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四川外语学院成都学院英语专业六级考试大纲（2010年版）

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2000年出版的《高等学校英语专业英语教学大纲》（以下简称《大纲》）规定，高等学校英语专业高年级阶段的主要教学任务是“继续打好语言基本功，学习英语专业知识和相关专业知识，进一步扩大知识面，增强对文化差异的敏感性，提高综合运用英语进行交际的能力”。（《大纲》，2000 2）

《大纲》同时指出，“为了帮助各校和有关部门了解执行本教学大纲的情况，教育部委托全国高校外语专业教学指导委员会英语组在第四学期和第八学期分别实施全国英语专业四级和八级统一考试。四级和八级考试着重检查学生的英语语言的综合运用能力。”为了能及时检测学生在高年级第一阶段的学习情况，并帮助学生更好的了解专八考试的题型、题量等，我院特根据《高等学校英语专业英语教学大纲》制定该《四川外语学院成都学院英语专业英语六级考试大纲》。

根据《大纲》中的上述规定，《四川外语学院成都学院英语专业六级考试大纲》特作如下规定：

一、考试目的：

本考试的目的是全面检查已完成英语专业高年级第一阶段课程的学生是否达到了

《大纲》所规定的英语语言综合运用能力标准以及英语专业知识的耍求。

二、考试性质与范

本考试属于标准参照性教学检查类考试。考试范围包括《大纲》所规定的听、读、写、译四个方面的能力以及英语专业知识。

三、考试时间.对象与命题：

本考试在英语专业第六学期举行，每年一次。考试对象为高校英语专业三年级学生。

本考试由四川外语学院成都学院教务处组织相关英语专业课教师命题，并负责考试的实施。

%1.考试形式：

为了有效地考核学生综合运用英语进行交际的能力，兼顾考试的科学性、客观性，乂考虑到考试的可行性以及高年级阶段英语水平和专业知识评估的特点，本考试采用多种试题形式，以保证考试的效度和信度。

五、考试内容：

本考试共有六个部分：听力理解、阅读理解、人文知识、改错、翻译、写作。整个考试需时195分钟。

L 听力理解(Part I: Listening Ccmprehensioi})

1.测试要求：

(a)能听懂真实交际场合中的各种英语会话和讲话。

(?能听懂\QX BBC或CW国外媒体节目中有关政治、经济、文化、教育、科技等方面的专题报道。

(c)能听懂有关政治、经济、历史、文化、教育、语言文学、科普方面的演讲及演讲后的问答。

(?考试时间约35分钟。

2.测试形式：

本部分采用填空题和多项选择题形式，分三节：Section A Sect ion E和Section C共20题。

Section A Mini—lecture

本部分由一个约900个单词的讲座和一项填空任务组成。要求学生先边听边做笔记，然后完成填空任务。考试时间10分钟。本部分共10题。

Sect ion B Conversation or Interview

本部分由一个约800个单词的会话组成。会话后有5道多项选择题。

Sect ion C News Broadcast

在若干段新闻报道后有5道多项选择题。

Sect ion E & C的每道多项选择题后有10秒的间隙。

要求学生从所给的四个选项中选出一个最佳答案。

听力理解部分的录音语速为每分钟约150个单词，念一遍。

3.测试目的：

测试学生获取口头信息的能力。

4.选材原则：

(R讲座部分的内容与英语专业知识课程相关。

(D对话部分的内容与学生的日常生活、工作和学习活动相关。

(c)\QX和EBC新闻材料为学生所熟悉的一段新闻报道、短评或讲话等。

(d)听力材料中所出现的词语原则上不超出《大纲》规定的范围。

IL 阅读理解(part IL Reading Corp rehens iorj)

1?测试要求：

?能读懂一般英美报刊杂志上的社论、政治和书评。

個能读懂有一定难度的历史传记和文学作品。

?能理解所读材料的主旨和大意，分辨出其中的事实和细节；能理解其字面意义和隐含意义；

能够分析上述题材的文章的思想观点、语篇结构、语言特点和修辞手法。

◎能在阅读中根据需要自觉调整阅读速度和阅读技巧。

◎考试时间30分钟。

2.测试形式：

本部分采用多项选择题，由数篇阅读材料组成。阅读材料约2500个单词。每篇材料后有若干道多项选择题。学生应根据所读材料内容，从每题的四个选择项中选出一个最佳答案。本部分共20题。

