1990年6月英语六级真题试卷

1990年6月英语六级真题试卷 Part I Listening Comprehension (20 minutes) Section A 1. A) A new house cost thirty thousand dollars. B) Bob’s house cost him sixty thousand dollars. C) Bob didn’t want to buy an old house. D) Bob decided to buy an old house. 2. A) Yes, but he needs to have the approval of his professor. B) Yes, he can study there if he is writing a research paper. C) Yes, because he is a senior student. D) No, it’s open only to teachers and postgraduates. 3. A) He doesn’t like seafood any more. B) A seafood dinner is too expensive. C) He doesn’t have enough money. D) He likes seafood very much. 4. A) He went to the hospital to take his wife home. B) He stayed in the hospital until very late. He tried to call the woman several times. He went to the hospital at midnight yesterday. 5. Her errors were mainly in the reading part. B) It wasn’t very challenging to her. C) It was more difficult than she had expected. D) She made very few grammatical mistakes in her test. 6. A) 6 hours. B) 4 hours. C) 12 hours. D) 18 hours. 7. A) It’s dirty. B) It’s faded. C) It’s dyed. D) It’s torn. 8. A) Sixteen dollars. B) Eight dollars. C) Ten dollars. D) Twelve dollars. 9. A) His watch will be fixed no later than next Monday. B) His watch needs to be repaired. C) He may come again for his watch at the weekend. D) The woman won’t repair his watch until next Monday. 10. A) The things to do on Monday morning. B) The weather on Monday morning. C) The time to see John. D) The place John should go to. Section B Passage One Questions 11 to 14 are based on the passage you have just heard. 11. A) The number of its readers. B) Its unusual location. C) Its comfortable chairs. D) Its spacious rooms. 12. A) The latest version of the Bible. B) A book written by Columbus. C) A map of the New World. D) One of the earliest copies of Shakespeare’s work. 13. A) It has too few employees. B) It lacks money to cover its expenses. C) It is over crowded. D) It is growing too rapidly. 14. A) From Monday to Friday. B) From Monday to Saturday. C) Every day. D) On Saturdays and Sundays. Passage Two Questions 15 to 17 are based on the passage you have just heard. 15. A) They would train the children to be happy street cleaners. B) They would make the children great scholars. C) They intended to train the children as adults were trained. D) They would give the children freedom 16. A) Some children are good, some are not. B) Children are good by nature. C) Most children are nervous. D) Children are not as brave as adults. 17. A) He thinks a scholar is more respectable than a street cleaner. B) He thinks highly of teaching as a profession. C) He thinks all jobs are equally good so long as people like them. D) He thinks a street cleaner is happier than a scholar. Passage Three Questions 18 to 20 are based on the passage you have just heard. 18. A) The daughter of a prison guard. B) The Emperor of Rome. C) A Christian couple. D) A Christian named Valentine. 19. A) To propose marriage. B) To celebrate Valentine’s birthday. C) To express their respect for each other. D) To show their love. 20. A) It is an American folktale. to fully deve B) It is something recorded in Roman history. C) It is one of the possible origins of this holiday. D) It is a story from the Bible. Part II Reading Comprehension (35 minutes) Passage One Questions 21 to 25 are based on the following passage. One day in January 1913. G. H. Hardy, a famous Cambridg mathematician received a letter from an Indian named Srinivas asking him for his opinion of 120 mathematical theorems(定理) that Ramanujan said he had discovered. To Hardy, many of the theorems made no sense. Of the o thers, one o r two were a lrea dy well -kn own . Ra man uja n mu st be som e kind o f trickplayer, Hardy decided, and put the letter aside. But all that day the let k e p t h a n g i n g r o u n d H a r d y. M i g h t t h e r e b e s o m e t h i n g i n t theorems? That evening Hardy invited another brilliant Cambridge mathematician, J. E. Littlewood, and the two m en set out to a ssess t he Indi an’ s worth. That incident was a turning point in the history of mathematics. At the time, Ramanujan was an obscure Madras than a y l earh w ater, a C e U as at as o ne o t mf ahe m ost mazing t w died in 1920, much of his work was so far recent years is it beginning to be properly understood. Port Trust clerk. A little more b ambridge t b r niversity, h athematicians e k T h he in advance of his time that only Indeed, his results are helping solve today’s problems in computer scien and physics, problems that he could have had no notion of. F o r I n d i a n s , m o r e o v e r , R a m a n u j a n h a s a s p e c i a l s i g n i fi c a n c e . R though born in poor and ill-paid accountant’s family 100 years ago, has inspired many Indians to adopt mathematics as career. Much o R f amanujan’s w i i n t orka b s o n m umber t heory, d e a l s w i t h t hseu b t l e( 难 以 捉 摸 的 ) l a w s a n d re l a t i o n s h i p s t h a t g o v e rn n u m b e r s . Mathematicians describe his results as elegant and beautiful but they are much too complex to be appreciated by laymen. H i s l i f e , t h o u g h , i s f u l l o f d r a m a a n d s o r r o w. I t i s o n e o f t h e g r e a t r o m a n t i c stories o m f athematics, ad r t g istressing c s a reminder i ha the most unpromising circumstances. 21. When Hardy received the 120 theorems from Ramanujan, his attitude at first might be best described as ________. A) uninterested B) unsympathetic C) suspicious D) curious 22. Ramanujan’s position in Cambridge University owed much to ________. A) the judgement of his work by Hardy and Littlewood B) his letter of application accepted by Hardy C) his work as a clerk at Madras Port Trust D) his being recognized by the world as a famous mathematician 23. It may be inferred from the passage that the author ________. A) feels sorry for Ramanujan’s early death B) is dissatisfied with the slow development of computer science C) is puzzled about the complexity of Ramanujan’s theorems D) greatly appreciates Ramanujan’s mathematical genius 24. In the last paragraph, the author points out that ________. A) Ramanujan’s mathematicians mathematical B ) e x t r e m e l y circumstances t a l e n t e d theorems p e o p l e were c a n not p r o v e appre t h e i r C) Ramanujan also wrote a number of stories about mathematics D) Ramanujan had worked out an elegant but complicated method of solving problems 25. The word “laymen” (Last Para, Lind 6) most probably means ________. A) people who do not specialize in mathematical science B) people who are careless C) people who are not interested in mathematics D) people who don’t like to solve complicated problems Passage Two Questions 26 to 30 are based on the following passage. Even if all the technical and intellectual problems can be solved, there ar m a j or so ci a l prob lem s i nheren t i n th e co mpu ter rev o lut i o n. T he m o st o bv i ou s is unemployment, since the basic purpose of commercial computerization is to get more work done by fewer people. One B r i t i s h s t u d y p r e d i c t s t h a t “ a u t o m a t i o n i n d u c e d u n e m p l o y m e n t ” i n We s t e r n