1、2014年6月大学英语六级考试真题(三）Part IWriting(30minutes)Directions ： For this part，you are allowed SO minutes to write an essay explaining why it is unwise to judge a person by their appearance You can give examples to illustrate your point You should write at least 150 words but no more than 200 words.注意：此部分试题
2、请在答题卡1上作答。Part IIListening Comprehension(30minutes)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
3、 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 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。1.A) Surfing the net.C)Packing
4、a birthday gift.B) Watching a talk show.D)Shopping at a jewelry store.2.A) He enjoys finding fault with exams.B)He is sure of his success in the exam.C)He doesnt know if he can do well in the exam.D)He used to get straight A，s in the exams he took.3.A) The man is generous with his good comments on p
5、eople.B)The woman is unsure if there will be peace in the world.C)The woman is doubtful about newspaper stories.D)The man is quite optimistic about human nature.4.A)Study for some profession.B) Attend a medical school.C)Stay in businessD)sell his shop5.A)More money. B)Fair treatment.C)A college educ
6、ation. D)Shorter work hours6. A) She was exhausted from her trip.B) She missed the comforts of home.C)She was impressed by Mexican foodD)She will not go Mexico again7. A) Cheer herself up a bit.B) Find a more suitable job.C)Seek professional adviceD)take a Psychology course8.A) He dresses more forma
7、lly now.B) What he wears does not match hisposition.C)He has ignored his friends since graduation.D)He fail to do well at collegeQuestions 9 to 12 are based on the conversation you have just heard.9.A) To go sightseeing.C)To promote a new champagne.B) To have meetings. D)To join in a training progra
8、m.10.A) It can reduce the number of passenger complaints.B)It can make air travel more entertaining.C)It can cut down the expenses for air travel.D)It can lessen the discomfort caused by air travel.11.A) Took balanced meals with champagne.C)Refrained from fish or meat.B)Ate vegetables and fruit only
9、. D)Avoided eating rich food.12.A) Many of them found it difficult to exercise on a plane.B)Many of them were concerned with their well-being.C)Not many of them chose to do what she did.D)Not many of them understood the program.Questions 13 to 15 are based on the conversation you have just heard.13.
10、A)At a fair.B)At a cafeteria.C)In a computer lab.D)In a shopping mall.14.A)The latest computer technologyB)The organizingofanexhibitionC)The purchasing of some equipment.D) The dramatic changes in the job market.15.A)Data collection. B)Training consultancyC).Corporate management. C)Information proce
11、ssingSection BDirections： In this section，you will hear 3 short passages 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 Answer Sheet
12、 1 with a single line through the centre.Questions 16 to 18 are based on the passage you have just heard.16.A)Improve themselves.C)Follow the cultural tradition.B)Get rid of empty dreams.D)Attempt something impossible.17.A) By finding sufficient support for implementation.B)By taking into account th
13、eir own ability to change.C)By constantly keeping in mind their ultimate goals.D)By making detailed plans and carrying them out.18.A) To show people how to get their lives back to normal.B)To show how difficult it is for people to lose weight.C)To remind people to check the calories on food bags.D)T
14、o illustrate how easily people abandon their goals.Passage TwoQuestions 19 to 21 are based on the passage you have just heard.19. A)Michaels parents got divorcedB)Karen was adopted by Ray AndersonC)Karens mother died in a car accidentD)A truck driver lost his life in a collision.20. A)He ran a red l
15、ight and collided with a truck.C)He was killed instantly in a burning carB)He sacrificed his life to save a baby girl.D)He got married to Karens mother.21. A)The reported hero turned to be his father.B)He did not understand his father till too late.C)Such misfortune should have fallen on him.D) It r
16、eminded him of his miserable childhood.Passage ThreeQuestions 22 to 25 are based on the passage you have just heard22. A) Germany.B) Japan.C)The US.D)The UK23. A)By doing odd jobs at weekends.B)By working long hours every day.C)By putting in more hours every weekD)By taking shorter vacation their li
17、ving standard24. A)To combat competition and raise productivityB)To provide them with more job opportunitiesC)To help them maintain their living standardD)Reduce their working hours25.A)Change their jobsB)Earn more moneyC)Reduce their working hoursD)Strengthen the governments roleSection CDirections
18、 ： 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
19、is read forthe third time，you should check what you have written.注意：此部分试题请在答题卡1上作答。Nursing, as a typically female profession, must deal constantly with the false impression that nurses are there to wait on the physician. As nurses, we are 26 to provide nursing care only. We do not have any legal or
20、moral 27 any physician. We provide health teaching, assess physical as well as emotional problems,28patient-relatedservices, and make all of our nursing decisions based upon what is bestor suitable for the patient. If, in any circumstance, we feel that a physicians order is inappropriate or unsafe,
21、we have a legal 29 to question that order or refuse to carry it out.Nursing is not a nine-to-five job with every weekend off. All nurses are aware of that before they enter the profession. The emotional and 30 stress, however，that occurs due to odd working hours is areason for a lot of the career di
22、ssatisfaction. It is sometimes required that we work overtime，and that we change shifts four or five times a month. That disturbs our personal lives， 32 our sleeping and eating habits, and isolates us from everything except job-related friends and activities.The quality of nursing care is 33 dramati
23、cally by these situations. Most hospitals are now staffed by new graduates, as experienced nurses finally give up trying to change the system. Consumers of 34 related services have evidently not been affected enough yet to demand changes 35.Butiftrendscontinue as predicted，they will find that most c
24、ritical hospital care will be provided by new, inexperienced, and sometimes inadequately trained nurses.Part IIReading Comprehension(40minutes)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
25、 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 may not use any of the words in the bank
26、more than once.Questions 36 to 45 are based on the following passage.Millions of Americans are entering their 60s and are more concerned than ever about retirement. They know they need to save，but how much? And what exactly are they saving forto spend more time 36the grand kids, go traveling, or sta
