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大学英语六级考试绝密押题试卷(五)
Part Writing 30 minutes
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Directions For this part you are allowed 30 minutes to write an essay to express your views on the
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phenomenon of keeping pets in dormitories. You should write at least 150 words but no more than
200 words.
Part Ⅱ 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) The specialty of an applied linguist.
B) The definition of second language acquisition.
C) The causes of second language learning difficulty.
D) The language competence of children and adults.
2. A) Because they are not highly motivated.
B) Because they are not quite curious.
C) Because they are not rightly encouraged.
D) Because they are not fully confident.
3. A) They differ greatly with regard to vocabulary.
B) They cause no language learning problems.
C) They are similar in terms of grammar.
D) They are both complicated and analytic.
4. A) They should be effective in most situations.
B) They should be used to teach different languages.
C) They should be based on translation and grammar.
D) They should be adapted according to different conditions.
Questions 5 to 8 are based on the conversation you have just heard.
5. A) It should be close to a city with colorful nightlife.
B) It should make your life convenient and meaningful.
C) It should enable a person to enjoy nightclubs and discos.
D) It should match with the buyer’s character.
6. A) City outskirts. C) The rural area.
B) The downtown. D) The coastal city.
7. A) They are more expensive than those in cities.
B) They might be cheaper than those in cities.
C) They are surprisingly low in price.
D) They are especially large in size.
2024年英语六级考试绝密押题试卷(五) 第1页 淘宝：谈辰图书企业店8. A) A house should be away from a busy street or main road.
B) A house should be close to famous schools.
C) The number of children of a family decides where to live.
D) A family affects the size of a house.
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.
Questions 9 to 11 are based on the passage you have just heard.
9. A) Asking him or her the same question repeatedly.
B) Looking into his or her eyes when questioning.
C) Analyzing his or her verbal expression.
D) Observing his or her body language.
10. A) Giving him or her a cigarette.
B) Talking with him or her.
C) Investigating him or her in advance.
D) Letting him or her chat to others.
11. A) Using facial expressions is the most common way.
B) Chatting is the most widely used way.
C) Using body language only works by accident.
D) Talking is the easiest way to use.
Questions 12 to 15 are based on the passage you have just heard.
12. A) Telling them to look both ways for cars.
B) Telling them to follow other pedestrians.
C) Telling them not to look around.
D) Telling them not to race against time.
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13. A) 15 to 24. C) 24 to 99.
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B) 15 to 99. D) 15 to 19.
14. A) To establish a friendly traffic system.
B) To raise public awareness of safety.
C) To build a more civilized city.
D) To reduce the casualties of road accidents.
15. A) It is strict with the seniors.
B) It includes most of the electronic devices.
C) It is now welcomed by all the states.
D) It permits an exception in an emergency.
2024年英语六级考试绝密押题试卷(五) 第2页 淘宝：谈辰图书企业店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.
Questions 16 to 18 are based on the recording you have just heard.
16. A) To make sure that they have a clear goal.
B) To assist them in choosing a suitable college.
C) To identify whether they should go to college to study further.
D) To help them decide whether to go to college and what to study.
17. A) Take some form of standardized test.
B) Get a certificate of their language level.
C) Apply for a visa in advance.
D) Send in their resume and a cover letter.
18. A) The adaptation process. C) The tuition fees.
B) The difficult courses. D) The study-life balance.
Questions 19 to 22 are based on the passage you have just heard.
19. A) It sells fresh vegetables and fruits to city dwellers.
B) It endeavors to reduce Nigeria’s dependence on food imports.
C) It focuses on growing healthy and green vegetables.
D) It aims at health conscious people all over the country.
20. A) Measuring water consumption. C) Collecting household waste.
B) Measuring energy use. D) Reading bar codes.
21. A) It is experiencing a recession. C) It depends on technology.
B) It is now rather stable. D) It supports state-owned business.
22. A) They can be as successful as him. C) They are rather promising.
B) They are rather energetic. D) They need support from the world.
Questions 23 to 25 are based on the recording you have just heard.
23. A) Workers must obey the growing order of plants.
B) Workers can control the plants’ growing speed.
C) Plants are grown in sand.
D) Plants are grown indoors.
