2022年12月英语六级阅读理解真题答案

2021-2022年江苏省淮安市大学英语6级大学英语六级真题一卷(含答案) 学校:________ 班级:________ 姓名:________ 考号:________一、2.Reading Comprehension (Skimming and Scanning)(20题)1.The beggars in London ______ speak with anyone who talked about America. 2.Being a volunteer is helpful because volunteer assignments can provide you with chances to meet ___________________ people.3.The Stock Exchange provides the large companies with a way to reach into the pockets of the public.A.YB.NC.NG4.To people living in the Arctic, the melting of some glaciers may permit new opportunities for ______.5.______measures the annual energy output per square meter of area swept by the turbine blades as they rotate.6.The fusion process of sun gave off ______.7.Bionics is now developed to a remarkable level.A.YB.NC.NG8. What do researchers think is the drive for many everyday preferences?A.The haste judgment.B.The mechanism of self-feedback.C.The interaction with others.D.The expectation for the future.9.Dr. Horvitz recently demonstrated a voice based system that could show ______ to patients.10.Nike has a new television advertisement showing that an athlete with HIV______.11.What largely gives rise to Google's "goodness"?A.Adam Smith's economic theories.B.Google aims at benefiting the society.C.A useful service Google provides.D.Google makes profits for itself.12.It is ______ that drives birds to become intelligent.A.society necessityB.physical needC.genetic informationD.psychological request13.It is necessary that birds should be trained to get back home.A.YB.NC.NG14.Wilcox's father had occasionally sold the relics found in his land since 1951.A.YB.NC.NG15.When did hydroelectric power was universally considered as an environmentally safe and clean means of electricity generator?A.Around 250 BC.B.In 1982.C.In the middle .years of 20th century.D.Until only recently.16. College education is to blame for the failure of America's math and science education.17. Traditional media outlets such as ______ may still hoax their audiences nowadays.18. YouTube can hardly generate profit because______.A.its content can be illegalB.it is only part of GoogleC.it is not well-known enoughD.it sets too many limits to users19.For many people, the biggest challenge in the workplace would be interacting efficiently with others.A.YB.NC.NG20.DivorceFor every 1,000 married couples in the UK, 13 end up divorced according to statistics. Divorce is often a complicated and messy process, and throws up many pities.Divorce IssuesSuch painful issues as whether to sell your home, which parent will look after your children, and how it will affect any loans you may have, will all have to be resolved. And if you are divorcing your partner in Scotland rather than in England and Wales then another set of laws will apply.For many couples, obtaining a divorce has never been easier. The old-fashioned concept of establishing that one party is at fault has been committed to history and the important fact to establish now is that the relationship has "irreparably broken down".In Court or Online?It is even possible to divorce your partner online, allowing you to save on legal costs—and according to online experts, this can save you about ￡700from the average ￡800.However, this method is only suitable for very straight forward anduncontested divorces. Alternatively, you can apply for divorce at a county court in England and Wales, but to do this, couples must have been married for at least a year.The first stage of divorce is obtaining what is known as a "Decree nisi(日后才生效的离婚判决书)". This is granted if the court is satisfied the marriagehas "irreparably broken down", and this is proven by showing one of five things: adultery(通奸行为);unreasonable behavior; desertion on the part ofone partner for at least two years; that the couple have been separated for two years and both spouses agree to divorce; or that the couple have been separated for five years. Your spouse's "unreasonable behavior" must be so intolerable that nobody could reasonably expect you to carry on living with him or her. It could include, for example, financial carelessness, drinking, gambling, or lack of emotional support. You cannot base your divorce on this if you then live together for a period of more than six months afterwards. This rule also applies to desertion, and the discovery that adultery has taken place. The second and final stage is obtaining a "Decree absolute(绝对判决)". Thedivorce can be stopped at any time until this is granted, so it is advisable to sort out all the financial and practical details first.Using a Divorce LawyerIf as in the vast majority of cases, your relationship is complicated, it is advisable to seek legal advice from a famous family law advisor, who will be able to properly advise you about your rights and responsibilities.If you are unsure how to go about choosing a lawyer then it might be a good idea to consult the Law Society or the Family Law Solicitors Association, who keep a list of qualified lawyers. Alternatively visit the Citizen's Advice Bureau who has a great deal of information regarding such matters.What Are the Alternatives?Negotiation is a voluntary service that allows you and your partner to meet with a trained and impartial negotiator to clarify the issues, discuss the available options, and reach decisions acceptable to you both. While the negotiator will manage the process of negotiation, he or she is not there to promote either person's interests. The decisions are finally yours.You will still require the services of a lawyer to put your decisions on property or financial matters into legal form. The government is keen for people to attend negotiation, and the number of people offering this service has vastly increased in the last few years. You may be required to attend negotiation meetings if your divorce is funded by legal aid. For more information visit our feature on Negotiation.What About the Children?Divorce can be especially confusing for children, who are likely to feelconfused by events and may even blame themselves for their parents splitting up. So it is impA.YB.NC.NG二、3.Listening Comprehension(20题)21.(42)22.听力原文：M: Can I make a flight reservation for Los Angeles on July 17th.W: Sorry, Sir. It's fully booked on the 17th. But you can catch a flight the next day.What does the woman tell the man?(17)A.He can take another flight on the same day.B.He can take a flight on another day.C.He can get his ticket the next day.D.He can get a confirmation file next day.23.【B10】24.(27)A.He does not think the "digital divide" ever exists.B.He thinks that to people in developing countries to be healthy is more important.C.He has given large amounts of money to help poor people use computers and Internet.D.He attended the conference held in Seattle and made an impressive speech there.25.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 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 isthe best answer.听力原文：M: What a beautiful dress you've got! I guess you must have spent no less than $200 for it.W: Thanks. Not so expensive, actually. The salesgirl charged me $180, but I bargained with her and finally I bought it $50 cheaper.Q: How much did the woman pay for her dress?(12)A.$200.B.$130.C.$180.D.$50.26.听力原文：Is your family interested in buying a dog? A dog can be a happy addition to your family, but if you choose the wrong kind of dog, the consequences can cause you a lot of trouble.Families should sit down and thoroughly discuss the problems involved before buying a dog. [29] Even if the children in your family are the ones who want the dog, the parents are the ones who are really responsible for seeing that the animal is properly cared for. If you don't know much about dogs, it's a good idea to go to the library or the ASPCA for books about various kinds of dogs, as well as books about how to train a puppy. In reading about the different breeds, you should know that a dog described as very alert may be too jumpy and bouncy. When a book describes a dog as an ideal hunting dog, it probably means that the dog won't be happy living in a small apartment. Dog breeds vary in popularity as the years go by. [30] One of the most popular dogs these days is the German shepherd, this is because it provides protection as well as comRanionship. The family should be warned that these dogs grow up to be very big, and may be too powerful for children to handle. If space is limited, a toy dog may be a good choice. There dogs are very small and easy to train. [3] They don't need to be walked daily, since they can exercise in the space available in the home.(33)A.Children.B.Family.C.Parents.D.ASPCA27.听力原文：M: How was the trip, Ellen?W: It was all right, only the plane should have taken off at 14:00, but it was grounded for two hours and fifteen minutes because of bad weather.Q: When did the plane take off?(15)A.At 6:15.B.At 5:50.C.At 16:05.D.At 16:15.28.【B9】29.听力原文：W: Jerry, last night we held a discussion in that small room numbered 405 on the third floor and you were so conspicuous by your absence. M: Well, I made a mistake about the room number and stayed in room 415 for an hour waiting.Q: What do we learn about Jerry?(13)A.He stayed in a room on the third floor for an hour.B.He was absent when the discussion was being held.C.Nobody but the woman noticed that he was absent.D.He did not leave room 405 until an hour had passed.30.(25)A.It is but a dream and will never come tree.B.It is still at a trial period.C.It starts being used for the time being.D.It has been widely practiced31.听力原文：M: Do you think it's about to rain? Look at the sky and the cloud．I guess it Will rain0．W: Rain? It's about to pour．Also I wish to have a storm. These days it's so dry，Q: What does the woman mean?(18)A.There will be a lot of rain.B.Rain is very unlikely.C.It’s already raining.D.She's not sure.32.(36)A.You should have long hair.B.You should be in casual dress.C.You should dress according to personal taste.D.You should dress appropriately.33.(22)A.She requests the man not to call her again.B.She requests the man to call her in a few days.C.She requests to change a salesman.D.She requests a cheaper price for what the man offers.34.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 from 36 to 43 with the exact words you have just heard. For blanks numbered from 44 to 46 you 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 theTwo United Nations agencies have【B1】______ for more money to supply food to【B2】______ camps in Africa. They say they have had to cut food aid to hundreds of thousands of people. Most are in West Africa and the Great Lakes area.The two agencies say the cuts have created【B3】______ among those【B4】______ . Special feeding programs for young children,【B5】______ women and new mothers have also been reduced.In Sudan, the World Food Program reported a【B6】______ problem: a shortage of airplane【B7】______ at the worst time of year. Aid workers call it the hunger season. The agency says it had to cut in half its 【B8】______ food shipments in August to more than one million people in the south. The fuel shortage also affected efforts in the Darfur area in western Sudan.【B9】_________________________ .It follows rain shortages and a locust (蝗虫) invasion last year.【B10】________________________ . The medical aid group says tens of thousands of children still require immediate assistance. Last week, the World Food Program reported "good progress" in its work in Niger. The aim is to supply food to more than three and one-half million people.【B11】________________________ . The next harvest in most ofNiger is several weeks away.【B1】35.(28)A.When the ecological balance of the river is lost.B.When people consume more fish than they used to.C.When large numbers of algae, fish and birds are killed.D.When the production of marine petroleum is increased.36.听力原文：M: Jane, could you do me a favor, please? I am in a hurry to get to the airport before 4. Can I borrow your car?W: I wish I could, but I don't even have a garage.Q: What does the woman mean?(15)A.She will lend her car to the man.B.Her car is in her garage.C.She is not able to help the man.D.Her car is under poor conditions.37.【B6】38.(45)39.(29)A.To let them know another language.B.To enable them to succeed in business.C.To let them know the fact that China is the fastest growing country.D.To make learning Mandarin a national trend.40.(41)三、4.Reading Comprehension (Reading in Depth)(20题)41.The recession usually washes away women's yearnings for ______.42.According to the passage, DNA fingerprinting can be unreliable when ______ .A.the methods used of blood cell calculation are not accurateB.two different individuals of the same ethnic group may have the same DNA fingerprinting patternC.a match is by chance left with fingerprints that happen to belong to two different individualsD.two different individuals leave two DNA samples43.According to this passage, a Soul Catcher will be ______ .A.a new invention in order to capture and preserve human thoughtsB.made by British scientists to offer a semblance of immortalityC.made of silicon circuits which can index people's nervous activityD.a new machine on which radical research measures have already made44.Section BDirections: There are 2 passages in this section. Each passage is followed by some questions or unfinished statements. For each of them there are four choices marked A, B, C and D. You should decide on the best choice. Concern with money, and then more money, in order to buy the conveniences and luxuries of modern life, has brought great changes to the lives of most Frenchmen. More people are working than ever before in France. In the cities the traditional leisurely midday meal is disappearing. Offices, shops, and factories are discovering the great efficiency of a short lunch hour in company lunchrooms. In almost all lines of work emphasis now falls on ever-increasing output. Thus the "typical" Frenchman produces more, earns more, and buys more goods than his counterpart of the last generation. He gains in creating comforts and ease of life. What he loses to some extent is his sense of persona, uniqueness, or individuality.Some say that France has been Americanized. This is because the U.S. is a world symbol of the technological society and its consumer products. The so-called Americanization of France has its critics. They fear that "assembly-line life" will lead to the disappearance of the pleasures of the more graceful and leisurely (but less productive) old French style. What will happen, they ask,to taste, elegance, and the cultivation of the good things in life--joy in the smell of a freshly picked apple, a stroll by the river, or just happy hours of conversation in a local cafe?Since the late 1950s life in France has indeed taken on qualities of rush, tension, and the pursuit of material gain. Some of the strongest critics of the new way of life are the young, especially university students. They are concerned with the future, and they fear that France is threatened by the triumph of this competitive, goods-oriented culture. Occasionally, they have reacted against the trend with considerable violence.In spite of critics, however, countless Frenchmen are committed to keeping France in the forefront of the modern economic world. They find that the present life brings more rewards, conveniences, and pleasures than that of the past. They believe that a modem, industrial France is preferable to the old. The old French way of life is characterized by ______.A.leisure, elegance, and efficiencyB.elegance, efficiency, and tasteC.leisure, elegance, and tasteD.leisure, efficiency, and taste45.What is the author's main purpose?A.To highly praise Ms. Harris's work.B.To counter Ms. Harris's work.C.To objectively report on Ms. Harris's work.D.To. critically comment on Ms. Harris's work.46.According to Paragraph 3, the newest group of singles are ______.A.warm and light heartedB.on either side of marriageC.negative and gloomyD.healthy and wealthy47.One implication of the final sentence in the passage is that ______.A.the reader should turn next to commentaries on general fictionB.there is no reason for any reader not to like science fictionC.all fiction consists of six basic elements.D.those who can read and analyze fiction can also do so with science fiction48.【C3】49.What is the purpose of Tek. Xam?A.It aims to verify students' technical skills.B.It is expected to assist students in handling problems in reality.C.It aims at overwhelming LSAT and CPA.D.It aims to substitute liberal-arts course in independent colleges.50.Section ADirections: In this section, there is a short passage with 5 questions or incomplete statements. Read the passage carefully. Then answer the questions or complete the statements in the fewest possible words.The Olympic Games originated in 776 B.C. in Olympia, a small town in Greece. Participants in the first Olympiad are said to have run a 200-yard race, but as the Games were held every four years, they expanded in scope. Only Greek amateurs were allowed to participate in this festival in honor of the god Zeus. The event became a religious, patriotic, and athletic occasion where winners were honored with wreaths and special privileges. There was a profound change in the nature of the Games under the Roman emperors. They were banned in 394 A. D. by Emperor Theodosius, after they became professional circuses and carnivals.The modern Olympic Games began in Athens in 1896 as a result of the initiative of Baron Pierre de Coubertin, a French educator whose desire was to promote international understanding through athletics. Nine nations participated in the first Games; over 100 nations currently compete.The taint of politics and racial controversy, however, has impinged upon the Olympic Games in our epoch. In 1936 Hitler, whose country hosted the Games, affronted Jesse Owens, a black American runner, by refusing to congratulate Owens for the feat of having won four gold medals. In the 1972 Munich Games, the world was appalled by the deplorable murder of eleven Israeli athletes by Arab terrorists. The next Olympic Games in Montreal were boycotted by African nations. In 1980, following the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, sixty-two nations caused great dismay to their athletes by refusing to participate in the Games. The consensus among those nations was that their refusal would admonish the Soviet.According to the passage, the first Olympic Games were held as ______.51.The word "it" (Line 3, Para. 6) probably refers to ______.A.carbon dioxideB.nitrogenC.atmosphereD.coal52.If the assumption about the delay of a new Ice Age is correct, _____.A.the increased levels of carbon dioxide could warm up the earth more quicklyB.ice would soon cover the southern hemisphereC.the best way to overcome the cooling effect would be to burn more fuelsD.the greenhouse effect could work to the advantage of the earth53.Common reactions of parents to bad TV content are ______.A.rudenessB.silenceC.scoldingD.warning54.From the very moment when men apply for heir first job, they are tested constantly by ______.55.According to the author, cats ______.A.are not domestic animals at allB.are fiercer than dogsC.are both meek and independentD.can sometimes be very hostile to people56.According to the passage, male marmoset and tamarin monkeys ______A.can't defend more than one femaleB.practice monogamyC.get more offspringD.invest heavily in their partners and the young57.Why does the author mention the formation of glaciers in Iceland and Antarctica in the third paragraph?A.To show the temperature in the two places.B.To show the environment in the two places.C.To show the importance of temperature and the rate of snowfall in the formation of glaciers.D.To show these two places contain the oldest glaciers in the world.58.John Ryan is president of the State University of New York and ______ as well.59.At least one sample of a third of bottled water brands tested by NRDC failed to meet60.Person who has A characteristics is______.四、5.Error Correction(5题)61.【S9】62.【S6】63.【S10】64.【S8】65.【S3】五、6.Translation(5题)66. Mrs. Smith shut the window lest ___________________(外面的噪音会影响她儿子的睡眠).67. __________(我们一旦让他知道了真相), we experience the nightmare.68. If Aristotle worked in a university today，__________(他就会有很大的机会教授计算机)．69. Unable to control themselves，some teenagers get hooked by online games，________________(这成了老师和家长始终担心的事)．70. If the building project ______ (打算月底前完成的) is delayed, the construction company will be fined.参考答案1.were afraid towere afraid to 解析：由文章第九段得知，这些乞丐(beggars)非常害怕和那些提到"America"这个可怕字眼的人说话。

