1、2015年6月英語六級真題及答案（第一套）Part I Writing (30 minutes)Directions: For this part, you are allowed 30 minutes to write an essay commenting on the saying "Knowledge is a treasure, but practice is the key to it.” You can give an example or two to illustrate your point of view. You should write at least 1

2、50 words but no more than 200 words. 注意：此部分試題請在答題卡1上作答。Part Listening Comprehension (30 minutes)Section ADirections: 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 conve

3、rsation and the questions will be spoken only 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 1 with a single line through the centre.注意

4、：此部分試題請在答題卡1上作答。1. A. Prepare for his exams. B. Catch up on his work. C. Attend the concert.D. Go on a vacation.2. A. Three crew members were involved in the incident.B. None of the hijackers carried any deadly weapons.C. The plane had been scheduled to fly to Japan.D. None of the passengers were in

5、jured or killed.3. A. An article about the election. B. A tedious job to be done. C. An election campaign. D. A fascinating topic.4. A. The restaurant was not up to the speakers' expectations.B. The restaurant places many ads in popular magazines.C. The critic thought highly of the Chinese resta

6、urant.D. Chinatown has got the best restaurants in the city.5. A. He is going to visit his mother in the hospital.B. He is going to take on a new job next week.C. He has many things to deal with right now.D. He behaves in a way nobody understands.6. A. A large number of students refused to vote last

7、 night.B. At least twenty students are needed to vote on an issue.C. Major campus issues had to be discussed at the meeting.D. More students have to appear to make their voice heard.7. A. The woman can hardly tell what she likes.B. The speakers like watching TV very much.C. The speakers have nothing

8、 to do but watch TV.D. The man seldom watched TV before retirement.8. A. The woman should have registered earlier.B. He will help the woman solve the problem.C ) He finds it hard to agree with what the woman says.D. The woman will be able to attend the classes she wants.Questions 9 to 12 are based o

9、n the conversation you have just heard.9. A. Persuade the man to join her company. B. Employ the most up-to-date technology. C. Export bikes to foreign markets.D. Expand their domestic business.10. A. The state subsidizes small and medium enterprises.B. The government has control over bicycle import

10、s.C. They can compete with the best domestic manufacturers.D. They have a cost advantage and can charge higher prices.11. A. Extra costs might eat up their profits abroad.B. More workers will be needed to do packaging.C. They might lose to foreign bike manufacturers.D. It is very difficult to find s

11、uitable local agents.12. A. Report to the management. B. Attract foreign investments. C. Conduct a feasibility study D. Consult financial experts.Questions 13 to 15 are based on the conversation you have just heard.13. A. Coal burnt daily for the comfort of our homes.B. Anything that can be used to

12、produce power.C. Fuel refined from oil extracted from underground.D. Electricity that keeps all kinds of machines running.14. A. Oil will soon be replaced by alternative energy sources.B. Oil reserves in the world will be exhausted in a decade.C. Oil consumption has given rise to many global problem

13、s.D. Oil production will begin to decline worldwide by 2025.15. A. Minimize the use of fossil fuels. B. Start developing alternative fuels. C. Find the real cause for global warming.D. Take steps to reduce the greenhouse effect.Section BDirections: In this section, you will hear 3 short passages. At

14、 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 71 with a single line

15、through the centre.注意：此部分試題請在答題卡1上作答。Passage OneQuestions 16 to 18 are based on the passage you have just heard.16. A. The ability to predict fashion trends. B. A refined taste for artistic works. C. Years of practical experience.D. Strict professional training.17. A. Promoting all kinds of American

16、 hand-made specialties.B. Strengthening cooperation with foreign governments.C. Conducting trade in art works with dealers overseas.D. Purchasing handicrafts from all over the world.18. A. She has access to fashionable things. B. She is doing what she enjoys doing. C. She can enjoy life on a modest

17、salary.D. She is free to do whatever she wants.Passage TwoQuestions 19 to 22 are based on the passage you have just heard.19. A. Join in neighborhood patrols. B. Get involved in his community. C. Voice his complaints to the city council.D. Make suggestions to the local authorities.20. A. Deteriorati

18、on in the quality of life. B. Increase of police patrols at night. C. Renovation of the vacant buildings.D. Violation of community regulations.21. A. They may take a long time to solve. B. They need assistance from the city. C. They have to be dealt with one by one.D. They are too big for individual

19、 efforts.22. A. He had got some groceries at a big discount.B. He had read a funny poster near his seat.C. He had done a small deed of kindness.D. He had caught the bus just in time.Passage ThreeQuestions 23 to 25 are based on the passage you have just heard.23. A. Childhood and healthy growth. B. P

