30. D) The accelerated pace of globlalisation。
31. B) Gain a deep understanding of their own culture。 32. C) The labour market is getting globalised。
33. B) Brown-haired women are rated as ore capabe。 34. A) They are shrewd dishonest。
35. C) They hinder our perception of individual differences。 Section C 36. derived 37. immense 38. convenient 39. accuracy 40. largely 41. instinct 42. recalls 43. texture
44. This means that any thought about a certain subject will often bring up more
memories that are related to it。
45. The associations do not have to be logical. They just have to make a good link。 46. If you remember the shape of Italy, it is because you have been told sometime
that Italy is shaped like a boot。
Part IV Reading Comprehension(Reading in Depth) (25minutes) 47. a driver’s attention
48. equivalent in difficulty to driving 49. more time
50. carful thinking/consideration 51. punishing
52. D) the shrinking primary care resources
53. C) the more doctors taking care of a patient, the better 54. A) see more patients at the expense of quality 55. B) The current system works against primary care
56. D) Bridge the salary gap between specialists and primary care physicians 57. B) The air quality around Berkeley’s school campuses is poor。 58. C) A heated debate。
59. D) They didn’t know who to believe。
60. D) Daily accidents pose a more serious threat to children。 61. A) the unceertain
Part V Cloze (15minutes) 62 B) launching 63 D) brands 64 B) condemn 65 A) in
66 C) industry 67 B) exclude 68 D) including
69 C) unnecessary 70 C) to
71 B) incentives 72 C) strategic 73 A) spokesman 74 D)underway 75 B) responsibility 76 B) on
77 C) minimize 78 C) so
79 C) individual 80 A) despite 81 D) tackle
Part VI Translation
(5 minutes)
82. It depends on how often you wear it
83. to be a challenge to many traditional concepts
84. could have attended the meeting in person (by himself) 85. balanced diet is essential to health 86. regretful did I feel
2010年6月英语六级真题
Part I Writing (30 minutes)
注意：此部分试题在答题卡1上。
Directions: For this part, you are allowed 30 minutes to write a short essay on the topic of Due Attention Should Be Given to the Study of Chinese. You should write at least 120 words following the outline given below:
1.近年来在学生中出现了忽视中文学习的现象； 2.出现这种现象的原因和后果； 3.我认为…
Due Attention Should Be Given to the Study of Chinese
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Part II Reading Comprehension (Skimming and Scanning) (15 minutes)
Directions: In this part, you will have 15 minutes to go over the passage quickly and answer the questions on Answer Sheet 1. For questions 1-7, choose the best answer from the four choices marked A), B), C) and D). For questions 8-10, complete the sentences
with the information given in the passage.
Obama's success isn't all good news for black Americans
As Erin White watched the election results head towards victory for Barack Obama, she felt a burden lifting from her shoulders. \whole race,\
\University in Nashville, Tennessee. \my mind questioning whether I really can be who I want. It was like a shadow, following me around saying you can only go so far. Now it's like a barrier has been let down.\
White's experience is what many psychologists had expected - that Obama would prove to be a powerful role model for African Americans. Some hoped his rise to prominence would have a big impact on white Americans, too, challenging those who still harbour racist sentiments. \racial stereotypes that black people are aggressive and uneducated,\Florida State University. \Sting in the tail
Ashby Plant is one of a number of psychologists who seized on Obama's candidacy to test hypotheses about the power of role models. Their work is already starting to reveal how the \is not all good news: there is a sting in the tail of the Obama effect.
But first the good news. Barack Obama really is a positive role model for African Americans, and he was making an impact even before he got to the White House. Indeed, the Obama effect can be surprisingly immediate and powerful, as Ray Friedman of Vanderbilt University and his colleagues discovered.
They tested four separate groups at four key stages of Obama's presidential campaign. Each group consisted of around 120 adults of similar age and education, and the test assessed their language skills. At two of these stages, when Obama's success was less than certain, the tests showed a clear difference between the scores of the white and black participants—an average of 12.1 out of 20, compared to 8.8, for example. When the Obama fever was at its height, however, the black participants performed much better. Those who had watched Obama's acceptance speech as the Democrats' presidential candidate performed just as well, on average, as the white subjects.After his election victory, this was true of all the black participants. Dramatic shift
What can explain this dramatic shift? At the start of the test, the participants had to declare their race and were told their results would be used to assess their strengths and weaknesses. This should have primed the subjects with \– an anxiety that their results will confirm negative stereotypes, which has been shown to damage the performance of African Americans.
Obama's successes seemed to act as a shield against this. \suspect they felt inspired and energised by his victory, so the stereotype threat wouldn't prove a distraction,\Lingering racism
If the Obama effect is positive for African Americans, how is it affecting their white compatriots (同胞)? Is the experience of having a charismatic (有魅力的) black president modifying lingering racist attitudes? There is no easy way to measure racism directly; instead psychologists assess what is known as \computer-based test that measures how quickly people associate positive and negative words—such as \—with photos of black or white faces. A similar test can also measure how quickly subjects associate stereotypical traits—such as athletic skills or mental ability—with a particular group.
