2023年英语六级真题含答案版

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1、1月英语六级真题Part IListening 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 b

2、e 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:You will read:A) 2 hours.B) 3 hours.C) 4 hours.D) 5 hours.From

3、 the conversation we know that the two were 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 Ans

4、wer A B C D1.A) Furnished apartments will cost more.B) The apartment can be furnished easily.C) The apartment is just what the man is looking for.D) She can provide the man with the apartment he needs.2.A) Mr. Johnsons ideas are nonsense.B) He quite agrees with Mr. Johnsons views.C) Mr. Johnson is g

5、ood at expressing his ideas.D) He shares the womans views on social welfare.3.A) Study in a quiet place.B) Improve her grades gradually.C) Change the conditions of her dorm.D) Avoid distractions while studying in her dorm.4.A) It has been put off.B) It has been cancelled.C) It will be held in a diff

6、erent place.D) It will be rescheduled to attract more participants.5.A) Janet loves the beautiful landscape of Australia very much.B) Janet is very much interested in architecture.C) Janet admires the Sydney Opera House very much.D) Janet thinks its a shame for anyone not to visit Australia.6.A) It

7、is based on a lot of research.B) It can be finished in a few weeks time.C) It has drawn criticism from lots of people.D) It falls short of her supervisors expectations.7.A) Karen is very forgetful.B) He knows Karen better now.C) Karen is sure to pass the interview.D) The woman should have reminded K

8、aren earlier.8.A) Ask Joe to apologize to the professor for her.B) Skip the class to prepare for the exam.C) Tell the professor shes lost her voice.D) Attend the lecture with the man.9.A) The man will go in for business right after high school.B) The woman is not happy with the mans decision.C) The

9、man wants to be a business manager.D) The woman is working in a kindergarten.10.A) They stay closed until summer comes.B) They cater chiefly to tourists.C) They are busy all the year round.D) They provide quality service to their customers.Section BDirections:In this section, you will hear 3 short p

10、assages. 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 a 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 sin

11、gle line through the centre.Passage OneQuestions 11 to 14 are based on the passage you have just heard.11.A) Classmates.B) Colleagues.C) Boss and secretary.D) PR representative and client.12.A) He felt his assignment was tougher than Sues.B) His clients complained about his service.C) He thought the

12、 boss was unfair to him.D) His boss was always finding fault with his work. 13.A) She is unwilling to undertake them.B) She complains about her bad luck.C) She always accepts them cheerfully.D) She takes them on, though reluctantly.14.A) Sue got promoted.B) John had to quit his job.C) Both John and

13、Sue got a raise.D) Sue failed to complete her project.Passage TwoQuestions 15 to 17 are based on the passage you have just heard.15.A) By greeting each other very politely.B) By exchanging their views on public affairs.C) By displaying their feelings and emotions.D) By asking each other some persona

14、l questions.16.A) Refrain from showing his feelings.B) Express his opinion frankly.C) Argue fiercely.D) Yell loudly.17.A) Getting rich quickly.B) Distinguishing oneself.C) Respecting individual rights.D) Doing credit to ones community.Passage ThreeQuestions 18 to 20 are based on the passage you have

15、 just heard.18.A) If they dont involve any risks.B) If they produce predictable side effects.C) When the urgent need for them arises.D) When tests show that they are relatively safe.19.A) Because they are not accustomed to it.B) Because they are not psychologically prepared for it.C) Because their g

16、enes differ from those who have been tested for it.D) Because they are less sensitive to it than those who have been tested for it.20.A) They will have to take ever larger doses.B) They will become physically impaired.C) They will suffer from minor discomfort.D) They will experience a very painful p

17、rocess.Part IIReading Comprehension(35 minutes)Directions:There are 4 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 o

18、n the Answer Sheet with a single line through the centre.Passage OneQuestions 21 to 25 are based on the following passage.I had an experience some years ago which taught me something about the ways in which people make a bad situation worse by blaming themselves. One January, I had to officiate at t

19、wo funerals on successive days for two elderly women in my community. Both had died “full of years,” as the Bible would say; both yielded to the normal wearing out of the body after a long and full life. Their homes happened to be near each other, so I paid condolence (吊唁) calls on the two families

20、on the same afternoon. At the first home, the son of the deceased (已故旳) woman said to me, “If only I had sent my mother to Florida and gotten her out of this cold and snow, she would be alive today. Its my fault that she died.” At the second home, the son of the other deceased woman said, “If only I

21、 hadnt insisted on my mothers going to Florida, she would be alive today. That long airplane ride, the abrupt change of climate, was more than she could take. Its my fault that shes dead.” When things dont turn out as we would like them to, it is very tempting to assume that had we done things diffe

22、rently, the story would have had a happier ending. Priests know that any time there is a death, the survivors will feel guilty. Because the course of action they took turned out badly, they believe that the opposite course keeping Mother at home, postponing the operation would have turned out better

23、. After all, how could it have turned out any worse? There seem to be two elements involved in our readiness to feel guilt. The first is our pressing need to believe that the world makes sense, that there is a cause for every effect and a reason for everything that happens. That leads us to find pat

