大学英语六级考试真题及答案第一套

大学英语六级考试真题及答案第一套

2014

年

12

月大学英语六级考试真题一

Writing (30 minutes)

Directions: For this part, you are allowed 30 minutes to write an essay

based on the picture below. You should start your essay with a brief

description

of

the

picture

and

then

discuss

what

qualities

an

employer

should

look for in job applicant. You should give sound arguments to support your

views and write at least 150 words but no more than 200 words.

Listening Comprehension (30 minutes)

Section A

1. A) In a parking lot.

B) At a grocery.

C) At a fast food restaurant.

D) In a car showroom.

2. A) Change her position now and then.

B) Stretch her legs before standing up.

C) Have a little nap after lunch.

D) Get up and take a short walk.

大学英语六级考试真题及答案第一套

3. A) The students should practice long-distance running.

B) The students’ physi

cal condition is not desirable.

C) He doesn’t quite believe what the woman says.

D) He thinks the race is too hard for the students.

4. A) They will get their degrees in two years.

B) They are both pursuing graduate studies.

C) They cannot afford to get married right now.

D) They do not want to have a baby at present.

5. A) He must have been mistaken for Jack.

B) Twins usually have a lot in common.

C) Jack is certainly not as healthy as he is.

D) He has not seen Jack for quite a few days.

6. A) The woman will attend the opening of the museum.

B) The woman is asking the way at the crossroads.

C) The man knows where the museum is located.

D) The man will take the woman to the museum.

大学英语六级考试真题及答案第一套

7. A) They cannot ask the guy to leave. B) The guy has been coming in

for years.

C)

The

guy

must

be

feeling

extremely

lonely.

D)

They

should

not

look

down

upon the guy.

8. A) Collect timepieces. B) Become time-conscious.

C) Learn to mend clocks. D) Keep track of his daily activities.

9. A) It is eating into its banks. B) It winds its way to the sea.

C) It is wide and deep. D) It is quickly rising.

10. A) Try to speed up the operation by any means.

B) Take the equipment apart before being ferried.

C) Reduce the transport cost as much as possible.

D) Get the trucks over to the other side of the river.

11. A) Find as many boats as possible.

B) Cut trees and build rowing boats.

C) Halt the operation until further orders.

D) Ask the commander to send a helicopter

大学英语六级考试真题及答案第一套

12. A) Talk about his climbing experiences. B) Help him join an Indian

expedition.

C) Give up mountain climbing altogether. D) Save money to buy climbing

equipment.

13. A) He was the first to conquer Mt. Qomolangma.

B) He had an unusual religious background.

C) He climbed mountains to earn a living.

D) He was very strict with his children.

14. A) They are to be conquered. B) They are to be protected.

C) They are sacred places. D) They are like humans.

15. A) It was his father’s training that pulled him through.

B) It was a milestone in his mountain climbing career.

C) It helped him understand the Sherpa view of mountains.

D) It was his father who gave him the strength to succeed.

Section B

Passage One

大学英语六级考试真题及答案第一套

16. A) By showing a memorandum’s structure. B) By analyzing the

organization of a letter.

C) By comparing memorandums with letters. D) By reviewing what he has

said previously.

17. A) They ignored many of the memorandums they received.

B) They placed emphasis on the format of memorandums.

C) They seldom read a memorandum through to the end.

D) They spent a lot of time writing memorandums.

18. A) Style and wording. B) Directness and clarity.

C) Structure and length. D) Simplicity and accuracy.

19. A) Inclusion of appropriate humor. B) Direct statement of purpose.

C) Professional look. D) Accurate dating.

Passage Two

20. A) They give top priority to their work efficiency.

B) They make an effort to lighten their workload.

C) They try hard to make the best use of their time.

大学英语六级考试真题及答案第一套

D) They never change work habits unless forced to.

21. A) Sense of duty. B) Self-confidence.

C) Work efficiency. D) Passion for work.

22. A) They find no pleasure in the work they do. B) They try to avoid

work whenever possible.

C)

They

are

addicted

to

playing

online

games.

