2010年6月大学英语六级考试最后一套模拟题

　　Part I Writing (30 minutes)

　　Directions: For this part, you are allowed 30 minutes to write a composition on the topic: Salary or Interest. You should write at least 150 words following the outline given below:

　　1. 如今的大学毕业生面临的职业选择：兴趣重要还是工资重要

　　2. 你的观点

　　3. 结论

　　Salary or Interest

　　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 on Answer sheet 1. For questions 1-4, mark

　　Y (for YES) if the statement 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.

　　For questions 5-10, complete the sentences with the information given in the passage.

　　April Fools' Special: History's Hoaxes

　　Happy April Fools' Day. To mark the occasion, National Geographic News has compiled a list of some of the more memorable hoaxes in recent history. They are the lies, darned(可恨的) lies, and whoppers(弥天大谎)that have been perpetrated on the gullible(易受骗的)and unsuspecting to fulfill that age-old desire held by some to put the joke on others.

　　Internet Hoaxes

　　The Internet has given birth to a proliferation(增殖)of hoaxes. E-mail inboxes are bombarded on an almost daily basis with messages warning of terrible computer viruses that cause users to delete benign(良性)chunks of data from their hard drives, or of credit card scams that entice the naive to give all their personal information, including passwords and bank account details, to identity thieves. Other e-mails give rise to wry(歪曲的)chuckles, which is where this list begins.

　　Ban Dihydrogen Monoxide(一氧化二氢)

　　City officials in Aliso Viejo, California, were so concerned about the dangers of dihydrogen monoxide that they scheduled a vote last month on whether to ban foam(泡沫)cups from city-sponsored events after they learned the chemical was used in foam-cup production.

　　Officials called off the vote after learning that dihydrogen monoxide is the scientific term for water.

　　"It's embarrassing," city manager David J. Norman told the Associated Press. "We had a paralegal(律师助手)who did bad research."

　　Indeed, the paralegal had fallen victim to an official-looking Web site touting the dangers of dihydrogen monoxide. An e-mail originally authored in 1990 by Eric Lechner, then a graduate student at the University of California, Santa Cruz, claimed that dihydrogen monoxide "is used as an industrial solvent and coolant, and is used in the production of Styrofoam(聚苯乙烯泡沫塑料)."

　　Other dangers pranksters(爱开玩笑的人)associated with the chemical included accelerated corrosion and rusting, severe burns, and death from inhalation.

　　Versions of the e-mail continue to circulate today, and several Web sites, including that of the Coalition to Ban DHMO, warn, tongue-in-cheek, of water's dangers.

　Alabama Changes Value of Pi

　　The April 1998 newsletter put out by New Mexicans for science and Reason contains an article titled "Alabama Legislature Lays Siege to Pi". It was penned by April Holiday of the Associmated Press (sic) and told the story of how the Alabama state legislature voted to change the value of the mathematical constant Pi from 3.14159 to the round number of 3.

　　The ersatz(假的)news story was written by Los Alamos National Laboratory physicist Mark Boslough to parody(滑稽地模仿)legislative and school board attacks on the teaching of evolution in New Mexico.

　　At Boslough's suggestion, Dave Thomas, the president of New Mexicans for science and Reason, posted the article in its entirety to the Internet newsgroup Talk. Origins on April 1. (The newsgroup hosts a lively debate on creation vs. evolution.) Later that evening Thomas posted a full confession to the hoax. He thought he had put all rumors to bed.

　　But to Thomas's surprise, however, several newsgroup readers forwarded the article to friends and posted it on other newsgroups.

　　When Thomas checked in on the story a few weeks later, he was surprised to learn that it had spread like wildfire. The telltale signs of the article's satirical intent, such as the April 1 date and misspelled "Associmated Press" dateline, had been replaced or deleted.

　　Alabama legislators were bombarded with calls protesting the law. The legislators explained that the news was a hoax. There was not and never had been such a law.

　　TV and Newspaper Hoaxes

　　Before the advent of the Internet, and even today, traditional media outlets such as newspapers, radio, and television, have sometimes hoaxed their audiences. The deceptions run the gamut from purported natural disasters to wishful news.

　　Swiss Spaghetti (意大利式细面条) Harvest

　　Alex Boese, curator of the Museum of Hoaxes, a regularly updated Web site that also appeared in book form in November 2002, said one of his favorite hoaxes remains one perpetrated by the British Broadcasting Company.

　　On April 1, 1957, the BBC aired a report on the television news show Panorama about the bumper spaghetti harvest in southern Switzerland.

　　Viewers watched Swiss farmers pull pasta off spaghetti trees as the show's anchor, Richard Dimbleby, attributed the bountiful harvest to the mild winter and the disappearance of the spaghetti weevil.

　　The broadcaster detailed the ins and outs of the life of the spaghetti farmer and anticipated questions about how spaghetti grows on trees. Thousands of people believed the report and called the BBC to inquire about growing their own spaghetti trees, to which the BBC replied, "Place a sprig of spaghetti in a tin of tomato sauce and hope for the best."

　　"It was a great satirical effect about British society," Boese said. "British society really was like that at that time. The British have a tendency to be a bit insulated(绝缘的) and do not know that much about the rest of Europe."

　　Taco Liberty Bell

　　On April 1, 1996, readers in five major U.S. cities opened their newspapers to learn from a full page announcement that the Taco Bell Corporation had purchased the Liberty Bell from the U.S. government. The announcement reported that the company was relocating the historic bell from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, to Irvine, California. The move, the corporation said in the advertisement, was part of an "effort to help the national debt".

