2000年6月大学英语六级(CET-6)真题试卷

B. He probably has a poor memory.

D. The book does include the answers.

C. Ask the school radio station for help.

B. She couldn’t talk to the consultant before two.

A. They are equally competent for the job.

C. At a newspaper office.

C. The man met a friend by chance.

D. The man should give up watching the movie.

B. Reference books are not allowed to be checked out.

D. To find out whether they differ in their preference for musical instruments.

A. They find them too hard to play.

B. Children who are 8 or older.

C. Because this fast-moving sport wasn’t familiar to many Americans.

B. When it plays at home.

A. It wasn’t among the top four teams.

A. Students from America.

D. Those who have well-educated parents.

C. Columbian students are more optimistic about their maths skills.

A. Physics.

B. The shrinking of overseas markets.

C. to prevent farmers from going bankrupt

D. be self-sufficient in agricultural production

D. benefited one group of citizens at the expense of others

D. helping farmers without shifting the burden onto other taxpayers

D. still cannot communicate with people in a human language

B. the belief that human intelligence cannot be duplicated with logical, step-by-step programs

C. find out how intelligence developed in nature

B. It’s a breakthrough in duplicating human thought processes.

D. The only game they would like to play in town.

B. have serious consequences for the well-being of all nations

C. other countries will protest its increasing greenhouse emissions

C. The development of electric cars.

B. Improved energy efficiency.

B. Cars are popular in Western Europe even though fuel prices are fairly high.

A. they believe that their shoes are popular with people of different age groups

D. consumers believe that first-rate products are only sold by high-quality stores

A. its supply of products fell short of demand

C. is still particular about who sells its products

D. A company should correctly evaluate the impact of a new craze on the market.

B. appropriate

A. massive

D. indignant

A. turbulent

D. eternal

C. optimistically

A. simultaneously

B. vicinity

B. expenditure

B. constitution

C. transition

C. consultant

B. lease

A. pensions

D. mechanism

D. drained

A. deprived

C. oppressed

D. geared

A. provoked

B. alleged

C. mingled

C. conforms

C. flapped

B. jeopardize

C. overlap

C. turn out

B. laid off

A. compensate

B. disguise

on → by

unaware → aware

as → than

it → which

at → in

hasn’t → hadn’t

American → Arab

as → like

falls → fell

of → /

                     Is a Test of spoken English Necessary?
    A test of spoken English will be included as an optional component of the College English Test (CET). We have all taken, and are thus familiar with, English tests of many kinds, but so far most of them are written ones. Have you any idea of what a spoken English test will be like, and is it necessary to go to all the trouble to hold or take such a test? People differ in their answers.
    Many people will think it necessary. They know that although they have taken dozens, even hundreds, of English tests ever since they started learning it and many even have got surprisingly high marks, few of them can express themselves freely in spoken English, and if people can’t speak a word of it, what’s the sense of learning it and what do those high marks mean?—They’re none but deaf-and-mutes before the native speakers. Furthermore, with so many college graduates and undergraduates having mutes before the native speakers. Furthermore, with so many college graduates and undergraduates having passed CET4 and CET6, a test of spoken English is a further way to tell the excellent from the not so excellent. Finally, it is viewed as a new challenge to those who “live and learn”.
    There are, however, also people who think differently. Besides the pains in preparation for such a new kind of test, there is also the uncertainty about the reliability and objectivity of the marking system, which may depend mainly on human (and thus subjective) scoring instead of on machine scoring, as in the case of a standardized objective test such as CET4 and CET6.
    At the prospect of this optional test, I feel encouraged and regard it as a welcome challenge and another opportunity to improve my language ability and career potentials. I am determined to practice my oral English more often, and if I am qualified for such a test, I will not hesitate a moment to apply for it.