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2014
年
6
月大学英
语六级考试真题
(
一
)
Part IWriting (30 minutes)
Directions: For this part, you are
allowed 30 minutes to write an essay explaining
why it is unwise to
judge a person by
their appearance. You can give examples to
illustrate your point. You should write
at least 150 words but no more than 200
words.
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上作答。
Part II Listening
Comprehension (30 minutes)
Section A
Directions: In this section, you will
hear 8 short conversations and 2 long
conversations. At the end
of
each
conversation,
one
or
more
questions
will
be
asked
about
what
was
said.
Both
the
conversation and the
questions will be spoken only once, After each
question there will be a pause.
During
the pause, you must read the four choices marked
A), B), C) and D), and decide which is the
best answer. Then mark the
corresponding letter on Answer Sheet 1 with a
single line through the
centre.
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1
上作答。
1
．
A
．
They might be fake
products
．
B
．
They might be stolen
goods
．
C
．
They might be faulty
products
．
D
．
They might be smuggled
goods
．
2
．
A
．
They are news
reporters
．
B
．
They are job
applicants
．
C
．
They are civil
servants
．
D
．
They are public
speakers
．
3
．
A
．
The man went to
change the time of his computer
class
．
B
．
A computer
degree is a must for administrative
work
．
C
．
The woman wants
to get a degree in
administration
．
D
．
The man has
decided to quit his computer
class
．
4
．
A
．
It
was sponsored by a car
manufacturer
．
B
．
It
was not as exciting as he had
expected
．
C
．
The
fifth contestant won the biggest
prize
．
D
．
A
lot of contestants participated in the
show
．
5
．
A
．
Reading a newspaper
column
．
B
．
Waiting for someone at the
airport
．
C
．
Driving from New York to
Boston
．
D
．
Looking at a railway
timetable
．
6
．
A
．
He
wears a coat bought in the
mall
．
B
．
He
got a new job at the
barbershop
．
C
．
He
had his hair cut yesterday
．
D
．
He
had a finger hurt last
night
．
7
．
A
．
Some drawings by kindergarten kids are
excellent
．
B
．
He
is not quite impressed with modem
paintings
．
C
．
Even his nephew can draw as well as
Picasso
．
D
．
He
cannot appreciate the Picasso
exhibition
．
8
．
A
．
He
has long been involved in student
government
．
B
．
His
attitude to student government has
changed
．
C
．
His
conduct does not square with his
words
．
D
．
He
should not put the cart before the
horse
．
Questions
9 to 11 are based on the conversation you have
just heard
．
9
．
A
．
Something went wrong with her
car
．
B
．
She
left her own ear in
Manchester
．
C
．
Her
car won't be back in a week's
time
．
D
．
She
Wants to go traveling on the
weekend
．
10
．
A
．
Safety
．
B
．
Comfort
．
C
．
Cost
．
D
．
Size
．
11
．
A
．
V
alue-added tax
．
B
．
Third-party
insurance
．
C
．
Petrol
．
D
．
CDW
．
Questions 12 to 15 are based on the
conversation you have just
heard
．
12
< br>．
A
．
How to attract
investments
．
B
．
Where to locate their
plant
．
C
．
What to do to enhance their
position
．
D
．
How
to update the basic
facilities
．
13
．
A
．
Their basic facilities are
good
．
B
．
They are very close to each
other
．
C
．
They are all located in the south of
France
．
D
．
Their road link to other European
countries is fast
．
14A
．
Conduct field surveys
first
．
B
．
Take advantage of the train
links
．
C
．
Talk with the local
authorities
．
D
．
Try
to avoid making a hasty
decision
．
15
A
．
Future product
distributions
．
B
．
Road and rail links for small
towns
．
C
．
Local employment
policies
．
D
．
Skilled workforce in the hilly
