2002年1月大学英语六级考试试题

2002年1月大学英语六级考试试题
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            Part I          Listening Comprehension          (20 minutes)
            Section A
            Directions: In this section, you will hear 10 short conversations.
            At the end of each conversa-
            tion, 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) 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. 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] [C] [D]
            1. A) All the passengers were killed.    C) No more survivors have
            been found.
            B) The plane crashed in the night.    D) It's too late to search for
            survivors.
            2. A) Its results were just as expected.
            B) It wasn't very well designed.
            C) It fully reflected the students' ability.
            D) Its results fell short of her expectations.
            3. A) He believes dancing is enjoyable.    C) He admires those who
            dance.
            B) He definitely does not like dancing.    D) He won't dance until
            he has done his work.
            4. A) His computer doesn't work well.     C) He didn't register for
            a proper course.
            B) He isn't getting along with his staff.    D) He can't apply the
            theory to his program.
            5. A) Reading on the campus lawn.      C) Applying for financial
            aid.
            B) Depositing money in the bank.      D) Reviewing a student's
            application.
            6. A) A new shuttle bus.          C) An airplane flight.
            B) A scheduled space flight.         D) The first space flight.
            7. A) The deadline is drawing near.    C) She turned in the
            proposals today.
            B) She can't meet the deadline.      D) They are two days ahead of
            time.
            8. A) By going on a diet.        C) By doing physical exercise.
            B) By having fewer meals.        D) By eating fruit and vegetables.
            9. A) He enjoyed it as a whole.      C) He didn't like it at all.
            B) He didn't think much of it.        D) He liked some parts of it.
            10. A) It looks quite new.         C) It looks old, but it runs
            well.
            B) It needs to be repaired.        D) Its engine needs to be
painted.
            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) Experience in negotiating.       C) The time they spend on
            preparation.
            B) A high level of intelligence.      D) The amount of pay they
            receive.
            12. A) Study the case carefully beforehand.    C) Appear friendly to
            the other party.
            B) Stick to a set target.           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.     C) They usually eat to
            their hearts' content.
            B) They usually eat twice a day.      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 have 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.      C) Big spaceships
            must be built.
            B) Its temperature must be lowered.          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 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.
              Navigation computers, now sold by most car-makers, cost $2,000 and
            up. No surprise, then,
            that they are most often found in luxury cars, like Lexus, BMW and
            Audi. But it is a developing
            technology-meaning prices should eventually drop-and the market does
            seem to be growing.
              Even at current prices, a navigation computer is impressive. It
            can guide you from point to point in most major cities with precise
            turn-by-turn directions-spoken by a clear uman-sounding voice, and
            written on a screen in front of the driver.
              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
            time required for a signal to
            travel between the satellites and the antenna, the car's location
            can be pinned down within 100
            meters.
              The satellite signals, along with inputs on speed from a
            wheel-speed sensor and direction froma meter, determine the car's
            position even as it moves. This information is combined with a map
            database. Streets, landmarks and points of interest 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 presents 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 across themap (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
            French, German, Spanish,
            Dutch and Italian, as well as English. The driver can also 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 automobiles
            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      C) by checking his computer
            database
            B) by indicating the location of his car    D) by giving vocal
            orders to the computer
            23. Despite their varied designs, navigation computers used in cars
            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 surprisingly healthy. Discuss." If
            that were an examination topic, most students would tear it apart,
            offering a long list of complaints: from local smog ( 烟雾 ) to global
            climate change, from the felling ( 砍伐 ) of forests to the extinction
            of species. The list would largely be accurate, the concern
            legitimate. Yet the students who should be given the highest marks
            would actually be those who agreed with the statement. The surprise
            is how good things 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 been
            affected. Indeed, if people lived, consumed and produced things in
            the same way as they did in 1900 (or 1950, or indeed 1980), the
            world by now would be a pretty disgusting place: smelly, dirty,
            toxic and dangerous.
              But they don't. The reasons why they don't, and why the
            environment has not been mined,
            have to do with prices, technological innovation, social change and
            government regulation in re-
            sponse to popular pressure. That is why, today's environmental
            problems in the poor countries
            ought, in principle, to be solvable.
              Raw materials have not run out, and show no sign 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, people have looked for new sources of
            supply, tried to find ways to use less of the material, or looked
            for a new substitute. 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 response to harvests, natural
            disasters and political instability; and when they rise, it takes
            some time before new sources of supply become available. But they
            always do, assisted by new farming and crop technology. The long
            term trend has been 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 keep the environment healthy. If no one
            owns the resource concerned, no one has an 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 an 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
            downwards is that________.
