孤疑2014年6月大学英语六级真题及答案最全

2020年12月16日发(作者：温宁)
Part I
Writing ( 30minutes)
1、Directions:
For this part, you are allowed 30 minutes to write an essay explaining why it is unwise to put all
your eggs in one basket. You can give examples to illustrate your point .You should write at least
150 words but no more than 200 words.

2、Directions:
For this part, you are allowed 30 minutes to write an essay explaining why it is unwise a person by
their appearance. You can give examples to illustrate your point .You should write at least 150
words but no more than 200 words.（小编写的就是这篇，还行~~）

3、Directions:
For this part, you are allowed 30 minutes to write an essay explaining why it is unwise to jump to
conclusions upon seeing or hearing something. You can give examples to illustrate your point .You
should write at least 150 words but no more than 200words.
Part Ⅲ Reading Comprehension (40 minutes)
For investors who desire low risk and guaranteed income, US government bonds are
a secure investment because these bonds have the financial backing and full faith
and credit of the federal government. Municipal bonds, also secure, are offered by
local governments and often have___ 36___such as tax-free interest. Some may even
be___37___. Corporate bonds are a bit more risky.
Two questions often___38___first- time corporate bond investors. The first is “If
I purchase a corporate bond, do I have to hold it until the maturity date?” The
answer is no. Bonds are bought and sold daily on___39___securities exchanges.
However, if you decide to sell your bond before its maturity date, you’re not
guaranteed to get the face value of the bond. For example, if your bond does not
have___40___ that make it attractive to other investors, you may be forced to sell
your bond at a___ 41___, i.e., a price less than the bond's face value. But if your
bond is highly valued by other investors, you may be able to sell it at a premium,
i. e ., a price above its face value. Bond prices generally___42___inversely (相
反地) with current market interest rates. As interest rates go up, bond prices fall,
and vice versa (反之亦然）. Thus, like all investments, bonds have a degree of risk.
The second question is “ How can I___43___the investment risk of a particular bond
issue?”
Standard & Poor's and Moody’s Investors Service rate the level of risk of many
corporate and government bonds. And___44___, the higher the market risk of a bond,
the higher the interest rate. Investors will invest in a bond considered risky only
if the 45 return is high enough.
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A) advantages B) assess C) bother D) conserved E) deduction
F) discount G) embarrass H) features I) fluctuate J) indefinite
K) insured L) major M) naturally N) potential O) simultaneously
The Street-Level Solution
A) When I was growing up, one of my father’s favorite sayings (borrowed from
the humorist Will Rogers) was: “It isn't what we don't know that causes the trouble:
it’s what we think we know that just ain’t so.” One of the main insights to be
taken from the 100 000 Homes Campaign and its strategy to end chronic homelessness
is that, until recently, our society thought it understood the nature of homelessness,
but it didn’t.
B) That led to a series of mistaken assumptions about why people become homeless
and what they need. Many of the errors in our homelessness policies have stemmed
from the conception that the homeless are a homogeneous group. It's only in the past
15 years that organizations like Common Ground, and others, have taken a street-level
view of the problem—distinguishing the “ episodically homeless” from the
“chronically homeless” in order to understand their needs at an individual level.
This is why we can now envisage a different approach and get better results.
C) Most readers expressed support for the effort, although a number were
skeptical, and a few utterly dismissive, about the chances of long-term homeless
people adapting well to housing. This is to be expected; it's hard to imagine what
we haven’t yet seen. As Niccolo Machiavelli wrote in The Prince, one of the major
obstacles in any effort to advance systemic change is the “incredulity of men,”
which is to say that people “do not readily believe in new things until they have
had a long experience of them.” Most of us have witnessed homeless people on the
streets for decades. Few have seen formerly homeless people after they have been
housed successfully. We don't have reference points for that story. So we generalize
from what we know or think we know.
D) But that can be misleading, even to experts. When I asked Rosanne Haggerty,
founder of Common Ground, which currently operates 2310 units of supportive housing
(with 552 more under construction), what had been her biggest surprise in this work,
she replied: “ Fifteen years ago, I would not have believed that people who had
been so broken and stuck in homelessness could thrive to the degree that they do
in our buildings. ” And Becky Kanis, the campaign’s director, commented: “There
is this sense in our minds that someone who's on the streets is almost in their DNA
different from someone who has a house. The campaign is creating a first-hand
experience for many people that that is really not the case. ”
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E) One of the startling realizations that I had while researching this column
is that anybody could become like a homeless person—all it takes is a traumatic
（创伤的）brain injury. A bicycle fall, a car accident, a slip on the ice, or if
you’re a soldier, a head wound—and your life could become unrecognizable. James
O' Connell, a doctor who has been treating the most vulnerable homeless people on
the streets of Boston for 25 years, estimates that 40 percent of the long-term
homeless people he's met had such a brain injury. “For many it was a head injury
prior to the time they became homeless.” he said. “They became unpredictable. They'd
have mood swings, fits of explosive behavior. They couldn't hold onto their jobs.
