大学英语六级-58及答案解析.doc

1、大学英语六级-58 及答案解析(总分：710.00，做题时间：90 分钟)一、Part Writing(总题数：1，分数：106.50)1.下图是对不同专业学生使用英语的不同目的所作的调查结果，请描述并分析原因。Purpose Economics Majors (%) Engineering Majors (%)Reading textbooksReading journalsReading business lettersReading reportsWriting lettersAttending lecturesAttending seminarsTalking to English s

2、peaking visitors806040255605690702010740108（分数：106.50）_二、Part Listening Com(总题数：0，分数：0.00)三、Section A(总题数：4，分数：106.50)(1).A. She was hurt by the man. B. She lost her temper.C. She didnt speak to her husband. D. She missed the dinner party.（分数：7.10）A.B.C.D.(2).A. Nobody likes to listen to this sympho

3、ny. B. Many people like the symphony.C. She doesnt like the symphony. D. Shed like to have a cup of tea.（分数：7.10）A.B.C.D.(3).A. Because he wanted to meet the womans parents.B. Because he goes to a beach house each August.C. Because he wont be able to take a vacation.D. Because he didnt know the woma

4、ns plans.（分数：7.10）A.B.C.D.(4).A. Stop thinking about the matter. B. Talk the drug user out of the habit.C. Be more friendly to his schoolmate. D. Keep his distance from drug addicts.（分数：7.10）A.B.C.D.(5).A. Buy a new dictionary for herself. B. Take the dictionary out the library.C. Borrow the diction

5、ary for herself. D. She is welcome to the library.（分数：7.10）A.B.C.D.(1).A. The situation is not Leons fault. B. Neither Leon nor James is telling the truth.C. The right and wrongs of this issue must involve deeper investigation.D. Someone must be lying in this incident.（分数：7.10）A.B.C.D.(2).A. They th

6、ink cinemas are too far away from their home.B. They are disappointed with the films produced these days.C. They both dislike films about adventure stories.D. They both like the idea of going to the cinema at night.（分数：7.10）A.B.C.D.(3).A. She was open and frank. B. She was not willing to say much.C.

7、 Something was wrong with her lips. D. She totally refused to talk to the man.（分数：7.10）A.B.C.D.(1).A. She attended one of their meetings. B. Her roommate is a member.C. She saw them protesting. D. She read about them in the newspaper.（分数：7.10）A.B.C.D.(2).A. Secure more students parking spaces. B. Pr

8、eserve an open space on campus.C. Get more funding for their group. D. Schedule a meeting with college administrators.（分数：7.10）A.B.C.D.(3).A. Go to class. B. Go on a picnic. C. Attend a meeting. D. Attend the rally.（分数：7.10）A.B.C.D.(4).A. Help the man plan a student rally. B. Use the student parking

9、 lot.C. Make a donation to support the group. D. Sign a petition.（分数：7.10）A.B.C.D.(1).A. She has a temperature. B. She suffers from a headache.C. She has a sore throat. D. She often feels dizzy.（分数：7.10）A.B.C.D.(2).A. She didnt have enough sleep. B. She has caught a bad cold.C. She is dying from a s

10、erious disease. D. She is too nervous to feel at home.（分数：7.10）A.B.C.D.(3).A. She should take some medicine and more water.B. She should take care of her rest and drink more water.C. She should give up her term paper for her health.D. She should receive more check-up.（分数：7.10）A.B.C.D.四、Section B(总题数

11、0，分数：0.00)五、Passage One(总题数：1，分数：28.40)(1).A. Hot during the day and cold at night. B. Cold during the day and hot at night.C. Hot day and night. D. Cold day and night.（分数：7.10）A.B.C.D.(2).A. There are neither rivers nor streams. B. There is no grass all the year round.C. It is mainly bare rock wit

12、h little grass. D. There are a few streams and big rivers.（分数：7.10）A.B.C.D.(3).A. With the help of his friends. B. By following the tracks of animals.C. By using a compass. D. With the help of the guide.（分数：7.10）A.B.C.D.(4).A. 19 years old. B. 16 years old. C. 35 years old. D. 25 years old.（分数：7.10）

13、A.B.C.D.六、Passage Two(总题数：1，分数：21.30)(1).A. To teach the dog to perform tricks.B. To enable the dog to regain its normal behavior.C. To make the dog aware of its owners authority.D. To provide the dog with outlets for its wild behaviors.（分数：7.10）A.B.C.D.(2).A. To show their willingness to obey. B. T

