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1、2020年7月六级考试试题全1套Part II Listening Comprehension(30 minutes)Section ADirections：In this section,you will hear two long conversations.At the end of each conversation,youwill hear four questions.Both the conversation and the questions will be spoken only once.After you hear a question,you must choose t

2、he best answer from the four choices markedA),B),C)and D).Then mark the corresponding letter on Answer Sheet 1 with asingle line through the centre.Questions 1 to 4 are based on the conversation you have just heard.1.A)She is a great athlete.C)She is a famous scientist.B)She is a famed speaker.D)She

3、 is a noted inventor.2.A)How knowledge of human biochemistry has been evolving.B)How nutrition helps athletes9 performance in competitions.C)How scientific training enables athletes to set new records.D)How technology has helped athletes to scale new heights.3.A)Our physical structures.C)Our biochem

4、ical process.B)Our scientific knowledge.D)Our concept of nutrition.4.A)It may increase the expenses of sports competitions.B)It may lead to athletes5 over-reliance on equipment.C)It may give an unfair advantage to some athletes.D)It may change the nature of sports competitions.Questions 5 to 8 are b

5、ased on the conversation you have just heard.5.A)Experience.C)Family background.B)Flexibility.D)Business connections.6.A)Buying directly from factories.B)Shipping goods in bulk by sea.C)Having partners in many parts of the world.D)Using the same container back and forth.7.A)Warehouses.C)Investors.B)

6、Factories.D)Retailers.第 1/1 3 页8.A)Trendy style.B)Unique design.C)Lower import duties.D)Lower shipping costs.Section BDirections：In.this section,you will hear two passages.At the end of each passage,you will hear threeor four questions.Both the passage and the questions will be spoken only once.Afte

7、r youhear a question,you must choose the best answer from the four choices marked A),B),C)and D).Then mark the corresponding letter on Answer Sheet 1 with a single linethrough the centre.Questions 9 to 11 are based on the passage you have just heard.9.A)It helps employees to reduce their stress.B)It

8、 prevents employees from feeling bored.C)It strengthens harmony among employees.D)It helps employees to view things positively.10.A)Weekends are conducive to reducing stress.B)Humor is vital to interpersonal relationships.C)All workers experience some emotional stress.D)Humor can help workers excel

9、at routine tasks.11.A)Smash the toys to release their bottled-up resentments.B)Take the boss doll apart as long as they reassemble it.C)Design and install stress-reducing gadgets.D)Strike at the boss doll as hard as they like.Questions 12 to 15 are based on the passage you have just heard.12.A)The r

10、ecent finding of a changed gene in obese mice.B)A breakthrough in understanding gene modification.C)A newly discovered way for people to lose weight.D)The self-repairing ability of a gene in obese mice.13.A)It renders an organism unable to fight diseases.B)It prevents the mices fatty tissues from gr

11、owing.C)It helps organisms adapt to environmental changes.D)It renders mice unable to sense when to stop eating.第 2/1 3 页14.A)Human beings have more obesity genes than most mice do.B)Half of a persons total weight variation can be controlled.C)People are bom with a tendency to have a certain weight.

12、D)The function of the obesity genes is yet to be explored.15.A)The worsening of natural environment.B)The abundant provision of rich foods.C)The accelerated pace of present-day life.D)The adverse impact of the food industry.Section CDirections：In this section,you will hear three recordings of lectur

13、es or talks fallowed by three or fourquestions.The recordings will be played only once.After you hear a question,you mustchoose the best answer from the four choices marked A),B),C)and O).Then mark thecorresponding letter on Answer Sheet 1 with a single line through the centre.Questions 16 to 18 are

14、 based on the recording you have just heard.16.A)Similarity m interests.B)Mental stimulation.C)Openness.D)Compassion.17.A)The willingness to offer timely help.B)The joy found in each othefs company.C)Personal bonds.D)Emotional factors.18.A)Failure to keep a promise.B)Lack of frankness.C)Feelings of

15、betrayal.D)Loss of contact.Questions 19 to 21 are based on the recording you have just heard.19.A)Along the low-lying Colorado River.B)At the Dinosaur National Monument.C)Along the border of the U.S.and Canada.D)At museums of natural history in large cities.20.A)Volcanic explosions could bring whole

