2000年1月大学英语六级考试答案
Part I Listening Comprehension
1. D 2. A 3. C 4. B 5. C 6. B 7. B 8. D 9. A 10. C
11. C 12. C 13. B 14. A 15. D 16. D 17. D 18. C 19. A 20. B
Part II Reading Comprehension
21. B 22. A 23. C 24. C 25. D 26. C 27. B 28. A 29. D 30. A
31. B 32. C 33. A 34. D 35. B 36. D 37. D 38. A 39. C 40. B
Part III Vocabulary
41. B 42. D 43. D 44. C 45. A 46. D 47. B 48. C 49. A 50. B
51. C 52. B 53. A 54. A 55. B 56. D 57. C 58. D 59. B 60. A
61. C 62. C 63. D 64. A 65. C 66. B 67. C 68. D 69. B 70. A
Part IV Error Correction
71. had----->has
72. directly----->indirectly
73. into----->onto/on
74. too----->so
75. planet---->planets
76. head----->mind
77. little----->much
78. consider----->considering
79. 删 they
80. arriving----->arriving at (或 reaching)
Part V Writing
How I Finance My College Education
With the rapid development of higher education in China, and more high school graduates admitted, universities can no longer be financed exclusively by the government and students must pay at least partly for their schooling.
There are various ways for a student to pay his tuition and fees. To begin with, if the student is quite excellent in his studies, he can apply for scholarship. Secondly, especially in China, he can always depend on his parents for all kinds of expenditure, including living allowances. Then, he can choose to turn to the bank for a loan to pay his way through university, which he can repay after graduation. If he finds all the above not desirable, he still had another road to take-to do a part-time job and work his way through.
In my case, I am fortunate enough to be born into a well-to-do family and have no difficulty having my parents pay for all my fees. But as a college student, I dislike a totally dependent existence, so I am working part-time as a newspaper-boy to help support myself. And I am also studying hard, hoping to win some scholarship or awards one day so that I can be wholly self-reliant and independent.
听力原文：
Section A
1.
M: I hope I won't oversleep. I've simply got to catch the first flight to New York.
W: If I were you, I'd request the wake-up call from the hotel reception.
Q: What does the woman advise the man to do?
2.
M: Next, shouldn't we get a telephone installed in the hall?
W: Fixing the shower pipe is far more important.
Q: What do we learn from the conversation?
3.
M: I've noticed that you get letters form Canada from time to time. Would you mind saving
the stamps for me? My sister collects them.
W: My roommate already asked for them.
Q: What does the woman imply?
4.
M: What's the matter? You've been sitting there for ages, just staring into space.
W: I told the Brownings I'd send them a postcard. Now I don't know what to say.
Q: What's the woman doing?
5.
M: My chemistry project is in trouble. My partner and I have totally different ideas about
how to proceed.
W: You should try to meet each other halfway.
Q: What does the woman suggest?
6.
M: I'm frustated. We're supposed to do our assignment on the computer, but I have
difficulty getting access to the computers in the library.
W: I understand the way you feel. I'm looking forward to the day when I can afford to get
my own.
Q: What does the woman mean?
7.
M: The visiting economist is speaking tonight, but Dr. Johnson doesn't seem to think much
of him.
W: That's because Dr. Johnson comes from an entirely different school of thought.
Q: What do we learn from the woman's remark?
8.
M: I'm sorry I missed the football game, but I had a terrible cold.
W: You didn't miss anything. We couldn't have played worse.
Q: What does the woman imply?
9.
M: I think I'm going to give up playing tennis. I lost again today.
W: Just because you lost? It that the reason to quit?
Q: What does the woman imply?
10.
M: Jane, what would you do if you were on vacation overseas and lost all your money and
credit cards?
W: Well, I guess I'd probably sell my watch and camera... Or I might get a job as a waitress
somewhere till I made enough money to buy a plance ticket to return home.
Q: What are they talking about?
Section B
Passage 1
Most people know what a hot dog is. It's a sausage in a roll. But do you know why it's
called a hot dog? Well, the long red sausage which goes into a hotdog is called a Frankfurter
. It got its name from the German town Frankfurt. The sausages were very popular, but hot
frankfurters were difficult to sell in crowds One man, Harry Stevens, had the job of feeding
the crowds in baseball games. He had an idea. Why not put the frankfurters in long, hot
bread rolls? This made them easy to sell. The “red hot" had a hot and attractive taste and
became very popular. But in 1903, an American cartoonist drew a long German sausage
dog in place of the frankfurter so a frankfurter in a roll soon became known as a “hot dog".
It was a joke, but some people really thought the sausages contained dog meat. For a while,
sales of hotdogs failed, but not for long.
11. What is a frankfurter?
12. What was Harry Stevens' job?
13. Why did sales of hot dogs decrease for some time?
Passage 2
We all scream for water when thirsty, but do you know in very hot, dry weather,
plants alsomake faint sounds as if they are crying out for help? You see, in a plant's stem
there are hundreds of “water pipes" that bring water and minerals from the soil all the
way up to the leaves. As the ground turns dry, it becomes harder and harder for the plants
to do this. In severe droughts, plants have to fight to pull out any water available. Scientist
Robert winter has found out that when it is really bad their water pipes snap from the tension
like rubber bands. When that happens, the whole plant vibrates a little. The snapping pipes
make noises ten thousand times more quiet than a whisper.Robert knows that healthy, well
watered plants are quiet. He also knows that many insects prefer attacking dry plants rather
than healthy plants. How do the insects know which are healthy plants and which are not?
Robert thinks that the insects may listen for the plants that cry and then they may buzz in to
kill.To test his theory, Robert is using a device that can imitate plant cries. He attaches it to
a quiet, healthy plant so the plant sounds thirsty. Then he watches insects to see if they
attack more often than usual.If he is right, scientists could use the insects' ability against them.
They could build traps that imitate crying plants. So when the insects buzz in to eat, they
won't buzz out.
14. What do plants do when they are thirsty?
15. What plants do many insects tend to attack?
16. What could scientists do if Robert's theory proves to be true?
Passage 3
People enjoy taking trips, but what are the reasons they leave home? One reason is for
education. People travel because they want to broaden their horizons to learn about other
people and other places. They are curious about other cultures. When people are tourists,
they get a quick look at different ways of living. Even a short look at another kind of lifestyle
is an important lesson. On a trip, a person can learn directly by visiting museums and
historic spots. What does a tourist learn who sees the art museums, visits the historical
palaces and other scenic spots in Paris, and shops along the River Seine? he gets a vivid
pictureofa reallifeone of the French people. He learns about their attitudes, how they feel
about business, beauty and history.What about the tourist who goes to Hongkong? Does
he get the same information that he could get from a book? he might read that Hongkong is
crowded, that there is less than 200 square meters of space for each person, but seeing and
feeling the lack of space will impress him much more. He might read that there are nearly
200 vehicles for every kilometer of roadway, but the sight of so many vehicles parked along
the roadside will be a much more vivid lesson. the tourist to Hongkong will never forget the
contrasts the straight vertical lines of the tall modern buildings and the moving lines of boats
that people live in.
17. Why do people leave home to travel according to the passage?
18. What do we learn from the passage about Paris?
19. What impression will a tourist get of Hongkong?
20. What does the passage tell us about travelling?
