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2015年6月英语六级考试预测题（4）
写作
Part I Writing. Directions: For this part, you are allowed 30 minutes to write a short essay entitled The Civil Servant Test Craze. Your essay should start with a brief description of the picture. You should write at least 150 words but no more than 200 words.
1、Directions: For this part, you are allowed 30 minutes to write an essay on honesty by referring to the saying "Aliar is not believed when he speaks the truth." You can cite examples to illustrate your point. You should write at least150 words but no more than 200 words.
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2、听音频：
2-26Directions: 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. Then mark the corresponding letter on Answer Sheet 1 with a single line through the centre.
第1题答案为
A.Bob has been married for a long time.
B.The woman should go to California.
C.He plans to go to the wedding.
D.He hasn't been to California.
3、第2题答案为
A.He wants a glass of water.
B.He won't do as the woman asks.
C.He doesn't like the waiter.
D.He's keen to be a waiter.
4、第3题答案为
A.She appreciated the man's help. "
B.Her presentation was somewhat long.
C.She needed more time to prepare.
D.She worked hard on her presentation.
5、第4题答案为
A.She wants to have some exercise before she runs.
B.It's too hot to go jogging.
C.Her jogging suit isn't warm enough.
D.She doesn't feel quite well.
6、第5题答案为
A.He has another meeting to attend that day.
B.He's available either day.
C.He can't attend a two-day conference.
D.Not everybody will go to the meeting.
7、第6题答案为
A.See the TV series some other time.
B.Change to a more exciting channel.
C.Go to bed early.
D.Stay up till ten.
8、第7题答案为
A.He just couldn't appreciate the music.
B.He disagrees with the woman.
C.He likes to play the piano.
D.He also enjoyed the concert.
9、第8题答案为
A.She needed warmer clothing than in previous autumns.
B.She knitted two sweaters in August.
C.August was cooler than the rest of the autumn.
D.She was unusually busy during the whole autumn.
10、Questions10-34are based on the conversation you have just heard.
第9题答案为
A.The dances of a Native American dance group.
B.How Native American ceremonial dances are classified.
C.Variations of a basic dance among Native American tribes.
D.How Native American artists are trained.
11、第10题答案为
A.To broadcast an awards ceremony.
B.To announce a meeting of the tribal elders.
C.To celebrate the opening of a new theater.
D.To inform people about a performance.
12、第11题答案为
A.Because not everyone has the right to perform sacred dances.
B.Because the elders make sure the dances are performed properly.
C.Because the group is financed by the elders.
D.Because the elders have substantial acting experience.
13、Questions13-37are based on the conversation you have just heard.
第12题答案为
A.Studying.
B.Preparing snacks.
C.Playing cards.
D.Learning how to play bridge.
14、第13题答案为
A.Watch her partner.
B.Sit there and study.
C.Quit the game.
D.Get snacks for everyone.
15、第14题答案为
A.Miss her card game.
B.Stay up too late.
C.Take a heavy work load next semester.
D.Neglect her studies to play bridge.
16、第15题答案为
A.Because he already knows how to play.
B.Because he doesn't like to play card games.
C.Because he doesn't have a partner.
D.Because he doesn't have enough time.
17、Questions17-41 are based on the passage you have just heard.
第16题答案为
A.Photographic techniques common in the early 1900's.
B.The life of Alfred Sticglitz.
C.The influence of weather on Alfred Stieglitz' s photography.
D.Alfred Stieglitze's approach to photography.
18、第17题答案为
A.How to analyze photographic techniques.
B.How to define photography.
C.How Alfred Stieglitz contributed to the history of photography.
D.Whether photography is superior to other art forms.
19、第18题答案为
A.Because he thought the copying process took too long.
B.Because he considered each photograph to be unique.
C.Because he didn't have the necessary equipment for reproduction.
D.Because he didn't want them to be displayed outside his home.
20、Questions 20-44 are based on the passage you have just heard.
第19题答案为
A.A week at Tanglewood.
B.A movie ticket.
C.A vacation in Boston.
D.A sum of money.
21、第20题答案为
A.It's difficult to hear.
B.The lawn was usually very crowded.
C.The audience might get wet.
D.The setting wasn't very pretty.
22、第21题答案为
A.It was held in Boston.
B.All the seats were indoors.
C.It was not well known.
D.It has been going on for a long time.
23、 Questions23-47 are based on the passage you have just heard.
