2016年12月英语六级考试模拟题及答案解析(1)

　　11. Japanese car sales usually do not wait at showrooms for customers to drop by; instead, .

　　A. they sell cars door-to-door

　　B. they buy presents for their customers

　　C. they enjoy themselves in recreation centers

　　D. they go out to do market researches

　　12. Implied but stated: the competition in car market is .

　　A. light B. moderate C. fierce D. unfair

　　13. Young people like to buy a new car .

　　A. at home B. from a showroom

　　C. made in the U.S.A. D. made in Japan

　　14. The squadron of Japanese car salesmen is reducing because of .

　　A. a labor shortage

　　B. higher expectations among Japan’s workforce

　　C. high cost land

　　D. both A and B

　　15. Japanese car salesmen to their customers many favors such as .

　　A. showing them around in an exhibition

　　B. arranging insurance

　　C. paying them a visit on weekends

　　D. selling ole cars for them

　　Passage 4

　　Questions 16 to 20 are based on the following passage:

　　The new global satellite communications systems will offer three kinds service, which may overlap in many different kinds of receivers.

　　VOICE. Satellite telephones will be able to make calls from anywhere on the Earth to anywhere else. That could make them especially useful to remote, third world villages (some of which already use stationary satellite telephones), explorers and disaster-relief teams. Today’s mobile telephones depend on earth-bound transmitters, where technical standards vary from country to country. So business travelers cannot use their mobile phones on international trips. Satellite telephones would make that possible.

　　MESSAGING. Satellite massagers have the same global coverage as satellite telephones, but carry text alone, which could be useful for those with laptop computers. Equipped with a small screen like today’s papers, satellite massagers will also receive short messages.

　　TRACKING. Voice and messaging systems will also tell their users where they are to within a few hundred meters. Combined with the messaging service, the location service could help rescue teams to find stranded adventurers, the police to find stolen cars, exporters to follow the progress of cargoes, and haulage companies to check that drivers are not detouring the pub. America’s military Global Positioning System (GPS) satellite will provide better positioning information to anyone who has a receiver for their signals, but GPS does not carry messages, so such a receiver cannot be used on its own for tracking or rescue. By the mid-1990s, GPS receivers will be able to tell people where they are to within 70 meters anywhere in the world, and to within a meter or so in areas where the service is supplemented by ground-based transmitter.

　　16. Global satellite communications systems will be useful to .

　　A. laptop computer users B. remote villages

　　C. disaster-relief teams D. all above

　　17. Satellite telephone will make .

　　A. business travelers use mobile phones on international trips

　　B. possible calls from anywhere on earth to anywhere else

　　C. explorers happy

　　D. all above