【正文】 1998年6月大學英語六級(CET6)真題試卷Part I Listening Comprehension (20 minutes)Section A1. A) He thinks that there won’t be enough sets for everybody.B) He thinks that the speaker won’t show up.C) He thinks the seminar won’t be open to the public.D) He thinks that there might not be any more tickets available.2. A) Their father is unable to keep his promise.B) Their father is going on a vacation without her.C) Their father isn’t telling her the truth.D) Their father doesn’t want to travel abroad.3. A) John didn’t pass, although he had tried his best.B) John did better than he thought he was able to.C) John got an excellent score, which was unexpected.D) John was disappointed at his math score.4. A) The roof of the woman’s house needs to be repaired.B) The roof of the man’s house has several bad leaks.C) The woman’s bathroom was badly damaged.D) The man works for a roofing pany.5. A) Mr. Smith will be replaced if he makes another mistake.B) Mr. Smith is an admirable chief of the Asian Department.C) Mr. Smith’s department is more successful than all the others.D) Mr. Smith is seldom in his office.6. A) She don’t have a fax machine.B) She may quit her present job soon.C) She is tired of her present job.D) Her phone number has changed.7. A) Someone has taken her luggage.B) Her flight is 50 minutes late.C) Her luggage has been delayed.D) She can’t find the man she’s been waiting for.8. A) To do whatever the mittee asks him to.B) To make decisions in agreement with the mittee.C) To run the mittee his way.D) To make himself the mittee chairman.9. A) The woman found the mail box empty.B) The man is waiting for some important mail.C) The man has just sent out his application.D) The woman will write a postcard to her daughter.10. A) Read the operation manual.B) Try the buttons one by one.C) Ask the shop assistant for advice.D) Make the machine run slowly.Section BQuestions 11 to 14 are based on the passage you have just heard.11. A) They were drawing pictures.B) They were watching TV.C) They were making a telephone call.D) They were tidying up the drawing room.12. A) They locked the couple up in the drawing room.B) They seriously injured the owners of the house.C) They smashed the TV set and the telephone.D) They took away sixteen valuable paintings.13. A) He accused them of the theft.B) He raised the rents.C) He refused to prolong their land lease.D) He forced them to abandon their traditions.14. A) They wanted to protect the farmers’ interests.B) They wanted to extend the reservation area for birds.C) They wanted to steal his valuable paintings.D) They wanted to drive him away from the island.Passage TwoQuestions 15 to 17 are based on the passage you have just heard.15. A) Through food.B) Through air.C) Through insects.D) Through body fluids.16. A) They ran a high fever.B) They died from excessive bleeding.C) Their nervous system was damaged.D) They suffered from heartattack.17. A) To see what happened to the survivors of the outbreak.B) To study animals that can also get infected with the disease.C) To find out where the virus originates.D) To look for the plants that could cure the disease.Passage ThreeQuestions 18 to 20 are based on the passage you have just heard.18. A) To determine whether the Earth’s temperature is going up.B) To study the behavior of some sea animals.C) To measure the depths of the ocean.D) To measure the movement of waves in the ocean.19. A) They were frightened and distressed.B) They swam away when the speaker was turned on.C) They swam closer to “examine” the speaker when it was turned off.D) They didn’t seem to be frightened and kept swimming near the speaker.20. A) To attract more sea animals to the testing site.B) To drive dangerous sea animals away from the testing site.C) To help trace the sea animals being tested.D) To determine how sea animals municate with each other.Part II Reading Comprehension (35 minutes)Questions 21 to 25 are based on the following passage.Cyberspace (網(wǎng)絡空間)， data superhighways, mullet mediafor those who have seen the future, the linking of puters, television and telephones will change our lives for ever, Yet for all the talk of a forthing technological utopia (烏托邦) little attention has been given to the implications of these developments for the poor. As with all new high technology, while the West concerns itself with the “how,” the question of “for whom” is put aside once again.Economists are only now realizing the full extent to which the munications revolution has affected the world economy. Information technology allows the extension of trade across geographical and industrial boundaries, and transitional corporations take full advantage of it. Terms of trade, exchange and interest rates and money movements are more important than the production of goods. The electronic economy made possible by information technology allows the haves to increase their control on global marketswith destructive impact on the havenots.For them the result is instability. Developing countries which rely on the production of a small range of goods for export are made to feel like small parts in the international economic machine. As “futures”(期貨) are traded on puter screens, developing countries simply have less and less control of their destinies.So what are the options for regaining control? One alternative is for developing countries to buy in the latest puters and telemunications themselvessocalled”development munications” modernization. Yet this leads to longterm dependency and perhaps permanent constraints on developing countries’ economies.Communications technology is generally exported from the ., Europe or Japan。 the patents, skills and ability to manufacture remain in the hands of a few industrialized countries, It is also expensive, and imported products and servic