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大学英语六级考试全真预测试卷(备战2014年6月)(新东方)试读：
大学英语六级考试预测试题一
Part I Writing (30 minutes)【答案链接】Directions: For this part, you are allowed 30 minutes to write an essay entitled Shortage of Fresh Water by commenting on the saying, “Do not let our tears be the last drop of water on the Earth.” You should write at least 150 words but no more than 200 words.Shortage of Fresh WaterPart II Listening Comprehension (30 minutes)【答案链接】Section ADirections: In this section, you will hear 8 short conversations and 2 long conversations. At the end of each conversation, one or more questions will be asked about what was said. Both 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 1 with a single line through the centre.1. A）Get a job on campus.
B）Take an electronics course.
C）Visit the electronics company.
D）Apply for a job in an electronics company.
2. A）He no longer watches much television.
B）He prefers the comedies from the sixties.
C）Television comedies haven't improved since the sixties.
D）He hasn't seen many of the old shows.
3. A）The woman is satisfied that the book has been returned.
B）The woman doesn't lend books to people.
C）The man is too embarrassed to borrow a book from the
woman.
D）The man can't find the book he borrowed from the woman.
4. A）She's never been to a debate.
B）She thinks the team was eliminated.
C）She can't go to the state competition.
D）She can't know if the team was successful.
5. A）Buy a new television for the woman.
B）Check to see if the woman's television has been repaired.
C）Fix the woman's television.
D）Send the woman's television to her house.
6. A）He wants to learn to play the violin.
B）He wants to play in the band.
C）His band will perform next week.
D）He can't play the violin well.
7. A）She also plans to get a pet.
B）Dan is allergic to cats.
C）Animals will soon be allowed in Dan's building.
D）Dan will get a lift to his apartment from a relative.
8. A）The result is satisfactory despite the poor performance.
B）The team will not qualify for the final because of the poor play.
C）The team could not play better in the final.
D）The team should have won the game.Questions 9 to 11 are based on the conversation you have just heard.
9. A）Because his lecture notes weren't very good.
B）Because he didn't understand the lecture.
C）Because he didn't attend the lecture.
D）Because his research was on the same topic as the lecture.
10. A）Survival strategies for extreme Antarctic cold.
B）Why inactive volcanoes become active.
C）The principal causes of global warming.
D）The effects of volcanoes on the Antarctic ice sheet.
11. A）That a snow cover can cause ice to melt.
B）How heat can prevent ice from melting.
C）How water flows into the ocean.
D）Why volcanoes have a slippery surface.Questions 12 to 15 are based on the conversation you have just heard.
12. A）She was impressed by it.
B）It was a waste of money.
C）She was amazed that it had opened so soon.
D）She didn't like it as much as the other wings.
13. A）He took a tour of the city.
B）He read about it.
C）He wrote an article about it.
D）He worked there as a guide.
14. A）They came from the original wing.
B）They're made of the same material.
C）They're similar in shape.
D）They were designed by the same person.
15. A）It was made of aluminum.
B）It wasn't large enough.
C）It wouldn't move in the wind.
D）It was too heavy to put up.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 Answer Sheet 1 with a single line through the centre.Passage OneQuestions 16 to 18 are based on the passage you have just heard.
16. A）Content of speech is more important than tone of voice.
B）Voice quality has a strong effect on listeners.
C）Effective speakers must use visual aids.
D）A microphone is essential in large rooms.
17. A）Always use a loudspeaker.
B）Avoid large rooms.
C）Never vary the volume.
D）Not to shout.
18. A）By pausing.
B）By raising pitch.
C）By lowering registers.
D）By pointing to a chart.Passage TwoQuestions 19 to 21 are based on the passage you have just heard.
19. A）Gathering non-relevant materials.
B）Stealing another person's ideas.
C）Sharing notes with someone else.
D）Handing in assignments late.
20. A）Research assistants.
B）Magazine publishers.
C）Careless authors.
D）Inexperienced students.
21. A）In the student's own words.
B）By quoting directly.
C）In short phrases.
D）By making a summary.Passage ThreeQuestions 22 to 25 are based on the passage you have just heard.
22. A）To encourage people to participate in a club activity.
B）To introduce a new kind of bicycle.
C）To inform bicycle beginners about New Jersey's traffic laws.
D）To warn tourists about bicycling on the roadways.
23. A）Its large number of bicycle clubs.
B）Its geographic variety.
C）Its network of superhighways.
