2016年12月英语六级考试模拟题及答案解析(1)

　　43. He was trying to read; , the phone kept ringing.

　　A. meanwhile B. then C. later D. afterwards

　　44. I am out of those people who like a strenuous (费力的) holiday; I believe in .

　　A. took it easy B. taken it easy

　　C. taking it easy D. taking it easily

　　45. The police matched the finger prints and found they were .

　　A. equivalent B. identical C. similar D. equal

　　46. Formally, in the United States, many nurses worked as private duty nurses in hospitals.

　　A. other than B. more than C. less than D. rather than

　　47. If you don’t mind. I do my homework than play cards with you.

　　A. had better B. prefer C. would rather D. would like

　　48. Their idea was to get us to the strike at once.

　　A. call at B. call off C. call in D. call for

　　49. My car so I had to come by bus.

　　A. fell down B. broke down C. fell over D. turned away

　　50. I could tell he was surprised from the on his face.

　　A. appearance B. sight C. expression D. explanation

　　51. Which is , North America or South America?

　　A. biggest B. the biggest C. more biggest D. bigger

　　52. You should observe carefully how the audience his speech.

　　A. reach to B. refer to C. react to D. relate to

　　53. These farmers got a good harvest last year, so they a big sum of money for new farm machines.

　　A. set aside B. set about C. set up D. set back

　　54. One of my sayings is “where there is a will, there is a way.”

　　A. likely B. favorable C. alike D. favorite

　　55. All is a continuous supply of fuel oil.

　　A. what is needed B. that is needed

　　C. the thing is needed D. for their needs

　　56. The high income tax is harmful it may discourage people from trying to earn more.

　　A. in that B. that C. in which D. which

　　57. A new technique out, the yield increases by 20%.

　　A. having working B. having been worked

　　C. at a loss D. for good

　　58. The bird flew into the air and was soon .

　　A. out of sight B. in a hurry C. at a loss D. for good

　　59. It is decided that he for a bus to meet the guests from Beijing.

　　A. call B. calls C. arrange D. arranges

　　60. I know it’s not important but I can’t help about it.

　　A. to think B. thinking C. and think D. being thought

　　Part III Cloze (共20小题，每小题1分，共20分)

　　Directions: There are twenty blanks in the following passage. For each blank there are four choices. Choose the one that best fits into the passage and then marks your answer on the Answer Sheet.

　　What makes a child speak a language has long been a puzzle to linguists. 61 speaking, there are two schools of linguists, both of whom try to explain 62 a child picks up a language so easily. The fact that a child picks a language 63 is 64 : At one year old, a child is able to say “bye-bye”; at two, he is able to use fifty; by there he begins to 65 tenses. The famous American linguist Noam Chomsky 66 that human being have a sort of built-in system for language use, and that the 67 is 68 . Children are not taught language 69 they are taught arithmetic. Other linguists, 70 , hold the view that a child learns 71 of his language from the hints in the environment. 72 , theorists of both schools 73 that there is a biological basis for language use. The 74 is which is more important, the inner ability or the environment. This is certainly a field 75 to be explored. Researchers from both schools are busy finding evidence to 76 their own theory, but 77 side is persuading the other.