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大 学 英 语 六 级 考 试
COLLEGE ENGLISH TEST
—Band Six—
(2019 年 6 月第 1 套)
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1全国大学英语四、六级考试委员会
2Part I Writing (30 minutes)
Directions: For this part, you are allowed 30 minutes to write an essay on the importance of team spirit and
communication in the workplace. You should write at least 150 words but no more than 200 words.
Part II Listening Comprehension (30 minutes)
Section A
Directions: In this section, you will hear two long conversations. At the end of each conversation, you will hear
four questions. Both the conversation and the questions will be spoken only once. After you hear a question, you
must choose the best answer from the four choices marked A), B), C) and D). Then mark the corresponding letter
on Answer Sheet 1 with a single line through the center.
Questions 1 and 4 are based on the conversation you have just heard.
1. A) A six- month-long negotiation. C) A project with a troublesome client.
B) Preparations for the party. D) Gift wrapping for the colleagues.
2. A) Take wedding photos. C) Start a small business.
B) Advertise her company. D) Throw a celebration party.
3. A) Hesitant. C) Flattered.
B) Nervous. D) Surprised.
4. A) Start her own bakery. C) Share her cooking experience.
B) Improve her baking skill. D) Prepare for the wedding
Questions 5 to 8 are based on the conversation you have just heard.
5. A) They have to spend more time studying.
B) They have to participate in club activities.
C) They have to be more responsible for what they do.
D) They have to choose a specific academic discipline.
6. A) Get ready for a career. C) Set a long-term goal.
3B) Make a lot of friends. D) Behave like adults.
7. A) Those who share her academic interests.
B) Those who respect her student commitments.
C) Those who can help her when she is in need.
D) Those who go to the same clubs as she does.
8. A) Those helpful for tapping their potential.
B) Those conducive to improving their social skills.
C) Those helpful for cultivating individual interests.
D) Those conducive to their academic studies.
Section B
Directions: In this section, you will hear two passages. At the end of each passage, you will hear three or four
questions. Both the passage and the questions will be spoken only once. After you hear a question, you must
choose the best answer from the four choices marked A), B), C) and D). Then mark the corresponding letter on
Answer Sheet 1 with a single line through the center.
Questions 9 to 11 are based on the passage you have just heard.
9. A) They break away from traditional ways of thinking.
B) They are prepared to work harder than anyone else.
C) They are good at refining old formulas.
D) They bring their potential into full play.
10. A) They contributed to the popularity of skiing worldwide.
B) They resulted in a brand-new style of skiing techniques.
C) They promoted the scientific use of skiing poles.
D) They made explosive news in the sports world.
11. A) He was recognized as a genius in the world of sports.
B) He competed in all major skiing events in the world.
C) He won three gold medals in one Winter Olympics.
D) He broke three world skiing records in three years
Questions 12 to 15 are based on the passage you have just heard.
12. A) They appear restless. C) They become upset.
B) They lose consciousness. D) They die almost instantly.
413. A) It has an instant effect on your body chemistry.
B) It keeps returning to you every now and then.
C) It leaves you with a long lasting impression.
D) It contributes to the shaping of you mind.
14. A) To succeed while feeling irritated.
B) To feel happy without good health.
C) To be free from frustration and failure.
D) To enjoy good health while in dark moods.
15. A) They are closely connected.
B) They function in a similar way.
C) They are too complex to understand.
D) They reinforce each other constantly.
Section C
Directions: In this section, you will hear three recordings of lectures or talks followed by three or four questions.
The recordings will be played only once. After you hear a question, you must choose the best answer from the four
choices marked A), B), C) and D). Then mark the corresponding letter on Answer Sheet 1 with a single line
through the center.
Questions 16 to 18 are based on the recording you have just heard.
16. A) They differ in their appreciation of music.
B) They focus their attention on different things.
C) They finger the piano keys in different ways.
D) They choose different pieces of music to play.
17. A) They manage to cooperate well with their teammates.
B) They use effective tactics to defeat their competitors.
C) They try hard to meet the spectators’ expectations.
D) They attach great importance to high performance.
18. A) It marks a breakthrough in behavioral science.
B) It adopts a conventional approach to research.
C) It supports a piece of conventional wisdom.
D) It gives rise to controversy among experts.
