2017年6月大学英语六级真题及答案解析(全三套).pdf
20172017 年年 6 6 月大学英语六级真题及答案解析（全三套）月大学英语六级真题及答案解析（全三套）长对话（卷一）W:Welcome to Work Place.And in todays program,were looking at the resultsof two recently published surveys,which both deal with the same topic-happinessat work.John,tell us about the first survey.M:Well,this was done by a human resources consultancy,who interviewed morethan 1,000 workers,and established a top ten of the factors,which make peoplehappyatwork.Themostimportantfactorforthemajorityofthepeopleinterviewed was having friendly,supportive colleagues.In fact,73%of peopleinterviewed put their relationship with colleagues as the key factor contributingto happiness at work,which is a very high percentage.The second most importantfactor was having work that is enjoyable.The two least important factors werehavingonesachievementsrecognized,andrathersurprisingly,earningacompetitive salary.W:So,we are not mainly motivated by money?M:Apparently not.W:Any other interesting information in the survey?M:Yes.For example,25%of the working people interviewed described themselvesas very happy at work.However,20%of employees described themselves as beingunhappy.W:Thats quite a lot of unhappy people at work every day.M:It is,isnt it?And there were sev eral more interesting conclusions revealedby the survey.First of all,small is beautiful:people definitely prefer workingfor smaller organizations or companies with less than 100 staff.We also findout that,generally speaking,women were happier in their work than men.W:Yes,we are,arent we?M:And workers on part-time contracts,who only work 4 or 5 hours a day,arehappier than those who work full-time.The researchers concluded that this isprobably due to a better work-life balance.W:Are bosses happier than their employees?M:Yes,perhaps not surprisingly,the higher people go in a company,the happierthey are.So senior managers enjoy their jobs more than people working underthem.Q1:What is the No.1 factor that made employees happy according to the survey?Q2:What is the percentage of the people surveyed who felt unhappy at work?Q3:What kind of companies are popular with employees?Q4:What is the possible reason for people on part-time contracts to be happier?答案：1.【B】2.【B】20%3.【A】those of a small size.4.【C】长对话 2（卷一）W:Mr.De Keyzer,Im a great lover of your book Moments Before the Flood.Canyou tell us how you first became interested in this subject matter?M:In 2006,when the concert hall of the city of Bruges asked me to take somepictures for a catalogue for a new concert season around the theme of water,Ifound myself working along the Belgian coastline.As there had been numerousalarming articles in the press about a climate catastrophe waiting to happen,Istarted looking at the sea and the beach very differently,a place where I spentso many perfect days as a child.This fear of a looming danger became the subjectof a large-scale photo project.W:You wrote in the book:I dont want to photograph the disaster,I want tophotograph the disaster waiting to happen.”Can you talk a bit about that?M:It is clear now that it is a matter of time before the entire Europeancoastline disappears under water.The same goes for numerous big cities aroundthe world.My idea was to photograph this beautiful and very unique coastline,rich in history,before its too lateas a last witness.W:Can you talk a bit about how history plays a role in this project?M:Sure.The project is also about the history of Europe looking at the sea andwondering when the next enemy would appear.In the images,you see all kinds ofpossible defense constructions to hold back the Romans,Germans,Vikings,andnow nature as enemy number one.For example,there is the image of the bridgeinto the sea taken at the Normandy D-Day landing site.Also,Venice,the cityeternally threatened by the sea,where every morning wooden pathways have to beset up to allow tourists to reach their hotels.W:Thank you,Mr.De Keyzer.It was a pleasure to have you with us today.Q5.What does the man say about the book Moments Before the Flood?Q6.When did the man get his idea for the work?Q7.What will happen when the climate catastrophe occurs?Q8.What does the man say about Venice?答案：5.【D】6.【C】7.【A】8.【D】Section BPassage 1When facing a new situation,some peopletend to rehearse their defeat by spendingtoo much time anticipating the worst.I remember talking with a young lawyer whowas about to begin her first jury trial.She was very nervous.I asked whatimpression she wanted to make on the jury.She replied:”I dont want to looktoo inexperienced,I dont want them to suspect this is my first trial.”Thislawyer had fallen victims to the donts syndromea form of negative goalssetting.The donts can be self-fulfilling because your mind response topictures.Research conducted at Stanford University shows a mental image fires the nervesystem the same way as actually doing something.That means when a golfer tellshimself:”Dont hit the ball into the water.”His mind sees the image of theball flying into the water.So guess where