1991年6月六级真题及答案
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1991
年
6
月英语六
级考试真题
Part I
Listening
Comprehension(20 minutes)
Section A
1. (A) She
wants to return the skirt her husband bought.
(B) She wants to buy
another skirt.
(C) She wants to change the blue skirt
for a yellow one.
(D)
She wants to change the yellow skirt for a blue
one.
2. (A) It's too expensive.
(B) It isn't
needed.
(C) It should be built.
(D) A college
would be better.
3. (A) Jack's car was
stolen.
(B) Jack sold his car.
(C) Jack bought
a new car.
(D)
Jack had a car accident.
4. (A) Some people pretend
to know what they really don't. (B) What the woman
said is true.
(C) What the woman said is wrong.
(D) He knows more than the
woman does.
5. (A) The woman's job is a librarian.
(B) Women's rights in
society.
(C) An important election.
(D) Career planning.
6.
(A) She thinks it is easier said than done.
(B) She totally agrees with him.
(C)
She feels that what he says is simply nonsense.
(D) She thinks
that he is rather impolite
person.
7.
(A) To clean the yard.
(B) To weed the garden.
(C) To hire a gardener.
(D) To work in
the flower beds.
8. (A) On the 6th of June.
(B)
On the 8th of June.
(C) On the 9th of June.
(D)
On the 19th of June.
9. (A) The man thinks the
woman is wasting her time.
(B)
The man thinks the woman should make full use of
her time.
(C) The man is eager to know the
woman's answer.
(D) The man can wait and
there is no need for her to hurry.
10. (A) To run
into each other.
(B) To get bargains.
(C) To avoid
the crowds.
(D) To join the crowds.
Section B
Passage One
Questions 11 to
13 are based on the passage you have just heard.
11.
(A) Because of their love for hobbies and
pastimes.
(B) Because of
their enthusiasm for
sports.
(C)
Because
of
their
fear
of
heart
attacks.
(D)
Because
of
their
strong
desire
for
good
health.
12. (A) It was
decreasing.
(B) It was increasing.
(C) It remained
almost unchanged.
(D)
It was going up slowly.
13. (A) Those who have
heart attacks.
(B) Those who
have the desire to be physically
fit.
(C)Those who have spare time.
(D) Those who have inactive
jobs.
Passage Two
Questions 14 to 16 are
based on the passage you have just heard.
14.
(A) In the white pages.
(B) In the blue pages.
(C) In the yellow pages.
(D) In a
special section.
15. (A) On the first page
of the telephone book.
(B) At the end of the
telephone book.
(C) In the
front of the white pages.
(D)
Right after the white pages.
16. (A) Check
your number and call again.
(B)
Tell the operator what has happened.
(C)
Ask the operator to put you through.
(D)
Ask the operator what has happened.
Passage Three
Questions 17 to 20 are based on the
passage you have just heard.
17. (A) Its
specialization in transporting small packages.
(B) The low cost of its
service.
(C) Being the first airline
to send urgent letters.
(D) Its modern sorting facilities.
18.
(A) 10,000.
(B) 35.
(C) 130.
(D) 30.
19. (A) Because of its good
airport facilities.
(B) Because of
its location in the country.
(C)
Because of its size.
(D) Because of its round-
the-clock service.
20. (A) Its full-time
staff.
(B) The postmen who work in Memphis.
(C) Students who work in their spare
time.
(D) The staff members of the
International
Airport.
Part II
Reading
Comprehension
(35 minutes)
Section A
Questions 21 to 25 are
based on the following passage:
It is natural for young
people to be critical of their parents at times
and to blame them for
most of the
misunderstandings between them. They have always
complained, more or less justly,
that
their parents are out of touch with modern ways;
that they are possessive and dominant that
they do not trust their children to
deal with crises; that they talk too much about
certain problems
and that they have no
sense of humour, at least in parent-child
relationships.
I
think it is true that parents often underestimate
their teenage children and also forget how
they themselves felt when young.
Young
people
often
irritate
their
parents
with
their
choices
in
clothes
and
hairstyles,
in
entertainers and music. This is not
their motive. They feel cut off from the adult
world into which
they have not yet been
accepted. So they create a culture and society of
their own. Then, if it turns
out that
their music or entertainers or vocabulary or
clothes or hairstyles irritate their parents, this
gives them additional enjoyment. They
feel they are superior, at least in a small way,
and that they
are leaders in style and
taste.
