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英语六级考试真题试卷（第3套）
Part I Writing (30 minutes)
Directions: For this part, you are allowed 30 minutes to write an essay commenting on the saying
your point of view. You should write at least 150 words but no more than 200 words.
Part II Listening Comprehension (25 minutes)
Section A
注意：此部分试题请在答题卡1上作答。
1. A) The man might be able to play in the World Cup.
B) The man's football career seems to be at an end.
C) The man was operated on a few weeks ago.
D) The man is a fan of world-famous football players.
2. A) Work out a plan to tighten his budget.
B) Find out the opening hours of the cafeteria.
C) Apply for a senior position in the restaurant.
D) Solve his problem by doing a part-time job.
3. A) A financial burden. B) A good companion.
C) A real nuisance. D) A well-trained pet.
4. A) The errors will be corrected soon.
B) The woman was mistaken herself.
C) The computing system is too complex.
D) He has called the woman several times.
5. A) He needs help to retrieve his files.
B) He has to type his paper once more.
C) He needs some time to polish his paper.
D) He will be away for a two-week conference.
6. A) They might have to change their plan.
B) He has got everything set for their trip.
C) He has a heavier workload than the woman.
D) They could stay in the mountains until June 8.
7. A) They have to wait a month to apply for a student loan.
B) They can find the application forms in the brochure.
C) They are not eligible for a student loan.
D) They are not late for a loan application.
8. A) New laws are yet to be made to reduce pollutant release.
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B) Pollution has attracted little attention from the public.
C) The quality of air will surely change for the better.
D) It'll take years to bring air pollution under control.
Questions 9 to 12 are based on the conversation you have just heard.
9. A) Enormous size of its stores. B) Numerous varieties of food.
C) Its appealing surroundings. D) Its rich and colorful history.
10. A) An ancient building. B) A world of antiques.
C) An Egyptian museum. D) An Egyptian memorial.
11. A) Its power bill reaches f 9 million a year.
B) It sells thousands of light bulbs a day.
C) It supplies power to a nearby town.
D) It generates 70% of the electricity it uses.
12. A) 11,500. B) 30,000. C) 250,000. D) 300,000.
Questions 13 to 15 are based on the conversation you have just heard.
13. A) Transferring to another department.
B) Studying accounting at a university.
C) Thinking about doing a different job.
D) Making preparations for her wedding.
14. A) She has finally got a promotion and a pay raise.
B) She has got a satisfactory job in another company.
C) She could at last leave the accounting department.
D) She managed to keep her position in the company.
15. A) He and Andrea have proved to be a perfect match.
B) He changed his mind about marriage unexpectedly.
C) He declared that he would remain single all his life.
D) He would marry Andrea even without meeting her.
Section B
Passage One
Questions 16 to 19 are based on the conversation you have just heard.
16. A) They are motorcycles designated for water sports.
B) They are speedy boats restricted in narrow waterways.
C) They are becoming an efficient form of water transportation.
D) They are getting more popular as a means of water recreation.
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17. A) Water scooter operators' lack of experience.
B) Vacationers' disregard of water safety rules.
C) Overloading of small boats and other craft.
D) Carelessness of people boating along the shore.
18. A) They scare whales to death. B) They produce too much noise.
C) They discharge toxic emissions. D) They endanger lots of water life.
19. A) Expand operating areas. B) Restrict operating hours.
C) Limit the use of water scooters. D) Enforce necessary regulations.
Passage Two
Questions 20 to 22 are based on the passage you have just heard.
20. A) They are stable. B) They are close.
C) They are strained. D) They are changing.
21. A) They are fully occupied with their own business.
B) Not many of them stay in the same place for long.
C) Not many of them can win trust from their neighbors.
D) They attach less importance to interpersonal relations.
22. A) Count on each other for help. B) Give each other a cold shoulder.
C) Keep a friendly distance. D) Build a fence between them.
Passage Three
Questions 23 to 25 are based on the passage you have just heard.
23. A) It may produce an increasing number of idle youngsters.
B) It may affect the quality of higher education in America.
C) It may cause many schools to go out of operation.
