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2015年12月六级考试真题+答案

2015年12月六级答案汇总Directions:For this part, you are allowed 30 minutes to write a short essay based onthepicture below. You should focus on theimpact of social networking websites onreading.“I love reading. I read about 3 hours aday.My favorite book is Facebook.”*Facebookis the name of a social networking website.此文预计会引发巨大争议，有人会认为FB和朋友圈这类东西完全不是正真意义的“阅读”，但是也有认为，这才是当今时代有特色的阅读，其实，能说明白就好，观点没有正误。

Impact的含义：影响。

第一段: 描述漫画内容.强调网络阅读的趋势和现象第二段: 分析网络读书的原因. ( 或阐述不同的人的不同观点)在这一段，既可以把网络阅读的影响力归结为利大于弊，也可以归结为弊大于利，自圆其说即可。

第三段:双面总结，得出结论.Thepicture describes a conversation between two people, one of them said: “I readabout 3 hours a day. My favorite book is Facebook.” The picture intends toinform us that the Internet has exerted an important influence on reading forthe modern citizens.The phenomenon involves many factors, which canbe listed as the follows. To begin with, with the rapid development ofscientific technology, The Internet has become indispensable in our daily life.Undoubtedly, it provides people with many advantages and makes our life morecomfortable and efficient, including the way ofreading. What’s more, it is a moreadvanced way to get information needed by people, and an efficient way to searchfor materials. “I have hardly ever bought any books since 2003. I have beenreading online in recent years.” said professor Wang from Peking University.“With the click of the mouse, any stories or information that I want at anygiven time or place, is there.” she said. This may w ell explain why so manypeople now prefer to embrace the wonders of the Internet than read print copiesof book or any other reading material.Every coin hastwo sides, reading in social networking websites is no exception. Admittedly,there is false and useless information on the social networking websites, it isadvisable that we read more critically and carefully.For this part,you are allowed 30 minutes to write a short essay based on the picture be low. You should focus on the difficulty in acquiring useful information in spite ofadvanced information technology. You are required to write at least 150 words but no more than 200 words.第一段: 描述漫画内容.强调网络信息对我们生活的影响.第二段: 阐述网络信息技术找寻信息的弊端.第三段: 得出结论.The picture describes a conversation among several people, one of them complains: “we havelots of information technology; we just don’t have much useful information.” Itis safe to figure out that our lives are full of information technology, but weare supposed to have the ability to distinguish the useful ones from theuseless ones.The human beings are stepping into theinformation society. The information industry develops very rapidly, so does theinformation technology. Information technology brought us many benefits, as well as theunexpected side effects. First, when we search for information on the Internet,it comes out that the useful information and useless ones appear together. Italways takes us long time to separate them. What makes things worse is thatsome information on the Internet even misleads the people who cherish the hopeof acquiring the useful knowledge from theInternet. Thus,information technology becomes an impending important issue.Through the above analysis on information technology,I believe that the positive aspects far outweigh its negative ones though thetechnology does bring us some unwanted information. As college students, weshould enhance the awareness of recognizing the useful information when we are surfingthe net.第三版第一段: 描述漫画内容.强调误导信息的存在对我们的影响.第二段: 误导性信息对我们的影响的阐述. (可以结合具体的例子.)第三段: 提出方法解决这一问题It can be clearly seen that the coupleare discussing the information on the Internet, one of them said: “I just feelunfortunate to live in a world with so much misleading information.” Theconversation of the cartoon picture conveys the mess age that people attained informationfrom the Internet, some of which might be misleading.Along with the development of societyand technology, an increasing numberof problems are brought to our attention, one ofwhich is that misleading information exists on the Internet. Here is an exampleI got from my friend, which works well in the case. She expected to discover acure from the Internet when her mother got a certain disease. Unfortunately,that so called “cure” from the Wechat moments did not work at all a nd hermother’s healthy condition got worse. Such misleading information often wastepeople’s time and may result in even severe consequences.In view of the problem, effectivemeasures should be taken. For one thing, it is high time that we realized theimportance of ability to separate the useful information from the misleadingones. Thus, critical thinking is of great importance. For another, thegovernment should issue strict laws and regulations to put the situation undercontrol.六级翻译（贫困版）在帮助国际社会于2030年前消除极端贫困过程中，中国正扮演着越来越重要的角色。

2017年6月及2015年12月英语六级考试真题及答案详解(六套全)

2017年6月大学英语六级考试真题及答案解析（第1套） (1)2017年6月大学英语六级考试真题及答案解析（第2套） (21)2017年6月大学英语六级考试真题及答案解析（第3套） (41)2015年12月大学英语六级考试真题(第1套) (53)2015年12月大学英语六级考试真题答案与详解 (64)2015年12月大学英语六级考试真题(第2套) (80)2015年12月大学英语六级考试真题答案与详解(第2套) (92)2015年12月大学英语六级考试真题(第3套) (111)2015年l2月大学英语六级考试真题答案与详解(第3套) (122)2017年6月大学英语六级考试真题及答案解析（第1套）Part I Writing (30 minutes)Directions: Suppose you are asked to give advice on whether to attend a vocational college or a university, write an essay to state your opinion. You are required to write at least 150 words but no more than 200 words.【参考范文】Whether to Attend a Vocational College or a University?It’s an undisputable truth that virtually all high school graduates will encounter the choices between a vocational college and a university. And when it comes to this question, students’ ideas are not cut from the same cloth. In point of which to choose and what to be taken into consideration, my advices are as follow.In the first place, we should be conscious of the fact that both of the two choices have its own superiorities. For instance, a vocational college specializes in cultivating human resources with practical capabilities; while a university serves as the cradle of academic researchers in different fields. Then it does follow that high school graduates should have a clear picture of themselves. That is to say, they should know their merits and demerits and their choices must give play to their strengths whilst circumvent weaknesses. In addition, interest is the best teacher and it’s also the premise of learning on one’s own initiative. Thus interest must be taken into account because it can not only decide how far one can reach academically and professionally but also how happy and fulfilled one will be.In brief, all above just goes to show that there really is no one-size-fits-all answer for the question. The key lies in a clear cognition, accurate self-positioning and the interest of oneself. Only then can every one find a right path that works best for us.Part II Listening Comprehension (30 minutes)Section ADirections: In this section, you will hear two long conversations. At the end of each conversation, you will hear four questions. Both the conversation and the questions will be spoken only once. After you hear a question, you must choose the best answer from the four choices marked A), B), C) and D). Then mark the corresponding letter on Answer Sheet 1 with a single line through the centre.Questions 1 to 4 are based on the conversation you have just heard.1. A) He would feel insulted. B) He would feel very sad.C) He would be embarrassed. D) He would be disappointed.【答案】A【解析】题目问如果男士在二手书店中发现了自己写的书，那么男士会感觉怎样。

201512cet6考试真题(卷一)

