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2017年 6月英语六级真题及答案
Part I Writing (30 minutes)
Directions: Suppose you are asked to give advice on whether to attend college at
home or abroad, write an essay to state your opinion. You are required to
write at least 150 words but no more than 200 words.
Part II Listening Comprehension (30 minutes)
说明：2017年 6月大学英语六级考试全国共考了两套听力。本套的听力
内容与第二套相同，因此本套听力部分不再重复给出。
Part Ⅲ Reading Comprehension (40 minutes)
Section A
Directions: In this section, there is a passage with ten blanks. You are required to
select one word for each blank from a list of choices given in a word bank
following the passage. Read 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 26 to 35 are based on the following passage.
Half of your brain stays alert and prepared for danger when you sleep in a new
place, a study has revealed. This phenomenon is often (26)_______to as the “first-
night-effect”. Researchers from Brown University found that a network in the left
hemisphere of the brain “remained more active” than the network in the right side of
the brain. Playing sounds into the right ears (stimulating the left hemisphere) of
(27)_______ was more likely to wake them up than if the noises were played into
their left ears.
It was (28)_______ observed that the left side of the brain was more active
during deep sleep. When the researchers repeated the laboratory experiment on the
second and third nights they found the left hemisphere could not be stimulated in the
same way during deep sleep. The researchers explained that the study demonstrated
when we are in a (29)_______ environment the brain partly remains alert so that
humans can defend themselves against any (30)_______ danger.
The researchers believe this is the first time that the “first-night-effect” of
different brain states has been (31)_______ in humans. It isn’t, however, the first
time it has ever been seen. Some animal(32)_______ also display this phenomenon.
For example, dolphins, as well as other (33)_______ animals, shut down one
hemisphere of the brain when they go to sleep. A previous study noted that dolphins
always (34)_______ control their breathing. Without keeping the brain active while
sleeping,they would probably drown. But, as the human study suggests, another
reason for dolphins keeping their eyes open during sleep is that they can look out for(35)_______ while asleep. It also keeps their physiological processes working.
A) Classified
B) Consciously
C) Dramatically
D) Exotic
E) Identified
F) Inherent
G) Marine
H) Novel
I) Potential
J) Predators
K) Referred
L) Species
M) Specifically
N) Varieties
O) Volunteers
Section B
Directions: In this section, you are going to read a passage with ten statements
attached to it. Each statement contains information given in one of the
paragraphs. Identify the paragraph from which the information is derived.
You may choose a paragraph more than once. Each paragraph is marked
with a letter. Answer the questions by marking the corresponding letter on
Answer Sheet 2.
Elite Math Competitions Struggle to Diversify Their Talent Pool
[A] Interest in elite high school math competitions has grown in recent
years, and in light of last summer’s U.S. win at the International Math
Olympiad (IMO)-the first for an American team in more than two decades-
the trend is likely to continue.
[B] But will such contests, which are overwhelmingly dominated by
Asian and white students from middle- class and affluent families, become
any more diverse? Many social and cultural factors play roles in determining
which promising students get on the path toward international math
recognition. But efforts are in place to expose more black, Hispanic, and
low-income students to advanced math, in the hope that the demographic
pool of high-level contenders will eventually begin to shift and become less
exclusive.
[C] “The challenge is if certain types of people are doing something,
it’s difficult for other people to break into it，” said Po-Shen Loh, the
head coach of last year’s winning U.S. Math Olympiad team. Participation
grows through friends and networks and if “ you realize that’ s how
they’re growing, you can start to take action” and bring in other students,
he said.[D] Most of the training for advanced-math competitions happens outside
the confines of the normal school day. Students attend after-school clubs,
summer camps, online forums and classes, and university-based “ math
circles,” to prepare for the competitions.
[E] One of the largest feeders for high school math competitions 一
including those that eventually lead to the IMO—is a middle school program
called MathCounts. About 100,000 students around the country participate in
the program’s competition series, which culminates in a national game-show-
style contest held each May. The most recent one took place last week in
Washington, D.C. Students join a team through their schools, which provide a
volunteer coach and pay a nominal fee to send students to regional and state
competitions. The 224 students who make it to the national competition get
an all- expenses-paid trip.
[F] Nearly all members of last year’s winning U.S. IMO team took
part in MathCounts as middle school students, as did Loh, the coach.
“ Middle school is an important age because students have enough math
capability to solve advanced problems, but they haven’t really decided what
they want to do with their lives,” said Loh. “ They often get hooked
then.”
