1、2017 年 6 月大学英语六级模拟题及答案解析(总分：118.00，做题时间：90 分钟)一、Writing(总题数：2，分数：4.00)1.Part I Writing（分数：2.00）_2.Directions: Suppose you are asked to give advice on whether to attend college at home or abroad, write an essay to state your opinion. You are required to write at least 150 words but no more than 200 w
2、ords.（分数：2.00）_二、Listening Comprehens(总题数：11，分数：50.00)3.Part II Listening Comprehension_4.Section A_A.Doing enjoyable work.B.Earning a competitive salary.C.Having friendly colleagues.D.Working for supportive bosses.A.31%.B.25%.C.20%.D.73%.A.Those of a small size.B.Those that are well managed.C.Those
3、 run by women.D.Those full of skilled workers.A.They can hop from job to job easily.B.They can win recognition of their work.C.They can better balance work and life.D.They can take on more than one job.A.It is a book of European history.B.It is about the city of Bruges.C.It is an introduction to mus
4、ic.D.It is a collection of photos.A.When painting the concert hall of Bruges.B.When vacationing in an Italian coastal city.C.When taking pictures for a concert catalogue.D.When writing about Belgiums coastal regions.A.The entire European coastline will be submerged.B.The rich heritage of Europe will
5、 be lost completely.C.The seawater of Europe will be seriously polluted.D.The major European scenic spots will disappear.A.Its waterways are being increasingly polluted.B.People cannot get around without using boats.C.It attracts large numbers of tourists from home and abroad.D.Tourists use wooden p
6、aths to reach their hotels in the morning.5.Section B_A.They make careful preparations beforehand.B.They take too many irrelevant factors into account.C.They spend too much time anticipating their defeat.D.They try hard to avoid getting off on the wrong foot.A.A persons nervous system is more compli
7、cated than imagined.B.Golfers usually have positive mental images of themselves.C.Mental images often interfere with athletes performance.D.Thinking has the same effect on the nervous system as doing.A.Anticipate possible problems.B.Picture themselves succeeding.C.Make a list of dos and donts.D.Try
8、to appear more professional.A.She wore a designer dress.B.She did not speak loud enough.C.She won her first jury trial.D.She presented moving pictures.A.Its long-term effects are yet to be proved.B.Its health benefits have been overestimated.C.It helps people to avoid developing breast cancer.D.It e
9、nables patients with diabetes to recover sooner.A.It focused on their ways of life during young adulthood.B.It tracked their change in food preferences for 20 years.C.It focused on their difference from men in fiber intake.D.It tracked their eating habits since their adolescence.A.Fiber may help to
10、reduce hormones in the body.B.Fiber may bring more benefits to women than men.C.Fiber may improve the function of heart muscles.D.Fiber may make blood circulation more smooth.6.Section C_A.Observing the changes in marketing.B.Conducting research on consumer behaviour.C.Studying the hazards of young
11、people drinking.D.Investigating the impact of media on government.A.It is the cause of many street riots.B.It is getting worse year by year.C.It is a chief concern of parents.D.It is an act of socialising.A.They spent a week studying their own purchasing behaviour.B.They researched the impact of mob
12、ile phones on young people.C.They analysed their family budgets over the years.D.They conducted a thorough research on advertising.A.It is helping its banks to improve efficiency.B.It is trying hard to do away with dirty money.C.It is the first country to use credit cards in the world.D.It is likely
13、 to give up paper money in the near future.A.Whether it is possible to travel without carrying any physical currency.B.Whether it is possible to predict how much money one is going to spend.C.Whether the absence of physical currency causes a person to spend more.D.Whether the absence of physical cur
14、rency is going to affect everyday life.A.There was no food service on the train.B.The service on the train was not good.C.The restaurant car accepted cash only.D.The cash in her handbag was missing.A.By putting money into envelopes.B.By limiting their day-to-day spending.C.By drawing money week by w
15、eek.D.By refusing to buy anything on credit.A.Population explosion.B.Extinction of rare species.C.Chronic hunger.D.Environmental deterioration.A.They contribute to overpopulation.B.About half of them are unintended.C.They have been brought under control.D.The majority of them tend to end halfway.A.I
16、t is essential to the wellbeing of all species on earth.B.It is becoming a subject of interdisciplinary research.C.It is neglected in many of the developing countries.D.It is beginning to attract postgraduates attention.三、Reading Comprehensio(总题数：8，分数：60.00)7.Part III Reading Comprehension_8.Section
