-
2007
年
6
月英语六级考试真题
Part I
Directions:
Writing
(30 minutes)
For
this
part,
you
are
allowed
30
minutes
to
write
a
short
essay
entitled
Should
One
Expect
a
Reward When Doing a Good
Deed?
You should write at least 150
words following the outline given below.
1.
有人做好事期望得到回报；
2.
有人认为应该像雷锋那样做好事不图回报；
3.
我的观点。<
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Should One Expect a Reward When Doing a
Good Deed?
Part II
Reading Comprehension (Skimming and
Scanning)
(15
minutes)
Directions:
In this part, you will have 15 minutes
to go over the passage quickly and answer the
questions on
Answer Sheet 1.
For questions 1-4, mark
Y
(for
YES
)
if the statement agrees with the
information given in the passage;
N
(for
NO
)
if statement
contradicts the information given in the passage;
NG
(for
NOT
GIVEN
)
if the
information is not given in the passage.
For questions 5-10, complete the
sentences with the information given in the
passage.
Seven Steps to a More
Fulfilling Job
Many people today find
themselves in unfulfilling work situations. In
fact, one in four workers is dissatisfied
with
their
current
job,
according
to
the
recent
―
Plans
for
2004
‖
survey.
Their
career
path
may
be
financially
rewarding, but it
doesn
’
t meet their
emotional, social or creative needs.
They
’
re stuck, unhappy, and
have no idea
what to do about it,
except move to another job.
Mary Lyn
Miller, veteran career consultant and founder of
the Life and Career Clinic, says that when most
people are unhappy about their work,
their first thought is to get a different job.
Instead, Miller suggests looking at
the
possibility of a different life. Through her book,
8 Myths of Making a Living
,
as well as workshops, seminars
and
personal coaching and consulting, she has helped
thousands of dissatisfied workers reassess life
and work.
Like the way of Zen, which
includes understanding of oneself as one really
is, Miller encourages job seekers
and those dissatisfied with work or
life to examine their beliefs about work and
recognize that
―
in many
cases your
beliefs are what brought you
to where you are today.
‖
You
may have been raised to think that women were best
at
nurturing and caring and, therefore,
should be teachers and nurses. So
that
’
s what you did. Or,
perhaps you were
brought up
to
believe
that
you
should do
what
your
father
did,
so
you
have
taken over
the
family
business,
or
become a dentist
―
just like
dad.
‖
If this sounds
familiar, it
’
s probably time
to look at the new possibilities for your
future.
Miller
developed
a
7-step
process
to
help
potential
job
seekers
assess
their
current
situation
and
beliefs,
identify their real passion, and start
on a journey that allows them to pursue their
passion through work.
Step 1:
Willingness to do something different.
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Breaking the
cycle of doing what you have always done is one of
the most difficult tasks for job seekers.
Many find it difficult to steer away
from a career path or make a change, even if it
doesn
’
t feel right. Miller
urges
job seekers to open their minds
to other possibilities beyond what they are
currently doing.
Step 2: Commitment to
being who you are, not who or what someone wants
you to be.
Look at the gifts and
talents you have and make a commitment to pursue
those things that you love most. If
you
love the social aspects of your job, but are stuck
inside an office or
―
chained
to your desk
‖
most of the
time,
vow to follow your instinct and
investigate alternative careers and work that
allow you more time to interact with
others. Dawn worked as a manager for a
large retail clothing store for several years.
Though she had advanced
within the
company, she felt frustrated and longed to be
involved with nature and the outdoors. She decided
to go
to
school
nights
and
weekends
to
pursue
her
true
passion
by
earning
her
master
’
s
degree
in
forestry.
She
now
works in the biotech forestry division
of a major paper company.
Step 3: Self-
definition
Miller suggests that once
job seekers know who they are, they need to know
how to sell themselves.
―
In
the
job market, you are a product. And
just like a product, you most know the features
and benefits that you have to
offer a
potential client, or
employer.
‖
Examine the
skills and knowledge that you have identify how
they can apply
to
your
desired
occupation.
Your
qualities
will
exhibit
to
employers
why
they
should
hire
you
over
other
candidates.
Step 4: Attain a
level of self-honoring.
