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1、20182018 年年 6 6 月大学英语六级真题试卷及答案（二）月大学英语六级真题试卷及答案（二）目录目录2018 年 6 月大学英语六级真题试卷及答案（二）.1快速对答案.16Part IPart IWritingWriting(30 minutes)(30 minutes)(请于正式开考后半小时内完成该部分，之后将进行听力考试)Directions:Directions:For this part,you are allowed 30 minutes to write an essay onthethe importanceimportance ofof buildingbuilding
2、trusttrustbetweenbetweenbusinessesbusinessesandandconsumers.consumers.Youcan cite examples to illustrate yourviews.you should write at least 150150 words but no more than 200200 words.Part IIPart IIListening ComprehensionListening Comprehension(30 minutes)(30 minutes)Section ASection ADirections:Dir
3、ections:In this section,you will hear two long conversations.At the end of each conversation,you willhear four questions.Both the conversation and the questions will be spoken only once.After you hear aquestion,you must choose the best answer from the four choices marked A),B),C)and D).Then mark the
4、corresponding letter on Answer Sheet 1Sheet 1 with a single line through the centre.注意：此部分试题请在答题卡答题卡 1 上作答。Questions 1 to 4 are based on the conversation you have just heard.Questions 1 to 4 are based on the conversation you have just heard.1.A)She advocates animal protection.B)She sells a special k
5、ind of coffee.C)She is going to start a cafe chain.D)She is the owner of a special cafe.2.A)They bear a lot of similarities.B)They are a profitable business sector.2018 年 6 月大学英语六级真题试卷及答案（二二）第 1 页 共 16页C)They cater to different customers.D)They help take care of customers pets.3.A)By giving them reg
6、ular cleaning and injections.B)By selecting breeds that are tame and peaceful.C)By placing them at a safe distance from customers.D)By briefing customers on how to get along with them.4.A)They want to learn about rabbits.B)They like to bring in their children.C)They love the animals in her cafe.D)Th
7、ey give her cafe favorite reviews.Questions 5 to 8 are based on the conversation you have just heard.Questions 5 to 8 are based on the conversation you have just heard.5.A)It contains too many additives.B)It lacks the essential vitamins.C)It can cause obesity.D)It is mostly garbage.6.A)Its fancy des
8、ign.B)TV commercials.C)Its taste and texture.D)Peer influence.7.A)Investing heavily in the production of sweet foods.B)Marketing their products with ordinary ingredients.C)Trying to trick children into buying their products.D)Offering children more varieties to choose from.8.A)They hardly ate vegeta
9、bles.B)They seldom had junk food.2018 年 6 月大学英语六级真题试卷及答案（二二）第 2 页 共 16页C)They favored chocolate-coated sweets.D)They liked the food advertised on TV.Section BSection BDirections:Directions:In this section,you will hear two passages.At the end of each passage,you will hear threeor four questions.Both
10、 the passage and the questions will be spoken only once.After you hear a question,you must choose the best answer from the four choices marked A),B),C)and D).Then mark thecorresponding letter on Answer Sheet 1Sheet 1 with a single line through the centre.Questions9 to 12 are based on the passage you
11、 have just heard.Questions9 to 12 are based on the passage you have just heard.9.A)Stretches of farmland.C)Tombs of ancient rulers.B)Typical Egyptian animal farms.D)Ruins left by devastating floods.10.A)It provides habitats for more primitive tribes.B)It is hardly associated with great civilizations
12、.C)It has not yet been fully explored and exploited.D)It gathers water from many tropical ruin forests.11.A)It carries about one fifth of the worlds fresh water.B)It has numerous human settlements along its banks.C)It is second only to the Mississippi River in width.D)It is as long as the Nile and t
13、he Yangtze combined.Questions 12 to 15 are based on the passage you have just heard.Questions 12 to 15 are based on the passage you have just heard.12.A)Living a life in the fast lane leads to success.B)We are always in a rush lo do various things.C)The search for tranquility has become a trend.D)Al
14、l of us actually yearn for a slow and calm life.2018 年 6 月大学英语六级真题试卷及答案（二二）第 3 页 共 16页13.A)She had trouble balancing family and workB)She enjoyed the various social events.C)She was accustomed to tight schedules.D)She spent all her leisure time writing books.14.A)The possibility of ruining her famil
15、y.B)Becoming aware of her declining health.C)The fatigue from living a fast-paced life.D)Reading a book about slowing down.15.A)She started to follow the cultural norms.B)She came to enjoy doing everyday tasks.C)She learned to use more polite expressions.D)She stopped using to-do lists and calendars
16、.Section CSection CDirections:Directions:In this section,you will hear three recordings of lectures or talks followed by three or fourquestions.The recordings will be played only once.After you hear a question,you must choose the bestanswer from the four choices marked A),B)，C)and D).Then mark the c
17、orresponding letter on AnswerAnswerSheet 1Sheet 1 with a single line through the centre.QuestionsQuestions 1616 toto 1818 are based on the recording you have just heard.are based on the recording you have just heard.16.A)They will root out native species altogether.B)They contribute to a regions bio
