1、大学英语六级真题及答案除听力2014年6月大学英语六级真题及答案PartI Writing ( 30minutes)Directions: For this part, you are allowed 30 minutes to write an essay explaining why it is unwise to put all your eggs in one basket. You can give examples to illustrate your point .You should write at least 150 words but no more than 200 w
2、ords.Directions: For this part, you are allowed 30 minutes to write an essay explaining why it is unwise a person by their appearance. You can give examples to illustrate your point .You should write at least 150 words but no more than 200 words.Directions: For this part, you are allowed 30 minutes
3、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 III RdadingComprehension(40minutes)Section A Directions:In this section, there is
4、 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 throughcarefully beforemaking your choices. Each choice in the bamk is identified by a letter.Please mark the corresponding letter for each
5、 item onAnswer Sheet 2 with a single line through the centre You may not use any of the words in the bank more than once. For investors who desire low risk and guaranteed income,U.S. Government bonds are a secure investment because these bonds have the financial backing and full faith and credit of
6、the federal government.Municipal bonds,also secure,are offered by local governmengts and often have_36_such as tax-free interest.Some may even be _37_.Corportate bonds are a bit more risky.Two questions often_38_first-time corportate bond investors.The first is”If I purchase a corportate bond,do I h
7、ave to hold it until the matueity date?”The answer is no.Bonds are bought and sold daily on _39_securities exchanges.However,if your bond does not have_40_ that make it attractive to other investors, you may be forced to sell your bond at a_41_i.e., a price less than the bonds face value. But if you
8、r bond is highly valued by other investors, you may be able to sell it at a premium, i.e., a price above its face value. Bond prices gcncrally_42_ inversely (相反地）with current market interest rates. As interest rates go up, bond pnccs tall, and vice versa (反之亦然）.Thus, like all investments，bonds have
9、a degree of risk. The second question is “How can I _43_ the investment risk of a particular bond issue?” Standard & Poors and Moodys Investors Service rate the level of risk of many corporate and government bonds. And _44_, the higher the market risk of a bond，the higher the interest rate. Investor
10、s will invest in a bond considered risky only if the _45_return is high enough.注意:此部分试题请在答题卡2上作答。A) advantagesI) fluctuateB) assessJ) indefiniteC) bother K) insuredD) conservedL) majorE) deductionM) naturallyF) discountN) potentialG) embarrass0) simultaneouslyH) featuresSection BDirections:In this s
11、ection,you are going to read a passage with ten statments attached to it.each statement contains information given in one of the paragraphs.identify the paragraph from weich the information is derived.you may choose a parpgraph more than once.each paragraph is marked with a letter.answer the questio
12、ns by marking the corresponding letter on answer sheet 2.lessons from a Feminist ParadiseAOn the surface,Sweden appears to be a feminist paradise.Look at any global survey of gender equality and Sweden will be near the top.Family-friendly policies are its norm-with 16 months of paid parental leave,s
13、pecial protections for part-time workers,and state-subsidized preschools where,according to a government website,gender-awareness education is increasingly common.due to an unfficial quota system,women hold 45 percent of positions in the swedish parliament.they have enjoyed the protection of governm
14、ent agencies with titles like the Ministry of Integration and Gender Equality and the Secretariat of Gender Research.So why are American women so far ahead of their Swedish counterparts in breaking through the glass ceiling?Bin a 2012 report,the World Economic Forum found that when it comes to closi
15、ng the gender gap ineconmic participation and opportunity,the United States is ahead of not only Sweden but also Finland,Denmark,the Netherlands,Iceland,Germany,and the United Kingdom.Swedens rank in the report can largely be explained by its political quota system.Though the United States has fewer
16、 women in the workorce(68 percent compared to Swedens 77 percent).American women who choose to be employed are far more likely to work full-time and to hold high-level jobs as manangers or professionals.They also own more businesses,lauch more start-ups(新创办的企业),and more often work in traditionally m
17、ale fields.As for breaking through the glass ceiling in business,American women are well in the lead.Cwhat explains the American advantage?How can it be that societies like Sweden,where gender equality is vigorously pusued and engorced,have fewer female managers,executives,professionals,and business
