1、1990年大学英语六级答案+听力材料1990年1月大学英语六级(CET-6)真题试卷Part I Listening Comprehension (20 minutes)Section A1. A) Read four chapters.B) Write an article.C) Speak before the class.D) Preview two chapters.（B）2. A) The woman is being interviewed by a reporter.B) The woman is asking for a promotion.C) The woman is ap
2、plying for a job.D) The woman is being given an examination.（C）3. A) His car was hit by another car.B) He was hurt while playing volleyball.C) He fell down the stairs.D) While crossing the street, he was hit by a car.（A）4. A) Took a photo of him.B) Bought him a picture.C) Held a birthday party.D) Bo
3、ught him a frame for his picture.（A）5. A) No medicine could solve the womans problem.B) The woman should eat less to lose some weight.C) Nothing could help the woman if she ate too little.D) The woman should choose the right foods.（D）6. A) He meant she should make a phone call if anything went wrong
4、.B) He meant for her just to wait till help came.C) He was afraid something would go wrong with her car.D) He promised to give her himself.（A）7. A) No, he missed it.B) No, he didnt.C) Yes, he did.D) Yes, he probably did.（B）8. A) He has edited three books.B) He has bought the wrong book.C) He has los
5、t half of his money.D) He has found the book that will be used.（B）9. A) At 7:30B) At 8:30C) At 9:00D) At 9:30（D）10. A) Six.B) Seven.C) Eight.D) Nine.（C）Section BPassage OneQuestions 11 to 13 are based on the passage you have just heard.11. A) They often take place in her major industries.B) British
6、trade unions are more powerful.C) There are more trade union members in Britain.D) Britain loses more working days through strikes every year.（A）12. A) Such strikes are against the British law.B) Such strikes are unpredictable.C) Such strikes involve workers from different trades.D) Such strikes occ
7、ur frequently these days.（B）13. A) Trade unions in Britain are becoming more popular.B) Most strikes in Britain are against the British law.C) Unofficial strikes in Britain are easier to deal with now.D) Employer-worker relations in Britain have become tenser.（D）Passage TwoQuestions 14 to 16 are bas
8、ed on the passage you have just heard.14. A) The victory over ones fellow runners.B) The victory over former winners.C) The victory of will-power over fatigue.D) The victory of ones physical strength.（C）15. A) The runner who runs to keep fit.B) The runner who breaks the record.C) The runner who does
9、 not break the rules.D) The runner who covers the whole distance.（D）16. A) He won the first prize.B) He fell behind the other runners.C) He died because of fatigue.D) He gave up because he was tired.（B）Passage ThreeQuestions 17 to 20 are based on the passage you have just heard.17. A) 17,000.B) 1,70
10、0.C) 24.D) 9,000.（C）18. A) Its located in a college town.B) Its composed of a group of old buildings.C) Its classrooms are beautifully designed.D) Its library is often crowed with students.（B）19. A) Teachers are well paid at Deep Springs.B) Students are mainly from New York State.C) The length of sc
11、hooling is two years.D) Teachers neednt pay for their rent and meals.（D）20. A) Take a walk in the desert.B) Go to a cinema.C) Watch TV programmes.D) Attend a party.（A）Part II Reading Comprehension (35 minutes)Questions 21 to 24 are based on the following passage.Automation refers to the introduction
12、 of electronic control and automatic operation of productive machinery. It reduces the human factors, mental and physical, in production, and is designed to make possible the manufacture of more goods with fewer workers. The development of automation in American industry has been called the “Second
13、Industrial Revolution”.Labours concern over automation arises from uncertainty about the effects on employment, and fears of major changes in jobs. In the main, labour has taken the view that resistance to technical change is unfruitful. Eventually, the result of automation may well be an increase i
14、n employment, since it is expected that vast industries will grow up around manufacturing, maintaining, and repairing automation equipment. The interest of labour lies in bringing about the transition with a minimum of inconvenience and distress to the workers involved. Also, union spokesmen emphasi
15、ze that the benefit of the increased production and lower costs made possible by automation should be shared by workers in the form of higher wages, more leisure, and improved living standards.To protect the interests of their members in the era of automation, unions have adopted a number of new pol
16、icies. One of these is the promotion of supplementary unemployment benefit plans. It is emphasized that since the employer involved in such a plan has a direct financial interest in preventing unemployment, he will have a strong drive for planning new installations so as to cause the least possible
