1、2013 年 6 月大学英语六级真题试卷（第 2 套）（无答案）一、Part I Writing (30 minutes)1 For this part, you are allowed 30 minutes to write an essay commenting on the remark “Earth provides enough to satisfy every mans need, but not every mans greed. “ You can cite examples to illustrate your point. You should write at least
2、 150 words but no more than 200 words.二、Part II Reading Comprehension (Skimming and Scanning) (15 minutes)Directions: In this part, you will have 15 minutes to go over the passage quickly and answer the questions attached to the passage. For questions 1-4, mark：Y (for YES) if the statement agrees wi
3、th the information given in the passage;N (for NO) if the statement contradicts the information given in the passage;NG (for NOT GIVEN) if the information is not given in the passage.1 Welcome, Freshmen. Have an iPod.Taking a step that many professors may view as a bit counterproductive, some colleg
4、es and universities are doling out Apple iPhones and Internet-capable iPods to their students.The always-on Internet devices raise some novel possibilities, like tracking where students gather together. With far less controversy, colleges could send messages about canceled classes, delayed buses, ca
5、mpus crises or just the cafeteria menu.While schools emphasize its usefulnessonline research in class and instant polling of students, for examplea big part of the attraction is, undoubtedly, that the iPhone is cool and a hit with students. Being equipped with one of the most recent cutting-edge IT
6、products could just help a college or university foster a cutting-edge reputation.Apple stands to win as well, hooking more young consumers with decades of technology purchases ahead of them. The lone losers, some fear, could be professors.Students already have laptops and cell phones, of course, bu
7、t the newest devices can take class distractions to a new level. They practically beg a user to ignore the long-suffering professor struggling to pass on accumulated wisdom from the front of the room a prospect that teachers find most irritating and students view as, well, inevitable.“When it gets a
8、 little boring, I might pull it out,“ acknowledged Naomi Pugh, a first-year student at Freed-Hardeman University in Henderson, Tenn. , referring to her new iPod Touch, which can connect to the Internet over a campus wireless network. She speculated that professors might try even harder to make class
9、es interesting if they were to compete with the devices.Experts see a movement toward the use of mobile technology in education, though they say it is in its nfancy as professors try to come up with useful applications. Providing powerful hand-held devices is sure o fuel debates over the role of tec
10、hnology in higher education.“We think this is the way the future is going to work,“ said Kyle Dickson, co-director of research and he mobile learning initiative at Abilene Christian University in Texas, which has bought more than 600 Phones and 300 iPods for students entering this fall.Although plen
11、ty of students take their laptops to class, they dont take them everywhere and would prefer something lighter. Abilene Christian settled on the devices after surveying students and finding that they did not like hauling around their laptops, but that most of them always carried a cell phone, Dr. Dic
12、kson said.It is not clear how many colleges and universities plan to give out iPhones and iPods this fall; officials at Apple were unwilling to talk about the subject and said that they would not leak any institutions plans.“We cant announce other peoples news,“ said Greg Joswiak, vice president of
13、iPod and iPhone marketing at Apple. He also said that he could not discuss discounts to universities for bulk purchases.At least four institutionsthe University of Maryland, Oklahoma Christian University, Abilene Christian and Freed-Hardemanhave announced that they will give the devices to some or a
14、ll of their students this fall.Other universities are exploring their options. Standford University has hired a student-run company to design applications like a campus map and directory for the iPhone. It is considering whether to issue iPhones but not sure its necessary, noting that more than 700
15、iPhones were registered on the universitys network last year.At the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, iPhones might already have been everywhere, if AT it would sometimes take the【B7】_ in developing or changing the topic and would have a【B8 】 _of its own.The machine would convey presence. We ha
16、ve all seen how a computers use of personal names 【B9】_. Such features are easily written into the software.【B10】_.Friendships are not made in a day, and the computer would be more acceptable as a friend【B11】_. At an appropriate time it might also express the kind of affection that stimulates attach
17、ment and intimacy.37 【B1 】38 【B2 】39 【B3 】40 【B4 】41 【B5 】42 【B6 】43 【B7 】44 【B8 】45 【B9 】46 【B10 】47 【B11 】Section ADirections: In this section, there is a short passage with 5 questions or incomplete statements. Read the passage carefully. Then answer the questions or complete the statements in th
