1、2016年68六级考试真题(第三套)Part Writing (30 minutes)Directions：For this part,you are allowed 30 minutes to write a short essay on the use of robotsTry to imagine what will happen when more and more robots take the place of human beings in industry as well as peoples daily livesYou are required to write at le
2、ast 150 words but no more than 200 wordsPart Listening ComprehensionSection A听力长对话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 spoken only once. After you hear a quest
3、ion, 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.注意：此部分试题请在答题卡1上作答。Questions 1 to 4 are based on the conversation you have just heard.1. A) It is advertising electronic prod
4、ucts.B) It is planning to tour East Asia.C) It is sponsoring a TV programme.D) It is giving performances in town.2. A) 20,000 pounds.B) 12,000 pounds.C) Less than 20,000 pounds.D) Less than 12,000 pounds.3. A) A lot of good publicity.B) Talented artists to work for it.C) Long-term investments.D) A d
5、ecrease in production costs.4. A) Promise long-term cooperation with the Company.B) Explain frankly their own current financial situation.C) Pay for the printing of the performance programme.D) Bear the cost of publicising the Companys performance.Questions 5 to 8 are based on the conversation you h
6、ave just heard.5. A) He has been seeing doctors and counsellors.B) He has found a new way to train his voice.C) He was caught abusing drugs.D) He might give up concert tours.6. A) Singers maybecome addicted to it.B) It helps singers warm themselves up.C) Singers use it to stay away from colds.D) It
7、can do harm to singers vocal chords.7. A) They are eager to become famous.B) Many lack professional training.C) Few will become successful.D) They live a glamorous life.8. A) Harm to singers done by smoky atmospheres.B) Side effects of some common drugs.C) Voice problems among pop singers.D) Hardshi
8、ps experienced by many young singers.Section B听力短文Directions: In this section, 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 t
9、he four choices marked A), B), C) and D). Then mark the corresponding letter on Answer Sheet 1 with a single line through the centre.Passage OneQuestions 9 to 12 are based on the passage you have just heard.9. A) It has not been very successful.B) It has longbecome a new trend.C) It has met with str
10、ong resistance.D) It has attracted a lot of users.10. A) It saves time.B) It increases parking capacity.C) It ensures drivers safety.D) It reduces car damage.11. A) Collect money and help new users.B) Maintain the automated system.C) Stay alert to any emergency.D) Walk around and guard against car t
11、heft.12. A) They will vary with the size of vehicles.B) They will be discountable to regular customers.C) They will be lower than conventional parking.D) They will be reduced if paid in cash.Passage TwoQuestions 13 to 15 are based on the passage you have just heard.13. A) They do not know any soluti
12、on.B) They do not give up drunk driving.C) They do not behave in public places.D) They do not admit being alcohol addicts.14. A) To stop them from fighting back.B) To thank them for their hospitality.C) To teach them the European lifestyle.D) To relieve their pains and sufferings.15. A) Without inte
13、rvention they will be a headache to the nation.B) With support they can be brought back to a normal life.C) They readily respond to medical treatment.D) They pose a serious threat to social stability.Section C听力录音Directions: In this section, you will hear three recordings of lectures or talks follow
14、ed 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.Recording OneQuestions 16 to 19
15、are based on the recording you have just heard.16. A) To award them for their hard work.B) To build common views.C) To bring in business projects.D) To vote for action.17. A) Recovering from theGreat Recession.B) Creating jobs and boosting the economy.C) Rewarding innovative businesses.D) Launching
16、economic campaigns.18. A) Talking over paying off deficit.B) Increasing the number of middle class.C) Controlling the impact on education.D) Planning to reduce energy consumption.19. A) Shorten Americas way to prosperity.B) Be cautious about reducing the deficit.C) Increase deficit to cover the reve
17、nue.D) Require the richest to pay more taxes.Recording TwoQuestions 20 to 22 are based on the recording you have just heard.20. A) They can be redeemed for cash.B) They can be used to reduce meal costs.C) They can be used as membership certificate.D) They can be used to make reservations.21. A) It i
