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2023年12月大学英语六级考试(全一套)Part I Writing (30 minutes)Directions: For this part, you are allowed 30 minutes to write an essay on theimportance of having a sense of social responsibility. You should write at least 150 words but no more than 200 words.Part II Listening comprehension (30minutes)Section ADirections: In this section, you will hear two long conversations. At the end of eachconversation, you will hear four questions. Both the conversation and the questions will bespoken only once. After you hear a question, you must choose the best answer from thefour choices marked A), B) C)and D). Then mark the corresponding letter on Answer Sheet 1 with a single line through the centre.Questions 1 to 4 are based on the conversation you have just heard1. A)It focuses exclusively on Jazz.B) It sponsors major jazz concerts.C) It has several branches in London.D) It displays albums by new music talents.2. A) It originated with cowboys.B) Its market has now shrunk.C) Its listeners are mostly young people.D) It remains as widespread as hip hop music.3. A)Its definition is varied and complicated.B) It is still going through experimentation.C) It is frequently accompanied by singing.D)Its style has remained largely unchanged.4.A) Learn to play them.B Take music lessonsC)Listen to them yourself.D Consul jazz musicians,Questions 5 to 8 are based on the conversation you have just heard.5. A)She paid her mortgage.B)She called on the manC) She made a business planD She went to the bank.6. A)Her previous debt hadn t been cleared yet.B)Her credit history was considered poor.C)She had apparently asked for too much.D) She didn t pay her mortgage in time.7. A) Pay a debt long overdue.B)Buy a piece of property.C) Start her own business.D)Check her credit history.8 A) Seek advice from an expert about fundraising.B)Ask for smaller loans from different lenders.C) Build up her own finances step by step.D) Revise her business proposal carefully.section BDirecitons: In this section, you will hear two passages. At the end of each passage, youwill hear three or four questions. Both the passage and the questions will be spoken onlyonce. After you hear a question, you must choose the best answer from the four choicesmarker A) B) C) and D), Then mark the corresponding letter on Answer Sheet 1 with a singleline through the centre.Questions 9 to 11 are based on the passage you have just heard.9. A) It is profitable and environmentally friendly.B)It is well located and completely automated.C It is small and unconventional.D) It is fertile and productive.10. A)Their urge to make farming more enjoyable.B) Their desire to improve faming equipment.C) Their hope to revitalize traditional farming.D)Their wish to set a new faming standard.11. A) It saves a lot of electricity.B) It needs little maintenance.C) It causes hardly any pollution.D) It loosens soil while weeding.Questions 12 to 15 are based on the passage you have just heard.12. A)It has turned certain insects into a new food source.B)It has started on expand business outside the UK.C) It has imported some exotic foods from overseas.D) It has joined hands with Sainsbury s to sell pet insects.13. A)It was really unforgettable.B)It was a pleasant surprise.C) It hurt his throat slightly.D) It made him feel strange.14. A)They are more tasty than beef, chicken or pork.B)They are more nutritious than soups and salads.C) They contain more protein than conventional meats.D) They will soon gain popularity throughout the world.15. A) It is environmentally friendly.B)It is a promising industryC It requires new technology.D) It saves huge amounts of labour.section CDirections: In this section, you will hear three recordings of lectures or talks followed bythree or four questions. The recordings will be played only by once. After you hear aquestion, you must choose the best answer from the four choices marked A), B)C) and D).Then mark the corresponding letter on Answer Sheet 1 with a single line through the centre.Questions 16 to 18 are based on the recording you have just heard.16. A)To categorize different types of learners.B)To find out what students prefer to learn.C To understand the mechanism of the human brain.D) To see if they are inherent traits affecting learning.17. A)It was defective.B) It was misguided.C) It was original in design.D) It was thought-provoking.18. A)Auditory aids are as important as visual aids.B)Visual aids are helpful to all types of learners. C) Reading plain texts is more effective than viewing pictures.D)Scientific concepts are hard to understand without visual aids.Questions 19 to 21 are based on the recording you have just