1993-2006年全国大学生六级考试真题：全国大学生英语历年六级真题（有答案和听力原文）

1993年1月大学英语六级(CET-6)真题试卷
Part I Listening Comprehension (20 minutes)
Section A
1. A) It was misleading.
B) It was enjoyable.
C) It was rather boring.
D) It was just so-so.
2. A) Pop music.
B) Folk music.
C) Classical music.
D) All kinds of music.
3. A) He will fly directly to his destination.
B) He has to change at Albany.
C) He is still not sure how to get there.
D) He must change at Jacksonville.
4. A) It’s late.
B) It’s crowed.
C) It’s empty.
D) It’s on time.
5. A) Unusual.
B) Enthusiastic.
C) Serious.
D) Threatening.
6. A) Her name is on the top of the list.
B) She will be the last to be interviewed.
C) She is expecting a job interview.
D) She must fix a date for the job.
7. A) The husband is not usually so observant.
B) The wife is annoyed at her husband’s complaint.
C) The husband hasn’t told the truth.
D) The wife is going to the hairdresser’s.
8. A) The student miss their professor very much.
B) The professor didn’t give the lesson.
C) A new course will begin next Monday.
D) Some homework was assigned to the students.
9. A) She accepted their request.
B) She rejected their request.
C) She agreed to consider their request.
D) She asked them to come with the other.
10. A) At work.
B) Back at home.
C) At the meeting.
D) Away from home.
Section B
Passage One
Questions 11 to 13 are based on the passage you have just heard.
11. A) Cheap clothes.
B) Expensive clothes.
C) Fashionable clothes.
D) Informal clothes.
12. A) They enjoy loud music.
B) They seldom lose their temper.
C) They want to have children.
D) They enjoy modern dances.
13. A) Her twin sister often brings friends home and this annoys the speaker.
B) They can’t agree on the color of the room.
C) They can’t agree on the kind of furniture.
D) The speaker likes to keep things neat while her twin sister doesn’t.
Passage Two
Questions 14 to 17 are based on the passage you have just heard.
14. A) In the first semester.
B) In the second semester.
C) In the third semester.
D) In the fourth semester.
15. A) She is ill.
B) She is too old.
C) Her husband wants her to.
D) Her husband is ill.
16. A) His father.
B) His mother.
C) His girl friend.
D) His teacher.
17. A) He has decided to continue his studies.
B) He has still to make a decision.
C) He has decided to give up his job.
D) He has still to take a part time job.
Passage Three
Questions 18 to 20 are based on the passage you have just heard.
18. A) Twenty years.
B) A couple of weeks.
C) A couple of years.
D) Five years.
19. A) David had been selling cars.
B) David had taught business.
C) David had become a salesman.
D) David had made a lot of money.
20. A) Rich people are not happy.
B) Being rich is the best thing in the world.
C) Being rich is not always a good thing.
D) Rich people are usually with their families.
1993年1月六级参考答案
Part I
1. C
2. B
3. A
4. D
5. B
6. B
7. C
8. A
9. A
10. D
11. C
12. D
13. B
14. D
15. A
16. C
17. D
18. B
19. D
20. B
1993年1月六级听力原文
Section A
1. W,Michael,did you go to the lecture on the French Revolution last night? I have never heard such an interesting history lecture before.
M,Yes,wasn’t it marvelous! It is said the lecture is a self-taught man with no university education.
Q,What did the man think of the lecture?
2. W,I enjoy all kinds of music,What kind of music do you like?
M,Folk music had appeared to me very much before I became fascinated with pop music,Now I think nothing can compare with classic music.
Q,What kind of music does the man like best?
3. M,I want to take the very next flight to Albany.
W,Well,the very next one leaves in two hours,It goes to Jacksonville,but you can make a connection to your destination.
Q,How can the man get to his destination?
4. M,I’m sorry,Madame,The train is somewhat behind the schedule,Take a seat and I’ll tell you as soon as we know something definite.
W,Thank you,I’ll just sit here and read the magazine in the meantime.
Q,What can you conclude about the train from the conversation?
5. M,Prof,David,I was wondering if you could write a recommendation letter for me.
W,Well,I can write one for you,But I’ll point out your limitation as well as you strength.
Q,What is the woman’s attitude towards writing recommendation?
6. M,You haven’t got the date fixed for the job interview yet,have you?
W,There is a long waiting list,I have to wait until my name gets to the top.
Q,What do we learn about the woman from the conversation?
7. M,I like the way you’ve done your hair,dear,It looks so natural and original.
W,Thank you,I am surprised you noticed it.
Q,What does the conversation tell us?
8. M,Jane,I missed Prof,White class yesterday,Could you tell me the homework he assigned us?
W,Don’t worry,Prof,White was ill and he postponed the lesson to next Monday.
Q,What do we learn from the conversation?
9. M,Prof,Jackson,we were wondering if we could sit in your English class?
W,I wish I could say,yes”,But if I accepted you two,I wonder how to say,No” to a lot of others who have raised.
the same request.
Q,What does the professor mean?
10. W,Will Richard be coming to the meeting tonight?
M,He’s supposed to,But in fact he won’t be back from the vocation until the day after tomorrow.
Q,Where is Richard now?
Section B
Passage One
Twin sister are supposed to be very much alike,are they not? Well,my twin Jane and I do look alike,However,we are different in many ways,We like very different styles of clothing,I prefer to dress informally,whereas my twin sister dresses like a model,always in the latest fashions,We have very similar characters in most ways,I do not get angry and enjoy being with friends,In this respect,my twin sister feels the same,But she likes loud music and modern dances while I find that night clubs give me a headache,She is always with friends,is the favorite of our teachers and never wants to have children,whereas I prefer to be alone at times,don’t really try to impress my teachers and intend some day to have a family of my own,We have tried to live in the same room several times and even agreed on the color we like best and the kind of furniture we wanted,But I like to keep things neat and orderly while my twin sister acts as if there were a servant around to pick up all the things that get thrown on the floor,I like to go to bed early and get up early,In contrast,she doesn’t seem to have any definite habits,often goes to bed very late and then sleeps late the next day.
Questions 11 to 13 are based on the passage you have just heard.
11. What kind of clothes does the speaker like?
12. What do the twin sisters have in common?
13. Why doesn’t the speaker like living in the same room with her sister?
Passage Two
Joe is a student at a college in an open area,During his first two semesters,he did very well and at the beginning of third semester he was admitted to a special medical program,If he completed the program successfully,he would be granted admission to a good medical school,He would be able to study to become a doctor,Joe’s mother and father both have full-time jobs and Joe works part-time at a restaurant to help the family finances.
Several weeks ago,Joe’s mother began feeling sharp chest pains,When she went to a doctor,he told her that she would need a heart surgery and would have to give up her job,This would enlarge medical expenses and lose almost half the family income,Joe’s father wants him to drop out of school and go to work full-time to help the family,Joe loves his family very much,But,if he drops out now,he would lose entire semester’s credit and may even lose his place in the premedical program.
He doesn’t know what to do,He speaks to his girlfriend Maria who urges him to remain in school since withdraw now would place his entire future in danger,He also speaks to his cousin Carol,who tells him that his first duty is to help his family get through the difficult times.
Questions 14 to 17 are based on the passage you have just heard.
14. When was Joe admitted to the special medical program?
15. Why would Joe’s mother give up her job?
16. Who advised Joe to give up his studies?
17. What is Joe going to do?
Passage Three
A couple of weeks ago,I ran into my boyfriend David for the first time in twenty years,I heard that David had made fortune on the stock market,So I was surprised he wasn’t driving an expensive car,or wearing expensive clothes,As a matter of fact,he looked a lot like me,wearing an inexpensive suit that looked a couple of years old and driving an old car with a little rust the edges,I asked him what he was doing in these years and he said he was teaching business at a local community college.,Teaching business?” I exclaimed,I thought I heard you were in New York,making a fortune in stocks,David smiled,“Yes,I didn’t that until about five years ago,But I got out,The stress was giving you a stomachache and a bad heart,Besides,once I got into that business,I had to run just to keep up,I did not have any time to spend with my family,We are much happier now.” I shook my head,He had chosen every man’s ambition but he gave it up,I had always dreamed of having money,But it never occurred to me that there might be disadvantages to be in rich.
Questions 18 to 20 are based on the passage you have just heard.
18. How long ago did the speaker last meet his friend David?
19. What had the speaker heard about David before they met?
20.What did the speaker realize at the end?
1993年6月大学英语六级(CET-6)真题试卷
Part I Listening Comprehension (20 minutes)
Section A
1. A) No,it’s open only to teachers and postgraduates.
B) Yes,he can study there if he is writing a research paper.
C) Yes,because he is a senior student.
D) Yes,but he needs the approval by his professor.
2. A) It was pretty good.
B) It was rather dull.
C) It was not well organized.
D) It was attended by many people.
3. A) The effects of the flood.
B) The heroic fight against a flood.
C) The cause of the flood.
D) Floods of the past twenty years.
4. A) They were both busy doing their own work.
B) They waited for each other at different places.
C) They went to the street corner at different times.
D) The man went to the concert but the woman didn’t.
5. A) The air is polluted.
B) The people there are terrible.
C) It’s too windy.
D) The beaches are dirty.
6. A) In Mexico.
B) In California.
C) In the city.
D) In New Mexico.
7. A) The woman blames the man for his absence.
B) The woman thinks that everything was all right.
C) The woman thanks the man for his efforts.
D) The woman doesn’t think it was the man’s fault.
8. A) He has too many dreams.
B) He likes to sleep.
C) He doesn’t put his ideas into practice.
D) He doesn’t have many good ideas.
9. A) Getting extra credits.
B) The requirements of an M,A,degree.
C) The credit hours required for an M,A,degree.
D) Taking more optional courses.
10. A) They get a bargain right away.
B) They have a look at the advertisement.
C) They sell their TV set.
D) They go and buy a big TV set.
Section B
Passage One
Questions 11 to 13 are based on the passage you have just heard.
11. A) Because many people don’t know how to behave in social situations.
B) Because most people are shy by nature.
C) Nobody will laugh at you for being shy.
D) Shyness is difficult to overcome.
12. A) By prediction.
B) By recording.
C) Through observation.
D) Through interviewing.
13. A) To observe people’s attitude towards strangers.
B) To see how people get along with their friends.
C) To change people’s behaviour in social life.
D) To find out how shy people are.
Passage Two
Questions 14 to 17 are based on the passage you have just heard.
14. A) A housewife.
B) A singer.
C) A teacher.
D) A musician.
15. A) The violin was too expensive.
B) She was too young to play the violin.
C) The violin was too big for her.
D) Her mother wanted her to play the piano.
16. A) To play the violin once again.
B) To go to the United States.
C) To apply for a scholarship.
D) To have her performance taped.
17. A) To live a more comfortable life.
B) To give performances.
C) To be a pupil of a famous violinist.
D) To enter a famous university.
Passage Three
Questions 18 to 20 are based on the passage you have just heard.
18. A) Because they have had little exposure to high level of sounds.
B) Because they suffer from hearing loss.
C) Because they don’t know how to operate stereo systems.
D) Because they are not qualified engineers.
19. A) A year ago.
B) A decade ago.
C) Three years ago.
D) Five years ago.
20. A) Providing a warning light when the sound is too loud.
B) Producing more personal stereo systems.
C) Restricting the use of personal stereos.
D) Setting up a standardized hearing test.
1993年6月六级参考答案
Part I
1. D
2. C
3. A
4. B
5. A
6. B
7. A
8. C
9. C
10. D
11. B
12. C
13. D
14. D
15. A
16. D
17. C
18. B
19. D
20. A
1993年6月六级听力原文
1. M,Hello,I’m a senior student,Could you tell me whether this reference room is only for faculty members?
W,No,it’s a also open to the postgraduates; and undergraduates can come too if they’re got professors’ written permission.
Q,Can the man study in the reference room?
2. W,Let’s talk about the preparations for the party.
M,Right,We really need to plan better this time,Remember what a mess it was at the last party!
Q,What do we know about the last party?
3. W,This has been the worst flood for the past 20 years,It has caused much damage and destruction.
M,Look at the prices of fruits and vegetables,No wonder they are so expensive.
Q,What are they talking about?
4. W,George,Where were you yesterday evening? I expected to see you at the concert.
M,Oh,I waited for you at the corner of your street,Then I looked for you at your flat,but the housekeeper said you were out.
Q,Why didn’t they meet that evening?
5. W,The place I’ve heard so much about is Los Angeles,The climate is pretty good,Year-round flowers,Year-round swimming,How do like it?
M,Well,the beaches are beautiful,But people there are terribly annoyed by the dirty air,I mean,the combination of fog,smoke and automobile exhaust,There is not enough wind to blow it away.
Q,What does the man think of Los Angeles?
6. M,I’d like to make an appointment to see Dr,Smith tomorrow.
W,I’m sorry,Dr,Smith went on a week vacation in Mexico,and on his way back he’ll be staying in California for 5 days,Let me see,He’ll probably be back the day after tomorrow.
Q,Where is Dr,Smith now?
7. M,Look,I’m sorry I didn’t turn up for the match yesterday,but it wasn’t really my fault,you know.
W,It’s all very well saying it wasn’t your fault,but thanks to you we lost 10 to 1.
Q,What do we learn from the conversation?
8. M,You call Henry a dreamer,but I think he’s got a lot of good ideas.
W,Good ideas are only useful if you make something out of them.
Q,Why does the woman think that Henry is a dreamer?
9. M,You’ll need 36 credit hours to get an M,A,degree,Fifteen must be from the English Department and fifteen from the Education Department,For the remaining six credit hours,you can either write a thesis or take two more selected courses.
W,Right now,this is very confusing to me,but I’m sure I’ll know what to do as I learn more about it.
Q,What are they talking about?
10. M,This TV set is getting worse and worse,Now it doesn’t work at all.
W,Here’s an advertisement about a big TV sale,There might be some good bargains in it.
Q,What does the woman suggest?
Passage One
Are you afraid to raise your hand in class,even when you know the answer? If you are,most people would say that you’re shy.
If you feel shy,you’re not alone,Nine out of ten people are at least a little shy,But however shy you are,scientific evidence seems to show that it isn’t your fault,You may have been born that way.
How do psychologists measure shyness? One way is by observation,They keep detailed records of people’s actions-like how often these people speak to others,or how long it takes someone to say hello to a stranger.
Another way to measure shyness is to ask people questions,The test only takes about 10 minutes,It asks questions like,Do you like going out a lot?” and,Do you have many friends?” People must answer either yes or no,These questions can predict how people actually behave in social situations,Suppose the test tells you that someone is shy,Chances are good that that person will act shy.
When scientists measure shyness,they’re really comparing degrees of shyness,In other words,when researchers say people are shy,they really mean they are more shy than others.
Questions 11 to 13 are based on the passage you have just heard.
11. Why does the speaker say that it isn’t a fault to be shy?
12. What is one of the ways suggested by psychologists for measuring shyness?
13. What is the purpose of the psychologists in asking questions?
Passage Two
When Midori was two years old,she often climbed onto the piano bench and reached for the violin that belonged to her mother,a 38-year-old professional musician.
“Please don’t touch,Midori,” her mother scolded,The violin was,after all,worth more than $20,000.
But Midori persisted,she longed to handle the graceful instrument that made beautiful sounds,Finally,on her third birthday,Midori was handed a package,a tiny violin,about half the normal size.
Almost from the moment Midori was born,her mother knew she was sensitive to music,For several years mother and daughter practised together day after day,She was eager to learn,Failure often led to tears,though she never once turned from the instrument,Instead,she persisted until the problem was overcome.
One day Johnston,an American musician,heard Midori playing the violin,He couldn’t believe she was just eight years old.,She must make a tape and I will take it to the United States.” the musician said.
A famous American violin teacher heard the tape,He,too,had difficulty believing his ears,The playing was absolutely astonishing,He immediately accepted her as a pupil and recommended her for a full scholarship,In 1982,Midori and her mother moved to New York City,leaving behind a comfortable life in Japan.
Questions 14 to 17 based on the passage you have just heard.
14. What was Midori’s mother?
15. Why was Midori not allowed to touch her mother’s violin when she was only two years old?
16. What did Johnston,the American,ask Midori to do?
17. Why did Midori move to the United States?
Passage Three
The British Broadcasting Corporation is rejecting more and more candidates applying for jobs,because they suffer from hearing loss,And this is due to a wide use of personal stereo systems,According to officials at the corporation,about three per cent of them fail to win jobs for this reason,The figure indicates that people suffering from hearing defects are more common that a decade age.
Candidates applying for jobs at the British Broadcasting Corporation have always had hearing tests,but the techniques for such tests were not standardized until five years ago,The corporation says officially that there is no proof to link personal stereos with hearing disabilities,but frequent exposure to high level of sounds can diminish a person’s understanding of speech,That will rule out his chances of being a engineer taking care of sound quality in recording.
So exerts are now calling for manufactures of personal stereos to provide a warning light,It flashes when the sound is too loud,One British manufacturer accepted this suggestion,And this manufacturer has made a device which switches itself off when the level of sound is too high.
Questions 18 to 20 are based on the passage you have just heard.
18. Why do more and more candidates fail to get jobs at the British Broadcasting Corporation?
19. When did the hearing test techniques become standardized?
20. What suggestions did the experts make to stereo manufacturers?
1994年1月大学英语六级(CET-6)真题试卷
Part I Listening Comprehension (20 minutes)
Section A
1. A) At home.
B) In a phone box.
C) In her office.
D) In a friend’s house.
2. A) On the west side of a square.
B) At the end of a street.
C) To the east of the traffic light.
D) On the east side of a square.
3. A) She has to change the time for the trip.
B) She hasn’t decided where to go next month.
C) She can’t afford the time for the trip.
D) She will manage to leave this month.
4. A) The apartment is better furnished.
B) She prefers to live in a quiet place.
C) It’s less expensive to live in an apartment.
D) She finds her roommates difficult to get along with.
5. A) In a hospital.
B) In a library.
C) In a travel agency.
D) In a restaurant.
6. A) Customer and salesperson.
B) Teacher and student.
C) Boss and secretary.
D) Guest and waitress.
7. A) He didn’t buy anything.
B) He got some medicine for his foot.
C) He was sick and couldn’t go shopping.
D) He bought everything except the football.
8. A) Teachers like Professor Janson are rare.
B) Professor Janson has won a million dollars.
C) Professor Janson is lucky to be teaching at that school.
D) There are many teachers as good as Professor Janson.
9. A) She didn’t know her daughter could sing so well.
B) She sings better than her daughter.
C) She doesn’t like her daughter.
D) She herself doesn’t have a good voice.
10. A) He finds history books difficult to understand.
B) He has to read a lot of history books.
C) He doesn’t like the history course.
D) He has lost his history book.
Section B
Passage One
Questions 11 to 14 are based on the passage you have just heard.
11. A) At night.
B) At noon.
C) In the morning.
D) In the afternoon.
12. A) About Germans on strike.
B) About a new-type airplane.
C) About an air crash.
D) About rescue workers in UK Motors.
13. A) They wanted higher pay.
B) They wanted fewer working hours.
C) They wanted better working conditions.
D) They wanted an annual three-week holiday.
14. A) Rainy.
B) Warm.
C) Cold.
D) Changeable.
Passage Two
Questions 15 to 17 are based on the passage you have just heard.
15. A) He has always lived in America.
B) He has been in America for three years.
C) He visited America three years ago.
D) He has come to America to do research on advertising.
16. A) There were far more advertisements there than he had expected.
B) The advertisements there were well designed.
C) The advertisements there were creative and necessary.
D) He found the advertisements there difficult to understand.
17. A) Be more careful about what they advertise.
B) Spend less money on advertising.
C) Advertise more for their products.
D) Use new advertising techniques.
Passage Three
Questions 18 to 20 are based on the passage you have just heard.
18. A) He is always in a hurry.
B) He is quick in making decisions.
C) He is always the first to arrive at the airport.
D) He usually doesn’t get the reward he deserves.
19. A) He misses his flight.
B) He can find a good seat.
C) He leaves the airport first at the end of the trip.
D) His luggage comes out last.
20. A) He was told to board the wrong plane.
B) He was not allowed to board the plane.
C) He arrived at the airport without a ticket.
D) He found it difficult to explain why he arrived so early.1994年1月六级参考答案
Part I
1. D
2. D
3. A
4. B
5. C
6. C
7. A
8. A
9. D
10. B
11. C
12. C
13. B
14. D
15. B
16. A
17. A
18. D
19. C
20. A
1994年1月六级听力原文
Section A
1. M,Please hold the line,Mrs,Smith,The doctor will talk to you in a minute.
W,I’m afraid I may have to hang up,I don’t have any more coins and the line will be cut soon.
Q,Where is Mrs,Smith most probably?
2. M,Excuse me,but could you show me the way to the train station?
W,Certainly,Go straight until you reach the traffic light,then turn left and you will see a square,The station is on the east side of it.
Q,Where is the train station located?
3. M,You’re going to make a trip to San Francisco,aren’t you?
W,Yes,But I haven’t got the plane ticket yet,I’m thinking of postponing the trip to next month since this is the busiest month for the airlines.
Q,What do we know about the woman from this conversation?
4. M,I hear you are moving to an apartment,Can you tell me why?
W,Actually,I didn’t want to move,It would be more expensive to live outside the college,But I just can’t bear the noise made by the people living next door.
Q,Why does the woman want to move?
5. M,You can get a lot of practice in giving up tickets and handling hotel reservations,Later on,you can take telephone calls.
W,That’s great! Thanks,Mr,Thomson,I’ll come to work tomorrow.
Q,Where will the woman probably be working?
6. M,Please make 20 copies of this and deliver them to the chief executive and heads of departments.
W,Certainly,sir,They will find it on their desks tomorrow morning.
Q,What is the probable relationship between the two speakers?
7. W,Did you go shopping this afternoon?
M,Yes,but all I got was a sore foot.
Q,What does the man mean?
8. W,This school is lucky to have a teacher as good as Prof,Helen Johnson.
M,She is one in a million.
Q,What does the man mean?
9. M,I heard your daughter sing at the school concert last night,She has a lovely voice,I must say.
W,Thank you,but I don’t know where she gets it.
Q,What does the woman probably mean?
10. W,Why are you so tired and upset?
M,I’ve been taking the history course this term,But the trouble is that I’ll never get through the reading list.
Q,Why is the man worried?
Section B
Passage One
The time is 7 o’clock,and this is Amely Brown with the news,The German authorities are sending investigators to discover the cause of the plane crash late yesterday on the Island of Tenariff,The plane,a Boeing 727 taking German holiday makers to the island crashed into a hill side as it circled for preparing to land,The plane was carrying 180 passengers,It is thought there are no survivors,Rescue workers are at the scene.
The 500 U.K,motors workers who had bent on strike in High Town for the past 3 weeks went back to work this morning,This follows successful talks between management and union representatives,which resulted in a new agreement on working hours,A spokesman for the management said that they hoped they could now get back to producing cars and they lost a lot of money and orders over this dispute.
And finally,the weather,After a cold starts,most of the country shall be warm and sunny,But towards late afternoon,rain will spread from Scotland to cover most parts by midnight.
Questions 11 to 14 are based on the passage you have just heard.
11. When was the news broadcast?
12. What is the first news item about?
13. Why did the workers go on strike?
14. What do you think of the weather that day?
Passage Two
When I arrived in American three years ago,I was surprised by the tremendous amount of advertising,But now I’ve come to realize that it is a creative and necessary part of an industrial society,I,too,want to improve my life style and to buy better products,I look to advertising to show me how to do it,Deciding what to believe in an advertising,however,isn’t easy,It seems to me that a person must purchase things with a lot of care,As a consumer,I want to get the best for my money,So I really have to understand the techniques of advertising,Otherwise,manufactures may be able to sell anything,whatever its quality may be,The creative aspects of advertisement,for instance,often cover up the defects or problems in products,I have learned this well,since I have made purchases and lost money because the items were of poor quality,The future advertising most likely will involve more public participation,In the future,if consumers really care about the quality of something as well as the quantity,maybe advertisers will begin to care more about what they are trying to sell.
Questions 15 to 17 are based on the passage you have just heard.
15. What do we learn about the speaker?
16. What’s the speaker’s impression of the advertisement in America when he first arrived there?
17. What does the speaker think future advertisers should do?
Passage Three
After years of study,I have determined there are only two types of people in this world,those who get to the airport early and those who walk in just as the plane is about to take off,If there were any justice in the world,the early airport people would be rewarded for doing the right thing and the late airport people would be punished,But there is no justice,I know I have been an early airport person for years,My luggage will get on the plane first but it will be the last luggage to come off the plane when we land,You know who really gets his luggage first when we land? The late airport person,who rushes into the airport three minutes before the plane takes off.,But if I get there real early,” I told myself,“I will get the best seat.” Well,no matter how early I showed up,I was always told that someone had called two or three days ahead of me and asked for that seat,The utmost embarrassment of the early airport person happened to me a few years age when I was flying from New York to Chicago,When I got to the ticket counter,the person there said,“Sir,you have a seat on the 9:15 a.m,flight,is that right?”,Yes,” I said.,Well,it’s only 7:00 a.m,and the 7:05 a.m,flight has not left yet,If you hurry you can make it.” I was too embarrassed to say that I arrived early so I wouldn’t have to hurry,Instead,I ran down the corridor to the plane.
Questions 18 to 20 are based on the passage you have just heard.
18. What does the speaker say about the early airport person?
19. What usually happens to the late airport person?
20. What made the speaker feel embarrassed?
1995年1月大学英语六级(CET-6)真题试卷
Part I Listening Comprehension (20 minutes)
Section A
1. A) She was given a new job.
B) She was given a raise.
C) She was criticized for being late.
D) She was praised for her hard work.
2. A) Whether to employ the woman.
B) Whether to take up the new job.
C) Whether to ask for a raise.
D) Whether to buy a new house.
3. A) A teacher.
B) A psychologist.
C) A librarian.
D) A publisher.
4. A) To visit more places in the city.
B) To take a lot of pictures of the beautiful city.
C) To take some pictures of his friends.
D) To spare some time to meet his friends.
5. A) In town.
B) Out of town.
C) In the man’s house.
D) Outside Ann’s house.
6. A) Because she feels very hot in the room.
B) Because she wants to avoid meeting people.
C) Because she wants to smoke a cigarette outside.
D) Because she doesn’t like the smell of smoke inside.
7. A) Painters hired by the man and woman.
B) Painters hired by Mr,Jones.
C) Mr,Jones.
D) The man and the woman.
8. A) The woman enjoyed the movie very much.
B) The woman saw a horror movie.
C) The man asked the woman to be careful at night.
D) The man went to the show with the woman.
9. A) He doesn’t write well enough.
B) He is not a professional writer.
C) He hasn’t got any professional experience.
D) He didn’t perform well in the interview.
10. A) He doesn’t think it necessary to refuel the car.
B) He can manage to get the gasoline they need.
C) He hopes the woman will help him select a fuel.
D) He thinks it is difficult to get fuel for the car.
Section B
Passage One
Questions 11 to 13 are based on the passage you have just heard.
11. A) Because they can’t afford to.
B) Because they think small houses are more comfortable to live in.
C) Because big houses are usually built in the countryside.
D) Because they prefer apartments.
12. A) Because many young people have moved into comfortable apartments.
B) Because many old houses in the bad part of the town are not inhabited.
C) Because many older people sell their houses after their children leave.
D) Because many people have quit their old house to build new ones.
13. A) They have to do their own maintenance.
B) They have to furnish their own houses.
C) They will find it difficult to make the rest of the payment.
D) They will find it difficult to dispose of their old-style furniture.
Passage Two
Questions 14 to 16 are based on the passage you have just heard.
14. A) They are not active hunters.
B) They don’t sleep much.
C) They are often seen alone.
D) They don’t eat much.
15. A) To catch the birds.
B) To look for shade in the heat of the day.
C) To catch other animals.
D) To look for a kill made by another animal.
16. A) They are larger in size.
B) They have to hunt more to feed the young.
C) They run faster.
D) They are not as lazy as the males.
Passage Three
Questions 17 to 20 are based on the passage you have just heard.
17. A) Less than 30 minutes.
B) From 30 to 45 minutes.
C) At least 45 minutes.
D) More than 45 minutes.
18. A) He should show respect for the interviewer.
B) He should show confidence in himself.
C) He should talk enthusiastically.
D) He should be dressed properly.
19. A) Speaking confidently but not aggressively.
B) Talking loudly to give a lasting impression.
C) Talking a lot about the job.
D) Speaking politely and emotionally.
20. A) Professional knowledge is a decisive factor in job interview.
B) Finding a job is more difficult than one can imagine.
C) A job seeker should create a good image during an interview.
D) Self-confidence is most important for a job seeker.
1995年1月六级参考答案
Part I
1. C
2. B
3. C
4. D
5. A
6. D
7. D
8. B
9. C
10. B
11. A
12. C
13. A
14. A
15. D
16. B
17. B
18. D
19. A
20. C
1995年1月六级听力原文
Section A
1. W,You wanted to see me,Mr,Wright?
M,Yes,Miss Gray,You’ll have to start getting to work on time,or your service will no longer be needed here.
Q,What happened to Miss Gray?
2. M,You know,I’m just not too sure if the new salary will be high enough or even the new position is really what I want,Besides,I like the work that I am doing now.
W,It sounds as though you’ve already made up your mind about what you are going to do.
Q,What is the man thinking about?
3. W,I’m looking for textbook for my Psychology course,It’s called,Introduction to Educational Psychology”,Do you have it?
M,Yes,we do,You’ll find it in Section 24 on the top shelf.
Q,What’s the man’s occupation?
4. W,Oh,this is a beautiful city,I’m really glad I’ve brought my camera.
M,Yes,there are lots of things to take pictures of here,But I hope you will not plan to spend all your time taking pictures,I have some friends who would like to meet you.
Q,What does the man want the woman to do?
5. M,Why are you so sure that Anne didn’t commit the crime?
W,She couldn’t have committed that crime because I was with her,And we were out of town on that day.
Q,Where was the crime most probably committed?
6. M,Isn’t it rather cold outside,Sally?
W,It is a bit,but I can’t stand the terrible smoke inside,I’d rather stay here if you don’t mind.
Q,Why does the woman want to stay outside?
7. W,We’ve lived here in Thornton for 5 years now and I think its time to have the house painted.
M,You’re right,Mr,Johns,our neighbor,just had his house painted,But we cannot afford to do it only if paint it ourselves.
Q,Who is going to paint it ourselves.
8. W,I still can’t get over the show last Saturday evening,I keep having frightening dreams all night.
M,So,next time before you walk into a theatre,make sure what you are going to see.
Q,What do we learn from this conversation?
9. W,How was the job interview? I think you’ll make a good journalist,I remember you as the best writer of the class.
M,Well,in fact,my application was turned down,They were looking for people with experience in the profession.
Q,Why didn’t the man get the job?
10. W,We have to face the fact that it is a little hard to get fuel for the car.
M,Between you and me,I think there is always a way to get around this problem.
Q,What does the man mean?
