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1、大学英语六级考试真题大学英语六级考试真题(一一)Part Writing(30minutes)Directions: Suppose you are asked to give advice on whether to major in science orhumanities at college, write an essay to state your opinion. You are required to write atleast 150 words but no more than 200 words.Part Listening Comprehension(30minutes)

2、Section ADirections: In this section, you will hear two long conversations. At the end of eachconversation, you will hear four questions. Both the conversation and the questions will bespoken only once. After you hear a question, you must choose the best answer from thefour choices marked A), B), C)

3、 and D). Then mark the corresponding letter on AnswerSheet 1 with a single line through the centre.Questions 1 to 4 are based on the conversation you have just heard.1.A) Doing enjoyable work.B) Having friendly colleagues.C) Earning a competitive salary.D) Working for supportive bosses.2.A) 31%.B) 2

4、0%.C) 25%.D) 73%.3.A) Those of a small size.B) Those run by women.C) Those that are well managed.D) Those full of skilled workers.4.A) They can hop from job to job easily.B) They can win recognition of their work.C) They can better balance work and life.D) They can take on more than one job.Question

5、s 5 to 8 are based on the conversation you have just heard.5.A) It is a book of European history.B) It is an introduction to music.C) It is about the city of Bruges.D) It is a collection of photos.6.A) When painting the concert hall of Bruges.B) When vacationing in an Italian coastal city.C) When ta

6、king pictures for a concert catalogue.D) When writing about Belgiums coastal regions.7.A) The entire European coastline will be submerged.B) The rich heritage of Europe will be lost completely.C) The seawater of Europe will be seriously polluted.D) The major European scenic spots will disappear.8.A)

7、 Its waterways are being increasingly polluted.B) People cannot get around without using boats.C) It attracts large numbers of tourists from home and abroad.D) Tourists use wooden paths to reach their hotels in the morning.特别说明：特别说明：试卷内所有二维码请用星火英语 App 扫描。Section BDirections: In this section, you wil

8、l hear two passages. At the end of each passage, youwill hear three or four questions. Both the passage and the questions will be spoken onlyonce. After you hear a question, you must choose the best answer from the four choicesmarked A), B), C) and D). Then mark the corresponding letter on Answer Sh

9、eet 1 with asingle line through the centre.Questions 9 to 12 are based on the passage you have just heard.9.A) They make careful preparations beforehand.B) They take too many irrelevant factors into account.C) They spend too much time anticipating their defeat.D) They try hard to avoid getting off o

10、n the wrong foot.10. A) A persons nervous system is more complicated than imagined.B) Golfers usually have positive mental images of themselves.C) Mental images often interfere with athletes performance.D) Thinking has the same effect on the nervous system as doing.11. A) Anticipate possible problem

11、s.B) Make a list of dos and donts.C) Picture themselves succeeding.D) Try to appear more professional.12. A) She wore a designer dress.B) She won her first jury trial.C) She did not speak loud enough.D) She presented moving pictures.Questions 13 to 15 are based on the passage you have just heard.13.

12、 A) Its long-term effects are yet to be proved.B) Its health benefits have been overestimated.C) It helps people to avoid developing breast cancer.D) It enables patients with diabetes to recover sooner.14. A) It focused on their ways of life during young adulthood.B) It tracked their change in food

13、preferences for 20 years.C) It focused on their difference from men in fiber intake.D) It tracked their eating habits since their adolescence.15. A) Fiber may help to reduce hormones in the body.B) Fiber may bring more benefits to women than men.C) Fiber may improve the function of heart muscles.D)

14、Fiber may make blood circulation more smooth.Section CDirections: In this section, you will hear three recordings of lectures or talks followed bythree or four questions. The recordings will be played only once. After you hear a question,you must choose the best answer from the four choices marked A

15、), B), C) and D). Thenmark the corresponding letter on Answer Sheet 1 with a single line through the centre.Questions 16 to 18 are based on the recording you have just heard.16. A) Observing the changes in marketing.B) Conducting research on consumer behaviour.C) Studying the hazards of young people

16、 drinking.D) Investigating the impact of media on government.17. A) It is the cause of many street riots.B) It is getting worse year by year.C) It is a chief concern of parents.D) It is an act of socialising.18. A) They spent a week studying their own purchasing behaviour.B) They researched the impa

