2013年6月六级考试真题（三）

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2013 年 6 月六级考试真题（第三套）

PartⅠ Writing

Directions： For this part, you are allowed 30 minutes to write an essay commenting on the remark “Earth provides

enough to satisfy every man’s need, but not every man’s greed.” You can cite examples to illustrate

your point. You should write at least 150 words but no more than 200 words .

Part II Listening Comprehension

说明：2013 年 6 月六级真题全国共考了两套听力。本套（即第三套）的听力内容与第二套的内容完全相同，只

是选项的顺序不一样而已，故在本套中没有重复给出。

Section A

Directions： In this section, there is 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 through carefully before

making your choices. Each choice in the bank is identified by a letter. Please mark the corresponding

letter for each item on Answer Sheet 2 with a single line through the centre. You may not use any of the

words in the bank more than once.

Questions 36 to 45 are based on the following passage.

Children are losing the ability to play properly because they are being given too many toys, according to a new

research. The studies show that children — especially those under five — are often 36 and actually play less than

those with fewer toys.

“0ur studies show that giving children too many toys or toys of the 37 type can actually be doing them harm.

They get spoiled and cannot 38 on any one thing long enough to learn from it”, said Lerner, a childhood development

researcher. Her conclusions have been backed up by British research looking at children with 39 few toys, whose

parents spend more time reading, singing or playing with them. It showed such children 40 youngsters from richer

backgrounds — even those who had access to computers.

Kathy Sylva, professor of educational psychology at Oxford University, reached her 41 from a study of 3,000

children from the ages of three to five. In her opinion, there is a complex relationship between children’s progress, the

type of toys they are given and the time parents spend on them. When the children have a large number of toys there

seems to be a distraction element, and when children are 4 2 they do not learn or play well.

Some parents notice the 43 early. Orhan Ismail, a researcher from Colchester, Essex, saw a change for the worse

in Cameron, his 10-month-old son, after he was given 44 toys last Christmas. He observed that if there are too many

toys in front of Cameron, he will just keep moving round them and then end up going away and finding something like a

slipper to play with.

Experts 45 to put a figure on the number of toys children should have, but many believe two dozen is enough for

children of pre-school age.

A) impact I) surpass

B) concentrate J) innumerable

C) overwhelmed K) decisions

D) reasonably L) inaccurate

E) conclusions M) relatively

F) exquisite N) distracted

G) embarrassed O) lag

H) hesitate

Section B

Directions: In this section, you are going to read a passage with ten statements attached to it. Each statement contains

information given in one of the paragraphs. Identify the paragraph from which the information is derived.

You may choose a paragraph more than once. Each paragraph is marked with a letter. Answer the

questions by marking the corresponding letter on Answer Sheet 2.

Norman Borlaug: “Father of the Green Revolution”

[A] Few people have quietly changed the world for the better more than this rural lad from the midwestem state of Iowa

in the United States. The man in focus is Norman Borlaug, the “Father of the Green Revolution”, who died on 12

September 2009 at age 95. Norman Borlaug spent most of his 60 working years in the farmlands of Mexico, South

Asia and later in Africa, fighting world hunger, and saving by some estimates up to a billion lives in the process.

An achievement, fit for a Nobel Peace Prize.

Early Years

[B] “I’m a product of the great depression” is how Borlaug described himself. A great-grandson of Norwegian

immigrants to the United States, Borlaug was born in 1914 and grew up on a small farm in the northeastern comer

of Iowa in a town called Cresco. His family had a 40-hectrare (公顷 )farm on which they grew wheat, maize (玉

米)a nd hay and raised pigs and cattle. Norman spent most of his time from age 7-17 on the farm, even as he

attended a one-room, one-teacher school at New Oregon in Howard County.

[C] Borlaug didn’t have money to go to college. But through a Great Depression era programme, known as the National

Youth Administration, Borlaug was able to enroll in University of Minnesota at Minneapolis to study forest ry. He

excelled in studies and received his PhD in plant p at h ology (病理学）and genetics in 1942.

[D] From 1942 to 1944, Borlaug was employed as a microbiologist at DuPont in Wilmington. However, following the

December 1941 attack on Pearl Harbor, Borlaug tried to join the military, but was rejected under wartime labour

regulations.

In Mexico

[E] In 1944, many experts warned of mass starvation in developing nations where populations were expanding faster

than crop production. Borlaug began work at a Rockefeller Foundation- funded project in Mexico to increase wheat

production by developing higher-yielding varieties of the crop. It involved research in genetics, plant breeding,

plant pathology, entomology

（昆

虫学），agronomy（农艺学）,soil science, and cereal technology. The goal of

the project was to boost wheat production in Mexico, which at the time was importing a large portion of its grain.

[F] Borlaug said that his first couple of years in Mexico were difficult. He lacked trained scientists and equipment.

Native farmers were hostile towards the wheat programme because of serious crop losses from 1939 to 1941 due to

stem rust.

[G] Wheat varieties that Borlaug worked with had tall, thin stalks. While taller wheat competed better for sunlight, they

had a tendency to collapse under the weight of extra grain — a trait called lodging. To overcome this, Borlaug

worked on breeding wheat with shorter and stronger stalks, which could hold on larger seed heads. Borlaug’s new

semi-dwarf, disease-resistant varieties, called Pitic 62 and Penjamo 62, changed the potential yield of Mexican

wheat dramatically. By 1963 wheat production in Mexico stood six times more than that of 1944.

Green Revolution in India

[H] During the 1960s, South Asia experienced severe drought condition and India had been importing wheat on a large

scale from the United States. Borlaug came to India in 1963 along with Dr Robert Anderson to duplicate his

Mexican success in the sub-continent. The experiments began with planting a few of the high-yielding variety

strains in the fields of the Indian Agricultural Research Institute at Pusa in New Delhi, under the supervision of Dr

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2013年6月六级考试真题（第三套）PartⅠWritingDirections：Forthispart,youareallowed30minutestowriteanessaycommentingontheremark“Earthprovidesenoughtosatisfyeveryman’sneed,butnoteveryman’sgreed.”Youcanciteexamplestoillustrateyourpoint.Youshouldwriteatleast150wordsbutnomorethan200words.PartIIListeningComprehension说明：2...

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