heard.19. A)Not playing a role in a workplace revolution.B) Not benefiting from free-market capitalism.C) Not earning enough money to provide for the family.D)Not spending enough time on family life and leisure.20. A) People would be working only fifteen hours a week now.B)The balance of power in the workplace would change.C) Technological advances would create many new jobs.D) Most workers could afford to have house of their own.21. A) Loss of workers personal dignity.B) Deprivation of workers creativity.C) Deterioration of workers mental health.D) Unequal distribution of working hours. Questions 22 to 25 are based on the recording you have just heard22. A)It is the worst managed airport in German history.B )It is now the biggest and busiest airport in Europe.C) It has become something of a joke among Germans.D) It has become a typical symbol of German efficiency.23. A )The citys airports are outdated.B) The city had just been reunified.C) The city wanted to boost its economy.D) The city wanted to attract more tourists.24. A)The municipal government kept changing hand.B The construction firm breached the contract.C) Shortage of funding delayed is construction.D Problems of different kinds kept popping up.25. A) Tourism industry in Berlin suffers.B)All kinds of equipment gets rusted.C) Hugo maintenance costs accumulate.D) Complaints by local residents Increase.Part II Reading Comprehension (40 minutes)Section ADirections: In this section, there is a Passage with ten blanks. You are required to select one word for each blank from a list of choices given in a word bank following the passage Read the passage 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.The number of devices you can talk to is multiplying-first it was your phone, then your car, and now you can tell your kitchen appliance what to do. But even without gadgets that understand our spoken commands, research suggests that, as bizarre as it sounds, under certain 26, people regularly ascribe human traits to everyday objects.Sometimes we see things as human because we are 27. In one experiment, people who reported feeling isolated were more likely than others to attribute 28 to various gadgets. In turn, feeling close to objects can 29 loneliness. When college students were reminded of a time they had been 30 in a social setting, they compensated by exaggerating their number of friends-unless they were first given tasks that caused them to interact with their phone as if it had human qualities. According to the researchers, the participants phones 31 substituted for real friends.At other times, we personify products in an effort to understand them. One study found that three in four respondents yelled at their computer. Further, the more their computer gave them problems. the more likely the respondents were to report that it had its own beliefs and 32.”So how do people assign traits to an object? In part, we rely on looks. On humans, wide faces are 33 with dominance. Similarly, people rated cars, clocks, and watches with wide faces as more dominant-looking than narrow-faced ones, and preferred them-especially in34 situations. An anal sis of car sales in German found that cars with grilles( 护栅）that were up turned like smiles sold best. The purchasers saw this 35 as increasing a cars friendliness.A) alleviateB)apparentlyC) arrogantD)associatedE)circumstancesF)competitiveG )concededH)consciousnessI)desiresJ)excludedK) featureL) lonelyM)separateN )spectacularlyO) warrantSection BDirections: In this section, you are going to read a passage with ten statements attached to it. Each statement contains information given in one of the paragraphs, ldentify 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 for each item on Answer Sheet 2.A Though he didnt come from a farming family, from a young age Tim Joseph was fascinated by the idea of living off the land. Reading magazines like the Stockman Grass Farmer and Graze, he got hooked on the idea of grass-fed agriculture. The idea that all energy and wealth comes from the sun really intrigued him. He thought the shorter the distance between the sun and the end product, the higher the profit to the farmer.B Joseph wanted to put this theory to the test. In 2023, he and his wife Laura launched Maple Hill Creamery， an organic， all grass-fed yogurt company in northern New York. He quickly learned what the market has demonstrated: Demand for grass-fed products currently exceeds supply， Grass-fed beef is enjoying a 25-30 annual growth rate. Sales of grass- fed yogurt and kefir(发酵乳饮品)， on the other hand， have in the last year increased by over 38， This is comparison with a drop of just under 1 in the total yogurt