1、Writing “Knowledge is a treasure” You can give an example or two to your point of view. You should write Writing “Knowledge is a treasure” You can give an example or two to your point of view. You should write at least 150 words 1 上作答。1 上作答。D) Go on a vacation. (30 minutes) ，but Part I Directions ：

2、For this part, you are allowed 30 minutes to write an essay commenting on the saying practice is the key to it. illustrate but no more than 200 words. 注意：此部分試題請(qǐng)?jiān)诖痤}卡Part Listening Comprehension (30 minutes) Section A Directions: In this section, you will hear 8 short conversations and 2 long conversa

3、tions. 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 once. After each question there will be a pause. During the pause, you must read the four choices marked A), B) 9 C) and D), and decide which i

4、s the best answer. Then mark the corresponding letter on Answer Sheet 1 with a single line through the centre. 注意：此部分試題請(qǐng)?jiān)诖痤}卡A) Prepare for his exams. C) Attend the concert. Catch up on his work. 1 C) An election campaign. A) Three crew members were involved in the incident. C) An election campaign.

5、None of the hijackers carried any deadly weapons. The plane had been scheduled to fly to Japan. None of the passengers were injured or killed. A) An article about the election. A tedious job to be done. D) A fascinating topic. A) The restaurant was not up to the speakers5 expectations. The restauran

6、t places many ads in popular magazines. The critic thought highly of the Chinese restaurant. Chinatown has got the best restaurants in the city. A) He is going to visit his mother in the hospital. He is going to take on a new job next week. He has many things to deal with right now. He behaves in a

7、way nobody understands. A) A large number of students refused to vote last night. At least twenty students are needed to vote on an issue. Major campus issues had to be discussed at the meeting. More students have to appear to make their voice heard. A) The woman can hardly tell what she likes. The

8、speakers like watching TV very much. The speakers have nothing to do but watch TV. 六級(jí)真題 (一) The man seldom watched TV before retirement. 2 A) The woman should have registered earlier. He will help the woman solve the problem. He finds it hard to agree with what the woman says. The woman will be able

9、 to attend the classes she wants. 3 C) Export bikes D) Expand their a feasibility study. Questions 9 to 12 are based on the conversation you have just C) Export bikes D) Expand their a feasibility study. heard. 9.A) Persuade the man to join her company. to foreign markets. Employ the most up-to-date

10、 technology. domestic business. A) The state subsidizes small and medium enterprises. The government has control over bicycle imports. They can compete with the best domestic manufacturers. They have a cost advantage and can charge higher prices. A) Extra costs might eat up their profits abroad. Mor

11、e workers will be needed to do packaging. They might lose to foreign bike manufacturers. It is very difficult to find suitable local agents. A) Report to the management. C) Conduct Attract foreign investments. D) Consult financial experts. Questions 13 to 15 are based on the conversation you have ju

12、st heard. A) Coal burnt daily for the comfort of our homes. Anything that can be used to produce power. Fuel refined from oil extracted from underground. Electricity that keeps all kinds of machines running. 4 C) Find the real C) Find the real cause warming. D) Take steps to some questions. Both the

13、 1 上作答。C) Years of D) Strict Oil reserves in the world will be exhausted in a decade. Oil consumption has given rise to many global problems. Oil production will begin to decline worldwide by 2025. A) Minimize the use of fossil fuels. for global Start developing alternative fuels. reduce the greenho

14、use effect. Section B Directions ： In this section you will hear 3 short passages. At the end of each passage, you will hear 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 c

15、orresponding letter on Answer Sheet 1 with a single line through the centre. 注意：此部分試題請(qǐng)?jiān)诖痤}卡Passage One Questions 16 to 18 are based on the passage you have just heard. A) The ability to predict fashion trends. practical experience. A refined taste for artistic works. professional training. 5 D) She i

16、s free to do based on the passage you have just heard. Voice his complaints to A) Promoting all kinds of American hand-made specialties. D) She is free to do based on the passage you have just heard. Voice his complaints to Strengthening cooperation with foreign governments. Conducting trade in art

17、works with dealers overseas. Purchasing handicrafts from all over the world. A) She has access to fashionable things. C) She can enjoy life on a modest salary. She is doing what she enjoys doing. whatever she wants. Passage Two Questions 19 to 22 are 19. A) Join in neighborhood patrols. B) Get invol

18、ved in his community. 20. A) Deterioration in the quality of life. B) Increase of police patrols at night. 21. A) They may take a long time to solve. B) They need assistance from the city. the city council. Make suggestions to the local authorities. Renovation of the vacant buildings. Violation of c

