2014年6月大学英语六级考试真题第二套Part I Writing (30 minutes)Directions/ For this part/ you are allowed 30 minutes to write an essay explaining why it is unwise to jump to conclusions upon seeing or hearing something/ You can give examples to illustrate your point/ You should write at least 150 words but no more than 200 words/Part II Listening Comprehension (30 minutes)Section ADirections/ In this section/ you will hear 8 short conversations and 2 long conversations/ At the end of each conversation/ one or more questions will be asked about what was said/ Both the conversation and the questions will be spoken only once/ After each question there will be a pause/ During the pause/ you must read the four choices marked A/ B)/ C and D/ and decide which is the best answer/ Then mark the corresponding letter on /Answer Shoot 1 with a single line through the centre/1/ ACollege tuition has become a heavy burden for the students/ BCollege students are in general politically active nowadays/ C He is doubtful about the effect of the students action/D He took part in many protests when he was at college/2/ AJay is organizing a party for the retiring dean/BJay is surprised to learn of the party for him/ C The dean will come to Jays birthday party/ D The class has kept the party a secret from Jay/3/ AHe found his wallet in his briefcase/ BHe went to the lost-and-found office/C He left his things with his car in the garage/ D He told the woman to go and pick up his car/4/ AThe show he directed turned out to be a success/BHe watches only those comedies by famous directors/CNew comedies are exciting/ just like those in the 1960s/ DTV comedies have not improved much since the 1960s/5/ AAll vegetables should be cooked fresh/BThe man should try out some new recipes/ C Overcooked vegetables are often tasteless/ D The man should /stop boiling the vegetables/6/ ASort out their tax returns/ BHelp them tidy up the house/ C Figure out a way to avoid taxes/D Help them to decode a message/7/ AHe didnt expect to complete his work so soon/BHe has devoted a whole month to his research/ C The woman is still trying to finish her work/D The woman remains a total mystery to him/8/ AHe would like to major in psychology too/ BHe has failed to register for the course/C Developmental psychology is newly offered/ D There should be more time for registration/Questions 9 to 11 are based on the conversation you have just heard/9/ AThe brilliant product design/ BThe new color combinations/ C The unique craftsmanship/D The texture of the fabrics/10/ AUnique tourist attractions/ BTraditional Thai silks/ C Local handicrafts/D Fancy products/11/ AIt will be on the following weekend/ BIt will be out into the countryside/C It will last only one day/ D It will start tomorrow/Questions 12 to 15 are based on the conversation you have just heard/12/ AA good secondary education/ BA pleasant neighbourhood/ C A happy childhood/ D A year of practical training/13/ AHe ought to get good vocational training/ BHe should be sent to a private school/C He is academically gifted/ D He is good at carpentry/14/ADonwell School/ BEnderby High/C Carlton Abbey D Enderby Comprehensive/15/ APut Keith in a good boarding school/BTalk with their children about their decision/C Send their children to a better private school/D Find out more about the five schools/Section BDirections/ 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 Ansewer Sheet 1 with a single line through the centre/Passage OneQuestions 16 to 18 are based on the passage yon have just heard/16/ AIt will be brightly lit/ BIt will be well ventilated/ C It will have a large space for storage/D It will provide easy access to the disabled/17/ AOn the first floor/ BOn the ground floor/C Opposite to the library/D On the same floor as the labs/18/ ATo make the building appear traditional/BTo match the style of construction on the site/C To cut the construction cost to the minimum/D To embody the subcommittees design concepts/Passage TwoQuestions 19 to 22 are based on the passage you have just heard/19/ ASell financial software/ BTrain clients to use financial software/C Write financial software/ D Conduct research on financial software/20/AUnsuccessful/ BTedious/C Rewarding/ D Important/21/ AHe offered online tutorials/ BHe held group discussions/C He gave the trainees lecture notes/ D He provided individual support/22/ AThe employees were a bit slow to follow his instruction/BThe trainees problems had to be dealt with one by one/CNobody is able to solve all the problems in a couple of weeks/DThe fault might lie in his style of presenting the information/Passage ThreeQuestions 23 to 25 are based on the passage you have just heard/23/ ATheir parents tend to overprotect them/ BTheir teachers meet them only in class/ C They have little close contact with adults/ D They rarely read any books about adults/24/ AReal-life cases are simulated for students to learn law/ BWriters and lawyers are brought in to talk to students/ COpportunities are created for children to become writers/DMore Teacher and Writer Collaboratives are being set up/25/ A/ Sixth-graders can teach first-graders as well as teachers/B/ Children are often the best teachers of other children/C/ Paired Learning cultivates the spirit of cooperation/D/ Children like to form partnerships with each other/Section CDirections/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/ Tests may be the most unpopular part of academic life/ Students hate them because they produce fear and (26) _ about being evaluated/ and a focus on grades instead of learning for