[G] Another influential feeder for advanced-math students is an online
school called Art of Problem Solving, which began about 13 years ago and
now has 15,000 users. Students use forums to chat, play games, and solve
problems together at no cost, or they can pay a few hundred dollars to take
courses with trained teachers. According to Richard Rusczyk, the company
founder, the six U.S. team members who competed at the IMO last year
collectively took more than 40 courses on the site. Parents of advanced-math
students and MathCounts coaches say the children are on the website
constantly.
[H] There are also dozens of summer camps― many attached to
universities— that aim to prepare elite math students. Some are pricey~~a
three-week intensive program can cost $4,500 or more— but most offer
scholarships. The Math Olympiad Summer Training Program is a three-week
math camp held by the Mathematical Association of America that leads
straight to the international championship and is free for those who make it.
Only about 50 students are invited based on their performance on written
tests and at the USA Math Olympiad.
[I] Students in university towns may also have access to another lever
for involvement in accelerated math: math circles. In these groups, which
came out of an Eastern European tradition of developing young talent,
professors teach promising K-12 students advanced mathematics for several
hours after school or on weekends. The Los Angeles Math Circle, held at
the University of California, Los Angeles, began in 2007 with 20 students
and now has more than 250. “These math circles cost nothing, or they’re
very cheap for students to get involved in, but you have to know aboutthem,” said Rusczyk. “Most people would love to get students from more
underserved populations, but they just can’t get them in the door. Part of it
is communication; part of it is transportation.”
[J] It’s no secret in the advanced-math community that diversity is a
problem. According to Mark Saul, the director of competitions for the
Mathematical Association of America, not a single African-American or
Hispanic student—and only a handful of girls―has ever made it to the Math
Olympiad team in its 50 years of existence.Many schools simply don’ t
prioritize academic competitions. “Do you know who we have to beat?”
asked Saul.“The football team, the basketball team—that’s our competition
for resources, student time, attention, school dollars, parent efforts, school
enthusiasm.”
[K] Teachers in low-income urban and rural areas with no history of
participating in math competitions may not know about advanced-math
opportunities like MathCounts—and those who do may not have support or
feel trained to lead them.
[L] But there are initiatives in place to try to get more underrepresented
students involved in accelerated math. A New York City-based nonprofit
called Bridge to Enter Mathematics runs a residential summer program aimed
at getting underserved students, mostly black and Hispanic, working toward
math and science careers. The summer after 7th grade, students spend three
weeks on a college campus studying advanced math for seven hours a day.
Over the next five years, the group helps the students get into other elite
summer math programs, high-performing high schools, and eventually college.
About 250 students so far have gone through the program, which receives
funding from the Jack Kent Cooke Foundation.
[M]“ If you look at a lot of low-income communities in the United
States, there are programs that are serving them, but they’ re primarily
centered around ‘Let’s get these kids’ grades up，’ and not around
‘let’s get these kids access to the same kinds of opportunities as more-
affluent kids，’” said Daniel Zaharopol, the founder and executive director
of the program. “We’re trying to create that pathway.” Students apply to
the program directly through their schools. “We want to reach parents who
are not plugged into the system，” said Zaharopol.
[N] In the past few years, MathCounts added two new middle school
programs to try to diversify its participant pool 一 the National Math Club
and the Math Video Challenge. Schools or teachers who sign up for the
National Math Club receive a kit fall of activities and resources, but there’s
no special teacher training and no competition attached.
[O] The Math Video Challenge is a competition, but a collaborative one.
Teams of four students make a video illustrating a math problem and its
real-world application. After the high-pressure Countdown round at this
year’s national MathCounts competition, in which the top 12 students went
head to head solving complex problems in rapid fire, the finalists for theMath Video Challenge took the stage to show their videos. The demographics
of that group looked quite different from those in the competition round~of
the 16 video finalists, 13 were girls and eight were African-American
students. The video challenge does not put individual students on the hot seat
— so it’s less intimidating by design. It also adds the element of artistic
creativity to attract a new pool of students who may not see themselves as
“math people.”
36. Middle school is a crucial period when students may become keenly
interested in advanced mathematics.
37. Elite high school math competitions are attracting more interest
throughout the United States.
38. Math circles provide students with access to advanced-math training
by university professors.
39. Students may take advantage of online resources to learn to solve
math problems.
40. The summer program run by a nonprofit organization has helped
many under served students learn advanced math.
41. Winners of local contests will participate in the national math
competition for free.
42. Many schools don’t place academic competitions at the top of their
priority list.
43. Contestants of elite high school math competitions are mostly Asian
and white students from well-off families.
44. Some math training programs primarily focus on raising students’
math scores.
41. Some intensive summer programs are very expensive but most of
them provide scholarships.
Section C
Directions: There are 2 passages in this section. 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 2with a single line through the
centre.
