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大学英语六级考试绝密押题试卷(
二)
Part Ⅰ Writing (30
minutes) Directions: For this part, you are allowed 30 minutes to write
an essay that begins with the sentence “ In recent years, there have
been numerous complaints from various travel destinations around
the world about the uncivilized behavior of Chinese tourists. ” You can
make comments, cite examples or use your personal experiences to develop
your essay. 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 mu,st choose the best answer from the four choices m)a,rk)ed, 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) He wants to move into another room.
B) He has too much stuff.
C) His filing cabinet is too old.
D) He couldn’ t do anything without a filing cabinet.
2. A) They believed in Montgomery Ward and Richard Sears.
B) They could get the things they wanted at a low price.
C) It was convenient for them to buy things from catalogs.
D) It was easy for them to return the goods if they weren’ t satisfied.
3. A) They used catalogs as textbooks to teach spelling and calculating.
B) They told the students the history of catalogs in class.
C) They made their purchase as the farmers did.
D) They got new information from catalogs.
4. A) They made some small stores have no confidence in sale.
B) They forced some small stores to lower the price.
C) They promoted the sales in some small stores.
D ) T h ey d ro ve s o m e s m al l sto re s o u t
Que s tio n s 5 to 8 a r e b a s ed o n th e c o n
o f b u s i n es s.
v e r sa t i o n y ou have just heard.
5. A) A product designed for newborn babies.
B) A company providing babysitting services.
C) A television program regarding babies.
D) A toy for newborn babies.
6. A) It is water-proof. C) It keeps babies absolutely
safe.
B) It can calm down crying babies. D) It has clowns painted
outside.
2024年英语六级预测押题卷（二 第1页 淘宝：谈辰图书企业7. A) Sitting C) Lying down.
B) Bending. D) Upright.
2024年英语六级预测押题卷（二 第2页 淘宝：谈辰图书企业8. A) Demonstrate how the product works. C) Talk about another product.
B) Invite a volunteer to try the product. D) Explain the product in more
detail.
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 12 are based on the passage you have just heard.
9. A) To win over the majority of passengers from airlines in twenty years.
B) To reform railroad management in western European countries.
C) To electrify the railway lines between major European cities.
D) To set up an express train network throughout Europe.
10. A) Major European airlines will go
bankrupt.
B) Europeans will pay much less for
traveling.
C) Traveling time by train between major European cities will be cut by
half.
D) Trains will become the safest and most efficient means of travel in
Europe.
11. A) Train travel will prove much more comfortable than air travel.
B) Passengers will feel much safer on a train than on a plane.
C) Rail transport will be environmentally friendlier than air
transport.
D) Traveling by train may be as quick as, or even
quicker than, by air. 12. A) In 1981. C) In 1990.
B) In 1989. D) In 2000.
Questions 13 to 15 are based on the passage you have just heard.
13. A) There can be no speedy recovery for mental patients.
B) Approaches to healing patients are essentially the same.
C) The mind and body should be taken as an integral whole.
D) There is no clear division of labor in the medical profession.
14. A) A doctor’ s fame strengthens the patients faith in them.
B) Abuse of medicines is widespread in many urban hospitals.
C) One-third of the patients depend on harmless substances for cure.
D) A patient’ s expectations of a drug have an effect on their recovery.
15. A) Expensive drugs may not prove the most effective.
B) The workings of the mind may help patients recover.
C) Doctors often exaggerate the effect of their remedies.
D) Most illnesses can be cured without medicine.
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
2024年英语六级预测押题卷（二 第3页 淘宝：谈辰图书企业mark the corresponding letter on Answer Sheet 1 with a single line
through the centre.
2024年英语六级预测押题卷（二 第4页 淘宝：谈辰图书企业Questions 16 to 19 are based on the recording you have just heard.
16. A) It can brighten someone else’ s life.
B) It can help analyze the causes of air pollution.
