2013年6月六级英语考试真题参考答案真题+听力原文+答案详解
2013年6月六级英语考试成套真题参考答案Part III Listening Comprehension (35 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 conversations 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 2 with a single line through the centre.注意：此部分试题请在答题卡2上作答。
11. A) She has completely recovered.B) She went into shock after an operation.C) She is still in a critical condition.D) She is getting much better.12. A) Ordering a breakfast. C) Buying a train ticket.B) Booking a hotel room. D) Fixing a compartment.13. A) Most borrowers never returned the books to her.B) The man is the only one who brought her book back.C) She never expected anyone to return the books to her.D) Most of the books she lent out came back without jackets.14. A) She left her work early to get some bargains last Saturday.B) She attended the supermarket’s grand opening ceremony.C) She drove a full hour before finding a parking space.D) She failed to get into the supermarket last Saturday.15. A) He is bothered by the pain in his neck.B) He cannot do his report without a computer.C) He cannot afford to have a coffee break.D) He feels sorry to have missed the report.16. A) Only top art students can show their works in the gallery.B) The gallery space is big enough for the man’s paintings.C) The woman would like to help with the exibition layout.D) The man is uncertain how his art works will be received.17. A) The woman needs a temporary replacement for her assistant.B) The man works in the same department as the woman does.C) The woman will have to stay in hospital for a few days.D) The man is capable of dealing with difficult people.18. A) It was better than the previous one.B) It distorted the mayor’s speech.C) It exaggerated the city’s economy problems.D) It reflected the opinions of most economists.Questions 19 to 22 are based on the conversation you have just heard.19. A) To inform him of a problem they face.B) To request him to purchase control desks.C) To discuss the content of a project report.D) To ask him to fix the dictating machine.20. A) They quote the best price in the market.B) They manufacture and sell office furniture.C) They cannot deliver the steel sheets on time.D) They cannot produce the steel sheets needed21. A) By marking down the unit price.B) By accepting the penalty clauses.C) By allowing more time for delivery.D) By promising better after-sales service.22. A) Give the customer a ten percent discount.B) Claim compensation from the stool suppliers.C) Ask the Buying Department to change suppliers.D) Cancel the contract with the customer.Questions 23 to 25 are based on the conversation you have just heard.23. A) Stockbroker. C) Mathematician.B) Physicist. D) Economist.24. A) Improve computer programming.B) Predict global population growth.C) Explain certain natural phenomena.D) Promote national financial health.25. A) Their different educational backgrounds.B) Changing attitudes toward nature.C) Chaos theory and its applications.D) The current global economic crisis.Section BDirections: In this section you will hear 3 short passages. 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 centre.注意：此部分试题请在答题卡2上作答。
Passage OneQuestions 26 to 28 are based on the passage you have just heard.26. A) They lay great emphasis on hard work.B) They name 150 star engineers each year.C) They require high academic degrees.D) They have people with a very high IQ.27. A) long years of job training.B) High emotional intelligence.C) Distinctive academic qualifications.D) Devotion to the advance of science.28. A) Good interpersonal relationships.B) Rich working experience.C) Sophisticated equipment.D) High motivation.Passage TwoQuestions 29 to 31 are based on the passage you have just heard.29. A) A diary.B) A fairy tale.C) A history textbook.D) A biography.30. A) He was a sports fan.B) He loved architecture.C) He disliked school.D) He liked hair-raising stories.31. A) Encourage people to undertake adventures.B) Publicize his colorful and unique life stories.C) Raise people’s environmental awareness.D) Attract people to America’s national parks.Passage ThreeQuestions 32 to 35 are based on the passage you have just heard.32.A) The first infected victim.B) A coastal village in Africa.C) The doctor who first identified it.D) A river running through the Congo.33.A) They exhibit similar symptoms.B) They can be treated with the same drug.C) They have almost the same mortality rate.D) They have both disappeared for good.34.A) By inhaling air polluted with the virus.B) By contacting contaminated body fluids.C) By drinking water from the Congo River.D) By eating food grown in Sedan and Zaire.35. A) More strains will evolve from the Ebola virus.B) Scientists will eventually find cures for Ebola.C) Another Ebola epidemic may erupt sooner or later.D) Dose infected, one will become immune to Ebola.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 idea. When the passage is read for the second time, you are required to fill in the blanks numbered from 36 to 43 with the exact words you have just heard. For blanks numbered from 44 to 46 you are required to fill in the missing information. For these blanks you can write the exact words you have just heard or write down the main points in your own words. Finally when the passage is read for the third time, you should check what you have written.注意：此部分试题请在答题卡2上作答。
2013年6月六级听力试题与答案解析
Part I Writing (30 minutes) 注意：注意：此部分试题在答题卡1 上。
Directions: For this part, you are allowed 30 minutes to write a short essay on the topic of Due Attention Should Be Given to the Study of Chinese You should write at Chinese. least 120 words following the outline given below:1.近年来在学生中出现了忽视中文学习的现象；2.出现这种现象的原因和后果；3我认为… Given Due Attention Should Be Given to the Study of Chinese__________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________Part III Listening Comprehension (35 minutes)Section ADirections: 注意：此部分试题请在答题卡2 上作答。
英语六级201306-2听力原文+答案
听力短对话11.W: I was shocked to hear ofyour wife's illness. Isshe going to be all ri ght?M: At first, the doctors weren'tsure, but she'sreally improved. She'll b e home next week.Q: What do we learn about theman's wife from the conversation?12.M: Excuse me, can I get aticket for a sleeping compartment on this tra in?W: Yes, there are four left. Theprice is ￡60 per person including aco ntinental breakfast.Q: What is the man doing?13.M: Janet, here's the book Iborrowed from you, but I'm so sorry that I can't find its jacket.W: It doesn't matter. Anyway, youare one of the few people who actu ally return books tome.Q: What does the woman imply?14.M: Lisa, have you been to thenew supermarket yet?W: Yes, and no. I went there lastSaturday for their grand opening sale , but I drove aroundthe parking lot fornearly an hour, looking for a space before I finally gave up and came home.Q: What does the woman mean?15.W: You've been sitting at thecomputer for hours. Let’s take a coffee b reak, shall we?M: I wish I could. You know, I'mup to my neck in work. I've got to fi nish this report. I don'twant to miss thedeadline.Q: What does the man mean?16.M: What do you think of thisgallery space? They offer to let me exhi bit some of mypaintings here.W: Are you kidding? Any artstudent I know would die to have an exh ibition here.Q: What can we infer from theconversation?17.W: Gary, my assistant is inhospital now. Is there anyone in your depa rtment who could givea hand for afew days?M: I think so. I'll ask aroundand get back to you.Q: What do we learn from theconversation?18.W: Did you read the articlein the paper about the mayor's speech at th e economic forum?M: Sure I did, but I think theytwisted the meaning of what he said. It's not the first time forthem to do so.Q: What does the man say about the paper's article?听力长对话原文1Conversation OneW: Oh, hello, John. Are you usingyour dictatingmachine this morning ? I've got a long report I must dictate. CanI borrow your machine?M: Of course. But can you spareme a second?It's the message you sen t me about the delivery delay of thecontrol desks. What's gonewrong?W: Everything, John. We have toget the steel sheets we need for these desks from newsuppliers. Well, the suppliers have got some troubleor ot her. They say they will be a bit latewith the delivery.M: But they can't be. Those controldesks are a special order. They are wanted for one ofthe big computercompanies. It's a very important contr act.W: When did we promise thedelivery?M: On Thursday next week. Andthere's a penalty clause. We stand to lose 10 percent ofour price for eachweek of overdue delivery.W: Oh, these penalty clauses! Whydid you sales people accept them?M: We have to accept them;otherwise, we don't get the contracts.W: Well, let's get on to theBuying Department. I only heard about the delay yesterdaybecause we kept theproduction line clear to handle these special sheets. It's a dreadfulnuisance.M: It will be more than anuisance if we don't meet on delivery date. I t will cost us a lot ofmoney.W: Keep calm, John. We canperhaps claim compensation from the st eel suppliers forfailure to deliver ontime. Then we will offset the penalty clause.M: Well, if you can.Questions 19 to 22 are based onthe conversation you have just heard.19. Why did the woman send themessage to the man?20. What does the woman say aboutthe new suppliers?21. How did the man get thecontracts?22. What does the woman suggest they do?听力长对话原文2Conversation TwoM: Kathy, chaos theory seems tobe a branch of physics or mathemati cs. You are aneconomist, so how does itinfluence your work?W: Well, in several ways. I amresponsible for financial development programs in many partsof the world, soforecasting long range trends and making predictions on the basis ofpresentevidence is what I do. Chaos the ory was developed by scientists, trying toexplain the movement of the pla nets and the changes in environmentalconditions. Both of these thingsare also about making long-term predictions onthe basis of present evidence.M: Are many economists involvedin this field?W: An increasing number. In the1990s, many economists began to lo ok at chaos theory asa way of providingmodels for forecasting.M: What kind of"models" are we talking about here?W: Well, that's a good question,because the basic idea of chaos theor y is that there aren'tany"models" as such—there aren't guaranteed forms, but rather patternsof change indevelopment.M: Doesn't that mean thatforecasting is impossible?W: No, but it certainly makes itmore of a challenge.]Mandelbrot, wh o didthe experimentwith stock exchanges prices, for example, noted that althoughthe outcomes were variable,there were in fact certain constanc y. What we haveto do is make sure we know what theseare and take into account all thepossible variables.M: But do economics and financework in the same way as weather co nditions or the movement of planets?W: Well, no, of course not. Thereare certain underlying similarities. Butwe have to leavethem for the other time.Questions 23 to 25 are based onthe conversation you have just heard.23. What is the woman'sprofession?24. What was chaos theorysupposed to do when it was first formulate d?25. What are the speakers mainlytalking about?