大学英语六级考试 阅读模拟试题

大学英语六级考试阅读模拟试题

Passage One

Media

摘要：本文作者在给出对大众传媒持否定态度的人的意见后，立刻表明了自己的观点，传媒的益处比缺点要多得多。

Every day we are all influenced by the mass media (television, movies, radio, magazines, newspapers and the like). Although some critics of the media claim that these means of communication are used primarily to control our thinking and get us to buy products that we don’t need, the media also contribute to keeping people informed. In other words, while dangers to exist, the benefits of the media far outweigh the disadvantages. Most of the messages brought to viewers, listeners, and readers are designed either to inform or to entertain---and neither of these goals can be considered dangerous or harmful.

If consumers of the media could be taught at an early age to examine messages critically---i.e., to think carefully about what is being communicated --- they would be able to take advantage of the information and enjoy the entertainment without being hurt by it. The key to critical thinking is recognizing the purposes of the news or script writers, the advisors, and so on. Are both sides of an issue being presented? Is the amount of the violence and killing shown necessary to the point of a story? Have enough facts about a product being advertised been presented?

Furthermore, in a country with a democratic form of government, the people can be kept informed by the mass media. To be able to express their views and vote intelligently, citizens need the opportunity to hear news, opinions, and public affairs programming. Information about current events is presented in depth on publicly funded TV channels and radio stations as well as in newspapers. In addition, the public broadcasting media can help viewers and listeners to complete or further their education. Recent immigrants, for example, can improve their command of English through TV. and radio, and, in addition, some college courses are taught on educational television. Another recognized advantage of the media is that it gives the people the information they need in their daily lives: weather and traffic reports are good examples. While commercials and advertising do not necessarily present accurate information, they do make people aware of the availability of products that could improve their lives. In addition, they create a larger demand for some items, which may lead to a reduction in their price.

While the media can be a valuable means of educating the public, when most people turn on the TV set or the radio, they want to be entertained. As a result, most programming consists of movies, plays, music, comedies, game shows, and sports events. Some of these offerings are of low quality, but, on the other hand, many are fun to watch and interesting, written and presented well.

Even though the mass media can be misused, most of effects are positive. We are all influenced by television, movies, radio, magazines, and newspapers, and---if we are careful to examine their massages critically--- these can all be of benefit to our lives.

Notes:

1. 1.script n. 手稿，剧本

2. 2.availability n. 可用性，有效性

1.1.The main point the author tries to make in this passage is most probably that _______.

A)A)advertising is harmful when it presents inaccurate information

B)B)the positive effects of the mass media outweigh the negative ones

C)C)people should learn to take advantage of the media’s benefits

D)D)Television is more useful as a means of entertainment than as a means of providing

information

2.2.According to the author, the two main purposes of the mass media are to ______.

A)A)control our thinking and get us to buy useless products

B)B)provide people with information and entertainment

C)C)making people aware of the availability of products and create a large demand for some

items

D)D)express the views of t he public and help improve recent immigrants’ English

3.3.The author feels that consumers of the mass media should be taught at an early age to ____.

A)A)bring their imagination into full play when watching programmes of low quality

B)B)buy products advertised in commercials so that the demand increase

C)C)turn off the TV set when ridiculous program comes on

D)D)think critically about the messages brought to them

4.4.It can be learned from paragraph 3 that citizens will be in a better position to express their

views and make their choices if they are _____.

A)A)highly educated through TV and radio

B)B)well protected by the government

C)C)highly paid by the employers

D)D)well informed by the mass media

5.5.Which of the following statements is true according to the passage?

A)A)the mass media offers information needed in our daily lives.

B)B)Publicly funded broadcasting does not present information about current wents in depth.

C)C)Information provided by commercials and advertising is always accurate.

D)D)Many TV and radio programmes are not interesting.

