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1、2018年6月六级考试真题（第二套）Part IWriting(30 minutes)Directions:For this part,you are allowed 30 minutes to write an essay on the importance ofbuilding trust between teachers and students.You can cite examples to illustrate yourviews.You should write at least 150 words but no more than 200 words.Part II Liste

2、ning Comprehension(30 minutes)Section ADirections:/this section,you will hear tyvo long conversations.At the end of each conversation,youwill hear four questions.Both the conversation and the questions will he spoken only once.After you hear a question,you must choose the best answer from the four c

3、hoices markedA),B),C)and D).Then mark the corresponding letter on Answer Sheet 1 with a singleline through the centre.Questions 1 to 4 are based on the conversation you have just heard.1.A)It is a typical salad.C)It is a weird vegetable.B)It is a Spanish soup.D)It is a kind of spicy food.2.A)To make

4、 it thicker.C)To add to its appeal.B)To make it more nutritious.D)To replace an ingredient.3.A)It contains very little fat.C)It uses no artificial additives.B)It uses olive oil in cooking.D)It is mainly made of vegetables.4.A)It does not go stale for two years.C)It comes from a special kind of pig.B

5、)It takes no special skill to prepare.D)It is a delicacy blended with bread.Questions 5 to 8 are based on the conversation you have just heard.5.A)They come in a great variety.C)They do not vary much in price.B)They do not make decent gifts.D)They go well with Italian food.6.A)$30440.C)$50-$60.B)$40

6、450.D)Around$150.7.A)They are a healthy choice for elderly people.B)They are especially popular among Italians.C)They symbolize good health and longevity.D)They go well with different kinds of food.8.A)It is a wine imported from California.B)It is less spicy than all other red wines.C)It is far more

7、 expensive than he expected.D)It is Italys most famous type of red wine.Section BDirections:In this section,you will hear two passages.At the end of each 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

8、 the best answer from the four choices markedA),B),C)and D).Then mark the corresponding letter on Answer Sheet I with a singleline through the centre.Questions 9 to 11 are based on the passage you have just heard.C)Decoding secret messages.B)Searching for information.D)Spreading sensational news.9.A

9、)Learning others9 1 0secrets.10.A)They helped the U.S.army in World War Two.B)They could write down spoken codes promptly.C)They were assigned to decode enemy messages.D)They were good at breaking enemy secret codes.11.A)Important battles fought in the Pacific War.B)Decoding of secret messages in wa

10、r times.C)A military code that was never broken.D)Navajo Indians5 contribution to code breaking.Questions 12 to 15 are based on the passage you have just heard.12.A)All services will be personalized.B)A lot of knowledge-intensive jobs will be replaced.C)Technology will revolutionize all sectors of i

11、ndustry.D)More information will be available.13.A)In the robotics industry.C)In the personal care sector.B)In the information service.D)In high-end manufacturing.14.A)They charge high prices.B)They need lots of training.C)They cater to the needs of young people.D)They focus on customers9 specific ne

12、eds.15.A)The rising demand in education and healthcare in the next 20 years.B)The disruption caused by technology in traditionally well-paid jobs.C)The tremendous changes new technology will bring to peoples lives.D)The amazing amount of personal attention people would like to have.Section CDirectio

13、ns:In this section,you will hear three recordings of lectures or talks fallowed by three orfour questions.The recordings will he played only once.After you hear a question,youmust choose the best answer from the four choices marked A),B)f C)and D).Then markthe corresponding letter on Answer Sheet 1

14、with a single line through the centre.Questions 16 to 18 are based on the recording you have just heard.16.A)It was the longest road in ancient Egypt.B)It was constructed some 500 years ago.C)It lay 8 miles from the monument sites.D)It linked a stone pit to some waterways.17.A)Saws used for cutting

15、stone.C)An ancient geographical map.B)Traces left by early explorers.D)Some stone tool segments.18.A)To transport stones to block floods.B)To provide services for the stone pit.C)To link the various monument sites.D)To connect the villages along the Nile.Questions 19 to 21 are based on the recording

16、 you have just heard.19.A)Dr.Gong didnt give him any conventional tests.B)Dr.Gong marked his office with a hand-painted sign.C)Dr.Gong didnt ask him any questions about his pain.D)Dr.Gong slipped in needles where he felt no pain.20.A)He had heard of the wonders acupuncture could work.B)Dr.Gong was v