3.测试目的：

阅读理解部分测试学生通过阅读获取有关信息的能力，考核学生掌握相关阅读策略和技巧的程度。既耍求准确性，也耍求一定的速度。阅读速度为每分钟约150个单词。

4.选材原则：

IV 改错

（part IV Proofreading

(a)题材广泛，包括社会、科技、文化、经济、日常知识、人物传记等。

⑹体裁多样，包括记叙文、描写文、说明文、议论文、广告、说明书、图表等。

(c)关键词汇基本上不超出《大纲》规定的范围。

III.人文知识(part III: General Knowledge)

1.测试耍求：

(6能基本了解主耍英语国家的地理、历史、现状、文化传统等。

個能初步具备英语文学知识。

(c)能初步具备英语语言知识。

◎考试时间10分钟。

2.测试形式：

本部分采用多项选择题形式，要求学生从每题的四个选择中选出一个最佳答案。本部分共10题。

3.测试日的：

人文知识部分测试学生对主要英语国家社会与文化、英语文学与英语语言学基本知识的掌握程度。

4.测试范围：

(a)主要英语国家社会与文化知识。

◎英语文学知识。

fc)英语语言学知识。

1.测试要求：

能运用语法、词汇、修辞等语言知识识别所给短文内的语病并提出改止方法。

2.测试形式：

本部分由一篇约250个单词的短文组成，短文屮有10行标有题号。该10行内均含

有一个语误。要求学生根据“增添”、“删除”或“改变其中的某一单词或短语”三种

方法中的一种改正语误。

本部分为主观试题，共10题。考试时间15分钟。

3.测试目的：

测试学生运用语言知识的能力。

V 翻译(part V Translation)

1?测试耍求：

能运用英译汉的理论和技巧，翻译英美报刊杂志上的文章和文学原著。速度为每小

时250至300个英文单词。译文必须忠实原意，语言通顺、流畅。

2.测试形式：

本部分为主观试题。考试时间60分钟。

Frcm Engl ish to Ch in ese

将一段300个英文单词组成的段落译成汉语。

3.测试日的：

按照《大纲》的要求测试学生的翻译能力。

VI.写作(Part VI: Writing)

1.测试要求：

能根据所给题目及要求撰写各类体裁的文章，文章长度约350个单词；能做到内容充实、语言通顺、用词恰当、表达得体。

2.测试形式：

本部分为主观试题，共一个作文题目。考试时间45分钟o

3.测试目的：

按照《大纲》的要求测试学生的写作能力。

答题和计分

填空、改错、翻译和作文做在规定的主观题答题卷上。多项选择题的答案在客观题答卷上。凡是写在试题册上的答案一律无效，予以作废。

填空、翻译和作文用大于等于0. 5讹勺黑色钢笔或中性笔书写。答卷内容不能超过装订线，超越部分无效。多项选择题每题只能选一个答案，多选作废。请用2B铅笔填涂客观题答题卡。多项选择题只算答对的题数，答错不扣分。多项选择题由计算机读卷。

考试时不得使用词典及其他工具书。

试卷各部分采用记权方式，折算成百分制。以60分为及格标准。

试卷的题型、题数、计分、比重和时间列表如下：

院内英语专业六级考试样题

TEST FOR ENGLISH MAJORS

—GRADE SIX-

TIME LIMIT: 190MIN

PART I LISTENING COMPREHENSION [30MIN]

Section A Mini-Lecture

In this section you will hear a mini-lecture? You will hear the lecture ONCE ONLY. While listening, take notes on the important points? Your notes will not be marked, but you will need them to complete a gap-filling task on ANSWER SHEET ONE after the mini-lecture. Use the blank sheet for note-taking.

Now listen to the mini-lecture?

In sections B and C you will hear everything ONCE ONLY. Listen carefully and then answer the questions that follow. Mark the correct answer to each question on your answer sheet.

Section B Interview

Questions 1 to 5 are based on an interview. At the end of the interview you will be given 10 seconds to answer each of the following questions.

Now listen to the interview.

1.The interviewee^ first job was with _____ ?

A. a newspaper

B.the government

C? a design construction firm

D? a private company

2.Why did the interviewee leave the public sector ______ ?