17、ct of mobile phones on young people.C) They analysed their family budgets over the years.D) They conducted a thorough research on advertising.Questions 19 to 22 are based on the recording you have just heard.19. A) It is helping its banks to improve efficiency.B) It is trying hard to do away with di

18、rty money.C) It is the first country to use credit cards in the world.D) It is likely to give up paper money in the near future.20. A) Whether it is possible to travel without carrying any physical currency.B) Whether it is possible to predict how much money one is going to spend.C) Whether the abse

19、nce of physical currency causes a person to spend more.D) Whether the absence of physical currency is going to affect everyday life.21. A) There was no food service on the train.B) The service on the train was not good.C) The restaurant car accepted cash only.D) The cash in her handbag was missing.2

20、2. A) By putting money into envelopes.B) By drawing money week by week.C) By limiting their day-to-day spending.D) By refusing to buy anything on credit.Questions 23 to 25 are based on the recording you have just heard.23. A) Population explosion.B) Chronic hunger.C) Extinction of rare species.D) En

21、vironmental deterioration.24. A) They contribute to overpopulation.B) About half of them are unintended.C) They have been brought under control.D) The majority of them tend to end halfway.25. A) It is essential to the wellbeing of all species on earth.B) It is becoming a subject of interdisciplinary

22、 research.C) It is neglected in many of the developing countries.D) It is beginning to attract postgraduates attention.Part Reading Comprehension(40minutes)Section ADirections: In this section, there is a passage with ten blanks. You are required to selectone word for each blank from a list of choic

23、es given in a word bank following the passage.Read the passage through carefully before making your choices. Each choice in the bankis identified by a letter. Please mark the corresponding letter for each item on AnswerSheet 2 with a single line through the centre. You may not use any of the words i

24、n thebank more than once.After becoming president of Purdue University in 2013, Mitch Daniels asked the faculty toprove that their students have actually achieved one of higher educations most importantgoals: critical thinking skills. Two years before, a nationwide study of college graduateshad show

25、n that more than a third had made no26gains in such mental abilitiesduring their school years. Mr. Daniels needed to27the high cost of attendingPurdue to its students and their families. After all, the percentage of Americans who say acollege degree is “very important has fallen28in the last 5-6 yea

26、rs.Purdue now has a pilot test to assess students critical thinking skills. Yet like manycollege teachers around the U.S., the faculty remain29that their work as educatorscan be measured by a “learning30” such as a graduates ability to investigate andreason. However, the professors need not worry so

27、 much. The results of a recentexperiment showed that professors can use31metrics to measure how wellstudents do in three key areas: critical thinking, written communication, and quantitativeliteracy.Despite the success of the experiment, the actual results are worrisome, and mostly32earlier studies.

28、 The organizers of the experiment concluded that far fewer students wereachieving at high levels on critical thinking than they were doing for written communicationor quantitative literacy. And that conclusion is based only on students nearing graduation.American universities, despite their global33

29、for excellence in teaching, have onlybegun to demonstrate what they can produce in real-world learning. Knowledge-baseddegrees are still important, but employers are34advanced thinking skills fromcollege graduates. If the intellectual worth of a college degree can be35measured,more people will seek

30、higher education and come out better thinkers.A) accuratelyF) justifyK) reputationB) confirmG) monopolizedL) significantC) demandingH) outcomeM) signifyD) doubtfulI) predominanceN) simultaneouslyE) drasticallyJ) presumingO) standardizedSection BDirections: In this section, you are going to read a pa

31、ssage with ten statements attachedto it. Each statement contains information given in one of the paragraphs. Identify theparagraph from which the information is derived. You may choose a paragraph more thanonce. Each paragraph is marked with a letter. Answer the questions by marking thecorresponding

32、 letter on Answer Sheet 2.The Price of Oil and the Price of CarbonA) Fossil fuel prices are likely to stay “low for long.” Notwithstanding important recentprogress in developing renewable fuel sources, low fossil fuel prices could discouragefurther innovation in, and adoption of, cleaner energy tech

33、nologies. The result would behigher emissions of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases.B) Policymakers should not allow low energy prices to derail the clean energy transition.Action to restore appropriate price incentives, notably through corrective carbon pricing, isurgently needed to lower th

