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2018
年
6
月英语六
级真题和答案
听力
Passage 1
At some 2300
miles in length, the Mississippi is the longest
river in the United States. At some
1000 miles, the Mackenzie is the
longest river in Canada. But these waterways seem
minute in
comparison to the world’s 2
lengthiest rivers: the Nile and the
A
mazon.
The
Nile which begins in central Africa and flows over
4100 miles north into the Mediterranean
hosted one of the world’s great ancient
civilizations along its shores. Calm and peaceful
for most
of the year, the Nile used to
flood annually, thereby creating, irrigating and
carrying new topsoil
to
the
nearby
farmland
on
which
ancient
Egypt
depended
for
livelihood.
As
a
means
of
transportation, the river
carried various vessels up and down its length.
A journey through the
unobstructed
part of this waterway
today would pass by the splendid
valley
of
the
Kings,
where
the
tombs
of
many
of
these
ancient
monarchs
have
stood
for
over
3000 years. Great civilizations and
intensive settlement are hardly associated with
the Amazon,
yet this 4000 mile-long
south American river carries about 20%
of the world’s fresh water more
than
the
Mississippi,
Nile
and
Yangtze
combined.
Other
statistics
are
equally
astonishing.
The
Amazon is so wide at
some points that from its center neither shore can
be seen. Each second,
the Amazon pours
some 55 million gallons of water into the
Atlantic.
There, at its mouth stands
one
island
larger
than
Switzerland.
Most
important
of
all,
the
Amazon
irrigates
the
largest
tropical rain forest
on earth.
Passage 1
9. What can be
found in the valley of the Kings?
10.
In what way is the Amazon different from other big
rivers?
11. What does the speaker say
about the Amazon?
Recording 2
Good
morning,
ladies
and
gentlemen,
and
welcome
to
the
third
in
our
cities
of
business
seminars
in
the
program
“Doing
Business
Abroad”.
(Q19)
Today,
we
are
going
to
look
at
the
intercultural awareness, that is the
fact that not everyone is British, not everyone
speaks English
and
not
everyone
does
business
in
a
British
way.
And,
why
should
they?
(Q19)
If
overseas
business people are selling to us, then
they will make every effort to speak English and
to respect
our traditions and methods.
It is only polite for us to do the same when we
visit them. It is not
only polite, it
is a central, if we want to sel
l
British products overseas. First, a short quiz.
Let’s see
how interculturally-aware you
are. Question 1: where must you not drink alcohol
on the first and
seventh
of
every
month.
Question
2:
where
should
you
never
admire
your
host’s
possessions.
Question 3: how
should you attract the waiter during a business
lunch in Bangkok. Question 4:
where
should
you
try
to
make
all
your
appointments
either
before
2
or
after
5:30
pm.
OK,
everyone
had a chance to make some notes. Right! Here are
the answers. Although I am sure
that
the information could equally well apply to
countries other than those I have chosen. No.1:
(Q20) you must not drink alcohol on the
first and seventh of the month in India. In
international
hotels, you may find it
served, but if you are having a meal with an India
colleague, remember to
avoid
asking
for
a
beer.
If
you
are
an
arrival,
coincide
with
one
of
those
tips.
No.2:
in
Arab
countries,
the
politeness
and
generosity
of
the
people
is
without
parallel.
If
you
admire
your
colleague’s beautifu
l belt
and bowls, you may well find yourself being
presented with them as a
present. This
is not a cheap way to do your shopping, however,
as your host will quite correctly
expect
you
to
respond
by
presenting
him
with
a
gift
of
equal
worth
and
beauty.
In
Thailand,
clicking
the
fingers,
clapping
your
hands
or
just
shouting
“Waiter”
will
embarrass
your
hosts,
fellow diners, the waiter himself and,
most of all, you. Place your palm downward and
make an
inconspicuous waving gesture,
which will produce instant and satisfying results.
And finally, (Q21)
in
Spain,
some
businesses
maintain
the
pattern
of
working
until
about
2
o’clock
and
then
returning to the office from 5:30 to 8,
9 or 10 in the evening.
Q19: What should you do when doing
business with foreigners?
Q20: What
must you avoid doing with your Indian colleague?
Q21: What do we learn about some
Spanish people?
选词填空
儿歌
Did Sarah Josepha Hale write
“
Mary
’
s Little
Lamb,
”
the
eternal nursery
rhyme
（儿歌）
about
girl named Mary with a stubborn lamb?
