2015年6月大学英语6级真题(三套全)

2015

年

6

月大 学英语六级考试真题（第一套）

Part II Listening Comprehension (30 minutes)

Section A

1. A) Prepare for his exams.

B) Catch up on his work.

C) Attend the concert.

D) Go on a vacation.

2. A) Three crew members were involved in the incident.

B) None of the hijackers carried any deadly weapons.

C) The plane had been scheduled to fly to Japan.

D) None of the passengers were injured or killed.

3. A) An article about the election.

B) A tedious job to be done.

C) An election campaign.

D) A fascinating topic.

4. A) The restaurant was not up to the speakers' expectations.

B) The restaurant places many ads in popular magazines.

C) The critic thought highly of the Chinese restaurant.

D) Chinatown has got the best restaurant in the city.

5. A) He is going to visit his mother in the hospital.

B) He is going to take on a new job next week.

C) He has many things to deal with right now.

D) He behaves in a way nobody understands.

6. A) A large number of students refused to vote last night.

B) At least twenty students are needed to vote on an issue.

C) Major campus issues had to be discussed at the meeting.

D) More students have to appear to make their voice heard.

7. A) The woman can hardly tell what she likes.

B) The speakers like watching TV very much.

C) The speakers have nothing to do but watch TV.

D) The man seldom watched TV before retirement.

8. A) The woman should have retired earlier. 4

B) He will help the woman solve the problem.

C) He finds it hard to agree with what the woman says.

D) The woman will be able to attend the classes she wants.

Questions 9 to 12 are based on the conversation you have just heard.

9. A) Persuade the man to join her company.

B) Employ the most up-to-date technology.

C) Export bikes to foreign markets.

D) Expand their domestic business.

10. A) The state subsidizes small and medium enterprises.

B) The government has control over bicycle imports.

C) They can compete with the best domestic manufactures.

D) They have a cost advantage and can charge higher prices.

11. A) Extra costs might eat up their profits abroad.

B) More workers will be needed to do packaging.

C) They might lose to foreign bike manufacturers.

D) It is very difficult to find suitable local agents.

12. A) Report to the management.

B) Attract foreign investments.

C) Conduct a feasibility study.

D) Consult financial experts.

Questions 13 to 15 are based on the conversation you have just heard.

13. A) Coal burnt daily for the comfort of our homes.

B) Anything that can be used to produce power.

C) Fuel refined from oil extracted from underground.

D) Electricity that keeps all kinds of machines running.

14. A) Oil will soon be replaced by alternative energy sources.

B) Oil reserves in the world will be exhausted in a decade.

C) Oil consumption has given rise to many global problems.

D) Oil production will begin to decline worldwide by 2015.

15. A) Minimize the use of fossil fuels.

B) Start developing alternative fuels.

C) Find the real cause for global warming.

D) Take steps to reduce the greenhouse effect.

Section B

Passage One

Questions 16 to 18 are based on the passage you have just heard.

16. A) The ability to predict fashion trends.

B) A refined taste for artistic works.

C) Years of practical experience.

D) Strict professional training.

17. A) Promoting all kinds of American hand-made specialities.

B) Strengthening cooperation with foreign governments.

C) Conducting trade in art works with dealers overseas.

D) Purchasing handicrafts from all over the world.

18. A) She has access to fashionable things.

B) She is doing what she enjoys doing.

C) She can enjoy life on a modest salary.

D) She is free to do whatever she wants.

Passage Two

Questions 19 to 22 are based on the passage you have just heard.

19. A) Join in neighborhood patrols.

B) Get involved in his community.

C) V

oice his complaints to the city council.

D) Make suggestions to the local authorities.

20. A) Deterioration in the quality of life.

B) Increase of police patrols at night.

C) Renovation of the vacant buildings.

D) Violation of community regulations.

21. A) They may take a long time to solve.

B) They need assistance form the city.

C) They have to be dealt with one by one.

D) They are too big for individual efforts.

22. A) He had got some groceries at a big discount.

B) He had read a funny poster near his seat.

C) He had done a small deed of kindness.

D) He had caught the bus just in time.

Passage Three

Questions 23 to 25 are based on the passage you have just heard.

23. A) Childhood and family growth.

B) Pressure and disease.

C) Family life and health.

D) Stress and depression.

24. A) It experienced a series of misfortunes.

B) It was in the process of reorganization.

C) His mother died of a sudden heart attack.

D) His wife left him because of his bad temper.

25. A) They would give him a triple bypass surgery.

B) They could remove the block in his artery.

