1、2007 年 6 月 23 日大学英语六级(CET-6)真题试卷(A 卷)Part I Writing (30 minutes)Directions: For this part, you are allowed 30 minutes to write a short essay entitled Should One Expect a Reward When Doing a Good Deed? You should write at least 150 words following the outline given below.1. 有人做好事期望得到回报；2. 有人认为应该像雷锋那样
2、做好事不图回报；3. 我的观点。Should One Expect a Reward When Doing a Good Deed?Part III Listening Comprehension (35 minutes)Section ADirections: In this section, you will hear 8 short conversations and 2 long conversations. At the end of each conversation, one or more questions will be asked about what said. Bot
3、h the conversation and the questions will be spoken only once. After each question there will be a pause. During the pause, you must read the four choices marked A) B) C) and D), and decide which is the best answer. Then mark the corresponding letter on Answer Sheet 2 with a single line through the
4、centre.注意：此部分试题请在答题卡 2 上作答。11. A) Surfing the net.B) Watching a talk show.C) Packing a birthday gift.D) Shopping at a jewelry store.12. A) He enjoys finding fault with exams.B) He is sure of his success in the exam.C) He doesnt know if he can do well in the exam.D) He used to get straight As in the
5、exams he took.13. A) The man is generous with his good comments on people.B) The woman is unsure if there will be peace in the world.C) The woman is doubtful about newspaper stories.D) The man is quite optimistic about human nature.14. A) Study for some profession.B) Attend a medical school.C) Stay
6、in business.D) Sell his shop.15. A) More money.B) Fair treatment.C) A college education.D) Shorter work hours.16. A) She was exhausted from her trip.B) She missed the comforts of home.C) She was impressed by Mexican food.D) She will not go to Mexico again.17. A) Cheer herself up a bit.B) Find a more
7、 suitable job.C) Seek professional advice.D) Take a psychology course.18. A) He dresses more formally now.B) What he wears does not match his position.C) He has ignored his friends since graduation.D) He failed to do well at college.Questions 19 to 22 are based on the conversation you have just hear
8、d.19. A) To go sightseeing.B) To have meetings.C) To promote a new champagne.D) To join in a training program.20. A) It can reduce the number of passenger complaints.B) It can make air travel more entertaining.C) It can cut down the expenses for air travel.D) It can lessen the discomfort caused by a
9、ir travel.21. A) Took balanced meals with champagne.B) Ate vegetables and fruit only.C) Refrained from fish or meat.D) Avoided eating rich food.22. A) Many of them found it difficult to exercise on a plane.B) Many of them were concerned with their well-being.C) Not many of them chose to do what she
10、did.D) Not many of them understood the program.Questions 23 to 25 are based on the conversation you have just heard.23. A) At a fair.B) At a cafeteria.C) In a computer lab.D) In a shopping mall.24. A) The latest computer technology.B) The organizing of an exhibition.C) The purchasing of some equipme
11、nt.D) The dramatic changes in the job market.25. A) Data collection.B) Training consultancy.C) Corporate management.D) Information processing.Section BDirections: In this section, you will hear 3 short passages. At the end of each passage, you will hear some questions. Both the passage and the quest
12、ions will be spoken only once. After you hear a question, you must choose the best answer from the four choice marked A) B) C) and D). Then mark the corresponding letter on Answer Sheet 2 with a single line through the centre.注意：此部分试题请在答题卡 2 上作答。Passage OneQuestions 26 to 28 are based on the passage
13、 you have just heard.26. A) Improve themselves.B) Get rid of empty dreams.C) Follow the cultural tradition.D) Attempt something impossible.27. A) By finding sufficient support for implementation.B) By taking into account their own ability to change.C) By constantly keeping in mind their ultimate goa
14、ls.D) By making detailed plans and carrying them out.28. A) To show people how to get their lives back to normal.B) To show how difficult it is for people to lose weight.C) To remind people to check the calories on food bags.D) To illustrate how easily people abandon their goals.Passage TwoQuestions
15、 29 to 31 are based on the passage you have just heard.29. A) Michaels parents got divorced.B) Karen was adopted by Ray Anderson.C) Karens mother died in a car accident.D) A truck driver lost his life in a collision.30. A) He ran a red light and collided with a truck.B) He sacrificed his life to sav
16、e a baby girl.C) He was killed instantly in a burning car.D) He got married to Karens mother.31. A) The reported hero turned out to be his father.B) He did not understand his father till too late.C) Such misfortune should have fallen on him.D) It reminded him of his miserable childhood.Passage Three
