2015年12月英语六级冲刺试题及答案汇总(2套).doc

2014年12月大学英语六级CET6考试考前冲刺试题及答案汇总目录2014年12月大学英语六级CET6考试考前冲刺试题及答案（1）12014年12月大学英语六级CET6考试考前冲刺试题及答案（2）162014年12月大学英语六级CET6考试考前冲刺试题及答案（1）Part Listening Comprehension (20 minutes)Section ADirections:In this section, you will hear 10 short conversations. At the end of each conversation, a question will be asked about what was said. Both the conversation and the question will be spoken only 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 the Answer Sheet with a single line through the center.Example:You will hear: M: When shall we start our work, Jane?W: Tomorrow at 9 oclock. But we must work quickly, for we have to 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 about some work they will start at 9 oclock in the morning and have to finish at 2 in the afternoon. Therefore, D)5 hours is the correct answer. You should choose D on the Answer Sheet and mark it with a single line through the center.Sample Answer A BC D1. A) The man can have his camera fixed here.B) The woman will probably fix the mans camera herself.C) The man will buy a new camera.D) The woman suggests that the camera should have been brought in earlier.2. A) Jack vacuumed the living room but not the bathroom.B) Jack cleaned the bathroom but not the living room.C) Jack cleaned neither the living room nor the bathroom because he is exhausted.D) Jack cleaned both the living room and the bathroom.3. A) At the dentists.B) At a grocery.C) At a lawyers.D) At a psychiatrists.4. A) One student received a higher grade than he did.B) He will have to take a number of exams later.C) The test is more difficult than he expected.D) Several students in his class have received top grade.5. A) He failed to finish the experiment that day.B) He hasnt had time to do the experiment.C) He did only part of the experiment. D) The experiment turned out well.6. A) He does not know who Alice is.B) He has found a job as a messenger.C) He does not want to deliver the note.D) He does not know who Alice is.7. A) Call the TV station.B) Look for cats with the man.C) Meet the man at the cat exhibit.D) Watch the program on TV.8. A) Whether the woman needs his help.B) Whether the woman has any pets.C) Where the woman is going.D) Whether the woman can take care of his pet.9. A) The man hasnt caused a problem.B) The man should have returned the book earlier.C) She will probably wont do well on the coming Mondays test.D) The man should have been more thoughtful.10.A) The man is asking the woman for help.B) The man wants to get a new position.C) The woman is instructing the man how to write a letter application.D) The man has left the woman a good impression.Section BDirections: In this section, you will hear 3 short passages. At the end of each passage, you will hear some questions. Both the passage and the questions will be spoken only once. After you hear one question, you must choose the best answer from the four choices marked A), B), C), and D). Then mark the corresponding letter on the Answer Sheet with a single line through the center.Passage One11. What is mainly talked about in the passage?A) How to distinguish peoples faces.B) How to describe peoples personality.C) How to distinguish people both inward and outward.D) How to differ good persons from bad persons.12.Why is the animal pigeon mentioned in the passage?A) To give an example that both human beings and animals can recognize faces.B) To tell how a skilled writer could describe all the features of different people.C) To indicate how pigeons and people look different.D) To show how faces are like fingers.13.What does the author of this passage most probably do?A) Physician. B) Psychologist.C) Fictional writer.D) Historian.14.According to the passage, how do people usually classify a person into certain type?A) His physical appearance and his action.B) His way of speaking and behaving.C) His learning and behaviour.D) His way of acting and thinking.Passage Two15. Why are divorces so common at present?A) Because it is difficult to maintain a marriage.B) Because people like watching TV programs.C) Because people prefer freedom to self-discipline.D) Because our society is permissive towards divorces.16.Which of the following cannot be sacrificed in a marriage?A) The freedom to have other sexual relations.B) The desire to follow every of ones impulse.C) The will to keep his or her own income.D) The wish to be his or her true self.17.How to maintain a good marriage?A)A man and a woman should follow every of their own impulse respectively.B)A good marriage takes some level of compromise between the husband and the wife.C)A man and a woman should both have to endure dreadful self-sacrifice of the soul. D)A man and a woman should stop growing or changing. Passage Three18.Which of the following is the best title of the passage?A) Types of Loneliness. B) Causes of Loneliness.C) Solutions to Loneliness.D) Loneliness.19. Which type of loneliness is NOT mentioned in the passage?A) Severe loneliness.B) Situational loneliness.C) Chronic loneliness.D) Temporary loneliness.20.Why is a persons social contacts one important factor in loneliness?A) We need our friends to share similar interests and activities.B) We need our teachers to guide us.C) We need co-workers to help us.D) A lonely persons popularity may be increased with more social contacts.Part Reading Comprehension(35 minutes)Directions:There are 4 reading passages in this part. Each passage is followed by some questions or unfinished statements. For each of them there are four choices marked A), B), C), and