2014年12月大学英语六级考试真题（二）
Writing (30 minutes)
"'How To Do Well In School Without
Studying’ is over there in the fiction section."
Listening Comprehension (30 minutes)
Section A
1.
A) The man should get a pair of new shoes. B) The man’s tennis racket is good enough.
C) The man spent too much on his tennis shoes. D) The man is out of shape.
2.
A) The woman doesn’t want to assist the man.
B) The woman will ask Kathy to assist the man.
C) Kathy is very pleased to attend the lecture by Dr. Smith.
D) The woman will skip Dr. Smith’s lecture to help the man.
3.
A) The speakers and Steve used to be classmates.
B) Steve invited his classmates to visit his big cottage.
C) Steve became rich soon after graduation from college.
D) The woman asked the man to accompany her to the party.
4.
A) In a bus. B) In a boat.
C) In a clinic. D) In a plane.
5.
A) 9:10. B) 9:40.
C) 9:50. D) 10:10.
6.
A) John has got many admirers. B) She does not like John at all.
C) John has just got a bachelor’s degree. D) She does not think John is handsome.
7.
A) He has been bumping along for hours. B) He is trapped in a terrible traffic jam.
C) He is involved in a serious accident. D) He has got a sharp pain in the neck.
8.
A) She cannot go without a washing machine. B) She should improve her physical fitness.
C) She is a professional mechanic. D) She is good at repairing things.
9.
A) The accused was found guilty of murder. B) The accused was found innocent.
C) The accused was found guilty of stealing. D) The accused was sentenced to death.
10.
A) He was unemployed. B) He was out of his mind.
C) His children were sick. D) His wife deserted him.
11.
A) He had committed the same sort of crime. B) He was unlikely to get employed.
C) He was unworthy of sympathy. D) He had been in jail before.
12.
A) Irresponsible. B) Aggressive.
C) Conservative. D) Unsatisfactory.
13.
A) Public relations. B) Product design.
C) Internal communication. D) Distribution of brochures.
14.
A) Placing advertisements in the trade press.
B) Drawing sketches for advertisements.
C) Making television commercials.
D) Advertising in the national press.
A) She has the motivation to do the job.
B) She knows the tricks of advertising.
C) She is not suitable for the position.
D) She is not so easy to get along with.
Section B
Passage One
16.
A) The cozy communal life. B) The beautiful environment.
C) The variety of culture. D) The richness of resources.
17.
A) It ensures their physical and mental health. B) It helps them soak up the surrounding culture.
C) It is as important as their learning experience. D) It is very beneficial to their academic progress.
18.
A) It has the world’s best-known military academies.
B) It offers the most challenging academic programs.
C) It draws faculty from all around the world.
D) It provides numerous options for students.
19.
A) They are responsible merely to their Ministry of Education.
B) They try to give students opportunities for experimentation.
C) They strive to develop every student’s academic potential.
D) They ensure that all students get roughly equal attention.
Passage Two
20.
A) It is leaving Folkestone in about five minutes.
B) It is now about half way to the French coast.
C) It crosses the English Channel twice a day.
D) It will arrive at Boulogne at half past two.
A) Next to the duty-free shop. B) Opposite the ship’s office.
C) In the front of A deck. D) At the rear of B deck.
22.
A) It is much more spacious than the lounge on C deck.
B) It is for the sole use of passengers travelling with cars.
C) It is for the use of passengers travelling with children.
D) It is for senior passengers and people with VIP cards.
Passage Three
23.
A) It was named after one of its painters. B) It was named after a cave art expert.
C) It was named after its discoverer. D) It was named after its location.
24.
A) Deer were worshiped by the ancient Cro-Magnon people.
B) Animal painting was part of the spiritual life of the time.
C) Cro-Magnon people painted animals they hunted and ate.
D) They were believed to keep evils away from cave dwellers.
25.
A) They have misinterpreted the meaning of the cave paintings.
B) They are unable to draw such interesting and fine paintings.
C) They have difficulty telling when the paintings were done.
D) They know little about why the paintings were created.
Section C
If you are attending a local college, especially one without residence halls, you’ll probably live at home and commute to classes. This arrangement has a lot of (26)__________ . It’s cheaper. It provides a comfortable and familiar setting, and it means you'll get the kind of home cooking you're used to instead of the monotony（单调）that (27)________ even the best institutional food. However, commuting students need to (28)_____________ to become involved in the life of their college and to take special steps to meet their fellow students. Often, this means a certain amount of initiative on your part in (29)________ and talking to people in your classes whom you think you might like.
One problem that commuting students sometimes face is their parents' unwillingness to recognize that they're adults. The (30)____________ from high school to college is a big one, and if you live
at home you need to develop the same kind of i ndependence you’d have if you were living away. Home rules that might have been (31)________ when you were in high school don’t apply. If your parents are (32)________________ to renegotiate, you can speed the process along by letting your behavior show that you have the responsibility that goes with maturity. Parents are more willing to (33)__________ their children as adults when they behave like adults. If, however, there’s so much friction at home that it (34)_________ your academic work, you might want to consider sharing an apartment with one or more friends. Sometimes this is a happy solution when family
(35)____________ make everyone miserable.