第22题答案为
A.Jefferson's views about commercialized agriculture.
B.International trade in the nineteenth century.
C.Improvements in farm machinery in the United States.
D.Farmers' loss of independence.
24、第23题答案为
A.Crop production became increasingly specialized.
B.Economic depressions lowered the prices of farm products.
C.New banking laws made it easy to buy farmland.
D.The United States increased its agricultural imports.
25、第24题答案为
A.Prices for farm products rose.
B.Farmers became more dependent on loans from banks.
C.Jefferson established government programs to assist farmers.
D.Farmers relied less on foreign markets.
26、第25题答案为
A.They provided evidence that Jefferson's ideal could be achieved.
B.They made farmers less dependent on local banks.
C.They affected the prices that farmers could receive for their crops.
D.They decreased the power of the railroads to control farm prices.
听力填空 Directions: 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 with the exact words you have just heard. Finally, when the passage is read for the third time, you should check what you have written.
27、根据材料，回答27-36题
Harvard and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology are top of a global league table of university reputation---in a top 100 (26) __________. by U.S. institutions.
Cambridge and Oxford make the top 10~but other U.K. universities have (27) __________ , while Asian institutions have risen.
The rankings (28) __________the perceptions of 17,000 academics. This list is an attempt to quantify the elusive but important quality of reputation in higher education--with its (29)__________based on the of academics around the world.
The first such ranking by the Times Higher Education magazine, published last year, had the same top five as this year--with the two Boston-based (30) __________ , Harvard and MIT, in lust and second place.
Cambridge was once again the highest ranking U.K. university in third place, (31)__________ Stanford and University of California, Berkeley. But Phil Baty, editor of the Times Higher Education rankings, says there is an(32)__________picture of U.K. universities downwards--with fewer in the top 100 and a (33)__________ for others including Imperial College London and University College London. "Our global reputation as the home of outstanding universities has been hit," he said.
Reflecting the rise of Asian countries as the new education superpowers, there is an increasing presence for countries such as People's Republic of China, Japan, Singapore and South Korea.
(34)__________ its size and population, Switzerland is also seen as performing wall, with three universities in the world's top 100 universities.
Such rankings published by the Times Higher Education magazine do not have an official status, but they have become an increasingly significant part of how universities market themselves to students, (35)__________as higher education has become more globalized.
26.__________
27.__________
28.__________
29.__________
30.__________
31.__________
32.__________
33.__________
34.__________
35.__________
选词填空Section A
37、根据材料，回答37-46题
Questions 36 to 45 are based on the following passage.
Many of the aids which are advertised as liberating the modem woman tend to have the opposite effect,because they simply change the nature of work instead of eliminating it. Machines have a certain novelty value,like toys for adults. It is 36 less tiring to put clothes in a washing machine, but the time saved does not really37too much: the machine has to be watched, the clothes have to be carefully sorted first, stains38by hand, buttons pushed and water changed, clothes taken out, aired and ironed.
It would be more liberating to pack it all off to a39and not necessarily more expensive, since no capital investment is required. Similarly, if you really want to save time you do not make cakes with an electric mixer, you buy one in a shop. If one compares the image of domesticated woman fostered by the women's magazines with the goods advertised by those periodicals, advertising which finances them, one realizes how useful a projected image can be in commerce. A careful 40 has to be struck: if you show a labor-saving gadget, follow it up with a41recipe on the next page; on no account hint at the notion that a woman could get herself a job, but instead foster her sense of her own usefulness,42 the creative aspect of her function as a housewife. So we get cake mixes where the cook simply adds an egg herself, to produce "that lovely home-baked43the family love",and knitting patterns that can be made by hand, or worse still, on knitting machines, which became a tremendous vogue when they were first44 (difficult to know who would wear all those rapidly produced sweaters, which lacked the advantages of hand-made woolens). Automatic cookers are advertised by pictures of pretty young mothers taking their children to the park, not by45women presetting the dinner before catching a bus to the office.
A. laundry
B. exaggerate
C. emphasize
D. certainly
E. indignant
F. removed
G. amount
H. excessively
I. complicated
J. handled
K. flavor
L. professional
M. introduced
N. calculation
O. balance
36.__________
37.__________
38.__________
39.__________
40.__________
41.__________
42.__________
43.__________
44.__________
45.__________
段落匹配 Section B
Section B Directions: 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.
