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1、20222022年年9 9月大学英语六级考试真题月大学英语六级考试真题(第第 1 1 套套)Part】Writing(30 minutes)Directions:For this part,youare allowed 30 minutes to write an essay that begins with thesentence“Nowadaysmoreandmorestudentsarebecomingincreasinglyawareoftheimportanceofdevelopingdigitalskills.”Youcanmakecomments,cite examples or

2、 use your personal experiences to develop your essay.Youshould write at least 150 words but no more than 200words.Part IListening Comprehension(30 minutes)SectionADirections:1Inthissection,youwillheartwolongconversations.Attheendofeachconversation,you will hearfourquestions.Both theconversationand t

3、hequestionswillbespokenonlyonce.Afteryouhearaquestion,youmustchoosethe bestanswerfromthefourchoicesmarkedA),B),C)andD).Thenmarkthecorresponding letter on Answer Sheet I with a single line through the centre.Questions 1 to 4 are based on the conversation you have just heard.1.A)It enables people to e

4、arn more money.B)It teaches the importance of financing.C)It helps people with budgeting.D)It introduces a novel way to invest.2.A)Many Americans are not satisfied with their income.B)Many Americans have no idea about how to invest.C)Most Americans do not know how to save money.D)Most Americans do n

5、ot stick to a budget.3.A)Keep track of his money.B)Live within his means.C)Find more sources of income.D)Refrainfrombuyingluxuries.4.A)It offers a greater variety of items.B)It helps avoid unnecessary spending.C)Itchanges ones way of living.D)It saves ones time for shopping.Questions 5 to8 are based

6、 on the conversation you have just heard.5.A)Itisbrand-new.B)It has plenty of rooms.C)It belongs to her mother.D)It has been vacant for months.6.A)Space.B)Tranquillity.C)Appliances.D)Locti7.A)Talk to his wife about the contract terms.B)Pay the first months rent and a deposit.C)Check the references o

7、f the flat owner.D)Consult his solicitor one more time.8.A)She can have a wonderful view of the pond.B)She will be much closer to her work place.C)She can make friends with new neighbours.D)She will have plenty of space for her shoes.SectionBDirections:In this section,you will hear two passages.At t

8、he end ofeach passage,you will hearthree 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 choicesmarkedA),B),C)andD).ThenmarkthecorrespondingletteronAnswerSheetl2022年9月第1套第1页(共24页)with a single line

9、through the centre.Questions9 to11 are based on the passage you have just heard.9.A)The more commercial they see,the more brands they get to know.B)The morecommercials theysee,the more they adore celebrities.C)The more television they watch,the fewer conflicts in the family.D)Themoretelevisiontheywa

10、tch,thegreatertheirparentsstress.10.A)Informchildrenof thefamilysfinancialsituation.B)Shiftchildrensattentiontointerestingactivities.C)Involvechildrenin making purchasingdecisions.D)Helpchildrenunderstandadvertisingsintent.l1.A)Theirlimitedcognitiveability.B)Theirstrong naturalcuriosity.C)Theiradmir

11、ationforcelebrities.D)Theirlack of social experience.Questions 12 to 15 are based on the passage you have just heard.12.A)Badguys may do good deeds.C)Good guys may not always cooperate.13.A)Bywhatwedo.C)Incomparisonwithothers.14.A)Learnfromthemearnestly.C)Leavethemalonetemporarily.15.A)Beingdismisse

12、dashypocritical.C)Having to make too many sacrifices.SectionCB)Bad guys may go unpunished.D)Good guys may get unfair treatment.B)Byfairevaluation.D)Inaccordance with set standards.B)Compete with themactively.D)Cooperatewiththemsincerely.B)Not getting the reward they deserve.D)Beingmisunderstoodbypeo

13、plearound.Directions;In this section,you will hear three recordings of lectures or talks followed by three orfour questions.The recordings will be plaved only once.After you hear a question,younustchoosethebestanswerfromthefourchoicesmarkedA),B),C)andD).Thenmark the corresponding letter on Answer Sh

14、eet I with a single line through the centre.Questions 16 to 18 are based on the recording you have just heard.16.A)They are increasingly aware of gender differences.B)Theyengage themselvesin positiverecollection.C)They begin to see the importance of friendship.D)They make friends with peers of the s

15、ame sex.17.A)Competingforposition.B)Pursuingfashion.C)Forging close ties with friends.D)Fulfillingfamilyobligations.18.A)Theyprioritizeromanceoverfriendship.B)Theytry to strengthen same-sex friendships.C)They begin to take friendship more seriously.D)They compete intensely for romantic partners.Ques

16、tions 19 to 21 are based on the recording you have just heard.19.A)They regard it as a matter of sheer privacy.B)They are worried about being turned down.C)They fear that their condition will be made widely known.D)They are afraid to be discriminated against once recruited.20.A)After receiving a job