2021-2022年安徽省蚌埠市大学英语6级大学英语六级真题一卷(含答案) 学校:________ 班级:________ 姓名:________ 考号:________一、2.Reading Comprehension (Skimming and Scanning)(20题)1.If you often fail to achieve your goals, you should hold on and throw yourself into ______.2.Some people thought that NASA acted out the Apollo program in movie studios partially because the pictures transmitted from the moon do not include ______.3. When sled dogs get sufficient care from the owner, they usually ______.A.fight with other dogsB.are too heavy to runC.are friendly and gentleD.develop reliability on the owner4.What if a child has poor chemistry with the teacher?5.Despite multiple authors, the book is______throughout the text.6.Howard L. King asked for Paul's name and address because he wanted to show his thanks to him.A.YB.NC.NG7.Eating mustard at the proper time is believed to be able to______.8.Genetically modified crops can help to improve ______.A.nutrient contents and farming productivityB.beta-carotene contents in riceC.vitamin A and iron elements in cropD.attribution to resist insects9.You can apply for divorce at a county court in the UK, but to do this, couples must have been married for at least a year.A.YB.NC.NG10.Newton's study of light led him to learn why ______ seen through a telescope do not seem sharp and clear.11. What is the best way to release stress according to the suggestions of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services?A.Taking exercise or physical activity.B.Talking with someone about your anxieties and worries.C.Making every effort to eat well and to get enough rest.D.Learning some relaxation techniques.12.The largest number of rainforests in the world are located on the African continent.A.YB.NC.NG13.Old people shouldn't bother to change their eating habits because it's too late for it to do them any good.A.YB.NC.NG14.Men have distinct ageing symptoms as women do, which demands specific workouts.A.YB.NC.NG15.America reaped great gains from Iraq war despite the much pain from bothsides.A.YB.NC.NG16.Global Warming: Causes, Effects and SolutionsWhat Causes Global Warming?Carbon dioxide and other air pollutants in the atmosphere like a thickening blanket, trap the sun's heat and cause the planet to warm up. Coal-burning power plants are the largest U.S. source of carbon dioxide pollution they produce 2.5 billion tons every year. Automobiles, the second largest source, create nearly 1.5 billion tons of CO2annually.Here's the good news: Technologies exist today to make cars run cleaner and bum less gas, modernize power plants and generate electricity from nonpolluting sources, and cut our electricity use through energy efficiency. It is sure that these solutions are put to use.Is the Earth Really Getting Hotter?Although local temperatures fluctuate naturally over the past 50 years, the average global temperature has increased at the fastest rate in recorded history. And experts think the trend is accelerating: The 10 hottest years on record have all occurred since 1990. Scientists say that unless we curb global warming emissions, average U.S. temperatures could be 3 to 9 degrees higher by the end of the century.Are Warmer Temperatures Causing Bad Things to Happen?Global warming is already causing damage in many parts of the United States. In 2002, Colorado, Arizona and Oregon endured their worst wildfire seasons ever. The same year, drought created severe dust storms in Montana, Colorado and Kansas, and floods caused hundreds of millions of dollars in damage in Texas, Montana and North Dakota. Since the early 1950s, snow accumulation has declined 60 percent and winter seasons have shortened in some areas of the Cascade Range in Oregon and Washington.Of course, the impacts of global warming are not limited to the United States. In 2003, extreme heat waves caused more than 20,000 deaths in Europe and more than 1,500 deaths in India. And in what scientists regard as an alarming sign of events to come, the area of the Arctic's perennial (常年不断的) polar ice cap is declining at the rate of 9 percent per decade.Is Global Warming Making Hurricanes Worse?Global warming doesn't create hurricanes, but it does make them stronger and more dangerous. Because the ocean is getting warmer, tropical storms can pick up more energy and become more powerful. So global warming could turn, say, a category-3 storm into a much more dangerous category-4 storm. In fact, scientists have found that the destructive potential of hurricanes has greatly increased along with ocean temperature over the past 35 years.What Are the Possible Consequences of Global Warming?Global warming is a complex phenomenon, and its full-scale impacts are hardto predict far in advance. But each year scientists learn more about how global warming is affecting the planet, and many agree that certain consequences are likely to occur if current trends continue. Among these:Melting glaciers, early snowmelt and severe droughts will cause more dramatic water shortages in the American West.Rising sea levels will lead to coastal flooding on the Eastern seaboard, in Florida, and in other areas, such as the Gulf of Mexico.Warmer sea surface temperatures will fuel more intense hurricanes in the southeastern Atlantic and Gulf coasts.Forests, farms and cities will face troublesome new pests and more mosquito-borne diseases.Disruption of habitats such as coral reefs and alpine (高山上的) meadows could drive many plant and animal species to extinction.Could Global Warming Trigger a Sudden Catastrophe?Recently, researchers and even the U.S. Defense Department have investigated the possibility of abrupt climate change, in which gradual global warming triggers a sudden shift in the Earth's climate, causiA.YB.NC.NG17.Most of the libraries are free to people.A.YB.NC.NG18.Not surprising, school officials here paint a ______the new math curriculum than do the critical parents.19.In Mark Twain's later years, what he mainly did was______.20.Domes are the environment-friendly building.A.YB.NC.NG二、3.Listening Comprehension(20题)21.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 bestanswer from the four choices marked A, B, C and D.听力原文：I'm having problems living with Colin. We've barely spoken to each other in a month, and when we do, it's to fight. It started when we first moved in. I had a lot of things, and Colin wasn't thrilled. He's not easy to please, you know. I put all my stuff in the closet in the kitchen. This made him really upset because he wanted to put his surfing gear in there. What's more, I like a neat, orderly apartment, but Colin is so carefree. His part of the apartment is always a mess. That's ok if he's just messy in his room, but we also share living space, such as the kitchen, sitting room, bath etc. I have tried talking to him about this, but then he starts yelling at me about how my friends are always coming over when be has a lot of work to do. I don't know what to do. The head resident promised to talk to Colin. I will see how it goes. If I still have a problem at the end of week, I will ask for a room to change.(27)A.The man's professor.B.The man's roommate.C.A neighbor.D.The man's brother.22.听力原文：W: Hey, Joe. What's all this talk about a benefit walkathon this weekend?M: Don't you know? Most of the residents in Parker Hall are going to try to walk the seven miles from the Engineering Library, across campus, and down to City Hall in an effort to raise money for the new children's hospital.W: Sounds like a good ideal But I don't understand where the money comes from.M: Well, a few days before the walkathon, each participant goes around asking people to pledge a certain amount of money for each mile that he or she expects to walk in the event. Then after the walkathon is over, the participants go back to those same people, collect the money pledged, and send it to the hospital.W: So you mean if you pledge, say, a dollar a mile and you walk five miles, then you get five dollars.M: That's fight. Of course most of my friends aren't such big spenders. The biggest pledge I've gotten so far is 25 cents a mile.W: And how many people have made pledges for you?M: Eleven so far. Say, how about making it a dozen?W: Sure. If you'll do the same for me. The walkathon sounds like the perfect opportunity for me to break in my new pair of sports shoes.(23)A.Hospital employees.B.City Hall officials.C.Packer Hall residents.D.The engineering students.23.(47)24.(24)A.Jogging.B.Tennis.C.Cycling.D.Swimming.25.(21)A.A bonus.B.A gift.C.Knowledge.D.Excitement.26.【B11】27.听力原文：Under normal conditions the act of communication requires the presence of at least two persons: one who sends and one who receives the communication. In order to communicate thoughts and feelings, there must be a conventional system of signs or symbols which mean the same to the sender and the receiver. The means of sending communications are too numerous and varied for systematic classification; therefore, the analysis must begin with the means of receiving communications.Reception of communication is achieved by our senses. Sight, hearing and touch play the most important roles. Smell and taste play very limited roles. Examples of visual communication are gesture and imitation. Although both frequently accompany speech, there are systems that rely solely on sight, such as those used by deaf and dumb persons. Another means of communicating visually is by signals of fire, smoke, flags or flashing lights. Feelings may be simply communicated by touch such as by handshaking, although a highly-developed system of handshaking disables blind, deaf, and dumb persons to communicate intelligently. Whistling to someone, clapping hands in a theater, and other forms of communication by sound rely upon the ear as a receiver. The most fully-developed form. of auditory communication is, of course, the spoken language.The means of communication mentioned so far have two features in common: they last only a short time, and the persons involved must be relatively close to each other. Therefore, all are restricted in time and space.(30)munication actually takes place when the message is received.B.There are more means of receiving than of sending communications.C.Reception of communication involves use of the senses.D.It is hard to organize by typing the means of sending communication.28.听力原文：W: Last night, Jason and his girlfriend went out for dinner. He parked his car near the restaurant And after dinner they came out and found it gone.M: Wow, that's really tough. He just borrowed the car from Mike the day before yesterday.What do you think happened?(18)A.Jason damaged Mike's car in an occident.B.Jason just bought a new car.C.Jason bought a new car for Mike.D.Jason couldn't find Mike's car.29.(28)A.The Daily Star.B.The Times.C.The Daily Telegraph.D.The Daily Minor.30.听力原文：W: How was the English exam you took yesterday?M: Not as easy as I expected. I did fairly well on the reading section but I made quite a few mistakes on grammar.Q: What did the man say about his test?(19)A.His errors were mainly in the reading pan.B.It wasn't very challenging to him.C.It was more difficult than he had expected.D.He made very few grammatical mistakes in his test.31.(32)A.On January 8th.B.On January 9th.C.On January 11th.D.On January 12th.32.(17)A.She doesn't like picnic.B.It will be too hot.C.She will have an exam next week.D.The biology class will go to the beach next week.33.(18)A.They are having a party.B.They. are playing the piano.C.Someone else is having a party.D.Someone else is funny.34.听力原文：Manhattan Island is surrounded on the east by the East and Harlem Rivers and on the west by the North and Hudson Rivers. It links with the other four towns which make up New York City and with New Jersey by means of subways, underground tunnels and bridges which lead into Manhanttan from the surrounding area.The Brooklyn Bridge was the first suspension bridge to link Brooklyn to Manhanttan. It is also the second oldest bridge in New York. The architect was John Augustus Roebling, who was the chief engineer of the suspended Railroad Bridge at Niagara Falls.Mis, fortune accompanied the building of the bridge, which took place from 1869 to 1883. The architect died as a result of an accident early during the construction. His son, Washington Roebling, carried on his father's work, using the most advanced engineering techniques of the day. He also fell ill during the construction of the bridge and was obliged to direct the work on it from an apartment window overlooking the site.Since its construction the Brooklyn Bridge has remained a busy and important passage in New York. The Brooklyn Bridge is 6775 feet long and 1595 feet wide. The suspended part is 3450 feet long and 85 feet wide. It has a clearance of 133 feet above water level. Four huge cables extend across the bridge, supported by two towers, each 272 feet high. Each of these cables is made up of 5700 wires.(30)A.It is the first oldest bridge in New York.B.It is the first suspension bridge built in the USA.C.It is the first suspended railway bridge in the USA.D.It is the first suspension bridge between Manhattan Island and Brooklyn.35.【B3】36.(46)37.(26)A.They are scientific.B.They are sarcastic.C.They are unbelievable.D.They are reasonable.38.听力原文：M: Harry seems to be in a bad mood today.W: He'll snap out of it when he finishes his biology project this afternoon: Q: What does the woman imply about Harry?(16)A.He has finished his biology project.B.He'll feel happier when the project is completed.C.He's annoyed with everyone.D.He took a nap in biology class.39.听力原文：MySpace, the social networking website, is different from other websites which only provide stories about other people. MySpace is a place that allows you to broadcast your own stories and personal information to as many people as you like. Started two years ago, it is a big source of information for and about American kids.Teens are rushing to join the site, not sharing their parents' worries. For teenagers, it is reliable network to keep in touch with their friends. They will often list their surnames, birthdays, school clubs, hobbies and other personal information. "MySpace is an easy way to reach just about everyone. I don't have all the phone numbers of my acquaintances. But if I want to get in touch with one of them, I could just leave them a message on MySpace," said Abby Van Wassen, a 16-year-old student. Since each user's personal home page lists the number of their MySpace friends, it has become yet another way of judging high school popularity. MySpace has become something teenagers feel they must have.Parents on the other hand are seriously concerned about the security problems of MySpace. The National Center for Missing and Exploited Children hasreceived at least 288 MySpace-related complaints, according to Mary Beth Buchanan, a lawyer in Pittsburgh. "Your profile on MySpace shows all your personal information to anyone on the Web. And MySpace even lists this information by birthplace and age. It's like a free checklist for trouble-makers and it endangers children," Buchanan said.(33)A.It allows one to show his personal information.B.It offers only the children's personal information.C.It is against parents' will to educate the kids.D.It only offers stories about other people.40.【B7】三、4.Reading Comprehension (Reading in Depth)(20题)41.What can we learn from the passage?A.O'Pepsico goes bankrupt.B.The number of supermarkets doubles.C.Jim Brown takes a negative attitude towards the development of fast food.D.McDonald's survives from the competition with retail food stores.42.According to the passage, GM food will ______.A.make the world's population dropB.change people's ways of purchasing clothesC.win acceptance when people realize they need fewer pesticidesD.eliminate the scarcity of food43. How should an assistant do in a good shop?A.Help you to choose a book.B.Approach you with the inevitable greeting.C.Keep himself staying away until you have finished glancing.D.Show his great interest in selling book.44. We can infer from the 2000 Harvard report that______.A.people can only improve their memory by more sleepB.sleep of only a few hours proves useless to improve memoryC.researchers didn't agree with the conclusion of the 1994 Israeli reportparisons were made between subjects who slept and those who didn't45.The real cause of the anxiety of the workers and employees is that ______.A.they are likely to lose their jobsB.they have no genuine satisfaction or interest in lifeC.they are deprived of their individuality and independenceD.they are faced with the fundamental realities of human existence46.What is students' immediate mission in life?47.From the story we may infer that Tom drove to the beach cottage______.A.with his familyB.with EvelynC.aloneD.with his children48.The case of ______ suggests that complacency and lack of creation will ruina company.49.Speaking of the online technology available for marketing, the author implies that ______.A.the technology is popular with many Web usersB.businesses have faith in the reliability of online transactionsC.there is a radical change in strategyD.it is accessible limitedly to established partners50.The middlebrows' attitudes were remarkable, in view of the fact that they______.A.said they were broad- mindedB.were afraid of new tendenciesC.did such useful and progressive jobsD.threatened modern artists and art form. such as films51.The dramatic increase of land value in cities ______ .A.is a desirable result of economic developmentB.brings about greater opportunities for land dealersC.lead to an efficient, positive use of land in the form. of vertical growthD.is annoyingly artificial and meaningless52.According to the author, the development of the highly specialized technology, for space travel has not only made space travel possible but also _______. 53.From Dr Rattan's point of view, the results of calorie restriction in the CALERIE study ______.A.were doubtable whether they were valid or notB.did not show the effect in preventing age-related diseasesC.failed to prove the effect in increasing average lifespanD.could not testify the effect in changing maximum lifespan54.What does the Cranfield School consider the most important quality for people to grow?55.Uri Shamir's viewpoint is that ______.A.nations in that region am just fighting for waterB.people there are thirsty for peace instead of waterC.water is no problem as long as there is peaceD.those nations have every reason to fight for water56.The recent large exhibition of the painting of Mr. James Hummer drew a lot of attention to this artist. At seventy, he had been painting quietly for over filly years, and up till then he had only held small exhibitions of his works. These had brought him a small amount of fame, but suddenly everyone was talking about him and everybody knew his name. People said he was an "important contemporary artist". Mr. Hummer, for his part, shook his head and asked himself why people wouldn’t leave him alone. He didn’t take kindly to being famous.His friends, however, said that underneath he was charming and only outwardly seemed a little strange. They explained that he was sometimes very shy and reserved, and sometimes quite the opposite. His temper was unpredictable.In view of this, it is not surprising that when a young female journalist was sent to interview him in his tiny house, she felt extremely nervous. But the interview went worse than expected, When she arrived, Mr. Hummer was sitting at a small table, and could hardly be seen for a forest of painting-brushed in pots of water. In the middle of these was a bottle of whisky. From time to time he poured some into a paint stained mug and drank it rapidly. He smiled politely and said that of course he didn’t mind answering some questions. Putting on what she hoped was a suitably impressive voice, the girl asked him what purpose in society he thought he fulfilled as a painter. She wanted to know whether he saw his duty as a painter to be teaching people or entertaining them. The only response was a movement of surprise in the eyebrows among the painting—brushed and then a dry laugh. Finally the painter broke the silence by asking slowly what on earth she expected as an answer to such a question. He went on by saying that he didn’t see why he should have to justify himself. He merely painted pictures, and left other people to say what they meant and why he had done them.Now it was the girl's turn to look astonished. This was not the way Important Contemporary Artists were supposed to speak, as they always had their own theories.Before the age of seventy, Mr. Hummer______.A.had avoided noisy exhibitionsB.had exhibited only small paintingsC.had never exhibited many paintingsD.had attracted no attention57. What do people often think of heavy use of alcohol?A.It is a normal way to celebrate one's success.B.It can cause huge damage to people's health.C.It takes a heavy toll of human life every year.D.It can alleviate the tediousness of the routine work.58.According to the passage, which of the following is the most important?A.Medicine.B.Treatment.C.Timing.D.Prevention.59.Section ADirections: In this section, there is a short passage with 5 questions or incomplete statements. Read the passage carefully. Then answer the questionsor complete the statements in the fewest possible words.It has been called the Holy Grail of modern biology. Costing more than ￡2 billion, it is the most ambitious scientific project since the Apollo program that landed a man on the moon. And it will take longer to accomplish than the lunar missions, for it will not be complete until next century. Even before it is finished, according to those involved, this project should open up new understanding of, and new treatment for, many of the ailments that afflict humanity.The objective of the Human Genome Project is simple to state but audacious in scope: to map and analyze every single gene within the double helix of humanity's DNA. The project will reveal a new human anatomy--not the bones, muscles and sinews, but the complete genetic blueprint for a human being. Those working on the Human Genome Project claim that the new genetic anatomy will transform. medicine and reduce human suffering in the 21st century. But others see the future through a darker glass and fear that the project may open the door to a world peopled by Frankenstein's monsters and disfigured by a new eugenics(优生学).The genetic inheritance a baby receives from its parents at the moment of conception fixes much of its later development. The human genome is the compendium of all these inherited genetic instructions. Witten out along the double helix of DNA are the chemical letters of the genetic text, for the human genome contains more than 3 billion letters. On the printed page it would fill about 7,000 volumes. Yet within little more than a decade, the position of every letter and its relation to its neighbors will have been tracked down, analyzed and recorded.If properly applied, the new knowledge generated by the Human Genome Project may free humanity from the terrible scourge of diverse diseases. But if the new knowledge is not used wisely, it also holds the threat of creating new forms of discrimination and new methods of oppression. Once before in this century, the relentless curiosity of scientific researchers brought to light forces of nature in the power of the atom, the mastery of which has shaped the destiny of nations and overshadowed all our lives. The Human Genome Project holds the promise that, ultimately, we may be able to alter our genetic inheritance if we so choose. But there is the central moral problem, how can we ensure that when we choose, we choose correctly? That such a potential is a promise and not a threat? We need only look at the past to understand the danger.The passage compares the Human Gen0me Project in scale to the ______. 60.The characteristic of ASARDA in using videoconferencing is that ______ .A.it takes them 4 years to build the dynamic programB.they spend significant money in installing the equipmentC.the desktop units make them have full control of multipoint needsD.they have the latest software developed by other companies四、5.Error Correction(5题)61.【S5】62.【S2】63.【S7】64.【S10】65.【S6】五、6.Translation(5题)66. The customer complained that no sooner ______ (他刚试着使用这台机器，它就不运转了)．67. __________(我们一旦让他知道了真相), we experience the nightmare.68. A healthy life is frequently _________________________. ( 被认为与开阔的田园和自家生产的食物联系在一起)69. Over the last two decades，no country in the world ______________(外贸发展速度像中国那么快)．70. I'd rather ______(留在原位而不想挪到前排的位置上).参考答案1.the process of changethe process of change 解析：根据题干关键词often，fail，achieve your goals定位到原文倒数第二段最后一句：However，ifyou find yourself often struggling，unable to achieve your goals and talking yourself down，then you should grit your teeth and commit to the process of change．可知当自己经常不能达到目标并在心里觉得自己不行时，要咬紧牙关，将自己投入到改变的过程中。

