2009年12月英语六级真题及答案解析(标准完整版)

2009年12月英语六级考试真题

Part I Writing (30 minutes)

Directions:

For this part, you are allowed 30 minutes to write a short essay entitled Should Parents Send

Their Kids to Art Class? You should write at least 150 words following the outline given below.

1. 现在有不少家长送孩子参加各种艺术班

2. 对这种做法有人表示支持，也有人并不赞成

3. 我认为……

Should Parents Send Their Kids to Art Class?

Part II Reading Comprehension (Skimming and Scanning) (15 minutes)

Directions: In this part, you will have 15 minutes to go over the passage quickly and answer the

questions on Answer Sheet 1. For questions 1-7, choo the best answer from the four choices marked

[A], [B], [C] and [D]. For questions 8-10, complete the ntences with the information given in the

passage.

Boss Say “Yes” to Home Work

Rising costs of office space, time lost to stressful commuting, and a slow recognition that workers have

lives beyond the office—all are strong arguments for letting staff work from home.

For the small business, there are additional benefits too—staff are more productive, and happier,

enabling firms to keep their headcounts (员工数) and their recruitment costs to a minimum. It can also provide

competitive advantage, especially when small business want to attract new staff but don’t have the budget to

offer huge salaries.

While company managers have known about the benefits for a long time, many have done little about it,

skeptical of whether they could trust their employees to work to full capacity without supervision, or concerned

about the additional expens teleworking policies might incur as staff start charging their home phone bills to

the business.

Yet this is now changing. When communications provider Inter-Tel rearched the u of remote

working solutions among small and medium sized UK business in April this year, it found that 28% more

companies claimed to have introduced flexible working practices than a year ago.

The UK network of Business Links confirms that it too has en a growing interest in remote working

solutions from small business eking its advice, and claims that as many as 60-70% of the business that

come through its doors now offer some form of remote working support to their workforces.

Technology advances, including the widespread availability of broadband, are making the introduction

of remote working a piece of cake.

“If systems are t up properly, staff can have access to all the resources they have in the office

wherever they have an internet connection,” says Andy Poulton, e-business advisor at Business Link for

Berkshire and Wiltshire. “There are some very exciting developments which have enabled this.”

One is the availability of broadband everywhere, which now covers almost all of the country (BT claims

that, by July, 99.8% of its exchanges will be broadband enabled, with alternative plans in place for even the

most remote exchanges). “This is the enabler,” Poulton says.

Yet while broadband has come down in price too, tho rvice providers targeting the business market

warn against consumer rvices masquerading (伪装) as business friendly broadband.

“Broadband is available for as little as ￡15 a month, but many business fail to appreciate the hidden

costs of such a rvice,” says Neil Stephenson, sales and marketing director at Onyx Internet, an internet

rvice provider bad in the northeast of England. “Providers offering broadband for rock bottom prices are

notorious for poor rvice, with regular breakdowns and heavily congested (拥堵的) networks. It is always

advisable for business to look beyond the price tag and look for a business only provider that can offer more

reliability, with good support.” Such rvices don’t cost too much—quality rvices can be found for upwards

of ￡30 a month.

The benefits of broadband to the occasional home worker are that they can access email in real time,

and take full advantage of rvices such as internet bad backup or even internet bad phone rvices.

Internet bad telecoms, or VoIP (Voice over IP) to give it its technical title, is an interesting tool to any

business supporting remote working. Not necessarily becau of the promi of free or reduced price phone

calls (which experts point out is misleading for the average business), but becau of the sophisticated voice

rvices that can be exploited by the remote worker—facilities such as voicemail and call forwarding, which

provide a continuity of the company image for customers and business partners.

By law, companies must “consider riously” requests to work flexibly made by a parent with a child

under the age of six, or a disabled child under 18. It was the need to accommodate employees with young

children that motivated accountancy firm Wright Vigar to begin promoting teleworking recently. The company,

which needed to upgrade its IT infrastructure (基础设施) to provide connectivity with a new, cond office,

decided to introduce support for remote working at the same time.

Marketing director Jack O Hern explains that the company has a relatively young workforce, many of

whom are parents: “One of the triggers was when one of our tax managers returned from maternity leave. She

was intending to work part time, but could only manage one day a week in the office due to childcare. By

offering her the ability to work from home, we have doubled her capacity—now she works a day a week from

home, and a day in the office. This is great for her, and for us as we retain someone highly qualified.”

For Wright Vigar, which has now equipped all of its fee earners to be able to work at maximum

productivity when away from the offices (whether that’s from home, or while on the road), this strategy is not

just about saving on commute time or cutting them loo from the office, but enabling them to work more

flexible hours that fit around their home life.

O’Hern says: “Although most of our work is client-bad and must fit around this, we can’t e any

reason why a parent can’t be on hand to deal with something important at home, if they have the ability to

complete a project later in the day.”

Supporting this new way of working came with a price, though. Although the firm was updating its

systems anyway, the company spent 10-15% more per ur to equip them with a laptop rather than a PC, and

about the same to upgrade to a rver that would enable remote staff to connect to the company networks and

access all their usual resources.

