2012年6月英语六级全真预测试题及答案(2)

 　　PartⅣ Reading Comprehension(Reading in Depth) (25 minutes)
　　Section A
　　Directions：In this section,there is a short passage with 5 questions or incomplete statements．Read the passage carefully．Then answer the questions or complete the statements in the fewest possible words on Answer Sheet 2．
　　Questions 47 to 51 are based on the following passage．
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　　47．According to the passage，when did Herakleion and Eastern Canopus disappear?
　　48．As Stanley said,if you want to know how，when or why Herakleion and Eastern Canopus disappeared，there was／were____________to refer to．
　　49．Stanley thought that_________was to blame for the cities’collapse in the middle of the eighth century A.D．
　　50．What found below the waters could show that the cities were once the destinations for religious pilgrims?
　　51．According to the author，the fortunes of Herakleion and Eastern Canopus declined in__________________.
　　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 center．
　　Passage One
　　Questions 52 to 56 are based on the following passage．
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　　52．In ancient Greece,the Olympic Games___________.
　　[A] were merely national athletic festivals
　　[B]were in the nature of a national event with a strong religious color
　　[C]had rules which put foreign participants in a disadvantageous position
　　[D]were primarily national events with few foreign participants
　　53．In the early days of ancient Olympic Games,______________.
　　[A]only male Greek athletes were allowed to participate in the games
　　[B]all Greeks，irrespective of sex，religion or social status，were allowed to take part
　　[C]all Greeks，with the exception of women，were allowed to compete in Games
　　[D]all male Greeks were qualified to compete in the Games
　　54．The order of athletic events at the ancient Olympics____________.
　　[A]was not definitely established
　　[B]varied according to the number of foreign competitors
　　[C]was decided by Zeus，in whose honor the Games were held
　　[D]was considered unimportant
　　55．Modem athletes’results cannot be compared with those of ancient runners because______________.
　　[A] the Greeks had no means of recording the results
　　[B] details such as the time were not recorded in the past
　　[C] they are much better
　　[D] they are much worse
　　56．Nowadays，the athletes’expenses are paid_______________.
　　[A]out of the prize money of the winners
　　[B]out of the funds raised by the competing nations
　　[C]by the athletes themselves
　　[D]by contributions
　　Passage Two
　　Questions 57 to 61 are based on the following passage．
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　　57．Which of the following does“labor market problems”(Line1，Para.1)refer to?
　　[A]Shortage of jobs providing adequate income．
　　[B]Deficiencies in the training of the work force
　　[C]Trade relationships among producers of goods．
　　[D]The overall causes of poverty．
　　58．The author contrasts the 1930s with the present in order to show that__________.
　　[A]more people were unemployed in the 1930s
　　[B]social programs are more needed now
　　[C]unemployment now has less severe effects
　　[D]now there is a greater proportion of elderly and handicapped people among those in poverty
　　59．Which of the following proposals best responds to the issues raised by the author?
　　[A]Innovative programmes using multiple approaches should be set up to reduce the level of unemployment．
　　[B]A compromise should be found between the positions of those who view joblessness an evil greater than economic control and those who hold the opposite view．
　　[C]New statistical indices should be developed to measure the degree to which unemployment and inadequately paid employment cause suffering．
　　[D]Consideration should be given to the ways in which statistics can act as partial causes of the phenomena that they purport to measure．
　　60．The author’s purpose in citing those who are repeatedly unemployed during a twelve-month period is most probably to show that______________.
　　[A]there are several factors that cause the payment of low wages to some members of the labor force
　　[B]unemployment statistics can underestimate the hardship resulting from joblessness
　　[C]recurrent inadequacies in the labor market can exist and cause hardships for individual workers
　　[D]a majority of those who are jobless at any time does not suffer severe hardship
　　61．According to the text，one factor that causes unemployment and earnings figures to over-predict the amount of economic hardshipis the____________.
　　[A]recurrence of periods of unemployment for a group of low wage workers
　　[B]fact that unemployment counts do not include those who work for low wages
　　[C]establishment of a system of record keeping that makes it possible to compile poverty statistics
　　[D]prevalence，among low wage workers and the unemployed，of members of families in which others are employed