2016年6月大学英语六级考试真题及答案详解和听力原文第三套

2016

年

6

月大学英 语六级考试真题第三套

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

Section A

听力长对话

Directions: In this section, you will hear two long conversations. At the end of each conversation, you will hear four

questions. Both the conversation 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 1

with a single line through the centre.

注意：此部分试题请在答题卡

1

上作答。

Questions 1 to 4 are based on the conversation you have just heard.

1. A) It is advertising electronic products.

C) It is sponsoring a TV programme.

B) It is planning to tour East Asia.

D) It is giving performances in town.

2. A) 20,000 pounds.

C) Less than 20,000 pounds.

B) 12,000 pounds.

D) Less than 12,000 pounds.

3. A) A lot of good publicity.

C) Long-term investments.

B) Talented artists to work for it.

D) A decrease in production costs.

4.A) Promise long-term cooperation with the Company.

B) Explain frankly their own current financial situation.

C) Pay for the printing of the performance programme.

D) Bear the cost of publicising the Company's performance.

Questions 5 to 8 are based on the conversation you have just heard.

5. A) He has been seeing doctors and counsellors.

C) He was caught abusing drugs.

B) He has found a new way to train his voice.

D) He might give up concert tours.

6. A) Singers may become addicted to it.

C) Singers use it to stay away from colds.

B) It helps singers warm themselves up.

D) It can do harm to singers' vocal chords.

7. A) They are eager to become famous.

C) Few will become successful.

B) Many lack professional training.

D) They live a glamorous life.

8. A) Harm to singers done by smoky atmospheres.

C) Voice problems among pop singers.

B) Side effects of some common drugs.

D) Hardships experienced by many young singers.

Section B

听力短文

Directions: In this section, you will hear two passages. At the end of each passage, you will hear three or four

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 1 with a

single line through the centre.

Passage One

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

9. A) It has not been very successful.

C) It has met with strong resistance.

B) It has long become a new trend.

D) It has attracted a lot of users.

10. A) It saves time.

C) It ensures drivers' safety.

B) It increases parking capacity.

D) It reduces car damage.

11. A) Collect money and help new users.

C) Stay alert to any emergency.

B) Maintain the automated system.

D) Walk around and guard against car theft.

12. A) They will vary with the size of vehicles.

C) They will be lower than conventional parking.

B) They will be discountable to regular customers.

D) They will be reduced if paid in cash.

Passage Two

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

13. A) They do not know any solution.

C) They do not behave in public places.

B) They do not give up drunk driving.

D) They do not admit being alcohol addicts.

14. A) To stop them from fighting back.

C) To teach them the European lifestyle.

B) To thank them for their hospitality.

D) To relieve their pains and sufferings.

15. A) Without intervention they will be a headache to the nation.

B) With support they can be brought back to a normal life.

C) They readily respond to medical treatment.

D) They pose a serious threat to social stability.

Section C

听力录音

Directions: In this section, you will hear three recordings of lectures or talks followed by three or four questions. The

recordings will be played 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 1 with a single line through the centre.

Recording One

Questions 16 to 19 are based on the recording you have just heard.

16. A) To award them for their hard work.

C) To bring in business projects.

B) To build common views.

D) To vote for action.

17. A) Recovering from the Great Recession.

C) Rewarding innovative businesses.

B) Creating jobs and boosting the economy.

D) Launching economic campaigns.

18. A) Talking over paying off deficit.

C) Controlling the impact on education.

B) Increasing the number of middle class.

D) Planning to reduce energy consumption.

19. A) Shorten America's way to prosperity.

C) Increase deficit to cover the revenue.

B) Be cautious about reducing the deficit.

D) Require the richest to pay more taxes.

Recording Two

Questions 20 to 22 are based on the recording you have just heard.

20. A) They can be redeemed for cash.

C) They can be used as membership certificate.

B) They can be used to reduce meal costs.

D) They can be used to make reservations.

21. A) It is free for us to download the app.

C) It provides advice about making recipes.

B) It helps you to be a professional cook.

D) It only rates recipes by popularity.

22. A) By showing the weight of 200 kinds of food.

C) By picturing the food of 200 calories with weights.

B) By providing the price of 200 calories of food.

D) By telling people 200 kinds of healthy food.

Recording Three

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

23. A) About 43 percent of American adults.

C) About 40 million American adults.

B) About 18 percent of the whole population.

D) About a half million people in America.

24. A) To set a series of bans on public smoking.

C) To package the cigarettes with tips of warning.

B) To set the price of cigarettes properly.

D) To reduce the production and supply of cigarettes.

