1、大学六级-134 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：106.00)1.Directions : For this part, you are allowed 30 minutes to write a short essay commenting on the remark “Hope for the best, but prepare for the worst“. You can give examples to illustrate your point. You should write at least 150 wo
2、rds but no more than 200 words. （分数：106.00）_二、Part Listening Com(总题数：0，分数：0.00)三、Section A(总题数：2，分数：56.00)Questions 1 to 4 are based on the conversation you have just heard. （分数：28.00）A.To apply for a student loan.B.To discuss a decision he has to make.C.To ask for a letter of recommendation.D.To fi
3、nd out which colleges accepted him.A.The laboratories are not well equipped.B.The classes are too large.C.It“s too expensive.D.It“s too far away from home.A.It has a beautiful campus.B.Professors regularly publish their academic results.C.It“s in an urban setting.D.Faculty members interact with stud
4、ents.A.He is outgoing.B.He is handsome.C.He is troublesome.D.He is honest.Questions 5 to 8 are based on the conversation you have just heard. （分数：28.00）A.Studying.B.Preparing snacks.C.Playing cards.D.Learning how to play bridge.A.Watch her partner.B.Sit there and study.C.Quit the game.D.Get snacks f
5、or everyone.A.Miss her card game.B.Stay up too late.C.Take a heavy work load next semester.D.Neglect her studies to play bridge.A.Because he already knows how to play.B.Because he doesn“t like to play card games.C.Because he doesn“t have a partner.D.Because he doesn“t have enough time.四、Section B(总题
6、数：0，分数：0.00)五、Passage One(总题数：1，分数：21.00)Questions 9 to 11 are based on the passage you have just heard. （分数：21.00）A.A week at Tanglewood.B.A movie ticket.C.A vacation in Boston.D.A sum of money.A.It“s difficult to hear.B.The lawn was usually very crowded.C.The audience might get wet.D.The setting w
7、asn“t very pretty.A.It was held in Boston.B.All the seats were indoors.C.It was not well known.D.It has been going on for a long time.六、Passage Two(总题数：1，分数：28.00)Questions 12 to 15 are based on the passage you have just heard. （分数：28.00）A.Jefferson“s views about commercialized agriculture.B.Interna
8、tional trade in the nineteenth century.C.Improvements in farm machinery in the United States.D.Farmers“ gradual loss of independence.A.Crop production became increasingly specialized.B.Economic depressions lowered the prices of farm products.C.New banking laws made it easy to buy farmland.D.The Unit
9、ed States increased its agricultural imports.A.Prices for farm products rose.B.Farmers became more dependent on loans from banks.C.Jefferson established government programs to assist farmers.D.Farmers relied less on foreign markets.A.They provided evidence that Jefferson“s ideal could be achieved.B.
10、They made farmers less dependent on local banks.C.They affected the prices that farmers could receive for their crops.D.They decreased the power of the railroads to control farm prices.七、Section C(总题数：3，分数：144.00)Now listen to the following recording and answer questions 16 to 19. （分数：57.60）A.They w
11、ill help listeners acquire more knowledge.B.They will make other people feel relaxed and comfortable.C.They must be learned in practice.D.They can help turn strangers into close friends.A.They don“t want to be considered impolite.B.They try to show their rich knowledge.C.They are afraid of being lef
12、t behind.D.They want to become more outgoing than before.A.Speaking loudly.B.Making clear their points.C.Laughing a lot to ease others“ discomfort.D.Showing warming and friendly feelings.A.A big and warm hug.B.A good wish for others.C.A special and meaningful gift.D.A smile and a sincere handshake.N
13、ow listen to the following recording and answer questions 20 to 22. （分数：43.20）A.Enough cash flow to support companies.B.A responsible attitude to their employees.C.Their nimbleness in doing business.D.Their ability of getting rid of government intervention.A.The increasingly expensive health care wh
14、ich is difficult to get at reasonable rates.B.The paying of various high taxes to attract and keep his employees.C.Huge financial loss due to potential investment risks.D.The potential wage inflation because of unstable economic conditions.A.They are anxious about the development of small businesses
15、.B.They are optimistic about the conditions of small businesses.C.They are cautious about economic conditions and hesitate to invest.D.They are uncertain about the future of small businesses.Now listen to the following recording and answer questions 23 to 25. （分数：43.20）A.An hour of jogging at a loca
16、l park.B.An hour of fast walking and an hour of running at a local park,C.Going to a gym for two or three hours“ muscle training.D.Taking part in the road race and the race walk.A.She won a gold medal in pickleball at the 2013 National Senior Games.B.She plays pickleball and teaches the sport to sen
17、ior groups.C.Her fitness result showed that she was just 44 years old,D.She didn“t take sports more seriously until she turned 50.A.It helps people know the benefits of being fit and healthy.B.It encourages more people to become competitors.C.It leads old people to start taking exercise right now.D.
