45. Children‟s idea of a magic kingdom is often dancers in animal ________ as they have often seenin Disneyland.A) cushions B) costumes C) skeletons D) ornaments46. Ever since the first nuclear power stations were built, doubts have ________ about their safety.A) preserved B) survived C) suspended D) lingered47. This clearly shows that crops and weeds have quite a number of ________ in common.A) traits B) traces C) tracks D) trails48. From science to Shakespeare, excellent television and video programs are available ________ toteacher.A) in stock B) in store C) in operation D) in abundance49. When the Italian poet Dante was ________ from his home in Florence, he decided to walk fromItaly to Paris to search for the real meaning of life.A) exerted B) expired C) exiled D) exempted50. Habits acquired in youth-notably smoking and drinking-may increase the risk of ________diseases in a person‟s later life.A) consecutive B) chronic C) critical D) cyclical51. F. W. Woolworth was the first businessman to erect a true skyscraper to ________ himself, andin 1929, A1 Smith, a former governor of New York, sought to outreach him.A) portray B) proclaim C) exaggerate D) commemorate52. To label their produce as organic, farmers have to obtain a certificate showing that no ________chemicals have been used to kill pests on the farm for two years.A) toxic B) tragic C) nominal D) notorious53. Ancient Greek gymnastics training programs were considered to be an ________ part of thechildren‟s education.A) intact B) integral C) inclusive D) infinite54. Researchers have found that happiness doesn‟t appear to be anyone‟s; the capacity for joy is atalent you develop largely for yourself.A) disposal B) domain C) heritage D) hostage55. We want out children to have more than job skills; we want their lives to be ________ and theirperspectives to be broadened.A) envisaged B) excelled C) exceeded D) enriched56. Online schools, which ________ the needs of different people, have emerged as an increasinglypopular education alternative.A) stir up B) switch on C) cater to D) consent to57. This kind of songbird sleeps much less during its annual ________,but that doesn‟t seem toaffect its flying.A) migration B) emigration C) conveyance D) transference58. The developing nations want rich countries to help shoulder the cost of ________ forests.A) updating B) upgrading C) conserving D) constructing59. In the study, researchers succeeded in determining how coffee ________ different areas of thebrain in 15 volunteers.A) integrated B) motivated C) illuminated D) activated60. They are trying to ________ the risk as much as they can by making a more thoroughinvestigation of the market.A) minimize B) harmonize C) summarize D) jeopardize61. The cycles of the sun and moon are simple, but forces which have shaped human lives since thebeginning.A) frantic B) gigantic C) sensational D) maximum62. An effort was launched recently to create the first computer ________ of the entire human brain.A) repetition B) repression C) saturation D) simulation63. In the face of the disaster, the world has united to aid millions of ________ people trying to piecetheir lives back together.A) fragile B) primitive C) vulnerable D) susceptible64. AIDS is a global problem that demands a unified, worldwide solution, which is not only theresponsibility of nations in which AIDS is most ________.A) relevant B) prevalent C) vigorous D) rigorous65. After the earthquake, a world divided by ________ and religious disputes suddenly faced itscommon humanity in this shocking disaster.A) eligible B) engaged C) prone D) prospective66. Psychologists suggest that children who are shy are more ________ to develop depression andanxiety later in life.A) eligible B) engaged C) prone D) prospective67. Initially, the scientists and engineers seemed ________ by the variety of responses people canmake to a poem.A) reinforced B) embarrassed C) depressed D) bewildered68. Is it possible to stop drug ________ in the country within a very short time?A) adoption B) addiction C) contemplation D) compulsion69. The parents of Lindsay, 13, an ________ tennis player who spends eight hours a day on the court,admit that a regular school is not an option for their daughter.A) exotic B) equivalent C) elite D) esthetic70. Our research confirmed the ________ that when children have many different caregiversimportant aspects of their development are liable to be overlooked.A) hypothesis B) hierarchy C) synthesis D) syndromePart IV Error Correction (15 minutes)Example:╱. 1. time/times/period Television is rapidly becoming the literature of our periods╱used for the study of literature as 2. _______\_______ Many of the arguments havinga school subject are valid for ∧study of television. 3. ______the______The most important starting point for improving the understanding of silence is undoubtedly an adequate scientific education at school. Public attitudes towards science owe much the way science is taught in these (S1) institutions. Today, school is what most people come into (S2) contact with a formal instruction and explanation of science for the first time, at least in a systematic way. It is at this point which the foundations are laid for an interest in science. (S3) What is taught (and how) in thisfirst encounter will largely determine an individual‟s view of the subject in adult life.Understanding the original of the negative attitudes (S4) towards science may help us to modify them. Most education system neglect exploration, understanding and reflection. (S5) Teachers in schools tend to present science as a collection of facts, often by more detail than necessary. As a result, (S6) children memorize processes such as mathematical formulas or the periodic table, only to forget it shortly afterwards. The (S7) task of learning facts and concepts, one at a time, makes learning laborious, boring and efficient. Such a purely (S8) empirical approach, which consists of observation and description, is also, in a sense, unscientific or incomplete. There is therefore a need for resources and methods of teaching that facilitates a deep understanding of science in (S9) an enjoyable way. Science should not only be “fun”in the same way as playing a video game, but …hard fun‟—deep feeling of connection made possibly only imaginative (S10) engagement.Part V Writing (30 minutes) 30 minutes at least 150 wordThe Celebration of Western Festivals.1. 现在国内有不少人喜欢过西方的某些节日2. 产生这种现象的原因3. 这种现象可能带来的影响答案 2006年12月23日六级(CET-6)Part I Listening Comprehension1. B2.A3. C4.C5.D6.B7. C8.D9.B 10. A11.D 12.C 13.A 14.A 15.B 16.C 17.D 18.A 19.B 20.DPart II Reading Comprehension21. A 22. D 23. C 24. B 25. A 26. C 27. B 28. C 29. B 30. D 31. C 32.A 33. D 34.A 35. B 36.D 37. B 38.C 39. D 40.APart III Vocabulary41.A 42.B 43. D 44.C 45. B 46.D 47. A 48. D 49.C 50. B51.D 52.A 53. B 54.C 55.D 56.C 57. A 58.C 59. D 60.A61.B 62.D 63.C 64.B 65.A 66. C 67.D 68. B 69.C 70. APart IV Error CorrectionS1. 在much和the way间插入toS2. what →whereS3. which →thatS4. original →originS5. system →systemsS6. by →inS7. it →themS8. efficient →inefficientS9. facilitates →facilitateS10. possibly →possible。
