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2020年7月份英语六级考试答案及听力原文
一、写作
六级作文主题：
The best preparation for tomorrow is doing your best today.
明天最好的准备在于今天尽你所能。
参考范文：
There is a famous saying that the best preparation for tomorrow is to do good work today.
Simple as the saying is, it informs us that one doesn’t need to worry about the future if he
can seize the moment.
It is generally believed that taking immediate action is of great importance. Doing good
work today enables people to achieve their great goals step by step. Assume a college
student who is indulged in his wishful thinking of passing the CET-6 exam with a high
score without any efforts and hard work，and he will be devastated to accept the reality
when he fails. The same thing may be said of some grown-ups who aspire to gain fame
and fortune but never bother to put their splendid plans into practice immediately.
Therefore, by some means or other we must take action to pursue our goals. It is
necessary for us to aim high but our behaviors should also deserve our dreams. We are
supposed to put our efforts into every single day and never look down upon those little
tasks. Only in this way can we fulfill our dreams.
二、听力
听力原文
Section A
Conversation One
【听力原文】
M: Tonight, we have a very special guest. Mrs. Anna Sanchez is a three time Olympic
champion and author of the new book To the Edge. Mrs. Sanchez, thank you for
joining us.
W: Thank you for having me.
M: Let’s start with your book. What does the title To the Edge mean? What are you
referring to?
W: The book is about how science and technology has helped push humans to the edge
of their physical abilities. I argue that in the past 20 years we have had the best
athletes the world has ever seen.
M: But is this a fair comparison? How do you know, how, say, a football player from 50years ago would compare to one today?
W: Well, you are right. That comparison would be perhaps impossible to make. But the
point is more about our knowledge today of human biochemistry, nutrition and
mechanics. I believe that while our bodies have not changed in thousands of years,
what has changed is the scientific knowledge. This has allowed athletes to push the
limits of what was previously thought possible.
M: That’s interesting. Please tell us more about these perceived limits.
W: The world has seen sports records being broken that could only be broken with the aid
of technology, whether this be the speed of a tennis serve or the fastest time in 100
meter dash or 200 meter swimming race.
M: Is there any concern that technology is giving some athletes an unfair advantage over
others?
W: That is an interesting question and one that has to be considered very carefully. Skis,
for example, went from being made of wood to a metal alloy, which allows for better
control and faster speed. There is no stopping technological progress. But, as I said,
each situation should be considered carefully on a case by case basis.
【题目】
1. What do we learn about Anna Sanchez?
2. What is the woman’s book mainly about?
3. What has changed in the past thousands of years?
4. What is the man’s concern about the use of technology in sports competitions?
Conversation Two
【听力原文】
W: I’ve worked in international trade all my life. My father did so too before me. So I guess
you could say it runs in the family.
M: What products have you worked with?
W: All sorts, really. I’ve imported textiles, machinery, toys, solar panels, all kinds of things
over the years. Trends and demand come and go. So one needs to be very flexible to
succeed in this industry.
M: I see. What goods are you trading now?
W: I now import furniture from China into Italy and foods from Italy into China. I even use
the same container. It’s a very efficient way of conducting trade.
M: The same container? You mean you own a 40-foot cargo container?
W: Yeah, that’s right. I have a warehouse in Genoa, Italy and another in Shanghai. I
source mid-century modern furniture from different factories in China. It’s very good
value for money. I collect it all in my warehouse and then dispatch it to my other
warehouse in Italy. Over there I do the same, but with Italian foods instead of furniture,
things like pasta, cheese, wine, chocolates. And I send all that to my warehouse in
China in the same freight container I use for the furniture.
M: So I presume you sell both lines of products wholesale in each respective country.
W: Of course. I possess a network of clients and partners in both countries. That’s the
main benefit of having done this for so long. I’ve made great business contacts over
time.M: How many times do you ship?
W: I did 12 shipments last year, 18 this year, and I hope to grow to around 25 next year.
That’s both ways, there and back again. Demand for authentic Italian food in China is
growing rapidly. And similarly, sales of affordable, yet stylish wooden furniture are
also increasing in Italy. Furniture is marginally more profitable, mostly because it
enjoys lower customs duties.
【题目】
Q5: What does the woman think is required to be successful in international trade?
Q6: What does the woman say is special about her way of doing trade?
Q7: What does the woman have in both Italy and China?
Q8: What does the woman say makes furniture marginally more profitable?