region
．
Section B
Directions: In this section, you will
hear 3 short passages
．
At the end of each passage, you will
hear
some
questions
．
Both
the passage and the questions will be spoken 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 corresponding
letter on Answer Sheet I with a single line
through the centre
．
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上作答。
Passage One
Questions
16 to 18 are based On the passage you have just
heard
．
16
．
A
．
One
fifth of them were on bed terms with their sisters
and brothers
．
B
．
More than half of them were involved in
inheritance disputes
．
C
．
About one eighth of them admitted to
lingering bitter feelings
．
D
．
Most of them had broken with their
sisters and brothers
．
17
．
A
．
Advance in age
．
B
．
Freedom from
work
．
C
．
Less concern with money
matters
．
D
．
More experience in worldly
affairs
．
18
．
A
．
They are more tolerant of one
another
．
B
．
They find close relatives more
reliable
．
C
．
They have little time left to renew
contact with their brothers and
sisters
．
D
．
They tend to forget past unhappy
memories and focus on their present
needs
．
Passage
Two
Questions 19 to 22 are based on the
passage you have just heard
．
19
．
A
．
They can only survive in parts of the
Americas
．
B
．
They have bright colors and intricate
patterns
．
C
．
They are the only insect that migrates
along fixed routes
．
D
．
They have strong wings capable of
flying long distances
．
20
．
A
．
In
a Michigan mountain forest
．
B
．
In
a Louisiana mountain forest
．
C
．
In
a Mexican mountain forest
．
D
．
In
a Kentucky mountain forest
．
21
．
A
．
Only the strongest can reach their
destination to lay eggs
．
B
．
Each generation in a cycle lays eggs at
a different place
C
．
They start to
lay eggs when they are nine months
old
．
D
．
Each flock of butterflies lays eggs in
the same states
．
22
．
A
．
Environmental impacts on monarch
butterfly life
．
B
．
Migration patterns of monarch
butterflies
．
C
．
Living habits of monarch
butterflies
．
D
．
Evolution of monarch
butterflies
．
Passage Three
Questions 23
to 25 are based on the passage you have just
heard
．
23
．
A
．
Time is relative
．
B
．
Time is money
．
C
．
Time has become more
precious
．
D
．
Time has become more
limited
．
24
．
A
．
More and more Americans feel pressed
for time nowadays
．
B
．
The
number of hours Americans work has increased
steadily
．
C
．
Americans today have more free time
than earlier generations
．
D
．
Americans now attach more important to
the effective use of time
．
25
．
A
．
Our
interpersonal relationships
improve
．
B
．
Our
living habits are altered
．
C
．
Our
work efficiency increases
greatly
．
D
．
Our
behavior is changed
．
Section C
Directions: In
this section, you will hear a
passage
．
three
times
．
When the
passage is read for the
first time, you
should listen carefully for its general
idea
．
When the
passage is read for the second
time,
you are required to fill in the blanks with the
exact words you have just
heard
．
Finally,
when
the passage is read for the third
time, you should check what you have
written
．
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请在答题卡
1
上作答。
The
first
copyright
law
in
the
United
States
was
passed
by
Congress
in
1790
．
In
1976
Congressenacted
the
latest
copyright
law,
(26)the
technological
developments
that
had
occurred
Since the passage of the Copyright Act
of 1909
．
For
example, in 1909, anyone who wanted to make
a single copy of a (27)work for
personal use had to do so by
hand
．
The very process (28) a
limitation
on the quantity of materials
copied.