18、s free for us to download the app.B) It helps you to be a professional cook.C) It provides advice about making recipes.D) It only rates recipes by popularity.22. A) By showing the weight of 200 kinds of food.B) By providing the price of 200 calories of food.C) By picturing the food of 200 calories w
19、ith weights.D) By telling people 200 kinds of healthy food.Recording ThreeQuestions 23 to 25 are based on the recording you have just heard.23. A) About 43 percent of American adults.B) About 18 percent of the whole population.C) About 40 million American adults.D) About a half million people in Ame
20、rica.24. A) To set a series of bans on public smoking.B) To set the price of cigarettes properly.C) To package the cigarettes with tips of warning.D) To reduce the production and supply of cigarettes.25. A) The office of the Surgeon General.B) The Food and Drug Administration.C) The Center for Tobac
21、co Products.D) The Center for Disease Control and Prevention.Part Reading Comprehension (40 minutes)Section ADirections：In this section，there is a passage with ten blanksYou are required to select one word for each blank from a list of choices given in a word bank following the passageRead the passa
22、ge through carefully before making your choicesEach 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 centreYou may not use any of the words in the bank more than onceQuestions 26 to 35 are based on the fo
23、llowing passage Pursuing a career is an essential part of adolescent development“The adolescent becomes an adult when he 26 a real job”To cognitive researchers like Piaget，adulthood meant the beginning of an 27 Piaget argued that once adolescents enter the world of work，their newly acquired ability
24、to form hypotheses allows them to create representations that are too idealThe 28 of such idealswithout the tempering of the reality of a job or profession，rapidly leads adolescents to become 29 of the nonidealistic world and to press for reform in a characteristically adolescent wayPiaget said：“Tru
25、e adaptation to society comes 30 when the adolescent reformer attempts to put his ideas to work” Of course，youthful idealism is often courageous，and no one likes to give up dreamsPerhaps，taken 31 out of context，Piagets statement seems harshWhat he was 32 ，however,is the way reality can modify ideali
26、stic viewsSome people refer to such modification as maturityPiaget argued that attaining and accepting a vocation is one of the best ways to modify idealized views and to mature As careers and vocations become less available during times of 33 ，adolescents may be especially hard hitSuch difficult ec
27、onomic times may leave many adolescents 34 about their roles in societyFor this reason，community interventions and government job programs that offer summer and vacation work are not only economically 35 but also help to stimulate the adolescents sense of worthA.automaticallyB.beneficialC.capturingD
28、.confusedE.emphasizingF.entranceG.excitedH.existenceI.incidentallyJ.intolerantK.occupationL.promisesM.recessionN.slightlyO.undertakesSection B Directions：In this section，you are going to read a passage with ten statements attached to nEach statement contains information given in one of the paragraph
29、sIdentify the paragraph from which the information is derivedYou may choose a paragraph more than onceEach paragraph is marked with a letterAnswer the questions by marking the corresponding letter on Answer Sheet 2Can societies be rich and green?A “If our economies are to flourish，if global poverty
30、is to be eliminated and if the well-being of the worlds people enhancednot just in this generation but in succeeding generationswe must make sure we take care of the natural environment and resources on which our economic activity depends” that statement comes not，as you might imagine，from a stereot
31、ypical treehuggingSave-the-world-greenie(环保主义者)，but from Gordon Brown，a politician with a reputation for rigour thoroughness and above all，cautionB A surprising thing for the man who runs one of the worlds most powerful economies to say?Perhaps：though in the run-up to the fiveyear review of the Mill
32、ennium(千年的)Goals，he is far from aloneThe roots of his speech，given in March at the round table meeting of environment and energy ministers from the G209roup of nations，stretch back to 1972，and the United Nations Conference on the Human Environment in StockholmC “The protection and improvement of the
33、 human environment is a major issue which affects the well-being of peoples and economic development throughout the world，”read the final declaration from this gathering，the first of a sequence which would lead to the Rio de Janeiro Earth Summit in 1992 and the World Development Summit in Johannesbu
