1、Part II Listening Comprehension(30 minutes)Section A Directions:In this section,you will hear two long conversations.At the end of each conversation,you will hear four questions.Both the conversation and the questions will be sJJOken only once.After you hear a question,you must choose the best answe
2、r from the four choices marked A),B),C)and D).Then mark the corresponding letter on Answer Sheet 1 with asingle line through the centre.Questions 1 to 4 are based on the conversation you have just heard.1.A)Doing enjoyable work.C)Earning a competitive salary.B)Having friendly colleagues.D)Working fo
3、r supportive bosses.2.A)31%.C)25%.B)20%.D)73%.3.A)Those of a small size.C)Those that are well managed.B)Those run by women.D)Those full of skilled workers.4.A)They can hop from job to job easily.C)They can better balance work and life.B)They can win recognition of their work.D)They can take on more
4、than one job.Questions 5 to 8 are based on the conversation you have just heard.5.A)It is a book of European history.C)It is about the city of Bruges.B)It is an introduction to music.D)It is a collection of photos.6.A)When painting the concert hall of Bruges.B)When vacationing in an Italian coastal
5、city.C)When taking pictures for a concert catalogue.D)When writing about Belgiums coastal regions.7.A)The entire European coastline will be submerged.B)The rich heritage of Europe will be lost completely.C)The seawater of Europe will be seriously polluted.D)The major European scenic spots will disap
6、pear.8.A)Its waterways are being increasingly polluted.B)People cannot get around without using boats.C)It attracts large numbers of tourists from home and abroad.D)Tourists use wooden paths to reach their hotels in the morning.2017年6月英语六级考试试题第1套2017年6月英语六级考试试题第1套第 112页Section B Directions:In this s
7、ection,you will hear two passages.At the end of each passage,you will hear three or four 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 A
8、nswer Sheet 1 with a single linethrough the centre.Questions 9 to 12 are based on the passage you have just heard.9.A)They make careful preparations beforehand.B)They take too many irrelevant factors into account.C)They spend too much time anticipating their defeat.D)They try hard to avoid getting o
9、ff on the wrong foot.10.A)A persons nervous system is more complicated than imagined.B)Golfers usually have positive mental images of themselves.C)Mental images often interfere with athletes performance.D)Thinking has the same effect on the nervous system as doing.11.A)Anticipate possible problems.C
10、)Picture themselves succeeding.B)Make a list of dos and donts.D)Try to appear more professional.12.A)She wore a designer dress.C)She did not speak loud enough.B)She won her first jury trial.D)She presented moving pictures.Questions 13 to 15 are based on the passage you have just heard.13.A)Its long-
11、term effects are yet to be proved.B)Its health benefits have been overestimated.C)It helps people to avoid developing breast cancer.D)It enables patients with diabetes to recover sooner.14.A)It focused on their ways of life during young adulthood.B)It tracked their change in food preferences for 20
12、years.C)It focused on their difference from men in:fiber intake.D)It tracked their eating habits since their adolescence.15.A)Fiber may help to reduce hormones in the body.B)Fiber may bring more benefits to women than men.C)Fiber may improve the function of heart muscles.第 212页D)Fiber may make blood
13、 circulation more smooth.Section C Directions:In this section,you will hear three recordings of lectures or talks followed by three or fourquestions.The recordings will be played 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
14、 the corresponding letter on Answer Sheet 1 with a single line through the centre.Questions 16 to 18 are based on the recording you have just heard.16.A)Observing the changes in marketing.B)Conducting research on consumer behavior.C)Studying the hazards of young people drinking.D)Investigating the i
15、mpact of media on government.17.A)It is the cause of many street riots.C)It is getting worse year by year.B)It is a chief concern of parents.D)It is an act of socialising.18.A)They spent a week studying their own purchasing behavior.B)They researched the impact of mobile phones on young people.C)The
16、y analysed their family budgets over the years.D)They conducted a thorough research on advertising.Questions 19 to 22 are based on the recording you have just heard.19.A)It is helping its banks to improve efficiency.B)It is trying hard to do away with dirty money.C)It is the first country to use cre
17、dit cards in the world.D)It is likely to give up paper money in the near future.20.A)Whether it is possible to travel without carrying any physical currency.B)Whether it is possible to predict how much money one is going to spend.C)Whether the absence of physical currency causes a person to spend mo