A) accidentally
B) acquiring
C) assumptions
D) convenience
E) eventually
F) exclude
G) exertion
H) exploration
I) formulas
J) ignite
K) impart
L) inquiring
M) passion
N) provoking
O) unfortunately
Reading Comprehension (40 minutes)
Section A
Children are natural-born scientists. They have 36 minds, and they aren’t afraid to admit they don’t know something. Most of them, 37, lose this as they get older. They become self-conscious and don’t want to appear stupid. Instead of finding things out for themselves they make 38 that often turn out to be wrong.
So it’s not a case of getting kids interested in science. You just have to avoid killing the 39 for learning that they were born with. It’s no coincidence that kids start deserting science once it becomes formalised. Children naturally have a blurred approach to 40 knowledge. They see learning about science or biology or cooking as all part of the same act—it’s all learning. It’s only because of the practicalities of education that you have to start breaking down the curriculum into specialist subjects. You need to have specialist teachers who 41 what they know. Thus once they enter school, children begin to define subjects and erect boundaries that needn’t otherwise exist.
Dividing subjects into science, maths, English, etc. is something we do for 42. In the end it’s all learning, but many children today 43 themselves from a scientific education. They think science is for scientists, not for them.
Of course we need to specialise 44. Each of us has only so much time on Earth, so we can’t study everything. At 5 years old, our field of knowledge and 45 is broad, covering anything from learning to walk to learning to count. Gradually it narrows down so that by the time we are 45, it might be one tiny little comer within science.
Section B
Meaning Is Healthier Than Happiness
[A] For at least the last decade, the happiness craze has been building. In the last three months alone, over 1,000 books on happiness were released on Amazon, including Happy Money, Happy-People-Pills For All, and, for those just starting out, Happiness for Beginners.
[B] One of the consistent claims of books like these is that happiness is associated with all sorts of good life outcomes, including—most promisingly—good health. Many studies have noted the connection between a happy mind and a healthy body—the happier we are, the better health outcomes we seem to have. In an overview of 150 studies on this topic, researchers put it like this: “Inductions of well-being lead to healthy functioning, and inductions of ill-being lead to compromised health.”
[C] But a new study, just published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) challenges the rosy picture. Happiness may not be as good for the body as researchers thought. It might even be bad.
[D] Of course, it’s important to first define happiness. A few months ago, I wrote a piece calle d “There’s More to Life Than Being Happy” about a psychology study that dug into what happiness really means to people. It specifically explored the difference between a meaningful life and a happy life.
[E] It seems strange that there would be a difference at all. But the researchers, who looked at a large sample of people over a month-long period, found that happiness is associated with selfish “taking” behavior and that having a sense of meaning in life is associated with selfless “giving” behavior.
[F] “Happiness without meaning characterizes a relatively shallow, self-absorbed or even selfish life, in which things go well, needs and desires are easily satisfied, and complicated relationships are avoided,” the authors of the study wrote. “If anything, pu re happiness is linked to not helping others in need.” While being happy is about feeling good, meaning is derived from contributing to others or to society in a bigger way. As Roy Baumeister, one of the researchers, told me, “Partly what we do as human beings is to take care of others and contribute to others. This makes life meaningful but it does not necessarily make us happy.”
[G] The new PNAS study also sheds light on the difference between meaning and happiness, but on the biological level. Barbara Fredrickson, a psychological researcher at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, and Steve Cole, a genetics and psychiatry（精神病学）researcher at UCLA, examined the self-reported levels of happiness and meaning in 80 research subjects.
[H] Happiness was defined, as in the earlier study, by feeling good. The researchers measured happiness by asking subjects questions like “How often did you feel happy?’’, “How often did you feel interested in life?” and “How often did you feel satisfied?” The more strongly people endorsed these measures of “hedonic（享乐主义的）well-being,” or pleasure, the higher they scored on happiness.
[I]Meaning was defined as an orientation to something bigger than the self. They measured meaning by asking questions like “How often did you f eel that your life has a sense of direction or meaning to it?” and “How often did you feel that you had something to contribute to society?” The more people endorsed these measures of “eudaimonic（幸福论的）well-being” —or, simply put, virtue—the more meaning they felt in life.
[J] After noting the sense of meaning and happiness that each subject had, Fredrickson and Cole, with their research colleagues, looked at the ways certain genes expressed themselves in each of the
participants. Like neuroscientists who use JMRI（功能磁共振成像）scanning to determine how regions in the brain respond to different stimuli, Cole and Fredrickson are interested in how the body, at the genetic level, responds to feelings of happiness and meaning.
[K] Cole’s past work has linked various ki nds of chronic adversity to a particular gene expression pattern. When people feel lonely, are grieving the loss of a loved one, or are struggling to make ends meet, their bodies go into threat mode. This triggers the activation of a stress-related gene pattern that has two features: an increase in the activity of pro-inflammatory（促炎症的）genes and a decrease in the activity of genes involved in anti-viral responses.
[L] Cole and Fredrickson found that people who are happy but have little or no sense of meaning in their lives have the same gene expression patterns as people who are responding to and enduring chronic adversity. That is, the bodies of these happy people are preparing them for bacterial threats by activating the pro- inflammatory response. Chronic inflammation is, of course, associated with major illnesses like heart disease and various cancers.
