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大学英语六级考试绝密押题试卷(四)
Part Writing 30 minutes
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Directions For this part you are allowed 30 minutes to write an essay commenting on the proverb
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He who makes no mistakes makes nothing. You can give an example or two to illustrate your
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point of view. You should write at least 150 words but no more than 200 words
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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) Open a deposit account for her company.
B) Withdraw some money to pay a bill.
C) Transfer some money to a company account.
D) Change her address she registered in the bank before.
2. A) Within two days.
B) Right now.
C) After the woman have got the needed information.
D) After the man have got his manager’s approval.
3. A) Because there is a very big sum of money in her account.
B) Because he has no authority to close accounts for customers.
C) Because the bank doesn’t have so much money right now.
D) Because he needs to arrange a security guard for the woman.
4. A) Tired. C) Alert.
B) Excited. D) Curious.
Questions 5 to 8 are based on the conversation you have just heard.
5. A) How confidence helps people. C) How lack of confidence harms people.
B) How over-confidence harms people. D) How to develop self-confidence.
6. A) They are likely to die earlier.
B) They are likely to prolong their lives.
C) Two thirds of them are likely to get cured in the end.
D) They are twice as likely to get cured in the end.
7. A) They come into his laboratory with passion.
B) They come into his laboratory full of confidence.
C) They have been in the middle of their classes.
D) They have struggled hard to enter the university.
2024年英语六级考试绝密押题试卷(四) 第1页 淘宝：谈辰图书企业店8. A) Evidence is needed in every step of teaching.
B) Confidence is a must for a qualified teacher.
C) Knowledge can be gained from critical thinking.
D) Opportunities can be gained from self-confidence.
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 11 are based on the passage you have just heard.
9. A) It is a program for girls to practise outdoor skills.
B) It is a program for women explorers.
C) It is a program charging no fees.
D) It is a program for mountaineering enthusiasts.
10. A) Five. C) Twelve.
B) Nine. D) Fourteen.
11. A) Participants should have a higher education background.
B) Interested girls should write to explain why they want to participate.
C) Knowing some basics of outdoor skills is a must for participants.
D) Easy-going girls are more likely to be accepted as participants.
Questions 12 to 15 are based on the passage you have just heard.
12. A) They are terrifying in appearance.
B) They are attractive but poisonous.
C) They are on the edge of extinction.
D) They are native to the North Pacific.
13. A) They are threatening the sea life in the area.
B) They are diversifying its marine environment.
C) They are simplifying the food-chain of the area.
D) They are affecting the local tourism.
14. A) It is a government-funded team. C) It is an expert-led team.
B) It is a private team. D) It is a student-led team.
15. A) By putting it into a tank full of the fish.
B) By remote-controlling it to attack the fish.
C) By showing it thousands of images of the fish.
D) By equipping it with a sensing device.
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年英语六级考试绝密押题试卷(四) 第2页 淘宝：谈辰图书企业店Questions 16 to 18 are based on the recording you have just heard.
16. A) It is a scientific group doing research in Antarctica.
B) It is an independent group aiming to protect wildlife.
C) It is an independent group aiming to protect the environment.
D) It is a scientific group exploring the currents around the Antarctica Ocean.
17. A) Approximately 1.8 million tons.
B) Approximately 8 million tons.
C) Approximately 18 million tons.
D) Approximately 80 million tons.
18. A) Ban all single-use plastic by 2022.
B) Organize more waste clean-up activities.
C) Develop and produce degradable plastic bags.
D) Ask movie stars to promote environmental protection.
Questions 19 to 22 are based on the recording you have just heard.
19. A) People tend to choose the latest brand of cars.
B) The auto industry is undergoing intense competition.
C) More and more buyers want to buy eco-friendly cars.
D) A large number of automakers are desperate for innovation.
20. A) They cost twice as much as traditional cars.
B) They are now available only in a few countries.
C) Drivers need to replace the batteries often to avoid sudden breakdown.
D) Drivers need to charge the batteries frequently during a long journey.
21. A) It is now popular all around the world.
B) It can only be built into specially designed roads.
C) It can be built into existing roads.
D) It has undergone three years’ development.
22. A) It is implemented by one single company.
B) It costs 5 million dollars per kilometer.
C) It is not effective under extreme weather.