34、rg three years agoD Hunt through the reports prepared by UN agencies and development groupsmany for conferences such as this years Millennium Goals reviewand you will find that the linkage between environmental protection and economic progress is a common threadE Managing ecosystems sustainably is m
35、ore profitable than exploiting them，according to the Millennium Ecosystem AssessmentBut finding hard evidence to support the thesis is not so easyThoughts turn first to some sort of global statistic，some indicator which would rate the wealth of nations in both economic and environmental terms and sh
36、ow a relationship between the twoF If such an indicator exists，it is well hiddenAnd on reflection，this is not surprising；the single word“environment”has so many dimensionsand there are so many other factors affecting wealthsuch as the oil depositsthat teasing out a simple economy-environment relatio
37、nship would be almost impossibleG The Millennium Ecosystem Assessment，a vast fouryear global study which reported its initial conclusions earlier this year,found reasons to believe that managing ecosystems sustainablyworking with nature rather than against itmight be less profitable in the short ter
38、m，but certainly brings long-term rewardsH And the World Resources Institute(WRI)in its World Resources 2005 report，issued at the end of August，produced several such examples from Africa and Asia；it also demonstrated that environmental degradation affects the poor more than the rich，as poorer people
39、derive a much higher proportion of their income directly from the natural resources around themI But there are also many examples of growing wealth by trashing the environment，in rich and poor parts of the world alike，whether through unregulated mineral extraction，drastic water use for agriculture，s
40、lashandbum farming，or fossil-fuel-guzzling(大量消耗)transportOf course，such growth may not persist in the long termwhich is what MrBrown and the Stockholm declaration were both attempting to point outPerhaps the best example of boom growth and bust decline is the Grand Banks fisheryFor almost five centu
41、ries a very large supply of cod(鳕鱼)provided abundant raw material for an industry which at its peak employed about 40，000 people，sustaining entire communities in Newfoundland Then，abruptly,the cod population collapsedThere were no longer enough fish in the sea for the stock to maintain itself,let al
42、one an industryMore than a decade later,there was no sign of the ecosystem rebuilding itselfIt had，apparently,been fished out of existence；and the once mighty Newfoundland fleet now gropes about frantically for crab on the sea floorJ There is a view that modem humans are inevitably sowing the seeds
43、of a global Grand Banks-style disasterThe idea is that we are taking more out of what you might call the planets environmental bank balance than it can sustain；we are living beyond our ecological meansOne recent study attempted to calculate the extent of this“ecological overshoot of the human econom
44、y”，and found that we are using 1.2 Earthsworth of environmental goods and servicesthe implication being that at some point the debt will be called inand all those servicesthe things which the planet does for us for freewill grind to a haltK Whether this is right，and if so where and when the ecologic
45、al axe will fall，is hard to determine with any precisionwhich is why governments and financial institutions are only beginning to bring such risks into their economic calculationsIt is also the reason why development agencies are not united in their view of environmental issues；while some，like the W
46、RI,maintain that environmental progress needs to go hand-in-hand with economic development，others argue that the priority is to build a thriving economy，and then use the wealth created to tackle environmental degradationLThis view assumes that rich societies will invest in environmental careBut is t
47、his right?Do things get better or worse as we get richer?Here the Stockholm declaration is ambiguous“In the developing countries，”it says，“most of the environmental problems are caused by underdevelopment”So it is saying that economic development should make for a cleaner world?Not necessarily；“In t
48、he industrialised countries，environmental problems are generally related to industrialisation and technological development，”it continuesIn other words，poor and rich both over-exploit the natural world，but for different reasonsIts simply not true that economic growth will surely make our world cleanerM Clearly,richer societies are able to provide environmental improvements which lie