Today, a
photocopier can do the work in seconds; the
limitation
has
disappeared
．
The
1909 law did not provide full protection for films
and sound recordings, nor
did it(29)
the need to protect radio and
television
．
As a
result, (30)of the law and abuses of the
intent
of
the
law
have
lessened
the
(31)
rewards
of
authors,
artists
and
producers
．
The
1976
Copyright Act has not prevented these
abuses fully, but it has clarified the legal
rights of the injured
parties and given
them an (32)for remedy
．
Since
1976
the
Act
has
been
(33)to
include
computer
software,
and
guidelines
have
been
adopted
for fair use of television
broadcasts
．
These
changes have cleared up much of the confusion
and conflict that followed (34)the 1976
legislation
．
The
fine points of the law are decided by the courts
and by acceptable common practice over
time
．
As these
decisions and agreements are made, we modify our
behavior accordingly
．
For now,
we need to(35)the
law and its guidelines as accurately as we can and
to act in a fair manner
．
Part
Ⅲ
Reading Comprehension (40
minutes
．
Section
A
Directions: In this section, there is
a passage 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
passage
．
Read the
passage through carefully before making
your choices
．
Each choice in the bank is identified
by a
letter
．
Please
mark
the
corresponding
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
．
Questions
36 to 45 are based on the following
passage
．
Fear can
be an effective way to change
behavior
．
One
study compared the effects of high, fear
and low-fear appeals on changes in
attitudes and behaviors related to the dental hygi
ene(
卫生
)
．
One
group
of
subjects
was
shown
awful
pictures
of(36)teeth
and
diseased
gums
；
another
group
was
shown
less frightening materials such as plastic teeth
，
charts
，
and graphs
．
Subjects who saw
the
frightening materials reported more
anxiety and a greater (37)to change the way they
took care of
their teeth than the low-
fear group did
．
But
were
these
reactions
actually(38)into
better
dental
hygiene
practices?
To
answer
thisimportant
question
，
subjects
were
called
back
to
the
laboratory
on
two(39)(five
days
and
six
weeks after the
experiment
．
．
They
chewed disclosing
wafers(
牙疾诊断片
)that give a red
stain to any
uncleaned areas of the
teeth and thus provided a direct(40)of how well
they were really taking care
of
their
teeth
．
The
result
showed
that
the
highfear
appeal
did
actually
result
in
greater
and
more(41)changes in dental
hygiene
．
That
is
，
the subjects(42)to high-
fear warnings brushed their teeth
more(43)than did those who saw low-fear
warnings
．
However, to be all effective persuasive
device it is very important that the message not
be too
frightening and that people be
given(44)guidelines to help them to reduce the
cause of the fear
．
If this
isn
’t
done
，
they may reduce their
anxiety by denying the message or the (45)of the
communicator
．
If
that happens
，
it
is unlikely that either attitude or behavior
change will occur
．
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< br>
A
．
accustomed
I
．
eligible
B
．
carefully
J
．
exposed
C
．
cautiously
K
．
indication
D
．
concrete
L
．
occasions
E
．
credibility
M
．
permanent
F
．
decayed
N
．
sensitivity
G
．
desire
O
．
translated
H
．
dimensions
Section B
Directions
：
In
this section
，
you are going
to read a passage with ten statements attached to
it
．
Each
statement
contains information given in one of the
paragraphs
．
Identify the
paragraph from which the
information is
derived
．
You may choose a
paragraph more than
once
．
Each paragraph is
marked with
a letter Answer the
questions by marking the corresponding letter on
Answer Sheet 2
．
The
Street-Level Solution
A
．
When l was
growing up
，
one of my
father’s favorite sayings(borrowed from the
humorist
Will Rogers)
was
：
“It isn’t what we don’t
know that causes th
e
trouble
；
it’s what we think
we know
that just ain’t
so
．
” One of the main
insights to be taken from the
100
，
000 Homes Campaign and
its
strategy
to
end
chronic
homelessness
is
that,
until
recently,
our
society
thought
it
understood
the
nature of
homelessness
，
but it
didn’t
．
B
．
That led to a series of mistaken
assumptions about why people become homeless and
what
they
need
．
Many of the errors in
our homelessness policies have stemmed from the
conception that
the
homeless
are
a
homogeneous
group
．
It’s
only
in
the
past
1
．
5
years
that
organizations
like
Common
Ground
，
and
others
．
have
taken
a
street-
level
view
of
the
problem
—
distingui
shing
the
homeless”from
the“chronically
homeless”in
order
to
understand
their
needs
at
an
individual
level
．
This is why we can now
envisage a different
approach
——
and get better
results
．
C
．
Most readers
expressed support for the
effort
，
although a number
were skeptical
，
and a few
utterly
dismissive
．
about the chances
of long
．
term homeless people
adapting well to
housing
．
This
is
to be expected
；
it’s hard to
imagine what we haven’t yet
