2006年12月大学英语新六级试题

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       Humans, says Edward M. Hallowell, have the ability to call up images of bad things that happened in the past and to anticipate future events. Combine these higher thought processes with our hardwired danger-detection systems, and you get a near-universal human phenomenon: worry.
       That’s not necessarily a bad thing, says Hallowell. “When used properly, worry is an incredible device,” he says. After all, a little healthy worrying is okay if it leads to constructive action-like having a doctor look at that weird spot on your back.
       Hallowell insists, though, that there’s a right way to worry. “Never do it alone, get the facts and then make a plan,” he says. Most of us have survived a recession, so we’re familiar with the belt. Tightening strategies needed to survive a stump.
       Unfortunately, few of us have much experience dealing with the threat of terrorism, so it’s been difficult to get facts about how we should respond. That’s why hallowell belleves it was okay for people to indulge some extreme worries last fall by asking doctors for Cipro理学(抗炭疽菌的药物) and buying gas masks.
52. The “so-called fight-or-flight response” (Line 2, Para. 1) refers to “________”.
       A. the biological process in which human beings’ sense of self-defense evolves
       B. the instinctive fear human beings feel when faced with potential danger
     C. the act of evaluating a dangerous situation and making a quick decision
       D. the elaborate mechanism in the human brain for retrieving information
53. From the studies conducted by LeDoux we learn that _________.
       A. reactions of humans and animals to dangerous situations are often unpredictable
       B. memories of significant events enable people to control fear and distress
       C. people’s unpleasant memories are derived from their feelings of fear
       D. the amygdale plays a vital part in human and animal responses to potential danger.
54. From the passage we know that _________.
            
            

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       B. a little worry will enable us to survive a recession
       C. fear strengthens the human desire to survive danger
       D. fear helps people to anticipate certain future events.
55. Which of the following is the best way to deal with your worries according to Hallowell?
       A. Ask for help from the people around you.
       B. Use the belt-tightening strategies for survival.
       C. Seek professional advice and take action.
       D. Understand the situation and be fully prepared.
56. In Hallowell’s view, people’s reaction to the terrorist threat last fall was _______.
       A. ridiculous                                             B. understandable
       C. over-cautious                                        D. sensible

Passage Two
       Amitai Etzioni is not surprised by the latest headings about scheming corporate crooks (骗子). As a visiting professor at the Harvard Business School in 1989. he ended his work there disgusted with his students’ overwhelming lust for money. “They’re taught that profit is all that matters.” He says. “Many schools don’t even offer ethics (伦理学) courses at all.”
       Etzioni expressed his frustration about the interests of his graduate students. “By and large, I clearly had not found a way to help classes full of MBAs see that there is more to life than money, power, fame and self-interest.” He wrote at the time. Today he still takes the blame for not educating these “business-leaders-to-be.” “I really feel like I failed them,” he says. “If I was a better teacher maybe I could have reached them.”
            
            

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       Etzioni was a respected ethics expert when he arrived at Harvard. He hoped his work at the university would give him insight into how questions of morality could be applied to places where self-interest flourished. What he found wasn’t encouraging. Those would-be executives had, says Etzioni, little interest in concepts of ethics and morality in the boardroom—and their professor was met with blank stares when he urged his students to see business in new and different ways.
      Etzioni sees the experience at Harvard as an eye-opening one and says there’s much about business schools that he’d like to change. “A lot of the faculty teaching business are bad news themselves,” Etzioni says. From offering classes that teach students how to legally manipulate contracts, to reinforcing the notion of profit over community interests, Etzioni has seen a lot that’s left him shaking his head. And because of what he’s seen taught in business schools, he’s not surprised by the latest rash of corporate scandals. “In many ways things have got a lot worse at business schools. I suspect.” Says Etzioni.
       Etzioni is still teaching the sociology of right and wrong and still calling for ethical business leadership. “People with poor motives will always exist,” he says. “Sometimes environments constrain those people and sometimes environments give those people opportunity.” Etzioni says the booming economy of the last decade enabled those individuals with poor motives to get rich before getting in trouble. His hope now: that the cries for reform will provide more fertile soil for his longstanding messages about business ethics.
57. What impressed Amitai Etzioni most about Harvard MBA students?
       A. Their keen interest in business courses.
       B. Their intense desire for money
       C. Their tactics for making profits.
       D. Their potential to become business leaders.
58. Why did Amitai Etzioni say “I really feel like I failed them” (Line 4, Para. 2)?
       A. He was unable to alert his students to corporate malpractice.
       B. He didn’t teach his students to see business in new and different ways.
       C. He could not get his students to understand the importance of ethics in business.
       D. He didn’t offer courses that would meet the expectations of the business-leaders-to-be.
59. Most would-be executives at the Harvard Business School believed that _______.
            
            

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       B. self-interest should not be the top priority in business dealings.
       C. new and different principles should be taught at business schools
       There was no place for ethics and morality in business dealings.
60. In Etzioni’s view, the latest rash of corporate scandals could be attributed to _________.
       A. the tendency in business schools to stress self-interest over business ethics.
       B. the executives’ lack of knowledge in legally manipulating contracts.
       C. the increasingly fierce competition in the modern business world
       D. the moral corruption of business school graduates
61. We learn from the last paragraph that __________.
       A. the calls for reform will help promote business ethics
       B. businessmen with poor motives will gain the upper hand
       C. business ethics courses should be taught in all business schools.
       D. reform in business management contributes to economic growth

Part V Error Correction (15 minutes)
       The national Endowment for the Arts recently released
the results of its “Reading at Risk” survey, which described
the movement of the American public away from books and
literature and toward television and electronic media.
According to the survey. “reading is on the decline on every                    62. _________
region, within every ethnic group, and at every educational level.”
            
            

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       The day the NEA report released, the U.S. House, in a tie                63. _________
vote, upheld the government’s right to obtain bookstore and
library records under a provision of the USA Patriot Act. The
House proposal would have barred the federal government
from demand library records, reading lists, book customer                       64. _________
lists and other material in terrorism and intelligence investigations.
       These two events are completely unrelated to, yet they                            65. _________
echo each other in the message they send about the place of
books and reading in American culture. At the heart
of the NEA survey is the belief in our democratic                                          66. _________
system depends on leaders who can think critically, analyze
texts and writing clearly. All of these are skills promotes by                            67. _________
reading and discussing books and literature. At the same time,
through a provision of the Patriot Act, the leaders of our
country are unconsciously sending the message that reading
may be connected to desirable activities that might                                  68. _________
undermine our system of government rather than helping
democracy flourish.
       Our culture’s decline in reading begin well before the                      69. _________
existence of the Patriot Act. During the 1980’s culture wars,
            
            

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school systems across the country pulled some books from
library shelves because its content was deemed by parents                       70. _________
and teachers to be inappropriate. Now what started in schools
across the country is playing itself out on a nation stage and                    71. _________
is possibly having an impact on the reading habits of the
American public.

Part VI Translation (5 minutes)
72. If you had _____________________(听从了我的忠告，你就不会陷入麻烦)。

73. With tears on her face, the lady ____________________(看着她受伤的儿子被送进手术室)。

74. After the terrorist attack, tourists _______________________(被劝告暂时不要去该国旅游)。

75. I prefer to communicate with my customers __________________________(通过写电子邮件而不是打电话)。

76. ________________________(直到截止日他才寄出) his application form.