Section B
Passage One
【听力原文】
“Too many people view their jobs as a five-day prison from which they are paroled
every Friday,” says Joel Goodman, founder of the Humour Project, a humour consulting
group in Saratoga Springs, New York. Humour unlocks the office prison because it lets
adults bring some of their childlike spirit to the job.
According to Howard Pollio, professor of psychology at the University of Tennessee,
Knoxville, an office with humour breaks is an office with satisfied and productive
employees. Pollio conducted a study that proved humour can help workers excel at
routine production tasks. Employees perform better when they have fun.
In large corporations with a hierarchy of power, there is often no outlet for stress.
“Every company needs underground ways of poking fun at the organization,” says Lynn ...
Mark, a speaker on workplace humour for St. Mary’s Health Centre in St. Louis.
Kodak’s Rochester, New York branch discovered a way for its 20000 employees to
uncork their bottled-up resentments. Their 1000-square-foot Humour Room features a toy
store. Among the room’s many stress-reducing gadgets, the main attraction is a boss doll
with detachable arms and legs. Employees can take the doll apart as long as they put its
arms and legs back in place.
Sandy Cohen, owner of a graphic print production business, created the Quote Board
to document the bizarre phrases people say when under strict deadlines. “When you’re
under stress, you say stupid things,” says Cohen. “Now we just look at each other and say,
that’s one for the Quote Board.”
【题目】
9. What does the passage say about humour in the workplace?
10. What does the study by Howard Pollio show?
11. What can Kodak’s employees do in the Humour Room?
Passage Two
【听力原文】
Public interest was aroused by the latest discovery of a changed gene in obese mice.The news was made known by Rockefeller University geneticist Jeffrey Friedman. The
researchers believe this gene influences development of a hormone that tells the
organism how fat or full it is. Those with the changed gene may not sense when they have
eaten enough or if they have sufficient fatty tissue, and thus can't tell when to stop eating.
The researchers also reported finding a gene nearly identical to the mouse obesity
gene in humans. The operation of this gene in humans has not yet been demonstrated,
however. Still, professionals like University of Vermont psychologist Esther Rothblum
reacted enthusiastically: “This research indicates that people really are born with a
tendency to have a certain weight, just as they are to have a particular skin color or
height.”
Actually, behavioral geneticists believe that less than half of total weight variation is
programmed in the genes, while height is almost entirely genetically determined.
Whatever role genes play, Americans are getting fatter. A survey by the Center for
Disease Control found that obesity has increased greatly over the last 10 years. Such
rapid change underlines the role of environmental factors, like the abundance of rich foods,
in Americans’ overeating.
The Center for Disease Control has also found that teens are far less physically
active than they were even a decade ago. Accepting that weight is predetermined can
relieve guilt for overweight people. But people’s belief that they cannot control their weight
can itself contribute to obesity.
【题目】
Q12: What does the speaker say has aroused public interest?
Q13: What do we learn about the changed gene?
Q14: What does University of Vermont psychologist Esther Rothblum say?
Q15: What accounts for Americans’ obesity according to a survey by the Center for
Disease Control?
Section C
Recording One
【听力原文】
Qualities of a relationship, such as openness, compassion, and mental stimulation
are of concern to most of us regardless of sex, but – judging from the questionnaire
response – they are more important to women than to men.
Asked to consider the ingredients of close friendship, women rated these qualities
above all others. Men assigned a lower priority to them in favor of similarity in interests,
selected by 77% of men, and responsiveness in a crisis, chosen by 61% of male
respondents. Mental stimulation, ranked third in popularity by men as well as women, was
the only area of overlap. Among men, only 28% named openness as an important quality;
caring was picked by just 23%.
It is evident by their selections that when women speak of close friendships they are
referring to emotional factors, while men emphasize the pleasure they find in a friend’s
company. That is, when a man speaks of “a friend” he is likely to be talking about
someone he does things with – a teammate, a fellow hobbyist, a drinking buddy. Theseactivities are the fabric of the friendship; it is a “doing” relationship in which similarity in
interests is the key bond. This factor was a consideration of less than 11% of women.
Women opt for a warm, emotional atmosphere where communication flows freely; activity
is mere background.
Lastly, men, as we have seen, have serious questions about each other’s loyalty.
Perhaps this is why they placed such strong emphasis on responsiveness in a crisis –
“someone I can call on for help.” Women, as their testimonies indicate, are generally more
secure with each other and consequently are more likely to treat this issue lightly. In
follow-up interviews this was confirmed numerous times as woman after woman indicated
that “being there when needed was taken for granted.”
