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2017年6月大学英语六级押题试卷
单项选择题
1、 Questionsare based on the following passage.
There is plenty of complaints about how social media--texting in particular--may be harming children's social and intellectual development. But a new study suggests that constant instant messaging (IM'ing)and texting among teens may also provide benefits, particularly for those who are introverted( 内向的).
British researchers studied instant messages exchanged by 231 teens, aged 14 to 18. All of the participants were "regular" or "extensive" IM'ers. In the U. S., two thirds of teens use instant messaging services regularly, with a full third messaging at least once every day.
The researchers analyzed 150 conversations in the study, and reported the results in the journal Computers in Human Behavior. In 100 of these chats, the study participant began IM'ing while in a negative emotional state such as sadness, distress or anger. The rest were conversations begun when the participant was feeling good or neutral. After the chat, participants reported about a 20% reduction in their distress--not enough to completely eliminate it, but enough to leave them feeling better than they had before reaching out.
"Our findings suggest that IM'ing between distressed adolescents and their peers may provide emotional relief and consequently contribute to their well-being," the authors write, noting that prior research has shown that people assigned to talk to a stranger either in real life or online improved their mood in both settings, but even more with IM. And people who talk with their real-life friends online also report feeling closer to them than those who just communicate face-to-face, implying a strengthening of their bond.
Why would digital communication trump human contact? The reasons are complex, but may have something to do with the fact that users can control expression of sadness and other emotions via IM without revealing emotional elements like tears that some may perceive as embarrassing or sources of discomfort. Studies also show that the anonymity( 匿名) of writing on a device blankets the users in a sense of safety that may prompt people to feel more comfortable in sharing and discussing their deepest and most authentic feelings. Prior research has shown that expressive writing itself can "vent" emotions and provide a sense of relief--and doing so knowing that your words are reaching a sympathetic friend may provide even more comfort and potentially be therapeutic.Researchers also found that introverted participants reported more relief from IM conversations when they were distressed than extraverts ( 内向的) did. As Susan Cain, author of Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World that Can't Stop Talking, wrote recently for TIME: Introverts are often brimming over with thoughts and care deeply for their friends, family and colleagues. But even the most socially skilled introverts sometimes long for a free pass from socializing or talking on the phone. This is what the Internet offers : the chance to connect--but in measured doses and from behind a screen.
What is the finding of the new study by British researchers?
A.Instant messaging will hinder children's social and intellectual development.
B.Introverted teens may benefit from constant instant messaging.
C.Two thirds of Amebean teens use instant messaging every day.
D.American teens aged 14 to 18 are extensive instant messaging users.
2、 Questions are based on the following passage.
A day after the mobile phone celebrated its 40th birthday, has produced something that it hopes will make certain of the devices even more useful. On April 4th the giant social network 36 Home, new software that is designed to give it more prominence on mobile phones powered by Android, an operating system developed by Google.
This matters because more and more folk are now accessing social networks from mobile devices rather than from desktop computers and because mobile advertising 37 are growing fast, albeit from a low base. Without a robust mobile 38 , could see some of its users siphoned off by rivals born in the mobile era. And it could miss out on a 39 massive source of new revenue.
There had been 40 that was working on a phone of its own, or at least on a mobile operating system to rival Android or Apple's IOS. But dabbling in hardware at this stage of its development would be a huge risk for and developing a rival operating system would risk 41 Apple and Google, whose mobile platforms have helped power its advertising growth, eMarketer, a research firm, 42 is on track to win 11% of the $13.6 billion likely to be spent around the world on mobile ads this year.
Home, which is a group of apps, avoids both pitfalls. Among other things, it 43 a phone's home screen ( and lock screen) to 's Newsfeed, allowing people to get updates on what their friends are doing without having to launch a 44 app each time they want news. A phone using Home will also notify you when your friends are doing something new, as well as alerting you to new data from other apps. Another feature is a tool called "Chat Heads" that 45 's message system to a phone's regular SMS message offering. This means messages pop up on the home screen along with the sender's profile picture, which is enclosed in a small circle.
请回答(36)题__________.
3、Questions are based on the conversation you have just heard.
A.She attended one of its meetings.
B.Her roommate was one of its members.
C.She saw its members protesting.
D.She read about it in the newspaper.
4、Questions are based on the following passage.
Opinion polls are now beginning to show a reluctant consensus that, whoever is to blame and whatever happens from now on, high unemployment is probably here to stay. This means we shall have to find ways of sharing the available employment more widely. But we need to go further. We must ask some fundamental questions about the future of work. Should we continue to treat employment as the norm? Should we not rather encourage many other ways for self-respecting people to work? Should we not create conditions in which many of us can work for ourselves, rather than for an employer? Should we not aim to revive the household and the neighborhood, as well as the factory and the office, as centers of production and work?
