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1、2016年12月大学英语六级考试（第1套）Part I Writing(30 minutes)Directions:For this part,you are allowed 30 minutes to write a政ort essay on innovtio Your essy should include the imortance of innovation and measures to be taken to encourage innovation.You are required to write at least 150 words but o more than 200 w

2、ords.Part II Listening Comprehension C 3 0 minutes)Section A Directions:In this section,you will hear two long conversations.At the end of each conversation,you will hear four questions.Both the conversationnd the questions will be soken only once.After you hear a question,you must choose the best a

3、ns切erfrom the four choices marked A),B),C)and D).Then mark the corresponding letter on Answer Sheet 1 with a single line through the centre.Questions 1 to 4 are based on the conversation you have just heard.1.A)It focuses on the efforts countries can make to deal with global warming.B)It links the s

4、cience of climate change to巳conomic and policy issues.C)It studies the impacts of global climate change on peoples lives.D)It tries to predict the possible trends of global climate change.2.A)It would be more costly to deal with its consequences than to avoid it.B)It will take a long time before a c

5、onsensus is reached on its impact.C)It is the most pressing issue confronting all countries.D)It is bound to cause endless disputes among nations.3.A)The raising of peopl巴s awareness.B)The signing of a global agreement.C)The cooperation among world major powers.D)The transition to low-carbon energy

6、systems.4.A)Plan well in advance.C)Carry out more research on it.B)Adopt new technology.D)Cut down energy consumption.Questions 5 to 8 are based on the conversation you have just heard.5.A)When luck plays a role.C)What determines success.B)Whether practice makes perfect.D)How important natural talen

7、t is.6.A)It knocks at your door only once in a while.2016 12六级试题（第1套）第1页（共22页）第 1 页 共 22 页B)It I丑ea旦s being good at seizing opportunities.C)It is something that no O丑Ecan possibly creat巳D)It comes naturally out of o且es self confidence.7.A)Practice is ess巳ntial to becoming good at something.B)One sho

8、uld always be ready to seize opportunities.C)One must have natural talent to b巳successful.D)Luck rarely contributes to a perso丑s success.8.A)People who love what they do care little about money.B)Being passionate about work ca口make one wealthy.C)Putting time and effort into fun things is profitable.

9、D)People in need of mo丑ey work hard automatically.Section B Directions:In this sectio刀，you will hear t切。ssages.At the end of each passage,you will hear three or j加rquestions.Both the ssge and the questions will be吵oken only once.AJ ter you hear a question,you must choose the best answer卢om the four

10、choices marked A),B),C）d D).Then mark the corresonding letter on Answer Sheet 1 withsingle line through the centre.Questions 9 to 12 are based on the passage you have just heard.9.A)A tall chimney.C)The peak of a mountain.B)A huge piece of rock.D)The stump of a giant tree.10.A)Human activity.C)Wi且d

11、and water.B)Chemical processes.D)Fire and fury.11.A)It was built in ancient times.C)It was created by supernatural powers.B)It is a historical monument.D)It is Indianssacred place for worship.12.A)By killing the attacking bears.C)By lifting them well above the ground.B)By sheltering them in a cave.D

12、)By taking them to the top of a mountain.Questions 13 to 15 are based on the passage you have just heard.13.A)They will pick up some souvenirs or gift items.B)They will hav巳their vehicles washed or serviced.C)They will tak巳advantage of the time to rest a while.D)They will buy something from the conv

13、巳丑ience stores.14.A)Th巳y may eventually drive one to bankruptcy.B)They should be done away with altogether.C)They are meant for the extremely wealthy.D)They can bring only temporary pleasures.2016-12六级试题（第1套）第2页（共22页）第 2 页 共 22 页15.A)Small daily savings can make a big difference in ones life.B)A vac

14、ation will be affordable if one saves 20 dollars a week.C)Retirement savings should come first in ones family budgeting.D)A good way to socialize is to have daily lunch with on巴s colleagues.Section C Directions:In this section,you will hear three recordings of lectures or talks followed by three or

15、four questions.The recordings will be played only once.After you hear a question,you must choose the best answer from the four choices marked A),B),C)and D).Then mark the corresonding letter on Answer Sheet 1 with a single line through the centre.Questions 16 to 18 are based on the recording you hav

16、e just heard.16.A)They are harmful to health.B)They enrich our experience.C)They are necessary in our lives.D)They should be done away with.17.A)They are exhausted even without doing any heavy work.B)They feel too overwhelmed to deal with lifes problems.C)They ar巳anxious to free themselves from life