2015年12月份六级真题（卷一）Questions 9 to 11 are based on the conversation you have just heard1.A．He shares some of the household duties．B．He often goes back home late for dinner．C．He cooks dinner for the family occasionally．D．He dines out from time to time with friends2.A．To take him to dinner．B．To talk about a budget plan．C．To discuss an urgent problem．D．To pass on an important message．3.A．Foreign investors are losing confidence in India's economy．B．Many multinational enterprises are withdrawing from India．C．There are wild fluctuations in the international money market．D．There is a sharp increase in India's balance of payment deficit．Questions 12 to 15 are based on the conversation you have just heard.4.A．They have unrealistic expectations about the other half．B．They may not be prepared for a lifelong relationship．C．They form a more realistic picture of life．D．They try to adapt to their changing roles．13.A．He is lucky to have visited many exotic places．B．He is able to forget all the troubles in his life．C．He is able to meet many interesting people．D．He is lucky to be able to do what he loves．14.A．It is stressful．B．It is full of time．C．It is all glamour．D．It is challenging15.A．Bothered．B．Amazed．C．Puzzled．D．Excited．Passage OneQuestions 16 to 18 are based on the passage you have just heard.16.A．Maintain the traditional organizational culture．B．Learn new ways of relating and working together．C．Follow closely the fast development of technology．D．Learn to be respectful in a hierarchical organization．17.A．How the team integrates with what it is supposed to serve．B．How the team is built to keep improving its performance．C．What type of personnel the team should be composed of．D．What qualifications team members should be equipped with．18.A．A team manager must set very clear and high objectives．B．Teams must consist of members from different cultures．C．Team members should be knowledgeable and creative．D．A team manager should develop a certain set of skills．19.A．It is a platform for sharing ideas on teaching at the University of Illinois．B．It was mainly used by scientists and technical people to exchange text．C．It started off as a successful program but was unable to last long．D．It is a program allowing people to share information on the Web．Passage TwoQuestions 19 to 22 are based on the passage you have just heard.20.A．He visited a number of famous computer scientists．B．He met with an entrepreneur named Jim Clark．C．He sold a program developed by his friends．D．He invested in a leading computer business．21.A．They had confidence in his new ideas．B．They trusted his computer expertise．C．They were very keen on new technology．D．They believed in his business connections．22.A．Prestige advertising．B．Institutional advertising．C．Word of mouth advertising．D．Distributing free trial products．Passage ThreeQuestions 23 to 25 are based on the passage you have just heard.23.A．To sell a particular product．B．To build up their reputation．C．To promote a specific service．D．To attract high-end consumers．24.A．By using the services of large advertising agencies．B．By hiring their own professional advertising staff．C．By buying media space in leading newspapers．D．By creating their own ads and commerical．25.A．Decide on what specific means of communication to employ．B．Conduct a large-scale survey on customer needs．C．Specify the objectives of the campaign in detail．D．Pretest alternative ads or commercials in certain regions．Questions 36 to 45 are based on the following passage.Questions are based on the following passage．It seems to be a law in the technology industry that leading companies eventually lose their positions, often quickly and brutally．Mobile phone champion Nokia, one of Europe's biggest technology success stories, was no（36）, losing its market share in just a few years．In 2007, Nokia accounted for more than 40% of mobile phone sales（37）But consumers'preferences were already（38）toward touch-screen smart phones．With the introduction of Apple's iPhone in the middle of that year, Nokia's market share（39）rapidly and revenue plunged．By the end of 2013, Nokia had sold its phone business to Microsoft．What sealed Nokia's fate was a series of decisions made by Stephen Elop in his position as CEO,which he（40）in October 2010．Each day that Elop spent in charge of Nokia, the company's market value declined by $ 23 million, making him, by the numbers, one of the worst CEOs in history．But Elop was not the only person at（41）Nokia's board resisted change, making it impossible for the company to adapt to rapid shifts in the industry．Most（42）, Jorma Ollila, who had led Nokia's transition from an industrial company to a technology giant, was too fascinated by the company's（43）success to recognize the change that was needed to sustain its competitiveness．The company also embarked on a（44）cost-cutting program, which included the elimination of which had motivated employees to take risks and make miracles．Good leaders left the company, taking Nokia's sense of vision and directions with them．Not surprisingly, much of Nokia's most valuable design and programming talent left as well．A．assumedB．biasC．desperateD．deteriorationE．exceptionF．faultG．incidentallyH．notablyI．previousJ．relayedK．shiftingL．shrankM．subtleN．transmittingO．WorldwideSection B[ A] When Nijay Williams entered college last fall as a first—generation student and Jamaican immigrant he was academically unprepared for the rigors of higher education．Like many first—generation students, he enrolled in a medium-sized state university many of his high school peers were also attending, received a Pell Grant, and took out some small federal loans to cover other costs．Given the high price of room and board and the closeness of the school to his family, he chose to live at home and worked between 30 and 40 hours a week while taking a full class schedule．[ B] What Nijay didn't realize about his school—Tennessee State University—was its frighteningly low graduation rate: a mere 29 percent for its first-generation students．At the end of his first year Nijay lost his Pell Grant of over $ 5,000 after narrowly missing the 2．0 GPA cut-off, making it impossible for him to continue paying for school．[ C ] Nijay represents a large and growing group of Americans: first—generation college students who enter school unprepared or behind．To make matters worse, these schools are ill-equipped to graduate these students—young adults who face specific challenges and obstacles.They typically carry financial burdens that outweigh those of their peers, are more likely to work while attending school, and often require significant academic remediation (补习)．[ D ] Matt Rubin off directs I'm First, a nonprofit organization launched last October to reach out to this specific population of students．He hopes to distribute this information and help prospective college-goers find the best post-secondary fit．And while Rubin off believes there are a good number of four—year schools that truly care about these students and set aside significant resources and programs for them, he says that number isn't high enough．[ E ] "It's not only the selective and elite institutions that provide those opportunities for a small subset of this population," Rubin off said, adding that a majority of first-generation undergraduates tend toward options such as online programs, two—year colleges, and commuter state schools．"Unfortunately, there tends to be a lack of information and support to help students think bigger and broader．"[ F] Despite this problem, many students are still drawn to these institutions--and two-year schools in particular．As a former high school teacher, I saw students choosefamiliar, cheaper options year after year．Instead of skipping out on higher education altogether, they chose community colleges or state schools with low bars for admittance．[ G]"They underestimate themselves when selecting a university,"said Dave Jarrat, a marketing executive for Inside Track, a for—profit organization that specializes in coaching low-income students and supporting colleges in order to help students thrive．"The reality of it is that a lot of low-income kids could be going to elite fiver on a full ride scholarship and don't even realize it．"[ H] "Many students are coming from a situation where no one around them has the experience of successfully completing higher education, so they are coming in questioning themselves and their college worthiness," Jarrat continued that helps explain why, as I'm First's Rubin off indicated,the schools to which these students end up resorting can end up being some of the poorest matches for them．The University of Tennessee in Knoxville offers one example of this dilemma．A flagship university in the South, the school graduates just 16 percent of its first—generation students, despite its overall graduation rate of 71 percent．Located only a few hours apart, The University of Tennessee and Tennessee State are worth comparing．Tennessee State's overall graduation rate is a tiny 39 percent, but at least it has a smaller gap between the outcomes for first general．ion students and those of their peers．[I] Still, the University of Tennessee deserves credit for being transparent．Many large institutions keep this kind of data secret—or at least make it incredibly difficult to find The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, for instance, admits only that the graduation rate for its first—generation pupils is "much lower" than the percentage of all students who graduate within four years (81 percent)．[J] It is actually quite difficult to find reliable statistics on the issue for many schools．Higher education institutions are, under federal law, required to report graduation rates, but these reports typically only include Pell recipient numbers—not necessarily rates specific to first—generation students．Other initiatives fail to break down the data, too．Imagine how intimidating it can be for prospective students unfamiliar with the complexities of higher education to navigate this kind of information and then identify which schools are the best fit．[ K] It was this lack of information that prompted the launch of I'm First in 2013, originally as an arm of its umbrella organization, the Center For Student Opportunity．"If we can help to direct students to more of these types of campuses and help students to understand them to be realistic and accessible places, have them apply to these schools at greater frequency and ultimately get in and enroll, we are going to raise the success rate," Rubin off said, citing a variety of collegesranging from large state institutions to smaller private schools．[ L] Chelsea Jones, who now directs student programming at I'm First, was a first—generation college student at Howard．Like other student new to the intimidating higher—education world, she often struggled on her path to college, "There wasn't really a college—bound culture at my high school," she said．"I wanted to go to college but I didn't really know the process．" Jones became involved with a college—access program through Princeton University in high school．