D)

They

simply

have

no

sense

of responsibility.

Passage Three

23. A) He lost all his property. B) He was sold to a circus.

C) He ran away from his family. D) He was forced into slavery.

24. A) A carpenter. B) A master of his.

C) A businessman. D) A black drummer.

25.

A)

It

named

its

town

hall

after

Solomon

Northup.

B)

It

freed

all

blacks

in the town from slavery.

C) It declared July 24 Solomon Northup Day. D) It hosted a reunion for

the Northup family.

Section C

大学英语六级考试真题及答案第一套

Intolerance is the art of ignoring any views that differ from your own.

It

(26)

________

itself

in

hatred,

stereotypes,

prejudice,

and

(27)________

.

Once

it

intensifies

in

people,

intolerance

is

nearly

impossible

to

overcome.

But why would anyone want to be labeled intolerant Why would people want to

be (28) ________ about the world around them Why would one want be part of

the problem in America, instead of the solution

There

are

many

explanations

for

intolerant

attitudes,

some

(29)

________

childhood. It is likely that intolerant forks grew up (30) ________

intolerant parents and

the

cycle

of

prejudice

has simply continued

for

(31)

________

.

Perhaps

intolerant

people

are

so

set

in

their

ways

that

they

find

it

easier

to

ignore

anything

that

might

not

(32)

________

their

limited

view

of life. Or maybe intolerant students have simply never been (33)________

to anyone different from themselves. But none of these reasons is an excuse

for allowing the intolerance to continue.

Intolerance should not be confused with disagreement. It is, of course,

possible to disagree with an opinion without being intolerant of it. If you

understand

a

beli

ef

but

still

don’t

believe

in

that

specific

belief,

that’s

fine.

You

are

(34)

________

your

opinion.

As

a

matter

of

fact,

(35)

________

dissenters

（持异议者）

are important for any belief. If we all believed the

same things, we would never grow, and we would never learn about the world

大学英语六级考试真题及答案第一套

around us. Intolerance

does

not

stem

from

disagreement. It stems

from

fear.

And fear stems from ignorance.

Reading Comprehension (40 minutes)

Section A

It was 10 years ago, on a warm July night, that a newborn lamb took her

first breath in a small shed in Scotland. From the outside, she looked no

different from thousands of other sheep born on 36 farms. But Dolly, as the

world

soon

came

to

realize,

was

no

37

lamb.

She

was

cloned

from

a

single

cell

of an adult female sheep, 38 long-held scientific dogma that had declared

such a thing biologically impossible.

A decade later, scientists are starting to come to grips with just how

different Dolly was. Dozens of animals have been cloned since that first

lamb

—

mice,

cats,

cows

and,

most

recently,

a

dog

—and

it’s

becoming

39

clear

that they are all, in one way or another, defective.

It’s 40 to think of clones as perfect carbon copies of the original.

It

turns

out,

though,

that

there

are

various

degrees

of

genetic

41.

That

may

come as a shock to people who have paid thousands of dollars to clone a pet

cat

only

to

discover

that

the

baby

cat

looks

and

behaves

42

like

their

beloved

pet

—

with

a

different-

color

coat

of

fur,

perhaps,

or

a

43

different

attitude

toward its human hosts.

大学英语六级考试真题及答案第一套

And these are just the obvious differences. Not only are clones 44 from

the original template

（模板）

by time, but they are also the product of an

unnatural molecular mechanism that turns out not to be very good at making

45

copies.

In

fact,

the

process

can

embed

small

flaws

in the

genes

of

clones

that scientists are only now discovering.

A) abstract

B) completely

C) deserted

D) duplication

E) everything

F) identical

G) increasingly

H) miniature

I) nothing

J) ordinary

K) overturning

L) separated

大学英语六级考试真题及答案第一套

M) surrounding

N) systematically

O) tempting

参考答案：

36-M-surrounding

37-J-ordinary

38-K-overturning

39-G-increasingly

40-O-tempting

41-D-duplication

42-I-nothing

43-B-completely

44-L-separated

45-F-identica

l

Section B

Should Single-Sex Education Be Eliminated

大学英语六级考试真题及答案第一套

[A]

Why

is

a

neuroscientist

here

debating

single-sex

schooling

Honestly,

I had no fixed

ideas

on

the

topic

when I

started

researching

it

for

my

book,

Pink

Brain,

Blue

Brain.