25. A) The office of the Surgeon General.

C) The Center for Tobacco Products.

B) The Food and Drug Administration.

D) The Center for Disease Control and Prevention.

Part

Ⅲ

Translation

Questions 26 to 35 are based on the following passage.

The robotics

revolution

is set to bring humans face to face with an old fear

—

man-madecreations as

smart

and

capabl

e

as we are but without a moral

compass

. As robots take onever more

complex

roles, the question naturally 26_________:

Who will be responsible whenthey do something wrong? Manufacturers? Users? Software writers? The answer depends o

n already save us time, money and energy. In the future, they will improve our healthcare,

social

welfare

and standard of living. The 27__________ of computational power andengineering advances will 28__________ enable lo

wer-cost in-home care for the disabled, 29__________ use of driverless cars that may reduce drunk- and distracted-driving

accidentsand countless home and service-industry uses for robots, from street cleaning to food preparation. But there are

30________ to be problems.

Robot cars will crash. A

drone

(

遥控飞行器

) operator will 31________ someone's

privacy

.

A robotic

lawn

mower will run over

a neighbor’s

cat. Juries

sympathetic

to

the 32__________ of machines will

punish

entrepreneurs with company-crushing 33__________ and damages. What should governments do to

protect

people

while 34__________ space for

innovation

?Big,

complicated

systems on which much public safety depends, like driverless

cars, should be built, 35__________ and sold by manufacturers who take responsibility for ensuring safety

and are

liable

for accidents. Governments should set safety requirements and then let insurersprice the risk of the robots based on the

manufacturer's driving record, not the passenger's.

A. arises

D.

combination

G.

interfere

J. penalties

M. proximately

B. ascends

E.

definite

H.

invade

K. preserving

N. victims

C. bound

F.

eventually

I. manifesting

L. programmed

O.

widespread

Section B

Directions:

In this section, you are going to read a passage with ten statements attached to it. Each

statement

contain

s information given in one of the paragraphs. Identify the paragraphfrom which the information is derived. You may choose

a paragraph more than once. Eachparagraph is marked with a letter. Answer the questions by marking the corresponding l

etter onAnswer Sheet 2.

Reform and Medical Costs

[A] Americans are deeply

concerned

about the

relentless

rise in health care costs and health

insurance

premiums. They ne

ed to know if

reform

will help

solve

the problem. The answer isthat no one has an easy fix for rising medical costs. The

fun

damental

fix

—

reshaping how careis delivered and how doctors are paid in a wasteful,

abnormal

system

—

is likely to be ach

ievedonly through

trial

and error and incremental (

渐进的）

gains.

[B] The good news is that a bill just approved by the House and a bill approved by the SenateFinance Committee would

im

plement

or test many reforms that should help slow the rise inmedical costs over the long term. As a report in The New En

gland Journal of Medicineconcluded,

innovation

found in the health policy literature thesedays is

contained

in these measures.

[C] Medical spending, which typically rises faster than wages and the

overall

economy, ispropelled by two things: the high

prices charged for medical services in this country and thevolume of

unnecessary

care delivered by doctors and hospitals,

which often

perform

a lotmore tests and treatments than a patient really needs.

[D] Here are some of the important proposals in the House and Senate bills to try to

address

those problems, and why it is

hard to know how well they will work.

[E] Both bills would reduce the rate of growth in annual Medicare payments to hospitals, nursing homes and other provide

rs by amounts

comparable

to the

productivity

savingsroutinely made in other industries with the help of new technologies

and new ways to

organize

work. This

proposal

could save Medicare more than $$100 billion over the next

decade

. Ifprivate

plans demanded similar

productivity

savings from providers, and refused to letproviders

shift

additional

costs to them, th

e savings could be much larger. Critics sayCongress will give in to lobbyists and let

inefficient

providers off the

hook

That is

far lesslikely to happen if Congress also adopts strong upaygo

”

rules requiring that any increase inpayments to providers be

offset

by new taxes or

budget

cuts.

[F] The Senate Finance bill would

impose

an

excise

tax(

消费税）

on health

insurance

plans

that cost more than$$8,000

for

an individual or $$21,000 for a family. It would most likely causeinsurers to redesign plans to fall beneath the threshold. Enr

ollees would have to pay moremoney for many services out of their own pockets, and that would

encourage

them to think

twice about whether an expensive or

redundant

test was worth it. Economists project thatmost employers would

shift

mo

ney from expensive health benefits into wages. The House billhas no similar tax. The final

legislation

should.