Drinking made them feel better. They'd end up on the streets. ”
F) Once homeless people return to housing, they're in a much better position
to rebuild their lives. But it's important to note that housing alone is not enough.
As with many complex social problems, when you get through the initial crisis, you
have another problem to solve which is no less challenging. But it is a better
problem.
G) Over the past decade. O’Connell has seen this happen. “I spend half my
time on the streets or in the hospital and the other half making house calls to people
who lived for years on the streets.” he said.
it's a delightful switch, but it’s not as if putting someone in housing is the answer
to addressing all of their problems. It’s the first step.”
H) Once in housing, formerly homeless people can become isolated and lonely.
If they’ve lived on the streets for years, they may have acquired a certain standing
as well as a sense of pride in their survival skills. Now indoors, those aspects
of their identity may be stripped away. Many also experience a profound
disorientation at the outset. “If you're homeless for more than six months, you
kind of lose your bearings,” says Haggerty. becomes not about overcoming
homelessness but about finding food, begging, looking for a job to survive another
day. The whole process of how you define stability gets reordered.”
I) Many need regular, if not continuous, support with mental health problems,
addictions and illnesses-and, equally important, assistance in the day-to-day
challenges of life, reacquainting with family, building relationships with
neighbors, finding enjoyable activities or work, managing finances, and learning
how to eat healthy food.
J ) For some people, the best solution is to live in a communal（集体）residence,
with special services. This isn’t available everywhere, however. In Boston, for
example- homeless people tend to be scattered in apartments throughout the city.
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K) Common Ground's large residences in New York offer insight into the
possibilities for change when homeless people have a rich array of supports. In
addition to more traditional social services, residents also make use of communal
gardens, classes in things like cooking, yoga, theatre and photography, and job
placement. Last year, 188 formerly homeless tenants in four of Common Ground's
residences, found jobs.
L) Because the properties have many services and are well-managed. Haggerty
has found posthousing problems to be surprisingly rare. In the past 10 years, there
have been only a handful of incidents of quarrels between tenants. There is very
little graffiti（涂鸦）or vandalism（破坏）. And the turnover is almost negligible.
In the Prince George Hotel in New York, which is home to 208 formerly homeless people
and 208 low- income tenants, the average length of tenancy is close to seven years.
(All residents pay 30 percent of their income for rent; for the formerly homeless,
this comes out of their government benefits.) When people move on, it is usually
because they’ve found a preferable apartment.
M) “Tenants also want to participate in shaping the public areas of the
buildings,” said Haggerty. “They formed a gardening committee. They want a terrace
on the roof. Those are things I didn't count on.” The most common tenant demand?
“People always want more storage space-but that's true of every New Yorker,” she
adds. “In many ways, we're a lot like a normal apartment building. Our tenants look
like anyone else.”
N) As I mentioned, homelessness is a catch-all for a variety of problems. A
number of readers asked whether the campaign will address family homelessness, which
has different causes and requires a different solution. I've been following some
of the promising ideas emerging to address and prevent family homelessness. Late
in 2011, I'll explore these ideas in a column. For now, I'll conclude with an update
on the 100000 Homes Campaign. Since Tuesday, New Orleans and a few other communities
have reported new results. The current count of people housed is 7043.
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46. Tenants in Common Ground’s residences all want more room for storage.
47. Homes Campaign provides first- hand proof that the homeless are not what
they were once believed to be.
48. Common Ground's residences are well-managed and by and large peaceful.
49. Housing the homeless is only the first step to solving all their problems.
50. A large percent of the chronically homeless have suffered from brain injury.
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51. After being housed many homeless people become confused at first as to how
to deal with life off the street.
52. Some people think the best way to help the homeless is to provide them with
communal housing.
53. The homeless with health problems should be given regular support in their
daily lives.
54. Until recently American society has failed to sec what homelessness is all
about.