16、 animal species to extinction.B)Some natural disaster killed a whole herd of dinosaurs in the area.C)The pit should be carefully preserved for the study of dinosaurs.D)The whole region must have been struck by a devastating flood.第 3/1 3 页21.A)They floated down an eastward flowing river.B)They lay b

17、uried deep in the sand for millions of years.C)They were skeletons of dinosaurs inhabiting the locality.D)They were remains of dinosaurs killed in a volcanic explosion.Questions 22 to 25 are based on the recording you have just heard.22.A)Indulging in seeking leisure and material comfort.B)Attaching

18、 too much importance to independence.C)Failing to care for parents in the traditional way.D)Leaving their parents on the verge of starvation.23.A)They have great difficulty living by themselves.B)They have little hope of getting any family care.C)They have fond memories of their good old days.D)They

19、 have a sense of independence and autonomy.24.A)People in many parts of the world preferred small-sized families.B)There have been extended families in most parts of the world.C)Many elderly people were unwilling to take care of their grandchildren.D)So many young Americans refused to live together

20、with their parents.25.A)Leave their younger generations alone.B)Avoid being a burden to their children.C)Stay healthy by engaging in joyful activities.D)View things from their children s perspective.Part III Reading Comprehension(40 minutes)Section ADirections：In this section,there is a passage with

21、 ten blanks.You are required to select one word fareach blank from a list of choices given in a word bank following the passage.Read thepassage through carefully before making your choices.Each choice in the bank is identifiedby a letter.Please mark the corresponding letter for each item on Answer S

22、heet 2 with asingle line through the centre.You may not use any of the words in the bank more thanonce.The United Nations issued a report last week warning that humans are destroying nature at sucha rate that life on Earth is at risk.When the report came out,it naturally 2 6 headlines.Butobviously i

23、t didnt hijack the news agenda in the manner of a major terrorist attack or 27 of war.第 4/1 3 页The report from the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and EcosystemServices(IPBES)is clear on whafs at 28 and what needs to change.IPBES chair Robert Watsonsays the 29 evidencen pre

24、sents an“ominous(凶 兆 的)picture”.The health of ecosystems onwhich we and all other species depend is 30 more rapidly than ever,“Robert Watson said.uWeare 31 the very foundations of our economies,livelihoods,food security,health and quality oflife worldwide.,The report says ifs not too late if we make

25、 u transformative changeMfundamental,system-wide reorganizationat every level from local to global,and we need to focus on how tomake that happen.First,dont indulge in despair,because despair leads to inertia and doing nothing means certain32.Every action to save nature will improve our collective a

26、nd personal futures and the onlyway to respond to a threat of this scale is with 33 action rooted in headstrong optimism.Second,we need relentless focus,just like when paramedics(救护人员)arrive on a scene and use the conceptof utriage(伤员鉴别分类)to ensure the most 34 cases get treated first.Saving the natu

27、ralworld needs that kind of thinking.We dont have the 35 to do everything at once.We need tomake hard choices.A)capacityB)declarationC)deterioratingD)determinedI)junctionJ)monotonousK)overwhelmingL)stagnationE)disasterM)stakeF)erodingN)stifledG)grabbed0)urgentH)inventorySection BDirections：In this s

28、ection,you are going to read a passage with ten statements attached to it.Eachstatement contains information given in one of the paragraphs.Identify the paragraph fromwhich the information is derived.You may choose a paragraph more than once.Eachparagraph is marked with a letter.Answer the questions

29、 by marking the corresponding letteron Answer Sheet 2.Children Understand Far More About Other Minds Than Long BelievedA)Until a few decades ago,scholars believed that young children know very little,if anything,aboutwhat others are thinking.Swiss psychologist Jean Piaget,who is credited with foundi

30、ng thescientific study of childrens thinking,was convinced that preschool children cannot consider whatgoes on in the minds of others.The interviews and experiments he conducted with kids in themiddle of the 20th century suggested that they were trapped in their subjective viewpoints,第5/1 3页incapabl

31、e of imagining what others think,feel or believe.B)Much of the subsequent research on early childhood thinking was highly influenced by Piagefsideas.Scholars sought to refine his theory and empirically confirm his views.But it becameincreasingly clear that Piaget seemed to have gravely underestimate

32、d the intellectual powers ofvery young kids before they can make themselves understood by speech.Researchers began todevise ever more ingenious ways of figuring out what goes on in the minds of babies,and theresulting picture of their abilities shows subtle variations.Consequently,the old view of ch

