大学英语6级真题三套全文档格式.docx

1、 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 restaurant 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 t

2、o 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.

3、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 retired earlier. 4B） He will help the woman solve the problem.C） He finds it hard to ag

4、ree 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

5、 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 manufactures.D） They have a cost advantage and can charge higher prices. 11. A） Extra costs might eat up their profits abroad.B） More worke

6、rs 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 c

7、onversation 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 source

8、s.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 2021.15. A） Minimize the use of fossil fuels. B） Start developing alternative fuels.C） Find the real cause for global warming. D

9、） Take steps to reduce the greenhouse effect.Section BPassage OneQuestions 16 to 18 are based on the passage 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

10、kinds of American hand-made specialities.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

11、life on a modest salary. D） She is free to do whatever she wants.Passage TwoQuestions 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

12、.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 form the city.C） They have to be dealt with one by one. D） They are too

13、 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 ThreeQuestions 23 to 25 are based on the passage you have just heard.23. A） Childhood and

14、family growth. B） Pressure and 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

15、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 CWhen most people think of the word “education”, they think of a pupil as a sort of animate sausage casing. Into this empty casting, the teachers

16、（26） stuff “education.”But genuine education, as Socrates knew more than two thousand years ago, is not （27） the stuffing of information into a person, but rather eliciting knowledge from him; it is the （28） of what is in the mind.“The most important part of education,” once wrote William Ernest Hoc

17、king, the （29） Harvard 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 （30） of the truth that God has put into every heart and that

18、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一because the principles of geometry are already in his mind, waiting to be called out.So many of the discussions and

19、 （33） about the content of education are useless and inconclusive because they （34） what 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 dont have a c

20、hance to learn anything,” was clearly expressing his （35） with the sausage casing view of education.Part III Reading Comprehension （40 minutes）Reading comprehensionInnovation, the elixir （灵丹妙药） of progress, has always cost people their jobs. In the Industrial Revolution hand weavers were _36_ aside

21、by the mechanical loom. Over the past 30 years the digital revolution has _37_ many of the mid-skill jobs that underpinned 20th-century middle-class life. Typists, ticket agents, bank tellers and many production-line jobs have been dispensed with, just as the weavers were.For those who believe that

22、technological progress has made the world a better place, such disruption is a natural part of rising _38_. Although innovation kills some jobs, it creates new and better ones, as a more _39_ society becomes richer and its wealthier inhabitants demand more goods and services. A hundred years ago one

23、 in three American workers was _40_ on a farm. Today less than 2% of them produce far more food. The millions freed from the land were not rendered _41_, but found better-paid work as the economy grew more sophisticated. Today the pool of secretaries has_42_, but there are ever more computer program

24、mers and web designers.Optimism remains the right starting-point, but for workers the dislocating effects of technology may make themselves evident faster than its _43_. Even if new jobs and wonderful products emerge, in the short term income gaps will widen, causing huge social dislocation and perh

25、aps even changing politics. Technologys _44_ will feel like a tornado （旋风）, hitting the rich world first, but _45_ sweeping through poorer countries too. No government is prepared for it.A）benefits B）displaced C）employed D）eventuallyE）impact F）jobless G）primarily H）productiveI）prosperity J）responsiv

26、e K）rhythm L）sentimentsM）shrunk N）swept O）withdrawnWhy the Mona Lisa Stands OutA Have you ever fallen for a novel and been amazed not to find it on lists of great books? Or walked around a sculpture renowned as a classic, struggling to see what the fuss is about? If so, youve probably pondered the q

27、uestion Cutting asked himself that day: how does a work of art come to be considered great?B The intuitive answer is that some works of art are just great: of intrinsically superior quality. The paintings that win prime spots in galleries, get taught in classes and reproduced in books are the ones t

28、hat have proved their artistic value over time. If you cant see theyre superior, thats your problem. Its an intimidatingly neat explanation. But some social scientists have been asking awkward questions of it, raising the possibility that artistic canons are little more than fossilised historical ac

29、cidents.C Cutting, a professor at Cornell University, wondered if a psychological mechanism known as the “mere-exposure effect” played a role in deciding which paintings rise to the top of the cultural league. Cutting designed an experiment to test his hunch. Over a lecture course he regularly showe

30、d undergraduates works of impressionism for two seconds at a time. Some of the paintings were canonical, included in art-history books. Others were lesser known but of comparable quality. These were exposed four times as often. Afterwards, the students preferred them to the canonical works, while a control group of students liked the canonical ones best. Cuttings students