大学英语六级考前冲刺试卷、答题卡、答案(2)
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2024英语六级试题及答案一、听力理解(共30分)1. A) The man is a professor.B) The man is a student.C) The man is a librarian.D) The man is a writer.答案:C2. A) The woman is looking for a job.B) The woman is looking for a house.C) The woman is looking for a book.D) The woman is looking for a restaurant.答案:A3. A) The man is late for the meeting.B) The man is early for the meeting.C) The man is on time for the meeting.D) The man is not attending the meeting.答案:A二、阅读理解(共40分)1. What is the main idea of the passage?A) The importance of teamwork.B) The benefits of working alone.C) The drawbacks of group projects.D) The challenges of managing a team.答案:A2. According to the passage, which of the following is true?A) Teamwork always leads to success.B) Teamwork can be more efficient than working alone.C) Teamwork is only beneficial in certain situations.D) Teamwork is always less efficient than working alone.答案:C3. What is the author's opinion on team dynamics?A) They are essential for success.B) They are not important in modern work environments.C) They can be detrimental to productivity.D) They are only relevant in large organizations.答案:A三、完形填空(共20分)1. A) DespiteB) AlthoughC) BecauseD) If答案:A2. A) wasB) wereC) isD) are答案:B3. A) thatB) whichC) itD) this答案:B四、翻译(共10分)1. 随着科技的发展,我们的生活变得越来越方便。
大学英语B6一、交际英语1.- Excuse me, is this the Sale's Department?- _________A.I'm afraid you have the wrong number.B.You are wrong.C.What's wrong with you?D.What are you talking about?正确答案是:A解析:-打扰了,请问这是赛尔公寓吗?-恐怕你拨错号码了。
电话用语。
告诉对方打错了,语气要委婉,以I'm afraid开头2.- Is it possible for you to work late tonight?- _______A.I like it.B.I'll do that.C.I'd love to.D.I think so.正确答案是:D解析:----今晚你可以加班吗?---我认为可以。
3.- Must I take a taxi?- No, you ________ . You can take my car.A.had better toB.don'tC.must notD.don't have to正确答案是:D解析:---请问我必须打车吗?---不,你不用必须搭车。
你可以坐我的车。
用must提问时,回答不必don’t have to.不能用mustn’t,因为mustn’t表示禁止的意思。
4.- Would you like something to drink? What about a cup of tea? - _________A.No, thanks.B.No, I wouldn't.C.Yes, I want.D.Yes, I like.正确答案是:A解析:-你喝点什么吗?来杯茶怎么样?-不,谢谢。
别人请你吃东西或者喝东西,拒绝时要感谢。
2014年12月大学英语六级CET6考试考前冲刺试题及答案2014年12月大学英语六级CET6考试考前冲刺试题及答案(2)PartⅠListening Comprehension (20 minutes)Section ADirections:In this section, you will hear 10 short conversations. At the end of each conversation, a question will be asked about what was said. Both the conversation and the question will be spoken only once. After each question there will be a pause. During the pause, you must read the four choices marked A), B), C) and D), and decide which is the best answer. Then mark the corresponding letter on the Answer Sheet with a single line through the center.Example:You will hear:M: When shall we start our work, Jane?W: Tomorrow at 9 o'clock. But we must work quickly, for we have to finish everythingbefore 2 in the afternoon.Q: For how long can they work?You will read:A) 2 hours.B) 3 hours.C) 4 hours.D) 5 hours.From the conversation we know that the two are talking about some work they will start at 9 o'clock in the morning and have to finish at 2 in the afternoon. Therefore, D)"5 hours" is the correct answer. You should choose [D] on the Answer Sheet and mark it with a single line through the center.Sample Answer [A] [B][C] [D]1.A) The man should try to be more understanding.B) The man's wife should be more understanding.C) The man's negative attitude may be derived from his childhood.D) The pessimism of man's wife may be the result of her past experiences.2.A) A snowstorm.B) An earthquake.C) A traffic accident.D) A hurricane.3.A) The two speakers are classmates.B) The man is majoring in elementary education.C) The woman is majoring in elementary education.D) The two speakers got to know each other in a class.4.A) She's got a stomachache.B) She feels perfectly fine.C) She's going to get married.D) She's going to have a baby.5.A) It is the best city he's ever visited.B) It was worse than he had expected.C) It is difficult to get around in the city.D) The hotel service is terrible in the city.6.A) To encourage them.B) To stop them immediately.C) To give some explanation.D) To leave them alone.7.A) Unemployment.B) Family breakup.C) Mental problems.D) Drinking.8.A) The woman is the man's boss.B) The man is the woman's husband.C) The woman is the headmaster of a school.D) The woman wants to know something about a student.9.A) They are attending a concert.B) They are negotiating about a price.C) They are planning to go for a date.D) They are buying something for their firm.10.A) The man is a football fan.B) The man needs the woman's help.C) The man didn't watch TV last night.D) The man often has power failure at home.Section BDirections:In this section, you will hear a passage three times. When the passage is read for the first time, you should listen carefully for its general idea. When the passage is read for the second time, you are required to fill in the blanks numbered from S1 to S7 with the exact words you have just heard. For blanks numbered from S8 to S10 you are required to fill in the missing information. You can either use the exact words you have just heard or write down the main points in your own words. Finally, when the passage is read for the third time, you should check what you have written.\;Shyness is the cause of much unhappiness for a great many people. Shy people are anxious and (11)____; that is, they are excessively concerned with their own appearance and actions. (12)____ thoughts are constantly occurring in their minds: What kind of impression am I making? Do they like me? Do I sound stupid? Am I wearing (13)____ clothes?\;It is obvious that such uncomfortable feelings must affect people (14)____. A person's self concept is (15)____ in the way he or she behaves, and the way a person behaves affects other people's (16)____. In general, the way people think about themselves has a (17)____ effect on all areas of their lives.\;Shy people are very sensitive to criticism; they feel it confirms their inferiority. (18)____.A shy person may respond to a compliment with a statement like this one:"you're just saying that to make me feel good. I know it's not true."(19)____.\;Can shyness be completely eliminated, or at least reduced? (20)____. People'sexpectations of themselves must be realistic. Living on the impossible leads to a sense of inadequacy.Part ⅡReading Comprehension (35 minutes)Directions:There are 4 reading passages in this part. 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 the Answer Sheet with a single line through the center.Passage OneQuestions 21 to 25 are based on the following passage:When Kathie Gifford's face was splashed across the newspapers in 1996 after herlucrative line of Wal mart clothing was exposed as the work of underpaid laborers in New York City's Chinatown, the Department of Labor and the White House teamed up to condemn such practices. With much fanfare, President Clinton's administration launched the "No Sweat" campaign, which pressured retailers and manufacturers to submit to periodic independent inspection of their workplace conditions.\;This campaign urged manufacturers to sign the Workplace Code of Conduct, a promise to self regulate that has since been adopted by a handful of retailers and many of the nation's largest manufacturers, including Nike and L.L. Bean. However, the Department of Defense, which has a $ 1 billion garment business that would make it the country's 14th largest retail apparel outlet, has not signed the Code of Conduct. In addition, it has not agreed to demand that its contractors submit to periodic inspections.\;Because the Department of Defense has not agreed to adhere to the code, the job of stopping public sector sweatshops falls to the Department of Labor. Federal contractors that persist in violating wage laws or safety and health codes can lose their lucrative taxpayer financed contracts. But Suzanne Seiden, a deputy administrator at the Department of Labor, says that to her knowledge, the department has never applied that rule to government apparel manufacturers. "I just assume that they are adhering to safety and health requirements," she says. According to records obtained by Mother Jones, through a Freedom of Information Act request, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration has cited Lion 32 times for safety and health violations in the past 12 years.21.What is this passgage mainly concerned with?A)The functions of the Department of Labor in America.B)A serious problem threatening American economy.C)The successful attempt of regulating sweatshops in America.D)The seriousness of the problem of sweatshops in America.22.According to the passage, Kathie Gifford ____.A) was one of the underpaid laborers in New York City's ChinatownB) was one of the well paid laborers in New York City's ChinatownC) made much money from cheap laborers in New York City's ChinatownD) wrote a newspaper article exposing the practice of employing cheap laborers23.The underlined phrase "to submit to" is closest in meaning to ____.A) to accept unwillinglyB) to refuse coldlyC) to welcome warm heartedlyD) to blame strongly24.Which of the following statements about the Department of Defense is true?A) It will become the country's 14th largest retail apparel manufacturer.B) It hasn't acted according to the Workplace Code of Conduct.C) It has demanded its contractors to sign the Workplace Code of Conduct.D) It has teamed up with the Department of Labor to launch a campaign.25.What was the purpose of President Clinton's administration launching the "NoSweat" campaign?A) To urge manufacturers to obey the Workplace Code of Conduct.B) To remind the manufacturers of the Workplace Code of Conduct.C) To urge the Department of Labor to take its responsibility.D) To urge the Department of Defense to inspect manufacturers.Passage TwoQuestions 26 to 30 are based on the following passage:The term investment portfolio conjures up visions of the truly rich-the Rockefellers, theWal Mart Waltons, Bill Gates. But today, everyone-from the Philadelphia firefighter, his part time receptionist wife and their three children, to the single Los Angeles lawyer starting out on his own-needs a portfolio.\;A portfolio is simply a collection of financial assets. It may include real estate, rare stamps and coins, precious metals and even artworks. But those are for people with expertise. What most of us need to know about are stocks, bonds and cash (including such cash equivalents as money market funds).\;How do you decide what part of your portfolio should go to each of the big three? Begin by understanding that stocks pay higher returns but are more risky; bonds and cash pay lower returns but are less risky.\;Research by Ibbotson Associates, for example, shows that large company stocks, on average, have returned 11.2 percent annually since 1926. Over the same period, by comparison, bonds have returned an annual average of 5.3 percent and cash, 3.8 percent.\;But short term risk is another matter. In 1974, a one year $1000 investment in the stock market would have declined to $735.\;With bonds, there are two kinds of risk: that the borrower won't pay you back and that the money you'll get won't be worth very much. The U.S. government stands behind treasury bonds, so the credit risk is almost nil. But the inflation risk remains. Say you buy a $1000 bond maturing in ten years. If inflation averages about seven percent over that time, then the $1000 you receive at maturity can only buy $500 worth of today's goods.\;With cash, the inflation risk is lower, since over a long period you can keep rolling over your CDs every year (or more often). If inflation rises, interest rates rise to compensate.\;As a result, the single most imortant rule in building a portfolio is this: If you don't need the money for a long time, then put it into stocks. If you need it soon, put it into bonds and cash.26.This passage is intended to give advice on ____.A) how to avoid inflation risksB) what kinds of bonds to buyC) how to get rich by investing in stock marketD) how to become richer by spreading the risk27.The author mentions such millionaires as the Rockefellers and Bill Gates to show that ____.A) they are examples for us on our road to wealthB) a portfolio is essential to financial successC) they are really rich peopleD) they started out on their own28.Which of the following statements will the author support?A) Everybody can get rich with some financial assets.B) The credit risk for treasury bonds is extremely high.C) It's no use trying to know the advantages of stocks, bonds and cash.D) Everybody should realize the importance of distribution of their financial assets.29.The word "returns" in paragraph three can be best replaced by "____."A) returning journeysB) profitsC) savingsD) investments30.The author of the passage points out that ____.A) keeping cash is the only way to avoid risksB) the longer you own a stock, the more you lostC) the high rate of profit and high rate of risk coexist in stocksD) the best way to accumulate wealth is by investing in stocksPassage ThreeQuestions 31 to 35 are based on the following passage:There were two widely divergent influences on the early development of statisticalmethods. Statistics had a mother who was dedicated to keeping orderly records of governmental units (state and statistics come from the same Latin root, status) and a gentlemanly gambling father who relied on mathematics to increase his skill at playing the odds in games of chance. The influence of the mother on the offspring, statistics, is represented by counting, measuring, describing, tabulating, ordering, and the taking of censuses-all of which led to modern descriptive statistics. From the influence of the father came modern inferential statistics, which is based squarely on theories of probability.\;Descriptive statistics involves tabulating, depicting, and describing collections of data. These data may be either quantitative, such as measures of height, intelligence, or grade level-variables that are characterized by an underlying continuum-or the data many represent qualitative variables, such as sex, college major, or personality type. Large masses of data must generally undergo a process of summarization or reducing to comprehensibly form the properties of an otherwise unwieldy mass of data.\;Inferential statistics is a formalized body of methods for solving another class of problems that present great difficulties for the unaided human mind. This general class of problems characteristically involves attempts to make predictions using a sample of observations. For example, a school superintendent wishes to determine the proportion of children in a large school system who come to school without breakfast, have been vaccinated for flu, or whatever. Having a little knowledge of statistics, the superintendent would know that it is unnecessary and inefficiency to question each child; the proportion for the entire district could be estimated fairly accurately from a sample of as few as 100 children. Thus, the purpose of inferential statistics is to predict or estimate characteristics ofa population from a knowledge of the characteristics of only a sample of the population.31.What is the passage mainly concerned with?A) Development and application of statistics.B) Origin of descriptive statistics.C) Limitations of inferential statistics.D) Importance of statistics.32.Describing and tabulating are associated with ____.A) inferential statisticsB) descriptive statisticsC) theories of probabilityD) inefficiency of counting33.Which of the following statements is true about descriptive statistics?A) It combines quantitative variables and qualitative variables.B) It can be used to deal with only quantitative variables.C) It helps to summarize properties of a group of data.D) It helps to make predictions using a sample of observations.34.The word "unwieldy" in the second paragraph is closest in meaning to ____.A) difficult to collect B) difficult to tackleC) incomprehensive D) uncontrollable35.A sample of a population is often examined for the following purposes except ____.A) to make a more accurate prediction of trendB) to improve efficiency and avoid unnecessary workC) to save the trouble of approaching every membersD) to predict characteristics of the entire populationPassage FourQuestions 36 to 40 are based on the following passage:The Japanese are fascinated by automata and new inventions. Japanese children areused to friendly robots in their comics, in toys, and in TV animated cartoons. When as adults they join the workforce,robots mean that there is no need to import cheap foreign labor, as happens in many other parts of the world. There is no need for humans to put up with dirty, mind deadening mechanical work the robot does it all without complaint, around the clock. Robots don't go on strike over tea breaks they don't have tea, or any other kind of breaks:they work, day and night, without having to be paid overtime, without making mistakes. Human tasks are subject to human error: robot error seldom or never occurs except as a result of human error!\;In Japan, robots are almost respected for their virtues. When a new robot is introduced to a small suburban factory, a Shinto priest is invited to inaugurate it. He inaugurates the robot with words along the lines of "Welcome to our co worker, we hope you'll help him settle in." No one laughs.