答案：

Passage One:

1．1． B. 参照短文第一段，作者在给出对大众传媒持否定态度的人的意见后，立刻表明了自己的观点，传媒的益处比缺点要多得多。故B为正确答案。

2．2． B. 参照第一段最后一句话，B选项与此句相符，故为正确答案。

3．3． D. 参照第二段第一句话，D选项与此意相符，故D为正确选项。

4．4． D. 参照第三段第二句话，D选项与此意相符，故D为正确选项。

5. A. 参照第四段第一句话，A选项与此意相符，故A为正确选项。

Passage Two

Chimps

摘要：本文描述了黑猩猩的群集生活以及它们的饮食状况，饮食主要包括水果和含有较多蛋白质的食物。同时描述了黑猩猩在获取食物和使用工具方面的能力。

Chimps apparently live in troops of between 20 and 50 animals. Within these troops they form small groups of varying composition; the most basic group consists of females or females plus offspring. Adult females spending much time together often turn out to be mother and daughter, or sisters. Mother and offspring live together consistently, at least for the first four or five years of life, longer than in any other primate except man. During this time the young learn from their mother and from other chimps all the complicated acquired behaviors of chimpanzee adult life. Life for the young chimpanzee is relaxed and tolerant, and an infant will spend much of its time playing with other infants, with its mother and with its brothers and sisters. After this five-year initial period, contacts with the mother are still maintained, particularly by daughters. Even sons returned from time to time from their wanderings to greet their mothers affectionately.

In the forest chimps are predominantly fruit eaters (upon occasion they are cannibalistic!), but in open woodland they may add more protein to their diet. Males sometimes kill colobus monkeys or bush-pig; often males will gang up in a group to achieve their ends. Meat is a very choice item in chimpanzee diet and is eaten slowly and deliberately with a mouthful of leaves between each bite. It is sometimes shared out with other chimps who will beg for pieces. This food sharing is very unusual among non human primates; mostly it is every primate for himself. When the season is right chimps in woodlands also eat termites, and they do this by “fishing”for them. When beginning a bout of termiting, an animal will carefully select stems or pieces of grass, trim them to the appropriate length, collect enough of them, and set out on the hunt for insects. It may pass over several termite hills if they are not ready and go on until it finds a mound ripe for fishing Using a finger, a hole is scraped and the prepared twig inserted. Withdrawn covered with termites, it is passed carefully over the lower lip until every delicious morsel is removed, and the operation repeated. Clearly, in doing so, chimps are taking natural objects, modifying them to a standard pattern and using them for an objective, which involves planning and forethought. They are, in fact, making tools. This has surprised many people, for previously man was considered to be the only toolmaker. In the chimpanzee, however, the intellectual abilities necessary for purposeful tool making are already developed at an infrahuman level. Other examples of chimp tool-use in natural surroundings have also been seen. For instance, chewed leaves are used as sponges to soak up water from holes in trees. They are also used to wipe dung or mud from the body. Stones and branches are used too in agonistic displays or when an animal is excited. They may be thrown under-or over-arm, often with considerable force and accuracy.

Notes:

1. 1.chimp= chimpanzee n. 非洲的小人猿，黑猩猩

2. 2.primate n. 首领，灵长类的动物

3. 3.colobus n. 疣猴

4. 4.termite n. 白蚁

1.1.what sort of groups do chimps live in?

A)A)Groups of between 20 and 50 chimps

B)B)Groups consisting of mother, father and children

C)C)Groups basically made up of females or females with their young

D)D)Groups consisting of chimps of the same sex

2.2.What does a baby chimp do while it stays with its mother?

A)A)it spends most of its time wondering.

B)B)It spends its time learning and playing.

C)C)It helps adult chimps hunt for food.

D)D)It learns to be tolerant.

3.3.Which of the following statements is False?

A)A)meat is rare in a chimpanzee diet.

B)B)The kind of food chimpanzee eat depends partly on their environment.

C)C)Fruit is the important food of chimpanzees.

D)D)Food sharing is unusual among chimpanzees.

