2007年12月全国大学英语六级考试真题和答案
PartⅣ Reading Comprehension（Reading in Depth）(25 minutes)
Section A
Directions: In this ction, there is a short passage with 5 questions or incomplete statements. Read the passage carefully. Then answer the questions or complete the statements in the fewest possible words. Plea write your answers on Answer Sheet 2. Questions 47 to 51 are bad on the following passage.
Men, the days, are embracing fatherhood with the round-the-clock involvement their partners have always dreamed of—handling night feedings, packing lunches and bandaging knees. But unlike women, many find they’re negotiating their new roles with little support or information. “Men in my generation (aged 25-40) have a fear of becaming dads becau we have no role models, ”says Jon Smith, a writer. They often find themlves excluded from mothers’ support networks and are eyed warily（警觉地）on the playground.
The challenge is particularly evident in the work-place. There, men are still expected to be breadwinners climbing the corporate ladder; traditionally-minded boss are often unsympa
thetic to family needs. In Denmark most new fathers only take two weeks of paternity leave（父亲的陪产假）—even though they are allowed 34 days. As much as if not more so than women, fathers struggle to be taken riously when they request flexible arrangements.
Though Wilfried-Fritz Maring, 54, a data-bank and Internet specialist with German firm FIZ Karlsruhe, feels that the time he spends with his daughter outweighs any disadvantages, he admits, “With my decision to work from home I dismisd any opportunity for promotion. ”
Mind-ts（思维定势）are changing gradually. When Maring had a daughter, the company equipped him with a home office and allowed him to choo a job that could be performed from there. Danish telecom company TDC initiated an internal campaign last year to encourage dads to take paternity leave: 97 percent now do. “When an employee goes on paternity leave and is with his kids, he gets a new kind of training: in how to keep cool under stress,” says spokesperson Christine Elberg Holm. For a new generation of dads, kids may come before the company—but it’s a shift that benefits both.
母亲的抉择
47. Unlike women, men often get little support or information from ______________.
48. Besides supporting the family, men were also expected to ______________.
49. Like women, men hope that their desire for a flexible schedule will be ______________.
50. When Maring was on paternity leave, he was allowed by his company to work ______________.
51. Christine Holm believes paternity leave provides a new kind of training for men in that it can help them cope with______________.
Section B 本题共计15分，每小题1.5分。
Passage One
Questions 52 to 56 are bad on the following passage.
Like most people, I’ve long understood that I will be judged by my occupation, that my profession is a gauge people u to e how smart or talented I am. Recently, however, was disappointed to e that it also decides how I’m treated as a person.
Last year I left a professional position as a small-town reporter and took a job waiting tabl
es. As someone paid to rve food to people, I had customers say and do things to me I suspect they’d never say or do to their most casual acquaintances. One night a man talking on his cell phone waved me away, then beckoned (示意) me back with his finger a minute later, complaining he was ready to order and asking where I’d been.
I had waited tables during summers in college and was treated like a peon (勤杂工) by plenty of people. But at 19 years old, I believed I derved inferior treatment from professional adults. Besides, people responded to me differently after I told them I was in college. Customers would joke that one day I’d be sitting at their table, waiting to be rved.
感谢朋友的诗句Once I graduated I took a job at a community newspaper. From my first day, I heard a respectful tone from everyone who called me. I assumed this was the way the professional world worked—cordially.
I soon found out differently. I sat veral feet away from an advertising sales reprentative with a similar name. Our calls would often get mixed up and someone asking for Kristen would be transferred to Christie. The mistake was immediately evident.
Perhaps it was becau money was involved, but people ud a tone with Kristen that they never ud with me.
My job title made people treat me with courtesy. So it was a shock to return to the restaurant industry.
It’s no cret that there’s a lot to put up with when waiting tables, and fortunately, much of it can be easily forgotten when you pocket the tips. The rvice industry, by definition, exists to cater to others’ needs. Still, it emed that many of my customers didn’t get the difference between rver and rvant.
I’m now applying to graduate school, which means someday I’ll return to a profession where people need to be nice to me in order to get what they want. I think I’ll take them to dinner first, and e how they treat someone who only job is to rve them.
happy的反义词
52. The author was disappointed to find that ________.
A) one’s position is ud as a gauge to measure one’s intelligence
B) talented people like her should fail to get a respectable job
C) one’s occupation affects the way one is treated as a person
D) professionals tend to look down upon manual workers
53. What does the author intend to say by the example in the cond paragraph?
A) Some customers simply show no respect to tho who rve them. 色小姐电影
B) People absorbed in a phone conversation tend to be abnt-minded.
