1、大学英语六级考试真题及答案第一套2014年12月大学英语六级考试真题及答案(第一套)2014年12月大学英语六级考试真题一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
2、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 A1. 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
3、 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 doesnt quite believe what the woman says.D) He thinks the race is too h
4、ard 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 certa
5、inly 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
6、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.C) It helped him understand the Sherpa view of mount
7、ains.D) It was his father who gave him the strength to succeed.Section BPassage One16. A) By showing a memorandums structure. B) By analyzing the organization of a letter.C) By comparing memorandums with letters. D) By reviewing what he has said previously.17. A) They ignored many of the memorandums
8、 they received.B) They placed emphasis on the format of memorandums.C) They seldom read a memorandum through to the end.D) They spent a lot of time writing memorandums.18. A) Style and wording. B) Directness and clarity.C) Structure and length. D) Simplicity and accuracy.19. A) Inclusion of appropri
9、ate humor. B) Direct statement of purpose.C) Professional look. D) Accurate dating.Passage Two20. A) They give top priority to their work efficiency.B) They make an effort to lighten their workload.C) They try hard to make the best use of their time.D) They never change work habits unless forced to.
10、21. A) Sense of duty. B) Self-confidence.C) Work efficiency. D) Passion for work.22. A) They find no pleasure in the work they do. B) They try to avoid work whenever possible.C) They are addicted to playing online games. D) They simply have no sense of responsibility.Passage Three23. A) He lost all
11、his property. B) He was sold to a circus.C) He ran away from his family. D) He was forced into slavery.24. A) A carpenter. B) A master of his.C) A businessman. D) A black drummer.25. A) It named its town hall after Solomon Northup. B) It freed all blacks in the town from slavery.C) It declared July
12、24 Solomon Northup Day. D) It hosted a reunion for the Northup family.Section CIntolerance is the art of ignoring any views that differ from your own. It (26) _ itself in hatred, stereotypes, prejudice, and (27)_ . Once it intensifies in people, intolerance is nearly impossible to overcome. But why
13、would anyone want to be labeled intolerant? Why would people want to be (28) _ about the world around them? Why would one want be part of the problem in America, instead of the solution?There are many explanations for intolerant attitudes, some (29) _ childhood. It is likely that intolerant forks gr
14、ew up (30) _ intolerant parents and the cycle of prejudice has simply continued for (31) _ . Perhaps intolerant people are so set in their ways that they find it easier to ignore anything that might not (32) _ their limited view of life. Or maybe intolerant students have simply never been (33)_ to a
15、nyone different from themselves. But none of these reasons is an excuse for allowing the intolerance to continue.Intolerance should not be confused with disagreement. It is, of course, possible to disagree with an opinion without being intolerant of it. If you understand a belief but still dont beli
16、eve in that specific belief, thats fine. You are (34) _ your opinion. As a matter of fact, (35) _ dissenters(持异议者)are important for any belief. If we all believed the same things, we would never grow, and we would never learn about the world around us. Intolerance does not stem from disagreement. It
17、 stems from fear. And fear stems from ignorance.Reading Comprehension (40 minutes)Section AIt was 10 years ago, on a warm July night, that a newborn lamb took her first breath in a small shed in Scotland. From the outside, she looked no different from thousands of other sheep born on 36 farms. But D
18、olly, as the world soon came to realize, was no 37 lamb. She was cloned from a single cell of an adult female sheep, 38 long-held scientific dogma that had declared such a thing biologically impossible.A decade later, scientists are starting to come to grips with just how different Dolly was. Dozens
19、 of animals have been cloned since that first lambmice, cats, cows and, most recently, a dogand its becoming 39 clear that they are all, in one way or another, defective.Its 40 to think of clones as perfect carbon copies of the original. It turns out, though, that there are various degrees of geneti
20、c 41. That may come as a shock to people who have paid thousands of dollars to clone a pet cat only to discover that the baby cat looks and behaves 42 like their beloved petwith a different- color coat of fur, perhaps, or a 43 different attitude toward its human hosts.And these are just the obvious
21、differences. Not only are clones 44 from the original template(模板)by time, but they are also the product of an unnatural molecular mechanism that turns out not to be very good at making 45 copies. In fact, the process can embed small flaws in the genes of clones that scientists are only now discover
22、ing.A) abstractB) completelyC) desertedD) duplicationE) everythingF) identicalG) increasinglyH) miniatureI) nothingJ) ordinaryK) overturningL) separatedM) surroundingN) systematicallyO) tempting参考答案:36-M-surrounding37-J-ordinary38-K-overturning39-G-increasingly40-O-tempting41-D-duplication42-I-nothi
23、ng43-B-completely44-L-separated45-F-identicalSection BShould 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 di
24、fferences 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 achievementor the best
25、way forward for todays 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
26、Pseudoscience of Single-Sex Education.”B We showed that three lines of research used to justify single-sex schoolingeducational, neuroscience, and social psychologyall fail to support its alleged benefits, and so the widely-held view that gender separation is somehow better for boys, girls, or both
27、is nothing more than a myth.The Research on Academic OutcomesC First, we reviewed the extensive educational research that has compared academic outcomes in students attending single-sex versus coeducational schools. The overwhelming conclusion when you put this enormous literature together is that t
28、here is no clear academic advantage of sitting in all-female or all-male classes, in spite of much popular belief to the contrary. I base this conclusion not on any individual study, but on large- scale and systematic reviews of thousands of studies conducted in every major English-speaking country.
29、D Of course, therere many excellent single-sex schools out there, but as these careful research reviews have demonstrated, its not their single-sex composition that makes them excellent. Its all the other advantages that are typically packed into such schools, such as financial resources, quality of
30、 the faculty, and pro-academic culture, along with the family background and pre-selected ability of the students themselves that determine their outcomes.E A case in point is the study by Linda Sax at UCLA, who used data from a large national survey of college freshmen to evaluate the effect of sin
31、gle-sex versus coeducational high schools. Commissioned by the National Coalition of Girls Schools, the raw findings look pretty good for the fundershigher SAT scores and a stronger academic orientation among women who had attended all girls high schools (men werent studied). However, once the resea
32、rchers controlled for both student and school attributesmeasures such as family income, parents education, and school resourcesmost of these effects were erased or diminished.F When it comes to boys in particular, the data show that single-sex education is distinctly unhelpful for them. Among the minority of studies that have reported advantages of s
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