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大学英语六级考试绝密押题试卷(
三)
Part Ⅰ Writing (30
minutes) Directions: For this part, you are allowed 30 minutes to write
an essay related to the short passage given below. In your essay, you are to
comment on the phenomenon described in the passage and give your opinion and
reasons. You should write at least 150 words but no more than 200
words.
Recently there is a hot debate on whether the school campus should be open
to the public at any time or in a limited period of time. Some people favor the
former, while others the latter.
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 centre.
Questions 1 to 4 are based on the conversation you have just heard.
1. A) Your heart rate is lowered. C) You become too tired to sleep.
B) It becomes harder to relax. D) Sleep rhythms are disrupted.
2. A) Having a rest frequently during the day.
B) The lack of sleep on weekends.
C) The lack of exercise in the evening.
D) Eating cheese before going to bed.
3. A) They might actually cause more serious sleeping problems.
B) They help produce a substance that induces sleep.
C) You must not drink milk if you take them.
D) They make it unnecessary to take naps.
4. A) At a doctor’ s office. C) At a radio
station.
B) In a biology lab. D) In a lecture hall.
Questions 5 to 8 are based on the conversation you have just heard.
5. A) A movie. C) A poem.
B) A book.D) A drama.
6. A) It is as good as the previous ones.
B) It is more fantastic than the previous ones.
C) It is funnier than the previous ones.
D) It is worse than the previous ones.
7. A) The funny dialogues. C) The outstanding actors.
2024年英语六级预测押题卷（三 第1页 淘宝：谈辰图书企业B) The special effects. D) The mysterious roles.
2024年英语六级预测押题卷（三 第2页 淘宝：谈辰图书企业8. A) The overall plot. C) The boring writing.
B) The theme song. D) The character development.
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 centre.
Questions 9 to 11 are based on the passage you have just heard.
9. A) Improve themselves. C) Follow the cultural tradition.
B) Get rid of empty dreams. D) Attempt something impossible.
10. A) By finding sufficient support for implementation.
B) By taking into account their own ability to change.
C) By constantly keeping in mind their ultimate goals.
D) By making detailed plans and carrying them out.
11. A) To show people how to get their lives back to normal.
B) To show how difficult it is for people to lose weight.
C) To remind people to check the calories on food bags.
D) To illustrate how easily people abandon their goals.
Questions 12 to 15 are based on the passage you have just heard.
12. A) Germany. C) The US.
B) Japan. D) The UK.
13. A) By doing odd jobs at weekends.
B) By working long hours every day.
C) By putting in more hours each week.
D) By taking shorter vacations each year.
14. A) To combat competition and raise
productivity.
B) To provide them with more job
opportunities.
C) To help them maintain their living
standards.
D) To prevent them from holding a second job.
15. A) Change their jobs. C) Reduce their working hours.
B) Earn more money. D) Strengthen the government’ s role.
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 centre.
Questions 16 to 19 are based on the recording you have just heard.
16. A) Try different classes to make sure which major fits you.
2024年英语六级预测押题卷（三 第3页 淘宝：谈辰图书企业B) Never change majors once you’ ve just started the course.
C) Change majors once a year to prepare for your future career.
D) Make a right decision about majors before you start college.
17. A) Learning how to change majors.
B) Deciding which professor to follow.
C) Learning how to manage time.
D) Making sure how to learn.
18. A) Different experiences in Europe.
B) Different social and sport organizations.
C) Different majors in your college.
D) Different part-time jobs.
19. A) We can spend most time having fun in college.
B) We are able to find our spouse in college.
C) We can keep healthy mentally and physically in college.
D) We can develop our personalities and make friends in college.
Questions 20 to 22 are based on the recording you have just heard.
20. A) Practising in a friendly
environment.
B) Writing articles on relevant
subjects.
C) Giving members the chance to practise.
D) Going to different weekly meetings.
21. A) Sending all messages simultaneously to the audience.
B) Learning from a famous public-speaking professor.
C) Simplifying and breaking down the presentation.
D) Using a book named Speaking of Speech.
22. A) The visual message shown to the audience.
B) The physical message sent through body movements.
C) The three basic messages sent by presenters.
D) The verbal message presenters say to the audience.
Questions 23 to 25 are based on the recording you have just heard.
23. A) They affect all agricultural production worldwide.
B) They impact most part of the crops in the field.
