下马2016年6、12月英语六级真题(含答案)

2021年1月8日发(作者：钱惟演)
2016年6月英语六级真题

Part I Writing (30 minutes)
Directions：For this part, you are allowed 30 minutes to write a short essay
on the use of robots. Try to imagine what will happen when more and more
robots take the place of human beings in industry as well as people's daily lives.
You are requried to write at least 150 words but no more than 200 words.

Part II Listening Comprehension (30 minutes)
Section A
Questions 1 to 4 are based on the conversation you have just heard.
1. A)Project organizer
B)Public relations officer.
C)Marketing manager.
D)Market research consultant.

2.A)Quantitative advertising research.
B)Questionnaire design.
C)Research methodology.
D)Interviewer training.

3.A)They are intensive studies of people’s spending habits.
B)They examine relations between producers and customers.
C)They look for new and effective ways to promote products.
D)They study trends or customer satisfaction over a long period.

4.A)The lack of promotion opportunity.
B)Checking charts and tables.
C)Designing questionnaires.
D)The persistent intensity.

Questions 5 to 8 are based on the conversation you have just heard.
5.A)His view on Canadian universities.
B)His understanding of higher education.
C)His suggestions for improvements in higher education.
D)His complaint about bureaucracy in American universities.

6.A)It is well designed.
B)It is rather inflexible.
C)It varies among universities.
D)It has undergone great changes.


7.A)The United States and Canada can learn from each other.
B)Public universities are often superior to private universities.
C)Everyone should be given equal access to higher education.
D)Private schools work more efficiently than public institutions.

8.A) University systems vary from country to country.
B)Efficiency is essential to university management.
C) It is hard to say which is better, a public university or a private one.
D) Many private university in the U.S. Are actually large bureaucracies.

Section B
Questions 9 to 11 are based on the passage you have just heard.
9.A) Government’s role in resolving an economic crisis.
B) The worsening real wage situation around the world
C) Indications of economic recovery in the United States.
D) The impact of the current economic crisis on people’s life.

10.A)They will feel less pressure to raise employees’ wages.
B) They will feel free to choose the most suitable employees.
C) They will feel inclined to expand their business operations.
D) They will feel more confident in competing with their rivals.

11.A) Employees and companies cooperate to pull through the economic
crisis.
B) Government and companies join hands to create hobs for the
unemployed.
C) Employees work shorter hours to avoid layoffs.
D) Team work will be encouraged in companies.

Questions 12 to 15 are based on the passage you have just heard.
12.A) Whether memory supplements work.
B) Whether herbal medicine works wonders.
C) Whether exercise enhances one’s memory.
D) Whether a magic memory promises success.

13.A) They help the elderly more than the young.
B) They are beneficial in one way or another.
C) They generally do not have side effects.
D) They are not based on real science.

14.A)They are available at most country fairs.
B)They are taken in relatively high dosage.
C)They are collected or grown by farmers.
D)They are prescribed by trained practitioners.

15.A)They have often proved to be as helpful as doing mental exercise.
B)Taking them with other medications might entail unnecessary risks.
C)Their effect lasts only a short time.
D)Many have benefited from them.

Section C
Questions 16 to 18 are based on the recording you have just heard.
16.A)How catastrophic natural disasters turn out to be to developing
nations.
B)How the World Meteorological Organization studies natural
disasters.
C)How powerless humans appear to be in face of natural disasters.
D)How the negative impacts of natural disasters can be reduced.

17.A)By training rescue teams for emergencies.
B)By taking steps to prepare people for them.
C)By changing people’s views of nature.
D)By relocating people to safer places.

18.A)How preventive action can reduce the loss of life.
B)How courageous Cubans are in face of disasters.
C)How Cubans suffer from tropical storms.
D)How destructive tropical storms can be.