the ball will go?Consequently,before going into any stressful situation,focus only on what youwant to have happen.I asked the lawyer again how she wanted to appear at herfirst trial.And this time she said:”I want to look professional and self-assured.”I told her to create a picture of what self-assured would look like.To her,it meant moving confidently around the court room,using convincing bodylanguage and projecting her voice,so it could be heard from the judges benchto the back door.She also imagined a skillful closing argument and a winningtrial.A few weeks after this positive stress rehearsal,the young lawyer didwin.Q9:what do some people do when they face a new situation?Q10:what does the research conducted at Stanford University show?Q11:what advice does the speaker give to people in a stressful situation?Q12:what do we learn about the lawyer in the court?答案：9.【C】10.【D】11.【C】12.【B】Passage 2Most Americans dont eat enough fruits,vegetables or whole grains,researchersnow says adding fiber to teen diet may help lower the risk of breast cancer.Conversations about the benefits of fiber are probably more common in nursinghomes than high schools.But along comes a new study that could change that.Kristi King，a diet specialist at Texas Childrens Hospital finds its hard toget teenager patients attention about healthy eating but telling them thateating lots of high-fiber foods could reduce the risk of breast cancer beforemiddle age.Thats a powerful message.The new finding is based on a study of 44,000 women.They were surveyed abouttheir diets during high school,and their eating habits were tracked for twodecades.It turns out that those who consumed the highest levels of fiber duringadolescence had a lower risk of developing breast cancer,compared to the womenwho ate the least fiber.This important study demonstrates that the more fiberyou eat during your high school years,the lower your risk is in developingbreast cancer in later life.The finding points to long-standing evidence that fiber may reduce circulatingfemale hormone levels,which could explain the reduced risk.The bottom linehere is the more fiber you eat,perhaps,a lower level of hormone in your body,and therefore,a lower lifetime risk of developing breast cancer.High-fiberdiets are also linked to a reduced risk of heart disease and diabetes.Thatswhy women are told to eat 25 grams a fiber a day-men even more.Q13.What does the new study tell about adding fiber to the teen diet?Q14.What do we learn about the survey of the 44,000 women?Q15.What explanation does the speaker offer for the research finding?答案：13.【C】14.【D】15.【A】讲座 1（卷一）Well my current research is really about consumer behavior.So recently Ivelooked at young peoples drinking and its obviously a major concern to Governmentat the moment.Ive also looked at how older people are represented in the media;again,itsof major current interest with older people becoming a much larger proportion ofUK and indeed world society.Im also interested in how consumers operate online,and how that online behaviormight be different from how they operate offline when they go to the shops.Well,I think that the important thing here is to actually understand whatshappening from the consumers perspective.One of the things that businesses andindeed Government organizations often fail to do is to really see what ishappening from the consumers perspective.For example,in the case of young peoples drinking,one of the things that Iveidentified is that drinking for people say between the ages of 18 and 24 is allabout the social activity.A lot of the Government advertising has been about individual responsibility,but actually understanding that drinking is very much about the social activityand finding ways to help young people get home safely and not end up in hospitalis one of the things that weve tried to present there.The key thing about consumer behavior is that its very much about how consumerschange.Markets always change faster than marketing;so we have to look at whatconsumers are doing.Currently I teach consumer behavior to undergraduates in their second year andwe look at all kinds ofthings in consumer behavior andparticularly how consumersare presented in advertising.So they get involved by looking at advertising and really critically assessingthe consumer behavior aspects of it and getting involved sometimes doing primaryresearch.For example,last year my students spent a week looking at their own purchasingand analyzed it in detail from shopping to the relationship that they have withtheir retail banks and their mobile phone providers.I think they found it veryuseful and it also helped them identify just what kind of budgets they had too.The fact of the matter is that theres a whole range of interesting research outthere and I think as the years go on,theres going to be much more for us toconsider and certainly much more for students to become involved in.16.What is the speaker currently doing?17.What has the speaker found about young peoples drinking?18.What does the speaker say that his students did last year?