C) They destroy up to 22% of the crops before harvest.
D) They destroy about 10% to 16% of the world’ s crops in the field.
24. A) Unusual insects. C) Different organisms.
B) Crop pests and diseases. D) Only viruses and bacteria.
25. A) It will put the productive farmland in danger.
B) It may improve conditions for some invasive species.
C) It is a warning sign for people to do something.
D) It may push crop pests moving toward the poles.
2024年英语六级预测押题卷（三 第4页 淘宝：谈辰图书企业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.
As the recent courgette( 密生西葫芦) crisis and shortages of lettuces,
eggplants and broccoli( 花椰菜) have shown, Spain’ s fame as the vegetable
garden of Europe is well deserved. The country’ s huge agricultural sector
—courgettes, lettuces, tomatoes and strawberries— 2 6 a huge demand.
There has been a major 27 towards mechanization since the
1950s, but just as in the UK, many crops still need to be harvested
by hand, and many farmers rely on migrant labour. Even where mechanisation
can be used, picking machines tend to be too expensive and 28 for small-
scale farmers.
The tension between locals and migrant workers, 29 from North and
Sub-Saharan Africa and Eastern Europe—is not a big problem, as many of the
foreign workers have proper 3 0 and return to the same farms year after
year. They’ re known and that’ s important.
Alfrut— a company in the south-western province of Huelva that exports
strawberries, raspberries, and other fruits around the EU—still harvests by
hand. “ There is a machine that gathers strawberries, but you have to 31
the crop to the machine,” says Agustin Muriel, a technical and quality control
expert at Alfrut. “ If we were to use machines, we would have to 32 our
entire infrastructure and it would require a lot of investment in machinery,
which is designed mainly for large areas and really big companies. ”
He adds that the 33 , manual approach is likely to continue for
the 34 future, as fruit prices aren’ t high enough to allow
farmers to make big 35 in machinery or spend money
reconfiguring( 重新配置) their operations.
A) adapt I) investments
B) attach J) modify
C) contracts K) predominantly
D) feeds L) preference
E) foreseeab M) shift
le N) traditional
F) heralds O) unexpectedly
G) impractic
Section
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B
H) inaccessi
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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.
2024年英语六级预测押题卷（三 第5页 淘宝：谈辰图书企业A Best Friend? You Must Be Kidding
A) From the time they met in kindergarten until they were 15, Robin
Shreeves and her friend Penny were inseparable. They rode bikes, played
kickball in the street, swam all summer long and listened to music on
the stereo. They told each other secrets like which boys they thought were
cute, as best friends always do.
B) Today, Ms. Shreeves, of suburban Philadelphia, is the mother of
two boys. Her 10-year-old has a best friend. In fact, he is the son of
Ms. Shreeves’ s own friend, Penny. But Ms. Shreeves’ s younger son,
8, does not. His favorite playmate is a boy who was in his preschool
class, but Ms. Shreeves says that the two don ’ t get together very often
because scheduling play dates can be complicated; they usually have to be
planned a week or more in advance. “ He’ ll say, ‘ I wish I had someone I
can always call,’” Ms. Shreeves said.
C) One might be tempted to feel some sympathy for the younger son. After all,
from Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn to Harry Potter and Ron Weasley, the
childhood “ best friend ” has long been romanticized in literature and pop
culture—not to mention in the sentimental memories of countless adults.
D) But increasingly, some educators and other professionals who work
with children are asking a question that might surprise their parents: Should
a child really have a best friend?
E) Most children naturally seek close friends. In a survey of nearly 3,000
Americans aged 8 to 24 conducted last year by Harris Interactive, 94 percent
said they had at least one close friend. But the classic best-friend bond—the
two special pals who share secrets and exploits, who attract each other on the
playground and who head out the door together every day after school—signals
potential trouble for school officials intent on discouraging anything that
hints at exclusivity, in part because of concerns about cliques( 帮派)
and bullying.
F) “ I think it is kids’ preference to pair up and have that one
best friend. As adults—teachers and counselors—we try to encourage them
not to do that,” said Christine Laycob, the director of counseling at
Mary Institute and St. Louis Country Day School in St. Louis. “ We try to talk to
kids and work with them to get them to have big groups of friends and not to be so
possessive about friends. ” “ Parents sometimes say Johnny needs that one
special friend,” she continued. “ We say he doesn’ t need a best friend.
