Part Two 试卷部分
2003年12月
大学英语六级考试历年全真试卷
试卷一
Part Ⅰ
Listening Comprehension (20 minutes)
Section A
Directions:In this section,you will hear 10 short conversations,
At the end of each conversation,a question will be asked about what was said,B
oth the conversation and the question will be spoken only once,After each quest
ion there will be a pause,During the pause,you must read the four choices mark
ed A),B),C),and D),and decide which is the best answer,Then mark the corres
ponding letter on the Answer Sheet with a single line through the centre.
Example:You will hear:
You will read,
A) 2 hours,B) 3 hours.
C) 4 hours,D) 5 hours.
From the conversation,we know that the two were talking about some work they
will start at 9 o’clock in the morning and have to finish at 2 in the afternoon
,Therefore,D),5 hours” is the correct answer,You should choose ［D］ on th
e Answer Sheet and mark it with a single line through the centre,
[JY,3] Sample Answer ［A］ ［B］ ［C］ ［D］[KG-4.5mm]—[FK)]
1.A) She knows where Martha has gone,B) Martha will go to the concert by herself,C) It is quite possible for the man to find Martha.
D) The man is going to meet Martha at the concert.
2.A) The air pollution is caused by the development of industry.
B) The city was poor because there wasn’t much industry then.
C) The woman’s exaggerating the seriousness of the pollution.
D) He might move to another city very soon.
3.A) The man should work harder to improve his grades.
B) The man wil benefit from the effort he’s put in.
C) It serves the man right to get a poor grade.
D) It was unfair of the teacher to give the man a C.
4.A) She can make a reservation at the restaurant.
B) The man should decide where to eat.
C) She already has plans for Saturday night.
D) The man should ask his brother for suggestions.
5.A) The man deserved the award.B) The woman helped the man succeed.
C) The man is thankful to the woman for her assistance.D) The woman worked hard and was given an award.
6.A) Voluntary work can help the man establish connections with the community.
B) The man’s voluntary work has left him little room in his schedule.
C) Voluntary work with the environment council requires a time commitment.
D) A lot of people have signed up for voluntary work with the environment council.
7.A) The patient must receive treatment regularly.
B) The patient can’t leave the hospital until the bleeding stops.
C) The patient’s husband can attend to the business in her place.
D) The patient must take a good rest and forget about her business.
8.A) Alice does not know much about electronies.
B) Alice is unlikely to find a job anywhere.
C) Alice is not interested in anything but electronics.
D) Alice is likely to find a job in an electronics company.
9.A) Jimmy is going to set out tonight.
B) Jimmy has not decided on his journey.
C) There is no need to have a farewell dinner.
D) They may have a dinner when Jimmy’s back.
10.A) The woman had been planning for the conference.
B) The woman called the man but the line was busy.
C) The woman didn’t come back until midnight,
D) The woman had guests all evening.
Section B
Directions,In this section,you will hear 3 short passages,At th
e end of each passage,you will hear some questions,Both the passage and the q
uestions will be spoken only once,After you hear a question,you must choose th
e best answer from the four choices marked A),B),C) and D),Then mark the cor
responding letter on the Answer Sheet with a single line through the centre.
Passage One
Questions 11 to 13 are based on the passage you have just heard.
11.A) They are delighted because they can enjoy the scenery while driving.
B) They are frightened because traffic accidents are frequent.
C) They are irritated because the bridge is jammed with cars.
D) They are pleased because it saves them much time.
12.A) They don’t have their own cars to drive to work,
B) Many of them are romantic by temperament.
C) Most of them enjoy the drinks on the boat.
D) They tend to be more friendly to each other.
13.A) Many welcome the idea of having more bars on board.
B) Many prefer the ferry to maintain its present speed.
C) Some suggest improving the design of the deck.
D) Some object to using larger luxury boats.
Passage Two
Questions 14 to 16 are based on the passage you have just heard.
14.A) Coca ColaB) Sausage,C) Milk,D) Fried chicken.
15.A) He has had thirteen decayed teeth.
B) He doesn’t have a single decayed tooth.
C) He has fewer decayed teeth than other people of his age.
D) He never had a single tooth pulled out before he was fifty.
16.A) Brush your teeth right before you go to bed in the evening.
B) Have as few of your teeth pulled out as possible.
C) Have your teeth X-rayed at regular intervals.
D) Clean your teeth shortly after eating.
Passage Three
Questions 17 to 20 are based on the passage you have just heard.
17.A) A visit to a prison,B) The influence of his father.
C) A talk with some miserable slaves,D) His expericence in the war between France and Austria.
18.A) He sent surgeons to serve in the army.
B) He provided soldiers with medical supplies.
C) He recruited volunteers to care for the wounded.
D) He helped to free the prisoners of war.
19.A) All men are created equal.
B) The wounded and dying should be treated for free.
C) A wounded soldier should surrender before he receives any medical treatment.
D) A suffering person is entitled to help regardless of race,religion or political beliefs.
20.A) To honor Swiss heroes who died in the war.
B) To show Switzerland was neutral.
C) To pay tribute to Switzerland.
D) To show gratitude to the Swiss government for its financial support.
Part Ⅱ
Reading Comprehension (35 minutes)
Directions,There are four passages in this part,Each passage is
followed by some questions or unfinished statements,For each of them there are
four choices marked A),B),C) and D),You should decide on the best choice and
mark the corresponding letter on the Answer Sheet with a single line through the
centre.
Passage One
Questions 21 to 25 are based on the following passage.
For years,doctors advised their patients that the only thing taking multivi
tamins does is give them extensive urine (尿),After all,true vitamin deficienc
ies are practically unheard of in industrialized countries,Now it seems those d
octors may have been wrong,The results of a growing number of studies suggest t
hat even a modest vitamin shortfall can be harmful to your health,Although proo
f of the benefits of multivitamins is still far from certain,the few dollars yo
u spend on them is probably a good investment.
Or at least that’s the argument put forward in the New England Journal of Me
dicine,Ideally,say Dr,Walter Willett and Dr,Meir Stampfer of Harvard,all vi
tamin supplements would be evaluated in scientifically rigorous clinical trials.
But those studies can take a long time and often raise more questions than they
answer,At some point,while researchers work on figuring out where the truth l
ies,it just makes sense to say the potential benefit outweighs the cost.
The best evidence to date concerns folate,one of the B vitamins,It’s been
proved to limit the number of defects in embryos ( 胚胎 ),and a recent trial fo
und that folate in combination with vitamin B 12 and a form of B6 also decreases
the re-blockage of arteries after surgical repair.
The news on vitamin E has been more mixed,Healthy folks who take 400 intern
ational units daily for at least two years appear somewhat less likely to develo
p heart disease,But when doctors give vitamin E to patients who already have he
art disease,the vitamin doesn’t seem to help,It may turn out that vitamin E pl
ays a role in prevention but cannot undo serious damage.
Despite vitamin C’s great popularity,consuming large amounts of it still ha
s not been positively linked to any great benefit,The body quickly becomes satu
rated with C and simply excretes ( 排泄 ) any excess.
The multivitamins question boils down to this,Do you need to wait until all
the evidence is in before you take them,or are you willing to accept that ther
e’s enough evidence that they don’t hurt and could help?
If the latter,there’s no need to go to extremes and buy the biggest horse
pills or the most expensive bottles,Large doses can cause trouble,including ex
cessive bleeding and nervous system problems.
Multivitamins are no substitute for exercise and a balanced diet,of course.
As long as you understand that any potential benefit is modest and subject to f
urther refinement,taking a daily multivitamin makes a lot of sense.
21,At one time doctors discouraged taking multivitamins because they believed that multivitamins____.
A) could not easily be absorbed by the human body
B) were potentially harmful to people’s health
C) were too expensive for daily consumption
D) could not provide any cure for vitamin deficiencies
22,According to the author,clinical trials of vitamin supplements____.
A) often result in misleading conclusions
B) take time and will not produce conclusive results
C) should be conducted by scientists on a larger scale
D) appear to be a sheer waste of time and resources
23,It has been found that vitamin E____.
A) should be taken by patients regularly and persistently
B) can effectively reduce the recurrence of heart disease
C) has a preventive but not curative effect on heart disease
D) should be given to patients with heart disease as early as possible
24,It can be seen that large doses of multivitamins____.
A) may bring about serious side effects
B) may help prevent excessive bleeding
C) are likely to induce the blockage of arteries
D) are advisable for those with vitamin deficiencies
25,The author concludes the passage with the advice that____.
A) the benefit of daily multivitamin intake outweighs that of exercise and a
balanced diet
B) it’s risky to take multivitamins without knowing their specific function
C) the potential benefit of multivitamins can never be overestimated
D) it’s reasonable to take a rational dose of multivitamins daily
Passage Two
Questions 26 to 30 are based on the following passage.
Some futurologists have assumed that the vast upsurge ( 剧增 ) of women in t
he workforce may portend a rejection of marriage,Many women,according to this
hypothesis,would rather work than marry,The converse ( 反面 ) of this concern
is that the prospects of becoming a multi-paycheck household could encourage mar
riages,In the past,only the earnings and financial prospects of the man counte
d in the marriage decision,Now,however,the earning ability of a woman can mak
e her more attractive as a marriage partner,Data show that economic downturns t
end to postpone marriage because the parties cannot afford to establish a family
or are concerned about rainy days ahead,As the economy rebounds,the number of
marriages also rises.
Coincident with the increase in women working outside the home is the increa
se in divorce rates,Yet,it may be wrong to jump to any simple cause-and-effect
conclusions,The impact of a wife’s work on divorce is no less cloudy than its
impact on marriage decisions,The realization that she can be a good provider ma
y increase the chances that a working wife will choose divorce over an unsatisfa
ctory marriage,But the reverse is equally plausible,Tensions grounded in finan
cial problems often play a key role in ending a marriage,Given high unemploymen
t,inflationary problems,and slow growth in real earnings,a working wife can i
ncrease household income and relieve some of these pressing financial burdens,B
y raising a family’s standard of living,a working wife may strengthen her famil
y’s financial and emotional stability.
Psychological factors also should be considered,For example,a wife blocked
from a career outside the home may feel caged in the house,She may view her only choice as seeking a divorce.
On the other hand,if she can find fulfillment through work outside the home,wo
rk and marriage can go together to create a stronger and more stable union.
Also,a major part of women’s inequality in marriage has been due to the fac
t that,in most cases,men have remained the main breadwinners,With higher earning capacity and status occupations outside of the home comes the capacity to exercise power wit
hin the family,A working wife may rob a husband of being the master of the hou
se,Depending upon how the couple reacts to these new conditions,it could creat
e a stronger equal partnership or it could create new insecurities.
26,The word,portend” (Line 2,Para,1) is closest in meaning to, ____”,
A) defy C) suffer from
B) signal D) result from
27,It is said in the passage that when the economy slides,____.
A) men would choose working women as their marriage partners
B) more women would get married to seek financial security
C) even working women would worry about their marriages
D) more people would prefer to remain single for the time being
28,If women find fulfillment through work outside the home,____.
A) they are more likely to dominate their marriage partners
B) their husbands are expected to do more housework
C) their marriage ties can be strengthened
D)they tend to put their career before marriage
29,One reason why women with no career may seek a divorce is that____.
A) they feel that they have been robbed of their freedom
B) they are afraid of being bossed around by their husbands
C) they feel that their partners fail to live up to their expectations
D) they tend to suspect their husbands’ loyalty to their marriage
30,Which of the following statements can best summarize the author’s view in the passage?
A) The stability of marriage and the divorce rate may reflect the economic situa
tion of the country.
B) Even when economically independent,most women have to struggle for real equa
lity in marriage.
C) In order to secure their marriage women should work outside the home and rema
in independent
D) The impact of the growing female workforce on marriage varies from case to ca
se.
Passage Three
Questions 31 to 35 are based on the following passage.
For most thinkers since the Greek philosophers,it was self-evident that the
re is something called human nature,something that constitutes the essence of m
an,There were various views about what constitutes it,but there was agreement
that such an essence exists -- that is to say,that there is something by virtue
of which man is man,Thus man was defined as a rational being,as a social anim
al,an animal that can make tools,or a symbol-making animal.
More recently,this traditional view has begun to be questioned,One reason
for this change was the increasing emphasis given to the historical approach to
man,An examination of the history of humanity suggested that man in our epoch i
s so different from man in previous times that it seemed unrealistic to assume t
hat men in every age have had in common something that can be called,human natu
re.” The historical approach was reinforced,particularly in the United States,
by studies in the field of cultural anthropology ( 人类学 ),The study of primit
ive peoples has discovered such a diversity of customs,values,feelings,and th
oughts that many anthropologists arrived at the concept that man is born as a bl
ank sheet of paper on which each culture writes its text,Another factor contrib
uting to the tendency to deny the assumption of a fixed human nature was that th
e concept has so often been abused as a shield behind which the most inhuman act
s are committed,In the name of human nature,for example,Aristotle and most th
inkers up to the eighteenth century defended slavery,Or in order to prove the r
ationality and necessity of the capitalist form of society,scholars have tried
to make a case for acquisitiveness,competitiveness,and selfishness as innate (
天生的 ) human traits,Popularly,one refers cynically to,human nature” in acc
epting the inevitability of such undesirable human behavior as greed,murder,ch
eating and lying.
Another reason for skepticism about the concept of human nature probably lie
s in the influence of evolutionary thinking,Once man came to be seen as develop
ing in the process of evolution,the idea of a substance which is contained in h
is essence seemed untenable,Yet I believe it is precisely from an evolutionary
standpoint that we can expect new insight into the problem of the nature of man.
31,The traditional view of,human nature” was strongly challenged by____.
A) the emergence of the evolutionary theory
B) the historical approach to man
C) new insight into human behavior
D) the philosophical analysis of slavery
32,According to the passage,anthropologists believe that human beings____
A) have some traits in common
B) are born with diverse cultures
C) are born without a fixed nature
D) change their characters as they grow up
33,The author mentioned Aristotle,a great ancient thinker,in order to____
A) emphasize that he contributed a lot to defining the concept of,human
nature”
B) show that the concept of,human nature” was used to justify social ev
ils
C) prove that he had a profound influence on the concept of,human natur
e”
D) support the idea that some human traits are acquired
34,The word,untenable” (Line 3) in the last paragraph of the passage most prob
ably means____
A) invaluable C) changeable
B) imaginable D) indefensible
35,Most philosophers believed that human nature____
A) is the quality distinguishing man from other animals
B) consists of competitiveness and selfishness
C) is something partly innate and partly acquired
D) consists of rationality and undesirable behavior
Passage Four
Questions 36 to 40 are based on the following passage.
Richard Satava,program manager for advanced medical technologies,has been
a driving force in bringing virtual reality to medicine,where computers create
a,virtual” or simulated environment for surgeons and other medical practitioner
s ( 从业者 ).
,With virtual reality we’ll be able to put a surgeon in every trench,” said
Satava,He envisaged a time when soldiers who are wounded fighting overseas are
put in mobile surgical units equipped with computers.
The computers would transmit images of the soldiers to surgeons back in the
U.S,The surgeons would look at the soldier through virtual reality helmets ( 头盔) that contain a small screen displaying the image of the wound,The doctors w
ould guide robotic instruments in the battlefield mobile surgical unit that oper
ate on the soldier,
Although Satava’s vision may be years away from standard operating procedure
,scientists are progressing toward virtual reality surgery,Engineers at an int
ernational organization in California are developing a tele-operating device,As
surgeons watch a three-dimensional image of the surgery,they move instruments
that are connected to a computer,which passes their movements to robotic instru
ments that perform the surgery,The computer provides feedback to the surgeon o
n force,textures,and sound.
These technological wonders may not yet be part of the community hospital se
tting but increasingly some of the machinery is finding its way into civilian me
dicine,At Wayne State University Medical School,surgeon Lucia Zamorano takes i
mages of the brain from computerized scans and uses a computer program to produc
e a 3-D image,She can then maneuver the 3-D image on the computer screen to map
the shortest,least invasive surgical path to the tumor (肿瘤),Zamorano is als
o using technology that attaches a probe to surgical instruments so that she can
track their positions,While cutting away a tumor deep in the brain,she watche
s the movement of her surgical tools in a computer graphics image of the patient
’s brain taken before surgery.
During these procedures — operations that are done through small cuts in th
e body in which a miniature camera and surgical tools are maneuvered -- surgeons
are wearing 3-D glasses for a better view,And they are commanding robot surgeo
ns to cut away tissue more accurately than human surgeons can.
Satava says,“We are in the midst of a fundamental change in the field of me
dicine.”
36,According to Richard Satava,the application of virtual reality to medicine
____
A) will enable surgeons to be physically present on every battlefield
B) can raise the spirits of soldiers wounded on the battlefield
C) will greatly improve medical conditions on the battlefield
D) can shorten the time for operations on soldiers wounded on the battlefield
37,Richard Satava has visions of____
A) using a remote-control technique to treat wounded soldiers fighting overseas
B) wounded soldiers being saved by doctors wearing virtual reality helmets on th
e battlefield
C) wounded soldiers being operated on by specially trained surgeons
D) setting up mobile surgical units overseas
38,How is virtual reality surgery performed?
A) It is performed by a computer-designed high precision device.
B) Surgeons wear virtual reality helmets to receive feedback provided by a c
omputer.
C) Surgeons move robotic instruments by means of a computer linked to them.
D) A 3-D image records the movements of the surgeons during the operation.
39,During virtual reality operations,the surgeon can have a better view of the
cuts in the body because ____.
A) he is looking at the cuts on a computer screen
B) the cuts can be examined from different angles
C) the cuts have been highly magnified
D) he is wearing 3-D glasses
40,Virtual reality operations are an improvement on conventional surgery in that they
A) cause less pain to the wounded
B) allow the patient to recover more quickly
C) will make human surgeons’ work less tedious
D) are done by robot surgeons with greater precision
Part Ⅲ
Vocabulary (20 minutes)
Directions,There are 30 incomplete sentences in this part.For each sentence there are four choices marked A),B),C) and D).Choose the ONE that b
est completes the sentence.Then mark the corresponding letter on the Answer Shee
t with a single line through the centre.
41,He suggested that we put the scheme into effect,for it is quite____.
A) probable B) sustainable
C) feasible D) eligible
42,This book is about how these basic beliefs and values affect important____ of American life.
A) facets C) formulas
B) formats D) fashions
43,It is one thing to locate oil,but it is quite another to ____ and transport it to the industrial centers.
A) permeate C) distinguish
B) extract D) concentrate
44,Students are expected to be quiet and ____ in an Asian classroom.
A) obedient C) skeptical
B) overwhelming D) subsidiary
45,Our reporter has just called to say that rescue teams will ____ to bring o
ut the trapped miners.
A) effect C) conceive
B) affect D) endeavour
46,The Spanish team,who are not in superb form,will be doing their best next
week to____
themselves on the German team for last year’s defeat.
A) remedy C) revive
B) reproach D) revenge
47,Creating so much confusion,Mason realized he had better make ____ what he
was trying
to tell the audience.
A) exclusive C) objective
B) explicit D) obscure
48,One of the examination questions____ me completely and I couldn’t answer it
.
A) baffled C) provoked
B) mingled D) diverted
49,The vision of that big black car hitting the sidewalk a few feet from us wil
l never be____from my memory.
A) ejected C) erased
B) escaped D) omitted
50,At present,it is not possible to confirm or to refute the suggestion that t
here is a causal relationship between the amount of fat we eat and the____ of h
eart attacks.
A) incidence C) rupture
B) impetus D) emergence
51,There are many who believe that the use of force____ political ends can ne
ver be justified.
A) in search of C) in view of
B) in pursuit of D) in light of
52,Sometimes the bank manager himself is asked to ____ cheques if his clerks are not sure about them.
A) credit C) certify
B) assure D) access
53,It is believed that the authorities are thinking of ____ new taxes to raise
extra revenue.
A) impairing C) invading
B) imposing D) integrating
54,When she heard the bad news,her eyes ____ with tears as she struggled to c
ontrol her emotions.
A) sparkled C) radiated
B) twinkled D) glittered
55,There are occasions when giving a gift ____ spoken communication,since the
message it offers can cut through barriers of language and cultural diversity.
A) overtakes C) surpasses
B) nourishes D) enforces
56,In order to keep the line moving,customers with lengthy ____ are required to do their banking inside.
A) transitB) transactionsC) turnoverD) tempos
57,President Wilson attempted to ____ between the powers to end the war,but neither side was prepared to give in.
A) segregate B) whirlC) compromiseD) mediate
58,The police have installed cameras at dangerous road ____ to film those who drive through red traffic lights.
A) trenches C) pavementsB) utiltiesD) junctions
59,It is reported that thirty people were killed in a ____ on the railway yesterday.
A) collision B) collaborationC) corrosionD) confrontation
60,Since a circle has no beginning or end,the wedding ring is accepted as a symbol of ____ love.
A) successiveB) consecutiveC)eternalD) insistent
61,Executives of the company enjoyed an ____ lifestyle of free gifts,fine wines and high salaries.
A) exquisite B) extravagantC) exoticD) eccentric
62,If you want to get into that tunnel,you first have to ____ away all the rocks.
A) haulB) repelC) disposeD) snatch
63,Some crops are relatively high yielders and could be planted in preference to others to ____ the food supply.
A) enhanceC) disruptB) curbD) heighten
64,Astronomers at the University of California discovered one of the most dista
nt____.
A) paradoxes C) galaxies
B) paradises D) shuttles
65,Many great scientists ____ their success to hard work.
A) portray C) impart
B) ascribe D) acknowledge
66,The sign set up by the road ____ drivers to a sharp turn.
A) alerts C) pleads
B) refreshes D) diverts
67,The doctors don’t____ that the patient will live much longer.
A) monitor C) articulate
B) manifest D) anticipate
68,Call your doctor for advice if the____ persist for more than a few days.
A) responses C) symptoms
B) signals D) reflections
69,We find it impossible to____ with the latest safety regulations.
A) accord C) obey
B) unify D) comply
70,Professor Smith and Professor Brown will ____ in presenting the series of lectures on American literature.
A) alter C) substitute
B) alternate D) exchange
试卷二
Part Ⅳ
Error Correction (15 minutes )
Directions:This part consists of a short passage,hz this passage,there are altogether IO mis-takes,one in each numbered line,You may have to change ti word,add a word or delete a word,Mark out the mistakes and put the corrections in the blanks provi
ded,lf you change a word,cross it out and write the correct word in the correspondi
ng blank,If you add a word,put an insertion mark ( ^ ) in the right place and wri
te the missing word in the blank,lf you delete a word,cross Rout and put a slash (/)
in tile blank.
Example：
〖DZ(22，6〗Television is rapidly becoming the literature of our periods[KG-1]/,Many of the arguments having[KG-1]/ [KG*2]used for the study of literature as a school subject are valid for ∧ study of television.[]
1,____time/times/period____
2.____/____
3.____the____[DZ)]
Thomas Malthus published his,Essay on the Principle
of Population” almost 200 years ago,Ever since then,
forecasters have being warning that worldwide famine was S1____
just around the next corner,The fast-growing population’s
demand for food,they warned,would soon exceed their S2____
supply,leading to widespread food shortages and starvation.
But in reality,the world’s total grain harvest has risen
steadily over the years,Except for relative isolated trouble S3____
spots like present-day Somalia,and occasional years of
good harvests,the world’s food crisis has remained just S4____
around the corner,Most experts believe this can continue
even as if the population doubles by the mid-21st century,S5____
although feeding 10 billion people will not be easy for
politics,economic and environmental reasons,Optimists S6____
point to concrete examples of continued improvements
in yield,In Africa,by instance,improved seed,more S7____
fertilizer and advanced growing practices have more than
double corn and wheat yields in an experiment,Elsewhere,S8____
rice experts in the Philippines are producing a plant with few S9____
stems and more seeds,There is no guarantee that plant
breeders can continue to develop new,higher-yielding
crop,but most researchers see their success to date as reason S10____
for hope.
Part Ⅴ
Writing (30 minutes)
Directions,In this section you are required to write a composition on the topic Reduce Waste on Campus,You should write at least 150 words and base your composition on the outline given in Chinese below:
1,目前有些校园内浪费现象严重；
2,浪费的危害；
3,从我做起，杜绝浪费。
Reduce Waste on Campus
Part Two 试卷部分
2003年9月
大学英语六级考试历年全真试卷
Part Ⅰ
Listening Comprehension(20 minutes)
Section A
Directions:In this section,you will hear 10 short conversations,At the end of each conversation,a question will be asked about what was said,Both the conversation and the question will be spoken only once,After each question there will be a pause,During the pause,you must read the four choices marked A),B),C),and D),and decide which is the best answer,Then mark the correspondin
g letter on the Answer Sheet with a single line through the centre.\=
Example:You will hear:
You will read,
A) 2 hours,B) 3 hours,C) 4 hours.
D) 5 hours,
From the conversation,we know that the two were talking about some work they wi
ll start at 9’ o’clock in the morning and have to finish at 2 in the afternoon,
Therefore,D),5 hours” is the correct answer,You should choose ［D］ on the
Answer Sheet and mark it with a single line through the centre, Sample Answer ［A］ ［B］ ［C］ ［D］[KG-4.5mm]—[FK)]
1,A) The lecture for next Monday is cancelled,
B) The lecture wasn’t as successful as expected.
C) The woman doesn’t want to attend the lecture.
D) The woman may attend next Monday’s lecture.
2,A) The woman has a very tight budget.
B) He does not think the fur coat is worth buying.
C) He’s willing to lend the woman money for the fur coat.
D) The woman is not careful enough in planning her spending.
3,A) Clean the kitchen.
B) Ask someone to fix the sink.
C) Find a bigger apartment for the lady.
D) Check the work done by the maintenance man.
4,A) The lens,B) The price.
C) The flash.D) The leather case.
5,A) She needs another haircut soon.
B) She thinks it worthwhile to try Sadermale’s.
C) She knows a less expensive place for a haircut.
D) She would like to make an appointment for the man.
6,A) The woman doesn’t want to cook a meal.
B) The woman wants to have a picnic.
C) The woman has a poor memory.
D) The woman likes Mexican food.
7,A) Everyone enjoyed himself at John’s panics.B) The woman didn’t enjoy John’s parties at all.
C) It will be the first time for the man to attend John’s party.
D) The woman is glad to be invited to John’s house-warming party.
8,A) She lacks confidence in herself.
B) She is not interested in computer programming.
C) She has never signed up for any competition before.
D) She is sure to win the programming contest.
9,A) The man has an enormous amount of work to do.
B) The man has made plans for his vacation.
C) The man’ll take work with him on his vacation.
D) Work stacked up during the man’s last vacation.
10,A) She likes the job of feeding fish.
B) She finds her new job interesting.
C) She feels unfit for her new job.
D) She’s not in good health.
Section B
Directions:In this section,you will hear 3 short passages,At the end o
f each passage,you will hear some questions,Both the passage and the questions
will be spoken only once,After you hear a question,you must choose the best a
nswer from the four choices marked A),B),C) and D),Then mark the correspondin
g letter on the Answer Sheet with a single line through the centre.
Passage One
Questions 11 to 13 are based on the passage you have just heard.
11.A) Rally support for their movement.
B) Liberate women from tedious housework.
C) Claim their rights to equal job opportunities.
D) Express their anger against sex discrimination.
12,A) It will bring a lot of trouble to the local people.
B) It is a popular form of art.
C) It will spoil the natural beauty of their surroundings.
D) It is popular among rock stars.
13,A) To show that mindless graffiti can provoke violence.
B) To show that Londoners have a special liking for graffiti.
C) To show that graffiti,in some cases,can constitute a crime.
D) To show that graffiti can make the environment more colorful.
Passage Two
Questions 14 to 16 are based on the passage you have just heard.
14,A) The Asian elephant is easier to tame.
B) The Asian elephant’s skin is more valuable.
C) The Asian elephant is less popular with tourists.
D) The Asian elephant produces ivory of a better quality.
15.A) From the captured or tamed elephants.
B) From the British wildlife protection group.
C) From elephant hunters in Thailand and Burma.
D) From tourists visiting the Thai-Burmese border.
16,A) Their taming for circuses and zoos.
B) The destruction of their natural homes.
C) Man’s lack of knowledge about their behavior.
D) The greater vulnerability to extinction than other species.
Passage Three
Questions 17 to 20 are based on the passage you have just heard.
17,A) They had lost their jobs as a result of the Industrial Revolution.
B) They had been suffering from political and religious oppression.
C) They wanted to flee from the widespread famine in Northern Europe.
D) They wanted to make a fortune there by starting their own businesses.
18,A) They might lose control of their members because of the increase in immigration.
B) Their members might find it difficult to get along with the newcomers.
C) The working condition of their members might deteriorate.
D) Their members might lose their jobs to the newcomers.
19,A) To impose restrictions on further immigration.
B) To improve the working conditions of immigrants.
C) To set a minimum wage level for new immigrants.
D) To put requirements on languages for newcomers.
20,A) They were looked down upon by European immigrants.
B) They had a hard time seeking equal job opportunities.
C) They worked very hard to earn a decent living.
D) They strongly opposed continued immigration.
Part Ⅱ
Reading Comprehension (35 minutes)
Directions,There are four passages in this part,Each passage is
followed by some questions or unfinished statements,For each of them there are
four choices marked A),B),C) and D),You should decide on the best choice and
mark the corresponding letter on the Answer Sheet with a single line through the
centre.
Passage One
Questions 21 to 25 are based on the following passage.
In 1985 when a Japan Air Lines (JAL) jet crashed,its president,Yasumoto Takagi,called each
victim’s family to apologize,and then promptly resigned,And in 1987,when a subsidiary of
Toshiba sole sensitive military technology to the former Soviet Union,the chairman of Toshiba
gave up his post.
These executive actions,which Toshiba calls,the highest form of apology,” may seem bizarre to
US managers,No one at Boeing resigned after the JAL crash,which may have been caused by a
faulty Boeing repair.
The difference between the two business cultures centers around different definitions of delegation,
While US executives give both responsibility and authority to their employees,Japanese
executives delegate only authority—the responsibility is still theirs,Although the subsidiary that
sold the sensitive technology to the Soviets had its own management,the Toshiba top executives
said they,must take personal responsibility for not creating an atmosphere throughout the Toshiba
group that would make such activity unthinkable,even in an independently run subsidiary.”
Such acceptance of community responsibility is not unique to businesses in Japan,School
principals in Japan have resigned when their students committed major crimes after school hours,
Even if they do not quit,Japanese executives will often accept primary responsibility in other
ways,such as taking the first pay cut when a company gets into financial trouble,Such personal
sacrifices,even if they are largely symbolic,help to create the sense of community and employee
loyalty that is crucial to the Japanese way of doing business.
Harvard Business School professor George Lodge calls the ritual acceptance of blame,almost a
feudal (封建的) way of purging (清除) the community of dishonor,” and to some in the United
States,such resignations look cowardly,However,in an era in which both business and
governmental leaders seem particularly good at evading responsibility,many US managers would
probably welcome an infusion (灌输) of the Japanese sense of responsibility,If,for instance,US
automobile company executives offered to reduce their own salaries before they asked their
workers to take pay cuts,negotiations would probably take on a very different character.
21,Why did the chairman of Toshiba resign his position in 1987?
A) Because in Japan,the leakage of a state secret to Russians is a grave crime.
B) Because he had been under attack for shifting responsibility to his subordinates.
C) Because in Japan,the chief executive of a corporation is held responsible for the mistake made by its subsidiaries.
D) Because he had been accused of being cowardly towards crises that were taking place in his
corporation.
22.According to the passage if you want to be a good manager in Japan,you have to ____.
A) apologize promptly for your subordinates’ mistakes
B) be skillful in accepting blames from customers
C) make symbolic sacrifices whenever necessary
D) create a strong sense of company loyalty
23.What’s Professor George Lodge’s attitude towards the resignations of Japanese corporate leaders?
A) Sympathetic,C) Critical.B) Biased,D) Approving.
24,Which of the following statements is TRUE?
A) Boeing had nothing to do with the JAL air crash in 1985.
B) American executives consider authority and responsibility inseparable.
C) School principals bear legal responsibility for students’ crimes.
D) Persuading employees to take pay cuts doesn’t help solve corporate crises.
25.The passage is mainly about ____.
A) resignation as an effective way of dealing with business crises
B) the importance of delegating responsibility to employees
C) ways of evading responsibility in times of crises
D) the difference between two business cultures
Passage Two
Questions 26 to 30 are based on the following passage.
As machines go,the car is not terribly noisy,nor terribly polluting,nor terribly dangerous; and on
all those dimensions it has become better as the century has grown older,The main problem is its
prevalence,and the social costs that ensue from the use by everyone of something that would be
fairly harmless if,say,only the rich were to use it,It is a price we pay for equality.
Before becoming too gloomy,it is worth recalling why the car has been arguably the most
successful and popular product of the whole of the past 100 years—and remains so,The story
begins with the environmental improvement it brought in the 1900s,In New York city in 1900,
according to the Car Culture,a 1975 book by J,Flink,a historian,horses deposited 2.5 million
pounds of manure(粪)and 60,000 gallons of urine (尿) every day,Every year,the city aut horities
had to remove an average of 15,000 dead horses from the streets,it made cars smell of roses.
Cars were also wonderfully flexible,The main earlier solution to horse pollution and traffic jams
was the electric trolley bus (电车),But that required fixed overhead wires,and rails and platforms,
which were expensive,ugly,and inflexible,The car could go from any A to any B,and allowed
towns to develop in all directions with low-density housing,rather than just being concentrated
along the trolley or rail lines,Rural areas benefited too,for they became less remote.
However,since pollution became a concern in the 1950s,experts have predicted—wrongly—that
the car boom was about to end,In his book Mr,Flink argued that by 1973 the American market
had become saturated,at one car for every 2.25 people,and so had the markets of Japan and
Western Europe (because of land shortages),Environmental worries and diminishing oil reserves
would prohibit mass car use anywhere else.
He was wrong,Between 1970 and 1990,whereas America’s population grew by 23%,the number
of cars on its roads grew by 60%,There is now one car for every 1.7 people there,one for every
2.1 in Japan,one for every 5.3 in Britain,Around 550 million cars are already on the roads,not to
mention all the trucks and mocorcyeles,and about 50 million new ones are made each year
worldwide,Will it go on? Undoubtedly,because people want it to.
26.As is given in the first paragraph,the reason why the car has become a problem is that ____.
A) poor people can’t afford it
B) it is too expensive to maintain
C) too many people are using it
D) it causes too many road accidents
27,According to the passage,the car started to gain popularity because ____.
A) it didn’t break down as easily as a horse
B) it had a comparatively pleasant odor
C) it caused less pollution than horses
D) it brightened up the gloomy streets
28,What impact did the use of cars have on society?
A) People were compelled to leave downtown areas.
B) People were able to live in less crowded suburban areas.
C) Business along trolley and rail lines slackened.
D) City streets were free of ugly overhead wires.
29.Mr,Flink argued in his book that cars would not be widely used in other countries because ____.
A) the once booming car market has become saturated
B) traffic jams in those countries are getting more and more serious
C) expensive motorways are not available in less developed countries
D) people worry about pollution and the diminishing oil resources
30.What’s wrong with Mr,Flink’s prediction?
A) The use of automobiles has kept increasing worldwide.
B) New generations of cars are virtually pollution free.
C) The population of America has not increased as fast.
D) People’s environmental concerns are constantly increasing.
Passage Three
Questions 31 to 35 are based on the following passage.
Crying is hardly an activity encouraged by society,Tears,be they of sorrow,anger,or joy,
typically make Americans feel uncomfortable and embarrassed,The shedder of tears is likely to
apologize,even when a devastating (毁灭性的) tragedy was the provocation,The observer of
tears is likely to do everything possible to put an end to the emotional outpouring,But judging from recent studies of crying behavior,links between illness and crying and the chemical
composition of tears,both those responses to tears are often inappropriate and may even be
counterproductive.
Humans are the only animals definitely known to shed emotiomal tears,Since evolution has given
rise to few,if any,purposeless physiological responses,it is logical to assume that crying has one
or more functions that enhance survival.
Although some observers have suggested that crying is a way to elicit assistance from others (as a
crying baby might from its mother),the shedding of tears is hardly necessary to get help,Vocal
cries would have been quite enough,more likely than tears to gain attention,So,it appears,there
must be something special about tears themselves.
Indeed,the new studies suggest that emotional tears may play a direct role in alleviating stress,
University of Minnesota researchers who are studying the chemical composition of tears have
recently isolated two important chemicals from emotional tears,Both chemicals are found only in
tears that are shed in response to emotion,Tears shed because of exposure to cut onion would
contain no such substance.
Researchers at several other institutions are investigating the usefulness of tears as a means of
diagnosing human ills and monitoring drugs.
At Tulane University’s Teat Analysis Laboratory Dr,Peter Kastl and his colleagues report that
they can use tears to detect drug abuse and exposure to medication(药物),to determine whether a
contact lens fits properly of why it may be uncomfortable,to study the causes of,dry eye”
syndrome and the effects of eye surgery,and perhaps even to measure exposure to environmental
pollutants.
At Columbia University Dr,Liasy Faris and colleagues are studying tears for clues to the diagnosis
of diseases away from the eyes,Tears can be obtained painlessly without invading the body and
only tiny amounts are needed to perform highly refined analyses.
31,It is known from the first paragraph that ____.
A) shedding tears gives unpleasant feelings to American
B) crying may often imitate people or even result in tragedy
C) crying usually wins sympathy from other people
D) one who sheds tears in public will be blamed
32,What does,both those responses to tears”(Line 5,Para,1) refer to?
A) Crying out of sorrow and shedding tears for happiness.
B) The embarrassment and unpleasant sensation of the observers.
C) The tear shedder’s apology and the observer’s effort to stop the crying.
D) Linking illness with crying and finding the chemical composition of tears.
33.,Counterproductive” (Lines 5,Para,1) very probably means,____”.
A) having no effect at all
B) leading to tension
C) producing disastrous impact
D) harmful to health
34,What does the author say about crying?
A) It is a pointless physiological response to the environment.
B) It must have a role to play in man’s survival.
C) It is meant to get attention and assistance.
D) It usually produces the desired effect.
35,What can be inferred from the new studies of tears?
A) Emotional tears have the function of reducing stress.
B) Exposure to excessive medication may increase emotional tears.
C) Emotional tears can give rise to,dry eye” syndrome in some cases.
D) Environmental pollutants can induce the shedding of emotional tears.
Passage Four
Questions 36 to 40 are based on the following passage.
It is no secret among athletes that in order to improve performance you’ve got to work hard,
However,hard training breaks you down and makes you weaker,it is rest that makes you stronger,
Improvement only occurs during the rest period following hard training,This adaptation is
accomplished by improving efficiency of the heart and certain systems within the muscle cells,
During recovery periods these systems build to greater levels to compensate for the stress that you
have applied,The result is that you are now at a higher level of performance.
If sufficient rest is not included in a training program,imbalance between excess training and
inadequate rest will occur,and performance will decline,The,overtraining syndrome(综合症)”
is the name given to the collection of emotional,behavioral,and physical symptoms due to
overtraining that has persisted for weeks to months,It is marked by cumulative exhaustion that
persists even after recovery periods.
The most common symptom is fatigue,This may limit workouts and may be present at rest,The
athletes may also become moody,easily imitated,have altered sleep patterns,become depressed,or lose the competitive desire and enthusiasm for the sport,Some will report decreased appetite and weight loss,Physical symptoms include persistent muscular soreness,increased frequency of viral (病毒性的) illnesses,and increased incidence of injuries.
The treatment for the overtraining syndrome is rest,The longer the overtraining has occurred,the more rest required,therefore,early detection is very important,If the overtraining has only occurred for a short period of time (e.g,3-4 weeks) then interrupting training for 3-5 days is usually sufficient rest,It is important that the factors that lead to overtraining be identified and corrected,Otherwise,the overtraining syndrome is likely to recur,The overtraining syndrome should be considered in any athlete who manifests symptoms of prolonged fatigue and whose performance has leveled off or decreased,It is important to exclude any underlying illness that may be responsible for the fatigue.
36.The first paragraph of the passage tells us that ____.
A) the harder an athlete trains,the better his performance will be
B) rest after vigorous training improves an athlete’s performance
C) strict systematic training is essential to an athlete’s top performance
D) improvement of an athlete’s performance occurs in the course of training
37.By,overtraining” the author means ____.
A) a series of physical symptoms that occur after training
B) undue emphasis on the importance of physical exertion
C) training that is not adequately compensated for by rest
D) training that has exceeded an athlete’s emotional limits
38.What does the passage tell us about the,overtraining” syndrome?
A) It occurs when athletes lose interest in sports.
B) It appears right after a hard training session.
C) The fatigue it results in is unavoidable in the athlete’s training process.
C) It manifests itself in fatigue which lingers even after a recovery period.
39,What does the phrase,level off” (Line 5,Para.4)most probably mean?
A) Slow down,
B) Become dull.
C) Stop improving,
D) Be on the decline.
40.The author advises at the end of the passage that ____.
A) overtraining syndrome should be treated as a serious illness
B) overtraining syndrome should be prevented before it occurs
C) an athlete with overtraining syndrome should take a lengthy rest
D) illness causing fatigue should not be mistaken for overtraining syndrome
Part Ⅲ
Vocabulary (20 minutes)
Directions,There are 30 incomplete sentences in this part.For eac
h sentence there are four choices marked A),B),C) and D).Choose the ONE that b
est completes the sentence.Then mark the corresponding letter on the Answer Shee
t with a single line through the centre.
41.These were stubborn men,not easily ____ to change their mind.
A) tilted B) convertedC) persuaded
D) suppressed
42,The circus has always been very popular because it ____ both the old and the young.
A) facilitatesB) fascinates C) immerses
D) indulges
43.By patient questioning the lawyer managed to ____enough information from the witnesses.
A) evacuateB) withdraw C) impart
D) elicit
44,George enjoys talking about people’s private affairs,He is a ____.
A) solicitor B) coward C) gossip
D) rebel
45,The new secretary has written a remarkably ____report within a few hundred words but with all the important details included.
A) conciseB) brisk C) precise
D) elaborate
46,His face ____as he came in after running all the way from school.
A) flaredB) fluctuated C) fluttered
D) flushed
47.Steel is not as ____ as cast iron; it does not break as easily.
A) elasticB) brittle C) adaptable
D) flexible
48.A big problem in learning English as a foreign language is lack of opportunities for ____interaction with proficient speakers of English.
A) instantaneous B) provocativeC) verbal
D) dual
49,Within ten years they have tamed the ____hill into green woods.
A) vacant B) barrenC) weird
D) wasteful
50.The ____of our trip to London was the visit to Buckingham Palace.
A) summit B) heightC) peak
D) highlight
51,Harold claimed that he was a serious and well-known artist,but in fact he was a(n) ____.
A) alien B) clientC) counterpart
D) fraud
52.We don’t ____any difficulties in completing the project so long as we keep within our budget.
A) foresee B) fabricateC) infer
D) inhibit
53,He is looking for a job that will give him greater ____for his career development.
A) insightB) scope C) momentum
D) phase
54.The high school my daughter studies in is ____our university.
A) linked byB) relevant to C) mingled with
D) affiliated with
55.The Browns lived in a ____and comfortably furnished house in the suburbs.
A) spaciousB) sufficient C) wide
D) wretched
56,A membership card ____the holder to use the club’s facilities for a period of twelve months.
A) approves B) authorizesC) rectifies
D) endows
57,They have done away with ____Latin for university entrance at Harvard.
A) influentialB) indispensable C) compulsory
D) essential
58.It is no ____that a large number of violent crimes are committed under the influence of alcohol.
A) coincidence B) correspondenceC) inspiration
D) intuition
59.One’s university days often appear happier in ____than they actually were at the time.
A) retention B) retrospectC) return
D) revere
60.She ____through the pages of a magazine,not really concentrating on them.
A) tumbledB) tossed C) switched
D) flipped
61.Scientists are pushing known technologies to their limits in an attempt to ____more energy from the earth.
A) extractB) inject C) discharge
D) drain
62,The Chinese Red Cross ____a generous sum to the relief of the victims of the earthquake in Turkey.
A) administeredB) elevated C) assessed
D) contributed
63.The first sentence in this paragraph is ____; it can be interpreted in many ways.
A) intricate B) ambiguousC) duplicated
D) confused
64.They used to quarrel a lot,but now they are completely ____with each other.
A) reconciledB) negotiated C) associated
D) accommodated
65,The local business was not much ____by the sudden outbreak of the epidemic.
A) intervened B) insulatedC) hampered
D) hoisted
66.The most important ____for assessment in this contest is originality of design.
A) threshold B) partition C) warrant
D) criterion
67.The woman was worried about the side effects of taking aspirins,but her doctor ____her that it is absolutely harmless.
A) retrievedB) released C) reassured
D) revived
68,We can’t help being ____of Bob who bought a luxurious sports car just after the money was stolen from the office.
A) skepticalB) appreciative C) suspicious
D) tolerant
69,He greatly resented the publication of this book,which he saw as an embarrassing invasion of his ____.A) privacyB) morality C) dignity D) secrecy
70,In fact as he approached this famous statue,he only barely resisted the ____to reach into his bag for his camera.
A) impatience B) impulseC) incentive
D) initiative
Part Ⅳ
Error Correction (15 minutes )
Directions,This part consists of a short passage,In this passage,there are altogether 10 mistakes,one in each numbered line,You may have to change a word,add a word or delete a word,Mark out the mistakes and put the corrections in the blanks provided,If you change a word,cross it out and write the correct word in the corresponding blank,If you add a word,put an insertion mark (∧) in the right place and write the missing word in the blank,If you delete a word,cross it out and put a slash (/) in the blank.
Example：
〖DZ(22，6〗Television is rapidly becoming the literature of our periods[KG-1]/,Many of the arguments having[KG-1]/ [KG*2]used for the study of literature as a school subject are valid for ∧ study of television.[]
1,____Time/times/period____
2.____/____
3.____the____[DZ)]
“Home,sweet home” is a phrase that expresses an
essential attitude in the United States,Whether the reality
of life in the family house is sweet or no sweet.The [JY，15]S1.[CD#6]
cherished ideal of home has great importance for many
people.
This ideal is a vital part of the American dream,This
dream,dramatized in the history of nineteenth century
European settlers of the American West,was in find
a piece of place,build a house for one’s family,and [JY，15]S2.[CD#6]
started a farm,These small households were portraits of [JY，15]S3.[CD#6]
independence,the entire family -- mother,father,children,
even grandparents -- live in a small house and working [JY，15]S4.[CD#6]
together to support each other,Anyone understood the life [JY，15]S5.[CD#6]
and death,importance of family cooperation and hard work.
Although most people in the United States no longer
live on farms,but the ideal of home ownership is just as [JY，15]S6.[CD#6]
strong in the twentieth century as it was in the nineteenth.
When U.S soldiers came home before World War II,for [JY，15]S7.[CD#6]
example,they dreamed of buying houses and starting
families,But there was a tremendous boom in home [JY，15]S8.[CD#6]
building,The new houses,typically it the suburbs,were
often small and more or less identical,but it satisfied [JY，15]S9.[CD#6]
a deep need,Many regarded the single-family
house the basis of their way of life,[JY，15]S10.[CD#6]
Part Ⅴ
Writing ( 30 minutes )
图表作文，关于一个美国大学图书馆的图书流动量（pop fiction,general nonfiction,science,art等），给出他们的流动比例对比，说明原因，并说明你自己喜欢阅读什么样的书。
Part Two 试卷部分
2003年6月
大学英语六级考试历年全真试卷
试卷一
Part Ⅰ
Listening Comprehension(20 minutes)
Section A
[HJ0.6mm]
Directions,In this section,you will hear 10 short conversations,At the end of each conversation,a question will be asked about what was said,Both the conversation and the question will be spoken only once,After each question,there will be a pause,During the pause,you must read the four choices marked A),B),C) and D),and decide which is the best answer,Then mark the corresponding letter on the Answer Sheet with a single line through the centre.
Example,You will hear:
You will read,A) At the office,B) In the waiting room.
C) At the airport,D) In a restaurant.
From the conversation we know that the two were talking about some work they had to finish in the evening,This is most likely to have taken place at the office,Therefore,A),At the office” is the best answer,You should choose ［A］ on the Answer Sheet and mark it with a single line through the centre.
Sample Answer ［A］[KG-1*4]— ［B］ ［C］ ［D］[FK)]
1,A) Riding a horse,B) Shooting a movie.
C) Playing a game,D) Taking a photo.
2,A) She’ll type the letter for the man.
B) She’ll teach the man to operate the computer.
C) She doesn’t think his sister is a good typist.
D) She thinks the man should buy a computer.
3,A) John can share the magazine with her.
B) She wants to borrow John’s card.
C) She’ll let John use the journal first.
D) John should find another copy for himself.
4,A) She promised to help the man.
B) She came a long way to meet the man.
C) She took the man to where he wanted to go.
D) She suggested a way out of the difficulty for the man.
5,A) The train seldom arrives on time.
B) The schedule has been misprinted.
C) The speakers arrived at the station late.
D) The company has trouble printing a schedule.
6,A) To find a better science journal in the library.
B) Not to miss any chance to collect useful information.
C) To buy the latest issue of the magazine.
D) Not to subscribe to the journal.
7,A) She wants to borrow the man’s student ID card.
B) The tickets are less expensive than she expected.
C) She won’t be able to get any discount for the ticket.
D) The performance turned out to be disappointing.
8,A) Do the assignments towards the end of the semester.
B) Quit the history course and choose another one instead.
C) Drop one course and do it next semester.
D) Take courses with a lighter workload.
9,A) The organization of a conference.
B) The cost of renting a conference room.
C) The decoration of the conference room.
D) The job of cleaning up the dining-room.
10,A) Meet his client,B) Prepare the dinner,
C) Work at his office,D) Fix his car.
Section B
Directions,In this section,you will hear 3 short passages,At the end of each passage,you will hear some questions,Both the passage and the questions will be spoken only once,After you hear a question,you must choose the best answer from the four choices marked A),B),C) and D),Then mark the corresponding letter on the Answer Sheet with a single line through the centre.
Passage One
Questions 11 to 13 are based on the passage you have just heard.
11,A) One of the bridges between North and South London collapsed.
B) The heart of London was flooded.
C) An emergency exercise was conducted.
D) 100 people in the suburbs were drowned.
12,A) 50 underground stations were made waterproof.
B) A flood wall was built.
C) An alarm system was set up.
D) Rescue teams were formed.
13,A) Most Londoners were frightened.
B) Most Londoners became rather confused.
C) Most Londoners took Exercise Flood Call calmly.
D) Most Londoners complained about the trouble caused by Exercise Flood Call.
Passage Two
Questions 14 to 16 are based on the passage you have just heard.
14,A) It limited their supply of food,
B) It made their eggshells too fragile,
C) It destroyed many of their nests.
D) It killed many baby bald eagles.
15,A) They found ways to speed up the reproduction of bald eagles.
B) They developed new types of feed for baby bald eagles.
C) They explored new ways to hatch baby bald eagles.
D) They brought in bald eagles from Canada.
16,A) Pollution of the environment,B) A new generation of pest killers,C) Over-killing by hunters.D) Destruction of their natural homes.
Passage Three
Questions 17 to 20 are based on the passage you have just heard.
17,A) Whether it can be detected and checked.
B) Whether it will lead to widespread food shortage.
C) Whether global warming will speed up in the future.
D) Whether it will affect their own lives.
18,A) Many species have moved further north.
B) Many new species have come into existence.
C) Many species have developed a habit of migration.
D) Many species have become less sensitive to climate.
19,A) Storms and floods,B) Disease and fire,
C) Less space for their growth.D) Rapid increase of the animal population.
20,A) They will gradually die out.
B) They will be able to survive in the preserves.
C) They will have to migrate to find new homes.
D) They will face extinction without artificial reproduction.
Part Ⅱ
Reading Comprehension(35 minutes)
Directions,There are 4 passages in this part,Each passage is followed by some questions or unfinished statements,For each of them there are four choices marked A),B),C) and D),You should decide on the best choice and mark the corresponding letter on the Answer Sheet with a single line through the centre.
Passage OneQuestions 21 to 25 are based on the following passage.
In the villages of the English countryside there are still people who remember the good old days when no one bothered to lock their doors,There simply wasn’t any crime to worry about,Amazingly,these happy times appear still to be with us in the world’s biggest community,A new study by Dan Farmer,a gifted programmer,using an automated investigative program of his own called SATAN,shows that the owners of well over half of all World Wide Web sites have set up home without fitting locks to their doors.
SATAN can try out a variety of well-known hacking ( 黑客的 ) tricks on an Internet site without actually breaking in,Farmer has made the program publicly available,amid much criticism,A person with evil intent could use it to hunt down sites that are easy to burgle ( 闯入……行窃 ).
But Farmer is very concerned about the need to alert the public to poor security and,so far,events have proved him right,SATAN has done more to alert people to the risks than cause new disorder.
So is the Net becoming more secure? Far from it,In the early days,when you visited a Web site your browser simply looked at the content,Now the Web is full of tiny programs that automatically download when you look at a Web page,and run on your own machine,These programs could,if their authors wished,do all kinds of nasty things to your computer.
At the same time,the Net is increasingly populated with spiders,worms,agents and other types of automated beasts designed to penetrate the sites and seek out and classify information,All these make wonderful tools for antisocial people who want to invade weak sites and cause damage.
But let’s look on the bright side,Given the lack of locks,the Internet is surely the world’s biggest (almost) crime-free society,Maybe that is because hackers are fundamentally honest,Or that there currently isn’t much to steal,Or because vandalism ( 恶意破坏 ) isn’t much fun unless you have a peculiar dislike for someone.
Whatever the reason,let’s enjoy it while we can,But expect it all to change,and security to become the number one issue,when the most influential inhabitants of the Net are selling services they want to be paid for,
21,By saying,..,owners of well over half of all World Wide Web sites have set up home without fitting locks to their doors” (Lines 4-5,Para,1),the author means that ____.
A) those happy times appear still to be with us
B) there simply wasn’t any crime to worry about
C) many sites are not well-protected
D) hackers try out tricks on an Internet site without actually breaking in
22,SATAN,a program designed by Dan Farmer,can be used ____.
A) to investigate the security of Internet sites
B) to improve the security of the Internet system
C) to prevent hackers from breaking into websites
D) to download useful programs and information
23,Farmer’s program has been criticized by the public because ____.
A) it causes damage to Net browsers
B) it can break into Internet sites
C) it can be used to cause disorder on all sites
D) it can be used by people with evil intent
24,The author’s attitude toward SATAN is ____.
A) enthusiasticB) criticalC) positive
D) indifferent
25,The author suggests in the last paragraph that ____.
A) we should make full use of the Internet before security measures are strengthened
B) we should alert the most influential businessmen to the importance of security
C) influential businessmen should give priority to the improvement of Net security
D) net inhabitants should not let security measures affect their joy of surfing the Internet
Passage TwoQuestions 26 to 30 are based on the following passage.
I came away from my years of teaching on the college and university level with a conviction that enactment ( 扮演角色 ),performance,dramatization are the most successful forms of teaching,Students must be incorporated,made,so far as possible,an integral part of the learning process,The notion that learning should have in it an element of inspired play would seem to the greater part of the academic establishment merely silly,but that is nonetheless the case,Of Ezekiel Cheever,the most famous schoolmaster of the Massachusetts Bay Colony,his onetime student Cotton Mather wrote that he so planned his lessons that his pupils,came to work as though they came to play,” and Alfred North Whitehead,almost three hundred years later,noted that a teacher should make his/her students,glad they were there.”
Since,we are told,80 to 90 percent of all instruction in the typical university is by the lecture method,we should give close attention to this form of education,There is,I think,much truth in Patricia Nelson Limerick’s observation that,lecturing is an unnatural act,an act for which God did not design humans,It is perfectly all right,now and then,for a human to be possessed by the urge to speak,and to speak while others remain silent,But to do this regularly,one hour and 15 minutes at a time,.,for one person to drag on while others sit in silence?,.,I do not believe that this is what the Creator,.,designed humans to do.”
The strange,almost incomprehensible fact is that many professors,just as they feel obliged to write dully,believe that they should lecture dully,To show enthusiasm is to risk appearing unscientific,unobjective; it is to appeal to the students’ emotions rather than their intellect,Thus the ideal lecture is one filled with facts and read in an unchanged monotone.
The cult ( 推崇 ) of lecturing dully,like the cult of writing dully,goes back,of course,some years,Edward Shils,professor of sociology,recalls the professors he encountered at the University of Pennsylvania in his youth,They seemed,a priesthood,rather uneven in their merits but uniform in their bearing; they never referred to anything personal,Some read from old lecture notes and then haltingly explained the thumb-worn last lines,Others lectured from cards that had served for years,to judge by the worn edges,..,The teachers began on time,ended on time,and left the room without saying a word more to their students,very seldom being detained by questioners,..,The classes were not large,yet there was no discussion,No questions were raised in class,and there were no office hours.”
26,The author believes that a successful teacher should be able to ____.
A) make dramatization an important aspect of students’ learning
B) make inspired play an integral part of the learning process
C) improve students’ learning performance
D) make study just as easy as play
27,The majority of university professors prefer the traditional way of lecturing in the belief that ____.
A) it draws the close attention of the students
B) it conforms in a way to the design of the Creator
C) it presents course content in a scientific and objective manner
D) it helps students to comprehend abstract theories more easily
28,What the author recommends in this passage is that ____.
A) college education should be improved through radical measures
B) more freedom of choice should be given to students in their studies
C) traditional college lectures should be replaced by dramatized performances
D) interaction should be encouraged in the process of teaching
29,By saying,They seemed ‘a priesthood,rather uneven in their merits but uniform in their bearing,..’” (Lines 2-3,Para,4),the author means that ____.
A) professors are a group of professionals that differ in their academic ability but behave in the same way
B) professors are like priests wearing the same kind of black gown but having different roles to play
C) there is no fundamental difference between professors and priests though they differ in their merits
D) professors at the University of Pennsylvania used to wear black suits which made them look like priests
30,Whose teaching method is particularly commended by the author?
A) Ezekiel Cheever’s,
B) Cotton Mather’s,
C) Alfred North Whitehead’s.
