2013年6月英語六級真題試卷(第2套).pdf

英語六級考試網 www CET6W com 鼎力幫助考生順利通過大學英語六級考試 英語六級考試網 www CET6W com 經典奉獻 1 2013 年年 6 月英語六級考試月英語六級考試真題真題試卷試卷 第 第 2 套 套 Part I Writing 30 minutes Directions For this part you are allowed 30 minutes to write an essay commenting on the remark Earth provides enough to satisfy every man s need but not every man s greed You can cite examples to illustrate your point You should write at least 150 words but no more than 200 words 注意 此部分試題在答題卡注意 此部分試題在答題卡 1 上上 Part II Reading Comprehension Skimming and Scanning 15 minutes Directions In this part you will have 15 minutes to go over the passage quickly and answer the questions on Answer Sheet 1 For questions 1 7 choose the best answer from the four choices marked A B C and D For questions 8 10 complete the sentences with the information given in the passage Welcome Freshmen Have an iPod Taking a step that many professors may view as a bit counterproductive some colleges and universities are doling out Apple iPhones and Internet capable iPods to their students The always on Internet devices raise some novel possibilities like tracking where students gather together With far less controversy colleges could send messages about canceled classes delayed buses campus crises or just the cafeteria menu While schools emphasize its usefulness online research in class and instant polling of students for example a big part of the attraction is undoubtedly that the iPhone is cool and a hit with students Being equipped with one of the most recent cutting edge IT products could just help a college or university foster a cutting edge reputation Apple stands to win as well hooking more young consumers with decades of technology purchases ahead of them The lone losers some fear could be professors Students already have laptops and cell phones of course but the newest devices can 英語六級考試網 www CET6W com 鼎力幫助考生順利通過大學英語六級考試 英語六級考試網 www CET6W com 經典奉獻 2 take class distractions to a new level They practically beg a user to ignore the long suffering professor struggling to pass on accumulated wisdom from the front of the room a prospect that teachers find most irritating and students view as well inevitable When it gets a little boring I might pull it out acknowledged Naomi Pugh a first year student at Freed Hardeman University in Henderson Tenn referring to her new iPod Touch which can connect to the Internet over a campus wireless network She speculated that professors might try even harder to make classes interesting if they were to compete with the devices Experts see a movement toward the use of mobile technology in education though they say it is in its infancy as professors try to come up with useful applications Providing powerful hand held devices is sure to fuel debates over the role of technology in higher education We think this is the way the future is going to work said Kyle Dickson co director of research and the mobile learning initiative at Abilene Christian University in Texas which has bought more than 600 iPhones and 300 iPods for students entering this fall Although plenty of students take their laptops to class they don t take them everywhere and would prefer something lighter Abilene Christian settled on the devices after surveying students and finding that they did not like hauling around their laptops but that most of them always carried a cell phone Dr Dickson said 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 any institution s plans We can t announce other people s news said Greg Joswiak vice president of iPod and iPhone marketing at Apple He also said that he could not discuss discounts to universities for bulk purchases At least four institutions the University of Maryland Oklahoma Christian University Abilene Christian and Freed Hardeman have announced that they will give the devices to some or all of their students this fall Other universities are exploring their options Standford University has hired a student run company to design applications like a campus map and directory for the iPhone It is considering whether to issue iPhones but not sure it s necessary noting that more than 700 iPhones were registered on the university s network last year At the Massachusetts Institute of Technology iPhones might already have been everywhere if AT it would sometimes take the 42 in developing or changing the topic and would have a 43 of its own The machine would convey presence We have all seen how a computer s use of personal names 44 Such features arc easily written into the software 45 Friendships are not made in a day and the computer would be more acceptable as a friend 46 At an appropriate time it might also express the kind of affection that stimulates attachment and intimacy Part IV Reading Comprehension Reading in Depth 25 minutes Section A Directions In this section there is a short passage with 5 questions or incomplete statements Read the passage carefully Then answer the questions or complete statements in the fewest possible words Please write your answers on Answer Sheet 2 Questions 47 to 51 are based on the following passage Oil is the substance that lubricates the world s economy Because so many of our modern technologies and services depend on oil nations corporations and institutions that control the trade in oil exercise extraordinary power The energy crisis of 1973 1974 in the United States demonstrated how the price of oil can affect US government policies and the energy using habits of the nation By 1973 domestic US sources of oil were peaking and the nation was importing more of its oil depending on a constant flow from abroad to keep cars on the road and machines running In addition at that time a greater percentage of homes and electrical plants were run on petroleum than today Then in 1973 the predominantly Arab nations of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries OPEC resolved to stop selling oil to the United States The move was prompted by OPEC s