2006年12月大学英语六级真题(含答案)

历年六级作文题目汇总1995年1月全国大学英语六级作文题1. 现在有些不良的商业广告2. 这些广告的副作用和危害性3. 我对这些广告的态度My view on the Negative Effects of Some Advertisements1995年6月全国大学英语六级作文题1. 有人认为放鞭炮是好事,为什么?2. 有人认为放鞭炮是坏事,为什么?3. 我的看法.1996年1月全国大学英语六级作文题1. 有人认为没有必要参加大学英语六级考试(简称CET-6)。

2. 我参加CET-6考试的理由。

Why I Take the College English Test Band 6 1996年6月全国大学英语六级作文题1. 以下图为依据描述发展中国家的期望寿命(life expectancy)和婴儿死亡率(infant mortality)的变化情况。

2. 说明引起变化的各种原因。

Health Gains in Developing Countries1997年1月全国大学英语六级作文题1. 为什么说“欲速则不达”2. 试举例说明Haste Makes Waste1997年6月全国大学英语六级作文题1.有些人喜欢始终从事一种工作,因为 ...2.有些人喜欢经常更换工作,因为...3.我的看法1998年1月全国大学英语六级作文题1. 假冒伪劣商品的危害。

2. 怎样杜绝假冒伪劣商品。

My View on Fake Commodities1998年6月全国大学英语六级作文题1. 有些人认为某些数字会带来好运。

2. 我认为数字和运气无关，......Do “Lucky Numbers” Really Bring Good Luck?1999年1月全国大学英语六级作文题1. 别人请求帮助时，在什么情况下我们说”不”2. 为什么有些人在该说”不”的时候不说”不”3. 该说”不”时不说”不”的坏处Don’t Hesitate to Say “No”1999年6月全国大学英语六级作文题1. 有人认为读书要有选择2. 有人认为应当博览群书3. 我的看法Reading Selectively Or Extensively?2000年1月全国大学英语六级作文题1. 上大学的费用(tuition and fees)可以通过多种途径解决2. 哪种途径适合于我(说明理由)How I Finance My College Education2000年6月全国大学英语六级作文题1. 很多认为有必要举行英语口语考试，理由是......2. 也有人持不同意见，......3. 我的看法和打算2001年1月全国大学英语六级作文题1. 面试在求职过程中的作用2. 取得面试成功的因素：仪表、举止谈吐、能力、专业知识、自信、实事求是......How to Succeed in a Job Interview?2001年6月全国大学英语六级作文题1. 表示欢迎2. 提出对度假安排的建议3. 提醒应注意的事项A letter to a Schoolmate2002年1月全国大学英语六级作文题假设你是李明，请你就本校食堂的状况给校长写一封信，内容应涉及食堂的饭菜质量、价格、环境、服务等，可以是表扬，可以是批评建议，也可以兼而有之。

2006年12月24日听力真题和原文Section A注意：此部分试题请在答题卡2上作答。

11. A) Dr. Smith’s waiting room isn’t tidy.B) Dr. Smith enjoys reading magazines.C) Dr. Smith has l eft a good impression on her. D) Dr. Smith may not be a good choice.12. A) The man will rent the apartment when it is availabl e. B) The man made a bargain with the landlady over the rent.C) The man insists on having a l ook at the apartment first.D) The man is not fully satisfied with the apartment.13. A) Packing up to go abroad. B). Brushing up on her English.C) Drawing up a plan for her English course D) Applying for a visa to the United Sates.14. A) He is anxious to find a cure for his high bl ood pressure. B) He d oesn’t think high bl ood pressure is a probl em for him.C) He was not aware of his illness until diagnosed with it.D) He did not take the symptoms of his illness seriously.15. A) To investigate the cause of AIDS. B) To raise money for AIDS patients.C) To rally support for AIDS victims in Africa.D) To draw attention to the spread of AIDS in Asia.16. A) It has a very l ong history. B) It is a private institution. C) It was founded by Thomas Jefferson.D) It stresses the comprehensive study of nature.17. A) They can’t fit into the machine.B) They have not been delivered yet. C) They were sent to the wrong ad dress.D) They were found to be of the wrong type.18. A) The food served in the cafeteria usually lacks variety. B) The cafeteria sometimes provid es rare food for the students.C) The students find the service in the cafeteria satisfactory.D) The cafeteria tries hard to cater to the students’ needs. Questions 19 to 22 are based on the conversation you have just heard.19. A) He picked up some appl es in his yard. B) He cut some branches off the appl e tree.C) He quarrel ed with his neighbor over the fence.D) He cl eaned up all the garbage in the woman’s yard.20. A) Trim the appl e trees in her yard. B) Pick up the appl es that fell in her yard.C) Take the garbage to the curb for her.D) Remove the branches from her yard.21. A) Fil e a lawsuit against the man. B) Ask the man for compensation.C) Have the man’s appl e tree cut down.D) Throw garbage into the man’s yard.22. A) He was ready to make a concession. B) He was not prepared to go to court.C) He was not intimidated.D) He was a bit concerned.Questions 23 to 25 are based on the conversation you have just heard.23. A) Bad weather. B) Human error. C) Breakdown of the engines. D) Failure of the communications system.24. A) Two thousand feet. B) Twelve thousand feet. C) Twenty thousand feet. D) Twenty-two thousand feet.25. A) Accurate communication is of utmost importance. B) Pil ots shoul d be abl e to speak several foreign languages.C) Air controll ers shoul d keep a cl ose watch on the weather.D) Cooperation between pil ots and air controll ers is essential. Section B Passage OneQuestions 26 to 28 are based on the passage you have just heard.26. A) His father caught a serious disease. B) His mother passed away.C) His mother l eft him to marry a rich businessman.D) His father took to drinking.27. A) He disliked being disciplined. B) He was expell ed by the university.C) He coul dn’t pay his gambling debts.D) He enjoyed working for a magazine.28. A) His poems are heavily influenced by French writers. B) His stories are mainly set in the State of Virginia.C) His work difficult to read.D) His language is not refined.29. A) He grieved to death over the l oss of his wife. B) He committed suicide for unknown reasons.C) He was shot dead at the age of 40.D) He died of heavy drinking.Passage TwoQuestions 30 to 32 are based on the passage you have just heard.30. A) Women. B) Prisoners. C) Manual workers. D) School age chil dren.31. A) He taught his students how to pronounce the l etters first. B) He matched the l etters with the sounds familiar to the l earners.C) He showed the l earners how to combine the l etters into simple words.D) He divided the l etters into groups according to the way they are written.32. A) It can help peopl e become literate within a short time. B) It was originally designed for teaching the English language.C) It enabl es the l earners to master a language within three months.D) It is effective in teaching any alphabetical language to Brazilians.Passage ThreeQuestions 33 to 35 are based on the passage you have just heard.33. A) The crop’s bl ooming period is delayed.B) The roots of crops are cut off.C) The topsoil is seriously damaged.D) The growth of weeds is accel erated.34. A) It’s a new way of applying chemical fertilizer.B) It’s an improved method of harvesting crops.C) It’s a creative technique for saving labor.D) It’s a farming process limiting the use of pl oughs.35. A) In areas with few weeds and unwanted plants. B) In areas with a severe shortage of water.C) In areas lacking in chemical fertilizer.D) In areas depend ent on imported food.Section CAdults are getting smarter about how smart babies are. Not l ong ago, researchers l earned that 4-day-ol ds coul d understand (36) ________ and subtraction. Now, British research (37) ________ Graham Schafer has discovered that infants can l earn words for uncommon things l ong before they can speak. He found that 9-month-ol d infants coul d be taught, through repeated show-and-tell, to (38) ________ the names of objects that were foreign to them, a result that (39) ________ in some ways the received (40) ________ that, apart from l earning to (41) ________ things common to their daily lives, chil dren don’t begin to buil d vocabulary until well into their second year. “It’s no (42) ________ that chil dren l earn words, but the words they tend to know are words linked to (43) ________ situations in the home,” explains Schafer. “(44) ________________________________ with an unfamiliar voice giving instructions in an unfamiliar setting.”Figuring out how humans acquire language may shed light on why some chil dren l earn to read and write later than others, Schafer says, and coul d l ead to better treatments for devel opmenta l probl ems. (45) ________________________________. “Language is a test case for human cognitive devel opment,” says Schafer. But parents eager to teach their infants shoul d take note (46) ________________________________. “This is not about advancing d evel o pment,” he says. “It’s just about what chil dren can do at an earlier age than what educators have often thought.”参考答案：11. D 12. C 13. B 14. C 15. D 16. A 17. B 18. A 19. B 20. D 21. A 22. C 23. B 24. C 25. A 26. B 27. C 28. C 29. D 30. A31. D 32. A 33. C 34. D 35. B 36. addition37. psychol ogist38.recognize39. chall enges40. wisd om41. identify42. secret43. specific44. This is the first demonstration that we can choose what words the chil dren will l earn and that they can respond to them45. What’s more, the study of language acquisition offers direct insight into how humans l earn46. Even without being taught new words, a control group caught up with the other infants within a few months2006年12月24日六级听力原文11. W: I need to find a dentist; you said you know Dr. Smith well, do you recommend her?M: Well, I had to see her a few times, but what impressed me most were the magazines in her waiting room.Q: What does the woman imply?12. W: I’m afraid I can’t show you the apartment at the moment, because the tenant is still living in it. It’s really a l ovely place, with a bigkitchen and a sunny wind ow, for only two hundred dollars a month.M: Sounds good, but we really can’t rent an apartment without seeing it first.Q: What do we l earn from the conversation?13. M: So, that’s what’s been keeping you so busy recently!W: Yes, I’ve been tied up with my studies. You know I’m planning to go to the United States this coming summer, but I’m a bit nervous about my English.Q: What is the woman busy doing?14. W: How did you feel when you found out you had high bl ood pressure?M: Shocked! The probl em for me was that there were no symptoms; it seemed to have sneaked up on me.Q: What does the man mean?15. W: So, you’re just back from a trip to India. What were you doing there?M: The trip was intend ed to bring to the worl d’s attention the fact that AIDS is not just an African disease; it’s also endan gering other countries, notably, India and Thailand.Q: What was the purpose of the man’s trip to India?16. M: It’s quite cl ear from my visit, this is a full size, comprehensive university. So why is it still call ed a coll ege?W: The Coll ege of William and Mary is the second ol dest institution of higher l earning in this country. We have nurtured great minds like Thomas Jefferson and we are proud of our name.Q: What do we l earn from this conversation about the Coll ege of William and Mary?17. M: Have the parts we need for the photo copying machine arrived yet?W: I ordered them last week, but something is hol ding them up.Q: What does the woman say about the parts need ed for the photo copying machine?18. W: The cafeteria provided many kinds of dishes for us today. Did you notice that?M: Yes, kind of rare, isn’t it?Q: What does the man imply?W: Hell o, Patrick, is that you?M: Yeah Jane, what can I do for you?W: I was calling about the appl e tree that you were trimming yesterday.M: That was hard work!W: I’m sure it was. It sure l ooked difficult.M: Yeah, I’m glad it’s finished. Hauling the branches to the front for garbage pick up was no fun either.W: Well, I don’t think you’re quite finished yet, some of the larger branches fell over into my yard, and I think you shoul d come and get them. M: Lis ten Jane, I don’t see why I shoul d do that. You eat all the appl es that fall in your yard and you’ve never complained about t hat before. W: Well, it’s easier to pick up appl es then to drag tree branches all the way to the curb. My kids pick up the appl es, and the branches are just too big for them to drag.M: Well, I guess you’ll just have to do it yourself Jane.W: Patrick, I wish you woul d reconsider. We’ve always gotten al ong fairly well, but I think you’re out of line here. The bran ches are your responsibility.M: Sorry Jane, I disagree! You take the benefits of the appl e tree, but refuse to deal with the bad side of it! Besides, it w on’t take you any time to get the branches out front!W: Get the branches off my property or I’ll have to sue you.M: Yeah? For what?! You’re taking those law classes too seriously! I’ve gotta go, I have to pick up my son.W: You’ll be hearing from me.M: Yeah, yeah. See you in court Jane.Questions 19-22 are based on the questions you have just heard.19. What did the man d o yesterday?20. What did the woman ask the man to do?21. What did the woman threaten to do?22. What was the man’s reaction to the woman’s threat?M: Did you hear about the air crash that occurred in South America recently? It was quite a tragic accid ent!W: No, I didn’t see anything in the news about it. What happened?M: A foreign airliner was attempting to land at night in a mountainous area in Argentina and fl ew into a hill!W: That sounds really terribl e! Did anyone survive?M: No, everyone aboard, including the crew, was kill ed instantly.W: What were the circumstances? Were they bad weather, a fire, or engine failure?M: Apparently, there were some l ow cl ouds in the area, but mostly it was just miscommunication between the pil ots and the traffic controll ers.W: Weren’t they both speaking in English, the official international aviation language?M: Yes they were, but the transmit ion from poor quality radios was slightly distorted and the accents of the Spanish speaking controll ers was so strong that the pil ots that the pil ots misunderstood a vital instruction.W: How coul d a misunderstanding like that cause such a serious accident?M: The pil ots were tol d to descend to “two-two thousand” feet. The instruction actually meant 22,000 feet, but they thought they heard “descend 2,000 feet”. That’s a huge difference, and it shoul d have been confirmed, but it was not. Unfortunately, the terrain of the mountains in Norweija extends up to 20,000 feet.W: So the pil ots did descend to the wrong altitude then, because they were foll owing the air controll ers instructions.M: Sadly enough, yes they did. It was a really bad mistake. Many peopl e died as a result of the simply understanding.W: Wow, that’s a powerful l esson on how important it can be to accurately communicate to each other.Questions: 23-25 are based on the conversation you have just heard.23. What was the cause of the tragedy?24. How high are the mountains in Norweija?25. What l esson coul d be drawn from the accident?Passage oneEdgar Poe, an American writer, was born in 1809. His parents were actors. Edgar was a baby when his father l eft the family. He was two years ol d when his mother died. He was taken into the home of a wealthy business man named John All en. He then received his new name, Edgar All en Poe. As a young man, Poe attended the University of Virginia. He was a good student, but he liked to drink al cohol and play card games for money. As an unskill ed game player, he often l ost money. Since he coul dn’t pay off his gambli ng money, he l eft university and began working for magazines. He worked hard, yet he was not well paid, or well known. At the age of 27, he got married. For a time it seemed that Poe woul d find happiness, but his wife was sick for most of their marriage, and died in 1847.Through all his crises, Poe produced many stories and poems which appeared in different publications, yet he didn’t become fa mous until 1845, when his poem, The Raven, was published. There is a question, however, about Poe’s importance in Amer ican Literature.Some critics say that Poe was one of America’s best writers, and even influenced many French writers, but others disagree. Th ey say that Poe’s work is difficult to understand and most of his writing d escribes many unpl easant situations and events. Edgar All en Poe died in 1849 when he was 40 years ol d. It is said that he was found d ead after days of heavy drinking.Questions 26-29 are based on the passage you have just heard.26. What happened to Edgar All en Poe’s family, when he was only tw o years ol d?27. Why did Edgar All en Poe l eave the University of Virginia?28. What do some critics say about Edgar All en Poe?29. How did Edgar All en Poe’s life come to an end?Passage TwoMore than fifty years ago, the United Nations declared that litera cy is a basic human right. It’s very important for improving the lives of individuals, however, it is estimated that 880 million adults around the worl d are illiterate, that is, they are unabl e to read or write. A majority of them are women. Over 100 million school age chil dren around the worl d do not attend school. Many others compl ete school of fail to finish their studies without l earning to read or write. Many countries depend on the efforts of peopl e who offer theirtime to help illiterate individuals. For exampl e, John Mogger became concerned about the probl em of illiteracy three years ago, so he started teaching five prisoners in Brazil. In his teaching, he devel oped a system with these prisoners. He says his way of teaching can help anyone l earn how to read and write with about thirty hours of study. To l earn his system, peopl e must first know how to write l etters of the alphabet and l earn which sounds they represent. The system divid es l etters into three groups. The first group of l etter can be written between two lines. The second can be written between two lines but part of the l etter is above the top line. The third group has l etters that are partly written bel ow the l ower line. John Mogger taught his students to write simply words from the l etters, in this way, his students l earned more than seven hundred words. Many of them can now write to family members. They also can read newspapers and magazines.Questions 30-32 are based on the Passage you have just heard.30. According to the speaker, which group of peopl e makes up the majority of the illiterate population?31. What is the most important feature of John Moggers method of teaching the alphabet?32. What does John Mogger say about his teaching method?Passage ThreeFarmers usually use pl ows to prepare their fiel ds for planting crops. Pl ows cut into the ground, and lift up weeds, and other unwanted plants. However, pl owing is blamed for causing severe damage to top soil by removing the plants that protect soil from being bl own or washed away. Many farmers in South Asia are now trying a process call ed Low Till Farming. Low Till Farming limits the use of pl ows. In this method of farming seeds and fertilizer are put into the soil through small cuts made in the surface of the ground. Low Till Agriculture l eaves much or all the soil and remains of plants on the ground. They serve as a natural fertilizer and help support the roots of future crops. They take in rain and all ow it to fl ow into the soil instead of running off. It has been proved that Low Till Farming increases harvests and reduces water use, and this method reduced the need for chemical products because there are fewer unwanted plants. Scientists say Low Till Farming is becoming popular in South Asia, which is facing a severe water shortage. They say the area will become d epended on imported food unl ess water is saved through methods like Low Till Farming. Currently, more than 150 million peopl e in South Asia d epend on l ocal rice and wheat crops. Farmers grow rice during wet weather. During the dry season they grow wheat in the same fiel ds. Farmers are using the Low Till method to plant wheat after harvesting rice. Scientists say Low Till Agriculture is one of the best exampl es in the worl ds of technol ogies working for both peopl e, and the environment.Questions 33-35 are based on the passage you have just heard.33. What is the main probl em caused by the usual way of pl owing?34. What does the speaker say about Low Till Farming?35. Where is Low Till Farming becoming popular?Compound DictationPassage OneAdults are getting smarter about how smart babies are. Not l ong ago, researches l earned that four day ol ds coul d und erstand addition and subtraction. Now, British research psychol ogist Gram Shaffer has discovered that infants can l earn words or uncommon things l ong before they can speak. He found that nine month ol d infants coul d be taught through repeated show and tell to recognize the names of objects that were foreign to them, a result that challenges in some ways, the received wisdom that apart from l earning to identify things common to their daily lives, chil dren don’t being to buil d vocabulary until well into their second year. “It’s no secret that chil dren l earn words, but the words they tend to know are linked to specific situations in t he home,” explains Shaffer. This is the first demonstration that we can choose what words the chil dren will l earn and that they can respond to them with an unfamiliar voice giving instructions in an unfamiliar setting.“Figuring out how human acquire language may shed light on why some chil dren l earn to read and write later than others,” Shaffer says, “and coul d l ead to better treatments for devel opmental probl ems.” What’s more, the study of language acquisition offers direct insight into how humans l earn. “Language is a test case for human cognitive devel opment,” says Shaffer, “but parents eager to teach their infants shoul d take note. Even without being taught new words a control group caught up with the other infants within a few months.” This is not about advancing devel opment, he says, it’s just about what chil dren can do at an earlier age than what educators have often thought.2007年6月六级真题和原文Part III Listening Comprehension (35 minutes)Section A11. A) Surfing the net. B) Watching a talk show. C) Packing a birthday gift. D) Shopping at a jewelry store.12. A) He enjoys finding fault with exams. B) He is sure of his success in the exam.C) He doesn’t know if he can do well in the exam.D) He used to get straight A’s in the exams he took.13. A) The man is generous with his good comments on peopl e.B) The woman is unsure if there will be peace in the worl d.C) The woman is doubtful about newspaper stories. D) The man is quite optimistic about human nature.14. A) Study for some profession. B) Attend a medical school. C) Stay in business. D) Sell his shop.15. A) More money. B) Fair treatment. C) A coll ege education. D) Shorter work hours.16. A) She was exhausted from her trip. B) She missed the comforts of home.C) She was impressed by Mexican food. D) She will not go to Mexico again.17. A) Cheer herself up a bit. B) Find a more suitabl e job.C) Seek professional advice. D) Take a psychol ogy course.18. A) He dresses more formally now. B) What he wears does not match his position.C) He has ignored his friends since graduation. D) He fail ed to do well at coll ege.Questions 19 to 22 are based on the conversation you have just heard.19. A) To go sightseeing. B) To have meetings. C) To promote a new champagne. D) To join in a training program.20. A) It can reduce the number of passenger complaints. B) It can make air travel more entertaining.C) It can cut d own the expenses for air travel. D) It can l essen the discomfort caused by air travel.21. A) Took balanced meals with champagne. B) Ate vegetabl es and fruit only.C) Refrained from fish or meat. D) Avoided eating rich food.22. A) Many of them found it difficult to exercise on a plane. B) Many of them were concerned with their well-being.C) Not many of them chose to d o what she did. D) Not many of them understood the program.Questions 23 to 25 are based on the conversation you have just heard.23. A) At a fair. B) At a cafeteria. C) In a computer lab. D) In a shopping mall.24. A) The latest computer technol ogy. B) The organizing of an exhibition.C) The purchasing of some equipment. D) The dramatic changes in the job market.25. A) Data coll ection. B) Training consultancy. C) Corporate management. D) Information processing.Section BPassage OneQuestions 26 to 28 are based on the passage you have just heard.26. A) Improve themselves. B) Get rid of empty dreams. C) Foll ow the cultural tradition. D) Attempt something impossibl e.27. A) By finding sufficient support for impl ementation. B) By taking into account their own ability to change.C) By constantly keeping in mind their ultimate goals. D) By making detail ed plans and carrying them out.28. A) To show peopl e how to get their lives back to normal. B) To show how difficult it is for peopl e to l ose weight.C) To remind peopl e to check the cal ories on food bags. D) To illustrate how easily peopl e abandon their goals. Passage TwoQuestions 29 to 31 are based on the passage you have just heard.29. A) Michael’s parents got divo rced. B) Karen was adopted by Ray Anderson.C) Karen’s mother died in a car accident.D) A truck driver l ost his life in a collision.30. A) He ran a red light and collided with a truck. B) He sacrificed his life to save a baby girl.C) He was kill ed instantly in a burning car. D) He got married to Karen’s mother.31. A) The reported hero turned out to be his father. B) He did not und erstand his father till too late.C) Such misfortune shoul d have fall en on him. D) It reminded him of his miserabl e chil dhood.Passage ThreeQuestions 32 to 35 are based on the passage you have just heard.32. A) Germany. B) Japan. C) The U.S. D) The U.K.33. A) By doing od d jobs at weekends. B) By working l ong hours every day.C) By putting in more hours each week. D) By taking shorter vacations each year.34. A) To combat competition and raise productivity. B) To provid e them with more job opportunities.C) To help them maintain their living standard. D) To prevent them from hol ding a second job.35. A) Change their jobs. B) Earn more money. C) Reduce their working hours. D) Strengthen the government’s rol e. Section CNursing, as a typically femal e profession, must deal constantly with the false impression that nurses are there to wait on the physician. As nurses, we are (36) ________ to provid e nursing care only. We d o not have any l egal or moral (37) ________ to any physician. We provide health teaching, (38) ________ physical as well as emotional probl ems, (39) ________ patient-related services, and make all of our nursing decisions based upon what is best or suitabl e for the patient. If, in any (40) ________, we feel that a physician’s ord er is (41) ________ or unsafe, we have a l egal (42) ________ to question that order or refuse to carry it out.Nursing is not a nine-to-five job with every weekend off. All nurses are aware of that before they enter the profession. The emotional and physical stress. However, that occurs due to odd working hours is a (43) ________ reason for a l ot of the career dissatisfaction. (44) ________________________________. That disturbs our personal lives, disrupts our sl eeping and eating habits, and isolates us from everything except job-related friends and activities.The quality of nursing care is being affected dramatically by these situations. (45) ________________________________. Consumers of medically related services have evid ently not been affected enough yet to demand changes in our medical system. But if trends continue as predicted, (46) ________________________________.参考答案：11. A) Surfing the net. 12. B) He is sure of his success in the exam.13. D) The man is quite optimistic about human nature. 14. C) Stay in business. 15. A) More money.16. B) She missed the comforts of home. 17. C) Seek professional advice. 18. A) He dresses more formally now.19. B) To have meetings. 20. D) It can l essen the discomfort caused by air travel. 21. D) Avoided eating rich food.22. C) Not many of them chose to d o what she did 23. A) At a fair. 24. C) The purchasing of some equipment.25. B) Training consultancy. 26. A) Improve themselves. 27. D) By making detail ed plans and carrying them out.28. D) To illustrate how easily peopl e abandon their goals. 29. C) Karen’s mother died in a car accident.30. B) He sacrificed his life to save a baby girl. 31. A) The reported hero turned out to be his father. 32. B) Japan.33. D) By taking shorter vacations each year. 34. A) To combat competition and raise productivity.35. C) Reduce their working hours. 36. Licensed 37. Obligation 38. Assess 39. Coordinate 40. circumstance41. inappropriate 42. Responsibility 43. prime44. It is sometimes required that we work overtime, and that we change shifts four or five times a month.45. Most hospitals are now staffed by new graduates, as experienced nurses finally give up trying to change the system.46. they will find that most critical hospital cares will be provided by new, inexperienced, and sometimes inadequately trained nurses.2007年6月23日六级听力部分原文Section AShort Conversations11. W: Jim, you are on the net again? When are you going to get off? It’s the time for the talk show.M: Just a minute, dear. I’m l ooking at a new jewelry site. I want to make sure I get the right gift for Mum’s birthday.Q: What is the man doing right now?12. W: I’ve never seen you have such confid ence before an exam.M: It’s more than confid ence. Right now I feel that if I get l ess than an A, it’ll be the fault of the exam itself.Q: What does the man mean?13 W: Just l ook at this newspaper, nothing but murder, death and war! Do you still believe peopl e are basically good?M: Of course I do. But newspapers hardly ever report stories about peace and generosity. They are not news.Q: What do we l earn from the conversation?14 M: Tom must be joking when he said he plans to sell his shop and go to medical school.W: You are quite right. He is just kidding. He’s also tol d me time and time again he wished he’d studied for some profession instead of going into business.Q: What will Tom probably do according to the conversation?15 W: I hear your boss has a real good impression of you and he is thinking about giving you two more days off each month.M: I hope not. I’d rather get more work hours so I can get enough bucks to help o ut my two kids at coll ege.Q: What does the man truly want?16 M: I heard you took a trip to Mexico last month. How did you like it?W: Oh, I got sick and tired of hotels and hotel food. So now I understand the saying, “East, west, home’s best”.Q: What does the woman mean?17 W: I’m worried about Anna. She is really been d epressed lately. All she does is staying in her room all day.M: That sounds serious. She’d better see a psychiatrist at the consoling center.Q: What does the man suggest Anna do?18 M: I coul d hardly recognize Sam after he got that new job. He’s always in a suit and a tie now.W: Yeah, he was never like that at coll ege. Back then he woul d’ve run in an ol d T-shirt and jeans.Q: What do the speakers say about Sam?Long conversation 1M: Hi, Ann, wel come back. How’s your trip to the states?W: Very busy. I had a l ot of meetings. So, of course, I didn’t have much time to see New York.M: What a pity. Actually I have a trip there myself next week.W: Do you? Then take my advice. Do the well-being in the air program. It really works.M: Oh, I read about that in a magazine. You say it works?W: Yes. I did the program on the flight to the States. And when I arrived in New York, I didn’t have any probl em. No jet l eg at all. On the way back I didn’t d o it, and I felt terribl e.M: You are joking.W: Not at all. It really made a l ot of difference.M: Hmm…So, what did you do?W: Well, I didn’t drink any al cohol or coffee and I didn’t eat any m eat or rich food. I drink a l ot of water and fruit juice and I eat the meals on the well-being menu. They are lighter. They have fish, vegetabl es and noodl es, for exampl e. And I did some of the exercises in the program.M: Exercises? On a plane?W: Yes. I didn’t do many, of course. There isn’t much space on the plane.M: How many passengers did the exercises?W: Not many.M: And how much champagne did they drink?W: A l ot. It was more popular than mineral water.M: So, basically it’s a choice. Minera l water and exercises or champagne and jet lag.W: That’s right. It’s a difficult choice.。

