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第1题

Generally speaking, a British is widely regarded as a quiet, shy and conservative person w

ho is 【21】______ only among those with whom he is acquainted. When a stranger is at present, he often seems nervous, 【22】______ embarrassed. You have to take a commuter train any morning or evening to 【23】______ the truth of this. Serious-looking businessmen and women sit reading their newspapers or dozing in a comer; hardly anybody talks, since to do so would be considered quite offensive.

【24】______ , there is an unwritten but clearly understood code of behavior. which, 【25】______ broken, makes the offender immediately the object of 【26】______ .

It has been known as a fact that a British has a 【27】______ for the discussion of their weather and that, if given a chance, he will talk about it 【28】______ . Some people argue that it is because the British weather seldom 【29】______ forecast and hence becomes a source of interest and 【30】______ to everyone. This may be so. 【31】______ a British cannot have much 【32】______ in the weathermen, who, alter promising fine, sunny weather for the following day, are often proved wrong 【33】______ a cloud over the Atlantic brings rainy weather to all districts! The man in the street seems to be as accurate -- or as inaccurate -- as the weathermen in his 【34】______ .

Foreigners may be surprised at the number of references 【35】______ weather that the British make to each other in the course of a single day. Very often conversational greetings are 【36】______ by comments on the weather. "Nice day, isn't it？" "Beautiful day!" may well be heard instead of "Good morning, how are you？" 【37】______ the foreigner may consider this exaggerated and comic, it is worthwhile pointing out that it could be used to his advantage. 【38】______ he wants to start a conversation with a British but is 【39】______ to know where to begin, he could do well to mention the state of the weather. It is a sale subject which will 【40】______ an answer from even the most reserved of the British.

【21】

A．relaxed

B．frustrated

C．amused

D．exhausted

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第2题

Crime is a very serious problem in Britain.One sort of crime which particularly worries people is juvenile delinquency—that is,crimes committed by young people.For some years juvenile delinquency had been increasing.There are two main sorts of juvenile crimes: stealing and violence.Most people do not understand why young people commit these crimes.There are,I think,a large number of different reasons.

These crimes are not usually committed by people who are poor or in need.Young people often dislike and hate the adult world.They will do things to show that they are rebels.Also in Britain today it is easier for young people to commit crimes because they have more freedom to go where they like and more money to do what they like.

There are two other possible causes which are worth mentioning.More and more people in Britain live in large towns.In a large town no one knows who anyone else is or where they live.But in the village I come from crimes are rare because everyone knows everyone else.

Although it is difficult to explain,I think the last cause is very important.Perhaps there is something with our society which encourages violence and crime.It is a fact that all the time children are exposed to films and reports about crime and violence.Many people do not agree that this influences the young people,but I think that young people are very much influenced by the society they grow in.I feel that the fault may be as much with our whole society as with these young people.

6.From the passage we know that many British people are confused about（）.

A.the cause of juvenile crimes

B.the rise of the crime rate

C.the problem of crimes in their country

D.the various kinds of juvenile delinquency

7.One reason why young people in large cities are more likely to commit crimes is that（）.

A.nobody knows anything about others

B.they are free to move

C.they live a better life

D.they need more money

8.According to the passage,which groups of the following young people are LEAST likely to commit crimes?（）

A.Those living in big cities

B.Those who are in need of help

C.Those who are very poor

D.Those living in the countryside

9.Unlike many others,the author holds that one important cause for juvenile delinquency is that（）.

A.young people nowadays do not like adult world

B.young people in Britain today are freer than before

C.too many young people have come to live in big cities

D.young people are influenced by crime and violence in films and newspapers

10.According to the passage,which is to blame for juvenile crimes,apart from the young people themselves?（）

A.The adult world

B.Their parents

C.The development of the cities

D.The society

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第3题

The House of Commons is the real centre of British political life because it is the place where elected representatives make and debate policy.（)

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第4题

Some men steal out of need or greed; others kill themselves out of sadness. Putting togeth

er, these individual tales will display obvious regularities. As a result, some social scientists who first applied the rules of probability to human affairs even questioned the very notion of free will. "Society prepares the crime," wrote Adolphe Quetelet, a Belgian statistician, in 1835,"and the guilty person is only the instrument."

