1、大学六级-162 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 a short essay entitled Should Children Spend Long Time Studying? Your essay should start with a brief description of the picture. You should write at least 150 words bu
2、t 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.The man“s car always breaks down.B.It is really cold in the garage today.C.Her mobile phone runs out of power.D.The battery of her mobile phone is damaged.A.Make a better budget.B.Save mo
3、ney every month.C.Save every penny he makes.D.Learn from her on money saving.A.He is a nice guy.B.He has pretty ears.C.He is very helpful.D.He is very talkative.A.The woman has a good taste for fashion.B.The woman has beautiful eyes.C.The dress fits the woman very well.D.He wants to go fishing with
4、the woman.A.Drop out of this deal.B.Leave her alone.C.Make a rapid decision.D.Make a deal with her tonight.（分数：21.30）A.He hasn“t finished the book yet.B.He doesn“t agree with the woman.C.He doesn“t like the novel.D.He can“t understand the novel.A.The man is good at fixing computers.B.The man likes e
5、ating pies.C.The woman needs to buy a new server.D.The woman likes surfing the Internet.A.Have lessons.B.Watch a movie.C.Go to the dining hall.D.Find a seat in the front row.Questions 9 to 12 are based on the conversation you have just heard. （分数：28.40）A.A letter of recommendation.B.Essay writing.C.
6、Scholarship application.D.Ethnic minorities.A.Because she is Asian American.B.Because she is recommended by her teacher.C.Because she is an excellent student.D.Because she is a member of the Association.A.An essay in handwriting.B.An essay based on a particular question.C.An essay in four pages.D.An
7、 essay concerning Democratic Society.A.Contact with the Association.B.Type the essay for her.C.Give a topic for her essay.D.Write a letter of recommendation.Questions 13 to 15 are based on the conversation you have just heard. （分数：21.30）A.More and more kids become overweight in the nation.B.The pare
8、nts often play toys together with the kids.C.More calories can be burned off by kids than adults.D.The running machine is the best thing to keep fit.A.To calculate calories.B.To get kids playing on the couch.C.To encourage the kids.D.To get kids taking exercise.A.It is active.B.It is needful.C.It is
9、 wonderful.D.It is beautiful.四、Section B(总题数：0，分数：0.00)五、Passage One(总题数：1，分数：28.40)Questions 16 to 19 are based on the passage you have just heard. （分数：28.40）A.How to eat healthily.B.How to lose weight.C.How to take exercise.D.How to spend free time.A.Exercise neither too little nor too much.B.Exer
10、cise without restrictions in diet.C.Exercise around a half hour a day.D.Exercise as well as going on a diet.A.Have a rest.B.Drink more water.C.Eat more food.D.Restrict their diet.A.People who exercise for 30 minutes may lose weight.B.People who exercise less may eat more.C.People who exercise a lot
11、may feel energetic.D.People lose more weight when they feel drained.六、Passage Two(总题数：1，分数：21.30)Questions 20 to 22 are based on the passage you have just heard. （分数：21.30）A.Step back and see what“s really happening.B.Make a disappointed decision.C.Snap at their colleagues.D.Complain to their boss.A
12、.What“s happening at the time.B.Earlier life experiences.C.Working environment.D.Self-control ability.A.Thinking about something else.B.Talking about it with friends.C.Telling someone at work you trust.D.Writing down the feelings.七、Passage Three(总题数：1，分数：21.30)Questions 23 to 25 are based on the pas
13、sage you have just heard. （分数：21.30）A.Every morning after breakfast.B.Every morning when she wakes up.C.Every evening when she goes to bed.D.Every evening after supper.A.A kind of life style.B.A means of livelihood.C.An interesting class.D.A series of postures.A.Because it gets people“s blood flowin
14、g.B.Because it stretches people“s hands and legs.C.Because people are working on the whole body.D.Because people become more flexible after yoga.八、Section C(总题数：1，分数：71.00)If you“re happy and you know it, maybe you really should clap your hands. That“s because being happy might make you live longer.