seen
．
As Niccolo Machiavelli
wrote in
The
Prince
．
one of the major
obstacles in any effort to advance systemic change
is the“incredulity of
men
．
”which is to
say that people“do not readily believe in new
th
ings until they have had a long
experience of
them
．
”Most of us have
witnessed homeless people on the streets for
decades
．
Few
have
seen
formerly
homeless
people
after
they
have
been
housed
successfully
．
We
don’t
have
reference points for that
story
．
So we generalize from
what we know--or think
．
we
know
．
D
．
But that can be
misleading
，
even to
experts
．
When I asked Rosanne
Haggerty, founder of
Common
Ground
，
which currently
operates 2
，
3 1 0 units of
supportive housing(with 552 more under
construction),what
had
been
her
biggest
surprise
in
this
work,
she
replied
：
“Fifteen
years
ago,
I
would not have believed that people who
had been so broken and stuck in homelessness could
thrive
to the degree that they do in
our buildings
．
from someone who has a
house
．
The campaign is
creating a first-hand experience for many people
that that is really not the case
．
E
．
One of the startling realizations
that I had while researching this column is that
anybody
could become like a homeless
person--all it takes is a traumatic
(
创伤的
) brain
injury
．
A bicycle
fall,
a car accident, a slip on the
ice, or if
you're a soldier, a head
wound--and your life could become
unrec
ognizable
．
James
O'Connell,
a
doctor
who
has
been
treating
the
most
vulnerable
homeless
people
on
the
streets
of
Boston
for
25
years,
estimates
that
40
percent
of
the
long-term
homeless
people
he's
met
had
such
a
brain
injury
．
many
it
was
a
head
injury
prior
to
the
time
they
became
homeless,
he
said
．
became
unpredictable
．
They'd
have
mood
swings,
fits
of
explosive
behavior
．
They
couldn't hold onto their
jobs
．
Drinking
made them feel better
．
They'd
end up on the streets
．
F
．
Once homeless people return to
housing, they're in a much better position to
rebuild their
lives
．
But it's important to note that housing
alone is not enough
．
As with many complex social
problems, when you get through the
initial crisis, you have another problem to solve
which is no less
challenging
．
But it is a better
problem
．
G
．
Over the past decade, O'Connell has
seen this happen
．
or in the hospital and the
other half making house calls to people who lived
for years on the streets,
he
said
．
in housing is the answer to
addressing all of their
problems
．
It's
the first step
．
H<
/p>
．
Once in housing,
formerly homeless people can become isolated and
lonely
．
If
they've
lived on the streets for years,
they may have acquired a certain standing as well
as a sense of pride in
their survival
skills
．
Now
indoors, those aspects of their identity may be
stripped away
．
Many also
experience a
profound disorientation at the
outset
．
you
kind
of
lose
your
bearings,
says
Haggerty
．
becomes
not
about
overcoming
homelessness but about finding food,
begging, looking for a job to survive another
day
．
The whole
process of how you define stability
gets reordered
．
I<
/p>
．
Many need
regular, if not continuous, support with mental
health problems, addictions and
illnesses--and, equally important,
assistance in the day-to-day challenges of life,
reacquainting with
family,
building
relationships
with
neighbors,
finding
enjoyable
activities
or
work,
managing
finances, and learning how to eat
healthy food
．
J
．
For
some people, the best solution is to live in a
communal (
集体
) residence,
with special
sevices
．
This
isn't available everywhere,
however
．
In
Boston, for example, homeless people tend to
be scattered in apartments throughout
the city
．
K
．
Common
Ground's
large
residences
in
New
York
offer
insight
into
the
possibilities
for
change when homeless people have a rich
array of supports
．
In addition to more traditional social
services, residents also make use of
communal gardens, classes in things like cooking,
yoga, theatre
and photography, and job
placement
．
Last
year, 188 formerly homeless tenants in four of
Common
Ground's residences, found
jobs
．
L
．
Because
the
properties
have
many
services
and
are
well-managed,
Haggerty
has
found
post-
housing problems to be surprisingly
rare
．
In the past
10 years, there have been only a handful
of incidents of quarrels between
tenants
．
There is
very little graffiti (
涂鸦
) or
vandalism (
破坏
) And
the turnover is almost
negligible
．
In
the Prince George Hotel in New York, which is home
to 208
formerly
homeless
people
and
208
low-income
tenants,
the
average
length
of
tenancy
is
close
to
seven years
．
(All residents pay 30 percent of their
income for rent; for the formerly homeless, this
comes out of their government
Benefits)
．
When
people move on, it is usually because they've
found
a preferable
apartment
．
M
．
also
want
to
participate
in
shaping
the
public
areas
of
the
buildings,
said
Haggerty
．
．
They
want a terrace on the roof
．
Those are
things
I didn't
count
on
．
demand?