17、 A_Lets all stop judging people who talk to themselves. New research says that those who cant seem to keep their inner monologues (独白) in are actually more likely to stay on task, remain 1 better and show improved perception capabilities. Not bad, really, for some extra muttering. According to a ser
18、ies of experiments published in the Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology by professors Gary Lupyan and Daniel Swignley, the act of using verbal clues to 2 mental pictures helps people function quicker. In one experiment, they showed pictures of various objects to twenty 3 and asked them to f
19、ind just one of those, a banana. Half were 4 to repeat out loud what they were looking for and the other half kept their lips 5 . Those who talked to themselves found the banana slightly faster than those who didnt, the researchers say. In other experiments, Lupyan and Swignley found that 6 the name
20、 of a common product when on the hunt for it helped quicken someones pace, but talking about uncommon items showed no advantage and slowed you down. Common research has long held that talking themselves through a task helps children learn, although doing so when youve 7 matured is not a great sign o
21、f 8 The two professors hope to refute that idea, 9 that just as when kids walk themselves through a process, adults can benefit from using language not just to communicate, but also to help “augment thinking“. Of course, you are still encouraged to keep the talking at library tones and, whatever you
22、 do, keep the information you share simple, like a grocery list. At any 10 , theres still such a thing as too much information.A) apparently I) obscurelyB) arrogance J) sealedC) brilliance K) spectatorsD) claiming L) triggerE) dedicated M) utteringF) focused N) volumeG) incur O) volunteers H) instru
23、cted（分数：20.00）填空项 1:_填空项 1:_填空项 1:_填空项 1:_填空项 1:_填空项 1:_填空项 1:_填空项 1:_填空项 1:_填空项 1:_10.Section B_The Price of Oil and the Price of CarbonA Fossil fuel prices are likely to stay “low for long“. Notwithstanding important recent progress in developing renewable fuel sources, low fossil fuel prices coul
24、d discourage further innovation in, and adoption of, cleaner energy technologies. The result would be higher emissions of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases.B Policymakers should not allow low energy prices to derail the clean energy transition. Action to restore appropriate price incentives,
25、 notably through corrective carbon pricing, is urgently needed to lower the risk of irreversible and potentially devastating effects of climate change. That approach also offers fiscal benefits.C Oil prices have dropped by over 60% since June 2014. A commonly held view in the oil industry is that “t
26、he best cure for low oil prices is low oil prices“. The reasoning behind this saying is that low oil prices discourage investment in new production capacity, eventually shifting the oil supply curve backward and bringing prices back up as existing oil fieldswhich can be tapped at relatively low marg
27、inal costare depleted. In fact, in line with past experience, capital expenditure in the oil sector has dropped sharply in many producing countries, including the United States. The dynamic adjustment to low oil prices may, however, be different this time around.D Oil prices are expected to remain l
28、ower for longer. The advent of new technologies has added about 4.2 million barrels per day to the crude oil market, contributing to a global over-supply. In addition, other factors are putting downward pressure on oil prices: change in the strategic behavior of the Organization of Petroleum Exporti
29、ng Countries, the projected increase in Iranian exports, the scaling-down of global demand ( especially from emerging markets) , the long-term drop in petroleum consumption in the United States, and some displacement of oil by substitutes. These likely persistent forces, like the growth of shale (页岩
30、) oil, point to a low for long“ scenario. Futures markets, which show only a modest recovery of prices to around $60 a barrel by 2019, support this view.E Natural gas and coalalso fossil fuelshave similarly seen price declines that look to be long-lived. Coal and natural gas are mainly used for elec
31、tricity generation, whereas oil is used mostly to power transportation, yet the prices of all these energy sources are linked. The North American shale gas boom has resulted in record low prices there. The recent discovery of the giant Zohr gas field off the Egyptian coast will eventually have impac
