2022年6月大学英语六级考试第二套真题+答案.doc

6月大学英语六级考试真题预测（第二套）

Part I Writing （30 minutes）
Directions: For this part, you are allowed 30 minutes to write an essay explaining why it is unwise to jump to conclusions upon seeing or hearing something. You can give examples to illustrate your point. You should write at least 150 words but no more than 200 words.

Part II Listening Comprehension （30 minutes）
Section A
Directions: In this section, you will hear 8 short conversations and 2 long conversations. At the end of each conversation, one or more questions will be asked about what was said. Both the conversation and the questions will be spoken only once. After each question there will be a pause. During the pause, you must read the four choices marked A）, B）, C） and D）, and decide which is the best answer. Then mark the corresponding letter on Answer Sheet 1 with a single line through the centre.

1. A） College tuition has become a heavy burden for the students.
B） College students are in general politically active nowadays.
C） He is doubtful about the effect of the students’ action.
D） He took part in many protests when he was at college.
2. A） Jay is organizing a party for the retiring dean.
B） Jay is surprised to learn of the party for him.
C） The dean will come to Jay’s birthday party.
D） The class has kept the party a secret from Jay.
3. A） He found his wallet in his briefcase.
B） He went to the lost-and-found office.
C） He left his things with his car in the garage.
D） He told the woman to go and pick up his car.
4. A） The show he directed turned out to be a success.
B） He watches only those comedies by famous directors.
C） New comedies are exciting, just like those in the 1960s.
D） TV comedies have not improved much since the 1960s.
5. A） All vegetables should be cooked fresh.
B） The man should try out some new recipes.
C） Overcooked vegetables are often tasteless.
D） The man should stop boiling the vegetables.
6. A） Sort out their tax returns. C） Figure out a way to avoid taxes.
B） Help them tidy up the house. D） Help them to decode a message.
7. A） He didn’t expect to complete his work so soon.
B） He has devoted a whole month to his research.
C） The woman is still trying to finish her work.
D） The woman remains a total mystery to him.
8. A） He would like to major in psychology too.
B） He has failed to register for the course.
C） Developmental psychology is newly offered.
D） There should be more time for registration.

Questions 9 to 11 are based on the conversation you have just heard.
9. A） The brilliant product design. C） The unique craftsmanship.
B） The new color combinations. D） The texture of the fabrics.
10. A） Unique tourist attractions. C） Local handicrafts.
B） Traditional Thai silks. D） Fancy products.
11. A） It will be on the following weekend. C） It will last only one day.
B） It will be out into the countryside. D） It will start tomorrow.

Questions 12 to 15 are based on the conversation you have just heard.
12. A） A good secondary education. C） A happy childhood.
B） A pleasant neighbourhood. D） A year of practical training.
13. A） He ought to get good vocational training. C） He is academically gifted.
B） He should be sent to a private school. D） He is good at carpentry.
14. A） Donwell School. C） Carlton Abbey.
B） Enderby High. D） Enderby Comprehensive.
15. A） Put Keith in a good boarding school.
B） Talk with their children about their decision.
C） Send their children to a better private school.
D） Find out more about the five schools.

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 corresponding letter on Answer Sheet 1 with a single line through the centre.

Passage One
Questions 16 to 18 are based on the passage you have just heard.
16. A） It will be brightly lit. C） It will have a large space for storage.
B） It will be well ventilated. D） It will provide easy access to the disabled.
17. A） On the first floor. C） Opposite to the library.
B） On the ground floor. D） On the same floor as the labs.
18. A） To make the building appear traditional.
B） To match the style of construction on the site.
C） To cut the construction cost to the minimum.
D） To embody the subcommittee’s design concepts.

Passage Two
Questions 19 to 22 are based on the passage you have just heard.
19. A） Sell financial software. C） Train clients to use financial software.
B） Write financial software. D） Conduct research on financial software.
20. A） Unsuccessful. C） Tedious.
B） Rewarding. D） Important.
21. A） He offered online tutorials. C） He gave the trainees lecture notes.
B） He held group discussions. D） He provided individual support.
22. A） The employees were a bit slow to follow his instruction.
B） The trainees’ problems have to be dealt with one by one.
C） Nobody is able to solve all the problems in a couple of weeks.
D） The fault might lie in his style of presenting the information.

Passage Three
Questions 23 to 25 are based on the passage you have just heard.
23. A） Their parents tend to overprotect them.
B） Their teachers meet them only in class.
C） They have little close contact with adults.
D） They rarely read any books about adults.
24. A） Real-life cases are simulated for students to learn law.
B） Writers and lawyers are brought in to talk to students.
C） Opportunities are created for children to become writers.
D） More Teacher and Writer Collaboratives are being set up.
25. A） Sixth-graders can teach first-graders as well as teachers.
B） Children are often the best teachers of other children.
C） Paired Learning cultivates the spirit of cooperation.
D） Children like to form partnerships with each other.

Section C
Directions: In this section, you will hear a passage three times. When the passage is read for the first time, you should listen carefully for its general idea. When the passage is read for the second time, you are required to fill in the blanks with the exact words you have just heard. Finally, when the passage is read for the third time, you should check what you have written.