more storage
space--but
that's true of every New
Yorker,
．
apartment
building
．
Our
tenants look like anyone else
．
N
．
As I mentioned, homelessness is a
catch-all for a variety of
problems
．
A
number of readers
asked
whether
the
campaign
will
address
family
homelessness,
which
has
different
causes
and
requires a different
solution
．
I've
been following some of the promising ideas
emerging to address
and prevent family
homelessness
．
Later in 2011, I'll explore these ideas
in a column
．
For
now, I'll
conclude with an update on
the 100,000 Homes Campaign
．
Since Tuesday, New Orleans and a few
other communities have reported new
results
．
The
current count of people housed is
7,043
．
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46
．
Tenants in Common Ground's residences
all want more room for
storage
．
47
．
Homes
Campaign
provides
first-hand
proof
that
the
homeless
are
not
what
they
were
once
believed to
be
．
48
．
Common Ground's residences are well-
managed and by and large
peaceful
．
49
．
Housing the homeless is only the first
step to solving all their
problems
．
50
．
A
large percent of the chronically homeless have
suffered from brain injury
．
51
．
After being housed many homeless people
become confused at first as to how to deal with
life
off the
street
．
52
．
Some people think the best way to help
the homeless is to provide them with communal
housing
．
53
．
The homeless with health problems
should be given regular support in their daily
lives
．
54
．
Until recently American society has
failed to see what homelessness is all
about
．
55
．
Many formerly homeless tenants in New
York's Common Ground's residences got
hired
．
Section C
Directions:
There
are
2
passages
in
this
section
．
Each
passage
is
followed
by
some
questions
or
unfinished
statements
．
For
each of them there are four choices marked A), B),
C)and D) You should
decide on the best
choice and mark the corresponding letter on Answer
Sheet 2 with a single line
through the
centre
．
Passage
One
Questions 56 to 60 are based on the
following passage
．
Technology can make us smarter or
stupider, and we need to develop a set of
principles to guide
our
everyday
behavior
and
make
sure
that
tech
is
improving
and
not
hindering
our
mental
processes
．
One of the big questions being debated
today is: What kind of information do we need to
have stored in our heads, and what kind
can we leave
An increasingly powerful
group within education are championing
．
In their
view,
skills
beat
knowledge,
developing
literacy
is
more
important
than
learning
mere
content, and all facts
are now Google-able and therefore unworthy of
committing to memory
．
But
even the most
sophisticated digital literacy skills won't help
students and workers navigate the world
if they don't have a broad base of
knowledge about how the world actually
operates
．
If you
focus on
the delivery mechanism and not
the content, you're doing kids a
disservice
．
Indeed, evidence from cognitive science
challenges the notion that skills can exist
independent
of factual
knowledge
．
Data
from the last thirty years leads to a conclusion
that is not scientifically
challengeable: thinking well requires
knowing facts, and that's true not only because
you need
something
to
think
about
．
The
very
processes
that
teachers
care
about
most--critical
thinking
processes
—
are
intimately
interwined
(
交织
)
with
factual
knowledge