18、It gives people a reason to take good care of themselves.八、Part Reading Compr(总题数：0，分数：0.00)九、Section A(总题数：1，分数：35.00)Many of the aids which are advertised as liberating the modern woman tend to have the opposite effect, because they simply change the nature of work instead of eliminating it. Machi
19、nes have a certain novelty value, like toys for adults. It is 1 less tiring to put clothes in a washing machine, but the time saved does not really 2 too much: the machine has to be watched, the clothes have to be carefully sorted first, stains 3 by hand, buttons pushed and water changed, clothes ta
20、ken out, aired and ironed. It would be more liberating to pack it all off to a 4 and not necessarily more expensive, since no capital investment is required. Similarly, if you really want to save time you do not make cakes with an electric mixer, you buy one in a shop. If one compares the image of d
21、omesticated woman fostered by the women“s magazines with the goods advertised by those periodicals, advertising which finances them, one realizes how useful a projected image can be in commerce. A careful 5 has to be struck: if you show a labor-saving gadget, follow it up with a 6 recipe on the next
22、 page; on no account hint at the notion that a woman could get herself a job, but instead foster her sense of her own usefulness, 7 the creative aspect of her function as a housewife. So we get cake mixes where the cook simply adds an egg herself, to produce “that lovely home-baked 8 the family love
23、“, and knitting patterns that can be made by hand, or worse still, on knitting machines, which became a tremendous vogue when they were first 9 (difficult to know who would wear all those rapidly produced sweaters, which lacked the advantages of hand-made woolens). Automatic cookers are advertised b
24、y pictures of pretty young mothers taking their children to the park, not by 10 women presetting the dinner before catching a bus to the office. Alaundry Bexaggerate Cemphasize Dcertainly Eindignant Fremoved Gamount Hexcessively Icomplicated Jhandled Kflavor Lprofessional Mintroduced Ncalculation Ob
25、alance（分数：35.00）十、Section B(总题数：1，分数：70.00)Daylight Saving Time (DST)How and When Did Daylight Saving Time Start? ABenjamin Franklinof “early to bed and early to rise“ famewas apparently the first person to suggest the concept of daylight savings. While serving as U.S. ambassador to France in Paris,
26、 Franklin wrote of being awakened at 6 a.m. and realizing, to his surprise, that the sun would rise far earlier than he usually did. Imagine the resources that might be saved if he and others rose before noon and burned less midnight oil, Franklin, tongue half in cheek, wrote to a newspaper. BIt was
27、n“t until World War I that daylight savings were realized on a grand scale. Germany was the first state to adopt the time changes, to reduce artificial lighting and thereby save coal for the war effort. Friends and foes soon followed suit. In the U.S. a federal law standardized the yearly start and
28、end of daylight saving time in 1918for the states that chose to observe it. CDuring World War the U.S. made daylight saving time mandatory (强制的) for the whole country, as a way to save wartime resources. Between February 9, 1942, and September 30, 1945, the government took it a step further. During
29、this period daylight saving time was observed year-round, essentially making it the new standard time, if only for a few years. Many years later, the Energy Policy Act of 2005 was enacted, mandating a controversial month-long extension of daylight saving time, starting in 2007. Daylight Saving Time:
30、 Energy Saver or Just Time Sucker? DIn recent years several studies have suggested that daylight saving time doesn“t actually save energyand might even result in a net loss. Environmental economist Hendrik Wolff, of the University of Washington, coauthored a paper that studied Australian power-use d
31、ata when parts of the country extended daylight saving time for the 2000 Sydney Olympics and others did not. The researchers found that the practice reduced lighting and electricity consumption in the evening but increased energy use in the now dark morningswiping out the evening gains. That“s becau
32、se the extra hour that daylight saving time adds in the evening is a hotter hour. “So if people get home an hour earlier in a warmer house, they turn on their air conditioning,“ the University of Washington“s Wolff said. EBut other studies do show energy gains. In an October 2008 daylight saving lim
33、e report to Congress, mandated by the same 2005 energy act that extended daylight saving time, the U.S. Department of Energy asserted that springing forward does save energy. Extended daylight saving time saved 1.3 terawatt (大瓦) hours of electricity. That figure suggests that daylight saving time re