18、 owners than eh laissez-faire(自由放任的)united states?A new study by clrnell economists Francine Blau and Lawrence Kahn gives an explanation.DGenerous parental leave policies and readily available part-time options have unintended consequences:instead of strengthening womens attachment to the workplace,
19、they appear to weaken it.In addition to a 16-month leave,a swedish parent has the right to work six hours a day (for a reduced salary)until his or her child is eight years old.Mothers are far more likely than fathers to take advantage of this law,But extended leaves and part-time employment are know
20、n to be harmful to careersfor both genders. And with women a second factor comes into play:most seem to enjoy the flexible-time arrangement(once known as the “mommytrack”)and never find their way back to full-time or high-level employment.In sum:generous family-friendly policies do keep more women i
21、n the labor market,but they also tend to diminisb their careers. E According to Blau and Kahn,Swedish-style paternal(父亲的)leave policies and flexibletime arrangements pose a second threat to womans progress:they make employers cautious about hiring woman for full-time positions at all.Offering ajob t
22、o a man is the safer bet.He is far less likely to take a year of parental leave and then return on a reduced work schedule for the next eight years.FI became aware of the triale of career-focused European woman a few years ago when I met a post-doctoral student from Germany who was then a visiting f
23、ellow at Johns Hopkins. She was astonished by the professional possibilities afforded to young American woman. Her best hope in Germanywas a govermment jobprospects for woman in the private sector were dim.”In Germany “ she told me,”we have all the benefits,”but employers dont wan to hire us.”G Swed
24、ish economists Magnus Henrekson and Mikael Stenkula addressed the following question in their 2009 study:why are there so few female top executives in the European egalitarian(平等主义的)welfare states?Their answer:”Broad-based welfare-statepolicies hinder womens representation in elite competitive posit
25、ions.”H It is tempting to declare the Swedish policies regressive(退步的)and hail the American system as superior.But that would be shortsighted.The Swedes can certainly take a lesson from the United States and look for ways to clear a path for their ambitious female careerists. But most woman are not
26、committsd careerists.When the Pew Research Center recently asked American parents to identify their”ideal”life arrangement,47 percent of mothers said they would prefer to work park-time and 20percent said they would prefer not to work at all.Fathers answered differrntly:75 percent preferred full-tim
27、e work.Some version of the Swedish system might work well for a majority of American parents,but the United States is unlikely to fully embrace the Swedish model. Still,we can learn from their experience.IDespite its failure to shatter the glass ceiling,Sweden has one of the most powerful and innova
28、tive economies in the world.In its 2011-2012survey,the World Economic Forum ranked Sweden as the “rockstar of the recovery”in the Washington Post,also leads the world in life satisfaction and happiness. It is a society well worth studying,and its efforts to conquer the gender gap impart a vital less
29、onthough not the lesson the Swedes had in mind。 J Sweden has gone farther than any other nation on earth to integrate the sexes and to offer women the same opportunities and freedoms as men.For decades,these descendants of the Vikings have been trying to show the world that the right mix of enlinght
30、ened policy.consciousness raising, and non-sexist child rearingwould close the gender divide once and for all.Yet the divide persists.K A 2012 press release from Statistics Sweden bears the title “Gender Equality in Sweden Treading(踩）Water” and notes:1、The total income from employment for all ages i
31、s lower for women than for men.2、One in three employed women and one in ten employed men work part-time.3、Womens working time is influenced by the number and age of theirchildren, but mens working time is not affected by these factors.4、Of all employees，only 13 percent of the women and 12 percent of
32、 the men have occupations with an even distribution of the sexes.L Confronted with such facts, some Swedish activists and legislators are demanding more ex-treme and far-reaching measures, such as replacing male and female pronouns with a neutral alternative and monitoring children more closely to correct them when they gravitahta(被吸引) toward gendered play. When it came to light last year that mothers, far more than fathers, chose to stay home from work to care for their sick kids.
