1、2016 年年 6 月英语六级真题月英语六级真题及答案及答案Part IWriting（30 minutes）Directions: For this part, you are allowed 30 minutes to write a short essay one-learning. Try to imagine what will happen when more and morepeople study online instead of attending school. You are required to writeat least 150 words but no more
2、 than 200 words.Part IIListening Comprehension(30 minutes)Section ADirections: In this section, you will hear two long conversations. At the end of eachconversation, you will hear four questions. Both the conversation and thequestions will be spoken only once. After you hear a question, you mustchoo
3、se 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 linethrough the centre.Questions 1 to 4 are based on the conversation you have just heard.1. A) The project the man managed at CucinTech.B) The updating of technology
4、at CucinTech.C) The mans switch to a new career.D) The restructuring of her company.2. A) Talented personnel.B) Strategic innovation.C) Competitive products.D) Effective promotion.3. A) Expand the market.B) Recruit more talents.C) Innovate constantly.D) Watch out for his competitors.4. A) Possible b
5、ankruptcy.B) Unforeseen difficulties.C) Conflicts within the company.D) Imitation by ones competitors.Questions 5 to 8 are based on the conversation you have just heard.5. A) The job of an interpreter.B) The stress felt by professionals.C) The importance of language proficiencyD) The best way to eff
6、ective communication.6. A) Promising.B) Admirable.C) Rewarding.D) Meaningful.7. A) They all have a strong interest in language.B) They all have professional qualifications.C) They have all passed language proficiency tests.D) They have all studied cross-cultural differences.8. A) It requires a much
7、larger vocabulary.B) It attaches more importance to accuracy.C) It is more stressful than simultaneous interpreting.D) It puts ones long-term memory under more stress.Section BDirections: In this section, you will hear two passages. At the end of each passage, youwill hear three or four questions. B
8、oth the passage and the questions willbe spoken only once. After you hear a question, you must choose the bestanswer from the four choices marked A), B), C) and D). Then mark thecorresponding letter on Answer Sheet I with a single line through thecentre.Questions 9 to 11 are based on the passage you
9、 have just heard.9. A) It might affect mothers health.B) It might disturb infants, sleep.C) It might increase the risk of infants death.D) It might increase mothers mental distress.10. A) Mothers who breast-feed their babies have a harder time falling asleep.B) Mothers who sleep with their babies ne
10、ed a little more sleep each night.C) Sleeping patterns of mothers greatly affect their newborn babies health.D) Sleeping with infants in the same room has a negative impact on mothers.11. A) Change their sleep patterns to adapt to their newborn babies5.B) Sleep in the same room but not in the same b
11、ed as their babies.C) Sleep in the same house but not in the same room as their babies.D) Take precautions to reduce the risk of sudden infant death syndrome.Questions 12 to 15 are based on the passage you have just heard.12. A) A lot of native languages have already died out in the US.B) The US ran
12、ks first in the number of endangered languages.C) The efforts to preserve Indian languages have proved fruitless.D) More money is needed to record the native languages in the US.13. A) To set up more language schools.B) To document endangered languages.C) To educate native American children.D) To re
13、vitalise Americas native languages.14. A) The US governments policy of Americanising Indian children.B) The failure of American Indian languages to gain an official status.C) The US governments unwillingness to spend money educating Indians.D) The long-time isolation of American Indians from the out
14、side world.15. A) It is being utilised to teach native languages.B) It tells traditional stories during family time.C) It speeds up the extinction of native languages.D) It is widely used in language immersion schools.Section CDirections: In this section, you will hear three recordings of lectures o
15、r talks followedby three or four questions. The recordings will be played only once. Afteryou hear a question, you must choose the best answer from the fourchoices marked A), B), C) and D), Then mark the corresponding letter onAnswer Sheet 1 with a single line through the centre.Questions 16 to 18 a
16、re based on the recording you have just heard.16. A) It pays them up to half of their previous wages while they look for work.B) It covers their mortgage payments and medical expenses for 99 weeks.C) It pays their living expenses until they find employment again.D) It provides them with the basic ne
17、cessities of everyday life.17. A) Creating jobs for the huge army of unemployed workers.B) Providing training and guidance for unemployed workers.C) Convincing local lawmakers to extend unemployment benefits.D) Raising funds to help those having no unemployment insurance.18. A) To offer them loans t