The findings of those statisticians' successors -- that poor children are more likely to fail at school, poor adults to commit crimes and die young, and so on -- are nowadays uncontroversial. And policymakers mostly avoid metaphysics (形而上学). Instead, they try to break such links by spending to "end child poverty" and by targeting health and education initiatives on the neediest. Yet such attempts are doomed to disappoint, because they conceive of each social ill in isolation, rather than treating their shared root cause. Moreover, they misidentify that cause: it is not poverty as such, but inequality.

The evidence, here painstakingly collected, is hard to dispute. Within the rich world, countries where incomes are more evenly distributed have longer-lived citizens and lower rates of fatness, misbehavior. and teenage pregnancy than richer countries where wealth is more concentrated. Studies of British civil servants find that senior ones enjoy better health than their immediate subordinates, who in turn do better than those further down the ladder.

And the evidence is that the differences in status cause these "gradients (梯度)". Low-status Indian children do worse on tests if they must state their identities beforehand. High-status monkeys grew up in captivity(囚禁) show increased levels of stress hormones and become iii more often when they are moved to groups where they no longer dominate.

What to do about this sickness caused by other people's wealth？ Increasing taxes on the rich, or smaller , differences in pay in the first place, say the authors, citing Sweden and Japan as instances of the two choices. A decade ago even left-wing politicians were "intensely relaxed about people getting rich". Now, as it becomes clearer that some of the rich got that way by theft, the idea that they have also caused injury more subtly will gain a readier hearing.

Too ready, perhaps: what if the price of greater equality is lower growth？ The .received wisdom is that rich rewards are necessary to stimulate the innovation on which growth depends. "No loss", say the authors," We have got close to the end of what economic growth can do for us." But that is a claim that needs to be supported, rather than simply made in a few sentences. If our ancestors had declared themselves thus satisfied, we would be without many things that we value -- and that they would have valued too, could they have imagined them. Should we be ready to give up joys we have never known？

What can we learn about statisticians' findings on the poor in the passage？

A．It is controversial for it destroys the reputation of the poor.

B．It may be caused by a deep social phenomenon--inequality.

C．They are individual tales with no regularities and special meaning.

D．They totally change the previous rules of social scientists.

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第5题

These days, nobody needs to cook. Families graze on high-cholesterol take-aways and microwaved ready-meals. Cooking is an occasional hobby and a vehicle for celebrity chefs. Which makes it odd that the kitchen has become the heart of the modern house: what the great hall was to the medieval castle, the kitchen is tothe 21st-century home.

The money spent on kitchens has risen with their status. In America the kitchen market is now worth $170 billion, five times the country’s film industry. In the year to August 2007, IKEA, a Swedish furniture chain, sold over one million kitchens worldwide. The average budget for a “major” kitchen overhaul in 2006, calculates Remodeling magazine, was a staggering $54,000; even a “minor” improvement coston average $18,000.

Exclusivity, more familiar in the world of high fashion, has reached the kitchen: Robinson & Cornish, a British manufacturer of custom-made kitchens, offers a Georgian-style one which would cost￡145,000-155,000—excluding building, plumbing and electrical work. Its big selling point is that nobody else will have it: “You won’t see this kitchen anywhere else in the world.”

The elevation of the room that once belonged only to the servants to that of design showcase for the modern family tells the story of a century of social change.

Right into the early 20th century, kitchens were smoky, noisy places, generally located underground, or to the back of the house, and as far from living space as possible. That was as it should be: kitchens were for servants, and the aspiring middle classes wanted nothing to do with them.

But as the working classes prospered and the servant shortage set in,housekeeping became a matter of interest to the educated classes. One of the pioneers of a radical new way of thinking about the kitchen was Catharine Esther Beecher,American Woman’s Home,sister of Harriet Beecher Stowe. In published in 1869, the Beecher sisters recommended a scientific approach to household management, designed to enhance the efficiency of a woman’s work and promote order.Many contemporary ideas about kitchen design can be traced back to another American, Christine Frederick, who set about enhancing the efficiency of the Household Engineering: Scientific Management in the Home housewife. Her 1919 work, was based on detailed observation of a housewife’s daily routine. She borrowed the principle of efficiency on the factory floor and applied it to domestic tasks on the kitchen floor.