Section B
Passage One
In the United States,many people once lived in large,two and story homes,Today,many people would like to live in such houses but most people can’t,They don’t have enough money to buy them or even to make the first payment,So,many people rent from month to month,But some Americans really want to live in a house of their own,So they build their own home,They buy a house that is situated in an area where house are cheaper,It is better to reside in a bad part of town,they think,than not to live in a house at all,Or they buy an old house and redesign it,Then they decorate it with old style furniture,Sometimes they can male an old house look more beautiful than a new one,Usually,it is not difficult for people to find an old home to buy,Many older people decide that they don’t need a big home after their children leave,So they sell their house and move into a comfortable apartment,But when people move into a house,they sometimes have problems,Home owners have to do their own maintenance,For example,If the roof leaks,one can not ask the landlord to fix it,On the other hand,people can redesign their homes in any way they want without having to be afraid of being thrown out by the landlord.
Questions 11 to 13 are based on the passage you have just heard.
11. Why don’t many Americans live in large two and three story houses?
12. Why is it easy to find old houses for sale?
13. What problem will people have after they buy a house?
Passage Two
Lions prefer to eat without having to do much work,When resting in the shade,they! Are also watching the sky,And if they see birds fly down,they immediately sense that something must be happening,Even in the heat of the day,They will certainly arise and run a mile across the plains to find out what is going on,If another animal has made a kill,they will drive it off and take the dead animal for themselves,A grown lion can easily consume 60 pounds of meat at a single feeding,Often,they eat until it seems painful for them to lie down,The female lions are leaner and swifter,and as a result,are better hunters than the males,Most kills are made at night or just before dawn,The kill is the most exciting moment in the day-to-day existence of the lions,since these great beasts spend most of their time-about 20 hours a day-sleeping and resting,Lions are also social cats,And during these times of leisure,they love to romp against each other,and the young lions are always playing among themselves and with their parents.
Questions 14 to 16 are based on the passage you have just heard.
14. What do we learn about lions from what we have just heard?
15. Why do the lions watch the birds in the sky?
16. Why are the females generally better hunters than the males?
Passage Three
To be successful in a job interview,you should demonstrate certain personal and professional qualities,You need to create a good image in the limited time available,usually from 30 to 45 minutes,You must make a positive impression which the interviewer will remember while he interviews other candidates,The following are some qualities you should especially pay attention to during an interview,First of all,you should take care to appear to be properly dressed,The right clothes worn at the right time can win respect of the interviewer and his confidence in your judgement,It may not be true that clothes you wear,Secondly,you should pay close attention to your manner of speaking,since speech is a reflection of personality,You should reflect confidence by speaking in a clear voice,loud enough to be heard,without being aggressive or overpowering,You should be prepared to talk knowledgeably about the requirements of the position you are applying for,Finally,to be really impressive you must convey a sense of self-confidence and enthusiasm for work,If you display these characteristics,with just a little luck,you’ll certainly succeed in the typical personnel interview.
Questions 17 to 20 are based on the passage you have just heard.
17. How long does an interview usually last according to the speaker?
18. How can one give the interviewer a good first impression?
19. What should be the best manner of speaking for a job-seeker during an interview?
20. What is the main idea of the short talk you have just heard?
1995年6月大学英语六级(CET-6)真题试卷
Part I Listening Comprehension (20 minutes)
Section A
1. A) Enjoyable.
B) Inspiring.
C) Moving.
D) Dull.
2. A) It will take about one month to repair the watch.
B) The woman should have saved more money.
C) It is a good idea to keep the old watch.
D) The watch is no longer worth repairing.
3. A) Arguing.
B) Protesting.
C) Complaining.
D) Bargaining.
4. A) Families with cars.
B) American’s heavy dependence on cars.
C) Roads and highways.
D) Traffic problems in America.
5. A) The apples and pears might not be so good.
B) The apples are not as good as the pears.
C) The apples and pears are very good.
D) The apples and pears are as good as they look.
6. A) Her teaching assistant would grade the exam papers.
B) She would collect the exam papers herself.
C) She would mark the exam papers herself.
D) She would not give her students an exam.
7. A) She could help him with the problems.
B) He should go out for while.
C) She could go out together with him.
D) He should do the problems himself.
8. A) Customer and salesman.
B) Colleagues.
C) Employee and boss.
D) Classmates.
9. A) The first house they saw is too expensive.
B) They may save some money for the time being.
C) She is happy with the price set by the seller.
D) Less money will be spent in maintaining the house.
10. A) It was probably Mr,Brown’s phone number that the woman wrote down.
B) It was just an hour ago that the man met Mr,Brown.
C) The woman forgot to write down the phone number.
D) The woman needed a sheet of paper to put down the number.
Section B
Passage One
Questions 11 to 13 are based on the passage you have just heard.
11. A) Because they were driven by steam power.
B) Because they did the work that animals used to do.
C) Because they pulled cars full of coal.
D) Because they were made of iron.
12. A) He wanted the railroad to be successful.
B) He wanted to have a more powerful steam engine.
C) He wanted to own the land near the railroad.
D) He wanted to build his own railroads.
13. A) Because the train could not run as fast as the horse.
B) Because the engine failed to build up steam.
C) Because the engine broke down and the train stopped.
D) Because the engine broke into several parts.
Passage Two
Questions 14 to 16 are based on the passage you have just heard.
14. A) Love.
B) Conflict.
C) Violence.
D) Mystery.
15. A) The main character remains the same.
B) The main character dies in the end.
C) The main character gains his ends.
D) The main character undergoes a change.
16. A) We can learn how bad persons can improve themselves.
B) We can learn how to deal with people.
C) We can understand life a little better.
D) We can find better ways to cope with conflicts.
Passage Three
Questions 17 to 24 are based on the following passage.
17. A) Because both have a limited supply of air,water,and other resources.
B) Because the Earth moves around the sun as fast as spaceship.
C) Because we can travel to outer space.
D) Because the Earth never stops moving.
18. A) About 80 miles per second.
B) About 70 miles per second.
C) About 18 miles per second.
D) About 17 miles per second.
19. A) Because the Earth is heavily polluted.
B) Because nature cannot recycle its resources.
C) Because there are more and more people living on the Earth.
D) Because no more new resources can be added.
20. A) Nature has changed our environment over the years.
B) We must avoid wasting resources and polluting our environment.
C) Our resources are nearly used up.
D) Trips to other planets will help eliminate pollution.1995年6月六级参考答案
Part I
1. D
2. D
3. C
4. B
5. A
6. C
7. A
8. B
9. D
10. A
11. B
12. A
13. C
14. B
15. D
16. C
17. A
18. C
19. D
20. B
1995年6月六级听力原文
Section A
1. M,I have never seen such an interesting show,I hope you enjoyed it as much as I did.
W,I must admit that I felt sleepy during the two hours.
Q,How did the woman feel about the show?
2. W,I can’t figure out what’s wrong with my watch,It was just a month ago that I had it repaired.
M,Don’t waste your time and money any more,It’s very old watch and it is quite worn out.
Q,What does the man mean?
3. M,Oh,what a morning! You know I had so much work to do and the phone just kept ringing,Three sales people called me this morning.
W,I know how it is,I get a lot of calls,too,even on weekends.
Q,What are the two speakers doing?
4. W,You Americans are funny,It seems as if you were married with cars.
M,Yeah,I guess that’s true,The country is becoming one big highway,I was reading that there are about 4 million miles of roads and highways in this country now.
Q,What are they talking about?
5. W,I intend to buy some fruit for the children,These apples and pears seem to be in season,I’ll get 2 dozen of each.
M,I hope they are as good as they look.
Q,What does the man mean?
6. M,Excuse me,but I didn’t hear clearly what you said,Did you say that your teaching assistant would mark the exam papers?
W,No,I said he would collect the papers,I’ll grade them myself.
Q,What did the woman say about the exam?
7. M,I’m getting absolutely nowhere with Physics problems.
W,How about my going through them with you?
Q,What does the woman mean?
8. W,Hi,Jack,I just came back yesterday,Anything new while I was away?
M,Congratulations,Susan! It’s said you will be promoted to manager and become my immediate boss.
Q,What’s most probably the relationship between the two speakers at the moment?
9. M,Of the two houses we have seen,which one do you think fits our needs better,the first one or the second one?
W,The second one,It seems very expensive,But in the long run,it will save up the money on the maintenance.
Q,What does the woman say about the reason for her choice?
10. W,What a memory I have! I did write down the number on a sheet of paper when I answered the phone this morning,But now the paper has disappeared without any trace.
M,Don’t worry,I’ll be seeing Mr,Brown in an hour.
Q,What do we learn from this conversation?
Section B
Passage One
In the early days of railroads horses pulled the trains,The trains had no engines and no power of their own,Richard Traversic of England invented a steam powered engine in 1840,Soon people were building railroads and steam engines all over the world,Because the steam engine did the work that animals used to do,people called them,Iron Horses”,Peter Copper was a rich American businessman,He owned a lot of land near the Bottomhal and Ohio railroad,He wanted the railroad to be successful,He built his own steam engine to drive along the railroad,Most people traveled in coaches drawn by houses,A coach line challenged Peter Copper to a race.
The day of the race came,At first,the horse was winning the race,Peter Copper’s engine needed time to build up steam,He worked hard to make the train go faster,Soon,he was catching up with the horse,He was going to win the race,Suddenly,one of the parts of the engine broke,The train stopped,The horse rushed ahead,Peter Copper lost the race,Of course,that is not the end of the story,By 1870,railroads extended all across the United States,The Iron Horse had become an important part of American life.
Questions 11 to 13 are based on the passage you have just heard.
11. Why did people call steam engines Iron Horses?
12. Why did Peter Copper build his own steam engine?
13. Why did Peter Copper lose the race?
Passage Two
Hollywood produces many different kinds of films,including mysteries,musicals,love stories and horror films,Different these films may be,They generally have one thing in common conflict,The main character wants something very badly and will do anything to get it,The opponent tries to stop the main character from achieving his goal,This opposition creates conflict and conflict is the heart of drama,To give an example,Let’s say the main character is a young man of humble origin,who wants to marry the beautiful daughter of a rich banker,The father thinks the young man is unworthy of his daughter and he does not allow her to see him,The young man,who is very much in love,refuses to give up without a fight,The conflict between the young man and the girl’s father is what makes the story interesting,It forces the main characters to take action and through their action we see them as they really are,In the good story,the main character changes,He is not the same at the end of the story as he was at the beginning,He learns something from watching her,Good movies not only entertain us,they also help us understand a little more about life.
Questions 14 to 16 are based on the passage you have just heard.
14. What is common to all the films produced in Hollywood?
15. What usually happens to the main character in a good story?
16. What can we learn from good movies?
Passage Three
In a way,all of us are on a spaceship-the planet Earth,We move around the sun at 18 miles per second and never stop,On our spaceship,we have 5 billion people and limited supply of air,water an land,These supplies have to be used carefully because we can’t buy new air,water or land from anywhere else,Environment on our planet is a closed system,Nothing new is ever added,Nature recycles its resources,Water,for example,evaporates and rises as visible drops to form clouds,The same water returns to the earth as rain or snow,The rain that falls today is actually the same water that fell on the land 70 million years ago,Today,the earth is in trouble,Factories pour dirty water into our rivers,many fish and water becomes unhealthy for people to get sick,People throw bottles and paper out of their car windows and roadside becomes covered with all sorts of wastes,Over the years people have changed environment and we have pollution,To continue to survive,we must learn how to use the earth resources wisely,We have to change out habits and stop dropping such enormous amounts of industrial waste into the water and air,We must cooperate with nature and learn better ways to use,not abuse our environment.
Questions 17 to 20 are based on the passage you have just heard.
17. Why does the speaker compare the earth to a spaceship?
18. How fast does the planet Earth travel around the sun?
19. Why does the speaker advise us to use the earth resources wisely?
20. What message is the speaker trying to convey?
1996年1月大学英语六级(CET-6)真题试卷
Part I Listening comprehension (20 minutes)
Section A
1. A) The flight has been canceled.
B) The plane is late.
C) The plane is on time.
D) The tickets for this flight have been sold out.
2. A) He is not to blame.
B) It was his fault.
C) He will accept all responsibility.
D) He will be more careful next time.
3. A) The man is a forgetful person.
B) The typewriter is not new.
C) The man can have the typewriter later.
D) The man misunderstood her.
4. A) There will be heavy fog in all areas.
B) There will be heavy rain by midnight.
C) There will be heavy fog in the east.
D) There will be fog in all areas by midnight.
5. A) She’s scornful.
B) She’s angry.
C) She’s sympathetic.
D) She’s worried.
6. A) He likes the job of a dish-washer because it pays well.
B) He thinks it’s important to have a good job from the beginning.
C) He hates to be a dish-washer because it’s boring.
D) He would work as a dish-washer in summer if he has to.
7. A) She must learn to understand John’s humor better.
B) She enjoys John’s humor a great deal.
C) She doesn’t appreciate John’s humor.
D) She thinks John is not funny enough.
8. A) Joan may have taken a wrong train.
B) Joan will miss the next conference.
C) Joan won’t come to the conference.
D) Joan may be late for the opening speech.
9. A) She has been dismissed for her poor performance.
B) She has been fired by the company.
C) She has been granted leave for one month.
D) She has been offered a new job.
10. A) It will last for two weeks.
B) It has come to a halt.
C) It will end before long.
D) It will probably continue.
Section B
Passage one
Question 11 to 13 are based on the passage you have just heard.
11. A) She was an office worker.
B) She was a physician.
C) She was a cleaner.
D) She was a social worker.
12. A) Because she could not sleep well at night.
B) Because she hoped to earn more money.
C) Because she could not find a daytime job.
D) Because she needed a change and a lighter job.
13. A) She works six nights every fortnight.
B) She does not take part in social activities in her working days.
C) She has been a night nurse in a hospital for about 25 years.
D) She is not satisfied with her present job.
Passage Two
Questions 14 to 17 are based on the passage you have just heard.
14. A) A small town in Britain.
B) A new type of jail.
C) A labour camp.
D) A big gymnasium in Scotland.
15. A) Women criminals in Scotland.
B) Criminals who are given long sentences.
C) Criminals who are given short sentences.
D) Criminals in Scotland.
16. A) The reward the prisoners get for their work.
B) The comfortable accommodation.
C) The way the prisoners are treated.
D) The officers’ sympathy for the prisoners.
17. A) To give the prisoners more freedom.
B) To help the prisoners keep their self-respect.
C) To help the prisoners develop the sense of independence.
D) To turn the prisoners into skilled workers.
Passage Three
Questions 18 to 20 are based on the passage you have just heard.
18. A) On an airplane.
B) Near the terminal building.
C) In a coach to the city.
D) In the waiting room.
19. A) Near the airport hotel.
B) At the travelers’ information desk.
C) Outside the Customs Hall.
D) In the center of the city.
20. A) The departure tax they have to pay on their next international flight.
B) The distance they have to travel from the airport to the city center.
C) The prices the major hotels charge.
D) The place where taxis are waiting to be hired.
1996年1月六级参考答案
Part I
1. B
2. A
3. A
4. D
5. C
6. D
7. C
8. D
9. B
10. D
11. C
12. D
13. B
14. B
15. A
16. C
17. B
18. A
19. C
20. A
1996年1月六级听力原文
1. M,I’m sorry,Madam,the plane is somewhat behind the schedule,Take a seat,I’ll inform you as soon as we know something definite.
W,Thank you,I’d rather look around and I’ll be back in several minutes.
Q,What can be concluded about the plane?
2. W,What an accident! If you’ve been careful,things would not be as they are.
M,What do you mean? It was my fault? If it were,surely I’ll take all responsibility for it.
Q,What does the man mean?
3. M,Isn’t that a new brand of typewriter you’re working at?
W,Oh,Bill,this isn’t the first time you asked me about it.
Q,What does the woman imply?
4. W,It’s nearly ten o’clock,Let’s listen to the weather forecast.
M,Here is the weather forecast,Fog is spreading from the east and it’ll affect all areas by midnight,It will be heavy in some places.
Q,What’s the weather forecast?
5. M,I forgot all about the two o’clock meeting,Tom’s going to kill me.
W,Oh,God! I can see why you are upset,You can really be annoying when something important slips in your mind.
Q,What’s the woman’s attitude towards the man’s forgetfulness?
6. W,Do you know Jane works as a dish-washer at restaurant around the corner?
M,It isn’t a bad job to start with,I wouldn’t mind that job for the summer if no others are available.
Q,What does the man mean?
7. M,John is certainly the funniest person in class,He can always make everyone laugh.
W,I think I still have to get used to his sense of humor.
Q,What does the woman mean?
8. M,Where is Joan? She said she would be here at three,And now it’s three-thirty,She must have missed the train.
W,I think so,but I hope she won’t miss the next one,Otherwise,she should be late for the opening address of the conference.
Q,What’s the woman worried about?
9. M,I’m sorry to tell you that you needn’t come next week,You know sales of our company have been poor recently.
W,I’ve always worked hard,Would you be kind enough to give me a month time so that I can find a new job?
Q,What has happened to the woman?
10. W,The strike of the porters has hold up export orders for two weeks,Do you think it will end soon?
M,So far as I know,the management side has made an improved pay offer but the unions are just holding out for the original demands.
Q,What does the man think of the strike?
Passage One
Miss Susan Brown is 25 years old and has been a night nurse at a hospital since last April,She works 8 nights on 6 nights off from 9:15 at night to 8:00 o’clock the next morning,She worked as an office cleaner before she came to the hospital,for she hadn’t enjoyed that experience at all,It perhaps is surprising that Susan chose to work at night permanently,She felt she needed a change for one thing,and for another,she hoped to eventually to become a head nurse,She has also found that a night nurse’s work is physically less demanding that a cleaner’s,and she can sleep 8 hours during the day,Of course,there are some problems in her daily life,The most serious problem is the headache she get from the dim lighting in the hospital,She doesn’t have time to wash her long hair for 8 working days and she has to learn to pack all her social activities into 6 days out of a fortnight,But on the whole,she feels very happy.
Questions 11 to 13 are based on the passage you have just heard.
11. What job did Miss Susan Brown have before she worked as a night nurse in the hospital?
12. Why did Susan choose to do night work?
13. What does the passage tell us about Susan Brown?
Passage Two
Cottonville is a new prison specially designed for women criminals in Scotland,The 226 prisoners there live in small units of 7 rooms,There is a kitchen where they cook their own meals and a lounge for the fitted carpet and armchairs,The,wake up,wake up” call by loudspeakers at 7:00 every morning is followed by a music program which creates atmosphere of a holiday camp,During the day,most of the prisoners are employed in 3 workshops,making toys or clothing,Their earnings up to 90 pennies a week can be spent in the prison shop,The gymnasium,which also acts as a cinema and concert hall,has facilities for table tennis,basketball and dancing,Prisoners,particularly those of long sentences are encouraged to be independent and take responsibility for themselves and others,This is in many ways much more demanding than simply serving time,Just as the deputy governor of this prison once said,We try to preserve the prisoners’ respect as much as possible by imagining ourselves in their position.” His words explained why this new prison is run in a unique way.
Questions 14 to 17 are based on the passage you have just heard.
14. What’s Cottonville?
15. What kind of people are sent to the prison mentioned in the story?
16. What’s most important in making the prison unique?
17. What’s the purpose of running the prison in this way?
Passage Three
Ladies and gentlemen,we’ve commenced our descend in the Sydney Airport and we’ll depart outside the terminal building about 30 minutes from now,For those of you visiting the city for the first time,I have some information for you,The distance from the airport to the center of Sydney is approximately 10km,Taxis are available,You’ll find taxis right outside the terminal building,The cost of Taxi trip to the city is about 12 Australian dollars,There is the couch service available and the cost of the journey to the city and major hotels is 6 dollars for adults,and 2 dollars and 50 cents for children,There is also the open yellow bus No,300 to the city at a cost of 3 dollars for adults or 1 dollar and 50 cents for children,Banking facilities are available outside the Customs Hall,Hotel booking facilities can be found at the Travelers Information Service,I’d like to remind you when you leave Sydney Airport on the next international flight,you’ll be required to pay a Departure Tax of 10 dollars,Thank you.
Questions 18 to 20 are based on the passage you have just heard.
18. Where is the announcement made?
19. Where are the banking facilities available?
20. What does the announcer finally remind the passengers of?
1996年6月大学英语六级(CET-6)真题试卷
Part I Listening comprehension (20 minutes)
Section A
1. A) To change the tennis shoes in the sportswear department.
B) To help his friend find the right department.
C) To find his lost shoes on the tennis court.
D) To buy himself a pair of tennis shoes.
2. A) They produce part of their own food.
B) They sell their own produce.
C) They feed their family on cheap food.
D) They buy food from farmers.
3. A) Mr,White’s reason for leaving.
B) Mr,White’s new appointment.
C) A vacant position.
D) How to apply for a job.
4. A) Be hostile to Nancy.
B) Ask Nancy to come out.
C) Talk to Nancy herself.
D) Write Nancy a letter.
5. A) To serve as her tour guide.
B) To serve as her bodyguard.
C) To serve as her driver.
D) To serve as her porter.
6. A) He is often asked to go and see exhibits.
B) He would like to go and see the exhibit.
C) He went to see the exhibit last year.
D) He definitely does not want to go.
7. A) The environmental problem.
B) The health problem.
C) The educational problem.
D) The international problem.
8. A) Bob will see Susan tomorrow evening.
B) Bob might be at home late tomorrow evening.
C) Bob and Susan have decided to go on a holiday.
D) Bob asked the woman to come another time.
9. A) They think cinemas are too far away from their homes.
B) They are disappointed with the films produced these days.
C) They both dislike films about adventure stories.
D) They both like the idea of going to the cinema at night.
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Section B
Passage One
Questions 11 to 14 are based on the passage you have just heard.
11. A) Because he was a cook at a country-music club.
B) Because he performed for guests while he worked as a cook.
C) Because he often sang while cooking.
D) Because he liked singing better than cooking.
12. A) His brother.
B) His manager.
C) His father.
D) A businesswoman.
13. A) At a club.
B) On a farm.
C) At a construction site.
D) In a record company.
14. A) His ability to live independently.
B) His sense of responsibility in whatever he did.
C) His courage in the face of rejections.
D) His hard work in his early days.
Passage Two
Questions 15 to 17 are based on the passage you have just heard.
15. A) How to handle spiders.
B) Spiders in the United States.
C) People’s fear of spiders.
D) A special kind of spider.
16. A) Most spiders will not bite even when handled.
B) Most spiders are poisonous and dangerous.
C) Most spiders are likely to attack people.
D) Most spiders have sharp eyes.
17. A) Because she cannot find a husband for herself.
B) Because the female spider is larger than the male one.
C) Because the female spider often eats her husband.
D) Because she is a black female spider.
Passage Three
Questions 18 to 20 are be on the passage you have just heard
18. A) Instructions.
B) Medicine.
C) Money.
D) The draft of his speech.
19. A) Because she had to type Mr,Bascomb’s speech.
B) Because she had a headache.
C) Because she had to meet some businessmen.
D) Because she had to get her car fixed.
20. A) The problem of the city.
B) Himself and his problems.
C) Things he had planned to say to his audience.
D) The plan for his future work as mayor.1996年6月六级参考答案
Part I
1. D
2. A
3. C
4. C
5. A
6. D
7. A
8. B
9. B
10. C
11. B
12. D
13. A
14. B
15. B
16. A
17. C
18. C
19. D
20. B
1996年6月六级听力原文
1. M,Could you please tell where I can find tennis shoes?
W,Yes,You can get them in the sportswear department on the right side of the store.
Q,What does the man want to do?
2. M,How do you manage to feed your family when food prices are so high?
W,We have a garden and some fruit trees,and we raise some fish in the small pond.
Q,What does the woman’s family do about the high cost of food?
3. M,I hear that Mr,Wright has left,Has anybody been appointed to take his place?
W,I believe several men applied for the job but nothing has been decided yet.
Q,What are the speakers talking about?
4. W,I really want to know why Nancy is always so hostile toward me.
M,Did you ever think of just coming right out and asking her?
Q,What does the man think the woman should do?
5. W,It is exciting just to think about it! It’ll be my first trip to Hawaii,But I may have trouble finding my way around there when I’m there.
M,Don’t worry about that,Just give me a call when you arrive,I’ll be glad to show you around.
Q,what does the man offer to do for the woman?
6. W,Would you like to go and see the new exhibit with us?
M,That’s the last thing in the world I ever want to do.
Q,What does the man mean?
7. W,I wonder of our children will still be able to breath the clean air,drink clean water and see the blue sky.
M,I agree with you,I think it’s time man learned to live in harmony with the earth instead of just exploiting it.
Q,What are they talking about?
8. W,Bob,can I come to see you at your home tomorrow evening?
M,Sure,Susan and I have sort half decided to go swimming late tomorrow afternoon,So give me a ring before you come,OK?
Q,What can we learn from the conversation?
9. M,I used to go to the cinema a lot,It did make a nice night out,but not now.
W,No,I don’t either,There aren’t any good adventurous stories like the movies they made when I was young.
Q,What can be concluded from this conversation?
10. M,How did your company do from July to September?
W,The sales dropped during July but increased steadily from August to September.
Q,Which graph do you think corresponds to the woman’ reply?
Passage One
I grew up in a small town,My father raised chickens and ran a construction company,I was barely 10 years old when dad gave me the responsibility of feeding the chickens and cleaning up the stable,He believed it was important to me to have those jobs to learn responsibility and moods,Then,when I was 22,I found a job in Nashville at a country music sub-club called,The Nashville Palace,,I washed dishes and cooked from 4:00p.m,to 9:00p.m,and then went on stage and sand until 2:00 in the morning,It wasn’t long before I became known as a singing cook,I had been rejected so many times by record companies that it was hard not to be discouraged,One night,a woman executive from a company named Warner Brothers Records came to hear me sing,When the show was over,we sat down and talked and after she left,I said to myself it was one more rejection,A few weeks later,my manager received a phone call- Warner Brothers wanted to sign me to a record deal,Soon after,I released my first record in June,1986,It sold over 2 million copies,My best efforts had gone into every job I ever held,It was the sense of responsibility that made me feel like a man,Knowing that I had done my best filled me with pride,I still feel that way today,even though I have become a well-known singer.
Questions 11 to 14 are based on the passage you have just heard.
11. Why was the speaker once known as the singing cook?
12. Who first recognized his talents and offered him a big deal?
13. Where did the speaker work just before he became a professional singer?
14. What made the speaker proud of himself?
Passage Two
You should not fear spiders because of their poison,Of all the spiders in North America,only one kind is really dangerous and most would not bite even if they were handled,They much prefer to run away or to drop to the ground on a thread of silk,Even so,when a spider runs directly toward a person,it gives the impression that it is about to attack,Actually,it cannot see the person in its way,The spider is too short-sighted to see things at a distance,It only wants to go where it won’t be disturbed,In the United States one kind of spider is responsible for the frightening reputation of the rest,It is the Black Widow,so called because the female,which is larger than the male,often eats her husband after making love,The Black Widow is found in all states but is most common in the south and the west,She constructs a loose,irregular web under a pile of ruins or near the foundations of buildings where she is seldom disturbed,She is not an attacking spider and many people have proven this by letting her crawl over their hands,When she bites,it is usually in self-defense,In spite of the stories you may have heard,it is rare for a person to be bitten by a Black Widow and even more unusual for the bite to prove fatal,But remember that her poison is powerful and even though she is shy,she should be respected.
Questions 15 to 17 are based on the passage you have just heard.
15. What is this passage mainly about?
16. What do we learn about the spiders from the passage?
17. Why is the spider you just heard about called the Black Widow?
Passage Three
Mr,Bascomb was upset,At time like this he wished he had never become a candidate for mayor,Everything had gone wrong that morning,Even before leaving the house,he had received a telephone call from his election campaign manager asking for money,This made him angry and he left the house in a bad mood,When Mr,Bascomb arrived at the office,he could feel his head swinging,He reached for medicine but the bottle was empty,He had forgotten to pick up some medicine at the drug store,Mr,Bascomb looked at his watch,He was to deliver a campaign speech before a group of business men at the club at 11 o’clock,He had given a rough draft of his speech to Barbara the day before and asked her to type it out for him,Just then,the telephone rang,It was Barbara,She explained that her car had broken down and she couldn’t be at work until 12 o’clock,Mr,Bascomb was desperate,He didn’t know what to do,He was very nervous when he arrived at the club,He couldn’t remember anything he had planned to say to his audience,He started talking about himself and his problems instead of talking about the problems of the city,Most of the people in the audience were bored,By the time Mr,Bascomb finished his speech,almost everyone had fallen into sleep or left the room.
Questions 18 to 20 are based on the passage you have just heard.
18. What did Mr,Bascomb’s election campaign manager ask for?
19. Why couldn’t Barbara come to work before 12 o’clock?
20. What did Mr,Bascomb talk about at the club?
1997年1月大学英语六级(CET-6)真题试卷
Part I Listening Comprehension (20 minutes)
Section A
1. A) Their parents cut back the loan.
B) The woman doesn’t want Frank to take another English course.
C) They can’t pay the rent this month.
D) The woman’s boss refused to give her a raise.
2. A) Ask Dr,Smith to alter his decision.
B) Ask Dr,Smith to call the library.
C) Get the book directly from Dr,Smith.
D) Get Dr,Smith’s written permission.
3. A) $120
B) $108
C) $90
D) $40
4. A) He feels unsympathetic.
B) He feels it’s a pity.
C) He feels it’s unfair.
D) He feels glad.
5. A) Doing business.
B) Taking pictures.
C) Buying cameras.
D) Making movies.
6. A) Looking for an apartment.
B) Looking for a job.
C) Taking a suburban excursion.
D) Asking the man for his opinions.
7. A) She’ll go to her uncle’s.
B) She has an appointment with her friend.
C) She’ll have an appointment with her friend.
D) She’ll have a visitor.
8. A) He made a sudden turn.
B) He drove the bus over a bicycle.
C) He tried to avoid hitting the truck.
D) He was driving too fast.
9. A) He is curious.
B) He is impatient.
C) He is exhausted.
D) He is satisfied.
10. A) She didn’t know how to use the new oven.
B) She wanted her refrigerator to be fixed.
C) There is something wrong with the oven.
D) There is something wrong with the food.
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 must choose the best answer from the four choices marked A),B),C) and D),Then mark the corresponding letter on the Answer Sheet with a single line through the centre.
Passage One
Questions 11 to 13 are based on the passage you have just heard.
11. A) Because he led his teams to many championships.
B) Because he set as many as 65 different records.
C) Because he still played the game after he retired.
D) Because he didn’t stop playing even when he was seriously injured.
12. A) He lost the final chance to win a championship.
B) He was knocked out during one contest.
C) He broke a bone in the wrist during a match.
D) He was awarded with a $1.5 million house.
13. A) To break the previous records.
B) To buy a luxury house.
C) To win one more championship for his team.
D) To play against the New York team once again.
Passage Two
Questions 14 to 16 are based on the passage you have just heard.
14. A) To enjoy a good story.
B) To see the actors and actresses.
C) To experience an exciting life.
D) To escape their everyday life.
15. A) They feel that everything on the screen is familiar to them.
B) They are touched by the life stories of the actors and actresses.
C) They try to turn their dreams into reality.
D) They become so involved that they forget their own problems.
16. A) Because they are well made and the stories are interesting.
B) Because the heroes have to cope with many problems and frustrations.
C) Because the characters in the movies are free to do whatever they like.
D) Because good guys in the movies always win in the end.
Passage Three
Questions 17 to 20 are based on the passage you have just heard.
17. A) Because the bottle was empty and useless.
B) Because he wanted to lighten the load of his small plane.