A.he did not prefer working for the government

B.he wanted to choose self-employment

C.his wife didn't work and they need more money to start a family

D? his wife told him to do so

3.To study architecture in a university one has to ______ .

A.be interested in arts

B.study pure science

C? be good at drawing

D? get good exam results

4.Which of the following statements is NOT TRUE according to the interviewee?

A.Science is the basis for the subject of architecture?

B.The arts background may be helpful for the study of architecture?

C.Precision is a vital skill for the architect.

D? Technically speaking artists draw very well.

5.The interviewee says that the job of an architect is ______ .

A.more theoretical than practical

B.both theoretical and practical

C.more practical than theoretical

D.to produce attractive, interesting buildings

Section C News Broadcast

Question 6 is based on the fallowing news. At the end of the news item, you will be given 10 seconds to answer the question..

Now listen to the news.

6.The working children are engaged in the following child labor forms cited in the news EXCEPT .

A.finance and commerce

B. trafficking and armed conflict

C.slavery and sexual exploitation

D. farming and fishing

Questions 7 and 8 are based on the following news. At the end of the news item, you will be given 20 seconds to answer the questions.

Now listen to the news.

7? Afghan people are suffering from starvation because _____ ?

A.melting snow begins to block the mountain paths

B.the Taliban have destroyed existing food stocks

C.the Taliban are hindering food deliveries

D.an emergency air-lift of food was can celled

& _______ p eople in Afghanistan are facing starvation.

A.160,000

B. 16,000

C.1,000,000

D. 100,000

Questions 9 and 10 are based on the following news?At the end of the news item, you will be given 20 seconds to answer the questions.

Now listen to the news?

9.The man was convicted for _____ ?

A.dishonesty B? manslaughter

C. murder

D. having a gun

10.Which of the following is TRUE?

A.Mark Eastwood had a license for a revolver.

B? Mark Eastwood loved to go to noisy parties?

C. Mark Eastwood smashed the windows of a house?

D? Mark Eastwood had a criminal record?

PART II READING COMPREHENSION [30 MIN]

bi this section there are several reading passages followed by a total of twenty^ multiple-choice questions. Read the passages and then mark your answers on your answer sheet.

TEXT A

On Tuesday, May 22, 1980, a man named Henry Hill did what seemed to him the only sensible thing to do: he decided to cease to exist. He was in the Nassau County jail, facing a life sentence in a massive narcotics conspiracy. The federal prosecutors were asking him about his role in the $6 million Lufthansa German Airlines robbery, the largest successful cash robbery in American history. The New York City police were in line behind the feds to ask him about the ten murders that followed the Lufthansa heist. The Justice Department wanted to talk to him about his conn ection with a murder that also involved Michele Sindona, the convicted Italian financie匚The Organized Crime Strike Force wanted to know about the Boston College basketball players he had bribed in a point-shaving scheme? Treasury agents were looking for the crates of automatic weapons and Claymore mines

he had stolen from a Connecticut armory. The Brooklyn district attorney^ office wanted information about a body they had found in a refrigeration truck, which was frozen so stiff it needed two days to thaw before the medical examicould perform an autopsy.

When Henry Hill had been arrested only three weeks earlier, it hadn't been big news? There were no front-page stories in the newspapers and no segments on the evening news? His arrest was just another of dozens of the slightly exaggerated multimillion-dollar drug busts that police make annually in their search for paragraphs of praise? But the arrest of Henry Hill was a prize beyond measure? Hill had grown up in the mob? He was only a mechanic, but he knew everything? He knew how it worked? He knew who oiled the machinery. He knew, literally, where the bodies were buried. If he talked, the police knew that Henry Hill could give them the key to dozens of indictments and convictions. And even if he didn^t talk, Henry Hill knew that his own friends would kill him just as they had killed nearly everyone who had been involved in the Lufthansa robbery. In jail Henry heard the news: his own protector, Paul Vario, the seventy-year-old mob chief in whose house Henry had been raised from childhood, was through with him; and James “Jimmy the Genf" Bruke, Henry's closest friend，his con fidant and partner, the man he had bee n schemi ng and hustling with since he was thirteen years old, was planning to murder him.