Although Wright Vigar hasn’t yet quantified the business benefits, it claims that, in addition to being

able to retain key staff with young families, it is able to save fee-earners a substantial amount of “dead” time in

their working days.

That staff can do this without needing a fixed telephone line provides even more efficiency savings.

“With Wi-Fi (fast, wireless internet connections) popping up all over the place, even on trains, our fee-earners

can be productive as they travel, and between meetings, instead of having to kill time at the shops,” he adds.

The company will also be able to avoid the expen of having to relocate staff to temporary offices for

veral weeks when it begins disruptive office renovations soon.

Financial recruitment specialist Lynne Hargreaves knows exactly how much her firm has saved by

adopting a teleworking strategy, which has involved handing her company’s data management over to a remote

hosting company, Datat, so it can be accessible by all the company’s consultants over broadband internet

connections.

It has enabled the company to dispen with its business premis altogether, following the realization

that it just didn’t need them any more. “The main motivation behind adopting home working was to increa

my own productivity, as a single mum to an 11yearold,” says Hargreaves. “But I soon realid that, as

most of our business is done on the phone, email and at offsite meetings, we didn’t need our offices at all.

We’re now saving ￡16,000 a year on rent, plus the cost of utilities, not to mention what would have been

spent on commuting.”

1. What is the main topic of this passage?

A) How business managers view hi-tech.

B) Relations between employers and employees.

C) How to cut down the costs of small business.

D) Benefits of the practice of teleworking.

2. From the rearch conducted by the communications provider Inter-Tel, we learn that .

A) more employees work to full capacity at home

B) employees show a growing interest in small business

C) more business have adopted remote working solutions

D) attitudes toward IT technology have changed

3. What development has made flexible working practices possible according to Andy Poulton?

A) Reduced cost of telecommunications.

B) Improved reliability of internet rvice.

C) Availability of the VoIP rvice.

D) Access to broadband everywhere.

4. What is Neil Stephenson’s advice to firms contracting internet rvices?

A) They look for reliable business-only providers.

B) They contact providers located nearest to them.

C) They carefully examine the contract.

D) They contract the cheapest provider.

5. Internet-bad telecoms facilitates remote working by .

A) offering sophisticated voice rvices

B) giving access to emailing in real time

C) helping clients discuss business at home

D) providing calls completely free of charge

6. The accountancy firm Wright Vigar promoted teleworking initially in order to .

A) prent a positive image to prospective customers

B) support its employees with children to take care of

C) attract young people with IT experti to work for it

D) reduce operational expens of a cond office

7. According to marketing director Jack O’Hern, teleworking enabled the company to .

A) enhance its market image

B) reduce recruitment costs

C) keep highly qualified staff

D) minimize its office space

8. Wright Vigar’s practice of allowing for more flexible working hours not only benefits the company but helps

improve employees’ _________.

9. With fast, wireless internet connections, employees can still be_______ while traveling.

10. Single mother Lynne Hargreaves decided to work at home mainly to______..

Part III Listening Comprehension (35 minutes)

Section A

Directions:

In this ction, 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 pau. During the pau, 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 2 with a single line through the centre.

11. A) They would rather travel around than stay at home.

B) They prefer to carry cash when traveling abroad.

C) They usually carry many things around with them.

D) They don’t like to spend much money on traveling.

12. A) The lection process was a little unfair.

B) He had long dreamed of the dean’s position.

C) Rod was eliminated in the lection process.

D) Rod was in charge of the admissions office.

13. A) Applau encourages the singer.

B) She regrets paying for the concert.

C) Almost everyone loves pop music.

D) The concert is very impressive.

14. A) They have known each other since their schooldays.

B) They were both chairpersons of the Students’ Union.

C) They have been in clo touch by email.

D) They are going to hold a reunion party.

15. A) Cook their dinner.

B) Rest for a while.

C) Get their car fixed.

D) Stop for the night.

16. A) Newly-launched products. B) Consumer preferences.

C) Survey results. D) Survey methods.

17. A) He would rather the woman didn’t buy the blou.

B) The woman needs blous in the colors of a rainbow.

C) The information in the catalog is not always reliable.

D) He thinks the blue blou is better than the red one.

18. A) The cour is open to all next mester.

B) The notice may not be reliable.

C) The woman has not told the truth.

D) He will drop his cour in marketing.

Questions 19 to 22 are bad on the conversation you have just heard.

19. A) A director of a sales department. B) A manager at a computer store.

C) A sales clerk at a shopping center. D) An accountant of a computer firm.

20. A) Handling customer complaints. B) Recruiting and training new staff.

C) Dispatching ordered goods on time. D) Developing computer programs.

21. A) She likes something more challenging. B) She likes to be nearer to her parents.

C) She wants to have a better-paid job. D) She wants to be with her husband.

22. A) Right away. B) In two months.

C) Early next month. D) In a couple of days.

Questions 23 to 25 are bad on the conversation you have just heard.

23. A) It will face challenges unprecedented in its history.

B) It is a resolute advocate of the anti-global movement.

C) It is bound to regain its full glory of a hundred years ago.

D) It will be a major economic power by the mid-21 century.