C) They could do nothing to help him.

D) They would try hard to save his life.

Section C

When most people think of the word “education”, they think of a pupil a

s a sort of animate

sausage casing. Into this empty casting, the teachers (26) stuff “education.”

But

genuine

education,

as

Socrates

knew

more

than

two

thousand

years

ago,

is

not

(27)

the

stuffing

of

information

into

a

person,

but

rather

eliciting

knowledge

from

him;

it

is

the

(28)

of

what is in the mind.

“The

most

important

part

of

education,”

once

wrote

William

Ernest

Hocking,

the

(29)

Harvard philosopher, “is this instruction of a man in what he has inside of him.”

And, as Edith Hamilton has reminded us,

Socrates never said, “I know, learn from me

。

” He said,

rather, “Look into your own selves and find the (30)

of

the

truth

that

God

has

put

into

every

heart and that only you can kindle (

点燃

)to a (31)

.

”

In a dialogue, Socrates takes an ignorant slave boy, without a day of (32) , and proves to the

amazed observers that the boy really “knows” geometry

一

because the principles of geometry are

already in his mind, waiting to be called out.

So

many

of

the

discussions

and

(33)

about

the

content

of

education

are

useless

and

inconclusive because they (34) what should “go into” the student rather than with what should be

taken out, and how this can best be done.

The college student who once said to me, after a lecture, “I spend so much time studying that I

don't have a

chance to learn anything,” was clearly expressing his (35) with the sausage casing

view of education.

Part III Reading Comprehension (40 minutes)

Reading comprehension

Section A

Innovation,

the

elixir

(

灵丹妙药

)

of

progress,

has

always

cost

people

their

jobs.

In

the

Industrial Revolution hand weavers were ___36___ aside by the mechanical loom. Over the past

30

years

the

digital

revolution

has

___37___

many

of

the

mid-skill

jobs

that

underpinned

20th-century middle-class life. Typists, ticket agents, bank tellers and many production-line jobs

have been dispensed with, just as the weavers were.

For

those

who believe

that

technological progress has

made

the

world

a better

place,

such

disruption is a natural part of rising ___38___. Although innovation kills some jobs, it creates new

and better ones, as a more ___39___ society becomes richer and its wealthier inhabitants demand

more goods and services. A hundred years ago one in three American workers was ___40___ on a

farm. Today less than 2% of them produce far more food. The millions freed from the land were

not

rendered

___41___,

but

found

better-paid

work

as

the

economy

grew

more

sophisticated.

Today the pool of secretaries has___42___, but there are ever more computer programmers and

web designers.

Optimism

remains

the

right

starting-point,

but

for

workers

the

dislocating

effects

of

technology

may

make

themselves

evident

faster

than

its

___43___.

Even

if

new

jobs

and

wonderful

products

emerge,

in

the

short

term

income

gaps

will

widen,

causing

huge

social

dislocation

and

perhaps

even

changing politics.

Technology's

___44___

will

feel

like

a

tornado

(

旋风

),

hitting

the

rich

world

first,

but

___45___

sweeping

through

poorer

countries

too.

No

government is prepared for it.

A

）

benefits

B

）

displaced

C

）

employed

D

）

eventually

E

）

impact

F

）

jobless

G

）

primarily

H

）

productive

I

）

prosperity

J

）

responsive

K

）

rhythm

L

）

sentiments

M

）

shrunk

N

）

swept

O

）

withdrawn

Section B

Why the Mona Lisa Stands Out

[A] Have you ever fallen for a novel and been amazed not to find it on lists of great books? Or

walked around a sculpture renowned as a classic, struggling to see what the fuss is about? If so,

you?ve probably pondered the question Cutting asked himself that d

ay: how does a work of art

come to be considered great?

[B] The intuitive answer is that some works of art are just great: of intrinsically superior quality.

The paintings that win prime spots in galleries, get taught in classes and reproduced in books are

the ones that have proved their artistic value over

time. If

you can?t see they?re superior, that?s

your problem. It?s an intimidatingly neat explanation. But some social scientists have been asking

awkward questions of it, raising the possibility that artistic canons are little more than fossilised

historical accidents.

[C] Cutting, a professor at Cornell University, wondered if a psychological mechanism known as

the “mere

-

exposure effect” played a role in deciding which paintings rise to the top of the c

ultural

league.

Cutting

designed

an

experiment

to

test

his

hunch.

