2018 年 6 月英语六级真题及答案 第三套 Part I Writing 30 minutes Directions For this part you are allowed 30minutes to write an essay on the importance of building trust between businesses and consumers You can cite examples to illustrate your views You should write at least 150 words but no more than 200 words The Importance of Building Trust Between Businesses and Consumers Today in the context of this era featured by increasing commercialization an d digitalization mutually trusted relations between businesses and consumers appear to be particularly important As for me businesses should take a leading role in establishing the trust relationship to be honest with their consumers Firstly if a business has a dishonest attitude toward its customers the customers will lack purchasing confidence in its goods or services which will bring huge economic loss to the business What s worse the adverse side effect of such dishonesty can endanger the business and it is impossible to recover The collapse of Sanlu Milk Powder Company is a testament to this Moreover the incident of poisonous milk has exerted devastating consequences on the whole milk powder market Be sides because of the proliferation of counterfeit goods more consumers lose confidence in domestic products and then they have no alternative but to resort to foreign brands which is one reason why cross border online shopping is gaining more and more popularity in China Therefore it is high time for us to strengthen the importance of maintaining trust between businesses and consumers to promote the healthy development t of the whole social economy Part II Listening Comprehension 30 minutes 说明 由于2018 年 6 月六级考试全国共考了两套听力 本套真题听力与前2 套内容相同 只是选项顺序 不同 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 center You may not use any of the words in the bank more than once Did Sarah Josepha Hale write Mary s Little Lamb 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 26for 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 a deep moral influence She began a nationwide 31 to have a national holiday 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 Mary s Little Lamb is disputed According to the New England Historical 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 A campaign B career C characters D features E fierce F inspired G latter H obsessed I proclamation J rectified K reputed L rest M supposed N traditional 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 unpred