2018年6月英语六级真题和答案
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Passage 1
At some 2300 miles in length, the Mississippi is the longest river in the United States. At some 1000 miles, the Mackenzie is the longest river in Canada. But the waterways em minute in comparison to the world’s 2 len gthiest rivers: the Nile
and the Amazon.
The Nile which begins in central Africa and flows over 4100 miles north into the Mediterranean hosted one of the world’s great ancient civilizations along its
shores. Calm and peaceful for most of the year, the Nile ud to flood annually,
thereby creating, irrigating and carrying new topsoil to the nearby farmland on which ancient Egypt depended for livelihood. As a means of transportation, the river
返岗carried various vesls up and down its length.
辣白菜的制作A journey through the unobstructed part of this waterway today would pass by
the splendid valley of the Kings, where the tombs of many of the ancient monarchs have stood for over 3000 years. Great civilizations and intensive ttlement are
hardly associated with the Amazon, yet this 4000 mile-long south American river
carries about 20% of the world’s fresh water more than the Mississippi, Nile and
Yangtze combined. Other statistics are equally astonishing. The Amazon is so wide
at some p oints that from its center neither shore can be en. Each cond, the Amazon pours some 55 million gallons of water into the Atlantic. There, at its mouth stands one island larger than Switzerland. Most important of all, the Amazon irrigates the largest tropical rain forest on earth.
Passage 1
9. What can be found in the valley of the Kings?
10. In what way is the Amazon different from other big rivers?
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11. What does the speaker say about the Amazon?
Recording 2
Good morning, ladies and gentlemen, and welcome to the third in our cities of
business minars in the program “Doing Business Abroad”. (Q19) Today, we are going to look at the intercultural awareness, that is the fact that not everyone is British, not everyone speaks English and not everyone does business in a British way. And,
why should they? (Q19) If overas business people are lling to us, then they will make every effort to speak English and to respect our traditions and methods. It
is only polite for us to do the same when we visit them. It is not only polite, it
is a central, if we want to ll British products overas. First, a short quiz.
Let’s e how interculturally-aware you are. Question 1: where must you not drink alcohol on the first and venth of every month. Question 2: where should you never admire your host’s posssions. Question 3: how s hould you attract the waiter during a business lunch in Bangkok. Question 4: where should you try to make all your
appointments either before 2 or after 5:30 pm. OK, everyone had a chance to make
some notes. Right! Here are the answers. Although I am sure that the information
could equally well apply to countries other than tho I have chon. No.1: (Q20)
you must not drink alcohol on the first and venth of the month in India. In
international hotels, you may find it rved, but if you are having a meal with an
India colleague, remember to avoid asking for a beer. If you are an arrival, coincide with one of tho tips. No.2: in Arab countries, the politeness and generosity of胡萝卜种植
the people is without parallel. If you admire your colleague’s beautiful belt and bowls, you may well find yourlf being prented with them as a prent. This is
not a cheap way to do your shopping, however, as your host will quite correctly expect you to respond by prenting him with a gift of equal worth and beauty. In Thailand, clicking the fingers, clapping your hands or just shouting “Waiter” will embarrass your hosts, fellow diners, the waiter himlf and, most of all, you. Place your palm downward and make an inconspicuous waving gesture, which will produce instant and
satisfying results. And finally, (Q21) in Spain, some business maintain the
pattern of working until about 2 o’clock and then returning to the office from 5:30 to 8, 9 or 10 in the evening.
Q19: What should you do when doing business with foreigners?
Q20: What must you avoid doing with your Indian colleague?
Q21: What do we learn about some Spanish people?
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儿歌
Did Sarah Jopha Hale write “Mary’s Little Lamb,” the eternal nurry rhyme （儿歌）about girl named M ary with a stubborn lamb? This is still disputed, but it’s clear that the woman 26 reputed for writing it was one of America’s most fascinating
27 character s. In honor of the poem publication on May 24,1830, here’s more about the 28 suppod author’s life.
Hale wasn’t just a writer, she was also a 29 fierce social advocate, and she
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was particularly 30 obsd with an ideal New England, which she associated with
abundant Thanksgivinx xg meals that she claimed had “a deep moral influence,” she began a nationwide 31 campaign to have a national holiday declared that would bring families together while celebrating the 32 traditional festivals. In 1863, after
17 years of advocacy including letters to five presidents, Hale got it. President
Abraham Lincoln during the Civil War, issued a 33 proclamation tting aside the
last Thursday in November for the holiday.