Under the circumstances, Henry made his decision: he became part of the Justice Department^ Federal Witness Protection Program? His wife, Karen, and their children, Judy, fifteen, and Ruth, twelve, ceased to exist along with him. They were given new identities. It should be said that it was slightly easier for Henry Hill to cease to exist than it might have been for the average citizen, since the actual evidence of Hill\ existence was extraordinarily slim? His home was apparently owned by his mother-in-law. His car was registered in his wife's name? His Social Security cards and driver's licenses一he had several of each —were forged and made out to fictitious names?He had never voted and never paid taxes. He had never even flown on an airplane using a ticket made out in his own name? In fact one of the only pieces of documentary evidence that proved without doubt that Henry Hill had lived一besides his birth certificate一was his yellow sheet, the police record of arrests he had begun as a teenage apprentice to the mob.

11.Which of the following, if any, were interested in Henry Hill?

A? The Drug Enforcement Agency.

B.The Anti-terrorism Arm of the United States.

C? The Department of the Treasury

D.All of the above.

12.According to the passage, Henry HilTs arrest was described by police as _______ .

A? slightly exaggerated

B big news

C? just another drug bust

D.a "prize beyond measure^

13.The Lufthansa crime _____ ?

A? was the only successful hijacking in American history

B.was the crime for which Hill was first arrested

C? was the biggest successful robbery in the U.S.

D.was masterminded by James "Jimmy the Gent^ Bruke

14.It was so easy for Hill to “disappear" beciiuse ______ ?

A.his mother-in-law bought his house?

B.there was liMle legal evidenee of his existenee

C? his family came with him

D.he had many underworld contacts

15.What's the implied message of the passage?

A.Hill played both sides for his own benefit.

B.Crime does not pay.

C? Crime pays until you get busted?

D. Hill is a unique and interesting figure?

TEXTB

More than three years after moving from Australia to this remote part of England, we are still learning how things are done here.

Not too long after we arrived and un packed, we were invited for “a drink on Sun day mor ning" by a retired couple nearby ? We got there about no on, to find the living-room crowded 一lots of chat and discussions, and in all a very jolly occasion.

Trouble was, there was no food一no self-respecting Australian would regard a tray of crisps as food. In Sydney, when you are invited for a drink any time after midday on a Sunday, you know you will be fed as well as watered and you plan accordingly. Meaning the hardworked liMle woman makes no plans to cook lunch because you are eating out.

By one-fifteen my stomach was sending up "please explain^ to me. Even the crisps had gone. There was nothing we could do except wait, and wonder 讦the hostess was going to perform some magic and feed us fashionably late?Then，as quickly as if word had spread that there was free beer at the local pub, the room emptied. By one-forty-five there were only a few guests left, so we decided to go home. Tinned soup for lunch that day because the little woman was not really interested in real cooking for us.

A few weeks ago we were invited out for "supper^ and the hostess suggest 8」5? Ah, we thought greedily, "this is going to be the real thing."

We dressed with some care 一I put on a dark suit 一and arrived on time. My wife looked pretty good, I thought 一a little black dress and so on. But when we walked in I had a terrible feeling we had got the night wrong because the hostess was dressed in a daytime kind of way and the husband was in jeans and an open-neck shirt. But no, we were greeted and shown into the sitting-room.

After a drink I looked around and saw that this was indeed a superior cottage because it had a (more or less) separate dining-room? But there were no signs of a table-setting? Not again! I thought. Were we meant to eat before we came? I decided that in future my wife and I would always carry a chocolate bar. About 9.30 our hostess went out of the room, saying something about food. Ten minutes later she returned and asked us to follow. We were led out to the kitchen. There on the table were country-style plates and a huge bowl of soup, rough bread and all the makings of a simple meal. And that is what 让was. In other words, we had not read the signals right when we were invited for "supper9; If they want you to come to dinner, they say so, and you know that means dark suits and so on. If they mean supper, they say it, and you get fed in the kitchen.

If they make such a distinction between "dinner,5 and "supper'： does this mean we were not worth making an all out effort for? Candles, best silver and all the rest?

It is eno ugh to give a person a prejudice ? Whe n you think about it, it9s pretty depressi ng. They must use the dining-room sometimes, because they had all those high-backed chairs and candle-holders.

16.When the author and his wife were invited out for “a drink on Sunday morning", they though t ________ .