24、terns and connections both where they really exist and where they exist only in our minds. The second element is the notion that we are the cause of what happens, especially the bad things that happen. It seems to be a short step from believing that every event has a cause to believing that every di

25、saster is our fault. The roots of this feeling may lie in our childhood. Psychologists speak of the infantile myth of omnipotence (万能). A baby comes to think that the world exists to meet his needs, and that he makes everything happen in it. He wakes up in the morning and summons the rest of the wor

26、ld to its tasks. He cries, and someone comes to attend to him. When he is hungry, people feed him, and when he is wet, people change him. Very often, we do not completely outgrow that infantile notion that our wishes cause things to happen.21.What is said about the two deceased elderly women?A) They

27、 lived out a natural life.B) They died of exhaustion after the long plane ride.C) They werent accustomed to the change in weather.D) They died due to lack of care by family members.22.The author had to conduct the two womens funerals probably because _.A) he wanted to console the two familiesB) he w

28、as an official from the communityC) he had great sympathy for the deceasedD) he was priest of the local church23.People feel guilty for the deaths of their loved ones because _.A) they couldnt find a better way to express their griefB) they believe that they were responsibleC) they had neglected the

29、 natural course of eventsD) they didnt know things often turn out in the opposite direction24.In the context of the passage, “. the world makes sense” (Line 2, Para, 4) probably means that _.A) everything in the world is predeterminedB) the world can be interpreted in different waysC) theres an expl

30、anation for everything in the worldD) we have to be sensible in order to understand the world25.People have been made to believe since infancy that _.A) everybody is at their commandB) life and death is an unsolved mysteryC) every story should have a happy endingD) their wishes are the cause of ever

31、ything that happensPassage TwoQuestions 26 to 30 are based on the following passage.Frustrated with delays in Sacramento, Bay Area officials said Thursday they planned to take matters into their own hands to regulate the regions growing pile of electronic trash. A San Jose councilwoman and a San Fra

32、ncisco supervisor said they would propose local initiatives aimed at controlling electronic waste if the California law-making body fails to act on two bills stalled in the Assembly. They are among a growing number of California cities and counties that have expressed the same intention. Environment

33、alists and local governments are increasingly concerned about the toxic hazard posed by old electronic devices and the cost of safely recycling those products. An estimated 6 million televisions and computers are stocked in California homes, and an additional 6,000 to 7,000 computers become outdated

34、 every day. The machines contain high levels of lead and other hazardous substances, and are already banned from California landfills (垃圾填埋场).Legislation by Senator Byron Sher would require consumers to pay a recycling fee of up to $30 on every new machine containing a cathode (阴极) ray tube. Used in

35、 almost all video monitors and televisions, those devices contain four to eight pounds of lead each. The fees would go toward setting up recycling programs, providing grants to non-profit agencies that reuse the tubes and rewarding manufacturers that encourage recycling.A separate bill by Los Angele

36、s-area Senator Gloria Romero would require high-tech manufacturers to develop programs to recycle so-called e-waste.If passed, the measures would put California at the forefront of national efforts to manage the refuse of the electronic age.But high-tech groups, including the Silicon Valley Manufact

37、uring Group and the American Electronics Association, oppose the measures, arguing that fees of up to $30 will drive consumers to online, out-of-state retailers.“What really needs to occur is consumer education. Most consumers are unaware theyre not supposed to throw computers in the trash,” said Ro

38、xanne Gould, vice president of government relations for the electronics association.Computer recycling should be a local effort and part of residential waste collection programs, she added.Recycling electronic waste is a dangerous and specialized matter, and environmentalists maintain the state must

39、 support recycling efforts and ensure that the job isnt contracted to unscrupulous (毫无顾忌旳) junk dealers who send the toxic parts overseas.“The graveyard of the high-tech revolution is ending up in rural China,” said Ted Smith, director of the Silicon Valley Toxics Coalition. His group is pushing for

40、 an amendment to Shers bill that would prevent the export of e-waste.26.What step were Bay Area officials going to take regarding e-waste disposal?A) Exert pressure on manufacturers of electronic devices.B) Lay down relevant local regulations themselves.C) Lobby the lawmakers of the California Assem

41、bly.D) Rally support to pass the stalled bills.27.The two bills stalled in the California Assembly both concern _.A) regulations on dumping hazardous substances into landfillsB) the sale of used electronic devices to foreign countriesC) the funding of local initiatives to reuse electronic trashD) th

42、e reprocessing of the huge amounts of electronic waste in the state28.Consumers are not supposed to throw used computers in the trash because _.A) they contain large amounts of harmful substancesB) this is banned by the California governmentC) some parts may be recycled for use elsewhereD) unscrupul

43、ous dealers will retrieve them for profit29.High-tech groups believe that if an extra $30 is charged on every TV or computer purchased in California, consumers will _.A) abandon online shoppingB) buy them from other statesC) strongly protest against such a chargeD) hesitate to upgrade their computer

44、s30.We learn from the passage that much of Californias electronic waste has been _.A) collected by non-profit agenciesB) dumped into local landfillsC) exported to foreign countriesD) recycled by computer manufacturersPassage ThreeQuestions 31 to 35 are based on the following passage,Throughout the n

