2014年12月6级考试真题(二)

2014年12月大学英语六级考试真题（二） Writing (30 minutes)
"'How To Do Well In School Without Studying’ is over there in the fiction section." Listening Comprehension (30 minutes) Section A 1. A) The man should get a pair of new shoes. B) The man’s tennis racket is good enough. C) The man spent too much on his tennis shoes. D) The man is out of shape. 2. A) The woman doesn’t want to assist the man. B) The woman will ask Kathy to assist the man. C) Kathy is very pleased to attend the lecture by Dr. Smith. D) The woman will skip Dr. Smith’s lecture to help the man. 3. A) The speakers and Steve used to be classmates. B) Steve invited his classmates to visit his big cottage. C) Steve became rich soon after graduation from college. D) The woman asked the man to accompany her to the party. 4. A) In a bus. B) In a boat. C) In a clinic. D) In a plane. 5. A) 9:10. B) 9:40. C) 9:50. D) 10:10. 6. A) John has got many admirers. B) She does not like John at all. C) John has just got a bachelor’s degree. D) She does not think John is handsome. 7. A) He has been bumping along for hours. B) He is trapped in a terrible traffic jam. C) He is involved in a serious accident. D) He has got a sharp pain in the neck. 8. A) She cannot go without a washing machine. B) She should improve her physical fitness. C) She is a professional mechanic. D) She is good at repairing things. 9. A) The accused was found guilty of murder. B) The accused was found innocent. C) The accused was found guilty of stealing. D) The accused was sentenced to death. 10. A) He was unemployed. B) He was out of his mind. C) His children were sick. D) His wife deserted him. 11. A) He had committed the same sort of crime. B) He was unlikely to get employed. C) He was unworthy of sympathy. D) He had been in jail before. 12. A) Irresponsible. B) Aggressive. C) Conservative. D) Unsatisfactory. 13. A) Public relations. B) Product design. C) Internal communication. D) Distribution of brochures. 14. A) Placing advertisements in the trade press. B) Drawing sketches for advertisements. C) Making television commercials. D) Advertising in the national press. 15. A) She has the motivation to do the job. B) She knows the tricks of advertising. C) She is not suitable for the position. D) She is not so easy to get along with. Section B Passage One 16. A) The cozy communal life. B) The beautiful environment. C) The variety of culture. D) The richness of resources. 17. A) It ensures their physical and mental health. B) It helps them soak up the surrounding culture. C) It is as important as their learning experience. D) It is very beneficial to their academic progress. 18. A) It has the world’s best-known military academies. B) It offers the most challenging academic programs. C) It draws faculty from all around the world. D) It provides numerous options for students. 19. A) They are responsible merely to their Ministry of Education. B) They try to give students opportunities for experimentation. C) They strive to develop every student’s academic potential. D) They ensure that all students get roughly equal attention. Passage Two 20. A) It is leaving Folkestone in about five minutes. B) It is now about half way to the French coast. C) It crosses the English Channel twice a day. D) It will arrive at Boulogne at half past two. 21. A) Next to the duty-free shop. B) Opposite the ship’s office. C) In the front of A deck. D) At the rear of B deck. 22. A) It is much more spacious than the lounge on C deck. B) It is for the sole use of passengers travelling with cars. C) It is for the use of passengers travelling with children. D) It is for senior passengers and people with VIP cards. Passage Three 23. A) It was named after one of its painters. B) It was named after a cave art expert. C) It was named after its discoverer. D) It was named after its location. 24. A) Deer were worshiped by the ancient Cro-Magnon people. B) Animal painting was part of the spiritual life of the time. C) Cro-Magnon people painted animals they hunted and ate. D) They were believed to keep evils away from cave dwellers. 25. A) They have misinterpreted the meaning of the cave paintings. B) They are unable to draw such interesting and fine paintings. C) They have difficulty telling when the paintings were done. D) They know little about why the paintings were created. Section C If you are attending a local college, especially one without residence halls, you’ll probably live at home and commute to classes. This arrangement has a lot of (26)__________ . It’s cheaper. It provides a comfortable and familiar setting, and it means you'll get the kind of home cooking you're used to instead of the monotony（单调）that (27)________ even the best institutional food. However, commuting students need to (28)_____________ to become involved in the life of their college and to take special steps to meet their fellow students. Often, this means a certain amount of initiative on your part in (29)________ and talking to people in your classes whom you think you might like. One problem that commuting students sometimes face is their parents' unwillingness to recognize that they're adults. The (30)____________ from high school to college is a big one, and if you live at home you need to develop the same kind of independence you’d have if you were living away. Home rules that might have been (31)________ when you were in high school don’t apply. If your parents are (32)________________ to renegotiate, you can speed the process along by letting your behavior show that you have the responsibility that goes with maturity. Parents are more willing to (33)__________ their children as adults when they behave like adults. If, however, there’s so much friction at home that it (34)_________ your academic work, you might want to consider sharing an apartment with one or more friends. Sometimes this is a happy solution when family (35)____________ make everyone miserable. Reading Comprehension (40 minutes) Section A Children are natural-born scientists. They have 36 minds, and they aren’t afraid to admit they don’t know something. Most of them, 37, lose this as they get older. They become self-conscious and don’t want to appear stupid. Instead of finding things out for themselves they make 38 that often turn out to be wrong. So it’s not a case of getting kids interested in science. You just have to avoid killing the 39 for learning that they were born with. It’s no coincidence that kids start deserting science once it becomes formalised. Children naturally have a blurred approach to 40 knowledge. They see learning about science or biology or cooking as all part of the same act—it’s all learning. It’s only because of the practicalities of education that you have to start breaking down the curriculum into specialist subjects. You need to have specialist teachers who 41 what they know. Thus once they enter school, children begin to define subjects and erect boundaries that needn’t otherwise exist. Dividing subjects into science, maths, English, etc. is something we do for 42. In the end it’s all learning, but many children today 43 themselves from a scientific education. They think science is for scientists, not for them. Of course we need to specialise 44. Each of us has only so much time on Earth, so we can’t study everything. At 5 years old, our field of knowledge and 45 is broad, covering anything from learning to walk to learning to count. Gradually it narrows down so that by the time we are 45, it might be one tiny little comer within science. A) accidentally B) acquiring C) assumptions D) convenience E) eventually F) exclude G) exertion H) exploration I) formulas J) ignite K) impart L) inquiring M) passion N) provoking O) unfortunately Section B Meaning Is Healthier Than Happiness [A] For at least the last decade, the happiness craze has been building. In the last three months alone, over 1,000 books on happiness were released on Amazon, including Happy Money, Happy-People-Pills For All, and, for those just starting out, Happiness for Beginners. [B] One of the consistent claims of books like these is that happiness is associated with all sorts of good life outcomes, including—most promisingly—good health. Many studies have noted the connection between a happy mind and a healthy body—the happier we are, the better health outcomes we seem to have. In an overview of 150 studies on this topic, researchers put it like this: “Inductions of well-being lead to healthy functioning, and inductions of ill-being lead to compromised health.” [C] But a new study, just published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) challenges the rosy picture. Happiness may not be as good for the body as researchers thought. It might even be bad. [D] Of course, it’s important to first define happiness. A few months ago, I wrote a piece called “There’s More to Life Than Being Happy” about a psychology study that dug into what happiness really means to people. It specifically explored the difference between a meaningful life and a happy life. [E] It seems strange that there would be a difference at all. But the researchers, who looked at a large sample of people over a month-long period, found that happiness is associated wi