2019年12月六级真题(第二套)试卷及答案解析

1、新®唞2019年12JJ六级真题（第2套）Part I Writing(30 minutes)nirertion: For this jiai yoit air allowrfl 30 minvtcx to urifr tin fifty on th importance of having a of community responsibility. Yau xhm/td ”？r/戶 nt150，:nrrh h"l no more ,hnn 200 u：OTrljf.Part H Listcninp Coniprelicnsion(30 minutes)Section A

2、Dircclionc： In this ctio)K yov will hear t脚 long conversnfions. At fh end of 叫ch will hear fnur questions. Both the cnm>ersaHnn and Oip quexlions u；ill spoken only onre. 4/?er you hear a question, youchoose thp finsu:er from fhn Jour choice 刺rk印f-41 B)、C) and D). Then wa，* the convspnnflinq lette

3、r on Answer/ wifb oUnpthrough the cetthv.Questions 1 to 4 are based on the conversation you1. A) It displays albums by new music talents.B) It has several branches in London.2. A) Its market has now shrunk.B) it originated with cowboys.3- A) Its style has remained largely unchanged.B) Il is siill go

4、ing through experimentation.4. A) Learn io play them.B) Listen to them yourself. Questions 5 to 8 are based on (he conversation you 5< A) She called on the man.B) She went to the bank.6. A) She didnt pay her mortgage in time.B) She had apparently asked for too much.7. A) Start her own business.B)

5、 Buy a piece of property.8. A) Build up her own finances step by step.B) Revise her business proposal carefully.have just heard.C) It sponsors major jazz concerts.D) It focuses exclusively on jazz.C) It remains as widespread as hip hop music.D) Its listeners are mostly young people.C) It is frequent

6、ly accompanied by singing.D) Its definition is varied and complicated.C) Take music lessons.D) Consult Jazz musicians, ve just heard.C) She made a business plan.D) She paid her mortgage.C) Her credit history was considered poor.D) Her previous debt hadn t been cleared vetC) Pay a debt long overdue.

7、D) Check her credit history.C) Ask for smaller loans from different lendera.D) Seek advice from an expert about fundraisingSection BDirections: In Qiia section, you will Imar two paaaayes. At the etui of each pnaye, you uU fuar thive or Jour quastiuna. Both the passage und tiw questions will be spok

8、en only once, .fler you hear a question you must clu)(jse the beat anawer Jrotn the Jour choices marked A). B). C) amt D). 71ien murk Uie correaifundiny IvUvr vh Am war Shwt I icith u single line through the eeiit)v. Questions 9 to II ure based un the parage you liuve jiut heard.9* A) Jt is fertile

9、and productive.(:) H is well kxated and completely autonuuecl.15) It is small and unconveidionul.B) it proiitable and eiivin«iineni<ill> Invniily.六级 2019 12(2*) -I10. A)Their wish Io s(H n new fanning slaiidnrd.C)llioir desire Io improve fanningouipmont,B) Their urge (o make fanning more

10、ci|)oyal4e.")Their hope »<> revitfllizc traditionalfarming.11. A)II cniiscs hardly nny poliutloiLC)Il saves ;i l<H of electricity.B) It loosens soil while weeding.h)Il needs lillle maintenanceQuestions 12 tn 15 arc I>nsc(l on the |>:iss:ikc ymi have just hc:ir(L12. A) It has

11、 sianod lo expand business outside I lie UK.B) h has imponed some exotic foods hom oveiseas.C) It has hirned certain insects into a new food source.I) It has joined hands with Sainsbury s to sell pct insects.13. A) It made him feel strange.C) It hurt his throat slightly.B) It was really unfoictlable

12、.D) It was a pleasant surprise.14. A) They contain more protein than conventional meats.B) They vill soon gain iwpularity tliroughout the world.C) Tlicy are more tasty than beef, chicken or pork.D) They are more nutritious than soups and salads.isenvironmentally friendJy.IS.A) It is a promising indu

13、stry.B) It requires new technology.D) It saves huge amounts of labour.Section CDirections: In this section you will hear three recordings of lectures or talks followed by three or Jour questions. The recordings will be played only once. After you hear a question you must choose the best answer from

14、the four choices marked A)9 B)f C) and D). Then mark the conesponding 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) To understand the mechanism of the human brain.B) To see if they are inherent traits affecting

15、 learning.C) To categorize different types of learners.D) To find out what students prefer to learn.17. A) It was original in design.C) It was defective.B) It was thought-provoking.D) It was misguided.18. A) Reading plain texts is more effective than viewing pictures.B) Scientific concepts are hard

16、to understand without visual aids.C) Auditoiy aids are as important as visual aids.D) Visual aids are helpful to all types of learners.Questions 19 to 21 are based on the recording you have just heard.19. A) Not benefiting from free-nvirket capitalism.B) Not playing a role in a workplace revolution.