　　Hundreds of other newspapers and television shows ran stories related to the press release on the matter put out by Taco Bell's public relations firm, PainePR. Outraged citizens called the Liberty Bell National Historic Park in Philadelphia to express their disgust. A few hours later the public relations firm released another press announcement stating that the stunt was a hoax.

　　White House press secretary Mike McCurry got into the act when he remarked that the government would also be "selling the Lincoln Memorial to Ford Motor Company and renaming it the Lincoln-Mercury Memorial".

　　Crop Circles

　　Strange, circular formations began to appear in the fields of southern England in the mid-1970s, bringing busloads of curious onlookers, media representatives, and believers in the paranormal out to the countryside for a look.

　　A sometimes vitriolic(讽刺的)debate on their origins has since ensued(跟着发生), and the curious formations have spread around the world, becoming more and more elaborate as the years go by.

　　Some people consider the crop formations to be the greatest works of modern art to emerge from the 20th century, while others are convinced they are signs of extraterrestrial communications or landing sites of UFOs.

　　The debate rages even today, although in 1991 Doug Bower and Dave Chorley, two elderly men from Wiltshire County, came forward and claimed responsibility for the crop circles that appeared there over the preceding 20 years. The pair made the circles by pushing down nearly ripe crops with a wooden plank suspended from a rope.

　　Moon Landing—a Hoax?

　　Ever since NASA sent astronauts to the moon between 1969 and 1972, skeptics have questioned whether the Apollo missions were real or simply a ploy to one-up(领先)the Soviet Union during the Cold War. The debate resurfaced and reached crescendo levels in February 2001, when For television aired a program called Conspiracy Theory: Did We Land on the Moon?

　　Guests on the show argued that NASA did not have the technology to land on the moon. Anxious to win the space race, NASA acted out the Apollo program in movie studios, they said. The conspiracy theorists pointed out that the pictures transmitted from the moon do not include stars and that the flag the Americans planted on the moon is waving, even though there is though to be no breeze on the moon.

　　NASA quickly refuted these claims in a series of press releases, stating that any photographer would know it is difficult to capture something very bright and very dim on the same piece of film. Since the photographers wanted to capture the astronauts striding across the lunar surface in their sunlit space suits, the background stars were too faint to see.

　　As for the flag, NASA said that the astronauts were turning it back and forth to get in firmly planted in the lunar soil, which made it wave.

1. Some people have the age-old desire to put the joke on others.

　　2. According to the passage, the only form of Internet hoaxes is e-mail hoax.

　　3. Dihydrogen monoxide is a very dangerous chemical, which is often used as an industrial solvent.

　　4. Dihydrogen monoxide can accelerate corrosion and rusting, and cause sever burns and even death from inhalation.

　　5. The reason why the ersatz news that Alabama changed the value of Pi spread wildly was that ________ forwarded the article to friends and posted it on other newsgroups.

　　6. Traditional media outlets such as ________ may still hoax their audiences nowadays.

　　7. According to Boese, many people believed the report of Swiss spaghetti harvest because the British did not know ________.

　　8. According to a hoax announcement, the Taco Bell Corporation bough the Liberty Bell and moved it to Irvine to help ________.

　　9. The crop circles were thought to be the greatest works of modern art, the signs of ________ or landing sites of UFOs.

　　10. Some people thought that NASA acted out the Apollo program in movie studios partially because the pictures transmitted from the moon do not include ________.

　　Part III Listening Comprehension (35 minutes)

　　Section A

　　Directions: In this section, you will hear 8 short conversations and 2 long conversations. At the end of 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. Then mark the corresponding letter on Answer Sheet 2 with a single line through the center.

　　11. [A] She's enjoying the music.

　　[B] The music will keep her awake.

　　[C] The music doesn't bother her.

　　[D] She would prefer a different style of music.

　　12. [A] She will take the subway.

　　[B] She will hurry to the conference.

　　[C] She will skip the conference and go sightseeing

　　[D] She will take a bus.

　　13. [A] She thinks big parties are too impersonal.

　　[B] She would like to invite friends to a big party.

　　[C] She feels she has to spend a lot of money in holding big parties.

　　[D] She would like to be invited to small parties.

　　14. [A] It is quite unexpected.

　　[B] She has already got the news.

　　[C] She has confidence in the man.

　　[D] It is not exciting to learn about it.

　　15. [A] He is not satisfied with the pay.

　　[B] He is not able to enjoy paid holidays.

　　[C] The job is not very challenging for him.

　　[D] There is no hope of promotion.

　　16. [A] He has to change the topic for his composition.

　　[B] He has fallen behind others in English class.

　　[C] He hasn't made up his mind as to what to write about.

　　[D] The book he borrowed will be due tomorrow.

　　17. [A] She is against the man's plan.

　　[B] She thinks it needs a lot of money.

　　[C] They need some time to think about it.

　　[D] It's good for his career development.

　　18. [A] She should present him a book on music.

　　[B] The teacher has some interests other than reading.

　　[C] It's a good idea because the teacher loves reading.

　　[D] The teacher would like to have a book on language teaching.

　　Questions 19 to 21 are based on the conversation you have just heard.

　　19. [A] He is a professional electrician.

　　[B] He possesses a basic knowledge of electricity.

　　[C] He knows nothing about electricity.

　　[D] Electricity is his major.

　　20. [A] To wire her office. [B] To fix the transformer.

　　[C] To wire her building. [D] To fix the wires.

　　21. [A] The transformer. [B] The battery.

　　[C] The fuses. [D] The wires.

