2017年12月英语六级考试真题（卷二）.docx

2017 年 12 月大学英语六级考试真题（第 2 套） Part I Writing (30 minutes) （请于正式开考后半小时内完成该部分，之后将进行听力考试） Directions: For this part, you are allowed 30 minutes to write an essay commenting on the saying "Seek to understand others, and you will be understood " You can cite examples to illustrate your views. You should write at least 150 words but no more than 200. 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. Questions1 to 4 are based on the conversation you have just heard. 1. A)Say a few words to thank the speaker. B) Introduce the speaker to the audience. C) Give a lecture on the history of the town. D) Host a talk on how to give a good speech. 2. A)He was the founder of the local history society. B) He has worked with Miss Bligh for 20 years. C) He has published a book on public speaking. D) He joined the local history society when young. 3. A) She was obviously better at talking than writing. B) She had a good knowledge of the town’s history. C).Her speech was so funny as to amuse the audience. D).Her ancestors came to the town in the 18th century 4 .A) He read exactly what was written in his notes. B) He kept forgetting what he was going to say. C) He made an embarrassing remark. D) He was too nervous to speak up. Questions 5 to 8 are based on the conversation you have just heard. 5. A)What their retailers demand. B)What their rivals are doing. C) How they are going to beat their rivals. D) How dramatically the market is changing. 6. A)They should be taken seriously. B)They are rapidly catching up. C) Their business strategy is quite effective. D)Their potential has been underestimated. 7. A)She had given it to Tom. B) It simply made her go frantic. C) She had not seen it yet. D) It was not much of a big concern. 8. A)Restructuring the whole company. B)Employing more forwarding agents. C)Promoting cooperation with Jayal Motors. D)Exporting their motorbikes to Indonesia. 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. Questions 9 to 11 are based on the passage you have just heard. 9. A)It makes claims in conflict with the existing research. B) It focuses on the link between bedtime and nutrition. C) It cautions against the overuse of coffee and alcohol. D) It shows that “night owls” work much less efficiently. 10.A)They pay greater attention to food choice. B) They tend to achieve less than their peers. C) They run a higher risk of gaining weight. D) They stand a greater chance to fall sick. 11. A)Get up late. B) Sleep 8 hours a day. C) Exercise more. D) Go to bed earlier. Questions 12 to 15 are based on the passage you have just heard. 12. A )All of the acting nominees are white. B) It has got too much publicity on TV. C) It is prejudiced against foreign films. D) Only 7% of the nominees are female. 13. A)22 percent of movie directors were people of color. B)Half of the TV programs were ethnically balanced. C) Only one-fifth of TV shows had black characters. D) Only 3.4 percent of film directors were women. 14. A)Non-white males. B)Program creators. C) Females of color over 40. D) Asian speaking characters . 15. A)They constitute 17% of Hollywood movie characters. B) They are most underrepresented across TV and film. C) They contribute little to the U.S. film industry. D) They account for 8.5% of the U.S. population. 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 centre. Questions 16 to 18 are based on the recording you have just heard. 16. A) One that can provide for emergency needs. B) One that can pay for their medical expenses. C) One that covers their debts and burial expenses. D) One that ensures a healthy life for their later years. 17.A)Purchase insurance for their children. B) Save sufficient money for a rainy day. C) Buy a home with a small down payment. D) Add more insurance on the breadwinner. 18. A) When their children grow up and leave home. B) When they have saved enough for retirement. C) When their family move to a different place. D) When they have found better-paying jobs. Questions 19 to 22 are based on the recording you have just heard. 19. A)They do more harm than good. B) They have often been ignored. C) They do not help build friendship. D) They may not always be negative. 20.A)Biased sources of information. B)Ignorance of cultural differences. C)Misinterpretation of Shakespeare. D)Tendency to jump to conclusions. 21. A)They are hard to dismiss once attached to a certain group. B) They may have a negative impact on people they apply to. C) They persist even when circumstances have changed. D) They are often applied to minorities and ethnic people. 22. A) They impact people more or less in the same way. B)Some people are more sensitive to them than others. C) A positive stereotype may help one achieve better results. D) A negative stereotype sticks while a positive one does not. Questions 23 to 25 are based on the recording you have just heard. 23. A)Use some over-the-counter medicine instead . B) Quit taking the medicine immediately. C) Take some drug to relieve the side effect. D) Ask your pharmacist to explain why it occurs. 24. A)It may help patients fall asleep. B) It may lead to mental problems. C) It may cause serious harm to one’s liver. D) It may increase the effect of certain drugs. 25. A) Tell their children to treat medicines with respect. B)Keep medicines out of the reach of their children. C) Make sure their children use quality medicines. D) Ask their children to use legitimate medicines. Part III Reading Comprehension (40 minutes) 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. The Pacific island nation of Palau has become home to the sixth largest marine world. The new marine reserve, now the largest in the Pacific, will--26-- no fishing or mining. Palau also established the world’s first shark sanctuary in 2009. The tiny island nation has set aside 500,000 square kilometres-80 percent -of its maritime --27--, for full protection, That’s the highest percentage of an--28 --economic zone devoted to marine conservation by any country in the world. The remaining 20 percent of the Palau seas will be reserved for local fishing by individuals and small-scale-- 29-- fishing businesses with limited exports. “Island --30--have been among the hardest hit by the threats facing the ocean,” said President. Tommy Remengesau Jr. in a statement. “Creating this sanctuary is a bold move that the people of Palau recognise as 31 to our survival. We want to lead the way in restoring the health of the ocean for future generation.” Palau has only been an_ 32 nation for twenty years and has a strong history of environmental protection. It is home to one of the world’s finest marine ecosystems, with more than 1,300 species of fish and 700 species of coral. I)permit J)secure K) solitary L)spectacle M)sponsor N)stocks O)territory A) allocate B) celebrities C)commercial D)communities E）essential F）exclusive G)independent H) indulge Senator Hokkons Baules, lead 33 of the Palau National Marine Sanctuary Act, said the sanctuary will “help build a 34 future for the Palauan people by honoring the conservation traditions of our past”. These include the centuries-old custom of “bul”, where leaders would call a temporary stop to fishing for key species in order to give fish 35 an opportunity to replenish(补充). 