17、s troubles.D)They feel stressed out even without any challenges in life.18.A)They lessen our burdens.B)They narrow our focus.C)They prolong our lives.D)They expand our mind.Questions 19 to 22 are based on the recording you have just heard.19.A)It is not easily breakable.B)It represents the latest st

18、yle.C)It came from a 3D printer.D)It was made by a fashion designer.20.A)When she attended a fashion show nine months ago.B)When she was studying at a fashion design school.C)When she had just graduated from her college.D)When she attended a conferencein New York.21.A)It was hard and breakable.B)It

19、was extremely expensive.LVd nLU F四刀。41PL Ko ut md 俨牛AVL吁吐a仗hQUQU aa ww 4EL4ELYEYEA、，、，CD 22.A)It is the latest model of a 3D printer.B)It is a plastic widely used in 3D printing.C)It marks a breakthrough in printing material.D)It gives fashion designers room for imagination.Questions 23 to 25 are ba

20、sed on the recording you have just heard.23.A)They cant be solved without government support.B)They are easy to solve with modern technology.2016-12六级试题（第1套）第3页（共22页）第 3 页 共 22 页C)They have not be巳n巳xamined in detail so far.D)They arise from the advances in technology.24.A)It is intensely competitiv

21、e.C)It demands huge investment.B)It focuses on new products.D)It is attractive to entrepreneurs.25.A)Cooperation with big companies.C)Recruiting more qualified staff.B)Sharing of costs with each other.D)In-service training of IT personnel.Part III Reading Comprehension(40 minutes)Section A Direction

22、s:In this section,there is assage with ten blanks.You are required to select one word for each blank from a list of choices given in a word bank following the ssage.Read the passage through carefully before making your choices.Each choice ithe bank is identified by a letter.Please mrk the correspond

23、ing letter for each item on Answer Sheet 2 with a single line through the centre.You may not use any of the words in the bank more than once.It is important that scientists be seen as normal people asking and answering important questions.Good,sound science depends on 26,experiments and reasoned met

24、hodologies.It requires a willingness to ask new questions and try n巳w approaches.It requires one to take risks and experience failures.But good science also requires 27 understanding,clear explanation and concise presentation.Our country needs more scientists who are willing to step out in the publi

25、c 28 and offer their opinions on important matters.We need more scientists who can explain what they are doing in language that is 29 and understandable to the public.Those of us who are not scientists should also be prepared to support public engagement by scientists,and to 30 scientific knowledge

26、into our public communications.Too many people in this country i including some among our elected leadership,still do not understand how science works or why robust,long range investments in research vitally matter.In the 1960s,the United States 31 nearly 17%of discretionary C可酌情支配的）spending to rese

27、arch and development,32 decades of economic growth.By 2008,the figure had fallen into the single 33.This occurs at a time when other nations have made significant gains in their own research capabilities.At the Univ巳rsity of California(UC),we 34 ourselves not only on the quality of our research,but

28、also on its contribution to improving our world.To 35 the development of sci enc巳from the lab bench to the market place,UC is investing our own money in our own good id巳as.2016-12六级试题（第1套）第4页（共22页）第 4 页 共 22 页A)arenaB)contextualE)digitsF)hastenI)incorporateJ)i丑definite岛1)pride N)reapingSection B C)c

29、onvincingG)hypothesesK)indulge。）warrant D)devotedH)impairingL)i日ertiaDirections:In this section,you are going to read a passage with testatements attached to it.Each statement contains informtion given in one of the argrahs.Identify the paragrah 升om which the information is derived.You may choose a

30、ragraph more than once.Each pargraph is marked with letter.Aswer the questio旧bymar是ing the corresonding letter on Answer Sheet 2.Are We in an Innovation Lull?A)Scan the highlights of this years Consumer Electronics Show(CES),and you may get aslight feeling of having s巳en them before.Many of the cool

31、est gadgets this year are the sameas the coolest gadgets last year or the year before,eve口.The booths are still exciting,and the demos are still just as crazy.It is still easy to be dazzled by th巳display of drones C元人机）,3D printers,virtual reality goggles（眼镜）and more“smart”devices than you couldever

32、 hope to catalog.Upon reflection,however,it is equally easy to feel like you have seenit all before.And it is hard且ot to think:Are we in an inno飞rationlull C间歇期）？B)In some ways,the answer is yes.For years,smartphones,t巳levisions,tablets,laptops anddesk-tops have made up a huge part of the market and

33、 driven innovation.But now thesesegments are looking at slower growth curves一or shrinking markets in some cases as co丑sumers are not as eager to spend money O丑new gadgets.Meanwhile,emerging technologies一the drones,3D printers and short home devices of the world now seem a bit too old to be called“th