that
is
stored
in
long-
term
memory
．
In
other
words,
just
because
you
can
Google
the
date
of
Black
Tuesday
doesn't
mean
you
understand
why
the
Great
Depression
happened
or
how
it
compares
to
our
recent
economic
slump
．
There
is
no
doubt
that
the
students
of
today,
and
the
workers
of
tomorrow,
will
need
to
innovate,
collaborate and evaluate
．
But
such skills can't be separated from the knowledge
that gives
rise
to
them
．
To
innovate,
you
have
to
know
what
came
before
．
To
collaborate,
you
have
to
contribute knowledge to the joint
venture
．
And to
evaluate, you have to compare new information
against knowledge you've already
mastered
．
So
here's a principle for thinking in a digital
world, in two parts
．
First, acquire a base of factual
knowledge in any domain in which you
want to perform well
．
This base supplies the essential
foundation for building skills, and it
can't be outsourced (
外包
) to
a search engine
．
Second,
take
advantage
of
computers'
invariable
memory,
but
also
the
brain's
elaborative
memory
．
Computers
are great when you want to store information that
shouldn't change
．
But brains
are
the
superior
choice
when
you
want
information
to
change,
in
interesting
and
useful
ways:
to
connect up with other facts and ideas,
to acquire successive layers of meaning, to steep
for a while in
your accumulated
knowledge and experience and so produce a richer
mental brew
．
注意：此
部分试题请在答题卡
2
上作答。
56
．
What is the author's concern about the
use of technology?
A
．
It
may leave knowledge
．
B
．
It
may misguide our everyday
behavior
．
C
．
It
may cause a divide in the circles of
education
．
D
．
It
may hinder the development of thinking
skills
．
57
．
What is the view of educators who
advocate digital literacy?
A
．
It
helps kids to navigate the virtual world at
will
．
B
．
It
helps kids to broaden their scope of
knowledge
．
C
．
It
increases kid's efficiency of acquiring
knowledge
．
D
．
It
liberates kids from the burden of memorizing
facts
．
58
．
What does evidence from cognitive
science show?
A
．
Knowledge is better kept in long-term
memory
．
B
．
Critical thinking is based on factual
knowledge
．
C
．
Study skills are essential to knowledge
acquisition
．
D
．
Critical thinking means challenging
existing facts
．
59
．
What does the author think is key to
making evaluations?
A
．
Gathering enough evidence before
drawing conclusions
．
B
．
Mastering the basic roles and
principles for evaluation
．
C
．
Connecting new information with one's
accumulated knowledge
．
D
．
Understanding both what has happened
and why it has happened
．
60
．
What is the author's purpose in writing
the passage?
A
．
To warn against learning through
memorizing facts
．
B
．
To
promote educational reform in the information
age
．
C
．
To
explain human brains' function in storing
information
．
D
．
To
challenge the prevailing overemphasis on digital
literacy
．
Passage
Two
Questions 61 to 65 are based on the
following passage
．
America's recent history has been a
persistent tilt to the West--of people, ideas,
commerce and
even
political
power
．
California
and
Texas
are
the
twin
poles
of
the
West,
but
very
different
ones
．
For most of the 20th century the home
of Silicon Valley and Hollywood has been the
brainier
and trendier of the
two
．
Texas has trailed
behind: its stereotype has been a conservative
Christian in
cowboy
boots
．
But twins
can change places
．
Is that happening now?