[M] “Empty positive emotions” —like the kind people experience during manic（狂喜的）episodes or artificially induced euphoria（欣快）from alcohol and drugs—“are ab out as good for you as adversity,” says Fredrickson.
[N] It’s important to understand that for many people, a sense of meaning and happiness in life overlap; many people score jointly high (or jointly low) on the happiness and meaning measures in the study. But for many others, there is a dissonance（不一致）they feel that they are low on happiness and high on meaning or that their lives are very high in happiness, but low in meaning. This last group, which has the gene expression pattern associated with adversity, formed 75 percent of study participants. Only one quarter of the study participants had what the researchers call “eudaimonic predominance” —that is, their sense of meaning outpaced their feelings of happiness. [O] This is too bad given the more beneficial gene expression pattern associated with meaningfulness. People whose levels of happiness and meaning line up, and people who have a strong sense of meaning but are not necessarily happy, showed a de-activation of the adversity stress response. Their bodies were not preparing them for the bacterial infections that we get when we are alone or in trouble, but for the viral infections we get when surrounded by a lot of other people. [P] Fredrickson’s past research, described in her two books, Positivity an d Love 2.0, has mapped the benefits of positive emotions in individuals. She has found that positive emotions broaden a person’s perspective and help protect people against adversity. So it was surprising to her that hedonic well-being, which is associated with positive emotions and pleasure, did so badly in this study compared with eudaimonic well-being.
[Q] “It’s not the amount of hedonic happiness that’s a problem,” Fredrickson tells me, “It’s that it’s not matched by eudaimonic well-being. It’s great wh en both are in step. But if you have more hedonic well-being than would be expected, that’s when this [gene] pattern that’s similar to adversity emerged.”
[R] The terms hedonism and eudaimonism bring to mind the great philosophical debate, which has shaped Western civilization for over 2,000 years, about the nature of the good life. Does happiness lie in feeling good, as hedonists think, or in doing and being good, as Aristotle and his intellectual descendants, the virtue ethicists（伦理学家）, think? From the evidence of this study, it seems that feeling good is not enough. People need meaning to thrive. In the words of Carl Jung, “The least of things with a meaning is worth more in life than the greatest of things without it.” Jung’s wisdom certainly seems to apply to our bodies, if not also to our hearts and our minds.
46. The author’s recent article examined how a meaningful life is different from a happy life.
47. It should be noted that many people feel their life is both happy and meaningful.
48. According to one survey, there is a close relationship between hedonic well-being measures and high scores on happiness.
49. According to one of the authors of a new study, what makes life meaningful may not make people happy.
50. Experiments were carried out to dete rmine our body’s genetic expression of feelings of happiness and meaning.
51. A new study claims happiness may not contribute to health.
52. According to the researchers, taking makes for happiness while giving adds meaning to life.
53. Evidence from research shows that it takes meaning for people to thrive.
54. With regard to gene expression patterns, happy people with little or no sense of meaning in life are found to be similar to those suffering from chronic adversity.
55. Most books on happiness today assert that happiness is beneficial to health.
Section C
Passage One
Nothing succeeds in business books like the study of success. The current business-book boom was launched in 1982 by Tom Peters and Robert Waterman with In Search of Excellence. The trend has continued with a succession of experts and would-be experts who promise to distil the essence of excellence into three (or five or seven) simple rules.
The Three Rules is a self-conscious contribution to this type of writing; it even includes a b ibliography of “success studies”. Michael Raynor and Mumtaz Ahmed work for a consultancy, Deloitte, that is determined to turn itself into more of a thought-leader and less a corporate repairman. They employ all the tricks of the success books. They insist that their conclusions are “measurable and actionable” —guides to behaviour rather than analysis for its own sake. Success authors usually serve up vivid stories about how exceptional businesspeople stamped their personalities on a company or rescued it from a life-threatening crisis. Messrs Raynor and Ahmed are happier chewing the numbers: they provide detailed appendices on “calculating the elements of advantage” and “detailed analysis”.
The authors spent five years studying the behaviour of their 344 “exceptional companies,” only to come up at first with nothing. Every hunch（直觉）led to a blind alley and every hypothesis to a dead end. It was only when they shifted their attention from how companies behave to how they think that they began to make sense of their voluminous material.
Management is all about making difficult tradeoffs in conditions that are always uncertain and often fast- changing. But exceptional companies approach these tradeoffs with two simple rules in mind, sometimes consciously, sometimes unconsciously. First: better before cheaper. Companies are more likely to succeed in the long run if they compete on quality or performance than on price. Second: revenue before cost. Companies have more to gain in the long run from driving up revenue than by driving down costs.
Most success studies suffer from two faults. There is “the halo（光环）effect”, whereby good performance leads commentators to attribute all manner of virtues to anything and everything the company does. These virtues then suddenly become vices when the company fails. Messrs Raynor and Ahmed work hard to avoid these mistakes by studying large bodies of data over several decades. But they end up embracing a different error: stating the obvious. Most businesspeople will not be
surprised to learn that it is better to find a profitable niche（隙缝市场）and focus on boosting your revenues than to compete on price and cut your way to success. The difficult question is how to find that profitable niche and protect it. There, The Three Rules is less useful.
56. What kind of business books are most likely to sell well?
A) Books on excellence. B) Guides to management.
C) Books on business rules. D) Analyses of market trends.
