2003年06月大学英语六级(CET-6)真题-中大网校

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2003年06月大学英语六级(CET-6)真题
总分：100分 及格：60分 考试时间：120分

Part II Reading Comprehension (35 minutes)

(1)Questions{TSE}are based on the following passage. In the villages of the
English countryside there are still people who remember the good old days
when no one bothered to lock their doors. There simply wasn’t any crime
to worry about. Amazingly, these happy times appear still to be with us in
the world’s biggest community. A new study by Dan Farmer, a gifted
programmer, using an automated investigative program of his own called
SATAN, shows that the owners of well over half of all World Wide Web
sites have set up home without fitting locks to their doors. SATAN can try
out a variety of well-known hacking （黑客的） tricks on an Internet site
without actually breaking in. Farmer has made the program publicly available,
amid much criticism. A person with evil intent could use it to hunt down
sites that are easy to burgle （闯入?...行窃）. But Farmer is very concerned
about the need to alert the public to poor security and, so far, events
have proved him right. SATAN has done more to alert people to the risks
than cause new disorder. So is the Net becoming more secure? Far from it.
In the early days, when you visited a Web site your browser simply
looked at the content. Now the Web is full of tiny programs that
automatically download when you look at a Web page, and run on your
own machine. These programs could, if their authors wished, do all kinds of
nasty things to your computer. At the same time, the Net is increasingly
populated with spiders, worms, agents and other types of automated beasts
designed to penetrate the sites and seek out and classify information. All
these make wonder


(2)SATAN, a program designed by Dan Fanner can be used （ ）.
A. toinvestigatethesecurityofInternetsites
B. toimprovethesecurityoftheInternetsystem
C. topreventhackersfrombreakingintowebsites
D. todownloadusefulprogramsandinformation


(3)Fanner’s program has been criticized by the public because（ ）.
A. itcausesdamagetoNetbrowsers
B. itcanbreakintoInternetsites
C. itcanbeusedtocausedisorderonallsites
D. itcanbeusedbypeoplewithevilintent

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(4)The author’s attitude toward SATAN is（ ）.
A. enthusiastic
B. critical
C. positive
D. indifferent


(5)The author suggests in the last paragraph that（ ）.
A. weshouldmakefulluseoftheInternetbeforese curitymeasuresarestrengthened
B. weshouldalert themostinfluentialbusinessmentotheimportanceofsecu rity
C. influentialbusinessmenshouldgivepriori tytotheimprovementofNetsecurity
D. netinhabita ntsshouldnotletsecuritymeasuresaffecttheirjoyofsur fingtheInternet


(6)Questions{TSE}are based on the following passage. I came away from my
years of teaching on the college and university level with a conviction that
enactment （扮演角色）, performance, dramatization are the most successful forms
of teaching. Students must be incorporated, made, so far as possible, an
integral part of the learning process. The notion that learning should have in
it an element of inspired play would seem to the greater part of the
academic establishment merely silly, but that is nonetheless the case. Of
Ezekiel Cheever, the most famous schoolmaster of the Massachusetts Bay
Colony, his onetime student Cotton Mather wrote that he so planned his
lessons that his pupils “came to work as though they came to play,” and
Alfred North Whitehead, almost three hundred years later, noted that a
teacher should make hisher students “glad they were there.” Since, we are
told, 80 to 90 percent of all instruction in the typical university is by the
lecture method, we should give close attention to this form of education.
There is, I think, much truth in Patricia Nelson Limerick’s observation that
“lecturing is an unnatural act, an act for which God did not design humans.
It is perfectly all right, now and then, for a human to be possessed by
the urge to speak, and to speak while others remain silent. But to do this
regularly, one hour and 15 minutes at a time... for one person to drag on
while others sit in silence?... I do not believe that this is what the
Creator... designed humans to do.” The strange, almost incomprehensible fact is
that many professors, just as they feel obliged to write dully, belie


(7)The majority of university professors prefer the traditional way of lecturing
in the belief that（ ）.
A. itdrawsthecloseattentionofthestudents
B. itconformsinawaytothedesignoftheCreator
C. itp resentscoursecontentinascientificandobjectivemanne r
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D. ithelpsstudentstocomprehendabstracttheories moreeasily