It
is
easy to
find
evidence that California is
in
a panic
．
At the start
of this month
the once
golden
state
started
paying
creditors
in
IOUs
(
欠条
)
．<
/p>
The
gap
between
projected
outgoings
and
income for the current fiscal
(
财政的
) year has leapt to
horrible $$26 billion
．
With no sign of a new
budget
to close this gulf, one credit agency has already
downgraded California's
debt
．
As budgets
are cut, universities will let in fewer
students, prisoners will be released early and
schemes to protect
the vulnerable will
be rolled back
．
By
contrast,
Texas has coped well with
the recession,
with
an unemployment rate two points
below
the
national
average
and
one
of
the
lowest
rates
of
housing
repossession
．
In
part
this
is
because Texan banks, hard
hit in the last property bust, did not overexpand
this time
．
Texas
also
clearly offers a different model,
based on small government
．
It has no state capital-gains or income
tax,
and
a
business-friendly
and
immigrant-tolerant
attitude
．
It
is
home
to
more
Fortune
500
companies than any other
state
．
Despite
all this, it still seems too early to hand over
America's future to Texas
．
To begin with,
that lean
Texan model has its own
problems
．
It has
not invested enough in education, and many
experts rightly worry about a
the demands of the knowledge
economy
．
Second,
it
has
never
paid
to
bet
against
a
state
with
as
many
inventive
people
as
California
．
Even
if
Hollywood
has
gone
into
depression,
it
still
boasts
an
unequalled
array
of
sunrise industries and
the most brisk venture-capital industry on the
planet
．
The state
also has an
awesome ability to reinvent
itself--as it did when its defence industry
collapsed at the end of the cold
war
．
The truth is that both states could
learn from each other
．
Texas still lacks California's great
universities and lags in terms of
culture
．
California could adopt not just Texas's
leaner state, but also
its
more
bipartisan(
两
党的
)approach
to
politics
．
There
is
no
perfect
model
of
government:
it
is
America's genius to have 50 public-
policy laboratories competing to find out what
works best
．
注意：此部
分试题请在答题卡
2
上作答。
61
．
What does the author say about
California and Texas in Paragraph 1?
A
．
They have been competing for the
leading position
．
B
．
California has been superior to Texas
in many ways
．
C
．
They are both models of development for
other states
．
D
．
Texas's cowboy culture is less known
than California's
．
62
．
What does the author say about today's
California?
A
．
Its debts are pushing it into
bankruptcy
．
B
．
Its
budgets have been cut by $$26
billion
．
C
．
It
is faced with a serious financial
crisis
．
D
．
It
is trying hard to protect the
vulnerable
．
63
．
In
what way is Texas different from California?
A
．
It
practices small government
．
B
．
It
is home to traditional
industries
．
C
．
It
has a large Hispanic
population
．
D
．
It
has an enviable welfare
system
．
64
．
What problem is Texas confronted with?
A
．
Its
Hispanic population is mostly
illiterate
．
B
．
Its
sunrise industries are shrinking
rapidly
．
C
．
Its
education cannot meet the needs of the knowledge
economy
．
D
．
Its
immigrants have a hard time adapting to its cowboy
culture
．
65
．
What do we learn about American
politics from the passage?
A
．
Each state has its own way of
governing
．
B
．
Most states favor a bipartisan
approach
．
C
．
Parties collaborate in drawing public
policies
．
D
．
All
states believe in government for the
people
．
Part
Ⅳ
Translation (30
minutes
．
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
．
answer on
中文热词通常反映社会变化和文化，
有些在外国媒体上愈来愈流行。
例如，
土豪和大妈都是老
词，
但已获取了新的意义。
土豪以前指欺压佃户和仆人的乡村地主，
现在用于指花钱如流水或
喜欢炫耀财富的人，也就是说，土豪有钱，但是没有
品位。大妈是对中年妇女的称呼，但是现
在特指不久前金价大跌时大量购买黄金的中国妇
女。土豪和大妈可能会被收入新版的牛津
(Oxford)
英语
词典，至今约有
120
中文加进了牛津英语词典，成了英语语言
的一部分。
注意：此部分试题请在答题卡
2
上作答。
2014
年
6
月大学英语六级考试真题
(
一
)
解析
Part I Writing
写作导航
范文与译文
提分增彩词汇
1
．
acknowledged
adj
．普遍认可的
6
．
outside
n
．外表
2
．
get on with
．
．
．与
……
相处
7
．
undoubtedly
adv
．肯定
3
．
beneficial
adj
．有益的
8
．
competent
adj
．有才能的
4
．
reveal
v
．揭示
9
．
plastic
surgery
整容手术
5
．
characters
n
．品质
10
．
complex
adj
．复杂的
Part II
Listening Comprehension
Section A
1
．
M:
Look at these low prices at these fashionable TV
sets
．
Something
is fishy, don't you think so?