            A) technological innovation can promote social 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 mined 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 seeing to it that all children, whatever their
            background, were fairly treated, intelligence testing became
            unpopular.
              Some thought it was unfair to minority children. Through the past
            few decades such testing
            has gone out of fashion and many communities 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 against their children by denying them the
            opportunity to take the test. (They believed, correctly, that IQ
            tests are a valid method of evaluating children for special
            education classes.) The judge, therefore, reversed, at least
            partially,his original decision.
              And so the argument goes on and on. Does it benefit or harm
            children from minority 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 doing 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 cause. 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 law 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 discriminative not to do
            so.
              And then the style changed and this cross-racial adopting became
            generally unpopular, and
            social agencies felt that black children should go to black families
            only. It is hard to say what are the best procedures. But surely
            good will on the part of all of us is needed.
              As to intelligence, in our opinion, the more we know about any
            child's intellectual level, the better for the child in question.
            31. Why did the intelligence test become unpopular in the past few
            decades?
            A) Its validity was challenged by many communities.
            B) It was considered discriminative against minority children.
            C) It met with strong opposition from the majority of black parents.
            D) It deprived the black children of their rights to a good
            education.
            32. The recent legal action taken by some black parents in
            California aimed to________.
            A) draw public attention to IQ testing C) remove the state's ban on
            intelligence tests
            B) put an end to special education 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 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 sociologists that modern society has changed people's
            natural relations, loosened their responsibilities to kin (亲戚) and
            neighbors, and substituted in their place superficial relationships
            with passing acquaintances. However, in recent years a growing body
            of research has revealed that the "obvious" is not true. It seems
            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, private social worlds.Indeed, the number and quality
            of meaningful relationships do not differ between more and less
            urban people. Small-town residents are more involved with kin than
            are big-city residents. Yet city dwellers compensate by developing
            friendships with people who share similar interests and activities.
            Urbanism may produce a different style of life, but the quality of
            life does not differ between town and city. Nor are residents of
            large communities any likelier to display psychological symptoms of
            stress or alienation, a feeling of not belonging, than are residents
            of smaller communities. However, city dwellers do worry more about
            crime, and this leads them to a distrust of strangers.
              These findings do not imply that urbanism makes little or no
            difference. If neighbors 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 population size
            and its social heterogeneity ( 多样性 ). For instance, sociologists
            have found much evidence that the size of a community is associated
            with bad behavior including gambling, drugs, etc. Large-city
            urbanites are also more likely than their small-town counterparts to
            have a cosmopolitan (见多识广者的 ) outlook, to display less
            responsibility to traditional kinship roles, to vote for leftist
            political candidates, and to be tolerant of nontraditional religious
            groups, unpopular political 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 in 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
            residents______.
            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
            relationships 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 be 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 small-towndwellers.
            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
            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. The lady in this strange tale very obviously suffers from a
            serious mental illness. Her plot
            against a completely innocent old man is a clear sign of________.
              A) impulse                C) inspiration
              B) insanity                D) disposition
            42. The Prime Minister was followed by five or six _______ when he
            got off the plane.
              A) laymen                C) directors
              B) servants                D) attendants
            43. There is no doubt that the ________ of these goods to the others
            is easy to see.
              A) prestige              C) priority
              B) superiority             D) publicity
            44. All the guests were invited to attend the wedding ________ and
            had a very good time.
              A) feast                C) festival
              B) congratulations            D) recreation
            45. The price of the coal will vary according to how far it has to
            be transported and how expensive the freight _______ are.
              A) payments              C) funds
              B) charges               D) prices
            46. The manager gave her his ________ that her complaint would be
            investigated.
              A) assurance            C) sanction
              B) assumption            D) insurance
            47. Although the model looks good on the surface, it will not bear
            close________.
              A) temperament            C) scrutiny
              B) contamination            D) symmetry
            48. We are doing this work in the _________ of reforms in the
            economic, social and cultural spheres.
              A) context              C) pretext
              B) contest              D) 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 distinction            C) an identification
              B) a breakthrough            D) an interpretation
            50. Doctors are often caught in a _________ because they have to
            decide whether they hould tell their patients the truth or not.
              A) puzzle              C) dilemma
              B) perplexity            D) bewilderment
            51. To ________ important dates in history, countries create special
            holidays.