In a study that will appear in the Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, Plant's team tested 229 students during the height of the Obama fever. They found that implicit bias has fallen by as much as 90% compared with the level found in a similar study in 2006. \
While the team can't be sure their results are due solely to Obama, they also showed that those with the lowest bias were likely to subconsciously associate black skin colour with political words such as \strongly on their mind, says Plant. Drop in bias
Brian Nosek of the University of Virginia in Charlottesville, who runs a website that measures implicit bias using similar test, has also observed a small drop in bias in the 700,000 visitors to the site since January 2007, which might be explained by Obama's rise
to popularity. However, his preliminary results suggest that change will be much slower coming than Plant's results suggest. Talking honestly
\Daniel Effron at Stanford University in California. \people may now be more likely to raise negative views of African Americans.\On the other hand, he says, it may just encourage people to talk more honestly about their feelings regarding race issues, which may not be such a bad thing.
Another part of the study suggests far more is at stake than the mere expression of views. The Obama effect may have a negative side. Just one week after Obama was elected president, participants were less ready to support policies designed to address racial inequality than they had been two weeks before the election. Huge obstacles
It could, of course, also be that Obama's success helps people to forget that a disproportionate number of black Americans still live in poverty and face huge obstacles when trying to overcome these circumstances. \(出色的) image, we generalise it and fail to see the larger picture—that there's injustice in every aspect of American life,\says Cheryl Kaiser of the University of Washington in Seattle. Those trying to address issues of racial inequality need to constantly remind people of the inequalities that still exist to counteract the Obama's effect, she says.
Though Plant's findings were more positive, she too warns against thinking that racism and racial inequalities are no longer a problem. \everything's solved.\
These findings do not only apply to Obama, or even just to race. They should hold for any role model in any country. \on our views of women if Hillary Clinton or Sarah Palin had been elected,\the election of a female leader might have a downside for other women. Beyond race
We also don't yet know how long the Obama effect—both its good side and its bad—will last.Political sentiment is notoriously changeable: What if things begin to go wrong for Obama, and his popularity slumps?
And what if Americans become so familiar with having Obama as their president that they stop considering his race altogether? \says Plant. This might seem like the ultimate defeat for racism, but ignoring the race of certain select individuals—a phenomenon that psychologists call subtyping—also has an insidious (隐伏的) side. \can still hold on to the previous stereotypes.\the twists to the Obama effect.
注意：此部分试题请在答题卡1上作答。
1. How did Erin White feel upon seeing Barack Obama's victory in the election? A) Excited. B) Victorious. C) Anxious. D) Relieved.
2. Before the election, Erin White has been haunted by the question of whether _____. A) she could obtain her MBA degree
B) she could go as far as she wanted in life C) she was overshadowed by her white peers D) she was really an achiever as a student 3. What is the focus of Ashby Plant's study? A) Racist sentiments in America. B) The power of role models.
C) Personality traits of successful blacks. D) The dual character of African Americans.
4. In their experiments, Ray Friedman and his colleagues found that ______. A) blacks and whites behaved differently during the election B) whites' attitude towards blacks has dramatically changed C) Obama's election has eliminated the prejudice against blacks
D) Obama's success impacted blacks' performance in language tests 5. What do Brian Nosek's preliminary results suggest? A) The change in bias against blacks is slow in coming. B) Bias against blacks has experienced an unusual drop.
C) Website visitor's opinions are far from being reliable. D) Obama's popularity may decline as time passes by. 6. A negative side of the Obama effect is that ______.
A) more people have started to criticise President Obama's racial policies B) relations between whites and African Americans may become tense again C) people are now less ready to support policies addressing racial inequality D) white people are likely to become more critical of African Americans
7. Cheryl Kaiser holds that people should be constantly reminded that ______. A) Obama's success is sound proof of black's potential B) Obama is but a rare example of black's excellence C) racial inequality still persists in American society D) blacks still face obstacles in political participation
8. According to Effron, if Hillary Clinton or Sarah Palin had been elected, there would also have been a negative effect on ______.
9. It is possible that the Obama effect will be short-lived if there is a change in people's ______.
10. The worst possible aspect of the Obama effect is that people could ignore his race altogether and continue to hold on to their old racial ______.
Part III Listening Comprehension (35 minutes) Section A
Directions: In this section, you will hear 8 short conversations and 2 long conversations. At the end of each conversation, one or more questions will be asked about what was said. Both the conversation and the questions will be spoken only once. After each question there will be a pause. During the pause, you must read the four choices marked A), B), C) and D), and decide which is the best answer. Then mark the corresponding letter on Answer Sheet 2 with a single line through the centre. 注意：此部分试题请在答题卡2上作答。 11. A) The man failed to keep his promise. B) The woman has a poor memory.
C) The man borrowed the book from the library. D) The woman does not need the book any more.
12. A) The woman is making too big a fuss about her condition. B) Fatigue is a typical symptom of lack of exercise. C) The woman should spend more time outdoors.
D) People tend to work longer hours with artificial lighting. 13.
A) The printing on her T-shirt has faded.
B) It is not in fashion to have a logo on a T-shirt. C) She regrets having bought one of the T-shirts. D) It is not a good idea to buy the T-shirt. 14.
A) He regrets having published the article. B) Most readers do not share his viewpoints. C) Not many people have read his article. D) The woman is only trying to console him. 15.
A) Leave Daisy alone for the time being. B) Go see Daisy immediately.
C) Apologize to Daisy again by phone. D) Buy Daisy a new notebook. 16.
A) Batteries. B) Garden tools. C) Cameras. D) Light bulbs. 17.
A) The speakers will watch the game together.