This is still disputed, but
it
’
s clear that the woman 26
reputed for writing it was one of
America
’
s most fascinating
27 characters. In honor of the poem
publication on May 24,1830, here’s more
about the 28 supposed author’s life.
Hale wasn’t
just a writer,
she was also a 29 fierce
social advocate, and she was particularly 30
obsessed with an ideal New England,
which she associated with abundant Thanksgivinx xg
meals
that she claimed had “a deep
moral influence,” she began a nationwide 31
campaign to have a
national holiday
declared that would bring families together while
celebrating the 32 traditional
festivals.
In
1863,
after
17
years
of
advocacy
including
letters
to
five
presidents,
Hale
got
it.
President
Abraham Lincoln during the Civil War, issued a 33
proclamation setting aside the last
Thursday in November for the holiday.
The true
authorship of “Mary’s Little Lamb” is disputed.
According to New England Historical
Society, Hale wrote only one part of
the poem, but claimed authorship. Regardless of
the author,
it seems that the poem was
34 inspired by a real event. When young Mary
Sawyer was followed
to school by a lamb
in 1816, it caused some problems. A bystander
named John Roulstone wrote
a
poem
about
the
event,
then,
at
some
point,
Hale
herself
seems
to
have
helped
write
it.
However, if a 1916 piece
by her great-niece is to be trusted, Hale claimed
for the 35 rest of her
life that “Some
other people pretended that someone else wrote the
poem”.
A
）
campaign
B
）
career
C
）
characters
D
）
features
E
）
fierce
F
）
inspired
G
）
latter
H
）
obsessed
I
）
proclamation
J
）
rectified
K
）
reputed
L
）
rest
M
）
supposed
N
）
traditional
O
）
versatile
金字塔
Scientists
scanning
and
mapping
the
Giza
pyramids
say
they've
discovered
that
the
Great
Pyramid
of
Giza
is
not
exactly
even.
But
really
not
by
much.
This
pyramid
is
the
oldest
of
the
world’s
Seven
Wonders.
The
pyramid’s
exact
size
has
26
puzzled
experts
for
centuries,
as
the
than
21
acres
of
hard,
white
casing
stones
that
originally
covered
it
were 27 removed
long ago.
Reporting
in
the
most
recent
issue
of
the
newsletter
which
28
chronicles
the
work
of
the
Ancient
Egypt
Research
Associates,
engineer
Glen
Dash
says
that
by
using
a
new
measuring
approach
that
involved
finding
any
surviving
29
remnants
of
the
casing
in
order
to
determine
where
the
original
edge
was.
They
found
the
east
side
of
the
pyramid
to
be
a
30
maximum of 5.55 inches
shorter than the west side.
The question that most 31
fascinates him, however, isn't how the Egyptians
who designed and
built the pyramid got
it wrong 4,500 years ago, but how they got it so
close to 32 perfect.
can only speculate
as to how the Egyptians could have laid out these
lines with such 33 precision
using only
the tools they had,
out their design on
a grid, noting that the great pyramid is oriented
only 35 slightly away from
the cardinal
directions (its north-south axis runs 3 minutes 54
seconds west of due north, while
its
east-west
axis
runs
3
minutes
51
seconds
north
of
due
east)
—
an
amount
that's
but
similar,
chronicles
complete
established
fascinates
hypothesis
maximum
momentum
mysteriously
perfect
precision
puzzled
remnants
removed
revelations
slightly
家用机器人
When Elon Musk says, as he
did this week, that his new priority is using
artificial intelligence to
build
domestic robots, we should not only take note, but
look forward to the day we can put our
legs up in admiration.
Mr. Musk is a guy who gets
th
ings done. The founder of two
“moonshot” tech companies, Tesla
Motors
and
SpaceX,
is
bringing
electric
vehicles
to
mass
market
and
26
humans
to
live
on
other planets. Lest this
strike the amateur
techie
—
not that readers of
The Independent would
ever count among
them
—
as so much hot air, you
can be reassured that the near $$13bn (?8.8bn)
fortune this entrepreneur has
27
comes from practical
achievements rather than hypothetical
ones.
A
lot
of
clever
people
are
28
about
artificial
intelligence,
fearing
that
robots
will
one
day
become
so
29
they’ll
murder
all
of us.
These fears
are
mostly
30
:
as with
hysteria
about
genetic
modification,
we
humans
are
generally
wise
enough
to
manage
these
problems
with
alacrity and care.
