1、1998年6月大学英语六级(CET-6)真题试卷17 / 221998年6月大学英语六级(CET-6)真题试卷Part I Listening Comprehension (20 minutes)Section ADirections: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 sp
2、oken only once. After each question there will be a pause. During the pause, you must read the four suggested answers 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 center.Example:You will hear:You wi
3、ll 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 oclock 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 ma
4、rk it with a single line through the center.Sample Answer A B C D1.A) He thinks that there wont be enough sets for everybody.B) He thinks that the speaker wont show up.C) He thinks the seminar wont be open to the public.D) He thinks that there might not be any more tickets available.（D）2.A) Their fa
5、ther is unable to keep his promise.B) Their father is going on a vacation without her.C) Their father isnt telling her the truth.D) Their father doesnt want to travel abroad.（A）3.A) John didnt pass, although he had tried his best.B) John did better than he thought he was able to.C) John got an excel
6、lent score, which was unexpected.D) John was disappointed at his math score.（B）4.A) The roof of the womans house needs to be repaired.B) The roof of the mans house has several bad leaks.C) The womans bathroom was badly damaged.D) The man works for a roofing company.（A）5.A) Mr. Smith will be replaced
7、 if he makes another mistake.B) Mr. Smith is an admirable chief of the Asian Department.C) Mr. Smiths department is more successful than all the others.D) Mr. Smith is seldom in his office.（A）6.A) She dont have a fax machine.B) She may quit her present job soon.C) She is tired of her present job.D)
8、Her phone number has changed.（B）7.A) Someone has taken her luggage.B) Her flight is 50 minutes late.C) Her luggage has been delayed.D) She cant find the man shes been waiting for.（C）8.A) To do whatever the committee asks him to.B) To make decisions in agreement with the committee.C) To run the commi
9、ttee his way.D) To make himself the committee chairman.（C）9.A) The woman found the mail box empty.B) The man is waiting for some important mail.C) The man has just sent out his application.D) The woman will write a postcard to her daughter.（B）10.A) Read the operation manual.B) Try the buttons one by
10、 one.C) Ask the shop assistant for advice.D) Make the machine run slowly.（A）Section BDirections: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
11、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 center.Passage oneQuestions 11 to 14 are based on the passage you have just heard.11.A) They were drawing pictures.B) They were watching TV.C)
12、They were making a telephone call.D) They were tidying up the drawing room.（B）12.A) They locked the couple up in the drawing room.B) They seriously injured the owners of the house.C) They smashed the TV set and the telephone.D) They took away sixteen valuable paintings.（D）13.A) He accused them of th
13、e theft.B) He raised the rents.C) He refused to prolong their land lease.D) He forced them to abandon their traditions.（C）14.A) They wanted to protect the farmers interests.B) They wanted to extend the reservation area for birds.C) They wanted to steal his valuable paintings.D) They wanted to drive
14、him away from the island.（A）Passage TwoQuestions 15 to 17 are based on the passage you have just heard.15.A) Through food.B) Through air.C) Through insects.D) Through body fluids.（D）16.A) They ran a high fever.B) They died from excessive bleeding.C) Their nervous system was damaged.D) They suffered
15、from heart-attack.（B）17.A) To see what happened to the survivors of the outbreak.B) To study animals that can also get infected with the disease.C) To find out where the virus originates.D) To look for the plants that could cure the disease.（C）Passage ThreeQuestions 18 to 20 are based on the passage
16、 you have just heard.18.A) To determine whether the Earths temperature is going up.B) To study the behavior of some sea animals.C) To measure the depths of the ocean.D) To measure the movement of waves in the ocean.（A）19.A) They were frightened and distressed.B) They swam away when the speaker was t
17、urned on.C) They swam closer to “examine” the speaker when it was turned off.D) They didnt seem to be frightened and kept swimming near the speaker.（D）20.A) To attract more sea animals to the testing site.B) To drive dangerous sea animals away from the testing site.C) To help trace the sea animals b
18、eing tested.D) To determine how sea animals communicate with each other.（C）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), an
19、d D). You should divide on the best choice and mark the corresponding letter on the Answer Sheet with a single line through the center.Questions 21 to 25 are based on the following passage.Cyberspace (网络空间)， data superhighways, mullet media-for those who have seen the future, the linking of computer
20、s, television and telephones will change our lives for ever, Yet for all the talk of a forthcoming technological utopia (乌托邦) little attention has been given to the implications of these developments for the poor. As with all new high technology, while the West concerns itself with the “how,” the qu
21、estion of “for whom” is put aside once again.Economists are only now realizing the full extent to which the communications revolution has affected the world economy. Information technology allows the extension of trade across geographical and industrial boundaries, and transitional corporations take
22、 full advantage of it. Terms of trade, exchange and interest rates and money movements are more important than the production of goods. The electronic economy made possible by information technology allows the haves to increase their control on global markets-with destructive impact on the have-nots
23、.For them the result is instability. Developing countries which rely on the production of a small range of goods for export are made to feel like small parts in the international economic machine. As “futures”(期货) are traded on computer screens, developing countries simply have less and less control
24、 of their destinies.So what are the options for regaining control? One alternative is for developing countries to buy in the latest computers and telecommunications themselves-so-called “development communications” modernization. Yet this leads to long-term dependency and perhaps permanent constrain
25、ts on developing countries economies.Communications technology is generally exported from the U.S., Europe or Japan; the patents, skills and ability to manufacture remain in the hands of a few industrialized countries, It is also expensive, and imported products and services must therefore be bought
26、 on credit-credit usually provided by the very countries whose companies stand to gain.Furthermore, when new technology is introduced there is often too low a level of expertise to exploit it for native development. This means that while local elites, foreign communities and subsidiaries of transiti