Over

a

lecture

course

he

regularly

showed undergraduates works of impressionism for two seconds at a time. Some of the paintings

were canonical, included in art-history books. Others were lesser known but of comparable quality.

These were exposed four times as often. Afterwards, the students preferred them to the canonical

works,

while

a

control

group

of

students

liked

the

canonical

ones

best.

Cutting?s

students

had

grown to like those paintings more simply because they had seen them more.

[D] Cutting believes his experiment offers a clue as to how canons are formed. He points out that

the

most

reproduced

works

of

impressionism

today

tend

to

have

been

bought

by

five

or

six

wealthy and influential collectors in the late 19th century. The preferences of these men bestowed

prestige on certain works, which made the works more likely to be hung in galleries and printed in

anthologies. The fame passed down the years, gaining momentum from mere exposure as it did so.

The more people were exposed to, the more they liked it, and the more they liked it, the more it

appeared

in books,

on

posters

and

in

big

exhibitions.

Meanwhile,

academics

and

critics

created

sophisticated justifications for its pre-eminen

ce. After all, it?s not just the masses who tend to rate

what they see more often more highly. As contemporary artists like Warhol and Damien Hirst have

grasped,

critical

acclaim

is

deeply

entwined

with

publicity.

“Scholars”,

Cutting

argues,

“are

no

differ

ent from the public in the effects of mere exposure.”

[E] The process described by Cutting evokes a principle that the sociologist Duncan Watts calls

“cumulative advantage”: once a thing becomes popular, it will tend to become more popular still.

A few years ago, Watts, who is employed by Microsoft to study the dynamics of social networks,

had

a

similar

experience

to

Cutting

in

another

Paris

museum.

After

queuing

to

see

the

“Mona

Lisa” in its climate

-controlled bulletproof box at the Louvre, he came away puzzled: why was it

considered

so

superior

to

the

three

other

Leonardos

in

the

previous

chamber,

to

which

nobody

seemed to be paying the slightest attention?

[F]

When Watts looked into the history of “the greatest painting of all time”, he discovered that,

f

or

most

of

its

life,

the

“Mona

Lisa”

remained

in

relative

obscurity.

In

the

1850s,

Leonardo

da

Vinci was considered no match for giants of Renaissance art like Titian and Raphael, whose works

were

worth

almost

ten

times

as

much

as

the

“Mona

Lisa”.

It

was

o

nly

in

the

20th

century

that

Leonardo?s portrait of his patron?s wife rocketed to the number

-one spot. What propelled it there

wasn?t a scholarly re

-evaluation, but a theft.

[G]

In 1911 a maintenance worker at the Louvre walked out of the museum with the “Mona Lisa”

hidden under his smock. Parisians were aghast at the theft of a painting to which, until then, they

had

paid

little

attention.

When

the

museum

reopened,

people

queued

to

see

the

gap

where

the

“Mona Lisa” had once hung in a way they had never don

e for the painting itself. From then on, the

“Mona Lisa” came to represent Western culture itself.

[H]

Although many have tried, it does seem improbable that the painting?s unique status can be

attributed entirely to the quality of its brushstrokes. It ha

s been said that the subject?s eyes follow

the viewer around the room. But as the painting?s biographer, Donald Sassoon, dr

y

ly notes, “In

reality the effect can be obtained from any portrait.” Duncan Watts proposes that the “Mona Lisa”

is merely an extreme example of a general rule. Paintings, poems and pop songs are buoyed or

sunk

by

random

events

or

preferences

that

turn

into

waves

of

influence,

rippling

down

the

generations.

[I]

“Saying that cultural objects have value,” Brian Eno once wrote, “is like sa

ying that telephones

have

conversations.”

Nearly

all

the

cultural

objects

we

consume

arrive

wrapped

in

inherited

opinion; our preferences are always, to some extent, someone else?s. Visitors to the “Mona Lisa”

know

they

are

about

to

visit

the

greatest

work

of

art

ever

and

come

away

appropriately

impressed

—or let down. An audience at a performance of “Hamlet” know it is regarded as a work

of

genius,

so

that

is

what

they

mostly

see.

Watts

even

calls

the

pre-eminence

of

Shakespeare

a

“historical

accident

”.

[J] Although the rigid high-low distinction fell apart in the 1960s, we still use culture as a badge of

identity. Today?s fashion for eclecticism—“I love Bach, Abba and Jay Z”—

is, Shamus Khan , a

Columbia

University

psychologist,

argues,

a

new

way

for

the

middle

class

to

distinguish

themselves from what they perceive to be the narrow tastes of those beneath them in the social

hierarchy.

