2015年6月英語六級真題第1套

1、2015年6月英語六級真題（第1套）Part I Writing (30 minutes)Directions:For this part, you are allowed 30 minutes to write an essay commenting on the saying“Knowledge is a treasure, but practice is the key to it.” You can give an example or two to illustrate your point of view. You should write at least 150 words b

2、ut no more than 200 words.Part II Listening Comprehension (30 minutes)Section ADirections: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 w

3、ill 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.1. A) Prepare for his exams.

4、B) Catch up on his work.C) Attend the concert.D) Go on a vacation.2. A) Three crew members were involved in the incident.B) None of the hijackers carried any deadly weapons.C) The plane had been scheduled to fly to Japan.D) None of the passengers were injured or killed.3. A) An article about the ele

5、ction.B) A tedious job to be done.C) An election campaign.D) A fascinating topic.4. A) The restaurant was not up to the speakers expectations.B) The restaurant places many ads in popular magazines.C) The critic thought highly of the Chinese restaurant.D) Chinatown has got the best restaurants in the

6、 city.5. A) He is going to visit his mother in the hospital.B) He is going to take on a new job next week.C) He has many things to deal with right now.D) He behaves in a way nobody understands.6. A) A large number of students refused to vote last night.B) At least twenty students are needed to vote

7、on an issue.C) Major campus issues had to be discussed at the meeting.D) More students have to appear to make their voice heard.7. A) The woman can hardly tell what she likes.B) The speakers like watching TV very much.C) The speakers have nothing to do but watch TV.D) The man seldom watched TV befor

8、e retirement.8. A) The woman should have registered earlier.B) He will help the woman solve the problem.C) He finds it hard to agree with what the woman says.D) The woman will be able to attend the classes she wants.Questions 9 to 12 are based on the conversation you have just heard.9. A) Persuade t

9、he man to join her company.B) Employ the most up-to-date technology.C) Export bikes to foreign markets.D) Expand their domestic business.10. A) The state subsidizes small and medium enterprises.B) The government has control over bicycle imports.C) They can compete with the best domestic manufacturer

10、s.D) They have a cost advantage and can charge higher prices.11. A) Extra costs might eat up their profits abroad.B) More workers will be needed to do packaging.C) They might lose to foreign bike manufacturers.D) It is very difficult to find suitable local agents.12. A) Report to the management.B) A

11、ttract foreign investments.C) Conduct a feasibility study.D) Consult financial experts.Questions 13 to 15 are based on the conversation you have just heard.13. A) Coal burnt daily for the comfort of our homes.B) Anything that can be used to produce power.C) Fuel refined from oil extracted from under

12、ground.D) Electricity that keeps all kinds of machines running.14. A) Oil will soon be replaced by alternative energy sources.B) Oil reserves in the world will be exhausted in a decade.C) Oil consumption has given rise to many global problems.D) Oil production will begin to decline worldwide by 2025

13、.15. A) Minimize the use of fossil fuels.B)Start developing alternative fuels.C) Find the real cause for global warming.D) Take steps to reduce the greenhouse effect.Section BDirections: In this section, you will hear 3 short passages. At the end of each passage, you will hear some questions. Both t

14、he passage and the questions will be spoken only once. After you hear a question, you mustchoose the best answer from the four choices marked A), B), C), and D). Then mark the correspondingletter on Answer Sheet 1with a single line through the centre.Passage OneQuestions 16 to 18 are based on the co

15、nversation you have just heard.16. A) The ability to predict fashion trends.B) A refined taste for artistic works.C) Years of practical experience.D) Strict professional training.17. A) Promoting all kinds of American hand-made specialties.B) Strengthening cooperation with foreign governments.C) Con

16、ducting trade in art works with dealers overseas.D) Purchasing handicrafts from all over the world.18. A) She has access to fashionable things.B) She is doing what she enjoys doing.C) She can enjoy life on a modest salary.D) She is free to do whatever she wants.Passage TwoQuestions 19 to 22 are base

17、d on the passage you have just heard.19. A) Join in neighborhood patrols.B) Get involved in his community. C) Voice his complaints to the city council.D) Make suggestions to the local authorities.20. A) Deterioration in the quality of life.B) Increase of police patrols at night.C) Renovation of the

18、vacant buildings.D) Violation of community regulations.21. A) They may take a long time to solve.B) They need assistance from the city.C) They have to be dealt with one by one.D) They are too big for individual efforts.22. A) He had got some groceries at a big discount.B) He had read a funny poster