57. What does the author imply about books on success so far?
A) They help businessmen one way or another. B) They are written by well-recognised experts. C) They more or less fall into the same stereotype. D) They are based on analyses of corporate leaders.
58. How does The Three Rules differ from other success books according to the passage?
A) It focuses on the behaviour of exceptional businessmen.
B) It bases its detailed analysis on large amounts of data.
C) It offers practicable advice to businessmen.
D) It draws conclusions from vivid examples.
59. What does the passage say contributes to the success of exceptional companies?
A) Focus on quality and revenue. B) Management and sales promotion.
C) Lower production costs and competitive prices. D) Emphasis on after-sale service and maintenance.
60. What is the author’s comment on The Three Rules?
A) It can help to locate profitable niches. B) It has little to offer to businesspeople.
C) It is noted for its detailed data analysis. D) It fails to identify the keys to success.
Passage Two
Until recently, the University of Kent prided itself on its friendly image. Not any more. Over the past few months it has been working hard, with the help of media consultants, to play down its cosy reputation in favour of something more academic and serious.
Kent is not alone in considering an image revamp（翻新）. Changes to next year’s funding regime are forcing universities to justify charging students up to ￡9,000 in fees.
Nowadays universities are putting much more of a focus on their brands and what their value propositions are. While in the past universities have often focused on student social life and attractions of the university town in recruitment campaigns, they are now concentrating on more tangible（实在的）attractions, such as employment prospects, engagement with industry, and lecturer contact hours, making clear exactly what students are going to get for their money.
The problem for universities is that if those benefits fail to materialise, students notice. That worries Rob Behrens, who deals with student complaints. “Universities need to be extremely careful in describing what’s going to happen to students，” he says. “As competition is going to get greater for attracting gifted students, there is a danger that universities will go the extra mile.”
One university told prospective engineering students they would be able to design a car and race it at Brands Hatch, which never happened, he says. Others have promised use of sophisticated equipment that turned out to be broken or unavailable. “If universities spent as much money on handling complaints and appeals appropriately as they spend on marketing, they would do better at keeping students, and in the National Student Survey returns,” he says.
Ongoing research tracking prospective 2012 students suggests that they are not only becoming more sophisticated in thinking about what they want from a university, but are also spending more time
researching evidence to back up institutional claims.
Hence the growing importance of the student survey. From next September, all institutions will also be expected to publish on their websites key information sets, allowing easier comparison between institutions, between promises and reality, and the types of jobs and salaries graduates go on to. As a result, it is hardly surprising that universities are beginning to change the way they market themselves. While the best form of marketing for institutions is to be good at what they do, they also need to be clear about how they are different from others.
And it is vital that once an institution claims to be particularly good at something, it must live up to it. The moment you position yourself, you become exposed, and if you fail in that you are in trouble.
61. What was the University of Kent famous for?
A) Its comfortable campus life. B) Its up-to-date course offerings.
C) Its distinguished teaching staff. D) Its diverse academic programmes.
62. What are universities trying to do to attract students?
A) Improve their learning environment. B) Offer more scholarships to the gifted.
C) Upgrade their campus facilities. D) Present a better academic image.
63. What does Rob Behrens suggest universities do in marketing themselves?
A) Publicise the achievements of their graduates.
B) Go to extra lengths to cater to students’ needs.
C) Refrain from making promises they cannot honour.
D) Survey the expectations of their prospective students.
64. What is students’ chief consideration in choosing a university?
A) Whether it promises the best job prospects.
B) Whether it is able to deliver what they want.
C) Whether it ranks high among similar institutions.
D) Whether it offers opportunities for practical training.
65. What must universities show to win recruitment campaigns?
A) They are positioned to meet the future needs of society.
B) They are responsible to students for their growth.
C) They are ever ready to improve themselves.
D) They are unique one way or another.
Translation (30 minutes)
自从1978年启动改革以来，中国已从计划经济转为以市场为基础的经济，经历了经济和社会的快速发展。平均10%的GDP增长已使五亿多人脱贫。联合国的“千年（millennium）发展目标”在中国均已达到或即将达到。目前，中国的第十二个五年规划强调发展服务业和解决环境及社会不平衡的问题。政府已设定目标减少污染，提高能源效率，改善得到教育和医保的机会，并扩大社会保障。中国现在7%的经济年增长目标表明政府是在重视生活质量而不是增长速度。
参考译文：
Since the reform in 1978, with the rapid development of economy and society, Chinese economy has transferred into market economy from command economy. The average 10% growth of GDP has lifted more than 500 million people out of poverty. The Millennium Goal of the U.N. has been fully or partially achieved throughout China. At present, the 12th Five-year Plan in China emphasizes the development of service industry and the solution of imbalance of environment and society. The government has set goals to reduce pollution, enhance energy efficiency, improve
educational opportunities and medical insurance and expand social security. The 7% growth annual goal demonstrates that the government is concentrating on the quality of life rather than the speed of growth.
【短对话】
1. B. The man should get a pair of new shoes.
2. A. The woman will skip Dr. Smith’s lecture to help the man.
3. D. The speakers and Steve used to be classmates.
4. C. In a boat.
5. B. 9:50.
6. A. She does not like John at all.
7. D. He is trapped in a terrible traffic jam.
8. A. She is good at repairing things.
【长对话】
Conversation 1
M: A recent case I heard was of a man accused and found guilty of breaking into a house and stealing some money.
