1、 1999 年 6 月大学英六级考试试题Part Listening Comprehension (20 minutes)Section A1. A) The man attended the concert, but didnt like it.B) That was sorry to miss the football game.C) The man is more interested in football than in classical music.D) The man was sorry that he didnt attend the concert.2. A) Singin
2、g loudly. B) Listening to music.C) Studying. D) Talking on the phone.3. A) She cant receive any calls. B) She cant make any calls.C) She can do nothing with the phone. D) She cant repair the phone.4. A) Tom is very responsible. B) Toms words arent reliable.C) What Tom said is true. D) Tom is not hum
3、orous at all.5. A) How to use a camera. B) How to use a washer.C) How to use a keyboard. D) How to use a tape recorder.6. A) They should put the meeting to an end.B) They should hold another meeting to discuss the matter.C) She would like to discuss another item.D) She wants to discuss the issue aga
4、in later.7. A) He believes the Browns have done a sensible thing.B) He doesnt think the Browns should move to another place.C) He doesnt think the Browns investment is a wise move.D) He believes it is better for the Browns to invest later.8. A) He may convert it and use it as a restaurant.B) He may
5、pull it down and build a new restaurant.C) He may rent it out for use as a restaurant.D) He may sell it to the owner of a restaurant.9. A) She doesnt like the way the professor lectures.B) Shes having a hard time following the professors lectures.C) She is not interested in the course.D ) Shes havin
6、g difficulty with the heavy reading assignments.10. A) He never keeps his promises. B) He is crazy about parties.C) He has changed his mind. D) He is not sociable.Section B Compound DictationPresident Clinton later today joins (S1)_ President Ford. Carter and Bush at “the presidents summit or Americ
7、a s future ( S2 ) _ at recruiting one million volunteer tutors to provide after-school, weekend and summer reading help for up to three million children. Mr. Clinton will ask Congress this coming week for nearly three (S3) _ dollars to fund a five-year program called “America Reads“.The program woul
8、d fund the (S4,) _ efforts of 20 thousand reading ( S5 ) _ and it would also give (S6) _ to help parents help children read by the third grade, or about age eight. During his Saturday radio (S7) _, the president explained why the program is important; “we need America Reads and we need it now. Studi
9、es show that if the fourth-graders fail to read well, (S8 )_. But, 40 percent of them still cant read at a basic level.“Volunteer tutors, who provide community service in exchange for college funding are being used in literacy and tutoring programs. (S9)_.The president says many of the Philadelphia
10、summits corporate sponsors will recruit tutors. (S10) _.Part Reading Comprehension (35 minutes)Passage OneQuestions 11 to 15 are based on the following passage:We sometimes think humans are uniquely vulnerable to anxiety, but stress seems to affect the immune defenses of lower animals too. In one ex
11、periment, for example, behavioral immunologist (免疫学家) Mark Laudenslager, at the University of Denver, gave mild electric shocks to 24 rats. Half the animals could switch off the current by turning a wheel in their enclosure, while the other haft could not. The rats in the two groups were paired so t
12、hat each time one rat turned the wheel it protected both itself and its helpless partner from the shock. Laudenslager found that the immune response was depressed below normal in the helpless rats but not in those that could turn off the electricity. What he has demonstrated, he believes, is that la
13、ck of control over an event, not the experience it- serf, is what weakens the immune system.Other researchers agree. Jay Weiss, a psychologist at Duke University School of Medicine, has shown that animals who are allowed to control unpleasant stimuli dont develop sleep disturbances or changes in bra
14、in chemistry typical of stressed rats. But if the animals are confronted with situations they have no control over, they later behave passively when faced with experiences they can control. Such findings reinforce psychologists suspicions that the experience or perception of helplessness is one of t
15、he most harmful factors in depression.One of the most startling examples of how the mind can alter the immune response was discovered by chance. In 1975 psychologist Robert Ader at the University of Rochester School of Medicine conditioned (使形成条件反射 ) mice to avoid saccharin (糖精) by simultaneously fe
16、eding them the sweetener and injecting them with a drug that while suppressing their immune systems caused stomach upsets. Associating the saccharin with the stomach pains, the mice quickly learned to avoid the sweetener. In order to extinguish this dislike for the sweetener, Ader reexposed the anim
17、als to saccharin, this time without the drug, and was astonished to find that those mice that had received the highest amounts of sweetener during their earlier conditioning died. He could only speculate that he had so successfully conditioned the rats that saccharin alone now served to weaken their
18、 immune systems enough to kill them. 11. Laudenslagers experiment showed that the immune system of those rats who could turn off the electricity_.A) was strengthened B) was not affectedC) was altered D ) was weakened 12. According to the passage, the experience of helplessness causes rats to _.A) tr
19、y to control unpleasant stimuli -B) turn off the electricityC) behave passively in controllable situationsD) become abnormally suspicious 13. The reason why the mice in Aders experiment avoided saccharin was that_.A) they disliked its taste B) it affected their immune systemsC) it led to stomach pai
20、ns D) they associated it with stomachaches 14. The passage tells us that the most probable reason for the death of the mice in Aders experiment was that_.A) they had been weakened psychologically by the saccharinB) the sweetener was poisonous to themC) their immune systems had been altered by the mi
21、ndD) they had taken too much sweetener during earlier conditioning 15. It can be concluded from the passage that the immune systems of animals_.A) can be weakened by conditioningB) can be suppressed by drug injectionsC) can be affected by frequent doses of saccharinD) can be altered by electric shoc
22、ksPassage TwoQuestions 16 to 20 are based on the following passage:The destruction of our natural resources and contamination of our food supply continue to occur, largely be- cause of the extreme difficulty in affixing (把固定) legal responsibility on those who continue to treat our environment with r
23、eckless abandon (放任). Attempts to prevent pollution by legislation, economic incentives and friendly persuasion have been met by lawsuits, personal and industrial denial and long delays - not only in accepting responsibility, but more importantly, in doing something about it.It seems that only when
24、government decides it can afford tax incentives or production sacrifices is there any initiative for change. Where is industrys and our recognition that protecting mankinds great treasure is the single most important responsibility? If ever there will be time for environmental health professionals t
