2015下半年英语六级模拟试题：仔细阅读
Section C
Directions: There are 2 passages in this ction. 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 Answer Sheet 2 with a single line through the centre.
Passage One
Questions 56 to 60 are bad on the following passage.
In ancient Greece athletic festivals were very important and had strong religious associations. The Olympian athletic festival held every four years in honor of Zeus, king of the Olympian Gods, eventually lost its local character,became first a national event and then, after the rules against foreign competitors had been abolished, international.
No one knows exactly how far back the Olympic Games go, but some official records date from 776 B.C.
The games took place in August on the plain by Mount Olympus. Many thousands of spectators gathered from all parts of Greece, but no married woman was admitted even as a spectator. Slaves, women and dishonored persons were not allowed to compete. The exact quence of events is. uncertain, but events included boy's gymnastics, boxing, wrestling, hor racing and field events, though there were fewer sports involved than in the modern Olympic Games.
On the last day of the Games, all the winners were honored by having a ring of holy olive laves placed on their heads. So great was the honor that the winner of the foot race gave his name to the year of his victory.
Although Olympic winners received no prize money, they were, in fact, richly rewarded by their state authorities.
How their results compared with modem standards, we unfortunately have no means of telling.
After an uninterrupted history of almost 1,200 years, the games were suspended by the Romans in 394 A.D.
They continued for such a long time becau people believed in the philosophy behind the Olympic
s: the idea that a healthy body produced a healthy mind, and that the spirit of competition in sports and games was preferable to the competition that caud wars. It was over 1,500 years before another such international athletic gathering took place in Athens in 1896.
Nowadays, the Games are held in different countries in turn. The host country provides vast facilities, including a stadium, swimming pools and living accommodation, but competing countries pay their own athletes' expens.
The Olympics start with the arrival in the stadium of a torch, lighted on Mount Olympus by the sun's rays. It is carded by a succession of runners to the stadium. The torch symbolized the continuation of the ancient Greek athletic ideals, and it bums throughout the Games until the closing ceremony. The well-known Olympic flag, however, is a modem conception: the five inter locking rings symbolize the uniting of all five continents participating in the Games.
56. The Olympic Games became an international event since the games__________.
A． lost the previous religious meanings
B． were accepted by all Greek people
C． allowed foreign athletes to compete in it
D． got official records and judge systems
57. Compared with the modem Olympic Games, the ancient ones __________.
A． covered every possible events for males
B． did not give due respect to women
C．attracted people from different countries
D． had more sports events than the modem ones
58. In ancient Olympic Games, winners__________.
自我介绍的英语作文A． could not get any award in money form from organizers of the Games
B． could earn a lot of money through the award given by the organizers
C． could give his name to the year of his victory as a great honor
D． were honored by having a ring of olive leaves around their waists
59. According to the spirit of the ancient Olympic Games, __________.
A． wars between countries could be avoided through sports
B． competition in sports led to wars between countries
C． healthy mind could reinforce a healthy body
D． healthy mind could be fostered by a healthy body
60. When athletes arrive at the host country,__________.
A． the host country pays for their traveling expens
B． they are always not satisfied with the living conditions
C． their countries have to pay for their expenditure
D． they u the training facilities immediately for adjustment．
Passage Two枳壳的作用与功效
Questions 61 to 65 are bad on the following passage.
Now and again I have had horrible dreams, but not enough of them to make me lo my delight in dreams. To begin with, I like the idea of dreaming, of going to bed and lying still and then, by some queer magic, wandering into another kind of
火性人existence. As a child I could never understand why grown-ups took dreaming so calmly when they could make such a fuss about any holiday. This still puzzles me. I am mystified (迷惑的) by people who say they never dream and appear to have no interest in the subject. It is much more astonishing than if they said they never went out for a walk. Most people Or at least more Western Europeans do not em to accept dreaming as part of their lives. They appear to e it as an irritating little habit, like sneezing or yawning.
I have never understood this. My dream life does not em as important as my waking fife, if only becau there is far less of it, but to me it is important. As if there were at least two extra continents added to the world, and lightning excursions running to them at any moment between midnight and breakfast. Then again, the dream fife,though queer and confusing and unsatisfactory in many respec
ts, has its own advantages. The dead are there,smiling and talking. The part is there, sometimes all broken and confud but occasionally as fresh as a daisy. And perhaps, as Mr. Dunne tells us, the future is there too, winking at us. This dream life is often overshadowed (蒙上阴影) by huge mysterious anxieties, with luggage that cannot be packed and trains that refu to be caught； and both persons and scenes there are not as dependable and solid as they are in waking life, so that Brown and Smith merge into one person while Robinson splits into two, and there are thick woods outside the bathroom door and the dining room is somehow part of a theatre balcony； and there are moments of loneliness or terror in the dream word that are wor than anything we have known under the sun. Yet this other life has its interests, its happiness, its satisfactions, and at certain rare intervals, a rene glow or a sudden joy, like glimps of another form of existence altogether, that we cannot match with open eyes. Silly or wi, terrible or excellent, it is a further helping of experience, a bonus after dark, another slice of life cut differently, for which, it ems to me, we are never sufficiently grateful. Only a dream! Why only? It was there and you had it.
"If there were dreams to ll," Beddoes inquires, "What would you pay?" I cannot say off hand, but certainly the price would be rather more than I could afford.
61. When the author was young, he thought that __________.
A． by dreaming people could live a better life indeed
B． he was puzzled by the mysterious quality of dreams
C． it was astonishing that adults loved holidays so much
D． it was a pity that adults could not enjoy dreams
62. According to the author, most Western Europeans __________.
A． have ignored the important aspects of dreams
对祖国的祝福语
B． don't know how to enjoy life in their dreams
C． value dreams very highly
D． think of sneezing when thinking of dreams
赖上岳母娘63. The advantageous aspect of dreams lies in __________.
A． the short moments it has relieved people from the burden of life
B． experiencing the impossible or unrealistic, even broken parts of life
C． the refreshing power it endows people when they wake up in the morning
D． the mystery it brings when in dream people can predict their future莫理循
春意黯然64. In the author's opinion, we should thank a dream becau__________.
A． it makes us enjoy a different life
B． we can avoid terrible things in real life
C． we can experience various emotions in dreams
D． it can help us regain the innocent moments of life
65. What can be inferred from the author's answer to Beddoes' question?
A． Dreams may be manufactured and sold in the near future.
B． The price of a dream is ridiculously higher than expected.
酬谢造句C． People are silly if they t a high value on dreams.
D． The value of dreams is greater than we've imagined.
