2015年6月大学英语六级考试真题（第一套）
Part II Listening Comprehension (30 minutes) Section A
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 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 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 retired earlier. 4 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 manufactures. 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 2015. 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 Passage One
Questions 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 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 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 form 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 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 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
When 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 (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 Hocking, 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 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 (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 don't have a chance to learn anything,” was clearly expressing his (35) with the sausage casing view of education.
Part III Reading Comprehension (40 minutes) Reading comprehension Section A
Innovation, the elixir (灵丹妙药) of progress, has always cost people their jobs. In the Industrial Revolution hand weavers were ___36___ aside 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 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 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 programmers and web designers.
Optimism remains the right starting-point, but for workers the dislocating effects of