2023年12月六级真题及答案三套

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1、 12月大学英语六级考试真题（第1套）Part IWriting(30 minutes)（请于正式开考后半小时内完毕该部分，后来将进行听力考试）Directions:For this part, you are allowed 30 minutes to write an essay on happiness by referring to the saying“Happiness is not the absence of problems, but the ability to deal with them.”You can cite examples to illustrate your

2、 point and then explain how you can develop your ability to deal with problems and be happy. You should write at least 150 words but no more than 200 words.Part IIListening Comprehension(30 minutes)Section ADirections:In this section, you will hear 8 short conversations and 2 long conversations. At

3、theend of each conversation, one or more questions will be asked about what was said. Both the conversation and the questions 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 a

4、nswer. 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) The rock band needs more hours of practice.B) The rock band is going to play here for a month.C) Their hard work has resulted in a big success.D) He appreciates the womans help

5、with the band.2. A) Go on a diving tour in Europe.C) Travel overseas on his own.B) Add 300 dollars to his budget.D) Join a package tour to Mexico. 3. A) In case some problem should occur.C) To avoid more work later on. B) Something unexpected has happened.D) To make better preparations.4. A) The wom

6、an asked for a free pass to try out the facilities.B) The man is going to renew his membership in a fitness center.C) The woman can give the man a discount if he joins the club now.D) The man can try out the facilities before he becomes a member.5. A) He is not afraid of challenge. B) He is not fit

7、to study science.C) He is worried about the test.D) He is going to drop the physics course6. A) Pay for part of the picnic food.C) Buy something special for Gary.B) Invite Garys family to dinner.D) Take some food to the picnic.7. A) Bus drivers working conditions.C)Public transportation.B) A labor d

8、ispute at a bus company.D) A corporate takeover.8. A) The bank statement.C) The payment for an order.B) Their sales overseas.D) The check just deposited.Questions 9 to 11 are based on the conversation you have just heard.9. A) A hotel receptionist.C) A shop assistant.B) A private secretary.D) A sale

9、s manager.10. A) Voice.C) Appearance.B) Intelligence.D) Manners.11. A) Arrange one more interview.C) Report the matter to their boss.B) Offer the job to David Wallace.D) Hire Barbara Jones on a trial basis.Questions 12 to 15 are based on the conversation you have just heard.12. A) He invented the re

10、frigerator.C) He got a degree in Mathematics.B) He patented his first invention.D) He was admitted to university.13. A) He distinguished himself in low temperature physics.B) He fell in love with Natasha Willoughby.C) He became a professor of Mathematics.D) He started to work on refrigeration.14. A)

11、 Finding the true nature of subatomic particles.B) Their work on very high frequency radio waves.C) Laying the foundations of modem mathematics.D) Their discovery of the laws of cause and effect.15. A) To teach at a university.C) To spend his remaining years.B) To patent his inventions.D) To have a

12、three-week holiday.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 he spoken only once. After you hear a question, you must choose the best answer from the four choices marked A), B

13、), 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。Passage OneQuestions 16 to 18 are based on the passage you have just heard.16. A) They have fallen prey to wolves.B) They have become a tourist attraction.C) They have caused lo

14、ts of damage to crops.D) They have become a headache to the community.17. A) To celebrate their victory.C) To scare the wolves.B) To cheer up the hunters.D) To alert the deer.18. A) They would help to spread a fatal disease.B) They would pose a threat to the children.C) They would endanger domestic

15、animals.D) They would eventually kill off the deer.Passage TwoQuestions 19 to 22 are based on the passage you have just heard.19. A) She is an interpreter.C) She is a domestic servant.B) She is a tourist guide.D) She is from the royal family.20. A) It was used by the family to hold dinner parties.B)

16、 It is situated at the foot of a beautiful mountain.C) It was frequently visited by heads of state.D) It is furnished like one in a royal palace.21. A) It is elaborately decorated.B) It has survived some 2,000 years.C) It is very big, with only six slim legs.D) It is shaped like an ancient Spanish b

17、oat.22. A) They are uncomfortable to sit in for long.B) They do not match the oval table at all.C) They have lost some of their legs.D) They are interesting to look at.Passage ThreeQuestions 23 to 25 are based on the passage you have just heard.23. A) It in an uncommon infectious disease.B) It destr

18、oys the patients ability to think.C) It is a disease very difficult to diagnose.D) It is the biggest crippler of young adults.24. A) Search for the best cure.C) Write a book about her life.B) Hurry up and live life.D) Exercise more and work harder.25. A) Aggressive.C) Sophisticated.B) Adventurous.D)

19、 Self-centered.Section CDirections:In this section, you will hear a passage three times. When the passage is read fort 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 youhave j

20、ust heard. Finally, when the passage is read for the third time, you shouldcheck what you have written.注意：此部分试题请在答题卡1上作答。Its difficult to estimate the number of youngsters involved in home schooling, where childrenare not sent to school and receive their formal education from one or both parents. (2

21、6)_ and court decisions have made it legally possible in most states for parents to educate their children at home, and each year more people take advantage of that opportunity. Some states require parents or a home tutor to meet teacher certification standards, and many require parents to completel

