2001年6月英语六级试题及答案_第5页

Part IV Error Correction (15 minutes)
Directions: This part consists 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 change a word, cross it out and write the correct word in the corresponding blank. If you add 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.
Example:

Television is rapidly becoming the literatures of our periods. 1. time/times/period
Many of the arguments having used for the study of literature. 2. ／___________
As a school subject are valid for ∧ study of television. 3. the___________

More people die of tuberculosis (结核病) than of any
other disease caused by a single agent. This has probably
been the case in quite a while. During the early stages of 71. __________
the industrial revolution, perhaps one in every seventh 72. __________
deaths in Europe’s crowded cities were caused by the 73. __________
disease. From now on, though, western eyes, missing the 74. __________
global picture, saw the trouble going into decline. With
occasional breaks for war, the rates of death and
infection in the Europe and America dropped steadily 75. __________
through the 19th and 20th centuries. In the 1950s, the
introduction of antibiotics (抗菌素) strengthened the
trend in rich countries, and the antibiotics were allowed
to be imported to poor countries. Medical researchers 76. __________
declared victory and withdrew.
They are wrong. In the mid-1980s the frequency of 77. __________
infections and deaths started to pick up again around the
world. Where tuberculosis vanished, it came back; in 78. __________
many places where it had never been away, it grew better. 79. __________
The World Health Organization estimates that 1.7
billion people (a third of the earth’s population) suffer
from tuberculosis. Even when the infection rate was
falling, population growth kept the number of clinical
cases more or less constantly at 8 million a year. Around 80. __________
3 million of those people died, nearly all of them in poor
countries.

Part V Writing (30 minutes)
Directions: For this part, you are allowed thirty minutes to write a letter. Suppose you are Zhang Ying. Write a letter to Xiao Wang, a schoolmate of yours who is going to visit you during the week-long holiday. You should write a t least 120 words according to the suggestions given below in Chinese.

1. 表示欢迎
2. 提出对度假安排的建议
3. 提醒应注意的事项

A letter to a Schoolmate
June 23, 2001
Dear Xiao Wang,
_____________________________________________________________________________

___________________________________________________________________________________________

_______________________________________________________________________________________________

__________________________________________________________________________________________________

___________________________________________________________________________________________________________

_________________________________________________________________________________________________
Yours,
Zhang Ying
答案
1. B 2. A 3. C 4. B 5. A 6. B 7. C 8. A 9. D 10. D
11. B 12. D 13. C 14. B 15. D 16. C 17. A 18. B 19. A 20. A
21. D 22. A 23. B 24. C 25. D 26. D 27. A 28. C 29. B 30. D
31. A 32. D 33. C 34. A 35. B 36. D 37. B 38. A 39. D 40. B
41. D 42. B 43. B 44. B 45. C 46. B 47. D 48. A 49. B 50. B
51. C 52. D 53. C 54. A 55. A 56. C 57. D 58. C 59. D 60. B
61. C 62. C 63. B 64. D 65. A 66. D 67. A 68. D 69. D 70. C
71. in改为for 72. seventh改为seven
73. were改为was 74. now改为then
75. 删除the 76. imported改为exported
77. are改为were 78. vanished之前加had
79. better改为worse 80. constantly改为constant