1、2016 年 6 月英语六级真题及答案Part IWriting（30 minutes） Directions: For this part, you are allowed 30 minutes to write a short essay one-learning. Try to imagine what will happen when more and more people study online instead of attending school. You are required to write at least 150 words but no more than 20
2、0 words.Part IIListening Comprehension(30 minutes) Section ADirections: 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 spoken only once. After you hear a question, you must choose t
3、he best answer from the four choices marked A), B), C) and D). Then mark the corresponding letter on Answer Sheet 1 with a single line through the centre.Questions 1 to 4 are based on the conversation you have just heard.1. A) The project the man managed at CucinTech.B) The updating of technology at
4、 CucinTech.C) The mans switch to a new career.D) The restructuring of her company.2. A) Talented personnel.B) Strategic innovation.C) Competitive products.D) Effective promotion.3. A) Expand the market.B) Recruit more talents.C) Innovate constantly.D) Watch out for his competitors.4. A) Possible ban
5、kruptcy.B) Unforeseen difficulties.C) Conflicts within the company.D) Imitation by ones competitors.Questions 5 to 8 are based on the conversation you have just heard.5. A) The job of an interpreter.B) The stress felt by professionals.C) The importance of language proficiencyD) The best way to effec
6、tive communication.6. A) Promising.B) Admirable.C) Rewarding.D) Meaningful.7. A) They all have a strong interest in language.B) They all have professional qualifications.C) They have all passed language proficiency tests.D) They have all studied cross-cultural differences.8. A) It requires a much la
7、rger vocabulary.B) It attaches more importance to accuracy.C) It is more stressful than simultaneous interpreting.D) It puts ones long-term memory under more stress.Section BDirections: In this section, you will hear two passages. At the end of each passage, you will hear three or four questions. Bo
8、th 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 Answer Sheet I with a single line through the centre.Questions 9 to 11 are based on the passage
9、you have just heard.9. A) It might affect mothers health.B) It might disturb infants, sleep.C) It might increase the risk of infants death.D) It might increase mothers mental distress.10. A) Mothers who breast-feed their babies have a harder time falling asleep.B) Mothers who sleep with their babies
10、 need a little more sleep each night.C) Sleeping patterns of mothers greatly affect their newborn babies health.D) Sleeping with infants in the same room has a negative impact on mothers.11. A) Change their sleep patterns to adapt to their newborn babies5.B) Sleep in the same room but not in the sam
11、e bed as their babies.C) Sleep in the same house but not in the same room as their babies.D) Take precautions to reduce the risk of sudden infant death syndrome.Questions 12 to 15 are based on the passage you have just heard.12. A) A lot of native languages have already died out in the US.B) The US
12、ranks first in the number of endangered languages.C) The efforts to preserve Indian languages have proved fruitless.D) More money is needed to record the native languages in the US.13. A) To set up more language schools.B) To document endangered languages.C) To educate native American children.D) To
13、 revitalise Americas native languages.14. A) The US governments policy of Americanising Indian children.B) The failure of American Indian languages to gain an official status.C) The US governments unwillingness to spend money educating Indians.D) The long-time isolation of American Indians from the
14、outside world.15. A) It is being utilised to teach native languages.B) It tells traditional stories during family time.C) It speeds up the extinction of native languages.D) It is widely used in language immersion schools.Section CDirections: In this section, you will hear three recordings of lecture
15、s or talks followed by three or four questions. 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 the corresponding letter on Answer Sheet 1 with a single line through the centre.Questions 16
16、to 18 are based on the recording you have just heard.16. A) It pays them up to half of their previous wages while they look for work.B) It covers their mortgage payments and medical expenses for 99 weeks.C) It pays their living expenses until they find employment again.D) It provides them with the b
17、asic necessities of everyday life.17. A) Creating jobs for the huge army of unemployed workers.B) Providing training and guidance for unemployed workers.C) Convincing local lawmakers to extend unemployment benefits.D) Raising funds to help those having no unemployment insurance.18. A) To offer them
18、loans they need to start their own businesses.B) To allow them to postpone their monthly mortgage payments.C) To create more jobs by encouraging private investments in local companies.D) To encourage big businesses to hire back workers with government subsidies.Questions 19 to 22 are based on the re
19、cording you have just heard.19. A) They measured the depths of sea water.B) They analyzed the water content.C) They explored the ocean floor.D) They investigated the ice.20. A) Eighty percent of the ice disappears in summer time.B) Most of the ice was accumulated over the past centuries.C) The ice e
20、nsures the survival of many endangered species.D) The ice decrease is more evident than previously thought.21. A) Arctic ice is a major source of the worlds fresh water.B) The melting Arctic ice has drowned many coastal cities.C) The decline of Arctic ice is irreversible.D) Arctic ice is essential t
21、o human survival.22. A) It will do a lot of harm to mankind.B) There is no easy way to understand it.C) It will advance nuclear technology.D) There is no easy technological solution to it.Questions 23 to 25 are based on the recording you have just heard.23. A) The reason why New Zealand children see
22、m to have better self-control.B) The relation between childrens self-control and their future success.C) The health problems of children raised by a single parent.D) The deciding factor in childrens academic performance.24. A) Children raised by single parents will have a hard time in their thirties
23、.B) Those with a criminal record mostly come from single parent families.C) Parents must learn to exercise self control in front of their children.D) Lack of self-control in parents is a disadvantage for their children.25. A) Self-control can be improved through education.B) Self-control can improve
24、 ones financial situation.C) Self-control problems may be detected early in children.D) Self-control problems will diminish as one grows up.Part IIIReading Comprehension(40 minutes) Section ADirections: In this section, there is a passage with ten blanks. You are required to select one word for each
25、 blank from a list of choices given in a word bank following the passage. Read the passage through 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