47、根据材料，回答47-56题
Daylight Saving Time (DST)
How and When Did Daylight Saving Time Start?
A. Benjamin Franklin--of "early to bed and early to rise" fame--was apparently the first person to suggest the concept of daylight savings. While serving as U.S. ambassador to France in Pads, Franklin wrote of being awakened at 6 a.m. and realizing, to his surprise, that the sun would rise far earlier than he usually did. Imagine the resources that might be saved if he and others rose before noon and burned less midnight oil, Franklin, tongue half in cheek, wrote to a newspaper.
B. It wasn't until World War I that daylight savings were realized on a grand scale. Germany was the first state to adopt the time changes, to reduce artificial lighting and thereby save coal for the war effort. Friends and foes soon followed suit. In the U.S. a federal law standardized the yearly start and end of daylight saving time in 1918--for the states that chose to observe it.
C. During World War II the U.S. made daylight saving time mandatory(强制的) for the whole country, as a way to save wartime resources. Between February 9, 1942, and September 30, 1945, the government took it a step further. During this period daylight saving time was observed year-round, essentially making it the new standard time, if only for a few years. Many years later, the Energy Policy Act of 2005 was enacted, mandating a controversial month-long extension of daylight saving time, starting in 2007.Daylight Saving Time: Energy Saver or Just Time Sucker?
D. In recent years several studies have suggested that daylight saving time doesn't actually save energy--and might even result in a net loss. Environmental economist Hendrik Wolff, of the University of Washington, co- authored a paper that studied Australian power-use data when parts of the country extended daylight saving time for the 2000 Sydney Olympics and others did not. The researchers found that the practice reduced lighting and electricity consumption in the evening but increased energy use in the now dark mornings-- wiping out the evening gains. That's because the extra hour that daylight saving time adds in the evening is a hotter hour. "So if people get home an hour earlier in a wanner house, they turn on their air conditioning," the University of Washington's Wolff said.
E. But other studies do show energy gains. In an October 2008 daylight saving time report to Congress, mandated by the same 2005 energy act that extended daylight saving time, the U.S. Department of Energy asserted that springing forward does save energy. Extended daylight saving time saved 1.3 terawatt ( 太瓦 ) hours of electricity. That figure suggests that daylight saving time reduces annual U.S. electricity consumption by 0.03 percent and overall energy consumption by 0.02 percent. While those percentages seem small, they could represent significant savings because of the nation's enormous total energy use.
F.What's more, savings in some regions are apparently greater than in others. California, for instance, appears to benefit most from daylight saving time--perhaps because its relatively mild weather encourages people to stay outdoors later. The Energy Department report found that daylight saving time resulted in an energy savings of one percent daily in the state.
G.But Wolff, one of many scholars who contributed to the federal report, suggested that the numbers were subject to statistical variability ( 变化) and shouldn't be taken as hard facts. And daylight savings' energy gains in the U.S. largely depend on your location in relation to the Mason-Dixon Line, Wolff said."The North might be a slight winner, because the North doesn't have as much air conditioning," he said. "But the South is a definite loser in terms of energy consumption. The South has more energy consumption under daylight saving."
Daylight Saving Time: Healthy or Harmful?
H. For decades advocates of daylight savings have argued that, energy savings or no, daylight saving time boosts health by encouraging active lifestyles--a claim Wolff and colleagues are currently putting to the test. "In a nationwide American time-use study, we're clearly seeing that, at the time of daylight saving time extension in the spring, television watching is substantially reduced and outdoor behaviors like jogging, walking, or going to the park are substantially increased," Wolff said. "That's remarkable, because of course the total amount of daylight in a given day is the same. "
I.But others warn of ill effects. Till Roenneberg, a university professor in Munich (慕尼黑), Germany, said his studies show that our circadian (生理节奏的 ) body clocks--set by light and darkness--never adjust to gaining an "extra" hour of sunlight to the end of the day during daylight saving time.
J.One reason so many people in the developed world are chronically (长期地) overtired, he said, is that they suffer from"social jet lag. "In other words, their optimal circadian sleep periods don't accord with their actual sleep schedules. Shifting daylight from morning to evening only increases this lag, he said. "Light doesn't do the same things to the body in the morning and the evening. More light in the morning would advance the body clock, and that would be good. But more light in the evening would even further delay the body clock. "
K.Other research hints at even more serious health risks. A 2008 study concluded that, at least in Sweden, heart attack risks go up in the days just after the spring time change. "The most likely explanation to our findings is disturbed sleep and disruption of biological rhythms," One expert told National Geographic News via email.
