年月六级试题（1）

Directions：

Part One Listening Comprehension (20 minutes)(略) Part Two Reading Comprehension (35 minutes) Directions: There are 4 reading 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 center.

Passage 1

Good sense is the most equitably distributed thing in the world, for each man considers himself so well provided with it that even those who are most difficult to satisfy in everything else do not usually wish to have more of it than the y have already. It is not likely that everyone is mistaken in this; it shows, rather, that the ability to judge rightly and separate the true from the false, which is essentially what is called good sense or reason, is by nature equal in all men, and thus that our opinions differ not because some men are better endowed with reason than others, but only because we direct our thoughts along different paths, and do not consider the same things, for it is not enough to have a good mind: what is most important is to apply it rightly. The greatest souls are cap able of the greatest vices; and those who walk very slowly can advance much further, if they always keep to the direct road, than those who run and go astray. For my part, I have never presumed my mind to be more perfect than average in an y way; I have, in fact, often wished that my thoughts were as quick, or my imagination as precise and distinct, or my memory as capacious or prompt, as those of some other men. And I know of no other qualities than these which make for the perfection of the mind; for as to reason, or good sense, in as much as it alone makes us men and distinguishes us from the beasts, I am quite willing to believe that it is whole and entire in each of

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年月六级试题（2）

Part II Reading Comprehension (35 minutes)

Directions: There are 4 reading 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 1

In America, the movement of housing away from the high-rise buildings of the inner-cities originated in the 1920s, but was stalled by the Great Depression of the 1930s and by WW II. After the war a tremendous surge occurred in the real estate market with the advent of single-family homes on relatively small lots—typically less than one-tenth of an acre. During the 1950s, many large tract developments encroached on former farmlands near metropolitan areas. The most dramatic instances of this sprawling effect were witnessed in western municipalities such as San Jose and San Diego whose city charters defined their over several hundred square kilometers. These large parcels of land were over-run by standard three bedrooms, two bath“ranch-style”homes in a few short dcades.

By the 1960s construction had subsided significantly and developers began building different kinds of plans to try and accommodate the changes in the market. Those who had taken advantage of the suburbanization trend in the post-war years had seen the value of their real estate increase dramatically and many were anxious to reinvest their assets. In an effort to reap this affluence, certain contractors moved away from the standard models and began designing larger buildings on increasingly spacious pareels even farther from city centers. Other builders began working on homes to meet the needs of young couples starting new families. The townhouse, a two to three-story brick and frame structure containing more than 4 but less than 30 units per structure, was

年月六级试题（3）

Part II Reading Comprehension (35 minutes)

Directions: There are 4 reading 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 1It is hard to predict how science is going to turn out, and if it is really good science it is impossible to predict. If the things to be found are actually new, they are by definition unknown in advance. You cannot make choices in this matter. You either have science or you don't, and if you have it you are obliged to accept the surprising and disturbing pieces of information, along with the neat and promptly useful bits.

The only solid piece of scientific truth about which I feel totally confident is that we are profoundly ignorant about nature. Indeed, I regard this as the major discovery of the past hundred years of biology. It is, in its way, an illuminating piece of news. It would have amazed the brightest minds of the 18th century Enlightenment to be told by any of us how little we know and how bewildering seems the way ahead. It is this sudden confrontation with the depth and scope of ignorance that represents the most significant contribution of the 20th century science to the human intellect. In earlier times, we either pretended to understand how things worked or ignored the problem, or simply made up stories to fill the gaps. Now that we have begun exploring in earnest, we are getting glimpses of how huge the questions are, and how far from being answered. Because of this, we are depressed. It is not so bad being ignorant if you are totally ignorant; the hard thing is knowing in some detail the reality of ignorance, the worst spots and here and there the not-so-bad spots, but no true light at the end of t

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年月六级试题（4）

Part II Reading Comprehension (35 minutes)

Directions:There are four reading passages in this part. Each passage is followed by some questions. For each question there are four suggested answers marked A,B,C and D, you should choose the One best answer and blacken the corresponding letter on the ANSWER SHEET with a pencil. Passage 1

Legal and accounting firms throughout Australia could streamline their advice to clients seeking a divorce with a new expert program that“thinks" like Family Court judges.

The software package, appropriately called“Split UP" was developed by Dr. John Zeleznikow and a team of researchers in La Trobe University's Department of Computer Science.

It is the first in the world designed to weigh up court judgments in previous cases to predict the way property would be divided for a particular divorce if proceeded to court.

While anyone can get a divorce, the rules on the division of property are up to the judge. Deciding who gets what is a complex procedure based on future needs and past contributions.

Split up, which can be installed on any PC, asks a sequence of relevant questions about the health, work history, children, property and future needs of the partners in a divorce. It then decides what percentage allocation to each partner would be in court and provides a series of arguments in favour of the decision.

Its major advantage, says Dr. Zeleznikow, is that people are less likely to litigate once they know the likely court outcome.“Let's say the program predicts that each partner will get $250 000 from a property settlement. If they go to court the cost to each could be $ 50 000 to litigate. This is a powerful incentive to negotiate instead."

The La Trobe research team has attracted international attention for its devleopment of systems which can reason with both statutes (rules) and

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年月六级试题（5）

Part II Reading Comprehension(35 minutes)

Directions: There are 4 reading 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 1

Opinion polls are now beginning to show that, whoever is to blame and whatever happens from now on, high unemployment is probably here to say. This means we shall have to find ways of sharing the available employment more widely.

