2014年12月大学英语六级考试真题（一）.docx

12014年 12月大学英语六级考试真题(一)Part IWriting(30 minutes)Directions：For this part,you are allowed 30 minutes to write an essay based on the picture below.You should start youressay with a brief description of the picture and then discuss whether technology is indispensable in education.You shouldgive sound arguments to support your views and write at least 150 words but no more than 200 words 注意：此部分试题请在答题卡1上作答。PartListening Comprehension(30 minutes)Section ADirections：In this section,you will hear 8 short conversations and 2 long conversations.At the end of each conversation,one or more questions will be asked about what was said.Both the conversation and the questions will be spoken onlyonce.After each question there will be a pause During the pause，you must read the four choices marked A)9B),C)andD),and decide which is the best answer.Then mark the corresponding letter onAnswer Sheet 1with a single line throughthe centre.注意：此部分试题请在答题卡1上作答：1.A)The mans tennis racket is good enough.B)The man should get a pair of new shoes.C)She can wait for the man for a little while.D)Physical exercise helps her stay in shape.2.A)The woman will skip Dr.Smiths lecture to help the man.B)Kathy is very pleased to attend the lecture by Dr.Smith.C)The woman is good at doing lab demonstrations.D)The man will do all he can to assist the woman.3.A)The woman asked the man to accompany her to the party.B)Steve became rich soon after graduation from college.C)Steve invited his classmates to visit his big cottage.D)The speakers and Steve used to be classmates.4.A)In a bus.C)In a boat.B)In a clinic.D)In a plane.5.A)10：10.B)9：50.C)9：40.D)9：10.6.A)She does not like John at all.B)John has got many admirers.C)She does not think John is handsome.D)John has just got a bachelors degree.7.A)He has been bumping along for hours.B)He has got a sharp pain in the neck.C)He is involved in a serious accident.D)He is trapped in a terrible traffic jam.8.A)She is good at repairing things.2B)She is a professional mechanic.C)She should improve her physical condition.D)She cannot go without a washing machine.Questions 9 to 11 are based on the conversation you have just heard.9.A)Some witnesses failed to appear in court.B)The case caused debate among the public.C)The accused was found guilty of stealing.D)The accused refused to plead guilty in court.10.A)He was out of his mind.C)His wife deserted him.B)He was unemployed.D)His children were sick.11.A)He had been in jail before.C)He was unlikely to get employed.B)He was unworthy of sympathy.D)He had committed the same sort of crime.Questions 12 to 15 are based on the conversation you have just heard.12.A)Irresponsible.C)AggressiveB)Unsatisfactory.D)Conservative.13.A)Internal communication.C)Public relations.B)Distribution of brochures.D)Product design14.A)Placing advertisements in the trade press.C)Advertising in the national press.B)Drawing sketches for advertisements.D)Making television commercials.15.A)She has the motivation to do the job.C)She is not so easy to get along with.B)She knows the tricks of advertising.D)She is not suitable for the position.SectionBDirections：In this section,you will hear 3 short passages.At the end of each passage,you will hear some questions.Boththe passage and the questions will be spoken only once.After you hear a question,you must choose the best answer fromthe four choices marked A)，B)，C)and D).Then mark the corresponding letter onAnswer Sheet 1with a single linethrough the centre.注意：此部分试题请在答题卡1上作答。Passage OneQuestions 16 to 19 are based on the passage you have just heard.16.A)The cozy communal life.C)Innovative academic programs.B)The cultural diversity.D)Impressive school buildings.17.A)It is very beneficial to their academic progress.B)It helps them soak up the surrounding culture.C)It is as important as their learning experience.D)It ensures their physical and mental health.18.A)It offers the most challenging academic programs.B)It has the world5s best-known military academies.C)It provides numerous options for students.D)It draws faculty from all around the world.19.A)They try to give students opportunities for experimentation.B)They are responsible merely to their Ministry of Education.C)They strive to develop every students academic potential.D)They ensure that all students get roughly equal attention.Passage TwoQuestions 20 to 22 are based on the passage you have just heard.20.A)It will arrive at Boulogne at half past two.B)It crosses the English Channel twice a day.C)It is now about half way to the French coast.D)It is leaving Folkestone in about five minutes.21.A)Opposite the ships office.C)At the rear of B deck.B)Next to the duty-free shop.D)In the front of A deck.22、A)It is for the sole use of passengers travelling with cars.3B)It is much more spacious than the lounge on C deck.C)It is for the use of passengers travelling with children.D)It