32、t on pricing in the Mediterranean region and Europe, and there is significant development potential in many other places, notably Argentina. Coal prices also are low, owing to over-supply and the scaling-down of demand, especially from China, which burns half of the worlds coal.F Technological innov
33、ations have unleashed the power of renewables such as wind, hydro, solar, and geothermal (地热). Even Africa and the Middle East, home to economies that are heavily dependent on fossil fuel exports, have enormous potential to develop renewables. For example, the United Arab Emirates has endorsed an am
34、bitious target to draw 24% of its primary energy consumption from renewable sources by 2021.G Progress in the development of renewables could be fragile, however, if fossil fuel prices remain low for long. Renewables account for only a small share of global primary energy consumption, which is still
35、 dominated by fossil fuels30% each for coal and oil, 25% for natural gas. But renewable energy will have to displace fossil fuels to a much greater extent in the future to avoid unacceptable climate risks.H Unfortunately, the current low prices for oil, gas, and coal may provide little incentive for
36、 research to find even cheaper substitutes for those fuels. There is strong evidence that both innovation and adoption of cleaner technology are strongly encouraged by higher fossil fuel prices. The same is true for new technologies for alleviating fossil fuel emissions.I The current low fossil fuel
37、 price environment will thus certainly delay the energy transition from fossil fuel to clean energy sources. Unless renewables become cheap enough that substantial carbon deposits are left underground for a very long time, if not forever, the planet will likely be exposed to potentially catastrophic
38、 climate risks.J Some climate impacts may already be discernible. For example, the United Nations Childrens Fund estimates that some 11 million children in Africa face hunger, disease, and water shortages as a result of the strongest El Nifio (尼尔尼诺) weather phenomenon in decades. Many scientists bel
39、ieve that El Nifio events, caused by warming in the Pacific, are becoming more intense as a result of climate change.K Nations from around the world have gathered in Paris for the United Nations Climate Change Conference, COP 21, with the goal of a universal and potentially legally-binding agreement
40、 on reducing greenhouse gas emissions. We need very broad participation to fully address the global tragedy that results when countries fail to take into account the negative impact of their carbon emissions on the rest of the world. Moreover, non-participation by nations, if sufficiently widespread
41、, can undermine the political will of participating countries to act.L The nations participating at COP 21 are focusing on quantitative emissions-reduction commitments. Economic reasoning shows that the least expensive way for each country is to put a price on carbon emissions. The reason is that wh
42、en carbon is priced, those emissions reductions that are least costly to implement will happen first. The International Monetary Fund calculates that countries can generate substantial fiscal revenues by eliminating fossil fuel subsidies and levying carbon charges that capture the domestic damage ca
43、used by emissions. A tax on upstream carbon sources is one easy way to put a price on carbon emissions, although some countries may wish to use other methods, such as emissions trading schemes. In order to maximize global welfare, every countrys carbon pricing should reflect not only the purely dome
44、stic damage from emissions, but also the damage to foreign countries.M Setting the right carbon price will therefore efficiently align the costs paid by carbon users with the true social opportunity cost of using carbon. By raising relative demand for clean energy sources, a carbon price would also
45、help align the market return to clean-energy innovation with its social return, spurring the refinement of existing technologies and the development of new ones. And it would raise the demand for technologies such as carbon capture and storage, spurring their further development. If not corrected by
46、 the appropriate carbon price, low fossil fuel prices are not accurately signaling to markets the true social profitability of clean energy. While alternative estimates of the damage from carbon emissions differ, and its especially hard to reckon the likely costs of possible catastrophic climate events, most estimates suggest substantial negative effects.N Direct subsidies to research and development have been adopted by some governments but are a poor substitute for a carbon