Questions 19 to 22 are based on the recording you have just heard.
19.A)Pay back their loans to the American government.
B)Provide loans to those in severe financial difficulty.
C)Contribute more to the goal of a wider recovery.
D)Speed up their recovery from the housing bubble.

20.A)Some banks may have to merge with others.
B)Many smaller regional banks are going to fail.
C)It will be hard for banks to provide more loans.
D)Many banks will have to lay off some employees.

21.A)It will work closely with the government.
B)It will endeavor to write off bad loans.
C)It will try to lower the interest rate.
D)It will try to provide more loans.

22.A)It won’t help the American economy to turn around.
B)It won’t do any good to the major commercial banks.
C)It will win the approval of the Obama administration.


















D)It will be necessary if the economy starts to shrink again.
Questions 23 to 25 are based on the recording you have just heard.












23.A)Being unable to learn new things.
B)Being rather slow to make changes.
C)Losing temper more and more often.
D)Losing the ability to get on with others.
24.A)Cognitive stimulation.
B)Community activity.
C)Balanced diet.
D)Fresh air.
25.A)Ignoring the signs and symptoms of aging.
B)Adopting an optimistic attitude towards life.
C)Endeavoring to give up unhealthy lifestyles.
D)Seeking advice from doctors from time to time.

Part III Reading Comprehension (40 minutes)
Section A
Pursuing a career is an essential part of adolescent development.“The
adolescent becomes an adult when he_26_a real job.”To cognitive researchers
like Piaget,adulthood meant the beginning of an_27_.
Piaget argued that once adolescents enter the world of work,their newly
acquired ability to form hypotheses allows them to create representations that
are too _28_of such ideals,without the tempering of the reality of a job
or profession,rapidly leads adolescents to become _29_ of the non-idealistic
world and to press for reform in a characteristically adolescent said:
“True adaptation to society comes_30_when the adolescent reformer attempts
to put his ideas to work.”
Of course,youthful idealism is often courageous,and no one likes to give up
s,taken_31_out of context,Piaget’s statement seems
he was_32_，however,is the way reality can modify idealistic
people refer to such modification as argued that attaining and
accepting a vocation is one of the best ways to modify idealized views and to
mature.
As careers and vocations become less available during times of
_33_,adolescents may be especially hard difficult economic times may
leave many adolescents_34_about their roles in this
reason,community interventions and government job programs that offer
summer and vacation work are not only economically_35_but also help to
stimulate the adolescent’s sense of worth.

A)automatically B)beneficialC)capturing D)confused
E)emphasizing F)entranceG)excitedH)existence
I)incidentallyJ)intolerantK)occupation L)promises
M)recessionN)slightly O)undertakes