Now, sheattributesmuch of her understanding of college to that: "But once I got to campus, it was a completely different ball game that no one really prepared me for．"[ M] She was fortunate, though．Howard, a well—regarded historically black college, had an array of resources for its first—generation students, including matching kids with counselors, connecting first— generation students to one another, and TRIO, a national program that supported 200 students on Howard' s campus．Still, Jones represents a small percentage of first-generation students who are able to gain entry into more elite universities, which are often known for robust financial aid packages and remarkably high graduation rates for first—generation students．(Harvard, for example, boasts a six—year graduation rate for underrepresented minority groups of 98 percent．)[ N]Christian Vazquez, a first—generation Yale graduate, is another exception, his success story setting him far apart from students such as Nijay．"There is a lot of support at Yale, to an extent, after a while, there is too much support," he said, half—joking about the countless resources available at the school．Students are placed in small groups with counselors ( trained seniors on campus) ;they have access to cultural and ethnic affinity (联系) groups, tutoring centers and also have asummer orientation specifically for first—generation students ( the latter being one of the most common programs for students)．[ O]"Our support structure was more like : ' You are going to get through Yale; you are going to do well,' " he said, hinting at mentors (导师), staff, and professors who all provided significant support for students who lacked confidence about "belonging" at such a top institution．46.Many first—generation college—goers have doubts about their abilities to get a college degree．47.First—generation college students tend to have much heavier financial burdens than their peers．48.The graduation rate of first—generation students at Nijay’s university was incredibly low．49.Some top institutions like Yale seem to provide first—generation students with more support than they actually need．50.On entering college, Nijay Williams had no idea how challenging college education was．51.Many universities simply refuse to release their exact graduation rates for first-generation students．52.According to a marketing executive, many students from low-income families don't know they could have a chance of going to an elite university．53.Some elite universities attach great importance to building up the first—generation students' serf—confidence54.I'm First distributes information to help first-generation college-goers find schools that are most suitable for them．55.Elite universities tend to graduate first generation students at a higher rate．Passage OneQuestions 56 to 60 are based on the following passage.Questions are based on the following passage．Saying they can no longer ignore the rising prices of health care, some of the most influential medical groups in the nation are recommending that doctors weigh the costs, not just the effectiveness of treatments, as they make decisions about patient care．The shift, little noticed outside the medical establishment but already controversial inside it suggests that doctors are starting to redefine their roles, from being concerned exclusively about individual patients to exerting influence on how health care dollars are spent．In practical terms, the new guidelines being developed could result in doctors choosing one drug over another for cost reasons or even deciding that a particular treatment—at the end of life, for example—is too expensive．In the extreme, some critics have said that making treatment decisions based on cost is a form of rationing．Traditionally, guidelines have heavily influenced the practice of medicine, and the latest ones are expected to make doctors more conscious of the economic consequences of their decisions, even though there's no obligation to follow them．Medical society guidelines are also used by insurance companies to help determine reimbursement (报销) policies．Some doctors see a potential conflict in trying to be both providers of patient care Overseers．"There should be forces in society who should be concerned about the budget, but they shouldn't be functioning simultaneously as doctors," said Dr.Martin Samuels at a Boston hospital．He said doctors risked losing the trust of patients if they told patients, "I'm not going to do what I think is best for you because I think it's bad for the health care budget in Massachusetts．" Doctors can face some grim trade—offs．Studies have shown, for example, that two drugs are about equally effective in treating macular degeneration, and eye disease．But one costs $ 50 a dose and the other close to $ 2,000．Medicare could save hundreds of millions of dollars a year if everyone used the cheaper drug, Avast in, instead of the costlier one, Lucentis．But the Food and Drug Administration has not approved Avast in for use in the eye．and using it rather than the alternative, Lucentis, might carry an additional, although slight, safety risk．Should doctors consider Medicare's budget in deciding what to use?" I think ethically (在道德层面上) we are just worried about the patient in front of us and not trying to save money for the insurance industry or society as a whole," said Dr.Donald Jensen．Still, some analysts say that there's a role for doctors to play in cost analysis because not many others are doing so．"In some ways," said Dr.Daniel Sulmasy, "it represents a failure of wider societyto take up the issue．"56.What do some most influential medical groups recommend doctors do? A．Reflect on the responsibilities they are supposed to take．B．Pay more attention to the effectiveness of their treatments．C．Take costs into account when making treatment decisions．D．Readjust their practice in view of the cuts in health care57.What were doctors mainly concerned about in the past?A．Specific medicines to be used．B．Effects of medical treatment．C．Professional advancement．D．Patients' trust．58.What may the new guidelines being developed lead to?A．The redefining of doctors' roles．B．Overuse of less effective medicines．C．Conflicts between doctors and patients．D．The prolonging of patients' suffering．59.What risk do doctors see in their dual role as patient care providers and financial overseers?A．They may be involved in a conflict of interest．B．They may be forced to divide their attention．C．They may have to use less effective drugs．D．They may lose the respect of patients．60.What do some experts say about doctors' involvement in medical cost analysis? A．It may add to doctors' already heavy workloads．B．It will help to save money for society as a whole．C．It results from society's failure to tackle the problem．D．It raises doctors' awareness of their social responsibilities．Passage TwoQuestions 61 to 65 are based on the following passage.Questions are based on the following passage．Economic inequality is the "defining challenge of our time," President Barack Obama declared in a speech last month to the Center for American Progress．Inequality is dangerous, he argued, not merely because it doesn't look good to have a large gap between the rich and the poor, but because inequality itself destroys upward mobility, making it harder for the poor to escape from poverty．"Increased inequality and decreasing mobility pose a fundamental threat to the American Dream," he said．Obama is only the most prominent public figure to declare inequality Public Enemy No．1 and the greatest threat to reducing poverty in America．A number of prominent economists have also argued that it's harder for the poor to climb the economic ladder today because the rungs (横档) in that ladder have grown farther apart．For all the new attention devoted to the 1 percent, a new data set from the Equality of Opportunity Project at Harvard and Berkeley suggests that, if we care about upward mobility overall, we're vastly exaggerating the dangers of the rich —poor gap．Inequality itself is not a particularly strong predictor of economic mobility, as sociologist Scott Winship noted in a recent article based on his analysis of this data．So what factors, at the community level, do predict if poor children will move up the economic ladder as adults? what explains, for instance, why the Salt Lake City metro area is one of the 100 largest metropolitan areas most likely to lift the fortunes of the poor and the Atlanta metro area is one of the least likely?Harvard economist Raj Chertty has pointed to economic and racial segregation,community density,the size of a community's middle class, the quality of schools, community religiosity, and family structure, which he calls the "single strongest correlate of upward mobility．" Chetty finds that communities like Salt Lake City, with high levels of two-parent families and religiosity, are much more likely to see poor children get ahead than communities like Atlanta, with high levels of racial and economic segregation．Chetty has not yet issued a comprehensive analysis of the relative predictive power of each of these factors．Based on my analyses of the data．of the factors that Chetty has highlighted, the following three seem to be most predictive of upward mobility in a given community:1．Per-capita (人均) income growth2．Prevalence of single mothers ( where correlation is strong, but negative)3．Per-capita local government spending In other words, communities with high levels of per-capita income growth, high percentages of two-parent families, and high local government spending-which may stand for good schools-are the most likely to help poor children relive Horatio Alger's rags-to-riches story．61. How does Obama view economic inequality?A．It is the biggest obstacle to social mobility．B．It is the greatest threat to social stability．C．It is the No．1 enemy of income growth．D．It is the most malicious social evil of our time．62.What do we learn about the inequality gap from Scott Winship's data analysis? A．It is fast widening across most parts of America．B．It is not a reliable indicator of economic mobility．C．It is not correctly interpreted．D．It is overwhelmingly ignored．pared with Atlanta, metropolitan Salt Lake City is said toA．have placed religious beliefs above party politicsB．have bridged the gap between the rich and the poorC．offer poor children more chances to climb the social ladderD．suffer from higher levels of racial and economic segregation64.What is strongly correlated with social mobility according to economist Raj Chertty?A．Family structure．B．Racial equality．C．School education．D．Community density．65.What does the author seem to suggest?A．It is important to increase the size of the middle classB．It is highly important to expand the metropolitan areas．C．It is most imperative to focus our efforts on the elimination of income inequality．D．It is better to start from the community to help poor children move up the social ladder．Part IV Translation (30 minutes)Directions: 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.在中国，父母总是竭力帮助孩子，甚至为孩子做重要决定，而不管孩子想要什么，因为他们相信这样做是为孩子好。