24. A) It grows crops at the same rate throughout the year.
B) It is a newly established indoor-farming company.
C) It is now growing 250 kinds of greens and herbs.
D) It needs more water to grow crops.
25. A) The number of calories. C) The different flavors.
B) The nutrition levels. D) The cooking methods.
2024年英语六级考试绝密押题试卷(五) 第3页 淘宝：谈辰图书企业店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
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.
A new study from researchers in Europe claims that the average IQ in Western nations dropped by
a staggering 14.1 points over the past century.
“We tested the 26 that the Victorians were cleverer than modern populations using high-
quality instruments, namely measures of simple visual reaction time in a meta-analytic study,” the
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researchers wrote in the study, which was published online in the journal on Thursday.
“Simple reaction time measures correlate 27 with measures of general intelligence and are
considered elementary measures of 28 .”
The results might surprise some. Especially if the researchers were simply measuring visual
response time. After all, in a digital world constantly 29 for our attention, it would seem people
generally respond more quickly to visual stimuli. However, the results appear to indicate something
different.
The Victorian era ran roughly from 1837 to 1901, 30 with the reign of England’s Queen
the Reform Act
Victoria. Some have credited of 1832 with sparking an era of previously 31 peace
and prosperity in the U.K. The results were measured using data from 1889 to 2004 and were analyzed
by Michael A. Woodley in Brussels.
So why has there been such a 32 drop? As UPI notes, previous research studies have found
that women of higher intelligence tend to have fewer children on average, meaning that population
growth may be driven by those with a lower IQ. And over time, the abundance of less intelligent 33
would affect the overall IQ average. On average, the general intelligence of those populations measured
34 by 1. 23 points per decade. “These findings strongly indicate that with 35 to general
intelligence the Victorians were substantially cleverer than modern Western populations,” the study says.
A) aspect I) insignificantly
B) climbed J) offspring
C) cognition K) respect
D) coinciding L) sharp
E) competing M) steady
F) completing N) substantially
G) dropped O) unprecedented
H) hypothesis
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
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2024年英语六级考试绝密押题试卷(五) 第4页 淘宝：谈辰图书企业店Is Nutritious Food Really Pricier and If so Is That Really the Problem
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A) Nobody disagrees: We Americans eat badly. We eat too many calories, too much highly
processed food and not nearly enough vegetables. Why is that? Ask the question, and you get a lot of
answers, which is appropriate for a lot of answers, which is appropriate for a matter as complex as a
country’s diet. But one of the answers that bubbles to the top almost every time is that nutritious food
just costs more. Does it? There are two relevant questions here. The first is empirical: Is healthful food
more expensive? The second is behavioral: Is cost what stands between people and a better diet?
B) By one very straightforward measure, healthful eating does indeed cost more. If you look at the
cost of per calorie, nutrient-dense vegetables and fruits cost far more on average, than the
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ubiquitous( ), nutrition-sparse sources of calories: refined grains( ), sugar and
vegetable oil.
C) The fact that vegetables are, on average, more expensive than, say, Doritos doesn’t mean you
have to abandon the idea of healthful eating and head for the snack food aisle. Sugar snap peas and
asparagus may bring up the average price of produce, but there are inexpensive calories in the category,
too. Think sweet potatoes.
D) An ordinary supermarket offers a variety of affordably priced calories to meet the daunting
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challenge of making your daily menu come in at under 4 per person, the average benefit under the
Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, informally referred to as food stamps. Similarly, there was
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a frozen burrito( ) for 14 cents, canned beef ravioli for 17 cents and hot dogs for 10
cents. But the rock-bottom cheapest meal option was instant ramen, at 6 cents, a price point so
irresistible that I almost bought some. As inexpensive as it is, ramen isn’t the cheapest source of
calories at the grocery store. That honor belongs to all-purpose flour and vegetable oil, both of which
cost all of 2 cents per 100 calories.
E) No matter how cheap the processed foods are, the raw materials that go into them are even
cheaper. And, if those raw materials are so very cheap for us, imagine how cheap they are for Kraft. So
cheap that the company can manufacture a food out of them, box it, ship it and market it, and still sell
it for pennies. Even so, you almost always do better, cost-wise, when you buy the ingredients and cook
them yourself, which is one of the reasons that upgrading to a decent may cost less than you
think. A 2013 review of studies quantifying the price of a healthful vs. unhealthful diet found that the
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healthful version cost 1.48 more per person, per day.
