1、大学英语六级试题 2013 年 06 月-1 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 “Earth provides enough to satisfy every man“s need, but not every man“s greed.“ You can. cite examples to illustrate you
2、r point. You should write at least 150 words but no more than 200 words. Write your essay on Answer Sheet 1. （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.Dr. Smith“s waiting room isn“t tidy.B.Dr. Smith enjoys reading magazines.C.Dr. Smith has left a good imp
3、ression on her.D.Dr. Smith may not be a good choice.A.The man will rent the apartment when it is available.B.The man made a bargain with the landlady over the rent.C.The man insists on having a look at the apartment first.D.The man is not hilly satisfied with. the apartment.A.Packing Up to go abroad
4、.B.Brushing up on her English.C.Drawing up a plan for her English course.D.Applying for a visa to the United States.A.He is anxious to find a cure for his high blood pressure.B.He doesn“t think high blood pressure is a problem for him.C.He was not aware of his illness until diagnosed with it.D.He di
5、d not take the symptoms of his illness seriously.A.To investigate the causes of AIDS.B.To raise money for AIDS patients.C.To rally support for AIDS victims in Africa.D.To draw attention to the spread of AIDS in Asia.（分数：21.30）A.It has a very long history.B.It is a private institution.C.It was founde
6、d by Thomas Jefferson.D.It stresses the comprehensive study of nature.A.They can“t fit into the machine.B.They have not been delivered yet.C.They were sent to the wrong address.D.They were found to be of the wrong type.A.The food served in the cafeteria usually lacks variety.B.The cafeteria sometime
7、s provides rare food for the students.C.The students find the service in the cafeteria satisfactory.D.The cafeteria tries hard to cater to the students“ needs.Questions 9 to 12 are based on the conversation you have just heard. （分数：28.40）A.He picked up some apples in his yard.B.He cut some branches
8、off the apple tree.C.He quarreled with his neighbor over the fence.D.He cleaned up all the garbage in the woman“s yard.A.Trim the apple trees in her yard.B.Pick up the apples that fell in her yard.C.Take the garbage to the curb for her.D.Remove the branches from her yard.A.File a lawsuit against the
9、 man.B.Ask the man for compensation.C.Have the man“s apple tree cut down.D.Throw garbage into the man“s yard.A.He was ready to make a concession.B.He was not prepared to go to court.C.He was not intimidated.D.He was a bit concerned.Questions 13 to 15 are based on the conversation you have just heard
10、. （分数：21.30）A.Bad weather.B.Human error.C.Breakdown of the engines.D.Failure of the communications system.A.Two thousand feet.B.Twelve thousand feet.C.Twenty thousand feet.D.Twenty-two thousand feet.A.Accurate communication is of utmost importance.B.Pilots should be able to speak several foreign lan
11、guages.C.Air controllers should keep a close watch on the weather.D.Cooperation between pilots and air controllers is essential.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 18 are based on the passage you have just heard. （分数：28.40）A.His father caught a serious disease.B.Hi
12、s mother passed away.C.His mother left him to marry a rich businessman.D.His father took to drinking.A.He disliked being disciplined.B.He was expelled by the university.C.He couldn“t pay his gambling debts.D.He enjoyed working for a magazine.A.His poems are heavily influenced by French writers.B.His
13、 stories are mainly set in the State of Virginia.C.His work is difficult to read.D.His language is not termed.A.He grieved to death over the loss of his wife.B.He committed suicide for unknown reasons.C.He was shot dead at the age of 40.D.He died of heavy drinking.六、Passage Two(总题数：1，分数：21.30)Questi
14、ons 19 to 22 are based on the passage you have just heard. （分数：21.30）A.Women.B.Prisoners.C.Manual workers.D.School age children.A.He taught his students how to pronounce the letters first.B.He matched the letters with the sounds familiar to the learners.C.He showed the learners how to combine the le
15、tters into simple words.D.He divided the letters into groups according to the way they are written.A.It can help people to become literate within a short time.B.It was originally designed for teaching the English language.C.It enables the learners to master a language within three months.D.It is eff
16、ective in teaching any alphabetical language to Brazilians.七、Passage Three(总题数：1，分数：21.30)Questions 23 to 25 are based on the passage you have just heard. （分数：21.30）A.The crop“s blooming period is delayed.B.The roots of crops are cut off.C.The topsoil is seriously damaged.D.The growth of weeds is ac
17、celerated.A.It“s a new way of applying chemical fertilizer.B.It“s an improved method of harvesting crops.C.It“s a creative technique for saving labor.D.It“s a farming process limiting the use of ploughs.A.In areas with few weeds and unwanted plants.B.In areas with a severe shortage of water.C.In are
