月英語六級真題第二套含答案

1、2014年6月大學英語六級考試真題(第二套)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 150 words but no mor

2、e 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 will be s

3、poken 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) College tuition has become a he

4、avy 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.B) Jay is surprised to learn of the party

5、 for him.C) The dean will come to Jays birthday party.D) The class has kept the party a secret from Jay.3. A) He found his wallet in his briefcase.B) He went to the lost-and-found office.C) He left his things with his car in the garage.D) He told the woman to go and pick up his car.4. A) The show he

6、 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.B) The man should try out some new recipes.C) Overco

7、oked vegetables are often tasteless.D) The man should stop boiling the vegetables.6. A) Sort out their tax returns. C) Figure out a way to avoid taxes.B) Help them tidy up the house. D) Help them to decode a message.7. A) He didnt expect to complete his work so soon.B) He has devoted a whole month t

8、o 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.B) He has failed to register for the course.C) Developmental psychology is newly offered.D) There should be more time for registration.Questions 9

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.11. A) It will be

10、 on the following weekend. C) It will last only one day.B) It will be out into the countryside. D) It will start tomorrow.Questions 12 to 15 are based on the conversation you have just heard.12. A) A good secondary education. C) A happy childhood.B) A pleasant neighbourhood. D) A year of practical t

11、raining.13. A) He ought to get good vocational training. C) He is academically gifted.B) He should be sent to a private school. D) He is good at carpentry.14. A) Donwell School. C) Carlton Abbey.B) Enderby High. D) Enderby Comprehensive.15. A) Put Keith in a good boarding school.B) Talk with their c

12、hildren about their decision.C) Send their children to a better private school.D) Find out more about the five schools.Section BDirections: In this section, you will hear 3 short passages. At the end of each passage, you will hear some questions. Both the passage and the questions will be spoken onl

13、y 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 centre.Passage OneQuestions 16 to 18 are based on the passage you have just heard.16. A) It will be b

14、rightly lit. C) It will have a large space for storage.B) It will be well ventilated. D) It will provide easy access to the disabled.17. A) On the first floor. C) Opposite to the library.B) On the ground floor. D) On the same floor as the labs.18. A) To make the building appear traditional.B) To mat

15、ch the style of construction on the site.C) To cut the construction cost to the minimum.D) To embody the subcommittees design concepts.Passage TwoQuestions 19 to 22 are based on the passage you have just heard.19. A) Sell financial software. C) Train clients to use financial software.B) Write financ

16、ial software. D) Conduct research on financial software.20. A) Unsuccessful. C) Tedious.B) Rewarding. D) Important.21. A) He offered online tutorials. C) He gave the trainees lecture notes.B) He held group discussions. D) He provided individual support.22. A) The employees were a bit slow to follow

17、his instruction.B) The trainees problems have to be dealt with one by one.C) Nobody is able to solve all the problems in a couple of weeks.D) The fault might lie in his style of presenting the information.Passage ThreeQuestions 23 to 25 are based on the passage you have just heard.23. A) Their paren

18、ts tend to overprotect them.B) Their teachers meet them only in class.C) They have little close contact with adults.D) They rarely read any books about adults.24. A) Real-life cases are simulated for students to learn law.B) Writers and lawyers are brought in to talk to students.C) Opportunities are

19、 created for children to become writers.D) More Teacher and Writer Collaboratives are being set up.25. A) Sixth-graders can teach first-graders as well as teachers.B) Children are often the best teachers of other children.C) Paired Learning cultivates the spirit of cooperation.D) Children like to fo

20、rm partnerships with each other.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 are required to fill in the blanks with the exac

21、t words you have just heard. Finally, when the passage is read for the third time, you should check what you have written.Tests may be the most unpopular part of academic life. Students hate them because they produce fear and (26) _ about being evaluated, and a focus on grades instead of learning fo

22、r learnings sake.But tests are also valuable. A well-constructed test (27) _ what you know and what you still need to learn. Tests help you see how your performance (28) _ that of others. And knowing that youll be tested on (29) _ material is certainly likely to (30) _ you to learn the material more