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F) Although 1. 48 doesn’t sound like enough to make much difference in the quality of your
diet, it can buy a variety of cheap, nutritious staples: peanut butter, whole-grain pasta, whole-wheat
flour, eggs, rolled oats, pearled barley, corn flour, brown rice, dried black beans and unpopped
popcorn.
G) In that list, we find the crux of the issue. The healthful meals you can make at a price point
that competes with ramen are anchored by rice, beans and whole grains. And, if you have time and
skill, you can combine those with foods that cost a more, such as chicken thighs(13 cents), sweet
potatoes(38 cents), carrots(30 cents), frozen corn(25 cents), walnuts(30 cents), yogurt(36
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cents) or frozen broccoli(63 cents), and eat pretty well for under 4 per day.
H) Before we go on, let’s spend a moment on subsidies. Although farm subsidies have certainly
had an impact on the price of staples, that impact is dwarfed by the inherent costs of growing crops as
2024年英语六级考试绝密押题试卷(五) 第5页 淘宝：谈辰图书企业店different as corn and broccoli. In that particular case, broccoli costs 50 times what corn does to
grow. It’s also important to note that the same commodity programs that affect corn and soy subsidize
rolled oats, pearled barley, lentils, peanut butter and whole-wheat bread. Although I’m in favor of
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revamping( ) those programs, they can’t shoulder all the blame for ramen.
I) Back to our dinner of chicken, carrots and black beans, and to the single parent on a very
limited budget, who has the challenge of trying to carve out the time to make it, only to have her kids
complain that what they really want is instant ramen.
J) Adam Drewnowski, director of the University of Washington’s Center, tells me in an email,
“Obesity is almost entirely an economic issue, and the higher cost of healthier foods is the main
problem,” but he acknowledges that factors other than money come into play. He mentions two in
particular: skill and time, which can feed you well if money is in short supply.
K) So, sure, it’s possible to make a healthful dinner on a SNAP budget, but the other resources
required—time and skill—may be in short supply as well. Tonja Nansel, a senior investigator at the
Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, points out that, if
cost were the major barrier, we’d expect higher-income groups to eat much better than lower-income
groups. “The difference in diet quality isn’t that big,” says Nansel, although it’s hard to determine
exactly what the difference is because of the limitations of data based on people’s ability to remember
what they ate yesterday. A 2013 study that attempted to quantify that difference found that the lowest-
income group did indeed eat less-nutritious diets than the wealthiest group, but if you compare the
lowest with the next group up, the diets are extremely similar. It’s not until you get to five times the
poverty level that diets improve, and even then it’s not a big jump. If cost were the primary driver of
poor diets, we’d expect a significant income boost to correspond to a significant improvement in diet,
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particularly since a meaningful improvement can be had for 1.48 per day.
L) Nobody I’ ve talked to disputes that cost is an issue. Likewise, nobody disputes that
convenience and preference are also issues. But it’s hard to say what’s most important. “Most people
prefer the taste of ramen to brown rice. They prefer chips to kale,” says Nansel. “The fact that we
would rather not have to look at some of those other reasons is part of reason cost gets so much
traction.” Food isn’t just nutrition. Food is pleasure, something very-low-income people have very few
sources of, says Nansel. That doesn’t mean we shouldn’t tackle cost at a policy level, she adds. “If
we can make healthful food more affordable and accessible, we ought to.”
M) Looking at cost as a barrier to eating well is much more comfortable than looking at preference,
which smacks of blaming the victim. The idea that our lousy diet was perpetrated on us, with the poor
as the most vulnerable, gets around that problem. But until we acknowledge that we—rich and poor—
are complicit in our food supply, that we help shape it every time we buy food we want to eat, we’re
unlikely to improve it.
36. A study indicates that no significant price differences were seen between nutritious diet and
unwholesome one.
37. According to one expert, the differences in diet quality between the rich and the poor are not
as obvious as expected.
38. Compared with the farm subsidies, the built-in costs of growing crops have a bigger impact on
the price of staples.
