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12013 年 6月六级考试真题（第一套）PartWritingDirection:For this part,you are allowed 30 minutes to write an essay commenting on the remark“Asmile is the shortest distance between two people.”You can cite examples to illustrate your point.You should write at least 150 words but no more than 200 words._PartListening ComprehensionSection ADirections:In this section,you will hear 8 short conversations and 2 long conversations.At the endof each conversation,one or more questions will be asked about what was said.Both theconversation and the questions will be spoken only once.After each question there will be a pause.Duringthe pause,you must readthefour choices marked A)，B)，C)andD),anddecide which is thebest answer.Then mark the corresponding letter on Answer Sheet 1 with a single line through thecentre.1.A)She has completely recovered.C)She is still in a critical condition.B)She went into shock after an operation.D)She is getting much better.2.A)Ordering a breakfast.C)Buying a train ticket.B)Booking a hotel room.D)Fixing a compartment.3.A)Most borrowers never returned the books to her.B)The man is the only one who brought her book back.C)She never expected anyone to return the books to her.D)Most of the books she lent out came back without jackets.4.A)She left her work early to get some bargains last Saturday.B)She attended the supermarkets grand opening ceremony.C)She drove a foil hour before finding a parking space.D)She failed to get into the supermarket last Saturday.5.A)He is bothered by the pain in his neck.B)He cannot do his report without a computer.C)He cannot afford to have a coffee break.D)He feels sorry to have missed the report.6.A)Only top art students can show their works in the gallery.B)The gallery space is big enough for the mans paintings.C)The woman would like to help with the exhibition layout.D)The man is uncertain how his art works will be received.7.A)The woman needs a temporary replacement for her assistant.B)The man works in the same department as the woman does.C)The woman will have to stay in hospital for a few days.D)The man is capable of dealing with difficult people.8.A)It was better than the previous one.C)It exaggerated the citys economic problems.B)It distorted the mayors speech.D)It reflected the opinions of most economists.Questions 9 to 12 are based on the conversation you have just heard.9.A)To inform him of a problem they face.C)To discuss the content of a project report.B)To request him to purchase control desks.D)To ask him to fix the dictating machine.10.A)They quote the best price in the market.B)They manufacture and sell office furniture.C)They cannot deliver the steel sheets on time.D)They cannot produce the steel sheets needed.11.A)By marking down the unit price.C)By allowing more time for delivery.B)By accepting the penalty clauses.D)By promising better after-sales service.12.A)Give the customer a ten percent discount.2B)Claim compensation from the steel suppliers.C)Ask the Buying Department to change suppliers.D)Cancel the contract with the customer.Questions 13 to 15 are based on the conversation you have just heard.13.A)Stockbroker.C)Mathematician.B)Physicist.D)Economist.14.A)Improve computer programming.C)Predict global population growth.B)Explain certain natural phenomena.D)Promote national financial health.15.A)Their different educational backgrounds.C)Chaos Theory and its applications.B)Changing attitudes towards nature.D)The current global economic crisis.Section BDirections:In this section,you will hear 3 short passages.At the end of each passage,you will hearsome questions.Both the passage and the questions will be spoken only once.After you hear aquestion,you must choose the best answer from the four choices marked A),B),C)and D).Thenmark the corresponding letter on Answer Sheet 1 with a single line through the centre.Passage OneQuestions 16 to 18 are based on the passage you have just heard.16.A)They lay great emphasis on hard work.C)They require high academic degrees.B)They name 150 star engineers each year.D)They have people with a very high IQ.17.A)Long years of job training.C)Distinctive academic qualifications.B)High emotional intelligence.D)Devotion to the advance of science.18.A)Good interpersonal relationships.C)Sophisticated equipment.B)Rich working experience.D)High motivation.Passage TwoQuestions 19 to 21 are based on the passage you have just heard.19.A)A diary.C)Distinctive academic qualifications.B)A fairy tale.D)Devotion to the advance of science.20.A)He was a sports fan.C)Sophisticated equipment.B)He loved adventures.D)High motivation.21.A)Encourage people to undertake adventures.B)Publicise his colourful and unique life stories.C)Raise peoples environmental awareness.D)Attract people to Americas national parks.Passage ThreeQuestions 22 to 25 are based on the passage you have just heard.22.A)The