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24. A) The lack of overall urban planning.

B) The huge gap between the haves and have-nots.

C) The inadequate supply of water and electricity.

D) The shortage of hi-tech personnel.

25. A) They attach great importance to education.

B) They are able to grasp growth opportunities.

C) They are good at learning from other nations.

D) They have made u of advanced technologies.

Section B

Directions:

In this ction, 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

choo the best answer from the four choices marked A), B), C) and D). Then mark the corresponding letter on

Answer Sheet 2 with a single line through the centre.

Passage One

Questions 26 to 29 are bad on the passage you have just heard.

26. A) She taught chemistry and microbiology cours in a college.

B) She gave lectures on how to become a public speaker.

C) She helped families move away from industrial polluters.

D) She engaged in field rearch on environmental pollution.

27. A) The job restricted her from revealing her findings.

B) The job pod a potential threat to her health.

C) She found the working conditions frustrating.

D) She was offered a better job in a minority community.

28. A) Some giant industrial polluters have gone out of business.

B) More environmental organizations have appeared.

C) Many toxic sites in America have been cleaned up.

D) More branches of her company have been t up.

29. A) Her widespread influence among members of Congress.

B) Her ability to communicate through public speaking.

C) Her rigorous training in delivering eloquent speeches.

D) Her lifelong commitment to domestic and global issues.

Passage Two

Questions 30 to 32 are bad on the passage you have just heard.

30. A) The fierce competition in the market. B) The growing necessity of staff training.

C) The accelerated pace of globalization. D) The urgent need of a diver workforce.

31. A) Gain a deep understanding of their own culture.

B) Take cours of foreign languages and cultures.

C) Share the experiences of people from other cultures.

D) Participate in international exchange programmes.

32. A) Reflective thinking is becoming critical. B) Labor market is getting globalid.

C) Knowing a foreign language is esntial. D) Globalization will eliminate many jobs.

Passage Three

Questions 33 to 35 are bad on the passage you have just heard.

33. A) Red-haired women were regarded as more reliable.

B) Brown-haired women were rated as more capable.

C) Golden-haired women were considered attractive.

D) Black-haired women were judged to be intelligent.

34. A) They are smart and eloquent.

B) They are ambitious and arrogant.

C) They are shrewd and dishonest.

D) They are wealthy and industrious.

35. A) They force people to follow the cultural mainstream.

B) They exaggerate the roles of certain groups of people.

C) They emphasize diversity at the expen of uniformity.

D) They hinder our perception of individual differences.

Section C

Directions:

In this ction, 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 cond time, you are required

to fill in the blanks numbered from 36 to 43 with the exact words you have just heard. For blanks numbered

from 44 to 46 you are required to fill in the missing information. For the blanks, you can either u the exact

words you have just heard or write down the main points in your own words. Finally, when the passage is read

for the third time, you should check what you have written.

The ancient Greeks developed basic memory systems called mnemonics. The name is (36) from their

Goddess of memory “Mnemosyne”. In the ancient world, a trained memory was an (37) ast, particularly in

public life. There were no (38) devices for taking notes, and early Greek orators(演说家) delivered long

speeches with great (39) becau they learned the speeches using mnemonic systems.

The Greeks discovered that human memory is (40) an associative process—that it works by linking

things together. For example, think of an apple. The (41) your brain registers the word “apple”, it (42) the shape,

color, taste, smell and (43) of that fruit. All the things are associated in your memory with the word “apple”.

(44) . An example could be when you think about a lecture you have had. This could trigger a memory

about what you’re talking about through that lecture, which can then trigger another memory.

(45) . An example given on a website I was looking at follows: Do you remember the shape of Austria,

Canada, Belgium, or Germany? Probably not. What about Italy, though? (46) . You made an association with

something already known, the shape of a boot, and Italy’s shape could not be forgotten once you had made the

association.

Part IV Reading Comprehension (Reading in Depth) (25 minutes)

Section A

Directions:

In this ction, there is a short passage with 5 questions or incomplete statements. Read the

passage carefully. Then answer the questions or complete the statements in the fewest possible words. Plea

write your answers on Answer Sheet 2.

Questions 47 to 51 are bad on the following passage.

Many countries have made it illegal to chat into a hand-held mobile phone while driving. But the latest

rearch further confirms that the danger lies less in what a motorist’s hands do when he takes a call than in

what the conversation does to his brain. Even using a “hands-free” device can divert a driver’s attention to an

alarming extent.

Melina Kunar of the University of Warwick and Todd Horowitz of the Harvard Medical School ran a

ries of experiments in which two groups of volunteers had to pay attention and respond to a ries of moving

tasks on a computer screen that were reckoned equivalent in difficulty to driving. One group was left

undistracted while the other had to engage in a conversation using a speakerphone. As Kumar and Horowitz

report, tho who were making the equivalent of a hands-free call had an average reaction time 212

milliconds slower than tho who were not. That, they calculate, would add 5.7 metres to the braking distance

of a car travelling at 100kph. They also found that the group using the hands-free kit made 83% more errors in

their tasks than tho who were not talking.

