2004年6月大学英语六级考试试题及参考答案.pdf

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1、2004 年 6 月大学英语六级考试试题及参考答案 我爱英语网 http:/ Part I Listening 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.Afte

2、r each question the re 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 centre.Example:You will hear:You will read:A)2 hours.B)3 hours.C)4 ho

3、urs.D)5 hours.From the conversation we know that the two are talking about some work they will start at 9 oclock in the morning and have to finish by 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 centre

4、.Sample Answer A B C D 1.A)Dicks trousers dont 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.B)Get the wallet for the man.C)Show the man her family pictures.D)Ask to see the mans drivers

5、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 stop

6、ped 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 exp

7、ected.6.A)Hes unwilling to fetch the laundry.B)He has already picked up the laundry.C)He will go before the laundry is closed.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

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 ge

9、t 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

10、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 choice marked A),B),C)and D).Then mark the corresponding letter on the Answer Sheet with a single line through the cent

11、re.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 prov

12、ided Washington with a lot of money.B)He persuaded France to support Washington.C)He served as a general in Washingtons army.D)He represented Washington in negotiations with Britain.13.A)As one of the greatest American scholars.B)As one of Americas most ingenious inventors.C)As one of the founding f

13、athers 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 hor

14、rify guests with insects as food.D)Because we might meet many successful executives in the media industry.15.Ai From yuppie clubs.C)In the supermarket.B)In the seafood market.D)On the Internet.16.A)Its easy to prepare.C)Its exotic in appearance.B)Its tasty and healthful.D)Its safe to eat.17.A)It wil

15、l 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

16、limited.B)Their safety measures are inadequate.C)Their banking procedures are complicated.D)They dont 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

17、)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 II Reading Comprehension(35 minutes)Passage One Questions 21 to 25 are based on the following passage.It wa

18、s 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(鱼雷)fired from a Russian submarine in the final winter of World War II,more than 10,00 0 people-mostly women,children and old people fleeing the final R

19、ed 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 t

20、he strength to try to claw their way aboard.Most people froze immediately.Ill 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 centu

21、ry.Now Germanys 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 month.The book,which will be out in English next year,doesnt dwell on the sinking;its heroine is a pregnant young woman

22、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,w

23、e didnt 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 countrys monstrous crimes in the Second World War,Germans have managed to win acceptance abroad,marginalize(

24、使.不得势)the neo-Nazis at home and make peace with their neighbors.Todays 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 ev

25、en 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 tr

26、agedy 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 cruis

27、e 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 fo

28、r their crimes in World War II C)had 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 ships sinking in great detail

29、.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

30、 price to pay for the nations 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 Passage Two Questions 26 to 30 are based on the following passage.Given the lack of fit between gifted stud

31、ents 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 adult 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 i

32、n 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(名人轶事)reports support this.Pablo Picasso,Charles Darwin,Mark Twain,Oliver Gold smith,an

33、d 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 t

34、hat these children are arrogant,inattentive,or unmotivated.Some of these gifted people may have done poorly in school because their,gifts were not scholastic.Maybe we can account for Picasso in this way.But most fared poorly in school not because they lacked ability but because they found school unc

35、hallenging 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 thoughts,I was difficult to teach.As noted earlier,gifted children of all kinds tend to be strong-willed nonconfor

36、mists.Nonconformity and stubbornness(and Yeatss level of arrogance and self-absorption)are likely to lead to Conflicts with teachers.When highly gifted students in any domain talk about what was important to the development of their abilities,they are far more likely to mention their families than t

37、heir schools or teachers.A writing prodigy(神童)studied by David Feldman and Lynn Goldsmith was taught far more about writing by his journalist father than his English teacher.High-IQ children,in Australia studied by Miraca Gross had much more positive feelings about their families than their schools.

38、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 classes 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 dif

39、ferent 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 Goldsmiths teachers .A)

40、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 Olivers performance was at school 28.Pablo Picasso is listed among the many gifted children who .A)paid no attention to their teachers

41、in class B)contradicted their teachers much too often C)could not cope with their studies at school successfully 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

42、 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

43、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

44、 think about the Federal agents.But the private sector outdoes the government every time.Its Linda Tripp,not the FBI,who is facing charges under Marylands laws against secret telephone taping.Its our banks,not the Internal Revenue Service(IRS),that pass our private financial data to telemarketing fi

45、rms.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 whats going on,consider U.S.Bancorp,which was recently sued for deceptive practices by the

46、 state of Minnesota.According to the lawsuit,the bank supplied a telemarketer called MemberWorks with sensitive customer data such as names,phone numbers,bank-account and credit-card numbers,Social Security numbers,account balances and credit limits.With these customer lists in hand,MemberWorks star

47、ted 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

48、 the revenues.Customers were doubly deceived,the lawsuit claims.They didnt 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.The company defends that it did anything

49、 wrong.For its part,U.S.Bancorp settled without admit ting 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 b

50、e 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 a