D) It has not been ready for wide industrial use yet.
Questions 23 to 25 are based on the recording you have just heard.
23. A) Its moving path. C) Its formation.
B) Its intensity. D) Its scale.
24. A) They are of finite use. C) They are misleading.
B) They are not referential. D) They are quite accurate.
25. A) It involves more than eight low-orbit satellites.
B) It can send back all needed information about hurricanes.
C) It has successfully helped predict the intensity of hurricanes in 2017.
D) It can measure surface winds in and near the centre of tropical storm systems.
2024年英语六级考试绝密押题试卷(四) 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
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If you had to guess the organ that has undue influence on your emotions, your mood, even your
choices, what would you guess? The brain? Sure, but what else? The heart—that 26 seat of the
soul? Not quite. The stomach? You’re getting warmer. Would you believe it’s the large and small
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intestine, 27 known as the gut? More specifically, it’s the trillions of bacteria—the microbiota(
生物群
)—than live in your gut. Each of us 28 up to four and a half pounds of bacteria around in
our guts at any given time. More than 100 trillion microbes live down there. That’s as many cells as
make up the rest of your body.
Now, this crowd is mostly good guys, and they do important work, to the extent that some
scientists 29 classifying these collective microbiota as its own 30 . Aside from helping digest
our food, they protect us from disease, neutralize some of the toxic by-products of the 31 process,
and make it harder for bad bacteria to set up shop. In short, your gut does way more than just digest
everything from Cheetos to Camembert.
But it turns out gut bacteria may also 32 how we feel. Who knew the next 33 in mental
well-being would lead right to the toilet? With that lively 34 in mind, we know here are various
ways our microbiota are 35 to our mental health.
A) advocate I) gathers
B) affect J) image
C) attached K) irreplaceable
D) carries L) mythical
E) collectively M) notoriously
F) connected N) organ
G) digestive O) result
H) frontier
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
.
Exercise Is Good for Your Body and Your Mind
A) The benefits of exercise are widely known: it helps you live longer and lowers risk of heart
The Lancet Psychiatry
disease, stroke and diabetes. A new study published on Wednesday in journal
2024年英语六级考试绝密押题试卷(四) 第4页 淘宝：谈辰图书企业店suggests that when done in moderation, it leads to better mental health as well. The researchers
analyzed responses from 1. 2 million adults in the United States taken from a US Centres for Disease
Control and Prevention survey given in 2011, 2013 and 2015. The average number of days of poor
mental health per person in the past month was around 3.4, according to the study. Those who reported
exercising had about 1.5, or 43%, fewer days of “bad self-reported mental health” in the past month
compared to those who did not exercise. Poor mental health was reported in the study as stress,
depression and trouble with emotions.
B) “I think in comparison to all other treatments, when a patient successfully exercises at the right
dose, there is a sense of self-efficacy and confidence that the patient develops and that is absolutely also
a remarkably positive thing,” said Dr. Madhukar Trivedi, Director of the Centre for Depression
Research and Clinical Care at the Peter O’Donnell Jr. Brain Institute at UT Southwestern Medical
JAMA Psychiatry
Centre in Dallas. He was not involved with the study but recently published a paper in
linking midlife fitness with lower risk of depression.
C) “I think it’s a huge deal,” said Adam Chekroud, an author of the study and Assistant
Professor of Psychiatry at Yale University. “Even just walking three times a week seems to give people
better mental health than not exercising at all. I think from a public health perspective, it’s pretty
important because it shows that we can have the potential for having a pretty big impact on mental health
for a lot of people.”
D) The sweet spot for exercising was found to be 45-minute sessions three to five times a
week. There wasn’t a big difference in benefit for exercising beyond 90 minutes in a session—until one
hit the three-hour mark. After that, there appeared to be worse mental health associated with those
people compared to others who did not exercise at all.
E) “I think it makes sense,” Chekroud said. “If you’re not exercising enough, perhaps that’s
not giving you the biological aspect of exercise, and maybe you’re not putting your body through the
intensity and through the changes that it needs to stimulate those biological changes in the brain. And
on the high end, anecdotally we hear a lot about people who get addicted to exercise or maybe they’re
kind of running themselves into the ground.”
