大學(xué)英語六級第1套真題及答案解析

1、精品文檔Part I Writing (30 minutes)For this part, you are allowed 30 minutes to write a short essay on living in the virtual world. Try to imagine what will happen when people spend more and more time in the virtual world instead ofinteracting in the real world. You are required to write at least 150 wo

2、rds but no more than 200 words.Part II Listening Comprehension (30 minutes)In this section, you will hear two long conversations. At the end of each conversation, you will hear four questions. Both the conversation and the questions will be spoken only once. After you hear a question, you must choos

3、e the best answer from the four choices marked A), B), C) and D). Then mark the corresponding letter on Answer Sheet 1 with a single line through the center.Questions 1 to 4 are based on the conversation you have just heard.1.A) Project organizer.B) Public relations officer.C) Marketing manager.D) M

4、arket research consultant.2.A) Quantitative advertising research.B) Questionnaire design.C) Research methodology.D) Interviewer training.3.A) They are intensive studies of people s spending habits.B) They examine relations between producers and customers.C) They look for new and effective ways to pr

5、omote products.D) They study trends or customer satisfaction over a long period.4. A) The lack of promotion opportunity.B) Checking charts and tables.C) Designing questionnaires.D) The persistent intensity.Questions 5 to 8 are based on the conversation you have just heard.5. A) His view on Canadian

6、universities.B) His understanding of higher education.C) His suggestions for improvements in higher education.D) His complaint about bureaucracy in American universities.6. A) It is well designed.B) It is rather inflexible.C) It varies among universities.D) It has undergone great changes.7. A) The U

7、nited States and Canada can learn from each other. B) Public universities are often superior to private universities. C) Everyone should be given equal access to higher education. D) Private schools work more efficiently than public institutions.8. A) University systems vary from country to country.

8、B) Efficiency is essential to university management.C) It is hard to say which is better, a public university or a private one.D) Many private universities in the US are actually large bureaucracies.Section BDirections: In this section, you will hear two passages. At the end of each passage, you wil

9、l hear three or four questions. Both the passage and the questions will be spoken only once. After you hear a question, you must choose the best answer from the four choices marked A), B), C) and D). Then mark the corresponding letter on Answer Sheet 1 with a single line through the center.注意：此部分試題請

10、在答題卡1 上作答。Questions 9 to 11 are based on the passage you have just heard.9. A) Government s role in resolving an economic crisis.精品文檔B) The worsening real wage situation around the world.C) Indications of economic recovery in the United States.D) The impact of the current economic crisis on people s

11、 life.10. A) They will feel less pressure to raise employees wages.B) They will feel free to choose the most suitable employees.C) They will feel inclined to expand their business operations.D) They will feel more confident in competing with their rivals.11. A) Employees and companies cooperate to p

12、ull through the economic crisis. B) Government and companies join hands to create jobs for the unemployed. C) Employees work shorter hours to avoid layoffs.D) Team work will be encouraged in companies.Questions 12 to 15 are based on the passage you have just heard.12. A) Whether memory supplements w

13、ork. B) Whether herbal medicine works wonders.C) Whether exercise enhances one s memory. D) Whether a magic memory promises success. 13. A) They help the elderly more than the young. B) They are beneficial in one way or another.C) They generally do not have side effects. D) They are not based on rea

14、l science.14. A) They are available at most country fairs. B) They are taken in relatively high dosage.C) They are collected or grown by farmers.D) They are prescribed by trained practitioners.15. A) They have often proved to be as helpful as doing mental exercise. B) Taking them with other medicati

15、ons might entail unnecessary risks. C) Their effect lasts only a short time.D) Many have benefited from them.Section CDirections: In this section, you will hear three recordings of lectures or talks followed by three or four questions.The recordings will be played only once. After you hear a questio

16、n, you mustchoose the best answer from the four choices marked A), B), C) and D). Then mark the corresponding letter on Answer Sheet with a single line through the center.注意：此部分試題請?jiān)诖痤}卡1 上作答。Questions 16 to 18 are based on the recording you have just heard.16. A) How catastrophic natural disasters tu

17、rn out to be to developing nations. B) How the World Meteorological Organization studies natural disasters.C) How powerless humans appear to be in face of natural disasters. D) How the negative impacts of natural disasters can be reduced.17. A) By training rescue teams for emergencies. B) By taking

18、steps to prepare people for them.C) By changing people s views of nature. D) By relocating people to safer places.18. A) How preventive action can reduce the loss of life.B) How courageous Cubans are in face of disasters.C) How Cubans suffer from tropical storms.D) How destructive tropical storms ca

19、n be.Questions 19 to 22 are based on the recording you have just heard.19. A) Pay back their loans to the American government. B) Provide loans to those in severe financial difficulty. C) Contribute more to the goal of a wider recovery.D) Speed up their recovery from the housing bubble.精品文檔20. A) So

