2021年6月大学英语六级考试真题（一）Part IWriting(30 minutes)Directions:For this part,you are allowed 30 minutes to write an essay based on the graph below.Youshould start your essay with a brief description of the graph and comment on China's achievements inurbanization.You should write at least 150 words but no more than 200 words.Degree of urbanization in China from 1980 to 201970%60%50%42dod m40%30%23.71%619.39%10%1980198519901995200020052010201120122013201420152016201720182019Part IListening Comprehension(30 minutes)Section ADirections:In this section,you will hear two long conversations.At the end of each conversation,you willhear four questions.Both the conversation and the questions will be spoken only once.After you hear aquestion,you must choose the best answer from the four choices marked A),B),C)and D).Then markthe corresponding letter on Answer Sheet I with a single line through the centre.Questions 1 to 4 are based on the conversation you have just heard.1.A)He is going to leave his present job.B)He is going to attend a job interview.C)He will meet his new manager in two weeks.D).He will tell the management how he really feels2.A)It should be carefully 'analyzed.C)It can be quite useful to senior managers.B)It should be kept private.D)It can improve interviewees'job prospects.3.A)It may do harm to his fellow employees.B)It may displease his immediate superiors.C)It may adversely affect his future career prospects.D)It may leave a negative impression on the interviewer.六级2021年6月14.A)Pour out his frustrations on a rate-your-employer website.B)Network with his close friends to find a better employer.C)Do some practice for the exit interview.D)Prepare a comprehensive exit report.Questions 5 to 8 are based on the conversation you have just heard.5.A)Her career as a botanist.C)Her month-long expedition.B)Her latest documentary.D)Her unsuccessful journey.6.A)She was caught in a hurricane.C)She suffered from water shortage.4B)She had to live like a vegetarian.D)She had to endure many hardships.7.A)They could no longer bear the humidity.C)A flood was approaching.B)They had no more food in the canoe.D)A hurricane was coming.8.A)It was memorable.C)It was fruitful.B)It was unbearable.D)It was uneventful.Section BDirections:In this section,you will hear two passages.At the end of each passage,you will hear three orfour questions.Both the passage and the questions will be spoken only once.After you hear a question,youmust choose the best answer from the four choices marked A),B),C)and D).Then mark thecorresponding 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)It ensures the accuracy of their arguments.C)It hurts laymen's dignity and self-esteem.B)It diminishes laymen's interest in science.D)It makes their expressions more explicit.10.A)They will see the complexity of science.C)They tend to disbelieve the actual science.B)They feel great respect towards scientists.D)They can learn to communicate with scientists.11.A)Explain all the jargon terms.C)Find appropriate topics.B)Do away with jargon terms.D)Stimulate their interest.Questions 12 to 15 are based on the passage you have just heard.12.A)There were oil deposits below a local gassy hill.B)The erupting gas might endanger local children.C)There was oil leakage along the Gulf Coast.D)The local gassy hill might start a huge fire.13.A)The massive gas underground.C)Their lack of suitable tools.B)Their lack of the needed skill.D)The sand under the hill.14.A)It was not as effective as he claimed.C)It gave birth to the oil drilling industry.B)It rendered many oil workers jobless.D)It was not popularized until years later.15.A)It ruined the state's cotton and beef industries.C)It resulted in an oil surplus all over the world.B)It totally destroyed the state's rural landscape.D)It radically transformed the state's economy.Section CDirections:In this section,you will hear three recordings of lectures or talks followed by three or fourquestions.The recordings will be played only once.After you hear a question,you must choose the bestanswer from the four choices marked A),B),C)and D).Then mark the corresponding letter on AnswerSheet 1 with a single line through the centre.Questions 16 to 18 are based on the recording you have just heard.16.A)Insufficient motivation.C)Unsuitable jobs.B)Tough regulations.D)Bad managers.17.A)Ineffective training.C)Overburdening of managers.B)Toxic company culture.D)Lack of regular evaluation.