2023年6月英语六级真题和答案解析(标准).docx

2023年6月英语六级考试真题Part IWriting(30 minutes)Directions: For this part, you are allowed 30 minutes to write a short essay entitled Should One Expect a Reward When Doing a Good Deed? You should write at least 15() words following the outline given below.1 .有人做好事期望得到回报；2 .有人认为应当像雷锋那样做好事不图回报；3 .我的观点。Should One Expect a Reward When Doing a Good Deed?Part II Reading Comprehension (Skimming and Scanning) (15 minutes)For questions 1-4, markY (for YES)N (for NO)NG (fof NOT GIVEN)Directions: In this part, you will have 15 minutes to go over the passage quickly and answer the questions on Answer Sheet I.if the statement agrees with the information given in the passage;if statement contradicts the information given in the passage;if the information is not given in the passage.For questions 5-10, complete the sentences with the information given in the passage.Seven Steps to a More Fulfilling JobMany people today find themselves in unfulfilling work situations. In fact, one in four workers is dissatisfied with their cunent job, according to the recent “Plans for 2023" survey. Their career path may be financially rewarding, but it doesn't meet their emotional, social or creative needs. They're stuck, unhappy, and have no idea what to do about it, except move to another job.Mary Lyn Miller, veteran career consultant and founder of the Life and Career Clinic, says ihat when most people are unhappy about their work, their first thought is to get a different job. Instead, Miller suggests looking at the possibility of a different life. Through her book, 8 Myths of Making a Living, as well as workshops, seminars and personal coaching and consulting, she has helped thousands of dissatisfied workers reassess life and work.Like the way of Zen, which includes understanding of oneself as one really is, Miller encourages job seekers and those dissatisfied with work or life to examine their beliefs about work and recognize that uin many cases your beliefs are what brought you to where you are today." You may have been raised to think physical misery than before. People are better off. Unfortunately, affluence also creates new complaints and contradictions.Advanced societies need economic growth to satisfy the multiplying wants of their citizens. But the quest for growth lets loose new anxieties and economic conflicts that disturb the social order. Affluence liberates the individual, promising that everyone can choose a unique way to self-fulfillment. But the promise is so extravagant that it predestines many disappointments and sometimes inspires choices that have anti-social consequences, including family breakdown and obesity(肥胖症).Statistical indicators of happiness have not risen with incomes.Should we be surprised? Not really. We've simply reaffirmed an old truth: the pursuit of affluence does not always end with happiness.留意：此部分试题请在答题卡2上作答。52. What question does John Kenneth Galbraith raise in his book The Affluent Society?A) Why statistics don'l tell the truth about the economy.B) Why affluence doesn't guarantee happiness.C) How happiness can be promoted today.D) What lies behind an economic boom.53. According to Galbraith, people feel discontented because.A) public spending hasn't been cut down as expectedB) the government has proved to be a necessary evilC) they arc in fear of another Great DepressionD) materialism has run wild in modern society54. Why do people feel squeezed when their average income rises considerably?A) Their material pursuits have gone far ahead of their earnings.B) Their purchasing power has dropped markedly with inflation.C) The distribution of wealth is uneven between the r5ich and the poor.D) Health care and educational cost have somehow gone out of control.55. What does Louis Uchitelle mean by “the disposable American (Line 3, Para. 5)?A) Those who see job stability as part of their living standard.B) People full of utopian ideas resulting from affluence.C) People who have little say in American politics.D) Workers who no longer have secure jobs.56. What has affluence brought to American society?A) Renewed economic security.B) A sense of self-fulfillment.C) New conflicts and complaints.D) Misery and anti-social behavior.Passage TwoQuestions 57 to 61 are based on the following passage.The use of deferential(敬重的)language is symbolic of the Confucian ideal of the woman, which dominates conservative gender norms in Japan. This ideal presents a woman who withdraws quietly to the background, subordinating her life and needs to those of her family and its male head. She is a dutiful daughter, wife, and mother, master of the domestic arts. The typical refined Japanese woman excels in modesty and delicacy; she “treads (谨言慎行)in the world,“ elevating feminine beauty and grace to an art form.Nowadays, it is commonly observed that young women are not