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2005
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12
月大学英语六级考试试题及参考答案
Part I Listening Comprehension
(20 minutes)
Section A
1.A) The dean should have
consulted her on the appointment.
B) Dr. Holden should have taken over
the position earlier.
C)
She doesn?t think Dr. Holden has made a wise
choice.
D) Dr.
Holden is the best person for the chairmanship.
2
.A) They?ll keep in touch during the summer
vacation
B) They?ll hold a
party before the summer vacation
C) They?ll do odd jobs together at the
school library
D) They?ll
get back to their scho
ol once in a
while
3. A)Peaches are in
season now.
B)Peaches are
not at their best now.
C)The woman didn?t know how to bargain.
D)The woman helped the man
choose the fruit.
4.A)They
join the physics club.
B)They ask for an extension of the
deadline.
C)They work on
the assignment together.
D)They choose an easier assignment.
5.A)She admires Jean?s
straightforwardness
B)She
thinks Dr. Brown deserves the praise
C)She will talk to Jean about what
happened
D)She believes
Jean was rude to Dr. Brown
6.A)He liked writing when he was a
child
B)He enjoyed reading
stories in Reader?s Digest
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C)He used
to be an editor of Reader?s Digest
D)He became well known at the age of
six
7.A)He shows great
enthusiasm for his studies
B)He is a very versatile person
C)He has no talent for
tennis
D)He does not study
hard enough
8 A) John has lost something at the
railway station
B) There
are several railway stations in the city
C) It will be very
difficult for them to find John
D) The train that John is taking will
arrive soon
9. A)Its rapid growth is beneficial to
the world
B)It can be seen
as a model by the rest of the world
C)Its success can?t be explained by
elementary economics
D)It
will continue to surge forward
10.A)It takes
only 5 minutes to reach the campus from the
apartments
B)Most students
can?t afford to live in the new apartments
C)The new apartments are
not available until next month
D)The new apartments can accommodate
500 students
Section B
11.A)The role of immigrants in the
construction of American society
B)The importance of offering diverse
courses in European history
C)The need for greater cultural
diversity in the school curriculum
D)The historic landing of Europeans on
the Virginia shore
12.A)He was wondering if
the speaker was used to living in America
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B)He was trying to show friendliness to
the speaker
C)He wanted to
keep their conversation going
D)He believed the speaker was a
foreigner
13.A)The US population doesn?t consist
of white European
descendants only
B)Asian tourists can speak
English as well as native speakers of the
language
C)Colored people are not welcome in the
United States
D)Americans
are in need of education in their history
14.A)By making laws
B)By enforcing discipline
C)By educating the public
D)By holding ceremonies
15.A)It should
be raised by soldiers
B)It
should be raised quickly by hand
C)It should be raised only by Americans
D)It should be raised by
mechanical means
16.A)It should be attached
to the status
B)It should
be hung from the top of the monument
C)It should be spread over the object
to be unveiled
D)It should
be carried high up in the air
17.A)There has
been a lot of controversy over the use of flag
B)The best athletes can
wear uniforms with the design of the flag
C)There are precise
regulations and customs to be followed
D)Americans can print the flag on their
cushions or handkerchiefs
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Passage
Three
18.A)Punishment by
teachers
B)Poor
academic performance
C)Truancy
D)Illness
19.A)The Board of Education
B)Principals of
city schools
C)Students with good academic records
D)Students with
good attendance records
20 . A) Punishing students
who damage school property
B) Rewarding schools that have
decreased the destruction
C) Promoting teachers who can prevent
the destruction
D) Cutting
the budget for repairs and replacements
Part II Reading Comprehension (35
minutes)
Questions 21 to 25
are based on the following passage.
Passage one
Too
many vulnerable child-free adults are being ruthle
ssly(
无情
的
)manipula
ted into parent-hood by their parents , who think
that
happiness among older people
depends on having a grand-child to
spoil. We need an organization to help
beat down the persistent
campaigns of
grandchildless parents. It?s time to
estab
lish Planned
Grandparenthood, which would have many
global and local benefits.
Part of its mission would be to promote
the risks and realities
associated with
being a grandparent. The staff would include
depressed
grandparents who would
explain how grandkids break lamps, bite,
scream and kick. Others would detail
how an hour of baby-sitting often
turns
into a crying marathon. More grandparents would
testify that
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they had to pay for their grandchild?s
expensive college education.
Planned grandparenthood?s
carefully written literature would
detail all
the joys of life grand-
child-free a calm living room, extra money for
luxuries during the golden years, etc.
Potential grandparents would be
reminded that, without grandchildren
around, it?s possible to have a
conversation with your kids, who----
incidentally-----would have more
time
for their own parents .
Meanwhile, most children are vulnerable
to the enormous influence
exerted by
grandchildless parents aiming to persuade their
kids to
produce children . They will
take a call from a persistent parent, even
if they?re loaded with works. In
addition, some parents make
handsome
money offers payable upon the grandchild?s birth.
Sometimes these gifts not only cover
expenses associated with the
infant?s
birth, but ex
tras, too, like a
vacation. In any case, cash gifts
can
weaken the resolve of even the noblest person.