Daylight Savings' Lovers and Haters
L. With verdicts (定论) on the benefits, or costs, of daylight savings so split, it may be no surprise that the yearly time changes inspire polarized reactions. In the U.K., for instance, the Lighter Later movement--part of 10:10,a group advocating cutting carbon emissions--argues for a sort of extreme daylight savings. First, they say,move standard time forward an hour, then keep observing daylight saving time as usual--adding two hours ofevening daylight to what we currently consider standard time. The folks behind Standardtime.com, on the other hand, want to abolish daylight saving time altogether, calling energy-efficiency claims "unproven. "
M. National telephone surveys by Rasmussen Reports from spring 2010 and fall 2009 deliver the same answer.Most people just "don't think the time change is worth the hassle (麻烦的事 ). " Forty-seven percent agreedwith that statement, while only 40 percent disagreed. But Seize the Daylight author David Prerau said his research on daylight saving time suggests most people are fond of it."I think if you ask most people if they enjoy having an extra hour of daylight in the evening eight months a year, the response would be pretty positive."
Daylight savings' energy gains might be various due to different climates.
48、 Disturbed sleep and disruption of biological rhythms may be the best explanation to higher heart attack risks in the days after the spring time change.
49、 A research indicated that DST might not save energy by increasing energy use in the dark mornings, though it reduced lighting and electricity consumption in the evening.
50、 Germany took the lead in saving wardme resources by adopting the time changes and reducing artificiallighting.
51、 A university professor studied the effect of daylight saving time and sounded the alarm of its negative effects.
52、 Social jet lag can partly account for people's chronic fatigue syndrome in developed countries.
53、 The figure of a study in the U.S. suggested that DST could save a lot of energy nationally.
54、 Supporters of daylight savings have long considered daylight saving time does good to people's health.
55、 A group advocating cutting carbon emissions launches the Lighter Later movement to back a kind of extreme daylight savings.
56、 A scholar contributing to a federal report suggested that the amount of saved energy had something to do with geographic position.
仔细阅读 Section C
Section C Directions: 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 and mark the corresponding letter on Answer Sheet 2 with a single line through the centre.
57、 Questions 57-66 are based on the following passage.
We can begin our discussion of "population as a global issue" with what most persons mean when they discuss "the population problem": too many people on earth and a too rapid increase in the number added each year. The facts are not in dispute. It was quite right to employ the analogy that likened demographic (人口统计学的) growth to "a long, thin power fuse that bums steadily and haltingly until it finally reaches the charge, and explodes".
To understand the current situation, which is characterized by rapid increases in population, it is necessary to understand the history of population trends. Rapid growth is a comparatively recent phenomenon. Looking back at the 8,000 years of demographic history, we find that populations have been virtually stable or growing very slightly for most of human history. For most of our ancestors, life was hard, often nasty, and very short. There was high fertility in most places, but this was usually balanced by high mortality. For most of human history, it was seldomthe case that one in ten persons would live past forty, where infancy and childhood were especially risky periods.
Often, societies were in clear danger of extinction because death rates could exceed their birth rates. Thus, the population problem throughout most of history was how to prevent extinction of the human race.
This pattern is important to know. Not only does it put the current problems of demographic growth into a historical perspective, but it suggests that the cause of rapid increase in population in recent years is not a sudden enthusiasm for more children, but an improvement in the conditions that traditionally have caused high mortality.
Demographic history can be divided into two major periods: a time of long, slow growth which extended from about 8000 B.C. till approximately 1650 A.D. and a period of rapid, dramatic growth since 1650. In the first period of some 9,600 years, the population increased from some 8 million to 500 million in 1650. Between 1650 and the present, the population has increased from 500 million to more than 4 billion. And it is estimated that by the year2020 there will be 8 billion people throughout the world. One way to appreciate this dramatic difference in such abstract numbers is to reduce the time frame to something that is more manageable. Between 8000 B.C. and 1650,an average of only 50,000 persons was being added annually to the world's population each year. At present, this number is added every six hours. The increase is about 80,000,000 persons annually.
According to the passage, "population as a global issue" __________.