19、near his seat.C) He had done a small deed of kindness.D) He had caught the bus just in time.Passage ThreeQuestions 23 to 25 are based on the passage you have just heard.23. A) Childhood and healthy growth.B) Pressure and heart disease.C) Family life and health.D) Stress and depression.24. A) It expe

20、rienced a series of misfortunes.B) It was in the process of reorganization.C) His mother died of a sudden heart attack.D) His wife left him because of his bad temper.25. A) They would give him a triple bypass surgery.B) They could remove the block in his artery.C) They could do nothing to help him.D

21、) They would try hard to save his life.Section CDirections: 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 arerequired to fill in the blanks with the

22、 exact words you have just heard. Finally, when the passage is read forthe third time, you should check what you have written.When most people think of the word “education”, they think of a pupil as a sort of animate sausage casing. Into this empty casing, the teachers 26 stuff “education”.But genui

23、ne education, as Socrates knew more than two thousand years ago, is not 27the stuffings of information into a person, but rather eliciting knowledge from him; it is the 28of what is in the mind.“The most important part of education,” once wrote William Ernest Hocking, the 29Harvard philosopher, “is

24、this instruction of a man in what he has inside of him”. And, as Edith Hamilton has reminded us, Socrates never said, “I know, learn from me.” He said, rather, “Look into your own selves and find the 30of truth that God has put into every heart, and that only you can kindle (點(diǎn)燃) to a 31.”In a dialog

25、ue, Socrates takes an ignorant slave boy, without a day of 32, and proves to the amazed observers that the boy really “knows” geometrybecause the principles of geometry are already in his mind, waiting to be called out.So many of the discussions and 33about the content of education are useless and i

26、nconclusive because they 34what should “go into” the student rather than with what should be taken out, and how this can best be done.The college student who once said to me, after a lecture, “I spend so much time studying that I dont have a chance to learn anything,” was clearly expressing his 35wi

27、th the sausage-casing view of education.Part III Reading Comprehension (40 minutes)Section ADirections: 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

28、care fully before making your choices. Each choice in the bank is identified by a letter. Please mark the corresponding letter for each item on Answer Sheet2 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 followi

29、ng passage.“That which does not kill us makes us stronger.” But parents cant handle it when teenagers put this36into practice. Now technology has become the new field for the age-old battle between adults and their freedom-seeking kids.Locked indoors, unable to get on their bicycles and hang out wit

30、h their friends, teens have turned to social media and their mobile phones to socialize with their peers. What they do online often37what they might otherwise do if their mobility werent so heavily38in the age of helicopter parenting. Social media and smart-phone apps have become so popular in recen

31、t years because teens need a place to call their own. They want the freedom to39their identity and the world around them.Instead of40out, they jump online.As teens have moved online, parents have projected their fears onto the Internet, imagining all the41dangers that youth might facefrom42strangers

32、 to cruel peers to pictures or words that could haunt them on Google for the rest of their lives.Rather than helping teens develop strategies for negotiating public life and the risks of43with others, fearful parents have focused on tracking, monitoring and blocking. These tactics (策略) dont help tee

33、ns develop the skills they need to manage complex social situations,44risks and get helpwhen theyre in trouble. “Protecting” kids may feel like the right thing to do, but it45the learning that teens need to do as they come of age in a technology-soaked world.A) assessI) mirrorsB) constrainedJ) philo

34、sophyC) containsK) potentialD) exploreL) sneakingE) influenceM) stickingF) interactingN) underminesG) interpretationO) violentH) magnifiedSection 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 pa

35、ragraphs. Identify the paragraph from which the in formation 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.Inequality Is Not InevitableA A dangerous trend has developed over th

36、is past third of a century. A country that experienced shared growth after World War II began to tear apart, so much so that when the Great Recession hit in late 2007, one could no longer ignore the division that had come to define the American economic landscape. How did this “shining city on a hil

37、l” become the advanced country with the greatest level of inequality?B Over the past year and a half, The Great Divide, a series in The New York Times, has presented a wide range of examples that undermine the notion that there are any truly fundamental laws of capitalism. The dynamics of the imperi

38、al capitalism of the 19th century neednt apply in the democracies of the 21st. We dont need to have this much inequality in America.C Our current brand of capitalism is a fake capitalism. For proof of this go back to our response to the Great Recession, where we socialized losses, even as we privati

39、zed gains. Perfect competition should drive profits to zero, at least theoretically, but we have monopolies making persistently high profits. C.E.O.s enjoy incomes that are on average 295 times that of the typical worker, amuch higher ratio than in the past, without any evidence of a proportionate i

