2015年12月大学英语六级考试模拟试卷

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2015年12月大学英语六级考试模拟试卷

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2015年12月大学英语六级考试模拟试卷

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 23 are based on the following passage:

The Caledonian Market in London is a clearing house of the

junk (旧货、废弃物 ) of the universe. Here, rubbish is a commodity and rubbish picking is a sport. Somebody, somewhere,

wanted these things, perhaps just to look at. You learn here

the incredible obscurity of human needs and desires. People

grope (摸索), with fascinated curiosity, among the turnedout debris (废墟) of thousands of attic rooms. Junk pours in

twice a week, year in and year out. The Market is the penultimate

(倒数第二的) resting place of banished vases, musical

instruments that will not play, sewing machines that will not

sew, paralyzed perambulator, epileptic bicycles and numerous

other articles from which all morale and hope have long departed.

There are stories of fortunes being picked up in the Market.

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of a crazy old bureau. And book buyers have discovered valuable

editions of Milton and Dickens and Carlyla. There is nothing one can not buy in the Market. 21. The title below that best expresses the idea of this passage is ____.

A) Why People Buy What They Do

B) Reflections on A Famous Junk Market

C) The Cause for Fascinated Curiosity

D) What Happens to Attic Debris

22. The articles for sale in the Caledonian Market ____.

A) are wanted to look at

B) are collected 100 times a year

C) reveal obscure needs and desires

D) bring fortune to the buyers

23. From the style of this passage one might assume that it was taken from ____.

A) a report on marketingB) a guide book

C) directions for a stage setting

D) an information essay

Questions 24 to 30 are based on the following passage:

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two or more individual animals do the same thing, with some

degree of mutual simulation and coordination. It can only

involve in species with sense organs that are well enough

developed so that continuous sensory contact can be maintained.

It is found primarily in vertebrates(脊椎动物), in those species that are diurnal, and usually in those that spend much

of their lives in the air, in open water or on open plains.

In birds, allelomimetic behavior is the rule rather than

the exception, though it may occasionally be limited to

particular seasons of the year as it is in the redwing blackbird.

Its principal function is that of providing safety from

predators(掠食者), partly because the flock can rely on many

pairs of eyes to watch for enemies, and partly because if one

bird reacts to danger, the whole flock is warned.

Among mammals, allelomimetic behavior is very rare in

rodents(啮齿动物), which almost never move in flocks or herds.

Even when they are artificially crowded together, they do not

conform in their movements. On the other hand, such behavior

is a major system among largehoofed mammals,such as sheep.

In the pack hunting carnivores(食肉类飞禽), allelomimetic

behavior has another function of cooperative hunting for large

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dens as a group against larger predators, such as bears.

Finally, allelomimetic behavior is highly developed among

most primate groups, where it has the principal function of

providing warning against predators,as though combined

defensive behavior is also seen in troops of baboons(狒狒).

24. The main topic of the passage is the ____.

A) value of allelomimetic behavior in vertebrate and

invertebrate species

B) definition and distribution of allelomimetic behavior

C) relationship of allelomimetic behavior to the survival of

the fittest

D) personality factors that determine when an individual

animal will show allelomimetic behavior

25. Which of the following places is the most likely setting

for allelomimetic behavior?

A) A lake. B) A cave.

C) An underground tunnel. D) A thick forest.

26. The author implies that allelomimetic behavior occurs most often among a nimals that ____.

A) prey on other animals C) move in groups

B) are less intelligent than their enemies