大学英语六级考试第二部分听力理解A节说明：在本节中，你将听到两篇长对话。

在每一篇对话的最后，你将会听到四个问题。

对话和问题均播放一遍。

听到问题后，你需要从A)、B)、C)和D)四个选项中选出最佳答案。

然后将相应的答案涂在答题卡1上。

对话一男：你的论文进展如何？我正在校对我的初稿，明天会提交给我的教授。

女：哦，我甚至还没有开始写。

所以我真的很担心下个学期末完不成。

男：你是说你还没开始?还有五个月就要交终稿了。

女：我当然已经开始了，但我还没有开始写作，因为我还没有找到足够的资源来使用，所以我还在研究这个话题。

男：也许问题出在你做研究的方式上。

我在开始前先和我的教授讨论了去哪里找信息。

基于此，我在图书馆找到了参考书，并在网上找到了许多知名的期刊文章。

女：我已经都尝试过了，但不够用来写论文，因为我们学院要求论文至少要写70页。

我认为问题是我的题目不可行。

老实说，我的教授一开始确实警告过我，说我可能无法找到足够的材料。

但我对这个话题非常感兴趣，以至于他的建议并没有让我转变。

男：好吧，我建议你找一个新话题。

毕竟，我们的教授在这里指导我们，所以最好听从他们的意见。

女：回想起来，我真希望我听了他的话，但我没有。

现在我不想放弃我的题目，因为我已经投入了大量的时间和精力。

男：如果你坚持你现在的题目，也许你可以做一些调整，而不是完全放弃它。

你的题目是什么？女：《关于我国南方女性的气质和民间传说的描述》。

男：那相当狭窄了。

如果把题目扩大，你可以找到更多的材料，也许可以加入其他类型的描述。

女：扩大题目是一个好主意。

我可以从将其他地区的民间传说加进来开始。

请根据你刚刚听到的对话回答问题1到4。

1.关于自己的论文，女士说了什么？2.关于自己的教授，男士说了什么？3.关于自己的教授，女士说了什么？4.我们了解到女士为了完成论文会做什么？对话二女：今天，在《书论》节目上，我们有幸邀请到约翰·罗宾斯，并讨论他的新书《为什么美国人很胖以及我们如何减肥》。

2021-2022年河北省秦皇岛市大学英语6级大学英语六级真题(含答案) 学校:________ 班级:________ 姓名:________ 考号:________一、2.Reading Comprehension (Skimming and Scanning)(20题)1.Additional clinical trials might take up to ______ years.2.Our concepts of time and space are in part conditioned by the structure of particular languages.A.YB.NC.NG3.There is not much change in the weather in the tropical rainforests all the year round.A.YB.NC.NG4.EasterEaster is the most important festival in the Christian calendar. It is the commemoration of Jesus' death and his rising from the dead, also known as the resurrection. It comes at the end of Lent. The week leading up to it is called Holy Week. Palm Sunday is the first day of Holy Week and celebrates Jesus' arrival in Jerusalem riding on a donkey. Crowds of people came out of the city to greet him, throwing down palm branches on the road. Many churches give out small crosses made from palm leaves, as a reminder of Jesus' entrance into Jerusalem and his death on the cross. On Thursday Christians remember when Jesus ate the Passover meal with his disciples, breaking bread and drinking wine, which is now known as the Last Supper. Since then this meal has been symbolically re-enacted by many Christians as a way of drawing closer to God. This is called the Eucharist, which means 'thanksgiving'. It is a reminder that Jesus sacrificed his life for mankind.The Bible tells us that, later that night, Jesus was betrayed by Judas Iscariot. After his arrest, Jesus was brought before the Jewish high priests who found him guilty of blasphemy because he called himself the Son of God. They handed him over to the Roman governor, Pontius Pilate. As was the custom at the time of the Feast of Passover, Pilate gave the crowds the choice as to which of the two prisoners should be freed: Jesus, or Barrabas, a notoriouscriminal. Ironically, the same crowd who had welcomed Jesus with palm branches a few days earlier now chose Barrabas to be released, and Pilate condemned Jesus to death by crucifixion. On Good Friday, many churches hold 3 hour services meditating on the events leading up to Christ's death: his interrogation, flogging, the mocking by the Roman soldiers, and his journey with the cross to Golgotha, the place of his death. Finally he was shipped naked and nailed to the cross, where he hung in agony for three hours, jeered at by the crowds, before he died. This is the day when people traditionally eat hot cross buns, because the cross on the bun is a reminder of the cross Jesus died on, and a reminder of the Christian belief that Jesus died to save us all. Easter Sunday marks Jesus' resurrection. The Bible tells us that Mary Magdalene went to the tomb, followed later by some of Jesus' disciples. They discovered Jesus' body had gone and that the tomb was empty. Jesus then appeared to Mary and many of his disciples, speaking with them on separate occasions during the following forty days. As he left them for the last time, Jesus promised to send the Holy Spirit so the disciples would know God would never leave them. He then ascended into heaven. The Church celebrates this on Ascension Day.Why do we eat Easter eggs at Easter?For Christians, Easter eggs symbolize new life. They believe that, through his resurrection, Jesus defeated death and sin and offers people the promise of eternal life if they follow his teachings. This is why there is a tradition for Christians to be baptized at Easter, which celebrates new life in God. However, the festival of Easter stretches back to pre-Christian times, too. It gets its name and some symbols, including the Easter Bunny, from the Pagan Spring Equinox festival, which is a celebration of spring and also of new life. Where are the accounts of Easter in the Bible?The account of the Easter story can be read in Mark, Chapters 14 to 16, or Luke, Chapters 22 to 24, and elements of it can be found in the other gospels too. Many of the events in the Easter story are foretold in the Old Testament in Isaiah chapter 53.Why does the date of Easter change from year to year?The date of Easter Sunday varies from year to year because it is based on the lunar calendar, It is celebrated on the first Sunday after the full moon, on or after March 21st.Do rabbits lay eggA.YB.NC.NG5.Flirt With SuicideThe life of David Woods was the stuff of an Australian boy's dream. He played professional rugby league football in a country that treats athletes as, idols. At 29, he had a loving family, a girlfriend, a 3-month-old baby, plenty of money, everything to live for. And for inexplicable reasons, nothing to live for. On New Year's Eve, Woods called his mother to announce that he had signed anew contract with his team, Golden Coast, recalls his elder brother, Tony. The next morning, he ran a hose from the exhaust pipe to the window of his Mitsubishi sedan (轿车) and gasses himself. His family still has no idea why.The death of David Woods came as a wake-up call to Australia, which is often voted as the ideal place to bring up kids. But the sun, the beaches and the sporting culture are the cheery backdrop to a disturbing trend: young Australian men are now killing themselves at the rate of one a day--triple the rate of 30 years ago. Though most Australians aren't particularly suicidal, their boys are. In 1990 suicide surpassed car accidents as the leading cause of death among males aged 15 to 24. Fun-loving Australia is now far worse off than Asian nations known for strict discipline. The yearly suicide rate for young Australian males is 2.5 times higher than in Japan, Hong Kong, or Singapore. Possible Causes for SuicideWhy boys? A nation of wide-open spaces and rugged individualism, Australia still idolizes the film star Gary Cooper model of masculinity: the strong, silent type who never complains, who always gets the job done. In recent years schools and social institutions have concentrated on creating new opportunities for equality for girls--while leaving troubled boys with the classic command of the Australian father: pull yourself together. It's past time to take a much closer look at the lives of young men, some researchers argue. "People think, 'My kids aren't doing drugs, my kids are safe at home'," says psychiatrist John Tiller of Melbourne University, who studied 148 suicides and 206 attempts in the state of Victoria. "They are wrong."The Haywards, a comfortably well-off family in Wyong, north of Sydney, figured they were dealing with the normal problems of troubled teenhood. Their son Mark had put up a poster of rock star Kurt Cobain, a 1994 suicide victim, along with a Cobain quote: "I hate myself and I want to die." "From the age of 12, Mark had his ups and downs--mood swings, depression and low self-esteem," says his father. The Haywards sent Mark to various counselors, none of whom warned that he had suicidal tendencies. By last year Mark was 19, fighting bouts (回合) of unemployment and a drug problem. He tried church, struggling to do the right thing. Last September he dropped out a detoxification (戒毒) program, and apologized to his parents. "I've let you down again." A few days later, his mother found Mark's body in bush-land near their home.In retrospect, Mark Hayward's struggles were far from uncommon. The number of suicides tends to keep pace with the unemployment rate, which for Australians between 15 and 19 has risen from 19 percent in 1978, the first year data were collected, to 28 percent last year. Suicide is especially high among the most marginal: young Aboriginal (土著的) men, isolated bypoverty, alcoholism and racism. As in other developed countries, Australian families have grown less cohesive in recent years, putting young men out into the world at an earlier age. Those who kill themselves often think "it'll make it easier for the parents by not being there".The deeper mystery is why the universal anguish of growing up should have such particularly devastating effects in Australia. One answer is that the country allows easier access to guns than most other developed Asian countries. (One exception is neighboring New Zealand, where guns are as easy to find, and the suicide rate among yA.YB.NC.NG6.A copyright protects the expression of an idea through______ that is original to the author.7.The author think such tagline as "Steak sauce only a cow could hate" conveys a negative feeling hardy ______.8.Taking interests into account, it is illogical that free-traders give bribes to protectionist via ______.9.It is proved that the uncontrolled activity of free radicals caused many cancers.A.YB.NC.NG10.Brain scans can make the doctors know the differences of patients' responses to danger, thus can cure their anxiety disorder.A.YB.NC.NG11.Cutting budget for science research and development further smothers incentives for American students to ______.12.It is estimated that there were ______ workdays lost each year due to employee depression.13.Fuller won ______ in 1954 for his achievement in the 42-foot cardboard shelter.14.Both blood pressure and the effects of stress will be decreased by the increase of______.15.The quick development of the Internet leads to more office spaces available.A.YB.NC.NG16.Identifying potential hazards ahead of time can reduce the dangers of serious injury or loss of life from an earthquake.A.YB.NC.NG17.According to Michael Twery, why don't those people with snoring problems go to sec their doctor?A.Because they arc afraid to be laughed at by others.B.Because they arc not aware of the problems due to their slow progress.C.Because they arc too busy to go to hospital.D.Because they are unwilling to talk about snoring problems.18.Not all people think American culture will be durable enough to meet ______.19.Environmentalists hold the view that growing GM crops affect ______. 20.New tree seedlings will not survive to reach the canopy level unless二、3.Listening Comprehension(20题)21.【B8】22.听力原文：M: I really can't understand why Peter isn't here yet. We agree to meet at 8:30. It's almost 9:00. Do you think we should leave for the airport? W: He probably got into some trouble with the traffic. Let's give him some more minutes.Q: What are these people going to do?(17)A.Leave for the airport.B.Look for Peter.C.Remove the trouble for Peter.D.Wait a little longer.23.(16)A.He is not satisfied with the pay.B.He is not able to enjoy paid holidays.C.The job is not very challenging for him.D.There is no hope of promotion.24.(22)A.Because they haven't seen each other for a long time.B.Because they can learn something together.C.Because they can claim more time of being together.D.Because they have the same idea.25.听力原文：W: After having done the tough assignment, why don't we havea leisurely walk in the park?M: What a pleasant way to end the day!Q: What do we learn about the man?(15)A.The man will go for a walk with the woman.B.The man doesn't enjoy walks in the park.C.The man likes the assignment.D.The man likes the bay nearby.26.听力原文：W: Joe, I thought your article in the school newspaper was right on target. You certainly convinced me anyway.M: Thank you Mary. Unfortunately, based on the general response, you and I are definitely in the minority.Q: What can be inferred from the conversation?(16)A.The man's article was written terribly.B.The man's article was completely off the point.C.The man's article was not accepted by the general public.D.The man's article was based on the general public.27.(26)A.Because he is airsick.B.Because he wants to have a good sleep on the plane.C.Because he doesn't like the window seat.D.Because he wants a more comfortable seat for his wife.28.(28)A.To show people how to get their lives back to normal.B.To show how difficult it is for people to lose weight.C.To remind people to check the calories on food bags.D.To illustrate how easily people abandon their goals.29.听力原文：Computer programmer David Jones earns 35,000 a year designing new computer games, yet he cannot find a bank prepared to let him have a check card. Instead, he has been told to wait another two years until he is 18.He works for a small firm in Liverpool, where most young people of his age are finding jobs. David's biggest headache iswhat to do with his money. Though he has high payment, he cannot drive a car, or get credit cards.David got his job four months ago, a year after leaving school with six O-levels and working for a time in a computer shop. "I got the job because the people who run the firm knew I had already written some programs," he said. "I suppose 35,000 sounds like a lot but I hope it will come to more than that this year." He spends some of Iris money on records and clothes, and gives his mother 20 a week as he lives with his parents. But most of his spare time is spent working."Unfortunately, computing was not part of our studies at school," he said. "ButI had been studying it in books and magazines for four years in my spare time.I knew what I wanted to do and never considered staying on at school. Most people in this business are fairly young, anyway. I would like to earn a million and I suppose early retirement is a possibility. You never know when the market might disappear."(33)A.He earns an extremely high payment.B.He has got a job.C.He lives at home with his parents.D.He does not go out much.30.【B7】31.