1、2015年 6月大学英语六级真题试卷（二）及答案与解析 一、 Part I Writing 1 For this part, you are allowed 30 minutes to write an essay commenting on Albert Einsteins remark “I have no special talents. I am only passionately curious. “ You can give an example or two to illustrate your point of view. You should write at least 1
2、50 words but no more than 200 words. Section A （ A） The woman thinks she is cleverer than the man. （ B） The man behaves as if he were a thorough fool. （ C） The man is unhappy with the womans remark. （ D） The woman seldom speaks highly of herself. （ A） Three crew members were involved in the incident
3、. （ B） None of the hijackers carried any deadly weapons. （ C） None of the passengers were injured or killed. （ D） The plane had been scheduled to fly to Japan. （ A） At a travel agency. （ B） At a hotel front desk. （ C） At a checkout counter. （ D） At a commercial bank. （ A） Chinatown has got the best
4、restaurants in the city. （ B） The critic thought highly of the Chinese restaurant. （ C） The restaurant places many ads in popular magazines. （ D） The restaurant was not up to the speakers expectations. （ A） Prof. Laurence is going into an active retirement. （ B） Prof. Laurence has stopped conducting
5、 seminars. （ C） The professors graduate seminar is well received. （ D） The professor will lead a quiet life after retirement. （ A） Assigning Leon to a new position. （ B） Finding a replacement for Leon. （ C） Arranging for Rodneys visit tomorrow. （ D） Finding a solution to Rodneys problem. （ A） Photog
6、raphy is one of Helens many hobbies. （ B） Helen asked the man to book a ticket for her. （ C） The photography exhibition will close tomorrow. （ D） Helen has been looking forward to the exhibition. （ A） The speakers share the same opinion. （ B） Steve knows how to motivate employees. （ C） The man has a
7、 better understanding of Steve. （ D） The woman is out of touch with the real world. （ A） It is well paid. （ B） It is stimulating. （ C） It is demanding. （ D） It is fairly secure. （ A） A quick promotion. （ B） Free accommodation. （ C） Moving expenses. （ D） A lighter workload. （ A） He has difficulty com
8、municating with local people. （ B） He has to spend a lot more traveling back and forth. （ C） He has trouble adapting to the local weather. （ D） He has to sign a long-term contract. （ A） The woman will help the man make a choice. （ B） The man is going to attend a job interview. （ C） The man is in the
9、 process of job hunting. （ D） The woman sympathizes with the man. （ A） To inquire about the interest rates at the womans bank. （ B） To inquire about the current financial market situation. （ C） To see if he can find a job in the womans company. （ D） To see if he can get a loan from the womans bank.
10、（ A） Long-term investment. （ B） A three-month deposit. （ C） Any high-interest deposit. （ D） Any high-yield investment. （ A） She treated him to a meal. （ B） She gave him loans at low rates. （ C） She offered him dining coupons. （ D） She raised interest rates for him. Section B （ A） Strict professional
11、 training. （ B） Years of practical experience. （ C） A refined taste for artistic works. （ D） The ability to predict fashion trends. （ A） Purchasing handicrafts from all over the world. （ B） Conducting trade in art works with dealers overseas. （ C） Strengthening cooperation with foreign governments.