听力短文原文Passage OnePeople write to ask me if there'scorrelationbetween academic intellig ence and emotionalintelligence. My answeris no. You can have a high I Qand a high EQ, which, of course, is awinningcombination, or be high inone and low in the other. The best study was done atBellLabs in New Jers ey, a very high IQ place. They do research intodevelopment for thecomm unications industry. In a division of electronicengineers, who were design ing equipment so advanced that they work in teams ofup to 150, co-work ers and managers were asked to nominate the standouts thestars in produ ctivity and effectiveness. They came up with 10 or15 names, andthat gro up of stars was compared with everyone else. It turned out there wasnodif ference in IQ, no difference in academic qualifications, no difference iny ears on the job.The only difference was emotional intelligence. The stars were people who knew how to getalong, who knew how to motivate the mselves,usually the kind of people you like to hang outwith. When these people ran upagainst a technical problem, to which they'd have to turn to someone else foran answer, they'd e-mail and get an answer right away, b ecause they built upanetwork of people before they needed them. The oth er people would e-mail andwait up to twoweeks for an answer. So you ca n see how being good in theinterpersonal realm actually was adirect bene fit, even for effectivelypursuing a technical task.Questions 26 to 28 are based onthe passage you have just heard.26. What does the speaker sayabout Bell Labs?27. What characterizes the starsnominated at Bell Labs?28. What does the speaker saycontributes to effectively pursuing a tec hnical task?Passage TwoJ's (Biography of John Muir)—JohnMuir's own writings to bring read ers a life story of this remarkable man whodid so much to raise American 's awareness of environmental issues. AsAmerica'sfirst environmentalist , John Muir lived his life forever daring to undertakenewadventures. He s pent most of his days outdoors and had deep love for thewild lands. In the book, we meet John Muir as a youth fearlessly climbing theroof of his ho use. He captures birdsonly to let them go when he realizes thecruelty invo lved. He becomes an inventor and sells hisinventions in order toattend the university. As a young man, he began walking over tens ofthousandsof m iles during his lifetime, through the south to Florida, the west toCalifornia andnorth to Alaska, where readers are taken a long and particularlyhair-r aising adventure on alarge mass of floating ice. Muir's learning inobserv ation throughout his life led him to devote hislast years to preservingthe n atural environment. His writing and speaking raised the awareness of the importance of conservation and helped bring about our national parksyst em.Readers will feel they know John Muir after reading his story and ma y catch hispassionfor preserving the riches of our land. The other's portra yal of Muir'slife is a testimony to whatit means to be lifelong learners an d to use thatlearning to inform and bring about change.Questions 29 to 31 are based onthe passage you have just heard.29. What kind of book is thespeaker introducing?30. What do we learn about JohnMuir when he was young?31. What did John Muir intend todo through writing and speaking?Passage ThreeDisaster movies often portraycatastrophes that destroy, or at least thre aten to destroyearth's entirepopulation. In fact, a virus emerged in the 19 70s that could've been just d after a river that passes throug h the Congo, the Ebola virusoriginally manifested itself inthe interior of Africa in 1976. Two strains ofthe disease, with almost identical symptom s,affected humans—Ebola-Zaire andEbola-Sudan. The Sudan version wa s deadly enough, killing50% of those itinfected. However, Zaire, with its 90% mortality rate, was even worse.Theorigins, though not the cause of Ebola-Sudan, can be traced back to a singleindividual in aSudanese town. Ebola-Zaire seemed to erupt in over 50 villagessimultaneously. Both str ainsquickly invaded local hospitals when needlesharing and other unheal thy practices ensured therapid spreading of theinfection by bringing peop le into contact with contaminated body fluids.If thevirus had been capab le of spreading through the air, or if one infected personhadunknowingly entered a large population center, Ebola might have become aworldwide epidemic. However, soon after these fierce outbreaks, the virus diedout,at least temporarily.Ebola was so deadly and killed so quickly thatwithin a short period of time, there was no onearound to infect. Hospitalworkers in at least one case deserted their workplace in panic, thushaltingthe ad ministering of potentially unclean disease spreading injections, butEbola has notdisappeared. With no known vaccination or cure available, itsee ms only a matter of time untilanother epidemic erupts.Questions 32 to 35 are based onthe passage you have just heard.32. What is Ebola virus namedafter?33. What do we learn aboutEbola-Zaire and Ebola-Sudan?34. How do people get infectedwith the disease according to the speak er?35. What does the speaker believe?听力填空The ideal companion machinewould not onlylook, feel, and sound friend ly but would also beprogrammed tobehave in an agreeable manner.Those qualities that make interaction withotherpeople enjoyable would be sim ulated as closelyas possible, and the machinewould appear to be charmin g stimulating, and easygoing. Its informalconversational style would ma ke interaction comfortable, and yet the machine wouldremain slightly un predictable and thereforeinteresting. In its first encounterit might be somewhat hesitant and unassuming, but as itcame to know the userit would progress to a more relaxed and intimate style. The machinewould notbe a passive participant but would add its own suggestions, information,an dopinions; it would sometimes take the initiative in developing or changi ng thetopic andwould have a personality of its own. The machine would c onveypresence. We have all seen howa computer’s use of personal names oftenfascinates people and needs them to treat themachine as if it were al mosthuman. Such features are easily written into the software. Byintrodu cing adegree of forcefulness and humor, the machine could be presented as a vivid andunique character. Friendships are not made in a day, and the computer would bemore acceptable as a friend if it simulated the gradual changes that occur whenone person is gettingto know another. At an appr opriate time it might alsoexpress the kind of affection thatstimulates atta chment and intimacy.1-15 DCADC16-20 AABAC21-26 BBDBC26-30 DBADB31-35 CDABC36. qualities37. charming38. unpredictable39. encounter40. relaxed41. participant42. initiative43. personality44. often fascinates people andneeds them to treat the machine as if it were almost human45. By introducing a degree offorcefulness and humor, the machine c ould be presented as a vivid and uniquecharacter46. if it simulated the gradualchanges that occur when one person is g etting to knowanother。
2013年6月大学英语六级(CET6)考试真题试题完整版真题+听力原文+答案详解
2013年6月大学英语六级(CET6)考试真题试题完整版Part III Listening Comprehension (35 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 conversations 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 2 with a single line through the centre.注意：此部分试题请在答题卡2上作答。
11. A) She has completely recovered.B) She went into shock after an operation.C) She is still in a critical condition.D) She is getting much better.12. A) Ordering a breakfast. C) Buying a train ticket.B) Booking a hotel room. D) Fixing a compartment.13. A) Most borrowers never returned the books to her.B) The man is the only one who brought her book back.C) She never expected anyone to return the books to her.D) Most of the books she lent out came back without jackets.14. A) She left her work early to get some bargains last Saturday.B) She attended the supermarket’s grand opening ceremony.C) She drove a full hour before finding a parking space.D) She failed to get into the supermarket last Saturday.15. A) He is bothered by the pain in his neck.B) He cannot do his report without a computer.C) He cannot afford to have a coffee break.D) He feels sorry to have missed the report.16. A) Only top art students can show their works in the gallery.B) The gallery space is big enough for the man’s paintings.C) The woman would like to help with the exibition layout.D) The man is uncertain how his art works will be received.17. A) The woman needs a temporary replacement for her assistant.B) The man works in the same department as the woman does.C) The woman will have to stay in hospital for a few days.D) The man is capable of dealing with difficult people.18. A) It was better than the previous one.B) It distorted the mayor’s speech.C) It exaggerated the city’s economy problems.D) It reflected the opinions of most economists.Questions 19 to 22 are based on the conversation you have just heard.19. A) To inform him of a problem they face.B) To request him to purchase control desks.C) To discuss the content of a project report.D) To ask him to fix the dictating machine.20. A) They quote the best price in the market.B) They manufacture and sell office furniture.C) They cannot deliver the steel sheets on time.D) They cannot produce the steel sheets needed21. A) By marking down the unit price.B) By accepting the penalty clauses.C) By allowing more time for delivery.D) By promising better after-sales service.22. A) Give the customer a ten percent discount.B) Claim compensation from the stool suppliers.C) Ask the Buying Department to change suppliers.D) Cancel the contract with the customer.Questions 23 to 25 are based on the conversation you have just heard.23. A) Stockbroker. C) Mathematician.B) Physicist. D) Economist.24. A) Improve computer programming.B) Predict global population growth.C) Explain certain natural phenomena.D) Promote national financial health.25. A) Their different educational backgrounds.B) Changing attitudes toward nature.C) Chaos theory and its applications.D) The current global economic crisis.Section BDirections: In this section you will hear 3 short passages. 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 centre.注意：此部分试题请在答题卡2上作答。
