2006年12月大学英语六级考试(CET6)试题与参考答案(新题型)

注意:此部分试题请在答题卡2上作答.
47. Many people whose possessions were destroyed in natural disasters eventually considered their loss ____________.
48. Now that all their possessions were lost in the fire, the woman and her husband felt that their lives had been _________.
49. What do we know about the author’s house from the sentence “Gibbs and I did have a close call…” (Lines 1-2, Para. 4)?
50. According to the author, getting rid of possessions and losing them through a natural disaster are vastly ________.
51. What does the author suggest people do with unnecessary things?

Section B
Directions: There are 2 passages in this section. 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 Answer Sheet 2 with a single line through the center.

Passage One
Questions 52 to 56 are based on the following passage.
    In a purely biological sense, fear begins with the body’s system for reacting to things that can harm us—the so-called fight-or-flight response. “An animal that can’t detect danger can’t stay alive,” says Joseph LeDoux. Like animals, humans evolved with an elaborate mechanism for processing information about potential threats. At its core is a cluster of neurons(神经元) deep in the brain known as the amygdala (扁桃核).
    LeDoux studies the way animals and humans respond to threats to understand how we form memories of significant events in our lives. The amygdala receives input from many parts of the brain, including regions responsible for retrieving memories. Using this information, the amygdala appraises a situation—I think this charging dog wants to bite me—and triggers a response by radiating nerve signals throughout the body. These signals produce the familiar signs of distress: trembling perspiration and fast-moving feet, just to name three.
    This fear mechanism is critical to the survival of all animals, but no one can say for sure whether beasts other than humans know they’re afraid. That is, as LeDoux says, “if you put that system into a brain that has consciousness, then you get the feeling of fear.”
    Humans, says Edward M. Hallowell, have the ability to call up images of bad things that happened in the past and to anticipate future events. Combine these higher thought processes with our hardwired danger-detection systems, and you get a near-universal human phenomenon: worry.
    That’s not necessarily a bad thing, says Hallowell. “When used properly, worry is an incredible device,” he says. After all, a little healthy worrying is okay if it leads to constructive action—like having a doctor look at that weird spot on your back.
   Hallowell insists, though, that there’s a right way to worry. “Never do it alone, get the facts and then make a plan,” he says, Most of us have survived a recession. So we’re familiar with the belt-tightening strategies needed to survive a slump.
    Unfortunately, few of us have much experience dealing with the threat of terrorism, so it’s been difficult to get facts about how we should respond. That’s why Hallowell believes it was okay for people to indulge some extreme worries last fall by asking doctors for Cipro (抗炭疽菌的药物) and buying gas masks.

注意：此部分试题请在答题卡2上作答。
52．The “so-called fight-or-flight response” (Line 2, Para. 1) refers to “____ ”.
    A) the biological process in which human being’s sense of self-defense evolves
    B) the instinctive fear human beings feel when faced with potential danger
    C) the act of evaluating a dangerous situation and making a quick decision
    D) the elaborate mechanism in the human brain for retrieving information
53. From the studies conducted by LeDoux we learn that ____.
    A) reactions of humans and animals to dangerous situations are often unpredictable
    B) memories of significant events enable people to control fear and distress
    C) people’s unpleasant memories are derived from their feelings of fear
    D) the amygdala plays a vital part in human and animal responses to potential danger
54. From the passage we know that ____.
    A) a little worry will do us good if handled properly
    B) a little worry will enable us to survive a recession
    C) fear strengthens the human desire to survive danger
    D) fear helps people to anticipate certain future events
55. Which of the following is the best way to deal with your worries according to Hallowell?
    A) Ask for help from the people around you.
    B) Use the belt-tightening strategies for survival.
    C) Seek professional advice and take action.
    D) Understand the situation and be fully prepared.
56. In Hallowell’s view, people’s reaction to the terrorist threat last fall was ____.
    A) ridiculous

    B) understandable
    C) over-cautious

    D) sensible

　