A.they would be the only people there

B.they would be given lunch as well

C? they would be taken to a restaurant for lunch

D? they would be asked to take some food with them

17.The "party" had been going on for about an hour and three quarters when _______ ?

A.the hostess decided to feed her guests

B.every one had tinned soup for lunch

C? inost of the guests went to lunch at the pub

D. the author realized he would go home hungry

18.When invited out for “supper" a few weeks ago, the writer _______ ?

A.expected to be served a proper dinner

B.arrived on the wrong evening

C.interpreted the invitation correctly this time

D.realized there was no dinning-room in the cottage

19.As the evening wore on, the writer became aware that _______ ?

A.no one used their dining-rooms in the countryside

B.he should have had a meal before going out

C?"supper' means a simple, informal meal

D. he should, in future, eat only chocolate in the evening

20? The writer eventually came to the conclusion that ______ ?

A.no one considered him important enough to invite to dinner

B.no one wished to be friendly with him and his wife

C? no one had time to spend cooking formal meals

D. no one possessed the right cutlery and crockery for formal meals

TEXTC

In a breath-taking turn of events, Asia's economies have gone from miracle to meltdown in a matter of weeks? Many forecasters who recently predicted GDP growth of 6% in South Korea and southern Asia for 1998 are suddenly projecting zero or even negative growth. In the often short-sighted world of intern ational finance, a new conv entio nal wisdom is quickly forming: that in ept policy-making is dragging down Asia economies, and that only tough austerity medicine of the Internationnl Monetary Fund, plus a good stiff recession, will bring the region's economies back to track?

In recent years, foreign and domestic investors in East Asia got a touch of what U.S. Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan has famously termed "irrational exuberance?" Spurred by years of high economic growth in Asia, these investors poured billions of dollars of loans into the region, financing many worthwhile investments but also an unsustainable real estate boom.

This over-investment need not have caused a crisis. A healthy reaction would have involved a gradual cutback in foreign lending, a gradual weakening of Asia's overvalued currencies and gradual shift of investments from over-inflated property sectors back to Iong-term export-oriented projects. Most short-term booms are brought down to earth without extreme crisis, and such an adjustment was the most likely scenario until the summer in 1997?

In the eve nt, Asia experienced a financial meltdown ?A gradual withdrawal of funds from Thailand suddenly became a stampede? Thailand's government delayed in responding to the overheating long after it had become apparent, and as a result spent much Thailancfs foreign exchange reserves in a misguided attempt to defend the overvalued baht（泰铢）.The stampede came when foreign creditors realized that Thailand had more short-term foreign debts than the remaining short-term foreign reserves. A 'rationaF panic began. Each investor started to dump assets simply to get out of Thailand ahead of other investors. Panic in Thailand soon took a toll on the economics of its neighbors? The chain reaction of nervous withdrawals led to a meltdown that now includes most of East Asia.

Confidence has been so drained that Asia's positive "fundamental95一historically high rates of growth, savings and exports—are being overlooked. Economics rely on confidence, and what they most need to fear is, indeed, fear itself.

21.The word “meltdowrT in the first sentence of paragraph 1 is analogy to________ ?

A.the radioactive core of a nuclear power

B.a con trolled nu clear reaction

C? nuclear energy slips out of control and ends up in a full-blown disaster

D. the breakdown of the cooling system

22.According to the author, in normal case, over-investment _______ ?

A.can be reduced by a quick slash in foreign lending

B.does not necessarily lead to a critical stage

C? may be solved by abrupt devaluation of currencies

D. should be shifted to boom-town real estate speculations

23.The response of the Thai government was anything but ______ .

A.improper and in decisive

B.wise and timely

C? hesitant and dallying

D. stumbling and staggering

https://www.360docs.net/doc/ba11242668.html,'s fundamentals are positive EXCEPT ______ .

A.high savings rate

B.high exporting rate

C.high inflation rate

D.high growth rate

25.According to the passage, what is supposed to be the key link to the economic recovery in East Asia?

A.To attract more foreign fund.

B.To boost the exports?

C.To stop dumping assets?

D.To regain confidence?

TEXTD

Sophisticated Internet users have banded together over the last two days to publish and widely distribute a secret code used by the technology and movie industries to prevent piracy of high-definition movies.

