2014年6月六级考试真题（二）.docx

2014年6月大学英语六级考试真题(二) Part I Writing (30 minutes) Directions： For this part, you are allowed 30 minutes to write an essay explaining why it is unwise to put all your eggs in one basket. You can give examples to illustrate your point. You should write at least 150 words but no more than 200 words. PartⅡ Listening Comprehension (30 minutes) Section A Directions:In this section, you will hear 8 short conversations and 2 long conversations. At the end of each conversation, one or more questions will be asked about what was said. Both the conversation and the questions will be spoken only once. After each question there will be a pause. During the pause, you must read the four choices marked A) 9 B) 9 C) and D), and decide which is the best answer. Then mark the corresponding letter on Answer Sheet 1 with a single line through the centre 1. A)They might be stolen goods. C) They might be faulty products. B)They might be fake products. D) They might be smuggled goods. 2. A) They are civil servants. C) They are news reporters. B) They are job applicants. D) They are public speakers. 3. A) The man has decided to quit his computer class. B) The woman wants to get a degree in administration. C) A computer degree is a must for administrative work. D) The man went to change the time of his computer class. 4. A) A lot of contestants participated in the show. B) The fifth contestant won the biggest prize. C) It was not as exciting as he had expected. D) It was sponsored by a car manufacturer. 5. A) Reading a newspaper column. C) Driving from New York to Boston. B)Looking at a railway timetable. D) Waiting for someone at the airport. 6. A) He wears a coat bought in the mall. C) He had a finger hurt last night. B) He got a new job at the barbershop. D) He had his hair cut yesterday. 7. A) He cannot appreciate the Picasso exhibition. B) Even his nephew can draw as well as Picasso. C) He is not quite impressed with modern paintings. D) Some drawings by kindergarten kids are excellent. 8. A) He should not put the cart before the horse. B) His conduct does not square with his words. C) His attitude to student government has changed. D) He has long been involved in student government. Questions 9 to 11 are based on the conversation you have just heard. 9. A) She left her own car in Manchester. B) Something went wrong with her car. C) She wants to go traveling on the weekend. D) Her car won’t be back in a week’s time. 10. A) Safety. C) Size. B) Comfort. D) Cost 11. A) Third-party insurance. C) Petrol B) Value-added tax D) CDW Questions 12 to 15 are based on the conversation you have just heard. 12. A) How to update the basic facilities. C) Where to locate their plant. B) What to do to enhance their position. D) How to attract investments. 13. A) Their road link to other European countries is fast. B) They are all located in the south of France. C) They are very close to each other. D) Their basic facilities are good. 14. A) Try to avoid making a hasty decision. C) Talk with the local authorities. B) Take advantage of the train links. D) Conduct field surveys first. 15. A) Future product distribution. C) Road and rail links for small towns. B) Local employment policies. D) Skilled workforce in the hilly region. Section B Directions： In this section, you will hear 3 short passages. At the end of each passage, you will hear some 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 16 to 18 are based on the passage you have just heard. 16. A) One fifth of them were on bad terms with their sisters and brothers. B) About one eighth of them admitted to lingering bitter feelings. C) More than half of them were involved in inheritance disputes. D) Most of them had broken with their sisters and brothers. 17. A) Less concern with money matters. C) Advance in age. B) More experience in worldly affairs. D) Freedom from work. 18. A) They have little time left to renew contact with their brothers and sisters. B) They tend to forget past unhappy memories and focus on their present needs. C) They are more tolerant of one another. D) They find close relatives more reliable. Passage Two Questions 19 to 22 are based on the passage you have just heard. 19. A) They have bright colors and intricate patterns. A) They can only survive in parts of the Americas. B) They are the only insect that migrates along fixed routes. C) They have strong wings capable of flying long distances. 20. A) In a Michigan mountain forest. C) In a Kentucky mountain forest. B) In a Louisiana mountain forest. D) In a Mexican mountain forest. 21. A) Each flock of butterflies lays eggs in the same states. B) They start to lay eggs when they are nine months old. C) Each generation in a cycle lays eggs at a different place. D) Only the strongest can reach their destination to lay eggs. 22. A) Evolution of monarch butterflies. B) Living habits of monarch butterflies. C) Migration patterns of monarch butterflies. D) Environmental impacts on monarch butterfly life. Passage Three Questions 23 to 25 are based on the passage you have just heard. 23. A) Time has become more limited. C) Time is money. B) Time has become more precious. D) Time is relative. 24. A) Americans now attach more importance to the effective use of time. B) Americans today have more free time than earlier generations. C) The number of hours Americans work has increased steadily. D) More and more Americans feel pressed for time nowadays. 25. A) Our interpersonal relationships improve. C) Our living habits are altered. B) Our work efficiency increases greatly. D) Our behavior is changed. Section C Directions： In this section, you will hear a passage three times. When the passage is read for the first time, you should listen carefully for its general idea. When the passage is read for the second time, you are required to fill in the blanks with the exact words you have just heard. Finally, when the passage is read for the third time，you should check what you have written. The first copyright law in the United States was passed by Congress in 1790. In 1976 Congress enacted the latest copyright law, 26 the technological developments that had occurred since the passage of the Copyright Act of 1909. For example, in 1909, anyone who wanted to make a single copy of a 27 work for personal use had to do so by hand. The very process 28 a limitation on the quantity of materials copied. Today, a photocopier can do the work in seconds: the limitation has disappeared. The 1909 law did not provide full protection for films and sound recordings, nor did it 29 the need to protect radio and television. As a result, 30 of the law and abuses of the intent of the law have lessened the 31 rewards of authors, artists, and producers. The 1976 Copyright Act has not prevented these abuses fully, but it has clarified the legal rights of the injured parties and given them an 32 for remedy. Since 1976 the Act has been 33 to include computer software, and guidelines have been adopted for fair use of television broadcasts. These changes have cleared up much of the confusion and conflict that followed 34 the 1976 legislation. The fine points of the law are decided by the courts and by acceptable common practice over time. As these decisions and agreements are made, we modify our behavior accordingly. For now, we need to 35 the law and its guidelines as accurately as we can and to act in a fair manner. 