C) It may force people to donate their shoes and clothes.
D) It can ensure people’ s physical fitness.
17. A) The money from the recycling helps the poor.
B) Some of the shoes are not proper footwear.
C) Many children die because of the lack of proper shoes.
D) Wearing recycled shoes can save much money.
18. A) Give it to the poor. C) Put it away in drawers.
B) Give it to young people. D) Recycle it into cash.
19. A) Bury them locally. C) Ask local experts to recycle them.
B ) T hr o w the m a w ay . D ) D e li ve r
Ques ti on s 2 0 to 2 2 a r e b ased on the record i ng y o u h
th e m t o o th er re cycling companies.
a v e ju s t h ea rd .
20. A) They could move around the
country.
B) They could fast-track their
business.
C) They paid attention to their
purposes.
D) They got opportunities to make money.
21. A) Bad guys in old films. C) Religion or politics.
B) A person’ s life project. D) People’ s goal or purpose.
22. A) His project or life is a train wreck.
B) He has come to the end of something.
C) He is from the bad side of the town.
D ) H e p a y s a tte n ti on to h is go a l
Ques ti on s 2 3 t o 2 5 a r e ba se d on t h
or p u r p o s e .
e re c o r d i n g you have just heard.
23. A) College graduates have difficulty in finding jobs.
B) People overlook the correlation between education and income.
C) The number of better-educated graduates cannot satisfy the economy.
D) The economy fails to absorb better-educated graduates.
24. A) There are not enough economic opportunities for students not going to
college.
B) Schools fail to educate students properly.
C) Educational attainment cannot guarantee career advancement.
D) Students have no adequate professional knowledge.
25. A) They are not ready to function in the workplace.
B) They do not gain as much as before.
C) Their college education is considered useless.
D) Their working experience is not enough.
Ⅲ
Part
Sectio n A
2024年英语六级预测押题卷（二 第5页 淘宝：谈辰图书企业Reading ension (40
Compreh minutes)
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
2024年英语六级预测押题卷（二 第6页 淘宝：谈辰图书企业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.
Children’ s Healthcare of Atlanta wants to move Georgia out of the
top 10 list for childhood obesity( 肥胖), officials said.
Doctors at Children’ s Healthcare of Atlanta, the largest children
healthcare organization in the United States, said they treat patients in
their Health-Life Clinic as young as age 3 for complications( 并发 症 ) 2 6 to
obesity.
The healthcare system’ s officials said it began its Strong-Life in
early 2011, a large-scale public awareness 27 , along with programs and
partnerships to 28 kids and their parents. The first phase of the campaign,
the “ warning” ads, was designed to raise awareness and 29
conversation about childhood obesity.
“ A 30 finding in the research is that while 96 percent of respondents viewed
childhood obesity as a somewhat or very serious problem, only 28 percent
of parents of an obese child considered their child overweight or obese.
and only 36 percent were 31 about their child’ s weight,” Dr. Richard
Lutz of the University of Florida’ s Warrington College of Business
Administration said in a statement.
“ This 32 disconnect, known as the ‘ perceived personal immunity’
effect, has been 33 for issues such as being 34 affected by
lung cancer, skin cancer and AIDS. ”
The program also included training more than 1,000 healthcare providers,
nurses and dietitians to discuss obesity with their patients; going to more
than 100 schools to share with children the importance of healthy eating and
physical 35 and educating more than 430 daycare center staff to use Strong-
Life tool kits to teach healthy habits at an early age.
A) activity I) immediately
B) apparent J) interact
C) campaign K) practice
D) concerned L) reach
E) contribut M) related
ed N) remarkable
F) documente O) spark
d
Section
G) easily
B
H) fatal
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.
