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1、大学六级-6 及答案解析(总分：712.00，做题时间：90 分钟)一、BPart Writing(总题数：1，分数：106.00)1.1. 如今的大学毕业生面临的职业选择：兴趣重要还是工资重要 2. 你的观点 3. 结论 B Salary or Interest/B（分数：106.00）_二、BPart Reading (总题数：1，分数：70.00)BDirections:/BI In this part, you will have 15 minutes to go over the passage quickly and answer the questions on Answer S

2、heet 1.For questions 1-4, markY (for YES) if the statement agrees with the information given in the passage;N (for NO) if the statement contradicts the information given in the passage;NG (for NOT GIVEN) if the information is not given in the passage.For questions 5-10, complete the sentences with t

3、he information given in the passage./IBApril Fools Special: Historys Hoaxes/BHappy April Fools Day. To mark the occasion, National Geographic News has compiled a list of some of the more memorable hoaxes in recent history. They are the lies, darned(可恨的) lies, and whoppers(弥天大谎) that have been perpet

4、rated on the gullible(易受骗的) and unsuspecting to fulfill that age-old desire held by some to put the joke on others.BInternet Hoaxes/BThe Internet has given birth to a proliferation(增填) of hoaxes. E-mail inboxes are bombarded on an almost daily basis with messages warning of terrible computer viruses

5、 that cause users to delete benign(良性) chunks of data from their hard drives, or of credit card seams that entice the naive to give all their personal information, including passwords and bank account details, to identity thieves. Other e-malls give rise to wry(歪曲的) chuckles, which is where this lis

6、t begins.BBan Dihydrogen Monoxide (一氧化二氢)/BCity officials in Aliso Viejo, California, were so concerned about die dangers of dihydrogen monoxide that they scheduled a vote last month on whether to ban foam(泡沫) cups from city-sponsored events after they learned the chemical was used in foam-cup produ

7、ction.Officials called off the vote after learning that dihydrogen monoxide is the scientific term for water.“Its embarrassing,“ city manager David J. Norman told the Associated Press. “We had a paralegal(律师助手) who did bad research.“Indeed, the paralegal had fallen victim to an official-looking Web

8、site touting the dangers of dihydrogen monoxide. An email originally authored in 1990 by Eric Lechner, then a graduate student at the University of California, Santa Cruz, claimed that dihydrogen monoxide “is used as an industrial solvent and coolant, and is used in the production of Styrofoam(聚苯乙烯泡

9、沫塑料).“Other dangers pranksters (爱开玩笑的人) associated with the chemical included accelerated corrosion and rusting, severe burns, and death from inhalation.Versions of die e-mail continue to circulate today, and several Web sites, including that of the Coalition to Ban DHMO, warn, tongue-in-cheek, of w

10、aters dangers.BAlabama Changes Value of Pi/BThe April 1998 newsletter put out by New Mexicans for Science and Reason contains an article titled “Alabama Legislature Lays Siege to Pi“. It was penned by April Holiday of the Associmated Press (sic) and told the story of how the Alabama state legislatur

11、e voted to change the value of the mathematical constant Pi from 3.14159 to the round number of 3.The ersatz(假的) news stow was written by Los Alamos National Laboratory physicist Mark Boslough to parody(滑稽地模仿) legislative and school board attacks on the teaching of evolution in New Mexico.At Bosloug

12、hs suggestion, Dave Thomas, the president of New Mexicans for Science and Reason, posted the article in its entirety to the Internet newsgroup Talk. Origins on April 1. (The newsgroup hosts a lively debate on creation vs. evolution.) Later that evening Thomas posted a full confession to the hoax. He

13、 thought he had put all rumors to bed.But to Thomass surprise, however, several newsgroup readers forwarded the article to friends and posted it on other newsgroups.When Thomas checked in on the story a few weeks later, he was surprised to learn that it had spread like wildfire. The telltale signs o

14、f the articles satirical intent, such as the April 1 date and misspelled “Associmated Press“ dateline, had been replaced or deleted.Alabama legislators were bombarded with calls protesting the law. The legislators explained that the news was a hoax. There was not and never had been such a law.BTV an

15、d Newspaper Hoaxes/BBefore the advent of the Internet, and even today, traditional media outlets such as newspapers, radio, and television, have sometimes hoaxed their audiences. The deceptions run the gamut from purported natural disasters to wishful news.BSwiss Spaghetti (意大利式细面条) Harvest/BAlex Bo

16、ese, curator of the Museum of Hoaxes, a regularly updated Web site that also appeared in book form in November 2002, said one of his favorite hoaxes remains one perpetrated by the British Broadcasting Company:On April 1, 1957, the BBC aired a report on the television news show Panorama about the bum

