1、大学六级-157 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 write an essay commenting on the remark “Books are the stepping stones of human progress.“ You can cite examples to illustrate your point. You should write at least 150 words
2、 but no more than 200 words. （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.Luxury things.B.Things that he requires.C.Things on sale.D.Unique things.A.The man can share the magazine with her.B.She wants to borrow the man“s card.C.She“ll let the man use the jou
3、rnal first.D.The man should find another copy for himself.A.Riding a horse.B.Shooting a movie.C.Playing a game.D.Taking a photo.A.A drugstore.B.An operating room.C.A doctor“s office.D.A dentist“s office.A.To go to the movies.B.To go out for lunch.C.To look in the newspaper.D.To ask for information.（
4、分数：21.30）A.The woman will make an appointment for the man.B.The man is satisfied with his haircut.C.The man will go to the hair salon the woman recommended.D.The woman knows a less expensive place for a haircut.A.He doesn“t want to talk to the woman.B.He doesn“t find the comedy special interesting.C
5、.He missed the comedy last night.D.He doesn“t like watching TV.A.To invite the man to join them.B.To suggest that the man can make friends with them.C.To encourage the man to have another drink.D.To suggest politely that the man leave.Questions 9 to 11 are based on the conversation you have just hea
6、rd. （分数：21.30）A.It is in Mexico.B.It is a Mayan ruin.C.It spreads all over Guatemala.D.It is the most famous ruin in the world.A.It is on a cliff and people think it is dangerous.B.It is only open to celebrities right now.C.It“s expensive to go there.D.Many Guatemalans are not interested in it.A.It
7、is located on the ocean and is really nice.B.It was voted one of the seven wonders of the modern world.C.The top of it is as flat as that of the pyramids in Egypt.D.It is a very nice Mayan site because it“s on a cliff.Questions 12 to 15 are based on the conversation you have just heard. （分数：28.40）A.
8、She is a university student now.B.She didn“t like homework when she was a student.C.She likes homework as a student now.D.She was a bad girl in her class.A.She agrees homework is preparation or review of the class.B.She thinks homework is useless for preparing for the next class.C.She doesn“t like h
9、omework because she is terrible at study.D.She doesn“t think homework is helpful for students at university.A.He is totally against test.B.He doesn“t like tests as a learner but likes giving tests as a teacher.C.He thinks tests have some advantages.D.He likes test because test is the easiest way t j
10、udge students.A.It sets a standard to judge students“ actual learning process.B.Its result can judge whether a student is smart or not.C.It can help students know the importance of homework.D.It is the only way to motivate students to study hard.四、Section B(总题数：0，分数：0.00)五、Passage One(总题数：1，分数：21.30
11、)Questions 16 to 18 are based on the passage you have just heard. （分数：21.30）A.Most of them do not survive.B.They all have serious health problems.C.They are the same size as normal babies.D.They may not fully develop.A.It is used to take care of kangaroos.B.It may lead to serious health problems.C.I
12、t keeps the preterm babies warm in incubator machines.D.It uses mothers as a way to help the preterm babies survive.A.Positive.B.Doubtful.C.Indifferent.D.Neutral.六、Passage Two(总题数：1，分数：21.30)Questions 19 to 21 are based on the passage you have just heard. （分数：21.30）A.Women who do most of the chores
13、in their families.B.Women who are better-paid than their husbands.C.Women who earn enough to pay utilities and car-insurance bills.D.Women who are alone.A.How to deal with the tensions of their marriages.B.How to earn more money to support their families.C.How to care for their children.D.How to dea
14、l with anxiety and exhaustion.A.They become the saint-like fathers.B.They can handle doctor“s appointments and homework assignments.C.Their salaries are much higher than their wives“.D.Their salaries can cover the daily expense of the family.七、Passage Three(总题数：1，分数：28.40)Questions 22 to 25 are base
15、d on the passage you have just heard. （分数：28.40）A.It may lead to fires.B.People may inhale toxic gases.C.People are more likely to die on their birthdays.D.It will lead to heart diseases.A.More men die from heart attacks than women.B.More women die from strokes than men.C.More women suicide on birth
16、days than men.D.An equal amount of men and women die on birthdays.A.People are about to die, but they wait until their birthdays come.B.People can get comfort on their birthdays.C.People get too excited on their birthdays, which leads them to die.D.People are likely to have diseases like heart attac
17、ks and strokes on their birthdays.A.Their unhappiness will be sensed by more people on their birthdays.B.They are in the lowest mood on their birthdays.C.They are sad because others tend to neglect their birthdays.D.They cannot feel the meaning of life.八、Section C(总题数：1，分数：71.00)Waitresses who wore