45、ations more than 15,000 school districts, widely differing approaches to teaching science and math have emerged. Though there can be strength in diversity, a new international analysis suggests that this variability has instead contributed to lackluster (平淡旳) achievement scores by U.S. children rela

46、tive to their peers in other developed countries.Indeed, concludes William H. Schmidt of Michigan State University, who led the new analysis, “no single intellectually coherent vision dominates U.S. educational practice in math or science. The reason, he said, “is because the system is deeply and fu

47、ndamentally flawed.”The new analysis, released this week by the National Science Foundation in Arlington, Va., is based on data collected from about 50 nations as part of the Third International Mathematics and Science Study.Not only do approaches to teaching science and math vary among individual U

48、.S. communities, the report finds, but there appears to be little strategic focus within a school districts curricula, its textbooks, or its teachers activities. This contrasts sharply with the coordinated national programs of most other countries.On average, U.S. students study more topics within s

49、cience and math than their international counterparts do. This creates an educational environment that “is a mile wide and an inch deep,” Schmidt notes.For instance, eighth graders in the United States cover about 33 topics in math versus just 19 in Japan. Among science courses, the international ga

50、p is even wider. U.S. curricula for this age level resemble those of a small group of countries including Australia, Thailand, Iceland, and Bulgaria. Schmidt asks whether the United States wants to be classed with these nations, whose educational systems “share our pattern of splintered (支离破碎旳) visi

51、ons” but which are not economic leaders.The new report “couldnt come at a better time,” says Gerald Wheeler, executive director of the National Science Teachers Association in Arlington. “The new National Science Education Standards provide that focused vision,” including the call “to do less, but i

52、n greater depth.”Implementing the new science standards and their math counterparts will be the challenge, he and Schmidt agree, because the decentralized responsibility for education in the United States requires that any reforms be tailored and instituted one community at a time.In fact, Schmidt a

53、rgues, reforms such as these proposed national standards “face an almost impossible task, because even though they are intellectually coherent, each becomes only one more voice in the babble (嘈杂声).”31.According to the passage, the teaching of science and math in America is _.A) focused on tapping st

54、udents potentialB) characterized by its diversityC) losing its vitality graduallyD) going downhill in recent years32.The fundamental flaw of American school education is that _.A) it lacks a coordinated national programB) it sets a very low academic standard for studentsC) it relies heavily on the i

55、nitiative of individual teachersD) it attaches too much importance to intensive study of school subjects33.By saying that the U.S. educational environment is “a mile wide and an inch deep” (Line 2, Para. 5), the author means U.S. educational practice _.A) lays stress on quality at the expense of qua

56、ntityB) offers an environment for comprehensive educationC) encourages learning both in depth and in scopeD) scratches the surface of a wide range of topics34.The new National Science Education Standards are good news in that they will _.A) provide depth to school science educationB) solve most of t

57、he problems in school teachingC) be able to meet the demands of the communityD) quickly dominate U.S. educational practice35.Putting the new science and math standards into practice will prove difficult because _.A) there is always controversy in educational circlesB) not enough educators have reali

58、zed the necessity for doing soC) school districts are responsible for making their own decisionsD) many schoolteachers challenge the acceptability of these standardsPassage FourQuestions 36 to 40 are based on the following passage.“Ive never met a human worth cloning,” says cloning expert Mark Westh

59、usin from his lab at Texas A&M University. “Its a stupid endeavor.” Thats an interesting choice of adjective, coming from a man who has spent millions of dollars trying to clone a 13-year-old dog named Missy. So far, he and his team have not succeeded, though they have cloned two cows and expect to

60、clone a cat soon. They just might succeed in cloning Missy this spring or perhaps not for another 5 years. It seems the reproductive system of mans best friend is one of the mysteries of modern science.Westhusins experience with cloning animals leaves him upset by all this talk of human cloning. In

61、three years of work on the Missy project, using hundreds upon hundreds of dogs eggs, the A&M team has produced only a dozen or so embryos (胚胎) carrying Missys DNA. None have survived the transfer to a surrogate (代孕旳) mother. The wastage of eggs and the many spontaneously aborted fetuses (胎) may be a

62、cceptable when youre dealing with cats or bulls, he argues, but not with humans. “Cloning is incredibly inefficient, and also dangerous,” he says.Even so, dog cloning is a commercial opportunity, with a nice research payoff. Ever since Dolly the sheep was cloned in 1997, Westhusins phone has been ri

63、nging with people calling in hopes of duplicating their cats and dogs, cattle and horses. “A lot of people want to clone pets, especially if the price is right,” says Westhusin. Cost is no obstacle for Missys mysterious billionaire owner; hes put up $3.7 million so far to fund A&Ms research.Contrary

64、 to some media reports, Missy is not dead. The owner wants a twin to carry on Missys fine qualities after she does die. The prototype is, by all accounts, athletic, good-natured and supersmart. Missys master does not expect an exact copy of her. He knows her clone may not have her temperament. In a statement