At Planned Grandparenthood,
children targeted by their parents to
reproduce could obtain non-biased
information about the insanity of
having their own kids. The catastrophic
psychological and economic
costs of
childbearing would be emphasized. The symptoms of
morning
sickness would be listed and
horrors of childbirth pictured. A monthly
newsletter would contain stories about
overwhelmed parents and offer
guidance
on how childless adults can respond to the
different lobbying
tactics that would-
be grandparents employ.
When I think about all the problems of
our overpopulated world and
look at our
boy grabbing at the lamp by the sofa, I wish I
could have
turned to Planned
Grandparenthood when my parents were putting the
grandchild squeeze on me.
If I could have, I might not be in this
parenthood predicament(
窘境
)
.
But here?s the crazy irony, I don?t
want my child
-free life back .
Dylan?s too much fun.
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21.
Wh
at?s the purpose of the proposed
organization Planned
Grandparenthood?
A) To encourage childless
couples to have children.
B) To provide facilities and services
for grandchildless parents.
C) To offer counseling to people on how
to raise grandchildren.
D)
To discourage people from insisting on having
grandchildren.
22. Planned
Grandparenthood would include depressed
grandparents
on its staff in order
to____.
A) show them the
joys of life grandparents may have in raising
grandchildren
B)
draw attention to the troubles and difficulties
grandchildren may
cause
C) share their experience in raising
grandchildren in a more scientific
way
D) help raise funds to
cover the high expense of education for
grandchildren
23. According
to the passage, some couples may eventually choose
to
have children because_____.
A) they find it hard to
resist the carrot-and-stick approach of their
parents
B) they
have learn from other parents about the joys of
having children
C) they
feel more and more lonely ad they grow older
D) they have found it
irrational to remain childless
saying “… my parents were putting the
grandchild squeeze on
me” (Line
2
-3,Para. 6), the author means that
_________.
A) her parents
kept pressuring her to have a child
B) her parents liked to have a
grandchild in their arms
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C) her
parents asked her to save for the expenses of
raising a child
D) her
parents kept blaming her for her child?s bad
behavior
25. What does the
author really of the idea of having children?
A) It does more harm than
good.
B) It contributes to
overpopulation.
C) It is
troublesome but rewarding.
D) It is a psychological catastrophe
Passage Two
Questions 26 to 30 are based on the
following passage.
Ask most
people how they define the American Dream and
chances
a
re they?ll say,
“Success.” The dream of individual opportunity has
been home in American since Europeans
discovered a “new world” in
the Western
Hemisphere. Early immigrants like Hector St. Jean
de
Crevecoeur praised highly the
freedom and opportunity to be found in
this new land. His glowing descriptions
of a classless society where
anyone
could attain success through honesty and hard work
fired the
imaginations of many European
readers: in Letters from an American
Farmer (1782) he wrote. “We are all
excit
ed at the spirit of an industry
which is unfettered
(
无拘无束的
) and unrestrained,
because each
person works for himself …
We have no princes, for whom we toil (
干
苦力活
)
，
s
tarve, and bleed: we are the most perfect society
now
existing in the world.” The promise
of a land where “the rewards of a
man?s
industry follow with equal steps the progress of
his labor” drew
poor immigrants from
Europe and fueled national expansion into the
western territories.
Our national mythology
(
神化
) is full of illustration
the American
success story. There?s
Benjamin Franklin, the very mo
del of
the
self-educated, self-made man, who
rose from modest origins to
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become a
well-known scientist, philosopher, and statesman.
In the
nineteenth century, Horatio
Alger, a writer of fiction for young boys,
became American?s
best
-selling author with rags-to-riches
tales. The
notion of success haunts us:
we spend million every year reading about
the rich and famous, learning how to
“make a fortune in real estate
with no
money down,” and “dressing for success.” The myth
of
success has even invaded our
pers
onal relationships: today it?s as
important to be “successful” in
marriage or parenthoods as it is to
come out on top in business.
But dreams easily turn into
nightmares. Every American who hopes to
“make it” also knows the fear of
failure, because the my
th of success
inevitably implies comparison between
the haves and the have-nots,
the stars
and the anonymous crowd. Under pressure of the
myth, we
become indulged in status
symbols: we try to live in the “right”
neighborhoods, wear the “right”
clothes, eat
the “right”
foods. These
symbols of distinction
assure us and others that we believe strongly in
the fundamental equality of all, yet
strive as hard as we can to separate
ourselves from our fellow citizens.
26. What is the essence of
the American Dream according to
Crevecoeur?
A)
People are free to develop their power of
imagination.
B) People who
are honest and work hard can succeed.
C) People are free from exploitation
and oppression.
