1、大学六级-121 及答案解析(总分：710.00，做题时间：90 分钟)一、Part Writing(总题数：1，分数：106.50)1.Directions: For this part, you are allowed 30 minutes to study the following cartoon carefully and write an essay in which you should 1) describe the cartoon, 2) interpret its meaning, and 3) point out its implications in our life.
2、 You can cite examples to illustrate your point. You should write at least 150 words but no more than 200 words. Write your essay on Answer Sheet 1. （分数：106.50）_二、Part Listening Com(总题数：0，分数：0.00)三、Section A(总题数：4，分数：106.50)（分数：35.50）A.$1.75.B.$1.50.C.$2.00.D.$1.05.A.7:15p.m.B.6:45p.m.C.7:05p.m.D.7:
3、25p.m.A.Hotel.B.Library.C.Grocery.D.Bank.A.Teacher.B.Doctor.C.Manager.D.Attendant.A.He may convert it and use it as a restaurant.B.He may pull it down and build a new restaurant.C.He may rent it out for use as a restaurant.D.He may sell it to the owner of a restaurant.（分数：21.30）A.She didn“t like the
4、 books the man bought.B.The man bought a lot of books.C.She wanted to see what the man bought.D.There wasn“t a large selection at the bookstore.A.The first house they saw is too expensive.B.They may save some money for the time being.C.She is happy with the price set by the seller.D.Less money will
5、be spent in maintaining the house.A.Lily has no friends.B.Lily doesn“t like to chat on the phone with her friends.C.Lily“s friends don“t call her very often.D.Lily likes to chat on the phone with her friends.Questions 9 to 11 are based on the conversation you have just heard. （分数：21.30）A.Survival st
6、rategies for extreme Antarctic cold.B.Why inactive volcanoes become active.C.The principal causes of global warming.D.The effects of volcanoes on the Antarctic ice sheet.A.That a snow cover can cause ice to melt.B.How heat can prevent ice from melting.C.How water flows into the ocean.D.Why volcanoes
7、 have a slippery surface.A.Melting ice.B.Snowfall.C.Glaciers which serve as barriers.D.Variations in temperature in Antarctica.Questions 12 to 15 are based on the conversation you have just heard. （分数：28.40）A.How to increase one“s speed in a bicycle race.B.Major Canadian bicycle races.C.The contribu
8、tion of cycling to health.D.An annual cycling event.A.The length of the course.B.The route the cyclists take.C.The number of participants.D.The month in which the tour is held.A.They are not competing with each other.B.They have to pay a high fee.C.They tend to be beginning cyclists.D.Most of them f
9、ail to finish the route.A.Chocolates.B.Water.C.First aid.D.Bicycle repair services.四、Section B(总题数：0，分数：0.00)五、Passage One(总题数：1，分数：21.30)Questions 16 to 18 are based on the passage you have just heard. （分数：21.30）A.Twenty years.B.A couple of years.C.A couple of weeks.D.Five years.A.David had been se
10、lling cars.B.David had taught business.C.David had become a salesman.D.David had made a lot of money.A.Rich people are not happy.B.Being rich is the best thing in the world.C.Being rich is not always a good thing.D.Rich people are usually with their families.六、Passage Two(总题数：1，分数：21.30)Questions 19
11、 to 21 are based on the passage you have just heard. （分数：21.30）A.Love.B.Conflict.C.Violence.D.Mystery.A.The main character remains the same.B.The main character dies in the end.C.The main character gains his ends.D.The main character undergoes a change.A.We can learn how bad persons can improve them
12、selves.B.We can learn how to deal with people.C.We can understand life a little better.D.We can find better ways to cope with conflicts.七、Passage Three(总题数：1，分数：28.40)Questions 22 to 25 are based on the passage you have just heard. （分数：28.40）A.Because he was a cook at a country music club.B.Because
13、he performed for guests while he worked as a cook.C.Because he often sang while cooking.D.Because he liked singing better than cooking.A.His brother.B.His manager.C.His father.D.A businesswoman.A.At a club.B.On a farm.C.At a construction site.D.In a record company.A.His ability to live independently
14、.B.His sense of responsibility in whatever he did.C.His courage in the face of rejections.D.His hard work in his early days.八、Section C(总题数：1，分数：71.00)Very old people do raise moral problems for almost everyone who comes into contact with them. Their values, this can“t be 1 too often, are not necess
15、arily our values. Physical 2 , cleanness and order are necessarily the most important things. The social services from time to time find themselves faced with a flat with 3 food covered by small worms, and an old person lying alone on bed, taking no 4 of the worms. But is it 5 with personal freedom
16、to insist that they go to live with some of their relatives so that they might be taken better care of? Some 6 workers, the ones who clear up the worms, think we are in danger of carrying this concept of personal freedom to the point where serious risks are being taken with the health and 7 of the o