精品2015年12月英语六级真题试卷一：听力短对话(网友版)

2015年12月英语六级真题试卷一：听力短对话（网友版）Short Conversations1.W: Wow, what variety of salads you've got on your menu! Could you recommend something special?M: Well, I think you can try this mixed salad. We make the dressing with fresh berries.Q: What does the man mean?2.W: I was talking to Mary the other day and she mentioned that your new consulting firm is doingreally well.M: Yes, business picked up much faster than we anticipated. We now have over 200 clients.Q: What do we learn about the man from the conversation?3.M: Do you know where we keep flash discs and printing paper?W: They should be in the cabinet if there are any. That's where we keep all of our office supplies.Q: What does the woman mean?4.W: The print in this dictionary is so small. Ican't read the explanations at all.M: Let me get my magnifying glass. I know I just can't do without it.Q: What does the man mean?5.W: I'm considering having my office redecorated. The furniture is old and the paint is chipping.M: I'll give you my sister-in-law's number. She just graduated from an interior design academy andwill give a free estimate.Q: What is the woman considering?6.W: We have a full load of goods that needs to be delivered. But we can't get a container ship anywhere.M: That's always been a problem in this port. The facilities here are never able to meet our needs.Q: What are the speakers talking about?7.W: Why didn't Rod get a pay raise?M: The boss just isn't convinced that his work attitude warranted. She said she saw him by the coffee machine more often than at his desk.Q: What are the speakers talking about?8.W: The hotel called, saying that because of ascheduling error, they won't be able to cater for our banquet.M: I know an Indian restaurant on the High Street that offers a special dinner for groups. The food is excellent and the room is large enough to accommodate us.Q: What does the man suggest they do?。

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15年6月大学英语六级考试真题（第1套）Part I Writing (30 minutes)Directions: For this part, you are allowed 30 minutes to write an essay commenting on the saying “ Knowledge isa treasure，but practice is the key to it. ” You can give an example or two to illustrate your point ofview. You should write at least 150 words but no more than 200 words.Section ADirections: In this section, you will hear two long conversations. At the end of each conversation, you will hear some questions. Both the conversation and the questions will be spoken only once. After you hear aquestion, you must choose the best answer from the four choices marked A), B), C) and D). Then Part I Listening C ❹mprehensioii 30 minutes' mark the corresponding letter on AnswerSheet 1 with a single line through the centre.Conversation OneQuestions 1 to 4 are based on the conversation you have just heard.1.A) Persuade the man to join her company. C) Export bikes to foreign markets.B)Employ the most up-to-datetechnology. D) Expand their domestic business.2.A) The state subsidizes small and medium enterprises.B)The government has control over bicycle imports.C)They can compete with the best domestic manufacturers.D)They have a cost advantage and can charge higher prices.3.A) Extra costs might eat up their profits abroad.B)More workers will be needed to do packaging.C)They might lose to foreign bike manufacturers.D)It is very difficult to find suitable local agents.4.A) Report to the management. C) Conduct a feasibility study.B)Attract foreign investments. D) Consult financial experts.Conversation TwoQuestions 5 to 8 are based on the conversation you have just heard.5.A) Coal burnt daily for the comfort of our homes.B)Anything that can be used to produce power.C)Fuel refined from oil extracted from underground.D)Electricity that keeps all kinds of machines ranning。

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2015年12月大学英语六级考试真题(一)答案Part I WritingThe Impact of Social Networking Websites on ReadingAs we can see from the picture, a pair of lovers is discussing about reading. To our amusement, the boy says his favorite book is Facebook. While the picture is seemingly humorous and ridiculous, it is thought-provoking on second thought, intending to inform us that the Internet has exerted an important impact on our daily reading.Opinions vary when it comes to the impact of social networking websites on reading. Some people insist that social networking websites provide large collections of information at great speed and stimulate our reading interest. On the other hand, some people claim that it is a common phenomenon that youngsters spend too much time reading on social networking websites, and it is these websites make teenagers have less opportunities or time to read traditional books.There is a saying goes like this, “Every coin has two sides”. So there is no surprise that there are different opinions on the impact of social networking websites on reading. However, I, as a college student, am convinced that it is necessary for us to read on social networking websites, but it is also of greater necessity for us to read traditional books, because social networking websites are just tools and a heavy dependence on it will bring more harm than good.Part II Listening ComprehensionSection A1. C) The dressing makes the mixed salad very inviting.2. B) He is running a successful business.3. C) The man may find the supplies in the cabinet.4. A) He has to use a magnifying glass to see clearly.5. A) Redecorating her office.6. D) Shortage of container ships.7. B) A colleague.8. C) Hold the banquet at a different place.9. B) He often goes back home late for dinner.10. D) To pass on an important message.11. D) There is a sharp increase in India’s balance of payment deficit.12. A) They have unrealistic expectations about the other half.13. D) He is lucky to be able to do what he loves.14. C) It is all glamour.15. B) Amazed.Section B16. B) Learn new ways of relating and working together.17. A) How the team integrates with what it is supposed to serve.18. D) A team manager should develop a certain set of skills.19. D) It is a program allowing people to share information on the Web.20. B) He met with an entrepreneur named Jim Clark.21. A) They had confidence in his new ideas.22. C) Word-of-mouth advertising.23. B) To build up their reputation.24. A) By using the services of large advertising agencies.25. D) Pre-test alternative ads or commercials in certain regions.Section C26. eternal27. diminishing28. absolute29. succeed30. on a vast scale31. As regards32. used up33. disposing34. modification35. magnitudePart III Reading ComprehensionSection A36. E) exception37. O) worldwide38. K) shifting39. L) shrank40. A) assumed41. F) fault42. H) notably43. I) previous44. C) desperate45. D) deteriorationSection B46. H)“Many students are coming from a situation where no one around them has the experienceof successfully completing higher education, so they are coming in questioning themselves and their college worthiness,” Jarrat continued.47. C)Nijay represents a large and growing group of Americans: first generation collegestudents who enter school unprepared or behind.48. B)What Nijay didn’t realize about his school—Tennessee State University—was itsfrighteningly low graduation rate a mere 29 percent for its first-generation students.49. N)Christian Vazquez, a first-generation Yale graduate, is another exception, his success storysetting him far apart from students such as Nijay.50. A)When Nijay Williams entered college last fall as a first-generation student and Jamaicanimmigrant, he was academically unprepared for the rigors of higher education.51. I)Still, the University of Tennessee deserves credit for being transparent.52. G)“They underestimate themselves when selecting a university,”said Dave Jarrat, amarketing executive for Inside Track, a for-profit organization that specializes incoaching low-income students and supporting colleges in order to help students thrive.53. O)“Our support structure was more like: ‘You are going to get through Yale; you are going todo well,’”he said, hinting at mentors (导师), staff, and professors who all providedsignificant support for students who lacked confidence about “belonging”at such a topinstitution.54. D)Matt Rubinoff directs I’m First, a nonprofit organization launched last October to reach outto this specific population of students. He hopes to distribute this information and help prospective college-goers find the best post-secondary fit.55. M)She was fortunate, though. Howard, a well-regarded historically black college, had an arrayof resources for its first-generation students, including matching kids with counselors,connecting first-generation students to one another, and TRIO, a national program thatsupported 200 students on Howard’s campus.Section C56. C)Take costs into account when making treatment decisions.57. B)Effects of medical treatment.58. A)The redefining of doctors’ roles.59. C)They may have to use less effective drugs.60. C)It results from society’s failure to tackle the problem.61. A)It is the biggest obstacle to social mobility.62. B)It is not a reliable indicator of economic mobility.63. C)offer poor children more chances to climb the social ladder64. A)Family structure.65. D)It is better to start from the community to help poor children move up the social ladder.Part IVIn China, parents always try every means to help their children, and even make important decisions for them. They never carewhat their children really want, because they believe that it is good for them. As a result, children’s growth and education tend to surrender to the wills of their parents.If parents decide to sign up for their children to take an extraclass to increase their chances of being admitted to a key school, they will stick to their decision, even if their children are not interested.While in the United States, parents are likely to respect their children’s opinions, andpay more attention to their opinions in making decisions.It may be worthy of praise for the Chinese parents to attach great importance to education. When it comes to education, however, they should learn how to balance the relationshipbetween parents and their children from American parents.。

