07年6月昂立大學英語六級模擬考試試卷及答案

注意：此部分試題請在答題卡2上作答。

52. What the wise man said suggests that ________.
 A) it’s unnecessary for good people to do anything in face of evil
 B) It’s certain that evil will prevail if good men do nothing about it
 C) it’s only natural for virtue to defeat evil
 D) it’s desirable for good men to keep away from evil
53. According to the author, if a person is found guilty of a crime ________.
 A) society is to be held responsible
 B) modern civilization is responsible for it
 C) the criminal himself should bear the blame
 D) the standards of living should be improved
54. Compared with those in small towns, people in large cities have ________.
 A) less self-discipline
 B) better sense of discipline
 C) more mutual respect
 D) less effective government
55. The writer is sorry to have noticed that ________.
 A) people in large cities tend to excuse criminals
 B) people in small towns still stick to old discipline and standards
 C) today’s society lacks sympathy for people in difficulty
 D) people in disadvantaged circumstances are engaged in criminal activities
56. The key point of the passage is that ________.
 A) stricter discipline should be maintained in schools and families
 B) more good examples should be set for people to follow
 C) more restrictions should be imposed on people’s behavior
 D) more people should accept the value of accountability

Passage Two
Questions 57 to 61 are based on the following passage.

In general, our society is becoming one of giant enterprises directed by a bureaucratic management in which man becomes a small, well-oiled cog (齒輪的嵌齒) in the machinery. The oiling is done with higher wages, well-ventilated (通風良好的) factories and piped music, and by psychologists and “human-relations” experts; yet all this oiling does not alter the fact that man has become powerless, that he does not wholeheartedly participate in his work and that he is bored with it. In fact, the blue-and the white-collar workers have become economic puppets (木偶) who dance to the tune of automated machines and bureaucratic management.
The worker and employee are anxious, not only because they might find themselves out of a job; they are anxious also because they are unable to acquire any real satisfaction or interest in life. They live and die without ever having confronted the fundamental realities of human existence as emotionally and intellectually independent and productive human beings.
Those higher up on the social ladder are no less anxious. Their lives are no less empty than those of their subordinates (下屬). They are even more insecure in some respects. They are in a highly competitive race. To be promoted or to fall behind is not a matter of salary but even more a matter of self-respect. When they apply for their first job, they are tested for intelligence as well as for the right mixture of submissiveness (服從) and independence. From that moment on they are tested again and again -- by the psychologists, for whom testing is a big business, and by their superiors, who judge their behavior, sociability, capacity to get along, etc. This constant need to prove that one is as good as or better than one’s fellow-competitor creates constant anxiety and stress, the very causes of unhappiness and illness.
Am I suggesting that we should return to the pre-industrial mode of production or to nineteenth-century “free enterprise” capitalism? Certainly not. Problems are never solved by returning to a stage which one has already outgrown. I suggest transforming our social system from a bureaucratically managed industrialism in which maximal production and consumption are ends in themselves into a humanist industrialism in which man and full development of his potentialities -- those of love and of reason -- are the aims of all social arrangements. Production and consumption should serve only as means to this end, and should be prevented from ruling man.

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57. By “a well-oiled cog in the machinery” the author intends to say that man is ________.
 A) a necessary part of the society though each individual’s function is negligible
 B) working in complete harmony with the rest of the society
 C) an unimportant part in comparison with the rest of the society, though functioning smoothly
 D) a humble component of the society, especially when working smoothly
58. The real cause of the anxiety of the workers and employees is that ________.
 A) they are likely to lose their jobs
 B) they have no genuine satisfaction or interest in life
 C) they are faced with the fundamental realities of human existence
 D) they are deprived of their individuality and independence
59. From the passage we can infer that real happiness of life belongs to those ________.
 A) who are at the bottom of the society
 B) who are higher up in their social status
 C) who prove better that their fellow-competitors
 D) who could keep far away from this competitive world
60. To solve the present social problems the author suggests that we should ________.
 A) resort to the production mode of our ancestors
 B) offer higher wages to the workers and employees
 C) enable man to fully develop his potentialities
 D) take the fundamental realities for granted
61. The author’s attitude towards industrialism might best be summarized as one of ________.
 A) approval B) dissatisfaction
 C) suspicion D) tolerance

Part V Error Correction (15 minutes)
Directions: This part consist of a short passage. In this passage, there are altogether 10 mistakes, one in each numbered line. You may have to change a word, add a word or delete a word. Mark out the mistakes and put the corrections in the blanks provided. If you ad a word, put an insertion mark () in the right place and write the missing word in the blank. If you delete a word, cross it out and put a slash (/) in the blank.

