大学英语六级考试真题三.docx

1、大学英语六级考试真题三2014年12月大学英语六级考试真题（三）Writing (30 minutes)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 and then.B) Stretch her legs before standing up.C) Have a little nap after lunch.D) G

2、et 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 hard for the students.4. A) They will get their degrees in two years.B They are both pu

3、rsuing 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 certainly not as healthy as he is.D) He has not seen Jack for quite a few days.6. A) The wom

4、an 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 leave.B) The guy has been coming in for years.C) The guy must be feeling extremely lone

5、ly.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.9. A) It is eating into its banks.B) It wind its way to the sea.C) It is wide and deep.D) It is quickly rising.10. A) Try to speed up the ope

6、ration by any means.B) Take the equipment apart before being ferried.C) Reduce the transport cost as much as possible.D) Get the trucks over to the other side of the river.11. A) Find as many boats as possible.B) Cut trees and build rowing boats.C) Halt the operation until further orders.D) Ask the

7、commander to send a helicopter.12. A) Talk about his climbing experiences. B) Help him join an Indian expedition.C) Give up mountain climbing altogether. D) Save money to buy climbing equipment.13. A) He was the first to conquer Mt. Qomolangma. B) He had an unusual religious background.C) He climbed

8、 mountains to earn a living. D) He was very strict with his children.14. A) They are to be conquered. B) They are to be protected.C) They are sacred places. D) They are like humans.15. A) It was his fathers training that pulled him through.B) It was a milestone in his mountain climbing career.C) It

9、helped him understand the Sherpa view of mountains.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 previous

10、ly.17. A) They ignored many of the memorandums 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) Simpli

11、city and accuracy.19. A) Inclusion of appropriate 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) T

12、hey never change work habits unless forced to.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 respo

13、nsibility.Passage Three23. A) He lost all 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

14、the town from slavery.C) It declared July 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

15、is nearly impossible to overcome. But why 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) _ childh

16、ood. It is likely that intolerant forks grew 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

17、students have simply never been (33) _ to anyone 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

18、you understand a belief but still dont believe 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. Intol

19、erance does not stem from disagreement. It stems from fear. And fear stems from ignorance.Reading Comprehension (40 minutes)Section AHis future subjects have not always treated the Prince of Wales with the respect one might expect. They laughed aloud in 1986 when the heir to the British 36 told a TV

20、 reporter that he talked to his plants at his country house, Highgrove, to stimulate their growth. The Prince was being humorous“My sense of humor will get me into trouble one day,” he said to his aides（随从）but listening to Charles Windsor can indeed prove stimulating. The royal 37 has been promoting

21、 radical ideas for most of his adult life. Some of his 38, which once sounded a bit weird, were simply ahead of their time. Now, finally, the world seems to be catching up with him.Take his views on fanning. Prince Charles Duchy Home Farm went 39 back in 1986, when most shoppers cared only about the

22、 low price tag on suspiciously blemish-free（无瑕疵的）vegetables and 40 large chickens piled high in supermarkets.His warnings on climate change proved farsighted, too. Charles began 41 action on global warming in 1990 and says he has been worried about the 42 of man on the environment since he was a tee

23、nager.Although he has gradually gained international 43 as one of the worlds leading conservationists, many British people still think of him as an 44 person who talks to plants. This year, as it happens, South Korean scientists proved that plants really do 45 to sound. So Charles was ahead of the g

24、ame there, too.A) conformB) eccentricC) environmentalistD) expeditionsE) impactF) notionsG) organicH) originallyI) recognitionJ) respondK) subordinateL) suppressingM) throneN) unnaturallyO) urgingSection BHigh School Sports Arent Killing AcademicsA In this months Atlantic cover article, The Case Aga

25、inst High-School Sports, Amanda Ripley argues that school-sponsored sports programs should be seriously cut. She writes that, unlike most countries that outperform the United States on international assessments, American schools put too much of an emphasis on athletics. “Sports are embedded in Ameri

26、can schools in a way they are not almost anywhere else, she writes. “Yet this difference hardly ever comes up in domestic debates about America international mediocrity（平庸）in education.”B American student-athletes reap many benefits from participating in sports, but the costs to the schools could ou

27、tweigh their benefits, she argues. In particular, Ripley contends that sports crowd out the academic missions of schools: America should learn from South Korea and Finland and every other country at the top level of international test scores, all of whom emphasize athletics far less in school. “Even

28、 in eighth grade, American kids spend more than twice the time Korean kids spend playing sports,” she writes, citing a 2010 study published in the Journal of Advanced Academics.C It might well be true that sports are far more rooted in American high schools than in other countries. But our reading o

29、f international test scores finds no support for the argument against school athletics. Indeed, our own research and that of others lead us to make the opposite case. School-sponsored sports appear to provide benefits that seem to increase, not detract（减少）from, academic success.D Ripley indulges a p

30、opular obsession（痴迷）with international test score comparisons, which show wide and frightening gaps between the United States and other countries. She ignores, however, the fact that states vary at least as much in test scores as do developed countries. A 2011 report from Harvard University shows th

31、at Massachusetts produces math scores comparable to South Korea and Finland, while Mississippi scores are closer to Trinidad and Tobago. Ripleys thesis about sports falls apart in light of this fact. Schools in Massachusetts provide sports programs while schools in Finland do not. Schools in Mississ

32、ippi may love football while in Tobago interscholastic sports are nowhere near as prominent. Sports cannot explain these similarities in performance. They cant explain international differences either.E If it is true that sports undermine the academic mission of American schools, we would expect to see a negative relationship between the commitment to athlet