17、ld. Indeed, the old can be easily hurt or 8 . The body is like a car: it needs more mechanical maintenance, as it gets older. You can carry this comparison right through to the provision of spare parts. But never 9 that such operations are painful experiences, however good the results. And at what p
18、oint should you cease to treat the old body? Is it morally right to try to 10 death by pursuing the development of drugs to excite the forgetful old mind and to activate the old body, knowing that it is designed to die? You cannot ask doctors or scientists to decide, because so long as they can see
19、the technical opportunities, they will feel bound to give them a try on the principle that while there“s a life, there“s hope. （分数：71.00）填空项 1:_填空项 1:_填空项 1:_填空项 1:_填空项 1:_填空项 1:_填空项 1:_填空项 1:_填空项 1:_填空项 1:_九、Part Reading Compr(总题数：0，分数：0.00)十、Section A(总题数：1，分数：35.50)Even plants can run a fever, es
20、pecially when they are under attack by insects or disease. But 1 humans, plants can have their temperature taken from 3,000 feet awaystraight up. A decade ago, 2 the infrared (红外线的) scanning technology developed for military purpose and other satellites, physicist Stephen Paley came up with a quick
21、way to take the temperature of crops to determine 3 ones are under stress. The goal was to let farmer precisely target pesticide spraying 4 rain poison on a whole field, which invariably include plants that don“t have the pest problem. Even better, Paley“s Remote Scanning Services Company could dete
22、ct crop problem before they became 5 to the eye. Mounted on a plane flown at 3,000 feet at night, an infrared scanner measured the heat emitted by crops. The data were 6 into a color-coded map showing where plants were running “fevers“. Farmers could then spot spray, using 50 to 70 percent less pest
23、icide than they 7 would. The bad news is that Paley“s company closed down in 1984, after only three years. Farmers 8 the new technology and long-term backers were hard to find. But with the renewed concern about pesticides on produce, and refinements in infrared scanning, Paley hopes to get back int
24、o operation. Agriculture experts have no doubt the technology works. “This technique can be used 9 75 percent of agricultural land in the United States“, says George Oerther of Texas A in New York City, 117%. These gains, mostly the product of education, may dissipate as these women have kids. Never
25、theless, better pay for more women changes many thingsincluding, most fundamentally, how much money they have. Evidence of this shift is visible all around the world. J. Sheeconomy (5) A recent Booz by the turn of the century the radius extended ten miles. Now those who would afford it could live fa
26、r removed from the old city center and still commute there for work, shopping, and entertainment. The new accessibility of land around the periphery of almost every major city sparked an explosion of real estate development and fueled what we now know as urban sprawl. Between 1890 and 1920, for exam
27、ple, some 25,000 new residential lots were recorded within the borders of Chicago, most of them located in outlying areas. Over the same period, another 550,000 were plotted the city limits but within the metropolitan area. Anxious to take advantage of the possibilities of commuting, real estate dev
28、elopers added 800,000 potential building sites to the Chicago region in just thirty yearslots that could have housed five to six million people. Of course, many were never occupied; there was always a huge surplus of subdivided, but vacant, land around Chicago and other cities. These excesses unders
29、core a feature of residential expansion related to the growth of mass transportation, urban sprawl was essentially unplanned. It was carried out by thousands of small investors who paid little heed to coordinated land use or to future land users. Those who purchased and prepared land for residential
30、 purposes, particularly land near or outside city borders where transit lines and middle-class inhabitants were anticipated did so to create demand as much as to respond to it. Chicago is a prime example of this process. Real estate subdivision there proceeded much faster than population growth.（分数：
31、71.00）(1).With which of the following subjects is the passage mainly concerned?（分数：14.20）A.Types of mass transportation.B.Instability of urban life.C.How supply and demand determine land use.D.The effects of mass transportation on urban expansion.(2).The author mentions all of the following as effec
32、ts of mass transportation on cities EXCEPT（分数：14.20）A.growth in city areaB.separation of commercial and residential districtsC.changes in life in the inner cityD.increasing standards of living(3).Why does the author mention both Boston and Chicago?（分数：14.20）A.To demonstrate positive and negative eff
33、ects of growth.B.To show that mass transit changed many cities.C.To exemplify cities with and without mass transportation.D.To contrast their rates of growth.(4).According to the passage, what was one disadvantage of residential expansion?（分数：14.20）A.It was expensive.B.It happened too slowly.C.It wa