17、ery famous in New Yorks Chinatown.C)Previous medical treatments failed to relieve his pain.D)He found the expensive medical tests unaffordable.21.A)More and more patients ask fbr the treatment.B)Acupuncture techniques have been perfected.C)It doesnt need the conventional medical tests.D)It does not

18、have any negative side effects.Questions 22 to 25 are based on the recording you have just heard.22.A)They were on the verge of breaking up.B)They were compatible despite differences.C)They quarreled a lot and never resolved their arguments.D)They argued persistently about whether to have children.2

19、3.A)Neither of them has any brothers or sisters.B)Neither of them won their parents9 favor.C)They werent spoiled in their childhood.D)They didnt like to be the apple of their parents5 eyes.24.A)They are usually good at making friends.B)They tend to be adventurous and creative.C)They are often conten

20、t with what they have.D)They tend to be self-assured and responsible.25.A)They enjoy making friends.C)They are least likely to take initiative.B)They tend to be well adjusted.D)They usually have successful marriages.Part H I Reading Comprehension(40 minutes)Section ADirections:/?this section,there i

21、s a passage with ten blanks.You are required to select one word foreach blank from a list of choices given in a word bank following the passage.Read thepassage through carefully before making your choices.Each choice in the bank isidentified by a letter.Please mark the corresponding letter for each

22、item on Answer Sheet2 with a single line through the centre.You may not use any of the words in the bankmore than once.Scientists scanning and mapping the Giza pyramids say theyve discovered that the GreatPyramid of Giza is not exactly even.But really not by much.This pyramid is the oldest of the wo

23、rldsSeven Wonders.The pyramids exact size has 26 experts fbr centuries,as the“more than 21acres of hard,white casing stones9 9 that originally covered it were 27 long ago.Reporting in themost recent issue of the newsletter C 6AERAGRAM,which 28 the work of the Ancient EgyptResearch Associates,enginee

24、r Glen Dash says his team used a new measuring approach that involvedfinding any surviving 29 of the casing in order to determine where the original edge was.Theyfound the east side of the pyramid to be a 30 of 5.5 inches shorter than the west side.The question that most 31 him,however,isnt how the

25、Egyptians who designed and builtthe pyramid got it wrong 4,500 years ago,but how they got it so close to 32.“We can onlyspeculate as to how the Egyptians could have laid out these lines with such 33 using only thetools they had,“Dash writes.He says his 34 is that the Egyptians laid out their design

26、on a grid,noting that the great pyramid is oriented only 35 away from the cardinal directions(its northsouth axis runs 3 minutes 54 seconds west of due north,while its east-west axis runs 3 minutes 51seconds north of due east)一an amount thafs“tiny,but similar,archeologist Atlas Obscura pointsout.A)c

27、hroniclesI)perfectB)completeJ)precisionC)establishedK)puzzledD)fascinatesL)remnantsE)hypothesisM)removedF)maximumN)revelationsG)momentumH)mysteriously0)slightlySection BDirections:In this section,you are going to read a passage with ten statements attached to it.Eachstatement contains information gi

28、ven in one of the paragraphs.Identify the paragraphfrom which the information is derived.You may choose a paragraph more than once.Each paragraph is marked with a letter.Answer the questions by marking thecorresponding letter on Answer Sheet 2.Peer Pressure Has a Positive SideA Parents of teenagers

29、often view their childrens friends with something like suspicion.They worrythat the adolescent peer group has the power to push its members into behavior that is foolish andeven dangerous.Such wariness is well founded:statistics show,for example,that a teenage driverwith a same-age passenger in the

30、car is at higher risk of a fatal crash than an adolescent drivingalone or with an adult.B In a 2005 study,psychologist Laurence Steinberg of Temple University and his co-author,psychologist Margo Gardner,then at Temple,divided 306 people into three age groups:youngadolescents,with a mean age of 14;o

31、lder adolescents,with a mean age of 19;and adults,aged 24and older.Subjects played a computerized driving game in which the player must avoid crashinginto a wall that materializes,without warning,on the roadway.Steinberg and Gardner randomlyassigned some participants to play alone or with two same-a

32、ge peers looking on.C Older adolescents scored about 50 percent higher on an index of risky driving when their peerswere in the room-and the driving of early adolescents was fully twice as reckless when otheryoung teens were around.In contrast,adults behaved in similar ways regardless of whether the