To try to understand more about why this was, they tried two further tests. In one, members of a group

were asked simply to repeat words spoken by the caller. In the other, they had to think of a word that began

with the last letter of the word they had just heard. Tho only repeating words performed the same as tho

with no distraction, but tho with the more complicated task showed even wor reaction times—an average of

480 milliconds extra delay. This shows that when people have to consider the information they hear carefully,

it can impair their driving ability significantly.

Punishing people for using handheld gadgets while driving is difficult enough, even though they can be

en from outside the car. Persuading people to switch their phones off altogether when they get behind the

wheel might be the only answer. Who knows, they might even come to enjoy not having to take calls.

47. Carrying on a mobile phone conversation while one is driving is considered dangerous becau it riously

distracts _______________________.

48. In the experiments, the two groups of volunteers were asked to handle a ries of moving tasks which were

considered _______________________.

49. Results of the experiments show that tho who were making the equivalent of a hands-free call took

_______________________ to react than tho who were not.

50. Further experiments reveal that participants tend to respond with extra delay if they are required to do

_______________________.

51. The author believes persuasion, rather than _______________________, might be the only way to stop

people from using mobile phones while driving.

Section B

Directions:

There are 2 passages in this ction. Each passage is followed by some questions or unfinished

statements. For each of them there are four choices marked A), B), C) and D). You should decide on the best

choice and mark the corresponding letter on Answer Sheet 2 with a single line through the centre.

Passage One

Questions 52 to 56 are bad on the following passage.

There is nothing like the suggestion of a cancer risk to scare a parent, especially one of the

over-educated, eco-conscious type. So you can imagine the reaction when a recent USA Today investigation of

air quality around the nation’s schools singled out tho in the smugly（自鸣得意的）green village of Berkeley,

Calif., as being among the worst in the country. The city’s public high school, as well as a number of daycare

centers, preschools, elementary and middle schools, fell in the lowest 10%. Industrial pollution in our town had

suppodly turned students into living science experiments breathing in a laboratory’s worth of heavy metals

like mangane, chromium and nickel each day. This in a city that requires school cafeterias to rve organic

meals. Great, I thought, organic lunch, toxic campus.

Since December, when the report came out, the mayor, neighborhood activists（活跃分子）and various

parent-teacher associations have engaged in a fierce battle over its validity: over the guilt of the steel-casting

factory on the western edge of town, over union jobs versus children’s health and over what, if anything, ought

to be done. With all sides prenting their own experts armed with conflicting scientific studies, whom should

parents believe? Is there truly a threat here, we asked one another as we dropped off our kids, and if so, how

great is it? And how does it compare with the other, emingly perpetual health scares we confront, like panic

over lead in synthetic athletic fields? Rather than just another weird episode in the town that brought you

protesting environmentalists, this latest drama is a trial for how today’s parents perceive risk, how we try to

keep our kids safe—whether it’s possible to keep them safe—in what feels like an increasingly threatening

world. It rais the question of what, in our time, “safe” could even mean.

“There’s no way around the uncertainty,” says Kimberly Thompson, president of Kid Risk, a nonprofit

group that studies children’s health. “That means your choices can matter, but it also means you aren’t going to

know if they do.” A 2004 report in the journal Pediatrics explained that nervous parents have more to fear from

fire, car accidents and drowning than from toxic chemical exposure. To which I say: Well, obviously. But such

concrete hazards are beside the point. It’s the dangers parents can’t—and may never—quantify that occur all of

sudden. That’s why I’ve rid my cupboard of microwave food packed in bags coated with a potential

cancer-causing substance, but although I’ve lived blocks from a major fault line(地质断层) for more than 12

years, I still haven’t bolted our bookcas to the living room wall.

52. What does a recent investigation by USA Today reveal?

A) Heavy metals in lab tests threaten children’s health in Berkeley.

B) Berkeley residents are quite contented with their surroundings.

C) The air quality around Berkeley’s school campus is poor.

D) Parents in Berkeley are over-nsitive to cancer risks their kids face.

53. What respon did USA Today’s report draw?

A) A heated debate. B) Popular support.

C) Widespread panic. D) Strong criticism.

54. How did parents feel in the face of the experts’ studies?

A) They felt very much relieved. B) They were frightened by the evidence.

C) They didn’t know who to believe. D) They weren’t convinced of the results.

55. What is the view of the 2004 report in the journal Pediatrics?

A) It is important to quantify various concrete hazards.

B) Daily accidents po a more rious threat to children.

C) Parents should be aware of children’s health hazards.

D) Attention should be paid to toxic chemical exposure.

56. Of the dangers in everyday life, the author thinks that people have most to fear from .

A) the uncertain B) the quantifiable

C) an earthquake D) unhealthy food

Passage Two

Questions 57 to 61 are bad on the following passage.

Crippling health care bills, long emergency-room waits and the inability to find a primary care

physician just scratch the surface of the problems that patients face daily.

Primary care should be the backbone of any health care system. Countries with appropriate primary care

resources score highly when it comes to health outcomes and cost. The U.S. takes the opposite approach by

emphasizing the specialist rather than the primary care physician.