　　Questions 22 to 25 are based on the conversation you have just heard.

　　22. [A] At a public forum. [B] In an auditorium.

　　[C] On TV. [D] In a classroom.

　　23. [A] Exposing oneself to the target culture.

　　[B] Attending regularly a good language program.

　　[C] Coming up with a study plan.

　　[D] Developing good note-taking skills.

　　24. [A] A realistic goal for learners is to reach a certain level of language proficiency, not native fluency.

　　[B] Students can achieve native-like pronunciation through focused study.

　　[C] Learners should interact with native speakers to gain greater fluency.

　　[D] Teachers need to help students foster a good self-esteem and confidence.

　　25. [A] Remembering as many words as possible.

　　[B] Learning only useful words.

　　[C] Remembering a lot of words a day.

　　[D] Learning to use a few words a day.

　　Section B

　　Directions: In this section, you will hear 3 short passages. At the end of each passage, you will hear some question. Both the passage and the questions will be spoken only once. After you hear a question, you must choose the best answer from the four choices marked [A], [B], [C] and [D]. Then mark the corresponding letter on Answer Sheet 2 with a single line through the center.

　　Passage One

　　Questions 26 to 29 are based on the passage you have just heard.

　　26. [A] Food is no longer a basic need for us, while it was for primitive people.

　　[B] We eat a wide variety of food.

　　[C] We no longer eat fruit that primitive people ever ate.

　　[D] We eat more food than primitive people did.

　　27. [A] It is needed to adjust the temperature of our bodies.

　　[B] It is our second need.

　　[C] We need clothing to cover our bodies.

　　[D] Weather is changing all the time.

　　28. [A] The climate. [B] One's social position.

　　[C] The materials available. [D] Family size.

　　29. [A] Human Basic Needs. [B] Material Comfort.

　　[C] Food: Human Basic Need. [D] Basic Necessities of Life.

　Passage Two

　　Questions 30 to 32 are based on the passage you have just heard.

　　30. [A] The meaning of facial expressions depends on situations.

　　[B] Facial expressions can cause misunderstanding across culture.

　　[C] People from one culture may lack facial expressions because they experience less emotion.

　　[D] Facial expressions may disguise true feelings.

　　31. [A] They smile to cover embarrassment

　　[B] It is an unusual and even suspicious behavior.

　　[C] They smile to show politeness.

　　[D] It is an expression of pleasure.

　　32. [A] We shouldn't judge people by reading their faces.

　　[B] We shouldn't smile in the wrong place.

　　[C] We shouldn't cover our true feelings.

　　[D] We shouldn't express our emotions too openly.

　　Passage Three

　　Questions 33 to 35 are based on the passage you have just heard.

　　33. [A] In 1938. [B] In 1946. [C] In 1955. [D] During World War II.

　　34. [A] It reflects commercial interests.

　　[B] It is a fashionable professional event.

　　[C] It is an essential affair for international cinema.

　　[D] It is more concerned with the art of film than with financial interests.

　　35. [A] It is awarded to the best film of the festival.

　　[B] It was introduced in 1959.

　　[C] It was introduced by a commercial organization.

　　[D] Only American directors have received this award.

　　Section C

　　Directions: In this section, you will hear a passage three times. When the passage is read for the first time, you should listen carefully for its general idea. When the passage is read for the second time, you are required to fill in the blanks numbered from 36 to 43 with the exact words you have just heard. For blanks numbered from 44 to 46 you are required to fill in the missing information. For these blanks, you can either use the exact words you have just heard or write down the main points in your own words. Finally, when the passage is read for the third time, you should check what you have written.

　　Taking your dog on vacation may have been (36) ________ a decade ago, but today it's free.

　　(37) ________ the pet-friendly hotel, where dogs are just part of the family, the Loews Miami Beach has had more than 1,200 (38) ________ guests so far this year. Dogs, like kids, stay free there.

　　A lot of people just want to travel with their animals, so the hotel (39) ________ guests to come with their pets. The hotel has a special (40) ________ for them from the time they enter the door till the time they leave.

　　There are fresh grapes by the pool for the discerning dog and a cup of ice cubes for the hot dog. And don't forget the special doggie dinner menu. The hotel kitchen (41) ________ to canines as well as their masters. The most popular dog dish is a (42) ________ of beef, vegetables and rice. It's really great. (43) ________, the people food is even better.

　　(44) ________________________. Some of them don't have children, and the dogs may fill that gap for them. (45) ________________________. But what pet wouldn't want to be welcomed back to a welcome meal that includes an all-beef hamburger bone?

　　(46) ________________________.

　　Part IV Reading Comprehension (Reading in Depth) (25 minutes)

　　Section A

　　Directions: In this section, there is a short passage with 5 questions or incomplete statements. Read the passage carefully. Then answer the questions or complete the statements in the fewest possible words on Answer Sheet 2.

　　Questions 47 to 51 are based on the following passage.

　　Wild ducks and other migratory(迁移的) birds could be important carriers of deadly bird flu, researchers say. Even so, the infectious-disease experts say there is no solid basis for killing wild birds to protect poultry and minimize the risk of human infection.

　　The European team investigating the global spread of the H5N1 strain of avian influenza(禽流感)says certain duck species may be infecting wild bird populations. Geese and wading birds are also possible vectors(带菌者)of the virus, the team says.

　　The team's study was led by Björn Olsen of Umea University in Sweden. Olsen runs Europe's largest wild-bird flu monitoring program.

　　Studies have shown that influenza viruses in lake water, generally passed via bird feces(粪), can stay infectious for up to 30 days. The migration or feeding behavior of dabbling ducks could at least partially explain the spread of the H5N1 strain of bird flu, the researchers add.