Section B
Can societies be rich and green?
[A]“If our economies are to flourish,if global poverty is to be eliminated and
if the well-being of the world’s people enhanced—not just in this generation but
in succeeding generations—we must make sure we take care of the natural
environment and resources on which our economic activity depends.”That
statement comes not,as you might imagine,from a stereotypical
tree-hugging,save-the-world greenie(环保主义者),but from Gordon Brown,a
politician with a reputation for rigour,thoroughness and above all,caution.
[B]A surprising thing for the man who runs one of the world’s most powerful
economies to say?Perhaps;though in the run-up to the five-year review of the
Millennium(千年的)Goals,he is far from roots of his speech,given in
March at the roundtable meeting of environment and energy ministers from the
G20 group of nations,stretch back to 1972,and the United Nations Conference
on the Human Environment in Stockholm.
[C]“The protection and improvement of the human environment is a major
issue which affects the well-being of peoples and economic development
throughout the world,”read the final declaration from this gathering,the first of a
sequence which would lead to the Rio de Janeiro Earth Summit in 1992 and the
World Development Summit in Johannesburg three years ago.
[D]Hunt through the reports prepared by UN agencies and development
groups—many for conferences such as this year’s Millennium Goals review—
and you will find that the linkage between environmental protection and
economic progress is a common thread.
[E]Managing ecosystems sustainably is more profitable than exploiting
them,according to the Millennium Ecosystem finding hard
evidence to support the thesis is not so ts turn first to some sort of
global statistic,some indicator which would rate the wealth of nations in both
economic and environmental terms and show a relationship between the two.
[F]If such an indicator exists,it is well on reflection,this is not
surprising;the single word“environment”has so many dimensions,and there are
so many other factors affecting wealth—such as the oil deposits—that teasing
out a simple economy- environment relationship would be almost impossible.
[G]The Millennium Ecosystem Assessment,a vast four-year global study
which reported its initial conclusions earlier this year,found reasons to believe
that managing ecosystems sustainably—working with nature rather than against
it—might be less profitable in the short term,but certainly brings long-term
rewards.
[H]And the World Resources Institute(WRI)in its World Resources 2005
report,issued at the end of August,produced several such examples from Africa
and Asia;it also demonstrated that environmental degradation affects the poor
more than the rich,as poorer people derive a much higher proportion of their
income directly from the natural resources around them.
[I]But there are also many examples of growing wealth by trashing the
environment,in rich and poor parts of the world alike,whether through
unregulated mineral extraction,drastic water use for
agriculture,slash-and-burn farming,or fossil- fuel-guzzling(大量消
耗) course,such growth may not persist in the long term—which is
what and the Stockholm declaration were both attempting to point
s the best example of boom growth and bust decline is the Grand
Banks almost five centuries a very large supply of cod(鳕
鱼)provided abundant raw material for an industry which at its peak employed
about 40,000 people,sustaining entire communities in
,abruptly,the cod population were no
longer enough fish in the sea for the stock to maintain itself,let alone an
than a decade later,there was no sign of the ecosystem
re- building had,apparently,been fished out of existence;and the once
mighty Newfoundland fleet now gropes about frantically for crab on the sea
floor.
[J]There is a view that modern humans are inevitably sowing the seed of a
global Grand Banks-style idea is that we are taking more out of
what you might call the planet’s environmental bank balance than it can
sustain;we are living beyond our ecological recent study attempted
to calculate the extent of this“ecological overshoot of the human economy”,and
found that we are using 1.2 Earth’s-worth of environmental goods and services
—the implication being that at some point the debt will be called in,and all those
services—the things which the planet does for us for free—will grind to a halt.
[K]Whether this is right,and if so where and when the ecological axe will
fall,is hard to determine with any precision—which is why governments and
financial institutions are only beginning to bring such risks into their economic
is also the reason why development agencies are not united in
their view of environmental issues;while some,like the WRI,maintain that
environmental progress needs to go hand-in-hand with economic
development,others argue that the priority is to build a thriving economy,and
then use the wealth created to tackle environmental degradation.
[L]This view assumes that rich societies will invest in environmental
is this right?Do things get better or worse as we get richer? Here the
Stockholm declaration is ambiguous.“In the developing countries,”it says,“most
of the environmental problems are caused by under-development.”So it is
saying that economic development should make for a cleaner world?Not
necessarily;“In the industralised countries,environmental problems are
generally related to industrialisation and technological development,”it
other words,poor and rich both over-exploit the natural world,but
for different ’s simply not true that economic growth will surely make
our world cleaner.
[M]Clearly,richer societies are able to provide environmental
improvements which lie well beyond the reach of poorer ns
of wealthy nations demand national parks,clean rivers,clean air and poison-free
also,however,use far more natural resources- fuel,water(all those
baths and golf courses)and building materials.
[N]A case can be made that rich nations export environmental problems,the
most graphic example being climate a country’s wealth grows,so do
its greenhouse gas figures available will not be completely
ing emissions is not a precise science, particularly when it
comes to issues surrounding land use;not all nations have re- leased up-to-date
data,and in any case, emissions from some sectors such as aviation are not
included in national the data is exact enough for a clear trend to be
easily countries become richer,they produce more greenhouse
gases;and the impact of those gases will fall primarily in poor parts of the world.
[O]Wealth is not,of course,the only factor average Norwegian
is better off than the average US citizen,but contributes about half as much to
climate could Norway keep its standard of living and yet cut its
emissions to Moroccan or even Ethiopian levels?That question,repeated across
a dozen environmental issues and across our diverse planet,is what will
ultimately determine whether the human race is living beyond its ecological
means as it pursues economic revival.