Self-honoring
or
self-love
may
seem
like
an
odd
step
for
job
hunters,
but
being
able
to
accept
yourself,
without judgment, helps eliminate
insecurities and will make you more self-assured.
By accepting who you are
–
all
your
emotions,
hopes
and
dreams,
your
personality,
and
your
unique
way
of
being
–
you
’
ll
project
more
confidence when networking and talking
with potential employers. The power of self-
honoring can help to break
all the
falsehoods you were programmed to believe
–
those that made you feel
that you were not good enough, or
strong enough, or intelligent enough to
do what you truly desire.
Step 5:
Vision.
Miller suggests that job
seekers develop a vision that embraces the answer
to
―
What do I really want to
do?
‖
one should
create a solid statement in a dozen or so
sentences that describe in detail how they see
their life related
to work. For
instance, the secretary who longs to be an actress
describes a life that allows her to express her
love
of Shakespeare on stage. A real
estate agent, attracted to his current job because
her loves fixing up old homes,
describes buying properties that need a
little tender loving care to make them more
saleable.
Step 6: Appropriate risk.
Some
philosophers
believe
that
the
way
to
enlightenment
comes
through
facing
obstacles
and
difficulties.
Once people
discover their passion, many are too scared to do
anything about it. Instead, they do nothing. With
this step, job seekers should assess
what they are willing to give up, or risk, in
pursuit of their dream.
For one
working
mom,
that
meant
taking
night
classes
to
learn
new
computer-aided
design
skills,
while
still
earning
a
salary and keeping her day job. For
someone else, it may mean quitting his or her job,
taking out loan and going
back to
school full time. You
’
ll
move one step closer to your ideal work life if
you identify how much risk you are
willing to take and the sacrifices you
are willing to make.
Step 7: Action.
Some teachers of philosophy describe
action in this way,
―
If one
wants to get to the top of a mountain, just
sitting at the foot thinking about it
will not bring one there. It is by making the
effort of climbing up the mountain,
step by step, that eventually the
summit is reached.
‖
All too
often, it is the lack of action that ultimately
holds
people
back
from
attaining
their
ideals.
Creating
a
plan
and
taking
it
one
step
at
a
time
can
lead
to
new
and
different job
opportunities. Job-hunting tasks gain added
meaning as you sense their importance in your
quest for a
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meaningful work life. The plan can include
researching industries and occupations, talking to
people who are
in your desired area of
work, taking classes, or accepting volunteer work
in your targeted field.
Each of these
steps will lead you on a journey to a happier and
more rewarding work life. After all, it is the
journey, not the destination, that is
most important.
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1.
According to the recent
―
Plans for
2004
‖
survey, most people
are unhappy with their current jobs.
2.
Mary Lyn Miller
’
s
job is to advise people on their life and career.
3.
Mary Lyn Miller herself
was once quite dissatisfied with her own work.
4.
Many people find it
difficult to make up their minds whether to change
their career path.
5.
According to Mary Lyn Miller, people
considering changing their careers should commit
themselves to the
pursuit of ________.
6.
In the job market, job
seekers need to know how to sell themselves like
________.
7.
During
an
interview
with
potential
employers,
self-honoring
or
self-love
may
help
a
job
seeker
to
show
________.
8.
Mary
Lyn Miller suggests that a job seeker develop a
vision that answers the question
―
________
‖
9.
Many people are too
scared to pursue their dreams because they are
unwilling to ________.
10.
What ultimately holds people back from
attaining their ideals is ________.
Part III
Listening
Comprehension
(35 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 2 with a single line
through the centre.
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上作答。
11.
A) Surfing the net.
B)
Watching a talk show.
C) Packing a
birthday gift.
D) Shopping at a jewelry
store.
12.
A) He
enjoys finding fault with exams.
B) He
is sure of his success in the exam.
C)
He doesn
’
t know if he can do
well in the exam.
D) He used to get
straight A
’
s in the exams he
took.
13.
A) The
man is generous with his good comments on people.
B) The woman is unsure if there will be
peace in the world.
C) The woman is
doubtful about newspaper stories.
D)
The man is quite optimistic about human
nature.
14.
A)
Study for some profession.
B) Attend a
medical school.
C) Stay in business.