D) People
can fully enjoy individual freedom.
saying “the rewards of a man?s industry follow
with equal steps
the progress of his
labor” (Line 10, Para. 1), the author means
__________ .
A)
the more diligent one is, the bigger his returns
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B) laborious work ensures the growth of
an industry
C) a man?s
business s
hould be developed step by
step
D) a company?s success
depends on its employees? hard work
28. The characters described in Horatio
Alger?s novels are people who
_______.
A) succeed in real estate
investment
B) earned
enormous fortunes by chances
C) became wealthy after starting life
very poor
D) became famous
despite their modest origins
29. It can be inferred from the last
sentence of the second paragraph
that
_________.
A) business
success often contributes to a successful marriage
B) Americans wish to
succeed in every aspect of life
C) good personal relationships lead to
business success
D)
successful business people provide good care for
their children
30. What is
the paradox of American culture according to the
author?
A) The American
road to success is full of nightmares.
B) Status symbols are not a real
indicator of a person?s wealth.
C) The American Dream is nothing but an
empty dream.
D) What
Americans strive after often contradicts their
beliefs.
Passage Three
Questions 31 to 35 are
based on the following passage.
Public distrust of scientists stems in
part from the blurring of
boundaries
between science and technology, between discovery
and
manufacture. Most government,
perhaps all governments, justify
public
expenditure on scientific research in terms of the
economic
benefits the scientific
enterprise ha brought in the past and will bring
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the future. Politicians remind their
voters of the splendid machines ?our
scientists? have invented, the new
drugs to relieve old ailments
(
病痛
),
and the new
surgical equipment and techniques by which
previously
intractable
(
难治疗的
) conditions may now be
treated and lives saved.
At the same
time, the politicians demand of scientists that
they tailor
their research to
?economics needs?, that they a
ward a
higher priority to
research proposals
that are ?near the market? and can be translated
into
the greatest return on investment
in the shortest time. Dependent, as
they are, on politicians for much of
their funding, scientists have little
choice but to comply. Like the rest of
us, they are members of a society
that
rates the creation of wealth as the greatest
possible good. Many
have reservations,
but keep them to themselves in what they perceive
as a climate hostile to the pursuit of
understanding for its own sake and
the
idea of an inquiring, creative spirit.
In such circumstances no one should be
too hard on people who are
suspicious
of conflicts of interest. When we learn that the
distinguished
professor assuring us of
the safety of a particular product holds a
consultancy with the company making it,
we cannot be blamed for
wondering
whether his fee might conceivably cloud his
professional
judgment. Even if the
professor holds no consultancy with any firm,
some people many still distrust him
because of his association with
those
who do, or at least wonder about the source of
some his research
funding.
This attitude can have damaging
effects. It questions the integrity of
individuals working in a profession
that prizes intellectual honesty as
the
supreme virtue, and plays into the hands of those
who would like to
discredit scientists
by representing then a venal
(
可以收买的
). This
makes it easier to dismiss all
scientific pronouncements, but especially
those made by the scientists who
present themselves as ?experts?. The
scientist most likely to understand the
safety of a nuclear reactor, for
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example,
is a nuclear engineer declares that a reactor is
unsafe, we
believe him, because clearly
it is not to his advantage to lie about it. If
he tells us it is safe, on the other
hand, we distrust him, because he may
well be protecting the employer who
pays his salary.
31. What is the chief
concern of most governments when it comes to
scientific research?
A) Support from the votes.
B) The reduction of public expenditure.
C) Quick economics returns.
D) The budget for a
research project.
32.
Scientist have to adapt their resear
ch
to ?economic needs? in order
to
_________ .
A) impress the
public with their achievements
B) pursue knowledge for knowledge?s
sake
C) obtain funding from
the government
D) translate
knowledge into wealth
33.
Why won?t scientists complain about the
government?s policy
concerning
scientific research?
A)
They think they work in an environment hostile to
the free pursuit
of knowledge.
B) They are accustomed to
keeping their opinions to themselves.
C) They know it takes patience to win
support from the public.
D)
They think compliance with government policy is in
the interests of
the public.
34. According to the
author, people are suspicious of the professional
judgment of scientists because
___________ .
A) their
pronouncements often turn out to be wrong
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B) sometimes they hide the source of
their research funding
C)
some of them do not give priority to intellectual
honesty
D) they could be
influenced by their association with the project
concerned
35.
Why does the author say that public distrust of
scientists can have
damaging effects?
A) It makes things
difficult for scientists seeking research funds.
B) People would not believe
scientists even when they tell the truth.
C) It may dampen the
enthusiasm of scientists for independent research.
D) Scientists themselves
may doubt the value of their research
findings.
Passage Four
Questions 36 to 40 are based on the
following passage.
In many
ways, today?s business environment has changed
qualitatively
since the late 1980s. The
end of the Cold War radically altered the very
nature of the world?s politics and
economics. In just a few short years,
globalization has started a variety of
trends with profound
consequences: the
opening of markets, true global competition,
widespread deregulation (
解除政
府对
……
的控制
) of
industry, and an
abundance of
accessible capital. We have experienced both the
benefits
and risks of a truly global
economy, with both Wall Street and Main
Street (
平民百姓
)
feeling the pains of economic disorder half a
world
away.
At
the same time, we have fully entered the
Information Age, Starting
breakthroughs
in information technology have irreversibly
altered the
ability to conduct business
unconstrained by the traditional limitations
of time or space. Today, it?s almost
impossible to imagine a
world
without intranets, e-mail, and portable
computers. With stunning speed,
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