es show that both rich and poor countries exploited the
environment for economic progress.
nmental protection and improvement benefit people all over the
world.
is not necessarily true that economic growth will make our world
cleaner.
common theme of the UN reports is the relation between
environmental protection and economic growth.
pment agencies disagree regarding how to tackle environment
issues while ensuring economic progress.
is difficult to find solid evidence to prove environmental friendliness
generates more profits than exploiting the natural environment.
nable management of ecosystems will prove rewarding in the long
run.
43.A politician noted for being cautious asserts that sustainable human
development depends on the natural environment.
countries will have to bear the cost for rich nations’ economic
development.
recent study warns us of the danger of the exhaustion of natural
resources on Earth.

Section C
Passage One
Questions 46 to 50 are based on the following passage.
Interactive television advertising, which allows viewers to use their remote
controls to click on advertisements, has been pushed for years. Nearly a decade
ago it was predicted that viewers of “Friends”, a popular situation comedy,
would soon be able to purchase a sweater like Jennifer Aniston’s with a few taps
on their remote control.“It’s been the year of interactive television advertising
for the last ten or twelve years,”says Colin Dixon of a digital-media
consultancy.
So the news that Cablevision, and American cable company, was rolling
out interactive advertisements to all its customers on October 6th was greeted
with some skepticism. During commercials, an overlay will appear at the bottom
of the screen, prompting viewers to press a button to request a free sample or
order a catalogue. Cablevision hopes to allow customers to buy things with their
remote controls early next year.
Television advertising could do with a boost. Spending fell by 10% in the
first half of the year. The popularization of digital video recorders has caused
advertisers to worry that their commercials will be skipped. Some are turning to
the Internet, which is cheaper and offers concrete measurements like
click- through rates—especially important at a time when marketing budgets are
tight. With the launch of interactive advertising,“many of the dollars that went to
the Internet will come back to the TV,”says David Kline of Cablevision. Or so
the industry hopes.
In theory, interactive advertising can engage viewers in a way that
30-second spots do not. Unilever recently ran an interactive campaign for its
Axe deodorant(除臭剂)，which kept viewers engaged for more than three
minutes on average.
The amount spent on interactive advertising on television is still small.
Magna, an advertising agency, reckons it will be worth about $$138 million this
year. That falls far short of the billions of dollars people once expected it to
generate. But DirecTV, Comcast and Time Warner Cable have all invested in it.
A new effort led by Canoe Ventures, a coalition of leading cable providers, aims
to make interactive advertising available across America later this year.
BrightLine iTV, Which designs and sells interactive ads, says interest has
surged: it expects its revenues almost to triple this year. BSkyB, Britain’s
biggest satellite-television service, already provides 9 million customers with
interactive ads.
Yet there are doubts whether people watching television, a“lean back”
medium, crave interaction. Click-through rates have been high so far(around
3-4%, compared with less than 0.3% online), but that may be a result of the
novelty. Interactive ads and viewers might not go well together.

