2016年6月大学英语六级考试最新模拟试题及答案（七）

　　Part Ⅱ Reading Comprehension (35 minutes)

　　Directions: There are four passages in this part. Each passage is followed by some questions or unfinished statements. For each of them there are four choices marked A), B), C) and D). You should decide on the best choice and mark the corresponding letter on the Answer Sheet with a single line through the centre.?

　　Questions 21 to 25 are based on the following passage:

　　Television is one of today's most powerful and widespread means of mass?communication. It directly influences our lives on both a short and long?term basis; it brings worldwide situations into our homes; it affords extensive opportunities for acquiring higher education; and it performs these tasks in a convenient yet effective manner. We are all aware of the popularly accepted applications of television, particularly those relative to entertainment and news broadcasting.

　　Television, however, has also been a vital link in unmanned deep space exploration (such as the Voyager Ⅰ and Ⅱ missions), in providing visions from hazardous areas (such as proximity to radioactive materials or environments) in underwater research, in viewing storms moving across a metropolitan area (the camera being placed in a weather?protective enclosure near the top of a tower), etc..The earth's weather satellites also use television cameras for viewing cloud cover and movements from 20,000 miles in space. Infrared filters are used for night views, and several systems include a spinning?mirror arrangement to permit wide?area views from the camera. Realizing the unlimited applications for today's television, one may thus logically ponder the true benefits of confining most of our video activities to the mass entertainment field.?

　　Conventional television broadcasting within the United States centers around free enterprise and public ownership. This requires funding by commercial sponsors,and thus functions in a revenue?producing business manner. Television in USSR　subjected areas, conversely, is a government?owned and maintained arrangement. While such arrangements eliminate the need for commercial sponsorship, it also　has the possibility of limiting the type of programs available to viewers (a number of purely entertainment programs similar to the classic “Bewitched”, however, have been seen on these government?controlled networks. All isn't as gray and dismal as the uninformed might unnecessarily visualize).?

　　A highly modified form of television called Slow?Scan TV is presently being used by many Amateur Radio operators to provide direct visual communications with　almost any area of the world . This unique visual mode recently allowed people　on the tiny South Pacific country of Pitcairn Island to view, for the first time　in their lives, distant areas and people of the world. The chief radio Amateur　and communications officer of Pitcairn, incidentally, is the legendary Tom Christian?great, great grandson of Tom Christian of “Mutiny on the Bounty” fame. Radio Amateurs in many lands worked together for several months establishing visual capabilities for Pitcairners. The results have proven spectacular, yet the visual capabilities have only been used for health education, or welfare purposes.

　　Commercial TV is still unknown to natives of that tiny country.?Numerous other forms of television and visual communication have also been used　on a semi?restricted basis. This indicates the many untapped areas of video and　television which may soon be exploited on a more widespread basis. The old cliché of a picture being worth a thousand words truly has merit.?

　　21.According to the passage, applications of television are easily accepted　in ____.?

　　A) metropolitan area ?

　　B) deep space exploration?

　　C) programs about entertainment and news?

　　D) remote areas?

　　22.Which of the following statements is true in the eyes of the writer??

　　A) Applications of television are beneficial to big cities.?

　　B) Applications of television are believed to be good activities.?

　　C) Applications of television are restricted to television systems.?

　　D) Applications of television do benefit to the mass entertainment field.

　　23.According to the passage television in USSR ?____.?

　　A) is limited to a revenue?producing business manner?

　　B) requires funding by commercial sponsors?

　　C) puts away the need of commercial aid?

　　D) is badly in need of commercial help?

　　24.In the passage, the author tries to tell us purely entertainment programs similar to the classic “Bewitched” ____?.?

　　A) are as good as those in the U.S.?

　　B) have been seen on many government?controlled networks?

　　C) are as gray and dismal as the uninformed might unnecessarily visualize

　　D) are not as gloomy as the uninformed might?

　　25.The author's attitude toward television programs is ?____?. ?

　　A) positive B) indifferent?

　　C) critical D) dangerous?

　　Questions 26 to 30 are based on the following passage:

　　I came across an old country guide the other day. It listed all the tradesmen in each village in my part of the country, and it was impressive to see the great variety of services which were available on one's own doorstep in the late Victorian countryside.?

　　Nowadays a superficial traveler in rural England might conclude that the only village tradesmen still flourishing were either selling frozen food to the inhabitants or selling antiques to visitors. Nevertheless, this would really be a false　impression. Admittedly there has been a contraction of village commerce, but its vigour is still remarkable.?

　　Our local grocer's shop, for example, is actually expanding in spite of the competition from supermarkets in the nearest town. Women sensibly prefer to go there and exchange the local news while doing their shopping, instead of queueing up(anonymously) at a supermarket. And the proprietor knows well that personal service has a substantial cash value.?

　　His prices may be a bit higher than those in the town, but he will deliver anything at any time. His assistants think nothing of bicycling down the village street in their lunch hour to take a piece of cheese to an old?age pensioner who sent her order by word of mouth with a friend who happened to be passing, the more affluent customers telephone their shopping lists and the goods are on their doorsteps within an hour. They have only to knit at a fancy for some commodity outside the usual stock and the grocer, a red?faced figure, instantly obtains it from them.

　　The village gains from this sort of enterprise, of course. But I also find it satisfactory because a village shop offers one of the few ways in which a modest individualist can still get along in the world without attaching himself to the big battalions of industry or commerce.　Most of the village shopkeepers I know, at any rate, are decidedly individualist　in their ways. For example, our shoemaker is a formidable figure: a thick?set,　irritable man whom children treat with marked respect, knowing that an ill?judged word can provoke an angry eruption at any time. He stares with smouldering contempt at the pairs of cheap, mass?produced shoes taken to him for repair: has it come to this, he seems to be saying, that he, a craftsman, should have to waste his skills upon such trash? But we all know he will in fact do excellent work upon them. And he makes beautiful shoes for those who can afford such luxury.

　　26.The writer considered the old country guide interesting because he found　in it ____?.?

　　A) the names of so many of the shops in the village around?

　　B) the many people selling to, and doing jobs for, residents in local villages at the time it appeared?

　　C) the variety of shops and services available in Victorian days in Britain

　　D) information about all the jobs there were in his own and surrounding villages at the time it appeared?

　　27.The local grocer's shop is expanding even though ?____?.?

　　A) women spend a lot of their time there just gossiping?

　　B) town shops are larger and rather cheaper?

　　C) people like to shop where they are less well?known?

　　D) people get personal service in his shop?

　　28.The writer implies that one disadvantage of town shops is that ?____.?

　　A) their prices are higher?

　　B) people cannot telephone them?

　　C) their staff may take less trouble to satisfy customers?

　　D) one has to queue up in them?

　　29.The writer appreciates the village shop because ?____.

　　A) he welcomes competition with organized business?

　　B) he likes the idea that a humble person can be successful?

　　C) this is a case of individual success in a world of increasing?

　　D) he welcomes an example of private enterprise surviving in an age of giant companies?

　　30.What is the village shoemaker's reaction to mass?produced shoes??

　　A) He considers they are not worth the effort of mending properly.?

　　B) He is angry with the customers for bringing in such rubbish.?

　　C) He despises their quality.?

　　D) He feels exasperated because people waste their money on inferior shoes.