5Questions 19 to 21 are based on the recording you have just heard.
19. A) People’s envy of slim models. C) The increasing range of fancy products.
B) People’s craze for good health. D) The great variety of slimming products.
20. A) They appear vigorous. C) They look charming.
B) They appear strange. D) They look unhealthy.
21. A) Culture and upbringing. C) Peer pressure.
B) Wealth and social status. D) Media influence.
Questions 22 to 25 are based on the recording you have just heard.
22. A) The relation between hair and skin. C) The color of human skin.
B) The growing interest in skin studies. D) The need of skin protection.
23. A) The necessity to save energy. C) The need to breathe with ease.
B) Adaptation to the hot environment. D) Dramatic climate changes on earth.
24. A) Leaves and grass. C) Their skin coloring.
B) Man-made shelter. D) Hair on their skin.
25. A) Their genetic makeup began to change.
B) Their communities began to grow steadily.
C) Their children began to mix with each other.
D) Their pace of evolution began to quicken
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.
6Pasta is no longer off the menu, after a new review of studies suggested that the carbohydrate can form part
of a healthy diet, and even help people lose weight. For years, nutritionists have recommended that pasta be kept
to a 26, to cut calories, prevent fat build-up and stop blood sugar 27 up.
The low-carbohydrate food movement gave birth to such diets as the Atkins, Paleo and Keto, which advised
swapping foods like bread, pasta and potatoes for vegetables, fish and meat. More recently the trend of swapping
spaghetti for vegetables has been 28 by clean-eating experts.
But now a 29 review and analysis of 30 studies by Canadian researchers found that not only does pasta not
cause weight gain, but three meals a week can help people drop more than half a kilogram over four months. The
reviewers found that pasta had been unfairly demonized (妖魔化) because it had been 30 in with other, more ft-
promoting carbohydrates.
“The study found that pasta didn’t 31 to weight gain or increase in body fat,” said lead author Dr. John
Sievenpiper. “In 32 the evidence, we can now say with some confidence that pasta does not have an 33 effect on
body weigh outcomes when it is consumed as part of a healthy dietary pattern.” In fact, analysis actually showed a
small weigh loss 34 to concerns. Perhaps pasta can be part of a healthy diet.
Those involved in the 35 trials on average ate 3.3 servings of pasta a week instead of other carbohydrates,
one serving equaling around half a cup. They lost around half a kilogram over an average follow-up of 12 weeks.
A) adverse I) minimum
B) championed J) radiating
C) clinical K) ration
D) contrary L) shooting
E) contribute M) subscribe
F) intimate N) systematic
G) lumped O) weighing
H) magnified
I)exclusively
J)innovated
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.
7The Best Retailers Combine Bricks and Clicks
A) Retail profits are falling sharply. Stores are closing. Malls are emptying. The depressing stories just keep
coming. Reading the earnings announcements of large retail stores like Macy’s, Nordstrom, and Target is about
as uplifting as a tour of an intensive care unit. The interact is apparently taking down yet another industry. Brick
and mortar stores (实体店) seem to be going the way of the yellow pages. Sure enough, the Census Bureau just
released data showing that online retail sales surged 15.2 percent between the first quarter of 2015 and the first
quarter of 2016.
B) But before you dump all of your retail stocks, there are more facts you should consider. Looking only at that
15.2 percent “surge” would be misleading. It was an increase that was on a small base of 6.9 percent. Even when
a tiny number grows by a large percentage terms, it is often still tiny.
C) More than 20 years after the internet was opened to commerce, the Census Bureau tells us that brick and
mortar sales accounted for 92.3 percent of retail sales in the first quarter of 2016. Their data show that only 0.8
percent of retail sales shifted from offline to online between the beginning of 2015 and 2016.
D) So, despite all the talk about drone (无人机) deliveries to your doorstep, all the retail executives expressing
anxiety over consumers going online, and even a Presidential candidate exclaiming that Amazon has a “huge
antitrust problem,” the Census data suggest that physical retail is thriving. Of course, the closed stores, depressed
executives, and sinking stocks suggest otherwise. What’s the real story?
