2014年12月英语六级全套模拟试题（2）_第2页

　　听材料，回答下列各题：

　　16、

    A.Less than 7 billion.

　　B.Half a billion.

　　C.No more than 70 million.

　　D.About 15 million.

　　17、

　　A.Personal information.

　　B.Political scandals.

　　C.Business affairs,

　　D.Religious events.

　　18、

　　A.Politicians.

　　B.Executives.

　　C.Teachers.

　　D.College students.

　　19、

　　A.It is sad that you can find comfort with friends only in Facebook.

　　B.It is convenient to chat with others across communities with Facebook.

　　C.It is terrible to reveal personal feelings in Facebook.

　　D.It is satisfying to find the social norm changing over time with Facebook.

Passage Two.

　　听材料，回答下列各题：

　　20、

    A.President Barack Obama.

　　B.President Bill Clinton.

　　C.President Franklin Roosevelt.

　　D.President George W. Bush.

　　21、

　　A.Algebra and math.

　　B.English-language arts and mathematics.

　　C.Math and reading.

　　D.English and reading.

　　22、

　　A.The aim is to complete the national education system which lacks the standard.

　　B.The aim is to let states show yearly progress in students learning measured by themselves.

　　C.The aim is for high school students to make a good preparation for further study and careers.

　　D.The aim is to make American education system more powerful in a competitive economy.

　　Passage Three.

　　听材料，回答下列各题：

　　23、

    A.It is trying to occupy the Indian movie market.

　　B.It is aiming to surpass America's Hollywood.

　　C.It is aiming to impress American audience.

　　D.It is trying to break into the global film market.

　　24、

　　A.It used English as the language.

　　B.It can't satisfy different audience's tastes.

　　C.Its budget was not enough.

　　D.It used a Mexican actress.

　　25、

　　A.He has much faith in Bollywood's global film.

　　B.He supports further exploration of the global market.

　　C.He suggests an adjustment for Bollywood's global strategy.

    D.He calls for more investment in the film market.

听材料，回答下列各题：

　　There is growing dissatisfaction toward rich people, according to a new online poll.

　　The poll by the China Youth Daily 26_______ sina.com has highlighted the apparent 27_______ over the country's widening income gap.

　　Nearly 8,000 people filled in online 28_______ last week, and when asked to use three words to describe the society's rich, the top 29_______ were "extravagant", "greedy" and "corrupt".

　　About 57 percent of those 30_______ said that "extravagant" was the best word to describe the rich, followed closely by "greedy".

　　31_______ , despite their dissatisfaction, 93 percent of those polled wished they could be rich too, and that richer people should be "socially 32 _______".

　　Some 33_______ percent of respondents also praised rich people for being "smart".

　　Nearly 90 percent of respondents agreed that most people in society, including themselves, 33 speak up for the poor but were 34_______ to take action and actually do something for them.

　　The survey comes on the heels of a heated debate over comments made by renowned economist Mao Yushi, who said a couple of days ago that he was speaking for the rich and working for the poor.

　　A report released by the Asian Development Bank last Wednesday revealed that China's Gini coefficient-an indicator of the wealth divide-rose from 0.407 in 1993 to 0.473 in 2004.

　　An earlier Chinese Academy of Social Sciences report said that the richest 10 percent of Chinese families now own more than 40 percent of all private assets, while the poorest 10 percent in the country share less than 2 percent of the total wealth.

　　The country's income gap is close to that of Latin America, the report which 35_______ in January said.

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　　根据下列短与答案，填写36-45题。

　　Cancer is the world's top "economic killer" as well as its likely leading cause of death. Cancer costs more in 36_______ and lost life than AIDS, malaria, the flu and other diseases that spread person-to-person. Chronic diseases including cancer, heart disease and diabetes 37 _______ for more than 60 percent of deaths worldwide but less than 3 percent of public and private 38_______  for global health, said Rachel Nugent of the Center for Global Development, a Washington-based policy research group. Money shouldn't be taken away from fighting diseases that. 39_______  person-to-person, but the amount 40_______  to cancer is way out of whack (重击) with the impact it has, said Otis Brawley, the cancer society's chief medical officer.

　　Cancer's economic toll (损耗) was $895 billion in 2008--equivalent to 1.5 percent of the world's gross 41 _______ product, the report says. That's in terms of disability and years of life lost--not the cost of treating the disease, which wasn't addressed in the report. Many groups have been pushing for more attention to non-infectious causes of death, and the United Nations General Assembly has set a meeting on this a year from now. Some policy experts are 42_______  it to the global initiative that led to big increases in spending on AIDS nearly a decade ago. "This needs to be discussed at the UN--how we are going to deal with this rising burden of 43_______  disease", said Dr. Andreas Ullrich, medical officer for cancer control at WHO.

　　Researchers used the World Health Organization's death and disability reports, and economic data from the World Bank. They 44_______  disability-adjusted life years, which reflect the impact a disease has on how long and how 45 _______ people live.

　　A.productively

　　B.supplying

　　C.shifting

　　D.spread

　　E.account

　　F.funding

　　G.calculated

　　H.devoted

　　I .productivity

　　J.chronic

　　K.comparing

　　L. domestic

　　M.doubtful

　　N.clumsily

　　O.disability