15、 Researchers found that happy people reduced their risk of 1 death by as much 35 percent. Unlike other “happiness“ studies that 2 a participant“s long-term recall of emotional states, the researchers used a technique called Ecological Momentary 3 , which gives a quick picture of what a person is fee
16、ling in real time. In this study, the nearly 4000 participants, aged 52 to 79, were asked to rate their feelings of happiness or anxiety on a 4 scale four times over the course of one day, beginning when they 5 in the morning. The scientists then followed them for five years, recording the number of
17、 deaths during that time. After controlling for age, 6 , depression, certain diseases like cancer or diabetes (糖尿病), and health-related 7 like smoking, study results showed that those folks who rated their feelings of happiness higher lived longer than those with lower scores. “Older people have nee
18、ds that we in society try to supply like good healthcare and enough money to 8 ,“ says lead author Andrew Steptoe, professor of epidemiology and psychology. “But maybe we should pay attention to their well-being in terms of happiness, too.“ Other researchers who study the 9 state of well-being say t
19、he study is significant. “I hope they continue to follow this group out to 10 years and 15 years,“ says Stephen Post, professor of 10 medicine at Stony Brook University. Since he believes the mortality gap between the happy and the sad may become even bigger. （分数：71.00）填空项 1:_九、Part Reading Compr(总题
20、数：0，分数：0.00)十、Section A(总题数：1，分数：35.50)When studying human talent, the temptation is usually to concentrate on the upper reaches. Understandably so. We all admire the Einsteins and Mozarts of this world and 1 to imitate them. In comparison, studying the opposite end of the spectrum might seem pointl
21、ess, patronizing (摆出高人一等的派头) or downright tasteless. Lack of intelligence is shameful enough without treating people like lab rats. Yet it often takes a different viewpoint to find new insights into an old problem. Stupidity is too important and interesting to ignore. The science of stupidity is pro
22、ducing results that 2 our concepts of intelligence and that should be humbling for many of the smart people who run the world. It turns out that a tendency for entertaining 3 , foolish or illogical ideas is not necessarily the result of a low IQ. This measure of intelligence is largely 4 of rational
23、ity. Just because you score on the high end of one scale doesn“t mean that you won“t fall at the bottom of the other, Importantly, no one is 5 to the biases that lead to stupid decisions. Yet our respect for IQ and education means that it is easy to rest on the laurels (荣誉) of our qualifications and
24、 assume that we are, by definition, not stupid. That can be 6 on a personal level: Regardless of IQ, people who score badly on rationality tests are more likely to have unplanned pregnancies or fall into serious debt. Large scale stupidity is even more damaging. Business cultures that 7 encourage it
25、, for example, may have contributed to the economic crisis. Indeed, the effects may have been so damaging precisely because banks assumed that intelligent people act logically while at the same time rewarding rash behavior based on intuition rather than 8 . As one researcher puts it. “The more intel
26、ligent someone is, the more disastrous the results of their stupidity.“ The same surely applies to politicians: The tenth anniversary of the invasion of Iraq serves as a 9 that clever people can do monumentally stupid things. If we want to avoid making similar mistakes in the future, everybodyespeci
27、ally the most intelligent and powerfulwould do well to humbly 10 their own weaknesses. To quote Oscar Wilde: “There is no sin except stupidity.“ A. acknowledge B. aspire C. challenge D. commemorate E. damaging F. deliberation G. immune H. inadvertently I. independent J. negligible K. nomination L. p
28、erpetually M. rash N. recipient O. reminder（分数：35.50）十一、Section B(总题数：1，分数：71.00)Technology, Costs, Lack of Appeal Slow E-Textbook AdoptionA. Textbooks are often a luxury for college senior Vatell Martin. The accounting major at Virginia State University got by in several courses with study groups a
29、nd professors“ lectures. “It“s not that I didn“t want to buy,“ he says. “Sometimes, I just didn“t have the money for a $200 book.“ VSU knows Martin isn“t the only one. More than half of its students routinely skip buying textbooks. For a solution, the school is turning to e-textbooks. B. VSU partner
30、ed with Flat World Knowledge, a start-up publisher that produces exclusively written e-books with “open“ content that can be modified by professors. In a trial with 14 business courses, students would be required to pay $20 and receive a Flat World e-book and digital learning supplements. The univer
31、sity and a local grant have been covering the cost, so far. “That“s nothing. It“s what I put in my gas tank,“ says Martin, who participated in the trial. “If I was walking into a discussion on a topic, I can just download and take out the book and read it on my phone.“ C. With their promise of ubiqu
32、ity (无处不在), convenience and perhaps affordability, e-textbooks have arrived in fits and starts throughout college campuses. And publishers and book resellers are spending millions attracting students to their online stores and e-reader platforms as mobile technology improves the readability of the m
33、aterial on devices such as tablet computers. Silicon Valley start-ups, such as Inkling and Kno, are also aggressively reinventing textbooks with interactive graphics, videos and social-media features. D. Despite emerging attempts at innovation, the industry has been slowed by clumsy technology, the
34、lasting appeal of print books, skeptical students who search online for cheaper alternatives, and customer confusion stemming from too many me-too e-textbook platforms that have failed to stand out. E. The late Steve Jobs, founder of Apple, believed textbooks to be an $8 billion market ripe for “dig
35、ital destruction,“ biographer Walter Issacson writes in Steve Jobs. Apple is expected to make an announcement Thursday about its new education products. The market is small but growing. Sales for e-textbooks in the US higher education market grew 44.3% to $267.3 million in 2011, according to Simba I
36、nformation, a publishing industry research firm. Print still rules F. So far, students have been less than impressed and more likely to choose print books. About 11% of college students have bought e-textbooks, according to market research firm Student Monitor. Availability isn“t the chief problem.