12、（ D） Promoting all kinds of American hand-made specialties. （ A） She has access to fashionable things. （ B） She can enjoy life on a modest salary. （ C） She is doing what she enjoys doing. （ D） She is free to do whatever she wants. （ A） It is a Portuguese company selling coffee in New York. （ B） Its
13、most important task is to conduct coffee studies. （ C） It represents several countries that export coffee. （ D） Its role is to regulate international coffee prices. （ A） The freezing weather in Brazil. （ B） The impact of global warming. （ C） The increased coffee consumption. （ D） The fluctuation of
14、coffee prices （ A） He is doing a bachelors degree. （ B） He is young, handsome and single. （ C） He is a heavy coffee drinker. （ D） He is tall, rich and intelligent. （ A） A visit to several coffee-growing plantations. （ B） Coffee prices and his advertising campaign. （ C） A vacation on some beautiful t
15、ropical beach. （ D） A quick promotion and a handsome income. （ A） They were held up in a traffic jam. （ B） They boarded a wrong coach in a hurry. （ C） They were late for the first morning bus. （ D） They were delayed by the train for hours. （ A） It was canceled because of an unexpected strike. （ B） I
16、t was the most exciting trip they ever had. （ C） It was spoiled by poor accommodations. （ D） It was postponed due to terrible weather. （ A） Go overseas. （ B） Stay at home. （ C） Take romantic cruises. （ D） Take escorted trips. Section C 26 Why would an animal kill itself? It seems a strange question,
17、 and yet it is one that has【 B1】 _some people for a long time. The lemming (旅鼠 ) is one such animal. Lemmings periodically commit mass【 B2】 _, and no one knows just why! The small【 B3】 _, which inhabit the Scandinavian mountains, sustain themselves on a diet of roots and live in nests they make unde
18、rground. When their food supply is【 B4】 _large, the lemmings live a normal, undisturbed life. However, when the lemmings food supply becomes too low to support the population, a singular【 B5】 _commences. The lemmings leave their nests all together at the same time, forming huge crowds. Great numbers
19、 of the lemmings begin a long and hard journey across the Scandinavian plains, a journey that may last weeks. The lemmings eat everything in their path, continuing their【 B6】 _march until they reach the sea. The reason for what follows remains a mystery for zoologists and naturalists. Upon reaching
20、the coast, the lemmings do not stop but swim by the thousands into the surf. Most【 B7】 _only a short time before they tire, sink, and drown. A common theory for this unusual phenomenon is that the lemmings do not realize that the ocean is such【 B8】 _water. In their cross-country journey, the animals
21、 must traverse many smaller bodies of water, such as rivers and small lakes. They may【 B9】_that the sea is just another such swimmable【 B10】 _. But no final answer has been found to the mystery. 27 【 B1】 28 【 B2】 29 【 B3】 30 【 B4】 31 【 B5】 32 【 B6】 33 【 B7】 34 【 B8】 35 【 B9】 36 【 B10】 Section A 36 “
22、That which does not kill us makes us stronger. “ But parents cant handle it when teenagers put this【 C1】 _into practice. Now technology has become the new field for the age-old battle between adults and their freedom-seeking kids. Locked indoors, unable to get on their bicycles and hang out with the
23、ir friends, teens have turned to social media and their mobile phones to socialize with their peers. What they do online often【 C2】 _what they might otherwise do if their mobility werent so heavily【 C3】 _in the age of helicopter parenting. Social media and smart-phone apps have become so popular in
24、recent years because teens need a place to call their own. They want the freedom to【 C4】 _their identity and the world around them. Instead of【 C5】 _out, they jump online. As teens have moved online, parents have projected their fears onto the Internet, imagining all the【 C6】 _dangers that youth mig
25、ht facefrom【 C7】_strangers to cruel peers to pictures or words that could haunt them on Google for the rest of their lives. Rather than helping teens develop strategies for negotiating public life and the risks of【 C8】 _with others, fearful parents have focused on tracking, monitoring and blocking.
26、These tactics (策略 ) dont help teens develop the skills they need to manage complex social situations,【 C9】 _risks and get help when theyre in trouble. “ Protecting“ kids may feel like the right thing to do, but it【 C10】 _the learning that teens need to do as they come of age in a technology-soaked w
27、orld. A) assess I) mirrors B) constrained J) philosophy C) contains K) potential D) explore L) sneaking E) influence M) sticking F) interacting N) undermines G) interpretation O) violent H) magnified 37 【 C1】 38 【 C2】 39 【 C3】 40 【 C4】 41 【 C5】 42 【 C6】 43 【 C7】 44 【 C8】 45 【 C9】 46 【 C10】 Section B
28、 46 Inequality Is Not Inevitable AA dangerous trend has developed over this past third of a century. A country that experienced shared growth after World War II began to tear apart, so much so that when the Great Recession hit in late 2007, one could no longer ignore the division that had come to de
29、fine the American economic landscape. How did this “shining city on a hill“ become the advanced country with the greatest level of inequality? BOver the past year and a half, The Great Divide, a series in The New York Times, has presented a wide range of examples that undermine the notion that there
30、 are any truly fundamental laws of capitalism. The dynamics of the imperial capitalism of the 19th century neednt apply in the democracies of the 21st. We dont need to have this much inequality in America. COur current brand of capitalism is a fake capitalism. For proof of this go back to our respon
