大学英语六级真题试卷-1991年1月/下

 

Part III Vocabulary and Structure (20 minutes)

41.   The oil shortage ________ the prices of chemical fertilizers on the world market.

A) drove oil

B) drove up

C) drove in

D) drove off

42.   There are five ________ mistakes in this picture. Can you find them and win a prize?

A) intensive

B) deliberate

C) planned

D) calculated

43.   These studies will yield valuable lemons ________.

A) in which to save lives and protect property

B) how to save lives and protect property

C) in how to save lives and protect property

D) about those to save lives and protect property

44.   The school offered flexible courses for farmers, ________ more hours of study when farm work was not heavy.

A) with

B) without

C) in

D) for

45.   Part of the cost of many articles is taken as tax by the government ________ the community.

A) in place of

B) on account of

C) in terms of

D) on behalf of

46.   Soldiers act in ________ to the orders of their officers.

A) obligation

B) objection

C) obedience

D) offence

47.   ________ after the Second World War that test pilots first attempted to break the “Sound barrier.”

A) It was shortly

B) Until shortly

C) Shortly was it

D) Shortly

48.   ________ in the Atacama Desert.

A) It never virtually rains

B) It virtually never rains

C) Never it rains virtually

D) Never virtually it rains

49.   Society now requires the university to be a part of the community. ________, students themselves expect to play a role in the affairs of society.

A) Hence

B) However

C) Moreover

D) Otherwise

50.   Superconductors lose electrical resistance only ________ subjected to intense cold.

A) through

B) when

C) as

D) by

51.   Those who lie and cheat will never ________ it.

A) get on with

B) get back to

C) get away with

D) get off with

52.   A foreign language like English is difficult to learn, so you ________ work too hard.

A) should

B) mustn’t

C) can’t

D) ought to

53.   Cultural life in England takes so many forms that a brief summary can only attempt to ________ its variety.

A) suggest

B) remind

C) consider

D) propose

54.   There are ________ periods in an animal’s life when it is capable of learning a great deal in a very short time.

A) urgent

B) violent

C) serious

D) critical

55.   Do employers in your country ________ workers for in juries suffered at their work?

A) conform

B) conflict

C) compel

D) compensate

56.   Since they betrayed us, they have no hope of convincing ________ their sincerity.

A) with

B) for

C) in

D) of

57.   They assured us that ________ was waiting for they were there to share it.

A) what

B) whatever

C) it

D) whoever

58.   ________ exposure to dirty air can cause people suffer from some diseases.

A) Raised

B) Prolonged

C) Expanded

D) Enlarged

59.   ________ about one of the most rapidly changing countries in a ceaselessly changing world is not all easy.

A) Being informed

B) To be informing

C) Have in formed

D) Informed

60.   Though you stay in the sea for weeks, you will not ________ contact with the outside world.

A) lose

B) fall

C) miss

D) fail

61.   Visitors to England sometimes find the lack of public activities in the evenings ________.

A) depressed

B) depression

C) depressing

D) depressingly

62.   Julie is one of those women who always ________ the latest fashions.

A) look after

B) keep up with

C) run for

D) go in for

63.   This traditional entertainment for children in America has never, ________ I know, become popular in China.

A) as far as

B) as much

C) to the extent that

D) so long as

64.   Mr. Smith attends to the ________ of important business himself:

A) transmission

B) transformation

C) transaction

D) transition

65.   Besides what you have explained, can you think of ________ reason for their terrible action?

A) any

B) else

C) other

D) another

66.   The chairman threatened ________ if his policies were not adopted.

A) to resign

B) resigning

C) to be resigned

D) being resigned

67.   She was able to give the police a full account of since she had been ________ to it.

A) an observer

B) an on-looker

C) a watcher

D) a witness

68.   Very few people understood his lecture, the subject of which was very ________.

A) obscure

B) upsetting

C) distant

D) inferior

69.   Although the national government has introduced some new laws on this subject, it is the ________ state governments which are responsible for pollution control.

A) precisely

B) primarily

C) progressively

D) preliminarily

70.   He would ________ it that his son took a livelier interest in politics.

A) see into

B) see through

C) see about

D) see to

 

Part IV Error Correction (15 minutes)

Directions: This part consists of a short passage. In this passage, there are altogether 10 mistakes, one in each numbered line. You may have to change a word, add a word or delete a word. Mark out the mistakes and put the corrections in the blanks provided. If you change a word, cross it out and write the correct word in the corresponding blank. If you add a word, put an insertion mark (∧) in the right place and write the missing word in the blank. If you delete a word, cross it and put a slash (/) in the blank.

Example:

Television is rapidly becoming the literature of our periods╱.       1. time/times/period

Many of the arguments having╱ used for the study of literature as    2. _______\_______

a school subject are valid for ∧ study of television.                3. ______the______

By the time of the Civil War, there were many differences between the North and the South.

For instance, the population of the (71) North was far greater than of the South. (72) Twenty-two million people lived in the North; nine million lived in the South. To the nine million people in the South, more than three million were (73) slaves, many of whom would fight for the North.

In addition to have more people, the (74) North also possessed most of the factories in the United States. This greatly helped the Southern (75) army, which could count on adequate supplies of (76) guns, ammunition(弹药), and clothing during (77) the Civil War. In the contrast, the South, since it mainly depended on farming, had many factories.

The Southern leaders hoped to gain war supplies from European countries. They planned to buy their crops (78) to England and France in return for guns and ammunition to fight the war. (79)

Except its industry, the North also had a larger network of railroads to transport supplies. (80) The South, which had few railroads, depended on its waterways to transport men and supplies.

Moreover, the North had an establishing army, navy, and government, while the South had to begin organizing its self military force.

 

Part V Writing (30 minutes)

Directions: For this part, you are allowed 30 minutes to write a composition about Man Is to Survive. You should base your writing on the following outline:

1.    人类面临的问题(如能源、疾病、污染、人口等)

2.    悲观的看法(如人类将无法生存)

3.    人类的智慧和出路

Your composition should be no less than 120 words. Be sure to write your composition in readable handwriting.

Man Is to Survive

 

参考答案

Part I

1.    D     2.    C     3.    A     4.    A     5.    B

6.    A     7.    D     8.    B     9.    D     10.   C

11.   D     12.   A     13.   D     14.   B     15.   C

16.   B     17.   A     18.   C     19.   B     20.   C

 

Part II

21.   D     22.   A     23.   A     24.   D     25.   C

26.   C     27.   B     28.   B     29.   D     30.   D

31.   B     32.   A     33.   C     34.   C     35.   A

36.   D     37.   B     38.   C     39.   A     40.   A

 

Part III

41.   D     42.   B     43.   D     44.   C     45.   A

46.   A     47.   C     48.   D     49.   D     50.   A

51.   C     52.   A     53.   C     54.   B     55.   B

56.   B     57.   B     58.   C     59.   B     60.   D

61.   C     62.   D     63.   A     64.   C     65.   A

66.   B     67.   A     68.   A     69.   B     70.   D