18、hey need to start their own businesses.B) To allow them to postpone their monthly mortgage payments.C) To create more jobs by encouraging private investments in local companies.D) To encourage big businesses to hire back workers with government subsidies.Questions 19 to 22 are based on the recording
19、 you have just heard.19. A) They measured the depths of sea water.B) They analyzed the water content.C) They explored the ocean floor.D) They investigated the ice.20. A) Eighty percent of the ice disappears in summer time.B) Most of the ice was accumulated over the past centuries.C) The ice ensures
20、the survival of many endangered species.D) The ice decrease is more evident than previously thought.21. A) Arctic ice is a major source of the worlds fresh water.B) The melting Arctic ice has drowned many coastal cities.C) The decline of Arctic ice is irreversible.D) Arctic ice is essential to human
21、 survival.22. A) It will do a lot of harm to mankind.B) There is no easy way to understand it.C) It will advance nuclear technology.D) There is no easy technological solution to it.Questions 23 to 25 are based on the recording you have just heard.23. A) The reason why New Zealand children seem to ha
22、ve better self-control.B) The relation between childrens self-control and their future success.C) The health problems of children raised by a single parent.D) The deciding factor in childrens academic performance.24. A) Children raised by single parents will have a hard time in their thirties.B) Tho
23、se with a criminal record mostly come from single parent families.C) Parents must learn to exercise self control in front of their children.D) Lack of self-control in parents is a disadvantage for their children.25. A) Self-control can be improved through education.B) Self-control can improve ones f
24、inancial situation.C) Self-control problems may be detected early in children.D) Self-control problems will diminish as one grows up.Part IIIReading Comprehension(40 minutes)Section ADirections: In this section, there is a passage with ten blanks. You are required toselect one word for each blank fr
25、om a list of choices given in a word bankfollowing the passage. Read the passage through carefully before makingyour choices. Each choice in the bank is identified by a letter. Please markthe corresponding letter for each item on Answer Sheet 2 with a single linethrough the centre. You may not use a
26、ny of the words in the bank morethan once.Questions 26 to 35 are based on the following passage.The robotics revolution is set to bring humans face to face with an oldfearman-made creations as smart and capable as we are but without a moral compass.As robots take on ever more complex roles, the ques
27、tion naturally 26 : Who will beresponsible when they do something wrong? Manufacturers? Users?Software writers? The answer depends on the robot.Robots already save us time, money and energy. In the future, they will improveour health care, social welfare and standard of living. The 27 of computation
28、al powerand engineering advances will 28 enable lower-cost in-home care for the disabled, 29use of driverless cars that may reduce drunk- and distracted-driving accidents andcountless home and service-industry uses for robots, from street cleaning to foodpreparation.But there are 30 to be problems.
29、Robot cars will crash. A drone (遥控飞行器 )operator will 31 someones privacy. A robotic lawn mower will run over aneighbors cat. Juries sympathetic to the 32 of machines will punish entrepreneurs withcompany-crushing 33 and damages. What should governments do to protect peoplewhile 34 space for innovati
30、on?Big, complicated systems on which much public safety depends, like driverlesscars, should be built, 35 and sold by manufacturers who take responsibility for ensuringsafety and are liable for accidents. Governments should set safety requirements andthen let insurers price the risk of the robots ba
31、sed on the manufacturers driving record,not the passengers.A) ArisesB) AscendsC) BoundD)CombinationE) DefiniteF) EventuallyG) InterfereH) InvadeI) ManifestingJ) PenaltiesK) PreservingL) ProgrammedM) ProximatelyN) VictimsO) WidespreadSection BDirections: In this section, you are going to read a passa
32、ge with ten statementsattached to it. Each statement contains information given in one of theparagraphs. Identify the paragraph from which the information is derived.You may choose a paragraph more than once. Each paragraph is markedwith a letter. Answer the questions by marking the corresponding le
33、tter onAnswer Sheet 2.Reform and Medical CostsA Americans are deeply concerned about the relentless rise in health care costsand health insurance premiums. They need to know if reform will help solve theproblem. The answer is that no one has an easy fix for rising medical costs. Thefundamental fixre