20、ressure and heart disease. C. Family life and health.D. Stress and depression.24. A. It experienced a series of misfortunes. B. It was in the process of reorganization. C. His mother died of a sudden heart attack.D. His wife left him because of his bad temper.25. A. They would give him a triple bypa

21、ss surgery. B. They could remove the block in his artery. C. They could do nothing to help him.D. They would try hard to save his life.Section CDirections: In this section, you will hear a passage three times. When the passage is read for the first time,you should listen carefully for its general id

22、ea. When the passage is read for the second time, you are required to fill in the blanks with the exact words you have just heard. Finally, when the passage is read for the third time, you should check what you have written.注意：此部分試題請在答題卡1上作答。 When most people think of the word "education",

23、 they think of a pupil as a sort of animate sausage casing. Into this empty casting, the teachers (26)_ stuff "education".But genuine education, as Socrates knew more than two thousand years ago, is not (27) _ the stuffing of information into a person, but rather eliciting knowledge from h

24、im; it is the (28) _ of what is in the mind."The most important part of education'" once wrote William Ernest Hocking, the (29) _ Harvard philosopher, "is this instruction of a man in what he has inside of him."And, as Edith Hamilton has reminded us, Socrates never said, &quo

25、t;I know, learn from me" He said, rather, "Look into your own selves and find the (30) _ of truth that God has put into every heart, and that only you can kindle（點淋）to a (31) _."In a dialogue, Socrates takes an ignorant slave boy, without a day of (32) _, and proves to the amazed obse

26、rvers that the boy really "knows" geometrybecause the principles of geometry are already in his mind, waiting to be called out.So many of the discussions and (33) _ about the content of education are useless and inconclusive because they (34) _ what should "go into" the student r

27、ather than with what should be taken out, and how this can best be done.The college student who once said to me, after a lecture, "I spend so much time studying that I don't have a chance to learn anything," was clearly expressing his (35) _ with the sausage casing view of education.Pa

28、rt III Reading Comprehension (40 minutes)Section ADirections: In this section, 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

29、 choice in the bank is identified by a letter. Please mark the corresponding letter for each item on Answer Street 2 with a single line through the centre. You may not use any of the words in the bank more than once.Questions 36 to 45 are based on the following passage. Innovation, the elixir (靈丹妙藥

30、) of progress, has always cost people their jobs. In the Industrial Revolution hand weavers were 36 aside by the mechanical loom. Over the past 30 years the digital revolution has 37 many of the mid-skill jobs that supported 20th-century middle-class life. Typists, ticket agents, bank tellers and ma

31、ny production-line jobs have been dispensed with, just as the weavers were. For those who believe that technological progress has made the world a better place, such disruption is a natural part of rising 38. Although innovation kills some jobs, it creates new and better ones, as a more 39 society b

32、ecomes richer and its wealthier inhabitants demand more goods and services. A hundred years ago one in three American workers was 40 on a farm. Today less than 2% of them produce far more food. The millions freed from the land were not rendered 41, but found better- paid work as the economy grew mor

33、e sophisticated. Today the pool of secretaries has 42, but there are ever more computer programmers and web designers. Optimism remains the right starting-point, but for workers the dislocating effects of technology may make themselves evident faster than its 43. Even if new jobs and wonderful produ

34、cts emerge, in the short term income gaps will widen, causing huge social dislocation and perhaps even changing politics.Technology's 44 will feel like a tornado (旋風), hitting the rich world first, but 45 sweeping through poorer countries too. No government is prepared for it.注意:此部分試題請在答題卡2上作答。A

35、. benefits F) jobless K) rhythmB. displaced G) primarily L) sentimentsC. employed H) productive M) shrunkD. eventually I) prosperity N) sweptE) impact J) responsive O) withdrawnSection BDirections: In this section, you are going to read a passage with ten statements attached to it. Each statement co

36、ntains 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. Why the Mona Lisa Stands Out

37、A. Have you ever fallen for a novel and been amazed not to find it on lists of great books? Or walked around a sculpture renowned as a classic, struggling to see what the fuss is about? If so, you've probably pondered the question a psychologist, James Cutting, asked himself: How does a work of

38、art come to be considered great?B. The intuitive answer is that some works of art are just great: of intrinsically superior quality. The paintings that win prime spots in galleries, get taught in classes and reproduced in books are the ones that have proved their artistic value over time. If you can

39、't see they're superior, that's your problem. It's an intimidatingly neat explanation. But some social scientists have been asking awkward questions of it, raising the possibility that artistic canons (名作目錄) are little more than fossilised historical accidents.C. Cutting, a professor