4.4.In order to catch termites, a chimp ________.

A)A)cleans the grass off a termite hill

B)B)fished them out with a “twig” made of stems or bits of grass

C)C)gets them out with its fingers

D)D)uses its lower lip

5.5.What does the writer regard as evidence of intellectual ability similar to man in chimpanzees?

A)A)Getting together to catch preys

B)B)Eating meat slowly together with leaves

C)C)Tool-making and tool-use in natural surroundings

D)D)Chewing leaves

答案：

Passage Two

1.1.C. 第1题因文中的“plus offspring”与选项中的“with their young ”同义，故答案应选C）。

2.2.B. 第2题从第一段的第5。6句的叙述可知年幼猩猩的生活主要是学习和玩耍，故答案应选B）。

3.3.A. 第3题根据文中第二段第三句“Meat is a very choice item in chimpanzee diet ”，答案选择A）。这里“very choice ”意为“非常上等的”，“choice ”用作形容词。

4.4.B. 根据文章第二段第六句知道答案应为B。

5.5.C. 第5题从文中第二段的叙述中可知正确答案为C）。该段叙述了猩猩有目的地制造工具和使用工具的能力与人类相近。

Passage Three

TV commercials

摘要：在日益充满恐惧且人们感情脆弱的现实世界里，电视商务已被看作为一块宁静和舒适的绿洲，它展示给我们的是一个快乐的世界。但在不同的国家，电视商务的情况不同，如美国的电视商务就不同于英国，美国更加注重电视商务交流的实际效果。

In a world increasingly fearsome and fragile, TV commercials present an oasis of calm and comfort. For six minutes in every hour, viewers know that they will be drifted away from this cruel world into an idealized well-ordered land. You and I may experience real life as largely tired and chaotic but in the world of the TV commercials happy families may be seen to gather at breakfast-time for convivial bowls of cornflakes, their teeth free of decay, their hair innocent of dandruff, their shirt whiter than snow.

TV advertising in Britain, obsessed with the symbol of the good life, exploits a strong desire for evidence of old fashioned security. Things were better in the old days: bread was crusty and beer was a man’s drink. But in selling the idea of a better life, it strikes me that most British commercials fail in their primary function. I cannot be alone among those who usually remember everything about TV advertising except the product it is designed to publicize.

In other superb commercial, a distinguished-looking Italian butler drives a car headlong into a vast dining-hall to serve champagne. What on earth was it selling? The champagne? The car? What car? Search me. Viewers reveled in the medium and forgot the message. American advertise rs don’t make such mistakes. A typical U.S commercial features a woman in a kitchen holding a highly visible bottle of something or other and selling it hard. Not art, no craft, just the message. America sells the steak, while Britain sells the sizzle.

A nation needs symbols. We need proof that lovely things still endure, like a team of shire horses criss-crossing the landscape at sundown. We want to be reminded that they still exist, that we may still come across pockets of reason and beauty in a world less sensible and less beautiful each day. TV commercials provide us with those symbols. They provide a link with the way we like to think we were. They help us to keep in touch with lost innocence.

Notes:

1. 1.convivial adj. 欢乐的，欢宴的

2. 2.obsess v. 迷住，使困扰

3. 3.sizzle v.&n. 咝咝地响；咝咝声

1．1．According to the passage, TV commercials _____.

A)A)present us a pleasant world

B)B)tell us the outside world

C)C)keep us well-informed about the idealized land.

D)D)bring about more happy families.

2. Most British commercials fail to achieve their main aim because ______.

A)A)they lack originality

B)B)the names given to the products are too difficult to remember.

C)C)They only concentrate on the appearance of the product.

D)D)They do not concentrate on the main points

3. What does the phrase “ reveled in” in Paragraph 3 most probably mean?

A)A)involved in

B)B)enjoined enormously

C)C)devoted to

D)D)rejected completely

4.4.How are American commercials different from British ones?

