1、大学英语六级卷一真题 2014 年 12 月及答案解析(总分：710.50，做题时间：120 分钟)一、Part I Writing (3(总题数：1，分数：106.50)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 technology is indisp
2、ensable in education. You can give some arguments to support your views and write at least 150 words but no more than 200 words. （分数：106.50）_二、Part II Listening Co(总题数：1，分数：56.80)A.The mans tennis racket is good enough.B.The man should get a pair of new shoes.C.She can wait for the man for a little
3、while.D.Physical exercise helps her stay in shape.A.The woman will skip Dr. Smiths lecture to help the man.B.Kathy is very pleased to attend the lecture by Dr. Smith.C.The woman is good at doing lab demonstrations.D.The man will do all he can do assist the woman.A.The woman asked the man to accompan
4、y her to the party.B.Steve became rich soon after graduation from college.C.Steve invited his classmates to visit his big cottage.D.The speakers and Steve used to be classmatesA.In a bus.B.In a clinic.C.In a boat.D.In a planeA.10:10.B.9:50C.9:40D.9:10A.She does not like John at all.B.John has got ma
5、ny admirers.C.She does not think John is handsome.D.John has just got a bachelors degree.A.He has been bumping along for hours.B.He has got a sharp pain in the neck.C.He is involved in a serious accident.D.He is trapped in a terrible traffic jamA.She is good at repairing thingsB.She is a professiona
6、l mechanicC.She should improve her physical condition.D.She cannot go without a washing machineQuestions 9 to 11 are based on the conversation you have just heard.（分数：21.30）A.Some witnesses failed to appear in court.B.The case caused debate among the public.C.The accused was found guilty of stealing
7、.D.The accused refused to plead guilty in courtA.He was out of his mind.B.He was unemployed.C.His wife deserted him.D.His children were sickA.He had been in jail beforeB.He was unworthy of sympathyC.He was unlikely to get employed.D.He had committed the same sort of crimeQuestions 12 to 15 are based
8、 on the conversation you have just heard.（分数：28.40）A.IrresponsibleB.UnsatisfactoryC.AggressiveD.ConservativeA.Internal communication.B.Distribution of brochures.C.Public relations.D.Product design.A.Placing advertisements in the trade press.B.Drawing sketches for advertisements.C.Advertising in the
9、national press.D.Making television commercials.A.She has the motivation to do the job.B.She is not so easy to get along with.C.She knows the tricks of advertising.D.She is not suitable for the position.四、Section C(总题数：3，分数：71.00)Passage One Questions 16 to 18 are based on the conversation you have j
10、ust heard.（分数：21.30）A.The cozy communal life.B.Innovative academic programs.C.The cultural diversity.D.Impressive school buildings.A.It is very beneficial to their academic progress.B.It helps them soak up the surrounding culture.C.It is as important as their learning experience.D.It ensures their p
11、hysical and mental health.A.It offers the most challenging academic programs.B.It has the worlds best-known military academies.C.It provides numerous options for students.D.It draws faculty from all around the world.Passage Two Questions 19 to 21 are based on the passage you have just heard.（分数：21.3
12、0）A.They try to give students opportunities for experimentation.B.They are responsible merely to their Ministry of Education.C.They strive to develop every students academic potential.D.They ensure that all students get roughly equal attention.A.It will arrive at Boulogne at half past two.B.It cross
13、es the English Channel twice a day.C.It is now about half way to the French coast.D.It is leaving Folkestone in about five minutesA.Opposite the ships office.B.At the rear of B deck.C.Next to the duty-free shop.D.In the front of A deck.Passage Three Questions 22 to 25 are based on the passage you ha
14、ve just heard.（分数：28.40）A.It is the sole use of passengers travelling with cars.B.It is much more spacious than the lounge on C deck.C.It is for the use of passengers travelling with children.D.It is for senior passengers and people with VIP cards.A.It was named after its location.B.It was named aft
15、er a cave art expert.C.It was named after its discoverer.D.It was named after one of its painters.A.Animal painting was part of the spiritual life of the time.B.Deer were worshiped by the ancient Cro-Magnon people.C.Cro-Magnon people painted animals they hunted and ate.D.They were believed to keep e
16、vils away from cave dwellers.A.They know little about why the paintings were created.B.They have difficulty telling when the paintings were done.C.They are unable to draw such interesting and fine paintings.D.They have misinterpreted the meaning of the cave paints.五、Section C(总题数：1，分数：71.50)If you a
17、re attending a local college, especially one without residence halls, youll probably live at home and commute to classes. This arrangement has a lot of _26_. Its cheaper. It provides a comfortable and familiar setting, and it means youll get the kind of home cooking youre used to instead of the mono
