2004年6月英語(yǔ)六級(jí)真題

1 2004 年年 6 月英語(yǔ)六級(jí)真題月英語(yǔ)六級(jí)真題 Part IListening Comprehension 20 minutes Section A Directions 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 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 hours From the conversation we know that the two were talking about some work they will start at 9 o clock 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 Sample Answer A B C D 1 A Dick s trousers don t match his jacket B Dick looks funny in that yellow jacket C The color of Dick s jacket is too dark D Dick has bad taste in clothes 2 A Call the police station C Show the man her family pictures B Get the wallet for the man D Ask to see the man s driver s license 3 A The temperature is not as high as the man claims B The room will get cool if the man opens the windows C She is following instructions not to use the air conditioning D She is afraid the new epidemic SARS will soon spread all over town 4 A She lost a lot of weight in two years B She stopped exercising two years ago C She had a unique way of staying healthy D She was never persistent in anything she did 5 A The man is not suitable for the position B The job has been given to someone else C She had received only one application letter D The application arrived a week earlier than expected 6 A He s unwilling to fetch the laundry B He has already picked up the laundry C He will go before the laundry is closed 2 D He thinks his mother should get the clothes back 7 A At a shopping center C At an international trade fair B At an electronics company D At a DVD counter in a music store 8 A The woman hated the man talking throughout the movie B The woman saw a comedy instead of a horror movie C The woman prefers light movies before sleep D The woman regrets going to the movie 9 A He is the fight man to get the job done B He is a man with professional expertise C He is not easy to get along with D He is not likely to get the job 10 A It is being forced out of the entertainment industry B It should change its concept of operation C It should revolutionize its technology D It is a very good place to relax Section B Directions 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 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 centre Passage One Questions 11 to 13 are based on the passage you have just heard 11 A He set up the first university in America B He was one of the earliest settlers in America C He can best represent the spirit of early America D He was the most distinguished diplomat in American history 12 A He provided Washington with a lot of money B He persuaded France to support Washington C He served as a general in Washington s army D He represented Washington in negotiations with Britain 13 A As one of the greatest American scholars B As one of America s most ingenious inventors C As one of the founding fathers of the United States D As one of the most famous activists for human rights Passage Two Questions 14 to 17 are based on the passage you have just heard 14 A Because we might be offered a dish of insects B Because nothing but freshly cooked insects are served C Because some yuppies like to horrify guests with insects as food D Because we might meet many successful executives in the media industry 15 A From yuppie clubs C In the supermarket 3 B In the seafood market D On the Internet 16 A It s easy to prepare C It s exotic in appearance B It s tasty and healthful D It s safe to eat 17 A It will be consumed by more and more young people B It will become the first course at dinner parties C It will have to be changed to suit local tastes D It is unlikely to be enjoyed by most People Passage Three Questions 18 to 20 are based on the passage you have just heard 18 A Their business hours are limited B Their safety measures are inadequate C Their banking procedures are complicated D They don t have enough service windows 19 A People who are in the habit of switching from one bank to another B Young people who are fond of modern technology C Young people who are wealthy and well educated D People who have computers at home 20 A To compete for customers B To reduce the size of their staff C To provide services for distant clients D To expand their operations at a lower cost Part IIReading Comprehension 35 minutes Directions 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 mark the corresponding letter on the Answer Sheet with a single line through the centre Passage One Questions 21 to 25 are based on the following passage It was the worst tragedy in maritime 航海的 history six times more deadly than the Titanic When the German cruise ship Wilhelm Gustloff was hit by torpedoes 魚(yú)雷 fired from a Russian submarine in the final winter of World War II more than 10 000 people mostly women children and old people fleeing the final Red Army push into Nazi Germany were packed aboard An ice storm had turned the decks into frozen sheets that sent hundreds of families sliding into the sea as the ship tilted and began to go down Others desperately tried to put lifeboats down Some who succeeded fought off those in the water who had the strength to try to claw their way aboard Most people froze immediately Tll never forget the screams says Christa Ntitzmann 87 one of the 1 200 survivors She recalls watching the ship brightly lit slipping into its dark grave and into seeming nothingness rarely mentioned for more than half a century Now Germany s Nobel Prize winning author Gtinter Grass has revived the memory of the 9 000 dead including more than 4 000 children with his latest novel Crab Walk published last 4 month The book which will be out in English next year doesn t dwell on the sinking its heroine is a