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1、 高校英语六级考试精解真题全解Part I Listening Comprehension (20 minutes) Section A Directions: In this section,you will hear 10 short conversations. At the end of each conversaiton, a question will be asked about what was said. Both the conversation and the question will be spoken only once.After each question th

2、ere will be a pause. During the pause, you must read the four choices marked A,B,C and D, and decide which is the best answer. Then mark the corresponding letter on the Answer Sheet with a single line through the centre. 1 W：Im trying to find how the dishwasher works. The manual is in French. I cant

3、 wait for Bill to translate it for me M：Dont worry，Mary. I can do the dishes before the machine starts to work Q: What does the man mean? A. He will tell Mary how to operate the dishwasher. B. He will wash the dishes himself instead. C. He will help Bill to translate the manual. D. He himself will o

4、perate the dishwasher. BestAnswer: B 详解：答案B)。信息明示。男士说在洗碗机可以运用之前他来洗碗，故选B)。2 M：The doctor said if I kept smoking I would increase my chances of having a heart attack W：Did he suggest reducing weight，too? Q: What does the woman think the man should also do? A. Lose weight. B. Quit smoking. C. Weigh him

5、self frequently. D. Have a talk with the doctor. BestAnswer: A 详解：答案A）。推断题。男士说：医生说假如我接着吸烟会增加得心脏病的可能。女士问了一句：他还建议你减肥吗？这也实际是女士的观点，故选A）。3 W：The people next door are making so much noise. I just cant concentrate on. M：Why didnt you stay at the library? Its much quieter there. Q：What does the man mean? A.

6、 The woman should have complained to her neighbor. B. The woman should stay out until the neighbors are quiet. C. The woman should have stayed at the library. D. The lab will be a better place for reading. BestAnswer: C 详解：答案C)。信息明示。女士说隔壁的人噪声太大，她无法集中留意力。男士说：你为什么不去图书馆？那里宁静多了。故C)为正确答案。4 M：This is hope

7、less. These figures still dont add up rightLets do the calculations over again. W：Yes，but why not do them tomorrow? Its very late now. Q：What does the woman suggest they do? A. Check the figures later today. B. Do the calculations again tomorrow. C. Bring a calculator tomorrow. D. Calculate the numb

8、er right now. BestAnswer: B 详解：答案B)。信息明示。男士说这些数字加得不对，建议再算一遍。女士说：何不明天再做呢，如今太晚了。故选B）。5 M：To collect data for my report，I need to talk to someone who knows that small city very wellI was told that you lived there for quite a long time. W：Oh，I wish I could helpBut I was only a child then. Q：What does th

9、e woman imply? A. She doesnt remember much about the city. B. Shes never been to the city. C. She would find someone else to help. D. She would talk to the man later. BestAnswer: A 详解：答案A）。推断题。男士说为了搜集报告的资料，须要跟特别理解这个小城的人谈谈，而他还听说女士在那里生活了很长时间。女士说：我盼望我能帮上忙。但那时我还是个孩子。女士的言外之意是她对小城已记不得多少了，故选A）。6 M：Are you

10、moving into a new house? Need a hand for those boxes? W：Thats O.KI can manageThey look big but they arent heavy actually. Q：What does the woman mean? A. She thinks the man should have helped earlier. B. She doesnt need the mans help. C. She doesnt know the boxes are heavy. D. She wants the man to he

11、lp with the boxes. BestAnswer: B 详解：答案B)。综合理解题。男士问女士在搬家时是否须要扶植搬那些箱子。女士说：我能行。这些箱子事实上并不重。可见，她并不须要男士的扶植，故选B)。7 M: Its good you brought the books back. W：I thought you might need them at the weekendThanks for letting me use them Q：What do we know about the woman from the conversation? A. She let the man

12、 use her books for the weekend. B. She brought the books the man asked for. C. She borrowed the books from the man. D. She offered to help the man. BestAnswer: C 详解：答案 C)。信息明示。女士说：我想你在周末可能会须要这些书。谢谢你让我用这些书。所以，女士是从男士那儿借了这些书，故选C）。 8 M：Do you want to turn on the air-conditioner or open the windows? W：I

13、love fresh air，if you dont mind Q: What can be inferred from the womans answer? A. Shed like to have the windows open. B. She likes to have the air conditioner on. C. The air is heavily polluted. D. The windows are already open. BestAnswer: A 详解：答案A）。推断题。男士问女士是想开空调还是翻开窗子。女士说她喜爱簇新空气。言外之意是她想翻开窗子，故选 A）

14、。9 W：Hi，MichaelI can hardly recognize youWhy are you so dressed up today? Are you going to the theatre? M：No，actually，I just had an interview at a photo studio this morning. Q: What do we learn about Michael from this conversation? A. Hes going to visit a photo studio. B. Hes just had his picture ta