33、ildrensegocentric(自我中心的)nature and intellectual weaknesses has increasingly fallen out of favorand become replaced by a more generous position that sees a budding sense not only of thephysical world but also of other minds,even in the u youngest young.,C)Historically,children didnt receive much resp

34、ect for their mental powers.Piaget not only believedthat children were u egocentricw in the sense that they were unable to differentiate between theirown viewpoint and that of others;he was also convinced that their thinking was characterized bysystematic errors and confusions.When playing with othe

35、rs,they dont cooperate because they donot realize there are different roles and perspectives.He was convinced that children literallycannot“get their act togetherv:instead of playing cooperatively and truly together,they play sideby side,with little regard for others.And when speaking with others,a

36、young child supposedlycannot consider the listeners viewpoint but talks to himself without listening to others.”D)Piaget and his followers maintained that children go through something like a dark age ofintellectual development before slowly and gradually becoming enlightened by reason andrationalit

37、y as they reach school age.Alongside this enlightenment develops an ever growingunderstanding of other persons,including their attitudes and views of the world.E)Today,a very different picture of childrens mental development emerges.Psychologistscontinually reveal new insights into the depth of youn

38、g childrens knowledge of the world,including their understanding of other minds.Recent studies suggest that even infants aresensitive to others9 perspectives and beliefs.F)Part of the motivation to revise some of Piagefs conclusions stemmed from an ideological shiftabout the origin of human knowledg

39、e that occurred in the second half of the 20th century.Itbecame increasingly unpopular to assume that a basic understanding of the world can be builtentirely from experience.This was in part prompted by theorist Noam Chomsky,who argued thatsomething as complex as the rules of grammar cannot be picke

40、d up from exposure to speech,butis supplied by an inborn u language faculty.,Others followed suit and defined further u core areas”in which knowledge allegedly cannot be pieced together from experience but must be possessed atbirth.One such area is our knowledge of others9 minds.Some even argue that

41、 a basic knowledgeof others9 minds is not only possessed by human infants,but must be evolutionarily old and hence第 6/1 3 页shared by our nearest living relatives,the great apes.G)To prove that infants know more in this realm than had been acknowledged,researchers needed tocome up with innovative way

42、s of showing it.A big part of why we now recognize so much moreof kids intellectual capacities is the development of much more sensitive research tools thanPiaget had at his disposal.H)Instead of engaging babies in dialog or having them execute complex motor tasks,the newermethods capitalize on beha

43、viors that have a firm place in infants9 natural behavior repertoire:looking,listening,sucking,making facial expressions,gestures and simple manual actions.Theidea of focusing on these u small behaviorsis that they give kids the chance to demonstrate theirknowledge implicitly and spontaneously witho

44、ut having to respond to questions or instructions.For example,children might look longer at an event that they did not expect to happen,or theymight show facial expressions indicating that they have sympathetic concern for others.Whenresearchers measure these less demanding,and often involuntary,beh

45、aviors,they can detect asensitivity to others,mental states at a much younger age than with the more taxing methods thatPiaget and his followers deployed.I)In the 1980s,these kinds of implicit measures became customary in developmental psychology.Butit took a while longer before these tools were emp

46、loyed to measure childrens grasp of the mentallives of others.J)In a set of experiments,my colleagues at the University of Southern California and I foundevidence that babies can even anticipate how others will feel when their expectations aredisappointed.We acted out several puppet(木偶)shows in fron

47、t of two-year-old children.In thesepuppet shows,a protagonist(Cookie Monster)left his precious belongings(cookies)on stage andlater returned to fetch them.What the protagonist did not know was that an antagonist had comeand messed with his possessions.The children had witnessed these acts and attent

48、ively watched theprotagonist return.We recorded childrens facial and bodily expressions.Children bit their lips,wrinkled their nose or wiggled(扭动)in their chair when the protagonist came back,as if theyanticipated the bewilderment and disappointment he was about to experience.Importantly,childrensho

49、wed no such reactions and remained calm when the protagonist had seen the events himself andthus knew what to expect.Our study reveals that by the tender age of two,kids not only trackwhat others believe or expect;they can even foresee how others will feel when they discoverreality.K)Studies like th

50、is reveal that there is much more going on in small kids9 and even infants5 mindsthan was previously believed.With the explicit measures used by Piaget and successors,thesedeeper layers of kids9 understanding cannot be accessed.The new investigative tools demonstratethat kids know more than they can