　　This group of duck species includes mallards, teal, pintails, and others that feed at or near the surface, where viruses in water are most likely to be picked up. Perhaps as a result, dabblers have the highest known rates of avian influenza infection, the study says. For instance, nearly 13 percent of mallards tested positive for bird flu. Other species tested include the American black duck (18.1 percent), blue-winged teal (11.5 percent), and northern pintail (11.2 percent).

　　However, bird flu viruses appear to exist in ducks in a low-pathogenic form, meaning infection doesn't usually lead to severe illness and death.

　　"Dabbling ducks are for sure the prime hosts for low pathogenic viruses," said study co-author Ron Fouchier, a virologist at the Erasmus Medical Center in Rotterdam, Netherlands. "But the big question is, how much of our knowledge about these viruses can we translate to high-pathogenic viruses such as the H5N1 strain of bird flu?"

　　In poultry avian viruses can mutate(变异)into more virulent influenza strains, including H5N1. If this mutated virus then finds its way back into wild populations, the birds could then spread the disease through migration.

　　Some scientists have argued that wild birds infected with HN51 would be too ill to migrate. Swans, for instance, appear to be particularly vulnerable to the strain. "Swans apparently drop dead quite easily, but they are unlikely to be the vector because they are not going to fly very far if they are dead," Fouchier said.

　　But the study team says that some birds that have been purposely infected for the sake of research show that wild birds can survive H5N1. "For some reason H5N1 has adapted so it no longer kills dabbling ducks," Fouchier said. This means the ducks may be able to spread the virus over a wide area.

　　The study team says migratory geese may also be vectors, because they often graze in huge flocks, a practice that could encourage transmission.

　　Migrating ducks, the researchers add, "could provide an intercontinental bridge" for bird flu to North America, which has not yet had any known cases of H5N1.

47. According to the author, what may be the possible carriers of bird flu?

　　48. The main sources of influenza viruses in lake water are ________, which may stay infectious for up to 30 days.

　　49. By saying "bird flu viruses appear to exist in ducks in a low-pathogenic form" (Para. 6), the author suggests that infection ________.

　　50. On what condition can the birds spread the influenza through migration?

　　51. According to the study team, ________ is a practice that can encourage transmission of the bird flu.

　　Section B

　　Directions: There are 2 passages in this section. Each passage is followed by some questions or unfinished statements. For each of them there are four choices marked [A], [B], [C] and [D]. You should decide on the best choice and mark the corresponding letter on Answer Sheet 2 with a single line through the center.

　　Passage One

　　Questions 52 to 56 are based on the following passage.

　　For about three centuries we have been doing science, trying science out, using science for the construction of what we call modern civilization. Every dispensable item of contemporary technology, from canal locks to dial telephones to penicillin, was pieced together from the analysis of data provided by one or another series of scientific experiments. Three hundred years seems a long time for testing a new approach to human inter-living, long enough to set back for critical appraisal of the scientific method, maybe even long enough to vote on whether to go on with it or not. There is an argument.

　　Voices have been raised in protest since the beginning, rising in pitch and violence in the nineteenth century during the early stages of the industrial revolution, summoning urgent crowds into the streets on the issue of nuclear energy. "Give it back," say some of the voices, "It doesn't really work, we've tried it and it doesn't work. Go back three hundred years and start again on something else less chancy for the race of man."

　　The principle discoveries in this century, taking all in all, are the glimpses of the depth of our ignorance of nature. Things that used to seem clear and rational, and matters of absolute certainty-Newtonian mechanics, for example-have slipped through our fingers; and we are left with a new set of gigantic puzzles, cosmic uncertainties, and ambiguities. Some of the laws of physics are amended every few years; some are canceled outright; some undergo revised versions of legislative intent as if they were acts of Congress.

　　Just thirty years ago we call it a biological revolution when the fantastic geometry of the DNA molecule was exposed to public view and the linear language of genetics was decoded. For a while, things seemed simple and clear: the cell was a neat little machine, a mechanical device ready for taking to pieces and reassembling, like a tiny watch. But just in the last few years it has become almost unbelievably complex, filled with strange parts whose functions are beyond today's imagining.

　　It is not just that there is more to do, there is everything to do. What lies ahead, or what can lie ahead if the efforts in basic research are continued, is much more than the conquest of human disease or the improvement of agricultural technology or the cultivation of nutrients in the sea. As we learn more about fundamental processes of living things in general we will learn more about ourselves.

　　52. What CANNOT be inferred from the first paragraph?

　　[A] Scientific experiments in the past three hundred years have produced many valuable items.

　　[B] For three hundred years there have been people holding a hostile attitude toward science.

　　[C] Modern civilization depends on science so man supports scientific progress unanimously.

　　[D] Some people think three hundred years is not long enough to set back for critical appraisal of scientific method.

　　53. The principle discovery in this century shows ________.

　　[A] man has overthrown Newton's laws of physics

　　[B] man has solved a new set of gigantic puzzles

　　[C] man has lost many scientific discoveries

　　[D] man has given up some of the once accepted theories

　　54. Now scientists have found in the past few years ________.

　　[A] the exposure of DNA to the public is unnecessary

　　[B] the tiny cell in DNA is a neat little machine

　　[C] man knows nothing about DNA

　　[D] man has much to learn about DNA

　　55. The writer's main purpose in writing the passage is to say that ________.

　　[A] science is just at its beginning

　　[B] science has greatly improved man's life

　　[C] science has made profound progress

　　[D] science has done too little to human beings

　　56. The writer's attitude towards science is ________.

　　[A] critical [B] approving [C] neutral [D] regretful

　　Passage Two

　　Questions 57 to 61 are based on the following passage.