[G] Any doctor who has wrestled with

multiple

forms from different insurers, or patients whohave tried to

understand

thei

r own parade of statements, know that simplification ought tosave money. When the health

insurance

industry was still co

operating in

reform

efforts, itstrade group offered to provide standardized forms for automated processing. It estimated th

atstep would save hundreds of billions of dollars over the next

decade

. The bills would lock that

pledge

into law.

[H] The stimulus package provided money to

convert

the

inefficient

, paper-driven medicalsystem to electronic records that

can be easily viewed and transmitted. This requires openinvestments to help doctors

convert

. In time it should help

restrai

n

costs by eliminating

redundant

tests, preventing drug interactions, and helping doctors find the best treatments.

[I] Virtually all experts agree that the fee-for-service system

—

doctors are rewarded for the

quantity

of care rather than its

quality

or effectiveness

—

is a

primary

reason that the cost ofcare is so high. Most agree that the

solution

is to push doctors

to accept fixed payments tocare for a

particular

illness or for a patient's needs over a year. No one knows how to make tha

thappen quickly. The bills in both houses would start

pilot

projects within Medicare. Theyinclude such measures as accoun

table care organizations to take charge of a patient's needswith an eye on both cost and

quality

, and

chronic

disease mana

gement to make sure theseriously ill, who are responsible for the

bulk

of all health care costs, are treated properly. Forthe

most part, these experiments rely on

incentive

payments to get doctors to try them.

[J] Testing innovations do no good unless the good experiments are

identified

and expandedand the bad ones are dropped.

The Senate bill would create an

independent

commission

tomonitor the

pilot

programs and

recommend

changes in Medi

care's

payment

policies to

urge

providers to

adopt

reforms that work. The changes would have to be approved or rejected

as awhole by Congress, making it hard for narrow-interest lobbies to

bend

lawmakers to their will.

[K] The bills in both chambers would create health

insurance

exchanges on which smallbusinesses and individuals could ch

oose from an

array

of private plans and possibly a public

option

. All the plans would have to provide standard

benefit

pack

ages that would be easy tocompare. To get access to millions of new customers, insurers would have a strong

incentive

tos

ell on the

exchange

. And the head-to- head

competition

might give them a strong

incentive

to lower their prices, perhaps b

y accepting slimmer profit margins or

demanding

better dealsfrom providers.

[L] The final

legislation

might throw a public plan into the

competition

, but thanks to thefierce

opposition

of the

insurance

industry and Republican critics, it might not save muchmoney. The one in the House bill would have to negotiate rates wit

h providers, rather thanusing Medicare rates, as many reformers wanted.

[M] The president's stimulus package is pumping money into research to compare how wellvarious treatments work. Is

sur

gery

,

radiation

or careful monitoring best for prostate (

前

列

腺

) cancer? Is the latest and most expensive cholesterol-lowering drug any better than its

common-

competitors? The pending bills would spend

additional

money to

accelerate

this effort.

[N] Critics have charged that this

sensible

idea would lead to rationing of care.

(That would betrue only if you believed that patients should have an

unrestrained

right to treatments provento be

inferior

.

) As a result, the bills do not require, as they should, that the results of thesestudies be used to set

payment

rates in Medic

are.

[O] Congress needs to find the courage to allow Medicare to pay preferentially for treatmentsproven to be

superior

. Somet

imes the best treatment might be the most expensive. But

overall

, we

suspect

that spending would come down through

eli

mination

of a lot of

unnecessary

or even dangerous tests and treatments.

[P] The House bill would

authorize

the secretary of health and human services to negotiatedrug prices in Medicare and Me

dicaid. Some

authoritative

analysts doubt that the secretarywould get better deals than private insurers already get. We b

elieve

negotiation

could work. Itdoes in other countries.

[Q] Missing from these bills is any serious attempt to rein in

malpractice

costs. Malpracticeawards do drive up

insurance

pr

emiums for doctors in high-risk specialties, and there is some

evidence

that doctors

engage

in

orming tests and treatmentsprimarily to prove they are not

negligent

should they get sued.

注意：此部分试题请在答题卡

2

上作答。

36. With a tax imposed on expensive health

insurance

plans, most employers will likely

transfer

money from health expens

es into wages.

37. Changes in policy would be approved or rejected as a whole so that lobbyists would find ithard to influence lawmakers.

38. It is not easy to

curb

the rising medical costs in America.

39. Standardization of forms for automatic processing will save a lot of medical expenses.

40. Republicans and the

insurance

industry are strongly

opposed

to the creation of a public

insurance

plan.

41. Conversion of paper to electronic medical records will help

eliminate

redundant

tests and

prevent

drug interactions.

42. The high cost of medical services and

unnecessary

tests and treatments have driven upmedical expenses.