              A) commend            C) propagate
              B) memorize            D) commemorate
            52. His successful negotiations with the Americans helped him to
            _________ his position in he government.
              A) contrive            C) heave
              B) consolidate          D) intensify
            53. Please do not be ________ by his offensive remarks since he is
            merely trying to attract attention.
              A) distracted            C) irritated
              B) disregarded            D) intervened
            54. Once you get to know your mistakes, you should __________ them
            as soon as possible.
              A) rectify            C) refrain
              B) reclaim            D) reckon
            55. He wouldn't answer the reporters' questions, nor would he
            __________ for a photograph.
              A) summon              C) pose
              B) highlight            D) marshal
            56. The club will ________ new members the first week in September.
              A) enroll              C) absorb
              B) subscribe             D) register
            57. If you don't ________ the children properly, Mr. Chiver, they'll
            just run riot.
              A) mobilize            C) manipulate
              B) warrant            D) supervise
            58. Already the class is ________ about who our new teacher will be.
              A) foreseeing            C) fabricating
              B) speculating            D) contemplating
            59. We should ________ our energy and youth to the development of
            our country.
              A) dedicate            C) ascribe
              B) cater              D) cling
            60. Just because I'm ________ to him, my boss thinks he can order me
            around without showing
            me any respect.
              A) redundant            C) versatile
              B) trivial             D) subordinate
            61. Many scientists remain ________ about the value of this research
            program.
              A) sceptical            C) spacious
              B) stationary            D) specific
            62. Depression is often caused by the ________ effects of stress and
            overwork..
              A) total              C) terrific
              B) increased            D) cumulative
            63. A human's eyesight is not as ________ as that of an eagle.
              A) eccentric            C) sensible
              B) acute              D) sensitive
            64. It is ________ that women should be paid less than men for doing
            the same kind of work.
              A) abrupt            C) adverse
              B) absurd            D) addictive
            65. Shoes of this kind are ________ to slip on wet ground.
              A) feasible            C) apt
              B) appropriate          D) fitting
            66. We'll be very careful and keep what you've told us
            strictly________.
              A) rigorous            C) private
              B) confidential          D) mysterious
            67. The members of Parliament were ________ that the government had
            not consulted them.
              A) impatient            C) crude
              B) tolerant            D) indignant
            68. Some American colleges are state-supported, others are privately
            _______ , and still others
            are supported by religious organizations.
              A) ensured              C) authorized
              B) attributed            D) endowed
            69. The prison guards were armed and ready to shoot if _______ in
            any way.
              A) intervened            C) provoked
              B) incurred             D) poked
            70. Many pure metals have little use because they are too soft, rust
            too easily, or have some other _______.
              A) drawbacks            C) bruises
              B) handicaps            D) blunders
            试卷二
            Part IV          Error Correction          (15 minutes)
            Directions: This part consists of a short passage. In this passage,
            there are altogether 10 mis-
            takes, 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, lf you delete a word, cross it out
            and put a slash (/) in the blank.
            Example:
            Television is rapidly becoming the literature of our periods. Many
            1. time/times/period
            of the arguments having used for the study of literature as a school
            2. /
            subject are valid for∧ study of television. 3. the
            Sporting activities are essentially modified forms of
            hunting behavior. Viewing biologically, the modern S1.________
            footballer is revealed as a member of a disguised hunting
            pack. His killing weapon has turned into a harmless football
            and his prey into a goal-mouth. If his aim is inaccurate and he
            S2.________
            scores a goal, enjoys the hunter's triumph of killing his prey.
            S3._________
            To understand how this transformation has taken place we
            must briefly look up at our ancient ancestors. They spent over a
            S4.________
            million year evolving as co-operative hunters. Their very survival
            S5.________
            depended on success in the hunting-field. Under this pressure
            their whole way of life, even if their bodies, became radically
            S6.________
            changed. They became chasers, runners, jumpers, aimers,
            throwers and prey-killers. They co-operate as skillful male-group
            S7.________
            attackers.
            Then, about ten thousand years ago, when this immensely S8.________
            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 …… 关在圈中 ), S9.________
            controlling and domesticating their prey. The food was there on
            the farms, awaiting their needs. The risks and uncertainties of
            farming
            were no longer essential for survival. 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 Unitversity President about the Canteen Service
            on Campus
                You should write at least 120 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给校长写一封信,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。
            January 12th, 2002
            Dear Mr. President,
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