\;FANUC demonstrates the Japanese tendency to conform particularly strikingly. The founder of FANUC, Dr. Inaba, has created an army that makes no distinction between blue collar, white collar and steel collar worker: everyone, including the warlord himself, is dressed in yellow clothing issued free by the company. Perhaps to make up for the boring nature of the work, there are a number of other company perks. Company benefits, including pay, are much higher than in similar companies in Japan. Travel to and from work is provided free in the company's yellow buses. However,workers are expected to put in demanding unpaid "overtime." There is a clock in the product development laboratory set to run at ten times the normal speed, the remind everyone that the company is on a war footing.\;As we watched Dr. Inaba's yellow helicopter soar away to Narita airport, we couldn't help thinking that his dream of world domination in robotics and allied applications might be more elegantly achieved if he had also thought to program his robots to whistle while they work.36.According to the author, which of the following is not true to the Japanese?A) Robots mean there is no need to import cheap foreign labor.B) Robots mean that humans needn't do dirty and noisy work.C) Robots mean there are no strikes nor overtimes.D) Robots mean there is no mistake in any form.37.What can be inferred form the words "He inaugurates the robot with words alongthe lines of 'Welcome to our co worker, we hope you'll help him settle in.'No one laughs."?A) The Japanese has no sense of humor while at work.B) The Japanese does not understand the words of the Shinto priest.C) The Japanese shows a true respect for robots.D) The Japanese goes too far in their respect for robots.38.Which of the following is not true about FANUC?A) Workers receive higher pay for working overtime.B) Workers enjoy free travel to and from work.C) Workers are doing boring, sometimes demanding work.D) Workers are reminded of being on a war footing.39.What is not implied in the following works "we couldn't help thinking that his dreamof world domination in robotics and allied applications might be more elegantly achieved if he had also thought to program his robots to whistle while they work."?A) Our technology is not yet up to the needs of Dr. Inaba's dream.B) Dr. Inaba's dream of world domination in robotics lacks humanity.C) Dr. Inaba's dream of allied applications is too practical.D) The author is in favor of Dr. Inaba's dream.40.What does "our co worker" refer to in the sentence "Welcome to our co worker,we hope you'll help him settle in?"A) Japanese workers who attend the inauguration.B) The introduced robot.C) The people who have invented the robot.D) Japanese workers in general.Part ⅢVocabulary (20 minutes)Directions:There are 30 incomplete sentences in this part. For each sentence there are four choices marked. A), B), C) and D). Choose the ONE that best completes the sentence. Then mark the corresponding letter on the Answer Sheet with a single line through the center.41.Since the most commonly accepted test is the TOEFL exam, most institutions will expect a ____ TOEFL score for admission.A) minimal B) maximalC) mimimum D) maximum42.It was believed that his death ____ with the robbery of the bank downtown.A) accompanied B) coincidedC) correlated D) conformed43.Does Emerson find his career full and ____ as a basketball player?A) conflicting B) charming C) rewarding D) awarding44.The local government gave the first ____ to education after the war.A) projection B) protection C) profession D) priority45.The professor ____ his habit of getting up early in the morning to do writing all his life.A) projection B) retained C) retailed D) revitalized46.The news of our team winning the match was really ____, and millionsof people came out to celebrate the victory.A) overwhelming B) accelerating C) prompting D) preceding47.What the government should do urgently is to take actions to ____ the economy.A) brook B) blush C) boost D) brood48.The explosion in the mine was ____ by a careless miner who lit a match.A) triggered B) claimed C) hampered D) protested49.The mass newspaper depended significantly more on advertising ____ than didtheir predecessors.A) revenues B) incomes C) avenues D) outcomes50.Some minerals are quite common, others are regionally ____, and still others arerare on the earth.A) attributed B) distributed C) contributed D) scattered51.The most successful way to solve the language problem while a foreignplay is being performed is ____ translation.A) instantaneous B) spontaneous C) simultaneous D) homogeneous52.The hostess ____ in the contract that the rent should be paid in cash at thebeginning of each month.A) assumed B) submitted C) exposed D) specified53.This year, the number of accidents has ____ that of last year.A) overtaken B) overweighed C) overcome D) overshadowed54.You must ____ yourself or they will continue to bully you, so you will go on living indisgrace.A) assess B) assert C) maintain D) promote55.While both plans were perfectly sensible, only one seemed ____ in China'sparticular situation.A) available B) feasible C)resolvable D) presumable56.A good teacher must know how to ____ his ideas to the students, as generallyagreed by educational experts.A) transmit B) transfer C) convey D) communicate57.If you keep on taking on more work than you can do, your health will ____.A) decline B) degrade C) degenerate D) deteriorate58.The director tried to wave aside these issues as ____ details that would be settled later.A) preliminary B) primary C) trivial D) alternative59.As one of the youngest professors in the university, Miss King is certainly on the____ of a brilliant career.A) end B) edge C) threshold D) course60.During the famine of 1943, millions of peasants ____ to the cities because theycould not make a living in the countryside.A) immigrated B) emigrated C) migrated D) generated61.I'm sorry to inform you that you application has been declined. Our manager thought you were not ____ for the post.A) legible B) eligible C) valid D) literate62.Visitors to Britain are sometimes surprised to learn that newspapers there havesuch a large ____.A) issue B) distribution C) coverage D) circulation63.This line was carrying equal number of eastbound and westbound trains, and they____ regularly.A) altered B) alternated C) switched D) exchanged64.The three astronauts have splashed down in the Pacific Ocean, only sixmiles from the aircraft carrier that was ____ for the recovery mission.A) dispatched B) deposited C) deployed D) delivered65.Pubs have fanciful names like "The Red Lion" or "The Pig and Whistle" and theyoften have picutre on a signboard outside to ____ the name.A) justify B) illustrate C) modify D) clarify66.There are two main requirements before the fifth generation computer can becomea reality and it is these that scientists are ____.A) anticipating B) tackling C) manipulating D) speculating67.College students in this city have set up "the Cleaner Air Society"to help urban citizens become aware of the ____ to our environment.A) conditions B) situations C) dangers D) threats68.When you get a minor burn, pour some cold water on it, which will help____ the pain of the burn.A) relieve B) relax C) reveal D) release69.The library published a colletion of books recently made ____ to the public.A) acceptable B) accessible C) accommodable D) accountable70.For 14 years after her spouse's death, she saw the ____ meaning of her life asnourishing her son and safeguarding her husband's works.A) due B) lone C) sole D) keenPart ⅣError Correction (15 minutes)Directions:This part consists of a short passage. In this passage, there are altogether 10 mistakes, one in each numbered line. You may have to change a word, add a word or delete a word. Mark out the mistakes and put the corrections in the blanks provided. If you change a word, cross it out and write the correct word in the corresponding blank. If you add a word, put an insertion mark (∧) in the right place and write the missing word in the blank. If you delete a word, cross it out and put a slash (/) in the blank.Example:Television is rapidly becoming the literatures of our periods.Many of1.timethe arguments having used for the study of literature as a school subject2.are valid for ∧ study of television. 3.thePoverty exists because our society is an unequal one, and there are powerfulpolitical pressures to keep it that way. Any attempt to redistributing wealth and in 71.____come in the United States will inevitably be opposed by powerful middle and upper class interests. People can be relatively rich only if you are relatively poor, and as 72.____power is mainly in the hands of the rich, public policies reflect their interests than 73.____those of the poor.As Mr. Herbert Gans has pointed out, poverty is actually functional from thepoint of view of the non poor. Poverty ensures that dirty work gets doing. If there 74.____were no poor poeple to scrub floors and empty bedpans, there jobs will have to be 75.____rewarded with high incomes before anyone would touch them. Poverty creates jobs for many of the non poor, such as police officers, welfare workers, and government bureaucrats. Poverty makes life easier for the rich by providing them with cookers, 76.____gardeners, and other workers to perform basic chores when their employers enjoy 77.____more pleasurable activities. Poverty provides a market for more inferior goods and 78.____service, such as day old bread, run down automobiles, or the advice of competent 79.____physicians and lawyers. Poverty also provides a group that can be made to absorb the costs of change. It is just that poverty is an inevitable outcome of the American economic system, in which the poor are politically powerless to influence or change.80.____Part ⅤWriting (30 minutes)Directions:For this part you are allowed thirty minutes to write a composition on the topic: How to Cope with Personal Crisis.You should write at least 150 words and base your composition on the outline given inChinese below:How to Deal with Personal Crisis1.造成个人危机的起因。
(2023年)辽宁省本溪市大学英语6级大学英语六级预测试题(含答案) 学校:________ 班级:________ 姓名:________ 考号:________一、1.Writing(10题)1. For this part, you are allowed 30 minutes to write a short essay entitled Why Are There Fewer Students in the Library. You should write at least 150 words following the outline given below:1. 学校图书馆利用不足;2. 导致这种显现的原因;3. 我的观点。
Why Are There Fewer Students in the Library2. Directions: For this part, you are allowed 30 minutes to write a short essay entitled Does Intensive Training Courses Really Help ? You should write at least 150 words following the outline given below:1. 现如今各种考试的辅导班越来越多2.人们对此看法不一3.你的观点Does Intensive Training Courses Really Help3. Directions: For this part, you are allowed 30 minutes to write a short essay entitled Buying and Selling Stocks as a Student. You should write at least 150 words following the outline given below.1. 在校大学生炒股的现象在一些地主很普遍2. 有人认为这种行为不利于学生的学习也有人认为这种行为也能让学生有所收获3. 你的观点Buying and Selling Stocks as a Student4. For this part, you are allowed 30 minutes to write a short essay entitled On Aging Population. You should write at least 150 words based on the chart and outline given below:1. 目前老龄化现象很严重2. 这种现象可能产生的社会影响和后果3. 你的建议On Aging Population5. For this part, you are allowed 30 minutes to write a short essay entitled Say No to Pirated Products. You should write at least 150 words following the outline given below.1. 目前盗版的现象比较严重2. 造成这种现象的原因及其危害3. 我们应该怎么做Useful words and expressions:盗版: piracy(n.)盗版产品: pirated products知识产权: intellectual property rights侵犯版权: infringe sb.'s copyright; copyright infringementSay No to Pirated Products6. 1.老一辈常说,能力比相貌重要2. 如今很多人却认为相貌比能力重要3. 你的看法7. For this part, you are allowed 30 minutes to write a composition on the topic Test for National Civil Servants. You should write at least 150 words according to the outline given below in Chinese:1.近几年兴起了一股国家公务员考试(Test for National Civil Servants)热2.产生这种现象的原因3.我的看法Test for National Civil Servants8. For this part, you are supposed to write a short essay entitled Internet according to the following outline given below in Chinese. The first sentence of each paragraph has been given to you.1. 因特网越来越普遍地进入到我们的学习、工作和生活当中2. 因特网的益处3. 因特网的消极方面InternetInternet has been playing an increasing role in our daily life. ______. Internet has enabled us to do a lot of things more easily and quickly. ______. However, if not managed properly, Internet can create many problems too. ______.All in all, we cannot live without Internet now. ______.9. For this part, you are allowed 30 minutes to write a composition on the topic Suicide on Campus. You should write at least 150 words, and base your composition on the outline given in Chinese below:1.2002年27人;2004年68人;2005年116人;2006年130人。
2024年全国大学英语CET六级考试自测试卷及答案指导一、写作(15分)WritingSuppose you are planning to go to a university abroad for further study. Write an email to your friend to express your intention and seek for advice. You should write about 100 words on the ANSWER SHEET 2.Do not sign your own name at the end of the letter. Use “Zhang Wei” instead. You do not need to write the address.You should write neatly on the ANSWER SHEET 2. (10 points)Sample Answer:Dear [Friend’s Name],I hope this email finds you well. I am writing to share with you my plan of studying abroad for further education and I would appreciate it if you could offer me some advice.I have recently applied for admission to [University Name], a prestigious university in [Country], and I am eager to pursue my master’s degree there. The program I am applying for aligns perfectly with my academic interests and career goals.However, I am not entirely sure about the process of studying and living abroad. I would greatly appreciate any tips or insights you might have. For instance, what are the challenges I might face in terms of language, culture, and daily life?I am looking forward to your valuable advice and suggestions. Your experience would be of immense help to me.Best regards,Zhang WeiExplanation:This sample answer follows the structure required for a personal email. It begins with a friendly greeting, followed by the main purpose of the email, which is to share the writer’s intention to study abroad and seek advice.The writer mentions the specific university and program they are interested in, showing a clear goal. They also express their eagerness to pursue their academic and career objectives, which adds context to their decision.The second paragraph requests advice on the challenges of studying and living abroad, indicating that the writer is open to learning from their friend’s experience.Finally, the closing sentence shows gratitude for the friend’s assistance and looks forward to receiving their advice, which is a polite and appropriate way to conclude the email.This response is concise, clear, and directly addresses the requirementsof the prompt.二、听力理解-长对话(选择题,共8分)第一题Part BIn this section, you will hear a long conversation. At the end of the conversation, you will hear some questions. Both the conversation and the questions will be spoken only once. After you hear a question, you must choose the best answer from the four choices marked A), B), C), and D).ConversationM: Hi, Jenny. How was your weekend? I heard you went to the countryside with your family.W: Oh, it was great! We spent the whole day hiking in the mountains. The scenery was just beautiful.M: I bet it was. Did you take any photos?W: Yes, I did. I even managed to take a few shots of some rare wildflowers. They were really stunning.M: That’s awesome. I love wildflowers. Do you think you’ll show them to us when we meet next week?W: Absolutely! I’ll bring them with me. By the way, di d you do anything special last weekend?M: Not really. I just stayed at home and watched some movies. I was reallytired after the week at work.W: Same here. It’s always nice to relax after a busy week.M: Speaking of which, we should plan a trip together soon. How about going to the mountains for a weekend getaway?W: That sounds perfect. I could really use a break from the city.Questions1、What did Jenny do over the weekend?A) She went to the countryside with her family.B) She stayed at home and watched movies.C) She worked overtime at her office.D) She went shopping in the city.2、What did Jenny do with the photos she took?A) She sent them to her friends via email.B) She posted them on social media.C) She brought them to show her friends.D) She deleted them because they were not good.3、Why did Jenny want to go on a trip with her friend?A) She wanted to see the mountains again.B) She was tired of the city life.C) She needed a break from her studies.D) She wanted to show off her new camera.4、What is the conversation mainly about?A) Jenny’s weekend trip.B) The beauty of the countryside.C) The importance of relaxation.D) Planning a trip with friends.Answers:1.A2.C3.B4.A第二题听力原文:A: Hi, Bob. I heard you’re going to take the CET-6 exam this summer. How are you preparing for it?B: Yeah, I’m pretty nervous. I’ve been studying for hours every day, but I’m still not sure if I’m on the right track.A: Well, you know, it’s important to focus on your weak points. What are you struggling with the most?B: I think my listening comprehension is the biggest issue. I often can’t catch the main idea of the conversations in the listening section.A: That’s a common problem. You should practice listening to English news and podcasts to get more exposed to the language. Also, try to summarize what you’ve heard after each passage.B: That sounds good. Do you have any other tips?A: Definitely. Try to improve your vocabulary and grammar as well. A strong foundation in these areas will definitely help.B: Thanks for the advice, Alice. I really appreciate it.