31、se to the Great Recession, where we socialized losses, even as we privatized gains. Perfect competition should drive profits to zero, at least theoretically but we have monopolies making persistently high profits. C. E. O. s enjoy incomes that are on average 295 times that of the typical worker, a m
32、uch higher ratio than in the past, without any evidence of a proportionate increase in productivity. DIf it is not the cruel laws of economics that have led to Americas great divide, what is it? The straightforward answer: our policies and our politics. People get tired of hearing about Scandinavian
33、 success stories, but the fact of the matter is that Sweden, Finland and Norway have all succeeded in having about as much or faster growth in per capita (人均的 ) incomes than the United States and with far greater equality. ESo why has America chosen these inequality-enhancing policies? Part of the a
34、nswer is that as World War II faded into memory, so too did the solidarity it had created. As America triumphed in the Cold War, there didnt seem to be a real competitor to our economic model. Without this international competition, we no longer had to show that our system could deliver for most of
35、our citizens. FIdeology and interests combined viciously. Some drew the wrong lesson from the collapse of the Soviet system in 1991. The pendulum swung from much too much government there to much too little here. Corporate interests argued for getting rid of regulations, even when those regulations
36、had done so much to protect and improve our environment, our safety, our health and the economy itself. GBut this ideology was hypocritical (虚伪的 ). The bankers, among the strongest advocates of laissez-faire (自由放任的 ) economics, were only too willing to accept hundreds of billions of dollars from the
37、 government in the aid programs that have been a recurring feature of the global economy since the beginning of the Thatcher-Reagan era of “free“ markets and deregulation. HThe American political system is overrun by money. Economic inequality translates into political inequality, and political ineq
38、uality yields increasing economic inequality. So corporate welfare increases as we reduce welfare for the poor. Congress maintains subsidies for rich farmers as we cut back on nutritional support for the needy. Drug companies have been given hundreds of billions of dollars as we limit Medicaid benef
39、its. The banks that brought on the global financial crisis got billions while a tiny bit went to the homeowners and victims of the same banks predatory (掠夺性的 ) lending practices. This last decision was particularly foolish. There were alternatives to throwing money at the banks and hoping it would c
40、irculate through increased lending. IOur divisions are deep. Economic and geographic segregation has immunized those at the top from the problems of those down below. Like the kings of ancient times, they have come to perceive their privileged positions essentially as a natural right. JOur economy,
41、our democracy and our society have paid for these gross inequalities. The true test of an economy is not how much wealth its princes can accumulate in tax havens (庇护所 ), but how well off the typical citizen is. But average incomes are lower than they were a quarter-century ago. Growth has gone to th
42、e very, very top, whose share has almost increased four times since 1980. Money that was meant to have trickled (流淌 ) down has instead evaporated in the agreeable climate of the Cayman Islands. KWith almost a quarter of American children younger than 5 living in poverty, and with America doing so li
43、ttle for its poor, the deprivations of one generation are being visited upon the next. Of course, no country has ever come close to providing complete equality of opportunity. But why is America one of the advanced countries where the life prospects of the young are most sharply determined by the in
44、come and education of their parents? LAmong the most bitter stories in The Great Divide were those that portrayed the frustrations of the young, who long to enter our shrinking middle class. Soaring tuitions and declining in comes have resulted in larger debt burdens. Those with only a high school d
45、iploma have seen their incomes decline by 13 percent over the past 35 years. MWhere justice is concerned, there is also a huge divide. In the eyes of the rest of the world and a significant part of its own population, mass imprisonment has come to define Americaa country, it bears repeating, with ab
46、out 5 percent of the worlds population but around a fourth of the worlds prisoners. NJustice has become a commodity, affordable to only a few. While Wall Street executives used their expensive lawyers to ensure that their ranks were not held accountable for the misdeeds that the crisis in 2008 so gr
47、aphically revealed, the banks abused our legal system to foreclose (取消赎回权 ) on mortgages and eject tenants, some of whom did not even owe money. OMore than a half-century ago, America led the way in advocating for the Universal Declaration of Human rights, adopted by the United Nations in 1948. toda
48、y, access to health care is among the most universally accepted rights, at least in the advanced countries. America, despite the implementation of the Affordable Care Act, is the exception. In the relief that many felt when the Supreme Court did not overturn the Affordable Care Act, the implications
49、 of the decision for Medicaid were not fully appreciated. Obamacares objectiveto ensure that all Americans have access to health carehas been blocked: 24 states have not implemented the expanded Medicaid program, which was the means by which Obamacare was supposed to deliver on its promise to some of the poorest. PWe need not just a new war on poverty but a war to protect the middle class. Solutions to these problems do
