2016年6月大学英语四级考试模拟题及答案(6)

　　31.Albert Schweitzer was ____.

　　A) a pianist C) a humanitarian

　　B) an African D) a nurse

　　32.He had talents for ____.

　　A) training his wife to be a nurse, giving concert and lecturing

　　B) giving medical care, lecturing, playing the organ

　　C) taking care of sick people, fighting as a soldier, lecturing

　　D) giving concert, making equipment, helping others

　　33.In spite of people’s suggestions, Albert decided to go to Africa ____.

　　A) because he was born there

　　B) because he wanted to help others particularly black Africans who had been exploited by white men

　　C) because he wanted to give a concert to African people

　　D) because he wanted to make money there

　　34.Why did the author think he was a man of great strength

　　A) He always faced great problems with courage.

　　B) The threat of war and the reality of imprisonment during World War didn’t discourage him.

　　C) The unbearable heat in Africa did not deter him at all.

　　D) All of the above.

　　35.Albert Schweitzer lived to be ____.

　　A) 70 years old C) 90 years old

　　B) 80 years old D) 100 years old

　　Questions 36 to 40 are based on the following passage:

　　Social change is more likely to occur in societies where there is a mixture of different kinds of people than in societies where people aresimilar in many ways. The simple reason for this is that there are more different ways of looking at things present in the first kind of society. There are more ideas, more disagreements in interest, and more groups and organizations with different beliefs. In addition, there is usually a greater worldly interest and greater tolerance in mixed societies. All these factors tend to promote social change by opening more areas of life to decision. In a society where people are quite similar in many ways, there are fewer occasions for people to see the need or the opportunity for change because everything seems to be the same. And although conditions may not be satisfactory, they are atleast customary and undisputed.

　　Within a society, social change is also likely to occur more frequently　and more readily in the material aspects of the culture than in the nonmaterial, for example, in technology rather than in values; in what has been learned later in life rather than what was learned early; in the less basic and less emotional aspects of society than in their opposites; in the simple elements　rather than in the complex ones; in form rather than in substance; and in elements that are acceptable to the culture rather than in strange elements.

　　Furthermore, social change is easier if it is gradual. For example, it　comes more readily in human relations on a continuous scale rather than one with sharp dichotomies ( 一分为二). This is one reason why change has not come more quickly to Black Americans as compared to other American minorities,　because of the sharp difference in appearance between them and their white counterparts.

　　36.What kind of society tends to promote social changes

　　A) A society where people are similar in many ways.

　　B) A society where there are only white people.

　　C) A society where there are only black people.

　　D) A society where there is a mixture of different kinds of people.

　　37.In a mixed society, there may be disagreement in ____.

　　A) ideas C) beliefs

　　B) interests D) all of the above