18、tony (单调) that _27_ even the best institutional food. However, commuting students need to _28_ to become involved in the life of their college and to take special steps to meet their fellow students. Often, this means a certain amount of initiative on your part in _29_ and talking to people in your
19、classes whom you think you might like. One problem that commuting students sometimes face is their parents unwillingness to recognize that theyre adults. The _30_ from high school to college is a big one, and if you live at home you need to develop the same kind of independence youd have if you were
20、 living away. Home rules that might have been _31_ when you were in high school dont apply. If your parents are _32_ to renegotiate, you can speed the process along by letting your behavior show that you have the responsibility that goes with maturity. Parents are more willing to _33_ their children
21、 as adults when they behave like adults. If, however, theres so much friction at home that it _34_ your academic work, you might want to consider sharing an apartment with one or more friends. Sometimes this is a happy solution when family _35_ make everyone miserable.（分数：71.50）填空项 1:_填空项 1:_填空项 1:_
22、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:_六、Part III Reading Com(总题数：1，分数：35.50)Questions 36 to 45 are based on the following passage. Children are natural-born scientists. They have _36_ minds, and they arent afraid to admit they dont know something. Most of them, _37_. lose this as they got
23、 older. They become self-conscious and dont want to appear stupid. Instead of finding things out for themselves they make _38_ that often turn to be wrong. So its not a case of getting kids interested in science. You just have to avoid killing the _39_ for learning that they were born with. Its no c
24、oincidence that kids start deserting science once it becomes formalised. Children naturally have a blurred approach to _40_ knowledge. They see learning about science or biology or cooking as all part of the same actits all learning. Its only because of the practicalities of education that you have
25、to start breaking down the curriculum into specialist subjects. You need to have specialist teachers who _41_ what they know. Thus once they enter school, children begin to define subjects and erect boundaries that neednt other-wise exist. Dividing subjects into science, maths, English, etc. is some
26、thing we do for _42_. In the end its all learning, but many children today _43_ themselves from a scientific education. They think science is for scientists, not for them. Of course we need to specialise _44_. Each of us has only so much time on Earth, so we cant study everything. At 5 years old, ou
27、r field of knowledge and _45_ is broad, covering anything from learning to walk to learning to count. Gradually it narrows down so that by the time we are 45, it might be one tiny little comer within science. A)accidentally B)acquiring C)assumptions D)convenience E)eventually F)exclude G)exertion H)
28、exploration I)formu1as J)ignite K)impart L)inquiring M)passion N)provoking O)unfortunately（分数：35.50）A.B.C.D.E.F.G.H.I.J.K.L.A.B.C.D.E.F.G.H.I.J.K.L.M.N.O.A.B.C.D.A.B.C.D.E.F.G.H.I.J.K.L.M.A.B.C.D.A.B.C.D.E.F.G.H.I.J.K.A.B.C.D.A.B.C.D.E.F.A.B.C.D.E.A.B.C.D.E.F.G.H.七、Section B(总题数：1，分数：71.00)Meaning I
29、s Healthier Than Happiness A For at least the last decade, the happiness craze has been building. In the last three months alone, over 1,000 books on happiness were released on Amazon, including Happy Money, Happy-People-Pills tor All, and, for those just starting out, Happiness for Beginners. B One
30、 of the consistent claims of books like these is that happiness is associated with all sorts of good life outcomes, including - most promisingly - good health. Many studies have noted the connection between a happy mind and a healthy body - the happier you are, the better health outcomes we seem to
31、have. In an overview of 150 studies on this topic, researchers put it like this: “Inductions of well-being lead to healthy functioning, and inductions of ill-being lead to compromised health.“ C But a new study, just published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) challenges
32、the rosy picture. Happiness may not be as good for the body as researchers thought. It might even be bad. D Of course, its important to first define happiness. A few months ago, T wrote a piece called “Theres More to Life Than Being Happy“ about a psychology study that dug into what happiness really
33、 means to people It specifically explored the difference between a meaningful life and a happy life. E It seems strange that there would be a difference at all. But the researchers, who looked at a large sample of people over a month-long period, found that happiness is associated with selfish “taki
