1、 2005 年 1 月大学英语六级考试试题Part Listening Comprehension (20 minutes)Section A 1. A) Furnished apartments will cost more.B) The apartment can be furnished easily.C) The apartment is just what the man is looking for.D) She can provide the man with the apartment he needs.2. A) Mr. Johnsons ideas are nonsense
2、.B) He quite agrees with Mr. Johnsons views.C) Mr. Johnson is good at expressing his ideas.D) He shares the womans views on social welfare.3. A) Study in a quiet place. B) Improve her grades gradually.C) Change the conditions of her dorm. D) Avoid distractions while studying in her dorm.4. A) It has
3、 been put off. B) It has been cancelled.C) It will be held in a different place. D) It will be rescheduled to attract more participants.5. A) Janet loves the beautiful landscape of Australia very much.B) Janet is very much interested in architecture.C) Janet admires the Sydney Opera House very much.
4、D) Janet thinks its a shame for anyone hot to visit Australia.6. A) It is based on a lot of research. B) It can be finished in a few weeks time.C) h has drawn criticism from lots of people. D) It falls short of her supervisors expectations.7. A) Karen is very forgetful. B) He knows Karen better now.
5、C) Karen is sure to pass the interview. D) The woman should have reminded Karen earlier.8. A) Ask Joe to apologize to the professor for her.B) Skip the class to prepare for the exam.C) Tell the professor shes lost her voice.D) Attend the lecture with the man.9. A) The man will go in for business rig
6、ht after high school.B) The woman is not happy with the mans decision.C) The man wants to be a business manager.D) The woman is working in a kindergarten.10. A) They stay closed until summer comes. B) They cater chiefly to tourists.C) They are busy all the year round. D) They provide quality service
7、 to their customers.Section BPassage OneQuestions 11 to 14 are based on the passage you have just heard.11. A) Classmates, B) Colleagues.C) Boss and secretary. D) PR representative and client.12. A) He felt his assignment was tougher than Sues.B) His clients complained about his service.C ) He thoug
8、ht the boss was unfair to him.D) His boss was always finding fault with his work.13. A) She is unwilling to undertake them. B) She complains about her bad luck.C) She always accepts them cheerfully. D) She takes them on, though reluctantly.14. A) Sue got promoted. B) John had to quit his job.C) Both
9、 John and Sue got a raise. D) Sue failed to complete her project.Passage TwoQuestions 15 to 17 are based on the passage you have just heard.15. A) By greeting each other very politely. B) By exchanging their views on pubic affairs.C) By displaying their feelings and emotions. D) By asking each other
10、 some personal questions.16. A) Refrain from showing his feelings. B) Express his opinion frankly.C) Argue fiercely. D) Yell loudly.17. A) Getting rich quickly. B) Distinguishing oneself.C) Respecting individual rights. D) Doing credit to ones community.Passage ThreeQuestions 18 to 20 are based on t
11、he passage you have just heard.18. A) If they dont involve any risks.B) If they produce predictable side effects.C) When the urgent need for them arises.D) When tests show that they are relatively safe.19. A) Because they are not accustomed to it.B) Because they are not psychologically prepared for
12、it.C) Because their genes differ from those who have been tested for it.D) Because they arc less sensitive to it than those who have been tested for it.20. A) They will have to take ever larger closes. B) They will become physically impaired.C) They will suffer from minor discomfort. D) They will ex
13、perience a very painful process.Part Reading Comprehension (35 minutes)Passage OneQuestions 21 to 25 are based on the following passage.I had an experience some years ago which taught me something about the ways in which people make a bad situation worse by blaming themselves. One January., I Had to
14、 officiate at two funerals on successive days for two elderly women in my community. Both had died “full of years“, as the Bible would say; both yielded to the nor- mal wearing out of the body after a long and full life. Their homes happened to be near each other, so I paid condo- fence (吊唁) calls o
15、n the two families on the same afternoon.At the first home, the son of the deceased (已故的) woman said to me, “If only 1 had sent my mother to Florida and gotten her out of this cold and snow, she would be alive today. Its my fault that she died.“ At the second home, the son of the other deceased woma
16、n said, “If only I hadnt insisted on my mothers going to Florida, she would be alive today. That long airplane ride, the abrupt change of climate, was more than she could take. Its my fault that shes dead.“When things dont turn out as we would like them to, it is very tempting to assume that had we