33、ywere on their own or observed by others.The presence of peers makes adolescents and youth,but not adults,more likely to take risks,“Steinberg and Gardner concluded.D Yet in the years following the publication of this study,Steinberg began to believe that thisinterpretation did not capture the whole

34、 picture.As he and other researchers examined thequestion of why teens were more apt to take risks in the company of other teenagers,they cameto suspect that a crowds influence need not always be negative.Now some experts are proposingthat we should take advantage of the teen brains keen sensitivity

35、 to the presence of friends andleverage it to improve education.E In a 2011 study,Steinberg and his colleagues turned to functional MRI(磁共振)to investigatehow the presence of peers affects the activity in the adolescent brain.They scanned the brains of40 teens and adults who were playing a virtual dr

36、iving game designed to test whether playerswould brake at a yellow light or speed on through the crossroad.F The brains of teenagers,but not adults,showed greater activity in two regions associated withrewards when they were being observed by same-age peers than when alone.In other words,rewards are

37、 more intense for teens when they are with peers,which motivates them to pursuehigher-risk experiences that might bring a big payoff(such as the thrill of just making the lightbefore it turns red).But Steinberg suspected this tendency could also have its advantages.In hislatest experiment,published

38、online in August,Steinberg and his colleagues used a computerizedversion of a card game called the Iowa Gambling Task to investigate how the presence of peersaffects the way young people gather and apply information.G The results:Teens who played the Iowa Gambling Task under the eyes of fellow adole

39、scentsengaged in more exploratory behavior,learned faster from both positive and negative outcomes,and achieved better performance on the task than those who played in solitude.What our studysuggests is that teenagers learn more quickly and more effectively when their peers are presentthan when they

40、9re on their own,“Steinberg says.And this finding could have importantimplications for how we think about educating adolescents.H Matthew D.Lieberman,a social cognitive neuroscientist at the University of California,LosAngeles,and author ofthe 2013 book Social:Why Our Brains Are Wired to Connect,sus

41、pects thatthe human brain is especially skillful at learning socially significant information.He points to aclassic 2004 study in which psychologists at Dartmouth College and Harvard University usedfunctional MRI to track brain activity in 17 young men as they listened to descriptions of peoplewhile

42、 concentrating on either socially relevant cues(fbr example,trying to form an impression ofa person based on the description)or more socially neutral information(such as noting the order ofdetails in the description).The descriptions were the same in each condition,but people couldbetter remember th

43、ese statements when given a social motivation.I The study also found that when subjects thought about and later recalled descriptions in terms oftheir informational content,regions associated with factual memory,such as the medial temporallobe,became active.But thinking about or remembering descript

44、ions in terms of their socialmeaning activated the dorsomedial prefrontal cortex一part of the brains social network-even astraditional memory regions registered low levels of activity.More recently,as he reported in a2012 review,Lieberman has discovered that this region may be part of a distinct netw

45、ork involvedin socially motivated learning and memory.Such findings,he says,suggest that“this network canbe called on to process and store the kind of information taught in school-potentially givingstudents access to a range of untapped mental powers79J If humans are generally geared to recall detai

46、ls about one another,this pattern is probably evenmore powerful among teenagers who are very attentive to social details:who is in,who is out,who likes whom,who is mad at whom.Their desire fbr social drama is not一or not onlya wayof distracting themselves from their schoolwork or of driving adults cr

47、azy.It is actually aneurological(神经的)sensitivity,initiated by hormonal changes.Evolutionarily speaking,peoplein this age group are at a stage in which they can prepare to find a mate and start their own familywhile separating from parents and striking out on their own.To do this successfully,their b

48、rainprompts them to think and even obsess about others.K Yet our schools focus primarily on students as individual entities.What would happen ifeducators instead took advantage of the fact that teens are powerfully compelled to think in socialterms?In Social.Lieberman lays out a number of ways to do

49、 so.History and English could bepresented through the lens of the psychological drives of the people involved.One could thereforepresent Napoleon in terms of his desire to impress or Churchill in terms of his lonely gloom.Lessinherently interpersonal subjects,such as math,could acquire a social aspe

50、ct through teamproblem solving and peer tutoring.Research shows that when we absorb information in order toteach it to someone else,we learn it more accurately and deeply,perhaps in part because we areengaging our social cognition.L And although anxious parents may not welcome the notion,educators c