40、 at Cornell University, wondered if a psychological mechanism known as the "mere-exposure effect" played a role in deciding which paintings rise to the top of the cultural league. Cutting designed an experiment to test his hunch (直覺). Over a lecture course he regularly showed undergraduate

41、s works of impressionism for two seconds at a time. Some of the paintings were canonical, included in art-history books. Others were lesser known but of comparable quality. These were exposed four times as often. Afterwards, the students preferred them to the canonical works, while a control group o

42、f students liked the canonical ones best. Cutting's students had grown to like those paintings more simply because they had seen them more.D. Cutting believes his experiment offers a clue as to how canons are formed. He reproduced works of impressionism today tend to have been bought by five or

43、six wealthy and influential collectors in the late 19th century. The preferences of these men bestowed (給予) prestige on certain works, which made the works more likely to be hung in galleries and printed in collections. The fame passed down the years, gaining momentum from mere exposure as it did so

44、. The more people were exposed to, the more they liked it, and the more they liked it, the more it appeared in books, on posters and in big exhibitions. Meanwhile, academics and critics created sophisticated justifications for its preeminence (卓越). After all, it's not just the masses who tend to

45、 rate what they see more often more highly. As contemporary artists like Warhol and Damien Hirst have grasped, critics' praise is deeply entwined (交織) with publicity. "Scholars", Cutting argues, "are no different from the public in the effects of mere exposure."E. The process

46、 described by Cutting evokes a principle that the sociologist Duncan Watts calls "cumulative advantage": once a thing becomes popular, it will tend to become more popular still. A few years ago, Watts, who is employed by Microsoft to study the dynamics of social networks, had a similar exp

47、erience to Cutting's in another Paris museum. After queuing to see the "Mona Lisa" in its climate- controlled bulletproof box at the Louvre, he came away puzzled: why was it considered so superior to the three other Leonardos in the previous chamber, to which nobody seemed to be paying

48、 the slightest attention?F. When Watts looked into the history of "the greatest painting of all time", he discovered that, for most of its life, the “Mona Lisa” remained in relative obscurity. In the 1850s, Leonardo da Vinci was considered no match for giants of Renaissance art like Titian

49、 and Raphael, whose works were worth almost ten times as much as the "Mona Lisa". It was only in the 20th century that Leonardo's portrait of his patron's wife rocketed to the number-one spot. What propelled it there wasn't a scholarly re-evaluation, but a theft.G. In 1911 a ma

50、intenance worker at the Louvre walked out of the museum with the "Mona Lisa" hidden under his smock (工作服). Parisians were shocked at the theft of a painting to which, until then, they had paid little attention. When the museum reopened, people queued to see the gap where the "Mona Lis

51、a" had once hung in a way they had never done for the painting itself. From then on, the "Mona Lisa" came to represent Western culture itself.H. Although many have tried, it does seem improbable that the painting's unique status can be attributed entirely to the quality of its bru

52、shstrokes. It has been said that the subject's eyes follow the viewer around the room. But as the painting's biographer, Donald Sassoon, dryly notes, "In reality the effect can be obtained from any portrait." Duncan Watts proposes that the "Mona Lisa" is merely an extreme

53、 example of a general rule. Paintings, poems and pop songs are buoyed (使浮起) or events or preferences that turn into waves of influence, passing down the generations.I. "Saying that cultural objects have value," Brian Eno once wrote, "is like saying that telephones have conversations.&

54、quot; Nearly all the cultural objects we consume arrive wrapped in inherited opinion; our preferences are always, to some extent, someone else's. Visitors to the "Mona Lisa" know they are about to visit the greatest work of art ever and come away appropriately impressed-or let down. An

55、 audience at a performance of "Hamlet" know it is regarded as a work of genius, so that is what they mostly see. Watts even calls the preeminence of Shakespeare a "historical accident".J. Although the rigid high-low distinction fell apart in the 1960s, we still use culture as a b

56、adge of identity. Today's fashion for eclecticism (折中主義) "I love Bach, Abba and Jay Z" is, Shamus Khan, a Columbia University psychologist, argues, a new way for the middle class to distinguish themselves from what they perceive to be the narrow tastes of those beneath them in the soci

57、al hierarchy.K. The intrinsic quality of a work of art is starting to seem like its least important attribute. But perhaps it's more significant than our social scientists allow. First of all, a work needs a certain quality to be eligible to be swept to the top of the pile. The "Mona Lisa&q

58、uot; may not be a worthy world champion, but it was in the Louvre in the first place, and not by accident. Secondly, some stuff is simply better than other stuff. Read "Hamlet" after reading even the greatest of Shakespeare's contemporaries, and the difference may strike you as unarguable.L