14、o show their affection for masters.C. To avoid being punished. D. To win leadership of the dog pack.（分数：7.10）A.B.C.D.(3).A. He will have more confidence in himself. B. He will give more freedom to his dogs.C. He will gain more respect from his dogs. D. He will enjoy a better family life.（分数：7.10）A.B

15、C.D.七、Passage Three(总题数：1，分数：21.30)(1).A. Rain usually comes without thunder and lightning.B. It is usually dry in April.C. Children pay no attention to natural phenomena.D. Parents are not interested in thunder and lightning.（分数：7.10）A.B.C.D.(2).A. Because we were taught so by our parents from our

16、 childhood.B. Because we are deceived by our sense of vision.C. Because it is a common natural phenomenon.D. Because it is a truth proved by science.（分数：7.10）A.B.C.D.(3).A. We should not believe what we see or hear.B. Things moving downward are more noticeable.C. People often have wrong concepts abo

17、ut ordinary phenomenon.D. Adults are not as good as children in observing certain natural phenomena.（分数：7.10）A.B.C.D.八、Section C(总题数：1，分数：71.00)For centuries, farmers have used windmills to pump water, crush grain and perform other tasks. Today, farmers can earn money with high-powered wind turbines

18、 that produce (26) . Wind power has become big business, especially in Europe. In the United States, less than one percent of electricity is produced from wind energy. But production (27) 160% between 2000 and 2005. So says Keith Collins, the chief (28) at the Department of Agriculture, in a (29) he

19、 prepared for a Senate committee last month. Farmers and (30) are providing land to turbine owners or, in some cases, owning the (31) themselves.Mister Collins says one reason for the increase is high prices for natural gas. Another is a federal tax credit for wind production. The production tax cre

20、dit for (32) forms of energy was supposed to end this December. Other reasons for the expansion include improved turbine technology and lower production costs. They also include policies that (33) for wind power producers to sell their electricity.California is the leading state for wind power. But

21、Mister Collins says production is also growing in Minnesota and other Midwestern states. And he says many states in the West and Midwest have (34) to produce much more wind power.Wind power offers farmers a way to earn money for use of their land. Wind is free, of course. Not only that, the land und

22、er the turbines can usually be farmed. And farmers may be able to (35) by charging visitors to see their wind farm.（分数：71.00）填空项 1:_填空项 1:_填空项 1:_填空项 1:_填空项 1:_填空项 1:_填空项 1:_填空项 1:_填空项 1:_填空项 1:_九、Part Reading Compr(总题数：0，分数：0.00)十、Section A(总题数：1，分数：35.50)When Sakena Yacoobi was a child in Herat, A

23、fghanistan, she saw many women suffer. They had no education and (36) or no medical care. Many died in childbirth.In the nineteen seventies she came to the United States. She became a professor and health consultant. But in nineteen ninety-two, she visited Afghan refugee camps in Pakistan. What she

24、saw (37) her to return to her homeland.In nineteen ninety-five she started the Afghan Institute of Learning. The organization began by serving Afghan women and girls in the camps in (38) Pakistan.At that time, the Taliban controlled most of Afghanistan. The rulers would not let girls go to school. S

25、akena Yacoobi (39) her life to set up eighty secret schools in Afghan homes. About three thousand girls (40) these schools.American-led forces ousted (驱逐) the Taliban from (41) in late two thousand one, after the terrorist attacks on the United States.Today Sakena Yacoobi says her organization avoid

26、s the most dangerous provinces. It (42) education and health centers and traveling clinics. Each year, the Afghan Institute of Learning serves about three hundred fifty thousand women and children in Afghanistan and Pakistan. Sakena Yacoobi has received many (43) , including this years two hundred f

27、ifty thousand dollar Henry R. Kravis Prize in Leadership. In accepting the award from Claremont McKenna College in California, she said: “Every day, I see the (44) of education, and thats the (45) that keeps me going on.“A. little B. few C. force D. operates E. compelledF. neighboring G. attended H.

28、 presents I. impact J. persuadedK. risked L. provides M. awards N. lived O. power（分数：35.50）填空项 1:_填空项 1:_填空项 1:_填空项 1:_填空项 1:_填空项 1:_填空项 1:_填空项 1:_填空项 1:_填空项 1:_十一、Section B(总题数：1，分数：71.00)Gender-Neutral LanguageA The practice of assigning masculine gender to neutral terms comes from the fact that e

29、very language reflects the prejudices of the society in which it evolved, and English evolved through most of its history in a male-centered, patriarchal society. Like any other language, however, English is always changing. One only has to read aloud sentences from the 19th century books assigned f