C) Because the bottle might be useful to the native Africans.
D) Because he wanted to amuse the local tribes people.
18. A) A message from the outside world.
B) A warning from the gods.
C) A symbol of misfortune.
D) A gift from the gods.
19. A) The local Africans are peace loving people.
B) Soda bottles are very precious in some remote areas.
C) A trivial thing may sometimes bring about undesirable consequences.
D) Caution must be taken in introducing new technology.
20. A) They thought that the gods were all crazy.
B) They were isolated from the outside world.
C) They enjoyed living in the peaceful desert.
D) They worshipped the gods all the more after the incident.
1997年1月六级参考答案
Part I Listening Comprehension
1. C
2. D
3. B
4. A
5. D
6. A
7. D
8. A
9. B
10. C
11. B
12. C
13. C
14. D
15. D
16. A
17. A
18. D
19. C
20. B
1997年1月六级听力原文
1. W,Frank,we’ve got a problem,We don’t have enough money to pay the rent this month,I think I’d better ask Mon and Dad for a loan,or ask my boss for a raise.
M,Well,I don’t know,But maybe I’d better not take another English course this semester.
Q,What’s the problem they are talking about?
2. M,May I take this book out? I need it work on my paper for Dr,Smith’s history class.
W,I’m afraid not,The book has been put on reserve by Dr,Smith,Unless you have his written permission,we won’t lend it out.
Q,What should the man do to borrow the book?
3. M,I’ll have these shoes,Please tell me how much I owe you.
W,They are 40 dollars a pair,and 3 pairs make a total of 120 dollars,But today we offer a 10% discount.
Q,How much does the man have to pay?
4. W,By the way,did you hear that Jack failed the mid-term English exam? It’s too bad because it’ll disqualify him for next year’s scholarship.
M,He deserved it,He’s never really studied since last semester.
Q,How does the man feel about Jack’s failing the exam?
5. W,Do you let people know when you are taking pictures of them.
M,I try not to,I don’t like pictures of people who pose for the camera,I like people who are going about their daily business without being aware of the camera.
Q,What are they talking about?
6. M,It’s nice and quiet here,away from the dust and noise of city,And our apartments are new and well-furnished.
W,It’s a good place except it is a bit far from the place where we work,Anyway,I’ll talk with my husband tonight and give you a call tomorrow.
Q,What is the woman doing?
7. M,Friday is a public holiday,Shall we spend our weekend in New York? We could leave Thursday night.
W,I’d rather go on Friday,My uncle will drop in on Thursday evening,I haven’t met him for several years,you know.
Q,why can’t the women go on Thursday?
8. W,Mr,Wilson,you said you saw the bus crash into the truck,Do you know what caused the accident?
M,I saw a boy riding his bicycle in the street,The bus driver tried to avoid biting him,He made a sudden turn and lost control the bus.
Q,What caused the bus driver to loss control of the bus?
9. M,This is ridiculous! I’ve been waiting for my meal for more than half an hour.
W,I know,But you see,the restaurant is full and we are short-handed today.
Q,How does the man feel?
10. M,Yes,Mrs,Smith,What can I do for you? Is it the refrigerator again?
W,No,it is the oven this time,I think something is wrong with the temperature control,Whatever I try to cook gets burned.
Q,Why does the woman call the man?
Passage One
Wilt Chamberlain is retired now,hut used to be a famous basketball player,He has set 65 different records,and still holds many of them,During the final years of his career,he drew a large salary and became very wealthy,He even built himself a 1.5 million dollar house,Yet,despite his personal success,he led his term to only one championship,His teams often won enough games to qualify for the final rounds,but they almost always lost in the finals,As a result,Wilt became determined to win one more championship before he retired.
In 1972,while Wilt was playing against a New York team,he fell down and hit his wrist on the floor,He felt the pain immediately and knew that he had hurt himself badly,When a doctor examined Wilt,the doctor confirmed Wilt’s fears,The doctor told Wilt that he had broken a bone in the wrist and that he could not pay any more.
Wilt ignored his doctor’s advice,The next night,with his many fans watching in amazement,he not only played the entire game but he was outstanding,His team won the game and the championship,Wilt had his wish—to be a winner one last time.
Questions 11 to 13 are based on the passage you have just heard.
11. Why was Wilt Chamberlain considered a famous basketball player?
12. What happened to Wilt Chamberlain in 1972?
13. Why was Wilt Chamberlain determined to do before he retired?
Passage Two
Movies are the most popular form of entertainment for millions of Americans,They go to the movies to escape their normal everyday existence and to experience a life more exciting than their own,They may choose to see a particular film because they like the actor or because they’ve heard the film has a good story,But the main reason why people go to the movies is to escape,Sitting in a dark theatre,watching the images on the screen,they entered another world that is very real to them,They become involved in the lives of the characters in the movie,and for two hours,they forget all about their own problems,They are in a dream world where things often appear to be more romantic and beautiful than in real life,The biggest,dream factories” are in Hollywood,the capital of film industry,Each year,Hollywood studios make hundreds of movies that are shown allover the world.
American movies are popular because they tell interesting stories and they are well—made,They provide the public with heroes who do things the average person would like to do but often can’t,People have to cope with many problems and frustrations in their life,so they feel encouraged when they see,the good guys” win in the movies.
Questions 14 to 16 are based on the passage you have just heard.
14. What’s the main reason for the Americans to go to the movies?
15. How do people usually respond when they are watching movies?
16. Why are Americans movies so popular?
Passage Three
A recent film,The Gods Must Be Crazy” described the social change that can result in a society from the introduction of a single item from the outside world,While a pilot was fling in a light plane over a remote desert in South Africa,he finished the soda he was drinking and threw the bottle out of the window,It fell to the ground in an area where an African tribe lived,The people there had almost no possession or sense of private property,No one in this small,remote society had seen a soda bottle before,And,because it came from the sky,they believed that it must be a unique gift from the gods,When the bottle was first found,it was something new and people of all ages enjoyed admiring it,playing with it,and thinking about its purpose,It was not long,however,before arguments and conflicts arose among group members about who would possess the bottle and for what purpose,They harmony of this peaceful society was disturbed by the introduction of a new item of technology,And,as it was told in the film,ties of affection were broken,and people’s trust in each other disappeared.
Questions 17 to 20 are based on the passage you have just heard.
17. Why did the pilot throw the soda bottle out of his plane window?
18. What did the local people think the soda bottle was?
19. What is the main idea of the story?
20. What do we know about the local people in the story?
1997年6月大学英语六级(CET-6)真题试卷
Part I Listening comprehension (20 minutes)
Section A
1. A) On Thursday night.
B) On Monday night.
C) On Friday morning.
D) On Thursday morning
2. A) Try to help him find rooms in another hotel.
B) Check to see if there are any vacancies in her hotel.
C) Let him move to a room with two single beds.
D) Show him the way to Imperial Hotel.
3. A) Robust.
B) Brave.
C) Generous.
D) Dangerous.
4. A) He loves his present job.
B) He is going to open a store.
C) He is about to retire.
D) He works in a repair shop.
5. A) She has confidence in him.
B) She has also won a scholarship.
C) She is surprised at the news.
D) She is not interested in the news.
6. A) His only son is dying.
B) His mother died some time ago.
C) He didn’t like after his sick wife.
D) He hasn’t taken good care of his son.
7. A) At the airport.
B) In a travel agency.
C) In a hotel.
D) At the reception desk.
8. A) He is not equal to the job.
B) He is not well paid for his work.
C) He doesn’t think the job is challenging enough.
D) He cannot keep his mind on his work.
9. A) The talks haven’t started yet.
B) The talks haven’t achieved much.
C) The talks have produced a general agreement.
D) The talks broke down and could go to further.
10. A) Help him to carry some luggage.
B) Get some travel information.
C) Tell him the way to the left luggage office.
D) Look after something for him.
Section B
Passage One
Questions 11 to 13 are based on the passage you have just heard.
11. A) Crowded air traffic.
B) The large size of airplanes.
C) Mistakes by air traffic controllers.
D) Bad weather.
12. A) They bumped into each other over a swimming pool.
B) They avoided each other by turning in different directions.
C) They narrowly escaped crashing into each other.
D) One plane climbed above the other at the critical moment.
13. A) To show the key role played by air traffic controllers.
B) To show the great responsibility shouldered by the pilots.
C) To give an example of air disasters.
D) To show that air travel is far safer than driving a car.
Passage Two
Questions 14 to 17 are based on the passage you have just heard.
14. A) Her unique experience.
B) Her future prospects.
C) Her favorite job.
D) Her lonely life.
15. A) Authority.
B) A good relationship.
C) Good luck.
D) Independence.
16. A) She will live an empty life.
B) She will work in a bookstore.
C) She will remain single.
D) She will earn a lot of money.
17. A) She should find a good job.
B) She should open a small restaurant.
C) She should have more control over her life.
D) She should get married.
Passage Three
Questions 18 to 20 are based on the passage you have just heard.
18. A) In day-care centers where little children were taken care of.
B) In areas in Chicago poor people lived.
C) In places where hot lunch was provided for factory workers.
D) In schools where free classes were organized for young people.
19. A) For young people and adults.
B) For immigrants.
C) For factory works.
D) For poor city children.
20. A) Jane Adams’ contributions to society.
B) Jane Adams’ struggle for women’s liberation.
C) Jane Adams’ life story.
D) Jane Adams’ responsibility for the poor.
1997年6月六级参考答案
Part I
1. A
2. A
3. B
4. C
5. A
6. D
7. B
8. C
9. B
10. D
11. C
12. C
13. A
14. B
15. D
16. D
17. D
18. B
19. D
20. A
1997年6月六级听力原文
1. W,Good morning,I’m here to see Mr,Adison.
M,Mr,Adison went to Washington last Monday for a conference and he will be back on Thursday night,If you like,you may come again on Friday morning?
Q,When will Mr,Adison return?
2. M,I wonder whether it would be possible to change this double room to two single rooms.
W,Sorry,sir,All the single rooms are occupied,But if you like,I can check with Imperial Hotel to see if they have any.
Q,What’s the woman going to do for the man?
3. M,Bill was a great guy,He was drowned while rescuing a child from the icy water of the river yesterday.
W,Well,as far as I know,that was not the first dangerous situation he was in.
Q,Which of the following best describes Bill?
4. W,It’s good to see you again,What are you doing these days? You’re still working at the same place,aren’t you?
M,Yes,I am,And I’m counting the days until retirement?
Q,What can we learn about the man?
5. M,Susan,have you read the notice on the bulletin board? I’ve won the scholarship for the next semester.
W,I know you would,You certainly deserve it.
Q,What does the woman mean?
6. M,What kind of father am I? My only son almost died and I didn’t even know he was ill.
W,Don’t blame yourself,You are too busy to pay attention to him,If his mother were still alive,things would have been much better.
Q,Why does the man blame himself?
7. M,I’ve just got back from the holiday you arranged for me,But I must tell you the hotel was really awful,It was miles from the sea,The food was awful too,The bedroom was dirty.
W,Sorry about that,But it’s not really our fault,The contract does say that the hotel accommodation is not our responsibility.
Q,Where is this conversation probably taking place?
8. W,Suppose the company offer you a pay raise of 50%,would you be so determined to leave and look for a job as well?
M,Yes,I’ve set my mind down on it,I’d like to find a job with full scope to show my ability.
Q,Why has the man decided to leave the company?
9. M,How are their talks going on? Have reached any agreement?
W,They only seem to have agreed to set another date for further talks.
Q,What can we infer from the conversation?
10. M,Excuse me,Madame,could I leave this here for a few hours,please?
W,Well,it’s a bit-er-unusual,isn’t it? Why not go to the left-luggage office over there?
Q,What does the man ask the woman to do?
Passage One
Today,air travel is far safer than driving a car on a busy motorway,But there is the danger that grows every year,From the moment the airplane takes off to the moment it lands,every movement is watched on radar screens,Air traffic controllers tell the pilot exactly when to turn,when to climb and when to come down,The air traffic controllers around the busy airport may handle 1,000 planes a day,Any plane that flies near the airport comes under the orders of the controllers there,Even a small mistake on their part could cause a disaster,Recently,such a disaster almost happened,Two large jets were flying towards the airport,One was carrying 69 passengers and had come from Toronto; the other was carrying 176 passengers from Chicago,An air traffic controller noticed on his radar screen that the two planes were too close to each other,He ordered one to turn to the right to climb,but he made a mistake,He ordered the wrong plane to do this,so,instead of turning away from the second plane,The first plane turned towards it,15 seconds later,it flew directly in front of the second plane,They avoided each other by the smallest part of a second,The distance between them was less than that of a large swimming pool,This is an example of the danger that grows every year.
Questions 11 to 13 are based on the passage you have just heard.
11. Which factor can most seriously endanger airplanes according to this passage?
12. What happened to the two large jets?
13. Why were the two large jets specially mentioned?
Passage Two
I’ll still be working,but things would be different,With any luck,I’ll earn more money,But the most important thing will be the job itself and how interesting it is,I mean,I hope I’ll be able to choose the kind of job I do and who I work for,Of course,I like to have more money and more authority that I have now,But I don’t think they are the only thing in life,What I really want is to be more independent than I am now,to have more control over my own life,perhaps to open a small restaurant,or write a book,or something like that,I am not really sure if I’ll ever have children or even if I want to be married,It all depends,of course,I f I meet the right person anything could happen,But I won’t feel that my life is empty and meaningless if I still live alone for 10 years or even 20 years from now,Not at all,My mother was always saying,There is nothing like a good relationship,,But I am not so sure,There is nothing worse than a really bad one either.
Questions 14 to 17 are based on the passage you have just heard.
14. What is the speaker talking about?
15. What does the speaker want most?
16. What will the speaker most probably do in the future?
17. What is the speaker’s mother always suggesting to her?
Passage Three
Jane Adams came from a well-to-do and cultural family,She was so distressed about the misery of poor people that she left her fine home to spend her life in the slums of Chicago,In 1889,she established a settlement house where she initiated many projects such as hot lunch service for factory workers,day care centers for little children,free classes for young people and adults,gymnasium and art gallery,Immigrants and other poor people came to her settlement house for advice and help,as well as for fun,Jane Adams was also active in fighting against the use of child labor and against war,She worked for woman’s right to vote and for improving the situation of the blacks,She initiated country vocation programs for poor city children,Jane Adams had great influence on the development of social work in the United States and in other parts of the world,She promoted the idea of responsibility for the welfare of the poor,Settlement houses of a similar kind were founded in many poor neighborhood to make the lives of the poor more meaningful,In 1931,Jane Adams was awarded the Nobel Prize for what she had done for society.
Questions 18 to 20 are based on the passage you have just heard.
18. Where did Jane Adams spend her life after she left her home?
19. For whom did Jane Adams start the country vocation programs?
20. What’s the passage mainly about?
1998年1月大学英语六级(CET-6)真题试卷
Part I Listening Comprehension (20 minutes)
Section A
1. A) Swimming.
B) Playing tennis.
C) Boating.
D) Playing table tennis.
2. A) She is going to Finland.
B) She has visitors next week.
C) She has guests at her home.
D) She has just visited him this week.
3. A) Get some coins at the cafe.
B) Buy her a cup of coffee at the cafe.
C) Get some coffee from the machine.
D) Try to fix the machine.
4. A) They spent three hundred dollars on their vacation.
B) They drew money than they should have from the bank.
C) They lost their bankbook.
D) They had only three hundred dollars in the bank.
5. A) To find out her position in the company.
B) To apply for a job.
C) To offer her a position in the company.
D) To make an appointment with the sales manager.
6. A) He is surprised.
B) He feels very happy.
C) He is indifferent.
D) He feels very angry.
7. A) He hasn’t cleaned his room since Linda visited him.
B) Linda is the only person who ever comes to see him.
C) He’s been too busy to clean his room.
D) Cleaning is the last thing he wants to do.
8. A) She is a generous woman by nature.
B) It doesn’t have a back cover.
C) She feels the man’s apology is enough.
D) It is no longer of any use to her.
9. A) To remind him of the data he should take to the conference.
B) To see if he is ready for the coming conference.
C) To tell him something about the conference.
D) To help him prepare for the conference.
10. A) The long wait.
B) The broken down computer.
C) The mistakes in her telephone bill.
D) The bad telephone service.
Section B
Passage One
Questions 11 to 13 are based on the passage you have just heard.
11. A) About 45 million.
B) About 50 million.
C) About 5.4 million.
D) About 4.5 million.
12. A) The actors and actresses are not paid for their performance.
B) The actors and actresses only perform in their own communities.
C) They exist only in small communities.
D) They only put on shows that are educational.
13. A) It provides them with the opportunity to watch performances for free.
B) It provides them with the opportunity to make friends.
C) It gives them the chance to do something creative.
D) It gives them a chance to enjoy modern art.
Passage Two
Questions 14 to 16 are based on the passage you have just heard.
14. A) They are usually more clever.
B) They get tired easily.
C) They are more likely to make minor mental errors.
D) They are more skillful in handling equipment.
15. A) It had its limitations.
B) Its results were regarded as final.
C) It was supported by the government.
D) It was not sound theoretically.
16. A) Their lack of concentration resulting from mental stress.
B) The lack of consideration for them in equipment design.
C) The probability of their getting excited easily.
D) Their slowness in responding.
Passage Three
Questions 17 to 20 are based on the passage you have just heard.
17. A) 18 American undergraduates.
B) 18 American postgraduates.
C) 18 overseas undergraduates.
D) 18 overseas postgraduates.
18. A) Family relations.
B) social problems
C) Family planning.
D) Personal matters.
19. A) Red.
B) Blue.
C) Green.
D) Purple.
20. A) The five questions were not well designed.
B) Not all the questionnaires were returned.
C) Only a small number of students were surveyed.
D) Some of the answers to the questionnaire were not valid.
1998年1月六级参考答案
Part I Listening Comprehension
1. B
2. B
3. A
4. B
5. B
6. C
7. A
8. D
9. D
10. A
11. D
12. A
13. C
14. C
15. A
16. B
17. D
18. D
19. B
20. C
1998年1月六级听力原文
1. W,I haven’t had much exercise lately,My only recreation has been watching TV or going to the movies,What do you do for recreation?
M,In summer I like playing tennis instead of swimming and boating,and my favorite sport in the winter is skating.
Q,What is the man’s favorite sport in summer?
2. M,Why don’t you come to our house for dinner some time next week?
W,I’d like to,but we have visitors from Finland,perhaps next week.
Q,Why can’t the woman accept the man’s invitation?
3. W,I’m out of coins for the slot machine,Do you have any?
M,I don’t have any either,But I’ll get some from the cafe.
Q,What does the man offer to do?
4. M,I just got a statement from the bank,It says I’ve drawn $ 300 more than I have in my account.
W,Well,we did spend a lot on our vocation,In fact,we didn’t know exactly how much was in our bank.
Q,What are they talking about?
5. W,Take a seat,Mr,Brown,Could you tell me which position you think most appeals to you?
M,Well,as for me,I prefer to take the post of sales manager if you think I’m qualified.
Q,What’s the man’s purpose in meeting the woman?
6. W,Billy,have you heard the latest news? It appears that we won’t be laid off after all.
M,Oh,somewhat I’m tired of working here anyway.
Q,What’s the man’s reaction to the news the woman told him?
7. W,Your room is a mess,When is the last time you tidied your room?
M,It was when Linda came over,She is been so helpful that I simply can’t do without her.
Q,What does the man mean?
8. M,I’m terribly sorry,Anna,I lost the magazine you lent me the other day.
W,It doesn’t matter,It was a back number any way.
Q,Why doesn’t the woman care about the lost magazine?
9. M,I’m sorry to have kept you waiting for such a long time,I didn’t think the meeting would be so long.
W,That’s all right,Dr,Green,I’ve got the data you required and a few reference books which I think may be useful to your representation at the conference.
Q,What’s purpose of the woman’s visit to the man?
10. W,Excuse me,Sir,I’ve been waiting here for nearly 20 minutes long just to pay my telephone bill.
M,I’m sorry about that,But the computer is down,and everybody has had to wait this afternoon.
Q,What’s the woman complaining about?
Passage One
A community theatre is an important part of almost every city or town in the United States,There are over 2,000 community theatres in the United States today,about 4.5 million people work of perform in these theatres for an audience of more than 50 million people annually,These theatres are amateur organizations and are different from professional theatre companies,A community theatre may have its own building or perform in a school or church hall,The actors and actresses do not receive money for their work in the community theatre,They have other jobs to support themselves instead,Small communities can’t support a full time theatre,They cannot pay actors directors or stage workers,so the theatre participants work for free,One purpose of community theatre is to provide an opportunity for creative work,Many people join in community theatres because they want to perform or to be creative,Several people in a community theatre group were asked why they join,Each one said he or she needed to be creative,to do something original,One man said,I loved to act,it’s the only time I feel a life”,Another said,“I have a very boring job,In the play,I can create something.” One woman said,My whole life is occupied by husband and family,I need something more than that.” Another purpose of community theatre is to educate and improve the community,Theatre is an art that also introduces new ideas to the audience.
Questions 11 to 13 are based on the passage you have just heard.
11. How many people participate in the work of community theatres in the United States?
12. How are community theatres different from professional theatre companies?
13. What opportunity does the community theatre provide to the people in a community?
Passage Two
According to a new study done at the Medical School of University of California at Los Anglos,left handed people may be more likely to have accidents than the right handed,One reason maybe,left hander tend to make minor mental mistakes,In the study of 2000 sailors,those who had more mental errors also had more accidents,and left hander were reported to have more mental errors and more accidents than right hander,The author of the study Jim Watson said,Minor mental mistakes are mistakes that any adults would make when were tired or careless and they could lead to accidents because we lose track of what we are doing,,Paul White,chief of the study program said that he found the study interesting and exciting,But he warned that the conclusions should not be accepted without further investigation,He said the study had limitations,and limitations could have influenced the results,Jim Watson,who is right handed himself,stressed that the study was not an official project and said that the findings cannot be applied to every left hander,He said minor mental mistakes can be regarded as evidence of lack of concentration,But in the past,it was believed that left hander tended to have more accidents largely because most equipment was designed for right hander.
Questions 14 to 16 are based on the passage you have just heard.
14. What is said about left hander in the study?
15. What was said about the study program?
16. What was the traditional explanation of left hander having more accidents?
Passage Three
On 15th,Feb,1989 an instant survey was carried out among 18 overseas postgraduate students,11 students were male and 7 were female,the purpose of the survey was to discover the views of the students on a number of matter so f personal concern,The survey was conducted by means of a questionnaire given to the students to complete,There were five questions,The first question concerned favorite color and the second favorite number,The next 3 questions were all concerned with aspects of marriage,No.3 looked at the ideal age to get married,No.4 examined the qualities looked for in a partner and No.5 asked about the ideal number of children,The main findings were as follows,Blue was the most popular color,This was followed by Green and Purple,There was no real significance in the choice of lucky number,About one third of the students said that they had none,Sixty-one percent of the students selected the age group 26 to 30 years as ideal for marriage,followed by 21 to 25 years,In looking at the most important qualities in an ideal partner,someone hoped the person to be Intelligent,others chose Natural,still others indicated Attractive and Honest,The ideal number of children was 2,followed by 3,It is not easy to reach any definite conclusions based upon such a small sample of students from such widely different backgrounds,However,it is clear that majority favorite of 26 to 30 is the ideal age to get married with an intelligent partner,and producing 2 children.
Questions 17 to 20 are based on the passage you have just heard.
17. Who were involved in this instant survey?
18. What do the 5 questions to be answered focus on?
19. What color was chosen as the most popular in the survey?
20. Why is it difficult to reach any definite conclusions from the survey?
1998年6月大学英语六级(CET-6)真题试卷
Part I Listening Comprehension (20 minutes)
Section A
1. A) He thinks that there won’t be enough sets for everybody.
B) He thinks that the speaker won’t show up.
C) He thinks the seminar won’t be open to the public.
D) He thinks that there might not be any more tickets available.
2. A) Their father is unable to keep his promise.
B) Their father is going on a vacation without her.
C) Their father isn’t telling her the truth.
D) Their father doesn’t want to travel abroad.
3. A) John didn’t pass,although he had tried his best.
B) John did better than he thought he was able to.
C) John got an excellent score,which was unexpected.
D) John was disappointed at his math score.
4. A) The roof of the woman’s house needs to be repaired.
B) The roof of the man’s house has several bad leaks.
C) The woman’s bathroom was badly damaged.
D) The man works for a roofing company.
5. A) Mr,Smith will be replaced if he makes another mistake.
B) Mr,Smith is an admirable chief of the Asian Department.
C) Mr,Smith’s department is more successful than all the others.
D) Mr,Smith is seldom in his office.
6. A) She don’t have a fax machine.
B) She may quit her present job soon.
C) She is tired of her present job.
D) Her phone number has changed.
7. A) Someone has taken her luggage.
B) Her flight is 50 minutes late.
C) Her luggage has been delayed.
D) She can’t find the man she’s been waiting for.
8. A) To do whatever the committee asks him to.
B) To make decisions in agreement with the committee.
C) To run the committee his way.
D) To make himself the committee chairman.
9. A) The woman found the mail box empty.
B) The man is waiting for some important mail.
C) The man has just sent out his application.
D) The woman will write a postcard to her daughter.
10. A) Read the operation manual.
B) Try the buttons one by one.
C) Ask the shop assistant for advice.
D) Make the machine run slowly.
Section B
Passage one
Questions 11 to 14 are based on the passage you have just heard.
11. A) They were drawing pictures.
B) They were watching TV.
C) They were making a telephone call.
D) They were tidying up the drawing room.
12. A) They locked the couple up in the drawing room.
B) They seriously injured the owners of the house.
C) They smashed the TV set and the telephone.
D) They took away sixteen valuable paintings.
13. A) He accused them of the theft.
B) He raised the rents.
C) He refused to prolong their land lease.
D) He forced them to abandon their traditions.
14. A) They wanted to protect the farmers’ interests.
B) They wanted to extend the reservation area for birds.
C) They wanted to steal his valuable paintings.
D) They wanted to drive him away from the island.
Passage Two
Questions 15 to 17 are based on the passage you have just heard.
15. A) Through food.
B) Through air.
C) Through insects.
D) Through body fluids.
16. A) They ran a high fever.
B) They died from excessive bleeding.
C) Their nervous system was damaged.
D) They suffered from heart-attack.
17. A) To see what happened to the survivors of the outbreak.
B) To study animals that can also get infected with the disease.
C) To find out where the virus originates.
D) To look for the plants that could cure the disease.
Passage Three
Questions 18 to 20 are based on the passage you have just heard.
18. A) To determine whether the Earth’s temperature is going up.
B) To study the behavior of some sea animals.
C) To measure the depths of the ocean.
D) To measure the movement of waves in the ocean.
19. A) They were frightened and distressed.
B) They swam away when the speaker was turned on.
C) They swam closer to,examine” the speaker when it was turned off.
D) They didn’t seem to be frightened and kept swimming near the speaker.
20. A) To attract more sea animals to the testing site.
B) To drive dangerous sea animals away from the testing site.
C) To help trace the sea animals being tested.
D) To determine how sea animals communicate with each other.
1998年6月六级参考答案
Part I
1. D
2. A
3. B
4. A
5. A
6. B
7. C
8. C
9. B
10. A
11. B
12. D
13. C
14. A
15. D
16. B
17. C
18. A
19. D
20. C
1998年6月六级听力原文
1. W,Friday’s speaker is supposed to be wonderful,Are you going to attend the seminar on that day?
M,Yes,But I haven’t been able to get the ticket yet,Since the lecture is open to the public,I imagine that the tickets may have already been sold out.
Q,Why is the man afraid he won’t be able to attend the seminar?
2. M,I wonder what makes mother so upset these days.
W,Father is canceling his vocation trip,He promised to take her abroad last year,But the company is asking father to postpone his vocation.
Q,Why is their mother unhappy?
3. W,How did you do on the math exam,John?
M,I barely made it,It was just a passing score but better than I had expected.
Q,What do we learn from the conversation?
4. W,During the last thunder storm I noticed several leaks in my bedroom ceiling and they really caused a mess.
M,Maybe you have some broken tiles,I have the phone number of a good roofing company that could do a good repair job for you at a reasonable price.
Q,What can we conclude from this conversation?
5. W,The report says all the departments are making a profit except the Asian Department.
M,Well,Mr,Smith seems to be the wrong person to head that department,One more step wrong and he would be removed from that office.
Q,What do we learn from the conversation?
6. M,Could you give me your office phone number or fax number so that we can contact each other more often?
W,But I’ve been trying to find a new job in another company,You see,I’ve worked here for 3 years without a raise,That’s unfair to me.
Q,What does the woman mean?
7. W,Could you help me,Sir? My flight got in 15 minutes ago,Everyone else has picked up the luggage but mine hasn’t come through.
M,I’m sorry,Madam,I’ll go and find out if there is any more to come.
Q,What’s the woman’s problem?
8. W,Was Robert elected to the committee?
M,Yes,In fact he was made chairman,But he only agreed to take the job if they let him have the final say.
Q,What does Robert intend to do?
9. M,Has today’s mail arrived? I’m anxious to know about the result of my application.
W,I’ll check the mail box,There is nothing in it but a post-card from our daughter.
Q,What do we learn from this conversation?
10. M,This machine has so many buttons,I can’t figure out which one makes it run.
W,You’d better read the instructions first,Pressing the buttons randomly may cause the machine to break down.
Q,According to the woman,what shall the man do first?
Passage One
It’s 8 o’clock on Tuesday,May 1st,Here is the news,Between the hours of 7:00 and 8:00 P.M,last night,five thieves broke into the country house of Lord and Lady Chest-field on an island,They entered by a window at the rear of the house and surprised the owners who were watching television in the drawing room,After disconnection the telephone and tying up Lord and Lady Chest-field,the thieves escaped with 16 precious paintings,The market value of such art works has been estimated at somewhere around 4 million pounds,Lord and Lady Chest-field were not seriously harmed but have been treated for shock in the hospital,Early this morning a woman with a Scottish accent telephoned the Thames in London to say that the Chest-field Organization for Freedom claim the responsibility for the theft,This is the third time this year that this organization has claimed the responsibility for an act of this kind,The organization defends all the farmers on the island,The farmers were forced to leave their lands when Lord Chest-field,their landlord,refused to renew their traditional lease last year in order to extend the reservation area for birds.
Questions 11 to 14 are based on the passage you have just heard.
11. What were Lord and Lady Chest-field doing when the thieves broke into their house?
12. What did the five thieves do?
13. What did Lord Chest-field do to the farmers?
14. What’s the organizations purpose in breaking into Lord Chest-field’s house?
Passage Two
A deadly infectious outbreak swept through a small city in Zaire,Africa last spring,killing more than one hundred people,The killer was a rare virus that caused most victims to bleed to death,As scientists rushed to control the outbreak,people in the U,S wondered,Could it attack here?”,We are foolish if we think it couldn’t come to our country.” say doctors,The virus can be highly infectious,If you come in contact with a victim’s blood or other body fluids,you can get sick,too,All it takes is one infected person to start such a disease,That’s what scientists believe has happened in Zaire,The healthcare workers who treated the first victims there soon fell ill too,The problem was they had no protective equipment to prevent themselves from being infected,International rescue workers brought equipment to Zaire soon after the out break occurred,Now the disease appears to be under control,One big mystery is that no one knows where the virus comes from or where it wills strike next,Some scientists say that the virus lies inactive in the cells of some kind of plant,insect or other animals,Then it somehow finds a way to infect humans,Scientists are now headed into the jungles of Africa to find out where the virus lives,Once they find the virus,they also hope to find ways to come about it.
