2005年12月大学英语六级试题(B卷标准答案)

Part I Listening Comprehension(20 minutes)

Section A

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

2. D) They’ll 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 straightforwardness¹

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

Passage One

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

Passage Two

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

Passage Three

18. B) Truancy²

19. D) Students with good attendance records

20. D) Rewarding schools that have decreased the destruction

Part II Reading Comprehension (35 minutes)

Passage one

21. C) People can fully³ enjoy individual freedom.

22. D) the more diligent⁴ 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 economy

27. B) Information technology has removed the restrictions⁵ 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. D) her parents kept pressuring her to have a child

35. C) It is troublesome but rewarding.

Passage four

36. D) The reduction of public expenditure⁶.

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 (20 minutes)

41. A) defy

42. D) decent

43. B) scrutiny⁷

44. A) impose

45. C) obscure

46. B) hinged upon

47. B) abnormal

48. B) deafened⁸

49. D) flushed

50. C) out of stock

51. D) absurd

52. A) cherish

53. C) stimulus⁹

54. B) by analogy with

55. B) deficit¹⁰

56. A) recession

57. B) exclusive

58. A) entitled

59. B) luminous¹¹

60. D) erase¹²

61. B) suppress

62. B) by means of

63. A) abolished

64. A) comply

65. D) finite

66. B) irritated

67. B) blank

68. D) rectify¹³

69. A) ascribed

70. B) tucked

Part IV Error Correction (15 minutes)

S1. in first 改 in the first

S2．ultimate 改ultimately

S3. acceptance 改unacceptance

S4.avoid end 改 ending

S5.stand out 改 upon

S6.pick up改 pick out

S7.listing改 list

S8.keep up改 keep

S9.taking 改 taken

S10.get find改 get found

Part V Writing (30minutes)

Direction For this part ,you are allowed 30 minutes to write a letter to a company declining a job offer, You should write at least 150 words following the outline given below

1、对公司提供职位表示感谢

2、解释为何不能接受所提供的职位

3、希望给与谅解，并表达对公司的良好祝愿

范文

A letter Declining a Job Offer

Dec. 24th

Dear Managers,

I am very grateful for you to give me another job in the company. Thinking about the good opportunity you offer to me each time, I am really moved. What words should I say? It seems that words on this special occasion fail to express me. All in all, I just want to say "many many thanks for all your kindness and consideration."

However , I can not accept the job you offer to me. I think, there are at least three personal reasons for this. First, I can not make full use of my major which I learned at college, though you pay much attention to me. Second, I have a habit to challenge myself . If a job or learning seems to lose the meaning of challenge, I will have to quit and find a challenging one for me. Third, I am not used to working in the same place for a long time. I want to have more working experiences and know a lot of different people. Therefore, I can not accept your offer .

Above all, I also want to express my deep appreciation¹⁴ of your understanding of my decision. I think there are other qualified¹⁵ personnel in our company who you should give a chance. If each potential employee in our company can have a chance to prove themselves for our company, I think, the company will become a more and more competitive company and will become more and more popular because of our smart strategy in employing qualified workers. I wish the bright future for our company.

Best wishes for you all !

Yours sincerely,

Tom

1 straightforwardness   

n.坦白，率直

参考例句：

• They were impressed by his sincerity and straightforwardness. 他的诚恳直率给他们留下了很深的印象。
• What some people take for rudeness is really straightforwardness. 一些人所认为的无礼实际上却是直率的表现。

2 truancy   

n.逃学，旷课

参考例句：

• Schools need to reduce levels of truancy.学校需要减少旷课人数。
• It was a day for impulse and truancy.这是个适于冲动或偷懒的日子。

3 fully   

adv.完全地，全部地，彻底地；充分地

参考例句：

• The doctor asked me to breathe in,then to breathe out fully.医生让我先吸气，然后全部呼出。
• They soon became fully integrated into the local community.他们很快就完全融入了当地人的圈子。

4 diligent   

adj.勤勉的，勤奋的

参考例句：

• He is the more diligent of the two boys.他是这两个男孩中较用功的一个。
• She is diligent and keeps herself busy all the time.她真勤快，一会儿也不闲着。

5 restrictions   

约束( restriction的名词复数 )； 管制； 制约因素； 带限制性的条件（或规则）

参考例句：

• I found the restrictions irksome. 我对那些限制感到很烦。
• a snaggle of restrictions 杂乱无章的种种限制

6 expenditure   

n.(时间、劳力、金钱等)支出；使用，消耗

参考例句：

• The entry of all expenditure is necessary.有必要把一切开支入账。
• The monthly expenditure of our family is four hundred dollars altogether.我们一家的开销每月共计四百元。

7 scrutiny   

n.详细检查，仔细观察

参考例句：

• His work looks all right,but it will not bear scrutiny.他的工作似乎很好，但是经不起仔细检查。
• Few wives in their forties can weather such a scrutiny.很少年过四十的妻子经得起这么仔细的观察。

8 deafened   

使聋( deafen的过去式和过去分词 )； 使隔音

参考例句：

• A hard blow on the ear deafened him for life. 耳朵上挨的一记猛击使他耳聋了一辈子。
• The noise deafened us. 嘈杂声把我们吵聋了。

9 stimulus   

n.刺激，刺激物，促进因素，引起兴奋的事物

参考例句：

• Regard each failure as a stimulus to further efforts.把每次失利看成对进一步努力的激励。
• Light is a stimulus to growth in plants.光是促进植物生长的一个因素。

10 deficit   

n.亏空，亏损；赤字，逆差

参考例句：

• The directors have reported a deficit of 2.5 million dollars.董事们报告赤字为250万美元。
• We have a great deficit this year.我们今年有很大亏损。

11 luminous   

adj.发光的，发亮的；光明的；明白易懂的；有启发的

参考例句：

• There are luminous knobs on all the doors in my house.我家所有门上都安有夜光把手。
• Most clocks and watches in this shop are in luminous paint.这家商店出售的大多数钟表都涂了发光漆。

12 erase   

v.擦掉；消除某事物的痕迹

参考例句：

• He tried to erase the idea from his mind.他试图从头脑中抹掉这个想法。
• Please erase my name from the list.请把我的名字从名单上擦去。

13 rectify   

v.订正，矫正，改正

参考例句：

• The matter will rectify itself in a few days.那件事过几天就会变好。
• You can rectify this fault if you insert a slash.插人一条斜线便可以纠正此错误。

14 appreciation   

n.评价；欣赏；感谢；领会，理解；价格上涨

参考例句：

• I would like to express my appreciation and thanks to you all.我想对你们所有人表达我的感激和谢意。
• I'll be sending them a donation in appreciation of their help.我将送给他们一笔捐款以感谢他们的帮助。

15 qualified   

adj.合格的，有资格的，胜任的，有限制的

参考例句：

• He is qualified as a complete man of letters.他有资格当真正的文学家。
• We must note that we still lack qualified specialists.我们必须看到我们还缺乏有资质的专家。