D) Patricia Nelson Limerick’s.
Passage Three
Questions 31 to 35 are based on the following passage.
Take the case of public education alone,The principal difficulty faced by the schools has been the tremendous increase in the number of pupils,This has been caused by the advance of the legal age for going into industry and the impossibility of finding a job even when the legal age has been reached,In view of the technological improvements in the last few years,business will require in the future proportionately fewer workers than ever before,The result will be still further raising of the legal age for going into employment,and still further difficulty in finding employment when that age has been attained,If we cannot put our children to work,we must put them in school.
We may also be quite confident that the present trend toward a shorter day and a shorter week will be maintained,We have developed and shall continue to have a new leisure class,Already the public agencies for adult education are swamped by the tide that has swept over them since the depression began,They will be little better off when it is over,Their support must come from the taxpayer.
It is surely too much to hope that these increases in the cost of public education can be borne by the local communities,They cannot care for the present restricted and inadequate system,The local communities have failed in their efforts to cope with unemployment,They cannot expect to cope with public education on the scale on which we must attempt it,The answer to the problem of unemployment has been Federal relief,The answer to the problem of public education may have to be much the same,and properly so,If there is one thing in which the citizens of all parts of the country have an interest,it is in the decent education of the citizens of all parts of the country,Our income tax now goes in part to keep our neighbors alive,It may have to go in part as well to make our neighbors intelligent,We are now attempting to preserve the present generation through Federal relief of the destitute (贫民),Only a people determined to ruin the next generation will refuse such Federal funds as public education may require.
31,What is the passage mainly about?
A) How to persuade local communities to provide more funds.
B) How to cope with the shortage of funds for public education.
C) How to solve the rising unemployment problem.
D) How to improve the public education system.
32,What is the reason for the increase in the number of students?
A) The requirement of educated workers by business.
B) Raising of the legal age for going to work.
C) The trend toward a shorter workday.
D) People’s concern for the future of the next generation.
33,The public agencies for adult education will be little better off because ____.
A) the unemployed are too poor to continue their education
B) a new leisure class has developed
C) they are still suffering from the depression
D) an increase in taxes could be a problem
34,According to the author,the answer to the problem of public education is that the Federal government ____.
A) should allocate Federal funds for public education
B) should demand that local communities provide support
C) should raise taxes to meet the needs of public education
D) should first of all solve the problem of unemployment
35,Why does the author say,Only a people determined to ruin the next generation will refuse such Federal funds as public education may require” (Lines 8-9,Para,3)?
A) Because only by appropriating adequate Federal funds for education can the next generation have a bright future.
B) Because citizens of all parts of the country agree that the best way to support education is to use Federal funds.
C) Because people all over the country should make contributions to education in the interest of the next generation.
D) Because educated people are determined to use part of the Federal funds to help the poor.
Passage FourQuestions 36 to 40 are based on the following passage.
A new high-performance contact lens under development at the department for applied physics at the University of Heidelberg will not only correct ordinary vision defects but will enhance normal night vision as much as five times,making people’s vision sharper than that of cats.
Bille and his team work with an optical instrument called an active mirror—a device used in astronomical telescopes to spot newly emerging stars and far distant galaxies,Connected to a wave-front sensor that tracks and measures the course of a laser beam into the eye and back,the aluminum mirror detects the deficiencies of the cornea,the transparent protective layer covering the lens of the human eye,The highly precise data from the two instruments—which,Bille hopes,will one day be found at the opticians (眼镜商) all over the world—serve as a basis for the production of completely individualized contact lenses that correct and enhance the wearer’s vision,
By day,Bille’s contact lenses will focus rays of light so accurately on the retina (视网膜) that the image of a small leaf or the outline of a far distant tree will be formed with a sharpness that surpasses that of conventional vision aids by almost half a diopter ( 屈光度 ),At night,the lenses have an even greater potential.,Because the new lens — in contrast to the already existing ones — also works when it’s dark and the pupil is wide open,” says Bille,“lens wearers will be able to identify a face at a distance of 100 meters”— 80 meters farther than they would normally be able to see,In his experiments night vision was enhanced by an even greater factor,in semi-darkness,test subjects could see up to 15 times better than without the lenses.
Bille’s lenses are expected to reach the market in the year 2000,and one tentative plan is to use the Internet to transmit information on patients’ visual defects from the optician to the manufacturer,Who will then produce and mail the contact lenses within a couple of days,The physicist expects the lenses to cost about a dollar a pair,about the same as conventional one-day disposable lenses.
36,The new contact lens is meant for ____.
A) astronomical observations
B) the night blind
C) those with vision defects
D) optical experiments
37,What do the two instruments mentioned in the second paragraph (Line 3) refer to?
A) The astronomical telescope and the wave-front sensor.
B) The aluminum mirror and the laser beam.
C) The active mirror and the contact lens.
D) The aluminum mirror and the wave-front sensor
38,Individualized contact lenses (Line 5-6,Para,2) are lenses designed ____.
A) to work like an astronomical telescope
B) to suit the wearer’s specific needs
C) to process extremely accurate data
D) to test the wearer’s eyesight
39,According to Bille,with the new lenses the wearer’s vision ____.
A) will be far better at night than in the daytime
B) may be broadened about 15 times than without them
C) can be better improved in the daytime than at night
D) will be sharper by a much greater degree at night than in the daytime
40,Which of the following is true about Bille’s lenses?
A) Their production process is complicated.
B) They will be sold at a very low price.
C) They have to be replaced every day.
D) Purchase orders can be made through the Internet.
Part Ⅲ
Vocabulary (20 minutes)
Directions,There are 30 incomplete sentences in this part,For each sentence there are four choices marked A),B),C) and D),Choose the ONE answer that best completes the sentence,Then mark the corresponding letter on the Answer Sheet with a single line through the centre.
41,In November 1987 the government ____ a public debate on the future direction of the official sports policy.
A) initiated B) designated C) induced
D) promoted
42,I found it difficult to ____ my career ambitions with the need to bring up my children.
A) consolidate
B) amend
C) reconcile
D) intensify
43,We all enjoy our freedom of choice and do not like to see it ____ when it is within the legal and moral boundaries of society.
A) compacted B) restricted C) dispersed D) delayed
44,It is fortunate for the old couple that their son’s career goals and their wishes for him ____.
A) coincide
B) comply
C) conform
D) collaborate
45,Allen will soon find out that real life is seldom as simple as it is ____ in commercials.
A) permeated
B) alleged C) depicted
D) drafted
46,Europe’s earlier industrial growth was ____ by the availability of key resources,abundant and cheap labor,coal,iron ore,etc.
A) constrained
B) detained
C) remained
D) sustained
47,As the trial went on,the story behind the murder slowly ____ itself.
A) convicted
B) released C) haunted
D) unfolded
48,We’ ve just installed a fan to ____ cooking smells from the kitchen.
A) eject
B) exclude
C) expel
D) exile
49,Retirement is obviously a very complex ____ period; and the earlier you start planning for it,the better.
A) transformation
B) transmission
C) transaction
D) transition
50,Mutual respect for territorial ____ is one of the bases upon which our two countries develop relationships.
A) unity
B) integrity
C) entirety
D) reliability
51,As one of the youngest professors in the university,Mr,Brown is certainly on the ____ of a brilliant career.
A) porch
B) edge
C) course
D) threshold
52,We work to make money,but it’s a ____ that people who work hard and long often do not make the most money.
A) paradox
B) prejudice
C) dilemma
D) conflict
53,The design of this auditorium shows a great deal of ____,We have never seen such a building before.
A) invention
B) illusion
C) originality
D) orientation
54,The damage to my car was ____ in the accident,but I have a lingering fear even today.
A) insufficient
B) ignorant C) ambiguous
D) negligible
55,Very few people could understand the lecture the professor delivered because its subject was very ____.
A) obscure
B) indefinite
C) dubious
D) intriguing
56,Diamonds have little ____ value and their price depends almost entirely on their scarcity.
A) intrinsic
B) eternal C) subtle
D) inherent
57,Doctors are interested in using lasers as a surgical tool in operations on people who are ____ to heart attack.
A) infectious
B) disposed
C) accessible
D) prone
58,Many countries have adopted systems of ____ education in order to promote the average level of education.
A) compulsory
B) cardinal
C) constrained
D) conventional
59,I had eaten Chinese food often,but I could not have imagined how ____ and extravagant a real Chinese banquet could be.
A) prominent
B) fabulous
C) handsome
D) gracious
60,They are ____ investors who always make thorough investigations both on local and international markets before making an investment.
A) implicit
B) conscious
C) cautious
D) indecisive
61,In addition to the rising birthrate and immigration,the ____ death rate contributed to the population growth.
A) inclining
B) increasing
C) declining
D) descending
62,Because of the ____ noise of traffic I couldn’t get to sleep last night.
A) prevalent
B) perpetual
C) provocative
D) progressive
63,Don’t let such a ____ matter as this come between us so that we can concentrate on the major issue.
A) trivial
B) slight
C) partial
D) minimal
64,If you go to the park every day in the morning,you will ____ find him doing physical exercise there.
A) ordinarily
B) invariably
C) logically
D) persistently
65,Although she’s a(n) ____ talented dancer,she still practices several hours every day.
A) traditionally
B) additionally C) exceptionally
D) rationally
66,The cut in her hand has healed completely,without leaving a ____.
A) defect
B) sign
C) wound
D) scar
67,The idea is to ____ the frequent incidents of collision to test the strength of the windshields.
A) assemble
B) simulate C) accumulate
D) forge
68,Most people in the modern world ____ freedom and independence more than anything else.
A) embody
B) cherish C) fascinate
D) illuminate
69,I told him that I would ____ him to act for me while I was away from office.
A) authorize
B) justify C) rationalize
D) identify
70,Over the past ten years,natural gas production has remained steady,but ____ has risen steadily.
A) dissipation
B) disposal C) consumption
D) expenditure
试卷二
Part Ⅳ
Error Correction (15 minutes)
Directions,This part consists of a short passage,In this passage,there are altogether 10 mistakes,one in each numbered line,You may have to change a word,add a word or delete a word,Mark out the mistakes and put the corrections in the blanks provided,If you change a word,cross it out and write the correct word in the corresponding blank,If you add a word,put an insertion mark ( ∧ ) in the right place and write the missing word in the blank,If you delete a word,cross it out and put a slash (/) in the blank.
Example：〖DZ(25，6〗Television is rapidly becoming the literature of our periods[KG-1]/,Many of the arguments having[KG-1]/ [KG*2]used for the study of literature as a school subject are valid for ∧ study of television.
The Seattle Times Company is one newspaper firm that
has recognized the need for change and done something about
it,In the newspaper industry,papers must reflect the diversity
of the communities to which they provide information,
It must reflect that diversity with their news coverage or risk
losing their readers’ interest and their advertisers’ support,
Operating within Seattle,which has 20 percents racial
minorities,the paper has put into place policies and
procedures for hiring and maintain a diverse workforce,The
underlying reason for the change is that for information to be
fair,appropriate,and subjective,it should be reported by the
same kind of population that reads it.
A diversity committee composed of reporters,editors,and
photographers meets regularly to value the Seattle Times’
content and to educate the rest of the newsroom staff about
diversity issues,In an addition,the paper instituted a content
audit ( 审查 ) that evaluates the frequency and manner of
representation of woman and people of color in photographs,
Early audits showed that minorities were pictured far too
infrequently and were pictured with a disproportionate
number of negative articles,The audit results from
improvement in the frequency of majority representation and
their portrayal in neutral or positive situations,And,with a
result,the Seattle Times has improved as a newspaper,
The diversity training and content audits helped the
Seattle Times Company to win the Personnel Journal
Optimas Award for excellence in managing change,
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2.____/ 〖ZZ)〗
3.____the____
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S2.____
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S5.____
S6.____
S7.____
S8.____
S9.____
S10.____
Part Ⅴ
Writing (30 minutes)
Directions:For this part,you are allowed thirty minutes to write a composition on the topic [WTHX]Changes in the Ownership of Houses,You should write at least 150 words,and base your composition on the chart and the outline given below:
1.根据上图描述该市住房产权的变化
2.分析产生这些变化的原因
3.说明这些变化对个人和社会产生的影响
[JZ]Changes in the Ownership of Houses
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Part Two 试卷部分
2002年12月
大学英语六级考试历年全真试卷
试卷一
Part Ⅰ
Listening Comprehension(20 minutes)
Section A
Directions:In this section,you will hear 10 short conversations,At the end of each conversation,a question will be asked about what was said,Both the
conversation and the question will be spoken only once,After each question ther
e will be a pause,During the pause,you must read the four choices marked A),B)
,C) and D),and decide which is the best answer,Then mark the corresponding lett
er on the Answer Sheet with a single line through the centre.
Example:You will hear:
You will read,
A) 2 hours,B) 3 hours,C) 4 hours.
D) 5 hours,
From the conversation we know that the two are talking about some work,They wil
l
start at 9 o’clock in the morning and have to finish at 2 in the afternoon,The
refore,D)“5 hours” is the correct answer.You should choose ［D］ on the Answer
Sheet and mark it with a single line through the centre.
Sample Answer ［A］ ［B］ ［C］ ［D］[KG-4.5mm]—[FK)]
1.A)It has nothing to do with the Internet.
B)She needs another week to get it ready.\=
C)It contains some valuable ideas.\=
D)It’s far from being ready yet.\=
2.A)The woman is strict with her employees.\=
B)The man always has excuses for being late.\=
C)The woman is a kind-hearted boss.\=
D)The man’s alarm clock didn’t work that morning.
3.A)The woman should try her luck in the bank nearby.
B)The bank around the corner is not open today.
C)The woman should use dollars instead of pounds.
D)The bank near the railway station closes late.
4.A)Make an appointment with Dr,Chen.
B)Call again some time later.
C)Wait for about three minutes.
D)Try dialing the number again.
5.A)He is sure they will succeed in the next test.
B)He did no better than the woman in the test.
C)He believes she will pass the test this time.
D)He felt upset because of her failure.
6.A)The woman has to attend a summer course to graduate.
B)The man thinks the woman can earn the credits.
C)The woman is begging the man to let her pass the exam.
D)The woman is going to graduate from summer school.
7.A)Fred is planning a trip to Canada.
B)Fred usually flies to Canada with Jane.
C)Fred persuaded Jane to change her mind.
D)Fred likes the beautiful scenery along the way to Canada.
8.A)Hang some pictures for decoration.
B)Find room for the paintings.
C)Put more coats of paint on the wall.
D)Paint the walls to match the furniture.
9.A)He’ll give a lecture on drawing.
B)He doesn’t mind if the woman goes to the lecture.
C)He’d rather not go to the lecture.
D)He’s going to attend the lecture.
10.A)Selecting the best candidate.
B)Choosing a campaign manager.
C)Trying to persuade the woman to vote for him.
D)Running for chairman of the student union.
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Section B
Directions:In this section,you will hear 3 short passages,At the end o
f each passage,you will hear some questions,Both the passage and the questions
will be spoken only once,After you hear a question,you must choose the best an
swer from the four choices marked A),B),C) and D),Then mark the corresponding l
etter on the Answer Sheet with a single line through the centre.
Passage One
Questions 11 to 14 are based on the passage you have just heard.
11.A)To study the problems of local industries.
B)To find ways to treat human wastes.
C)To investigate the annual catch of fish in the Biramichi River.
D)To couduct a study on fishing in the Biramichi River.
12.A)Lack of oxygen.
B)Overgrowth of water plants.
C)Low water level.
D)Serious pollution upstream.
13.A)They’ll be closed down.
B)They’re going to dismiss some of their employees.
C)They’ll be moved to other places.
D)They have no money to build chemical treatment plants.
14.A)Because there were fewer fish in the river.
B)Because over-fishing was prohibited.
C)Because the local Chamber of Commerce tried preserve fishes.
D)Because the local fishing cooperative decided to reduce its catch.
Passage Two
Questions 15 to 17 are based on the passage you have just heard.
15.A)Oral instructions recorded on a tape.
B)A brief letter sealed in an envelope.
C)A written document of several pages.
D)A short note to their lawyer.
16.A)Refrain from going out with men for five years.
B)Stop wearing any kind of fashionable clothes.
C)Bury the dentist with his favorite car.
D)Visit his grave regularly for five years.
17.A)Because he was angry with his selfish relatives.
B)Because he was just being humorous.
C)Because he was not a wealthy man.
D)Because he wanted to leave his body for medical purposes.
Passage Three
Questions 18 to 20 are based on the passage you have just heard.
18.A)They thought it quite acceptable.
B)They believed it to be a luxury.
C)They took it to be a trend.
D)They considered it avoidable.
19.A)Critical,B)Serious,C)Sceptical,D)Casual.
20.A)When people consider marriage an important part of their lives.
B)When the costs of getting a divorce become unaffordable.
C)When the current marriage law is modified.
D)When husband and wife understand each other better.
Part Ⅱ
Reading Comprehension (35 minutes)
Directions:There are 4 passages in this part,Each passage is followed b
y some questions or unfinished statements,For each of them there are four choic
es marked A),B),C) and D),You should decide on the best choice and mark the cor
responding letter on the Answer Sheet with a single line through the centre.〖WT5”BZ
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Passage One
Questions 21 to 25 are based on the following passage.
Bill Gates,the billionaire Microsoft chairman without a single earned universi
ty degree,is by his success raising new doubts about the worth of the business
world’s favorite academic title:the MBA(Master of Business Administration).\;
The MBA,a 20th-century product,always has borne the mark of lowly commerce and
greed (贪婪) on the tree-lined campuses ruled by purer disciplines such as phil
osophy and literature.\;
But even with the recession apparently cutting into the hiring of business schoo
l graduates,about 79,000 people are expected to receive MBAs in 1993,This is n
early 16 times the number of business graduates in 1960,a testimony to the wide
spread assumption that the MBA is vital for young men and women who want to run
companies some day.\;
“If you are going into the corporate world it is still a disadvantage not to ha
v
e one,” said Donald Morrison,professor of marketing and management science.,
But in the last five years or so,when someone says,‘Should I attempt to get a
n MBA,’ the answer a lot more is,It depends.”\;
The success of Bill Gates and other non-MBAs,such as the late Sam Walton of Wal
-Mart Stores Inc.,has helped inspire self-conscious debates on business school
campuses over the worth of a business degree and whether management skills can b
e taught.\;
The Harvard Business Review printed a lively,fictional exchange of letters to d
ramatize complaints about business degree holders.\;
The article called MBA hires,extremely disappointing” and said,MBAs want to
move up too fast,they don’t understand politics and people,and they aren’t able
to function as part of a team until their third year.But by then,they’re out lo
oking for other jobs.”\;
The problem,most participants in the debate acknowledge,is that the MBA has acq
uired an aura (光环) of future riches and power far beyond its actual importance
and usefulness.\;
Enrollment in business schools exploded in the 1970s and 1980s and created the a
ssumption that no one who pursued a business career could do without one,The gr
owth was fueled by a backlash (反冲) against the anti-business values of the 196
0s and by the women’s movement.\;
Business people who have hired or worked with MBAs say those with the degrees of
ten know how to analyze systems but are not so skillful at motivating people.,
They don’t get a lot of grounding in the people side of the business”,said Jame
s Shaffer,vice-president and principal of the Towers Perrin management consulti
ng firm.
21.According to Paragraph 2,what is the general attitude towards busines
s on campuses dominated by purer disciplines?\=
A)Scornful.
B)Appreciative.
C)Envious.
D)Realistic.
22.It seems that the controversy over the value of MBA degrees had been f
ueled mainly by ____.\=
A)the complaints from various employers
B)the success of many non-MBAs
C)the criticism from the scientists of purer disciplines
D)the poor performance of MBAs at work
23.What is the major weakness of MBA holders according to the Harvard Business Review?\=
A)They are usually self-centered.
B)They are aggressive and greedy.
C)They keep complaining about their jobs.
D)They are not good at dealing with people.
24.From the passage we know that most MBAs ____.\=
A)can climb the corporate ladder fairly quickly
B)quit their jobs once they are familiar with their workmates
C)receive salaries that do not match their professional training
D)cherish unrealistic expectations about their future
25.What is the passage mainly about?\=
A)Why there is an increased enrollment in MBA programs.
B)The necessity of reforming MBA programs in business schools.
C)Doubts about the worth of holding an MBA degree.
D)A debate held recently on university campuses.
Passage Two
Questions 26 to 30 are based on the following passage.
When school officials in Kalkaska,Michigan,closed classes last week,the media
flocked to the story,portraying the town’s 2,305 students as victims of stingy
(吝啬的)taxpayers,There is some truth to that;the property-tax rate here is one
-third lower than the state average,But shutting their schools also allowed Kal
kask’s educators and the state’s largest teachers’ union,the Michigan Education
Association,to make a political point,Their aim was to spur passage of legis
lation Michigan lawmakers are debating to increase the state’s share of school f
unding.\;
It was no coincidence that Kalkaska shut its schools two weeks after residents r
ejected a 28 percent property-tax increase,The school board argued that without
the increase it lacked the $ 1.5 million needed to keep schools open.
But the school system had not done all it could to keep the schools open,Offici
als declined to borrow against next year’s state aid,they refused to trim extra
curicular activities and they did not consider seeking a smaller —perhaps more
acceptable—tax increase,In fact,closing early is costing Kalkaska a significan
t amount,including $ 600,000 in unemployment payments to teachers and staff and
$ 250,000 in lost state aid,In February,the school system promised teachers an
d staff two months of retirement payments in case schools closed early,a deal t
hat will cost the district $ 275,000 more.\;
Other signs suggest school authorities were at least as eager to make a political
statement as to keep schools open,The Michigan Education Association hired a pu
blic relations firm to stage a rally marking the school closing,which attracted
14 local and national televison stations and networks,The president of the Nat
ional Education Association,the MEA’s parent organization,flew from Washington,
D.C.,for the event,And the union tutored school officials in the art of telev
ision interviews,School supervisor Doyle Disbrow acknowledges the district coul
d have kept schools open by cutting programs but denies the moves were political
ly motivated.\;
Michigan lawmakers have reacted angrily to the closings,The state Senate has al
ready voted to put the system into receivership(破产管理) and reopen schools imm
ediately;the Michigan House plans to consider the bill this week.
26.We learn from the passage that schools in Kalkaska,Michigan,are funde
d ____.\=
A)by both the local and state governments
B)exclusively by the local government
C)mainly by the state government
D)by the National Education Association
27.One of the purposes for which school officials closed classes was [CD#
3].\=
A)to avoid paying retirement benefits to teachers and staff
B)to draw the attention of local taxpayers to political issues
C)to make the financial difficulties of their teachers and staff known to the pu
blic
D)to pressure Michigan lawmakers into increasing state funds for local schools
28.The author seems to disapprove of ____.\=
A)the Michigan lawmakers’ endless debating
B)the shutting of schools in Kalkaska
C)the involvement of the mass media
D)delaying the passage of the school funding legislation
29.We learn from the passage that school authorities in Kalkaska are
concerned about ____.\=
A)a raise in the property-tax rate in Michigan
B)reopening the schools there immediately
C)the attitude of the MEA’s parent organization
D)making a political issue of the closing of the schools
30.According to the passage,the closing of the schools developed into a
crisis because of ____.\=
A)the complexity of the problem
B)the political motives on the part of the educators
C)the weak response of the state officials
D)the strong protest on the part of the students’ parents
Passage Three
Questions 31 to 35 are based on the following passage.
German Chancellor (首相) Otto Von Bismarck may be most famous for his military a
nd diplomatic talent,but his legact(遗产) includes many of today’s social insur
ance programs,During the middle of the 19th century,Germany,along with other E
u
ropean nations,experienced an unprecedented rash of workplace deaths and accide
nts as a result of growing industrialization,Motivated in part by Christian comp
assion(怜悯) for the helpless as well as a practical political impulse to underc
ut the support of the socialist labor movement,Chancellor Bismarck created the w
orld’s first workers’ compensation law in 1884.\;
By 1908,the United States was the only industrial nation in the world that lacke
d workers’ compensation insurance,America’s injured workers could sue for damag
es in a court of law,but they still faced a number of tough legal barriers.For
example,employees had to prove that their injuries directly resulted from employ
er negligence and that they themselves were ignorant about potential hazards in
the workplace.The first state workers’ compensation law in this country passed i
n 1911,and the program soon spread throughout the nation.\;
After World War Ⅱ,benefit payments to American workers did not keep up with the
cost of living,In fact,real benefit levels were lower in the 1970s than they
were in the 1940s,and in most states the maximum benefit was below the poverty
level for a family of four,In 1970,President Richard Nixon set up a national c
ommission to study the problems of workers’ compensation,Two years later,the co
mmission issued 19 key recommendations,including one that called for increasing
compensation benefit levels to 100 percent of the states’ average weekly wages.
\;
In fact,the average compensation benefit in America has climbed from 55 percent
of the states’ average weekly wages in 1972 to 97 percent today,But,as most st
udies show,every 10 percent increase in compensation benefits results in a 5 per
cent increase in the numbers of workers who file for claims,And with so much mo
re money floating in the workers’ compensation system,it’s not surprising that
doctors and lawyers have helped themselves to a large slice of the growing pie.
\=
31.The world’s first workers’ compensation law was introduced by Bismarck
____.\=
A)to make industrial production safer
B)to speed up the pace of industrialization
C)out of religious and political considerations
D)for fear of losing the support of the socialist labor movement
32.We learn from the passage that the process of industrialization in Eur
ope ____.\=
A)was accompanied by an increased number of workshop accidents
B)resulted in the development of popular social insurance programs
C)required workers to be aware of the potential dangers at the workplace
D)met growing resistance from laborers working at machines
33.One of the problems the American injured workers faced in getting comp
ensation in the early 19th century was that ____.\=
A)they had to have the courage to sue for damages in a court of law
B)different states in the U.S,had totally different compensation programs
C)America’s average compensation benefit was much lower than the cost of living
D)they had to produce evidence that their employers were responsible for the acc
ident
34.After 1972 workers’ compensation insurance in the U.S,became more fav
orable to workers so that ____.\=
A)the poverty level for a family of four went up drastically
B)there were fewer legal barriers when they filed for claims
C)the number of workers suing for damages increased
D)more money was allocated to their compensation system
35.The author ends the passage with the implication that ____.\=
A)compensation benefits in America are soaring to new heights
B)the workers are not the only ones to benefit from the compensation system
C)people from all walks of life can benefit from the compensation system
D)money floating in the compensation system is a huge drain on the U.S,economy
Passage Four
Questions 36 to 40 are based on the following passage.
Early in the age of affluence(富裕) that followed World War Ⅱ,an American reta
iling analyst named Victor Lebow proclaimed,“Our enormously productive economy
〖WW(〗…〖WW)〗 We need things consumed,burned up,worn out,replaced and disc
arded at an ever increasing rate.”\;
Americans have responded to Lebow’s call,and much of the world has followed.\;
Consumption has become a central pillar of life in industrial lands and is even
embedded in social values,Opinion surveys in the world’s two largest economies
—Japan and the United States—show consumerist definitions of success becoming
ever prevalent.\;
Overconsumpition by the world’s fortunate is an environmental problem unmatched
in severity by anything but perhaps population growth,Their surging exploitatio
n of resources threatens to exhaust or unalterably spoil forests,soils,water,ai
r and climate.\;
Ironically,high consumption may be a mixed blessing in human terms,too,The time
-honored values of integrity of character,good work,friendship,family and commun
ity have often been sacrificed in the rush to riches.\;
Thus many in the industrial lands have a sense that their world of plenty is som
ehow hollow—that,misled by a consumerist culture,they have been fruitlessly att
empting to satisfy what are essentially social,psychological and spiritual needs
with material things.\;
Of course,the oppostie of overconsumption—poverty—is no solution to either env
ironmenttal or human problems,It is infinitely worse for people and bad for the
natural world too,Dispossessed (被剥夺得一无所有的) peasants slash-and-burn th
eir way into the rain forests of Latin America,and hungry nomads (游牧民族) turn
their herds out onto fragile African grassland,reducing it to desert.\;
If environmental destruction results when people have either too little or too m
uch,we are left to wonder how much is enough,What level of consumption can the
earth support? When does having more cease to add noticeably to human satisfac
tion?\=
36.The emergence of the affluent society after World War Ⅱ ____.\=
A)gave birth to a new generation of upper class consumers
B)gave rise to the dominance of the new egoism
C)led to the reform of the retailing system
D)resulted in the worship of consumerism
37.Apart from enormous productivity,another important impetus to high con
sumption is ____.\=
A)the conversion of the sale of goods into rituals
B)the people’s desire for a rise in their living standards
C)the imbalance that has existed between production and consumption
D)the concept that one’s success is measured by how much they consume
38.Why does the author say high consumption is a mixed blessing?\=
A)Because poverty still exists in an affluent society.
B)Because moral values are sacrificed in pursuit of material satisfatction.
C)Because overconsumption won’t last long due to unrestricted population growth.
D)Because traditional rituals are often neglected in the process of modernizatio
n.
39.According to the passage,consumerist culture ____.\=
A)cannot thrive on a fragile economy
B)will not aggravate environmental problems
C)cannot satisfy human spiritual needs
D)will not alleviate poverty in wealthy countries
40.It can be inferred from the passage that ____.\=
A)human spiritual needs should match material affluence
B)there is never an end to satisfying people’s material needs
C)whether high consumption should be encouraged is still an issue
D)how to keep consumption at a reasonable level remains a problem
Part Ⅲ
Vocabulary (20 minutes)
Directions:There are 30 incomplete sentences in this part,For e
ach sentence there are four choices marked A),B),C) and D),Choose the ONE answe
r that best completes the sentence,Then mark the corresponding letter on the An
swer Sheet with a single line through the centre.
41.I have had my eyes tested and the report says that my ____is perfect
.\=
A)outlookB)visionC)horizonD)perpective
42.He was looking admiringly at the photograph published by Collins in [C
D#3] with the Imperial Museum.
A)collectionB)connectionC)collaborationD)combination
43.In those days,executives expected to spend most of their lives in the
same firm and,unless they were dismissed for ____,to retire at the age of 65
.
A)integrityB)denialC)incompetenceD)deduction
44.Others viewed the finding with ____,noting that a cause-and-effect
relationship between passive smoking and cancer remains to be shown.
A)optimismB)passionC)cautionD)deliberation
45.The 1986 Challenger space-shuttle ____ was caused by unusually low t
emperatures immediately before the launch.
A)expeditionB)controversyC)dismayD)disaster
46.When supply exceeds demand for any product,prise are ____ to fall.
A)timelyB)simultaneousC)subjectD)liable
47.The music aroused an ____ feeling of homesickness in him.
A)intentionalB)intermittentC)intenseD)intrinsic
48.I bought an alarm clock with a(n) ____ dial,which can be seen clearl
y in the dark.
A)supersonicB)luminousC)audibleD)amplified
49.The results are hardly ____;he cannot believe they are accurate.
A)credibleB)contraryC)criticalD)crucial
50.This new laser printer is ____ with all leading software.
A)comparableB)competitiveC)compatibleD)cooperative
51.The ball ____ two or three times before rolling down the slope.
A)swayedB)bouncedC)hoppedD)darted
52.He raised his eyebrows and stuck his head forward and ____ it in a
single nod,a gesture boys used then for O.K,when they were pleased.
A)shruggedB)tuggedC)jerkedD)twisted
53.Many types of rock are ____ from volcanoes as solid,fragmentary mat
erial.
A)flungB)propelledC)ejectedD)injected
54.With prices ____ so much,it is difficult for the school to plan a bu
dget.
A)vibratingB)fluctuatingC)flutteringD)swinging
55.The person who ____ this type of approach for doing research deserve
s our praise.
A)originatedB)speculatedC)generatedD)manufactured
56.____that the demand for power continues to rise at the current rate,
it will not be long before traditional sources become inadequate.
A)ConcerningB)AscertainingC)AssumingD)Regarding
57.Her jewelry ____ under the spotlights and she became the dominant fi
gure at the ball.
A)glaredB)glitteredC)blazedD)dazzled
58.Connie was told that if she worked too hard,her health would ____.
A)deteriorateB)descendC)degradeD)decay
59.We find that some birds ____ twice a year between hot and cold count
ries.
A)transferB)commuteC)migrateD)emigrate
60.As visiting scholars,they willingly ____ to the customs of the coun
try they live in.
A)submitB)conformC)subjectD)commit
61.More than 85 percent of French Canada’s population speaks French as mo
ther tongue and ____ to the Roman Catholic faith.
A)catersB)adheresC)ascribesD)subscribes
62.The professor found himself constantly ____ the question:“How could
anyone do these things?”
A)presidingB)poringC)ponderingD)presuming
63.Weeks ____ before anyone was arrested in connection with the bank ro
bbery.
A)terminatedB)elapsedC)overlappedD)expired
64.In order to prevent stress from being set up in the metal,expansion jo
ints are fitted which ____ the stress by allowing the pipe to expand or contra
ct freely.
A)relieveB)reconcileC)reclaimD)rectify
65.How much of your country’s electrical supply is ____ from water powe
r?
A)deducedB)detachedC)derivedD)declined
66.She has recently left a job and had helped herself to copies of the co
mpany’s client data,which she intended to ____ in starting her own business.
A)dwell onB)come uponC)base onD)draw upon
67.The glass vessels should be handled most carefully since they are [CD#
3].
A)intricateB)fragileC)subtleD)crisp
68.Hill slopes are cleared of forests to make way for crops,but this only
____ the crisis.
A)acceleratesB)prevailsC)ascendsD)precedes
69.He blew out the candle and ____ his way to the door.
A)convergedB)gropedC)strivedD)wrenched
70.Often such arguments have the effect of ____ rather than clarifying
the issues involved.
A)obscuringB)prejudicingC)tacklingD)blocking
Part Ⅳ
Cloze (15 minutes)
Directions:There are 20 blanks in the following passsage,For ea
ch blank there are four choices marked,A),B),C) and D) on the right side of t
he paper,You should choose the ONE that best fits into the passage,Then mark t
he corresponding letter on the Answer Sheet with a single line through the centr
e.
When women do become managers,do they bring a different style and different ski
lls to the job? Are they better,or worse,managers than men? Are woman more high
ly motivated and ____71____ than male managers?\;
Some research ____72____ the idea that woman bring different attitude
s and skills to management jobs,such as greater ____73____,an emphas
is on affiliation and attachment,and a ____74____ to bring emotional
factors to bear ____75____ making workplace decisions,These differences are ____76____ to carry advantages for companies,____77____ they expand the range of techniques that can be used to ____78____ the company manage its workforce ____79____.\;
A study commissioned by the International Women’s Forum ____80____ a management style used by some woman managers (and also by some men) that ____81____ from the command andcontrol style ____82____ used by male managers.
Us
ing this,interactive leadership” approach,“women ____83____ part
icipation,share power and information,____84____ other people’s self-
worth,and get others excited about their work,All these ____85____ r
eflect their belief that allowing ____86____ to contribute and to fee
l ____87____ and important is a win-win ____88____ —good
for the employees and the organization.”The study’s director ____89____ that,interactive leadership may emerge ____90____ the manageme
nt style of choice for many organizations.”
71.A)confrontedB)commandedC)confinedD)committed
72.A)supportsB)arguesC)opposesD)despises
73.A)combinationB)cooperativenessC)coherenceD)correlation
74.A)willingnessB)loyaltyC)sensitivityD)virtue
75.A)byB)inC)atD)with
76.A)disclosedB)watchedC)revisedD)seen
77.A)thereforeB)whereasC)becauseD)nonetheless
78.A)helpB)enableC)supportD)direct
79.A)evidentlyB)preciselyC)aggressivelyD)effectively
80.A)developedB)inventedC)discoveredD)located
81.A)derivesB)differsC)descendsD)detaches
82.A)inherentlyB)traditionallyC)conditionallyD)occasionally
83.A)encourageB)dismissC)disapproveD)engage
84.A)enhanceB)enlargeC)ignoreD)degrade
85.A)themesB)subjectsC)researchesD)things
86.A)managersB)womenC)employeesD)males
87.A)faithfulB)powerfulC)skillfulD)thoughtful
88.A)situationB)statusC)circumstanceD)position
89.A)predictedB)proclaimedC)defiedD)diagnosed
90.A)intoB)fromC)asD)for
试卷二
Part Ⅴ
Writing (30 minutes)
Directions:For this part,you are allowed thirty minutes to writ
e a composition on the topic It Pays to Be Honest,You should write at least 150 words according to the outline given below in Chinese:
1.当前社会上存在许多不诚实的现象
2.诚实利人利己，做人应该诚实
〖JZ〗It Pays to Be Honest
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Part Two 试卷部分
2002年6月
大学英语六级考试历年全真试卷
试卷一
Part Ⅰ
Listening Comprehension(20 minutes)
Section A
Directions:In this section,you will hear 10 short conversations.A
t the end of each conversation,a question will be asked about what was said.Both
the conversation and the question will be spoken only once.After each question
there will be a pause.During the pause,you must read the four choices marked A),
B),C)and D),and decide which is the best answer.Then mark the corresponding lett
er on the Answer Sheet with a single line through the centre.\=
Example:You will hear:\=
You will read,\=
A)2 hours,
B)3 hours.\=
C)4 hours.
D)5 hours.\=
From the conversation we know that the two are talking about some work the
y will start at 9 o’clock in the morning and have to finish at 2 in the afternoo
n.Therefore,D)“5 hours” is the correct answer.You should choose ［D］ on the A
nswer Sheet and mark it with a single line through the centre.\=\=
[JY]Sample Answer ［A］［B］［C］［D］〖KG-1*3/4〗〖CD2〗[FK)]
1.A)Registering for courses.
C)Buying a new computer.
\=B)Getting directions.
D)Studying sociology.\=
2.A)The man will probably have to find a roommate.\=
B)The man is unlikely to live in the suburbs.\=
C)The man will probably have to buy a car.\=
D)The man is unlikely to find exactly what he desires.
3.A)Painting a picture.B)Hosting a program.\=
C)Designing a studio.D)Taking a photograph.
4.A)The woman doesn’t think it a problem to get her passport renewed.\=
B)The woman has difficulty renewing her passport.\=
C)The woman hasn’t renewed her passport yet.\=
D)The woman’s passport is still valid.
5.A)A prediction of the future of mankind.\=
B)A new drug that may benefit mankind.\=
C)An opportunity for a good job.\=
D)An unsuccessful experiment.
6.A)A lesson requires students’ active involvement.\=
B)Students usually take an active part in a lecture.\=
C)More knowledge is covered in a lecture.\=
D)There is a larger group of people interested in lessons.
7.A)Neither of their watches keeps good time.\=
B)The woman’s watch stopped 3 hours ago.\=
C)The man’s watch goes too fast.\=
D)It’s too dark for the woman to read her watch.
8.A)She’s pround of being able to do many things at the same time.\=
B)She is sure to finish all the things in a few hours.\=
C)She dreams of becoming a millionaire someday.\=
D)She’s been kept extremely busy.
9.A)He wants his students to be on time for class.\=
B)He doesn’t allow his students to tell jokes in class.\=
C)He is always punctual for his class.\=
D)He rarely notices which students are late.
10.A)He is nervous about the exam.
B)He is looking for a job.\=
C)He doesn’t dare to tell lies.
D)He doesn’t know how to answer the questions.
Section B
Directions:In this section,you will hear 3 short passages.At the end
of each passage,you will hear some questions.Both the passage and the questions
will be spoken only once.After you hear a question,you must choose the best answ
er from the four choices marked A),B),C)and D).Then mark the corresponding lette
r on the Answer Sheet with a single line through the centre.
Passage One
Questions 11 to 14 are based on the passage you have just heard.\=
11.A)Because she was bored with her idle life at home.\=
B)Because she was offered a good job by her neighbour.\=
C)Because she wanted to help with the family’s finances.\=
D)Because her family would like to see her more involved in social life.
12.A)Doing housework.
B)Looking after her neighbour’s children.\=
C)Reading papers and watching TV.
D)Taking good care of her husband.
13.A)Jane got angry at Bill’s idle life.
B)Bill failed to adapt to the new situation.\=
C)Bill blamed Jane for neglecting the family.
D)The children were not taken good care of.
14.A)Neighbours should help each other.
B)Women should have their own careers.\=
C)Man and wife should share household duties.
D)Parents should take good care of their children.
Passage Two
Questions 15 to 17 are based on the passage you have just heard.\=
15.A)To predict natural disasters that can cause vast destruction.\=
B)To limit the destruction that natural disasters may cause.\=
C)To gain financial support from the United Nations.\=
D)To propose measures to hold back natural disasters.
16.A)There is still a long way to go before man can control natural disas
ters.\=
B)International cooperation can minimize the destructive force of natural
disasters.\=
C)Technology can help reduce the damage natural disasters may cause.\=
D)Scientists can successfully predict earthquakes.
17.A)Because there were fatal mistakes in its design.\=
B)Because the builder didn’t observe the building codes of the time.\=
C)Because the traffic load went beyond its capacity.\=
D)Because it was built according to less strict earthquake-resistance standards.
Passage Three
Questions 18 to 20 are based on the passage you have just heard.\=
18.A)By judging to what extent they can eliminate the risks.\=
B)By estimating the possible loss of lives and property.\=
C)By estimating the frequency of volcanic eruptions.\=
D)By judging the possible risks against the likely benefits.
19.A)Once of Etna’s recent eruptions made many people move away.\=
B)Etna’s frequent eruptions have ruined most of the local farmland.\=
C)Etna’s eruptions are frequent but usually mild.\=
D)There are signs that Etna will erupt again in the near future.
20.A)They will remain where they are.\=
B)They will leave this area for ever.\=
C)They will wait and see.
D)They will seek shelter in nearby regions.
Part Ⅱ
Reading Comprehension (35 minutes)
Directions:There are 4 passages in this part.Each passage is followed by some questions or unfinished statements.For each of them there are four choi
ces marked A),B),C) and D).You should decide on the best choice and mark the cor
responding letter on the Answer Sheet with a single line through the centre.
Passage One
Questions 21 to 25 are based on the following passage.
When global warming finally came,it stuck with a vengeance(异乎寻常地).In so
me regions,temperatures rose several degrees in less than a century.Sea levels s
hot up nearly 400 feet,flooding coastal settlements and forcing people to migrat
e inland.Deserts spread throughout the world as vegetation shifted drastically i
n North America,Europe and Asia.After driving many of the animals around them to
near extinction,people were forced to abandon their old way of life for a radic
ally new survival strategy that resulted in widespread starvation and disease.Th
e adaptation was farming:the global-warming crisis that gave rise to it happened
more than 10,000 years ago.
As environmentalists convene in Rio de Janeiro this week to ponder the global cl
imate of the future,earth scientists are in the midst of a revolution in underst
anding how climate has changed in the past—and how those changes have transform
ed human existence.Researchers have begun to piece together an illuminating pict
ure of the powerful geological and astronomical forces that have combined to cha
nge the planet’s environment from hot to cold,wet to dry and back again over a t
ime period stretching back hundreds of millions of years.
Most importantly,scientists are beginning to realize that the climatic changes h
av
e had a major impact on the evolution of the human species.New research now sugge
sts that climate shifts have played a key role in nearly every significant turni
ng point in human evolution:from the dawn of primates(灵长目动物) some 65 mi
llion years ago to human ancestors rising up to walk on two legs,from the huge e
xpansion of the human brain to the rise of agriculture.Indeed,the human history
has not been merely touched by global climate change,some scientists argue,it ha
s in some instances been driven by it.
The new research has profound implications for the environmental summit in Rio.A
mong other things,the findings demonstrate that dramatic climate change is nothi
ng new for planet Earth.The benign(宜人的) global environment that has exist
ed over the past 10,000 years—during which agriculture,writing,cities and most
other features of civilization appeared—is a mere bright spot in a much larger
pattern of widely varying climate over the ages.In fact,the pattern of climate c
hange in the past reveals that Earth’s climate will almost certainly go through
dramatic changes in the future—even without the influence of human activity.\=
21.Farming emerged as a survival strategy because man had been obliged [C
D#3〗.\=
A)to give up his former way of life\=
B)to leave the coastal areas\=
C)to follow the ever-shifting vegetation\=
D)to abandon his original settlement
22.Earth scientists have come to understand that climate____.\=
A)is going through a fundamental change\=
B)has been getting warmer for 10,000 years\=
C)will eventually change from hot to cold\=
D)has gone through periodical changes
23.Scientists believe that human evolution ____.\=
A)has seldom been accompanied by climatic changes\=
B)has exerted little influence on climatic changes\=
C)has largely been effected by climatic changes\=
D)has had a major impact on climatic changes
24.Evidence of past climatic changes indicates that ____.\=
A)human activities have accelerated changes of Earth’s environment\=
B)Earth’s environment will remain mild despite human interference\=
C)Earth’s climate is bound to change significantly in the future\=
D)Earth’s climate is unlikely to undergo substantial changes in the future〖ZK)
〗
25.The message the author wishes to convey in the passage is that ____.
\=
A)human civilization remains glorious though it is affected by climatic c
hanges
B)mankind is virtually helpless in the face of the dramatic changes of climate\=
C)man has to limit his activities to slow down the global warming process\=
D)human civilization will continue to develop in spite of the changes of
nature
Passage Two
Questions 26 to 30 are based on the following passage.
Now woman can be too rich or too thin.This saying often attributed to the late
Duchess(公爵夫人) of Windsor embodies much of the odd spirit of our times.Be
ing thin is deemed as such a virture.
The problem with such a view is that some people actually attempt to live by it.
I myself have fantasies of slipping into narrow designer clothes.Consequently,I
have been on a diet for the better—or worse—part of my life.Being rich wouldn’
t be bad either,but that won’t happen unless an unknown relative dies suddenly i
n some distant land,leaving me millions of dollars.
Where did we go off the track?When did eating butter become a sin,and a little b
it of extra flesh unappealing,if not repellent?All religions have certain days w
hen people refrain from eating,and excessive eating is one of Christianity’s sev
en deadly sins.However,until quite recently,most people had a problem getting en
ough to eat.In some religious groups,wealth was a symbol of probable salvation a
nd high morals,and fatness a sign of wealth and well-being.
Today the opposite is true.We have shifted to thinness as our new mark of virtue
.The result is that being fat—or even only somewhat overweight—is bad because
it implies a lack of moral strength.
Our obsession(迷恋) with thinness is also fueled by health concerns.It is tr
ue that in this country we have more overweight people than ever before,and that
,in many cases,being overweight correlates with an increased risk of heart and blood vessel disease,These diseases,however,may have as much to do with our way of life and our high-fat diets as with excess weight.And the associated risk of cancer in the digestive system may be more of a dietary problem—too much fat and a lack of f
iber—than a weight problem.
The real concern,then,is not that we weigh too much,but that we neither exercise
enough nor eat well.Exercise is necessary for strong bones and both heart and l
ung health.A balanced diet without a lot of fat can also help the body avoid man
y diseases.We should surely stop paying so much attention to weight.Simply being
thin is not enough.It is actually hazardous if those who get (or already are) t
hin think they are automatically healthy and thus free from paying attention to
their overall life-style.Thinness can be pure vainglory(虚荣).
26.In the eyes of the author,an odd phenomenon nowadays is that ____.
A)the Duchess of Windsor is regarded as a woman of virtue\=
B)looking slim is a symbol of having a large fortune\=
C)being thin is viewed as a much desired quality\=
D)religious people are not necessarily virtuous
27.Swept by the prevailing trend,the author____.\=
A)had to go on a diet for the greater part of her life\=
B)could still prevent herself from going off the track\=
C)had to seek help from rich distant relatives\=
D)had to wear highly fashionable clothes
28.In human history,people’s views on body weight____.\=
A)were closely related to their religious beliefs\=
B)changed from time to time\=
C)varied between the poor and the rich\=
D)led to different moral standards
29.The author criticizes women’s obsession with thinness ____.\=
A)from an economic and educational perspective\=
B)from sociological and medical points of view\=
C)from a historical and religious standpoint\=
D)in the light of moral principles
30.What’s the author’s advice to women who are absorbed in the idea of th
inness?\=
A)They should be more concerned with their overall lifestyle.\=
B)They should be more watchful for fatal diseases.\=
C)They should gain weight to look healthy.\=
D)They should rid themselves of fantasies about designer clothes.
Passage Three
Questions 31 to 35 are based on the following passage.
War may be a natural expression of biological instincts and drives toward aggres
s
ion in the human species.Natural impulses of anger,hostility,and territorialit
y(守卫地盘的天性) are expressed through acts of violence.These are all qualiti
es that humans share with animals,Aggression is a kind of innate(天生的) su
rvival mechanism,an instinct for self-preservation that allows animals to defend
themselves from threats to their existences of human violence are always conditi
oned by social conventions that give shape to aggressive behavior.In human socie
ties violence has a social function.It is a strategy for creating or destroying
forms of social order.Religious traditions have taken a leading role in directin
g the powers of violence.We will look at the ritual and ethical(道德上的) pa
tterns within which human violence has been directed.
The violence within a society is controlled through institutions of law.The more
developed a legal system becomes,the more society takes responsibility for the
discovery,control,and punishment of violent acts.In most tribal societies the on
ly means to deal with an act of violence is revenge.Each family group may have
the responsibility for personally carrying out judgment and punishment upon the
person who committed the offense.But in legal systems,the responsibility for rev
enge becomes depersonalized and diffused.The society assumes the responsibility
for protecting individuals from violence.In cases where they cannot be protected
,the society is responsible for imposing punishment.In a statecontrolled legal
system,individuals are removed from the cycle of revenge motivated by acts of v
iolence,and the state assumes responsibility for their protection.
The other side of a state legal apparatus is a state military apparatus.While th
e one protects the individual from violence,the other sacrifices the individual
to violence in the interests of the state.In war the state affirms its supreme p
ower over the individuals within its own borders.War is not simply a trial by co
mbatting to settle disputes between states;it is the moment when the state makes
its most powerful demands upon its people for their commitment allegiance,and s
upreme sacrifice.Times of war test a community’s deepest religious and ethical c
ommitments.\=
31.Human violence shows evidence of being a learned behavior in that [CD#
3].\=
A)it threatens the existing social systems\=
B)it is influenced by society\=
C)it has roots in religious conflicts\=
D)it is directed against institutions of law
32.The function of legal systems,according to the passage,is ____.\=
A)to control violence within a society\=
B)to protect the world from chaos\=
C)to free society from the idea of revenge\=
D)to give the government absolute power
33.What does the author mean by saying,..,in legal systems,the respons
ibility for revenge becomes depersonalized and diffused”(Lines 4-5,Para.2)?
A)Legal systems greatly reduce the possibilities of physical violence.\=
B)Offenses against individuals are no longer judged on a personal basis.\=
C)Victims of violence find it more difficult to take revenge.\=
D)Punishment is not carried out directly by the individuals involved.
34.The word,allegiance”(Line 4,Para,3) is closest in meaning to [CD#3
].\=
A)loyaltyB)objective\=
C)survivalD)motive
35.What can we learn from the last paragraph?\=
A)Governments tend to abuse their supreme power in times of war.\=
B)In times of war governments may extend their power across national bord
ers.\=
C)In times of war governments impose high religious and ethical standards
on their people.\=
D)Governments may sacrifice individuals in the interests of the state in
times of war.
Passage Four
Questions 36 to 40 are based on the following passage.
Researchers who are unfamiliar with the cultural and ethnic groups they are stud
ying must take extra precautions to shed any biases they bring with them from th
eir own culture.For example,they must make sure they construct measures that are
meaningful for each of the cultural or ethnic minority groups being studied.
In conducting research on cultural and ethnic minority issues,investigators dist
inguish between the emic approach and the etic approach.In the emic approach,th
e goal is to describe behavior in one culture or ethnic group in terms that are
meaningful and important to the people in that culture or ethnic group,without r
egard to other cultures or ethnic groups.In the etic approach,the goal is to des
cribe behavior so that generalizations can be made across cultures.If researcher
s construct a questionnaire in an emic fashion,the concern is only that the qu
estions are meaningful to the particular culture or ethnic group being studied.I
f,however,the researchers construct a questionnaire in an etic fashion,they want
to include questions that reflect concepts familiar to all cultures involved.
How might the emic and etic approaches be reflected in the study of family proce
sses?In the emic approach,the researchers might choose to focus only on middle-c
lass White families,without regard for whether the information obtained in the s
tudy can be generalized or is appropriate for ethnic minority groups.In a subseq
uent study,the researchers may decide to adopt an etic approach by studying not
only middle-class White familes,but also lower-income White families,Black Ameri
can families,Spanish American families,and Asian American families.In studying e
thnic minority families,the researchers would likely discover that the extended
family is more frequently a support system in ethnic minority families than in W
hite American families.If so,the emic approach would reveal a different pattern
of family interaction than would the etic approach,docummenting that research wi
th middle-class White families cannot always be generalized to all ethnic groups
.\=
36.According to the first paragraph,researchers unfamiliar with the targe
t cultures are inclined to ____.\=
A)be overcautious in constructing meaningful measures\=
B)view them from their own cultural perspective\=
C)guard against interference from their own culture\=
D)accept readily what is alien to their own culture
37.What does the author say about the emic approach and the etic approach
\=
A)They have different research focuses in the study of ethnic issues.\=
B)The former is biased while the latter is objective.\=
C)The former concentrates on the study of culture while the latter on fam
ily issues.\=
D)They are both heavily dependent on questionnaires in conducting survey
s.
38.Compared with the etic approach,the emic approach is apparently more [
CD#3].\=
A)culturally interactiveB)culturally biased\=
C)culture-orientedD)culture-specific
39.The etic approach is concerned with ____.\=
A)the general characteristics of minority families\=
B)culture-related concepts of individual ethnic groups\=
C)features shared by various cultures or ethnic groups\=
D)the economic conditions of different types of families
40.Which of the following is true of the ethnic minority families in the
U.S,according to the passage?\=
A)Their cultural patterns are usually more adaptable.\=
B)Their cultural concepts are difficult to comprehend.\=
C)They don’t interact with each other so much as White families.\=
D)They have closer family ties than White families.
Part Ⅲ
Vocabulary (20 minutes)
Directions:There are 30 incomplete sentences in this part.For each se
ntence there are four choices marked A),B),C) and D).Choose the ONE answer tha
t best completes the sentence.Then mark the corresponding letter on the Answer S
heet with a single line through the centre.\=
41.It was ____ that the restaurant discriminated against black customer
s.\=
A)addictedB)allegedC)assaulted〖WB
〗D)ascribed
42.The medicine____ his pain but did not cure his illness.\=
A)activatedB)alleviatedC)mediated
D)deteriorated
43.He is the only person who can ____ in this case,because the other wi
tnesses were killed mysteriously.\=
A)testifyB)chargeC)accuse
D)rectify
44.Professor Hawking is____ as one of the world’s greatest living physi
cists.\=
A)dignifiedB)clarifiedC)acknowledged
D)illustrated
45.The financial problem of this company is further____ by the rise in
interest rates.\=
A)increasedB)strengthenedC)reinforced
D)aggravated
46.We shall probably never be able to ____ the exact nature of these su
b-atomic particles.\=
A)assertB)impartC)ascertain
D)notify
47.All the people in the stadium cheered up when they saw hundreds of col
ourful balloons ____ slowly into the sky.\=
A)ascendingB)elevatingC)escalating
D)lingering
48.Many years had ____ before they returned to their original urban ar
eas.\=
A)floatedB)elapsedC)skipped
D)proceeded
49.What you say now is not ____ with what you said last week.\=
A)consistentB)persistentC)permanent
D)insistent
50.Military orders are ____ and cannot be disobeyed.\=
A)defectiveB)conservativeC)alternative
D)imperative
51.Some educators try to put students of familiar abilities into the same c
lass because they believe this kind of ____ grouping is advisable.\=
A)homogeneousB)instantaneousC)spontaneous
D)anonymous
52.Even sensible men do ____ things sometimes.\=
A)abruptB)absurdC)acute
D)apt
53.The commission would find itself____ at every turn if its members co
uldn’t reach an agreement.
A)collidedB)savagedC)crumbled
D)hampered
54.Grain production in the world is ____,but still millions go hungry.
A)staggeringB)shrinkingC)soaringD)suspending
55.He developed a ____ attitude after years of frustration in his caree
r.\=
A)sneakingB)disgustedC)drasticD)cynical
56.They believed that this was not the ____ of their campaign for equal
ity but merely the beginning.\=
A)climaxB)summitC)pitch
D)maximum
57.Several guests were waiting in the ____ for the front door to open.
A)porchB)ventC)inlet
D)entry
58.As the mountains were covered with a ____ of cloud,we couldn’t see t
heir tops.\=
A)coatingB)filmC)veil
D)shade
59.We couldn’t really afford to buy a house so we got it on hire purchase
and paid monthly ____.\=
A)investmentsB)requirementsC)arrangements
D)installments
60.The magician made us think he cut the girl into pieces but it was mere
ly an ____.\=
A)illusionB)impressionC)image
D)illumination
61.A good education is an ____ you can fall back on for the rest of you
r life.\=
A)assetB)ethicC)inventory
D)obligation
62.Giving a gift can convey a wealth of meaning about your appreciation o
f their ____ and the importance you place upon the relationship.\=
A)solidarityB)priorityC)superiority
D)hospitality
63.The designer has applied for a ____ for his new invention.\=
A)tariffB)discountC)version
D)patent
64.The toy maker produces a ____ copy of the space station,exact in eve
ry detail.\=
A)minimalB)minimumC)miniature
D)minor
65.An energy tax would curb ordinary air pollution,limit oil imports and
cut the budget____.\=
A)dispostitonB)discrepancyC)defectD)deficit
66.They have decided to ____ physical punishment in all local schools.