2006年6月英语六级真题Part I Listening Comprehension (20 minutes)Section ADirections：In this section，you will hear 10 short conversations。

At the end of each conversation，a question will be asked about what was said。

Both the conversationand the question 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），C) and D），and decide which is the best answer。

Then mark the corresponding letter on the AnswerSheet with a single line through the center.Example: You will hear:You will read：A）2 hours.B) 3 hours.C）4 hours.D）5 hours.From the conversation we know that the two were talking about some work they will start at 9 o’clock in the morning and have to finish at 2 in t he afternoon。

Therefore, D) “5 hours” is the correct answer。

You should choose [D］on the Answer Sheet and mark it with a single line throughthe center。

2016年12月CET6大学英语六级考试真题及答案解析【官方完整版】Part I 写作Writing (30 minutes)Directions: Directions: For this part, you are allowed 30 minutes to write a short essay on innovation. Your essay should include the importance of innovation and measures to be taken to encourage innovation.You are required to write at least 150 words but no more than 200 words.【参考范文】It is universally acknowledged that innovation refers to being creative, unique and different. In fact, today it is impossibly difficult for us to image a 21st century without innovation.We should place a high value on innovation firstly because innovative spirit can enable an individual to ameliorate himself, so he can be equipped with capacity to see what others cannot see, be qualified for future career promotion, and be ready for meeting the forthcoming challenges. What’s more, we ought to attach importance to the role played by innovation in economic advancement. Put it another way, in this ever-changing world, innovation to economic growth is what water is to fish. To sum up, if innovation misses our attention in any possible way, we will suffer a great loss beyond imagination.In order to encourage innovation, it is wise for us to take some feasible measures. For example, mass media should greatly publicize the significance of creative spirit and encourage the public to cultivate awareness of innovation. Besides, those who manage to innovate should be awarded generous prize. Though there is a long way ahead to go, I am firmly certain that the shared efforts will be paid off.【参考译文】众所周知创新意味着有创造力，独一无二和不同。