18、red got up to 26 percent extra in tips than they would wearing other colors, researchers claimed. However, the team also 1 that the sexes tipped very differentlywith the bigger tips coming only from male customers. No matter what color they wear, female diners will give the same kind of 2 for servic
19、e every time. Yet men, whether they realize it or not, add anything between 15 and 26 percent more to a waitress in red than they would if it was the same waitress wearing a different color. The test is 3 . Take 11 waitresses in five restaurants over a six week period and ask them to wear the same k
20、ind of T-shirt every day but 4 the colors. Previous research has suggested waitresses could earn more if they acted 5 or wore more make-up than their colleagues. But this study, by the Journal of Hospitality and Tourism Research, only changed the color of the T-shirt. Every other aspect from make-up
21、 to 6 remained the same. A total of 272 restaurant customers were studied by researchers for the International Journal of the Tourism Industry. Even as a T-shirt, it showed just how much the color red was 7 , by men, to increase the physical attractiveness of women, said the researchers. And yet it
22、did 8 some fears that it would make female customers react negatively and tip less, for their gratuities remained 9 throughout the study. The researchers wrote: “As red color has no negative effect on women customers, it could be 10 to wear red clothes at work.“ （分数：71.00）填空项 1:_九、Part Reading Compr
23、(总题数：0，分数：0.00)十、Section A(总题数：1，分数：35.50)Cattle ranchers (牧场主) have had to sell portions of their herd for lack of water. Sacramento and other municipalities have 1 severe water restrictions. Ski resorts that normally open in December are still closed; at one here in the Sierra Nevada that is open,
24、 a bear 2 onto a slope full of skiers last week, 3 not hibernating (冬眠) because of the warm weather. The water shortage has Californians trying to deal with problems that usually 4 in midsummer. With little snow in the forecast, experts are warning that this drought, after one of the driest years on
25、 record last year, could be as 5 as the severe droughts of the 1970s. Under state law, that would allow the governor to “give up laws or regulations and expedite (加快) some funding,“ said Jeanine Jones, deputy drought manager for the State Department of Water Resources. “It does not create a new larg
26、e pot of money for drought response or make federal funding 6 .“ Signs of drought are everywhere, affecting vast sectors of the economy. A sense of 7 is building among farmers, many whom have already let fields go fallow (休耕的). Without more water, an 8 200000 acres of prime agriculture land will go
27、unplanted in Fresno County, according to Westlands Water District officials. Cattle ranchers 9 to letting cows graze on rain-fed grass have had to rely on bought hay or reduce their herds. Clergy of all faiths have been persuading the faithful to pray for 10 . “May God open the heavens, and let his
28、mercy rain down upon our fields and mountains,“ Bishop Jaime Soto said last week. A. accidentally B. accustomed C. apparently D. arise E. available F. composed G. disruptive H. dread I. estimated J. favor K. imposed L. indulgence M. precipitation N. sustainable O. wandered（分数：35.50）十一、Section B(总题数：
29、1，分数：71.00)Hell on Shoe LeatherA. During the golden weeks of autumn, it seemed as if everyone in the world wanted to go for a walk with William B. Helmreich, including the journalist from Norway, students who have lapped up his courses at City College and the Graduate Centre of the City University o
30、f New York. The publicist at Princeton University Press, which just published “The New York Nobody Knows: Walking 6 000 Miles in the City,“ his detailed account of four years of trekking into every corner of the five boroughs, dead-end streets and desolate (荒凉的) industrial areas included. B. “New Yo
31、rk is so varied,“ said Mr. Helmreich, who has practically made a second career out of explaining so ambitious an undertaking. “But if you don“t walk the streets, you never really understand that. Plus my philosophy is everything“s interesting.“ Mr. Helmreich, who is tall and blue-eyed with close-cro
32、pped gray hair, likes to call himself a flaneur (漫游者), in a tip of the hat to the boulevardiers who strolled the streets of 19th-century Paris. This particular flaneur is 68, the child of parents who immigrated to New York from Switzerland in 1946 and settled in a tenement apartment on the decidedly
33、 Upper West Side. C. Mr. Helmreich“s popularity as a tour guide is hardly surprising, because his 449-page book is a chatty, buoyant and, despite his four decades in academia teaching classes on New York City and sociology, an unstuffy love letter to the delights of street-smart walking. His publish