Passage Two
Questions 57 to 61 are based on the following passage.
    Amitai Etzioni is not surprised by the latest headings about scheming corporate crooks (骗子). As a visiting professor at the Harvard Business School in 1989, he ended his work there disgusted with his students’ overwhelming lust for money. “They’re taught that profit is all that matters,” he says, “Many schools don’t even offer ethics (伦理学) courses at all.”
    Etzioni expressed his frustration about the interests of his graduate students. “By and large, I clearly had not found a way to help chasses full of MBAs see that there is more to life than money, power, fame and self-interest,” he wrote at the time. Today he still takes the blame for not educating these “business-leaders-to-be.” “I really feel like I failed them,” he says, “If I was a better teacher maybe I could have reached them.”
    Etzioni was a respected ethics expert when he arrived at Harvard. He hoped his work at the university would give him insight into how questions of morality could be applied to places where self-interest flourished. What he found wasn’t encouraging. Those would-be executives had, says Etzioni, little interest in concepts of ethics and morality in the boardroom—and their professor was met with blank stares when he urged his students to see business in new and different ways.
    Etzioni sees the experience at Harvard as an eye-opening one and says there’s much about business schools that he’d like to change. “A lot of the faculty teaching business are bad news themselves,” Etzioni says. From offering classes that teach students how to legally manipulate contracts, to reinforcing the notion of profit over community interests, Etzioni has seen a lot that’s left him shaking his head. And because of what he’s seen taught in business schools, he’s not surprised by the latest rash of corporate scandals. “In many ways things have got a lot worse at business schools, I suspect,” says Etzioni.
    Etzioni is still teaching the sociology of right and wrong and still calling for ethical business leadership. “People with poor motives will always exist,” he says. “Sometimes environments constrain those people and sometimes environments give those people opportunity.” Etzioni says the booming economy of the last decade enabled those individuals with poor motives to get rich before getting in trouble. His hope now: that the cries for reform will provide more fertile soil for his longstanding messages about business ethics.

注意：此部分试题请在答题卡2上作答。
57. What impressed Amitai Etzioni most about Harvard MBA students?
    A) Their keen interest in business course.
    B) Their intense desire for money.
    C) Their tactics for making profits.
    D) Their potential to become business leaders.
58. Why did Amitai Etzioni say “I really fell like I failed them” (Line 4, Para. 2)?
    A) He was unable to alert his students to corporate malpractice.
    B) He didn’t teach his students to see business in new and different ways.
    C) He could not get his students to understand the importance of ethics in business.
    D) He didn’t offer courses that would meet the expectations of the business-leaders-to-be.
59. Most would-be executives at the Harvard Business School believed that ____.
    A) questions of morality were of utmost importance in business affairs
    B) self-interest should not be the top priority in business dealings
    C) new and different principles should be taught at business schools
    D) there was no place for ethics and morality in business dealings
60. In Etzioni’s view, the latest rash of corporate scandals could be attributed to ____.
    A) the tendency in business schools to stress self-interest over business ethics
    B) the executives’ lack of knowledge in legally manipulating contracts
    C) the increasingly fierce competition in the modern business world
    D) the moral corruption of business school graduates
61. We learn from the last paragraph that ____.
    A) the calls for reform will help promote business ethics
    B) businessmen with poor motives will gain the upper hand
    C) business ethics courses should be taught in all business schools
    D) reform in business management contributes to economic growth

Part V Error Correction(15 minutes)
Directions: This part consists of a short passage. In this passage, there are altogether 10 mistakes, one in each numbered line. You may have to change a word, add a word or delete a word. Mark out the mistakes and put the corrections in the blanks provided. If you change a word, cross it out and write the correct word in the corresponding blank. If you add a word, put an insertion mark (∧) in the right place and write the missing word in the blank. If you delete a word, cross it out and put a slash ( / ) in the blank.