27、onal corporations may benefit, those lives depend on access to the information are denied it.21.From the passage we know that the development of high technology is in the interests of _.A) the rich countriesB) scientific developmentC) the eliteD) the world economy（A）22.It can be inferred from the pa
28、ssage that _.A) international trade should be expandedB) the interests of the poor countries have not been given enough considerationC) the exports of the poor countries should be increasedD) communications technology in the developing countries should be modernized（B）23.Why does the author say that
29、 the electronic economy may have a destructive impact on developing countries?A) Because it enables the developed countries to control the international market.B) Because it destroys the economic balance of the poor countries.C) Because it violates the national boundaries of the poor countries.D) Be
30、cause it inhibits the industrial growth of developing countries.（A）24.The development of modern communications technology in developing countries may _.A) hinder their industrial productionB) cause them to lose control of their tradeC) force them to reduce their share of exportsD) cost them their ec
31、onomic independence（D）25.The authors attitude toward the communications revolution is _.A) positiveB) criticalC) indifferentD) tolerant（B）Questions 26 to 30 are based on the following passage.The estimates of the numbers of home-schooled children vary widely. The U.S. Department of Education estimat
32、es there are 250,000 to 35,000 home-schooled children in the country. Hone-school advocates put the number much higher-at about a million.Many public school advocates take a harsh attitude toward home schoolers, perceiving their actions as the ultimate slap in the face for public education and a dam
33、aging move for the children. Home schoolers harbor few kind words for public schools, charging shortcomings that range from lack of religious perspective in the curriculum to a herd-like approach to teaching children.Yet, as public school officials realize they stand little to gain by remaining host
34、ile to the home-school population, and as home schoolers realize they can reap benefits from public schools, these hard lines seem to be softening a bit. Public schoolers have moved closer to tolerance and, in some cases, even cooperation.Says John Marshall, an education official, “We are becoming r
35、elatively tolerant of home schoolers. “The idea is, Lets give the kids access to public school so theyll see its not as terrible as theyve been told, and theyll want to come back.Perhaps, but dont count on it, say home-school advocates. Home schoolers, oppose the system because they have strong conv
36、ictions that their approach to education-whether fueled by religious enthusiasm or the individual childs interests and natural pace-is best.“The bulk of home schoolers just want to be left alone,” says Enge Cannon, associate director of the National Center For Home Education. She says home schoolers
37、 choose that path for a variety of reasons, but religion plays a role 85 percent of the time.Professor Van Galen breaks home schoolers into two groups. Some home schoolers want their children to learn not only traditional subject matter but also “strict religious doctrine and a conservative politica
38、l and social perspective. Not incidentally, they also want their children to learn-both intellectually and emotionally-that the family is the most important institution in society. “Other home schoolers contend “not so much that the schools teach heresy (异端邪说), but that schools teach whatever they t
39、each inappropriately,” Van Galen writes. “These parents are highly independent and strive to take responsibility for their own lives within a society that they define as bureaucratic and inefficient.”26.According to the passage, home schoolers are _.A) those who engage private teachers to provide ad
40、ditional education for their childrenB) those who educate their children at home instead of sending them to schoolC) those who advocate combining public education with home schoolingD) those who dont go to school but are educated at home by their parents（B）27.Public schools are softening their posit
41、ion on home schooling because _.A) there isnt much they can go to change the present situationB) they want to show their tolerance for different situationC) home schooling provides a new variety of education for childrenD) public schools have so many problems that they cannot offer proper education
42、for all children（A）28.Home-school advocates are of the opinion that _.A) things in public schools are not so bad as has often been saidB) their tolerance of public education will attract more kids to public schoolsC) home schooling is superior and, therefore, they will not easily give inD) their inc
43、reased cooperation with public school will bring about the improvement of public education（C）29.Most home schoolers opposition to public education stems from their _.A) respect for the interest of individualsB) worry about the inefficiency of public schoolsC) concern with the cost involvedD) devotio
44、n to religion（D）30.According to Van Galen some home schoolers believe that _.A) public schools take up a herd-like approach to teaching childrenB) teachers in public school are not as responsible as they should beC) public schools cannot provide an education that is good enough for their childrenD)
45、public schools are the source of bureaucracy and inefficiency in modern society（C）Questions 31 to 35 are based on the following passage.Every year television stations receive hundreds of complaints about the loudness of advertisements. However, federal rules forbid the practice of making ads louder
46、than the programming. In addition, television stations always operate at the highest sound level allowed for reasons of efficiency. According to one NBC executive, no difference exists in the peak sound level of ads and programming. Given this information why do commercials sound so loud?The sensati
47、on of sound involves a variety of factors in addition to its speak level. Advertisers are skilful at creating the impression of loudness through their expert use of such factors. One major contributor to the perceived loudness of commercials is that mush less variation in sound level occurs during a
48、 commercial. In regular programming the intensity of sound varies over a large range. However, sound levels in commercials tend to stay at or near peak levels.Other “tricks of the trade” are also used. Because low-frequency sounds can mask higher frequency sounds, advertisers filter out any noises that may drown out the primary message. In addition, the human voice has more auditory (听觉的) impact in the middle f