55. Many formerly homeless tenants in New York's Common Ground's residences
got hired.
Passage One
Questions 56 to 60 are based on the following passage.
reading” —as opposed to the often superficial reading we do on the Web
—is an endangered practice, one we ought to take steps to preserve as we would a
historic building or a significant work of art. Its disappearance would jeopardize
the intellectual and emotional development of generations growing up online, as well
as the preservation of a critical part of our culture： the novels, poems and other
kinds of literature that can be appreciated only by readers whose brains, quite
literally, have been trained to understand them.
Recent research in cognitive science and psychology has demonstrated that deep
reading—slow, immersive, rich in sensory detail and emotional and moral complexity
—is a distinctive experience, different in kind from the mere decoding of words.
Although deep reading does not, strictly speaking, require a conventional book, the
built-in limits of the printed page are uniquely helpful to the deep reading
experience. A book's lack of hyperlinks（超链接）, for example, frees the reader
from making decisions—Should I click on this link or not? — allowing her to remain
fully immersed in the narrative.
That immersion is supported by the way the brain handles language rich in detail,
indirect reference and figures of speech: by creating a mental representation that
draws on the same brain regions that would be active if the scene were unfolding
in real life. The emotional situations and moral dilemmas that are the stuff of
literature arc also vigorous exercise for the brain, propelling us inside the heads
of fictional characters and even, studies suggest, increasing our real-life capacity
for empathy（认同）.
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None of this is likely to happen when we’re browsing through a website. Although
we call the activity by the same name, the deep reading of books and the
information-driven reading we do on the Web are very different, both in the
experience they produce and in the capacities they develop. A growing body of
evidence suggests that online reading may be less engaging and less satisfying, even
for the “digital natives” to whom it is so familiar. Last month, for example,
Britain's National Literacy Trust released the results of a study of 34 910 young
people aged 8 to 16. Researchers reported that 39% of children and teens read daily
using electronic devices, but only 28% read printed materials every day. Those who
read only onscreen were three times less likely to say they enjoy reading very much
and a third less likely to have a favorite book. The study also found that young
people who read daily only onscreen were nearly two times less likely to be
above-average readers than those who read daily in print or both in print and
onscreen.
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56. What does the author say about “deep reading”？
A) U serves as a complement to online reading.
B) It should be preserved before it is too late.
C) ft is mainly suitable for reading literature.
D) it is an indispensable part of education.
57. Why does the author advocate the reading of literature?
A) It helps promote readers’ intellectual and emotional growth.
B) It enables readers to appreciate the complexity of language.
C) It helps readers build up immersive reading habits.
D) It is quickly becoming an endangered practice.
58. In what way does printed-page reading differ from online reading?
A) It ensures the reader's cognitive growth.
B) It enables the reader to be fully engaged.
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C) It activates a different region of the brain.
D) It helps the reader learn rhetorical devices.
59. What do the studies show about online reading?
A) It gradually impairs one's eyesight.
B) It keeps arousing readers' curiosity.
C) It provides up-to-date information.
D) It renders reading less enjoyable.
60. What do we learn from the study released by Britain’s National Literacy
Trust?
A) Onscreen readers may be less competent readers.
B) Those who do reading in print are less informed.
C) Young people find reading onscreen more enjoyable.
D) It is now easier to find a favorite book online to read.
Passage Two
Questions 61 to 65 are based on the following passage.
Many current discussions of immigration issues talk about immigrants in general,
as if they were abstract people in an abstract world. But the concrete differences
between immigrants from different countries affect whether their coming here is good
or bad for the American people.
The very thought of formulating immigration laws from the standpoint of what
is best for the American people seems to have been forgotten by many who focus on
how to solve the problems of illegal immigration.
It is hard to look for “the ideal outcome” on immigration in the abstract.
Economics professor Milton Friedman once said. “The best is the enemy of the good,”
which to me meant that attempts to achieve an unattainable ideal can prevent us from
reaching good outcomes that are possible in practice.
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Too much of our current immigration controversy is conducted in terms of
abstract ideals, such as “We are a nation of immigrants.” Of course we are a nation
of immigrants. But we are also a nation of people who wear shoes. Does it follow
that we should admit anybody who wears shoes?
The immigrants of today are very different from those who arrived here a hundred
years ago.
Moreover, the society in which they arrive is different. To me, it is better
to build a wall around the welfare state than the country.
But the welfare state is already here—and, far from having a wall built around
it, the welfare state is expanding in all directions. We do not have a choice between
the welfare state and open borders.