　　Here amid the steel and concrete canyons, green grass grows. A hawthorn tree(山楂树) stands in new soil, and freshly dug plants bend in the wind.

　　But Chicago City Hall here seems an unlikely spot for a garden of any variety—especially 20,000 square feet of gardens—on its roof.

　　As one of a handful of similar projects around the country, the garden is part of a $1.5 million demonstration projected by the city to reduce its "urban heat islands", said William Abolt, the commissioner of the Department of Environment.

　　Heat islands-dark surfaces in the city, like rooftops-soak up heat. The retention can bake a building, making it stubborn to cooling.

　　The roof of City Hall, a 90-year-old gray stone landmark on LaSalle Street in the heart of downtown, has been known to reach temperature substantially hotter than the actual temperature on the street below.

　The garden will provide greenery and shade. "And that," said the city officials, "will save the city dollars on those blistering summer days." The project savings from cooling is about $4,000 a year on a new roof whose life span is about 50 percent longer than that of a traditional roof.

　　The sprawling open-air rooftop garden is being carefully built on a multi-tiered bed of special soil, polystyrene, egg-carton-shaped cones and "waterproof membrane" mall to keep the roof from leaking, or caving under the normal combined weight of soil, rain and plant life.

　　The design calls for soil depths of 4 inches to 18 inches. When the last plants and seedlings are buried and the last bit of compost is laid, the garden will have circular brick stepping-stones winding up to hills.

　　"The primary focus of what we want to do was to establish this laboratory on the top of City Hall to get people involved and understanding their impact on the environment and how the little things can make an impact on the quality of life", Mr. Abolt said, adding that the plants also help to clear the air.

　　Rooftop gardens, in places where concrete jungles have erased plants and trees, are not new, not even in Chicago. Arms of greenery dangling over terraces or sprouting from rooftops, common in Europe, are becoming more so in the United States as people become increasingly conscious about the environment.

　　Richard M. Daley, who urged the environmental department to look into the project after noticing rooftop gardens in Hamburg, Germany a few years ago, has praised the garden as the first of its kind on a public building in the country.

　　It will hold thousands of plants in more than 150 species-wild onion and butterfly weed, sky-blue aster and buffalo grass-to provide data on what species adapt best. Small plants requiring shallow soil depths were chiefly selected.

　　57. The rooftop garden project ________.

　　[A] is common and popular in the country

　　[B] is a demonstration project and costs the city government 1.5 million dollars

　　[C] will make the ordinary cooling down of the city in summer unnecessary

　　[D] aims at getting people involved and understanding their impact on the environment

　　58. What can we learn about the City Hall?

　　[A] It was built ninety years ago and is the most outstanding feature in the center of the city.

　　[B] It is originally proper to build a garden on the top of the City Hall.

　　[C] The temperature on its top is a little bit lower than that on the street below.

　　[D] It is the first building in America to have a garden on it.

　　59. Which of the following statements is TRUE?

　　[A] Every year, Chicago spends about $ 4,000 on cooling the city.

　　[B] The design of the garden on the City Hall specially takes into consideration the weight the roof can stand.

　　[C] The Mayor urged the environmental department to look into rooftop gardens in Hamburg and build similar ones in America.

　　[D] Heat islands mainly refer to those dark-colored rooftops which receive and retain heat and will not easily release the heat.

　　60. Why should the rooftop garden be built on the top of City Hall other than on any other buildings?

　　[A] Because the City Hall is large.

　　[B] Because the mayor had urged the environmental department to do so.

　　[C] Because it can make people understand their impact on environment better through a public building.

　　[D] Because the experts just want to make the City Hall a convenient laboratory.

　　61. The word "substantially" (Line 2, Para. 5) most likely means ________.

　　[A] a little bit [B] in fact [C] materially [D] considerably

　　Part V 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 out 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 2. ____/____

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

　　Language learning begins with listening. Individual

　　children vary greatly in the amount of listening they do after 62. ________

　　they start speaking, and late starters are often long listeners.

　　Most children will "obey" spoken instructions some time

　　before they can speak, though the word obey is hardly

　　accurate like a description of the eager and delighted 63. ________

　　cooperation usually shown by the child. Before they can

　　speak, many children will ask questions in gesture and by 64. ________

　　making questioning noises. Any attempt to trace the

　　development from the noises babies make to their first

　　spoken words lead to considerable difficulties. It is agreed 65. ________

　　they enjoy making noises, and that during the first 66. ________

　　few months one or two noise sort themselves out as 67. ________

　　particular indicative of delight, distress, sociability, and so 68. ________

　　on. But since these can be said to show the baby's intention to 69. ________

　　communicate, they can hardly be regarded as early forms of

　　language. It is agreed, too, that from about three months they

　　play with sounds for enjoyment, and that by six months they

　　are able to add new sounds to their repertoire. This

　　self-imitation leads on to deliberate imitation of sounds

　　making or words spoken to them by other people. The 70. ________

　　problem then arises as to the point which one can say that 71. ________

　　these imitations can be considered as speech.

　Part VI Translation (5 minutes)

　　Directions: Complete the following sentences on Answer Sheet 2 by translating into English the Chinese given in brackets.