W: Well,
there have been a lot of robberies
recently
．
Some of
the stolen goods may have landed
here
．
Q: What
does the woman imply about the low price
television sets?
2
．
M:
I've been assigned to cover the governess speech
today
．
What about
you?
W: Nothing is grand as
yours
．
I have to
do an interview for the evening news about a man
with dozens of cats
．
Q: What do we learn about the speakers?
3
．
W: Didn't I see you going into the
administration building this afternoon?
M: I needed to switch my computer class
to the 9:50 section
．
Q: What do we learn from the
conversation?
4
．
W:
I guess you watch the quiz show on television last
night
．
What did
you think about it?
M: Well, it's
great
．
The first four
contestants won only small prizes, but the fifth
left with a new luxury car
．
Q: What does the man say about the quiz
show?
5
．
W:
I can't find the arrival time of the New York to
Boston Express on this
schedule
．
M: Look
for New York in the left-hand column and follow it
across until you find the hour listed in the
Boston
column
．
Q: What are the speakers most probably
doing?
6
．
W:
You look different today, but I can't quite put my
finger on what it is
．
M: Oh
．
yesterday I finally got around to that
new barbershop in the mall and enjoyed their
services
．
Q: What
can be inferred about the man?
7
．
W:
What do you think Picasso's painting exhibited in
the city museum?
M: Personally I can't
quite see the meaning in his modern
works
．
Most of
them remind me of the stuff my nephew
brings home from the
kindergarten
．
Q:
What does the man mean?
8
．
W:
Rod said he wanted to get involved in student
government this year
．
M: But he hasn't gone through a single
meeting, has he?
Q: What does the man
imply about Rod?
Conversation One
M: Good
morning! Madam
．
Can I help you?
W: Oh, I do
hope so
．
91 have
to get to Manchester today and my own car has
broken down
．
Do
you by any
chance have a car available?
M: For how many days?
Madam
．
W: Three,
just until the weekend
．
M: And what sort of car did you have in
mind?
W: Well
．
10That depends a little bit on the
price
．
But I
normally drive a Chevrolet
．
Do you have anything like
that?
M: Yes,
Certainly
．
That's
group C which includes Chevrolet and sea-
arrows
．
W: How
much are they?
M: Well, for three days,
you would have to have it under the unlimited
mileage conditions, which will work out
cheaper for Manchester
anyway
．
Let's
see, Group C, three to five days hire with
unlimited mileage is 53 pounds
per
day
．
W: I
see
．
Does that
include everything?
M: 11It includes
third party, insurance, but it does not include
value-added tax, patrol or
CDW
．
W: What's
that?
M: CDW? Oh, that's the cover in
case you damage the hire
car
．
Third party
insurance only covers you for damage
two another
vehicle
．
For
Group C cars is 6 pounds per
day
．
W:
OK
．
I think I'll
have the Chevrolet
．
M: All right
．
Could I have your driving license
please?
W:
Certainly
．
Here
we are
．
M: So,
it's Ms
．
JB
．
couty
．
W:Yes
．
That's fight
．
M: And the number is 509024bc9cs,
expiring the 1st, July,
2015
．
And you
want to take it immediately?
W: Yes, I
do, please
．
M:
Lovely
．
Well you
could just initial that box there for the
CDW
．
And that box
there to confirm you have
known driving
convictions, thank you, and then sign
there
．
Great!
That's it!
Questions 9 to H are based
on the conversation you have just
heard
．
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