05年12月六级参考答案(B卷)

Part I Listening Comprehension

Section A

1. A) Dr. Holden is the best person for the chairmanship.

2. D) They will keep in touch during the summer vacation.

3. C) Peaches are not at their best now.

4. B) They work on the assignment together.

5. D) She admires Jean’s straightforwardness.

6. A) He liked writing when he was a child.

7. B) He does not study hard enough.

8. D) It will be very difficult for them to find John.

9. B) Its rapid growth is beneficial to the world.

10. C) Most students can’t afford to live in the new apartments.

Section B

11. A) The need for greater cultural diversity in the school curriculum.

12. A) He believed the speaker was a foreigner.

13. D) The US population doesn’t consist of white European descendants only.

14. C) By making laws.

15. B) It should be raised quickly by hand.

16. C) It should be carried high up in the air.

17. A) There are precise regulations and customs to be followed.

18. B) Truancy.

19. C) Students with good attendance records.

20. D) Rewarding schools that have decreased the destruction.

Part II Reading Comprehension

Passage One

21. C) People can fully enjoy individual freedom.

22. D) the more diligent one is, the bigger his returns.

23. B) became wealthy after starting life very poor.

24. A) Americans wish to succeed in every aspect of life.

25. D) What Americans strive after often contradicts their beliefs.

Passage Two

26. C) the globalization of the economy

27. B) Information technology has removed the restrictions of time and space in business transactions.

28. A) it should not overlook the importance of information, services, support, and distribution.

29. B) can eliminate an entire business segment.

30. D) businesses have to meet individual customers’ specific needs in order to succeed.

Passage Three

31. A) To discourage people from insisting on having grandchildren.

32. B) draw attention to the troubles and difficulties grandchildren may cause.

33. D) they find it hard to resist the carrot-and-stick approach of their parents

34. B) her parents kept pressuring her to have a child.

35. C) It is troublesome but rewarding

Passage Four

36. A) Quick economic returns

37. B) obtain funding from the government

38. C) They think they work in an environment hostile to the free pursuit of knowledge.

39. D) they could be influenced by their association with the project concerned.

40. C) People would not believe scientists even when they tell the truth.

Part III Vocabulary

41. A) defy

42. D) decent

43. B) scrutiny

44. A) impose

45. C) obscure

46. D) culminated in

47. B) abnormal

48. A) drowned

49. D) flushed

50. C) out of stock

51. D) absurd

52. A) cherish

53. C) stimulus

54. B) by analogy with

55. C) handicap

56. A) recession

57. D) ambiguous

58. C) designated

59. B) luminous

60. D) erase

61. B) suppress

62. C) in relation to

63. A) abolished

64. A) comply

65. D) finite

66. B) irritated

67. C) vacant

68. B) rectify

69. A) ascribed

70. B) tucked

Part IV Error Correction

1.       in first paragraph > in the first paragraph

2.       ultimate > ultimately

3.       acceptance > unacceptance / rejection

4.       end > ending

5.       upon > for

6.       will pick up > will not pick up

7.       listing > list

8.       Keep up > Keep

9.       taking > taken