40、ncrease in productivity.D If it is not the cruel laws of economics that have led to Americas great divide, what is it? The straightforward answer, our policies and our politics. People get tired of hearing about Scandinavian success stories, but the fact of the matter is that Sweden, Finland and Nor

41、way have all succeeded in having about as much or faster growth in per capita (人均的) incomes than the United States and with far greater equality.E So why has America chosen these inequality-enhancing policies? Part of the answer is that as World War II faded into memory, so too did the solidarity it

42、 had created. As America triumphed in the Cold War, there didnt seem to be a real competitor to our economic model. Without this international competition, we no longer had to show that our system could deliver for most of our citizens.F Ideology and interests combined viciously. Some drew the wrong

43、 lesson from the collapse of the Sovietsystem in 1991. The pendulum swung from much too much government there to much too little here.Corporate interests argued for getting rid of regulations, even when those regulations had done so much to protect and improve our environment, our safety, our health

44、 and the economy itself.G But this ideology was hypocritical (虛偽的). The bankers, among the strongest advocates of laissez-faire (自由放任的) economics, were only too willing to accept hundreds of billions of dollars from the government in the aid programs that have been a recurring feature of the global

45、economy since the beginning of the Thatcher-Reagan era of “free” markets and deregulation.H The American political system is overrun by money. Economic inequality translates into political inequality, and political inequality yields increasing economic inequality. So corporate welfare increases as w

46、e reduce welfare for the poor. Congress maintains subsidies for rich farmers as we cut back on nutritional support for the needy. Drug companies have been given hundreds of billions of dollars as we limit Medicaid benefits. The banks that brought on the global financial crisis got billionswhile a ti

47、ny bit went to the homeowners and victims of the same bankspredatory (掠奪性的) lending practices. This last decision was particularly foolish. There were alternatives to throwing money at the banks and hoping it would circulate through increased lending.I Our divisions are deep. Economic and geographic

48、 segregation has immunized those at the top from the problems of those down below. Like the kings of ancient times, they have come to perceive their privileged positions essentially as a natural right.J Our economy, our democracy and our society have paid for these gross inequalities. The true test

49、of an economy is not how much wealth its princes can accumulate in tax havens (庇護(hù)所), but how well off the typical citizen is. But average incomes are lower than they were a quarter-century ago. Growth has gone to the very, very top, whose share has almost increased four times since 1980. Money that

50、was meant to have trickled (流淌) down has instead evaporated in the agreeable climate of the Cayman Islands.K With almost a quarter of American children younger than 5 living in poverty, and with America doing so little for its poor, the deprivations of one generation are being visited upon the next.

51、 Of course, no country has ever come close to providing complete equality of opportunity. But why is America one of the advanced countries where the life prospects of the young are most sharply determined by the income and education of their parents?L Among the most bitter stories in The Great Divid

52、e were those that portrayed the frustrations of the young, who long to enter our shrinking middle class. Soaring tuitions and declining incomes have resulted in larger debt burdens. Those with only a high school diploma have seen their incomes decline by 13 percent over the past 35 years.M Where jus

53、tice is concerned, there is also a huge divide. In the eyes of the rest of the world and a significant part of its own population, mass imprisonment has come to define Americaa country, it bears repeating, with about 5 percent of the worlds population but around a fourth of the worlds prisoners.N Ju

54、stice has become a commodity, affordable to only a few. While Wall Street executives used their expensive lawyers to ensure that their ranks were not held accountable for the misdeeds that the crisis in 2008 so graphically revealed, the banks abused our legal system to foreclose (取消贖回權(quán)) on mortgages

55、 and eject tenants, some of whom did not even owe money.O More than a half-century ago, America led the way in advocating for the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, adopted by the United Nations in 1948. Today, access to health care is among the most universally accepted rights, at least in the

56、advanced countries. America, despite the implementation of the Affordable Care Act, is the exception. In the relief that many felt when the Supreme Court did not overturn the Affordable Care Act, the implications of the decision for Medicaid were not fully appreciated. Obamacares objectiveto ensure

57、that all Americans have access to health carehas been blocked: 24 states have not implemented the expanded Medicaid program, which was the meansby which Obamacare was supposed to deliver on its promise to some of the poorest.P We need not just a new war on poverty but a war to protect the middle cla

58、ss. Solutions to these problems do not have to be novel. Far from it. Making markets act like markets would be a good place to start. We must end the rent-seeking society we have gravitated toward, in which the wealthy obtainprofits by manipulating the system.Q The problem of inequality is not so much a matter of technical economics. Its really a problem of practical