A)put awayB)break away fromC)do away withD)pass away
67.Astronauts are ____ all kinds of tests before they are actually sent
up in a spacecraft.\=
A)inclined toB)subjected toC)prone toD)bound to
68.Individual sports are run by over 370 independent governing bodies who
se functions usually include ____ rules,holding events,selecting national team
s and promoting international links.\=
A)drawing onB)drawing inC)drawing up
D)drawing down
69.Up until that time,his interest had focused almost____ on fully mast
ering the skills and techniques of his craft.\=
A)restrictivelyB)radicallyC)inclusively
D)exclusively
70.All the ceremonies at the 2000 Olympic Games had a unique Australian f
lavor,____ of their multicultural communities.\=
A)noticeableB)indicativeC)conspicuous
D)implicit
试卷二
Part Ⅳ
Error Correction (15 minutes)
Directions:This part consists of a short passage.In this p
assage,there are altogether 10 mistakes,one in each numbered line.You may have t
o change a word,add a word or delete a word.Mark out the mistakes and put the co
rrections in the blanks provided.If you change a word,cross it out and write the
correct word in the corresponding blank.If you add a word,put an insertion mar
k(∧)in the right place and write the missing word in the blank.If you delete a
word,cross it out and put a slash(／)in the blank.\=
Example：
〖DZ(22，6〗Television is rapidly becoming the literature of our periods[KG-1]/,Many of the arguments having[KG-1]/ [KG*2]used for the study of literature as a school subject are valid for ∧ study of television.[]
1,____Time/times/period____
2.____/____
3.____the____[DZ)]
A great many cities are experiencing difficulties which\=
are nothing new in the history of cities,except in their scale.\=
Some cities have lost their original purpose and have not found\=
new one.And any large or rich city is going to attract poor〖JY,16〗S1.____\=
immigrants,who flood in,filling with hopes of prosperity〖JY,16〗S2.____\=
which are then often disappointing.There are backward towns\=
on the edge of Bombay or Brasilia,just as though there were 〖JY,16〗S3.____\=
on the edge of seventeenth-century London or early nine\=
teenthcentury Paris.This is new is in the scale.Descriptions〖JY,16〗S4.____\=
written by eighteenth-century travelers of the poor of Mexico\=
City,and the enormous contrasts that was to be found there,〖JY,16〗S5.____\=
are very dissimilar to descriptions of Mexico City today—the〖JY,16〗S6.____\=
poor can still be numbered in millions.
The whole monstrous growth rests on economic prosper-\=
ity,but behind it lies two myths:the myth of the city as a 〖JY,16〗S7.____\=
promised land,that attracts immigrants from rural poverty〖JY,16〗S8.____\=
and brings it flooding into city centers,and the myth of the 〖JY,16〗S9.____\=
country as a Garden of Eden,which,a few generations late,〖JY,16〗S10.____\=
sends them flooding out again to the suburbs.\=
Part Ⅴ
Writing (30 minutes)
Directions:For this part,you are allowed thirty minutes to
write a composition on the topic [WTHX]Student Use of Computers.You should write at least 150 words,and base your composition on the chart and the outline given below:
〖PS111.EPS,+60mm。90mm，BP#〗
1.〖ZK(#〗上图所示为1990年、1995年、2000年某校大学生使用计算机的情况，请描述其变化；
2.请说明发生这些变化的原因(可从计算机的用途、价格或社会发展等方面加以说明)；
3.你认为目前大学生在计算机使用中有什么困难或问题。
〖JZ〗Student Use of Computers\=
____
____
____
____
____
____
Part Two 试卷部分
2002年1月
大学英语六级考试历年全真试卷
试卷一
Part Ⅰ
Listening Comprehension(20 minutes)
Section A
[HJ1mm]
Directions,In this section,you will hear 10 short conversations,At t
he end of each conversation,a question will be asked about what was said,Both
the conversation and the question will be spoken only once,After each question
there will be a pause,During the pause,you must read the four choices marked A),B),C) and D),and decide which is the best answer,Then mark the correspond
ing letter on the Answer Sheet with a single line through the centre.
Example:You will hear:
You will read,
A) 2 hours,B) 3 hours,C) 4 hours.
D) 5 hours,
From the conversation,we know that the two were talking about some work they wi
ll start at 9’ o’clock in the morning and have to finish at 2 in the afternoon,
Therefore,D),5 hours” is the correct answer,You should choose ［D］ on the
Answer Sheet and mark it with a single line through the centre, Sample Answer ［A］ ［B］ ［C］ ［D］[KG-4.5mm]—[FK)]
1,A) All the passengers were killed,B) The plane
crashed in the night.
C) No more survivors have been found.D) It’s too late to search for surviv
ors.
2,A) Its results were just as expected.B) It wasn’t very well desi
gned.
C) It fully reflected the students’ ability.D) Its results fell short to h
er expectations.
3,A) He believes dancing is enjoyable.B) He definitely does not lik
e dancing.
C) He admires those who dance.D) He won’t dance until he has done his work
.
4,A) His computer doesn’t work well.B) He isn’t getting along with his staff.
C) He didn’t register for a proper course.D) He can’t apply the theory to
his program.
5,A) Reading on the campus lawn.B) Depositing money in the bank.
C) Applying for financial aid.D) Reviewing a student’s application.
6,A) A new shuttle bus.B) A scheduled space flight.
C) An airplane flight.D) The first space flight.
7,A) The deadline is drawing near.B) She can’t meet the deadline.
C) She turned in the proposals today.D) They are two days ahead of time.
8,A) By going on a diet.B) By having fewer meals.
C) By doing physical exercise.D) By eating fruit and vegetables.
9,A) He enjoyed it as a whole.B) He didn’t think much of it.
C) He didn’t like it at all.D) He liked some parts of it.
10,A) It looks quite new.B) It needs to be repaired.
C) It look old,but it runs well.D) Its engine needs to be painted.
Section B
Directions:In this section,you will hear 3 short passages,At the end o
f each passage,you will hear some questions,Both the passage and the questions
will be spoken only once,After you hear a question,you must choose the best a
nswer from the four choices marked A),B),C) and D),Then mark the corresponding
letter on the Answer Sheet with a single line through the centre.
Passage One
Questions 11 to 13 are based on the passage you have just heard.
11,A) Experience in negotiating.
B) A high level of intelligence.
C) The time they spend on preparation.
D) The amount of pay they receive.
12,A) Study the case carefully beforehand.
B) Stick to a set target.
C) Appear friendly to the other party.
D) Try to be flexible about their terms.
13,A) Make sure there is no misunderstanding.
B) Try to persuade by giving various reasons.
C) Repeat the same reasons.
D) Listen carefully and patiently to the other party.
Passage Two
Questions 14 to 16 are based on the passage you have just heard.
14,A) They eat huge amounts of food.
B) They usually eat twice a day.
C) They usually eat to their hearts’ content.
D) They eat much less than people assume.
15,A) When it is breeding.
B) When it feels threatened by humans in its territory.
C) When its offspring is threatened.
D) When it is suffering from illness.
16,A) They are not as dangerous as people think.
B) They can be as friendly to humans as dogs.
C) They attack human beings by nature.
D) They are really tame sea animals.
Passage Three
Questions 17 to 20 are based on the passage you have just heard.
17,A) Because people might to migrate there someday.
B) Because it is very much like the earth.
C) Because it is easier to explore than other planets.
D) Because its atmosphere is different from that of the earth.
18,A) Its chemical elements must be studied.
B) Its temperature must be lowered.
C) Big spaceships must be built.
D) Its atmosphere must be changed.
19,A) It influences the surface temperature of Mars.
B) It protects living beings from harmful rays.
C) It keeps a planet from overheating.
D) It is the main component of the air people breathe.
20,A) Man will probably be able to live there in 200 years.
B) Scientists are rather pessimistic about it.
C) Man will probably be able to live there in 100,000 years’ time.
D) Scientists are optimistic about overcoming the difficulties soon.
Part Ⅱ
Reading Comprehension (35 minutes)
Directions,There are 4 passage in this part,Each passage is followed by
some questions or unfinished statements,For each of them there are four choices
marked A),B),C) and D),You should decide on the best choice and mark the corre
sponding letter on the Answer Sheet with a single line through the centre.
Passage One
Questions 21 to 25 are based on the following passage.
Navigation computers,now sold by most carmakers,cost $2,000 and up,No surpr
ise,then,that they are most often found in luxury cars,like Lexus,BMW and Au
di,But it is a developing technology—meaning prices should eventually drop—an
d the market does seem to be growing.
Even at current prices,a navigation computer is impressive.It can guide you fro
m point to point in most major cities with precise turn-by-turn directions—spok
en by a clear human-sounding voice,and written on a screen in front of the driv
er.
The computer works with an antenna (天线) that takes signals from no fewer than
three of the 24 global positioning system (GPS) satellites,By measuring the tim
e required for a signal to travel between the satellites and antennam,the car’s
location can be pinned down within 100 meters.
The satellite singnals,along with inputs on speed from a wheel-speed sensor and
direction from a meter,determine the car’s position even as it moves,This info
rmation is combined with a map database,Streets,landmarks and points of intere
st are included.
Most systems are basically identical,The differences come in hardware—the way
the computer accepts the driver’s request for directions and the way it present
s the driving instructions,On most systems,a driver enters a desired address,
motorway junction or point of interest via a touch screen or disc,But the Lexus
screen goes a step further,you can point to any spot on the map screen and get
directions to it.
BMW’s system offers a set of cross hairs (瞄准器上的十字纹) that can be moved ac
ross the map (you have several choices of map scale) to pick a point you’d like
to get to,Audi’s screen can be switched to TV reception.
Even the voices that recite the directions can differ,with better systems like
BMW’s and Lexus’s having a wider vocabulary,The instructions are available in F
rench,German,Spanish,Dutch and Italian,as well as English.The driver can als
o choose parameters for determining the route,fastest,shortest or no freeways
(高速公路),for example.
21,We learn from the passage that navigation computers ____.
A) will greatly promote sales of automoblies
B) may help solve potential traffic problems
C) are likely to be accepted by more drivers
D) will soon be viewed as a symbol of luxury
22,With a navigation computer,a driver will easily find the best route
to his destination ____.
A) by inputting the exact address
B) by indicating the location of his car
C) by checking his computer database
D) by giving vocal orders to the computer
23,Despite their varied designs,navigation computers used in cars 〖CD#
3〗.
A) are more or less the same price
B) provide directions in much the same way
C) work on more or less the same principles
D) receive instructions from the same satellites
24,The navigation computer functions ____.
A) by means of a direction finder and a speed detector
B) basically on satellite signals and a map database
C) mainly through the reception of turn-by-turn directions
D) by using a screen to display satellite signals
25,The navigation systems in cars like Lexus,BMW and Audi are mentioned
to show ____.
A) the immaturity of the new technology
B) the superiority of the global positioning system
C) the cause of price fluctuations in car equipment
D) the different ways of providing guidance to the driver
Passage Two
Questions 26 to 30 are based on the following passage.
“The world’s environment is a surprisingly healthy discuss.,If that were an e
xamination topic,most students would tear it apart,offering a long list of com
plaints,from local smog (烟雾) to global climate change,from the felling (砍伐
) of forest to the extinction of species,The list would largely be accurate,th
e concern legitimate,Yet the students who should be given the highest marks wou
ld actually be those who agreed with the statement,The surprise is how good thi
ngs are,not how bad.
After all,the world’s population has more than tripled during this century,and
world output has risen hugely,so you would expect the earth itself to have bee
n affected,Indeed,if people lived,consumed and produced things in the same wa
y as they did in 1900 (or 1950s,or indeed 1980),the world by now would be a pr
etty disgusting place,smelly,dirty,toxic and dangerous.
But they don’t,The reasons why they don’t,and why the environment has not been
ruined,have to do with prices,technological innovation,social change and gov
ernment regulation in response to popular pressure,That is why today’s environm
ental problems in the poor countries ought,in principle,to be solvable.
Raw materials have not run out,and show to sing of doing so,Logically,one day
they must,the planet is a finite place,Yet it is also very big,and man is very
ingenious,What has happened is that every time a material seems to be running
short,the price has risen and,in response,peole have looked for new sources o
f supply,tried to find ways to use less of the material,or looked for a new su
bstitute,For this reason prices for energy and for minerals have fallen in real
terms during the century,The same is true for food,Prices fluctuate,in resp
onse to harvests,natural disasters and political instability; and when they ris
e,it takes some time before new sources of supply become available,But they alw
ays do,assisted by new farming and crop technology,The long-term trend has bee
n downwards.
It is where prices and markets do not operate properly that this benign (良性的)
trend begins to stumble,and the genuine problems arise,Markets cannot always k
eep the environment healthy,If no one owns the resource concerned,no one has a
n interest in conserving it or fostering it,fish is the best example of this.
26,According to the author,most students ____.
A) believe the world’s environment is in undesirable condition
B) agree that the environment of the world is not as bad as it is thought to be
C) get high marks for their good knowledge of the world’s environment
D) appear somewhat unconcerned about the state of the world’s environment
27,The huge increase in world production and population ____.
A) has made the world a worse place to live in
B) has had a positive influence on the environment
C) has not significantly affected the environment
D) has made the world a dangerous place to live in
28,One of the reasons why the long-term trend of prices has been downwar
ds is that ____.
A) technological innovation can promote soical stability
B) political instability will cause consumption to drop
C) new farming and crop technology can lead to overproduction
D) new sources are always becoming available
29,Fish resources are diminishing because ____.
A) no new substitutes can be found in large quantities
B) they are not owned by any particular entity
C) improper methods of fishing have ruined the fishing grounds
D) water pollution is extremely serious
30,The primary solution to environmental problems is ____.
A) to allow market forces to operate properly
B) to curb consumption of natural resources
C) to limit the growth of the world population
D) to avoid fluctuations in prices
Passage Three
Questions 31 to 35 are based on the following passage.
About the time that schools and others quite reasonably became interested in see
ing to it that all children,whatever their background,were fairly treated,int
elligence testing became unpopular.
Some thought it was unfair to minority children,Through the past few decades su
ch testing has gone out of fashion and many communties have indeed forbidden it.
However,paradoxically,just recently a group of black parents filed a lawsuit (
诉讼) in California claiming that the state’s ban on IQ testing discriminates ag
ainst their children by denying them the opportunity to take the test,(They bel
ived,correctly,that IQ tests are a valid method of evaluating children for spe
cial education classes.) The judge,thereforce,reversed,at least partially,hi
s original decision.
And so the argument goes on and on,Does it benefit or harm children from minori
ty groups to have their intelligence tested? We have always been on the side of
permitting,even facilitating,such testing,If a child of any color or group is
do
ing poorly in school it seems to us very important to know whether it is because
he or she is of low intelligence,or whether some other factor is the cause.
What school and family can do to improve poor performance is influenced by its c
a
use,It is not discriminative to evaluate either a child’s physical condition or
his intellectual level.
Unfortunately,intellectual level seems to be a sensitive subject,and what the
l
aw allows us to do varies from time to time,The same fluctuation back and forth
occurs in areas other than intelligence,Thirty years or so ago,for instance,
white families were encouraged to adopt black children,It was considered discri
minative not to do so.
And then the style changed and this cross-racial adopting became generally unpop
ular,and social agencies felt that black children should go to black families o
nly,It is hard to say what are the best procedures,But surely good will on the
part of all of us is needed.
As so intelligence,in our opinion,the more we know about any child’s intellect
ual level,the better for the child in question.
31,Why did the intelligence test become unpopular in the past few decade
s?
A) Because its validity was challenged by many communities.
B) Because it was considered discriminative against minority children.
C) Because it met with strong opposition from the majority of black parents.
D) Because it deprived the black children of their rights to a good education.
32,The recent legal action taken by some black parents in California aim
ed to ____.
A) draw public attention to IQ testing
B) put an end to special education
C) remove the state’s ban on intelligence tests
D) have their children enter white schools
33,The author believes that intelligence testing ____.
A) may ease racial confrontation in the United States
B) can encourage black children to keep up with white children
C) may seriously aggravate racial discrimination in the United States
D) can help black parents make decisions about their children’s education
34,The author’s opinion of child adoption seems to be that ____.
A) no rules whatsoever can be prescribed
B) white families should adopt black children
C) adoption should be based on IQ test results
D) cross-racial adoption is to be advocated
35,Child adoption is mentioned in the passage to show that ____.
A) good will may sometimes complicate racial problems
B) social surroundings are vital to the healthy growth of children
C) intelligence testing also applies to to non-academic areas
D) American opinion can shift when it comes to sensitive issues
Passage Four
Questions 36 to 40 are based on the following passage.
Not too many decades ago it seemed,obvious”both to the general public and to
so
ciologists that modern society has changed people’s natural relations,loosened
their responsibilities to kin (亲戚) and neighbors,and substituted in their pla
ce superficial relationships with passing acquaintances,However,in recent years
a growing body of research has revealed that the,obvious”is not ture,It see
ms
that if you are a city resident,you typically know a smaller proportion of your
neighbors than you do if you are a resident of a smaller community,But,for the
most part,this fact has few significant consequences,It does not necessarily
follow that if you know few of your neighbors you will know no one else.
Even in very large cities,people maintain close social ties within small,priva
te social worlds,Indeed,the number and quality of meaningful relationships do
not differ between more and less urban people,Small-town residents are more inv
olved with kin than big-city residents,Yet city dwellers compensate by developi
ng friendships with people who share similar interests and activities,Urbanism
may produce a different style of life,but the quality of life does not diff
er between town and city,Nor are residents of large communities any likelier to
display psychological symptoms of stress or alienation,a feeling of not belong
ing,than are residents of smaller communities,However,city dwellers do worry m
ore about crime,and this leads them to a distrust of strangers.
These findings do not imply that urbanism makes little or no difference,If neig
hbors are strangers to one another,they are less likely to sweep the sidewalk of
an elderly couple living next door or keep an eye out for young trouble makers.
Moreover,as Wirth suggested,there may be a link between a community’s populatio
n size and its social heterogeneity(多样性),For instance,sociologists have fou
nd much evidence that the size of a community is associated with bad behavior i
ncluding gambling,drugs,etc,Large-city urbanites are also more likely than th
eir small-town counterparts to have a cosmopolitan (见多识广者的) outlook,to dis
play less responsibility to traditional kinship roles,to vote for leftist politi
cal candidates,and to be tolerant of nontraditional religious groups,unpopular p
olitical groups,and so-called undesirables,Everything considered,heterogeneity
and unusual behavior seem to be outcomes of large population size.
36,Which of the following statements best describes the organization of
the first paragraph?
A) Two contrasting views are presented.
B) An argument is examined and possible solutions given.
C) Research results concerning the quality of urban life are presented i
n order of time.
D) A detailed description of the difference between urban and small-town
life is given.
37,According to the passage,it was once a common belief that urban resid
ents ____.
A) did not have the same Interests as their neighbors
B) could not develop long-standing relationships
C) tended to be associated with bad behavior
D) usually had more friends
38,One of the consequences of urban life is that impersonal relationship
s among neighbors ____.
A) disrupt people’s natural relations
B) make them worry about crime
C) cause them not to show concern for one another
D) cause them to the suspicious of each other
39,It can be inferred from the passage that the bigger a community is,
____.
A) the better its quality of life
B) the more similar its interests
C) the more tolerant and open-minded it is
D) the likelier it is to display psychological symptoms of stress
40,What is the passage mainly about?
A) Similarities in the interpersonal relationships between urbanites and smal
l-town dwellers.
B) Advantages of living in big cities as compared with living in small towns.
C) The positive role that urbanism plays in modern life.
D) The strong feeling of alienation of city inhabitants.
Part Ⅲ
Vocabulary (20 minutes)
Directions,There are 30 incomplete sentences in this part,For each se
ntence there are four choices marked A),B),C) and D),Choose the ONE answer th
at best completes the sentence,Then mark the corresponding letter on the Answer
Sheet with a single line through the centre.
41,The lady in this strange tale very obviously suffers from a serious i
llness,Her plot against a completely innocent old man is a clear sign of ____.
A) impulse B) insanity C) inspiration
D) disposition
42,The Prime Minister was followed by five or six ____ when he got o
ff the plane.
A) laymenB) servantsC) directorsD) attendants
43,There is no doubt that the ____ of these goods to the others is e
asy to see.
A) prestigeB) superiorityC) priorityD) publicity
44,All the guests were invited to attend the wedding ____ and had a
very good time.
A) feastB) congratulations
C) festivalD) recreation
45,The price of the coal will vary according to how far it has to be tra
nsported and how expensive the freight ____ are.
A) paymentsB) charges
C) fundsD) prices
46,The manager gave her his ____ that her complaint would be investi
gated.
A) assuranceB) assumptionC) sanctionD) insurance
47,Although the model looks good on the surface,it will not bear close
____.
A) temperamentB) contamination
C) scrutinyD) symmetry
48,We are doing this work in the ____ of reforms in the economic,soc
ial and cultural spheres.
A) contextB) contestC) pretextD) texture
49,While a full understanding of what causes the disease may be several
years away,____ leading to a successful treatment could come much sooner.
A) a distinctionB) a breakthroughC) an identificationD) an int
erpretation
50,Doctors are often caught in a ____ because they have to decide w
hether they should tell their patients the truth or not.
A) puzzleB) perplexityC) dilemmaD) bewilderment
51,To ____ important dates in history,countries create special holi
days.
A) commendB) memorize
C) propagateD) commemorate
52,His successful negotiations with the Americans helped him to ____
his position in the government.
A) contriveB) consolidate
C) heaveD) intensify
53,Please do not be ____ by his offensive remaks since he is merely
trying to attraat attention.
A) distractedB) disregarded
C) irritatedD) intervened
54,Once you get to know your mistakes you should ____ them as soon a
s possible.
A) rectifyB) reclaim
C) refrainD) reckon
55,He wouldn’t answer the reporters’ questions nor would he ____ for a ph
otograph.
A) summonB) highlight
C) poseD) marshal
56,The club will ____ new members the first week in September.
A) enrollB) subscribe
C) absorbD) register
57,If you don’t ____ the children properly,Mr,Chiver,they’ll just r
un riot.
A) mobilizeB) warrant
C) manipulateD) supervise
58,Already the class is ____ about who our new teacher will be.
A) foreseeingB) speculating
C) fabricatingD) contemplating
59,We should ____ our energy and youth to the development of our cou
ntry.
A) dedicateB) cater
C) ascribeD) cling
60,Just because I’m ____ to him,my boss thinks he can order me arou
nd without showing me any respect.
A) redundantB) trivial
C) versatileD) subordinate
61,Many scientists remain ____ about the value of this research prog
ram.
A) scepticalB) stationary
C) spaciousD) specific
62,Depression is often caused by the ____ effects of stress and ov
erwork.
A) totalB) increased
C) terrificD) cumulative
63,A human’s eyesight is not as ____ as that of an eagle.
A) eccentricB) acute
C) sensibleD) sensitive
64,It is ____ that women should be paid less than men for doing the
same kind of work.
A) abruptB) absurd
C) adverseD) addictive
65,Shoes of this kind are ____ to slip on wet ground.
A) feasibleB) appropriate
C) aptD) fitting
66,We’ll be very careful and keep what you’ve told us strictly ____.
A) rigorousB) confidential
C) privateD) mysterious
67,The members of Parliament were ____ that the government had not
consulted them.
A) impatientB) tolerant
C) crudeD) indignant
68,Some American colleges are state-supported,others are privately ____,and still others are supported by religious organizations.
A) ensuredB) attributed
C) authorizedD) endowed
69,The prison guards were armed and ready to shoot if ____ in any w
ay.
A) intervenedB) incurred
C) provokedD) poked
70,Many pure metals have little use because they are too soft,rust too
easily,or have some other ____.
A) drawbacksB) handicaps
C) bruisesD) blunders
试卷二
Part Ⅳ
Error Correction (15 minutes)
Directions,This part consists of a short passage,In this passage,there are altoghether 10 mistakes,one in each numbered line,You may have to change a word,add a word or delete a word,Mark out the mistakes and put the corrections in the blanks provided,If you change a word,cross it out and write the correct word in the corresponding blank,If you add a word,put an insertion mark (∧) in the right place and write the missing word in the blank,If you delete a word,cross it out and put a slash (／) in the blank.
Example：
〖DZ(22，6〗Television is rapidly becoming the literature of our periods[KG-1]/,Many of the arguments having[KG-1]/ [KG*2]used for the study of literature as a school subject are valid for ∧ study of television.[]
1,____Time/times/period____
2.____/____
3.____the____
Sporting activities are essentially modified forms of hunting behavior,Viewing
biologically,the modern footballer is revealed as a member of a disguised hunti
ng pack,His killing weapon has turned into a harmless football and his prey int
o a goal-mouth,If his aim is inaccurate and he scores a goal,enjoys the hunter
’s triumph of killing his prey.
To understand how this transformation has taken place we must briefly look up at
our ancient ancestors,They spent over a million year evoloving as cooperat
ive hunters,Their very survival depended on success in the hunting-field,Unde
r this pressure their whole way of life,even if their bodies,became radically
changed,They became chasers,runners,jumpers,aimers,throwers and prey-killer
s,They cooperate as skillful male-group attackers.
Then,about ten thousand years ago,when this immensely long formative period of
hunting for food,they became farmers,Their improved intelligence,so vital to
their old hunting life,were put to a new use—that of penning (把……关中圈中)
，controlling and domesticating their prey,[JP+4]The food was there on the farms,awaiting their needs,The risks and uncertainties of farming were no longer essenti
al for survival.[JP]〖〗
S1,____
S2,____
S3,____
S4,____
S5,____
S6,____
S7,____
S8,____
S9,____
S10,____
Part Ⅴ
Writing (30 minutes)
Directions,For this part,you are allowed thirty minutes to write a composition on the topic,A Letter to the University President about the Cant
een Service on Campus,You should write at leats 150 words,and base your composition on the outline given in Chinese below:
假设你是李明，请你就本校食堂的状况写一封信，内容应涉及食堂的饭菜质量、价格、环境、服务等，可以是表扬，可以是批评建议，也可以兼而有之。
〖JY〗January 12 th,2002
Dear Mr,President,
____
____
____
____
____
____
Part Two 试卷部分
2001年6月
大学英语六级考试历年全真试卷
试卷一
Part Ⅰ
Listening Comprehension(20 minutes)
Section A
Directions,In this section,you will hear 10 short conversations,At t
he end of each conversation,a question will be asked about what was said,both
the conversation and the question will be spoken only once,After each question
there will be a pause,During the pause,you must read the four choices marked A),B),C) and D),And decide which is the best answer,Then mark the correspond
ing letter on the Answer Sheet with a single line through the centre.
Example:You will hear:
You will read,
A) 2 hours,B) 3 hours,C) 4 hours.
D) 5 hours,
From the conversation,we know that the two were talking about some work they wi
ll start at 9’ o’clock in the morning and have to finish at 2 in the afternoon,
Therefore,D),5 hours” is the correct answer,You should choose ［D］ on the
Answer Sheet and mark it with a single line through the centre, Sample Answer ［A］ ［B］ ［C］ ［D］[KG-4.5mm]—[FK)]
1,A) He will tell Mary how to operate the dishwasher,B)
He will wash the dishes himself instead.
C) He will help Bill to translate the manual.
D) He himself will operate the dishwasher.
2,A) Lose weight.
B) Quit smoking.
C) Weigh himself frequently.
D) Have a talk with the doctor.
3,A) The woman should have complained to her neighbor.
B) The woman should stay out until the neighbors are quiet.
C) The woman should have stayed at the library.
D) The lab will be a better place for reading.
4,A) Check the figures later today.
B) Do the calculations again tomorrow.
C) Bring a calculator tomorrow.
D) Calculate the number right now.
5,A) She doesn’t remember much about the city.
B) She’s never been to the city.
C) She would find someone else to help.
D) She would talk to the man later.
6,A) She thinks the man should have helped earlier.
B) She doesn’t need the man’s help.
C) She doesn’t know the boxes are heavy.
D) She wants the man to help with the boxes.
7,A) She let the man use her books for the weekend.
B) She brought the books the man asked for.
C) She borrowed the books from the man.
D) She offered to help the man.
8,A) She’d like to have the windows open.
B) She likes to have the air conditioner on.
C) The air is heavily polluted.
D) The windows are already open.
9,A) He’s going to visit a photo studio.
B) He’s just had his picture taken.
C) He’s on the way to the theater.
D) He’s just returned from a job interview.
10,A) At a gas station.
B) In a park.
C) In an emergency room.
D) At a garage.
Section B
Directions:In this section,you will hear 3 short passages,At the end o
f each passage you will hear some questions,Both the passage and the questions
will be spoken only once,After you hear a question,you must choose the best an
swer from the four choices marked A),B),C) and D),Then mark the corresponding
letter on the Answer Sheet with a single line through the centre.
Passage One
Questions 11 to 13 are based on the passage you have just heard.
11,A) One sixth of them are seriously polluted.
B) One third of them are seriously polluted.
C) Half of them are seriously polluted.
D) Most of them are seriously polluted.
12,A) There was no garbage left to clean up.
B) There was more garbage than before and they had to work harder.
C) The river had become so clean that a lot of water-birds came back.
D) The river was much cleaner and they had to search for garbage.
13,A) Most of them would be indifferent and keep on throwing gar
bage into the river.
B) They would join the students in changing the situation.
C) They would become more aware of the pollution problem.
D) They would think twice before they went swimming or fishing in the riv
er.
Passage Two
Questions 14 to 17 are based on the passage you have just heard.
14,A) Why people hold back their tears.
B) Why people cry.
C) How to restrain one’s tears.
D) How tears are produced.
15,A) What chemicals tears are composed of.
B) Whether crying really helps us feel better.
C) Why some people tend to cry more often than others.
D) How tears help people cope with emotional problems.
16,A) Only one out of four girls cries less often than boys.
B) Of four boys,only one cries very often.
C) Girls cry four times as often as boys.
D) Only one out of four babies doesn’t cry often.
17,A) Only humans respond to emotions by shedding tears.
B) Only humans shed tears to get rid of irritating stuff in their eyes.
C) Only human tears can resist the invading bacteria.
D) Only human tears can discharge certain chemicals.
Passage Three
Questions 18 to 20 are based on the passage you have just heard.
18,A) They make decisions by tossing coins.
B) They are not physically separated.
C) They think exactly the same way.
D) They share most of their vital organs.
19,A) Few of them can live long.
B) Few of them get along well with each other.
C) Most of them live a normal life.
D) Most of them differ in their likes and dislikes,
20,A) They go to a regular school.
B) They attend a special school.
C) They are taught by their parents.
D) They have a private tutor.
Part Ⅱ
Reading Comprehension (35 minutes)
Directions:There are 4 passages in this part,Each passage is followed b
y some questions or unfinished statements,For each of them there are four choi
ces marked A),B),C) and D),You should decide on the best choice and mark the
corresponding letter on the Answer Sheet with a single line through the centre.
Passage One
Questions 21 to 25 are based on the following passage.
Our culture has caused most Americans to assume not only that our language is un
iversal but that the gestures we use are understood by everyone,We do not reali
ze that waving goodbye is the way to summon a person from the Philippines to one
’s side,or that in Italy and some Latin-American countries.Curling the finger t
o oneself is a sign of farewell.
Those private citizens who sent packages to our troops occupying Germany after W
orld War and masked them GIFT to escape duty payments did not bother to find out
that,Gift” means poison in German,Moreover,we like to think of ourselves a
s friendly,yet we prefer to be at least 3 feet or an arm’s length away from oth
ers,Latins and Middle Easterners like to come closer and touch,which makes Ame
ricans uncomfortable.
Our linguistic (语言上的) cultural blindness and the casualness with which we ta
ke notice of the developed tastes,gestures,customs and languages of other coun
tries are losing us friends,business and respect in the world.
Even here in the United States,we make few concessions to the needs of foreign
visitors,There are no information signs in four languages on our public buildin
gs or monuments; we do not have multilingual(多语言的)guided tours,Very few res
taurant menus have translations,and multilingual waiters,bank clerks and polic
emen are rare,Our transportation systems have maps in English only and often we
ourselves have difficulty understanding them.
When we go abroad,we tend to cluster in hotels and restaurants where English is
spoken,Then attitudes and information we pick up are conditioned by those nati
ves,usually the richer,who speak English,Our business dealings,as well as th
e nation’s diplomacy,are conducted through interpreters.
For many years,America and Americans could get by with cultural blindness and l
inguistic ignorance,After all,America was the most powerful country of the fre
e world,the distributor of needed funds and goods,
But all that is past,American dollars no longer buy all good things,and we are
slowly beginning to realize that our proper role in the world is changing,A 19
79 Harris poll reportd that 55 percent of American want this country to play a m
ore significant role in world affairs; we want to have a hand in the important d
ecisions of the next century,even though it may not always the upper hand.
21,It can be inferred that Americans being approached too closely by Mid
dle Easterners would most probably ____.
A) stand stillB) jump aside
C) step forwardD) draw back
22,The author gives many examples to criticize Americans for their ____.
A) cultural self-centeredness
B) casual manners
C) indifference towards foreign visitors
D) arrogance towards other cultures
23,In countries other than their own most Americans ____.
A) are isolated by the local people
B) are not well informed due to the language barrier
C) tend to get along well with the natives
D)need interpreters in hotels and restaurants
24,According to the author,Americans’ cultural blindness and linguistic
ignorance will ____.
A) affect their image in the new era
B) cut themselves off from the outside world
C) limit their role in world affairs
D) weaken the position of the US dollar
25,The author’s intention in writing this article is to make Americans r
ealize that ____.
A) it is dangerous to ignore their foreign friends
B) it is important to maintain their leading role in world affairs
C) it is necessary to use several languages in public places
D) it is time to get acquainted with other cultures
Passage Two
Questions 26 to 30 are based on the following passage.
In department stores and closets all over the world,they are waiting,Their out
ward appearance seems rather appealing because they come in a variety of styles,
textures,and colors,But they are ultimately the biggest deception that exists
in the fashion industry today,What are they? They are high heels—a woman’s wo
rst enemy (whether she knows it or not),High heel shoes are the downfall of mo
dern society,Fashion myths have led women society,Fashion myths have led women
to believe that they are more beautiful or sophisticated for wearing heels,but
in reality,heels succeed in posing short as well as long term hardships,Women
should fight the high heel industry by refusing to use or purchase them in orde
r to save the world from unnecessary physical and psychological suffering.
For the sake of fairness,It must be noted that there is a positive side to high
heels,First,heels are excellent for aerating(使通气)lawns,Anyone who has eve
r worn heels on grass knows what I am talking about,A simple trip around the ya
rd in a pair of those babies eliminates all need to call for a lawn care special
ist,and provides the perfect-sized holes to give any lawn oxygen without all th
ose messy chunks of dirt lying around,Second,heels are quite functional for de
fense sharp,deadly fashion accessories.
Regardless of such practical uses for heels,the fact remains that wearing high
heels is harmful to one’s physical health,Talk to any podiatrist (足病医生),an
d you will hear that the majority of their business comes from high-heel-wearing
women,High heels are known to cause problems such as deformed feet and torn to
enails,The risk of severe back problems and twisted or broken ankles is three t
imes higher for a flat shoe wearer,Wearing heels also creates the threat of get
ting a heel caught in a sidewalk crack or a sewer-grate (阴沟栅)and being throw
n to the ground-possibly breaking a nose,back,or neck,And of course,after we
aring heels for a day,any woman knows she can look forward to a night of pain a
s she tries to comfort her swollen,aching feet.
26,What makes women blind to the deceptive nature of high heels?
A) The multi-functional use of high heels.
B) Their attempt to show off their status.
C) The rich variety of high heel styles.
D) Their wish to improve their appearance.
27,The author’s presentation of the positive side of high heels is meant
____.
A) to be ironic
B) to poke fun at women
C) to be fair to the fashion industry
D) to make his point convincing
28,The author uses the expression,those babies” (Line 3,Para,2) to
refer to high heels ____.
A) to show their fragile characteristics
B) to indicate their feminine features
C) to show women’s affection for them
D) to emphasize their small size
29,The author’s chief argument against high heels is that ____.
A) they pose a threat to lawns
B) they are injurious to women’s health
C) they don’t necessarily make women beautiful
D) they are ineffective as a weapon of defense
30,It can be inferred from the passage that women should ____.
A) see through the very nature of fashion myths
B) boycott the products of the fashion industry
C) go to a podiatrist regularly for advice
D) avoid following fashion too closely
Passage Three
Questions 31 to 35 are based on the following passage.
It is hardly necessary for me to cite all the evidence of the depressing state o
f literacy,These figures from the Department of Education are sufficient 27 mi
llion Americans cannot read at all,and a further 35 million read at a level tha
t is less than sufficient to survive in our society.
But my own worry today is less that of the overwhelming problem of elemental li
teracy than it is of the slightly more luxurious problem of the decline in the s
kill even of the middle - class reader,of his unwillingness to afford those spa
ces of silence,those luxuries of domesticity and time and concentration,that s
urround the image of the classic act of reading,It has been suggested that almo
st 80 percent of America’s literate,educated teenagers can no longer read witho
ut an accompanying noise(music)in the background or a television screen flickeri
ng (闪烁) at the corner of their field of perception,We know very little about
the brain and how it deals with simultaneous conflicting input,but every common
-sense intuition suggests we should be profoundly alarmed,This violation of con
centration,silence,solitude (独处的状态)goes to the very heart of our notion o
f literacy; this new form of part-reading,of part-perception against background
distraction,renders impossible certain essential acts of apprehension and conc
entration,let alone that most important tribute any human being can pay to a po
em or a piece of prose he or she really loves,which is to learn it by heart,No
t by brain,by heart; the expression is vital.
Under these circumstances,the question of what future there is for the arts of
reading is a real one,Ahead of us lie technical,psychic (心理的),and social t
ransformations probably much more dramatic than those brought about by Gutenberg
,the German inventor in printing,The Gutenberg revolution,as we now know it,
took a long time; its effects are still being debated,The information revolutio
n will touch every fact of composition,publication distribution,and reading,
No one in the book industry can say with any confidence what will happen to the
book as we’ve known it.
31,The picture of the reading ability of the American people,drawn by
the author,is ____.
A) rather bleakB) fairly bright
C) very impressiveD) quite encouraging
32,The author’s biggest concern is ____.
A) elementary school children’s disinterest in reading classics
B) the surprisingly low rate of literacy in the U.S.
C) the musical setting American readers require for reading
D) the reading ability and reading behavior of the middle class
33,A major problem with most adolescents who can read is ____.
A) their fondness of music and TV programs
B) their ignorance of various forms of art and literature
C) their lack of attentiveness and basic understanding
D) their inability focus on conflicting input
34,The author claims that the best way a reader can show admiration for
a piece of poetry or prose is ____.
A) to be able to appreciate it and memorize it
B) to analyze its essential feature
C) to think it over conscientiously
D) to make a fair appraisal of its artistic value
35,About the future of the arts of reading the author feels ____.
A) upsetB) uncertain
C) alarmedD) pessimistic
Passage Four
Questions 36 to 40 are based on the following passage.
For centuries,explorers have risked their lives venturing into the unknown for
reasons that were to varying degrees economic and nationalistic,Columbus went w
est to look for better trade routes to the Orient and to promote the greater glo
ry of Spain,Lewis and Clark journeyed into the Amierican wilderness to find out
what the U.S had acquired when it purchased Louisianan,and the Appolo astrona
uts rocketed to the moon in a dramatic show of technological muscle during the c
old war.
Although their missions blended commercial and political -military imperatives,
the explorers involved all accomplished some significant science simply by goin
g where no scientists had gone before,Today Mars looms(隐约出现)as humanity’s n
ext great terra incognita(未探明之地),And with doubtful prospects for a short-t
erm financial return,with the cold War a rapidly fading memory and amid a growi
ng emphasis on international cooperation in large space ventures,it is clear th
at imperatives other than profits or Nationalism will have to compel human beings to leave their tracks on the plane
t’s reddish surface,Could it be that science,which has long played a minor tol
e in exploration,is at last destined to take a leading role? The question natur
ally invites a couple of others,Are there experiments that only human could do
on Mars? Could those experiments provide insights profound enough to justify the
expense of sending people across interplanetary space?
With Mars the scientific stakes are arguably higher than they have ever been,Th
e issue of whether life ever existed on the planet,and whether it persists to t
his day,has heen highlighted by mounting evidence that the Red Planet once had
ahundant stable,liquid water and by the continuing controversy over suggestions
that bacterial fossils rode to Earth on a meteorite(损石) from Mars,A more co
nclusive answer about life on Mars,past or present,would give researchers inva
luable data about the range of conditions under which a planet can generate the
complex chemistry that leads to life,If it could be established that life arose
independently on Mars and Earth,the finding would provide the first concrete c
lues in one of the deepest mysteries in all of science,the prevalence of life i
n the universe.
36,According to the passage,the chief purpose of explorers in going to
unknown places in the past was ____.
A) to display their country’s military might
B) to accomplish some significant science
C) to find new areas for colonization
D) to pursue commercial and state interests
37,At present,a probable inducement for countries to initiate large-sca
le space ventures is ____.
A) international cooperation
B) nationalistic reasons
C) scientific research
D) long-term profits
38,What is the main goal of sending human missions to Mars?
A) To find out if life ever existed there.
B) To see if humans could survive there.
C) To prove the feasibility of large-scale space ventures.
D) To show the leading role of science in space exploration.
39,By saying,With Mars the scientific stakes are arguably higher than
they have ever been” (Line 1,Para 3),the author means that ____.
A) with Mars the risks involved are much greater than any previous spac
e ventures
B) in the case of Mars,the rewards of scientific exploration can be very hig
h
C) in the case of Mars,much more research funds are needed than ever before
D) with Mars scientists argue,the fundamental interests of science are at is
sue
40,The passage tells us that proof of life on Mars would ____.
A) make clear the complex chemistry in the development of life
B) confirm the suggestion that bacterial fossils travelled to Earth on a
meteorite
C) reveal the kind of conditions under which life originates
D) provide an explanation why life is common in the universe
Part Ⅲ
Vocabulary (20 minutes)
Directions:There are 30 incomplete sentences in the part,For each sen
tence there are four choices marked A),B ),C) and D),Choose the ONE answer th
at best completes the Sentence,Then mark the corresponding letter on the Answer
Sheet with a single line through the centre.
41,If you want this painkiller,you’ll have to ask the doctor for a 〖CD
#3〗.
A) transaction B) permit C) settlement
D) prescription
42,The ____ from childhood to adulthood is always critical time for
everybody.
A) conversionB) transition
C) turnoverD) transformation
43,It is hard to tell whether we are going to have a boom in the economy
era ____.
A) concessionB) recession
C) submissionD) transmission
44,His use of color,light and form quickly departed from the convention
al style of his,as ____,he developed technique.
A) descendantsB) predecessors
C)successorsD) ancestors
45,Failure in a required subject may result in the ____ of a diplom
a.
A) refusalB) betrayal
C) denialD) burial
46,To help students understand how we see,teachers often draw an 〖CD#3
〗 between an eye and a camera.
A) imageB) analogy
C) denialD) axis
47,A 1994 World Bank report concluded that ____ girls in school was
probably the single most effective anti-poverty policy in the developing world t
oday.
A) assigningB) admitting
C) involvingD) enrolling
48,The authority of report is well ____ with the problems in the hos
pital because he has been working there for many years.
A) acquaintedB) informed
C) accustomedD) know
49,When the farmers visited the city the first time,they were ____
by its complicated traffic system.
A) precludesB) bewildered
C) divertedD) expires
50,If Japan ____ its relation with that country it will have to fin
d another supplier of raw materials.
A) precludesB) terminates
C) partitionsD) expires
51,They were ____ in their scientific research,not knowing what ha
ppened just outside their lab.
A) submergedB) drowned
C) immersedD) dipped
52,You should ____ to one or more weekly magazines such as Time,or
Newsweek.
A) ascribeB) order
C) reclaimD) subscribe
53,The automatic doors in supermarkets ____ the entry and exit of c
ustomers with shopping carts.
A) furnishB) induce
C) facilitateD) allocate
54,Each workday,the workers followed the same schedules and rarely 〖CD
#
3〗from this routine.
A) deviatedB) disconnected
C) detachedD) distorted
55,The little girl was ____ by the death of her dog since her affect
ion for the pet had been real and deep.
A) grievedB) suppressed
C) oppressedD) sustained
56,A visitor to a museum today would notice ____ changes in the way
museums are operated.
A) cognitiveB) rigorous
C) conspicuousD) exclusive
57,Most people tend to think they are so efficient at their job that the
y are ____.
A) inaccessibleB) irreversible
C) immovableD) irreplaceable
58,Being impatient is ____ with being a good teacher.
A) intrinsicB) ingenious
C) incompatibleD) inherent
59,For a particular reason,he wanted the information to be treated as
____.
A) assuredB) reserved
C) intimateD) confidential
60,Fortune-tellers are good at marking ____ statements such as,You
r sorrows will change.”
A) philosophicalB) ambiguous
C) literalD) invalid
61,The tenant mush be prepared to decorate the house ____ the term of the contract.
A) in the vicinity ofB) in quest of
C) in accordance withD) in collaboration with
62,The winners of the football championship ran off the field carrying t
he silver cup ____.
A) turbulentlyB) tremendiouly
C) triumphantlyD) tentatively
63,He said that they had ____ been obliged to give up the scheme fo
r lack of support.
A) gravelyB) regrettably
C) forciblyD) graciously
64,The law on drinking and driving is ____ stated.
A) extravagantlyB) empirically
C) exceptionallyD) explicitly
65,The accounts to damages have not been convincingly ____ stated.
A) refutedB) overwhelmed
C) repressedD) intimidated
66,Please don’t ____ too much on the painful memories,Everything wi
ll be all right.
A) hesitateB) linger
C) retainD) dwell
67,The jobs of wildlife technicians and biologists seemed ____ to hi
m,but one day he discovered their difference.
A) identicalB) vertical
C) parallelD) specific
68,Mary became ____ homesick and critical of the United States,so
she fled from her home in west Bloomfield to her hometown in Austria.
A) completelyB) sincerely
C) absolutelyD) increasingly
69,Despite almost universal ____ of the vital importance of women’t
lite
racy,education remains a dream for far many women in far too many countries of
the world.
A) identification
B) compliment
C) confession
D) acknowledgement
70,In today’s medical,little agreement exists on the ____ for defi
ning mental illness.
A) legislationB) requirement
C) criteriaD) measures
试卷二
Part Ⅳ
Error Correction (15 mimutes)
Directions,This part consists of a short passage,In this passage,there are altogether 10 mistakes,one in each numbered line,You may have to change a word,add a word or delete a word,Mark out the mistakes and put the correc
tions in the blanks provided,If you change a word,cross it out and write the c
orrect word in the corresponding blank,If you add a word,put an insertion mark
(∧) in the right place and write the missing word in the blank,If you delete a
word,cross it out and put a slash (/) in the blank.
Example：
Television is rapidly becoming the literature of our periods[KG-1]/,Many of the arguments having[KG-1]/ [KG*2]used for the study of literature as a school subject are valid for ∧ study of television.[]
1,____Time/times/period____
2.____/____
3.____the____
More people die of tuberculosis (结核病)than of any other disease caused by a si
ngle agent,This has probably been the case in quite a while,During the early s
tages of the industrial revolution,perhaps one in every seventh deaths in Europ
e’s crowded cities were caused by the disease,From now on,though,western eyes
,missing the global picture,saw the trouble going into decline,With occasiona
l breaks for war,the rates of death and infection in the Europe and America dro
pped steadily through the 19th and 20th centuries,In the 1950s,the introductio
n of antibiotics (抗菌素) strengthened the trend in rich countries,and the anti
biotics were allowed to be imported to poor countries,Medical researchers decla
red victory and withdrew.
They are wrong,In the Mid-1980s the frequency of infections and deaths started
to pick up again around the world,Where tuberculosis vanished,it came back; in
many places where it had never been away,it grew better,The World Health Orga
nization estimates that 1.7 billion people (a third of the earth’s population) s
uffer from tuberculosis,Even when the infection rate was falling population gro
wth kept the number of clinical cases more or less constantly at 8 million a yea
r,Around 3 million of those people died,nearly all of them in poor countries.
71,____
72,____
73,____
74,____
75,____
76,____
77,____
78,____
79,____
80,____
Part Ⅴ
Writing (30 minutes)
Directions,For this part,your are allowed thirty minutes to write a let
ter,Suppose you are Zhang Ying,write a letter to Xiao Wang,a schoolmate of yo
urs who is going to visit you during the week-long holiday,You should write at
least 150 words according to the suggestions given below in Chinese.
1.表示欢迎
2.提出对度假安排的建议
3.提醒应注意的事项。
A Letter to a Schoolmate
____
____
____
____
____
Part Two 试卷部分
2001年1月
大学英语六级考试历年全真试卷
试卷一
Part Ⅰ
Listening Comprehension(20 minutes)
Section A
Directions:In this section,you will hear 10 short conversations,
At the end of each conversation,a question will be asked about what was said,B
oth the conversation and the question will be spoken only once,After each quest
ion there will be a pause,During the pause,you must read the four choices mark
ed A),B),C),and D),and decide which is the best answer,Then mark the corres
ponding letter on the Answer Sheet with a single line through the centre.
Example:You will hear:
You will read,
A) 2 hours,B) 3 hours,
C) 4 hours,D) 5 hours,
From the conversation,we know that the two were talking about some work they
will start at 9 o’clock in the morning and have to finish at 2 in the afternoon
,Therefore,D),5 hours” is the correct answer,You should choose ［D］ on th
e Answer Sheet and mark it with a single line through the centre,
[JY,3] Sample Answer ［A］ ［B］ ［C］ ［D］[KG-4.5mm]—[FK)]
1.A)The man thinks travelling by air is quite safe,B)The woman never t
ravels by plane.
C)Both speakers feel nervous when flying.D)The speakers feel sad about the
serious loss of life.
2.A)At the information desk.B)In an office.
C)In a restaurant.D)At a railway station.
3.A)Write the letter.B)Paint the shelf.
C)Fix the shelf.D)Look for the pen.
4.A)It gives a 30% discount to all customers.B)It is run by Mrs,Win
ter’s husband.
C)It hires Mrs,Winter as an adviser.D)It encourages husbands to shop on
their own.
5.A)Long exposure to the sun.B)Lack of sleep.
C)Too tight a hat.D)Long working hours.
6.A)His English is still poor after ten years in America.B)He doesn’t
mind speaking English with an accent.
C)He doesn’t like the way Americans speak.D)He speaks English as if he were
a native speaker.
7.A)An auto mechanic.B)An electrician.
C)A carpenter.D)A telephone repairman.
8.A)They both enjoyed watching the game.
B)The man thought the results were beyond their expectations.
C)They both felt good about the results of the game.
D)People were surprised at their winning the game.
9.A)Manager and employee.B)Salesman and customer.
C)Guide and tourist.D)Professor and student.
10.A)Tom has arranged a surprise party for Lucy.
B)Tom will keep the surprise party a secret.
C)Tom and Lucy have no secrets from each other.
D)Tom didn’t make any promise to Lucy.
Section B Compound Dictation
注意：听力理解的B节(Section B)为复合式听写(Compound Dictation)，题目在试卷二上。现在请取出试卷二。
Part Ⅱ
Reading Comprehension (35 minutes)
Directions,There are four passages in this part,Each passage is
followed by some questions or unfinished statements,For each of them there are
four choices marked A),B),C) and D),You should decide on the best choice and
mark the corresponding letter on the Answer Sheet with a single line through the
centre.
Passage One
Questions 11 to 15 are based on the following passage.
Birds that are literally halfasleep—with one brain hemisphere alert and the o
ther sleeping—control which side of the brain remains awake,according to a new
study of sleeping ducks.
Earlier studies have documented halfbrain sleep in a wide range of birds,The
brain hemispheres take turns sinking into the sleep stage characterized by slow
brain waves,The eye controlled by the sleeping hemisphere keeps shut,while the
wakeful hemisphere’s eyes stays open and alert.Birds also can sleep with both he
mispheres resting at once.
Decades of studies of bird flocks led researchers to predict extra alertness in
the more vulnerable,endoftherow sleepers,Sure enough,the end birds tend
ed to watch carefully on the side away from their companions.Ducks in the inner
spots showed no preference for gaze direction.
Also,birds dozing (打盹) at the end of the line resorted to singlehemisphe
re sleep,rather than total relaxation,more often than inner ducks did,Rotatin
g 16 birds through the positions in a fourduck row,the researchers found outer
birds halfasleep during some 32 percent of dozing time versus about 12 percen
t for birds in internal spots.
“We believe this is the first evidence for an animal behaviorally controlling s
leep and wakefulness simultaneously in different regions of the brain,” the rese
archers say.
The results provide the best evidence for a longstanding supposition that sing
lehemisphere sleep evolved as creatures scanned for enemies,The preference fo
r opening an eye on the lookout side could be widespread,he predicts,He’s seen
it in a pair of birds dozing sidebyside in the zoo and in a single pet bird
sleeping by a mirror,The mirrorside eye closed as if the reflection were a c
ompanion and the other eye stayed open.
Useful as halfsleeping might be,it’s only been found in birds and such water
mammals(哺乳动物) as dolphins,whales,and seals,Perhaps keeping one side o
f the brain awake allows a sleeping animal to surface occasionally to avoid drow
ning.
Studies of birds may offer unique insights into sleep.Jerome M.Siegel of the UCL
A says he wonders if birds’halfbrain sleep,is just the tip of the iceberg
(冰山).” He speculates that more examples may turn up when we take a closer l
ook at other species.
11.A new study on birds’ sleep has revealed that ____.
A)halfbrain sleep is found in a wide variety of birds
B)halfbrain sleep is characterized by slow brain waves
C)birds can control their halfbrain sleep consciously
D)birds seldom sleep with the whole of their brain at rest
12.According to the passage,birds often half sleep because ____.
A)they have to watch out for possible attacks
B)their brain hemispheres take turns to rest
C)the two halves of their brain are differently structured
D)they have to constantly keep an eye on their companions
13.The example of a bird sleeping in front of a mirror indicates that [CD#3
].
A)the phenomenon of birds dozing in pairs is widespread
B)birds prefer to sleep in pairs for the sake of security
C)even an imagined companion gives the bird a sense of security
D)a single pet bird enjoys seeing its reflection in the mirror
14.While sleeping,some water mammals tend to keep half awake in order to [C
D#3].
A)alert themselves to the approaching enemy
B)emerge from water now and then to breathe
C)be sensitive to the everchanging environment
D)avoid being swept away by rapid currents
15.By,just the tip of the iceberg”(Line 2,Para,8),Siegel suggests that
____.
A)halfbrain sleep has something to do with icy weather
B)the mystery of halfbrain sleep is close to being solved
C)most birds living in cold regions tend to be half sleepers
D)halfbrain sleep is a phenomenon that could exist among other species[ZK
)]
Passage Two
Questions 16 to 20 are based on the following passage.
A nineyearold schoolgirl singlehandedly cooks up a sciencefair experimen
t that ends up debunking (揭穿…的真相) a widely practiced medical treatment
,Emily Rosa’s target was a practice known as therapeutic (治疗的) touch (TT for
short),whose advocates manipulate patients,energy field” to make them feel
better and even,say some,to cure them of various ills,Yet Emily’s test shows
that these energy fields can’t be detected,even by trained TT practitioners (行医者),Obviously mindful of the publicity value of the situation,Journal ed
itor George Lundberg appeared on TV to declare,“Age doesn’t matter,It’s good s
cience that matters,and this is good science.”
Emily’s mother Linda Rosa,a registered nurse,has been campaigning against TT f
or nearly a decade.Linda first thought about TT in the late ’80s,when she learn
ed it was on the approved list for continuing nursing education in Colorado.Its
100,000 trained practitioners (48,000 in the U.S.) don’t even touch their patien
ts,Instead,they waved their hands a few inches from the patient’s body,pushing
energy fields around until they’re in,balance.” TT advocates say these manipul
ations can help heal wounds,relieve pain and reduce fever,The claims are taken
seriously enough that TT therapists are frequently hired by leading hospitals,
at up to $70 an hour,to smooth patients’ energy,sometimes during surgery.
Yet Rosa could not find any evidence that it works,To provide such proof,TT th
erapists would have to sit down for independent testing—something they haven’t
been eager to do,even though James Randi has offered more than $1 million to an
yone who can demonstrate the existence of a human energy field,(He’s had one ta
ker so far,She failed.) A skeptic might conclude that TT practitioners are afra
id to lay their beliefs on the line.But who could turn down an innocent fourth
grader? Says Emily:“I think they didn’t take me very seriously because I’m a ki
d.”
The experiment was straightforward:21 TT therapists stuck their hands,palms up,
through a screen,Emily held her own hand over one of theirs—left or right—an
d the practitioners had to say which hand it was.When the results were recorded,
they’d done no better than they would have by simply guessing,If there was an
energy field,they couldn’t feel it.
16.Which of the following is evidence that TT is widely practiced?
A)TT has been in existence for decades.
B)Many patients were cured by therapeutic touch.
C)TT therapists are often employed by leading hospitals.
D)More than 100,000 people are undergoing TT treatment.
17.Very few TT practitioners responded to the $ 1 million offer because____.
A)they didn’t take the offer seriously
B)they didn’t want to risk their career
C)they were unwilling to reveal their secret
D)they thought it was not in line with their practice
18.The purpose of Emily Rosa’s experiment was ____.
A)to see why TT could work the way it did
B)to find out how TT cured patients’illnesses
C)to test whether she could sense the human energy field
D)to test whether a human energy field really existed
19.Why did some TT practitioners agree to be the subjects of Emily’s experi
ment?
A)It involved nothing more than mere guessing.
B)They thought it was going to be a lot of fun.
C)It was more straightforward than other experiments.
D)They sensed no harm in a little girl’s experiment.
20.What can we learn from the passage?
A)Some widely accepted beliefs can be deceiving.
B)Solid evidence weighs more than pure theories.
C)Little children can be as clever as trained TT practitioners.
D)The principle of TT is too profound to understand.
Passage Three
Questions 21 to 25 are based on the following passage.
What might driving on an automated highway be like?The answer depends on what ki
nd of system is ultimately adopted,Two distinct types are on the drawing board.
The first is a special-purpose lane system,in which certain lanes are reserved
for automated vehicles,The second is a mixed traffic system;fully automated vehi
cles would share the road with partially automated or manually driven cars,A sp
ecialpurpose lane system would require more extensive physical modifications t
o existing highways,but it promises the greatest gains in freeway (高速公路
) capacity.