The true authorship of “Mary’s Little Lamb” is disputed. According to New
England Historical Society, Hale wrote only one part of the poem, but claimed
authorship. Regardless of the author, it ems that the poem was 34 inspired by a
real event. When y oung Mary Sawyer was followed to school by a lamb in 1816, it caud some pro
blems. A bystander named John Roulstone wrote a poem about the event, then, at some point, Hale herlf ems to have helped write it. However, if a 1916 piece by her great-niece is to be trusted, Hale claimed for the 35 rest of her life that
“Some other people pretended that someone el wrote the poem”．
A）campaign
B）career
C）characters
D）features
E）fierce
F）inspired
G）latter
H）obsd
I）proclamation
J）rectified
K）reputed
一生必听的10首经典英文歌曲L）rest
M）suppod
N）traditional
O）versatile
金字塔
Scientists scanning and mapping the Giza pyramids say they've discovered that
三大陷阱the Great Pyramid of Giza is not exactly even. But really not by much. This pyramid is the oldest of the world’s Seven Wonders. The pyramid’s exact size has 26 puzzled experts for centuries, as the "more than 21 acres of hard, white casing stones" that originally covered it were 27 removed long ag
o.
Reporting in the most recent issue of the newsletter "AERAGRAM," which 28 chronicles the work of the Ancient Egypt Rearch Associates, engineer Glen Dash
says that by using a new measuring approach that involved finding any surviving 29 remnants of the casing in order to determine where the original edge was. They found the east side of the pyramid to be a 30 maximum o f 5.55 inches shorter than the west side.
The question that most 31 fascinates him, however, isn't how the Egyptians who
designed and built the pyramid got it wrong 4,500 years ago, but how they got it
so clo to 32 perfect. "We can only speculate as to how the Egyptians could have
laid out the lines with such 33 precision using only the tools they had," Dash
writes. He says his 34 hypothesis is that the Egyptians laid out their design on
a grid, noting that the great pyramid is oriented only 35 slightly away from the
cardinal directions (its north-south axis runs 3 minutes 54 conds west of due north, while its east-west axis runs 3 minutes 51 conds north of due east)—an amount that's "tiny, but similar," Atlas Obscura points out.
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momentum
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家用机器人
When Elon Musk says, as he did this week, that his new priority is using artificial intelligence to build domestic robots, we should not only take note, but look forward to the day we can put our legs up in admiration.
Mr. Musk is a guy who gets things done. The founder of two “moonshot” tech companies, Tesla Motors and SpaceX, is bringing electric vehicles to mass market
and 26 humans to live on other planets. Lest this strike the amateur techie—not that readers of The Independent would ever count among them—as so much hot air, you can be reassured that the near $13bn (￡8.8bn) fortune this entrepreneur has 27 comes from practical achievements rather than hypothetical ones.
A lot of clever people are 28 about artificial intelligence, fearing
that robots will one day become so 29 they’ll murder all of us. The fears are mostly 30 : as with hysteria about genetic modification, we humans are
generally wi enough to manage the problems with alacrity and care.
And just think of how wonderful it would be if you had a live-in robot. It could — 31 —be like having a babysitter and masu rolled into one —or, if that required 32 intelligence beyond the ken of Mr. Musk’s imagined ma chine, at least some one to chop the carrots, wash the car and mow t he lawn. Once purchad and trained, this would allow the 33 ur to save money and time, freeing
up 34 space in our busy lives to, for instance, read The Independent.
蟠龙读音That is w hy we welcome Mr. Musk’s latest35 , and wish him well. As long as robots add to the sum
of human h appiness, reduce suffering or cumbersome activity, and create time to read world-class journalism, The Independent will be their fans. Especially since journalism is one job robots will never do.
A) amasd
B) casual
C) emotional
D) enabling
E) eventually
F) exaggerated
G) extravagant
H) generously
I) misleading
J) precious
K) reward
L) smart
M) sphere
N) terrified
O) venture
答案：
26. D enabling
27. A amasd
28. N terrified
29. L smart
30. F exaggerated
31. E eventually
32. C emotional
33. B casual
34. J precious
35. O venture
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