F) Though all forms of exercise resulted in better mental health compared to doing nothing, the
strongest association was found in people who played popular team sports(a 22% lower mental health
burden), cycling(22%) and other aerobic and gym activities(20%). Even completing household
chores led to about a 10% drop in days of poor mental health in a month, the researchers found.
“Exercise in group settings could have a slightly higher benefit than exercise alone,” Trivedi said.
“There’s not enough evidence to be very strong but that could be what happened.”
G) As for cycling, Chekroud, who is also chief scientist at Spring Health, said, “There’s the
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biological benefit of exercise. And you’ve had increases in your respiratory( ) rate and your
heart rate and that kind of thing. But also, it’s an opportunity where you’re not working for a relatively
long period of time and you get to think things through, perhaps reevaluate situations that happen in
your life.”
H) The authors adjusted various physical and sociodemographic factors like age, race, gender,
2024年英语六级考试绝密押题试卷(四) 第5页 淘宝：谈辰图书企业店marital status, socioeconomic status, education, self-reported physical health and previous diagnosis of
depression. Still the improvement seen from exercise was more than what could be seen from any other
modifiable social or demographic factor such as education, body mass index or household income.
I) Seventy-five types of “exercise” were included in the report, leading to some experts preferring
another label instead. “In the current study, we see the inclusion of activities such as childcare,
housework, lawn-mowing, carpentry, fishing, and yoga as forms of exercise,” wrote Dr. Gary Cooney,
a psychiatrist at Gartnavel Royal Hospital in the United Kingdom in an accompanying commentary
published with the article. “The study, in its all-encompassing approach, might more accurately be
considered a study in physical activity rather than exercise.”
J) Though the study is purportedly the largest of its size, and “unprecedented in scale”, it does
have a few limitations, Cooney said. Mental health disorders are not a monolith and there are discrete
factors involved in research and clinical purposes of various conditions like dementia, substance misuse
or personality disorder, he said.
K) “There is an uncomfortable interchangeability between mental health and depression, as if
these concepts were functionally equivalent, or as if other mental disorders were somewhat peripheral,”
wrote Cooney, who also cited the authors’ choice to research previous studies regarding exercise and
depression. Consequently, the study may offer the most guidance in depression research.
L) “I think that particular concern is more of an academic concern rather than a practical
concern,” Chekroud countered. “I think part of the reason why we were less concerned about that than
the particular commentary was that we know that depression and anxiety are the most common mental
health conditions. And when we talk about mental health, most people have mood or anxiety
精神分裂症
disorders. So it’s true that some people will have things like schizophrenia( ) or bipolar
躁狂抑郁性精神病
disorder( ) but those conditions make up a very small percentage of the
population.” “In the future we can start to maybe hone in on different illness categories and maybe we
would see a different pattern, but I think overall though it’s kind of an edge case in this situation,” he
added.
M) And because the answers to the survey are self-reported, individuals who have conditions like
分裂情感性障碍
schizophrenia, schizoaffective disorder( ) or bipolar affective disorder, may have a
diminished ability to do so accurately, Cooney said.
N) The next step in research is asking more detailed questions and following up with people in the
long term, Trivedi said. The authors of the study also propose collecting data from wearable trackers,
like Fitbit, to more precisely determine how frequency, duration and intensity of exercise and mental
health burden are connected.
O) “People and patients should actually get well informed and become informed consumers and
ask their doctors about whether this is a valid treatment for them or not,” Trivedi said. “And if the
doctor says yes, then you try to figure out a plan to make sure like any other treatment—if you get pills,
then you figure out a way to take them regularly. If your doctor and you decide exercise is your
treatment, then you develop strategies to make sure you basically swallow the pill.”
36. People who exercised for between 1. 5 and 3 hours were almost in the same mental health
condition as those who did for three quarters of an hour.
2024年英语六级考试绝密押题试卷(四) 第6页 淘宝：谈辰图书企业店37. The chief scientist at Spring Health believes that people can consider things thoroughly or
reassess what goes on in their life when cycling.
38. Dr. Gary Cooney prefers to use the label of physical activity instead of exercise in the
report.
39. Respondents with psychological problems like bipolar affective disorder may be less able to
make correct self-reports.
40. According to the data from the US Centres for Disease Control and Prevention, participants
without exercise felt stressful or depressed more of ten than those who exercised.