20、me banks may have to merge with others.B) Many smaller regional banks are going to fail. C) It will be hard for banks to provide more loans. D) Many banks will have to lay off some employees.21. A) It will work closely with the government.B) It will endeavor to write off bad loans.C) It will try to

21、lower the interest rate.D) It will try to provide more loans.22. A) It won t help the American economy to turn around. B) It won t do any good to the major commercial banks.C) It will win the approval of the Obama administration.D) It will be necessary if the economy starts to shrink again. Question

22、s 23 to 25 are based on the recording you have just heard.23. A) Being unable to learn new things.B) Being rather slow to make changes.C) Losing temper more and more often.D) Losing the ability to get on with others.24. A) Cognitive stimulation.B) Community activity.C) Balanced diet .D) Fresh air.25

23、. A) Ignoring the signs and symptoms of aging. B) Adopting an optimistic attitude towards life. C) Endeavoring to give up unhealthy lifestyles. D) Seeking advice from doctors from time to time.Part III Reading Comprehension (40 minutes)Section ADirections: In this section, there is a passage with te

24、n blanks. You are required to select one word for each blank from a list of choices given in a word bank following the passage. Read the passage through carefully before making your choices. Each choice in the bank is identified by a letter. Please mark the corresponding letter for each item on Answ

25、er Sheet 2 with a single line through the center. You may not use any of the words in the bank more than once.Pursuing a career is an essential part of adolescent development. “ Theadolescent becomes anadult when he 26 a real job. ” To cognitive researchers like Piaget, adulthood meant the beginning

26、 of an 27 .Piaget argued that once adolescents enter the world of work, their newly acquired ability to form hypotheses allows them to create representations that are too ideal. The 28 of such ideals, without the tempering of the reality of a job or profession, rapidly leads adolescents to become 29

27、 of the non-idealistic world and to press for reform in a characteristically adolescent way. Piaget said:“ True adaptation to society comes 30 when the adolescent reformer attempts to put his ideas to work. ”O(jiān)f course, youthful idealism is often courageous, and no one likes to give up dreams. Perhap

28、s,taken 31 out of context, Piaget s stateseemsentharsh. What he was 32 , however, is the way reality can modify idealistic views. Some people refer to such modification as maturity. Piaget argued that attaining and accepting a vocation is one of the best ways to modify idealized views and to mature.

29、As careers and vocations become less available during times of 33 , adolescents may be especially.精品文檔hard hit. Such difficult economic times may leave many adolescents 34 about their roles in society.For this reason, communityinterventionsand governmentjob programs that offer summer andvacation wor

30、k are not only economically 35but also help to stimulate the adolescent s sense ofworth.注意：此部分試題請?jiān)诖痤}卡2 上作答。A) automaticallyB) beneficialC) capturingD) confusedE) emphasizingF) entranceG) excitedH) existenceI) incidentallyJ) intolerantK) occupationL) promisesM) recessionN) slightlyO) undertakesSectio

31、n BDirections: In this section, you are going to read a passage withten statements attached to it.Each statement contains information given in one of the paragraphs. Identify the paragraph fromwhich the information is derived. You may choose a paragraph more than once. Each paragraph ismarked with a

32、 letter. Answer the questions by marking the corresponding letter on Answer Sheet2.Can Societies Be Rich and Green?A “ If our economies are to flourish, if global poverty is to be eliminated and if the well-being ofthe world s people enhancednot justin this generation but in succeeding generations w

33、e mustmake sure we take care of the natural environment and resources on which our economic activitydepends. ”Thatstatement comes not, as you might imagine, froma stereotypical tree-hugging,save-the-world greenie (?環(huán)保主義者 ?), but from Gordon Brown, a politician with a reputation forrigor, thoroughnes

34、s and above all, caution.B A surprising thing for the man who runs one of the world s most powerful economies to say?Perhaps; though in the run-up to the five-year review of the Millennium (?千年的 ?) Goals, he is farfrom alone. The roots of his speech, given in March at the roundtable meeting of envir

35、onment andenergy ministersfrom the G20 group of nations, stretch back to 1972, and the UnitedNationsConference on the Human Environment in Stockholm.C “ The protection and improvement of the human environment is a major issue which affects the well- being of peoples and economic development througho

36、ut the world, ”read the final declaration from this gathering, the first of a sequence which would lead to the Rio de Janeiro Earth Summit in 1992 and the World Development Summit in Johannesburg three years ago.D Hunt through the reports prepared by UN agencies and development groups many forconfer

37、ences such as this year Millenniums Goals review and you will find that the linkage between environmental protection and economic progress is a common thread.E Managing ecosystems sustainably is more profitable than exploiting them, according to the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment. But finding hard