desire to raise prices by restricting supply and by its opposition to US support of Israel in the Arab Israeli Yom Kippur War The embargo 禁運 created panic in the West and caused oil prices to shoot up Short term oil shortage drove American consumers to wait in long lines at gas 英語六級考試網 www CET6W com 鼎力幫助考生順利通過大學英語六級考試 英語六級考試網 www CET6W com 經典奉獻 11 pumps In response to the embargo the US government enforced a series of policies designed to reduce reliance on foreign oil These included developing additional domestic sources such as those on Alaska s North Slope resuming extraction at sites that had been shut down because of cost inefficiency capping the price that domestic producers could charge for oil and beginning to import oil from a greater diversity of nations The government also established a stockpile 貯存 of oil as a short term buffer 緩 沖 against future shortages Stored underground in large salt caves in Louisiana this stockpile is called the Strategic Petroleum Reserve and currently contains over 600 million barrels of oil roughly equivalent to one month s supply 注意 此部分試題請在答題卡注意 此部分試題請在答題卡 2 上作答 上作答 47 We learn from the passage that in today s world whoever monopolizes the oil market will be able to 48 Oil prices may exert influence not only on American government policies but on how energy 49 Besides the sharp increase in oil prices OPEC s 1973 oil embargo caused 50 Over the years before the OPEC s embargo America had depended heavily on 51 As a measure to counter future shortages the American government decided to in caves underground Section B Directions There are 2 passages in this section Each passage is followed by some questions or unfinished statements For each of them there are four choices maked A B C and D You should decide on the best choice and mark the corresponding letter on Answer Sheet 2 with a single line through the centre Passage One Questions 52 to 56 are based on the following passage Depression is more than a serious economic downturn What distinguishes a depression from a harsh recession is paralyzing fear fear of the unknown so great that it causes consumers businesses and investors to retreat and panic They save up cash and desperately cut spending They sell stocks and other assets A shattering loss of confidence inspires behavior that overwhelms the normal self correcting mechanisms that usually prevent a recession from becoming deep and prolonged a depression 英語六級考試網 www CET6W com 鼎力幫助考生順利通過大學英語六級考試 英語六級考試網 www CET6W com 經典奉獻 12 Comparing 1929 with 2007 09 Christina Romer the head of President Obama s Council of Economic Advisers finds the initial blow to confidence far greater now than then True stock prices fell a third from September to December 1929 but fewer Americans then owned stocks Moreover home prices barely dropped From December 1928 to December 1929 total household wealth declined only 3 By contrast the loss in household wealth between December 2007 and December 2008 was 17 Both stocks and homes more widely held dropped more Thus traumatized 受到創(chuàng)傷 the economy might have gone into a free fall ending in depression Indeed it did go into free fall Shoppers refrained from buying cars appliances and other big ticket items Spending on such durables dropped at a 12 annual rate in 2008 s third quarter a 20 rate in the fourth And businesses shelved investment projects That these huge declines didn t lead to depression mainly reflects as Romer argues countermeasures taken by the government Private markets for goods services labor and securities do mostly self correct but panic feeds on itself and disarms these stabilizing tendencies In this situation only government can protect the economy as a whole because most individuals and companies are involved in the self defeating behavior of self protection Government s failure to perform this role in the early 1930s transformed recession into depression Scholars will debate which interventions this time the Federal Reserve s support of a failing credit system guarantees of bank debt Obama s stimulus plan and bank stress test counted most in preventing a recurrence Regardless all these complex measures had the same psychological purpose to reassure people that the free fall would stop and thereby curb the fear that would perpetuate 使 持久 a free fall All this improved confidence But the consumer sentiment index remains weak and all the rebound has occurred in Americans evaluation of future economic conditions not the present Unemployment 9 8 is abysmal 糟透的 the recovery s strength unclear Here too there is an echo from the 1930s Despite bottoming out in 1933 the Depression didn t end until World War II Some government policies aided recovery some hindered it The good news today is that the bad news is not worse 注意注意 此部分試題請在答題卡 此部分試題請在答題卡 2 上作答 上作答 52 Why do consumers businesses and investors retreat and panic in times of depression A They suffer great losses in stocks property and other assets B They find the self correcting mechanisms dysfunctioning C They are afraid the normal social order will be paralyzed D They don t know what is going to happen in the future 英語六級考試網 www CET6W com 鼎力幫助考生順利通過大學英語六級考試 英語六級考試網 www CET6W com 經典奉獻 13 53 What does Christina Romer say about the current economic recession A Its severity is no match for the Great Depression of 1929 B Its initial blow to confidence far exceeded that of 1929 C It has affected house owners more than stock holders D It has resulted in a free fall of the prices of commodities 54 Why didn t the current recession turn into a depression according to Christina Romer A The government intervened effectively B Private markets corrected themselves C People refrained from buying durables and big ticket items D Individuals and companies adopted self protection measures 55 What is the chief purpose of all the countermeasures taken A To create job opportunities B To curb the fear of a lasting free fall C To stimulate domestic