听力原文：M: I'm sorry I'm late, Cindy.W: That's all tight, Joe. My house isn't that easy to find. But you know, you wouldn't have gotten lost if you had a "smart" car.M: A smart car? What's that?W: I just read a magazine article about some new technology that can make a car smart. One device is a computerized map display and a synthesized voice, you must enter the address where you want to go, and the voice tells you how to get there, street by street.M: Hey, that's just like my brother. He never gets lost, and he's always telling me the best route. So what else will smart cars be able to do?W: Well, the article said that they'll be equipped with radar warning systems that will warn drivers if they're getting too close to other cars with an alarm signal, and they'll even put on the brakes if the drivers don't.M: Tell me, Cindy, will these cars be smart enough to fill themselves up with gas?W: Not that I know of. Why do you ask?M: Well, I'm late not because I got lost—I'm late because I ran out of gas on the way over here.(20)A.From a newspaper advertisement.B.From a magazine article.C.From a television program.D.From an automobile dealer.32.(35)A.He was injured in a fight and had to leave the game.B.He fought with another player.C.He got in a fight with a fan and was thrown out of the game.D.He led his team to success.33.听力原文：W: Could you tell me how to get to the bus station from here? M: Go straight until you come to the stoplight. Turn to the left and go about three miles. When you get to the Agro Grocery Store, turn right. You can't miss it.Q: What is the woman trying to do?(13)A.Get directions to the bus station.B.Get to the grocery store.C.Give the man directions to the bus station.D.Find out where the stoplight is.34.【B6】35.【B5】36.【B10】37.(21)A.A subscription to a book.B.A bargain on dance lessons.C.A cheap airfare to Hawaii.D.A membership to sports club.38.(25)A.Leaders of the southern rebellion.B.Slaves in the southern states.C.Northern opponents of the war.D.Southern soldiers.39.听力原文：M: What that movie was about last night is quite beyond me. W: If you had read the book, you would have understood the movie better. Q: What does the woman mean?(19)A.He should have read the b6ok instead of going to the movie.B.He should have gone to the movie instead of reading the book.C.Reading the book will help the man understand the movie better.D.She thinks the book is easier to understand than the movie.40. 【B2】三、4.Reading Comprehension (Reading in Depth)(20题)41.Internet provides ______.A.consumers with international business opportunitiesB.subscribers with a cheap and efficient linkC.formal roles to oversee its usersD.telecommunications services to users42.According to politicians, when children commit crimes, they should be treated in the same way as43.Which of the following is NOT the effect of Aspirin?A.It can prevent the risk of heart attacks and strokes.B.It can drive away occasional aches and pains.C.It can prevent insomnia.D.It can induce stomach discomfort.44.Which of the following is TRUE according to the passage?A.When a patent becomes out of effect, it can be re-patented or extended if necessary.B.One can get all the details of a patented invention from a library attached to the patent office.C.A patent holder must publicize the details of his invention when its legal period is over.D.An inventor needs to apply for a patent before he makes his invention public.45.The reason why people announce that "things are not what they were in my young days" is that their ______ is not the same as before.46.It can be concluded from the passage that ______.puters will be capable of thought in the near futureputers think in a different way from human brainsputers can never compete with humans in thinkingputers possessed the ability to think at the very beginning47.Which of the following is NOT true according to the passage?A.Some people regret their choices of love partners.B.In some partnership or relationship, he or she tries to control the other.C.Through psychological adjustment and therapy, one will feel satisfied with love.D.Partnership is a school from which it is not easy for us to graduate.48.The gold exchange standard differs from the gold standard in that ______. A.it does not establish a generally accepted international medium of exchangeB.it establishes no relationship between the value of a given currency and the value of goldC.the relationship it established between the value of any currency and the value of gold is indirect rather than directD.it is a two-tiered rather than a single-tiered system49.In order to better understand conservatism in China it is essential that one have a grasp of what the term "Chinese conservatism" means. Chinese conservatism is markedly different from the conservatism of the modem West. The political term "conservative" came about during the French Revolution and inspired men that were determined to preserve Christian and aristocratic elements in European society. Chinese conservatism began around the time of the Taiping Rebellion and had as its primary objectives the preservation of both Confucian society and non-feudal strains of pre-Opium War Chinese society. While western conservatism believes in sacredness of private property and distrust of cosmopolitanism, Chinese conservatism is the defense of rational cosmopolitan order. Thus, the only common area of agreement between European and Chinese conservatism is the intent to conserve.During the Tung-chih Restoration, the great aim was the revival of Confucian values and institutions. But these aims had to be modified so that they might endure. Restoration statesman had no desire to create a new society--they wanted to restore a society that they believed had been based on truth. The statesman of the Restoration stretched the traditional ideology to its limits in an effort to make the Confucian system work under new conditions. They were true conservatives in a great tradition, living in an age when revolutionary change was unavoidable. The aim of the Restoration was to restore to the original vitality the best of the ancient institutions. During the Restoration, the two immediate problems were the suppression of the rebellion and the stabilization of foreign relations. In addition, the people were striving for a restoration of the system of government by superior civil officials.The men in the hierarchy of the Restoration rose to prominence through proven ability in both civil and military affairs. They emphasized human and social training--that is, indoctrination, morality, and the art of leadership through the cultivation of character. The great majority of the officials rose through the examination system.During the chaos of this period the examination system had lost much of its effectiveness. This is imp ortant and must be noted because the examination system was the traditional avenue for selecting officials. The senior officials of the Restoration realized that their politics would be ineffective unless the quality of the junior officials was improved, so it was their politics to weed out the officials who had attained office in irregular ways and to promote the examination system as only way to high position. But these men of the Restoration had enough foresight to determine that it was impossible to select officials automatically on the basis of the objective tests alone. As a result, the system of recommendation was ushered in, whereby a high official sponsored the career of a promising young man. This acted as an important supplement to the examination system.The traditional method for selecting officials was ______.A.appointment by the civil governmentB.the examination systemC.through a subjective testing systemD.sponsorship by a high government officials50.The APEC dialogues are______.A.links of mutual restraint and dependenceB.bonds of development of world economyC.forms of doing business in the regionD.ties of mutual benefit and multilateral trade development51. The need of most of the dying patients for company shows their desire for ______.52.To achieve the desired result, humorous stories should be delivered ______.A.in well-worded languageB.as awkwardly as possibleC.in exaggerated statementsD.as casually as possible53.For all their great diversity of shapes and sizes, glaciers can be divided into two essential types: valley glaciers, which flow downhill from mountains and are shaped by the constraints of topography (地貌), and ice sheets, which flowoutward in all directions from dome--like centers of accumulated ice to cover vast expanse of terrain. Whatever their type, most glaciers are remnants of great shrouds of ice that covered the earth years ago. In a few of these glaciers the oldest ice is very ancient indeed; the age of parts of the Antarctic sheet may exceed 500,000 years.Glaciers are born in rocky womb above the snow line, where there is sufficient winter snowfall and summer cold for snow to survive the annual melting. The long gestation period of a glacier begins with the accumulation and gradual transformation of snow flakes. Soon after they reach the ground, complex snowflakes are reduced to compact, roughly spherical ice crystals, and the basic components of a glacier. As new layers of snow and firm, snow that survives the melting of the previous summer, accumulate, they squeeze out most of the air bubbles trapped within and between the crystals below. Thisprocess of recrystallization continues throughout the life of the glacier.The length of time required for the creation of glacier ice depends mainly upon the temperature and the rate of snowfall. In Iceland, where snowfall is heavy and summer temperatures are high enough to produce plenty of melt--water, glacier ice may come into being in a relatively short time--say, ten years. In parts of Antarctica, where snowfall is scant and the ice remains well below its melting temperature year round, the process may require hundreds of years. The ice does not become a glacier until it moves under its own weight, and it cannot move significantly until it reaches a critical thickness--the point at which the weight of the piled-up layers overcomes the internal strength of the ice and the friction between the ice and the ground. This critica} thickness is about 60 feet. The fastest moving glaciers have been gauged at not much more than two and a half miles per year, and some cover less than 1/100 inch in that same amount of time. But no matter how infinitesimal the flow, movement is what distinguishes a glacier from a mere mass of ice.Which of the following is NOT true about glaciers?A.Glaciers are diversified in shapes and sizes.B.Glaciers can be divided into valley glaciers and ice sheets.C.Glaciers are remnants of great shrouds of ice that covered the earth years ago.D.Few glaciers have a long history.54.Section BDirections: There are 2 passages in this section. Each passage is followed by some questions or unfinished statements. For each of them there are four choices marked A, B, C and D. You should decide on the best choice. Before discussing the effect of deflation and inflation on the distribution of income, it will be useful to define these terms. By inflation we mean a time of generally rising prices of goods and factors of production, such as wages and rents. By deflation we mean a time when most prices and costs are falling. Neither in inflation nor in deflation do prices all move in the same direction or in exactly the same proportion. As a result of changes in relative prices and in total spending, the two processes of inflation and deflation cause definite and characteristic changes in the distribution of income among economic classes.Unforeseen inflation tends to favor debtors and profit receivers at the expense of creditors and fixed-income receivers. Suppose, for example, you lend＄1,000 today and me paid back one year from now. If in the meantime priceshave doubled, then your debtor will be paying back only one half as much real purchasing power as you gave him Or consider an American who was earning a fixed rate of 6% yearly on a mortgage prior to World War Ⅱ. After1939 he found that, as a result of inflation caused by World War Ⅱ, he was not even holding his own as far as real purchasing power of the dollar was concerned. On the other band, one who invests in real estate, in common stocks, or in commodities makes a great profit dining times of unforeseen inflation, when the volume of business sales increases greatly, as do prices, between the time that businesspersons buy and sell their merchandise, fixed or overhead costs remain the same; other costs rise, but not so rapidly as prices. For all these reasons, profits increase--often faster than the cost of living.In times of deflation, the situation is reversed Creditors and fixed-income receivers tend to gain at the expense of debtors and profit receivers. If prices fall between the time that a creditor lends money and is repaid, then he gets back more purchasing power than he lent. Between the time that a merchant buys and sells goods, he will have to take a loss. The school teacher who keeps his jobs and whose pay is not cut, however, finds that his real income has increased. Likewise, a hoarder who earns no interest on the money she keeps hidden finds the real value of her wealth increasing everyday as prices fall. If prices fall at the rate of 10% a year, she is being rewarded for her antisocial act of hoarding at a 10% rate of interest in real terms, while the businessperson who gives someone a job may find that he can't even get back his outlay, much less earn a profit.Which of the following statements is true according to the passage?A.Deflation means that prices all are falling.B.Fixed-income receivers can benefit much from inflation.C.Inflation occurs much more titan deflation.D.Even in inflation, prices of some goods may be falling55. What do people often think of heavy use of alcohol?A.It is a normal way to celebrate one's success.B.It can cause huge damage to people's health.C.It takes a heavy toll of human life every year.D.It can alleviate the tediousness of the routine work.56.The passage is primarily concerned with ______.57.(61)58.Section BDirections: There are 2 passages in this section. Each passage is followed by。

