1、 2017 年年 6 月英语六级真题及答案月英语六级真题及答案 Part I Writing (30 minutes) Directions ： Suppose you are asked to give advice on whether to attend a vocational college or a university, write an essay to state your opinion. You are required to write at least 150 words but no more than 200 words. Part II Listening Co
2、mprehension (30 minutes) Section A Directions： In this section, you will hear two long conversations. At the end of each conversation, you will hear four questions. Both the conversation and the questions will be spoken only once. After you hear a question, you must choose the best answer from the f
3、our choices marked A), B), C) and D). Then mark the corresponding letter on Answer Sheet 1 with a single line through the centre. Questions 1 to 4 are based on the conversation you have just heard. 1. A) He would feel insulted. B) He would feel very sad. C) He would be embarrassed. D) He would be di
4、sappointed. 2. A) They are worthy of a prize. B) They are of little value. C) They make good reading. D) They need improvement. 3. A) He seldom writes a book straight through. B) He writes several books simultaneously. C) He draws on his real-life experiences. D) He often turns to his wife for help.
5、 4. A) Writing a book is just like watching a football match. B) Writers actually work every bit as hard as footballers. C) He likes watching a football match after finishing a book. D) Unlike a football match, there is no end to writing a book. Questions 5 to 8 are based on the conversation you hav
6、e just heard. 5. A) Achievements of black male athletes in college. B) Financial assistance to black athletes in college. C) High college dropout rates among black athletes. D) Undergraduate enrollments of black athletes. 6. A) They display great talent in every kind of game. B) They are better at s
7、ports than at academic work. C) They have difficulty finding money to complete their studies. D) They make money for the college but often fail to earn a degree. 7. A) About 15%. B) Around 40%. C) Slightly over 50%. D) Approximately 70%. 8. A) Coaches lack the incentive to graduate them. B) College
8、degrees do not count much to them. C) They have little interest in academic work. D) Schools do not deem it a serious problem. Section B Directions: In this section, you will hear two passages. At the end of each passage, you will hear three or four questions. Both the passage and the questions will
9、 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 1 with a single line through the centre. Questions9 to 12 are based on the passage you have just heard. 9. A) Marketing
10、strategies. B) Holiday shopping. C) Shopping malls. D) Online stores. 10. A) About 50% of holiday shoppers. B) About 20-30% of holiday shoppers. C) About 136 million. D) About 183.8 million. 11. A) They have fewer customers. B) They find it hard to survive. C) They are thriving once more. D) They ap
11、peal to elderly customers. 12. A) Better quality of consumer goods B) Higher employment and wages. C) Greater varieties of commodities. D) People having more leisure time. Questions 13 to 15 are based on the passage you have just heard. 13. A) They are new species of big insects. B) They are over pr
12、escribed antibiotics. C) They are life-threatening diseases. D) They are antibiotic-resistant bacteria. 14. A) Antibiotics are now in short supply. B) Many infections are no longer curable. C) Large amounts of tax money are wasted. D) Routine operations have become complex. 15. A) Facilities. B) Exp
13、ertise. C) Money. D) Publicity. Section C Directions: In this section, you will hear three recordings of lectures or talks followed by three or four questions. The recordings will be played only once. After you hear a question, you must choose the best answer from the four choices marked A), B)，C) a
14、nd D). Then mark the corresponding letter on Answer Sheet 1 with a single line through the centre. Questions 16 to18 are based on the recording you have just heard. 16. A) It is accessible only to the talented. B) It improves students ability to think. C) It starts a lifelong learning process. D) It
15、 gives birth to many eminent scholars. 17. A) They encourage academic democracy. B) They promote globalization. C) They uphold the presidents authority. D) They protect students rights. 18. A) His thirst for knowledge. B) His eagerness to find a job. C) His contempt for authority. D) His potential f
16、or leadership. Questions 19 to 22 are based on the recording you have just heard. 19. A) Few people know how to retrieve information properly. B) People can enhance their memory with a few tricks. C) Most people have a rather poor long-term memory. D) People tend to underestimate their mental powers
17、. 20. A) They present the states in a surprisingly different order. B) They include more or less the same number of states. C) They are exactly the same as is shown in the atlas. D) They contain names of the most familiar states. 21. A) Focusing on what is likely to be tested. B) Having a good sleep
18、 the night before. C) Reviewing your lessons where the exam is to lake place. D) Making sensible decisions while choosing your answers. 22. A) Discover when you can learn best. B) Change your time of study daily. C) Give yourself a double bonus afterwards. D) Follow the example of a marathon runner.
