2009年12月大学英语六级考试模拟考卷(恩波)

　　Passage Three

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

　　32. A) Why people hold back their tears.

　　B) Why people cry.

　　C) How to restrain one’s tears.

　　D) How tears are produced.

　　33. A) What chemicals tears are composed of.

　　B) Whether crying really helps us feel better.

　　C) Why some people tend to cry more often than others.

　　D) How tears help people cope with emotional problems.

　　34. A) Only one out of four girls cries less often than boys.

　　B) Of four boys, only one cries very often.

　　C) Girls cry four times as often as boys.

　　D) Only one out of four babies doesn’t cry often.

　　35. A) Only humans respond to emotions by shedding tears.

　　B) Only humans shed tears to get rid of irritating stuff in their eyes.

　　C) Only human tears can resist invading bacteria.

　　D) Only human tears can discharge certain chemicals.

　　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：此部分试题在答题卡2上;请在答题卡2上作答。

　　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. Please write your answers on Answer Sheet 2.

　　Questions 47 to 51 are based on the following passage.

　　The prospects for women who are scientists and engineers at major research universities have improved, although women continue of face inequalities in salary and access to some other resources, a panel of the National Research Council concludes in a new report.

　　In recent years “men and women faculty in science, engineering and mathematics have enjoyed comparable opportunities,” the panel said in its report, released on Tuesday. It found that women who apply for university jobs and, once they have them, for promotion and tenure(教师任期), are at least as likely to succeed as men. But compared with their numbers among new Ph.D.’s, women are still underrepresented(未被充分代表的)in applicant pools, a puzzle that offers an opportunities for further research, the panel said.

　　The panel said one factor outshined all others in encouraging women to apply for jobs: having women on the committees appointed to fill them.

　　In another report this week in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, researchers at the University of Wisconsin reviewed a variety of studies and concluded that the achievement gap between boys and girls in mathematics performance had narrowed to the vanishing point.