does Colin Dixon mean by saying“It’s been the year of interactive
television advertising for the last ten or twelve years”(Lines 4-5, Para.1)?
A)Interactive television advertising will become popular in 10-12 years.
B)Interactive television advertising has been under debate for the last
decade or so.
C)Interactive television advertising is successful when incorporated into
situation comedies.
D)Interactive television advertising has not achieved the anticipated results.
is the public’s response to Cablevision’s planned interactive TV
advertising program?
A)Pretty positive.
B)Totally indifferent.
C)Somewhat doubtful.
D)Rather critical.
is the impact of the wide use of digital video recorders on TV
advertising?
A)It has made TV advertising easily accessible to viewers.
B)It helps advertisers to measure the click-through rates.
C)It has placed TV advertising at a great disadvantage.
D)It enables viewers to check the sales items with ease.
do we learn about Unilever’s interactive campaign?
A)It proves the advantage of TV advertising.
B)It has done well in engaging the viewers.
C)It helps attract investments in the company.
D)it has boosted the TV advertising industry.
does the author view the hitherto high click-through rates?
A)They may be due to the novel way of advertising.
B)They signify the popularity of interactive advertising.
C)They point to the growing curiosity ofTV viewers.
D)They indicate the future direction of media reform.

Passage Two
Questions 51 to 55 are based on the following passage.
What can be done about mass unemployment? All the wise heads agree:
there’re no quick or easy answers. There’s work to be done, but workers aren’
t ready to do it—they’re in the wrong places, or they have the wrong skills, Our
problems are“structural,”and will take many years to solve.
But don’t bother asking for evidence that justifies this bleak view. There isn’
t any. On the contrary, all the facts suggest that high unemployment in America
is the result of inadequate demand. saying that there’re no easy answers sounds
wise. But it’s actually foolish: our unemployment crisis could be cured very
quickly if we had the intellectual clarity and political will to act. In other words,
structural unemployment is a fake problem, which mainly serves as an excuse
for not pursing real solutions.
The fact is job openings have plunged in every major sector, while the
number of workers forced into part-time employment in almost all industries
has soared. Unemployment has surged in every major occupational category.
Only three states. With a combined population not much larger than that of
Brooklyn, have unemployment rates below 5%. So the evidence contradicts the
claim that we’re mainly suffering from structural unemployment. Why, then, has
this claim become so popular?
Part of the answer is that this is what always happens during periods of high
unemployment—in part because experts and analysts believe that declaring the
problem deeply rooted, with no easy answers, makes them sound serious.
I’ve been looking at what self-proclaimed experts were saying about
unemployment during the Great Depression; it was almost identical to what
Very Serious People are saying now. Unemployment cannot be brought down
rapidly, declared one 1935 analysis, because the workforce is“unadaptable and
untrained. It cannot respond to the opportunities which industry may offer.”A
few years later, a large defense buildup finally provided a fiscal stimulus
adequate to the economy’s needs—and suddenly industry was eager to employ
those“unadaptable and untrained”workers.
But now, as then, powerful forces are ideologically opposed to the whole
idea of government action on a sufficient scale to jump-start the economy. And
that, fundamentally, is why claims that we face huge structural problems have
been multiplying: they offer a reason to do nothing about the mass
unemployment that is crippling out economy and our society.
So what you need to know is that there’s no evidence whatsoever to back
these claims. We aren’t suffering from a shortage of needed skills, We’re
suffering from a lack of policy resolve. As I said, structural unemployment isn’
t a real problem, it’s an excuse—a reason not to act on America’s problems at a
time when action is desperately needed.

does the author think is the root cause of mass unemployment in
America?
A)Corporate mismanagement.
B)Insufficient demand.
C)Technological advances.
D)Workers’ slow adaptation.
does the author think of the experts’ claim concerning
unemployment?
A)Self-evident.
B)Thought-provoking.
C)Irrational.
D)Groundless.
does the author say helped bring down unemployment during the
Great Depression?
A)The booming defense industry.
B)The wise heads’ benefit package.
C)Nationwide training of workers.
D)Thorough restructuring of industries.
has caused claims of huge structural problems to multiply?
A)Powerful opposition to government’s stimulus efforts.
B)Very Serious People’s attempt to cripple the economy.
C)Evidence gathered from many sectors of the industries.
D)Economists’ failure to detect the problems in time.
is the author’s purpose in writing the passage?
A)To testify to the experts’ analysis of America’s problems.
B)To offer a feasible solution to the structural unemployment.
C)To show the urgent need for the government to take action.
D)To alert American workers to the urgency for adaptation.