25、o come to the front- lines and provide leadership to solve environmental problems, hat time is now.We are being asked, and, in fact , the public is demanding that we take positive action. It is our responsibility as professionals in environmental health to make the difference. Yes, the ecologists, t
26、he environmental activists and the conservationists serve to communicate, stimulate thinking and promote behavioral change. However, it is those of us who are paid to make the decisions to develop, improve and enforce environmental standards, I submit, who must lead the charge.We must recognize that
27、 environmental health issues do not stop at city limits, county lines, state or even federal boundaries. We can no longer afford to be tunnel-visioned in our approach. We must visualize issues from every perspective to make the objective decisions. We must express our views clearly to prevent media
28、distortion and public confusion.I believe we have a three-part mission for the present. First, we must continue to press for improvements in the quality of life that people can make for themselves. Second, we must investigate and understand the link between environment and health. Third, we must be
29、able to communicate technical information in a form that citizens can understand. If we can accomplish these three goals in this decade, maybe we can finally stop environmental degradation, and not merely hold it back. We will then be able to spend pollution dollars truly on prevention rather than o
30、n bandages. 16. We can infer from the first two paragraphs that the industrialists disregard environmental protection chiefly because_.A) they are unaware of the consequences of what they are doingB) they are reluctant to sacrifice their own economic interestsC) time has not yet come for them to put
31、 due emphasis on itD) it is difficult for them to take effective measures 17. The main task now facing ecologists, environmental activists and conservationists is _.A) to prevent pollution by legislation, economic incentives and persuasionB) to arouse public awareness of the importance of environmen
32、tal protectionC) to take radical measures to control environmental pollutionD) to improve the quality of life by enforcing environmental standards 18. The word “tunnel-visioned (Line 2, Para. 4) most probably means“ _.”.A) narrow-minded B) blind to the factsC) short-sighted D) able to see only one a
33、spect 19. Which of the following, according to the author, should play the leading role in the solution of environmental problems?A) Legislation and government intervention.B) The industrys understanding and support.C) The efforts of environmental health professionals.D) The cooperation of ecologist
34、s, environmental activists and conservationists. 20. Which of the following is true according to the last paragraph?A) Efforts should be exerted on pollution prevention instead of on remedial measures.B) More money should be spent in order to stop pollution.C) Ordinary citizens have no access to tec
35、hnical information on pollution.D) Environmental degradation will be stopped by the end of this decade.Passage ThreeQuestions 21 to 25 are based on the following passage:British universities, groaning under the burden of a huge increase in student numbers, are warning that the tradition of a free ed
36、ucation is at risk. The universities have threatened to impose an admission fee on students to plug a gap in revenue if the government does not act to improve their finances and scrap some public spending cut- backs.The government responded to the universities threat by setting up the most fundament
37、al review of higher education for a generation, under a non-party troubleshooter (调停人), Sir Ron Dearing.One in three school-leavers enters higher education, five times the number when the last review took place thirty years ago.Everyone agrees a system that is feeling the strain after rapid expansio
38、n needs a lot more money - but. there is little hope of getting it from the taxpayer and not much scope for attracting more finance from business.Most colleges believe students should contribute to tuition costs , something that is common elsewhere in the world but would mark a revolutionary change
39、in Britain. Universities want the government to introduce a loan scheme for tuition fees and have suspended their own threatened action for now. They await Dearings advice, ho- ping it will not be too late - some are already reported to be in financial difficulty.As the century nears its end, the wh
40、ole concept of what a university should be is under the microscope. Experts ponder how much they can use computers instead of classrooms, talk of the need for lifelong learning and refer to students as “consumers“.The Confederation (联盟) of British Industry, the key employers organization, wants even
41、 more expansion in higher education to help fight competition on world markets from booming Asian economies. But the government has doubts about more expansion. The Times newspaper agrees, complaining that quality has suffered as student numbers soared, with close tutorial supervision giving way to
42、“mass production methods more typical of European universities.“21. The chief concern of British universities is_.A) how to tackle their present financial difficultyB) how to expand the enrollment to meet the needs of enterprisesC) how to improve their educational technologyD) how to put an end to t
43、he current tendency of quality deterioration22. We can learn from the passage that in Britain_.A) the government pays dearly for its financial policyB) universities are mainly funded by businessesC) higher education is provided free of chargeD) students are ready to accept loan schemes for tuition23
44、. What was the percentage of high school graduates admitted to universities in Britain thirty years ago?A) 20% or so. B) About 15%. C) Above 30%. D) Below 10%.24. It can be inferred from the passage that _.A) the British government will be forced to increase its spending on higher educationB) Britis
45、h employers demand an expansion in enrollment at the expense of qualityC) the best way out for British universities is to follow their European counterpartsD) British students will probably have to pay for their higher education in the near future25. Which of the following is the viewpoint of the Ti
46、mes newspaper?A) Expansion in enrollment is bound to affect the quality of British higher education.B) British universities should expand their enrollment to meet the needs of industry.C) European universities can better meet the needs of the modern world.D) British universities should help fight co
47、mpetition on world markets.Passage FourQuestions 26 to 30 are based on the following passage:Theres simple premise behind what Larry Myers does for a living: If you can smell it, you can find it.Myers is the founder of Auburn Universitys Institute for Biological Detection Systems, the main task of which is to chase the ultimate in detection devices - an artificial nose.For now, the subject