六级2021年6月218.A)It was based only on the perspective of employees.B)It provided meaningful clues to solving the problem.C)It was conducted from frontline managers'point of view.D)It collected feedback from both employers and employees.Questions 19 to 21 are based on the recording you have just heard.19.A)It is expanding at an accelerating speed.C)It is yielding an unprecedented profit.'B)It is bringing prosperity to the region.D)It is seeing an automation revolution.20.A)It creates a lot of new jobs.B)It exhausts resources sooner.C)It causes conflicts between employers and employees.D)It calls for the retraining of unskilled mining workers.21.A)They will wait to see its effect.C)They accept it with reservations.B)They welcome it with open arms.D)They are strongly opposed to it.Questions 22 to 25 are based on the recording you have just heard.22.A)They have experienced a gradual decline since the year of 2017.B)Their annual death rate is about twice that of the global average.C)They kill more people than any infectious disease.D)Their cost to the nation's economy is incalculable.23.A)They are not as reliable as claimed.B)They rise and fall from year to year.C)They don't.reflect the changes in individual countries.D)They show a difference between rich and poor nations.24.A)Many of them are investing heavily in infrastructure.B)Many of them have seen a decline in road-death rates.C)Many of them are following the example set by Thailand.D)Many of them have increasing numbers of cars on the road.25.A)Foster better driving behavior.C)Provide better training for drivers.B)Abolish all outdated traffic rules.D)Impose heavier penalties on speeding.Reading Comprehension(40 minutes)Section ADirections:In this section,there is a passage with ten blanks.You are required to select one word for eachblank from a list of choices given in a word bank following the passage.Read the passage through carefullybefore making your choices.Each choice in the bank is identified by a letter.Please mark the correspondingletter for each item on Answer Sheet 2 with a single line through the centre.You may not use any of thewords in the bank more than once.A new study has drawn a bleak picture of cultural inclusiveness reflected in the children's literatureavailable in Australia.Dr.Helen Adam from Edith Cowan University's School of Education 26 thecultural diversity of children's books.She examined the books 27 in the kindergarten rooms of fourday-care centers in Western Australia.Just 18 percent of 2,413 books in the total collection contained any28 of non-white people.Minority cultures were often featured in stereotypical or tokenistic ways,forexample,by 29 Asian culture with chopsticks and traditional dress.Characters that did represent aminority culture usually had 30 roles in the books.The main characters were mostly Caucasian.Thiscauses concern as it can lead to an impression that whiteness is of greater value.Dr.Adam said children formed impressions about 'difference'and identity from a very young age.Evidence has shown they develop own-race 31 from as young as three months of age.The books we六级2021年6月3share with young children can be a valuable opportunity to develop children's understanding of themselvesand others.Books can also allow children to see diversity.They discover both similarities and differencesbetween themselves and others.This can help develop understanding,acceptance and 32 of diversity.Census data has shown Australians come from more than 200 countries.They speak over 300languages at home.Additionally,Australians belong to more than 100 different religious groups.Theyalso work in more than 1,000 different occupations."Australia is a multicultural society.The current33 promotion of white middle-class ideas and lifestyles risks 34 children from minority groups.This can give white middle-class children a sense of 35 or privilege,"Dr.Adam said.A)alienatingF)investigatedK)secondaryB)appreciationG)overwhelmingL)superiorityC)biasH)portrayingM)temperamentD)fraudI)representationN)tentativeE)housedJ)safeguardedO)thresholdSection BDirections:In this section,you are going to read a passage with ten statements attached to it.Eachstatement contains information given in one of the paragraphs.Identify the paragraph from which theinformation is derived.You may choose a paragraph more than once.Each paragraph is marked with aletter.Answer the questions by marking the corresponding letter on Answer Sheet 2.How Marconi Gave Us the Wireless World.A)A hundred years before iconic figures like Bill Gates and Steve Jobs permeated our lives,an Irish-Italian inventor laid the foundation of the communication explosion of the 21st century.GuglielmoMarconi was arguably the first truly global figure in modern communication.Not only was he the firstto communicate globally,he was the first to think globally about communication.Marconi may nothave been the greatest inventor of his time,but more than anyone else,he brought about afundamental shift in the way we communicate.B)Today's globally networked media and communication system has its origins in the 19th century,when,for the first time,messages were sent electronically across great distances.The telegraph,thetelephone,and radio were the obvious predecessors of the Internet,iPods,and mobile phones.Whatmade the link from then to now was the development of wireless communication.Marconi was the firstto develop and perfect this system,using the recently-discovered "air waves"that make up theelectromagnetic spectrum.C)Between 1896,when he applied for his first patent in England at the age of 22,and his death in Italyin 1937,Marconi was at the center of every major innovation in electronic communication.He wasalso a skilled.and sophisticated organizer,an entrepreneurial innovator,who mastered the use ofcorporate strategy,media relations,government lobbying,international