19、ommunity regulations. They have to be dealt with one by one. They are too big for individual efforts. 6 C) Family life and health. D) Stress and depression. C) C) Family life and health. D) Stress and depression. C) His mother died of a sudden heart attack. D) His wife left him because of his bad te

20、mper. C) They could do nothing to help him. D) They would try hard to save his life. ： In this section, you will hear a passage three ， you should for its general idea. When the passage is read for when the passage is read 1 上作答?！癳ducation ，” they think “education. ”He had read a funny poster near h

21、is seat. He had done a small deed of kindness. He had caught the bus just in time. Passage Three Questions 23 to 25 are based on the passage you have just heard. 23. A) Childhood and healthy growth. B) Pressure and heart disease. 24. A) It experienced a series of misfortunes. B) It was in the proces

22、s of reorganization. 25. A) They would give him a triple bypass surgery. B) They could remove the block in his artery. Section C Directions times. When the passage is read for the first timelisten carefully the second time ，you are required to fill in the blanks with the exact words you have just he

23、ard. Finally, for the third time, you should check what you have written. 注意：此部分試題請(qǐng)?jiān)诖痤}卡When most people think of the word of a pupil as a sort of animate sausage casing. Into this empty casing, the teachers 26 stuff But genuine education, as Socrates knew more than two thousand 7 27 the stuffings kn

24、owledge from him； it is the ，” once wrote William ”27 the stuffings knowledge from him； it is the ，” once wrote William ” He said, rather, 點(diǎn)燃）to a 31 . ，and proves to the amazed observers that the of geometry t have a chance to learn of information into a person, 28 of what “Look into your own but r

25、ather eliciting is in the mind. “The most important part of educationErnest 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, “I know, learn from me.selvers and find the 30 of truth that God ha

26、s put into every heart, and that only you can kindle (In a dialogue, Socrates takes an ignorant slave boy, without a day of 32 boy really “knows” geometry because the principles are already in his mind, waiting to be called out. So many of the discussions and 33 about the content of education are us

27、eless and inconclusive because they 34 what should “go into ” the student rather 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, “ spend so much time studying that I donanything ，” was clearly expressing his 35 with the sau

28、sage-casing view of education. 8 (40 minutes) . the passage. Read the passage by a letter. elixir(progress has made the Although (40 minutes) . the passage. Read the passage by a letter. elixir(progress has made the Although innovation kills demand more goods and services. A hundred years ago one Pl

29、ease mark the corresponding letter 靈丹妙藥）of progress, has always cost some jobs, it creates new and better Section A Directions ： 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 through caref

30、ully before making your choices. Each choice in the bank is identified 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 36 to 45 are based on the following passage. Innovation, the people their jobs. In the

31、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 many production-line jobs have been dispensed with, just as

32、 the weavers were. For those who believe that technological world a better place, such disruption is a natural part of rising 38 ones, as a more 39 society becomes richer and its wealthier inhabitants 9 freed from the land were ，but found better-paid freed from the land were ，but found better-paid T

33、oday the pool of secretaries but for workers the 旋風(fēng)），hitting the 2 上作答。F) jobless G) primarily H) productive I) prosperity J) responsive the paragraph Answer the work as the economy grew has 42 , but there K) rhythm L) sentiments M) shrunk N) swept O) withdrawn of them produce far more food. The mil

34、lions not rendered 41 more sophisticated. are ever more computer programmers and web designers. Optimism remains the right starting-point, dislocating effects of technology may make themselves evident faster than its 43 Even if new jobs and wonderful products emerge, in the short term income gaps wi

35、ll widen, causing huge social dislocation and perhaps even changing politics. Technologys 44 will fed like a tornado(rich world first, but 45 sweeping through poorer countries too. No government is prepared for it. 注意：此部分試題請(qǐng)?jiān)诖痤}卡A) benefits B) displaced C) employed D) eventually E) impact Section B D

36、irections ： In this section, you are going to read a passage with ten statements attached to it. Each statement contains information given in one of the paragraphs. Identify, from which the information is derived. You may choose a paragraph more than once. Each paragraph is marked with a letter. 10a

37、nswer is that some works of answer is that some works of art are just great ：s your problem. It（名作目錄） are little more than fossilised “mere-exposure effects an ”Why the Mona Lisa Stands Out Have you ever fallen for a novel and been amazed not find it on lists of great books? Or walked around a sculp

38、ture renowned as a classic, struggling to see what the fuss is about? If so, youve probably pondered the question a psychologist, James Cutting, asked himself ： How does a work of art come to be considered great? The intuitive of intrinsically superior quality. The paintings that win prime spots in

39、galleries, get taught in classes and reproduced in books are the ones that have proved their artistic value over time. If you cant see they re superior, thatintimidatingly neat explanation. But some social scientists have been asking awkward questions of it, raising the possibility that artistic can