E) Many firms operating brick and mortar stores are in trouble. The retail industry is getting reinvented, as we
describe in our new book Matchmakers. It’s standing in the Path of what Schumpeter called a gale (大风) of
creative destruction. That storm has been brewing for some time, and as it has reached gale force, most large
retailers are searching for a response. As the CFO of Macy’s put it recently, “We’re frankly scratching our
heads.”
F) But it’s not happening as experts predicted. In the peak of the dot. com bubble, brick and mortar retail was
8one of those industries the internet was going to kill-and quickly. The dot.com bust discredited most predictions
of that sort and in the years that followed, conventional retailers’ confidence in the future increased as Census
continued to report weak online sales. And then the gale hit.
G) It is becoming increasingly clear that retail reinvention isn’t a simple battle to the death between bricks and
clicks. It is about devising retail models that work for people who are making increasing use of a growing array
of internet-connected tools to change how they search, shop, and buy. Creative retailers are using the new
technologies to innovate just about everything stores do from managing inventory, to marketing, to getting paid.
H) More than drones dropping a new supply of underwear on your doorstep, Apple’s massively successful brick-
and-mortar-and-glass retail stores and Amazon’s small steps in the same direction are what should keep old-
fashioned retailers awake at night. Not to mention the large number of creative new retailers, like Bonobos, that
are blending online and offline experiences in creative ways.
I) Retail reinvention is not a simple process, and it’s also not happening on what used to be called “Internet
Time.” Some internet-driven changes have happened quickly, of course. Craigslist quickly overtook newspaper
classified ads and turned newspaper economics upside down. But many widely anticipated changes weren’t
quick, and some haven’t really started. With the benefit of hindsight (后见之明), it looks like the interact will
transform the economy at something like the pace of other great inventions like electricity. B2B commerce, for
example, didn’t move mainly online by 2005 as many had predicted in 2000, nor even by 2016, but that doesn’t
mean it won’t do so over the next few decades.
J) But the gale is still blowing. The sudden decline in foot traffic in recent years, even though it hasn’t been
accompanied by a massive decline in physical sales, is a critical warning. People can shop more efficiently online
and therefore don’t need to go to as many stores to find what they want. There’s a surplus of physical shopping
space for the crowds, which is one reason why stores are downsizing and closing.
K) The rise of the mobile phone has recently added a new level of complexity to the process of retail reinvention.
Even five years ago most people faced a choice. Sit at your computer, probably at home or at the office, search
9and browse, and buy. Or head out to the mall, or Main Street, look and shop, and buy. Now, just about everyone
has a smartphone, connected to the internet almost everywhere almost all the time. Even when a retailer gets a
customer to walk in the store, she can easily see if there’s a better deal online or at another store nearby.
L) So far, the main thing many large retailers have done in response to all this is to open online stores, so people
will come to them directly rather than to Amazon and its smaller online rivals. Many are having the same
problem that newspapers have. Even if they get online traffic, they struggle to make enough money online to
compensate for what they are losing offline.
M) A few seem to be making this work. Among large traditional retailers, Walmart recently reported the best
results, leading its stock price to surge, while Macy’s, Target, and Nordstrom’s dropped. Yet Walmart’s year-
over-year online sales only grew 7 percent, leading its CEO to lament (哀叹), “Growth here is too slow.” Part of
the problem is that almost two decades after Amazon filed the one. Click patent, the online retail shopping and
buying experience is filled with frictions. A recent study graded more than 600 internet retailers on how easy it
was for consumers to shop, buy, and pay. Almost half of the sites didn’t get a passing grade and only 18 percent
got an A or B.
N) The turmoil on the ground in physical retail is hard to square with the Census data. Unfortunately, part of the
explanation is that the Census retail data are unreliable. Our deep 100k into those data and their preparation
revealed serious problems. It seems likely that Census simply misclassifies a large chunk of online sales. It is
certain that the Census procedures, which lump the online sales of major traditional retailers like Walmart with
“non-store retailers” 1ike food trucks can mask major changes in individual retail categories. The bureau could
easily present their data in more useful ways. But they have chosen not to.
O) Despite the turmoil, brick and mortar won’t disappear any time soon. The big questions are which, if any, of
the large traditional retailers will still be on the scene in a decade or two because they have successfully
reinvented themselves, which new players will operate busy stores on Main Streets and maybe even in shopping
malls, and how the shopping and buying experience will have changed in each retail category. Investors
shouldn’t write off brick and mortar. Whether they should bet on the traditional players who run those stores
10now is another matter.