D) Sell his shop.
15.
A) More money.
B) Fair treatment.
C) A
college education.
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D) Shorter work
hours.
16.
A) She
was exhausted from her trip.
B) She
missed the comforts of home.
C) She was
impressed by Mexican food.
D) She will
not go to Mexico again.
17.
A) Cheer herself up a bit.
B) Find a more suitable job.
C) Seek professional advice.
D) Take a psychology course.
18.
A) He dresses more
formally now.
B) What he wears does not
match his position.
C) He has ignored
his friends since graduation.
D) He
failed to do well at college.
Questions 19 to 22 are based on the
conversation you have just heard.
19.
A) To go sightseeing.
B) To
have meetings.
C) To promote a new
champagne.
D) To join in a training
program.
20.
A)
It can reduce the number of passenger complaints.
B) It can make air travel more
entertaining.
C) It can cut down the
expenses for air travel.
D) It can
lessen the discomfort caused by air
travel.
21.
A)
Took balanced meals with champagne.
B)
Ate vegetables and fruit only.
C)
Refrained from fish or meat.
D) Avoided
eating rich food.
22.
A) Many of them found it difficult to
exercise on a plane.
B) Many of them
were concerned with their well-being.
C) Not many of them chose to do what
she did.
D) Not many of them understood
the program.
Questions 23 to
25 are based on the conversation you have just
heard.
23.
A) At a fair.
B) At a cafeteria.
C) In a
computer lab.
D) In a shopping
mall.
24.
A) The
latest computer technology.
B) The
organizing of an exhibition.
C) The
purchasing of some equipment.
D) The
dramatic changes in the job market.
25.
A) Data collection.
B) Training consultancy.
C)
Corporate management.
D) Information
processing.
Section B
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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 2 with a single line
through the centre.
Passage One
Questions 26 to 28 are based on the
passage you have just heard.
注意：此部分试题请在
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上作答。
26.
A) Improve themselves.
B) Get rid of empty dreams.
C) Follow the cultural tradition.
D) Attempt something
impossible.
27.
A) By finding sufficient support for
implementation.
B) By taking into
account their own ability to change.
C)
By constantly keeping in mind their ultimate
goals.
D) By making detailed plans and
carrying them out.
28.
A) To show people how to get their
lives back to normal.
B) To show how
difficult it is for people to lose weight.
C) To remind people to check the
calories on food bags.
D) To illustrate
how easily people abandon their goals.
Passage Two
Questions 29 to 31 are based on the
passage you have just heard.
29.
A) Michael’s parents got
divorced.
B) Karen was
adopted by Ray Anderson.
C) Karen’s
mot
her died in a car accident.
D) A truck driver lost his life in a
collision.
30.
A)
He ran a red light and collided with a truck.
B) He sacrificed his life to save a
baby girl.
C) He was killed instantly
in a burning car.
D) He got married to
Karen’s mot
her.
31.
A) The reported hero
turned out to be his father.
B) He did
not understand his father till too late.
C) Such misfortune should have fallen
on him.
D) It reminded him of his
miserable childhood.
Passage Three
Questions 32
to 35 are based on the passage you have just
heard.
32 .
A) Germany.
B) Japan.
C) The U.S.
D) The U.K.
33.
A) By doing odd jobs at weekends.
B) By working long hours every day.
C) By putting in more hours each week.
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D) By taking
shorter vacations each year.
34.
A) To combat competition
and raise productivity.
B) To provide
them with more job opportunities.
C) To
help them maintain their living standard.
D) To prevent them from holding a
second job.
35.
A) Change their jobs.
B)
Earn more money.
C) Reduce their
working hours.
D) Strengthen the
government’s role.
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 numbered from 36 to
43 with the exact words you have just heard. For
blanks numbered from 44 to 46
you are
required to fill in the missing information. For
these blanks, you can either use the exact words
you have
just heard or write down the
main points in your own words. Finally, when the
passage is read for the third time,
you
should check what you have written.
注意：
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Nursing, as a typically female
profession, must deal constantly with the false
impression that nurses are there
to
wait on the physician. As nurses, we are (36)
________ to provide nursing care only. We do not
have any legal
or
moral
(37)
________
to
any
physician.