first infected victim.C)The doctor who first identified it.B)A coastal village in Africa.D)A river running through the Congo.23.A)They exhibit similar symptoms.C)They have almost the same mortality rate.B)They can be treated with the same drug.D)They have both disappeared for good.24.A)By inhaling air polluted with the virus.C)By drinking water from the Congo River.B)By contacting contaminated body fluids.D)By eating food grown in Sudan and Zaire.25.A)More strains will evolve from the Ebola virus.B)Scientists will eventually find cures for Ebola.C)Another Ebola epidemic may erupt sooner or later.D)Once infected,one will become immune to Ebola.Section CDirections:In this section,you will hear a passage three times.When the passage is read for the firsttime,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 thepassage is read for the third time,you should check what you have written.The ideal companion machine would not only look,feel,and sound friendly but would also beprogrammed to behave in an agreeable manner.Those qualities that 26 other people enjoyablewould be simulated as closely as possible,and the machine would appear to be27,stimulating and3easygoing.Its informal conversational style would make interaction comfortable,and yet themachine would remain slightly 28 and therefore interesting.In its first29,it might be somewhathesitant and unassuming,but as it came to know the user it would progress to a more30andintimate style.The machine would not be a passive31but would add its own suggestions,information,and opinions;it would sometimes32 in developing or changing the topic and wouldhave a33 of its own.Themachine would convey presence.Wehave all seen how a computers use of personal namesoften fascinates people and needs them to treat the machine as if it were almost human.Such featuresare easily written into thesoftware.By introducing a degree of forcefulness and humour,the machinecould34 a vivid and unique character.Friendships are not made in a day,and the computer would be more35 as a friend if itsimulated the gradual changes that occur when one person is getting to know another.At anappropriate time it might also express the kind of affection that stimulates attachment and intimacy.Part Reading ComprehensionSection ADirections：In this section,there is a passage with ten blanks.You are required to select one wordfar each blank from a list of choices given in a word bank following the passage.Read the passagethrough 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 thecentre.You may not use any of the words in the bank more than once.Questions 36 to 45 are based on the following passage.Most experts in sleep behaviour agree that there is virtually an epidemic of sleepiness in thenation.“I cant think of a 36 study that hasnt found Americans getting less sleep than they oughtto,”says Dr David.The beginning of our sleep-deficit crisis can be37to the invention of the light bulb a centuryago.From diary entries and other personal accounts from the 18th and 19th centuries,sleep scientistshave reached the38that the average person used to sleep about 9.5 hours a night.By the 1950sand 1960s,that sleep schedule had been reduced39to between 7.5 and 8 hours,and most peoplehad to wake to an alarm clock.“People cheat on their sleep,and they dont realise theyre doing it,”says Dr David.“They think theyre okay because they can get by on 6.5 hours,when they really need7.5,8 or even more to feel 40 vigorous.”Perhaps the most merciless robber of sleep,researchers say,is the 41 of the day.Wheneverpressures from work,family,friends and community mount,many people consider sleep the leastexpensive item on the agenda.“In our society,youre considered 42 if you say you only need 5.5hours sleep.If you say youve got to get 8.5 hours,people think you lack drive and ambition.”Toassess the43of sleep deficit,researchers have put subjects through a set of psychological andperformance tests requiring them,for instance,to add columns of numbers or 44 a passage read tothem only minutes earlier.“Weve found that if youre sleep-deprived,performance suffers,”says DrDavid.“Short-term memory is 45,so are abilities to make decisions and to concentrate.”A)ideallyI)conclusionB)dynamicJ)drasticC)currentlyK)expectationsD)singleL)dramaticallyE)startlinglyM)recurF)complexityN)consequencesH)tracedO)impairedI)recallSection BDirections:In this section,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 from whichthe information is derived.You may choose a paragraph more than once.Each paragraph is markedwith a letter.Answer the questions by marking the corresponding letter on Answer Sheet 2.4Welcome,Freshmen.Have an iPod.A Taking a step that many professors may view as a bit counterproductive,some colleges anduniversities are doling out Apple iPhones and Internet-capable iPods to their students.Thealways-on Internet devices raise some novel