26、may not use any of the words in the bank more than once.Questions 26 to 35 are based on the following passage.The robotics revolution is set to bring humans face to face with an old fearman-made creations as smart and capable as we are but without a moral compass. As robots take on ever more complex
27、 roles, the question naturally 26 : Who will be responsible when they do something wrong? Manufacturers? Users?Software writers? The answer depends on the robot.Robots already save us time, money and energy. In the future, they will improve our health care, social welfare and standard of living. The
28、 27 of computational power and engineering advances will 28 enable lower-cost in-home care for the disabled, 29 use of driverless cars that may reduce drunk- and distracted-driving accidents and countless home and service-industry uses for robots, from street cleaning to food preparation.But there a
29、re 30 to be problems. Robot cars will crash. A drone ( 遥 控 飞 行器 )operator will 31 someones privacy. A robotic lawn mower will run over a neighbors cat. Juries sympathetic to the 32 of machines will punish entrepreneurs with company-crushing 33 and damages. What should governments do to protect peopl
30、e while 34 space for innovation?Big, complicated systems on which much public safety depends, like driverless cars, should be built, 35 and sold by manufacturers who take responsibility for ensuring safety and are liable for accidents. Governments should set safety requirements and then let insurers
31、 price the risk of the robots based on the manufacturers driving record, not the passengers.A) ArisesB) AscendsC) Bound D)CombinationE) DefiniteF) EventuallyG) InterfereH) InvadeI) ManifestingJ) PenaltiesK) PreservingL) ProgrammedM) ProximatelyN) VictimsO) WidespreadSection BDirections: In this sect
32、ion, you are going to read a passage with ten statements attached to it. Each statement contains information 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 que
33、stions by marking the corresponding letter on Answer Sheet 2.Reform and Medical CostsA Americans are deeply concerned about the relentless rise in health care costs and health insurance premiums. They need to know if reform will help solve the problem. The answer is that no one has an easy fix for r
34、ising medical costs. Thefundamental fixreshaping how care is delivered and how doctors are paid in a wasteful, abnormal systemis likely to be achieved only through trial and error and incremental (渐进的)gains.B The good news is that a bill just approved by the House and a bill approved by the Senate F
35、inance Committee would implement or test many reforms that should help slow the rise in medical costs over the long term. As a report in The New England Journal of Medicine concluded, Pretty much every proposed innovation found in the health policy literature these days is contained in these measure
36、s.,C Medical spending, which typically rises faster than wages and the overall economy, is propelled by two things: the high prices charged for medical services in this country and the volume of unnecessary care delivered by doctors and hospitals, which often perform a lot more tests and treatments
37、than a patient really needs.D Here are some of the important proposals in the House and Senate bills to try to address those problems, and why it is hard to know how well they will work.E Both bills would reduce the rate of growth in annual Medicare payments to hospitals, nursing homes and other pro
38、viders by amounts comparable to the productivity savings routinely made in other industries with the help of new technologies and new ways to organize work. This proposal could save Medicare more than $100 billion over the next decade. If private plans demanded similar productivity savings from prov
39、iders, and refused to let providers shift additional costs to them, the savings could be much larger. Critics say Congress will give in to lobbyists and let inefficient providers off the hook （放过）. That is far less likely to happen if Congress also adopts strong pay-go rules requiring that any incre
40、ase in payments to providers be offset by new taxes or budget cuts.F The Senate Finance bill would impose an excise tax （ 消费税） on health insurance plans that cost more than $8,000 for an individual or $ 21,000 for a family. It would most likely cause insurers to redesign plans to fall beneath the th
41、reshold. Enrollees would have to pay more money for many services out of their own pockets, and that would encourage them to think twice about whether an expensive or redundant test was worth it. Economists project that most employers would shift money from expensive health benefits into wages. The
42、House bill has no similar tax. The final legislation should.G Any doctor who has wrestled with multiple forms from different insurers, or patients who have tried to understand their own parade of statements, know that simplification ought to save money. When the health insurance industry was still c
43、ooperating in reform efforts, its trade group offered to provide standardized forms for automated processing. It estimated that step would save hundreds of billions of dollars over the next decade. The bills would lock that pledge into law.H The stimulus package provided money to convert the ineffic
44、ient, paper-driven medical system to electronic records that can be easily viewed and transmitted. This requires open investments to help doctors convert. In time it should help restrain costs by eliminating redundant tests, preventing drug interactions, and helping doctors find the best treatments.
45、I Virtually all experts agree that the fee-for-service systemdoctors are rewarded for the quantity of care rather than its quality or effectivenessis a primary reason that the cost of care is so high. Most agree that the solution is to push doctors to accept fixed payments to care for a particular i
46、llness or for a patients needs over a year. No one knows how to make that happen quickly. The bills in both houses would start pilot projects within Medicare. They include such measures as accountable care organizations to take charge of a patients needs with an eye on both cost and quality,and chro
47、nic disease management to make sure the seriously ill, who are responsible for the bulk of all health care costs, are treated properly. For the most part, these experiments rely on incentive payments to get doctors to try them.J Testing innovations do no good unless the good experiments are identifi
48、ed and expanded and the bad ones are dropped. The Senate bill would create an independent commission to monitor the pilot programs and recommend changes in Medicares payment policies to urge providers to adopt reforms that work. The changes would have to be approved or rejected as a whole by Congress, making it hard fbr narrow-interest lobbies to bend lawmakers to their will.K The bills in both chambers would create health insurance exchanges on which small businesses and individuals could choose from a