is for senior passengers and people with VIP cards.Passage ThreeQuestions 23 to 25 are based on the passage you have just heard.23、A)It was named after its location.B)It was named after its discoverer.C)It was named after a cave art expert.D)It was named after one of its painters.24、A)Animal painting was part of the spiritual life of the time.B)Deer were worshiped by the ancient Cro-Magnon people.C)Cro-Magnon people painted animals they hunted and ate.D)They were believed to keep evils away from cave dwellers.25、A)They know little about why the paintings were created.B)They have difficulty telling when the paintings were done.C)They are unable to draw such interesting and fine paintings.D)They have misinterpreted the meaning of the cave paintings.Section CDirections：In this section,you will hear a passage three times.When the passage is read for the first time9you shouldlisten carefully for its general idea.When the passage is read for the second time，you are required to fill in the blankswith the exact words you have just heard.Finally,when the passage is read for the third time?you should check what youhave written.注意：此部分试题请在答题卡1上作答。If you are attending a local college,especially one without residence halls,youll probably live at home and commute toclasses.This arrangement has a lot of26Its cheaper.It provides a comfortable and familiar setting,and it means youll getthe kind of home cooking youre used to instead of themonotony（单调）that27even the best institutional food.However，commuting students need to28to become involved in the life of their college and to take special steps tomeet their fellow students.Often,this means a certain amount of initiative on your part in29and talking to people in yourclasses whom you think you might like.One problem that commuting students sometimes face is their parentsunwillingness to recognize that theyre adults.The30from high school to college is a big one,and if you live at home you need to develop the same kind of independence youdhave if you were living away.Home rules that might have been31when you were in high school dont apply.If your parentsare32to renegotiate,you can speed the process along by letting your behavior show that you have the responsibility that goeswith maturity.Parents are more willing to33their children as adults when they behave like adults.If,however,theres somuch friction at home that it34your academic work,you might want to consider sharing an apartment with one or morefriends.Sometimes this is a happy solution when family35make everyone miserable.Part Reading Comprehension(40 minutes)Section ADirections：In this section,there is a passage with ten blanks.You are required to select one word for each blank from alist of choices given in a wordbank followingthe 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 onAnswerSheet 2 witha 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.children are natural-born scientists.They have36minds，and they arent afraid to admit they dont know something.Most of them,37，lose thisas they get older.They become self-conscious and dont want to appear stupid.Instead of findingthings out for themselves they make38that often turn out to be wrong.So its not a case of getting kids interested in science.You just have to avoid killing the39for learning that they wereborn with.Its no coincidence that kids start deserting science once it becomes formalised.Children naturally have a blurredapproach to40knowledge.They see learning about science or biology or cooking as all part of the same actits all learning.Its only because of the practicalities of education that you have to start breaking down the curriculum into specialist subjects.4You need to have specialist teachers who41what they know.Thus once they enter school,children begin to define subjectsand erect boundaries that neednt otherwise exist.Dividing subjects into science,maths,English,etc.is something we do for42In the end its all learning,but manychildren today 43 themselves from a scientific education.They think science is for scientists,not for them.Of course we need to specialise44Each of us has only so much time on Earth，so we cant study everything.At5 years old,our field of knowledge and45is broad,covering anything from learning to walk to learning to count.Gradually it narrows down so that by the time we are45,it might be one tiny little corner within science.注意：此部分试题请在答题卡2上作答。