英语六级历年真题小体积版 cet6_200301

　　1.A)It's far from being ready yet.
B)It contains some valuable ideas.
C)She needs another week to get it ready.
D)It has nothing to do with the Internet.
1.M: How well are you prepared for your presentation? Your turn comes on next Wednesday.
W: I spend a whole week searching on the net. But it came up with nothing valuable.
Q: What did the women say about her presentation?
2.A)The woman is a kind?hearted boss.
B)The woman is strict with her employees.
C)The man always has excuses for being late.
D)The man's alarm clock didn't work that morning.
2. W: Good morning, Jack¹, late again, what's the excuse this time?
M: I'm awfully² sorry I must have turned the alarm off and gone back to sleep again.
Q: What do we learn from the conversation?
3.A)The bank near the railway station closes late.
B)The bank around the corner is not open today.
C)The womon should try her luck in the bank nearby.
D)The woman should use dollars instead of pounds.
3. W: Excuse me, but could you tell me where I can change American Dollars into British Pounds?
M: There is a bank around the corner, but I'm afraid it 's already past it's closing time. Why don't you try the one near the railway station.
Q: What does the man mean?
4.A)Wait for about three minutes.
B)Try dialing the number again.
C)Call again some thme later.
D)Make an appontment with Dr.Chen.
4. M:Could I speak to Dr. Chen, she told me to call her today.
W: She's not available right now. Would you like to try around three?
Q: What does the woman tell the man to do?
5.A)He felt upset because of her failure.
B)He believes she will pass the test this time.
C)He is sure they will succeed in the next test.
D)He did no better than the woman in the test.
5. W: Oh dear, I'm afraid I'll fail again in the nakional test. It's the third time I took it.
M: Don't be too upset. I have the same fate³. Let's try a fourth time.
Q: What does the man mean?
6.A)The man thinks the woman can earn the credits⁴.
B)The woman is begging the man tio let her pass the exam.
C)The woman has to attend a summer course to graduate.
D)The woman is going to graduate from summer school.
6. W: Professor Smith, I really need the credits to graduate this summer.
M: Here of this school, the credits are earned, not given .
Q: What do we learn from the conversation?
7.A)Fred likes the beautiful scenery along the way to Canada.
B)Fred usually flies to Canada with Jane.
C)Fred persuaded Jane to change her mind.
D)Fred is planning a trip to Canada.
7. M: How did you go to Canada, Jane? Did you fly?
W: I was planning to, because such a long trip by bus or by train, but Fred decide to drive and invited to join him It took us two days and a night.
Q: What can we infer⁵ from the conversation?
8.A)Find room for the paintings.
B)Put more coats of paint on the wall.
C)Paint the walls to match the furniture.
D)Hang some pictures for decoration.
8. M: How do you like the way I've arranged the furniture in my living room.
W: Fine, but I think the walls could do with a few paintings.
Q: What does the woman suggest the man do?
9.A)He'd rather not go to the lecture.
B)He's going to attend the lecture.
C)He'll give a lecture on drawing.
D)He doesn't mond if the woman goes to the lecture.
9. W: I don't imagine you have any interest in attending that lecture on drawing, do you?
M: Oh, yes, Now that you remind me of it.
Q: What do we learn about the man from the conversation?
10.A)Trying to persuade the woman to vote for him.
B)Running for chairman of the student union.
C)Choosing a campaign manager.
D)Selecting the best candidate⁶.
10. M: You are my campaign manager. What do you think we should do to win the election⁷? I'm convinced⁸ I'm the best candidate for the chairman of the Student Union.
W: We won't be able to win unless you get the majority votes from the women students.
Q: What is the man doing?
Section B
Directions: In this section,you will hear 3 short passages.At the end of each passage,you will hear some 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 corresponding⁹ letter on the Answer Sheet with a single line through the centre.
Passage One
Questions 11 to 14 are based on the passage you have just heard.
11.A)To find ways to treat homan waster.
B)To study the problems of local industries.
C)To conduct a study on fishing in the Biramichi River.
D)To investigate the annual catch of fish in the Biramichi River.
12.A)Serious pollution upstream.
B)Lack of oxygen.
C)Overgrowth of water plants.
D)Low water level.
13.A)They'll be closed down.
B)They'll be moved to other places.
C)They're going to dismiss¹⁰ some of their employees.
D)They have no money to build chemical treatment plants.
14.A)The local fishing cooperative¹¹ decised to reduce its catch.
B)The local Chamber¹² of Commerce¹³ tried to preserve fishes.
C)There were fewer fish in the river.
D)Over?fishiing was prohibited¹⁴.
Passage One 录音原稿
There are some serious problems in the Biramichi river. The local chamber of commerce, which we rpresents the industry in the area hired me as a consultant¹⁵ to do a one-year study on fishing in the Biramichi river and write a report for them. This is my report:
One of the major problems in the Bramichi river is that the level of oxygen in the water is too low. Several chemicals have displaced¹⁶ the oxygen. This chemical pollution has two sources. The factories which dump¹⁷ polluted water directly into the river and the local community which dumps¹⁸ untreated human wastes into the river. The local town government has already spent 2 million dollars on waste water treatment projects, but it will cost another 27 million to complete the projects. It will take at least 15 years for the town to collect enough revenue¹⁹ from taxes to complete these projects. The factories here employ 17,000 people in an area where there is very little alternative employment²⁰. It is not economically practical to close or relocate the factories. Also the factories cannot afford to finance²¹ chemical treatment plants by themselves. Another problem is that the members of the Biramichi fishing corporative are overfishing. Fishes are caught when they are on the way upstream to lay eggs. Consequently²², not enough fish are left to reproduce²³ in large mumber. The members of the corporative say that they had already reduced their annual catch by 50 percent. However, my studies indicate that they took fewer fish because there were fewer fish to catch not because they were trying to preserve fishes.
11. What was the speaker assigned²⁴ to do in the past year?
12. What is one of the problems in the Biramichi river?
13. What does the passage tell us about the factories along the river?
14. Why was the annual catch of fish in the Biramichi river reduced according to the speaker?
Passage Two
Questions 15 to 17 are based on the passage yu have just heard.
15.A)A shoirt note to their lawyer.
B)A brief letter sealed in an envelope.
C)Oral instructions recorded on a tape.
D)A written document of several pages.
16.A)Visit his grave²⁵ regularly for five years.
B)Stop wearing any kind of fashionable clothes.
C)Refrain from going out with men for five years.
D)Bury the dentist with his favorite car.
17.A)He wanted to leave his body for medical purposes.
B)He was angry with his selfish relatives.
C)He was just being humorous.
D)He was not a wealthy man.
Passage Two 录音稿
Everybody have to die someday, but nobody likes to think about it. Even so, at sometime in their lives, most people manage to think about the question of how to make a will. If you have already made yours, it is probably just a few pages of writing, stating that you wish to leave everything to your family. That is the kind of will that the majority of people make. However, there are plenty of ways to make you will more interesting if you want to .To begin with ,you don't have to write it on paper. One man wrote his will on an envelope, another on the door, and a third on an egg. For some people, the most important part of their will is the part that says how they want to be buried. Mrs Sandra West, a rich widow²⁶ form Texas, decided²⁷ that she wanted to be buried with her favorite car. In 1973, Mr Green, a dentist from English, left most of his money to the nurse who worked for him if in 5 years she would not wear any kind of make-up or jewel or go out with men. Finally, let's hope that your will is not like that of Dr Wagner, who lived in America 100 years ago. His family, who had not been to see him for years, suddenly began to visit him when he became ill. What was worse, each person suggested Dr Wagner they would like something to remember him by when he died. Greatly annoyed with them. Dr Wagner wrote a will that would do this: To each of his four brothers, he left one of his legs or arms, His nephew got his noses and his two nieces each got an ear. His teeth went to his cousin. Then he set aside 1,000 dollars to pay for cutting his body and the rest of his money he left to the poor.
15. What kind of will do most people leave behind according to the passage?
16. What did the nurse have to do before getting the money left by the English dentist?
17. Why did Dr Wagner make an unusual will?
Passage Three
Questions 18 to 20 are hased on the passage you have just heard.
18.A)They believed it to be a luxury²⁸.
B)They considered it avoidable.
C)They took it to be a trend.
D)They thought it quite acceptable²⁹.
19.A)Casual³⁰.
B)Critical.
C)Sceptical.
D)Serious.
20.A)When the current marriage law is modifed.
B)When husband and wife understand each other better.
C)When the costs of getting a divorce³¹ become unaffordable.
D)When people consider marriage an important part of their lives.
Passage Three录音稿
In recent years, there has been an unusually large number of divorces³² in the United States. In the past, when two people married each other, they intended to stay together for life. While today, many people marry believing that they can always get it divorce if the marriage does not work out. In the past, a large majority of the Americans frowned³³ of the idea of divorce. Futhermore, many people believed that getting a divorce was a luxury that only the rich could afford. Indeed, getting a divorce was very expensive. However, since so many people have began to take a more casual view of marriage,it is interesting to know that the cost of getting a divorce are lower. In fact, wherever you go in the United States today, it is not unusual to see newspaper ads that provide information on how and where to get a cheap divorce. Hollywood has always been known as the divorce capital of the world. The divorce rate among the movie stars is so high that it is difficult to know who is married to whom. Today many movie stars change husbands and wives as though they were changing clothes.Until marriage again become the serious and important part of people's lives we will probably continue to see a high rate of divorce.
18. What did many Americans think of divorce in the past?
19. What is the attitude of many Americans to marriage today?
20. In the speaker's view, when will the high rate of divorce be brought down?
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1 jack   

n.插座，千斤顶，男人；v.抬起，提醒，扛举；n.（Jake）杰克

参考例句：

• I am looking for the headphone jack.我正在找寻头戴式耳机插孔。
• He lifted the car with a jack to change the flat tyre.他用千斤顶把车顶起来换下瘪轮胎。