A.is quite unlike the population problem and thus doesn't need our concern
B.focuses on tracking down the reason of rapid population growth
C.deals with the same problem aroused by the population problem
D.will manage the population growth problem from global perspectives
58、 It can be inferred from the analogy of a power fuse that__________.
A.too much population will one day lead to the doom of human beings
B.the trend of population growth will keep unsteady until the destruction of Earth
C.demographic growth will follow a certain pattern of ups and downs
D.it is likely in the near future that population will reduce gradually
59、 What leads to a stable growth of population for most of human history?
A.Species competition.
B.Low fertility.
C.Tribal fights.
D.High mortality.
60、 The reason for a rapid growth of population lies in the fact that __________.
A.people are permitted to have more children
B.people can live better than before
C.newborn babies die less than before
D.we have found the secret of longevity
61、 How many people are born every six hours at present, according to the author?
A.Eighty million.
B.Eight thousand.
C.Fifty thousand.
D.Five million.
62、Questions 62-71 are based on the following passage.
Banking is about money; and no other familiar services or commodities arouse such excesses of passion and dislike. Nor is there any other about which more nonsense is talked. The type of thing that comes to mind is not what normally called economics, which is inexact rather than nonsensical, and only in the same way as all scientists are at the point where they try to predict people's behavior and its consequences. Indeed most social sciences and, for example, medicine could probably be described in the same way.
However, it is common to hear assertions of the kind "if you were marooned (孤立无援的) on a desert island a few seed potatoes would be more useful to you than a million pounds" as though this proved something important about money except the undeniable fact that it would not be much used to anyone in a situation where very few of us are at all likely to find ourselves. Money in fact is a token, or symbolic object, exchangeable on demand by its holders for goods and services. Its use for this purpose is universal except within a small number of primitive agricultural communities.
Money and the price mechanism, i.e., the changes in prices expressed in money terms of different goods and services, are the means by which all modern societies regulate demand and supply for these things. Especially important are the relative changes in price of different goods and services compared with each other. To take random examples: the price of house building has over the past five years risen a good deal faster than that of domestic appliances like refrigerators, but slower than that of motor insurance or French Impressionist paintings.
This fact has complex implications for students of the brick industry, trade unionism, town planning, insurance companies, fine art auctions, and politics. Unpacking these implications is what economics is about, but their implications for bankers are quite different.
In general, in modern industrialized societies, prices of services or goods produced in a context requiring a high service-content (e.g., a meal in a restaurant) are likely to rise in price more rapidly than goods capable of mass-production on a large scale. It is also a characteristic of highly developed economies that the number of workers employed in service industries tends to rise and that of workers employed in manufacturing to fall. The discomfort this truth causes the big general trade unions as they contrast their own situation with that of the rapidly growing white-collar unions has been an important source of tension in western political life for many years and is likely to remain so for many more.
According to the author, banking__________.
A.is another form of commodities
B.arouses people's passionate concem
C.is the same thing as economy
D.has the same description as medicine
63、 As a token in modern societies, money__________.
A.is endowed with symbolic and religious meanings
B.is excluded in any non-industrial societies
C.plays a more important role than goods and services
D.fulfills its universal function as an exchanging medium
64、 Under the support of money and price mechanism, people can __________.
A.regulate the supply of goods and the demand of services
B.compare the difference between goods and services
C.manage the balance between demand and supply
D.make economic plans in highly developed societies
65、 In modem industrialized societies, prices of mass production generally__________.
A.rise slower than those of high service-content services
B.turn out to be the lowest in the whole society
C.lack competitiveness with prices of services
D.exclude individual satisfaction and comfort
66、 What happens when trade unions make a comparison with white-collar unions?
A.They remain their usual attitude to the comparison.
B.They are not satisfied with the result of comparison.
C.The contrast will definitely lead to strikes among workers.
D.The contrast makes up the main issue in western politics.
汉译英
Part VI 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.
67、唐诗(ChineseTangpoetry)泛指创作于唐代(618年一907年)的诗。唐诗是汉族最珍贵的文化遗产之一，同时也对周边民族和国家的文化发展产生了巨大影响。而流传最广的当属《唐诗三百首)(Three HundredPoems ofthe Tang Dynasty)，里面收录的许多诗篇都为后人所熟知。唐代的诗人很多，其中李白、杜甫等都是世界闻名的伟大诗人，他们的作品有很多都是脍炙人口的诗篇。唐代诗歌的创作技巧多样，题材丰富，是我国诗歌发展的最高成就。
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