The broader distribution of the code may not pose a serious threat to the studios, because it requires some technical expertise and specialized software to use it to defeat the copy protection on Blu-ray and HD DVD discs. But its relentless spread has already become a less on in mob power on the Internet and the futility of censorship in the digital world.

An online uproar came in response to a series of cease-and-desist letters from lawyers for a group of companies that use the copy protection system, demanding that the code be removed from several Web sites.

Rather than wiping out the code 一a string of 32 digits and letters in a specialized counting system 一the legal notices sparked its proliferation on Web sites, in chat rooms, inside cleverly doctored digital photographs and on user-submitted news sites like https://www.360docs.net/doc/ba11242668.html,.

"It's a perfect example of how a lawyer's involvement can turn a little story into a huge story/5 said Fred von Lohmann5a staff lawyer at the Electronic Frontier Foundation, a digital rights group. “Now that they started sending threatening letters, the In ternet has turned the nu mber into the latest celebrity. It is now guaranteed eternal fame：

The number is being enshrined in some creative ways. Keith Burgon, a 24-year-old musician in Goldens

Bridge, N.Y., grabbed his acoustic guitar on Tuesday and improvised a melody while soulfully singing the code?He posted the song to YouTube, where it was played more than 45,000 times.

“I thought it was a source of comedy that they were trying so futilely to quell the spread of this rm mber,^ Mr. Burg on said. “The ir onic thing is, because they tried to quiet it down it's the most famous number on the Internet；

Duri ng his work break on Tuesday, James Bertels on, an engin eer in Vancouver, Wash. , joined the movement and created a Web page featuring nothing but the number, obscured in an encrypted format that only insiders could appreciate? He then submitted his page to Digg, a news site where users vote on what is important. Despite its sparse offerings, his submission received nearly 5,000 votes and was propelled onto Digg's main page.

"For most people this is about freedom of speech, and an industry that thinks that just because it has high-priced lawyers it has the final say," Mr. Bertels on said.

Messages left for those lawyers and the trade organization they represent, the Advaneed Access Content System Licensing Administrator, which controls the encryption system known as A.A.C.S?、were not answered. In an e-mail message, a representative for the group said only that it “is looking into the matter and has no further comment at this time/'

The organization is backed by technology companies like I.B.M. , Intel, Microsoft and Sony and movie studios like Disney and Warner Brothers, which is owned by Time Warner.

The secret code actually stopped being a secret in February, when a hacker ferreted it out of his movie-playing software and posted it on a Web bulletin board? From there it spread through the network of technology news sites and blogs.

Last month, lawyers for the trade group began sen ding out cease-and-desist letters, claiming that Web pages carrying the code violated its intellectual property rights under the 1998 Digital Millennium Copyright Act. One letter was sent to Google, which runs a blog network at https://www.360docs.net/doc/ba11242668.html,?

The campaign to remove the number from circulation went largely unnoticed until news of the letters hit Digg. The 25-employee company in San Francisco, acting on the advice of its lawyers, removed posting submissions about the secret number from its database earlier this week, then explained the move to its readers on Tuesday after noon.

The removals were soon by many Digg users as a capitulation to corporate interests and an assault on free speech. Some also said that the trade group that promotes the HD DVD format, which uses A.A.C.S. protection, had advertised on a weekly Digg-related video podcast.

On Tuesday after noon and into the eve ning, stories about or including the code swamped Diggs main page, which the company says gets 16 million reader each month. At 9 p.m?West Coast time, the company surrendered to mob sen time nt.

“You'd rather see Digg go down fighting than bow down to a bigger company,^ wrote Kevin Rose, Digg's founder, in a blog post. "We hear you, and effective immediately we won" delete stories or com me nts containing the code and will deal with whatever the consequences might be." If Digg loses, he wrote, "at least we died trying/'

Jay Adels on, Digg，s chief executive, said in an interview that the site was disregarding the advice of its lawyers?"We just decided that it is more important to stand by our users/5he said. Regarding the company's exposure to lawsuits he said, “We are just going to prepare and do our best."

26- The secret code that the technology and movie industries use to prevent piracy of high-definition movies became a most celebrated nu mber immediately on the in ternet ______________ ?

A.when a hacker ferreted it out of his movie-playing software and posted it on a Web bulletin board?