30、or this class to sense the shifts that have occurred in the last 150 years. When readers pick up something to read, they expect different conventions depending on the time in which the material was written. As writers in 1995, we need to be not only aware of the conventions that our readers may expe

31、ct, but also conscious of the responses our words may elicit. In addition, we need to know how the shifting nature of language can make certain words awkward or misleading. “Man“B Man once was a truly generic word referring to all humans, but has gradually narrowed in meaning to become a word that r

32、efers to adult male human beings. Anglo-Saxons used the word to refer to all people. One example of this occurs when an Anglo-Saxon writer refers to a seventh-century English princess as “a wonderful man“. Man paralleled the Latin word homo, “a member of the human species“ not “an adult male of the

33、species“. The Old English word for adult male was waepman and the old English word for adult woman was wifman. In the course of time, wifman evolved into the word “woman“. “Man“ eventually ceased to be used to refer to individual women and replaced waepman as a specific term distinguishing an adult

34、male from an adult female. But man continued to be used in generalizations about both sexes.C By the 18th century, the modem, narrow sense of man was firmly established as the predominant one. When Edmund Burke, writing of the French Revolution, used men in the old, inclusive way, he took pains to s

35、pell out his meaning: “Such a deplorable havoc is made in the minds of men (both sexes) in France.“ Thomas Jefferson did not make the same distinction in declaring that “all men are created equal“ and “governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed.

36、 In a time when women, having no vote, could neither give nor withhold consent, Jefferson had to be using the word men in its principal sense of “males“, and it probably never occurred to him that anyone would think otherwise. Looking at modem dictionaries indicates that the definition that links “

37、man“ with males is the predominant one. Studies of college students and school children indicate that even when the broad definitions of “man“ and “men“ are taught, they tend to conjure up images of male people only. We would never use the sentence “A girl grows up to be a man“, because we assume th

38、e narrower definition of the word man.The Pronoun ProblemD The first grammars of modem English were written in the 16th and 17th centuries. They were mainly intended to help boys from upper class families prepare for the study of Latin, a language most scholars considered superior to English. The ma

39、le authors of these earliest English grammars wrote for male readers in an age when few women were literate. The masculine-gender Pronouns (代词) did not reflect a belief that masculine pronouns could refer to both sexes. The grammars of this period contain no indication that masculine pronouns were s

40、ex-inclusive when used in general references. Instead these pronouns reflected the reality of male cultural dominance and the male-centered world view that resulted.E “He“ started to be used as a generic pronoun by grammarians who were trying to change a long-established tradition of using “they“ as

41、 a singular pronoun. In 1850 an Act of Parliament gave official sanction (批准) to the recently invented concept of the “generic“ he. In the language used in acts of Parliament, the new law said, “words importing the masculine gender shall be deemed and taken to include females“. Although similar lang

42、uage in contracts and other legal documents subsequently helped reinforce this grammatical edict in all English-speaking countries, it was often conveniently ignored. In 1879, for example, a move to admit female physicians to the all-male Massachusetts Medical Society was effectively blocked on the

43、grounds that the societys by-laws describing membership used the pronoun he.F Just as “man“ is not truly generic in the 1990s, “he“ is not a true generic pronoun. Studies have confirmed that most people understand “he“ to refer to men only. Sentences like “A doctor is a busy person; he must be able

44、to balance a million obligations at once“ imply that all doctors are men. As a result of the fact that “he“ is read by many as a masculine pronoun, many people, especially Women, have come to feel that the generic pronouns excludes women. This means that more and more people find the use of such a p

45、ronoun problematic.Solving the Pronoun ProblemG They as a singularmost people, when writing and speaking informally, rely on singular they as a matter of course: “If you love someone, set them free“ (Sting). If you pay attention to your own speech, youll probably catch yourself using the same constr

46、uction yourself. “Its enough to drive anyone out of their senses“ (George Bernard Shaw). “I shouldnt like to punish anyone, even ii theyd done me wrong“ (George Eliot). Some people are annoyed by the incorrect grammar that this solution necessitates, but this construction is used more and more frequ

47、ently.H He or SheDespite the charge of clumsiness, double-pronoun constructions have made a comeback: “To be black in this country is simply too pervasive an experience for any writer to omit from her or his work“, wrote Samuel R. Delany. Overuse of this solution can be awkward, however.I Pluralizin

48、gA writer can often recast material in the plural. For instance, instead of “As he advances in his program, the medical student has increasing opportunities for clinical work,“ try “As they advance in their program, medical students have increasing opportunities for clinical work“.J Eliminating PronounsAvoid having to use pronouns at all; instead of “a first grader can feed and dress himself, you could write, “a first