18、re.D)Whether the absence of physical currency is going to affect everyday life.21.A)There was no food service on the train.C)The restaurant car accepted cash only.B)The service on the train was not good.D)The cash in her handbag was missing.22.A)By putting money into envelopes.C)By limiting their da
19、y-to-day spending.B)By drawing money week by week.D)By refusing to buy anything on credit.第 312页Questions 23 to 25 are based on the recording you have just heard.23.A)Population explosion.C)Extinction of rare species.B)Chronic hunger.D)Environmental deterioration.24.A)They contribute to overpopulati
20、on.C)They have been brought under control.B)About half of them are unintended.D)The majority of them tend to end halfway.25.A)It is essential to the wellbeing of all species on earth.B)It is becoming a subject of interdisciplinary research.C)It is neglected in many of the developing countries.D)It i
21、s beginning to attract postgraduates attention.Part III Reading Comprehension(40 minutes)Section A Directions:In this section,there is a passage with ten blanks.You are required to select one word foreach blank from a list of choices given in a word bank following the passage.Read the passage throug
22、h carefully before making your choices.Each choice in the bank is identified by a letter.Please mark the corresponding letter for each item on Answer Sheet 2 with a single line through the centre.You may not use any of the words in the bank more than once.After becoming president of Purdue Universit
23、y in 2013,Mitch Daniels asked the faculty to prove that their students have actually achieved one of higher educations most important goals:critical thinking skills.Two years before,a nationwide study of college graduates had shown that more than a third had made no 26 gains in such mental abilities
24、 during their school years.Mr.Daniels needed to 27 the high cost of attending Purdue to its students and their families.After all,the percentage of Americans who say a college degree is very important has fallen _1L in the last 5-6 years.Purdue now has a pilot test to assess students critical thinki
25、ng skills.Yet like many college teachers around the U.S.,the faculty remain 29 that their work as educators can be measured by a learning _1Q_ such as a graduates ability to investigate and reason.However,the professors need not worry so much.The results of a recent experiment showed that professors
26、 can use 31 metrics to measure how well students do in three key areas:critical thinking,written communication,and quantitative literacy.Despite the success of the experiment,the actual results are worrisome,and mostly 32 earlier studies.The organizers of the experiment concluded that far fewer stud
27、ents were achieving at high levels on critical thinking than they were doing for written communication or quantitative literacy.And that conclusion is based only on students nearing graduation.American universities,despite their global _1_L for excellence in teaching,have only begun to demonstrate w
28、hat they can produce in real-world learning.Knowledge-based degrees are still 第 412页important,but employers are 34 advanced thinking skills from college graduates.If the intellectual worth of a college degree can be 35 measured,more people will seek higher education-and come out better thinkers.A)ac
29、curatelyI)predominanceB)confirmJ)presummgC)demandingK)reputationD)doubtfulL)significantE)drasticallyM)signifyF)justifyN)simultaneouslyG)monopolized0)standardizedH)outcomeSection B Directions:In this section,you are going to read a passage with ten statements attached to it.Eachstatement contains inf
30、ormation given in one of the paragraphs.Identify the paragraph from which the information 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.The Price of Oil and the Price of Carbon A
31、Fossil fuel prices are likely to stay low for long.Notwithstanding important recent progress indeveloping renewable fuel sources,low fossil fuel prices could discourage further innovation in,and adoption of,cleaner energy technologies.The result would be higher emissions of carbondioxide and other g
32、reenhouse gases.B Policymakers should not allow low energy prices to derail the clean energy transition.Action torestore appropriate price incentives,notably through corrective carbon pricing,is urgently neededto lower the risk of irreversible and potentially devastating effects of climate change.Th
33、atapproach also offers fiscal benefits.C Oil prices have dropped by over 60%since June 2014.A commonly held view in the oil industryis that the best cure for low oil prices is low oil prices.The reasoning behind this saying is thatlow oil prices discourage investment in new production capacity,event
34、ually shifting the oil supplycurve backward and bringing prices back up as existing oil fields-which can be tapped atrelatively low marginal cost-are depleted.In fact,in line with past experience,capital expenditurein the oil sector has dropped sharply in many producing countries,including the Unite