Frederick’s central idea, that “stove, sink and kitchen table must be placed in such a relation that useless steps are avoided entirely”, inspired the first fully fitted kitchen, designed in the 1920s by Margarete Schütter-Lihotsky. It was a modernist triumph, and many elements remain central features of today’s kitchen.

1. What does the author say about the kitchen of today?()

A. It is where housewives display their cooking skills.

B. It is regarded as the center of a modern home.

C. It has become something odd in a modern house.

D. It is where the family entertains important guests.

2. Why does the Georgian-style kitchen sell at a very high price?()

A. No duplicate is to be found in any other place.

B. No other manufacturer can produce anything like it.

C. It is manufactured by a famous British company.

D. It is believed to have tremendous artistic value.

3. What does the change in the status of the kitchen reflect?()

A. Improved living conditions.

B. Women’s elevated status.

C. Social change.

D. Technological progress.

4. What was the Beecher sisters’ idea of a kitchen?()

A. A place to experiment with new ideas.

B. A place where high technology could be applied.

C. A place of interest to the educated people.

D. A place where women could work more efficiently.

5. What do we learn about today’s kitchen?()

A. It represents the rapid technological advance in people’s daily life.

B. It has been transformed beyond recognition.

C. Many of its central features are no different from those of the 1920s.

D. Many of its functions have changed greatly.

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第6题

Crime is a very serious problem in Britain. One sort of crime which particularly worri

es people is juvenile delinquency—that is, crimes committed by young people. For some years juvenile delinquency had been increasing. There are two main sorts of juvenile crimes: stealing and violence. Most people do not understand why young people commit these crimes. There are, I think, a large number of different reasons.

These crimes are not usually committed by people who are poor or in need. Young people often dislike and hate the adult world. They will do things to show that they are rebels. Also in Britain today it is easier for young people to commit crimes because they have more freedom to go where they like and more money to do what they like.

There are two other possible causes which are worth mentioning. More and more people in Britain live in large towns. In a large town no one knows who anyone else is or where they live. But in the village I come from crimes are rare because everyone knows everyone else.

Although it is difficult to explain, I think the last cause is very important. Perhaps there is something with our society which encourages violence and crime. It is a fact that all the time children are exposed to films and reports about crime and violence. Many people do not agree that this influences the young people, but I think that young people are very much influenced by the society they grow in. I feel that the fault may be as much with our whole society as with these young people.

1.From the passage we know that many British people are confused about ____.

A.the cause of juvenile crimes

B.the rise of the crime rate

C.the problem of crimes in their country

D.the various kinds of juvenile delinquency

2.One reason why young people in large cities are more likely to commit crimes is that ________.

A.nobody knows anything about others

B.they are free to move

C.they live a better life

D.they need more money

3.According to the passage, which groups of the following young people are LEAST likely to commit crimes？()

A.Those living in big cities

B.Those who are in need of help

C.Those who are very poor

D.Those living in the countryside

4.Unlike many others, the author holds that one important cause for juvenile delinquency is that _____.

A.young people nowadays do not like adult world

B.young people in Britain today are freer than before

C.too many young people have come to live in big cities

D.young people are influenced by crime and violence in films and newspapers

10.According to the passage, which is to blame for juvenile crimes, apart from the young people themselves？()

A.The adult world

B.Their parents

C.The development of the cities

D.The society

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第7题

仔细阅读：These days, nobody needs to cook. Families graze on high-cholesterol take-aways and

Passage Two（2016年6月英语六级卷2试题）

These days, nobody needs to cook. Families graze on high-cholesterol take-aways and microwaved ready-meals. Cooking is an occasional hobby and a vehicle for celebrity chefs. Which makes it odd that the kitchen has become the heart of the modern house, what the great hall was to the medieval castle, the kitchen is to the 21st-century home.

The money spent on kitchens has risen with their status. In America the kitchen market is now worth $170 billion, five times the country's film industry. In the year to August 2007, IKEA, a Swedish furniture chain, sold over one million kitchens worldwide. The average budget for a "major" kitchen overhaul in 2006, calculates Remodeling magazing, was a staggering $54,000, even a "minor" improvement cost on average $18,000.