34、s unplanned.D.It created a demand for public transportation.(5).The author mentions Chicago in the second paragraph as an example of city（分数：14.20）A.that is largeB.that is used as a model for land developmentC.where land development exceeded population growthD.with an excellent mass transportation s
35、ystem十四、Passage Two(总题数：1，分数：71.00)Excess inventory, a massive problem for many businesses, has several causes, some of which are unavoidable. Overstocks may accumulate through production overruns or errors. Certain styles and colors prove unpopular. With some products computers and software, toys,
36、and bookslast year“s models are difficult to move even at huge discounts. Occasionally the competition introduces a better product. But in many cases the public“s buying tastes simply change, leaving a manufacturer or distributor with thousands (or millions) of items that the fickle public no longer
37、 wants. One common way to dispose of this merchandise is to sell it to a liquidator, who buys as cheaply as possible and then resells the merchandise through catalogs, discount stores, and other outlets. However, liquidators may pay less for the merchandise than it cost to make it. Another way to di
38、spose of excess inventory is to dump it. The corporation takes a straight cost write-off on its taxes and hauls the merchandise to a landfill. Although it is hard to believe, there is a sort of convoluted logic to this approach. It is perfectly legal, requires little time or preparation on the compa
39、ny“s part, and solves the problem quickly. The drawback is the remote possibility of getting caught by the news media. Dumping perfectly useful products can turn into a public relations nightmare. Children living in poverty are freezing and XYZ Company has just sent 500 new snowsuits to the local du
40、mp. Parents of young children are barely getting by and QPS Company dumps 1,000 cases of disposable diapers because they have slight imperfections. The managers of these companies are not deliberately wasteful; they are simply unaware of all their alternatives. In 1976 the Internal Revenue Service p
41、rovided a tangible incentive for businesses to contribute their products to charity. The new tax law allowed corporations to deduct the cost of the product donated plus half the difference between cost and fair market selling price, with the proviso that deductions cannot exceed twice cost. Thus, th
42、e federal government sanctions indeed, encourages an above-cost federal tax deduction for companies that donate inventory to charity.（分数：71.00）(1).The author mentions each of the following as a cause of excess inventory EXCEPT（分数：14.20）A.production of too much merchandiseB.inaccurate forecasting of
43、buyers“ preferencesC.unrealistic pricing policiesD.products“ rapid obsolescence(2).The passage suggests that which of the following is a kind of product that a liquidator who sells to discount stores would be unlikely to wish to acquire?（分数：14.20）A.Furniture.B.Computers.C.Kitchen equipment.D.Baby-ca
44、re products.(3).The passage provides information that supports which of the following statements?（分数：14.20）A.Excess inventory results most often from insufficient market analysis by the manufacturer.B.Products with slight manufacturing defects may contribute to excess inventory.C.Few manufacturers h
45、ave taken advantage of the changes in the federal tax laws.D.Manufacturers who dump their excess inventory are often caught and exposed by the news media.(4).The author cites the examples in lines 1620 most probably in order to illustrate（分数：14.20）A.the fiscal irresponsibility of dumping as a policy
46、 for dealing with excess inventoryB.the waste management problems that dumping new products createsC.the advantages to the manufacturer of dumping as a policyD.how the news media could portray dumping to the detriment of the manufacturer“s reputation(5).The information in the passage suggests that w
47、hich of the following, if true, would make donating excess inventory to charity less attractive to manufacturers than dumping?（分数：14.20）A.The costs of getting the inventory to the charitable destination are greater than the above-cost tax deduction.B.The news media give manufacturers“ charitable con
48、tributions the same amount of coverage that they give dumping.C.No straight-cost tax benefit can be claimed for items that are dumped.D.The fair-market value of an item in excess inventory is 1.5 times its cost.十五、Part Translation(总题数：1，分数：106.50)2.二十年来，我生活费中至少十分之一二是消耗在书上的。我的房子里比较贵重的东西就是书。 我一向没有对于任何问题作高深研究的野心，因之所买的书范围较广，宗教、艺术、文学、社会、哲学、历史、生物，各方面差不多都有一点。最多的是各国文学名著的译本，与本国古来的诗文集，别的门类只是些概论等类的入门书而已。 我不喜欢向别人或图书馆借书。借来的书，在我好像过不来瘾似的，必要时自己买的书才满足。这也可谓是一种占有的欲望。买到了几册新书，一册一册地加盖藏书印记，我最感到愉悦的是这时候。 （分数：106.50）_大学六级-121 答案解析(总分：710.00，做题时间：90 分钟)一、Part