选择题:1、What is the main topic of the conversation?A) Preparing for the CET-6 examB) Taking English coursesC) Improving listening skillsD) Discussing exam strategies2、What is Bob’s main problem with the CET-6 exam?A) He struggles with grammar.B) He has difficulty with reading comprehension.C) He’s nervous about the exam.D) He finds the listening section challenging.3、What advice does Alice give Bob to improve his listening skills?A) Focus on reading more English books.B) Practice listening to English news and podcasts.C) Spend more time on vocabulary building.D) Take more English courses.4、What is Bob’s response to Alice’s advice?A) He is confident in his ability to pass the exam.B) He is grateful for Alice’s help.C) He is skeptical about the effectiveness of the advice.D) He is not interested in improving his listening skills.答案:1、A2、D3、B4、B三、听力理解-听力篇章(选择题,共7分)第一题听力篇章You will hear a passage. For questions 1 to 3, choose the best answer from the four choices marked A), B), C) and D). Then mark the corresponding letter on Answer Sheet 2 with a single line through the centre.Now, listen to the passage.The rise of the Internet has transformed the way we communicate and access information. One of the most significant impacts has been on education, where online learning platforms have become increasingly popular. This has led to a debate on whether online education can replace traditional classroom learning.Questions 1 to 3 are based on the passage you have just heard.1、What is the main topic of the passage?A) The benefits of online education.B) The challenges of online education.C) The debate between online and traditional education.D) The transformation of education due to the Internet.2、According to the passage, what has been the most significant impact of the Internet on education?A) Increased access to information.B) Improved communication skills.C) Enhanced technology in classrooms.D) Decreased need for traditional teachers.3、What is the author’s stance on the debate between online and traditional education?A) The author is strongly in favor of online education.B) The author is strongly against online education.C) The author believes that both methods have their merits and drawbacks.D) The author is unsure about the effectiveness of online education.Answers:1、C2、A3、C第二题PassageIn recent years, the importance of environmental protection has been increasingly recognized worldwide. With the rapid development of industries and urbanization, various environmental issues have arisen, such as air and water pollution, deforestation, and climate change. To address these challenges, many countries have implemented various environmental policies and regulations. However, the effectiveness of these measures is often questioned.1.In the passage, what is the main concern regarding environmental issues?A)The rapid development of industries.B)The increasing number of people living in urban areas.C)The lack of environmental protection measures.2.According to the passage, which of the following is NOT mentioned as an environmental issue?A)Air and water pollution.B)Deforestation.C)Overpopulation.3.What is the main purpose of implementing environmental policies and regulations, as stated in the passage?A)To promote economic growth.B)To address environmental issues.C)To reduce the cost of industries.Answers1.B) The increasing number of people living in urban areas.2.C) Overpopulation.3.B) To address environmental issues.四、听力理解-新闻报道(选择题,共20分)第一题News Item:A new study by the World Health Organization (WHO) reveals that air pollution is a leading cause of death worldwide. The report, released today, states that more than 7 million people die each year from diseases caused or exacerbated by air pollution. The WHO emphasizes that the most affected regions are South Asia and East Asia, where air quality is among the worst in the world. The organization calls for stricter regulations and policies to reduce emissions and improve air quality.Questions:1、How many people die each year from diseases caused or exacerbated by air pollution, according to the WHO report?A) 3 millionB) 5 millionC) 7 millionD) 10 million2、Which regions are identified as the most affected by air pollution?A) North America and EuropeB) South Asia and East AsiaC) Central and South AmericaD) Australia and New Zealand3、What is the primary call to action made by the WHO in response to the report?A) To promote the use of electric vehicles worldwideB) To provide free medical care for air pollution victimsC) To implement stricter regulations and policies to reduce emissionsD) To increase funding for research on air pollutionAnswers:1、C) 7 million2、B) South Asia and East Asia3、C) To implement stricter regulations and policies to reduce emissions第二题News Item:In the following news report, you will hear about a recent development in environmental protection policies. Listen carefully and answer the questions that follow.News Report:Lately, the Chinese government has announced a new set of environmental protection policies aimed at reducing air pollution in major cities. The policies include stricter emission standards for vehicles and industries, as well as a focus on renewable energy sources. The government has set a targetof reducing the amount of smog in cities by 20% within the next five years. Experts believe these measures will significantly improve air quality and public health.Questions:1、What is the main goal of the new environmental protection policies?A) To promote the use of renewable energy sources.B) To reduce the amount of smog in cities by 20% within five years.C) To impose stricter emission standards on vehicles and industries.D) To improve public health in rural areas.2、Which of the following is NOT mentioned as a measure in the new policies?A) Stricter emission standards for vehicles.B) Promotion of nuclear energy.C) Focus on renewable energy sources.D) Reduction of energy consumption in households.3、How does the news report describe the potential impact of these policies?A) They are expected to have little impact on air quality.B) They are believed to significantly improve air quality and public health.C) They are considered too ambitious and may not be achievable.D) They are seen as a step backward in environmental protection efforts.Answers:1、B2、B3、B第三题News ReportA recent report from the Chinese Ministry of Education reveals that the National College English Testing System (CET-6) has been revised to better reflect the actual use of English in the real world. The new exam format is expected to be implemented next year.1、What is the main purpose of the CET-6 revision according to the report?A、To increase the difficulty level of the exam.B、To better reflect the actual use of English.C、To reduce the number of test takers.D、To change the format of the exam.2、When is the new exam format expected to be implemented?A、This year.B、Next year.C、Two years from now.D、Three years from now.3、What does the report indicate about the new CET-6 exam?A、It will focus more on listening and speaking skills.B、It will include more questions about Chinese culture.C、It will have a shorter duration.D、It will have a lower passing score.Answers:1、B2、B3、A五、阅读理解-词汇理解(填空题,共5分)第一题Reading PassageThe rapid development of technology has brought about significant changes in our daily lives. One of the most remarkable advancements is the rise of artificial intelligence (AI). AI has the potential to revolutionize various industries, including healthcare, education, and transportation. In this passage, we will explore the impact of AI on society and the challenges it poses.Questions:1、According to the passage, AI has the potential to revolutionize various industries, including ______.A. healthcareB. educationC. transportationD. All of the above2、The passage mentions that AI can bring about significant changes in ______.A. our daily livesB. our social relationshipsC. our economyD. our environment3、The word “remarkable” in the first paragraph ca n be best replaced by ______.A. noticeableB. extraordinaryC. averageD. insignificant4、The passage discusses the____of AI on society.A. benefitsB. challengesC. both benefits and challengesD. none5、The author of the passage seems to have a____view of AI.A. positiveB. negativeC. neutralD. skepticalAnswers:1、D. All of the above2、A. our daily lives3、B. extraordinary4、C. both benefits and challenges5、A. positive第二题Read the following passage and then fill in each blank with one word from the list below. Write the word you choose in the corresponding space on the Answer Sheet. There are more words than you need.In the digital age, 1 of data has become an integral part of our daily lives. From the moment we wake up, we are surrounded by data. Our smartphones track our every move, and our social media profiles are filled with data about our likes, interests, and connections. However, the sheer volume of data can be over whelming and it’s essential to understand how to manage it effectively.1.(A) Generation (B) Analysis (C) Collection (D) Storage2.(A) devices (B) interactions (C) sources (D) outcomes3.(A) In the past (B) Currently (C) Initially (D) Eventually4.(A) managing (B) reducing (C) analyzing (D) ignoring5.(A) data (B) information (C) knowledge (D) insightsAnswers:1.(C) Collection2.(B) interactions3.(B) Currently4.(A) managing5.(A) data六、阅读理解-长篇阅读(选择题,共10分)第一题Reading PassageIn recent years, the rapid development of technology has brought about significant changes in various aspects of our lives. One of the most notable changes is the impact of technology on education. This passage explores the ways in which technology has transformed the field of education and its implications for students and educators.Technology has revolutionized the way students learn. With the advent of online learning platforms, students can now access a wealth of resources and educational materials from anywhere in the world. This has made education more accessible and flexible, allowing students to learn at their own pace and in their own time. Additionally, interactive tools such as virtual reality (VR) and augmented reality (AR) have enhanced the learning experience by providing immersive and engaging educational content.Educators have also benefited from the integration of technology in the classroom. Digital tools and software have simplified administrative tasks, such as grading and record-keeping. Moreover, teachers can now utilize multimedia presentations and videos to make their lessons more dynamic and engaging for students.Despite the numerous advantages, the rapid adoption of technology in education has raised concerns about its potential negative effects. One of the primary concerns is the potential for technology to create a digital divide, where students without access to technology may be at a disadvantage. Another concern is the over-reliance on technology, which could lead to reduced social interaction and a decline in critical thinking skills.The following passage provides more details about the impact of technology on education.Questions1、What is the main purpose of the passage?A. To discuss the benefits of technology in education.B. To highlight the negative effects of technology in education.C. To compare traditional and modern educational methods.D. To argue for the complete replacement of traditional education with technology.2、According to the passage, how has technology changed the accessibility of education?A. It has made education more expensive.B. It has limited access to education.C. It has increased the cost of educational materials.D. It has made education more accessible and flexible.3、What is one way technology has enhanced the learning experience forstudents?A. It has reduced the need for social interaction.B. It has made lessons more passive and unengaging.C. It has provided immersive and engaging educational content.D. It has increased the workload for educators.4、What are two advantages of technology for educators mentioned in the passage?A. It has increased the need for physical classrooms and textbooks.B. It has simplified administrative tasks and made lessons more dynamic.C. It has reduced the need for textbooks and traditional teaching methods.D. It has increased the number of hours educators need to work.5、Which of the following is a concern raised about the use of technology in education?A. It has improved students’ critical thinking skills.B. It has made education more personalized and effective.C. It has created a digital divide and reduced social interaction.D. It has made learning more enjoyable and interactive.Answers1、D2、D3、C4、B5、C第二题Reading PassagesIn the wake of the global pandemic, the importance of public health has come under renewed scrutiny. This article explores the various aspects of public health, from the challenges faced by healthcare systems to the role of technology in improving health outcomes.Passage 1Public health is the science and art of preventing disease, prolonging life, and promoting health through organized efforts and informed choices of society, organizations, public and private, communities, and individuals. The World Healt h Organization (WHO) defines public health as “the science and art of preventing disease, prolonging life, and promoting health through organized efforts and informed choices of society, organizations, public and private, communities, and individuals.”The global pandemic has highlighted the fragility of healthcare systems around the world. Many countries have struggled to cope with the surge in cases, leading to overwhelmed hospitals, exhausted healthcare workers, and shortages of medical supplies. This has underscored the need for strong public health infrastructure, including robust healthcare systems, effective disease surveillance, and efficient emergency response mechanisms.Questions:1、What is the main purpose of public health?A、To provide medical care to individuals.B、To prevent disease, prolong life, and promote health.C、To improve healthcare systems globally.D、To focus on emergency response during pandemics.2、What challenge has the global pandemic highlighted?A、The inefficiency of public health organizations.B、The strength of healthcare systems worldwide.C、The need for more private healthcare facilities.D、The importance of disease surveillance.3、What does the World Health Organization define public health as?A、The science and art of preventing disease, prolonging life, and promoting health.B、The responsibility of healthcare workers during emergencies.C、The role of technology in improving health outcomes.D、The focus on individual health choices.4、Which of the following is NOT mentioned as a challenge faced by healthcare systems during the pandemic?A、Overwhelmed hospitals.B、Exhausted healthcare workers.C、Increased public health awareness.D、Shortages of medical supplies.5、What is the main focus of the article?A、The role of technology in public health.B、The challenges faced by healthcare systems during the pandemic.C、The definition and importance of public health.D、The role of individuals in improving public health.Answers:1、B2、D3、A4、C5、C七、阅读理解-仔细阅读(选择题,共20分)第一题Reading PassageIn the era of digital transformation, the traditional classroom experience has been revolutionized by the integration of technology. Online learning platforms, interactive multimedia, and virtual reality have become integral tools in the educational process. However, with these advancements come challenges that educators and students alike must navigate. This passage discusses some of the key issues associated with the use of technology in education.Paragraph 1The rise of online learning platforms has made education more accessible to students around the world. These platforms offer a wide range of courses, from basic literacy to advanced technical skills, making it possible for individuals to learn at their own pace. However, the convenience of online learning comes with its own set of challenges. One of the most significant concerns is the potential for increased isolation and decreased social interaction among students.Paragraph 2Interactive multimedia has become a staple in modern classrooms. Videos, simulations, and other multimedia tools can help students visualize complex concepts and engage with the material in a more interactive way. However, the use of multimedia can also create a barrier for students with disabilities. For example, individuals with visual impairments may struggle to access information presented in visual formats, while those with hearing impairments may find it difficult to follow along with audio-only content.Paragraph 3Virtual reality (VR) has the potential to revolutionize the way students learn. By immersing students in virtual environments, educators can create realistic simulations that allow