1、大学六级-173 及答案解析(总分：710.00，做题时间：90 分钟)一、Part Writing(总题数：1，分数：106.50)1.Directions : For this part, you are allowed 30 minutes to write a short essay entitled The Way to Success by commenting on Abraham Lincoln“s famous remark, “Give me six hours to chop down a tree, and I will spend the first four sha
2、rpening the axe.“ You should write at least 150 words but no more than 200 words. （分数：106.50）_二、Part Listening Com(总题数：0，分数：0.00)三、Section A(总题数：4，分数：106.50)（分数：35.50）A.The man doesn“t know any foreign languages.B.The man has no idea of what the exam-related materials mean.C.The woman has some perpl
3、exing problems with the exam.D.The man has to know how to write in a foreign language.A.Take one dictionary out of the room.B.Borrow a dictionary somewhere else.C.Borrow a dictionary from the library.D.Buy a dictionary of his own.A.He has had a heart attack because of smoking.B.He has serious lung d
4、isease.C.He is coughing because of too much smoking.D.He will go to see a doctor about his coughing.A.160.B.20.C.80.D.40.A.He wasn“t offered the job in the bookstore.B.He really wants to work in the bookstore.C.He didn“t know where the bookstore was.D.He declined the bookstore job once.（分数：21.30）A.C
5、ousins.B.Aunt and nephew.C.Niece and uncle.D.A client and a secretary.A.Jerry has an open character and is very talkative.B.Jerry is very shy and quiet.C.Jerry rarely says a thing about his brother Bill.D.Jerry never means what he says.A.He is going to Professor Hudson“s home.B.He is going to the mo
6、vies with the woman.C.He is going to the cinema with Jane.D.He is going to the dorm to write his thesis.Questions 9 to 11 are based on the conversation you have just heard. （分数：21.30）A.Set up your own website.B.Consult the bank“s representatives.C.Try by making transfers.D.Check your statements.A.Th
7、e person who is addicted to the Internet.B.The person who reads every label of the goods.C.The person who wants to buy fruit.D.The person who is not picky.A.The famous brands.B.The cereals.C.Books.D.Meat.Questions 12 to 15 are based on the conversation you have just heard. （分数：28.40）A.There are not
8、enough efficient managers.B.It lacks in guidelines for new employees.C.The conference schedule should change immediately.D.It is short of representatives for conferences.A.Because she is on the executive staff.B.Because she is familiar with the company.C.Because she has knowledge of management.D.Bec
9、ause she has an outstanding achievement.A.Print materials for visitors.B.Study referential reports.C.Ask Sally to make arrangements.D.Apply to the chief executive.A.Confident.B.Shocked.C.Nervous.D.Reluctant.四、Section B(总题数：0，分数：0.00)五、Passage One(总题数：1，分数：21.30)Questions 16 to 18 are based on the pa
10、ssage you have just heard. （分数：21.30）A.There is a great difference between reading and listening.B.There are effective ways to practice the proofreading skill.C.Highly educated and poorly educated people have different reading habits.D.The speed and efficiency of reading depend on contents and purpo
11、ses.A.Too slow for a difficult book though just right for a non-serious one.B.Too slow for a non-serious book but too fast for a difficult one.C.Too fast for difficult material though just right for a non-serious book.D.Too fast for a non-serious book as well as a difficult one.A.Ignoring the genera
12、l meaning of the text.B.Paying little attention to the printing mistakes.C.Pursuing a thorough understanding of the text.D.Caring much about the spelling of words.六、Passage Two(总题数：1，分数：21.30)Questions 19 to 21 are based on the passage you have just heard. （分数：21.30）A.The quicker it vibrates, the gr
13、eater the frequency of sound it produces.B.The slower it vibrates, the higher the frequency of sound it produces.C.The quicker it vibrates, the lower the frequency of sound it produces.D.The frequency of sound it produces is not in proportion to the speed it vibrates.A.Those with frequencies lower t
14、han 20 hertz.B.Those with frequencies about 21,000 hertz.C.Those with frequencies lower than 20,000 hertz.D.Those with frequencies higher than 20,000 hertz.A.Abat caught the insect in midair and ate it.B.Dolphin“s clicking sounds bounced off the fish and back to it.C.A person heard an echo when he s
15、houted into the valley.D.A dog heard his owner“s whistle because he used ultrasound.七、Passage Three(总题数：1，分数：28.40)Questions 22 to 25 are based on the passage you have just heard. （分数：28.40）A.He rushed into a shop the last minute before it was locked.B.He was locked in a store while the staff hurrie
16、d home.C.He received a lot of anonymous Christmas presents.D.He beat the owner dead when breaking in the store.A.He stole some cash.B.He made himself at home.C.He slept for 2 days.D.He held a party for himself.A.He laughed at the police.B.He looked forward to going to prison.C.He took his bottles wi