15、ken. C. Hes on the way to the theater. D. Hes just returned from a job interview. BestAnswer: D 详解：答案D)。信息明示。男士说他今日上午刚去摄影工作室进展了面试,D)及题意相符。10 M：Good morning，what can I do for you? W: Id like to have my emergency brake fixedThe car rolls when I park it on the hill Q：Where does the conversation most pr

16、obably take place? A. At a gas station. B. In a park. C. In an emergency room. D. At a garage. BestAnswer: D 详解：答案D）。推断题。女士说得让男士修理一下她的紧急刹车。车子停在山上时自己就滑动。另外依据男士的职业用语我们可知对话应是在修理厂进展的，故选D)。Section B Directions: In this section, you will hear 3 short passages. At the end of each passage, you will hear som

17、e questions. Both the passage and the questions will be spoken only once. After you hear a question, you must choose the best answer from the four choices marked A,B,C and D. Then mark the corresponding letter on the Answer Sheet with a single line through the centre. Passage A Last August Susan and

18、 42 other students got wet and dirty while removing 6 tons of garbage from the river running across their city. They cleaned up the river as a part of a week-long environmental campLike one in three American rivers，this river is so polluted that it is unsafe for swimming and fishing. Still，Susan，who

19、 has just completed her third summer on the river clean-up，has seen the change in this river. “Since we started three years ago，the river is getting a lot cleaner，”she says. Environmental scientists praised the teenagers for removing garbage that can harm wildlife. Water-birds，for example，can choke

20、on plastic bottle rings and get cut by scrap metalThree years ago，when the clean-up started，garbage was everywhereBut this year the teenagers had to hunt for garbageThey turned the clean-up into a competition to see who could find the most garbage，and unload their boats fastest By the end of the six

21、-hour shift，they had removed enough garbage to fill more than two large trucks.“Seeing all that garbage in the river makes people begin to care about the environmental issues，”Susan says. She hopes that when others read that she and her pees care enough to clean it up，maybe they will think twice bef

22、ore they throw garbage in the river. 11.What does the passage tell us about American rives? A. One sixth of them are seriously polluted. B. One third of them are seriously polluted. C. Half of them are seriously polluted. D. Most of them are seriously polluted. BestAnswer: B 详解： 答案B)。此题测试学生答复细微环节题的实

23、力。美国三分之一的河流受到严峻污染，故选B)。12.What did the students find when they came to the river this year? A. There was no garbage left to clean up. B. There was more garbage than before and they had to work harder. C. The river had become so clean that a lot of water-birds came back. D. The river was much cleaner

24、 and they had to search for garbage. BestAnswer: D 详解： 答案D）。此题主要测试学生抓住文中重要事实的实力。原文提到,“但今年他们得去找寻垃圾了。”原文中的hunt for对应选项 D）中的search for。13.What is the expected reaction of the local people to the students efforts? A. Most of them would be indifferent and keep on throwing garbage into the river. B. They

25、would join the students in changing the situation. C. They would become more aware of the pollution problem. D. They would think twice before they went swimming or fishing in the river. BestAnswer: B 详解： 答案B)。推断题。或许人们在向河里扔垃圾时会三思，由此可见，通过学生们的努力，人们会更清晰地意识到污染问题，并做出努力，故选B)。Passage B Why do we cry? Can yo

26、u imagine life without tears? Not only do tears keep your eyes lubricated，they also contain a substance that kills certain bacteria，so they cant infect your eyesGive up your tears and you lose this on-the-spot defenseNor would you want to give up the flood of actual tears you produceWhen you get som

27、ething physical or chemical in your eyes，tears are verygood at washing this irritating stuff outAnother thing you couldnt do without your tears is cry from joy, anger or sadnessHumans are the only animals that produce tears in respond to emotions. And most people say a good cry makes them feel bette

28、r: Many scientists therefore believe that crying somehow helps them cope with emotional situations. Tear researcher William Free is trying to figure out how it happens“One possibility，”he says，“is that tears discharge certain chemicals from your body，chemicals that build up during stress.” “When peo

29、ple talk about crying it out，I think that may actually be what theyre doing，”he saysIf Free is right，what do you think will happen to people who restrain their tears? Boys，for example，cry only about a quarter as often as girls once they reach their teenages. And we all cry a lot less now than we did

30、 as babies. Could it possibly be that we face less stress? Maybe we found other ways to deal with it or maybe we just feel embarrassed 14.Whats the topic discussed in this passage? A. Why people hold back their tears. B. Why people cry. C. How to restrain ones tears. D. How tears are produced. BestA

31、nswer: B 详解： 答案B。本题考察考生抓住主题的实力。文章一开场就开宗明义“Why do we cry?”整篇文章都是对这一问题的答复，故选B。15.What is William Free trying to find out? 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 em

