1990年6月大学英语六级(CET-6)真题试卷

一切为了学生的发展 一切为了家长的心愿 1990 年 6 月大学英语六级 CET 6 真题试卷 Part I Listening Comprehension 20 minutes Section A 1 A A new house cost thirty thousand dollars B Bob s house cost him sixty thousand dollars C Bob didn t want to buy an old house D Bob decided to buy an old house 2 A Yes but he needs to have the approval of his professor B Yes he can study there if he is writing a research paper C Yes because he is a senior student D No it s open only to teachers and postgraduates 3 A He doesn t like seafood any more B A seafood dinner is too expensive C He doesn t have enough money D He likes seafood very much 4 A He went to the hospital to take his wife home B He stayed in the hospital until very late He tried to call the woman several times He went to the hospital at midnight yesterday 5 Her errors were mainly in the reading part B It wasn t very challenging to her C It was more difficult than she had expected D She made very few grammatical mistakes in her test 6 A 6 hours B 4 hours C 12 hours D 18 hours 7 A It s dirty B It s faded C It s dyed D It s torn 一切为了学生的发展 一切为了家长的心愿 8 A Sixteen dollars B Eight dollars C Ten dollars D Twelve dollars 9 A His watch will be fixed no later than next Monday B His watch needs to be repaired C He may come again for his watch at the weekend D The woman won t repair his watch until next Monday 10 A The things to do on Monday morning B The weather on Monday morning C The time to see John D The place John should go to Section B Passage One Questions 11 to 14 are based on the passage you have just heard 11 A The number of its readers B Its unusual location C Its comfortable chairs D Its spacious rooms 12 A The latest version of the Bible B A book written by Columbus C A map of the New World D One of the earliest copies of Shakespeare s work 13 A It has too few employees B It lacks money to cover its expenses C It is over crowded D It is growing too rapidly 14 A From Monday to Friday B From Monday to Saturday C Every day D On Saturdays and Sundays 一切为了学生的发展 一切为了家长的心愿 Passage Two Questions 15 to 17 are based on the passage you have just heard 15 A They would train the children to be happy street cleaners B They would make the children great scholars C They intended to train the children as adults were trained D They would give the children freedom to fully develop themselves 16 A Some children are good some are not B Children are good by nature C Most children are nervous D Children are not as brave as adults 17 A He thinks a scholar is more respectable than a street cleaner B He thinks highly of teaching as a profession C He thinks all jobs are equally good so long as people like them D He thinks a street cleaner is happier than a scholar Passage Three Questions 18 to 20 are based on the passage you have just heard 18 A The daughter of a prison guard B The Emperor of Rome C A Christian couple D A Christian named Valentine 19 A To propose marriage B To celebrate Valentine s birthday C To express their respect for each other D To show their love 20 A It is an American folktale B It is something recorded in Roman history C It is one of the possible origins of this holiday D It is a story from the Bible Part II Reading Comprehension 35 minutes Passage One Questions 21 to 25 are based on the following passage 一切为了学生的发展 一切为了家长的心愿 One day in January 1913 G H Hardy a famous Cambridge University mathematician received a letter from an Indian named Srinivasa Ramanujan asking him for his opinion of 120 mathematical theorems 定理 that Ramanujan said he had discovered To Hardy many of the theorems made no sense Of the others one or two were already well known Ramanujan must be some kind of trickplayer Hardy decided and put the letter aside But all that day the letter kept hanging round Hardy Might there be something in those wild looking theorems That evening Hardy invited another brilliant Cambridge mathematician J E Littlewood and the two men set out to assess the Indian s worth That incident was a turning point in the history of mathematics At the time Ramanujan was an obscure Madras Port Trust clerk A little more than a year later he was at Cambridge University and beginning to be recognized as one of the most amazing mathematicians the world has ever known Though he died in 1920 much of his work was so far in advance of his time that only in recent years is it beginning to be properly understood Indeed his results are helping solve today s problems in computer science and physics problems that he could have had no notion of For Indians moreover Ramanujan has a special significance Ramanujan though born in poor and ill paid accountant s family 100 years ago has inspired many Indians to adopt mathematics as career Much of Ramanujan s work is in number theory a branch of mathematics that deals with the subtle 难以捉摸的 laws and relationships that govern numbers Mathematicians describe his results as elegant and beautiful but they are much too complex to be appreciated by laymen His life though is full of drama and sorrow It is one of the great romantic stories of mathematics a distressing reminder that genius can surface and rise in the most unpromising circumstances 21 When Hardy received the 120 theorems from Ramanujan his attitude at first might be best described as A uninterested B unsympathetic C suspicious D curious 22 Ramanujan s position in Cambridge University owed much to A the judgement of his work by Hardy and Littlewood B his letter of application accepted by Hardy C his work as a clerk at Madras Port Trust D his being recognized by the world as a famous mathematician 23 It may be inferred from the passage that the author A feels sorry for Ramanujan s early death B is dissatisfied with the slow development of computer science C is puzzled about the complexity of Ramanujan s theorems D greatly appreciates Ramanujan s mathematical genius 一切为了学生的发展 一切为了家长的心愿 24 In the last paragraph the author points out that A Ramanujan s mathematical theorems were not appreciated