The Amazon-Walmart Showdown that Explains the Modern Economy
A) With Amazon buying the high-end grocery chain Whole Foods, something
retail analysts have known for years is now apparent on everyone. The online
retailer is on a collision course with Walmart to try to be the predominant
seller of pretty much everything you buy. Each one is trying to become
2024年英语六级预测押题卷（二 第7页 淘宝：谈辰图书企业more like the other—Walmart by investing heavily in its technology,
Amazon by opening physical bookstores and now buying physical supermarkets. But
this is more than a battle between two business titans. Their rivalry sheds light
on the shifting economics of nearly every major industry.
B) That in turn has been a boon( 福音) for consumers but also has more
worrying implications for jobs, wages and inequality. To understand this epic
shift, you can look not just to the grocery business, but also to my closet,
and to another retail acquisition announced Friday morning.
C) Men’ s dress clothing, mine included, can be a little boring. Like
many male office workers, I lean toward clothes that are sharp but not at all
showy. Nearly every weekday, I wear a dress shirt that is either light
blue, white or has some subtle check pattern, usually paired with
slacks and a blazer. The description alone could make a person doze. I
used to buy my dress shirts from a Hong Kong tailor. They fit perfectly, but
ordering required an awkward meeting with a visiting salesman in a hotel suite.
They took six weeks to arrive, and they cost around ＄120 each, which adds up
fast when you need to buy eight or 10 a year to keep up with wear and tear(
破损). Then several years ago I realized that a company called Bonobos was
making shirts that fit me nearly as well, that were often sold three for
＄220, or ＄73 each, and that would arrive in two days.
D) Bonobos became my main shirt provider, at least until recently,
when I learned that Amazon was trying to get into the upper-endmen’ s shirt
game. The firm’ s “ Buttoned Down” line, offered to Amazon prime
customers, use high-quality fabric and is a good value at ＄ 40 for basic
shirts. I bought a few; they don’ t fit me quite as well as the Bonobos, but
I do prefer the stitching( 针脚). I’ m on the fence as to which company
will provide my next shirt order, and a new deal this week makes it
interesting: Walmart is buying Bonobos. Walmart’ s move might seem a
strange decision. It is not a retailer people typically turn to for ＄88
summer shirts in Ruby Wynwood Plaid or ＄750 Italian wool suits. Then again,
Amazon is best known as a reseller of goods made by others.
E) Walmart and Amazon have had their sights on each other for
years, each aiming to be the dominant seller of goods—however consumers of
the future want to buy them. It increasingly looks like that “ however” is a
hybrid of physical stores and online-ordering channels, and each company
is coming at the goal from a different starting point.
F) Amazon is the dominant player in online sales, and is particularly strong
among affluent consumers in major cities. It is now experimenting with physical
bookstores and groceries as it looks to broaden its reach. Walmart has
thousands of stores that sell hundreds of billions of dollars’ worth of
goods. It is particularly strong in suburban and rural areas and among low- and
middle-income consumers, but it’ s playing catch-up with online sales and
affluent urbanites.
G) Why are these two mega-retailers both trying to sell me shirts? The
short answer is because they both want to sell everything. More specifically,
Bonobos is known as an innovator in exactly this type of hybrid of online and
physical store sales. Its website and online customer service are
excellent, and it operates stores in major cities where you can try on
garments and order items to be shipped directly. Because all the actual
inventory is centralized, the stores themselves can occupy minimal square
footage. So the acquisition may help Walmart build expertise in the very areas
2024年英语六级预测押题卷（二 第8页 淘宝：谈辰图书企业where it is trying to gain on Amazon. You can look at the Amazon acquisition
of Whole Foods through the same lens. The grocery business has a whole
different set of challenges from the types of goods that Amazon has
2024年英语六级预测押题卷（二 第9页 淘宝：谈辰图书企业specialized in; you can’ t store a steak or a banana the way you do books or toys.
And people want to be able to make purchases and take home on the spur of the
moment.
H) Just as Walmart is using Bonobos to get access to higher-end consumers and
a more technologically savvy way of selling clothes, Amazon is using Whole
Foods to get the expertise and physical presence it takes to sell fresh foods.