W: Well, was he really guilty, judge?
M: He admitted that he’d done it, and there were several witnesses saying that he had indeed done it. So I can only assume that he was guilty.
W: Why did he do it?
M: Well, the reasons were little muddied, probably at least it seemed in a trial that he did it to get some money to feed his family. You see, he’d been out of work for some time.
W: Well, he’d been out of work and he chose to break into a house to get money for his family and apparently in front of people that, err... could see him do it.
M: His attorney presented testimony that he had indeed applied for jobs and was listed with several employment agencies, including the state employment agency, but they weren’t any jobs.
W: And he had no luck!
M: He had no luck and it’d been some time. He had two children and both of them were needing food and clothing.
W: So he was in desperate circumstances. Did you sentence him?
M: Yes.
W: But what good does it do to put the man into jail when he’s obviously in such need?
M: This particular fellow has been in prison before.
W: For the same thing?
M: No, for a different sort of crime.
W: Huh?
M: But he did know about crime, so I suppose there are folks that just have to go back to prison several times.
9. C. The accused was found guilty of stealing.
10. B. He was unemployed.
11. A. He had been in jail before.
12. B. Unsatisfactory.
13. C. Public relations.
14. D. Making television commercials.
15. D. She is not suitable for the position.
短文一：
16. What does the speaker say characterizes American campuses?
答案：(A) The cozy communal life.
【点评】：细节题。本篇文章开头即指出’Few foreign universities put much emphasis on the cozy communal life that characterizes American campuses from clubs and sports teams to student publications and drama societies.’此可知美国校园的特点就在于集体生活，比如俱乐部、运动队、学生刊物以及戏剧社团。
17. What does Brown University president Vartan Gregorian say about students’daily life?
答案：(C) It is as important as their learning experience.
【点评】：细节题。布朗大学校长在说到学生日常生活时说“In America it is assumed that a student’s daily life is as important as his learning experience. . .”可见在美国学生平日生活和他们的学习经历同等重要。
18. In what way is the United States unrivaled according to the speaker?
答案：(C) It provides numerous options for students.
【点评】：细节题。听力原文中说到America’s menu of options—research universities, state institutions, private liberal-arts schools, community colleges, religious institutions, military academies—is unrivaled.其实归根结底就是America’s menu of options is unrivaled.美国各类学校应有尽有任你选。
19. What does the speaker say about universities in Europe and Japan?
答案：(B) They are responsible merely to their Ministry of Education.
【点评】：细节题。说到欧洲和日本大学时，原文"In Europe and Japan, universities are answerable only to a ministry of education, which sets academic standards and distributes money."中的"answerable only to…"意思和"be responsible merely to"相同，即“只对……负责，只听从……的”。
短文二：
20. What does the speaker say about the sea link ferry?
答案：(D)It is leaving Folkestone in about five minutes.
【点评】：细节题。听力原文为"We are due to leave Folkestone in about five minutes."渡船将在五分钟内出发。其他选项信息都没在听力中出现。
21. Where is the snack bar situated?
答案：(D) In the front of A deck.
【点评】：细节题。听力原文为"There’s a snack bar serving sandwiches and hot and cold refreshments situated in the front of A deck."。小吃店是位于甲板A上。基本信息重现。
22. What does the speaker say about the lounge on B deck?
答案：(A) It is for the sole use of passengers travelling with cars.
【点评】：细节题。听力原文为"Passengers are reminded that the lounge on B deck is for the sole-use of passengers traveling with cars..." B甲板上的休息室是专门给那些开车旅游的乘客的。基本信息重现。