　　72. It turned out that getting fired from that company ________________________ (对我来说是发生在我身上的最棒的事情).

　　73. It is necessary that ________________________ (马上把他送到医院).

　　74. Make a list each day of all that you are grateful for, ________________________ (这样你就能每天都注意到从别人那里得到了什么).

　　75. His silence suggested that ________________________ (他赞成我的决定，并决定执行那个计划).

　　76. Only with combined efforts, ________________________ (我们才能期望我们的国家有新的面貌).

　　2010年6月大学英语六级考试全真预测试卷六答案详解

　　Part I Writing

　　Salary or Interest

　　Upon graduation, virtually all college students will confront the problem of choosing their careers. It is truly a tough choice. Students’ opinions differ greatly on this issue. Some hold that priority should be given to their interest in the job, but others take the attitude that salary is the most critical factor influencing their career choices.

　　As for myself, I prefer the latter view. A well-paid job exerts a tremendous fascination on a great number of people, with no exception to me. Although it might be impossible to measure the value of one’s job in terms of money, salary counts most when I choose my future career. In my view, our career choices largely depend on how and where we have been brought up. I come from a poor urban family and my parents are both laid-off workers. In order to finance my tuition, they have been working hard over the past four years. As the only son in my family, I have to shoulder the burden of supporting my family.

　　In short, salary is the first consideration in my choice of career.

　Part II Reading Comprehension(Skimming and Scanning)

　　1. Y 根据题干中的信息词age-old desire定位到原文第一段，可知美国围家地理新闻整理了近期历史上让人印象深刻的恶作剧，这些谎言欺骗的是那些易受骗的、轻易信任他人的人，用以满足有些人想要捉弄他人的想法，故该句表述正确。

　　2. NG 根据题干中的信息词Internet hoaxes定位到第一个小标题，可知互联网促进了恶作剧的增多，该部分接着介绍了通过电子邮件骗人的把戏，但并没有表明电子邮件恶作剧是惟一的网络恶作剧形式。

　　3. N 根据题干中的信息词Dihydrogen monoxide定位到第二个小标题，由该标题下的第二段可知，所谓的一氧化二氢其实就是H¬2O，也就是水。而关于水被用做工业溶剂的说法是吓唬人的，故该句表述错误。

　　4. N 根据题干中的信息词Dihydrogen monoxide定位到第二个小标题，再由corrosion and rusting定位到该标题下的倒数第二段，可知爱开玩笑的人还将加速腐蚀和生锈、严重烧伤、吸入致死等其他危险和一氧化二氢联系起来，结合前文提到的一氧化二氢就是水可知，这些不过是哄弄人的说法，故该句表述错误。

　　5. several newsgroup readers。根据题干中的信息词Alabama changed the value of Pi定位到第三个小标题，再由forwarded the article定位到该标题下第四段，可知有些新闻读者将文章发给朋友，还将其登在其他新闻版块中。再结合上下文可知，正是这些新闻读者的做法导致了那条虚假新闻的大肆传播。

　　6. newspapers，radio，and television。根据题干中的信息词traditional media outlets定位到第四个小标题，可知在互联网出现之前，甚至是现在，报纸、广播和电视这类传统媒体有时也会捉弄公众，由此可得答案。

　　7. much about the rest of Europe。根据题干中的信息词Swiss spaghetti harvest定位到第五个小标题，该部分最后一段提到，Boese表示，英国人不太了解欧洲其他国家。再结合上文可知，这正是许多英国人相信瑞士的意大利面条大丰收的原因。

　　8. the national debt。根据题干中的信息词Taco Bell Corporation和Liberty Bell定位到第六个小标题，再由Irvine定位到该标题下的第一段，可知一项公告报道Taco Bell公司买下了自由钟，并要将其挪到加利福尼亚的欧文市，该公司表示移动该钟是为了帮助缓解国家债务，由此可得答案。

9. extraterrestrial communications。根据题干中的信息词crop circles定位到倒数第二个小标题，再由UFOs定位到该标题下的倒数第二段，可知有些人认为麦田圈是现代艺术最伟大的作品，也有人确信那是外太空通信的迹象或不明飞行物的着陆地。

　　10. stars。根据题干中的信息词Apollo program和pictures transmitted from the moon定位到最后一个小标题下的第二段，可知有人认为阿波罗计划是在摄影棚里拍摄出来的，他们指出，从月球传回的画面上并没有星星，这应该就是他们怀疑登月真实性的部分原因。