2024年英语六级考试绝密押题试卷(五) 第6页 淘宝：谈辰图书企业店39. For the poor, food can bring satisfaction and a sense of pleasure in addition to nutrition.
40. It’s easier to blame on costs and other external factors than on our own preference for food for
our unhealthy diet.
41. It’s generally thought that the main reason for the American’s unhealthy eating habits is the
cost of nutritious food.
42. No food is cheaper than all-purpose flour and vegetable oil as sources of calories in a common
supermarket.
43. One expert claimed that higher cost of healthier foods was the leading reason of obesity, but it
can be compensated by skill and time.
44. When taking time to cook despite a busy schedule, a single mom probably will find her kids
would rather eat instant ramen.
45. Having time and cooking skill, one could enjoy a wholesome meal on a very limited budget.
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 night of December 16, 1773, dozens of Massachusetts colonists quietly boarded three ships
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and dumped what would now be close to 1 million worth of British tea into Boston Harbor.
The Sons of Liberty painted their faces and dressed like Native Americans. They barely spoke, to
avoid revealing their identities. “There appeared to be an understanding that each individual should
volunteer his services, keep his own secret, and risk the consequence for himself,” one of them
wrote. It worked. Only a single person was caught.
What if the British had access to modern surveillance technology? What if they’d had access to
face recognition?
Common Sense
From the Boston Tea Party to the printing of , the ability to dissent—and to do it
anonymously—was central to the founding of the United States. Anonymity was no luxury: It was a
crime to advocate separation from the British Crown. It was a crime to dump British tea into Boston
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Harbor. This trend persists. Our history is replete( ) with moments when it was a “crime” to do
the right thing, and legal to inflict injustice.
The latest crime-fighting tools, however, may eliminate people’ s ability to be anonymous.
Historically, surveillance technology has tracked our technology: our cars, our computers, our
phones. Face recognition technology tracks our bodies. And unlike fingerprinting or DNA analysis, face
recognition is designed to identify us from far away and in secret.
Face recognition is not just about finding terrorists. It’s about finding citizens. As a result of
simply having a driver’s license, over half of all American adults are enrolled in a criminal face
recognition network. While the details are murky, it appears that Baltimore County police used face
recognition to identify people protesting the death of Freddie Gray.
As law enforcement develops increasingly powerful surveillance tools, we need to ask ourselves:
2024年英语六级考试绝密押题试卷(五) 第7页 淘宝：谈辰图书企业店Are we building a world where no dissent is anonymous? A world where the Sons of Liberty are each
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arraigned( ) as British tea still floats in Boston Harbor?
The answer to these questions has to be “no”. In the midst of a heated debate about encryption
and the need for privacy and security in our communications, it’s tempting to think that the solutions to
these problems will originate in Silicon Valley. They won’t. You can encrypt your hard drive. You can
encrypt your emails and texts. You cannot encrypt your face.
There may be technical means to avoid face recognition. Coincidentally, one of them echoes the
face paint worn by the Sons of Liberty. But face recognition’s threat to freedom will not be addressed
through a simple change in default settings. It will be addressed only through hard conversations, and
legislation, in Congress and state legislatures.
Song of Myself
“Writing and talk do not prove me,” wrote Walt Whitman in his . “I carry the
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plenum( ) of proof and everything else in my face.” We have grown accustomed to the monitoring
of our technology and communications. There is something different, something intractable and
ominous, about the tracking of our bodies.
46. What can be inferred from the event of Boston Tea Party?
A) Massachusetts natives sneaked onto the ships loaded with British tea.
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B) The value of the tea thrown into water was nearly 1 million then.
C) The participants took great pains to conceal their identities.
D) The people involved in it were all brought to justice.
47. What’s the author’s main purpose in writing the fourth paragraph?
A) To show the importance of anonymity.
B) To evaluate two historical events.
C) To introduce an ongoing trend.
D) To criticize the injustice in history.
48. Which of the following tools is likely to deprive people of the ability to be anonymous?
A) Traditional monitoring technology.
B) Face recognition technology.
C) Fingerprint recognition technology.
D) DNA analysis.