D）Its mild climate.
24. A）Because some of them are inaccessible to new riders.
B）Because some of them commemorate the development of the
bicycle.
C）Because they are nice places to visit on bicycle tours.
D）Because they help to make New Jersey a wealthy state.
25. A）To save money on equipment.
B）To instruct newcomers about bicycle maintenance.
C）To ensure that everyone knows about the historical sites.
D）To help keep participants from getting lost.Section CDirections: In this section, you will hear a passage three times. When the passage is read for the first time, you should listen carefully for its general idea. When the passage is read for the second time, you are required to fill in the blanks with the exact words you have just heard. Finally, when the passage is read for the third time, you should check what you have written.
There is growing dissatisfaction toward rich people, according to a new online poll.
The poll by the China Youth Daily（26）_____ sina.com has highlighted the apparent（27）_____ over the country's widening income gap.
Nearly 8,000 people filled in online（28）_____ last week, and when asked to use three words to describe the society's rich, the top（29）_____ were “extravagant”, “greedy” and “corrupt”.
About 57 percent of those（30）_____ said that “extravagant” was the best word to describe the rich, followed closely by “greedy”.（31）_____, despite their dissatisfaction, 93 percent of those polled wished they could be rich too, and that richer people should be “socially（32）_____”.
Some 33 percent of respondents also praised rich people for being “smart”.
Nearly 90 percent of respondents agreed that most people in society, including themselves, （33）_____ speak up for the poor but were（34）_____ to take action and actually do something for them.
The survey comes on the heels of a heated debate over comments made by renowned economist Mao Yushi, who said a couple of days ago that he was speaking for the rich and working for the poor.
A report released by the Asian Development Bank last Wednesday revealed that China's Gini coefficient—an indicator of the wealth divide—rose from 0.407 in 1993 to 0.473 in 2004.
An earlier Chinese Academy of Social Sciences report said that the richest 10 percent of Chinese families now own more than 40 percent of all private assets, while the poorest 10 percent in the country share less than 2 percent of the total wealth.
The country's income gap is close to that of Latin America, the report which（35）_____ in January said.Part III Reading Comprehension (40 minutes)【答案链接】Section ADirections: In this section, there is a passage with ten blanks. You are required to select one word for each blank from a list of choices given in a word bank following the passage. Read the passage through carefully before making your choices. Each choice in the bank is identified by a letter. Please mark the corresponding letter for each item on Answer Sheet 2 with a single line through the centre. You may not use any of the words in the bank more than once.Questions 36 to 45 are based on the following passage.
Complaints should be made to a responsible person. Go back to the shop where you bought the goods, taking with you any 36 you may have. Ask to see the buyer in a large store. In a small store the assistant may also be the owner so you can complain 37 . In a chain store ask to see the manager.
Even the bravest person finds it difficult to complain face to face, so if you do not want to do it in 38 , write a letter. Be sure to 39 to the facts and keep a copy of what you write. At this stage you should give any receipt numbers, but you should not need to give receipts or other papers to prove you bought the article. If you are not 40 with the answer you get, or if you do not get a reply, write to the managing director of the firm, shop, or organization. Be sure to keep copies of your own letters and any you receive.
If your complaint is a just one, the shopkeeper may offer to 41 or repair the faulty article. You may find this an 42 solution. In certain cases you may have the right to refuse the goods and ask for your money back, but this is only where you have hardly used the goods and have acted at once. Even when you cannot refuse the goods you may be able to get some money back as well. And if you have suffered some 43 loss, if for example a new washing machine tears your clothes, you might receive money to replace them. If the shopkeeper offers you a credit note to be used to buy goods in the same shops but you would rather have money, say so. If you accept a credit note remember that later you will not be able to ask for your money. If the shopkeeper refuses to give you money, ask for 44 from your Citizens' Advice Bureau before you accept a credit note. In some cases the shopkeeper does not have to give you your money back—if, for example, he changes an article simply because you don't like it or it does not fit. He does not have to take back the goods in these 45 .A）I）specialintimateB）J）stickattractiveC）personK）vigorouslyD）L）adviceattachmentE）M）circumstancessatisfiedF）receiptN）directlyG）O）petitionscontaminateH）replaceSection BDirections: In this section, you are going to read a passage with ten statements attached to it. Each statement contains information given in one of the paragraphs. Identify the paragraph from which the information is derived. You may choose a paragraph more than once. Each paragraph is marked with a letter. Answer the questions by marking the corresponding letter on Answer Sheet 2.Facbook Moms
A）Kimberly Gervaise, a stay-at-home mother of three in Little Silver, N.J., joined Facebook five years ago and only posts every couple of months, mostly sharing photos from special events, like birthdays. She has 393 friends, and wishes some of them would tuck it in（收敛）a bit. “I get a little annoyed about people who feel the need to post a picture of a straight-A report card—and there are many,” she says. “I am sure that most of the time, they are just proud, but I find it annoying.”