Tests may be the most unpopular part of academic life. Students hate them because they produce fear and （26） __________ about being evaluated, and a focus on grades instead of learning for learning’s sake.
But tests are also valuable. A well-constructed test （27） __________ what you know and what you still need to learn. Tests help you see how your performance （28） __________ that of others. And knowing that you’ll be tested on （29） __________ material is certainly likely to （30） __________ you to learn the material more thoroughly.
However, there’s another reason you might dislike tests: You may assume that tests have the power to （31） ____ your worth as a person. If you do badly on a test, you may be tempted to believe that you’ve received some （32） __________ information about yourself from the professor, information that says you’re a failure in some significant way.
This is a dangerous—and wrong-headed—assumption. If you do badly on a test, it doesn’t mean you’re a bad person or stupid. Or that you’ll never do better again, and that your life is （33） __________. If you don’t do well on a test, you’re the same person you were before you took the test—no better, no worse. You just did badly on a test. That’s it.
（34） _ tests are not a measure of your value as an individual—they are a measure only of how well and how much you studied. Tests are tools; they are indirect and （35） __________ measures of what we know.

Part III Reading Comprehension （40 minutes）
Section A
Directions: 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.

Questions 36 to 45 are based on the following passage.
Fear can be an effective way to change behavior. One study compared the effects of high-fear and low-fear appeals on changes in attitudes and behaviors related to dental hygiene（卫生）. One group of subjects was shown awful pictures of ___36___ teeth and diseased gums; another group was shown less frightening materials such as plastic teeth, charts, and graphs. Subjects who saw the frightening materials reported more anxiety and a greater ___37___ to change the way they took care of their teeth than the low-fear group did.
But were these reactions actually ___38___ into better dental hygiene practices? To answer this important question, subjects were called back to the laboratory on two ___39___ （five days and six weeks after the experiment）. They chewed disclosing wafers（牙疾诊断片） that give a red stain to any uncleaned areas of the teeth and thus provided a direct ___40___ of how well they were really taking care of their teeth. The result showed that the high-fear appeal did actually result in greater and more ___41___ changes in dental hygiene. That is, the subjects ___42___ to high-fear warnings brushed their teeth more ___43___ than did those who saw low-fear warnings.
However, to be an effective persuasive device it is very important that the message not be too frightening and that people be given ___44___ guidelines to help them to reduce the cause of the fear. If this isn’t done, they may reduce their anxiety by denying the message or the ___45___ of the communicator. If that happens, it is unlikely that either attitude or behavior change will occur.

A） accustomed I） eligible
B） carefully J） exposed
C） cautiously K） indication
D） concrete L） occasions
E） credibility M） permanent
F） decayed N） sensitivity
G） desire O） translated
H） dimensions

Section B
Directions: 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. 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 Street-Level Solution
A） When I was growing up, one of my father’s favorite sayings （borrowed from the humorist Will Rogers） was: “It isn’t what we don’t know that causes the trouble: it’s what we think we know that just ain’t so.” One of the main insights to be taken from the 100,000 Homes Campaign and its strategy to end chronic homelessness is that, until recently, our society thought it understood the nature of homelessness, but it didn’t.
B） That led to a series of mistaken assumptions about why people become homeless and what they need. Many of the errors in our homelessness policies have stemmed from the conception that the homeless are a homogeneous group. It’s only in the past 15 years that organizations like Common Ground, and others, have taken a street-level view of the problem—distinguishing the “episodically homeless” from the “chronically homeless” in order to understand their needs at an individual level. This is why we can now envisage a different approach—and get better results.
C） Most readers expressed support for the effort, although a number were skeptical, and a few utterly dismissive, about the chances of long-term homeless people adapting well to housing. This is to be expected; it’s hard to imagine what we haven’t yet seen. As Niccolò Machiavelli wrote in The Prince, one of the major obstacles in any effort to advance systemic change is the “incredulity of men,” which is to say that people “do not readily believe in new things until they have had a long experience of them.” Most of us have witnessed homeless people on the streets for decades. Few have seen formerly homeless people after they have been housed successfully. We don’t have reference points for that story. So we generalize from what we know—or think we know.
D） But that can be misleading, even to experts. When I asked Rosanne Haggerty, founder of Common Ground, which currently operates 2,310 units of supportive housing （with 552 more under construction）, what had been her biggest surprise in this work, she replied: “Fifteen years ago, I would not have believed that people who had been so broken and stuck in homelessness could thrive to the degree that they do in our buildings.” And Becky Kanis, the campaign’s director, commented: “There is this sense in our minds that someone who’s on the streets is almost in their DNA different from someone who has a house. The campaign is creating a first-hand experience for many people that that is really not the case. ”
E） One of the startling realizations that I had while researching this column is that anybody could become like a homeless person—all it takes is a traumatic（创伤旳） brain injury. A bicycle fall, a car accident, a slip on the ice, or if you’re a soldier, a head wound—and your life could become unrecognizable. James O’Connell, a doctor who has been treating the most vulnerable homeless people on the streets of Boston for 25 years, estimates that 40 percent of the long-term homeless people he’s met had such a brain injury. “For many it was a head injury prior to the time they became homeless.” he said. “They became unpredictable. They’d have mood swings, fits of explosive behavior. They couldn’t hold onto their jobs. Drinking made them feel better. They’d end up on the streets. ”
F） Once homeless people return to housing, they’re in a much better position to rebuild their lives. But it’s important to note that housing alone is not enough. As with many complex social problems, when you get through the initial crisis, you have another problem to solve which is no less challenging. But it is a better problem.
G） Over the past decade, O’Connell has seen this happen. “I spend half my time on the streets or in the hospital and the other half making house calls to people who lived for years on the streets,” he said. “So from a doctor’s point of view it’s a delightful switch, but it’s not as if putting someone in housing is the answer to addressing all of their problems. It’s the first step.”
H） Once in housing, formerly homeless people can become isolated and lonely. If they’ve lived on the streets for years, they may have acquired a certain standi