18、diversity.C)They pose a threat to the local ecosystem,D)They will crossbreed with native species.2018 年 6 月大学英语六级真题试卷及答案（二二）第 4 页 共 16页17.A)Their classifications are meaningful.B)Their interactions are hard to define.C)Their definitions are changeable.D)Their distinctions are artificial.18.A)Only a
19、few of them cause problems to native species.B)They may turn out to benefit the local environment.C)Few of them can survive in their new habitats.D)Only 10 percent of them can be naturalized.Questions 19 to 21 are based on the recording you have just heard.Questions 19 to 21 are based on the recordi
20、ng you have just heard.19.A)Respect their traditional culture.B)Attend their business seminars.C)Research their specific demands.D)Adopt the right business strategies.20.A)Showing them your palm.B)Giving them gifts of great value.C)Drinking alcohol on certain days of a month.D)Clicking your fingers
21、loudly in their presence.21.A)They are very easy to satisfy.B)They have a strong sense of worth.C)They tend to be friendly and enthusiastic.D)They have a break from 2:00 to 5:30 p.mQuestions 22 to 25 are based on the recording you have just heard.Questions 22 to 25 are based on the recording you hav
22、e just heard.22.A)He completely changed the company s culture.B)He collected paintings by world-famous artists.2018 年 6 月大学英语六级真题试卷及答案（二二）第 5 页 共 16页C)He took over the sales department of Readers Digest.D)He had the companys boardroom extensively renovated.23.A)It should be sold at a reasonable pric
23、e.B)Its articles should be short and inspiring.C)It should be published in the worlds leading languages.D)Its articles should entertain blue-and pink-collar workers.24.A)He knew how to make the magazine profitable.B)He served as a church minister for many years.C)He suffered many setbacks and misfor
24、tunes in his life.D)He treated the employees like members of his family.25.A)It carried many more advertisements.B)George Grune joined it as an ad salesman.C)Several hundred of its employees got fired.D)Its subscriptions increased considerably.Part Part Section ASection AReading ComprehensionReading
25、 Comprehension(40 minutes)(40 minutes)Directions:Directions:In this section,there is a passage with ten blanks.You are required to select one word for eachblank from a list of choices given in a word bank following the passage.Read the passage through carefullybefore making your choices,Each choice
26、in the bank is identified by a letter.Please mark the correspondingletter for each item on Answer Sheet 2Answer Sheet 2 with a single line through the centre.You may not use any of thewords in the bank more than once.Did Sarah Josepha Hale write Mary s Little Lamb，the eternal nursery rhyme(儿歌）about
27、a girlnamed Mary with a stubborn lamb?This is still disputed,but its clear that the woman(26)_ forwriting it was one of Americas most fascinating(27)_.In honor of the poems publication on May2018 年 6 月大学英语六级真题试卷及答案（二二）第 6 页 共 16页24,1830,heres more about the(28)_ authors life.Hale wasnt just a writer
28、,she was also a(29)_ social advocate,and she was particularly(30)_with an ideal New England,which she associated with abundant Thanksgiving meals that sheclaimed had a deep moral influence.She began a nationwide(31)_tohave a national holidaydeclared that would bring families together while celebrati
29、ng the(32)_ festivals.In 1863,after 17years of advocacy including letters to five presidents,Hale got it.President Abraham Lincoln,during theCivil War,issued a(33)_ setting aside the last Thursday in November for the holiday.The true authorship of Mary s Little Lamb is disputed.According to the New
30、England HistoricalSociety,Hale wrote only part of the poem,but claimed authorship.Regardless of the author,it seems thatthe poem was(34)_ by a real event.When young Mary Sawyer was followed to school by a lambin 1816，it caused some problems.A bystander named John Roulstone wrote a poem about the eve
31、nt,then,at some point,Hale herself seems to have helped write it.However,if a 1916 piece by her great-niece is tobe trusted,Hale claimed for the(35)_of her life that“some other people pretended that someoneelse wrote the poem”.注意：此部分试题请在答题卡答题卡 2 2 上作答。A)campaignA)campaignF)inspiredF)inspiredK)repute
32、dK)reputedB)careerB)careerG)latterG)latterL)restL)restC)charactersC)charactersH)obsessedH)obsessedM)M)supposedsupposedD)featuresD)featuresI)proclamationI)proclamationN)traditionalN)traditionalE)fierceE)fierceJ)rectifiedJ)rectifiedO)versatileO)versatileSection BSection BDirections:Directions:In this
33、section,you are going to read a passage with ten statements attached to it.Eachstatement contains information given in one of the paragraphs.Identify the paragraph from which theinformation is derived.You may choose a paragraph more than once.Each paragraph is marked with aletter.Answer the question
