大学英语六级考试真题及答案解析一.docx

1、大学英语六级考试真题及答案解析一2015年6月大学英语六级考试真题(一） 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

2、 at least 150 words but no more than 200 words.注意：此部分试题请在答题卡1上作答。Part 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

3、 the conversation and the questions will be spoken only once. After each question there will be a pause. During the pause, you must read the four choices marked A), B) 9 C) and D), and decide which is the best answer. Then mark the corresponding letter on Answer Sheet 1 with a single line through th

4、e centre.注意：此部分试题请在答题卡1上作答。1. A) Prepare for his exams. C) Attend the concert.B) Catch up on his work. 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 passeng

5、ers were injured or killed.3. A) An article about the election. C) An election campaign.B) A tedious job to be done. D) A fascinating topic.4. A) The restaurant was not up to the speakers5 expectations.B) The restaurant places many ads in popular magazines.C) The critic thought highly of the Chinese

6、 restaurant.D) Chinatown has got the best restaurants in the 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 vot

7、e last night.B) At least twenty students are needed to vote 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 n

8、othing to do but watch TV.D) The man seldom watched TV before 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 ba

9、sed on the conversation you have just heard. 9.A) Persuade the man to join her company. C) Export bikes to foreign markets.B) Employ the most up-to-date technology. D) Expand their domestic business.10. A) The state subsidizes small and medium enterprises.B) The government has control over bicycle i

10、mports.C) They can compete with the best domestic manufacturers.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 f

11、ind suitable local agents.12. A) Report to the management. C) Conduct a feasibility study.B) Attract foreign investments. 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 use

12、d to produce power.C) Fuel refined from oil extracted from underground.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 pr

13、oblems.D) Oil production will begin to decline worldwide by 2025.15. A) Minimize the use of fossil fuels. C) Find the real cause for global warming.B) Start developing alternative fuels. D) Take steps to reduce the greenhouse effect.Section BDirections： In this section you will hear 3 short passages

14、. At the end of each passage, you will hear some 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

15、through the centre.注意：此部分试题请在答题卡1上作答。Passage OneQuestions 16 to 18 are based on the passage you have just heard.16. A) The ability to predict fashion trends. C) Years of practical experience.B) A refined taste for artistic works. D) Strict professional training.17. A) Promoting all kinds of American

16、 hand-made specialties.B) Strengthening cooperation with foreign governments.C) Conducting trade in art works with dealers overseas.D) Purchasing handicrafts from all over the world.18. A) She has access to fashionable things. C) She can enjoy life on a modest salary.B) She is doing what she enjoys

17、doing. D) She is free to do whatever she wants.Passage TwoQuestions 19 to 22 are based on the passage you have just heard.C) 19. A) Join in neighborhood patrols.B) Get involved in his community.20. A) Deterioration in the quality of life.B) Increase of police patrols at night.21. A) They may take a

18、long time to solve.B) They need assistance from the city.Voice his complaints to the city council.D) Make suggestions to the local authorities.C) Renovation of the vacant buildings.D) Violation of community regulations.C) They have to be dealt with one by one.D) They are too big for individual effor

19、ts. 22. A) He had got some groceries at a big discount.B) He had read a funny poster 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.Part Reading Comprehension (40 minutes)Section

20、 A .Directions： 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 identified by a letter.

21、 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.Innovation, the elixir(灵丹妙药）of progress, has always cost people their jobs. I

22、n the Industrial Revolution hand weavers were 36 aside by the mechanical loom. Over the past 30 years the digital revolution has 37 many of the mid-skill jobs that supported 20th-century middle-class life. Typists, ticket agents, bank tellers and many production-line jobs have been dispensed with, j

23、ust as the weavers were.For those who believe that technological progress has made the world a better place, such disruption is a natural part of rising 38 Although innovation kills some jobs, it creates new and better ones, as a more 39 society becomes richer and its wealthier inhabitants demand mo

24、re goods and services. A hundred years ago one in three American workers was 40 on a farm. Today less than 2% of them produce far more food. The millions freed from the land were not rendered 41 ，but found better-paid work as the economy grew more sophisticated. Today the pool of secretaries has 42

25、, but there are ever more computer programmers and web designers.Optimism remains the right starting-point, but for workers the dislocating effects of technology may make themselves evident faster than its 43 Even if new jobs and wonderful products emerge, in the short term income gaps will widen, c

26、ausing huge social dislocation and perhaps even changing politics. Technologys 44 will fed like a tornado(旋风），hitting the rich world first, but 45 sweeping through poorer countries too. No government is prepared for it.注意：此部分试题请在答题卡2上作答。A) benefitsF) joblessK) rhythm B) displacedG) primarilyL) senti

27、ments C) employedH) productiveM) shrunk D) eventuallyI) prosperityN) sweptE) impactJ) responsiveO) withdrawnSection BDirections： In this section, you are going to read a passage with ten statements attached to it. Each statement contains information given in one of the paragraphs. Identify, the para

28、graph 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. Why the Mona Lisa Stands OutA) Have you ever fallen for a novel and been amazed not find it on l

29、ists of great books? Or walked around a sculpture renowned as a classic, struggling to see what the fuss is about? If so, youve probably pondered the question a psychologist, James Cutting, asked himself： How does a work of art come to be considered great?B) The intuitive answer is that some works o

30、f art are just great： of intrinsically superior quality. The paintings that win prime spots in galleries, get taught in classes and reproduced in books are the ones that have proved their artistic value over time. If you cant see theyre superior, thats your problem. Its an intimidatingly neat explan

31、ation. But some social scientists have been asking awkward questions of it, raising the possibility that artistic canons（名作目录）are little more than fossilised historical accidents.C) Cutting, a professor at Cornell University, wondered if a psychological mechanism known as the “mere-exposure effect”

32、played a role in deciding which paintings rise to the top of the cultural league. Cutting designed an experiment to test his hunch (直觉). Over a lecture course he regularly showed undergraduates works of impressionism for two seconds at a time. Some of the paintings were canonical, included in art-history books. Others were lesser known but of comparable quality. These were exposed four times as often. Afterwards, the