2 awfully   

adv.可怕地，非常地，极端地

参考例句：

• Agriculture was awfully neglected in the past.过去农业遭到严重忽视。
• I've been feeling awfully bad about it.对这我一直感到很难受。

3 fate   

n.命运；结局，结果；将来，前景

参考例句：

• The Titanic met her fate by crashing into a huge iceberg.泰坦尼克号客轮因撞上一个大冰山而沉没。
• Your future is bound up with the fate of your motherland.你的前途同祖国的命运紧密相联。

4 credits   

n.节目前后字幕；信任，信用，声望，荣誉， [财务]贷方，银行存款；信任( credit的名词复数 )；存款；学分；（借钱偿还的）信誉link-v.相信，信任，把…归给

参考例句：

• He credits me with having better sense than that. 他认为我的见识要比那强得多。 来自《简明英汉词典》
• Does this item go among the credits or the debits? 这笔账应记入贷方还是借方？ 来自《现代英汉综合大词典》

5 infer   

vt.推论，推断；猜想

参考例句：

• People usually infer an unknown fact from a known fact.人们通常从已知的事实中推断未知的事实。
• From your smile I infer that you're pleased.从你的笑容，我断定你很高兴。

6 candidate   

n.候选人；候补者；投考者，申请求职者

参考例句：

• Voters like a candidate who has the common touch. 投票者喜欢那些平易近人的候选人。
• The local newspapers dressed up the candidate as a boxer.当地报纸把那个候选人描绘成一个拳击手。

7 election   

n.选举，选择权；当选

参考例句：

• There is no doubt but that he will win the election.毫无疑问，他将在竞选中获胜。
• The government will probably fall at the coming election.在即将到来的大选中，该政府很可能要垮台。

8 convinced   

adj.确信的；深信的；有坚定信仰的v.使确信(convince的过去分词)；说服

参考例句：

• I am convinced of her innocence. 我坚信她是清白无辜的。
• I'm convinced there's a jinx on this car. 我看这辆汽车是灾星。

9 corresponding   

adj.符合的，一致的，相同的，相应的，相当的

参考例句：

• We shall take the corresponding measures.我们将采取相应措施。
• Finally,some corresponding advices are put forword based on the above experiments.最后提出了几个相应的建议。

10 dismiss   

v.解雇，开除；把（某人）打发走；解散

参考例句：

• The committee has decided to dismiss him.委员会已决定辞退他。
• Please dismiss all doubts about it. 请打消对此事的一切顾虑。

11 cooperative   

adj.有合作意向的，合作的；n.合作社（企业）等

参考例句：

• The workmen are very cooperative,so the work goes on smoothly.工人们十分合作，所以工作进展顺利。
• We decided to set up a cooperative.我们决定开办一家合作社。

12 chamber   

n.房间，寝室；会议厅；议院；会所

参考例句：

• For many,the dentist's surgery remains a torture chamber.对许多人来说，牙医的治疗室一直是间受刑室。
• The chamber was ablaze with light.会议厅里灯火辉煌。

13 commerce   

n.商业，贸易；社交

参考例句：

• Commerce binds the two countries together.贸易把这两国结合在一起。
• They drew up plans aimed at expanding commerce.他们拟定了发展商业的计划。

14 prohibited   

v.禁止，阻止( prohibit的过去式和过去分词 )；不许

参考例句：

• The tourists are prohibited from getting on the island. 旅游者被禁止登上那个小岛。 来自《简明英汉词典》
• Unlawful search of, or intrusion into, a citizen's home is prohibited. 禁止非法搜查或者非法侵入公民的住宅。 来自《现代汉英综合大词典》

15 consultant   

n.顾问；会诊医师，专科医生

参考例句：

• He is a consultant on law affairs to the mayor.他是市长的一个法律顾问。
• Originally,Gar had agreed to come up as a consultant.原来，加尔只答应来充当我们的顾问。

16 displaced   

移动( displace的过去式和过去分词 )； 替换； 移走； 撤职

参考例句：

• Gradually factory workers have been displaced by machines. 工厂的工人已逐渐被机器取代。
• He was displaced by another young man. 他已被另一个年轻人顶替。