34、er described the work as “four years plus nine pairs of shoes plus 6 000 miles equals an epic journey,“ and judging by the reactions of people who study the city for a living, the approach has much to recommend it. D. “Too many of the current crop of book-length urban analyses rely on statistics, po
35、licy, and critics of earlier theories of city life,“ said Cassim Shepard, the editor of Urban Omnibus, an online publication of the Architectural League. “Mr. Helmreich“s book should provoke all urban planners worth their salt to leave their desks and get out into the street.“ Fran Leadon, a City Co
36、llege architecture professor who is writing a history of Broadway, agreed. “New York is much more complex than people think,“ Mr. Leadon said. “But nobody knows the whole story because the city is too big and too complicated. So the discussion about New York gets reduced to a few predictable topics:
37、 politics, restaurants, the supposed death of the middle class. That“s the reason Mr. Helmreich“s project is so important.“ E. Mr. Helmreich doesn“t just walk. A gregarious man who seems hard-wired to strike up conversations with strangers, he pokes his head into one storefront after another, engagi
38、ng the occupants in chat. As his wife affectionately summed up his approach. “Bill will talk to a stone. What“s more, the stone will answer.“ A mile-long trek along Ninth Street one recent Friday gave Mr. Helmreich a chance to display his expertise and revisit a few haunts. Then he ducked into World
39、 Class Cleaners, at 66 West Ninth Street. A plaque proclaimed that the business had been honored by the American Academy of Hospitality Sciences. “Good customer service,“ said the woman behind the counter when Mr. Helmreich inquired about the award. F. He asked what it would cost to have a Hermes ti
40、e cleaned, and was told it would set him back $21. Herms might not be Mr. Helmreich“s designer of choice, although he was looking regular this day in chinos and a neat blue and-white-striped Ralph Lauren shirt. Generally, he said, he avoids bright blues and reds that might be read as gang colors, bu
41、t attire provocative in this way is hardly an issue in the tidy West Village. G. At Whiskers Holistic Pet Care, 235 East Ninth Street, where sales clerks remembered Mr. Helmreich from a visit five years ago, he leafed through a binder bulging with handwritten tributes to the store“s remedies and emp
42、loyees. “Phil has rejuvenated my 5-year-old English setter,“ one grateful customer wrote. Once in a while the streetscape offers up flashes of Mr. Helmreich“s personal history, as it did at Mud, a cafe at 307 East Ninth Street. A brother-in-law of Mr. Helmreich“s lived for a time in an apartment in
43、the rear, and a portrait of his bearded face gazed out from a mural (壁画) near the front door. A few steps down, another local boy, named Jimi Hendrix, was memorialized by a sign that urged passers-by to write him letters and place them in an orange mailbox nearby, promising that they“d go “directly
44、to heaven“. H. At Veselka, the Ukrainian restaurant at Second Avenue, Mr. Helmreich took time to trace the roots of his passion for urban walking. His father, who died recently at 101, had been an exceptional walker, helping him to come to know and love the city early on. “I feel at home on any stre
45、et in New York,“ he said. “East New York, South Jamaica, the West Bronx. You name it.“ Over the decades he has walked in cities and countries around the world, even clocking 500 miles in car-obsessed Los Angeles. I. This book, Mr. Helmreich“s 14th, grew out of a suggestion by his department chairman
46、, Philip Kasinitz, and an early plan was to focus on 20 iconic streets, like Myrtle Avenue and Broadway. Then came second thoughts: “I asked myself, what“s iconic in a city of 120 000 blocks?“ So he began walking, his tape recorder and pedometer in a pocket along with little maps annotated like tick
47、-tack-toe games, a line drawn through each street after he completed it. He walked in the heat, in the cold, in the rain, covering at least two miles a day. “People thought I was crazy,“ he said cheerfully. J. And although he had walked the city“s streets many times before, this time he approached t
48、he task systematically, sometimes joined by his wife or by his second most reliable companion, Heidi, who appropriately is part Swiss mountain dog. He also did more than walk. He danced the bachata in a club in the South Bronx. He attended community meetings. He conducted formal interviews with mayo
49、rs past and present. “And I have to admit that I cheated a little,“ Mr. Helmreich said. He skipped 300 miles, mostly in homogeneous residential neighborhoods like Marine Park, Brooklyn. But such lapses (疏忽) were rare, and by the end he had covered 6 048 miles and come away with vivid observations about everything from the transcendent impact of immigration on the city to the clues that a neighborhood was poised for gentrification (旧区发行). K. “In East Williamsburg, for example, you