As for the hazards of friendship, more than a few relationships have been shattered
because of cutthroat competition and feelings of betrayal. This applies to both men and
women, but unequally. In comparison, nearly twice as many men complained about these
issues as women. Further, while competition and betrayal are the main thorns to female
friendship, men are plagued in almost equal amounts by two additional issues: lack of
frankness and a fear of appearing unmanly. Obviously, for a man, a good friendship is
hard to find.
【题目】
Q16: What quality do men value most concerning friendship, according to a questionnaire
response?
Q17: What do women refer to when speaking of close friendships?
Q18: What may threaten a friendship for both men and women?
Recording Two
【听力原文】
The partial skeletons of more than 20 dinosaurs and the scattered bones of about
300 more have been discovered in Utah and Colorado at what is now the Dinosaur
National Monument. Many of the best specimens may be seen today at museums of
natural history in the larger cities of the United States and Canada. This dinosaur pit is the
largest and best preserved deposit of dinosaurs known today.
Many people get the idea from the mass of bones in the pit wall that some disaster
such as a volcanic explosion or a sudden flood killed a whole herd of dinosaurs in this
area. This could have happened but it probably did not.
The main reasons for thinking otherwise are the scattered bones and the thickness of
the deposit. In other deposits where the animals were thought to have died together, the
skeletons were usually complete and often all the bones were in their proper places.
Rounded pieces of fossil bone have been found here. These fragments got their smooth
round shape by rolling along the stream bottom. In a mass killing, the bones would have
been left on the stream or lake bottom together at the same level. But in this deposit, the
bones occur throughout a zone of sandstone about 12 feet thick. The mixture of swamp
dwellers and dry-land types also seems to indicate that the deposit is a mixture from
different places.
The pit area is a large dinosaur graveyard, not a place where they died. Most of the
remains probably floated down an eastward flowing river until they were left on a shallowsandbar. Some of them may have come from far-away dry-land areas to the west.
Perhaps they drowned trying to cross a small stream or were washed away during floods.
Some of the swamp dwellers may have got stuck in the very sandbar that became their
grave; others may have floated for miles before being stranded.
Even today similar events take place. When floods come in the spring, sheep, cattle
and deer are often trapped by rising waters and often drown. Their dead bodies float
downstream until the flood recedes and leaves them stranded on a bar or shore where
they lie, half buried in the sand, until they decay. Early travelers on the Missouri river
reported that shores and bars were often lined with the decaying bodies of buffalo that had
died during spring floods.
【题目】
Q19: Where can many of the best dinosaur specimens be found in North America?
Q20: What occurs to many people when they see the massive bones in the pit wall?
Q21: What does the speaker suggest about the large number of dinosaur bones found in
the pit?
Recording Three
【听力原文】
I would like particularly to talk about the need to develop a new style of aging in our
own society. Young people in this country have been accused of not caring for their
parents the way they would have in the old country. And this is true. But it is also true that
old people have been influenced by an American ideal of independence and autonomy.
So we live alone, perhaps on the verge of starvation, in time without friends, but we are
independent. This standard American style has been forced on every ethnic group,
although there are many groups for whom the ideal is not practical. It is a poor ideal and
pursuing it does a great deal of harm.
This ideal of independence also contains a tremendous amount of unselfishness. In
talking to today’s young mothers, I have asked them what kind of grandmothers they think
they are going to be. I hear devoted, loving mothers say that when they are through
raising their children, they have no intention of becoming grandmothers. They are
astonished to hear that in most of the world throughout most of its history, families have
been three- or four-generation families, living under the same roof. We have
over-emphasized the small family unit—father, mother, small children. We think it is
wonderful if Grandma and Grandpa, if they’re still alive, can live alone.
We have reached the point where we think the only thing we can do for our children is
to stay out of their way and the only thing we can do for our daughter-in-law is to see as
little of her as possible. Old people’s nursing homes, even the best run, are filled with
older people who believe the only thing they can do for their children is to look cheerful
when they come to visit. So in the end, older people have to devote all their energies to
“not being a burden”.
We are beginning to see what a tremendous price we’ve paid for our emphasis on
independence and autonomy. We have isolated old people and we’ve cut off the children
from their grandparents. One of the reasons we have as bad a generation gap today as
we do is that grandparents have stepped out. Young people are being deprived of thething they need most—perspective, to know why their parents behave so peculiarly and
why their grandparents say the things they do.