43. One main

factor

that has driven up medical expenses is that doctors are compensated forthe amount of care rather tha

n its effect.

44. Contrary to analysts' doubts, the author believes drug prices may be lowered through

negotiation

.

45. Fair

competition

might create a strong

incentive

for insurers to charge less.

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.. Youshould decide on the best choice and mark the corre

sponding letter on Answer sheet with asingle line through the centre.

Passage One

Questions 46 to 50 are based on the following passage.

Facing water shortages and escalating

fertilizer

costs, fanners in developing countries are usingraw sewage (

下水道污

水）

to

irrigate

and

fertilize

nearly 49 million acres of cropland, accordingto a new report

—

and it may not be a bad thing.

While the practice carries serious health risks for many, those dangers are outweighed by the

social

and economic gai

ns for poor

urban

farmers and consumers who need

affordable

food.

potential

for wastewater agriculture to both help and hurt great numbers of

urban

consumers,

iqa Raschid-Sally, who led the study.

The report focused on poor

urban

areas, where farms in or near cities

supply

relatively

inexpensive

food. Most of thes

e operations draw irrigation water from local rivers or lakes. Unlike developed cities, however, these areas lack

advanced

w

ater- treatment facilities, andrivers

effectively

become sewers (

下水道

).

When this water is used for agricultural irrigation, farmers risk absorbing disease- causing

bacteria

, as do consumers w

ho eat the

produce

raw and unwashed. Nearly 2.2 million peopledie each year because of diarrhea-

related

(

与

腹

泻

相

关

的

) diseases, according to WHO statistics

. More than 80% of those cases can be attributed to contact with

contaminated

water and a lackof proper

sanitation

. But P

ay Drechsel, an environmental scientist, argues that the

social

andeconomic benefits of using

untreated

human waste to gr

ow food outweigh the health risks.

Those dangers can be addressed with farmer and consumer education, he said, while the freewater and nutrients from hu

man waste can help

urban

farmers in developing countries to

escape

poverty

.

Agriculture is a water-intensive business, accounting for nearly 70% of

global

fresh waterconsumption.

In poor, dry regions,

untreated

wastewater is the only

viable

irrigation

source

to keep fannersin business. In some cas

es, water is so

scarce

that farmers break open sewage pipestransporting waste to local rivers.

Irrigation is the

primary

agricultural use of human waste in the developing world. Butfrequently

untreated

human wa

ste harvested from lavatories is delivered to farms and

spread

as

fertilizer

.

In most cases, the human waste is used on grain crops, which are

eventually

cooked, minimizing the risk of transmitti

ng water-borne diseases. With

fertilizer

prices jumping nearly 50% per metric ton over the last year in some places, human

waste is an

attractive

, and oftennecessary,

alternative

.

In cases where sewage mud is used, expensive chemical

fertilizer

use can be avoided. The mudcontains the same

criti

cal

nutrients.

strict

standards often fail,

planet

, so waste with little or no treatment will be usedin agriculture for g

ood reason.

46. What does the author say about the use of raw sewage for farming?

A. Its risks cannot be overestimated.

C. Its benefits outweigh the hazards involved.

B. It should be

forbidden

altogether.

D. It is polluting millions of acres of cropland.

47. What is the main problem caused by the use of wastewater for irrigation?

A. Rivers and lakes nearby will gradually become

contaminated

.

B. It will drive producers of chemical fertilizers out of business.

C. Farmers and consumers may be

affected

by harmful

bacteria

.

D. It will make the farm

produce

less

competitive

on the market.

48. What is environmental scientist Pay Drechsel's attitude towards the use of

untreated

human waste in agriculture?

A. Favorable.

B. Skeptical.

C. Indifferent.

D. Responsible.

49. What does Pay Drechsel think of the risks involved in using

untreated

human waste forfarming?

A. They have been somewhat

exaggerated

.

C. They will be minimized with new technology.

B. They can be dealt with through education.

D. They can be addressed by improved

sanitation

.

50. What do we learn about James Bartram's position on the use of human waste for farming?

A. He echoes Pay Drechsel's opinion on the

issue

.

B. He challenges Liqa Raschid-Sally's

conclusion

.

C. He thinks it the only way out of the

current

food crisis.

D. He deems it

indispensable

for combating

global

poverty

.

Passage Two

Questions 51 to 55 are based on the following passage.

These days, nobody needs to cook. Families graze on high-cholesterol take-aways andmicrowaved ready- meals. Cooki

ng is an occasional hobby and a

vehicle

for

celebrity

chefs. Which makes it odd that the

kitchen

has become the heart of t

he modem house: what thegreat hall was to the

medieval

castle

, the

kitchen

is to the 21st- century home.