36. Although online retailing has existed for some twenty years, nearly half of the internet retailers still fail to
receive satisfactory feedback from consumers, according to a recent survey.
37. Innovative retailers integrate internet technologies with conventional retailing to create new retail models.
38. Despite what the Census data suggest, the value of physical retail’s stocks has been dropping.
39. Innovative—driven changes in the retail industry didn’t take place as quickly as widely anticipated.
40. Statistics indicate that brick and mortar sales still made up the lion’s share of the retail business.
41. Companies that successfully combine online and offline business models may prove to be a big concern for
traditional retailers.
42. Brick and mortar retailers’ faith in their business was strengthened when the dot com bubble burst.
43. Despite the tremendous challenges from online retailing, traditional retailing will be here to stay for quite
some time.
44. With the rise of online commerce, physical retail stores are likely to suffer the same fate as the yellow pages.
45. The wide use of smartphones has made it more complex for traditional retailers to reinvent their business.
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 2 with a single line through the centre.
Passage One
Questions 46 to 50 are based on the following passage.
11Professor Stephen Hawking has warned that the creation of powerful artificial intelligence (AI) will be
“either the best, or the worst thing, ever to happen to humanity”, and praised the creation of an academic institute
dedicated to researching the future of intelligence as “ crucial to the future of our civilisation and our species”.
Hawking was speaking at the opening of the Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence (LCFI) at
Cambridge University, a multi-disciplinary institute that will attempt to tackle some of the open-ended questions
raised by the rapid pace of development in AI research. “We spend a great deal of time study in history,” Hawking
said, “which, let’s face it, is mostly the history of stupidity. So it’s a welcome change that people are studying
instead the future of intelligence.”
While the world-renowned physicist has often been cautious about AI, raising concerns that humanity could
be the architect of its own destruction if it creates a super-intelligence with a will of its own, he was also quick to
highlight the positives that AI research can bring. “The potential benefits of creating intelligence are huge,” he
said. “We cannot predict what we might achieve when our own minds are amplified by AI. Perhaps with the tools
of this new technological revolution, we will be able to undo some of the damage done to the natural world by the
last one —industrialisation. And surely we will aim to finally eradicate disease and poverty. And every aspect of
our lives will be transformed. In short, success in creating AI could be the biggest event in the history of our
civilisation.”
Huw Price, the centre’s academic director and the Bertrand Russell professor of philosophy at Cambridge
University, where Hawking is also an academic, said that the centre came about partially as a result of the
university’s Centre for Existential Risk. That institute examined a wider range of potential problems for humanity,
while the LCFI has a narrow focus.
AI pioneer Margaret Boden, professor of cognitive science at the University of Sussex, praised the progress
of such discussions. As recently as 2009, she said, the topic wasn’t taken seriously, even among AI researchers.
12“AI is hugely exciting,” she said, “but it has limitations, which present grave dangers given uncritical use.”
The academic community is not alone in warning about the potential dangers of AI as well as the potential
benefits. A number of pioneers from the technology industry, most famously the entrepreneur Elon Musk, have
also expressed their concerns about the damage that a super-intelligent AI could do to humanity.
46. What did Stephen Hawking think of artificial intelligence?
A) It would be vital to the progress of human civilisation.
B) It might be a blessing or a disaster in the making.
C) It might present challenges as well as opportunities.
D) It would be a significant expansion of human intelligence.
47. What did Hawking say about the creation of the LCFI?
A) It would accelerate the progress of AI research.
B) It would mark a step forward in the AI industry.
C) It was extremely important to the destiny of humankind.
D) It was an achievement of multi-disciplinary collaboration.
48. What did Hawking say was a welcome change in AI research?
A) The shift of research focus from the past to the future.
B) The shift of research from theory to implementation.
C) The greater emphasis on the negative impact of AI.
D) The increasing awareness of mankind’s past stupidity.
49. What concerns did Hawking raise about AI?
A) It may exceed human intelligence sooner or later.
13B) It may ultimately over-amplify the human mind.
C) Super-intelligence may cause its own destruction.
D) Super-intelligence may eventually ruin mankind.