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2015年12月英语六级考试真题(卷一完整版)（图文版）(2)W: Well, JO notes wouldn t lose out if Indian Rupee falls further.M: What will it cost, Jane?W: A small percentage, about 1% and that can be built into the price ofthe bike.M: Well, I don t suppose there is much choice. All right Jane, let sput it into action.Q9: What do we learn aboutthe man s daily life?Q10: Why did the woman cometo see the man?Q11: What makes the womanworry about the Indian Rupee?Conversation 2W: Charles, among other things, you regarded as one of the America sgreat masters of the blues. A musical idiom does essentially about loss,particularly the loss of romantic love. Why does love die?M: People often get into love affairs because they have unrealisticexpectations about somebody. Then when theperson doesn t turn out to be whothey thought he or she was, they start thinking maybe I can change him or her.That kind of thinking is a mistake. Because when the dust settles, people aregoing to be pretty much what they are. It s a rare thing for anybody to be ableto change who they really are. And this creates a lot of problems.W: At 62, you continue to spend a large percentage of your lifetouring. What appeals to you about life on the road?M: Music, I don t especially love life on the road, but I figure if youare lucky enough to be able to do what you truly love doing, you ve got theultimate of life.W: What s the most widely-held misconception about the life of a famousmusician?M: People think it s all glamour. Actually we have thesame troublesthey do. Playing music doesn t mean life treats you any better.W: How do you feel about being recognized everywhere you go?M: You think I be used to it by now. But I still find it fascinating.You go to a little town in Japan, where nobody speaks English, yet they knowyou on side and know all your music. I m still amazed by the love peopleexpress for me and by music.Q12: What does the man sayabout most people when they get into love affairs?Q13: What does the man sayabout himself as a singer on the road most of his life?Q14: What do most peoplethink of the life of a famous musician?Q15: How does the man feelwhenever he was recognized by his fans?短文Passage 1Changing technology and markets have stimulated the team approach tomanagement. Inflation, resource scarcity, reduced personnel levels and budgetcuts have all underscore the need for better coordination in organizations.Team management provides for this coordination. Team management calls for newskills if personnel potential is to be fully realized. Although a team may be composedofknowledgeable people, they must learn new ways of relating and working togetherto solve cross-functional problems. When teams consist to be experiencedemployees from hierarchical organizations, who have been condition totraditional organizational culture. Cooperation may not occur naturally, itmainly to be created. Furthermore, the issue is not just how the team canfunction more effectively, but how it integrates with the overall organization,all society that it supposes it serves. A group of individuals is notautomatically a team. Therefore, team building may be necessary in order toimprove the group s performance. Casey, an expert in this field, suggests thatthe cooperation process within teams must be organized, promoted and managed.He believes the team corporation results when members go beyond theirindividual capabilities, beyond what each is used to being and doing. Together,the team may then produce something new, unique and superior to that of any onemember. For this to happen, he suggests the multi-cultural managers exhibitunderstanding of their own and others cultural influences and limitations.They should also cultivate such skills as toleration of ambiguity, persistenceand patience, as well as assertedness. If a team manager exemplifies suchqualities, then the team as a wholewould be better able to realize theirpotential and achieve their objectives.Q 16: What should teammembers do to fully realize their potential?Q 17: What needs to beconsidered for effective team management?Q 18: What conclusion can wedraw from what Casey says?Passage 2In early 1994, when MarkAndreessen was just 23 years old, he arrived in Silicon Valley with an ideathat would changethe world. As a student at the University of Illinois, he andhis friends had developed a program called Mosaic, which allowed people toshare information on the worldwide web. Before Mosaic, the web had been usedmainly by scientists and other technical people, who were happy just to sendand receive text. But with Mosaic, Andreessen and his friends had developed aprogram, which could send images over the web as well. Mosaic was an overnightsuccess. It was put on the university s network at the beginning of 1993. Andby the end of the year, it had over a million users. Soon after, Andreessenwent to seek his fortune in Silicon Valley. Once he got there, he started tohave meetings with a man called Jim Clark, who was one of the Valley s mostfamous entrepreneurs. In 1994, nobody was making any real money from theInternet, which was still very slow and hard to use. But Andreessen had seen an opportunity thatwould make him and Clark rich within two years. He suggested they should createa new computer program that would do the same job as Mosaic but would be mucheasier to use. Clark listened carefully to Andreessen, whose ideas andenthusiasm impressed him greatly. Eventually, Clark agreed to invest threemillion dollars of his own money in the project, and to raise an extra fifteenmillion from venturecapitalists, who were always keen to listen to Clark s newideas.Q 19 What do we learn about Mosaic?Q 20 What did Andreessen do upon arriving in Silicon Valley?Q 21Why were venture capitalists willing to join in Clark sinvestment?Passage 3Advertising informs consumers about the existence and benefits ofproducts and services and attempts to persuade them to buy them. The best formof advertising is probably word of mouth advertising which occurs when peopletell their friends about the benefits of products or services that theyhavepurchased. Yet virtually no providers of goods or services relay on this alone,which using paid advertising instead. Indeed many organizations also use institutionalor prestige advertising which is designed to build up their reputation ratherthan to sell particular products. Although large companies could easily set up theirown advertising departments, write their own advertisements and by media space themselves.They tend to use the services of large advertising agencies. These are likelyto have more resources and more knowledge about all aspects of advertising andadvertising media than single company. It is also easier for a dissatisfycompany to give its account to another agency. And it would be to fire theirown advertising staff. The company generally give the advertising agency andagreed budget. A statement of the objective of the advertising campaign know asbrief and overall advertising strategy concerning the message to becommunicated to the target customers. The agency creates advertisements anddevelops a media prime, specifying which media will be used and in which proportions.Agencies often produce alternative ads or commercials that pretested innewspapers, television stations etc. in different parts of the country. Beforea final choices wasmadeprior to anational campaign.Q22 What is probably the bestform of advertising according to the speaker?Q23 What does the speaker sayis the proposes of many organization using prestige advertising ?Q24 How did large companiesgenerally handle their advertising?Q25 What would advertisingagencies often do before a national campaign?。