A)A)they put more emphasis on the emotional needs of the audience.

B)B)They adopt a more subtle approach.

C)C)They were longer.

D)D)They communicate more effectively.

5.5.What can be inferred from the last paragraph?

A)A)British TV advertising fulfils a useful function.

B)B)British TV advertising accurately reflects modern life.

C)C)British TV advertising is too old-fashioned.

D)D)British TV advertising concentrates on unimportant things.

答案：

Passage Three

1.1.A. 从第一段第一句可得知，电视广告展示的是一种平静舒适的境地，故答案为A

2.2.D. 第三段的例子说明一些广告在制作时，只注重广告的意境，而未能表现广告所要

宣传的产品。故答案为D。

3.3.B. 从上下文可以看出看电视的人只顾欣赏电视的画面，而忘了电视所要传递的信息。

因此，“reveled in”与B项最接近。

4.4.D. 在第三段的最后，作者将英美两国商业广告作比较：美国商业广告更注意所要传

递的信息，而英国商业广告则不然。故答案为D。

5.5.A. 从文中最后一段所述可知答案为A。作者在此阐述了过去美好的东西在人们生活

中的重要行，而英国电视商业广告为人们对过去美好的东西保持联系提供了一种方式。

Passage Four: Isadora Duncan

摘要：本文叙述了Isadora Duncan 不幸的一生以及她对舞蹈事业的热爱及舞蹈事业给她带来的巨大荣誉与幸福。

Dance, sometimes called the original art, is also the universal art, for man has always carried it with him. Ballet, which transformed dancing into a controlled dramatic art, arose out of the lavish efforts of the Italian Renaissance court to entertain itself. By the beginning of the 20th century, American pioneers of modern dance were declaring independence from the ballet. Their prophet was Isadora Duncan (1878---1927), who at age 6 was teaching neighborhood infants how to wave their arms gracefully, explaining to her mother that she was running a dancing school.

Born in San Francisco, the fourth child of a reckless businessman who abandoned the family, Isadora led a vagrant childhood as her mother moved her brood about to evade unpaid landlords, all the while instilling in the children a love of drama and music. At age 19, Isado ra became “the pet of society” in New York, dancing on private occasions for wealthy ladies. She studied Greek vases and sculptures in museums for the figures of ancient dancers and developed her own ideal of Greek dance, shocking society audiences in London and Paris with her bare feet and legs, her clinging and revealing costumes and her free movements. “Toe walking deforms the feet,” she declared, “Corsets deform the body; nothing is left to be deformed but the brain.” In France, she arrived at her own s imple dance formula, which made “solar plexus” a familiar phrase among those who could not locate it. “For hours I would stand still, my two hands folded between my breasts, covering the solar plexus… I was seeking and finally discovered the central spring of all movement.”

Bolshevism and Bugattis. Performing her “ free dance” in European capitals, she jolted the classic ballet of imperial Russia. Prince Peter Lieven, the patron of the ballet, saw in Isadora “the beginning of the new outlook… she was the first to dance the music and not dance to the music.” With her scanty costumes, she was always controversial when touring in America and never more so than in the 1920s, when she was viewed as a “Bolshevik agent” for teaching dance to Soviet children and c reating dances for Lenin’s funeral. Her life was full of passionate love affairs and tragedies. She lost a husband to suicide: her two children drowned with their nurse when their automobile ran into the Seine.

In 1927, penniless and at the end of her career, she pretended that she wanted to buy a flashy Bugatti sports car, which she had delivered to her for a test ride with the handsome driver. Wearing a long red scarf wrapped around her neck, she climbed in announcing “ Adieu, mes amis. Je vais a la glo ire.” (Farewell, my friends, I go to glory.”) As the car lunched forward, the scarf caught in the spokes of a wheel and she was strangled.

