1、大学英语六级-43 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 “Modernization of Family Life“. You should write at least 150 words but no more than 200 words following the outline given below in English. Wri
2、te your essay on Answer Sheet 1.1. With the rapid development of the society, family life is becoming modernized.2. The modernization of family life brings us convenience and comfort.3. These modern facilities also bring us disadvantages.（分数：106.50）_二、Part Listening Com(总题数：0，分数：0.00)三、Section A(总题数
3、：4，分数：106.50)(1).A. Go to the lab for a while.B. Check on whats for dinner.C. Go running before they have dinner.D. See if they have plenty of experiments to do.（分数：7.10）A.B.C.D.(2).A. She also thinks the lecture was interesting.B. She was too tired to learn much from the lecture.C. She missed the l
4、ecture this morning.D. She thinks the lecture was boring.（分数：7.10）A.B.C.D.(3).A. The euros value remains unchanged.B. The value of U.S. dollars has changed a lot.C. The American currency is losing value.D. The RMB is increasing in value.（分数：7.10）A.B.C.D.(4).A. Avoid the same mistakes the next time.B
5、. Admit any mistakes he had made to the professor.C. Go to see the professor.D. Find out what mistakes he made by reviewing his work.（分数：7.10）A.B.C.D.(5).A. Delivers groceries to customers. B. Works at the meat counter.C. Stocks shelves. D. Serves as a cashier.（分数：7.10）A.B.C.D.(1).A. Tuesday morning
6、 is available. B. Wednesday morning is available.C. Thursday morning is available. D. Friday morning is available.（分数：7.10）A.B.C.D.(2).A. The man passed the exam.B. The man found the exam too difficult.C. The man finished the exam in half an hour.D. The man forgot to write his name and student numbe
7、r.（分数：7.10）A.B.C.D.(3).A. He needed Miss Jones to act as his secretary.B. He needed to keep Miss Jones busy in action.C. He needed to confirm if she was qualified for the job.D. He needed the typed reports before the end of the day.（分数：7.10）A.B.C.D.(1).A. To cover financial losses caused by certain
8、unexpected events.B. To cover any financial losses from financial markets.C. To make investment on the financial market.D. To be paid by the insurance company.（分数：7.10）A.B.C.D.(2).A. They try to collect premium from many people.B. The number of payments of premium will exceed the number of occurrenc
9、e of losses.C. Hopefully the occurrence of losses are very few.D. They make installations of payment over time.（分数：7.10）A.B.C.D.(3).A. On the insurance market they are in.B. On goods that could be damaged by the catastrophic events.C. On goods that would not be damaged by the catastrophic events.D.
10、On the money market and capital market.（分数：7.10）A.B.C.D.(4).A. People who get paid for their financial losses.B. The insurance company.C. People who buy insurance policies.D. People who invest in the insurance market.（分数：7.10）A.B.C.D.(1).A. To retain its best staff.B. To set up good internal systems
11、.C. To have a flourishing research culture.D. To have more fixed capital assets.（分数：7.10）A.B.C.D.(2).A. When people want to sell their stake in a company.B. When one company wants to take over another.C. When a company wants to float on the stock exchange.D. When financiers decide whether or not to
12、lend money.（分数：7.10）A.B.C.D.(3).A. They should develop new ideas and protect established ones.B. They should protect an idea and demonstrate its market value.C. They should protect IP assets and more tangible property.D. They should increase the market value of an idea in the new economic climate.（分
13、数：7.10）A.B.C.D.四、Section B(总题数：0，分数：0.00)五、Passage One(总题数：1，分数：21.30)(1).A. Both of the frogs were as good as dead when they fell down a deep pit.B. Both of them tried their best to jump out of the pit at the beginning.C. One of the frogs fell down and died because he didnt take heed to others comm
14、ents.D. Both of them heard what the other frogs told them.（分数：7.10）A.B.C.D.(2).A. The power of word can be something of life or death.B. An encouraging word is what people are in need of when they are down.C. When someone is down, destructive word can kill him.D. Turning a deaf ear to others advice
15、sometimes can save your life.（分数：7.10）A.B.C.D.(3).A. Speak an encouraging word to those whom you come across.B. An encouraging word can work an effect in a lasting time.C. Not all of the people realize the words they speak may discourage the one in difficult times.D. Everyone can say something encou
16、raging to another.（分数：7.10）A.B.C.D.六、Passage Two(总题数：1，分数：21.30)(1).A. Its strong academic curriculum. B. Its extracurricular activities.C. Its student organizations. D. All of the above.（分数：7.10）A.B.C.D.(2).A. There is a distinguished faculty.B. There is one of the worlds great libraries.C. There i
17、s a rich cultural climate.D. Yale as a research university has a shorter history.（分数：7.10）A.B.C.D.(3).A. Its persistence in tradition.B. Its students from many countries and places.C. Its strength in academics.D. Its diversity of schools and faculties.（分数：7.10）A.B.C.D.七、Passage Three(总题数：1，分数：28.40)