2013年6月六级考试第一套真题答案解析(卷一)
2013年6月大学英语六级考试答案与详解（卷一）Part ⅠWriting1、审题:本篇是评论性的话题作文。
“微笑”是常谈不衰的话题，它本应是人们最自然、最常见的表情，而现代都市人大都为生活、工作、学业、子女等种种事务日复一日地劳碌奔波，背负着越来越大的压力，那种最真诚、最自然、最质朴的微笑正渐渐从人们的脸上消失。
在科技发达的现代社会，人与人之间在空间上的距离更近了，但在心灵上却越走越远。
本篇要求评论“微笑可以拉近两个人的距离”这句话并为文，而在更深层次上，出题人似乎是想借这个题目引发人们的思考，让人们通过“微笑”消除彼此之间的冷漠、仇恨、冲突，搭建良好的交流沟通和亲近的桥梁，因此这一题目开放性强，考生可发挥的空间很大。
此外，题目Drections中指出考生可以援引事例来证明观点，这为考生行文提供了一个思路，即：先陈述微笑的作用，然后援引事例予以证明，并对事例简单评述以点题，最后提出个人看法。
此外，考生也可先指出微笑可以缩短人与人之间距离的几个方面，然后指出微笑所代表的深层含义(人与人之间的信任支持、关怀友爱、宽容悲悯等真挚情感），最后再作出总结。
2、写作思路：第一段：引用特蕾莎修女的名言，指出微笑能缩短人与人之间的距离，并从三个方面体现：消融冷漠或敌意；赋予力量；拉近友情。
第二段：从不同角度举例证明微笑能缩短人与人之间的距离：绝望中抚慰心灵；陌生环境中与人亲近，获得帮助；困境中，获得力量。
第三段：总结前面所述，给出个人看法：微笑让我们受益匪浅，笑口常开促进人与人的交流，促进社会的和谐。
A Smile Can Shorten the Distance Between PeopleMother Teresa once said, “Every time you smile at someone, it is an action of love, a gift to that person, a beautiful thing.”Human beings are said to be one of the few species in this planet who can express sincere sentiments through a smile. And it is a smile that melts the indifference or hostility between people, that gives power to those who are at the edge of despair, and that brings friends close to each other. In a word, it is a smile that continuously shortens the distance between people.A smile, with its strong power, brings out its miraculous glamour in different ways. When you are in the situation of despair, a smile from others will console your hurting heart. When you get into an unfamiliar circumstance, a smile will make the people around you feel comfortable and help you willingly. When you get into trouble, a smile from friends will give you power to stand up. Where there is no smile, there is no happiness of life.Seen from the discussion above, a smile benefits us very much. Le t’s keep smiling so that better communication between people can be achieved and a more harmonious society can be built.PartⅡListening Comprehension1.听力原文：W: I was shocked to hear of your wife’s illness. Is she going to be all right?M: At first, the doctors won’t assure, but she’s really improved. She’ll be home next week.Q: What do we learn about the man’s wife from the conversation?【预测】选项中的主语she以及recovered, operation, critical condition (危急状况）和getting much better表明，对话与she的病情有关。
2013年6月大学英语六级(CET-6)真题第三套试卷及参考答案
2013年6月英语六级考试真题试卷（第3套）Part I Writing (30 minutes)Directions: For this part, you are allowed 30 minutes to write an essay commenting on the remark "A smile is the shortest distance between two people." You can cite examples to illustrate your point. You should write at least 150 words but no more than 200 words._____________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________________ __________注意：此部分试题在答题卡1上作答。
Part II Reading Comprehension (Skimming and Scanning) (15 minutes) Directions: In this part, you will have 15 minutes to go over the passage quickly and answer the questions on Answer Sheet 1. For questions 1-7, choose the best answer from the four choices marked A) , B) , C) and D) . For questions 8-10, complete the sentences with the information given in the passage.Norman Borlaug: 'Father of the Green Revolution'Few people have quietly changed the world for the better more than this rural lad from the midwestern state of Iowa in the United States. The man in focus is Norman Borlaug, the Father of the 'Green Revolution', who died on September 12, 2009 at age 95.Norman Borlaug spent most of his 60 working years in the farmlands of Mexico, South Asia and later in Africa, fighting world hunger, and saving by some estimates up to a billion lives in the process. An achievement, fit for a Nobel Peace Prize.Early Years"I'm a product of the great depression" is how Borlaug described himself. A great-grandson of Norwegian immigrants to the United States, Borlaug was born in 1914 and grew up on a small farm in the northeastern corner of Iowa in a town called Cresco. His family had a 40-hectare (公顷) farm on which they grew wheat, maize (玉米) and hay and raised pigs and cattle. Norman spent most of his time from age 7-17 on the farm, even as he attended a one-room, one-teacher school at New Oregon in Howard County.Borlaug didn't have money to go to college. But through a Great Depression era programme, known as the National Youth Administration, Borlaug was able to enroll in the University of Minnesota at Minneapolis to study forestry. He excelled in studies and received his Ph.D. in plant pathology (病理学) and genetics in 1942. From 1942 to 1944, Borlaug was employed as a microbiologist at DuPont in Wilmington. However, following the December 7, 1941 attack on Pearl Harbor, Borlaug tried tojoin the military, but was rejected under wartime labour regulations.In MexicoIn 1944, many experts warned of mass starvation in developing nations where populations were expanding faster than crop production. Borlaug began work at a Rockefeller Foundation-funded project in Mexico to increase wheat production by developing higher-yielding varieties of the crop. It involved research in genetics, plant breeding, plant pathology, entomology (昆虫学) , agronomy (农艺学) , soil science, and cereal technology. The goal of the project was to boost wheat production in Mexico, which at the time was importing a large portion of its grain.Borlaug said that his first couple of years in Mexico were difficult. He lacked trained scientists and equipment. Native farmers were hostile towards the wheat programme because of serious crop losses from 1939 to 1941 due to stem rust.Wheat varieties that Borlaug worked with had tall, thin stalks. While taller wheat competed better for sunlight, they had a tendency to collapse under the weight of extra grain -a trait called lodging. To overcome this, Borlaug worked on breeding wheat with shorter and stronger stalks, which could hold on larger seed heads. Borlaug's new semi-dwarf, disease-resistant varieties, called Pitic 62 and Penjamo 62, changed the potential yield of Mexican wheat dramatically. By 1963 wheat production in Mexico stood six times more than that of 1944.Green Revolution in IndiaDuring the 1960s, South Asia experienced severe drought condition and India had been importing wheat on a large scale from the United States. Borlaug came to India in 1963 along with Dr. Robert Anderson to duplicate his Mexican success in the sub-continent. The experiments began with planting a few of the high-yielding variety strains in the fields of the Indian Agricultural Research Institute at Pusa in New Delhi, under the supervision of Dr. M. S. Swaminathan. These strains were subsequently planted in test plots at Ludhiana, Pantnagar, Kanpur, Pune and Indore. The results were promising, but large-scale success, however, was not instant. Cultural opposition to new agricultural techniques initially prevented Borlaug from going ahead with planting of new wheat strains in India. By 1965, when the drought situation turned alarming, the Government took the lead and allowed wheat revolution to move forward. By employing agricultural techniques he developed in Mexico, Borlaug was able to nearly double South Asian wheat harvests between 1965 and 1970.India subsequently made a huge commitment to Mexican wheat, importing some 18000 tonnes of seed. By 1968, it was clear that the Indian wheat harvest was nothing short of revolutionary. It was so productive that there was a shortage of labour to harvest it, of bull carts to haul it to the threshing floor (打谷场) , of jute (麻黄) bags to store it. Local governments in some areas were forced to shut down schools temporarily to use them as store houses.United Nation's Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) observed that in 40 years between 1961 and 2001, "India more than doubled its population, from 452 million to more than 1 billion. At the same time, it nearly tripled its grain production from 87 million tonnes to 231 million tonnes. It accomplished this feat while increasing cultivated grain acreage (土地面积) a mere 8 percent."It was in India that Norman Borlaug's work was described as the 'Green Revolution.' In AfricaAfrica suffered widespread hunger and starvation through the 70s and 80s. Food and aid poured in from most developed countries into the continent, but thanks to the absence of efficient distribution system, the hungry remained empty-stomach. The then Chairman of the Nippon Foundation, Ryoichi Sasakawa wondered why the methods used in Mexico and India were not extended to Africa. He called up Norman Borlaug. now leading a semi-retired life, for help. He managed to convince Borlaug to help with his new effort and subsequently founded the Sasakawa Africa Association. Borlaug later recalled, "but after I saw the terrible circumstances there, I said, 'Let's just start growing'".The success in Africa was not as spectacular as it was in India or Mexico. Those elements that allowed Borlaug's projects to succeed, such as well-organized economies and transportation and irrigation systems, were severely lacking throughout Africa. Because of this, Borlaug's initial projects were restricted to developed regions of the continent. Nevertheless, yields of maize, sorghum (高粱) and wheat doubled between 1983 and 1985.Nobel PrizeFor his contributions to the world food supply, Borlaug was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1970. Norwegian officials notified his wife in Mexico City at 4:00 a. m., but Borlaug had already left for the test fields in the Toluca valley, about 65 km west of Mexico City. A chauffeur (司机) took her to the fields to inform her husband. In his acceptance speech, Borlaug said, "the first essential component of social justice is adequate food for all mankind. Food is the moral right of all who are born into this world. Yet, 50 percent of the world population goes hungry."Green Revolution vs EnvironmentalistsBorlaug’s advocacy of intensive high-yield agriculture came under severe criticism from environmentalists in recent years. His work faced environmental and socio-economic criticisms, including charges that his methods have created dependence on monoculture crops, unsustainable farming practices, heavy indebtedness among subsistence farmers, and high levels of cancer among those who work with agriculture chemicals. There are also concerns about the long-term sustainability of fanning practices encouraged by the Green Revolution in both the developed and the developing world. In India, the Green Revolution is blamed for the destruction of Indian crop diversity, drought vulnerability, dependence on agro-chemicals that poison soils but reap large-scale benefits mostly to the American multi-national corporations. What these critics overwhelmingly advocate is a global movement towards "organic" or "sustainable" farming practices that avoid using chemicals and high technology in favour of natural fertilizers, cultivation and pest-control programmes.注意：此部分试题请在答题卡1上作答。