learnings sake/But tests are also valuable/ A well-constructed test (27) _ what you know and what you still need to learn/ Tests help you see how your performance (28) _ that of others/ And knowing that youll be tested on (29) _ material is certainly likely to (30) _ you to learn the material more thoroughly/However/ theres another reason you might dislike tests/ You may assume that tests have the power to (31) _ your worth as a person/ If you do badly on a test/ you may be tempted to believe that youve received some (32) _ information about yourself from the professor/ information that says youre a failure in some significant way/This is a dangerousand wrong-headedassumption/ If you do badly on a test/ it doesnt mean youre a bad person or stupid/ Or that youll never do better again/ and that your life is (33) _/ If you dont do well on a test/ youre the same person you were before you took the testno better/ no worse/ You just did badly on a test/ Thats it/(34) _/ tests are not a measure of your value as an individualthey are a measure only of how well and how much you studied/ Tests are tools/ they are indirect and (35) _ measures of what we know/Part III Reading Comprehension (40 minutes)Section ADirections/ In this section/ there is a passage with ten blanks/ You are required to select one word for each blank from a list of choices given in a word bank following the passage/ Read the passage through care fully before making your choices/ Each choice in the bank is identified by a letter/ Please mark the corresponding letter for each item on Answer Sheet2 with a single line through the centre/ You may not use any of the words in the bank more than once/Questions 36 to 45 are based on the following passage/For investors who desire low risk and guaranteed income/ U/S/ government bonds are a secure investment because these bonds have the financial backing and full faith and credit of the federal government/ Municipal bonds/ also secure/ are offered by local governments and often have _36_ such as tax-free interest/ Some may even be _37_/ Corporate bonds are a bit more risky/Two questions often _38_ first-time corporate bond investors/ The first is “If I purchase a corporate bond/ do I have to hold it until the maturity date?” The answer is no/ Bonds are bought and sold daily on _39_ securities exchanges/ However/ if you decide to sell your bond before its maturity date/ youre not guaranteed to get the face value of the bond/ For example/ if your bond does not have _40_ that make it attractive to other investors/ you may be forced to sell your bond at a _41_/ i/e// a price less than the bonds face value/ But if your bond is highly valued by other investors/ you may be able to sell it at a premium/ i/e// a price above its face value/ Bond prices generally _42_ inversely (相反地) with current market interest rates/ As interest rates go up/ bond prices fall/ and vice versa(反之亦然)/ Thus/ like all investments/ bonds have a degree of risk/The second question is “How can I _43_ the investment risk of a particular bond issue?” Standard & Poors and Moodys Investors Service rate the level of risk of many corporate and government bonds/ And _44_/ the higher the market risk of a bond/ the higher the interest rate/ Investors will invest in a bond considered risky only if the _45_ return is high enough/A) advantages B) assess C) bother D) conserved E) deduction F) discount G) embarrass H) featuresI) fluctuateJ) indefiniteK) insuredL) majorM) naturallyN) potentialO) simultaneouslySection BDirections/ In this section/ you are going to read a passage with ten statements attached to it/ Eachstatement contains information given in one of the paragraphs/ Identify the paragraph from which the in formation is derived/ You may choose a paragraph more than once/ Each paragraph is marked with a letter/ Answer the questions by marking the corresponding letter on Answer Sheet 2/Lessons From a Feminist ParadiseA On the surface/ Sweden appears to be a feminist paradise/ Look at any global survey of gender equalityand Sweden will be near the top/ Family-friendly policies are its norm-with 16 months of paid parent all eave/ special protections for part-time workers/ and state-subsidized preschools where/ according to a government website/ gender-awareness education is increasingly common/ Due to an unofficial quota system/ women hold 45 percent of positions in the Swedish parliament/ They have enjoyed the protection of government agencies with titles like the Ministry of Integration and Gender Equality and the Secretariat of Gender Research/ So why are American women so far ahead of their Swedish counterparts in breaking through the glass ceiling?BIn a 2012 report/ the World Economic Forum found that when it comes to closing the gender gap in “economic participation and opportunity/ the United States is ahead of not only Sweden but also Finland/ Denmark/ the Netherlands/ Iceland/ Germany/ and the United Kingdom/ Swedens rank in there port can largely be explained by its political quota system/ Though the United States has fewer women in the workforce(68 percent compared to Swedens 77 percent)/ American women who choose to be employed are far more likely to work full-time and to hold high-level jobs as managers or professionals/ They also own more businesses/ launch more start-ups (新创办的企业)/ and more often work in traditionally male fields/ As for breaking through the glass ceiling in business/ American women are well in the lead/C What explains the American advantage? How can it be that societies like Sweden/ where gender