17、per spaghetti harvest in southern Switzerland.Viewers watched Swiss farmers pull pasta off spaghetti trees as the shows anchor, Richard Dimbleby, attributed the bountiful harvest to the mild winter and the disappearance of the spaghetti weevil.The broadcaster detailed the ins and outs of the life of

18、 the spaghetti farmer and anticipated questions about how spaghetti grows on trees. Thousands of people believed the report and called the BBC to inquire about growing their own spaghetti trees, to which the BBC replied, “Place a sprig of spaghetti in a tin of tomato sauce and hope for the best.“It

19、was a great satirical effect about British society,“ Boese said. “British society really was like that at that time. The British have a tendency to be a bit insulated( 绝缘的) and do not know that much about the rest of Europe.“BTaco Liberty Bell/BOn April 1, 1996, readers in five major U.S. cities ope

20、ned their newspapers to learn from a full page announcement that the Taco Bell Corporation had purchased the Liberty Bell from the U.S. government. The announcement reported that the company was relocating the historic bell from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, to Irvine, California. The move, the corpor

21、ation said in the advertisement, was part of an “effort to help the national debt“.Hundreds of other newspapers and television shows ran stories related to the press release on the matter put out by Taco Bells public relations firm, PainePR. Outraged citizens called the Liberty Bell National Histori

22、c Park in Philadelphia to express their disgust, A few hours later the public relations firm released another press announcement stating that the stunt was a hoax.White House press secretary Mike McCurry got in-to the act when he remarked that the government would also be “selling the Lincoln Memori

23、al to Ford Motor Company and renaming it the Lincoln-Mercury Memorial“.BCrop Circles/BStrange, circular formations began to appear in the fields of southern England in the mid-1970s, bringing busloads of curious onlookers, media representatives, and believers in the paranormal out to the countryside

24、 for a look.A sometimes vitriolic (讽刺的) debate on their origins has since ensued(跟着发生), and the curious formations have spread around the world, becoming more and more elaborate as the years go by.Some people consider the crop formations to be the greatest works of modern art to emerge from the 20th

25、 century, while others are convinced they are signs of extraterrestrial communications or landing sites of UFOs.The debate rages even today, although in 1991 Doug Bower and Dave Chorley, two elderly men from Wiltshire County, came forward and claimed responsibility for the crop circles that appeared

26、 there over the preceding 20 years. The pair made the circles by pushing down nearly ripe crops with a wooden plank suspended from a rope.BMoon Landing-a Hoax?/BEver since NASA sent astronauts to the moon between 1969 and 1972, skeptics have questioned whether the Apollomissions were real or simply

27、a ploy to one-up (领先) the Soviet Union during the Cold War. The debate resurfaced and reached crescendo levels in February 2001, when Fox television aired a program called Conspiracy Theory: Did We Land on the Moon?Guests on the show argued that NASA did not have the technology to land on the moon.

28、Anxious to win the space race, NASA acted out the Apollo program in movie studios, they said. The conspiracy theorists pointed out that the pictures transmitted from the moon do not include stars and that the flag the Americans planted on the moon is waving, even though there is thought to be no bre

29、eze on the moon.NASA quickly refuted these claims in a series of press releases, stating that any photographer would know it is difficult to capture something very bright and very dim on the same piece of film. Since the photographers wanted to capture the astronauts striding across the lunar surfac

30、e in their sunlit space suits, the background stars were too faint to see.As for the flag, NASA said that the astronauts were turning it back and forth to get in firmly planted in the lunar soil, which made it wave.（分数：70.00）(1).Some people have the age-old desire to put the joke on others.（分数：7.00）

31、填空项 1:_(2).According to the passage, the only form of Internet hoaxes is e-mail hoax.（分数：7.00）填空项 1:_(3).Dihydrogen monoxide is a very dangerous chemical, which is often used as an industrial solvent.（分数：7.00）填空项 1:_(4).Dihydrogen monoxide can accelerate corrosion and rusting, and cause sever burns

32、and even death from inhalation.（分数：7.00）填空项 1:_(5).The reason why the ersatz news that Alabama changed the value of Pi spread wildly was that _ forwarded the article to friends and posted it on other newsgroups.（分数：7.00）填空项 1:_(6).Traditional media outlets such as _ may still hoax their audiences no

33、wadays.（分数：7.00）填空项 1:_(7).According to Boese, many people believed the report of Swiss spaghetti harvest because the British did not know _.（分数：7.00）填空项 1:_(8).According to a hoax announcement, the Taco Bell Corporation bought the Liberty Bell and moved it to Irvine to help _.（分数：7.00）填空项 1:_(9).Th