[K] The intrinsic quality of a work of art is starting to seem like its least important attribute. But

perhaps it?s more sign

ificant than our social scientists allow. First of all, a work needs a certain

quality to be eligible to be swept to the top of the pile. The “Mona Lisa” may not be a worthy

world champion, but it was in the Louvre in the first place, and not by accident. Secondly, some

stuff

is

simply

better

than

other

stuff.

Read

“Hamlet”

after

reading

even

the

greatest

of

Shakespeare?s contemporaries, and the difference may strike you as unarguable.

[L] A study in the British Journal of Aesthetics suggests that the expos

ure effect doesn?t work the

same way on everything, and points to a different conclusion about how canons are formed. The

social

scientists

are

right

to

say

that

we

should

be

a

little

skeptical

of

greatness,

and

that

we

should always look in the next room. Great art and mediocrity can get confused, even by experts.

But that?s why we need to see, and read, as much as we can. The more we?re exposed to the good

and the bad, the better we are at telling the difference. The eclecticists have it.

46.

According

to

Duncan

Watts,

the

superiority

of

the

Lisa

to

Leonardo's

other

works

resulted from the cumulative advantage.

47. Some social scientists have raised doubts about the intrinsic value of certain works of art.

48. It is often random events or preferences that determine the fate of a piece of art.

49.

In

his

experiment,

Cutting

found

that

his

subjects

liked

lesser

known

works

better

than

canonical works because of more exposure.

50. The author thinks the greatness of an art work still lies in its intrinsic value.

51. It is true of critics as well as ordinary people that the popularity of artistic works is closely

associated with publicity.

52. We need to expose ourselves to more art and literature in order to tell the superior from the

inferior.

53.

A

study

of

the

history

of

the

greatest

paintings

suggests

even

a

great

work

of

art

could

experience years of neglect.

54. Culture is still used as a mark to distinguish one social class from another.

55. Opinions about and preferences for cultural objects are often inheritable.

Section C

Passage One

Questions 56 to 60 are based on the following passage.

When the right person is holding the right job at the right moment, that person's influence is

greatly expanded. That is the position in which Janet Yellen, who is expected to be confirmed as

the next chair of the Federal Reserve Bank (Fed) in January, now finds herself. If you believe, as

many do, that unemployment is the major economic and social concern of our day, then it is no

stretch to think Yellen is the most powerful person in the world right now.

Throughout

the

2008

financial

crisis

and

the

recession

and

recovery

that

followed,

central

banks have taken on the role of stimulators of last resort, holding up the global economy with vast

amounts of money in the form of asset buying. Yellen, previously a Fed vice chair, was one of the

principal

architects

of

the

Fed's

$$3.8

trillion

money

dump.

A

star

economist

known

for

her

groundbreaking work on labor markets, Yeilen was a kind of prophetess early on in the crisis for

her warnings about the subpr ime

（

次级债）

meltdown. Now it will be her job to get the Fed and the

markets out of the biggest and most unconventional monetary program in history without derailing

the fragile recovery.

The good news is that Yellen, 67, is particularly well suited to meet these challenges. She has

a

keen

understanding

of

financial

markets,

an

appreciation

for

their

imperfections

and

a

strong

belief that human suffering was more related to unemployment than anything else.

Some experts worry that Yellen will be inclined to chase unemployment to the neglect of inflation.

But with wages still relatively flat and the economy increasingly divided between the well-off and

the long-term unemployed' more people worry about the opposite, deflation

（

通货紧缩）

that would

aggravate the economy's problems.

Either way, the incoming Fed chief will have to walk a fine line in slowly ending the stimulus.

It must be steady enough to deflate bubbles

（去泡沫）

and bring markets back down to earth but not

so quick that it creates another credit crisis.

Unlike many past Fed leaders, Yellen is not one to buy into the finance industry's argument

that it should be left alone to regulate itself. She knows all along the Fed has been too slack on

regulation of finance.

Yellen is likely to address right after she pushes unemployment below 6%, stabilizes markets

and

makes

sure

that

the

recovery

is

more

inclusive

and

robust.

As

Princeton

Professor

Alan

Blinder says'

can persuade without creating hostility.

the global economy's

new power player takes on its most annoying problems.

56. What do many people think is the biggest problem facing Janet Yellen?

A) Lack of money.

B) Subprime crisis.

C) Unemployment.

D) Social instability.

57. What did Yellen help the Fed do to tackle the 2008 financial crisis?

A) Take effective measures to curb inflation.