22、egal forms to verify that their children are receiving (27) _ in state-approved curricula.Supports of home education claim that its less expensive and far more (28)_ thanmass public education. Moreover, they cite several advantages: alleviation of school overcrowding, strengthened family relationshi

23、ps, lower (29) _ rates, the fact that students are allowed to learn at their own rate, increased (30) _, higher standardized test scores, and reduced (31) _ problems.Critics of the home schooling movement (32) _ that it creates as many problems as it solves. They acknowledge that, in a few cases, ho

24、me schooling offers educational opportunities superior to those found in most public schools, but few parents can provide such educational advantages. Some parents who withdraw their children from the schools (33) _ homeschooling have an inadequate educational background and insufficient formal trai

25、ning to provide a satisfactory education for their children. Typically, parents have fewertechnological resources (34) _ than do schools. However, the relatively inexpensivecomputer technology that is readily available today is causing some to challenge the notion that home schooling is in any way (

26、35) _ more highly structured classroom education.Part IIIReading Comprehension (40 minutes)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 word bank following the passage. Read the passage t

27、hrough 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 more than once.Questions 36 to 45 are based on the

28、following passage.Some performance evaluations require supervisors to take action. Employees who receive a very favorable evaluation may deserve some type of recognition or even a promotion. If supervisors do not acknowledge such outstanding performance, employees may either lose their36 and reduce

29、their effort or search for a new job at a firm that will37 them for high performance. Supervisors should acknowledge high performance so that the employee will continue to perform well in the future.Employees who receive unfavorable evaluations must also be given attention. Supervisors must 38 the r

30、easons for poor performance. Some reasons, such as a family illness, may have a temporary adverse 39 on performance and can be corrected. Other reasons, such as a bad attitude, may not be temporary. When supervisors give employees an unfavorable evaluation, they must decide whether to take any 40 ac

31、tions. If the employees were unaware of their own deficiencies, the unfavorable evaluation can pinpoint(指出) the deficiencies that employees must correct. In this case, the supervisor may simply need to monitor the employees 41 and ensure that the deficiencies are corrected.If the employees were alre

32、ady aware of their deficiencies before the evaluation period, however, they may be unable or unwilling to correct them. This situation is more serious, and the supervisor may need to take action. The action should be 42 with the firms guidelines and may include reassigning the employees to new jobs,

33、 43 them temporarily, or firing them. A supervisors action toward a poorly performing worker can 44 the attitudes of other employees. If no 45 isimposed on an employee for poor performance, other employees may react by reducing their productivity as well.注意：此部分题请在答题卡2上作答。A) additionalB) affectC) apt

34、lyD) assimilateH) circulationF) closelyG) consistentH) enthusiasmI) identifyJ) impactK) penaltyL) rewardM) simplifyingN) suspendingO) vulnerableSection BDirections:In this section, you are going to read a passage with ten statements attached to it. Each statement contains information given in one of

35、 the paragraphs. Identify the paragraph from which the information is derived. You may choose a paragraph more than once. Each paragraph is marked with a letter. Answer the questions by marking the corresponding letter on Answer Sheet 2.The College Essay: Why Those 500 Words Drive Us CrazyA) Meg is

36、a lawyer-mom in suburban Washington, D.C., where lawyer-moms are thick on the ground. Her son Doug is one of several hundred thousand high-school seniors who had a painful fall. The deadline for applying to his favorite college was Nov. 1,and by early October he had yet to fill out the application.

37、More to the point, he had yet to settle on a subject for the personal essay accompanying the application. According to college folklore, a well-turned essay has the power to seduce (诱惑) an admissions committee. “He wanted to do one thing at a time,” Meg says, explaining her sons delay. “But really,

38、my son is a huge procrastinator (迟延者). The essay is the hardest thing to do, so hes put it off the longest.” Friends and other veterans of the process have warned Meg that the back and forth between editing parent and writing student can be traumatic (痛苦).B) Back in the good old dayssay, two years a

39、go, when the last of my children suffered the ordeal (折磨)a high-school student applying to college could procrastinate all the way to New Years Day of their senior year, assuming they could withstand the parental pestering (烦扰).But things change fast in the nail-biting world of college admissions.Th

40、e recent trend toward early decision and early action among selective colleges and universities has pushed the traditional deadline of January up to Nov. 1 or early December for many students.C) If the time for heel-dragging has been shortened, the true source of the anxiety and panic remains what i

41、t has always been. And its not the application itself. A college application is a relatively straightforward questionnaire asking for the basics: name, address, family history employment history. It would all be innocent enough20 minutes of busy workexcept it comes attached to a personal essay.D) “T

42、here are good reasons it causes such anxiety,” says Lisa Sohmer, director of college counseling at the Garden School in Jackson Heights, N.Y. “Its not just the actual writing. By noweverything else is already set. Your course load is set, your grades are set, your test scores are set. But the essay

43、is something you can still control, and its open-ended. So the temptation is to write and rewrite and rewrite.” Or stall and stall and stall.E) The application essay, along with its mythical importance, is a recent invention. In the 1930s,when only one in 10 Americans had a degree from a four-year c