D) It may lead to a lack of properly educated workers.
24. A) It is less serious in cities than in rural areas.
B) It affects both junior and senior high schools.
C) It results from a worsening economic climate.
D) It is a new challenge facing American educators.
25. A) Allowing them to choose their favorite teachers.
B) Creating a more relaxed learning environment.
C) Rewarding excellent academic performance.
D) Helping them to develop better study habits.
Section C
I'm interested in the criminal justice system of our country. It seems to me that something has to
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be done, if we're to __26__ as a country. I certainly don't know what the answers to our
problems are. Things certainly get __27__ in a hurry when you get into them, but I wonder if
something couldn't be done to deal with some of these problems. One thing I'm concerned about
is our practice of putting __28__ in jail who haven't harmed anyone. Why not work out some
system whereby they can pay back the debts they owe society instead of __29__ another debt by
going to prison and, of course, coming __30__ hardened criminals. I'm also concerned about the
short prison sentences people are __31__ serious crimes. Of course one alternative to this is to
__32__ capital punishment, but I'm not sure I would be for that. I'm not sure it's right to take an
eye for an eye. The alternative to capital punishment is longer sentences, but they would
certainly cost the tax payers much money. I also think we must do something about the insanity
__33__ In my opinion, anyone who takes another person's life __34__ is insane, however, that
does not mean that the person isn't guilty of the crime, or that he shouldn't pay society the debt
he owes. It's sad, of course, that a person may have to spend the rest of his life, or a large part of
it in prison for acts that he __35__ while not in full control of this mind.
Part Ⅲ Reading Comprehension (40 minutes)
Section A
Directions: In this section, there is a passage with ten blanks. You are required to select oneword
for each blank from a list of choices given in a word bank following the the passage
through carefully before making your choices. Each choice in the bank is identified by a letter.
Please mark the corresponding letter for each item on Answer Sheet 2 with a single line through
the centre. You may not use any of the words in the bank more than once.
Questions 36 to 45 are based on the following passage.
Travel websites have been around since the 1990s, when Expedia, Travelocity, and other holiday
booking sites were launched, allowing travelers to compare flight and hotel prices with the click
of a mouse. With information no longer __36__ by travel agents or hidden in business networks,
the travel industry was revolutionized, as greater transparency helped __37__ prices.
Today, the industry is going through a new revolution-this time transforming service quality.
Online rating platforms- __38__ in hotels, restaurants, apartments, and taxis-allow travelers to
exchange reviews and experiences for all to see.
Hospitality businesses are now ranked, analyzed, and compared not by industry __39__ , but by
the very people for whom the service is intended-the customer. This has __40__ a new
relationship between buyer and seller. Customers have always voted with their feet; they can
now explain their decision to anyone who is interested. As a result, businesses are much more
__41__ , often in very specific ways, which creates powerful __42__ to improve service.
Although some readers might not care for gossipy reports of unfriendly bellboys (行李员) in
Berlin or malfunctioning hotel hairdryers in Houston, the true power of online reviews lies not
just in the individual stories, but in the websites' __43__ to aggregate a large volume of ratings.
The impact cannot be __44__ . Businesses that attract top ratings can enjoy rapid growth, as new
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customers are attracted by good reviews and __45__ provide yet more positive feedback. So
great is the influence of online ratings that many companies now hire digital reputation managers
to ensure a favorable online identity.
注意：此部分试题请在答题卡2 上作答。
A) accountable B) capacity C) controlled D) entail E) forged
F) incentives G) occasionally H) overstated I) persisting J) pessimistic
K) professionals L) slash M) specializing N) spectators O) subsequently
Section B
Plastic Surgery
A better credit card is the solution to ever larger hack attacks
A) A thin magnetic strip (magstripe) is all that stands between your credit-card information and
the bad guys. And they've been working hard to break in. That's why 2014 is shaping up as a
major showdown: banks, law enforcement and technology companies are all trying to stop a
network of hackers who are succeeding in stealing account numbers, names, email addresses and
other crucial data used in identity theft. More than 100 million accounts at Target, Neiman
Marcus and Michaels stores were affected in some way during the most recent attacks, starting
last November.