But we need to go further. We must ask some fundamental questions about the future work. Should we continue to treat employment as the norm? Should we not rather encourage many ways for self-respecting people to work? Should we not create conditions in which many of us can work for ourselves, rather than for an employer? Should we not aim to revive the household and the neighborhood, as well as the factory and the office, as centers of production and work?

The industrial age has been the only period of human history in which most people's work has taken the form of jobs. The industrial age may now becoming to an end, and some of the changes in work patterns which it brought may have to be reverseD.This seems a daunting thought. But, in fact, it could offer the prospect of a better future for work. Universal employment, as its history shows, has not meant economic freedom.

Employment became widespread when the enclosures of the 17th and 18th centuries made many people dependent on paid work by depriving them of the use of the land, and thus of the means to provide a living for themselves. Then the factory system destroyed the cottage industries and removed work from people's homes. Later, as transport improved, first by rail and then by road, people commut

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年月六级试题（6）

The Seattle Times Company is one newspaper firm that has recognized the need for changeand done something about it. In the newspaper industry, papers must reflect the diversityof the communities to which they provide information.It must reflect that diversity with their news coverage or risk (71) losing their readers' interest and their advertisers' support. Operating within Seattle, which has 20 percents racial (72) minorities, the paper has put into place policies and  procedures for hiring and maintain a diverse workforce. The (73) underlying reason for the change is that for information to be fair, appropriate, and subjective, it should be reported by the (74) same kind of population that reads it.

A diversity committee composed of reporters, editors, and photographers meets regularly to value the Seattle (75) Times' content and to educate the rest of the newsroom staff about diversity issues. In an addition, the paper instituted a content (76) audit that evaluates the frequency and manner of representation of woman and people of color in photographs. (77) Early audits showed that minorities were pictured far too infrequently and were pictured with a disproportionate number of negative articles. The audit results from (78) improvement in the frequency of majority representation and (79) their portrayal in neutral or positive situations. And, with a (80) result, the Seattle Times has improved as a newspaper. The diversity training and content audits helped the Seattle Times Company to win the Personnel Journal Optimas Award for excellence in managing change.

71、it改为they

72、percents改为percent

73、maintain改为maintaining

74、subjective改为objective

75、（有争议）meets改为meet ? value改为evaluate

76、去掉 an

77、woman 改为women

78、from改为 in

79、majority改为minority

80、with 改为 as

年月六级试题（7）

Part I Listening Comprehension (20 minutes)

Section A

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.

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.

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年月六级试题（8）

大学英语六级新题型考试（一）

COLLEGE ENGLISH TEST

—Band Six—

(6 MSH 2)

Part I Writing(30 minutes)

Directions: For this part, you are allowed 30 minutes to write a short essay entitled To Curb Spending? You should write at least 150 words following the outline given below:

1. 现在许多大学生花钱大手大脚

2. 有人认为社会整体生活水平提高了，大学生花钱多一些无可厚非

3. 你的看法

Part ⅡReading Comprehension (Skimmin

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年月六级试题（9）

[Section A]

1.A 材料略?

A) Registering for courses.  C) Buying a new computer.

B) Getting directions. D) Studying sociology.

[分析］显然，关键词是deadline（最终期限）和course（课程），选课的截止日期是后天，但他还没有决定选那一门课。答案为A.

2.D 材料略?

A) The man will probably have to find a roommate.

B) The man is unlikely to live in the suburbs.

C) The man will probably have to buy a car.

D) The man is unlikely to find exactly what he desires.

[分析］从对话中可知，300元的房子很难找，更何况200元的房子？答案为D.

3.B 材料略?

A) Painting a picture. C) Designing a studio.

B) Hosting a programD) Taking a photograph.

[分析］从对话中可知，Prof.Brown 应邀去作嘉宾，自然，那女人是节目主持人．答案Ｂ．

4.C 材料略?

A) The woman doesn't think it a problem to get her passport renewed.

B) The woman has difficulty renewing her passport.

C) The woman hasn't renewed her passport yet.

D) The woman's passport is still valid.?

[分析］“更新密码时碰到什么问题？”“我还没有开始呢．”答案Ｃ．

5.B 材料略?

A) A prediction of the future of mankind.

B) A new drug that may benefit mankind.

C) An opportunity for a good job.

D) An unsuccessful experiment.

[分析］中心词是medicine，答案Ｂ．(drug，药）

6.A 材料略?

A) A lesson requires students' active involvement.

B) Students usually take an active part in a lecture.

C) More knowledge is covered in a lecture.

D) There is a larger group of people interested in lessons.?

[分析］两人讨论的'是lesson和lecture的区别，注意细节but the main difference is that you participate in a lesson whereas you just listen to a lecture，可知，lesson 中你参与，而lecture中则不然。whereas 然而，反之。答案Ａ．

7.B 材料略?

A) Neither of their watches keeps good time.

B) The woman's watch stopped 3 hours ago.

C) The man's watch goes too fast.

D) It's too dark for the woman to read her watch.?

[分析］从对话中可知，那个男人的表停了3个小时，因为他４点时说天黑了，而实际上是７点了。答案Ｂ．

8.D 材料略?