Sometimes you are resistant, and proud
because you do not want your parents to approve
of what you do. If they did approve, it
looks as if you are betraying your own age group.
But in
that case, you are assuming that
you are the underdog: you can't win but at least
you can keep your
honour.
This
is
a
passive
way
of
looking
at
things.
It
is
natural
enough
after
long
years
of
childhood, when you were
completely under your parents' control. But it
ignores the fact that you
are now
beginning to be responsible for yourself.
If you plan to
control your life, co-operation can be part of
that plan. You can charm others,
especially parents, into doing things
the ways you want. You can impress others with
your sense of
responsibility and
initiative, so that they will give you the
authority to do what you want to do.
21. The author
is primarily addressing ______.
(A)
parents of teenagers
(B) newspaper
readers
(C) those who give advice
to teenagers
(D) teenagers
22. The first
paragraph is mainly about _____.
(A) the
teenagers' criticism of their parents
(B)
misunderstandings between teenagers and their
parents
(C) the dominance of the parents over
their children
(D) the teenagers' ability to deal with
crises
23. Teenagers tend to have strange
clothes and hairstyles because they _____.
(A)
want to show their existence by creating a culture
of their own
(B) have a strong desire to be leaders
in style and taste
(C) have no other way to
enjoy themselves better
(D) want to irritate their
parents
24. Teenagers do not want their parents
to approve of whatever they do because they _____.
(A)
have already been accepted into the adult world
(B)
feel that they are superior in a small way to the
adults
(C) are not likely to win over the
adults
(D) have a desire to be independent
25.
To improve parent-child relationships, teenagers
are advised to be _____.
(A) obedient
(B) responsible
(C)
co-operative
(D) independent
Questions 26 to 30 are
based on the following passage:
The
long
years
of
food
shortage
in
this
country
have
suddenly
given
way
to
apparent
abundance. Stores and shops are choked
with food. Rationing (
定量供应
)
is virtually suspended,
and
overseas
suppliers
have
been
asked
to
hold
back
deliveries.
Yet,
instead
of
joy,
there
is
widespread uneasiness and confusion.
Why do food prices keep on rising, when there
seems to be
so much more food about? Is
the abundance only temporary, or has it come to
stay? Does it mean
that we need to
think less now about producing more food at home?
No one knows what to expect.
The
recent
growth
of
export
surpluses
on
the
world
food
market
has
certainly
been
unexpectedly
great,
partly
because
a
strange
sequence
of
two
successful
grain
harvests.
North
America is now being followed by a
third. Most of Britain's overseas suppliers of
meat, too, are
offering more this year
and home production has also risen.
But the effect of all this
on the food situation in this country has been
made worse by a
simultaneous rise in
food prices, due chiefly to the gradual cutting
down of government support
for food.
The shops are overstocked with food not only
because there is more food available, but
also because people, frightened by high
prices, are buying less of it.
Moreover, the rise in
domestic prices has come at a time when world
prices have begun to
fall,
with
the
result
that
imported
food,
with
the
exception
of
grain,
is
often
cheaper
than
the
home-produced variety. And now grain
prices, too, are falling. Consumers are beginning
to ask
why they should not be enabled
to benefit from this trend.
The significance of these
developments is not lost on farmers. The older
generation have
seen it all happen
before. Despite the present price and market
guarantees, farmers fear they are
about
to
be
squeezed
between
cheap
food
imports
and
a
shrinking
home
market.
Present
production is running at 51 per cent
above pre-war levels, and the government has
called for an
expansion to 60 per cent
by 1956; but repeated Ministerial advice is
carrying little weight and the
expansion programme is not working very
well.
26. Why is there
(A) The
abundant food supply is not expected to last.
(B)
Britain is importing less food.
(C) Despite the
abundance, food prices keep rising.
(D) Britain
will cut back on its production of food.
27.
The main reason for the rise in food prices is
that _____.
(A) people are buying less food
(B)
the government is providing less financial support
for agriculture
(C) domestic food
production has decreased
(D) imported food is
driving prices higher
28. Why didn't the
government's expansion programme work very well?
(A)
Because
the
farmers
were
uncertain
about
the
financial
support
the
government
guaranteed.
(B)
Because the farmers were uncertain about the
benefits of expanding production.
(C)
Because
the
farmers
were
uncertain
about
whether
foreign
markets
could
be
found
for
their
produce.
(D) Because the older generation of
farmers were strongly against the programmer.
29.