参考答案2006年12月答案Test FivePart I Writing SampleThe Importance of Reading ClassicsIt is widely acknowledged that reading the classics is both important and beneficial to the character development and personal growth of the young people. To me, nothing can bring more joy and happiness than reading those masterpieces created by great figures like Confucius and Cao Xueqin. I believe works like The Dream in the Red Chamber and The Legend of Three Kingdoms can drastically elevate one’s aesthetic taste and deepen the understanding of the glorious history of Chinese culture.However, the modern society is full of temptations. Compared with TV soap operas, sport events, and video games, classical literary works are old fashioned and time consuming. In bookstores, ―Fast-food‖ reading materials are replacing classics, and young writers with sensational and ―cool‖ remarks win the support of a large number of fans.As the salt of this world, we college students should be fully aware of the important role the classics pl ay in broadening one’s vision. Therefore, we should start reading and studying the treasuries our ancestors left and absorbing the essence of those classical works. We should also advocate to the public the importance of classics so that an increasing number of general people can enjoy the pleasure of reading.Part II Reading Comprehension (Skimming and Scanning)1. N2. Y3. Y4. NG5. a trip to the Mir Space Station6. a space hotel7. small gravitational pull8. the fuel to take off / launch9. $50,00010. space travelPart III Listening ComprehensionSection A11. D 12. C 13. B 14. C 15. D16. A 17. B 18. A 19. B 20.D21. A 22. B23. B 24.C 25. ASection B26. B 27. C 28.C 29.D 30. A31. D 32. A 33. C 34.D 35. BSection C36. addition 37. psychologist 38. recognize 39. challenges40. wisdom 41. identify 42. secret 43. specific44. This is the first demonstration that we can choose what words the children will learn and that they canrespond to them45. What’s more, the study of language acquisition offers direct insight into how humans learn46. Even without being taught new words, a control group caught up with the other infants within a fewmothsPart IV Reading Comprehension (Reading in Depth)Section A47. a blessing48. simplified49. A tragedy / disaster / loss almost occurred to itOr: it had nearly been destroyed by a firestorm.50. different51. make a list of the unnecessary things before unloading themSection B52. A 53. D 54. A 55. D 56. B57. B 58. C 59. D 60. A 61. APart V Error Correction62. on→in63. report后面加was64. demand→demanding65. 去掉to66. in 改为that67. writing→write68. desirable→undesirable69. begin→began70. its→their71. nation→nationalPart VI Translation72. followed my advice, you would not have run into trouble73. watched her injured son being sent into the operation room74. were advised not to travel to that country at the moment75. by/ via email instead of phone76. It was not until the deadline did he send out/post.Tapescripts：Section A11. W: I need to find a dentist; you said you know Dr. Smith well, do you recommend her?M: Well, I had to see her a few times, but what impressed me most were the magazines in her waiting room.Q: What does the woman imply?12. W: I’m afraid I can’t show you the apartment at the moment, because the tenant is still living in it. It’sreally a lovely place, with a big kitchen and a sunny window, for only two hundred dollars a month.M: Sounds good, but we really can’t rent an apartment without seeing it first.Q: What do we learn from the conversation?13. M: So, that’s what’s been keeping you so busy recently!W: Yes, I’ve been tied up with my studies. You know I’m planning to go to the United States this coming summer, but I’m a bit nervous about my English.Q: What is the woman busy doing?14. W: How did you feel when you found out you had high blood pressure?M: Shocked! The problem for me was that there were no symptoms; it seemed to have sneaked up on me.Q: What does the man mean?15. W: So, you’re just back from a trip to India. What were you doing there?M: The trip was intended to bring to the world’s attention the fact that AIDS is not just an African disease; it’s also endangering other countries, notably, India and Thailand.Q: What was the purpose of the man’s trip to India?16. M: It’s quite clear form my visit, this is a full size, comprehensive university. So why is it still called acollege?W: The College of William and Mary is the second oldest institution of higher learning in this country.We have nurtured great minds like Thomas Jefferson and we are proud of our name.Q: What do we learn from this conversation about the College of William and Mary?17. M: Have the parts we need for the photo copying machine arrived yet?W: I ordered them last week, but something is holding them up.Q: What does the woman say about the parts needed for the photo copying machine?18. W: The cafeteria provided many kinds of dished for us today. Did you notice that?M: Yes, kind of rare, isn’t it?Q: What does the man imply?Now you’ll hea r the two long conversations.Long Conversation One:W: Hello, Patrick, is that you?M: Yeah Jane, what can I do for you?W: I was calling about the apple tree that you were trimming yesterday.M: That was hard work!W: I’m sure it was. It sure looked diff icult.M: Yeah, I’m glad it’s finished. Hauling the branches to the front for garbage pick up was no fun either. W: Well, I don’t think you’re quite finished yet, some of the larger branches fell over into my yard, and I think you should come and get them.M: Listen Jane, I don’t see why I should do that. You eat all the apples that fall in your yard and you’ve never complained about that before.W: Well, it’s easier to pick up apples then to drag tree branches all the way to the curb. My kids pick up the apples, and the branches are just too big for them to drag.M: Well, I guess you’ll just have to do it yourself Jane.W: Patrick, I wish you would reconsider. We’ve always gotten along fairly well, but I think you’re out of line here. The branches are your responsibility.M: Sorry Jane, I disagree! You take the benefits of the apple tree, but refuse to deal with the bad side of it!Besides, it won’t take you any time to get the branches out front!W: Get the branches off my property or I’ll have to sue you.M: Yeah? For what?! You’re taking those law classes too seriously! I’ve gotta go, I have to pick up my son.W: You’ll be hearing from me.M: Yeah, yeah. See you in court Jane.Questions 19-22 are based on the questions you have just heard.19. What did the man do yesterday?20. What was the woman’s original plan when she went to Florence?21. What did the woman threaten to do?22. What was the man’s reaction to the woman’s threat?Long conversation 2M: Did you hear about the air crash that occurred in South America recently? It was quite a tragic accident!W: No，I didn’t see anything in the news about it. What happened?M: A foreign airliner was attempting to land at night in a mountainous area in Argentina and flew into ahill!W: That sounds really terrible! Did anyone survive?M: No, everyone aboard, including the crew, was killed instantly.W: What were the circumstances? Were they bad weather, a fire, or an engine failure?M: Apparently, there were so low clouds in the area, but mostly it was just miscommunication between the pilots and air traffic controllers.W: Weren’t they both speaking in English, the official international aviation language?M: Yes they were, but the transmit ion from poor quality radios was slightly distorted and the accents of the Spanish speaking controllers was so strong that the pilots misunderstood a vital instruction.W: How could a misunderstanding like that cause such a serious accident?M: The pilots were told to descend to 22,000 feet. The instruction actually meant 22,000 feet, but they thought they heard descend 2,000 fe et. That’s a huge difference, and it should have been confirmed, but it was not. Unfortunately, the terrain of the mountains in that region extends up to 20,000 feet. W: So the pilots did descend to the wrong altitude then, because they were following the air controllers’ instructions.M: Sadly enough, yes they did. It was a really bad mistake. Many people died as a result of the simply understanding.W: Wow, that’s a powerful lesson on how important it can be to accurately communicate to each other. Questions: 23-25 are based on the conversation you have just heard.23. What was the cause of the tragedy?24. How high are the mountains in the region?25. What lesson could be drawn from the accident?Section BPassage 1Edgar Poe, an American writer, was born in 1809. His parents were actors. Edgar was a baby when his father left the family. He was two years old when his mother died. He was taken into the home of a wealthy business man named John Allen. He then received his real name, Edgar Allen Poe. As a young man, Poe attended the University of Virginia. He was a good student, but he liked to drink alcohol and play card games for money. As an unskilled game player, he often lost money. Since he couldn’t pay off his gambling money, he left university and began working for magazines. He worked hard, yet he was not well paid, or well known. At the age of 27, he got married. For a time it seemed that Poe would find happiness, but his wife was sick for most of their marriage, and died in 1847. Through all his crises, Poe produced many stories and poems which appeared in different publications, yet he didn’t become famous until 1845, when his poem, The Raven, was published. There is a question, however, about Poe’s importance in American Literature. Some critics sa y that Poe was one of America’s best writers, and even influenced many French writers, but others disagree. They say that Poe’s work is difficult to understand and most of his writing describes many unpleasant situations and events. Edgar Allen Poe died in 1849 when he was 40 years old. It is said that he was found dead after days of heavy drinking.Questions26 to 29 are based on the passage you’ve just heard:26. What happened to Edgar Allen Poe’s family, when he was only two years old?27. Why did Edgar Allen Poe leave the University of Virginia?28. What do some critics say about Edgar Allen Poe?29. How did Edgar Allen Poe’s life come to an end?Passage 2More than fifty years ago, the United Nations declared that literacy is a basic human right. It’s v ery important for improving the lives of individuals, however, it is estimated that 880 million adults aroundthe world are illiterate, that is, they are unable to read or write. A majority of them are women. Over 100 million school age children around the world do not attend school. Many others complete school or fail to finish their studies without learning to read or write. Many countries depend on the efforts of people who offer their time to help illiterate individuals. For example, John Mogger became concerned about the problem of illiteracy three years ago, so he started teaching five prisoners in Brazil. In his teaching, he developed a system with these prisoners. He says his way of teaching can help anyone learn how to read and write with about thirty hours of study. To learn his system, people must first know how to write letters of the alphabet and learn which sounds they represent. The system divides letters into three groups. The first group of letter can be written between two lines. The second can be written between two lines but part of the letter is above the top line. The third group has letters that are partly written below the lower line. John Mogger taught his students to write simply words from the letters, in this way, his students learned more than seven hundred words. Many of them can now write to family members. They also can read newspapers and magazines.Questions 30 to 32 are based on the passage you’ve just heard:30. According to the speaker, which group of people make up the majority of the illiterate population?31. What is the most important feature of John Moggers method of teaching the alphabet?32. What does John Mogger say about his teaching method?Passage 3Farmers usually use plows to prepare their fields for planting crops. Plows cut into the ground, and lift up weeds, and other unwanted plants. However, plowing is blamed for causing severe damage to top soil by removing the plants that protect soil from being blown or washed away. Many farmers in South Asia are now trying a process called Low Till Farming. Low Till Farming limits the use of plows. In this method of farming seeds and fertilizer are put into the soil through small cuts made in the surface of the ground. Low Till Agriculture leaves much or all the soil and remains of plants on the ground. They serve as a natural fertilizer and help support the roots of future crops. They take in rain and allow it to flow into the soil instead of running off. It has been proved that Low Till Farming increases harvests and reduces water use, and this method reduced the need for chemical products because there are fewer unwanted plants. Scientists say Low Till Farming is becoming popular in South Asia, which is facing a sever water shortage. They say the area will become depended on imported food unless water is saved through methods like Low Till Farming. Currently, more than 150 million people in South Asia depend on local rice and wheat crops. Farmers grow rice during wet weather. During the dry season they grow wheat in the same fields. Farmers are using the Low Till method to plant wheat after harvesting rice. Scientists say Low Till Agriculture is one of the best examples in the worlds of technologies working for both people, and the environment.Questions 33 to 35 are based on the passage you’ve just heard:33. What is the main problem cause by the usual way of plowing?34. What does the speaker say about Low Till Farming?35. Where is Low Till Farming becoming popular?Section CAdults are getting smarter about how smart babies are. Not long ago, researches learned that four day olds could understand (36) addition and subtraction. Now, British research (37) psychologist Gram Shaffer has discovered that infants can learn words or uncommon things long before they can speak. He found that nine month old infants could be taught through repeated show and tell to (38) recognize the names of objects that were foreign to them, a result that (39) challenges in some ways, the received (40) wisdom that apart from learning to (41) identify things common to their daily lives, children don’t being to build vocabulary until well into their second year. ―It’s no (42) secret that children learn words, but thewords they tend to know are linked to (43) specific situations in the home,‖ exp lains Shaffer. (44) This is the first demonstration that we can choose what words the children will learn and that they can respond to them with an unfamiliar voice giving instructions in an unfamiliar setting. ―Figuring out how human acquire language may shed light on why some children learn to read and write later than others,‖ Shaffer says, ―and could lead to better treatments for developed mental problems.‖ (45) What’s more, the study of language acquisition offers direct insight into how humans learn. ―Language is a test case for human cognitive development,‖ says Shaffer, ―but parents eager to teach their infants should take note: (46) Even without being taught new words a control group caught up with the other infants within a few months. ―This is not about advancing development‖, he says, ―it’s just about what children can do at an earlier age than what educators have often thought.‖2011年12月英语六级真题写作Directions:for this part, you are allowed 30 minutes to write a short essay entitled the way to success by commenting on Abraham Lincoln’s famous remark ,‖give me six hours to chop down a tree ,and I will spend the first four hours sharpe ning the axe‖ you should write at least 150 words but no more than 200 words.快速阅读Google's plan for world's biggest online library: philanthropy or act of piracy?Google has already scanned 10 million books in its bid to digitise the contents of the world's major librar ies, but a copyright battle now threatens the project, with Amazon and Microsoft joining authors and publisher s opposed to the scheme.In recent years the world's most venerable libraries have played host to some incongruous visitors. In dust y nooks and far-flung stacks, teams of workers dispatched by Google have been beavering away to make digit al copies of books. So far, Google has scanned more than 10 million titles from libraries in America and Eur ope –including half a million volumes held by the Bodleian in Oxford. The exact method it uses is unclear; t he company does not allow outsiders to observe the process.Why is Google undertaking such a venture, so seemingly out-of-kilter with its snazzy, hi-tech image? Why is it even interested in all those out-of-print library books, most of which have been gathering dust on forgotten shelves for decades? The company claims its motives are essentially public-spirited. Its overall mission, afte r all, is to "organise the world's information", so it would be odd if that information did not include books. Li ke the Ancient Egyptians who attempted to build a library at Alexandria containing all the known world's scro lls, Google executives talk of constructing a universal online archive, a treasure trove of knowledge that will b e freely available –or at least freely searchable –for all.The company likes to present itself as having lofty, utopian aspirations. "This really isn't about making m oney" is a mantra. "We are doing this for the good of society." As Santiago de la Mora, head of Google Boo ks for Europe, puts it: "By making it possible to search the millions of books that exist today, we hope to ex pand the frontiers of human knowledge."Dan Clancy, the chief architect of Google Books, offers an analogy with the invention of the Gutenberg p ress –Google's book project, he says, will have a similar democratising effect. He talks of people in far-flung parts being able to access knowledge as never before, of search queries leading them to the one, long out-of-print book they need.And he does seem genuine in his conviction that this is primarily a philanthropic exercise. "Google's core business is search and find, so obviously what helps improve Google's search engine is good for Google," he says. "But we have never built a spreadsheet outlining the financial benefits of this, and I have never had to justify the amount I am spending to the company's founders."It is easy, talking to Clancy and his colleagues, to be swept along by their missionary zeal. But Google's book-scanning project is proving controversial. Several opponents have recently emerged, ranging from rival tec h giants such as Microsoft and Amazon to small bodies representing authors and publishers across the world. I n broad terms, these opponents have levelled two sets of criticisms at Google.First, they have questioned whether the primary responsibility for digitally archiving the world's books sho uld be allowed to fall to a commercial company. In a recent essay in the New York Review of Books, Robert Darnton, the head of Harvard University's library, argued that because such books are a common resource –the possession of us all –only public, not-for-profit bodies should be given the power to control them.The second, related criticism is that Google's scanning of books is actually illegal. This allegation has led to Google becoming mired in a legal battle whose scope and complexity makes the Jarndyce and Jarndyce ca se in Bleak House look straightforward.At its centre, however, is one simple issue: that of copyright. The inconvenient fact about most books, to which Google has arguably paid insufficient attention, is that they are protected by copyright. Copyright laws differ from country to country, but in general protection extends for the duration of an author's life and for a substantial period afterwards, thus allowing the author's heirs to benefit. (In Britain and America, this post-deat h period is 70 years.) This means, of course, that almost all of the books published in the 20th century are st ill under copyright –and last century saw more books published than in all previous centuries combined. Of t he roughly 40 million books in US libraries, for example, an estimated 32 million are in copyright. Of these, some 27 million are out of print.Outside the US, Google has made sure only to scan books that are out of copyright and thus in the "pub lic domain" (works such as the Bodleian's first edition of Middlemarch, which anyone can read for free on Go ogle Books Search).But, within the US, the company has scanned both in-copyright and out-of-copyright works. In its defence, Google points out that it displays only snippets of books that are in copyright –arguing that such displays ar e "fair use". But critics allege that by making electronic copies of these books without first seeking the permis sion of copyright holders, Google has committed piracy."The key principle of copyright law has always been that works can be copied only once authors have ex pressly given their permission," says Piers Blofeld, of the Sheil Land literary agency in London. "Google has r eversed this –it has simply copied all these works without bothering to ask."In 2005, the Authors Guild of America, together with a group of US publishers and publishers, launched a class action suit against Google that, after more than two years of wrangling, ended with an announcement l ast October that Google and the claimants had reached an out-of-court settlement. The full details are staggerin gly complicated –the text alone runs to 385 pages –and trying to summarise it is no easy task. "Part of the problem is that it is basically incomprehensible," says Blofeld, one of the settlement's most vocal British critic s.Broadly, the deal provides a mechanism for Google to reimburse authors and publishers whose rights it ha s breached (including giving them a share of any future revenue it generates from their works). In exchange f or this, the rights holders agree not to sue Google in future.The settlement stipulates that a body known as the Books Rights Registry will represent the interests of U S copyright holders. Authors and publishers with a copyright interest in a book scanned by Google who make themselves known to the registry will be entitled to receive a payment –in the region of $60 per book –as compensation.听力理解Section ADirections: In this section, you will hear 8 short conversations and2 long conversations. At the end of eac h conversation, one or more questions will be asked about what was said. Both the conversation and the quest ions will be spoken only once. After each question there will be a pause. During the pause, you must read th e four choices marked A), B), C) and D), and decide which is the best answer. Then mark the corresponding letter on Answer Sheet 2 with a single line through the centre.11.M: I don’t know what to do. I have to drive to Chicago next Friday for my cousin’s wedding, but I hav e got a Psychology test to prepare for.W: Why don’t you record your notes so you can study on the way?Q: What does the woman suggest the man do?12.M: Professor Wright, you may have to find another student to play this role, the lines are so long and I simply can’t remember them all.W: Look, Tony. It is still a long time before the first show. I don’t expect you to know all the lines yet. Just keep practicing.Q: What do we learn from the conversation?13.M: Hello, this is Dr. Martin from the Emergency Department. I have a male patient with a fractured ankl e.W: Oh, we have one bed available in ward 3, send him here and I will take care of him.Q: What are the speakers talking about?14.W: Since Simon will graduate this May, the school paper needs a new editor. So if you are interested, I will be happy to nominate you.M: Thanks for considering me. But the baseball team is starting up a new season. And I’m afraid I have a lot on my hands.Q: What does the man mean?15. W: Have you heard the news that Jame Smeil has resigned his post as prime minister?M: Well, I got it from the headlines this morning. It’s reported th at he made public at this decision at th e last cabinet meeting.Q: what do we learn about Jame Smeil?16. W: The morning paper says the space shuttle is taking off at 10 a.m. tomorrow.M: Yeah, it’s just another one of this year’s routine missions. T he first mission was undertaken a decade ago and broadcast live then worldwide.Q: what can we infer from this conversation?17. M: We do a lot of camping in the mountains. What would you recommend for two people?W: You’d probably be better off with the four real drive vehicle. We have several off-road trucks in stoc k, both new and used.Q: Where does the conversation most probably take place?18. W: I hear you did some serious shopping this past weekend.M: Yeah, the speakers of my old stereo finally gave out and there was no way to repair them.Q: What did the man do over the weekend?Conversation OneW: Now, could you tell me where the idea for the business first came from?M: Well, the original shop was opened by a retired printer by the name of Gruby. Mr Gruby being left-h anded himself, thought of the idea to try to promote a few products for left-handers.W: And how did he then go about actually setting up the business?M: Well, he looked for any left-handed products that might already be on the market which were very fe w. And then contacted the manufactures with the idea of having products produced for him, mainly in the scis sors range to start with.W: Right. So you do commission some part of your stock.M: Yes, very much so. About 75 percent of our stock is specially made for us.W: And the rest of it?M: Hmm, the rest of it now, some 25, 30 years after Mr. Gruby’s initial efforts, there are more left-hand ed product actually on the market. Manufactures are now beginning to see that there is a market for left-hande d products.W: And what’s the range of your stock?M: The range consists of a variety of scissors from children scissors to scissors for tailors, hairdressers et c. We also have a large range of kitchen ware.W: What’s the competition like? Do you have quite a lot of competition?M: There are other people in the business now in specialists, but only as mail-order outlets. But we have a shop here in central London plus a mail-order outlet. And we are without any doubt the largest supplier ofthe left-handed items.Q19: What kind of business does the man engaged in?Q20: What does the man say about his stock of products?Q21: What does the man say about other people in his line of business?Conversation TwoM: Can we make you an offer? We would like to run the campaign for four extra weeks.W: well, can we summarize the problem from my point of view? First of all, the campaign was late. It missed two important trade affairs. The ads also did not appear into key magazines. As a result, the campaign failed. Do you accept that summary of what happened?M: well, the delay wasn’t entirely our fault. You did in fact make late changes to the specifications of th e advertisements.W: Uh, actually, you were late with the initial proposals so you have very little time and in fact, we onl y asked for small changes.M: Well whatever, can we repeat our offer to run the campaign for 4 extra weeks?W: That’s not really the point. The campaign missed two key t rade affairs. Because of this, we are askin g you either to repeat the campaign next year for free, or we only pay 50% of the fee for this year.M: Could we suggest a 20% reduction to the fee together with the four week sustention to the campaign.W: We are not happy. We lost business.M: I think we both made mistakes. The responsibility is on both sides.W: Ok, let’s suggest a new solution. How about a 40% cut in fee, or a free repeat campaign?M: Well, let’s take a break, we’re not getting very f ar. Perhaps we should think about this.22: What do we learn about the man’s company?23: Why was the campaign delayed according to the man?24: What does the woman propose as a solution to the problem?25: What does the man suggest they do at the end of the conversation?。

2006年12月英语四级考试真题Part I Writing (30 minutes) Directions:For this part, you are allowed 30 minute to write a short essay on the topic of students selecting their lectures. You should write at least 120 words following the outline given bellow:1. 许多人喜欢在除夕夜看春节晚会2. 但有些人提出取消春节晚会3. 我的看法注意：此部分试题在答题卡1上。

students selecting their lecturesPart II Reading Comprehension (Skimming and Scanning) (15 minutes) Directions:In this part, you will have 15 minute to go over the passage quickly and answer the questions on Answer Sheet 1.For questions 1-7, markY (for YES) if the statement agrees with the information given in the passage;N (for NO) if statement contradicts the information given in the passage;NG (for NOT GIVEN) if the information is not given in the passage.For question 8-10, complete the sentences with the information given in the passage.Six Secrets of High-Energy PeopleThere’s an energy crisis in America, and it has nothing to do with fossil fuels. Millions of us get up each morning already wear y over the day holds. “I just can’t get started,” p eople say. But it’s not physical energy that most of us lack. Sure, we could all use extra sleep and a better diet. But in truth, people are healthier today than at any time in history. I can almost guarantee that if you long for more energy, the problem is not with your body.What you’re seeking is not physical energy. It’s emotional energy. Yet, sad to say, life sometimes seems designed to exhaust our supply. We work too hard. We have family obligations. We encounter emergencies and personal crises. No wonder so many of us suffer from emotionalfatigue, a kind of utter exhaustion of the spirit.And yet we all know people who are filled with joy, despite the unpleasant circumstances of their lives. Even as a child, I observed people who were poor, or disabled, or ill, but who nonetheless faced life with optimism and vigor. Consider Laura Hillenbrand, who despite an extremely weak body, wrote the best-seller Seabiscuit. Hillenbrand barely had enough physical energy to drag herself out of bed to write. But she was fueled by having a story she wanted to share. It was emotional energy that helped her succeed.Unlike physical energy, which is finite and diminishes with age, emotional energy is unlimited and has no thing to do with genes or upbringing. So how do you get it? You can’t simply tell yourself to be positive. You must take action. Here are six practical strategies that work.1. Do something new.Very little that’s new occurs in our lives. The impact of thi s sameness on our emotional energy is gradual, but huge: It’s like a tire with a slow leak. You don’t notice it at first, but eventually you’ll get a flat. It’s up to you to plug the leak—even though there are always a dozen reasons to stay stuck in your d ull routines of life. That’s where Maura, 36, a waitress, found herself a year ago.Fortunately, Maura had a lifeline—a group of women friends who meet regularly to discuss their lives. Their lively discussions spurred Maura to make small but nevertheless life altering changes. She joined a gym in the next town. She changed her look with a short haircut and new black T-shirts. Eventually, Maura gathered the courage to quit her job and start her own business.Here’s a challenge: If it’s something you wouldn’t ordinarily do, do it. Try a dish you’ve never eaten. Listen to music you’d ordinarily tune out. You’ll discover these small things add to your emotional energy.2. Reclaim life’s meaning.So many of my patients tell me that their lives used to have meaning, but that somewhere along the line things went stale.The first step in solving this meaning shortage is to figure out what you really care about, and then do something about it. A case in point is Ivy, 57, a pioneer in investment banking. “I mistakenly believed that all the money I made would mean something,” she says. “But I feel lost, like a 22-year-old wondering what to do with her life.” Ivy’s solution? She started a program that shows Wall Streeters how to donate time and money to poor children. In the process, Ivy filled her life with meaning.3. Put yourself in the fun zone.Most of us grown-ups are seriously fun-deprived. High-energy people have the same day-to-day work as the rest of us, but they manage to find something enjoyable in every situation. A real estate broker I know keeps herself amused on the job by mentally redecorating the houses she shows to clients. “I love imagining what even the most run-down house could look like with a little tender loving care,” she says. “It’s a challenge—and the least desirable properties are usually the most fun.”We all define fun differently, of course, but I can guarantee this: If you put just a bit of it into your day, you energy will increase quickly.4. Bid farewell to guilt and regret.Everyone’s pa st is filled with regrets that still cause pain. But from an emotional energy point of view, they are dead weights that keep us from moving forward. While they can’t merely be willed away, I do recommend you remind yourself that whatever happened is in the past, and nothing can change that. Holding on to the memory only allows the damage to continue into the present.5. Make up your mind.Say you’ve been thinking about cutting your hair short. Will it look stylish—or too extreme?You endlessly think it over. Having the decision hanging over your head is a huge energy drain.Every time you can’t decide, you burden yourself with alternatives. Quit thinking that you have to make the right decision; instead, make a choice and don’t look back.6. Give to get.Emotional energy has a kind of magical quality; the more you give, the more you get back. This is the difference between emotional and physical energy. With the latter, you have to get it to be able to give it. With the former, however, you get it by giving it.Start by asking everyone you meet, “How are you?” as if you really want to know, then listen to the reply. Be the one who hears. Most of us also need to smile more often. If you don’t smile at the person you love first thing in the morning, you’re sucki ng energy out of your relationship. Finally, help another person—and make the help real, concrete. Give a massage (按摩) to someone you love, or cook her dinner. Then, expand the circle to work. Try asking yourself what you’d do if your goal were to be helpful rather than efficient.After all, if it’s true that what goes around comes around, why not make sure that what’s circulating around you is the good stuff?注意：此部分试题请在答题卡1上作答。

2006年12月英语听力真题及答案Part III Listing Comprehension (35 minutes)Section A11. A) Plan his budget carefully B) Give her more information.C) Ask someone else for advice. D) Buy a gift for his girlfriend.12. A) She’ll have some chocol ate cake. B) She’ll take a look at the menu.C) She’ll go without dessert.D) She’ll prepare the dinner.13. A) The man can speak a foreign language.B) The woman hopes to improve her English.C) The woman knows many different languages.D) The man wishes to visit many more countries.14.A) Go to the library. B) Meet the woman. C) See Professor Smith.D) Have a drink in the bar.15.A) She isn’t sure when Professor Bloom will be backB) The man shouldn’t be late for his class.（C) The man can come back sometime later.D) She can pass on the message for the man.16. A) He has a strange personality. B) He’s got emotional problems.C) His illness is beyond cure. D) His behavior is hard to explain.17. A) The tickets are more expensive than expected.B) The tickets are sold in advance at half price.C ) It’s difficult to buy the tickets on the spot.D) It’s better to the tickets beforehand.18. A) He turned suddenly and ran into a tree.B) He was hit by a fallen box from a truck.C) He drove too fast and crashed into a truck.D) He was trying to overtake the truck ahead of him.Questions 19 to 21 are based on the conversation you have just heard.19. A) To go boating on the St. Lawrence RiverB) To go sightseeing in Quebec ProvinceC) To call on a friend in Quebec CityD) To attend a wedding in Montreal20. A) Study the map of Quebec Province B) Find more about Quebec ProvinceC) Brush up on her French D) Learn more about the local customs21.A) It’s most beautiful in summerB) It has many historical buildings.C) It was greatly expanded in the 18th century.D) It’s the only French-speaking city in Canada.Questions 22 to 25 are based on the conversation you have just heard.22.A) It was about a little animal. B) It took her six years to write.C) It was adapted from a fairy tale. D) It was about a little girl and her pet.23.A) She knows how to write best-selling novels.B) She can earn a lot of money by writing for adults.C) She is able to win enough support from publishers.D) She can make a living by doing what she likes.24. A) The characters. B) Her ideas. C) The readers. D) Her life experiences.25. A) She doesn’t really know where they originatedB) She mainly drew on stories of ancient saints.C) They popped out of her childhood dreams.D) They grew out of her long hours of thinking.Section BPassage One26. A) Monitor students’ sleep patterns.B) Help students concentrate in class.C) Record students’ weekly performance.D) Ask students to complete a sleep report.27. A) Declining health. B) Lack of attention.C) Loss of motivation. D) Improper behavior.28. A) They should make sure their children are always punctual for school.B) They should ensure their children grow up in a healthy environment.C) They should help their children accomplish high-quality work.D) They should see to it that their children have adequate sleep.Passage TwoQuestions 29 to 32 are based on the passage you have just heard.29.A) She stopped being a homemaker. B) She became a famous educator.C) She became a public figure. D) She quit driving altogether.30.A) A motorist’s speeding.B) Her running a stop sign.C) Her lack of driving experience. D) A motorist’s failure to concentrate.31.A) Nervous and unsure of herself. B) Calm and confident of herself.C) Courageous and forceful. D) Distracted and reluctant.32.A) More strict training of women drivers.B) Restrictions on cell phone use while driving.C) Improved traffic conditions in cities.D) New regulations to ensure children’s safety.Passage ThreeQuestions 33 to 35 are based on the passage you have just heard.33. A) They haven’t devoted as much energy to medicine as to space travel.B) Three are too many kinds of cold viruses for them to identify.C) It is not economical to find a cure for each for each type of cold.D) They believe people can recover without treatment.34. A) They reveal the seriousness of the problem.B) They indicate how fast the virus spreads.C) They tell us what kind of medicine to take.D) They show our body is fighting the virus.35.A) It actually does more harm than good.B) It causes damage to some organs of our bodyC) It works better when combined with other remedies.D) It helps us to recover much sooner.Section C注意：此部分试题在答题卡2上；请在答题卡2上作答。