”
G) For many child-rearing experts, the ideal situation might well be that
of Matthew and Margaret Guest, 12-year-old twins in suburban Atlanta, who
almost always socialize in a pack. One typical Friday afternoon, about
10 boys and girls filled the Guest family backyard. Kids were jumping on
the trampoline( 蹦 床 ), shooting baskets and playing hide-and-seek. Neither
Margaret nor Matthew has ever had a best friend. “ I just really don’ t have
one person I like more than others,” Margaret said. “ Most people have lots of
friends,” Matthew said. He considers 12 boys to be his good friends
and he sees most of them “ pretty much every weekend”. Their mother,
Laura Guest, said their school tries to prevent bullying through workshops
and posters. And extracurricular activities keep her children group- oriented—
Margaret is on the swim team and does gymnastics; Matthew plays football and
baseball.
H) As the calendar moves into summer, efforts to manage friendships don’ t
2024年英语六级预测押题卷（三 第6页 淘宝：谈辰图书企业stop with the closing of school. In recent years Timber Lake Camp, a
co-ed sleep-away camp in Phoenicia, has started
2024年英语六级预测押题卷（三 第7页 淘宝：谈辰图书企业employing “ friendship coaches” to work with campers to help every child become
friends with everyone else. If two children seem to be too focused on each
other, the camp will make sure to put them on different sports teams,
seat them at different ends of the dining table or, perhaps, have a
counselor invite one of them to participate in an activity with another
child whom they haven’ t yet gotten to know. “ I don’ t think it’ s
particularly healthy for a child to rely on one friend,” said Jay Jacobs,
the camp’ s director. “ If something goes wrong, it can be devastating.
It also limits a child’ s ability to explore other options in the world. ”
I) But such an attitude worries some psychologists who fear that children will
be denied the strong emotional support and security that comes with intimate
friendships. “ Do we want to encourage kids to have all sorts of superficial
relationships? Is that how we really want to rear our children?” asked Brett
Laursen, a psychology professor at Florida Atlantic
University whose specialty is peer relationships. “ Imagine the
implication for romantic relationships. We want children to get good at leading
close relationships, not superficial ones. ” Many psychologists believe
that close childhood friendships not only increase a child’ s self-esteem
and confidence, but also help children develop the skills for healthy
adult relationships— everything from empathy, the ability to listen and
console, to the process of arguing and making up. If children’ s
friendships are designed and cleaned by adults, the argument goes: How is
a child to prepare emotionally for both the affection and rejection likely to
come later in life?
J) “ No one can teach you what a great friend is, what a fair-weather
friend is, what a betraying friend is except to have a great friend, a
fair-weather friend or a betraying friend,” said Michael Thompson, a
psychologist who is an author of the book Best Friends, Worst Enemies:
Understanding the Social Lives of Children. “ When a teacher is trying to tone
down a best-friend culture, I would like to know why,” Dr. Thompson
said. “ Is it causing misery for the class? Or is there one girl who does have
friends but just can’ t bear the thought that she doesn’ t have as good a best
friend as another? That to me is normal social pain. If you’ re
intervening in the lives of kids who are just experiencing normal social
pain, you shouldn’ t be. ”
K) Schools insist they don’ t intend to break up close friendships but
rather to encourage courtesy, respect and kindness to all. “ I don’ t see
schools really in the business of trying to prevent friendships as they are
trying to give students an opportunity to interact socially with other
students in a variety of different ways,” said Patti Kinney, who was a
teacher and a principal in an Oregon middle school for 33 years and is
now an official at the National Association of Secondary School Principals.
L) Still, school officials admit they watch close friendships
carefully for adverse effects. “ When two children discover a special bond
between them, we honor that bond, provided that neither child overtly
or covertly excludes or rejects others,” said Jan Mooney, a psychologist at
the Town School, a nursery through eighth grade private school on the
Upper East Side of Manhattan. “ However, the bottom line is that if we
find a best friend pairing to be destructive to either child, or to others in
the classroom, we will not hesitate to separate children and to work with
the children and their parents to ensure healthier relationships in the
2024年英语六级预测押题卷（三 第8页 淘宝：谈辰图书企业future. ”
36. Some psychologists believe that close friendships can offer strong
emotional support and security.
