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2001年1月大学英语六级考试试题
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 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] [B] [C] [ D ]
1. A) The man thinks travelling by air is quite safe.
B) The woman never travels 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. Winter'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 4 reading 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 other 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 eye
stays open and alert. Birds also can sleep with both hemispheres
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 birdstended 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
singlehemisphere sleep, rather than total relaxation, more often
than inner ducks did. Rotating 16 birds through the positions in a
four duck row, the researchers found outer birds halfasleep during
some 32 percent of dozing time versus about 12 percent for birds in
internal spots.
"We believe this is the first evidence for an animal behaviorally
controlling sleep and wakefulness simultaneously in different
regions of the brain，"the researchers say.
The results provide the best evidence for a longstanding
supposition that singlehemisphere sleep evolved as creatures
scanned for enemies. The preference for 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 acompanion 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 of the brain awake allows a sleeping animal to
surface occasionally to avoid drowning.
Studies of birds may offer unique insights into sleep. Jerome M.
Siegel of the UCLA 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 look 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 ________.
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 own reflection in the mirror
14. While sleeping, some water mammals tend to keep half awake in
order to ________ .
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
Passage Two
Questions 16 to 20 are based on the following passage.
A nine year old schoolgirl singlehandedly cooks up a sciencefair
experiment 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 editor George Lundberg appeared on TV to declare, "Age
doesn't matter. It's good science that matters, and this is good
science."
Emily's mother Linda Rosa, a registered nurse, has been campaigning
against TT for nearly a decade. Linda first thought about TT in the
late '80s, when she learned 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 patients.
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 manipulations 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 therapists 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 anyone who can demonstrate
the existence of a human energy field. (He's had one taker so far.
She failed.) A skeptic might conclude that TT practitioners are
afraid to lay their beliefs on the line. But who could turn down an
innocentfourthgrader? Says Emily:"I think they didn't take me very
seriously because I'm a kid."
The experiment was straight forward: 21 TT therapists stuck their
hands, palms up, through a screen. Emily held her own hand over one
of theirsleft or rightand 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 Emil's
experiment?
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 kind of system is ultimately adopted. Two distinct
types are on the drawing board. The first is a specialpurpose lane
system, in which certain lanes are reserved for automated vehicles.
The second is a mixed traffic system: fully automated vehicles would
share the road with partially automated or manual driven cars. A
specialpurpose lane system would require more extensive physical
modifications to 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, furnishing this information to a computer in the car at
the beginning of the trip or perhaps just before reaching the
automated highway. If a mixed traffic system way was in place,
automated driving could begin whenever the driver was on suitably
equipped roads. If specialpurpose lanes were available, the car
could enter them and 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
determine its destination and to ascertain that it had the proper automation equipment 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 transition from manual to auto mated control would take
place on the entrance ramp. An alternative technique could employ
conventional lanes, which would be shared by automated and regular
vehicles. The driver would steer onto the highway and move in normal
fashion to a "transition'lane. The vehicle would then shift under
computer control onto alane reserved for automated traffic. (The
limitation of these lanes to automated traffic 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 movement of newly entering vehicles with those already
traveling. Automatic control here should allow for smooth merging
without the usual uncertainties and potential for accidents. And
once a vehicle had settled into autmated travel, the driverwould 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 planned
B) are being modified
C) are now in wide use
D) 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
destinations.
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 driving 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 cars
B) doesn't have to rely on his computer system
C) should watch out for potential accidents
D) 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. At 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 resolve abstract
equations quickly. This vision of intelligence asserts formal
education and bookish excellence as the true measures of
selffulfillment. It encourages a kind of intellectual prejudice
that has brought with it some discouraging results. We have come to
believe that someone who has more educational merit badges, who is
very good at some form of school discipline is"intelligent." Yet
mental hospitals are filled with patients who have all of the
properly lettered certificates. A truer indicator of intelligence is
an effective, happy life lived each 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 still choose happiness for
yourself, or at a minimum refuse to choose unhappiness, then 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 themselves. They know how to choose happiness over depression,
because they know how to deal with the problems of their lives.
You can begin to think of yourselfas 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. Every one
who is involved with other humanbeings in any social context has
similar difficulties. Disagreements, conflictsand compromises are a
part of what it means to be human. Similarly, money, growing
old,sickness, 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 immobilizing depression and
unhappiness despite such occurrences, while others collapse 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 humans 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 tire
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
happiness.
B) Those who are aware of difficulties in life but know how to avoid
unhappiness.
C) Those who measure happiness by an absence of problems but seldom
suffer from N.
B. D. ' s.
D) Those who are able to secure happiness though having to struggle
against trying
circumstances.
PartIII Vocabulary (20 minute)
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 seientst
went on to develop his argument.
A) premise B) pretext C) foundation D) presentation
32. After several nuclear disasters, a ________ has raged over the
safety of nuclear
energy.
A) quarrel B) suspicion C) verdict D) controversy
33. Their diplomatic principles complely laid bare their ________
for world conquest.
A) admiration B) ambition C) administration D)orientation
34. The director gave me his ________ that he would double my pay if
I did my job well.
A) warrant B) obligation C) assurance D) certainty
35. The Christmas tree was decorated with shining ________ such as
colored lights and
glass balls.