34、ng“ behavior and that having a sense of meaning in life is associated with selfless “giving“ behavior. F “Happiness without meaning characterizes a relatively shallow, self-absorbed or even selfish life, in which things go well, needs and desire are easily satisfied, and complicated relationships ar
35、e avoided,“ the authors of the study wrote. “If anything, pure happiness is linked to not helping others in need.“ While being happy is about feeling good, meaning is derived from contributing to others or to society in a bigger way. As Roy Baumeister, one of the researchers, told me, “Partly what w
36、e do as human beings is to take care of others and contribute to others. This makes life meaningful but it does not necessarily make us happy.“ G The new PNAS study also sheds light on the difference between meaning and happiness, but on the biological level. Barbara Fredrickson, a psychological res
37、earcher at the University of North Carolina- Chapel Hill, and Steve Cole, a genetics and psychiatry (精神病学) researcher at UCLA, examined the self-reported levels of happiness and meaning in 80 research subjects. H Happiness was defined, as in the earlier study, by feeling good. The researchers measur
38、ed happiness by asking subjects questions like “How often did you feel happy?“, “How often did you feel interested in life?“ and “How often did you feel satisfied?“ The more strongly people endorsed these measures of “hedonic (享乐主义) well-being,“ or pleasure, the higher they scored on happiness. I Me
39、aning was defined as an orientation to something bigger than the self. They measured meaning by asking questions like “How often did you feel that your life has a sense of direction or meaning to it?“, “How often did you feel that you had something to contribute to society?“ The more people endorsed
40、 these measures of “eudaimonic (幸福论的) well-being“ or, simply put, virtue the more meaning they felt in life. J After noting the sense of meaning and happiness that each subject had, Fredrickson and Cole, with their research colleagues, looked at the ways certain genes expressed themselves in each of
41、 the participants. Like neuroscientists who use fMRI (功能磁共振成像) scanning to determine how regions in the brain respond to different stimuli, Cole and Fredrickson are interested in how the body, at the genetic level, responds to feelings of happiness and meaning. K Coles past work has linked various k
42、inds of chronic adversity to a particular gene expression pattern. When people feel lonely, are grieving the loss of a loved one, or are struggling to make ends meet, their bodies go into threat mode. This triggers the activation of a stress-related gene pattern that has two features: an increase in
43、 the activity of pro-inflammatory (促炎症的) genes and a decrease in the activity of genes involved in anti-viral responses. L Cole and Fredrickson found that people who are happy but have little to no sense of meaning in their lives have the same gene expression patterns as people who are responding to
44、 and enduring chronic adversity. That is, the bodies of these happy people are preparing them for bacterial threats by activating the pro-inflammatory response. Chronic inflammation is, of course, associated with major illnesses like heart disease and various cancers. M “Empty positive emotions“ - l
45、ike the kind people experience during manic (狂喜的) episodes or artificially induced euphoria (欣快) from alcohol and drugs - “ are about as good for you for as adversity,“ says Fredrickson. N Its important to understand that for many people, a sense of meaning and happiness in life overlap; many people
46、 score jointly high (or jointly low) on the happiness and meaning measures in the study. But for many others, there is a dissonance (不一致) they feel that they are low on happiness and high on meaning or that their lives are very high in happiness, but low in meaning. This last group, which has the ge
47、ne expression pattern associated with adversity, formed a 75 percent of study participants. Only one quarter of the study participants had what the researchers call “eudaimonic predominance“ that is, their sense of meaning outpaced their feelings of happiness. O This is too bad given the more benefi
48、cial gene expression pattern associated with meaningfulness. People whose levels of happiness and meaning line up, and people who have a strong sense of meaning hut are not necessarily happy, showed a dc-activation of the adversity stress response. Their bodies were not preparing them for the bacterial infections that we get when we are alone or in trouble, but for the viral infections we get when surrounded by a lot of other people. P Fredricksons past research, described in her two books, Positivity and Love 2.0, has mappe