17、problems in jobs and job assignment. Some unions are working for dismissal pay agreements, requiring that permanently dismissed workers be paid a sum of money based on length of service. Another approach is the idea of the “improvement factor”, which calls for wage increases based on increases in pr
18、oductivity. It is possible, however, that labour will rely mainly on reduction in working time.21. Though labour worries about the effect of automation, it does not doubt that _.A) automation will eventually prevent unemploymentB) automation will help workers acquire new skillsC) automation will eve
19、ntually benefit the workers no less that the employersD) automation is a trend which cannot be stopped（D）22. The idea of the “improvement factor” (Line 6, Para. 3) probably implies that _.A) wages should be paid on the basis of length of serviceB) the benefit of increased production and lower costs
20、should be shared by workersC) supplementary unemployment benefit plans should be promotedD) the transition to automation should be brought about with the minimum of inconvenience and distress to workers（B）23. In order to get the full benefits of automation, labour will depend mostly on _.A) addition
21、al payment to the permanently dismissed workersB) the increase of wages in proportion to the increase in productivityC) shorter working hours and more leisure timeD) a strong drive for planning new installations（C）24. Which of the following can best sum up the passage?A) Advantages and disadvantages
22、 of automation.B) Labour and the effects of automation.C) Unemployment benefit plans and automation.D) Social benefits of automation.（B）Questions 25 to 30 are based on the following passage.The case for college has been accepted without question for more than a generation. All high school graduates
23、ought to go, says conventional wisdom and statistical evidence, because college will help them earn more money, become “better” people, and learn to be more responsible citizens than those who dont go.But college has never been able to work its magic for everyone. And now that close to half our high
24、 school graduates are attending, those who dont fit the pattern are becoming more numerous, and more obvious. College graduates are selling shoes and driving taxis; college students interfere with each others experiments and write false letters of recommendation in the intense competition for admiss
25、ion to graduate school. Others find no stimulation in their studies, and drop out-often encouraged by college administrators.Some observers say the fault! Is with the young people themselves-they are spoiled and they are expecting too much. But thats a condemnation of the students as a whole, and do
26、esnt explain all campus unhappiness. Others blame the state of the world, and they are partly right. Weve been told that young people have to go to college because our economy cant absorb an army of untrained eighteen-year-olds. But disappointed graduates are learning that it can no longer absorb an
27、 army of trained twenty-two-year-olds, either.Some adventuresome educators and campus watchers have openly begun to suggest that college may not be the best, the proper, the only place for every young person after the completion of high school. We may have been looking at all those surveys and stati
28、stics upside down, it seems, and through the rosy glow of our own remembered college experiences. Perhaps college doesnt make people intelligent, ambitious, happy, liberal, quick-learning people are merely the ones who have been attracted to college in the first place. And perhaps all those successf
29、ul college graduates would have been successful whether they had gone to college or not. This is heresy (异端邪说) to those of us who have been brought up to believe that if a little schooling is good, more has to be much better. But contrary evidence is beginning to mount up.25. According to the passag
30、e, the author believes that _.A) people used to question the value of college educationB) people used to have full confidence in higher educationC) all high school graduates went to collegeD) very few high school graduates chose to go to college（B）26. In the 2nd paragraph, “those who dont fit the pa
31、ttern” refers to _.A) high school graduates who arent suitable for college educationB) college graduates who are selling shoes and driving taxisC) college students who arent any better for their higher educationD) high school graduates who failed to be admitted to college（C）27. The drop-out rate of
32、college students seems to go up because _.A) young people are disappointed with the conventional way of teaching at collegeB) many young people are required to join the armyC) young people have little motivation in pursuing a higher educationD) young people dont like the intense competition for admission to graduate school（C）28. According to the passage the proble