49. By citing the example of Baltimore County police, the author intends to show .
A) the tool used by authorities to pursue terrorists
B) the adoption of face recognition for tracking citizens
C) the number of criminals registered online
D) the way to search for Freddie Gray’s killer
50. The threat that face recognition poses to humanity can only be solved through .
A) the research of Silicon Valley
B) the make-up of the Sons of Liberty
2024年英语六级考试绝密押题试卷(五) 第8页 淘宝：谈辰图书企业店C) the slight change on the face
D) dialogues and law-making in legislative body
Passage Two
Questions 51 to 55 are based on the following passage.
The 17 trillion gallons of rain, roughly 26m Olympic swimming pools, dumped on Texas by
Hurricane Harvey has set a new high for a tropical system in the US, but it is unlikely to last long as
rising man-made emissions push global climate deeper into uncharted territory.
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Images of flooded streets in Texas are mirrored by scenes of inundated( ) communities in
India and Bangladesh, the recent mudslides in Sierra Leone and last month’s deadly overflow of a
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Yangtze tributary( ) in China. In part, these calamities are seasonal. In part, the impact depends
on local factors. But scientists tell us such extremes are likely to become more common and more
devastating as a result of rising global temperatures and increasingly intense rainfall.
Our planet is in an era of unwelcome records. For each of the past three years, temperatures have
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hit peaks not seen since the birth of meteorology( ), and probably not for more than 110,000
years. The amount of carbon dioxide in the air is at its highest level in 4m years. This does not cause
storms like Harvey—there have always been storms and hurricanes at this time of year along the Gulf of
Mexico—but it makes them wetter and more powerful.
“For large countries like the United States, we can expect further rainfall records—and not just for
hurricanes,” said Friederike Otto, deputy director of the Environmental Change Institute at the
University of Oxford. This is part of a wider trend. “For the globe, we’ll see heat and extreme rainfall
records for the foreseeable future,” she predicted. She cautioned that the situation is likely to be
different from country to country. Many factors are involved, but human impact on the climate has
added to the tendency for more severe droughts and fiercer storms.
A key focus now is whether climate change is connected to the “stalling” of storms. In the US,
hurricanes usually move inland and diminish in power as they get further from the sea. Harvey,
however, was stationary for several days—which is the main factor in its rainfall record.
Scientists have said this may be the single biggest question posed by Harvey. Researchers have
recently identified a slowdown of atmospheric summer circulation in the mid-latitudes as a result of
strong warming in the Arctic. But such studies of pressure patterns need more powerful analytical tools,
including supercomputers.
In the US, however, such research has become highly politicized. President Donald Trump has
announced that the US will pull out of the Paris climate treaty and cut funding for related research. “It
shouldn’t be a political matter to try to understand how much more frequent events like Harvey will
become in the future,” said Tim Palmer, a professor at the University of Oxford. “It appalls me how
basic science has become involved in politics like this.”
51. What can we learn about Hurricane Harvey?
A) It destroyed about 26m Olympic swimming pools.
2024年英语六级考试绝密押题试卷(五) 第9页 淘宝：谈辰图书企业店B) It brought a record-breaking amount of rainfall.
C) It was soon put to an end by climate change.
D) It also brought unprecedented disasters to Asia.
52. The disasters mentioned in Para. 2 serve as examples to show that .
A) disasters in different areas share high similarity
B) most of the worldwide calamities are seasonal
C) extreme weathers are becoming more common
D) rising temperatures cause more intense rainfall
53. Which of the following statements may Otto agree with?
A) Storms and hurricanes have been getting stronger and wetter.
B) More extreme temperatures and rainfall may come in future.
C) It is not clear what factors may be involved in climate change.
D) Hurricanes in the US tend to come into being in inland areas.
54. It is suggested that the root cause of the “stalling” of storms might be .
A) varied pressure patterns C) improper human activities
B) warmer ocean currents D) slower atmospheric circulation
55. What is the scientific community’s response to President Trump’s announcement?
A) Quite critical. C) Rather indifferent.
B) Pretty favorable. D) Slightly Skeptical.
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.
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中国人的好客在酒席上发挥得最充分 人与人的感情往往在敬酒时变得深厚 饭局开始时 主人
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通常要讲上几句话 之后便开始敬酒 主人先将自己杯中的酒一饮而尽 客人一般也要喝完
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