1、大学英语六级卷二真题 2013 年 12 月及答案解析(总分：710.50，做题时间：130 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 about the impact of the information explosion by referring to the saying “A wealth of information creates a poverty of attention.” You can g
2、ive examples to illustrate your point and then explain what you can do to avoid being distracted by irrelevant information. 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.Labor problems.B.Weather conditions.C.An error in the order.D
3、.Misplacing of goods.A.What the woman says makes a lot of sense.B.The rich are opposed to social welfare.C.He is sympathetic with poor people.D.He agrees with Mr. Johnsons views.A.He will be practicing soccer.B.He has work to finish in time.C.He will be attending a meeting.D.He has a tough problem t
4、o solve.A.Mary should get rid of her pet as soon as possible.B.Mary will not be able to keep a dog in the building.C.Mary is not happy with the ban on pet animals.D.Mary might as well send her dog to her relative.A.The twins voices are quite different.B.Lisa and Gale are not very much alike.C.He doe
5、s not believe they are twin sisters.D.The woman seems a bit hard of hearing.A.The serious economic crisis in Britain.B.A package deal to be signed in November.C.A message from their business associates.D.Their ability to deal with financial problems.A.It is impossible to remove the stain completely.
6、B.The man will be charged extra for the service.C.The man has to go to the main cleaning facility.D.Cleaning the pants will take longer than usual.A.European markets.B.A protest rally.C.Luxury goods.D.Imported products.Questions 9 to 12 are based on the conversation you have just heard. （分数：28.40）A.
7、He made a business trip.B.He had a quarrel with Marsha.C.He talked to her on the phone.D.He resolved a budget problem.A.She may have to be fired for poor performance.B.She has developed some serious mental problem.C.She is in charge of the firms budget planning.D.She supervises a number of important
8、 projects.A.She failed to arrive at the airport on time.B.David promised to go on the trip in her place.C.Something unexpected happened at her home.D.She was not feeling herself on that day.A.He frequently gets things mixed up.B.He is always finding fault with Marsha.C.He has been trying hard to cov
9、er for Marsha.D.He often fails to follow through on his projects.Questions 13 to 15 are based on the conversation you have just heard. （分数：21.30）A.They are better sheltered from all the outside temptations.B.They are usually more motivated to compete with their peers.C.They have more opportunities t
10、o develop their leadership skills.D.They make an active part in more extracurricular activities.A.Its chief positions are held by women. )B.Its teaching staff consists of women only.C.Its students aim at managerial posts.D.Its students are role models of women.A.It is under adequate control.B.It is
11、traditional but colorful.C.They are more or less isolated from the outside world.D.They have ample opportunities to meet the opposite sex.四、Section C(总题数：3，分数：71.00)Passage One Questions 16 to 19 are based on the passage you have just heard. （分数：28.40）A.By invading the personal space of listeners.B.
