1、大学六级-123 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.In a mill.B.In a post office.C.In a bank.D.In an airport.A.A dra
3、matist.B.An actor.C.A plumber.D.An farmer.A.Read the operation manual.B.Try the buttons one by one.C.Ask the shop assistant for advice.D.Make the machine run slowly.A.The woman should have complained to her neighbor.B.The woman should stay out until the neighbors are quiet.C.The woman should have st
4、ayed at the library.D.The lab will be a better place for reading.A.To run into each other.B.To get bargains.C.To avoid the crowds.D.To join the crowds.（分数：21.30）A.He doesn“t have enough money to buy a house.B.He really doesn“t Want to buy a house.C.He plans to buy a house in a little while.D.He will
5、 have enough money for a house soon.A.Families with Cars.B.Americans“ heavy dependence on cars.C.Roads and highways.D.Traffic problems in America.A.She would go with him.B.She would stay at home.C.She would go to the school.D.She would visit their friends.Questions 9 to 11 are based on the conversat
6、ion you have just heard. （分数：21.30）A.To chat with Jack socially.B.To get help in the course.C.To hand in their assignments.D.To practice giving interviews.A.Give Jack a different office.B.Complain to the department head.C.Move the supplies to the storage room.D.Try to get a room to use for meetings.
7、A.They“d have to get permission.B.Jack wouldn“t like it.C.She thinks it might work.D.The other assistants should be consulted.Questions 12 to 15 are based on the conversation you have just heard. （分数：28.40）A.Mating habits of squid and octopus.B.The evolution of certain forms of sea life.C.The study
8、of marine shells.D.Survival skills of sea creatures.A.He didn“t understand the lecture.B.He wants to borrow her notes next week.C.He needs help with a makeup exam.D.He was sick and unable to attend.A.Some sea creatures developed vertebrae.B.The first giant squid was captured.C.Some sea creatures she
9、d their shells.D.Sea life became more intelligent.A.She has always believed they exist.B.She heard about them in New Zealand.C.Stories about them may be based on giant squid.D.The instructor mentioned them in the lecture.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 b
10、ased on the passage you have just heard. （分数：21.30）A.How to handle spiders.B.Spiders in the United States.C.People“s fear of spiders.D.A special kind of spider.A.Most spiders will not bite even when handled.B.Most spiders are poisonous and dangerous.C.Most spiders are likely to attack people.D.Most
11、spiders have sharp eyes.A.Because she cannot find a husband for herself.B.Because the female spider is larger than the male one.C.Because the female spider often eats her husband.D.Because she is a black female spider.六、Passage Two(总题数：1，分数：21.30)Questions 19 to 21 are based on the passage you have
12、just heard. （分数：21.30）A.He could say a lot of words.B.He only knew bad words.C.He was not able to learn words taught by George.D.He was good at praising others.A.George was quite satisfied with his bird.B.George was proud of this bird.C.George felt angry at the bird.D.George was surprised to hear th
13、e bad words.A.He saw chicken“s body in the freezer and was afraid of being treated in such a way.B.George was going to kill him.C.George cursed him back.D.He felt ashamed because George was angry.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：28.4
14、0）A.Students from America.B.Students from England.C.Students from Australia.D.Students from Japan.A.Those who know how to program computers.B.Those who get special aid from their teachers.C.Those who are very hardworking.D.Those who have well-educated parents.A.Japanese students study much harder th
15、an Columbian students.B.Columbian students score higher than Japanese students in math.C.Columbian students are more optimistic about their math skills.D.Japanese student shave better conditions for study.A.Physics.B.Mathematics.C.Environmental science.D.Life science.八、Section C(总题数：1，分数：71.00)Five
16、out of ten of the world“s largest food companies are aggressively exploring the potential of nanotechnology for better packaging, improved food safety and better nutritional content. The food industry is moving faster than any other sector to 1 nanotechnologythe manufacture of objects so small that
17、they cannot be seen even with a 2 microscopeand it is estimated that it will be 3 into $ 20 billion worth of food products by 2010. But do the public want their food engineered? The experience with 4 modified (GM) food would suggest not. Although no nanotech food products are 5 in Britain, a handful
18、 are in the U.S. where there are already demands from lobby groups for “nanohazard“ labeling. There is little controversy over new techniques of 6 nanoscale-sensing devices to food products and packaging, so that the sources of food 7 can be traced back to origin; something that food 8 have long bee