We
provide
health
teaching,
(38)
________
physical
as
well
as
emotional
problems,
(39)
________
patient-related
services,
and
make
all
of
our
nursing
decisions
based
upon
what is best or
suitable for the patient. If, in any (40)
________, we feel that a
physician
’
s order is (41)
________
or unsafe, we have a legal
(42) ________ to question that order or refuse to
carry it out.
Nursing is not a nine-to-
five job with every weekend off. All nurses are
aware of that before they enter the
profession. The emotional and physical
stress. However, that occurs due to odd working
hours is a (43) ________
reason
for
a
lot
of
the
career
dissatisfaction.
(44)
________________________________.
That
disturbs
our
personal lives, disrupts our sleeping
and eating habits, and isolates us from everything
except job-related friends
and
activities.
The
quality
of
nursing
care
is
being
affected
dramatically
by
these
situations.
(45)
________________________________.
Consumers of medically related services have
evidently not been affected
enough
yet
to
demand
changes
in
our
medical
system.
But
if
trends
continue
as
predicted,
(46)
________________________________.
Part IV
Reading
Comprehension
（
Reading in
Depth
）
（
25
minutes
）
Section
A
Directions:
In this section, there is a short
passage with 5 questions or incomplete statements.
Read the passage
carefully. Then answer
the questions or complete the statements in the
fewest possible words. Please write your
answers on Answer sheet 2.
Questions 47 to 51 are based on the
following passage.
Google is a world-
famous company, with its headquarters in Mountain
View, California. It was set up in a
Silicon
Valley
garage
in
1998,
and
inflated
(
膨胀
)
with
the
Internet
bubble.
Even
when
everything
around
it
collapsed
the
company
kept
on
inflating.
Google
’
s
search
engine
is
so
widespread across
the
world
that
search
became Google, and
google
became a verb. The
world fell in love with the effective,
fascinatingly fast technology.
Google
owes much of its success to the brilliance of S.
Brin and L. Page, but also to a series of
fortunate
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events.
It
was
Page
who,
at
Stanford
in
1996,
initiated
the
academic
project
that
eventually
became
Google
’
s
search engine. Brin, who had met Page
at a student orientation a year earlier, joined
the project early on.
They
were both Ph.D. candidates when they
devised the search engine which was better than
the rest and, without any
marketing,
spread by word of mouth from early adopters to,
eventually, your grandmother.
Their
breakthrough, simply
put, was that when
their search engine crawled the Web, it did
more than just
look for word
matches, it also
tallied
(
统计
) and ranked a host of
other critical factors like how websites link to
one
another.
That
delivered
far
better
results
than
anything
else.
Brin
and
Page
meant
to
name
their
creation
Googol (the
mathematical term for the number 1 followed by 100
zeroes), but someone misspelled the word so it
stuck as Google. They raised money from
prescient
(
有先见之明的
) professors and
venture capitalists, and moved
off
campus to turn Google into business. Perhaps their
biggest stroke of luck came early on when they
tried to sell
their technology to other
search engines, but no one met their price, and
they built it up on their own.
The next
breakthrough came in 2000, when Google figured out
how to make money with its invention. It had
lots of users, but almost no one was
paying. The solution turned out to be advertising,
and it
’
s not an exaggeration
to say that Google is now essentially
an advertising company, given that
that
’
s the source of nearly
all its revenue.
Today it is a giant
advertising company, worth $$100 billion.
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47.
Apart from a series
of fortunate events, what is it that has made
Google so successful?
48.
Google
’
s search
engine originated from ________ started
by L. Page.
49.
How did Google
’
s
search engine spread all over the world?
50.
Brin and Page decided to
set up their own business because no one would
________.
51.
The revenue of
the Google company is largely generated from
________.
Section B
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 52 to 56 are based on the
following passage.
You hear the refrain
all the time: the U.S. economy looks good
statistically, but it
doesn
’
t feel good. Why
doesn
’
t ever-
greater wealth promote ever-greater happiness? It
is a question that dates at least to the
appearance in
1958 of
The
Affluent
(
富裕的
)
Society
by John Kenneth Galbraith, who
died recently at 97.
The Affluent
Society
is a modern classic because it
helped define a new moment in the human condition.