12、By making gestures at strategic points.C.By speaking in a deep, loud voice.D.By speaking with the local accent.A.To promote sportsmanship among business owners.B.To encourage people to support local sports groups.C.To raise money for a forthcoming local sports event.D.To show his familys contributio
13、n to the community.A.They are known to be the style of the sports world.B.They would certainly appeal to his audience.C.They represent the latest fashion in the business circles.D.They are believed to communicate power and influence.A.To cover up his own nervousness.B.To create a warm personal atmos
14、phere.C.To enhance the effect of background music.D.To allow the audience to better enjoy his slides.Passage Two Questions 20 to 22 are based on the passage you have just heard. （分数：21.30）A.She was the first educated slave of John Whitleys.B.She was the greatest female poet in Colonial America.C.She
15、 was born about the time of the War of Independence.D.She was the first African-American slave to publish a book.A.Revise in a number of times.B.Obtain consent from her owner.C.Go through a scholarly examination.D.Turn to the colonial governor for help.A.Literary works calling for the abolition of s
16、lavery.B.Religious scripts popular among slaves in America.C.A rich stock of manuscripts left by historical figures.D.Lots of lost works written by African-American women.Passage Three Questions 23 to 25 are based on the passage you have just heard. （分数：21.30）A.It is a trait of generouscharacter.B.I
17、t is a reflection of self-esteem.C.It is an indicator of high intelligence.D.It is a sign of happiness and confidence.A.It was self-defeating.B.It was aggressive.C.It was the essence of comedy.D.It was something admirable.A.It is a double-edged sword.B.It is a feature of a given culture.C.It is a un
18、ique gift of human beings.D.It is a result of both nature and nurture.五、Section C(总题数：1，分数：71.50)It is important that we be mindful of the earth, the planet out of which we are born and by which we are nourished, guided, healedthe planet, however, which we have (26) 1to a considerable degree in thes
19、e past two centuries of (27) 2 exploitation. This exploitation has reached such (28) 3 that presently it appears that some hundreds of thousands of species will be (29) 4 before the end of the century. In our times, human shrewdness has mastered the deep (30) 5 of the earth at a level far beyond the
20、 capacities of earlier peoples. We can break the mountains apart; we can drain the rivers and flood the valleys. We can turn the most luxuriant forests into throwaway paper products. We can (31) 6 the great grass cover of the western plains and pour (32) 7 chemicals into the soil until the soil is d
21、ead and blows away in the wind. We can pollute the air with acids, the rivers with sewage(污水), the seas with oil. We can invent computers (33) 8 processing ten million calculations per second. And why?To increase the volume and the speed with which we move natural resources through the consumer econ
22、omy to the junk pile or the waste heap. Our managerial skills are measured by the competence (34) 9 in accelerating this process. If in these activities the physical features of the planet are damaged, if the environment is made inhospitable for (35) 10 living species, then so be it. We are, suppose
23、dly, creating a technological wonderworld.（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、Part III Reading Com(总题数：1，分数：35.50)Questions 36 to 45 are based on the following passage. Quite often, educators tell families of children who are learning English as a second
24、 language to speak only English, and not their native language, at home. Although these educators may have good 36 , their advice to families is misguided, and it 37 from misunderstandings about the process of language acquisition. Educators may fear that children hearing two languages will become 3
25、8 confused and thus their language development will be 39 ;this concern is not documented in the literature. Children are capable of learning more than one language, whether 40 or sequentially(依次地). In fact, most children outside of the United States are expected to become bilingual or even, in many
26、 cases, multilingual. Globally, knowing more than one language is viewed as an 41 and even a necessity in many areas. It is also of concern that the misguided advice that students should speak only English is given primarily to poor families with limited educational opportunities, not to wealthier f
27、amilies who have many educational advantages. Since children from poor families often are 42 as at-risk for academic failure, teachers believe that advising families to speak English only is appropriate. Teachers consider learning two languages to be too 43 for children from poor families, believing
28、 that the children are already burdened by their home situations. If families do not know English or have limited English skills themselves, how can they communicate in English? Advising non-English-speaking families to speak only English is 44 to telling them not to communicate with or interact wit
29、h their children. Moreover, the 45message is that the familys native language is not important or valued. A) asset B) delayed C) deviates D) equivalent E) identified F) intentions G) object H) overwhelming I) permanently J) prevalent K) simultaneously L) stems M) successively N) underlying O) visual
30、izing（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.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