But bigger dimensions of the modern economy also come into play.
I) The apparel business has long been a highly competitive industry in
which countless players could find a niche ( 商机). Any insight that one
shirt-maker developed could be rapidly copied by others, and consumer
prices reflected the retailer’ s real estate costs and branding approach as much
as anything. That helps explain why there are thousands of options
worldwide for someone who wants a decent-quality men’ s shirt. In that
world, any shirt-maker that tried to get too big rapidly faced
diminishing returns. It would have to pay more and more to lease that tried
to get too big rapidly faced diminishing returns. It would have to pay more
and more to lease the real estate for-flung stores, and would have to
outbid competitors to hire all the experienced shirt-makers. The expansion
wouldn’ t offer any meaningful cost savings and would entail a lot more
headaches trying to manage it all.
J) But more and more businesses in the modern economy, rather than
reflecting those diminishing returns to scale, show positive returns to scale: The
biggest companies have a huge advantage over smaller players. That tends to tilt
markets toward a handful of players or even a monopoly, rather than an even
playing field with countless competitors.
K) The most extreme example of this would be the software business, where
a company an invest bottomless sums in a piece of software, but then
sell it to each additional customer for practically nothing. The apparel
industry isn’ t that extreme—the price of making a shirt is still linked to
the cost of fabric and the workers to do the stitching—but it is moving in
that direction. And that helps explain why Walmart and Amazon are so eager to
put a shirt on my back.
L) Already, retailers need to figure out how to manage sophisticated
supply chains connecting Southeast Asia with stores in big American cities so
that they rarely run out of product. They need mobile apps and websites that
offer a seamless user experience so that nothing stands between a would- be
purchaser and an order. Larger companies that are good at supply chain
management and technology can spread those more-or-less fixed costs around
more total sales, enabling them to keep prices lower than a niche player and
entrench their advantage.
M) These positive returns to scale could become even more pronounced.
Perhaps in the future, rather than manufacture a bunch of shirts in Indonesia
and Malaysia and ship them to the United States to be sold one at a time to
urban office workers, a company will have a robot manufacture shirt to
my specifications somewhere nearby.
N) If that’ s the future of clothing, and quite a few companies are
working on just that, apparel will become a landscape of high fixed costs
and enormous returns to scale. The handful of companies with the very best
shirt-making robots will win the market, and any company that can’ t
afford to develop shirt-making robots, or isn’ t very good at it, might find
itself left in the cold.
2024年英语六级预测押题卷（二 第10页 淘宝：谈辰图书企业36. Traditionally, Amazon is popular among consumers in big cities
while Walmart is widely located in rural areas.
2024年英语六级预测押题卷（二 第11页 淘宝：谈辰图书企业37. Bonobos is selling apparel to the author in a relatively lower price
than the Hong Kong tailor.
38. Walmart bought Bonobos in that it will help Walmart overtake Amazon.
39. The tendency of markets being occupied by big companies indicates that
small companies have no advantages.
40. Nowadays, apparel is probably produced in developing countries and then
transported back to the US for the white collars.
41. With available high technologies providing user experience,
retailers can get more potential buyers.
42. Despite the intense competition, the apparel industry can still discover
opportunities.
43. Robots making clothing would compel the clothing companies unable to
develop robots well to face difficulties.
44. The price for a shirt depends on many factors, including the
cost of fabric and the labor force.
45. Amazon buying Whole Foods shows that the online retailer is now beginning
to focus on physical stores.
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.
The Internet mirrors society, reflecting our strengths and weaknesses.
A healthy society and a healthy internet share the same vital forces:
individuals taking action, making things, solving problems, and ultimately
building our own environment. We need both technology and social commitment to
create space where healthy democracies will flourish.