2006年12月大学英语六级(CET-6)真题总分：100分及格：60分考试时间：120分Part II Reading Comprehension (35 minutes)(1)Questions {TSE} are based on the following passage.Each summer, no matter how pressing my work schedule, I take off one day exclusively for my son. We call it dad-son day. This year our third stop was the amusement park, where be discovered that he was tall enough to ride one of the fastest roller coasters （过山车）in the world. We blasted through face-stretching turns and loops for ninety seconds. Then, as we stepped off the ride, be shrugged and, in a distressingly calm voice, remarked that it was not as exciting as other rides he’d been on. As I listened, I began to sense something seriously out of balance.Throughout the season, I noticed similar events all around me. Parents seemed hard pressed to find new thrills for indifferent kids. Surrounded by ever-greater stimulation, their young faces were looking disappointed and bored.Facing their children’s complaints of “nothing to do“, parents were shelling out large numbers of dollars for various forms of entertainment. In many cases the money seemed to do little more than buy transient relief from the terrible moans of their bored children. This set me pondering the obvious question:“ How can it be so hard for kids to find something to do when there’s never been such a range of stimulating entertainment available to them?”What really worries me is the intensity of the stimulation. I watch my little daughter’s face as she absorbs the powerful onslaught （冲击）of arousing visuals and bloody special effects in movies.Why do children immersed in this much excitement seem starved for more? That was, I realized, the point. I discovered during my own reckless adolescence that what creates excitement is not going fast, but going faster. Thrills have less to do with speed than changes in speed.I’m concerned about the cumulative effect of years at these levels of feverish activity. It is no mystery to me why many teenagers appear apathetic （麻木的）and burned out, with a “been there, done that”air of indifference toward much of life. As increasing numbers of fr iends’ children are prescribed medications-stimulants to deal with inattentiveness at school or anti-depressants to help with the loss of interest and joy in their lives-I question the role of kids’ boredom in some of the diagnoses.My own work is focused on the chemical imbalances and biological factors related to behavioral and emotional disorders. These are complex problems. Yet I’ve be en reflecting more and more on how the pace of life and the intensity of stimulation may be contributing to the rising rates of psychiatric problems among children and adolescents in our society.{TS}The author tell surprised in the amusement park at fact that（）.A. his son was not as thrilled by the roller coasters ride as expectedB. his son blasted through the turns and loops with his face stretchedC. his son appeared distressed but calm while riding the roller coastersD. his son could keep his ba(2)According to the author, children are bored（）.A. unless their parents can find new thrills for themB. when they don’t have any access to stimulating fun gamesC. when they are left alone at weekends by their working parentsD. even if they are exposed to more and more kinds of entertainment(3)From his own experience, the author came to the conclusion that children seem to expect（）.A. a much wider variety of sports facilitiesB. activities that require sophisticated skillsC. ever-changing thrilling forms of recreationD. physical exercises that are more challenging(4)In Para 6 the author expresses his doubt about the effectiveness of trying to change children’s indifference toward much of life by（）.A. diverting their interest from electronic visual gamesB. prescribing medications for their temporary reliefC. creating more stimulating activities for themD. spending more money on their entertainment(5)In order to alleviate children’s boredom, the author would probably suggest（）.A. adjusting the pace of life and intensity of stimulationB. promoting the practice of dad-son daysC. consulting a specialist in child psychologyD. balancing school work with extracurricular activities(6)Questions {TSE} are based on the following passage.It used to be that people were proud to work for the same company for the whole of their working lives. They’d get a gold watch at the end of their productive years and a dinner featuring speeches by their bosses praising their loyalty. But today’s rich capitalists have regressed （倒退）to the “survival of the fittest”ideas and their loyalty extends not to their workers or even to their stockholders but only to themselves. Instead of giving out gold watches worth a hundred or so dollars for forty or so years of word, they grab tens and even hundreds of millions of dollars as they sell for their own profit the company they may have been with for only a few years.The new rich selfishly act on their own to unfairly grab the wealth that the country as a whole has produced. The top 1 percent of the population now has wealth equal to the whole bottom 95 percent and they want more. Their selfishness is most shamelessly expressed in downsizing and outsourcing （将产品包给分公司做）because these business maneuvers don’t act to created new jobs as the founder of new industries used to do, but only out jobs while keeping the money value of what those jobs produced for themselves.To keep the money machine working smoothly the rich have bought all the politicians from the top down. The president himself is constantly leaving Washington and the business at the nation because he is summoned to “fundraising dinners” where fat cats pay a thousand or so dollars a plate to worm their way into government not through service but through donations of vast amounts of money. Once on the inside they have both political parties busilytearing up all the regulations that protect the rest of us from the greed of the rich.The middle class used to be loyal to the free enterprise system. In the past, the people of the middle class mostly thought they’d be rich themselves someday or have a good shot at becoming rich. But nowadays income is being distributed more and more unevenly and corporate loyalty is a thing of the past. The middle class may also wake up to forget its loyalty to the so-called free enterprise system altogether and the government which governs only the rest of us while letting the corporations do what they please with our jobs. As things stand, if somebody doesn’t wake up, the middle class is on a path to being downsized all the way to the bottom of society.{TS}It can be inferred from the first paragraph that people used to place a high value on（）.A. job securityB. bosses’ prai seC. corporate loyaltyD. retirement benefits(7)The author is strongly critical of today’s rich capitalists for（）.A. not giving necessary assistance to laid-off workersB. maximizing their profits at the expense of workersC. not setting up long-term goals for their companiesD. rewarding only those who are considered the fittest(8)The immediate consequence of the new capitalists’practice is（）.A. loss of corporate reputationB. lower pay for the employeesC. a higher rate of unemploymentD. a decline in business transactions(9)The rich try to sway the policy of the government by（）.A. occupying important positions in both political partiesB. making monetary contributions to decision-makersC. pleasing the public with generous donationsD. constantly hosting fundraising dinners(10)What is the author’s purpose in writing this passage?A. to call on the middle class to remain loyal to the free enterprise systemB. to warn the government of the shrinking of the American middle classC. to persuade the government to change its current economic policiesD. to urge the middle class to wake up and protect their own interests(11)Questions {TSE} are based on the following passage.Intel chairman Andy Grove hasdecided to cut the Gordian knot of controversy surrounding stem cell research by simply writing a check.The check, which he pledged last week, could be for as much as 55 million, depending on how many donors make gifts of between 550,000 and 5,500,000, which he has promised to match. It will be made out to the University of California-San Francisco （UCSF）.Thanks in part to such private donations, university research into uses for human stem cells—the cells at the earliest stages of development that can form any body part—will continue in California. With private financial support, the state will be less likely to lose talented scientists who would be tempted to leave the field or even leave the country as research dependent on federal money slows to glacial （极其缓慢的）pace.Hindered by limits President Bush placed on stem cell research a year age, scientists are turning to laboratories that can carry out work without using federal money. This is awkward for universities, which must spend extra money building separate labs and keeping rigor cots records proving no federal funds were involved. Grove’s donation, a first step toward a $20 million target at UCSF, will ease the burden.The president’s decision a year ago to allow research on already existing stem cell lines was portrayed as a reasonable compromise between scientists’needs for cells to work with, and concerns that this kind of research could lead to wholesale creation and destruction of human embryos （胚胎）, cloned infants and a general contempt for human life.But Bush’s effort to please both sides ended up pleasing neither. And it certainly didn’t provide the basis for cutting edge research. Of the 78 existing stem cell lines which Bush said are all that science would ever need, only one is in this country （at the University of Wisconsin）and only five are ready for distribution to researchers. All were grown in conjunction with mouse cells, making future therapeutic （治疗的）uses unlikely.The Bush administration seems bent on satisfying the small but vocal group of Americans who oppose stem cell research under any conditions. Fortunately, Grove and others are more interested in advancing scientific research that could benefit the large number of Americans who suffer from Parkinson’s disease, nerve injuries, heart diseases and many other problems.{TS}When Andy Grove decided to cut the Gordian knot, he meat to（）.A. put an end to stem cell researchB. end Intel’s relations with GordianC. settle the dispute on stem cell research quicklyD. expel Gordian from stem cell research for good(12)For UCSF to carry on stem cell research, new funds have to come from（）.A. interested businesses and individualsB. the United States federal governmentC. a foundation set up by the Intel CompanyD. executives of leading American companies(13)As a result of the limit Bust placed on stem cell research. American universities will（）.A. conduct the research in laboratories overseasB. abandon the research altogether in the near futureC. have to carry out the research secretlyD. have to raise money to build separate labs(14)We may infer from the passage that future therapeutic uses of stem cells will be unlikely unless（）.A. human stem cells are used in the researchB. a lot more private donations can be securedC. more federal money is used for the researchD. talented scientists are involved in the research(15)The reason lying behind President Bush’s placing limits on stem cell research is that（）.A. his administration is financially pinchedB. he did not want to offend its opponentsC. it amounts to a contempt for human lifeD. it did not promise any therapeutic value(16)Questions {TSE} are based on the following passage.This looks like the year that hard-pressed tenants in California will relief-not just in the marketplace, where tents have eased, but from the state capital Sacramento.Two significant tenant reforms stand a good chance of passage. One bill, which will give more time to tenants being evicted （逐出）, will soon be heading to the governor’s desk. The other, protecting security deposits, faces a vote in the Senate on Monday.For more than a century, landlords in California have been able to force tenants out with only 30 days’notice. That will now double under SB 1403, which got through the Assembly recently. The new protection will apply only to renters who have been in an apartment for at least a year.Even 60 days in a tight housing market won’t be long enough for some families to find an apartment near where their kids go to school. But is will be an improvement in cities like San Jose, where renters rights groups charge that unscrupulous （不择手段的）landlords have kicked out tenants on short notice to put up tents.The California Landlords Association argued that landlords shouldn’t have to wait 60 days to get rid of problem tenants. But the bill gained support when a Japanese real estate investor sent out 30-day eviction notices to 550 families renting homes in Sacramento and Santa Rosa. The landlords lobby eventually dropped its opposition and instead turned its forces against AB 2330, regarding security deposits. Sponsored by Assemblywoman Carole Migden of San Francisco, the bill would establish a procedure and a timetable for tenants to get back security deposits.Some landlords view security deposits as a free month’s rent, theirs for the taking. In most cases, though, there are honest disputes over damages-what constitutes ordinary wear and tear AB 2330 would give a tenant the right to request a walk-through with the landlord and to make the repairs before moving out; reputable landlords already do this. It would increase the penalty for failing to return a deposit. The original bill would have required the landlord to pay interest on the deposit. The landlords lobby protested that it would involve too much paperwork over too little money-less than $10 a year on a $1,000 deposit, at current rates. On Wednesday, the sponsor dropped the interest section to increase the chance of passage.Even in its amended form, AB 2330 is, like SB 1403, vitally important for tenants and should be made state law.{TS}We learn from the passage that SB 1403will benefit（）.A. long-term real estate investorsB. short-term tenants in SacramentoC. landlords in the State of CaliforniaD. tenants renting a house over a year(17)A 60-day notice before eviction may not be early enough for renters because（）.A. moving house is something difficult to arrangeB. appropriate housing may not be readily availableC. more time is needed for their kids’ school registrationD. the furnishing of the new house often takes a long time(18)Very often landlords don’t return tenants’deposits on the pretext that（）.A. their rent has not been paid in timeB. there has been ordinary wear and tearC. tenants have done damage to the houseD. the 30-day notice for moving out is over(19)Why did the sponsor of the AB 2330 bill finally give in on the interest section?A. To put an end to a lengthy argumenB. To urge landlords to lobby for its passagC. To cut down the heavy paperwork for its easy passagD. To make it easier for the State Assembly to pass the bil(20)It can be learned from the passage that（）.A. both bills are likely to be made state lawsB. neither bill will pass through the AssemblyC. AB 2330 stands a better chance of passageD. Sacramento and San Jose support SB 1403Part III V ocabulary (20 minutes)(1)Grey whales have long been（）in the north Atlantic and hunting was an important cause for that.A. extinctB. extinguishedC. detainedD. deprived(2)He was given major responsibility for operating the remote manipulator to（）the newly launched satellite.A. retreatB. retrieveC. embodyD. embrace(3)Foreign students are facing unprecedented delays, as visa applications receive closer（）than ever.A. appraisalB. scanningC. retentionD. scrutiny(4)If you are late for the appointment, you might（）the interviewer and lose your chance of being accepted.A. irrigateB. intrigueC. irritateD. intimidate(5)Children’s idea of a magic kingdom is often dancers in animal（）as they have often seen in Disneyland.A. cushionsB. costumesC. skeletonsD. ornaments(6)Ever since the first nuclear power stations were built, doubts have（）about their safety.A. preservedB. survivedC. suspendedD. lingered(7)This clearly shows that crops and weeds have quite a number of（）in common.A. traitsB. tracesC. tracksD. trails(8)From science to Shakespeare, excellent television and video programs are available（）to teacher.A. in stockB. in storeC. in operationD. in abundance(9)When the Italian poet Dante was（）from his home in Florence, he decided to walk from Italy to Paris to search for the real meaning of life.A. exertedB. expiredC. exiledD. exempted(10)Habits acquired in youth-notably smoking and drinking-may increase the risk of（）diseases in a person’s later life.A. consecutiveB. chronicC. criticalD. cyclical(11)F. W. Woolworth was the first businessman to erect a true skyscraper to（）himself, and in 1929, A1 Smith, a former governor of New York, sought to outreach him.A. portrayB. proclaimC. exaggerateD. commemorate(12)To label their produce as organic, farmers have to obtain a certificate showing that no（）chemicals have been used to kill pests on the farm for two years.A. toxicB. tragicC. nominalD. notorious(13)Ancient Greek gymnastics training programs were considered to be an（）part of thechildren’s education.A. intactB. integralC. inclusiveD. infinite(14)Researchers have found that happiness doesn’t appear to be anyone’s; the capacity for joy is a talent you develop largely for yourself.A. disposalB. domainC. heritageD. hostage(15)We want out children to have more than job skills; we want their lives to be（）and their perspectives to be broadened.A. envisagedB. excelledC. exceededD. enriched(16)Online schools, which（）the needs of different people, have emerged as an increasingly popular education alternative.A. stir upB. switch onC. cater toD. consent to(17)This kind of songbird sleeps much less during its annual（）,but that doesn’t seem to affect its flying.A. migrationB. emigrationC. conveyanceD. transference(18)The developing nations want rich countries to help shoulder the cost of（）forests.A. updatingB. upgradingC. conservingD. constructing(19)In the study, researchers succeeded in determining how coffee（）different areas of the brain in 15 volunteers.A. integratedB. motivatedC. illuminatedD. activated(20)They are trying to（）the risk as much as they can by making a more thorough investigation of the market.A. minimizeB. harmonizeC. summarizeD. jeopardize(21)The cycles of the sun and moon are simple, but forces which have shaped human lives since the beginning.A. franticB. giganticC. sensationalD. maximum(22)An effort was launched recently to create the first computer（）of the entire human brain.A. repetitionB. repressionC. saturationD. simulation(23)In the face of the disaster, the world has united to aid millions of（）people trying to piece their lives back together.A. fragileB. primitiveC. vulnerableD. susceptible(24)AIDS is a global problem that demands a unified, worldwide solution, which is not only the responsibility of nations in which AIDS is most（）.A. relevantB. prevalentC. vigorousD. rigorous(25)After the earthquake, a world divided by（）and religious disputes suddenly faced its common humanity in this shocking disaster.A. eligibleB. engagedC. proneD. prospective(26)Psychologists suggest that children who are shy are more（）to develop depression and anxiety later in life.A. eligibleB. engagedC. proneD. prospective(27)Initially, the scientists and engineers seemed（）by the variety of responses people can make to a poem.A. reinforcedB. embarrassedC. depressedD. bewildered(28)Is it possible to stop drug（）in the country within a very short time?A. adoptionB. addictionC. contemplationD. compulsion(29)The parents of Lindsay, 13, an（）tennis player who spends eight hours a day on the court, admit that a regular school is not an option for their daughter.A. exoticB. equivalentC. eliteD. esthetic(30)Our research confirmed the（）that when children have many different caregivers important aspects of their development are liable to be overlooked.A. hypothesisB. hierarchyC. synthesisD. syndromePart IV Error Correction (15 minute)(1)The most important starting point for improving the understanding of silence is undoubtedly an adequate scientific education at school. Public attitudes towards <U>science owe much the way science is taught in these （S1）</U> <U>institutions. Today, school is what most people come into （S2）</U> contact with a formal instruction and explanation of science for the first time, at least in a systematic way. It is at this <U>point which the foundations are laid for an interest in science. （S3）</U> What is taught （and how）in this first encounter will largely determine an individual’s view of the subject in adult life.<U>Understanding the original of the negative attitudes （S4）</U> towards science may help us to modify them. Most education <U>system neglect exploration, understanding and reflection. （S5）</U> Teachers in schools tend to present science as a collection of <U>facts, often by more detail than necessary. As a result, （S6）</U> children memorize processes such as mathematical formulas or the periodic table, only to forget it shortly afterwards. The （S7）task of learning facts and concepts, one at a time, makes <U>learning laborious, boring and efficient. Such a purely （S8）</U> empirical approach, which consists of observation and description, is also, in a sense, unscientific or incomplete. There is therefore a need for resources and methods of <U>teaching that facilitates a deep understanding of science in （S9）</U> an enjoyable way. Science should not only be “fun”in the same way as playing a video game, but ‘hard fun’—deep <U>feeling of connection made possibly only imaginative （S10）</U> engagement.答案和解析Part II Reading Comprehension (35 minutes)(1) :A(2) :D(3) :C(4) :B(5) :A(6) :C(7) :B(8) :C(9) :B(10) :D(11) :C(12) :A(13) :D(14) :A(15) :B(16) :D(17) :B(18) :C(19) :D(20) :APart III V ocabulary (20 minutes)(1) :A(2) :B(3) :D(4) :C(5) :B(6) :D(7) :A(8) :D(9) :C(10) :B(11) :D(12) :A(13) :B(14) :C(15) :D(16) :C(17) :A(18) :C(19) :D(20) :A(21) :B(22) :D(23) :C(24) :B(25) :A(26) :C(27) :D(28) :B(29) :C(30) :APart IV Error Correction (15 minute) (1) :S1．在much和the way间插入to S2．what →whereS3．which →thatS4．original →originS5．system →systemsS6．by →inS7．it →themS8．efficient →inefficient S9．facilitates →facilitate S10．possibly →possible。