19、n demanding. Could nano-materials migrate from packaging into food? If so, what might their impact be? No one knows yet, 9 it is the subject of research sponsored by the Food Safety Agency (FSA). So that is one area where future controversy may lie. The Government has recently announced 5 million 10
20、 funding for nanotechnology risk assessment. But while the Government claims that it is proceeding with nanotechnology using an evidence-based approach, the Government needs a more active approach, pushing studies ahead. （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:
21、_九、Part Reading Compr(总题数：0，分数：0.00)十、Section A(总题数：1，分数：35.50)Standard English is the variety of English which is usually used in print and which is normally taught in schools and to non-native speakers learning the language. It is also the variety which is normally 1 by educated people and used in
22、 news broadcasts and other similar situations. The difference between standard and nonstandard, it should be noted, has 2 in principle to do with differences between formal and colloquial language; standard English has colloquial as well as formal variants. 3 , the standard variety of English is bas
23、ed on the London dialect of English that developed after the Norman Conquest resulted in the removal of the Court from Winchester to London. This dialect became the one 4 by the educated, and it was developed and promoted 5 a model, or norm, for wider and wider segments of society. It was also the n
24、orm that was carried overseas, but not one unaffected by such export. Today, 6 English is arranged to the extent that the grammar and vocabulary of English are 7 the same everywhere in the world where English is used; variation among local standards is really quite minor, so that the Singapore, Sout
25、h Africa, and Irish varieties are really very little different from one another so far as grammar and vocabulary are 8 . Indeed, Standard English is so powerful that it exerts a tremendous 9 on all local varieties, to the extent that many of long-established dialects of England have 10 much of their
26、 vigor (活力) and there is considerable pressure on them to be standardized. This latter situation is not unique to English: it is also true in other countries where processes of standardization are under way. But it sometimes creates problems for speakers who try to strike some kind of compromise bet
27、ween local norms and national, even supranational (跨国的) ones. A. preferred I. vocabulary B. pressure J. much C. same K. Historically D. spoken L. identical E. lost M. concerned F. standard N. words G. equal O. as H. nothing（分数：35.50）十一、Section B(总题数：1，分数：71.00)Why Exercise Won“t Make You ThinA. As I
28、 write this, tomorrow is Tuesday, which is a cardio day. I“ll spend five minutes warming up on the Versa Climber, a towering machine that requires you to move your arms and legs simultaneously. Then I“ll do 30 minutes on a stair mill. On Wednesday a personal trainer will work me like a farm animal f
29、or an hour, sometimes to the point that I am dizzyan abuse for which I pay as much as I spend on groceries in a week. Thursday is “body wedge“ class, which involves another exercise contraption, this one a large foam wedge from which I will push myself up in various hateful ways for an hour. Friday
30、will bring a 5.5-mile run, the extra half- mile my grueling expiation of any gastronomical indulgences during the week. B. I have exercised like thisobsessively, a bit grimlyfor years, but recently I began to wonder: Why am I doing this? Except for a two-year period at the end of an unhappy relation
31、shipa period when I self-medicated with lots of Italian dessertsI have never been overweight. C. One of the most widely accepted, commonly repeated assumptions in our culture is that if you exercise, you will lose weight. But I exercise all the time, and since I ended that relationship and cut most
32、of those desserts, my weight has returned to the same 163 lb. It has been most of my adult life. I still have gut fat that hangs over my belt when I sit. Why isn“t all the exercise wiping it out? D. It“s a question many of us could ask. More than 45 million Americans now belong to a health club, up
33、from 23 million in 1993. We spend some $19 billion a year on gym memberships. Of course, some people join and never go. Still, as one major study the Minnesota Heart Surveyfound, more of us at least say we exercise regularly. The survey ran from 1980, when only 47% of respondents said they engaged i
