英语六级真题及参考答案完整版.docx

1、英语六级真题及参考答案完整版2020年9月英语六级真题及参考答案【完整版】听力：Section ALong Conversation OneM: You are a professor of Physics at the University of Oxford. You are a senior advisor at the European Organization for Nuclear Research. You also seem to tour the global tirelessly, giving talks. And in addition, you have your o

2、wn weekly TV show On Science. Where do you get the energy?W: Oh, well.【Q1】I just love what I do.I am extremely fortunate to have this life, doing what I love doing.M: Professor, what exactly is your goal? Why do you do all of these?W: well, as you said, I do have different things going on. But these

3、 I think can be divided into【Q2】two groups: the education of science, and the further understanding of science.M: Dont these two things get in the way of each other? What I mean is, doesnt giving lectures take time away from the lab?W: Not really, no. I love teaching, and I dont mind spending more t

4、ime doing that now than in the past. Also, what I will say is, that【Q3】teaching a subject helps me comprehend it better myself. I find that it furthers my own knowledge when I have to explain something clearly, when I have to aid others understanding it, and when I have to answer questions about it.

5、Teaching at a high level can be very stimulating for anyone, no matter how much expertise they may already have in the field they are instructing.M: Are there any scientific breakthroughs that you see on the near horizon? A significant discovery or invention we can expect soon.W:【Q4】The world is alw

6、ays conducting science. And therere constantly new things being discovered. In fact, right now, we have too much data sitting in computers.For example, we have thousands of photos of planet Mars taken by telescopes that nobody has ever seen.We have them, yet nobody has had time to look at them with

7、their own eyes, let alone analyze them.Q1: Why does the woman say she can be so energetic?Q2: What has the woman been engaged in?Q3: What does the woman say about the benefit teaching brings to her?Q4: How does the woman say new scientific breakthroughs can be made possible?Section AConversation 2M:

8、 Do you think dreams【Q5】have special meanings?W: No. I dont think they do.M: I dont either, but some people do. I would say people who believe that dreams have special meanings are superstitious, especially nowadays. In the past, during the times of ancient Egypt, Greece or China, people used to bel

9、ieve that dreams could foresee the future. But today, with all the scientific knowledge that we have, I think its much harder to believe in these sorts of things.W: My grandmother is superstitious, and she thinks dreams can predict the future. Once,【Q6】she dreamed that the flight she was due to take

10、 the following day crashed.Can you guess what she did? She didnt take that flight. She didnt even bother to go to the airport the following day. Instead, she took the same flight but a week later. And everything was fine of course. No plane ever crashed.M: How funny! Did you know that flying is actu

11、ally safer than any other mode of transport? Its been statistically proven. People can be so irrational sometimes.W: Yes, absolutely. But, even if we think they are ridiculous,【Q7】emotions can be just as powerful as rational thinking.M: Exactly. People do all sorts of crazy things because of their i

12、rrational feelings. But in fact, some psychologists believe that our dreams are the result of our emotions and memories from that day. I think it was Sigmund Freud who said that childrens dreams were usually simple representations of their wishes, things they wished would happen.【Q8】But in adults, d

13、reams are much more complicated reflections of their more sophisticated sentiments.W: Isnt it interesting how psychologists try to understand using the scientific method something as bazaar as dreams? Psychology is like the rational study of irrational feelings.Q5: What do both speakers think of dre

14、ams?Q6: Why didnt the womans grandmother take her scheduled flight?Q7: What does the woman say about peoples emotions?Q8: What did psychologist Sigmund Freud say about adults dreams?Section BPassage 1While some scientists explore the surface of the Antarctic, others are learning more about a giant b

15、ody of water - four kilometers beneath the ice pack. Scientists first discovered Lake Vostok in the 1970s by using radio waves that penetrate the ice. Since then, they have used sound waves and even satellites to map this massive body of water. How does the water in Lake Vostok remained liquid benea

16、th an ice sheet? “The thick glacier above acts like insulating blanket and keeps the water from freezing,” said Martin Siegert, a glaciologist from the university of Wales. In addition, geothermal heat from the deep within the earth may warm the hidden lake. The scientists suspect that microorganism