2021-2022年福建省龙岩市大学英语6级大学英语六级真题一卷(含答案) 学校:________ 班级:________ 姓名:________ 考号:________一、2.Reading Comprehension (Skimming and Scanning)(20题)1.The early electric cars gradually disappeared because of______.A.gasoline-powered cars.B.technological restrictions.cking government's support.D.no profits and unfeasibility.2.Newton was never a good student and had never finished his university studies.A.YB.NC.NG3.The newer SAT II Subject Tests are supposed to assess students' ______ .A.ability to enter collegeB.knowledge of college studyC.level of versatilityD.knowledge of a subject4.The researchers who met at the Asilomar Conference Grounds agreed that robots will soon ______.A.be smarter than human beingsB.be able to control themselvesC.be more popular than the InternetD.be able to take over all our work5.De Coubertin amended the Olympic Charter many times.A.YB.NC.NG6.Television has invaded our culture so completely that that it even has effect on ______.A.the literary worldB.foreign countriesC.the highly-educated peopleD.those who don't watch TV at all7.Noise can not only spoil people's sleep and sanity, but also their hearing and health.A.YB.NC.NG8.How can we know whether our planned retirement spending will work?A.We can use some on-line retirement calculators.B.We can ask some people who have already retired.C.We can try to live below our means.D.We can conduct a kind of experiment of that life.9.Some types of depression are inherited form. generation to generation in ______.10.The short-lived, rapidly dispersed species are often called ______.11.According to the poll by the National Sleep Foundation，compared to that of women，the number of men with snoring problem is_____.rgerB.smallerC.nearly the sameD.quite different12.As the center site of the worship of Zeus, Olympia hosted the opening ceremony for the ancient Olympic games.A.YB.NC.NG13.A great slogan should remind people of the brand name, so the name should appear in the tagline.A.YB.NC.NG14.In the United States, your address is an important cue to ______.15.Best Time KeeperWaldo Wilcox knew there was trouble the moment he saw the mauled(受伤的) deer carcass, not far from one of the meadows where his cattle grazed.His dogs, Dink and Shortie, sensed it too—mountain lion. He grabbed his pistol and a rope from his truck, and said, "Let's get him." Then he headed up the mountainside, his hounds racing far ahead.Wilcox moved in long strides up the rocky grade. Still, it took some time before he topped the summit. The big cat was not 50 yards in front of him, its fangs(尖牙) bared, cornered by the dogs on a massive sandstone bluff.Wilcox gripped his gun. He hoped to take the mountain lion alive and sell it to a zoo; he'd done that before and made a tidy profit. Wilcox took quick aim, his pistol cracked, and there was a sudden silence as the animal fell limp to the ground.It wasn't until the red dust had settled and Wilcox's pulse had slowed that he gazed around. What he saw stunned him. High on the bluff lay an archeological(考古学的) treasure trove(珍藏物) large pieces of pottery, stoneshelters that once housed whole families, and domed structures that had held wild grains harvested centuries before Europeans set foot in North America. Wilcox made his discovery on the bluff almost 20 years ago—but it was not the first time he had found relics on his land. Since 1951, when his father bought the high valley Range Creek ranch, a year had seldom passed in which Wilcox did not come upon some spot of archeological interest. Occasionally he stumbled across burial plots.Native American CultureFor nearly half a century, he kept quiet about the riches, telling hardly anyone outside his immediate family what was hidden in the isolated valley 160 miles southeast of Salt Lake City. When he discovered a new site, Wilcox would note its location—then just let things be.Now the secret of Range Creek is finally out. Four years ago, forced by time to give up ranching, Wilcox, 75, sold his beef-cattle property in a deal that ultimately put the land in state hands. Thanks to Wilcox's silence, the 4,200-acre ranch is one huge, untouched archeological site. Today, scientists fromUtah's Division of State History and the University of Utah are busily cataloguing magnificent, previously unknown ruins on the property.What the scientists are learning at Range Creek has already begun to shed light on one of the greatest mysteries of Native American history—the fate of the Fremont culture, which had thrived in Utah for almost 1,000 years, then vanished virtually over-night in the 1300s.The very existence of the Fremont did not come to light until the late 1920s, when a Harvard University expedition discovered evidence of an ancient people who settled along the Fremont River in southern Utah. Farmers and hunter-gatherers who arrived in the region at about A.D. 400, the Fremont lived in one-room homes dug into the earth and finished off with stacked-stone wails and roofs made of reeds and mud. Carbon dating of corncobs found on the Wilcox ranch hint that Range Creek was buzzing with activity from roughly A.D. 900 to 1100.But right around the beginning of the 14th century, some great shift occurred. The drawings, pottery and structures particular to the Fremont culture ceased to be made anywhere. Some experts guess that other peoples pushed out the Fremont. Others speculate that some climatic event forced the Fremont to move south, where they may have integrated with other tribes.A Living Monument"In terms of history and archeological study, Range Creek is essential to the state," explains former governor Olene S. Walker. "It gives us a view into a period for which we have no written history." She is speaking primarily about the Fremont culture, but A World That Time Forgot. Even today, the valley resembles a world that time forgot.A.YB.NC.NG16.The author suggests that couples should give first priority to ______.17.Mark Twain seemed unhappy in his later years because his wife and ______ had died.18.Catherine Fredman was not worried about paying Mr. Fredman's ______. 19.Exercises in gratitude, kindness and optimism can make people happier--but only if they keep doing them and these exercises ______.20. It's safer for you to fish out and hold the card in hand before ______.二、3.Listening Comprehension(20题)21.(28)A.Five.B.Six.C.Seven.D.Eight.22.听力原文：M: Will the light rain prevent the scheduled flight from taking off on time?W: Of course, except when it lightnings rains and snows hard. So don't worry about that. The flight will depart on schedule.Q: What weather will not affect the departure of the flight?(13)A.Light rain.B.Heavy rain.C.Lightning.D.Heavy snow23.听力原文：W: Hey, John, are you OK? Why are you frowning?M: Well, I sort of(22)have a headache. I'll be fine after a glass of boiled water and some pain-killers. That happens a lot, and I always take one or two of them whenever a headache occurs.W: A lot? Seriously? Have you ever seen a doctor?M: Of course I have. Guess what? He just told me to take some pills or let it be until the headache was gone by itself. So, I chose the first.W: Then how did you get those pills? (23) On prescription?M: (23)I had no choice.W: Now I have to tell you for your own good that it will be pretty dangerous if you go on taking those pain-relievers like this.M: How come? It's only a kind of normal medicine, and I don't take many each time.W: Well, I've read an article that said, believe it or not, (24) although most people think pain-relievers are safe, they are in fact addictive, in the same way as heroin and morphine. Some people even visit the doctor regularly on purpose to satisfy their addiction.M: You must be kidding me! Does that mean I have made myself a drug addict or something? That's terrifying !W: Oh, don't be scared. As long as you are aware of it and pay some attention to the dose, your doctor is not likely to appear as a "drug dealer".M: (25) That sounds reasonable. It seems that I must take notice to these little white pills. Thank you for your information.W: My pleasure.(23)A.Drug addiction.B.A headache.C.Pain-killers.D.The woman's suggestion.24.(43)25.【B9】26.【B6】27.【B8】28.【B11】29.听力原文：W：As a well-known public speaker，can you give us some suggestions on how to deliver a good speech?M：(19)To begin with, you should ask yourself a question, that is, what does your audience need and want? It's better to question yourself before the speech．W：Why do we need to know their needs and wants?M：(21)If you are a public speaker Lit is absolutely essential to know how to capture and maintain the interest of your audience, which means you have to know what they want to know and what they want to hear．W：You mean we should pay special attention to the content of the speech，right?M：Yes．If you elaborate on facts and figures that everyone is already familiar with，then it is quite possible that you will actually lose the attention of those who are listening to your presentation．W：What should we do then?M：(20)Many successful speakers will summarize that part or add some different viewpoints to it．This is a good way to increase their level of understanding of the topic．If your audience cannot follow your speech．it's quite possible that they'll leave or doze off．W：How about body language? I see many speakers use a lot of hand gestures．M：Not only hand gestures，but also facial expression，body movement and even voice changes．It is always important to remember that sometimes，how you say something will have a larger impact than what you say．(20)A.Ask himself a lot of questions.B.Know his own needs and wants.C.Figure out what his audience is interested in.D.Put his notes in order ahead.30.听力原文：M: The program director said that we'd have to postpone the outing until Saturday because of inclement weather.W: It's a shame because all the food has already been ordered and will probably spoil.Q: Why was the outing postponed?(13)A.The food spoiled.B.The group was shameful.C.The weather was bad.D.The program director wanted to have it on another day.31.(44)32.(36)A.Sport events.B.Cultural activities.C.Counseling.D.Creative activities.33.听力原文：M：You know，I've been studying regularly，but I'm still not doing well in my history class．W：Maybe instead of studying in your room, you should seat yourself in a place that has fewer distractions.Q：What does the woman advise the man to do?(18)A.Find a quiet place to study.B.Change the conditions of his room.C.Find a more comfortable place to study.D.Avoid distractions while studying in his room.34.听力原文：M: The forecast calls for heavy snow again tonight. Aren't you glad we'll be getting away from this for a week?W: I sure am. But let's call tomorrow morning before we leave for the airport to make sure our flight hasn't been delayed or cancelled.Q: What does the woman suggest they do?(18)A.Call to see whether it will snow heavily.B.Check their flight schedule in the morningC.Listen to the morning weather forecast.D.Change their vacation plans.35.(17)A.It failed for lack of funds.B.It ended up fairly successful.C.It was suspended for the land dispute.D.It was difficult to complete and had to be stopped.36.(32)A.Interpersonal relationships.B.Kinds of social support.C.Ways to deal with stress.D.Effects of stressful condition.37.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 from 36 to 43 with the exact words you have just heard. For blanks numbered from 44 to 46 you 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 theTo be really happy and real safe, one ought to have at least two or three hobbies, and they must all be real. It is no use (36)______ late in life to say: "I will take an (37)______ in this or that. "A man may acquire great(38)______ of topics unconnected with his daily work, and yet get hardly any(39)______ or relief. It is no use what you like; you have got to like what you do. Broadly speaking, human beings may be (40)______ in to three classes: those who toiled to death, those who are (41)______ to death, and those who are bored to death. It is no use inviting the (42)______ or the professional or business man, who has been (43)______ or worrying about serious things for five days, to work or worry about trifling things at the weekend.It may also be said that rational, industrious, useful human beings are divided into two classes: (44)____________. Of these the former are the majority. The long hours in the office or the factory bring with them as their reward, not only the means of sustenance, but a keen appetite for pleasure even in its simplest and most modest form. (45)____________. For them the working hours are never enough. Each day is a holiday, and ordinary holidays, when they come, are just like enforced interruptions in an absorbing vacation.(46)____________.38.听力原文：For centuries, parrots have been prized pets because of their strange talent for imitating human speech. They are able to hear vocal ranges, memorize the tones, and then repeat what they have heard. Often this skill isused to entertain people. But recently, an Amazon parrot, named Baby, was able to put this ability to work by helping police break up a gang of burglars responsible for over＄50,000 in property theft.Baby helped the police to identify the gang of thieves. A recent robbery victim reported to the Baytown, Texas police that her parrot, Baby started acting strangely and saying new phrases after the robbery. Before the robbery, Baby had only a twenty-eight word vocabulary; afterwards, the bird started saying the additional phrases "Come back, Robert!" and "Come on, Ronnie!".The police detectives were delighted. Although one man had already been arrested, Ronnie and Robert were the names of their two top suspects who were believed to have aided the first man. Under questioning, this suspect explained what had happened. When the robbers entered the house, they heard Baby talking and thought that someone was home. Ronnie and Robert began running away, while the third man yelled for them to come back. Baby remembered this incident and recorded their voices in her memory.(33)A.A victim.B.A police detective.C.A robber.D.A pet bird.39.听力原文：W: I was a half-hour late for Professor Harrison's lecture thismorning. Could you lend me your notes, Jim?M: Sure. But you won't find anything in my notes. He didn't say anything important during your absence.Q: What do we learn from the conversation?(19)A.Jim's notes are not very good.B.Professor Harrison doesn't teach well.C.Mary should have come to the lecture earlier.D.Mary doesn't have to borrow notes from Jim.40.(31)A.The job must not ruin your talents.B.The job must be able to shape your personality.C.The job must set a pattern of life.D.The job must suit your interest.三、4.Reading Comprehension (Reading in Depth)(20题)41.How does the author most probably look at the African children?A.Much effort has to be made to change their life.B.He takes it his responsibility to change their life.C.Their sufferings deserve more worldwide concern.D.Their sufferings are resulted from shortage of fund.42.Which of the following might be the best title for the passage?A.How to Overcome Cultural Near-sightednessB.Different Cultural NormsC.Harms of Cultural BlindnessD.Deep-rooted Cultural Near-sighted43.Which of the following, if presented as the first sentence of a succeeding paragraph, would most logically continue the discussion presented in the passage?A.Timekeeping in medical tomography must be precise because the changes in travel time caused by density fluctuations are slight.B.To understand how ocean acoustic tomography works, it is necessary to know how sound travels in the ocean.C.Ships are another possibility, but they would need to stop every 50 kilometers to lower measuring instruments.D.These variations amount to only about 2 to 3 percent of the average speed of sound in water, which is about i 500 meters per second.44.New England Journal admonished doctors to ______.A.give the pills only to the severely overweight personsB.put clearer warnings on the drug labelsC.drop the prescriptions for the pills drasticallyD.take the obese patients off the drugs completely45. Which of the following statements is TRUE according to the passage?A.96 percent of the earth's surface is covered by ice.B.Over 10 million square miles of the earth's surface are covered by ice now.C.Almost all of the ice sheets covering the land and glaciers in the mountains have been hidden.D.Most of the ice on the earth's surface is located in Antarctic and Greenland for the time being.46.Section BDirections: There are 2 passages in this section. Each passage is followed by some questions or unfinished statements. For each of them there are four choices marked A, B, C and D. You should decide on the best choice. Nowadays, no document is safe any more. Counterfeiting. once the domain of skilled deceivers that used expensive engraving and printing equipment, has gone mainstream since the price of desktop publishing systems has dropped. In ancient times, counterfeiting was a hanging offence. Today, desktop counterfeiters have little reason to worry about prison, because the systems they use are ubiquitous (普遍存在的) and there is no means of tracing forged documents to the machine that produced them. This, however, may soon change thanks to technology development by George Chiu, an anti-counterfeiting engineer.His approach is based on detecting imperfections in the print quality of documents. Old-school scientists were able to trace documents to particular typewriters based on quirks (构槽) of the individual keys. He employs asimilar approach, exploiting the fact that the rotating (转动) drums and mirrors inside a printer are imperfect pieces of engineering which leave unique patterns of banding in their products.Although these patterns are invisible to the naked eye, they can be detected and analyzed by computer programs, and it is these patterns that Dr. Chiu has spent the past year devising. So far, he cannot trace individual printers, but he can tell pretty reliably which make and model of printer was used to create a document.That, however, is only the beginning. While it remains to be seen whether it will be possible to trace a counterfeit document back to its guilty creator on the basis of manufacturing imperfections, Dr. Chiu is now working out ways to make those imperfections deliberate. He wants to modify the printing process so that unique, invisible signatures can be incorporated into each machine produced which would make any document traceable. Ironically, it was after years of collaborating with printing companies to reduce banding and thus increase the quality of prints, that he came up with the idea of introducing artificial banding that could encode identification information into a document. Using the banding patterns of printers to secure documents would be both cheap to implement and hard, if not impossible, for those without. specialist knowledge and hardware to evade.Not surprising, the American Secret Service is monitoring the progress of this research very closely, and is providing guidelines to help Dr. Chiu to travel in what the service thinks is the right direction, which is fine for catching criminals. But how the legitimate users of printers will react to Big Brotherbeing able to track any document back to his source remains to be seen.By saying no document is safe any more, the author probably means _____.A.affordable printers make it possible for anyone to forge documentsB.the American Secret Service will be able to trace any documentC.every printed document will be secretly marked out through high-techD.counterfeiters have more advanced technology to use47.According to the passage, we know that "bulls, bears, and bubbles" has a history of about ______.A.200 yearsB.250 yearsC.375 yearsD.280 years48.【C9】49.(54)50.The passage points out that to identity, with others is less important than to identify with ______.51.The writer says that primates show little hostility ______.A.towards soldiers and other human beingsB.except towards animals such as lions, leopards, tigers or wild catsC.unless their own particular area is invadedD.towards other groups of the same species of monkey or ape52.Parents of wailing (哀号) babies, take comfort: You are not alone. Chimpanzee babies fuss. Sea gull chicks squawk. Burying beetle larvae tap their parents' legs. Throughout the animal kingdom, babies know how to get their parents' attention. Exactly why evolution has produced all this fussing, squawking and tapping is a question many biologists are trying to answer. Someday, that answer may shed some light on the mystery of crying in human babies. "It may point researchers in the right direction to find the causes of excessive crying," said Joseph Soltis, a bioacoustics expert at Disney's AnimalKingdom in Lake Buena Vista, Florida. Soltis published an article on the evolution of crying in the current issue of Behavioral and Brain Sciences. Young animals vary in how much they cry, squawk or otherwise communicate with their parents, and studies with mice, beetles and monkeys show that this variation is partly based on genes. Some level of crying in humans, of course, is based on gas pains and messy diapers. But as for the genetic contribution, you might expect that natural selection would favor genes for noisier children, since they would get more attention.Before long, however, this sort of deception may be ruinous. If the signals of offspring became totally unreliable, parents would no longer benefit from paying attention. Some evolutionary biologists have proposed that natural selection should therefore favor so-called honest advertisements. Some biologists have speculated that these honest advertisements may not just tell a parent which offspring are hungry. They might also show their parent that they are healthy and vigorous and therefore worth some extra investment. The babies of monkeys cry out to their mothers and tend to cry even more around the time their mothers wean (断奶) them. The mothers, in response, begin to ignore most of their babies' distress calls, since most turn out to be false alarms. "Initially, mothers respond any time an infant cries," said Dario Maestripieri, a primatologist at the University of Chicago. "But as the cries increase, they respond less and less. They become more skeptical. So infants start crying less. So they go through these cycles, adjusting their responses." Kim Bard, a primatologist at the University of Plymouth in England, has spent more than a decade observing chimpanzee babies. "Chimps can cry for a long time if something terrible is happening to them, but when you pick them up, they stop," Bard said. "I've never seen any chimpanzees in the first three months of life be inconsolable."Maestripieri and other researchers say these evolutionary forces may have also shaped the cries of human babies. "All primate infants cry," Maestripieri said. "It's a very conserved behavior. It's not something humans have evolved on their own."What can be the most probable title of this passage?A.Parents Bothered by Babies' CryB.Infants Crying for Parents' AttentionC.Clues from Animals on Why Babies CryD.False Cry53.One of the reasons why black Americans could not easily mix in American society is ______.A.that most Americans are immigrantsB.due to their skin colorC.that they speak their language differently from AmericansD.that they were free to keep their heritage54. In a harassment suit filed by a senior employee, who had left printouts from an adult website in her office?55.What does the last paragraph want to indicate?A.The kinds of confusion gone unnoticed.B.What makes some confusion go unnoticed.C.The contents of confusion gone unnoticed.D.The people with some confusion gone unnoticed.56.What will be the result of designing the body of SAX-40 as tailless and triangular?A.This shape can make the airplane fly faster.B.This shape can hold more passengers.C.This shape can supply more power raising.D.This shape can be flied easily.57. Superfast broadband delivered by fibre saves users of instant communication from delays which______.58.The word "spare" (Para. 2) is close in meaning to" ______".A.freeB.extraC.frugalD.meager59.When parents show constant disappointment in their children, the destructive effect is that the children will ______.60. The word "demographic" (Line 4, Para. 1 ) means ______.A.statistics of humanB.surroundings studyC.accumulation of humanD.development of human四、5.Error Correction(5题)61.【S8】62.【S7】63.【S6】64.【S5】65.【S2】五、6.Translation(5题)66. Look at the manners he talks,______(好像他知道一切似的).67. ______ (无论会遇到到少困难)we will manage to accomplish our goal.68. They have decided to _________________________ (在所有的当地学校废除体罚).69. The woman ______(担心服用这种的副作用), but her doctor reassured her that it is absolutely harmless.70. It is high time that ______ (我们尝试不同的方法解决经济危机).参考答案1.B解析：根据题干关键词early，electric cars定位到原文第一标题下第一段第三句；But technological limitations eventually killed those early EVs... 可知技术的限制最终导致了电动汽车逐渐退出市场，故选B项。