Questions 15 to 17 are based on the passage you have just heard.
15. How does the disease mentioned in the passage spread?
16. What happened to most of the victims stroke with this disease?
17. Why are the scientists going to the African jungles?
Passage Three
A team of scientists recently began a project to measure the effects of loud noises on sea animals,If the sounds don’t harm the animals,then the researchers can go ahead with a plan to transmit sound waves through the Pacific Ocean to take earth’s temperature,Sound travels faster through warm water than cold water,By analyzing the speed of sound through the ocean over a time,the scientists will be able to determine if our planet is warming up,The experiment was nearly cancelled more than a year ago because environmental groups feared that the sound will confuse or harm the sea-animals,So,scientists are conducting tests on the animals first,The researchers lowered a loud speaker that emits low frequency sound about 1000 meters beneath the ocean,Scientists at the site transmit sound waves into the ocean,Radio transmitters attached to some of the sea-animals help the researches keep track of the animals’ movements,If sea-animals are distressed by the sounds,they would swim away from the speakers,So far,there aren’t any signs that the animals are being harmed,Researchers at the site noticed that large numbers of sea-animals swim near the speaker whether it was turned on or off,but it is still too soon to know for sure,the scientists admit,The test will continue through September.,If all goes well,” they say,we can begin measuring temperature changes on our planet.
Questions 18 to 20 are based on the passage you have just heard.
18. What is the purpose of analyzing the speed of sound through the Pacific Ocean?
19. What was the reaction of the sea-animals to the sound tests?
20. For what purpose were radio transmitters used?
1999年1月大学英语六级(CET-6)真题试卷
Part I Listening Comprehension (20 minutes)
Section A
1. A) She’s going away for a while.
B) She did well on the test.
C) She worked hard and earned a lot of money.
D) She’s didn’t have to work hard for the exam.
2. A) Susan is fast worker.
B) Susan did Jack’s homework.
C) Susan didn’t do the homework on her own.
D) Susan has not finished her homework.
3. A) He read the cabinet report.
B) He read the newspaper.
C) He listened to a radio report.
D) He’s secretary telephoned him.
4. A) Hurry to the conference.
B) Skip the conference.
C) Take the subway.
D) Take a bus.
5. A) He is confident.
B) He is worried.
C) He is bored.
D) He is angry.
6. A) He used to be a workman himself.
B) He likes to do repairs and make things himself.
C) He is professional builder.
D) He paid workmen to decorate the house.
7. A) The woman doesn’t like jam.
B) The woman forgot where she had left the jar.
C) The man had an accident.
D) The man broke the jar.
8. A) Opinions about the book are varied.
B) The man thinks the book is excellent.
C) You shouldn’t believe everything you read.
D) The woman wonders which newspaper the man is reading.
9. A) It’s quite normal.
B) It’s too high.
C) It’s cheap indeed.
D) It could be cheaper.
10. A) The admission of a patient.
B) Diagnosis of an illness.
C) The old man’s serious condition.
D) Sending for a doctor.
Section B
Passage one
Questions 11 to 14 are based on the passage you have just heard.
11. A) The color of the dog.
B) The price of the dog.
C) Whether the dog will fit the environment.
D) Whether the dog will get along with the other pets in the house.
12. A) It must be trained so it won’t bite.
B) It needs more love and care.
C) It demands more food and space.
D) It must be looked after carefully.
13. A) They are less likely to run away.
B) It’s easier for their masters to train them.
C) They are less likely to be shy with human beings.
D) It’s easier for them to form a relationship with their masters.
Passage Two
Questions 14 to 16 are based on the passage you have just heard.
14. A) They often go for walks at a leisurely pace.
B) They usually have a specific purpose in mind.
C) They like the seaside more than the countryside.
D) They seldom plan their leisure activities in advance.
15. A) Their hardworking spirit.
B) Their patience in waiting for theatre tickets.
C) Their delight in leisure activities.
D) Their enthusiasm and for the arts.
16. A) The Polish people can now spend their leisure time in various ways.
B) The Polish people are fond of walking leisurely in the countryside.
C) The Polish people enjoy picking wild fruit in their leisure time.
D) The Polish people like to spend their holidays abroad.
Passage There
Questions 17 to 20 are based on the passage you have just heard.
17. A) They will be much bigger.
B) They will have more seats.
C) They will have three wheels.
D) They will need intelligent drivers.
18. A) It doesn’t need to be refueled.
B) It will use solar energy as fuel.
C) It will be driven by electrical power.
D) It will be more suitable for long distance travel.
19. A) Passengers in the car may be seated facing on another.
B) The front seats will face forward and the back seats backward.
C) Special seats will be designed for children.
D) More seats will be added.
20. A) Choose the right route.
B) Refuel the car regularly.
C) Start the engine.
D) Tell the computer where to go.
1999年1月六级参考答案
Part I Listening Comprehension
1. B
2. C
3. B
4. D
5. A
6. B
7. D
8. A
9. C
10. C
11. C
12. B
13. D
14. B
15. D
16. A
17. C
18. C
19. A
20. D
1999年1月六级听力原文
Section A
1. M,Congratulations,You certainly did quite well and I must say you deserve that grade.
W,Well,I really studied hard for that exam I’ve been preparing for it for more than a month,Now,I can relax for a while.
Q,Why is the woman so happy?
2. M,It’s hard to believe that Susan has already finished her homework.
W,Well,she copied Jack’s homework and made a few changes.
Q,What does the woman say about Susan?
3. W,Mr,Johnson,have you heard the morning news report? Mill has resigned his post as Prime Minister.
M,I didn’t turn on the radio this morning,but I did see the headlines,If you remember,he threatened to leave the office at the last cabinet meeting.
Q,How did Mr,Johnson learn that the Prime Minister has resigned?
4. M,If you are in hurry,you can take the subway,If you want to go sightseeing,take a bus.
W,Actually,I don’t have to be at the conference before noon.
Q,What will the woman probably do?
5. W,How did your interview go?
M,I couldn’t feel better about it,The questions were very fair and I seemed to find answers for all them.
Q,How does the man feel about the interview?
6. W,I’m very impressed by all the work you’ve done on your house,Mr,Miller,How long have you been working on it?
M,I first became interested in doing things myself several years ago,I’ve been doing something on it every now and then for almost a year now,You know,I couldn’t afford to pay workmen to do it.
Q,What do we learn about Mr,Miller?
7. W,I just made a jar of jam this morning and now I can’t find it any where,Do you know what happened to it?
M,Did you hear a crash,that was it,I’m just as clumsy as ever.
Q,What is the problem?
8. W,I read in the newspaper that the novel you are reading is excellent.
M,I’ve also read some negative reviews.
Q,What can be learned from the conversation?
9. W,John told me he had got a second-hand car,do you know how much he paid for it?
M,Well,he said he paid 800 dollars for it,I think he got a real bargain.
Q,What does the man think of the price of the car?
10. M,Hello,this is doctor Marita from the emergency department,I have a 70-year-old patient with a fractured ankle.
W,OK,send him toward 3.
Q,What are they talking about on the phone?
Section B
Passage One
Most people have had a dog or wanted one as their companion at some time in their lives,If you are thinking of buying a dog,however,you should first decide what sort of companion you need and whether the dog is likely to be happy in the surroundings you can provide,Specialist advice is available to help you choose the most suitable breed of dog,But in part,the decision depends on common sense,Most breeds were originally developed to perform specific tasks,So,if you want a dog to protect you or your house,for example,you should choose a breed that has the right size and characteristics You must also be ready to devote a good deal of time to train the dog when it is young and give it the exercise it needs to throughout its life,unless live in the country and can let it run freely,Dogs are demanding pets,Whereas cats identify with the house and so are content if their place there is secure a dog identifies with its master and consequently wants him to show proof of his affection,The best time to buy a baby-dog is when it is between 6 and 8 weeks old so that it can transfer its affection from its mother to its master,If baby dogs have not established a relationship with the human being until they are over three months old,their strong relationship will always be with dogs,They are likely to be too shy when they are brought out into the world to become good pets.
11. What’s mentioned as a consideration in buying a dog?
12. Why does the speaker say a dog is a more demanding pet than a cat?
13. Why is advised to buy baby dogs under three months old?
Passage Two
People in Poland take their pleasure seriously,They like to have an aim even when spending the time which is entirely their own,During the summer,people start work very early in the morning so that they can finish early and enjoy a leisurely afternoon,It is difficult to imagine Polish people going aimlessly for a walk in the country,though they might go to pick wild fruit,to visit a place of historical importance or to walk 20 KM as a training exercise,They are often admired for their immense enjoyment of the arts,All parks are beautifully cared and are for the use and enjoyment of the people,Quite ordinary people will talk with obvious delight about concerts,There is nearly always a crowd at the door of the theatre,asking for returned tickets,People in Poland now have far more leisure time and more money than ever before,It is therefore possible to spend the weekends in many new ways,Many people now have over 20 days holiday a year,This provides an opportunity for holidays in the country or at the seaside.
14. What is special about the Polish way of spending leisure time?
15. For what does the author admire the Polish people?
16. What do we learn from the passage?
Passage Three
What kind of car will we be driving by the year 2010? Rather different from the type we know today,With the next decade bringing greater change than the past 50 years,the people who will be designing the models of tomorrow believe that environmental problems may well accelerate the pace of the car’s development,The vision is that of a machine with 3 wheels instead of 4,electrically-powered environmentally clean and able to drive itself along intelligent roads,equipped with built-in power supplies,Future cars will pick up the fuel during long journeys from a power source built into the road,or stored in small quantities for travelling in the city,Instead of today’s seating arrangement two in front,two or three behind,all facing forward,the 2010 car will have an interior with adults and children in a family circle,This view of future car based on a much more sophisticated road system,Cars will be automatically controlled by a computer,All the driver will have to do is say where to go and the computer will do the rest,It will become impossible for cars to crash into one another,The technology already exists for the car to become a true automobile.
17. What is the designer’s vision of the cars of tomorrow?
18. What else does the passage tell us about the future car?
19. What is the seating arrangement for future cars?
20. What is the only thing the driver of the future car has to do?
1999年6月大学英语六级(CET-6)真题试卷
Part I Listening Comprehension (20 minutes)
Section A
1. A) The man attended the concert,but didn’t like it.
B) The man was sorry to miss the football game.
C) The man is more interested in football than in classical music.
D) The man was sorry that he didn’t attend the concert.
2. A) Singing loudly.
B) Listening to music.
C) Studying.
D) Talking on the phone.
3. A) She can’t receive any calls.
B) She can’t make any calls.
C) She can do nothing with the phone.
D) She can’t repair the phone.
4. A) Tom is very responsible.
B) Tom’s words aren’t reliable.
C) What Tom said is true.
D) Tom is not humorous at all.
5. A) How to use a camera.
B) How to use a washer.
C) How to use a keyboard.
D) How to use a tape recorder.
6. A) They should put the meeting to an end.
B) They should hold another meeting to discuss the matter.
C) She would like to discuss another item.
D) She wants to discuss the issue again later.
7. A) He believes the Browns have done a sensible thing.
B) He doesn’t think the Browns should move to another place.
C) He doesn’t think the Browns’ investment is a wise move.
D) He believes it is better for the Browns to invest later.
8. A) He may convert it and use it as a restaurant.
B) He may pull it down and build a new restaurant.
C) He may rent it out for use as a restaurant.
D) He may sell it to the owner of a restaurant.
9. A) She doesn’t like the way the professor lectures.
B) She’s having a hard time following the professor’s lectures.
C) She is not interested in course.
D) She’s having difficulty with the heavy reading assignments.
10. A) He never keeps his promises.
B) He is crazy about parties.
C) He has changed his mind.
D) He is not sociable.
Section B Compound Dictation
President Clinton later today joins (S1) ________ presidents Ford,Carter and Bush at,the president’s summit for America’s future” (S2) ________ at recruiting one million volunteer tutors to provide after-school,weekend and summer reading help for up to three million children,Mr,Clinton will ask Congress this coming week for nearly three (S3) ________ dollars to fund a five-year program called,America Reads”.
The program would fund the (S4) ________ efforts of 20 thousand reading (S5) ________ and it would also give (S6) ________ to help parents help children read by the third grade,or about age eight,During his Saturday radio (S7) ________,the president explained why the program is important.,We need ‘America Reads’ and we need it now,Studies show that if the fourth-graders fail to read well,(S8) ________,But,40 percent of them still can’t read at a basic level.”
Volunteer tutors,who provide community service in exchange for college funding,are being used in literacy and tutoring programs,(S9) ________.
The president says many of the Philadelphia summit’s corporate sponsors will recruit tutors,(S10) ________.
1999年6月六级参考答案
Part I Listening Comprehension
1. C
2. B
3. A
4. B
5. A
6. D
7. C
8. A
9. D
10. C
S1. former
S2. aimed
S3. billion
S4. coordination
S5. specialists
S6. grants
S7. address
S8. They are likely to drop off school,and less likely to succeed in life.
S9. The program,initiated by President Clinton,has come on the criticism by Congress.
S10. Dozen of colleges and Universities are prepared to send thousands of their students in support of the Program.
1999年6月六级听力原文
Section A
1. W,It’s a pity you missed the concert yesterday evening,It was wonderful!
M,I didn’t want to miss the football game,Well,I’m not a classical music fan anyway.
Q,What do we learn from the conversation?
2. W,Hey! If you can’t enjoy that at a sensible volume,please use earphones,I’m trying study.
M,Oh! I’m sorry,I didn’t realize it was bothering you.
Q,What is the man probably doing?
3. M,Can I help you,Ms?
W,Yes,I bought this telephone last week,and it works all right with out-going calls,but it doesn’t ring for the incoming ones.
Q,What’s the problem with the woman’s telephone?
4. W,I thought Tom said he got A’s in all his tests.
M,Mary,you should know better than to take Tom’s words too seriously.
Q,What does the man imply?
5. W,Can you show me how to use this,John?
M,It is fully automatic,All you have to do is focus on the scene and press the button here.
Q,What are they talking about?
6. M,I think we should move on to the next item.
W,Ok,But I’d like to take this matter up again at the end of the meeting.
Q,What does the woman imply?
7. W,You know,the Browns have invested all their money in stocks.
M,They may think that’s a wise move,but that’s the last thing I’d do.
Q,What’s the man’s opinion about the Browns’ investment?
8. M,What is Mr,Peterson going to do with his old house on London Road? Rent it or sell it?
W,I heard he is thinking of turning it into a restaurant,which isn’t a bad idea,because it’s still a solid building.
Q,What will Mr,Peterson do with his old house?
9. M,How do you like Professor Bachman’s course on the History of Philosophy? He is a distinguished scholar on that subject.
W,He is a great teacher,But I’m having a hard time with the reading list,I feel I can’t ever finish it.
Q,What problem does the woman have with the course?
10. W,Robert wants to know if he can go with us to the party.
M,That’s odd,This morning he said he wanted to go by himself.
Q,What do we learn about Robert?
2000年1月大学英语六级(CET-6)真题试卷
Part I Listening Comprehension (20 minutes)
Section A
1. A) To cancel his trip.
B) To go to bed early.
C) To catch a later flight.
D) To ask for a wake-up call.
2. A) They have different opinions as to what to do next.
B) They have to pay for the house by installments.
C) They will fix a telephone in the bathroom.
D) The man’s attitude is more sensible than the woman’s.
3. A) She will save the stamps for the man’s sister.
B) She will no longer get letters from Canada.
C) She can’t give the stamps to the man’s sister.
D) She has given the stamps to the man’s roommates.
4. A) Visiting the Brownings.
B) Writing a postcard.
C) Looking for a postcard.
D) Filling in a form.
5. A) The man should work with somebody else.
B) The man should meet his partner’s needs.
C) They should come to a compromise.
D) They should find a better lab for the project.
6. A) She can’t finish her assignment,either.
B) She can’t afford a computer right now.
C) The man can use her computer.
D) The man should buy a computer right away.
7. A) The visiting economist has given several lectures.
B) The guest lecturer’s opinion is different from Dr,Johnson’s.
C) Dr,Johnson and the guest speaker were schoolmates.
D) Dr,Johnson invited the economist to visit their college.
8. A) She’s never watched a better game.
B) Football is-her favorite pastime.
C) The game has been canceled.
D) Their team played very badly.
9. A) The man should stick to what he’s doing.
B) The man should take up a new hobby.
C) The man should stop playing tennis.
D) The man should find the cause for his failure.
10. A) An invented story.
B) A real life experience.
C) An imaginary situation.
D) A terrible nightmare.
Section B
Passage 1
Questions 11 to 13 are based on the passage you have just heard.
11. A) The name of a German town;
B) A resident of Frankfurt.
C) A kind of German sausage.
D) A kind of German bread.
12. A) He sold fast food.
B) He raised dogs.
C) He was A cook.
D) He was a Cartoonist.
13. A) Because the Americans found they were from Germany.
B) Because people thought they contained dog meat.
C) Because people had to get used to their taste.
D) Because it was too hot to eat right away.
Passage 2
Questions 14 to 16 are based on the passage you have just heard.
14. A) They give out faint cries.
B) They make noises to drive away insects.
C) They extend their water pipes.
D) They become elastic like rubber bands.
15. A) Quiet plants.
B) Well-watered plants.
C) Healthy plants.
D) Thirsty plants.
16. A) They could drive the insects away.
B) They could keep the plants well-watered.
C) They could make the plants grow faster.
D) They could build devices to trap insects.
Passage 3
Questions 17 to 20 are based on the passage you have just heard.
17. A) To look for a different lifestyle.
B) To enjoy themselves.
C) For adventure.
D) For education.
18. A) There are 200 vehicles for every kilometer of roadway.
B) It has a dense population.
C) There are many museums and palaces.
D) It has many towering buildings.
19. A) It is a city of contrasts.
B) It possesses many historical sites.
C) It is an important industrial center.
D) It has many big and beautiful parks.
20. A) It helps develop our personalities.
B) It enables us to acquire first-hand knowledge.
C) It makes our life more interesting.
D) It brings about changes in our lifestyle.
2000年1月六级参考答案
Part I Listening Comprehension
1. D
2. A
3. C
4. B
5. C
6. B
7. B
8. D
9. A
10. C
11. C
12. C
13. B
14. A
15. D
16. D
17. D
18. C
19. A
20. B
2000年1月六级听力原文
Section A
1. M,I hope I won’t oversleep,I’ve simply got to catch the first flight to New York.
W,If I were you,I’d request the wake-up call from the hotel reception.
Q,What does the woman advise the man to do?
2. M,Next,shouldn’t we get a telephone installed in the hall?
W,Fixing the shower pipe is far more important.
Q,What do we learn from the conversation?
3. M,I’ve noticed that you get letters form Canada from time to time,Would you mind saving the stamps for me? My sister collects them.
W,My roommate already asked for them.
Q,What does the woman imply?
4. M,What’s the matter? You’ve been sitting there for ages,just staring into space.
W,I told the Brownings I’d send them a postcard,Now I don’t know what to say.
Q,What’s the woman doing?
5. M,My chemistry project is in trouble,My partner and I have totally different ideas about how to proceed.
W,You should try to meet each other halfway.
Q,What does the woman suggest?
6. M,I’m frustrated,We’re supposed to do our assignment on the computer,but I have difficulty getting access to the computers in the library.
W,I understand the way you feel,I’m looking forward to the day when I can afford to get my own.
Q,What does the woman mean?
7. M,The visiting economist is speaking tonight,but Dr,Johnson doesn’t seem to think much of him.
W,That’s because Dr,Johnson comes from an entirely different school of thought.
Q,What do we learn from the woman’s remark?
8. M,I’m sorry I missed the football game,but I had a terrible cold.
W,You didn’t miss anything,We couldn’t have played worse.
Q,What does the woman imply?
9. M,I think I’m going to give up playing tennis,I lost again today.
W,Just because you lost? It that the reason to quit?
Q,What does the woman imply?
10. M,Jane,what would you do if you were on vacation overseas and lost all your money and credit cards?
W,Well,I guess I’d probably sell my watch and camera..,Or I might get a job as a waitress somewhere till I made enough money to buy a plane ticket to return home.
Q,What are they talking about?
Section B
Passage 1
Most people know what a hot dog is,It’s a sausage in a roll,But do you know why it’s called a hot dog? Well,the long red sausage which goes into a hotdog is called a Frankfurter,It got its name from the German town Frankfurt,The sausages were very popular,but hot frankfurters were difficult to sell in crowds,One man,Harry Stevens,had the job of feeding the crowds in baseball games,He had an idea,Why not put the frankfurters in long,hot bread rolls? This made them easy to sell,The,red hot” had a hot and attractive taste and became very popular,But in 1903,an American cartoonist drew a long German sausage dog in place of the frankfurter so a frankfurter in a roll soon became known as a,hot dog”,It was a joke,but some people really thought the sausages contained dog meat,For a while,sales of hotdogs failed,but not for long.
11. What is a frankfurter?
12. What was Harry Stevens’ job?
13. Why did sales of hot dogs decrease for some time?
Passage 2
We all scream for water when thirsty,but do you know in very hot,dry weather,plants also make faint sounds—as if they are crying out for help?
You see,in a plant’s stem there are hundreds of,water pipes” that bring water and minerals from the soil all the way up to the leaves,As the ground turns dry,it becomes harder and harder for the plants to do this.
In severe droughts,plants have to fight to pull out any water available,Scientist Robert winter has found out that when it is really bad their water pipes snap from the tension like rubber bands,When that happens,the whole plant vibrates a little,The snapping pipes make noises ten thousand times more quiet than a whisper.
Robert knows that healthy,well-watered plants are quiet,He also knows that many insects prefer attacking dry plants rather than healthy plants,How do the insects know which are healthy plants and which are not? Robert thinks that the insects may listen for the plants that cry and then they may buzz in to kill.
To test his theory,Robert is using a device that can imitate plant cries,He attaches it to a quiet,healthy plant so the plant sounds thirsty,Then he watches insects to see if they attack more often than usual.
If he is right,scientists could use the insects’ ability against them,They could build traps that imitate crying plants,So when the insects buzz in to eat,they won’t buzz out.
14. What do plants do when they are thirsty?
15. What plants do many insects tend to attack?
16. What could scientists do if Robert’s theory proves to be true?
Passage 3
People enjoy taking trips,but what are the reasons they leave home? One reason is for education,People travel because they want to broaden their horizons to learn about other people and other places,They are curious about other cultures,When people are tourists,they get a quick look at different ways of living,Even a short look at another kind of lifestyle is an important lesson.
On a trip,a person can learn directly—by visiting museums and historic spots,What does a tourist learn who sees the art museums,visits the historical palaces and other scenic spots in Paris,and shops along the River Seine? He gets a vivid picture—a real-life—one of the French people,He learns about their attitudes,how they feel about business,beauty and history.
What about the tourist who goes to Hong Kong? Does he get the same information that he could get from a book? he might read that Hong Kong is crowded,that there is less than 200 square meters of space for each person,but seeing and feeling the lack of space will impress him much more,He might read that there are nearly 200 vehicles for every kilometer of roadway,but the sight of so many vehicles parked along the roadside will be a much more vivid lesson,The tourist to Hong Kong will never forget the contrasts—the straight vertical lines of the tall modern buildings and the moving lines of boats that people live in.
17. Why do people leave home to travel according to the passage?
18. What do we learn from the passage about Paris?
19. What impression will a tourist get of Hong Kong?
20. What does the passage tell us about travelling?
2000年6月大学英语六级(CET-6)真题试卷
Part I Listening Comprehension (20 minutes)
Section A
1. A) Buy some traveller’s checks.
B) Borrow some money from a friend.
C) Check the brakes and tires.
D) Spend some time travelling.
2. A) He is very forgiving and tolerant.
B) He probably has a poor memory.
C) He is well liked by his customers.
D) He has been introduced to the staff.
3. A) He thinks the book should include more information.
B) He doesn’t think it necessary to provide the answers.
C) The answers will be added in a later edition.
D) The book does include the answers.
4. A) Announce appeals for public service.
B) Hold a charity concert to raise money.
C) Ask the school radio station for help.
D) Pool money to fund the radio station.
5. A) She talked with the consultant about the new program until two.
B) She couldn’t talk to the consultant before two.
C) She would talk to the consultant during lunch.
D) She couldn’t contact the consultant’s secretary.
6. A) They are equally competent for the job.
B) They both graduated from art schools.
C) They majored in different areas of art.
D) They are both willing to draw the posters.
7. A) At a book store.
B) At an art museum.
C) At a newspaper office.
D) At a gymnasium.
8. A) The woman received a phone call from Mark yesterday.
B) The man injured Mark in a traffic accident yesterday.
C) The man met a friend by chance.
D) The woman contacted Mark on business.
9. A) The man should stay up and watch the program.
B) The man should read something exciting instead.
C) The man should go to bed at eleven.
D) The man should give up watching the movie.
10. A) Students with a library card can check any book out.
B) Reference books are not allowed to be checked out.
C) Only students with a library card can check out reference books.
D) The number of books a student can check out is unlimited.
Section B
Passage One
Questions 11 to 13 are based on the passage you have just heard.
11. A) To find out whether they take music lessons in their spare time.
B) To find out whether they can name four different musical instruments.
C) To find out whether they enjoy playing musical instruments in school.
D) To find out whether they differ in their preference for musical instruments.
12. A) They find them too hard to play.
B) They think it silly to play them.
C) They find it not challenging enough to play them.
D) They consider it important to be different from girls.
13. A) Children who have private music tutors.
B) Children who are 8 or older.
C) Children who are between 5 and 7.
D) Children who are well-educated.
Passage Two
Questions 14 to 16 are based on the passage you have just heard.
14. A) Because there weren’t any professional teams in the U.S,then.
B) Because Pele hadn’t retired from the Brazilian National Team yet.
C) Because this fast-moving sport wasn’t familiar to many Americans.
D) Because good professional players received low salaries.
15. A) When it has a large number of fans.
B) When it plays at home.
C) When it has many international stars playing for it.
D) When the fans cheer enthusiastically for it.
16. A) It wasn’t among the top four teams.
B) It didn’t play as well as expected.
C) It won the World Cup.
D) It placed fourth.
Passage Three
Questions 17 to 20 are based on the passage you have just heard.
17. A) Students from America.
B) Students from England.
C) Students from Australia.
D) Students from Japan.
18. A) Those who know how to program computers.
B) Those who get special aid from their teachers.
C) Those who are very hardworking.
D) Those who have well-educated parents.
19. A) Japanese students study much harder than Columbian students.
B) Columbian students score higher than Japanese students in maths.
C) Columbian students are more optimistic about their maths skills.
D) Japanese students have better conditions for study.
20. A) Physics.
B) Mathematics.
C) Environmental science.
D) Life science.
2000年6月六级参考答案
Part I Listening Comprehension
1. D
2. B
3. D
4. C
5. B
6. A
7. C
8. C
9. D
10. B
11. D
12. A
13. B
14. C
15. B
16. A
17. A
18. D
19. C
20. A
2000年6月六级答案详解
Part I Listening Comprehension
1. 答案为D 本题测试点,要点归纳及句意推论。“check brakes and tires”，“enough money”及“I’m sure it’s going to be a wonderful trip”等都与“trip”有关。
2. 答案为B 本题测试点,同义转换,a little forgetful = a poor memory.
3. 答案为D 本题测试点,省略句“But it does”在上下文中的完整意义是“But the book does include answers to the questions.”,需对对话双方话语理解，概括。
4. 答案为C 本题测试点,特殊省略问句How about...的功能意念,通常是一种建议。
5. 答案为B 本题测试点,until 句型及要点是归纳,I contacted this office,but...
6. 答案为A 本题测试点,短语make difference 及修辞问句“What difference does it make?”的功能意念,= I makes no difference = There is no difference.
7. 答案为C 本题测试点,(工作)地点判断，关键词:,sports page”，“editorials”等。
8. 答案为C 本题测试点,信息归纳,①“The man ran into (= met by chance) a friend (make) yesterday in the streets.”②“Mark hasn’t got any phones or letters from the woman.”③“The woman has been busy in the past 2 months.”选①为本题答案所需的信息。
9. 答案为D 本题测试点,虚拟语气的功能意念,题中If I were you,I’d...表示一种婉转的建议。—skip the movie,因为①“we both have to get up early tomorrow”②“the movie isn’t necessarily exciting”
10. 答案为B 本题测试点,关键要点辨认,We can check out as many books as we need but can’t check out any reference books.
2000年6月六级听力原文
Section A
1. M,Have you had the brakes and tires checked? And do you have enough money?
W,I’ve taken care of everything and I’m sure it’s going to be a wonderful trip.
Q,What is the woman going to do?
2. M,The new sales manager says he have never met you before.
W,We’ve been introduced about three times,He seems a little forgetful.
Q,What do we learn about the new sales manager?
3. W,I don’t understand why this book for self study doesn’t have answers to the questions.
M,But it does,You can find them alt the back of the book.
Q,What does the man say about the self-study book?
4. W,We mean to let everyone know about the charity concert,but we don’t have enough money for advertising.
M,How about using the school radio station? They broadcast free public-service announcement.
Q,What does the man suggest they do?
5. M,By the way,Jane,did you talk to the consultant about our health program?
W,I contacted his office,but his secretary said he would be out for lunch until two.
Q,What does the woman mean?
6. M,I don’t know whether to ask Joe or Cora to draw the posters.
W,What difference does it make? They’re both excellent artists.
Q,What does the woman imply about Joe and Core?
7. M,Mary is in charge of the art and music section; and Charles,the ports page,What about you?
W,I’m responsible for the editorials.
Q,Where does the woman work?
8. M,I ran into our friend Mark yesterday on the street,and he said he hadn’t heard from you for two months.
W,Yes,I know,but I’ve been too busy to phone him.
Q,What do we learn from the conversation?
9. M,I’m really exhausted,but I don’t want to miss the film that comes on at 11.
W,If I were you,I’d skip it,We both have to get up early tomorrow,and anyway,I’ve heard it isn’t that exciting.
Q,What does the woman mean?
10. M,I thought the librarian said we could check out as many books as we need without our library cards.
W,That’s right,but not those reference books.
Q,What does the woman mean?
Section B
Passage One
The piano and violin are girls’ instruments,Drums and trumpets are for boys,According to psychologists Susan Onco and Michael Balton,children have very clear ideas about which musical instruments they should play,They find that despite the best efforts of teachers these ideas have changed very little over the past decade,They interviewed 153 children aged between 9 and 11 from schools in northwest England,They asked them to identify 4 musical instruments and then to say which they would like to play most and which they would least lie to play,They also asked the children for their views on whether boys or girls should not play any of the 4 instruments,The piano and the violin were both ranked more favorably by girls than by boys,while boys prefer the drums and trumpets,There was broad agreement between boys and girls on which instruments each sex should play and the reasons vary,And while almost half of all boys said they avoid certain instruments because they were too difficult to play,only 15% of girls gave that as a reason,Earlier studies indicated that very young school children aged between 5 and 7 showed no bias in choosing musical instruments,but their tastes become more clear between the ages of 8 and 10,One survey of 78 teachers suggested that after that age both boys and girls.