17、C) No( spending enough time on family life and leisure,D) Not earning enough money to provide for the family,20. A) People would be working only nfleen hours a week now.13) Most workcis could alTord to have a house of their own.C) The iKilancc of power in tiic workplace would cluinge.D) Technologica

18、l advances would create many new jobs.21. A) Loss of workers* jiersonal dignity.C) Unequal distribution of working hours.B) Deprivation of workers, creativity.D) DeterionUion of workers mental health.六级2019 12【第2弈卜2Questions 22 (o 25 arc Iwiwd «»n the recording yuu luivc juM Itcnrd.22. A)

19、It is now the biggest and busies! nirporl in Europe.B) Il is the worst managed niipoil in Gcmian history.C) It has become a lypicnl symbol of Gcnnnn cfTiciciicy.D) It has become something of a joke among Germaiis.23- A) Tlic city wauled Io attract more tourists.B) Tlic city wauled to boost its econo

20、my.24. A) Problems of different kinds kept popping up.B) Shortage of funding delayed its cousiniclion.C) The const met ion finu breached the contiacLD) The iHimicipal govenunent kept clinngitig hands.25. A) Complaints by local residents increase.B) Huge maintenance costs accumulale.Part III Reading

21、ComprehensionC) Tlic city had jusl l>wii reunified.I) The citys airjxHls arc outdalcd.C) All kinds of cqiiipnwnl gets nislcrl. I>) Tourism industry in Berlin sufTers.(40 minutes)Dircclions: In this section，there is a passage with tenblanks. You arc required to select on/t wnrfl forSection A六组

22、2019.121 第 2 ft) -4it was your phone, then your car, and even without gadgets dial understand sounds, under certain 26, peopleeach Mank from a list of choices given in a word hank following the paxsar/c. Read the pnagc Ihixiii(jli carefully befoiv making your choices. Each choice in the bank is iden

23、tified by n letter. Please mark the cortesponding 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. The number of devices you can talk to is multiplyingfirst now you can tell your kitchen appliances what to do.

24、ButIn one experiment, people who reported to various gadgets. In turn, feeling can . 29 loneliness. When college students were reminded of a time they had a social setting, they compensated by exaggerating their number of friendsunless they tasks that caused them to interact with their phone as if i

25、t had hiunan qualities, researcliora, the participants* phones 31 substituted for real friends.our spoken commands, research suggests that, as bizarre as it regularly ascribe human traits to everyday objects.Sometimes we see things as human because we are 27 feeling isolated were more likely tlian o

26、thers to attribute 28 close to objects been 30 in were first givenAccording to theAt other times, we personify products in an effort to understand them. One study found tliat direein four respondents yelled at their computer. Firther, the more their computer gave them problems, the more likely the r

27、espondents were to report that it had its own "beliefs and 32 _.So how do people assign traits to an object? In part, we rely on looks. On hiinuuis, wide faces are 33 with dominance. Similarly, people rated cars, clocks, and watches with wide Rices as more domuuuitUooking than narrow-faced ones

28、, and preferred tliemespecially in 34 situations. An iuudysis of car saJes in Gennany found that cars with grilles (4A 相)that were upturned like sold best. The purchasers saw this35 as increasing a car s friendliness.A) alienateE) circumstances1) desiresM) separateB) apparentlyF) coiui)etilivcJ) exc

29、liidcclN) spectiicularlyC) arrogantG) concededK) reatme0) wiirnmtD) associatedII) consciousnessL) lonelyDirections: In thif fiction, you arc going to w" u pasKfif/c with ten slalements attached to if. Each statement conMiiw i，ft)m，(Uio" given in one of the pttrgraph Identify the pcirfi(/ra

