2016年12月大学英语六级考试（第3套）

2016年12月大学英语六级考试（第3套）

Part I Writing (30 minutes)

Directions: For this part, you are allowed 30 minutes to write a short essay on innovation. Your essay should include the importance of creation and measures to be taken to encourage innovation. You are required to write at least 150 words but no more than 200 words.

（本次六级考试全国共考了两套听力，第三套的听力就是前面两套中的一套，故不在这里重复）

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.

The tree people in the Lord of the Rings—the Ents---can get around by walking. But for real trees, it’s harder to uproot. Because they’re literally rooted into the ground, they are unable to leave and go -26- .

When a tree first starts growing in a certain area, it’s likely that the -27- envelope—the temperature, humidity, rainfall patterns and so on—suits it. Otherwise, it would be unable to grow from a seedling. But as it -28-, these conditions may change and the area around it may no longer be suitable for its -29- .

When that happens, many trees like walnuts, oaks and pines, rely -30- on so-called “scatter hoarders,” such as birds, to move their seeds to new localities. Many birds like to store food for the winter, which they -31- retrieve. When the birds forget to retrieve their food---and they do sometimes—a seedling has a chance to grow. The bird Clark’s nutcracker, for example, hides up to 100,000 seeds per year, up to 30 kilometers away from the seed source, and has a very close symbiotic (共生的)relationship with several pine species, most 32 the whitebark pine.