199201月大学英语六级(CET6)真题试卷(含答案).doc

1992年1月大学英语六级(CET-6)真题试卷Part I Listening Comprehension (20 minutes)Section A1.A) Children learn by example.B) Children must not tell lies.C) Children dont like discipline.D) Children must control their temper.2.A) The man was very happy with his published article.B) The marking system in the university is excellent.C) The article was rejected.D) The article was cut short.（）3.A) He is rude to his students.B) He is strict with his students.C) He is kind and often gives good grades.D) He is strange and hates good students.（）4.A) He is going to China.B) He is very interested in China.C) He likes stamps.D) He likes travelling.（）5.A) Opposite the shoe store.B) In the middle of a street.C) At the corner of a street.D) Right outside the shoe store.（）6.A) The woman cannot go to the party.B) The man will meet the woman at the party.C) The woman has not got the invitation yet.D) The woman will try to go to the party by all means.（）7.A) He wants to have some medicine.B) The nurse didnt give him an injection on time.C) The nurse should have shown up at two o clock in the morning.D) He wants to make an appointment with the doctor.（）8.A) Some salad.B) Some dessert.C) Just himself.D) Enough food.（）9.A) They will fail the test.B) The exam is easy.C) The grades will be around 40.D) They might pass the test.（）10.A) The woman shouldnt go to the U.S. with her brother.B) The woman hasnt been allowed to be absent from class.C) The woman can go to the airport to meet her brother.D) The woman can go and see her brother off.（）Section BPassage OneQuestions 11 to 13 are based on the passage you have just heard.11.A) Because they want to follow the rapidly growing hobby.B) Because they want to show they are wealthy people.C) Because they want to hold an exhibition.D) Because they want to return to the past and to invest money for profit.（）12.A) 150,000.B) 500,000.C) 250,000.D) 1,000,000.（）13.A) Those which are old and inexpensive.B) Those which are unique or unusual.C) Those which are practical.D) Those which are still fashionable.（）Passage TwoQuestions 14 to 17 are based on the passage you have just heard.14.A) Because they were ordered to.B) Because they were in danger.C) Because the plane was going to fly in circles.D) Because the plane climbed again.（）15.A) Over the airport.B) Over the land.C) Over the sea.D) Over the mountains.（）16.A) Because there was something wrong with it.B) Because the weather changed suddenly.C) Because there were no lights at the airport.D) Because too many planes were waiting to take off or land.（）17.A) Some time after five.B) Some time after four.C) A few minutes before four.D) A few minutes before six.（）Passage ThreeQuestions 18 to 20 are based on the passage you have just beard.18.A) People in Venice dont like walking.B) The buildings there float on water.C) Cars are seldom used in Venice.D) Boat rides there are expensive.（）19.A) About four hundred.B) About seven hundred.C) Twenty.D) One hundred and twenty.（）20.A) The boats cant pass under the bridges.B) The islands will be disconnected.C) While passing under the bridges, people in the boats have to lower their heads.D) The bridges will be damaged.（）Part II Reading Comprehension (35 minutes)Passage OneQuestions 21 to 25 are based on the following passage.Lecturing as a method of teaching is so frequently under attack today from educational psychologists and by students that some justification is needed to keep it. Critics believe that is results in passive methods of learning which tend to be less effective than those which fully engage the learner. They also maintain that students have no opportunity to ask questions and must all receive the same content at the same pace, that they are exposed only to one teachers interpretation of subject matter which will certainly be limited and that, anyway, few lectures rise above dullness. Nevertheless, in a number of inquiries this pessimistic evaluation of lecturing as a teaching method proves not to be general among students although they do fairly often comment on poor lecturing techniques.Students praise lectures which are clear and orderly outlines in which basic principles are emphasized but dislike too numerous digressions (离题) or lectures which consist in part of the contents of a textbook. Students of science subjects consider that a lecture is a good way to introduce a new subject, putting it in its value as a period of discussion of problems and possible solutions with their lecturer. They do not look for inspiration (灵感)this is more commonly mentioned by teachersbut arts students look for originality in lectures. Medical and dental students who have reports on teaching methods, or specifically on lecturing, suggest that there should be fewer lectures or that, at the least, more would be unpopular.21.The