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. Data sharing: An open mind on open date [A] It is a movement building steady momentum: a call to make research data, software code and experimental methods publicly available and transparent. A spirit of openness is gaining acceptance in the science community, and is the only way, say advocates, to address a 'crisis' in science whereby too few findings are successfully reproduced. Furthermore, they say, it is the best way for researchers to gather the range of observations that are necessary to speed up discoveries or to identify large-scale trends. [B] The open-data shift poses a confusing problem for junior researchers. On the one hand, the drive to share is gathering official steam. Since 2013, global scientific bodies have begun to back politics that support increased public access to research. On the other hand, scientists disagree about how much and when they should share date, and they debate whether sharing it is more likely to accelerate science and make it more robust, or to introduce vulnerabilities and problems. As more journals and funders adopt data-sharing requirements, and as a growing number of enthusiasts call for more openness, junior researchers must find their place between adopters and those who continue to hold out, even as they strive to launch their own careers. [C] One key challenge facing young scientists is how to be open without becoming scientifically vulnerable. They must determine the risk of jeopardizing a job offer or a collaboration proposal from those who are wary of-or unfamiliar with -open science. And they must learn how to capitalize on the movement's benefits, such as opportunities for more citations and a way to build a reputation without the need for conventional metrics, such as publication in high-impact journals. [D] Some fields have embraced open data more than others. Researchers in psychology, a field rocked by findings of irreproducibility in the past few years, have been especially vocal sup-porters of the drive for more-open science. A few psychology journals have created incentives to increase interest in reproducible science—for example, by affixing an ‘open-data’ badge to articles that clearly state where data are available. According to social psychologist Brian Nosek, executive director of the Center for Open Science, the average data-sharing rate for the journal Psychological Science, which uses the badges, increased tenfold to 38% from 2013 to 2015. [E] Funders, too, are increasingly adopting an open-data policy .Several strongly encourage, and some require, a date-management plan that makes data available .The US National Science Foundation is among these, Some philanthropic (慈善的) funders, including the Bill &Melinda Gates Foundation in Seattle, Washington, and the Wellcome Trust in London, also data mandate open data from their grant recipients. [F] But many young researchers, especially those who have not been mentored in open science, are uncertain about whether to share or to stay private. Graduate students and postdocs, who often are working on their lab head's grant, may have no choice if their supervisor or another senior opposes sharing. [G] Some fear that the potential impact of sharing is too high, especially at the early stages of a career." Everybody has a scary story about someone getting scooped(被抢先),” says New York University astronomer David Hogg. Those fears may be a factor in a lingering hesitation to share data even when publishing in journals that mandate it. [H] Researchers at small labs or at institutions focused on teaching arguably have the most to lose when sharing hard-won data. ""With my institution and teaching load, I don't have postdocs and grad students", says Terry McGlynn, a tropical biologist at California State University, Dominguez Hills. “The stakes are higher to share data because it's a bigger fraction of what’s happening in my lab.” [I] Researchers also point to the time sink that is involved in preparing data for others to view. Once the data and associated materials appear in a repository(存储库), answering questions and handling complaints can take many hours. [J] The time investment can present other problems. In some cases, says data scientist Karthik Ram, it may be difficult for junior researchers to embrace openness when senior colleagues— many of whom head selection and promotion committees —might ridicule what they may view as misplaced energies. "I've heard this recently -that embracing the idea of open data and code makes traditional academics uncomfortable, "says Ram. "The concern seems to be that open advocates don't spend their time being as productive as possible." [K] An open-science stance can also add complexity to a collaboration. Kate Ratliff, who studies social attitudes at the University of Florida, Gainesville, says that it can seem as if there are two camps in a field-those who care about open science and those who don't . " There’s a new area to navigate-‘Are you cool with the fact that I'll want to make the data open?'-when talking with somebody about an interesting research idea, "she says. [L] Despite complications and concerns, the upsides of sharing can be significant. For example, when information is uploaded to a repository, a digital object identifier(DOI)is assigned. Scientists can use a DOI to publish each step of the research life cycle, not just the final paper. In so doing, they can potentially get three citations- one each for the data and software. in addition to the paper itself. And although some say that citations for software or data have little currency in academia, they can have ot