A recent study analyzed the providers who treat Medicare beneficiaries（老年医保受惠人）. The

startling finding was that the average Medicare patient saw a total of ven doctors—two primary care

physicians and five specialists—in a given year. Contrary to popular belief, the more physicians taking care of

you don’t guarantee better care. Actually, increasing fragmentation of care results in a corresponding ri in cost

and medical errors.

How did we let primary care slip so far? The key is how doctors are paid. Most physicians are paid

whenever they perform a medical rvice. The more a physician does, regardless of quality or outcome, the

better he’s reimburd (返还费用). Moreover, the amount a physician receives leans heavily toward medical or

surgical procedures. A specialist who performs a procedure in a 30minute visit can be paid three times more

than a primary care physician using that same 30 minutes to discuss a patient’s dia. Combine this fact with

annual government threats to indiscriminately cut reimburments; physicians are faced with no choice but to

increa quantity to boost income.

Primary care physicians who refu to compromi quality are either driven out of business or to

cash-only practices, further contributing to the decline of primary care.

Medical students are not blind to this scenario. They e how heavily the reimburment deck is stacked

against primary care. The recent numbers show that since 1997, newly graduated U.S. medical students who

choo primary care as a career have declined by 50%. This trend results in emergency rooms being

overwhelmed with patients without regular doctors.

How do we fix this problem?

It starts with reforming the physician reimburment system. Remove the pressure for primary care

physicians to squeeze in more patients per hour, and reward them for optimally (最佳地) managing their

dias and practicing evidence-bad medicine. Make primary care more attractive to medical students by

forgiving student loans for tho who choo primary care as a career and reconciling the marked difference

between specialist and primary care physician salaries.

We’re at a point where primary care is needed more than ever. Within a few years, the first wave of the

76 million Baby Boomers will become eligible for Medicare. Patients older than 85, who need chronic care

most, will ri by 50% this decade.

Who will be there to treat them?

57. The author’s chief concern about the current U.S. health care system is .

A) the inadequate training of physicians B) the declining number of doctors

C) the shrinking primary care resources D) the ever-rising health care costs

58. We learn from the passage that people tend to believe that .

A) the more costly the medicine, the more effective the cure

B) eing more doctors may result in more diagnostic errors

C) visiting doctors on a regular basis ensures good health

D) the more doctors taking care of a patient, the better

59. Faced with the government threats to cut reimburments indiscriminately, primary care physicians have

to .

A) increa their income by working overtime B) improve their experti and rvice

C) make various deals with specialists D) e more patients at the expen of quality

60. Why do many new medical graduates refu to choo primary care as their career?

A) They find the need for primary care declining.

B) The current system works against primary care.

C) Primary care physicians command less respect.

D) They think working in emergency rooms tedious.

61. What suggestion does the author give in order to provide better health care?

A) Bridge the salary gap between specialists and primary care physicians.

B) Extend primary care to patients with chronic dias.

C) Recruit more medical students by offering them loans.

D) Reduce the tuition of students who choo primary care as their major.

Part V Cloze (15 minutes)

Directions:

There are 20 blanks in the following passage. For each blank there are four choices marked A), B),

C) and D) on the right side of the paper. You should choo the ONE that best fits into the passage. Then mark

the corresponding letter on Answer Sheet 2 with a single line through the centre.

McDonald’s, Greggs, KFC and Subway are today named as the most littered brands in England as Keep

Britain Tidy called on fast-food companies to do more to tackle customers who drop their wrappers and drinks

cartons (盒子) in the streets.

Phil Barton, chief executive of Keep Britain Tidy, 62 its new Dirty Pig campaign, said it was the first

time it had investigated which 63 made up “littered England” and the same names appeared again and again.

“We 64 litterers for

dropping this fast food litter 65 the first place but also believe the results have pertinent (相关的)

messages for the fast food 66 . McDonald’s, Greggs, KFC and Subway need to do more to 67 littering

by their customers.”

He recognized efforts made by McDonald’s, 68 placing litter bins and increasing litter patrols, but

its litter remained “all too prevalent”. All fast food chains should reduce 69 packaging, he added. Companies

could also reduce prices 70 tho who stayed to eat food on their premis, offer money-off vouchers (代金

券) or other 71 for tho who returned packaging and put more bins at 72 points in local streets, not just

outside their premis. A 73 for McDonald’s said: “We do our best. Obviously we ask all our customers to

dispo of litter responsibly.” Trials of more extensive, all-day litter patrols were 74 in Manchester and

Birmingham.

KFC said it took its 75 on litter management “very riously”, and would introduce a programme to

reduce packaging 76 many products. Subway said that it worked hard to 77 the impact of litter on

communities，78 it was “still down to the 79 customer to dispo of their litter responsibly”. Greggs said it

recognized the “continuing challenge for us all”, 80 having already taken measures to help 81 the issue.

