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2002年六级英语考试最新模拟试题（五）
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广告招租，e-mail:yesize@hotmail.com Part II Reading Comprehension (35 minutes) www.test99.com Passage 1www.test99.com Test99Toward the end of the 19th century scientists believed they were close to a complete description of the universe. They imagined that space was filled everywhere by a continuous medium called the ether. Light rays and radio signals were waves in this ether just as sound is pressure waves in air. All that was needed to complete the theory was careful measurements of the elastic properties of the ether; once they had those nailed down, everything else would fall into place.www.test99.com Test99Soon, however, discrepancies with the idea of an all-pervading ether began to appear. You would expect light to travel at a fixed speed through the ether. So if you were traveling in the same direction as the light, you would expect that its speed would appear to be lower, and if you were traveling in the opposite direction to the light, that its speed would appear to be higher. Yet a series of experiments failed to find any evidence for differences in speed due to motion through the ether.www.test99.com Test99But it was a young clerk named Albert Einstein, working in the Swiss Patent Office in Bern, who cut through the ether and solved the speed-of-light problem once and for all. In June 1905 he wrote one of three papers that would establish him as one of the worlds leading scientists - and in the process start two conceptual revolutions that changed our understanding of time, space and reality.www.test99.com Test99In that 1905 paper, Einstein pointed out that because you could not detect whether or not you were moving through the ether, the whole notion of an ether was redundant. Instead, Einstein started from the postulate that the laws of science should appear the same to all freely moving observers. In particular, observers should all measure the same speed for light, no matter how they were moving. www.test99.com 1. Ether was believed to be .www.test99.com 2. Toward the end of the 19th century, scientists believed that .www.test99.com 3. According to Einsteins 1905 paper.www.test99.com 4. It is implied in the passage that by the time he published his 1905 paper,.www.test99.com 5. The article from which the present passage is taken probably deals with .www.test99.com Passage 2www.test99.com Test99In the past oysters were raised in much the same way as dirt farmers raised tomatoes - by transplanting them. First, farmers selected the oyster bed, cleared the bottom of old shells and other debris, then scattered clean shells about. Next, they planted fertilized oyster eggs, which within two or three weeks hatched into larvae. The larvae drifted until they attached themselves to the clean shells on the bottom. There they remained and in time grew into baby oysters called seed or spat. The spat grew larger by drawing in seawater from which they derived microscopic particles of fooD. Before long, farmers gathered the baby oysters, transplanted them in other waters to speed up their growth, then transplanted them once more into another body of water to fatten them up.www.test99.com Test99Until recently the supply of wild oysters and those crudely farmed were than enough to satisfy peoples needs. But today the delectable seafood is no longer available in abundance. The problem has become so serious that some oyster beds have vanished entirely.www.test99.com Test99Fortunately, as far back as the early 1900s marine biologists realized that if new measures were not taken, oysters would become extinct or at best a luxury fooD. So they set up well-equipped hatcheries and went to work. But they did not have the proper equipment or the skill to handle the eggs. They did not know when, what, and how to feed the larvae. And they knew little about the predators that attack and eat baby oysters by the millions. They failed, but they doggedly kept at it. Finally, in the 1940s a significant breakthrough was made.www.test99.com Test99The marine biologists discovered that by raising the temperature of the water, they could induce oysters to spawn not only in the summer but also in the fall, winter, and spring. Later they succeeded in breeding new strains that were resistant to diseases, grew faster and larger, and flourished in water of different salinities and temperatures. In addition, the cultivated oysters tasted better. www.test99.com 6. The best title for the passage would be .www.test99.com 7. Scientists discover that oysters were in danger .www.test99.com 8. According to the passage, the efforts of the marine biologists working with oysters can best be described as.www.test99.com 9. In the passage, the author mentions that the new strains of oysters are.www.test99.com 10. Which of the following best describes the organization of the passage?www.test99.com Passage 3www.test99.com Test99Long bus rides are like television shows. They have a beginning, a middle, and an end - with commercials thrown in every three or four minutes. The commercials are unavoidable. They happen whether you want them or not. Every couple of minutes a billboard glides by outside the bus window. Only if you sleep, which is equal to turning the television set off, are you spared the unending cry of “You Need It! Buy it Now!” www.test99.com Test99The beginning of the ride is comfortable and somewhat exciting, even if youve traveled that way before. Usually some things have changed - new houses, new buildings, sometimes even a new roaD. The bus driver has a style of driving and its fun to try to figure it out the first hour or so. If the driver is particularly reckless or daring, the ride can be as thrilling as a suspense story. Will the driver pass the truck in time? Will the driver move into the right or the left-hand lane? After a while, of course, the excitement dies down. Sleeping for a while helps pass the middle hours of the ride. Food always makes bus rides more interesting But youve got to be careful of what kind of food you eat. Too much salty food can make you very thirsty between stops.www.test99.com Test99The end of the ride is somewhat like the beginning. You know it will soon be over and theres a kind of expectation and excitement in that. The seat, of course, has become harder as the hours have passeD. By now youve sat with your legs crossed, with your hands in your lap, with your hands on the arm rests - even with your hands crossed behind your heaD. The end comes just at the right time. There are just no more ways to sit. www.test99.com 11. The purpose of this passage is .www.test99.com 12. The writer of this passage would probably favor .www.test99.com 13. The writer feels long bus rides are like TV shows because .www.test99.com 14. The writer thinks that the end