1、大学英语六级模拟试卷 661及答案与解析 一、 Part I Writing (30 minutes) 1 Directions: For this part, you are allowed 30 minutes to write a composition on the topic Harmfulness of Fake Commodities. You should write at least 150 words and you should base your composition on the outline ( given in Chinese) below: 1. 目前社会上
2、有不少假冒伪劣商品，为什么会有这种现象？ 2.举例说明假冒伪劣商品对消费者个人，社会等的危害。 二、 Part II Reading Comprehension (Skimming and Scanning) (15 minutes) Directions: In this part, you will have 15 minutes to go over the passage quickly and answer the questions attached to the passage. For questions 1-4, mark： Y (for YES) if the statem
3、ent agrees with the information given in the passage; N (for NO) if the statement contradicts the information given in the passage; NG (for NOT GIVEN) if the information is not given in the passage. 2 Using Land Wisely A very important world problemin fact, I am inclined to say it is the most import
4、ant of all the great world problems which face US al the present timeis the rapidly increasing pressure of population on land and on land resources. It is not so much the actual population of the world but its rate of increase which is important, It works out to be about 1.6 per cent per annual net
5、increase. In terms of numbers this means something like forty to forty-five million additional people every year. Canada has a population of twenty million-rather less than six months climb in world population. Take Australia. There are ten million people in Australia. So, it takes the world less th
6、an three months to add to itself a population. Let the US take our own crowded countryEngland and Wales: forty-five to fifty million peoplejust about a years supply. By this time tomorrow, and every day, there will be added to the earth about 120,000 extra people just about the population of the cit
7、y of York. I am not talking about birth rate. This is net increase. To give you some idea of birth rate, look at the second hand of your watch. Every second three babies are born somewhere in the world. Another baby! Another baby! Another baby! You cannot speak quickly enough to keep pace with the b
8、irth rate. This enormous increase of population will create immense problems. By A.D. 2000, unless something desperate happens, there will be as many as 7,000,000,000 people on the surface of this earth! So this is a problem which you are going to see in your lifetime. Why is this enormous increase
9、in population taking place? It is really due to the spread of the knowledge and the practice of what is coming to be called Death Control. You have heard of Birth Control? Death Control is something rather different. Death Control recognizes the work of the doctors and the nurses and the hospitals a
10、nd the health services in keeping alive people who, a few years ago, would have died of some of the incredibly serious killing diseases, as they used to be. Squalid conditions, which we can remedy by an improved standard of living, caused a lot of disease and dirt. Medical examinations at school cat
11、ch diseases early and ensure healthier school children. Scientists are at work stamping out malaria and other more deadly diseases. If you are seriously ill there is an ambulance to take you to a modem hospital. Medical care helps to keep people alive longer. We used to think seventy was a good age;
12、 now eighty, ninety, it may be, are coming to be recognized as a normal age for human beings. People are living longer because of this Death Control, and fewer children are dying, so the population of the world is shooting up. Imagine the position if you and I and everyone else living on earth share
13、d the surface between us. How much should we have each? It would be just over twelve acresthe sort of size of a small holding. But not all that is useful land which is going to produce food. We can cut out one-fifth of it, for example, as being too cold. That is land which is covered with ice and sn
14、owAntarctica and Greenland and the great frozen areas of northern Canada. Then we can cut out another fifth as being too drythe great deserts of the world like the Sahara and the heart of Australia and other areas where there is no known water supply to feed crops and so to produce food. Then we can
15、 cut out another fifth as being too mountainous or with too great an elevation above sea level. Then we can cut out another tenth as land which has insufficient soil, probably just rock at the surface. Now, out of the twelve acres only about four are left as suitable for producing food. But not all
16、that is used. It includes land with enough soil and enough rainfall or water, and enough heat which, at present, we are not using, such as, for example, the great Amazon forests and the Congo forest and the grasslands of Africa. How much are we actually using? Only a little over one acre is what is
17、required to support one human being on an average at the present time. Now we come to the next point, and that is, the haves and the have-nots amongst the countries of the world. The standard share per person for the world is a little over twelve acres per head; potentially usable, about four acres;