34、duces annual U.S. electricity consumption by 0.03 percent and overall energy consumption by 0.02 percent. While those percentages seem small, they could represent significant savings because of the nation“s enormous total energy use. FWhat“s more, savings in some regions are apparently greater than
35、in others. California, for instance, appears to benefit most from daylight saving timeperhaps because its relatively mild weather encourages people to stay outdoors later. The Energy Department report found that daylight saving time resulted in an energy savings of one percent daily in the state. GB
36、ut Wolff, one of many scholars who contributed to the federal report, suggested that the numbers were subject to statistical variability (变化) and shouldn“t be taken as hard facts. And daylight savings“ energy gains in the U.S. largely depend on your location in relation to the Mason-Dixon Line, Wolf
37、f said. “The North might be a slight winner, because the North doesn“t have as much air conditioning,“ he said. “But the South is a definite loser in terms of energy consumption. The South has more energy consumption under daylight saving.“ Daylight Saving Time: Healthy or Harmful? HFor decades advo
38、cates of daylight savings have argued that, energy savings or no, daylight saving time boosts health by encouraging active lifestylesa claim Wolff and colleagues are currently putting to the test. “In a nationwide American time-use study, we“re clearly seeing that, at the time of daylight saving tim
39、e extension in the spring, television watching is substantially reduced and outdoor behaviors like jogging, walking, or going to the park are substantially increased,“ Wolff said. “That“s remarkable, because of course the total amount of daylight in a given day is the same.“ IBut others warn of ill
40、effects. Till Roenneberg, a university professor in Munich (慕尼黑),Germany, said his studies show that our circadian (生理节奏的) body clocksset by light and darknessnever adjust to gaining an “extra“ hour of sunlight to the end of the day during daylight saving time. JOne reason so many people in the deve
41、loped world are chronically (长期的) overtired, he said, is that they suffer from “social jet lag.“ In other words, their optimal circadian sleep periods don“t accord with their actual sleep schedules. Shifting daylight from morning to evening only increases this lag, he said. “Light doesn“t do the sam
42、e things to the body in the morning and the evening. More light in the morning would advance the body clock, and that would be good. But more light in the evening would even further delay the body clock.“ KOther research hints at even more serious health risks. A 2008 study concluded that, at least
43、in Sweden, heart attack risks go up in the days just after the spring time change. “The most likely explanation to our findings is disturbed sleep and disruption of biological rhythms,“ One expert told National Geographic News via email. Daylight Savings“ Lovers and Haters LWith verdicts (定论) on the
44、 benefits, or costs, of daylight savings so split, it may be no surprise that the yearly time changes inspire polarized reactions. In the U.K., for instance, the Lighter Later movementpart of 10:10, a group advocating cutting carbon emissionsargues for a sort of extreme daylight savings. First, they
45、 say, move standard time forward an hour, then keep observing daylight saving time as usualadding two hours of evening daylight to what we currently consider standard time. The folks behind S, on the other hand, want to abolish daylight saving time altogether, calling energy-efficiency claims “unpro
46、ven.“ MNational telephone surveys by Rasmussen Reports from spring 2010 and fall 2009 deliver the same answer. Most people just “don“t think the time change is worth the hassle (麻烦的事).“ Forty-seven percent agreed with that statement, while only 40 percent disagreed. But Seize the Daylight author Dav
47、id Prerau said his research on daylight saving time suggests most people are fond of it. “I think if you ask most people if they enjoy having an extra hour of daylight in the evening eight months a year, the response would be pretty positive.“（分数：70.00）(1).Daylight savings“ energy gains might be var
48、ious due to different climates.（分数：7.00）(2).Disturbed sleep and disruption of biological rhythms may be the best explanation to higher heart attack risks in the days after the spring time change.（分数：7.00）(3).A research indicated that DST might not save energy by increasing energy use in the dark mor
49、nings, though it reduced lighting and electricity consumption in the evening.（分数：7.00）(4).Germany took the lead in saving wartime resources by adopting the time changes and reducing artificial lighting.（分数：7.00）(5).A university professor studied the effect of daylight saving time and sounded the alarm of its negative effects.（分数：7.00）(6).Social jet lag can partly account for people“s chronic fatigue syndrome in developed countries.（分数：7.00）(7).
