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1、1999年6月大学英语六级考试试题及参考答案Part I Listening Comprehension (20 minutes) Section A Directions: In this section, you will hear 10 short conversations. At the end of each conversation, a question will be asked about what was said. Both the conversation and the question will be spoken only once. After each qu
2、estion there will be a pause .During the pause, you must read the four choices marked A),B),C),and D),anddecide which is the best answer. Then mark the corresponding letter on the Answer Sheet with a single line through the centre. Example: You will hear: You will read: A) 2 hours. B) 3 hours. C) 4
3、hours. D) 5 hours. From the conversation we know that the two are talking about some work they will start at 9 oclock in the morning and have to finish at 2 in the afternoon. Therefore, D) “5 hours” is the correct answer. You should choose D on the Answer Sheet and mark it with a single line through
4、 the center. Sample Answer A B C D 1.A) The man attended the concert, but didnt like it. B) The man was sorry to miss the football game. C) The man is more interested in football than in classical music. D) The man was sorry that he didnt attend the concert. 2.A) Singing loudly. B) Listening to musi
5、c. C) Studying. D) Talking on the phone. 3.A) She cant receive any calls. B) She cant make any calls. C) She can do nothing with the phone. D) She cant repair the phone. 4.A) Tom is very responsible. B) Toms words arent reliable. C) What Tom said is true. D) Tom is not humorous at all. 5.A) How to u
6、se a camera. B) How to use a washer. C) How to use a keyboard. D) How to use a tape recorder. 6.A) They should put the meeting to an end. B) They should hold another meeting to discuss the matter. C) She would like to discuss another item. D) She wants to discuss the issue again later. 7.A) He belie
7、ves the Browns have done a sensible thing. B) He doesnt think the Browns should move to another place. C) He doesnt think the Browns investment is a wise move. D) He believes it is better for the Browns to invest later. 8.A) He may convert it and use it as a restaurant. B) he may pull it down and bu
8、ild a new restaurant. C) He may rent it out for use as a restaurant. D) He may sell it to the owner of a restaurant. 9.A) She doesnt like the way the professor lectures. B) Shes having a hard time following the professors lectures. C) She is not interested in course. D) Shes having difficulty with t
9、he heavy reading assignments. 10.A) He never keeps his promises. B) He is crazy about parties. C) He has changed his mind. D) He is not sociable. Section B Compound Dictation 注意:听力理解的B节(Section B)为复合式听写(Compound Dictation)，题目在卷二上。现在请取出试卷二。 Part Reading Comprehension (35 minutes) Directions: There ar
10、e 4 reading passages in this part. 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 the Answer Sheet with a single line through the center.
11、Questions 11 to 15 are based on the following passage: We sometimes think humans are uniquely vulnerable to anxiety, but stress seems to affect the immune defenses of lower animals too. In one experiment, for example, behavioral immunologist (免疫学家)Mark Laudenslger, at the University of Denver, gave
12、mild electric shocks to 24 rats. Half the animals could switch off the current by turning a wheel in their enclosure, while the other half could mot. The rats in the two groups were paired so that each time one rat turned the wheel it protected both itself and its helpless partner from the shock. La
13、udenslager found that the immune response was depressed below normal in the helpless rats but not in those that could turn off the electricity. What he has demonstrated, he believes, is that lack of control over an event, not the experience itself, is what weakens the immune system. Other researcher
14、s agree. Jay Weiss, a psychologist at Duke University School of Medicine, has shown that animals who are allowed to control unpleasant stimuli dont develop sleep disturbances or changes in brain chemistry typical of stressed rats. But if the animals are confronted with situations they have no contro
15、l over, they later behave passively when faced with experiences they can control. Such findings reinforce psychologists suspicions that the experience or perception of helplessness is one of the most harmful factors in depression. One of the most startling examples of how the mind can alter the immu
16、ne response was discovered by chance. In 1975 psychologist Robert Ader at the University of Rochester School of Medicine conditioned (使形成条件反射)mice to avoid saccharin (糖精)by simultaneously feeding them the sweetener and injecting them with a drug that while suppressing their immune systems caused stomach upsets. Associating the saccharin with
