1、大学六级-138 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 an essay based on the picture below. You should start your essay with a brief description of the picture and then discuss whether the youth are spoiled greatly nowadays
2、. You should give sound arguments to support your views and write at least 150 words 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：4，分数：49.00)（分数：15.00）A.She doesn“t know exactly when the man should make the call.B.The man should make the call at 7:00.C.T
3、he man should make an appointment in advance.D.The man can call Dr. Smith at any time.A.The man is looking at the map of America.B.The man is a member of staff at the train station.C.The woman is looking up the train timetable.D.The woman is waiting for the train leaving for Washington.A.He doesn“t
4、like foreign literature at all.B.He has learnt a few language courses in university.C.He has learnt only one literature course in university.D.He wishes he had learnt several foreign literature courses in university.A.She got good marks in the exam.B.She will have a one-month holiday.C.She has gradu
5、ated from university.D.She has never prepared for the exam.A.The pleasant life in England.B.The ambition of Americans.C.The easy interpersonal relationship in England.D.Different attitude towards life.（分数：9.00）A.She lost her key on her way home.B.She locked herself out of the house.C.She has waited
6、for her husband for a long time.D.Her apartment was on fire.A.The man will meet some writers someday.B.The man will be very busy on Thursday.C.The man will have a meeting on Friday.D.The man will stay with some journalists for two days.A.The accident happened for the driver“s sudden turn.B.The drive
7、r was badly injured in the car accident.C.The accident was caused by the tree in the street.D.It“s the driver who should be blamed.Questions 9 to 12 are based on the conversation you have just heard. （分数：16.00）A.Check-in only takes a few minutes but check-out does not.B.The swimming pool costs custo
8、mers a lot.C.The waiters work well and the dish they recommended is nice.D.The high tip is unbelievable which the guests dislike.A.Nobody checks in except at weekends.B.The hotel is full except at weekends.C.It is too full to afford any tourist at weekends.D.It is so crowded that tourists should mak
9、e reservations.A.He couldn“t check his e-mails because of the Internet connection problem.B.He couldn“t receive his letters because of the waiter“s carelessness.C.He couldn“t order meals in his room because of lacking menus.D.He couldn“t sleep well because of the noise outside.A.Guests give their ti
10、ps to the manager instead of waiters.B.Guests put their tips in the box at the reception desk.C.Guests never give tips to the waiters at weekdays.D.Guests put the tips in the room when they check out.Questions 13 to 15 are based on the conversation you have just heard. （分数：9.00）A.He is too old to pr
11、onounce every word clearly.B.He is so young that his teaching style is unacceptable.C.He is too old-fashioned to give students new concepts.D.His lecture is too difficult to understand.A.Communicating is the only way to get high marks.B.Exams don“t require rote learning but practicing.C.Memorizing w
12、hat you have learnt is the key point.D.Communicating and memorizing are both important in exams.A.She is an understanding teacher whose oral English is understandable.B.She lives in a small town in the middle of America now.C.She taught the students a phrase “with flying birds“ which was very useful
13、.D.She only assigned a little homework to make the students relaxed.四、Section B(总题数：0，分数：0.00)五、Passage One(总题数：1，分数：18.00)Questions 16 to 18 are bused on the passage you have just heard. （分数：18.00）A.The tie will disappear within British firms.B.75% businessmen will be asked to wear ties.C.T-shirts
14、will be more popular than before.D.British firms will require employees to work with ties.A.There won“t be ties in medium enterprises in 20 years.B.Most people believe the tie would disappear in 10 years.C.Most people believe the tie will be eliminated sooner or later.D.The tie has become a victim o
15、f the poll.A.They do not have extra money to buy ties.B.They want to minimize their expense.C.They believe ties are very inconvenient.D.They want themselves to feel relaxed.六、Passage Two(总题数：1，分数：18.00)Questions 19 to 21 are based on the passage you have just heard. （分数：18.00）A.They are the mysterie
16、s in the sea.B.They are treasured landmarks.C.They mean little for the American people.D.They are valuable castles.A.It is the seventh wonder of the Ancient World.B.It is the tallest structure at present.C.It was damaged by earthquakes.D.It was reconstructed for good in 1480.A.They have been replace
17、d by advanced satellites and radio signals.B.Captains thought them useless during their voyage.C.They have been swallowed by the sea.D.Only small boats could use them.七、Passage Three(总题数：1，分数：20.00)Questions 22 to 25 are based on the passage you have just heard. （分数：20.00）A.They are facing bankruptc
18、y.B.Many of them are about to be fired.C.They are thinking about job-hopping.D.They are under great working pressure.A.They grew up in the single-parent families.B.They are well-educated.C.They haven“t had their own houses.D.They have been married for years.A.Take no care about him.B.Raise their chi
