2009年6月大学英语六级真题及答案CET-6

is surprising is the method psychologists at the University of Texas have come up with to keep girls from developing eating disorders. Their main weapon

against super skinny (role) models: a brand of civil disobedience dubbed “body activism.”

Since 2001, more than 1,000 high school and college students in the U.S. have participated in the Body Project, which works by getting girls to

understand how they have been buying into the notion that you have to be thin to be happy or successful. After critiquing (评论) the so-called thin ideal by writing essays and role-playing with their peers, participants are directed to come up with and execute small, nonviolent acts. They include slipping notes saying “Love your body the way it is” into dieting books at stores like Borders and writing letters to Mattel, makers of the impossibly proportioned Barbie doll. According to a study in the latest issue of the Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, the risk of developing eating disorders was reduced 61% among Body Project participants. And they continued to exhibit positive body-image attitudes as long as three years after completing the program, which consists, of four one-hour sessions. Such lasting effects may be due to girls’ realizing not only how they were being influenced but also who was

benefiting from the societal pressure to be thin. “These people who promote the perfect body really don’t care about you at all,” says Kelsey Hertel, a high school junior and Body Project veteran in Eugene, Oregon. “They purposefully make you feel like less of a person so you’ll buy their stuff and they’ll make money.” 注意：此部分试题请在答题卡2上作答。

47. Were do girls get the notion that they need to be thin in order to be considered beautiful?

48. By promoting “body activism,” University of Texas psychologists aim to prevent ________.

49. According to the author, Mattel’s Barbie dolls are ________.

50. The positive effects of the Body Project may last up to ________.

51. One Body Project participant says that the real motive of those who promote the perfect body is to ________.

Section B

Passage One

Questions 52 to 56 are based on the following passage.

For hundreds of millions of years, turtles (海龟) have struggled out of the sea to lay their eggs on sandy beaches, long before there were nature

documentaries to celebrate them, or GPS satellites and marine biologists to track them, or volunteers to hand-carry the hatchlings (幼龟) down to the