As citizens, we have a right and a responsibility to participate in democracy
for it to work. Today we see technology—specifically the Internet—enabling rich
new ways to participate in democracy. The Internet lets citizens swiftly tune
in to world events, discuss the implications, organize campaigns,
project their voices, and force change. Through the Internet,
democratically elected leaders can more easily hear diverse voices. By
making political activities more transparent, the Internet helps citizens
hold politicians more accountable. It has created a sea change for
democratic political discourse, offering a global soapbox( 即兴演讲台) like
none other.
We also see the Internet magnifying the polarization of our societies
and the rise of v itri o l , hate speech and misinformation. This amplification
is made possible by the Internet and centralized social media platforms, which
combine to create mass echo chambers. However, the core issues live
within the nature of our societies themselves. So today the Internet
reflects richness, divisiveness and areas where hope and opportunities to
improve one’ s own life are not as widely available as we would like.
The ease with which “ fake news” can be disseminated( 散布) online
presented an opportunity to
2024年英语六级预测押题卷（二 第12页 淘宝：谈辰图书企业capitalize on existing social discontent by distributing misinformation for
financial gain. We saw this happen in the latest US election cycle when
egregiously fabricated stories published solely for profit circulated widely
in social media Pizzagate. The Pope endorses a presidential candidate. Florida
imposes Sharia law. Though these stories were clearly false, each was
published online, consumed, shared and viewed by millions of people. And
yet we need to ask: How different are these articles from standard “
clickbait( 标题党)” that sensationalizes the truth in order to drive traffic?
The stakes are high when bad actors misappropriate the Internet and position
fake news to drown out facts for personal gain. Misinformation spread online
has the power to influence people ’ s understanding of real-world events. Millions
of internet users have no way to quickly assess whether claims are true or
false. All of this adds up to loss of trust in core institutions as a source of
good information and trustworthy community. But the loss is further compounded.
Democracy relies on the free flow of good information and human connection, and
when people believe they can’ t trust anyone, democracy is weakened.
Technology alone will not solve the problem, but technology
combined with human intent, economic investment, and development
policies can make immense positive changes.
The world today is in a disruptive state, and it’ s clear that the
connection of technology to social impact is deeply needed so that
communities of goodwill can grow, trust in the Internet and information will
rebound and democracy will thrive. We have to apply ourselves to this
challenge. Otherwise, we will have wasted a rare and precious opportunity.
46. What can be inferred from the new approaches provided by the Internet
to take part in democracy?
A) The modern information explosion gives a voice to citizens.
B) The Internet allows dissenting voices to be heard by all leaders.
C) Politicians become more responsible because of government websites.
D) Democratic political discourse has been altered dramatically by the
Internet.
47. What does the underlined word “ vitriol” in Paragraph 3 mean?
A) Bitter remarks. C) Complimentary words.
B) Public praise. D) Retrospective fear.
48. By citing the examples of Pizzagate, the Pope and Florida, the
author intends to show that .
A) the made-up stories can circulate quickly among the public
B) fabricated stories are more common in American political seasons
C) the profit motive drives fake news spread widely online
D) false news is completely different from standard “ clickbait”
49. When someone spread misinformation online to cover up the truth for
their own profit, it has negative effects on .
A) people’ s comprehension of what happened in the offline and online
world
B) network users’ verifying the authenticity of information posted online
C) public faith in crucial government institutions
D) the free flow of reliable information
2024年英语六级预测押题卷（二 第13页 淘宝：谈辰图书企业50. What is the author’ s attitude towards the power of the Internet?
A) Positive. C) Subjective.
B) Negative. D) Objective.
Passage Two
Questions 51 to 55 are based on the following passage.
It’ s well established that smoking cigarettes, especially large
quantities of them, is bad for your health. But a new study shows the risk
exists even with a minimal amount of smoking. Just one cigarette a day can
increase the likelihood of cardiovascular( 心血管的) disease. Researchers
from University College London found that having a single cigarette each day
raises the risk of coronary heart disease or stroke. “ No safe level of smoking
exists for cardiovascular disease,” the authors conclude in their paper
published Wednesday in BMJ.
