2015年6月英语六级真题第1套

2015 年 6 月英语六级真题（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 is a treasure, but practice is the key to it.” You can give an example or two to illustrate your point of view. You should write at least 150 words but no more than 200 words. Part II Listening 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. Then mark the corresponding letter on Answer Sheet 1 with a single line through the centre. 1. A) Prepare for his exams. B) Catch up on his work. C) Attend the concert. D) Go on a vacation. 2. A) Three crew members were involved in the incident. B) None of the hijackers carried any deadly weapons. C) The plane had been scheduled to fly to Japan. D) None of the passengers were injured or killed. 3. A) An article about the election. B) A tedious job to be done. C) An election campaign. D) A fascinating topic. 4. A) The restaurant was not up to the speakers’ expectations. B) The restaurant places many ads in popular magazines. C) The critic thought highly of the Chinese restaurant. D) Chinatown has got the best restaurants in the city. 5. A) He is going to visit his mother in the hospital. B) He is going to take on a new job next week. C) He has many things to deal with right now. D) He behaves in a way nobody understands. 6. A) A large number of students refused to vote last night. B) At least twenty students are needed to vote on an issue. C) Major campus issues had to be discussed at the meeting. D) More students have to appear to make their voice heard. 7. A) The woman can hardly tell what she likes. B) The speakers like watching TV very much. C) The speakers have nothing to do but watch TV. D) The man seldom watched TV before retirement. 8. A) The woman should have registered earlier. B) He will help the woman solve the problem. C) He finds it hard to agree with what the woman says. D) The woman will be able to attend the classes she wants. Questions 9 to 12 are based on the conversation you have just heard. 9. A) Persuade the man to join her company. B) Employ the most up-to-date technology. C) Export bikes to foreign markets. D) Expand their domestic business. 10. A) The state subsidizes small and medium enterprises. B) The government has control over bicycle imports. C) They can compete with the best domestic manufacturers. D) They have a cost advantage and can charge higher prices. 11. A) Extra costs might eat up their profits abroad. B) More workers will be needed to do packaging. C) They might lose to foreign bike manufacturers. D) It is very difficult to find suitable local agents. 12. A) Report to the management. B) Attract foreign investments. C) Conduct a feasibility study. D) Consult financial experts. Questions 13 to 15 are based on the conversation you have just heard. 13. A) Coal burnt daily for the comfort of our homes. B) Anything that can be used to produce power. C) Fuel refined from oil extracted from underground. D) Electricity that keeps all kinds of machines running. 14. A) Oil will soon be replaced by alternative energy sources. B) Oil reserves in the world will be exhausted in a decade. C) Oil consumption has given rise to many global problems. D) Oil production will begin to decline worldwide by 2025. 15. A) Minimize the use of fossil fuels. B)Start developing alternative fuels. C) Find the real cause for global warming. D) Take steps to reduce the greenhouse effect. Section B Directions: In this section, you will hear 3 short passages. At the end of each passage, you will hear some questions. Both the passage and the questions will be spoken only once. After you hear a question, you mustchoose the best answer from the four choices marked A), B), C), and D). Then mark the correspondingletter on Answer Sheet 1with a single line through the centre. Passage One Questions 16 to 18 are based on the conversation you have just heard. 16. A) The ability to predict fashion trends. B) A refined taste for artistic works. C) Years of practical experience. D) Strict professional training. 17. A) Promoting all kinds of American hand-made specialties. B) Strengthening cooperation with foreign governments. C) Conducting trade in art works with dealers overseas. D) Purchasing handicrafts from all over the world. 18. A) She has access to fashionable things. B) She is doing what she enjoys doing. C) She can enjoy life on a modest salary. D) She is free to do whatever she wants. Passage Two Questions 19 to 22 are based on the passage you have just heard. 19. A) Join in neighborhood patrols. B) Get involved in his community. C) Voice his complaints to the city council. D) Make suggestions to the local authorities. 20. A) Deterioration in the quality of life. B) Increase of police patrols at night. C) Renovation of the vacant buildings. D) Violation of community regulations. 