17、 offer.B)During a job interview.C)Whenconfirminganinterview.D)Uponcompleting a cover letter.21.A)Describe the true state of their health.B)Provide all the information required.C)Stress the irrelevance of their disability to the job.D)Avoid mentioning the name of their disability.Questions 22 to 25 a

18、re based on the recording you have just heard.22.A)Their scores were least affected by music with speech.2022年9月第1套第2页(共24页)B)It was the poorest when there was background speech.C)Their scores were most depressed with instrumental music.D)It was disrupted by the sound of an air conditioner or fan.23

19、.A)It has to do with the type and volume of the background noise.B)It has to do with short-term memory for listening comprehension.C)It depends on the overlap in processing different kinds of information.D)It depends on the participantsability to concentrate on the task at hand.24.A)Keep everything

20、as quiet as possible,B)Play nothing butinstrumental music.C)Use vocal material as little as possible.D)Wear a pair of earphones or headphones.25.A)Sociable people were immune to all distractions.B)Shy quiet people were most adversely impacted.C)Less outgoing people were more affected by silence.D)Co

21、nfident people were unaffected by high-arousal music.Part Reading Comprehension(40 minutes)SectionADirections:In this section,there is a passage with ten blanks.You are required to select onewordfor each blank from a list of choices given in a word bank following thepassage.Readthepassagethroughcare

22、fullybeforemakingyourchoices.Eachchoice in the bank is identified by a letter.Please mark the corresponding letter foreach item on Answer Sheet 2 with a single line through the centre.You may not useany of the words in the bank more than once.The now extinct passenger pigeon has the dubious honor of

23、 being the last species anyone everexpected to disappear.At one point,there were more passenger pigeons than any other species ofbird.Rough 26of their population went as high as five billion and they accounted for around40 percent of the total indigenous bird population of North America in the early

24、 19th century.Despitetheirhugepopulation,passengerpigeonswere27to human intrusion into theirnesting territory.Their nests were shabby things and two weeks after the eggs28,theparentpigeons would abandon their offspring,leaving them to take care of themselves.People discoveredthat these baby pigeons

25、were really tasty,and the adult birds were also quite29.FirsttheNative Americans and then the transplanted Europeans came to consider the birds a great30By the1850s,commercial trapping of passenger pigeons was proceeding at an31pace.Hundreds of thousands of the birds were being harvested every day t

26、o be made into popular pigeonpies.Inaddition,large32 fpigeonsnestingterritorywerebeingclearedawayforplanting crops and creating pasture land.As numerous as the passenger pigeons were,they were notan 33resource.By the1880s,it was noticed that the bird population had becomeseriously34.The last passeng

27、er pigeons killed in the wild were shot in 1899.Eventually those billions and billions of birds shrank to a single remaining35,apassengerpigeonnamedMartha,whodiedonSeptemberl,1914,incaptivityattheCincinnatiZoo.Inaddition to being the end of an era,it was also the first time humans were able to exact

28、ly time theextinction of a species.A)vulnerableB)unprecedentedC)tractsD)specimenE)robustF)refugeG)plazasH)infiniteI)hatchedJ)expiredK)excerptsL)estimatesM)edibleN)depletedO)delicacySectionBDirections:In this section,you are going to read a passage with ten statements attached to it.Eachstatementcont

29、ainsinformationgiveninoneof theparagraphs.Identifytheparagraph from which the information is derived.You may choose a paragraph more2022年9月第1套第3页(共24页)than once.Each paragraph is marked with a letter.Answer the questions by markingthe corresponding letter on Answer Sheet 2.Is computer coding a forei

30、gn language?AAscomputercodinghasbecomeanincreasinglysought-afterskill,moreK-12schoolsareworking it into their curriculums.Some states have considered allowing students to forgo(放弃)foreign language for coding classes,despite opposition from educators.BTheresadebateoverwhetheritsappropriatetoteachcodi

31、nginelementaryschools,withfierceopinionsoneachside.Whenitcomes toallowingcodingtofillforeignlanguagerequirements,though,mosteducatorsagree:Codingshouldbeaddedtocurriculums,butnotat the expense of foreign language classes.CTheideais thatcomputer programmingisalanguage,allowingpeopletocommunicatewithm

32、achines and programs.Its the language of the 2lst century and more valuable than a naturallanguage,some advocates argue.The computer science field is growing faster than schools cankeep up because of budget constraints and a lack of skills training for teachers.DAccordingtothe2016USNews/RaytheonSTEM

33、Index,computerscience jobshavehelpedboost wages in the US,and computer-related jobs hold the top seven positions in STEM fieldsfor highest number of workers.Foreignlanguage interest,on the other hand,is declining forthefirsttimesince1995.Thenumberof highereducationlanguageenrollmentsdeclinedbetween2