【题目】
Question 22: What have young Americans been accused of?
Question 23: What does the speaker say about old people in the United States?
Question 24: What is astonishing to the young mothers interviewed by the speaker?
Question 25: What does the speaker say older people try their best to do?
听力答案及解析
1. A She is a great athlete.
解析：同义替换 Olympic Champion=athlete
2. D How technology has helped athlete to scale new heights.
解析：视听一致+同义替换 push humans to their edge of physical ability=scale new
heights.
3. B Our scientific knowledge.
解析：视听一致
4. C It may give an unfair advantage to some athletes.
解析：视听一致
5. B Flexibility.
解析：视听一致
6. D Using the same container back and forth.
解析：视听一致
7. A Warehouses.
解析：视听一致
8. C Lower import duties.
解析：视听—致+同义替换 import duties=customs duties
9. A It helps employees to reduce their stress.
解析：视听一致(乱序全篇有stress reducing=reduce their stress)
10. D Humor can help workers excel at routine tasks.
解析：视听一致
11. B Take the boss doll apart as long as they reassemble it.
解析：视听一致+同义替换put...back in place=reassemble it
12. A The recent finding of a changed gene in obese mice.
解析：视听一致+同义替换 the latest discovery=recent finding
13. D It renders mice unable to sense when to stop eating.
解析：视听一致+同义替换can't tell=unable to sense
14. C People are born with a tendency to have a certain weight.
解析：视听一致
15. B The abundant provision of rich foods.
解析：视听一致
16. A Similarity in interests.
解析：视听一致
17. D Emotional factors.解析：视听一致(问女生，要通过问题判断)
18. C Feelings of betrayal.
解析：视听一致(问男女共同点，要通过问题判断)
19. D At museums of natural history in large cities.
解析：视听一致(要通过问题判断)
20. B Some natural disaster killed a whole herd of dinosaurs in the area.
解析：视听一致
21. A The floated down an eastward of flowing river.
解析：视听一致
22. C Failing to care for parents in the traditional way.
解析：视听一致+同义替换（not caring=failing to care, in an old country=in the traditional
way)
23. D The have a sense of independence and autonomy.
解析：视听一致
24. B There have been extended families in most parts of the world.
解析：视听一致+同义替换(three or four-generation family=extended families)
25. B Avoid being a burden to their children.
解析：视听一致+同义替换(not=avoid)
三、阅读：
①选词填空答案：
26. grabbed
27. disaster
28. stake
29. overwhelming
30. eroding
31. deteriorating
32. stagnation
33. determined
34. urgent
35. capacity
②段落匹配：
36. C
piaget Believed that small children
37. J
The author and his colleagues
38. B
In the latter half of the last century39. A
Research conducted by Jane.
40. K
Our improved understanding of 'babies.
41. E
It has been found in recent research
42. M
Scientists are still debating.
43. H
the newer research methods focus on
44. D
With the progress in psychology
45. L
Even though marked advances have been made.
③仔细阅读：
46. B
They hold a different view on stress from the popular one.
47. D
They apply extreme tactics.
48. A
They help him combat stress from work.
49. C
It is something everybody has to live with.
50.C
Its effect varies considerably from person to person.
51. B
Hunting may also be a solution.
52. C
It leads to ecological imbalance.
53. A
Over pollution is not an issue.
54. A
When it benefits animals and their ecosystem.
55. C
Coordinated efforts of hunter.
四、翻译：
《三国演义》写于14世纪，是中国著名的历史小说。这部小说以三国时期的历史为基础，
描写了从二世纪下半叶到三世纪下半叶魏、蜀、吴之间的战争。小说描写了近千个人物和无
数的历史事件。虽然这些人物和事件大多是基于真实的历史，但它们都不同程度地被浪漫化
和戏剧化了。《三国演义》是公认的文学名著。自出版以来，这部小说吸引了一代又一代的
读者，对中国文化产生了广泛而持久的影响。参考译文：
The Romance of the Three Kingdoms, which was written in the fourteenth century, is a
famous historical novel in China. Based on the history of the Three Kingdoms period, this
literary work describes the war between Wei, Shu and Wu from the second half of the
second century to the second half of the third century. The novel depicts nearly a
thousand characters and countless historical events. Although most of these characters
and events are based on the real history, they are romanticized and dramatized to varying
degrees. The Romance of the Three Kingdoms is recognized as a literary masterpiece.
Since its publication, this novel has attracted generations of readers, and has a wide and
lasting impact on Chinese culture.
