1、大学英语六级卷一真题 2015 年 6 月及答案解析(总分：710.50，做题时间：120 分钟)一、Part I Writing (3(总题数：1，分数：106.50)1.Directions: For this part, you are allowed 30 minutes to write an essay commenting on the saying “Knowledge is a treasure, but practice is the key to it.” You can give one example or two to illustrate your point o
2、f view. You should write at least 150 words but no more than 200 words.（分数：106.50）_二、Part II Listening Co(总题数：1，分数：56.80)A.Prepare for his exams.B.Catch up on his work.C.Attend the concert.D.Go on a vacation.A.Three crew members were involved in the incident.B.None of the hijackers carried any deadl
3、y weapons.C.The plane had been scheduled to fly to Japan.D.None of the passengers were injured or killed.A.An article about the election.B.A tedious job to be done.C.An election campaign.D.A fascinating topic.A.The restaurant was not up to the speakers expectations.B.The restaurant places many ads i
4、n popular magazines.C.The critic thought highly of the Chinese restaurant.D.Chinatown has got the best restaurant in the city.A.He is going to visit his mother in the hospital.B.He is going to take on a new job next week.C.He has many things to deal with right now.D.He behaves in a way nobody unders
5、tands.A.A large number of students refused to vote last night.B.At least twenty students are needed to vote on an issue.C.Major campus issues had to be discussed at the meeting.D.More students have to appear to make their voice heard.A.The woman can hardly tell what she likes.B.The speakers like wat
6、ching TV very much.C.The speakers have nothing to do but watch TV.D.The man seldom watched TV before retirement.A.The woman should have retired earlier.B.He will help the woman solve the problem.C.He finds it hard to agree with what the woman says.D.The woman will be able to attend the classes she w
7、ants.A.Persuade the man to join her company.B.Employ the most up-to-date technology.C.Export bikes to foreign markets.D.Expand their domestic business.A.The state subsidizes small and medium enterprises.B.The government has control over bicycle imports.C.They can compete with the best domestic manuf
8、actures.D.They have a cost advantage and can charge higher prices.A.Extra costs might eat up their profits abroad.B.More workers will be needed to do packaging.C.They might lose to foreign bike manufacturers.D.It is very difficult to find suitable local agents.A.Report to the management.B.Attract fo
9、reign investments.C.Conduct a feasibility study.D.Consult financial experts.Questions 13 to 15 are based on the conversation you have just heard. （分数：21.30）A.A Coal burnt daily for the comfort of our homes.B.Anything that can be used to produce power.C.Fuel refined from oil extracted from undergroun
10、d.D.Electricity that keeps all kinds of machines running.A.Oil will soon be replaced by alternative energy sources.B.Oil reserves in the world will be exhausted in a decade.C.Oil consumption has given rise to many global problems.D.Oil production will begin to decline worldwide by 2025.A.Minimize th
11、e use of fossil fuels.B.Start developing alternative fuels.C.Find the real cause for global warming.D.Take steps to reduce the greenhouse effect.四、Section C(总题数：3，分数：71.00)A.The ability to predict fashion trends.B.A refined taste for artistic works.C.Years of practical experience.D.Strict profession
12、al training.A.Promoting all kinds of American hand-made specialities.B.Strengthening cooperation with foreign governments.C.Conducting trade in art works with dealers overseas.D.Purchasing handicrafts from all over the world.A.She has access to fashionable things.B.She is doing what she enjoys doing
13、.C.She can enjoy life on a modest salary.D.She is free to do whatever she wants.A.Join in neighborhood patrols.B.Get involved in his community.C.Voice his complaints to the city council.D.Make suggestions to the local authorities.A.Deterioration in the quality of life.B.Increase of police patrols at
14、 night.C.Renovation of the vacant buildings.D.Violation of community regulations.A.They may take a long time to solve.B.They need assistance form the city.C.They have to be dealt with one by one.D.They are too big for individual efforts.A.He had get some groceries at a big discount.B.He had read a f
15、unny poster near his seat.C.He had done a small deed of kindness.D.He had caught the bus just in time.A.Childhood and family growth.B.Pressure and disease.C.Family life and health.D.Stress and depression.A.It experienced a series of misfortunesB.It was in the process of reorganization.C.His mother d
16、ied of a sudden heart attack.D.His wife left him because of his bad temper.A.They would give him a triple bypass surgery.B.They could remove the block in his arteryC.They could do nothing to help himD.They would try hard to save his life.五、Section C(总题数：1，分数：71.50)When most people think of the word