62. A) elevating B) convening C) launching D) projecting

63. A) signals B) signs C) commercials D) brands

64. A) condemn B) refute C) uncover D) disregard

65. A) around B) toward C) in D) off

66. A) industry B) career C) profession D) vocation

67. A) exclude B) discourage C) suppress D) retreat

68. A) incorporating B) including C) comprising D) containing

69. A) unreliable B) unrelated C) unimportant D) unnecessary

70. A) for B) about C) with D) to

71. A) accessories B) merits C) incentives D) dividends

72. A) curious B) mysterious C) strange D) strategic

73. A) narrator B) spokesman C) mediator D) broker

74. A) in ason B) at risk C) off hand D) under way

75. A) responsibility B) liability C) commission D) administration

76. A) around B) by C) on D) above

77. A) divert B) minimize C) degrade D) suspend

78. A) if B) whether C) so D) but

79. A) individual B) concrete C) unique D) respective

80. A) except B) without C) despite D) via

81. A) deal B) tackle C) cope D) dispo

Part VI Translation (5 minutes)

Directions:

Complete the ntences by translating into English the Chine given in brackets. Plea write

your translation on Answer Sheet 2.

82. How long does a jacket like this last me? — (这要看你多长时间穿一次).

83. The theory he advanced has proved (对许多传统概念的一种挑战).

84. The manager (本可以亲自参加会议), but he was called away for some urgent business abroad.

85. Both rearch and practical experience have shown that a (均衡的饮食对健康是必不可少的).

86. Much (我感到遗憾), I was unable to finish the work on time.

2009年12月英语六级真题答案

Part Ⅰ Writing

1. 现在有不少家长送孩子参加各种艺术班

2. 对这种做法有人表示支持，也有人并不赞成

3. 我认为……

范文1

Should Parents Send Their Kids to Art Class

Children are the future of the nation, the pearl in their parents’ eyes. Hoping that their kids can become the

cream of the crop among others, more and more parents nd their kids to various art class to let them learn more.

However, people hold different opinions toward this phenomenon.

Some people hold a firm position that it is a beneficial thing for kids to attend art class. There, kids can not

only learn some art skills that may helpful for them someday, they can also get a chance to expand their interests to a

great extent, and their minds can also be broadened. Besides, kids can also make a lot of friends there, thus their

communication skills may also be sharpened. While for the others, they hold an opposite opinion. They think parents

should not nd their kids to art class blindly against kids’ will, becau this will get a definitely negative impact

on kids. Kids, in the parents’ eyes, should be given more flexible time to relax and do whatever they are interested

in. And kids also need freedom becau unacceptable art class will absolutely eliminate the nature of kids. Thus,

nding kids to the class will undoubtedly hurt them.

Every coin has two sides. As far as I am concerned, I think children’s interests should be taken into careful

consideration before being nt to art class. Children should be given enough freedom to develop by themlves.

Whether parents should nd their kids to art class, it depends.

范文2

Should parents nd their kids to art class?

With the development of our society and economy, parents become more concerned about the future

competition of children , so more and more parents manage kinds of ways to enhance the ability of children in every

aspects , like they nt their children to art class after school or at weekends in order to promi their kids a more

competitive future.

The majority parents have the above view on this issue, believing it is a good way to cultivate the children’s

interests and hobbies, paving their future path in life .while there are also some people who think that this will give

kids heavy burden, not really good for their growth.

In my opinion, we should respect our kids and do something to child's own interests and hobbies rather than

blindness. Second, do not give too much pressure on kids, giving them a healthy environment for growth is much

more than attending art class.

范文3

Should parents nd their kids to art class?

Nowadays，it has been common that parents nd their kids to various art class such as music, drawing

dancing ,etc. at weekend or during holiday.

Some people take it for granted and think through this method, their kids can make u of leisure time to learn

more skills and be prepared for the future fierce competition in the adult world. Nevertheless, there are still some

sounds against this phenomenon, saying that it shouldn’t be encouraged.

As far as I’m concerned, I stand by the latter side, becau its disadvantages far outweigh than the advantages.

Above all, for children, play is their nature. It will do great harm to both their physical and mental health if they are

deprived of the right to have enough free time. For another thing, most kids are nt to art schools to learn thing they

are not even interested in. Conquently, they will be reluctant to cooperate with the teachers resulting only in the

waste of time and energy. Thus, obviously, it is better to t children free to do things in which they passion actually

lies, rather than forcing then to go to art class.

快速阅读答案：

1. B (benefits …)

2. C (more business)

3. B (improved …)

4. B (they look for)

5. A (offering …)

6. D (support …)

7. B (keep …)

8. home life

9. productive

10. improve productivity

听力复合式听写答案

36. derived

37. immen

38. convenient

39. accuracy

40. largely

41. instant

42. recalls

43. texture

44. This means that any thought about a certain subject will bring up some memory that is related to it

45. Associations do not have to be logical they just have to make a link

46. If you remember the shape of Italy it is becau you have been told sometime that Italy is shaped like a boot

Part IV Reading Comprehension(Reading in Depth) (25minutes)

快速阅读答案

47. a driver’s attention

51. punishing

52-56 CACBA 57-62 CBDBA

完型填空答案

62 B) launching

63 D) brands

64 B) condemn

65 A) in

66 C) industry

67 B) exclude

68 D) including

69 C) unnecessary

70 C) to

71 B) incentives

72 C) strategic

73 A) spokesman

74 D)underway

75 B) responsibility

76 B) on

77 C) minimize

78 C) so

79 C) individual

80 A) despite

81 D) tackle

翻译答案

82. It depends on how often you wear it

83. a challenge to many traditional concepts

84. could have attended the meeting in person (by himlf)

85. a balance diet is esntial to health

86. regretted as I felt

完整版答案解析(图片版)

听力原文

听力短对话

11. W: Did you u credit cards on your vacation last month in Europe?

M: Sure did. They certainly beat going around with a wallet full of big bills. But carrying lots of cash is still

very common among some older people travelling abroad.