consumption D To rebuild the credit system 56 What does the author think of today s economic situation A It may worsen without further stimulation B It will see a rebound sooner or later C It has not gone from bad to worse D It does not give people reason for pessimism Passage Two Questions 57 to 62 are based on the following passage Usually when we walk through the rain forest we hear a soft sound from all the moist leaves and organic debris on the forest floor says ecologist Daniel Nepstad Now we increasingly get rustle and crunch That s the sound of a dying forest Predictions of the collapse of the tropical rain forests have been around for years Yet until recently the worst forecasts were almost exclusively linked to direct human activity such as clear cutting and burning for pastures or farms Left alone it was assumed the world s rain forests would not only flourish but might even rescue us from disaster by absorbing the excess carbon dioxide and other planet warming greenhouse gases Now it turns out that may be wishful thinking Some scientists believe that the rise in carbon levels means that the Amazon and other rain forests in Asia and Africa may go from being assets in the battle against rising temperatures to liabilities Amazon plants for 英語六級考試網 www CET6W com 鼎力幫助考生順利通過大學英語六級考試 英語六級考試網 www CET6W com 經典奉獻 14 instance hold more than 100 billion metric tons of carbon equal to 15 years of tailpipe and chimney emissions If the collapse of the rain forests speeds up dramatically it could eventually release 3 5 5 billion metric tons of carbon into the atmosphere each year making forests the leading source of greenhouse gases Uncommonly severe droughts brought on by global climate changes have led to forest eating wildfires from Australia to Indonesia but nowhere more acutely than in the Amazon Some experts say that the rain forest is already at the brink of collapse Extreme weather and reckless development arc plotting against the rain forest in ways that scientists have never seen Trees need more water as temperatures rise but the prolonged droughts have robbed them of moisture making whole forests easily cleared of trees and turned into farmland The picture worsens with each round of El Nino the unusually warm currents in the Pacific Ocean that drive up temperatures and invariably presage 預示 droughts and fires in the rain forest Runaway fires pour even more carbon into the air which increases temperatures starting the whole vicious cycle all over again More than paradise lost a perishing rain forest could trigger a domino effect sending winds and rains kilometers off course and loading the skies with even greater levels of greenhouse gases that will be felt far beyond the Amazon basin In a sense we are already getting a glimpse of what s to come Each burning season in the Amazon fires deliberately set by frontier settlers and developers hurl up almost half a billion metric tons of carbon a year placing Brazil among the top five contributors to greenhouse gases in the world 注意 此部分試題請在答題卡注意 此部分試題請在答題卡 2 上作答 上作答 57 We learn from the first paragraph that A dead leaves and tree debris make the same sound B trees that are dying usually give out a soft moan C organic debris echoes the sounds in a rain forest D the sound of a forest signifies its health condition 58 In the second paragraph the author challenges the view that A the collapse of rain forests is caused by direct human interference B carbon emissions are the leading cause of current global warming C the condition of rain forests has been rapidly deteriorating D rain forests should not be converted into pastures or farms 59 The author argues that the rising carbon levels in rain forests may A turn them into a major source of greenhouse gases B change the weather patterns throughout the world 英語六級考試網 www CET6W com 鼎力幫助考生順利通過大學英語六級考試 英語六級考試網 www CET6W com 經典奉獻 15 C pose a threat to wildlife D accelerate their collapse 60 What has made it easier to turn some rain forests into farmland A Rapid rise in carbon levels B Reckless land development C Lack of rainfall resulting from global warming D The unusual warm currents in the Pacific Ocean 61 What makes Brazil one of the world s top five contributors to greenhouse gases A The domino effect triggered by the perishing rain forests B Its practice of burning forests for settlement and development C The changed patterns of winds and rains in the Amazon area D Its inability to curb the carbon emissions from industries Part V Cloze 15 minutes Directions There are 20 blanks in the following passage For each blank there are four choices marked A B C and D on the right side of the paper You should choose the ONE that best fits into the passage Then mark the corresponding letter on Answer Sheet 2 with a single line through the centre 注意 此部分試題請在答題卡注意 此部分試題請在答題卡 2 上作答 上作答 The continuous presentation of scary stories about global warming in the popular media makes us unnecessarily frightened Even worse it 62 our kids AI Gore famously 63 how a sea level rise of 20 feet would almost completely flood Florida New York Holland and Shanghai 64 the United Nations says that such a thing will not even happen 65 that sea levels will rise 20 times less than that When 66 with these exaggerations some of us say that they are for a good cause and surely 67 is no harm done if the result is that we focus even more on tackling climate change This 68 is astonishingly wrong Such exaggerations do plenty of harm Worrying 69 about global warming means that we worry less about other things where we could do so much more good We focus 70 on global warming s impact on malaria 瘧疾 which will put slightly more people at 71 in 100 years instead of tackling the half a billion people 72 from malaria today with prevention and treatment policies that arc much cheaper and dramatically more effective than carbon 英語六級考試網 www CET6W com 鼎力幫助考生順利通過大學英語六級考試 英語六級考試網 www CET6W com 經典奉獻 16 reduction would be 73 a