23、 thoroughly.However, theres another reason you might dislike tests: You may assume that tests have the power to (31) _ your worth as a person. If you do badly on a test, you may be tempted to believe that youve received some (32) _ information about yourself from the professor, information that says

24、 youre a failure in some significant way.This is a dangerousand wrong-headedassumption. If you do badly on a test, it doesnt mean youre a bad person or stupid. Or that youll never do better again, and that your life is (33) _. If you dont do well on a test, youre the same person you were before you

25、took the testno better, no worse. You just did badly on a test. Thats it.(34) _, tests are not a measure of your value as an individualthey are a measure only of how well and how much you studied. Tests are tools; they are indirect and (35) _ measures of what we know.Part III Reading Comprehension (

26、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 carefully before making your choices. Each choice in the bank is identif

27、ied by a letter. Please mark the corresponding letter for each item on Answer Sheet 2 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 following passage.Fear can be an effective way to change behavior. One study co

28、mpared the effects of high-fear and low-fear appeals on changes in attitudes and behaviors related to dental hygiene(衛(wèi)生). One group of subjects was shown awful pictures of _36_ teeth and diseased gums; another group was shown less frightening materials such as plastic teeth, charts, and graphs. Subj

29、ects who saw the frightening materials reported more anxiety and a greater _37_ to change the way they took care of their teeth than the low-fear group did.But were these reactions actually _38_ into better dental hygiene practices? To answer this important question, subjects were called back to the

30、 laboratory on two _39_ (five days and six weeks after the experiment). They chewed disclosing wafers(牙疾診斷片) that give a red stain to any uncleaned areas of the teeth and thus provided a direct _40_ of how well they were really taking care of their teeth. The result showed that the high-fear appeal

31、did actually result in greater and more _41_ changes in dental hygiene. That is, the subjects _42_ to high-fear warnings brushed their teeth more _43_ than did those who saw low-fear warnings.However, to be an effective persuasive device it is very important that the message not be too frightening a

32、nd that people be given _44_ guidelines to help them to reduce the cause of the fear. If this isnt done, they may reduce their anxiety by denying the message or the _45_ of the communicator. If that happens, it is unlikely that either attitude or behavior change will occur.A) accustomed I) eligibleB

33、) carefully J) exposedC) cautiously K) indicationD) concrete L) occasionsE) credibility M) permanentF) decayed N) sensitivityG) desire O) translatedH) dimensionsSection BDirections: In this section, you are going to read a passage with ten statements attached to it. Each statement contains informati

34、on given in one of the paragraphs. Identify the paragraph from which the information 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.The Street-Level SolutionA) When I was growin

35、g up, one of my fathers favorite sayings (borrowed from the humorist Will Rogers) was: “It isnt what we dont know that causes the trouble: its what we think we know that just aint so.” One of the main insights to be taken from the 100,000 Homes Campaign and its strategy to end chronic homelessness i

36、s that, until recently, our society thought it understood the nature of homelessness, but it didnt.B) That led to a series of mistaken assumptions about why people become homeless and what they need. Many of the errors in our homelessness policies have stemmed from the conception that the homeless a

37、re a homogeneous group. Its only in the past 15 years that organizations like Common Ground, and others, have taken a street-level view of the problemdistinguishing the “episodically homeless” from the “chronically homeless” in order to understand their needs at an individual level. This is why we c

38、an now envisage a different approachand get better results.C) Most readers expressed support for the effort, although a number were skeptical, and a few utterly dismissive, about the chances of long-term homeless people adapting well to housing. This is to be expected; its hard to imagine what we ha

39、vent yet seen. As Niccolò Machiavelli wrote in The Prince, one of the major obstacles in any effort to advance systemic change is the “incredulity of men,” which is to say that people “do not readily believe in new things until they have had a long experience of them.” Most of us have witnessed

40、 homeless people on the streets for decades. Few have seen formerly homeless people after they have been housed successfully. We dont have reference points for that story. So we generalize from what we knowor think we know.D) But that can be misleading, even to experts. When I asked Rosanne Haggerty

41、, founder of Common Ground, which currently operates 2,310 units of supportive housing (with 552 more under construction), what had been her biggest surprise in this work, she replied: “Fifteen years ago, I would not have believed that people who had been so broken and stuck in homelessness could th