Passage One
Questions 46 to 50 are based on the following passage.
We live today indebted to McCardell, Cashin, Hawes, Wilkins, and Maxwell, and
other women who liberated American fashion from the confines of Parisian design.
Independence came in tying, wrapping, storing, harmonizing, and rationalizing that
wardrobe. These designers established the modem dress code, letting play suits and
other active wear outfits suffice for casual clothing, allowing pants to enter the
wardrobe, and prizing rationalism and versatility in dress, in contradiction to dressing
for an occasion or allotment of the day. Fashion in America was logical andanswerable to the will of the women who wore it. Implicitly or explicitly, American
fashion addressed a democracy, whereas traditional Paris-based fashion was
prescriptive and imposed on women, willing or not.
In an earlier time, American fashion had also followed the dictates of Paris, or
even copied and pirated specific French designs. Designer sportswear was not
modeled on that of Europe, as “modem art” would later be; it was genuinely invented
and developed in America. Its designers were not high-end with supplementary lines.
The design objective and the business commitment were to sportswear, and the
distinctive traits were problem-solving ingenuity and realistic lifestyle applications.
Ease of care was most important: summer dresses and outfits, in particular, were
chiefly cotton, readily capable of being washed and pressed at home. Closings were
simple, practical, and accessible, as the modem woman depended on no personal maid
to dress her. American designers prized resourcefulness and the freedom of women
who wore the clothing.
Many have argued that the women designers of this time were able to project
their own clothing values into a new style. Of course, much of this argument in the
1930s-40s was advanced because there was little or no experience in justifying（月
艮装）on the basis of utility. If Paris was cast aside, the tradition of beauty was also
to some degree slighted. Designer sportswear would have to be verified by a standard
other than that of pure beauty; the emulation of a designer’s life in designer
sportswear was a crude version of this relationship. The consumer was ultimately to
be mentioned as well, especially by the likes of Dorothy Shaver, who could point to
the sales figures at Lord & Taylor.
Could utility alone justify the new ideas of the American designers? Fashion is
often regarded as a pursuit of beauty, and some cherished fashion’s trivial relationship
to the fine arts. What the designers of American sportswear proved was that fashion is
a genuine design art, answering to the demanding needs of service. Of course these
practical, insightful designers have determined the course of late twentieth-century
fashion. They were the pioneers of gender equity, in their useful, adaptable clothing,
which was both made for the masses and capable of self-expression.
46. What contribution did the women designers make to American fashion?
A) They made some improvements on the traditional Parisian design.
B) They formulated a dress code with distinctive American features.
C) They came up with a brand new set of design procedures.
D) They made originality a top priority in their fashion design.
47. What do we learn about American designer sportswear?
A) It imitated the European model.
B) It laid emphasis on woman’s beauty.
C) It represented genuine American art.
D) It was a completely new invention.
48. What characterized American designer sportswear?
A) Pursuit of beauty.
B) Decorative closings.
C) Ease of care.D) Fabric quality.
49. What occurred in the design of women’s apparel in America during the
1930s-40s?
A) A shift of emphasis from beauty to utility.
B) The emulation of traditional Parisian design.
C) A search for balance between tradition and novelty.
D) The involvement of more women in fashion design.
50. What do we learn about designers of American sportswear?
A) They catered to the taste of the younger generation.
B) They radically changed people’s concept of beauty.
C) They advocated equity between men and women.
D) They became rivals of their Parisian counterparts.
Passage Two
Questions 51 to 55 are based on the following passage.
Massive rubbish dumps and sprawling landfills constitute one of the more
uncomfortable impacts that humans have on wildlife. They have led some birds to
give up on migration. Instead of flying thousands of miles in search of food, they
make the waste sites their winter feeding grounds.
Researchers in Germany used miniature GPS tags to track the migrations of 70
white storks from different sites across Europe and Asia during the first five months
of their lives. While many birds travelled along well-known routes to warmer
climates, others stopped short and spent the winter on landfills, feeding on food waste,
and the multitudes of insects that thrive on the dumps.
In the short-term, the birds seem to benefit from overwintering(过冬) on rubbish
dumps. Andrea Flack of the Max Planck Institute found that birds following
traditional migration routes were more likely to die than German storks that flew only
as far as northern Morocco, and spent the winter there on rubbish dumps. “For the
birds it’s a very convenient way to get food. There are huge clusters of organic waste
they can feed on,” said Flack. The meals are not particularly appetising, or even safe.
Much of the waste is discarded rotten meat, mixed in with other human debris such as
plastic bags and old toys.
