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1、2013年12月大学英语六级考试真题（第1套）Part I Writing (30 minutes)Directions: For this part, you are allowed 30 minutes to write an essay commenting on the remarks “The greatest use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it.” You can give examples to illustrate your point and then explain what you w

2、ill do to make your life more meaningful. You should write at least 150 words but no more than 200 words.Part II Listening Comprehension (30 minutes)Section ADirections: In this section, you will hear 8 short conversations and 2 long conversations. At the end of each conversation, one or more questi

3、ons will be asked about what was said. Both the conversation and the questions will be spoken only once. After each question there will be a pause. During the pause, you must read the four choices marked A), B), C) and D), and decide which is the best answer. Then mark the corresponding letter on An

4、swer Sheet 1 with a single line through the centre.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 is sympathetic with poor people.D) He agrees with Mr. Johns

5、ons 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 building.C) Mary is not happy with the ban on pe

6、t 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 crisis in Britain.B) A package deal to be

7、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) Cleaning the pants will take lo

8、nger than usual.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 a budget problem.10. A) Sh

9、e 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 her place.C) Someth

10、ing 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 based on the co

11、nversation 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 make an active part in more extracurricular activities.14. A) It

12、s 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 ha

13、ve ample opportunities to meet the opposite sex.Section BDirections: In this section, you will hear 3 short passages. At the end of each passage, you will hear some questions. Both the passage and the questions will be spoken only once. After you hear a question, you must choose the best answer from

14、 the four choices marked A), B), C) and D). Then mark the corresponding letter on Answer Sheet 1with a single line through the centre.Passage OneQuestions 16 to 19 are based on the passage you have just heard.16. A) By invading the personal space of listeners.B) By making gestures at strategic point

15、s.C) By speaking in a deep, loud voice.D) By speaking with the local accent.17. 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) T

16、hey are known to be the style of the sports world.B) They would certainly appeal to his 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 e

17、nhance the effect of background music.D) To allow the audience to better enjoy his slides.Passage TwoQuestions 20 to 22 are based on the passage you have just heard.20. A) She was the first educated slave of John Whitleys.B) She was the greatest female poet in Colonial America.C) She was born about

18、the time of the War of Independence.D) She was the first African-American slave to publish a book.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 sla

19、very.B) Religious scripts popular among slaves in America.C) A rich stock of manuscripts left by historical figures.D) Lots of lost works written by African-American women.Passage ThreeQuestions 23 to 25 are based on the passage you have just heard.23. A) It is a trait of generous character.B) It is

20、 a reflection of self-esteem.C) It is an indicator of high intelligence.D) It is a sign of happiness and confidence.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.

21、C) It is a unique gift of human beings.D) It is a result of both nature and nurture.Section CDirections: In this section, you will hear a passage three times. When the passage is read for the first time, you should listen carefully for its general idea. When the passage is read for the second time,

22、you are required to fill in the blanks with the exact words you have just heard. Finally, when the passage is read for the third time, you should check what you have written.It is important that we be mindful of the earth, the planet out of which we are born and by which we are nourished, guided, he

23、aledthe 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 hundreds of thousands of species will be (29)_ before the end of the century.In our times, human shrew

24、dness 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 luxuriant forests into throwaway paper products. We can (31)_ the great grass cover of the wes

25、tern 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)_ processing ten million calculations per second. And why? To increase the volume and th

26、e 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 the physical features of the planet are damaged, if the environment is made in

27、hospitable for (35)_ living species, then so be it. We are, supposedly, creating a technological wonder world.Part III Reading Comprehension (40 minutes)Section ADirections: In this section, there is a passage with ten blanks. You are required to select one word for each blank from a list of choices

28、 given in a word bank following the passage. Read the passage through carefully before making your choices. Each choice in the bank is identified by a letter. Please mark the corresponding letter for each item on Answer Sheet 2 with a single line through the centre. You may not use any of the words

29、in the bank more than once.Questions 36 to 45 are based on the following passage.Quite often, educators tell families of children who are learning 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 f

30、amilies is misguided, and it 37 from misunderstandings about the process of language acquisition. Educators may fear that children hearing two languages will become 38 confused and thus their language development will be 39 ; this concern is not documented in the literature. Children are capable of

31、learning more than one language, whether 40 or sequentially (依次地). In fact, most children outside of the United States are expected to become 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 c

32、oncern that the misguided advice that students should speak only English is given primarily to poor families with limited educational opportunities, not to wealthier families who have many educational advantages. Since children from poor families often are 42 as at-risk for academic failure, teacher

33、s believe that advising families to speak English only is appropriate. Teachers consider learning two languages to be too 43 for children from poor families, believing that the children are already burdened by their home situations.If families do not know English or have limited English skills thems

34、elves, how can they communicate in English? Advising non-English-speaking families to speak only English is 44 to telling them not to communicate 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。A) assetB)

35、 delayedC) deviatesD) equivalentE) identifiedF) intentionsG) objectH) overwhelmingI) permanentlyJ) prevalentK) simultaneouslyL) stemsM) successivelyN) underlyingO) visualizingSection BDirections: In this section, you are going to read a passage with ten statements attached to it. Each statement cont

36、ains information given in one of the paragraphs. Identify the paragraph from 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 the corresponding letter on Answer Sheet 2.The Uses of DifficultyThe brain

37、 likes a challengeand putting a few obstacles in its way may well boost its creativity. A）Jack White, the former frontman 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

38、performing, he positions his instruments in a way that is deliberately inconvenient, so that switching from guitar to organ 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

39、 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 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

40、the possibility of going to America to record their next album. The equipment in American studios was more advanced than anything in Britain, 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) contract

41、ual 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. Over the next two years they made their most groundbreaking work, turning the recording studio into a magical instrument of its own. Precisely becaus

42、e 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 problems posed to them by Lennon and McCartney. Songs like “Tomorrow Never Knows”, “Strawberry Fields Forever”, and “A Day in the Life” featured

43、revolutionary sound effects that dazzled and mystified Martins American counterparts.D）Sometimes its only when a difficulty is removed that we realise 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 competit

44、ion 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. These poems were verbally inventive and fluent, but also “strangely boring”. After making inquiries Hughes discovered that they were being compos

45、ed 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 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

46、 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 its bidding, the tension between the two results in a more compressed, psychologically denser expression. Remove that resistance an

47、d 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 that if a concept has been easy to learn, then the lesson has been successful. But numerous studies have now found that when cl

48、assroom 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 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 (等同于)