2021年9月2020英语六级真题及答案.pdf
2020年9月英语六级真题及答案2020年上半年第二批次大学英语六级考试安排在9月1 9日下午15：00-17：2 5举行，以下是2020年9月英语六级真题及参考答案完整版。Part I Writing(30 minutes)Directions:For this part,you are allowed 30 minutes to write an essay on thesaying What worthdoing kt worthdoing well.You should write at least words butno more than 200 words.Part IIListening Comprehension(30 minutes)Section ADirections:In this section,you will hear tOo long comversations.At the end ofeachconversation,you will hear four questions.Both the conversation and thequestions will be spoken only once.After you hear a question,you mustchoose the best answer from the four choices marnked A),B),C)and D).Thenmark the corresponding letter on Ansuer Sheet 1 with a single line through thecentre.Questions 1 to 4 are based on the conversation you have just heard.1.A)She can devote all her life to pursuing her passion.B)Her accumulated expertise helps her to achieve her goals.C)She can spread her academic ideas on a weekly TV show.D)Her research findings are widely acclaimed in the world.2.A)Provision of guidance for nuclear labs in Europe.B)Touring the globe to attend science TV shows.C)Overseeing two research groups at Oxford.D)Science education and scientific research.3.A)A better understanding of a subject.B)A stronger will to meet challenges.C)A broader knowledge of related felds.D)A closer relationship with young people.4.A)By applying the latest research methods.B)By making full use of the existing data.C)By building upon previous discoveries.D)By utilizing more powerful computers.Questions 5 to 8 are based on the conversation you have just heard.5.A)They can predict future events.C)They have cultural connotations.B)They have no special meanings.D)They cannot be easily explained.6.A)It was canceled due to bad weather.B)She overslept and missed the fight.C)She dreamed of a plane craash.D)It was postponed to the following day.7.A)They can be affected by peoples childhood experiences.B)They may sometimes seem ridiculous to a rational mind.C)They usually result from peoples unpleasant memories.D)They can have an impact as great as rational thinking.8.A)They call for scientifc methods to interpret.B)They mirror their long-cherished wishes.C)They reflect their complicated emotions.D)They are often related to irrational feelings.Section BDirections:In this section,you will hear tuoo passages.At the end of eachpassage,you will hear three or four questions.Both the passage and thequestions wil be spoken only once.After you hear a question,you must choosethe best answer from the four choices marked A),B),C)and D).Then mark thecorresponding letter on Ansuer Sheet 1 with a single line through the centre.Questions 9 to 11 are based on the pa8sage you have just heard.9.A)Radio waves.B)Sound waves.C)Robots.D)Satellites.10.A)It may be freezing fast beneath the glacier.B)It may have micro-organisms living in it.C)It may have certain rare minerals in it.D)It may be as deep as four kilometers.11.A)Help understand life in freezing conditions.B)Help find new sources of fresh waterC)Provide information about other planets.D)Shed light on possible life in outer space.Questions 12 to 15 are based on the passage you have just heard.12.A)He found there had been Ittle research on their language.B)He was trying to preserve the languages of the Indian tribes.C)His contact with a social worker had greatly aroused his interest in the tribe.D)His meeting with Gonzalez had made him eager to leam more about thetribe.13.A)He taught Copeland to speak the Tarahumaras language.B)He persuaded the Tarahumaras to accept Copelands gifts.C)He recommended one of his best friends as an interpreter.D)He acted as an intermediary between Copeland and the villagers.14.A)Unpredictable.B)Unjustifhable.C)Laborious.D)Tedious.15.A)Their appreciation of help from the outsiders.B)Their sense of sharing and caring.C)Their readiness to adapt to technology.D)Their belief in creating wealth for themselves.Section CDirections:In this section,you will hear three recondings of letures or talksfollowed by three or four questions.The recordings will be played only once.Afler you hear a question,you must choose the best ansuer from the fourchoices marked A),B),C)and D).Then markt the corresponding letter onAnswer Sheet 1 with a single line through the centre.Questions 16 to 18 are based on the recording you have just heard.16.A)They tend to be silenced into submission.B)They find it hard to defend themselves.C)They will feel proud of being pioneers.D)They will feel somewhat encouraged.17.A)One who advocates violence in effecting change.B)One who craves for relentless transformations.C)One who acts in the interests of the oppressed.D)One who rebels against the existing socal order.18.A)They tried to effect social change by force.B)They disrupted the nations social stability.C)They served as a driving force for progress.D)They did more harm than good to humanity.Questions 19 to 21 are based on the recording you have just heard.19.A)Few of