2015年06月六级真题（第3套）.docx

大学英语六级考试2015年6月真题(第三套) Part I Writing (30 minutes) Directions: For this part, you are allowed 30 minutes to write an essay commenting on the saying“If you cannot do great things, do small things in a great way."You can cite examples to illustrate your point of view.You should write at least 150 words but no more than 200 words. Part Ⅱ Listening Comprehension (30 minutes) Section A Directions: In this section, you will hear two long conversations. At the end of each conversation, you will hear four questions. Both the conversation and the questions will be spoken only once. After you hear a question, you must choose the best answer from the four choices marked A),B), C) and D).Then mark the corresponding letter on Answer Sheet 1 with a single line through the centre. Conversation One Questions 1 to 4 are based on the conversation you have just heard. 1. A) It is well paid. C) It is demanding. B) It is stimulating. D) It is fairly secure. 2. A) A quick promotion. C) Moving expenses. B) Free accommodation. D) A lighter workload. 3. A) He has difficulty communicating with local people. B) He has to spend a lot more traveling back and forth. C) He has trouble adapting to the local weather. D) He has to sign a long-term contract. 4. A) The woman will help the man make a choice. B) The man is going to attend a job interview. C) The man is in the process of job hunting. D) The woman sympathizes with the man. Conversation Two Questions 5 to 8 are based on the conversation you have just heard. 5. A) To inquire about the interest rates at the woman’s bank. B) To inquire about the current financial market situation. C) To see if he can find a job in the woman’s company. D) To see if he can get a loan from the woman’s bank. 6. A) There is no difference between rate and yield. B) The man has a good understanding of rate and yield. C) The rate is the percentage of simple interest paid on the money. D) The yield is only influenced by the amount of money. 7. A) Long-term investment. C) Any high-interest deposit. B) A three-month deposit. D) Any high-yield investment. 8. A) She treated him to a meal. C) She offered him dining coupons. B) She gave him loans at low rates. D) She raised interest rates for him. Section B Directions: In this section, you will hear two passages. At the end of each passage, you will hear three or four questions. Both the passage and the questions will be spoken only once.After you hear a question, you must choose the best answer from the four choices marked A),B),C) and D).Then mark the corresponding letter on Answer Sheet 1 with a single line through the centre. Passage One Questions 9 to 12 are based on the passage you have just heard. 9. A) It is a Portuguese company selling coffee in New York. B) Its most important task is to conduct coffee studies. C) It represents several countries that export coffee. D) Its role is to regulate international coffee prices. 10. A) The freezing weather in Brazil. C) The increased coffee consumption. B) The impact of global warming. D) The fluctuation of coffee prices. 11. A) He is doing a bachelor’s degree. C) He is a heavy coffee drinker. B) He is young, handsome and single. D) He is tall, rich and intelligent. 12. A) A visit to several coffee-growing plantations. B) Coffee prices and his advertising campaign. C) A vacation on some beautiful tropical beach. D) A quick promotion and a handsome income. Passage Two Questions 13 to 15 are based on the passage you have just heard. 13. A) They were held up in a traffic jam. B) They boarded a wrong coach in a hurry. C) They were late for the first morning bus. D) They were delayed by the train for hours. 14. A) It was canceled because of an unexpected strike. C) It was spoiled by poor accommodations. B) It was the most exciting trip they ever had. D) It was postponed due to terrible weather. 15. A) Go overseas. C) Take romantic cruises. B) Stay at home. D) Take escorted trips. Section C Directions: In this section, you will hear three recordings of lectures or talks followed by three 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),B), C) and D).Then mark the corresponding letter on Answer Sheet 1 with a single line through the centre. Questions 16 to 19 are based on the recording you have just heard. 16. A) Their extraordinary intelligence. C) The way they communicate. B) The special bones in their fins. D) The way they get water. 17. A) They love to keep them as pets just like cats and dogs. B ) They love them but cannot live with them. C) They can find many stores selling such souvenirs. D) They believe such souvenirs can bring good luck. 18. A) They made them swim around their ships. B) They painted their images on some items. C) They hunted them in great numbers. D) They trained them to perform tricks. 