2006年12月23日大学英语六级(CET-6)真题试卷(B卷)Part I Listening Comprehension (20 minutes)Section ADirections: In this section, you will hear 10 short conversations. At the end of each conversation, a question will be asked about what was said. Both theconversation and the question will be spoken only once. After eachquestion there will be a pause. During the pause, you must read the fourchoices marked A), B), C) or D), and decide which is the best answer. Thenmark the corresponding letter on the Answer Sheet with a single linethrough the centre.1. A) The foggy weather has affected Mary‟s mood.B) They are puzzled about Mary‟s low spirits.C) Mary is dissatisfied with her promotion.D) Mary cares too much about her looks.2. A) Go to an art exhibition.B) Attend the opening night of a play.C) Dine out with an old friend.D) See his paintings on display.3. A) Her mother was quite outstanding in academic word.B) She was not particularly interested in going to school.C) Her parents laid great emphasis on academic excellence.D) She helped upgrade the educational level of immigrants.4. A) The machines there were ill maintained.B) Tickets for its members were cheaper.C) It was filled with people all the time.D) It had a reputation for good service.5. A) Both Sarah and Tom have been awarded doctoral degrees.B) Tom has arranged to meet his bride Sarah in Hawaii.C) Tom was more excited than Sarah at the wedding.D) A double blessing has descended upon Tom.6. A) There were too many questions in the examination.B) The examination was well beyond the course content.C) The examination questions were somewhat too difficult.D) The course prepared him adequately for the examination.7. A) It‟s less time consuming.B) His wife is tired of cooking.C) It‟s part of his job.D) He is sick of home-cooked meals.8. A) He has just started to teach piano lessons.B) He seldom takes things seriously.C) He is very proud of his piano skills.D) He usually understates his achievements.9. A) It‟s tedious.B) It‟s absurd.C) It‟s justifiable.D) It‟s understandable.10. A) Arrange accommodation for her.B) Explain the cause of the cancellation.C) Compensate her for the inconvenience.D) Allow her to take another flight that night.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 bespoken only once. After you hear a question, you must choose the bestanswer from the four choices marked A), B), C) or D). Then mark thecorresponding letter on the Answer Sheet with a single line through thecentre.Passage OneQuestions 11 to 13 are based on the passage you have just heard.11. A) Producing legendary painting.B) Making a fortune from decorative arts.C) Manufacturing quality furniture.D) Setting up a special museum.12. A) To show his fascination with Asian culture.B) To tell the story of the American Revolution.C) To promote interest in American decorative arts.D) To increase the popularity of the DuPont Company.13. A) By theme of period.B) By style of design.C) By manufacturer of origin.D) By function of purpose.Passage TwoQuestions 14 to 16 are based on the passage you have just heard.14. A) People may use two or more languages.B) People will choose Chinese rather than English.C) The percentage of native speakers of English will increase.D) The number of people relying on their mother tongue will drop.15. A) The number of Spanish speakers is far greater than that of Arabic speakers.B) Arabic spoken in one Arab country may not be understood in another.C) Arabic spoken in Egypt differs from Arabic spoken in Morocco in origin.D) The number of Arabic speakers is declining because of the invasion of English.16. A) It is impossible for Arab countries to standardize their language.B) Most people in the world will learn to speak Chinese in the future.C) It is uncertain whether English will be the world language in the future.D) Spanish is very likely to become the top language of the world by 2050.Passage ThreeQuestions 17 to 20 are based on the passage you have just heard.17. A) Because they believe blind students prefer to mix with students who can see.B) Because it would cost lots of money to build such special colleges.C) Because it would constitute discrimination against blind students.D) Because they think blind people should learn to live among sighted people.18. A) By encouraging the to be more self-reliant.B) By showing them proper care and respect.C) By offering them more financial assistance.D) By providing them with free medical service.19. A) Financial aid from the American government.B) Modern technology.C) Professional support.D) Help from the National Federation of the Blind.20. A) Ask American professors to write recommendations on their behalf.B) Obtain American citizenship before they reach the age of 30.C) Turn to special institutions in their own country for assistance.D) Apply to the national federation of the Blind for scholarships.Part II Reading Comprehension (35 minutes)Directions: There are 4 passages in this part. Each passage is followed by some questions or unfinished statements. For each of them there are four choicesmarked A) B) C) and D).You should decide on the best choice and mark thecorresponding letter on Answer Sheet with a single line through the centre.Passage OneQuestions 21 to 25 are based on the following passage.Each summer, no matter how pressing my work schedule, I take off one day exclusively for my son. We call it dad-son day. This year our third stop was the amusement park, where be discovered that he was tall enough to ride one of the fastest roller coasters (过山车) in the world. We blasted through face-stretching turns and loops for ninety seconds. Then, as we stepped off the ride, be shrugged and, in a distressingly calm voice, remarked that it was not as exciting as other rides he‟d been on. As I listened, I began to sense something seriously out of balance.Throughout the season, I noticed similar events all around me. Parents seemed hard pressed to find new thrills for indifferent kids. Surrounded by ever-greater stimulation, their young faces were looking disappointed and bored.Facing their children‟s complaints of “nothing to do“, parents were shelling out large numbers of dollars for various forms of entertainment. In many cases the money seemed to do little more than buy transient relief from the terrible moans of their bored children. This set me pondering the obvious question:“ How can it be so hard for kids to find something to do when there‟s never been such a range of stimulating entertainment available to them?”What really worries me is the intensity of the stimulation. I watch my little daughter‟s face as she absorbs the powerful onslaught(冲击) of arousing visuals and bloody special effects in movies.Why do children immersed in this much excitement seem starved for more? That was, I realized, the point. I discovered during my own reckless adolescence that what creates excitement is not going fast, but going faster. Thrills have less to do with speed than changes in speed.I‟m concerned about the cumulative effect of years at these levels of feverish activity. It is no mystery to me why many teenagers appear apathetic (麻木的) and burned out, with a “been there, done that”air of indifference toward much of life. As increasing numbers of friends‟children are prescribed medications-stimulants to deal with inattentiveness at school or anti-depressants to help with the loss of interest and joy in their lives-I question the role of kids‟ boredom in some of the diagnoses.My own work is focused on the chemical imbalances and biological factors related to behavioral and emotional disorders. These are complex problems. Yet I‟ve been reflecting more and more on how the pace of life and the intensity of stimulation may be contributing to the rising rates of psychiatric problems among children and adolescents in our society.21. The author tell surprised in the amusement park at fact that ________.A) his son was not as thrilled by the roller coasters ride as expectedB) his son blasted through the turns and loops with his face stretchedC) his son appeared distressed but calm while riding the roller coastersD) his son could keep his balance so well on the fast moving roller coasters22. According to the author, children are bored ________.A) unless their parents can find new thrills for themB) when they don‟t have any access to stimulating fun gamesC) when they are left alone at weekends by their working parentsD) even if they are exposed to more and more kinds of entertainment23. From his own experience, the author came to the conclusion that children seem toexpect ________.A) a much wider variety of sports facilitiesB) activities that require sophisticated skillsC) ever-changing thrilling forms of recreationD) physical exercises that are more challenging24. In Para 6 the author expresses his doubt about the effectiveness of trying to changechildren‟s indifference toward much of life by ________.A) diverting their interest from electronic visual gamesB) prescribing medications for their temporary reliefC) creating more stimulating activities for themD) spending more money on their entertainment25. In order to alleviate children‟s boredom, the author would probably suggest________.A) adjusting the pace of life and intensity of stimulationB) promoting the practice of dad-son daysC) consulting a specialist in child psychologyD) balancing school work with extracurricular activitiesPassage TwoQuestions 26 to 30 are based on the following passage.It used to be that people were proud to work for the same company for the whole of their working lives. They‟d get a gold watch at the end of their productive years and a dinner featuring speeches by their bosses praising their loyalty. But today‟s rich capitalists have regressed(倒退) to the “survival of the fittest”ideas and their loyalty extends not to their workers or even to their stockholders but only to themselves. Instead of giving out gold watches worth a hundred or so dollars for forty or so years of word, they grab tens and even hundreds of millions of dollars as they sell for their own profit the company they may have been with for only a few years.The new rich selfishly act on their own to unfairly grab the wealth that the country as a whole has produced. The top 1 percent of the population now has wealth equal to the whole bottom 95 percent and they want more. Their selfishness is most shamelessly expressed in downsizing and outsourcing (将产品包给分公司做) because these business maneuvers don‟t act to created new jobs as the founder of new industries used to do, but only out jobs while keeping the money value of what those jobs produced for themselves.To keep the money machine working smoothly the rich have bought all the politicians from the top down. The president himself is constantly leaving Washington and the business at the nation because he is summoned to “fundraising dinners” where fat cats pay a thousand or so dollars a plate to worm their way into government not through service but through donations of vast amounts of money. Once on the inside they have both political parties busily tearing up all the regulations that protect the rest of us from the greed of the rich.The middle class used to be loyal to the free enterprise system. In the past, the people of the middle class mostly thought they‟d be rich themselves someday or have a good shot at becoming rich. But nowadays income is being distributed more and more unevenly and corporate loyalty is a thing of the past. The middle class may also wake up to forget its loyalty to the so-called free enterprise system altogether and the government which governs only the rest of us while letting the corporations do what they please with our jobs. As things stand, if somebody doesn‟t wake up, the middle class is on a path to being downsized all the way to the bottom of society.26. It can be inferred from the first paragraph that people used to place a high value on________.A) job securityB) bosses‟ praiseC) corporate loyaltyD) retirement benefits27. The author is strongly critical of today‟s rich capitalists for ________.A) not giving necessary assistance to laid-off workersB) maximizing their profits at the expense of workersC) not setting up long-term goals for their companiesD) rewarding only those who are considered the fittest28. The immediate consequence of the new capitalists‟ practice is ________.A) loss of corporate reputationB) lower pay for the employeesC) a higher rate of unemploymentD) a decline in business transactions29. The rich try to sway the policy of the government by ________.A) occupying important positions in both political partiesB) making monetary contributions to decision-makersC) pleasing the public with generous donationsD) constantly hosting fundraising dinners30. What is the author‟s purpose in writing this passage?A) to call on the middle class to remain loyal to the free enterprise systemB) to warn the government of the shrinking of the American middle classC) to persuade the government to change its current economic policiesD) to urge the middle class to wake up and protect their own interestsPassage ThreeQuestions 31 to 35 are based on the following passage.Intel chairman Andy Grove has decided to cut the Gordian knot of controversy surrounding stem cell research by simply writing a check.The check, which he pledged last week, could be for as much as 55 million, depending on how many donors make gifts of between 550,000 and 5,500,000, which he has promised to match. It will be made out to the University of California-San Francisco (UCSF).Thanks in part to such private donations, university research into uses for human stem cells—the cells at the earliest stages of development that can form any body part—will continue in California. With private financial support, the state will be less likely to lose talented scientists who would be tempted to leave the field or even leave the country as research dependent on federal money slows to glacial (极其缓慢的) pace.Hindered by limits President Bush placed on stem cell research a year age, scientists are turning to laboratories that can carry out work without using federal money. This is awkward for universities, which must spend extra money building separate labs and keeping rigor cots records proving no federal funds were involved. Grove‟s donation, a first step toward a $20 million target at UCSF, will ease the burden.The president‟s decision a year ago to allow research on already existing stem cell lines was portrayed as a reasonable compromise between scientists‟needs for cells to work with, and concerns that this kind of research could lead to wholesale creation and destruction of human embryos (胚胎), cloned infants and a general contempt for human life.But Bush‟s effort to please both sides ended up pleasing neither. And it certainly didn‟t provide the basis for cutting edge research. Of the 78 existing stem cell lines which Bush said are all that science would ever need, only one is in this country (at the University of Wisconsin) and only five are ready for distribution to researchers. All were grown in conjunction with mouse cells, making future therapeutic (治疗的) uses unlikely.The Bush administration seems bent on satisfying the small but vocal group of Americans who oppose stem cell research under any conditions. Fortunately, Grove and others are more interested in advancing scientific research that could benefit the large number of Americans who suffer from Parkinson‟s disease, nerve injuries, heart diseases and many other problems.31. When Andy Grove decided to cut the Gordian knot, he meat to ________.A) put an end to stem cell researchB) end Intel‟s relations with GordianC) settle the dispute on stem cell research quicklyD) expel Gordian from stem cell research for good32. For UCSF to carry on stem cell research, new funds have to come from ________.A) interested businesses and individualsB) the United States federal governmentC) a foundation set up by the Intel CompanyD) executives of leading American companies33. As a result of the limit Bust placed on stem cell research. American universities will________.A) conduct the research in laboratories overseasB) abandon the research altogether in the near futureC) have to carry out the research secretlyD) have to raise money to build separate labs34. We may infer from the passage that future therapeutic uses of stem cells will beunlikely unless ________.A) human stem cells are used in the researchB) a lot more private donations can be securedC) more federal money is used for the researchD) talented scientists are involved in the research35. The reason lying behind President Bush‟s placing limits on stem cell research is that________.A) his administration is financially pinchedB) he did not want to offend its opponentsC) it amounts to a contempt for human lifeD) it did not promise any therapeutic valuePassage FourQuestions 36 to 40 are based on the following passage.This looks like the year that hard-pressed tenants in California will relief-not just in the marketplace, where tents have eased, but from the state capital Sacramento.Two significant tenant reforms stand a good chance of passage. One bill, which will give more time to tenants being evicted (逐出), will soon be heading to the governor‟s desk. The other, protecting security deposits, faces a vote in the Senate on Monday.For more than a century, landlords in California have been able to force tenants out with only 30 days‟ notice. That will now double under SB 1403, which got through the Assembly recently. The new protection will apply only to renters who have been in an apartment for at least a year.Even 60 days in a tight housing market won‟t be long enough for some families to find an apartment near where their kids go to school. But is will be an improvement in cities like San Jose, where renters rights groups charge that unscrupulous (不择手段的) landlords have kicked out tenants on short notice to put up tents.The California Landlords Association argued that landlords shouldn‟t have to wait 60 days to get rid of problem tenants. But the bill gained support when a Japanese real estate investor sent out 30-day eviction notices to 550 families renting homes in Sacramento and Santa Rosa. The landlords lobby eventually dropped its opposition and instead turned its forces against AB 2330, regarding security deposits.Sponsored by Assemblywoman Carole Migden of San Francisco, the bill would establish a procedure and a timetable for tenants to get back security deposits.Some landlords view security deposits as a free month‟s rent, theirs for the taking. In most cases, though, there are honest disputes over damages-what constitutes ordinary wear and tearAB 2330 would give a tenant the right to request a walk-through with the landlord and to make the repairs before moving out; reputable landlords already do this. It would increase the penalty for failing to return a deposit.The original bill would have required the landlord to pay interest on the deposit. The landlords lobby protested that it would involve too much paperwork over too little money-less than $10 a year on a $1,000 deposit, at current rates. On Wednesday, the sponsor dropped the interest section to increase the chance of passage.Even in its amended form, AB 2330 is, like SB 1403, vitally important for tenants and should be made state law.36. We learn from the passage that SB 1403 will benefit ________.A) long-term real estate investorsB) short-term tenants in SacramentoC) landlords in the State of CaliforniaD) tenants renting a house over a year37. A 60-day notice before eviction may not be early enough for renters because________.A) moving house is something difficult to arrangeB) appropriate housing may not be readily availableC) more time is needed for their kids‟ school registrationD) the furnishing of the new house often takes a long time38. Very often landlords don‟t return tenants‟ deposits on the pretext that ________.A) their rent has not been paid in timeB) there has been ordinary wear and tearC) tenants have done damage to the houseD) the 30-day notice for moving out is over39. Why did the sponsor of the AB 2330 bill finally give in on the interest section?A) To put an end to a lengthy argument.B) To urge landlords to lobby for its passage.C) To cut down the heavy paperwork for its easy passage.D) To make it easier for the State Assembly to pass the bill.40. It can be learned from the passage that ________.A) both bills are likely to be made state lawsB) neither bill will pass through the AssemblyC) AB 2330 stands a better chance of passageD) Sacramento and San Jose support SB 1403Part III Vocabulary (20 minutes)Directions: There are 30 incomplete sentences in this part. For each sentence there are four choices marked A), B), C) or D). Choose the ONE answer that the bestcompletes the sentence. Then mark the corresponding letter on the AnswerSheet with a single line through the centre.41. Grey whales have long been ________ in the north Atlantic and hunting was animportant cause for that.A) extinctB) extinguishedC) detainedD) deprived42. He was given major responsibility for operating the remote manipulator to________ the newly launched satellite.A) retreatB) retrieveC) embodyD) embrace43. Foreign students are facing unprecedented delays, as visa applications receive closer________ than ever.A) appraisalB) scanningC) retentionD) scrutiny44. If you are late for the appointment, you might ________ the interviewer and loseyour chance of being accepted.A) irrigateB) intrigueC) irritateD) intimidate45. Children‟s idea of a magic kingdom is often dancers in animal ________ as theyhave often seen in Disneyland.A) cushionsB) costumesC) skeletonsD) ornaments46. Ever since the first nuclear power stations were built, doubts have ________ abouttheir safety.A) preservedB) survivedC) suspendedD) lingered47. This clearly shows that crops and weeds have quite a number of ________ incommon.A) traitsB) tracesC) tracksD) trails48. From science to Shakespeare, excellent television and video programs are available________ to teacher.A) in stockB) in storeC) in operationD) in abundance49. When the Italian poet Dante was ________ from his home in Florence, he decidedto walk from Italy to Paris to search for the real meaning of life.A) exertedB) expiredC) exiledD) exempted50. Habits acquired in youth-notably smoking and drinking-may increase the risk of________ diseases in a person‟s later life.A) consecutiveB) chronicC) criticalD) cyclical51. F. W. Woolworth was the first businessman to erect a true skyscraper to ________himself, and in 1929, A1 Smith, a former governor of New York, sought to outreach him.A) portrayB) proclaimC) exaggerateD) commemorate52. To label their produce as organic, farmers have to obtain a certificate showing thatno ________ chemicals have been used to kill pests on the farm for two years.A) toxicB) tragicC) nominalD) notorious53. Ancient Greek gymnastics training programs were considered to be an ________part of the children‟s education.A) intactB) integralC) inclusiveD) infinite54. Researchers have found that happiness doesn‟t appear to be anyone‟s; the capacityfor joy is a talent you develop largely for yourself.A) disposalB) domainC) heritageD) hostage55. We want out children to have more than job skills; we want their lives to be________ and their perspectives to be broadened.A) envisagedB) excelledC) exceededD) enriched56. Online schools, which ________ the needs of different people, have emerged as anincreasingly popular education alternative.A) stir upB) switch onC) cater toD) consent to57. This kind of songbird sleeps much less during its annual ________,but that doesn‟tseem to affect its flying.A) migrationB) emigrationC) conveyanceD) transference58. The developing nations want rich countries to help shoulder the cost of ________forests.A) updatingB) upgradingC) conservingD) constructing59. In the study, researchers succeeded in determining how coffee ________ differentareas of the brain in 15 volunteers.A) integratedB) motivatedC) illuminatedD) activated60. They are trying to ________ the risk as much as they can by making a morethorough investigation of the market.A) minimizeB) harmonizeC) summarizeD) jeopardize61. The cycles of the sun and moon are simple, but forces which have shaped humanlives since the beginning.A) franticB) giganticC) sensationalD) maximum62. An effort was launched recently to create the first computer ________ of the entirehuman brain.A) repetitionB) repressionC) saturationD) simulation63. In the face of the disaster, the world has united to aid millions of ________ peopletrying to piece their lives back together.A) fragileB) primitiveC) vulnerableD) susceptible64. AIDS is a global problem that demands a unified, worldwide solution, which is notonly the responsibility of nations in which AIDS is most ________.A) relevantB) prevalentC) vigorousD) rigorous65. After the earthquake, a world divided by ________ and religious disputes suddenlyfaced its common humanity in this shocking disaster.A) eligibleB) engagedC) proneD) prospective66. Psychologists suggest that children who are shy are more ________ to developdepression and anxiety later in life.A) eligibleB) engagedC) proneD) prospective67. Initially, the scientists and engineers seemed ________ by the variety of responsespeople can make to a poem.A) reinforcedB) embarrassedC) depressedD) bewildered68. Is it possible to stop drug ________ in the country within a very short time?A) adoptionB) addictionC) contemplationD) compulsion69. The parents of Lindsay, 13, an ________ tennis player who spends eight hours a dayon the court, admit that a regular school is not an option for their daughter.A) exoticB) equivalentC) eliteD) esthetic70. Our research confirmed the ________ that when children have many differentcaregivers important aspects of their development are liable to be overlooked.A) hypothesisB) hierarchyC) synthesisD) syndromePart IV Error Correction (15 minutes)Directions: This part consists of a short passage. In this passage, there are altogether10 mistakes, one in each numbered line. You may have to change a word,add a word or delete a word. Mark out the mistakes and put the correctionsin the blanks provided. If you change a word, cross it out and write thecorrect word in the corresponding blank. If you add a word, put aninsertion make (^) in the right place and write the missing world in theblank. If you delete a word, cross it out and put a slash (/) in the blank.注意：题目印刷在答题卡上，请用黑色字迹签字笔在答题卡上作答。

