考试吧—恩波：2008年12月英语六级预测试卷(二)

　　31. A) Money. B) Pottery. C) Bricks. D) Nests.

　　32. A) It was not easily broken. B) It was long-lasting.

　　C) It symbolized wealth. D) It was inexpensive.

　　Passage Three

　　Questions 33 to 35 are based on the passage you have just heard.

　　33. A) Few people owned the necessary equipment.

　　B) The music selection was not very popular.

　　C) Few ships came into New York harbor.

　　D) The radio signal was too weak to reach a mass audience.

　　34. A) Military communications officers.

　　B) People who treated radio technology as a hobby.

　　C) People who lived in big cities.

　　D) People with an interest in music.

　　35. A) They would get smaller in size.

　　B) Their signals would travel further.

　　C) They would become less popular than television.

　　D) They would be common household items.

　　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.

　　Gordon Parks is best known for his work with a camera. But he is an artist who has many skills. His (36) , books, music and movies have (37) many people throughout the world. He was the first African American director of major Hollywood movies.

　　Gordon Parks’art deals with important social (38) such as the poor, racism and crime. He (39) to help the poor and to end the racism with two very powerful weapons:his camera and his (40) eye. He chose the camera as a means of (41) and communication. He used the words and pictures to (42) the differences in people.Gordon Parks was born in the middle western state of Kansas in 1912. He was the (43) of 15 children and his mother died when he was 16. He moved to Minneapolis, Minnesota to live with his sister. (44) . Gordon Parks became interested in photography at the age of 25. He experienced growing up poor. He wanted to show how difficult it was to be poor. Photography could give him a way to express that, he thought.

　　(45) of Chicago, Illinois. In 1948, Gordon Parks began working as a photographer for Life magazine. Life magazine was the best-known cultural magazine of the time. Millions of people around the world read each issue. (46) .

　　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.

　　There is no doubt that adults, and even highly educated adults, vary greatly in the speed and efficiency of their reading. Some proceed very slowly throughout; others dash along too quickly and then have to reread. Poor readers, in particular, may lack the ability to vary their manner of reading according to the type of reading matter and to their intentions in reading it. A good reader can move at great speed through the text of a novel or similar light reading matter. He may be able to skim a page, picking up a word or two here and there, and gain a general idea of the whole of it before proceeding more slowly. But even then he will vary his pace, concentrating on the key words and passages, perhaps rereading them several times, and passing more quickly over the remainder. A less efficient reader tends to maintain the same speed whatever material he reads. Consequently even light reading matter gives him little pleasure because he reads so slowly. But his pace may be too fast for really difficult material, which requires special concentration at difficult points.

　　A type of reading which necessitates careful attention to detail is proofreading, in which the reader, in order to detect misprints in a sample print, has to notice not so much the meaning of what he reads as the exact shape and order of letters and words in the text. This is extremely difficult for most people, since they are accustomed to overlooking such details. In fact, considerable practice is required to perform this task efficiently, and it can be done only by reading very slowly, paying comparatively little attention to the general meaning of the text.

　　47. What is a good reader?

　　48. There are differences in reading speed among .

　　49. is the focus of proofreading.

　　50. How does a less efficient reader tend to read?

　　51. What is the passage mainly about?