Anything we try to do as regards immigration laws has to be done in the context
of a huge welfare state that is already a major, inescapable fact of life.
Among other facts of life utterly ignored by many advocates of de facto amnesty
（事实上的大赦）is that the free international movement of people is different from
free international trade in goods.
Buying cars or cameras from other countries is not the same as admitting people
from those countries or any other countries. Unlike inanimate objects, people have
cultures and not all cultures are compatible with the culture in this country that
has produced such benefits for the American people for so long.
Not only the United States, but the Western work I in general, has been
discovering the hard way that admitting people with incompatible cultures is an
irreversible decision with incalculable consequences. If we do not see that after
recent terrorist attacks on the streets of Boston and London, when will we see it?
“Comprehensive immigration reform” means doing everything all together in
a rush, without time to look before we leap, and basing ourselves on abstract notions
about abstract people.
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61. What does the author say about immigrants in America?
A) They all hope to gain citizenship and enjoy the welfare.
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B) They come to America with different dreams and purposes.
C) Their background may determine whether they benefit the American people.
D) Their cultures affect the extent to which they will achieve success in
America.
62. What does the author try to say by citing Milton Friedman's remark?
A) It is hardly practical to find an ideal solution to America's immigration
problem.
B) Ideal outcomes could be produced only by comprehensive immigration reform.
C) As tor immigration, good results cannot be achieved without good intentions.
D) The proper solution of immigration issues is an ideal of the American public.
63. What is the author's view regarding America's immigration policy?
A) America should open its borders to immigrants from different countries.
B) Immigrants have contributed greatly to the welfare of American people.
C) Unrestricted immigration will undermine the American welfare state.
D) There is no point building a wall around the American welfare state.
64 What is the author's purpose in citing the recent terrorist attacks on the
streets of Boston and London?
A) To show that America should join hands with Europe in fighting terrorists.
B) To prove that it is high time America made comprehensive immigration reforms.
C) To prove that terrorism is the most dangerous threat to America and the world
in general.
D) To show that immigrants1 cultural incompatibility with the host country has
consequences.
65 What is the author's attitude towards immigration reform”?
A) Supportive. C) Wait-and-see.
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B) Negative. D) Indifferent.
36.A advantages 37.K insured 38. C bother 39. L major 40. H features
41. F discount 42. I fluctuate 43. B assess 44. M naturally 45. N potential
翻译一：
北京计划未 来三年投资7，600亿元治理污染，从减少PM2.5排放入手，这一新公布的
计划旨在减少四种主要 污染源，包括500多万俩机动车的尾气(exhaust)排放、周边地区燃煤、
来自北方的沙尘暴和 本地的建筑灰尘。另有850亿元用于新建或升级城市垃圾处理和污水
(sewage)处理设施，加上 300亿元投资未来三年的植树造林(forestation) 市政府还计划建造一
批水循环利用工 厂，并制止违章建筑，以改善环境。另外，将更严厉地处罚违反限排规定的
行为。
As old people always put it,judge a book by its r, in most cases, we
judge aperson just by external appearances. For example, sometimes when we walk downthe
street at night, we choose to avoid people who are acting tough and this way we tend to
make wrong decisions, because judging someone byappearance can be deceptive.
In dairy life, we try to stay awayfrom people who are called the
a certainway. But we may miss an opportunity to make a good friend, because judgmentsbased on
external appearances prevent us from getting to really know a we take the time to get to
know the person, we might become friends.
Therefore, in my opinion, judgingpeople just by appearance is superficial and often unfair.
After all, we don'tknow what circumstances the person might be facing or who the person really
embrace everyone you meet and not judge him just by appearances.

46-50 M D L G E 51-55 H J I A K
56-60 BABDA 61-65 CACDB
Beijing is going to invest 760billion yuan in next three years to control pollution, beginning with
cuttingdown the emission of PM 2.5 . This newly announced project aims to reduce fourmajor
sources of pollution, including exhaust from 5000 thousand motorvehicles, coal-burning in
surrounding areas, sandstorms from the north andlocal construction dust. Another 85 billion yuan
is used to build or upgradethe facilities of disposing garbage and sewage of the city. In addition,
30billion to support afforestation programs in next three years.
The municipal government alsoplans to construct some plants to use cycle water, banning
illegalconstructions to modify the environment. Furthermore, Beijing will punish thosewho violate
the rules of emission-reduction more severely.

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