by other mathematicians B extremely talented people can prove their worth despite difficult circumstances C Ramanujan also wrote a number of stories about mathematics D Ramanujan had worked out an elegant but complicated method of solving problems 25 The word laymen Last Para Lind 6 most probably means A people who do not specialize in mathematical science B people who are careless C people who are not interested in mathematics D people who don t like to solve complicated problems Passage Two Questions 26 to 30 are based on the following passage Even if all the technical and intellectual problems can be solved there are major social problems inherent in the computer revolution The most obvious is unemployment since the basic purpose of commercial computerization is to get more work done by fewer people One British study predicts that automation induced unemployment in Western Europe could reach 16 6 in the next decade but most analyses are more optimistic The general rule seems to be that new technology eventually creates as many jobs as it destroys and often more People who put in computers usually increase their staffs as well says CPT s Scheff Of course he adds one industry may kill another industry That s tough on some people Theoretically all unemployed workers can be retrained but retraining programs are not high on the nation s agenda 议事日程 Many new jobs moreover will require an ability in using computers and the retraining needed to use them will have to be repeated as the technology keeps improving Says a chilling report by the Congressional Office of Technology Assessment Lifelong retraining is expected to become the standard for many people There is a already considerable evidence that the school children now being educated in the use of computers are generally the children of the white middle class Young blacks whose unemployment rate stands today at 50 96 will find another barrier in front of them Such social problems are not the fault of the computer of course but a consequence of the way the American society might use the computer Even in the days of the Big main frame computers when they were a machine for the few says Katherine Davis Fishman author of The Computer Establishment it was a tool to help the rich get richer It still is to a large extent One of the great values of the personal computer is that smaller firms smaller organizations can now have some of the advantages of the bigger organizations 26 The closest restatement of one industry may kill another industry Para 1 Line 11 is that A industries tend to compete with one another B one industry might be driven out of business by another industry 一切为了学生的发展 一切为了家长的心愿 C one industry may increase its staff at the expense of another D industries tend to combine into bigger ones 27 The word chilling Para 2 Line 5 most probably means A misleading B convincing C discouraging D interesting 28 Which of the following is NOT mentioned in the passage A Computers are efficient in retraining unemployed workers B Computers may offer more working opportunities than they destroy C Computers will increase the unemployment rate of young blacks D Computers can help smaller organizations to function more effectively 29 From the passage it can be inferred that A all school children are offered a course in the use of computers B all unemployed workers are being retrained C retraining programmes are considered very important by the government D in reality only a certain portion of unemployed workers will be retrained 30 The major problem discussed in the passage is A the importance of lifelong retraining of the unemployed workers B the social consequences of the widespread use of computers in the United States C the barrier to the employment of young people D the general rule of the advancement of technology Passage Three Questions 31 to 35 are based on the following passage Mobility of individual members and family groups tends to split up family relationships Occasionally the movement of a family away from a situation which has been the source of friction results in greater family organization but on the whole mobility is disorganizing Individuals and families are involved in three types of mobility movement in space movement up or down in social status and the movement of ideas These are termed respectively spatial vertical and ideational mobility A great increase in spatial mobility has gone along with improvements in rail and water transportation the invention and use of the automobile and the availability of airplane passenger service Spatial mobility results in a decline in the importance of the traditional home with its emphasis on family continuity and stability It also means that when individual family members or the family as a whole move away from a community the person or the family is removed from the pressures of relatives 一切为了学生的发展 一切为了家长的心愿 friends and community institutions for conventionality and stability Even more important is the fact that spatial mobility permits some members of a family to come in contact with and possibly adopt attitudes values and ways of thinking different from those held by other family members The presence of different attitudes values and ways of thinking with in a family may and often does result in conflict and family disorganization Potential disorganization is present in those families in which the husband wife and children are spatially separated over a long period or are living together but see each other only briefly because of different work schedules One index of the increase in vertical mobility is the great increase in the proportion of sons and to some extent daughters who engage in occupations other than those of the parents Another index of vertical mobility is the degree of intermarriage between racial classes This occurs almost exclusively between classes which are adjacent to each other Engaging in a different occupation or intermarriage like spatial mobility allows one to come in