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 36 to 45 are based on the following passage. Fear can be an effective way to change behavior. One study compared the effects of high-fear and low-fear appeals on changes in attitudes and behaviors related to dental hygiene (卫生）. One group of subjects was shown awful pictures of 36 teeth and diseased gums； another group was shown less frightening materials such as plastic teeth, charts, and graphs. Subjects who saw the frightening materials reported more anxiety and a greater 37 to change the way they took care of their teeth than the low-fear group did. But were these reactions actually 38 into better dental hygiene practices? To answer this important question, subjects were called back to the laboratory on two 39 (five days and six weeks after the experiment). They chewed disclosing wafers(牙疾诊断片) that give a red stain to any uncleaned areas of the teeth and thus provided a direct 40 of how well they were really taking care of their teeth. The result showed that the high-fear appeal did actually result in greater and more 41 changes in dental hygiene. That is, the subjects 42 to high-fear warnings brushed their teeth more 43 than did those who saw low-fear warnings. However , to be an effective persuasive device it is very important that the message not be too frightening and that people be given 44 guidelines to help them to reduce the cause of the fear. If this isn’t done, they may reduce their anxiety by denying the message or the 45 of the communicator. If that happens, it is unlikely that either attitude or behavior change will occur. A) accustomed F) decayed K) indication B) carefully G) desire L) occasions C) cautiously H) dimensions M) permanent D) concrete I) eligible N) sensitivity E) credibility J) exposed O) translated 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. The Street-Level Solution [A] When I was growing up, one of my father’s favorite sayings (borrowed from the humorist Will Rogers) was： “It isn’t what we don’t know that causes the trouble； it’s what we think we know that just isn’t so. One of the main insights to be taken from the 100 000 Homes Campaign and its strategy to end chronic homelessness is that, until recently, our society thought it understood the nature of homelessness, but it didn’t. [B] That led to a series of mistaken assumptions about why people become homeless and what they need. Many of the errors in our homelessness policies have stemmed from the conception that the homeless are a homogeneous group. It’s only in the past 15 years that organizations like Common Ground, and others, have taken a street-level view of the problem—distinguishing the “episodically homeless” from the “chronically homeless” in order to understand their needs at an individual level. This is why we can now envisage a different approach—and get better results. [C] Most readers expressed support for the effort, although a number were skeptical, and a few utterly dismissive, about the chances of long-term homeless people adapting well to housing. This is to be expected; it’s hard to imagine what we haven’t yet seen. As Niccolo Machiavelli wrote in The Prince, one of the major obstacles in any effort to advance systemic change is the “incredulity of men，” which is to say that people “do not readily believe in new things until they have had a long experience of them.” Most of us have witnessed homeless people on the streets for decades. Few have seen formerly homeless people after they have been housed successfully. We don’t have reference points for that story. So we generalize from what we know-or think we know. [D] But that can be misleading, even to experts. When I asked Rosanne Haggerty, founder of Common Ground, which currently operates 2 310 units of supportive housing (with 552 more under construction), what had been her biggest surprise in this work, she replied : “Fifteen years ago, I would not have believed that people who had been so broken and stuck in homelessness could thrive to the degree that they do in our buildings. ’’ And Becky Kanis, the campaign’s director, commented : ‘There is this sense in our minds that someone who’s on the streets is almost in their DNA different from someone who has a house. The campaign is creating a first-hand experience for many people that that is really not the case. [E] One of the startling realizations that I had while researching this column is that anybody could become like a homeless person —all it takes is a traumatic (创伤的）brain injury. A bicycle fall, a car accident, a slip on the ice, or if you’re a soldier, a head wound—and your life could become unrecognizable. James O’Connell, a doctor who has been treating the most vulnerable homeless people on the streets of Boston for 25 years, estimates that 40 percent of the long-term homeless people he’s met had such a brain injury. “For many it was a head injury prior to the time they became homeless，” he said. “They became unpredictable. They’d have mood swings, fits of explosive behavior. They couldn’t hold onto their jobs. Drinking made them feel better. They’d end up on the streets. [F] Once homeless people return to housing, they’re in a much better position to rebuild their lives. But it’s important to note that housing alone is not enough. As with many complex social problems, when you get through the initial crisis, you have another problem to solve which is no less challenging. But it is a better problem. [G] Over the past decade, O’Connell has seen this happen. spend half my time on the streets or in the hospital and the other half making house calls to people who lived for years on the streets,” he said. “So from a doctor’s point of view it’s a delightful switch, but it’s not as if