11. Why did Susan and Michael interview children aged between 9 and 11?
12. Why do many of the boys avoid certain instruments?
13. Which group of children have a bias when choosing musical instruments?
Passage Two
In the 1970s,the famous Brazilian football player Pele retired from the national team of Brazil and became a professional player for a team in New York,Football,or soccer,wasn’t very popular in the United States at that time,Few North Americans knew anything about this fast-moving sport,There was no money to pay professional players and there was little interest in football in high schools and colleges,When Pele and other international stars began playing in various US cities,people saw how interesting the game was and began to go to the matches,It is now common for important games to have fifty to sixty thousand fans,Support from the fans is important to the football,The fans cheer enthusiastically for their favorite players and teams,who respond by playing better than before,In most World Cups,the home team,or the team from the host country usually plays better than most people expect,In 1966,1974 and 1978,the home teams of England,West Germany and Argentina all won the World Cup,The World Cup is called that because teams from every continent have played in it,However,since the Cup began,all of the winning teams have been from Europe or South America,Teams from Asia or Africa always do well but they haven’t yet won,Mexico played surprisingly well in the 1970 Cup,which it hosted,but it wasn’t among the 4 final teams.
14. Why wasn’t football a popular sport in the U.S,in the 1970s?
15. When does a football team have the best chance to win the World Cup?
16. How did Mexico do in the 1970 World Cup?
Passage Three
The world’s smartest adolescence in mathematics and science are in Singapore,according to a global survey of educational achievement,In the 3rd International Mathematics and Science Study,13-year-olds from Singapore achieved the best scores in standardized tests of maths and science that were administered to 287,896 students in 41 countries in 1994 and 1995,The survey suggests that science and maths education is especially strong in the Far East,While well behind those top scores,students from Australia earned higher marks in maths than their counterparts in England,who in turn did better than American students,The study collected information on the students’ teachers and homes,Not surprisingly,the highest-scoring students had well-educated parents or came from homes containing study-aids such as computers,dictionaries or even such elemental facilities as desks,The study shows that boys generally did better than girls in science,but there was little difference between them in maths,Boys scored better than girls in physics and chemistry,There were no sex differences in the life and environmental sciences,In addition to being tested,students in the project were asked how proficient they thought they were in maths and science,Students in some countries,such as Columbia and Kuwait,had an overly optimistic view of their skills,Meanwhile,some of the best students from Japan and Korea for example were needlessly pessimistic even though they did far better in maths than almost all of other students.
17. Of the 4 groups of students,who scored the lowest in maths according to the survey?
18. What kind of students are most likely to become top scorers?
19. In what way do Columbian students differ from Japanese students?
In which subjects did boys score higher than girls?
2001年1月大学英语六级(CET-6)真题试卷
Part I Listening Comprehension (20 minutes)
Section A
1. A) The man thinks travelling by air is quite safe.
B) The woman never travels by plane.
C) Both speakers feel nervous when flying.
D) The speakers feel sad about the serious loss of life.
2. A) At the information desk.
B) In an office.
C) In a restaurant.
D) At a railway station.
3. A) Write the letter.
B) Paint the shelf.
C) Fix the shelf.
D) Look for the pen.
4. A) It gives a 30% discount to all customers.
B) It is run by Mrs,Winter’s husband.
C) It hires Mrs,Winter as an adviser.
D) It encourages husbands to shop on their own.
5. A) Long exposure to the sun.
B) Lack of sleep.
C) Too tight a hat.
D) Long working hours.
6. A) His English is still poor after ten years in America.
B) He doesn’t mind speaking English with an accent.
C) He doesn’t like the way Americans speak.
D) He speaks English as if he were a native speaker.
7. A) An auto mechanic.
B) An electrician.
C) A carpenter.
D) A telephone repairman.
8. A) They both enjoyed watching the game.
B) The man thought the results were beyond their expectations.
C) They both felt good about the results of the game.
D) People were surprised at their winning the game.
9. A) Manager and employee.
B) Salesman and customer.
C) Guide and tourist.
D) Professor and student.
10. A) Tom has arranged a surprise party for Lucy.
B) Tom will keep the surprise party a secret.
C) Tom and Lucy have no secrets from each other.
D) Tom didn’t make any promise to Lucy.
Section B Compound Dictation
The human body is a remarkable food processor,As an adult,you may consume (S1) ________ a ton of food per year and still not gain or lose a pound of body weight,You are (S2) ________ harnessing,and consuming energy through the intricate (S3) ________ of your body in order to remain in energy balance,To (S4) ________ a given body weight,your energy input must balance your energy output,However,sometimes the (S5) ________ energy balance is upset,and your (S6) ________ body weight will either fall or (S7) ________.
The term body image refers to the mental image we have of our own physical appearance,and (S8) ________________________________,Research has revealed that about 40 percent of adult men and 55 percent of adult women are dissatisfied with their current body weight,(S9) ________________________________,At the college level,a study found that 85 percent of both male and female first year students desired to change their body weight,(S10) ________________________________,Thinness is currently an attribute that females desire highly,Males generally desire muscularity,The vast majority of individuals who want to change their body weight do it for the sake of appearance,most want to lose excess body fat,while a smaller percentage of individuals actually want to gain weight.
2001年1月六级参考答案
Part I Listening Comprehension
1. A
2. C
3. C
4. D
5. A
6. A
7. B
8. C
9. D
10. D
S1. over
S2. constantly
S3. mechanism
S4. maintain
S5. overall
S6. normal
S7. increase
S8. This can be influenced by a variety of factors,including how much you weigh and how that weight is distributed.
S9. Similarly findings have also been reported at high school level,mainly with female students.
S10. The primary cause of this concern is the value that American society is in general a society to physical appearance.
2001年1月六级听力原文
Section A
1. W,Have you heard about the plane crash yesterday? It caused a hundred and twenty deaths,I am never at ease when taking a flight.
M,Though we often hear about air crashes and serious casual deeds,flying is one of the safest ways to travel.
Q,What do we learn from this conversation?
2. W,I have a complaint to make,Sir,I had waited ten minutes at the table before the waiter showed up,and I finally got served,And I found it was not what I ordered.
M,I am terribly sorry,madam,It’s a bit unusually busy tonight,As a compensation,your meal will be free.
Q,Where does the conversation most probably take place?
3. M,I can’t find my pen,I need to write a letter.
W,I’ll look for it later,Right now I need you to help fix the shelf before paint it.
Q,What would they do first?
4. M,Mrs,Winter,I need your advice,I want to buy a dress for my wife,can you tell me where I can get one at a reasonable price?
W,Sure,go to Richard’s,It has the latest styles and gives a 30% discount to husbands who shop alone.
Q,What do we know about Richard’s shop?
5. M,My headaches are terribly,Maybe I need more sleep.
W,Actually,you need less sun and some aspirin,It would help if you wear a hat.
Q,What does the woman think is the cause of the man’s headache?
6. M,Did you know this,after almost ten years in the United States,with such a strong accent.
W,Yes,but he is proud of it,He says it is a part of his identity.
Q,What does the conversation tell us about Mr,Li? Li still speaks English.
7. W,This is Mrs,Starched,my heater is not getting any power and weatherman says the temperature is to fall below zero tonight,Could you get someone to come over and fix it?
M,This is the busiest time of the year,but I’ll speak to one of our men about going over some time today.
Q,Who did Mrs,Starched want to come over?
8. M,Though we didn’t win the game,we were satisfied with our performance.
W,You did a great job,You almost beat the world’s champions,It’s a real surprise to many people.
Q,What do we learn from this conversation?
9. W,Sorry I did not come yesterday,because I had a temperature,Could you tell me the requirement for my term paper?
M,The theme of your paper can be about business management or touring resources in China,and the length of the paper should be no less than fifteen pages.
Q,What is the most probable relationship between the two speakers?
10. W,I don’t think we should tell Tom about the surprising party for Lucy.
M,It’s all right,He promised not to tell,and he does not make promises likely.
Q,What does the man mean?
2001年6月大学英语六级(CET-6)真题试卷
Part I Listening Comprehension (20 minutes)
1. A) He will tell Mary how to operate the dishwasher.
B) He will wash the dishes himself instead.
C) He will help Bill to translate the manual.
D) He himself will operate the dishwasher.
2. A) Lose weight.
B) Quit smoking.
C) Weigh himself frequently.
D) Have a talk with the doctor.
3. A) The woman should have complained to her neighbor.
B) The woman should stay out until the neighbors are quiet.
C) The woman should have stayed at the library.
D) The lab will be a better place for reading.
4. A) Check the figures later today.
B) Do the calculations again tomorrow.
C) Bring a calculator tomorrow.
D) Calculate the number right now.
5. A) She doesn’t remember much about the city.
B) She’s never been to the city.
C) She would find someone else to help.
D) She would talk to the man later.
6. A) She thinks the man should have helped earlier.
B) She doesn’t need the man’s help.
C) She doesn’t know the boxes are heavy.
D) She wants the man to help with the boxes.
7. A) She let the man use her books for the weekend.
B) She brought the books the man asked for.
C) She borrowed the books from the man.
D) She offered to help the man.
8. A) She’d like to have the windows open.
B) She likes to have the air conditioner on.
C) The air is heavily polluted.
D) The windows are already open.
9. A) He’s going to visit a photo studio.
B) He’s just had his picture taken.
C) He’s on the way to the theater.
D) He’s just returned from a job interview.
10. A) At a gas station.
B) In a park.
C) In an emergency room.
D) At a garage.
Section B
Passage One
Questions 11 to 13 are based on the passage you have just heard.
11. A) One sixth of them are seriously polluted.
B) One third of them are seriously polluted.
C) Half of them are seriously polluted.
D) Most of them are seriously polluted.
12. A) There was no garbage left to clean up.
B) There was more garbage than before and they had to work harder.
C) The river had become so clean that a lot of water-birds came back.
D) The river was much cleaner and they had to search for garbage.
13. A) Most of them would be indifferent and keep on throwing garbage into the river.
B) They would join the students in changing the situation.
C) They would become more aware of the pollution problem.
D) They would think twice before they went swimming or fishing in the river.
Passage Two
Questions 14 to 17 are based on the passage you have just heard.
14. A) Why people hold back their tears.
B) Why people cry.
C) How to restrain one’s tears.
D) How tears are produced.
15. A) What chemicals tears are composed of.
B) Whether crying really helps us feel better.
C) Why some people tend to cry more often than others.
D) How tears help people cope with emotional problems.
16. A) Only one out of four girls cries less often than boys.
B) Of four boys,only one cries very often.
C) Girls cry four times as often as boys.
D) Only one out of four babies doesn’t cry often.
17. A) Only humans respond to emotions by shedding tears.
B) Only humans shed tears to get rid of irritating stuff in their eyes.
C) Only human tears can resist the invading bacteria.
D) Only human tears can discharge certain chemicals.
Passage Three
Questions 18 to 20 are based on the passage you have just heard.
18. A) They make decisions by tossing coins.
B) They are not physically separated.
C) They think exactly the same way.
D) They share most of their vital organs.
19. A) Few of them can live long.
B) Few of them get along well with each other.
C) Most of them live a normal life.
D) Most of them differ in their likes and dislikes.
20. A) They go to a regular school.
B) They attend a special school.
C) They are taught by their parents.
D) They have a private tutor.
2001年6月六级参考答案
Part I
1. B
2. A
3. C
4. B
5. A
6. B
7. C
8. A
9. B
10. D
11. B
12. D
13. C
14. B
15. D
16. C
17. A
18. B
19. A
20. A
2001年6月六级听力原文
1. W,I’m trying to find out how this dishwasher works,the manual is in French,I can’t wait for Bill to translate it for me.
M,Don’t worry,Mary,I can do the dishes before the machine starts to work.
Q,What does the man mean?
2. M,The doctor said if I kept smoking,I would increase my chances of having a heart attack.
W,Did he suggest reducing weight,too?
Q,What does the woman think the man should also do?
3. W,The people next door are making so much noise,I just can’t concentrate on.
M,Why don’t you stay at the library? It’s much quiet there.
Q,What does Tom mean?
4. M,This is hopeless,these figures still don’t add up right,let’s do the calculations over again.
W,Yes,but why not do them tomorrow? It’s very late now.
Q,What does the woman suggest they do?
5. M,To collect a data for my report,I need to talk to someone who knows that small city very well,I was told that you lived there for quite a long time.
W,Oh,I wish I could help,but I was only a child then.
Q,What does the woman imply?
6. M,Are you moving into a new house? Need a hand with those boxes?
W,That’s okay,I can manage,They look big,but aren’t very heavy actually.
Q,What does the woman mean?
7. M,It’s good you brought the books back.
W,I thought you might need novels at the weekend,Thanks for letting me use them.
Q,What do we know about the woman from the conversation?
8. M,Do you want to turn on the air conditioner or open the window?
W,I love fresh air if you don’t mind.
Q,What can be inferred from the woman’s answer?
9. W,Hi,Michael,I can hardly recognize you,why are you dressed up today? Are you going to the theatre?
M,No,actually,I just had an interview at the photo studio this morning.
Q,What do we learn about Michael from this conversation?
10. M,Good morning,what can I do for you?
W,I’d like to have my emergency brake fixed,The car rolls when I park it on the hill.
Q,Where does the conversation most probably take place?
Passage one
Last August,Susan and 42 other students got wet and dirty while removing six tons of garbage from the river running across their city,They cleaned up the river as part of a week-long environmental camp,Like one in three American rivers,this river is so polluted that it’s unsafe for swimming and fishing,still,Susan,who has just completed her third summer on the river clean-up,scene has changed in this river.,Since we started three years ago,the river is getting a lot cleaner”,she says,Environmental scientists praised the teenagers for removing garbage that can harm wild life,Waterbirds,for example,can choke on plastic bottle rings and get cut by scrap metal,Three years ago,when the clean-up started,garbage was everywhere,but this year,the teenagers had to hunt for garbage,They turn the clean-up into a competition to see who could find the most garbage and unload their boats fastest,By the end of the six hour shift,they have removed enough garbage to fill more than two large trucks.,Seeing all their garbage in the river makes people begin to care about environmental issues,” Susan says,She hopes that when others read that she and her peers care enough to clean it up,maybe they will think twice before they throw garbage in the river.
Questions 11-13 are based on the passage you have just heard.
11. What does the passage tell us about American rivers?
12. What did the students find when they came to the river this year?
13. What is the expected reaction of the local people to the students’ efforts?
Passage Two
Why do we cry? Can you imagine life without tears? Not only do tears keep your eyes lubricated,they also contain a substance that kills certain bacteria so they can’t infect your eyes,Give up your tears,and you’ll lose this on-the-spot defense,Nobody wants to give up the flood of extra tears you produce when you get something physical or chemical in your eyes,Tears are very good at washing this irritating stuff out,Another thing you couldn’t do without your tears is cry from joy,anger or sadness,Humans are the only animals that produce tears in response to emotions,and most people say a good cry makes them feel better,Many scientists,therefore,believe that crying somehow helps us cope with emotional situations,Tear researcher,Winifred,is trying to figure out how it happens,One possibility he says is that tears discharge certain chemicals from your body,chemicals that build up during stress,When people talk about crying it out,“I think that might actually be what they are doing”,he says,If Fred is right,what do you think will happen to people who restrain their tears? Boys,for example,cry only about a quarter as often as girls once they reach teenage years,and we all cry a lot less now than we did as babies,Could it possibly be that we face less stress? Maybe we found another ways to deal with it,or maybe we just feel embarrassed.
Questions 14-17 are based on the passage you have just heard.
14. What’s the topic discussed in this passage?
15. What is Winifred trying to find out?
16. What does the passage say about teenage boys and girls?
17. What’s the difference between human beings and other animals when shedding tears?
Passage three
Imaging this,you wake up each morning to find your sister lying beside you,to get dressed and tie your shoes,you use one hand and she uses another,You do everything out together,too,even sitting on the same chair at lunch and riding on the same bicycle,That’s what life is like for six-year-old Betty and Abby,Like most twins,the two girls look very much alike,but unlike most twins,Betty and Abby share parts of the same body,Twins like Betty and Abby are rare,Only about 40 sets are born in the United States each year,Few survive as long as Betty and Abby,That’s because twins often share vital organs,like a heart or brain,The shared organs are often badly shaped and may not be strong enough to support both twins,But Betty and Abby each has her own head,heart and stomach which function normally,Because she has three or four lungs which provide plenty of oxygen for both twins,Most of their completely shared organs lie below the waist,Betty And Abby live relatively normal lives,They attend a regular school,and each does her own school work,They prefer to do some projects together,though,for example,to cut out paper dolls,one twin holds the paper,while the other uses the scissors,But sometimes,the girls don’t want to do the same thing,for example,sometimes they want to play with different toys,What do they do then?,We toss a coin”,says Abby.
Questions 18-20 are based on the passage you have just heard.
18. In what aspect,do Betty and Abby differ from most twins?
19. What does the passage tell us about twins who share parts of the same body?
20. What does the passage say about the education of the twin girls?
2002年1月12日大学英语六级(CET-6)真题试卷试卷一
Part I Listening Comprehension (20 minutes)
Section A
1. A) All the passengers were killed.
B) The plane crashed in the night.
C) No more survivors have been found.
D) It’s too late to search for survivors.
2. A) Its results were just as expected.
B) It wasn’t very well designed.
C) It fully reflected the students’ ability.
D) Its results fell short of her expectations.
3. A) He believes dancing is enjoyable.
B) He definitely does not like dancing.
C) He admires those who dance.
D) He won’t dance until he has done his work.
4. A) His computer doesn’t work well.
B) He isn’t getting along with his staff.
C) He didn’t register for a proper course.
D) He can’t apply the theory to his program.
5. A) Reading on the campus lawn.
B) Depositing money in the bank.
C) Applying for financial aid.
D) Reviewing a student’s application.
6. A) A new shuttle bus.
B) A scheduled space flight.
C) An airplane flight.
D) The first space flight.
7. A) The deadline is drawing near.
B) She can’t meet the deadline.
C) She turned in the proposals today.
D) They are two days ahead of time.
8. A) By going on a diet.
B) By having fewer meals.
C) By doing physical exercise.
D) By eating fruit and vegetables.
9. A) He enjoyed it as a whole.
B) He didn’t think much of it.
C) He didn’t like it at all.
D) He liked some parts of it.
10. A) It looks quite new.
B) It needs to be repaired.
C) It looks old,but it runs well.
D) Its engine needs to be painted.
Section B
Passage One
Questions 11 to 13 are based on the passage you have just heard.
11. A) Experience in negotiating.
B) A high level of intelligence.
C) The time they spend on preparation.
D) The amount of pay they receive.
12. A) Study the case carefully beforehand.
B) Stick to a set target.
C) Appear friendly to the other party.
D) Try to be flexible about their terms.
13. A) Make sure there is no misunderstanding.
B) Try to persuade by giving various reasons.
C) Repeat the same reasons.
D) Listen carefully and patiently to the other party.
Passage Two
Questions 14 to 16 are based on the passage you have just heard.
14. A) They eat huge amounts of food.
B) They usually eat twice a day.
C) They usually eat to their hearts’ content.
D) They eat much less than people assume.
15. A) When it is breeding.
B) When it feels threatened by humans in its territory.
C) When its offspring is threatened.
D) When it is suffering from illness.
16. A) They are not as dangerous as people think.
B) They can be as friendly to humans as dogs.
C) They attack human beings by nature.
D) They are really tame sea animals.
Passage Three
Questions 17 to 20 are based on the passage you have just heard.
17. A) Because people might have to migrate there someday.
B) Because it is very much like the earth.
C) Because it is easier to explore than other planets.
D) Because its atmosphere is different from that of the earth.
18. A) Its chemical elements must be studied.
B) Its temperature must be lowered.
C) Big spaceships must be built.
D) Its atmosphere must be changed.
19. A) It influences the surface temperature of Mars.
B) It protects living beings from harmful rays.
C) It keeps a planet from overheating.
D) It is the main component of the air people breathe.
20. A) Man will probably be able to live there in 200 years.
B) Scientists are rather pessimistic about it.
C) Man will probably be able to live there in 100,000 years’ time.
D) Scientists are optimistic about overcoming the difficulties soon.
2002年1月12日六级参考答案
Part I Listening comprehension
1. C
2. D
3. B
4. D
5. C
6. B
7. A
8. C
9. A
10. C
11. C
12. A
13. B
14. D
15. B
16. A
17. A
18. D
19. D
20. B
2002年1月六级听力原文
1. W,Is the rescue crew still looking for survivors of the plane crash?
M,Yes,they have been searching the area for hours,but they haven’t found anybody else,They will keep searching until night falls.
Q,What do we learn from the conversation?
2. M,How many students passed the final physics exam in your class?
W,Forty,but still as many as 20 percent of the class failed,quite disappointing,isn’t it?
Q,What does the woman think of the exam?
3. W,Lots of people enjoy dancing,do you?
M,Believe it or not,that is the last thing I want to do.
Q,What does the man mean?
4. W,Jane,I am having difficulty with all the theoretic stuff we are getting in our computer course.
M,Oh,that part I understand,What I can’t figure out is how to make it work in our program.
Q,What is the man’s problem?
5. W,Did you see Mary somewhere around?
M,Yes,she is in the campus bank,applying for the student’s loan.
Q,What was Mary doing?
6. W,The space shuttle is taking off tomorrow.
M,I know,this is another routine mission,It is first flight with four years ago.
Q,What are they talking about?
7. M,When are we supposed to submit our project proposals,Jane?
W,They are due by the end of the week,We’ve only two days left,We’ll just have to hurry.
Q,What does the woman mean?
8. W,When I go on a diet,I eat only fruit,and that takes off weight quickly.
M,I prefer to eat whatever I want,and then run regularly to lose weight.
Q,How does the man control his weight?
9. W,John,can you tell me what in the book interested you most?
M,No,well,nothing specific,but I like it overall.
Q; What did the man think of the book?
10. W,How do you like the car I just bought?
M,Well,it seems to run well,but I think it needs a new paint job.
Q,What does the man think of the car?
Passage 1
Nilrikman and others of the halfway research group have done some research into the differences between average and good negotiators,They found negotiators with the good trait record and studied them in action,They compared them with another group of average negotiators and found that there was no difference in the time that the two groups spent on planning their strategy,However,there were some significant differences on other points,The average negotiators thought in terms of the present,but the good negotiators took a long-time review,They made lots of suggestions and considered twice the number of the alternatives,The average negotiators set their objectives as single points,We hope to get two dollars,for example,The good negotiators set their objectives in terms of range,which they might formulate as,We hope to get two dollars,but if we get one dollar and fifty,it will be all right.”,The average negotiators tried to persuade by giving lots of reasons,They use a lot of different arguments,The good negotiators didn’t give many reasons,They just repeated the same ones,They also did more summarizing and reviewing,checking they were understood correctly.
11. What do good negotiators and average negotiators have in common?
12. According to the speaker,what would good negotiators do?
13. According to the speaker,what does the average negotiator usually do?
Passage 2
To most of us sharks are the most dangerous fish in the sea and they attack humans,However,according to Doctor Clark,who has studied the behavior of sharks for twelve years,humans are not normally on the shark’s menu,What do sharks feed on,mainly fish and other sea animals? Doctor Clark also found that sharks don’t eat as much food as people think,For instance,a nine-year-old shark only needs two pound of food a day to keep healthy,But she says,sharks sometimes starve and at other times they fill themselves with what they have killed,Around the world,there are only about one hundred shark attacks on humans each year,ten of which proved fatal,But consider this,in the US alone,about three million people are bitten by dogs each year,Of these,thirty people die,If sharks bite you,says Doctor Clark,the reason is usually because it mistakes you for natural food,For example,say you went underwater-fishing and saw a shark,you could be in trouble,The shark might go for the injured fish you had attacked and take a bite of you at the same time,If you go into a shark’s territory and threaten it,it might try to bite you,That’s because sharks are territorial and tend to guard their territory,Like dogs,they protect the area they think is their own.
14. What does the passage say about the eating behavior of sharks?
15. When might a shark attach humans?
16. What do we learn from the passage about sharks?
Passage 3
Science fiction writers have often imagined humans going to live on the Mars,But these days,scientists are taking the idea seriously,It has a great deal to recommend it,since it might solve the problem of overcrowding on the earth,But obviously,it would not be worth making the effort unless people could live there naturally,If the atmosphere were like that of the earth,this might be possible,But in fact it is mostly carbon dioxide,Apart from that,there are other problems to be overcome,For example,the temperature would have to be raised from 6 degrees below zero to 15 degrees above it,Scientists who study Mars have laid down the program that they can follow,To begin with,they will have to find out whether life has ever existed on the planet of Mars in the past,Secondly they will have to make a reliable map of its surface,And finally,they will have to make a list of the gases,Above all,they will have to discover how much nitrogen it possesses,Since nitrogen is four fifths of the air we breathe,they are surprising optimistic about raising the temperature on Mars and believe it could be down in hundred years,It will take a bit longer,though,to transform the atmosphere so that human beings could live there,Scientists estimate this will take one hundred thousand years.
17. Why are scientists interested in Mars?
18. What is the one of the things that must be done if a man can live on Mars?
19. Why do scientist want to find out whether there is sufficient nitrogen on Mars?
20. What is the prospect of people living on Mars?
2002年6月大学英语六级(CET-6)真题试卷试卷一
Part I Listening Comprehension (20 minutes)
Section A
1. A) Registering for courses.
B) Getting directions.
C) Buying a new computer.
D) Studying sociology.
2. A) The man will probably have to find a roommate.
B) The man is unlikely to live in the suburbs.
C) The man will probably have to buy a car.
D) The man is unlikely to find exactly what he desires.
3. A) Painting a picture.
B) Hosting a program.
C) Designing a studio.
D) Taking a photograph.
4. A) The woman doesn’t think it a problem to get her passport renewed.
B) The woman has difficulty renewing her passport.
C) The woman hasn’t renewed her passport yet.
D) The woman’s passport is still valid.
5. A) A prediction of the future of mankind.
B) A new drug that may benefit mankind.
C) An opportunity for a good job.
D) An unsuccessful experiment.
6. A) A lesson requires students’ active involvement.
B) Students usually take an active part in a lecture.
C) More knowledge is covered in a lecture.
D) There is a larger group of people interested in lessons.
7. A) Neither of their watches keeps good time.
B) The woman’s watch stopped 3 hours ago.
C) The man’s watch goes too fast.
D) It’s too dark for the woman to read her watch.
8. A) She’s proud of being able to do many things at the same time.
B) She is sure to finish all the things in a few hours.
C) She dreams of becoming a millionaire someday.
D) She’s been kept extremely busy.
9. A) He wants his students to be on time for class.
B) He doesn’t allow his students to tell jokes in class.
C) He is always punctual for his class.
D) He rarely notices which students are late.
10. A) He is nervous about the exam.
B) He is looking for a job.
C) He doesn’t dare to tell lies.
D) He doesn’t know how to answer the questions.
Section B
Passage One
Questions 11 to 14 are based on the passage you have just heard
11. A) Because she was bored with her idle life at home.
B) Because she was offered a good job by her neighbour.
C) Because she wanted to help with the family’s finances.
D) Because her family would like to see her more involved in social life.
12. A) Doing housework.
B) Looking after her neighbour’s children.
C) Reading papers and watching TV.
D) Taking good care of her husband.
13. A) Jane got angry at Bill’s idle life.
B) Bill failed to adapt to the new situation.
C) Bill blamed Jane for neglecting the family.
D) The children were not taken good care of.
14. A) Neighbours should help each other.
B) Women should have their own careers.
C) Man and wife should share household duties.
D) Parents should take good care of their children.
Passage Two
Questions 15 to 17 are based on the passage you have just heard.
15. A) To predict natural disasters that can cause vast destruction.
B) To limit the destruction that natural disasters may cause.
C) To gain financial support from the United Nations.
D) To propose measures to hold back natural disasters.
16. A) There is still a long way to go before man can control natural disasters.
B) International cooperation can minimize the destructive force of natural disasters.
C) Technology can help reduce the damage natural disasters may cause.
D) Scientists can successfully predict earthquakes.
17. A) Because there were fatal mistakes in its design.
B) Because the builder didn’t observe the building codes of the time.
C) Because the traffic load went beyond its capacity.
D) Because it was built according to less strict earthquake-resistance standards.
Passage Three
Questions 18 to 20 are based on the passage you have just heard.
18. A) By judging to what extent they can eliminate the risks.
B) By estimating the possible loss of lives and property.
C) By estimating the frequency of volcanic eruptions.
D) By judging the possible risks against the likely benefits.
19. A) Once of Etna’s recent eruptions made many people move away.
B) Etna’s frequent eruptions have ruined most of the local farmland.
C) Etna’s eruptions are frequent but usually mild.
D) There are signs that Etna will erupt again in the near future.
20. A) They will remain where they are.
B) They will leave this area for ever.
C) They will wait and see.
D) They will seek shelter in nearby regions.
2002年6月六级参考答案
Part I
1. A
2. D
3. B
4. C
5. B
6. A
7. B
8. D
9. C
10. B
11. C
12. A
13. B
14. C
15. B
16. C
17. D
18. D
19. C
20. A
2002年6月六级听力原文
Section A
1. W,The deadline for the sociology and computer courses is the day after tomorrow.
M,But I have not decided which courses to take yet.
Q,What are the man and woman talking about?
2. M,I’m looking for an apartment with a monthly rent of around $200 in this neighbourhood,Could you give some advice on that?
W,Well,It’s rather hard to find anything for less than $300 around there,rents are lower in the suburbs,But you’ll need transportation if you choose to live there.
Q,What do we learn from the conversation?
3. W,Well,Tonight we have Prof,Brown in the studio to talk about his recent book,Fashion Images,Good evening.
M,Good evening,and thank you for inviting me here this evening.
Q,What is the woman doing?
4. M,Have you run up against any problems in getting the passport renewed?
W,I haven’t started applying yet.
Q,What do we know from the conversation?
5. M,I must point out that trials of new medicine are expensive and you can never guarantee success.
W,But there is a very good chance in this case,I hope you will go ahead in view of the potential benefit to mankind.
Q,What are the two speakers talking about?
6. W,What is the difference between a lesson and a lecture?
M,Well,they are both ways of imparting knowledge,but the main difference is that you participate in a lesson whereas you just listen to a lecture,A lecture is generally given to a much larger group.
Q,What does the man mean?
7. W,It’s awfully dark for four o’clock,Do you think it’s going to rain?
M,You’d better do something about that watch of yours,It must have stopped three hours ago,Mine says seven.
Q,What conclusion can we draw from this conversation?
8. M,You are looking a little overwhelmed.
W,Exactly,You know I got a million things to do and all of them have to be finished within three hours.
Q,What does the woman mean?
9. M,Ah,er! Looks like I’m going to be a little late for class.
I hope Professor Clark doesn’t start on time today.
W,Are you kidding? You can set your watch by the time he starts his class.
Q,What can be inferred about Professor Clark?
10. M,I’m both excited and nervous about the job interview this afternoon.
W,Take it easy,just wear a tidy and clean clothes and response truthfully to the inquiries and remember,honesty is the best policy.
Q,What do we learn about the man?
