2013年12月英语六级真题第二套及答案_外语学习-英语四六级.pdf

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1、二 Part I Writing(30 minutes)Directions:For this party you are allowed 30 minutes to write an essay about the impact of the information explosion by referring to the saying A wealth of information creates a poverty of attention.You can give examples to illustrate your point and then explain what you

2、can do to avoid being distracted by irrelevant information.You should write at least 150 words but no more than 200 words.1.A)Labor problems.B)Weather conditions.C)An error in the order.D)Misplacing of goods.2.A)What the woman says makes a lot of sense.B)The rich are opposed to social welfare.C)He i

3、s sympathetic with poor people.D)He agrees with Mr.Johnsons views.3.A)He will be practicing soccer.B)He has work to finish in time.C)He will be attending a meeting.D)He has a tough problem to solve.4.A)Mary should get rid of her pet as soon as possible.B)Mary will not be able to keep a dog in the bu

4、ilding.C)Mary is not happy with the ban on pet animals.D)Mary might as well send her dog to her relative.5.A)The twins voices are quite different.B)Lisa and Gale are not very much alike.C)He does not believe they are twin sisters.D)The woman seems a bit hard of hearing.6.A)The serious economic crisi

5、s in Britain.B)A package deal to be signed in November.C)A message from their business associates.D)Their ability to deal with financial problems.7.A)It is impossible to remove the stain completely.B)The man will be charged extra for the service.C)The man has to go to the main cleaning facility.D)Cl

6、eaning the pants will take longer than usual.-欢迎下载 2 8.A)European markets.B)A protest rally.C)Luxury goods.D)Imported products.Questions 9 to 12 are based on the conversation you have just heard.9.A)He made a business trip.B)He had a quarrel with Marsha.C)He talked to her on the phone.D)He resolved

7、a budget problem.10.A)She may have to be fired for poor performance.B)She has developed some serious mental problem.C)She is in charge of the firms budget planning.D)She supervises a number of important projects.11.A)She failed to arrive at the airport on time.B)David promised to go on the trip in h

8、er place.C)Something unexpected happened at her home.D)She was not feeling herself on that day.12.A)He frequently gets things mixed up.B)He is always finding fault with Marsha.C)He has been trying hard to cover for Marsha.D)He often fails to follow through on his projects.Questions 13 to 15 are base

9、d on the conversation you have just heard.13.A)They are better sheltered from all the outside temptations.B)They are usually more motivated to compete with their peers.C)They have more opportunities to develop their leadership skills.D)They take an active part in more extracurricular activities.14.A

10、)Its chief positions are held by women.B)Its teaching staff consists of women only.C)Its students aim at managerial posts.D)Its students are role models of women.15.A)It is under adequate control.B)It is traditional but colourful.C)They are more or less isolated from the outside world.D)They have am

11、ple opportunities to meet the opposite sex.习作要求要写好建议书必须注意以下几点明确建议书的内容要求先说清楚存在的问题再说明产生问题的原因最后提出解决问题的建议对建议书的内容要求结合实际具体谈谈明确建议书的书写格式建议书格式标题称呼正文建议人姓名 么关系作者画这幅漫画的意图是什么呢他要揭露什么讥讽什么不是简单地图意写下来而是要写自己的理解和感受由这幅漫画你联想到了什么表达自己的真情实感记叙清楚语句通顺感情真切第一部分珍惜资源保护环境写一份建议书建 是指个人单位和有关方面为了开展某项工作完成某项任务或进行某种活动而倡议大家一起做的事情或提出合理化的意见建

12、议书只是作为一种想法被提出来它必须被有关部门领导批准认可后才能加以实施所以建议书具有较强的可塑性-欢迎下载 3 Passage One Questions 16 to 19 are based on the conversation you have just heard.16.A)By invading the personal space of listeners.B)By making gestures at strategic points.C)By speaking in a deep,loud voice.D)By speaking with the local accent.17

13、.A)To promote sportsmanship among business owners.B)To encourage people to support local sports groups.C)To raise money for a forthcoming local sports event.D)To show his familys contribution to the community.18.A)They are known to be the style of the sports world.B)They would certainly appeal to hi

14、s audience.C)They represent the latest fashion in the business circles.D)They are believed to communicate power and influence.19.A)To cover up his own nervousness.B)To create a warm personal atmosphere.C)To enhance the effect of background music.D)To allow the audience to better enjoy his slides.Pas

15、sage Two Questions 20 to 22 are based on the passage you have just heard.20.A)She was the first educated slave of John Wheatleys.B)She was the greatest female poet in Colonial America.C)She was born about the time of the War of Independence.D)She was the first African-American slave to publish a boo

16、k.21.A)Revise in a number of times.B)Obtain consent from her owner.C)Go through a scholarly examination.D)Turn to the colonial governor for help.22.A)Literary works calling for the abolition of slavery.B)Religious scripts popular among slaves in America.C)A rich stock of manuscripts left by historic