18、(1).A. It is a tradition that first began on the East coast.B. It has a long history like Thanksgiving Day.C. It is the beginning of the traditional Christmas shopping season.D. It is usually falls on the Friday between the 23rd and the 29th of November.（分数：7.10）A.B.C.D.(2).A. It is part of Thanksgi
19、ving holiday for many people.B. People are in a rush to shop for the coming Christmas.C. Decorations for Christmas season launch in shops.D. Retailers lengthen their business time and offer deals to attract shoppers.（分数：7.10）A.B.C.D.(3).A. 1966. B. 2000.C. 1924. D. 2007.（分数：7.10）A.B.C.D.(4).A. The h
20、eavy traffic during the holiday.B. The profits retailers get with the coming of the shopping season.C. The busy condition for retailers.D. The rush for shoppers.（分数：7.10）A.B.C.D.八、Section C(总题数：1，分数：71.00)When firms need to raise capital they may choose to sell or float securities. These new issues
21、of securities typically are marketed to the public by investment bankers in the primary market. Trading of already-issued securities among investors (26) in the secondary market.There are two types of primary market issues of common stock. (27) public offerings, or IPOs, are stocks issued by a forme
22、rly (28) owned company that is going public, that is, selling stock to the public for the first time. Seasoned new issues are offered by companies that already have floated (29) . For example, a sale by IBM of new shares of stock would (30) a seasoned new issue.In the case of bonds, we also (31) two
23、 types of primary market issues, a public offering and a private (32) . The former refers to an issue of bonds sold to the general investing public that can then be traded on the secondary market. The (33) refers to an issue that usually is sold to one or a few new institutional investors and is (34
24、) .Public offerings of both stocks and bonds typically are marketed by investment bankers who in this role are caller underwriters. More than one investment banker usually markets the securities. A lead firm forms an underwriting syndicate of other investment bankers to share (35) the security issue
25、. Investment bankers advise the firm regarding the terms on which it should attempt to sell the securities.（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:_九、Part Reading Compr(总题数：0，分数：0.00)十、Section A(总题数：1，分数：35.50)Much has been written about poverty but none of the
26、 accounts seem to get at the root of the problem. It must be noted that the debilitating effects of poverty are not only the result of lack of money but are also the result of powerlessness. The poor are (36) to their social situation instead of being able to affect it through action, that is, throu
27、gh behavior that flows from an individuals decisions and plans. In other words, when social scientists have reported on the psychological consequences of poverty, it seems (37) to believe that they have described the psychological consequences of powerlessness. The (38) to poverty most frequently su
28、ggested is to help the poor (39) more money without otherwise changing the present power relationships. This appears to (40) the idea of equality while avoiding any unnecessary threat to the established centers of power. But since the consequences of poverty are (41) to powerlessness, not to the abs
29、olute supply of money (42) to the poor, and since the amount of power purchasable with a given supply of money decreases as a society acquires a large supply of goods and services, the solution of raising the incomes of the poor is likely, unless (43) by other measures, to be ineffective in a wealth
30、y society.In order to reduce poverty-related psychological and social problems in the United States, the major community will have to change its relationship to neighborhoods of poverty in such a (44) that families in the neighborhoods have a greater interest in the broader society and can more succ
31、essfully participate in the decision-making process of the surrounding community. Social action to help the poor should have the following (45) : the poor should see themselves as the source of the action; the action should affect in major ways the preconceptions of institutions and persons who defi
32、ne the poor.A. solution I. reasonableB. module J. keyC. accompanied K. likelyD. secure L. implementE. fashion M. fastenF. related N. characteristicsG. followed O. availableH. subject（分数：35.50）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:_十一、Section B(总题数：1，分数：71.00)How Facebo
33、ok Makes Us UnhappyA. No one joins Facebook to be sad and lonely. But a new study from the University of Michigan psychologist Ethan Kross argues that thats exactly how it makes us feel. Over two weeks, Kross and his colleagues sent text messages to eighty-two Ann Arbor residents five times per day.