30、ph from uhicit the infbnnation is derived. You may choose a parti(iraph more than once. Each pnra- graph is marked with fi letter. Ansur the (juctitionfi by marking the correxponf/inf/ tetter on Answer Sheet 2.Why More Fnnncrs Are SwitcliiiiR Io Grnss-Fed Meat and DairyA Though he didnt come from a

31、fanning family, from a young age Tim Joseph was fascinated by the idea of living ofT the land, Reading magazines like Ttie Stockman Grafts Farmer and Graze, he got hooked on the idea of grass-fed agiicultnre. The idea that all energy and wealth comes from the sun really intrigued hint He thought the

32、 shorter the disinnce I between the sun and the end product, the higher the profit to the fanner.B Joseph wanted to put this theoiy to the test. In 2009. he and his wife Laura launched Maple Hill Creanwry，an organic, all grass-fed yogurt company in northern New York. He quickly leametl what the mark

33、et Iws demons tinted: Demand for grass-fed products currently exceeds supply. Grass-fed beef is enjoying a 25-30% annual growth rate. Sales of grass-fed yogurt and kefir (发坏乳饮品)，on the other hand, I讼ve in the last year increased by over 38%. This is in comparison with a drop of just under 1% in the

34、total yogurt and kefir market, according to natural and organic market research company SPINS. Josephs top priority became getting his hands on enough grass-fed milk to keep customers satisfied, since liis own 64-cow herd wasnt going to suffice.|C His first partnership was with Paul and Phyllis Ambu

35、rgh, owners of the Dharma Lea farm in New York. The Aniburghs, too，were true believers in grass-fed. In addition to supplying milk from their out S5-head herd, they began to help other farmers in the area convert from conventional to certified organic and grass-fed in order to enter the Maple Hill s

36、upply chain. Since 2010，the couple has helped 125 small dairy farms convert to grass.fed, with more than 80% of those farms coming on board during the last two years.D All this conversion has helped Maple Hill grow 40-50% every year since it began, with no end in sight Joseph has learned that a farm

37、er has to have a certain mindset to successfully convert But comincing open-minded dairy people is actually not that hard, when you look at the economics. Grass-fed milk can fetch up 2.5 times the price of conventional milk. Another factor is the squeeze that conventional dairy farmers have felt as

38、the price of grain they feed their cows has gone up. tightening lheir profit margins. By replacing expensive grain feed with regenerative management practices, grass-fed fanners are insulated from jumps in the price of feed. These practices include grazing animals on grasses grown from the pasturela

39、nds natural seed bank, and fertilized by the cows own fertilizer.E| Champions of this type of regenerative grazing also point to its animal welfare, climate and health benefits： Grass-fed animals live longer out of confinement. Grazing herds stinudate micivbutl (K 生物 的)activity in the soil, helping

40、to capture water and separate carbon. And grass-fed dairy and meat liave been shown to be higher in certain nutrients and healthy fats.F) In the grass-fed system, farmers are also not subject to the wildly fluctuating ntilk prices of the international commodity market The unpredictability of global

41、demand and the lag time it takes to add more cows to a herd to meet demand can result in events like the recent cheese surplus. Going grass-fed is a safe refuge, a way for family scale famis to stay viable Usually a farmer will get to the point where financially, what 山eyre doing is not working. Tli

42、als when they call Maple Hill. If the farm is well managed and has enough land, anil the desire to convert is sincere, a relationship can begin Tltrough regular regional educational meetings, a large annual meeting, individual farmvisits and llioiisaiuls of plionc calls, llic Ambiirglis p；iss on the

43、 principles of paA?turo management. Maple Hill signs a contract |>lo<lging l<» buy the fanners milk at a giiamntccfl base price, plus quality preniiuins and incentives for higher pnHcin, bnHpr-fal :in(l iHhrr solids.G While Mnple Hilfs conversion prognun is iimisually hnndson and c(>

44、;in(>rrlirnsivct its just ono of a growing nun)lx>r of bnsinosscs coinmiUcd to slowly changing I he way America farms. Joseph calls sharing his knowledge network Ihrough |x?eMo-i>cer lenmiiig a core piece of flic cornfianys culture. Last summer. Massachusetts grass-fed beef advocalc John Sm