(8)What the author recommends in this passage is that（ ）.
A. collegeeducationshouldbeimprovedthroughradi calmeasures
B. morefreedomofchoiceshouldbegive ntostudentsintheirstudies
C. traditionalcolleg electuresshouldbereplacedbydramatizedperformances
D. interactionshouldbeencouragedintheprocessof teaching


(9)By saying “They seemed ‘a priesthood, rather uneven in their merits but
uniform in their bearing...’” （Lines 3-4, Para. 4）, the author means that
（ ）.
A. professorsareagroupofprofessi onalsthatdifferintheiracademicabilitybutbehaveinth esameway
B. professorsarelikepriestswearingthe samekindofblackgownbuthavingdifferentrolestoplay
C. thereisnofundamentaldifferencebetweenprofes sorsandprieststhoughtheydifferintheirmerits
D. professorsattheUniversityofPennsylvaniausedtowearb lacksuitswhichmadethemlooklikepriests


(10)Whose teaching method is particularly commended by the author? （ ）
A. EzekielCheever’
B. CottonMather’
C. AlfredNorthWhitehead’
D. PatriciaNelsonLimerick’


(11)Questions{TSE}are based on the following passage. Take the case of public
education alone. The principal difficulty faced by the schools has been the
tremendous increase in the number of pupils. This has been caused by the
advance of the legal age for going into industry and the impossibility of
finding a job even when the legal age has been reached. In view of the
technological improvements in the last few years, business will require in the
future proportionately fewer workers than ever before. The result will be still
further raising of he legal age for going into employment, and still further
difficulty in finding employment when hat age has been attained. If we
cannot put our children to work, we must put them in school. We may also
be quite confident that the present trend toward a shorter day and a shorter
week will be maintained. We have developed and shall continue to have a
new leisure class. Already the public agencies for adult education are
swamped by the tide that has swept over them since depression began. They
will be little better off when it is over. Their support must come from
the taxpayer. It is surely too much to hope that these increases in the cost
of public education can be borne by the local communities. They cannot
care for the present restricted and inadequate system. The local communities
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have failed in their efforts to cope with unemployment. They cannot expect
to cope with public education on the scale on which we must attempt it.
The answer to the problem of unemployment has been Federal relief. The
answer to the problem of public education may have to&nb


(12)What is the reason for the increase in the number of students? （ ）
A. Therequirementofeducatedworkersbybusines
B. Raisingofthelegalageforgoingtowor
C. Thetrendtowardashorterworkda
D. People’sconcernforthefutureofthenextgeneratio


(13)The public agencies for adult education will be little better off because
（ ）.
A. theunemployedaretoopoortocontinuetheireducation
B. anewleisureclasshasdeveloped
C. theyarestillsufferingfromthedepression
D. anincreaseintaxescouldbeaproblem


(14)According to the author, the answer to the problem of public education
is that the Federal government（ ）.
A. shouldallocateFederalfundsforpubliceducation
B. shoulddemandthatlocalcommunitiesprovidesupport
C. shouldraisetaxestomeettheneedsofpubliceducation
D. shouldfirstofallsolvetheproblemofunemployment


(15)Why does the author say “Only a people determined to ruin the next
generation will refuse such Federal funds as public education may require”
（Lines 10-11, Para. 3）?（ ）
A. Onlybyappropriatinga dequateFederalfundsforeducationcanthenextgeneratio nhaveabrightfutur
B. Citizensofallpartsoftheco untryagreethatthebestwaytosupporteducationistouseF ederalfund
C. Peoplealloverthecountryshouldmak econtributionstoeducationintheinterestofthenextgen eratio
D. Educatedpeoplearedeterminedtousepart oftheFederalfundstohelpthepoo


