06年12月24日六级阅读真题(2)

When you’re ready to start unloading some of your stuff, that list will be a good place to start.

注意：此部分试题请在答题卡2 上作答。

47. Many people whose possessions were destroyed in natural disasters eventually considered their loss ________.

48. Now that all their possessions were lost in the fire, the woman and her husband felt

that their lives had been ________.

49. What do we know about the author’s house from the sentence “Gibbs and did have a

close call ...” (Line 1-2, Para. 4)?

50. According to the author, getting rid of possessions and losing them through a natural

disaster are vastly ________.

51. What does the author suggest people do with unnecessary things?

Section B

Directions: There are 2 passages in this section. Each passage is followed by some questions or unfinished statements. For each of them there are four choices

marked A), B), C), and D). You should decide on the best choice and mark

the corresponding letter on Answer Sheet 2 with a single line through the

centre.

Passage One

Questions 52 to 56 are based on the following passage.

In a purely biological sense, fear begins with the body’s system for reacting to

things that can harm us—the so-called fight-or-flight response. “An animal that can’t detect danger can’t stay alive,” says Joseph LeDoux. Like animals, humans evolved with

an elaborate mechanism for processing information about potential threats. At its core is

a cluster of neurons (神经元) deep in the brain known as the amygdale (扁桃核). LeDoux studies the way animals and humans respond to threats to understand how we form memories of significant events in our lives. The amygdale receives input from

many parts of the brain, including regions responsible for retrieving memories. Using this information, the amygdale appraises a situation—I think this charging dog wants to

bite me—and triggers a response by radiating nerve signals throughout the body. These

signals produce the familiar signs of distress: trembling, perspiration and fast-moving 2006 年12 月24 日大学英语六级(CET-6)真题试卷(A 卷) 801 / 853

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feet, just to name three.

This fear mechanism is critical to the survival of all animals, but no one can say for sure whether beasts other than humans know they’re afraid. That is, as LeDoux says,