44、ollege, an admissionscommittee was content to ask for a sample of applicants school papers to assess their writing ability. By the 1950s, most schools required a brief personal statement of why the student had chosen to apply to one school over another.F) Today nearly 70 percent of graduating senior

45、s go off to college, including two-year and four-year institutions. Even apart from the increased competition, the kids enter a process that has been utterly transformed from the one baby boomers knew. Nearly all application materials are submitted online, and the Common Application provides a one-s

46、ize-fits form accepted by more than 400 schools, including the nations most selective.G) Those schools usually require essays of their own, but the longest essay, 500 words maximum, is generally attached to the Common Application. Students choose one of six questions. Applicants are asked to describ

47、e an ethical dilemma theyve faced and its impact on them, or discuss a public issue of special concern to them, or tell of a fictional character or creative work that has profoundly influenced them. Another question invites them to write about the importance (to them, again) of diversitya word that

48、has assumed magic power in American higher education. The most popular option: write on a topic of your choice.H) “Boys in particular look at the other questions and say, Oh, thats too much work,” says John Boshoven, a counselor in the Ann Arbor, Mich., public schools. “They think if they do a topic

49、 of their choice, “Ill just go get that history paper I did last year on the Roman Empire and turn it into a first-person application essay! And they end up producing something utterly ridiculous.”I) Talking to admissions professionals like Boshoven, you realize that the list of “donts” in essay wri

50、ting is much longer than the “dos.”“No book reports, no history papers, no character studies,”says Sohmer.J) “It drives you crazy, how easily kids slip into clichs(老生常谈),”says Boshoven. “They dont realize how typical their experiences arc. I scored the winning goal in soccer against our arch-rival.M

51、y grandfather served in World War II, and I hope to be just like him someday. That may mean a lot to that particular kid. But in the world of the application essay, its nothing. Youll lose the reader in the first paragraph.”K) “The greatest strength you bring to this essay,” says the College Boards

52、how-to book, “is 17 years or so of familiarity with the topic: YOU. The form and style are very familiar, and best of all, you are the world-class expert on the subject of YOU . It has been the subject of your close scrutiny every morning since you were tall enough to see into the bathroom mirror.”

53、Thekey word in the Common Application prompts is “you.”L) The college admission essay contains the grandest American themesstatus anxiety, parental piety (孝顺), intellectual standardsand so it is only a matter of time before it becomes infected by the countrys culture of excessive concern with self-e

54、steem. Even if the question isostensibly (表面上) about something outside the self (describe a fictional character or solve a problem of geopolitics), the essay invariably returns to the favorite topic: what is its impact on YOU?M)“For all the anxiety the essay causes,” says Bill McClintick of Mercersb

55、urg Academy in Pennsylvania, “its a very small piece of the puzzle. I was in college admissions for 10 years. I saw kids and parents beat themselves up over this. And at the vast majority of places, it is simply not a big variable in the colleges decision-making process.”N) Many admissions officers

56、say they spend less than a couple of minutes on each application, including the essay. According to a recent survey of admissions officers, only one in four private colleges say the essay is of “considerable importance” in judging an application. Among public colleges and universities, the number dr

57、ops to roughly one in 10. By contrast, 86 percent place “considerable importance” on an applicants grades, 70 percent on “strength of curriculum.”O) Still, at the most selective schools, where thousands of candidates may submit identically high grades and test scores, a marginal item like the essay

58、may serve as a tie-breaker between two equally qualified candidates. The thought is certainly enough to keep the pot boiling under parents like Meg, the lawyer-mom, as she tries to help her son choose an essay topic. For a moment the other day, she thought she might have hit on a good one. “His fath

59、ers from France,” she says. “I said maybe you could write about that, as something that makes you different. You know: half French, half American. I said, You could write about your identity issues. He said, I dont have any identity issues! And hes right. Hes a well-adjusted, normal kid. But that do

60、esnt make for a good essay, does it?”注意：此部分试题请在答题卡2上作答。46. Today many universities require their applicants to write an essay of up to five hundred words.47. One recent change in college admissions is that selective colleges and universities have movedthe traditional deadline to earlier dates.48. Ap

61、plicants and their parents are said to believe that the personal essay can sway the admissions committee.49. Applicants are usually better off if they can write an essay that distinguishes them from the rest.50. Not only is the competition getting more intense, the application process today is also

62、totally different from what baby boomers knew.51. In writing about their own experiences many applicants slip into clichs, thus failing to engage the reader.52. According to a recent survey, most public colleges and universities consider an applicants grades highly important.53. Although the applica

63、tion essay causes lots of anxiety, it does not play so important a role in the collegesdecision-making process.54. The question you aresupposed to write about may seem outside the self, but the theme of the essay should center around its impact on you.55. In the old days, applicants only had to subm

64、it a sample of their school papers to show their writing ability.Section CDirections:There are 2 passages in this section. 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 Answer Sheet 2 with a single line through the centre.Passage OneQuestions 56 to 60 are based on the following passage.Among the governments most interesting reports is one th