34、e n巳xt big thing.”C)Basically the tech industry seems to be in an awkward period now.“There is口ot a且y one hitwonder,and there will not be one,for years to com巳，”said Gary Shapiro,president andchief executive of the Consumer Technology Associaton(CT A).I且his eyes,however,thatdoesnt necessarily meatha

35、t innovation has stopped.It has just grown up a little.“Manyindustries are going out of infancy and becoming adolescents，”Shapiro said.D)For instance,new technologies that are building upon existing technology have not foundtheir footing well巳nough to appeal to a mass audience,because,in many cases,

36、they needto work effecti飞relywith other devices to realize their full appeal.Take the evolution of thesmart home,for巳xample.Companies are pushing it hard but make it almost overwhelmingeven to dip a toe in the water for the averag巳consum盯，because there are so manycompatibility issu巳s to think about.

37、No average person wants to figure out whether theirfavorite calendar softwar巳works with their fridg巳or whether their washing machine and2016-12六级试题（第1套）第5页（共22页）第 5 页 共 22 页tablet get along.Having to install a differe口t app for each smart appliance in your home is annoying;it would be nicer if you c

38、ould manage everything together.And while you may forgive your smartphone a且occasional fault,you probably have less patience for error messages from your door lock.E)Compani巳s are promoting their own standards,and the market has not had time to choose awinner yet as this is still very new.Companies

39、that have long focused on hardware丑ow haveto think of ecosyst巳ms instead to give co丑sumers practical solutions to their everydayproblems.“The dialogue is changing from what is technologically possible to what istechnologically meaningful，”said eco丑omist Shawn DuBravac.DuBravac works for CT A二which p

40、uts on the show each year and said that this shift to a search for solutions hasbeen noticeable as h巳researched his predictions for 2016.F）“So much of what CES has been about is the cool.It is about the flashiness and the gadgets,said John Curran,managing director of research at Accenture.“But over

41、the last couple of years,and in this one in particular,we are starting to see companies shift from what is the largest scree丑size,the smallest form factor or the shiniest object and more into what all of these devices do that is practical in a consumers life.押Eve丑the technology press conferences,whi

42、ch have been high-profile in the past and r巳ached a level of drama and theatrics fitting for a Las Vegas stage,have a different bent to them.Rather than just dazzling with a high cool factor,th巳re is a focus on the practical.Fit bit,for example,released its first smartwatch Monday,selling with a cle

43、ar purpose to improve your fitness 一and promoting it as a“tool,not a toy.”Not only that,it supports a number of platforms:Apples iOS,Googles Android and Microsofts Windows phone.G)That seems to be what consumers are demanding,after all.Consumers are becomingincreasingly bored with what companies hav

44、e to offer:A survey of 28,000 co口sumers in 28countries released by Accenture found consumers are not as excited about technology asthey once were.For example,wheh asked whether they would buy a n巳w smartphone thisyear,only 48%percent said yes a six-point drop from 2015.H)And when it comes to th巳hype

45、r connected super-smart world that technology firms arepainting for us,it seems that consumers are growing more uneasy about handing over th巳massive amounts of consumer data needed to provide the personalized,customizedsolutions that companies need to improve their services.That could be another exp

46、lanationfor why companies seem to be strengthening their talk of the practicality of their devices.I)Companies have already wo丑part of the battle,having driven tech into every part of ourlives,tracking our steps and our very heartbeats.Yet the persistent question of“Why do In巳ed that？”一or,perhaps mo

47、re tellingly，“Why do you need to know that？”一dogs thesteps of many new ventures.Only 13 percent of respondents said that they were interested inbuying a smartwatch in 2016,for example-an increase of just one percent from the201612六级试题（第1套）第6页（共22页）第 6 页 共 22 页previous year despite a year of high-pro

48、file launches.That is bad news for any firm that may hope that smartwatches can make up ground for maturing smartphone and tablet markets.And the survey found flat demand for fitness monitors,smart thermostats C但温器）and connected home cameras,as well.J)According to the survey,that lack of enthusiasm

49、could stem from concerns about privacyand security.Even among people who have bought connected devices of some kind,37percent said that they are going to be more cautious about using these devices and services inthe future.A full 18 percent have even returned devices until they feel they can get saf

50、erguarantees against having their sensitive information hacked.K)That,too,explains the heavy Washington presence at this years show,as these newtechnologies intrude upon heavily regulated areas.In addition to many senior officials fromthe Federal Trade and Fed巳ral Communications commissions,this yea