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2015年12月英语六级考试真题（卷一）短对话1.W: Wow, what a variety of salads you’ve got on your menu, could yourecommend something special?M: Well, I think you can try this mixed salad. We make the dressingwith fresh berries.Q: what does the man mean?2.W: I was talking to Mary the other day, and she mentioned that your newconsulting firm is doing really well.M: Yes, business paced up much faster than we anticipated. We now haveover 200 clients.Q: What do we learn about the man from the conversation?3.W: Do you know where we keep flash disks and printing paper?M: They should be in the cabinet if there are any. That’s where we keepall of our office supplies.Q: what does the woman mean?4.W: The printing of this dictionary is so small. I can’t read theexplanations at all.M: Let me get my magnify glass. I know I just can’t do without it.Q: What does the man mean?5.W: I’m considering having my office redecorated, the furniture is oldand the paint is chipping.M: I’ll give you my sister-in-law’s number. She just graduated from aninterior designing academy, and will give a free estimate.Q: What is the woman considering?6.W: We have a full load of goods that needs to be delivered. But wecan’t get a container ship anyw ay.M: That’s always being a problem in this port. The facilities here arenever able to meet our needs.Q: What are the speakers talking about?7.W: Why didn’t Rod get a pay raise?M: The boss just isn’t convinced that his work attitude warranted it.She said she saw him by the coffee machine more often than at his desk.Q: What are the speakers talking about?8.W: The hotel called, saying that because of the scheduling there, theywon’t be are able to cater for our banquet.M: I know an Indian restaurant on the high street that offers a specialdiner for groups. The food is excellent, and the room is large enough toaccommodate us.Q: What does the man suggest they do?长对话Conversation 1M: Hello Jane.W: Hello Paul.M: Please coming. I’m just getting ready to go home. Susan is expectingme for dinner. I wanted to be on time for a change.W: Look, I’m terribly sorry to drop in this time on Friday, Paul, butit is rather important.M: That’s OK. What’s the problem?W: Well, Paul, I won’t keep you long. You see there is a problem withthe exchange rates. The Indian Rupee has taken a fall on the foreign exchangemarket. You see there is being a sharp increase in India n’s balance of paymentdeficit.M: I see. How serious, isn’t it?W: Well, as you know, there have been reports of unrest India, and theprospects for the Rupee look pretty gloomy.M: And that’s going to affect us, as if wedidn’t have enough problemson our hands.W: So I thought it would be wise to take out forward exchange cover toprotect our position on the outstanding contract.M: Just a minute. Forward exchange cover, now what does that meanexactly?W: Well, it means that JO notes enters into a commitment to sell IndianRupees at the present rate.M: I see. And how will that benefit us?W: Well, JO notes wouldn’t lose out if Indian Rupee falls further.M: What will it cost, Jane?W: A small percentage, about 1% and that can be built into the price ofthe bike.M: Well, I don’t suppose there is much choice.All right Jane, let’sput it into action.Q9: What do we learn aboutthe man’s daily life?Q10: Why did the woman cometo see the man?Q11: What makes the womanworry about the Indian Rupee?Conversation 2W: Charles, among other things, you regarded as one of the America’sgreat masters of the blues. A musical idiom does essentially about loss,particularly the loss of romantic love. Why does love die?M: People often get into love affairs because they have unrealisticexpectations about somebody. Then when the person doesn’t turn out to be whothey thought heor she was, they start thinking maybe I can change him or her.That kind of thinking is a mistake. Because when the dust settles, people aregoing to be pretty much what they are. It’s a rare thing for anybody to be ableto change who they really are. And this creates a lot of problems.W: At 62, you continue to spend a large percentage of your lifetouring. What appeals to you about life on the road?M: Music, I don’t especially love life on the road, but I figure if youare lucky enough to be able to do what you truly love doing, you’ve got theultimate of life.W: What’s the most widely-held misconception about the life of a famousmusician?M: Peopl e think it’s all glamour. Actually we have the same troublesthey do. Playing music doesn’t mean life treats you any better.W: How do you feel about being recognized everywhere you go?M: You think I be used to it by now. But I still find it fascinating.You go to a little town in Japan, where nobody speaks English, yet they knowyou on sideand know all your music. I’m still amazed by the love peopleexpress for me and by music.Q12: What does the man sayabout most people when they get into love affairs?Q13: What does the man sayabout himself as a singer on the road most of his life?Q14: What do most peoplethink of the life of a famous musician?Q15: How does the man feelwhenever he was recognized by his fans?短文Passage 1Changing technology and markets have stimulated the team approach tomanagement. Inflation, resource scarcity, reduced personnel levels and budgetcuts have all underscore the need for better coordination in organizations.Team management provides for this coordination. Team management calls for newskills if personnel potential is to be fully realized. Although a team may be composed ofknowledgeable people, they must learn new ways of relating and working togetherto solve cross-functional problems. When teams consist to be experiencedemployees from hierarchical organizations, who have been condition totraditionalorganizational culture. Cooperation may not occur naturally, itmainly to be created. Furthermore, the issue is not just how the team canfunction more effectively, but how it integrates with the overall organization,all society that it supposes it serves. A group of individuals is notautomatically a team. Therefore, team building may be necessary in order toimprove the group’s performance. Casey, an expert in this field, suggests thatthe cooperation process within teams must be organized, promoted and managed.He believes the team corporation results when members go beyond theirindividual capabilities, beyond what each is used to being and doing. Together,the team may then produce something new, unique and superior to that of any onemember. For this to happen, he suggests the multi-cultural managers exhibitunderstanding of their own and others’cultural influences and limitations.They should also cultivate such skills as toleration of ambiguity, persistenceand patience, as well as assertedness. If a team manager exemplifies suchqualities, then the team as a whole would be better able to realize theirpotential and achieve their objectives.Q 16: What should teammembers do to fully realize their potential?Q 17: What needs to beconsidered for effective team management?Q 18: What conclusion can wedraw from what Casey says?Passage 2In early 1994, when MarkAndreessen was just 23 years old, he arrived in Silicon Valley with an ideathat would change the world. As a student at the University of Illinois, he andhis friends had developed a program called Mosaic, which allowed people toshare information on the worldwide web. Before Mosaic, the web had been usedmainly by scientists and other technical people, who were happy just to sendand receive text. But with Mosaic, Andreessen and his friends had developed aprogram, which could send images over the web as well. Mosaic was an overnightsuccess. It was put on theuniversity’s network at the beginning of 1993. Andby the end of the year, it had over a million users. Soon after, Andreessenwent to seek his fortune in Silicon Valley. Once he got there, he started tohave meetings with a man called Jim Clark, who was one of the Valley’s mostfamous entrepreneurs. In 1994, nobody was making any real money from theInternet, which was still very slow and hard to use. But Andreessen had seen an opportunity thatwould make him and Clark richwithin two years. He suggested they should createa new computer program that would do the same job as Mosaic but would be mucheasier to use. Clark listened carefully to Andreessen, whose ideas andenthusiasm impressed him greatly. Eventually, Clark agreed to invest threemillion dollars of his own money in the project, and to raise an extra fifteenmillion from venture capitalists, who were always keen to listen to Clark’s newideas.Q 19 What do we learn about Mosaic?Q 20 What did Andreessen do upon arriving in Silicon Valley?Q 21Why were venture capitalists willing to joinin Clark’sinvestment?Passage 3Advertising informs consumers about the existence and benefits ofproducts and services and attempts to persuade them to buy them. The best formof advertising is probably word of mouth advertising which occurs when peopletell their friends about the benefits of products or services that they havepurchased. Yet virtually no providers of goods or services relay on this alone,which using paid advertising instead. Indeed many organizations also use institutionalor prestige advertising which is designed to build uptheir reputation ratherthan to sell particular products. Although large companies could easily set up theirown advertising departments, write their own advertisements and by media space themselves.They tend to use the services of large advertising agencies. These are likelyto have more resources and more knowledge about all aspects of advertising andadvertising media than single company. It is also easier for a dissatisfycompany to give its account to another agency. And it would be to fire theirown advertising staff. The company generally give the advertising agency andagreed budget. A statement of the objective of the advertising campaign know asbrief and overall advertising strategy concerning the message to becommunicated to the target customers. The agency creates advertisements anddevelops a media prime, specifying which media will be used and in which proportions.Agencies often produce alternative ads or commercials that pretested innewspapers, television stations etc. in different parts of the country. Beforea final choices was madeprior to anational campaign.Q22 What is probably the bestform of advertising according to the speaker?Q23 What does the speaker sayis the proposes of many organization using prestige advertising ?Q24 How did large companiesgenerally handle their advertising?Q25 What would advertisingagencies often do before a national campaign?听写题Extinction is a difficult concept to grasp. It is an eternal concept. Itis not at all like the killing of individual life forms that can be renewedthrough normal processes of reproduction. Nor is simply diminishing numbers.Nor is it damage that can somehow be remedied or for which some substitute canbe found. Nor is it something that only affects our own generation. Nor is it somethingthat could be remedied by some supernatural power. It is, rather, an absoluteand final act which there is no remedy onear th or in heaven. A species onceextinct, it’s gone forever. However many generations succeed us in comingcenturies, none of them will ever see this species that we extinguish. Not onlyus we bring about extinction of life on a vast scale. We are also making theland and the air and sea so toxic that the very conditions of life are being destroyed.As regard natural resources ,not only are the none renewable resources beingused up in a of frenzy of processing, consuming and disposing but we are alsoruining much of our renewable resources. Such as the very solid selfon which terrestriallife depends. The change that is taking place on the earth and in our minds isone of the greatest changes ever to take place in human affairs. Perhaps thegreatest, since we are talking about is not simply another historical change orcultural modification. But it change the geological and biological as well as psychologicalorder of magnitude.【作文】Direction: For this part, you are allowed 30 minutes to write a short eaasy based on the picture below. You should focus on the difficulty in acquiring useful information in spite of advanced information technology. You are required to write at least 150 words but no more than 200 words.相关推荐：2015年12月英语六级真题及答案专题2015年12月英语四级真题及答案专题2015年12月英语六级成绩查询专题2015年12月英语四级成绩查询专题。