2021-2022年黑龙江省齐齐哈尔市大学英语6级大学英语六级真题(含答案) 学校:________ 班级:________ 姓名:________ 考号:________一、2.Reading Comprehension (Skimming and Scanning)(20题)1.When will Kelly contact you once you have registered for work and offered all your details?A.When you chase Kelly to ask about your job.B.When the right job comes up.C.After you give Kelly a private email address.D.When an employer is interested in your CV.2.If the estimates of the U.S. Energy Information Administration about oil reserve in the deserts in western Iraq are true, the deposit of oil in Iraq will amount to______ .3.China's most famous research universities hire mostly those who received their graduate education in U.K. and U.S. in the recent years.A.YB.NC.NG4.Researchers claim that as little as five minutes exposure to common domestic electrical appliance will impair ______.5.Canadian media often cite excessive fishing by overseas fleets, primarily because of ______.6.If you have a fever, you must stay in bed.A.YB.NC.NG7.Mitali Dayal thinks the last generation's belief on how to get love ______. wrence Bragg, the Cavendish Professor of Experimental Physics, once wrote: "I will try to define what I believe to be lacking in our present courses for undergraduates. They do not learn to write clearly and briefly, marshalling their Points in due and aesthetically satisfying order, and eliminating inessentials. They are inept at those turns of phrase or happy analogy which throw a flying bridge across a chasm of misunderstanding and make contact between mind and mind. They do not know how to talk to people who have a very different training from them, and how to carry conviction when plans for action of vital importance to them are made." Perhaps this would not matter too much if physical science students were destined only for the backrooms of scientific laboratories. But recent trends indicate that many science graduates end up in careers far from their initial training. Many a physics graduate is to be found predicting the future market in the Square Mile; many a chemist is hyping it up in public relations. One of the main complaints of those graduates who leave science is that their course concentrated on producing students equipped to follow a research career, and that the underlying assumption was that such research would be carried out in an academic environment. Those who eventually find themselves elsewhere, whether as scientific researchers or in another capacity, often feel ill equipped for the environment of commerce and industry. These young people often have to write off their last three years' training. At most, all they got from their BSc was a grounding in scientific logic and numeracy. The factual content of their subject was just so much excess baggage.The academic scientific community which supplied the excess baggage can be heard loudly bemoaning the "loss" of talented young scientists. Yet academic scientists also complain about scientific illiteracy in exactly those non-science professions, which are now welcoming science students. Perhaps if there were less moaning and greater acceptance of this intellectual osmosis(渗透), the exodus could be turned to everyone's advantage. The refugee graduates ought to be able to think of their scientific knowledge and training as a bonus. It ought to make a positive, constructive contribution to their working lives, and be a source of insight for their colleagues. At the same time, the scientific community should be reaping the benefit of this broad and influential distribution of people who are sympathetic to science.The reason why this is not the case is that science graduates are often unable to share their science with their nonscientific colleagues. They are unable to communicate. Instead of building Bragg's "flying bridge" they find themselves erecting barriers whenever called upon to explain scientific concepts in everyday terms. Attitudes in the scientific community arechanging. In 1985, the Royal Society published a report on the public understanding of science in Britain. Its conclusions took many members of the scientific community by surprise.The report advocated increased cooperation with the media, more training in communication skills for scientists and wider science education. It also recommended that communication skills be an integral part of every undergraduate science course. The response in British universities has been patchy, to say the least, the reasons are not clear. It may be that nothing more than straightforward inertia is responsible. Being more charitable, academic scientists may simply feel their job is to teach science and that any attempts to delve into the art of communication will be ill received by both students and the outside world. However, there is evidence to suggest these fears are ill founded. For example, the departments of chemical and electrical engineering at Imperial College, London, have for many years offered their students tuition in giving talks. TheA.YB.NC.NG9.Often students are quite ______ that they are moving their heads while reading.10. We are advised to leave some cash at home to ______.A.feed the ATMs around our neighborhood regularlyB.pay for the utility and grocery billsC.cope with sudden and serious situationsD.prove we have the ability to pay for necessities11.While Sutter is a______, he says his peers may be put off by the price tag. 12.What is very important in the long-distance training of dogs?A.To urge dogs run for 2 000 to 3 000 miles every day.B.To train the dogs for at least one year.C.To train the dogs to pull vehicles on dry land.D.To get the dogs accustomed to running long distances.13.eBay is famous mostly for it is a big auction web site, with all kinds of things for bidding:A.YB.NC.NG14.In paragraph 10 the phrase "fill in" is closest in meaning to"______"15. The demographic change in rural Europe will have a negative effect on every aspect of the local economy from tourist industry income to agricultural outputs.16.American high school students sink almost to the bottom in a survey of math and science literacy because too many of the high school ______ in America are not qualified.17. According to Rubin, the effect of Auto-Tune on singers may be ______.A.positiveB.negativeC.exaggeratedD.underestimated18. At High Tech High, ______ are hired to teach comes on biotechnology or web design.19.The chief disadvantage of pronouncing words while you read them is that it tends to tie reading speed to speaking speed, and the silent reading of most normal readers is nearly ______ as fast as their speaking.20.Beijing 2008: The First 4G Wireless Olympic Games ?About half a million years ago, Peking man lived in Zhoukoudian, in the southwestern suburbs of what is now Beijing. If you have been to Beijing more recently, or are at all familiar with modern China, then you know this ancient city is going to host the most modern, high-tech Olympic Games ever in 2008. With technology available today, and a vision for what Beijing could be in 2008, there is an opportunity for the hosts to make the city's telecommunications infrastructure--in the words of the Olympic motto — "swifter, higher, stronger". The Path to 4GBeijing has the good fortune of looking at previous generations of wireless networks and avoiding the same mistakes as it prepares for 2008. First Generation (1G) wireless telecommunications — the brick-like analog phones that are now collector's items—introduced the cellular architecture that is still being offered by most wireless companies today. SecondGeneration (2G) wireless supported more users within a cell by using digital technology, which allowed many callers to use the same multiplexed channel. But 2G was still primarily meant for voice communications, not data, except some very low data-rate features, like Short Messaging Service (SMS). So-called 2.5G allowed carriers to increase data rates with a software upgrade at the base transceivers Stations (BTS), as long as consumers purchased new phones too. Third Generation (3G) wireless offers the promise of greater bandwidth, basically bigger data pipes to users, which will allow them to send and receive more information.All of these architectures, however, are still cellular. Cellular architecture is sometimes referred to as a "star architecture', because users within that cell access a common, centralized base station. The advantage is that given enough time and money, carriers can build nationwide networks, which most of the big carriers have done. Some of the disadvantages include a singular point of failure, no lead balancing, and spectral inefficiencies. The single biggest disadvantage to cellular networks going forward is that as data rates increase, output power will have to increase—or the size of the cells win have to decrease—to support those higher data rates. Since significant increases in output power scare both consumers and regulators, it is far more likely that we will see significantly smaller cells. This will further reduce the return on investment in already fragile 3G business plans.Fourth Generation (4G) wireless was originally conceived by the Defense Advanced Research projects Agency (DARPA), the same organization that developed the wired Internet. It is not surprising, then, that DARPA chose the same distributed architecture for the wireless Internet that had proven so successful in the wired Internet. Although experts and policymakers have yet to agree on all the aspects of 4G wireless, two characteristics have emerged as all but certain components of 4G:end-to-end Internet Protocol (IP) ,and peer-to-peer(点对点)networking. An all IP network makes sense because consumers will want to use the same data applications they are used to in wired networks. Peer-to-peer networks, where every device is both a transceiver (收发机) and a router (路由器) for other devices in the network, eliminates the weakness of cellular architectures, because the elimination of a single node does not disable the network. The final definition of "4G" will have to include something as simple as this: if a consumer can do it at home or in the office while wired to the Internet, that consumer must be able to do it wirelessly in a fully mobile environment.Let's define "4G" as "wireless collaborated peer-to-peer networking". 4G technology is significant because users joining the network add mobile routers to the network infrastructure. Because users carry much of the network with them, network capacity二、3.Listening Comprehension(20题)21.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 from 36 to 43 with the exact words you have just heard. For blanks numbered from 44 to 46 you 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 theIt doesn't come as a surprise to you to realize that it makes no difference what you read or study if you can't remember it. You just waste your (36)______ time. Maybe you have already discovered some clever ways to keep yourself from (37)______.One dependable aid that does help you remember what you study is to have a specific purpose or (38)______ for reading. You remember better what you read when you know why you're reading.Reading is not one single activity. At least two important (39)______ go on at the same time. As you read, you take in ideas rapidly and (40)______. But at the same time you express your own ideas to yourself as you react to what you read. You have a kind of (41)______ conversation with the author. If you expressed your ideas orally, they might sound like this: "Yes, I agree. That's my opinion too." or "Umm, I thought that record was (42)______ much earlier. I'd better check those dates," or "But there are some other facts to be (43)______!" You don't just sit there taking in ideas—you do something else, and that something else is very important. (44)____________. In other words, a good reader is a critical reader. (45)____________. Facts can be checked by evidence. Opinions are one's own personal reactions. (46)____________.22.(46)23.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 from 36 to 43 with the exact words you have just heard. For blanks numbered from 44 to 46 you 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 theScotland is a unique place. It has some of the most beautiful cities in Europe,a living evidence of a【B1】______ and proud past.Its people's ancient love to the hard land and their struggle against nature are 【B2】______ within the wails of the Angus Folk Museum. You are able to get a feel of the【B3】______ rural atmosphere of times past from the everyday 【B4】______ displayed in this museum.Perhaps the most【B5】______ moment for Scottish autonomy is the one【B6】______ inside this ancient abbey of Arbroath, where, in 1320, the Declaration of Independence was celebrated, at the instigation of King Robert the Bruce, He carried out the plan for autonomy drawn up by the great popular hero William Wallace, to whom cinema has【B7】______ the wonderful filmBraveheart, the winner of five Oscars.The Glamis Castle is often remembered for being the【B8】______ of KingMacbeth and Queen Elizabeth in her childhood. Among the most regular guests here are the inevitable ghosts, which are nourished by ancient popular beliefs.【B9】______ .The true flag of Scotland, tartan, is recognizable from the brightly colored plaid patterns which are used to distinguish the various clans.【B10】______ . The typical Scottish garment, the kilt, is socially necessary when the Scots play the Great Highland bagpipes, especially when they march in parades. Bagpipes and dancing open the competitions of local sporting events, which are called Highland Gatherings.【B11】______ .【B1】24.听力原文：M: What a boring speaker! I could hardly keep from falling asleep.W: Oh. I don't know about that. In fact. I don't have a special feeling about him.Q: What does the woman mean?(17)A.She disagrees with the man.B.She doesn't enjoy long speeches.C.She hadn't known how long the speech would be.D.She doesn't have a special opinion about the speaker.25.【B11】26.(32)A.Because men are less likely to be well armed when they bend.B.Because men seem more obedient when they bend.C.Because men more closely resembles a medium-sized deer when they bend.D.Because men are cutting grass when they bend.27.【B7】28.听力原文：M: Which area, of all the ones that you've visited, is your favorite?W: Um... you know, different places for different things. (19)The South Seas are a pretty divine sort of place to be, I mean Fiji, the islands east of there.(19)I'm very fond of South East Asia because it's got such wonderful past. It's got so many temples buried in jungles and so on. (19)And the Galapagos Islands with fantastic birds and reptiles.M: I wonder what makes you come back to England?W: Well, I think, change is like happiness. No change produces no happiness in many ways. It seems to me that happiness has something to do with changing. (20)The happiest time's when you're always just about to do something, and when you've just moved from this to that. Because actually life is always changing, people around you are changing, you're getting older, emotional things change, and so on.M: Before all this you were on the management side of the BBC, in fact, for eight years. Didn't you feel very frustrated because you really wanted to be a creative artist?W: (21)I think, new things, new challenges, that's corny phrase for you, nonetheless, they are very important and if someone, if you care about making television programs, because of the technical characteristics of the networkyou're running, you will be the first color network in Europe, so we want you to think how perhaps color should be used. Well, you again have to be a very funny television producer to say "I'm not interested."(20)A.Fiji, the South Seas and the Pacific Ocean.B.South East Asia, the South Seas and West Africa.C.The South Seas, South East Asia and the Galapagos Islands.D.South East Asia, West Africa and the South Seas.29.(34)A.Because people are curious about the news.B.Because people are exposed to differing views.C.Because it is a fashion to do so.D.Because it is easy for people to take care of each other.30.(24)A.It makes the workers excited.B.It helps to reduce workers' complaint.C.It makes workers spend less time having their dinner.D.It might make the production increase.31.(22)A.To study animal behavior. in the wild.B.To increase the public's understanding of endangered species.C.To prepare endangered species for life in the wild.D.To breed animals to sell to zoos.32.(15)A.It's too late for the man to find a tutor.B.She hasn't prepared for the midterm exam either.C.The man shouldn't hire the same tutor that she had.D.The man should hire a tutor before the midterm exam.33.【B6】34.听力原文：W: Hi, Jack. Tomorrow's the big day! You must be excitedabout going to France for your first international conference.M: The trip, yes, but not the preparation.W: What do you need to do except pack?M: You know how you always feel so awful whenever you make a big change in time zones? This time I'm trying an anti-jet-lag program so I'll be alert even for the first day's lectures.W: But how can you avoid jet lag? With that late flight and a six-hour difference in time, it's bound to take you a couple of days to adjust.M: Well this program's supposed to get your body to feel like it's in the new time zone before you leave. The theory is that the food you eat actually tells your body when to be active and when to be restful, so changing your diet can help you be ready' for the time change. You have to alternate feasting and fasting ... you know sometimes eat a lot, sometimes just a little.W: OK. Now I see why you're not enjoying the preparation. I can't quite picture you fasting!M: Actually the worst is already over. Two days before the flight, you're supposed to have only light meals and limit yourself to eight hundred calories. W: That must have been tough.M: Yeah, but I'm making up for it today. Feast day is much better ... though I still don't get to eat any snacks after dinner.(23)A.New foods to try when traveling.B.Making reservations for the best travel.C.Avoiding gaining weight while traveling.D.Adjusting to time changes when traveling.35.(35)A.Passengers in the car may be seated facing one another.B.The front seats will face forward and the back seats backward.C.Special seats will be designed for children.D.More seats will be added.36.听力原文：Cannes Film Festival, the most prestigious motion-picture festival in the world, is held each May in the city of Cannes, in southeast France. The Cannes Film Festival was conceived at the end of 1938. Due to World War Ⅱ, however, the first Cannes Film Festival was not held until 1946. Internationalism and postwar optimism characterized the first festival, as organizers placed less emphasis on competition than on mutual creative stimulation between national productions. In later years the selection of entries for prizes reflected more commercial interests and the festival soon acquired its current reputation as a fashionable professional event, moreconcerned with advancing the film industry than the art of film. French director Francois Truffaut addressed this issue in 1956 and predicted its commercial death. The festival survived, however, and in 1959, Truffaut himself was awarded the prize for best screenplay for one of his films. Despite its ever-present financial interests, the Cannes Film Festival remains an essential affair for international cinema. In 1955 the organizing committee at Cannes introduced the Golden Palm Award (in English) for best film of the festival, now regarded as one of the film industry's most distinguished prizes. Past recipients of the award include Taxi Driver (1976), by American director Martin Scorsese; and The Piano (1993), by New Zealand director Jane Campion.(30)A.In 1938.B.In 1946.C.In 1955.D.During World War Ⅱ.37.(36)A.Professional knowledge is a decisive factor in a job interview.B.Finding a job is more difficult than one can imagine.C.Serf- confidence is most important for a job hunter.D.A job seeker should create a good image during an interview.38.(39)39. 【B2】40.(13)A.Before dinner.B.Right after dinner.C.During dinner.D.The next day.三、4.Reading Comprehension (Reading in Depth)(20题)41.The tone of the passage can best be described as ______ .A.hypotheticalB.humorousC.exaggerativeD.philosophical42.It is not often realized that women held a high place in southern European societies in the 10th and 11th centuries. As a wife, the woman was protectedby the setting up of a dowry or decimum. Admittedly, the purpose of this was to protect her against the risk of desertion, but in reality its function in the social and family life of the time was much more important. The decimum was the wife's fight to receive a tenth of all her husband's property. The wife had the right to withhold consent, in all transactions the husband would make. And more than just a fight: the documents show that she enjoyed a real power of decision, equal to that of her husband. In no case do the documents indicate any degree of difference in the legal Status of hnband and Wife.The wife shared in the management of her husband's personal property, but the opposite was not always ture. Women seemed perfectly able to defend their own inheritance against husbands who tried to exceed their rights; and on occasion they showed a fine fighting spirit. A case in point is that of Mafia Vivas, a Catalan woman of Barcelona. Having agreed with her husband Miro to sell a field she had inherited, for the needs of the household, she insisted on compensation. None being offered, she succeeded in dragging her husband to the scribe to have a contract duly drawn up assigning her a piece of land from Miro's personal inheritance. The unfortunate husband was obliged to agree, as the contract says, "for the sake of peace". Either through the dowry or through being hot-tempered, the Catalan wife knew how to win herself, within the context of the family, a powerful economic position.A decimum was ______.A.the wife's inheritance from her fatherB.a gift of money to the new husbandC.a written contractD.the wife's right to receive one-tenth of her husband's property43. To see how states of marriage influenced sleep, researchers installed some equipment in subjects' home to monitor their______and record how their relationships went.44.The principle discovery in this century shows ______.A.man has overthrown Newton's laws of physicsB.man has solved a new set of gigantic puzzlesC.man has lost many scientific discoveriesD.man has given up some of the once accepted theories45. During the first period of demographic history, societies Were often in danger of extinction because ______.A.only one in ten persons could live past 40B.there was higher mortality than fertility in most placesC.it was too dangerous to have babies due to the poor conditionsD.our ancestors had little enthusiasm for more children46. According to the author, dealing with interpersonal conflict in the workplace ______ .A.can be more difficult for engineersB.is the key to success in the workplaceC.leads to the development of effective relationshipsD.prevents workers from working for the common good47. What is the impact of tourist arrival drop-off on Asian airlines?48.Everyone has heard the phrase "a picture is worth a thousand words". Videoconferencing provides that picture, bringing decision makers together for face-to-face meetings regardless of their location. Merely hearing words spoken in a phone conversation limits total communication. Adding a visual link to see the face and the body language enhances communication. Seeing the picture allows the participants to comprehend the intended meaning, not just the perceived meaning of conversation."Researchers have suggested that when there is an incongruity between the verbal and the nonverbal message, we tend to believe the nonverbal one," according to Patton and Giffin, authors of Decision Making Group Interaction. In videoconferencing, hand and arm movement as well as other gestures can illustrate an idea or express an emotional state. More important, facial expression and eye movement can communicate valuable information that is lost in a mere telephone conversation. According to Goss and O'Hair, authors of Communicating in Interpersonal Relationships, Seven research projects in nonverbal communication have indicated that the face may be the most important body area through which nonverbal cues are conveyed. More accurate communication is achieved by facial expression and nonverbal cues. "Today's business professionals spend more than 50 percent of the time in meetings, and nearly half of that time they feel is unproductive. Can you imagine as a resource manager spending money on travel for meetings that professionals feel are unproductive?" said Francine Savage, New Business Development Manager of 3M visual System Division. Savage suggests that money invested in videoconferencing equipment will eventually be recouped via the saving from not sending employees to meetings.Some organizations will have to invest significant capital to take advantage of this powerful technology. Such is not the case in the Office of the ASARDA. Its information management office has been building a dynamicvideoconferencing program for the past 4 years. There are now more than 60 desktop videoconferencing units installed on individual workstation and 12 conference room systems. At heart of the program is a multipoint control unit equipped with the latest software and options. This allows us full control and flexibility to support ASARDA's multipoint conferencing needs.The power of videoconferencing lies in that it can ______ .A.enhance the communicationB.increase productivityC.understand the real meaning of the other partyD.all of the above49.(59)50.From the last paragraph we know that ______ .A.forgetfulness is a response to learningB.the memory storage system is an exactly balanced input-output systemC.memory is a compensation for forgettingD.the capacity of a memory storage system is limited because forgetting occurs51.The author's attitude toward Mr. Samuelson's book is ______.A.derogatory and subjectiveB.partial and preferentialC.neutral and objectiveD.indifferent and half-hearted52.Why is there a slow pace of technological change in American firms?A.New equipment in America is more expensive.B.American firms don't pay enough attention to on-the-job training of their work-era.C.The decision-making process in American firms makes them less responsive to technological changes.D.The professional staff of American firms are less paid and so less creative.53.。