17、th him.D.He went with the police without a struggle.A.The trump had stolen nothing of value.B.The store had profited by the incident.C.The trump had a happy Christmas.D.The store was responsible for what happened.八、Section C(总题数：1，分数：71.00)China has outlined a new approach to foreign investment, wit
18、h planners saying they will now focus less on attracting large amounts of cash and more on selecting investments that will bring skills and technology into the country. The change in tactics, 1 in an official document published by the National Development and Reform Commission, comes after more than
19、 a year of heated debate over the role foreign investors should play in China“s economy. China has long been one of the world“s top destinations for foreign investment, and international companies 2 more than $70 billion last year, drawn by the country“s low costs, 3 prowess (高超技艺) and huge domestic
20、 market. But the inroads (进展) have caused some unease among both ordinary people and officials, who also want to see domestic companies do well. The new foreign-investment plan, which isn“t a 4 blueprint but rather a statement of broad principles, does say that regulators will look more closely at f
21、oreign takeovers of local companies and other issues of “national economic security“ that have received increasing attention recently. But the vision it advances represents neither an attempt to completely 5 China“s economy nor a new round of liberalization. The planning 6 said its major goal is to
22、advance what it calls a “ 7 shift from quantity to quality“ of investment. For instance, new investments by foreign companies will face 8 environmental and land-use standards. On the other hand, multinationals can expect 9 to invest in research centers and training and purchasing operations. The pla
23、n said China will continue to open up service industries, though it offered no commitments beyond those already made to the World Trade Organization. The commission also 10 improve the business environment by reducing red tape and strengthening enforcement of intellectual-property rights. （分数：71.00）
24、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:_九、Part Reading Compr(总题数：0，分数：0.00)十、Section A(总题数：1，分数：35.50)If you know where to find a good plastic-free shampoo, can you tell Jeanne Haegele? Last September, the 28-year-old Chicago resident 1 to cut plastics out of her life.
25、The marketing coordinator was concerned about what the chemicals coming out of some common types of plastic might be doing to her body. She was also worried about the damage all the plastic 2 was doing to the environment. So she 3 on her bike and rode to the nearest grocery store to see what she cou
26、ld find that did not include plastic. “I went in and barely bought anything,“ Haegele says. She did 4 some canned food and a carton (纸盒) of milk only to discover later that both 5 were lined with plastic resin (树脂). “Plastic,“ she says, “just seemed like it was in everything.“ She is right. Back in
27、the 1960s, plastic was well on its way to becoming a staple of American life. The U.S. produced 28 million tons of plastic waste in 200527 million tons of which 6 up in landfills (垃圾填埋场). Our food and water come 7 in plastic. It“s used in our phones and our computers, the cars we drive and the plane
28、s we ride in. But the infinitely adaptable substance has its dark side. Environmentalists feel worried about the petroleum needed to make it. Parents worry about the possibility of 8 chemicals making their way from household plastic into children“s bloodstreams. Which means Haegele is not the only p
29、erson trying to cut plastic out of her lifeshe is not even the only one blogging about this kind of 9 . But those who have tried know it is far from easy to go plastic-free. “These things seem to be so common that it is 10 impossible to avoid coming into contact with them,“ says Frederick vom Saal,
30、a biologist at the University of Missouri. Aendeavor Bpractically Chopped Dtoxic Ewrapped Fresolved Gproducts Hpurchase Iended Jpowerful Kcarry Lrubbish Msticked Nhardly Ocontainers（分数：35.50）十一、Section B(总题数：1，分数：71.00)Google“s Plan for World“s Biggest Online Library: Philanthropy or Act of Piracy?A
31、In recent years, teams of workers dispatched by Google have been working hard to make digital copies of books. So far, Google has scanned more than 10 million titles from libraries in America and Europeincluding half a million volumes held by the Bodleian in Oxford. The exact method it uses is uncle
32、ar; the company does not allow outsiders to observe the process. Why is Google undertaking such a venture? BWhy is it even interested in all those out-of-print library books, most of which have been gathering dust on forgotten shelves for decades? The company claims its motives are essentially publi
33、c-spirited. Its overall mission, after all, is to “organise the world“s information“, so it would be odd if that information did not include books. The company likes to present itself as having lofty aspirations. “This really isn“t about making money. We are doing this for the good of society.“ As S
