1、 2003年6月英语六级真题Part IListening 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 spoken only once. After each question there
2、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 center.Example:You will hear:You will read:A) 2 hours.B) 3 hours.C) 4 hours.D) 5 hour
3、s.From the conversation we know that the two were 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 mark it with a single line through the center.Samp
4、le Answer A B C D1.A) Riding a horse.B) Shooting a movie.C) Playing a game.D) Taking a photo.2.A) Shell type the letter for the man.B) Shell teach the man to operate the computer.C) She doesnt think his sister is a good typist.D) She thinks the man should buy a computer.3.A) John can share the magaz
5、ine with her.B) She wants to borrow Johns card.C) Shell let John use the journal first.D) John should find another copy for himself.4.A) She promised to help the man.B) She came a long way to meet the man.C) She took the man to where he wanted to go.D) She suggested a way out of the difficulty for t
6、he man.5.A) The train seldom arrives on time.B) The schedule has been misprinted.C) The speakers arrived at the station late.D) The company has trouble printing a schedule.6.A) To find a better science journal in the library.B) Not to miss any chance to collect useful information.C) To buy the lates
7、t issue of the magazine.D) Not to subscribe to the journal.7.A) She wants to borrow the mans student ID card.B) The tickets are less expensive than she expected.C) She wont be able to get any discount for the ticket.D) The performance turned out to be disappointing.8.A) Do the assignments towards th
8、e end of the semester.B) Quit the history course and choose another one instead.C) Drop one course and do it next semester.D) Take courses with a lighter workload.9.A) The organization of a conference.B) The cost of renting a conference room.C) The decoration of the conference room.D) The job of cle
9、aning up the dining-room.10.A) Meet his client.B) Prepare the dinner.C) Work at his office.D) Fix his carSection 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
10、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 center.Passage oneQuestion 11 to 13 are based on the passage you have just heard.11.A) One of the bridges between
11、 North and South London collapsed.B) The heart of London was flooded.C) An emergency exercise was conducted.D) 100 people in the suburbs were drowned.12.A) 50 underground stations were made waterproof.B) A flood wall was built.C) An alarm system was set up.D) Rescue teams were formed.13.A) Most Lond
12、oners were frightened.B) Most Londoners became rather confused.C) Most Londoners took Exercise Floodcall calmly.D) Most Londoners complained about the trouble caused by Exercise Floodcall.Passage TwoQuestions 14 to 16 are based on the passage you have just heard.14.A) It limited their supply of food
13、.B) It made their eggshells too fragile.C) It destroyed many of their nests.D) It killed many baby bald eagles.15.A) They found ways to speed up the reproduction of bald eagles.B) They developed new types of feed for baby bald eagles.C) They explored new ways to hatch baby bald eagles.D) They brough
14、t in bald eagles from Canada.16.A) Pollution of the environment.B) A new generation of pest killers.C) Over-killing by hunters.D) Destruction of their natural homes.Passage ThreeQuestions 17 to 20 are based on the passage you have just heard.17.A) Whether it can be detected and checked.B) Whether it
15、 will lead to widespread food shortage.C) Whether global warming will speed up in the future.D) Whether it will affect their own lives.18.A) Many species have moved further north.B) Many new species have come into existence.C) Many species have developed a habit of migration.D) Many species have bec
16、ome less sensitive to climate.19.A) Storms and floods.B) Disease and fire.C) Less space for their growth.D) Rapid increase of the animal population.20.A) They will gradually die out.B) They will be able to survive in the preserves.C) They will have to migrate to find new homes.D) They will face exti
17、nction without artificial reproduction.Part IIReading Comprehension(35 minutes)Direction: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 m
18、ark the corresponding letter on the Answer Sheet with a single line through the center.Passage OneQuestions 21 to 25 are based on the following passage:In the villages of the English countryside there are still people who remember the good old days when no one bothered to lock their doors. There sim
19、ply wasnt any crime to worry about.Amazingly, these happy times appear still to be with us in the worlds biggest community. A new study by Dan Farmer, a gifted programmer, using an automated investigative program of his own called SATAN, shows that the owners of well over half of all World Wide Web
20、sites have set up home without fitting locks to their doors.SATAN can try out a variety of well-known hacking (黑客的) tricks on an Internet site without actually breaking in. Farmer has made the program publicly available, amid much criticism. A person with evil intent could use it to hunt down sites
21、that are easy to burgle (闯入行窃).But Farmer is very concerned about the need to alert the public to poor security and, so far, events have proved him right. SATAN has done more to alert people to the risks than cause new disorder.So is the Net becoming more secure? Far from it. In the early days, when
22、 you visited a Web site your browser simply looked at the content. Now the Web is full of tiny programs that automatically download when you look at a Web page, and run on your own machine. These programs could, if their authors wished, do all kinds of nasty things to your computer.At the same time,
23、 the Net is increasingly populated with spiders, worms, agents and other types of automated beasts designed to penetrate the sites and seek out and classify information. All these make wonderful tools for antisocial people who want to invade weak sites and cause damage.But lets look on the bright si
24、de. Given the lack of locks, the Internet is surely the worlds biggest (almost) crime-free society. Maybe that is because hackers are fundamentally honest. Or that there currently isnt much to steal. Or because vandalism (恶意破坏) isnt much fun unless you have a peculiar dislike for someone.Whatever th
25、e reason, lets enjoy it while we can. But expect it all to change, and security to become the number one issue, when the most influential inhabitants of the Net are selling services they want to be paid for.21.By saying “owners of well over half of all World Wide Web sites have set up home without f