B) Deflate the bubbles in the American economy.

C) Formulate policies to help financial institutions.

D) Pour money into the market through asset buying.

58. What is a greater concern of the general public?

A) Recession.

B) Deflation.

C) Inequality.

D) Income.

59. What is Yellen likely to do in her position as the Fed chief?

A) Develop a new monetary program.

B) Restore public confidence.

C) Tighten financial regulation.

D) Reform the credit system.

60. How does Alan Blinder portray Yellen?

A) She possesses strong persuasive power.

B) She has confidence in what she is doing.

C) She is one of the world's greatest economists.

D) She is the most powerful Fed chief in history.

Passage Two

Questions 61 to 65 are based on the following passage.

Air pollution is deteriorating in many places around the world. The fact that public parks in

cities become crowded as soon as the sun shines proves that people long to breathe in green, open

spaces. They

do

not all

know

what

they

are

seeking

but

they

flock

there,

nevertheless.

And,

in

these surroundings, they are generally both peaceful and peaceable. It is rare to see people fighting

in

a

garden.

Perhaps

struggle

unfolds

first,

not

at

an

economic

or

social

level,

but

over

the

appropriation of air, essential to life itself. If human beings can breathe and share air, they don't

need to struggle with one another.

Unfortunately,

in

our

western

tradition,

neither

materialist

nor

idealist

theoreticians

give

enough consideration to this basic condition for life. As for politicians, despite proposing curbs on

environmental pollution, they have not yet called for it to be made a crime. Wealthy countries are

even allowed to pollute if they pay for it.

But is our life worth anything other than money? The plant world shows us in silence what

faithfulness to life consists of. It also helps us to a new beginning, urging us to care for our breath,

not

only

at

a

vital

but

also

at

a

spiritual

level.

The

interdependence

to

which

we

must

pay

the

closest attention is

that which exists between ourselves and the plant world. Often described as

lungs

of

the

planet

the

woods

that

cover

the

earth

offer

us

the

gift

of

breathable

air

by

releasing oxygen. But their capacity to renew the air polluted by industry has long reached its limit.

If we lack the air necessary for a healthy life, it is because we have filled it with chemicals and

undercut the ability of plants to regenerate it. As we know, rapid deforestation combined with the

massive burning of fossil fuels is an explosive recipe for an irreversible disaster.

The fight over the appropriation of resources will lead the entire planet to hell unless humans

learn to share life, both with each other and with plants. This task is simultaneously ethical and

political because it can be discharged only when each takes it upon herself or himself and only

when

it

is

accomplished

together

with

others.

The

lesson

taught

by

plants

is

that

sharing

life

expands and enhances the sphere of the living, while dividing life into so-called natural or human

resources diminishes it. We must come to view the air, the plants and ourselves as the contributors

to

the

preservation

of

life

and

growth,

rather

than

a

web

of

quantifiable

objects

or

productive

potentialities

at

our

disposal.

Perhaps

then

we

would

finally

begin

to

live,

rather

than

being

concerned with bare survival.

61.

What

does

the

author

assume

might

be

the

primary

reason

that

people

would

struggle

with

each other?

A) To get their share of clean air.

B) To pursue a comfortable life.

C) To gain a higher social status.

D) To seek economic benefits.

62. What does the author accuse western politicians of?

A) Depriving common people of the right to clean air.

B) Giving priority to theory rather than practical action.

C) Offering preferential treatment to wealthy countries.

D) Failing to pass laws to curb environmental pollution.

63. What does the author try to draw our closest attention to?

A) The massive burning of fossil fuels.

B) Our relationship to the plant world.

C) The capacity of plants to renew polluted air.

D) Large-scale deforestation across the world.

64. How can human beings accomplish the goal of protecting the planet according to the author?

A) By showing respect for plants.

B) By preserving all forms of life.

C) By tapping all natural resources.

D) By pooling their efforts together.

65. What does the author suggest we do in order not just to survive?

A) Expand the sphere of living.

B) Develop nature's potentials.

C) Share life with nature.

D) Allocate the resources.

