2016年6月英语六级全真模拟试题及答案（三）_第7页

　　作文范文

　　From this picture, showing a man spitting on the street, we cannot fail to notice that many uncivilized behaviors exist in our daily lives, such as talking loudly and littering in public places.

　　Uncivilized behaviors by a host of Chinese both at home and abroad have seriously affected China’s image and all these behaviors should be avoided by all of us, especially when we are abroad. As an ancient country, China keeps courtesies in many fields; hence, we should never make them shame.

　　Meanwhile, as Chinese, we should not get offended when others point out our weaknesses but should focus more attention on improving ourselves. When we go abroad, we will stand for the whole country, and our inappropriate behaviors will lose the image of our country. To some extent, our government should also promote the good actions to citizens and as college students of the new age, we should play an important role for it.

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　　Section A

　　11. M: This is Jill Valentine speaking. Could you tell me Ms. Alice’s schedule for tomorrow? I would like to meet her at her convenience.

　　W: Let me see. She’ll go to see her doctor at 9, and hold a meeting at 10 in the morning. Well,she will be in the office the whole afternoon.

　　Q: What does Ms. Alice plan to do at 10 o’clock tomorrow morning?

　　12. M: How is your sister, Mary? The last time I came to see you, you were about to take her to the hospital.

　　W: She came home last week. The operation was very successful. The doctor said she’d almost recovered and could go back to work next week.

　　Q: What does the woman say about her sister?

　　13. W: I still can’t get over the show last Friday evening. I keep having frightening dreams all night.

　　M: So, next time before you walk into a theatre, you have to make sure what you are going to see, ok?

　　Q: What do we learn from the conversation?

　　14. M: You know, I like the work that I am doing now, so I’ m not sure if the new position is really what I want.

　　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?

　　15. W: How do you find your new office?

　　M: Well, it’s quite nice really, although I have a hard time getting used to working in a big place.

　　Q: What can we learn about the man?

　　16. W: Did you hear Tom is in hospital with neck injuries and a broken leg?

　　M: Yes, I heard he was struck by another vehicle and turned completely over. Q: What happened to Tom?

　　17. M: Can you recommend something that a school girl of seven will really like?

　　W: I’d suggest this toy Barbie, sir. It’s the most typical American icon, very popular all over

　　the world.

　　Q: What is the man doing?

　　18. W: I’m looking for a textbook for my English course. It’s called “Educational Psychology Study for Beginner”. Do you have it?

　　M: Yes, we do. You’ll find it in Section 22 on the top shelf. Q: What’s the man’s occupation? Long Conversation 1

　　M: One of the most interesting experiments with the blue butterflies is that most species of them have evolved close, mutually-beneficial relationships with different species of ants.

　　W: How did they do that exactly?

　　M: The worms of these butterflies develop a special honey-like substance to attract ants. The ants swarm all over the worms, drinking the bug-honey. The ants “milk” from the worms by scratching special parts on the worms. In some Australian species, the attending ants even build blocks or earthen fences to contain the worms. By day the worms are protected from predators by the fences and the ants. At night the ants herd the worms up a nearby tree to feed on leaves.

　　W: Sounds interesting. And is it safe to the worms?

　　M: Actually, the ants are like a private army of bodyguards. Colonies of ants are quite fierce—swarming, biting or even consuming potential predators. In fact, the worms’ sweet substance is not only nutritious, but also contains chemicals that subdue the ants. Otherwise the ants might kill the worms themselves! Some worms also make drumming sounds to keep their attendant ants alert.

　　W: That is really kind of fierce conflict.

　　M: Unprotected worms would make a tasty treat for insect-eaters like birds, frogs or larger insects. But ants taste bitter or even toxic when eaten. To most predators, a worm covered in ants is about as appetizing as a candy bar covered in pins. So, the ants benefit from the energy-rich substance produced by the worms, and the worms benefit from the ants’ protection.

　　Questions 19-21 are based on the conversation you have just heard.

　　19. What did the man find?

　　20. What were the ants supposed to do when they saw the worms of blue butterflies?

　　21. What benefits could the worms of blue butterflies get from the ants?

　　Long Conversation 2

　　W: Good morning, sir.

　　M: Good morning. My wife and I would like to do some sightseeing next week. Would you please introduce some places of historical interest in California?

　　W: My pleasure, sir. Above all, I would recommend the Bodie city. It is amazing. M: I’ve heard of it for a long time.