students to experience historical events, explore scientific concepts, and even practice medical procedures. However, VR technology is still in its infancy, and it is not yet widely accessible to allstudents. Additionally, the cost of VR hardware and software can be prohibitive for many educational institutions.Paragraph 4While technology offers numerous benefits to the educational process, it also presents several challenges. One of the most pressing concerns is the potential for technology to create a digital divide. Students from low-income families may not have access to the necessary devices or internet connections to fully participate in online learning. Furthermore, the over-reliance on technology can lead to a lack of critical thinking skills and a diminished focus on foundational learning.Questions1、What is one of the main concerns associated with online learning platforms?A. The lack of social interaction among students.B. The difficulty of accessing information in visual formats.C. The high cost of VR technology.D. The limited availability of advanced technical skills.2、How can interactive multimedia create a barrier for students with disabilities?A. It limits the number of courses available to students.B. It makes it difficult for students to follow along with audio-only content.C. It requires students to have advanced technical skills.D. It increases the risk of students becoming isolated.3、What is the potential of virtual reality to revolutionize the way students learn?A. It allows students to practice medical procedures in a virtual environment.B. It increases the risk of students becoming isolated.C. It makes it difficult for students to visualize complex concepts.D. It creates a digital divide among students.4、What is one of the challenges associated with the use of technology in education?A. The potential for technology to create a digital divide.B. The decrease in critical thinking skills among students.C. The difficulty of accessing information in visual formats.D. The lack of social interaction among students.5、What is the main focus of the passage?A. The benefits of online learning platforms.B. The challenges associated with the use of technology in education.C. The importance of critical thinking skills in education.D. The potential of virtual reality to revolutionize the way students learn.Answers1、A2、B3、A4、A5、B第二题Reading PassageIn the digital age, the importance of lifelong learning has never been more evident. As technology advances at an unprecedented rate, the skills and knowledge that were once considered essential can quickly become outdated. This has led to a growing demand for continuous education and professional development.The concept of lifelong learning has been embraced by many industries and educational institutions. Companies recognize that investing in their employees’ education can lead to increased productivity and innovation. Similarly, educational institutions are adapting their curricula to meet the changing needs of students and the job market.One of the key benefits of lifelong learning is that it allows individuals to stay relevant in their fields. Whether it’s learning new software for a tech professional or mastering a new language for a global business leader, continuous education helps individuals keep pace with the latest trends and developments.However, the pursuit of lifelong learning is not without its challenges.The cost of education can be prohibitive, and balancing work, family, and personal commitments can be daunting. Despite these obstacles, the benefits of lifelong learning far outweigh the costs.Below is a text about the impact of lifelong learning on individuals and society. Please read the text carefully and answer the questions that follow.Questions:1、What is the main idea of the first paragraph?A. The rapid advancement of technology necessitates lifelong learning.B. Companies are in vesting in their employees’ education.C. Educational institutions are adapting their curricula.D. Lifelong learning has become a growing trend.2、According to the passage, what is the main purpose of investing in employees’ education for companies?A. To increase the company’s revenue.B. To improve the quality of products and services.C. To keep up with technological advancements.D. To reduce employee turnover.3、What is one of the benefits of lifelong learning mentioned in the passage?A. It helps individuals save money.B. It allows individuals to stay relevant in their fields.C. It ensures a secure retirement.D. It provides a sense of accomplishment.。
2023年12月大学英语六级考试真题及答案(第二套)2023年12月大学英语六级考试真题及答案第二套英语六级听力第二套1.A) Spending their holidays in a novel way.2. D) He once owned a van.3. A) Generate their own electricity.4.C) Enjoying the freedom to choose where to go and work.5. C) Her job performance has worsened over the past month.6.B) Some problems at home7. B) The womans work proficiency.8. C) The woman will be off work on the next two Mondays.9. D) It can enable us to live a healthier and longer life.10.B) The spouses level of education can impact oneshealth.11.A) They had more education than their spouses.12.C) Forecasting flood risks accurately.13.D) To improve his mathematical flooding model.14.A) To forecast rapid floods in real time.15.B) They set up Internet-connected water-level sensors.16.B) To argue about the value of a college degree.17.D) The factor of wages.18.A) The sharp decline in marriage among men with no college degrees.19.C) More and more people prioritize animal welfare when buying things to wear.20.D)Avoided the use of leather and fur.21.A)Whether they can be regarded as ethical.22.D) The era we live in is the most peaceful in history.23.C) They believed the world was deteriorating.24.B) Our psychological biases.25.A) Paying attention to negative information.翻译第二篇在中国,随着老龄化社会的到来,养老受到普遍关注。
6级考前冲刺试题二含答案6级考前冲刺试题二Part I Writing (30 minutes)Directions:For this part, you are allowed 30 minutes to write a short essay entitled Social Network Sites. You should write at least 150 words following the outline given below.1. 当今社会,社交网站很流行2. 各人对此看法不同3. 我的看法Social Network Sites________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________Part II Reading Comprehension (Skimming and Scanning) (15 minutes)Directions: In this part, you will have 15 minutes to go over the passage quickly and answer the questions on Answer Sheet 1. For questions 1-7, choose the best answer from the fourchoices marked A), B), C) and D). For questions 8-10, complete the sentences with theinformation given in the passage.Dogs Make Employees More Productive At WorkLeib Lurie never intended for his company, message delivery service One Call Now, to be pet-friendly. But his dog, Ivy, had other ideas.Five years ago, the German shepherd showed up unannounced at One Call Now?s Troy, Ohio-based office—a 1.5-mile trek from Lurie?s home. When he continued to make the trip each day he wasn?t brought to the office, Lurie realized it was time for a change i n company policy. T oday, four or five employee?s dogs, as well as a variety of fish, birds, and other caged animals join Ivy in the office daily to make One Call Now aworkingman?s menagerie (动物园).“They?re not very good at sending voice messages,” Lurie jokes of the pets in his office. “But we?ve gotten them down with using the computer, at least the point part.”One Call Now joins a growing force of companies across the United States to welcome pets in the workplace. While only 17 percent of U.S. employers currently allow animals in the workplace, according to a survey from the American Pet Products Manufacturers Association, pet-friendly, often specifically dog-friendly, environments are building steam. From major companies like Google, Zynga, and /doc/f29ed112a8114431b90dd89e.html to growing start-ups, more and more canine companions are showing up to work.For many entrepreneurs, the inception of a dog-friendly environment begins long before offices enter the picture. “My dog, Blueberry, was the founding dog,” explains Randy H etrik, founder of TRX Training. “Literally, it was him and me before any other people came in, so he takes great pride in what we?ve accomplished.” As Hetrik built his company, he never forgot his first partner. T oday, up to ten dogs wander with Blueberry through the four floors of TRX?s San Francisco office.Many pet-friendly work environments develop as a part of the company?s larger mission or company culture. After spending years in uptight corporate climates, Nancy Squires founded her own consulting firm, The Squires Group, with a distinctly homey atmosphere, which included her two Italian greyhounds.Marketing software company G5?s dog-friendliness fits into the animal-friendly climate of their mountain town Bend, Oregon,as well as the company?s own cultural backbone. “We try to have aculture that promotes freedom for the employees and helps them thrive,” says G5 CEO Dan Hobin. “If that involves bringing your dog to work, bring your dog to work.”Having dogs underfoot might seem to some like a distraction, but advocates of animals in the workplace see quite the opposite. Dogs in the office foster friendlier, more collaborative work environments. At G5, this includes dogs posing as mascots for the company?s various divisions. “Everyone rallies around the dogs,” Hobin says.Employees surrounded by dogs also have a tendency to rally around their jobs. According to a survey of 50 small and large companies by the American Pet Products Manufacturers Association in 2008, companies that allow pets in the workplace see a lower rate of employee absenteeism (旷工) and more willingness to work longer hours.“There are a lot of people who know they have to spend extra hou rs at work, particularly in this economic climate,” says Debrah Schnackenberg, vice president of emergency services for the American Humane Association. “People feel comfortable spending that extra hour or two at the office when they know their dog is righ t there with them.”Dog-friendliness may generate more loyalty for the company as a whole. In the last two years, One Call Now has seen a two or three percent turnover rate. Lurie attributes this small number in part to the office pets. “You ask someone wh o is in a $12-an-hour job, …Would you work anywhere else?? And they say, …No way.? Where else could I bring my dog to work?” he says.This sense of loyalty stems from a simple concept: Dogsmake people happy. “They?re always happy to see you, they?re happy for the smallest things, and they?re ever optimistic,” says Hetrik. “Having a dog wandering around just seems to make people smile.”In high-performance or high-stress work environments, dogs can not only spread smiles but also ease tension. Taking a walk, practicing a trick, or even absentmindedly scratching a dog behind the ear allows even the most worked-up employee to relax and reprioritize. “It?s their cigarette,” says Squires. “The dogs are a sense of peace, gentleness, a diversion, something other than what we define as work.I think it?s a great break.”And, a dog break is certainly healthier than a smoke break. Numerous studies have shown that having the companionship or even being in the presences of a pet, for instance in the workplace, lowers blood pressure and cortisol levels while heightening endorphins and oxytocin, the hormone linke d to maternal bonding. Such an emotional connection is healthy for your dog as well. “Dogs bond to their humans and would rather be with them than not,” says Schnackenberg. “From an emotional well-being perspective, it?s healthy for a dog to be with their owner throughout the day.”With their many attributes and benefits, dogs play a critical role in pet-friendly company?s hiring processes. All of the aforementioned companies and many more like them use their dogs in theinterview process to introduce potential employees to the corporate climate. Their reactions to the animals also serve as a compatibility test. “I?ve never met a dog-friendly person who wasn?t a customer-friendly person,” says Lurie. “And we hirecustomer-friendly people.”The dog un-friendly or the allergenic, however, need not apply.“You try to build a company of people who can rally around a vision, and dogs play a part of that,” Hetrik says. “Pe ople who look at that and say how stinky or hairy or whatever probably aren?t people that are going to mold well into the casual, rough and tumble, work hard, play hard work environment that I?ve created.”The Squires Group maintains a similar mantra (口号). “If people don?t do dogs, there may be another part of the company they don?t do,” Squires says. “I?m not saying they?re bad people or that they wouldn?t be great for other companies, but they wouldn?t fit our company greatly.”Companies considering introducing a dog-friendly work environment should consider adopting a pet policy. When advising companies in this transition, the American Human Association suggests highlighting clear rules about when you can bring your dog in, what behavior is expected, and what happens when the pet or person does not conform to those rules.Many small companies adopt these advised policies, but govern their pets in a more ad hoc (非正式的) manner. After a few minor “accidents,” G5?s HR Department developed a detailed pet policy to include in the company handbook. “I don?t think I actually ever re ad it,” admits Hobin. “In short, though, the policy is to be responsible and respectful.”At TRX, dogs are under the same considerations as people. “You wouldn?t tolerate a lot of barkin g, snapping and snarling from the people you work with,” Hetrik says. “Neither should you tolerate it from the canine pals they bring to work. We?repretty clear on all that.” Growing companies should also be flexible to changing the stipulations in their policy as they develop.Adjustments to the TRX pet policy are under consideration as the company intends to expand its workforce from 120 to 300 employees. The company may introduce a sign-up, limiting the total number of dogs to the current two to three per floor. No matter the changes, though, dogs will remain a fixture in the company.“Dogs were part of the fabric from the very beginning,” says Hetrik. “And they?ll be here until the very end. I like having these pups around.”1. Leib Lurie realized he should change the company to be pet-friendly when _______.A) employees brought their pets to the officeB) his pet dog showed up in the office dailyC) he found dogs make employees more productiveD) his company moved to the office in the suburban2. What do we learn from the study by the American Pet Products Manufacturers Association?A) Living environments for pet dogs have improved.B) Small companies tend to adopt dog-friendly policy.C) More businesses welcome pets in the workplace.D) Employees show a growing interest in raising pets.3. According to G5 CEO Dan Hobin, employees can bring their dogs to work as long as _______.A) they thrive with their dogs? company C) their dogs are friendly to customersB) they can keep the dogs from barking D) the office is located at a mountain town4. According to advocates of animals in the workplaces, dogs in the office _______.A) can attract employees? attention sometimesB) won?t distract employees from their workC) force inefficient employees to work harderD) seldom pose a threat to other employees5. To some degree, the low turnover rate of One Call Now was attributed to _______.A) the relatively high pay C) its excellent conditionsB) the economic recession D) its pet-friendly policy6. What does Schnackenberg say about dogs? being with their owners throughout the d ay?A) It does great harm to their owners? health.B) It benefits dogs more than their owners.C) It is unrealistic in this economic climate.D) It is good for dogs? emotional well-being.7. Lurie believes that a dog-friendly person _______.A) is less likely to work efficiently C) is welcome in all companiesB) is a customer-friendly person D) is usually disloyal to the company8. According to Squires, people who don?t like dogs are not ______________________________ for her company The Squires Group.9. The American Human Association advises companies to make and highlight ______________________________ in their transition to dog-friendly companies.10. TRX is considering ______________________________ its pet policy as it intends to increase thenumber of its employees.Part III Listening Comprehension(35 minutes)Section ADirections: In this section, you will hear 8 short conversations and 2 long conversations. At the end of each conversation, one or more questions will be asked about what was said. Both the conversation and the questions will be spoken only once. After each question there will be apause. During the pause, you must read the four choices marked A), B), C) and D), anddecide which is the best answer. Then mark the corresponding letter on Answer Sheet 2with a single line through the centre.11. A) The results of her finals are ironic.B) The man should have attended the lectures.C) The result of the final is unbelievable, too.D) The man should not have chosen urban planning.12. A) She wanted to please the man.B) She bought the ticket on impulse.C) She wanted to invite her professor to the concert.D) She meant to ignore the appointment with her professor.13. A) He declined the bookstore job once.B) He really wants to