possibilities,like tracking where students gathertogether.With far less controversy,colleges could send messages about cancelled classes,delayed buses,campus crises or just the cafeteria menu.B While schools emphasise its usefulness onlineresearch in class and instant polling of students,for example 一 a big part of the attraction is,undoubtedly,that the iPhone is cool and a hit withstudents.Being equipped with one of the most recent cutting-edge IT products could just help acollege or university foster a cutting-edge reputation.C Apple stands to win as well,hooking more young consumers with decades of technologypurchases ahead of them.The lone losers,some fear,could be professors.Students already havelaptops and cell phones,of course,but the newest devices can take class distractions to a newlevel.They practically beg a user to ignore the long-suffering professor struggling to pass onaccumulated wisdom from the front of the room 一 a prospect that teachers find most irritatingand students view as,well,inevitable.D“When it gets a little boring,I might pull it out,”acknowledged Naomi Pugh,a first-year studentat Freed-Hardeman University in Henderson,Tenn.,referring toher new iPod Touch,which canconnect to the Internet over a campus wireless network.She speculated that professors might tryeven harder to make classes interesting if they were to compete with the devices.EExperts seea movement toward theuseof mobiletechnology in education,though they sayit isinits infancy as professors try to come up with useful applications.Providing powerful hand-helddevices is sure to fuel debates over the role of technology in higher education.“We think this isthe way the future is going to work”said Kyle Dickson,co-director of research and the mobilelearning initiative at Abilene Christian University in Texas,which has bought more than 600iPhones and 300 iPods for students entering this fall.F Although plenty of students take their laptops to class,they dont take them everywhere andwould prefer something lighter.Abilene Christian settled on the devices after surveyingstudents and finding that they did not like hauling around their laptops,but that most of themalways carried a cell phone,Dr Dickson said.G It is not clear how many colleges and universities plan to give out iPhones and iPods this fall;officials at Apple were unwilling to talk about the subject and said that they would not leak anyinstitutions plans.“We cant announce other peoples news,”said Greg Joswiak,vice presidentof iPod and iPhone marketing at Apple.He also said that he could not discuss discounts touniversities for bulk purchases.H At least four institutions the University of Maryland,Oklahoma Christian University,AbileneChristian and Freed-Hardeman 一 have announced that they will give the devices to some or allof their students this fall.Other universities are exploring their options.Stanford University hashired a student-run company to design applications like a campus map and directory for theiPhone.It is considering whether to issue iPhones but not sure its necessary,noting that morethan 700 iPhones were registered on the universitys network last year.At the MassachusettsInstitute of Technology,iPhones might already have been everywhere,if AT&T,the wirelesscarrier offering the iPhone in the United States,had a more reliable network,said Andrew Yu,mobile devices platform project manager at MIT.“We would have probably gone ahead withthis,maybe just getting a thousand iPhones and giving them out,”Mr.Yu said.I The University of Maryland at College Park is proceeding cautiously,giving the iPhone or iPodTouch to 150 students,said Jeffrey Huskamp,vice president and chief information officer at theuniversity.“We dont think that we have all theanswers,”Mr.Huskamp said.By observing howstudents use the gadgets,he said,“Were trying to get answers from the students.”J At each college,the students who choose to get an iPhone must pay for mobile phone service.Those service contracts include unlimited data use.Both the iPhones and the iPod Touchdevices can connect to the Internet through campus wireless networks.With the iPhone,thosenetworks may provide faster connections and longer battery life than AT&Ts data network.5Many cell phones allow users,to surf the Web,but only some newer ones are capable ofwireless connection to the local area computer network.K University officials say that they have no plans to track their students(and Apple said it wouldnot be possible unless students give their permission).They say that they are drawn to theprospect of learning applications outside the classroom,though such lesson plans have yet tosurface.L“My colleagues and I are studying something called augmented reality(a field of computerresearch dealing with the combination of real-world and virtual reality)”said Christopher Dede,professor in learning technologies at Harvard Un