19. A)They are hunted in many places except Japan. B) They have been protected thanks to literature and film. C) They have adapted to the life in captivity. D) They are losing their habitat and clean sea. Questions 20 to 22 are based on the recording you have just heard. 20. A) It won’t have any side-effect. B) It can kill drug-resistant tumours. C) It can be as effective as conventional treatments. D) It can stop cancer cells from spreading in the body. 21. A) How to find a way to deliver viruses to tumours effectively. B) How to inject viruses directly into tumours. C) How to allow viruses to do what chemotherapy drugs do. D) How to strengthen the body’s immune system. 22. A) To use it to cure 75% of the patients with malignant cancers. B) To make it accepted by the patients with incurable cancers. C) To apply it to those with secondary cancers. D) To apply it to treat all kinds of cancers. Questions 23 to 25 are based on the recording you have just heard. 23. A) It allows users of some Kindle devices to borrow books from local libraries. B) It has benefited more than eleven thousand local libraries in the US. C) It has led to a debate between publishers and libraries over e-book lending. D) It aims at allowing everyone to read books anytime they like. 24. A) They can purchase any kind of media product. B)They can lend books to readers repeatedly. C)They can deal with digital products as they like. D) They can limit the time the readers keep a certain book. 25. A) By allowing libraries to purchase e-books for lending in perpetuity. B)By adopting the technology known as digital rights management. C) By requiring libraries to purchase more of its e-book. D) By persuading the critics to support the publishers. Part Ⅲ Reading Comprehension (40minutes) Section A Directions: In this section, there is a passage with ten blanks. You are required to select one word for each blank from a list of choices given in a word bank following the passage. Read the passage through carefully before making your choices. Each choice in the bank is identified by a letter. Please mark the corresponding letter for each item on Answer Sheet 2 with a single line through the centre. You may not use any of the words in the bank more than once. Questions 26 to 35 are based on the following passage. Travel websites have been around since the 1990s, when Expedia, Travelocity, and other holiday booking sites were launched, allowing travelers to compare flight and hotel prices with the click of a mouse. With information no longer__26__by travel agents or hidden in business networks, the travel industry was revolutionized, as greater transparency helped __27__ prices. Today, the industry is going through a new revolution—this time transforming service quality. Online rating platforms— __28__ in hotels, restaurants, apartments, and taxis—allow travelers to exchange reviews and experiences for all to see. Hospitality businesses are now ranked, analyzed, and compared not by industry __29__, but by the very people for whom the service is intended—the customer. This has __30__ a new relationship between buyer and seller. Customers have always voted with their feet; they can now explain their decision to anyone who is interested. As a result, businesses are much more __31__, often in very specific ways, which creates powerful __32__ to improve service. Although some readers might not care for gossipy reports of unfriendly bellboys（行李员)in Berlin or malfunctioning hotel hairdryers in Houston, the true power of online reviews lies not just in the individual stories, but in the websites’ __33__ to aggregate a large volume of ratings. The impact cannot be __34__. Businesses that attract top ratings can enjoy rapid growth, as new customers are attracted by good reviews and __35__ provide yet more positive feedback. So great is the influence of online ratings that many companies now hire digital reputation managers to ensure a favorable online identity. K) professionals L) slash M) specializing N) spectators O) subsequently A) accountable B) capacity C) controlled D) entail E) forged F) incentives G) occasionally H) overstated I) persisting J) pessimistic Section B Directions: In this section, you are going to read a passage with ten statements attached to it. Each statement contains information given in one of the paragraphs. Identify the paragraph from which the information is derived. You may choose a paragraph more than once. Each paragraph is marked with a letter . Answer the questions by marking the corresponding letter on Answer Sheet 2. Plastic Surgery A better credit card is the solution to ever larger hack attacks. [A] A thin magnetic stripe (magstripe) is all that stands between your credit-card information and the bad guys. And they’ve been working hard to break in. That’s why 2014 is shaping up as a major showdown: banks, law enforcement and technology companies are all trying to stop