work in the bookstore.C) He didn?t know where the bookstore was.D) He wasn?t offered the job in the bookstore.14. A) The tailor?s. C) The theatre.B) A dress-up party. D) A shopping mall.15. A) Her mom has approved without hesitation, while her dad hasn?t.B) Her dad has approved of it, and her mom will probably do the same.C) Her dad still needs time to think, while her mom hasalready agreed.D) Her dad needs tim e to think, while her mom definitely won?t consider it.16. A) He couldn?t make time for it. C) He was not in the mood for it.B) He had probably caught the flu. D) He went floating with some other students.17. A) She feels very hot in the room. C) She wants to avoid meeting people.B) She doesn?t like the smell inside.D) She wants to smoke a cigarette there.18. A) He dislikes this job, so he will quit soon.B) He likes the job, if not for those working hours.C) He?s not decided, but he knows he shouldn?t quit.D) He wants to change his job for all he likes about it.Questions 19 to 21 are based on the conversation you have just heard.19. A) The climate there is too cold. C) He has visited it twice before.B) The air-fare is quite expensive. D) He does not have the passport.20. A) He has just reconditioned his house. C) He has just come back from abroad.B) His old car has just been repaired. D) He doesn?t have long enough time.21. A) He hasn?t been th ere before. C) His friend will accommodate him.B) He can meet his girlfriend there. D) He can find a temporary job there.Questions 22 to 25 are based on the conversation you havejust heard.22. A) Frank. C) Indirect.B) Modest. D) Confident.23. A) Money is important.B) Responsibility means more than salary.C) High salary secures better performance.D) Future income is more important than starting salary.24. A) “Can do” spirit.C) Honesty and responsibility.B) Motivation and teamwork. D) Hard-working and cooperation.25. A) Tolerance. C) Clearer wording.B) Civilization. D) Communication.Section BDirections:In this section, you will hear 3 short passages. At the end of each passage, you will hear some questions. Both the passage and questions will be spoken only once. After you hear a question, you must choose the best answer from the four choices markedA), B), C) and D). Then mark the corresponding letter on Answer Sheet 2with asingle line through the centre.Passage OneQuestions 26 to 28 are based on the passage you have just heard.26. A) A little girl. B) A little boy. C) A secretary. D) A dog.27. A) The medical treatment in Sweden. C) The daily life of the Swedes.B) Keeping a dog in Sweden. D) Social welfare in Sweden.28. A) Dog owners in Sweden needn?t to pay any taxes on their pets.B) Dog owners in Sweden are greatly subsidized by government.C) Dog owners in Sweden must pay for any damage their dog does.D) Two thirds of people in Sweden keep pets.Passage TwoQuestions 29 to 31 are based on the passage you have just heard.29. A) One that is already extinct in some parts of the world.B) One that is extremely dangerous to humans.C) One that will naturally die out in its natural surroundings.D) One that is confronted with extinction in its living environment.30. A) Polluted water. B) Decreasing fish. C) Climate change.D) Over-hunting.31. A) About 15%. B) About 20%. C) About 25%. D) About 30%.Passage ThreeQuestions 32 to 35 are based on the passage you have just heard.32. A) The unequal distribution of housework between men and women.B) The change of women?s attitude towards housew ork.C) The influence of men sharing the housework in American families.D) The change of the time spent on housework in American families.33. A) Marriage gives men more freedom.B) Marriage has effects on job choices.C) Men shares more housework nowadays than before.D) Having children means doubled housework.34. A) About 12 hours. B) About 13 hours. C) About 17 hours.D) About 21 hours.35. A) Unmarried men. C) Younger married men.B) Older married men. D) Married men with children.Section CDirections:In this section, you will hear a passage three times. When the passage is read for the first time, you should listen carefully for its general idea. When the passage is read for the second time, you are required to fill in the blanks numbered from 36 to 43 with the exactwords you have just heard. For blanks numbered from 44 to 46 you are required to fill inthe missing information. For these blanks, you can either use the exact words you havejust heard or write down the main points in your own words. Finally, when the passage isread for the third time, you should check what you have written.Why do so many people live to a healthy old age in certain parts of the world? What is the (36) _________ of their long lives? Three things seem to (37) _________ to it: fresh air, fresh food and a simple way of life. People work near their homes in the clean, mountain air instead of travelling long (38) _________ to work by bus, car or train. They do not sit all day in (39) _________ offices or factories, but work hard outdoors in the fields. They take more exercise and eat less food than peopledoctors. There was no crime, no (40) _________ and not much illness in their society. They were a happy, peaceful people, famous all over India for their long, healthy lives.Although many people are keen on (41) _________ out ways to live a longer life, there are people worrying about their (42) _________ years. Once a retired doctor I (43) _________ shared with me his worries: It?s only natural to look forward to something better. (44) ___________________________________________________________________. It is one of life?s great ironies that the longer we live, the less there is to look forward to Retirement may bring with it the fulfillment of a lifetime?s dreams. (45) ___________________________________________________________________. From then on, the dream fades. (46) ___________________________________________________________________. Who wants to live long enough to become a doddering wreck? Who wants to go back to that most dreadful of all human conditions, a second childhood?Part IV Reading Comprehension (Reading in Depth) (25 minutes)Section ADirections:In this section, there is a short passage with 5 questions or incomplete statements. Read the passage carefully. Then answer the questions or complete the statements in the fewestpossible words. Please write your answers on Answer Sheet 2.Questions 47 to 51 are based on the following passage.According to new research simple words such as …be?, …that?, …will?, …him?, …and? and even …a? could hold the key to a successful marriage. Experts say the style in which couples talk and how they use common words can predict whether a relationship will be successful or not.It is already well known that people are attracted to potential partners who resemble themselves in personality, values and physical appearance. However, experts now claim these features only skim the surface of what makes a relationship work. The ways that people talk are also important according to the study which found that people who speak in a similar style are more compatible. The U.S. study focu sed on what it dubbed …function words?.These are not nouns or verbs, but everyday words such as a, be, anything, that, will, him and even and. Study co-author Professor James Pennebaker, of Texas University, said how we use these words constitutes our writing and speaking style and couples who use them in the same way have better and longer-lasting partnerships.Researchers examined whether the speaking and writing styles couples adopt during conversation with each other predict future dating behaviour and the long-term strength of relationships. They conducted two experiments in which a computer programme compared partners? language styles.In the first study, pairs of college students had four-minute speed dates while their conversations were recorded. Almost every pair covered the same topics, such as their study subject, where they were from and if they liked college. Prof Pennebaker said: “Every conversation sounded more or less the same to the naked ear, but text analysis revealed obvious differences in language synchrony (同步). The pairs whose language style matching scores were above average were almost four times as likely to want futur e contact as pairs whose speaking styles were out of sync.”A second study revealed the same pattern in everyday onlinechats between dating couples over the course of 10 days. Almost 80 percent of the couples whose writing style matched were still dating three months later, compared with approximately 54 percent of the couples who did not match as well.Prof Pennebake r said: “What people are saying to each other is important, but how they are saying it may be even more telling. But what?s wonderful about this is we don?t really make that decision — it just comes out of our mouths. People are not consciously synchronizi ng their speech.”47. New research revealed that the success of a relationship could be _____________________through the way couples used common words.48. Experts now claim that similar _____________________ are not enough in a successfulrelationship.49. According to Professor James Pennebaker, relationships of couples using function words in thesame way tend to be _____________________.50. In the first study, pairs of college students whose languages style matched are more likely to_____________________.51. Prof Pennebaker suggested that _____________________ may have a greater effect on theirrelationships.Section Bunfinished 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 Sheet2 with a single line through the centre.Passage OneQuestions 52 to 56 are based on the following passage.We tend to think of the decades immediately following World War II as a time of prosperity and growth, with soldiers returning home by the millions, going off to college on the G.I. Bill and lining up at the marriage bureaus.But when it came to their houses, it was a time of common sense and a belief that less truly could be more. During the Depression and the war, Americans had learned to live with less, and that restraint, in combination with the postwar confidence in the future, made small, efficient housing positively stylish.Economic condition was only one stimulus for the trend toward efficient living. The phrase “less is more” was actually first popularized by a German, the architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, who like other people associated with the Bauhaus, a school of design, emigrated to the United States before World War II and took up posts at American architecture schools. These designers, including Walter Gropius and Marcel Breuer, came to exert enormous influence on the course of American architecture, but none more so than Mies.Mies?s signature phrase means that less decoration, properly deployed, has more impact than a lot. Elegance, he believed, did not derive from abundance. Like other modern architects, he employed metal, glass and laminated wood (胶合板)—materials that we take for granted today but that in the 1940s symbolized the future. Mies?s sophisticated presentation masked the fact that the spaces he designed were small and efficient, rather than big and often empty.The apartments in the elegant towers Mies built on Chicago?s Lake Shore Drive, for example, were smaller—two-bedroom units under 1,000 square feet—than those in their older neighbors along the city?s Gold Coast. But they were popular because of their airy glass walls, the v iews they afforded and the elegance of the buildings? details and proportions, the architectural equivalent of the abstract art so popular at the time.The trend toward “less” was not entirely foreign. In the 1930s Frank Lloyd Wright started building more modest and efficient houses—usually around 1,200 square feet—than the sprawling two-story ones he had designed in the 1890s and the early 20th century.The “Case Study Houses” commissioned from talented modern architects by California Arts & Architecture m agazine between 1945 and 1962 were yet another homegrown influence on the “less is more” trend. Aesthetic effect came from the landscape, new materials and forthright detailing. In his Case Study House, Ralph Rapson may have mispredicted just how the mechanical revolution would impact everyday life—few American families acquired helicopters, though most eventually got clothes dryers—but his belief that self-sufficiency was both desirable and inevitable was widely shared.52. The postwar American housing st yle largely reflected the Americans?.A) efficiency and practicality C) restraint and confidenceB) prosperity and growth D) pride and faithfulness53. What can be inferred about Bauhaus from the third paragraph?A) It was founded by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe.B) It had a great influence upon American architecture.C) Its designing concept was affected by World War II.D) Most American architects used to be associated with it.54. According to Mies, elegance of architectural design .A) was related to large space C) was identified with emptinessB) was not associated with efficiency D) was not reliant on abundant decoration55. According to the passage, the apartments Mies built on Chicago?s Lake Shore Drive .A) ignored details and proportionsB) were built with materials popular at that timeC) were more spacious than neighboring buildingsD) shared some characteristics of abstract art56. What do we learn about the design of the “Case Study House”?A) Natural scenes were taken into consideration.B) Mechanical devices were widely used.C) Details were sacrificed for the overall effect.D) Eco-friendly materials were employed.Passage TwoQuestions 57 to 61 are based on the following passage.Will the European Union make it? The question would have sounded strange not long ago. Nowdemographic decline and lower growth.As well as those chronic problems, the EU faces an acute crisis in its economic core, the 16 countries that use the single currency. Markets have lost faith that the euro zone?s economies, weaker or stronger, will one day converge thanks to the discipline of sharing a single currency, which denies uncompetitive members the quick fix of devaluation.Yet the debate about how to save Europe?s single currency from disintegration is stuck. It is stuck because the euro zone?s。
2022年四川省眉山市大学英语6级大学英语六级预测试题(含答案)学校:________ 班级:________ 姓名:________ 考号:________一、1.Writing(10题)1. Directions: For this part, you are allowed 30 minutes to write a short essay entitled My View on Campus Violence. You should write at least 150 words following the outline given below:1. 近来不断有大学校园暴力事件发生2. 产生这力事件的原因3. 我的看法My View on Campus Violence2. Directions: For this part, you are allowed 30 minutes to write a composition on the topic To Curb Expenditure. You should write at least 150 words following the outline given below in Chinese:1. 现在很多大学生消费水平普遍提高2.有人认为社会整体生活水平提高了,大学生花钱多一些无可厚非3.你的看法3. 1. 影响将来事业成功的因素有很多,试举例说明2.你对此的看法,并阐述理由4. Directions: For this part, you are allowed 30 minutes to write a short essay entitled Energy Shortage: How to Solve It. You should write at least 150 words following the outline given below:1. 能源是当今人们最关心的重大问题之一。
大学英语六级考试冲刺试题附答案大学英语六级考试冲刺试题附答案today, give a stranger one of your smiles. it might be the only sunshine he sees all day.以下是店铺为大家搜索整理的大学英语六级考试冲刺试题附答案,希望能给大家带来帮助!Anne Whitney, a sophomore (大学二年级学生) at Colorado State University, first had a problem taking tests when she began college. "I was always well prepared for my tests. Sometimes I studied for weeks before a test. Yet I would go in to take the test, only to find I could not answer the questions correctly. I would blank out because of nervousness and fear. I couldn't think of the answer. My low grades on the tests did not show what I knew to the teacher. " Another student in biology had similar experiences. He said, "My first chemistry test was very difficult. Then, on the second test, I sat down to take it, and I was so nervous that I was shaking. My hands were moving up and down so quickly that it was hard to hold my pencil. I knew the material and I knew the answers. Yet I couldn't even write them down!"These two young students were experiencing something called test anxiety. Because a student worries and is uneasy about a test, his or her mind does not work as well as it usually does. The student cannot write or think clearly because of the extreme tension and nervousness. Although poor grades are often a result of poor study habits, sometimes test anxiety causes the low grades. Recently, test anxiety has been recognized as a real problem, not just an excuse or a false explanation of lazy students.Special university advising courses try to help students. In these courses, advisors try to help students by teaching them how to manage test anxiety. At some universities, students taketests to measure their anxiety. If the tests show (heir anxiety is high, the students can take short courses to help them deal with (heir tensions. These courses teach students how to relax their bodies. Students are trained to become calm in very tense situations. By controlling their nervousness, they can let their minds work at ease. Learned information then comes out without difficulty on a test.An expert • at the University of California explains, " With almost all students, relaxation and less stress are felt after taking our program. Most of them experience better control during their tests. Almost all have some improvement. With some, the improvement is very great. "26. To "blank out" is probably______.A. to be like a blanketB. to be sure of an answerC. to be unable to think clearlyD. to show knowledge to the teacher27. Poor grades are usually the result of______.A. poor sleeping habitB. lazinessC. lack of sleepD. inability to form good study habits28. Test anxiety has been recognized as______.A. an excuse for lazinessB. the result of poor study habitsC. a real problemD. something that cannot be changed29. To deal with this problem, students say they want to______.A. take a short course on anxietyB. read about anxietyC. be able to manage or understand their anxietyD. take tests to prove they are not anxious30. A University of California advisor said______.A. all students could overcome the anxiety after taking a special test anxiety programB. almost all students felt less stress after taking a University of California advising courseC. students found it difficult to improve even though they had taken a special test anxiety courseD. students found it easy to relax as soon as they entered a University of California advising course参考答案26. C 27. D 28. C 29. A 30. B。
