大学英语大学英语大学英语六级(CET6)大学英语六级模拟题16

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• 1The episode recounted in the passage took place____.

  A.just prior to the outbreak of the Second World War

  B.before Britain entered the Second World War

  C.before the United States entered the Second World War

  D.While the United States was in the Second World War

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• 2The plan for evading British censorship of the submarine story was thought up by____.

  A.two reporters

  B.one reporter

  C.The Times’s editors and one reporter

  D.The Times’s editors and two reporters

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• 3It was clear that British censorship rules had been broken because the story was____.

  A.first published in New York

  B.published nowhere but in The Times

  C.uncomplimentary to the British

  D.much fuller in its Times version than elsewhere

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• 4According to the author, the British did little about the story’s publication mainly because____.

  A.everyone responsible had apologized for what had happened

  B.it took the authorities too long to figure out how the censors had been outwitted

  C.Scotland Yard and British Military Intelligence disagreed about who was at fault

  D.they were afraid to admit that the censors had been so easily fooled

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• 5The passage indicates that eventually everyone involved came to regard the publication of the story in The Times as a____.

  A.regrettable error

  B.cheap journalistic trick

  C.brilliant journalistic maneuver

  D.proper exercise of the freedom of the press

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• 6The writer considered the old country guide interesting because he found in it____.

  A.the names of so many of the shops in the village around

  B.the many people selling to, and doing jobs for, residents in local villages at the time it appeared

  C.the variety of shops and services available in Victorian days in Britain

  D.information about all the jobs there were in his own and surrounding villages at the time it appeared

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• 7The local grocer’s shop is expanding even though____.

  A.women spend a lot of their time there just gossiping

  B.town shops are larger and rather cheaper

  C.people like to shop where they are less well-known

  D.people get personal service in his shop

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• 8The writer implies that one disadvantage of town shops is that____.

  A.their prices are higher

  B.people cannot telephone them

  C.their staff may take less trouble to satisfy customers

  D.one has to queue up in them

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• 9The writer appreciates the village shop because____.

  A.he welcomes competition with organized business

  B.he likes the ides that a humble person can be successful

  C.this is a case of individual success in a world of increasing

  D.he welcomes an example of private enterprise surviving in an age of giant companies

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• 10What is the village shoemaker’s reaction to mass-produced shoes、

  A.He considers they are not worth the effort of mending properly.

  B.He is angry with the customers for bringing in such rubbish.

  C.He despises their quality.

  D.He feels exasperated because people waste their money on inferior shoes.

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