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When most shoppers cared only about the low price tag on suspiciously blemish-free(无瑕疵的) vegetables and(40)_____ large chickens piled high in supermarkets.His warnings on climate change proved farsighted,too.Charles began(41)_____ action in warming in 1990 and says he has been worried about the(42)_____ of man on the environment same be was a teenger.Although he was gradually gained international(43)_____ as one of the world's lending conservationists,many British people still think of him as an(34)_____ person who talks to plants.This year,as it happens,South Korean scientists proved that plants really do(45)_____ to round.So Charles was ahead of the game there,too.A.conformB.eccentricC.environmentalistD.expeditionsE.impactF.notionsanicH.originallyI.recognitionJ.respondK.subordinateL.suppressingM.throneN.unnaturallyO.urgingSection 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 questions by marking the corresponding letter on Answer Sheet 2. High School Sports Aren’t Killing AcademicsA)In this month’s Atlantic cover article, “The Case Against High-School Sports,” Amanda Ripley argues that scho ol-sponsored sports programs should be seriously cut. She writes that, unlike most countries that outperform the United States on international assessments, American schools put too much of an emphasis on athletics, “ Sports are embedded in American school s in a way they are not almost anywhere else,” she writes, “Yet this difference hardly ever comes up in domestic debates about America’s international mediocrity(平庸)in education.”B)American student-athletes reap many benefits from participating in sports, but the costs to the schools could outweigh their benefits, she argues, In particular, Ripley contends that sports crowd out the academic missions of schools: America should learn from South Korea and Finland and every other country at the top level of international test scores, all of whom emphasize athletics far less in school. ”Even in eighth grade, American kids spend more than twice the time Korean kids spend playing sports,” she writes, citing a 2010 study published in theJournal of Advanced Academics.C)It might well be true that sports are far more rooted in American high schools than in other countries. But our reading of international test scores finds no support for the argument against school athletics. Indeed, our own research and that of others lead us to make the opposite case. School-sponsored sports appear to provide benefits that seem to increase, not detract(减少)from, academic success.D)Ripley indulges a popular obsession(痴迷)with international test score comparisons, which show wide and frightening gaps between the United States and other countries. She ignores, however, the fact that states vary at least as much in test scores as do developed countries. A 2011 report from Harvard University shows that Massachusetts produces math scores comparable to South Korea and Finland, while Mississippi scores are closer to Trinidad and T obago. Ripley’s thesis about sports falls apart in light of this fact. Schools in Massachusetts provide sports programs while schools in Finland do not. Schools in Mississippi may love football while in Tobago interscholastic sports are nowhere near as prominent. Sports cannot explain these similarities in performance. They can’t explain international differences either.E)If it is true that sports undermine the academic mission of American schools, we would expect to see a negative relationship between the commitment to athletics and academic achievement. However, the University of Arkansas’s Daniel Bowen and Jay Greene actually find the opposite. They examine this relationship by analyzing schools’ sports winning percentages as well as student-athletic participation rates compared to graduation rates and standardized test score achievement over a five-year periodfor all public high schools in Ohio. Controlling for student poverty levels, demographics(人口统计状况), and district financial resources, both measures of a school’s commitment to athletics are significantly and positively related to lower dropout rates as well as higher test scores.F)On-the-field success and high participation in sports is not random-it requires focus and dedication to athletics. One might think this would lead schools obsessed with winning to deemphasize academics. Bowen and Greene’s results contradict that argument. A likely explanation for this seemingly counterintuitive(与直觉相反的)result is that success in sports programs actually facilitates or reflects greater social capital within a school’s community.G)Ripley cites the writings of renowned sociologist James Coleman, whose research in education was groundbreaking. Coleman in his early work held athletics in contempt, arguing that they crowded out schools’ academic missions. Ripley quotes his 1961 study, The Adolescent Society, where Coleman writes, “Altogether, the trophy(奖品)case would suggest to the innocent visitor that he was entering an athletic club, not an educational institution.”H)However, in later research Coleman would show how the success of schools is highly dependent on what he termed social capital, “the social networks, and the rel ationships between adults and children that are of value for the child’s growing up.”I)According to a 2013 evaluation conducted by the Crime Lab at the University of Chicago, a program called Becoming a Man-Sports Edition creates lasting improvements in t he boys’ study habits and grade point averages. During the first year of the program, students were founds to be less likely to transferschools or be engaged in violent crime. A year after the program, participants were less likely to have had an encounter with the juvenile justice system.J)If school-sponsored sports were completely eliminated tomorrow, many American students would still have opportunities to participate in organized athletics elsewhere, much like they do in countries such as Finland, Germany, and South Korea. The same is not certain when it comes to students from more disadvantaged backgrounds. In an overview of the research on non-school based after-school programs, researchers find that disadvantaged children participate in these programs at significantly lower rates. They find that low-income students have less access due to challenges with regard to transportation, non-nominal fees, and off-campus safety. Therefore, reducing or eliminating these opportunities would most likely deprive disadvantaged students of the benefits from athletic participation, not least of which is the opportunity to interact with positive role models outside of regular school hours.K)Another unfounded criticism that Ripley makes is bringing up the stereotype that athletic XX are typically lousy(蹩脚的)classroom teachers. “American principals, unlike the XX XX of principals around the world, make many hiring decisions with their sports teams in mind, which does not always end well for students,” she writes. Educato rs who seek employment at schools primarily for the purpose of coaching are likely to shirk(推卸)teaching responsibilities, the argument goes. Moreover, even in the cases where the employee is a teacher first and athletic coach second, the additional responsibilities that come with coaching likely comes at the expense of time otherwise spent on planning, grading, and communicating with parents andguardians.L)The data, however, do not seem to confirm this stereotype. In the most rigorous study on the classroom results of high school coaches, the University of Arkansas’s Anna Egalite finds that athletic coaches in Florida mostly tend to perform just as well as their non-coaching counterparts, with respect to raising student test scores. We do not doubt that teachers who also coach face serious tradeoffs that likely come at the expense of time they could dedicate to their academic obligations. However, as with sporting events, athletic coaches gain additional opportunities for communicating and serving as mentors(导师)that potentially help students succeed and make up for the costs of coaching commitments.M)If schools allow student-athletes to regularly miss out on instructional time for the sake of traveling to athletic competitions, that’s bad. However, such iss ues would be better addressed by changing school and state policies with regard to the scheduling of sporting events as opposed to total elimination. If the empirical evidence points to anything, it points towards school sponsored sports providing assets that are well worth the costs.N)Despite negative stereotypes about sports culture and Ripley’s presumption that academics and athletics are at odds with one another, we believe that the greater body of evidence shows that school-sponsored sports programs appear to benefit students. Successes on the playing field can carry over to the classroom and vice versa(反之亦然). More importantly, finding ways to increase school communities’ social capital is imperative to the success of the school as whole, not just the athletes.46.Stunets from low-income families have less access to off-campus sports programs.相关内容参考：1.2.3.4.5.6.7.8.9.10.下载文档。