B.when lawyers for the companies that use the code tried to quell its spread by sending out a series of cease-

and-desist letters

C.when a young musician created a melody for the code

D.when an engineer made a Web page featuring the code number

27.The widespread of the secret code on the internet ______ ?

A? may impose serious damages to the movie studios

B.does not violate the intellectual property right

C.indicates the importance of censorship in the digital world

D? shows the code the companies use to protect their productions is really not safe

28.Many Intemet users kept on distributing the secret codes against the lawyers' cease-and-desist letters

because _____ ?

A.they thought they must defend their right of free speech

B.they didn't think the interests of big companies，should be protected

C.they didn't feel having violated the intellectual property rights

D? they believed in the mob power

29.When Digg Company removed posting submissions about the secret number from its database, ___ ?

A.it was acting on the advice of the lawyers of A.A.C.S?

B.it aroused severe opposition form its users

C.it was trying to protect its advertising interests

D.it was defending 让s intellectual property right

30.Why did Digg Company finally withdraw its decision to remove posting submission about the secret number

from its database?

A.Its lawyers advised it to do so.

B.It didn't want to violate the public's right of free speech?

C? It was well-prepared for the lawsuits?

D.It did not want to lose its users?

PART III GENERAL KNOWLEDGE [10 MIN]

31.Mark Twain, a famous American writer, wrote the following stories except _____________ .

A. Tom Sawyer

B. The Prince and the Pauper

C.2000 Leagues under the Sea

D. Running for Governor

32.How many states are there in the conterminous United States?

A.50

B.48

C.51

D.49

33? English belongs to the subfamily of ________ in Indo-European language family.

A. West Germanic

B. Italic

C. Celtic

D. Hellenic

34.The stressed syllable of the word am-bi^u-i-ty is before ___________ .

A.-bi-

B.-gii-

C.

D.

35.Which of the four words below is not formed in the way of backformation?

A. edit B? extradite C. donate D. restate

36.The national flag of Great Britain is called ___________ .

A. Stars and Stripes

B. Great Ba nner C? Un ion Jack D. Union Bars

37.The Head of the State for Australia is ___________ .

A. the Prime Minister

B. the Chancellor

C. The Queen of Britain

D. the Governor

38.Anglo-Saxon language refers to _______________ .

A.the Old French language

B.the Scottish dialect

C.the ancient Welsh language

D.the original Germanic language element in the English language

39.Which of the following works is NOT written by William Shakespeare?

A. A Midsummer Night s Dream

B. The Tragedy of Macbeth

C.Paradise Lost

D. The Tempest

40.Churchill, British statesman, soldier and author, became Prime Minister of Britain in May, 194(). Which

of the following is his work? _________________ .

A. The Second World War

B. The Origin of Species

C.Motivation and Personality

D. The Winds of War

PART IV PROOREADING & CORRECTION [15MIN]

Proofread the ^iven passage on ANSWER SHEET TWO as instructed.

PART V TRANSLATION [60 MIN]

Please translate the following into Chinese on ANSWER SHEET THREE.

Sometimes I have thought it would be an excellent rule to live each day as if we should die tomorrow. Such an attitude would emphasize sharply the values of life..?? In stories the doomed hero is usually saved at the last minute by some stroke of fortune, but almost always his sense of values is changed?He becomes more appreciative of the meaning of life and its permanent spiritual values? It has often been noted that those who live, or have lived, in the shadow of death bring mellow sweetness to everything they do.

Most of us, however, take life for granted. We know that one day we must die, but usually we picture that day as far in the future. When we are in health, death is all but unimaginable? We seldom think of it. The days stretch out in an endless vista. So we go about our petty tasks, hardly aware of our listless attitude toward life.

The same indifference, I am afrtiid, characterizes the use of all our faculties and senses?Only the deaf appreciate hearing, only the blind realize the manifold blessings that lie in sight. Particularly does this observation apply to those who have lost sight and hearing in adult life. But those who have never suffered impairment of sight or hearing seldom make the fullest use of these blessed faculties? Their eyes and ears take in all sights and sounds hazily, without concentration and with little appreciation. It is the same old story of not being grateful for what we have until we lose it, of not being conscious of health until we are ill.

I have often thought it would be a blessing if each human being were stricken blind and deaf for a few days at some time during his early adult life. Darkness would make him more appreciative of sight; silenee would teach him the joys of sound.