17、done things differently, the story would have had a happier ending. Priests know that any time there is a death, the survivors will feel guilty. Because the course of action they took turned out badly, they believe that the opposite course - keeping Mother at home, postponing the operation - would h
18、ave turned out better. After all, how could it have turned out any worse?There seem to be two elements involved in our readiness to feel guilt. The first is our pressing need to believe that the world makes sense, that there is a cause for every effect and a reason for everything that happens, That
19、leads us to find patterns and connections both where they really exist and where they exist only in our minds.The second element is the notion that we are the cause of what happens, especially the bad things that hap- pen. It seems to be a short step from believing that every event has a cause to be
20、lieving that every disaster is our fault. The roots of this feeling may lie in our childhood. Psychologists speak of the infantile myth of omnipotence (万能). A baby comes to think that the world exists to meet his needs, and that he makes everything happen in it. He wakes up in the morning and summon
21、s the rest of the world to its tasks. He cries, and someone comes to at- tend to him. When he is hungry, people feed him, and when he is wet, people change him. Very often, we do not completely outgrow that infantile notion that our wishes cause things to happen.21. What is said about the two deceas
22、ed elderly women?A) They lived out a natural life.B) They died of exhaustion after the long plane ride.C) They werent accustomed to the change in weather.D) They died due to lack of care by family members.22. The author had to conduct the two womens funerals probably because .A) he wanted to console
23、 the two families B) he was an official from the communityC) he had great sympathy for the deceased D) he was priest of the local church23. People feel guilty for the deaths of their loved ones because _A) they couldnt find a better way to express their griefB) they believe that they were responsibl
24、eC) they had neglected the natural course of eventsD) they didnt know things often turn out in the opposite direction24. In the context of the passage, “. the world makes sense“ (Line 2, Para, 4) probably means thatA) everything in the world is predeterminedB) the world can be interpreted in differe
25、nt waysC) theres an explanation for everything in the worldD) we have to be sensible in order to understand the world25. People have been made to believe since infancy thatA) everybody is at their commandB) life and death is an unsolved mysteryC) every story should have a happy endingD) their wishes
26、 are the cause of everything that happensPassage TwoQuestions 26 to 30 are based on the following passage.Frustrated with delays in Sacramento, Bay Area officials said Thursday they planned to take matters into their own hands to regulate the regions growing pile of electronic trash.A San Jose counc
27、ilwoman and a San Francisco supervisor said they would propose local initiatives aimed at controlling electronic waste if the California law-making body fails to act on two bills stalled in the Assembly. They are among a growing number of California cities and counties that have expressed the same i
28、ntention.Environmentalists and local governments are increasingly concerned about the toxic hazard posed by old electronic devices and the cost of safely recycling those products. An estimated 6 million televisions and computers are stocked in California homes, and an additional 6,000 to 7,000 compu
29、ters become outdated every day. The machines contain high levels of lead and other hazardous substances, and are already banned from California landfills (垃圾填埋场).Legislation by Senator Byron Sher would require consumers to pay a recycling fee of up to $ 30 on every new machine containing a cathode (
30、阴极) ray tube. Used in almost all video monitors and televisions, those devices contain four to eight pounds of lead each. The fees would go toward setting up recycling programs, providing grants to non-profit agencies that reuse the tubes and rewarding manufacturers that encourage recycling.A separa
31、te bill by Los Angeles-area Senator Gloria Romero would require high-tech manufacturers to develop programs to recycle so-called e-waste.If passed, the measures would put California at the forefront of national efforts to manage the refuse of the electronic age.But high-tech groups, including the Si
32、licon Valley Manufacturing Group and the American Electronics Association, oppose the measures, arguing that fees of up to $ 30 will drive consumers to online, out-of-state retailers.“What really needs to occur is consumer education. Most consumers are unaware theyre not supposed to throw computers