us can ignore changes in our immediate environment.B)It is impossible for us to be imumune from outside influence.C)Few of us can remain unaware of what happens around us.D)It is important for us to keep in touch with our own world.20.A)Make up his mind to start all over again.B)Stop making unfair judgements of others.C)Try to find a more exciting job somewhere else.D)Recognise the negative impact of his coworkers.21.A)They are quite susceptible to suicide.C)They suffer a great deal from ill health.B)They improve peoples quality of life.D)They help people solve mental problems.Questions 22 to 25 are based on the recording you have just heard.22.A)Few people can identify its texture.C)Its real value is open to interpretation.B)Few people can describe it precisely.D)Its importance is often over-estimated.23.A)It has never seen any change.C)It is a well-protected government secret.B)It has much 如 o do with color.D)It is a subject of study by many forgers.24.A)People had Ittle faith in paper money.C)It predicted their value would increase.B)They could last longer in circulation.D)They were more difficult to counterfeit.25.A)The stabilzation of the dollar value.C)A gold standard for American currency.B)The issuing of government securities.D)A steady appreciation of the U.S.dollar.Part in Reading Comprehension(40 minutes)Section ADirections：In this section,there is a passage with ten blanks.You are requiredto select one word for each blank from a list of choices given in a word bankfollowing the passage.Read the passage through carngfully before makingyour choices.Each choice in the bank is identified by a letter.Please mark thecorresponding letter for each item on Ansuer Sheet 2 with a single line throughthe centre.You may not use any of the words in the bank more than once.Overall,men are more likely than women to make excuses.Several studiessuggest that men feel the need to appear competent in all 26,whilewomen worry only about the skills in which theyve invested 27.Ask aman and a woman to go diving for the first time,and the woman is likely tojump in,while the man is likely to say hes not feeling too well.Ironically,it is often success that leads people to flirt with failure.Praise wonfor 28 a skill suddenly puts one in the position of having everything tolose.Rather than putting their reputation on the line again,many successfulpeople develop a handicapdrinking,29 Repression-that allows them to keep their status no matterwhat the future brings.An advertising executive 30 for depressionshortly after winning an award put it this way:Without my depression,Id be afailure nowjwith it,Im a successor)holdIn fact,the people most likely to become chronic excuse makers are those31 with success.Such people are so afraid of being 32 a failureat anything that they constantly develop one handicap or another in order toexplain away failure.Though self-handicapping can be an effective way of coping with performanceanxiety now and then,in the end,researchers say,it will lead to 33.Inthe long run,excuse makers fail to live up to their true 34 and lose thestatus they care so much about.And despite their protests to the 35they have only themselves to blame.A)contraryI)momentumB)fatigueJ)obsessedC)heavilyK)potentialD)heavingL)realmsE)hospitalizedM)reciprocalF)labeledN)minG)legacies0)viciouslyH)masteringSection BDirections:In this section,you are going to read a passage with ten statementsattached to it.Each statement contains information given in ome of theparagraphs.Identify the paragraph from xwhich the information is derived.Youmay choose a paragraph more than once.Fach paragraph is marked with aletter.Answer the questions by marking thecorresponding letter om AnsuerSheet 2.Six Potential Bain Benefits of Bilingual EducationA)Brains,brains,brains.People are fascinated by brain research.And yet itcan be hard to point to places where our education system is really making useof the latest neuroscience findings.But there is one happy link where researchis meeting practice:bilingual education.ln the last 20 years or so,theresbeen a virtual explosion of research on bilingualism,says Judith Kroll,aprofessor at the University of Califonia,Riverside.B)Again and again,researchers have found,bilingualism is an experiencethat shapes our brain for life,in the words of Gigi Luk,an associate professorat Harvards Graduate School of Education.At the same time,one of thehottest trends in public schooling is whats often called dual-language ortwo-way immersion programs.C)Traditional programs for English-language learners,or ELLs,focus onassimilating students into English as quickdy as possible.Dual-languageclassrooms,by contrast,provide instruction across subjects to both Englishnatives and English learners,in both English and a target language.The goal isfunctional bilingualism and biliteracy for all students by middle school.NewYork City,North Carolina,Delaware,Utah,Oregon and Washington state areamong the places expanding dual-language classrooms.D)The