B）Gervaise says more and more mothers are using Facebook as a platform to boast about their lives, their kids, their parenting techniques. And that's making it harder and harder for moms like her to log on without getting slapped in the face. Bragging about your kids is nothing new, but before Facebook, the Compare & Contrast game was mostly played at the playground or the preschool parking lot. Moms would stand around discreetly scrutinizing kids to see who was hitting milestones faster or slower than their own children. Now it's going on all day, every day, in a vast electronic sandbox.
C）Facebook moms are constantly bombarded with updates about their friends' kids and their accomplishments. Daily, hourly even. According to Edison Research's Moms and Media 2013 report, 57% of moms on Facebook are over 35—these women are the first generation to have raised their children entirely in the Facebook era. They started out single, gossiping and posting party photos and flirting, and now they're changing diapers, worrying about peanut allergies and diligently navigating the sometimes treacherous mommy waters. And if they're active on Facebook, they're learning in front of a huge, rapt audience.
D）Mothers are heavy Facebook users. Edison's 2013 research reveals that 7 out of 10 moms have a profile, and there are more than 1,000 mommy groups, public and private. These groups range in size from hundreds of members to tens of thousands, and they are discussing everything from potty training to gaming that private-school admissions test.
E）Of all the members on Facebook, moms check in the most（an average of 5.1 times a day, according to Edison）, and they keep coming back, even if they are being battered with subtle—and sometimes not so subtle—“My kid's smarter/healthier/happier than yours” remarks. For the mom who barely gets her kids' shoes on before hustling them off to school, posts that portray the perfect family can stir up guilt or even self-loathing（自我厌恶）. “Who has time to draw pictures with children? Who has time to clean up the giant mess?” says Meredith DePersia, a working mother of two in San Francisco. “When I see these posts, I definitely feel like a lazy person.”
F）The great time-killer is now a massive ego-killer, and even a mommy-blogger with a huge following feels vulnerable. “Facebook makes me feel bad,” says Glennon Doyle Melton, who had a New York Times best-seller with Carry On, Warrior. “No matter how satisfied I am with my life, career, family, social life, house, etc., as soon as I log on to Facebook and peek into others' lives, I immediately feel that unease caused by comparison.”
G）This is turning many moms off. “One thing that drove me crazy when my son was younger was moms posting about how well their baby slept,” a mom from Texas recalls. “Our son was a pretty poor sleeper, and we spent so much of that first year utterly exhausted. So to be honest, when I would see a post gloating, ‘X slept for six hours straight last night!’ I would immediately hide that person for a while because it would irritate me.” An online media professional and mom of one from Falls Church, Va., is so tired of playing the game. “I kind of avoid Facebook entirely,” she says, “because I'm sick of everyone's presentation of perfection.”
H）There is nothing in the Facebook rules that requires complete honesty and total disclosure, and it is human nature to portray the best version of one's life. From carefully presenting our vacation pictures to sharing perfectly posed first-day-of-school photos, all of us, not just moms, try to portray a problem-free, fun-filled, blissful life. And that can be pretty annoying if you've just spent the morning watching your 4-year-old repaint your kitchen walls with oatmeal（麦片粥）.
I）“An acquaintance posted a drawing her daughter had made, and it was so perfect. Way more than my son could do, even though he is the same age,” says a teacher and mother from Texas. “I panicked for a minute, but talked myself down. If someone is posting positive, cheerful, perfect things all the time, I always think: Nope. Not buying it. No one's life is that perfect.”
J）Part of the problem is that this isn't happening in real time, face to face. That means moms who might not mean to offend are missing the social cues that normally put a damper on excessive crowing. “Social networks like Facebook haven't changed the way people respond to bragging; they've changed how much people brag,” says Dr. Pamela Rutledge, director of the Media Psychology Research Center. “The ability to publicize so much has blurred the line between sharing and boasting. When you brag in a group, you notice when they wander away. When you brag on Facebook, it's harder to tell who you're alienating.”