33、in the trash,“ said Roxanne Gould, vice president of government relations for the electronics association.Computer recycling should be a local effort and part of residential waste collection programs, she added.Recycling electronic waste is a dangerous and specialized matter, and environmentalists m
34、aintain the state must support recycling efforts and ensure that the job isnt contracted to unscrupulous (毫无顾忌的) junk dealers who send the toxic parts overseas.“The graveyard of the high-tech revolution is ending up in rural China,“ said Ted Smith, director of the Silicon Valley Toxics Coalition. Hi
35、s group is pushing for an amendment to Shers bill that would prevent the export of e-waste.26. What step were Bay Area officials going to take regarding e-waste disposal?A) Exert pressure on manufacturers of electronic devices.B) Lay down relevant local regulations themselves.C) Lobby the lawmakers
36、of the California Assembly.D) Rally support to pass the stalled bills.27. The two bills stalled in the California Assembly both concern _A) regulations on dumping hazardous substances into landfillsB) the sale of used electronic devices to foreign countriesC) the funding of local initiatives to reus
37、e electronic trashD) the reprocessing of the huge amounts of electronic waste in the state28. Consumers are not supposed to throw used computers in the trash because _A) they contain large amounts of harmful substancesB) this is banned by the California governmentC) some parts may be recycled for us
38、e elsewhereD) unscrupulous dealers will retrieve them for profit29. High-tech groups believe that if an extra $ 30 is charged on every TV or computer purchased in California,consumers willA) abandon online shopping B) buy them from other statesC) strongly protest against such a charge D) hesitate to
39、 upgrade their computers30. We learn from the passage that much of Californias electronic waste has been _A) collected by non-profit agencies B) dumped into local landfillsC) exported to foreign countries D) recycled by computer manufacturersPassage ThreeQuestions 31 to 35 are based on the following
40、 passage,Throughout the nations more than 15,000 school districts, widely differing approaches to teaching science and math have emerged. Though there can be strength in diversity, a new international analysis suggests that this variability has instead contributed to lackluster (平淡的) achievement sco
41、res by U.S. children relative to their peers in other developed countries.Indeed, concludes William H. Schmidt of Michigan State University, who led the new analysis, “no single intellectually coherent vision dominates U.S. educational practice in math or science. The reason, he said, “is because th
42、e system is deeply and fundamentally flawed.“The new analysis, released this week by the National Science Foundation in Arlington, Va. , is based on data collected from about 50 nations as part of the Third International Mathematics and Science Study.Not only do approaches to teaching science and ma
43、th vary among individual U.S. communities, the report finds, but there appears to be little strategic focus within a school districts curricula, its textbooks, or its teachers activities. This contrasts sharply with the coordinated national programs of most other countries.On average, U.S. students
44、study more topics within science and math than their international counterparts do. This creates an educational environment that “is a mile wide and an inch deep,“ Schmidt notes.For instance, eighth graders in the United States cover about 33 topics in math versus just 19 in Japan. Among science cou
45、rses, the international gap is even wider. U.S. curricula for this age level resemble those of a small group of countries including Australia, Thailand, Iceland, and Bulgaria. Schmidt asks whether the United States wants to be classed with these nations, whose educational systems “share our pattern
46、of splintered (支离破碎的) visions“ but which are not economic leaders.The new report “couldnt come at a better time,“ says Gerald Wheeler, executive director of the National Science Teachers Association in Arlington, “The new National Science Education Standards provide that focused vision,“ including t
47、he call “to do less, but in greater depth.“Implementing the new science standards and their math counterparts will be the challenge, he and Schmidt agree, because the decentralized responsibility for education in the United States requires that any reforms be tailor- ed and instituted one community at a time.In fact, Schmidt argues, reforms such as these proposed national standards “face an almost impossible task, because even though they are intellectually coherent; each becomes only one more voice in the babble (嘈杂声).”31. According to the pass