For
most
of
history,
―
hunger,
sickness,
and
cold
‖
threatened
nearly
everyone,
Galbraith
wrote.
―
Poverty
was
found
everywhere in that world. Obviously it
is not of ours.
‖
After World
War II, the dread of another Great Depression
gave way to an economic boom. In the
1930s unemployment had averaged 18.2 percent; in
the 1950s it was 4.5
percent.
To
Galbraith,
materialism
had
gone
mad
and
would
breed
discontent.
Through
advertising,
companies
conditioned consumers to buy things
they didn
’
t really want or
need. Because so much spending was artificial, it
would
be
unfulfilling.
Meanwhile,
government
spending
that
would
make
everyone
better
off
was
being
cut
down because people
instinctively
—
and
wrongly
—
labeled government
only as
―
a necessary
evil.
‖
It
’
s often said
that only the rich are getting ahead; everyone
else is
standing still or
falling behind. Well,
there are many
undeserving rich
—
overpaid
chief executives, for instance. But over any
meaningful period, most
people
’
s incomes
are increasing. From 1995 to 2004, inflation-
adjusted average family income rose 14.3 percent,
to $$43,200. people feel
―
squeezed
‖
because
their rising incomes often
don
’
t satisfy their rising
wants
—
for bigger
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homes, more
health care, more education, faster Internet
connections.
The other great
frustration is that it has not eliminated
insecurity. People regard job stability as part of
their
standard of living. As corporate
layoffs increased, that part has eroded. More
workers fear they
’
ve become
―
the
disposable
American,
‖
as Louis
Uchitelle puts it in his book by the same name.
Because
so
much
previous
suffering
and
social
conflict
stemmed
from
poverty,
the
arrival
of
widespread
affluence
suggested
utopian
(
乌托邦式的
)
possibilities.
Up
to
a
point,
affluence
succeeds.
There
is
much
les
physical
misery
than
before.
People
are
better
off.
Unfortunately,
affluence
also
creates
new
complaints
and
contradictions.
Advanced
societies need economic growth to satisfy the
multiplying wants of their citizens. But the quest
for
growth
lets
loose
new
anxieties
and
economic
conflicts
that
disturb
the
social
order.
Affluence
liberates
the
individual, promising
that everyone can choose a unique way to self-
fulfillment. But the promise is so extravagant
that
it
predestines
many
disappointments
and
sometimes
inspires
choices
that
have
anti-social
consequences,
including family breakdown and
obesity
(
肥胖症
). Statistical
indicators of happiness have not risen with
incomes.
Should we be surprised? Not
really. We
’
ve simply
reaffirmed an old truth: the pursuit of affluence
does not
always end with happiness.
注意：此部分试题请在答题卡
2
上作答。
52.
What question
does John Kenneth Galbraith raise in his book
The Affluent Society
?
A) Why statistics
don
’
t tell the truth about
the economy.
B) Why affluence
doesn
’
t guarantee happiness.
C) How happiness can be promoted today.
D) What lies behind an economic
boom.
53.
According to Galbraith, people feel
discontented because ________.
A)
public spending has
n’
t been
cut down as expected
B) the government
has proved to be a necessary evil
C)
they are in fear of another Great Depression
D) materialism has run wild in modern
society
54.
Why
do people feel squeezed when their average income
rises considerably?
A) Their material
pursuits have gone far ahead of their earnings.
B) Their purchasing power has dropped
markedly with inflation.
C) The
distribution of wealth is uneven between the r5ich
and the poor.
D) Health care and
educational cost have somehow gone out of control.
55.
What does Louis
Uchitelle mean by
―
the
disposable American
‖
(Line
3, Para. 5)?
A) Those who see job
stability as part of their living standard.
B) People full of utopian ideas
resulting from affluence.
C) People who
have little say in American politics.
D) Workers who no longer have secure
jobs.
56.
What
has affluence brought to American society?
A) Renewed economic security.
B) A sense of self-fulfillment.
C) New conflicts and complaints.
D) Misery and anti-social
behavior.
Passage Two
Questions 57 to 61 are based on the
following passage.
The use
of
deferential
(
敬重的
) language is symbolic
of the Confucian ideal of the woman, which
dominates
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