【2022年】福建省泉州市大学英语6级大学英语六级预测试题(含答案) 学校:________ 班级:________ 姓名:________ 考号:________一、1.Writing(10题)1. Directions: For this part, you are allowed 30 minutes to write a passage of at least 150 words in the title of Are You Ready to Take up the Cudgels for a Just Cause (见义勇为). Please follow the outline given below:1. 见义勇为是一种美德,值得赞扬、褒奖和宣传。
2.不少人认为见义勇为是“干傻事”。
3. 你的看法。
2. For this part, you are allowed 30 minutes to write a short essay on the topic of Children Obesity. You should write at least 150 words according to the outline given below.1.学生的肥胖问题日益严重2.这一现象产生的原因3.你认为应如何改变这一现象Children Obesity3. Directions: For this part, you are allowed 30 minutes to write a composition with the title of An Eye-witness Account of a Traffic Accident. You should write at least 150 words following the outline given below in Chinese.假设你在某日某时某地目击一起车祸,就此写一份见证书。
2024年6月大学英语六级考试真题和答案(第2套)Part I Writing (30 minutes)Directions: For this part, you are allowed 30 minutes to write an essay that begins with the sentence “Nowadays more and more college students have come to realize social practice and academic learning are equally important.” You can make comments, cite examples or use your personal experiences to develop your essay. You should write at least 150 words but no more than 200 words.You should copy the sentence given in quotes at the beginning of your essay.Part Ⅱ Listening Comprehension (30 minutes)Section ADirections:In this section, you will hear two long conversations. At the end of each conversation, you will hear four questions. Both the conversation and the questions will be spoken only once. After you hear a question, you must choose the best answer from the four choices marked A), B), C) and D). Then mark the corresponding letter on Answer Sheet 1 with a single line through the centre.Questions 1 to 4 are based on the conversation you have just heard.1. A) Read numerous comments users put online.B) Blended all his food without using a machine.C) Searched for the state-of-the-art models of blenders.D) Did thorough research on the price of kitchen appliances.2. A) Eating any blended food.B) Buying a blender herself.C) Using machines to do her cooking.D) Making soups and juices for herself.3. A) Cooking every meal creatively in the kitchen.B) Paying due attention to his personal hygiene.C) Eating breakfast punctually every morning.D) Making his own fresh fruit juice regularly.4. A) One-tenth of it is sugar.B) It looks healthy and attractive.C) One’s fancy may be tickled by it.D) It contains an assortment of nutrients.Questions 5 to 8 are based on the conversation you have just heard.5. A) How he has made himself popular as the mayor of Berkton.B) How the residents will turn Berkton into a tourist attraction.C) How charming he himself considers the village of Berkton to be.D) How he has led people of Berkton to change the village radically.6. A) It was developed only to a limited extent.B) It was totally isolated as a sleepy village.C) It was relatively unknown to the outside.D) It was endowed with rare natural resources.7. A) The people in Berkton were in a harmonious atmosphere.B) The majority of residents lived in harmony with their neighbors.C) The majority of residents enjoyed cosy housing conditions.D) All the houses in Berkton looked aesthetically similar.8. A) They have helped boost the local economy.B) They have made the residents unusually proud.C) They have contributed considerably to its popularity.D) They have brought happiness to everyone in the village.Section BDirections: In this section, you will hear two passages. At the end of each passage, you will hear three or four questions. Both the passage and the questions will be spoken only once. After you hear a question, you must choose the best answer from the four choices marked A),B),C) and D). Then mark the corresponding letter on Answer Sheet 1 with a single line through the centre.Questions 9 to 11 are based on the passage you have just heard.9. A) They have created the smallest remote-controlled walking robot in the world.B) They are going to publish their research findings in the journal Science Robotics.C) They are the first to build a robot that can bend, crawl, walk, turn and even jump.D) They are engaged in research on a remote-controlled robot which uses special power.10. A) It changes its shape by complex hardware.B) It is operated by a special type of tiny motor.C) It moves from one place to another by memory.D) It is powered by the elastic property of its body.11. A) Replace humans in exploratory tasks.B) Perform tasks in tightly confined spaces.C) Explore the structure of clogged arteries.D) Assist surgeons in highly complex surgery.Questions 12 to 15 are based on the passage you have just heard.12. A) She threw up in the bathroom.B) She slept during the entire ride.C) She dozed off for a few minutes.D) She boasted of her marathon race.13. A) They are mostly immune to cognitive impairment.B) They can sleep soundly during a rough ride at sea.C) They are genetically determined to need less sleep.D) They constitute about 13 percent of the population.14. A) Whether there is a way to reach elite status.B) Whether it is possible to modify one’s genes.C) Whether having a baby impacts one’s passion.D) Whether one can train themselves to sleep less.15. A) It is in fact quite possible to nurture a passion for sleep.B) Babies can severely disrupt their parents’ sleep patterns.C) Being forced to rise early differs from being an early bird.D) New parents are forced to jump out of bed at the crack of dawn.Section CDirections: In this section, you will hear three recordings of lectures or talks followed by three or four questions. The recordings will be played only once. After you hear a question, you must choose the best answer from the four choices marked A), B), C) and D). Then mark the corresponding letter on Answer Sheet 1 with a single line through the centre.Questions 16 to 18 are based on the recording you have just heard. 16. A) We have poor awareness of how many controversial issues are being debated.B) No one knows better than yourself what you are thinking about at the moment.C) No one can change your opinions more than those who speak in a convincing tone.D) We are likely to underestimate how much we can be swayed by a convincing article.17. A) Their belief about physical punishment changed.B) Their memory pushed them toward a current belief.C) The memory of their initial belief came back to them.D) Their experiences of physical punishment haunted them.18. A) They apparently have little to do with moderate beliefs.B) They don’t reflect the changes of view on physical punishment.C) They may not apply to changes to extreme or deeply held beliefs.D) They are unlikely to alter people’s position without more evidence.Questions 19 to 21 are based on the recording you have just heard.19. A) American moms have been increasingly inclined to live alone.B) The American population has been on the rise in the past 25 years.C) American motherhood has actually been on the decline.D) The fertility rates in America have in fact been falling sharply.20. A) More new mothers tend to take greater care of their children.B) More new mothers are economically able to raise children.C) A larger proportion of women take pride in their children.D) A larger proportion of women really enjoy motherhood.21. A) The meaning of motherhood has changed considerably.B) More and more mothers go shopping to treat themselves.C) More mothers have adult children celebrating the holiday.D) The number of American mothers has been growing steadily.Questions 22 to 25 are based on the recording you have just heard.22. A) Add to indoor toxic pollutants.B) Absorb poisonous chemicals.C) Beautify the home environment.D) Soak up surrounding moisture.23. A) NASA did experiments in sealed containers resembling thesuper-insulated offices of 1970s.B) It was based on experiments under conditions unlike those in most homes or offices.C) NASA conducted tests in outer space whose environment is different from ours.D) It drew its conclusion without any contrastive data from other experiments.24. A) Natural ventilation proves much more efficient for cleaning the air than house plants.B) House plants disperse chemical compounds more quickly with people moving around.C) Natural ventilation turns out to be most effective with doors and windows wide open.D) House plants in a normal environment rarely have any adverse impact on the air.25. A) The root cause for misinterpretations of scientific findings.B) The difficulty in understanding what’s actually happening.C) The steps to be taken in arriving at any conclusion with certainty.D) The necessity of continually re-examining and challenging findings.Part III Reading Comprehension (40 minutes)Section ADirections: In this section, there is a passage with ten blanks. You are required to select one word for each blank from a list of choices given in a word bank following the passage. Read the passage through carefully before making your choices. Each choice in the bank is identified by a letter. Please mark the corresponding letter for each item on Answer Sheet 2with a single line through the centre. You may not use any of the words in the bank more than once.The Sun Is Also a Star is a truly lovely story of love, romance, fate,and destiny.Natasha is a Jamaican-born immigrant living____26____in America, not by choice exactly. Her parents brought her over and created the situation she____27____to be out of.Daniel is an American born of Korean immigrants. He believes in true love, fate, and all that other nonsense that Natasha____28____through scientific reasoning.Daniel and Natasha meet by____29____on the streets of New York on the day that she is to be____30____. She doesn’t tell him that but does allow him to keep her company while he tries to get her to fall in love with him over the course of the day.Natasha is me. I found her so similar to myself. She’s scientifically-minded, practical, somewhat cynical, andalways____31____. Her obsession with the universe through a scientific lens is infectious and I____32____Daniel seeing that too.Daniel is charming and passionate and has a way with words that even____33____Natasha’s tough outer shell.By the end of the book I fell in love with both of them.I used to find romance stories to always be cheap or laughable. I think now I can see the value in escaping into a story of pure optimism. I got____34____in The Sun Is Also a Star and finished it cover to cover in a weekend. I couldn’t wait to get to what I hoped would be a happy ending.It’s nice every once in a while to give in to magic. It doesn’t have to be a hard fantasy novel with actual spells, it can be the magic found between two people who just have that special something.That____35____that causes them to react and spark when they’re near each other.A) adoreB) appraiseC) assaultsD) chemistryE) coincidenceF) cracksG) deportedH) dismissesI) illegallyJ) lostK) perpetuallyL) prescribedM) shrewdN) skepticalO) strivesSection BDirections: In this section, you are going to read a passage with ten statements attached to it. Each statement contains information given in one of the paragraphs. Identify the paragraph from which the information is derived. You may choose a paragraph more than once. Each paragraph is marked with a letter. Answer the questions by marking the corresponding letter on Answer Sheet 2.These are the habits to avoid if you want to make a behavior changeA) According to recent research, behavioral change involves physical changes in the brain. In the past decade, researchers have shown that when it comes to the duration of making a new behavior a deep-rooted habit there is not a simple answer. Even for the most productive and disciplined among us, undoing something that has become an automatic part of who we are takes more than an overnight effort. Once we’ve successfully made that change, we then have to make other adjustments to our lives to ensure that we continue to maintain it, which is often a whole other challenge in itself.B) At its core, success in changing and maintaining a behavior rarely occurs without the introduction of some sort of system. When there isn’t the right framework in place, we face a greater likelihood of derailing our hard-earned progress. To ensure success in changing and maintaining a behavior, we should stay away from some detrimental habits.C) The first one to avoid is relying on willpower. Think about the last time you vowed to resist a temptation. Perhaps you didn’t want to check your phone every 15 minutes, or you were determined not to reach for a chocolate bar at 3 p.m. Think about how difficult it must have been not to glance at your phone when it was within reach, or not to walk to the vending machine when your afternoon slump hit.D) The research on whether we have finite or infinite willpower is inconclusive, but experts do generally agree that you can’t change and sustain a habit if you rely on your willpower alone. The old military saying “You never rise to the occasion, you only sink to the level of training” also applies to behavior change. The idea is simple—you repeat something so many times that it becomes automatic.E) Think about what else you can change about your surrounding that makes it easier for you to perform this change on a daily basis. This is called your “cue.” Basically, it’s a trigger to perform that particular habit. If you don’t want to reach for a sugary treat at 3 p.m., have a box of herbal tea ready at your desk. When 3 p.m. comes around, that’s your cue to pour yourself a cup of hot water and drink that tea, instead of walking to the vending machine.F) The second one to avoid is focusing on negative goals. Sometimes, it’s not your process that lets you down, but the habit that you want to change in the first place. For starters, not eating chocolate to beat your afternoon slump is a harder goal than swapping chocolate for herbal tea when you reach the designated time. Your brain wants to find routinesthat have succeeded in the past and allow you to repeat those actions again in the future without having to think about them explicitly. However, this habit-learning system isn’t so effective when it comes to learning not to do something. That’s why rather than giving up something, think about introducing something in its place. Focus on actions you are going to take that will ultimately conflict with the behaviors you want to stop. When your attention is on doing something new, you give your habit system a chance to operate.G) The third one to avoid is using the same strategies in different circumstances. Because we are creatures of habit, it’s natural to assume that when we do manage to adopt and sustain a desirable behavior, that same strategy will work when we want to make another behavior change. But that’s not always the case. Sometimes, the system that got you to change one behavior might not work for another.H) Sometimes we become accustomed to relying on our guts when it comes to decisionmaking. This serves us well in certain situations, but can hinder us in others especially when we need to consider metrics and data, rather than letting our instinct override everything. For example, if you want to stop checking your email first thing in the morning, you might decide to substitute another activity in its place. But if you want to stop indulging in video games, simply deciding you will go for a run might not be as effective. You might need to introduce another reinforcement, such as meeting a friend and booking an exercise class together.I) The fourth one to avoid is not forgiving ourselves for slipping up. Of course, even the bestlaid plans fail sometimes. You might have stuck to your screen-free nighttime routine for five days, and then a big project landed on your desk and you found yourself in bed with your laptop before you went to sleep. Or you prepared meals on Sunday and stuck to eating healthy dinners at home, but by Friday you found yourself so exhausted and opted to order