conforming to the feminine linguistic (语言的)ideal. They are using fewer of the very deferential "women V5 forms, and even using the few strong forms that are know as "men's." This, of course, attracts considerable attention and has led to an outcry in the Japanese media against the defeininization of women's language. Indeed, we dicing hear about "men's language'' until people began to respond to girls5 appropriation of forms normally reserved for boys and men. There is considerable sentiment about the "corruption'' of women's languagewhich of course is viewed as part of the loss of feminine ideals and moralityand this sentiment is crystallized by nationwide opinion polls that arc regularly carried out by the media.Yoshiko Matsumoto has argued that young women probably never used as many of the highly deferential forms as older women. This highly polite style is no doubt something that young women have been expected to “grow into”after all, it is assign not simply of femininity, but of maturity and refinement, and its use could be taken to indicate a change in the nature of one's social relations as well. One might well imagine little girls using exceedingly polite forms when playing house or imitating older women-in a fashion analogous to little girls' use of a high-pitched voice to do “teacher talk" or "mother talk" in role play.The fact that young Japanese women are using less deferential language is a sure sign of change-of social change and of linguistic change. But it is most certainly not a sign of the “masculization- of girls. In some instances, it may be a sign that girls are making the same claim to authority as boys and men, but that is very different from saying that they are tiying to be “mascWine." Katsue Reynolds has argued that girls nowadays are using more assertive language strategies in order to be able to compete with boys in schools and out. Social change also brings not simply different positions for women and girls, but different relations to life stages, and adolescent girls are participating in new subcultural forms. Thus what may, to an older speaker, seem like “masculine“ speech may seem to an adolescent like “liberated" or "hip" speech.留意：此部分试题请在答题卡2上作答。57. The first paragraph describes in detail.A) the standards set for contemporary Japanese womenB) the Confucian influence on gender norms in JapanC) the stereotyped role of women in Japanese familiesD) the norms for traditional Japanese women to follow58. What change has been observed in today's young Japanese women?A) They pay less attention to their linguistic behavior.B) The use fewer of the deferential linguistic forms.C) They confuse male and female forms of language.D) They employ very strong linguistic expressions.59. How do some people react to women's appropriation of men's language forms as reported in the Japanese media?A) They call for a campaign to stop the defeminization.B) The see it as an expression of women's sentiment.C) They accept it as a modern trend.D) They express strong disapproval.60. According to Yoshiko Matsumoto, the linguistic behavior observed in today's young women.A) may lead to changes in social relationsB) has been true of all past generationsC) is viewed as a sign of their maturityD) is a result of rapid social progress61. The author believes that the use of assertive language by young Japanese women is.A) a sure sign of their defeminization and maturationB) an indication of their defiance against social changeC) one of their strategies to compete in a male-dominated societyD) an inevitable trend of linguistic development in Japan todayPart VCloze(15 minutes)Directions：There are 20 blanks in the following passage. For each blank there are four choices marked A, B, Cand D on the right side of the paper. You should choose the ONE that best fits into the passage. Then mark the corresponding letter on Answer Sheet 2 with a single line through the centre.留意：此部分试题请在答题卡2上作答。Historically, humans get serious about avoiding disasters only after one has just struck them. 62 that logic, 2023 should have been a breakthrough year for rational behavior. With the memory of 9/11 still 63 in their minds, Americans watched hurricane Katrina, the most expensive disaster in U.S. history, on 64 TV. Anyone who didn't know it before should have learned that bad things can happen. And they are made 65 worse by our willful blindness to risk as much as our 66 to work together before everything goes to hell.Granted, some amount of delusion(错觉)is probably part of the 67 condition. In A.D. 63, Pompeii was seriously damaged by an earthquake, and the locals immediately went to work 68 . in the same spotuntil (hey were buried altogether by a volcano eruption 16 years later. But a 69 of (he past year in disaster history suggests that modern Americans are particularly bad at 7() themselves