2022年12月大学英语六级改革（难度显著加大）大学英语四六级考试历来被视作大学生英语水平的“试金石”，作为全国规模的英语考试，其考查内容即将进行局部调整——来自全国大学英语四六级考试网站的消息，本年12月起，四六级英语考试题型将发生变化：1.听写变成全部考查单词短语；2.快速阅读变成段落信息匹配题；3.翻译扩充至150～200字的整段中译英；4.不再考查完形填空。

变化：完形不考，翻译加重就听写部分而言，过去四六级考试中的复合式听写调整为单词及词组听写，短文长度及难度不变。

要求考生在听懂短文的基础上，用所听到的原文填写空缺的单词或词组，共10题，短文播放3遍。

阅读历来是四六级英语考试的重点题型。

此次改革后，原快速阅读理解调整为长篇阅读理解，篇章长度和难度不变。

篇章后附有10个句子，每句一题，所含信息出自篇章的某一段落。

专家提示，这种题类似雅思考试中的“段落信息匹配题”，迷惑性很强。

翻译题是此次改革中被视为最难的标题问题类型。

据了解，改革后，原单句汉译英调整为段落汉译英，翻译内容涉及中国历史、经济、文化社会发展等。

四级长度为140～160个汉字，六级长度为180～200个汉字。

此外，将取消原有题型中的完形填空，考试时间则从原有的120分钟延长至130分钟，总分仍为710分。

专家解析：难度显著增大，挑战仍是时间控制针对此次四六级试卷变化，业内专家认为，四六级考试的题型将高度统一，各题型只在难度上有所不同。

整体上考试难度将显著增大，挑战仍是时间控制，“凡是天天背单词，从不背句子，不练写作和翻译，不去做精听的必定过不了”。

以听写部分为例。

“几乎所有人都认为，取消句子听写会使听写难度减弱，恰恰相反，这只会使考生的偶然得分率提高，而如果考生长期忽视听写和拼写，则必然导致失分率增加。

”外语教育网英语四六级培训老师认为，在过去的句子听写中，如果写出整句中的个别单词即可得到必然分数，而改革后填词的设计将使得分和失分出现在“弹指之间”。

2021-2022年河北省保定市大学英语6级大学英语六级真题一卷(含答案) 学校:________ 班级:________ 姓名:________ 考号:________一、2.Reading Comprehension (Skimming and Scanning)(20题)1.At the point of your sitting down, the recruiter's decision on you is ______ made.2.The Dreamer type never spends long hours in front of a desk.A.YB.NC.NG3.The Giant Pandas are most active in the morning and______.4.Coupons, according to Dave Lieberman, are to encourage the consumers to ______.5.If you suppress variations in income by whatever means, the result always seems to be the same ______.6.The disadvantage of today's social networks is that to the outside web, they are not ______.7.You need rich people in your society basically because of______.8.The author defines an ideal as Platonic whenA.it tries to change the worldB.it is not perfectC.it is not compatible with the realityD.it matches the real world9.A nonviolent offender can choose ______.10.Nowadays employers often ask questions designed to ______ .A.find the interviewees' shortcomingsB.find the solutions of the company's problemsC.make the interviewees realize they need to learn moreD.discover more about interviewee and the way the interviewee react to different situations11.Which of the following techniques concerning lateral thinking is NOT mentioned in the passage?A.Trying to figure out the maximum of solutions to the problem.B.Trying to handle the situation from a macroscopic perspective.C.Trying to question your presumptions about the problem.D.Trying to add in unselected factors to bring you unexpected inspiration.12.Men and women always compete in running, jumping, climbing, lifting, throwing and wrestling.A.YB.NC.NG13.If moth larvae are dead for five days, scrub jays will not touch upon them in any case.A.YB.NC.NG14.According to some scientists,______is the single greatest cause of the fresh water shortage in the world.15.In order to heal the pain of an abused person, we should ______.A.improve our educationB.punish the bad guysC.show him our compassionD.make the world a better place16.It's Never Too Late to Start ExerciseResearchers Find Great Rewards When Mild Exercise Programs Are Started Late In Life.May 13, 2003--You know the benefits of exercise programs. And if you've been inactive, you may have also felt them--with sore muscles and bruised motivation to continue. But a new study in women shows that the old adage is true--it's never too late to start when it comes to exercise programs. So now what can you do to jump on the exercise bandwagon (乐队花车)?WebMD got exercise tips from the experts."There certainly seems to be something here to suggest that women can start exercising later in life and still reap the rewards," lead researcher and CDC epidemiologist Edward W. Gregg, PhD, tells WebMD. His findings are published in the May 16 issue of The Journal of the American Medical Association.Researchers tracked 9,500 women for 12 years, starting when they were at least age 66. In that time, they found that those who went from doing little or nothing to walking just a mile a day slashed(减少) their risk Of death fromall causes and from cancer by nearly half. Their risk of heart disease also fell by more than a third. In fact, they enjoyed nearly as much protection as women who were physically active before the study began and remained so. During the study, he and his colleagues surveyed the women on their exercise levels at the start of the trial and again up to six years later. Years later, the researchers tracked their rates of death and disease.The new information we found is that older women who went from being sedentary(少活动的) or walking about two miles a week to "walking eight miles a week between the two visits had significant life improvements," says another study researcher, Jane A. Cauley, DrPH, of the University of Pittsburgh."We're talking about women with an average age of 77 at the second visit," she tells WebMD. "And we're talking about their engaging in very mild exercise--and not running marathons."But if the only workout(运动)you've been getting lately involves the TVremote, here's how to avoid those walks around the block from making yourbody feel as if it just tackled Boston Marathon's infamous "Heartbreak Hill". Get a checkup before a workout.A visit to your doctor is wise for anyone beginning an exercise program, but it's crucial for the elderly or others who have been inactive because of health problems. In addition to the obvious-- checking your heart and lungs--your doctor can help determine if your regimen(养生法) needs to consider othermedical conditions, and the drugs you take for them."People can sometimes control conditions such as diabetes and high blood pressure with weight loss and exercise so they don't need to continue their medications," says William A. Banks, MD, professor of geriatrics at Saint Louis University School of Medicine. It's important to let your doctor know about your new exercise program in case your medication doses need to be changed."A doctor can also help facilitate the best type of exercise if you have a disability or impairment. For instance, many of my patients have bad knees, so I tell them that if they start running or even walking, they're going tohave problems that will likely impact their ability to continue," he tells WebMD. "So I try to steer them to another activity, such as swimmings which is especially good for people with joint problems or obesity(肥胖)."Start slow.Once you get the green light, the key to avoiding fatigue and muscle pain is to pull out of the gate very slowly. "You hear so much about the importance of getting 30 minutes of exercise a day, but those recommendations should not be viewed as goals if you've been sedentary--even if you're healthy," Banks says. "Initially, you should actually shoot below your comfort level.A.YB.NC.NG17.At the night of Monday, December fifth, at the meetings throughout the country, blacks in Montgomery agreed to refuse to get on city buses until the city buses removed their ______.18.Profiling(犯罪剖绘)As the stars of true-crime documentaries, TV series and Hollywood thrillers, criminal profilers have one of the best-known law enforcement jobs in the world. Basic profiling—identifying, the perpetrator(犯罪者) of a crime basedon an analysis of crime and the way it was committed—is a common investigative tool. But some fear that police departments have taken profilingtoo far, harassing or even arresting people because of certain characteristics they might have in common with criminals—or worse yet, because of their skin color. Others argue that in an age of terrorism and violent crime, we can't afford not to examine people based on crime patterns, even if that means suspicion based on race.Basics of ProfilingThe most basic kind of profiling is a Be On the Lookout (BOLO) or All-Points Bulletin (APB). You're probably familiar with these, although you might not have heard it referred to as a profile.An APB is a description of a specific suspect accused of committing a specific crime or crimes, usually based on eyewitness accounts. For example, following a bank robbery, police might interview suspects and review surveillance camera footage before releasing the following APB:Suspect was last seen in a dark blue Ford pick-up truck. He was wearing a red T-shirt and black jeans. Suspect is described as a white male, 5-feet 10-inches tall and thin with receding blond hair. He has a tattoo of a snake on his left forearm.The next step in profiling is the psychological profile. Investigators create this profile in the absence of physical evidence or eyewitness descriptions, or to supplement such descriptions. They take what they know about an unknown suspect and his actions and try to generate additional information. For example, if a serial murderer has been killing the female employees of a law firm, profilers might find it likely that the killer is a male former employee or client of the law firm.Other evidence, such as notes left by the killer, the location of the killing, or the state of the crime scene can allow profilers to develop "educated guesses." These guesses might include things like the suspect's education level, psychological traumas(创伤) he has suffered or where he lives. They are not always 100 percent accurate, and sometimes they can be rather vague. Predictive ProfilingWith predictive profiling, criminal profiling gets more controversial. Instead of seeking a particular suspect based on evidence at a specific crime, predictive profiling attempts to guess which people are likely to commit a crime that hasn't happened yet.This isn't a revolutionary idea by itself. Police officers don't just react to crimes: they patrol, observe and try to spot suspicious behavior. that could mean a crime is going to take place. Few people would question an officers' right to investigate a suspicious situation or question a suspicious person. Even when police departments use their criminal profiles as a justification for searches and arrests without warrants, those practices have been upheld by the Supreme Court.Here's an example. State troopers are patrolling a stretch of highway known to be frequented by drug traffickers(干非法勾当者). The officers know fromprevious experience that drug traffickers often use rented cars, travel in the very early morning, and put the spare tire in the backseat to leave more room in the trunk for drugs.At 4:00 a.m. an officer notices a car that fits this profile. The driver is not breaking any major traffic rules, but the trooper pulls the car over anyway, hoping to spot some evidence that could lead to a search of the car. This is considered profiling. The practice of noting criminal tendencies and creating a written profile is sometimes attributed to Florida Highway Patrolman Bob V ogel, although it was probably carried out by otherA.YB.NC.NG19.Mr. Bellavance cashed out his pension, sold his house and unloaded things he didn't need at garage after losing his job in order to change his finances into ______ mode.20.When you're weight training, the qualifications of instructors are important because injuries might be caused by______.二、3.Listening Comprehension(20题)21.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 choices marked A, B, C and D.听力原文：Today, I'll be talking about the invention of the camera and photography. The invention of the camera and photography changed our lives a lot. The camera is often thought to be a modern invention. But as early as 1727. (26) a German physicist discovered that light darkens silver salt, a chemical compound. Using as a camera, a big box with small hole to let the light in, (26)he made temporary images on the salt. Silver salt is still the base of film today.Then a French scientist made the first permanent picture by using a special piece of metal sensitized with silver salt. A photograph he made in 1826 still exists. The painter, Daguerre improved on the process by placing common salt on the metal. (27)This was in 1839, the official date of the beginning of photography, but the problem was the printing of the photographs, and it wasn't until other scientists developed the kind of paper we now use, that goodprinting was possible and photograph became truly modem.(28) In 1860s, Mattew Bradey was able to take his famous pictures of the American Civil War. In the 20th century. George Eastman of the United States simplified film developing, and Dr. Edwin Land invented the so-called "instant" camera with self-developing film. If we say that photography came into existence in 1839, it follows that it has taken more than one hundred years for the camera to reach its present condition of technical refinement.(27)A.Light darkens silver salt.B.Light darkens natural salt.C.Light darkens silver.D.Light darkens self-developing film.22.(29)nguage.B.Art.C.Natural Sciences.D.Physical culture.23.听力原文：Social Security is one of the great moral achievements of American government. For almost 70 years, it has kept millions of elderly citizens out of poverty and assured young Americans of a secure future. The Social Security system is essential, yet it faces a long-term problem.While benefits for today's seniors are secure, the system is headed towards bankruptcy down the road. Each year there are more retirees taking money out of the system, and not enough additional workers to support them.In the 1950s, there were about 16 workers paying for every Social Security beneficiary. Today, there are about three. And eventually, there will only be two workers per beneficiary. These changes signal a looming danger. In the year 2018, for the first time ever, Social Security will pay out more in benefits than the government collects in payroll taxes. And the gaps will grow larger each year leading to the bankruptcy of the system.Therefore, Social Security is not a personal savings plan. Benefits paid to today's retirees come directly from the taxes paid by today's workers. The crisis in Social Security can be avoided by emphasizing several principles. First, nothing will change for those who are receiving Social Security and for those who are near retirement. Secondly, payroll taxes will not increase, because higher taxes would slow economic growth. More efforts must be made to use the power of compound interest, by giving younger workers the option to save some of their payroll taxes in a personal account, which government cannot take away.(30)A.Around 1930.B.Around 1940.C.Around 1950.D.Around 1960.24.听力原文：M: Have you called John to come and fix the faucet in ourbathroom?W: I called several times but his phone was out of order.Q: What can we learn from the conversation?(19)A.John was not at home when the woman called.B.The woman dialed the wrong number.C.John is a plumber.D.John was too busy to come.25.(35)A.Wars or natural disasters make them lose their families.B.They want to help their families earn enough money to survive.C.They are poor.D.All the above.26.【B4】27.(25)A.Preparing for an important test.B.Funding for university education.C.Winning the confidence of voters.D.Graduate school application procedures.28.听力原文：M: I found that one of my schoolmates uses drugs. How can I help him, Mom?W: Stay away from him, son. Never think that you can talk him out of the habit if he is addicted. But perhaps you can talk to your teacher about the matter.Q: What does the woman advice her son to do?(14)A.Stop thinking about the matter.B.Talk the drug user out of the habit.C.Be more friendly to his schoolmate.D.Keep his distance from drug addicts.29.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 from 36 to 43 with the exact words you have just heard. For blanks numbered from 44 to 46 you 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听力原文：Microsoft is a well-known corporation and its main product is software. The man who will soon become Microsoft's new chief executive officer, Steve Ballmer, said on Thursday that it would be " absolutely reckless and irresponsible" to break up the massive software firm. "I think it would be absolutely reckless and irresponsible for anyone to try to break up this company," Ballmer said at a news conference after Chairman Bill Gates introduced him as the new CEO. The company is in the middle of negotiations with the US Government in a landmark antitrust case. The government favors breaking up Microsoft Corp., best known for creating Windows computer operating systems. A break-up would settle the case, people familiar with the mediation talks taking place in Chicago have said. Details of the approach being taken by the government remain fluid and unclear, sources said. But Ballmer and Gates said that only a unified company able to deliver across-the-board solutions could add "real value". When being asked what he thought about breaking up the company, Gates replied, " I'm surprised people can keep a straight face when they say that would be proper thing to do."After Ballmer's statement, a Justice Department spokesperson in Washington, D. C. declined to state the government's view. " Because of the current posture of the case，it would be inappropriate for us to debate the merits of any particular remedy ,"said the spokesperson, Gina TalamonaMicrosoft is a well-known corporation and its main product is software. The man who will soon become Microsoft's new chief 【B1】______ officer, SteveBallmer, said on Thursday that it would be " 【B2】______ reckless andirresponsible" to break up the massive 【B3】______ firm. "I think it wouldbe absolutely reckless and 【B4】______ for anyone to try to break up thiscompany," Ballmer said at a news 【B5】______ after Chairman Bill Gatesintroduced him as the new CEO. The company is in the middle of 【B6】______ with the US Government in a 【B7】______ antitrust case. Thegovernment favors breaking up Microsoft Corp., best known for creating Windows computer operating systems. A break-up would settle the case, people 【B8】______ with the mediation talks taking place in Chicago havesaid. 【B9】______ , sources said. But Ballmer and Gates said that only a unified company able to deliver across-the-board solutions could add "real value". When being asked what he thought about breaking up the company, Gates replied, " 【B10】______ ."After Ballmer's statement, a Justice Department spokesperson in Washington, D. C. declined to state the government's view. " 【B11】______ ,"said the spokesperson, Gina Talamona.【B1】30.(36)A.Most of the children in developing countries do not receive education or health care.B.The chief goal of Child Hope U. S. A is to halt the spread of AIDS and the use of illegal drugs among children.C.Child Hope U. S. A cooperates with international children's groups, government agencies and other national and local groups.D.No children work in Pakistan after the new laws to control child labor was approved.31.听力原文：W: I hate the way the trains run in this city. I've been waiting here for almost half an hour.M: It's almost eight o'clock, so we should be on our way soon.Q: When did the woman begin waiting for the train?(16)A.Seven o' clock.B.Seven thirty.C.Eight o' clock.D.Eight thirty.32.【B3】33.(24)A.By a hill.B.A concert.C.The waterfall scenery.D.A hotel they once stayed in.34.听力原文：W: With us now, is Malcolm Bricklin, CEO of Vehicles.M：Hello，everyone．W：We have been hearing a couple of tings about this news that Ford Motor Company is slashing up to 30,000 jobs,shutting down 14 plants nationwide．Is it a big deal if we are no longer manufacturing these cars，Malcolm?M: I think it's a huge deal．I mean the companies are massive employers both directly and indirectly．If you look at Ford after their restructuring，they've actually got 87,000 employees which is twice as many as Microsoft have worldwide．Moreover，if you look at those jobs，they are very high-paying jobs．These are people who can afford to buy their own products．W: Er，it seems to indicate a big hit for our economy if these jobs go bye-bye．M: Yeah，it's a really sad day for America．W: But it is not as if cars are stopped being made，right?M: Correct．Still a large number of cars are being made by American manufacturers．More than half of the American cars sold in America are America．So what has happened over time is that as the market share has fallen，foreign car companies have come in，taken over plants and set up new plants and they have taken over that capacity．So，it is not like there are fewercars being produced in America than there were 30 years ago．W: Let me ask you about the Chinese coming in. What would it mean to American job, if and when that happen?M: The Chinese cars we have seen so far aren't that great and they don't have the branding necessary to make a huge impact in the world stage(23)A.It is closing down some factories in the US.B.It no longer offers high-paying jobs.C.The number of its employees is doubled after the restructuring.D.It is manufacturing as many cars as before.35.【B9】36.(14)A.He's surprised she chose that agency.B.He wonders why she's kept her job.C.He doesn't know when her classes started.D.He doubts she makes much money now.37.(17)A.He shouldn't have apologized.B.He will find a better way of apologizing.C.He couldn't find a right word to make an apology.D.His friend is asking for more than just an apology.38.【B7】39.(22)A.He will be singing traditional English songs.B.He will be talking to his professor.C.He will be on his way to an English club.D.He will be practising his listening skills.40.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 from 36 to 43 with the exact words you have just heard. For blanks numbered from 44 to 46 you 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 theA few years ago it was【B1】______ to speak of a generation gap, a division between young people and their elders. Parents【B2】______ that children did not show them proper respect and【B3】______ , while childrencomplained that their parents did not understand them at all. What had gone wrong? Why had the generation gap suddenly appeared?【B4】______ the generation gap has been around for a long time. Many【B5】______ arguethat it is built into the fabric of our society.One important cause of the generation gap is the【B6】that young people have to choose their own life styles. In more【B7】______ societies, whenchildren grow up, they are expected to live in the same area as their parents, to marry people that their parents know and【B8】______ of, and often tocontinue the fatuity occupation. In our society, young people often travel great distances for their education, move out of the family home at an early age, marry or live with【B9】______In our upwardly mobile society, parents often expect their children to do better than they did: to find better jobs, to make more money, and to do all the things that they were unable to do. Often, however,【B10】______ often, theydiscover that they have very little in common with each other.Finally, the speed at which changes take place in our society is another cause of the gap between the generations. In a traditional culture,【B11】______ . The young and the old seem to live in two very different worlds, separated by different skills and abilities.【B1】三、4.Reading Comprehension (Reading in Depth)(20题)41.Section BDirections: There are 2 passages in this section. Each passage is followed by some questions or unfinished statements. For each of them there are four choices marked A, B, C and D. You should decide on the best choice. "What a difference a word makes?" The issue of semantics (语义学) has been an ongoing complaint against the media, which has been characterized by an increasing level of sensationalism and irresponsible reporting over the years, fostered by increasingly-fierce competition and struggle for wider distributions and readerships.A focal point for the criticism is the coverage of high-profile criminal cases. With such headlines as "Mr. X Arrest for First-degree Murder" prominently displayed across the front page, it has been argued that such provocative language influences public opinion, causing premature assumptions of guilt before the matter can be properly and legally decided in a court of law. The power of the media to influence public opinion and, by extension, legal and political perceptions, has long been established and recognized, spurting outcries when inaccurate or overly-embellished stories result in unwarranted destruction of public image or intrusions into privacy of unwilling individuals. Reporters and editors take the utmost care in their choice of words for use in their articles, but with constant pressure to create provocative headlines in order to sell their papers, the distinction between respectable periodicals and trashy tabloids is becoming thinner every day. The predicament is exacerbated by the public's seeming short attention span, putting the papers under pressure to make their stories as attention-grabbing as they are accurate. Further obscuring the situation is the fact that the same phrase can be interpreted in a myriad of different ways depending on who reads it, making it hard for one to judge whether a line is excessive or not.Whatever the causes and effects, however, the freedom of press laws in the United States means that any change to the style. employed by the media must be self-imposed. In that respect, it appears that nothing will be changing in the near future, since the public's insatiable hunger for controversy and scandal continues to dominate and set the pace for marketable reporting. As the sensationalism and its related effects continue into the longer term, however, there will no doubt be more outcry as the trend continues. This will possibly result in an upheaval of the system, favoring more accurate, unembellished reporting, consisting of hard. facts with a minimum of supposition or commentary and devoid ( 缺乏的) of rumors and otherquestionable sources of information. If and when that occurs, we can truly state with pride that our media industry is not only a free one, but a responsible and reliable one.Accurate representation and reporting is vital in the media because ______.A.such information is necessary for proper decision-making by public leadersB.the way that information is presented to the public can influence opinions and outcomesC.far-fetched exaggerations invariably intrude into the private lives of those being reported onD.catering to profit-driven sensationalism leads to further accuracies and misrepresentations42.【C8】43. On what condition can the birds spread the influenza through migration?44.Human babies are born in immature, helpless states, owing to ______.A.the early birth of human fetusesB.the big brains of the fetusC.the constricted birth canals of the motherD.both big brains and constricted birth canals45.Form. the text we can infer that ______.A.the author is in favor of the young generationB.the author's attitude is very ambiguousC.the author is for the old generationD.the author is impartial46.We can infer from the passage that the author ______.A.prefers dogs to catsB.prefers cats to dogsC.likes dogs as well as cats。