contact with ways of behavior different from those of the parental home and tends to separate parents and their children The increase in ideational mobility is measured by the increase in publications such as newspapers periodicals and books the increase in the percentage of the population owning radios and the increase in television sets All these tend to introduce new ideas into the home When individual family members are exposed to and adopt the new ideas the tendency is for conflict to arise and for those in conflict to become psychologically separated from each other 31 What the passage tells us can be summarized by the statement A social development results in a decline in the importance of traditional families B potential disorganization is present in the American family C family disorganization is more or less the result of mobility D the movement of a family is one of the factors in raising its social status 32 According to the passage those who live in a traditional family A are less likely to quarrel with others because of conventionality and stability B have to depend on their relatives and friends if they do not move away from it C can get more help from their family members if they are in trouble D will have more freedom of action and thought if they move away from it 33 Potential disorganization exists in those families in which A the husband wife and children work too hard B the husband wife and children seldom get together C both parents have to work full time D the family members are subject to social pressures 34 Intermarriage and different occupations play an important role in family disorganization because A they enable the children to travel around without their parents permission B they allow one to find a good job and improve one s social status C they enable the children to better understand the ways of behavior of their parents 一切为了学生的发展 一切为了家长的心愿 D they permit one to come into contact with different ways of behavior and thinking 35 This passage suggests that a well organized family is a family whose members A are not psychologically withdrawn from one another B never quarrel with each other even when they disagree C often help each other with true love and affection D are exposed to the same new ideas introduced by books radios and TV sets Passage Four Questions 36 to 40 are based on the following passage To call someone bird brained in English means you think that person is silly or stupid But will this description soon disappear from use in the light of recent research It seems the English may have been unfair in association bird s brains with stupidity In an attempt to find out how different creatures see the world psychologists at Brown University in the USA have been comparing the behaviour of birds and humans One experiment has involved teaching pigeons to recognize letters of the English alphabet The birds study in classrooms which are boxes equipped with a computer After about four days of studying a particular letter the pigeon has to pick out that letter from several displayed on the computer screen Three male pigeons have learnt to distinguish all twenty six letters of the alphabet in this way A computer record of the birds four month study period has shown surprising similarities between the pigeons and human performance Pigeons and people find the same letters easy or hard to tell apart For example 92 per cent of the time the pigeons could tell the letter D from the letter Z But when faced with U and V often confused by English children the pigeons were right only 34 per cent of the time The results of the experiments so far have led psychologists to conclude that pigeons and humans observe things in similar ways This suggests that there is something fundamental about the recognition process If scientists could only discover just what this recognition process is it could be very useful for computer designers The disadvantage of a present computer is that it can only do what a human being has programmed it to do and the programmer must give the computer precise logical instructions Maybe in the future though computers will be able to think like human beings 36 The writer suggests that the expression bird brained might be out of use soon because it is A silly B impolite C unnecessary D inappropriate 37 Psychologists have been experimenting with pigeons to find out whether the birds A are really silly or stupid B can learn to make ideas known to people C see the world as human beings do 一切为了学生的发展 一切为了家长的心愿 D learn more quickly than children 38 U and V are confused by A 92 per cent of pigeons B many English children C most people learning English D 34 per cent of English children 39 There are similarities in observing things by pigeons and humans A because pigeons are taught by humans B because pigeons have brains more developed than other birds C because their basic ways to know the world are the same D because pigeons and humans have similar brains 40 The research may help A computer designers B computer salesmen C psychologists D teachers Part III Vocabulary and Structure 20 minutes Directions There are 30 incomplete sentences in this part For each sentence there are four choices marked A B C and D Choose the ONE that best completes the sentence Then mark the corresponding letter on the Answer Sheet with a single line through the centre 41 Germans used to believe that all other races were inferior them A than B for C to D from 42 The main road through Pittsburgh s blocked for three hours today after an accident two trucks A connecting B combining C including D involving 43 Many parents think that a regular is an excellent way to teach children the value of money A allowance 一切为了学生的发展 一切为了家长的心愿 B grant C aid D amount 44 The girl is so sensitive that she is to get angry at the slightest offence A adaptable B liable C fit D suitable 45 He was at the of his career when he was murdered A glory B power C pride D height 46 I have never met the professor though I h