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大学英语六级考试全真预测试卷一
Part I Writing (30 minutes)Directions: For this part, you are allowed 30 minutes to write a short essay on information explosion. Try to imagine what will happen in an age of information flooding. You are required to write at least 150 words but no more than 200 words.
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__________________________________________________Part II Listening Comprehension (30 minutes)Section A
Directions: In this section, you will hear two long conversations. At the end of each conversation, you will hear four questions. Both the conversation 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.
Questions 1 to 4 are based on the conversation you have just heard.
1. A) How to spend summer holiday.
B) How to avoid seasickness.
C) How to prepare for a boat trip.
D) How to deal with vomiting on a sea trip.
2. A) He should eat a little food.
B) He should eat nothing.
C) He should eat as much as possible.
D) He can eat what he likes.
3. A) At the stern.
B) At the bow.
C) At the bottom deck.
D) At the middle of the ship.
4. A) Stay on the upper deck.
B) Appreciate the horizon.
C) Take some medicine.
D) Help others.
Questions 5 to 8 are based on the conversation you have just heard.
5. 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.
6. 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.
7. 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.
8. 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 B
Directions: In this section, you will hear two passages. At the end of each passage, you will hear three or four 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.
Questions 9 to 11 are based on the passage you have just heard.
9. 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.
10. A) Always use a loudspeaker.
B) Avoid large rooms.
C) Never vary the volume.
D) Avoid shouting.
11. A) By pausing.
B) By raising pitch.
C) By lowering registers.
D) By pointing to a chart.
Questions 12 to 15 are based on the passage you have just heard.
12. 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.
13. A) Its large number of bicycle clubs.
B) Its geographic variety.
C) Its network of superhighways.
D) Its mild climate.
14. 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.
15. 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 C
Directions: In this section, you will hear three recordings of lectures or talks followed by three or four questions. The recordings will be played 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.
Questions 16 to 19 are based on the recording you have just heard.
16. A) They investigate the retirement homes in America.
B) They are on issues facing senior citizens in America.
C) They describe the great pleasures of the golden years.
D) They are filled with fond memories of his grandparents.
17. A) The loss of the ability to take care of himself.
B) The feeling of not being important any more.
C) Being unable to find a good retirement home.
D) Leaving the home he had lived in for 60 years.
18. A) The loss of identity and self-worth.
B) Fear of being replaced or discarded.
C) Freedom from pressure and worldly cares.
D) The possession of wealth and high respect.
19. A) The urgency of pension reform.
B) Medical care for senior citizens.
C) Finding meaningful roles for the elderly in society.
D) The development of public facilities for senior citizens.
Questions 20 to 22 are based on the recording you have just heard.
20. A) It seriously impacts their physical and mental development.
B) It has become a problem affecting global economic growth.
C) It is a common problem found in underdeveloped countries.
D) It is an issue often overlooked by parents in many countries.
21. A) They will live longer.
B) They get better pay.
C) They get along well with people.
D) They develop much higher IQs.
22. A) Appropriated funds to promote research of nutrient-rich foods.
B) Encouraged breastfeeding for the first six months of a child's life.
C) Recruited volunteers to teach rural people about health and nutrition.
D) Targeted hunger-relief programs at pregnant women and young children.
Questions 23 to 25 are based on the recording you have just heard.
23. A) The guaranteed quality of its goods.
B) The huge volume of its annual sales.
C) The service it provides to its customers.
D) The high value-to-weight ratio of its goods.
24. A) Those having a taste or smell component.
B) Products potentially embarrassing to buy.
C) Those that require very careful handling.
D) Services involving a personal element.
25. A) Those who live in the virtual world.
B) Those who have to work long hours.
C) Those who are used to online transactions.
D) Those who don't mind paying a little more.Part III Reading Comprehension (40 minutes)Section A
Directions: In this section, there is a passage with ten blanks. You are required to select one word for each blank from a list of choices given in a word bank following the passage. Read the passage through carefully before making your choices. Each choice in the bank is identified by a letter. 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.
Complaints should be made to a responsible person. Go back to the shop where you bought the goods, taking with you any 26 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 27 . 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 28 , write a letter. Be sure to 29 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 30 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 31 or repair the faulty article. You may find this an 32 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 33 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 34 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 35 .
A) intimate
B) attractive
C) person
D) attachment
E) satisfied
F) receipt
G) contaminate
H) replace
I) special
J) stick
K) vigorously
L) advice
M) circumstances
N) directly
O) petitionsSection B
Directions: 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.