D). You should decide on the best choice and mark the corresponding letter on the Answer Sheet with a single line through the center. Passage OneQuestions 21 to 25 are based on the following passage:Many of the most damaging and life threatening types of weather torrential rains, severe thunderstorms, and tornadoes(龙卷风)- begin quickly, strike suddenly, and disappear rapidly, destroying small regions while leaving neighbouring areas untouched. Such event as a tornado struck the northeastern section of Edmonton, Alberta, in July 1987. Total damages from the tornado exceeded $250 million, the highest ever for any Canadian storm.Conventional computer models of the atmosphere have limited value in predicting short lived local storms like the Edmonton tornado, because the available weather data are generally not detailed enough to allow computers to study carefully the subtle(微妙的)atmospheric changes that come before these storms. In most nations, for example, weather-balloon observations are taken just once every twelve hours at locations typically separated by hundreds of miles. With such limited data, conventional forecasting models do a much better job predicting general weather conditions over large regions than they do forecasting specific local events.Until recently, the observation intensive approach needed for accurate, very short-range forecasts, or Nowcasts, was not feasible. The cost of equipping and operating many thousands of conventional weather stations was extremely high, and the difficulties involved in rapidly collecting and processing the raw weather data from such a network were hard to overcome. Fortunately, scientific and technological advances have overcome most of these problems. Radar systems, automated weather instruments, and satellites are all capable of making detailed, nearly continuous observation over large regions at a relatively low cost. Communications satellites can transmit data around the world cheaply and instantaneously, and modern computers can quickly compile and analyze this large volume of weather information. Meteorologists(气象学者)and computer scientists now work together to design computer programs and video equipment capable of transforming raw weather data into words, symbols, and vivid graphic displays that forecasters can interpret easily and quickly. As meteorologists have begun using these new technologies in weather forecasting offices, Nowcasting is becoming a reality.21.The word exceeded in paragraph 1 most probably means _.A) added up to B) were more than C) were about D) were less than 22.Conventional computer models of the atmosphere fails to predict such a short-lived tornado because_.A) the computer is not used to forecast specific local eventsB) the computers are not advanced enough to predict itC) the weather data people collect are often wrongD) weather conditions in some small regions are not available 23.According to the passage, the word Nowcast (paragraph 3) means _.A) a way of collecting raw weather data B) a forecast which can predict the weather conditions in the small area in an accurate wayC) a network to collect instant weather dataD) a more advanced system of weather observation24.According to the passage, _ is the key factor to making Nowcasts a reality.A) scientific and technological advances such as radar, or satellitesB) computer scientistC) meteorologists D) advanced computer programs25.According to the author, the passage mainly deals with _.A) a tornado in Edmonton, AlbertaB) whats a NowcastC) the disadvantage of conventional computer models of the weather forecast D) a breakthrough in weather forecast Passage TwoQuestions 26 to 30 are based on the following passage:Bringing up children is a hard work, and you are often to blame for any bad behavior of your children. If so, Judith Rich Harris has good news for you. Parents, she argues, have no important long-term effects on the development of the personality of their children. Far more important are their playground friends and neighborhood. Ms. Harris takes to hitting the assumption, which has dominated developmental psychology for almost half a century.Ms. Harriss attack on the developmentalists nature argument looks likely to reinforce doubts that the profession was already having. If parents matter, why is it that two adopted children, reared in the same home, are no more similar in personality than two adopted children reared in separate homes? Or that a pair of identical twins, reared in the same home, are no more alike than a pair of identical twins reared in different homes?Difficult as it is to track the precise effects of parental upbringing, it may be harder to measure the exact influence of the peer(同龄人)group in childhood and adolescence. Ms. Harris points to how children from immigrant homes soon learn not to speak at school in the way their parents speak. But acquiring a language is surely a skill, rather than a characteristic of the sort developmental psychologists hunt for. Certainly it is different from growing up tensely or relaxed, or from learning to be honest or hard-working or generous. Easy though it may be to prove that parents have little impact on those qualities, it will be hard to prove that peers have vastly more.Moreover, mum and dad surely cannot be ditched completely. Young adults may, as Ms. Harris argues, be keen to appear like their peers. But even in those early years, parents have the power to open doors: they may initially choose the peers with whom their young associate, and pick that influential