18、 and actually used about 1.1 acre. We are very often told in Britain to take the United States as an example of what is done or what might be done. Every little American is born into this world with a heritage of the home country, the continental United States, of just, about the world average about
19、 twelve acres. We can estimate that probably some six acres of the total of twelve of the American homeland is cultivable in the sense I have just given you. But the amount actually usedwhat the Americans call “improved land“ in crops and pasture on farmsis three and a half acres. So the Americans h
20、ave over three times the world average of land on which to produce food for themselves. On that land they produce more food than they actually require, so they have a surplus for export. Now suppose we take the United States great neighbour, Canada, to the north. Every Canadian has 140 acres to roam
21、 around in. A lot of it is away in the frozen north, but there is still an enormous area of land in Canada waiting to be settled and developed. The official figure is twenty-two acres. The Canadians use at the moment four acres, and they too have a large food surplus available for export. Now turn t
22、o our own country. Including land of all sorts, there is just over one acre per head in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. That is why we have to be so very careful with it. How much do we actually use? Just over half an acre to produce foodthat is as farm land. The story is m
23、uch the same if you separate off Northern Ireland and Scotland and just take England and Wales. In this very crowded country, we have only 0.8 acres per head of land of all sorts to do everything with which we need. That is why we have to think so very carefully of this problem. India, with 2.5 acre
24、s per head, has considerably more land than we have in this country. Not all of it is usable for food production. But there is land which could be reclaimed by modern methods, that is being tackled at the present time. The crucial figure is the actual area in agricultural usethree-quarters of an acr
25、e! The yields from this land are low, methods of production are primitive, and that is why the Indians are so very near the starvation level for almost every year of their lives. But they are not as badly off where land is concerned as Japan. The Japanese figures are the same as our own country in o
26、verall land1.1 acres per personbut it is a very mountainous country with volcanoes, and so much less is cultivable. Less than a fifth of an acre0.17 of an acreis under cultivation. You see at once the tremendous land problem which there is in Japan. There is a great variation, of course, in the inte
27、nsity with which land is used. In the United States they are extravagant in the use of land and take, perhaps, twenty times as much to feed one person as in Japan. You may talk about the Japanese agriculture being twenty times as efficient as the American, but that raises a lot of questions. The int
28、ensive cultivation characteristic of Japan uses every little bit of land and only the barren hill-sides are not required. Much of the agriculture is based on rice. The farm workers plant by hand every individual rice plant, and this kind of intensive cultivation enables the Japanese to support seven
29、 persons per acre. By contrast, think of the ranch lands in North and South America, with animals ranging over immense tracts of land. A diet of beef and of milk is extravagant of land; in other words, it takes a lot of land for the number of calories produced. In this sense it is less efficient tha
30、n the Japanese rice-growing agriculture. But not everyone likes eating rice. Where the sea is concerned, we are scarcely, at the present time, out of the old Stone Age. In the Stone Age, the people simply went out, killed wild animalsif they were luckyand had a good meal; if they were unlucky they j
31、ust went hungry. At the present day, we do almost the same thing in the sea, hunting wild fish from boats. In the future, perhaps, we shall cultivate the sea: we shall grow small fish and fish spawn in tanks, take them to the part of the ocean where we want them, let them grow to the right size, and
32、 harvest them. This is not fantasy, because, at the present time, fish are being cultivated like that in ponds and tanks in India, and various parts of the Far East so that the people there have a supply of protein. There is a great development possible. A lot of things are going to happen in the ne
33、xt fifty years. It is enormously important to increase the yield of grain plants and a great deal has happened through the work of the geneticists in the last few years. For instance, there has been an enormous world increase in the production of what Americans call corn (maize to us) due to the dev