Exclusivity, more familiar in the world of high fashion, has reached the kitchen: Robinson&Cornish, a British manufacturer of custom-made kitchens, offers a Georgian-style. one which would cost £145,000-155,000—excluding building, plumbing and electrical work. Its big selling point is that nobody else will have it :"You won't see this kitchen anywhere else in the word."

The elevation of the room that once belonged only to the servants for the modem family tells the story of a century of social change. Right into the early 20th century, kitchens were smoky, noisy places, generally located underground, or to the back of the house, as far from living space as possible. That was as it should be: kitchens were for servants, and the aspiring middle classes wanted nothing to do with them.

But as the working classes prospered and the servant shortage set in, housekeeping became a natter of interest to the educated classes. One of the pioneers of a radical new way of thinking about the kitchen was Catharine Esther Beecher, sister of Harriet Beecher Stowe. In American human's Home、published in 1869, the Beecher sisters recommended a scientific approach to use hold management, designed to enhance the efficiency of a woman's work and promote order. Many contemporary ideas about kitchen design can be traced back to another American, Chris Frederick, who set about enhancing the efficiency of the housewife. Her 1919 work, House-Engineering: Scientific Management in the Home, was based on detailed observation of a wife's daily routine. She borrowed the Principle of efficiency on the factory floor and applied

mestic tasks on the kitchen floor.

Frederick's central idea, that "stove,sink and kitchen table must be placed in such a relation that useless steps are avoided entirely". Inspired the first fully fitted kitchen, designed in the 1920s by Mangarete Schutter. Libotsky. It was a modernist triumph, and many elements remain central features of today's kitchen.

52.What does the author say about the kitchen of today？

A.It is where housewives display their cooking skills.

B.It is where the family entertains important guests.

C.It has become something odd in a modern house.

D.It is regarded as the center of a modern home.

53.Why does the Georgian-style. kitchen sell at a very high price？

A.It is believed to have tremendous artistic value.

B.No duplicate is to be found in any other place.

C.It is manufactured by a famous British company.

D.No other manufacturer can produce anything like it.

54.What does the change in the status of the kitchen reflect？

A.Improved living conditions.

B.Technological progress.

C.Women's elevated status.

D.Social change.

55.What was the Beecher sisters' idea of a kichen？

A.A place where women could work more efficiently.

B.A place where high technology could be applied.

C.A place of interest to the educated people.

D.A place to experiment with new ideas.

56.What do we learn about today's kitchen？

A. It represents the rapid technological advance in people's daily life.

B.Many of its central features are no different from those of the 1920s.

C.It has been transformed beyond recognition.

D.Many of its functions have changed greatly.

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第8题

Why do tea tasters taste tea with milk？A.Most British people drink tea that way.B

A.A.Most British people drink tea that way.

B.B.Tea tastes much better with milk.

C.C.Tea with milk is healthy.

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第9题

As you are students of English, it's very possible that you'll be interested in England. T

hat's where the language was first spoken. But England is often called by other names. This often confuses people and I wonder if you know what these names mean. So, now I would like to tell you about this matter of names. I believe that you have heard people use the names England, Britain of Great Britain. Let's see what each of these names means.

If you look at a map of Europe, you'll see a group of islands--one larger island off the northwest coats, one smaller and many tiny ones. These make up what is called the British Isles (不列填群岛). The largest island of the British Isles in Britain. It is also called Great Britain. The smaller island is Ireland (爱尔兰)。

Britain is divided into three parts: Scotland, Wales and England. But sometimes the word " England" is used instead of "Britain". Why so？

In anceient times, what is Britain now used to be three different countries. People in these different counntries spoke different languages. Over many years the three countries became one. England in the largest and richest of the three and it has the most people. So the English people take it for granted that their own name stands for the whole island.

There's another thing that confuses people; sometimes you may hear people say "the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. "That is the official name of the country. Northern Irelnd is only one sixth of the island of Ireland. The rest of the island is an independent state, called the Republic of Ireland. So we have the names of "England", "Britain"," Great Britain", and "the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland". Now do you know what each of them means？

English was first spoken in ______.

A．Britain

B．England

C．Great Britain

D．Ireland

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Where do the British kings and queens get married？