17 dump   

n.垃圾场；v.倾卸，切断电源，倾倒

参考例句：

• Where can I dump this rubbish?我将这些垃圾倒在什么地方？
• They wheeled the rubbish out to the dump.他们把垃圾用车运到垃圾场去。

18 dumps   

n.抑郁v.倾倒( dump的第三人称单数 )；丢下；随便堆放；释放

参考例句：

• They eke out a precarious existence foraging in rubbish dumps. 他们靠在垃圾场捡垃圾维持着朝不保夕的生活。 来自《简明英汉词典》
• It's no use letting yourself fall into the dumps. 你听任自己的情绪低沉下去一点用也没有。 来自《简明英汉词典》

19 revenue   

n.总收入，财政收入，税收；税务局

参考例句：

• The country diminished the revenue by reducing tax.这个国家通过减税而使税收减少了。
• A government's revenue and expenditure should be balanced.政府的财政收入和支出要平衡。

20 employment   

n.雇用；使用；工作，职业

参考例句：

• A large office requires the employment of many people.一个大办事处需要雇用好多人员。
• The state of employment in this city is improving.这个城市就业状况正在改善。

21 finance   

n.财务管理，财政，金融，财源，资金

参考例句：

• She is an expert in finance.她是一名财政专家。
• A finance house made a bid to buy up the entire company.一家信贷公司出价买下了整个公司。

22 consequently   

adv.因此，因而，所以

参考例句：

• She was a bright and eager student and,consequently,did well in school.她是个聪明好学的学生，因此学习成绩很好。
• The company went bankrupt and consequently he lost his job.公司破产，因此他失业了。

23 reproduce   

v.生育，繁殖，复制，重做

参考例句：

• The machine can reproduce a key in two minutes.这机器能在两分钟内复制一把钥匙。
• The picture will reproduce well.这照片会印得很清楚。

24 assigned   

adj.选定的；被布置的

参考例句：

• But read-only values are different,in that they are assigned at runtime.但是只读的值是不同的，因为它们是在运行时被赋值的。

25 grave   

n.墓穴，坟墓，雕刻工，抑音；adj.庄重的，严肃的，重大的，低沉的；vt.雕刻

参考例句：

• Marriage is the grave of love.婚姻是爱情的坟墓。
• This is a very grave matter indeed.这问题的确非常严重。

26 widow   

n.寡妇

参考例句：

• Martha was a very rich young widow.玛莎是个很有钱的年轻寡妇。
• All this money was appropriated for the support of his widow.所有这些钱作为给他的遗孀的抚养费。

27 decided   

adj.决定了的，坚决的；明显的，明确的

参考例句：

• This gave them a decided advantage over their opponents.这使他们比对手具有明显的优势。
• There is a decided difference between British and Chinese way of greeting.英国人和中国人打招呼的方式有很明显的区别。

28 luxury   

n.难得享受到的愉悦；奢侈，奢华的生活

参考例句：

• He invited me to his suite. The luxury takes your breath away.他请我到他的套房里去，那豪华的气派真会令你吃惊。
• The government has imposed strict reins on the import of luxury goods.政府对奢侈品的进口有严格的控制手段。

29 acceptable   

adj.可接受的，合意的，受欢迎的

参考例句：

• The terms of the contract are acceptable to us.我们认为这个合同的条件可以接受。
• Air pollution in the city had reached four times the acceptable levels.这座城市的空气污染程度曾高达可接受标准的四倍。

30 casual   

adj.漠不关心，冷漠的；随便的，非正式的；偶然的，碰巧的

参考例句：

• He earns a living by casual labour.他靠做临时工为生。
• The guests wore casual clothes.客人们穿着便服。

31 divorce   

n.离婚；分离；vi.离婚；vt.离婚；脱离

参考例句：

• Did he divorce his wife or did she divorce him?是他要和妻子离婚，还是妻子要和他离婚？
• None of us like the divorce of word and deed.我们都不喜欢言行不一。

32 divorces   

n.离婚( divorce的名词复数 )；分离v.与…离婚( divorce的第三人称单数 )；分离；与（某人）离婚，判（某人）离婚

参考例句：

• "As for Bettie's marriages and divorces,'said Shen-ming, "I've talked with him about them. 慎明道：“关于Bertie结婚离婚的事，我也和他谈过。 来自汉英文学 - 围城
• He's getting married again, after two divorces, so he obviously hasn't profited by his experiences. 他两次离婚之后又结婚，显然没有吸取以往的教训。 来自辞典例句

33 frowned   

皱眉( frown的过去式和过去分词 )

参考例句：

• She frowned in puzzlement. 她迷惑地蹙着眉。
• The mother frowned when her son failed in his exam. 儿子考试不及格时，母亲皱着眉。