17、s may be living in Lake Vostok, closed off from the outside world for more than two million years. Anything found that will be totally alien to whats on the surface of the earth, said Siegert. Scientists are trying to find a way to drill into the ice and draw water samples without causing contaminat

18、ion. Again, robots might be the solution. If all goes as planned, a drill-shift robot will melt through the surface ice. When it reaches the lake, it will release another robot that can swim in the lake, take pictures and look for signs of life. The scientists hope that discoveries will shed light o

19、n life in outer space, which might exist in similar dark and airless conditions. Recently closed-up pictures of Jupiters moon, Europa, shows signs of water beneath the icy surface. Once tested the Antarctic, robots could be set to Europa to search for life there, too.Q9: What did the scientists firs

20、t use to discover Lake Vostok in the 1970s?Q10: What did scientists think about Lake Vostok?Q11: What do the scientists hope their discoveries will do?Section BPassage 2The idea to study the American Indian tribe Tarahumaras, came to James Copeland in 1984 when【Q12】he discovered that very little res

21、earch had been done on their language.He contacted the tribe member through a social worker who worked with the tribes in Mexico. At first, the tribe member named Gonzalez was very reluctant to cooperate. He told Copeland that no amount of money could buy his language. But after Copeland explained t

22、o him what he intended to do with his research and how it would benefit the Tarahumaras, Gonzalez agreed to help.【Q13】He took Copeland to his village and served as an intermediary. Copeland says, thanks to him, the Tarahumaras understood what their mission was and started trusting us. 【Q14】Entering

23、the world of Tarahumaras has been a laborious project for Copeland.To reach their homeland, he must strive two and half days from Huston Taxes. He loads up his vehicle with goods that the tribes men cant easily get and gives the goods to them as a gesture of friendship. The Tarahumaras, who dont bel

24、ieve any humiliating wealth, take the food and share among themselves. For Copeland, the experience has not only been academically satisfying but also has enriched his life in several ways.【Q15】“I see people rejecting technology and living a very hard, traditional life, which offers me another notio

25、n about the meaning of progress in the western tradition,” he says, “I experienced the simplicity of living in nature that I would otherwise only be able to read about. I see a lot of beauty and their sense of sharing and concern for each other.”Q12: Why did James Copeland want to study the American

26、 Indian tribe - Tarahumaras?Q13: How did Gonzalez help James Copeland?Q14: What does the speaker say about James Copelands trip to the Tarahumaras village?Q15: What impresses James Copeland about the Tarahumaras tribe?Section CRecording 1What is a radical? It seems today that people are terrified of

27、 the term, particularly of having the label attach to them. 【Q16】Accusing individuals or groups of being radical often serves to silence them into submission, thereby, maintaining the existing state of affairs, and, more important, preserving the power of a select minority, who are mostly wealthy wh

28、ite males in western society.Feminism is a perfect example of this phenomenon. The womens movement has been plagued by stereotypes, misrepresentations by the media, and accusations of man-hating and radicalism. When the basic foundation of feminism is simply that women deserve equal rights in all fa

29、cets of life. When faced with the threat of being labelled radical, women back down from their worthy calls and consequently, participate in their own oppression.It has gotten to the point that many women are afraid to call themselves feminists because of a stigma attached to the word. If people ref

30、used to be controlled, and intimidated by stigmas, the stigmas lose all their power, without fear on which they feed, such stigmas can only die.To me,【Q17】a radical is simply someone who rebels against the norm when advocates a change in the existing state of affairs.On close inspection, it becomes

31、clear that the norm is constantly involving, and therefore, is not a constant entity.So why then, is deviation from the present situation such a threat, when the state of affairs itself is unstable and subject to relentless transformation?It all goes back to maintaining the power of those who have i

32、t and preventing the right of those who dont. In fact, when we look at the word radical in a historical context, nearly every figure we now hold up as a hero was considered a radical in his or her time. Radicals are people who affect change. They are the people about whom history is written. Abolitionists were radicals, civil rights activists were radicals,【Q18】 even the founders of our country in their fight to win independence from England were radi