2007年6月23日大学英语六级(CET-6)真题试卷(A卷)(3)Part IV Reading Comprehension (Reading in Depth) (25 minutes)Section ADirections: In this section, there is a short passage with 5 questions or incomplete statements. Read the passage carefully. Then answer the questions or complete statements in the fewest possible words. Please write your answers on Answer Sheet 2. Questions 47 to 51 are based on the following passage. Google is a world-famous company, with its
headquarters in Google owes much of its success to the
brilliance of Their The next 注意:此部分试题请在答题卡2上作答。 47. Apart from a series of fortunate events, what is it that has made Google so successful? 48. Google’s search engine originated from ________ started by L. Page. 49. How did Google’s search engine spread all over the world? 50. Brin and Page decided to set up their own business because no one would ________. 51. The revenue of the Google company is largely generated from ________. Section BDirections: 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 centre. Passage OneQuestions 52 to 56 are based on the following passage. You hear the refrain all the time: the The Affluent Society is a modern classic because it helped define a new moment in the human condition. For most of history, “hunger, sickness, and cold” threatened nearly everyone, Galbraith wrote. “Poverty was found everywhere in that world. Obviously it is not of ours.” After World War II, the dread of another Great Depression gave way to an economic boom. In the 1930s unemployment had averaged 18.2 percent; in the 1950s it was 4.5 percent. To Galbraith, materialism had gone mad and
would breed discontent. Through advertising, companies conditioned consumers to
buy things they didn’t really want or need. Because so much spending was
artificial, it would be unfulfilling. Meanwhile,
government spending that would make everyone better off was being cut down
because people instinctively—and wrongly— It’s often said that only the rich are getting ahead; everyone else is standing still or falling behind. Well, there are many undeserving rich—overpaid chief executives, for instance. But over any meaningful period, most people’s incomes are increasing. From 1995 to 2004, inflation-adjusted average family income rose 14.3 percent, to $43,200. people feel “squeezed” because their rising incomes often don’t satisfy their rising wants—for bigger homes, more health care, more education, faster Internet connections. The other great frustration is that it has not eliminated insecurity. People regard job stability as part of their standard of living. As corporate layoffs increased, that part has eroded. More workers fear they’ve become “the disposable American,” as Louis Uchitelle puts it in his book by the same name. Because so much previous suffering and social conflict stemmed from poverty, the arrival of widespread affluence suggested utopian (乌托邦式的) possibilities. Up to a point, affluence succeeds. There is much les physical misery than before. People are better off. Unfortunately, affluence also creates new complaints and contradictions. Advanced societies need economic growth to
satisfy the multiplying wants of their citizens. But the quest for growth lets
loose new anxieties and economic conflicts that disturb the social order. Affluence
liberates the Should we be surprised? Not really. We’ve simply reaffirmed an old truth: the pursuit of affluence does not always end with happiness. 注意:此部分试题请在答题卡2上作答。 52. What question does John Kenneth Galbraith raise in his book The Affluent Society? A) Why statistics don’t tell the truth about the economy. B) Why affluence doesn’t guarantee happiness. C) How happiness can be promoted today. D) What lies behind an economic boom. 53. According to Galbraith, people feel discontented because ________. A) public spending hasn’t been cut down as expected B) the government has proved to be a necessary evil C) they are in fear of another Great Depression D) materialism has run wild in modern
society 54. Why do people feel squeezed when their average income rises considerably? A) Their material pursuits have gone far ahead of their earnings. B) Their purchasing power has dropped markedly with inflation. C) The distribution of wealth is uneven between the r5ich and the poor. D) Health care and educational cost have somehow gone out of control. 55. What
does Louis Uchitelle mean by “the disposable A) Those who see job stability as part of their living standard. B) People full of utopian ideas resulting from affluence. C) People who have little say in D) Workers who no longer have secure
jobs. 56. What
has affluence brought to A) Renewed economic security. B) A sense of self-fulfillment. C) New conflicts and complaints. D) Misery and anti-social behavior. Passage TwoQuestions 57 to 61 are based on the following passage. The use of deferential (敬重的) language is symbolic of the Confucian ideal of the woman, which
dominates conservative gender norms in Japan. This ideal presents a woman who
withdraws quietly to the background, subordinating her life and needs to those
of her family and its male head. She is a dutiful daughter, wife, and mother,
master of the domestic arts. The typical refined Nowadays, it is commonly observed that young
women are not conforming to the feminine linguistic
(语言的) ideal. They
are using fewer of the very deferential “women’s” forms, and even using the few
strong forms that are know as “men’s.” This, of course, attracts considerable
attention and has led to an outcry in the Yoshiko Matsumoto has argued that young women
probably The fact that young Japanese women are using less deferential language is a sure sign of change—of social change and of linguistic change. But it is most certainly not a sign of the “masculization” of girls. In some instances, it may be a sign that girls are making the same claim to authority as boys and men, but that is very different from saying that they are trying to be “masculine.” Katsue Reynolds has argued that girls nowadays are using more assertive language strategies in order to be able to compete with boys in schools and out. Social change also brings not simply different positions for women and girls, but different relations to life stages, and adolescent girls are participating in new subcultural forms. Thus what may, to an older speaker, seem like “masculine” speech may seem to an adolescent like “liberated” or “hip” speech. 注意:此部分试题请在答题卡2上作答。 57. The first paragraph describes in detail ________. A) the standards set for contemporary B) the Confucian influence on gender
norms in C) the stereotyped role of women in D) the norms for traditional Japanese
women to follow 58. What
change has been observed in today’s young A) They pay less attention to their linguistic behavior. B) The use fewer of the deferential linguistic forms. C) They confuse male and female forms of language. D) They employ very strong linguistic expressions. 59. How
do some people react to women’s appropriation of men’s language forms as reported
in the A) They call for a campaign to stop the defeminization. B) The see it as an expression of women’s sentiment. C) They accept it as a modern trend. D) They express strong disapproval. 60. According to Yoshiko Matsumoto, the linguistic behavior observed in today’s young women ________. A) may lead to changes in social relations B) has been true of all past generations C) is viewed as a sign of their maturity D) is a result of rapid social progress 61. The
author believes that the use of assertive language by young A) a sure sign of their defeminization and maturation B) an C) one of their strategies to compete in a male-dominated society D) an inevitable trend of linguistic
development in |