34、antiago de la Mora, head of Google Books for Europe, puts it: “By making it possible to search the millions of books that exist today, we hope to expand the frontiers of human knowledge.“ CDan Clancy, the chief architect of Google Books, does seem genuine in his conviction that this is primarily a p
35、hilanthropic (慈善的) exercise. “Google“s core business is search and find, so obviously what helps improve Google“s search engine is good for Google,“ he says. “But we have never built a spreadsheet (电子数据表) outlining the financial benefits of this, and I have never had to justify the amount I am spend
36、ing to the company“s founders.“ DIt is easy, talking to Clancy and his colleagues, to be swept along by their missionary passion. But Google“s book-scanning project is proving controversial. Several opponents have recently emerged, ranging from rival tech giants such as Microsoft and Amazon to small
37、 bodies representing authors and publishers across the world. In broad terms, these opponents have levelled two sets of criticisms at Google. EFirst, they have questioned whether the primary responsibility for digitally archiving the world“s books should be allowed to fall to a commercial company. I
38、n a recent essay in the New York Review of Books , Robert Darnton, the head of Harvard University“s library, argued that because such books are a common resourcethe possession of us allonly public, not-for-profit bodies should be given the power to control them. FThe second related criticism is that
39、 Google“s scanning of books is actually illegal. This allegation has led to Google becoming mired in (陷入) a legal battle whose scope and complexity makes the Jarndyce and Jarndyce case in Charles Dickens“ Bleak House look straightforward. At its centre, however, is one simple issue: that of copyrigh
40、t. The inconvenient fact about most books, to which Google has arguably paid insufficient attention, is that they are protected by copyright. Copyright laws differ from country to country, but in general protection extends for the duration of an author“s life and for a substantial period afterwards,
41、 thus allowing the author“s heirs to benefit. (In Britain and America, this post-death period is 70 years.) This means, of course, that almost all of the books published in the 20th century are still under copyrightand the last century saw more books published than in all previous centuries combined
42、. Of the roughly 40 million books in US libraries, for example, an estimated 32 million are in copyright. Of these, some 27 million are out of print. GOutside the US, Google has made sure only to scan books that are out of copyright and thus in the “public domain“ (works such as the Bodleian“s first
43、 edition of Middlemarch, which anyone can read for free on Google Books Search). HBut, within the US, the company has scanned both in-copyright and out-of-copyright works. In its defence, Google points out that it displays only small segments of books that are in copyrightarguing that such displays
44、are “fair use“. But critics allege that by making electronic copies of these books without first seeking the permission of copyright holders, Google has committed piracy. “The key principle of copyright law has always been that works can be copied only once authors have expressly given their permiss
45、ion,“ says Piers Blofeld, of the Sheil Land literary agency in London. “Google has reversed thisit has simply copied all these works without bothering to ask.“ IIn 2005, the Authors Guild of America, together with a group of US publishers, launched a class action suit (集团诉讼) against Google that, aft
46、er more than two years of negotiation, ended with an announcement last October that Google and the claimants had reached an out-of-court settlement. The full details are complicatedthe text alone runs to 385 pagesand trying to summarise it is no easy task. “Part of the problem is that it is basicall
47、y incomprehensible,“ says Blofeld, one of the settlement“s most vocal British critics. JBroadly, the deal provides a mechanism for Google to compensate authors and publishers whose rights it has breached (including giving them a share of any future revenue it generates from their works). In exchange
48、 for this, the rights holders agree not to sue Google in future. KThis settlement hands Google the powerbut only with the agreement of individual rights holdersto exploit its database of out-of-print books. It can include them in subscription deals sold to libraries or sell them individually under a consumer licence. It is these commercial provisions that are proving the settlement“s most controversial aspect. LCritics point out that, by giving Google the right to commercially exploit its database, the settlement paves the way for a subtle shift in the company“s role from provider of info
