6月大学英语六级模拟试卷及答案解析一

1、6月大学英语六级模拟试卷及答案解析一2015年6月大学英语六级模拟试卷及答案解析（一）PartListening Comprehension (20 minutes)SectionADirections:In this section, you will hear 10 short conversations.At the end of each conversation, a question will be asked about what wassaid. Both the conversation and the question will be spoken only once.Af

2、ter each question there will be a pause. During the pause, you mustread the four choices marked A), B), C) and D), and decide which is thebest answer. Then mark the corresponding letter on the Answer Sheet witha single line through the center.Example:You will hear: ?M: When shall we start our work,

3、Jane?W: Tomorrow at 9 oclock. But we must work quickly, for we haveto finish everything before 2 in the afternoon.?Q: For how long can they work?You will read:A) 2 hours.B) 3 hours.C) 4 hours.D) 5 hours.?From the conversation we know that the two are talking aboutsome work they will start at 9 ocloc

4、k in the morning and have to finishat 2 in the afternoon. Therefore, D)5 hours is the correct answer. Youshould choose D on the Answer Sheet and mark it with a single linethrough the center.Sample Answer A BC D?1.A) The man should try to be more understanding.B) The mans wife should be more understa

5、nding.C) The mans negative attitude may be derived from his childhood.D) The pessimism of mans wife may be the result of her pastexperiences.2.A) A snowstorm.C) A traffic accident.B) An earthquake.?D) A hurricane.?3.A) The two speakers are classmates.B) The man is majoring in elementary education.C)

6、 The woman is majoring in elementary education.D) The two speakers got to know each other in a class.?4.A) Shes got a stomachache.?B) She feels perfectly fine.C) Shes going to get married.?D) Shes going to have a baby.?5.A) It is the best city hes ever visited.?B) It was worse than he had expected.C

7、) It is difficult to get around in the city.?D) The hotel service is terrible in the city.?6.A) To encouragethem.?B) To stop them immediately.C) To give some explanation.?D) To leave them alone.?7.A) Unemployment.C) Mental problems.B) Family breakup.?D) Drinking.8.A) The woman is the mans boss.?B) T

8、he man is the womans husband.C) The woman is the headmaster of a school.?D) The woman wants to know something about a student.?9.A) They are attending a concert.?B) They are negotiating about a price.C) They are planning to go for a date.?D) They are buying something for their firm.?10.A) The man is

9、 a football fan.?B) The man needs the womans help.C) The man didnt watch TV last night.?D) The man often has power failure at home.?SectionBDirections:In this section, you will hear a passage three times.When the passage is read for the first time, you should listen carefullyfor its general idea. Wh

10、en the passage is read for the second time, youare required to fill in the blanks numbered from S1 to S7 with the exactwords you have just heard. For blanks numbered from S8 to S10 you arerequired to fill in the missing information. You can either use theexact words you have just heard or write down

11、 the main points in yourown words. Finally, when the passage is read for the third time, youshould check what you have written.Shyness is the cause of much unhappiness for a great many people.Shy people are anxious and (11)_; that is, they are excessivelyconcerned with their own appearance and actio

12、ns. (12)_ thoughts areconstantly occurring in their minds: What kind of impression am I making?Do they like me? Do I sound stupid? Am I wearing (13)_ clothes?It is obvious that such uncomfortable feelings must affectpeople (14)_. A persons self?concept is (15)_ in the way he orshe behaves, and the w

13、ay a person behaves affects other peoples(16)_. In general, the way people think about themselves has a(17)_ effect on all areas of their lives.Shy people are very sensitive to criticism; they feel itconfirms their inferiority. (18)_. A shy person may respond to acompliment with a statement like thi

14、s one:youre just saying that tomake me feel good. I know its not true.(19)_.Can shyness be completely eliminated, or at least reduced?(20)_. Peoples expectations of themselves must be realistic. Livingon the impossible leads to a sense of inadequacy.Part Reading Comprehension (35 minutes)Directions:

15、There are 4 reading passages in this part. Eachpassage is followed by some questions or unfinished statements. For eachof them there are four choices marked A), B), C) and D). You shoulddecide on the best choice and mark the corresponding letter on theAnswer Sheet with a single line through the cent

16、er.Passage One?Questions 21 to 25 are based on the following passage:?When Kathie Giffords face was splashed across the newspapers in1996 after her lucrative line of Wal?mart clothing was exposed as thework of underpaid laborers in New York Citys Chinatown, the Departmentof Labor and the White House

17、 teamed up to condemn such practices. Withmuch fanfare, President Clintons administration launched the No Sweatcampaign, which pressured retailers and manufacturers to submit toperiodic independent inspection of their workplace conditions.;This campaign urged manufacturers to sign the Workplace Code

18、 ofConduct, a promise to self?regulate that has since been adopted by ahandful of retailers and many of the nations largest manufacturers,including Nike and L.L. Bean. However, the Department of Defense, whichhas a $ 1 billion garment business that would make it the countrys 14thlargest retail appar

19、el outlet, has not signed the Code of Conduct. Inaddition, it has not agreed to demand that its contractors submit toperiodic inspections.;Because the Department of Defense has not agreed to adhere tothe code, the job of stopping public?sector sweatshops falls to theDepartment of Labor. Federal cont

20、ractors that persist in violating wagelaws or safety and health codes can lose their lucrativetaxpayer?financed contracts. But Suzanne Seiden, a deputy administratorat the Department of Labor, says that to her knowledge, the departmenthas never applied that rule to government apparel manufacturers.

21、I justassume that they are adhering to safety and health requirements, shesays. According to records obtained by Mother Jones, through a Freedomof Information Act request, the Occupational Safety and HealthAdministration has cited Lion 32 times for safety and health violationsin the past 12 years.21

22、.What is this passgage mainly concerned with?A)The functions of the Department of Labor in America.B)A serious problem threatening American economy.C)The successful attempt of regulating sweatshops in America.D)The seriousness of the problem of sweatshops in America.?22.According to the passage, Kat

23、hie Gifford _.A) was one of the underpaid laborers in New York CitysChinatownB) was one of the well?paid laborers in New York CitysChinatownC) made much money from cheap laborers in New York CitysChinatownD) wrote a newspaper article exposing the practice of employingcheap laborers23.The underlined

24、phrase to submit to is closest in meaning to_.A) to accept unwillingly?B) to refuse coldlyC) to welcome warm?heartedlyD) to blame strongly?24.Which of the following statements about the Department ofDefense is true?A) It will become the countrys 14th largest retail apparelmanufacturer.B) It hasnt ac

25、ted according to the Workplace Code of Conduct.C) It has demanded its contractors to sign the Workplace Code ofConduct.D) It has teamed up with the Department of Labor to launch acampaign.?25.What was the purpose of President Clintons administrationlaunching the No Sweat campaign?A) To urge manufact

26、urers to obey the Workplace Code of Conduct.B) To remind the manufacturers of the Workplace Code of Conduct.C) To urge the Department of Labor to take its responsibility.D) To urge the Department of Defense to inspect manufacturers.?Passage Two?Questions 26 to 30 are based on the following passage:?

27、The term investment portfolio conjures up visions of the trulyrich-the Rockefellers, the Wal?Mart Waltons, Bill Gates. But today,everyone-from the Philadelphia firefighter, his part?time receptionistwife and their three children, to the single Los Angeles lawyer startingout on his own-needs a portfo

28、lio.;A portfolio is simply a collection of financial assets. It mayinclude real estate, rare stamps and coins, precious metals and evenartworks. But those are for people with expertise. What most of us needto know about are stocks, bonds and cash (including such cashequivalents as money?market funds

29、).;How do you decide what part of your portfolio should go to eachof the big three? Begin by understanding that stocks pay higher returnsbut are more risky; bonds and cash pay lower returns but are lessrisky.;Research by Ibbotson Associates, for example, shows thatlarge?company stocks, on average, h