The team analyzed 141 previously published studies conducted between 1946
and 2015, which included data from millions of men and women. They
specifically looked at the cardiovascular effects of people who smoked
one, five or twenty cigarettes per day compared to those who
had never smoked. When adjusting for confounding factors, such as age and
blood pressure, they found that men who smoked one cigarette per day had a 74
percent higher risk of heart disease than non-smokers and a 30 percent higher
risk of stroke. Among women, the risk of heart disease among one per-day
smokers was increased by 119 percent and the risk of stroke by 46 percent
compared to non-smokers.
“ There’ s a misconception by many smokers that if you cut down you
will reduce harm,” Allan Hackshaw, a study co-author and
epidemiology professor at University College London, told Newsweek. “
This seems to be true for lung cancer, but people aren’ t aware that
only a little bit of tobacco smoke has a big effect on the cardiovascular
system. ”
Although light smoking can negatively affect your health, cutting down is
still helpful. “ I think a lot of people who work in the tobacco and the health
industry right now forget how difficult it is to quit,” Hackshaw said. “ Going
col d turke y i s hard . ” Hackshaw suggests finding an appropriate cessation( 中止 )
method to help cut back. But he also emphasizes that the end goal should be to
quit.
One in every three deaths from cardiovascular disease is caused by
smoking, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Understanding the role of minimal smoking in this risk could help reduce the
incidence of cardiovascular disease.
Hackshaw and his colleagues hope their findings will be used to “
strengthen public health campaigns ( including those on smoking cessation
services) and to provide a strong health incentive for smokers to quit (
particularly women), rather than cut down,” they wrote in their paper.
51. What do we know about the minimal amount of smoking from the first
paragraph?
A) Its negative effects haven’ t been recognized.
B) It makes many people get addicted to smoking.
C) It can be a contributor to cardiovascular disease.
D) It can be roughly seen as the safe level of smoking.
52. What did the team find after analyzing 141 previously published
studies?
2024年英语六级预测押题卷（二 第14页 淘宝：谈辰图书企业A) Passive smoking posed a significant threat to non-smokers.
B) Men were more vulnerable to the harm of smoking.
2024年英语六级预测押题卷（二 第15页 淘宝：谈辰图书企业C) Smoking women were at much higher risk of heart disease and stroke
than smoking men.
D) Age and blood pressure were less likely to affect heart disease.
53. What’ s the misconception held by many smokers according to Allan
Hackshaw?
A) Smoking won’ t lead to cardiovascular damage.
B) Harm can decrease as soon as one reduces smoking.
C) There is little significance in cutting down on smoking.
D) Reducing smoking helps with the treatment of lung cancer.
54. What does the underlined sentence “ Going cold turkey is hard” mean in
the passage?
A) It is far from easy to form good habits.
B) Self-discipline is extremely challenging.
C) Quitting a bad habit is not as hard as it seems.
D) It is difficult to get rid of bad habits suddenly.
55. The researchers hope their findings can be used to .
A) encourage smokers to give up smoking
B) remind smokers about the bad effects of smoking
C) warn smokers to smoke less for the sake of health
D) appeal to policy-makers to take preventive measures
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.
在中国,数百万的人通过网络视频直播( live streaming) 与世界分享他们的生活。 网
络视频直播并不是一个新概念。 在中国,各种各样的在线直播应用程序层出不穷。 这些应用程序
也被用于商业目的,个人和公司都用它们来销售各种各样的产品。 明星们也使用视频直播直接与
粉丝互动。 网络直播在人们的生活中扮演着重要角色,不仅让人们的生活变得越来越多样,而且让
人与人之间的交流更加便捷、有趣。
2024年英语六级预测押题卷（二 第16页 淘宝：谈辰图书企业