Examples:

 Television is rapidly becoming the literature of our periods.  1. time/times/period
Many of the arguments having used for the study of literature as a 2.     /   
School subject are valid for  study of television. 3.   the 

注意：此部分試題請在答題卡2上；請在答題卡2上作答。

Part VI Translation (5 minutes)
Directions: Complete the sentences on Answer Sheet 2 by translating into English the Chinese given in brackets.

注意：此部分試題請在答題卡2上；請在答題卡2上作答。

72. What you say now is _________________________________________________ (與你上星期說的不一致).
73. Researchers have discovered that ____________________________________________ (積極地與動物交往可以降低人的血壓).
74. They are going to have ______________________________________ (工人在辦公室里裝一臺電風扇).
75. We have been told that under no circumstances ______________________________ (我們決不可以用辦公室的電話辦私事).
76. Unfortunately, the new edition of this dictionary _______________________________ (在所有主要書店已脫銷).

Part I Writing (30 minutes) (15'×1=15')
The graph shows the increase in the aging population in Japan, Sweden and the USA, which indicates that the percentage of elderly people in all three countries is expected to increase to almost 25% of the respective population by the year 2040. According to the graph, in 1940 the proportion of people aged 65 or more stood at only 5% in Japan, approximately 7% in Sweden and 9% in the USA. However, while the figures for the Western countries grew to about 15% in around 1990, the figure for Japan dipped to only 2.5% for much of this period, before rising to almost 5% again at the present time. In spite of some fluctuation in the expected percentage, the proportion of old people will probably continue to increase in the next two decades in the three countries, with a more dramatic rise predicted between 2030 and 2040 in Japan.
The longer life expectancy can be attributed to improvement of life texture, advances of medical science and awareness of better health, to which people must attach due emphasis. And the joint efforts of both governmental institutions and each household should be made to ensure all-around happiness of senior citizens with more care and communication.

Part II Reading Comprehension (Skimming and Scanning) (1'×10=10')
1. N  2. N  3. N  4. NG
5. its two newspapers
6. goods sold by the movement
7. made films
8. it had a clear purpose and direction
9. 1918 and 1928
10. the success of the suffragette movement’s corporate image

Part III Listening Comprehension（1'×35=35'）
Section A (1'×15=15')
11. C 12. A 13. B 14. B 15. C
16. B 17. C 18. C 19. C 20. A
21. A 22. C 23. C 24. D 25. B

Section B (1'×10=10')
26. B 27. D 28. A 29.C 30. D 31. B 32. C 33. A 34. D 35. C

Section C
36-43 (0.5'×8=4')
36. desire 37. chances 38. impulse 39. obvious 40. commit 41. phenomenon
42. attitudes 43. Acceptable
44-46 (2'×3=6')
44. Topics such as death were once considered so upsetting and unpleasant that it was a taboo to even talk about them.
45. In the work world, most companies prefer youthful-looking, trim executives to sell their image as well as their products to the public.
46. After all, people think, how can people who care about themselves, and therefore the way they look, permit themselves to become so fat?

Part IV Reading Comprehension (Reading in Depth) (25')
Section A (1'×5=5')
47. He means that it is through education that we can have such personal encounters as discovering a sudden insight.
48. fully develop one’s personal abilities
49. an experience, a discovering, an education.
50. a pleasure, not a burden
51. how to write a research paper.
Section B (2'×10=20')
52. B 53. C 54. A 55. A 56. D
57. C 58. D 59. D 60. C 61. B

Part V Error Correction (1'×10=10')
62. our改為their
63. by改為for
64. particular改為particularly
65. such改為so
66. continue改為continues
67. pay改為to pay
68. therefore改為however
69. easy改為difficult
70. struggle改為struggling
71. them改為themselves

Part VI Translation (1'×5=5')
72. not consistent with what you said last week
73. interacting with animals in an active way may lower a person’s blood pressure
74. the worker install an electric fan in the office
75. may we use the telephone in the office for personal affairs
76. is out of stock in all major bookshops