2013年6月六级考试真题(三)
2013年6月六级考试真题（第三套）PartⅠ WritingDirections：For this part, you are allowed 30 minutes to write an essay commenting on the remark “Earth provides enough to satisfy every man’s need, but not every man’s greed.” You can cite examples to illustrate yourpoint. You should write at least 150 words but no more than 200 words .Part II Listening Comprehension说明：2013年6月六级真题全国共考了两套听力。
本套（即第三套）的听力内容与第二套的内容完全相同，只是选项的顺序不一样而已，故在本套中没有重复给出。
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 beforemaking your choices. Each choice in the bank is identified by a letter. Please mark the corresponding letterfor each item on Answer Sheet 2 with a single line through the centre. You may not use any of the words inthe bank more than once.Questions 36 to 45 are based on the following passage.Children are losing the ability to play properly because they are being given too many toys, according to a new research. The studies show that children — especially those under five — are often 36 and actually play less than those with fewer toys.“0ur studies show that giving children too many toys or toys of the 37 type can actually be doing them harm. They get spoiled and cannot 38 on any one thing long enough to learn from it”, said Lerner, a childhood development researcher. Her conclusions have been backed up by British research looking at children with 39 few toys, whose parents spend more time reading, singing or playing with them. It showed such children 40 youngsters from richer backgrounds — even those who had access to computers.Kathy Sylva, professor of educational psychology at Oxford University, reached her 41 from a study of 3,000 children from the ages of three to five. In her opinion, there is a complex relationship between children’s progress, the type of toys they are given and the time parents spend on them. When the children have a large number of toys there seems to be a distraction element, and when children are 42 they do not learn or play well.Some parents notice the 43 early. Orhan Ismail, a researcher from Colchester, Essex, saw a change for the worse in Cameron, his 10-month-old son, after he was given 44 toys last Christmas. He observed that if there are too many toys in front of Cameron, he will just keep moving round them and then end up going away and finding something like a slipper to play with.Experts 45 to put a figure on the number of toys children should have, but many believe two dozen is enough for children of pre-school age.A) impact I) surpassB) concentrate J) innumerableC) overwhelmed K) decisionsD) reasonably L) inaccurateE) conclusions M) relativelyF) exquisite N) distractedG) embarrassed O) lagH) hesitateSection BDirections: 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 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 questionsby marking the corresponding letter on Answer Sheet 2.Norman Borlaug: “Father of the Green Revolution”[A]Few people have quietly changed the world for the better more than this rural lad from the midwestem state of Iowa inthe United States. The man in focus is Norman Borlaug, the “Father of the Green Revolution”, who died on 12 September 2009 at age 95. Norman Borlaug spent most of his 60 working years in the farmlands of Mexico, South Asia and later in Africa, fighting world hunger, and saving by some estimates up to a billion lives in the process. An achievement, fit for a Nobel Peace Prize.Early Years[B]“I’m a product of the great depression” is how Borlaug described himself. A great-grandson of Norwegianimmigrants to the United States, Borlaug was born in 1914 and grew up on a small farm in the northeastern comer of Iowa in a town called Cresco. His family had a 40-hectrare (公顷)farm on which they grew wheat, maize(玉米)and hay and raised pigs and cattle. Norman spent most of his time from age 7-17 on the farm, even as he attendeda one-room, one-teacher school at New Oregon in Howard County.[C]Borlaug didn’t have money to go to college. But through a Great Depression era programme, known as the NationalYouth Administration, Borlaug was able to enroll in University of Minnesota at Minneapolis to study forestry. He excelled in studies and received his PhD in plant pathology (病理学）and genetics in 1942.[D]From 1942 to 1944, Borlaug was employed as a microbiologist at DuPont in Wilmington. However, following theDecember 1941 attack on Pearl Harbor, Borlaug tried to join the military, but was rejected under wartime labour regulations.In Mexico[E]In 1944, many experts warned of mass starvation in developing nations where populations were expanding faster thancrop production. Borlaug began work at a Rockefeller Foundation- funded project in Mexico to increase wheat production by developing higher-yielding varieties of the crop. It involved research in genetics, plant breeding, plant pathology, entomology（昆虫学），agronomy（农艺学）,soil science, and cereal technology. The goal of the project was to boost wheat production in Mexico, which at the time was importing a large portion of its grain.[F]Borlaug said that his first couple of years in Mexico were difficult. He lacked trained scientists and equipment. Nativefarmers were hostile towards the wheat programme because of serious crop losses from 1939 to 1941 due to stem rust.[G]Wheat varieties that Borlaug worked with had tall, thin stalks. While taller wheat competed better for sunlight, theyhad a tendency to collapse under the weight of extra grain — a trait called lodging. To overcome this, Borlaug2worked on breeding wheat with shorter and stronger stalks, which could hold on larger seed heads. Borlaug’s new semi-dwarf, disease-resistant varieties, called Pitic 62 and Penjamo 62, changed the potential yield of Mexican wheat dramatically. By 1963 wheat production in Mexico stood six times more than that of 1944.Green Revolution in India[H]During the 1960s, South Asia experienced severe drought condition and India had been importing wheat on a largescale from the United States. Borlaug came to India in 1963 along with Dr Robert Anderson to duplicate his Mexican success in the sub-continent. The experiments began with planting a few of the high-yielding variety strains in the fields of the Indian Agricultural Research Institute at Pusa in New Delhi, under the supervision of Dr M. S.Swaminathan. These strains were subsequently planted in test plots at Ludhiana, Pantnagar, Kanpur, Pune and Indore.The results were promising, but large-scale success, however, was not instant. Cultural opposition to new agricultural techniques initially prevented Borlaug from going ahead with planting of new wheat strains in India. By 1965, when the drought situation turned alarming, the Government took the lead and allowed wheat revolution to move forward.By employing agricultural techniques he developed in Mexico, Borlaug was able to nearly double South Asian wheat harvests between 1965 and 1970.[I]India subsequently made a huge commitment to Mexican wheat, importing some 18,000 tonnes of seed. By 1968, itwas clear that the Indian wheat harvest was nothing short of revolutionary. It was so productive that there was a shortage of labour to harvest it, of bull carts to haul it to the threshing floor（打谷场）of jute（黄麻）bags to store it. Local governments in some areas were forced to shut down schools temporarily to use them as store houses. [J]United Nation’s Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) observed that in 40 years between 1961 and 2001,“India more than doubled its population, from 452 million to more than 1 billion. At the same time, it nearly tripled its grain production from 87 million tonnes to 231 million tonnes. It accomplished this feat while increasing cultivated grain acreage （土地面积）a mere 8 percent.” It was in India that Norman Borlaug’s work was described as the “Green Revolution.”In Africa[K]Africa suffered widespread hunger and starvation through the 70s and 80s. Food and aid poured in from most developed countries into the continent, but thanks to the absence of efficient distribution system, the hungry remained empty-stomach. The then Chairman of the Nippon Foundation, Ryoichi Sasakawa wondered why the methods used in Mexico and India were not extended to Africa. He called up Norman Borlaug, now leading a semi-retired life, for help. He managed to convince Borlaug to help with his new effort and subsequently founded the Sasakawa Africa Association. Borlaug later recalled, “but after I saw the terrible circumstances there, I said, ‘Let’s just start growing’”.[L]The success in Africa was not as spectacular as it was in India or Mexico. Those elements that allowed Borlaug’s projects to succeed, such as well-organised economies and transportation and irrigation systems, were severely lacking throughout Africa. Because of this, Borlaug’s initial projects were restricted to developed regions of the continent. Nevertheless, yields of maize, sorghum (高粱) and wheat doubled between 1983 and 1985.Nobel Prize[M]For his contributions to the world food supply, Borlaug was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1970. Norwegian officials notified his wife in Mexico City at 4:00 am, but Borlaug had already left for the test fields in the Toluca valley, about 65km west of Mexico City. A chauffeur (司机）took her to the fields to inform her husband. In his acceptance speech, Borlaug said, “the first essential component of social justice is adequate food for all mankind.Food is the moral right of all who are born into this world. Yet, 50 percent of the world population goes hungry.”Green Revolution vs Environmentalists[N]Borlaug’s advocacy of intensive high-yield agriculture came under severe criticism from environmentalists in recent years. His work faced environmental and socio-economic criticisms, including charges that his methods have created dependence on monoculture crops, unsustainable fanning practices, heavy indebtedness among subsistence farmers, and high levels of cancer among those who work with agriculture chemicals. There are also concerns about the long-term sustainability of fanning practices encouraged by the Green Revolution in both the developed and the developing world.