2025年大学英语六级考试卷及答案
一、阅读理解(共30小题,每小题2分,共60分)
PartA
Directions:Thereare3passagesinthispart.Eachpassageisfollowedbysomequestionsorunfinishedstatements.ForeachofthemtherearefourchoicesmarkedA),B),C)andD).YoushoulddecideonthebestchoiceandmarkthecorrespondingletteronAnswerSheet2withasinglelinethroughthecentre.
Passage1
Questions1to5arebasedonthefollowingpassage.
Itisawell-knownfactthattheEnglishlanguagehasborrowedwordsfromotherlanguages.AfewofthesehaveenteredintotheEnglishvocabulary.Othershavesurvivedinotherforms.TherearealsomanyEnglishwordsthathavebeenadoptedfromotherlanguages,andmanymorethathavebeenformedfromthem.
OneoftheearliestborrowingswasGreek.GreekwordswereadoptedintoEnglishasscientificterms.ManyEnglishwordsarederivedfromLatin,andsomeofthesearestillinusetoday.LatinwordswereadoptedintoEnglishinthe16thand17thcenturies.
FrenchwordswereborrowedintoEnglishinthe18thcentury.ThiswasduetotheinfluenceofFrenchonEnglish.FrenchwasthelanguageofthenobilityinEurope,anditwasalsothelanguageofdiplomacyandinternationalrelations.Asaresult,manyFrenchwordsenteredintotheEnglishvocabulary.
TheEnglishlanguagehasalsoborrowedwordsfromotherlanguages,suchasGerman,Italian,andSpanish.ThesewordsareusuallyadoptedintoEnglishintheformofloanwords.Loanwordsarewordsthatareborrowedfromanotherlanguageandusedinthelanguageoftheborrower.
1.Whatisthemainideaofthepassage?
A)TheEnglishlanguagehasborrowedwordsfromotherlanguages.
B)GreekwordsweretheearliestborrowingsintoEnglish.
C)LatinwordswereadoptedintoEnglishinthe16thand17thcenturies.
D)FrenchwordswereborrowedintoEnglishinthe18thcentury.
2.Accordingtothepassage,whichofthefollowingstatementsistrue?
A)GreekwordsweretheearliestborrowingsintoEnglish