“It’s very risky. The birds can easily eat pieces of plastic or rubber bands and they
can die,” said Flack. “And we don’t know about the long-term consequences. They
might eat something toxic and damage their health. We cannot estimate that yet.”
The scientists tracked white storks from different colonies in Europe and Africa.
The Russian, Greek and Polish storks flew as far as South Africa, while those from
Spain, Tunisia and Germany flew only as far as the Sahel.
Landfill sites on the Iberian peninsula have long attracted local white storks, but
all of the Spanish birds tagged in the study flew across the Sahara desert to the
western Sahel. Writing in the journal, the scientists describe how the storks from
Germany were clearly affected by the presence of waste sites, with four out of six
birds that survived for at least five months overwintering on rubbish dumps in
northern Morocco, instead of migrating to the Sahel.Flack said it was too early to know whether the benefits of plentiful food
outweighed the risks of feeding on landfills. But that’s not the only uncertainty.
Migrating birds affect ecosystems both at home and at their winter destinations, and
disrupting the traditional routes could have unexpected side effects. White storks feed
on（螳虫）and other insects that can become pests if their numbers get out of hand.
“They provide a useful service,” said Flack.
51. What is the impact of rubbish dumps on wildlife?
A) They have forced white storks to search for safer winter shelters.
B) They have seriously polluted the places where birds spend winter.
C) They have accelerated the reproduction of some harmful insects.
D) They have changed the previous migration habits of certain birds.
52.What do we learn about birds following the traditional migration
routes?
A) They can multiply at an accelerating rate.
B) They can better pull through the winter.
C) They help humans kill harmful insects.
D) They are more likely to be at risk of dying.
53. What does Andrea Flack say about the birds overwintering on
rubbish dumps?
A) They may end up staying there permanently.
B) They may eat something harmful.
C) They may evolve new feeding habits.
D) They may have trouble getting adequate food.
54. What can be inferred about the Spanish birds tagged in the study?
A) They gradually lose the habit of migrating in winter.
B) They prefer rubbish dumps far away to those at home.
C) They are not attracted to the rubbish dumps on their migration routes.
D) They join the storks form Germany on rubbish dumps in Morocco.
55. What is scientists ， other concern about white storks feeding on
landfills?
A) The potential harm to the ecosystem.
B) The genetic change in the stork species.
C) The spread of epidemics to their homeland.
D) The damaging effect on bio-diversity.
Part IV Translation (30 minutes)
Directions: For this part, you are allowed 30 minutes to translate a passage from
Chinese into English. You should write your answer on Answer Sheet 2.
唐朝始于 618年，终于 907年，是中国历史上最灿烂的时期。经过近三
百年的发展，唐代中国成为世界上最繁荣的强国，其首都长安是当时世界
上最大的都市。这一时期，经济发达、商业繁荣、社会秩序稳定，甚至边
境也对外开放。随着城市化和财富的增加，艺术和文学也繁荣起来。李白
和杜甫是以作品简洁自然而著称的诗人。他们的诗歌打动了学者和普通人的心。即使在今天，他们的许多诗歌仍广为儿童及成人阅读背诵。
【 参 考 答 案 】
【参考范文】
Nowadays, there has been a heated discussion as to a better choice between
attending college at home and abroad. Views on the topic vary greatly among people
from different walks of life. Some believe that it is a better choice to study in
domestic colleges, but others consider it better to study abroad.
I totally agree with the latter idea for the reasons presented below. To begin with,
it harms the society in that the greater the competition is, the higher the recruitment
requirements will become. Therefore, with experiences of studying abroad, graduates
will become more competitive in job hunting. Furthermore, it is beneficial to the
students themselves to study abroad. Without the choice to pursue overseas study,
many great scholars today would never have achieved such great success.
From my perspective, it is crucial that the government should encourage people
to pursue overseas study. Also it is crucial that people should understand the meaning
and value of attending college abroad. Only in this way can we achieve greater
success.
【26-30】KOMHI 【31-35】ELGBJ
【36-40】FAIGL 【41-45】EJBMH
【46-50】BDCAC 【51-55】DDBCA
【翻译参考译文】
The Tang Dynasty, beginning in the year of 618 and ending in 907, is the most
splendid period in Chinese history. After three hundred years of development, it has
become the world's most prosperous power and its capital, Chang an, is one of the
world's largest city. During this period, there was developed economy, commercial
prosperity, stable social order, and even the border open to the outside world. With the
increase of the wealth of the urbanization, art and literature are also booming. Li Bai
and Du Fu are poets known for work’s simplicity and nature. Their poetry has
impressed scholars and ordinary people. Even today, a considerable number of their
poems are still widely read by children and adults.