greasy takeout. Life happens and even if your behavior change is small, every single day can prove pretty inflexible, and at some point your luck may run out, even if just for a day. The perfectionist in you might be screaming to abandon your goals altogether, but try to see it in the bigger picture. Just because you might have temporarily strayed off course doesn’t mean you can’t start afresh the next day.J) The final one to avoid is discounting small progress. There’s a habit that many perfectionists tend to fall into when they try to establish a behavior change. They focus too much on the big goal and don’t take the time to celebrate the small progress they make in the process. Your brain responds to rewards. The basal ganglia, the brain region linked to our performance of habits, is most active at the beginning of a behavior, when the habit is cued, and at the end, when it’s rewarded. Say your goal is to run five miles three times a week, and this week you ran one mile on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday. Rather than focusing on how far you’ve gone toward your goal, think about how you can reward yourself for the progress you’ve made. It doesn’t have to be big or expensive; it can be something as simple as making your favorite fruit juice after your run. Whatever your reward, it has to be more than just the activity itself to get you going.K) Initiating a new behavior usually seems like the hardest part of the process of change. However, people often fail to adequately prepare for maintaining it. One of the reasons for this is because we mistakenly believe the strategies we used to initiate the change will be equally effective in helping us continue the change. But they won’t. Where changing a strongly deep-rooted habit requires changing our belief about that habit that penetrates deeply into our lives, continually manifesting that wisdom requires that we maintain a positive outlook. If our mood is low, the wisdom to behave differently seems to disappear and we go back to eating more and exercising less. The key, then, to maintaining new behaviors is to be happy! Which is why it’s so hard to maintain new behaviors.L) Remember, overcoming the behavioral inertia that prevents us from implementing new changes, like eating a healthy diet or exercising, can benefit us in the long run and can improve our physical and mental health. No one was born with habits. They were all learned, and can all, therefore, be unlearned. The question is: how badly do you really want to change?36. There is general consensus among experts that willpower alone cannot guarantee one’s success in changing and maintaining a habit.37. One need not abandon their goals completely just because they missed their target temporarily; they can start anew.38. Research shows it is quite another challenge to maintain a behavioral change after you have initiated it.39. It is wrong to assume the strategies we use to start a change of behavior will work equally well in helping maintain it.40. Sometimes, it may not be successful to simply substitute one activity with another to effect a change of habit; you may need extra reinforcement.41. One should introduce something new to replace an old habit instead of simply kicking it.42. Perfectionists focus too much on their big target and neglect celebrating the small gains they make in the process.43. It is of great benefit to us in the long term to conquer the inertia that stops us from making behavioral changes.44. The strategy that successfully changed one of your behaviors may not work for some other behavior of yours.45. Without a happy mood, it seems that our wisdom to adopt a different behavior vanishes.Section CDirections: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 OneQuestions 46 to 50 are based on the following passage.The “American Dream” promises that in the Land of Opportunity, any individual can climb the economic ladder and prosper through hard work and ambition alone. And yet, young Americans today are struggling to earn more than their parents did at the same age, and upward mobility in the US actually compares unfavourably to that of other industrialised nations.So why does the idea of the American Dream persist? A new study in the American Journal of Political Science identifies one factor that has been overlooked: the influence of reality TV.Reality shows have come to dominate US television over the past 20 years, notes Eunji Kim from Vanderbilt University. And the overwhelming majority of these have a “rags-toriches” storyline: they feature ordinary Americans who work hard to achieve great economic success. And while these programmes are regularly among the most-watched shows, news broadcasts—which paint a more realistic view of the economic hardship faced by millions of Americans—get a much smaller proportion of the viewership.Rags-to-riches stories are ubiquitous (无处不在的) on TV—but does watching these programmes actually convince people that economic mobility is easily attainable? To find out, Kim’s team had participants watch a 5-minute clip from a reality show with a rags-to-riches storyline. Control participants watched a clip from a reality show that didn’t have a rags-toriches story. After watching the shows, participants rated how much they agreed with four statements relating to the American Dream.The results showed that those who’d watched a rags-to-riches clip did indeed have a significantly greater belief in the American Dream. Interestingly, when participants were separated by party affiliation, this effect was significant among Republicans but not Democrats, suggesting that the kind of messages implicit in these TV shows may play into people’s existing socioeconomic beliefs.Kim also conducted a survey of 3,000 US residents. They also rated the extent to which they believed success in life is related to various internal factors (such as ambition) and external factors (such as family wealth). Finally, they read a list of TV programmes and indicated which they regularly watched.Participants who were heavy viewers of rags-to-riches programmes or frequent viewers had a stronger belief in the American Dream than those who never watched such shows.Kim concludes that “rags-to-riches entertainment media are an important cultural force that promotes and perpetuates beliefs in upward mobility”. And here’s the problem: if people mistakenly believe that hard work is all that is needed for individuals to make a better life for themselves, they may be less supportive of policies that could actually combat inequality.“In this era of choice, entertainment media are what captures hearts and minds,” Kim writes. “Its political consequences are anything but trivial”.46. What do we learn from the passage about young Americans of today?A) They have greater ambitions than their parents.B) They find it difficult to achieve upward mobility.C) They have overtaken their parents in terms of earnings.D) They envy the opportunities in other industrialised nations.47. What does Kim’s team find about reality TV shows in America?A) They reinterpret the essence of the popular rags-to-riches culture.B) They urge people to achieve economic success through hard work.C) They help strengthen people’s conviction in the American Dream.D) They feature ordinary Americans striving for social recognition.48. What does the author say about news broadcasts in America?A) They attract far fewer viewers than reality TV.B) They are bent on reporting the dark side of life.C) They stand in striking contrast with reality TV.D) They focus on Americans’ economic hardships.49. What can we infer from the passage about Republicans in general?A) They believe strongly in the American Dream.B) They strive to climb the socio-economic ladder.C) They have a very strong affiliation with their party.D) They tend to watch more rags-to-riches TV shows.50. What is stated about people who believe in upward mobility?A) They are likely to blame the government for their plight.B) They regard political consequences as anything but trivial.C) They respect individuals striving to climb the social ladder.D) They are less likely to approve of policies to fight inequalityPassage TwoQuestions 51 to 55 are based on the following passage.When someone asks us ‘what do you do?’ we nearly always reply with our occupation. Work, for many of us, is much more than a job. It is the defining aspect of our identity. For many of us it is through our job that we can define ourselves.“Without my job I don’t know who I am,” is a sentence that has been uttered on more than a handful of occasions from my office chair. Indeed, it can be one of the most challenging aspects I work on with clients who have lost or been forced into changing their jobs. This loss provokes an identity crisis much greater than the loss of the job itself.One of the things I have come to understand, however, is that our identity is much more complex than we recognise at first glance. If we take the time to reflect we might recognise that as well as our work we can also identify as a friend, a spouse, a son or daughter, a parent, a member of a sports team or religious community. We may recognise that we feel and act differently in these roles and relationships than we do at work. The passive daughter becomes an assertive leader at work. Furthermore, our identities at work are not static. They change over time.I myself have been a shop assistant, a waitress, a student, a graduate, and a clinical psychologist. At each stage my ability to adapt to and develop my career identity has been crucial to my wellbeing. Whilst we like to eliminate uncertainty in our lives at some level we have to manage uncertainty, especially in today’s volatile and ever-shifting job market.How we see ourselves is central to the issue of our identity. When we tell ourselves “I’m good at starting projects but not so great at seeing them through” it can become part of our belief system. But if you have the unfortunate experience of an enforced job change you will need to examine those beliefs to see how grounded in reality they are. You will be required to ask yourself how helpful these beliefs are and consider personal change. We can change our beliefs, behaviours and emotional experience at any time through experimentation, practice and conscious self-discipline. In an age where career progression may lead us into new sectors it is ever more important to challenge our sense of self and explore whether you can create a new experience of your identity by changing the beliefs you hold about yourself in order to expand your career options. Ultimately it is you who define who you are. You are only your job if you let it be so.51. What do we learn from the passage about one’s loss of a job?A) It compels them to visit a clinical psychologist.B) It offers them a chance to play different roles.C) It renders them puzzled about who they are.D) It forces them to redefine their life’s goals.52. What has the author come to understand about our identity?A) It is crucial to our emotional wellbeing.B) It plays a big role in many facets of life.C) It reflects our changing status in society.D) It is more complicated than it appears.53. What does the passage say about our identities at work?A) They are essential to our self-esteem.B) They evolve with the passage of time.C) They overrule all other self-perceptions.D) They are key to understanding ourselves.54. What do we have to do in today’s ever-changing job market?A) Strive to develop our social identity.B) Prepare for different career paths.C) Try to be assertive at all times.D) Learn to manage uncertainty.55. What should we do to expand our career options?A) Alter our perceptions of ourselves.B) Compare various job opportunities.C) Look into newly emerging sectors.D) Exercise self-discipline consciously.Part IV Translation (30 minutes)Directions: For this part, you are allowed 30 minutes to translate a passage from Chinese into English. You should write your answer on Answer Sheet 2.中国盛产竹子,是最早开发利用竹资源的国家。
(2023年)广东省云浮市大学英语6级大学英语六级预测试题(含答案) 学校:________ 班级:________ 姓名:________ 考号:________一、1.Writing(10题)1.1.简要分析图表2.分析观众喜欢看体育节目的原因Why Do the Viewers Like Watching Sport Programs?2. For this part, you are allowed 30 minutes to write a short essay entitled BBS and College Students. You should write at least 150 words according to the outline given below in Chinese1.BBS成为很多大学生生活中必不可少的一部分2.BBS的主要功能3.BBS存在的问题BBS and College Students3. Directions: For this part, you are allowed 30 minutes to write a short essay entitled On Foreigners' Learning Chinese. You should write at least 150 words following the outline given below.1. 目前,国久“汉语热”持续升温2. 出现这种现象的主要原因3. “汉语热”给我的启示On Foreigners' Learning Chinese4. For this part, you are supposed to write a short essay entitled Internet according to the following outline given below in Chinese. The first sentence of each paragraph has been given to you.1. 因特网越来越普遍地进入到我们的学习、工作和生活当中2. 因特网的益处3. 因特网的消极方面InternetInternet has been playing an increasing role in our daily life. ______. Internet has enabled us to do a lot of things more easily and quickly. ______. However, if not managed properly, Internet can create many problems too. ______.All in all, we cannot live without Internet now. ______.5. Directions: For this part, you are allowed 30 minutes to write a short essay entitled Buying and Selling Stocks as a Student. You should write at least 150 words following the outline given below.1. 在校大学生炒股的现象在一些地主很普遍2. 有人认为这种行为不利于学生的学习也有人认为这种行为也能让学生有所收获3. 你的观点Buying and Selling Stocks as a Student6. Directions: For this part, you are allowed 30 minutes to write a short essay entitled Food Safety. You should write at least 150 words following the outline given below.1. 食品安全事故屡有发生2.人们对食品的安全越来越担心3.怎样才能解决好食品的安全问题7. Directions: For this part, you are allowed 30 minutes to write a short essay entitled Self-help Traveling of College Students. You should write at least 150 words following the outline given below.1. 大学生出去旅行经常会选择“自助游”2.分析大学生选择“自助游”的原因3.我的看法Self-help Traveling of College Students8. Directions: For this part, you are allowed 30 minutes to write a letter. Suppose you are graduating from the university this summer and you are going to apply for a job. You should write no less than 150 words and you should base your composition on the outline given in Chinese below:1. 假设你是一位即将毕业于复旦大学电子计算机系的学生,你从报纸上看到某公司招聘一名电子计算机工程技术口译人员的广告,请你写一封求职信说明你应聘的理由。
【2023年】山东省潍坊市大学英语6级大学英语六级预测试题(含答案) 学校:________ 班级:________ 姓名:________ 考号:________一、1.Writing(10题)1. Directions: For this part, you are allowed 30 minutes to write a short essay entitled Class Skipping in Universities. You should write at least 150 words following the outline given below1. 大学生逃课现象概述2.大学生逃课的原因和影响3.我对这一问题的看法Class Skipping in Universities2. Directions: For this part, you are allowed thirty minutes to write a short essay entitled College Student's Job-Hunting. You should write at least 150 words following the outline given bellow.1. 近年来出现大学生就业难的现象。
2. 产生这一现象的原因(如大学生追求目标过高,专业不对口等。
)3. 如何解决这个问题(改变就业观念,大学生在培训等)。
College Student's Job-Hunting3. How to Treat Our Aging Population1.中国已渐渐步入老龄化社会(65岁以上的老年人已占全国人口的7%) 2.我认为应如何对待老年人群(社会关爱与福利制度,家庭温暖,社区服务……)3.我的结论4. For this part, you are allowed 30 minutes to write a short essay entitled Starting Career in a Big City or Small Town?. You should write at least 150 words following the outline given below.1.很多大学生毕业后去大城市工作2.也有人选择去小城镇工作3.结合实际情况谈谈自己的想法Starting Career in a Big City or Small Town?5. Directions: For this part, you are allowed 30 minutes to write a composition with the title of A Campaign Speech, stating your reasons for running for chairman of the Student Union. You should write at least 150 words following the outline given below in Chinese.1. 开场白2. 你认为自己具备了什么条件(能力、性格、爱好等)可以胜任学生会主席的工作3. 如果当选,你将为本校同学做些什么6. For this part, you are allowed 30 minutes to write a composition on the topic: Deepen China's Reform. You should write at least 150 words according to the outline given below in Chinese:1. 现有的改革成果已为进一步深化改革奠定了基础2. 然而改革的道路并不平坦3. 建议我们应该……7. Directions: For this part, you are allowed 30 minutes to write a short essay commenting on the latest change in the postgraduate craze. You should write at least 150 words following the outline given below in Chinese.1. 6.5%考研人数在持续上涨10年后于2007年开始减少。
大学英语6级试题及答案一、听力理解(共20分)1. A) 4:30 p.m. B) 5:00 p.m. C) 5:30 p.m. D) 6:00 p.m.2. A) At a bookstore. B) At a library. C) At a post office. D) At a bank.3. A) He is a teacher. B) He is a student. C) He is a writer.D) He is a journalist.4. A) She was late for the meeting. B) She missed the bus. C) She got lost on the way. D) She forgot the meeting time.5. A) He will go to the concert. B) He will go to the movies.C) He will go to the theater. D) He will go to the park.二、阅读理解(共20分)6. What is the main idea of the passage?A) The importance of teamwork in business.B) The benefits of working in a group.C) The challenges of group work.D) The disadvantages of individual work.7. According to the author, what is the key to a successful team?A) Clear communication.B) Strong leadership.C) Common goals.D) Individual expertise.8. What does the author suggest to improve group dynamics?A) Regular meetings.B) Setting deadlines.C) Assigning roles.D) Providing feedback.9. What is the author's opinion on the role of the team leader?A) The leader should make all the decisions.B) The leader should delegate tasks to team members.C) The leader should be the most skilled member.D) The leader should be the most experienced member.10. What is the best title for the passage?A) The Art of TeamworkB) The Challenges of Group WorkC) The Role of the Team LeaderD) The Benefits of Individual Work三、完形填空(共20分)11. A) Although B) However C) Because D) Since12. A) surprised B) disappointed C) excited D) bored13. A) opportunity B) challenge C) experience D) advantage14. A) focused B) distracted C) confused D) interested15. A) to achieve B) to learn C) to explore D) to enjoy四、翻译(共20分)16. 随着科技的发展,我们的生活变得越来越便利。