45、ith launched Kig Picture Beef, a network of smnll grnss-fed beef ranus in New England and New York that is projected to bring to market 2.500 head of caUlc from 125 producers this year. Early indications arc that Smith will have no shortage of fanu members. Since he l»cgnn Io informally announc

46、e the network at farming conferences and on social media, he s received a steady stream of inquiries from interested farmers.H Smith saj-s hell provide services ranging from fonnal seminars to on-farm workshops on holistic (整 体的)nianagoinent, Io one-ononc hand-holding and an almost 24/7 phone hotlin

47、e for farmers who are converting. In exchange, he guarantees an above-marker price for each animal and a calf-to-cusromer electronic par rag ID system like that used in the European Union.|I) Tliough advocates portray grass-fed products as a win-win situation for all, they do have downsides. Price,

48、for one, is an issue. Joseph says his products are priced 10-20% above organic versions, but depending on the product chosen, compared to non-organic conventional yogurt, consumers could pay a premium of 30-50% or more for grass-fed. As for the meat. Smith says his grass-fed hamburger will be priced

49、 20-25% over the conventional alternative. But a look at the prices on online grocer Fresh Direct suggests a grass-fed premium of anywhere from 35-60%.|J And not every farmer has the option of going grass-fed. For both beef and dairy production, it requires, at least in the beginning, more pasturela

50、nd. Grass-fed beef production tends to be more labor-intensive as well. But Smith counters that if you factor in the hidden cost of government com subsidies, environment degradation, and decreased human health and animal welfare, grass-fed is the more cost-effective model. “The sun provides the lowe

51、st cost of production and the cheapest meat/ he says.K Another grass fed booster spurring farmers to convert is EPIC, which makes meat-based protein bars。 Founders Taylor Collins and his wife, Katie Forrest, used to be endurance athletes; now they re advocates of grass-fed meat. Soon after launching

52、 EPICS most successful productthe Bison Bacon Cranberrj* BarCollins and Forrest found they'd exhausted their sources for bison (北羑野牛)mised exclusively on pasture. When they started researching the supply chain, they learned that only 2-1% of all bison is actually grass-fed. The rest is feecHot c

53、onfined and fed grain and com.|L| But after General Mills bought EPIC in 2016，Collins and Forrest suddenly had the resources they needed to expand their supply chain. So the company teamed up with Wisconsin-based rancher Northstar Bison. EPIC fronted the money for the purchase of S2.5 million worth

54、of young bison that will be raised according to its grass-fed protocols, with a guaranteed purchase price. The message to young people who might not otherwise be able to afford to break into the business is，_*You can purchase tliis $3 million piece of land here, because Im guaranteeing you today you

55、ll have 1,000 bison on it/ Were bringing new blood into the old, conventional farming ecosystem, which is reaJly cool to see,” Collins explains.36. Farmers going grass-fed are not affected by the ever-changing milk prices of the global market.37. Over the years, Tim Josephs partners have helpecI man

56、y daily fanners to switch to grass-fed38< One advocate believes that many other benefits should lie taken into consideration when we assess the cost-effectiveness of grass-fed fanning.39. Many dairy fanners were persuaded to swiich to gras&fed when they saw its advantage in terms of profits.4

57、0. Tim .Icisoplfs grass-fed program h nnly one rxnniplr nf hnw Amorimn fnrniing practice is changing.41. Tim Joseph was fnsrinalrd by Iho notion tlmr snnliplil brings onrr«y nnd wealth to mankind.42. One pmblcm with grass*fp(l pnxlii(Ms is llini ihoy nrc usicilly ninrr cxixrnsive than convcnlir

58、ma) ones.43. (；i7iss-fo(l prinlncts have proved Io l>r hrallhicr an<l more nnfrilions.44. When Tim .loscph starlcil his business, lie found grass-fed products fell short of demand.45. A snack bnr pmdiicor disc(nFPfo<l tluit the supply <if purelybison meat was scarce.Section CDirections:

59、Thciv tnr 2 jwasatjes in this section. Each jtftssufje is f""fn”ed hi some rjneslions or unfinished Ktatcinenl/t. For each of them theiv ntn ftn/r choices marked A), fi), C) and b). Ynv shovld decide on flic best choice and nmrk the coHVf：i)ondin(/ letter on Anxwfr Sheet 2 unth a sinrfle line tlnx)uflh the cen