说客英语带来了2023年12月英语六级考试真题（第二套），各位同学可以作为参考：

　　Part I Writing (30 minutes)

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

　　entitled The Way to Success by commenting on Abraham Lincoln's famous

　　remark, "Give me six hours to chop down a tree, and I will spend, the first

　　four sharpening the axe." You should write at least 150 words but no more

　　than 200 words.

　　The Way to Success

　　注意：此部分试题请在答题卡1 上作答。

　　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.

　　Google's Plan for World's Biggest Online Library: Philanthropy Or

　　Act of Piracy?

　　In recent years, teams of workers dispatched by Google have been

　　working hard to make digital copies of books. So far, Google has scanned

　　more than 10 million titles from libraries in America and Europe - including

　　half a million volumes held by the Bodleian in Oxford. The exact method it

　　uses is unclear; the company does not allow outsiders to observe the process.

　　Why is Google undertaking such a venture?

　　Why is it even interested in all those out-of-print library books, most of

　　which have been gathering dust on forgotten shelves for decades? The

　　company claims its motives are essentially public-spirited. Its overall

　　mission, after all, is to "organize the world's information", so it would be

　　odd if that information did not include books.

　　The company likes to present itself as having lofty aspirations. "This

　　really isn't about making money. We are doing this for the good of society."

　　As Santiago de la Mora, head of Google Books for Europe, puts it: "By

　　making it possible to search the millions of books that exist today, we hope

　　to expand the frontiers of human knowledge." Dan Clancy, the chief

　　architect of Google Books, does seem genuine in his conviction that this is

　　primarily a philanthropic (慈善旳) exercise. "Google's core business is

　　search and find, so obviously what helps improve Google's search engine is

　　good for Google," he says. "But we have never built a spreadsheet (电子数

　　据表) outlining the financial benefits of this, and I have never had to justify

　　the amount I am spending to the company's founders."

　　It is easy, talking to Clancy and his colleagues, to be swept along by

　　their missionary passion. But Google's book-scanning project is proving

　　controversial. Several opponents have recently emerged, ranging from rival

　　tech giants such as Microsoft and Amazon to small bodies representing

　　authors and publishers across the world. In broad terms, these opponents

　　have leveled two sets of criticisms at Google.

　　First, they have questioned whether the primary responsibility for

　　digitally archiving the world's books should be allowed to fall to a

　　commercial company. In a recent essay in the New York Review of Books,

　　Robert Danton, the head of Harvard University's library, argued that because

　　such books are a common resource – the possession of us all – only public,

　　not-for-profit bodies should be given the power to control them.

　　The second related criticism is that Google's scanning of books is

　　actually illegal. This allegation has led to Google becoming mired in (陷入)

　　D) They have lost their leading position in many ways.

　　58.What does the author say about the national data on UK universities'

　　performance in commercialization?

　　A) It masks the fatal weaknesses of government policy.

　　B) It does not rank UK universities in a scientific way.

　　C) It does not reflect the differences among universities.

　　D) It indicates their ineffective use of government resources.

　　59.We can infer from Paragraph 5 that "policy interventions" (Line 1, Para.

　　4) refers to _____.

　　A) government aid to non-research-oriented universities.

　　B) compulsory cooperation between universities and industries .

　　C) fair distribution of funding for universities and research institutions

　　D) concentration of resources in a limited number of universities

　　60.What does the author suggest research-led universities do?

　　A) Publicize their research to win international recognition.

　　B) Fully utilize their research to benefit all sectors of society.

　　C) Generously share their facilities with those short of funds.

　　D)Spread their influence among top research institutions.

　　61.How can the university sector play a key role in the UK's economic

　　growth?

　　A) By establishing more regional technology transfer offices.

　　B) By asking the government to invest in technology transfer research.

　　C) By promoting technology transfer and graduate school education.

　　D)By increasing the efficiency of technology transfer agencies.

　　Part V

　　Cloze

　　(15 minutes)

　　Directions: There are 20 blanks in the following passage. For each blank

　　there are four choices marked A), B), C) and D) on the right side of the

　　paper. You should choose the ONE that best fits into the passage. 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。

　　If you know where to find a good plastic-free shampoo, can you tell

　　Jeanne Hegel? Last September, the 28-year-old Chicago resident __62__ to

　　cut plastics out of her life. The marketing coordinator was concerned about

　　__63__ the chemicals coming out of some common types of plastic might be

　　doing to her body. She was also worried about the damage all the plastic

　　__64__ was doing to the environment. So she __65__ on her bike and rode

　　to the nearest grocery store to see what she could find that didn't __66__

　　plastic. "I went in and__67__ bought anything," Hegel says. She did __68__

　　some canned food and a carton (纸盒) of milk – to discover later that both

　　containers were __70__ with plastic resin (树脂). "Plastic," she says, "just

　　seemed like it was in everything."

　　She's right. Back in the 1960s, plastic was well __71__ its way to

　　becoming a staple of American life. The U.S. produced 28 million tons of

　　plastic waste in – 27 million tons of which __72__ in landfills (垃圾填埋

　　场). Our food and water come __73__ in plastic. It's used in our phones and

　　our computers, the cars we drive and the planes we ride in. But the __74__

　　adaptable substance has its dark side. Environmentalists feel worried about

　　the petroleum needed to make it. Parents worry about the possibility of

　　__75__ chemicals making their way from 76plastic into children's

　　although he knows a lot about the field.

　　84.He doesn't appreciate the sacrifice his friends have made for

　　him,______________________________ (把他们所做旳视作理所当然).

　　85. Janet told me that she would rather her mother

　　______________________________ (不干涉她旳婚姻).

　　86. To keep up with the expanding frontiers of scholarship, Edward Wilson

　　found himself______________________________ (常常上网查找信息).

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