(16)Questions{TSE}are based on the following passage. A new high-performance
contact lens under development at the department for applied physics at the
University of Heidelberg will not only correct ordinary vision defects but will
enhance normal night vision as much as five times, making people’s vision
sharper than that of cats. Bille and his team work with an optical instrument
called an active mirror—a device used in astronomical telescopes to spot
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newly emerging stars and far distant galaxies. Connected to a wave-front
sensor that tracks and measures the course of a laser beam into the eye
and back, the aluminum mirror detects the deficiencies of the cornea, the
transparent protective layer covering the lens of the human eye. The highly
precise data from the two instruments—which, Bille hopes, will one day be
found at the opticians （眼镜商） all over the world—serve as a basis for
the production of completely individualized contact lenses that correct and
enhance the wearer’s vision. By day, Bille’s contact lenses will focus rays of
light so accurately on the retina （视网膜）that the image of a small leaf or
the outline of a far distant tree will be formed with a sharpness that
surpasses that of conventional vision aids by almost half a diopter （ 屈光
度）. At night, the lenses have an even greater potential. “Because the new
lens—in contrast to the already existing ones—also works when it’s dark and
the pupil is wide open,” says Bille, “lens wearers will be able to identify
a face at a distance of 100 meters”—80 meters farther than they would
normally be able to see. In his experiments night vision was enhanced by
an eve


(17)What do the two instruments mentioned in the second paragraph （Line 5）
refer to?
A. Theastronomicaltelescopeandthewave- frontsenso
B. Thealuminummirrorandthelaserbea
C. Theactivemirrorandthecontactlen
D. Thealuminummirrorandthewave-frontsenso


(18)Individualized contact lenses （Line 7, Para. 2） are lenses designed（ ）.
A. toworklikeanastronomicaltelescope
B. tosuitthewearer’sspecificneeds
C. toprocessextremelyaccuratedata
D. totestthewearer’seyesight


(19)According to Bille, with the new lenses the wearer’s vision（ ）.
A. willbefarbetteratnightthaninthedaytime
B. maybebroadenedabout15timesthanwithoutthem
C. canbebetterimprovedinthedaytimethanatnight
D. willbesharperbyamuchgreaterdegreeatnightthaninthed aytime


(20)Which of the following is true about Bille’s lenses?
A. Theirproductionprocessiscomplicate
B. Theywillbesoldataverylowpric
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C. Theyhavetobereplacedeveryda
D. PurchaseorderscanbemadethroughtheInterne


Part III Vocabulary (20 minutes)

(1)In November 1987 the government ________ a public debate on the future
direction of the official sports policy.
A. initiated
B. designated
C. induced
D. promoted


(2)I found it difficult to ________ my career ambitions with the need to
bring up my children.
A. consolidate
B. amend
C. reconcile
D. Intensify


(3)We all enjoy our freedom of choice and do not like to see it
________ when it is within the legal and moral boundaries of society.
A. compacted
B. restricted
C. dispersed
D. delayed


(4)It is fortunate for the old couple that their son’s career goals and their
wishes for him _____.
A. coincide
B. comply
C. conform
D. collaborate


(5)Allen will soon find out that real life is seldom as simple as it is
________ in commercials.
A. permeated
B. alleged
C. depicted
D. drafted
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(6)Europe’s earlier industrial growth was ________ by the availability of key
resources, abundant and cheap labor, coal, iron ore, etc.
A. constrained
B. detained
C. remained
D. sustained


(7)As the trial went on, the story behind the murder slowly ________ itself.
A. convicted
B. released
C. haunted
D. unfolded


(8)We’ve just installed a fan to ________ cooking smells from the kitchen.
A. eject
B. expel
C. exclude
D. exile


(9)Retirement is obviously a very complex ________ period; and the earlier
you start planning for it, the better.
A. transformation
B. transmission
C. transaction
D. transition


(10)Mutual respect for territorial ________ is one of the bases upon which
our two countries develop relationships.
A. unity
B. integrity
C. entirety
D. reliability


(11)As one of the youngest professors in the university, Mr. Brown is
certainly on the ________ of a brilliant career.
A. porch
B. edge
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C. course
D. threshold


(12)We work to make money, but it’s a ________ that people who work
hard and long often do not make the most money.
A. paradox
B. prejudice
C. dilemma
D. conflict


(13)The design of this auditorium shows a great deal of ________. We have
never seen such a building before.
A. invention
B. illusion
C. originality
D. orientation


(14)The damage to my car was ________. in the accident, but I have a
lingering fear even today.
A. insufficient
B. ignorant
C. ambiguous
D. negligible


(15)Very few people could understand the lecture the professor delivered
because its subject was very ________.
A. obscure
B. indefinite
C. dubious
D. intriguing


(16)Diamonds have little ________ value and their price depends almost
entirely on their scarcity.
A. intrinsic
B. eternal
C. subtle
D. inherent