“I shall not teach the children to imitate my movements---I shall help them develop those movements natural to them.” Isarado once said, but she preaches the liberation of the dance less effectively in her words than in herself. “ When she raised her arms, it was an incredible experience.” The English choreographer Sir Frederick Ashton remembered. “ She could also stan d still---and often did---but it was an alive stillness and it was dancing.”

Notes:

1. 1.Corset n. 束腹，妇女的胸衣

2. 2.solar plexus 太阳神经丛

3. 3.Bolshevism and Bugattis 汽车牌号名

4. 4.Lunch 东歪西倒

1. 1.What is the main contribution of Isadora Duncan to the American dance?

A)A)She declared its independence from the ballet.

B)B)She prophesied its independence from the ballet.

C)C)She taught neighborhood infants how to dance.

D)D)She ran a dancing school.

2. 2.Isadora got her first education about dance from _______.

A)A)her mother

B)B)Greek vases and sculptures in museum

C)C)London and Paris

D)D)The classic ballet of imperial Russia

3. 3.She said “ Toe walking deforms …… deformed but the brain.” to show ________.

A)A)that dance does great harm to human body

B)B)that she hated dance very much

C)C)one of the characteristics of dance

D)D)why she chose clinging and revealing costumes

4. 4.In general, we can say Isadora had a ______ life.

A) happy B) miserable C) dramatic D) tragic

5. 5.The passage, as a whole, is mainly about ________.

A)A)dance as the original art

B)B)ballet as a controlled dramatic art

C)C)the art of dance in America

D)D)the American dancer Isadora Duncan

答案：

Passage Four:

1. 1. B. 文中第一段说20 世纪初美国现代舞蹈的先锋们从芭蕾舞中宣布独立出来，而

Isadora是他们的预言家，所以选B），她预言这一独立，而C、D虽也是她的作为，但并称不上是她对美国舞蹈的主要贡献。

2．A. 文中第二段提到Isadora出身于一个不幸的家庭，父亲弃家不顾，是母亲带着她到处躲避债主，并同时向她灌输对戏剧与音乐的热爱，所以她的舞蹈方面的启蒙教育应来自于她的母亲。

3. D. Isadora说那句话主要是向外界解释她为什么穿又薄又少的衣服，并且赤足跳舞

4. C. 通读全篇，我们可以看到Isadora 的生活并不幸福；她童年很不幸，中年又失去了丈

夫和孩子；但也不能说悲惨(miserable) 或有悲剧性(tragic)，因她的舞蹈事业给她带来了巨大的荣誉与幸福，所以选C）dramatic。

5. D. 虽文章的前两句话是关于舞蹈艺术及芭蕾艺术的，但整篇文章主要是关于Isadora的

一生的，所以选D）。

Passage Five:

Unemployment Problem

摘要：文章主要阐述：我们应该投入更多的人力和财力帮助解决失业问题。

Opinion polls are now beginning to show that, whoever is to blame and whatever happens from now on, high unemployment is probably here to say. This means we shall have to find ways of sharing the available employment more widely.

But we need to go further. We must ask some fundamental questions about the future work.. Should we continue to treat employment as the norm”? Should we not rather encourage many ways for self-respecting people to work? Should we not create conditions in which many of us can work for ourselves, rather than for an employer? Should we not aim to revive the household and the neighborhood, as well as the factory and the office, as centers of production and work?

The industrial age has been the only pe riod of human history in which most people’s work has taken the form of jobs. The industrial age may now becoming to an end, and some of the changes in work patterns which it brought may have to be reversed. This seems a daunting thought. But, in fact, it could offer the prospect of a better future for work.. Universal employment, as its history shows, has not meant economic freedom.

Employment became widespread when the enclosures of the 17th and 18th centuries made many people dependent on paid work by depriving them of the use of the land, and thus of the means to provide a living for themselves. Then the factory system destroyed the cottage industries and removed work from people’s homes. Later, as transport improved, first by rail and then by road, pe ople commuted longer distances to their places of employment until, eventually, many people’s work lost all connection with their home lives and the places in which they live.