短文三
23. B. It was named after its discoverer.
24. C. Cro-Magnon people painted animals they hunted and ate.
25. A. They know little about why the paintings were created.
【点评】本文为科普类说明文，主要围绕法国东南部的一个著名洞穴——肖维岩洞(Grotte Chauvet)展开。肖维岩洞由Jean-Marie Chauvet在1994年圣诞夜首次发现，故以Chauvet的名字命名。与法国同时期其他洞穴不同的是，肖维岩洞内的动物壁画并不是被捕猎的动物，而是那些大型、有力而威猛的动物。许多专家们由此认为，壁画上的动物是当时人们精神生活的象征。本文由于涉及国外艺术文化的话题，对许多考生来说比较生疏。但只要对篇章的开头及结尾、相关关键词做到有效把握，答出问题也是比较容易的。
短文听写
26. advantages
27. characterizes
28. go out of their way
29. seeking out
30. transition
31. appropriate
32. reluctant
33. acknowledge
34. interferes with
35. tensions
【选词填空】
36-L-inquiring
37-O-unfortunately
38-C-assumptions
39-M-passion
40-B-acquiring
41-K-impart
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2014年12月6级第一套 Part III Reading comprehension Section A Questions 36 to 45 are based on the following passage. His future subjects have not always treated the Prince of Wales with the respect one might expect. They laughed aloud in 1986 when the heir to the British (36) ________ told a TV reporter that he talked to his plants at his country house, Highgrove, to stimulate their growth. The Prince was being humorous—“My sense of humor will get me into trouble one day,”he said to the aides (随从)—but listening to Charles Windsor can indeed prove stimulating. The royal (37)________ that been promoting radical ideas for most of his adult life, some of his (38) _________ which once sounded a hit weird were simply ahead of their time. Now, finally, the world seems to be catching up with him. Take his views on farming. Prince Charles’ Duchy Home Farm went (39) ___________ back to 1996.when most shoppers cared only about the low price tag on suspiciously blemish-free(无瑕疵的)V egetables and (40) __________ large chickens piled high in supermarkets. His warnings on climate change proved farsighted; too Charles began (41) _________ action on global warming in 1990 and says he has been worried about the (42) ____________ of man on the environment since he was a teenager. Although he has gradually gained international (43) __________ as one of the a world’s leading conservationists, many British people still think of him as an (44) ____________ person who talks to plants This year, as it happens, South Korean scientists proved that plants really do (45) __________ to sound. So Charles was ahead of the game there, too. A. conform B. eccentric C. environmentalist D. expeditions E. impact F. notions G. organic H. originally I. recognition J. respond K. subordinate L. suppressing M. throne N. unnaturally O. urging Section B Should Single-Sex Education Be Eliminated? [A] Why is a neuroscientist here debating single-sex schooling? Honestly, I had no fixed ideas on the topic when I started researching it for my book, Pink Brain, Blue Brain. But any discussion of gender differences in children inevitably leads to this debate, so I felt compelled to dive into the research data on single-sex schooling. I read every study I could, weighed the existing evidence, and ultimately concluded that single-sex education is not the answer to gender gaps in achievement—or the best way forward for today’s young people. After my book was published, I met several developmental and cognitive psychologists whose work was addressing gender and education from different angles, and we published a peer-reviewed Education Forum piece in Science magazine with the provocative title, “The Pseudoscience of Single-Sex Education.”[B] We showed that three lines of research used to justify single-sex schooling—educational, neuroscience, and social psychology—all fail to support its alleged benefits, and so the widely-held view that gender separation is somehow better for boys, girls, or both is nothing more than a myth.
2014年12月英语六级真题及答案（文字版） 考试采取“多题多卷”模式，试题顺序不统一，请依据试题进行核对Part I Writing Directions: For this part, you are allowed 30 minutes to write a short essay on the following t opic. You should write at least 180 words but no more than 200 words. 作文题一：学历歧视 作文部分： 【学历歧视：参考范文】 In the modern society, with competition becomes increasingly fierce, to find a job is to o difficult for the young generation. Academic qualification, as a job a stepping-stone, is a n essential factor during the job hunting. Some people think that the highly educated must be able to find a good job, because education can prove that a person has a good capacity. Therefore, it is commonly believe
that a job seeker with a master degree must be easier to find a promising job than a un dergraduate. However, now the company interviewers generally prefer to required a even h igher academic qualification, like a doctor degree. Otherwise, the applicants, even though h e or she has tremendous potential, will be refused relentlessly. As far as I am concerned, education should not be the single standard in an interview. As for the companies, it is not necessarily a good principle as well. Now the whole comm unity often talk about working ability and efficiency. For example, some people may have high academic qualification, but actually his ability is very limited. So both the individual a nd the community ought to change their attitude on academic qualification. We should rea lize that it is the operational Part II Listening 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 sai d. Both the conversation and the questions will be spoken only once. After each question t here will be a pause. During the pause, you must read the four choices marked A) , B) , C) and D)，and decide which is the best answer. Then mark the corresponding letter on Ans wer Sheet I with a single line through the centre. Question 1 A.At a grocery B.In a parking lot
2014年12月大学英语六级CET6考试 模拟试题及答案 2014年12月大学英语六级CET6考试模拟试题及答案（3）Part Ⅱ Listening Comprehension (30 minutes) Section C (复合式听写调整为单词及词组听写，短文长度及难度不变。) 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. There is growing dissatisfaction toward rich people, according to a new online poll. The poll by the China Youth Daily 26__________ https://www.doczj.com/doc/2f3797595.html, has highlighted the apparent 27__________ over the country’s widening income gap. Nearly 8,000 people filled in online 28__________ last week, and when asked to use three words to describe the society’s rich, the top 29__________ were “extravagant”，“greedy” and “corrupt”. About 57 percent of those 30__________ said that “extravagant” was the best word to d escribe the rich, followed closely by “greedy”. 31__________ , despite their dissatisfaction, 93 percent of those polled wished they could be rich too, and that richer people should be “socially 32__________ ”. Some 33__________ percent of respondents also praised rich people for being “smart”. Nearly 90 percent of respondents agreed that most people in society, including themselves, 33 speak up for the poor but were 34__________ to take action and actually do something for them. The survey comes on the heels of a heated debate over comments made by renowned economist Mao Yushi, who said a couple of days ago that he was speaking for the rich and working for the poor. A report released by the Asian Development Bank last Wednesday revealed that China’s Gini co efficient—an indicator of the wealth divide—rose from 0.407 in 1993 to 0.473 in 2004. An earlier Chinese Academy of Social Sciences report said that the richest 10 percent of Chinese families now own more than 40 percent of all private assets, while the poorest 10 percent in the country share less than 2 percent of the total wealth. The country’s income gap is close to that of Latin America, the report which 35__________ in January said.