[45 MIN]

PART VI WRITING

Nowadays, there have been many discussions over food safety in our country, which is a hot topic? In fact, many people are concerned cibout it. What is your opinion? Write an essay on the following topic: My Greatest Concern about Food Safety

You are to write a passage of approximately 350 words on this issue.

In the first part of your writing you should present your thesis statement, and in the second part you should support the thesis statement with appropriate details. In the last part you should bring what you have written to a natural conclusion or a summary.

Marks will be awarded for content, organization, grammar and appropriateness. Failure to follow the above instructions may result in a loss of marks.

Write your response on ANSWER SHEET FOUR?

―The End―

英语专业六级考试样题答案

KEY TO THE S^FLETEST

PART I LISTENING COMPREHENSION (20%)

Section A

1. get known 2? save 3. match 4. image 5. Popularity

6. media

7.audienee

8. react 9? straight 10. tax-free

Section B

l.B 2.C

3.D

4.D

5.B

SECTION C NEWS BROADCAST

6.A

7.C

8. A

9. B 10.D

PART II READING COMPREHENSION (20%)

11?15CDCBA 16-20 BDACA 21 ?25CBBCD 26-30 BCABD

PART III GENERAL KNOWLEDGE (10%)

31-35 CBABD 36-40 CCDCA

PART IV PROOFREADING AND ERROR CORRECTION (10%)

1.scores 改为score

2.which 改为that

3.could 改为can

4.these 改为those

5.at改为in

6.had 改为have

7.that 改为what

8.finished 改为unfinished

9.increasing 改为in creased

10.perish 前加not

英语专业六级考试样题部分

主观题答题卷

TEST KR EtGLISIWCRS

GRACE SIX

(^PLEIES])

ANSWER SHEET ONE

TEST FOR ENGLISH MAJORS

—GRADE SIX- Array PART I LISTENING COMPREHENSION

SECTION A MINI-LECTURE

Complete the gap- filling task. Some of the gaps below may require a maximum of TWO words. Make sure the word(s) you fill in is (are) both grammatically and semantically acceptable? You may refer to your notes.

Sports Sponsorship

At present companies and industries like to sponsor sports

events. Two reasons are brought about to explain this phenomenon.

The first reason is that they ___ 1 ____ t hroughout the world. The 1. _____

5. 6. _____ 7. _____ & ______

9. ______

(1)

second reason is that companies and industries —2 ____ money,

2. _____ as they get reductions in the tax they owe if they sponsor sports

or arts activities.

As sponsorship is costly, careful thinking is required in deciding

which even(s to sponso 匚 It is important for the companies to make

sure there is a perfect _3 ____ between the products to be promoted

3. _____ and the activity to be sponsored ? That is, companies have to make

sure the —4_ is right and the maximum product coverage must be

4. _____ guaranteed in the event.

Important points to be considered in sports sponsorship:

5 __ of the event.

International sports events are big ___ 6— events, which get

extensive coverage on TV and in the press ? But other smaller events only

attract certain amount of people ?

Identification of the potential __ 7_

Aiming at the right audience is most important for smaller events. The

right audienee would attract manufacturers of other related products ?

Advantages of sponsorship

Advantages are longer-term.

People are expected to __ 8 ___ favorably to the products

promoted when asked to give comments to the products.

Sponsorship is better than _9 ____ advertising:

a) less expensive

b) —10— ANSWER SHEET TWO

TEST FOR ENGLISH MAJORS

—GRADE SIX-

The following passage contains TEN errors ? Each indicated line contains a maximum of ONE error.

Four scores and seven years ago our fathers brought forth upon

this continent a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to

the proposition which all men are created equal.

Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that

nation, or any nation, so conceived and so dedicated, could long (3) __________________

endu「e. We are met on a great battlefield of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field, as a final resting-place for these (4) who here gave their lives that that nation might live? It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this.

But, at a larger sense, we cannot dedicate 一we cannot (5) consecrate 一we cannot hallow 一this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, had con secrated it, far above (6). our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note, nor long remember that we say here, but it can never forget what they did (7). here? It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the finished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly (8). advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us — that from these honored dead we take increasing devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full (9)- measure of devotion 一that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain — that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom — and that government of the people, by the people, for the people shall perish from the earth. (10)