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(17)Doctors are interested in using lasers as a surgical tool in operations on
people who are ________ to heart attack.
A. infectious
B. disposed
C. accessible
D. prone


(18)Many countries have adopted systems of ________ education in order to
promote the average level of education.
A. compulsory
B. cardinal
C. constrained
D. conventional


(19)I had eaten Chinese food often, but I could not have imagined how
________ and extravagant a real Chinese banquet could be,
A. prominent
B. fabulous
C. handsome
D. gracious


(20)They are ________ investors who always make thorough investigations both
on local and international markets before making an investment.
A. implicit
B. conscious
C. cautious
D. indecisive


(21)In addition to the rising birthrate and immigration, the ________ death
rate contributed to the population growth.
A. inclining
B. increasing
C. declining
D. descending


(22)Because of the ________ noise of traffic I couldn’t get to sleep last
night.
A. prevalent
B. perpetual
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C. provocative
D. progressive


(23)Don’t let such a ________ matter as this come between us so that we
can concentrate on the major issue.
A. trivial
B. slight
C. partial
D. minimal


(24)If you go to the park every day in the morning, you will ________
find him doing physical exercise there.
A. ordinarily
B. variably
C. logically
D. persistently


(25)Although she’s a（n） ________ talented dancer, she still practices several
hours every day.
A. traditionally
B. additionally
C. exceptionally
D. rationally


(26)The cut in her hand has healed completely, without leaving a ________.
A. defect
B. sign
C. wound
D. scar


(27)The idea is to ________ the frequent incidents of collision to test the
strength of the wind-shields.
A. assemble
B. simulate
C. accumulate
D. forge


(28)Most people in the modem world ________ freedom and independence
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more than anything else.
A. embody
B. cherish
C. fascinate
D. illuminate


(29)I told him that I would ________ him to act for me while I was
away from office.
A. authorize
B. justify
C. rationalize
D. identify


(30)Over the past ten years, natural gas production has remained steady, but
________ has risen steadily.
A. dissipation
B. disposal
C. consumption
D. expenditure


Part IV Error Correction (15 minute)

(1)The Seattle Times Company is one newspaper firm that has recognized the
need for change and done something about it. In the newspaper industry,
papers must reflect the diversity of the communities to which they provide
information. It must reflect that diversity with their news coverage or risk
（S1） losing their readers’ interest and their advertisers’ support. Operating
within Seattle, which has 20 percents racial （S2） minorities, the paper has
put into place policies and procedures for hiring and maintain a diverse
workforce. The （S3） underlying reason for the change is that for information
to be fair, appropriate, and subjective, it should be reported by the （S4）
same kind of population that reads it. A diversity committee composed of
reporters, editors, and photographers meets regularly to value the Seattle
Times’ （S5） content and to educate the rest of the newsroom staff about
diversity issues. In an addition, the paper instituted a content （S6） audit （审
查） that evaluates the frequency and manner of representation of woman and
people of color in photographs. （S7） Early audits showed that minorities were
pictured far too infrequently and were pictured with a disproportion ate
number of negative articles. The audit results from （S8） improvement in the
frequency of majority representation and （S9） their portrayal in neutral or
positive situations. And, with a （S10） result, the Seattle Times has improved
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as a newspaper. The diversity training and content audits helped the Seattle
Times Company to win the Personnel Journal Optimal Award for excellence
in managing change.



答案和解析
Part II Reading Comprehension (35 minutes)
(1) :C
(2) :A
(3) :D
(4) :C
(5) :A
(6) :B
(7) :C
(8) :D
(9) :A
(10) :A
(11) :B
(12) :B
(13) :D
(14) :A
(15) :A
(16) :C
(17) :D
(18) :B
(19) :D
(20) :D
Part III Vocabulary (20 minutes)
(1) :A
(2) :B
(3) :B
(4) :A
(5) :B
(6) :D
(7) :D
(8) :C
(9) :D
(10) :B
(11) :D
(12) :A
(13) :C
(14) :D
(15) :A
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(16) :A
(17) :B
(18) :A
(19) :B
(20) :C
(21) :C
(22) :B
(23) :A
(24) :B
(25) :C
(26) :D
(27) :C
(28) :B
(29) :A
(30) :C
Part IV Error Correction (15 minute)
(1) :
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in→maintaining
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6.去掉an
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