34、 The researchers wanted to know a few things: how their subjects felt overall, how worried and lonely they were, how much they had used Facebook, and how often they had had direct interaction with others since the previous text message. Kross found that the more people used Facebook in the time betw
35、een the two texts, the less happy they feltand the more their overall satisfaction declined from the beginning of the study until its end. The data, he argues, shows that Facebook was making them unhappy.B. Research into the alienating nature of the Internetand Facebook in particularsupports Krosss
36、conclusion. In 1998, Robert Kraut, a researcher at Carnegie Mellon University, found that the more people used the web, the lonelier and more depressed they felt. After people went online for the first time, their sense of happiness and social connectedness dropped, over one to two years, as a funct
37、ion of how often they used the Internet.C. Lonelier people werent inherently more likely to go online, either; a recent review of some seventy-five studies concluded that “users of Facebook do not differ in most personality traits from nonusers of Facebook.“ But, somehow, the Internet seemed to make
38、 them feel more alienated. A 2010 analysis of forty studies also confirmed the trend: Internet use had a small, significant harmful effect on overall well-being. One experiment concluded that Facebook could even cause problems in relationships, by increasing feelings of jealousy.D. Another group of
39、researchers has suggested that envy, too, increases with Facebook use: the more time people spent browsing the site, as opposed to actively creating content and engaging with it, the more envious they felt. The effect, suggested Hanna Krasnova and her colleagues, was a result of the well-known socia
40、l-psychology phenomena of social comparison.E. The psychologist Beth Anderson and her colleagues argue, in a recent review of Facebooks effects, that using the network can quickly become addictive, which comes with a critical sense of negativity that can lead to resentment of the network for some of
41、 the same reasons we joined it to begin with.F. We want to learn about other people and have others learn about usbut through that very learning process we may start to resent both others lives and the image of ourselves that we feel we need to continuously maintain. “It may be that the same thing p
42、eople find attractive is what they ultimately find repelling,“ said the psychologist Samuel Gosling, whose research focuses on social-media use and the motivations behind social networking and sharing.G. But, as with most findings on Facebook, the opposite argument is equally prominent. In 2009, Seb
43、astian and his colleagues came to the opposite conclusion of Kross: that using Facebook makes us happier. They also found that it increases social trust and engagementand even encourages political participation. Sebastians findings fit neatly with what social psychologists have long known about soci
44、ality: as Matthew argues in his book “Social: Why Our Brains Are Wired to Connect,“ social networks are a way to share, and the experience of successful sharing comes with a psychological and physiological rush that is often self-reinforcing.H. The prevalence of social media has, as a result, fundam
45、entally changed the way we read and watch: we think about how well share something, and whom well share it with, as we consume it. The mere thought of successful sharing activates our reward-processing centers, even before weve actually shared a single thing.D. Virtual social connection can even pro
46、vide a buffer (缓冲器) against stress and pain: in a 2009 study, Lieberman and his colleagues demonstrated that a painful stimulus hurt less when a woman either held her boyfriends hand or looked at his picture; the pain-dulling effects of the picture were, in fact, twice as powerful as physical contac
47、t. Somehow, the dement of distance and forced imaginationa mental representation in place of the real thing, something that the psychologists Gardner call “social snacking“had an anesthetic (麻醉的) effect that we might expect to carry through to an entire network of pictures of friends.J. The key to u
48、nderstanding why reputable studies are so clearly divided on the question of what Facebook does to our emotional state may be in simply looking at what people actually do when theyre on Facebook. “What makes it complicated is that Facebook is for lots of different thingsand different people use it for different subsets of those things. Not only that, but they are also changing things, because of people themselves changing,“ said Goslin