What Do the Humanities Teach Us
?A) Humanities professors have come up with a seemingly foolproof (无懈可击的) defense against those who trash degrees in, say, English literature or philosophy as wasted tuition dollars, one-way tickets to unemployment. Oh no, we say—the humanities prepare students to succeed in the working world just as well as all those alleged practical majors, maybe even better.
B) We offer tools of thought. We teach our students to understand and analyze complex ideas. We help them develop powers of expression, written and verbal. The lengthy essays we assign enhance their capacity to do independent work. At our best, we teach them how to reason—and reasoning undergirds (从底层加强，巩固) every successful professional project. In the short term, such a defense may seem effective. But it is dead wrong.
C) In the Chronicle of Higher Education, a distinguished humanities scholar recently wrote with pride about a student of his, a classics major, who wrote brilliantly on Spinoza yet plans to become a military surgeon. A recent article in Business Insider offered “11 Reasons to Ignore the Haters and Major in the Humanities.”For example: You'll be able to do things machines can't do in a service economy. You'll learn to explain and sell an idea. You'll stand out in the crowd in the coming STEM glut (供应过剩). In the same publication, Bracken Darrell, the chief executive of Logitech, talked about why he loves hiring English majors: “The best CEOs and leaders are extremely good writers and have this ability to articulate and verbalize what they're thinking.”
D) Some of my colleagues are getting quite aggressive about this line of reasoning. “I think we actually do a better job getting people ready for law school and business than the people in economics do,”a good friend who teaches humanities told me not long ago. It seems that there's no problem, then. Want success? Come on in, our tent flap is open.
E) But the humanities are not about success. They're about questioning success—and every important social value. Socrates taught us this, and we shouldn't forget it. Sure, someone who studies literature or philosophy is learning to think clearly and write well. But those skills are means to an end. That end, as Plato said, is learning how to live one's life. “This discussion is not about any chance question,”Plato's Socrates says in The Republic, “but about the way one should live.”
F) That's what's at the heart of the humanities—informed, thoughtful dialogue about the way we ought to conduct life. This dialogue honors no pieties: All positions are debatable; all values are up for discussion. Ralph Waldo Emerson speaks for the spirit of the humanities in Self-Reliance when he says that we “must not be hindered by the name of goodness, but must explore if it be goodness.”He will not accept what the world calls “good”without consideration. He'll look into it as Socrates did and see if it actually is good. When Montaigne doubts received opinions and asks himself what he really knows and what he does not, he is acting in the spirit of the humanities. “Que sais-Je?”or “What do I know?”was his motto.
G) Socrates, who probably concentrates the spirit of the humanities better than anyone, spent his time rambling around Athens asking people if they thought they were living virtuous lives. He believed that his city was getting proud and lazy, like an overfed thoroughbred horse, and that it needed him, the stinging gadfly (牛虻), to wake it up. The Athenians had to ask themselves if the lives they were leading really were good. Socrates didn't help them work their way to success; he helped them work their way to insight and virtue.
H) Now, Americans are in love with success—success for their children in particular. As a parent of sons in their 20s, I understand this and sympathize with it. But our job as humanists isn't to second whatever values happen to be in place in society. We're here to question those values and maybe—using the best that has been thought and said—offer alternatives.
I) We commonly think in binaries(对，双). Vanilla(香草) is the opposite of chocolate. The opposite of success—often defined today as high-status work and a big paycheck—is failure. But the great books tell us that this is not necessarily true. Think of Henry David Thoreau's life of voluntary poverty and his dedication to nature and writing. Some of my students have cultivated values similar to Thoreau's and have done so at least in Part through the study of the humanities. They've become environmental activists and park rangers. Or they have worked modestly paid jobs to spend all the time they can outdoors. They are not failures. Nor are those who work for the poor, or who explore their artistic talents, or who enlist in the military. These students are usually not in pursuit of traditional success. They have often been inspired by work they've encountered in humanities courses—and, for a time at least, they are choosing something other than middle-class corporate life.
J) The humanities are not against conventional success; far from it. Many of our students go on to distinguished careers in law and business. But I like to think they do so with a fuller social and self-awareness than most people. For they have approached success as a matter of debate, not as an idol of worship. They have considered the options. They have called “success”into question and, after due consideration, they have decided to pursue it. I have to imagine that such people are far better employees than those who have moved lockstep(因循守旧) into their occupations. I also believe that self-aware, questioning people tend to be far more successful in the long run.