Section B
Passage One
Jane Brown,has been married for 12 years,she has three children and lives in a suburb outside Columbus Ohio,When her youngest child reached school age,Jane decided to go back to work,She felt that she should contribute to the household finances,Her salary could make the difference between the financial struggle and a secure financial situation for her family,Jane also felt bored and frustrated in her role as a home maker and wanted to be more involved in life outside her home,Jane was worried about the children’s adjustment to this new situation,but she arranged for them to go stay with a woman nearby after school each afternoon,They seemed to be happy with the arrangement,The problem seemed to be between Jane and her husband Bill.
When Jane was at home all day,she was able to clean the house,go grocery shopping,wash the clothes,take care of the children and cook the two or three meals each day,She was very busy,of course,but she succeeded in getting everything done,Now these same things need to be done,but Jane has only evenings and early mornings to do them,Both Jane and Bill are tired when they arrived at home at six p.m,Bill is accustomed to sitting down and reading the paper or watching
TV until the dinner is ready,This is exactly what Jane feels like doing,but someone has to fix the dinner,and Bill expects it to be Jane,Jane is becoming very angry at B ill’s attitude,She feels that they should share the household jobs,But Bill feels that everything should be the same as it was before when back to work.
11. Why did Jane want to go back to work?
12. How did Jane spend her days before she went back to work?
13. What problem arose when Jane went back to work?
14. What does the story try to tell us?
Passage Two
The decade for natural disaster reduction is a programme designed to reduce the impact of natural disasters throughout the world,With the support from the UN,countries will be encouraged to share information about disaster reduction,for instance,information about how to plan for and cope with hurricanes,earthquakes and other natural disasters,One of the most important things the programme plans to do is to remind us of what we can do to protect ourselves,For example,we can pack a suitcase with flashlights,a radio,food,drinking water and some tools,This safety case may help us survive disaster until help arrives,Besides,the programmes will encourage governments to establish building standards,emergency response plan and training plans,These measures can help to limit the destruction by natural disasters,The comparatively mild-effects of the northern California earthquake in 1989,are good evidence that we do have the technology to prevent vast destruction,The recent disasters,on the other hand,prove that people will suffer if we don’t use that technology,When a highway collapsed in northern California,people were killed in their cars,The highway was not built according to stricter standards to resist earthquakes,Individuals and governments have to be far-sighted,We should take extra time and spend extra money to build disaster safety into our lives,Although such programme can’t hold back the winds or stop earthquakes,they can save people’s lives and homes.
15. What is the purpose of the programme mentioned in this passage?
16. What can we learn from the northern California earthquake in 1989?
17. Why did the highway in northern California collapse?
Passage Three
Living at the foot of one of the most active volcanoes might not appeal to you at all,But believe it or not,the area surrounding Mount Etna in Italy is packed with people,In fact,it is the most densely-populated region on the whole island of Sicily,The reason is that rich volcanic soil makes the land fantastic for farming,By growing and selling a variety of crops,local people earn a good living.
For them,the economic benefit they reap surpasses the risk of dying or losing property in one of volcanoes frequent eruptions,People everywhere make decisions about risky situations this way,that is,by comparing the risks and the benefits,According to the experts,the size of the risks depends on both its probability and seriousness,Let’s take Mount Etna for example,it does erupt frequently
,but thousands of the eruptions are usually minor,so the overall risk for people living nearby is relatively small,But suppose Mount Etna erupted every day,or imagine that each eruption there killed thousands of people,if that were the case,the risk would be much larger,Indeed,the risk would be too large for many people to live with and they would have to move away.
18. How do people make decisions about risky situations?
19. What do we know about Mount Etna from the passage?
20. What will people living near Mount Etna do in the face of its eruptions?
2002年12月大学英语六级(CET-6)真题试卷试卷一
Part I Listening Comprehension (20 minutes)
Section A
1. A) It has nothing to do with the Internet.
B) She needs another week to get it ready.
C) It contains some valuable ideas.
D) It’s far from being ready yet.
2. A) The woman is strict with her employees.
B) The man always has excuses for being late.
C) The woman is a kind-hearted boss.
D) The man’s alarm clock didn’t work that morning.
3. A) The woman should try her luck in the bank nearby.
B) The bank around the corner is not open today.
C) The woman should use dollars instead of pounds.
D) The bank near the railway station closes late.
4. A) Make an appointment with Dr,Chen.
B) Call again some time later.
C) Wait for about three minutes.
D) Try dialing the number again.
5. A) He is sure they will succeed in the next test.
B) He did no better than the woman in the test.
C) He believes she will pass the test this time.
D) He felt upset because of her failure.
6. A) The woman has to attend a summer course to graduate.
B) The man thinks the woman can earn the credits.
C) The woman is begging the man to let her pass the exam.
D) The woman is going to graduate from summer school.
7. A) Fred is planning a trip to Canada.
B) Fred usually flies to Canada with Jane.
C) Fred persuaded Jane to change her mind.
D) Fred likes the beautiful scenery along the way to Canada.
8. A) Hang some pictures for decoration.
B) Find room for the paintings.
C) Put more coats of paint on the wall.
D) Paint the walls to match the furniture.
9. A) He’ll give a lecture on drawing.
B) He doesn’t mind if the woman goes to the lecture.
C) He’d rather not go to the lecture.
D) He’s going to attend the lecture.
10. A) Selecting the best candidate.
B) Choosing a campaign manager.
C) Trying to persuade the woman to vote for him.
D) Running for chairman of the student union.
Section B
Passage One
Questions 11 to 14 are based on the passage you have just heard.
11. A) To study the problems of local industries.
B) To find ways to treat human wastes.
C) To investigate the annual catch of fish in the Biramichi River.
D) To conduct a study on fishing in the Biramichi River.
12. A) Lack of oxygen.
B) Overgrowth of water plants.
C) Low water level.
D) Serious pollution upstream.
13. A) They’ll be closed down.
B) They’re going to dismiss some of their employees.
C) They’ll be moved to other places.
D) They have no money to build chemical treatment plants.
14. A) Because there were fewer fish in the river.
B) Because over-fishing was prohibited.
C) Because the local Chamber of Commerce tried preserve fishes.
D) Because the local fishing cooperative decided to reduce its catch.
Passage Two
Questions 15 to 17 are based on the passage you have just heard.
15. A) Oral instructions recorded on a tape.
B) A brief letter sealed in an envelope.
C) A written document of several pages.
D) A short note to their lawyer.
16. A) Refrain from going out with men for five years.
B) Stop wearing any kind of fashionable clothes.
C) Bury the dentist with his favorite car.
D) Visit his grave regularly for five years.
17. A) Because he was angry with his selfish relatives.
B) Because he was just being humorous.
C) Because he was not a wealthy man.
D) Because he wanted to leave his body for medical purposes.
Passage Three
Questions 18 to 20 are based on the passage you have just heard.
18. A) They thought it quite acceptable.
B) They believed it to be a luxury.
C) They took it to be a trend.
D) They considered it avoidable.
19. A) Critical.
B) Serious.
C) Sceptical.
D) Casual.
20. A) When people consider marriage an important part of their lives.
B) When the costs of getting a divorce become unaffordable.
C) When the current marriage law is modified.
D) When husband and wife understand each other better.
2002年12月六级参考答案
Part I Listening Comprehension
1. D
2. B
3. D
4. B
5. B
6. A
7. C
8. A
9. D
10. D
11. D
12. A
13. D
14. A
15. C
16. A
17. A
18. D
19. D
20. A
2002年12月六级听力原文
Section A:
1. M,How well are you prepared for your presentation? Your turn comes on next Wednesday.
W,I spend a whole week searching on the net,But it came up with nothing valuable.
Q,What did the women say about her presentation?
2. W,Good morning,Jack,Late again! What’s the excuse this time?
M,I’m awfully sorry I must have turned the alarm off and gone back to sleep again.
Q,What do we learn from the conversation?
3. W,Excuse me,but could you tell me where I can change American Dollars into British Pounds?
M,There is a bank around the corner,but I’m afraid it’s already past it’s closing time,Why don’t you try the one near the railway station?
Q,What does the man mean?
4. M,Could I speak to Dr,Chen? She told me to call her today.
W,She’s not available right now,Would you like to try around three?
Q,What does the woman tell the man to do?
5. W,Oh dear,I’m afraid I’ll fail again in the national test,It’s the third time I took it.
M,Don’t be too upset,I have the same fate,Let’s try a fourth time.
Q,What does the man mean?
6. W,Professor Smith,I really need the credits to graduate this summer.
M,Here of this school,the credits are earned,not given.
Q,What do we learn from the conversation?
7. M,How did you go to Canada,Jane? Did you fly?
W,I was planning to,because it’s such a long trip by bus or by train,but Fred decided to drive and invited me to join him,It took us two days and one night.
Q,What can we infer from the conversation?
8. M,How do you like the way I’ve arranged the furniture in my living room?
W,Fine,but I think the walls could do with a few paintings.
Q,What does the woman suggest the man do?
9. W,I don’t imagine you have any interest in attending my lecture on drawing,do you?
M,Oh,yes,I do,Not that you remind me of it.
Q,What do we learn about the man from the conversation?
10. M,You are my campaign manager,What do you think we should do to win the election? I’m convinced I’m the best candidate for the chairman of the Student Union.
W,We won’t be able to win unless you get the majority votes from the women students.
Q,What is the man doing?
Section B
Passage One
There are some serious problems in the Biramichi river,The local chamber of commerce,which represents the industry in the area,hired me as a consultant to do a one year study on fishing in the Biramichi river and write a rep ort for them,This is my report:
One of the major problems in the Biramichi river is that the level of oxygen in the water is too low,Several chemicals have displaced the oxygen,This chemical pollution has two sources,the factories which dump polluted water directly into the river and the local community which dumps untreated human wastes into the river,The local town government has already spent 2 million dollars on waste water treatment projects,but it will cost another 27 million to complete the projects,It will take at least 15 years for the town to collect enough revenue from taxes to complete these projects,The factories here employ 17,000 people in an area where there is very little alternative employment,It is not economically practical to close or relocate the factories,Also the factories cannot afford to finance chemical treatment plants by themselves,Another problem is that the members of the Biramichi fishing cooperative are overfishing,Fishes are caught when they are on the way upstream to lay eggs,Consequently,not enough fish are left to reproduce in large number,The members of cooperative say that they had already reduced their annual catch by 50 percent,However,my studies indicate that they took fewer fish because there were fewer fish to catch,not because they were trying to preserve fishes.
Passage Two
Everybody has to die someday,but nobody likes to think about it,Even so,at sometime in their lives,most people manage to think about the question of how to make a will,If you have already made yours,it is probably just a few pages of writing,stating that you wish to leave everything to your family,That is the kind of will that the majority of people make,However,there are plenty of ways to make your will more interesting if you want to,To begin with,you don’t have to write it on paper,One man wrote his will on an envelope,another on the door,and a third on an egg,For some people,the most important part of their will is the part that says how they want to be buried,Mrs,Sandra West,a rich widow from Texas,decided that she wanted to be buried with her favorite car,In 1973,Mr,Green,a dentist from England,left most of his money to the nurse who worked for him if in 5 years she would not wear any kind of make-up or jewel or go out with men,Finally,let’s hope that your will is not like that of Dr,Wagner,who lived in America 100 years ago,His family,who had not been to see him for years,suddenly began to visit him when he became ill,What was worse,each person suggested to Dr,Wagner that they would like something to remember him by when he died,Greatly annoyed with them,Dr,Wagner wrote a will that would do this,to each of his four brothers,he left one of his legs or arms,his nephew got his nose and his two nieces each got an ear,His teeth went to his cousin,Then he set aside 1,000 dollars to pay for cutting his body and the rest of his money he left to the poor.
Passage Three
In recent years,there has been an unusually large number of divorces in the United States,In the past,when two people married each other,they intended to stay together for life,While today,many people marry believing that they can always get it divorce if the marriage does not work out,In the past,a large majority of the Americans frowned at the idea of divorce,Furthermore,many people believed that getting a divorce was a luxury that only the rich could afford,Indeed,getting a divorce was very expensive,However,since so many people have began to take a more casual view of marriage,it is interesting to know that the cost of get ting a divorce is lower,In fact,wherever you go in the United States today,it is not unusual to see newspaper ads that provide information on how and where to get a cheap divorce,Hollywood has always been known as the divorce capital of the world,The divorce rate among the movie stars is so high that it is difficult to know who is married to whom,Today many movie stars change husbands and wives as though they were changing clothes,Until marriage again become the serious and important part of people’s lives,we will probably continue to see a high rate of divorce.
2003年6月21日大学英语六级(CET-6)真题试卷
Part I Listening Comprehension (20 minutes)
Section A
1. A) Riding a horse.
B) Shooting a movie.
C) Playing a game.
D) Taking a photo.
2. A) She’ll type the letter for the man.
B) She’ll teach the man to operate the computer.
C) She doesn’t think his sister is a good typist.
D) She thinks the man should buy a computer.
3. A) John can share the magazine with her.
B) She wants to borrow John’s card.
C) She’ll let John use the journal first.
D) John should find another copy for himself.
4. A) She promised to help the man.
B) She came a long way to meet the man.
C) She took the man to where he wanted to go.
D) She suggested a way out of the difficulty for the man.
5. A) The train seldom arrives on time.
B) The schedule has been misprinted.
C) The speakers arrived at the station late.
D) The company has trouble printing a schedule.
6. A) To find a better science journal in the library.
B) Not to miss any chance to collect useful information.
C) To buy the latest issue of the magazine.
D) Not to subscribe to the journal.
7. A) She wants to borrow the man’s student ID card.
B) The tickets are less expensive than she expected.
C) She won’t be able to get any discount for the ticket.
D) The performance turned out to be disappointing.
8. A) Do the assignments towards the end of the semester.
B) Quit the history course and choose another one instead.
C) Drop one course and do it next semester.
D) Take courses with a lighter workload.
9. A) The organization of a conference.
B) The cost of renting a conference room.
C) The decoration of the conference room.
D) The job of cleaning up the dining-room.
10. A) Meet his client.
B) Prepare the dinner.
C) Work at his office.
D) Fix his car.
Section B
Passage One
Questions 11 to 13 are based on the passage you have just heard.
11. A) One of the bridges between North and South London collapsed.
B) The heart of London was flooded.
C) An emergency exercise was conducted.
D) 100 people in the suburbs were drowned.
12. A) 50 underground stations were made waterproof.
B) A flood wall was built.
C) An alarm system was set up.
D) Rescue teams were formed.
13. A) Most Londoners were frightened.
B) Most Londoners became rather confused.
C) Most Londoners took Exercise Floodcall calmly.
D) Most Londoners complained about the trouble caused by Exercise Floodcall.
Passage Two
Questions 14 to 16 are based on the passage you have just heard.
14. A) It limited their supply of food.
B) It made their eggshells too fragile.
C) It destroyed many of their nests.
D) It killed many baby bald eagles.
15. A) They found ways to speed up the reproduction of bald eagles.
B) They developed new types of feed for baby bald eagles.
C) They explored new ways to hatch baby bald eagles.
D) They brought in bald eagles from Canada.
16. A) Pollution of the environment.
B) A new generation of pest killers.
C) Over-killing by hunters.
D) Destruction of their natural homes.
Passage Three
Questions 17 to 20 are based on the passage you have just heard.
17. A) Whether it can be detected and checked.
B) Whether it will lead to widespread food shortage.
C) Whether global warming will speed up in the future.
D) Whether it will affect their own lives.
18. A) Many species have moved further north.
B) Many new species have come into existence.
C) Many species have developed a habit of migration.
D) Many species have become less sensitive to climate.
19. A) Storms and floods.
B) Disease and fire.
C) Less space for their growth.
D) Rapid increase of the animal population.
20. A) They will gradually die out.
B) They will be able to survive in the preserves.
C) They will have to migrate to find new homes.
D) They will face extinction without artificial reproduction.
2003年6月21日六级参考答案
Part I
1. D
2. B
3. A
4. C
5. A
6. D
7. C
8. C
9. B
10. A
11. C
12. B
13. C
14. B
15. D
16. D
17. D
18. A
19. B
20. C
2003年6月21日六级听力原文
Section A
Question 1
W,Raise your head a little bit and hold the saddle and smile a little,You look wonderful posing like that,Shall I crack the shutter? Shall I press the shutter?
M,Wait a minute,Let me put on a cowboy hat.
Q,What are the speakers doing?
W：头在抬起来一点，拿着那个鞍，笑一笑。你摆的姿势太棒了。我可以照了吗?（按快门了吗?）
M：等等，让我戴上这顶牛仔帽。
Q：谈话者在干什么?
Question 2
M,I’m still waiting for my sister to come back and type the application letter for me.
W,Why bother her,I’ll show you how to use the computer,It’s quite easy.
Q,What does the woman mean?
M：我在等我姐姐（妹妹）回来帮我打印求职信。
W：干嘛麻烦她?我示范给你看怎么使用电脑。非常简单。
Q：女士的话什么意思?
Question 3
M,Hey,where did you find the journal? I need it,too.
W,Right here on the shelf,Don’t worry,John,I’ll take it out on my card for both of us.
Q,What does the woman mean?
M：你在哪找到那本杂志的?我也需要。
W：我用我的（借书）卡借出来
Q：女士的话什么意思?
Question 4
M,Thank you for your helpful assistance,Otherwise,I’d surely have missed it,The place is so out of the way.
W,It was a pleasure meeting you,Good bye!
Q,Why did the man thank the woman?
M：谢谢你的帮助，不然我真迷路了，这地方太偏了。
W：很高兴遇见你。再见！
Q：男士为什么感谢女士?
Question 5
W,We are informed that the eleven thirty train is late again.
M,Why did the railway company even bother to print a schedule?
Q,What do we learn from the conversation?
W：有人告诉我们1130号列车会再次晚点。
M：本对话的大意是：车又晚了！铁路公司还费神搞什么时刻表啊?搞出来又不准。就跟没有一样。
Q：从对话中我们可以了解什么?
Question 6
M：Maybe I ought to subscribe to the Engineering Quarterly,It contains a lot of useful information.
W,Why not read it in the library and save some money?
Q,What is the woman’s advice to the man?
M：我可能会订阅Engineering Quarterly（一种季刊杂志），因为这种杂志里有很多有用的信息。
W：干嘛不在图书馆里看这杂志?还可以省点钱?
Q：女士给男士什么建议?
Question 7
M,I’ve been waiting all week for this concert,The performance is said to be excellent and with a student’s discount,the tickets will be really cheap,Student discount
W,Ah-huh,I’m afraid I left my Student ID card in the dorm.
Q,What does the woman imply?
M：我整个星期都在等待这场音乐会。据说表演精彩，而且学生还可以享受折扣，票价会非常便宜。
W：啊，恐怕我把学生证放宿舍里了。
Q：女士什么意思?
Question 8
M,Mr,Smith,our history professor,announced we would be doing two papers and three exams this semester,I wonder how I’m going to pull through when two other courses have similar requirements.
W,Well,can’t you drop one course and pick it up next semester?
Q,What does the woman suggest the man do?
M：我们的历史学教授，史密斯先生，宣布我们这学期要写两篇论文，还要通过三次考试。其他两门课也有同样的要求，我都不知道我怎么活了。
W：为什么不放弃一门课，明年再学?
Q：女士建议男士做什么?
Question 9
W,Renting a Conference Room at the hotel will cost us too much,We are already running in the red
M,How about using our dining room for the meeting?
Q,What’s worrying the woman?
W：在这个宾馆里租会议室的费用太高。公司现在财政困难。
M：哪就用我们的餐厅开会行了?
Q：女士担心什么?
Question 10
W,Jerry,can you pick me up after work today? I left my car at the garage.
M,I’m afraid I can’t,I have scheduled an appointment with a client at dinner time.
Q,What is the man going to do?
W：杰瑞，能不能今天来接我?我的车还在修理厂。
M：恐怕够呛，我和一个客户约好了晚饭时见。
Q：男士会做什么?
Section B
Passage One
A few months ago,millions of people in London heard alarms all over the town,The Emergency services,the Fire Departments,the Police,hospitals,and ambulances stood by,ready to go into action,In railway underground stations,people read notices and maps which told them where to go and what to do in the emergency,This was Exercise Flood Call,to prepare people for a flood emergency,London wasn’t flooded yet,but it is possible that it would be,In 1236 and in 1663,London was badly flooded,In 1928,people living in Westminster,the heart of London,drowned in floods,And in 1953,one hundred people,living on the eastern edge of the London suburbs were killed,again,in the floods,At last,Greater London Council took actions to prevent this disaster from happening again,Though a flood wall was built in the 1960s,Londoners still must be prepared for the possible disaster,If it happens,50 underground stations will be under water,Electricity,gas and phone services will be out of action,Roads will be drowned,It will be impossible to cross any of the bridges between north and south London,Imagine,London will look like the famous Italian city,Venice,But this Exercise Flood Call didn’t cause panic among Londoners,Most people knew it was just a warning,One lady said,“It’s a flood warning,isn’t it? The water doesn’t look high to me.”
Passage Two
America’s national symbol,the bald eagle,almost went extinct twenty years ago,but it has made a comeback,In fact,the U.S,Fish and Wild Life Service is considering the possibility of taking it off the Endangered Species List,Once,more than fifty hundred pairs of bald eagles nested across the country,but by 1960 that number had fallen below four hundred,The chief killer was the widely used DDT,Fish,soaked up DDT,died,and were washed up on shores,where bald eagles feasted on them,DDT prevented eagle egg shells from thickening,The shells became so thin that they shattered before the babies hatched,Fortunately,in 1972,a law was passed to ban DDT,which saved the bald eagle from total wipeout,And since then wild life biologists had reintroduced bald eagles from Canada to America,The result was that last year U.S,bird watchers counted eleven thousand six hundred and ten bald eagles in the country,If it were dropped from the Endangered Species List,the bald eagle would still be a threatened species,That means the bird would continue to get the same protection,No hunting allowed,and no disturbing of nests,But bald eagles still face tough times,The destruction of their natural homes could be the next DDT causing eagle numbers to drop quickly.
Passage Three
If the earth gets hotter in the new century,what will happen to animals and the plants which animals depend on for survival? The question offers another way of looking at the,Greenhouse Effect”,People have talked about the general problem of,Global Warming” for some time,But they were usually worried about things like whether to buy a home on the coast,Biologists and other scientists turn their attention to plants and animals at an important meeting that took place last October,They were reviewed evidence that plants and animals are sensitive to climate,Since the Ice Age ended ten thousand years ago and warmer temperatures returned to the northern latitudes,many species have migrated north,If the predictions about the Greenhouse are correct,temperatures will rise by the same amount in the next one hundred years as they did in the past ten thousand,Will animals and plants be able to adapt that quickly to change in the environment? Many won’t,Certain species will probably become very rare,Experts say plants under climate stress will be very open to disease and fire,Forest fires may become more common,That,in turn,man harm animals that depend on the trees for food will for shelter,Any preserves we set up to protect endangered species may become useless as the species are forced to migrate along with their natural homes,Change is a part of life,but rapid change,says scientist George Woodwell,is the enemy of life.
2003年9月大学英语六级(CET-6)真题试卷
Part I Listening Comprehension (20 minutes)
Section A
1. A) The lecture for next Monday is cancelled.
B) The lecture wasn’t as successful as expected.
C) The woman doesn’t want to attend the lecture.
D) The woman may attend next Monday’s lecture.
2. A) The woman has a very tight budget.
B) He does not think the fur coat is worth buying.
C) He’s willing to lend the woman money for the fur coat.
D) The woman is not careful enough in planning her spending.
3. A) Clean the kitchen.
B) Ask someone to fix the sink.
C) Find a bigger apartment for the lady.
D) Check the work done by the maintenance man.
4. A) The lens.
B) The price.
C) The flash.
D) The leather case.
5. A) She needs another haircut soon.
B) She thinks it worthwhile to try Sadermale’s.
C) She knows a less expensive place for a haircut.
D) She would like to make an appointment for the man.
6. A) The woman doesn’t want to cook a meal.
B) The woman wants to have a picnic.
C) The woman has a poor memory.
D) The woman likes Mexican food.
7. A) Everyone enjoyed himself at John’s panics.
B) The woman didn’t enjoy John’s parties at all.
C) It will be the first time for the man to attend John’s party.
D) The woman is glad to be invited to John’s house-warming party.
8. A) She lacks confidence in herself.
B) She is not interested in computer programming.
C) She has never signed up for any competition before.
D) She is sure to win the programming contest.
9. A) The man has an enormous amount of work to do.
B) The man has made plans for his vacation.
C) The man will take work with him on his vacation.
D) Work stacked up during the man’s last vacation.
10. A) She likes the job of feeding fish.
B) She finds her new job interesting.
C) She feels unfit for her new job.
D) She’s not in good health.
Section B
Passage One
Questions 11 to 13 are based on the passage you have just heard.
11. A) Rally support for their movement.
B) Liberate women from tedious housework.
C) Claim their rights to equal job opportunities.
D) Express their anger against sex discrimination.
12. A) It will bring a lot of trouble to the local people.
B) It is a popular form of art.
C) It will spoil the natural beauty of their surroundings.
D) It is popular among rock stars.
13. A) To show that mindless graffiti can provoke violence.
B) To show that Londoners have a special liking for graffiti.
C) To show that graffiti,in some cases,can constitute a crime.
D) To show that graffiti can make the environment more colorful.
Passage Two
Questions 14 to 16 are based on the passage you have just heard.
14. A) The Asian elephant is easier to tame.
B) The Asian elephant’s skin is more valuable.
C) The Asian elephant is less popular with tourists.
D) The Asian elephant produces ivory of a better quality.
15. A) From the captured or tamed elephants.
B) From the British wildlife protection group.
C) From elephant hunters in Thailand and Burma.
D) From tourists visiting the Thai-Burmese border.
16. A) Their taming for circuses and zoos.
B) The destruction of their natural homes.
C) Man’s lack of knowledge about their behavior.
D) The greater vulnerability to extinction than other species.
Passage Three
Questions 17 to 20 are based on the passage you have just heard.
17. A) They had lost their jobs as a result of the Industrial Revolution.
B) They had been suffering from political and religious oppression.
C) They wanted to flee from the widespread famine in Northern Europe.
D) They wanted to make a fortune there by starting their own businesses.
18. A) They might lose control of their members because of the increase in immigration.
B) Their members might find it difficult to get along with the newcomers.
C) The working condition of their members might deteriorate.
D) Their members might lose their jobs to the newcomers.
19. A) To impose restrictions on further immigration.
B) To improve the working conditions of immigrants.
C) To set a minimum wage level for new immigrants.
D) To put requirements on languages for newcomers.
20. A) They were looked down upon by European immigrants.
B) They had a hard time seeking equal job opportunities.
C) They worked very hard to earn a decent living.
D) They strongly opposed continued immigration.
2003年9月六级参考答案
Part I Listening Comprehension
1. D
2. D
3. B
4. B
5. C
6. A
7. B
8. A
9. A
10. C
11. D
12. B
13. C
14. A
15. A
16. B
17. A
18. D
19. A
20. C
2003年9月六级答案详解
Section A
1. D。这是一个推断题。对话中女士遗憾没能出席上周一的演讲，并且还了解到那是一个精彩的演讲。男士就说你可以弥补(you can make it up)。而且还补充道“Another presentation on the same topic is scheduled for the same time next Monday”。从而可以推断出答案D.
2. D。这是一个虚拟语气的推理题。女士说她想买她在商店里看见的毛皮大衣，但却没有足够的钱。男士就说要是你过去对钱更好地进行计划的话，现在就肯定可以买得起了；言下之意显然是指该女士以前对花销没进行计划，就是答案D.
3. B。这也是一个推断题。女士说她新公寓的洗涤槽漏水。男士说那是小事一桩，“I’ll have a maintenance man come over and fix it right away”。显然答案为B.
4. B。这是一个细节理解题。男士谈到XMO这款相机镜头好、闪光灯也不错，但“don’t you think the price is a little steep?”。下文也提到“The price includes the leather case,you know”，可得出答案B.
5. C。这是一个理解题。男士对女士说你相信在Sadermale这个地方一次剪发要花30美元吗。女士就建议他试试她常去的地方，只要15美元，不过要预约罢了。显然C是正确答案。
6. A。这是一个语意推理题。女士说自己太累了，建议出去吃，还说好久没在外面就餐了。男士赞同。根据女士的话可以推断出她不想做饭。
7. B。这也是一个语意推理题。男士问周末是否去参加约翰的家庭联谊会。女士对男士说你知道约翰家的聚会什么样子吗，你以为我会再去吗，言下之意显然是不想再去了。
8. A。这也是一个语意推理题。男士说大学里要举行一个有趣的计算机编程比赛，他的好多朋友都报了名，并问女士是否参加。女士说自己参加又能赢得什么好处呢。显然是对自己缺乏信心。故答案为A.不过B也有一定迷惑性。
9. A。这还是一个语意推理题。女士对男士说你工作太辛苦了，应该休息休息。男士幽默地说你把这话对我桌子上那对文件说吧，言下之意就是工作太多，身不由己。故答案A.
10. C。这是一个语意理解题。“a fish out of water”意为“英雄无用武之地”。文中男士问女士工作得怎样，女士用这一短语回答，就是答案C所表达的意思。
Section B
Passage One
【短文大意】本文主要介绍粗糙雕刻或墙上乱画(Graffiti)这样一种艺术形式以及不同时期不同地方不同的人们和它的联系、对它的看法以及它带来的危害等。
11. D。这是一个细节理解题。文中提到“Writing on walls is a way to comment on the world we live in”，并举例说明(Women’s liberation groups in Britain,for example,have used graffiti to show their anger at the sex discrimination of many advertisements where women’s bodies are used to sell goods)，就是答案D的意思。
12. B。这也是一个细节理解题。文中提到“Graffiti is also a popular art form”，也举例说明(In New York,graffiti pictures have been sold for hundreds of thousands of dollars)，所以B是正确答案。
13. C。这还是一个细节理解题。文章提到“But graffiti can bring us trouble”，同样举例说明(The London underground authority has spent about 2 million pounds a year on removing graffiti for trains and stations)，就是C表达的内容。
Passage Two
【短文大意】本文讲述的是有关亚洲象的情况。亚洲象和非洲象一样，同属世界珍稀动物，但是它悲惨的生存环境不如非洲象那样被引起重视。接着还谈到了两种象的差异、我们了解亚洲象的渠道以及亚洲象减少的原因等。
14. A。这是一个细节题。文中虽然谈到人们对他们生存环境了解的差异，但涉及到两种象之间的差异，作者还是说到了“Asian elephants are easier to tame than African elephants”这样一个细节。所以答案为A.
15. A。这也是一个细节题。文中谈到我们对亚洲象了解的渠道时说“In fact,we know very little about the Asian elephant,They live in the remote forests of southern Asia and it is therefore very difficult to study them”。但是接着谈到“Most knowledge of Asian elephants is from those that have been captured,or tamed”。这就是A表达的内容。
16. B。这还是一个细节理解题。谈到亚洲象减少的主要原因，作者说“The major reason for the decline of Asian elephants is the harm to their forests”，而“forests”是他们自然生存的家。所以B是正确答案。
Passage Three
【短文大意】本文介绍的是有关美国移民增长的原因及移民增长带来的问题、对移民增长问题的对策以及亚裔移民主要状况等。
17. A。这是一个细节题。在描述美国早期移民情况时，作者谈到“This brought to America flocks of people from northern Europe who lost employment in the Industrial Revolution”，这就是早期北欧人移民美国定居的原因。即答案A所描述的内容。
18. D。这也是一个细节题。随着大量移民的涌入，而且他们一向趋于贫困，所以“they were willing to work for very low wages”。因此“This made other workers,especially those in labor unions,afraid that the immigrants with the lower wage level would take jobs away from them”。故答案D正确。
19. A。这还是一个细节题。上文提到大量移民的涌入，引起国内一些人(比如工会)的担忧甚至反对，接下来只要听出这个句子“This opposition finally led to the posting of immigration law in the 1920’s,which restricted further immigration”，就可以得出答案A.