diplomacy,patents,andprosecution.Marconi was really interested in only one thing:the extension of mobile,personal,long-distance communication to the ends of the earth (and beyond,if we can believe some reports).Somelike to refer to him as a genius,but if there was any genius to Marconi it was this vision.D)In 1901 he succeeded in signaling across the Atlantic,from the west coast of England to Newfoundlandin the USA,despite the claims of science that it could not be done.In 1924 he convinced the Britishgovernment to encircle the world with a chain of wireless stations using the latest technology that hehad devised,shortwave radio.There are some who say Marconi lost his edge when commercialbroadcasting came along;he didn't see that radio could.or should be used to frivolous (ends.In one of his last public speeches,a radio broadcast to the United States in March 1937,he deploredthat broadcasting had become a one-way means of communication and foresaw it moving in another六级2021年6月4direction,toward communication as a means of exchange.That was visionary genius.E)Marconi's career was devoted to making wireless communication happen cheaply,efficiently,smoothly,and with an elegance that would appear to be intuitive and uncomplicated to the user-user-friendly,if you will.There is a direct connection from Marconi to today's social media,searchengines,and program streaming that can best be summed up by an admittedly provocativeexclamation:the 20th century did not exist.In a sense,Marconi's vision jumped from his time to ourown.F)Marconi invented the idea of global communication-or,more straightforwardly,globally networked,mobile,wireless communication.Initially,this was wireless Morse code telegraphy(电报通讯)，theprincipal communication technology of his day.Marconi was the first to develop a practical method forwireless telegraphy using radio waves.He borrowed technical details from many sources,but what sethim apart was a self-confident vision of the power of communication technology on the one hand,and,on the other,of the steps that needed to be taken to consolidate his own position as a player in thatfield.Tracing Marconi's lifeline leads us into the story of modern communication itself.There wereother important figures,but Marconi towered over them all in reach,power,and influence,as well asin the grip he had on the popular imagination of his time.Marconi was quite simply the central figurein the emergence of a modern understanding of communication.G)In his lifetime,Marconi foresaw the development of television and the fax machine,GPS,radar,andthe portable hand-held telephone.Two months before he died,newspapers were reporting that he wasworking on a "death ray,"and that he had "killed a rat with an intricate device at a distance of threefeet."By then,anything Marconi said or did was newsworthy.Stock prices rose or sank according tohis pronouncements.If Marconi said he thought it might rain,there was likely to be a run onumbrellas.H)Marconi's biography is also a story about choices and the motivations behind them.At one level,Marconi could be fiercely autonomous and independent of the constraints of his own social class.Onanother scale,he was a perpetual outsider.Wherever he went,he was never "of"the group;he wasalways the "other,"considered foreign in Britain,British in Italy,and "not American"in the UnitedStates.At the same time,he also suffered tremendously from a need for acceptance that drove,andsometimes stained,every one of his relationships.DMarconi placed a permanent stamp on the way we live.He was the first person to imagine a practicalapplication for the wireless spectrum,and to develop it successfully into a global communicationsystem-in both terms of the word;that is,worldwide and all-inclusive.He was able to do this becauseof a combination of factors-most important,timing and opportunity-but the single-mindedness anddetermination with which he carried out his self-imposed mission was fundamentally character-based;millions of Marconi's contemporaries had the same class,gender,race,and colonial privilege as he,but only a handful did anything with it.Marconi needed to achieve the goal that was set in his mind asan adolescent;by the time he reached adulthood,he understood,intuitively,that in order to have animpact he had to both develop an independent economic base and align himself with political power.Disciplined,uncritical loyalty to political power became his compass for the choices he had to make.J)At the same time,Marconi was uncompromisingly independent intellectually.Shortly after Marconi'sdeath,the nuclear physicist Enrico Fermi-soon to be the developer of the Manhattan Project-wrotethat Marconi proved that theory.and experimentation were complementary features of progress."Experience can rarely,unless guided by a theoretical concept,arrive at results of any greatsignificance...on the other hand,an excessive trust in theoretical conviction would have preventedMarconi from persisting in experiments which were destined to bring about a revolution in thetechnique of radio-communications."In other words,Marconi had the advantage of not beingburdened by preconceived assumptions.六级2021年6月5