星火：2008年12月英语六级考试预测试题

　　Passage Three

　　Questions 32 to 35 are based on the passage you have just heard.

　　32. A) There were only grandparents and children.

　　B) There was one father, one mother, and their children.

　　C) There were many relatives.

　　D) There were two or more brothers with their wives.

　　33. A) The women have more freedom and can share in decisions.

　　B) The women do not have to be the heads of the family.

　　C) The women’s relatives do not help them.

　　D) The women have all the power of the family.

　　34. A) Husbands have to share with their wives and help them.

　　B) Older women often live alone when their husbands die.

　　C) Family structure is more patriarchal in the nuclear family.

　　D) Women have to help sisters, grandparents with housework and childcare.

　　35. A) They want to stay home and do the housework.

　　B) They do not have enough money.

　　C) They have too much work and not much free time.

　　D) They have more freedom than in the past.

　　Section C

　　Directions: In this section, you will hear a passage three times, when the passage is read for the first time, you should listen carefully for its general idea .When the passage is read for the second time, you are required to fill in the blanks numbered from 36 to 43 with the exact words you have just heard. For blanks numbered from 44 to 46 you are required to fill in the missing information .For these blanks, you can either use the exact words you have just heard or write down the main points in your own words. Finally, when the passage is read for the third time, you should check what you have written.

　　注意：此部分试题请在答题卡2上作答。

　　A deadly (36) _________outbreak swept through a small city in Zaire, Africa last spring, killing more than one hundred people. It was a terrible situation. The killer was a rare (37) _________ that caused most victims to (38) _________ to death. As scientists rushed to control the (39) _________, people in the U.S. wonder whether it could attack here. “We are foolish if we think it couldn’t come to our country. We can never be too careful when we face some disease, especially the infectious one.” say doctors. The virus can be highly infectious. If you come in (40)­_________with a victim’s blood or other body (41) _________, you can get sick, too. That’s what scientists believe (42) _________in Zaire. The healthcare workers who treated the first (43) _________there soon fell ill, too. (44) __________________________________.International rescue works brought equipment to Zaire soon after the outbreak occurred.(45) .One big mystery is that no one knows where the virus comes from or where it will strike next. Some scientists say that the virus lies inactive in the cells of some kind of plant, insect or other animal. Then it somehow finds a way to infect humans. (46) __________________________________.Once they find the virus, they also hope to find ways to combat it.

　　Part Ⅳ Reading Comprehension (Reading in Depth) (25 minutes)

　　Section A

　　Directions: In this section, there is a short passage with 5 questions or incomplete statements. Read the passage carefully. Then answer the questions or complete the statements in the fewest possible words on Answer Sheet 2.

　　Questions 47 to 51 are based on the following passage.

　　Women often complain that dating is like a cattle market, and a paper just published in Biology Letters by Thomas Pollet and Daniel Nettle of Newcastle University, in England, suggests they are right. They have little cause for complaint, however, because the paper also suggests that in this particular market, it is women who are the buyers.

　　Mr. Pollet and Dr. Nettle were looking for evidence to support the contention that women choose men of high status and resources, as well as good looks. That may sound common sense, but it was often denied by social scientists until a group of researchers who called themselves evolutionary psychologists started investigating the matter two decades ago. Since then, a series of experiments in laboratories have supported the contention. But as all zoologists know, experiments can only tell you so much. Eventually, you have to look at natural populations.