17、“education”，they think of a pupil as a sort of animate sausage casing. Intothis empty casting, the teachers are (26) 1 stuff“education。” But genuine education, as Socrates knew morethan two thousand years ago, is not (27) 2 the stuffing ofinformation into a person, but rather eliciting knowledge fro
18、m him;it is the (28) 3 of what is in the mind。 “The most important part of education,” oncewrote William Ernest Hocking, the (29) 4 Harvard philosopher, “is this instruction of a man in what he has inside ofhim。” And, as Edith Hamilton has reminded us, Socratesnever said, “I know, learn from me。” He
19、 said, rather, “Look intoyour own selves and find the (30) 5 of the truth that God has putinto every heart and that only you can kindle to a (31) 6 。” In a dialogue, Socrates takes anignorant slave boy, without a day of (32) 7 , and proves to theamazed observers that the boy really “knows” geometry
20、because the principles of geometryare already in his mind, waiting to be calledout。 So many of the discussions and (33) 8 about the content of education are useless and inconclusive becausethey (34) 9 what should “go into” the student ratherthan with what should be taken out, and how this can best b
21、edone。 The college student who once said to me, after alecture, “I spend so much time studying that I dont have a chanceto learn anything,” was clearly expressing his (35) 10 withthe sausage casing view of education。 （分数：71.50）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:_六、P
22、art III Reading Com(总题数：1，分数：35.50)Innovation, the elixir (灵丹妙药) of progress, has always cost people their jobs. In the Industrial Revolution hand weavers were _36_ aside by the mechanical loom. Over the past 30 years the digital revolution has _37_ many of the mid-skill jobs that underpinned 20th-c
23、entury middle-class life. Typists, ticketagents, bank tellers and many production-line jobs have been dispensed with,just as the weavers were. For those who believe that technological progress has made the world a better place, such disruption is a natural part of rising _38_. Although innovation ki
24、lls some jobs, it creates new and better ones, as a more _39_ society becomes richer and its wealthier inhabitants demand more goods and services. A hundred years ago one in three American workers was _40_ on a farm. Today less than 2% of them produce far more food. The millions freed from the land
25、were not rendered _41_, but found better-paid work as the economy grew more sophisticated. Today the pool of secretaries has_42_, but there are ever more computer programmers and web designers. Optimism remains the right starting-point, but for workers the dislocating effects of technology may make
26、themselves evident faster than its _43_. Even if new jobs and wonderful products emerge, in the short term income gaps will widen, causing huge social dislocation and perhaps even changing politics. Technologys _44_ will feel like a tornado (旋风), hitting the rich world first, but _45_ sweeping throu
27、gh poorer countries too. No government is prepared for it. A） benefits B） displaced C） employed D） eventually E） impact F） jobless G） primarily H） productive I） prosperity J） responsive K） rhythm L） sentiments M） shrunk N） swept O） withdrawn （分数：35.50）A.B.C.D.E.F.G.H.I.J.K.L.M.N.O.A.B.C.D.E.F.G.H.I.
28、J.K.L.M.N.O.A.B.C.D.E.F.G.H.I.J.K.L.M.N.O.A.B.C.D.E.F.G.H.I.J.K.L.M.N.O.A.B.C.D.E.F.G.H.I.J.K.L.M.N.O.A.B.C.D.E.F.G.H.I.J.K.L.M.N.O.A.B.C.D.E.F.G.H.I.J.K.L.M.N.O.A.B.C.D.E.F.G.H.I.J.K.L.M.N.O.A.B.C.D.E.F.G.H.I.J.K.L.M.N.O.A.B.C.D.E.F.G.H.I.J.K.L.M.N.O.七、Section B(总题数：1，分数：71.00)Why the Mona Lisa Sta
29、nds Out A. Have you ever fallen for a novel and been amazed not to find it on lists of great books? Or walked around a sculpture renowned as a classic, struggling to see what the fuss is about? If so, you“ve probably pondered the question a psychologist, James Cutting, asked himself: How does a work
30、 of art come to be considered great? B. The intuitive answer is that some works of art are just greatof intrinsically superior quality. The paintings that win prime spots in galleries, get taught in classes and reproduced in books are the ones that have proved their artistic value over time. If you
31、can“t see they“re superior, that“s your problem. It“s an intimidatingly neat explanation. But some social scientists have been asking awkward questions of it, raising the possibility that artistic canons (名作目录) are little more than fossilised historical accidents. C. Cutting, a professor at Cornell
32、University, wondered if a psychological mechanism known as the “mere-exposure effect“ played a role in deciding which paintings rise to the top of the cultural league. Cutting designed an experiment to test his hunch (直觉). Over a lecture course he regularly showed undergraduates works of impressioni
33、sm for two seconds at a time. Some of the paintings were canonical, included in art-history books. Others were lesser known but of comparable quality. These were exposed four times as often. Afterwards, the students preferred them to the canonical works, while a control group of students liked the c