K）Dr. Saedi, author of the blog Millennial Media, thinks it's important to keep it all in perspective. “Remember that, like TV, not everything you see on Facebook is true. No one's life is perfect. And the more that people try to prove how great it is, the more it's often a sign that it's not. It's important for moms on Facebook to take a step back, get some distance and reassess.”
L）Many feeling-smothered mothers don't want to “step back”; they want to escape, to be free. “I deleted my Facebook account!” crows a stay-at-home mom of two in Austin, Texas. “I hated the ‘Keeping up with the Joneses’ behavior that Facebook engenders.” Not everyone is ready—or able—to completely cut the Facebook umbilical cord（脐带）. One mom decided she just needed to take control of her page, and silence the braggers and know-everythings. “I cleaned house a year ago and only connect with people I'm actually friends or family with,” she says. “I found that I'd catch up on Facebook and be bad-tempered after, so I changed my profile to only let Facebook be what I want it to be.”
M）Even mommy-blogger Melton took a Facebook vacation. For 40 days, the 101,000 followers of her Momastery website waited patiently as she took a rest. It was during this break that she realized how unhappy Facebook made her at times. “I called my younger sister the other day and said, ‘I'm going to quit Facebook. I don't use it right. Whether I want to or not, I just end up comparing myself to everyone else.’”
N）“And (my) sister said, ‘Actually, you're using it for the exact thing it was originally designed for. Remember, some college guys made it so that students could compare women to each other and decide who was hotter.’” Melton ponders this for a moment. “And I thought, Ah. Right. Huh. The origin of Facebook is really annoying and offensive, when you think about it. And even more annoying is that we often still use it for what it was originally intended: comparison.”
46. Comparison was the original function when people designed Facebook and the function has been in use since then.
47. People on Facebook are not required to tell completely true stories about themselves when sharing information with others.
48. Kimberly Gervaise hopes some of her almost 400 hundred friends on Facebook can be modest a bit.
49. A mom from Fall Church, Va. is fed up with the endless comparison and the show-off of one's perfect life on Facebook.
50. Due to the non-real-time communication on Facebook, moms don't know they have hurt others when they boast about themselves.
51. According to Edison 2013 research, mothers use Facebook a lot since 70% percent of them own a profile.
52. Facebook makes it possible now for mothers to compare and boast kids at every moment every day.
53. Meredith DePersia felt ashamed for herself when she read from Facebook the perfect life of others.
54. Edison Research finds that more than half of the Fackbook moms have started to use it even before they were married.
55. Dr. Sadei thinks that when people post their perfect life on Facebook, the reality may not be the case.Section CDirections: There are 2 passages in this section. 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 Answer Sheet 2 with a single line through the centre.Passage OneQuestions 56 to 60 are based on the following passage.
On the high-speed train from Avignon（阿维尼翁）to Paris, my husband and I landed in the only remaining seats on the train, in the middle of a car, directly opposite a Frenchwoman of middle years. It was an extremely uncomfortable arrangement to be looking straight into the eyes of a stranger. My husband and I pulled out books. The woman produced a large makeup case and proceeded to freshen up. Except for a lunch break, she continued this activity for the entire three-hour trip. Every once in a while she surveyed the car with a bright-eyed glance, but never once did she catch my（admittedly fascinated）eye. My husband and I could have been a blank wall.
I was amused, but some people would have felt insulted, even repulsed（厌恶的）. There is something about primping in public that calls up strong emotional reactions. Partly it's a question of hygiene.（Nearly everyone agrees that nail-paling and hair-combing are socially considered unwise to do.）And it's a matter of degree. Grooming—a private act—has a way of negating the presence of others. I was once seated at a party with a model-actress who immediately waved a silly brush and began dusting her face at the table, demonstrating that while she was next to me, she was not with me.
In fact, I am generally inhibited from this maneuver in public, except when I am in the company of cosmetics executives（when it's considered unpleasant not to do it）or my female friends when it's a fun just-us-girls moment. In a gathering more professional than social, I would refrain.
Kathy Peiss, a history professor at the University of Massachusetts in Amherst and an authority on American beauty rituals, says that nose-powdering in the office was an occasion for outrage in 1920's and 30's. Deploring the practice as a waste of company time, trade journals advised managers to discourage it among clerical workers. But how much time could it take? Certainly the concern was out of proportion with the number of minutes lost. Peiss
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