Under either scheme,the driver would specify the desired destination,furnishin
g this information to a computer in the car at the beginning of the trip or perh
aps just before reaching the automated highway,If a mixed traffic system was in
place,automated driving could begin whenever the driver was on suitably equip
ped roads,If specialpurpose lanes were available,the car could enter them an
d join existing traffic in two different ways,One method would use a special
onramp (入口引道),As the driver approached the point of entry for the highway
,devices installed on the roadside would electronically check the vehicle to de
termine its destination and to ascertain that it had the proper automation equip
ment in good working order,Assuming it passed such tests,the driver would then
be guided through a gate and toward an automated lane,In this case,the transi
tion from manual to automated control would take place on the entrance ramp,An
alternative technique could employ conventional lanes,which would be shared by
automated and regular vehicle would then shift under computer control onto a lan
e reserved for automated traffic,(The limitation of these lanes to automated tr
affic would,presumably,be well respected,because all trespassers (非法进入者) could be swiftly identified by authorities.)
Either approach to joining a lane of automated traffic would harmonize the movem
ent of newly entering vehicles with those already traveling,Automatic control h
ere should allow for smooth merging,without the usual uncertainties and potenti
al for accidents,And once a vehicle had settled into automated travel,the driv
er would be free to release the wheel,open the morning paper or just relax.
21.We learn from the first paragraph that two systems of automated highways
____.
A)are being plannedB)are being modified
C)are now in wide useD)are under construction
22.A specialpurpose lane system is probably advantageous in that ____.
A)it would require only minor changes to existing highways
B)it would achieve the greatest highway traffic efficiency
C)it has a lane for both automated and partially automated vehicles
D)it offers more lanes for automated vehicles
23.Which of the following is true about driving on an automated highway?
A)Vehicles traveling on it are assigned different lanes according to their
destination.
B)A car can join existing traffic any time in a mixed lane system.
C)The driver should inform his car computer of his destination before drivi
ng onto it.
D)The driver should share the automated lane with those of regular vehicles
.
24.We know from the passage that a car can enter a specialpurpose lane ____.
A)by smoothly merging with cars on the conventional lane
B)by way of a ramp with electronic control devices
C)through a specially guarded gate
D)after all trespassers are identified and removed
25.When driving in an automated lane,the driver ____.
A)should harmonize with newly entering carsB)doens’t have to rely on his co
mputer system
C)should watch out for potential accidentsD)doesn’t have to hold on to the
steering wheel
Passage Four
Questions 26 to 30 are based on the following passage.
Taking charge of yourself involves putting to rest some very prevalent myths,As
the top of the list is the notion that intelligence is measured by your ability
to solve complex problems;to read,write and compute at certain levels;and to r
esolve abstract equations quickly.This vision of intelligence asserts formal edu
cation and bookish excellence as the true measures of selffulfillment.It encou
rages a kind of intellectual prejudice that has brought with it some discouragin
g results.We have come to believe that someone who has more educational merit ba
dges,who is very good at some form of school discipline is,intelligent.”Yet me
ntal hospitals are filled with patients who have all of the properly lettered ce
rtificates.A truer indicator of intelligence is an effective,happy life lived ea
ch day and each present moment of every day.
If you are happy,if you live each moment for everything it’s worth,then you are
an intelligent person.Problem solving is a useful help to your happiness,but if
you know that given your inability to resolve a particular concern you can stil
l choose happiness for yourself,or at a minimum refuse to choose unhappiness,th
en you are intelligent.You are intelligent because you have the ultimate weapon
against the big N.B.D.—Nervous Break Down.
“Intelligent” people do not have N.B.D.’s because they are in charge of themsel
ves.They know how to choose happiness over depression,because they know how to d
eal with the problems of their lives.
You can begin to think of yourself as truly intelligent on the basis of how you
choose to feel in the face of trying circumstances.The life struggles are pretty
much the same for each of us.Everyone who is involved with other human beings i
n any social context has similar difficulties.Disagreements,conflicts and compro
mises are a part of what it means to be human.Similarly,money,growing old,sickne
ss,deaths,natural disasters and accidents are all events which present problems
to virtually all human beings.But some people are able to make it,to avoid immo
bilizing depression and unhappiness despite such occurrences,while others collap
se 〖JP3〗or have an N.B.D,Those who recognize problems as a human condition and don’t
measure happiness by an absence of problems are the most intelligent kind of hu
mans we know;also,the most rare.
26.According to the author,the conventional notion of intelligence measured
in terms of one’s ability to read,write and compute ____.
A)is a widely held but wrong concept
B)will help eliminate intellectual prejudice
C)is the root of all mental distress
D)will contribute to one’s selffulfillment
27.It is implied in the passage that holding a university degree____.
A)may result in one’s inability to solve complex reallife problems
B)does not indicate one’s ability to write properly worded documents
C)may make one mentally sick and physically weak
D)does not mean that one is highly intelligent
28.The author thinks that an intelligent person knows ____.
A)how to put up with some very prevalent myths
B)how to find the best way to achieve success in life
C)how to avoid depression and make his life worthwhile
D)how to persuade others to compromise
29.In the last paragraph,the author tells us that ____.
A)difficulties are but part of everyone’s life
B)depression and unhappiness are unavoidable in life
C)everybody should learn to avoid trying circumstances
D)good feelings can contribute to eventual academic excellence
30.According to the passage,what kind of people are rare?
A)Those who don’t emphasize bookish excellence in their pursuit of happines
s.
B)Those who are aware of difficulties in life but know how to avoid unhappi
ness.
C)Those who measure happiness by an absence of problems but seldom suffer f
rom N.B.D.’s.
D)Those who are able to secure happiness though having to struggle against
trying circumstances.
Part Ⅲ
Vocabulary (20 minutes)
Directions,There are 30 incomplete sentences in this part,For each sentence there are four choices marked A),B),C),and D),Choose the ONE that best completes the sentence,Then mark the corresponding letter on the Answer Sheet
with a single line through the centre.
31.Starting with the ____ that there is life on the planet Mars,the scie
ntist went on to develop his argument.
A) premiseB)pretextC)foundation D)presentation
32.After several nuclear disasters,a ____ has rage over the safety of nu
clear energy.
A) quarrelB)suspicionC)verdictD)controversy
33.Their diplomatic principles completely laid bare their ____ for world
conquest.
A) admirationB)ambitionC)administrationD)orientation
34.The director gave me his ____ that he would double my pay if I did my
job well.
A) warrantB)obligationC)assuranceD)certainty
35.The Christmas tree was decorated with shining ____ such as colored lig
hts and glass balls.
A) ornamentsB)luxuriesC)exhibitsD)complements
36.The two most important ____ in making a cake are flour and sugar.
A) elementsB)componentsC)ingredientsD)constituents
37.Cultural ____ indicates that human beings hand their languages down fr
om one generation to another.
A) translationB)transitionC)transmissionD)transaction
38.We must look beyond ____ and assumptions and try to discover what is m
issing.
A) justificationsB)illusionsC)manifestationsD)specification
39.No one imagined that the apparently ____ businessman was really a crim
inal.
A) respectiveB)respectableC)respectfulD)realistic
40.If nothing is done to protect the environment,millions of species that
are alive today will have become ____,
A) deterioratedB)degeneratedC)suppressedD)extinct
41.The ____ of the scientific attitude is that the human mind can succeed
in understanding the universe.
A) essenceB)contentC)textureD)threshold
42.The old lady has developed a ____ cough which cannot be cured complete
ly in a short time.
A) perpetualB)permanentC)chronicD)sustained
43.What the correspondent sent us is an ____ news report.We can depend on
it.
A) evidentB)authenticC)ultimateD)immediate
44.Having had her as a professor and adviser,I can tell you that she is an
____ force who pushes her students to excel far beyond their own expectations
.
A) inspirationalB)educationalC)excessiveD)instantaneous
45.Some researchers feel that certain people have nervous systems particula
rly ____ to hot,dry winds.They are what we call weathersensitive people.
A) subjectiveB)subordinateC)liableD)vulnerable
46.Hurricanes are killer winds,and their ____ power lies in the physical
damage they can do.
A) cumulativeB)destructiveC)turbulentD)prevalent
47.In some countries,students are expected to be quiet and ____ in the cl
assroom.
A) skepticalB)faithfulC)obedientD)subsidiary
48.In spite of the ____ economic forecasts,manfacturing output has risen
slightly.
A) gloomyB)miserableC)shadowyD)obscure
49.Body paint or face paint is used mostly by men in preliterate societie
s in order to attract good health or to ____ disease.
A) set asideB)ward offC)shrug offD)give away
50.The international situation has been growing ____ difficult for the la
st few years.
A) invariablyB)presumablyC)increasinglyD)dominantly
51.The prisoner was ____ of his civil liberty for three years.
A) dischargedB)derivedC)deprivedD)dispatched
52.Small farms and the lack of modern technology have ____ agricultural p
roduction.
A) blunderedB)tangledC)bewilderedD)hampered
53.The Japanese scientists have found that scents ____ efficiency and red
uce stress among office workers.
A) enhanceB)amplifyC)fosterD)magnify
54.All the students have to ____ to the rules and regulations of the scho
ol.
A) confirmB)confrontC)confineD)conform
55.He ____ his head,wondering how to solve the problem.
A) scrappedB)screwedC)scrapedD)scratched
56.As soon as the boy was able to earn his own living he ____ his parents
’ strict rules.
A) defiedB)refutedC)excludedD)voted
57.The helicopter ____ a light plane and both pilots were killed.
A) coincided withB)stumbled onC)tumbled toD)collided with
58.To ____ is to save and protect,to leave what we ourselves enjoy in su
ch good condition that others may also share the enjoyment.
A) conserveB)conceiveC)convertD)contrive
59.Put on dark glasses or the sun will ____ you and you won’t be able to
see.
A) discernB)distortC)distractD)dazzle
60.In ____ times human beings did not travel for pleasure but to find a m
ore favourable climate.
A) primeB)primitiveC)primaryD)preliminary
Part Ⅳ
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),You should choose the ON
E that best fits into the passage,Then mark the corresponding letter on the Ans
wer Sheet with a single line through the centre.
In the United States,the first day nursery was opened in 1854.Nurseries were es
tablished in various areas during the ____ 61 ____ half of the 19th century; most of ____ 62 ____ were charitable.Both in Europe and in the U.S.,the
daynursery movement received great ____ 63 ____ during the First World
War,when ____ 64 ____ of manpower caused the industrial employment of unp
recedented (前所未有的) numbers of women.In some European countries nurseries we
re established ____ 65 ____ in munitions (军火) plants,under direct gover
nment sponsorship,____ 66 ____ the number of nurseries in the U.S,also r
ose ____ 67 ____,this rise was accomplished without government aid of any
kind,During the years following the First World War,____ 68 ____,Feder
al,State,and local governments gradually began to exercise a measure of contro
l ____ 69 ____ the day nurseries,chiefly by ____ 70 ____ them and b
y inspecting and regulating the conditions within the nurseries.
The ____ 71 ____ of the Second World War was quickly followed by an increa
se in the number of day nurseries in almost all countries,as women were ____
72 ____ called upon to replace men in the factories,On this ____ 73 [Z
Z)] the U.S,government immediately came to the support of the nursery schools,
____ 74 ____ $6,000,000 in July,1942,for a nurseryschool program for t
he children of working mothers.Many States and local communities ____ 75 [Z
Z)] this Federal aid.By the end of the war,in August,1945,more than 100,000 c
hidren were being cared ____ 76 ____ in daycare centers receiving Federa
l ____ 77 ____,Soon afterward,the Federal government ____ 78 ____
cut down its expenditures for this purpose and later ____ 79 ____ them,ca
using a sharp drop in the number of nursery schools in operation.However,the ex
pectation that most employed mothers would leave their ____ 80 ____ at the
end of the war was only partly fulfilled.
61.A) latter B)late C)other D)first
62.A) those B)them C)whose D)whom
63.A) impetus B)input C)imitation D)initiative
64.A) sources B)abundance C)shortage D)reduction
65.A) hardly B)entirely C)only D)even
66.A) Because B)As C)Since D)Although
67.A) unanimously B)sharply C)predominantly D)militantly
68.A) therefore B)consequently C)however D)moreover
69.A) over B)in C)at D)about
70.A) formulating B)labeling C)patenting D)licensing
71.A) outset B)outbreak C)breakthrough D)breakdown
72.A) again B)thus C)repeatedly D)yet
73.A) circumstance B)occasion C)case D)situation
74.A) regulating B)summoning C)allocating D)transferring
75.A) expanded B)facilitated C)supplemented D)compensated
76,A) by B)after C)of D)for
77.A) pensions B)subsidies C)revenues D)budgets
78.A) prevalently B)furiously C)statistically D)drastically
79.A) abolished B)diminished C)jeopardized D)precluded
80.A) nurseries B)homes C)jobs D)children
试卷二
Part I
Section B Compound Dictation
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The human body is a remarkable food processor.As an adult,you may consume (S1)____ a ton of food per year and still not gain or lose a pound of body weight.You are (S2)____ harnessing and cons
uming energy through the intricate (S3)___ of your body in o
rder to remain in energy balance.To (S4)____ a given bod
y weight,your energy input must balance your energy output.However sometimes the
(S5)____ energy balance is upset,and your (S6)____ body weight will either fall or (S7)____.
The term body image refers to the mental image we have of our own physical appea
rance,and (S8)____
____.Research has revealed that about 40 per cen
t of adult men and 55 per cent of adult women are dissatisfied with their current
body weight.(S9) ______.\=At the college le
vel,a study found that 85 per cent of both male and female firstyear students d
esired to change their body weight.(S10)_________.\=Thinness
is curr
ently an attribute that females desire highly.Males generally desire muscularity
.The vast majority of individuals who want to change their body weight do it for
the sake of appearance;most want to lose excess body fat,while a smaller percen
tage of individuals actually want to gain weight.
Part Ⅴ
Writing (30 minutes)
Directions:For this part,you are allowed thirty minutes to write a composition on the topic How to Succeed in a Job Interview?You should write at least 120 words and you should base your composition on the outline (given in Chinese) below:
1.面试在求职过程中的作用
2.取得面试成功的因素：仪表、举止谈吐、能力、专业知识、自信、实事求是……
How to Succeed in a Job Interview?
Part Two 试卷部分
2000年6月
大学英语六级考试历年全真试卷
试卷一
Part Ⅰ
Listening Comprehension(20 minutes)
Section A
[HJ1mm]
Directions:In this section,you will hear 10 short conversations,
At the end of each conversation,a question will be asked about what was said,B
oth the conversation and the question will be spoken only once,After each quest
ion there will be a pause,During the pause,you must read the four choices mark
ed A),B),C),and D),and decide which is the best answer,Then mark the corres
ponding letter on the Answer Sheet with a single line through the centre.
Example:You will hear:
You will read,
A) 2 hours,B) 3 hours,
C) 4 hours,D) 5 hours,
From the conversation,we know that the two were talking about some work they
will start at 9 o’clock in the morning and have to finish at 2 in the afternoon
,Therefore,D),5 hours” is the correct answer,You should choose ［D］ on th
e Answer Sheet and mark it with a single line through the centre,
[JY,3] Sample Answer ［A］ ［B］ ［C］ ［D］[KG-4.5mm]—[FK)]
1.A)Buy some traveller’s checks,B)Borrow some money from a friend.
C)Check the brakes and tires,D)Spend some time travelling.
2.A)He is very forgiving and tolerant,B)He probably has a poor memor
y.
C)He is well liked by his customers,D)He has been introduced to the staff
.
3.A)He thinks the book should include more information.
B)He doesn’t think it necessary to provide the answers.
C)The answers will be added in a later edition.
D)The book does include the answers.
4.A)Announce appeals for public service,B)Hold a charity concert to ra
ise money.
C)Ask the school radio station for help,D)Pool money to fund the radio stat
ion.
5.A)She talked with the consultant about the new program until two.
B)She couldn’t talk to the consultant before two.
C)She would talk to the consultant during lunch.
D)She couldn’t contact the consultant’s secretary.
6.A)They are equally competent for the job,B)They both graduated from
art schools.
C)They majored in different areas of art,D)They are both willing to draw th
e posters.
7.A)At a book store,B)At an art museum.
C)At a newspaper office,D)At a gymnasium.
8.A)The woman received a phone call from Mark yesterday,
B)The man injured Mark in a traffic accident yesterday.
C)The man met a friend by chance,
D)The woman contacted Mark on business.
9.A)The man should stay up and watch the program,B)The man should read
something exciting instead.
C)The man should go to bed at eleven,D)The man should give up watching the
movie.
10.A)Students with a library card can check any book out.
B)Reference books are not allowed to be checked out.
C)Only students with a library card can check out reference books.
D)The number of books a student can check out is unlimited.
Section B
Directions,In this section,you will hear 3 short passages,At th
e end of each passage,you will hear some questions,Both the passage and the q
uestions will be spoken only once,After you hear a question,you must choose th
e best answer from the four choices marked A),B),C) and D),Then mark the cor
responding letter on the Answer Sheet with a single line through the centre.
Passage One
Questions 11 to 13 are based on the passage you have just heard.
11.A)To find out whether they take music lessons in their spare time.
B)To find out whether they can name four different musical instruments.[ZK)
]
C)To find out whether they enjoy playing musical instruments in school.[ZK)
]
D)To find out whether they differ in their preference for musical instrumen
ts.
12.A)Because they find them too hard to play.
B)Because they think it silly to play them.
C)Because they find it not challenging enough to play them.
D)Because they consider it important to be different from girls.
13.A)Children who have private music tutors.B)Children who are 8 or ol
der.
C)Children who are between 5 and 7.D)Children who are welleducated.
Passage Two
Questions 14 to 16 are based on the passage you have just heard.
14.A)Because there weren’t any professional teams in the U.S then.
B)Because Pele hadn’t retired from the Brazilian National Team yet.
C)Because this fastmoving sport wasn’t familiar to many Americans.
D)Because good professional players received low salaries.
15.A)When it has a large number of fans.B)When it plays at home.
C)When it has many international stars playing for it.D)When the fans cheer
enthusiastically for it.
16.A)It wasn’t among the top four teams.B)It didn’t play as well a
s expected.
C)It won the World Cup.D)It placed fourth.
Passage Three
Questions 17 to 20 are based on the passage you have just heard.
17.A)Students from America.B)Students from England.
C)Students from Australia.D)Students from Japan.
18.A)Those who know how to program computers.B)Those who get special a
id from their teachers.
C)Those who are very hardworking.D)Those who have welleducated parents.[Z
K)]
19.A)Japanese students study much harder than Columbian students.
B)Columbian students are more optimistic about their maths skills.
C)Columbian students are more optimistic about their maths skills.
D)Japanese students have better conditions for study.
20.A)Physics.B)Mathematics.
C)Environmental science.D)Life science.
Part Ⅱ
Reading Comprehension (35 minutes)
Directions,There are four passages in this part,Each passage is
followed by some questions or unfinished statements,For each of them there are
four choices marked A),B),C) and D),You should decide on the best choice and
mark the corresponding letter on the Answer Sheet with a single line through the
centre.
Passage One
Questions 21 to 25 are based on the following passage.
In the 1920s demand for American farm products fell,as European countries began
to recover from World War I and instituted dusterity (紧缩) programs to red
uce their imports.The result was a sharp drop in farm prices.This period was more
disastrous for farmers than earlier times had been,because farmers were no long
er selfsufficient.They were paying for machinery,seed,and fertilizer,and the
y were also buying consumer goods.The prices of the items farmers bought remaine
d constant,while prices they received for their products fell.These development
s were made worse by the Great Depression,which began in 1929 and extended throu
ghout the 1930s.
In 1929,under President Herbert Hoover,the Federal Farm Board was organized,I
t established the principle of direct interference with supply and demand,and i
t represented the first national commitment to provide greater economic stabilit
y for farmers.
President Hoover’s successor attached even more importance to this problem,One
of the first measures proposed by President Franklin D.Roosevelt when he took of
fice in 1933 was the Agricultural Adjustment Act,which was subsequently passed
by Congress.This law gave the Secretary of Agriculture the power to reduce prod
uction through voluntary agreements with farmers who were paid to take their lan
d out of use.A deliberate scarcity of farm products was planned in an effort to
raise prices,This law was declared unconstitutional by the Supreme Court on the
grounds that general taxes were being collected to pay one special group of peo
ple.However,new laws were passed immediately that achieved the same result of re
sting soil and providing floodcontrol measures,but which were based on the pr
inciple of soil conservation.The Roosevelt Administration believed that rebuildi
ng the nation’s soil was in the national interest and was not simply a plan to h
elp farmers at the expense of other citizens,Later the government guaranteed lo
ans to farmers so that they could buy farm machinery,hybrid(杂交) grain,and
fertilizers.
21.What brought about the decline in the demand for American farm products?
A)The impact of the Great Depression.
B)The shrinking of overseas markets.
C)The destruction caused by the First World War.
D)The increased exports of European countries.
22.The chief concern of the American government in the area of agriculture
in the 1920s was ____.
A)to increase farm productionB)to establish agricultural laws
C)to prevent farmers from going bankruptD)to promote the mechanization of a
griculture
23.The Agricultural Adjustment Act encouraged American farmers to ____.
A)reduce their scale of production
B)make full use of their land
C)adjust the prices of their farm products
D)be selfsufficient in agricultural production
24.The Supreme Court rejected the Agricultural Adjustment Act because it be
lieved that the Act ____.
A)might cause greater scarcity of farm products
B)didn’t give the Secretary of Agriculture enough power
C)would benefit neither the government nor the farmers
D)benefited one group of citizens at the expense of others
25.It was claimed that the new laws passed during the Roosevelt Administrat
ion were aimed at ____.
A)reducing the cost of farming
B)conserving soil in the longterm interest of the nation
C)lowering the burden of farmers
D)helping farmers without shifting the burden onto other taxpayers
Passage Two
Questions 26 to 30 are based on the following passage.
In the 1950s,the pioneers of artificial intelligence (AI) predicted that,by th
e end of this century,computers would be conversing with us at work and robots
would be performing our housework,But as useful as computers are,they’re nowher
e close to achieving anything remotely resembling these early aspirations for hu
manlike behavior.Never mind something as complex as conversation:the most
powerful computers struggle to reliably recognize the shape of an object,the mo
st elementary of tasks for a tenmonthold kid.
A growing group of AI researchers think they know where the field went wrong.The
problem,the scientists say,is that AI has been trying to separate the highest,
most abstract levels of thought,like language and mathematics,and to duplicat
e them with logical,stepbystep programs,A new movement in AI,on the other
hand,takes a closer look at the more roundabout way in which nature came up wi
th intelligence,Many of these researchers study evolution and natural adaptatio
n instead of formal logic and conventional computer programs,Rather than digita
l computers and transistors,some want to work with brain cells and proteins,Th
e results of these early efforts are as promising as they are peculiar,and the
new naturebased AI movement is slowly but surely moving to the forefront of th
e field.
Imitating the brain’s neural(神经的) network is a huge step in the right dir
ection,says computer scientist and biophysicist Michael Conrad,but it still mi
sses an important aspect of natural intelligence.,People tend to treat the bra
in as if it were made up of colorcode transistors,” he explains.“But it’s not
simply a clever network of switches,There are lots of important things going o
n inside the brain cells themselves.” Specifically,Conrad believes that many of
the brain’s capabilities stem from the patternrecognition proficiency of the
individual molecules that make up each brain cell.The best way to build an artif
icially intelligent device,he claims,would be to build it around the same sort
of molecular skills.
Right now,the notion that conventional computers and software are fundamentally
incapable of matching the processes that take place in the brain remains contro
versial,But if it proves true,then the efforts of Conrad and his fellow AI reb
els could turn out to be the only game in town.
26.The author says that the powerful computers of today ____.
A)are capable of reliably recognizing the shape of an object
B)are close to exhibiting humanlike behavior
C)are not very different in their performance from those of the
50’s
D)still cannot communicate with people in a human language
27.The new trend in artificial intelligence research stems from ____.
A)the shift of the focus of study on to the recognition of the shapes of ob
jects
B)the belief that human intelligence cannot be duplicated with logical,ste
pbystep pro grams
C)the aspirations of scientists to duplicate the intelligence of a tenmon
thold child
D)the efforts made by scientists in the study of the similarities between t
ransistors and brain cells
28.Conrad and his group of AI researchers have been making enormous efforts
to ____.
A)find a roundabout way to design powerful computers
B)build a computer using a clever network of switches
C)find out how intelligence developed in nature
D)separate the highest and most abstract levels of thought
29.What’s the author’s opinion about the new AI movement?
A)It has created a sensation among artificial intelligence researchers but
will soon die out.
B)It’s a breakthrough in duplicating human thought processes.
C)It more like a peculiar game rather than a real scientific effort.
D)It may prove to be in the right direction though nobody is sure of its fu
ture prospects.
30.Which of the following is closest in meaning to the phrase,the only ga
me in town”(Line 3,Para,4)?
A)The only approach to building an artificially intelligent computer.
B)The only way for them to win a prize in artificial intelligence research.
C)The only area worth studying in computer science.
D)The only game they would like to play in town.
Passage Three
Questions 31 to 35 are based on the following passage.
Cars account for half the oil consumed in the U.S.,about half the urban polluti
on and one fourth the greenhouse(温室) gases.They take a similar toll of
(损耗) resources in other industrial nations and in the cities of the developin
g world.As vehicle use continues to increase in the coming decade,the U.S,and
other countries will have to deal with these issues or else face unacceptable ec
onomic,healthrelated and political costs.It is unlikely that oil prices will
remain at their current low level or that other nations will accept a large and
growing U.S,contribution to global climatic change.
Policymakers and industry have four options:reduce vehicle use,increase the eff
iciency and reduce the emissions of conventional gasolinepowered vehicles,swit
ch to less harmful fuels,or find less polluting driving systems,The last of th
ese—in particular the introduction of vehicles powered by electricity—is ultim
ately the only sustainable option.The other alternatives are attractive in theor
y but in practice are either impractical or offer only marginal improvements.For
example,reduced vehicle use could solve traffic problems and a host of social
and environmental problems,but evidence from around the world suggests that it
is very difficult to make people give up their cars to any significant extent,I
n the U.S.,masstransit ridership and carpooling(合伙用车) have declined si
nce World War Ⅱ.Even in western Europe,with fuel prices averaging more than $1
a liter (about $4 a gallon) and with easily accessible mass transit and dense p
opulations,cars still account for 80 percent of all passenger travel.
Improved energy efficiency is also appealing,but automotive fuel economy has ba
rely made any progress in 10 years,Alternative fuels such as natural gas,burne
d in internalcombustion engines,could be introduced at relatively low cost,b
ut they would lead to only marginal reductions in pollution and greenhouse emiss
ions (especially because oil companies are already spending billions of dollars
every year to develop less polluting types of gasoline).
31.From the passage we know that the increased use of cars will ____.
A)consume half of the oil produced in the world
B)have serious consequences for the wellbeing of all nations
C)widen the gap between the developed and developing countries
D)impose an intolerable economic burden on residents of large cities[
ZK)]
32.The U.S,has to deal with the problems arising from vehicle use because
____.
A)most Americans are reluctant to switch to public transportation systems[Z
K)]
B)the present level of oil prices is considered unacceptable
C)the other countries will protest its increasing greenhouse emissions
D)it should take a lead in conserving natural resources
33.Which of the following is the best solution to the problems mentioned in
the passage?
A)The designing of highly efficient car engines.
B)A reduction of vehicle use in cities.
C)The development of electric cars.
D)The use of less polluting fuels.
34.Which of the following is practical but only makes a marginal contributi
on to solving the problem of greenhouse emissions?
A)The use of fuels other than gasoline.
B)Improved energy efficiency.
C)The introduction of less polluting driving systems.
D)Reducing car sue by capooling.
35.Which of the following statements is TRUE according to the passage?
A)The decline of public transportation accounts for increased car use in we
stern Europe.
B)Cars are popular in western Europe even though fuel prices are fairly hig
h.
C)The reduction of vehicle use is the only sustainable option in densely po
pulated western Europe.
D)Western European oil companies cannot sustain the cost of developing new
type fuels.
Passage Four
Questions 36 to 40 are based on the following passage.
Reebok executives do not like to hear their stylish athletic shoes called,foot
wear for yuppies(雅皮士，少壮高薪职业人士)”.They contend that Reebok shoes
appeal to diverse market segments,especially now that the company offers basket
ball and children’s shoes for the under18 set and walking shoes for older cust
omers not interested in aerobics(健身操) or running.The executives also poin
t out that through recent acquisitions they have added hiking boots,dress and c
asual shoes,and highperformance athletic footwear to their product lines,all
of which should attract new and varied groups of customers.
Still,despite its emphasis on new markets,Reebok plans few changes in the up
market (高档消费人群的) retailing network that helped push sales to $ 1 billio
n annually,ahead of all other sports shoe marketers,Reebok shoes,which are pr
iced from $ 27 to $ 85,will continue to be sold only in better specialty,sporti
ng goods,and department stores,in accordance with the company’s view that cons
umers judge the quality of the brand by the quality of its distribution.
In the past few years,the Massachusettsbased company has imposed limits on th
e number of its distributors (and the number of shoes supplied to stores),partl
y out of necessity,At times the unexpected demand for Reeboks exceeded supply,
and the company could barely keep up with orders from the dealers it already had
,These fulfillment problems seem to be under control now,but the company is st
ill selective about its distributors,At present,Reebok shoes are available in
about five thousand retail stores in the United States.
Reebok has already anticipated that walkingg shoes will be the next fitnessrel
ated craze,replacing aerobics shoes the same way its brightly colored,soft lea
ther exercise footwear replaced conventional running shoes.Through product diver
sification and careful market research,Reebok hopes to avoid the distribution p
roblems Nike came across several years ago,when Nike misjudged the strength of
the aerobics shoe craze and was forced to unload huge inventories of running sho
es through discount stores.
36.One reason why Reebok’s managerial personnel don’t like their shoes to b
e called,footwear for yuppies”is that ____.
A)they believe that their shoes are popular with people of different age gr
oups
B)new production lines have been added to produce inexpensive shoes
C)“yuppies” usually evokes a negative image
D)the term makes people think of prohibitive prices
37.Reebok’s view that,consumers judge the quality of the brand by the qua
lity of its distribution”(Line 4,Para,2) implies that ____.
A)the quality of a brand is measured by the service quality of the store se
lling it
B)the quality of a product determines the quality of its distributors
C)the popularity of a brand is determined by the stores that sell it
D)consumers believe that firstrate products are only sold by highqualit
y stores
38.Reebok once had to limit the number of its distributors because ____.
A)its supply of products fell short of demand
B)too many distributors would cut into its profits
C)the reduction of distributors could increase its share of the market
D)it wanted to enhance consumer confidence in its products
39.Although the Reebok Company has solved the problem of fulfilling its ord
ers,it ____.
A)does not want to further expand its retailing network
B)still limits the number of shoes supplied to stores
C)is still particular about who sells its products
D)still carefully chooses the manufacturers of its products
40.What lesson has Reebok learned from Nike’s distribution problems?
A)A company should not sell its high quality shoes in discount stores.
B)A company should not limit its distribution network.
C)A company should do followupsurveys of its products.
D)A company should correctly evaluate the impact of a new craze on the mark
et.
Part Ⅲ
Vocabulary (20 minutes)
Directions,There are 30 incomplete sentences in this part.For eac
h sentence there are four choices marked A),B),C) and D).Choose the ONE that b
est completes the sentence.Then mark the corresponding letter on the Answer Shee
t with a single line through the centre.
41.For many patients,institutional care is the most ____ and beneficial
form of care.
A) pertinentB)appropriateC)acuteD)persistent
42.Among all the changes resulting from the ____ entry of women into the
work force,the transformation that has occurred in the women themselves is not
the least important.
A) massiveB)quantitativeC)surplusD)formidable
43.Mr,Smith became very ____ when it was suggested that he had made a mi
stake.
A) ingeniousB)empiricalC)objectiveD)indignant
44.Rumours are everywhere,spreading fear,damaging reputations,and turnin
g calm situations into ____ ones.
A) turbulentB)tragicC)vulnerableD)suspicious
45.The ____ cycle of life and death is a subject of interest to scientist
s and philosophers alike.
A) incompatibleB)exceedingC)instantaneousD)eternal
46.She remains confident and ____ untroubled by our present problems.
A) indefinitelyB)infinitelyC)optimisticallyD)seemingly
47.Fiberoptic cables can carry hundreds of telephone conversations ____
.
A) simultaneoulsyB)spontaneouslyC)homogeneouslyD)contemporarily
48.The police were alerted that the escaped criminal might be in the ____
,
A) vainB)vicinityC)courtD)jail
49.Whether you live to eat or eat to live,food is a major ____ in every
family’s budget.
A) nutritionB)expenditureC)routineD)provision
50.Now a paper in Science argues that organic chemicals in the rock com
e mostly from ____ on earth rather than bacteria on Mars.
A) configurationB)constitutionC)condemnationD)contamination[ZK)
]
51.There is much I enjoy about the changing seasons,but my favorite time i
s the ____ from fall to winter.
A) transmissionB)transformationC)transitionD)transfer
52.I think we need to see an investment ____ before we make an expensive
mistake.
A) guideB)entrepreneurC)consultantD)assessor
53.The ____ on this apartment expires in a year’s time.
A) treatyB)leaseC)engagementD)subsidy
54.The elderly Russians find it hard to live on their state ____,
A) pensionsB)earningsC)salariesD)donations
55.There is supposed to be a safety ____ which makes it impossible for tr
ains to collide.
A) applianceB)accessoryC)machineD)mechanism
56.After four years in the same job his enthusiasm finally ____,
A) deterioratedB)dispersedC)dissipatedD)drained
57.No one can function properly if they are ____ of adequate sleep.
A) deprivedB)rippedC)strippedD)contrived
58.For years now,the people of that faraway country have been cruelly [CD#
3] by a dictator.
A) depressedB)immersedC)oppressedD)cursed
59.Ever since the rise of industrialism,education has been ____ towards
producing workers.
A) harnessedB)hatchedC)motivatedD)geared
60.The prospect of increased prices has already ____ worries.
A) provokedB)irritatedC)inspiredD)hoisted
61.The suspect ____ that he had not been in the neighbourhood at the time
of the crime.
A) advocatedB)allegedC)addressedD)announced
62.Although the colonists ____ to some extent with the native Americans,
the Indians’ influence on American culture and language was not extensive.
A) migratedB)matchedC)mingledD)melted
63.Email is a convenient,highly democratic informal medium for conveying
messages that ____ well to human needs.
A) adheresB)reflectsC)conformsD)satisfies
64.The wings of the bird still ____ after it had been shot down.
A) slappedB)scratchedC)flappedD)fluctuated
65.The disagreement over trade restrictions could seriously ____ relation
s between the two countries.
A) tumbleB)jeopardizeC)manipulateD)intimidate
66.When you put up wallpaper,you should ____ the edges or put them next
to each other.
A) coincideB)extendC)overlapD)collide
67.Under the present system,state enterprises must ____ all profits to t
he government.
A) turn downB)turn upC)turn outD)turn in
68.Oil companies in the U.S,are already beginning to feel the pressure,Re
f
inery workers and petroleumequipmentmanufacturing employees are being____,
A) laid outB)laid offC)laid downD)laid aside
69.We’ll ____ you for any damage done to your house while we are in it.
A) compensateB)remedyC)supplementD)retrieve
70.She cut her hair short and tried to ____ herself as a man.
A) decorate B)disguise C)fabricate D)fake
[LM]
试卷二
Part Ⅳ
Error Correction (15 minutes)
Directions,This part consists of a short passage,In this passage
,there are altogether 10 mistakes,one in each numbered line,You may have to c
hange a word,add a word or delete(删除) a word,If you change a word,cross it
out and write the correct word in the corresponding blank,If you add a word,pu
t an insertion mark (∧) in the correct place and write the missing word in the
blank,If you delete a word,cross it out and be sure to put a slash (/) in the
blank.
Example：
Television is rapidly becoming the literature of our periods[KG-1]/,
1,____Time/times/period____
Many of the arguments having[KG-1]/ [KG*2]used for the study of
2.____/____
literature as a school subject are valid for ∧ study of
3.____the____
television.
When you start talking about good and bad manners you
immediately start meeting difficulties,Many people just cannot
agree what they mean,We asked a lady,who replied that she
thought you could tell a wellmannered person on the way71.____
they occupied the space around them—for example,when such
a person walks down a street he or she is constantly unaware of72.____
others.Such people never bump into other people.
However,a second person thought that this was more a ques
tion of civilized behavior as good manners,Instead,this other73.____
person told us a story,it he said was quite well known,about an74.____
American who had been invited to an Arab meal at one of the75.____
countries of the Middle East.The American hasn’t been told very76.____
much about the kind of food he might expect,If he had known
about American food,he might have behaved better.77.____
Immediately before him was a very flat piece of bread that
looked,to him,very much as a napkin (餐巾),Pickng it up,he78.____
put it into his collar,so that it falls across his shirt.His Arab host,79.____
who had been watching,said of nothing,but immediately copied80.____
the action of his guest.
And that,said this second person,was a fine example of good
manners.
Part Ⅴ
Writing (30 minutes)
Directions:For this part,you are allowed thirty minutes to write a composition on the topic[KG*2]Is a test of spoken English Necessary?The first sentence has already been written for you.You should write at least 120 words,and base your composition on the outline (given in Chinese) below:
1.很多人认为有必要举行英语口语考试，理由是……
2.也有人持不同意见，……
3.我的看法和打算
Is a Test of Spoken English Necessary?
A test of spoken English will be included as an optional component of the Colleg
e English Test (CET).
____________
Part Two 试卷部分
2000年1月
大学英语六级考试历年全真试卷
试卷一
Part Ⅰ
Listening Comprehension(20 minutes)
Section A
Directions,In this section,you will hear 10 short conversations,At th
e end of each conversation,a question will be asked about what was said,Both t
he conversation and the question will be spoken only once,After each question t
here will be a pause,During the pause,you must read the four choices marked A),B),C),and D),and decide which is the best answer,Then mark the correspondi
ng letter on the Answer Sheet with a single line through the centre,
Example,You will hear:
You will read:
A) 2 hours,B) 3 hours,C) 4 hours,D) 5 hours.
From the conversation we know that the two are talking about some work they will
start at 9 o’clock in the morning and have to finish at 2 in the afternoon,The
refore,D),5 hours” is the correct answer,You should choose ［D］on the Answe
r Sheet and mark it with a single line through the centre.
〖JY，3〗 Sample Answer ［A］ ［B］ ［C］ ［D］[KG-4.5mm]—[FK)]
1,A) To cancel his trip,B) To go to bed early,
C) To catch a later flight,D) To ask for a wake-up call.
2,A) They have different opinions as to what to do next.
B) They have to pay for the house by installments.
C) They will fix a telephone in the bathroom.
D) The man’s attitude is more sensible than the woman’s.
3,A) She will save the stamps for the man’s sister.B) She will no
longer get letters from Canada.
C) She can’t give the stamps to the man’s sister.D) She has given the s
tamps to the man’s roommates.
4,A) Visiting the Brownings.B) Writing a postcard.
C) Looking for a postcard,D) Filling in a form.
5,A) The man should work with somebody else.B) The man should meet
his partner’s needs,
C) They should come to a compromise.D) They should find a better lab for th
e project.
6,A) She can’t finish her assignment,either.B) She can’t afford
a computer right now.
C) The man can use her computer.D) The man should buy a computer right
away.
7,A) The visiting economist has given several lectures.
B) The guest lecturer’s opinion is different from Dr,Johnson’s.
C) Dr,Johnson and the guest speaker were schoolmates.
D) Dr,Johnson invited the economist to visit their college.
8,A) She’s never watched a better game.B) Football is her favorit
e pastime.
C) The game has been canceled.D) Their team played very badly.
9,A) The man should stick to what he’s doing.B) The man should ta
ke up a new hobby.
C) The man should stop playing tennis.D) The man should find the cause
for his failure.
10,A) An invented story,B) A real life experience.
C) An imaginary situation,D) A terrible nightmare,
Section B
Directions,In this section,you will hear 3 short passages,At the e
nd of each passage,you will hear some questions,Both the passage and the quest
ions will be spoken only once,After you hear a question,you must choose the be
st answer from the four choices marked A ),B),C) and D).Then mark the correspond
ing letter on the Answer Sheet with a single line through the centre.
Passage One
Questions 11 to 13 are based on the passage you have just heard,
11,A) The name of a German town,B) A resident of Frankfu
rt,
C) A kind of German sausage.D) A kind of German bread.
12,A) He sold fast food.B) He raised dogs,
C) He was a cook.D) He was a cartoonist.
13,A) Because the Americans found they were from Germany.
B) Because people thought they contained dog meat.
C) Because people had to get used to their taste.
D) Because it was too hot to eat right away.
Passage Two
Questions 14 to 16 are based on the passage you have just heard.
14,A) They give out faint cries.B) They make noises to
drive away insects.
C) They extend their water pipes.D) They become elastic like rubber ba
nds.
15,A) Quiet plants.B) Well-watered plants.
C) Healthy plants.D) Thirsty plants.
16,A) They could drive the insects away.B) They could keep the p
lants well-watered.
C) They could make the plants grow faster.D) They could build devices
to trap insects.
Passage Three
Questions 17 to 20 are based on the passage you have just heard,
17,A) To look for a different lifestyle.B) To enjoy thems
elves.
C) For adventure.D) For education.
18,A) There are 200 vehicles for every kilometer of roadway.
B) It has a dense population.
C) There are many museums and palaces.
D) It has many towering buildings.
19,A) It is a city of contrasts.B) It possesses many historical s
ites.
C) It is an important industrial center.D) It has many big and beautif
ul parks.
20,A) It helps develop our personalities.B) It enables us to acq
uire first-hand knowledge.
C) It makes our life more interesting.D) It brings about changes in o
ur lifestyle.
Part Ⅱ
Reading Comprehension (35 minutes)
Directions,There are 4 reading passages in this part,Each passage i
s followed by some questions or unfinished statements,For each of them there ar
e four choices marked A),B),C)and D),You should decide on the best choice and
mark the corresponding letter on the Answer Sheet with a single line through the centre.
Passage One
Questions 21 to 25 are based on the following passage.
In the world of entertainment,TV talk shows have undoubtedly flo
oded every
inch of space on daytime television,And anyone who watches them regularly knows
that each one varies in style and format,But no two shows are more profoundly
opposite in content,while at the same time standing out above the rest,than th
e Jerry Springer and the Oprah Winfrey shows.
Jerry Springer could easily be considered the king of,trash talk(废话)”,The t
opics on his show are as shocking as shocking can be,For example,the show take
s the ever-common talk show themes of love,sex,cheating,guilt,hate,conflict
and morality to a different level,Clearly,the Jerry Springer show is a displa
y and exploitation of society’s moral catastrophes(灾难),yet people are willing
to eat up the intriguing predicaments(困境) of other people’s lives.
Like Jerry Springer,Oprah Winfrey takes TV talk show to its extreme,but Oprah
goes in the opposite direction,The show focuses on the improvement of society a
nd an individual’s quality of life,Topics range from teaching your children res
ponsibility,managing your work week,to getting to know your neighbors.
Compared to Oprah,the Jerry Springer show looks like poisonous waste being dump
ed on society,Jerry ends every show with a,final word”,He makes a small spee
ch that sums up the entire moral of the show,Hopefully,this is the part where
most people will learn something very valuable.
Clean as it is,the Oprah show is not for everyone,The show’s main target audie
nce are middle-class Americans,Most of these people have the time,money,and s
tability to deal with life’s tougher problems,Jerry Springer,on the other hand
,has more of an association with the young adults of society,These are 18-to 2
1-year-olds whose main troubles in life involve love,relationship,sex,money a
nd peers,They are the ones who see some value and lessons to be learned underne
ath the show’s exploitation.
While the two shows are as different as night and day,both have ruled the talk
show circuit for many years now,Each one caters to a different audience while b
oth have a strong following from large groups of fans,Ironically,both could al
so be considered pioneers in the talk show world.
21.Compare with other TV talk shows,both the Jerry Springer and the Opra
h Winfrey are____.
A) more family-oriented B) unusually popular
C) more profoundD) relatively formal
22.Though the social problems Jerry Springer talks about appear distastef
ul,the audience____.
A) remain fascinated by them B) are ready to face up to them
C) remain indifferent to them D) are willing to get involved in the
m
23.Which of the following is likely to be a topic of the Oprah Winfrey sh
ow?
A) A new type of robot,B) Racist hatred,
C) Family budget planning,D) Street violence.
24.Despite their different approaches,the two talk shows are both 〖CD#
3〗.
A) ironical B) sensitiveC) instructive D) cynical
25.We can learn from the passage that the two talk shows____.
A) have monopolized the talk show circuitB) exploit the weaknesses in h
uman nature
C) appear at different times of the dayD) are targeted at different a
udiences
Passage Two
Questions 26 to 30 are based on the following passage.
To understand the marketing concept,it is only necessary to understa
nd the diff
erence between marketing and selling,Not too many years ago,most industries co
ncentrated primarily on the efficient production of goods,and then relied on,
p
ersuasive salesmanship” to move as much of these goods as possible,Such product
ion and selling focuses on the needs of the seller to produce goods and then con
vert them into money.
Marketing,on the other hand,focuses on the wants of consumers,It begins with
first analyzing the preferences and demands of consumers and then producing good
s that will satisfy them,This eye-on-the-consumer approach is known as the mark
eting concept,which simply means that instead of trying to sell whatever is eas
iest to produce or buy for resale,the makers and dealers first endeavor to find
out what the consumer wants to buy and then go about making it available for pu
rchase.
This concept does not imply that business is benevolent(慈善的) or that consumer
satisfaction is given priority over profit in a company,There are always two s
ides to every business transaction —— the firm and the customer —— and each
must be satisfied before trade occurs,Successful merchants and producers,howe
ver,recognize that the surest route to profit is through understanding and cate
ring to customers,A striking example of the importance of catering to the consu
mer presented itself in mid-1985,when Coca Cola changed the flavor of its drink
,The non-acceptance of the new flavor by a significant portion of the public br
ought about a prompt restoration of the Classic Coke,which was then marketed al
ongside new,King Customer ruled!
26,The marketing concept discussed in the passage is,in essence,____.
A) the practice of turning goods into moneyB) making goods available f
or purchase
C) the customer-centered approachD) a form of persuasive salesmanship
27,What was the main concern of industrialists before the marketing conc
ept was widely accepted?
A) The needs of the market.B) The efficiency of production.
C) The satisfaction of the user,D) The preferences of the dealer.
28,According to the passage,“to move as much of these goods as possibl
e”(Lines 3,Para,1) means ____,
A) to sell the largest possible amount of goodsB) to transport goods
as efficiently as possible
C) to dispose of these goods in large quantitiesD) to redesign
these goods for large-scale production
29,What does the restoration of the Classic Coke best illustrate?
A) Traditional goods have a stronger appeal to the majority of people.
B) It takes time for a new product to be accepted by the public.
C) Consumers with conservative tastes are often difficult to please.
D) Products must be designed to suit the taste of the consumer.
30.In discussing the marketing concept,the author focuses on____.
A) its main characteristic
B) its social impact
C) its possible consequence
D) its theoretical basis
Passage Three
Questions 31 to 35 are based on the following passage.
Conventional wisdom about conflict seems pretty much cut and dried
,Too littl
e conflict breeds apathy(冷漠)and stagnation(呆滞),Too much conflict le
ads to divisiveness(分裂)and hostility,Moderate levels of conflict,however
,can spark
creativity and motivate people in a healthy and competitive way.
Recent research by Professor Charles R,Schwenk,however,suggests that the o
ptimal level of conflict may be more complex to determine than these simple gene
ralizations,He studied perceptions of conflict among a sample of executives,So
me of the executives worked for profit-seeking organizations and others for not-
for-profit organizations.
Somewhat surprisingly,Schwenk found that opinions about conflict varied syst
ematically as a function of the type of organization,Specifically,managers in
not-for-profit organizations strongly believed that conflict was beneficial to t
heir organizations and that it promoted higher quality decision making than migh
t be achieved in the absence of conflict.
Managers of for-profit organizations saw a different picture,They believed t
hat conflict generally was damaging and usually led to poor-quality decision mak
ing in their organizations,Schwenk interpreted these results in terms of the cr
iteria for effective decision making suggested by the executives,In the profit-
seeking organizations,decision-making effectiveness was most often assessed in
financial terms,The executives believed that consensus rather than conflict enh
anced financial indicators.
In the not-for-profit organizations,decision-making effectiveness was define
d from the perspective of satisfying constituents,Given the complexities and am
biguities associated with satisfying many diverse constituents executives percei
ved that conflict led to more considered and acceptable decisions.
31.In the eyes of the author,conventional opinion on conflict is〖CD#3
〗.
A) wrong B) oversimplified C) misleading D) unclear
32.Professor Charles R,Schwenk’s research shows____,
A) the advantages and disadvantages of conflict
B) the real value of conflict
C) the difficulty in determining the optimal level of conflict
D) the complexity of defining the roles of conflict
33.We can learn from Schwenk’s research that____.
A) a person’s view of conflict is influenced by the purpose of his orga
nization
B) conflict is necessary for managers of for-profit organizations〖ZK)
〗
C) different people resolve conflicts in different ways
D) it is impossible for people to avoid conflict
34.The passage suggests that in for-profit organizations____.
A) there is no end of conflict
B) expression of different opinions is encouraged
C) decisions must be justifiable
D) success lies in general agreement
35,People working in a not-for-profit organization____.
A) seem to be difficult to satisfy
B) are free to express diverse opinions
C) are less effective in making decisions
D) find it easier to reach agreement
Passage Four
Questions 36 to 40 are based on the following passage.
Imagine eating everything delicious you want —— with none of the fa
t,That would be great,wouldn’t it?
New,fake fat” products appeared on store shelves in the United States recently
,
but not everyone is happy about it,Makers of the products,which contain a com
pound called olestra,say food manufacturers can now eliminate fat from cert
ain foods,Critics,however,say the new compound can rob the body of essential
vitamins and nutrients(营养物)and can also cause unpleasant side effects in
some people,So it’s up to consumers to decide whether the new fat-free products
taste good enough to keep eating.
Chemists discovered olestra in the late 1960s,when they were searching for
a fat that could be digested by infants more easily,Instead of finding the desi
red fat,the researchers created a fat that can’t be digested at all.
Normally,special chemicals in the intestines(肠),grab” molecules of regul
ar fat and break them down so they can be used by the body,A molecule of regula
r fat is made up of three molecules of substances called fatty acids.
The fatty acids are absorbed by the intestines and bring with them the essential
vitamins A,D,E,and K,When fat molecules are present in the intestines with
any of those vitamins,the vitamins attach to the molecules and are carried into
the bloodstream.
Olestra,which is make from six to eight molecules of fatty acids,is too la
rge
for the intestines to absorb,It just slides unchanged through the intestines wi
thout being broken down,Manufacturers say it’s that ability to slide unchanged
through the intestines that makes olestra so valuable as a fat substitute,It pr
ovides consumers with the taste of regular fat without any bad effects on the bo
dy,But critics say olestra can prevent vitamins A,D,E,and K from being a
bsorbed,It can also prevent the absorption of carotenoids(类胡萝卜素),comp
ounds that may reduce the risk of cancer,heart disease,etc.
Manufacturers are adding vitamins A,D,E,and K as well as carotenoids to their
products now,Even so,some nutritionists are still concerned that people might
eat unlimited amounts of food made with the fat substitute without worrying abo
ut how many calories they are consuming.
36.[ZK(〗We learn from the passage that olestra is a substance that____
.
A) contains plenty of nutrients
B) renders foods calorie-free while retaining their vitamins
C) makes foods easily digestible
D) makes foods fat-free while keeping them delicious
37.[ZK(〗The result of the search for an easily digestible fat turned out to be
____.
A) commercially useless B) just as anticipated
C) somewhat controversial D) quite unexpected
38.Olestra is different from ordinary fats in that____.
A) it passes through the intestines without being absorbed
B) it facilitates the absorption of vitamins by the body
C) it helps reduce the incidence of heart disease
D) it prevents excessive intake of vitamins
39,What is a possible negative effect of olestra according to some c
ritics?
A) It may impair the digestive system,
B) It may affect the overall fat intake,
C) It may increase the risk of cancer.
D) It may spoil the consumers’ appetite.
40,Why are nutritionists concerned about adding vitamins to olestra?
A) It may lead to the over-consumption of vitamins.
B) People may be induced to eat more than is necessary.
C) The function of the intestines may be weakened.
D) It may trigger a new wave of fake food production.
Part Ⅲ
Vocabulary (20 minutes)
Directions,There are 30 incomplete sentences in this part,For each
sentence there are four choices marked A),B),C),and D),Choose the ONE that best
completes the sentence,Then mark the corresponding letter on the Answer Sheet
with a single line through the centre.[WT5”BZ〗
41,The doctors don’t____that he will live much longer.
A) articulateB) anticipateC) manifest D)
monitor
42,I suggest we put the scheme into effect,for it is quite____.
A) eligible B) sustainable
C) probable D) feasible
43.The old gentleman was a very____looking person,with gray hair
and gold spectacles.
A) respectful B) respected
C) respective D) respectable
44,This book is expected to____the best-seller lists.
A) promote B) prevail
C) dominate D) exemplify
45.That part of the city has long been____for its street violence.
A) notorious B) responsible
C) historical D) illegal
46.Under the guidance of their teacher,the pupils are building a model b
oat____by steam.
A) towed B) pressed
C) tossed D) propelled
47.Having finished their morning work,the clerks stood up behind their d
esks,____ themselves.
A) expanding B) stretching
C) prolonging D) extending
48.England’s team,who are now superbly fit,will be doing their best nex
t week to____themselves for last year’s defeat.
A) revive B) retort
C) revenge D) remedy
49.If you want to get into that tunnel,you first have to____away
all the rocks.
A) haul B) transfer
C) repel D) dispose
50.It took us only a few hours to____the paper off all four walls.
A) shear B) scrape
C) stroke D) chip
51.The famous scientist____his success to hard work.
A) imparted B) granted
C) ascribed D) acknowledged
52.It is difficult to____of a plan to end poverty.
A) speculate B) conceive
C) ponder D) reckon
53,Now the cheers and applause____in a single sustained roar.
A) mingled B) concentrated
C) assembled D) permeated
54.Improved consumer confidence is____to an economic recovery.
A) crucialB) subordinateC) cumulative D) sati
sfactory
55,Although the body is made up of many different tissues,these tissues
are arranged in an____ and orderly fashion.
A) incredible B) intricate
C) internal D) initial
56.If you work under a car when repairing it,you often get very____.
A) waxy B) slippery
C) sticky D) greasy
57.The damage to his car was____; therefore,he could repair it hi
mself.
A) considerable B) appreciable
C) negligible D) invisible
58.My sister is quite____and plans to get an M,A,degree within o
ne year.
A) aggressive B) enthusiastic
C) considerate D) ambitious
59.The manager tried to wave aside these issues as____details that
would be settled later.
A) versatile B) trivial
C) preliminary D) alternate
60.His____was telling him that something was wrong.
A) intuition B) hypothesis
C) inspiration D) sentiment
61.This book is about how these basic beliefs and values affect important
____ of American life.
A) fashions B) frontiers
C) facets D) formats
62.Parents often faced the____between doing what they felt was goo
d for the development of the child and what they could stand by way of undiscipl
ined noise and destructiveness.
A) paradox B) junction
C) dilemma D) premise
63.Clark felt that his____in one of the most dramatic medical expe
riments of all time was worth the suffering he underwent.
A) apprehension B) appreciation
C) presentation D) participation
64.As one of the youngest professors in the university,Miss King is cert
ainly on the____of a brilliant career.
A) threshold B) edge
C) porch D) course
65.The____lawyer made a great impression on the jury.
A) protecting B) guarding
C) defending D) shielding
66,Very few people understood his lecture,the subject of which was very
____.
A) dim B) obscure
C) conspicuous D) intelligible
67.This movie is not____for children to see,it contains too much
violence and too many love scenes.
A) profound B) valid
C) decent D) upright
68.The wood was so rotten that,when we pulled,it____into fragmen
ts.
A) broke off B) broke away
C) broke through D) broke up
69.The detective and his assistant have begun to____the mysterious
murder.
A) come through B) look into
C) make over D) see to
70.Sadly,the Giant Panda is one of the many species now in danger of〖CD
#3〗,
A) extinction B) migration
C) destruction D) extraction
试卷二
Part Ⅳ
Error Correction (15 minutes)
Directions,This part consists of a short passage,In this passage,there are altogether 10 mistakes,one in each numbered line,You may have to change a word,add a word or delete a word,Mark out the mistakes and put the correc
tions in the blanks provided,If you change a word,cross it out and write the c
orrect word in the corresponding blank,If you add a word,put an insertion mark
(∧) in the right place and write the missing word in the blank,If you delete a
word,cross it out and put a slash (/) in the blank.
Example：
〖DZ(22，4〗Television is rapidly becoming the literature of our periods[KG-1]/,Many of the arguments having[KG-1]/ [KG*2]used for the study of literature as a school subject are valid for ∧ study of television.
Until the very latest moment of his existence,man has been bound to the pla
net on which he originated and developed,Now he had the capability to leave tha
t planet and move out into the universe to those worlds which he has known prev
iously only directly,Men have explored parts of the moon,put spaceships in orb
it around another planet and possibly within the decade will [JP+4]land into another planet and explore it,Can we be [JP]
[JP4]too bold as to suggest that we may be able to colonize other[JP] planet within the not-too-distant future? Some have advocated such a
procedure as a solution to the population problem,ship the excess people off t
o the moon,But we must keep in head the billions of dollars we might spend in c
arrying out the project,To maintain the earth’s population at its present level
,we would have to blast off into space 7,500 people every hour of every day of
the year.
Why are we spending so little money on space exploration? Consider the great
need for improving many aspects of the global environment,one is surely jus
tified in his concern for the money and resources that they are poured into the
space exploration efforts,But perhaps we should look at both sides of the c
oin before arriving hasty conclusions,
〖〗1.____Time/times/period
2.____/
3.____the____
71.____
72.____
73.____
74.____
75.____
76.____
77.____
78.____
79.____
80.___
Part Ⅴ
Writing (30 minutes)
Directions,For this part,you are allowed thirty minutes to write a com
position on the topic How I Finance My College Education? You sh
ould write at least 120 words,and base your composition on the outline (given i
n Chinese) below: 1．上大学的费用（tuition and fees）可以通过多种途径解决
2．哪种途径适合于我（说明理由）
How I Finance My College Education?