50. What do we learn about some entrepreneurs from the technology industry?
A) They are much influenced by the academic community.
B) They are most likely to benefit from AI development.
C) They share the same concerns about AI as academics.
D) They believe they can keep AI under human control.
Passage Two
Questions 51 to 55 are based on the following passage.
The market for products designed specifically for older adults could reach $30 billion by next year, and
startups (初创公司) want in on the action. What they sometimes lack is feedback from the people who they hope
will use their products. So Brookdale, the country’s largest owner of retirement communities, has been inviting a
few select entrepreneurs just to move in for a few days, show off their products and hear what the residents have
to say.
That’s what brought Dayle Rodriguez, 28, all the way from England to the dining room of Brookdale South
Bay in Torrance, California. Rodriguez is the community and marketing manager for a company called Sentab.
The startup’s product, SentabTV, enables older adults who may not be comfortable with computers to access
email, video chat and social media using just their televisions and a remote control.
“It’s nothing new, it’s nothing too complicated and it’s natural because lots of people haveTV remotes,”
says Rodriguez.
14But none of that is the topic of conversation in the Brookdale dining room. Instead, Rodriguez solicits
residents’ advice on what he should get on his cheeseburger and how he should spend the afternoon. Playing cards
was on the agenda, as well as learning to play mahjong (麻将).
Rodriguez says it’s important that residents here don’t feel like he’s selling them something. “I’ve had more
feedback in a passive approach,” he says. “Playing pool, playing cards, having dinner, having lunch,” all work
better “than going through a survey of questions. When they get to know me and to trust me, knowing for sure
I’m not selling them something—there’ll be more honest feedback from them.”
Rodriguez is just the seventh entrepreneur to move into one of Brookdale’s 1,100 senior living communities.
Other new products in the program have included a kind of full-body blow dryer and specially designed clothing
that allows people with disabilities to dress and undress themselves.
Mary Lou Busch, 93, agreed to try the Sentab system. She tells Rodriguez that it might be good for
someone, but not for her. “I have the computer and FaceTime, which I talk with my family on, ”she explains.
She also has an iPad and a smartphone. “So I do pretty much everything I need to do.”
To be fair, if Rodriguez had wanted feedback from some more technophobic (害怕技术的) seniors, he
might have ended up in the wrong Brookdale community. This one is located in the heart of Southern
California’s aerospace corridor. Many residents have backgrounds in engineering, business and academic circles.
But Rodriguez says he’s still learning something important by moving into this Brookdale community:
“People are more tech-proficient than we thought.”
And besides, where else would he learn to play mahjong?
51. What does the passage say about the startups?
A) They never lose time in upgrading products for seniors.
B) They want to have a share of the seniors’ goods market.
C) They invite seniors to their companies to try their products.
15D) They try to profit from promoting digital products to seniors.
52. Some entrepreneurs have been invited to Brookdale to
A) have an interview with potential customers
B) conduct a survey of retirement communities
C) collect residents’ feedback on their products
D) show senior residents how to use IT products
53. What do we know about SentabTV?
A) It is a TV program catering to the interest of the elderly.
B) It is a digital TV which enjoys popularity among seniors.
C) It is a TV specially designed for seniors to view programs.
D) It is a communication system via TV instead of a computer.
54. What does Rodriguez say is important in promoting products?
A) Winning trust from prospective customers.
B) Knowing the likes and dislikes of customers.
C) Demonstrating their superiority on the spot.
D) Responding promptly to customer feedback.
55. What do we learn about the seniors in the Brookdale community?
A) Most of them are interested in using the Sentab.
B) They are quite at ease with high-tech products.
C) They have much in common with seniors elsewhere.
D) Most of them enjoy a longer life than average people.
16Part 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.
成语（Chinese idioms）是汉语中的一种独特的表达方式，大多由四个汉字组成。它们高度简练且形
式固定，但通常能形象地表达深刻的含义。成语大多数来源于中国古代的文学作品，通常与某些神话、
传说或者历史事件有关。如果不知道某个成语的出处，就很难理解其确切含义。因为，学习成语有助于
人们更好地理解中国传统文化。成语在日常会话和文学创作中广泛使用。恰当使用成语可以使一个人的
语言更具表现力，交流更有效。
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