2016年12月英语六级真题第3套

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2016年12月英语六级真题（第3套）

Part IWriting（30 minutes）

Directions:

For this part, you are allowed 30 minutes to write a short essay on

creation. Your essay should include the importance of creation and measures to

be taken to encourage creation. You are required to write at least 150words but

no more than 200words.

Part II Listening Comprehension （30 minutes）

（说明：由于2016年12月六级考试全国只出了2套听力，本套真题听力与前2套内容完全一样，只是

顺序不一样，因此在本套真题中不再重复出现）

Part III Reading Comprehension （40 minutes）

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.

Small communities, with their distinctive character—where life is stable and intensely

human—are disappearing. Some have 26 from the face of the earth, others are dying

slowly, but all have 27 changes as they have come into contact with an 28

machine civilization. The merging of diverse peoples into a common mass has produced

tension among members of the minorities and the majority alike.

The Old Order Amish, who arrived on American shores in colonial times, have 29 in

the modern world in distinctive, small communities. They have resisted the homogenization

30 more successfully than others. In planting and harvest time one can see their bearded

men working the fields with horses and their women hanging out the laundry in neat rows to

dry. Many American people have seen Amish families, with the men wearing broad-brimmed

black hats and the women in long dresses, in railway or bus 31 . Although the Amish

have lived with 32 America for over two and a half centuries, they have moderated its

influence on their personal lives, their families, communities, and their values.

The Amish are often 33 by other Americans to be relics of the past who live a

simple, inflexible life dedicated to inconvenient out-dated customs. They are seen as

abandoning both modern 34 and the American dream of success and progress. But most

people have no quarrel with the Amish for doing things the old-fashioned way. Their

conscientious objection was tolerated in wartime, for after all, they are good farmers

who 35 the virtues of work and thrift.

A）accessing

B）conveniences

C）destined

D）expanding

E）industrialized

F）perceived

G）practice

H）process

I）progress

J）respective

K）survived

L）terminals

M）undergone

N）universal

O）vanished

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.

Countries Rush for Upper Hand in Antarctica

[A] On a glacier-filled island with

fjords

（峡湾） and elephant seals, Russia has built

Antarctica’s first Orthodox church on a hill overlooking its research base. Less than an

hour away by snowmobile, Chinese labourers have updated the Great Wall Station, a vital

part of China’s plan to operate five bases on Antarctica, complete with an indoor

badminton court and sleeping quarters for 150 people. Not to be outdone, India’s

futuristic new Bharathi base, built on

stilts

（桩子） using 134 interlocking shipping

containers, resembles a spaceship. Turkey and Iran have announced plans to build bases,

too.

[B] More than a century has passed since explorers raced to plant their flags at the bottom

of the world, and for decades to come this continent is supposed to be protected as a

scientific preserve, shielded from intrusions like military activities and mining. But an

array of countries are rushing to assert greater influence here, with an eye not just

towards the day those protective treaties expire, but also for the strategic and commercial

opportunities that already exist.

[C] The newer players are stepping into what they view as a treasure house of resources.

Some of the ventures focus on the Antarctic resources that are already up for grabs, like

abundant sea life. South Korea, which operates state-of-the-art bases here, is increasing

its fishing of

krill

（磷虾） , found in abundance in the Southern Ocean, while Russia

recently frustrated efforts to create one of the world’s largest ocean sanctuaries here.

[D] Some scientists are examining the potential for harvesting icebergs from Antarctica,

which is estimated to have the biggest reserves of fresh water on the planet. Nations are

also pressing ahead with space research and satellite projects to expand their global

navigation abilities.

[E] Building on a Soviet-era foothold, Russia is expanding its monitoring stations for

Glonass, its version of the Global Positioning System （ GPS ） . At least three Russian

stations are already operating in Antarctica, part of its effort to challenge the dominance

of the American GPS, and new stations are planned for sites like the Russian base, in the

shadow of the Orthodox Church of the Holy Trinity.

[F] Elsewhere in Antarctica, Russian researchers boast of their recent discovery of a

freshwater reserve the size of Lake Ontario after drilling through miles of solid ice.

“You can see that we’re here to stay,” said Vladimir Cheberdak, 57, chief of the

Bellingshausen Station, as he sipped tea under a portrait of Fabian Gottlieb yon

Bellingshausen, a high-ranking officer in the Imperial Russian Navy who explored the

Antarctic coast in 1820.

[G] Antarctica’s mineral, oil and gas wealth are a longer-team prize. The treaty banning

mining here, shielding

coveted

（令人垂涎的）reserves of iron ore, coal and chromium, comes up

for review in 2048. Researchers recently found

kimberlite

（金伯利岩）deposits hinting at the

existence of diamonds. And while assessments vary widely, geologists estimate that

Antarctica holds at least 36 billion barrels of oil and natural gas.

[H] Beyond the Antarctic treaties, huge obstacles persist to tapping these resources, like

drifting icebergs that could jeopardise offshore platforms. Then there is Antarctica’s

remoteness, with some mineral deposits found in windswept locations on a continent that is

larger than Europe and where winter temperatures hover around minus 55 degrees Celsius.

[I] But advances in technology might make Antarctica a lot more accessible three decades

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