of the ride is somewhat like the beginning www.test99.com 15. The best title for this passage is .www.test99.com Passage 4www.test99.com Test99The first way we can approach language is as a phenomenon of the individual person. It is concerned with describing and explaining language as a matter of human behavior. People speak and write; they also evidently read and understand what they hear. They are not born doing so; they have to acquire these skills. Not everybody seems to develop them to the same degree. People may suffer accidents or diseases, which impair their performance. Language is thus seen as part of human psychology, a particular sort of behavior, the behavior which has as its principal function that of communication.www.test99.com Test99The trouble with the term “behavior is that it is often taken to refer only to more or less overt, and describable, physical movements and acts. Yet part of language behavior-that of understanding spoken or written language, for example-has little or no physically observable signs. It is true we can sometimes infer that understanding has taken place by the changes that take place in the other persons behavior. When someone has been prohibited from doing something, we may infer that he has understood the prohibition by observing that thereafter he never behaves in that way. We cannot, of course, be absolutely sure that his subsequent behaviour is a result of his understanding; it might be due to a loss of interest or inclination. So behaviour must be taken to include unobservable activity, often only to be inferred from other observable behaviour.www.test99.com Test99Once we admit that the study of language behaviour involves describing and explaining the unobservable, the situation becomes much more complicated, because we have to postulate some set of processes, some internal mechanism, which operates when we speak and understanD. We have to postulate something we can call a minD. The study of language from this point of view can then be seen as a study of the specific properties, processes and states of the mind whose outward manifestations are observable behaviour; what we have to know in order to perform linguistically.www.test99.com Test99This approach to language, as a phenomenon of the individual, is thus principally concerned with explaining how we acquire language, and its relation to general human cognitive systems, and with the psychological mechanisms underlying the comprehension and production of speech; much less with the problem of what language is for, that is, its function as communication, since this necessarily involves more than a single individual. www.test99.com 16. What is the best title for this passage?www.test99.com 17. According to the passage, which of the following statements is NOT true?www.test99.com 18. What does the term “behaviour in the second paragraph especially refer to in this passage?www.test99.com 19. What does“internal mechanism(Lin 3, Para 3) mean?www.test99.com 20. What can you infer from the passage?www.test99.com Part III Vocabulary (20 minutes)www.test99.com Directions:There are 30 incomplete sentences in this part. For each sentence there are four choices marked A),B),C）的and D）.的Choose the ONE that best completes the sentence. Then mark the corresponding letter on the Answer Sheet with a single line through the centre. www.test99.com 21. The industrial community should be close enough to the crowded centers but distant enough to reduce hazards. www.test99.com 22. The water was for several hours while the plumber repaired the pipes. www.test99.com 23. His influence over union members since his failure to strive higher wages for them. www.test99.com 24. A role-play session is particularly useful in bringing together of teaching.www.test99.com 25. Many hunting and gathering people of the late 20th century have recently adopted some form of organized agriculture to their wild food resources. www.test99.com 26. The indecisive man was persuaded into changing his mind though he wasnt aware of it.www.test99.com 27. The estimate of gains in gross national product suggested a fast recovery from economic recession. www.test99.com 28. My father was by the neighbours that we were in the risk of being burgled if we left the house with nobody at home. www.test99.com 29. When typing it is advisable to leave a wide on both sides of the page. www.test99.com 30. It was agreed that the speakers remarks on Patriotism were to the Independence Day celebration.www.test99.com 31. They are taught by their superiors that a soldier who his post in time of war is to be shot. www.test99.com 32. It demands artistic skill for a manager to disputes among his employees.www.test99.com 33. The local medical officer reported a serious of food-poisoning which alarmed the authorities greatly. www.test99.com 34. There could have been a war over the sophisticated issue but in the end the reason .www.test99.com 35. You should fill in the application form before you send it back to the university.www.test99.com 36. All the commodities sold in that shop are given one years . www.test99.com 37. We shall probably never be able to the exact nature of these sub-atomic particles. www.test99.com 38. I was expecting a blame from him, but to my surprise, he made no to our quarrel. I assumed he had forgiven me. www.test99.com 39. An area of rich forests was to life, because youre able to breathe fresh air every day. www.test99.com 40. Nobody seems to be anxious to me about the events that led up to the dispute. www.test99.com 41. The boy was by a lorry as he ran across the road and seriously injureD. www.test99.com 42. The town is compact and beautiful, by a highest mountain in this district. www.test99.com 43. The key point two leaders have agreed upon is that the relationship between different countries should be based on respect. www.test99.com 44. This method of teaching is a of many methods which have been used throughout this country. www.test99.com 45. Many local authorities realize the need to make for elderly people in their housing programmes. www.test99.com 46. It is not necessary to boil the drinking water, because it has already been chemically. www.test99.com 47. With its entry into World War Two, the United States rejected the of isolationism which has been adhered to for many years. www.test99.com 48. Some animals will modify their behaviour to to their environments while others will not do this.www.test99.com 49. The professor tried to the students interest in archaeology by taking his students on expeditions. www.test99.com 50. There is a of raw material for the products. As a result, the prices are sky-rocketing. www.test99.com 答案：www.test99.com 1.分析与解答：答案为A。本题考察对第一段第二句“space was filled everywhere by a continuous medium called the ether”的理解。 www.test99.com
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