歷年大學(xué)英語六級閱讀理解真題及答案匯總

1、 上學(xué)吧：http://www.shangxueba.com上學(xué)吧為您提供外語類考試資料下載：http://www.shangxueba.com/share/s12.html1990 年 1 月大學(xué)英語六級閱讀理解真題及答案 月大學(xué)英語六級閱讀理解真題及答案Part II Reading Comprehension (35 minutes)Passage OneQuestion

2、s 21 to 24 are based on the following passage:Automation refers to the introduction of electronic control and automatic operation of pro-ductive machinery. It reduces the human factors, mental and physical, in production

3、, and is de-signed to make possible the manufacture of more goods with fewer workers. The development of automation in American industry has been called the “Second Industrial Revolution“.Labour's concern over automa

4、tion arises from uncertainty about the effects on employ-ment, and fears of major changes in jobs. In the main, labour has taken the view that resistance to technical change is unfruitful. Eventually, the result of autom

5、ation may well be an increase in employment, since it is expected that vast industries will grow up around manufacturing, main-taining, and repairing automation equipment. The interest of labour lies in bringing about th

6、etransition with a minimum of inconvenience and distress to the workers involved. AI~, union spokesmen emphasize that the benefit of the increased production and lower costs made possible by automation should be shared b

7、y workers in the form of higher wages, more leisure, and improved living standards.To protect the interests of their members in the era of automation, unions have adopted a number of new policies. One of these is the pro

8、motion of supplementary unemployment benefit plans. It is emphasized that since the employer involved in such a plan has a direct financial interest in preventing unemployment, he will have a strong drive for planning ne

9、w installations so as to cause the least possible problems in jobs and job assignments. Some unions are working for dismissal pay agreements, requiring that permanently dismissed workers be paid a sum of moneybased on le

10、ngth of service. Another approach is the idea of the “improvement factor“, which calls for wage increases based on increases in productivity. It is possible, however, that labour will rely mainly on reduction in working

11、hours in order to gain a full share in the fruits of automation.21. Though labour worries about the effects of automation, it does not doubt thatA) automation will eventually prevent unemploymentB) automation will help w

12、orkers acquire new skillsC) automation will eventually benefit the workers no less than the employersD) automation is a trend which cannot be stopped22. The idea of the “improvement factor“ ( Line 7, Para. 3)probably imp

13、lies thatA) wages should be paid on the basis of length of serviceB) the benefit of increased production and lower costs should be shared by workersC) supplementary unemployment benefit plans should be promotedD) the tra

14、nsition to automation should be brought about with the minimum of inconvenience and distress to workers23. In order to get the full benefits of automation, labour will depend mostly onA) additional payment to the permane

15、ntly dismissed workersB) the increase of wages in proportion to the increase in productivity上學(xué)吧：http://www.shangxueba.com上學(xué)吧為您提供外語類考試資料下載：http://www.shangxueba.com/share/s12.htmlB) college graduates who are selling shoes

16、 and driving taxisC) college students who aren't any better for their higher educationD) high school graduates who failed to be admitted to college27. The drop- out rate of college students seems to go up becauseA) y

17、oung people are disappointed with the conventional way of teaching at collegeB) many young people are required to join the armyC) young people have little motivation in pursuing a higher educationD) young people don'

18、t like the intense competition for admission to graduate school28. According to the passage the problems of college education partly arise from the fact thatA) society cannot provide enough jobs for properly trained coll

19、ege graduatesB) high school graduates do not fit the pattern of college educationC) too many students have to earn their own livingD) college administrators encourage students to drop out29. In this passage the author ar

20、gues thatA) more and more evidence shows college education may not be the best thing for high school graduatesB) college education is not enough if one wants to be successfulC) college education benefits only the intelli

21、gent, ambitious, and quick - learning peopleD) intelligent people may learn quicker if they don't go to college30. The “surveys and statistics“ mentioned in the last paragraph might have shown thatA) college- educate

22、d people are more successful than non - college - educated peopleB) college education was not the first choice of intelligent peopleC) the less schooling a person has the better it is for himD) most people have sweet mem

23、ories of college life Passage ThreeQuestions 31 to 35 are based on the following passage:Ours has become a society of employees. A hundred years or so ago only one out of every five Americans at work was employed, i. e.,

24、 worked for somebody else. Today only one out of five is not employed but working for himself. And when fifty years ago “being employed“ meant working as a factory labourer or as a farmhand, the employee of today is incr

25、easingly a middle-class person with a substantial formal education, holding a professional or management job re-quiring intellectual and technical skills. Indeed, two things have characteried American society during thes

26、e last fifty years: middle - class and upper - class employees have been the fastest- growing groups in our working population- growing so fast that the industrial worker, that old- est child of the Industrial Revolution

27、, has been losing in numerical importance despite the ex- pans/on of industrial production.Yet you will fine little if anything written on what it is to be an employee. You can find a great deal of very dubious advice on

28、 how to get a job or how to get a promotion. You can also find a good deal of work in a chosen field, whether it be the mechanist' s trade or bookkeeping (簿記). Every one of these trades requires different skills, set