2015年12月大学英语六级答案解析(一)

2015年12月大学英语六级考试真题(一)答案与详解Part ⅠWriting结构框图：一、第1段描述图片，并指出图片寓意——社交网站对我们的日常阅读产生了重要影响。

二、第2段从正反两方面论述社交网站对阅读的影响。

三、第3段总结全文——意见不统一不足为奇，提出个人观点并给出原因。

The Impact of Social Networking Websites on ReadingAs we can see from the picture，a pair of lovers is discussing about reading. To our amusement, the boy says his favorite book is Facebook. While the picture is seemingly humorous and ridiculous, it is thought-provoking on second thought, intending to inform us that the social networks have exerted an important impact on o ur daily reading. Opinions vary when it comes to the impact of social networking websites on reading. Some-people insist that social networking websites provide large collections of information at great speed and stimulate our reading interest. On the other hand, some people claim that it is a common phenomenon that youngsters spend too much time reading on social networking websites, and it is these websites that make teenagers have less opportunities or time to read traditional books.There is a saying goes like this，“Every coin has two sides”. So there is no surprise that there are different opinions on the impact of social networking websites on reading. However, I, as a college student, am convinced that it is necessary for us to read on social networking websites, but it is also of greater necessity for us to read traditional books, because social networking websites are just tools and a heavy dependence on them will bring more harm than good.PartⅡListening Comprehension1.听力原文：W: Wow, what a variety of salads you’ve got on your menu! Could you recommend something special?M：Well, I think you can try this mixed salad. We make the dressing with fresh berries.Q：What does the man mean?【精析】C)。

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2015年12月大学英语六级考试真题(第1套) Part I Writing(30 minutes) Directions: For this part, you are allowed 30 minutes to write a short essay based on the picturebelow. You should focus on the impact of social networking websites on reading.You arereauired to write at least 150 words but no more than 200 words.

_____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________Part IIListening Comprehension(30 minutes)

Section A Directions : 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 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., C. and. D., and decide which is the best answer. Thenmark the eorresponding letter on Answer Sheet 1 with a single line through the centre. 1. A. The restaurant offers some specials each day. B. The restaurant is known for its food varieties. C. The dressing makes the mixed salad very inviting. D. The woman should mix the ingredients thoroughly. 2. A. He took over the firm from Mary.C. He failed to foresee major problems. B. He is running a successful business.D. He is opening a new consulting firm. 3. A. Someone should be put in charge of office supplies. B. The man can leave the discs in the office cabinet. C. The man may find the supplies in the cabinet. D. The printer in the office has run out of paper. 4. A. He has to use a magnifying glass to see clearly. B. The woman can use his glasses to read. C. He has the dictionary the woman wants. D. The dictionary is not of much help to him. 5. A. Redecorating her office. B. Majoring in interior design. C. Seeking professional advice. D. Adding some office furniture. 6. A. Problems in port management. B. Improvement of port facilities. C. Delayed shipment of goods. D. Shortage of container ships. 7. A. Their boss. B. A colleague. C. Their workload. D. A coffee machine. 8. A. Call the hotel manager for help. B. Postpone the event until a later date. C. Hold the banquet at a different place. D. Get an expert to correct the error. Questions 9 to 11 are based on the conversation you have just heard. 9. A. He shares some of the household duties. B. He often goes back home late for dinner. C. He cooks dinner for the family occasionally. D. He dines out from time to time with friends. 10. A. To take him to dinner. B. To talk about a budget plan. C. To discuss an urgent problem. D. To pass on an important message. 11. A. Foreign investors are losing confidence in India's economy. B. Many multinational enterprises are withdrawing from India. C. There are wild fluctuations in the international money market. D. There is a sharp increase in India's balance of payment deficit. Questions 12 to 15 are based on the conversation you have just heard. 12. A. They have unrealistic expectations about the other half. B. They may not be prepared for a lifelong relationship. C. They form a more realistic picture of life. D. They try to adapt to their changing roles. 13. A. He is lucky to have visited many exotic places. B. He is able to forget all the troubles in his life. C. He is able to meet many interesting people. D. He is lucky to be able to do what he loves. 14. A. It is stressful. B. It is full of tim. C. It is all glamour. D. It is challenging 15. A. Bothered. B. Amazed. C. Puzzled. D. Excited. Section B Directions : In this section, you will hear 3 short passages. At the end of each passage, you will hearsome questions. Both the passage and the questions will be spoken only once. After youhear 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 I with a single linethrough the centre. Passage One Questions 16 to 18 are based on the passage you have just heard. 16. A. Maintain the traditional organizational culture. B. Learn new ways of relating and working together. C. Follow closely the fast development of technology. D. Learn to be respectful in a hierarchical organization. 17. A. How the team integrates with what it is supposed to serve. B. How the team is built to keep improving its performance. C. What type of personnel the team should be composed of. D. What qualifications team members should be equipped with. 18. A. A team manager must set very clear and high objectives. B. Teams must consist of members from different cultures. C. Team members should be knowledgeable and creative. D. A team manager should develop a certain set of skills. Passage Two Questions 19 to 22 are based on the passage you have just heard. 19. A. It is a platform for sharing ideas on teaching at the University of Illinois. B. It was mainly used by scientists and technical people to exchange text. C. It started off as a successful program but was unable to last long. D. It is a program allowing people to share information on the Web. 20. A. He visited a number of famous computer scientists. B. He met with an entrepreneur named Jim Clark. C. He sold a program developed by his friends. D. He invested in a leading computer business. 21. A. They had confidence in his new ideas. B. They trusted his computer expertise. C. They were very keen on new technology. D. They believed in his business connections. Passage Three Questions 22 to 25 are based on the passage you have just heard. 22. A. Prestige advertising. B. Institutional advertising. C. Wordofmouth advertising. D. Distributing free trial products. 23. A. To sell a particular product. B. To build up their reputation. C. To promote a specific service.