2024年英语六级预测押题卷（三 第9页 淘宝：谈辰图书企业37. Ms. Shreeves’ s younger son does not play with his favorite
playmate very often due to the complexity of scheduling play dates.
38. Patti Kinney thinks that schools are not against close friendships but
trying to help kids socialize with all fellow students.
39. For school officials, the best-friend bond can be troublesome
partly because it may result in cliques or bullying.
40. According to Dr. Thompson, kids should experience for themselves normal
social pain without the intervention of adults.
41. Christine Laycob believes that adults should discourage kids from being
possessive about friends.
42. Brett Laursen encourages children to have close relationships rather
than superficial ones.
43. Many child-rearing experts advocate that children socialize in a pack
like Matthew and Margaret.
44. If an intimate friendship brings about adverse effects, school
officials will take measures to separate the intimate friends.
45. In Timber Lake Camp, campers are prevented from relying on one friend
too much.
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.
Police officers may hope that their presence in schools will help them build
strong relationships with students, improving police-community relations over the
long term. But achieving that goal may require rethinking law enforcement’ s role
in education, a new report suggests.
Looking at federal data from the 2013-2014 school year, researchers at
Education Week found that students in schools with at least one school resource
officer( SRO) were 1. 5 times likely to be arrested than their peers in
schools that did not have a police presence. The disparity is particularly
stark for black students, possibly because police presence is concentrated in
districts with a higher proportion of minority students. Black boys were three
times more likely to be arrested at school than white boys, the report found.
Rather than building relationships and improving outcomes, students who are
arrested or referred to law enforcement can see a drop in school performance and
are disproportionately more likely to get involved with the law again as adults,
researchers say. Racial bias means that outcomes are particularly poor in
communities of color.
Spurred by rising fears of violent crime during the 1980s and 1990s, some
schools began turning to police to increase safety on campus. With
federal funding, their presence only grew. Following tragedies like the
school shooting at Columbine High School in Colorado, an increasing
number of parents called for security measures like metal detectors and
armed officers. By 2013-2014, 44,000
2024年英语六级预测押题卷（三 第10页 淘宝：谈辰图书企业“ school resource officers” worked in schools on a full- or part-time basis.
In some cases, hiring these officers has resulted in an impressive drop in
incidents. But the national picture is less positive. Particularly in schools
with a high proportion of minorities, the SROs are overused, taking on
disciplinary functions that classroom teachers have traditionally
performed, experts say.
Arresting students, rather than having a classroom teacher discipline
them, brings financial and emotional costs. An American Civil Liberties
Union report found that arrested students were twice as likely to drop out of
high school—and for those who appeared in court, that figure doubled.
Compounding the problem, the cost of employing school resource officers
means many schools with a police presence are less likely to have school
counselors who can keep an eye on the psychological and developmental effects of
arrests on children, Education Week reported. Detaining students also
drains the budget of money that could be used to educate them.
So how can police officers help ensure safety without becoming
disciplinarians( 纪律严明者 ) who grease the school-to-prison pipeline?
Training is key, National Association of School Resource Officers executive
director Mo Canady told Education Week. SROs should see themselves not only as
members of law enforcement, but also embrace their role as educators on issues
like drug prevention and as informal counselors for students, Mr. Canady said.
46. The federal data quoted in Paragraph Two indicate that .
A) schools in minority district are in need of SROs
B) police officers tend to arrest minority students
C) the existence of SROs intensifies campus violence
D) the SROs may have failed to function as expected
47. What may be the negative effect of deploying
SROs?
A) It exerted more law enforcement than
necessary.
B) It disturbed the normal teaching practices.
C) It posed risks to students’ psychological health.
D) It frustrated the enthusiasm of faculty members.
48. What does the author think of the measure of employing SROs?
A) Its real effect remains to be seen.
B) It should be vigorously promoted.
C) There’ s still room for improvement.
D) It causes more harm than good.
49. What does “ grease the school-to-prison pipeline”( Line 2, Para. 8)
most probably mean?
A) To effectively prevent juvenile crime.
B) To lead more students to be arrested.
C) To help ensure the safety on campus.
D) To tighten the school-to-prison link.
50. In the last paragraph, the author advises the SROs to .
A) work harder to ensure school safety
B) reinforce their roles as disciplinarians
2024年英语六级预测押题卷（三 第11页 淘宝：谈辰图书企业C) adjust their function in education
D) care more about students’ mental health
Passage Two
Questions 51 to 55 are based on the following passage.