2003年12月
大学英语六级考试历年全真试卷
试卷一
Part Ⅰ
Listening Comprehension (20 minutes)
Section A
Directions:In this section,you will hear 10 short conversations,
At the end of each conversation,a question will be asked about what was said,B
oth the conversation and the question will be spoken only once,After each quest
ion there will be a pause,During the pause,you must read the four choices mark
ed A),B),C),and D),and decide which is the best answer,Then mark the corres
ponding letter on the Answer Sheet with a single line through the centre.
Example:You will hear:
You will read,
A) 2 hours,B) 3 hours.
C) 4 hours,D) 5 hours.
From the conversation,we know that the two were talking about some work they
will start at 9 o’clock in the morning and have to finish at 2 in the afternoon
,Therefore,D),5 hours” is the correct answer,You should choose ［D］ on th
e Answer Sheet and mark it with a single line through the centre,
[JY,3] Sample Answer ［A］ ［B］ ［C］ ［D］[KG-4.5mm]—[FK)]
1.A) She knows where Martha has gone,B) Martha will go to the concert by herself,C) It is quite possible for the man to find Martha.
D) The man is going to meet Martha at the concert.
2.A) The air pollution is caused by the development of industry.
B) The city was poor because there wasn’t much industry then.
C) The woman’s exaggerating the seriousness of the pollution.
D) He might move to another city very soon.
3.A) The man should work harder to improve his grades.
B) The man wil benefit from the effort he’s put in.
C) It serves the man right to get a poor grade.
D) It was unfair of the teacher to give the man a C.
4.A) She can make a reservation at the restaurant.
B) The man should decide where to eat.
C) She already has plans for Saturday night.
D) The man should ask his brother for suggestions.
5.A) The man deserved the award.B) The woman helped the man succeed.
C) The man is thankful to the woman for her assistance.D) The woman worked hard and was given an award.
6.A) Voluntary work can help the man establish connections with the community.
B) The man’s voluntary work has left him little room in his schedule.
C) Voluntary work with the environment council requires a time commitment.
D) A lot of people have signed up for voluntary work with the environment council.
7.A) The patient must receive treatment regularly.
B) The patient can’t leave the hospital until the bleeding stops.
C) The patient’s husband can attend to the business in her place.
D) The patient must take a good rest and forget about her business.
8.A) Alice does not know much about electronies.
B) Alice is unlikely to find a job anywhere.
C) Alice is not interested in anything but electronics.
D) Alice is likely to find a job in an electronics company.
9.A) Jimmy is going to set out tonight.
B) Jimmy has not decided on his journey.
C) There is no need to have a farewell dinner.
D) They may have a dinner when Jimmy’s back.
10.A) The woman had been planning for the conference.
B) The woman called the man but the line was busy.
C) The woman didn’t come back until midnight,
D) The woman had guests all evening.
Section B
Directions,In this section,you will hear 3 short passages,At th
e end of each passage,you will hear some questions,Both the passage and the q
uestions will be spoken only once,After you hear a question,you must choose th
e best answer from the four choices marked A),B),C) and D),Then mark the cor
responding letter on the Answer Sheet with a single line through the centre.
Passage One
Questions 11 to 13 are based on the passage you have just heard.
11.A) They are delighted because they can enjoy the scenery while driving.
B) They are frightened because traffic accidents are frequent.
C) They are irritated because the bridge is jammed with cars.
D) They are pleased because it saves them much time.
12.A) They don’t have their own cars to drive to work,
B) Many of them are romantic by temperament.
C) Most of them enjoy the drinks on the boat.
D) They tend to be more friendly to each other.
13.A) Many welcome the idea of having more bars on board.
B) Many prefer the ferry to maintain its present speed.
C) Some suggest improving the design of the deck.
D) Some object to using larger luxury boats.
Passage Two
Questions 14 to 16 are based on the passage you have just heard.
14.A) Coca ColaB) Sausage,C) Milk,D) Fried chicken.
15.A) He has had thirteen decayed teeth.
B) He doesn’t have a single decayed tooth.
C) He has fewer decayed teeth than other people of his age.
D) He never had a single tooth pulled out before he was fifty.
16.A) Brush your teeth right before you go to bed in the evening.
B) Have as few of your teeth pulled out as possible.
C) Have your teeth X-rayed at regular intervals.
D) Clean your teeth shortly after eating.
Passage Three
Questions 17 to 20 are based on the passage you have just heard.
17.A) A visit to a prison,B) The influence of his father.
C) A talk with some miserable slaves,D) His expericence in the war between France and Austria.
18.A) He sent surgeons to serve in the army.
B) He provided soldiers with medical supplies.
C) He recruited volunteers to care for the wounded.
D) He helped to free the prisoners of war.
19.A) All men are created equal.
B) The wounded and dying should be treated for free.
C) A wounded soldier should surrender before he receives any medical treatment.
D) A suffering person is entitled to help regardless of race,religion or political beliefs.
20.A) To honor Swiss heroes who died in the war.
B) To show Switzerland was neutral.
C) To pay tribute to Switzerland.
D) To show gratitude to the Swiss government for its financial support.
Part Ⅱ
Reading Comprehension (35 minutes)
Directions,There are four passages in this part,Each passage is
followed by some questions or unfinished statements,For each of them there are
four choices marked A),B),C) and D),You should decide on the best choice and
mark the corresponding letter on the Answer Sheet with a single line through the
centre.
Passage One
Questions 21 to 25 are based on the following passage.
For years,doctors advised their patients that the only thing taking multivi
tamins does is give them extensive urine (尿),After all,true vitamin deficienc
ies are practically unheard of in industrialized countries,Now it seems those d
octors may have been wrong,The results of a growing number of studies suggest t
hat even a modest vitamin shortfall can be harmful to your health,Although proo
f of the benefits of multivitamins is still far from certain,the few dollars yo
u spend on them is probably a good investment.
Or at least that’s the argument put forward in the New England Journal of Me
dicine,Ideally,say Dr,Walter Willett and Dr,Meir Stampfer of Harvard,all vi
tamin supplements would be evaluated in scientifically rigorous clinical trials.
But those studies can take a long time and often raise more questions than they
answer,At some point,while researchers work on figuring out where the truth l
ies,it just makes sense to say the potential benefit outweighs the cost.
The best evidence to date concerns folate,one of the B vitamins,It’s been
proved to limit the number of defects in embryos ( 胚胎 ),and a recent trial fo
und that folate in combination with vitamin B 12 and a form of B6 also decreases
the re-blockage of arteries after surgical repair.
The news on vitamin E has been more mixed,Healthy folks who take 400 intern
ational units daily for at least two years appear somewhat less likely to develo
p heart disease,But when doctors give vitamin E to patients who already have he
art disease,the vitamin doesn’t seem to help,It may turn out that vitamin E pl
ays a role in prevention but cannot undo serious damage.
Despite vitamin C’s great popularity,consuming large amounts of it still ha
s not been positively linked to any great benefit,The body quickly becomes satu
rated with C and simply excretes ( 排泄 ) any excess.
The multivitamins question boils down to this,Do you need to wait until all
the evidence is in before you take them,or are you willing to accept that ther
e’s enough evidence that they don’t hurt and could help?
If the latter,there’s no need to go to extremes and buy the biggest horse
pills or the most expensive bottles,Large doses can cause trouble,including ex
cessive bleeding and nervous system problems.
Multivitamins are no substitute for exercise and a balanced diet,of course.
As long as you understand that any potential benefit is modest and subject to f
urther refinement,taking a daily multivitamin makes a lot of sense.
21,At one time doctors discouraged taking multivitamins because they believed that multivitamins____.
A) could not easily be absorbed by the human body
B) were potentially harmful to people’s health
C) were too expensive for daily consumption
D) could not provide any cure for vitamin deficiencies
22,According to the author,clinical trials of vitamin supplements____.
A) often result in misleading conclusions
B) take time and will not produce conclusive results
C) should be conducted by scientists on a larger scale
D) appear to be a sheer waste of time and resources
23,It has been found that vitamin E____.
A) should be taken by patients regularly and persistently
B) can effectively reduce the recurrence of heart disease
C) has a preventive but not curative effect on heart disease
D) should be given to patients with heart disease as early as possible
24,It can be seen that large doses of multivitamins____.
A) may bring about serious side effects
B) may help prevent excessive bleeding
C) are likely to induce the blockage of arteries
D) are advisable for those with vitamin deficiencies
25,The author concludes the passage with the advice that____.
A) the benefit of daily multivitamin intake outweighs that of exercise and a
balanced diet
B) it’s risky to take multivitamins without knowing their specific function
C) the potential benefit of multivitamins can never be overestimated
D) it’s reasonable to take a rational dose of multivitamins daily
Passage Two
Questions 26 to 30 are based on the following passage.
Some futurologists have assumed that the vast upsurge ( 剧增 ) of women in t
he workforce may portend a rejection of marriage,Many women,according to this
hypothesis,would rather work than marry,The converse ( 反面 ) of this concern
is that the prospects of becoming a multi-paycheck household could encourage mar
riages,In the past,only the earnings and financial prospects of the man counte
d in the marriage decision,Now,however,the earning ability of a woman can mak
e her more attractive as a marriage partner,Data show that economic downturns t
end to postpone marriage because the parties cannot afford to establish a family
or are concerned about rainy days ahead,As the economy rebounds,the number of
marriages also rises.
Coincident with the increase in women working outside the home is the increa
se in divorce rates,Yet,it may be wrong to jump to any simple cause-and-effect
conclusions,The impact of a wife’s work on divorce is no less cloudy than its
impact on marriage decisions,The realization that she can be a good provider ma
y increase the chances that a working wife will choose divorce over an unsatisfa
ctory marriage,But the reverse is equally plausible,Tensions grounded in finan
cial problems often play a key role in ending a marriage,Given high unemploymen
t,inflationary problems,and slow growth in real earnings,a working wife can i
ncrease household income and relieve some of these pressing financial burdens,B
y raising a family’s standard of living,a working wife may strengthen her famil
y’s financial and emotional stability.
Psychological factors also should be considered,For example,a wife blocked
from a career outside the home may feel caged in the house,She may view her only choice as seeking a divorce.
On the other hand,if she can find fulfillment through work outside the home,wo
rk and marriage can go together to create a stronger and more stable union.
Also,a major part of women’s inequality in marriage has been due to the fac
t that,in most cases,men have remained the main breadwinners,With higher earning capacity and status occupations outside of the home comes the capacity to exercise power wit
hin the family,A working wife may rob a husband of being the master of the hou
se,Depending upon how the couple reacts to these new conditions,it could creat
e a stronger equal partnership or it could create new insecurities.
26,The word,portend” (Line 2,Para,1) is closest in meaning to, ____”,
A) defy C) suffer from
B) signal D) result from
27,It is said in the passage that when the economy slides,____.
A) men would choose working women as their marriage partners
B) more women would get married to seek financial security
C) even working women would worry about their marriages
D) more people would prefer to remain single for the time being
28,If women find fulfillment through work outside the home,____.
A) they are more likely to dominate their marriage partners
B) their husbands are expected to do more housework
C) their marriage ties can be strengthened
D)they tend to put their career before marriage
29,One reason why women with no career may seek a divorce is that____.
A) they feel that they have been robbed of their freedom
B) they are afraid of being bossed around by their husbands
C) they feel that their partners fail to live up to their expectations
D) they tend to suspect their husbands’ loyalty to their marriage
30,Which of the following statements can best summarize the author’s view in the passage?
A) The stability of marriage and the divorce rate may reflect the economic situa
tion of the country.
B) Even when economically independent,most women have to struggle for real equa
lity in marriage.
C) In order to secure their marriage women should work outside the home and rema
in independent
D) The impact of the growing female workforce on marriage varies from case to ca
se.
Passage Three
Questions 31 to 35 are based on the following passage.
For most thinkers since the Greek philosophers,it was self-evident that the
re is something called human nature,something that constitutes the essence of m
an,There were various views about what constitutes it,but there was agreement
that such an essence exists -- that is to say,that there is something by virtue
of which man is man,Thus man was defined as a rational being,as a social anim
al,an animal that can make tools,or a symbol-making animal.
More recently,this traditional view has begun to be questioned,One reason
for this change was the increasing emphasis given to the historical approach to
man,An examination of the history of humanity suggested that man in our epoch i
s so different from man in previous times that it seemed unrealistic to assume t
hat men in every age have had in common something that can be called,human natu
re.” The historical approach was reinforced,particularly in the United States,
by studies in the field of cultural anthropology ( 人类学 ),The study of primit
ive peoples has discovered such a diversity of customs,values,feelings,and th
oughts that many anthropologists arrived at the concept that man is born as a bl
ank sheet of paper on which each culture writes its text,Another factor contrib
uting to the tendency to deny the assumption of a fixed human nature was that th
e concept has so often been abused as a shield behind which the most inhuman act
s are committed,In the name of human nature,for example,Aristotle and most th
inkers up to the eighteenth century defended slavery,Or in order to prove the r
ationality and necessity of the capitalist form of society,scholars have tried
to make a case for acquisitiveness,competitiveness,and selfishness as innate (
天生的 ) human traits,Popularly,one refers cynically to,human nature” in acc
epting the inevitability of such undesirable human behavior as greed,murder,ch
eating and lying.
Another reason for skepticism about the concept of human nature probably lie
s in the influence of evolutionary thinking,Once man came to be seen as develop
ing in the process of evolution,the idea of a substance which is contained in h
is essence seemed untenable,Yet I believe it is precisely from an evolutionary
standpoint that we can expect new insight into the problem of the nature of man.
31,The traditional view of,human nature” was strongly challenged by____.
A) the emergence of the evolutionary theory
B) the historical approach to man
C) new insight into human behavior
D) the philosophical analysis of slavery
32,According to the passage,anthropologists believe that human beings____
A) have some traits in common
B) are born with diverse cultures
C) are born without a fixed nature
D) change their characters as they grow up
33,The author mentioned Aristotle,a great ancient thinker,in order to____
A) emphasize that he contributed a lot to defining the concept of,human
nature”
B) show that the concept of,human nature” was used to justify social ev
ils
C) prove that he had a profound influence on the concept of,human natur
e”
D) support the idea that some human traits are acquired
34,The word,untenable” (Line 3) in the last paragraph of the passage most prob
ably means____
A) invaluable C) changeable
B) imaginable D) indefensible
35,Most philosophers believed that human nature____
A) is the quality distinguishing man from other animals
B) consists of competitiveness and selfishness
C) is something partly innate and partly acquired
D) consists of rationality and undesirable behavior
Passage Four
Questions 36 to 40 are based on the following passage.
Richard Satava,program manager for advanced medical technologies,has been
a driving force in bringing virtual reality to medicine,where computers create
a,virtual” or simulated environment for surgeons and other medical practitioner
s ( 从业者 ).
,With virtual reality we’ll be able to put a surgeon in every trench,” said
Satava,He envisaged a time when soldiers who are wounded fighting overseas are
put in mobile surgical units equipped with computers.
The computers would transmit images of the soldiers to surgeons back in the
U.S,The surgeons would look at the soldier through virtual reality helmets ( 头盔) that contain a small screen displaying the image of the wound,The doctors w
ould guide robotic instruments in the battlefield mobile surgical unit that oper
ate on the soldier,
Although Satava’s vision may be years away from standard operating procedure
,scientists are progressing toward virtual reality surgery,Engineers at an int
ernational organization in California are developing a tele-operating device,As
surgeons watch a three-dimensional image of the surgery,they move instruments
that are connected to a computer,which passes their movements to robotic instru
ments that perform the surgery,The computer provides feedback to the surgeon o
n force,textures,and sound.
These technological wonders may not yet be part of the community hospital se
tting but increasingly some of the machinery is finding its way into civilian me
dicine,At Wayne State University Medical School,surgeon Lucia Zamorano takes i
mages of the brain from computerized scans and uses a computer program to produc
e a 3-D image,She can then maneuver the 3-D image on the computer screen to map
the shortest,least invasive surgical path to the tumor (肿瘤),Zamorano is als
o using technology that attaches a probe to surgical instruments so that she can
track their positions,While cutting away a tumor deep in the brain,she watche
s the movement of her surgical tools in a computer graphics image of the patient
’s brain taken before surgery.
During these procedures — operations that are done through small cuts in th
e body in which a miniature camera and surgical tools are maneuvered -- surgeons
are wearing 3-D glasses for a better view,And they are commanding robot surgeo
ns to cut away tissue more accurately than human surgeons can.
Satava says,“We are in the midst of a fundamental change in the field of me
dicine.”
36,According to Richard Satava,the application of virtual reality to medicine
____
A) will enable surgeons to be physically present on every battlefield
B) can raise the spirits of soldiers wounded on the battlefield
C) will greatly improve medical conditions on the battlefield
D) can shorten the time for operations on soldiers wounded on the battlefield
37,Richard Satava has visions of____
A) using a remote-control technique to treat wounded soldiers fighting overseas
B) wounded soldiers being saved by doctors wearing virtual reality helmets on th
e battlefield
C) wounded soldiers being operated on by specially trained surgeons
D) setting up mobile surgical units overseas
38,How is virtual reality surgery performed?
A) It is performed by a computer-designed high precision device.
B) Surgeons wear virtual reality helmets to receive feedback provided by a c
omputer.
C) Surgeons move robotic instruments by means of a computer linked to them.
D) A 3-D image records the movements of the surgeons during the operation.
39,During virtual reality operations,the surgeon can have a better view of the
cuts in the body because ____.
A) he is looking at the cuts on a computer screen
B) the cuts can be examined from different angles
C) the cuts have been highly magnified
D) he is wearing 3-D glasses
40,Virtual reality operations are an improvement on conventional surgery in that they
A) cause less pain to the wounded
B) allow the patient to recover more quickly
C) will make human surgeons’ work less tedious
D) are done by robot surgeons with greater precision
Part Ⅲ
Vocabulary (20 minutes)
Directions,There are 30 incomplete sentences in this part.For each sentence there are four choices marked A),B),C) and D).Choose the ONE that b
est completes the sentence.Then mark the corresponding letter on the Answer Shee
t with a single line through the centre.
41,He suggested that we put the scheme into effect,for it is quite____.
A) probable B) sustainable
C) feasible D) eligible
42,This book is about how these basic beliefs and values affect important____ of American life.
A) facets C) formulas
B) formats D) fashions
43,It is one thing to locate oil,but it is quite another to ____ and transport it to the industrial centers.
A) permeate C) distinguish
B) extract D) concentrate
44,Students are expected to be quiet and ____ in an Asian classroom.
A) obedient C) skeptical
B) overwhelming D) subsidiary
45,Our reporter has just called to say that rescue teams will ____ to bring o
ut the trapped miners.
A) effect C) conceive
B) affect D) endeavour
46,The Spanish team,who are not in superb form,will be doing their best next
week to____
themselves on the German team for last year’s defeat.
A) remedy C) revive
B) reproach D) revenge
47,Creating so much confusion,Mason realized he had better make ____ what he
was trying
to tell the audience.
A) exclusive C) objective
B) explicit D) obscure
48,One of the examination questions____ me completely and I couldn’t answer it
.
A) baffled C) provoked
B) mingled D) diverted
49,The vision of that big black car hitting the sidewalk a few feet from us wil
l never be____from my memory.
A) ejected C) erased
B) escaped D) omitted
50,At present,it is not possible to confirm or to refute the suggestion that t
here is a causal relationship between the amount of fat we eat and the____ of h
eart attacks.
A) incidence C) rupture
B) impetus D) emergence
51,There are many who believe that the use of force____ political ends can ne
ver be justified.
A) in search of C) in view of
B) in pursuit of D) in light of
52,Sometimes the bank manager himself is asked to ____ cheques if his clerks are not sure about them.
A) credit C) certify
B) assure D) access
53,It is believed that the authorities are thinking of ____ new taxes to raise
extra revenue.
A) impairing C) invading
B) imposing D) integrating
54,When she heard the bad news,her eyes ____ with tears as she struggled to c
ontrol her emotions.
A) sparkled C) radiated
B) twinkled D) glittered
55,There are occasions when giving a gift ____ spoken communication,since the
message it offers can cut through barriers of language and cultural diversity.
A) overtakes C) surpasses
B) nourishes D) enforces
56,In order to keep the line moving,customers with lengthy ____ are required to do their banking inside.
A) transitB) transactionsC) turnoverD) tempos
57,President Wilson attempted to ____ between the powers to end the war,but neither side was prepared to give in.
A) segregate B) whirlC) compromiseD) mediate
58,The police have installed cameras at dangerous road ____ to film those who drive through red traffic lights.
A) trenches C) pavementsB) utiltiesD) junctions
59,It is reported that thirty people were killed in a ____ on the railway yesterday.
A) collision B) collaborationC) corrosionD) confrontation
60,Since a circle has no beginning or end,the wedding ring is accepted as a symbol of ____ love.
A) successiveB) consecutiveC)eternalD) insistent
61,Executives of the company enjoyed an ____ lifestyle of free gifts,fine wines and high salaries.
A) exquisite B) extravagantC) exoticD) eccentric
62,If you want to get into that tunnel,you first have to ____ away all the rocks.
A) haulB) repelC) disposeD) snatch
63,Some crops are relatively high yielders and could be planted in preference to others to ____ the food supply.
A) enhanceC) disruptB) curbD) heighten
64,Astronomers at the University of California discovered one of the most dista
nt____.
A) paradoxes C) galaxies
B) paradises D) shuttles
65,Many great scientists ____ their success to hard work.
A) portray C) impart
B) ascribe D) acknowledge
66,The sign set up by the road ____ drivers to a sharp turn.
A) alerts C) pleads
B) refreshes D) diverts
67,The doctors don’t____ that the patient will live much longer.
A) monitor C) articulate
B) manifest D) anticipate
68,Call your doctor for advice if the____ persist for more than a few days.
A) responses C) symptoms
B) signals D) reflections
69,We find it impossible to____ with the latest safety regulations.
A) accord C) obey
B) unify D) comply
70,Professor Smith and Professor Brown will ____ in presenting the series of lectures on American literature.
A) alter C) substitute
B) alternate D) exchange
试卷二
Part Ⅳ
Error Correction (15 minutes )
Directions:This part consists of a short passage,hz this passage,there are altogether IO mis-takes,one in each numbered line,You may have to change ti word,add a word or delete a word,Mark out the mistakes and put the corrections in the blanks provi
ded,lf you change a word,cross it out and write the correct word in the correspondi
ng blank,If you add a word,put an insertion mark ( ^ ) in the right place and wri
te the missing word in the blank,lf you delete a word,cross Rout and put a slash (/)
in tile blank.
Example：
〖DZ(22，6〗Television is rapidly becoming the literature of our periods[KG-1]/,Many of the arguments having[KG-1]/ [KG*2]used for the study of literature as a school subject are valid for ∧ study of television.[]
1,____time/times/period____
2.____/____
3.____the____[DZ)]
Thomas Malthus published his,Essay on the Principle
of Population” almost 200 years ago,Ever since then,
forecasters have being warning that worldwide famine was S1____
just around the next corner,The fast-growing population’s
demand for food,they warned,would soon exceed their S2____
supply,leading to widespread food shortages and starvation.
But in reality,the world’s total grain harvest has risen
steadily over the years,Except for relative isolated trouble S3____
spots like present-day Somalia,and occasional years of
good harvests,the world’s food crisis has remained just S4____
around the corner,Most experts believe this can continue
even as if the population doubles by the mid-21st century,S5____
although feeding 10 billion people will not be easy for
politics,economic and environmental reasons,Optimists S6____
point to concrete examples of continued improvements
in yield,In Africa,by instance,improved seed,more S7____
fertilizer and advanced growing practices have more than
double corn and wheat yields in an experiment,Elsewhere,S8____
rice experts in the Philippines are producing a plant with few S9____
stems and more seeds,There is no guarantee that plant
breeders can continue to develop new,higher-yielding
crop,but most researchers see their success to date as reason S10____
for hope.
Part Ⅴ
Writing (30 minutes)
Directions,In this section you are required to write a composition on the topic Reduce Waste on Campus,You should write at least 150 words and base your composition on the outline given in Chinese below:
1,目前有些校园内浪费现象严重；
2,浪费的危害；
3,从我做起，杜绝浪费。
Reduce Waste on Campus
Part Two 试卷部分
2003年9月
大学英语六级考试历年全真试卷
Part Ⅰ
Listening Comprehension(20 minutes)
Section A
Directions:In this section,you will hear 10 short conversations,At the end of each conversation,a question will be asked about what was said,Both the conversation and the question will be spoken only once,After each question there will be a pause,During the pause,you must read the four choices marked A),B),C),and D),and decide which is the best answer,Then mark the correspondin
g letter on the Answer Sheet with a single line through the centre.\=
Example:You will hear:
You will read,
A) 2 hours,B) 3 hours,C) 4 hours.
D) 5 hours,
From the conversation,we know that the two were talking about some work they wi
ll start at 9’ o’clock in the morning and have to finish at 2 in the afternoon,
Therefore,D),5 hours” is the correct answer,You should choose ［D］ on the
Answer Sheet and mark it with a single line through the centre, Sample Answer ［A］ ［B］ ［C］ ［D］[KG-4.5mm]—[FK)]
1,A) The lecture for next Monday is cancelled,
B) The lecture wasn’t as successful as expected.
C) The woman doesn’t want to attend the lecture.
D) The woman may attend next Monday’s lecture.
2,A) The woman has a very tight budget.
B) He does not think the fur coat is worth buying.
C) He’s willing to lend the woman money for the fur coat.
D) The woman is not careful enough in planning her spending.
3,A) Clean the kitchen.
B) Ask someone to fix the sink.
C) Find a bigger apartment for the lady.
D) Check the work done by the maintenance man.
4,A) The lens,B) The price.
C) The flash.D) The leather case.
5,A) She needs another haircut soon.
B) She thinks it worthwhile to try Sadermale’s.
C) She knows a less expensive place for a haircut.
D) She would like to make an appointment for the man.
6,A) The woman doesn’t want to cook a meal.
B) The woman wants to have a picnic.
C) The woman has a poor memory.
D) The woman likes Mexican food.
7,A) Everyone enjoyed himself at John’s panics.B) The woman didn’t enjoy John’s parties at all.
C) It will be the first time for the man to attend John’s party.
D) The woman is glad to be invited to John’s house-warming party.
8,A) She lacks confidence in herself.
B) She is not interested in computer programming.
C) She has never signed up for any competition before.
D) She is sure to win the programming contest.
9,A) The man has an enormous amount of work to do.
B) The man has made plans for his vacation.
C) The man’ll take work with him on his vacation.
D) Work stacked up during the man’s last vacation.
10,A) She likes the job of feeding fish.
B) She finds her new job interesting.
C) She feels unfit for her new job.
D) She’s not in good health.
Section B
Directions:In this section,you will hear 3 short passages,At the end o
f each passage,you will hear some questions,Both the passage and the questions
will be spoken only once,After you hear a question,you must choose the best a
nswer from the four choices marked A),B),C) and D),Then mark the correspondin
g letter on the Answer Sheet with a single line through the centre.
Passage One
Questions 11 to 13 are based on the passage you have just heard.
11.A) Rally support for their movement.
B) Liberate women from tedious housework.
C) Claim their rights to equal job opportunities.
D) Express their anger against sex discrimination.
12,A) It will bring a lot of trouble to the local people.
B) It is a popular form of art.
C) It will spoil the natural beauty of their surroundings.
D) It is popular among rock stars.
13,A) To show that mindless graffiti can provoke violence.
B) To show that Londoners have a special liking for graffiti.
C) To show that graffiti,in some cases,can constitute a crime.
D) To show that graffiti can make the environment more colorful.
Passage Two
Questions 14 to 16 are based on the passage you have just heard.
14,A) The Asian elephant is easier to tame.
B) The Asian elephant’s skin is more valuable.
C) The Asian elephant is less popular with tourists.
D) The Asian elephant produces ivory of a better quality.
15.A) From the captured or tamed elephants.
B) From the British wildlife protection group.
C) From elephant hunters in Thailand and Burma.
D) From tourists visiting the Thai-Burmese border.
16,A) Their taming for circuses and zoos.
B) The destruction of their natural homes.
C) Man’s lack of knowledge about their behavior.
D) The greater vulnerability to extinction than other species.
Passage Three
Questions 17 to 20 are based on the passage you have just heard.
17,A) They had lost their jobs as a result of the Industrial Revolution.
B) They had been suffering from political and religious oppression.
C) They wanted to flee from the widespread famine in Northern Europe.
D) They wanted to make a fortune there by starting their own businesses.
18,A) They might lose control of their members because of the increase in immigration.
B) Their members might find it difficult to get along with the newcomers.
C) The working condition of their members might deteriorate.
D) Their members might lose their jobs to the newcomers.
19,A) To impose restrictions on further immigration.
B) To improve the working conditions of immigrants.
C) To set a minimum wage level for new immigrants.
D) To put requirements on languages for newcomers.
20,A) They were looked down upon by European immigrants.
B) They had a hard time seeking equal job opportunities.
C) They worked very hard to earn a decent living.
D) They strongly opposed continued immigration.
Part Ⅱ
Reading Comprehension (35 minutes)
Directions,There are four passages in this part,Each passage is
followed by some questions or unfinished statements,For each of them there are
four choices marked A),B),C) and D),You should decide on the best choice and
mark the corresponding letter on the Answer Sheet with a single line through the
centre.
Passage One
Questions 21 to 25 are based on the following passage.
In 1985 when a Japan Air Lines (JAL) jet crashed,its president,Yasumoto Takagi,called each
victim’s family to apologize,and then promptly resigned,And in 1987,when a subsidiary of
Toshiba sole sensitive military technology to the former Soviet Union,the chairman of Toshiba
gave up his post.
These executive actions,which Toshiba calls,the highest form of apology,” may seem bizarre to
US managers,No one at Boeing resigned after the JAL crash,which may have been caused by a
faulty Boeing repair.
The difference between the two business cultures centers around different definitions of delegation,
While US executives give both responsibility and authority to their employees,Japanese
executives delegate only authority—the responsibility is still theirs,Although the subsidiary that
sold the sensitive technology to the Soviets had its own management,the Toshiba top executives
said they,must take personal responsibility for not creating an atmosphere throughout the Toshiba
group that would make such activity unthinkable,even in an independently run subsidiary.”
Such acceptance of community responsibility is not unique to businesses in Japan,School
principals in Japan have resigned when their students committed major crimes after school hours,
Even if they do not quit,Japanese executives will often accept primary responsibility in other
ways,such as taking the first pay cut when a company gets into financial trouble,Such personal
sacrifices,even if they are largely symbolic,help to create the sense of community and employee
loyalty that is crucial to the Japanese way of doing business.
Harvard Business School professor George Lodge calls the ritual acceptance of blame,almost a
feudal (封建的) way of purging (清除) the community of dishonor,” and to some in the United
States,such resignations look cowardly,However,in an era in which both business and
governmental leaders seem particularly good at evading responsibility,many US managers would
probably welcome an infusion (灌输) of the Japanese sense of responsibility,If,for instance,US
automobile company executives offered to reduce their own salaries before they asked their
workers to take pay cuts,negotiations would probably take on a very different character.
21,Why did the chairman of Toshiba resign his position in 1987?
A) Because in Japan,the leakage of a state secret to Russians is a grave crime.
B) Because he had been under attack for shifting responsibility to his subordinates.
C) Because in Japan,the chief executive of a corporation is held responsible for the mistake made by its subsidiaries.
D) Because he had been accused of being cowardly towards crises that were taking place in his
corporation.
22.According to the passage if you want to be a good manager in Japan,you have to ____.
A) apologize promptly for your subordinates’ mistakes
B) be skillful in accepting blames from customers
C) make symbolic sacrifices whenever necessary
D) create a strong sense of company loyalty
23.What’s Professor George Lodge’s attitude towards the resignations of Japanese corporate leaders?
A) Sympathetic,C) Critical.B) Biased,D) Approving.
24,Which of the following statements is TRUE?
A) Boeing had nothing to do with the JAL air crash in 1985.
B) American executives consider authority and responsibility inseparable.
C) School principals bear legal responsibility for students’ crimes.
D) Persuading employees to take pay cuts doesn’t help solve corporate crises.
25.The passage is mainly about ____.
A) resignation as an effective way of dealing with business crises
B) the importance of delegating responsibility to employees
C) ways of evading responsibility in times of crises
D) the difference between two business cultures
Passage Two
Questions 26 to 30 are based on the following passage.
As machines go,the car is not terribly noisy,nor terribly polluting,nor terribly dangerous; and on
all those dimensions it has become better as the century has grown older,The main problem is its
prevalence,and the social costs that ensue from the use by everyone of something that would be
fairly harmless if,say,only the rich were to use it,It is a price we pay for equality.
Before becoming too gloomy,it is worth recalling why the car has been arguably the most
successful and popular product of the whole of the past 100 years—and remains so,The story
begins with the environmental improvement it brought in the 1900s,In New York city in 1900,
according to the Car Culture,a 1975 book by J,Flink,a historian,horses deposited 2.5 million
pounds of manure(粪)and 60,000 gallons of urine (尿) every day,Every year,the city aut horities
had to remove an average of 15,000 dead horses from the streets,it made cars smell of roses.
Cars were also wonderfully flexible,The main earlier solution to horse pollution and traffic jams
was the electric trolley bus (电车),But that required fixed overhead wires,and rails and platforms,
which were expensive,ugly,and inflexible,The car could go from any A to any B,and allowed
towns to develop in all directions with low-density housing,rather than just being concentrated
along the trolley or rail lines,Rural areas benefited too,for they became less remote.
However,since pollution became a concern in the 1950s,experts have predicted—wrongly—that
the car boom was about to end,In his book Mr,Flink argued that by 1973 the American market
had become saturated,at one car for every 2.25 people,and so had the markets of Japan and
Western Europe (because of land shortages),Environmental worries and diminishing oil reserves
would prohibit mass car use anywhere else.
He was wrong,Between 1970 and 1990,whereas America’s population grew by 23%,the number
of cars on its roads grew by 60%,There is now one car for every 1.7 people there,one for every
2.1 in Japan,one for every 5.3 in Britain,Around 550 million cars are already on the roads,not to
mention all the trucks and mocorcyeles,and about 50 million new ones are made each year
worldwide,Will it go on? Undoubtedly,because people want it to.
26.As is given in the first paragraph,the reason why the car has become a problem is that ____.
A) poor people can’t afford it
B) it is too expensive to maintain
C) too many people are using it
D) it causes too many road accidents
27,According to the passage,the car started to gain popularity because ____.
A) it didn’t break down as easily as a horse
B) it had a comparatively pleasant odor
C) it caused less pollution than horses
D) it brightened up the gloomy streets
28,What impact did the use of cars have on society?
A) People were compelled to leave downtown areas.
B) People were able to live in less crowded suburban areas.
C) Business along trolley and rail lines slackened.
D) City streets were free of ugly overhead wires.
29.Mr,Flink argued in his book that cars would not be widely used in other countries because ____.
A) the once booming car market has become saturated
B) traffic jams in those countries are getting more and more serious
C) expensive motorways are not available in less developed countries
D) people worry about pollution and the diminishing oil resources
30.What’s wrong with Mr,Flink’s prediction?
A) The use of automobiles has kept increasing worldwide.
B) New generations of cars are virtually pollution free.
C) The population of America has not increased as fast.
D) People’s environmental concerns are constantly increasing.
Passage Three
Questions 31 to 35 are based on the following passage.
Crying is hardly an activity encouraged by society,Tears,be they of sorrow,anger,or joy,
typically make Americans feel uncomfortable and embarrassed,The shedder of tears is likely to
apologize,even when a devastating (毁灭性的) tragedy was the provocation,The observer of
tears is likely to do everything possible to put an end to the emotional outpouring,But judging from recent studies of crying behavior,links between illness and crying and the chemical
composition of tears,both those responses to tears are often inappropriate and may even be
counterproductive.
Humans are the only animals definitely known to shed emotiomal tears,Since evolution has given
rise to few,if any,purposeless physiological responses,it is logical to assume that crying has one
or more functions that enhance survival.
Although some observers have suggested that crying is a way to elicit assistance from others (as a
crying baby might from its mother),the shedding of tears is hardly necessary to get help,Vocal
cries would have been quite enough,more likely than tears to gain attention,So,it appears,there
must be something special about tears themselves.
Indeed,the new studies suggest that emotional tears may play a direct role in alleviating stress,
University of Minnesota researchers who are studying the chemical composition of tears have
recently isolated two important chemicals from emotional tears,Both chemicals are found only in
tears that are shed in response to emotion,Tears shed because of exposure to cut onion would
contain no such substance.
Researchers at several other institutions are investigating the usefulness of tears as a means of
diagnosing human ills and monitoring drugs.
At Tulane University’s Teat Analysis Laboratory Dr,Peter Kastl and his colleagues report that
they can use tears to detect drug abuse and exposure to medication(药物),to determine whether a
contact lens fits properly of why it may be uncomfortable,to study the causes of,dry eye”
syndrome and the effects of eye surgery,and perhaps even to measure exposure to environmental
pollutants.
At Columbia University Dr,Liasy Faris and colleagues are studying tears for clues to the diagnosis
of diseases away from the eyes,Tears can be obtained painlessly without invading the body and
only tiny amounts are needed to perform highly refined analyses.
31,It is known from the first paragraph that ____.
A) shedding tears gives unpleasant feelings to American
B) crying may often imitate people or even result in tragedy
C) crying usually wins sympathy from other people
D) one who sheds tears in public will be blamed
32,What does,both those responses to tears”(Line 5,Para,1) refer to?
A) Crying out of sorrow and shedding tears for happiness.
B) The embarrassment and unpleasant sensation of the observers.
C) The tear shedder’s apology and the observer’s effort to stop the crying.
D) Linking illness with crying and finding the chemical composition of tears.
33.,Counterproductive” (Lines 5,Para,1) very probably means,____”.
A) having no effect at all
B) leading to tension
C) producing disastrous impact
D) harmful to health
34,What does the author say about crying?
A) It is a pointless physiological response to the environment.
B) It must have a role to play in man’s survival.
C) It is meant to get attention and assistance.
D) It usually produces the desired effect.
35,What can be inferred from the new studies of tears?
A) Emotional tears have the function of reducing stress.
B) Exposure to excessive medication may increase emotional tears.
C) Emotional tears can give rise to,dry eye” syndrome in some cases.
D) Environmental pollutants can induce the shedding of emotional tears.
Passage Four
Questions 36 to 40 are based on the following passage.
It is no secret among athletes that in order to improve performance you’ve got to work hard,
However,hard training breaks you down and makes you weaker,it is rest that makes you stronger,
Improvement only occurs during the rest period following hard training,This adaptation is
accomplished by improving efficiency of the heart and certain systems within the muscle cells,
During recovery periods these systems build to greater levels to compensate for the stress that you
have applied,The result is that you are now at a higher level of performance.
If sufficient rest is not included in a training program,imbalance between excess training and
inadequate rest will occur,and performance will decline,The,overtraining syndrome(综合症)”
is the name given to the collection of emotional,behavioral,and physical symptoms due to
overtraining that has persisted for weeks to months,It is marked by cumulative exhaustion that
persists even after recovery periods.
The most common symptom is fatigue,This may limit workouts and may be present at rest,The
athletes may also become moody,easily imitated,have altered sleep patterns,become depressed,or lose the competitive desire and enthusiasm for the sport,Some will report decreased appetite and weight loss,Physical symptoms include persistent muscular soreness,increased frequency of viral (病毒性的) illnesses,and increased incidence of injuries.
The treatment for the overtraining syndrome is rest,The longer the overtraining has occurred,the more rest required,therefore,early detection is very important,If the overtraining has only occurred for a short period of time (e.g,3-4 weeks) then interrupting training for 3-5 days is usually sufficient rest,It is important that the factors that lead to overtraining be identified and corrected,Otherwise,the overtraining syndrome is likely to recur,The overtraining syndrome should be considered in any athlete who manifests symptoms of prolonged fatigue and whose performance has leveled off or decreased,It is important to exclude any underlying illness that may be responsible for the fatigue.
36.The first paragraph of the passage tells us that ____.
A) the harder an athlete trains,the better his performance will be
B) rest after vigorous training improves an athlete’s performance
C) strict systematic training is essential to an athlete’s top performance
D) improvement of an athlete’s performance occurs in the course of training
37.By,overtraining” the author means ____.
A) a series of physical symptoms that occur after training
B) undue emphasis on the importance of physical exertion
C) training that is not adequately compensated for by rest
D) training that has exceeded an athlete’s emotional limits
38.What does the passage tell us about the,overtraining” syndrome?
A) It occurs when athletes lose interest in sports.
B) It appears right after a hard training session.
C) The fatigue it results in is unavoidable in the athlete’s training process.
C) It manifests itself in fatigue which lingers even after a recovery period.
39,What does the phrase,level off” (Line 5,Para.4)most probably mean?
A) Slow down,
B) Become dull.
C) Stop improving,
D) Be on the decline.
40.The author advises at the end of the passage that ____.
A) overtraining syndrome should be treated as a serious illness
B) overtraining syndrome should be prevented before it occurs
C) an athlete with overtraining syndrome should take a lengthy rest
D) illness causing fatigue should not be mistaken for overtraining syndrome
Part Ⅲ
Vocabulary (20 minutes)
Directions,There are 30 incomplete sentences in this part.For eac
h sentence there are four choices marked A),B),C) and D).Choose the ONE that b
est completes the sentence.Then mark the corresponding letter on the Answer Shee
t with a single line through the centre.
41.These were stubborn men,not easily ____ to change their mind.
A) tilted B) convertedC) persuaded
D) suppressed
42,The circus has always been very popular because it ____ both the old and the young.
A) facilitatesB) fascinates C) immerses
D) indulges
43.By patient questioning the lawyer managed to ____enough information from the witnesses.
A) evacuateB) withdraw C) impart
D) elicit
44,George enjoys talking about people’s private affairs,He is a ____.
A) solicitor B) coward C) gossip
D) rebel
45,The new secretary has written a remarkably ____report within a few hundred words but with all the important details included.
A) conciseB) brisk C) precise
D) elaborate
46,His face ____as he came in after running all the way from school.
A) flaredB) fluctuated C) fluttered
D) flushed
47.Steel is not as ____ as cast iron; it does not break as easily.
A) elasticB) brittle C) adaptable
D) flexible
48.A big problem in learning English as a foreign language is lack of opportunities for ____interaction with proficient speakers of English.
A) instantaneous B) provocativeC) verbal
D) dual
49,Within ten years they have tamed the ____hill into green woods.
A) vacant B) barrenC) weird
D) wasteful
50.The ____of our trip to London was the visit to Buckingham Palace.
A) summit B) heightC) peak
D) highlight
51,Harold claimed that he was a serious and well-known artist,but in fact he was a(n) ____.
A) alien B) clientC) counterpart
D) fraud
52.We don’t ____any difficulties in completing the project so long as we keep within our budget.
A) foresee B) fabricateC) infer
D) inhibit
53,He is looking for a job that will give him greater ____for his career development.
A) insightB) scope C) momentum
D) phase
54.The high school my daughter studies in is ____our university.
A) linked byB) relevant to C) mingled with
D) affiliated with
55.The Browns lived in a ____and comfortably furnished house in the suburbs.
A) spaciousB) sufficient C) wide
D) wretched
56,A membership card ____the holder to use the club’s facilities for a period of twelve months.
A) approves B) authorizesC) rectifies
D) endows
57,They have done away with ____Latin for university entrance at Harvard.
A) influentialB) indispensable C) compulsory
D) essential
58.It is no ____that a large number of violent crimes are committed under the influence of alcohol.
A) coincidence B) correspondenceC) inspiration
D) intuition
59.One’s university days often appear happier in ____than they actually were at the time.
A) retention B) retrospectC) return
D) revere
60.She ____through the pages of a magazine,not really concentrating on them.
A) tumbledB) tossed C) switched
D) flipped
61.Scientists are pushing known technologies to their limits in an attempt to ____more energy from the earth.
A) extractB) inject C) discharge
D) drain
62,The Chinese Red Cross ____a generous sum to the relief of the victims of the earthquake in Turkey.
A) administeredB) elevated C) assessed
D) contributed
63.The first sentence in this paragraph is ____; it can be interpreted in many ways.
A) intricate B) ambiguousC) duplicated
D) confused
64.They used to quarrel a lot,but now they are completely ____with each other.
A) reconciledB) negotiated C) associated
D) accommodated
65,The local business was not much ____by the sudden outbreak of the epidemic.
A) intervened B) insulatedC) hampered
D) hoisted
66.The most important ____for assessment in this contest is originality of design.
A) threshold B) partition C) warrant
D) criterion
67.The woman was worried about the side effects of taking aspirins,but her doctor ____her that it is absolutely harmless.
A) retrievedB) released C) reassured
D) revived
68,We can’t help being ____of Bob who bought a luxurious sports car just after the money was stolen from the office.
A) skepticalB) appreciative C) suspicious
D) tolerant
69,He greatly resented the publication of this book,which he saw as an embarrassing invasion of his ____.A) privacyB) morality C) dignity D) secrecy
70,In fact as he approached this famous statue,he only barely resisted the ____to reach into his bag for his camera.
A) impatience B) impulseC) incentive
D) initiative
Part Ⅳ
Error Correction (15 minutes )
Directions,This part consists of a short passage,In this passage,there are altogether 10 mistakes,one in each numbered line,You may have to change a word,add a word or delete a word,Mark out the mistakes and put the corrections in the blanks provided,If you change a word,cross it out and write the correct word in the corresponding blank,If you add a word,put an insertion mark (∧) in the right place and write the missing word in the blank,If you delete a word,cross it out and put a slash (/) in the blank.
Example：
〖DZ(22，6〗Television is rapidly becoming the literature of our periods[KG-1]/,Many of the arguments having[KG-1]/ [KG*2]used for the study of literature as a school subject are valid for ∧ study of television.[]
1,____Time/times/period____
2.____/____
3.____the____[DZ)]
“Home,sweet home” is a phrase that expresses an
essential attitude in the United States,Whether the reality
of life in the family house is sweet or no sweet.The [JY，15]S1.[CD#6]
cherished ideal of home has great importance for many
people.
This ideal is a vital part of the American dream,This
dream,dramatized in the history of nineteenth century
European settlers of the American West,was in find
a piece of place,build a house for one’s family,and [JY，15]S2.[CD#6]
started a farm,These small households were portraits of [JY，15]S3.[CD#6]
independence,the entire family -- mother,father,children,
even grandparents -- live in a small house and working [JY，15]S4.[CD#6]
together to support each other,Anyone understood the life [JY，15]S5.[CD#6]
and death,importance of family cooperation and hard work.
Although most people in the United States no longer
live on farms,but the ideal of home ownership is just as [JY，15]S6.[CD#6]
strong in the twentieth century as it was in the nineteenth.
When U.S soldiers came home before World War II,for [JY，15]S7.[CD#6]
example,they dreamed of buying houses and starting
families,But there was a tremendous boom in home [JY，15]S8.[CD#6]
building,The new houses,typically it the suburbs,were
often small and more or less identical,but it satisfied [JY，15]S9.[CD#6]
a deep need,Many regarded the single-family
house the basis of their way of life,[JY，15]S10.[CD#6]
Part Ⅴ
Writing ( 30 minutes )
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Part Two 试卷部分
2003年6月
大学英语六级考试历年全真试卷
试卷一
Part Ⅰ
Listening Comprehension(20 minutes)
Section A
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Directions,In this section,you will hear 10 short conversations,At the end of each conversation,a question will be asked about what was said,Both the conversation and the question will be spoken only once,After each question,there will be a pause,During the pause,you must read the four choices marked A),B),C) and D),and decide which is the best answer,Then mark the corresponding letter on the Answer Sheet with a single line through the centre.
Example,You will hear:
You will read,A) At the office,B) In the waiting room.
C) At the airport,D) In a restaurant.
From the conversation we know that the two were talking about some work they had to finish in the evening,This is most likely to have taken place at the office,Therefore,A),At the office” is the best answer,You should choose ［A］ on the Answer Sheet and mark it with a single line through the centre.
Sample Answer ［A］[KG-1*4]— ［B］ ［C］ ［D］[FK)]
1,A) Riding a horse,B) Shooting a movie.
C) Playing a game,D) Taking a photo.
2,A) She’ll type the letter for the man.
B) She’ll teach the man to operate the computer.
C) She doesn’t think his sister is a good typist.
D) She thinks the man should buy a computer.
3,A) John can share the magazine with her.
B) She wants to borrow John’s card.
C) She’ll let John use the journal first.
D) John should find another copy for himself.
4,A) She promised to help the man.
B) She came a long way to meet the man.
C) She took the man to where he wanted to go.
D) She suggested a way out of the difficulty for the man.
5,A) The train seldom arrives on time.
B) The schedule has been misprinted.
C) The speakers arrived at the station late.
D) The company has trouble printing a schedule.
6,A) To find a better science journal in the library.
B) Not to miss any chance to collect useful information.
C) To buy the latest issue of the magazine.
D) Not to subscribe to the journal.
7,A) She wants to borrow the man’s student ID card.
B) The tickets are less expensive than she expected.
C) She won’t be able to get any discount for the ticket.
D) The performance turned out to be disappointing.
8,A) Do the assignments towards the end of the semester.
B) Quit the history course and choose another one instead.
C) Drop one course and do it next semester.
D) Take courses with a lighter workload.
9,A) The organization of a conference.
B) The cost of renting a conference room.
C) The decoration of the conference room.
D) The job of cleaning up the dining-room.
10,A) Meet his client,B) Prepare the dinner,
C) Work at his office,D) Fix his car.
Section B
Directions,In this section,you will hear 3 short passages,At the end of each passage,you will hear some questions,Both the passage and the questions will be spoken only once,After you hear a question,you must choose the best answer from the four choices marked A),B),C) and D),Then mark the corresponding letter on the Answer Sheet with a single line through the centre.
Passage One
Questions 11 to 13 are based on the passage you have just heard.
11,A) One of the bridges between North and South London collapsed.
B) The heart of London was flooded.
C) An emergency exercise was conducted.
D) 100 people in the suburbs were drowned.
12,A) 50 underground stations were made waterproof.
B) A flood wall was built.
C) An alarm system was set up.
D) Rescue teams were formed.
13,A) Most Londoners were frightened.
B) Most Londoners became rather confused.
C) Most Londoners took Exercise Flood Call calmly.
D) Most Londoners complained about the trouble caused by Exercise Flood Call.
Passage Two
Questions 14 to 16 are based on the passage you have just heard.
14,A) It limited their supply of food,
B) It made their eggshells too fragile,
C) It destroyed many of their nests.
D) It killed many baby bald eagles.
15,A) They found ways to speed up the reproduction of bald eagles.
B) They developed new types of feed for baby bald eagles.
C) They explored new ways to hatch baby bald eagles.
D) They brought in bald eagles from Canada.
16,A) Pollution of the environment,B) A new generation of pest killers,C) Over-killing by hunters.D) Destruction of their natural homes.
Passage Three
Questions 17 to 20 are based on the passage you have just heard.
17,A) Whether it can be detected and checked.
B) Whether it will lead to widespread food shortage.
C) Whether global warming will speed up in the future.
D) Whether it will affect their own lives.
18,A) Many species have moved further north.
B) Many new species have come into existence.
C) Many species have developed a habit of migration.
D) Many species have become less sensitive to climate.
19,A) Storms and floods,B) Disease and fire,
C) Less space for their growth.D) Rapid increase of the animal population.
20,A) They will gradually die out.
B) They will be able to survive in the preserves.
C) They will have to migrate to find new homes.
D) They will face extinction without artificial reproduction.
Part Ⅱ
Reading Comprehension(35 minutes)
Directions,There are 4 passages in this part,Each passage is followed by some questions or unfinished statements,For each of them there are four choices marked A),B),C) and D),You should decide on the best choice and mark the corresponding letter on the Answer Sheet with a single line through the centre.
Passage OneQuestions 21 to 25 are based on the following passage.
In the villages of the English countryside there are still people who remember the good old days when no one bothered to lock their doors,There simply wasn’t any crime to worry about,Amazingly,these happy times appear still to be with us in the world’s biggest community,A new study by Dan Farmer,a gifted programmer,using an automated investigative program of his own called SATAN,shows that the owners of well over half of all World Wide Web sites have set up home without fitting locks to their doors.
SATAN can try out a variety of well-known hacking ( 黑客的 ) tricks on an Internet site without actually breaking in,Farmer has made the program publicly available,amid much criticism,A person with evil intent could use it to hunt down sites that are easy to burgle ( 闯入……行窃 ).
But Farmer is very concerned about the need to alert the public to poor security and,so far,events have proved him right,SATAN has done more to alert people to the risks than cause new disorder.
So is the Net becoming more secure? Far from it,In the early days,when you visited a Web site your browser simply looked at the content,Now the Web is full of tiny programs that automatically download when you look at a Web page,and run on your own machine,These programs could,if their authors wished,do all kinds of nasty things to your computer.
At the same time,the Net is increasingly populated with spiders,worms,agents and other types of automated beasts designed to penetrate the sites and seek out and classify information,All these make wonderful tools for antisocial people who want to invade weak sites and cause damage.
But let’s look on the bright side,Given the lack of locks,the Internet is surely the world’s biggest (almost) crime-free society,Maybe that is because hackers are fundamentally honest,Or that there currently isn’t much to steal,Or because vandalism ( 恶意破坏 ) isn’t much fun unless you have a peculiar dislike for someone.
Whatever the reason,let’s enjoy it while we can,But expect it all to change,and security to become the number one issue,when the most influential inhabitants of the Net are selling services they want to be paid for,
21,By saying,..,owners of well over half of all World Wide Web sites have set up home without fitting locks to their doors” (Lines 4-5,Para,1),the author means that ____.
A) those happy times appear still to be with us
B) there simply wasn’t any crime to worry about
C) many sites are not well-protected
D) hackers try out tricks on an Internet site without actually breaking in
22,SATAN,a program designed by Dan Farmer,can be used ____.
A) to investigate the security of Internet sites
B) to improve the security of the Internet system
C) to prevent hackers from breaking into websites
D) to download useful programs and information
23,Farmer’s program has been criticized by the public because ____.
A) it causes damage to Net browsers
B) it can break into Internet sites
C) it can be used to cause disorder on all sites
D) it can be used by people with evil intent
24,The author’s attitude toward SATAN is ____.
A) enthusiasticB) criticalC) positive
D) indifferent
25,The author suggests in the last paragraph that ____.
A) we should make full use of the Internet before security measures are strengthened
B) we should alert the most influential businessmen to the importance of security
C) influential businessmen should give priority to the improvement of Net security
D) net inhabitants should not let security measures affect their joy of surfing the Internet
Passage TwoQuestions 26 to 30 are based on the following passage.
I came away from my years of teaching on the college and university level with a conviction that enactment ( 扮演角色 ),performance,dramatization are the most successful forms of teaching,Students must be incorporated,made,so far as possible,an integral part of the learning process,The notion that learning should have in it an element of inspired play would seem to the greater part of the academic establishment merely silly,but that is nonetheless the case,Of Ezekiel Cheever,the most famous schoolmaster of the Massachusetts Bay Colony,his onetime student Cotton Mather wrote that he so planned his lessons that his pupils,came to work as though they came to play,” and Alfred North Whitehead,almost three hundred years later,noted that a teacher should make his/her students,glad they were there.”
Since,we are told,80 to 90 percent of all instruction in the typical university is by the lecture method,we should give close attention to this form of education,There is,I think,much truth in Patricia Nelson Limerick’s observation that,lecturing is an unnatural act,an act for which God did not design humans,It is perfectly all right,now and then,for a human to be possessed by the urge to speak,and to speak while others remain silent,But to do this regularly,one hour and 15 minutes at a time,.,for one person to drag on while others sit in silence?,.,I do not believe that this is what the Creator,.,designed humans to do.”
The strange,almost incomprehensible fact is that many professors,just as they feel obliged to write dully,believe that they should lecture dully,To show enthusiasm is to risk appearing unscientific,unobjective; it is to appeal to the students’ emotions rather than their intellect,Thus the ideal lecture is one filled with facts and read in an unchanged monotone.
The cult ( 推崇 ) of lecturing dully,like the cult of writing dully,goes back,of course,some years,Edward Shils,professor of sociology,recalls the professors he encountered at the University of Pennsylvania in his youth,They seemed,a priesthood,rather uneven in their merits but uniform in their bearing; they never referred to anything personal,Some read from old lecture notes and then haltingly explained the thumb-worn last lines,Others lectured from cards that had served for years,to judge by the worn edges,..,The teachers began on time,ended on time,and left the room without saying a word more to their students,very seldom being detained by questioners,..,The classes were not large,yet there was no discussion,No questions were raised in class,and there were no office hours.”
26,The author believes that a successful teacher should be able to ____.
A) make dramatization an important aspect of students’ learning
B) make inspired play an integral part of the learning process
C) improve students’ learning performance
D) make study just as easy as play
27,The majority of university professors prefer the traditional way of lecturing in the belief that ____.
A) it draws the close attention of the students
B) it conforms in a way to the design of the Creator
C) it presents course content in a scientific and objective manner
D) it helps students to comprehend abstract theories more easily
28,What the author recommends in this passage is that ____.
A) college education should be improved through radical measures
B) more freedom of choice should be given to students in their studies
C) traditional college lectures should be replaced by dramatized performances
D) interaction should be encouraged in the process of teaching
29,By saying,They seemed ‘a priesthood,rather uneven in their merits but uniform in their bearing,..’” (Lines 2-3,Para,4),the author means that ____.
A) professors are a group of professionals that differ in their academic ability but behave in the same way
B) professors are like priests wearing the same kind of black gown but having different roles to play
C) there is no fundamental difference between professors and priests though they differ in their merits
D) professors at the University of Pennsylvania used to wear black suits which made them look like priests
30,Whose teaching method is particularly commended by the author?
A) Ezekiel Cheever’s,
B) Cotton Mather’s,
C) Alfred North Whitehead’s.
D) Patricia Nelson Limerick’s.