34、n regular exercise, to 2000, when the figure had grown to 57%. E. And yet obesity figures have risen dramatically in the same period: a third of Americans are obese, and another third count as overweight by the Federal Government“s definition. Yes, it“s entirely possible that those of us who regular
35、ly go to the gym would weigh even more if we exercised less. But like many other people, I get hungry after I exercise, so I often eat more on the days I work out than on the days I don“t. Could exercise actually be keeping me from losing weight? F. The conventional wisdom that exercise is essential
36、 for shedding pounds is actually fairly new. As recently as the 1960s, doctors routinely advised against rigorous exercise, particularly for older adults who could injure themselves. G. Today doctors encourage even their oldest patients to exercise, which is sound advice for many reasons: people who
37、 regularly exercise are at significantly lower risk for all manner of diseasesthose of the heart in particular. They less often develop cancer, diabetes and many other illnesses. But the past few years of obesity research show that the role of exercise in weight loss has been wildly overstated. H. “
38、In general, for weight loss, exercise is pretty useless.“ says Eric Ravussin, chair in diabetes and metabolism at Louisiana State University and a prominent exercise researcher. Many recent studies have found that exercise isn“t as important in helping people lose weight as you hear so regularly in
39、gym advertisements or on shows like The Biggest Loseror, for that matter, from magazines like this one. I. The basic problem is that while it“s true that exercise burns calories and that you must burn calories to lose weight, exercise has another effect: it can stimulate hunger. That causes us to ea
40、t more, which in turn can negate the weight-loss benefits we just accrued. Exercise, in other words, isn“t necessarily helping us lose weight. It may even be making it harder. The compensation problem J. Earlier this year, the peer-reviewed journal PLOS ONEPLOS is the nonprofit Public Library of Sci
41、encepublished a remarkable study supervised by a colleague of Ravussin“s, Dr. Timothy Church, who holds the rather grand title of chair in health wisdom at LSU. Church“s team randomly assigned into four groups 464 overweight women who didn“t regularly exercise. K. Women in three of the groups were a
42、sked to work out with a personal trainer for 72 min., 136 min., and 194 min. per week, respectively, for six months. Women in the fourth cluster, the control group, were told to maintain their usual physical activity routines. All the women were asked not to change their dietary habits and to fill o
43、ut monthly medical symptom questionnaires. L. The findings were surprising. On average, the women in all the groups, even the control group, lost weight, but the women who exercisedsweating it out with a trainer several days a week for six monthsdid not lose significantly more weight than the contro
44、l subjects did. (The control group women may have lost weight because they were filling out those regular health forms, which may have prompted them to consume fewer doughnuts.) Some of the women in each of the four groups actually gained weight, some more than 10 lb. each. M. What“s going on here?
45、Church calls it compensation, but you and I might know it as the lip-licking anticipation of perfectly salted, golden-brown French fries after a hard trip to the gym. Whether because exercise made them hungry or because they wanted to reward themselves (or both), most of the women who exercised ate
46、more than they did before they started the experiment. Or they compensated in another way, by moving around a lot less than usual after they got home. N. The findings are important because the government and various medical organizations routinely prescribe more and more exercise for those who want
47、to lose weight. In 2007 the American College of Sports Medicine and the American Heart Association issued new guidelines stating that “to lose weight. 60 to 90 minutes of physical activity may be necessary.“ That“s 60 to 90 minutes on most days of the week, a level that not only is unrealistic for t
48、hose of us trying to keep or find a job but also could easily produce, on the basis of Church“s data, ravenous compensatory eating. O. It“s true that after six months of working out, most of the exercisers in Church“s study were able to trim their waist lines slightlyby about an inch. Even so, they
49、lost no more overall body fat than the control group did. Why not?（分数：71.00）(1).This article was written on Monday.（分数：7.10）(2).There has been an increase of 22 million Americans who join a health club to build their bodies compared with that of 1993.（分数：7.10）(3).People who regularly exercise are at, significant lower