38、evidence to support the thesis is not so easy. Thoughts turn first to some sort of global statistic, some indicator which would rate the wealth of nations in both economic and environmental terms and show a relationship between the two.F If such an indicator exists, it is well hidden. And on reflect

39、ion, this is not surprising; the single word “ environment ” has so many dimensions, and there are so many other factors affectingwealth such as the oil deposits that teasing out a simple economy-environment relationship would be almost impossible.G The Millennium Ecosystem Assessment, a vast four-y

40、ear global study which reported its initial conclusions earlier this year, found reasons to believe that managing ecosystems sustainably working with nature rather than against it might be less profitable in the short term,.精品文檔but certainly brings long-term rewards.H And the World Resources Institu

41、te (WRI) in its World Resources 2005 report, issued at the end of August, produced several such examples from Africa and Asia; it also demonstrated that environmental degradation affects the poor more than the rich, as poorer people derive a much higher proportion of their income directly from the n

42、atural resources around them.I But there are also many examples of growing wealth by trashing the environment, in rich andpoor parts of 6 the world alike,whether through unregulated mineral extraction, drasticwateruse for agriculture,slash-and-burn farming,or fossil-fuel- guzzling (?大量消耗 ?) transpor

43、t. Ofcourse, such growthmay not persist in thelong term which is what Mr. Brownand theStockholm declaration were bothattemptingto point out. Perhaps the best exampleofboomgrowth and bust decline is the Grand Banks fishery. For almost five centuries a very large supply of cod (?鱈魚 ?) provided abundan

44、t raw material for an industry which at its peak employed about 40,000 people, sustaining entire communities in Newfoundland. Then, abruptly, the cod population collapsed. There were no longer enough fish in the sea for the stock to maintain itself, let alone an industry. More than a decade later, t

45、here was no sign of the ecosystem re-building itself. It had, apparently, been fished out of existence; and the once mighty Newfoundland fleet now gropes about frantically for crab on the sea floor.J There is a view that modern humans are inevitably sowing the seeds of a global Grand Banks-style dis

46、aster. The idea is that we are taking more out of what you might call the planet environmental bank balance than it can sustain; we are living beyond our ecological means. One recent study attempted to calculate the extent of this “ ecological overshoot of the human economy, ”and found that we are u

47、sing 1.2 Earth s-worth of environmental goods andservices theimplicationbeing that at some point the debt willbe called in, andall thoseservices the things which the planet does for us for free will grind to a halt.K Whetherthis is right, and if so where and when the ecological axe willfall,is hard

48、todeterminewith anyprecision which iswhy governments and financialinstitutionsare onlybeginningtobringsuchrisks into theireconomic calculations.It isalsothe reason whydevelopment agencies are not united in their view of environmental issues; while some, like the WRI, maintain that environmental prog

49、ress needs to go hand-in-hand with economic development, others argue that the priority is to build a thriving economy, and then use the wealth created to tackle environmental degradation.L This view assumes that rich societies will invest in environmental care. But is this right? Do things get bett

50、er or worse as we get richer? Here the Stockholm declaration is ambiguous.developing countries, it” says, “ most of the environmental problems are caused by under-development. ” So it is saying that economic development should make for a cleaner world?Not necessarily;“ In the industralized countries

51、, environmental problems are generally related toindustrialization and technological development,”otheritcontinueswords,.poorIn and rich bothover-exploit the natural world, but for different reasons. It s simply not true that economic growtwill surely make our world cleaner.M Clearly, richer societi

52、es are able to provide environmental improvements which lie well beyond the reach of poorer communities. Citizens of wealthy nations demand national parks, clean rivers, clean air and poison-free food. They also, however, use far more natural resources-fuel, water (all those baths and golf courses)

53、and building materials.N A case can be made that rich nations export environmental problems, the most graphic.精品文檔example being climate change. As a country s wealth grows, so do its greenhouse gas emissions.The figures available will not be completely accurate. Measuring emissions is not a precise

54、science, particularly when it comes to issues surrounding land use; not all nations have released up-to-date data, and in any case, emissions from some sectors such as aviation are not included in national statistics. But the data is exact enough for a clear trend to be easily discernible. Ascountri

55、es become richer, they produce more greenhouse gases; and the impact of those gases will fall primarily in poor parts of the world.O Wealth is not, of course, the only factor involved. The average Norwegian is better off than the average US citizen, but contributes about half as much to climate chan

56、ge. But could Norway keep its standard of living and yet cut its emissions to Moroccan or even Ethiopian levels? That question, repeated across a dozen environmental issues and across our diverse planet, is what will ultimately determine whether the human race is living beyond its ecological means as it pursueseconomic revival.注意：此部分試題請?jiān)诖痤}卡2 上作答。36. Examples show that both rich and poor countries exploited the environment for economic progress.37. Environmental protection and improvement benefit