Meanwhile, employment put women at a disadvantage. In preindustrial times, men and women had shared the productive work of the household and village community. Now it became customary for the husband to go out to paid employment, leaving the unpaid work of the home and families to his wife. Tax and benefit regulations still assume this norm today, and restrict more flexible sharing of work roles between the sexes.

It was not only women whose work status suffered. As employment became the dominant form of work, young people and old people were exclude---a problem now, as more teenagers become frustrated at school and more retired people want to live active lives.

All this may now have to change.

The time has certainly come to switch some effort and resources away from the idealist goal creating jobs for all, to the urgent practical task of helping many people to manage without full-time jobs.

Notes:

1. 1.daunting adj. 使人畏缩的

1. 1.What is the main idea of the passage?

A)A)Employment became widespread in the 17th and 18th centuries.

B)B)Unemployment will remain a major problem for industrialized nations.

C)C)The industrial age may now becoming to an end.

D)D)Some efforts and resources should be devoted to helping more people cope with the

problem of unemployment.

2. 2.Which of the following was NOT mentioned as a factor contributing to the spread of

employment?

A)A)The enclosures of the 17th and 18th centuries.

B)B)The development of factories.

C)C)Relief from housework on the part of women.

D)D)Development of modern means of transportation.

3. 3.It can be inferred from the passage that.

A)A)Most people who have been polled believe that the problem of unemployment may not be

solved within a short period of time.

B)B)Many farmers lost their land when new railways and factories were being constructed.

C)C)In preindustrial societies housework and community service were mainly carried out by

women.

D)D)Some of the changes in work pattern that the industrial age brought have been reversed

4. 4.What does the word “daunting” in the third paragraph mean?

A) Shocking B) Interesting C) Confusing D) Stimulating

5. 5.Which of the following is NOT suggested as a possible means to cope with the current

situation?

A)A)Create situations in which people work for themselves.

B)B)Treat employment as the norm.

C)C)Endeavor to revive the household and the neighborhood as centers of production.

D)D)Encourage people to work in circumstances other normal working conditions.

答案：

passage Five

1.1.D. 文章首末段呼应点题。

2.2.C. 文章第四段首句便提到了工作普及的三点原因，没有提到C，所以选相应为C。

3.3.A. 根据第三段第二句话“The industrial age may now becoming to an end, and some of the changes in work patterns which it brought may have to be reversed.”可排除选相D；根据第四段可知两个结果发生在不同时期，所以可以排除C；根据地五段第二句话可以排除B；根据第一段内容可推出选相应为A。

4.4.A. 此词出现在第三段第三句话。通过第四句话“但实际上它可以为工作提供一个更好的前景。”中的转折含义可以断定最接近的词义应为A。

5.5.B. 文章第三段提出了解决办法，故选B。

Passage Six:

Breathing process

摘要：本文叙述了呼吸时，吸入肺部的新鲜空气中的氧与肺部血液中的二氧化碳交换的过程，并介绍了肺的工作机制。还讲述了呼吸过程中肺内空气的成分变化。

Blood vessels running all through the lungs carry blood to each air sac, alveolus, and then back again to the heart. Only the thin wall of the air sac and the thin wall of a capillary are between the air and the blood. So oxygen easily diffuses from the air sacs through the walls into the blood, while carbon dioxide easily diffuses from the blood through the walls into the air sacs.

When blood is sent to the lungs by the heart, it has come back from the cells in the rest of the body. So the blood that goes into the wall of an air sac contains much dissolved carbon dioxide but very little oxygen. At the same time, the air that goes into the air sac contains much oxygen but very little carbon dioxide. You have learned that dissolved materials always diffuse from where there is more of them to where there is less. Oxygen from the air dissolves in the moisture on the lining of the air sac and diffuses through the lining into the blood. Meanwhile, carbon dioxide diffuses from the blood into the air sac. The blood then flows from the lungs back to the heart, which sends it out to all other parts of the body.