27、rt another career? It turns out that husbands and wives may have37different ideas about the subject.The deepest divide is in the way spouses envisage their lifestyle in their later years. Fidelity Investments Inc. found 41 percent of the 500 couples it surveyed 38 on whether both or at least one spo
28、use will work in retirement. Wives are generally right regarding their husbands retirement age, but men39the age their wives will be when they stop working. And husbands are slightly more about their standard of living than wives are.Busy juggling (穷于应付）careers and families, most couples dont take t
29、ime to sit down, 41 or together, and think about what they would like to do 5，10 or 20 years from now. They 42 they are on the same page, but the 43 is they have avoided even talking about it.If you are self-employed or in a job that doesn，t have a standard retirement age, you may be more apt to del
30、ay thinking about these issues. It is often a 44 retirement date that provides the catalyst (催 化剂）to start planning. Getting laid off or accepting an early-retirement45 can force your hand.But dont wait until you get a severance (遣散费）check to begin planning.A) assumeF) illustratingK) radicallyB) con
31、fidentialG) mysteriouslyL) realityC) disagreeH) observeM) separatelyD) formulaI) optimisticN) spoilingE) forthcomingJ) packageO) underestimateSection 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
32、 paragraphs. Identify the paragraph from which theinformation is derived. You may choose a paragraph more than once. Each paragraph is marked with aletter Answer the questions by marking the corresponding letter on Answer Sheet 2.What If Middle-Class Jobs Disappear?The most recent recession in the U
33、nited States began in December of 2007 and ended in June 2009， according to the National Bureau of Economic Research. However, two years after the official end of the recession, few Americans would say that economic troubles are behind us. The unemployment rate, in particular, remains above 9%. Some
34、 labor market indicators, such as the proportion of long-term unemployed, are worse now than for any postwar recession.There are two widely circulated narratives to explain whats going on. The Keynesian narrative is that there has been a major drop in aggregate demand. According to this narrative, t
35、he slump can be largely cured by using monetary and fiscal (财政的）stimulus. The main anti-Keynesian narrative is that businesses are suffering from uncertainty and over-regulation. According to this narrative, the slump can be cured by having the government commit to and follow a more hands-off approa
36、ch.I want to suggest a third interpretation. Without ruling out a role for aggregate demand or for the regulatory environment，I wish to suggest that structural change is an important factor in the current rate of high unemployment. The economy is in a state of transition, in which the middle-class j
37、obs that emerged after World War H have begun to decline. As Erik Brynjolfsson and Andrew McAfee put it in a recent e-book Race Against the Machine ： The root of our problems is not that were in a great recession, or a great stagnation (停;带），but rather that we are in the early throes (阵痛）of a great
38、restructuring. ”In fact, I believe the Great Depression of the 1930s can also be interpreted in part as an economic transition. The impact of the internal combustion engine (内燃机）and the small electric motor on farming and manufacturing reduced the value of uneducated laborers. Instead, by the 1950s,
39、 a middle class of largely clerical (从事文秘工作的）workers was the most significant part of the labor force. Between 1930 and 1950，the United States economy underwent a great transition. Demand fell for human effort such as lifting, squeezing, and hammering. Demand increased for workers who could read and
40、 follow directions. The evolutionary process eventually changed us from a nation of laborers to a nation of clerks.The proportion of employment classified as “clerical workers” grew from 5.2% in 1910 to a peak of 19.3% in 1980. (However, by 2000 this proportion had edged down to 17. 4%.) Overall，wor
41、kers classified as clerical workers, technical workers, managers and officials exceeded 50% of the labor force by 2000. Corresponding declines took place in the manual occupations. Workers classified as laborers, other than farm hands or miners, peaked at 11. 4% of the labor force in 1920 but were b
42、arely 6% by 1950 and less than 4% by 2000. Farmers and farm laborers fell from 33% of the labor force in 1910 to less than 15% by 1950 and only 1.2% in 2000.The introduction of the tractor and improvements in the factory rapidly reduced the demand for uneducated workers. By the 1930s, a marginal far
43、m hand could not produce enough to justify his employment. Sharecropping, never much better than a subsistence occupation, was no longer viable (可 行的） Meanwhile，machines were replacing manufacturing occupations like cigar rolling and glass blowing for light bulbs.The structural-transition interpreta
44、tion of the unemployment problem of the 1930s would be that the demand for uneducated workers in the United States had fallen，but the supply remained high. The high school graduation rate was only 8.8% in 1912 and still just 29% in 1931. By 1950，it had reached 59%. With a new generation of workers w
45、ho had completed high school, the mismatch between skills and jobs had been greatly reduced.What took place after World War was not the revival of a 1920s economy, with its small farming units, urban manufacturing, and plurality of laborers. Instead，the 1950s saw the creation of a new suburban econo
46、my, with a plurality of white-collar workers. With an expanded transportation and communications infrastructure (基石出设施），businesses needed telephone operators, shipping clerks and similar occupations. If you could read,，follow simple instructions, and settle into a routine, you could find a job in th
47、e post-war economy.The trend away from manual labor has continued. Even within the manufacturing sector, the share of production and non-supervisory workers in manufacturing employment went from over 85% just after World War II to less than 70% in more recent years. To put this another way, the prop
48、ortion of white- collar work in manufacturing has doubled over the past 50 years. On the factory floor itself, work has become less physically demanding. Instead, it requires more cognitive skills and the ability to understand and carry out well-defined procedures.J) As noted earlier, the proportion of clerical workers in the economy peaked in 1980. By that date, computers and advanced communications equipment had already begun to affect telephone op