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5、omatic operation of pro-ductive machinery. It reduces the human factors, mental and physical, in production, and is de-signed to make possible the manufacture of more goods with fewer workers. The development of automation in American industry has been called the "Second Industrial Revolution&q

6、uot;.Labour's concern over automation arises from uncertainty about the effects on employ-ment, and fears of major changes in jobs. In the main, labour has taken the view that resistance to technical change is unfruitful. Eventually, the result of automation may well be an increase in employment

7、, since it is expected that vast industries will grow up around manufacturing, main-taining, and repairing automation equipment. The interest of labour lies in bringing about thetransition with a minimum of inconvenience and distress to the workers involved. AI, union spokesmen emphasize that the be

8、nefit of the increased production and lower costs made possible by automation should be shared by workers in the form of higher wages, more leisure, and improved living standards.To protect the interests of their members in the era of automation, unions have adopted a number of new policies. One of

9、these is the promotion of supplementary unemployment benefit plans. It is emphasized that since the employer involved in such a plan has a direct financial interest in preventing unemployment, he will have a strong drive for planning new installations so as to cause the least possible problems in jo

10、bs and job assignments. Some unions are working for dismissal pay agreements, requiring that permanently dismissed workers be paid a sum of moneybased on length of service. Another approach is the idea of the "improvement factor", which calls for wage increases based on increases in produc

11、tivity. It is possible, however, that labour will rely mainly on reduction in working hours in order to gain a full share in the fruits of automation.21. Though labour worries about the effects of automation, it does not doubt thatA) automation will eventually prevent unemploymentB) automation will

12、help workers acquire new skillsC) automation will eventually benefit the workers no less than the employersD) automation is a trend which cannot be stopped22. The idea of the "improvement factor" ( Line 7, Para. 3)probably implies thatA) wages should be paid on the basis of length of servi

13、ceB) the benefit of increased production and lower costs should be shared by workersC) supplementary unemployment benefit plans should be promotedD) the transition to automation should be brought about with the minimum of inconvenience and distress to workers23. In order to get the full benefits of

14、automation, labour will depend mostly onA) additional payment to the permanently dismissed workersB) the increase of wages in proportion to the increase in productivityC) shorter working hours and more leisure timeD) a strong drive for planning new installations24. Which of the following can best su

15、m up the passage?A) Advantages and disadvantages of automation.B) Labour and the effects of automation.来源：考试大C) Unemployment benefit plans and automation.D) Social benefits of automation. Passage TwoQuestions 25 to 30 are based on the following passage:The case for college has been accepted without

16、question for more than a generation. All high school graduates ought to go, says conventional wisdom and statistical evidence, because college will help them earn more money, become "better" people, and learn to be more responsi-ble citizens than those who don't go.But college has neve

17、r been able to work its magic for everyone. And now that close to half our high school graduates are attending, those who don't fit the pattern are becoming more nu-merous, and more obvious. College graduates are selling shoes and driving taxis; college students interfere with each other's e

18、xperiments and write false letters of recommendation in the intense competition for admission to graduate school. Others find no stimulation in their studies, and drop out- often encouraged by college administrators.Some observers say the fault is with the young people themselves- they are spoiled a

19、nd they are expecting too much. But that's a condemnation of the students as a whole, and doesn' t explain all campus unhappiness. Others blame the state of the world, and they are partly right.We've been told that young people have to go to college because our economy can't absorb a

20、n army of untrained eighteen- year - olds. But disappointed graduates are learning that it can no longer absorb an army of trained twenty - two - year - olds, either.Some adventuresome educators and campus watchers have openly begun to suggest that college may not be the best, the proper, the only p

21、lace for every young person after the comple-tion of high school. We may have been looking at all those surveys and statistics upside down, itseems, and through the rosy glow of our own remembered college experiences. Perhaps college doesn't make people intelligent, ambitious, happy, liberal, or

22、 quick to learn things - maybe it's just the other way around, and intelligent, ambitious, happy, liberal, quick - learning people are merely the ones who have been attracted to college in the first place. And perhaps all those suc-cessful college graduates would have been successful whether the