equality is vigorously pursued and enforced/ have fewer female managers/ executives/ professionals/ and business owners than the laissez-faire (***放任的) United States? A new study by Cornell economists Francine Blau and Lawrence Kahn gives an explanation/D Generous parental leave policies and readily available part-time options have unintended consequences/ instead of strengthening womens attachment to the workplace/ they appear to weaken it/ In addition to a 16-month leave/ a Swedish parent has the right to work six hours a day (for a reduced salary) until his or her child is eight years old/ Mothers are far more likely than fathers to take advantage of this law/ But extended leaves and part-time employment are known to be harmful to careers-for both genders/ And with women a second factor comes into play/ most seem to enjoy the flexible-time arrangement (once known as the “mommy track) and never find their way back to full-time or high-level employment/ In sum/ generous family-friendly policies do keep more women in the labor market/ but they also tend to diminish their careers/E According to Blau and Kahn/ Swedish-style paternal (父亲的) leave policies and flexible-time arrangements pose a second threat to womens progress/ they make employers cautious about hiring women for full-time positions at all/ Offering a job to a man is the safer bet/ He is far less likely to take a year of parental leave and then return on a reduced work schedule for the next eight years/F I became aware of the trials of career-focused European women a few years ago when I met a post-doctoral student from Germany who was then a visiting fellow at Johns Hopkins/ She was astonished by the professional possibilities afforded to young American women/ Her best hope in Germany was a government job-prospects for women in the private sector were dim/ In Germany/ she told me/ we have all the benefits/ but employers dont want to hire us/G Swedish economists Magnus Henrekson and Mikael Stenkula addressed the following question in their2009 study/ why are there so few female top executives in the European egalitarian (平等主义的)welfare states? Their answer/Broad-based welfare-state policies hinder womens representation in elite competitive positions/H It is tempting to declare the Swedish policies regressive (退步的) and hail the American system as superior/ But that would be shortsighted/ The Swedes can certainly take a lesson from the United States and look for ways to clear a path for their ambitious female careerists/ But most women are not committed careerists/ When the Pew Research Center recently asked American parents to identify their “ideal life arrangement/47 percent of mothers said they would prefer to work part-time and 20 percent said they would prefer not to work at all/ Fathers answered differently/ 75 percent preferred full-timework/ Some version of the Swedish system might work well for a majority of American parents/ but the United States is unlikely to fully embrace the Swedish model/ Still/ we can learn from their experience/I) Despite its failure to shatter the glass ceiling/ Sweden has one of the most powerful and innovative economies in the world/ In its 2011-2012 survey/ the World Economic Forum ranked Sweden as the worlds third most competitive economy/ the United States came in fifth/ Sweden/ dubbed the “rock star of the recovery” in the Washington Post/ also leads the world in life satisfaction and happiness/ It is a society well worth studying/ and its efforts to conquer the gender gap impart a vital lessonthough not the lesson the Swedes had in mind/J) Sweden has gone farther than any other nation on earth to integrate the sexes and to offer women the same opportunities and freedoms as men/ For decades/ these descendants of the Vikings have been trying to show the world that the right mix of enlightened policy/ consciousness raising/ and non-sexist child rearing would close the gender divide once and for all/ Yet the divide persists/K) A 2012 press release from Statistics Sweden bears the title Gender Equality in Sweden Treading (踩)Water and notes/The total income from employment for all ages is lower for women than for men/ One in three employed women and one in ten employed men work part-time/ Womens working time is influenced by the number and age of their children/ but mens working time is not affected by these factors/ Of all employees/ only 13 percent of the women and 12 percent of the men have occupations with an even distribution of the sexes/L) Confronted with such facts/ some Swedish activists and legislators are demanding more extreme and far-reaching measures/ such as replacing male and female pronouns with a neutral alternative and monitoring children more closely to correct them when they gravitate (被吸引) toward gendered play/ When it came to light last year that mothers/ far more than fathers/ chose to stay home from work to care for their sick kids/ Ulf Kristersson/ minister of social security/ quickly commissioned a study to determine the causes of and possible cures for this disturbing state of affairs/M) Swedish family policies/ by accommodating womens preferences effectively/ are reducing the number of women in elite competitive positions/ The Swedes will find this paradoxical and try to find solutions/ Let us hope these do not include banning gender pronouns/ policing childrens play/ implementing more gender quotas/ or treating womens special attachment to home and family as a social injustice/ Most mothers do not aspire to (向往
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