18、as lacking in chemical fertilizer.D.In areas dependent on imported food.八、Section C(总题数：1，分数：71.00)Adults are getting smarter about how smart babies are. Not long ago, researchers learned that 4-day-olds could understand 1 and subtraction. Now, British research 2 Graham Schafer has discovered that i
19、nfants can learn words for uncommon things long before they can speak. He found that 9-month-old infants could be taught, through repeated show-and-tell, to 3 the names of objects that were foreign to them, a result that challenges in some ways the received 4 that, apart from learning to identify th
20、ings common to their daily lives, children don“t begin to build vocabulary until well into their second year. “It“s no 5 that children learn words, but the words they tend to know are words 6 specific situations in the home,“ explains Schafer. “This is the first demonstration that we can choose what
21、 words the children will learn and that they can respond to them with an 7 voice giving instructions in an unfamiliar setting.“ Figuring out how humans acquire language may 8 why some children learn to read and write later than others, Schafer says, and could lead to better treatments for developmen
22、tal problems. What“s more, the study of language 9 offers direct insight into how humans learn. “Language is a test case for human cognitive development,“ says Schafer. But parents eager to teach their infants should take note: Even without being taught new words, a control group 10 the other infant
23、s within a few months. “This is not about advancing development,“ he says. “It“s just about what children can do at an earlier age than what educators have often thought.“ （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
24、题数：1，分数：35.50)The continuous presentation of scary stories about global warming in the popular media makes us unnecessarily frightened. Even worse, it 1 our kids. A1 Gore famously depicted how a sea-level rise of 20 feet would almost completely flood Florida, New York, Holland, and Shanghai, even th
25、ough the United Nations says that such a thing will not even happen, 2 that sea levels will rise 20 times less than that. When 3 with these exaggerations, some of us say that they are for a good cause, and surely there is no harm done if the result is that we focus even more on tackling climate chan
26、ge. This 4 is astonishingly wrong. Such exaggerations do plenty of harm Worrying 5 about global warming means that we worry less about other things, where we could do so much more goo4 We focus, for example, on global warming“s impact on malaria (疟疾)which will put slightly more people at risk in 100
27、 yearsinstead of tackling the half a billion people 6 from malaria today with prevention and treatment policies that are much cheaper and dramatically more 7 than carbon reduction would be. Exaggeration also wears out the public“s willingness to tackle global warming. If the planet is 8 , people won
28、der, why do anything? A record 54% of American voters now believe the news media make global warming appear worse than it really is. A 9 of people now believeincorrectlythat global warming is not even caused by humans. But the worst cost of exaggeration, I believe, is the 10 alarm that it causespart
29、icularly among children. An article in The Washington Post cited nine-year-old Alyssa, who cries about the possibility of mass animal extinction from global warming. A. prevalently B. terrifies C. estimating D. majority E. effective F. rigorous G. excessively H. morality I. suffering J. confronted K
30、. quantity L. doomed M. unnecessary N. suppresses O. argument（分数：35.50）十一、Section B(总题数：1，分数：71.00)A Nation That“s Losing Its ToolboxA. The scene inside the Home Depot on Weyman Avenue here would give the old-time American craftsman pause. In Aisle 34 is precut plastic flooring, the glue already in
31、place. In Aisle 26 are prefabricated windows. Stacked near the checkout counters, and as colorful as a Fisher-Price toy, is a not-so-serious-looking power tool: a battery-operated saw-and-drill combination. And if you don“t want to do it yourself, head to Aisle 23 or Aisle 35, where a help desk will
32、 arrange for an installer. B. It“s all very handy stuff, I guess, a convenient way to be a do-it-yourselfer without being all that good with tools. But at a time when the American factory seems to be a shrinking presence, and when good manufacturing jobs have vanished, perhaps never to return, there
33、 is something deeply troubling about this dilution of American craftsmanship. C. This isn“t a lament (伤感)or not merely a lamentfor bygone times. It“s a social and cultural issue, as well as an economic one. The Home Depot approach to craftsmanshipsimplify it, dumb it down, hire a contractoris one si