　　W: Yes. Bodie is an original mining town from the late 1800’s. What’s left today stands in a state of “arrested decay” and is maintained by the California State Parks System, who took over the town in 1962 to make it a State Historic Park.

　　M: En, Newspapers report that town’s people would ask in the mornings “Have a man for breakfast?” Meaning ‘Did anyone get killed last night?’

　　W: Bodie is one ghost town that may hold promise for the future. Not in the same manner and fashion as was the case during the 1865s, however. Back then Bodie had the reputation of being one of the most furious, vehement, violent and lawless towns in all the Mother Lode. Law and order took a back seat to doing whatever was the inspiration of the moment including putting a bullet into someone as the only way to settle an argument. Bodie once had a population of 10,000 people and some $75million in gold was taken from Bodie Butte. The promise for the future remains to be seen for there is as much gold under Bodie Butte was taken out. But time has taken its toll on the tunnels and shafts which are caving in and are filling with water. There is much of interest to the tourist in this ghost town but the gold will probably stay where it is for the cost of mining it exceeds its present day value. Bodie has its own website; you can search it for more details.

　　M: Great! Mary, let’s start off right now.

　　Question 22-25 are based on the conversation you have just heard.

　　22. Where does this conversation most probably take place?

　　23. What do we learn about the Bodie city?

　　24. Why did the town get the name “ghost town”?

　　25. What attracts people most in the town now?

　　Section B

　　Passage One

　　It’s one of the toughest challenges of office politics, one that invades both employees and executives: How to deal with workplace complainers.

　　While it’s often best to walk away, that can be difficult in today’s team-based workplace, where many people work closely in groups.

　　Trying to stay neutral by just listening and nodding can get yourself into trouble, says Dana Brownlee, founder of Professionalism Matters, a corporate-training firm in Atlanta. “Before you know it, there’s another version of the story circulating, saying you were the one saying something negative about the VP. And they’re talking about you over by the Coke machine.”It can be tough to object without seeming self-righteous. “If you approach someone about their complaining, they may take it in a completely wrong way, and then you’ve alienated them,” says Jon Gordon, an author, consultant and founder of a Ponte Vedra Beach, Fla., training firm. It’s better to try to bond with co-workers, while setting an example by not griping yourself, he says.

　　Research shows productivity can be damaged by working hard alongside a chronic complainer. Exposure to nonstop negativity can disrupt learning, memory, attention and judgment, says Robert

　　Sapolsky, a prominent author and professor of neurology and neurological sciences at Stanford University. The brain, he says, can only handle so many stimuli at once before it begins losing ability to concentrate or remember—especially if that steady stream of negativity sparks distressing emotions. Complaining has become so common that many people don’t even realize they’re doing it. Benjamin Ballard, an account manager for PaceButler, an Oklahoma City company that recycles cellphones, says he used to moan at work about his headaches. But “I’d make jokes about it and thought that somehow made it positive,” says Mr. Ballard.

　　Questions 26 to 29 are based on the passage you have just heard.

　　26. What can we learn about workplace complaining?

　　27. According to the speaker, how to deal with workplace complainers?

　　28. What does Robert Sapolsky find about working with complainers?

　　29. What does Benjamin Ballard say about complaining?

　　Passage two

　　Harvard University is investigating whether about 125 undergraduates “inappropriately collaborated” or copied answers on a spring semester take-home final exam, the school announced today.

　　It’s being called the largest cheating scandal in recent memory to hit the elite university and the Ivy League.

　　The students—about half the class—violated a no-collaboration policy printed on the exam, which consisted of short questions and an essay, said Jay Harris, dean of undergraduate education, the Boston Globe reports. The students allegedly collaborated through e-mail or “other means,” and some may have copied their answers.

　　The cheating was uncovered after faculty noticed similarities among a number of exams and referred them for administrative review. All will face hearings, and those found to have plagiarized may have to withdraw for a year.

　　The administrative board’s actions are confidential, Harris said, and the identities of the students or the course will not be revealed.“These allegations, if proven, represent totally unacceptable behavior that betrays the trust upon which intellectual inquiry at Harvard depends,” Harvard University President Drew Faust said in theannouncement. “We must deal with this fairly and through a deliberative process. At the same time, the scope of the allegations suggests that there is work to be done to ensure that every student at Harvard understands and embraces the values that are fundamental to its community of scholars.”

