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大学英语六级考试绝密押题试卷(二)
Part Writing 30 minutes
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Directions For this part you are allowed 30 minutes to write an essay that begins with the sentence
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In recent years there have been numerous complaints from various travel destinations
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around the world about the uncivilized behavior of Chinese tourists. You can make comments
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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 Listening Comprehension 30 minutes
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Section A
Directions In this section you will hear two long conversations. At the end of each conversation
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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
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D . Then mark the corresponding letter on Answer Sheet 1 with a single line through the centre.
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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) They drove some small stores out of business.
Questions 5 to 8 are based on the conversation you 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.
7. A) Sitting C) Lying down.
B) Bending. D) Upright.
2024年英语六级预测押题卷（二） 第1页 淘宝：谈辰图书企业店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
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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
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mark the corresponding letter on Answer Sheet 1 with a single line through the centre
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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
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four questions. The recordings will be played only once. After you hear a question you must choose
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the best answer from the four choices marked A B C and D . Then mark the corresponding
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letter on Answer Sheet 1 with a single line through the centre
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2024年英语六级预测押题卷（二） 第2页 淘宝：谈辰图书企业店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) Throw them away. D) Deliver them to other recycling companies.
Questions 20 to 22 are based on the recording you have just heard.
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) He pays attention to his goal or purpose.
Questions 23 to 25 are based on the recording 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.
Part Reading Comprehension 40 minutes
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Section A
Directions In this section there is a passage with ten blanks. You are required to select one word
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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3页 淘宝：谈辰图书企业店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
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obesity( ), officials said.
Doctors at Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta, the largest children healthcare organization in the
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United States, said they treat patients in their Health-Life Clinic as young as age 3 for complications(
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) 26 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) contributed M) related
F) documented N) remarkable
G) easily O) spark
H) fatal
Section B
Directions In this section you are going to read a passage with ten statements attached to it. Each
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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4页 淘宝：谈辰图书企业店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.
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B) That in turn has been a boon( ) 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
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hotel suite. They took six weeks to arrive, and they cost around 120 each, which adds up fast when
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you need to buy eight or 10 a year to keep up with wear and tear( ). Then several years ago I
realized that a company called Bonobos was making shirts that fit me nearly as well, that were often sold
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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
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Amazon prime customers, use high-quality fabric and is a good value at 40 for basic shirts. I bought a
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few; they don’t fit me quite as well as the Bonobos, but I do prefer the stitching( ). 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
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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 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5页 淘宝：谈辰图书企业店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
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could find a niche( ). 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.
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6页 淘宝：谈辰图书企业店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
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unfinished statements. For each of them there are four choices marked A B C and D . You
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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,
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offering a global soapbox( ) like none other.
We also see the Internet magnifying the polarization of our societies and the rise of vitriol, 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.
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The ease with which “fake news” can be disseminated( ) online presented an opportunity to
2024年英语六级预测押题卷（二） 第7页 淘宝：谈辰图书企业店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
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standard “clickbait( )” 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8页 淘宝：谈辰图书企业店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
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a day can increase the likelihood of cardiovascular( ) 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
BMJ
published Wednesday in .
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,”
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Hackshaw said. “Going cold turkey is hard.” Hackshaw suggests finding an appropriate cessation(
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) 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?
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9页 淘宝：谈辰图书企业店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 Translation 30 minutes
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Directions For this part you are allowed 30 minutes to translate a passage from Chinese into
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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 与世界分享他们的生活 网络视频直
, (live streaming) 。
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
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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
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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
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与人之间的交流更加便捷 有趣
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