34、gnal that mastering tools and working with one“s hands is receding in America as a hobby, as a valued skill, as a cultural influence that shaped thinking and behavior in vast sections of the country. D. That should be a matter of concern in a presidential election year. Yet neither Barack Obama nor
35、Mitt Romney promotes himself as tool-savvy (使用工具很在行的) presidential timber, in the mold of a Jimmy Carter, a skilled carpenter and cabinet maker. E. The Obama administration does worry publicly about manufacturing, a first cousin of craftsmanship. When the Ford Motor Company, for example, recently an
36、nounced that it was bringing some production home, the White House cheered. “When you see things like Ford moving new production from Mexico to Detroit, instead of the other way around, you know things are changing,“ says Gene Sperling, director of the National Economic Council. F. Ask the administr
37、ation or the Republicans or most academics why America needs more manufacturing, and they respond that manufacturing gives birth to innovation, brings down the trade deficit strengthens the dollar, generates jobs, arms the military and brings about a recovery from recession. But rarely, if ever, do
38、they publicly take the argument a step further, asserting that, a growing manufacturing sector encourages craftsmanship and that craftsmanship is, if not a birthright, then a vital ingredient of the American self-image as a can-do, inventive, we-can-make-anything people. G. Traditional vocational tr
39、aining in public high schools is gradually declining, stranding thousands of young people who seek training for a craft without going to college. Colleges, for their part, have since 1985 graduated fewer chemical, mechanical, industrial and metallurgical (冶金的) engineers, partly in response to the re
40、duced role of manufacturing, a big employer of them. H. The decline started in the 1950s, when manufacturing generated a sturdy 28% of the national income, or gross domestic product, and employed one-third of the workforce. Today, factory, output generates just 12% of G.D.P. and employs barely 9% of
41、 the nation“s workers. Mass layoffs and plant closings have drawn plenty of headlines and public debate over the years, and they still occasionally do. But the damage to skill and craftsmanshipwhat“s needed to build a complex airliner or a tractor, or for a worker to move up from assembler to machin
42、ist to supervisorwent largely unnoticed. I. “In an earlier generation, we lost our connection to the land, and now we are losing our connection to the machinery we depend on,“ says Michael Hout, a sociologist at the University of California, Berkeley. “People who work with their hands,“ he went on,
43、“are doing things today that we call service jobs, in restaurants and laundries, or in medical technology and the like.“ J. That“s one explanation for the decline in traditional craftsmanship. Lack of interest is another. The big money is in fields like finance. Starting in the 1980s, skill in finan
44、ce grew in importance, and, as depicted in the news media and the movies, became a more appealing source of income. K. By last year, Wall Street traders, bankers and those who deal in real estate generated 21% of the national income, double their share in the 1950s. And Warren Buffett, the good-natu
45、red financier, became a homespun folk hero, without the tools and overalls (工作服). “Young people grow up without developing the skills to fix things around the house,“ says Richard Curtin, director of the Thomson Reuters/University of Michigan Surveys of Consumers. “They know about computers, of cour
46、se, but they don“t know how to build them.“ L. Manufacturing“s shrinking presence undoubtedly helps explain the decline in craftsmanship, if only because many of the nation“s assembly line workers were skilled in craft work, if not on the job then in their spare time. In a late 1990s study of blue-c
47、ollar employees at a General Motors plant (now closed) in Linden, N.J., the sociologist Ruth Milkman of City University of New York found that many line workers, in their off-hours, did home renovation and other skilled work. “I have often thought,“ Ms. Milkman says, “that these extracurricular jobs
48、 were an effort on the part of the workers to regain their dignity after suffering the degradation of repetitive assembly line work in the factory.“ M. Craft work has higher status in nations like Germany, which invests in apprenticeship (学徒) programs for high school students. “Corporations in Germa
49、ny realized that there was an interest to be served economically and patriotically in building up a skilled labor force at home; we never had that ethos (风气),“ says Richard Sennett, a New York University sociologist who has written about the connection of craft and culture. N. The damage to American craftsmanship seems to