20. C。这同样是一个细节题。只要听出文章最后两句话“Asians,like Koreans and Vietnamese,soon began to arrive,Many of these newcomers have worked very hard to establish themselves in their new land”，就可以得出答案C了。
2003年9月六级听力原文
Part I Listening Comprehension
Section A
1. W,I’m sorry I wasn’t able to attend the lecture last Monday,I’ve heard it was quite a success.
M,Well,you can make it up,Another presentation on the same topic is scheduled for the same time next Monday.
Q,What do we learn from this conversation?
2. W,I certainly would like to buy the fur coat I saw in the department store,but I don’t have enough money.
M,Well,if you had budgeted your money better,you would be able to buy it now.
Q,What does the man imply?
3. W,Mr,Dahli,I’ve just checked my new apartment,The kitchen sink is leaking.
M,Okay Donna,It’s no big deal,I’ll have a maintenance man come over and fix it right away.
Q,What will the man do?
4. M,I saw your advertisement in the morning paper concerning the XMO model,The lens seems to be excellent and the flash is not bad,but don’t you think the price is a little steep?
W,I think it’s a good buy,The price includes the leather case,you know.
Q,Why did the man dislike about the camera?
5. M,Can you believe I had to pay $ 30 for a haircut at Sadermale.
W,You should try the place where I go,It’s only 15,but it takes a while to get an appointment.
Q,What does the woman mean?
6. W,I am completely exhausted,Why don’t we dine out tonight? I don’t remember the last time you took me out to dinner.
M,That’s not a bad idea,There’s a new Mexican restaurant around the corner,They say it’s good.
Q,What can be inferred from the conversation?
7. M,Shall we go to John’s house-warming party this weekend? Everyone is invited.
W,Well,you know what John’s parties are like,Do you think I will go a gain?
Q,What can be inferred from the conversation?
8. M,The University is going to hold an interesting competition on computer programming,Many of my friends have signed up for it,How about you?
W,Do you think I could ever win anything if I took part in it?
Q,What do we learn from the conversation about the woman?
9. W,You’ve been working like a horse,You should take a vacation.
M,Tell that to the stack of papers on my desk.
Q,What can be inferred from the conversation?
10. M,Hi,Mary,I haven’t seen you in ages,How are you doing with your new job?
W,Not so well,I feel like a fish out of water doing that job.
Q,What does the woman mean?
Section B
Passage One
Graffiti is drawing or writing often found in a wall in public places,These drawings and writings are usually rude,humorous,or political,The words Graffiti” comes from an Italian word meaning address,Graffiti provides a record of the past because people have written on walls for centuries,Cave drawings are the earliest examples we have of the art of graffiti.
Writing on walls is a way to comment on the world we live in,Women’s liberation groups in Britain,for example,have used graffiti to show their anger at the sex discrimination of many advertisements where women’s bodies are used to sell goods.
Yesterday’s graffiti can be today’s foreign attraction,When the Berlin wall ca me down in 1989,people found that it was covered with graffiti from all over the world,Graves of famous people,like rock-star Jim Morrison,are covered with written messages from fans.
Graffiti is also a popular art form,Graffiti pictures have gained respect in artistic circles,Today,graffiti is likely to be found hanging inside modern,New York apartments as well as in the downtown streets,In New York,graffiti pictures have been sold for hundreds of thousands of dollars,Graffiti artists have been paid to use their art to brighten up dull environments.
But graffiti can bring us trouble,Scenes of natural beauty and important landmarks have been spoiled by mindless graffiti,The London underground authority has spent about 2 million pounds a year on removing graffiti for trains and stations,If you are caught doing it,you can be sent to person,In Britain,the maxim um sentence for this type of crime is ten years.
Whether you think graffiti is mindless violence against property,or a living art form,its popularity suggests that it is here to stay.
Passage Two
The Asian elephant is one of the world’s rarest animal,Unfortunately,its sad condition has not been as well publicized as that of the African elephant,This is because Asian elephant’s ivory supplies only a small percentage of the world ivory trade,In fact,we know very little about the Asian elephant,They live in the remote forests of southern Asia and it is therefore very difficult to study them,Most knowledge of Asian elephants is from those that have been captured,or tamed,Asian elephants are easier to tame than African elephants,The elephants you see in the circuses and zoos are nearly always Asian.
The major reason for the decline of Asian elephants is the harm to their forests,The huge increase in the human population has caused the destruction of the Asian forest for human population,As a result,the Asian elephants are compelled to scatter in different areas,Originally they lived all over the continent,but now there are only small isolated populations left,These isolated elephant populations are vulnerable to extinction.
While Asian elephants are threatened by illegal capture and detaining,they are also killed for ivory and skin,In July 1990,a British wildlife group uncovered a black market for elephant skin,Elephants are shot in the forest along the border between Thailand and Burma,and their skin was sold to factories in Bangkok,T heir skin is made into shoes,belts,suitcases,wallets,etc,to sell to tourists.
Passage Three
After the early period of settlements,the first sharp increase in immigration took place in the 1830’s and 1840’s,This brought to America flocks of people from northern Europe who lost employment in the Industrial Revolution,and then a great number of Irish people who fled from famine,German political refugees arrived shortly after,Many immigrants from northern and western Europe settled on farms in the Middle-west,The Irish became construction laborers on roads,bridges,and railroads.
In the 1880’s,a tremendous flood of immigrants began coming in,this time largely from southern and eastern Europe,To most Americans,these newcomers seemed far more strange than the early settlers,Their languages,customs,and ways of life were very different from those of Americans,The newcomers moved into the poorest neighborhood of the large cities,They tended to stay together and cling to their old ways,As they were accustomed to poverty,they were willing to work for very low wages,This made other workers,especially those in labor unions,afraid that the immigrants with the lower wage level would take jobs away from them,Indeed,organized labor became one of the key opponents of continued immigration.
This opposition finally lead to the posting of immigration law in the 1920’s,which restricted further immigration,In 1965,these unfair laws were replaced by a new immigration act,which granted equal opportunities to foreigners,regardless of their place of origin,Asians,like Koreans and Vietnamese,soon began to arrive,Many of these newcomers have worked very hard to establish themselves in their new land.
17. Why did northern European people come to settle down in the United States?
18. What did the labor unions worry about?
19. What was the purpose of the immigration law passed in the 1920’s?
20. What do we know from the passage about Asian immigrants?
2003年12月大学英语六级(CET-6)真题试卷试卷一
Part I Listening Comprehension (20 minutes)
Section A
1. A) She knows where Martha has gone.
B) Martha will go to the concert by herself.
C) It is quite possible for the man to find Martha.
D) The man is going to meet Martha at the concert.
2. A) The air pollution is caused by the development of industry.
B) The city was poor because there wasn’t much industry then.
C) The woman’s exaggerating the seriousness of the pollution.
D) He might move to another city very soon.
3. A) The man should work harder to improve his grades.
B) The man will benefit from the effort he’s put in.
C) It serves the man right to get a poor grade.
D) It was unfair of the teacher to give the man a C.
4. A) She can make a reservation at the restaurant.
B) The man should decide where to eat.
C) She already has plans for Saturday night.
D) The man should ask his brother for suggestions.
5. A) The man deserved the award.
B) The woman helped the man succeed.
C) The man is thankful to the woman for her assistance.
D) The woman worked hard and was given an award.
6. A) Voluntary work can help the man establish connections with the community.
B) The man’s voluntary work has left him little room in his schedule.
C) Voluntary work with the environment council requires a time commitment.
D) A lot of people have signed up for voluntary work with the environment council.
7. A) The patient must receive treatment regularly.
B) The patient can’t leave the hospital until the bleeding stops.
C) The patient’s husband can attend to the business in her place.
D) The patient must take a good rest and forget about her business.
8. A) Alice does not know much about electronics.
B) Alice is unlikely to find a job anywhere.
C) Alice is not interested in anything but electronics.
D) Alice is likely to find a job in an electronics company.
9. A) Jimmy is going to set out tonight.
B) Jimmy has not decided on his journey.
C) There is no need to have a farewell dinner.
D) They may have a dinner when Jimmy’s back.
10. A) The woman had been planning for the conference.
B) The woman called the man but the line was busy.
C) The woman didn’t come back until midnight.
D) The woman had guests all evening.
Section B
Passage One
Questions 11 to 13 are based on the passage you have just heard.
11. A) They are delighted because they can enjoy the scenery while driving.
B) They are frightened because traffic accidents are frequent.
C) They are irritated because the bridge is jammed with cars.
D) They are pleased because it saves them much time.
12. A) They don’t have their own cars to drive to work.
B) Many of them are romantic by temperament.
C) Most of them enjoy the drinks on the boat.
D) They tend to be more friendly to each other.
13. A) Many welcome the idea of having more bars on board.
B) Many prefer the ferry to maintain its present speed.
C) Some suggest improving the design of the deck.
D) Some object to using larger luxury boats.
Passage Two
Questions 14 to 16 are based on the passage you have just heard.
14. A) Coca Cola.
B) Sausage.
C) Milk.
D) Fried chicken.
15. A) He has had thirteen decayed teeth.
B) He doesn’t have a single decayed tooth.
C) He has fewer decayed teeth than other people of his age.
D) He never had a single tooth pulled out before he was fifty.
16. A) Brush your teeth right before you go to bed in the evening.
B) Have as few of your teeth pulled out as possible.
C) Have your teeth X-rayed at regular intervals.
D) Clean your teeth shortly after eating.
Passage Three
Questions 17 to 20 are based on the passage you have just heard.
17. A) A visit to a prison.
B) The influence of his father.
C) A talk with some miserable slaves.
D) His experience in the war between France and Austria.
18. A) He sent surgeons to serve in the army.
B) He provided soldiers with medical supplies.
C) He recruited volunteers to care for the wounded.
D) He helped to free the prisoners of war.
19. A) All men are created equal.
B) The wounded and dying should be treated for free.
C) A wounded soldier should surrender before he receives any medical treatment.
D) A suffering person is entitled to help regardless of race,religion or political beliefs.
20. A) To honor Swiss heroes who died in the war.
B) To show Switzerland was neutral.
C) To pay tribute to Switzerland.
D) To show gratitude to the Swiss government for its financial support.
2003年12月六级参考答案
Part I Listening Comprehension (20 minutes)
1. C
2. A
3. B
4. B
5. D
6. C
7. B
8. A
9. C
10. D
11. C
12. D
13. B
14. A
15. B
16. D
17. A
18. C
19. D
20. C
2003年12月六级答案详解
Part I Listening Comprehension
Section A
1. C。这是一个理解题。男士问女士刚才是否看见玛莎，并且提到他今晚将和玛莎一起去音乐会，女士回答说玛莎就在附近，他应该可以找到她(You might still be able to catch her.)显然答案为C.
2. A。这是一个推理题。女士抱怨说自己再也无法忍受城市越来越糟糕的空气污染，男士说正是如此，以前从没有过这么多的工厂。他间接地表达了工业的发展导致了空气污染加重的事实。所以A对。
3. B。这是一个理解题。男士说想想他在试卷上写了那么多才得了C,言下之意好象得不偿失。女士说她认为分数并不重要，重要的是在努力过程中所学会的东西才对将来工作有帮助，也就是B所表达的意思。
4. B。这是一个理解题。男士说自己的哥哥或弟弟周末要来，问女士三个人一起到外面就餐如何?女士说由男士决定，自己对附近的餐馆不了解。从对话谈论的内容就可以知道女士是让男士自己就这一问题拿主意，即答案为B.
5. D。这是一个推理题。女士对男士表示谢意说没有他的帮助自己不可能得奖。男士说她一直努力，理所应当。答案为D.其实本题也可用排除法，即区分谁得了奖，同样就可以得出答案D.
6. C。这是一个理解题。男士说他想报名参加一些环境委员会组织的义务工作，他听别人说这是一个了解社区的好途径。女士说确实如此，但得投入许多时间，所以她建议男士在时间安排中留出些时间。题干问的是女士的话语意思，所以选C.
7. B。这是一个理解题。女士问男士自己什么时候可以离开，她有一些重要的事务要处理。男士说那要取决于治疗情况，血一止住就可以走，不过他认为要化好几天时间。显然，男士(即医生)的意思是B的内容。
8. A。这是一个理解题。男士说自己得知艾丽斯要到一家电子公司求职。女士说就自己所知，艾丽斯对电子一窍不通。本题主要考对“anything but”的听力理解。所以女士的意思是A.
9. C。这是一个推理题。男士说吉米明天要去旅行了，今晚要举行告别宴会吗?女士说有必要吗?吉米只离开几天啊!言下之意就是C的内容。
10. D。这是一个有关虚拟语气的推理题。男士说，关于语言教学研讨会的计划，他以为女士昨晚会给他打电话(当然，结果没打)。女士说，本来该打的，很抱歉(结果没打)；因为汤姆和简顺便来访且一直呆到深夜。所以选D.
Section B
Passage One
【短文大意】金门桥把美丽的旧金山市和郊区和北部连接起来。每天有近十万辆载人的汽车来回穿梭在大桥上。其中有一半多的人是在早晚交通高峰期时过桥的，因此旅程苦不堪言。
然而现在有一群快乐的通勤者，他们从桥下而不是从桥上通过，他们很高兴坐半小时的船上班，其中一些人甚至对未来渡口决定采用15分钟的快船并不那么欢迎。
11. C。题目问的是，在作者看来，乘车通过金门桥的人感受如何?根据其中一句“More than half of them cross the bridge during the morning and evening rush hours when traffic is so heavy the trip is not pleasant.”可知答案为C.即使这一句不太清楚，下面一句转折的话也可以帮助推测“Now however there is at least one group of happy commuters.”
12. D。题目问作者如何描述选择坐船的通勤者?本题可采用排除法，排除A和B,文中没有提及。再根据其中一句“Best of all,being on a boat seems to make people more friendly toward each other.”可得出D.
13. B。题目问坐船的通勤者对渡口未来的计划如何反应?根据短文最后两句话“But not everyone is happy about that,A lot of people feel that half an hour is just enough time to relax.”显然答案为B.
Passage Two
【短文大意】福斯梯克医生进行了一个为期两年的实验来调查怎样预防或减少蛀虫。有946个学生参加了实验。其中有523位学生在可能的情况下餐后十分钟用牙刷刷牙，不可能的时候就彻底地用水洗了口。剩余的423位学生只在早晚用牙刷刷牙。一年后后者患虫牙的机率比前者高三倍。两年后前者蛀牙率比后者少53%。福斯梯克医生十三年来一直坚持在每餐饭后刷牙，因此没有一颗蛀牙。他指出糖是牙齿腐烂的一个主要因素。而预防的一个主要途径就是用水洗口。
14. A。题目问的是：根据短文，哪一种食物最可能导致牙齿的衰退?福斯梯克医生已经指出糖是牙齿衰退的一个主要因素，“Particularly the sugar in sweets,cakes,and soft drinks.”。
15. B。题目问的是：文章告诉了我们什么关于福斯梯克医生牙齿的情况?根据文中句子“Dr,Faustick has cleaned his teeth after meal for thirteen years and has not had a single decayed tooth.”和“7 of out 10 people loose at least half of their teeth by the time they are fifty.”以及“Many have a complete set of false teeth by that time.”，可以推而得知。
16. D。题目问的是：福斯梯克医生提出了什么建议来预防牙齿衰退?根据短文中的句子“Ideally you should keep a tooth brush in your pocket and use it immediately after you have finished eating.”和上文中的实验以及福斯梯克医生的亲身经历“Dr,Faustick has cleaned his teeth after meal for thirteen years and has not had a single decayed tooth.”，可以得出答案D.
Passage Three
【短文大意】本文讲的是国际红十字会组织的诞生。文中提到1838年，十岁的邓伦特被他的父亲带到一所监狱看见了一群用铁链锁住的囚犯在院子中沿着道路粉碎石头，使他萌发了要为失去自由的囚犯和倍受压迫的奴隶做点工作的念头。又提到1859 年6月 24 日他在从日内瓦到法国的途中目击了法国和奥地利军队之间战争的残酷，决定组织志愿服务者。他聚集了许多妇女来照顾不同国籍的伤兵和帮助外科医生进行救治。他认为：遭受痛苦的人不受种族、宗教和政治信仰的限制都应该得到救治。后来他的建议得到许多欧洲国家支持，并且在1864 年8月22 日签署了第一个日内瓦协议。为了纪念瑞士的贡献，又以颠倒的瑞士国旗为会旗。
17. A。题目问的是：什么最初使得邓伦特想到要帮助受压迫者?文中提到1838年，十岁的邓伦特被他的父亲带到一所监狱看见了一群用铁链锁住的囚犯在院子中沿着道路粉碎石头，使他萌发了要为失去自由的囚犯和倍受压迫的奴隶做点工作的念头。所以选A.
18. C。题目问的是：法国和奥地利战争期间邓伦特做了什么?文中提到他在从日内瓦到法国的途中目击了法国和奥地利军队之间战争的残酷，决定组织自愿服务。他聚集了许多妇女来照顾不同国籍的伤兵和帮助外科医生进行救治。因此选C.
19. D。题目问的是：邓伦特在创建国际红十字会组织的时候有什么信念?文中提到他认为：遭受痛苦的人不受种族、宗教和政治信仰的限制都应该只因为他自身而得到救治。故D对。
20. C。题目问的是：为什么国际红十字会组织的标志设计为白底红十字?为了纪念瑞士的贡献，又以颠倒的瑞士国旗为会旗。所以选C.
2003年12月六级听力原文
Section A
1. M,Did you see Martha just now? I want to ask her to go with us to the concert tonight.
W,She must be around somewhere,You might still be able to catch her.
Q,What does the woman mean?
2. M,I can’t bare the air pollution in this city anymore,It is getting worse and worse.
W,You said it,We’ve never had so many factories before.
Q,What does the man mean?
3. M,Just think I went through so much work on my paper only to get a C.
W,Well,I don’t think grades are everything,What you have learned in the process will prove useful in your future work.
Q,What does the woman imply?
4. M,My brother is coming this weekend,and I was thinking the three of us could go out to dinner Saturday night,Any suggestions?
W,It’s up to you,I don’t know the restaurant here that well.
Q,What does the woman mean?
5. M,I couldn’t have won the award without your assistance,Thank you very much.
M,You have been working so hard,You deserve the honor.
Q,What do we learned from the conversation?
6. M,I’d like to sign up for some voluntary work with the environment council,I hear it is a great way to connect with the community.
W,It sure is,But you’ll have to put in a lot of hours,So you must leave some room in scheduling your time.
Q,What does the woman imply?
7. M,Can you tell me when I can leave here,doctor? I have some important business to attend to.
M,That depends on how your condition reacts to our treatment,You may leave as soon as the bleeding stops,I think that will take a couple of days.
Q,What does the doctor mean?
8. M,I’m told Alice is trying to find a job in an electronics company.
W,As far as I know,she is good at anything but electronics.
Q,What does the woman mean?
9. M,Jimmy is going on a journey tomorrow,Shall we have a farewell dinner tonight?
W,Do you think it’s necessary? You know he will be away just a few days.
Q,What does the woman mean?
10. M,I thought you were going to call me last night about the plans for the conference on language teaching.
W,Sorry,I should have,but Tom and Jane stopped by and stayed until midnight.
Q,What do we learn from the conversation?
Section B
Passage One
The Golden Gate Bridge joins the beautiful city of San Francisco with the suburbs to the north,Each day about one hundred thousand automobiles cross the bridge taking people to and from the city,More than half of them cross the bridge during the morning and evening rush hours,When traffic is so heavy the trip is not pleasant,Now,however,there is at least one group of happy commuters,These are the people who travel under the bridge instead of on it,They go to work by boat and enjoy it so much that most of them say they will never go by car again,The ferry they take is spacious,quiet and comfortable,Commuters can enjoy the sun on deck,In the morning they can have breakfast in the coffee shop,And in the evening they can order a drink in the bar while looking at the beautiful scenery,The trip takes only 30 minutes and is not very costly,Best of all,being on a boat seems to make people more friendly toward each other,There has already been a marriage of two commuters who met on the ferry,Because the ferry has been so successful,there are plans to use other still larger boats,The re is also a proposal for a high speed boat that will make the trip in only 15 minutes,But not everyone is happy about that,A lot of people feel that half an hour is just enough time to relax.
11. According to the speaker how do commuters feel about crossing the Golden Gate Bridge by car?
12. What does the speaker say about ferry commuters?
13. How do commuters respond to plans for the future of the ferry?
Passage Two
How many teeth have you had filled in the past two years? If you follow the adv ice of Dr,Faustick,you may be able to reduce the number of your visits to a dentist,Dr,Faustick conducted a two-year survey to find out how to prevent or re duce dental decay,946 students took part in an experiment,523 students cleaned their teeth within ten minutes of eating,when possible they used a toothbrush,when this was impossible they washed their mouth thoroughly with water,The remaining 423 students merely cleaned their teeth when they went to bed and when they got up in the morning,All the students had their teeth X-rayed at the end of the first and second years,At the end of the first year,the night and morning group had three times as many decayed teeth as the clean after each meal group,At the end of the second year the latter group had 53 percent fewer decayed teeth than the former group,Dr,Faustick has cleaned his teeth after meal for thirteen years and has not had a single decayed tooth,He pointed out that sugar is a major agent in dental decay,Particularly the sugar in sweets,cakes,and soft drinks,Ideally you should keep a tooth brush in your pocket and use it immediately after you have finished eating,When this is impractical you can at least make sure that you have a drink of water and let the water through your teeth to force out any particles of food,7 out of 10 people loose at least ha lf of their teeth by the time they are fifty,Many have a complete set of false teeth by that time,In any case neither toothache nor a visit to a dentist is very pleasant,So it is worthwhile making an effort to keep you own teeth as long as possible,The main preventative agent is simply water.
14. According to the passage what kind of food is most likely to cause dental decay?
15. What does the passage tell us about the condition of Dr,Faustick’s teeth?
16. What does Dr,Faustick suggest to prevent dental decay?
Passage Three
The worldwide Organization of the Red Cross stems from the ideal of Henri Dunant,a Swiss Banker,In 1838,at the age of ten,Dunant was taken by his father to visit a prison,there he saw prisoners chained together exercising in the yard and breaking stones along the road,This experience left a deep impression on him and made him determined to do something for convicts and slaves and for all who were oppressed and deprived of their liberty,On 24th June 1859 while on his way from Geneva to France,Dunant witnessed the battle between the French and Austrian armies,It was one of the fiercest battles of the 19th century,Shocked by the lack of medical supplies and attention given to the wounded,Dunant decided that a volunteer service had to be organized,He gathered together a number of women who attended to the hundreds of wounded soldiers of all nationalities and helped the surgeons as best they could,From that battle Dunant determined to form a body of people who would rally together in times of war and attend to the needs of wounded and dying,Dunant held that a suffering human being should be helped for his own sake only and without regard to race,religion,or political beliefs,Many European states supported him and on 22nd August 1864 the first Geneva Convention was signed,This lays down that once a soldier is wounded he and everyone else who comes to his help ceases to be an enemy,A symbol by which the relief workers could be recognized was devised,As a tribute to Switzerland,the symbol was the Swiss flag reversed,That is a red cross on a white ground,So the Red Cross was born.
17. What first led Henri Dunant to think of helping the oppressed?
18. What did Henri Dunant do during the battle between the French and Austrian armies?
19. What was Henri Dunant’s belief when he founded the Red Cross?
20. Why was the symbol of the Red Cross designed with a red cross on a white ground?
2004年6月大学英语六级(CET-6)真题试卷B卷
Part I Listening Comprehension (20 minutes)
Section A
1. A) Dick has bad taste in clothes.
B) The color of Dick’s jacket is too dark.
C) Dick’s trousers don’t match his jacket.
D) Dick looks funny in that yellow jacket.
2. A) Get the wallet for the man.
B) Call the police station.
C) Show the man her family pictures.
D) Ask to see the man’s driver’s license.
3. A) She is afraid the new epidemic SARS will soon spread all over town.
B) The temperature is not as high as the man claims.
C) The room will get cool if the man opens the windows.
D) She is following instructions not to use the air-conditioning.
4. A) She was never persistent in anything she did.
B) She had a unique way of staying healthy.
C) She stopped exercising two years ago.
D) She lost a lot of weight in two years.
5. A) The application arrived a week earlier than expected.
B) The job has been given to someone else.
C) The man is not suitable for the position,
D) She had received only one application letter.
6. A) He thinks his mother should get the clothes back.
B) He will go before the laundry is closed.
C) He’s unwilling to fetch the laundry.
D) He has already picked up the laundry.
7. A) At an international trade fair.
B) At an electronics company.
C) At a DVD counter in a music store.
D) At a shopping center.
8. A) The woman regrets going to the movie.
B) The woman prefers light movies before sleep.
C) The woman saw a comedy instead of a horror movie.
D) The woman hated the man talking throughout the movie.
9. A) He is a man with professional expertise.
B) He is not likely to get the job.
C) He is not easy to get along with.
D) He is the fight man to get the job done.
10. A) It is a very good place to relax.
B) It should revolutionize its technology.
C) It should change its concept of operation.
D) It is being forced out of the entertainment industry.
Section B
Passage One
Questions 11 to 13 are based on the passage you have just heard.
11. A) He was the most distinguished diplomat in American history.
B) He set up the first university in America.
C) He was one of the earliest settlers in America.
D) He can best represent the spirit of early America.
12. A) He represented Washington in negotiations with Britain.
B) He provided Washington with a lot of money.
C) He persuaded France to support Washington.
D) He served as a general in Washington’s army.
13. A) As one of the founding fathers of the United States.
B) As one of the greatest American scholars.
C) As one of America’s most ingenious inventors.
D) As one of the most famous activists for human rights.
Passage Two
Questions 14 to 17 are based on the passage you have just heard.
14. A) Because we might meet many successful executives in the media industry.
B) Because we might be offered a dish of insects.
C) Because nothing but freshly cooked insects are served.
D) Because some yuppies like to horrify guests with insects as food.
15. A) On the Internet.
B) In the supermarket.
C) In the seafood market.
D) From yuppie clubs.
16. A) It’s safe to eat.
B) It’s easy to prepare.
C) It’s exotic in appearance.
D) It’s tasty and healthful.
17. A) It is unlikely to be enjoyed by most People.
B) It will have to be changed to suit local tastes.
C) It will become the first course at dinner parties.
D) It will be consumed by more and more young people.
Passage Three
Questions 18 to 20 are based on the passage you have just heard.
18. A) They don’t have enough service windows.
B) Their business hours are limited.,,
C) Their safety measures are inadequate.
D) Their banking procedures are complicated.
19. A) People who have computers at home.
B) Young people who are fond of modern technology.
C) Young people who are wealthy and well-educated.
D) People who are in the habit of switching from one bank to another.
20. A) To provide services for distant clients.
B) To compete for customers.
C) To reduce the size of their staff.
D) To expand their operations at a lower cost.
2004年6月六级参考答案
Part I
1. C
2. A
3. D
4. D
5. B
6. C
7. A
8. A
9. B
10. C
11. D
12. C
13. A
14. B
15. A
16. D
17. A
18. B
19. C
20. B
2004年6月六级听力原文
1. W,Oh,Dick,You are wearing a black jacket but yellow trousers,It’s the strangest combination I’ve ever seen.
M,I know,I got up late and dressed in a hurry,I didn’t realize my mistake until I entered the office.
Q,What does the woman think of the way Dick dressed?
2. M,Excuse me,But has anyone turned in a brown leather wallet? I’ve lost my wallet,It contains my driver’s license and also some family pictures that are pretty important to me.
W,Oh,yes,We had a wallet brought in this morning,Wait here just a minute,please.
Q,What would the woman probably do?
3. M,Excuse me,Madam,Is the air-conditioning on? This room is as hot as a furnace.
W,Sorry,sir,A new epidemic called SARS is threatening us right now,As a preventative measure,we are told to let in fresh air by opening the windows and not to use the air conditioners.
Q,What does the woman mean?
4. M,You look quite different from what you used to.
W,Sure,I started exercising regularly two years ago and went from 253 pounds to a healthy 160 pounds and that is the only thing I did not give up halfway.
Q,What do we know about woman?
5. M,I wonder if you find my experience relevant to the job.
W,Yes,certainly,But if only you had sent your application letter a week earlier.
Q,What does the woman imply?
6. W,Shouldn’t someone go pick up the clothes form the laundry? They were ready three hours ago.
M,Don’t look at me,mom.
Q,What does the boy mean?
7. M,Er..,Hi,could you tell me where electronic products are displayed? I want to see some TVs,digital video cameras,DVD players,that sort of thing.
W,Well,Several countries are displaying electronic products,China’s selection is very large this year,You might as well go to the east wing first to take a look at a Chinese booth.
Q,Where is the conversation most probably taking place?
8. M,Well,what did you think of the movie?
W,I don’t know why I let you talk me into going,I just don’t like violence,Next time you’d better choose a comedy.
Q,What can we infer from the conversation?
9. W,Who do you think should get the job? How about Mr,Becket?
M,Mr,Becket? I’m not sure,He is a nice fellow,of course,and easy to get along with,But I doubt his professional expertise,I want someone who can get the job done.
Q,What do we learn from the conversation about Mr,Becket?
10. M,Do you think home video players will replace movie theatres and force them out of the entertainment business?
W,We’re certainly faced with the grave challenge from the DVD industry,That’s why I think we have to revolutionize our concept of movie showing,As I see it,the movie theatre should not just be a place to watch a film,but a place to meet people.
Q,What does the woman think of the movie theatre?
Passage One
Few people can stand for the spirit of earlier America as much as Benjamin Franklin,He lived through almost the whole of the 18th century,He was born six years after the century began,and died ten years before it ended,During this time,he saw the American colonies grow from tiny settlements into a nation and he also contributed much to the new state,He was deeply interested in science and natural history and his experiments with electricity and lightning led directly to the invention of the lightning rod,He was also interested in improving the conditions of his fellow men,He was involved in a number of projects in his native Philadelphia,including the setting up of a library,and a university,a philosophical society and fire-prevention service,He worked hard to enable the American colonies to gain independence from Britain,As ambassador to France,he encouraged the French to help George Washington,After the war,he attended the American Constitutional Congress,This was his last contribution,for he died late that year,He is still fondly remembered by Americans as one of the creators of the United States.
Questions 11 to 13 are based on the passage you have just heard.
11. What did the speaker say about Benjamin Franklin?
12. How did Franklin help George Washington?
13. According to the passage,what is Franklin still well remembered as?
Passage Two
Yuppies are young people who earn a lot of money and live in a style that is too expensive for most people,If you’re invited to a yuppie dinner party,don’t be surprised if you’re offered freshly-cooked insects as a first course,While the idea of eating fried insects fills most of us with horror,insect-eating is becoming highly fashionable,For example,in the media industry,successful executives are often seen to eat fried or boiled insects from time to time while working at their desks,These safe-to-eat insects can be found and ordered on the Internet,And young people are logging on to exotic food websites and ordering samples of prepared insects to serve at their dinner parties,Although the idea of eating insects is probably disgusting to most of us,few people would claim that pigs,chickens,and some kind of seafood we often eat are examples of great beauty,One day,insects could be marketed and sold as food item in supermarket,According to their fans,they are not only high in protein and low in fat,but also very tasty,But until our attitudes to food change fundamentally,it seems that insect-eaters will remain a select few.