[O]In India, the Green Revolution is blamed for the destruction of India crop diversity, drought vulnerability, dependence on agro-chemicals that poison soils but reap large-scale benefits mostly to the American multi-national corporations. What these critics overwhelmingly advocate is a global movement towards “organic” or “sustainable”farming practices that avoid using chemicals and high technology in favour of natural fertilisers, cultivation and pest-control porgrammes.46.Farmers’ rejection of his planting techniques initially prevented Borlaug from achieving large- scale success in India.47.In both developed and developing countries there are concerns whether in the long run Borlaug’s farming practice willbe sustainable.48.Borlaug’s Pitic 62 and Penjamo 62 has short and strong stems and can resist to diseases.49.Borlaug’s success in Africa was not as spectacular as in India or Mexico because Africa lacked the necessarysupporting facilities.50.In India, critics attribute the destruction of Indian crop diversity to the Green Revolution.51.Borlaug emphasised that adequate food for all mankind is essential in ensuring social justice in his Nobel Prizeacceptance speech.52.In recent years Borlaug’s Green Revolution has been attacked by environmentalists.53.Borlaug’s wheat programme had been stuck in trouble during his first couple of years in Mexico.54.According to United Nation’s Food and Agriculture Organisation, in 40 years between 1961 and 2001 India’s grainproduction increased nearly three times.55.Norman Borlaug won a Nobel Prize for his 60 years work on combating world hunger.Section CDirections: There are 2 passages in this section. Each passage is followed by some questions or unfinished statements. For each of them there are four choices marked A), B),C) and D). You should decide on the best choice andmark the corresponding letter on Answer Sheet 2 with a single line through the centre.Passage OneQuestions 56 to 60 are based on the following passage.“Depression” is more than a serious economic downturn. What distinguishes a depression from a harsh recession is paralysing fear — fear of the unknown so great that it causes consumers, businesses, and investors to retreat and panic. They save up cash and desperately cut spending. They sell stocks and other assets. A shattering loss of confidence inspires behaviour that overwhelms the normal self-correcting mechanisms that usually prevent a recession from becoming deep and prolonged: a depression.Comparing 1929 with 2007-09, Christina Romer, the head of President Obama’s Council of Economic Advisers, finds the initial blow to confidence far greater now than then. True, stock prices fell a third from September to December 1929, but fewer Americans then owned stocks. Moreover, home prices barely dropped. From December 1928 to December 1929, total household wealth declined only 3%. By contrast, the loss in household wealth between December 2007 and December 2008 was 17%. Both stocks and homes, more widely held, dropped more. Thus traumatised(受到创伤），the economy4might have gone into a free fall ending in depression. Indeed, it did go into free fall. Shoppers refrained from buying cars, appliances, and other big- ticket items. Spending on such “durables” dropped at a 12% annual rate in 2008’s third quarter, a 20% rate in the fourth. And businesses shelved investment projects.That these huge declines didn’t lead to depression mainly reflects, as Romer argues, counter-measures taken by the government. Private markets for goods, services, labor, and securities do mostly self-correct, but panic feeds on itself and disarms these stabilising tendencies. In this situation, only the government can protect the economy as a whole, because most individuals and companies are involved in the self-defeating behaviour of self-protection.Government’s failure to perform this role in the early 1930s transformed recession into depression. Scholars will debate which interventions this time — the Federal Reserve’s support of a failing credit system, guarantees of bank debt, Obama’s “stimulus” plan and bank “stress test” 一 counted most in preventing a recurrence. Regardless, all these complex measures had the same psychological purpose: to reassure people that the free fall would stop and, thereby, curb die fear that would perpetuate( 使持久）a free fall.All this improved confidence. But the consumer sentiment index remains weak, and all the rebound has occurred in Americans’ evaluation of future economic conditions, not the present. Unemployment (9.8%) is abysmal(糟透的）, the recovery’s strength unclear. Here, too, there is an echo from the 1930s. Despite bottoming out in 1933, the Depression didn’t end until World War II. Some government policies aided recovery; some hindered it. The good news today is that the bad news is not worse.56.Why do consumers, businesses and investors retreat and panic in times of depression?A)They suffer great losses in stocks, property and other assets.B)They find the self-correcting mechanisms dysfunctioning.C)They are afraid the normal social order will be paralysed.D)They don’t know what is going to happen in the future.57.What does Christina Romer say about the current economic recession?A)Its severity is no match for the Great Depression of 1929.B)Its initial blow to confidence far exceeded that of 1929.C)It has affected house owners more than stock holders.D)It has resulted in a free fall of the prices of commodities.58.Why didn’t the current recession turn into a depression according to Christina Romer?A)The government intervened effectively.B)Private markets corrected themselves.C)People refrained from buying durables and big-ticket items.D)Individuals and companies adopted self-protection measures.59.What is the chief purpose of all the counter measures taken?A)To create job opportunities. C) To stimulate domestic consumption.B)To curb the fear of a lasting free fall. D) To rebuild the credit system.60.What does the author think of today’s economic situation?A)It may worsen without further stimulation. C) It has not gone from bad to worse.B)It will see a rebound sooner or later. D)It does not give people reason for pessimism.Passage TwoQuestions 61 to 65 are based on the following passage.“Usually when we walk through-the rain forest we hear a soft sound from all the moist leaves and organic debris on theforest floor,” says ecologist Daniel Nepstad. “ Now we increasingly get rustle and crunch. That’s the sound of a dying forest.”Predictions of the collapse of the tropical rain forests have been around for years. Yet until recently the worst forecasts were almost exclusively linked to direct human activity, such as dear- cutting and burning for pastures or farms. Left alone, it was assumed, the world’s rain forests would not only flourish but might even rescue us from disaster by absorbing the excess carbon dioxide and other planet-warming greenhouse gases. Now it turns out that may be wishful thinking. Some scientists believe that the rise in carbon levels means that the Amazon and other rain forests in Asia and Africa may go from being assets in the battle against rising temperatures to liabilities. Amazon plants, for instance, hold more than 100 billion metric tons of carbon, equal to 15 years of tailpipe and chimney emissions. If the collapse of the rain forests speeds up dramatically, it could eventually release 3.5-5 billion metric tons of carbon into the atmosphere each year 一 making forests the leading source of greenhouse gases.Uncommonly severe droughts brought on by global climate change have led to forest-eating wildfires from Australia to Indonesia, but nowhere more acutely than in the Amazon. Some experts say that the rain forest is already at the brink of collapse.Extreme weather and reckless development are plotting against the rain forest in ways that scientists have never seen. Trees need more water as temperatures rise, but the prolonged droughts have robbed them of moisture, making whole forests easily cleared of trees and turned into farmland. The picture worsens with each round of El Nino, the unusually warm currents in the Pacific Ocean that drive up temperatures and invariably presage（预示）droughts and fires in the rain forest. Runaway fires pour even more carbon into the air, which increases temperatures, starting the whole vicious cycle all over again.More than paradise lost, a perishing rain forest could trigger a domino effect—sending winds and rains kilometres off course and loading the skies with even greater levels of greenhouse gases— that will be felt far beyond the Amazon basin. In a sense, we are already getting a glimpse of what’s to come. Each burning season in the Amazon, fires deliberately set by frontier settlers and developers hurl up almost half a billion metric tons of carbon a year, placing Brazil among the top five contributors to greenhouse gases in the world.61.We learn from the first paragraph that ______________ .A)dead leaves and tree debris make the same soundB)trees that are dying usually give out a soft moanC)organic debris echoes the sounds in a rain forestD)the sound of a forest signifies its health condition62.In the second paragraph, the author challenges the view that __________________ .A)the collapse of rain forests is caused by direct human interferenceB)carbon emissions are the leading cause of current global warmingC)the condition of rain forests has been rapidly deterioratingD)rain forests should not be converted into pastures or farms63.The author argues that the rising carbon levels in rain forests may __________________ .A)turn them into a major source of greenhouse gasesB)change the weather patterns throughout the worldC)pose a threat to wildlifeD)accelerate their collapse64.What has made it easier to turn some rain forests into farmland?A) Rapid rise in carbon levels. C) Lack of rainfall resulting from global warming.6B) Reckless land development. D) The unusual warm currents in the Pacific Ocean.65.What makes Brazil one of the world’s top five contributors to greenhouse gases?A)The domino effect triggered by the perishing rain forests.B)Its practice of burning forests for settlement and development.C)The changed patterns of winds and rains in the Amazon area.D)Its inability to curb the carbon emissions from industries.Part IV TranslationDirections: For this part, you are allowed 30 minutes to translate a passage from Chinese into English. You should write your answer on Answer Sheet 2.中国是最早生产丝绸的国家。