2013年12月大学英语六级考试真题（第1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 on happiness by referring to the saying“Happiness is not the absence of problems, but the ability to deal with them.”You can cite examples to illustrate your point and then explain how you can develop your ability to deal with problems and be happy. 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 8 short conversations and 2 long conversations. At theend 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), B), 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. 注意：此部分试题请在答题卡1 上作答。 1. A) The rock band needs more hours of practice. B) The rock band is going to play here for a month. C) Their hard work has resulted in a big success. D) He appreciates the woman’s help with the band. 2. A) Go on a diving tour in Europe. C) Travel overseas on his own. B) Add 300 dollars to his budget. D) Join a package tour to Mexico. 3. A) In case some problem should occur. C) To avoid more work later on. B) Something unexpected has happened. D) To make better preparations. 4. A) The woman asked for a free pass to try out the facilities. B) The man is going to renew his membership in a fitness center. C) The woman can give the man a discount if he joins the club now. D) The man can try out the facilities before he becomes a member. 5. A) He is not afraid of challenge. B) He is not fit to study science. C) He is worried about the test. D) He is going to drop the physics course 6. A) Pay for part of the picnic food. C) Buy something special for Gary. B) Invite Gary’s family to dinner. D) Take some food to the picnic. 7. A) Bus drivers’ working conditions.C)Public transportation. B) A labor dispute at a bus company. D) A corporate takeover. 8. A) The bank statement. C) The payment for an order. B) Their sales overseas. D) The check just deposited.
2014年12月 英语六级真题及答案 （卷一） 目录 2014年12月英语六级考试真题（卷一） (1) 2014年12月英语六级考试真题答案（卷一） (13) 2014年12月英语六级考试真题（卷一） Part I Writing Directions：For this part, you are allowed 30 minutes to write on essay based on the picture below. You should start your essay with a brief description of the picture and then discuss what qualities an employer should look for in job applicants. You should give sound arguments to support your views and write at least 150 words but no more than 200 words.
2014年12月英语六级作文真题范文1：学历歧视 Directions: For this part, you are allowed 30 minutes to write an essay based on the picture below. You should start your essay with a brief description of the picture and then discuss what qualities an employer should look for in job applicant. You should give sound arguments to support your views and write at least 150 words but no more than 200 words. According to the picture, an employer turns down a job applicant, for his degree is less advanced than the other applicants, even though he has a good resume. Actually, what’s behind the cartoon is the tendency that employers focus on academic performance when hiring. No one disputes that a college or higher degree opens doors. Despite that, as far as I’m concerned, academic degree should not be the primary criteria in selecting talents. First of all, academic degrees only represent the applicants’proficiency in their school work, and cannot
Part I Writing 作文题一：学历歧视 Part II Listening Section A Question 1 A.At a grocery B.In a parking lot C.In a car showroom D.At a fast food restaurant Question 2 A.Have a little nap after lunch B.Get up and take a short walk C.Change her position now and then D.Stretch legs before standing up Question 3 A.The students should practice long-distance running B.He doesn’t quite believe what the woman says C.The students’ physical condition is not desirable D.He thinks the race is too hard for the students Question 4 A.They do not want to have a baby at present
B.They cannot afford to get married right now C.They are both pursuing graduate studies D.They will get their degrees in two years Question 5 A.Twins usually have a lot in common B.He must have been mistaken for Jack C.Jack is certainly not as healthy as he is D.He has not seen Jack for quite a few days Question 6 A.The man will take the woman wo the museum B.The man knows where the museum is located C.The woman is asking the way at the crossroads D.The woman will attend the opening of the museum Question 7 A.They cannot ask the guy to leave B.The guy has been coming in for years C.They should not look down upon the guy D.The guy must be feeling extremely lonely Question 8 A.Collect timepieces B.Become time-conscious C.Learn to mend locks D.Keep track of his daily activities Questions 9 to 11 are based on the conversation you have just heard. Question 9 A.It winds its way to the sea B.It is quickly rising C.It is eating into its banks D.It is wide and deep
2014年12月大学英语六级考试真题一（附答案）Writing (30 minutes) Directions: For this part, you are allowed 30 minutes to write an essay based on the picture below. You should start your essay with a brief description of the picture and then discuss what qualities an employer should look for in job applicant. You should give sound arguments to support your views and write at least 150 words but no more than 200 words. Listening Comprehension (30 minutes) Section A 1. A) In a parking lot. B) At a grocery. C) At a fast food restaurant. D) In a car showroom. 2. A) Change her position now and then. B) Stretch her legs before standing up. C) Have a little nap after lunch.
D) Get up and take a short walk. 3. A) The students should practice long-distance running. B) The students’ physical condition is not desirable. C) He doesn’t quite believe what the woman says. D) He thinks the race is too hard for the students. 4. A) They will get their degrees in two years. B) They are both pursuing graduate studies. C) They cannot afford to get married right now. D) They do not want to have a baby at present. 5. A) He must have been mistaken for Jack. B) Twins usually have a lot in common. C) Jack is certainly not as healthy as he is. D) He has not seen Jack for quite a few days. 6. A) The woman will attend the opening of the museum. B) The woman is asking the way at the crossroads. C) The man knows where the museum is located. D) The man will take the woman to the museum. 7. A) They cannot ask the guy to leave. B) The guy has been coming in for years. C) The guy must be feeling extremely lonely. D) They should not look down upon the guy. 8. A) Collect timepieces. B) Become time-conscious. C) Learn to mend clocks. D) Keep track of his daily activities.