34、e risk of irreversible and potentially devastating effects ofclimate change. That approach also offers fiscal benefits.C) Oil prices have dropped by over 60% since June 2014. A commonly held view in the oilindustry is that “the best cure for low oil prices is low oil prices.” The reasoning behind th

35、issaying is that low oil prices discourage investment in new production capacity, eventuallyshifting the oil supply curve backward and bringing prices back up as existing oilfieldswhich can be tapped at relatively low marginal costare depleted. In fact, in linewith past experience, capital expenditu

36、re in the oil sector has dropped sharply in manyproducing countries, including the United States. The dynamic adjustment to low oil pricesmay, however, be different this time around.D) Oil prices are expected to remain lower for longer. The advent of new technologies hasadded about 4.2 million barre

37、ls per day to the crude oil market, contributing to a globalover-supply. In addition, other factors are putting downward pressure on oil prices: changein the strategic behavior of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries, theprojected increase in Iranian exports, the scaling- down of global

38、 demand (especially fromemerging markets), the long-term drop in petroleum consumption in the United States,and some displacement of oil by substitutes. These likely persistent forces, like the growthof shale (页岩）oil, point to a “low for long scenario. Futures markets, which show only amodest recove

39、ry of prices to around $ 60 a barrel by 2019, support this view.E) Natural gas and coal also fossil fuelshave similarly seen price declines that look to belong-lived. Coal and natural gas are mainly used for electricity generation, whereas oil isused mostly to power transportation, yet the prices of

40、 all these energy sources are linked.The North American shale gas boom has resulted in record low prices there. The recentdiscovery of the giant Zohr gas field off the Egyptian coast will eventually have impact onpricing in the Mediterranean region and Europe, and there is significant developmentpot

41、ential in many other places, notably Argentina. Coal prices also are low, owing toover-supply and the scaling-down of demand, especially from China, which burns half ofthe worlds coal.F) Technological innovations have unleashed the power of renewables such as wind,hydro, solar, and geothermal (地热） .

42、 Even Africa and the Middle East, home to economiesthat are heavily dependent on fossil fuel exports, have enormous potential to developrenewables. For example, the United Arab Emirates has endorsed an ambitious target todraw 24% of its primary energy consumption from renewable sources by 2021.G) Pr

43、ogress in the development of renewables could be fragile, however, if fossil fuelprices remain low for long. Renewables account for only a small share of global primaryenergy consumption, which is still dominated by fossil fuels30% each for coal and oil,25% for natural gas. But renewable energy will

44、 have to displace fossil fuels to a muchgreater extent in the future to avoid unacceptable climate risks.H) Unfortunately, the current low prices for oil, gas, and coal may provide little incentive forresearch to find even cheaper substitutes for those fuels. There is strong evidence thatboth innova

45、tion and adoption of cleaner technology are strongly encouraged by higherfossil fuel prices. The same is true for new technologies for alleviating fossil fuelemissions.I) The current low fossil fuel price environment will thus certainly delay the energytransition from fossil fuel to clean energy sou

46、rces. Unless renewables become cheapenough that substantial carbon deposits are left underground for a very long time, if notforever, the planet will likely be exposed to potentially catastrophic climate risks.J) Some climate impacts may already be discernible. For example, the United NationsChildre

47、ns Fund estimates that some 11 million children in Africa face hunger, disease,and water shortages as a result of the strongest El Nio (厄尔尼诺）weather phenomenonin decades. Many scientists believe that El Nino events, caused by warming in the Pacific,are becoming more intense as a result of climate ch

48、ange.K) Nations from around the world have gathered in Paris for the United Nations ClimateChange Conference, COP 21, with the goal of a universal and potentially legally-bindingagreement on reducing greenhouse gas emissions. We need very broad participation tofully address the global tragedy that r

49、esults when countries fail to take into account thenegative impact of their carbon emissions on the rest of the world. Moreover,non-participation by nations, if sufficiently widespread, can undermine the political will ofparticipating countries to act.L) The nations participating at COP 21 are focus

50、ing on quantitative emissions-reductioncommitments. Economic reasoning shows that the least expensive way for each countryis to put a price on carbon emissions. The reason is that when carbon is priced, thoseemissions reductions that are least costly to implement will happen first. The International