17、al figures.D)Lots of lost works written by African-American women.习作要求要写好建议书必须注意以下几点明确建议书的内容要求先说清楚存在的问题再说明产生问题的原因最后提出解决问题的建议对建议书的内容要求结合实际具体谈谈明确建议书的书写格式建议书格式标题称呼正文建议人姓名 么关系作者画这幅漫画的意图是什么呢他要揭露什么讥讽什么不是简单地图意写下来而是要写自己的理解和感受由这幅漫画你联想到了什么表达自己的真情实感记叙清楚语句通顺感情真切第一部分珍惜资源保护环境写一份建议书建 是指个人单位和有关方面为了开展某项工作完成某项任务或进行某种

18、活动而倡议大家一起做的事情或提出合理化的意见建议书只是作为一种想法被提出来它必须被有关部门领导批准认可后才能加以实施所以建议书具有较强的可塑性-欢迎下载 4 Passage Three Questions 23 to 25 are based on the passage you have just heard.23.A)It is a trait of generous character.B)It is a reflection of self-esteem.C)It is an indicator of high intelligence.D)It is a sign of happin

19、ess and confidence.d 24.A)It was self-defeating.B)It was aggressive.C)It was the essence of comedy.D)It was something admirable.25.A)It is a double-edged sword.B)It is a feature of a given culture.C)It is a unique gift of human beings.D)It is a result of both nature and nurture.It is important that

20、we be mindful of the earth,the planet out of which we are born and by which we are nourished,guided,healed-the planet,however,which we have(26)_ to a considerable degree in these past two centuries of(27)_ exploitation.This exploitation has reached such(28)_ that presently it appears that some hundr

21、eds of thousands of species will be(29)_ before the end of the century.In our times,human shrewdness has mastered the deep(30)_ of the earth at a level far beyond the capacities of earlier peoples.We can break the mountains apart;we can drain the rivers and flood the valleys.We can turn the most lux

22、uriant forests into throwaway paper products.We can(31)_ the great grass cover of the western plains and pour(32)_ chemicals into the soil until the soil is dead and blows away in the wind.We can pollute the air with acids,the rivers with sewage(污水),the seas with oil.We can invent computers(33)_ pro

23、cessing ten million calculations per second.And why?To increase the volume and the speed with which we move natural resources through the consumer economy to the junk pile or the waste heap.Our managerial skills are measured by the competence(34)_ in accelerating this process.If in these activities

24、the physical features of the planet are damaged,if the environment is made inhospitable for(35)_ living species,then so be it.We are,supposedly,creating a technological wonderworld.Questions 36 to 45 are based on the following passage.Quite often,educators tell families of children who are learning

25、English as a second language to speak only English,and not their native language,at home.Although these educators may have good(36)_ their advice to families is misguided,and it(37)_ from misunderstandings about the process of language acquisition.Educators may fear that children hearing two languag

26、es will become(38)_ confused and thus their language development will be 习作要求要写好建议书必须注意以下几点明确建议书的内容要求先说清楚存在的问题再说明产生问题的原因最后提出解决问题的建议对建议书的内容要求结合实际具体谈谈明确建议书的书写格式建议书格式标题称呼正文建议人姓名 么关系作者画这幅漫画的意图是什么呢他要揭露什么讥讽什么不是简单地图意写下来而是要写自己的理解和感受由这幅漫画你联想到了什么表达自己的真情实感记叙清楚语句通顺感情真切第一部分珍惜资源保护环境写一份建议书建 是指个人单位和有关方面为了开展某项工作完成某项

27、任务或进行某种活动而倡议大家一起做的事情或提出合理化的意见建议书只是作为一种想法被提出来它必须被有关部门领导批准认可后才能加以实施所以建议书具有较强的可塑性-欢迎下载 5(39)_;this concern is not documented in the literature.Children are capable of learning more than one language,whether(40)_ or sequentially(依次的).In fact,most children outside of the United States are expected to bec

28、ome bilingual or even,in many cases,multilingual.Globally,knowing more than one language is viewed as an(41)_ and even a necessity in many areas.It is also of concern that the misguided advice that students should speak only English is given primarily to poor families with limited educational opport

29、unities,not to wealthier families who have many educational advantages.Since children from poor families often are(42)_ as at-risk for academic failure,teachers believe that advising families to speak English only is appropriate.Teachers consider learning two languages to be too(43)_ for children fr

30、om poor families,believing that the children are already burdened by their home situations.If families do not know English or have limited English skills themselves,how can they communicate in English?Advising non-English-speaking families to speak only English is(44)_ to telling them not to communi

31、cate with or interact with their children.Moreover,the(45)_ message is that the familys native language is not important or valued.注意：此部分试题请在答题卡 2 上作答。The Uses of Difficulty The brain likes a challenge-and putting a few obstacles in its way may well boost its creativity.A)Jack White,the former front

32、man of the White Stripes and an influential figure among fellow musicians,likes to make things difficult for himself.He uses cheap guitars that wont stay in shape or in tune.When performing,he positions his instruments in a way that is deliberately inconvenient,so that switching from guitar to organ

33、 mid-song involves a mad dash across the stage.Why?Because hes on the run from what he describes as a disease that preys on every artist:ease of use.When making music gets too easy,says White,it becomes harder to make it sing.B)Its an odd thought.Why would anyone make their work more difficult than

34、it already is?Yet we know that difficulty can pay unexpected dividends.In 1966,soon after the Beatles had finished work on Rubber Soul,Paul McCartney looked into the possibility of going to America to record their next album.The equipment in American studios was more advanced than anything in Britai

35、n,which had led the Beatles great rivals,the Rolling Stones,to make their latest album,Aftermath,in Los Angeles.McCartney found that EMIs(百代唱片)contractual clauses made it prohibitively expensive to follow suit,and the Beatles had to make do with the primitive technology of Abbey Road.C)Lucky for us.