26、itting locks to their doors” (Line 3-4, Para.2), the author means that _.A) those happy times appear still to be with usB) there simply wasnt any crime to worry aboutC) many sites are not well-protectedD) hackers try out tricks on an Internet site without actually breaking in22.SATAN, a program desi
27、gned by Dan Farmer, can be used _.A) to investigate the security of Internet sitesB) to improve the security of the Internet systemC) to prevent hackers from breaking into websitesD) to download useful programs and information23.Farmers program has been criticized by the public because _.A) it cause
28、s damage to Net browsersB) it can break into Internet sitesC) it can be used to cause disorder on all sitesD) it can be used by people with evil intent24.The authors attitude toward SATAN is _.A) enthusiasticB) criticalC) positiveD) indifferent25.The author suggests in the last paragraph that _.A) w
29、e should make full use of the Internet before security measures are strengthenedB) we should alert the most influential businessmen to the importance of securityC) influential businessmen should give priority to the improvement of Net securityD) net inhabitants should not let security measures affec
30、t their joy of surfing the InternetPassage TwoQuestions 26 to 30 are based on the following passage:I came away from my years of teaching on tile college and university level with a conviction that enactment (扮演角色), performance, dramatization are the most successful forms of teaching. Students must
31、be incorporated, made, so far as possible, an integral part of the learning process. The notion that learning should have in it an element of inspired play would seem to the greater part of the academic establishment merely silly, but that is nonetheless the case. Of Ezekiel Cheever, the most famous
32、 schoolmaster of the Massachusetts Bay Colony, his onetime student Cotton Mather wrote that he so planned his lessons that his pupils “came to work as though they came to play,” and Alfred North Whitehead, almost three hundred years later, noted that a teacher should make his/her students “glad they
33、 were there.”Since, we are told, 80 to 90 percent of all instruction in the typical university is by the lecture method, we should give close attention to this form of education. There is, I think, much truth in Patricia Nelson Limericks observation that “lecturing is an unnatural act, an act for wh
34、ich God did not design humans. It is perfectly all right, now and then, for a human to be possessed by the urge to speak, and to speak while others remain silent. But to do this regularly, one hour and 15 minutes at a time for one person to drag on while others sit in silence? . I do not believe tha
35、t this is what the Creator . designed humans to do.”The strange, almost incomprehensible fact is that many professors, just as they feel obliged to write dully, believe that they should lecture dully. To show enthusiasm is to risk appearing unscientific, unobjective; it is to appeal to the students
36、emotions rather than their intellect. Thus the ideal lecture is one filled with facts and read in an unchanged monotone.The cult (推崇) of lecturing dully, like the cult of writing dully, goes back, of course, some years. Edward Shils, professor of sociology, recalls the professors he encountered at t
37、he University of Pennsylvania in his youth. They seemed “a priesthood, rather uneven in their merits but uniform in their bearing; they never referred to anything personal. Some read from old lecture notes and then haltingly explained the thumb-worn last lines. Others lectured from cards that had se
38、rved for years, to judge by the worn edges .The teachers began on time, ended on time, and left the room without saying a word more to their students, very seldom being detained by questioners . The classes were not large, yet there was no discussion. No questions were raised in class, and there wer
39、e no office hours.”26.The author believes that a successful teacher should be able to _.A) make dramatization an important aspect of students learningB) make inspired play an integral part of the learning processC) improve students learning performanceD) make study just as easy as play27.The majorit
40、y of university professors prefer the traditional way of lecturing in the belief that _.A) it draws the close attention of the studentsB) it conforms in a way to the design of the CreatorC) it presents course content in a scientific and objective mannerD) it helps students to comprehend abstract the
41、ories more easily28.What the author recommends in this passage is that _.A) college education should be improved through radical measuresB) more freedom of choice should be given to students in their studiesC) traditional college lectures should be replaced by dramatized performancesD) interaction s
42、hould be encouraged in the process of teaching29.By saying “They seemed a priesthood, rather uneven in their merits but uniform in their bearing” (Lines 3-4, Para.4), the author means that _.A) professors are a group of professionals that differ in their academic ability but behave in the same wayB)
43、 professors are like priests wearing the same kind of black gown but having different roles to playC) there is no fundamental difference between professors and priests though they differ in their meritsD) professors at the University of Pennsylvania used to wear black suits which made them look like
44、 priests30.Whose teaching method is particularly commended by the author?A) Ezekiel Cheevers.B) Alfred North Whiteheads.C) Cotton Mathers.D) Patricia Nelson Limericks.Passage ThreeQuestions 31 to 35 are based on the following passage:Take the case of public education alone. The principal difficulty
45、faced by the schools has been the tremendous increase in the number of pupils. This has been caused by the advance of the legal age for going into industry and the impossibility of finding a job even when the legal age has been reached. In view of the technological improvements in the last few years
46、, business will require in the future proportionately fewer workers than ever before. The result will be still further raising of the legal age for going into employment, and still further difficulty in finding employment when that age has been attained. If we cannot put our children to work, we mus
47、t put them in school.We may also be quite confident that the present trend toward a shorter day and a shorter week will be maintained. We have developed and shall continue to have a new leisure class. Already the public agencies for adult education are swamped by the tide that has swept over them since the depression began. They will be little better off when it is over. Their support must come from the taxpayer.It is surely too much to hope that these increases in the cost of public education can be borne by the local communities. They cannot care for the present rest