K) What makes humanities students different isn't their power of expression, their capacity to frame an argument or their ability to do independent work. Yes, these are valuable qualities, and we humanities teachers try to cultivate them. But true humanities students are exceptional because they have been, and are, engaged in the activity that Plato commends—seeking to understand themselves and how they ought to lead their lives.
L) If some of our current defenders have their way, the humanities will survive, but in name only. The humanities will become synonymous(同义的) with unreflective training for corporate success. What would Socrates think?
36. According to Plato, the ultimate goal of studying the humanities is to learn how to live one's life.
37. The chief executive of Logitech loves hiring English majors because he thinks they excel in writing and expressing.
38. Humanities professors disagree with the opinion that students who major in the humanities will have trouble obtaining jobs.
39. Socrates might be the one who valued the spirit of the humanities most as he guided the Athenians to live virtuous lives.
40. What makes humanities students excellent is that they endeavor to be self-aware and figure out how they should live.
41. The author thinks that people who know themselves well and like to question are more inclined to be successful in the future.
42. Montaigne tries to act in the spirit of the humanities by doubting received opinions and questioning his own knowledge.
43. The author takes Thoreau as an example to illustrate that being rich does not necessarily mean success and being poor does not necessarily mean failure.
44. In Self-Reliance, Ralph Waldo Emerson refuses to accept something “good”blindly and calls on people to first explore the goodness of things.
45. The author holds that their job as humanists is to question the popular values in society and provide people with various choices.
Section C
Directions: 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 One
Questions 46 to 50 are based on the following passage.
Variety is the spice of language. The words listed in this book are not intended to replace those that most people use most of the time. Rather, they are variations on the theme. We tend to use the same old words over and over again, to limit our powers of expression by limiting our vocabulary. There is nothing wrong with the “old words”, but why not enhance your speech and writing by learning to use new ones from time to time as alternatives?
How often have you spoke of having an accident? Why not use the alternative mishap (小事故) once in a while? Everyone talks of the usual thing to do or expect. Might not one, to enrich his speech, speak of the customary thing? Or why not occasionally describe a situation as aggravated instead of worsened?
Don't throw away the “old words”. Vary them with the “new words”. English is an especially rich language, and often there are delicate shades of difference between two words that are generally regarded as equivalent or synonymous. Thus, a mishap is not merely an accident; it is an unfortunate accident. (There can be fortunate accidents, like bumping into an old friend you haven't seen for years and whose address you've lost.) So, in using mishap instead of accident, you must be sure of the distinction. Again, you'd never say “as customary”rather than “as usual”, because the latter phrase has become art of the language. But wouldn't it sometimes be pleasant and perhaps more interesting to describe a kind act by someone as having been done with his customary rather than his usual thoughtfulness? Other examples: fragrant, for smelling good, or having a nice smell; morsel, for bit; wayward, for disobedient; deft, for skillful or clever.
No doubt a good many words in the list will be familiar to you, but do you use them, or do they remain the “property”of others? They are included to introduce variety, and, more often than not, subtle shades of meaning into your speech and writing. Try to make these words your own, as companions or friendly rivals of the ones you have managed with in the past. Let them compete, and make your language all the richer.
Many words have more than one meaning. In such cases, I have given the meaning or meanings most likely to be used in everyday speech, omitting the rest. As an example, the word docile means not only “easily led”or “manageable”, but also “easily taught”or “teachable”. (Docile comes from the Latin docilis, whose first meaning is “teachable”, and is based on the Latin verb docere, meaning to teach, a form of which, doctus, meaning “taught”, gave us our word doctor.) In this book, only the meaning “easy to manage or lead”is given, because the other use “teachable”is very rare in everyday English usage. Or take ghastly, which means “ghostlike”as well as “horrible, dreadful”(as in a ghastly accident or a ghastly mistake). The first meaning is sufficiently rare, for the purposes of this book, to warrant omission.
46. What will happen if we confine ourselves to words we always use?
A) Our expression ability will be affected.
B) Our mind will be narrowed down.
C) Our interest in learning will be discouraged.
D) Our emotional world will be restricted.
47. According to the passage, English is a rich language in that ______.
A) a lot of its words are from various languages
B) there are minor differences between even equivalents
C) its words are blended by the old and new words together
D) its words are grouped according to their differences in meanings
48. When we turn to some expressions which are less frequently
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