大学六级-1447

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大学六级-1447
[填空题]For millions of years, the changes in Earth’s climate have been driven by forces of nature. But for the last century and a half, Earth’s average temperature has been rising (47) than any time in the past ten thou- sand years. The (48) in science is that much of that change has been driven by us.
The climate is not what it used to be. It’s not your grandfather’s climate anymore.
The (49) are everywhere: droughts in the American Southwest and Africa’s Sahara(撒哈拉), (50) seas in Louisiana and Bangladesh (孟加拉国), tropical diseases spreading north and extremes of weather from Florida to France.
There are people who still say global warming needn’t (51) us. If it’s happening at all, it’s a natural trend, not much we can do about it. But there is now hard (52) which shows that the warming is not only real. It’s (53) . It’s altering the climate’s most basic elements like rainfall and evaporation, days of
[多项选择]假设你有一位居住在美国纽约的好友(David Johnson)。你写信告诉他你已被录取为纽约大学的研究生，即将在今年9月赴美学习，向他询问有关事宜。信件内容要求如下：
1．问候朋友并告知自己的好消息
2．询问关于在纽约留学的生活情况，如能否在学校附近找到住处，以及朋友有何生活上的建议等
3．希望他早日回信，并盼望在不久的将来能和他在纽约见面
An Inquiry Letter to a Friend
[单项选择] Questions 22 to 25 are based on the conversation you have just heard.
A. The Waterfall Garden.
B. The theatre.
C. The Water World.
D. The Ocean Park.
[填空题]Pat felt ill at ease with his girlfriend, ____________ (考虑是否要宣布他的事).
[单项选择]After the year 1958, a more modern Supreme Court agreed with Justice Helen. In a historic decision in 1954 it held that laws that forcing black students to go to racially segregated schools violated the US Constitution because such schools could never be equal. The opinion of the Court was that "to separate (black school children) from other--solely because of their race generates a feeling of inferiority- that may affect their hearts and minds in a way unlikely ever to be undone".
The Supreme Court’s decision in 1954 led to changes which brought an end to the system of segregated public education in the southern states. However, problems in race relations continued to trouble the public schools, even though schools were legally desegregated throughout the country.
Black Americans were still mainly in the lowest income and occupational groups and frequently lived in slums in the nation’s largest cities. The public schools in these areas were composed predominantly or enti
A. black students to go to racially segregated schools
B. that it was unlawful to force Negro children to attend racially segregated schools
C. that black students shouldn’t attend schools with white classmates
D. that the schools black children attended were of little difference
[单项选择]HOW SATs Work
Tests are a fact of life throughout our school careers, but one of the most important, and, to some the scariest, of them all is the SAT—that three-hour exam that’s supposed to measure a high school student’s chance of academic success in the first year of college. Some colleges consider SAT scores major factors in their admission process, while others view high school academic performance, along with recommendations and extracurricular activities, equally, or even more importantly. No matter where you’re headed, if you’re a high school student, the SAT is important to you because most colleges require students to report either SAT or ACT Assessment (another test) scores.
What Is the SAT
First of all, SAT no longer stands for Scholastic Aptitude Test (学术性倾向测验), the original name of the test when it was introduced in 1941.Although you may still see that name occasionally, the College Board, the not-for-profit educational association tha
A. measure whether a student’s ability can be successful in the first year of college
B. evaluate high schools’ education quality throughout the country
C. help improve the education in college throughout the country
D. measure high school students’ chance of a fruitful life
[单项选择]Passage Two
Questions 29 to 31 are based on the conversation you have just heard.
A. An American protester.
B. A 6-year-old Cuban boy.
C. A TV cameraman.
D. A psychologist.
[填空题]It seems incredible that ____________ (他工作完成得这么快).
[填空题]Though she was 25 years old, ____________ (但照片中的她显得比实际年龄大多了).
[填空题]He felt very embarrassed ____________ (就在遇见前妻的一刹那).
[单项选择]Questions 11 to 18 are based on the conversation you have just heard.
A. She doesn’t know when they will go.
B. She believes there is a road detour.
C. She won’t be ready at 8 o’clock.
D. She wants the man to go away.
[填空题]Microsoft is a world-known corporation and its main product is software. The man who will soon be come Microsoft’s new chief (36) officer, Steve Ballmer, said on Thursday that it would be" (37) reckless and irresponsible" to break up the massive (38) firm. “I think it would be absolutely reckless and (39) for anyone to try to break up this company,”Ballmer said at a news (40) after Chairman Bill Gates introduced him as the new CEO. The company is in the middle of (41) wit h the US Government in a (42) antitrust case. The government favors breaking up Microsoft Corp, best known for creating Windows computer operating systems. A break-up would settle the case, people (43) with the mediation talks taking place in Chicago have said.
(44) , sources said. But Ballmer and Gates said that only a unified company able to deliver across-the-board solutions could add "real value". When being ask
[单项选择]There is a phenomena in the present. The average number of authors on scientific papers is sky rocketing. What is the main reason for it That’s partly because labs arc bigger, problems are more complicated, and more different subspecialties are needed. But it’s also because US government agencies like the National Institutes of Health (NIH) have started to promote "team science". As physics developed in the post-World War II era, federal funds built expensive national facilities, and these served as surfaces on which collaborations could crystallize naturally.
Yet multiple authorship—however good it may be in other ways—presents for journals and for the institutions in which these authors work. For the journals, long lists of authors are hard to deal with in them selves. But those long lists give rise to more serious questions when something goes wrong with the paper. If there is research misconduct, should the liability be joint and several, accruing to all authors If not, th
A. getting more complicated
B. dealing with bigger problems
C. more of a product of team work
D. focusing more on natural than on social sciences
[单项选择]Passage One
Questions 26 to 28 are based on the conversation you have just heard.
A. Because he registered the".ch" for China and sent the first e-mail in China.
B. Because he set up China’s first online comic dialogue website.
C. Because be provided integrated online services.
D. Because he was regarded as the father of Internet in China.
[填空题]Industrial pollution is not only a problem for the countries of Europe and
North America. It is an extremely serious problem in some developing countries.
For these countries, economical growth is a very important goal. They 67．______
want to attract new industries, and so they put more controls on industries 68．______
which cause pollution.
Cubatao, an industrial town of 85 000 people in Brazil, is an example of
the connection between industrial development and pollution. In 1954, Cubatao
had no industry. Today it has more than twenty large factories, which
produce many pollutants. The largest factory which exists in the south part of 69．______
the town has caused at least two terrible polluting disasters. The people of the
town are exposed by the poisonous matters in their surroundings, and the bad 70．______
effects can be clearly seen. Birth shortcomings are extremely common. Among
children and grown-ups, lung
[单项选择]Passage Three
Questions 32 to 35 are based on the conversation you have just heard.
A. Her happiness to be alive.
B. Her happiness to be close to nature.
C. Her optimism about how much knowledge she can gain.
D. Her optimism about the future of mankind.
[单项选择]Questions 19 to 21 are based on the conversation you have just heard.
A. Because he can do something that helps people.
B. Because he is able to decide exactly what he does.
C. Because he can travel to different parts of the city.
D. Because he can earn a lot of money.
[填空题]John had been so humiliated that ____________ (觉得自己不如见过的任何一个受过教育的人).