Passage Three
Questions 31 to 35 are based on the following passage.
Take the case of public education alone,The principal difficulty faced by the schools has been the tremendous increase in the number of pupils,This has been caused by the advance of the legal age for going into industry and the impossibility of finding a job even when the legal age has been reached,In view of the technological improvements in the last few years,business will require in the future proportionately fewer workers than ever before,The result will be still further raising of the legal age for going into employment,and still further difficulty in finding employment when that age has been attained,If we cannot put our children to work,we must put them in school.
We may also be quite confident that the present trend toward a shorter day and a shorter week will be maintained,We have developed and shall continue to have a new leisure class,Already the public agencies for adult education are swamped by the tide that has swept over them since the depression began,They will be little better off when it is over,Their support must come from the taxpayer.
It is surely too much to hope that these increases in the cost of public education can be borne by the local communities,They cannot care for the present restricted and inadequate system,The local communities have failed in their efforts to cope with unemployment,They cannot expect to cope with public education on the scale on which we must attempt it,The answer to the problem of unemployment has been Federal relief,The answer to the problem of public education may have to be much the same,and properly so,If there is one thing in which the citizens of all parts of the country have an interest,it is in the decent education of the citizens of all parts of the country,Our income tax now goes in part to keep our neighbors alive,It may have to go in part as well to make our neighbors intelligent,We are now attempting to preserve the present generation through Federal relief of the destitute (贫民),Only a people determined to ruin the next generation will refuse such Federal funds as public education may require.
31,What is the passage mainly about?
A) How to persuade local communities to provide more funds.
B) How to cope with the shortage of funds for public education.
C) How to solve the rising unemployment problem.
D) How to improve the public education system.
32,What is the reason for the increase in the number of students?
A) The requirement of educated workers by business.
B) Raising of the legal age for going to work.
C) The trend toward a shorter workday.
D) People’s concern for the future of the next generation.
33,The public agencies for adult education will be little better off because ____.
A) the unemployed are too poor to continue their education
B) a new leisure class has developed
C) they are still suffering from the depression
D) an increase in taxes could be a problem
34,According to the author,the answer to the problem of public education is that the Federal government ____.
A) should allocate Federal funds for public education
B) should demand that local communities provide support
C) should raise taxes to meet the needs of public education
D) should first of all solve the problem of unemployment
35,Why does the author say,Only a people determined to ruin the next generation will refuse such Federal funds as public education may require” (Lines 8-9,Para,3)?
A) Because only by appropriating adequate Federal funds for education can the next generation have a bright future.
B) Because citizens of all parts of the country agree that the best way to support education is to use Federal funds.
C) Because people all over the country should make contributions to education in the interest of the next generation.
D) Because educated people are determined to use part of the Federal funds to help the poor.
Passage FourQuestions 36 to 40 are based on the following passage.
A new high-performance contact lens under development at the department for applied physics at the University of Heidelberg will not only correct ordinary vision defects but will enhance normal night vision as much as five times,making people’s vision sharper than that of cats.
Bille and his team work with an optical instrument called an active mirror—a device used in astronomical telescopes to spot newly emerging stars and far distant galaxies,Connected to a wave-front sensor that tracks and measures the course of a laser beam into the eye and back,the aluminum mirror detects the deficiencies of the cornea,the transparent protective layer covering the lens of the human eye,The highly precise data from the two instruments—which,Bille hopes,will one day be found at the opticians (眼镜商) all over the world—serve as a basis for the production of completely individualized contact lenses that correct and enhance the wearer’s vision,
By day,Bille’s contact lenses will focus rays of light so accurately on the retina (视网膜) that the image of a small leaf or the outline of a far distant tree will be formed with a sharpness that surpasses that of conventional vision aids by almost half a diopter ( 屈光度 ),At night,the lenses have an even greater potential.,Because the new lens — in contrast to the already existing ones — also works when it’s dark and the pupil is wide open,” says Bille,“lens wearers will be able to identify a face at a distance of 100 meters”— 80 meters farther than they would normally be able to see,In his experiments night vision was enhanced by an even greater factor,in semi-darkness,test subjects could see up to 15 times better than without the lenses.
Bille’s lenses are expected to reach the market in the year 2000,and one tentative plan is to use the Internet to transmit information on patients’ visual defects from the optician to the manufacturer,Who will then produce and mail the contact lenses within a couple of days,The physicist expects the lenses to cost about a dollar a pair,about the same as conventional one-day disposable lenses.
36,The new contact lens is meant for ____.
A) astronomical observations
B) the night blind
C) those with vision defects
D) optical experiments
37,What do the two instruments mentioned in the second paragraph (Line 3) refer to?
A) The astronomical telescope and the wave-front sensor.
B) The aluminum mirror and the laser beam.
C) The active mirror and the contact lens.
D) The aluminum mirror and the wave-front sensor
38,Individualized contact lenses (Line 5-6,Para,2) are lenses designed ____.
A) to work like an astronomical telescope
B) to suit the wearer’s specific needs
C) to process extremely accurate data
D) to test the wearer’s eyesight
39,According to Bille,with the new lenses the wearer’s vision ____.
A) will be far better at night than in the daytime
B) may be broadened about 15 times than without them
C) can be better improved in the daytime than at night
D) will be sharper by a much greater degree at night than in the daytime
40,Which of the following is true about Bille’s lenses?
A) Their production process is complicated.
B) They will be sold at a very low price.
C) They have to be replaced every day.
D) Purchase orders can be made through the Internet.
Part Ⅲ
Vocabulary (20 minutes)
Directions,There are 30 incomplete sentences in this part,For each sentence there are four choices marked A),B),C) and D),Choose the ONE answer that best completes the sentence,Then mark the corresponding letter on the Answer Sheet with a single line through the centre.
41,In November 1987 the government ____ a public debate on the future direction of the official sports policy.
A) initiated B) designated C) induced
D) promoted
42,I found it difficult to ____ my career ambitions with the need to bring up my children.
A) consolidate
B) amend
C) reconcile
D) intensify
43,We all enjoy our freedom of choice and do not like to see it ____ when it is within the legal and moral boundaries of society.
A) compacted B) restricted C) dispersed D) delayed
44,It is fortunate for the old couple that their son’s career goals and their wishes for him ____.
A) coincide
B) comply
C) conform
D) collaborate
45,Allen will soon find out that real life is seldom as simple as it is ____ in commercials.
A) permeated
B) alleged C) depicted
D) drafted
46,Europe’s earlier industrial growth was ____ by the availability of key resources,abundant and cheap labor,coal,iron ore,etc.
A) constrained
B) detained
C) remained
D) sustained
47,As the trial went on,the story behind the murder slowly ____ itself.
A) convicted
B) released C) haunted
D) unfolded
48,We’ ve just installed a fan to ____ cooking smells from the kitchen.
A) eject
B) exclude
C) expel
D) exile
49,Retirement is obviously a very complex ____ period; and the earlier you start planning for it,the better.
A) transformation
B) transmission
C) transaction
D) transition
50,Mutual respect for territorial ____ is one of the bases upon which our two countries develop relationships.
A) unity
B) integrity
C) entirety
D) reliability
51,As one of the youngest professors in the university,Mr,Brown is certainly on the ____ of a brilliant career.
A) porch
B) edge
C) course
D) threshold
52,We work to make money,but it’s a ____ that people who work hard and long often do not make the most money.
A) paradox
B) prejudice
C) dilemma
D) conflict
53,The design of this auditorium shows a great deal of ____,We have never seen such a building before.
A) invention
B) illusion
C) originality
D) orientation
54,The damage to my car was ____ in the accident,but I have a lingering fear even today.
A) insufficient
B) ignorant C) ambiguous
D) negligible
55,Very few people could understand the lecture the professor delivered because its subject was very ____.
A) obscure
B) indefinite
C) dubious
D) intriguing
56,Diamonds have little ____ value and their price depends almost entirely on their scarcity.
A) intrinsic
B) eternal C) subtle
D) inherent
57,Doctors are interested in using lasers as a surgical tool in operations on people who are ____ to heart attack.
A) infectious
B) disposed
C) accessible
D) prone
58,Many countries have adopted systems of ____ education in order to promote the average level of education.
A) compulsory
B) cardinal
C) constrained
D) conventional
59,I had eaten Chinese food often,but I could not have imagined how ____ and extravagant a real Chinese banquet could be.
A) prominent
B) fabulous
C) handsome
D) gracious
60,They are ____ investors who always make thorough investigations both on local and international markets before making an investment.
A) implicit
B) conscious
C) cautious
D) indecisive
61,In addition to the rising birthrate and immigration,the ____ death rate contributed to the population growth.
A) inclining
B) increasing
C) declining
D) descending
62,Because of the ____ noise of traffic I couldn’t get to sleep last night.
A) prevalent
B) perpetual
C) provocative
D) progressive
63,Don’t let such a ____ matter as this come between us so that we can concentrate on the major issue.
A) trivial
B) slight
C) partial
D) minimal
64,If you go to the park every day in the morning,you will ____ find him doing physical exercise there.
A) ordinarily
B) invariably
C) logically
D) persistently
65,Although she’s a(n) ____ talented dancer,she still practices several hours every day.
A) traditionally
B) additionally C) exceptionally
D) rationally
66,The cut in her hand has healed completely,without leaving a ____.
A) defect
B) sign
C) wound
D) scar
67,The idea is to ____ the frequent incidents of collision to test the strength of the windshields.
A) assemble
B) simulate C) accumulate
D) forge
68,Most people in the modern world ____ freedom and independence more than anything else.
A) embody
B) cherish C) fascinate
D) illuminate
69,I told him that I would ____ him to act for me while I was away from office.
A) authorize
B) justify C) rationalize
D) identify
70,Over the past ten years,natural gas production has remained steady,but ____ has risen steadily.
A) dissipation
B) disposal C) consumption
D) expenditure
试卷二
Part Ⅳ
Error Correction (15 minutes)
Directions,This part consists of a short passage,In this passage,there are altogether 10 mistakes,one in each numbered line,You may have to change a word,add a word or delete a word,Mark out the mistakes and put the corrections in the blanks provided,If you change a word,cross it out and write the correct word in the corresponding blank,If you add a word,put an insertion mark ( ∧ ) in the right place and write the missing word in the blank,If you delete a word,cross it out and put a slash (/) in the blank.
Example：〖DZ(25，6〗Television is rapidly becoming the literature of our periods[KG-1]/,Many of the arguments having[KG-1]/ [KG*2]used for the study of literature as a school subject are valid for ∧ study of television.
The Seattle Times Company is one newspaper firm that
has recognized the need for change and done something about
it,In the newspaper industry,papers must reflect the diversity
of the communities to which they provide information,
It must reflect that diversity with their news coverage or risk
losing their readers’ interest and their advertisers’ support,
Operating within Seattle,which has 20 percents racial
minorities,the paper has put into place policies and
procedures for hiring and maintain a diverse workforce,The
underlying reason for the change is that for information to be
fair,appropriate,and subjective,it should be reported by the
same kind of population that reads it.
A diversity committee composed of reporters,editors,and
photographers meets regularly to value the Seattle Times’
content and to educate the rest of the newsroom staff about
diversity issues,In an addition,the paper instituted a content
audit ( 审查 ) that evaluates the frequency and manner of
representation of woman and people of color in photographs,
Early audits showed that minorities were pictured far too
infrequently and were pictured with a disproportionate
number of negative articles,The audit results from
improvement in the frequency of majority representation and
their portrayal in neutral or positive situations,And,with a
result,the Seattle Times has improved as a newspaper,
The diversity training and content audits helped the
Seattle Times Company to win the Personnel Journal
Optimas Award for excellence in managing change,
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3.____the____
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Part Ⅴ
Writing (30 minutes)
Directions:For this part,you are allowed thirty minutes to write a composition on the topic [WTHX]Changes in the Ownership of Houses,You should write at least 150 words,and base your composition on the chart and the outline given below:
1.根据上图描述该市住房产权的变化
2.分析产生这些变化的原因
3.说明这些变化对个人和社会产生的影响
[JZ]Changes in the Ownership of Houses
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Part Two 试卷部分
2002年12月
大学英语六级考试历年全真试卷
试卷一
Part Ⅰ
Listening Comprehension(20 minutes)
Section A
Directions:In this section,you will hear 10 short conversations,At the end of each conversation,a question will be asked about what was said,Both the
conversation and the question will be spoken only once,After each question ther
e will be a pause,During the pause,you must read the four choices marked A),B)
,C) and D),and decide which is the best answer,Then mark the corresponding lett
er on the Answer Sheet with a single line through the centre.
Example:You will hear:
You will read,
A) 2 hours,B) 3 hours,C) 4 hours.
D) 5 hours,
From the conversation we know that the two are talking about some work,They wil
l
start at 9 o’clock in the morning and have to finish at 2 in the afternoon,The
refore,D)“5 hours” is the correct answer.You should choose ［D］ on the Answer
Sheet and mark it with a single line through the centre.
Sample Answer ［A］ ［B］ ［C］ ［D］[KG-4.5mm]—[FK)]
1.A)It has nothing to do with the Internet.
B)She needs another week to get it ready.\=
C)It contains some valuable ideas.\=
D)It’s far from being ready yet.\=
2.A)The woman is strict with her employees.\=
B)The man always has excuses for being late.\=
C)The woman is a kind-hearted boss.\=
D)The man’s alarm clock didn’t work that morning.
3.A)The woman should try her luck in the bank nearby.
B)The bank around the corner is not open today.
C)The woman should use dollars instead of pounds.
D)The bank near the railway station closes late.
4.A)Make an appointment with Dr,Chen.
B)Call again some time later.
C)Wait for about three minutes.
D)Try dialing the number again.
5.A)He is sure they will succeed in the next test.
B)He did no better than the woman in the test.
C)He believes she will pass the test this time.
D)He felt upset because of her failure.
6.A)The woman has to attend a summer course to graduate.
B)The man thinks the woman can earn the credits.
C)The woman is begging the man to let her pass the exam.
D)The woman is going to graduate from summer school.
7.A)Fred is planning a trip to Canada.
B)Fred usually flies to Canada with Jane.
C)Fred persuaded Jane to change her mind.
D)Fred likes the beautiful scenery along the way to Canada.
8.A)Hang some pictures for decoration.
B)Find room for the paintings.
C)Put more coats of paint on the wall.
D)Paint the walls to match the furniture.
9.A)He’ll give a lecture on drawing.
B)He doesn’t mind if the woman goes to the lecture.
C)He’d rather not go to the lecture.
D)He’s going to attend the lecture.
10.A)Selecting the best candidate.
B)Choosing a campaign manager.
C)Trying to persuade the woman to vote for him.
D)Running for chairman of the student union.
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Section B
Directions:In this section,you will hear 3 short passages,At the end o
f each passage,you will hear some questions,Both the passage and the questions
will be spoken only once,After you hear a question,you must choose the best an
swer from the four choices marked A),B),C) and D),Then mark the corresponding l
etter on the Answer Sheet with a single line through the centre.
Passage One
Questions 11 to 14 are based on the passage you have just heard.
11.A)To study the problems of local industries.
B)To find ways to treat human wastes.
C)To investigate the annual catch of fish in the Biramichi River.
D)To couduct a study on fishing in the Biramichi River.
12.A)Lack of oxygen.
B)Overgrowth of water plants.
C)Low water level.
D)Serious pollution upstream.
13.A)They’ll be closed down.
B)They’re going to dismiss some of their employees.
C)They’ll be moved to other places.
D)They have no money to build chemical treatment plants.
14.A)Because there were fewer fish in the river.
B)Because over-fishing was prohibited.
C)Because the local Chamber of Commerce tried preserve fishes.
D)Because the local fishing cooperative decided to reduce its catch.
Passage Two
Questions 15 to 17 are based on the passage you have just heard.
15.A)Oral instructions recorded on a tape.
B)A brief letter sealed in an envelope.
C)A written document of several pages.
D)A short note to their lawyer.
16.A)Refrain from going out with men for five years.
B)Stop wearing any kind of fashionable clothes.
C)Bury the dentist with his favorite car.
D)Visit his grave regularly for five years.
17.A)Because he was angry with his selfish relatives.
B)Because he was just being humorous.
C)Because he was not a wealthy man.
D)Because he wanted to leave his body for medical purposes.
Passage Three
Questions 18 to 20 are based on the passage you have just heard.
18.A)They thought it quite acceptable.
B)They believed it to be a luxury.
C)They took it to be a trend.
D)They considered it avoidable.
19.A)Critical,B)Serious,C)Sceptical,D)Casual.
20.A)When people consider marriage an important part of their lives.
B)When the costs of getting a divorce become unaffordable.
C)When the current marriage law is modified.
D)When husband and wife understand each other better.
Part Ⅱ
Reading Comprehension (35 minutes)
Directions:There are 4 passages in this part,Each passage is followed b
y some questions or unfinished statements,For each of them there are four choic
es marked A),B),C) and D),You should decide on the best choice and mark the cor
responding letter on the Answer Sheet with a single line through the centre.〖WT5”BZ
〗
Passage One
Questions 21 to 25 are based on the following passage.
Bill Gates,the billionaire Microsoft chairman without a single earned universi
ty degree,is by his success raising new doubts about the worth of the business
world’s favorite academic title:the MBA(Master of Business Administration).\;
The MBA,a 20th-century product,always has borne the mark of lowly commerce and
greed (贪婪) on the tree-lined campuses ruled by purer disciplines such as phil
osophy and literature.\;
But even with the recession apparently cutting into the hiring of business schoo
l graduates,about 79,000 people are expected to receive MBAs in 1993,This is n
early 16 times the number of business graduates in 1960,a testimony to the wide
spread assumption that the MBA is vital for young men and women who want to run
companies some day.\;
“If you are going into the corporate world it is still a disadvantage not to ha
v
e one,” said Donald Morrison,professor of marketing and management science.,
But in the last five years or so,when someone says,‘Should I attempt to get a
n MBA,’ the answer a lot more is,It depends.”\;
The success of Bill Gates and other non-MBAs,such as the late Sam Walton of Wal
-Mart Stores Inc.,has helped inspire self-conscious debates on business school
campuses over the worth of a business degree and whether management skills can b
e taught.\;
The Harvard Business Review printed a lively,fictional exchange of letters to d
ramatize complaints about business degree holders.\;
The article called MBA hires,extremely disappointing” and said,MBAs want to
move up too fast,they don’t understand politics and people,and they aren’t able
to function as part of a team until their third year.But by then,they’re out lo
oking for other jobs.”\;
The problem,most participants in the debate acknowledge,is that the MBA has acq
uired an aura (光环) of future riches and power far beyond its actual importance
and usefulness.\;
Enrollment in business schools exploded in the 1970s and 1980s and created the a
ssumption that no one who pursued a business career could do without one,The gr
owth was fueled by a backlash (反冲) against the anti-business values of the 196
0s and by the women’s movement.\;
Business people who have hired or worked with MBAs say those with the degrees of
ten know how to analyze systems but are not so skillful at motivating people.,
They don’t get a lot of grounding in the people side of the business”,said Jame
s Shaffer,vice-president and principal of the Towers Perrin management consulti
ng firm.
21.According to Paragraph 2,what is the general attitude towards busines
s on campuses dominated by purer disciplines?\=
A)Scornful.
B)Appreciative.
C)Envious.
D)Realistic.
22.It seems that the controversy over the value of MBA degrees had been f
ueled mainly by ____.\=
A)the complaints from various employers
B)the success of many non-MBAs
C)the criticism from the scientists of purer disciplines
D)the poor performance of MBAs at work
23.What is the major weakness of MBA holders according to the Harvard Business Review?\=
A)They are usually self-centered.
B)They are aggressive and greedy.
C)They keep complaining about their jobs.
D)They are not good at dealing with people.
24.From the passage we know that most MBAs ____.\=
A)can climb the corporate ladder fairly quickly
B)quit their jobs once they are familiar with their workmates
C)receive salaries that do not match their professional training
D)cherish unrealistic expectations about their future
25.What is the passage mainly about?\=
A)Why there is an increased enrollment in MBA programs.
B)The necessity of reforming MBA programs in business schools.
C)Doubts about the worth of holding an MBA degree.
D)A debate held recently on university campuses.
Passage Two
Questions 26 to 30 are based on the following passage.
When school officials in Kalkaska,Michigan,closed classes last week,the media
flocked to the story,portraying the town’s 2,305 students as victims of stingy
(吝啬的)taxpayers,There is some truth to that;the property-tax rate here is one
-third lower than the state average,But shutting their schools also allowed Kal
kask’s educators and the state’s largest teachers’ union,the Michigan Education
Association,to make a political point,Their aim was to spur passage of legis
lation Michigan lawmakers are debating to increase the state’s share of school f
unding.\;
It was no coincidence that Kalkaska shut its schools two weeks after residents r
ejected a 28 percent property-tax increase,The school board argued that without
the increase it lacked the $ 1.5 million needed to keep schools open.
But the school system had not done all it could to keep the schools open,Offici
als declined to borrow against next year’s state aid,they refused to trim extra
curicular activities and they did not consider seeking a smaller —perhaps more
acceptable—tax increase,In fact,closing early is costing Kalkaska a significan
t amount,including $ 600,000 in unemployment payments to teachers and staff and
$ 250,000 in lost state aid,In February,the school system promised teachers an
d staff two months of retirement payments in case schools closed early,a deal t
hat will cost the district $ 275,000 more.\;
Other signs suggest school authorities were at least as eager to make a political
statement as to keep schools open,The Michigan Education Association hired a pu
blic relations firm to stage a rally marking the school closing,which attracted
14 local and national televison stations and networks,The president of the Nat
ional Education Association,the MEA’s parent organization,flew from Washington,
D.C.,for the event,And the union tutored school officials in the art of telev
ision interviews,School supervisor Doyle Disbrow acknowledges the district coul
d have kept schools open by cutting programs but denies the moves were political
ly motivated.\;
Michigan lawmakers have reacted angrily to the closings,The state Senate has al
ready voted to put the system into receivership(破产管理) and reopen schools imm
ediately;the Michigan House plans to consider the bill this week.
26.We learn from the passage that schools in Kalkaska,Michigan,are funde
d ____.\=
A)by both the local and state governments
B)exclusively by the local government
C)mainly by the state government
D)by the National Education Association
27.One of the purposes for which school officials closed classes was [CD#
3].\=
A)to avoid paying retirement benefits to teachers and staff
B)to draw the attention of local taxpayers to political issues
C)to make the financial difficulties of their teachers and staff known to the pu
blic
D)to pressure Michigan lawmakers into increasing state funds for local schools
28.The author seems to disapprove of ____.\=
A)the Michigan lawmakers’ endless debating
B)the shutting of schools in Kalkaska
C)the involvement of the mass media
D)delaying the passage of the school funding legislation
29.We learn from the passage that school authorities in Kalkaska are
concerned about ____.\=
A)a raise in the property-tax rate in Michigan
B)reopening the schools there immediately
C)the attitude of the MEA’s parent organization
D)making a political issue of the closing of the schools
30.According to the passage,the closing of the schools developed into a
crisis because of ____.\=
A)the complexity of the problem
B)the political motives on the part of the educators
C)the weak response of the state officials
D)the strong protest on the part of the students’ parents
Passage Three
Questions 31 to 35 are based on the following passage.
German Chancellor (首相) Otto Von Bismarck may be most famous for his military a
nd diplomatic talent,but his legact(遗产) includes many of today’s social insur
ance programs,During the middle of the 19th century,Germany,along with other E
u
ropean nations,experienced an unprecedented rash of workplace deaths and accide
nts as a result of growing industrialization,Motivated in part by Christian comp
assion(怜悯) for the helpless as well as a practical political impulse to underc
ut the support of the socialist labor movement,Chancellor Bismarck created the w
orld’s first workers’ compensation law in 1884.\;
By 1908,the United States was the only industrial nation in the world that lacke
d workers’ compensation insurance,America’s injured workers could sue for damag
es in a court of law,but they still faced a number of tough legal barriers.For
example,employees had to prove that their injuries directly resulted from employ
er negligence and that they themselves were ignorant about potential hazards in
the workplace.The first state workers’ compensation law in this country passed i
n 1911,and the program soon spread throughout the nation.\;
After World War Ⅱ,benefit payments to American workers did not keep up with the
cost of living,In fact,real benefit levels were lower in the 1970s than they
were in the 1940s,and in most states the maximum benefit was below the poverty
level for a family of four,In 1970,President Richard Nixon set up a national c
ommission to study the problems of workers’ compensation,Two years later,the co
mmission issued 19 key recommendations,including one that called for increasing
compensation benefit levels to 100 percent of the states’ average weekly wages.
\;
In fact,the average compensation benefit in America has climbed from 55 percent
of the states’ average weekly wages in 1972 to 97 percent today,But,as most st
udies show,every 10 percent increase in compensation benefits results in a 5 per
cent increase in the numbers of workers who file for claims,And with so much mo
re money floating in the workers’ compensation system,it’s not surprising that
doctors and lawyers have helped themselves to a large slice of the growing pie.
\=
31.The world’s first workers’ compensation law was introduced by Bismarck
____.\=
A)to make industrial production safer
B)to speed up the pace of industrialization
C)out of religious and political considerations
D)for fear of losing the support of the socialist labor movement
32.We learn from the passage that the process of industrialization in Eur
ope ____.\=
A)was accompanied by an increased number of workshop accidents
B)resulted in the development of popular social insurance programs
C)required workers to be aware of the potential dangers at the workplace
D)met growing resistance from laborers working at machines
33.One of the problems the American injured workers faced in getting comp
ensation in the early 19th century was that ____.\=
A)they had to have the courage to sue for damages in a court of law
B)different states in the U.S,had totally different compensation programs
C)America’s average compensation benefit was much lower than the cost of living
D)they had to produce evidence that their employers were responsible for the acc
ident
34.After 1972 workers’ compensation insurance in the U.S,became more fav
orable to workers so that ____.\=
A)the poverty level for a family of four went up drastically
B)there were fewer legal barriers when they filed for claims
C)the number of workers suing for damages increased
D)more money was allocated to their compensation system
35.The author ends the passage with the implication that ____.\=
A)compensation benefits in America are soaring to new heights
B)the workers are not the only ones to benefit from the compensation system
C)people from all walks of life can benefit from the compensation system
D)money floating in the compensation system is a huge drain on the U.S,economy
Passage Four
Questions 36 to 40 are based on the following passage.
Early in the age of affluence(富裕) that followed World War Ⅱ,an American reta
iling analyst named Victor Lebow proclaimed,“Our enormously productive economy
〖WW(〗…〖WW)〗 We need things consumed,burned up,worn out,replaced and disc
arded at an ever increasing rate.”\;
Americans have responded to Lebow’s call,and much of the world has followed.\;
Consumption has become a central pillar of life in industrial lands and is even
embedded in social values,Opinion surveys in the world’s two largest economies
—Japan and the United States—show consumerist definitions of success becoming
ever prevalent.\;
Overconsumpition by the world’s fortunate is an environmental problem unmatched
in severity by anything but perhaps population growth,Their surging exploitatio
n of resources threatens to exhaust or unalterably spoil forests,soils,water,ai
r and climate.\;
Ironically,high consumption may be a mixed blessing in human terms,too,The time
-honored values of integrity of character,good work,friendship,family and commun
ity have often been sacrificed in the rush to riches.\;
Thus many in the industrial lands have a sense that their world of plenty is som
ehow hollow—that,misled by a consumerist culture,they have been fruitlessly att
empting to satisfy what are essentially social,psychological and spiritual needs
with material things.\;
Of course,the oppostie of overconsumption—poverty—is no solution to either env
ironmenttal or human problems,It is infinitely worse for people and bad for the
natural world too,Dispossessed (被剥夺得一无所有的) peasants slash-and-burn th
eir way into the rain forests of Latin America,and hungry nomads (游牧民族) turn
their herds out onto fragile African grassland,reducing it to desert.\;
If environmental destruction results when people have either too little or too m
uch,we are left to wonder how much is enough,What level of consumption can the
earth support? When does having more cease to add noticeably to human satisfac
tion?\=
36.The emergence of the affluent society after World War Ⅱ ____.\=
A)gave birth to a new generation of upper class consumers
B)gave rise to the dominance of the new egoism
C)led to the reform of the retailing system
D)resulted in the worship of consumerism
37.Apart from enormous productivity,another important impetus to high con
sumption is ____.\=
A)the conversion of the sale of goods into rituals
B)the people’s desire for a rise in their living standards
C)the imbalance that has existed between production and consumption
D)the concept that one’s success is measured by how much they consume
38.Why does the author say high consumption is a mixed blessing?\=
A)Because poverty still exists in an affluent society.
B)Because moral values are sacrificed in pursuit of material satisfatction.
C)Because overconsumption won’t last long due to unrestricted population growth.
D)Because traditional rituals are often neglected in the process of modernizatio
n.
39.According to the passage,consumerist culture ____.\=
A)cannot thrive on a fragile economy
B)will not aggravate environmental problems
C)cannot satisfy human spiritual needs
D)will not alleviate poverty in wealthy countries
40.It can be inferred from the passage that ____.\=
A)human spiritual needs should match material affluence
B)there is never an end to satisfying people’s material needs
C)whether high consumption should be encouraged is still an issue
D)how to keep consumption at a reasonable level remains a problem
Part Ⅲ
Vocabulary (20 minutes)
Directions:There are 30 incomplete sentences in this part,For e
ach sentence there are four choices marked A),B),C) and D),Choose the ONE answe
r that best completes the sentence,Then mark the corresponding letter on the An
swer Sheet with a single line through the centre.
41.I have had my eyes tested and the report says that my ____is perfect
.\=
A)outlookB)visionC)horizonD)perpective
42.He was looking admiringly at the photograph published by Collins in [C
D#3] with the Imperial Museum.
A)collectionB)connectionC)collaborationD)combination
43.In those days,executives expected to spend most of their lives in the
same firm and,unless they were dismissed for ____,to retire at the age of 65
.
A)integrityB)denialC)incompetenceD)deduction
44.Others viewed the finding with ____,noting that a cause-and-effect
relationship between passive smoking and cancer remains to be shown.
A)optimismB)passionC)cautionD)deliberation
45.The 1986 Challenger space-shuttle ____ was caused by unusually low t
emperatures immediately before the launch.
A)expeditionB)controversyC)dismayD)disaster
46.When supply exceeds demand for any product,prise are ____ to fall.
A)timelyB)simultaneousC)subjectD)liable
47.The music aroused an ____ feeling of homesickness in him.
A)intentionalB)intermittentC)intenseD)intrinsic
48.I bought an alarm clock with a(n) ____ dial,which can be seen clearl
y in the dark.
A)supersonicB)luminousC)audibleD)amplified
49.The results are hardly ____;he cannot believe they are accurate.
A)credibleB)contraryC)criticalD)crucial
50.This new laser printer is ____ with all leading software.
A)comparableB)competitiveC)compatibleD)cooperative
51.The ball ____ two or three times before rolling down the slope.
A)swayedB)bouncedC)hoppedD)darted
52.He raised his eyebrows and stuck his head forward and ____ it in a
single nod,a gesture boys used then for O.K,when they were pleased.
A)shruggedB)tuggedC)jerkedD)twisted
53.Many types of rock are ____ from volcanoes as solid,fragmentary mat
erial.
A)flungB)propelledC)ejectedD)injected
54.With prices ____ so much,it is difficult for the school to plan a bu
dget.
A)vibratingB)fluctuatingC)flutteringD)swinging
55.The person who ____ this type of approach for doing research deserve
s our praise.
A)originatedB)speculatedC)generatedD)manufactured
56.____that the demand for power continues to rise at the current rate,
it will not be long before traditional sources become inadequate.
A)ConcerningB)AscertainingC)AssumingD)Regarding
57.Her jewelry ____ under the spotlights and she became the dominant fi
gure at the ball.
A)glaredB)glitteredC)blazedD)dazzled
58.Connie was told that if she worked too hard,her health would ____.
A)deteriorateB)descendC)degradeD)decay
59.We find that some birds ____ twice a year between hot and cold count
ries.
A)transferB)commuteC)migrateD)emigrate
60.As visiting scholars,they willingly ____ to the customs of the coun
try they live in.
A)submitB)conformC)subjectD)commit
61.More than 85 percent of French Canada’s population speaks French as mo
ther tongue and ____ to the Roman Catholic faith.
A)catersB)adheresC)ascribesD)subscribes
62.The professor found himself constantly ____ the question:“How could
anyone do these things?”
A)presidingB)poringC)ponderingD)presuming
63.Weeks ____ before anyone was arrested in connection with the bank ro
bbery.
A)terminatedB)elapsedC)overlappedD)expired
64.In order to prevent stress from being set up in the metal,expansion jo
ints are fitted which ____ the stress by allowing the pipe to expand or contra
ct freely.
A)relieveB)reconcileC)reclaimD)rectify
65.How much of your country’s electrical supply is ____ from water powe
r?
A)deducedB)detachedC)derivedD)declined
66.She has recently left a job and had helped herself to copies of the co
mpany’s client data,which she intended to ____ in starting her own business.
A)dwell onB)come uponC)base onD)draw upon
67.The glass vessels should be handled most carefully since they are [CD#
3].
A)intricateB)fragileC)subtleD)crisp
68.Hill slopes are cleared of forests to make way for crops,but this only
____ the crisis.
A)acceleratesB)prevailsC)ascendsD)precedes
69.He blew out the candle and ____ his way to the door.
A)convergedB)gropedC)strivedD)wrenched
70.Often such arguments have the effect of ____ rather than clarifying
the issues involved.
A)obscuringB)prejudicingC)tacklingD)blocking
Part Ⅳ
Cloze (15 minutes)
Directions:There are 20 blanks in the following passsage,For ea
ch blank there are four choices marked,A),B),C) and D) on the right side of t
he paper,You should choose the ONE that best fits into the passage,Then mark t
he corresponding letter on the Answer Sheet with a single line through the centr
e.
When women do become managers,do they bring a different style and different ski
lls to the job? Are they better,or worse,managers than men? Are woman more high
ly motivated and ____71____ than male managers?\;
Some research ____72____ the idea that woman bring different attitude
s and skills to management jobs,such as greater ____73____,an emphas
is on affiliation and attachment,and a ____74____ to bring emotional
factors to bear ____75____ making workplace decisions,These differences are ____76____ to carry advantages for companies,____77____ they expand the range of techniques that can be used to ____78____ the company manage its workforce ____79____.\;
A study commissioned by the International Women’s Forum ____80____ a management style used by some woman managers (and also by some men) that ____81____ from the command andcontrol style ____82____ used by male managers.
Us
ing this,interactive leadership” approach,“women ____83____ part
icipation,share power and information,____84____ other people’s self-
worth,and get others excited about their work,All these ____85____ r
eflect their belief that allowing ____86____ to contribute and to fee
l ____87____ and important is a win-win ____88____ —good
for the employees and the organization.”The study’s director ____89____ that,interactive leadership may emerge ____90____ the manageme
nt style of choice for many organizations.”
71.A)confrontedB)commandedC)confinedD)committed
72.A)supportsB)arguesC)opposesD)despises
73.A)combinationB)cooperativenessC)coherenceD)correlation
74.A)willingnessB)loyaltyC)sensitivityD)virtue
75.A)byB)inC)atD)with
76.A)disclosedB)watchedC)revisedD)seen
77.A)thereforeB)whereasC)becauseD)nonetheless
78.A)helpB)enableC)supportD)direct
79.A)evidentlyB)preciselyC)aggressivelyD)effectively
80.A)developedB)inventedC)discoveredD)located
81.A)derivesB)differsC)descendsD)detaches
82.A)inherentlyB)traditionallyC)conditionallyD)occasionally
83.A)encourageB)dismissC)disapproveD)engage
84.A)enhanceB)enlargeC)ignoreD)degrade
85.A)themesB)subjectsC)researchesD)things
86.A)managersB)womenC)employeesD)males
87.A)faithfulB)powerfulC)skillfulD)thoughtful
88.A)situationB)statusC)circumstanceD)position
89.A)predictedB)proclaimedC)defiedD)diagnosed
90.A)intoB)fromC)asD)for
试卷二
Part Ⅴ
Writing (30 minutes)
Directions:For this part,you are allowed thirty minutes to writ
e a composition on the topic It Pays to Be Honest,You should write at least 150 words according to the outline given below in Chinese:
1.当前社会上存在许多不诚实的现象
2.诚实利人利己，做人应该诚实
〖JZ〗It Pays to Be Honest
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Part Two 试卷部分
2002年6月
大学英语六级考试历年全真试卷
试卷一
Part Ⅰ
Listening Comprehension(20 minutes)
Section A
Directions:In this section,you will hear 10 short conversations.A
t the end of each conversation,a question will be asked about what was said.Both
the conversation and the question will be spoken only once.After each question
there will be a pause.During the pause,you must read the four choices marked A),
B),C)and D),and decide which is the best answer.Then mark the corresponding lett
er on the Answer Sheet with a single line through the centre.\=
Example:You will hear:\=
You will read,\=
A)2 hours,
B)3 hours.\=
C)4 hours.
D)5 hours.\=
From the conversation we know that the two are talking about some work the
y will start at 9 o’clock in the morning and have to finish at 2 in the afternoo
n.Therefore,D)“5 hours” is the correct answer.You should choose ［D］ on the A
nswer Sheet and mark it with a single line through the centre.\=\=
[JY]Sample Answer ［A］［B］［C］［D］〖KG-1*3/4〗〖CD2〗[FK)]
1.A)Registering for courses.
C)Buying a new computer.
\=B)Getting directions.
D)Studying sociology.\=
2.A)The man will probably have to find a roommate.\=
B)The man is unlikely to live in the suburbs.\=
C)The man will probably have to buy a car.\=
D)The man is unlikely to find exactly what he desires.
3.A)Painting a picture.B)Hosting a program.\=
C)Designing a studio.D)Taking a photograph.
4.A)The woman doesn’t think it a problem to get her passport renewed.\=
B)The woman has difficulty renewing her passport.\=
C)The woman hasn’t renewed her passport yet.\=
D)The woman’s passport is still valid.
5.A)A prediction of the future of mankind.\=
B)A new drug that may benefit mankind.\=
C)An opportunity for a good job.\=
D)An unsuccessful experiment.
6.A)A lesson requires students’ active involvement.\=
B)Students usually take an active part in a lecture.\=
C)More knowledge is covered in a lecture.\=
D)There is a larger group of people interested in lessons.
7.A)Neither of their watches keeps good time.\=
B)The woman’s watch stopped 3 hours ago.\=
C)The man’s watch goes too fast.\=
D)It’s too dark for the woman to read her watch.
8.A)She’s pround of being able to do many things at the same time.\=
B)She is sure to finish all the things in a few hours.\=
C)She dreams of becoming a millionaire someday.\=
D)She’s been kept extremely busy.
9.A)He wants his students to be on time for class.\=
B)He doesn’t allow his students to tell jokes in class.\=
C)He is always punctual for his class.\=
D)He rarely notices which students are late.
10.A)He is nervous about the exam.
B)He is looking for a job.\=
C)He doesn’t dare to tell lies.
D)He doesn’t know how to answer the questions.
Section B
Directions:In this section,you will hear 3 short passages.At the end
of each passage,you will hear some questions.Both the passage and the questions
will be spoken only once.After you hear a question,you must choose the best answ
er from the four choices marked A),B),C)and D).Then mark the corresponding lette
r on the Answer Sheet with a single line through the centre.
Passage One
Questions 11 to 14 are based on the passage you have just heard.\=
11.A)Because she was bored with her idle life at home.\=
B)Because she was offered a good job by her neighbour.\=
C)Because she wanted to help with the family’s finances.\=
D)Because her family would like to see her more involved in social life.
12.A)Doing housework.
B)Looking after her neighbour’s children.\=
C)Reading papers and watching TV.
D)Taking good care of her husband.
13.A)Jane got angry at Bill’s idle life.
B)Bill failed to adapt to the new situation.\=
C)Bill blamed Jane for neglecting the family.
D)The children were not taken good care of.
14.A)Neighbours should help each other.
B)Women should have their own careers.\=
C)Man and wife should share household duties.
D)Parents should take good care of their children.
Passage Two
Questions 15 to 17 are based on the passage you have just heard.\=
15.A)To predict natural disasters that can cause vast destruction.\=
B)To limit the destruction that natural disasters may cause.\=
C)To gain financial support from the United Nations.\=
D)To propose measures to hold back natural disasters.
16.A)There is still a long way to go before man can control natural disas
ters.\=
B)International cooperation can minimize the destructive force of natural
disasters.\=
C)Technology can help reduce the damage natural disasters may cause.\=
D)Scientists can successfully predict earthquakes.
17.A)Because there were fatal mistakes in its design.\=
B)Because the builder didn’t observe the building codes of the time.\=
C)Because the traffic load went beyond its capacity.\=
D)Because it was built according to less strict earthquake-resistance standards.
Passage Three
Questions 18 to 20 are based on the passage you have just heard.\=
18.A)By judging to what extent they can eliminate the risks.\=
B)By estimating the possible loss of lives and property.\=
C)By estimating the frequency of volcanic eruptions.\=
D)By judging the possible risks against the likely benefits.
19.A)Once of Etna’s recent eruptions made many people move away.\=
B)Etna’s frequent eruptions have ruined most of the local farmland.\=
C)Etna’s eruptions are frequent but usually mild.\=
D)There are signs that Etna will erupt again in the near future.
20.A)They will remain where they are.\=
B)They will leave this area for ever.\=
C)They will wait and see.
D)They will seek shelter in nearby regions.
Part Ⅱ
Reading Comprehension (35 minutes)
Directions:There are 4 passages in this part.Each passage is followed by some questions or unfinished statements.For each of them there are four choi
ces marked A),B),C) and D).You should decide on the best choice and mark the cor
responding letter on the Answer Sheet with a single line through the centre.
Passage One
Questions 21 to 25 are based on the following passage.
When global warming finally came,it stuck with a vengeance(异乎寻常地).In so
me regions,temperatures rose several degrees in less than a century.Sea levels s
hot up nearly 400 feet,flooding coastal settlements and forcing people to migrat
e inland.Deserts spread throughout the world as vegetation shifted drastically i
n North America,Europe and Asia.After driving many of the animals around them to
near extinction,people were forced to abandon their old way of life for a radic
ally new survival strategy that resulted in widespread starvation and disease.Th
e adaptation was farming:the global-warming crisis that gave rise to it happened
more than 10,000 years ago.
As environmentalists convene in Rio de Janeiro this week to ponder the global cl
imate of the future,earth scientists are in the midst of a revolution in underst
anding how climate has changed in the past—and how those changes have transform
ed human existence.Researchers have begun to piece together an illuminating pict
ure of the powerful geological and astronomical forces that have combined to cha
nge the planet’s environment from hot to cold,wet to dry and back again over a t
ime period stretching back hundreds of millions of years.
Most importantly,scientists are beginning to realize that the climatic changes h
av
e had a major impact on the evolution of the human species.New research now sugge
sts that climate shifts have played a key role in nearly every significant turni
ng point in human evolution:from the dawn of primates(灵长目动物) some 65 mi
llion years ago to human ancestors rising up to walk on two legs,from the huge e
xpansion of the human brain to the rise of agriculture.Indeed,the human history
has not been merely touched by global climate change,some scientists argue,it ha
s in some instances been driven by it.
The new research has profound implications for the environmental summit in Rio.A
mong other things,the findings demonstrate that dramatic climate change is nothi
ng new for planet Earth.The benign(宜人的) global environment that has exist
ed over the past 10,000 years—during which agriculture,writing,cities and most
other features of civilization appeared—is a mere bright spot in a much larger
pattern of widely varying climate over the ages.In fact,the pattern of climate c
hange in the past reveals that Earth’s climate will almost certainly go through
dramatic changes in the future—even without the influence of human activity.\=
21.Farming emerged as a survival strategy because man had been obliged [C
D#3〗.\=
A)to give up his former way of life\=
B)to leave the coastal areas\=
C)to follow the ever-shifting vegetation\=
D)to abandon his original settlement
22.Earth scientists have come to understand that climate____.\=
A)is going through a fundamental change\=
B)has been getting warmer for 10,000 years\=
C)will eventually change from hot to cold\=
D)has gone through periodical changes
23.Scientists believe that human evolution ____.\=
A)has seldom been accompanied by climatic changes\=
B)has exerted little influence on climatic changes\=
C)has largely been effected by climatic changes\=
D)has had a major impact on climatic changes
24.Evidence of past climatic changes indicates that ____.\=
A)human activities have accelerated changes of Earth’s environment\=
B)Earth’s environment will remain mild despite human interference\=
C)Earth’s climate is bound to change significantly in the future\=
D)Earth’s climate is unlikely to undergo substantial changes in the future〖ZK)
〗
25.The message the author wishes to convey in the passage is that ____.
\=
A)human civilization remains glorious though it is affected by climatic c
hanges
B)mankind is virtually helpless in the face of the dramatic changes of climate\=
C)man has to limit his activities to slow down the global warming process\=
D)human civilization will continue to develop in spite of the changes of
nature
Passage Two
Questions 26 to 30 are based on the following passage.
Now woman can be too rich or too thin.This saying often attributed to the late
Duchess(公爵夫人) of Windsor embodies much of the odd spirit of our times.Be
ing thin is deemed as such a virture.
The problem with such a view is that some people actually attempt to live by it.
I myself have fantasies of slipping into narrow designer clothes.Consequently,I
have been on a diet for the better—or worse—part of my life.Being rich wouldn’
t be bad either,but that won’t happen unless an unknown relative dies suddenly i
n some distant land,leaving me millions of dollars.
Where did we go off the track?When did eating butter become a sin,and a little b
it of extra flesh unappealing,if not repellent?All religions have certain days w
hen people refrain from eating,and excessive eating is one of Christianity’s sev
en deadly sins.However,until quite recently,most people had a problem getting en
ough to eat.In some religious groups,wealth was a symbol of probable salvation a
nd high morals,and fatness a sign of wealth and well-being.
Today the opposite is true.We have shifted to thinness as our new mark of virtue
.The result is that being fat—or even only somewhat overweight—is bad because
it implies a lack of moral strength.
Our obsession(迷恋) with thinness is also fueled by health concerns.It is tr
ue that in this country we have more overweight people than ever before,and that
,in many cases,being overweight correlates with an increased risk of heart and blood vessel disease,These diseases,however,may have as much to do with our way of life and our high-fat diets as with excess weight.And the associated risk of cancer in the digestive system may be more of a dietary problem—too much fat and a lack of f
iber—than a weight problem.
The real concern,then,is not that we weigh too much,but that we neither exercise
enough nor eat well.Exercise is necessary for strong bones and both heart and l
ung health.A balanced diet without a lot of fat can also help the body avoid man
y diseases.We should surely stop paying so much attention to weight.Simply being
thin is not enough.It is actually hazardous if those who get (or already are) t
hin think they are automatically healthy and thus free from paying attention to
their overall life-style.Thinness can be pure vainglory(虚荣).
26.In the eyes of the author,an odd phenomenon nowadays is that ____.
A)the Duchess of Windsor is regarded as a woman of virtue\=
B)looking slim is a symbol of having a large fortune\=
C)being thin is viewed as a much desired quality\=
D)religious people are not necessarily virtuous
27.Swept by the prevailing trend,the author____.\=
A)had to go on a diet for the greater part of her life\=
B)could still prevent herself from going off the track\=
C)had to seek help from rich distant relatives\=
D)had to wear highly fashionable clothes
28.In human history,people’s views on body weight____.\=
A)were closely related to their religious beliefs\=
B)changed from time to time\=
C)varied between the poor and the rich\=
D)led to different moral standards
29.The author criticizes women’s obsession with thinness ____.\=
A)from an economic and educational perspective\=
B)from sociological and medical points of view\=
C)from a historical and religious standpoint\=
D)in the light of moral principles
30.What’s the author’s advice to women who are absorbed in the idea of th
inness?\=
A)They should be more concerned with their overall lifestyle.\=
B)They should be more watchful for fatal diseases.\=
C)They should gain weight to look healthy.\=
D)They should rid themselves of fantasies about designer clothes.
Passage Three
Questions 31 to 35 are based on the following passage.
War may be a natural expression of biological instincts and drives toward aggres
s
ion in the human species.Natural impulses of anger,hostility,and territorialit
y(守卫地盘的天性) are expressed through acts of violence.These are all qualiti
es that humans share with animals,Aggression is a kind of innate(天生的) su
rvival mechanism,an instinct for self-preservation that allows animals to defend
themselves from threats to their existences of human violence are always conditi
oned by social conventions that give shape to aggressive behavior.In human socie
ties violence has a social function.It is a strategy for creating or destroying
forms of social order.Religious traditions have taken a leading role in directin
g the powers of violence.We will look at the ritual and ethical(道德上的) pa
tterns within which human violence has been directed.
The violence within a society is controlled through institutions of law.The more
developed a legal system becomes,the more society takes responsibility for the
discovery,control,and punishment of violent acts.In most tribal societies the on
ly means to deal with an act of violence is revenge.Each family group may have
the responsibility for personally carrying out judgment and punishment upon the
person who committed the offense.But in legal systems,the responsibility for rev
enge becomes depersonalized and diffused.The society assumes the responsibility
for protecting individuals from violence.In cases where they cannot be protected
,the society is responsible for imposing punishment.In a statecontrolled legal
system,individuals are removed from the cycle of revenge motivated by acts of v
iolence,and the state assumes responsibility for their protection.
The other side of a state legal apparatus is a state military apparatus.While th
e one protects the individual from violence,the other sacrifices the individual
to violence in the interests of the state.In war the state affirms its supreme p
ower over the individuals within its own borders.War is not simply a trial by co
mbatting to settle disputes between states;it is the moment when the state makes
its most powerful demands upon its people for their commitment allegiance,and s
upreme sacrifice.Times of war test a community’s deepest religious and ethical c
ommitments.\=
31.Human violence shows evidence of being a learned behavior in that [CD#
3].\=
A)it threatens the existing social systems\=
B)it is influenced by society\=
C)it has roots in religious conflicts\=
D)it is directed against institutions of law
32.The function of legal systems,according to the passage,is ____.\=
A)to control violence within a society\=
B)to protect the world from chaos\=
C)to free society from the idea of revenge\=
D)to give the government absolute power
33.What does the author mean by saying,..,in legal systems,the respons
ibility for revenge becomes depersonalized and diffused”(Lines 4-5,Para.2)?
A)Legal systems greatly reduce the possibilities of physical violence.\=
B)Offenses against individuals are no longer judged on a personal basis.\=
C)Victims of violence find it more difficult to take revenge.\=
D)Punishment is not carried out directly by the individuals involved.
34.The word,allegiance”(Line 4,Para,3) is closest in meaning to [CD#3
].\=
A)loyaltyB)objective\=
C)survivalD)motive
35.What can we learn from the last paragraph?\=
A)Governments tend to abuse their supreme power in times of war.\=
B)In times of war governments may extend their power across national bord
ers.\=
C)In times of war governments impose high religious and ethical standards
on their people.\=
D)Governments may sacrifice individuals in the interests of the state in
times of war.
Passage Four
Questions 36 to 40 are based on the following passage.
Researchers who are unfamiliar with the cultural and ethnic groups they are stud
ying must take extra precautions to shed any biases they bring with them from th
eir own culture.For example,they must make sure they construct measures that are
meaningful for each of the cultural or ethnic minority groups being studied.
In conducting research on cultural and ethnic minority issues,investigators dist
inguish between the emic approach and the etic approach.In the emic approach,th
e goal is to describe behavior in one culture or ethnic group in terms that are
meaningful and important to the people in that culture or ethnic group,without r
egard to other cultures or ethnic groups.In the etic approach,the goal is to des
cribe behavior so that generalizations can be made across cultures.If researcher
s construct a questionnaire in an emic fashion,the concern is only that the qu
estions are meaningful to the particular culture or ethnic group being studied.I
f,however,the researchers construct a questionnaire in an etic fashion,they want
to include questions that reflect concepts familiar to all cultures involved.
How might the emic and etic approaches be reflected in the study of family proce
sses?In the emic approach,the researchers might choose to focus only on middle-c
lass White families,without regard for whether the information obtained in the s
tudy can be generalized or is appropriate for ethnic minority groups.In a subseq
uent study,the researchers may decide to adopt an etic approach by studying not
only middle-class White familes,but also lower-income White families,Black Ameri
can families,Spanish American families,and Asian American families.In studying e
thnic minority families,the researchers would likely discover that the extended
family is more frequently a support system in ethnic minority families than in W
hite American families.If so,the emic approach would reveal a different pattern
of family interaction than would the etic approach,docummenting that research wi
th middle-class White families cannot always be generalized to all ethnic groups
.\=
36.According to the first paragraph,researchers unfamiliar with the targe
t cultures are inclined to ____.\=
A)be overcautious in constructing meaningful measures\=
B)view them from their own cultural perspective\=
C)guard against interference from their own culture\=
D)accept readily what is alien to their own culture
37.What does the author say about the emic approach and the etic approach
\=
A)They have different research focuses in the study of ethnic issues.\=
B)The former is biased while the latter is objective.\=
C)The former concentrates on the study of culture while the latter on fam
ily issues.\=
D)They are both heavily dependent on questionnaires in conducting survey
s.
38.Compared with the etic approach,the emic approach is apparently more [
CD#3].\=
A)culturally interactiveB)culturally biased\=
C)culture-orientedD)culture-specific
39.The etic approach is concerned with ____.\=
A)the general characteristics of minority families\=
B)culture-related concepts of individual ethnic groups\=
C)features shared by various cultures or ethnic groups\=
D)the economic conditions of different types of families
40.Which of the following is true of the ethnic minority families in the
U.S,according to the passage?\=
A)Their cultural patterns are usually more adaptable.\=
B)Their cultural concepts are difficult to comprehend.\=
C)They don’t interact with each other so much as White families.\=
D)They have closer family ties than White families.
Part Ⅲ
Vocabulary (20 minutes)
Directions:There are 30 incomplete sentences in this part.For each se
ntence there are four choices marked A),B),C) and D).Choose the ONE answer tha
t best completes the sentence.Then mark the corresponding letter on the Answer S
heet with a single line through the centre.\=
41.It was ____ that the restaurant discriminated against black customer
s.\=
A)addictedB)allegedC)assaulted〖WB
〗D)ascribed
42.The medicine____ his pain but did not cure his illness.\=
A)activatedB)alleviatedC)mediated
D)deteriorated
43.He is the only person who can ____ in this case,because the other wi
tnesses were killed mysteriously.\=
A)testifyB)chargeC)accuse
D)rectify
44.Professor Hawking is____ as one of the world’s greatest living physi
cists.\=
A)dignifiedB)clarifiedC)acknowledged
D)illustrated
45.The financial problem of this company is further____ by the rise in
interest rates.\=
A)increasedB)strengthenedC)reinforced
D)aggravated
46.We shall probably never be able to ____ the exact nature of these su
b-atomic particles.\=
A)assertB)impartC)ascertain
D)notify
47.All the people in the stadium cheered up when they saw hundreds of col
ourful balloons ____ slowly into the sky.\=
A)ascendingB)elevatingC)escalating
D)lingering
48.Many years had ____ before they returned to their original urban ar
eas.\=
A)floatedB)elapsedC)skipped
D)proceeded
49.What you say now is not ____ with what you said last week.\=
A)consistentB)persistentC)permanent
D)insistent
50.Military orders are ____ and cannot be disobeyed.\=
A)defectiveB)conservativeC)alternative
D)imperative
51.Some educators try to put students of familiar abilities into the same c
lass because they believe this kind of ____ grouping is advisable.\=
A)homogeneousB)instantaneousC)spontaneous
D)anonymous
52.Even sensible men do ____ things sometimes.\=
A)abruptB)absurdC)acute
D)apt
53.The commission would find itself____ at every turn if its members co
uldn’t reach an agreement.
A)collidedB)savagedC)crumbled
D)hampered
54.Grain production in the world is ____,but still millions go hungry.
A)staggeringB)shrinkingC)soaringD)suspending
55.He developed a ____ attitude after years of frustration in his caree
r.\=
A)sneakingB)disgustedC)drasticD)cynical
56.They believed that this was not the ____ of their campaign for equal
ity but merely the beginning.\=
A)climaxB)summitC)pitch
D)maximum
57.Several guests were waiting in the ____ for the front door to open.
A)porchB)ventC)inlet
D)entry
58.As the mountains were covered with a ____ of cloud,we couldn’t see t
heir tops.\=
A)coatingB)filmC)veil
D)shade
59.We couldn’t really afford to buy a house so we got it on hire purchase
and paid monthly ____.\=
A)investmentsB)requirementsC)arrangements
D)installments
60.The magician made us think he cut the girl into pieces but it was mere
ly an ____.\=
A)illusionB)impressionC)image
D)illumination
61.A good education is an ____ you can fall back on for the rest of you
r life.\=
A)assetB)ethicC)inventory
D)obligation
62.Giving a gift can convey a wealth of meaning about your appreciation o
f their ____ and the importance you place upon the relationship.\=
A)solidarityB)priorityC)superiority
D)hospitality
63.The designer has applied for a ____ for his new invention.\=
A)tariffB)discountC)version
D)patent
64.The toy maker produces a ____ copy of the space station,exact in eve
ry detail.\=
A)minimalB)minimumC)miniature
D)minor
65.An energy tax would curb ordinary air pollution,limit oil imports and
cut the budget____.\=
A)dispostitonB)discrepancyC)defectD)deficit
66.They have decided to ____ physical punishment in all local schools.