A UK supermarket has become the first in the world to let shoppers pay for
groceries using just the veins in their fingertips.
Customers at the Costcutter store, at Brunel University in London, can now
pay using their unique vein pattern to identify themselves.
The firm behind the technology, Sthaler, has said it is in “ serious
talks” with other major UK supermarkets to adopt hi-tech finger vein
scanners at pay points across thousands of stores.
It works by using infrared ( 红外线) to scan people’ s finger veins
and then links this unique biometric( 生物特征识别的) map to their bank
cards. Customers’ bank details are then stored with payment provider
Worldpay, in the same way you can store your card details when
shopping online. Shoppers can then turn up to the supermarket with nothing on
them but their own hands and use it to make payments in just three seconds.
It comes as previous studies have found fingerprint recognition, used widely
on mobile phones, is vulnerable to being hacked and can be copied even from
finger smears left on phone screens.
But Sthaler claims vein technology is the most secure biometric identification
method as it cannot be copied or stolen.
Sthaler said dozens of students were already using the system and it
expected 3,000 students out of 13,000 to have signed up by November.
Vein scanners are also used as a way of accessing high-security UK police
buildings and authorising internal trading at least one major British investment
bank.
The firm is also in discussions with nightclubs, gyms about using
the technology to verify membership and even Premier League football clubs
to check whether people have the right access to VIP hospitality areas.
The technology uses an infrared light to create a detailed map of the vein
pattern in your finger. It requires the person to be alive, meaning in the
unlikely event that if a criminal hacks off someone’ s finger, it would
not work. Sthaler said it takes just one minute to sign up to the
system initially and, after that, it takes just seconds to place your
finger in a scanner each time you reach the supermarket checkout.
Simon Binns, commercial director of Sthaler, told the Daily Telegraph: “
This makes payments so much easier for customers. They don’ t need to carry
cash or cards. They don’ t need to remember a PIN number. You just bring
yourself. This is the safest form of biometrics. There are no known
incidences where this security has been breached. When you put your finger
in the scanner it checks you are alive, it checks for a pulse, and it
checks for haemoglobin( 血红蛋白). Your vein pattern is secure because it
is kept on a database in an encrypted form, as binary numbers. No card
details are stored with the retailer or ourselves; it is held with
Worldpay, in the same way it is when you buy online. ”
2024年英语六级预测押题卷（三 第12页 淘宝：谈辰图书企业51. It can be inferred from the first two paragraphs that .
A) the Costcutter store offers the finger vein payment in the world first
B) there are no two identical fingerprints in the world
C) Sthaler has spread its finger vein recognition technology to the
overseas market
D) customers have their finger veins scanned at the checkout in British
supermarkets
52. Making payments with the finger vein scanners in physical stores and
submitting payments online .
A) show the difference in how to link to shoppers’ bank cards
B) choose the same storage location for users’ bank details
C) yield the same better-than-expected results
D) differ in the degree of difficulty in the payment process
53. Fingerprint identification technology is .
A) widely applied in communication
B) most exposed to cyber attacks
C) likely to be duplicated from finger marks
D) the safest way of biometric recognition
54. The finger vein scanners are already used to authenticate users to get
into .
A) universities C) investment banks
B) police stations D) VIP sections
55. As to the technology developed by his company, Simon Binns pointed out
that .
A) there was no use paying with someone else’ s finger
B) customers didn’ t have to waste energy memorizing ID numbers
C) no severe safety accidents arose in its system
D) neither Sthaler nor the sellers preserved customers’ card details
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.
中国数千年的传统文化对当代的年轻人来说是一笔宝贵的财富。 它既体现在百花齐放
的政治学和哲学之中,也融入在精美绝伦的手工制品之内。 当代中国正以一种史无前例的
速度急速发展,它急需寻找其独特的文化根基,同时它又需要中国人对自己的传统文化建立
起信心和自豪感。 此外,传统文化中蕴含的先贤之道可以帮助我们解决旷日持久的棘手问题。儒
家 ( Confucius) 的伦理学教会我们三省吾身的同时又要尊敬别人,而墨家 ( Mencius) 的兼爱
理论可以用来打破今日的战争僵局。
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