34、anonical ones best. Cutting“s students had grown to like those paintings more simply because they had seen them more. D. Cutting believes his experiment offers a clue as to how canons are formed. He points out that the most reproduced works of impressionism today tend to have been bought by five or
35、six wealthy and influential collectors in the late 19th century. The preferences of these men bestowed (给予) prestige on certain works, which made the works more likely to be hung in galleries and printed in collections. The fame passed down the years, gaining momentum from mere exposure as it did so
36、. The more people were exposed to, the more they liked it, and the more they liked it, the more it appeared in books, on posters and in big exhibitions. Meanwhile, academics and critics created sophisticated justifications for its preeminence (卓越). After all, it“s not just the masses who tend to rat
37、e what they see more often more highly. As contemporary artists like Warhol and Damien Hirst have grasped, critics“ praise is deeply entwined (交织) with publicity. “Scholars,“ Cutting argues, “are no different from the public in the effects of mere exposure.“ E. The process described by Cutting evoke
38、s a principle that the sociologist Duncan Watts calls “cumulative advantage“: Once a thing becomes popular, it will tend to become more popular still. A few years ago, Watts, who is employed by Microsoft to study the dynamics of social networks, had a similar experience to Cutting“s in another Paris
39、 museum. After queuing to see the Mona Lisa in its climate-controlled bulletproof box at the Louvre, he came away puzzled: Why was it considered so superior to the three other Leonardos in the previous chamber, to which nobody seemed to be paying the slightest attention? F. When Watts looked into th
40、e history of “the greatest painting of all time“, he discovered that, for most of its life, the Mona Lisa remained in relative obscurity. In the 1850s, Leonardo da Vinci was considered no match for giants of Renaissance art like Titian and Raphael, whose works were worth almost ten times as much as
41、the Mona Lisa. It was only in the 20th century that Leonardo“s portrait of his patron“s wife rocketed to the number-one spot. What propelled it there wasn“t a scholarly reevaluation, but a theft. G. In 1911 a maintenance worker at the Louvre walked out of the museum with the Mona Lisa hidden under h
42、is smock (工作服). Parisians were shocked at the theft of a painting to which, until then, they had paid little attention. When the museum reopened, people queued to see the gap where the Mona Lisa had once hung in a way they had never done for the painting itself. From then on, the Mona Lisa came to r
43、epresent Western culture itself. H. Although many have tried, it does seem improbable that the painting“s unique status can be attributed entirely to the quality of its brushstrokes. It has been said that the subject“s eyes follow the viewer around the room. But as the painting“s biographer, Donald
44、Sassoon, dryly notes, “In reality the effect can be obtained from any portrait.“ Duncan Watts proposes that the Mona Lisa is merely an extreme example of a general rule. Paintings, poems and pop songs are buoyed (使浮起) or sunk by random events or preferences that turn into waves of influence, passing
45、 down the generations. I. “Saying that cultural objects have value,“ Brian Eno once wrote, “is like saying that telephones have conversations.“ Nearly all the cultural objects we consume arrive wrapped in inherited opinion; our preferences are always, to some extent, someone else“s. Visitors to the
46、Mona Lisa know they are about to visit the greatest work of art ever and come away appropriately impressedor let down. An audience at a performance of Hamlet know it is regarded as a work of genius, so that is what they mostly see. Watts even calls the preeminence of Shakespeare a “historical accide
47、nt“. J. Although the rigid high-low distinction fell apart in the 1960s, we still use culture as a badge of identity. Today“s fashion for eclecticism (折衷主义)“I love Bach, Abba and Jay Z“is, Shamus Khan, a Columbia University psychologist, argues, a new way for the middle class to distinguish themselv
48、es from what they perceive to be the narrow tastes of those beneath them in the social hierarchy. K. The intrinsic quality of a work of art is starting to seem like its least important attribute. But perhaps it“s more significant than our social scientists allow. First of all, a work needs a certain quality to be eligible to be swept to the top of the pile. The Mona Lisa may not be a worthy world champion, but it was in the Louvre in the first place, and not by accident. Secondly, some stuff is simply better than other stuff. Read Hamlet after reading even the greatest of Shakespeare“