19、ldren.C.Introduce work to him.D.Help him pay his debt.A.It is normal for women to dress up.B.It costs them too much money.C.It is an investment for their futures.D.It“s not worth spending time on it.八、Section C(总题数：1，分数：144.00)New images of a weird weather phenomenon known as a roll cloud have surfa
20、ced in Richland, Mississippi. The images, taken by a phone camera by a Mississippi 1 Daniel Blake Fitzhugh, reveal a seemingly endless roll cloud, or arcus cloud, a low cloud formation that forms over the sea or 2 thunderstorms. Fitzhugh sent an image and video of the cloud to LiveScience after seei
21、ng an earlier report of a roll cloud off the coast of Brazil. Fitzhugh told LiveScience he 3 the video and image of a roll cloud in Richland, a town on the 4 of Jackson, Mississippi. “It had been cloudy and windy all day,“ Fitzhugh wrote in an e-mail. “I was heading north and the cloud was going fro
22、m west to east. I noticed it and was 5 surprised! I had never seen anything like it before.“ The cloud was rolling around like a “sideways tornado,“ Fitzhugh said. In fact, roll clouds form where sinking cold air drives low-hanging, 6 warm air upward, where cooler temperatures condense the moisture
23、in the air to form clouds. Winds 7 the weird rolling effect. Their more commonly spotted cousins, shelf clouds, form on the leading edges of thunderstorms; while shelf clouds 8 the bulk of a storm, these tubular clouds aren“t. Tornadoes are also 9 storms when they occur. Unlike tornadoes, roll cloud
24、s aren“t dangerous. They are rare, however. One of the best chances to see a roll cloud is off the coast of Queensland, Australia. Here, sea winds 10 form a reoccurring roll cloud known as Morning Glory during the fall months. （分数：144.00）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
25、：35.00)Colombia is renowned for its fine Arabica coffee beans all over the world. Oddly, few Colombians appear keen on the stuff. Each 1 just 1.5kg of coffee per year on average. A typical Brazilian, by 2 , drinks 6kg-worth. Americans knock back lessaround 4kgbut a lot of it comes from Colombia, whi
26、ch is the world“s fourth-biggest producer. The bulk of the country“s yearly production of 462000 tonnes is 3 for export. Lesser-quality imports from Ecuador and Peru 4 for 90% of internal consumption. But for the past decade Juan Valdez coffee shops, owned by the powerful National Coffee Federation,
27、 which represents growers, have tried to 5 Colombians to the pleasures of high-end coffee. Modelled on Starbucks, the Seattle-based barista (咖啡师) giant, Juan Valdez is now bracing for 6 competition from it. Last week the American firm announced that it will open its first store in Colombia next year
28、. Starbucks“ entry into Colombia follows Juan Valdez“s own foray (突袭) into the American company“s home turf in Seattle, where it opened three shops in 2005. Indeed, Juan Valdez thinks it has learned so much from Starbucks that it does not fear competition. And it believes stressing its local roots g
29、ive it an 7 though it remains to be seen whether invoking tradition will work in a country 8 uninterested in coffee. Starbucks isn“t taking any chances. The American chain says it will 9 only locally grown beans at the 50 stores it hopes to open in the next five years. This is good news for coffee g
30、rowers, who have been hurt by low international coffee prices and an overvalued peso. Increased 10 sales, even to an international chain, would be a better pick-me-up even than a cup of Colombia“s choicest blend. A. account F. destined K. external B. amount G. direct L. privately C. comparison H. do
31、mestic M. processes D. consumes I. dominant N. serve E. convert J. edge O. traditionally（分数：35.00）十一、Section B(总题数：1，分数：70.00)Why Teenagers Act CrazyA. Adolescence is practically synonymous in our culture with risk taking, emotional drama and all forms of strange behavior. Until very recently, the w
32、idely accepted explanation for adolescent angst has been psychological. Developmentally, teenagers face a number of social and emotional challenges, like starting to separate from their parents, getting accepted into a peer group and figuring out who they really are. It doesn“t take a psychoanalyst
33、to realize that these are anxiety-provoking transitions. B. But there is a darker side to adolescence that, until now, was poorly understood: a surge during teenage years in anxiety and fearfulness. Largely because of a quirk (古怪) of brain development, adolescents, on average, experience more anxiet
34、y and fear and have a harder time learning how not to be afraid than either children or adults. C. Different regions and circuits of the brain mature at very different rates. It turns out that the brain circuit for processing fearthe amygdala (杏仁核)is precocious (早熟的) and develops way ahead of the pr
35、efrontal cortex (前额皮质), the seat of reasoning and executive control. This means that adolescents have a brain that is wired with an enhanced capacity for fear and anxiety, but is relatively underdeveloped when it comes to calm reasoning. D. You may wonder why, if adolescents have such enhanced capac
36、ity for anxiety, they are such novelty seekers and risk takers. It would seem that the two traits are at odds. The answer, in part, is that the brain“s reward center, just like its fear circuit, matures earlier than the prefrontal cortex. That reward center drives much of teenagers“ risky behavior.