注意：此部分试题在答题卡2上：请在答题卡2上作答。

Example:

Television is rapidly becoming the literature of our periods.         1. time/times/period
Many of the arguments having used for the study of literature as a    2.
school subject are valid for∧study of television.                    3. the

Part V Error Correction

    The National Endowment for the Arts recently released
the results of its “Reading at Risk” survey, which described
the movement of the American public away from books and
literature and toward television and electronic media.
According to the survey, “reading is on the decline on every         62. _____
region, within every ethnic group, and at every educational level.”
    The day the NEA report released, the U.S. House, in a tie         63. _____
vote, upheld the government’s right to obtain bookstore and
library records under a provision of the USA Patriot Act. The
House proposal would have barred the federal government
from demand library records, reading lists, book customer             64._____
lists and other material in terrorism and intelligence investigations.
    These two events are completely unrelated to, yet they            65._____
echo each other in the message they send about the place of
books and reading in American culture. At the heart
of the NEA survey is the belief in our democratic                     66._____
system depends on leaders who can think critically, analyze
texts and writing clearly. All of these are skills promoted by        67._____
reading and discussing books and literature. At the same time,
through a provision of the Patriot Act, the leaders of our
country are unconsciously sending the message that reading
may be connected to desirable activities that might                   68._____
undermine our system of government rather than helping
democracy flourish.
    Our culture’s decline in reading begin well before the           69._____
existence of the Patriot Act. During the 1980s’ culture wars,
school systems across the country pulled some books from
library shelves because its content was deemed by parents             70._____
and teachers to be inappropriate. Now what started in schools
across the country is playing itself out on a nation stage and        71._____
is possibly having an impact on the reading habits of the
American public.

Part VI Translation (5 minutes)

Directions: Complete the sentences by translating into English the Chinese given in brackets. Please write your translation on Answer Sheet 2.

注意：此部分试题请在答题卡2上作答，只需写出译文部分。

72. If you had ____________（听从了我的忠告，你就不会陷入麻烦）.
73. With tears on her face, the lady ____________（看着她受伤的儿子被送进手术室）.
74. After the terrorist attack, tourists ____________（被劝告暂时不要去该国旅游）.
75. I prefer to communicate with my customers ____________（通过写电子邮件而不是打电话）.
76. ____________（直到截止日他才寄出）his application form.

　

2006年12月24日六级试题真题参考答案

2006年12月24日CET-6考试试卷答案

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Part I Writing

Part II Reading Comprehension (Skimming and Scanning )

    1 N
　　2 Y
　　3 Y
　　4 NG

　　5 a trip to the Mir Space Station
　　6 a space hotel
　　7 small gravitational pull
　　8 the fuel of spacecraft
　　9 $50,000
　　10 space travel

Part III Listening Comprehension

Part IV Reading Comprehension (Reading in Depth )

    47 as a blessing
　　48 simplified
　　49 their house need to be simplified.
　　50 different
　　51 make a list of the unnecessary things before unloading them

　　52 B the instinctive fear human beings feel when faced with potential danger
　　53 D the amygdala plays a vital part in human and animal responses to potential danger
　　54 A a little worry will do us good if handled properly
　　55 D Understand the situation and be fully prepared.
　　56 B understandable

　　57 B Their intense desire for money.
　　58 C He could not get his students to understand the importance of ethics in business.
　　59 D there was no place for ethics and morality in business dealings
　　60 A the tendency in business school to stress self-interest over business ethics
　　61 A the calls for reform will help promote business ethics

Part V

    62. on→in
　　63. day和the之间插入when
　　64.demand→demanding
　　65. 去掉to
　　66 in 改为that
　　67. writing→write
　　68.desirable→undesirable
　　69. begin→began
　　70 its→theirs
　　71.nation→national

Part VI Translation

    72 followed my advice/suggestion, you would not have been/put yourself in trouble.
　　73 watched her injured son being sent into the surgery.
　　74 were (have been) suggested / advised not to go to that country / choose that country as their destination.
　　75 via/ with/ through email instead of telephone.
　　76 It was not until the deadline did he send out.

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