2013年6月英语六级考试真题与答案(第1套)
2013年6月英语六级考试真题试卷（第1套）Part I Writing (30 minutes)Directions: For this party you are allowed 30 minutes to write an essay commenting on the remark "Good habits result from resisting temptation." You can cite examples to illustrator your point. You should write at least 150 words but no more than 200 words._______________________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________________ 注意：此部分试题在答题卡1上作答。
Part II Reading Comprehension (Skimming and Scanning) (15 minutes)Directions: In this part, you will have 15 minutes to go over the passage quickly and answer the questions on Answer Sheet 1. For questions 1-7, choose the best answer from the four choices marked A) , B) , C) and D) . For questions 8-10, complete the sentences with the information given in the passage.A Nation That's Losing Its ToolboxThe scene inside the Home Depot on Weyman Avenue here would give the old-time American craftsman pause.In Aisle 34 is precut plastic flooring, the glue already in place. In Aisle 26 are prefabricated windows. Stacked near the checkout counters, and as colorful as a Fisher-Price toy, is a not-so-serious-looking power tool: a battery-operated saw-and-drill combination. And if you don't want to do it yourself, head to Aisle 23 or Aisle 35, where a help desk will arrange for an installer.It's all very handy stuff, I guess, a convenient way to be a do-it-yourselfer without being all that good with tools. But at a time when the American factory seems to be a shrinking presence, and when good manufacturing jobs have vanished, perhaps never to return, there is something deeply troubling about this dilution of American craftsmanship.This isn't a lament (伤感) - or not merely a lament - for bygone times. It's a social and cultural issue, as well as an economic one. The Home Depot approach to craftsmanship - simplify it, dumb it down, hire a contractor - is one signal that mastering tools and working with one's hands is receding in America as a hobby, as a valued skill, as a cultural influence that shaped thinking and behavior in vast sections of the country.That should be a matter of concern in a presidential election year. Yet neither Barack Obama nor Mitt Romney promotes himself as tool-savvy (使用工具很在行的) presidential timber, in the mold of a Jimmy Carter, a skilled carpenter and cabinet maker.The Obama administration does worry publicly about manufacturing, a first cousin of craftsmanship. When the Ford Motor Company, for example, recently announced that it was bringing some production home, the White House cheered. "When you see things like Ford moving new production from Mexico to Detroit, instead of the other way around, you know things are changing," says Gene Sperling, director of the National Economic Council.Ask the administration or the Republicans or most academics why America needs more manufacturing, and they respond that manufacturing gives birth to innovation, brings down thetrade deficit, strengthens the dollar, generates jobs, arms the military and brings about a recovery from recession. But rarely, if ever, do they publicly take the argument a step further, asserting that a growing manufacturing sector encourages craftsmanship and that craftsmanship is, if not a birthright, then a vital ingredient of the American self-image as a can-do, inventive, we-can-make-anything people.Traditional vocational training in public high schools is gradually declining, stranding thousands of young people who seek training for a craft without going to college. Colleges, for their part, have since 1985 graduated fewer chemical, mechanical, industrial and metallurgical (冶金的) engineers, partly in response to the reduced role of manufacturing, a big employer of them.The decline started in the 1950s, when manufacturing generated a sturdy 28% of the national income, or gross domestic product, and employed one-third of the workforce. Today, factory output generates just 12% of G.D.P. and employs barely 9% of the nation's workers.Mass layoffs and plant closings have drawn plenty of headlines and public debate over the years, and they still occasionally do. But the damage to skill and craftsmanship- that's needed to build a complex airliner or a tractor, or for a worker to move up from assembler to machinist to supervisor - went largely unnoticed."In an earlier generation, we lost our connection to the land, and now we are losing our connection to the machinery we depend on," says Michael Hout, a sociologist at the University of California, Berkeley. "People who work with their hands," he went on, "are doing things today that we call service jobs, in restaurants and laundries, or in medical technology and the like." That's one explanation for the decline in traditional craftsmanship. Lack of interest is another. The big money is in fields like finance. Starting in the 1980s, skill in finance grew in importance, and, as depicted in the news media and the movies, became a more appealing source of income. By last year, Wall Street traders, bankers and those who deal in real estate generated 21% of the national income, double their share in the 1950s. And Warren Buffett, the good-natured financier, became a homespun folk hero, without the tools and overalls (工作服)."Young people grow up without developing the skills to fix things around the house," says Richard Curtin, director of the Thomson Reuters/University of Michigan Surveys of Consumers. "They know about computers, of course, but they don't know how to build them."Manufacturing's shrinking presence undoubtedly helps explain the decline in craftsmanship, if only because many of the nation's assembly line workers were skilled in craft work, if not on the job then in their spare time. In a late 1990s study of blue-collar employees at a General Motors plant (now closed) in Linden, N. J., the sociologist Ruth Milkman of City University of New York found that many line workers, in their off-hours, did home renovation and other skilled work."I have often thought," Ms. Milkman says, "that these extracurricular jobs were an effort on the part of the workers to regain their dignity after suffering the degradation of repetitive assembly line work in the factory."Craft work has higher status in nations like Germany, which invests in apprenticeship (学徒) programs for high school students. "Corporations in Germany realized that there was an interest to be served economically and patriotically in building up a skilled labor force at home; we never had that ethos (风气)," says Richard Sennett, a New York University sociologist who has written about the connection of craft and culture.The damage to American craftsmanship seems to parallel the steep slide in manufacturing employment. Though the decline started in the 1970s, it became much steeper beginning in 2000.Since then, some 5.3 million jobs, or one-third of the workforce in manufacturing, have been lost.A stated goal of the Obama administration is to restore a big chunk of this employment, along with the multitude of skills that many of the jobs required.As for craftsmanship itself, the issue is how to preserve it as a valued skill in the general population. Ms. Milkman, the sociologist, argues that American craftsmanship isn't disappearing as quickly as some would argue - that it has instead shifted to immigrants. "Pride in craft, it is alive in the immigrant world," she says.注意：此部分试题请在答题卡1上作答。
2013年6月六级真题(第2套)英语六级听力原文
[ti:0][ar:0][al:0][by:0][offset:0][00:02.95]College English Test (Band 6)[00:05.69]Part Listening Comprehension[00:09.04]Section A[00:10.72]Directions: In this section,[00:13.09]you will hear 8 short conversations[00:15.90]and 2 long conversations.[00:19.21]At the end of each conversation,[00:22.02]one or more questions will be asked[00:24.11]about what was said.[00:26.33]Both the conversation and the questions[00:29.09]will be spoken only once.[00:31.98]After each question there will be a pause.[00:35.65]During the pause,[00:37.01]you must read the four choices[00:38.94]marked A), B), C) and D),[00:42.10]and decide which is the best answer.[00:46.36]Then mark the corresponding letter on Answer Sheet 1[00:50.38]with a single line through the centre.[00:53.70]Now lets begin with the eight short conversations.[00:59.36]1. W: I was shocked to hear of your wife's illness.[01:04.12]Is she going to be all right?[01:06.35]M: At first, the doctors weren't sure,[01:08.48]but she's really improved.[01:10.29]She'll be home next week.[01:13.05]Q: What do we learn[01:14.21]about the man's wife from the conversation?[01:33.76]2. M: Excuse me,[01:34.87]can I get a ticket for a sleeping compartment on this train? [01:38.81]W: Yes, there are four left.[01:40.67]The price is 60 per person including a continental breakfast. [01:46.69]Q: What is the man doing?[02:05.38]3. M: Janet, here's the book I borrowed from you,[02:07.59]but I'm so sorry that I can't find its jacket.[02:11.05]W: It doesn't matter.[02:11.96]Anyway, you are one of the few people[02:14.26]who actually return books to me.[02:17.46]Q: What does the woman imply?[02:35.11]4. M: Lisa, have you been to the new supermarket yet?[02:40.06]W: Yes, and no.[02:41.97]I went there last Saturday for their grand opening sale,[02:45.89]but I drove around the parking lot for nearly an hour,[02:50.02]looking for a space before I finally gave up and came home. [02:54.71]Q: What does the woman mean?[03:12.17]5. W: You've been sitting at the computer for hours.[03:16.11]Let's take a coffee break, shall we?[03:19.18]M: I wish I could. You know, I'm up to my neck in work.[03:22.86]I've got to finish this report.[03:25.15]I don't want to miss the deadline.[03:27.70]Q: What does the man mean?[03:44.62]6. M: What do you think of this gallery space?[03:48.87]They offer to let me exhibit some of my paintings here.[03:52.70]W: Are you kidding?[03:53.95]Any art student I know would die to have an exhibition here. [03:59.07]Q: What can we infer from the conversation?[04:17.47]7. W: Gary, my assistant is in hospital now.[04:22.16]Is there anyone in your department[04:23.58]who could give a hand for a few days?[04:25.86]M: I think so. I'll ask around and get back to you.[04:29.59]Q: What do we learn from the conversation?[04:47.37]8. W: Did you read the article in the paper[04:50.70]about the mayor's speech at the economic forum?