37、Most popular textbooks have a digital version, and they“re available online. But students have largely stayed away because the most readily available technology todayPDF (portable document format) or other document reader versions of the print bookis clumsy and eye- straining to read. G. When Andrea
38、 Soto, a freshman biology major at the University of Maryland, bought Principles of Biology, the $192 price tag came with a free online version. She prefers the touchable presence of a thick book on her lap. “You can“t highlight or underline things in the e-book. I find it more of a trouble,“ she sa
39、ys. However, digital books aren“t necessarily cheaper, either. While priced lower than new print books, they“re often more expensive than buying or renting used books online, says Kathy Mickey, an analyst at Simba. A federally funded pilot study at Daytona State College in Florida found that some st
40、udents who rented an e-textbook paid only a dollar less than students who bought a print edition. And e-textbook users couldn“t sell the book back after the class ended. H. Despite e-textbooks“ shortcomings, most agree that the print market is ripe for a technological overhaul (彻底改革). Prices of new
41、books are rising sharply. Authors complain about used book sales that don“t generate royalties. Professors and students are annoyed at new editions that seemingly add little in content VS the previous one. I. “This is an industry that“s failing everyone-parents, authors, professors, and students,“ s
42、ays Brad Wheeler, chief information officer at Indiana University, which is running a program that distributes cheaper e-textbooks but requires all students in the class to buy. Publishers are eager for a quicker transition to the format because e-textbooks cost less to publish and would generate in
43、come from every student who buys one. Digital books can“t be resold, at least, not legally. “We“d prefer that all of it to go digital,“ says Vineet Madan, senior vice President of new ventures at McGraw-Hill Education. “There isn“t a secondary market for e-books.“ Seeking market niche (商机) J. If cur
44、rent e-textbooks are mostly unappealing, what“s next? Like online music in its infancy, the textbook industry“s key playerspublishers, resellers, bookstores, tech companies, even some universitiesare all scrambling to offer their digital solutions, an effort that has only intensified with the arriva
45、l of tablet computers and app stores. “Everybody and their brothers are coming out with an e-book platform,“ says Iam Williams, director of strategic learning solutions at Wiley, a textbook publisher. K. They all agree on one thing: The quality of e-textbooks must improve dramatically. More value ad
46、ded, interactive features will keep students interested and spur sales, they say. Tablet computers are a key stimulus in this endeavor. At Kno, tablets have allowed the Santa Clara, Calif.-based company to embed interactive tools onto an existing e-textbook in a more intuitive way, for example, the
47、ability to write directly on the book with a finger stroke or tap on a keyword for notes. “Tablet was a needed development,“ says Kno“s founder Osman Rashid. Despite threats to their print book sales, university bookstores are also coming around to embracing e-books. Follett, which runs 930 universi
48、ty bookstores in North America, launched Follett CafeScribe last year, a cloud-based digital textbook platform. Publishers not on sidelines L. Textbook publishers are partnering with universities for exclusive trials, buying stakes in start-ups and developing their own technologies. Last year, publi
49、sher Cengage launched MindTap, an e-book/digital learning website that is now being tried by about 50 professors, says Bill Rieders, Cengage“s executive vice President of global new media. Instead of tables of content, MindTap provides “a learning path“ that students can access for text, multimedia, self-assessment tools, quizzes and note sharing. M. Pearson has introduced a competing product, OpenClass. The cloud-based websitemeaning students can access information wherever