40、onshistorical accidents. C) Cutting, a professor at Cornell University, wondered if a psychological mechanism known as the 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(jué)). Over a lecture course he regularly showe

41、d undergraduates works of impressionism for two seconds at a time. Some of the 11These were exposed four s students had grown to like those to be hung in galleries created sophisticated After These were exposed four s students had grown to like those to be hung in galleries created sophisticated Aft

42、er all, it s not just the masses who tend like Warhol and Damien Hirst have grasped, critics5 交織）with publicity. and printed justifications praise “Scholars ”, Cutting for its were lesser known but of comparable quality. times as often. Afterwards, the students preferred them to the canonical works,

43、 while a control group of students liked the canonical ones best. Cuttingpaintings more simply because they had seen them more. D) Cutting believes his experiment offers a clue as to how canons are formed. He points out that the most reproduced works of impressionism today tend to have been bought b

44、y five or 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 in collections. The fame passed down the years, gaining momentum from mere exposure as it did so. The more people were expos

45、ed 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 preeminence（卓越）to rate what they see more often more highly. As contemporary artists is deeply entwined (argues, “are no different from the pu

46、blic in the effects of mere 12The process described by Cutting evokes a principle Duncan Watts callsThe process described by Cutting evokes a principle Duncan Watts calls “cumulative advantage” ： once the “Mona obscurity. t a scholarly re- evaluation, but a “Mona Lisa”, hidden under his smock (that

47、In the 1850s, Leonardo da 工作E) the sociologist 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 experience to Cuttings in another Paris museum. After queuing to see the “Mo

48、na 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 the slightest attention? F) When Watts looked into the history of“the greatest paintin

49、g of all time ”,he discovered that, for most of its life, Lisa remained in relative Vinci was considered no match for giants of Renaissance art like Titian and Raphael, whose works were worth almost ten times as much as the “Mona Lisa ”. It was only in the 20th century that Leonardos portrait of his

50、 patron5s wife rocketed to the number-one spot. What propelled it there wasntheft. G) In 1911 a maintenance worker at the Louvre walked out of the museum with the 13attention. From then on, s unique status can be attributed entirely to the the effect can be obtained attention. From then on, s unique

51、 status can be attributed entirely to the the effect can be obtained Duncan Watts proposes that the “Mona Lisa ”（使浮起） or sunk by random events or “Saying that cultural to the “Mona Lisa ” know they are about to visit impressed“Hamlet”, know it When the museum reopened, objects have value, ”Brian Eno

52、 once until then, they had paid little people queued to see the gap where the “Mona Lisa “, had once hung in a way they had never done for the painting itself. the “Mona Lisa “ ，came to represent Western culture itself. H) Although many have tried., it does Seem improbable that the paintingquality o

53、f its brushstrokes. It has been said that the subjects eyes follow the viewer around the room. But as the painting s biographer, Donald Sassoon, dryly notes, “In reality from any portrait. is merely an extreme example of a general rule. Paintings? poems and pop songs are buoyed preferences that turn

54、 into waves of influence, passing down the generations. I) wrote, “ like saying that telephones have conversations ”.Nearly all the cultural objects we consume arrive wrapped in inherited opinion ； our preferences are always, to some extent, someone else s. Visitors the greatest work of art ever and

55、 come away appropriately or let down. An audience at a performance of14“historical Although the rigid high-low distinction use culture as a badge of “historical Although the rigid high-low distinction use culture as a badge of identity. 折中主義）一“ I love Bach, Abba and Jay Zpsychologist, The intrinsic

56、s more than our social scientists s fell Todays fashion ”-is, argues, a new way quality of a work of art is starting allow. First of all, a work apart in the to seem Watts even calls the preeminence of Shakespeare a accident ”. J) 1960s, we still for eclecticism (Shamus Khan, a Columbia University f

57、or the middle class to distinguish themselves from what they perceive to be the narrow tastes of those beneath them in the social hierarchy. K) like its least important attribute. But perhaps itsignificant needs a certain quality to be eligible to be swept to the top of the pile. The “Mona Lisa ” ma

58、y 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 Shakespearecontemporaries, and the difference may strike you as unarguable. L) A study in the B

59、ritish Journal of Aesthetics suggests that the exposure effect doesnt work the same way on everything, and points to a different conclusion about how canons are formed. 15of greatness, and that we should of greatness, and that we should always look in the next 平庸) s why we need to see, and read, as

60、much as we 2 上作答。of the “Mona Lisa ”，of artistic in order can get confused, even by works is closely associated with publicity. sceptical room. Great art and mediocrity(experts. But thatcan. The more we5re exposed to the good and the bad, the better we are at telling the difference. The eclecticists