19、 Questions 23 to 25 are based on the recording you have just heard. 23. A) He is a politician. B) He is a businessman. C) He is a sociologist. D) He is a economist 24. A) In slums. B) In Africa. C) In pre-industrial societies. D) In developing countries. 25. A) They have no access to health care, le
20、t alone entertainment or recreation. B) Their income is less than 50% of the national average family income. C) They work extra hours to have their basic needs met. D) Their children cannot afford to go to private schools. Part Reading Comprehension (40 minutes) Section A Directions: In this section
21、, there is a passage with ten blanks. You are required to select one word for each blank from a list of choices given in a word bank following the passage. Read the passage through carefully before making your choices, Each choice in the bank is identified by a letter. Please mark the corresponding
22、letter for each item on Answer Sheet 2 with a single line through the centre. You may not use any of the words in the bank more than once. Questions 26 to 35 are based on the following passage. After becoming president of Purdue University in 2013, Mitch Daniels asked the faculty to prove that their
23、 students have actually achieved one of higher educations most important goals: critical thinking skills. Two years before, a nationwide study of college graduates had shown that more than a third had made no (26)_ gains in such mental abilities during their school years. Mr. Daniels needed to(27)_
24、the high cost of attending Purdue to its students and their families. After all, the percentage of Americans who say a college degree is “very important” has fallen (28) _ in the last 5-6 years. Purdue now has a pilot test to assess students critical thinking skills. Yet like many college teachers a
25、round the U.S., the faculty remain (29) _ that their work as educators can be measured by a“learning (30)_ ” such as a graduates ability to investigate and reason. However, the professors need not worry so much. The results of a recent experiment showed that professors can use (31)_ metrics to measu
26、re how well students do in three key areas: critical thinking, written communication, and quantitative literacy. Despite the success of the experiment, the actual results are worrisome, and mostly (32)_ earlier studies. The organizers of the experiment concluded that far fewer students were achievin
27、g at high levels on critical thinking than they were doing for written communication or quantitative literacy. And that conclusion is based only on students nearing graduation. American universities, despite their global (33)_ for excellence in teaching, have only begun to demonstrate what they can
28、produce in real-world learning. Knowledge-based degrees are still important,but employers are (34)_ advanced thinking skills from college graduates. If the intellectual worth of a college degree can be (35)_ measured, more people will seek higher educationand come out better thinkers. A) Accurately
29、B) Confirm C) Demanding D) Doubtful E) Drastically F) Justify G) Monopolized H) Outcome I) Predominance J) Presuming K) Reputation L) Significant M) Signify N) Simultaneously O) Standardized Section B Directions：In this section, you are going to read a passage with ten statements attached to it. Eac
30、h statement contains information given in one of the paragraphs. Identify the paragraph from which the information is derived. You may choose a paragraph more than once. Each paragraph is marked with a letter. Answer the questions by marking the corresponding letter on Answer Sheet 2. The Price of O
31、il and the Price of Carbon A Fossil fuel prices are likely to stay “low for long.” Notwithstanding important recent progress in developing renewable fuel sources, low fossil fuel prices could discourage further innovation in, and adoption of, cleaner energy technologies. The result would be higher e
32、missions of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases. B Policymakers should not allow low energy prices to derail the clean energy transition. Action to restore appropriate price incentives, notably through corrective carbon pricing, is urgently needed to lower the risk of irreversible and potentia
33、lly devastating effects of climate change. That approach also offers fiscal benefits. C Oil prices have dropped by over 60% since June 2014. A commonly held view in the oil industry is that “the best cure for low oil prices is low oil prices.” The reasoning behind this saying is that low oil prices
34、discourage investment in new production capacity, eventually shifting the oil supply curve backward and bringing prices back up as existing oil fields 一 which can be tapped at relatively low marginal costare depleted. In fact, in line with past experience capital expenditure in the oil sector has dr