42、rive to the degree that they do in our buildings.” And Becky Kanis, the campaigns director, commented: “There is this sense in our minds that someone whos on the streets is almost in their DNA different from someone who has a house. The campaign is creating a first-hand experience for many people th

43、at that is really not the case. ”E) One of the startling realizations that I had while researching this column is that anybody could become like a homeless personall it takes is a traumatic(創(chuàng)傷的) brain injury. A bicycle fall, a car accident, a slip on the ice, or if youre a soldier, a head woundand y

44、our life could become unrecognizable. James OConnell, a doctor who has been treating the most vulnerable homeless people on the streets of Boston for 25 years, estimates that 40 percent of the long-term homeless people hes met had such a brain injury. “For many it was a head injury prior to the time

45、 they became homeless.” he said. “They became unpredictable. Theyd have mood swings, fits of explosive behavior. They couldnt hold onto their jobs. Drinking made them feel better. Theyd end up on the streets. ”F) Once homeless people return to housing, theyre in a much better position to rebuild the

46、ir lives. But its important to note that housing alone is not enough. As with many complex social problems, when you get through the initial crisis, you have another problem to solve which is no less challenging. But it is a better problem.G) Over the past decade, OConnell has seen this happen. “I s

47、pend half my time on the streets or in the hospital and the other half making house calls to people who lived for years on the streets,” he said. “So from a doctors point of view its a delightful switch, but its not as if putting someone in housing is the answer to addressing all of their problems.

48、Its the first step.”H) Once in housing, formerly homeless people can become isolated and lonely. If theyve lived on the streets for years, they may have acquired a certain standing as well as a sense of pride in their survival skills. Now indoors, those aspects of their identity may be stripped away

49、. Many also experience a profound disorientation at the outset. “If youre homeless for more than six months, you kind of lose your bearings,” says Haggerty. “Existence becomes not about overcoming homelessness but about finding food, begging, looking for a job to survive another day. The whole proce

50、ss of how you define stability gets reordered.”I) Many need regular, if not continuous, support with mental health problems, addictions and illnessesand, equally important, assistance in the day-to-day challenges of life, reacquainting with family, building relationships with neighbors, finding enjo

51、yable activities or work, managing finances, and learning how to eat healthy food.J ) For some people, the best solution is to live in a communal(集體) residence, with special services. This isnt available everywhere, however. In Boston, for example, homeless people tend to be scattered in apartments

52、throughout the city.K) Common Grounds large residences in New York offer insight into the possibilities for change when homeless people have a rich array of supports. In addition to more traditional social services, residents also make use of communal gardens, classes in things like cooking, yoga, t

53、heatre and photography, and job placement. Last year, 188 formerly homeless tenants in four of Common Grounds residences, found jobs.L) Because the properties have many services and are well-managed, Haggerty has found posthousing problems to be surprisingly rare. In the past 10 years, there have be

54、en only a handful of incidents of quarrels between tenants. There is very little graffiti(涂鴉) or vandalism(破壞). And the turnover is almost negligible. In the Prince George Hotel in New York, which is home to 208 formerly homeless people and 208 low-income tenants, the average length of tenancy is cl

55、ose to seven years. (All residents pay 30 percent of their income for rent; for the formerly homeless, this comes out of their government benefits.) When people move on, it is usually because theyve found a preferable apartment.M) “Tenants also want to participate in shaping the public areas of the

56、buildings,” said Haggerty. “They formed a gardening committee. They want a terrace on the roof. Those are things I didnt count on.” The most common tenant demand? “People always want more storage spacebut thats true of every New Yorker,” she adds. “In many ways, were a lot like a normal apartment bu

57、ilding. Our tenants look like anyone else.”N) As I mentioned, homelessness is a catch-all for a variety of problems. A number of readers asked whether the campaign will address family homelessness, which has different causes and requires a different solution. Ive been following some of the promising ideas emerging to address and prevent family homelessness. Later in 2011, Ill explore these ideas in a column. For now, Ill conclude with an update on the 100,000 Homes Campaign. Since Tuesday, New Or