B) Swipe(刷卡) is the operative word: cards are increasingly vulnerable to attacks when you make
purchases in a store. In several recent incidents, hackers have been able to obtain massive
information of credit-, debit- (借记) or prepaid-card numbers using malware, i.e. malicious
software, inserted secretly into the retailers' point-of-sale system-the checkout registers. Hackers
then sold the data to a second group of criminals operating in shadowy corners of the web. Not
long after, the stolen data was showing up on fake cards and being used for online purchases.
C) The solution could cost as little as $$2 extra for every piece of plastic issued. The fix is a security
technology used heavily outside the US. While American credit cards use the 40-year-old
magstripe technology to process transactions, much of the rest of the world uses smarter cards
with a technology called EMV (short for Europay, MasterCard, Visa) that employs a chip
embedded in the card plus a customer PIN (personal identification number) to authenticate(验证)
every transaction on the spot. If a purchaser fails to punch in the correct PIN at the checkout, the
transaction gets rejected. (Online purchases can be made by setting up a separate transaction
code.)
D) Why haven't big banks adopted the more secure technology? When it comes to mailing out
new credit cards, it's all about relative costs, says David Robertson, who runs the Nilson Report,
an industry newsletter.
and expiration date, embossing (凸印) it, the small envelope-all put together, you're in the dollar
range.
chips. (Once large issuers convert together, the chip costs should drop.)
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E) Multiply $$3 by the more than 5 billion magstripe credit and prepaid cards in circulation in the
US. Then consider that there's an estimated $$12.4 billion in card fraud on a global basis, says
Robertson. With 44% of that in the US, American credit-card fraud amounts to about $$5.5 billion
annually. Card issuers have so far calculated that absorbing the liability for even big hacks like the
Target one is still cheaper than replacing all that plastic.
F) That leaves American retailers pretty much alone the world over in relying on magstripe
technology to charge purchases-and leaves consumers vulnerable. Each magstripe has three
tracks of information, explains payments security expert Jeremy Gumbley, the chief technology
officer of CreditCall, an electronic-payments company. The first and third are used by the bank or
card issuer. Your vital account information lives on the second track, which hackers try to capture.
a text file that gets stolen.
G) Chip-and- PIN cards, by contrast, make fake cards or skimming impossible because the
information that gets scanned is encrypted (加密). The historical reason the US has stuck with
magstripe, ironically enough, is once superior technology. Our cheap, ultra-reliable wired
networks made credit-card authentication over the phone frictionless. In France, card companies
created EMV in part because the telephone monopoly was so maddeningly inefficient and
expensive. The EMV solution allowed transactions to be verified locally and securely.
H) Some big banks, like Wells Fargo, are now offering to convert your magstripe card to a
chip-and-PIN model. (It's actually a hybrid(混合体) that will still have a magstripe, since most US
merchants don't have EMV terminals.) Should you take them up on it? If you travel internationally,
the answer is yes.
I) Keep in mind, too, that credit cards typically have better liability protection than debit cards. If
someone uses your credit card fraudulently (欺诈性地), it's the issuer or merchant, not you, that
takes the hit. Debit cards have different liability limits depending on the bank and the events
surrounding any fraud.
bank,says Eric Adamowsky, a co-founder of CreditCardlnsider. com. would use credit cards
over debit cards because of liability issues.
J) Retailers and banks stand to benefit from the lower fraud levels of chip-and- PIN cards but have
been reluctant for years to invest in the new infrastructure (基础设施) needed for the technology,
especially if consumers don't have access to it. It's a chicken-and-egg problem: no one wants to
spend the money on upgraded point-of-sale systems that can read the chip cards if shoppers
aren't carrying them-yet there's little point in consumers' carrying the fancy plastic if stores aren't
equipped to use them. (An earlier effort by Target to move to chip and PIN never gained progress.)
According to Gumbley, there's a 僵局) has to be broken.
K) JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon recently expressed his willingness to do so, noting that
banks and merchants have spent the past decade suing each other over interchange fees-the
percentage of the transaction price they keep- rather than deal with the growing hacking problem.
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