2014年6月大学英语六级真题及答案完整版(10)

not be accepted by them inits entirety.

52.Swedish women are allowed thefreedom and opportunity to choose their own way of life.

53.Swedish employers are hesitantabout hiring women for full-time positions because of the family-friendly policies.

54.Gender-awareness education isbecoming more and more popular in state-subsidized preschools in Sweden.

55.Some lawmakers in Swedenpropose that genderless pronouns be used in the Swedish language.

Section C

Directions:There are 2 passages in this section. Each passage is followed by somequestions or unfinished statements. For each of them there are four choicesmarked A). B). C) and D). You should decide on the best choice and mark thecorresponding letter on Answer Sheet 2 with a single line through the centre. Passage One

Questions 56to 60 are based on the following passage.

Texting haslong been bemoaned (哀叹)as the downfall of the written word,””penmanship for illiter,”as one criticcalled it. To which the proper response is LOL.

Textingproperly isn′t writing at all. It′s a “spoken” language that is getting richer and more complexby the year.

First,somehistorical perspective. Writing was only invented 5,500 years ago. whereasIanguage probably traces back at least 80.000 years. Thus talking came first;writing is just a craft that came along later. As such, the first writing wasbased on the way people talk，with short sentences.

However,while talking is largely subconscious and rapid, writing is deliberate andslow, Over time,writers took advantage of this and started cratting long-windedsentences such as this one:The whole engagement lasted above 12 hours, till thegradual retreat of the Per trsians was changed into a disorderlyflight, of which the shameful example was given by the principal leaders and ”

No one talkslike that casually — or should. But it is natural to desire to do so forspecial occasions. In the old days, we didn’t much write like talking because therewas no mechanism to reproduce the speed of conversation. But texting andinstant messaging do — and a revolution has begun. It involves the crude mechanicsof writing, but in its economy, spontaneity and even vulgaritv. texting isactually a new kind