C) Waitress are often treated by customers as casual acquaintances.
崇字笔顺D) Some customers like to make loud complaints for no reason at all.
54. How did the author feel when waiting tables at the age of 19?
电视柜效果图A) She felt it unfair to be treated as a mere rvant by professionals.
B) She felt badly hurt when her customers regarded her as a peon.
C) She was embarrasd each time her customers joked with her.
D) She found it natural for professionals to treat her as inferior.
55. What does the author imply by saying “. . . many of my customers didn’t get the difference between rver and rvant” (Line 3, Para. 7)?
A) Tho who cater to others’ needs are destined to be looked down upon.
B) Tho working in the rvice industry shouldn’t be treated as rvants.
C) Tho rving others have to put up with rough treatment to earn a living.
D) The majority of customers tend to look on a rvant as rver nowadays.
56. The author says she’ll one day take her clients to dinner in order to ________.
A) e what kind of person they are
B) experience the feeling of being rved
C) show her generosity towards people inferior to her
D) arou their sympathy for people living a humble life
Passage Two
Questions 57 to 61 are bad on the following passage.
What’s hot for 2007 among the very rich? A ＄7. 3 million diamond ring. A trip to Tanzania to hunt wild animals. Oh, and income inequality.
Sure, some leftish billionaires like George Soros have been railing against income inequality for years. But increasingly, centrist and right-wing billionaires are starting to worry about income inequality and the fate of the middle class.
车前子的功效
In December, Mortimer Zuckerman wrote a column in U. S. News & World Report, which he owns. “Our nation’s core bargain with the middle class is disintegrating, ”lamented (哀叹) the 117th-richest man in America. “Most of our economic gains have gone to people at the very top of the income ladder. Average income for a houhold of people of working age, by contrast, has fallen five years in a row. ” He noted that “Tens of millions of Americans live in fear that a major health problem can reduce them to bankruptcy. ”
Wilbur Ross Jr. has echoed Zuckerman’s anger over the bitter struggles faced by middle-class Americans. “It’s an outrage that any American’s life expectancy should be shortened simply becau the company they worked for went bankrupt and ended health-care coverage,” said the former chairman of the International Steel Group.
What’s happening? The very rich are just as trendy as you and I, and can be so when it comes to politics and policy. Given the recent change of control in Congress, the popularity of measures like increasing the minimum wage, and efforts by California’s governor to offer universal health care, the guys don’t need their own personal weathermen to know which way the wind blows.
It’s possible that plutocrats（有钱有势的人）are expressing solidarity with the struggling middle class as part of an effort to insulate themlves from confiscatory（没收性的）tax policies. But the prospect that income inequality will lead to higher taxes on the wealthy doesn’t keep plutocrats up at night. They can live with that.
No, what they fear was that the political challenges of sustaining support for global economic integration will be more difficult in the United States becau of what has happened to the distribution of income and economic incurity.
In other words, if middle-class Americans continue to struggle financially as the ultrawealthy grow ever wealthier, it will be increasingly difficult to maintain political support for the free flow of goods, rvices, and capital across borders. And when the United States places obstacles in the way of foreign investors and foreign goods, it’s likely to encourage reciprocal action abroad. For people who buy and ll companies, or who allocate capital to markets all around the world, that’s the real nightmare.
57. What is the current topic of common interest among the very rich in America?
A) The fate of the ultrawealthy people.
B) The disintegration of the middle class.
C) The inequality in the distribution of wealth.
D) The conflict between the left and the right wing.
58. What do we learn from Mortimer Zuckerman’s lamentation?
A) Many middle-income families have failed to make a bargain for better welfare.
B) The American economic system has caud many companies to go bankrupt.
C) The American nation is becoming more and more divided despite its wealth.
D) The majority of Americans benefit little from the natiion’s growing wealth.
59. From the fifth paragraph we can learn that ________.
A) the very rich are fashion-conscious
节目英文B) the very rich are politically nsitive
C) universal health care is to be implemented throughout America
D) Congress has gained popularity by increasing the minimum wage
60. What is the real reason for plutocrats to express solidarity with the middle class?
A) They want to protect themlves from confiscatory taxation.
B) They know that the middle class contributes most to society.
C) They want to gain support for global economic integration.
D) They feel increasingly threatened by economic incurity.
61. What may happen if the United States places obstacles in the way of foreign investors and foreign goods?
A) The prices of imported goods will inevitably soar beyond control.
B) The investors will have to make great efforts to re-allocate capital.
C) The wealthy will attempt to buy foreign companies across borders.
D) Foreign countries will place the same economic barriers in return.
