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2008年12月大学英语六级预测卷3

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34. A) Husbands he to share with their wives and help them.

B) Older women often live alone when their husbands die.

C) Family structure is more patriarchal in the nuclear family.

D) Women he to help sisters, grandparents with housework and childcare.

35. A) They want to stay home and do the housework.

B) They do not he enough money.

C) They he too much work and not much free time.

D) They he more freedom than in the past.

Section C

Directions: In this section, you will hear a passage three times, when the passage is read for the first time, you should listen carefully for its general idea .When the passage is read for the second time, you are required to fill in the blanks numbered from 36 to 43 with the exact words you he just heard. For blanks numbered from 44 to 46 you are required to fill in the missing information .For these blanks, you can either use the exact words you he just heard or write down the main points in your own words. Finally, when the passage is read for the third time, you should check what you he written.

注意:此部分试题请在答题卡2上作答。

A deadly (36)_________outbreak swept through a small city in Zaire, Africa last spring, killing more than one hundred people. It was a terrible situation. The killer was a rare (37)_________ that caused most victims to (38)_________ to death. As scientists rushed to control the (39) _________, people in the U.S. wonder whether it could attack here. "We are foolish if we think it couldn't e to our country. We can never be too careful when we face some disease, especially the infectious one." say doctors. The virus can be highly infectious. If you e in (40)_________with a victim's blood or other body (41)_________, you can get sick, too. That's what scientists believe (42)_________in Zaire. The healthcare workers who treated the first (43) ________there soon fell ill, too. (44)__________________________________.International rescue works brought equipment to Zaire soon after the outbreak occurred.(45)________________________________.One big mystery is that no one knows where the virus es from or where it will strike next. Some scientists say that the virus lies inactive in the cells of some kind of plant, insect or other animal. Then it somehow finds a way to infect humans. (46)__________________________________.Once they find the virus, they also hope to find ways to bat it.

Part Ⅳ Reading prehension (Reading in Depth) (25 minutes)

Section A

Directions: In this section, there is a short passage with 5 questions or inplete statements. Read the passage carefully. Then answer the questions or plete the statements in the fewest possible words on Answer Sheet 2.

Questions 47 to 51 are based on the following passage.

Women often plain that dating is like a cattle market, and a paper just published in Biology Letters by Thomas Pollet and Daniel tle of Newcastle University, in England, suggests they are right. They he little cause for plaint, however, because the paper also suggests that in this particular market, it is women who are the buyers.

Mr. Pollet and Dr. tle were looking for evidence to support the contention that women choose men of high status and resources, as well as good looks. That may sound mon sense, but it was often denied by social scientists until a group of researchers who called themselves evolutionary psychologists started investigating the matter two decades ago. Since then, a series of experiments in laboratories he supported the contention. But as all zoologists know, experiments can only tell you so much. Eventually, you he to look at natural populations.

And that is what Mr. Pollet and Dr. tle he done. They he examined data from the 1910 census of the United States of America and discovered that marriage is, indeed, a market. Moreover, as in any market, a scarcity of buyers means the sellers he to he particularly attractive goods on offer if they are to make the exchange.

The advantage of picking 1910 was that America had not yet settled down, demographically(人口统计学方面) speaking. Though the long-colonized eastern states had a sex ratio of one man to one woman, or thereabouts, in the rest of the country the old adage(格言,谚语)"go west, young man" had resulted in a surplus of males. Mr. Pollet and Dr. tle were thus able to see just how picky women are, given the chance.

Rather than looking at the whole census, the two researchers relied on a sample of one person in 250.They then assigned the men in the sample a socioeconomic status score between zero and 96, on a scale drawn up in 1950.They showed that in states where the sexes were equal in number, 56% of low status men were married by the age of 30, while 60% of high status men were. As the men went west, then, so did their marriage opportunities.

47. A paper published in Biology Letters agreed with women that .

48. What is the contention which is often denied by social scientists?

49. Although the experiments support the contention, all zoologists suggest that .

50. In the market of marriage, a scarcity of buyers means sellers he to to make the exchange.

51. What had given two researchers the chance to see how picky women were?

Section B

Directions: 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 52 to 56 are based on the following passage.

With the possible exception of equal rights, perhaps the most controversial issue across the United States today is the death penalty. Many argue that it is an effective deterrent (威慑) to murder, while others maintain there is no convincing evidence that the death penalty reduces the number of murders.

The principal argument advanced by those opposed to the death penalty, basically, is that it is cruel and inhuman punishment, which is the mark of a brutal society, and finally that it is of questionable effectiveness as a deterrent to crime anyway.

In our opinion, the death penalty is a necessary evil. Throughout recorded history there he always been those extreme individuals in every society who were capable of terribly violent crimes such as murder. But some are more extreme than others.

For example, it is one thing to take the life of another in a fit of blind rage, but quite another to coldly plot and carry out the murder of one or more people in the style of a butcher. Thus, murder, like all other crimes, is a matter of relative degree. While it could be argued with some conviction that the criminal in the first instance should be merely isolated from society, such should not be the fate of the latter type murderer.

The value of the death penalty as a deterrent to crime may be open to debate. But the overwhelming majority of citizens believe that the death penalty protects them. Their belief is reinforced by evidence which shows that the death penalty deters murder. For example, from 1954 to 1963, when the death penalty was consistently imposed in California, the murder rate remained between three and four murders for each 100,000 population. Since 1964 the death penalty has been imposed only once, and the murder rate has risen to 10.4 murders for each 100,000 population. The sharp climb in the state's murder rate, which began when executions stopped, is no coincidence. It is convincing evidence that the death penalty does deter many murderers. If the bill reestablishing the death penalty is vetoed, innocent people will be murdered-some whose lives may he been sed if the death penalty were in effect. This is literally a life or death matter. The lives of thousands of innocent people must be protected.

52. The principal purpose of this passage is to .

A) speak for the majority B) initiate a veto

C) criticize the government D) argue for the value of the death penalty

53. The author's response to those who urge the death penalty for all is likely to be .

A) negative B) friendly C) supportive D) hostile

54. According to the Paragraph 4, it can be inferred that .

A) the death penalty is the most controversial issue in the United States today

B) the second type of murderers should be sentenced to death

C) the veto of the bill reestablishing the death penalty is of little importance

D) the value of the death penalty as a deterrent to crime is not to be debated

55. The passage attempts to establish a relationship between .

A) the murder rate and the imposition of the death penalty

B) the effects of execution and the effects of isolation

C) the importance of equal rights and that of the death penalty

D) executions and murders

56. The author's attitude towards "death penalty" is .

A) opposing B) supporting C) neutral D) sarcastic

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