30、ave returned 11.2 percent annuallysince 1926. Over the same period, by comparison, bonds have returned anannual average of 5.3 percent and cash, 3.8 percent.;But short?term risk is another matter. In 1974, a one?year $1000investment in the stock market would have declined to $735.;With bonds, there

31、are two kinds of risk: that the borrower wontpay you back and that the money youll get wont be worth very much. TheU.S. government stands behind treasury bonds, so the credit risk isalmost nil. But the inflation risk remains. Say you buy a $1000 bondmaturing in ten years. If inflation averages about

32、 seven percent overthat time, then the $1000 you receive at maturity can only buy $500worth of todays goods.;With cash, the inflation risk is lower, since over a long periodyou can keep rolling over your CDs every year (or more often). Ifinflation rises, interest rates rise to compensate.;As a resul

33、t, the single most imortant rule in building aportfolio is this: If you dont need the money for a long time, then putit into stocks. If you need it soon, put it into bonds and cash.26.This passage is intended to give advice on _.A) how to avoid inflation risks?B) what kinds of bonds to buyC) how to

34、get rich by investing in stock market?D) how to become richer by spreading the risk?27.The author mentions such millionaires as the Rockefellers andBill Gates to show that _.A) they are examples for us on our road to wealth?B) a portfolio is essential to financial successC) they are really rich peop

35、leD) they started out on their own?28.Which of the following statements will the author support?A) Everybody can get rich with some financial assets.B) The credit risk for treasury bonds is extremely high.C) Its no use trying to know the advantages of stocks, bondsand cash.D) Everybody should realiz

36、e the importance of distribution oftheir financial assets.?29.The word returns in paragraph three can be best replaced by_.?A) returning journeys?B) profits?C) savings?D) investments?30.The author of the passage points out that _.A) keeping cash is the only way to avoid risksB) the longer you own a

37、stock, the more you lostC) the high rate of profit and high rate of risk coexist instocksD) the best way to accumulate wealth is by investing in stocks?Passage Three?Questions 31 to 35 are based on the following passage:?There were two widely divergent influences on the earlydevelopment of statistic

38、al methods. Statistics had a mother who wasdedicated to keeping orderly records of governmental units (state andstatistics come from the same Latin root, status) and a gentlemanlygambling father who relied on mathematics to increase his skill atplaying the odds in games of chance. The influence of t

39、he mother on theoffspring, statistics, is represented by counting, measuring, describing,tabulating, ordering, and the taking of censuses-all of which led tomodern descriptive statistics. From the influence of the father camemodern inferential statistics, which is based squarely on theories ofprobab

40、ility.;Descriptive statistics involves tabulating, depicting, anddescribing collections of data. These data may be either quantitative,such as measures of height, intelligence, or grade level-variables thatare characterized by an underlying continuum-or the data many representqualitative variables,

41、such as sex, college major, or personality type.Large masses of data must generally undergo a process of summarizationor reducing to comprehensibly form the properties of an otherwiseunwieldy mass of data.;Inferential statistics is a formalized body of methods forsolving another class of problems th

42、at present great difficulties forthe unaided human mind. This general class of problemscharacteristically involves attempts to make predictions using a sampleof observations. For example, a school superintendent wishes todetermine the proportion of children in a large school system who cometo school

43、 without breakfast, have been vaccinated for flu, or whatever.Having a little knowledge of statistics, the superintendent would knowthat it is unnecessary and inefficiency to question each child; theproportion for the entire district could be estimated fairly accuratelyfrom a sample of as few as 100

44、 children. Thus, the purpose ofinferential statistics is to predict or estimate characteristics of apopulation from a knowledge of the characteristics of only a sample ofthe population.31.What is the passage mainly concerned with?A) Development and application of statistics.B) Origin of descriptive

45、statistics.C) Limitations of inferential statistics.D) Importance of statistics.?32.Describing and tabulating are associated with _.A) inferential statistics?B) descriptive statisticsC) theories of probability?D) inefficiency of counting?33.Which of the following statements is true about descriptive