17、Questions 32 to 35 are based on the passage you have just heard.32. A) Germany.B) Japan.C) The U.S.D) The U.K.33. A) By doing odd jobs at weekends.B) By working long hours every day.C) By putting in more hours each week.D) By taking shorter vacations each year.34. A) To combat competition and raise
18、productivity.B) To provide them with more job opportunities.C) To help them maintain their living standard.D) To prevent them from holding a second job.35. A) Change their jobs.B) Earn more money.C) Reduce their working hours.D) Strengthen the governments role.Section CDirections: In this section, y
19、ou will hear a passage three times. When the passage is read for the first time, you should listen carefully for its general idea. When the passage is read for the second time, you are required to fill in the blanks numbered from 36 to 43 with the exact words you have just heard. For blanks numbered
20、 from 44 to 46 you are required to fill in the missing information. For these blanks, you can either use the exact words you have just heard or write down the main points in your own words. Finally, when the passage is read for the third time, you should check what you have written.注意：此部分试题请在答题卡 2 上
21、作答。Nursing, as a typically female profession, must deal constantly with the false impression that nurses are there to wait on the physician. As nurses, we are (36) _ to provide nursing care only. We do not have any legal or moral (37) _ to any physician. We provide health teaching, (38) _ physical a
22、s well as emotional problems, (39) _ patient-related services, and make all of our nursing decisions based upon what is best or suitable for the patient. If, in any (40) _, we feel that a physicians order is (41) _ or unsafe, we have a legal (42) _ to question that order or refuse to carry it out.Nu
23、rsing is not a nine-to-five job with every weekend off. All nurses are aware of that before they enter the profession. The emotional and physical stress. However, that occurs due to odd working hours is a (43) _ reason for a lot of the career dissatisfaction. (44) _. That disturbs our personal lives
24、, disrupts our sleeping and eating habits, and isolates us from everything except job-related friends and activities.The quality of nursing care is being affected dramatically by these situations. (45) _. Consumers of medically related services have evidently not been affected enough yet to demand c
25、hanges in our medical system. But if trends continue as predicted, (46) _.Part IV Reading Comprehension (Reading in Depth) (25 minutes)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 co
26、mplete statements in the fewest possible words. Please write your answers on Answer Sheet 2.Questions 47 to 51 are based on the following passage.Google is a world-famous company, with its headquarters in Mountain View, California. It was set up in a Silicon Valley garage in 1998, and inflated (膨胀)
27、with the Internet bubble. Even when everything around it collapsed the company kept on inflating. Googles search engine is so widespread across the world that search became Google, and google became a verb. The world fell in love with the effective, fascinatingly fast technology.Google owes much of
28、its success to the brilliance of S. Brin and L. Page, but also to a series of fortunate events. It was Page who, at Stanford in 1996, initiated the academic project that eventually became Googles search engine. Brin, who had met Page at a student orientation a year earlier, joined the project early
29、on. They were both Ph.D. candidates when they devised the search engine which was better than the rest and, without any marketing, spread by word of mouth from early adopters to, eventually, your grandmother.Their breakthrough, simply put, was that when their search engine crawled the Web, it did mo
30、re than just look for word matches, it also tallied (统计) and ranked a host of other critical factors like how websites link to one another. That delivered far better results than anything else. Brin and Page meant to name their creation Googol (the mathematical term for the number 1 followed by 100
31、zeroes), but someone misspelled the word so it stuck as Google. They raised money from prescient (有先见之明的) professors and venture capitalists, and moved off campus to turn Google into business. Perhaps their biggest stroke of luck came early on when they tried to sell their technology to other search
32、 engines, but no one met their price, and they built it up on their own.The next breakthrough came in 2000, when Google figured out how to make money with its invention. It had lots of users, but almost no one was paying. The solution turned out to be advertising, and its not an exaggeration to say
33、that Google is now essentially an advertising company, given that thats the source of nearly all its revenue. Today it is a giant advertising company, worth $100 billion.注意：此部分试题请在答题卡 2 上作答。47. Apart from a series of fortunate events, what is it that has made Google so successful?48. Googles search
