大学英语四六级考试模拟星火：大学英语六级预测卷3

星火：月大学英语六级预测卷334. A) Husbands have to share with their wives and help them.B) Older women often live alone when their husbands die.C) Family structure is more patriarchal in the nuclear family.D) Women have to help sisters, grandparents with housework and childcare.35. A) They want to stay home and do the housework.B) They do not have enough money.C) They have too much work and not much free time.D) They have more freedom than in the past.Section CDirections: In this section, you will hear a passage three times, when the passage is read for the first time, you should listen carefully for its general idea .When the passage is read for the second time, you are required to fill in the blanks numbered from 36 to 43 with the exact words you have just heard. For blanks numbered from 44 to 46 you are required to fill in the missing information .For these blanks, you can either use the exact words you have just heard or write down the main points in your own words. Finally, when the passage is read for the third time, you should check what you have written.注意：此部分试题请在答题卡2上作答。A deadly (36)_outbreak swept through a small city in Zaire, Africa last spring, killing more than one hundred people. It was a terrible situation. The killer was a rare (37)_ that caused most victims to (38)_ to death. As scientists rushed to control the (39) _, people in the U.S. wonder whether it could attack here. We are foolish if we think it couldnt come to our country. We can never be too careful when we face some disease, especially the infectious one. say doctors. The virus can be highly infectious. If you come in (40)_with a victims blood or other body (41)_, you can get sick, too. Thats what scientists believe (42)_in Zaire. The healthcare workers who treated the first (43) _there soon fell ill, too. (44)_.International rescue works brought equipment to Zaire soon after the outbreak occurred.(45)_.One big mystery is that no one knows where the virus comes from or where it will strike next. Some scientists say that the virus lies inactive in the cells of some kind of plant, insect or other animal. Then it somehow finds a way to infect humans. (46)_.Once they find the virus, they also hope to find ways to combat it.Part Reading Comprehension (Reading in Depth) (25 minutes)Section ADirections: In this section, there is a short passage with 5 questions or incomplete statements. Read the passage carefully. Then answer the questions or complete the statements in the fewest possible words on Answer Sheet 2.Questions 47 to 51 are based on the following passage.Women often complain that dating is like a cattle market, and a paper just published in Biology Letters by Thomas Pollet and Daniel Nettle of Newcastle University, in England, suggests they are right. They have little cause for complaint, however, because the paper also suggests that in this particular market, it is women who are the buyers.Mr. Pollet and Dr. Nettle were looking for evidence to support the contention that women choose men of high status and resources, as well as good looks. That may sound common sense, but it was often denied by social scientists until a group of researchers who called themselves evolutionary psychologists started investigating the matter two decades ago. Since then, a series of experiments in laboratories have supported the contention. But as all zoologists know, experiments can only tell you so much. Eventually, you have to look at natural populations.And that is what Mr. Pollet and Dr. Nettle have done. They have examined data from the census of the United States of America and discovered that marriage is, indeed, a market. Moreover, as in any market, a scarcity of buyers means the sellers have to have particularly attractive goods on offer if they are to make the exchange.The advantage of picking was that America had not yet settled down, demographically(人口统计学方面) speaking. Though the long-colonized eastern states had a sex ratio of one man to one woman, or thereabouts, in the rest of the country the old adage(格言，谚语)go west, young man had resulted in a surplus of males. Mr. Pollet and Dr. Nettle were thus able to see just how picky women are, given the chance.Rather than looking at the whole census, the two researchers relied on a sample of one person in 250.They then assigned the men in the sample a socioeconomic status score between zero and 96, on a scale drawn up in 50.They showed that in states where the sexes were equal in number, 56% of low status men were married by the age of 30, while 60% of high status men were. As the men went west, then, so did their marriage opportunities.47. A paper published in Biology Letters agreed with women that .48. What is the contention which is often denied by social scientists?49. Although the experiments support the contention, all zoologists suggest that .50. In the market of marriage, a scarcity of buyers means sellers have to to make the exchange.51. What had given two researchers the chance to see how picky women were?Section BDirections: 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 centre.Passage oneQuestions 52 to 56 are based on the following passage.With the possible exception of equal rights, perhaps the most controversial issue across the United States today is the death penalty. Many argue that it is an effective deterrent (威慑) to murder, while others maintain there is no convincing evidence that the death penalty reduces the number of murders.The principal argument advanced by those opposed to the death penalty, basically, is that it is cruel and inhuman punishment, which is the mark of a brutal society, and finally that it is of questionable effectiveness as a deterrent to crime anyway.In our opinion, the death penalty is a necessary evil. Throughout recorded history there have always been those extreme individuals in every society who were capable of terribly violent crimes such as murder. But some are more extreme than others.For example, it is one thing to take the life of another in a fit of blind rage, but quite another to coldly plot and carry out the murder of one or more people in the style of a butcher. Thus, murder, like all other crimes, is a matter of relative degree. While it could be argued with some conviction that the criminal in the first instance should be merely isolated from society, such should not be the fate of the latter type murderer.The value of the death penalty as a deterrent to crime may be open to debate. But the overwhelming majority of citizens believe that the death penalty protects them. Their belief is reinforced by evidence which shows that the death penalty deters murder. For example, from 54 to 63, when the death penalty was consistently imposed in California, the murder rate remained between three and four murders for each 0,000 population. Since 64 the death penalty has been imposed only once, and the murder rate has risen to .4 murders for each 0,000 population. The sharp climb in the states murder rate, which began when executions stopped, is no coincidence. It is convincing evidence that the death penalty does deter many murderers. If the bill reestablishing the death penalty is vetoed, innocent people will be murdered-some whose lives may have been saved if the death penalty were in effect. This is literally a life or death matter. The lives of thousands of innocent people must be protected.52. The principal purpose of this passage is to .A) speak for the majority B) initiate a vetoC) criticize the government D) argue for the value of the dea