and kefir market， according to natural and organic market research company SPINS. Josephs top priority became getting his hands on enough grass-fed milk to keep customers satisfied,since his own 64-cow herd wasnt going to suffice.C His first partnership was with Paul and Phyllis Amburgh, owners of the Dharma Lea farm in New York. The Amburghs, too, were true believers in grass-fed. In addition to supplying milk from their own 85-head herd, they began to help other farmers in the area convert from conventional to certified organic and grass-fed in order to enter the Maple Hill supply chain. Since 2023, the couple has helped 125 small dairy farms convert to grass-fed,with more than 80% of those farms coming on board during the last two years.D All this conversion has helped Maple Hill grow 40-50% every year since it began,with no end in sight, Jospeh has learned that a farmer has to have a certain mindset to successfully convert. But convincing open-minded dairy people is actually not that hard when you look at the economics, Grass-fed milk can fetch up to 2.5 times the price of conventional milk. Another factor is the squeeze that conventional dairy farmers have felt as the price of grain they feed their cows has gone up, tightening their profit margins. By replacing expensive grain feed with regenerative management practices, grass-fed farmers are insulated from jumps in the price of feed. These practices include grazing animals on grasses grown from the pastureland s natural seed bank, and fertilized by the cows own fertilizer.E Champions of this type of regenerative grazing also point to its animal welfare,climate and health benefits: Grass-fed animals live longer out of confinement， Grazing herds stimulate microbial(微生物旳) activity in the soil， helping to capture water and separate carbon And grass-fed dairy and meat have been shown to be higher in certain nutrients and healthy fats.F In the grass-fed system, farmers are also not subject to the wildly fluctuating milk prices of the international commodity market. The unpredictability of global demand and the lag-time it takes to add more cows to a herd to meet demand can result in events like the recent cheese surplus Going grass-fed is a safe refuge, a way for family-scale farms to stay viable. Usually a farmer will get to the point where financially, what theyre doing is not working. That s when they call Maple Hill, If the farm is well managed and has enough land, and the desire to convert is sincere, a relationship can begin. Through regular regional educational meetings, a large annual meeting, individual farm visits and thousands of phone calls, the Amburghs pass on the principles of pasture management, Maple Hill signs a contract pledging to buy the farmer s milk at a guaranteed base price, plus quality premiums and incentives for higher protein, butter-fat and other solids.G While Maple Hill s conversion program is unusually hands-on and comprehensive,its just one of a growing number of businesses committed to slowly changing the way America farms. oseph calls sharing his knowledge network through peer-to-peer learning a core piece of the company s culture, Last summer, Massachusetts grass-fed beef advocate John Smith launched Big Picture Beef, a network of small grass-fed beef farms in New England and New York that is projected to bring to market 2, 500 head of cattle from 125producers this year. Early indications are that Smith will have no shortage of farm members Since he began to informally announce the network at farming conferences and on social media, he s received a steady stream of inguiries from interested farmers.HSmith says he II provide services ranging from formal seminars to on-farm workshops on holistic( E)management, to one-on-one hand-holding and an almost24/7 phone hotline for farmers who are converting. In exchange, he guarantees an above-market price for each animal and a calf-to-customer electronic ear tag D system like that used in the European Union.IThough advocates portray grass-fed products as a win-win situation for all, they do have downsides. Price, for one, is an issue. Joseph says his products are priced 10-20%above organ ic versions, but depending on the product chosen, compared to non-organic conventional yogurt, consumers could pay a premium of 30-50% or more for grass-fed. As for the meat, Smith says his grass-fed hamburger will be priced 20-25%h over the conventional alternative. But a look at the prices on online grocer Fresh Direct suggests a grass-fed premium of anywhere from 35-60%.U And not every farmer has the option of going grass-fed. For both beef and dairy production, it requires at least in the be