34、e crop circles were thought to be the greatest works of modem art, the signs of _ or landing sites of UFOs.（分数：7.00）填空项 1:_(10).Some people thought that NASA acted out the Apollo program in movie studios partially because the pictures transmitted from the moon do not include _.（分数：7.00）填空项 1:_三、BPar

35、t Listenin(总题数：0，分数：0.00)四、BSection A/B(总题数：3，分数：105.00)BDirections:/BI In this section, you will hear 8 short conversations and 2 long conversations. At the end of each conversation, one or more questions will be asked about what was said. Both the conversation and the questions will be spoken only

36、 once. After each question there will be a pause. During the pause, you must read the four choices marked A, B, C and D, and decide which is the best answer. Then mark the corresponding letter on Answer Sheet 2 with a single line through the center./IBQuestions 11 to 18 are based on the conversation

37、 you have just heard./B （分数：56.00）(1). A. Shes enjoying the music. B. The music will keep her awake. C. The music doesnt bother her. D. She would prefer a different style of music.（分数：7.00）A.B.C.D.(2). A. She will take the subway. B. She will hurry to the conference. C. She will skip the conference

38、end go sightseeing. D. She will take a bus.（分数：7.00）A.B.C.D.(3). A. She thinks big parties are too impersonal. B. She would like to invite, friends to a big party. C. She feels she has to spend a lot of money in holding big parties. D. She would like to be invited to small parties.（分数：7.00）A.B.C.D.(

39、4). A. It is quite unexpected. B. She has already got the news. C. She has confidence in the man. D. It is not exciting to learn about it.（分数：7.00）A.B.C.D.(5). A. He is not satisfied with the pay. B. He is not able to enjoy paid holidays. C. The job is not very challenging for him. D. There is no ho

40、pe of promotion.（分数：7.00）A.B.C.D.(6). A. He has to change the topic for his composition. B. He has fallen behind others in English class. C. He hasnt made up his mind as to what to write about. D. The book he borrowed will be due tomorrow.（分数：7.00）A.B.C.D.(7). A. She is against the mans plan. B. She

41、 thinks it needs a lot of money. C. They need some time to think about it. D. Its good for his career development.（分数：7.00）A.B.C.D.(8). A. She should present him a book on music. B. The teacher has some interests other than reading. C. Its a good idea because the teacher loves reading. D. The teache

42、r would like to have a book on language teaching.（分数：7.00）A.B.C.D.BQuestions 19 to 21 are based on the conversation you have just heard./B （分数：21.00）(1). A. He is a professional electrician. B. He possesses a basic knowledge of electricity. C. He knows nothing about electricity. D. Electricity is hi

43、s major.（分数：7.00）A.B.C.D.(2). A. To wire her office. B. To fix the transformer. C. To wire her building. D. To fix the wires.（分数：7.00）A.B.C.D.(3). A. The transformer. B. The battery. C. The fuses. D. The wires.（分数：7.00）A.B.C.D.BQuestions 22 to 25 are based on the conversation you have just heard./B

44、（分数：28.00）(1). A. At a public forum. B. In an auditorium. C. On TV. D. In a classroom.（分数：7.00）A.B.C.D.(2). A. Exposing oneself to the target culture. B. Attending regularly a good language program. C. Coming up with a study plan. D. Developing good note-taking skills.（分数：7.00）A.B.C.D.(3). A. A real

45、istic goal for learners is to reach a certain level of language proficiency, not native fluency. B. Students can achieve native-like pronunciation through focused study. C. Learners should interact with native speakers to gain greater fluency. D. Teachers need to help students foster a good self-est

46、eem and confidence.（分数：7.00）A.B.C.D.(4). A. Remembering as many words as possible. B. Learning only useful words. C. Remembering a lot of words a day. D. Learning to use a few words a day.（分数：7.00）A.B.C.D.五、BSection B/B(总题数：3，分数：70.00)BDirections:/BI In this section, you will hear 3 short passages.

47、At the end of each passage, you will hear some questions. Both the passage and the questions will be spoken only once. After you hear a question, you must choose the best answer from the four choices marked A, B, C and D. Then mark the corresponding letter on Answer Sheet 2 with a single line through the center./IBPassage OneQuestions 26 to 29 are based on the passage you have just heard./B （分数：28.00）(1). A. Food is no longer a basic need for us, while it was for primitive people. B. We eat a wide variety of food. C. We no longer eat fruit that primitive people eve