A)put awayB)break away fromC)do away withD)pass away
67.Astronauts are ____ all kinds of tests before they are actually sent
up in a spacecraft.\=
A)inclined toB)subjected toC)prone toD)bound to
68.Individual sports are run by over 370 independent governing bodies who
se functions usually include ____ rules,holding events,selecting national team
s and promoting international links.\=
A)drawing onB)drawing inC)drawing up
D)drawing down
69.Up until that time,his interest had focused almost____ on fully mast
ering the skills and techniques of his craft.\=
A)restrictivelyB)radicallyC)inclusively
D)exclusively
70.All the ceremonies at the 2000 Olympic Games had a unique Australian f
lavor,____ of their multicultural communities.\=
A)noticeableB)indicativeC)conspicuous
D)implicit
试卷二
Part Ⅳ
Error Correction (15 minutes)
Directions:This part consists of a short passage.In this p
assage,there are altogether 10 mistakes,one in each numbered line.You may have t
o change a word,add a word or delete a word.Mark out the mistakes and put the co
rrections in the blanks provided.If you change a word,cross it out and write the
correct word in the corresponding blank.If you add a word,put an insertion mar
k(∧)in the right place and write the missing word in the blank.If you delete a
word,cross it out and put a slash(／)in the blank.\=
Example：
〖DZ(22，6〗Television is rapidly becoming the literature of our periods[KG-1]/,Many of the arguments having[KG-1]/ [KG*2]used for the study of literature as a school subject are valid for ∧ study of television.[]
1,____Time/times/period____
2.____/____
3.____the____[DZ)]
A great many cities are experiencing difficulties which\=
are nothing new in the history of cities,except in their scale.\=
Some cities have lost their original purpose and have not found\=
new one.And any large or rich city is going to attract poor〖JY,16〗S1.____\=
immigrants,who flood in,filling with hopes of prosperity〖JY,16〗S2.____\=
which are then often disappointing.There are backward towns\=
on the edge of Bombay or Brasilia,just as though there were 〖JY,16〗S3.____\=
on the edge of seventeenth-century London or early nine\=
teenthcentury Paris.This is new is in the scale.Descriptions〖JY,16〗S4.____\=
written by eighteenth-century travelers of the poor of Mexico\=
City,and the enormous contrasts that was to be found there,〖JY,16〗S5.____\=
are very dissimilar to descriptions of Mexico City today—the〖JY,16〗S6.____\=
poor can still be numbered in millions.
The whole monstrous growth rests on economic prosper-\=
ity,but behind it lies two myths:the myth of the city as a 〖JY,16〗S7.____\=
promised land,that attracts immigrants from rural poverty〖JY,16〗S8.____\=
and brings it flooding into city centers,and the myth of the 〖JY,16〗S9.____\=
country as a Garden of Eden,which,a few generations late,〖JY,16〗S10.____\=
sends them flooding out again to the suburbs.\=
Part Ⅴ
Writing (30 minutes)
Directions:For this part,you are allowed thirty minutes to
write a composition on the topic [WTHX]Student Use of Computers.You should write at least 150 words,and base your composition on the chart and the outline given below:
〖PS111.EPS,+60mm。90mm，BP#〗
1.〖ZK(#〗上图所示为1990年、1995年、2000年某校大学生使用计算机的情况，请描述其变化；
2.请说明发生这些变化的原因(可从计算机的用途、价格或社会发展等方面加以说明)；
3.你认为目前大学生在计算机使用中有什么困难或问题。
〖JZ〗Student Use of Computers\=
____
____
____
____
____
____
Part Two 试卷部分
2002年1月
大学英语六级考试历年全真试卷
试卷一
Part Ⅰ
Listening Comprehension(20 minutes)
Section A
[HJ1mm]
Directions,In this section,you will hear 10 short conversations,At t
he end of each conversation,a question will be asked about what was said,Both
the conversation and the question will be spoken only once,After each question
there will be a pause,During the pause,you must read the four choices marked A),B),C) and D),and decide which is the best answer,Then mark the correspond
ing letter on the Answer Sheet with a single line through the centre.
Example:You will hear:
You will read,
A) 2 hours,B) 3 hours,C) 4 hours.
D) 5 hours,
From the conversation,we know that the two were talking about some work they wi
ll start at 9’ o’clock in the morning and have to finish at 2 in the afternoon,
Therefore,D),5 hours” is the correct answer,You should choose ［D］ on the
Answer Sheet and mark it with a single line through the centre, Sample Answer ［A］ ［B］ ［C］ ［D］[KG-4.5mm]—[FK)]
1,A) All the passengers were killed,B) The plane
crashed in the night.
C) No more survivors have been found.D) It’s too late to search for surviv
ors.
2,A) Its results were just as expected.B) It wasn’t very well desi
gned.
C) It fully reflected the students’ ability.D) Its results fell short to h
er expectations.
3,A) He believes dancing is enjoyable.B) He definitely does not lik
e dancing.
C) He admires those who dance.D) He won’t dance until he has done his work
.
4,A) His computer doesn’t work well.B) He isn’t getting along with his staff.
C) He didn’t register for a proper course.D) He can’t apply the theory to
his program.
5,A) Reading on the campus lawn.B) Depositing money in the bank.
C) Applying for financial aid.D) Reviewing a student’s application.
6,A) A new shuttle bus.B) A scheduled space flight.
C) An airplane flight.D) The first space flight.
7,A) The deadline is drawing near.B) She can’t meet the deadline.
C) She turned in the proposals today.D) They are two days ahead of time.
8,A) By going on a diet.B) By having fewer meals.
C) By doing physical exercise.D) By eating fruit and vegetables.
9,A) He enjoyed it as a whole.B) He didn’t think much of it.
C) He didn’t like it at all.D) He liked some parts of it.
10,A) It looks quite new.B) It needs to be repaired.
C) It look old,but it runs well.D) Its engine needs to be painted.
Section B
Directions:In this section,you will hear 3 short passages,At the end o
f each passage,you will hear some questions,Both the passage and the questions
will be spoken only once,After you hear a question,you must choose the best a
nswer from the four choices marked A),B),C) and D),Then mark the corresponding
letter on the Answer Sheet with a single line through the centre.
Passage One
Questions 11 to 13 are based on the passage you have just heard.
11,A) Experience in negotiating.
B) A high level of intelligence.
C) The time they spend on preparation.
D) The amount of pay they receive.
12,A) Study the case carefully beforehand.
B) Stick to a set target.
C) Appear friendly to the other party.
D) Try to be flexible about their terms.
13,A) Make sure there is no misunderstanding.
B) Try to persuade by giving various reasons.
C) Repeat the same reasons.
D) Listen carefully and patiently to the other party.
Passage Two
Questions 14 to 16 are based on the passage you have just heard.
14,A) They eat huge amounts of food.
B) They usually eat twice a day.
C) They usually eat to their hearts’ content.
D) They eat much less than people assume.
15,A) When it is breeding.
B) When it feels threatened by humans in its territory.
C) When its offspring is threatened.
D) When it is suffering from illness.
16,A) They are not as dangerous as people think.
B) They can be as friendly to humans as dogs.
C) They attack human beings by nature.
D) They are really tame sea animals.
Passage Three
Questions 17 to 20 are based on the passage you have just heard.
17,A) Because people might to migrate there someday.
B) Because it is very much like the earth.
C) Because it is easier to explore than other planets.
D) Because its atmosphere is different from that of the earth.
18,A) Its chemical elements must be studied.
B) Its temperature must be lowered.
C) Big spaceships must be built.
D) Its atmosphere must be changed.
19,A) It influences the surface temperature of Mars.
B) It protects living beings from harmful rays.
C) It keeps a planet from overheating.
D) It is the main component of the air people breathe.
20,A) Man will probably be able to live there in 200 years.
B) Scientists are rather pessimistic about it.
C) Man will probably be able to live there in 100,000 years’ time.
D) Scientists are optimistic about overcoming the difficulties soon.
Part Ⅱ
Reading Comprehension (35 minutes)
Directions,There are 4 passage in this part,Each passage is followed by
some questions or unfinished statements,For each of them there are four choices
marked A),B),C) and D),You should decide on the best choice and mark the corre
sponding letter on the Answer Sheet with a single line through the centre.
Passage One
Questions 21 to 25 are based on the following passage.
Navigation computers,now sold by most carmakers,cost $2,000 and up,No surpr
ise,then,that they are most often found in luxury cars,like Lexus,BMW and Au
di,But it is a developing technology—meaning prices should eventually drop—an
d the market does seem to be growing.
Even at current prices,a navigation computer is impressive.It can guide you fro
m point to point in most major cities with precise turn-by-turn directions—spok
en by a clear human-sounding voice,and written on a screen in front of the driv
er.
The computer works with an antenna (天线) that takes signals from no fewer than
three of the 24 global positioning system (GPS) satellites,By measuring the tim
e required for a signal to travel between the satellites and antennam,the car’s
location can be pinned down within 100 meters.
The satellite singnals,along with inputs on speed from a wheel-speed sensor and
direction from a meter,determine the car’s position even as it moves,This info
rmation is combined with a map database,Streets,landmarks and points of intere
st are included.
Most systems are basically identical,The differences come in hardware—the way
the computer accepts the driver’s request for directions and the way it present
s the driving instructions,On most systems,a driver enters a desired address,
motorway junction or point of interest via a touch screen or disc,But the Lexus
screen goes a step further,you can point to any spot on the map screen and get
directions to it.
BMW’s system offers a set of cross hairs (瞄准器上的十字纹) that can be moved ac
ross the map (you have several choices of map scale) to pick a point you’d like
to get to,Audi’s screen can be switched to TV reception.
Even the voices that recite the directions can differ,with better systems like
BMW’s and Lexus’s having a wider vocabulary,The instructions are available in F
rench,German,Spanish,Dutch and Italian,as well as English.The driver can als
o choose parameters for determining the route,fastest,shortest or no freeways
(高速公路),for example.
21,We learn from the passage that navigation computers ____.
A) will greatly promote sales of automoblies
B) may help solve potential traffic problems
C) are likely to be accepted by more drivers
D) will soon be viewed as a symbol of luxury
22,With a navigation computer,a driver will easily find the best route
to his destination ____.
A) by inputting the exact address
B) by indicating the location of his car
C) by checking his computer database
D) by giving vocal orders to the computer
23,Despite their varied designs,navigation computers used in cars 〖CD#
3〗.
A) are more or less the same price
B) provide directions in much the same way
C) work on more or less the same principles
D) receive instructions from the same satellites
24,The navigation computer functions ____.
A) by means of a direction finder and a speed detector
B) basically on satellite signals and a map database
C) mainly through the reception of turn-by-turn directions
D) by using a screen to display satellite signals
25,The navigation systems in cars like Lexus,BMW and Audi are mentioned
to show ____.
A) the immaturity of the new technology
B) the superiority of the global positioning system
C) the cause of price fluctuations in car equipment
D) the different ways of providing guidance to the driver
Passage Two
Questions 26 to 30 are based on the following passage.
“The world’s environment is a surprisingly healthy discuss.,If that were an e
xamination topic,most students would tear it apart,offering a long list of com
plaints,from local smog (烟雾) to global climate change,from the felling (砍伐
) of forest to the extinction of species,The list would largely be accurate,th
e concern legitimate,Yet the students who should be given the highest marks wou
ld actually be those who agreed with the statement,The surprise is how good thi
ngs are,not how bad.
After all,the world’s population has more than tripled during this century,and
world output has risen hugely,so you would expect the earth itself to have bee
n affected,Indeed,if people lived,consumed and produced things in the same wa
y as they did in 1900 (or 1950s,or indeed 1980),the world by now would be a pr
etty disgusting place,smelly,dirty,toxic and dangerous.
But they don’t,The reasons why they don’t,and why the environment has not been
ruined,have to do with prices,technological innovation,social change and gov
ernment regulation in response to popular pressure,That is why today’s environm
ental problems in the poor countries ought,in principle,to be solvable.
Raw materials have not run out,and show to sing of doing so,Logically,one day
they must,the planet is a finite place,Yet it is also very big,and man is very
ingenious,What has happened is that every time a material seems to be running
short,the price has risen and,in response,peole have looked for new sources o
f supply,tried to find ways to use less of the material,or looked for a new su
bstitute,For this reason prices for energy and for minerals have fallen in real
terms during the century,The same is true for food,Prices fluctuate,in resp
onse to harvests,natural disasters and political instability; and when they ris
e,it takes some time before new sources of supply become available,But they alw
ays do,assisted by new farming and crop technology,The long-term trend has bee
n downwards.
It is where prices and markets do not operate properly that this benign (良性的)
trend begins to stumble,and the genuine problems arise,Markets cannot always k
eep the environment healthy,If no one owns the resource concerned,no one has a
n interest in conserving it or fostering it,fish is the best example of this.
26,According to the author,most students ____.
A) believe the world’s environment is in undesirable condition
B) agree that the environment of the world is not as bad as it is thought to be
C) get high marks for their good knowledge of the world’s environment
D) appear somewhat unconcerned about the state of the world’s environment
27,The huge increase in world production and population ____.
A) has made the world a worse place to live in
B) has had a positive influence on the environment
C) has not significantly affected the environment
D) has made the world a dangerous place to live in
28,One of the reasons why the long-term trend of prices has been downwar
ds is that ____.
A) technological innovation can promote soical stability
B) political instability will cause consumption to drop
C) new farming and crop technology can lead to overproduction
D) new sources are always becoming available
29,Fish resources are diminishing because ____.
A) no new substitutes can be found in large quantities
B) they are not owned by any particular entity
C) improper methods of fishing have ruined the fishing grounds
D) water pollution is extremely serious
30,The primary solution to environmental problems is ____.
A) to allow market forces to operate properly
B) to curb consumption of natural resources
C) to limit the growth of the world population
D) to avoid fluctuations in prices
Passage Three
Questions 31 to 35 are based on the following passage.
About the time that schools and others quite reasonably became interested in see
ing to it that all children,whatever their background,were fairly treated,int
elligence testing became unpopular.
Some thought it was unfair to minority children,Through the past few decades su
ch testing has gone out of fashion and many communties have indeed forbidden it.
However,paradoxically,just recently a group of black parents filed a lawsuit (
诉讼) in California claiming that the state’s ban on IQ testing discriminates ag
ainst their children by denying them the opportunity to take the test,(They bel
ived,correctly,that IQ tests are a valid method of evaluating children for spe
cial education classes.) The judge,thereforce,reversed,at least partially,hi
s original decision.
And so the argument goes on and on,Does it benefit or harm children from minori
ty groups to have their intelligence tested? We have always been on the side of
permitting,even facilitating,such testing,If a child of any color or group is
do
ing poorly in school it seems to us very important to know whether it is because
he or she is of low intelligence,or whether some other factor is the cause.
What school and family can do to improve poor performance is influenced by its c
a
use,It is not discriminative to evaluate either a child’s physical condition or
his intellectual level.
Unfortunately,intellectual level seems to be a sensitive subject,and what the
l
aw allows us to do varies from time to time,The same fluctuation back and forth
occurs in areas other than intelligence,Thirty years or so ago,for instance,
white families were encouraged to adopt black children,It was considered discri
minative not to do so.
And then the style changed and this cross-racial adopting became generally unpop
ular,and social agencies felt that black children should go to black families o
nly,It is hard to say what are the best procedures,But surely good will on the
part of all of us is needed.
As so intelligence,in our opinion,the more we know about any child’s intellect
ual level,the better for the child in question.
31,Why did the intelligence test become unpopular in the past few decade
s?
A) Because its validity was challenged by many communities.
B) Because it was considered discriminative against minority children.
C) Because it met with strong opposition from the majority of black parents.
D) Because it deprived the black children of their rights to a good education.
32,The recent legal action taken by some black parents in California aim
ed to ____.
A) draw public attention to IQ testing
B) put an end to special education
C) remove the state’s ban on intelligence tests
D) have their children enter white schools
33,The author believes that intelligence testing ____.
A) may ease racial confrontation in the United States
B) can encourage black children to keep up with white children
C) may seriously aggravate racial discrimination in the United States
D) can help black parents make decisions about their children’s education
34,The author’s opinion of child adoption seems to be that ____.
A) no rules whatsoever can be prescribed
B) white families should adopt black children
C) adoption should be based on IQ test results
D) cross-racial adoption is to be advocated
35,Child adoption is mentioned in the passage to show that ____.
A) good will may sometimes complicate racial problems
B) social surroundings are vital to the healthy growth of children
C) intelligence testing also applies to to non-academic areas
D) American opinion can shift when it comes to sensitive issues
Passage Four
Questions 36 to 40 are based on the following passage.
Not too many decades ago it seemed,obvious”both to the general public and to
so
ciologists that modern society has changed people’s natural relations,loosened
their responsibilities to kin (亲戚) and neighbors,and substituted in their pla
ce superficial relationships with passing acquaintances,However,in recent years
a growing body of research has revealed that the,obvious”is not ture,It see
ms
that if you are a city resident,you typically know a smaller proportion of your
neighbors than you do if you are a resident of a smaller community,But,for the
most part,this fact has few significant consequences,It does not necessarily
follow that if you know few of your neighbors you will know no one else.
Even in very large cities,people maintain close social ties within small,priva
te social worlds,Indeed,the number and quality of meaningful relationships do
not differ between more and less urban people,Small-town residents are more inv
olved with kin than big-city residents,Yet city dwellers compensate by developi
ng friendships with people who share similar interests and activities,Urbanism
may produce a different style of life,but the quality of life does not diff
er between town and city,Nor are residents of large communities any likelier to
display psychological symptoms of stress or alienation,a feeling of not belong
ing,than are residents of smaller communities,However,city dwellers do worry m
ore about crime,and this leads them to a distrust of strangers.
These findings do not imply that urbanism makes little or no difference,If neig
hbors are strangers to one another,they are less likely to sweep the sidewalk of
an elderly couple living next door or keep an eye out for young trouble makers.
Moreover,as Wirth suggested,there may be a link between a community’s populatio
n size and its social heterogeneity(多样性),For instance,sociologists have fou
nd much evidence that the size of a community is associated with bad behavior i
ncluding gambling,drugs,etc,Large-city urbanites are also more likely than th
eir small-town counterparts to have a cosmopolitan (见多识广者的) outlook,to dis
play less responsibility to traditional kinship roles,to vote for leftist politi
cal candidates,and to be tolerant of nontraditional religious groups,unpopular p
olitical groups,and so-called undesirables,Everything considered,heterogeneity
and unusual behavior seem to be outcomes of large population size.
36,Which of the following statements best describes the organization of
the first paragraph?
A) Two contrasting views are presented.
B) An argument is examined and possible solutions given.
C) Research results concerning the quality of urban life are presented i
n order of time.
D) A detailed description of the difference between urban and small-town
life is given.
37,According to the passage,it was once a common belief that urban resid
ents ____.
A) did not have the same Interests as their neighbors
B) could not develop long-standing relationships
C) tended to be associated with bad behavior
D) usually had more friends
38,One of the consequences of urban life is that impersonal relationship
s among neighbors ____.
A) disrupt people’s natural relations
B) make them worry about crime
C) cause them not to show concern for one another
D) cause them to the suspicious of each other
39,It can be inferred from the passage that the bigger a community is,
____.
A) the better its quality of life
B) the more similar its interests
C) the more tolerant and open-minded it is
D) the likelier it is to display psychological symptoms of stress
40,What is the passage mainly about?
A) Similarities in the interpersonal relationships between urbanites and smal
l-town dwellers.
B) Advantages of living in big cities as compared with living in small towns.
C) The positive role that urbanism plays in modern life.
D) The strong feeling of alienation of city inhabitants.
Part Ⅲ
Vocabulary (20 minutes)
Directions,There are 30 incomplete sentences in this part,For each se
ntence there are four choices marked A),B),C) and D),Choose the ONE answer th
at best completes the sentence,Then mark the corresponding letter on the Answer
Sheet with a single line through the centre.
41,The lady in this strange tale very obviously suffers from a serious i
llness,Her plot against a completely innocent old man is a clear sign of ____.
A) impulse B) insanity C) inspiration
D) disposition
42,The Prime Minister was followed by five or six ____ when he got o
ff the plane.
A) laymenB) servantsC) directorsD) attendants
43,There is no doubt that the ____ of these goods to the others is e
asy to see.
A) prestigeB) superiorityC) priorityD) publicity
44,All the guests were invited to attend the wedding ____ and had a
very good time.
A) feastB) congratulations
C) festivalD) recreation
45,The price of the coal will vary according to how far it has to be tra
nsported and how expensive the freight ____ are.
A) paymentsB) charges
C) fundsD) prices
46,The manager gave her his ____ that her complaint would be investi
gated.
A) assuranceB) assumptionC) sanctionD) insurance
47,Although the model looks good on the surface,it will not bear close
____.
A) temperamentB) contamination
C) scrutinyD) symmetry
48,We are doing this work in the ____ of reforms in the economic,soc
ial and cultural spheres.
A) contextB) contestC) pretextD) texture
49,While a full understanding of what causes the disease may be several
years away,____ leading to a successful treatment could come much sooner.
A) a distinctionB) a breakthroughC) an identificationD) an int
erpretation
50,Doctors are often caught in a ____ because they have to decide w
hether they should tell their patients the truth or not.
A) puzzleB) perplexityC) dilemmaD) bewilderment
51,To ____ important dates in history,countries create special holi
days.
A) commendB) memorize
C) propagateD) commemorate
52,His successful negotiations with the Americans helped him to ____
his position in the government.
A) contriveB) consolidate
C) heaveD) intensify
53,Please do not be ____ by his offensive remaks since he is merely
trying to attraat attention.
A) distractedB) disregarded
C) irritatedD) intervened
54,Once you get to know your mistakes you should ____ them as soon a
s possible.
A) rectifyB) reclaim
C) refrainD) reckon
55,He wouldn’t answer the reporters’ questions nor would he ____ for a ph
otograph.
A) summonB) highlight
C) poseD) marshal
56,The club will ____ new members the first week in September.
A) enrollB) subscribe
C) absorbD) register
57,If you don’t ____ the children properly,Mr,Chiver,they’ll just r
un riot.
A) mobilizeB) warrant
C) manipulateD) supervise
58,Already the class is ____ about who our new teacher will be.
A) foreseeingB) speculating
C) fabricatingD) contemplating
59,We should ____ our energy and youth to the development of our cou
ntry.
A) dedicateB) cater
C) ascribeD) cling
60,Just because I’m ____ to him,my boss thinks he can order me arou
nd without showing me any respect.
A) redundantB) trivial
C) versatileD) subordinate
61,Many scientists remain ____ about the value of this research prog
ram.
A) scepticalB) stationary
C) spaciousD) specific
62,Depression is often caused by the ____ effects of stress and ov
erwork.
A) totalB) increased
C) terrificD) cumulative
63,A human’s eyesight is not as ____ as that of an eagle.
A) eccentricB) acute
C) sensibleD) sensitive
64,It is ____ that women should be paid less than men for doing the
same kind of work.
A) abruptB) absurd
C) adverseD) addictive
65,Shoes of this kind are ____ to slip on wet ground.
A) feasibleB) appropriate
C) aptD) fitting
66,We’ll be very careful and keep what you’ve told us strictly ____.
A) rigorousB) confidential
C) privateD) mysterious
67,The members of Parliament were ____ that the government had not
consulted them.
A) impatientB) tolerant
C) crudeD) indignant
68,Some American colleges are state-supported,others are privately ____,and still others are supported by religious organizations.
A) ensuredB) attributed
C) authorizedD) endowed
69,The prison guards were armed and ready to shoot if ____ in any w
ay.
A) intervenedB) incurred
C) provokedD) poked
70,Many pure metals have little use because they are too soft,rust too
easily,or have some other ____.
A) drawbacksB) handicaps
C) bruisesD) blunders
试卷二
Part Ⅳ
Error Correction (15 minutes)
Directions,This part consists of a short passage,In this passage,there are altoghether 10 mistakes,one in each numbered line,You may have to change a word,add a word or delete a word,Mark out the mistakes and put the corrections in the blanks provided,If you change a word,cross it out and write the correct word in the corresponding blank,If you add a word,put an insertion mark (∧) in the right place and write the missing word in the blank,If you delete a word,cross it out and put a slash (／) in the blank.
Example：
〖DZ(22，6〗Television is rapidly becoming the literature of our periods[KG-1]/,Many of the arguments having[KG-1]/ [KG*2]used for the study of literature as a school subject are valid for ∧ study of television.[]
1,____Time/times/period____
2.____/____
3.____the____
Sporting activities are essentially modified forms of hunting behavior,Viewing
biologically,the modern footballer is revealed as a member of a disguised hunti
ng pack,His killing weapon has turned into a harmless football and his prey int
o a goal-mouth,If his aim is inaccurate and he scores a goal,enjoys the hunter
’s triumph of killing his prey.
To understand how this transformation has taken place we must briefly look up at
our ancient ancestors,They spent over a million year evoloving as cooperat
ive hunters,Their very survival depended on success in the hunting-field,Unde
r this pressure their whole way of life,even if their bodies,became radically
changed,They became chasers,runners,jumpers,aimers,throwers and prey-killer
s,They cooperate as skillful male-group attackers.
Then,about ten thousand years ago,when this immensely long formative period of
hunting for food,they became farmers,Their improved intelligence,so vital to
their old hunting life,were put to a new use—that of penning (把……关中圈中)
，controlling and domesticating their prey,[JP+4]The food was there on the farms,awaiting their needs,The risks and uncertainties of farming were no longer essenti
al for survival.[JP]〖〗
S1,____
S2,____
S3,____
S4,____
S5,____
S6,____
S7,____
S8,____
S9,____
S10,____
Part Ⅴ
Writing (30 minutes)
Directions,For this part,you are allowed thirty minutes to write a composition on the topic,A Letter to the University President about the Cant
een Service on Campus,You should write at leats 150 words,and base your composition on the outline given in Chinese below:
假设你是李明，请你就本校食堂的状况写一封信，内容应涉及食堂的饭菜质量、价格、环境、服务等，可以是表扬，可以是批评建议，也可以兼而有之。
〖JY〗January 12 th,2002
Dear Mr,President,
____
____
____
____
____
____
Part Two 试卷部分
2001年6月
大学英语六级考试历年全真试卷
试卷一
Part Ⅰ
Listening Comprehension(20 minutes)
Section A
Directions,In this section,you will hear 10 short conversations,At t
he end of each conversation,a question will be asked about what was said,both
the conversation and the question will be spoken only once,After each question
there will be a pause,During the pause,you must read the four choices marked A),B),C) and D),And decide which is the best answer,Then mark the correspond
ing letter on the Answer Sheet with a single line through the centre.
Example:You will hear:
You will read,
A) 2 hours,B) 3 hours,C) 4 hours.
D) 5 hours,
From the conversation,we know that the two were talking about some work they wi
ll start at 9’ o’clock in the morning and have to finish at 2 in the afternoon,
Therefore,D),5 hours” is the correct answer,You should choose ［D］ on the
Answer Sheet and mark it with a single line through the centre, Sample Answer ［A］ ［B］ ［C］ ［D］[KG-4.5mm]—[FK)]
1,A) He will tell Mary how to operate the dishwasher,B)
He will wash the dishes himself instead.
C) He will help Bill to translate the manual.
D) He himself will operate the dishwasher.
2,A) Lose weight.
B) Quit smoking.
C) Weigh himself frequently.
D) Have a talk with the doctor.
3,A) The woman should have complained to her neighbor.
B) The woman should stay out until the neighbors are quiet.
C) The woman should have stayed at the library.
D) The lab will be a better place for reading.
4,A) Check the figures later today.
B) Do the calculations again tomorrow.
C) Bring a calculator tomorrow.
D) Calculate the number right now.
5,A) She doesn’t remember much about the city.
B) She’s never been to the city.
C) She would find someone else to help.
D) She would talk to the man later.
6,A) She thinks the man should have helped earlier.
B) She doesn’t need the man’s help.
C) She doesn’t know the boxes are heavy.
D) She wants the man to help with the boxes.
7,A) She let the man use her books for the weekend.
B) She brought the books the man asked for.
C) She borrowed the books from the man.
D) She offered to help the man.
8,A) She’d like to have the windows open.
B) She likes to have the air conditioner on.
C) The air is heavily polluted.
D) The windows are already open.
9,A) He’s going to visit a photo studio.
B) He’s just had his picture taken.
C) He’s on the way to the theater.
D) He’s just returned from a job interview.
10,A) At a gas station.
B) In a park.
C) In an emergency room.
D) At a garage.
Section B
Directions:In this section,you will hear 3 short passages,At the end o
f each passage you will hear some questions,Both the passage and the questions
will be spoken only once,After you hear a question,you must choose the best an
swer from the four choices marked A),B),C) and D),Then mark the corresponding
letter on the Answer Sheet with a single line through the centre.
Passage One
Questions 11 to 13 are based on the passage you have just heard.
11,A) One sixth of them are seriously polluted.
B) One third of them are seriously polluted.
C) Half of them are seriously polluted.
D) Most of them are seriously polluted.
12,A) There was no garbage left to clean up.
B) There was more garbage than before and they had to work harder.
C) The river had become so clean that a lot of water-birds came back.
D) The river was much cleaner and they had to search for garbage.
13,A) Most of them would be indifferent and keep on throwing gar
bage into the river.
B) They would join the students in changing the situation.
C) They would become more aware of the pollution problem.
D) They would think twice before they went swimming or fishing in the riv
er.
Passage Two
Questions 14 to 17 are based on the passage you have just heard.
14,A) Why people hold back their tears.
B) Why people cry.
C) How to restrain one’s tears.
D) How tears are produced.
15,A) What chemicals tears are composed of.
B) Whether crying really helps us feel better.
C) Why some people tend to cry more often than others.
D) How tears help people cope with emotional problems.
16,A) Only one out of four girls cries less often than boys.
B) Of four boys,only one cries very often.
C) Girls cry four times as often as boys.
D) Only one out of four babies doesn’t cry often.
17,A) Only humans respond to emotions by shedding tears.
B) Only humans shed tears to get rid of irritating stuff in their eyes.
C) Only human tears can resist the invading bacteria.
D) Only human tears can discharge certain chemicals.
Passage Three
Questions 18 to 20 are based on the passage you have just heard.
18,A) They make decisions by tossing coins.
B) They are not physically separated.
C) They think exactly the same way.
D) They share most of their vital organs.
19,A) Few of them can live long.
B) Few of them get along well with each other.
C) Most of them live a normal life.
D) Most of them differ in their likes and dislikes,
20,A) They go to a regular school.
B) They attend a special school.
C) They are taught by their parents.
D) They have a private tutor.
Part Ⅱ
Reading Comprehension (35 minutes)
Directions:There are 4 passages in this part,Each passage is followed b
y some questions or unfinished statements,For each of them there are four choi
ces marked A),B),C) and D),You should decide on the best choice and mark the
corresponding letter on the Answer Sheet with a single line through the centre.
Passage One
Questions 21 to 25 are based on the following passage.
Our culture has caused most Americans to assume not only that our language is un
iversal but that the gestures we use are understood by everyone,We do not reali
ze that waving goodbye is the way to summon a person from the Philippines to one
’s side,or that in Italy and some Latin-American countries.Curling the finger t
o oneself is a sign of farewell.
Those private citizens who sent packages to our troops occupying Germany after W
orld War and masked them GIFT to escape duty payments did not bother to find out
that,Gift” means poison in German,Moreover,we like to think of ourselves a
s friendly,yet we prefer to be at least 3 feet or an arm’s length away from oth
ers,Latins and Middle Easterners like to come closer and touch,which makes Ame
ricans uncomfortable.
Our linguistic (语言上的) cultural blindness and the casualness with which we ta
ke notice of the developed tastes,gestures,customs and languages of other coun
tries are losing us friends,business and respect in the world.
Even here in the United States,we make few concessions to the needs of foreign
visitors,There are no information signs in four languages on our public buildin
gs or monuments; we do not have multilingual(多语言的)guided tours,Very few res
taurant menus have translations,and multilingual waiters,bank clerks and polic
emen are rare,Our transportation systems have maps in English only and often we
ourselves have difficulty understanding them.
When we go abroad,we tend to cluster in hotels and restaurants where English is
spoken,Then attitudes and information we pick up are conditioned by those nati
ves,usually the richer,who speak English,Our business dealings,as well as th
e nation’s diplomacy,are conducted through interpreters.
For many years,America and Americans could get by with cultural blindness and l
inguistic ignorance,After all,America was the most powerful country of the fre
e world,the distributor of needed funds and goods,
But all that is past,American dollars no longer buy all good things,and we are
slowly beginning to realize that our proper role in the world is changing,A 19
79 Harris poll reportd that 55 percent of American want this country to play a m
ore significant role in world affairs; we want to have a hand in the important d
ecisions of the next century,even though it may not always the upper hand.
21,It can be inferred that Americans being approached too closely by Mid
dle Easterners would most probably ____.
A) stand stillB) jump aside
C) step forwardD) draw back
22,The author gives many examples to criticize Americans for their ____.
A) cultural self-centeredness
B) casual manners
C) indifference towards foreign visitors
D) arrogance towards other cultures
23,In countries other than their own most Americans ____.
A) are isolated by the local people
B) are not well informed due to the language barrier
C) tend to get along well with the natives
D)need interpreters in hotels and restaurants
24,According to the author,Americans’ cultural blindness and linguistic
ignorance will ____.
A) affect their image in the new era
B) cut themselves off from the outside world
C) limit their role in world affairs
D) weaken the position of the US dollar
25,The author’s intention in writing this article is to make Americans r
ealize that ____.
A) it is dangerous to ignore their foreign friends
B) it is important to maintain their leading role in world affairs
C) it is necessary to use several languages in public places
D) it is time to get acquainted with other cultures
Passage Two
Questions 26 to 30 are based on the following passage.
In department stores and closets all over the world,they are waiting,Their out
ward appearance seems rather appealing because they come in a variety of styles,
textures,and colors,But they are ultimately the biggest deception that exists
in the fashion industry today,What are they? They are high heels—a woman’s wo
rst enemy (whether she knows it or not),High heel shoes are the downfall of mo
dern society,Fashion myths have led women society,Fashion myths have led women
to believe that they are more beautiful or sophisticated for wearing heels,but
in reality,heels succeed in posing short as well as long term hardships,Women
should fight the high heel industry by refusing to use or purchase them in orde
r to save the world from unnecessary physical and psychological suffering.
For the sake of fairness,It must be noted that there is a positive side to high
heels,First,heels are excellent for aerating(使通气)lawns,Anyone who has eve
r worn heels on grass knows what I am talking about,A simple trip around the ya
rd in a pair of those babies eliminates all need to call for a lawn care special
ist,and provides the perfect-sized holes to give any lawn oxygen without all th
ose messy chunks of dirt lying around,Second,heels are quite functional for de
fense sharp,deadly fashion accessories.
Regardless of such practical uses for heels,the fact remains that wearing high
heels is harmful to one’s physical health,Talk to any podiatrist (足病医生),an
d you will hear that the majority of their business comes from high-heel-wearing
women,High heels are known to cause problems such as deformed feet and torn to
enails,The risk of severe back problems and twisted or broken ankles is three t
imes higher for a flat shoe wearer,Wearing heels also creates the threat of get
ting a heel caught in a sidewalk crack or a sewer-grate (阴沟栅)and being throw
n to the ground-possibly breaking a nose,back,or neck,And of course,after we
aring heels for a day,any woman knows she can look forward to a night of pain a
s she tries to comfort her swollen,aching feet.
26,What makes women blind to the deceptive nature of high heels?
A) The multi-functional use of high heels.
B) Their attempt to show off their status.
C) The rich variety of high heel styles.
D) Their wish to improve their appearance.
27,The author’s presentation of the positive side of high heels is meant
____.
A) to be ironic
B) to poke fun at women
C) to be fair to the fashion industry
D) to make his point convincing
28,The author uses the expression,those babies” (Line 3,Para,2) to
refer to high heels ____.
A) to show their fragile characteristics
B) to indicate their feminine features
C) to show women’s affection for them
D) to emphasize their small size
29,The author’s chief argument against high heels is that ____.
A) they pose a threat to lawns
B) they are injurious to women’s health
C) they don’t necessarily make women beautiful
D) they are ineffective as a weapon of defense
30,It can be inferred from the passage that women should ____.
A) see through the very nature of fashion myths
B) boycott the products of the fashion industry
C) go to a podiatrist regularly for advice
D) avoid following fashion too closely
Passage Three
Questions 31 to 35 are based on the following passage.
It is hardly necessary for me to cite all the evidence of the depressing state o
f literacy,These figures from the Department of Education are sufficient 27 mi
llion Americans cannot read at all,and a further 35 million read at a level tha
t is less than sufficient to survive in our society.
But my own worry today is less that of the overwhelming problem of elemental li
teracy than it is of the slightly more luxurious problem of the decline in the s
kill even of the middle - class reader,of his unwillingness to afford those spa
ces of silence,those luxuries of domesticity and time and concentration,that s
urround the image of the classic act of reading,It has been suggested that almo
st 80 percent of America’s literate,educated teenagers can no longer read witho
ut an accompanying noise(music)in the background or a television screen flickeri
ng (闪烁) at the corner of their field of perception,We know very little about
the brain and how it deals with simultaneous conflicting input,but every common
-sense intuition suggests we should be profoundly alarmed,This violation of con
centration,silence,solitude (独处的状态)goes to the very heart of our notion o
f literacy; this new form of part-reading,of part-perception against background
distraction,renders impossible certain essential acts of apprehension and conc
entration,let alone that most important tribute any human being can pay to a po
em or a piece of prose he or she really loves,which is to learn it by heart,No
t by brain,by heart; the expression is vital.
Under these circumstances,the question of what future there is for the arts of
reading is a real one,Ahead of us lie technical,psychic (心理的),and social t
ransformations probably much more dramatic than those brought about by Gutenberg
,the German inventor in printing,The Gutenberg revolution,as we now know it,
took a long time; its effects are still being debated,The information revolutio
n will touch every fact of composition,publication distribution,and reading,
No one in the book industry can say with any confidence what will happen to the
book as we’ve known it.
31,The picture of the reading ability of the American people,drawn by
the author,is ____.
A) rather bleakB) fairly bright
C) very impressiveD) quite encouraging
32,The author’s biggest concern is ____.
A) elementary school children’s disinterest in reading classics
B) the surprisingly low rate of literacy in the U.S.
C) the musical setting American readers require for reading
D) the reading ability and reading behavior of the middle class
33,A major problem with most adolescents who can read is ____.
A) their fondness of music and TV programs
B) their ignorance of various forms of art and literature
C) their lack of attentiveness and basic understanding
D) their inability focus on conflicting input
34,The author claims that the best way a reader can show admiration for
a piece of poetry or prose is ____.
A) to be able to appreciate it and memorize it
B) to analyze its essential feature
C) to think it over conscientiously
D) to make a fair appraisal of its artistic value
35,About the future of the arts of reading the author feels ____.
A) upsetB) uncertain
C) alarmedD) pessimistic
Passage Four
Questions 36 to 40 are based on the following passage.
For centuries,explorers have risked their lives venturing into the unknown for
reasons that were to varying degrees economic and nationalistic,Columbus went w
est to look for better trade routes to the Orient and to promote the greater glo
ry of Spain,Lewis and Clark journeyed into the Amierican wilderness to find out
what the U.S had acquired when it purchased Louisianan,and the Appolo astrona
uts rocketed to the moon in a dramatic show of technological muscle during the c
old war.
Although their missions blended commercial and political -military imperatives,
the explorers involved all accomplished some significant science simply by goin
g where no scientists had gone before,Today Mars looms(隐约出现)as humanity’s n
ext great terra incognita(未探明之地),And with doubtful prospects for a short-t
erm financial return,with the cold War a rapidly fading memory and amid a growi
ng emphasis on international cooperation in large space ventures,it is clear th
at imperatives other than profits or Nationalism will have to compel human beings to leave their tracks on the plane
t’s reddish surface,Could it be that science,which has long played a minor tol
e in exploration,is at last destined to take a leading role? The question natur
ally invites a couple of others,Are there experiments that only human could do
on Mars? Could those experiments provide insights profound enough to justify the
expense of sending people across interplanetary space?
With Mars the scientific stakes are arguably higher than they have ever been,Th
e issue of whether life ever existed on the planet,and whether it persists to t
his day,has heen highlighted by mounting evidence that the Red Planet once had
ahundant stable,liquid water and by the continuing controversy over suggestions
that bacterial fossils rode to Earth on a meteorite(损石) from Mars,A more co
nclusive answer about life on Mars,past or present,would give researchers inva
luable data about the range of conditions under which a planet can generate the
complex chemistry that leads to life,If it could be established that life arose
independently on Mars and Earth,the finding would provide the first concrete c
lues in one of the deepest mysteries in all of science,the prevalence of life i
n the universe.
36,According to the passage,the chief purpose of explorers in going to
unknown places in the past was ____.
A) to display their country’s military might
B) to accomplish some significant science
C) to find new areas for colonization
D) to pursue commercial and state interests
37,At present,a probable inducement for countries to initiate large-sca
le space ventures is ____.
A) international cooperation
B) nationalistic reasons
C) scientific research
D) long-term profits
38,What is the main goal of sending human missions to Mars?
A) To find out if life ever existed there.
B) To see if humans could survive there.
C) To prove the feasibility of large-scale space ventures.
D) To show the leading role of science in space exploration.
39,By saying,With Mars the scientific stakes are arguably higher than
they have ever been” (Line 1,Para 3),the author means that ____.
A) with Mars the risks involved are much greater than any previous spac
e ventures
B) in the case of Mars,the rewards of scientific exploration can be very hig
h
C) in the case of Mars,much more research funds are needed than ever before
D) with Mars scientists argue,the fundamental interests of science are at is
sue
40,The passage tells us that proof of life on Mars would ____.
A) make clear the complex chemistry in the development of life
B) confirm the suggestion that bacterial fossils travelled to Earth on a
meteorite
C) reveal the kind of conditions under which life originates
D) provide an explanation why life is common in the universe
Part Ⅲ
Vocabulary (20 minutes)
Directions:There are 30 incomplete sentences in the part,For each sen
tence there are four choices marked A),B ),C) and D),Choose the ONE answer th
at best completes the Sentence,Then mark the corresponding letter on the Answer
Sheet with a single line through the centre.
41,If you want this painkiller,you’ll have to ask the doctor for a 〖CD
#3〗.
A) transaction B) permit C) settlement
D) prescription
42,The ____ from childhood to adulthood is always critical time for
everybody.
A) conversionB) transition
C) turnoverD) transformation
43,It is hard to tell whether we are going to have a boom in the economy
era ____.
A) concessionB) recession
C) submissionD) transmission
44,His use of color,light and form quickly departed from the convention
al style of his,as ____,he developed technique.
A) descendantsB) predecessors
C)successorsD) ancestors
45,Failure in a required subject may result in the ____ of a diplom
a.
A) refusalB) betrayal
C) denialD) burial
46,To help students understand how we see,teachers often draw an 〖CD#3
〗 between an eye and a camera.
A) imageB) analogy
C) denialD) axis
47,A 1994 World Bank report concluded that ____ girls in school was
probably the single most effective anti-poverty policy in the developing world t
oday.
A) assigningB) admitting
C) involvingD) enrolling
48,The authority of report is well ____ with the problems in the hos
pital because he has been working there for many years.
A) acquaintedB) informed
C) accustomedD) know
49,When the farmers visited the city the first time,they were ____
by its complicated traffic system.
A) precludesB) bewildered
C) divertedD) expires
50,If Japan ____ its relation with that country it will have to fin
d another supplier of raw materials.
A) precludesB) terminates
C) partitionsD) expires
51,They were ____ in their scientific research,not knowing what ha
ppened just outside their lab.
A) submergedB) drowned
C) immersedD) dipped
52,You should ____ to one or more weekly magazines such as Time,or
Newsweek.
A) ascribeB) order
C) reclaimD) subscribe
53,The automatic doors in supermarkets ____ the entry and exit of c
ustomers with shopping carts.
A) furnishB) induce
C) facilitateD) allocate
54,Each workday,the workers followed the same schedules and rarely 〖CD
#
3〗from this routine.
A) deviatedB) disconnected
C) detachedD) distorted
55,The little girl was ____ by the death of her dog since her affect
ion for the pet had been real and deep.
A) grievedB) suppressed
C) oppressedD) sustained
56,A visitor to a museum today would notice ____ changes in the way
museums are operated.
A) cognitiveB) rigorous
C) conspicuousD) exclusive
57,Most people tend to think they are so efficient at their job that the
y are ____.
A) inaccessibleB) irreversible
C) immovableD) irreplaceable
58,Being impatient is ____ with being a good teacher.
A) intrinsicB) ingenious
C) incompatibleD) inherent
59,For a particular reason,he wanted the information to be treated as
____.
A) assuredB) reserved
C) intimateD) confidential
60,Fortune-tellers are good at marking ____ statements such as,You
r sorrows will change.”
A) philosophicalB) ambiguous
C) literalD) invalid
61,The tenant mush be prepared to decorate the house ____ the term of the contract.
A) in the vicinity ofB) in quest of
C) in accordance withD) in collaboration with
62,The winners of the football championship ran off the field carrying t
he silver cup ____.
A) turbulentlyB) tremendiouly
C) triumphantlyD) tentatively
63,He said that they had ____ been obliged to give up the scheme fo
r lack of support.
A) gravelyB) regrettably
C) forciblyD) graciously
64,The law on drinking and driving is ____ stated.
A) extravagantlyB) empirically
C) exceptionallyD) explicitly
65,The accounts to damages have not been convincingly ____ stated.
A) refutedB) overwhelmed
C) repressedD) intimidated
66,Please don’t ____ too much on the painful memories,Everything wi
ll be all right.
A) hesitateB) linger
C) retainD) dwell
67,The jobs of wildlife technicians and biologists seemed ____ to hi
m,but one day he discovered their difference.
A) identicalB) vertical
C) parallelD) specific
68,Mary became ____ homesick and critical of the United States,so
she fled from her home in west Bloomfield to her hometown in Austria.
A) completelyB) sincerely
C) absolutelyD) increasingly
69,Despite almost universal ____ of the vital importance of women’t
lite
racy,education remains a dream for far many women in far too many countries of
the world.
A) identification
B) compliment
C) confession
D) acknowledgement
70,In today’s medical,little agreement exists on the ____ for defi
ning mental illness.
A) legislationB) requirement
C) criteriaD) measures
试卷二
Part Ⅳ
Error Correction (15 mimutes)
Directions,This part consists of a short passage,In this passage,there are altogether 10 mistakes,one in each numbered line,You may have to change a word,add a word or delete a word,Mark out the mistakes and put the correc
tions in the blanks provided,If you change a word,cross it out and write the c
orrect word in the corresponding blank,If you add a word,put an insertion mark
(∧) in the right place and write the missing word in the blank,If you delete a
word,cross it out and put a slash (/) in the blank.
Example：
Television is rapidly becoming the literature of our periods[KG-1]/,Many of the arguments having[KG-1]/ [KG*2]used for the study of literature as a school subject are valid for ∧ study of television.[]
1,____Time/times/period____
2.____/____
3.____the____
More people die of tuberculosis (结核病)than of any other disease caused by a si
ngle agent,This has probably been the case in quite a while,During the early s
tages of the industrial revolution,perhaps one in every seventh deaths in Europ
e’s crowded cities were caused by the disease,From now on,though,western eyes
,missing the global picture,saw the trouble going into decline,With occasiona
l breaks for war,the rates of death and infection in the Europe and America dro
pped steadily through the 19th and 20th centuries,In the 1950s,the introductio
n of antibiotics (抗菌素) strengthened the trend in rich countries,and the anti
biotics were allowed to be imported to poor countries,Medical researchers decla
red victory and withdrew.
They are wrong,In the Mid-1980s the frequency of infections and deaths started
to pick up again around the world,Where tuberculosis vanished,it came back; in
many places where it had never been away,it grew better,The World Health Orga
nization estimates that 1.7 billion people (a third of the earth’s population) s
uffer from tuberculosis,Even when the infection rate was falling population gro
wth kept the number of clinical cases more or less constantly at 8 million a yea
r,Around 3 million of those people died,nearly all of them in poor countries.
71,____
72,____
73,____
74,____
75,____
76,____
77,____
78,____
79,____
80,____
Part Ⅴ
Writing (30 minutes)
Directions,For this part,your are allowed thirty minutes to write a let
ter,Suppose you are Zhang Ying,write a letter to Xiao Wang,a schoolmate of yo
urs who is going to visit you during the week-long holiday,You should write at
least 150 words according to the suggestions given below in Chinese.
1.表示欢迎
2.提出对度假安排的建议
3.提醒应注意的事项。
A Letter to a Schoolmate
____
____
____
____
____
Part Two 试卷部分
2001年1月
大学英语六级考试历年全真试卷
试卷一
Part Ⅰ
Listening Comprehension(20 minutes)
Section A
Directions:In this section,you will hear 10 short conversations,
At the end of each conversation,a question will be asked about what was said,B
oth the conversation and the question will be spoken only once,After each quest
ion there will be a pause,During the pause,you must read the four choices mark
ed A),B),C),and D),and decide which is the best answer,Then mark the corres
ponding letter on the Answer Sheet with a single line through the centre.
Example:You will hear:
You will read,
A) 2 hours,B) 3 hours,
C) 4 hours,D) 5 hours,
From the conversation,we know that the two were talking about some work they
will start at 9 o’clock in the morning and have to finish at 2 in the afternoon
,Therefore,D),5 hours” is the correct answer,You should choose ［D］ on th
e Answer Sheet and mark it with a single line through the centre,
[JY,3] Sample Answer ［A］ ［B］ ［C］ ［D］[KG-4.5mm]—[FK)]
1.A)The man thinks travelling by air is quite safe,B)The woman never t
ravels by plane.
C)Both speakers feel nervous when flying.D)The speakers feel sad about the
serious loss of life.
2.A)At the information desk.B)In an office.
C)In a restaurant.D)At a railway station.
3.A)Write the letter.B)Paint the shelf.
C)Fix the shelf.D)Look for the pen.
4.A)It gives a 30% discount to all customers.B)It is run by Mrs,Win
ter’s husband.
C)It hires Mrs,Winter as an adviser.D)It encourages husbands to shop on
their own.
5.A)Long exposure to the sun.B)Lack of sleep.
C)Too tight a hat.D)Long working hours.
6.A)His English is still poor after ten years in America.B)He doesn’t
mind speaking English with an accent.
C)He doesn’t like the way Americans speak.D)He speaks English as if he were
a native speaker.
7.A)An auto mechanic.B)An electrician.
C)A carpenter.D)A telephone repairman.
8.A)They both enjoyed watching the game.
B)The man thought the results were beyond their expectations.
C)They both felt good about the results of the game.
D)People were surprised at their winning the game.
9.A)Manager and employee.B)Salesman and customer.
C)Guide and tourist.D)Professor and student.
10.A)Tom has arranged a surprise party for Lucy.
B)Tom will keep the surprise party a secret.
C)Tom and Lucy have no secrets from each other.
D)Tom didn’t make any promise to Lucy.
Section B Compound Dictation
注意：听力理解的B节(Section B)为复合式听写(Compound Dictation)，题目在试卷二上。现在请取出试卷二。
Part Ⅱ
Reading Comprehension (35 minutes)
Directions,There are four passages in this part,Each passage is
followed by some questions or unfinished statements,For each of them there are
four choices marked A),B),C) and D),You should decide on the best choice and
mark the corresponding letter on the Answer Sheet with a single line through the
centre.
Passage One
Questions 11 to 15 are based on the following passage.
Birds that are literally halfasleep—with one brain hemisphere alert and the o
ther sleeping—control which side of the brain remains awake,according to a new
study of sleeping ducks.
Earlier studies have documented halfbrain sleep in a wide range of birds,The
brain hemispheres take turns sinking into the sleep stage characterized by slow
brain waves,The eye controlled by the sleeping hemisphere keeps shut,while the
wakeful hemisphere’s eyes stays open and alert.Birds also can sleep with both he
mispheres resting at once.
Decades of studies of bird flocks led researchers to predict extra alertness in
the more vulnerable,endoftherow sleepers,Sure enough,the end birds tend
ed to watch carefully on the side away from their companions.Ducks in the inner
spots showed no preference for gaze direction.
Also,birds dozing (打盹) at the end of the line resorted to singlehemisphe
re sleep,rather than total relaxation,more often than inner ducks did,Rotatin
g 16 birds through the positions in a fourduck row,the researchers found outer
birds halfasleep during some 32 percent of dozing time versus about 12 percen
t for birds in internal spots.
“We believe this is the first evidence for an animal behaviorally controlling s
leep and wakefulness simultaneously in different regions of the brain,” the rese
archers say.
The results provide the best evidence for a longstanding supposition that sing
lehemisphere sleep evolved as creatures scanned for enemies,The preference fo
r opening an eye on the lookout side could be widespread,he predicts,He’s seen
it in a pair of birds dozing sidebyside in the zoo and in a single pet bird
sleeping by a mirror,The mirrorside eye closed as if the reflection were a c
ompanion and the other eye stayed open.
Useful as halfsleeping might be,it’s only been found in birds and such water
mammals(哺乳动物) as dolphins,whales,and seals,Perhaps keeping one side o
f the brain awake allows a sleeping animal to surface occasionally to avoid drow
ning.
Studies of birds may offer unique insights into sleep.Jerome M.Siegel of the UCL
A says he wonders if birds’halfbrain sleep,is just the tip of the iceberg
(冰山).” He speculates that more examples may turn up when we take a closer l
ook at other species.
11.A new study on birds’ sleep has revealed that ____.
A)halfbrain sleep is found in a wide variety of birds
B)halfbrain sleep is characterized by slow brain waves
C)birds can control their halfbrain sleep consciously
D)birds seldom sleep with the whole of their brain at rest
12.According to the passage,birds often half sleep because ____.
A)they have to watch out for possible attacks
B)their brain hemispheres take turns to rest
C)the two halves of their brain are differently structured
D)they have to constantly keep an eye on their companions
13.The example of a bird sleeping in front of a mirror indicates that [CD#3
].
A)the phenomenon of birds dozing in pairs is widespread
B)birds prefer to sleep in pairs for the sake of security
C)even an imagined companion gives the bird a sense of security
D)a single pet bird enjoys seeing its reflection in the mirror
14.While sleeping,some water mammals tend to keep half awake in order to [C
D#3].
A)alert themselves to the approaching enemy
B)emerge from water now and then to breathe
C)be sensitive to the everchanging environment
D)avoid being swept away by rapid currents
15.By,just the tip of the iceberg”(Line 2,Para,8),Siegel suggests that
____.
A)halfbrain sleep has something to do with icy weather
B)the mystery of halfbrain sleep is close to being solved
C)most birds living in cold regions tend to be half sleepers
D)halfbrain sleep is a phenomenon that could exist among other species[ZK
)]
Passage Two
Questions 16 to 20 are based on the following passage.
A nineyearold schoolgirl singlehandedly cooks up a sciencefair experimen
t that ends up debunking (揭穿…的真相) a widely practiced medical treatment
,Emily Rosa’s target was a practice known as therapeutic (治疗的) touch (TT for
short),whose advocates manipulate patients,energy field” to make them feel
better and even,say some,to cure them of various ills,Yet Emily’s test shows
that these energy fields can’t be detected,even by trained TT practitioners (行医者),Obviously mindful of the publicity value of the situation,Journal ed
itor George Lundberg appeared on TV to declare,“Age doesn’t matter,It’s good s
cience that matters,and this is good science.”
Emily’s mother Linda Rosa,a registered nurse,has been campaigning against TT f
or nearly a decade.Linda first thought about TT in the late ’80s,when she learn
ed it was on the approved list for continuing nursing education in Colorado.Its
100,000 trained practitioners (48,000 in the U.S.) don’t even touch their patien
ts,Instead,they waved their hands a few inches from the patient’s body,pushing
energy fields around until they’re in,balance.” TT advocates say these manipul
ations can help heal wounds,relieve pain and reduce fever,The claims are taken
seriously enough that TT therapists are frequently hired by leading hospitals,
at up to $70 an hour,to smooth patients’ energy,sometimes during surgery.
Yet Rosa could not find any evidence that it works,To provide such proof,TT th
erapists would have to sit down for independent testing—something they haven’t
been eager to do,even though James Randi has offered more than $1 million to an
yone who can demonstrate the existence of a human energy field,(He’s had one ta
ker so far,She failed.) A skeptic might conclude that TT practitioners are afra
id to lay their beliefs on the line.But who could turn down an innocent fourth
grader? Says Emily:“I think they didn’t take me very seriously because I’m a ki
d.”
The experiment was straightforward:21 TT therapists stuck their hands,palms up,
through a screen,Emily held her own hand over one of theirs—left or right—an
d the practitioners had to say which hand it was.When the results were recorded,
they’d done no better than they would have by simply guessing,If there was an
energy field,they couldn’t feel it.
16.Which of the following is evidence that TT is widely practiced?
A)TT has been in existence for decades.
B)Many patients were cured by therapeutic touch.
C)TT therapists are often employed by leading hospitals.
D)More than 100,000 people are undergoing TT treatment.
17.Very few TT practitioners responded to the $ 1 million offer because____.
A)they didn’t take the offer seriously
B)they didn’t want to risk their career
C)they were unwilling to reveal their secret
D)they thought it was not in line with their practice
18.The purpose of Emily Rosa’s experiment was ____.
A)to see why TT could work the way it did
B)to find out how TT cured patients’illnesses
C)to test whether she could sense the human energy field
D)to test whether a human energy field really existed
19.Why did some TT practitioners agree to be the subjects of Emily’s experi
ment?
A)It involved nothing more than mere guessing.
B)They thought it was going to be a lot of fun.
C)It was more straightforward than other experiments.
D)They sensed no harm in a little girl’s experiment.
20.What can we learn from the passage?
A)Some widely accepted beliefs can be deceiving.
B)Solid evidence weighs more than pure theories.
C)Little children can be as clever as trained TT practitioners.
D)The principle of TT is too profound to understand.
Passage Three
Questions 21 to 25 are based on the following passage.
What might driving on an automated highway be like?The answer depends on what ki
nd of system is ultimately adopted,Two distinct types are on the drawing board.
The first is a special-purpose lane system,in which certain lanes are reserved
for automated vehicles,The second is a mixed traffic system;fully automated vehi
cles would share the road with partially automated or manually driven cars,A sp
ecialpurpose lane system would require more extensive physical modifications t
o existing highways,but it promises the greatest gains in freeway (高速公路
) capacity.