23、y had gone to college or not.This is heresy(异端邪说) to those of us who have been brought up to believe that if a little schooling is good, more has to be much better. But contrary evidence is beginning to mount up.25. According to the passage, the author believes thatA) people used to question the val

24、ue of college educationB) people used to have full confidence in higher educationC) all high school graduates went to collegeD) very few high school graduates chose to go to college26. In the 2nd paragraph, "those who don't fit the pattern" refers toA) high school graduates who aren

25、9;t suitable for college educationB) college graduates who are selling shoes and driving taxisC) college students who aren't any better for their higher educationD) high school graduates who failed to be admitted to college27. The drop- out rate of college students seems to go up becauseA) young

26、 people are disappointed with the conventional way of teaching at collegeB) many young people are required to join the armyC) young people have little motivation in pursuing a higher educationD) young people don't like the intense competition for admission to graduate school28. According to the

27、passage the problems of college education partly arise from the fact thatA) society cannot provide enough jobs for properly trained college graduatesB) high school graduates do not fit the pattern of college educationC) too many students have to earn their own living来源：考试大D) college administrators e

28、ncourage students to drop out29. In this passage the author argues thatA) more and more evidence shows college education may not be the best thing for high school graduatesB) college education is not enough if one wants to be successfulC) college education benefits only the intelligent, ambitious, a

29、nd quick - learning peopleD) intelligent people may learn quicker if they don't go to college30. The "surveys and statistics" mentioned in the last paragraph might have shown thatA) college- educated people are more successful than non - college - educated peopleB) college education wa

30、s not the first choice of intelligent peopleC) the less schooling a person has the better it is for himD) most people have sweet memories of college life Passage ThreeQuestions 31 to 35 are based on the following passage:Ours has become a society of employees. A hundred years or so ago only one out

31、of every five Americans at work was employed, i. e., worked for somebody else. Today only one out of five is not employed but working for himself. And when fifty years ago "being employed" meant working as a factory labourer or as a farmhand, the employee of today is increasingly a middle-

32、class person with a substantial formal education, holding a professional or management job re-quiring intellectual and technical skills. Indeed, two things have characteried American society during these last fifty years: middle - class and upper - class employees have been the fastest- growing grou

33、ps in our working population- growing so fast that the industrial worker, that old- est child of the Industrial Revolution, has been losing in numerical importance despite the ex- pans/on of industrial production.Yet you will fine little if anything written on what it is to be an employee. You can f

34、ind a great deal of very dubious advice on how to get a job or how to get a promotion. You can also find a good deal of work in a chosen field, whether it be the mechanist' s trade or bookkeeping (簿记). Every one of these trades requires different skills, sets different standards, and requires a

35、different preparation. Yet they all have employeeship in common. And increasingly, especially in the large business or in government, employeeship is more important to success than the special professional knowledge or skill. Certainly more people fail because they do not know the requirements of be

36、ing an employee than because they do not adequately possess the skills of their trade; the higher you climb the ladder, the more you get into administrative or executive work,the greater the emphasis on ability to work within the organization rather than on technical a-bilities or professional knowl

37、edge.31. It is implied that fifty years agoA) eighty percent of American working people were employed in factoriesB) twenty percent of American intellectuals were employeesC) the percentage of intellectuals in the total work force was almost the same as that of in-dustrial workersD) the percentage o

38、f intellectuals working as employees was not so large as that of industri-al workers32. According to the passage, with the development of modern industry,A) factory labourers will overtake intellectual employees in numberB) there are as many middle - class employees as factory labourersC) employers

39、have attached great importance to factory labourersD) the proportion of factory labourers in the total employee population has decreased33. The word "dubious" ( L. 2, Para. 2) most probably meansA) valuable B) useful C) doubtful D) helpful考试就到考试大34. According to the writer, professional kn

40、owledge or skill isA) less important than awareness of being a good employeeB) as important as the ability to deal with public relationsC) more important than employer- employee relationsD) as important as the ability to co- operate with others in the organization35. From the passage it can be seen

41、that employeeship helps oneA) to be more successful in his career B) to be more specialized in his fieldC) to solve technical problems D) to develop his professional skill Passage FourQuestions 36 to 40 are based on the following passage:We all know that the normal human daily cycle of activity is o

