hnt2013年12月英语六级真题第二套及答案

2021年1月20日发(作者：浓盐酸)
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

wealth
of
information
creates a
poverty
of
attention.
You
can
give
examples
to
illustrate
your
point
and
then
explain
what you
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 is sympathetic with poor people.
D) He agrees with Mr. Johnson's 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 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 crisis 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) Cleaning the pants will take longer 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) She may have to be fired for poor performance.
B) She has developed some serious mental problem.
C) She is in charge of the firm's 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) 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 based 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) 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 ample opportunities to meet the opposite sex.

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. 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 family's contribution to the community.

18. A) They 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 enhance the effect of background music.
D) To allow the audience to better enjoy his slides.


Passage Two
Questions 20 to 22 are based on the passage you have just heard.

20. A) She was the first educated slave of John Wheatley's.
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 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 slavery.
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 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 happiness 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 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 hundreds 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
luxuriant
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)______
processing ten million calculations per second. And why
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 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 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
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
learning
more
than
one
language,
whether
(40)______
or
sequentially(
依次的
).
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 concern 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,
teachers
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
themselves,
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 family's native language is not important or valued.

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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 frontman of the White Stripes and an influential figure among fellow
musicians, likes to make things difficult for himself. He uses cheap guitars that won't 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
mid-song
involves
a
mad
dash
across
the
stage. Why? Because he's on the run from what he describes as a disease that preys on every
artist:
sing.
B) It's 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
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,

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. 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 problems posed to them by Lennon and McCartney. Songs
like

Never
Knows

Fields
Forever
and

Day
in
the
Life
featured
revolutionary sound effects that dazzled and mystified Martin's American counterparts.
D) Sometimes it's 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 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.
These
poems
were
verbally
inventive
and
fluent,
but
also

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
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,
what
happened
your
first
year
at
it,
when
you
couldn't
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 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 that 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
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
obstacles to our desires it's harder to know what we want, or where we're 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
if he wasn't in the way, she replied cheerfully,
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 and 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, ease of acquisition is the problem. The novelist Edward St Aubyn has a narrator remark
of
the
very
rich
that,

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 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. They found it
hard to know what to want, creating a kind of existential bafflement. One of them put it like this:

just buy so much stuff, now what are you going to do?
J)
The
internet
makes
information
billionaires
out
of
all
of
us,
and
the
architects
of
our
online
experiences are catching on to the need to make things creatively difficult. Twitter's huge success