Part IV

Translation (30 minutes)

中国传统的待客之道要求饭菜丰富多样，

让客人吃不完。

中国宴席上典型的菜单包括开

席的一套凉菜 及其后的热菜，例如：肉类，鸡鸭，蔬菜等。大多数宴席上，全鱼被认为是必

不可少的，

除非已经上过各式海鲜。

如今，

中国人 喜欢把西方特色菜与传统中式菜肴溶于一

席，

因此牛排上桌也不 少见。

沙拉也已流行起来，

尽管传统上中国人一般不吃任何未经 烹饪

的菜肴。宴席通常至少有一道汤，可以最先或最后上桌。甜点和水果通常标志宴席的 结束。

2015

年

< br>6

月大学英语六级考试真题（第二套）

Part II Listening Comprehension (30 minutes)

Section A

1. A) The woman seldom speaks highly of herself.

B) The man is unhappy with the woman's remark.

C) The man behaves as if he were a thorough fool.

D) The woman thinks she is cleverer than the man.

2. A) Three crew members were involved in the incident.

B) None of the hijackers carried any deadly weapons.

C) The plane had been scheduled to fly to Japan.

D) None of the passengers were injured or killed.

3. A) At a checkout counter.

B) At a commercial bank.

C) At a travel agency.

D) At a hotel front desk.

4. A) The restaurant was not up to the speakers' expectations.

B) The restaurant places many ads in popular magazines.

C) The critic thought highly of the Chinese restaurant.

D) Chinatown has got the best restaurants in the city.

5. A) Prof. Laurence has stopped conducting seminars.

B) Prof. Laurence is going into an active retirement.

C) The professor's graduate seminar is well received.

D) The professor will lead a quiet life after retirement.

6. A) Finding a replacement for Leon.

B) Assigning Leon to a new position.

C) Arranging for Rodney's visit tomorrow.

D) Finding a solution to Rodney's problem.

7. A) Helen has been looking forward to the exhibition.

B) The photography exhibition will close tomorrow.

C) Helen asked the man to book a ticket for her.

D) Photography is one of Helen's many hobbies.

8. A) The speakers share the same opinion.

B) Steve knows how to motivate employees.

C) The woman is out of touch with the real world.

D) The man has a better understanding of Steve.

Questions 9 to 12 are based on the conversation you have just heard.

9.

A) It is well paid.

B) It is demanding.

C) It is stimulating.

D) It is fairly secure.

10.

A) A lighter workload.

B) Free accommodation.

C) Moving expenses.

D) A quick promotion.

11.

A) He has to sign a long-term contract.

B) He has trouble adapting to the local weather.

C) He has to spend a lot more traveling back and forth.

D) He has difficulty communicating with local people.

12.

A) The woman sympathizes with the man.

B) The man is in the process of job hunting.

C) The man is going to attend a job interview.

D) The woman will help the man make a choice.

Questions 13 to 15 are based on the conversation you have just heard.

13.

A) To see if he can get a loan from the woman's bank.

B) To see if he can find a job in the woman's company.

C) To inquire about the current financial market situation.

D) To inquire about the interest rates at the woman's bank.

14.

A) Long-term investment.

B) Any high-interest deposit.

C) A three-month deposit.

D) Any high-yield investment.

15.

A) She treated him to a meal.

B) She raised interest rates for him.

C) She offered him dining coupons.

D) She gave him loans at low rates.

Section B

Passage One

Questions 16 to 18 are based on the passage you have just heard.

16.

A) The ability to predict fashion trends.

B) A refined taste for artistic works.

C) Years of practical experience.

D) Strict professional training.

17.

A) Promoting all kinds of American hand-made specialties.

B) Strengthening cooperation with foreign governments.

C) Conducting trade in art works with dealers overseas.

D) Purchasing handicrafts from all over the world.

18.

A) She has access to fashionable things.

B) She is doing what she enjoys doing.

C) She can enjoy life on a modest salary.

D) She is free to do whatever she wants.

Passage Two

Questions 19 to 22 are based on the passage you have just heard.

19.

A) Its role is to regulate international coffee prices.

B) It represents several countries that export coffee.

C) Its most important task is to conduct coffee studies.

D) It is a Portuguese company selling coffee in New York.

20.

A) The increased coffee consumption.

B) The fluctuation of coffee prices.

C) The freezing weather in Brazil.

D) The impact of global warming.

21.

A) He is a heavy coffee drinker.

B) He is tall, rich and intelligent.

C) He is doing a bachelor's degree.

D) He is young, handsome and single.

22.

A) A visit to several coffee-growing plantations.

B) A vacation on some beautiful tropical beach.

C) Coffee prices and his advertising campaign.

D) A quick promotion and a handsome income.

Passage Three

Questions 23 to 25 are based on the passage you have just heard.

23.

A) They were delayed by the train for hours.

B) They were late for the first morning bus.

C) They boarded a wrong coach in a hurry.