1991 年 6 月英语六级真题及答案
Part I Listening Comprehension (20 minutes)
Section A
1.
A) She wants to return the skirt her husband bought.
B) She wants to buy another skirt.
C) She wants to change the blue skirt for a yellow one.
D) She wants to change the yellow skirt for a blue one.
2.
A) It’s too expensive.
B) It isn’t needed.
C) It should be built.
D) A college would be better.
3.
A) Jack’s car was stolen.
B) Jack sold his car.
C) Jack bought a new car.
D) Jack had a car accident.
4.
A) Some people pretend to know what they really don’t.
B) What the woman said is true.
C) What the woman said is wrong.
D) He knows more than the woman does.
5.
A) The woman’s job is a librarian.
B) Women’s rights in society.
C) An important election.
D) Career planning.
6.
A) She thinks it is easier said than done.
B) She totally agrees with him.
C) She feels that what he says is simply nonsense.
D) She thinks that he is rather impolite person.
7.
A) To clean the yard.
B) To weed the garden.
C) To hire a gardener.
D) To work in the flower beds.
8.
A) On the 6th of June.
B) On the 8th of June.
C) On the 9th of June.
D) On the 19th of June.
9.
A) The man thinks the woman is wasting her time.
B) The man thinks the woman should make full use of her time.
C) The man is eager to know the woman’s answer.
D) The man can wait and there is no need for her to hurry.
10. A) To run into each other.
B) To get bargains.
C) To avoid the crowds.
D) To join the crowds.
Section B
Questions 11 to 13 are based on the passage you have just heard.
Passage One
11. A) Because of their love for hobbies and pastimes.
B) Because of their enthusiasm for sports.
C) Because of their fear of heart attacks.
D) Because of their strong desire for good health.
12. A) It was decreasing.
B) It was increasing.
C) It remained almost unchanged.
D) It was going up slowly.
13. A) Those who have heart attacks.
B) Those who have the desire to be physically fit.
C) Those who have spare time.
D) Those who have inactive jobs.
Passage Two
Questions 14 to 16 are based on the passage you have just heard.
14. A) In the white pages.
B) In the blue pages.
C) In the yellow pages.
D) In a special section.
15. A) On the first page of the telephone book.
B) At the end of the telephone book.
C) In the front of the white pages.
D) Right after the white pages.
16. A) Check your number and call again.
B) Tell the operator what has happened.
C) Ask the operator to put you through.
D) Ask the operator what has happened.
Questions 17 to 20 are based on the passage you have just heard.
Passage Three
17. A) Its specialization in transporting small packages.
B) The low cost of its service.
C) Being the first airline to send urgent letters.
D) Its modern sorting facilities.
18. A) 10,000.
B) 35.
C) 130.
D) 30.
19. A) Because of its good airport facilities.
B) Because of its location in the country.
C) Because of its size.
D) Because of its round-the-clock service.
20. A) Its full-time staff.
B) The postmen who work in Memphis.
C) Students who work in their spare time.
D) The staff members of the International Airport.
Part II Reading Comprehension (35 minutes)
Questions 21 to 25 are based on the following passage.
It is natural for young people to be critical of their parents at times and to blame
them for most of the misunderstandings between them. They have always complained, more
or less justly, that their parents are out of touch with modern ways; that they are
possessive and dominant that they do not trust their children to deal with crises; that
they talk too much about certain problems and that they have no sense of humour, at
least in parent-child relationships.
I think it is true that parents often underestimate their teenage children and also
forget how they themselves felt when young.
Young people often irritate their parents with their choices in clothes and
hairstyles, in entertainers and music. This is not their motive. They feel cut off from
the adult world into which they have not yet been accepted. So they create a culture
and society of their own. Then, if it turns out that their music or entertainers or
vocabulary or clothes or hairstyles irritate their parents, this gives them additional
enjoyment. They feel they are superior, at least in a small way, and that they are leaders
in style and taste.
Sometimes you are resistant, and proud because you do not want your parents to
approve of what you do. If they did approve, it looks as if you are betraying your own
age group. But in that case, you are assuming that you are the underdog: you can’t
win but at least you can keep your honour. This is a passive way of looking at things.
It is natural enough after long years of childhood, when you were completely under your
parents’ control. But it ignores the fact that you are now beginning to be responsible
for yourself.
If you plan to control your life, co-operation can be part of that plan. You can
charm others, especially parents, into doing things the ways you want. You can impress
others with your sense of responsibility and initiative, so that they will give you
the authority to do what you want to do.
21. The author is primarily addressing ________.
A) parents of teenagers
B) newspaper readers
C) those who give advice to teenagers
D) teenagers
22. The first paragraph is mainly about ________.
A) the teenagers’ criticism of their parents
B) misunderstandings between teenagers and their parents
C) the dominance of the parents over their children
D) the teenagers’ ability to deal with crises
23. Teenagers tend to have strange clothes and hairstyles because they ________.
A) want to show their existence by creating a culture of their own
B) have a strong desire to be leaders in style and taste
C) have no other way to enjoy themselves better
D) want to irritate their parents
24. Teenagers do not want their parents to approve of whatever they do because they
________.
A) have already been accepted into the adult world
B) feel that they are superior in a small way to the adults
C) are not likely to win over the adults
D) have a desire to be independent
25. To improve parent-child relationships, teenagers are advised to be ________.
A) obedient
B) responsible
C) co-operative
D) independent
Questions 26 to 30 are based on the following passage.