46、statistics?A) It combines quantitative variables and qualitative variables.B) It can be used to deal with only quantitative variables.C) It helps to summarize properties of a group of data.D) It helps to make predictions using a sample of observations.?34.The word unwieldy in the second paragraph is

47、 closest inmeaning to _.A) difficult to collectC) incomprehensive D) uncontrollable?B) difficult to tackle?35.A sample of a population is often examined for the followingpurposes except _.A) to make a more accurate prediction of trendB) to improve efficiency and avoid unnecessary workC) to save the

48、trouble of approaching every membersD) to predict characteristics of the entire populationPassage Four?Questions 36 to 40 are based on the following passage:?The Japanese are fascinated by automata and new inventions.Japanese children are used to friendly robots in their comics, in toys,and in TV an

49、imated cartoons. When as adults they join theworkforce,robots mean that there is no need to import cheap foreignlabor, as happens in many other parts of the world. There is no need forhumans to put up with dirty, mind?deadening mechanical work the robotdoes it all without complaint, around the clock

50、. Robots dont go onstrike over tea breaks they dont have tea, or any other kind ofbreaks:they work, day and night, without having to be paid overtime,without making mistakes. Human tasks are subject to human error: roboterror seldom or never occurs except as a result of human error!;In Japan, robots

51、 are almost respected for their virtues. When anew robot is introduced to a small suburban factory, a Shinto priest isinvited to inaugurate it. He inaugurates the robot with words along thelines of Welcome to our co?worker, we hope youll help him settle in.No one laughs.;FANUC demonstrates the Japan

52、ese tendency to conform particularlystrikingly. The founder of FANUC, Dr. Inaba, has created an army thatmakes no distinction between blue?collar, white?collar and steel?collarworker: everyone, including the warlord himself, is dressed in yellowclothing issued free by the company. Perhaps to make up

53、 for the boring nature of the work, there are anumber of other company perks. Company benefits, including pay, are muchhigher than in similar companies in Japan. Travel to and from work isprovided free in the companys yellow buses. However, workers areexpected to put in demanding unpaid overtime. Th

54、ere is a clock in theproduct development laboratory set to run at ten times the normal speed,the remind everyone that the company is on a war footing.;As we watched Dr. Inabas yellow helicopter soar away to Naritaairport, we couldnt help thinking that his dream of world domination inrobotics and all

55、ied applications might be more elegantly achieved if hehad also thought to program his robots to whistle while they work.36.According to the author, which of the following is not trueto the Japanese?A) Robots mean there is no need to import cheap foreign labor.B) Robots mean that humans neednt do di

56、rty and noisy work.C) Robots mean there are no strikes nor overtimes.D) Robots mean there is no mistake in any form.?37.What can be inferred form the words He inaugurates the robotwith words along the lines of Welcome to our co?worker, we hope youllhelp him settle in.No one laughs.?A) The Japanese h

57、as no sense of humor while at work.B) The Japanese does not understand the words of the Shintopriest.C) The Japanese shows a true respect for robots.D) The Japanese goes too far in their respect for robots.?38.Which of the following is not true about FANUC?A) Workers receive higher pay for working o

58、vertime.B) Workers enjoy free travel to and from work.C) Workers are doing boring, sometimes demanding work.D) Workers are reminded of being on a war footing.?39.What is not implied in the following works we couldnt helpthinking that his dream of world domination in robotics and alliedapplications m

59、ight be more elegantly achieved if he had also thought toprogram his robots to whistle while they work.?A) Our technology is not yet up to the needs of Dr. Inabasdream.B) Dr. Inabas dream of world domination in robotics lackshumanity.C) Dr. Inabas dream of allied applications is too practical.D) The

60、 author is in favor of Dr. Inabas dream.?40.What does our co?worker refer to in the sentence Welcometo our co?worker, we hope youll help him settle in?A) Japanese workers who attend the inauguration.?B) The introduced robot.C) The people who have invented the robot.?D) Japanese workers in general.Pa