　　Part III Listening Comprehension

　　Section A

　　11. B 综合推断题。男士问女士自己播放的音乐有没有影响到她的学习，女士回答说自己没有学习，但是自己想睡觉，结合选项推断，本题选B(音乐会让她睡不着)

　　12. D 综合推断题。女士说自己不必在中午之前赶到会场，由此推断，她并不着急，可能会乘公共汽车，所以D正确。

　　13. B 信息明示题。女士说她想举办大型聚会，以回报朋友的邀请，所以B正确。要注意的是，对话中的pay back意为“报答”。

　　14. C 综合推断题。本题的关键是理解女士所说的deserve的含义，即“值得，应该享有”，由此推断，女士相信男士的实力，所以C正确。

　　15. C 综合推断题。男士表明即使有机会加薪，他也要辞职，因为他想找一份能充分发挥自己能力的工作，由此推断，目前的工作对他来说缺乏挑战性，所以C正确。

　　16. C 语义替换题。男士正在为明天要交的作文发愁，因为他还不知道要写什么，所以C正确。本题的关键词come up with意为“找到，提出”。

　　17. A 综合推断题。女士认为他们已经为男士在该国的事业投入了很多时间和金钱，再结合她所用的比较生硬的语气Do I have to remind you…推断，她对男士的计划持反对态度，所以A正确。

　　18. B 综合推断题。男士说应该送史密斯教授一张唱片，他认为语言教师并不只是一味地读书，言外之意还会有别的兴趣，所以B正确。

　　Conversation One

　　19. B 信息明示题。女士问男士是否了解电，男士回答说，电是大多数电脑的动力来源，因此他确实掌握一些基本知识，故选B。

　　20. C 综合推断题。女士想要男士修理接线盒，接着解释说也就是把电线接上，男士问女士是否希望自己给其房子装电线，女士说不是希望，而是想要，故选C。

　　21. B 信息明示题。女士说她有男士装电线需要的所有东西，包括变压器、电线和保险丝，但并没有提到电池，故选B。

　　Conversation Two

　　22. C 综合推断题。女士在对话开始欢迎男士到他们的节目之中，接下来还提到了电视观众(viewers)，由此推断，这段访问应该是一段电视节目，故选C。

　　23. C 信息明示题。男士说学习另一种语言的要点之一就是制定有规律的学习计划，故选C，其中come up with意为“找到或提出(答案、办法等)”。男士并没有提到有规律地去参加好的语言项目，故排除B。

　　24. A 综合推断题。男士说他所指的是，坚持遵照有规律的集中学习过程有助于达到掌握语言的境地，但母语的流利和语言的精通还是有差别的，由此推断，男士认为对于学习者而言，现实的目标是精通语言，而不是达到如母语般流利的程度，故选A。

　　25. D 信息明示题。男士最后以学习生词为例，他说计划每天学5个生词，并学会如何运用它们比学习30个生词却在第二天全都忘掉要好得多，由此可知，男士认为比较好的方式是每天学会运用几个生词，故选D。

　 Section B

　　Passage One

　　26. B 信息明示题。由文章第一段第一句可知，比起古代人，现代人食物的选择范围更广，所以B正确。

　　27. A 信息明示题。由文章第三段可知，衣服是用于调节(regulate)人体热度的，住在温带的人比住在热带的人要穿得多，同样地，服装要随季节的变化而改变，所以A正确。

　　28. D 信息明示题。文章最后一段提到，决定人们住什么样的房子的因素有climate，one’s social position, materials available等，惟独没有提到family size，故选D。

　　29. A 主旨题。全文谈到了人的三种基本需求，所以A正确。B(物质享受)，C(食物——人类最基本的需求)和D(生活必需品)都不符合文章大意，故排除。

　Passage Two

　　30. C 信息明示题。由文章第二段可知，某一文化背景下的人不像另一文化背景下的人那样公开地表达自己的情感，这并不意味着他们没有经历这些情感，故选C。

　　31. B 信息明示题。由文章第一段中的many people in Russia consider smiling at strangers in public to be unusual and even suspicious behavior可知，B正确。

　　32. A 综合推断题。文章最后指出，如果我们以自己的文化标准去衡量表达感情方式不同的人，可能会做出不正确的判断，所以A正确。

　　Passage Three

　　33. B 信息明示题。文章第一段指出，直到l946年才举办第一届戛纳电影节，所以B正确。

　　34. D 信息明示题。由文章第一段中的more concerned with advancing the film industry than the art of film可知，戛纳电影节更注重推动电影产业的发展，故选D。

　　35. A 信息明示题。由文章第二段中的for best film of the festival可知，金棕榈奖被授予电影节的最佳影片，所以A正确。电影节组委会于l955年设立了该奖项，所以B、C均不正确。文末提到新西兰导演执导的影片也曾获得过金棕榈奖，排除D。

　　Section C

　　36. unthinkable 37. Introducing 38. four-footed 39. encourages

　　40. program/programme 41. caters 42. blend 43. Actually

　　44. Most masters consider their dogs as part of the family

　　45. But dogs are dogs，and part of the deal is that owners have to agree to do the dirty work. The hotel does not clean up droppings

　　46. Of course, hotels that don’t accept pets don’t get their business

　Part IV Reading Comprehension(Reading in Depth)

　　Section A

　　47. Wild ducks and other migratory birds. /Ducks，geese and wading birds.

　　文章开头指出，野鸭以及其他迁徙鸟类可能是致命性禽流感的重要携带者，由此可得答案;第二段又提到，鸭子可能在传染野鸟，而鹅和涉水鸟也可能是病毒的携带者，由此也可得答案。

　　48. bird feces

　　根据题干中的关键词lake water和30 days定位到第四段，可知研究表明，湖水中的流感病毒一般是通过鸟粪传播的，这些病毒的传染性可长达30天。

　　49. doesn’t usually lead to severe illness and death

　　定位到第六段可知，作者提到bird flu viruses appear to exist in ducks in a low-pathogenic form是想表明，传染通常不会导致严重的疾病和死亡。

　　50. The mutated virus finds its way back into wild populations.

　　根据题干中的关键词spread和through migration定位到倒数第五段，可知在家禽体内，禽病毒可能变异为像H5N1一样毒性更强的流感病毒，如果此类变异病毒被野鸟感染，这些鸟就会通过迁徙传播流感。

　　51. grazing in huge flocks

　　根据题干中的关键词study team和encourage transmission定位到倒数第二段，可知研究组表示，迁徙的鹅可能也是病毒携带者，因为它们经常聚在一起吃草，而这可能会促使病毒的传播。

　　Section B

　　Passage One

　　52. C 细节题。由文章第一段最后一句There is an argument可知，人们对科学的看法是有争议的，选项C意思与其相反，故选c。D项干扰性大，对应第一段倒数第二句，表面上看与文章表述意思相反，但文章接下来说There is an argument，由此可知，有的人赞成倒数第二句的观点，有的人反对(即D项的观点)，故排除D。