41. In Chekroud’s opinion, the mental health problems except depression and anxiety are less
mentioned in the study partly because they are edge cases.
42. The contribution made to mental health by changeable social or demographic factors was less
than that made by exercise.
43. After doctors’ verification, patients should make a plan for exercise and perform it regularly
like taking medicine.
JAMA Psychiatry
44. What Dr. Madhukar Trivedi has written in is that keeping fit in middle age
can reduce the incidence of depression.
45. Even doing housework can reduce about 10% of days of poor mental health every month.
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
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Passage One
Questions 46 to 50 are based on the following passage.
The Hunchback of Notre
Clues suggesting that Quasimodo, the tragic hero of Victor Hugo’s novel
Dame
, is based on a historical figure have been uncovered in the memoirs of Henry Sibson, a 19th-
century British sculptor who was employed at the cathedral at around the time the book was written and
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who described a hunchbacked( ) stonemason also working there.
The documents were acquired by the Tate Archive in 1999 after they were discovered in the attic of
a house in Cornwall. However, the references to a “hunchbacked sculptor” working at Notre Dame
were just discovered, as the memoirs were catalogued ahead of the archive’s 40th anniversary this
year.
The seven-volume memoirs documented Sibson’s time in Paris during the 1820s, when he was
employed by contractors to work on repairs to Notre Dame Cathedral. In the course of work, he met with
Trajan, a carver under the government sculptor whose name he forgot. All that he knew was that he was
humpbacked and he did not like to mix with carvers. In a later entry, Sibson again mentioned the
sculptor, this time recalling his name as “Mon. Le Bossu”. Le Bossu is French for “the hunchback”.
Adrian Glew, the Tate archivist, who made the discovery, said, “When I saw the references to the
humpbacked sculptor at Notre Dame, and saw that the dates matched the time of Hugo’s interest in the
Cathedral, the hairs on the back of my neck rose and I thought I should look into it.”
2024年英语六级考试绝密押题试卷(四) 第7页 淘宝：谈辰图书企业店The Hunchback of Notre Dame
Hugo began writing in 1828 and the book was published three years
later. He had a strong interest in the restoration of the Cathedral, with architecture features as a major
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theme in the book. Hugo publicly opposed the original neoclassical( ) scheme for Notre
Dame’s restoration led by the architect Etienne-Hippolyte Godde—the same scheme which Sibson
describes Le Bossu and Trajan working on—favoring a more Gothic style for the cathedral. The
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
publication of in 1831, which made Hugo one of France’ s most
acclaimed authors, was widely credited with prompting the Gothic restoration of the Cathedral in 1844,
designed by the architect Eugene Viollet-le-Duc, which Hugo had championed.
Professor Sean Hand, the head of the Department of French Studies at the University of Warwick,
and an expert on Hugo, said, “It is a fascinating discovery. Many scholars have tried to link
Quasimodo’s deformities with certain medical conditions, but I have never seen any reference to a
historical character that he may have been based upon. It sounds entirely plausible, and if Hugo was
indeed inspired by this deformed stonemason at Notre Dame, it further renews our appreciation of his
amazing imaginative powers to take details from real life and weave them into magical literature.”
46. What has been found in the memoirs of Henry Sibson?
A) The background information of the 19th-century France.
B) The imagination and mythical creation of Victor Hugo.
C) The real-life inspiration behind the deformed Quasimodo.
D) The private life and associations of Victor Hugo.
47. When did people discover the references to the hunchbacked sculptor working at Notre Dame?
A) After the documents were discovered in the attic of a house in Cornwall.
B) After the documents were acquired by the Tate Archive in 1999.
C) Long before the ceremony of the Tate Archive’s 40th anniversary.
D) Just as the staff catalogued the memoirs before the ceremony of the Tate Archive’s 40th
anniversary.
48. What made Adrian Glew look into the memoirs?
A) The appearance of the carver Trajan.
B) The restoration of Notre Dame.
C) The mention of working with government sculptors.
D) The same dates as the time of Hugo’s interest in Notre Dame.
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
49. The publication of was thought to result in .
A) the Gothic restoration of Notre Dame in 1844
B) the neoclassical restoration of Notre Dame
C) the championship of Eugene Viollet-le-Duc
D) the reputation of Le Bossu’s and Trajan’s work
50. How does Professor Sean Hand think of the discovery?
A) It needs further evidence to prove the relationship.