34、shaping how care is delivered and how doctors are paid in awasteful, abnormal systemis likely to be achieved only through trial and error andincremental (渐进的)gains.B The good news is that a bill just approved by the House and a bill approved bythe Senate Finance Committee would implement or test man
35、y reforms that should helpslow the rise in medical costs over the long term. As a report in The New EnglandJournal of Medicine concluded, Pretty much every proposed innovation found in thehealth policy literature these days is contained in these measures.,C Medical spending, which typically rises fa
36、ster than wages and the overalleconomy, is propelled by two things: the high prices charged for medical services inthis country and the volume of unnecessary care delivered by doctors and hospitals,which often perform a lot more tests and treatments than a patient really needs.D Here are some of the
37、 important proposals in the House and Senate bills to tryto address those problems, and why it is hard to know how well they will work.E Both bills would reduce the rate of growth in annual Medicare payments tohospitals, nursing homes and other providers by amounts comparable to theproductivity savi
38、ngs routinely made in other industries with the help of newtechnologies and new ways to organize work. This proposal could save Medicare morethan $100 billion over the next decade. If private plans demanded similar productivitysavings from providers, and refused to let providers shift additional cos
39、ts to them, thesavings could be much larger. Critics say Congress will give in to lobbyists and letinefficient providers off the hook（放过）. That is far less likely to happen if Congressalso adopts strong pay-go rules requiring that any increase in payments to providersbe offset by new taxes or budget
40、 cuts.F The Senate Finance bill would impose an excise tax （消费税）on healthinsurance plans that cost more than $8,000 for an individual or $ 21,000 for a family. Itwould most likely cause insurers to redesign plans to fall beneath the threshold.Enrollees would have to pay more money for many services
41、out of their own pockets,and that would encourage them to think twice about whether an expensive or redundanttest was worth it. Economists project that most employers would shift money fromexpensive health benefits into wages. The House bill has no similar tax. The finallegislation should.G Any doct
42、or who has wrestled with multiple forms from different insurers, orpatients who have tried to understand their own parade of statements, know thatsimplification ought to save money. When the health insurance industry was stillcooperating in reform efforts, its trade group offered to provide standard
43、ized forms forautomated processing. It estimated that step would save hundreds of billions of dollarsover the next decade. The bills would lock that pledge into law.H The stimulus package provided money to convert the inefficient, paper-drivenmedical system to electronic records that can be easily v
44、iewed and transmitted. Thisrequires open investments to help doctors convert. In time it should help restrain costsby eliminating redundant tests, preventing drug interactions, and helping doctors findthe best treatments.I Virtually all experts agree that the fee-for-service systemdoctors arerewarde
45、d for the quantity of care rather than its quality or effectivenessis a primaryreason that the cost of care is so high. Most agree that the solution is to push doctors toaccept fixed payments to care for a particular illness or for a patients needs over a year.No one knows how to make that happen qu
46、ickly. The bills in both houses would startpilot projects within Medicare. They include such measures as accountable careorganizations to take charge of a patients needs with an eye on both cost and quality,and chronic disease management to make sure the seriously ill, who are responsible forthe bul
47、k of all health care costs, are treated properly. For the most part, theseexperiments rely on incentive payments to get doctors to try them.J Testing innovations do no good unless the good experiments are identified andexpanded and the bad ones are dropped. The Senate bill would create an independen
48、tcommission to monitor the pilot programs and recommend changes in Medicarespayment policies to urge providers to adopt reforms that work. The changes wouldhave to be approved or rejected as a whole by Congress, making it hard fbrnarrow-interest lobbies to bend lawmakers to their will.K The bills in
49、 both chambers would create health insurance exchanges on whichsmall businesses and individuals could choose from an array of private plans andpossibly a public option. All the plans would have to provide standard benefit packagesthat would be easy to compare. To get access to millions of new custom
50、ers, insurerswould have a strong incentive to sell on the exchange. And the head-to-headcompetition might give them a strong incentive to lower their prices, perhaps byaccepting slimmer profit margins or demanding better deals from providers.L The final legislation might throw a public plan into the