The industrial age has been the only period of human history in which most people's work has taken the form of jobs. The industrial age may now be coming to an end, and some of the changes in work patterns which it brought may have to be reversed. This seems a daunting thought. But, in fact, it could offer the prospect of a better future for work. Universal employment, as its history shows, has not meant economic freedom.
Employment became widespread when the enclosures of the 17th and 18th centuries made many people dependent on paid work by depriving them of the use of the land, and thus of the means to provide a living for themselves. Then the factory system destroyed the cottage industries and removed work from people's homes.
Later, as transport improved, first by rail and then by road, people commuted longer distances to their places of employment until, eventually, many people's work lost all connection with their home lives and the places in which they lived.
Meanwhile, employment put women at a disadvantage. In pre-industrial times, men and women had shared the productive work of the household and village community. Now it became customary for the husband to go out
to paid employment, leaving the unpaid work of the home and the family to his wife. Tax and benefit regulations still assume this norm today, and restrict more flexible sharing of work roles between the sexes.
It was not only women whose work status suffered. As employment became the dominant form of work,young people and old eople were excluded--a problem now, as more teenagers become frustrated at school and more retired people want to live active lives.
All this may now have to change. The time has certainly come to switch some effort and resources away from the utopian goal of creating jobs for all, to the urgent practical task of helping many people to manage without full-time jobs.
According to the author, the universal employment has__________.
A.turned out not to be the best form of jobs
B.created an alternative form of jobs
C.built tbe foundation of an economic leap
D.failed to produce job opportunities for most people
5、Questions are based on the passage you have just heard.
A.New varieties of corn have been developed.
B.The crops need less fertilizer.
C.Farmers can now monitor crop growth.
D.Crop yields are much greater.
6、听录音:
点击播放
回答题。
A.They might be fake products.
B.They might be stolen goods.
C.They might be faulty products.
D.They might be smuggled goods.
7、回答题
At the height of Detroit's boom in the mid 20th century, this plant manufactured Packard automobiles, employing about 40,000 people. The promise of good pay and plenty of work at similar (36)_________around the city attracted people like Tennessee native George McGregor in the 1960s.
Today, he's president of the United Auto Workers Local 22 in Detroit. "When I first came here, in the automobile factory, they were begging people to come. The hour (37)_________ was something like $3.25 an hour," he recalled. But the auto industry stopped begging when
(38)_________ for American cars slowed and interest in foreign automobiles increased.
The Packard brand became (39)_________ , and the hum of its once mighty factory is silent. Crumbling buildings are part of one of the largest vacant industrial complexes in the world. They (40)_________ Detroit's boom-to-bust story. "There were about a dozen auto factories, and you know very large (41)_________ , and over time those have been shut down to now there's only one left," Scorsone said.
Economist Eric Scorsone, at Michigan State University, said although General Motors
(42)_________ the most prominent set of buildings in downtown Detroit, the auto industry plays a much smaller role in the city's economy. "In fact, health care is the biggest employer now in the city," he said.
There were about 300,000 auto factory jobs in Detroit in the 1950s, when the (43)_________ was around 1.8million. Today, there are fewer than 27,000 jobs in plants operated by Chrysler and GM, and the overall population is just above 700,000. "We got three casinos and two auto factories," McGregor explained. "We went from (44)_________ . to gaming for jobs." McGregor's UAW Local 22 Detroit (45) _________. workers at the GM Hamtramck plant still in operation here.
A. inquire
B. people
C. demand
D. make
E. boasts
F. represents
G. employees
H. symbolize
I. plants
J. manufacturing
K. extinct
L. population
M. employers
N. standard
O. rate
请回答第36题_________
简答题
8、 __________
9、惊蛰(the Waking of Insects) 是中国二十四节气中的第三个节气，一般在每年3月5日或6日。这时气温回升较快，渐渐开始出现春雷，各种冬眠(hibernation)的昆虫也开始活动。 “惊蛰”一词本身就是惊醒蛰伏于地下冬眠的昆虫的意思。中国劳动人民自古就很重视惊蛰节气，农民们常常把它视为春耕开始的日子，开始安排各种农事，正如农谚所说： “过了惊蛰节，春耕不能歇”。惊蛰过后万物复苏，但各种病毒和细菌也开始活跃，因此也应该做好流行性疾病的预防工作。
10、You should write an essay entitled The Power of Unity by commenting on the remark "A snowflake is one of God's most fragile creations, but look what they can do when they stick together!" You can cite examples to illustrate your point.
写作导航
1.诠释名言来表示团结的力量;
2.进一步阐述团结在人们生活中的重要性，并以中国共产党来举例说明;
3.得出结论，呼吁大家培养团结意识。
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