[04:53.88]M: Sure I did, but I think they twisted the meaning of what he said.[04:58.50]It's not the first time for them to do so.[05:02.06]Q: What does the man say about the paper's article?[05:20.11]Now you will hear the two long conversations.[05:25.22]Conversation One[05:27.28]W: Oh, hello, John. [05:28.55]Are you using your dictating machine this morning?[05:31.60]I've got a long report I must dictate.[05:33.93]Can I borrow your machine?[05:35.36]M: Of course. But can you spare me a second?[05:38.36]It's the message you sent me[05:40.41]about the delivery delay of the control desks.[05:42.84]What's gone wrong?[05:44.73]W: Everything, John.[05:45.77]We have to get the steel sheets we need[05:48.47]for these desks from new suppliers.[05:51.44]Well, the suppliers have got some trouble or other.[05:54.40]They say they will be a bit late with the delivery.[05:56.61]M: But they can't be.[05:59.52]Those control desks are a special order.[06:02.46]They are wanted for one of the big computer companies.[06:05.29]It's a very important contract.[06:08.50]W: When did we promise the delivery?[06:10.71]M: On Thursday next week.[06:12.69]And there's a penalty clause.[06:14.40]We stand to lose 10 percent of our price[06:16.86]for each week of overdue delivery.[06:19.89]W: Oh, these penalty clauses![06:22.20]Why did you sales people accept them?[06:24.98]M: We have to accept them; otherwise, we don't get the contracts. [06:29.92]W: Well, let's get on to the Buying Department.[06:32.83]I only heard about the delay yesterday[06:34.97]because we kept the production line clear[06:38.31]to handle these special sheets. It's a dreadful nuisance.[06:41.30]M: It will be more than a nuisance[06:43.05]if we don't meet on delivery date.[06:45.15]It will cost us a lot of money.[06:47.91]W: Keep calm, John. We can perhaps claim compensation from the steel suppliers[06:53.04]for failure to deliver on time.[06:55.73]Then we will offset the penalty clause.[06:59.02]M: Well, if you can.[07:02.12]Questions 9 to 12 are based on the conversation[07:05.19]you have just heard.[07:08.30]9. Why did the woman send the message to the man?[07:27.79]10. What does the woman say about the new suppliers?[07:48.33]11. How did the man get the contracts?[08:07.67]12. What does the woman suggest they do?[08:27.02]Conversation Two[08:29.19]M: Kathy, chaos theory seems to be[08:31.83]a branch of physics or mathematics.[08:33.53]You are an economist,[08:36.00]so how does it influence your work?[08:39.17]W: Well, in several ways.[08:40.66]I am responsible for financial development programs[08:43.92]in many parts of the world,[08:45.88]so forecasting long range trends[08:48.90]and making predictions on the basis of present evidence[08:51.68]is what I do.[08:53.07]Chaos theory was developed by scientists,[08:55.80]trying to explain the movement of the planets[08:58.26]and the changes in environmental conditions.[09:01.41]Both of these things are also about[09:03.26]making long-term predictions[09:05.61]on the basis of present evidence.[09:07.93]M: Are many economists involved in this field?[09:11.30]W: An increasing number.[09:12.84]In the 1990s,[09:14.74]many economists began to look at chaos theory[09:17.01]as a way of providing models for forecasting.[09:21.39]M: What kind of "models" are we talking about here?[09:25.15]W: Well, that's a good question,[09:27.06]because the basic idea of chaos theory is that[09:29.98]there aren't any "models" as such[09:32.36]there aren't guaranteed forms,[09:34.67]but rather patterns of change in development.[09:38.18]M: Doesn't that mean that forecasting is impossible?[09:41.51]W: No, but it certainly makes it more[09:43.81]of a challenge.[09:45.21]Mandelbrot,[09:46.32]who did the experiment with stock exchanges prices,[09:49.37]for example,[09:50.28]noted that although the outcomes were variable,[09:52.69]there were in fact certain constancy.[09:55.85]What we have to do is[09:57.39]make sure we know what these are[09:59.56]and take into account all the possible variables.[10:03.42]M: But do economics and finance work in the same way [10:06.41]as weather conditions or the movement of planets?[10:09.49]W: Well, no, of course not.[10:12.01]There are certain underlying similarities.[10:14.38]But we have to leave them for another time.[10:18.84]Questions 13 to 15 are based on the conversation[10:22.04]you have just heard.[10:25.03]13. What is the woman's profession?[10:44.28]14. What was chaos theory supposed to do[10:48.21]when it was first formulated?[11:05.47]15. What are the speakers mainly talking about?[11:25.29]Section B[11:26.98]Directions: In this section,[11:29.56]you will hear 3 short passages.[11:32.08]At the end of each passage,[11:33.64]you will hear some questions.[11:35.66]Both the passage and the questions[11:37.66]will be spoken only once.[11:39.67]After you hear a question,[11:41.13]you must choose the best answer[11:43.38]from the four choices marked A), B), C) and D)[11:47.78]Then mark the corresponding letter on Answer Sheet 1[11:51.36]with a single line through the centre.[11:54.75]Passage One[11:56.33]People write to ask me[11:57.63]if there's correlation between academic intelligence[12:01.04]and emotional intelligence.[12:03.63]My answer is no.[12:05.38]You can have a high IQ and a high EQ,[12:08.64]which, of course, is a winning combination,[12:11.24]or be high in one and low in the other.[12:14.33]The best study was done at Bell Labs in New Jersey,[12:17.76]a very high IQ place.[12:20.27]They do research into development[12:22.67]for the communications industry.[12:24.74]In a division of electronic engineers,[12:26.68]who were designing equipments so advanced[12:30.37]that they work in teams of up to 150,[12:33.64]co-workers and managers were asked to nominate the standouts- [12:38.65]the stars in productivity and effectiveness.[12:41.95]They came up with 10 or 15 names,[12:45.26]and that group of stars was compared with everyone else. [12:49.10]It turned out there was no difference in IQ,[12:51.89]no difference in academic qualifications,[12:55.51]no difference in years on the job.[12:57.81]The only difference was emotional intelligence.[13:01.81]The stars were people who knew how to get along,[13:05.15]who knew how to motivate themselves,[13:07.56]usually the kind of people you like to hang out with.[13:11.20]When these people ran up against a technical problem,[13:14.14]to which they'd have to turn to someone else for an answer, [13:17.53]they'd e-mail and get an answer right away,[13:21.54]because they built up a network of people[13:24.29]before they needed them.[13:29.10]The other people would e-mail and wait up to two weeks [13:30.78]for an answer.[13:31.59]So you can see how being good in the interpersonal realm [13:34.78]actually was a direct benefit,[13:37.21]even for effectively pursuing a technical task.[13:41.97]Questions 16 to 18 are based on the passage you have just heard. [13:47.58]16. What does the speaker say about Bell Labs?[14:07.29]17. What characterizes the stars nominated at Bell Labs? [14:28.58]18. What does the speaker say contributes[14:32.56]to effectively pursuing a technical task?[14:50.30]Passage Two [14:51.93]J's (Biography of John Muir)-John Muir's own writings[14:55.31]to bring readers a life story of this remarkable man[14:59.08]who did so much to raise American's awareness[15:01.61]of environmental issues.[15:03.50]As America's first environmentalist,[15:05.50]John Muir lived his life forever daring[15:08.08]to undertake new adventures.[15:10.34]He spent most of his days outdoors[15:12.14]and had deep love for the wild lands.[15:14.88]In the book, we meet John Muir[15:16.84]as a youth fearlessly climbing the roof of his house.[15:20.43]He captures birds only to let them go[15:23.02]when he realizes the cruelty involved.[15:25.64]He becomes an inventor[15:26.95]and sells his inventions in order to attend the university.[15:30.88]As a young man,[15:32.33]he began walking over tens of thousands of miles[15:35.32]during his lifetime,[15:36.82]through the south to Florida,[15:38.76]the west to California and north to Alaska,[15:40.34]where readers are taken a long[15:42.19]and particularly hair-raising adventure[15:43.95]on a large mass of floating ice.[15:46.34]Muir's learning in observation throughout his life[15:51.24]led him to devote his last years to preserving the natural environment.[15:54.17]His writing and speaking raised the awareness[15:58.43]of the importance of conservation[16:00.59]and helped bring about our national park system.[16:03.53]Readers will feel they know John Muir[16:05.55]after reading his story[16:06.97]and may catch his passion for preserving the riches of our land. [16:11.04]The other's portrayal of Muir's life[16:12.99]is a testimony to what it means to be lifelong learners[16:16.99]and to use that learning to inform and bring about change. [16:21.12]Questions 19 to 21 are based on the passage you have just heard. [16:26.92]19. What kind of book is the speaker introducing?[16:47.00]20. What do we learn about John Muir when he was young? [17:06.83]21. What did John Muir intend to do through writing and speaking?[17:28.37]Passage Three[17:30.27]Disaster movies often portray catastrophes that destroy,[17:34.35]or at least threaten to destroy earth's entire population.[17:38.50]In fact, a virus emerged in the 1970s[17:42.15]that could've been just that fatal.[17:44.95]Named after a river that passes through the Congo,[17:47.60]the Ebola virus originally manifested itself[17:51.56]in the interior of Africa in 1976.[17:55.87]Two strains of the disease,[17:57.63]with almost identical symptoms, affected humans-[18:01.76]Ebola-Zaire and Ebola-Sudan.[18:04.11]The Sudan version was deadly enough,[18:07.54]killing 50% of those it infected.[18:10.37]However, Zaire, with its 90% mortality rate,[18:14.58]was even worse.[18:16.30]The origins, though not the cause of Ebola-Sudan,[18:19.66]can be traced back to a single individual in a Sudanese town. [18:24.63]Ebola-Zaire seemed to erupt in over 50 villages simultaneously. [18:30.02]Both strains quickly invaded local hospitals[18:32.95]when needle sharing and other unhealthy practices[18:36.28]ensured the rapid spreading of the infection[18:39.45]by bringing people into contact with contaminated body fluids. [18:44.13]If the virus had been capable of spreading through the air, [18:47.42]or if one infected person had unknowingly entered a large population center,[18:52.50]Ebola might have become a worldwide epidemic.[18:56.40]However, soon after these fierce outbreaks,[18:59.19]the virus died out, at least temporarily.