18、e fewest possible words.47 Oil is the substance that lubricates the worlds economy. Because so many of our modern technologies and services depend on oil, nations, corporations, and institutions that control the trade in oil exercise extraordinary power. The “energy crisis“ of 1973-1974 in the Unite
19、d States demonstrated how the price of oil can affect US government policies and the energy-using habits of the nation.By 1973, domestic US sources of oil were peaking, and the nation was importing more of its oil, depending on a constant flow from abroad to keep cars on the road and machines runnin
20、g. In addition, at that time a greater percentage of homes and electrical plants were run on petroleum than today. Then, in 1973, the predominantly Arab nations of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries(OPEC)resolved to stop selling oil to the United States. The move was prompted by OPECs
21、 desire to raise prices by restricting supply and by its opposition to US support of Israel in the Arab-Israeli Yom Kippur War. The embargo(禁运)created panic in the West and caused oil prices to shoot up. Short-term oil shortage drove American consumers to wait in long lines at gas pumps.In response
22、to the embargo, the US government enforced a series of policies designed to reduce reliance on foreign oil. These included developing additional domestic sources(such as those on Alaskas North Slope), resuming extraction at sites that had been shut down because of cost inefficiency, capping the pric
23、e that domestic producers could charge for oil, and beginning to import oil from a greater diversity of nations. The government also established a stockpile(贮存)of oil as a short-term buffer(缓冲)against future shortages. Stored underground in large salt caves in Louisiana, this stockpile is called the
24、 Strategic Petroleum Reserve, and currently contains over 600 million barrels of oil, roughly equivalent to one months supply.48 We learn from the passage that in todays world, whoever monopolizes the oil market will be able to_.49 Oil prices may exert influence not only on American government polic
25、ies but on how energy_50 Besides the sharp increase in oil prices, OPECs 1973 oil embargo caused_.51 Over the years before the OPECs embargo America had depended heavily on_.52 As a measure to counter future shortages, the American government decided to_in caves underground.Section BDirections: Ther
26、e are 2 passages in this section. Each passage is followed by some questions or unfinished statements. For each of them there are four choices marked A, B, C and D. You should decide on the best choice.52 “Depression“ is more than a serious economic downturn. What distinguishes a depression from a h
27、arsh recession is paralyzing fearfear of the unknown so great that it causes consumers, businesses, and investors to retreat and panic. They save up cash and desperately cut spending. They sell stocks and other assets. A shattering loss of confidence inspires behavior that overwhelms the normal self
28、-correcting mechanisms that usually prevent a recession from becoming deep and prolonged: a depression.Comparing 1929 with 2007-09, Christina Romer, the head of President Obamas Council of Economic Advisers, finds the initial blow to confidence far greater now than then. True, stock prices fell a th
29、ird from September to December 1929, but fewer Americans then owned stocks. Moreover, home prices barely dropped. From December 1928 to December 1929, total household wealth declined only 3%. By contrast, the loss in household wealth between December 2007 and December 2008 was 17%. Both stocks and h
30、omes, more widely held, dropped more. Thus traumatized(受到创伤), the economy might have gone into a free fall ending in depression. Indeed, it did go into free fall. Shoppers refrained from buying cars, appliances, and other big-ticket items. Spending on such “durables* dropped at a 12% annual rate in
31、2008s third quarter, a 20% rate in the fourth. And businesses shelved investment projects.That these huge declines didnt lead to depression mainly reflects, as Romer argues, countermeasures taken by the government. Private markets for goods, services, labor, and securities do mostly self-correct, bu
32、t panic feeds on itself and disarms these stabilizing tendencies. In this situation, only government can protect the economy as a whole, because most individuals and companies are involved in the self-defeating behavior of self-protection.Governments failure to perform this role in the early 1930s t
33、ransformed recession into depression. Scholars will debate which interventions this timethe Federal Reserves support of a failing credit system, guarantees of bank debt, Obamas “stimulus“ plan and bank “stress test“counted most in preventing a recurrence. Regardless, all these complex measures had t
