1991年1月英语六级真题及答案

1991年1月英语六级真题及答案 Part I Listening Comprehension (20 minutes) Section A 1. A) Excited. B) Pleased. C) Moved. D) Disappointed. 2. A) She hasn’t been well lately. B) She wants a technician to repair it. C) She feels unhappy without the TV set. D) She wants him to fix it at once. 3. A) He often complains about his job. B) He is not interested in office work. C) He likes his job very much. D) He does mind all the overtime. 4. A) Her mother did her hair. B) She inherited it. C) Her mother designed. D) Her hair is modeled. 5. A) Allen does twice as much work as the rest. B) Allen will do the assignment in two hours. C) Allen is very careless with his homework. D) Allen works twice as fast as the rest. 6. A) The man is looking for a book. B) The woman is a librarian. C) The book was of little help to the man. D) The book was of great help to the man. 7. A) 6. B) 15. C) 14. D) 29. 8. A) Maybe the invitation was too late. B) The man’s wife didn’t invite Margaret. C) Margaret promised to come, but later she changed her mind. D) Margaret will come any moment. 9. A) To go to bed. B) To check her family expenses. C) To stay upstairs. D) To rest for a while. 10. A) John is usually late. B) John will not show up. C) John will be there at eight-thirty. D) John is usually on time. Section B Passage One 11. A) Some piano pieces. B) Songs sung by African singers. C) A new kind of music. D) Music from different parts of the world. 12. A) Tenderness. B) Happiness. C) Love. D) Sadness. 13. A) How much people like sad music. B) Why music is an important form of art. C) How music expresses people’s feelings. D) In what way classic music differs from pop music. Passage Two 14. A) The way you pursue it. B) The interest you have. C) The time you can afford. D) The money you spend on it. 15. A) Playing tennis. B) Playing cards. C) Collecting coins. D) Collecting stamps. 16. A) One can always find time to pursue a hobby. B) A hobby is of particular importance to a political figure. C) The correct choice of a hobby depends on one’s racial position. D) Everyone should learn how to choose a hobby from Winston Chur Passage Three 17. A) To train students to be successful scholars. B) To teach students to be good citizens. C) To teach students to work hard. D) To train students to be social workers. 18. A) To do better in math and science. B) To compete with each other. C) To obey the teacher. D) To help each other. 19. A) Relaxing. B) Boring. C) Tense. D) Serious. 20. A) Low scores of the students. B) Teachers’ impatience. C) Bad behavior among children. D) Heavy course load. Part II Reading Comprehension (35 minutes) Passage One Merchant and passenger ships are generally required to have a life preserver for e very p a erson a i m board c a c nd, p n any o s sases, er for c hildren. A t Uccording S C Go rnited tates l p oast uard must be simple in design, reversible, capable of being quickly adjusted to fit the uni ni t ia t ed i ndiv i dua l , a nd m ust be so desi gned a s t o suppo r t t he we arer i n t he water in an upright or slightly backward position. Sufficient b uoyancy(浮力) t os upport t w s he b earer r b t hould l e preserver after 48 hour in the water, and it should be reliable even after l period of storage. Thus it should be made of materials resistant gasoline, and oils, and it should be not easily set on fire. T h e p o s i t i o n i n w h i c h t h e l i f e p re s e r v e r w i l l s u p p o r t a p e r s o n w h o j u m p s o r falls into the water is most important, as is its tendency to turn the wearer in the water from a face-down position to an upright or slightly backward position, with his face clear of the water, even when the wearer is exhausted or unconscious. The method of adjustment to the body should be simple, and self-evident to uninitiated p e ersons i t d u ven t c n he c arkw fnder a he on d i s a s t e r. T h u s , th e l i fe p re s e r ve r s h o u l d b e re ve r s i b l e , impossible to set it on wrong. Catches, straps, and ties should be minimum. In addition, the life preserver must be adjustable to the wide variety of shapes and sizes of wearers, since this greatly affects the position of floating and the self-righting qualities. A suitable life preserver should also be comfortable to wear at all times, in and out of the water, not so heavy as to encourage to take it off on shipboard while the ship is in danger, nor so burdensome that it hinders a person in the water while trying to swim. 21. The passage is mainly about ________. A) the uses of life preservers B) the design of life preservers C) the materials for life preservers D) the buoyancy of life preservers 22. According to the passage, a life preserver should be first of all, ________. A) adjustable B) comfortable C) self-evident D) self-righting 23. U n i t e d S t a t e s C o a s t G u a rd d o e s N O T re q u i re t h e l i f e p re s e r v e r t o t h e m a d e ________. A) with as few strings as possible B) capable of being worn on both sides C) according to each wearer’s size D) comfortable and light to wear 24. By “the uninitiated individual” (Para. 1, line 6) the author refers to the person ________. A) who has not been instructed how to use a life preserver B) who has a little experience in using a life preserver C) who uses a life preserver without permission D) who becomes nervous before a disaster 25. W h a t w o u l d h a p p e n i f a p e r s o n w e r e s u p p o r t e d b y t h e l i f e p r e s e r v e r wrong position? A) The waves would move him backwards. B) The water would choke him. C) He would immediately sink to the bottom. D) He would be exhausted or unconscious. Passage Two A h u n d r e d y e a r s a g o i t w a s a s s u m e d a n d s c i e n economists that the laws of society made it necessary to have a vast army o poor and jobless people in order to keep the economy going. T anybody would dare to voice this principle. It is generally accepted that nobody should be excluded from the wealth Western industrialized countries, a system of i n s u r a n c e h a s b e e n i n t r o d u c e d w h i c h g u a r a n t e e s e v e subsistence(生活维持费) in case of unemployment, sickness and old age. I would go one step further and argue that, even if these conditions are not pr everyone has the right to receive the means tosubsist (维持生活), in other words, h e c a n c l a i m t h i s s u b s i s t e n c e m i n i m u m w i t h o u t h a v i n g t o h a v e a n y “r e a s o n” . I would s uggest, h t i sowever, b l t hat ad t p hould o t l e imited say two years, so as to avoid the encouraging of an abnormal attitude w refused any kind of social obligation. This m s ay l ound af p ike b antastic s It o i roposal, s ut would h s ave t pounded ah yo aeople T m o undred t s a ears scheme would be that if each person were entitled to receive minimum support, o,