试题一：中秋节中国人自古以来就在中秋时节庆祝丰收，这与北美地区庆祝感恩节的习俗十分相似，过中秋节的习俗与唐代早期在中国各地开始流行，中秋节在农历八月十五，是人们拜月的节日，这天夜晚皓月当空，人们合家团聚，共赏明月。

2006年，中秋节被列为中国的文化遗产，2008年又被定为公共假日，月饼被视为中秋节不可或缺的美食，人们将月饼作为礼物馈赠亲友或在家庭聚会上享用。

传统的月饼上带有“寿”(longevity)、“福”或“和”等字样。

Since ancient times, the Chinese people usually celebrate harvest in the Mid-Autumn, which is similar to the custom of celebrating Thanksgiving in the North America. The tradition of celebrating Mid-Autumn festival became popular throughout China in the early Tang dynasty. The lunar August 15 is a day for people worshiping the moon. On this day, under the dazzling bright moon, families reunite and enjoy the moon’s beauty. In 2006, Mid-Autumn festival was listed as one of China's cultural heritage, and in 2008, it was classified as a public holiday. Moon cakes, as indispensable delicious food of the festival, were gifts people sent to families and friends during the festival and usually eaten on family gatherings. There are characters of “longevity”,“good fortune”and “harmony” on the Traditional mo on cakes.试题二：丝绸之路闻名于世的丝绸之路是一系列连接东西方的路线。

2006 年 6 月英语六级真题Part I Listening Comprehension (20 minutes) Section ADirections: In this section, you will hear 10 short conversations. At the end of each conversation, a question will be asked about what was said. Both the conversation and the question 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), C) and D), and decide which is the best answer. Then mark the corresponding letter on the Answer Sheet with a single line through the center.Example: You will hear:You will read:A) 2 hours.B) 3 hours.C) 4 hours.D) 5 hours.From the conversation we know that the two were talking about some work they will start at 9o ’ clock in the morning and have to finish at 2 in the afternoon. Therefore, D) “ 5 hours correct answer. You should choose [D] on the Answer Sheet and mark it with a single line through the center. Sample Answer [A] [B] [C] [D]1.A) She met with Thomas just a few days ago.B)She can help with the orientation program.C)She is not sure she can pass on the message.D)She will certainly try to contact Thomas.2.A) Set the dinner table.B)Change the light bulbC)Clean the dining room.D)Hold the ladder for him.3.A) He ’ d like a piece oef .piB)He ’ d like some coffeeC)He ’ d rather stay in the warm room.D)He ’ s just had dinner with his friends.4.A) He has managed to sell a number of cars.B)He is contented with his current position.C)He might get fired.D)He has lost his job.5.A) Tony ’ s secretary.B)Paul ’ s girlfriend.C)Paul ’ s colleague.D)Tony ’ s wife.6.A) He was fined for running a red light.B)He was caught speeding on a fast lane.C)He had to run quickly to get the ticket.D)He made a wrong turn at the intersection.7.A) He has learned a lot from his own mistakes.B)He is quite experienced in taming wild dogs.C)He finds reward more effective than punishment.D)He thinks it important to master basic training skills.8.A) At a bookstore.B)At the dentist ’ s.C)In a restaurant.D)In the library.9.A) He doesn ’ t want Jenny to get into trouble.B)He doesn ’ t agree with the woman ’ s remark.C)He thinks Jenny ’ s workload too heavy at college.D)He believes most college students are running wild.10.A) It was applaudable.B)It was just terrible.C)The actors were enthusiastic.D)The plot was funny enough.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 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 the Answer Sheet with a single line through the centre.Passage OneQuestions 11 to 13 are based on the passage you have just heard.11.A) Social work.B)Medical careC)Applied physicsD)Special education.12.A) The timely advice from her friends and relatives.B)The two-year professional training she received.C)Her determination to fulfill her dream.D)Her parents ’ consistent moral support.13.A) To get the funding for the hospitals.B)To help the disabled children there.C)To train therapists for the children there.D)To set up an institution for the handicapped.Passage TwoQuestions 14 to 17 are based on the passage you have just heard.14.A) At a country school in Mexico.B)In a mountain valley of Spain.C)At a small American college.D)In a small village in Chile.15.A) By expanding their minds and horizons.B)By financing their elementary education.C)By setting up a small primary school.D)By setting them an inspiring example.16.A) She wrote poetry that broke through national barriers.B)She was a talented designer of original school curriculums.C)She proved herself to be an active and capable stateswoman.D)She made outstanding contributions to children ’ s education.17.A) She won the 1945 Nobel Prize in Literature.B)She was the first woman to win a Nobel Prize.C)She translated her books into many languages.D)She advised many statesmen on international affairs.Passage ThreeQuestion 18 to 20 are based on the passage you have just heard.18.A) How animals survive harsh conditions in the wild.B)How animals alter colors to match their surroundings.C)How animals protect themselves against predators.D)How animals learn to disguise themselves effectively.19.A) Its enormous size.B)Its plant-like appearance.C)Its instantaneous response.D)Its offensive smell.20.A) It helps improve their safety.B)It allows them to swim faster.C)It helps them fight their predators.D)It allows them to avoid twists and turns.Part II Reading Comprehension (35 minutes)Directions: There are 4 passages in this part. Each passage is followed by some questions or unfinished statements. For each of them there are four choices marked A),B),C) and D). You should decide on the best choice and mark the corresponding letter on theAnswer Sheet with a single line through the centre.Passage OneQuestions 21 to 25 are based on the following passage.There are good reasons to be troubled by the violence that spreads throughout the media. Movies. Television and video games are full of gunplay and bloodshed, and one might reasonably ask what ’ s wrownigth a society that presents videos of domestic violence as entertainment. Most researchers agree that the causes of real-world violence are complex. A 1993 study by the U.S. National Academy of Sciences listed “ biological, individual, familyo,ople, earn,ds c hommunityfactors ” as all playing their parts.Viewing abnormally large amounts of violent television and video games may well contribute to violent behavior in certain individuals.The trouble comes when researchers downplay uncertainties in their studies or overstate the case for causality (因果关系). Skeptics were dismayed several years ago when a group ofsocieties including theAmerican Medical Association tried to end the debate by issuing a joint statement: “ At this time, well over 1 ,000 studies … point overwhelmingly to a causal connection between media violence and aggressive behavior in some children. ”Freedom-of-speech advocates accused the societies of catering to politicians, and even disputed the number of studies (most were review articles and essays, they said). When Jonathan Freedman, a social psychologist at the University of Toronto, reviewed the literature, he found only 200 or so studies of television- watching and aggression. And when he weeded out “ the most doubtfu l measures of aggression ” , only 28% supported a connection.The critical point here is causality. The alarmists say they have proved that violent media cause aggression. But the assumptions behind their observations need to be examined. When labeling games as violent or non-violent, should a hero eating a ghost really be counted as a violent event? And when experimenters record the time it takes game players to read‘ agg ror ‘ n-oanggressive ’ words from a list, can we be sure what they are alclytumaeasuring? The intent of the new Harvard Center on Media and Child Health to collect and standardize studies of media violence in order to compare their methodologies, assumptions and conclusions is an important step in the right direction.Another appropriate ster would be to tone down the criticism until we know more. Several researchers write, speak and testify quite a lot on the threat posed by violence in the media. That is, of course, their privilege. But when doing so, they often come out with statements that the matter has now been settled, drawing criticism from colleagues. In response, the alarmists accuse critics and news reporters of being deceived by the entertainment industry. Such clashes help neither science nor society.21.Why is there so much violence shown in movies, TV and video games?A)There is a lot of violence in the real world today.B)Something has gone wrong with today ’ s society.C)Many people are fond of gunplay and bloodshed.D)Showing violence is thought to be entertaining.22.What is the skeptics (Line 3. Para.3) view of media violence?A)Violence on television is a fairly accurate reflection of real-world life.B)Most studies exaggerate the effect of media violence on the viewers.C) A causal relationship exists between media and real-world violence.D)The influence of media violence on children has been underestimated.23.The author uses the term “ alarmists ” (Line 1. Para.5) to refer to those who ___ .A)use standardized measurements in the studies of media violenceB)initiated the debate over the influence of violent media on realityC)assert a direct link between violent media and aggressive behavior D) use appropriate methodology in examiningaggressive behavior 24. In refuting the alarmists, the author advances his argument by first challenging .A)the source and amount of their dataB)the targets of their observationC) their system of measurement D) their definition of violence25.What does the author think of the debate concerning the relationship between the media and violence?A)More studies should be conducted before conclusions are drawn.B)It should come to an end since the matter has now been settled.C)The past studies in this field have proved to be misleading. D) He more than agrees with the views held by the alarmists.Passage Two Questions 26 to 30 are based on the following passage.You’ re in trouble if you have to buy your own brand-name prescription drugs. Over the past decade, prices leaped by more than double the inflation rate. Treatments for chronic conditions can easily top ＄2,000 a month-no wonder that one in four Americans can ’ s afford to fill their prescriptions. The solution? A hearty chorus of“ O Canada. ” North of the border, where price controls reign, those same brand-name drugs cost 50% to 80% less.The Canadian option is fast becoming a political wake-up call, “ If our neighbors can buy drugs at reasonable prices, why can ’ t we? ” Even to whisper that thought provokes anger.“ Un-American! ” And-the propagandists ’ trump card (王牌)—“ Wreck our brilliant health-caresystem. ” Su-pseizre drug prices, they claim, fund the research that sparks the next generation of wonder drugs. No sky-high drug price today, no cure for cancer tomorrow. So shut up and pay up. Common sense tells you that ’ s a false alternative. The reward for finding. Say, a cancer cure is so huge that no one ’ s going to hang it up. Nevertheless, if Ca-lneavedlapricing came to the United States, the industry ’ s profit margins would droppaancde tohfenew-drug development would slow. Here lies the American dilemma. Who is all this splendid medicine for? Should our health-care system continue its drive toward the best of the best, even though rising numbers of patients can ’ t afford it? Or should we direct our wealth toward letting everyone in on today of care? Measured by saved lives, the latter is almost certainly the better course.To defend their profits, the drug companies have warned Canadian wholesalers and pharmacies(药房)not to sellto Americans by mail, and are cutting back supplies to those whodare.Meanwhile, the administration is playing the fear card. Officials from the Food and Drug Administration will argue that Canadian drugs might be fake, mishandled, or even a potential threat to life.Do bad drugs fly around the Internet? Sure-and the more we look, the more we ’ ll find, But I haven ’ t heard of any raging epidemics among the hundreds of thousands of people buying cross-border.Most users of prescription drugs don ’ s worry about costs a lot.They’ re sheltered by employee insurance, owing just a $20 co-pay.The financial blows rain, instead, on the uninsured, especially the chronically ill who need expensive drugs to live, This group will still include middle- income seniors on Medicare, who ’ ll have to dig deeply into their pockets before getting much from the new drug benefit that starts in 2006.26.What is said about the consequence of the rocketing drug prices in the U.S.?A) A quarter of Americans c an’ t afford their prescription drugs.B)Many Americans can ’ t afford to see a doctor when they fall ill.C)Many Americans have to go to Canada to get medical treatment.D)The inflation rate has been more than doubled over the years.27.It can be inferred that America can follow the Canadian model and curb its soaring drug prices by .A)encouraging people to buy prescription drugs onlineB)extending medical insurance to all its citizensC)importing low-price prescription drugs from CanadaD)exercising price control on brand-name drugs28.How do propagandists argue for the U.S. drug pricing policy?A)Low prices will affect the quality of medicines in America.B)High prices are essential to funding research on new drugs.C)Low prices will bring about the anger of drug manufacturers.D)High-price drugs are indispensable in curing chronic diseases.29.What should be the priority of America -care’ sy s theemalathccording to the author?A)To resolve the dilemma in the health-care system.B)To ma intain America ’ s lead in the drug industry.C)To allow the vast majority to enjoy its benefits.D)To quicken the pace of new drug development.30.What are American drug companies doing to protect their high profits?A)Labeling drugs bought from Canada as being fakes.B)Threatening to cut back funding for new drug research.C)Reducing supplies to uncooperative Canadian pharmacies.D)Attributing the raging epidemics to the ineffectiveness of Canadian drugs.Passage ThreeQuestions 31 to 35 are based on the following passage.Age has its privileges in America. And one of the more prominent of them is the senior citizen discount. Anyone who has reached a certain age-in some cases as low as 55-is automatically entitled to a dazzling array of price reductions at nearly every level of commercial life. Eligibility is determined not by one ’ s need but by the date on one ’ s birth certificate.Practically unheard of a generation ago, the discounts have become a routine part of many businesses-as common as color televisions in motel rooms and free coffee on airliners.People with gray hair often are given the discounts without even asking for them ；yet，millions of Americans above age 60 are healthy and solvent ( 有支付能力的). Businesses thatwould never dare offer discounts to college students or anyone under 30 freely offer them to older Americans. The practice is acceptable because of the widespread belief that “ elderly ” an are synonymous (同义的).Perhaps that once was true, but today elderly Americans as a group have a lower poverty rate than the rest of the population. To be sure, there is economic diversity within the elderly, and many older Americans are poor, But most of them aren ’ t. It is impossible to determine the impact of the discounts on individual companies. For many firms, they are a stimulus to revenue. But in other cases the discountsare given at the expense.Directly or indirectly, of younger Americans. Moreover, they are a direct irritant in what some politicians and scholars see as a coming conflict between the generations.Generational tensions are being fueled by continuing debate over Social Security benefits ，which mostly involves a transfer of resources from the young to the old. Employment is another sore point, Buoyed ( 支持) by laws and court decisions, more and more older Americans are declining the retirement dinner in favor of staying on the job-thereby lessening employment and promotion opportunities for younger workers.Far from a kind of charity they once were, senior citizen discounts have become a formidable economic privilege to a group with millions of members who don ’ t need them.It no longer makes sense to treat the elderly as a single group whose economic needs deserve priority over those of others. Senior citizen discounts only enhance the myth that older people can’ t take care of themselves and need special treatment；and they threaten the creation of a new myth, that the elderly are ungrateful and taking for themselves at the expense of children and other age groups. Senior citizen discounts are the essence of the very thing older Americans are fighting against-discrimination by age.31.We learn from the first paragraph that _ .A) offering senior citizens discounts has become routine commercial practice B) senior citizen discounts have enabled many old people to live a decent life C) giving senior citizens discounts has boosted the market for the elderly D) senior citizens have to show their birth certificates to get a discount 32. What assumption lies behind the practice of senior citizen discounts?A)Businesses, having made a lot of profits, should do something for society in return.B)Old people are entitled to special treatment for the contribution they made to society.C)The elderly, being financially underprivileged ，need humane help from society.D)Senior citizen discounts can make up for the inadequacy of the Social Security system.33.According to some politicians and scholars, senior citizen discounts will___.A)make old people even more dependent on societyB)intensify conflicts between the young and the oldC)have adverse financial impact on business companiesD)bring a marked increase in the companies revenues34.How does the author view the Social Security system?A)It encourages elderly people to retire in time.B)It opens up broad career prospects for young people.C)It benefits the old at the expense of the youngD)It should be reinforced by laws and court decisions35.Which of the following best summarizes the a uthor ’ s main argument?A)Senior citizens should fight hard against age discrimination.B)The elderly are selfish and taking senior discounts for granted.C)Priority should be given to the economic needs of senior citizens.D)Senior citizen discounts may well be a type of age discrimination.Passage FourQuestions 36 to 40 are based on the following passage.In 1854 my great-grandfather, Morris Marable, was sold on an auction block in Georgia for ＄500. For his white slave master, the sale was just “ business as usual”. But to Morris Marable and his heirs, slavery was a crime against our humanity. This pattern of human rights violations against enslaved African-Americans continued under racial segregation for nearly another century. The fundamental problem of American democracy in the 21st century is the problem of“ structu raracism ” the deep patterns of so-ceioconomic inequality and accumulated disadvantage that are coded by race, and constantly justified in public speeches by both racist stereotypes and white indifference. Do Americans have the capacity and vision to remove these structural barriers that deny democratic rights and opportunities to millions of their fellow citizens?This country has previously witnessed two great struggles to achieve a truly multicultural democracy.The First Reconstruction (1865-1877) ended slavery and briefly gave black men voting rights,but gave no meaningful compensation for two centuries of unpaid labor. The promise of “ 4 and a mule (骡子)” was for most blacks a dream deferred ( 尚未实现的).The Second Reconstruction (1954-1968), or the modern civil rights movement, ended legal segregation in public accommodations and gave blacks voting rights . But these successes paradoxically obscure the tremendous human costs of historically accumulated disadvantage that remain central to black Americans ’ lives.The disproportionate wealth that most whites enjoy today was first constructed from centuries of unpaid black labor. Many white institutions, including some leading universities, insurance companies and banks, profited from slavery. This pattern of white privilege and black inequality continues today.Demanding reparations ( 赔偿) is not just about compensation for slavery and segregation. Itis, more important, an educational campaign to highlight the contemporary reality of“ raci adeficits ” of all kinds, the unequal conditions that impact blacks regardless of class. Structural racism ’ s barriers include “ equity inequity. ” thepaitbaslefonrcmeaotfiobnlatchkatcias a direct consequence of America ’ s history. One third of all black households actually have negative netwealth. In 1998 the typical black family ’ s net wealth was ＄16,400, less than one fifth that of white families.Black families are denied home loans at twice the rate of whites.Blacks remain the last hired and first fired during recessions.During the 1990-91 recession. African-Americans suffered disproportionately. At Coca-Cola,42 percent of employees who lost their jobs were blacks. At Sears, 54 percent were black, Blacks have significantly shorter life spans, in part due to racism in the health establishment. Blacks are statistically less likely than whites to be referred for kidney transplants or early-stage cancer surgery.36.To the author, the auction of his great-grandfather is a typical example of .A)crime against humanityB)unfair business transactionC)racial conflicts in GeorgiaD)racial segregation in America37.The barrier to democracy in 21st century America is .A)widespread use of racist stereotypesB)prejudice against minority groupsC)deep-rooted socio-economic inequalityD)denial of legal rights to ordinary blacks38.What problem remains unsolved in the two Reconstructions?A)Differences between races are deliberately obscured.B)The blacks are not compensated for their unpaid labor.C)There is no guarantee for blacks to exercise their rights.D)The interests of blacks are not protected by law.39.It is clear that the wealth enjoyed by most whites .A)has resulted from business successes over the yearsB)has been accompanied by black capital formationC)has derived from sizable investments in educationD)has been accumulated from generations of slavery40.What does the author think of the current situation regarding racial discrimination?A)Racism is not a major obstacle to blacks ’ employment.B)Inequality of many kinds remains virtually untouchedC) A major step has been taken towards reparations.D)Little has been done to ensure blacks ’ civil rights.Part III V ocabulary (20 minutes)Direction: There are 30 incomplete sentences in this part. For each sentence thereare four choices marked A), B), C) and D). Choose the ONE answer that best completes the sentence. Then mark the corresponding letter on the Answer Sheet with a single line through the centre.41.Because of the of its ideas, the book was in wide circulation both at home and abroad.A)originality B) subjectivityC) generality D) ambiguity42.With its own parliament and currency and a common ___ for peace, the European Union declared itself —in 11 official languages —open for business.A) inspiration B) assimilationC) intuition D) aspiration43.America has now adopted more ___________ European-style inspection systems, and theincidence of food poisoning is falling.A) discrete B) solemnC) rigorous D) autonomous44.Mainstream pro-market economists all agree that competition is an ___ spur to efficiency and innovation.A) extravagant B) exquisiteC) intermittent D) indispensable45.In the late 19th century, Jules Verne, the master of science fiction, foresaw many of the technological wonders that are ___ today.A) transient B) commonplaceC) implicit D) elementary46.I was so ___ when I used the automatic checkout lane in the supermarket for the first time.A) immersed B) assaultedC) thrilled D) dedicated47.His arm was ___ from the shark ’ s mouth and reattached, but the boy, who alreadydied, remained in a delicate condition.A)retrieved B) retainedC) repelled D) restored48.Bill Gates and Walt Disney are two people America has ___ to be the Greatest American.A) appointed B) appeasedC) nicknamed D) dominated49.The ___ majority of citizens tend to believe that the death penalty will help decrease the crime rate.A) overflowing B) overwhelmingC) prevalent D) premium50.We will also see a ___ increase in the number of televisions per household, as smallTV displays are added to clocks, coffee makers and smoke detectors.A) startling B) surpassingC) suppressing D) stacking51.The advance of globalization is challenging some of our most ___ values and ideas, including our idea of what constitutes “ home”.A) enriched B) enlightenedC) cherished D) chartered52.Researchers have discovered that ___ with animals in an active way may lower a person ’ s blood pressure.C) migrating D) merging53.The Beatles, the most famous British band of the 196.s, traveled worldwide for many years, cultural barriers.A) transporting B) transplantingC) transferring D) transcending54.In his last years, Henry suffered from a disease that slowly ___ him of much of his sight.A) relieved B) jeopardizedC) deprived D) eliminated55.Weight lifting, or any other sport that builds up your muscles, can make bones become denser and less ___ to injury.A) attached B) proneC) immune D) reconciled56.He has ___ to museums hundreds of his paintings as well as his entire personal collection of modern art.A) ascribed B) attributedC) designated D) donated57.Erik ’ s website contains ___ photographs and hundreds of articles and short videos from his trip around the globe.A) prosperous B) gorgeousC) spacious D) simultaneous58.Optimism is a ___ shown to be associated with good physical health, less depression and longer life.A) trail B) traitC) trace D) track59.The institution has a highly effective program which helps first-year students make a successful ___ into college life.A) transformation B) transmissionC) transition D) transaction60.Philosophers believe that desire, hatred and envy are “ negative emotions ” which ___ the mind and lead it into a pursuit of power and possessions.A) distort B) reinforceC) exert D) scramble61.The term “ glass ceiling ” was first used by the Wall Street Journal to describe the apparent barriers that prevent women from reaching the top of the corporate ___.A) seniority B) superiorityC) height D) hierarchy62.Various efforts have been made over the centuries to predict earthquakes, including observing lights in thesky and ___ animal behavior.A) abnormal B) exoticC) absurd D) erroneous63.Around 80 percent of the ___ characteristics of most white Britons have been passed down from a few thousand Ice Age hunters.A) intelligible B) randomC) spontaneous D) genetic64.Picasso gained popularity in the mid-20th century, which was ___ of a new attitude towards modern art.C) exclusive D) expressive65.The country was an island that enjoyed civilized living for a thousand years or more with little ___ from the outside world.A) disturbance B) discriminationC) irritation D) irregularity66.Fashion designers are rarely concerned with vital things like warmth, comfort and ___ .A) stability B) capabilityC) durability D) availability67.Back in the days when people traveled by horse and carriage, Karl Benz ___ the world with his extraordinary three-wheeled motor vehicle.A) inhibited B) extinguishedC) quenched D) stunned68.If we continue to ignore the issue of global warming, We will almost certainly suffer the effects of climatic changes worldwide.A) dubious B) drasticC) trivial D) toxic69.According to the theory of evolution, all living species are the modified ___ of earlier species.A) descendants B) dependantsC) defendants D) developments70.The panda is an endangered species, which means that it is very likely to become ___ without adequate protection.A) intact B) insaneC) extinct D) exemptPart N Error Correction (15 minutes)Directions: This part consists of a short passage. In this passage, there are altogether 10 mistakes, one in each numbered line. You may have to change a word, add a word or delete a。