　　Questions 30 to 32 are based on the passage you have just heard.

　　30. What happened at Harvard University recently?

　　31. How did the school detect the cheating behaviors?

　　32. How will the school deal with these students?

　　Passage Three

　　Boys do worse in English when there are girls in their class, researchers will say today, contradicting the widely held belief that girls are always a good influence on boys in school.

　　Boys do best with “as few girls as possible” in English lessons at primary and secondary school, Steven Proud, a research student at Bristol University, will tell the Royal Economic Society’s conference. But when it comes to maths and science, both boys and girls at primary school achieve up to a tenth of a grade more when there is a high proportion of girls in the class, Proud found. Boys consistently perform up to a tenth of a grade worse when they study English with high numbers of girls as opposed to few or no girls, Proud found. Proud will argue that his result shows boys should be taught English in single-sex classes. He said: “The results imply that boys would benefit at all ages from being taught English with as small a proportion of girls as possible. In maths and science, the results tend to imply that both boys and girls benefit from having more girls in the classroom. A mix of the genders in both science and maths is optimal.”

　　Proud said boys may do worse in English when there is a high proportion of girls in their class because they realise that the girls are better than them. It could also be that teachers use teaching styles more appropriate to girls when there are more girls than boys in the class. Both genders perform better in maths and science at primary school when there are more girls in the class because boys tend to disrupt the class more, he said.

　　Questions 33 to 35 are based on the passage you have just heard.

　　33. What does Steven Proud find recently?

　　34. What do we learn from Steven’s finding?

　　35. Why do boys do worse when studying English with girls?

　　Section C

　　Men hit on hotties despite their own unattractiveness, study confirms.Researchers studied ratings and dating information from 16,550 members during a 10-day period in 2005. All members studied were heterosexual, with 75 percent males and 25 percent female. Using this data, they determined that the physical attractiveness of a potential mate was more　important to men than women. And men were less likely than women to think that their own lack of attractiveness—based both on a self assessment and the ratings of others — should stand in the way of a date with someone “hot.”

　　The lead author of the study, Leonard Lee, an assistant professor at Columbia’s Graduate School of Business, thinks these far-fetched movie and TV couples might explain why unfortunate looking men tend to hold out such high hopes. But he wonders whether the unattractive guys eventually learn that their chances are slim regardless of what they see on screen. There’s another important finding in the study, he says: The 10s among us, both male and female, want only to date other 10s.

　　There are hints in the HOTorNOT.com data that suggest men do learn to accept their limitations: They apparently hedge their bets by asking for more dates. In fact, the men in the study requested a full 240 percent more dates than the women. Researchers didn’t look at how many of these online come-ons were successful, but the number of dates most men asked for might be a sign that the less attractive among us. even the men—recognize that they may have to settle for dating someone who is closer to them on the “hotness” scale.

　　答 案

　　1. A 2. C 3. C 4. A 5. B 6. A 7. B

　　8. frequently read fiction

　　9. understand the social life

　　10. enlarge and improve themselves

　　11.B 12. A 13. B

　　14.C 15. D 16. D

　　17.B 18. C 19. D 20.A

　　21. C 22. B 23. D

　　24. D 25. C 26. C

　　27. D 28. C 29.C 30. D

　　31. D 32. C 33. A

　　34. C 35. D

　　36. ratings 37. determined 38. potential 39. Lack 40. assessment

　　41. assistant 42. unfortunate 43. eventually

　　44. their chances are slim regardless of what they see on screen.

　　45. They apparently hedge their bets by asking for more dates.

　　46. but the number of dates most men asked for might be a sign that the less attractive among us.

　　47. Reducing global warming/greenhouse gas emissions

　　48. 20 to 25 percent

　　49. improving soil quality

　　50. less carbon dioxide

　　51. The high initial cost

　　52. C 53. A 54. A

　　55. D 56. B 57. D

　　58. A 59. C 60. B 61. C

　　62. C 63. D 64. A

　　65. D 66. D 67. A

　　68. A 69. B 70. B 71. D

　　72. D 73. C 74. B

　　75. A 76. A 77. A

　　78. D 79. C 80. C 81. B

　　82. Not until all the demands had been turned down

　　83. has attracted much public attention in recent years

　　84. But for my smart phone at hand

　　85. nearly have nothing in common/hardly have anything in common

　　86. Facing the fierce competition from its Japanese counterparts