Soon after air goes into an air sac, it gives up some of its oxygen and takes in some carbon dioxide from the blood. To keep diffuses going as it should, this carbon dioxide must be gotten rid of breathing which is caused by movements of the chest, forces the used air out of the air sacs in your lungs and brings in fresh air. The breathing muscles are controlled automatically so that you breathe at the proper rate to keep your air sacs supplied with fresh air. Ordinarily, you breathe about twenty-two when you are resting. Fresh air is brought into your lungs when you breathe in., or inhale, while used air is forced out of your lungs when you breathe out, or exhale.

Some people think that all the oxygen is taken out of the air in the lungs and that what we breathe out is pure carbon dioxide. But these ideas are not correct. Air is a mixture of gases that is mostly nitrogen. This gas is not used in the body. So the amount of nitrogen does not change as air is breathed in and out. But while air is in the lungs, it is changed in three ways: 1) About one-fifth of the oxygen in the air goes into the blood. 2) An almost equal amount of carbon dioxide comes out of the blood into the air. 3) moisture from the linings of the air passages and air sacs evaporates until the air is almost saturated.

Notes:

1. 1.sac n. 囊，液囊

2. alveolus n. 小孔，肺泡

3. capillary n.& adj. 毛细管，毛细作用的

1. 1.In the breathing process the exchange of oxygen and carbon dioxide takes place

_______.

A)A)in the air sacs called alveolus

B)B)in the capillaries

C)C)at the thin wall of the air sac and the thin wall of the capillary

D)D)in the bronchus

2. 2.To keep the process of diffusion going on ______.

A)A)carbon dioxide must be taken out of the air sacs

B)B)fresh air must be brought into the air sacs

C)C)nitrogen must be kept at a fixed level

D)D)both A and B

3. 3.The rate of breathing is ________.

A)A)fixed at twenty-two breaths per minute

B)B)influenced by your age

C)C)controlled automatically by the body

D)D)dependent upon the amount of fresh air available to you

4. 4.Which of the following statements is true according to the passage?

A)A)The amount of nitrogen does not change in the breathing process.

B)B)The air we breathe out is pure carbon dioxide.

C)C)We take in more air than we breathe out.

D)D)All the oxygen in the air goes into the blood as we breathe.

5. 5.The author’s style in this selection can best be described as _____.

A) informal B) matter of fact C) pedantic D) personal

答案：

passage Six:

1.1.C. 参照短文第一段第三句：“So oxygen easily diffuses from the air sacs through the walls of the blood, while carbon dioxide easily diffuses from the blood through the walls into the air sacs”, 选项C与此意相符，故C为正确答案。

2.2.A. 参照短文第三段第二句话：“To keep diffusio n going as at should, this carbon dioxide must be gotten rid of”, A选项与此意相符，故A为正确答案。

3.3.C. 参照短文第三段第四句：“ the breathing muscles are controlled automatically so that you breathe at the proper rate to keep your air sacs supplied with fresh air”，选相C与此意相符，所以C是正确的。

4.4.A. 参照短文第四段第四句：“ So the amount of nitrogen does not change as air is breathed in and out”，A选项与此意相符，所以A是正确的。

5.5.B. 通读全文，不难看出作者是在实实在在地陈述一件事实，没有什么感情色彩，也不

是学究式的，选项B 与此最接近，故B为正确答案。

Passage Seven

Argument about the selling of works

摘要：本文讨论了当图书馆或博物馆遇到资金困难时，能否销售其拥有的部分作品以获得经费而生存下去的问题。并对这种作品的销售可能带来的问题进行了分析。

The sale of certain books from the financially exhausted John Rylands Library has caused widespread indignation. So too has the Government’s proposed legislation permitting national museums and galleries to sell works in their collections.

There are millionaires in America-----and, increasingly, in Asia---- who would cheerfully pay fortunes for many of these works, and would exhibit or at least preserve them. Surely then, the sensible thing would be to sell some of them for the greater good of majority?