36、Over the next two years they made their most groundbreaking work,turning the recording studio into a magical instrument of its own.Precisely because they were working with old-fashioned machines,George Martin and his team of engineers were forced to apply every ounce of their creativity to solve the

37、 problems posed to them by Lennon and McCartney.Songs like Tomorrow Never Knows,Strawberry Fields Forever,and A Day in the Life featured revolutionary sound effects that dazzled and mystified Martins American counterparts.习作要求要写好建议书必须注意以下几点明确建议书的内容要求先说清楚存在的问题再说明产生问题的原因最后提出解决问题的建议对建议书的内容要求结合实际具体谈谈明确建

38、议书的书写格式建议书格式标题称呼正文建议人姓名 么关系作者画这幅漫画的意图是什么呢他要揭露什么讥讽什么不是简单地图意写下来而是要写自己的理解和感受由这幅漫画你联想到了什么表达自己的真情实感记叙清楚语句通顺感情真切第一部分珍惜资源保护环境写一份建议书建 是指个人单位和有关方面为了开展某项工作完成某项任务或进行某种活动而倡议大家一起做的事情或提出合理化的意见建议书只是作为一种想法被提出来它必须被有关部门领导批准认可后才能加以实施所以建议书具有较强的可塑性-欢迎下载 6 D)Sometimes its only when a difficulty is removed that we realise

39、 what it was doing for us.For more than two decades,starting in the 1960s,the poet Ted Hughes sat on the judging panel of an annual poetry competition for British schoolchildren.During the 1980s he noticed an increasing number of long poems among the submissions,with some running to 70 or 80 pages.T

40、hese poems were verbally inventive and fluent,but also strangely boring.After making inquiries Hughes discovered that they were being composed on computers,then just finding their way into British homes.E)You might have thought any tool which enables a writer to get words on to the page would be an

41、advantage.But there may be a cost to such facility.In an interview with the Paris Review Hughes speculated that when a person puts pen to paper,you meet the terrible resistance of what happened your first year at it,when you couldnt write at all.As the brain attempts to force the unsteady hand to do

42、 its bidding,the tension between the two results in a more compressed,psychologically denser expression.Remove that resistance and you are more likely to produce a 70-page ramble(不着边际的长篇大论).F)Our brains respond better to difficulty than we imagine.In schools,teachers and pupils alike often assume th

43、at if a concept has been easy to learn,then the lesson has been successful.But numerous studies have now found that when classroom material is made harder to absorb,pupils retain more of it over the long term,and understand it on a deeper level.G)As a poet,Ted Hughes had an acute sensitivity to the

44、way in which constraints on self-expression,like the disciplines of metre and rhyme(韵律),spur creative thought.What applies to poets and musicians also applies to our daily lives.We tend to equate(等同)happiness with freedom,but,as the psychotherapist and writer Adam Phillips has observed,without obsta

45、cles to our desires its harder to know what we want,or where were heading.He tells the story of a patient,a first-time mother who complained that her young son was always clinging to her,wrapping himself around her legs wherever she went.She never had a moment to herself,she said,because her son was

46、 always in the way.When Phillips asked her where she would go if he wasnt in the way,she replied cheerfully,Oh,I wouldnt know where I was!H)Take another common obstacle:lack of money.People often assume that more money will make them happier.But economists who study the relationship between money an

47、d happiness have consistently found that,above a certain income,the two do not reliably correlate.Despite the ease with which the rich can acquire almost anything they desire,they are just as likely to be unhappy as the middle classes.In this regard at least,F.Scott Fitzgerald was wrong.I)Indeed,eas

48、e of acquisition is the problem.The novelist Edward St Aubyn has a narrator remark of the very rich that,not having to consider affordability,their desires rambled on like unstoppable bores,relentless(持续不断的)and whimsical(反复无常的)at the same time.When Boston College,a private research university,wanted

49、 a better feel for its potential donors,it asked the psychologist Robert Kenny to investigate the mindset of the super-rich.He surveyed 165 households,most of which had a net worth of$25m or more.He found that many of his subjects were confused by the infinite options their money presented them with

50、.They found it hard to know what to want,creating a kind of existential bafflement.One of them put it like this:You know,Bob,you can just buy so much stuff,and when you get to the point where you can just buy so much stuff,now what are you going to do?J)The internet makes information billionaires ou