34、engine originated from _ started by L. Page.49. How did Googles search engine spread all over the world?50. Brin and Page decided to set up their own business because no one would _.51. The revenue of the Google company is largely generated from _.Section BDirections: There are 2 passages in this se
35、ction. 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 and mark the corresponding letter on Answer Sheet 2 with a single line through the centre.Passage OneQuestions 52 to 56
36、are based on the following passage.You hear the refrain all the time: the U.S. economy looks good statistically, but it doesnt feel good. Why doesnt ever-greater wealth promote ever-greater happiness? It is a question that dates at least to the appearance in 1958 of The Affluent (富裕的) Society by Joh
37、n Kenneth Galbraith, who died recently at 97.The Affluent Society is a modern classic because it helped define a new moment in the human condition. For most of history, “hunger, sickness, and cold” threatened nearly everyone, Galbraith wrote. “Poverty was found everywhere in that world. Obviously it
38、 is not of ours.” After World War II, the dread of another Great Depression gave way to an economic boom. In the 1930s unemployment had averaged 18.2 percent; in the 1950s it was 4.5 percent.To Galbraith, materialism had gone mad and would breed discontent. Through advertising, companies conditioned
39、 consumers to buy things they didnt really want or need. Because so much spending was artificial, it would be unfulfilling. Meanwhile, government spending that would make everyone better off was being cut down because people instinctivelyand wronglylabeled government only as “a necessary evil.”Its o
40、ften said that only the rich are getting ahead; everyone else is standing still or falling behind. Well, there are many undeserving richoverpaid chief executives, for instance. But over any meaningful period, most peoples incomes are increasing. From 1995 to 2004, inflation-adjusted average family i
41、ncome rose 14.3 percent, to $43,200. people feel “squeezed” because their rising incomes often dont satisfy their rising wantsfor bigger homes, more health care, more education, faster Internet connections.The other great frustration is that it has not eliminated insecurity. People regard job stabil
42、ity as part of their standard of living. As corporate layoffs increased, that part has eroded. More workers fear theyve become “the disposable American,” as Louis Uchitelle puts it in his book by the same name.Because so much previous suffering and social conflict stemmed from poverty, the arrival o
43、f widespread affluence suggested utopian (乌托邦式的) possibilities. Up to a point, affluence succeeds. There is much les physical misery than before. People are better off. Unfortunately, affluence also creates new complaints and contradictions.Advanced societies need economic growth to satisfy the mult
44、iplying wants of their citizens. But the quest for growth lets loose new anxieties and economic conflicts that disturb the social order. Affluence liberates the individual, promising that everyone can choose a unique way to self-fulfillment. But the promise is so extravagant that it predestines many
45、 disappointments and sometimes inspires choices that have anti-social consequences, including family breakdown and obesity (肥胖症). Statistical indicators of happiness have not risen with incomes.Should we be surprised? Not really. Weve simply reaffirmed an old truth: the pursuit of affluence does not
46、 always end with happiness.Part V Cloze (15 minutes)Directions: There are 20 blanks in the following passage. For each blank there are four choices marked A), B), C) and D) on the right side of the paper. You should choose the ONE that best fits into the passage. Then mark the corresponding letter o
47、n Answer Sheet 2 with a single line through the centre.Part VI Translation (5 minutes)Directions: Complete the sentences by translating into English the Chinese given in brackets. Please write your translation on Answer Sheet 2.注意：此部分试题请在答题卡 2 上作答，只需写出译文部分。82. The auto manufacturers found themselves
48、 _ (正在同外国公司竞争市场的份额).83. Only in the small town _ (他才感到安全和放松).84. It is absolutely unfair that these children _ (被剥夺了受教育的权利).85. Our years of hard work are all in vain, _ (更别提我们花费的大量金钱了).86. The problems of blacks and women _ (最近几十年受到公众相当大的关注).2007 年 6 月 23 日六级参考答案Part I Writing (30 minutes)Part III Listening Comprehension (35 minutes)11. A) Surfing the net.12.B) He is sure of his success in the exam.13. D) The man is quite optimistic about human nature.14. C) Stay in business.15. A) More money.16. B) She missed the comforts of home.17. C) Seek professional advice.18. A) He dresses mo