There are, however, one or two arguments against such sales which are worth considering. In the first place, it is said, this is the slippery slope to a time when the Government will suppose that galleries can support themselves by these means, and will cut subsidies still further. Desperate galleries will then start selling off their treasures to cover current expenses. This would of course be a disaster.

The profit from sales must be spent only on purchase of new works or restoration of old ones. The level of state funding should not change in response to sales. Secondly, it is said, these works must be kept for reasons of scholarship. In the Rylands Library case, the books were said to be unnecessary second copies but they were not “duplicates” in the strictest sense. Scholars need to be able to lay them side by side to study their differences. Scholars, however, have modern reproduction techniques available to them, and in most cases have no choice but to compare works that are thousands of miles apart. They will have to put up with it.

Thirdly, it is argued, works have been bequeathed to the museums concerned. To sell them would be illegal, or at least a breach of trust. The answer to this is that not showing works bequeathed is in any case an implicit breach of trust. To sell off the whole of a particular bequest would be wrong. To sell off some of it to save-----and be able to display-----the rest is quite justifiable. The prospect of such sales might also ensure that givers as well as receivers pay attention to the costs as well as the benefits of keeping a precious collection intact.

Lastly, it is argued, no one can know at a given time whether in fifty or a hundred years a work now considered minor may not suddenly be recognized as a masterpiece. It must be recognized, however, that the works concerned are hardly likely to be destroyed; they will still be available for study and reproduction.

There should certainly be some reticence about selling works by artists. But museums cannot possibly hang onto every work of art they possess----especially in view of the tendency of our age to swoon for an ever shorter time over what is fashionable, then wake up and forget about it, l eaving last year’s masterpiece to lie gathering dust.

Notes:

1. subsidy n. 补助金，津贴

2. reticence n. 沉默寡言

3. bequeath v. 遗留，遗赠，把…传下去

1.1.What is the public reaction to the sale of certain collections by the national museums and

galleries?

A) Indifferent B) Angry C) Critical D) Cheerful

2.2. A gallery might become “desperate” (Line 9) because _____.

A)A)gallery needs storage of new works

B)B)many of its works are beyond repair

C)C)many people are against its selling off artistic works

D)D)gallery is short of money to cover its expenses

3.3.In what way might a museum be guilty of “implicit breach of trust”?

A)A)By selling off all the works of art which have been bequeathed.

B)B)By selling off some of the works which have been bequeathed.

C)C)By failing to display works of art which have been bequeathed.

D)D)By failing to keep the bequeathed works of art in good condition.

4.4.What argument does the writer use to justify breaking up a collection.

A)A)Millionaires would willingly pay large sum of money.

B)B)Some works might become masterpiece.

C)C)Works in bad condition would be repaired.

D)D)Selling part may raise enough money to display the remainder.

5.5.What precisely do es the writer mean by the word “masterpiece”?

A)A)Best piece of work ever produced

B)B)Work of art produced by famous people

C)C)Work of art produced in the early times

D)D)The only existed piece of work of an artist.

答案：

Passage Seven

1.1. B. 第1题答题关键是理解第一段第一句中的“widespread indignation ”（广泛的愤慨）以及第二句中的“So too has…”结构。选项中B）与“indignation ”同义，故是本题答案。

2.2. D. 第2题从文中第三段的叙述中可知造成美术馆“desperate ”的原因是缺乏经济资助。政府认为美术馆可以通过卖艺术品的方式来维持，因此将继续削减资助。绝望的美术馆不得不卖掉珍藏来维持开支，故答案为D）。

3C. 根椐第五段第三句可判断答案为C。

4. D. 文章的第4段第二步战略目标句指出卖掉部分珍藏品以获得经费来保存和展示其余的作品是合理的，因此第4题答案为D）

5．A. 根椐第六段第一句可判断答案为A。

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