21. A) They may take a long time to solve. B) They need assistance from the city. C) They have to be dealt with one by one. D) They are too big for individual efforts. 22. A) He had got some groceries at a big discount. B) He had read a funny poster near his seat. C) He had done a small deed of kindness. D) He had caught the bus just in time. Passage Three Questions 23 to 25 are based on the passage you have just heard. 23. A) Childhood and healthy growth. B) Pressure and heart disease. C) Family life and health. D) Stress and depression. 24. A) It experienced a series of misfortunes. B) It was in the process of reorganization. C) His mother died of a sudden heart attack. D) His wife left him because of his bad temper. 25. A) They would give him a triple bypass surgery. B) They could remove the block in his artery. C) They could do nothing to help him. D) They would try hard to save his life. Section C 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 arerequired to fill in the blanks with the exact words you have just heard. Finally, when the passage is read forthe third time, you should check what you have written. When most people think of the word “education”, they think of a pupil as a sort of animate sausage casing. Into this empty casing, the teachers 26 stuff “education”. But genuine education, as Socrates knew more than two thousand years ago, is not 27the stuffings of information into a person, but rather eliciting knowledge from him; it is the 28of what is in the mind. “The most important part of education,” once wrote William Ernest Hocking, the 29Harvard philosopher, “is this instruction of a man in what he has inside of him”. And, as Edith Hamilton has reminded us, Socrates never said, “I know, learn from me.” He said, rather, “Look into your own selves and find the 30of truth that God has put into every heart, and that only you can kindle (点燃) to a 31.” In a dialogue, Socrates takes an ignorant slave boy, without a day of 32, and proves to the amazed observers that the boy really “knows” geometry— because the principles of geometry are already in his mind, waiting to be called out. So many of the discussions and 33about the content of education are useless and inconclusive because they 34what should “go into” the student rather than with what should be taken out, and how this can best be done. The college student who once said to me, after a lecture, “I spend so much time studying that I don’t have a chance to learn anything,” was clearly expressing his 35with the sausage-casing view of education. Part III Reading Comprehension (40 minutes) Section A Directions: In this section, there is a passage with ten blanks. You are required to select one word for each blank from a list of choices given in a word bank following the passage. Read the passage through care fully before making your choices. Each choice in the bank is identified by a letter. Please mark the corresponding letter for each item on Answer Sheet2 with a single line through the centre. You may not use any of the words in the bank more than once. Questions 36 to 45 are based on the following passage. “That which does not kill us makes us stronger.” But parents can’t handle it when teenagers put this36into practice. Now technology has become the new field for the age-old battle between adults and their freedom-seeking kids. Locked indoors, unable to get on their bicycles and hang out with their friends, teens have turned to social media and their mobile phones to socialize with their peers. What they do online often37what they might otherwise do if their mobility weren’t so heavily38in the age of helicopter parenting. Social media and smart-phone apps have become so popular in recent years because teens need a place to call their own. They want the freedom to39their identity and the world around them.Instead of40out, they jump online. As teens have moved online, parents have projected their fears onto the Internet, imagining all the41dangers that youth might face—from42strangers to cruel peers to pictures or words that could haunt them on Google for the rest of their lives. Rather than helping teens develop strategies for negotiating public life and the risks of43with others, fearful parents have focused on tracking, monitoring and blocking. These tactics ( 策 略 ) don’t help teens develop the skills they need to manage complex social situations,44risks and get helpwhen they’re in trouble. “Protecting” kids may feel like the right thing to do, but it45the learning that teens need to do as they come of age in a technology-soaked world. A) assess B) constrained C) contains D) explore E) influence F) interacting G) interpretation H) magnified I) mirrors J) philosophy K) potential L) sneaking M) sticking N) undermines O) violent