trend ties in the face of some of the culture wars of two decades ago,when advocates insisted onEnglish first education.Most famously,Califomnia passed Proposition 227 in 1998.It was intended to sharply reducethe amount of time that English-language learners spent in bilingual settings.Proposition 58,passed by California voters on November 8,largely reversedthat decision,paving the way for a huge expansion of bilingual education in thestate that has the largest population of English-language learners.E)Some of the insistence on Englih-first was founded on research produceddecades ago,in which bilingual students underperformned monolingualEnglish speakers and had lower IQ scores.Todays scholars,like ElenBialystok at York University in Toronto,say that research was deeplyflawed.,1 Earlier research looked at socially disadvantaged groups,agreesAntonella Sorace at the University of Edinburgh in Scotland.This has beencompletely contradicted by recent researchnthat compares groups moresimilar to each other.F)So what does recent research say about the potential benefts of bilingualeducation?It tuns out that,in many ways,the real trick to speaking twolanguages consists in managing not to speak one of those languages at agiven moment-which is fundametally a feat of paying attention.SayingGoodbye to mom and thenGuten tag to your teacher,or managing to askfor a crayola roja instead of a red crayon,requires skills called inhibitionandtask switching.These skills are subsets of an ability called executive function.G)People who speak two languages often outperform monolinguals ongeneral measures of executive function.Bilinguals can pay focused attentionwithout being distracted and also improve in the ability to switch from one taskto another,says Sorace.H)Do these same advantages beneft a child who begins learning a secondlanguage in kindergarten instead of as a baby?We dont yet know.Patterns oflanguage learning and language,use are complex.But Gigi Luk at Harvardcites at least one brain-imaging study on adolescents that shows similarchanges in brain structure when compared with those who are bilingual frombith,even when they didnt begin practicing a second language in earnestbefore late childhood.I)Young children being raised bilingual have to follow social cues to fngure outwhich language to use with which person and in what setting.As a result,saysSorace,bilingual children as young as age 3 have demonstrated a head starton tests of perspective-taking and theory of mind-both of which arefundamental social and emotional skills.J)About 10 percent of students in the Portland,Oregon public schools areassigned by lottery to dua-language classrooms that offer instruction inSpanish,Japanese or Mandarin,alongside English.Jennifer Steele atAmerican University conducted a four-year,randomized trial and found thatthese dual-language students outperforned their peers in English-reading skillsby a full school-years worth of learning by the end of middle school.Becausethe effects are found in reading,not in math or science where there were fewdifferences,Steele suggests that learning two languages makes studentsmore aware of how language works in general.K)The research of Gigi Luk at Harvard offers a slightly different explanation.She has recently done a small study looking at a group of 100 fourth-graders inMassachusetts who had similar reading scores on a standard test,but verydifferent language experiences.Some were foreign-language dominant andothers were English natives.Heres whats interesting.The students who weredominant in a foreign language werent yet comfortably bilingual;they werejust starting to learn English.Therefore,by definition,they had a much weakerEnglish vocabulary than the native speakers.Yet they were just as good atinterpreting a text.This is very surprising,Luk says.You would expect thereading comprehension performance to mirror the vocabulary-its acormerstone of comprehension.*L)How did the foreign-language dominant speakers manage this feat?Well,Luk found,they also scored higher on tests of executive functioning.So,eventhough they didnt have huge mental dictionaries to draw on,they may havebeen great puzzle-solvers,taling into account higher-level concepts such aswhether a single sentence made sense within an overall story line.They got tothe same results as the monolinguals,by a different path.M)American public school classrooms as a whole are becoming moresegregated by race and class.Dual-language programs can be an exception.Because they are composed of native English speakers deliberately placedtogether with recent immigrants,they tend to be more ethnically andeconomically balanced.And there is some evidence that this helps kids of allbackgrounds gain comfort with diversity and different cultures.N)Several of the researchers also pointed out that,in bilingual education,non-English-dominant students and their families tend to feel that their homelanguage is heard and valued,compared with a classroom where the h