A) ornaments B) luxuries C) exhibits D) complements
36. The two most important ________ in making a cake are flour and
sugar .
A) elements B) components C) ingredients D) constituents
37. Cultural ________ indicates that human beings hand their
languages down from one
generation to another.
A) translation B) transition C) transmission D) transaction
38. We must look beyond ________ and assumptions and try to discover
what is missing.
A) justifications B) illusions C) manifestations D) specifications
39. No one imagined that the apparently ________ businessman was
really a criminal.
A) respective B) respectable C) respectful D) realistic
40. If nothing is done to protect the environment, millions of
spedes that are alive
today will have become ________ .
A) deteriorated B) degenerated C) suppressed D) extinct
41. The ________ of the scientific attitude is that the human mind
can suceeed in
understanding the universe.
A) essence B) texture C) content D) threshold
42. The old lady has developed a ________ cough which cannot be
cured completely in a
short time.
A) perpetual B) permanent C) chronic D) sustained
43. What the correspondent sent us is an ________ news report. We
can depend on it
A) evident B) authentic C) ultimate D) 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) inspirational B) educational C) excessive D) instantaneous
45. Some researchers feel that certain people have nervous systems
particularly ______
to hot, dry winds. They are what we call weathersensitive people.
A) subjective B) subordinate C) liable D) vulnerable
46. Hurricanes are killer winds, and their ________ power lies in
the physical damage
they can do.
A) cumulative B) destructive C) turbulent D) prevalent
47. In some countries, students are expected to be quiet and
________ in the classroom.
A) skeptical B) faithful C) obedient D) subsidiary
48. In spite of the ______economic forecasts, manufacturing output
has risen slightly.
A) gloomy B) miserable C) shadowy D) obscure
49. Body paint or face paint is used mostly by men in preliterate
societies in order
to attract good health or to _______ disease.
A) set aside B) ward off C) shrug off D) give away
50. The international situation has been growing _____difficult for
the last few years.
A) invariably B) presumably C) increasingly D) dominantly
51. The prisoner was ______ of his civil liberty for three years.
A) discharged B) derived C) deprived D) dispatched
52. Small farms and the lack of modern technology have ______
agricultural production.
A) blundered B) tangled C) bewildered D) hampered
53. The Japanese scientists have found that scents ______ efficiency
and reduce stress
among office workers.
A) enhance B) amplilf C) foster D) magnify
54. All the students have to ______to the rules and regulations of
the school.
A) confirm B) confront C) confine D) conform
55. He ______ his head, wondering how to solve the problem
A) scrapped B) screwed C) scraped D) scratched
56. As soon as the boy was able to earn his own living he ______ his
parents' strict
rules.
A) defied B) refuted C) excluded D) vetoed
57. The helicopter a light plane and both pilots were killed.
A) coincided with B) stumbled on C) tumbled to D) collided with
58. To ______ is to save and protect, to leave what we ourselves
enjoy in such good
condition that others may also share the enjoyment.
A) conserve B) conceive C) convert D) contrive
59. Put on dark glasses or the sun will ______ you and you won' t be
able to see.
A) discern B) distort C) distract D) dazzle
60. In ______ times human beings did not travel for pleasure but to
find a more
favourable climate.
A) prime B) primitive C) primary D) 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) on the right
side of the paper. You should choose the ONE with a single line
through the centre.
In the United States, the first day nursery, was opened in 1854.
Nurseries were established 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 unprecedented(前所未有) numbers of women. In some European countries nurseries were established 65 in munitions(军火) plants, under direct government sponsorship. 66 the number of nurseries in the U.S.
also rose 67 ,
this rise was accomplished without government aid of any kind.
During the years
following the First World War, 68 , federal,State, and local
governments gradually began to exercise a measure of control 69 the
day nurseries, chiefly by 70 them and by.
The 71 of the Second World War was quickly followed by an increase
in the number of day nurseries in almost all countries, as women
were 72 called up on to replace men in the factories. On this 73 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 the children of working mothers. Many States and local
communities 75 this Federal aid. By the end of the war, in August,
1945, more than 100,000 children were being cared 76 in daycare
centers receiving Federal 77 . Soon afterward, the Federal
government 78 cut down its expenditures for this purpose and later
79 them, causing a sharp drop in the number of nursery schools in
operation. However, the expectation that most employed mothers would
leave their 80 at the end of the war was only partly fulfilled.
61. A) latter C) other B) late D) first
62. A) those B) them C) whose D) imitation
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) chidren
试卷二
Part I
Section B Compound Dictation
Directions: In this section, you will hear a passage three times
。When the passage is read for the first time, you should listen
carefully for its general idea. When the passage is read for the
second time, you are required to fill in the blanks numbered from S1
to S7 with the exact words you have just heard. For blanks numbered
from S8 to S10 you are required to fill in the missing information.
You can either use the exact words you have just heard or write down
the main points in your own words. Finally, when the passage is read
for the third time, you should check what you have written.
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 consuming energy
through the intricate (S3)
of your body in order to remain in energy balance. To (S4) a given
body 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 percent of
adult men and 55 percent of adult women are dissatisfied with their
current body weight. (S9). Atthe college level, a study found that
85 percent of both male and female first year students desired to
change their body weight. (S10) . Thinness is currently 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 percentage of individuals actually want to gain
weight.
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