答案：16.【B】17.【D】18.【A】讲座 2Sweden was the first European country to print and use paper money,but it maysoon do away with physical currencies.Banks can save a lot of money and avoid regulatory headaches by moving to a cash-free system,and they can also avoid bank robberies,theft,and dirty money.Claer Barrett,the editor of Financial Times Money,says the Western world isheaded toward a world without physical currency.Andy Holder the chief eco|nomist at The Bank of England suggested thatthe UK move towards a government-backed digital currency.But does a cashlesssociety really make good economic sense?The fact that cash is being drawn out of society,is less a feature of oureveryday lives,and the ease of electronic payments is this actually makingus spend more money without realizing it?Barrett wanted to find out if the absence of physical currency does indeed causea person to spend more,so she decided to conduct an experiment a few months ago.She decided that she was going to try to just use cash for two weeks to make allof her essential purchases and see what that would do to her spending.She foundshe did spend a lot less money because it is incredibly hard to predict how muchcash one is going to need she was forever drawing money out of cash points.Months later,she was still finding cash stuffed in her trouser pockets and thepockets of her handbags.During the experiment,Barrett took a train ride.On the way,there was anannouncement that the restaurant car was not currently accepting credit cards.The train cars were filled with groans because many of the passengers weretraveling without cash.It underlines just how much things have changed in the last generation,Barrettsays.My parents,when they were younger,used to budget by putting money intoenvelopes theyd get paid and theyd immediately separate the cash into pilesand put them in envelopes,so they knew what they had to spend week by week.Itwas a very effective way for them to keep track of their spending.Nowadays,were all on credit cards,were doing online purchases,and money is kind ofbecoming a less physical and more imaginary type of thing that we cant get ourhands around.Q19.What do we learn about Sweden?Q20.What did Claer Barrett want to find out with her experiment?Q21.What did Claer Barrett find on her train ride?Q22.How did people of the last generation budget their spending?答案：19.【D】20.【C】21.【C】22.【A】讲座 3Passage 3Why should you consider taking a course in demography in college?Youll begrowing up in a generation where the baby boomers are going into retirement anddying.You will face the problems in the aging of the population that have neverbeen faced before.You will hear more and more about migration between countriesand between rural areas and cities.You need to understand as a citizen and asa tax payer and as a voter whats really behind the arguments.I want to tell you about the past,present and future of the human population.So lets start with a few problems.Right now,a billion people are chronicallyhungry.That means they wake up hungry,they are hungry all day,and they go tosleep hungry.A billion people are living in slums,not the same billion people,but there is some overlap.Living in slums means they dont have infrastructureto take the garbage away,they dont have secure water supplies to drink.Nearly a billion people are illiterate.Try to imagine your life being illiterate.You cant read the labels on the bottles in the supermarket,if you can get toa supermarket.Two-thirds of those people who are illiterate are women and about200 to 215 million women dont have access to birth control they want,so thatthey can control their own fertility.This is not only a problem in developingcountries.About half of all pregnancies globally are unintended.So those areexamples of population problems.Demography gives you the tools to understand and to address these problems.Itsnot only the study of human population,but the populations of non-human species,including viruses like influenza,the bacteria in your gut,plants that you eat,animals that you enjoy or that provide you with meat.Demography also includesthe study of non-living objects like light bulbs and taxi cabs,and buildingsbecause these are also populations.It studies these populations,in the past,present and future,using quantitative data and mathematical models as tools ofanalysis.I see demography as a central subject related to economics.It is the means tointervene more wisely,and more effectively in the real world,to improve thewellbeing,not only of yourself important as that may be but of peoplearound you and of other species with whom we share the planet.Questions 23-25 are based on the recording you have just heard.23.What is one of the problems the speaker mentions in his talk?24.What does the speaker say about pregnancies?25.How does the speaker view the study of populations?答案：23.【B】24.【B】25.【A】选词填空（卷一）Section ALets all stop j
