2005年6月大学英语六级考试真题及答案

概要：s have embraced a free market in love as well as economics. Modern Europeans are rich enough to afford to live alone, and temperamentally independent enough to want to do so. Once upon a time, people who lived alone tended to be those on either side of marriage-twentysomething professionals or widowed senior citizens. While pensioners, particularly elderly women, make up a large proportion of those living alone, the newest crop of singles are high earners in their 30s and 40s who increasingly view living alone as a lifestyle choice. Living alon

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 Europe’s new economic climate has largely fostered the trend toward independence. The current generation of home-aloners came of age during Europe’s shift from social democracy to the sharper, more individualistic climate of American style capitalism. Raised in an era of privatization and increased consumer choice, today’s tech-savvy(精通技术的) workers have embraced a free market in love as well as economics. Modern Europeans are rich enough to afford to live alone, and temperamentally independent enough to want to do so.
 Once upon a time, people who lived alone tended to be those on either side of marriage-twentysomething professionals or widowed senior citizens. While pensioners, particularly elderly women, make up a large proportion of those living alone, the newest crop of singles are high earners in their 30s and 40s who increasingly view living alone as a lifestyle choice. Living alone was conceived to be negative-dark and cold, while being together suggested warmth and light. But then came along the idea of singles. They were young, beautiful, strong! Now, young people want to live alone.
 The booming economy means people are working harder than ever. And that doesn’t leave much room for relationships. Pimpi Arroyo, a 35-year-old composer who lives alone in a house in Paris, says he hasn’t got time to get lonely because he has too much work. “I have deadlines which would make life with someone else fairly difficult.” Only an Ideal Woman would make him change his lifestyle, he says. Kaufmann, author of a recent book called “The Single Woman and Prince Charming,” thinks this fierce new individualism means that people expect more and more of mates, so relationships don’t last long-if they start at all. Eppendorf, a blond Berliner with a deep tan, teaches grade school in the mornings. In the afternoon she sunbathes or sleeps, resting up for going dancing. Just shy of 50, she says she’d never have wanted to do what her mother did-give up a career to raise a family. Instead, “I’ve always done what I wanted to do: live a self-determined life.”
 16. More and more young Europeans remain single because        .
 A) they are driven by an overwhelming sense of individualism
 B) they have entered the workforce at a much earlier age
 C) they have embraced a business culture of stability
 D) they are pessimistic about their economic future
  
 17. What is said about European society in the passage?
 A) It has fostered the trend towards small families.
 B) It is getting closer to American-style capitalism.
 C) It has limited consumer choice despite a free market.
 D) It is being threatened by irresistible privatization.
  
 18. According to Paragraph 3, the newest group of singles are         .
 A) warm and lighthearted      B) on either side of marriage
 C) negative and gloomy       D) healthy and wealthy
  
 19. The author quotes Eppendorf to show that        .
 A) some modern women prefer a life of individual freedom
 B) the family is no longer the basic unit of society in present-day Europe
 C) some professional people have too much work to do to feel lonely
 D) most Europeans conceive living a single life as unacceptable
  
 20. What is the author’s purpose in writing the passage?
 A) To review the impact of women becoming high earners.
 B) To contemplate the philosophy underlying individualism.
 C) To examine the trend of young people living alone.
 D) To stress the rebuilding of personal relationships.
 Passage Three
 Questions 21 to 25 are based on the following passage.
 Supporters of the biotech industry have accused an American scientist of misconduct after she testified to the New Zealand government that a genetically modified(GM) bacterium could cause serious damage if released.
 The New Zealand Life Sciences Network, an association of pro-GM scientists and organisations, says the view expressed by Elaine Ingham, a soil biologist at Oregon State University in Corvallis, was exaggerated and irresponsible. It has asked her university to discipline her.
 But Ingham stands by her comments and says the complaints are an attempt to silence her. “They’re trying to cause trouble with my university and get me fired,” Ingham told New Scientist.
 The controversy began on 1 February, when Ingham testified before New Zealand’s Royal Commission on Genetic Modification, which will determine how to regulate GM organisms. Ingham claimed that a GM version of a common soil bacterium could spread and destroy plants if released into the wild. Other researchers had previously modified the bacterium to produce alcohol from organic waste. But Ingham says that when she put it in soil with wheat plants, all of the plants died within a week.

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