37、This behavioral paradox also helps explain why adolescents are particularly prone to injury and trauma. The top three killers of teenagers are accidents, homicide and suicide. The brain-development lag has huge implications for how we think about anxiety and how we treat it. It suggests that anxious
38、 adolescents may not be very responsive to psychotherapy that attempts to teach them to be unafraid, like cognitive behavior therapy, which is zealously prescribed for teenagers. E. What we have learned should also make us think twiceand then someabout the ever rising use of stimulants in young peop
39、le, because these drugs may worsen anxiety and make it harder for teenagers to do what they are developmentally supposed to do: Learn to be unafraid when it is appropriate to do so. Of course, most adolescents do not develop anxiety disorders, but acquire the skill to modulate (调节) their fear as the
40、ir prefrontal cortex matures in young adulthood, at around age 25. But up to 20 percent of adolescents in the United States experience a diagnosable anxiety disorder, like generalized anxiety or panic attacks, probably resulting from a mix of genetic factors and environmental influences. The prevale
41、nce of anxiety disorders and risky behavior (both of which reflect this developmental disjunction in the brain) have been relatively steady, which suggests to me that the biological contribution is very significant. F. One of my patients, a 32-year-old man, recalled feeling anxious in social gatheri
42、ngs as a teenager. “It was viscerally (出自内心地) unpleasant and I felt as if I couldn“t even speak the same language as other people in the room,“ he said. It wasn“t that he disliked human company; rather, socializing in groups felt dangerous, even though intellectually he knew that wasn“t the case. He
43、 developed a strategy to deal with his discomfort: alcohol. When he drank, he felt relaxed and able to engage. Now treated and sober for several years, he still has a trace of social anxiety and still wishes for a drink in anticipation of socializing. G. Of course, we all experience anxiety. Among o
44、ther things, it“s a normal emotional response to threatening situations. The hallmark of an anxiety disorder is the persistence of anxiety that causes intense distress and interferes with functioning even in safe settings, long after any threat has receded. We“ve recently learned that adolescents sh
45、ow heightened fear responses and have difficulty learning how not to be afraid. In one study using brain M. R. I., researchers at Weill Cornell Medical College and Stanford University found that when adolescents were shown fearful faces, they had exaggerated responses in the amygdala compared with c
46、hildren and adults. H. The amygdala is a region buried deep beneath the cortex that is critical in evaluating and responding to fear. it sends and receives connections to our prefrontal cortex alerting us to danger even before we have had time to really think about it. Think of that split-second adr
47、enaline (肾上腺素) surge when you see what appears to be a snake out on a hike in the woods. That instantaneous fear is your amygdala in action. Then you circle back, take another look and this time your prefrontal cortex tells you it was just a harmless stick. Fear learning lies at the heart of anxiety
48、 and anxiety disorders. This primitive form of learning allows us to form associations between events and specific cues and environments that may predict danger. Way back on the savanna (热带草原), for example, we would have learned that the rustle in the grass or the sudden flight of birds might signal
49、 a predatorand taken the cue and run to safety. Without the ability to identify such danger signals, we would have been lunch long ago. But once previously threatening cues or situations become safe, we have to be able to re-evaluate them and suppress our learned fear associations. I. Another patient I saw in consultation recently, a 23-year-old woman, described how she became anxious when she was younger after seeing a commercial about asthma (哮喘). “It made me incredibly wor
