历年真题回顾：2013年12月英语六级真题及答案（三）_第2页

　　注意：此部分试题请在答题卡1上作答。

　　Passage One

　　Questions 16 to 19 are based on the passage you have just heard.

　　16. A) His father caught a serious disease.C) His mother left him to marry a rich businessman.

　　B) His mother passed away.D) His father took to drinking.

　　17. A) He disliked being disciplined.C) He couldn't pay his gambling debts.

　　B) He was expelled by the university.D) He enjoyed working for a magazine.

　　18. A) His poems are heavily influenced by French writers.

　　B) His stories are mainly set in the State of Virginia.

　　C) His work is difficult to read.

　　D) His language is not refined.

　　19. A) He grieved to death over the loss of his wife.C) He was shot dead at the age of 40.

　　B) He committed suicide for unknown reasons.D) He died of heavy drinking.

　　Passage Two

　　Questions 20 to 22 are based on the passage you have just heard.

　　20. A) Women.C) Manual workers.

　　B) Prisoners.D) School age children.

　　21. A) He taught his students how to pronounce the letters first.

　　B) He matched the letters with the sounds familiar to the learners.

　　C) He showed the learners how to combine the letters into simple words.

　　D) He divided the letters into groups according to the way they are written.

　　22. A) It can help people to become literate within a short time.

　　B) It was originally designed for teaching the English language.

　　C) It enables the learners to master a language within three months.

　　D) It is effective in teaching any alphabetical language to Brazilians.

　　Passage Three

　　Questions 23 to 25 are based on the passage you have just heard.

　　23. A) The crop's blooming period is delayed.C) The topsoil is seriously damaged.

　　B) The roots of crops are cut off.D) The growth of weeds is accelerated.

　　24. A) It's a new way of applying chemical fertilizer.C) It's a creative technique for saving labor.

　　B) It's an improved method of harvesting crops.D) It's a farming process limiting the use of ploughs.

　　25. A) In areas with few weeds and unwanted plants.

　　B) In areas with a severe shortage of water.

　　C) In areas lacking in chemical fertilizer.

　　D) In areas dependent on imported food.

　　Section C

　　Directions: In this section, you will hear a passage three times. When the passage is read for the

　　first time, you should listen carefully for its general idea. When the passage is read for the second

　　time, you are required to fill in the blanks with the exact words you have just heard.Finally, when

　　the passage is read for the third time, you should check what you have written.

　　注意：此部分试题请在答题卡1上作答。

　　Adults are getting smarter about how smart babies are. Not long ago, researchers learned that

　　4-day-old could understand (26)_____ and subtraction. Now, British research psychologist

　　Graham Schafer has discovered that infants can learn words for uncommon things long before

　　they can speak. He found that 9-month-old infants could be taught, through repeated

　　show-and-tell, to (27)_____ the names of objects that were foreign to them, a result that

　　(28)_____ in some ways the received wisdom that, apart from learning to (29)_____ things

　　common to their daily lives, children don't begin to build vocabulary until well into their second

　　year. "It's no (30)_____ that children learn words, but the words they tend to know are words

　　linked to (31)_____ situations in the home," explains Schafer. "This is the first demonstration that

　　we can choose what words the children will learn and that they can respond to them with an

　　unfamiliar voice (32)_____ in an unfamiliar setting."

　　Figuring out how humans acquire language may (33)_____ why some children learn to read

　　and write later than others, Schafer says, and could lead to better treatments for developmental

　　problems. What's more, the study of language (34)_____ offers direct insight into how humans

　　learn. "Language is a test case for human cognitive development," says Schafer. But parents eager

　　to teach their infants should take note: even without being taught new words, a control group

　　(35)_____ the other infants within a few months. "This is not about advancing development," he

　　says. "It's just about what children can do at an earlier age than what educators have often

　　thought."