pregnant young woman who survives the catastrophe only to say later Nobody wanted to hear about it not here in the West of Germany and not at all in the East The reason was obvious As Grass put it in a recent interview with the weekly Die Woche Because the crimes we Germans are responsible for were and are so dominant we didn t have the energy left to tell of our own sufferings The long silence about the sinking of the Wilhelm Gustloff was probably unavoidable and necessary By unreservedly owning up to their country s monstrous crimes in the Second World War Germans have managed to win acceptance abroad marginalize 使 不得勢(shì) the neo Nazis at home and make peace with their neighbors Today s unified Germany is more prosperous and stable than at any time in its long troubled history For that a half century of willful forgetting about painful memories like the German Titanic was perhaps a reasonable price to pay But even the most politically correct Germans believe that they ye now earned the right to discuss the full historical record Not to equate German suffering with that of its victims but simply to acknowledge a terrible tragedy 21 Why does the author say the sinking of the Wilhelm Gustloff was the worst tragedy in maritime history A It was attacked by Russian torpedoes B Most of its passengers were frozen to death C Its victims were mostly women and children D It caused the largest number of casualties 22 Hundreds of families dropped into the sea when A a strong ice storm tilted the ship B the cruise ship sank all of a sudden C the badly damaged ship leaned toward one side D the frightened passengers fought desperately for lifeboats 23 The Wilhelm Gustloff tragedy was little talked about for more than half a century because Germans A were eager to win international acceptance B felt guilty for their crimes in World War II C ad been pressured to keep silent about it D were afraid of offending their neighbors 24 How does Gunter Grass revive the memory of the Wilhelm Gustloff tragedy A By presenting the horrible scene of the torpedo attack B By describing the ship s sinking in great detail C By giving an interview to the weekly Die Woche D By depicting the survival of a young pregnant woman 25 It can be learned from the passage that Germans no longer think that A they will be misunderstood if they talk about the Wilhelm Gustloff tragedy B the Wilhelm Gustloff tragedy is a reasonable price to pay for the nation s past misdeeds C Germany is responsible for the horrible crimes it committed in World War II D it is wrong to equate their sufferings with those of other countries 5 Passage Two Questions 26 to 30 are based on the following passage Given the lack of fit between gifted students and their schools it is not surprising that such students often have little good to say about their school experience In one study of 400 adul who had achieved distinction in all areas of life researchers found that three fifths of these individuals either did badly in school or were unhappy in school Few MacArthur Prize fellows winners of the MacArthur Award for creative accomplishment had good things to say about their precollegiate schooling if they had not been placed in advanced programs Anecdotal 名人軼事 reports support this Pablo Picasso Charles Darwin Mark Twain Oliver Goldsmith and William Butler Yeats all disliked school So did Winston Churchill who almost failed out of Harrow an elite British school About Oliver Goldsmith one of his teachers remarked Never was so dull a boy Often these children realize that they know more than their teachers and their teachers often feel that these children are arrogant inattentive or unmotivated Some of these gifted people may have done poorly in school because their gifts we re not scholastic Maybe we can account for Picasso in this way But most fared poorly i n school not because they lacked ability but because they found school unchallenging and consequently lost interest Yeats described the lack of fit between his mind and school Because I had found it difficult to attend to anything less interesting than my own though ts I was difficult to teach As noted earlier gifted children of all kinds tend to be stron g willed nonconformists Nonconformity and stubbornness and Yeats s level of arrogance a nd self absorption are likely to lead to Conflicts with teachers When highly gifted students in any domain talk about what was important to the de velopment of their abilities they are far more likely to mention their families than their s chools or teachers A writing prodigy 神童 studied by David Feldman and Lynn Goldsm ith was taught far more about writing by his journalist father than his English teacher Hi gh IQ children in Australia studied by Miraca Gross had much more positive feelings abo ut their families than their schools About half of the mathematicians studied by Benjamin Bloom had little good to say about school They all did well in school and took honors c lasses when available and some skipped grades 26 The main point the author is making about schools is that A they should satisfy the needs of students from different family backgrounds B they are often incapable of catering to the needs of talented students C they should organize their classes according to the students ability D they should enroll as many gifted students as possible 27 The author quotes the remarks of one of Oliver Goldsmith s teachers A to provide support for his argument B to illustrate the strong will of some gifted children C to explain how dull students can also be successful D to show how poor Oliver s performance was at school 28 Pablo Picasso is listed among the many gifted children who A paid no