2009年12月大学英语六级模拟题(1)

　　Passage Two
　　Questions 57 to 61 are based on the following passage.
　　Dowes Ginting, the most wanted man on Sumatra island, lay dying. He had abandoned the hospital where he had seen his relatives succumb one after anther, and he had fled deep into the
　　mountains,trying to outrun the black magic that he feared had marked him next . For four nights, witnesses recalled, a witch doctor hovered over him in a small clapboard home, resisting the evil spell.
　　Ginting, a tough 32-year-old, had watched disease burn through his family over the previous two weeks, killing six and sickening two others, including himself. International health experts grew increasingly concerned when laboratory tests confirmed they were sickened by bird flu, the largest cluster of the disease ever recorded . But Dowes feared medical treatment more than he did the flu. And so he ran, potentially exposing villagers across the province to the highly lethal virus.
　　In the end, the outbreak in May did not predict the start of a worldwise epidemic. But the enormous difficulties that Indonesian and international disease specialists confronted in investigating the outbreak and protecting against its spread raised fundamental questions about whether bird flu could be contained were it converted into a form more easily spread among people.
　　“If this were a strain with sustainable transmission from human to human, I can't imagine how many people would have died, how many lives would have been lost,” said Surya Dharma, chief of communicable disease control in North Sumatra province.
　　Officials from the World Health Organization, drawing on sophisticated computer modeling of a theoretical bird flu outbreak in Southeast Asia, have suggested that an epidemic could be twisted through a rapid containment effort in the affected area, including the right mix of drugs quarantines (隔离，封锁) and other social controls.To succeed, the antiviral drug Tamiflu would have to be distributed to 90 percent of the targeted population, roughly definded as those within at least a three-mile radius of each case. The drug would have to be administered within 21 days from the “timely detection” of the initial case of an epidemic strain. Residents would have to stay home, limit contact with others and take the medicine as prescribed.
　　In the case of the North Sumatra cluster, almost none of this happened, according to extensive interviews with health officers, family members and villagers in several areas of the province. The underlying problem was that most family members and many villagers were convinced that black magic not flu, was to blame.
　　“How can you ever get people to cooperate if they don’t even believe you ?” Dharma said.
　　On the fourth night, unfortunately, Dowes took an abrupt turn for the worse. The medicine man repeated his treatment several times in the night. And before his uncle lugged him to his Suzuki SUV parked out front and set off for the district hospital, Dowes had died.
　　注意：此部分试题请在答题卡2上作答。
　　57.Why was Dowes Ginting the most wanted man on Sumatra island ?
　　A)Because doctors in the hospital were waiting to treat his disease.
　　B)Because his relatives wanted to help him outrun the black magic,
　　C)Because the witch doctor wanted to help him resist the evil spell.
　　D)Because his runaway exposed local inhabitants to the scaring flu.
　　58.What was (were) the last thing(s) that the disease specialists expected to meet ?
　　A)The enormous difficulties that they had to be confronted with.
　　B)The basic questions about whether bird flu could be controlled.
　　C)The possibility that the flu might be spread from human to human.
　　D)The laboratory tests result that Ginting was sickened by bird flu.
　　59.All the following measure are required to be taken to contain the bird flu except ___________.
　　A)potentially dangerous population should stay isolated from other people
　　B)the antiviral drug doesn’t need to be distributed to a place four miles away
　　C)a large majority of the targeted population should get the antiviral drug
　　D)three weeks is the time limit to send the drug to the area exposed to virus
　　60.What would the residents in North Sumatra province resort to in the case of bird flu ?
　　A)They would turn to a witch doctor. B)They would co-work with experts.
　　C)They would take the prescribed drug D)They would accept a random interview.
　　61.What was to blame for the spread of the disease according to the auther ?
　　A)Local people’s ignorance of bird flu. B)The delayed distribution of the drug.
　　C)The ineffectiveness of the given drug. D)Health officers’ pedagogical instructions.
　　PartV Cloze (15 minutes)
　　Directions: There are 20 blanks in the following passage. For each blank there are four choices marked A),B),C) and D) on the right side of the paper. You should choose the ONE that best fits into the passage. Then mark the corresponding letter on Answer Sheet 2 with a single line through the centre.
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　　More surprising, perhaps, than the current difficulties of traditional marriage is the fact that marriage itself is alive and __62__. As Skolnick notes, Americans are a marrying people - __63__ to Europeans, more of us marry and we marry at a younger age. __64__ , after a decline in the early 1970s, the __65__ of marriage in the United States is now __66_ . Even the divorce rate needs to be taken in this pro-marriage context - some 80 percent of __67__ individuals remarry. __68__, marriage remains by far the preferred way of life for the vast majority of people in our remarry,
　　What has changed more than marriage is the nuclear family. Twenty-five years age, the __69__ American family consisted of a husband, a wife, and two or three children. __70__ there are many marriage in which couples have decided not to have any children. And there are many marriages where at __71__ some of the children are from the wife’s __72__ marriage, or the husband’s or both . Sometimes these children spend all of their time with one parent from the __73_ marriage ; __74__ they are shared between the two former parents.
　　Thus, one can find every type of family arrangement. There are marriages __75__ children; marriages with children from only the __76__ marriage; marriages with “full-time” children from both the present and former marriage; __77__ with “full time” children from the present marriage and “part-time” children from former marriages. It is not all that __78__ for a child to have four parents and eight grandparents ! These are __79__ changes from the traditional nuclear family. __80_ even so ，even in the midst of all this， __81__ one constant : most Americans spend most of their adult lives married.
　　62.A)surviving B)thriving C)booming D)existing
　　63.A)general B)regular C)relative D)essential
　　64.A)Therefore B)Nevertheless C)However D)Moreover
　　65.A)gap B)length C)rate D)interval
　　66.A)improving B)increasing C)raising D)decreasing
　　67.A)divorced B)separated C)isolated D)broken
　　68.A)Again B)Whereas C)Then D)Thus
　　69.A)typical B)conservative C) traditional D) fashionable
　　70.A)Before B)Then C)So D)Now
　　71.A)least B)most C)best D)worst
　　72.A)primitive B)prior C)previous D)preliminary
　　73.A)last B)later C)latter D)former
　　74.A)usually B)sometimes C)rarely D)seldom
　　75.A)with B)except C)without D)besides
　　76.A)late B)past C)present D)future
　　77.A)affection B)happiness C)loves D)marriages
　　78.A)usual B)unusual C)normal D)common
　　79.A)enormous B)considerable C)numerous D)giant
　　80.A)Or B)But C)And D)As
　　81.A)retains B)holds C)keeps D)remains
　　Part Ⅵ Translation (5 minutes)
　　Directions: Complete the sentences by translating into English the Chinese given in the brackets. Please write your translation on Answer Sheet 2.
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　　82.There was a knock at the door. It was the second time someone __________________ (那晚打扰我).
　　83.We didn’t know his telephone number, _________________________ (否则我们会给他打电话的).
　　84.Not only ___________________ (护士们要求提高工资), but they want reduced hours as well.
　　85.The newspaper did not mention _____________________ (火灾造成的损害的程度).
　　86._________________ (尽管演技极好) and well-developed plot the three-hour moive could not hold our attention.