And just think
of how wonderful it would be if you had a live-in
robot. It could
—
31
—
be
like
having
a
babysitter
and
masseuse
rolled
into
one
—
or,
if
that
required
32
intelligence
beyond the ken of Mr. Musk’s imagined
machine, at least some one
to chop the
carrots, wash the
car
and
mow
the
lawn.
Once
purchased
and
trained,
this
would
allow
the
33
user
to
save
money and time, freeing
up
34
space in our busy
lives to, for instance, read The Independent.
That is why we
welcome Mr. Musk’s
latest
35
, and wish him well. As long as
robots add to
the sum of human
happiness, reduce suffering or cumbersome
activity, and create time to read
world-class journalism, The Independent
will be their fans. Especially since journalism is
one job
robots will never do.
A) amassed
B)
casual
C) emotional
D)
enabling
E) eventually
F)
exaggerated
G) extravagant
H) generously
I) misleading
J) precious
K) reward
L) smart
M) sphere
N) terrified
O) venture
答案：
26. D enabling
27. A amassed
28. N terrified
29. L smart
30. F exaggerated
31. E
eventually
32. C emotional
33. B casual
34. J precious
35. O venture
阅读
Passage One
Questions 46 to 50 are based on the
following passage.
The
Ebro
Delta,
in
Spain, famous
as
a
battleground
during
the
Spanish
Civil
War,
is
now
the
setting for a different
contest, one that is pitting rice farmers against
two enemies: the rice-eating
giant
apple snail, and rising sea levels. What happens
here will have a bearing on the future of
European rice production and the
overall health of southern European wetlands.
Located on the Mediterranean just two hours south
of Barcelona, the Ebro Delta produces
120 million kilograms of rice a year,
making
it one of the continent’s most
important rice
-growing
areas.
As
the
sea
creeps
into
these
fresh-water
marshes,
however,
rising
salinity
（盐分）
is
hampering rice production. At the same
time, this sea-water also kills off the greedy
giant apple
snail,
an
introduced
pest
that
feeds
on
young
rice
plants.
The
most
promising
strategy
has
become to harness one
foe against the other.
The battle is currently
being waged on land, in greenhouses at the
University of Barcelona.
Scientists
working
under
the
banner
“Project
Neurice”
are
seeking
varieties
of
rice
that
can
withstand the increasing
salinity without losing the absorbency that makes
European rice ideal
for traditional
Spanish and Italian dishes.
“The project
has two sides,” says Xavier Serrat, Neurice
project manager and researcher at the
University
of
Barcelona.
“the
short
-term
fight
against
the
snail,
and
a
mid-
to
long-term
fight
against climate
change. But the snail has given the project
greater urgency.”
Originally from South
America, the snails were accidentally introduced
into the Ebro Delta by
Global Aquatic
Tecnologies, a company that raised the snails for
fresh-water
aquariums
（
水族馆）
,
but failed to prevent their escape. For
now, the giant apple snail
’
s
presence in Europe is limited
to the
Ebro Delta. But the snail continues its march to
new territory, says Serrat. “The question is
not if it will reach other rice-
gr
owing areas of Europe, but
when.”
Over
the
next
year
and
a
half
investigators
will
test
the
various
strains
of
salt-
tolerant
rice
they’ve bred.
In 2018, farmers will plant the varieties with the
most promise in the Ebro Delta
and
Europe’s other two ma
in rice-growing
regions
—along the Po in Italy, and
France’s Rh?ne. A
season
in
the
field
will
help
determine
which,
if
any,
of
the
varieties
are
ready
for
commercialization.
As an EU-
funded effort, the search for salt-tolerant
varieties of rice is taking place in all three
countries. Each team is crossbreeding a
local European short-grain rice with a long-grain
Asian
variety that carries the salt-
resistant gene. The scientists are breeding
successive generations to
arrive at
varieties that incorporate salt tolerance but
retain about 97 percent of the European rice
genome
（基因组）
.
does the author mention
the Spanish Civil War at the beginning of the
passage?
A. It had great impact on the
life of Spanish rice farmers.
B. It is
of great significance in the records of Spanish
history.
C. Rice farmers in the Ebro
Delta are waging a battle of similar importance.
D. Rice farmers in the Ebro Delta are
experiencing as hard a time as in the war.
may be the most effective
strategy for rice farmers to employ in fighting
their enemies?
A. Striking the weaker
enemy first
B. Killing two birds with
one stone
C. Eliminating the enemy one
by one
D. Using one evil to combat the
other
48. What do we learn
about “Project Neurice”?