Q: What does the man say about some elderly people?

12. W: Rod must be in a bad mood today. What’s wrong with him?

M: He was pasd over in the lection process for the dean of the Administration’s Office. He’d been hoping

for the position for a long time.

Q: What does the man mean?

13. M: What a great singer Justin is! His concert is just awesome and you’ll never regret the money you paid for

the ticket.

W: Yeah, judging by the amount of applau, everyone was enjoying it.

Q: What does the woman mean?

14. W: I received an email yesterday from Henry. Do you remember he was one of the chairpersons of our

Students’ Union?

M: Yes, but I haven’t heard from him for ages. Actually, I have been out of touch with him since our first

reunion after graduation.

Q: What do we learn about the speakers?

15. M: Driving at night always makes me tired. Let’s stop the dinner.

W: Fine, and let’s find a motel so that we can get an early start tomorrow.

Q: What will the speakers probably do?

16. W: Let’s look at the survey on consumer confidence we conducted last week. How reliable are the

figures?

M: They have a 5% margin of error.

Q: What are the speakers talking about?

17. W: Look at this catalogue John. I think I want to get this red blou.

M: Eh, I think you already have one like this in blue. Do you need every color in the rainbow?

Q: What does the man mean?

18. W: This notice says that all the introductory marketing class are clod.

M: That can’t be true. There are suppod to be 13 of them this mester.

Q: What does the man mean

听力长对话原文

M: I e your new resume that you worked as a manager of store called Computer Country, could you tell me a

little more about your responsibilities there?

W: Sure. I was responsible for overeing about 30 employees. I did all of the orderings for the store and I kept

track of the inventory.

M: What was the most difficult part of your job?

W: Probably handling angry customers. We didn’t have them very often, but when we did, I need to make sure

they were well taken good care of. After all, the customer is always right.

M: That’s how we feel here, too. How long did you work there?

W: I was there for three and a half years. I left the company last month.

M: And why did you leave?

W: My husband has been transferred to Boston and I understand that your company has an opening there, too.

M: Yes, that’s right. We do. But the position won’t start until early next month. Would that be a problem for

you?

W: No, not at all. My husband’s new job doesn’t begin for a few weeks, so we thought we would spend some

time driving to Boston and stop to e my parents.

M: That sounds nice. So, tell me, why are you interested in this particular position?

W: I know that your company has a great reputation and wonderful product. I’ve thought many times that I

would like to be a part of it. When I heard about the opening in Boston, I jumped to the opportunity.

M: Well, I’m glad you did.

Questions 19 to 22 are bad on the conversation you have just heard.

Q19: What was the woman’s previous job?

Q20: What does the woman say with the most difficult part of her job?

Q21: Why is the woman looking for a job in Boston?

Q22: When can the woman start to work if she gets the job?

11:17

Long Conversation 2

W: Today, in this studio, we have Alberto Cuties, the well-known Brazilian advocator of the anti-global

movement. He’s here to talk about the recent report stating that by 2050, Brazil will be one of the world’s wealthiest

and most successful countries. Alberto, what do you say about this report?

M: You know this isn’t the first time that people are saying Brazil will be a great economic power. The same

thing was said over 100 years ago, but it didn’t happen.

W: Yes, but you must admit the world’s a very different place now.

M: Of cour. In fact, I believe that there may be some truths in the predictions this time around. First of all,

though, we must remember the problems facing Brazil at the moment.

W: Such as?

M: There’s an enormous gap between the rich and the poor in this country. In San Paulo, you can e shopping

malls full of designer goods right next door to the slum areas without proper water or electricity supplies. A lot of

work needs to be done to help people in tho areas improve their lives.

W: What needs to be done?

M: Education, for example. For Brazil, to be successful, we need to offer education to all Brazilians. Successful

countries, like South Korea and Singapore have excellent education systems. Brazil needs to learn from the

countries.

W: So you’re hopeful for the future?

W: As I said earlier, I’m hopeful. This isn’t an easy job. We need to make sure that the important opportunities

for Brazil aren’t wasted as they were in the past.

Questions 23 to 25 are bad on the conversation you have just heard.

Q23: What does the recent report say about Brazil?

Q24: What problem does Alberto say Brazil faces now?

Q25: What does Alberto say about economically successful countries?