34、elopment of new strains. Throughout agriculture geneticists are improving plants to get higher yields. 2 The problem of population is mainly man-made. （ A） Y （ B） N （ C） NG 3 Two different points are made in the essay about tile efficient use of land, one of them is that some countries use old -fash
35、ioned methods of cultivation and therefore get a low yield, the other point is the certain kinds of fond require more land than others. （ A） Y （ B） N （ C） NG 4 It is very important the actual population in the world is on the increase. （ A） Y （ B） N （ C） NG 5 By “Death Control“, the author means con
36、trol of the worlds population. （ A） Y （ B） N （ C） NG 6 There will be_ born in a minute in the world. 7 We are living on earth shared the surface between us; it would be just over _acres. 8 The enormous increase in population is really due to the spread of the knowledge and the practice of what is co
37、ming to be called_. 9 It works out to be about _annual net increase. 10 Now, for human beings, eighty, ninety are coming to be recognized as 11 Every Canadian uses _acre(s) at present. Section A Directions: In this section, you will hear 8 short conversations and 2 long conversations. At the end of
38、each conversation, one or more questions will be asked about what was said. Both the conversation and the questions will be spoken only once. After each question there will be a pause. During the pause, you must read the four choices marked A, B, C and D, and decide which is the best answer. （ A） Th
39、e man should try to be more understanding. （ B） The mans wife should be more understanding. （ C） The mans negative attitude may be derived from his childhood. （ D） The pessimism of mans wife may be the result of her past experiences. （ A） Whether the woman needs his help. （ B） Whether the woman has
40、any pets. （ C） Where the woman is going. （ D） Whether the woman can take care of his pet. （ A） Mary earned the prize. （ B） Mary has granted the prize （ C） Mary fails in the speech contest. （ D） Mary shouldnt earn the prize. （ A） It does not concern John. （ B） John does not care about his car. （ C） J
41、ohn will help him fix the ear. （ D） He wants John to fix the car. （ A） No one knows how Mary gets to work. （ B） She doesnt think the record player works. （ C） She throws the old record away. （ D） Its surprising that Mary could repair the record player. （ A） She didnt go to work this morning. （ B） Sh
42、e was injured and had to go to the hospital （ C） She talked with the boss in the morning. （ D） The traffic delayed her. （ A） She loves her present work. （ B） She is going to open a store. （ C） She is about to retire. （ D） She works in a repair shop. （ A） She is against the mans plan. （ B） She thinks
43、 it needs a lot of money. （ C） They need some time to think about it. （ D） Its good for his career development. （ A） By driving. （ B） By train. （ C） By air. （ D） By bus. （ A） New York City. （ B） California. （ C） Vermont. （ D） Manhattan. （ A） The love for music. （ B） The love for traveling. （ C） They
44、 both like new places. （ D） They both like riding. （ A） The most expensive products for women and children. （ B） The most practical clothes for the old and the young. （ C） The best and most luxurious garment products for men and women. （ D） The best but very cheap jeans and underwear for ordinary co
45、nsumers. （ A） People who are more concerned about value ,price and style. （ B） People who are more worried about monotony and analogy. （ C） People who are less interested in affordable clothes. （ D） People who are very much concerned about the design of clothes. （ A） By setting up joint ventures wit
46、h partners in Asia. （ B） By opening up whole sale chain-stores in Japan. （ C） By distributing its products to retail stores with“ ship in shop“ concept. （ D） By setting up retail stores. （ A） One of Calvin Kleins business partners. （ B） One of the chain stores of Calvin Klein in Asia. （ C） The sole
47、agent of Calvin Klein in Japan. （ D） A trade mission to South-East Asia. Section B Directions: In this section, you will hear 3 short passages. At the end of each passage, you will hear some questions. Both the passage and the questions will be spoken only once. After you hear a question, you must c
48、hoose the best answer from the four choices marked A, B, C and D. （ A） Because it is difficult to maintain a marriage. （ B） Because people like watching TV programs. （ C） Because people prefer freedom to self-discipline. （ D） Because our society is permissive towards divorces. （ A） The freedom to ha
49、ve other sexual relations. （ B） The desire to follow every of ones impulse. （ C） The will to keep his or her own income. （ D） The wish to be his or her true self. （ A） A man and a woman should follow every of their own impulse respectively. （ B） A good marriage takes some level of compromise between the husband and the wife. （ C） A man and a woman should both have to endure dreadful self-sacrifice of the soul. （ D） A man and a woman should stop growing or changing. （ A） The urgent need of a
