2013年6月六级考试真题（第三套）2013年6月六级考试真题（第三套）Part WritingDirections： For this part, you are allowed 30 minutes to write an essay commenting on the remark “Earth provides enough to satisfy every mans need, but not every mans greed.” You can cite examples to illustrate your point. You should write at least 150 words but no more than 200 words .Part II Listening Comprehension说明：2013年6月六级真题全国共考了两套听力。本套（即第三套）的听力内容与第二套的内容完全相同，只是选项的顺序不一样而已，故在本套中没有重复给出。Section ADirections： 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.Questions 36 to 45 are based on the following passage.Children are losing the ability to play properly because they are being given too many toys, according to a new research. The studies show that children especially those under five are often 36 and actually play less than those with fewer toys.“0ur studies show that giving children too many toys or toys of the 37 type can actually be doing them harm. They get spoiled and cannot 38 on any one thing long enough to learn from it”, said Lerner, a childhood development researcher. Her conclusions have been backed up by British research looking at children with 39 few toys, whose parents spend more time reading, singing or playing with them. It showed such children 40 youngsters from richer backgrounds even those who had access to computers.Kathy Sylva, professor of educational psychology at Oxford University, reached her 41 from a study of 3,000 children from the ages of three to five. In her opinion, there is a complex relationship between childrens progress, the type of toys they are given and the time parents spend on them. When the children have a large number of toys there seems to be a distraction element, and when children are 42 they do not learn or play well.Some parents notice the 43 early. Orhan Ismail, a researcher from Colchester, Essex, saw a change for the worse in Cameron, his 10-month-old son, after he was given 44 toys last Christmas. He observed that if there are too many toys in front of Cameron, he will just keep moving round them and then end up going away and finding something like a slipper to play with.Experts 45 to put a figure on the number of toys children should have, but many believe two dozen is enough for children of pre-school age. A) impactI) surpassB) concentrateJ) innumerableC) overwhelmedK) decisionsD) reasonablyL) inaccurateE) conclusionsM) relativelyF) exquisiteN) distractedG) embarrassedO) lagH) hesitateSection BDirections: 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.Norman Borlaug: “Father of the Green Revolution”A Few people have quietly changed the world for the better more than this rural lad from the midwestem state of Iowa in the United States. The man in focus is Norman Borlaug, the “Father of the Green Revolution”, who died on 12 September 2009 at age 95. Norman Borlaug spent most of his 60 working years in the farmlands of Mexico, South Asia and later in Africa, fighting world hunger, and saving by some estimates up to a billion lives in the process. An achievement, fit for a Nobel Peace Prize.Early YearsB “Im a product of the great depression” is how Borlaug described himself. A great-grandson of Norwegian immigrants to the United States, Borlaug was born in 1914 and grew up on a small farm in the northeastern comer of Iowa in a town called Cresco. His family had a 40-hectrare (公顷)farm on which they grew wheat, maize (玉米)and hay and raised pigs and cattle. Norman spent most of his time from age 7-17 on the farm, even as he attended a one-room, one-teacher school at New Oregon in Howard County.C Borlaug didnt have money to go to college. But through a Great Depression era programme, known as the National Youth Administration, Borlaug was able to enroll in University of Minnesota at Minneapolis to study forestry. He excelled in studies and received his PhD in plant pathology (病理学）and genetics in 1942.D From 1942 to 1944, Borlaug was employed as a microbiologist at DuPont in Wilmington. However, following the December 1941 attack on Pearl Harbor, Borlaug tried