(passage1）

Wilma Subra had no intention of becoming a public speaker. After graduating from college with degrees in

chemistry and microbiology, she went to work at Gulf South Rearch Institute in Louisiana. As part of her job, she

conducted field rearch on toxic substances in the environment, often in minority communities located near large

industrial polluters. She found many families were being expod to high, sometimes deadly levels of chemicals and

other toxic substances. But she was not allowed to make her information public. Frustrated by the restrictions,

Subra left her job in 1981, created her own company and has devoted the past two decades to helping people fight

back against giant industrial polluters. She works with families and community groups to conduct environmental

tests and hybrid test results, and organize for change. Becau of her efforts, dozens of toxic sites across the country

have been cleaned up. And one chemical industry spokesperson calls her “a top gun” for the environmental

movement. How has Subra achieved all this? Partly through her scientific training, partly through her commitment to

environmental justice. But just as important is her ability to communicate with people through public speaking.

“Public speaking,” she says, “is the primary vehicle I u for reaching people。” If you had asked Subra before 1981,

do you e yourlf as a major public speaker? She would have laughed at the idea. Yet today she gives more than

one hundred prentations a year. Along the way, she’s lectured at Harvard, testified before congress, and addresd

audiences in 40 states, as well as in Mexico, Canada, and Japan。

Questions 26 to 29 are bad on the passage you have just heard。

26. What did Wilma Subra do as part of her job while working at Gulf South Rearch Institute?

27. Why did Wilma Subra leave her job in 1981?

28. What results have Wilma Subra’s efforts had in the past two decades?

29. What does the speaker say has contributed to Wilma Subra’s success？

Passage 2

One of the biggest challenges facing employers and educators today is the rapid advance of globalization. The

market place is no longer national or regional, but extends to all corners of the world. And this requires a

global-ready workforce. Universities have a large part to play in preparing students for the 21st century labor market

by promoting international educational experiences. The most obvious way universities can help develop a global

workforce is by encouraging students to study abroad as part of their cour. Students who have experienced another

culture firsthand are more likely to be global-ready when they graduate. Global workforce development doesn’t

always have to involve travel abroad, however. If students learn another language and study other cultures, they will

be more global-ready when they graduate. It is important to point out that students also need to have a deep

understanding of their own culture before they can begin to obrve, analyze and evaluate other cultures. In

multi-cultural societies, people can study each other’s cultures to develop intercultural competencies, such as critical

and reflective thinking and intellectual flexibility. This can be done both through the curriculum and through

activities on campus outside of the classroom, such as art exhibitions and lectures from international experts. Many

universities are already embracing this challenge and providing opportunities for students to become global citizens.

Students themlves, however, may not realize that when they graduate, they will be competing in a global labor

market. And universities need to rai awareness of the issues amongst undergraduates。

Questions 30 to 32 are bad on the passage you just heard:

30. What is one of the biggest challenges facing employers and educators today?

31. What should students do first before they can really understand other cultures?

32. What should college students realize according to the speaker?

Passage 3

To e if hair color affects a person’s chances of getting a job, rearchers at California State University asked

136 college students to review the resume and photograph of a female applicant for a job as an accountant. Each

student was given the same resume but the applicant’s picture was altered so that in some photos, her hair was

golden, in some red and in some brown. The result-----with brown hair, the woman was rated more capable and she

was offered a higher salary than when she had a golden or red hair. Other studies have found similar results. Many

respondents rate women with golden hair as less intelligent than other people and red hair as more temperamental.

Women with red or golden hair are victims of the common practice of stereotyping. A stereotype is a simplistic or

exaggerated image that human carries in their minds about groups of people. For example, lawyers are shrewd and

dishonest is a popular stereotype. Stereotyping can occur in public speaking class when trying to choo a speech

topic. Some males think that women are uninterested in how to repair cars or some females think that men are

uninterested in creative hobbies, such as knitting a needlepoint. We should reject to stereotypes becau they force all

people in a group into the same simple pattern. They fail to account for individual differences and the wide range of

characteristics among members of any group. Some lawyers are dishonest, yes, but many are not. Some women are

uninterested in repairing cars, yes, but some are enthusiastic with mechanics。

Questions 33 to 35 are bad on the passage you have just heard。

Q33. What did rearchers at California State University find?

Q34. What is the popular stereotype of lawyers?

does the speaker say we should reject to stereotypes?

Section C

The ancient Greeks developed basic memory systems called mnemonics. The name is derived from their Goddess of

memory "Mnemosyne". In the ancient world, a trained memory was an immen ast, particularly in public life.

There were no convenient devices for taking notes, and early Greek orators delivered long speeches with great

accuracy becau they learned the speeches using mnemonic systems.

The Greeks discovered that human memory is largely an associative process that it works by linking things together.

For example, think of an apple. The instant your brain registers the word "apple", it recalls the shape, color, taste,

smell and texture of that fruit. All the things are associated in your memory with the word "apple". This means that

any thought about a certain subject will often bring up more memories that are related to it. An example could be

when you think about a lecture you have had. This could trigger a memory about what you're talking about through

that lecture, which can then trigger another memory. Associations do not have to be logical. They just have to make

a good link. An example given on a website I was looking at follows, "Do you remember the shape of Austria?

Canada? Belgium? Or Germany? Probably not. What about Italy though? If you remember the shape of Italy, it is

becau you have been told at some time that Italy is shaped like a boot. You made an association with something

already known, the shape of a boot. And Italy shape could not be forgotten once you had made the association.