31、.I.J.K.L.M.N.O.七、Section B(总题数：1，分数：71.00)The Uses of Difficulty The brain likes a challengeand putting a few obstacles in its way may well boost its creativity. A)Jack White, the former frontman of the White Stripes and an influential figure among fellow musicians, likes to make things difficult fo
32、r himself. He uses cheap guitars that wont stay in shape or in tune. When performing, he positions his instruments in a way that is deliberately inconvenient, so that switching from guitar to organ mid-song involves a mad dash across the stage. Why? Because hes on the run from what he describes as a
33、 disease that preys on every artist: “ease of use”. When making music gets too easy, says White, it becomes harder to make it sing. B)Its an odd thought. Why would anyone make their work more difficult than it already is? Yet we know that difficulty can pay unexpected dividends. In 1966, soon after
34、the Beatles had finished work on “Rubber Soul”, Paul McCartney looked into the possibility of going to America to record their next album. The equipment in American studios was more advanced than anything in Britain, which had led the Beatles great rivals, the Rolling Stones, to make their latest al
35、bum, “Aftermath”, in Los Angeles. McCartney found that EMIs (百代唱片) contractual clauses made it prohibitively expensive to follow suit, and the Beatles had to make do with the primitive technology of Abbey Road. C)Lucky for us. Over the next two years they made their most groundbreaking work, turning
36、 the recording studio into a magical instrument of its own. Precisely because they were working with old-fashioned machines, George Martin and his team of engineers were forced to apply every ounce of their creativity to solve the problems posed to them by Lennon and McCartney. Songs like “Tomorrow
37、Never Knows”, “Strawberry Fields Forever”, and “A Day in the Life” featured revolutionary sound effects that dazzled and mystified Martins American counterparts. D)Sometimes its only when a difficulty is removed that we realise what it was doing for us. For more than two decades, starting in the 196
38、0s, the poet Ted Hughes sat on the judging panel of an annual poetry competition for British schoolchildren. During the 1980s he noticed an increasing number of long poems among the submissions, with some running to 70 or 80 pages. These poems were verbally inventive and fluent, but also “strangely
39、boring”. After making inquiries Hughes discovered that they were being composed on computers, then just finding their way into British homes. E)You might have thought any tool which enables a writer to get words on to the page would be an advantage. But there may be a cost to such facility. In an in
40、terview with the Paris Review Hughes speculated that when a person puts pen to paper, “you meet the terrible resistance of what happened your first year at it, when you couldnt write at all”. As the brain attempts to force the unsteady hand to do its bidding, the tension between the two results in a
41、 more compressed, psychologically denser expression. Remove that resistance and you are more likely to produce a 70-page ramble (不着边际的长篇大论). F)Our brains respond better to difficulty than we imagine. In schools, teachers and pupils alike often assume that if a concept has been easy to learn, then th
42、e lesson has been successful. But numerous studies have now found that when classroom material is made harder to absorb, pupils retain more of it over the long term, and understand it on a deeper level. G)As a poet, Ted Hughes had an acute sensitivity to the way in which constraints on self-expressi
43、on, like the disciplines of metre and rhyme (韵律), spur creative thought. What applies to poets and musicians also applies to our daily lives. We tend to equate（等同于）happiness with freedom, but, as the psychotherapist and writer Adam Phillips has observed, without obstacles to our desires its harder t
44、o know what we want, or where were heading. He tells the story of a patient, a first-time mother who complained that her young son was always clinging to her, wrapping himself around her legs wherever she went. She never had a moment to herself, she said, because her son was “always in the way”. Whe
45、n Phillips asked her where she would go if he wasnt in the way, she replied cheerfully, “Oh, I wouldnt know where I was!” H)Take another common obstacle: lack of money. People often assume that more money will make them happier. But economists who study the relationship between money and happiness h
46、ave consistently found that, above a certain income, the two do not reliably correlate. Despite the ease with which the rich can acquire almost anything they desire, they are just as likely to be unhappy as the middle classes. In this regard at least, F. Scott Fitzgerald was wrong. I) Indeed, ease o
47、f acquisition is the problem. The novelist Edward St Aubyn has a narrator remark of the very rich that, “not having to consider affordability, their desires rambled on like unstoppable bores, relentless (持续不断的) and whimsical （反复无常的） at the same time.” When Boston College, a private research universi
48、ty, wanted a better feel for its potential donors, it asked the psychologist Robert Kenny to investigate the mindset of the super-rich. He surveyed 165 households, most of which had a net worth of $25m or more. He found that many of his subjects were confused by the infinite options their money pres
49、ented them with. They found it hard to know what to want, creating a kind of existential bafflement. One of them put it like this: “You know, Bob, you can just buy so much stuff, and when you get to the point where you can just buy so much stuff, now what are you going to do?” J) The internet makes information billionai