from guaranteed threats. We know more than we 71 did about the dangers we face. But it turns 72 that in times of crisis, our greatest enemy is 73 the storm, the quake or the 74 itself. More often, it is ourselves.So what has happened in the year that 75 the disaster on the Gulf Coast? In New Orleans, the Army Corps of Engineers has worked day and night to rebuild the flood walls. They have got the walls to 76 they were before Katrina, more or less. That's not 77 . we can now say with confidence. But it may be all 78 can be expected from one year of hustle(劳碌).Meanwhile, New Orleans officials have crafted a plan to use buses and trains to 79 the sick and the disabled. The city estimates that 15,000 people will need a 80 out. However, state officials have not yet determined where these people will be taken. The 81 with neighboring communities are ongoing and difficult.62. A) To B)By C) On D) For63. A) freshB) obvious C) apparent D) evident64. A) visual B) vivid C) live D) lively65. A) littleB) less C) more D) much66. A) reluctanceB) rejection C) denial D) decline67. A) natural B) world C) socialD) human68. A) revisingB) refiningC) rebuildingD) retrieving69. A) reviewB) reminderC) conceptD) prospect70. A) preparingB) protestingC) protectingD) prevailing71. A) neverB) everC) thenD) before72. A) upB) downC) overD) out73. A) merelyB) rarelyC) incidentallyD) accidentally74. A) surgeB)spurC) surfD) splash75. A) ensuedB) tracetlC) followedD) occurred76. A) whichB) whereC) whatD) when77. A) enoughB) certainC) conclusiveD) final78. A) butB) asC) thatD) those79. A) exileB) evacuateC) dismissD) displace80. A) rideB) trailC) pathD) track81. A) conventionsB) notificationsC) communicationsD) negotiationsPart VITranslation(5 minutes)Directions：Complete the sentences by translating into English the Chinese given in brackets. Please write your translation on Answer Sheet 2.留意：此部分试题请在答题卡2上作答，只需写出译文部分。82. The auto manufacturers found themselves（正在同外国公司竞争市场的 份额）.83. Only in the small town（他才感到平安和放松）.84. It is absolutely unfair that these children（被剥夺了 受教化的权利）.85. Our years of hard work are all in vain,（更另提我们花费的大量金钱了）.86. The problems of blacks and women（最近几十年受到公众相当大的关 注）.2023年6月英语六级真题答案Part I Writing (30 minutes)写作范文Should One Expect a Reward When Doing a Good Deed?A great many people presume upon a reward when doing a good deed. First and foremost, there is a natural tendency to equate doing good deeds with a certain amount of reward, and reward with a certain amount of money. What is more, they maintain that since the basis of contemporary society is money, one of the major means of earning money is getting reward by doing good deeds.On the contrary, the vast majority of people assume that doing a good deed should be based on people's personal consciousness. Hence, doing a good deed is fulfilling itself and reward is of minimal significance. Numerous examples can be given, but this will suffice. Mr. Leifeng lived a simple life dedicated to doing good deeds without expecting any reward and helping people from all walks of life, yet he was remembered as one of the most successful hero of our time.Generally speaking, it is my view that we should not expect a reward when doing a good deed. We do this for enjoyment, self-fulfillment and spiritual enhancement, not for the purpose of reward.参考译文许多人做好事期望得到回报。首先，人们经常自然而然地把做好事等同于肯定的回报，又把回报等同于肯定 的金钱。其次，他们认为当今社会以金钱为基础，而挣钱的主要途径之一就是通过做好事获得回报。反之，大多数人认为做好事应以个人觉悟为基础。因此，做好事本身就能满意个人须要，回报则可有可无。 可以给出多数例子，这个就足够了。雷锋生活简朴，一生致力于做好事不计任何回报，同时帮助各行各业的 人们，然而他被公认为我们时代最胜利的楷模。总之，我认为我们应当做好事不图回报。做好事本身就是一种享受、自我实现和精神升华，不是为了回报。Part II Reading Comprehension (Skimming and Scanning) (15 minutes)1. N2. Y3. NG4. Y5. those things that they love most6. products7. more confidence8. What do I really want to do?9. give up, or risk10. the lack of actionPart III Listening Comprehension (35 minutes)11. A) Surfing the net.12. B) He is sure of his success in the exam.13. D) The man is quite optimistic about human nature.14. C) Stay in business.15. A) More money.16. B) She missed the comforts of home.17. C) Seek professional advice.18. A) He dresses more formally now.19. B) To have meetings.20. D) It can lessen the discomfort caused by air travel.21. D) Avoided eating rich food.22. C) Not many of them chose to do what she did23. A) At a fair.24. C) The purchasing of some equipment.25. B) Training consultancy.26. A) Improve themselves.27. D) By making detailed plans and carrying them out.28. D) To illustrate how easily people abandon (heir goals.29. B) Karen was adopted by Ray Anderson.30. B) He sacrificed his life to save a baby girl.31. A) The reported hero turned out to be his father.32. B) Japan.33. D) By taking shorter vacations each year.34. A) To combat competition and raise productivity.35. C) Reducing their working hours.36. licensed37. obligation38. assess39. coordinate40. circumstanc