The decrease in world food price was a result of
_____.
(A) a sharp fall in the purchasing
power of the consumers
(B) a sharp fall in the
cost of food production
(C) the overproduction of
food in the food-importing countries
(D) the
overproduction on the part of the main food-
exporting countries
30.
What
did
the
future
look
like
for
Britain's
food
production
at
the
time
this
article
was
written?
(A) The fall in
world food prices would benefit British food
producers.
(B) An expansion of food production was
at hand.
(C) British food producers would
receive more government financial support.
(D)
It looks depressing despite government guarantees.
Questions 31 to 35 are based on the
following passage:
It is hard to predict how science is
going to turn out, and if it is really good
science it is
impossible to predict. If
the things to be found are actually new, they are
by definition unknown in
advance. You
cannot make choices in this matter. You either
have science or you don't, and if you
have it you are obliged to accept the
surprising and disturbing pieces of information,
along with
the neat and promptly useful
bits.
The
only solid piece of scientific truth about which I
feel totally confident is that we are
profoundly ignorant about nature.
Indeed, I regard this as the major discovery of
the past hundred
years
of
biology.
It
is,
in
its
way,
an
illumination
piece
of
news.
It
would
have
amazed
the
brightest minds of the 18th century
Enlightenment (
启蒙运动
) to be
told by any of us how little
we know
and how bewildering seems the way ahead. It is
this sudden confrontation with the depth
and
scope
of
ignorance
that
represents
the
most
significant
contribution
of
the
20th
century
science
to
the
human
intellect.
In
earlier
times,
we
either
pretended
to
understand
how
things
worked
or
ignored
the
problem,
or
simply
made
up
stories
to
fill
the
gaps.
Now
that
we
have
begun exploring in earnest, we are
getting glimpses of how huge the questions are,
and how far
from being answered.
Because of this, we are depressed. It is not so
bad being ignorant if you are
totally
ignorant; the hard thing is knowing in some detail
the reality of ignorance, the worst spots
and here and there the not-so-bad
spots, but no true light at the end of the tunnel
nor even any
tunnels that can yet be
trusted.
But
we
are
making
a
beginning,
and
there
ought
to
be
some
satisfaction.
There
are
probably no questions we
can think up that can't be answered, sooner or
later, including even the
matter
of
consciousness.
To
be
sure,
there
may
well
be
questions
we
can't
think
up,
ever,
and
therefore limits to the reach of human
intellect, but that is another matter. Within our
limits, we
should be able to work our
way through to all our answers, if we keep at it
long enough, and pay
attention.
31.
According to the author, really good science
_____.
(A) would surprise the brightest minds
of the 18th century Enlightenment
(B) will
produce results which cannot be foreseen
(C)
will help people to make the right choice in
advance
(D) will bring about disturbing results
32.
It can be inferred from the passage that
scientists of the 18th century _____.
(A) thought
that they knew a great deal and could solve most
problems of science
(B) were afraid of facing
up to the realities of scientific research
(C)
knew that they were ignorant and wanted to know
more about nature
(D) did more harm than good
in promoting man's understanding of nature
33.
Which of the following statements is NOT true of
scientists in earlier times?
(A) They
invented false theories to explain things they
didn't understand.
(B) They falsely claimed to
know all about nature.
(C) They did not believe in
results from scientific observation.
(D) They paid
little attention to the problems they didn't
understand.
34. What is the author's attitude
towards science?
(A) He is depressed because
of the ignorance of scientists.
(B) He is
doubtful because of the enormous difficulties
confronting it.
(C) He is confident though
he is aware of the enormous difficulties
confronting it.
(D) He is delighted because
of the illuminating scientific findings.
35.
The author believes that ____.
(A) man can
find solutions to whatever questions concerning
nature he can think up
(B) man can not solve all
the problems he can think up because of the limits
of human intellect
(C) sooner or later man can
think up all the questions concerning nature and
answer them
(D) questions concerning consciousness
are outside the scope of scientific research
Questions 36 to 40 are based on the
following passage:
Greenspace
facilities
are
contributing
to
an
important
extent
to
the
quality
of
the
urban
environment.
Fortunately
it
is
no
longer
necessary
that
every
lecture
or
every
book
about
this
subject has to start
with the proof of this idea. At present, it is
generally accepted, although more
as a
self-evident statement than on the base of a
closely-reasoned scientific proof. The recognition
of the importance of greenspaces in the
urban environment
is a first step on
the right way, this
does
not
mean,
however,
that
sufficient
details
are
known
about
the
functions
of
greenspace
in