2011年英语六级考试模拟练习题及答案(八)_第3页

　　Passage Two
　　Questions 62 to 66 are based on the following passage.
　　One thing the tour books don’t tell you about London is that 2,000 of its residents are foxes. As native as the royal family, they fled the city about centuries ago after developers and pollution moved in. But now that the environment is cleaner, the foxes have come home, one of the many wild animals that have moved into urban areas around the world.
　　“The number and variety of wild animals in urban areas is increasing,” says Gomer Jones, president of the National Institute for Urban Wildlife, in Columbia, Maryland. A survey of the wildlife in New York’s Central Park last year tallied the species of mammals, including muskrats, shrews and flying squirrels. A similar survey conducted in the 1890s counted only five species. One of the country’s largest populations of raccoons(浣熊)now lives in Washington D.C., and moose(驼鹿)are regularly seen wandering into Maine towns. Peregrine falcons(游隼)dive from the window ledges of buildings in the largest U.S. cities to prey on pigeons.
　　Several changes have brought wild animals to the cities. Foremost is that air and water quality in many cities has improved as a result of the 1970s’ pollution-control efforts. Meanwhile, rural areas have been built up, leaving many animals on the edges of suburbia. In addition, conservationists have created urban wildlife refuges.
　　The Greater London Council last year spent $750,000 to buy land and build 10 permanent wildlife refuges in the city. Over 1,000 volunteers have donated money and cleared rubble from derelict lots. As a result, pheasants now strut in the East End and badgers scuttle across lawns near the center of town. A colony of rare house martins nests on a window ledge beside Harrods, and one evening last year a fox was seen on Westminster Bridge looking up at Big Ben.
　　For peregrine falcons, cities are actually safer than rural cliff dwellings. By 1970 the birds were extinct east of the Mississippi because the DDT had made their eggs too thin to support life. That year, ornithologist Tom Cade of Cornell University began rising the birds for release in cities, for cities afforded abundant food and contained none of the peregrine’s natural predators.
　　"Before they were exterminated, some migrated to cities on their own because they had run out of cliff space," Cade says. “To peregrines, buildings are just like cliffs.” He has released about 30 birds since 1975 in New York, Baltimore, Philadelphia and Norfolk, and of the 20 pairs now living in the East, half are urbanites. “A few of the young ones have gotten into trouble by falling down chimneys and crashing into window-glass, but overall their adjustment has been successful.”
　　62. The first paragraph suggests that ________.
　　[A] environment is crucial for wildlife
　　[B] tour books are not always a reliable source of information
　　[C] London is a city of fox
　　[D] foxes are highly adaptable to environment
　　63. The selection is primarily concerned with ________.
　　[A] wildlife of all kinds returning to large cities to live
　　[B] falcons in New York, Baltimore, Philadelphia, and Norfolk
　　[C] moose stumbling into plate-glass storefronts
　　[D] foxes returning to London
　　64. In the 4th paragraph the pheasants, badgers, and martins etc. are mentioned to ________.
　　[A] explain their living habit
　　[B] make known their habitat
　　[C] show the endeavors of Londoners to make the city habitable for wildlife
　　[D] encourage volunteers to do something for the species
　　65. The main idea of paragraph 3 is ________.
　　[A] that air and water quality has improved in the cities
　　[B] why wildlife likes the noise and commotion in the cities
　　[C] that wildlife refuges have been built in the cities
　　[D] why wildlife is returning to cities
　　66. Cities make good homes for peregrine falcons because they provide ________.
　　[A] bountiful nesting areas, abundant food, and rainwater control basins
　　[B] abundant food, buildings that resemble cliffs, and no natural predators
　　[C] large buildings with chimneys other wildlife, and well-lighted nesting areas
　　[D] abundant food, chimneys, rubble, and window sills

Part V Cloze (15 minutes)
　　Directions: There are 20 blanks in the following passage. For each blank there are four choices marked [A], [B], [C] and [D] on the right side of the paper. You should choose the ONE that best fits into the passage. Then mark the corresponding letter on Answer Sheet 2 with a single line through the center.
　　Most people would be 67 by the high quality of medicine 68 to most Americans. There is a lot of specialization, a great deal of 69 to the individual, a 70 amount of advanced technical equipment, and 71 effort not to make mistakes because of the financial risk which doctors and hospitals must 72 in the courts if they 73 things badly.
　　But the Americans are in a mess. The problem is the way in 74 health care is organized and 75 . 76 to public belief it is not just a free competition system. The private system has been joined a large public system, because private care was simply not 77 the less fortunate and the elderly.
　　But even with this huge public part of the system, 78 this year will eat up 84.5 billion dollars—more than 10 per cent of the U.S. budget—large numbers of Americans are left 79 . These include about half the 11 million unemployed and those who fail to meet the strict limits 80 income fixed by a government trying to make savings where it can.
　　The basic problem, however, is that there is no central control 81 the health system. There is no 82 to what doctors and hospitals charge for their services, other than what the public is able to pay. The number of doctors has shot up and prices have climbed. When faced with toothache, a sick child, or a heart attack, all the unfortunate person concerned can do is 83 up.
　　Two-thirds of the population 84 covered by medical insurance. Doctors charge as much as they want 85 that the insurance company will pay the bill.
　　The rising cost of medicine in the U.S. is among the most worrying problems facing the country. In 1981 the country's health bill climbed 15.9 per cent—about twice as fast as prices 86 general.
　　67. A compressed B impressed C obsessed D repressed
　　68. A available B attainable C achievable D amenable
　　69. A extension B retention C attention D exertion
　　70. A countless B titanic C broad D vast
　　71. A intensive B absorbed C intense D concentrated
　　72. A run into B come into C face D defy
　　73. A treat B deal C maneuver D handle
　　74. A which B that C what D when
　　75. A to finance B financed C the finance D to be financed
　　76. A Contrary B Opposed C Averse D Objected
　　77. A looking for B looking into C looking after D looking over
　　78. A which B what C that D it
　　79. A over B out C off D away
　　80. A for B in C with D on
　　81. A over B on C under D behind
　　82. A boundary B restriction C confinement D limit
　　83. A to pay B paying C to be paid D to have paid
　　84. A is being B are C have been D is
　　85. A knowing B to know C they know D known
　　86. A in B with C on D for

　　Part VI Translation (5 minutes)
　　Directions: Complete the following sentences on Answer Sheet 2 by translating into English the Chinese given in brackets.
　　87. Regardless of all the difficulties, ________________________(我们会尽力争取我们的权利).
　　88. The order from the commander was that the troops ________________________(立即开拔去前线).
　　89. Science to the human mind is ________________________(正如水或空气之于身体).
　　90. For the past two years, ________________________(我一直忙着准备考试).
　　91. Of all the people I know, ________________________(没有人比格林先生更值得我尊敬). 
      Part I Writing
　　May 27th, 2005
　　Dear Sir,
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　　I have already passed CET-6 with excellent results and I have even worked two summers as an English interpreter at Beijing Travel Service.
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　　Li Ming