　　53. D 推断题。由文章第三段最后一句可知，人类对已有理论所采取的做法是修正或摈弃，所以D正确。A、B对应第三段第二句，曲解了文章原意，C文中并未提及，均应排除。

　　54. D 推断题。由文章第四段可知，30年前人们将DNA的发现称为生物革命，刚开始时，人们认为DNA细胞很简单，但随着时间的推移，人们发现它其实极为复杂，由此推断，人们还需要进一步研究，所以D正确。

　　55. A 主旨题。由最后一段尤其是第一句中的there is everything to do可以看出，作者认为关于科学还有很多方面有待于进一步研究、探索，即科学仍处于起步阶段，前面的路还很长很长，所以A正确。

　　56. C 观点态度题。通读全文可知，作者以客观的态度说明了科学的发展状况，并介绍了对待科学的不同观点，综合而言，作者对科学的态度是C(中立的)。A(批评的)，B(赞成的，满意的)，D(遗憾的)均不正确。

　　Passage Two

　　57. D 细节题。文章第三段第一句指出，该工程是全国为数不多的此类工程之一，所以排除A;还说它是政府投资l50万美元的示范工程的一部分，而不是全部，故排除B;文章第四段提到屋顶花园可以降温，但并没有否定传统降温方式的必要性，故排除C;由文章第九段阿伯特先生所说的话可知，D正确。

　　58. A 细节题。由文章第五段可知，市政厅的屋顶有90年的历史，即市政厅建于90年前，且是市中心最著名的建筑，所以A正确。第二段第一句中的an unlikely spot否定了B项中的originally proper。根据第五段可排除C，根据第十段not new可排除D。

　　59. B 推断题。由文章第七段可知，市政厅屋顶花园是精心建造而成的，可以避免屋顶渗漏，或是在土、雨和植物相混合的重量之下坍塌，由此可知，屋顶花园的设计充分考虑到了屋顶能承受的重量，所以B正确。

　　60. C 细节题。由文章第九段可知，在市政厅大楼上修建屋顶花园主要是为了让人们了解自己对环境的影响，所以C正确。虽然该段也提到了laboratory，但指的是让人们了解自己对环境的影响的“实验室”，而并不是真正做实验的实验室，故排除D。

　　61. D 语义题。被考查词在句中用于修饰比较级hotter，分析句意可知，此处应表示强调，突出屋顶的温度要比街上的温度高出很多，选项中只有D(相当大地)最符合。A(一点)，B(实际上)，C(本质上地)均应排除。

　Part V Error Correction

　　62. after→before

　　根据上下文逻辑，此处显然指孩子学会说话之前的听力，而非之后，故将after改为before。

　　63. like→as

　　like和as都有“像”的意思，但是此处要求填人一个具有“作为”之意的单词，故将like改为as。

　　64. in→by

　　此处应为表示方式的借词，故用by，意为“以某种方式”。

　　65. 1ead→leads

　　此处句子的主语是attempt，而不是动词前面的words，所以要用单数第三人称的形式，将lead改为leads。

　　66. 在they前增加that

　　it是句子的形式主语，they enjoy making noises才是句子的逻辑主语，由于是主语从句，故引导词that是不能省略的。

　　67. noise→noises

　　one or two按照复数对待，所以后面是noises。

　　68. particular→particularly

　　修饰形容词indicative应该使用副词particularly。

　　69. can→cannot

　　根据上下文，此处应为否定，故使用cannot。

　　70. making→made

　　此处指“发出的声音和说的话”，sound和make间是被动关系，故使用过去分词作定语。

　　71. 在point后加at

　　定语从句的关系代词指代先行词point，可是从句中缺少的是状语，因此在which前加上介词at，那么at which在句子中作地点状语。

　　Part VI Translation

　　72. was the best thing that could have ever happened to me

　　“发生在我身上的……事情”可译为以“事情”为先行词的定语从句，其时态应为一般现在完成时。因先行词的限定词为形容词最高级best，因此关系代词应为that而不是which;;“(事情等)发生在某人身上”可用happen to sb.来表示。

　　73. he(should)be sent to hospital at once

　　“送”可以直接译为send，此处没有明确的施动者，因此要用被动语态;该句符合it’s necessary that+(should)do的结构，主语从句的谓语应为(should)be sent to hospital;“马上”可译为at once或immediately，故此处还可译为he(should)be sent to hospital immediately。

　　74. so that you can stay conscious daily of what you’ve got from others

　　结合给出的中英文可知，“这样”表示的是一种因果关系，可译为so that;“注意到”可译为stay conscious of;“每天”可译为daily置于谓语和宾语之间，也可译为each day置于句末，故此处还可译为so that you can stay conscious of what you’ve got from others each day。

　　75. he agreed with my decision and decided to carry out that plan

　　分析句子结构，所译部分应为suggest的宾语从句。“赞成”应译为agree with sb./sth.，“执行”应译为carry out。suggest在表示“建议”时，其宾语从句的谓语要用“should+动词原形”的形式，而此处意为“暗示”，宾语从句的谓语与主句时态保持一致即可，应为agreed with…and decided to…。

　　76. can we expect our country to take a new face

　　分析句子结构可知，所译部分应为完整的句子。给出的英文中，only修饰的介词短语with combined efforts位于句首，因此所译句子需部分倒装。“期望”可以译为expect sb./sth. to do sth.，“有新的面貌”可以译为take a new face。