2006年12月24日大学英语六级(CET-6)真题试卷(A卷)Part I Writing (30 minutes)Directions: For this part, you are allowed 30 minutes to write a short essay entitled The Importance of Reading Classics. You should write at least 150 words following the outline given below.1. 阅读经典书籍对人的成长至关重要2. 现在愿意阅读经典的人却越来越少，原因是…3. 我们大学生应该怎么做The Importance of Reading ClassicsPart II Reading Comprehension (Skimming and Scanning) (15 minutes) Directions: In this part, you will have 15 minutes to go over the passage quickly and answer the questions on Answer Sheet 1.For questions 1-4, markY (for YES) if the statement agrees with the information given in the passage;N (for NO) if statement contradicts the information given in the passage;NG (for NOT GIVEN) if the information is not given in the passage.For questions 5-10, complete the sentences with the information given in the passage. Space TourismMake your reservations now. The space tourism industry is officially open for business, and tickets are going for a mere $20 million for a one-week stay in space. Despite reluctance from National Air and Space Administration (NASA)，Russia made American businessman Dennis Tito the world’s first space tourist. Tito flew into space aboard a Russian Soyuz rocket that arrived at the International Space Station (ISS) on April 30, 2001. The second space tourist, South African businessman Mark Shuttleworth, took off aboard the Russian Soyuz on April 25, 2002, also bound for the ISS.Lance Bass of ‘N Sync was supposed to be the third to make the $20 mil lion trip, but he did not join the three-man crew as they blasted off on October 30, 2002, due to lack of payment. Probably the most incredible aspect of this proposed space tour was that NASA approved of it.These trips are the beginning of what could be a profitable 21st century industry. There are already several space tourism companies planning to build suborbital vehicles and orbital cities within the next two decades. These companies have invested millions, believing that the space tourism industry is on the verge of taking off.In 1997, NASA published a report concluding that selling trips into space to private citizens could be worth billions of dollars. A Japanese report supports these findings, and projects that space tourism could be a $10 billion per year industry within the next two decades. The only obstacles to opening up space to tourists are the space agencies, who are concerned with safety and the development of a reliable, reusable launch vehicle.Space AccommodationsRussia’s Mir space sta tion was supposed to be the first destination for space tourists.But in March 2001，the Russian Aerospace Agency brought Mir down into the Pacific Ocean. As it turned out, bringing down Mir only temporarily delayed the first tourist trip into space.The Mir crash did cancel plans for a new reality-based game show from NBC, which was going to be called Destination Mir. The Survivor-like TV show was scheduled to air in fall 2001, Participants on the show were to go through training at Russia’s cosmonaut (宇航员) training center, Star City. Each week, one of the participants would be eliminated from the show, with the winner receiving a trip to the Mir space station. The Mir crash has ruled out NBC’s space plans for now. NASA is against beginning space tourism until the International Space Station is completed in 2006. Russia is not alone in its interest in space tourism. There are several projects underway to commercialize space travel. Here are a few of the groups that might take tourists to space:? Space Island Group is going to build a ring-shaped, rotating “commercial space infrastructure (基础结构)” that will resemble the Discovery spacecraft in the movie “2001: A Space Odyssey.” Space Island says it will build its space city out of empty NASA space-shuttle fuel tanks (to start, it should take around 12 or so), and place it about 400 miles above Earth. The space city will rotate once per minute to create a gravitational pull one-third as strong as Earth’s.? According to their vision statement. Space Adventures pl ans to “fly tens of thousand of people in space over the next 10-15 years and beyond, around the moon, and back, from spaceports both on Earth and in space, to and from private space stations, and board dozen of different vehicles...”? Even Hilton Hotels has shown interest in the space tourism industry and possibility of building or co-funding a space hotel. However, the company did say that it believes such a space hotel is 15 to 20 years away.Initially, space tourism will offer simple accommodations at best. For instance, if the International Space Station is used as a tourist attraction, guests won’t find the luxurious surroundings of a hotel room on Earth. It has been designed for conducting research, not entertainment. However, the first generation of space hotels should offer tourists a much more comfortable experience.In regard to a concept for a space hotel initially planned by Space Island, such a hotel could offer guests every convenience they might find at a hotel on Earth, and some they might not. The small gravitational pull created by the rotating space city would allow space-tourists and residents to walk around and function facilities would be possible. Additionally, space tourists would even be able to take space walks.Many of these companies believe that they have to offer an extremely enjoyable experience in order for passengers to pay thousands, if not millions, of dollars to ride into space. So will space create another separation between the haves and have-nots? The Most Expensive VacationWill space be an exotic retreat reserved for only the wealthy? Or will middle-class folks have a chance to take their families to space? Make no mistake about it, going to space will be the most expensive vacation you ever take. Prices right now are in the tens of millions of dollars. Currently, the only vehicles that can take you into spaceare the space shuttle and the Russian Soyuz, both of which are terribly inefficient. Each spacecraft requires millions of pounds of fuel to take off into space, which makes them expensive to launch. One pound of payload (有效载重) costs about $10,000 to put into Earth’s orbit.NASA and Lockheed Martin are currently developing a single-stage-to-orbit launch space plane, called the VentureStar, that could be launched for about a tenth of what the space shuttle costs to launch. If the VentureStar takes off, the number of people who could afford to take a trip into space would move into the millions.In 1998, a joint report from NASA and the Space Transportation Association stated that improvements in technology could push fares for space travel as low as $50,000, and possibly down to $20,000 or $10,000 a decade later. The report concluded that a ticket price of $50,000, there could be 500,000 passengers flying into space each year. While still leaving out many people, these prices would open up space to a tremendous amount of traffic.Since the beginning of the space race, the general public has said, “Isn’t that great—when do I get to go?” Well, our chance might be closer th an ever. Within the next 20 years, space planes could be taking off for the Moon at the same frequency as airplanes flying between New York and Los Angles.注意：此部分试题请在答题卡1上作答。