42、f some 7 - 8 hours' sleep al-ternating with some 16 - 17 hours' wakefulness and that, broadly speaking, the sleep normally coincides with the hours of darkness. Our present concern is with how easily and to what extent this cycle can be modified.The question is no mere academic one. The ease

43、, for example, with which people can change from working in the day to working at night is a question of growing importance in industry where automation calls for round - the- clock working of machines. It normally takes from five days to one week for a person to adapt to a reversed routine of sleep

44、 and wakefulness,sleeping during the day and working at night. Unfortunately, it is often the case in industry that shifts are changed every week; a person may work from 12 midnight to 8 a.m. one week, 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. the next, and 4 p.m. to 12 midnight the third and so on. This means that no soone

45、r has he got used to one routine than he has to change to another, so that much of his time is spent neither working nor sleeping very efficiently,The only real solution appears to be to hand over the night shift to a number of permanent night workers. An interesting study of the domestic life and h

46、ealth of night - shift workers was carried out by Brown in 1957. She found a high incidence (发生率) of disturbed sleep and other disorders among those on alternating day and night shifts, but no abnormal occurrence of these phenomena among those on permanent night work.This latter system then appears

47、to be the best long - term policy, but meanwhile something may be done to relieve the strains of alternate day and night work by selecting those people who can adapt most quickly to the changes of routine. One way of knowing when a person has adapt-ed is by measuring his body temperature. People eng

48、aged in normal daytime work will have a high temperature during the hours of wakefulness and a low one at night; when they change to night work the pattern will only gradually go back to match the new routine and the speed with which it does so parallels, broadly speaking, the adaptation of the body

49、 as a whole, particularly in terms of performance. Therefore, by taking body temperature at intervals of two hours throughout the period of wakefulness it can be seen how quickly a person can adapt to a re-versed routine, and this could be used as a basis for selection. So far, however, such a form

50、of se-lection does not seem to have been applied in practice.36. Why is the question of "how easily people can get used to working at night" not a mere a cademic question?A) Because few people like to reverse the cycle of sleep and wakefulness.B) Because sleep normally coincides with the h

51、ours of darkness.来源：考试大C) Because people are required to work at night in some fields of industry.D) Because shift work in industry requires people to change their sleeping habits.37. The main problem of the round - the - clock working system lies inA) the inconveniences brought about to the workers

52、 by the introduction of automationB) the disturbance of the daily life cycle of workers who have to change shifts too frequentlyC) the fact that people working at night are often less effectiveD) the fact that it is difficult to find a number of good night workers38. The best solution for implementi

53、ng the 24 - hour working system seems to beA) to change shifts at longer intervalsB) to have longer shiftsC) to arrange for some people to work on night shifts onlyD) to create better living conditions for night workers39. It is possible to find out if a person has adapted to the changes of routine

54、by measuring hisbody temperature becauseA) body temperature changes when the cycle of sleep and wakefulness altermatesB) body temperature changes when he changes to night shift or backC) the temperature reverses when the routine is changedD) people have higher temperatures when they are working effi

55、ciently40. Which of the following statements is NOT TRUE?A) Body temperature may serve as an indication of a worker's performance.B) The selection of a number of permanent night shift workers has proved to be the best solution to problems of the round- the - clock working system.C) Taking body t

56、emperature at regular intervals can show how a person adapts to the changes of routine.D) Disturbed sleep occurs less frequently among those on permanent night or day shifts.1991年1月大学英语六级阅读理解真题及答案Part II Reading Comprehension (35 minutes)Passage OneMerchant and passenger ships are generally required

57、 to have a life preserver for every person aboard and, in many cases, a certain percentage of smaller sizes for children. According to United States Coast Guard requirements, life preservers must be simple in design, reversible, capable of being quickly adjusted to fit the uninitiated individual, an

58、d must be so designed as to support the wearer in the water in an upright or slightly backward position.Sufficient buoyancy (浮力) to support the wearer should be retained by the life preserver after 48 hour in the water, and it should be reliable even after long period of storage. Thus it should be made of materials resistant to sunlight, gasoline, and oils, and it should be not easily set on fire.The position in which the life preserver will support a person who jumps or falls into the water is most important, as is its tendency to turn the wearer in the wat