Questions 14 to 17 are based on the passage you have just heard.
14. Why did the speaker say we might be surprised at the yuppie dinner party?
15. Where can the people order the unusual food mentioned by the speaker?
16. Why are some yuppies attracted by the unusual food?
17. What does the speaker say about the future of this type of unusual food?
Passage Three
Many people dislike walking to the bank,standing in long lines and running out of checks,They are dissatisfied with that bank’s limited hours,too,They want to do some banking at nights and on weekends,For such people,their problems may soon be over,Before long,they may be able to do their banking from the comfort of their own home,any hour of the day,any day of the week,Many banks are preparing online branches or Internet offices,which means that people will be able to take care of much of their banking business through their home computers,This process is called,interactive banking”,At these online branches,customers will be able to view all their accounts,move money between their accounts,apply for a loan and get current information on product such as credit cards,Customers will also be able to pay their bills electrically and even email questions to their bank,Banks are creating online services for several reasons,One reason is that banks must compete for customers who will switch to another bank if they are dissatisfied with the service they receive,The convenience of online banking appeals to the kind of customer banks most want to keep,That is,people who are young,well-educated and have good incomes,Banks also want to take advantage of modern technology since they have moved to 21st century.
Questions 18 to 20 are based on the passage you have just heard.
18. What is one of the reasons for people’s dissatisfaction with traditional banks?
19. What kind of customers does online banking most appeal to?
20. Why do banks create online services according to the passage?
2005年1月8日大学英语六级(CET-6)真题试卷(B卷)
Part I Listening Comprehension (20 minutes)
Section A
1. A) Furnished apartments will cost more.
B) The apartment can be furnished easily.
C) She can provide the man with the apartment he needs.
D) The apartment is just what the man is looking for.
2. A) He quite agrees with Mr,Johnson’s views.
B) Mr,Johnson’s ideas are nonsense.
C) Mr,Johnson is good at expressing his ideas.
D) He shares the woman’s views on social welfare.
3. A) Avoid distractions while studying in her dorm.
B) Improve her grades gradually.
C) Change the conditions of her dorm.
D) Study in a quiet place.
4. A) It will be held in a different place,
B) It has been put off.
C) It has been cancelled.
D) It will be rescheduled to attract more participants.
5. A) Janet is very much interested in architecture.
B) Janet admires the Sydney Opera House very much.
C) Janet thinks it’s a shame for anyone not to visit Australia.
D) Janet loves the beautiful landscape of Australia very much.
6. A) It falls short of her supervisor’s expectations.
B) It has drawn criticism from lots of people.
C) It can be finished in a few weeks’ time.
D) It is based on a lot of research.
7. A) Karen is sure to pass the interview.
B) He knows Karen better now.
C) Karen is very forgetful.
D) The woman should have reminded Karen earlier.
8. A) Skip the class to prepare for the exam.
B) Tell the professor she’s lost her voice.
C) Attend the lecture with the man.
D) Ask Joe to apologize to the professor for her.
9. A) The woman is working in a kindergarten.
B) The man will go in for business fight after high school.
C) The woman is not happy with the man’s decision.
D) The man wants to be a business manager.
10. A) They are busy all the year round.
B) They stay closed until summer comes.
C) They cater chiefly to tourists.
D) They provide quality service to their customers.
Section B
Passage One
Questions 11 to 14 are based on the passage you have just heard.
11. A) Boss and secretary.
B) PR representative and client.
C) Classmates.
D) Colleagues.
12. A) He thought the boss was unfair to him.
B) His clients complained about his service.
C) He felt his assignment was tougher than Sue’s.
D) His boss was always finding fault with his work.
13. A) She complains about her bad luck.
B) She always accepts them cheerfully.
C) She is unwilling to undertake them.
D) She takes them on,though reluctantly.
14. A) John had to quit his job.
B) Both John and Sue got a raise.
C) Sue failed to complete her project.
D) Sue got promoted.
Passage Two
Questions 15 to 17 are based on the passage you have just heard.
15. A) By displaying their feelings and emotions.
B) By exchanging their views on public affairs.
C) By asking each other some personal questions.
D) By greeting each other very politely.
16. A) Yell loudly.
B) Argue fiercely.
C) Express his opinion frankly.
D) Refrain from showing his feelings.
17. A) Doing credit to one’s community.
B) Distinguishing oneself.
C) Getting rich quickly.
D) Respecting individual rights.
Passage Three
Questions 18 to 20 are based on the passage you have just heard.
18. A) When tests show that they are relatively safe.
B) If they don’t involve any risks.
C) When the urgent need for them arises.
D) If they produce predictable side effects.
19. A) Because they are less sensitive to it than those who have been tested for it.
B) Because they are not accustomed to it.
C) Because their genes differ from those who have been tested for it.
D) Because they are not psychologically prepared for it.
20. A) They will become physically impaired.
B) They will suffer from minor discomfort.
C) They will have to take ever larger doses.
D) They will experience a very painful process.
2005年1月8日六级参考答案
Part I Listening Comprehension
1. C
2. A
3. D
4. B
5. B
6. A
7. C
8. A
9. D
10. C
11. C
12. A
13. B
14. D
15. C
16. D
17. B
18. A
19. D
20. C
2005年1月8日六级听力原文
1. M,I’m looking for an unfurnished two-bedroom apartment,but all your apartments are furnished.
W,We can take care of that,We can simply remove the furniture.
Q,What does the woman mean?
2. W,I don’t agree with Mr,Johnson on his views about social welfare,He seems to suggest that the poor are robbing the rich.
M,He might have used better words to express his ideas,But I’ve found what he said makes a lot of sense.
Q,What does the man mean?
3. W,I’ve been studying all the time,but I still can’t see any improvement in my grades.
M,Maybe instead of studying in your dorm,you’d better go some place where there are fewer distractions.
Q,What does the man advise the woman to do?
4. W,The seminar originally scheduled for today has been cancelled,The hours I’ve spent preparing for it are totally wasted.
M,Not really,As far as I know it’s been postponed till next week.
Q,What does the man say about the seminar?
5. M,Hi,Janet,I hear you’ve just returned from a tour of Australia,Did you get a chance to visit the Sydney Opera House?
W,Of course I did,It would be a shame for anyone visiting Australia not to see this unique creation in architecture,Its magnificent beauty is simply beyond description.
Q,What do we learn from this conversation?
6. M,Sherry,how are you doing with your thesis?
W,Oh my thesis,That’s something I definitely don’t want to talk about right now,I finished my first draft some time ago,But my supervisor said I should do more research if I want to achieve the quality that he expects of me.
Q,What do we learn from the conversation about the woman’s thesis?
7. W,I can’t believe Karen is late for such an importance occasion as a job interview,I reminded her time and again yesterday.
M,You should have known her better by now,Everything you tell her goes in one ear and out the other.
Q,What does the man imply?
8. W,Hi,Joe,I wonder if you could do me a favor and tell the professor I’ve lost my voice,So I can’t attend this morning’s class,I need time to study for tomorrow’s exam.
M,I don’t think it’s wise to say so,Since you’re not going to give the lecture,you might as well simply skip the class and apologize to the professor later.
Q,What will the woman probably do?
9. M,After high school,I’d like to go to college and major in business administration,I really like power and enjoy telling people what to do.
W,You’re very ambitious,But I’d rather spend my college days finding out what children are interested in,Child’s psychology is for me.
Q,What do we learn from the conversation?
10. M,It seems the restaurants here have little business these days.
W,That’s true,But ours is a scenic resort,And this is not the busy season,When summer comes,you’ll see armies of tourists waiting in line in order to get a seat.
Q,What do we learn from the conversation about the restaurants in the town?
Passage One
Both John and Sue joined the staff of a successful public relations firm in New York during the same year,They had just completed their PR degrees at a nearby university and were thrilled to be hired by one of the finest PR firms in the city,John’s first assignment was to create a promotion campaign for a client who was putting a new game on the market,Initially Sue was assigned to work with a sportswear company on a marketing concept for its newest line of clothing,As time passed and work with their respective first clients became more and more difficult,John and Sue realized that they had been assigned two of the toughest clients in town,Although John completed his assignments quickly and successfully,he was furious when he learned that the boss had deliberately assigned him a difficult client,In response he not only complained to his colleagues but also to the boss’s secretary,Sue,on the other hand,had a more difficult time satisfying her first client and she took several additional months to actually complete the assignment,However,she just laughed when she heard that the boss had made the assignment purposely,Over the next two years,John worked reluctantly with each assignment and problem that he encountered,Sue accepted each assignment cheerfully,And when problems arose,she responded with her characteristic,No problem,I can handle it.” Although Sue took longer to complete her projects than John and both were equally successful on the assignments they completed,Sue was given the first promotion when there came a vacancy.
Questions 11 to 14 are based on the passage you have just heard.
11. What’s the relationship between John and Sue now?
12. Why was John furious after he finished his first assignment?
13. What’s Sue’s attitude to difficult tasks?
14. How does the story end?
Passage Two
American visitors to Eastern Asia are often surprised and puzzled by how Asian cultures and customs differ from those in the United States,What’s considered typical or proper social conduct in one country may be regard as odd,improper or even rude in the other,For example,people from some Eastern Asian countries may begin a conversation with a stranger by asking personal questions about family,home or work,Such questions are thought to be friendly,whereas they might be considered offensive in the United States,On the other hand,people in most Asian cultures are far more guarded about expressing their feelings publicly than most Americans are,Openly displaying annoyance or anger,yelling,arguing loudly and so forth is considered ill-mannered in countries such as Japan,Many Eastern Asians prefer to hold their emotions in check and instead express themselves with great politeness,They try not to be blunt and avoid making direct criticisms,In fact,they often keep their differences of opinion to themselves and merely smile and remain silent rather than engage in a confrontation,By comparison,Americans are often frank about displaying both positive and negative emotions on the street and in other public places,Americans visiting Asia should keep in mind that such behavior may cause offense,A major difference between Americans culture and most Eastern Asian cultures is that in Eastern Asia,the community is more important than the individual,Most Americans are considered a success when they make a name for themselves.
Questions 15 to 17 are based on the passage you have just heard.
15. How would some Asians start their conversation when they meet for the first time?
16. What would a Japanese do when he feels annoyed?
17. What is encouraged in American culture according to the passage?
Passage Three
In order for a chemical to be considered a drug,it must have the capacity to affect how the body works,No substance that has the power to do this is completely safe,Drugs are approved only after tests have demonstrated that they are relatively safe when used as directed and when their benefits outweigh their risks,Thus some very dangerous drugs are approved because they are necessary to treat serious illnesses,Many people suffer ill effects from drugs called side effects,even though they take the drug exactly as directed,The human population contains a great variety of genetic variation,but drugs are tested on just a few thousand people,When a particular drug is taken by millions,some people may not respond in a predictable way,even though the drug has been tested,A patient may also acquire a tolerance for a certain drug,which means the patient has to take ever larger doses to produce the desired effect,Tolerance may lead to habituation,in which the person becomes so dependent on the drug that he or she becomes addicted to it,Addition causes severe psychological and physical disturbances when the drug is taken away,Finally,drugs often have unwanted side effects,This usually causes only minor discomfort,such as a skin rash,headache or sleepiness,Certain drugs,however,can produce serious adverse reactions.
Questions 18 to 20 are based on the passage you have just heard.
18. Under what circumstances are drugs approved?
19. Why do many people suffer side effects from a drug even though they take it as directed?
20. What will happen when patients acquire a tolerance for a certain drug?
2005年6月18日大学英语六级(CET-6)真题试卷
Part I Listening Comprehension (20 minutes)
Section A
1. A) It will reduce government revenues.
B) It will stimulate business activities.
C) It will mainly benefit the wealthy.
D) It will cut the stockholders’ dividends.
2. A) She will do her best if the job is worth doing.
B) She prefers a life of continued exploration.
C) She will stick to the job if the pay is good.
D) She doesn’t think much of job-hopping.
3. A) Stop thinking about the matter.
B) Talk the drug user out of the habit.
C) Be more friendly to his schoolmate.
D) Keep his distance from drug addicts.
4. A) The son.
B) The father.
C) The mother.
D) Aunt Louise.
5. A) Stay away for a couple of weeks.
B) Check the locks every two weeks.
C) Look after the Johnsons’ house.
D) Move to another place.
6. A) He would like to warm up for the game.
B) He didn’t want to be held up in traffic.
C) He didn’t want to miss the game.
D) He wanted to catch as many game birds as possible.
7. A) It was burned down.
B) It was robbed.
C) It was blown up.
D) It was closed down.
8. A) She isn’t going to change her major.
B) She plans to major in tax law.
C) She studies in the same school as her brother.
D) She isn’t going to work in her brother’s firm.
9. A) The man should phone the hotel for directions.
B) The man can ask the department store for help.
C) She doesn’t have the hotel’s phone number.
D) The hotel is just around the corner.
10. A) She doesn’t expect to finish all her work in thirty minutes.
B) She has to do a lot of things within a short time.
C) She has been overworking for a long time.
D) She doesn’t know why there are so many things to do.
Section B Compound Dictation
注意,听力理解的B节(Section B)为复合式听写(Compound Dictation)，题目在试卷二上，现在请取出试卷二。
Certain phrases one commonly hears among Americans capture their devotion to individualism:,Do you own thing.”,I did it my way.”,You’ll have to decided that for yourself.”,You made your bed,now (S1) ________ in it.”,if you don’t look out for yourself,no one else will.”,Look out for number one.”
Closely (S2) ________ with the value they place on individualism is the importance Americans (S3) ________ to privacy,Americans assume that people need some time to themselves or some time alone to think about things or recover their (S4) ________ psychological energy,Americans have great (S5) ________ understanding foreigners who always want to be with another person who dislike being alone.
If the parents can (S6) ________ it,each child will have his or her own bedroom,even as an (S7) ________,fixes in a person the notion that (S8) ________,Having one’s own bedroom,her books,her books and so on,These things will be hers and no one else’s.
Americans assumer that (S9) ________,Doctors,lawyers,psychologists,and others have rules governing confidentiality that are intended to prevent information about their clients’ personal situations form becoming known to others.
American’s attitude about privacy can be hard for foreigners to understand,(10) ________,When those boundaries are crossed,an American’s body will visibly stiffen and his manner will become cool and aloof.
2005年6月18日六级参考答案
Part I
1. C
2. B
3. D
4. C
5. A
6. C
7. B
8. D
9. A
10. B
2005年6月18日六级听力原文
1. M,What do you think of the government’s new tax cut proposal?
W,Though it may give some benefit to the poor,its key component is the elimination of tax on dividends,That means the rich will get richer.
Q,What does the woman think about the government’s tax cut proposal?
2. M,Jenny,remember this,a job worth doing at all is worth doing well.
W,Oh,yes,I certainly won’t forget it,But don’t expect me to stick to the job just because it pays a few more bucks,A life of continuous exploration is a life worth living.
Q,what can be inferred about the woman from the conversation?
3. M,I found that one of my schoolmates uses drugs,How can I help him,Mom?
W,stay away from him,son,Never think that you can talk him out of the habit if he is addicted,But perhaps you can talk to your teacher about the matter.
Q,what’s the woman’s advice to her son?
4. W,I don’t know how you can eat so much yet never put on any weight,son,Your father’s got the same luck,I can’t take a bite without calculating how many calories I am taking.
M,But remember Aunt Louise,Mom? She ate a lot and never gained a pound.
Q,Who is worried about gaining weight?
5. W,Did you turn off the lights and check the locks on all the doors?
M,Yes,I told the Johnsons that we’d be gone for two weeks,They promise to keep an eye on the house for us.
Q,What are the two speakers going to do?
6. M,hurry up,Linda! I hear that there are not many tickets left for the football match.
W,I am ready now,let’s go,It is the early bird that catches the worm.
Q,Why did the man ask the woman to hurry up?
7. W,Did you hear that the convenience store next to the gas station was held up last night?
M,Yes,I heard it on the radio this morning.
Q,What happened to the convenience store?
8. M,Congratulations! I just heard about your acceptance in the law school,Do you think you would join your brother’s firm after graduation?
W,Not likely,He is a tax lawyer,and I am going to major in criminal law.
Q,What does the woman mean?
9. M,Excuse me,but could you tell me how to get to the Friendship Hotel? I thought it was on this corner,but I seem to have made a mistake.
M,I am sorry,but I am a stranger here myself,Maybe you can try calling them,There is a phone over there outside the department store.
Q,What does the woman mean?
10. M,how is it going,Mary? You look a little overwhelmed.
W,Exactly,You know,I’ve got a million things to do and all of them have to be finished in the next 30 minutes.
Q,What does the woman mean?
Compound Dictation
Certain phrases one commonly hears among Americans capture their devotion to individualism.,Do you own thing.”,I did it my way.”,You’ll have to decide that for yourself.”,You made your bed,now lie in it.”,If you don’t look out for yourself,no one else will.”,Look out for number one.”
Closely associated with the value they place on individualism,is the importance American’s assign to privacy,Americans assume that people need some time to themselves or some time alone to think about things or to recover their spent psychological energy,Americans have great difficulty understanding foreigners who always want to be with another person who dislikes being alone.
If the parents can afford it,each child will have his or her own bedroom,Having one’s own bedroom even as an infant,fixes in a person the notion that she is entitled to a place of her own where she can be by herself,and keep her possessions,She will have her clothes,her toys,her books,and so on,These things will be hers,no one else’s.
Americans assume that people will have their private thoughts that might never be shared with anyone,Doctors,lawyers,psychologists and others have rules governing confidentiality that are intended to prevent information about their clients’ personal situations from being know to others.
American’s attitudes about privacy can be hard for foreigners to understand American’s houses,yards,and even their offices can seem open and inviting,Yet,in the minds of Americans,there are boundaries that other people are simply not supposed to cross,When those boundaries are crossed,an American’s body will visibly stiffen and his manner will be cool and aloof.
2005年12月24日大学英语六级(CET-6)真题试卷(A卷)
Part I Listening Comprehension (20 minutes)
Section A
1. A) The dean should have consulted her on the appointment.
B) Dr,Holden should have taken over the position earlier.
C) She doesn’t think Dr,Holden has made a wise choice.
D) Dr,Holden is the best person for the chairmanship.
2. A) They’ll keep in touch during the summer vacation.
B) They’ll hold a party before the summer vacation.
C) They’ll do odd jobs together at the school library.
D) They’ll get back to their school once in a while.
3. A) Peaches are in season now.
B) Peaches are not at their best now.
C) The woman didn’t know how to bargain.
D) The woman helped the man choose the fruit.
4. A) They join the physics club.
B) They ask for an extension of the deadline.
C) They work on the assignment together.
D) They choose an easier assignment.
5. A) She admires Jean’s straightforwardness.
B) She thinks Dr,Brown deserves the praise.
C) She will talk to Jean about what happened.
D) She believes Jean was rude to Dr,Brown.
6. A) He liked writing when he was a child.
B) He enjoyed reading stories in Reader’s Digest.
C) He used to be an editor of Reader’s Digest.
D) He became well known at the age of six.
7. A) He shows great enthusiasm for his studies.
B) He is a very versatile person.
C) He has no talent for tennis.
D) He does not study hard enough.
8. A) John has lost something at the railway station.
B) There are several railway stations in the city.
C) It will be very difficult for them to find John.
D) The train that John is taking will arrive soon.
9. A) Its rapid growth is beneficial to the world.
B) It can be seen as a model by the rest of the world.
C) Its success can’t be explained by elementary economics.
D) It will continue to surge forward.
10. A) It takes only 5 minutes to reach the campus from the apartments.
B) Most students can’t afford to live in the new apartments.
C) The new apartments are not available until next month.
D) The new apartments can accommodate 500 students.
Section B
11. A) The role of immigrants in the construction of American society.
B) The importance of offering diverse courses in European history.
C) The need for greater cultural diversity in the school curriculum.
D) The historic landing of Europeans on the Virginia shore.
12. A) He was wondering if the speaker was used to living in America.
B) He was trying to show friendliness to the speaker.
C) He wanted to keep their conversation going.
D) He believed the speaker was a foreigner.
13. A) The US population doesn’t consist of white European descendants only.
B) Asian tourists can speak English as well as native speakers of the language.
C) Colored people are not welcome in the United States.
D) Americans are in need of education in their history.
14. A) By making laws
B) By enforcing discipline
C) By educating the public
D) By holding ceremonies
15. A) It should be raised by soldiers.
B) It should be raised quickly by hand.
C) It should be raised only by Americans.
D) It should be raised by mechanical means.
16. A) It should be attached to the status.
B) It should be hung from the top of the monument.
C) It should be spread over the object to be unveiled.
D) It should be carried high up in the air.
17. A) There has been a lot of controversy over the use of flag.
B) The best athletes can wear uniforms with the design of the flag.
C) There are precise regulations and customs to be followed.
D) Americans can print the flag on their cushions or handkerchiefs.
Passage Three
18. A) Punishment by teachers
B) Poor academic performance
C) Truancy
D) Illness
19. A) The Board of Education.
B) Principals of city schools.
C) Students with good academic records.
D) Students with good attendance records.
20. A) Punishing students who damage school property.
B) Rewarding schools that have decreased the destruction.
C) Promoting teachers who can prevent the destruction.
D) Cutting the budget for repairs and replacements.
2005年12月24日六级参考答案
Part I Listening Comprehension
1. D
2. A
3. B
4. C
5. A
6. A
7. D
8. C
9. A
10. B
11. C
12. D
13. A
14. A
15. B
16. D
17. C
18. C
19. D
20. B
2005年12月24日六级听力原文
1. M,The Dean just announced that Dr,Holden’s going I’ll miss you guys while I’m working here in the library.
W,I knew it all along! He’s the obvious choice,All the other candidates are no match for him!
Q,what do we learn about the two speakers?
2. W,Hey,let me know how your summer’s going! I’ll miss you guys while I’m working here in the library.
M,I’ll be working,too! But I’ll send you an email or call you once in a while,When we all get back to school,we can have a party or something.
Q,What do we learn about the two speakers?
3. W,I know it’s the end of the season,but those peaches are such a bargain that I couldn’t help buying them! Have one please!
M,Thank you! Actually,they seem pass their prime.
Q,What do we learn from the conversation?
4. M,The assignment on physics is a real challenge,I don’t think I can finish it on time or by myself.
W,Why don’t we join our feet together? It may be easier then.
Q,What does the woman suggest?
5. M,Jean really lost her temper in Dr,Brown’s class this morning.
W,Oh? Did she? But I think her frankness is really something to be appreciated.
Q,What does the woman mean?
6. W,We heard that when you are a kid,you submitted a story to Reader’s Digest.
M,Well,I don’t remember this story exactly,but my idea of a great time then was a pad of lined paper and a new blue pen,I thought myself as a Reader’s Digest member at the age of six.
Q,What do we learn about the man from the conversation?
7. M,Your son certainly shows a lot of enthusiasm on the tennis court.
W,I only wish he’d show as much for his studies.
Q,What does the woman imply about her son?
8. W,We suppose to meet John here at the railway station.
M,That’s like looking for a needle in a haystack.
Q,What does the man imply?
9. M,Professor Stevenson,as an economist,how do you look upon the surging Chinese economy? Does it constitute a threat to the rest of the world?
W,I believe China’s economic success should be seen more as an opportunity than a threat,Those who looked upon it as a threat overlooked the benefit of china’s growth to the world’s economy,They also lack the understanding of elementary economics.
Q,What does Professor Stevenson think of China’s economy?
10. W,Our school has just built some new apartment near campus,but one bedroom runs for 500 dollars a month.
M,That’s a bit beyond the reach of most students!
Q,What does the man mean?
Passage One
I had flown from San Francisco to Virginia to attend a conference on multiculturalism,Hundreds of educators from across the country were meeting to discuss the need for greater cultural diversity in the school curriculum,I took a taxi to my hotel,On the way,my driver and I chatted about the whether and the tourists,The driver was a White man in forties.,How long have you been in this country?” he asked.,All my life!” I replied,“I was born in the United States.” With strong southern accent,he remarked,“I was wondering because your English is excellent.” Then I explained as I had done many times before,“My grandfather came here from China in the 1880s,My family has been here in America for ever a hundred years.” He glanced at me in the mirror,Somehow,I didn’t look American to him,My appearance looked foreign,Questions liked the one my taxi driver asked make me feel uncomfortable,But I can understand why he could not see me as an American,He had a narrow but widely shared sense of the past,a history that has viewed Americans as descendants of Europeans,Race has functioned as something necessary to the construction of American character and quality in the creation of our national identity—American has been defined as,white”,But American has been racially diverse since our very beginning on the Virginia shore,where the first group of Englishmen and Africans arrived in the 17th century,And this reality is increasingly become visible everywhere.
Questions 11 to 13 are based on the passage you have just heard.
11. What was the theme of the conference the speaker was to attend?
12. Why did the taxi driver ask the speaker how long he has been in the US?
13. What message did the speaker wish to convey?
Passage Two
Laws have been written to govern the use of American National Flag,and to ensure proper respect for the flag,Custom has also governed the common practice in regard to its use,All the armed services have precise regulations on how to display the national flag,This may vary somewhat from the general rules,The national flag should be raised and lowered by hand,Do not raise the flag while it is folded,Unfold the flag first,and then hoist it quickly to the top of the flagpole,Lower it slowly and with dignity,Place no objects on or over the flag,Do not use the flag as part of a costume or athletic uniform,Do not print it upon cushions,handkerchiefs,paper napkins or boxes,A federal law provides that the trademark cannot be registered if it comprises the flag,or badgers of the US,When the flag is used to unveil a statue or monument,it shouldn’t serve as a covering of the object to be unveiled,If it is displayed on such occasions,do not allow the flag to fall to the ground,but let it be carried high up in the air to form a feature of the ceremony,Take every precaution to prevent the flag from soiled,It should not be allowed to touch the ground or floor,nor to brush against objects.
Questions 14 to 17 are based on the passage you have just heard.
14. How do Americans ensure proper respect for the national flag?
15. What is the regulation regarding the raising of the American National Flag?
16. How should the American National Flag be displayed at an unveiling ceremony?
17. What do we learn about the use of the American National Flag?
Passage Three
In some large American city schools,as many as 20-40% of the students are absent each day,There are two major reasons for such absences,one is sickness,and the other is truancy,That is staying away from school without permission,Since school officials can’t do much about the illness,they are concentrating on reducing the number of truancy,One of the most promising schemes has been tried in Florida,The pupils there with good attendance have been given free hamburgers,toys and T-shirts,Classes are told if they show improved rates of attendance,they can win additional gifts,At the same time,teachers are encouraged to inspire their students to come to school regularly,When those teachers are successful,they are also rewarded.,we’ve been punishing truancy for years,but that hasn’t brought them back to school,” One school principal said,Now we are trying the positive approach,Not only do you learn by showing up every day,but you earn,In San Francisco,the board of education has had a somewhat similar idea,Schools that show a decrease in deliberate destruction of property can receive the amount of money that would be spent on repairs and replacements,For example,12,000 dollars had been set aside for a school’s property damages every year,Since repair expenses of damaged property required only 4,000 dollars,the remaining 8,000 dollars was turned over to the student activity fund.,Our democracy operates on hope and encouragement,” said the school board member.,Why not provide some positive goals for students and teachers to aim at?”
Questions 18 to 20 are based on the passage you have just heard.
18. Which reason for students’ absences is discussed in great detail?
19. Who will benefit from the scheme being tried in Florida?
20. What measure has been taken in San Francisco to reduce the destruction of school property?
2006年6月17日大学英语六级(CET-6)真题试卷(A卷)
Part I Listening Comprehension (20 minutes)
Section A
1. A) She met with Thomas just a few days ago.
B) She can help with the orientation program.
C) She is not sure she can pass on the message.
D) She will certainly try to contact Thomas.
2. A) Set the dinner table.
B) Change the light bulb.
C) Clean the dining room.
D) Hold the ladder for him.
3. A) He’d like a piece of pie.
B) He’d like some coffee.
C) He’d rather stay in the warm room.
D) He’s just had dinner with his friends.
4. A) He has managed to sell a number of cars.
B) He is contented with his current position.
C) He might get fired.
D) He has lost his job.
5. A) Tony’s secretary.
B) Paul’s girlfriend.
C) Paul’s colleague.
D) Tony’s wife.
6. A) He was fined for running a red light.
B) He was caught speeding on a fast lane.
C) He had to run quickly to get the ticket.
D) He made a wrong turn at the intersection.
7. A) He has learned a lot from his own mistakes.
B) He is quite experienced in taming wild dogs.
C) He finds reward more effective than punishment.
D) He thinks it important to master basic training skills.
8. A) At a bookstore.
B) At the dentist’s.
C) In a restaurant.
D) In the library.
9. A) He doesn’t want Jenny to get into trouble.
B) He doesn’t agree with the woman’s remark.
C) He thinks Jenny’s workload too heavy at college.
D) He believes most college students are running wild.
10. A) It was applaudable.
B) It was just terrible.
C) The actors were enthusiastic.
D) The plot was funny enough.
Section B
Passage One
Questions 11 to 13 are based on the passage you have just heard.
11. A) Social work.
B) Medical care.
C) Applied physics.
D) Special education.
12. A) The timely advice from her friends and relatives.
B) The two-year professional training she received.
C) Her determination to fulfill her dream.
D) Her parents’ consistent moral support.
13. A) To get the funding for the hospitals.
B) To help the disabled children there.
C) To train therapists for the children there.
D) To set up an institution for the handicapped.
Passage Two
Questions 14 to 17 are based on the passage you have just heard.
14. A) At a country school in Mexico.
B) In a mountain valley of Spain.
C) At a small American college.
D) In a small village in Chile.
15. A) By expanding their minds and horizons.
B) By financing their elementary education.
C) By setting up a small primary school.
D) By setting them an inspiring example.
16. A) She wrote poetry that broke through national barriers.
B) She was a talented designer of original school curriculums.
C) She proved herself to be an active and capable stateswoman.
D) She made outstanding contributions to children’s education.
17. A) She won the 1945 Nobel Prize in Literature.
B) She was the first woman to win a Nobel Prize.
C) She translated her books into many languages.
D) She advised many statesmen on international affairs.
Passage Three
Questions 18 to 20 are based on the passage you have just heard.
18. A) How animals survive harsh conditions in the wild.
B) How animals alter colors to match their surroundings.
C) How animals protect themselves against predators.
D) How animals learn to disguise themselves effectively.
19. A) Its enormous size.
B) Its plant-like appearance.
C) Its instantaneous response.
D) Its offensive smell.
20. A) It helps improve their safety.
B) It allows them to swim faster.
C) It helps them fight their predators.
D) It allows them to avoid twists and turns.
2006年6月17日六级参考答案
Part I
1. C
2. D
3. B
4. C
5. D
6. A
7. C
8. B
9. B
10. A
11. B
12. C
13. B
14. D
15. A
16. D
17. A
18. C
19. B
20. A