[19:02.90]Ebola was so deadly and killed so quickly that[19:06.95]within a short period of time,[19:08.80]there was no one around to infect.[19:11.66]Hospital workers in at least one case deserted their workplace in panic,[19:16.53]thus halting the administering of potentially unclean disease spreading injections,[19:23.01]but Ebola has not disappeared.[19:25.53]With no known vaccination or cure available,[19:28.99]it seems only a matter of time until another epidemic erupts. [19:34.94]Questions 22 to 25 are based on the passage[19:39.24]you have just heard.[19:40.85]22. What is Ebola virus named after?[20:00.29]23. What do we learn about Ebola-Zaire and Ebola-Sudan? [20:21.53]24. How do people get infected with the disease[20:25.16]according to the speaker?[20:42.48]25. What does the speaker believe?[21:02.02]Section C[21:03.70]Directions: In this section,[21:05.49]you will hear a passage three times.[21:08.05]When the passage is read for the first time,[21:10.51]you should listen carefully for its general idea.[21:13.68]When the passage is read for the second time,[21:16.42]you are required to fill in the blanks[21:18.70]with the exact words[21:19.86]you have just heard.[21:21.98]Finally,[21:22.87]when the passage is read for the third time,[21:25.42]you should check what you have written.[21:28.26]Now listen to the passage.[21:31.93]The ideal companion machine would not only look, feel,[21:34.78]and sound friendly but would also be programmed[21:37.98]to behave in an agreeable manner.[21:40.46]Those qualities that make interaction with other people enjoyable [21:44.10]would be simulated as closely as possible,[21:47.46]and the machine would appear to be charming stimulating, and easygoing.[21:52.29]Its informal conversational style would make interaction comfortable,[21:56.63]and yet the machine would remain slightly[22:00.62]unpredictable and therefore interesting.[22:02.43]In its first encounter it might be somewhat hesitant and unassuming,[22:07.11]but as it came to know the user it would progress[22:10.26]to a more relaxed and intimate style.[22:12.96]The machine would not be a passive participant[22:15.89]but would add its own suggestions, information, and opinions; [22:20.18]it would sometimes take the initiative in developing or[22:23.18]changing the topic and would have a personality of its own. [22:27.59]The machine would convey presence.[22:30.25]We have all seen how a computers use of personal names[22:33.65]often fascinates people and needs them to treat the machine [22:37.45]as if it were almost human.[22:39.97]Such features are easily written into the software.[22:43.74]By introducing a degree of forcefulness and humor,[22:47.33]the machine could be presented as a vivid and unique character. [22:51.69]Friendships are not made in a day, and the computer[22:54.85]would be more acceptable as a friend if it simulated[22:58.45]the gradual changes that occur when one person[23:01.86]is getting to know another. At an appropriate time it might also [23:06.44]express the kind of affection that stimulates attachment and intimacy.[23:12.34]Now the passage will be read again.[23:15.61]The ideal companion machine would not only look, feel,[23:20.05]and sound friendly but would also be programmed[23:23.00]to behave in an agreeable manner.[23:25.41]Those qualities that make interaction with other people enjoyable [23:29.43]would be simulated as closely as possible,[23:32.73]and the machine would appear to be charming stimulating, and easygoing.[23:37.99]Its informal conversational style would make interaction comfortable,[23:42.60]and yet the machine would remain slightly[23:45.04]unpredictable and therefore interesting.[23:47.85]In its first encounter it might be somewhat hesitant and unassuming,[23:52.36]but as it came to know the user it would progress[23:55.23]to a more relaxed and intimate style. [23:58.25]The machine would not be a passive participant[24:01.08]but would add its own suggestions, information, and opinions; [24:05.59]it would sometimes take the initiative in developing or[24:09.17]changing the topic and would have a personality of its own. [24:14.37]The machine would convey presence.[24:17.40]We have all seen how a computers use of personal names[24:21.32]often fascinates people and needs them to treat the machine [24:25.56]as if it were almost human.[24:28.00]Such features are easily written into the software.[24:31.91]By introducing a degree of forcefulness and humor,[24:35.80]the machine could be presented as a vivid and unique character. [24:40.42]Friendships are not made in a day,[24:43.13]and the computer would be more acceptable as a friend[24:47.04]if it simulated the gradual changes that occur when one person [24:51.25]is getting to know another. At an appropriate time it might also [24:55.97]express the kind of affection that stimulates attachment and intimacy.[25:03.77]Now the passage will be read for the third time.[25:07.52]The ideal companion machine would not only look, feel,[25:11.34]and sound friendly but would also be programmed[25:14.32]to behave in an agreeable manner.[25:17.17]Those qualities that make interaction with other people enjoyable [25:20.82]would be simulated as closely as possible,[25:24.23]and the machine would appear to be charming stimulating, and easygoing.[25:29.31]Its informal conversational style would make interaction comfortable,[25:33.67]and yet the machine would remain slightly[25:37.50]unpredictable and therefore interesting.[25:39.47]In its first encounter it might be somewhat hesitant and unassuming,[25:44.00]but as it came to know the user it would progress[25:47.09]to a more relaxed and intimate style.[25:49.87]The machine would not be a passive participant[25:53.08]but would add its own suggestions, information, and opinions; [25:56.99]it would sometimes take the initiative in developing or[26:00.01]changing the topic and would have a personality of its own. [26:04.48]The machine would convey presence.[26:07.06]We have all seen how a computers use of personal names[26:10.39]often fascinates people and needs them to treat the machine [26:14.41]as if it were almost human.[26:16.96]Such features are easily written into the software.[26:20.53]By introducing a degree of forcefulness and humor,[26:24.07]the machine could be presented as a vivid and unique character. [26:28.48]Friendships are not made in a day, and the computer[26:31.84]would be more acceptable as a friend if it simulated[26:35.66]the gradual changes that occur when one person[26:38.87]is getting to know another. At an appropriate time it might also [26:43.42]express the kind of affection that stimulates attachment and intimacy.[26:49.24]This is the end of listening comprehension.。
CET6-201306听力真题及听力原文(第2套)
2013年6月英语六级听力真题(第二套)11.A) She has completely recovered.B) She went into shock after anoperation.C) She is still in a criticalcondition.D) She is getting much better.12.A) Ordering a breakfast.B) Booking a hotel room.C) Buying a train ticket.D) Fixing a compartment.13.A) Most borrowers never returnedthe books to her.B) The man is the only one whobrought her book back.C) She never expected anyone toreturn the books to her.D) Most of the books she lent outcame back without jackets.14.A) She left her work early to getsome bargains last Saturday.B) She attended the supermarket’sgrand opening ceremony.C) She drove a full hour beforefinding a parking space.D) She failed to get into thesupermarket last Saturday.15.A) He is bo there d by the pain inhis neck.B) He cannot do his reportwithout a computer.C) He cannot afford to have acoffee break.D) He feels sorry to have missedthe report.16.A) Only top art students can showtheir works in the gallery.B) The gallery space is bigenough for the man’s paintings.C) The woman would like to helpwith the exibition layout.D) The man is uncertain how hisart works will be received.17.A) The woman needs a temporaryreplacement for her assistant.B) The man works in the samedepartment as the woman does.C) The woman will have to stay inhospital for a few days.D) The man is capable of dealingwith difficult people.18.A) It was better than theprevious one.B) It distorted the mayor’sspeech.C) It exaggerated the city’seconomy problems.D) It reflected the opinions ofmost economists.Questions 19 to 22 are based onthe conversation you have just heard.19.A) To inform him of a problemthey face.B) To request him to purchasecontrol desks.C) To discuss the content of aproject report.D) To ask him to fix thedictating machine.20.A) They quote the best price inthe market.B) They manufacture and selloffice furniture.C) They cannot deliver the steelsheets on time.D) They cannot produce the steelsheets needed21.A) By marking down the unitprice.B) By accepting the penaltyclauses.C) By allowing more time fordelivery.D) By promising betterafter-sales service.22.A) Give the customer a tenpercent discount.B) Claim compensation from thestool suppliers.C) Ask the Buying Department tochange suppliers.D) Cancel the contract with thecustomer.Questions 23 to 25 are based onthe conversation you have just heard.23.A) Stockbroker.B) Physicist.C) Mathematician.D) Economist.24.A) Improve computer programming.B) Predict global populationgrowth.C) Explain certain naturalphenomena.D) Promote national financialhealth.25.A) Their different educationalbackgrounds.B) Changing attitudes towardnature.C) Chaos theory and itsapplications.D) The current global economic crisis.Section BDirections: In this section, you will hear 3 short passages. 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 1 with a single line through the centre.注意：此部分试题请在答题卡1上作答。
2013年英语六级真题及答案汇总(完整文字版)
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说到四六级，你第一反应是裸考刷分？还是abandon？是单词书本？还是逝去的青春？考过的，满满都是回忆；将要考的，给你们加油鼓劲！2013年英语六级真题及答案汇总目录2013年6月英语六级真题及答案 (2)2013年12月英语六级真题及答案 (25)（为了这份资源，我也蛮拼的）2013年6月英语六级真题及答案Part ⅡListening ComprehensionSection A1. CM: The biological project is now in trouble. You know, my colleague and I have completely different ideas about how to proceed.W: Why don’t you compromise? Try to make it a win-win situation for you both.Q: What does the woman suggest the man do?【听前预测】1．四项均以动词原形开头。
2．两项提到同事(colleague)。
结论：对话应该是工作场景，可能提问接下来要怎么做或建议某人做什么。
2．BM: How does Nancy like the new dress she bought in Rome?W: She said she would never have bought an Italian style dress if she had knownMary had already got such a dress.Q: What do we learn from the conversation?【听前预测】1．四项提及两个人物——Mary和Nancy。
2．三项均与服饰、时尚有关(style，dress，fashion)，两项与购物有关(buying，shopping)。