34、s by marking the corresponding letter onAnswer Sheet 2Answer Sheet 2.Grow Plants Without WaterGrow Plants Without WaterA Ever since humanity began to farm our own food，weve faced the unpredictable rain that is both friend2018 年 6 月大学英语六级真题试卷及答案（二二）第 7 页 共 16页and enemy.It comes and goes without much
35、warning,and a field oflush (茂盛的）leafy greens oneyear can dry up and blow away the next.Food security and fortunes depend on sufficient rain,andnowhere more so thanin Africa,where 96%of farmlanddependson raininstead of theirrigationcommon in more developed places.It has consequences:South Africa s on
36、going droughtthe worstin three decades一 will cost at least a quarter of its corn crop this year.B Biologist Jill Farrant of the University of Cape Town in South Africa says that nature has plenty ofanswers for people who want to grow crops in places with unpredictable rainfall.She is hard at workfin
37、ding a way to take traits from rare wild plants that adapt to extreme dry weather and use them infood crops.As the earths climate changes and rainfall becomes even less predictable in some places,those answers will grow even more valuable.The type of farming Im aiming for is literally so thatpeople
38、can survive as its going to get more and more dry,Farrant says.C Extreme conditions produce extremely tough plants.In the rusty red deserts of South Africa,steep-sided rocky hills called inselbergs rear up from the plains like the bones of the earth.The hills areremnants of an earlier geological era
39、,scraped bare of most soil and exposed to the elements.Yet onthese and similar formations in deserts around the world,a few fierce plants have adapted to endureunder ever-changing conditions.D Farrant calls themresurrection plants(复苏植物）.During months without water under a harsh sun,they wither,shrin
40、k and contract until they look like a pile of dead gray leaves.But rainfall can revivethem in a matter of hours.Hertime-lapse(间歇性拍摄的）videos of the revivals look like someoneplaying a tape of the plants death in reverse.E The big difference between drought-tolerantplantsand thesetough plants:metaboli
41、sm.Manydifferent kinds of plants have developed tactics to weather dry spells.Some plants store reserves ofwater to see them through a drought；others send roots deep down to subsurface water supplies.Butonce these plants use up their stored reserve or tap out the underground supply,they cease growin
42、g andstart to die.Theymay be able to handlea droughtof some length,and many peopleuse thetermdrought tolerant to describe such plants,but they never actually stop needing to consume water,soFarrant prefers to call them drought resistant.2018 年 6 月大学英语六级真题试卷及答案（二）第 8 页 共 16页F Resurrection plants,defi
43、ned as those capable of recovering from holding less than 0.1 grams of waterper gram of dry mass,are different.They lack water-storing structures,and their existence on rockfaces prevents them from tapping groundwater,so they have instead developed the ability to changetheir metabolism.When they det
44、ect an extended dry period,they divert their metabolisms producingsugars and certain stress-associated proteins and other materials in their tissues As the plant dries,theseresources take on first the properties of honey,then rubber,and finally enter a glass-like state that isthe most stable state t
45、hat the plant can maintain，Farrant says That slows the plants metabolism andprotects its dried-out tissues.The plants also change shape shrinking to minimize the surface areathrough which their remaining water might evaporate They can recover from months and years withoutwater,depending on the speci
46、es.G What else can do this dry-out-and-revive trick?Seeds almost all of them.At the start of her career,Farrant studied recalcitrant seeds(顽拗性种子），such as avocados,coffee and lychee.While tasty,such seeds are delicatethey cannot bud and grow if they dry out(as you ma know if youve ever triedto grow a
47、 tree from an avocado pit).In the seed world,that makes them rare,because most seeds fromflowering plants are quite robust.Most seeds can wait out the dry,unwelcoming seasons until conditionsare right and they sprout(发芽）.Yet once they start growing,such plants seem not to retain the abilityto hit th
48、e pause button on metabolism in their stems or leaves.H After completing her Ph.D.on seeds,Farrant began investigating whether it might be possible to isolatethe properties that make most seeds so resilient(迅速恢复活力的）and transfer them to other planttissues.What Farrant and others have found over the p
49、ast two decades is that there are many genesinvolved in resurrection plants response to dryness.Many of them are the same that regulate how seedsbecome dryness-tolerant while still attached to their parent plants.Now they are trying to figure outwhat molecular signaling processes activate those seed
50、-building genes in resurrection plants and howto reproduce them in crops.Most genes are regulated by a master set of genes,Farrant says.Werelooking at gene promoters and what would be their master switch.I Once Farrant and her colleagues feel they have a better sense of which switches to throw，they