35、opped sharply in many producing countries, including the United States. The dynamic adjustment to low oil prices may, however, be different this time around. D Oil prices are expected to remain lower for longer. The advent of new technologies has added about 4.2 million barrels per day to the crude
36、oil market, contributing to a global over-supply. In addition, other factors are putting downward pressure on oil prices: change in the strategies behavior of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries, the projected increase in Iranian exports, the scaling- down of global demand (especially
37、from emerging markets), the long-term drop in petroleum consumption in the United States, and some displacement of oil by substitutes. These likely persistent forces, like the growth of shale (页岩）oil, point to a “low for long” scenario. Futures markets, which show only a modest recovery of prices to
38、 around $60 a barrel by 2019, support this view. E Natural gas and coalalsofossil fuelshave similarly seen price declines that look to be long-lived. Coal and natural gas are mainly used for electricity generation, whereas oil is used mostly to power transportation, yet the prices of all these energ
39、y sources are linked. The North American shale gas boom has resulted in record low prices there. The recent discovery of the giant Zohr gas field off the Egyptian coast will eventually have impact on pricing in the Mediterranean region and Europe, and there is significant development potential in ma
40、ny other places, notably Argentina. Coal prices also are low, owing to over-supply and the scaling-down of demand, especially from China, which bums half of the worlds coal. F Technological innovations have unleashed the power of renewables such as wind, hydro, solar, and geothermal ( 地 热 ).Even Afr
41、ica and the Middle East，home to economies that are heavily dependent on fossil fuel exports, have enormous potential to develop renewables. For example, the United Arab Emirates has endorsed an ambitious target to draw 24% of its primary energy consumption from renewable sources by 2021. G Progress
42、in the development of renewables could be fragile, however, if fossil fuel prices remain low for long. Renewables account for only a small share of global primary energy consumption, which is still dominated by fossil fuels30% each for coal and oil, 25% for natural gas. But renewable energy will hav
43、e to displace fossil fuels to a much greater extent in the future to avoid unacceptable climate risks. H Unfortunately, the current low prices for oil, gas, and coal may provide little incentive for research to find even cheaper substitutes for those fuels. There is strong evidence that both innovat
44、ion and adoption of cleaner technology are strongly encouraged by higher fossil fuel prices. The same is true for new technologies for alleviating fossil fuel emissions. I The current low fossil fuel price environment will thus certainly delay the energy transition from fossil fuel to clean energy s
45、ources. Unless renewables become cheap enough that substantial carbon deposits are left underground for a very long time, if not forever, the planet will like be exposed to potentially catastrophic climate risks. J Some climate impacts may already be discernible. For example, the United Nations Chil
46、dren Fund estimates that some 11 million children in Africa face hunger, disease, and water shortage as a result of the strongest El Nino (厄尔尼诺） weather phenomenon in decades. Many scientists believe that El Nino events, caused by warming in the Pacific，are becoming more intense as a result of clima
47、te change. K Nations from around the world have gathered in Paris for the United Nations Climate Change Conference, COP 21, with the goal of a universal and potentially legally-binding agreement reducing greenhouse gas emissions. We need very broad participation to fully address global tragedy that
48、results when countries fail to take into account the negative impact of their carbon emissions on the rest of the world. Moreover, non-participation by nations, if sufficiently widespread, can undermine the political will of participating countries to act. L The nations participating at COP 21 are f
49、ocusing on quantitative emissions-reduction commitments. Economic reasoning shows that the least expensive way for each country is to put a price on carbon emissions. The reason is that when carbon is priced, those emissions reductions that are least costly to implement will happen first. The Intern
50、ational Monetary Fund calculates that countries can generate substantial fiscal revenues by eliminating fossil fuel subsidies and levying carbon charges that capture the domestic damage caused by emissions. A tax on upstream carbon sources is one easy way to put a price on carbon emissions, although
