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D) It is as long as the Nile and the Yangtze combined.

Questions 12 to 15 are based on the passage you have just heard.

12. A) Living a life in the fast lane leads to success.

B) We are always in a rush to do various things. C) The search for tranquility has become a trend. D) All of us actually yearn for a slow and calm life.

13. A) She had trouble balancing family and work

B) She enjoyed the various social events. C) She was accustomed to tight schedules. D) She spent all her leisure time writing books.

14. A) The possibility of ruining her family.

B) Becoming aware of her declining health. C) The fatigue from living a fast-paced life. D) Reading a book about slowing down.

15. A) She started to follow the cultural norms.

B) She came to enjoy doing everyday tasks. C) She learned to use more polite expressions. D) She stopped using to-do lists and calendars.

Section C

Directions: In this section, you will hear three recordings of lectures or talks followed by three or four questions. The recordings will be played only once. After you hear a question, you must choose the best answer from the four choices marked A), B)，C) and D). Then mark the corresponding letter on Answer Sheet 1 with a single line through the centre. 2018年6月大学英语六级真题试卷及答案（二）

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Questions 16 to 18 are based on the recording you have just heard.

16. A) They will root out native species altogether.

B) They contribute to a region's biodiversity. C) They pose a threat to the local ecosystem, D) They will crossbreed with native species.

17. A) Their classifications are meaningful.

B) Their interactions are hard to define. C) Their definitions are changeable. D) Their distinctions are artificial.

18. A) Only a few of them cause problems to native species.

B) They may turn out to benefit the local environment. C) Few of them can survive in their new habitats. D) Only 10 percent of them can be naturalized.

Questions 19 to 21 are based on the recording you have just heard.

19. A) Respect their traditional culture.

B) Attend their business seminars. C) Research their specific demands. D) Adopt the right business strategies.

20. A) Showing them your palm.

B) Giving them gifts of great value.

C) Drinking alcohol on certain days of a month. D) Clicking your fingers loudly in their presence.

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21. A) They are very easy to satisfy.

B) They have a strong sense of worth. C)They tend to be friendly and enthusiastic. D)They have a break from 2:00 to 5:30 p. m

Questions 22 to 25 are based on the recording you have just heard.

22. A) He completely changed the company 's culture.

B) He collected paintings by world-famous artists. C) He took over the sales department of Reader’s Digest. D) He had the company's boardroom extensively renovated.

23. A) It should be sold at a reasonable price.

B) Its articles should be short and inspiring.

C) It should be published in the world's leading languages. D) Its articles should entertain blue- and pink-collar workers.

24. A) He knew how to make the magazine profitable.

B) He served as a church minister for many years. C) He suffered many setbacks and misfortunes in his life. D) He treated the employees like members of his family.

25. A) It carried many more advertisements.

B) George Grune joined it as an ad salesman. C) Several hundred of its employees got fired. D) Its subscriptions increased considerably.

Part Ⅲ

Reading Comprehension Section A

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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.

Did Sarah Josepha Hale write \，the eternal nursery rhyme (儿歌）about a girl named Mary with a stubborn lamb? This is still disputed, but it's clear that the woman (26)_______ for writing it was one of America's most fascinating (27)_______ .In honor of the poem's publication on May 24, 1830, here's more about the (28)_______ author's life.

Hale wasn’t just a writer, she was also a (29)_______ social advocate, and she was particularly (30)_______with an ideal New England, which she associated with abundant Thanksgiving meals that she claimed had \declared that would bring families together while celebrating the (32)_______ 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)_______ setting aside the last Thursday in November for the holiday.

The true authorship of \Society, Hale wrote only part of the poem, but claimed authorship. Regardless of the author, it seems that the poem was (34)_______ by a real event. When young Mary Sawyer was followed to school by a lamb in 1816，it caused some problems. A bystander named John Roulstone wrote a poem about the event, then, at some point, Hale herself seems to have helped write it. However, if a 1916 piece by her great-niece is to be trusted, Hale claimed for the (35)_______of her life that “some other people pretended that someone else wrote the poem”. 注意：此部分试题请在答题卡2上作答。

A)campaign F)inspired K) reputed

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B)career G)latter L) rest C)characters H)obsessed M) supposed D)features I) proclamation N) traditional E)fierce J)rectified O)versatile

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.

Grow Plants Without Water

[A] Ever since humanity began to farm our own food，we've faced the unpredictable rain that is both

friend and enemy. It comes and goes without much warning, and a field of lush (茂盛的）leafy greens one year can dry up and blow away the next. Food security and fortunes depend on sufficient rain, and nowhere more so than in Africa, where 96% of farmland depends on rain instead of the irrigation common in more developed places. It has consequences: South Africa’s ongoing drought—the worst in three decades—will cost at least a quarter of its corn crop this year.

[B] Biologist Jill Farrant of the University of Cape Town in South Africa says that nature has plenty of

answers for people who want to grow crops in places with unpredictable rainfall. She is hard at work finding a way to take traits from rare wild plants that adapt to extreme dry weather and use them in food crops. As the earth's climate changes and rainfall becomes even less predictable in some places, those answers will grow even more valuable. The type of farming I'm aiming for is literally so that people can survive as it's going to get more and more dry,\

[C] Extreme conditions produce extremely tough plants. In the rusty red deserts of South Africa, steep-

sided rocky hills called inselbergs rear up from the plains like the bones of the earth. The hills are remnants of an earlier geological era, scraped bare of most soil and exposed to the elements. Yet on these and similar formations in deserts around the world, a few fierce plants have adapted to endure under ever-changing conditions.

[D] Farrant calls them resurrection plants (复苏植物）.During months without water under a harsh sun,

they wither, shrink and contract until they look like a pile of dead gray leaves. But rainfall can revive

them in a matter of hours. Her time-lapse (间歇性拍摄的）videos of the revivals look like someone

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