32、otional problems. BestAnswer: D 详解： 答案D）。综合理解题。很多科学家因此认为哭在肯定程度上有助于人们解决感情问题。眼泪探讨专家William Free正试图弄明白哭是怎样做到这一点的，故选D）。16.What does the passage say about teenage boys and girls? A. Only one out of four girls cries less often than boys B. Of four boys, only one cries very often. C. Girls cry four times a

33、s often as boys. D. Only one out of four babies doesnt cry often. BestAnswer: C 详解： 答案C。细微环节题。只有四分之一的少年男孩像女孩子一样常常哭泣，故选C)。17.Whats the difference between human beings and other animals when shedding tears? A. Only humans respond to emotions by shedding tears. B. Only humans shed tears to get rid of i

34、rritating stuff in their eyes. C. Only human tears can resist the invading bacteria. D. Only human tears can discharge certain chemicals. BestAnswer: A 详解： 答案A。细微环节题。人类是惟一通过流泪而对感情做出反响的动物，故A为正确答案。Passage C Imagine this：you wake up each morning to find your sister lying beside youTo get dressed and ti

35、e your shoes，you use one hand and she uses anotherYou do everything out together too，even sitting on the same chair at lunch and riding on the same bicycle. Thats what life is like for six-year-old Betty and Abbeys. Like most twins the two girls look very much alike. But unlike most twins，Betty and

36、Abbeys share parts of the same body. Twins like Betty and Abbeys are rareOnly about 40 sets are born in the U. S. each yearFew survive as long as Betty and Abbeys. Thats because twins often share vital organs，like a heart or brain. Their shared organs are often badly shaped and may not be 第 5 页 共 20

37、 页strong enough to support both twins. But Betty and Abbeys each has her own head，heart and stomach which function normally. The girls share three or four lungs which provide plenty of oxygen for both twins. Most of their completely shared organs lie below the waist. Betty and Abbeys live relatively

38、 normal lives. They attend a regular school and each does her own school workThey prefer to do some projects together，thoughFor example，to cut out .paper dolls，one twin holds the paper while the other uses the scissors. And sometimes the girls dont wart to do the same thing. For example，sometimes th

39、ey want to play with their different toysWhat do they do then? “We toss a coin，” says Abbeys. 18.In what aspect do Betty and Abbeys differ from most twins? A. They make decisions by tossing coins. B. They are not physically separated. C. They think exactly the same way. D. They share most of their v

40、ital organs. BestAnswer: B 详解： 答案B)。本题考察考生抓住主要事实的实力。由Betty and Abbeys share parts of the same body.可知Betty和Abbeys为连体双胞胎，故B)为正确答案。19.What does the passage tell us about twins who share parts of the same body? A. Few of them can live long. B. Few of them get along well with each other. C. Most of them

41、 live a normal life. D. Most of them differ in their likes and dislikes. BestAnswer: A 详解： 答案A）。本题考察考生记住细微环节的实力。没有几对连体双胞胎能活到Betty和Abbeys这样大。故选A)。20.What does the passage say about the education of the twin girls? A. They go to a regular school. B. They attend a special school. C. They are taught by

42、their parents. D. They have a private tutor. BestAnswer: A 详解： 答案 A)。细微环节题。Betty和Abbeys上的是一所正规学校，故选A)。Part II Reading Comprehension (35 minutes) Directions: There are 4 passages in this part. Each passage is followed by some questions or unfinished statements. For each of them there are four choices

43、 marked A, B,C and D. You should decide on the best choice and mark the corresponding letter on the Answer Sheet with a single line through the centre. Passage A Our culture has caused most Americans to assume not only that our language is universal but that the gestures we use are understood by eve

44、ryone. We do not realize that waving good-bye is the way to summon a person from the Philippines to ones side, or that in Italy and some Latin American countries, curling the finger to oneself is a sign of farewell. Those private citizens who sent packages to our troops occupying Germany after World

45、 War II and marked them GIFT to escape duty payments did not bother to find out that “Gift” means poison in German. Moreover, we like to think of ourselves as friendly, yet we prefer to be at least 3 feet or an arms length away from others. Latins and Middle Easterners like to come closer and touch,

46、 which makes Americans uncomfortable. Our linguistic (语言上的) and cultural blindness and the casualness with which we take notice of the developed tastes, gestures, customs and languages of other countries, are losing us friends, business and respect in the world. Even here in the United States, we ma

47、ke few concessions to the needs of foreign visitors. There are no information signs in four languages on our public buildings or monuments; we do not have multilingual (多语的) guided tours. Very few restaurant menus have translations, and multilingual waiters, bank clerks and policemen are rare. Our t

48、ransportation systems have maps in English only and often we ourselves have difficulty understanding them. When we go abroad, we tend to cluster in hotels and restaurants where English is spoken. The attitudes and information we pick up are conditioned by those nativesusually the richerwho speak English. Our business dealings, as well as the nations diplomacy, are conducted through interpreters. For