34、009and2013bymorethanlll,000spots,accordingtotheModernLanguageAssociation of America.E“Ithinktheopportunitytogivepeopleachoiceisimportant,”saysFloridastateSenatorrJeremyRing,whointroducedabilllastyearthatwouldallowFloridastudentstochoose】betweenforeignlanguageandcodingclassesforthepurposeofuniversity

35、admissionsrequirements.“Ithinkif youregoingtogivetwoyearsoflanguageinhighschool,youmight as well do computer coding.”FThe Florida bill died this year after passing 35:5 in the state Senate when the full Legislaturefailed to take action.It would have been the first state to try this initiative.Ring s

36、ays thatalthough he will be out of office,an identical bill will be reintroduced within the next year byothersonhisbehalf.“InthespeechIgaveontheSenatefloor,Isaid,Wecanbethefirststate to do this,or we can be the 50th state to do it.Its our choice.Its going to happen,Ring says.GA Kentucky bill similar

37、 to the one in Florida was met with complaints from educators,and wasthen amended to promote computer science education initiatives with no mention of foreignlanguagerequirements.Instead,thestatewillprovidesupportforhigherqualitycertifiedteachers for programming classes.Under the Washington bill,pub

38、lic universities would accepttwo years of computer science classes in place of two years of foreign language for admissionpurposes.A report detailing the opinions of state university officials is due to the Legislatureby November 2017.HTexas passed a bill in 2013 that allows students to substitute c

39、omputer coding only after theyhave attempted and performed poorly in a foreign language class.Srini Mandyam,CTO andco-founderof kid-friendlyinstructionalcodingcompanyTynker,believesallowingstudents toforgo foreign language because they struggle with it is unproductive because everysubject,whetherart

40、,mathorlanguage,isasignificantcontributiontoawell-roundedexistence.“Manystudentsdontfarewellwithalgebrabut weneverdiscusseliminatingitorsaychemistry is now counted as an algebra class,”he said via email.“We teach algebra becauseits important and we should teach foreign language and coding for the sa

41、me reason.Exposureto a wide breadth of subjects and material results in well-rounded students who are able tomake informed decisionsabout what they want to pursue.”IComputer science courses already fulfill a math or science high school graduation requirementin 28 states and the District of Columbia,

42、up from only 12 states in 2013.And while advocates2022年9月第1套第4页(共24页)of the bills say they should count as foreign language instead,opponents stress the importanceof balancing computer and foreign language skills.JStudies show that bilingualism(双语)correlates with cognitive development,intelligence,m

43、emory and problem solving abilities,according to the American Council on the Teaching ofForeignLanguages.A2007studyshowedthatforeignlanguagestudentsoutperformedtheirnon-foreign language peers on standardized tests after only two to three years of study.Andwhilea 2014 report from German and American

44、universities suggests that programmers areusinglanguage(butnotmathematical)regionsofthebrainwhenunderstandingcode,criticsremainwary.Theysaythatregardlessofcognitivefunctions,beingmonolingualisadisadvantageintheincreasinglyinternationaleconomy,evenif Englishhasbecomethedefacto(事实上的)language of busine

45、ss.K“Our world is shrinking but its problems are really growing,”says ACTFL National LanguageTeacher of the Year Ted Zarrow,who teaches high school Latin in Westwood,Massachusetts,and has also studiedSpanish,French,German,Italian and Greek.“We need to find a way toput ourselves at the global table a

46、nd to treat each other with mutual respect.And learninglanguages allows us to do that because language is not part of culture,language is culture.”LEvenwiththebenefitsandskillsetslanguagesprovide,recruitersandemployersvaluecomputer skills more.According to the National Association of Colleges and Em

47、ployers2016report,studyabroad and foreign language fluency were not very influential in the employeehiringprocesses,but55percentofemployerslookedforcomputerskillsonapplicantsresumes.However,although 2016 computer science graduates can expect to make the secondhighest starting salarycompared with oth

48、er jobs this year,the Bureau of Labor predicts the1demand for computer programmers will decrease 8 percent or by 26,500 jobs by 2024.MRing says foreign language skills are important,but expresses doubt that school districts couldwork both coding and language into their curriculum in a significant wa

49、y because they lack thetimeintheschoolday.“Nothingagainst language,”hesays.“I just thinkitssomethingyouhave to start early and not just have something that you do for a couple of years in highschool,”hesays.NZarrow agrees that foreign language educationshould begin earlier,butsaysit is possible towo

50、rkbothcomputerprogrammingandforeignlanguagelearningintoschoolsevenly.Hesuggests an immersive,dual language program where students spend half the day in Englishand half the day in another language,as several schools around the country have successfullyimplemented.“Thestudy of language fosters a respe