大学英语四级2006年6月真题精讲：阅读理解
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 One
Questions 57 to 61 are based on
the following passage.
Communications
technologies are far from equal when it comes to conveying the truth. The first
study to compare honesty across a range of communication media has found that
people are twice as likely to tell lies in phone conversations as they are in
emails. The fact that emails are automatically recorded-and can come back to
haunt (困扰) you-appears
to be the key to the finding.
Jeff
Hancock of Cornell University in Ithaca,
New York, asked 30 students to
keep a communications diary for a week. In it they noted the number of
conversations or email exchanges they had lasting more than 10 minutes, and
confessed to how many lies they told. Hancock then worked out the number of
lies per conversation for each medium. He found that lies made up 14 per cent
of emails, 21 per cent of instant messages, 27 percent of face-to-face
interactions and an astonishing 37 percent of phone calls.
His results, to be
presented at the conference on human computer interaction in Vienna, Austria,
in April, have surprised psychologists. Some expected e-mailers to be the
biggest liars, reasoning that because deception makes people uncomfortable, the
detachment (非直接接触) of e-mailing would
make it easier to lie. Others expected people to lie more in face-to-face
exchanges because we are most practiced at that form of communication.
But Hancock says it is
also crucial whether a conversation is being recorded and could be reread, and
whether occurs in real time. People appear to be afraid to lie when they know
the communication could later be used to hold them to account, he says. This is
why fewer lies appear in email than on the phone.
People are also more
likely to lie in real time-in an instant message to phone call, say-than if
they have time to think of a response, says Hancock. He found many lies are
spontaneous (脱口而出的) responses to an
unexpected demand, such as: "Do you like my dress?"
Hancock hopes his
research will help companies work out the best ways for their employees to
communicate. For instance, the phone might be the best medium for sales where
employees are encouraged to stretch the truth. But, given his result, work
assessment, where honesty is a priority, might be best done using email.
注意：此部分试题请在答题卡2上作答。
57.
Hancock's study focuses on_______ .
A) the consequences of lying in
various communications media
B) the success of communications
technologies in conveying ideas
C) people's preference in
selecting communications technologies
D) people's honesty levels across
a range of communications media
58.
Hancock's research finding surprised those who believed that_______.
A) people are less likely to lie
in instant messages
B) people are unlikely to lie in
face-to-face interactions
C) people are most likely to lie
in e-mail communication
D) People are twice as likely to
lie in phone conversations
59.
According to the passage, why are people more likely to tell the truth through
certain media of communication?
A) They are afraid of leaving
behind traces of their lies.
B) They believe that honesty is
the best policy.
C) They tend to be relaxed when
using those media.
D) They are most practised at
those forms of communication.
60.
According to Hancock, the telephone is a preferable medium for promoting sales
because_______.
A) salesmen can talk directly to
their customers
B) salesmen may feel less
restrained to exaggerate
C) salesmen can impress customers
as being trustworthy
D) salesmen may pass on instant
messages effectively
61.
It can be inferred from the passage that_______.
A) honesty should be encouraged
in interpersonal communications
B) more employers will use e-mails
to communicate with their employees
C) suitable media should be
chosen for different communication purposes
D) email is now the dominant
medium of communication within a company
Passage Two
Questions 62 to 66 are based on
the following passage.
In a
country that defines itself by ideals, not by shared blood, who should be
allowed to come, work and live here? In the wake of the Sept.11 attacks these
questions have never seemed more pressing.
On Dec.11,
2001, as part of the effort to increase homeland security, Federal and local
authorities in 14 states staged "Operation Safe Travel" -raids on airports to
arrest employees with false identification (身份证明). In Salt Lake City there were 69 arrests. But
those captured were anything but terrorists, most of them illegal immigrants
from Central or South America. Authorities
said the undocumented workers' illegal status made them open to blackmail (讹诈) by terrorists. Many
immigrants in Salt Lake City
were angered by the arrests and said they felt as if they were being treated
like disposable goods.
Mayor Anderson said
those feelings were justified to a certain extent. "We're saying we want you to
work in these places, and we're going to look the other way in terms of what
our laws are, and then when it's convenient for us, or when we can try to make
a point in terms of national security, especially after Sept.11, then you're
disposable. There are whole families being uprooted for all of the wrong
reasons," Anderson
said.
If Sept.11 had never
happened the airport workers would not have been arrested and could have gone
on quietly living in America,
probably indefinitely. Ana Castro, a manager at a Ben & Jerry's ice cream
shop at the airport, had been working 10 years with the same false Social
Security card when she was arrested in the December airport raid. Now she and
her family are living under the threat of deportation (驱逐出境). Castro's case is currently
waiting to be settled. While she awaits the outcome, the government has granted
her permission to work here and she has returned to her job at Ben Jerry's.
注意：此部分试题请在答题卡2上作答。
62.
According to the author, the United
States claims to be a nation_______.
A) composed of people having
different values
B) encouraging
individual pursuits
C) sharing common interests
D) founded
on shared ideals
63.
How did the immigrants in Salt Lake
City feel about "Operation Safe Travel"?
A) Guilty.
B) Offended.
C) Disappointed.
D)
Discouraged.
64.
Undocumented workers became the target of "Operation Safe Travel" because______.
A) evidence was found that they
were potential terrorists
B) most of them worked at
airports under threat of terrorist attacks
C) terrorists might take
advantage of their illegal status
D) they were reportedly helping
hide terrorists around the airport
65.
By saying "we're going to look the other way in terms of what our laws are" (Line
2, Para.3), Mayor Alderson means"_______".
A) we will turn a blind eye to
your illegal status
B) we will examine the laws in a
different way
C) there are other ways of
enforcing the law
D) the existing laws must not be
ignored
66.
What do we learn about Ana Castro from the last paragraph?
A) She will be deported sooner or
later.
B) She is allowed to study
permanently.
C) Her case has been dropped
D) Her fate remains uncertain.
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