2021-2022年河北省邢台市大学英语6级大学英语六级测试卷(含答案) 学校:________ 班级:________ 姓名:________ 考号:________一、2.Reading Comprehension (Skimming and Scanning)(20题)1. According to Bobby Peek, targeting the companies would be difficult as it would be near-impossible to prove that illnesses suffered were caused by ______.2.Architecture is related to physics, so the actual goal of architects is to make discoveries about statistics.A.YB.NC.NG3.Many people expected the medicines they took to be safe when the medicines cost a lot.A.YB.NC.NG4.The Indians at first did not like the Mission because they felt that it was in favor of______.5.In 2004 more travelers paid visit to central Paris than to New York City.A.YB.NC.NG6.CPAP is a useful machine for people with snoring problems because it can help to ______.7.Genetic medicines are newer and more expensive.A.YB.NC.NG8.The National Hot Dog and Sausage Council say Germany is the birthplace of the hot dog.A.YB.NC.NG9. Oil degradation occurring in the deep sea is much______compared with that on the surface.10.Dr. Doris had spent 15 years on ______.A.being a weight counselorB.writing her bookC.studying psychologyD.being on diet11. What is the difference between Joost and KaZaA according to Fredrik de Wahl?A.KaZaA benefited the industry which it entered.B.KaZaA didn't impact the industry which it entered.C.Joost doesn't threaten the industry which it's entering.D.Joost negatively impacts the industry which it's entering.12.With tools made of______, the Mayans were able to build high temples and made various works of art.13.Great Britain is believed to be the most successful country to have acted to control or reduce environmental problems.A.YB.NC.NG14. Even on their way to destinations, travelers can easily surf Internet by 802.11 cards if there are ______.15.Patricia thought more ______ should be exerted on those who get their marriage broken down.16.More than 2,300 universities in over 100 countries have introducedChinese courses to their curricula, and young overseas nationals flock to China each year to learn Chinese. In 2004, the number of international students in China was 400,000, with an annual increase of 20 percent in the past five years, according to the Chinese .Ministry of Education.The Rise of China's EconomyMonsieur Label and his wife, both respected architects living in Paris' Sixth Quarter, have enrolled their daughter in a nearby school where Chinese classes start at kindergarten. Monsieur Label says of China: "I and my colleagues witnessed the country's amazing development when we .attended a recent seminar in Shenzhen. I believe that China is the economic superpower of the future. My wife and I speak French, English and Spanish, but my daughter should also learn Chinese because it will be useful to her when she grows up."Since Chinese courses were added to the curricula of 132 French junior and senior high schools their enrollment has doubled. That at the Oriental Language and Culture College, one of France's largest Chinese teaching colleges, has skyrocketed in recent yearn, according to Xu Dan, dean of the Chinese Department. She confirms that Chinese and Japanese are now the two most studied Asian languages.French junior student Beida says totally fluent in Chinese. "I'm learning Chinese because I want to be an international lawyer in China, "he explains. Young French entrepreneur Petrie Penia established his Beiyan Consultancy Company in Paris, and it now works together with China Central Television in introducing French traditions and culture to Chinese audiences. Patric also cooperated with Beijing's University of Finance and Economies and Central University of Finance and Economies in launching a three-week crash course in Chinese in Beijing. In 2005, he initiated the "Chinese people and business management" training course in Paris, which consists of seminars to help French businessmen understand how Chinese business operates.Germany has also caught on to the benefits of Chinese language learning, and has added Chinese to its high school graduation exams. Many international corporations also hold introductory Chinese courses for employee's assigned work in China. "English isn't enough," says Herr Gerck, president of Siemens China, "We need to equip our staff with the ability to deal with Chinese merchants in their own language."In Britain, a Chinese teaching program that will form. part of the national curriculum has been formulated and approved by the Department of Education and Skills. In the U. S. , Chinese is part of the Advance Placement Program for American high school students. This means that students can take college-level Chinese in the same way as they learn French, Spanish and German and gain credits if they get good test results. More than 2,500 primary and high schools now offer AP courses in the Chinese language.Cultural EchoesChinese characters, along with the Confucian philosophy, have always hadprofound influence on Hah cultural circles in Asia, and after a brief hiatus, Chinese language teaching is in demand once more in the Singapore, Japan and Vietnam."Singaporeans rushed to learn English in the 1970s, when it was believed to be the most useful language for the future. Now, in the 21st century, a lack of Chinese-speaking skills is seen as a disadvantage," says one Singaporean student, who recently graduated from Beijing University with a BA in international relations.The German ambassador to the ROK once told vice minister of Education Zhang Xinsheng: "Nowadays, high school teachers of German and French must also learn Chinese if they want to keep their jobs."In the ROK, a high HSK (Hanyu Shuiping Kaoshi -- the Chinese Language Proficiency TestA.YB.NC.NG17.The body at least cannot make for itself sufficient quantities of vitamins for normal nutrition and metabolism.A.YB.NC.NG18.PayPal and BidPay are special names for ______.A.money ordersB.cashier's checksC.personal checksD.electronic payment services19.The FTC's later reports show that the film and gaming industries have made some improvement while ______ has done almost nothing to improve.20.Some surgeons are reluctant to ______ to learn robotic techniques as it is too difficult to learn.二、3.Listening Comprehension(20题)21.(34)A.She won the first place.B.She won the second place.C.She won the third place.D.She won no medals at all.22.(29)A.It is awarded to the best film of the festival.B.It was introduced in 1959.C.It was introduced by a commercial organization.D.Only American directors have received this award.23.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 from 36 to 43 with the exact words you have just heard. For blanks numbered from 44 to 46 you 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 theWater projects in the United States gained a new principle in the 1930's. And during this time the nation suffered its worst economic depression and the Great Plains region suffered its worst (36)______ in recorded history. As the economy (37)______ into a deep depression and (38)______ rates increased, the political climate for direct federal government (39)______ in water projects improved. President Franklin Rooseveh's first 100 days in office brought a (40)______ of new laws to deal with the (41)______ economic depression.The natural pattern of the Tennessee River was (42)______ by large spring flows that produced (43)______ floods and low summer flows that inhibited navigation. (44)____________.To counter these natural obstacles, the Tennessee Valley Authority Act of 1933 created the Tennessee Valley Authority (TV A), a public agency with broad powers to promote development in the region, including the authority to build dams and reservoirs and to generate and sell hydroelectric power.(45)____________. The TV A inherited the Wilson Dam, and by the beginning of the Second World War it had completed six additional multipurpose dams with power plants and locks for navigation. Investments in dams and hydropower facilities within the Tennessee Valley also received high priority during the war. (46)____________. The NIRA also gave the United States President unprecedented powers to initiate public works, including water projects.24. 【B9】25.(21)A.The part in films.B.The part on the stage.C.The part on television.D.The part in advertisement.26.【B4】27.(30)A.The group rinsing(漱口) with carbohydrate drinks.B.The group rinsing with sugar-free water.C.The group swallowed carbohydrate drinks.D.The group swallowed sugar-free water.28.听力原文：Feeling stressed lately? Has the doctor said he cannot find anything wrong with you? Perhaps he sent you to a hospital, but all the fancy equipment there showed that there was nothing wrong with you.Then consider this: you might be in a state of sub-health.Sub-health, also called the third state or gray state, is defined as a borderline state between health and disease.According to an investigation by the National Health Organization, over 45 percent of sub-healthy people are middle-aged or elderly. The percentage is even higher among people who work in management positions as well as students around exam-time, due to their heightened exposure to stress.The key to preventing and recovering from sub-health, according to some medical experts, is to form. good living habits, alternate work with rest, exercise regularly, and take part in open air activities.As for meals, people are advised to eat less salt and sugar. They should eat more fresh vegetables, fruits, fish and aquatic products because they are rich in nutritional elements—vitamins and trace elements—that are indispensable to the body.Nutrition experts point out that it is not good to eat too much at one meal because it may cause unhealthy changes in the digestive tract. They also say that a balanced diet is very helpful in avoiding sub-health.(33)A.A state of being sick, but not very serious.B.A state of being healthy, but not very strong.C.A state between health and disease.D.A state of being recovered from stress.29.听力原文：M: My name is Bruce Jackson. I have a reservation of two nights here for a double room.W: I'm sorry, Mr. Jackson, but we didn't expect you any more today. You had planned to arrive at about 6 tonight, but it's midnight now, so your reservation was cancelled, and we have no rooms available now.Q: Can Mr. Jackson stay in this hotel?(14)A.No, all the rooms are booked up.B.Yes, because he reserved a double room.C.Yes, there are still some rooms available.D.No, because he made his reservation too late.30. 【B5】31.【B9】32.【B7】33.(26)A.Her parents will have the repeated plan to visit Gettysburg.B.Something unexpected will ruin her plan to visit Gettysburg.C.She can't finish the paper about Gettysburg as scheduled.D.The visit to Gettysburg may have little help to her paper.34.【B10】35.听力原文：W: Today, millions of us are now addicted to chat rooms, e-mail and just plain web surfing.M: Yes, it's no secret that we're into computers. And why not? On the Internet, we can catch up on news, plan vacations, pay bills and make friends. But for some, once they type their way onto the Internet, they just can't stop.W: Who do you think are getting hooked?M: Internet addiction can happen to anyone who's lonely. It includes two surprising groups: college students and homemakers.W: How does that happen?M: Away from their families, homesick and overwhelmed, many college students seek connections on the computer. And homemakers are prone to addiction too, if they're shy. Face-to-face talking can create anxiety. The chat room eliminates all that.W: But the more on-line connections vulnerable people make, the more they may neglect the connections they hold dear in real life.M: Yea. Apart from that, the Internet can also be harmful to them. In a recent study, 51 percent of men and 42 percent of women named the Internet as one of the reasons they're not getting enough sleep! And 68 percent of Internet addicts surveyed said their on-line usage was destroying their relationships. The person will retire to the computer at night instead of the bedroom, and form. cyberspace relationships with strangers instead of communicating with a spouse.W: It does make us worry. Do you have any suggestions for us?M: Well, there are steps to take to make sure your family doesn't get hooked, for example, you can put the computer in a common area like a living room where you can't spend hour after hour online. You can use a timer to limit on-line time. But I think the best way is to join a club. Anyone with balanced and face-to-face contact with others isn't likely to get hooked.(20)A.College professors.puter users.C.Lonely people.D.Internet surfers.36.(38)37. 【B3】38.(35)A.What chemicals tears are composed of.B.Whether crying really helps us feel better.C.Why some people tend to cry more often than others.D.How tears help people cope with emotional problems.39.【B5】40.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 from 36 to 43 with the exact words you have just heard. For blanks numbered from 44 to 46 you 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 theNo event has had such a【B1】______ effect in shaping the attitude of the Irish people towards the British as the Irish Famine. Looking back on the famine, the most【B2】______ fact was that it should ever have reached such【B3】______ . Although the potato crop failed there was plenty of food left in Ireland, and while thousands died some of it was being【B4】______ . Even if the local organizations for dealing with a 【B5】______ of such magnitude were completely inadequate, more positive and【B6】______ action by the British Government could have【B7】______ some of the worst effects. In the light of the large【B8】______ Government relief projects undertaken today, the supreme irony of all was that the richest nation in Europe should have allowed one of the poorest to starve on its doorstep.Yet the famine looked very different through nineteen-century eyes.【B9】______ in fact, were regarded as almost scared.【B10】______ .In the case of the Irish famine, it was argued, the Government had done all it could to help.This argument may or may not be valid; but a little more humanity shown by the Government could have done no harm,【B11】______ .The violent overthrow of the British rule was increasingly advocated, and hatred of Britain grew. Few Irish families had not been severely hit by the famine, and there were even fewer who did not lay the blame fairly and directly at Britain's door.【B1】三、4.Reading Comprehension (Reading in Depth)(20题)41.Words of praise keep changing because ______.A.they lose their freshnessB.there are more words available in this areaC.young people are becoming more discriminatingD.older people try to avoid the in-words of the young42.A controversy erupted in the scientific community in early 1998 over the use of DNA (deoxyribonucleic acid) fingerprinting in Criminal investigations. DNA fingerprinting was introduced in 1987 as a method to identify individuals based on a Pattern seen in their DNA, the molecule of which genes are made. DNA is present in every cell of the body except red blood cells. DNA fingerprinting has been used successfully in various ways, such as to determine paternity(父亲的身份) where it is not clear who is the father of, a particular child. However, it is in the area of criminal investigations that DNA fingerprinting has potentially powerful and controversial uses.DNA fingerprinting and other DNA analysis techniques have revolutionized criminal investigations by giving investigators powerful new tools in the attempt to prove guilt, not just establish innocence. When used in criminal investigations, a DNA fingerprint pattern from a suspect is compared with a DNA fingerprint pattern obtained from such material as hairs or blood found at the scene of a crime. A match between the two DNA samples can be used as evidence to convict a suspect.The controversy in 1998 stemmed from a report published in December 1991 by population geneticists Richard C. Lewontin of Harvard University inCambridge, Mass, and Daniel L. Hartl of Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, Mo. Lewontin and Hartl called into question the methods to calculate how likely it is that a match between two DNA fingerprints might occur by chance alone. In particular, they argued that the current method can- not properly determine the likelihood that two DNA samples will match because they came from the same individual rather than simply from two different individuals who are members of the same ethnic group. Lewontin and Hartl called for better surveys of DNA patterns.In response to their criticisms, population geneticists Ranajit Chakraborty of the University of Texas in Dallas and Kenneth K. Kidd of Yale University in New Haven, Conn., argued that enough data are already available to show that the methods currently being used are adequate. In January 1998, however, the Federal Bureau of investigation and laboratories that conduct DNA tests announced that they would collect additional DNA samples from various ethnic groups in an attempt to resolve some of these questions. And, in April, the National Academy of Sciences called for strict standards and system of accreditation(鉴定合格) for DNA testing laboratories.Before DNA fingerprinting is used, suspects ______.A.would have to leave their fingerprints for further investigationsB.could easily escape conviction of guiltC.would have to submit evidence for their innocenceD.could be convicted of guilt as well43.How did Yao react to O'Neil's comment?A.He attacked O'Neil violently.B.He ridiculed O'Neil before the reporter.C.He faced it with a sense of humor.D.He avoided to answer the reporter's question.44.What does the last sentence in the last paragraph imply?A.The proposal will not take effect for its limitation.B.The latest proposal may not be approved by the country's legal institutions.C.The businessmen question the reason for controlling greenhouse gases.D.The latest proposal is destined not to be passed by comment and review.45.One of the reasons why commercials are able to at, act viewer attention is that ______.A.the human voices in commercials have more auditory impactB.people like cheerful songs that change dramatically in sound qualityC.high-frequency sounds are used to mask sounds that drown out the primary messageD.they possess sound qualities that make the viewer feel that something unusual is happening46.【C7】47.Who play professional football in the United States?A.Native-born American citizens.B.Europeans.C.South Americans.D.Both B and C.48.Section BDirections: There are 2 passages in this section. Each passage is followed by some questions or unfinished statements. For each of them there are four choices marked A, B, C and D. You should decide on the best choice.One day in 1935 the management of Britian's Southern Railway (as it was then called) announced its intention to close the blanch line from Lynton to Barnstable in North Devon. The proposal was received by the local inhabitants with angry protest. For them, the tall-chimneyed locomotives and the little flower-bordered stations of Devon had become as much of an institution as the village church or tavern. Moreover, the line ran through the heart of a popular tourist district. What would the holidaymaker do without it? Closing down the railway line had been unthinkable, yet now some busybody official in remote London was threatening to destroy it with a stroke of the penMounting local opposition resulted in a meeting at Barnstable, where the crowd was joined by very vocal protestors from the other end of the line at Lynton. The meeting seemed to be going well for the railway supporters until the chairman politely inquired how many people from Lynton had traveled to Barnstable by train. Out of the embarrassed silence that followed emerged the painful truth that, to a man, those who had come from Lynton to fight for the railway had come by highway. The fact of the Lynton and Barnstable branch line was sealed.This sad little story is typical of the attitude of many Englishmen toward theirrailways. Dissatisfied with the age of sheet metal, plastics, and reinforced concrete in which we find ourselves, we long more and more for the substantial, self-confident, and respired products of the Victorian era. Of that age, Britain's railways are the most eloquent and enduring reminders.The passage suggests that the Southern Railway of Britain is now______.A.controlled by the local peopleB.in financial difficultC.under a different nameD.financially sound49.Section BDirections: There are 2 passages in this section. Each passage is followed by some questions or unfinished statements. For each of them there are four choices marked A, B, C and D. You should decide on the best choice. Imagine a world in which there was suddenly no emotion - a world in which human beings could feel no love or happiness, no terror or hate. Try to imagine the consequences of such a transformation. People might not be able to stay alive: knowing neither joy nor pleasure, anxiety nor fear, they would be as likely to repeat acts that hurt them as acts that were beneficial. They could not learn: they could not benefit from experience because this emotionless world would lack rewards and punishments. Society would soon disappear: people would be as likely to harm one another as to provide help and support. Human relationships would not exist: in a world without friends or enemies, there could be no marriage, affection among companions, or bonds among members of groups. Society's economic underpinnings(支柱) would be destroyed: since earning $10 million would be no more pleasant than earning $10, there would be no incentive to work. In fact, there would be no incentives of any kind. For s we will se, incentives imply a capacity to enjoy them.In such a world, the chances that the human species would survive are next to zero, because emotions are the basic instrument of our survival and adaptation. Emotions structure the world for us in important ways. As individuals, we Categorize objects on the basis of our emotions. True we consider the length, shape, size, or texture, but an object's physical aspects are less important than what it has done or can to us - hurt us, surprise us, anger us or make us joyful. We also use categorizations colored by emotions in our families, communities, and overall society. Out of our emotional experiences with objects and events comes a social feeling of agreement that certain things and actions are" good" and others are" bad", and we apply these categories to every aspect of our social life -from what foods we eat and what clothes we wear to how we keep promises and which people our group will accept, In fact, society exploits ouremotional reactions and attitudes, such as loyalty, morality, pride, shame, guilt, fear and greed, in order to maintain itself. It gives high rewards to individuals who perform. important tasks such as surgery, makes heroes out of individuals of uses the legal dangerous achievements such as flying fighter planes in a war, and uses the legal and penal (刑法的) system to make people afraid to engage in antisocial acts.The reason why people might not be able to stay alive in a world without emotion is that______.A.they would not be able to tell texture of objectsB.they would not know what was beneficial and what was harmful to themC.they would not be happy with a life without loveD.they would do things that hurt each other's feelings50. According to the passage, in the job market, workers born after 1980A.earn much more than their predecessorsB.have been affected by the economic downturnC.gain a competitive edge with good educationD.are undoubtedly ideal workers for the economy51. What suggestion does Sarah Jackson give on flexible working hours?A.Fathers should try to apply for the flexible working hours.B.Flexible work hours resolve the conflict between family and work.C.Employers grant flexible working hours to married women.D.Flexible work hours will make home inequalities worse.52.What makes the arrival at a new place an exciting experience for one while terrifying for another?53.Nowadays, more people mainly travel for______.54.【C8】55. The topic of fat is ______ many other taboo subjects.A.the same asB.different fromC.more popular thanD.less often talked about than56.Buck learned to survive in the arctic by ______.A.its primitive characterB.becoming the strongestC.the law of club and fangD.adapt itself to the cold arctic57.The house-owner's example shows that he actually means ______.A.the step has been like that for yearsB.he doesn't think it necessary to fix the stepC.the condition of the step is only a minor faultD.the cost involved in the fixing should be shared58.By saying that "Undersea cable, universal software, high-tech imagery, and Google have erased geography." (Para. 4), the author means that______. A.the development of information technology has made traveling around the world easierB.the development of technology has led the world to share the source of informationC.the information technology has promoted the cooperation between workers in various areasD.the information technology has enabled many jobs to be done anywhere59.Olestra is different from ordinary fats in that ______.A.it passes through the intestines without being absorbedB.it facilitates the absorption of vitamins by the bodyC.it helps reduce the incidence of heart diseaseD.it prevents excessive intake of vitamins60.According to Larson, to redress the traffic problem ______.A.car pooling must be studiedB.rapid mass transit systems must be introducedC.flexible work hours must be experimentedD.overall strategies must be coordinated四、5.Error Correction(5题)61.【S8】62.【S2】63.【S3】64.【S7】65.When some 19th New Yorkers said "Harlem", they meant almostall of Manhattan above 86th Street. Toward the end of the century, however, a group of citizens in upper Manhattan want, perhaps, to 【S1】______shape a closer and more precise sense of community designated asection that they wished to have known as Harlem. The chosen areawas the Harlem which Blacks were moving in the first decades of the 【S2】______new century as they left their old settlements on the middle and lower blocks of the West Side.As the community became predominantly Black, the very word "Harlem" seemed to lose its old mean. At times it was easy to forget 【S3】。

2022年12月大学英语六级真题第2套听力原文College English Test Band 6大学英语六级考试Part ⅡListening Comprehension第二部分听力理解Section A Directions: In this section, you will hear two long conversations.说明：在本节中，你将听到两篇长对话。

At the end of each conversation, you will hear four questions.在每一篇对话的最后，你将会听到四个问题。

Both the conversation and the questions will be spoken only once.对话和问题均播放一遍。

After you hear a question, you must choose the best answer from the four choices marked A, B, C and D.听到问题后，你需要从A、B、C和D四个选项中选出最佳答案。

Then mark the corresponding letter on Answer Sheet 1 with a single line through the centre.然后将相应的答案涂在答题卡1上。

Conversation One对话一M: Welcome to the Book Club. 男：欢迎来到《读书会》节目。

Today's guest is Susan Lane, the author of a new book on personal finances that has already sold half a million copies. 今天的嘉宾是苏珊·莱恩。

她所撰写的关于个人理财的新书已经售出50万册。