Section BDirections：In this section you are going to read a passage with ten statements attached to it.Each statementcontains 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 bymarking the corresponding letter onAnswer Sheet 2.Meaning Is Healthier Than HappinessA)For at least the last decade,the happiness craze has been building.In the last three months alone,over 1 000 books onhappiness were released on Amazon,includingHappy Money,Happy-People-Pills For All,and,for thosejust starting out,Happiness for Beginners.B)One of the consistent claims of books like these is that happiness is associated with all sorts of good life outcomes,includingmost promisingly good health.Many studies have noted the connection between a happy mind and a healthybody the happier we are,the better health outcomes we seem to have.In an overview of 150 studies on this topic,researchers put it like this：“Inductions of well-being lead to healthy functioning,and inductions of ill-being lead tocompromised health.”C)But a new study,just published in theProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences(PNAS)challenges the rosypicture.Happiness may not be as good for the body as researchers thought.It might even be bad.D)D)Of course,its important to first defineHappiness.A few months ago,I wrote a piece called“Theres More to LifeThan Being Happy”about a psychology study that dug into what happiness really means to people.It specifically exploredthe difference between a meaningful life and a happy life.E)It seems strange that there would be a difference at all.But the researchers,who looked at a large sample of people over amonth-long period,found that happiness is associated with selfish“taking”behavior and that having a sense of meaning inlife is associated with selfless“giving”behavior.F)“Happiness without meaning characterizes a relatively shallow,self-absorbed or even selfish life,in which things go well,needs and desires are easily satisfied,and complicated relationships are avoided”,the authors of the study wrote.“Ifanything,pure happiness is linked to not helping others in need.”While being happy is about feeling good,meaning isderived from contributing to others or to society in a bigger way.As Roy Baumeister,one of the researchers,told me,“Partly what we do as human beings is to take care of others and contribute to others.This makes life meaningful but it doesnot necessarily make us happy.”G)The new PNAS study also sheds light on the difference between meaning and happiness,but on the biological level.BarbaraFredrickson,a psychological researcher at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill,and Steve Cole,a genetics andpsychiatry(精神病学)researcher at UCLA,examined the self-reported levels of happiness and meaning in 80 researchsubjects.H)Happiness was defined,as in the earlier study,byfeeling good.The researchers measured happiness by asking subjectsquestions like“How often did you feel happy?“How often did you feel interested in life?”and“How often did you feelA)accidentallyF)excludeK)impartB)acquiringG)exertionL)inquiringC)assumptionsH)explorationM)passionD)convenienceI)formulasN)provokingE)eventuallyJ)igniteO)unfortunately5satisfied?”The more strongly people endorsed these measures of“hedonic(享乐主义的）well-being，”or pleasure,thehigher they scored on happiness.I)Meaning was defined as an orientation to something bigger than the self.They measured meaning by asking questions like“How often did you feel that your life has a sense of direction or meaning to it?”and“How often did you feel that you hadsomething to contribute to society?”The more people endorsed these measures of“eudaimonic(幸福论的）well-being”-or,simply put,virtue the more meaning they felt in life.J)After noting the sense of meaning and happiness that each subject had,Fredrickson and Cole,with their research colleagues,looked at the ways certain genes expressed themselves in each of the participants.Like neuroscientists who usefMRI(功育磁共振成像）scanning to determine how regions in the brain respond to different stimuli,Cole and Fredrickson areinterested in how the body,at the genetic level,responds to feelings of happiness and meaning.K)Coles past work has linked various kinds of chronic adversity to a particular gene expression pattern.When people feellonely,are grieving the loss of a loved one,or are struggling to make ends meet,their bodies go into threat mode.Thistriggers the activation of a stress-related gene pattern that has two features：an increase in the activity ofpro-inflammatory(促炎症的)genes and a decrease in the activity of genes involved in anti-viral responses.L)Cole and Fredrickson found that people who are happy but have little to no sense of meaning in their lives have the samegene expression patterns as people who are responding to and enduring chronic adversity.That is,the bodies of these happypeople are preparing them for bacterial threats by activating the pro-inflammatory response.Chronic inflammation is,ofcourse,associated with major illnesses like heart disease and various cancers.M)“Empty positiveemotions”-like thekind people experience duringmanic(狂喜的）episodes or artificially induced euphoria(欣快）from alcohol and drugs“are about as good for you as adversity，”says Fredrickson.N)Its important to understand that for many people,a sense of meaning and happiness in life overlap；many people scorejointly high