Part IV Translation (30minutes)
Directions: For this part, you are allowed 30 minutes to translate a passage
from Chinese into English. You should write your answer on Answer Sheet 2.
中国的创新正以前所未有的速度蓬勃发展。为了在科学技术上尽快赶 超世界发达国
家，中国近年来大幅度增加了研究开发资金。中国的大学和研究所正在积极开展创新研究。这些研究覆盖了从大数据到生物化学、从新能源到机器人等高科技领域。它们还与
各地的科技园 合作，使创新成果商业化。与此同时，无论在产品还是商业模式上，中国
企业家也在努力争做创新的先锋 ，以适应国内外消费市场不断变化和增长的需求。





















参考答案

参考范文：
It is held by some people that knowledge is power,especially scientific and
technological knowledge. Science and technology are the motive power of the
social development, which constitute a primary productive force. The use of
robots is the produce of development of science and technology
People’s view son the use of robots vary from person to person. Some hold
that human life cannot continue without the use of robots. For many years,
human society has developed with the use of science and technology. So the life
with the use of robots we are living now is more efficient than that of our fore
fathers. They go on to point out that the use of robots has brought about many
changes in people's life. For example,through the use of robots can improve the
work efficiency and a voiddangerous events happening in our life in that we can
require robots to do some works with danger instead of human beings.
Science and technology of robots are the crystallization of human wisdom.
It brought a glorious past to humanity, also will bring bright future to mankind.


听力答案
Section A
1。 D)Market research consultant
2。 A) Quantitative advertising research
3。 D) They study trends or customer satisfaction over a longperiod。
4。 B) Checking charts and tables。
5。 A) His view on Canadian universities。
6。 B) It is rather inflexible。
7。 C) Everybody should be given equal access to highereducation。
8。 C) It is hard to say which is better， a public university ora private
university。
Section B
9。 B) The worsening real wage situation around the world。
10。 A) They will feel less pressure to raise employees’ wages.
11。C) Employees work shorter hours to avoid layoffs。
12。 A) Whether memory supplements work。
13。 D) They are not on based on real science。
14。 D) They are prescribed by trained practitioners。
15.B) Taking them with other medications might entail unnecessary risks。
Section C
16 D) How the negative impacts of natural disasters can bereduced。
17 B) By taking steps to prepare people for them。
18 A) How preventive action can reduce the loss of life。
19 C) Contribute more to the goal of a wider recovery
20 B) Many smaller regional banks are going to fail
21 D) It will try to provide more loans
22 D) It will be necessary if the economy starts to shrinkagain
23 A)。 Being unable to learn new things。
24 A)。 Cognitive stimulation。
25 C)。 Endeavoring to give up unhealthy lifestyles。

选词填空
26. O undertakes 27. K occupation 28. H existence
29. J intolerant 30. A automatically 31. N slightly
32. E emphasizing 33. M recession 34. D confused
35. B beneficial

长篇阅读
36. I 37. C 38. L 39. D 40. K
41. E 42. G 43. A 44. N 45. J

仔细阅读
Passage one
46. C interactive television is successful
47. C somewhat doubtful
48. C it has placed TV advertising
49. B it has down well in engaging the viewer
50. A they maybe due the novel way of advertising
Passage two
51. B insufficient demand
52. D groundless
53. A the booming defense industry
54. A powerful opposition to government
55. C to show urgent need for the government to take action

参考译文：China's innovation is flourishing faster than ever before. In order
to surpass developed countries on science and technology as soon as possible,
China has sharply increased research and development fund. Chinese
universities and institutes are actively doing innovative researches, covering
various fields of high technology, from big data to biochemistry, and from new
energy to robots. They are also cooperating with science and technology parks
in different places, so as to commercialize their fruits of innovation. In the
meantime, to adapt to the changing foreign and domestic market, and to satisfy
the growing demand, Chinese entrepreneurs are also making pioneering efforts
to innovate their products and business models.