passage states that _.A) few students dislike lecturing as a teaching methodB) lecturing is a good method of teachingC) lecturing as a teaching method proves to be uninspiringD) most students like lectures because they can fully engage the learner（）22.According to the critics,A) lectures cant make students active in their studiesB) some lecturers knowledge of their subjects limitedC) most lectures are similar in contentD) few lectures are dull（）23.According to this passage, students dislike lectures which _.A) introduce mat la not included in the textbookB) present many problems for discussionC) always wander from the subjectD) stress the main points（）24.Lecturing as a teaching method is less appreciated by _.A) dental teachersB) medical studentsC) arts lecturersD) science learners（）25.According to the author, the evaluation of lecturing as a teaching method by educational psychologists is _.A) defensiveB) conservativeC) realisticD) negative（）Passage TwoQuestions 26 to 30 are based on the following passage.From the moment that an animal is born it has to make decisions. It has to decide which of the things around it are for eating, and which are to be avoided when to attack and when to run away. The animal is, in effect, playing a complicated and potentially very dangerous game with its environment, discomfort or destruction.This is a difficult and unpleasant business and few animals would survive if they had to start from the beginning and learn about the world wholly by trial and error, for there are the have possible decisions which would prove fatal. So we find, in practice, that the game is always arranged in favour of the young animal in one way or another. Either the animal is protected during the early stages of its learning about the world around it, or the knowledge of which way to respond is built into its nervous system from the start.The fact that animals behave sensibly can be attributed partly to what we might call genetic (遗传的) learning, to distinguish it from the individual learning that an animal does in the course of its own life time. Genetic learning is learning by a species as a whole, and it is achieved by selection of those members of each generation that happen to behave in the right way. However, genetic learning depends upon a prediction that the future will more or less exactly resemble the past. The more variable individual experience is likely to be, the less efficient is genetic learning as a means of getting over the problems of the survival game. It is not surprising to find that very few species indeed depend wholly upon genetic learning. In the great majority of animals, behaviour is a compound of individual experience and genetic learning to behave in particular ways.26.According to the first paragraph, the survival game is considered potentially very dangerous because _.A) animals are constantly threatened by attacksB) wrong decisions will lead to the disappearance of a speciesC) decisions made by an animal may turn out to be fatalD) few animals can survive in their struggle with the environment（）27.It is implied but not directly stated in the passage that most animals _.A) are likely to make wrong decisionsB) have made correct decisions for their survivalC) depend entirely on their parents in learning about the world around themD) survive by means of individual learning（）28.Genetic learning is effective only if _.A) the survival game is arranged in favour of the young animalsB) the animals can adapt themselves to the changing surroundingsC) circumstances remain more or less the sameD) the animals have varied individual experiences（）29.The best TITLE for this passage would be _.A) The Decision-Making Ability of AnimalsB) Survival and EnvironmentC) Reward and Penalty for AnimalsD) Behaviour and Survival（）30.How is genetic leaning achieved?A) It is inherited from animals with keen observation.B) It is passed down from those animals that behave in the correct way.C) It is taught to the young generation.D) It is learned by the new generation through trial and error.（）Passage ThreeQuestions 31 to 35 are based on the following passage.Scientists, like other human beings, have their hopes and fears, their passions and disappointments and their strong emotions may sometimes interrupt the course of clear thinking and sound practice. But science is also self-correcting. The most fundamental principles and conclusions may be challenged. The steps in a reasoned argument must be set out for all to see.Experiments must be capable of being carried out by other scientists. The history of science is full of cases where previously accepted theories have been entirely overthrown, to be replaced by new ideas which more adequately explain the data.While there is an understandable inertia-usually lasting about one