2006年6月英语六级真题Part I Listening Comprehension (20 minutes)Section ADirections: In this section, you will hear 10 short conversations. At the end of each conversation, a question will be asked about what was said. Both the conversationand the question 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), C) and D), anddecide which is the best answer. Then mark the corresponding letter on the AnswerSheet with a single line through the center.Example: You will hear:You will read:A) 2 hours.B) 3 hours.C) 4 hours.D) 5 hours.From the conversation we know that the two were talking about some work they will start at 9o‟clock in the morning and have to finish at 2 in the afternoon. Therefore, D) “5 hours” is the correct answer. You should choose [D] on the Answer Sheet and mark it with a single line through the center.Sample Answer [A] [B] [C] [D]1. A) She met with Thomas just a few days ago.B) She can help with the orientation program.C) She is not sure she can pass on the message.D) She will certainly try to contact Thomas.2. A) Set the dinner table.B) Change the light bulbC) Clean the dining room.D) Hold the ladder for him.3. A) He‟d like a piece of pie.B) He‟d like some coffeeC) He‟d rather stay in the warm room.D) He‟s just had dinner with his friends.4. A) He has managed to sell a number of cars.B) He is contented with his current position.C) He might get fired.D) He has lost his job.5. A) Tony‟s secretary.B) Paul‟s girlfriend.C) Paul’s colleague.D) Tony’s wife.6. A) He was fined for running a red light.B) He was caught speeding on a fast lane.C) He had to run quickly to get the ticket.D) He made a wrong turn at the intersection.7. A) He has learned a lot from his own mistakes.B) He is quite experienced in taming wild dogs.C) He finds reward more effective than punishment.D) He thinks it important to master basic training skills.8. A) At a bookstore.B) At the dentist‟s.C) In a restaurant.D) In the library.9. A) He doesn‟t want Jenny to get into trouble.B) He doesn‟t agree with the woman‟s remark.C) He thinks Jenny‟s workload too heavy at college.D) He believes most college students are running wild.10. A) It was applaudable.B) It was just terrible.C) The actors were enthusiastic.D) The plot was funny enough.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 only once.After you hear a question, you must choose the best answer from the four choicesmarked A), B), C) and D). Then mark the corresponding letter on the Answer Sheetwith a single line through the centre.Passage OneQuestions 11 to 13 are based on the passage you have just heard.11. A) Social work.B) Medical careC) Applied physicsD) Special education.12. A) The timely advice from her friends and relatives.B) The two-year professional training she received.C) Her determination to fulfill her dream.D) Her parents‟ consistent moral support.13. A) To get the funding for the hospitals.B) To help the disabled children there.C) To train therapists for the children there.D) To set up an institution for the handicapped.Passage TwoQuestions 14 to 17 are based on the passage you have just heard.14. A) At a country school in Mexico.B) In a mountain valley of Spain.C) At a small American college.D) In a small village in Chile.15. A) By expanding their minds and horizons.B) By financing their elementary education.C) By setting up a small primary school.D) By setting them an inspiring example.16. A) She wrote poetry that broke through national barriers.B) She was a talented designer of original school curriculums.C) She proved herself to be an active and capable stateswoman.D) She made outstanding contributions to children‟s education.17. A) She won the 1945 Nobel Prize in Literature.B) She was the first woman to win a Nobel Prize.C) She translated her books into many languages.D) She advised many statesmen on international affairs.Passage ThreeQuestion 18 to 20 are based on the passage you have just heard.18. A) How animals survive harsh conditions in the wild.B) How animals alter colors to match their surroundings.C) How animals protect themselves against predators.D) How animals learn to disguise themselves effectively.19. A) Its enormous size.B) Its plant-like appearance.C) Its instantaneous response.D) Its offensive smell.20. A) It helps improve their safety.B) It allows them to swim faster.C) It helps them fight their predators.D) It allows them to avoid twists and turns.Part II Reading Comprehension (35 minutes)Directions: There are 4 passages in this part. Each passage is followed by some questions or unfinished statements. For each of them there are four choices marked A),B),C) andD). You should decide on the best choice and mark the corresponding letter on theAnswer Sheet with a single line through the centre.Passage OneQuestions 21 to 25 are based on the following passage.There are good reasons to be troubled by the violence that spreads throughout the media. Movies. Television and video games are full of gunplay and bloodshed, and one might reasonably ask what‟s wrong with a society that presents videos of domestic violence as entertainment. Most researchers agree that the causes of real-world violence are complex. A 1993 study by the U.S. National Academy of Sciences listed “biological, individual, family, peer, school, and community factors” as all playing their parts.Viewing abnormally large amounts of violent television and video games may well contribute to violent behavior in certain individuals.The trouble comes when researchers downplay uncertainties in their studies or overstate the case for causality (因果关系). Skeptics were dismayed several years ago when a group of societies including theAmerican Medical Association tried to end the debate by issuing a joint statement: “At this time, well over 1,000 studies… point overwhelmingly to a causal connection between media violence and aggressive behavior in some children.”Freedom-of-speech advocates accused the societies of catering to politicians, and even disputed the number of studies (most were review articles and essays, they said). When Jonathan Freedman, a social psychologist at the University of Toronto, reviewed the literature, he found only 200 or so studies of television-watching and aggression. And when he weeded out “the most doubtful measures of aggression”, only 28% supported a connectio n.The critical point here is causality. The alarmists say they have proved that violent media cause aggression. But the assumptions behind their observations need to be examined. When labeling games as violent or non-violent, should a hero eating a ghost really be counted as a violent event? And when experimenters record the time it takes game players to read …aggressive‟ or …non-aggressive‟ words from a list, can we be sure what they are actually measuring? The intent of the new Harvard Center on Media and Child Health to collect and standardize studies of media violence in order to compare their methodologies, assumptions and conclusions is an important step in the right direction.Another appropriate ster would be to tone down the criticism until we know more. Several researchers write, speak and testify quite a lot on the threat posed by violence in the media. That is,of course, their privilege. But when doing so, they often come out with statements that the matter has now been settled, drawing criticism from colleagues. In response, the alarmists accuse critics and news reporters of being deceived by the entertainment industry. Such clashes help neither science nor society.21. Why is there so much violence shown in movies, TV and video games?A) There is a lot of violence in the real world today.B) Something has gone wrong with today‟s society.C) Many people are fond of gunplay and bloodshed.D) Showing violence is thought to be entertaining.22. What is the skeptics (Line 3. Para.3) view of media violence?A) Violence on television is a fairly accurate reflection of real-world life.B) Most studies exaggerate the effect of media violence on the viewers.C) A causal relationship exists between media and real-world violence.D) The influence of media violence on children has been underestimated.23. The author uses the term “alarmists” (Line 1. Para.5) to refer to those who ______.A) use standardized measurements in the studies of media violenceB) initiated the debate over the influence of violent media on realityC) assert a direct link between violent media and aggressive behaviorD) use appropriate methodology in examining aggressive behavior24. In refuting the alarmists, the author advances his argument by first challenging____.A) the source and amount of their dataB) the targets of their observationC) their system of measurementD) their definition of violence25. What does the author think of the debate concerning the relationship between the media and violence?A) More studies should be conducted before conclusions are drawn.B) It should come to an end since the matter has now been settled.C) The past studies in this field have proved to be misleading.D) He more than agrees with the views held by the alarmists.Passage TwoQuestions 26 to 30 are based on the following passage.You’re in trouble if you have to buy your own brand-name prescription drugs. Over the past decade, prices leaped by more than double the inflation rate. Treatments for chronic conditions can easily top ＄2,000 a month-no wonder that one in four Americans can’s afford to fill their prescriptions. The solution? A hearty chorus of “O Canada.” North of the border, where price controls reign, those same brand-name drugs cost 50% to 80% less.The Canadian option is fast becoming a political wake-up call, “If our neighbors can buy drugs at reasonable prices, why can‟t we?” Even to whisper that thought provokes anger.“Un-American!”And-the propagandists’trump card (王牌)—“Wreck our brilliant health-care system.” Super-size drug prices, they claim, fund the research that sparks the next generation of wonder drugs. No sky-high drug price today, no cure for cancer tomorrow. So shut up and pay up. Common sense tells you that‟s a false alternative. The reward for finding. Say, a cancer cure is so huge that no one‟s going to hang it up. Nevertheless, if Canada-level pricing came to the United States, the industry‟s profit margins would drop and the pace of new-drug development would slow. Here lies the American dilemma. Who is all this splendid medicine for? Should ourhealth-care system continue its drive toward the best of the best, even though rising numbers of patients can‟t afford it? Or should we direct our wealth toward letting everyone in on today‟s level of care? Measured by saved lives, the latter is almost certainly the better course.To defend their profits, the drug companies have warned Canadian wholesalers and pharmacies(药房) not to sell to Americans by mail, and are cutting back supplies to those who dare.Meanwhile, the administration is playing the fear card. Officials from the Food and Drug Administration will argue that Canadian drugs might be fake, mishandled, or even a potential threat to life.Do bad drugs fly around the Internet? Sure-and the more we look, the more we’ll find, But I haven‟t heard of any raging epid emics among the hundreds of thousands of people buyingcross-border.Most users of prescription drugs don’s worry about costs a lot.They’re sheltered by employee insurance, owing just a $20 co-pay.The financial blows rain, instead, on the uninsured, especially the chronically ill who need expensive drugs to live, This group will still include middle-income seniors on Medicare, who‟ll have to dig deeply into their pockets before getting much from the new drug benefit that starts in 2006.26. What is said about the consequence of the rocketing drug prices in the U.S.?A) A quarter of Americans can‟t afford their prescription drugs.B) Many Americans can‟t afford to see a doctor when they fall ill.C) Many Americans have to go to Canada to get medical treatment.D) The inflation rate has been more than doubled over the years.27. It can be inferred that America can follow the Canadian model and curb its soaring drug prices by _____.A) encouraging people to buy prescription drugs onlineB) extending medical insurance to all its citizensC) importing low-price prescription drugs from CanadaD) exercising price control on brand-name drugs28. How do propagandists argue for the U.S. drug pricing policy?A) Low prices will affect the quality of medicines in America.B) High prices are essential to funding research on new drugs.C) Low prices will bring about the anger of drug manufacturers.D) High-price drugs are indispensable in curing chronic diseases.29. What should be the priority of America‟s hea lth-care system according to the author?A) To resolve the dilemma in the health-care system.B) To maintain America‟s lead in the drug industry.C) To allow the vast majority to enjoy its benefits.D) To quicken the pace of new drug development.30. What are American drug companies doing to protect their high profits?A) Labeling drugs bought from Canada as being fakes.B) Threatening to cut back funding for new drug research.C) Reducing supplies to uncooperative Canadian pharmacies.D) Attributing the raging epidemics to the ineffectiveness of Canadian drugs.Passage ThreeQuestions 31 to 35 are based on the following passage.Age has its privileges in America. And one of the more prominent of them is the senior citizen discount. Anyone who has reached a certain age-in some cases as low as 55-is automatically entitled to a dazzling array of price reductions at nearly every level of commercial life. Eligibility is determined not by one‟s need but by the date on one‟s birth certificate. Practically unheard of a generation ago, the discounts have become a routine part of many businesses-as common as color televisions in motel rooms and free coffee on airliners.People with gray hair often are given the discounts without even asking for them；yet，millions of Americans above age 60 are healthy and solvent (有支付能力的). Businesses that would never dare offer discounts to college students or anyone under 30 freely offer them to older Americans. The practice is acceptable because of the widespread belief that “elderly” and “needy” are synonymous (同义的).Perhaps that once was true, but today elderly Americans as a group have a lower poverty rate than the rest of the population. To be sure, there is economic diversity within the elderly, and manyolder Americans are poor, But most of them aren‟t. It is impossible to determine the impact of the discounts on individual companies. For many firms, they are a stimulus to revenue. But in other cases the discounts are given at the expense.Directly or indirectly, of younger Americans. Moreover, they are a direct irritant in what some politicians and scholars see as a coming conflict between the generations.Generational tensions are being fueled by continuing debate over Social Security benefits，which mostly involves a transfer of resources from the young to the old. Employment is another sore point, Buoyed (支持) by laws and court decisions, more and more older Americans are declining the retirement dinner in favor of staying on the job-thereby lessening employment and promotion opportunities for younger workers.Far from a kind of charity they once were, senior citizen discounts have become a formidable economic privilege to a group with millions of members who don‟t need them.It no longer makes sense to treat the elderly as a single group whose economic needs deserve priority over those of others. Senior citizen discounts only enhance the myth that older people can’t take care of themselves and need special treatment；and they threaten the creation of a new myth, that the elderly are ungrateful and taking for themselves at the expense of children and other age groups. Senior citizen discounts are the essence of the very thing older Americans are fighting against-discrimination by age.31. We learn from the first paragraph that____.A) offering senior citizens discounts has become routine commercial practiceB) senior citizen discounts have enabled many old people to live a decent lifeC) giving senior citizens discounts has boosted the market for the elderlyD) senior citizens have to show their birth certificates to get a discount32. What assumption lies behind the practice of senior citizen discounts?A) Businesses, having made a lot of profits, should do something for society in return.B) Old people are entitled to special treatment for the contribution they made to society.C) The elderly, being financially underprivileged，need humane help from society.D) Senior citizen discounts can make up for the inadequacy of the Social Security system.33. According to some politicians and scholars, senior citizen discounts will___.A) make old people even more dependent on societyB) intensify conflicts between the young and the oldC) have adverse financial impact on business companiesD) bring a marked increase in the companies revenues34. How does the author view the Social Security system?A) It encourages elderly people to retire in time.B) It opens up broad career prospects for young people.C) It benefits the old at the expense of the youngD) It should be reinforced by laws and court decisions35. Which of the following best su mmarizes the author‟s main argument?A) Senior citizens should fight hard against age discrimination.B) The elderly are selfish and taking senior discounts for granted.C) Priority should be given to the economic needs of senior citizens.D) Senior citizen discounts may well be a type of age discrimination.Passage FourQuestions 36 to 40 are based on the following passage.In 1854 my great-grandfather, Morris Marable, was sold on an auction block in Georgia for ＄500. For his white slave master, the sale was just “business as usual.”But to Morris Marable and his heirs, slavery was a crime against our humanity. This pattern of human rights violations against enslaved African-Americans continued under racial segregation for nearly another century. The fundamental problem of American democracy in the 21st century is the problem of “structural racism” the deep patterns of s ocio-economic inequality and accumulated disadvantage that are coded by race, and constantly justified in public speeches by both racist stereotypes and white indifference. Do Americans have the capacity and vision to remove these structural barriers that deny democratic rights and opportunities to millions of their fellowcitizens?This country has previously witnessed two great struggles to achieve a truly multicultural democracy.The First Reconstruction (1865-1877) ended slavery and briefly gave black men voting rights,but gave no meaningful compensation for two centuries of unpaid labor. The promise of “40 acres and a mule (骡子)”was for most blacks a dream deferred (尚未实现的).The Second Reconstruction (1954-1968), or the modern civil rights movement, ended legal segregation in public accommodations and gave blacks voting rights . But these successes paradoxically obscure the tremendous human costs of historically accumulated disadvantage that remain central to black Americans‟ lives.The disproportionate wealth that most whites enjoy today was first constructed from centuries of unpaid black labor. Many white institutions, including some leading universities,insurance companies and banks, profited from slavery. This pattern of white privilege and black inequality continues today.Demanding reparations (赔偿) is not just about compensation for slavery and segregation. It is, more important, an educational campaign to highlight the contemporary reality of “racial deficits” of all kinds, the unequal conditions that impact blacks reg ardless of class. Structural racism‟s barriers include “equity inequity.” the absence of black capital formation that is a direct consequence of America‟s history. One third of all black households actually have negative net wealth. In 1998 the typical black family’s net wealth was ＄16,400, less than one fifth that of white families.Black families are denied home loans at twice the rate of whites.Blacks remain the last hired and first fired during recessions.During the 1990-91 recession. African-Americans suffered disproportionately. At Coca-Cola, 42 percent of employees who lost their jobs were blacks. At Sears, 54 percent were black, Blacks have significantly shorter life spans, in part due to racism in the health establishment. Blacks are statistically less likely than whites to be referred for kidney transplants or early-stage cancer surgery.36. To the author, the auction of his great-grandfather is a typical example of____.A) crime against humanityB) unfair business transactionC) racial conflicts in GeorgiaD) racial segregation in America37. The barrier to democracy in 21st century America is____.A) widespread use of racist stereotypesB) prejudice against minority groupsC) deep-rooted socio-economic inequalityD) denial of legal rights to ordinary blacks38. What problem remains unsolved in the two Reconstructions?A) Differences between races are deliberately obscured.B) The blacks are not compensated for their unpaid labor.C) There is no guarantee for blacks to exercise their rights.D) The interests of blacks are not protected by law.39. It is clear that the wealth enjoyed by most whites____.A) has resulted from business successes over the yearsB) has been accompanied by black capital formationC) has derived from sizable investments in educationD) has been accumulated from generations of slavery40. What does the author think of the current situation regarding racial discrimination?A) Racism is not a major obstacle to blacks‟ employment.B) Inequality of many kinds remains virtually untouchedC) A major step has been taken towards reparations.D) Little has been done to ensure blacks‟ civil rights.Part III V ocabulary (20 minutes)Direction: There are 30 incomplete sentences in this part. For each sentence thereare four choices marked A), B), C) and D). Choose the ONE answer that best completes the sentence. Then mark the corresponding letter on the Answer Sheet witha single line through the centre.41. Because of the of its ideas, the book was in wide circulation both at home and abroad.A)originality B) subjectivityC) generality D) ambiguity42. With its own parliament and currency and a common ___ for peace, the European Union declared itself—in 11 official languages—open for business.A) inspiration B) assimilationC) intuition D) aspiration43. America has now adopted more _________ European-style inspection systems, and the incidence of food poisoning is falling.A) discrete B) solemnC) rigorous D) autonomous44. Mainstream pro-market economists all agree that competition is an ___ spur to efficiency and innovation.A) extravagant B) exquisiteC) intermittent D) indispensable45. In the late 19th century, Jules Verne, the master of science fiction, foresaw many of the technological wonders that are ___ today.A) transient B) commonplaceC) implicit D) elementary46. I was so ___ when I used the automatic checkout lane in the supermarket for the first time.A) immersed B) assaultedC) thrilled D) dedicated47. His arm was ___ f rom the shark‟s mouth and reattached, but the boy, who already died, remained in a delicate condition.A)retrieved B) retainedC) repelled D) restored48. Bill Gates and Walt Disney are two people America has ___ to be the Greatest American.A) appointed B) appeasedC) nicknamed D) dominated49. The ___ majority of citizens tend to believe that the death penalty will help decrease the crime rate.A) overflowing B) overwhelmingC) prevalent D) premium50. We will also see a ___ increase in the number of televisions per household, as smallTV displays are added to clocks, coffee makers and smoke detectors.A) startling B) surpassingC) suppressing D) stacking51. The advance of globalization is challenging some of our most ___ values and ideas, including our idea of what constitutes “home”.A) enriched B) enlightenedC) cherished D) chartered52. Researchers have discovered that ___ with animals in an active way may lower aperson‟s blood pressure.A) interacting B) integratingC) migrating D) merging53. The Beatles, the most famous British band of the 196.s, traveled worldwide for many years, _________ cultural barriers.A) transporting B) transplantingC) transferring D) transcending54. In his last years, Henry suffered from a disease that slowly ___ him of much of hissight.A) relieved B) jeopardizedC) deprived D) eliminated55. Weight lifting, or any other sport that builds up your muscles, can make bones become denser and less ___ to injury.A) attached B) proneC) immune D) reconciled56. He has ___ to museums hundreds of his paintings as well as his entire personalcollection of modern art.A) ascribed B) attributedC) designated D) donated57. Erik‟s website contains ___ photographs and hundreds of arti cles and short videosfrom his trip around the globe.A) prosperous B) gorgeousC) spacious D) simultaneous58. Optimism is a ___ shown to be associated with good physical health, less depressionand longer life.A) trail B) traitC) trace D) track59. The institution has a highly effective program which helps first-year students make a successful ___ into college life.A) transformation B) transmissionC) transition D) transaction60. Philosophers believe that desire, hatred and envy are “negative emotions” which ___the mind and lead it into a pursuit of power and possessions.A) distort B) reinforceC) exert D) scramble61. The term “glass ceiling” was first used by the Wall Street Journal to describe the apparent barriers that prevent women from reaching the top of the corporate ___.A) seniority B) superiorityC) height D) hierarchy62. Various efforts have been made over the centuries to predict earthquakes, including observing lights in the sky and ___ animal behavior.A) abnormal B) exoticC) absurd D) erroneous63. Around 80 percent of the ___ characteristics of most white Britons have beenpassed down from a few thousand Ice Age hunters.A) intelligible B) randomC) spontaneous D) genetic64. Picasso gained popularity in the mid-20th century, which was ___ of a new attitude towards modern art.A) informative B) indicativeC) exclusive D) expressive65. The country was an island that enjoyed civilized living for a thousand years or more with little ___ from the outside world.A) disturbance B) discriminationC) irritation D) irregularity66. Fashion designers are rarely concerned with vital things like warmth, comfort and ________ .A) stability B) capabilityC) durability D) availability67. Back in the days when people traveled by horse and carriage, Karl Benz ___ theworld with his extraordinary three-wheeled motor vehicle.A) inhibited B) extinguishedC) quenched D) stunned68. If we continue to ignore the issue of global warming, We will almost certainly suffer the_________ effects of climatic changes worldwide.A) dubious B) drasticC) trivial D) toxic69. According to the theory of evolution, all living species are the modified ___ of earlier species.A) descendants B) dependantsC) defendants D) developments70. The panda is an endangered species, which means that it is very likely to become ___ without adequate protection.A) intact B) insaneC) extinct D) exemptPart ⅣError Correction (15 minutes)。

2006年12月24日大学英语六级(CET-6)真题试卷(A卷)Part III Listening Comprehension (35 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 said. Both 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) C) and D), and decide which is the best answer. Then mark the corresponding letter on Answer Sheet 2 with a single line through the centre.注意：此部分试题请在答题卡2上作答。

11. A) Dr. Smith’s waiting room isn’t tidy.B) Dr. Smith enjoys reading magazines.C) Dr. Smith has left a good impression on her.D) Dr. Smith may not be a good choice.12. A) The man will rent the apartment when it is available.B) The man made a bargain with the landlady over the rent.C) The man insists on having a look at the apartment first.D) The man is not fully satisfied with the apartment.13. A) Packing up to go abroad.B) Drawing up a plan for her English course.C) Brushing up on her English.D) Applying for a visa to the United Sates.14. A) He is anxious to find a cure for his high blood pressure.B) He doesn’t think high blood pressure is a problem for him.C) He was not aware of his illness until diagnosed with it.D) He did not take the symptoms of his illness seriously.15. A) To investigate the cause of AIDS.B) To raise money for AIDS patients.C) To rally support for AIDS victims in Africa.D) To draw attention to the spread of AIDS in Asia.16. A) It has a very long history.B) It is a private institution.C) It was founded by Thomas Jefferson.D) It stresses the comprehensive study of nature.17. A) They can’t fit into the machine.B) They have not been delivered yet.C) They were sent to the wrong address.D) They were found to be of the wrong type.18. A) The food served in the cafeteria usually lacks variety.B) The cafeteria sometimes provides rare food for the students.C) The students find the service in the cafeteria satisfactory.D) The cafeteria tries hard to cater to the students’ needs.Questions 19 to 22 are based on the conversation you have just heard.19. A) He picked up some apples in his yard.B) He cut some branches off the apple tree.C) He quarreled with his neighbor over the fence.D) He cleaned up all the garbage in the woman’s yard.20. A) Trim the apple trees in her yard.B) Pick up the apples that fell in her yard.C) Take the garbage to the curb for her.D) Remove the branches from her yard.21. A) File a lawsuit against the man.B) Ask the man for compensation.C) Have the man’s apple tree cut down.D) Throw garbage into the man’s yard.22. A) He was ready to make a concession.B) He was not intimidated.C) He was not prepared to go to court.D) He was a bit concerned.Questions 23 to 25 are based on the conversation you have just heard.23. A) Bad weather.B) Breakdown of the engines.C) Human error.D) Failure of the communications system.24. A) Two thousand feet.B) Twenty thousand feet.C) Twelve thousand feet.D) Twenty-two thousand feet.25. A) Accurate communication is of utmost importance.B) Pilots should be able to speak several foreign languages.C) Air controllers should keep a close watch on the weather.D) Cooperation between pilots and air controllers is essential.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 only once. After you hear a question, you must choose the best answer from the four choice marked A) B) C) and D). Then mark the corresponding letter on Answer Sheet 2 with a single line through the centre.注意：此部分试题请在答题卡2上作答。

2006年12月四级真题2006年12月大学英语四级考试（A卷）试题及答案Part I Writing (30 minutes)Direction:1．许多人喜欢在除夕夜观看春节联欢晚会。

2．有些人提出取消春节联欢晚会。

3．在我看来……Part II Reading Comprehension (Skimming and Scanning) (15 minutes)Directions: In this part, you will have 15 minutes to go over the passage quickly and answer the questions on Answer Sheet 1.For questions 1-7, markY (for YES) if the statement agrees with the information given in the passage;N (for NO) if the statement contradicts the information given in the passage;NG (for NOT GIVEN) if the information is not given in the passage.For questions 8-10, complete the sentences with the information given in the passage.Six Secrets of High-Energy PeopleThere’s an energy crisis in America, and it has nothing to do with fossil fuels. Millions of us get up each morning already weary over the day holds. “I just can’t get started”people say. But it’s not physical energy that most of us lack. Sure, we could all use extra sleep and a better diet. But in truth, people are healthier today than at any time in history. I can almost guarantee that if you long for more energy, the problem is not with your body.What you’re seeking is not physical energy. It’s emotional energy. Yet, sad to say life sometimes seems designed to exhaust our supply. We work too hard. We have family obligations. We encounter emergencies and personal crises. No wonder so many of us suffer from emotional fatigue, a kind of utter exhaustion of the spirit.And yet we all know people who are filled with joy, despite the unpleasant circum stances of their lives. Eyen as a child observed people who were poor or disabled or ill, but who nonetheless faced life with optimism and vigor. Consider Laura Hillenbrand, who despite an extremely weak body wrote the best-seller Seabiscuit. Hillenbrand barely had enough physical energy to drag herself out of be to write. But she was fueled by having a story she wanted to share. It was emotional energy that helped her succeed.Unlike physical energy, which is finite and diminishes with age, emotional energy is unlimited and has nothing to do with genes or up bringing. So how do you get it? You can’t simply tell yourself to be positive. You must take action. Here are six practical strategies that work.1.Do something new.Very little that’s new occurs in our lives. The impact of this sameness on our emotional energy is gradual, but huge: It's like a tire with a slow leak. You don't it at first, but eventually you'll get a flat. It's up to you to plug the leak--even though there are always a dozen reasons to stay stuck in your dull routines of life. That's where Maura, 36, a waitress, found herself a year ago.Fortunately, Maura had a lifeline--a group of women friends who meet regularly to discuss their lives. Their lively discussions spurred Maura to make small but nevertheless life altering changes. She joined a gym in the next town. She changed her look with a short haircut and new black T-shirts. Eventually,Maura gathered the courage to quit her job and start her own business.Here's a challenge: If it's something you wouldn't ordinarily do, do it. Try a dish you've never eaten. Listen to music you'd ordinarily tune out. You'll discover these small things add to your emotional energy.2.Reclaim life's meaning.So many of my patients tell me that their lives used to have meaning, but that somewhere along the line things went state.The first step in solving this meaning shortage is to figure out what you really care about, and then do something about it. A case in point is Ivy, 57, a pioneer in investment banking. "I mistakenly believed that all the money I made would mean something." she says. "But I feel lost, like a 22-year-old wondering what to do with her life." Ivy's solution? She started a program that shows Wall Streeters how to donate time and money to poor children. In the process, Ivy filled her life with meaning.3.Put yourself in the fun zone.Most of us grown-ups are seriously fun-deprived. High-energy people have the same day-to-day work as the rest of us, but they manage to find something enjoyable in every situation. A real estate broker I know keeps herself amused on the job by mentally redecorating the houses she shows to clients. "I love imagining what even the most run-down house could look like withy a little tender loving care," she says. "It's a challenge--and the least desirable properties are usually the most fun."We all define fun differently, of course, but I can guarantee this: If you put just a bit of it into your day, you energy will increase quickly.4.Bid farewell to guilt and regret.Everyone's past is filled with regrets that still cause pain. But from an emotional energy point of view, they are dead weights that keep us from us from moving forward. While they can't merely be willed away, I do recommend you remind yourself that whatever happened is in the past, and nothing can change that. Holding on to the memory only allows the damage to continue into the present.5.Make up your mind.Say you’ve been thinking about cutting your hair short. Will it look stylish –or too extreme? You endlessly think it over. Having the decision hanging over your head is a huge energy drain. Every time you can’t decide, you burden yourself with alternatives. Quit thinking that you have to make the right decision; instead, make a choice and don’t look back.6.Give to get.Emotional energy has a kind of magical quality; the more you give, the more you get back. This is the difference between emotional and physical energy. With the latter., You have to get it to be able to give it. With the former, however, you get it by giving it.Start by asking everyone you meet, “How are you?”as if you really want to know, then listen to the reply. Be the one who hears. Most of us also need to smile more often. If you don’t smile at the person you love first thing in the morning, you’re sucking energy out of your relationship. Finally, help another person—and make the help real, concrete. Give a massage (按摩) to someone you love, or cook her dinner, Then, expand the circle to work. Try asking yourself what you’d do if your goal were to be helpful rather than efficient.After all, if it’s true that what goes around comes around, why not make sure that what’s circulating around you is the good stuff?1. [Y] [N] [NG]2. [Y] [N] [NG]3. [Y] [N] [NG]4. [Y] [N] [NG]5. [Y] [N] [NG]6.[Y] [N] [NG]7. [Y] [N] [NG]注意：此部分试题请在答题卡1上作答。