The money spent on kitchens has risen with their

status

. In America the

kitchen

market is nowworth $$170 billion, five

times the country's film industry. In the year to August 2007, IKEA, aSwedish furniture chain, sold over one million kitchen

s worldwide. The average

budget

for a

kitchen

overhaul

in 2006, calculates Remodeling magazine, was a staggerin

g $$54,000; even a

minor

improvement

cost on average $$18,000.

Exclusivity, more familiar in the world of high fashion, has reached the

kitchen

: Robinson & Cornish, a British ma

nufacturer of custom-made kitchens, offers a Georgian-style onewhich would cost

￡

145,000 -155,000

—

excluding building,

plumbing

and electrical work. Itsbig selling point is that nobody else will have it:

kitchen

anywhere else inthe world.

The

elevation

of the room that once belonged only to the servants to that of design showcasefor the modem family t

ells the story of a century of

social

change. Right into the early 20thcentury, kitchens were smoky, noisy places, generally lo

cated underground, or to the back ofthe house, and as far from living space as possible. That was as it should be: kitchens

were forservants, and the aspiring middle classes wanted nothing to do with them.

But as the working classes prospered and the servant shortage set in, housekeeping became amatter of interest to the

educated classes. One of the pioneers of a

radical

new way of thinkingabout the

kitchen

was Catharine Esther Beecher, sis

ter of Harriet Beecher Stowe. In AmericanWoman's Home, published in 1869, the Beecher sisters recommended a scientifi

c

approach

tohousehold management, designed to

enhance

the

efficiency

of a woman's work and

promote

order.

Many

contemporary

ideas about

kitchen

design can be traced back to another American, Christine Frederick, who set

about enhancing the

efficiency

of the housewife. Her 1919 work, Household Engineering: Scientific Management in the H

ome, was based on

detailedobservation

of a housewife's daily

routine

. She borrowed the

principle

of

efficiency

on thefact

ory floor and applied it to

domestic

tasks on the

kitchen

floor.

Frederick's central idea, that

stove

,

sink

and

kitchen

table must be placed in such a relationthat useless steps are avoided e

ntirely

inspired

the first fully fitted

kitchen

, designed in the 1920s by Margarete Schütter-Lihotsky. It was a

modernist

triu

mph

, and many elementsremain central features of today's

kitchen

.

51. What does the author say about the

kitchen

of today?

A. It is where housewives

display

their cooking skills.

C. It has become something odd in a modem house.

B. It is where the family entertains important guests.

D. It is regarded as the center of a modem home.

52. Why does the Georgian-style

kitchen

sell at a very high price?

A. It is believed to have tremendous

artistic

value.

C. It is manufactured by a famous British company.

B. No

duplicate

is to be found in any other place.

D. No other manufacturer can

produce

anything like it.

53. What does the change in the

status

of the

kitchen

reflect

?

A. Improved living conditions.

C. Technological progress.

B. Women's elevated

status

.

D. Social change.

54. What was the Beecher sisters' idea of a

kitchen

?

A. A place where women could work more

efficiently

.

C. A place of interest to the educated people.

B. A place where high technology could be applied.

D. A place to experiment with new ideas.

55. What do we learn about today's

kitchen

?

A. It represents the rapid technological advance in people's daily life.

B. Many of its central features are no different from those of the 1920s.

C. It has been

transformed

beyond

recognition

.

D. Many of its functions have changed greatly.

Part

Ⅳ

Translation

Directions: For this part, you are allowed 30 minutes to translate a passage from Chinese intoEnglish. You should write

your answer on Answer Sheet 2.

旗袍（

qipao

）是一种雅致的中国服装 ，源于中国的满族（

Manchu Nationality

）

。在清代，旗袍是王室女性穿着

的宽松长袍。上世纪

20

年代，受西方服饰影响，旗袍发生了一些 变化。袖口（

cuffs

）变窄，袍身变短。这些变化

使女性美得以充分展现。

如今，旗袍经常出现 在世界级的时装秀上。中国女性出席重要社交聚会时，旗袍往往是她们的首选。很多中国

新

也会选择旗袍作为结婚礼服。一些有影响的人士甚至建议将 旗袍作为中国女性的民族服饰。

2016

年

6

月大学英语六级考试真题答案解析第三套

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.

解析：

本次六级考试没有继续延续传 统的漫画作文或者英语引语类作文，反而考察了较为简单的话题作文，即用英语

给出话题 。只要考生审题明确清晰，不跑离主题得高分不是困难之事。同时也再次印证跟科技相关的话题始终是六