35、d States.Thedynamic adjustment to low oil prices may,however,be different this time around.第 512页D Oil prices are expected to remain lower for longer.The advent of new technologies has addedabout 4.2 million barrels per day to the crude oil market,contributing to a global over-supply.Inaddition,othe
36、r factors are putting downward pressure on oil prices:change in the strategicbehavior of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries,the projected increase in Iranianexports,the scaling-down of global demand(especially from emerging markets),the long-termdrop in petroleum consumption in the Un
37、ited States,and some displacement of oil by substitutes.These likely persistent forces,like the growth of shale(Pi )oil,point to a low for longscenario.Futures markets,which show only a modest recovery of prices to around$60 a barrelby 2019,support this view.E Natural gas and coal-also fossil fuels-
38、have similarly seen price declines that look to be longlived.Coal and natural gas are mainly used for electricity generation,whereas oil is used mostlyto power transportation,yet the prices of all these energy sources are linked.The North Americanshale gas boom has resulted in record low prices ther
39、e.The recent discovery of the giant Zohr gasfield off the Egyptian coast will eventually have impact on pricing in the Mediterranean regionand Europe,and there is significant development potential in many other places,notablyArgentina.Coal prices also are low,owing to over-supply and the scaling-dow
40、n of demand,especially from China,which burns half of the worlds coal.F Technological innovations have unleashed the power of renewables such as wind,hydro,solar,and geothermal(M!,).Even Africa and the Middle East,home to economies that are heavilydependent on fossil fuel exports,have enormous poten
41、tial to develop renewables.For example,the United Arab Emirates has endorsed an ambitious target to draw 24%of its primary energyconsumption from renewable sources by 2021.G Progress in the development of renewables could be fragile,however,if fossil fuel prices remainlow for long.Renewables account
42、 for only a small share of global primary energy consumption,which is still dominated by fossil fuels-30%each for coal and oil,25%for natural gas.Butrenewable energy will have to displace fossil fuels to a much greater extent in the future to avoidunacceptable climate risks.HUnfortunately,the curren
43、t low prices for oil,gas,and coal may provide little incentive forresearch to find even cheaper substitutes for those fuels.There is strong evidence that bothinnovation and adoption of cleaner technology are strongly encouraged by higher fossil fuelprices.The same is true for new technologies for al
44、leviating fossil fuel emissions.I The current low fossil fuel price environment will thus certainly delay the energy transition fromfossil fuel to clean energy sources.Unless renewables become cheap enough that substantialcarbon deposits are left underground for a very long time,if not forever,the p
45、lanet will likely beexposed to potentially catastrophic climate risks.J Some climate impacts may already be discernible.For example,the United Nations Childrens第 612页Fund estimates that some 11 million children in Africa face hunger,disease,and water shortages as a result of the strongest El Nino(le
46、.Jt,i*)weather phenomenon in decades.Many scientists believe that El Nino events,caused by warming in the Pacific,are becoming more intense as a result of climate change.K Nations from around the world have gathered in Paris for the United Nations Climate ChangeConference,COP 21,with the goal of a u
47、niversal and potentially legally-binding agreement onreducing greenhouse gas emissions.We need very broad participation to fully address the globaltragedy that results when countries fail to take into account the negative impact of their carbonemissions on the rest of the world.Moreover,non-particip
48、ation by nations,if sufficientlywidespread,can undermine the political will of participating countries to act.L The nations participating at COP 21 are focusing on quantitative emissions-reductioncommitments.Economic reasoning shows that the least expensive way for each country is to puta price on c
49、arbon emissions.The reason is that when carbon is priced,those emissions reductionsthat are least costly to implement will happen first.The International Monetary Fund calculatesthat countries can generate substantial fiscal revenues by eliminating fossil fuel subsidies andlevying carbon charges tha
50、t capture the domestic damage caused by emissions.A tax onupstream carbon sources is one easy way to put a price on carbon emissions,although somecountries may wish to use other methods,such as emissions trading schemes.In order tomaximize global welfare,every countrys carbon pricing should reflect