2014年12月大学英语六级考试真题(三) 注意：此部分试题请在答题卡1上作答。 Part Ⅱ Listening Comprehension (30 minutes) 注意：此部分试题请在答题卡1上作答。 1. A．Proceed in his own way. B． Stick to the original plan. C. Compromise with his colleague. D． Try to change his colleague's mind. 2. A．Mary has a keen eye for style. B． Nancy regrets buying the dress. C． Nancy and Mary went shopping together in Rome. D． Nancy and Mary like to follow the latest fashion. 3. A．Wash the dishes. B． Go to the theatre. C． Pick up George and Martha. D． Take her daughter to hospital. 4. A．She enjoys making up stories about other people. B． She can never keep anything to herself for long. C． She is eager to share news with the woman. D． She is the best informed woman in town. 5. A．A car dealer. B． A mechanic. C． A driving examiner. D． A technical consultant. 6. A．The shopping mall has been deserted recently. B． Shoppers can only find good stores in the mall. C． Lots of people moved out of the downtown area. D． There isn't much business downtown nowadays. 7. A．He will help the woman with her reading. B． The lounge is not a place for him to study in. C． He feels sleepy whenever he tries to study.
Section A His future subjects have not always treated the Prince of Wales with the respect o ne XXXX expect. They laughed aloud in 1986 when the heir to the British(36)_____ t old a TV reporter that he talked to his plants at his country house, Highgrove, to stimu late their growth. The Prince was being humorous- “My sense of humor will get me in to trouble one day”, he said to his aids(随从)-but listening to Charles Windsor can ind eed prove stimulating. The royal(37)_____ has been promoting radical ideas for most of his adult life. Some of his(38)_____, which once sounded a bit weird, were simply ahead of their time. Now, finally, the world seems to be catching up with him. Take hi s views on farming. Prince Charles’ Duchy Home Farm went(39)_____ back in 1986. When most shoppers cared only about the low price tag on suspiciously blemish-free (无瑕疵的) vegetables and(40)_____ large chickens piled high in supermarkets. His warnings on climate change proved farsighted,too.Charles began(41)_____ a ction in warming in 1990 and says he has been worried about the(42)_____ of man on the environment same be was a teenger. Although he was gradually gained international(43)_____ as one of the world's l ending conservationists,many British people still think of him as an(44)_____ person who talks to plants.This year,as it happens,South Korean scientists proved that plants really do(45)_____ to round.So Charles was ahead of the game there,too. A.conform B.eccentric C.environmentalist D.expeditions E.impact F.notion s https://www.doczj.com/doc/2f3797595.html,anic H.originally I.recognition J.respond K.subordinate L.suppressi ng M.throne N.unnaturally O.urging Section B Directions: In this section，you are going to read a passage with ten statements a ttached to it. Each statement contains information given in one of the paragraphs. Iden tify the paragraph from which the information is derived. You may choose a paragrap h more than once. Each paragraph is marked with a letter. Answer the questions by m
2014年6月大学英语六级考试真题(第1套) Part I Writing (30 minutes) Directions：For this part, you are allowed 30 minutes to write an essay explaining why it is unwise To jump to conclusions upon seeing or hearing something.You can give examples to Illustrate your point. You should write at least 150words words but no more than 200words. Part II 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 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), B), C)and D), and decide which is the best answer. Then mark the corresponding letter on Answe r Sheet 1 with a single line through the centre. 1. A ) College tuition has become a heavy burden for the students B ) College students are in general politically active nowadays. C)He is doubtful about the effect of the students' action. D)He took part in many protests when he was at college. 2. A ) Jay is organizing a party for the retiring dean. C)The dean will come to Jay's birthday party B)Jay is surprised to learn of the party for him. D)The class has kept the pasty a secret from Jay 3. A ) He found his wallet in his briefcase. C)He left his things with his car in the garage. B ) He went to the lost-and-found office. D)He told the woman to go and pick np his car. 4. A ) The show he directed turned out to be a success. B)He watches only those comedies by famous directors. C)New comedies are exciting，just like those in the 1960s. D ) TV comedies have not improved much since the 1960s 5. A ) All vegetables should be cooked fresh. C)Overcooked vegetables are often tasteless. B)The man should try out some new recipes. D)The man should stop boiling the vegetables. 6. A ) Sort out their tax returns. C)FSgure out a way to avoid taxes. B ) Help them tidy up the house. D ) Help them to decode a message. 7. A ) He didn't expect to complete his work so soon. B)He has devoted a whole month to his research. C)The woman is still trying to finish her work. D ) The woman remains a total mystery to him 8. A ) He would like to major in psychology too. C)Developmental psychology is newly offered. B ) He has failed to register for the course. D ) There should be more time for registration. Questions 9 to 11 are based on the conversation you have just heard. 9. A) The brilliant product design. C)The unique craftsmanship. B)The new color combinations D)The texture of the fabrics. 10. A ) Unique tourist attractions C)Local handicrafts. B ) Traditional Thai silks. D ) Fancy products.