But

any

discussion

of

gender

differences

in

children

inevitably

leads

to

this

debate,

so

I

felt

compelled

to

dive

into

the

research

data

on

single- sex

schooling.

I

read

every

study

I

could,

weighed

the

existing

evidence, and ultimately concluded that single-sex education is not the

answer to gender gaps in achievement

—

or the best way forward for to

day’s

young people. After my book was published, I met several developmental and

cognitive

psychologists

whose

work

was

addressing

gender

and

education

from

different

angles,

and

we

published

a

peer- reviewed

Education

Forum

piece

in

Science magazine with t

he provocative title, “The Pseudoscience of

Single-

Sex Education.”

[B] We showed that three lines of research used to justify single-sex

schooling

—

educational, neuroscience, and social psychology

—

all fail to

support its alleged benefits, and so the widely-held view that gender

separation is somehow better for boys, girls, or both is nothing more than

a myth.

The Research on Academic Outcomes

[C] First, we reviewed the extensive educational research that has

compared academic outcomes in students attending single-sex versus

coeducational schools. The overwhelming conclusion when you put this

大学英语六级考试真题及答案第一套

enormous literature together is that there is no clear academic advantage

of

sitting

in

all- female

or

all-male

classes,

in

spite

of

much

popular

belief

to the contrary. I base this conclusion not on any individual study, but on

large- scale and systematic reviews of thousands of studies conducted in

every major English-speaking country.

[D] Of course, there’re many excellent single

-sex schools out there,

but as these caref

ul research reviews have demonstrated, it’s not their

single-

sex composition that makes them excellent. It’s all the other

advantages that are typically packed into such schools, such as financial

resources,

quality

of

the

faculty,

and

pro-academic

culture,

along

with

the

family background and pre-selected ability of the students themselves that

determine their outcomes.

[E]

A

case

in

point

is

the

study

by

Linda

Sax

at

UCLA,

who

used

data

from

a large national survey of college freshmen to evaluate the effect of

single-sex versus coeducational high schools. Commissioned by the National

Coalition of Girls’ Schools, the raw findings look pretty good for the

funders

—

higher SAT scores and a stronger academic orientation among women

who had attended all girls' hi

gh schools (men weren’t studied). However,

once the researchers controlled for both student and school

attributes

—measures

such

as

family

income,

parents’

education,

and

school

resources

—

most of these effects were erased or diminished.

大学英语六级考试真题及答案第一套

[F] When it comes to boys in particular, the data show that single-sex

education is distinctly unhelpful for them. Among the minority of studies

that

have

reported

advantages

of

single-sex

schooling,

virtually

all

of

them

were studies of girls. There’re no rigorous studies in

the United States

that find single-sex schooling is better for boys, and in fact, a separate

line

of

research

by

economists

has

shown

both

boys

and

girls

exhibit

greater

cognitive growth over the school year based on the “dose” of girls in a

classroom. In fact, boys benefit even more than girls from having larger

numbers of female classmates. So single-sex schooling is really not the

answer to the current “boy crisis” in education.

Brain and Cognitive Development

[G]

The

second

line

of

research

often

used

to

justify

single-sex

education

falls

squarely

within

my

area

of

expertise:

brain

and

cognitive

development.

It's been more than a decade now since the “brain sex movement” began

infiltra ting

（渗入）

our

schools,

and

there

are

literally

hundreds

of

schools

caught

up

in

the

fad

（新潮）

.

Public

schools

in

Wisconsin,

Indiana,

Florida

and

many

other

states

now

proudly

declare

on

their

websites

that

they

separate

boys

and

girls

because

“research

solidly

indicates

that

boys

and

girls

learn

differently,”

due

to

“hard

-wired

”

differences

in

their

brains,

eyes,

ears,

autonomic nervous systems, and more.