2007年6月英语六级新题型模拟试卷(三)

Question 46-50 are based on the following passage.

Culture is the sum total of all the tradition, customs, beliefs, and ways to life of a given group of human being. In this sense, every group has a culture, however savage, undeveloped, or uncivilized it may seem to us.

To the professional anthropologists, there is no int rinsic superiority of one culture over another, just as to the professional ;linguist there is no intrinsic hierarchy among languages.

People once thought of the languages of backward groups as savage, undeveloped forms of speech, consisted largely of grunts and groans. While it is possible that language in general began as a series of grunts and groans, it is a fact establish by the study of "backward" languages that no spoken tongue answers the description today. Most languages of uncivilized groups are, by our most severe standards, extremely complex, delicate, and ingenious pieces of machinery for the transfer of ideas. They fall behind our western language not in their sound patterns or grammatical structure, which usually are fully adequate for all language needs, but only in their vocabularies, which reflect the objects and activities known to their speakers. Even in this department, However, two things are to be noted: 1. All languages seem to possess the machinery for vocabulary expansion, either by putting together words already in existence or by borrowing them from other languages and adapting them to their own system. 2. The objects and activities requiring names and distinctions in "backward" languages, while different from ours, are often surprisingly numerous and complicated. A western language distinguished merely between two degrees of remoteness ("this" and "that"); some languages of the American Indians distinguish between what is close to the speaker, or to the person addressed, or removed from both, or but of sight, or in the past, or in the future.

This study of language, in turn casts a new light upon the claim of the anthropologists that all cultures are to be viewed independently, and without ideas of rank or hierarchy.

46. The language of uncivilizegroups as compared to western language are limited in _______.
A. vocabularies
B. grammatical structures
C. sound patterns
D. both A and B
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47. The statement that "every group has a culture" grows out of the author's ______.
A. definition of culture
B. philosophy
C. feeling about human beings
D. bias in regard to civilized human
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48. According to the author, anthropologists would have all culture viewed _____.
A. comparatively
B. independently
C. intrinsically
D. hierarchically
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49. According to the author, language whether "civilized or not" have ____.
A. the potential for expanding vocabulary
b. the potential for increasing sound patterns
C. the same way to transfer ideas
D. the same grammatical structures
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50. Implied but not stated: ______.
A. the study of language is the same as the study of anthropology
B. the study of language has reinforced anthropologists in their view that there is no hierarchy cultures
C. the study of languages discredited the anthropological studies
D. the study of language casts a new light upon the claims of anthropologists
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Part III Vocabulary and structure

Directions: There are 30 incomplete sentences in this part. For each sentence there are four choices marked A, B, C and D. Choose the One that best completes the sentence. Then mark the corresponding letter on the Answer Sheet with a singe line through the center.

51. The wording of the communication suggests that neither side _____ their relationship to deteriorate.
A. want
B. wants
C. wanted
D. would want
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52. Many wounded soldiers died because they had been left _____ for two days.
A. unattended
B. unattending
C. unattend
D. not attend to
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53. A women has to be ____ a man to go half as far
A. twice as good as
B. as twice good as
C. twice good as
D. twice so good as
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54. How son will be _______ robots become so intelligent that they will be able to do jobs which at the moment only human beings can do?
A. before< br>B. that
C. when
D. since
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55. Hardly a day goes by _____ I write to my family.
A. when
B. since
C. but
D. before
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56. Some of the most, important problems in physics ____ their success to these mathematics systems.
A. oblige
B. devote
C. contribute
D. attribute
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57. In view _____ rising labor cost, many companies have turned to automation.
A. of
B. for
C. to
D. that
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58. I'm sorry I can't go with you, But I wish you _____.
A. a good time.
B. have a good time
C. to have a good time
D. will have a good time
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59. Many a time _____ them not to do so.
A. we have warned
B. do we have warned
C. have we warned
D. warned we have
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