B) It sounds reliable with regard to the story.
C) It is significant for estimating Hugo’s life.
D) It is an appreciative effort but may draw no valuable conclusions.
2024年英语六级考试绝密押题试卷(四) 第8页 淘宝：谈辰图书企业店Passage Two
Questions 51 to 55 are based on the following passage.
The United States boasts the best public universities in the world. No young person should be
turned away because they were born into a family without enough money for tuition; nor should getting a
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degree consign( ) a person to decades of crippling debt. For the sake of fairness, class mobility,
and the ideal of equality of opportunity, I believe generous financial aid should be available to all needy
students for whom a four-year degree is the best way to achieve the American dream.
But I also know America is overwhelmingly led by people with college degrees and white collar
backgrounds—people who overvalue their own path to success and rig the system against others who’d
thrive under a different approach. Our elites are too often blind to the value of education that is received
away from college, whether through apprenticeships or vocational schools or on-the-job training. They
don’t always understand that there are lots of blue-collar jobs that are more fulfilling, better paying,
and more in demand than lots of white-collar jobs. And they are blind to the wisdom in cultural enclaves
where a young person is not considered “culturally competent” until knowing how to perform CPR, help
a stranger change a flat, or work alongside people from different social classes without taking offense
when their etiquette is different than the etiquette at UCLA or Berkeley.
So rather than promising free tuition, I have a more inclusive proposal: No matter your race or
class or gender, you should be able to afford a degree from a public university without crippling debt if
that path best maximizes your potential; and we should all value the important work being done at
universities.
The future I want to see begins with redoubling America’s efforts at civic education in high
school. Everyone with a high-school diploma should have learned all the tools they need to meaningfully
participate as citizens in America’ s government-by-the-people. In fact, adults who want to study
American civics now should have that opportunity.
Next, for everyone who earns their diploma or GED, I propose financial aid for college or for an
alternative investment in education that will help them toward any career that they choose, so long as
they demonstrate that they’ re making an informed decision. Yes, we’ ll need to be watchful to
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fraudsters( ) eager to get a piece of that money without offering valuable knowledge in return. But
the problem will be no greater than under the status quo, when so much of the money that flows to
public universities is wasted on administrative expansion and luxurious campus installations.
Finally, so that those who pursue routes other than four-year colleges are treated more fairly, I
propose legal reforms to eliminate obstacles like professional-licensing requirements that amount to no
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more than credentialism( ), and a shift away from insisting on a bachelor’s degree for
jobs that shouldn’t require one.
51. The first paragraph indicates that the best way to realize personal value in America is
by .
A) paying up all the debts C) acquiring equal opportunity
B) improving social mobility D) receiving higher education
52. According to the author, what may be the problem of the elites?
A) They are not open-minded enough.
2024年英语六级考试绝密押题试卷(四) 第9页 淘宝：谈辰图书企业店B) They misunderstand the job market.
C) They scorn people of lower classes.
D) They can’t adapt to the multi-culture.
53. It is implied that the aim to reinforce high school education is to .
A) maximize citizens’ potential C) involve people in public affairs
B) reform American civic education D) cultivate eligible citizens
54. The author suggests that the key to effective financial aid should lie in .
A) investing more in education C) remaining alert to cheaters
B) facilitating the career choice D) improving campus facilities
55. What is the conclusion of the last paragraph?
A) The four-year college education may not be worthwhile.
B) Professional-licensing demands are basically irrational.
C) Credentialism has become an obstacle of legal reform.
D) Diploma requirements should be set up to real needs.
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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喝中国茶有两种方式 大碗茶给人一种随意的感觉 功夫茶 则令人对茶道有所
: ; (gongfu tea)
体会 功夫茶不是一种茶叶或茶的名字 而是一种极具传统文化特色的冲泡手艺 在中国古代被
。 , ,
视为长生不老之药 人们叫它功夫茶是因为它的冲泡过程很注重茶壶 茶叶 水质甚至泡茶的工
。 、 、
序 倒茶的动作与喝茶的方式 制作功夫茶主要使用的茶叶是乌龙茶 因为它能满足
、 。 (oolong tea),
功夫茶色 香 味的要求
、 、 。
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