The long years of food shortage in this country have suddenly given way to apparent
abundance. Stores and shops are choked with food. Rationing (定量供应) is virtually
suspended, and overseas suppliers have been asked to hold back deliveries. Yet, instead
of joy, there is widespread uneasiness and confusion. Why do food prices keep on rising,
when there seems to be so much more food about? Is the abundance only temporary, or
has it come to stay? Does it mean that we need to think less now about producing more
food at home? No one knows what to expect.
The recent growth of export surpluses on the world food market has certainly been
unexpectedly great, partly because a strange sequence of two successful grain harvests.
North America is now being followed by a third. Most of Britain’s overseas suppliers
of meat, too, are offering more this year and home production has also risen.
But the effect of all this on the food situation in this country has been made worse
by a simultaneous rise in food prices, due chiefly to the gradual cutting down of
government support for food. The shops are overstocked with food not only because there
is more food available, but also because people, frightened by high prices, are buying
less of it.
Moreover, the rise in domestic prices has come at a time when world prices have
begun to fall, with the result that imported food, with the exception of grain, is often
cheaper than the home-produced variety. And now grain prices, too, are falling.
Consumers are beginning to ask why they should not be enabled to benefit from this trend.
The significance of these developments is not lost on farmers. The older generation
have seen it all happen before. Despite the present price and market guarantees, farmers
fear they are about to be squeezed between cheap food imports and a shrinking home market.
Present production is running at 51 per cent above pre-war levels, and the government
has called for an expansion to 60 per cent by 1956; but repeated Ministerial advice
is carrying little weight and the expansion programme is not working very well.
26. Why is there “wide-spread uneasiness and confusion about the food situation in
Britain?”
A) The abundant food supply is not expected to last.
B) Britain is importing less food.
C) Despite the abundance, food prices keep rising.
D) Britain will cut back on its production of food.
27. The main reason for the rise in food prices is that ________.
A) people are buying less food
B) the government is providing less financial support for agriculture
C) domestic food production has decreased
D) imported food is driving prices higher
28. Why didn’t the government’s expansion programme work very well?
A) Because the farmers were uncertain about the financial support the government
guaranteed.
B) Because the farmers were uncertain about the benefits of expanding production.
C) Because the farmers were uncertain about whether foreign markets could be found
for their produce.
D) Because the older generation of farmers were strongly against the programmer.
29. The decrease in world food price was a result of ________.
A) a sharp fall in the purchasing power of the consumers
B) a sharp fall in the cost of food production
C) the overproduction of food in the food-importing countries
D) the overproduction on the part of the main food-exporting countries
30. What did the future look like for Britain’s food production at the time this article
was written?
A) The fall in world food prices would benefit British food producers.
B) An expansion of food production was at hand.
C) British food producers would receive more government financial support.
D) It looks depressing despite government guarantees.
Questions 31 to 35 are based on the following passage.
It 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 illumination piece
of news. It would have amazed the brightest minds of the 18th century Enlightenment
(启蒙运动) 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 the tunnel nor even any tunnels that can yet be trusted.
But we are making a beginning, and there ought to be some satisfaction. There are
probably no questions we can think up that can’t be answered, sooner or later, including
even the matter of consciousness. To be sure, there may well be questions we can’t
think up, ever, and therefore limits to the reach of human intellect, but that is another
matter. Within our limits, we should be able to work our way through to all our answers,
if we keep at it long enough, and pay attention.
31. According to the author, really good science ________.
A) would surprise the brightest minds of the 18th century Enlightenment
B) will produce results which cannot be foreseen
C) will help people to make the right choice in advance
D) will bring about disturbing results
32. It can be inferred from the passage that scientists of the 18th century ________.
A) thought that they knew a great deal and could solve most problems of science
B) were afraid of facing up to the realities of scientific research
C) knew that they were ignorant and wanted to know more about nature
D) did more harm than good in promoting man’s understanding of nature
33. Which of the following statements is NOT true of scientists in earlier times?
A) They invented false theories to explain things they didn’t understand.
B) They falsely claimed to know all about nature.
C) They did not believe in results from scientific observation.
D) They paid little attention to the problems they didn’t understand.
34. What is the author’s attitude towards science?
A) He is depressed because of the ignorance of scientists.
B) He is doubtful because of the enormous difficulties confronting it.
C) He is confident though he is aware of the enormous difficulties confronting
it.
D) He is delighted because of the illuminating scientific findings.
35. The author believes that ________.
A) man can find solutions to whatever questions concerning nature he can think
up
B) man can not solve all the problems he can think up because of the limits of
human intellect
C) sooner or later man can think up all the questions concerning nature and answer
them
D) questions concerning consciousness are outside the scope of scientific
researchD
Questions 36 to 40 are based on the following passage.
Greenspace facilities are contributing to an important extent to the quality of
the urban environment. Fortunately it is no longer necessary that every lecture or every
book about this subject has to start with the proof of this idea. At present, it is
generally accepted, although more as a self-evident statement than on the base of a
closely-reasoned scientific proof. The recognition of the importance of greenspaces
in the urban environment is a first step on the right way, this does not mean, however,
that sufficient details are known about the functions of greenspace in towns and about
the way in which the inhabitants are using these spaces. As to this rather complex
subject I shall, within the scope of this lecture, enter into one aspect only, namely
the recreative function of greenspace facilities.
The theoretical separation of living, working, traffic and recreation which for
many years has been used in town-and-country planning, has in my opinion resulted in
disproportionate attention for forms of recreation far from home, whereas there was
relatively little attention for improvement of recreative possibilities in the direct
neighbourhood of the home. We have come to the conclusion that this is not right, because
an important part of the time which we do not pass in sleeping or working, is used for
activities at and around home. So it is obvious that recreation in the open air has