Under either scheme,the driver would specify the desired destination,furnishin
g this information to a computer in the car at the beginning of the trip or perh
aps just before reaching the automated highway,If a mixed traffic system was in
place,automated driving could begin whenever the driver was on suitably equip
ped roads,If specialpurpose lanes were available,the car could enter them an
d join existing traffic in two different ways,One method would use a special
onramp (入口引道),As the driver approached the point of entry for the highway
,devices installed on the roadside would electronically check the vehicle to de
termine its destination and to ascertain that it had the proper automation equip
ment in good working order,Assuming it passed such tests,the driver would then
be guided through a gate and toward an automated lane,In this case,the transi
tion from manual to automated control would take place on the entrance ramp,An
alternative technique could employ conventional lanes,which would be shared by
automated and regular vehicle would then shift under computer control onto a lan
e reserved for automated traffic,(The limitation of these lanes to automated tr
affic would,presumably,be well respected,because all trespassers (非法进入者) could be swiftly identified by authorities.)
Either approach to joining a lane of automated traffic would harmonize the movem
ent of newly entering vehicles with those already traveling,Automatic control h
ere should allow for smooth merging,without the usual uncertainties and potenti
al for accidents,And once a vehicle had settled into automated travel,the driv
er would be free to release the wheel,open the morning paper or just relax.
21.We learn from the first paragraph that two systems of automated highways
____.
A)are being plannedB)are being modified
C)are now in wide useD)are under construction
22.A specialpurpose lane system is probably advantageous in that ____.
A)it would require only minor changes to existing highways
B)it would achieve the greatest highway traffic efficiency
C)it has a lane for both automated and partially automated vehicles
D)it offers more lanes for automated vehicles
23.Which of the following is true about driving on an automated highway?
A)Vehicles traveling on it are assigned different lanes according to their
destination.
B)A car can join existing traffic any time in a mixed lane system.
C)The driver should inform his car computer of his destination before drivi
ng onto it.
D)The driver should share the automated lane with those of regular vehicles
.
24.We know from the passage that a car can enter a specialpurpose lane ____.
A)by smoothly merging with cars on the conventional lane
B)by way of a ramp with electronic control devices
C)through a specially guarded gate
D)after all trespassers are identified and removed
25.When driving in an automated lane,the driver ____.
A)should harmonize with newly entering carsB)doens’t have to rely on his co
mputer system
C)should watch out for potential accidentsD)doesn’t have to hold on to the
steering wheel
Passage Four
Questions 26 to 30 are based on the following passage.
Taking charge of yourself involves putting to rest some very prevalent myths,As
the top of the list is the notion that intelligence is measured by your ability
to solve complex problems;to read,write and compute at certain levels;and to r
esolve abstract equations quickly.This vision of intelligence asserts formal edu
cation and bookish excellence as the true measures of selffulfillment.It encou
rages a kind of intellectual prejudice that has brought with it some discouragin
g results.We have come to believe that someone who has more educational merit ba
dges,who is very good at some form of school discipline is,intelligent.”Yet me
ntal hospitals are filled with patients who have all of the properly lettered ce
rtificates.A truer indicator of intelligence is an effective,happy life lived ea
ch day and each present moment of every day.
If you are happy,if you live each moment for everything it’s worth,then you are
an intelligent person.Problem solving is a useful help to your happiness,but if
you know that given your inability to resolve a particular concern you can stil
l choose happiness for yourself,or at a minimum refuse to choose unhappiness,th
en you are intelligent.You are intelligent because you have the ultimate weapon
against the big N.B.D.—Nervous Break Down.
“Intelligent” people do not have N.B.D.’s because they are in charge of themsel
ves.They know how to choose happiness over depression,because they know how to d
eal with the problems of their lives.
You can begin to think of yourself as truly intelligent on the basis of how you
choose to feel in the face of trying circumstances.The life struggles are pretty
much the same for each of us.Everyone who is involved with other human beings i
n any social context has similar difficulties.Disagreements,conflicts and compro
mises are a part of what it means to be human.Similarly,money,growing old,sickne
ss,deaths,natural disasters and accidents are all events which present problems
to virtually all human beings.But some people are able to make it,to avoid immo
bilizing depression and unhappiness despite such occurrences,while others collap
se 〖JP3〗or have an N.B.D,Those who recognize problems as a human condition and don’t
measure happiness by an absence of problems are the most intelligent kind of hu
mans we know;also,the most rare.
26.According to the author,the conventional notion of intelligence measured
in terms of one’s ability to read,write and compute ____.
A)is a widely held but wrong concept
B)will help eliminate intellectual prejudice
C)is the root of all mental distress
D)will contribute to one’s selffulfillment
27.It is implied in the passage that holding a university degree____.
A)may result in one’s inability to solve complex reallife problems
B)does not indicate one’s ability to write properly worded documents
C)may make one mentally sick and physically weak
D)does not mean that one is highly intelligent
28.The author thinks that an intelligent person knows ____.
A)how to put up with some very prevalent myths
B)how to find the best way to achieve success in life
C)how to avoid depression and make his life worthwhile
D)how to persuade others to compromise
29.In the last paragraph,the author tells us that ____.
A)difficulties are but part of everyone’s life
B)depression and unhappiness are unavoidable in life
C)everybody should learn to avoid trying circumstances
D)good feelings can contribute to eventual academic excellence
30.According to the passage,what kind of people are rare?
A)Those who don’t emphasize bookish excellence in their pursuit of happines
s.
B)Those who are aware of difficulties in life but know how to avoid unhappi
ness.
C)Those who measure happiness by an absence of problems but seldom suffer f
rom N.B.D.’s.
D)Those who are able to secure happiness though having to struggle against
trying circumstances.
Part Ⅲ
Vocabulary (20 minutes)
Directions,There are 30 incomplete sentences in this part,For each sentence there are four choices marked A),B),C),and D),Choose the ONE that best completes the sentence,Then mark the corresponding letter on the Answer Sheet
with a single line through the centre.
31.Starting with the ____ that there is life on the planet Mars,the scie
ntist went on to develop his argument.
A) premiseB)pretextC)foundation D)presentation
32.After several nuclear disasters,a ____ has rage over the safety of nu
clear energy.
A) quarrelB)suspicionC)verdictD)controversy
33.Their diplomatic principles completely laid bare their ____ for world
conquest.
A) admirationB)ambitionC)administrationD)orientation
34.The director gave me his ____ that he would double my pay if I did my
job well.
A) warrantB)obligationC)assuranceD)certainty
35.The Christmas tree was decorated with shining ____ such as colored lig
hts and glass balls.
A) ornamentsB)luxuriesC)exhibitsD)complements
36.The two most important ____ in making a cake are flour and sugar.
A) elementsB)componentsC)ingredientsD)constituents
37.Cultural ____ indicates that human beings hand their languages down fr
om one generation to another.
A) translationB)transitionC)transmissionD)transaction
38.We must look beyond ____ and assumptions and try to discover what is m
issing.
A) justificationsB)illusionsC)manifestationsD)specification
39.No one imagined that the apparently ____ businessman was really a crim
inal.
A) respectiveB)respectableC)respectfulD)realistic
40.If nothing is done to protect the environment,millions of species that
are alive today will have become ____,
A) deterioratedB)degeneratedC)suppressedD)extinct
41.The ____ of the scientific attitude is that the human mind can succeed
in understanding the universe.
A) essenceB)contentC)textureD)threshold
42.The old lady has developed a ____ cough which cannot be cured complete
ly in a short time.
A) perpetualB)permanentC)chronicD)sustained
43.What the correspondent sent us is an ____ news report.We can depend on
it.
A) evidentB)authenticC)ultimateD)immediate
44.Having had her as a professor and adviser,I can tell you that she is an
____ force who pushes her students to excel far beyond their own expectations
.
A) inspirationalB)educationalC)excessiveD)instantaneous
45.Some researchers feel that certain people have nervous systems particula
rly ____ to hot,dry winds.They are what we call weathersensitive people.
A) subjectiveB)subordinateC)liableD)vulnerable
46.Hurricanes are killer winds,and their ____ power lies in the physical
damage they can do.
A) cumulativeB)destructiveC)turbulentD)prevalent
47.In some countries,students are expected to be quiet and ____ in the cl
assroom.
A) skepticalB)faithfulC)obedientD)subsidiary
48.In spite of the ____ economic forecasts,manfacturing output has risen
slightly.
A) gloomyB)miserableC)shadowyD)obscure
49.Body paint or face paint is used mostly by men in preliterate societie
s in order to attract good health or to ____ disease.
A) set asideB)ward offC)shrug offD)give away
50.The international situation has been growing ____ difficult for the la
st few years.
A) invariablyB)presumablyC)increasinglyD)dominantly
51.The prisoner was ____ of his civil liberty for three years.
A) dischargedB)derivedC)deprivedD)dispatched
52.Small farms and the lack of modern technology have ____ agricultural p
roduction.
A) blunderedB)tangledC)bewilderedD)hampered
53.The Japanese scientists have found that scents ____ efficiency and red
uce stress among office workers.
A) enhanceB)amplifyC)fosterD)magnify
54.All the students have to ____ to the rules and regulations of the scho
ol.
A) confirmB)confrontC)confineD)conform
55.He ____ his head,wondering how to solve the problem.
A) scrappedB)screwedC)scrapedD)scratched
56.As soon as the boy was able to earn his own living he ____ his parents
’ strict rules.
A) defiedB)refutedC)excludedD)voted
57.The helicopter ____ a light plane and both pilots were killed.
A) coincided withB)stumbled onC)tumbled toD)collided with
58.To ____ is to save and protect,to leave what we ourselves enjoy in su
ch good condition that others may also share the enjoyment.
A) conserveB)conceiveC)convertD)contrive
59.Put on dark glasses or the sun will ____ you and you won’t be able to
see.
A) discernB)distortC)distractD)dazzle
60.In ____ times human beings did not travel for pleasure but to find a m
ore favourable climate.
A) primeB)primitiveC)primaryD)preliminary
Part Ⅳ
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),You should choose the ON
E that best fits into the passage,Then mark the corresponding letter on the Ans
wer Sheet with a single line through the centre.
In the United States,the first day nursery was opened in 1854.Nurseries were es
tablished in various areas during the ____ 61 ____ half of the 19th century; most of ____ 62 ____ were charitable.Both in Europe and in the U.S.,the
daynursery movement received great ____ 63 ____ during the First World
War,when ____ 64 ____ of manpower caused the industrial employment of unp
recedented (前所未有的) numbers of women.In some European countries nurseries we
re established ____ 65 ____ in munitions (军火) plants,under direct gover
nment sponsorship,____ 66 ____ the number of nurseries in the U.S,also r
ose ____ 67 ____,this rise was accomplished without government aid of any
kind,During the years following the First World War,____ 68 ____,Feder
al,State,and local governments gradually began to exercise a measure of contro
l ____ 69 ____ the day nurseries,chiefly by ____ 70 ____ them and b
y inspecting and regulating the conditions within the nurseries.
The ____ 71 ____ of the Second World War was quickly followed by an increa
se in the number of day nurseries in almost all countries,as women were ____
72 ____ called upon to replace men in the factories,On this ____ 73 [Z
Z)] the U.S,government immediately came to the support of the nursery schools,
____ 74 ____ $6,000,000 in July,1942,for a nurseryschool program for t
he children of working mothers.Many States and local communities ____ 75 [Z
Z)] this Federal aid.By the end of the war,in August,1945,more than 100,000 c
hidren were being cared ____ 76 ____ in daycare centers receiving Federa
l ____ 77 ____,Soon afterward,the Federal government ____ 78 ____
cut down its expenditures for this purpose and later ____ 79 ____ them,ca
using a sharp drop in the number of nursery schools in operation.However,the ex
pectation that most employed mothers would leave their ____ 80 ____ at the
end of the war was only partly fulfilled.
61.A) latter B)late C)other D)first
62.A) those B)them C)whose D)whom
63.A) impetus B)input C)imitation D)initiative
64.A) sources B)abundance C)shortage D)reduction
65.A) hardly B)entirely C)only D)even
66.A) Because B)As C)Since D)Although
67.A) unanimously B)sharply C)predominantly D)militantly
68.A) therefore B)consequently C)however D)moreover
69.A) over B)in C)at D)about
70.A) formulating B)labeling C)patenting D)licensing
71.A) outset B)outbreak C)breakthrough D)breakdown
72.A) again B)thus C)repeatedly D)yet
73.A) circumstance B)occasion C)case D)situation
74.A) regulating B)summoning C)allocating D)transferring
75.A) expanded B)facilitated C)supplemented D)compensated
76,A) by B)after C)of D)for
77.A) pensions B)subsidies C)revenues D)budgets
78.A) prevalently B)furiously C)statistically D)drastically
79.A) abolished B)diminished C)jeopardized D)precluded
80.A) nurseries B)homes C)jobs D)children
试卷二
Part I
Section B Compound Dictation
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The human body is a remarkable food processor.As an adult,you may consume (S1)____ a ton of food per year and still not gain or lose a pound of body weight.You are (S2)____ harnessing and cons
uming energy through the intricate (S3)___ of your body in o
rder to remain in energy balance.To (S4)____ a given bod
y weight,your energy input must balance your energy output.However sometimes the
(S5)____ energy balance is upset,and your (S6)____ body weight will either fall or (S7)____.
The term body image refers to the mental image we have of our own physical appea
rance,and (S8)____
____.Research has revealed that about 40 per cen
t of adult men and 55 per cent of adult women are dissatisfied with their current
body weight.(S9) ______.\=At the college le
vel,a study found that 85 per cent of both male and female firstyear students d
esired to change their body weight.(S10)_________.\=Thinness
is curr
ently an attribute that females desire highly.Males generally desire muscularity
.The vast majority of individuals who want to change their body weight do it for
the sake of appearance;most want to lose excess body fat,while a smaller percen
tage of individuals actually want to gain weight.
Part Ⅴ
Writing (30 minutes)
Directions:For this part,you are allowed thirty minutes to write a composition on the topic How to Succeed in a Job Interview?You should write at least 120 words and you should base your composition on the outline (given in Chinese) below:
1.面试在求职过程中的作用
2.取得面试成功的因素：仪表、举止谈吐、能力、专业知识、自信、实事求是……
How to Succeed in a Job Interview?
Part Two 试卷部分
2000年6月
大学英语六级考试历年全真试卷
试卷一
Part Ⅰ
Listening Comprehension(20 minutes)
Section A
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Directions:In this section,you will hear 10 short conversations,
At the end of each conversation,a question will be asked about what was said,B
oth the conversation and the question will be spoken only once,After each quest
ion there will be a pause,During the pause,you must read the four choices mark
ed A),B),C),and D),and decide which is the best answer,Then mark the corres
ponding letter on the Answer Sheet with a single line through the centre.
Example:You will hear:
You will read,
A) 2 hours,B) 3 hours,
C) 4 hours,D) 5 hours,
From the conversation,we know that the two were talking about some work they
will start at 9 o’clock in the morning and have to finish at 2 in the afternoon
,Therefore,D),5 hours” is the correct answer,You should choose ［D］ on th
e Answer Sheet and mark it with a single line through the centre,
[JY,3] Sample Answer ［A］ ［B］ ［C］ ［D］[KG-4.5mm]—[FK)]
1.A)Buy some traveller’s checks,B)Borrow some money from a friend.
C)Check the brakes and tires,D)Spend some time travelling.
2.A)He is very forgiving and tolerant,B)He probably has a poor memor
y.
C)He is well liked by his customers,D)He has been introduced to the staff
.
3.A)He thinks the book should include more information.
B)He doesn’t think it necessary to provide the answers.
C)The answers will be added in a later edition.
D)The book does include the answers.
4.A)Announce appeals for public service,B)Hold a charity concert to ra
ise money.
C)Ask the school radio station for help,D)Pool money to fund the radio stat
ion.
5.A)She talked with the consultant about the new program until two.
B)She couldn’t talk to the consultant before two.
C)She would talk to the consultant during lunch.
D)She couldn’t contact the consultant’s secretary.
6.A)They are equally competent for the job,B)They both graduated from
art schools.
C)They majored in different areas of art,D)They are both willing to draw th
e posters.
7.A)At a book store,B)At an art museum.
C)At a newspaper office,D)At a gymnasium.
8.A)The woman received a phone call from Mark yesterday,
B)The man injured Mark in a traffic accident yesterday.
C)The man met a friend by chance,
D)The woman contacted Mark on business.
9.A)The man should stay up and watch the program,B)The man should read
something exciting instead.
C)The man should go to bed at eleven,D)The man should give up watching the
movie.
10.A)Students with a library card can check any book out.
B)Reference books are not allowed to be checked out.
C)Only students with a library card can check out reference books.
D)The number of books a student can check out is unlimited.
Section B
Directions,In this section,you will hear 3 short passages,At th
e end of each passage,you will hear some questions,Both the passage and the q
uestions will be spoken only once,After you hear a question,you must choose th
e best answer from the four choices marked A),B),C) and D),Then mark the cor
responding letter on the Answer Sheet with a single line through the centre.
Passage One
Questions 11 to 13 are based on the passage you have just heard.
11.A)To find out whether they take music lessons in their spare time.
B)To find out whether they can name four different musical instruments.[ZK)
]
C)To find out whether they enjoy playing musical instruments in school.[ZK)
]
D)To find out whether they differ in their preference for musical instrumen
ts.
12.A)Because they find them too hard to play.
B)Because they think it silly to play them.
C)Because they find it not challenging enough to play them.
D)Because they consider it important to be different from girls.
13.A)Children who have private music tutors.B)Children who are 8 or ol
der.
C)Children who are between 5 and 7.D)Children who are welleducated.
Passage Two
Questions 14 to 16 are based on the passage you have just heard.
14.A)Because there weren’t any professional teams in the U.S then.
B)Because Pele hadn’t retired from the Brazilian National Team yet.
C)Because this fastmoving sport wasn’t familiar to many Americans.
D)Because good professional players received low salaries.
15.A)When it has a large number of fans.B)When it plays at home.
C)When it has many international stars playing for it.D)When the fans cheer
enthusiastically for it.
16.A)It wasn’t among the top four teams.B)It didn’t play as well a
s expected.
C)It won the World Cup.D)It placed fourth.
Passage Three
Questions 17 to 20 are based on the passage you have just heard.
17.A)Students from America.B)Students from England.
C)Students from Australia.D)Students from Japan.
18.A)Those who know how to program computers.B)Those who get special a
id from their teachers.
C)Those who are very hardworking.D)Those who have welleducated parents.[Z
K)]
19.A)Japanese students study much harder than Columbian students.
B)Columbian students are more optimistic about their maths skills.
C)Columbian students are more optimistic about their maths skills.
D)Japanese students have better conditions for study.
20.A)Physics.B)Mathematics.
C)Environmental science.D)Life science.
Part Ⅱ
Reading Comprehension (35 minutes)
Directions,There are four passages in this part,Each passage is
followed by some questions or unfinished statements,For each of them there are
four choices marked A),B),C) and D),You should decide on the best choice and
mark the corresponding letter on the Answer Sheet with a single line through the
centre.
Passage One
Questions 21 to 25 are based on the following passage.
In the 1920s demand for American farm products fell,as European countries began
to recover from World War I and instituted dusterity (紧缩) programs to red
uce their imports.The result was a sharp drop in farm prices.This period was more
disastrous for farmers than earlier times had been,because farmers were no long
er selfsufficient.They were paying for machinery,seed,and fertilizer,and the
y were also buying consumer goods.The prices of the items farmers bought remaine
d constant,while prices they received for their products fell.These development
s were made worse by the Great Depression,which began in 1929 and extended throu
ghout the 1930s.
In 1929,under President Herbert Hoover,the Federal Farm Board was organized,I
t established the principle of direct interference with supply and demand,and i
t represented the first national commitment to provide greater economic stabilit
y for farmers.
President Hoover’s successor attached even more importance to this problem,One
of the first measures proposed by President Franklin D.Roosevelt when he took of
fice in 1933 was the Agricultural Adjustment Act,which was subsequently passed
by Congress.This law gave the Secretary of Agriculture the power to reduce prod
uction through voluntary agreements with farmers who were paid to take their lan
d out of use.A deliberate scarcity of farm products was planned in an effort to
raise prices,This law was declared unconstitutional by the Supreme Court on the
grounds that general taxes were being collected to pay one special group of peo
ple.However,new laws were passed immediately that achieved the same result of re
sting soil and providing floodcontrol measures,but which were based on the pr
inciple of soil conservation.The Roosevelt Administration believed that rebuildi
ng the nation’s soil was in the national interest and was not simply a plan to h
elp farmers at the expense of other citizens,Later the government guaranteed lo
ans to farmers so that they could buy farm machinery,hybrid(杂交) grain,and
fertilizers.
21.What brought about the decline in the demand for American farm products?
A)The impact of the Great Depression.
B)The shrinking of overseas markets.
C)The destruction caused by the First World War.
D)The increased exports of European countries.
22.The chief concern of the American government in the area of agriculture
in the 1920s was ____.
A)to increase farm productionB)to establish agricultural laws
C)to prevent farmers from going bankruptD)to promote the mechanization of a
griculture
23.The Agricultural Adjustment Act encouraged American farmers to ____.
A)reduce their scale of production
B)make full use of their land
C)adjust the prices of their farm products
D)be selfsufficient in agricultural production
24.The Supreme Court rejected the Agricultural Adjustment Act because it be
lieved that the Act ____.
A)might cause greater scarcity of farm products
B)didn’t give the Secretary of Agriculture enough power
C)would benefit neither the government nor the farmers
D)benefited one group of citizens at the expense of others
25.It was claimed that the new laws passed during the Roosevelt Administrat
ion were aimed at ____.
A)reducing the cost of farming
B)conserving soil in the longterm interest of the nation
C)lowering the burden of farmers
D)helping farmers without shifting the burden onto other taxpayers
Passage Two
Questions 26 to 30 are based on the following passage.
In the 1950s,the pioneers of artificial intelligence (AI) predicted that,by th
e end of this century,computers would be conversing with us at work and robots
would be performing our housework,But as useful as computers are,they’re nowher
e close to achieving anything remotely resembling these early aspirations for hu
manlike behavior.Never mind something as complex as conversation:the most
powerful computers struggle to reliably recognize the shape of an object,the mo
st elementary of tasks for a tenmonthold kid.
A growing group of AI researchers think they know where the field went wrong.The
problem,the scientists say,is that AI has been trying to separate the highest,
most abstract levels of thought,like language and mathematics,and to duplicat
e them with logical,stepbystep programs,A new movement in AI,on the other
hand,takes a closer look at the more roundabout way in which nature came up wi
th intelligence,Many of these researchers study evolution and natural adaptatio
n instead of formal logic and conventional computer programs,Rather than digita
l computers and transistors,some want to work with brain cells and proteins,Th
e results of these early efforts are as promising as they are peculiar,and the
new naturebased AI movement is slowly but surely moving to the forefront of th
e field.
Imitating the brain’s neural(神经的) network is a huge step in the right dir
ection,says computer scientist and biophysicist Michael Conrad,but it still mi
sses an important aspect of natural intelligence.,People tend to treat the bra
in as if it were made up of colorcode transistors,” he explains.“But it’s not
simply a clever network of switches,There are lots of important things going o
n inside the brain cells themselves.” Specifically,Conrad believes that many of
the brain’s capabilities stem from the patternrecognition proficiency of the
individual molecules that make up each brain cell.The best way to build an artif
icially intelligent device,he claims,would be to build it around the same sort
of molecular skills.
Right now,the notion that conventional computers and software are fundamentally
incapable of matching the processes that take place in the brain remains contro
versial,But if it proves true,then the efforts of Conrad and his fellow AI reb
els could turn out to be the only game in town.
26.The author says that the powerful computers of today ____.
A)are capable of reliably recognizing the shape of an object
B)are close to exhibiting humanlike behavior
C)are not very different in their performance from those of the
50’s
D)still cannot communicate with people in a human language
27.The new trend in artificial intelligence research stems from ____.
A)the shift of the focus of study on to the recognition of the shapes of ob
jects
B)the belief that human intelligence cannot be duplicated with logical,ste
pbystep pro grams
C)the aspirations of scientists to duplicate the intelligence of a tenmon
thold child
D)the efforts made by scientists in the study of the similarities between t
ransistors and brain cells
28.Conrad and his group of AI researchers have been making enormous efforts
to ____.
A)find a roundabout way to design powerful computers
B)build a computer using a clever network of switches
C)find out how intelligence developed in nature
D)separate the highest and most abstract levels of thought
29.What’s the author’s opinion about the new AI movement?
A)It has created a sensation among artificial intelligence researchers but
will soon die out.
B)It’s a breakthrough in duplicating human thought processes.
C)It more like a peculiar game rather than a real scientific effort.
D)It may prove to be in the right direction though nobody is sure of its fu
ture prospects.
30.Which of the following is closest in meaning to the phrase,the only ga
me in town”(Line 3,Para,4)?
A)The only approach to building an artificially intelligent computer.
B)The only way for them to win a prize in artificial intelligence research.
C)The only area worth studying in computer science.
D)The only game they would like to play in town.
Passage Three
Questions 31 to 35 are based on the following passage.
Cars account for half the oil consumed in the U.S.,about half the urban polluti
on and one fourth the greenhouse(温室) gases.They take a similar toll of
(损耗) resources in other industrial nations and in the cities of the developin
g world.As vehicle use continues to increase in the coming decade,the U.S,and
other countries will have to deal with these issues or else face unacceptable ec
onomic,healthrelated and political costs.It is unlikely that oil prices will
remain at their current low level or that other nations will accept a large and
growing U.S,contribution to global climatic change.
Policymakers and industry have four options:reduce vehicle use,increase the eff
iciency and reduce the emissions of conventional gasolinepowered vehicles,swit
ch to less harmful fuels,or find less polluting driving systems,The last of th
ese—in particular the introduction of vehicles powered by electricity—is ultim
ately the only sustainable option.The other alternatives are attractive in theor
y but in practice are either impractical or offer only marginal improvements.For
example,reduced vehicle use could solve traffic problems and a host of social
and environmental problems,but evidence from around the world suggests that it
is very difficult to make people give up their cars to any significant extent,I
n the U.S.,masstransit ridership and carpooling(合伙用车) have declined si
nce World War Ⅱ.Even in western Europe,with fuel prices averaging more than $1
a liter (about $4 a gallon) and with easily accessible mass transit and dense p
opulations,cars still account for 80 percent of all passenger travel.
Improved energy efficiency is also appealing,but automotive fuel economy has ba
rely made any progress in 10 years,Alternative fuels such as natural gas,burne
d in internalcombustion engines,could be introduced at relatively low cost,b
ut they would lead to only marginal reductions in pollution and greenhouse emiss
ions (especially because oil companies are already spending billions of dollars
every year to develop less polluting types of gasoline).
31.From the passage we know that the increased use of cars will ____.
A)consume half of the oil produced in the world
B)have serious consequences for the wellbeing of all nations
C)widen the gap between the developed and developing countries
D)impose an intolerable economic burden on residents of large cities[
ZK)]
32.The U.S,has to deal with the problems arising from vehicle use because
____.
A)most Americans are reluctant to switch to public transportation systems[Z
K)]
B)the present level of oil prices is considered unacceptable
C)the other countries will protest its increasing greenhouse emissions
D)it should take a lead in conserving natural resources
33.Which of the following is the best solution to the problems mentioned in
the passage?
A)The designing of highly efficient car engines.
B)A reduction of vehicle use in cities.
C)The development of electric cars.
D)The use of less polluting fuels.
34.Which of the following is practical but only makes a marginal contributi
on to solving the problem of greenhouse emissions?
A)The use of fuels other than gasoline.
B)Improved energy efficiency.
C)The introduction of less polluting driving systems.
D)Reducing car sue by capooling.
35.Which of the following statements is TRUE according to the passage?
A)The decline of public transportation accounts for increased car use in we
stern Europe.
B)Cars are popular in western Europe even though fuel prices are fairly hig
h.
C)The reduction of vehicle use is the only sustainable option in densely po
pulated western Europe.
D)Western European oil companies cannot sustain the cost of developing new
type fuels.
Passage Four
Questions 36 to 40 are based on the following passage.
Reebok executives do not like to hear their stylish athletic shoes called,foot
wear for yuppies(雅皮士，少壮高薪职业人士)”.They contend that Reebok shoes
appeal to diverse market segments,especially now that the company offers basket
ball and children’s shoes for the under18 set and walking shoes for older cust
omers not interested in aerobics(健身操) or running.The executives also poin
t out that through recent acquisitions they have added hiking boots,dress and c
asual shoes,and highperformance athletic footwear to their product lines,all
of which should attract new and varied groups of customers.
Still,despite its emphasis on new markets,Reebok plans few changes in the up
market (高档消费人群的) retailing network that helped push sales to $ 1 billio
n annually,ahead of all other sports shoe marketers,Reebok shoes,which are pr
iced from $ 27 to $ 85,will continue to be sold only in better specialty,sporti
ng goods,and department stores,in accordance with the company’s view that cons
umers judge the quality of the brand by the quality of its distribution.
In the past few years,the Massachusettsbased company has imposed limits on th
e number of its distributors (and the number of shoes supplied to stores),partl
y out of necessity,At times the unexpected demand for Reeboks exceeded supply,
and the company could barely keep up with orders from the dealers it already had
,These fulfillment problems seem to be under control now,but the company is st
ill selective about its distributors,At present,Reebok shoes are available in
about five thousand retail stores in the United States.
Reebok has already anticipated that walkingg shoes will be the next fitnessrel
ated craze,replacing aerobics shoes the same way its brightly colored,soft lea
ther exercise footwear replaced conventional running shoes.Through product diver
sification and careful market research,Reebok hopes to avoid the distribution p
roblems Nike came across several years ago,when Nike misjudged the strength of
the aerobics shoe craze and was forced to unload huge inventories of running sho
es through discount stores.
36.One reason why Reebok’s managerial personnel don’t like their shoes to b
e called,footwear for yuppies”is that ____.
A)they believe that their shoes are popular with people of different age gr
oups
B)new production lines have been added to produce inexpensive shoes
C)“yuppies” usually evokes a negative image
D)the term makes people think of prohibitive prices
37.Reebok’s view that,consumers judge the quality of the brand by the qua
lity of its distribution”(Line 4,Para,2) implies that ____.
A)the quality of a brand is measured by the service quality of the store se
lling it
B)the quality of a product determines the quality of its distributors
C)the popularity of a brand is determined by the stores that sell it
D)consumers believe that firstrate products are only sold by highqualit
y stores
38.Reebok once had to limit the number of its distributors because ____.
A)its supply of products fell short of demand
B)too many distributors would cut into its profits
C)the reduction of distributors could increase its share of the market
D)it wanted to enhance consumer confidence in its products
39.Although the Reebok Company has solved the problem of fulfilling its ord
ers,it ____.
A)does not want to further expand its retailing network
B)still limits the number of shoes supplied to stores
C)is still particular about who sells its products
D)still carefully chooses the manufacturers of its products
40.What lesson has Reebok learned from Nike’s distribution problems?
A)A company should not sell its high quality shoes in discount stores.
B)A company should not limit its distribution network.
C)A company should do followupsurveys of its products.
D)A company should correctly evaluate the impact of a new craze on the mark
et.
Part Ⅲ
Vocabulary (20 minutes)
Directions,There are 30 incomplete sentences in this part.For eac
h sentence there are four choices marked A),B),C) and D).Choose the ONE that b
est completes the sentence.Then mark the corresponding letter on the Answer Shee
t with a single line through the centre.
41.For many patients,institutional care is the most ____ and beneficial
form of care.
A) pertinentB)appropriateC)acuteD)persistent
42.Among all the changes resulting from the ____ entry of women into the
work force,the transformation that has occurred in the women themselves is not
the least important.
A) massiveB)quantitativeC)surplusD)formidable
43.Mr,Smith became very ____ when it was suggested that he had made a mi
stake.
A) ingeniousB)empiricalC)objectiveD)indignant
44.Rumours are everywhere,spreading fear,damaging reputations,and turnin
g calm situations into ____ ones.
A) turbulentB)tragicC)vulnerableD)suspicious
45.The ____ cycle of life and death is a subject of interest to scientist
s and philosophers alike.
A) incompatibleB)exceedingC)instantaneousD)eternal
46.She remains confident and ____ untroubled by our present problems.
A) indefinitelyB)infinitelyC)optimisticallyD)seemingly
47.Fiberoptic cables can carry hundreds of telephone conversations ____
.
A) simultaneoulsyB)spontaneouslyC)homogeneouslyD)contemporarily
48.The police were alerted that the escaped criminal might be in the ____
,
A) vainB)vicinityC)courtD)jail
49.Whether you live to eat or eat to live,food is a major ____ in every
family’s budget.
A) nutritionB)expenditureC)routineD)provision
50.Now a paper in Science argues that organic chemicals in the rock com
e mostly from ____ on earth rather than bacteria on Mars.
A) configurationB)constitutionC)condemnationD)contamination[ZK)
]
51.There is much I enjoy about the changing seasons,but my favorite time i
s the ____ from fall to winter.
A) transmissionB)transformationC)transitionD)transfer
52.I think we need to see an investment ____ before we make an expensive
mistake.
A) guideB)entrepreneurC)consultantD)assessor
53.The ____ on this apartment expires in a year’s time.
A) treatyB)leaseC)engagementD)subsidy
54.The elderly Russians find it hard to live on their state ____,
A) pensionsB)earningsC)salariesD)donations
55.There is supposed to be a safety ____ which makes it impossible for tr
ains to collide.
A) applianceB)accessoryC)machineD)mechanism
56.After four years in the same job his enthusiasm finally ____,
A) deterioratedB)dispersedC)dissipatedD)drained
57.No one can function properly if they are ____ of adequate sleep.
A) deprivedB)rippedC)strippedD)contrived
58.For years now,the people of that faraway country have been cruelly [CD#
3] by a dictator.
A) depressedB)immersedC)oppressedD)cursed
59.Ever since the rise of industrialism,education has been ____ towards
producing workers.
A) harnessedB)hatchedC)motivatedD)geared
60.The prospect of increased prices has already ____ worries.
A) provokedB)irritatedC)inspiredD)hoisted
61.The suspect ____ that he had not been in the neighbourhood at the time
of the crime.
A) advocatedB)allegedC)addressedD)announced
62.Although the colonists ____ to some extent with the native Americans,
the Indians’ influence on American culture and language was not extensive.
A) migratedB)matchedC)mingledD)melted
63.Email is a convenient,highly democratic informal medium for conveying
messages that ____ well to human needs.
A) adheresB)reflectsC)conformsD)satisfies
64.The wings of the bird still ____ after it had been shot down.
A) slappedB)scratchedC)flappedD)fluctuated
65.The disagreement over trade restrictions could seriously ____ relation
s between the two countries.
A) tumbleB)jeopardizeC)manipulateD)intimidate
66.When you put up wallpaper,you should ____ the edges or put them next
to each other.
A) coincideB)extendC)overlapD)collide
67.Under the present system,state enterprises must ____ all profits to t
he government.
A) turn downB)turn upC)turn outD)turn in
68.Oil companies in the U.S,are already beginning to feel the pressure,Re
f
inery workers and petroleumequipmentmanufacturing employees are being____,
A) laid outB)laid offC)laid downD)laid aside
69.We’ll ____ you for any damage done to your house while we are in it.
A) compensateB)remedyC)supplementD)retrieve
70.She cut her hair short and tried to ____ herself as a man.
A) decorate B)disguise C)fabricate D)fake
[LM]
试卷二
Part Ⅳ
Error Correction (15 minutes)
Directions,This part consists of a short passage,In this passage
,there are altogether 10 mistakes,one in each numbered line,You may have to c
hange a word,add a word or delete(删除) a word,If you change a word,cross it
out and write the correct word in the corresponding blank,If you add a word,pu
t an insertion mark (∧) in the correct place and write the missing word in the
blank,If you delete a word,cross it out and be sure to put a slash (/) in the
blank.
Example：
Television is rapidly becoming the literature of our periods[KG-1]/,
1,____Time/times/period____
Many of the arguments having[KG-1]/ [KG*2]used for the study of
2.____/____
literature as a school subject are valid for ∧ study of
3.____the____
television.
When you start talking about good and bad manners you
immediately start meeting difficulties,Many people just cannot
agree what they mean,We asked a lady,who replied that she
thought you could tell a wellmannered person on the way71.____
they occupied the space around them—for example,when such
a person walks down a street he or she is constantly unaware of72.____
others.Such people never bump into other people.
However,a second person thought that this was more a ques
tion of civilized behavior as good manners,Instead,this other73.____
person told us a story,it he said was quite well known,about an74.____
American who had been invited to an Arab meal at one of the75.____
countries of the Middle East.The American hasn’t been told very76.____
much about the kind of food he might expect,If he had known
about American food,he might have behaved better.77.____
Immediately before him was a very flat piece of bread that
looked,to him,very much as a napkin (餐巾),Pickng it up,he78.____
put it into his collar,so that it falls across his shirt.His Arab host,79.____
who had been watching,said of nothing,but immediately copied80.____
the action of his guest.
And that,said this second person,was a fine example of good
manners.
Part Ⅴ
Writing (30 minutes)
Directions:For this part,you are allowed thirty minutes to write a composition on the topic[KG*2]Is a test of spoken English Necessary?The first sentence has already been written for you.You should write at least 120 words,and base your composition on the outline (given in Chinese) below:
1.很多人认为有必要举行英语口语考试，理由是……
2.也有人持不同意见，……
3.我的看法和打算
Is a Test of Spoken English Necessary?
A test of spoken English will be included as an optional component of the Colleg
e English Test (CET).
____________
Part Two 试卷部分
2000年1月
大学英语六级考试历年全真试卷
试卷一
Part Ⅰ
Listening Comprehension(20 minutes)
Section A
Directions,In this section,you will hear 10 short conversations,At th
e end of each conversation,a question will be asked about what was said,Both t
he conversation and the question will be spoken only once,After each question t
here will be a pause,During the pause,you must read the four choices marked A),B),C),and D),and decide which is the best answer,Then mark the correspondi
ng letter on the Answer Sheet with a single line through the centre,
Example,You will hear:
You will read:
A) 2 hours,B) 3 hours,C) 4 hours,D) 5 hours.
From the conversation we know that the two are talking about some work they will
start at 9 o’clock in the morning and have to finish at 2 in the afternoon,The
refore,D),5 hours” is the correct answer,You should choose ［D］on the Answe
r Sheet and mark it with a single line through the centre.
〖JY，3〗 Sample Answer ［A］ ［B］ ［C］ ［D］[KG-4.5mm]—[FK)]
1,A) To cancel his trip,B) To go to bed early,
C) To catch a later flight,D) To ask for a wake-up call.
2,A) They have different opinions as to what to do next.
B) They have to pay for the house by installments.
C) They will fix a telephone in the bathroom.
D) The man’s attitude is more sensible than the woman’s.
3,A) She will save the stamps for the man’s sister.B) She will no
longer get letters from Canada.
C) She can’t give the stamps to the man’s sister.D) She has given the s
tamps to the man’s roommates.
4,A) Visiting the Brownings.B) Writing a postcard.
C) Looking for a postcard,D) Filling in a form.
5,A) The man should work with somebody else.B) The man should meet
his partner’s needs,
C) They should come to a compromise.D) They should find a better lab for th
e project.
6,A) She can’t finish her assignment,either.B) She can’t afford
a computer right now.
C) The man can use her computer.D) The man should buy a computer right
away.
7,A) The visiting economist has given several lectures.
B) The guest lecturer’s opinion is different from Dr,Johnson’s.
C) Dr,Johnson and the guest speaker were schoolmates.
D) Dr,Johnson invited the economist to visit their college.
8,A) She’s never watched a better game.B) Football is her favorit
e pastime.
C) The game has been canceled.D) Their team played very badly.
9,A) The man should stick to what he’s doing.B) The man should ta
ke up a new hobby.
C) The man should stop playing tennis.D) The man should find the cause
for his failure.
10,A) An invented story,B) A real life experience.
C) An imaginary situation,D) A terrible nightmare,
Section B
Directions,In this section,you will hear 3 short passages,At the e
nd of each passage,you will hear some questions,Both the passage and the quest
ions will be spoken only once,After you hear a question,you must choose the be
st answer from the four choices marked A ),B),C) and D).Then mark the correspond
ing letter on the Answer Sheet with a single line through the centre.
Passage One
Questions 11 to 13 are based on the passage you have just heard,
11,A) The name of a German town,B) A resident of Frankfu
rt,
C) A kind of German sausage.D) A kind of German bread.
12,A) He sold fast food.B) He raised dogs,
C) He was a cook.D) He was a cartoonist.
13,A) Because the Americans found they were from Germany.
B) Because people thought they contained dog meat.
C) Because people had to get used to their taste.
D) Because it was too hot to eat right away.
Passage Two
Questions 14 to 16 are based on the passage you have just heard.
14,A) They give out faint cries.B) They make noises to
drive away insects.
C) They extend their water pipes.D) They become elastic like rubber ba
nds.
15,A) Quiet plants.B) Well-watered plants.
C) Healthy plants.D) Thirsty plants.
16,A) They could drive the insects away.B) They could keep the p
lants well-watered.
C) They could make the plants grow faster.D) They could build devices
to trap insects.
Passage Three
Questions 17 to 20 are based on the passage you have just heard,
17,A) To look for a different lifestyle.B) To enjoy thems
elves.
C) For adventure.D) For education.
18,A) There are 200 vehicles for every kilometer of roadway.
B) It has a dense population.
C) There are many museums and palaces.
D) It has many towering buildings.
19,A) It is a city of contrasts.B) It possesses many historical s
ites.
C) It is an important industrial center.D) It has many big and beautif
ul parks.
20,A) It helps develop our personalities.B) It enables us to acq
uire first-hand knowledge.
C) It makes our life more interesting.D) It brings about changes in o
ur lifestyle.
Part Ⅱ
Reading Comprehension (35 minutes)
Directions,There are 4 reading passages in this part,Each passage i
s followed by some questions or unfinished statements,For each of them there ar
e four choices marked A),B),C)and D),You should decide on the best choice and
mark the corresponding letter on the Answer Sheet with a single line through the centre.
Passage One
Questions 21 to 25 are based on the following passage.
In the world of entertainment,TV talk shows have undoubtedly flo
oded every
inch of space on daytime television,And anyone who watches them regularly knows
that each one varies in style and format,But no two shows are more profoundly
opposite in content,while at the same time standing out above the rest,than th
e Jerry Springer and the Oprah Winfrey shows.
Jerry Springer could easily be considered the king of,trash talk(废话)”,The t
opics on his show are as shocking as shocking can be,For example,the show take
s the ever-common talk show themes of love,sex,cheating,guilt,hate,conflict
and morality to a different level,Clearly,the Jerry Springer show is a displa
y and exploitation of society’s moral catastrophes(灾难),yet people are willing
to eat up the intriguing predicaments(困境) of other people’s lives.
Like Jerry Springer,Oprah Winfrey takes TV talk show to its extreme,but Oprah
goes in the opposite direction,The show focuses on the improvement of society a
nd an individual’s quality of life,Topics range from teaching your children res
ponsibility,managing your work week,to getting to know your neighbors.
Compared to Oprah,the Jerry Springer show looks like poisonous waste being dump
ed on society,Jerry ends every show with a,final word”,He makes a small spee
ch that sums up the entire moral of the show,Hopefully,this is the part where
most people will learn something very valuable.
Clean as it is,the Oprah show is not for everyone,The show’s main target audie
nce are middle-class Americans,Most of these people have the time,money,and s
tability to deal with life’s tougher problems,Jerry Springer,on the other hand
,has more of an association with the young adults of society,These are 18-to 2
1-year-olds whose main troubles in life involve love,relationship,sex,money a
nd peers,They are the ones who see some value and lessons to be learned underne
ath the show’s exploitation.
While the two shows are as different as night and day,both have ruled the talk
show circuit for many years now,Each one caters to a different audience while b
oth have a strong following from large groups of fans,Ironically,both could al
so be considered pioneers in the talk show world.
21.Compare with other TV talk shows,both the Jerry Springer and the Opra
h Winfrey are____.
A) more family-oriented B) unusually popular
C) more profoundD) relatively formal
22.Though the social problems Jerry Springer talks about appear distastef
ul,the audience____.
A) remain fascinated by them B) are ready to face up to them
C) remain indifferent to them D) are willing to get involved in the
m
23.Which of the following is likely to be a topic of the Oprah Winfrey sh
ow?
A) A new type of robot,B) Racist hatred,
C) Family budget planning,D) Street violence.
24.Despite their different approaches,the two talk shows are both 〖CD#
3〗.
A) ironical B) sensitiveC) instructive D) cynical
25.We can learn from the passage that the two talk shows____.
A) have monopolized the talk show circuitB) exploit the weaknesses in h
uman nature
C) appear at different times of the dayD) are targeted at different a
udiences
Passage Two
Questions 26 to 30 are based on the following passage.
To understand the marketing concept,it is only necessary to understa
nd the diff
erence between marketing and selling,Not too many years ago,most industries co
ncentrated primarily on the efficient production of goods,and then relied on,
p
ersuasive salesmanship” to move as much of these goods as possible,Such product
ion and selling focuses on the needs of the seller to produce goods and then con
vert them into money.
Marketing,on the other hand,focuses on the wants of consumers,It begins with
first analyzing the preferences and demands of consumers and then producing good
s that will satisfy them,This eye-on-the-consumer approach is known as the mark
eting concept,which simply means that instead of trying to sell whatever is eas
iest to produce or buy for resale,the makers and dealers first endeavor to find
out what the consumer wants to buy and then go about making it available for pu
rchase.
This concept does not imply that business is benevolent(慈善的) or that consumer
satisfaction is given priority over profit in a company,There are always two s
ides to every business transaction —— the firm and the customer —— and each
must be satisfied before trade occurs,Successful merchants and producers,howe
ver,recognize that the surest route to profit is through understanding and cate
ring to customers,A striking example of the importance of catering to the consu
mer presented itself in mid-1985,when Coca Cola changed the flavor of its drink
,The non-acceptance of the new flavor by a significant portion of the public br
ought about a prompt restoration of the Classic Coke,which was then marketed al
ongside new,King Customer ruled!
26,The marketing concept discussed in the passage is,in essence,____.
A) the practice of turning goods into moneyB) making goods available f
or purchase
C) the customer-centered approachD) a form of persuasive salesmanship
27,What was the main concern of industrialists before the marketing conc
ept was widely accepted?
A) The needs of the market.B) The efficiency of production.
C) The satisfaction of the user,D) The preferences of the dealer.
28,According to the passage,“to move as much of these goods as possibl
e”(Lines 3,Para,1) means ____,
A) to sell the largest possible amount of goodsB) to transport goods
as efficiently as possible
C) to dispose of these goods in large quantitiesD) to redesign
these goods for large-scale production
29,What does the restoration of the Classic Coke best illustrate?
A) Traditional goods have a stronger appeal to the majority of people.
B) It takes time for a new product to be accepted by the public.
C) Consumers with conservative tastes are often difficult to please.
D) Products must be designed to suit the taste of the consumer.
30.In discussing the marketing concept,the author focuses on____.
A) its main characteristic
B) its social impact
C) its possible consequence
D) its theoretical basis
Passage Three
Questions 31 to 35 are based on the following passage.
Conventional wisdom about conflict seems pretty much cut and dried
,Too littl
e conflict breeds apathy(冷漠)and stagnation(呆滞),Too much conflict le
ads to divisiveness(分裂)and hostility,Moderate levels of conflict,however
,can spark
creativity and motivate people in a healthy and competitive way.
Recent research by Professor Charles R,Schwenk,however,suggests that the o
ptimal level of conflict may be more complex to determine than these simple gene
ralizations,He studied perceptions of conflict among a sample of executives,So
me of the executives worked for profit-seeking organizations and others for not-
for-profit organizations.
Somewhat surprisingly,Schwenk found that opinions about conflict varied syst
ematically as a function of the type of organization,Specifically,managers in
not-for-profit organizations strongly believed that conflict was beneficial to t
heir organizations and that it promoted higher quality decision making than migh
t be achieved in the absence of conflict.
Managers of for-profit organizations saw a different picture,They believed t
hat conflict generally was damaging and usually led to poor-quality decision mak
ing in their organizations,Schwenk interpreted these results in terms of the cr
iteria for effective decision making suggested by the executives,In the profit-
seeking organizations,decision-making effectiveness was most often assessed in
financial terms,The executives believed that consensus rather than conflict enh
anced financial indicators.
In the not-for-profit organizations,decision-making effectiveness was define
d from the perspective of satisfying constituents,Given the complexities and am
biguities associated with satisfying many diverse constituents executives percei
ved that conflict led to more considered and acceptable decisions.
31.In the eyes of the author,conventional opinion on conflict is〖CD#3
〗.
A) wrong B) oversimplified C) misleading D) unclear
32.Professor Charles R,Schwenk’s research shows____,
A) the advantages and disadvantages of conflict
B) the real value of conflict
C) the difficulty in determining the optimal level of conflict
D) the complexity of defining the roles of conflict
33.We can learn from Schwenk’s research that____.
A) a person’s view of conflict is influenced by the purpose of his orga
nization
B) conflict is necessary for managers of for-profit organizations〖ZK)
〗
C) different people resolve conflicts in different ways
D) it is impossible for people to avoid conflict
34.The passage suggests that in for-profit organizations____.
A) there is no end of conflict
B) expression of different opinions is encouraged
C) decisions must be justifiable
D) success lies in general agreement
35,People working in a not-for-profit organization____.
A) seem to be difficult to satisfy
B) are free to express diverse opinions
C) are less effective in making decisions
D) find it easier to reach agreement
Passage Four
Questions 36 to 40 are based on the following passage.
Imagine eating everything delicious you want —— with none of the fa
t,That would be great,wouldn’t it?
New,fake fat” products appeared on store shelves in the United States recently
,
but not everyone is happy about it,Makers of the products,which contain a com
pound called olestra,say food manufacturers can now eliminate fat from cert
ain foods,Critics,however,say the new compound can rob the body of essential
vitamins and nutrients(营养物)and can also cause unpleasant side effects in
some people,So it’s up to consumers to decide whether the new fat-free products
taste good enough to keep eating.
Chemists discovered olestra in the late 1960s,when they were searching for
a fat that could be digested by infants more easily,Instead of finding the desi
red fat,the researchers created a fat that can’t be digested at all.
Normally,special chemicals in the intestines(肠),grab” molecules of regul
ar fat and break them down so they can be used by the body,A molecule of regula
r fat is made up of three molecules of substances called fatty acids.
The fatty acids are absorbed by the intestines and bring with them the essential
vitamins A,D,E,and K,When fat molecules are present in the intestines with
any of those vitamins,the vitamins attach to the molecules and are carried into
the bloodstream.
Olestra,which is make from six to eight molecules of fatty acids,is too la
rge
for the intestines to absorb,It just slides unchanged through the intestines wi
thout being broken down,Manufacturers say it’s that ability to slide unchanged
through the intestines that makes olestra so valuable as a fat substitute,It pr
ovides consumers with the taste of regular fat without any bad effects on the bo
dy,But critics say olestra can prevent vitamins A,D,E,and K from being a
bsorbed,It can also prevent the absorption of carotenoids(类胡萝卜素),comp
ounds that may reduce the risk of cancer,heart disease,etc.
Manufacturers are adding vitamins A,D,E,and K as well as carotenoids to their
products now,Even so,some nutritionists are still concerned that people might
eat unlimited amounts of food made with the fat substitute without worrying abo
ut how many calories they are consuming.
36.[ZK(〗We learn from the passage that olestra is a substance that____
.
A) contains plenty of nutrients
B) renders foods calorie-free while retaining their vitamins
C) makes foods easily digestible
D) makes foods fat-free while keeping them delicious
37.[ZK(〗The result of the search for an easily digestible fat turned out to be
____.
A) commercially useless B) just as anticipated
C) somewhat controversial D) quite unexpected
38.Olestra is different from ordinary fats in that____.
A) it passes through the intestines without being absorbed
B) it facilitates the absorption of vitamins by the body
C) it helps reduce the incidence of heart disease
D) it prevents excessive intake of vitamins
39,What is a possible negative effect of olestra according to some c
ritics?
A) It may impair the digestive system,
B) It may affect the overall fat intake,
C) It may increase the risk of cancer.
D) It may spoil the consumers’ appetite.
40,Why are nutritionists concerned about adding vitamins to olestra?
A) It may lead to the over-consumption of vitamins.
B) People may be induced to eat more than is necessary.
C) The function of the intestines may be weakened.
D) It may trigger a new wave of fake food production.
Part Ⅲ
Vocabulary (20 minutes)
Directions,There are 30 incomplete sentences in this part,For each
sentence there are four choices marked A),B),C),and D),Choose the ONE that best
completes the sentence,Then mark the corresponding letter on the Answer Sheet
with a single line through the centre.[WT5”BZ〗
41,The doctors don’t____that he will live much longer.
A) articulateB) anticipateC) manifest D)
monitor
42,I suggest we put the scheme into effect,for it is quite____.
A) eligible B) sustainable
C) probable D) feasible
43.The old gentleman was a very____looking person,with gray hair
and gold spectacles.
A) respectful B) respected
C) respective D) respectable
44,This book is expected to____the best-seller lists.
A) promote B) prevail
C) dominate D) exemplify
45.That part of the city has long been____for its street violence.
A) notorious B) responsible
C) historical D) illegal
46.Under the guidance of their teacher,the pupils are building a model b
oat____by steam.
A) towed B) pressed
C) tossed D) propelled
47.Having finished their morning work,the clerks stood up behind their d
esks,____ themselves.
A) expanding B) stretching
C) prolonging D) extending
48.England’s team,who are now superbly fit,will be doing their best nex
t week to____themselves for last year’s defeat.
A) revive B) retort
C) revenge D) remedy
49.If you want to get into that tunnel,you first have to____away
all the rocks.
A) haul B) transfer
C) repel D) dispose
50.It took us only a few hours to____the paper off all four walls.
A) shear B) scrape
C) stroke D) chip
51.The famous scientist____his success to hard work.
A) imparted B) granted
C) ascribed D) acknowledged
52.It is difficult to____of a plan to end poverty.
A) speculate B) conceive
C) ponder D) reckon
53,Now the cheers and applause____in a single sustained roar.
A) mingled B) concentrated
C) assembled D) permeated
54.Improved consumer confidence is____to an economic recovery.
A) crucialB) subordinateC) cumulative D) sati
sfactory
55,Although the body is made up of many different tissues,these tissues
are arranged in an____ and orderly fashion.
A) incredible B) intricate
C) internal D) initial
56.If you work under a car when repairing it,you often get very____.
A) waxy B) slippery
C) sticky D) greasy
57.The damage to his car was____; therefore,he could repair it hi
mself.
A) considerable B) appreciable
C) negligible D) invisible
58.My sister is quite____and plans to get an M,A,degree within o
ne year.
A) aggressive B) enthusiastic
C) considerate D) ambitious
59.The manager tried to wave aside these issues as____details that
would be settled later.
A) versatile B) trivial
C) preliminary D) alternate
60.His____was telling him that something was wrong.
A) intuition B) hypothesis
C) inspiration D) sentiment
61.This book is about how these basic beliefs and values affect important
____ of American life.
A) fashions B) frontiers
C) facets D) formats
62.Parents often faced the____between doing what they felt was goo
d for the development of the child and what they could stand by way of undiscipl
ined noise and destructiveness.
A) paradox B) junction
C) dilemma D) premise
63.Clark felt that his____in one of the most dramatic medical expe
riments of all time was worth the suffering he underwent.
A) apprehension B) appreciation
C) presentation D) participation
64.As one of the youngest professors in the university,Miss King is cert
ainly on the____of a brilliant career.
A) threshold B) edge
C) porch D) course
65.The____lawyer made a great impression on the jury.
A) protecting B) guarding
C) defending D) shielding
66,Very few people understood his lecture,the subject of which was very
____.
A) dim B) obscure
C) conspicuous D) intelligible
67.This movie is not____for children to see,it contains too much
violence and too many love scenes.
A) profound B) valid
C) decent D) upright
68.The wood was so rotten that,when we pulled,it____into fragmen
ts.
A) broke off B) broke away
C) broke through D) broke up
69.The detective and his assistant have begun to____the mysterious
murder.
A) come through B) look into
C) make over D) see to
70.Sadly,the Giant Panda is one of the many species now in danger of〖CD
#3〗,
A) extinction B) migration
C) destruction D) extraction
试卷二
Part Ⅳ
Error Correction (15 minutes)
Directions,This part consists of a short passage,In this passage,there are altogether 10 mistakes,one in each numbered line,You may have to change a word,add a word or delete a word,Mark out the mistakes and put the correc
tions in the blanks provided,If you change a word,cross it out and write the c
orrect word in the corresponding blank,If you add a word,put an insertion mark
(∧) in the right place and write the missing word in the blank,If you delete a
word,cross it out and put a slash (/) in the blank.
Example：
〖DZ(22，4〗Television is rapidly becoming the literature of our periods[KG-1]/,Many of the arguments having[KG-1]/ [KG*2]used for the study of literature as a school subject are valid for ∧ study of television.
Until the very latest moment of his existence,man has been bound to the pla
net on which he originated and developed,Now he had the capability to leave tha
t planet and move out into the universe to those worlds which he has known prev
iously only directly,Men have explored parts of the moon,put spaceships in orb
it around another planet and possibly within the decade will [JP+4]land into another planet and explore it,Can we be [JP]
[JP4]too bold as to suggest that we may be able to colonize other[JP] planet within the not-too-distant future? Some have advocated such a
procedure as a solution to the population problem,ship the excess people off t
o the moon,But we must keep in head the billions of dollars we might spend in c
arrying out the project,To maintain the earth’s population at its present level
,we would have to blast off into space 7,500 people every hour of every day of
the year.
Why are we spending so little money on space exploration? Consider the great
need for improving many aspects of the global environment,one is surely jus
tified in his concern for the money and resources that they are poured into the
space exploration efforts,But perhaps we should look at both sides of the c
oin before arriving hasty conclusions,
〖〗1.____Time/times/period
2.____/
3.____the____
71.____
72.____
73.____
74.____
75.____
76.____
77.____
78.____
79.____
80.___
Part Ⅴ
Writing (30 minutes)
Directions,For this part,you are allowed thirty minutes to write a com
position on the topic How I Finance My College Education? You sh
ould write at least 120 words,and base your composition on the outline (given i
n Chinese) below: 1．上大学的费用（tuition and fees）可以通过多种途径解决
2．哪种途径适合于我（说明理由）
How I Finance My College Education?