attention to their teachers in class B contradicted their teachers much too often C could not cope with their studies at school successfully 6 D behaved arrogantly and stubbornly in the presence of their teachers 29 Many gifted people attributed their success A mainly to parental help and their education at home B both to school instruction and to their parents coaching C more to their parents encouragement than to school training D less to their systematic education than to their talent 30 The root cause of many gifted students having bad memories of their school years is that A their nonconformity brought them a lot of trouble B they were seldom praised by their teachers C school courses failed to inspire or motivate them D teachers were usually far stricter than their parents Passage Three Questions 31 to 35 are based on the following passage When we worry about who might be spying on our private lives we usually think about the Federal agents But the private sector outdoes the government every time It s Linda Tripp not the FBI who is facing charges under Maryland s laws against secret telephone taping It s our banks not the Internal Revenue Service IRS that pass our private financial data to telemarketing fin ms Consumer activists are pressing Congress for better privacy laws without much result so far The legislators lean toward letting business people track our financial habits virtually at will As an example of what s going on consider U S Bancorp which was recently sued for deceptive practices by the state of Minnesota According to the lawsuit the bank supplied a telemarketer called MemberWorks with sensitive customer data such as names ph one numbers bank account and credit card numbers Social Security numbers account balances and credit limits With these customer lists in hand MemberWorks started dialing for dollars selling dental plans videogames computer software and other products and services Customers who accepted a free trial offer had 30 days to cancel If the deadline passed they were charged automatically through their bank or credit card accounts U S Bancorp collected a share of the revenues Customers were doubly deceived the lawsuit claims They didn t know that the bank was giving account numbers to MemberWorks And if customers asked they were led to think the answer was no The state sued MemberWorks separately for deceptive selling Thecompany de hies that it did anything wrong For its part U S Bancorp settled without admitting any mistakes But it agreed to stop exposing its customers to nonfinancial products sold by outside firms A few top banks decided to do the same Many other banks will still do business with MemberWorks and similar firms And banks will still be mining data from your account in order to sell you financial products including things of little value such as credit insurance and credit card protection plans You have almost no protection from businesses that use your personal accounts for profit For example no federal law shields transaction and experience information mainly the details of your bank and credit card accounts Social Security numbers are for sale by private fa ms They ve generally agreed not to sell to the public But to businesses the numbers are an open book Selfregulation doesn t work A firm might publish a privacy protection policy but who enforces it 7 Take U S Bancorp again Customers were told in writing that all personal information you supply to us will be considered confidential Then it sold your data to MemberWorks The bank even claims that it doesn t sell your data at all It merely shares it and reaps a profit Now you know 31 Contrary to popular belief the author finds that spying on people s privacy A is mainly carried out by means of secret taping B has been intensified with the help of the IRS C is practiced exclusively by the FBI D is more prevalent in business circles 32 We know from the passage that A legislators are acting to pass a law to provide better privacy protection B most states are turning a blind eye to the deceptive practices of private businesses C the state of Minnesota is considering drawing up laws to protect private information D lawmakers are inclined to give a free hand to businesses to inquire into customers buying habits 33 When the free trial deadline is over you ll be charged without notice for a product or service if A you fail to cancel it within the specified period B you happen to reveal your credit card number C you find the product or service unsatisfactory D you fail to apply for extension of the deadline 34 Businesses do not regard information concerning personal bank accounts as private because A its revelation will do no harm to consumers under the current protection policy B it is considered transaction and experience information unprotected by law C it has always been considered an open secret by the general public D its sale can be brought under control through self regulation 35 We can infer from the passage that A banks will have to change their ways of doing business B privacy protection laws will soon be enforced C consumers privacy will continue to be invaded D free trial practice will eventually be banned Passage Four Questions 36 to 40 are based on the following passage It s hardly news that the immigration system is a mess Foreign nationals have long been slipping across the border with fake papers and visitors who arrive in the U S legitimately often overstay their legal welcome without being punished But since Sept 11 it s become clear that terrorists have been shrewdly factoring the weaknesses of our system into their plans In addition to their mastery of forging passports at least three of the 19