2016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 a short essay on invention.
Youressay should include the importance of invention and measures to be taken to
encourageinvention. You are required to write at least 150 words but no more than 200 words.

Part H Listening Comprehension (30 minutes)
Section A
Directions: In this section, you will hear two long conversations. At the end of
eachconversation, you will hear four questions. Both the conversation and thequestions will be
spoken only once. After you hear a question, you mustchoose the best answer from the four
choices marked A, B, C and D.
Then mark the corresponding letter on Answer Sheet I with a single linethrough the centre.
Questions 1 to 4 are based on the conversation you have just heard.
1. A. It tries to predict the possible trends of global climate change.
B. It studies the impacts of global climate change on people's lives.
C. It links the science of climate change to economic and policy issues.
D. It focuses on the efforts countries can make to deal with global warming.
2. A. It will take a long time before a consensus is reached on its impact.
B. It would be more costly to deal with its consequences than to avoid it.
C. It is the most pressing issue confronting all countries.
D. It is bound to cause endless disputes among nations.
3. A. The transition to low-carbon energy systems.
B. The cooperation among world major powers.
C. The signing of a global agreement.
D. The raising of people's awareness.
4. A. Carry out more research on it.
B. Cut down energy consumption.
C. Plan well in advance.
D. Adopt new technology.
Questions 5 to 8 are based on the conversation you have just heard.
5. A. When luck plays a role.
B. what determines success.
C. Whether practice makes perfect.
D. How important natural talent is.
6. A. It knocks at your door only once in a while.
B. It is something that no one can possibly create.
C. It comes naturally out of one's self-confidence.
D. It means being good at seizing opportunities.
7. A. Luck rarely contributes to a person's success.
B. One must have natural talent to be successful.
C. One should always be ready to seize opportunities.
D. Practice is essential to becoming good at something.
8. A. Putting time and effort into fun things is profitable.
B. People who love what they do care little about money.
C. Being passionate about work can make one wealthy.
D. People in need of money work hard automatically.
Section B
Directions: 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
you hear a question, you must choose the best answer from the four choices markedA, B, C and D.
Then mark the corresponding letter on Answer Sheet 1 with asingle line through the centre.
Questions 9 to 12 are based on the passage you have just heard.
9. A. The stump of a giant tree.
B. A huge piece of rock.
C. The peak of a mountain.
D. A tall chimney.
10. A. Human activity.
B. Wind and water.
C. Chemical processes.
D. Fire and fury.
11. A. It is a historical monument.
B. It was built in ancient times.
C. It is Indians' sacred place for worship.
D. It was created by supernatural powers.
12. A. By sheltering them in a cave.
B. By killing the attacking bears.
C. By lifting them well above the ground.
D. 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 buy something from the convenience stores.
B. They will take advantage of the time to rest a while.
C. They will have their vehicles washed or serviced.
D. They will pick up some souvenirs or gift items.
14. A. They can bring only temporary pleasures.
B. They are meant for the extremely wealthy.
C. They should be done away with altogether.
D. They may eventually drive one to bankruptcy.
15. A. A good way to socialize is to have daily lunch with one's colleagues.
B. Retirement savings should come first in one's family budgeting.
C. A vacation will be affordable if one saves 20 dollars a week.
D. Small daily savings can make a big difference in one's life.
Section C
Directions: In this section, you will hear three recordings of lectures or talks followed by
three orfour questions. The recordings will be played only once. After you hear a question,
youmust choose the best answer from the four choices marked A, B, C and D. Thenmark the
corresponding letter on Answer Sheet 1 with a single line through the centre.
Questions 16 to 18 are based on the recording you have just heard.
16. A. They should be done away with.