34、he same psychological purpose: to reassure people that the free fall would stop and, thereby, curb the fear that would perpetuate(使持久)a free fall.All this improved confidence. But the consumer sentiment index remains weak, and all the rebound has occurred in Americans evaluation of future economic c
35、onditions, not the present. Unemployment(9.8%)is abysmal(糟透的), the recoverys strength unclear. Here, too, there is an echo from the 1930s. Despite bottoming out in 1933, the Depression didnt end until World War II. Some government policies aided recovery; some hindered it. The good news today is tha
36、t the bad news is not worse.53 Why do consumers, businesses and investors retreat and panic in times of depression?（A）They suffer great losses in stocks, property and other assets.（B） They find the self-correcting mechanisms dysfunctioning.（C） They are afraid the normal social order will be paralyze
37、d.（D）They dont know what is going to happen in the future.54 What does Christina Romer say about the current economic recession?（A）Its severity is no match for the Great Depression of 1929.（B） Its initial blow to confidence far exceeded that of 1929.（C） It has affected house owners more than stock h
38、olders.（D）It has resulted in a free fall of the prices of commodities.55 Why didnt the current recession turn into a depression according to Christina Romer?（A）The government intervened effectively.（B） Private markets corrected themselves.（C） People refrained from buying durables and big-ticket item
39、s.（D）Individuals and companies adopted self-protection measures.56 What is the chief purpose of all the countermeasures taken?（A）To create job opportunities.（B） To curb the fear of a lasting free fall.（C） To stimulate domestic consumption.（D）To rebuild the credit system.57 What does the author think
40、 of todays economic situation?（A）It may worsen without further stimulation.（B） It will see a rebound sooner or later.（C） It has not gone from bad to worse.（D）It does not give people reason for pessimism.57 “Usually when we walk through the rain forest we hear a soft sound from all the moist leaves a
41、nd organic debris on the forest floor,“ says ecologist Daniel Nepstad. “Now we increasingly get rustle and crunch. Thats the sound of a dying forest.“Predictions of the collapse of the tropical rain forests have been around for years. Yet until recently the worst forecasts were almost exclusively li
42、nked to direct human activity, such as clear-cutting and burning for pastures or farms. Left alone, it was assumed, the worlds rain forests would not only flourish but might even rescue us from disaster by absorbing the excess carbon dioxide and other planet-warming greenhouse gases. Now it turns ou
43、t that may be wishful thinking. Some scientists believe that the rise in carbon levels means that the Amazon and other rain forests in Asia and Africa may go from being assets in the battle against rising temperatures to liabilities. Amazon plants, for instance, hold more than 100 billion metric ton
44、s of carbon, equal to 15 years of tailpipe and chimney emissions. If the collapse of the rain forests speeds up dramatically, it could eventually release 3.5-5 billion metric tons of carbon into the atmosphere each yearmaking forests the leading source of greenhouse gases.Uncommonly severe droughts
45、brought on by global climate changes have led to forest-eating wildfires from Australia to Indonesia, but nowhere more acutely than in the Amazon. Some experts say that the rain forest is already at the brink of collapse.Extreme weather and reckless development are plotting against the rain forest i
46、n ways that scientists have never seen. Trees need more water as temperatures rise, but the prolonged droughts have robbed them of moisture, making whole forests easily cleared of trees and turned into farmland. The picture worsens with each round of El Nino, the unusually warm currents in the Pacif
47、ic Ocean that drive up temperatures and invariably presage(预示)droughts and fires in the rain forest. Runaway fires pour even more carbon into the air, which increases temperatures, starting the whole vicious cycle all over again.More than paradise lost, a perishing rain forest could trigger a domino
48、 effectsending winds and rains kilometers off course and loading the skies with even greater levels of greenhouse gasesthat will be felt far beyond the Amazon basin. In a sense, we are already getting a glimpse of whats to come. Each burning season in the Amazon, fires deliberately set by frontier s
49、ettlers and developers hurl up almost half a billion metric tons of carbon a year, placing Brazil among the top five contributors to greenhouse gases in the world.58 We learn from the first paragraph that_.（A）dead leaves and tree debris make the same sound（B） trees that are dying usually give out a soft moan（C） organic debris echoes the sounds in a rain forest（D）the sound of a forest signifies its health condition59 In the second paragraph, the author challeng