a network of hackers who are succeeding in stealing account numbers, names, email addresses and other crucial data used in identity theft. More than 100 million accounts at Target, Neiman Marcus and Michaels stores were affected in some way during the most recent attacks, starting last November. [B] Swipe（刷卡）is the operative word: cards are increasingly vulnerable to attacks when you make purchases in a store. In several recent incidents, hackers have been able to obtain massive information of credit-debit-(借记)or prepaid-card numbers using malware, i.e. malicious software, inserted secretly into the retailers’ point-of-sale system—the checkout registers. Hackers then sold the data to a second group of criminals operating in shadowy corners of the web. Not long after, the stolen data was showing up on fake cards and being used for online purchases. [C] The solution could cost as little as $2 extra for every piece of plastic issued. The fix is a security technology used heavily outside the U.S. While American credit cards use the 40-year-old magstripe technology to process transactions, much of the rest of the world uses smarter cards with a technology called EMV (short for Europay, MasterCard, Visa) that employs a chip embedded in the card plus a customer PIN (personal identification number) to authenticate（验证）every transaction on the spot. If a purchaser fails to punch in the correct PIN at the checkout, the transaction gets rejected. (Online purchases can be made by setting up a separate transaction code. [D] Why haven’t big banks adopted the more secure technology? When it comes to mailing out new credit cards, it’s all about relative costs, says David Robertson, who runs the Nilson Report, an industry newsletter. “The cost of the card, putting the sticker on it, coding the account number and expiration date, embossing（凸印）it, the small envelope—all put together, you’re in the dollar range. ” A chip- and-PIN card currently costs closer to $3, says Robertson, because of the price of chips. (Once large issuers convert together, the chip costs should drop. [E] Multiply $3 by the more than 5 billion magstripe credit and prepaid cards in circulation in the U.S. Then consider that there’s an estimated $12.4 billion in card fraud on a global basis, says Robertson. With 44% of that in the U.S. American credit-card fraud amounts to about $5.5 billion annually. Card issuers have so far calculated that absorbing the liability for even big hacks like the Target one is still cheaper than replacing all that plastic. [F] That leaves American retailers pretty much alone the world over in relying on magstripe technology to charge purchases—and leaves consumers vulnerable. Each magstripe has three tracks of information, explains payments security expert Jeremy Gumbley, the chief technology officer of Credit Call, an electronic-payments company. The first and third are used by the bank or card issuer. Your vital account information lives on the second track, which hackers try to capture. “Malware is scanning through the memory in real time and looking for data,” he says. “It creates a text file that gets stolen.” [G] Chip-and-PIN cards, by contrast, make fake cards or skimming impossible because the information that gets scanned is encrypted（加密）. The historical reason the U.S. has stuck with magstripe, ironically enough, is once superior technology. Our cheap, ultra-reliable wired networks made credit- card authentication over the phone frictionless. In France, card companies created EMV in part because the telephone monopoly was so maddeningly inefficient and expensive. The EMV solution allowed transactions to be verified locally and securely. [H] Some big banks, like Wells Fargo, are now offering to convert your magstripe card to a chip-and-PIN model. (It’s actually a hybrid（混合体）that will still have a magstripe, since most U.S. merchants don’t have EMV terminals.) Should you take them up on it? If you travel internationally, the answer is yes. [I] Keep in mind, too, that credit cards typically have better liability protection than debit cards. If someone uses your credit card fraudulently（欺诈性的），it’s the issuer or merchant, not you, that takes the hit. Debit cards have different liability limits depending on the bank and the events surrounding any fraud. “If it’s available, the logical thing is to get a chip-and-PIN card from your bank,” says Eric Adamowsky, a co-founder of Credit C. “I would use credit cards over debit cards because of liability issues.” Cash still works pretty well too. [J] Retailers and banks stand to benefit from the lower fraud levels of chip-and-PIN cards but have been reluctant for years to invest in the new infrastructure （基础设施）needed for the technology, especially if consumers don’t have access to it. It’s a chicken-and-egg problem: no one wants to spend the money on upgraded p