generation-such revolution in scientific thought are widely accepted as a necessary and desirable element of scientific progress. Indeed, the reasoned criticism of a prevailing belief is a service to the supporters of that belief; if they are incapable of defending it, they are well-advised to abandon it. This self-questioning and error-correcting aspect of the scientific method is its most striking property and sets it off from many other areas of human endeavor, such as religion and fine arts.The idea of science as a method rather than as a body of knowledge is not widely appreciated outside of science, or indeed in some corridors inside of science. Vigorous criticism is constructive in science more than in some other areas of human endeavor because in it there are adequate standards of validity which can be agreed upon by competent scientists the world over.The objective of such criticism is not to suppress but rather to encourage the advance of new ideas: those which survive a firm skeptical (怀疑的) examination have a fighting chance of being right, or at least useful.31.Science is self-correcting because its theories _.A) have to be revised constantly to conform with ideas which explain the data betterB) have reflected the most fundamental principles of natureC) are, more often than not, based on inadequate dataD) must be set out for all to see（）32.It can be learned from the context that the word “inertia” (Para. 2, Line 1) most probably means _.A) strong resolutionB) unwillingness to changeC) a period of timeD) prevailing belief（）33.The “revolution in scientific thought” (Para. 2, Lind 2) refers to _.A) acceptance of the reasoned criticisms of prevailing scientific theoriesB) the continuous overthrow of existing scientific theoriesC) the adequate explanation of the data in prevailing scientific theoriesD) the major discoveries that represent breakthroughs in the history of scientific progress（）34.The author says that the most striking property of the scientific method is its self-questioning and error-correcting aspect, because it is this aspect that _.A) is indispensable to the advance of scienceB) is most widely appreciated by scientistsC) helps scientists to abandon anything they cannot defendD) sets science off from many other areas of human endeavor（）35.The word “it” (Para. 3, Line 4) refers to “_.”A) vigorous criticismB) scientific methodC) human endeavorD) science（）Passage FourQuestions 36 to 40 are based on the following passage.My fathers reaction to the bank building at 43rd Street and Fifth Avenues in New York City was immediate and definite: “You wont catch me putting my money in there!” he declared. “Not in that glass box!”Of course, my father is a gentleman of the old school, a member of the generation to whom a good deal of modern architecture is upsetting, but I am convinced that his negative response was not so much to the architecture as to a violation of his concept of the nature of money.In his generation money was thought of as a real commodity (实物) that could be carried, or stolen. Consequently, to attract the custom of a sensible man, a bank had to have heavy walls, barred windows, and bronze doors, to affirm the fact, however untrue, that money would be safe inside. If a buildings design made it appear impenetrable the institution was necessarily reliable, and the meaning of the heavy wall as an architecture symbol dwelt in the prevailing attitude toward money.But that attitude toward money has of course changed. Excepting pocket money, cash of any kind is now rarely used; money as a tangible commodity has largely been replaced by credit.A deficit (赤字) economy, accompanied by huge expansion, has led us to think of money as a product of the creative imagination. The banker no longer offers us a safe: he offers us a service-a service in which the most valuable element is the creativity for the invention of large numbers. It is in no way surprising, in view of this change in attitude, that we are witnessing the disappearance of the heavy-walled hank.Just as the older bank emphasized its strength, this bank by its architecture boasts of its imaginative powers. From this point of view it is hard to say where architecture ends and human assertion (人们的说法) begins.36.The main idea of this passage is that _.A) money is not as valuable as it was in the pastB) changes have taken place in both the appearance and the concept or banksC) the architectural style of the older bank is superior to that of the modern bankD) prejudice makes the older generation think that the modern bank is unreliable（）37.What are the attitudes of the older generation and the younger generation toward money?A) The former thinks more of it than the latter.B) The younger generation values money more than the older generation.C) Both generations rely on th