neighborhood. Moreover, most people suspect that they come to resemble their parents more in middle age, and that peoples child bearing habits may be formed partly by what their parents did. So the balance of influences is probably complicated, as most parents already suspected without being able to demonstrate it scientifically. Even if it turns out that the genes they pass on and the friends their children play with matter as much as affection, discipline and good example, parents are not completely off the hook.26. According to Ms. Harris, _.A) parents are to blame for any bad behavior of their children B) parents will affect greatly the childrens life in the long run C) nature rather than nurture has a significant effect on childrens personality development D) childrens personality is shaped by their friends and neighbors27.Which of the following views is consistent with what the developmentalists hold?A) Children are more influenced by their peers than by their parents. B) Twins are quite different if they are reared in two separate families.C) Identical twins reared in the same home are different in personality. D) Nurture has a less significant effect on childrens personality development.28.According to Para. 3, which of the following statements is TRUE?A) It is harder to track the precise effects of parental upbringing than the exact influence of the peer group in children. B) Immigrant children tend to discard the way their parents speak quickly when they go to school. C) It has been proved that peers have more impact on childrens qualities such as to be honest or hard-working or generous. D) It is easier for children to acquire a language at school than at home. 29.The word ditched ( Line 1,Para. 4) could best be replaced by _.A) proved B) emphasized C) compared D) ignored 30. What is the authors main purpose?A) To highly praise Ms. Harriss work. B) To counter Ms. Harriss work. C) To objectively report on Ms. Harriss work. D) To critically comment on Ms. Harriss work. Passage ThreeQuestions 31 to 35 are based on the following passage:Microsoft is no longer the worlds biggest company by market capitalization. Three other U.S. companies have overtaken the software giant in terms of stock market value. The firms value has gone down sharply by 41% so far this year, from nearly $600 billion to $358 billion. Much of the reason for the fall has been the uncertainty prompted by the on-going anti-trust case. It has been overtaken by General Electric, now worth $506 bn, Intel, worth $441 bn and Cisco Systems, $436 bn. Over the past year Microsoft shares have moved downwards from a high of $120 to $68 in early trading on 7 June. Meanwhile rival Cisco has seen its share price rise by $25 to more than $60 as the company has gained its role in providing the hardware for the Internet. And for most of the year it has been competing with computer chip maker Intel for the second place. Intels Pentium chips are widely used in personal computers worldwide.The company that now holds the title of the worlds biggest company is an industrial giant which makes everything from toasters to jet engines. GE has sales of $110 bn-nearly ten times that of Microsoft and 340,000 employees worldwide. It has seen its profits grow by 15% a year to $11 bn. GE Capital Services, its financial subsidiary, make up nearly half its sales. GE produces power generation systems, locomotive, medical imaging equipment and electrical appliances. It also owns the U.S. television network NBC and its financial news subsidiary, CNBC, and ironically, a joint venture with Microsoft to provide news on the Internet. Microsofts shares now face a further period of uncertainty as the companys legal battle continues. It could also face difficulty in recruiting and retaining employees whose pay has been boosted by their share options. The Seattle based firm is likely to go to an appeals court on any rulings. It could suffer further losses from lawsuits brought by competitors, who would be able to claim triple(三倍)damages for any losses suffered. And with its energy and resources tied up in the lawsuits, the company may find it difficult to continue to innovate in the future, or move so aggressively to buy up competitors.31.Microsofts shares are devalued drastically owing to _.A) fierce competition from rivals B) its involvement in a lawsuit(诉讼) C) the court rulings D) the decrease in sales volume32.Cisco Systems share price has risen considerably _. A) after it has overtaken part of Microsofts sharesB) after it has beaten Intel and risen to the second place C) since it has gained a firm footing in the marketD) because it is developing jointly with Microsoft33.Which is now the second biggest company in the United States?A) General Electric. B) Intel.C) Cisco Systems.D) GE Capital Services.34.Which of the following companies is owned by General Electric and Microsoft together?A) GE Capital Services.B) NBC.C) CNBC.D) MSNBC.35.Why is it difficult for Microsoft to retain employees?A)Because it faces an uncertain future. B)Because it will have problem innovating itself. C)Because it will have problem paying them. D)Because it may be bought up by its competitors one day.Passage FourQuestions 36 to 40 are based on the following passage:Paradise Lost is Miltons masterpiece. Its story is taken from the Bible, about the fall of man, that is, how Adam and Eve are tempted by Satan to disobey God by eating the forbidden fruit from the Tree of Knowledge, and how they are punished by God and driven out of Paradise. In Miltons words, the purpose of writ