大学生英语六级考试冲刺训练题及答案大学生英语六级考试冲刺训练题及答案Reading enriches the mind.以下是店铺为大家搜索整理的`大学生英语六级考试冲刺训练题及答案,希望能给大家带来帮助!Every day 25 million U. S. children ride school buses. The safety record for these buses is much better than for passenger cars; but nevertheless, about 10 children are killed each year riding on large school buses, and nearly four times that number are killed outside buses in the loading zones. By and large, however, the nation's school children are transported to and from school safely.Even though the number of school bus casualties(死亡人数) is not large, the safety of children is always of intense public concern. While everyone wants to see children transported safely, people are divided about what needs to be done—particularly whether seat belts should be mandatory (强制性的)•Supporters of seat belts on school buses argue that seat belts are necessary not only to reduce death and injury, but also to teach children lessons about the importance of using them routinely in any moving vehicle. A side benefit, they point out, is that seat belts help keep children in their seats, away from the bus driver.Opponents of seat belt installation suggest that children are already well protected by the school buses that follow the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration's (NHTSA) safety requirement set in 1977. They also believe that many children won't wear seat belts anyway, and that they may damage the belts or use them as weapons to hurt other children.A new Research Council report on school bus safety suggeststhat there are alternate safety devices and procedures that may be more effective and less expensive. For example, the study committee suggested that raising seat backs four inches may have the same safety effectiveness as seat belts.The report sponsored by the Department of Transportation at the request of Congress, reviews seat belts extensively while taking a broader look at safety in and around school buses.26. Each year, children killed outside buses in the loading zones are about_______.A. 10B. 40C. 30D. 5027. Which of these words is nearest in meaning to the words "are divided" in Paragraph2?A. disagreeB. separateC. arrangeD. concern28. According to the passage, who has the greatest degree of control of the school buses' "safety"?A. A New Research Council.B. The Department of Transportation.C. The Medical Organizations.D. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration.29. It may be inferred from this passage that_______.A. many of the opponents of seat belt installation are parents and officials of the Department of TransportationB. proposal of seat belts on school buses would be seriously consideredC. an alternate safety device (raising seat backs four inches) may be taken intoconsiderationD. The Department of Transportation may either take the idea of seat belts or other measures when it reviews the whole situation30. The best title which expresses the idea of the passage is_______.A. Making School Buses Even Safer for ChildrenB. Seat Belts Needed on School BusesC. Alternate Safety Devices and ProceduresD. Safety in and around School Buses参考答案26. B 27. A 28. D 29. D 30. A。
2020年⼤学英语六级考前冲刺卷(⼀~⼆)及详解【圣才出品】2020年⼤学英语六级考前冲刺卷(⼀)及详解Part ⅠWriting (30 minutes)Directions: For this part, you are allowed 30 minutes to write an essay entitled My View on Plastic Surgery. You should write at least 150 words but no morethan200 words according to the outline given below in Chinese.【参考范⽂】My View on Plastic SurgeryRecently, more and more people choose to take plastic surgeries. Some people believe that this kind of surgery can give them better appearance, which help them build up their confidence.Personally, I disagree with this opinion. To begin with, plastic surgery can improve one’s appearance, yet cannot improve one’s character. Success relies on one’s abilities but not appearance. Most positions need competent and well-trained people, rather than beautiful people. Then, a large sum of money is a must for one to take a plastic surgery. For instance, it takes one at least 2,000 Yuan to have double eyelid. Finally, people receiving plastic surgeries have to bear the risks of an unsuccessful surgery which will be a lifelong pain.In all, plastic surgeries should not be regarded as and simple and common surgeries. We can get what we want by improving our inner qualities, and there is no need to suffer the pains and economic loss of a plastic surgery.Part ⅡListening Comprehension (30 minutes)Section ADirections:In this section, you will hear 2 long conversations. At the end of each conversation, you will hear some questions. Both the conversation andthe questions will be spoken only once. After you hear a question, youmust choose the best answer from the four choices marked A), B), C) andD). Then mark the corresponding letter on Answer Sheet 1 with a singleline through the centre.Conversation OneQuestions 1 to 4 are based on the conversation you have just heard.1. A) She believes it would be wiser to have the class on Monday and Thursday.B) She thinks it’s too late to have the class.C) She doesn’t want to take the class twice a week.D) She has a part-time job.2. A) The attendance at lectures is optional.B) The attendance is strictly monitored.C) The attendance is difficult to enforce.D) The attendance is sometimes necessary.3. A) It’s a 6,000-word essay.B) The topics should be the ones given by the lecturer.C) The students have to read some texts before starting.D) The students don’t have to take an exam.4. A) It helps students with their future jobs.B) It focuses on employment theories.C) It is about vacation.D) It will make sure graduates find good jobs.【答案与解析】1.D 细节题。
大学英语六级考试突击训练题及答案大学英语六级考试突击训练题及答案It's great to be great , but it's greater to be human.以下是店铺为大家搜索整理的大学英语六级考试突击训练题及答案,希望能给大家带来帮助!There are spectacular differences between financial markets on the Continent of Europe on the one hand, and in Britain on the other hand. In Britain, the market is really the City of London. It is a free market, and it controls most of the flow of savings to investment. On the Continent, either a few banks or government officials direct the flow of funds to suit their economic plans. In Germany the flow is directed by all-powerful banks. In Britain there is more free interplay of market forces and far fewer regulations, rules and “red tape”. A French banker summed it up this way: “On the Continent you can’t do anything unless you’re been told you can; in England on the other hand you can do everything as long as you haven’t been told not to.”There are many basic reasons for these differences. One is that Continental savers tend to prefer gold, cash or short-term assets. They invest only 10% of their savings in institutions like pension funds or insurance companies. But in Britain 50% of savings goes to them, and they, in turn, invest directly in equity market. A far lower proportion of savings is put in the banks in the form of liquid assets than on the Continent. Continental governments intervene directly or through the banks to collect savings together and transform them into medium or long-term loans for investment. The equity market is largely bypassed. On the Continent economic planning tends to be far more centralized than in Britain. In Britain it is possible to influencedecisions affecting the country’s economy from within the City. It attracts a skilled and highly qualified work force. In France, on the other hand, an intelligent young man who wants a career in finance would probably find the civil service more attractive.In Britain the market, or more accurately, money tends to be regarded as an end in itself. On the Continent it is regarded as a means to an end: investment in the economy. To British eyes continental systems with possible exception of the Dutch seem slow and inefficient. But there is one outstanding fact the City should not overlook. Britain’s growth rates and levels of investment over the last ten years have been much lower than on the Continent. There are many reasons for this, but the City must take part of the blame. If it is accepted that the basic function of a financial market is to supply industry and commerce with finance in order to achieve desired rates of growth, it can be said that by concentrating on the market for its own sake the City has tended to forget that basic function.1.What is the best title of the passage?A.Savings and the Growth Rate.B.Banking and Finance: Two Different Realities.C.Monetary Policy in Britain.D.The European Continent and Britain.2.What seems to be the most fundamental reason for this difference?A.The British tend to regard money as an end, whereas Continental European consider it a means to an end.B.The British invest only 10% of their savings in pension funds.C.On the Continent you can’t do anything unless you have been told you can.D.Intelligent young men who want a career tend to go to civil service on the Continent.3.According to the passage, the Dutch way of finance and banking ___.A.is similar to that of the French.B.makes no difference whatever system it is compared to.C.is perhaps resembling that of the British.D.has a low efficiency.4.The word “outstanding” in Line 4, Para 3___A.beatingB.surplusC.noticeableD.seemingly5.In what way does the continental system seem better?A.The Continent maintains a higher growth rate and levels of investment.B.It has less proportion of savings in the form of liquid assets.C.It attracts intelligent young men.D.In functions properly despite the fact that the British discount it.答案:BACCA【大学英语六级考试突击训练题及答案】。
六级考前冲刺试题二Part I Writing (30 minutes) 注意:此部分试题在答题卡1上。
Part II Reading Comprehension (Skimming and Scanning) (15 minutes)Directions:I n this part, you will have 15 minutes to go over the passage quickly and answer the questions on Answer Sheet 1. For questions 1-7, choose the best answer from the four choices marked A), B), C) and D). For questions 8-10, complete the sentences with the information given in the passage.Choice blindness: You don’t know what you wantWe have all heard of experts who fail basic tests of sensory discrimination in their own field:wine snobs(自命不凡的人) who can’t tell red from white wine (though in blackened cups), or art critics who see deep meaning in random lines drawn by a computer. We delight in such stories since anyone claiming to be an authority is fair game. But what if we shine the spotlight on choices we make about everyday things? Experts might be forgiven for being wrong about the limits of their skills as experts, but could we be forgiven for being wrong about the limits of our skills as experts on ourselves?We have been trying to answer this question using techniques from magic performances. Rather than playing tricks with alternatives presented to participants, we secretly altered the outcomes of their choices, and recorded how they react. For example, in an early study we showed our volunteers pairs of pictures of faces and asked them to choose the most attractive. In some trials, immediately after they made their choice, we asked people to explain the reasons behind their choices.Unknown to them, we sometimes used a double-card magic trick to secretly exchange one face for the other so they ended up with the face they did not choose. Common sense dictates that all of us would notice such a big change in the outcome of a choice. But the result showed that in 75 per cent of the trial s our participants were blind to the mismatch, even offering “reasons” for their “choice”.We called this effect “choice blindness”, echoing change blindness, the phenomenon identified by psychologists where a remarkably large number of people fail to spot a major change in their environment. Recall the famous experiments where X asks Y for directions; while Y is struggling to help, X is switched for Z — and Y fails to notice. Researchers are still pondering the full implications, but it does show how little information we use in daily life, and undermines the idea that we know what is going on around us.When we set out, we aimed to weigh in on the enduring, complicated debate about self-knowledge and intentionality. For all the intimate familiarity we feel we have with decision-making, it is very difficult to know about it from the “inside”: one of the great barriers for scientific research is the nature of subjectivity.As anyone who has ever been in a verbal disagreement can prove, people tend to give elaborate justifications for their decisions, which we have every reason to believe are nothing more than rationalisations (文过饰非) after the event. To prove such people wrong, though, or even provide enough evidence to change their mind, is an entirely different matter: who are you to say what my reasons are?But with choice blindness we drive a large wedge between intentions and actions in the mind. As our participants give us verbal explanations about choices they never made, we can show them beyond doubt — and prove it — that what they say cannot be true. So our experiments offer a unique window into confabulation (虚构) (the story-telling we do to justify things after the fact) that is otherwise very difficult to come by. We can compare everyday explanations with those under lab conditions, looking for such things as the amount of detail in descriptions, how coherent the narrative is, the emotional tone, or even the timing or flow of the speech. Then we can create a theoretical framework to analyse any kind of exchange.This framework could provide a clinical use for choice blindness: for example, two of our ongoing studies examine how malingering(装病) might develop into true symptoms, and how confabulation might play a role in obsessive-compulsive disorder (强迫症).Importantly, the effects of choice blindness go beyond snap judgments. Depending on what our volunteers say in response to the mismatched outcomes of choices (whether they give short or long explanations, give numerical rating or labelling, and so on) we found this interaction could change their future preferences to the extent that they come to prefer the previously rejected alternative. This gives us a rare glimpse into the complicated dynamics of self-feedback (“I chose this, I publicly said so, therefore I must like it”), which we suspect lies behind the formation of many everyday preferences.We also want to explore the boundaries of choice blindness. Of course, it will be limited by choices we know to be of great importance in everyday life. Which bride or bridegroom would fail to notice if someone switched their partner at the altar through amazing sleight of hand (巧妙的手段)? Yet there is ample territory between the absurd idea of spouse-swapping, and the results of our early face experiments.For example, in one recent study we invited supermarket customers to choose between two paired varieties of jam and tea. In order to switch each part icipant’s choice without them noticing, we created two sets of “magical” jars, with lids at both ends and a divider inside. The jars looked normal, but were designed to hold one variety of jam or tea at each end, and could easily be flipped over.Immediately after the participants chose, we asked them to taste their choice again and tell us verbally why they made that choice. Before they did, we turned over the sample containers, so the tasters were given the opposite of what they had intended in their selection. Strikingly, people detected no more than a third of all these trick trials. Even when we switched such remarkably different flavors as spicy cinnamon and apple for bitter grapefruit jam, the participants spotted less than half of all switches.We have also documented this kind of effect when we simulate online shopping for consumer products such as laptops or cellphones, and even apartments. Our latest tests are exploring moral and political decisions, a domain where reflection and deliberation are supposed to play a central role, but which we believe is perfectly suited to investigating using choice blindness.Throughout our experiments, as well as registering whether our volunteers noticed that they had been presented with the alternative they did not choose, we also quizzed them about their beliefs about their decision processes. How did they think they would feel if they had been exposed to a study like ours? Did they think they would have noticed the switches? Consistently, between 80 and 90 per cent of people said that they believed they would have noticed something was wrong.Imagine their surprise, even disbelief, when we told them about the nature of the experiments. In everyday decision-making we do see ourselves as knowing a lot about our selves, but like the wine buff or art critic, we often overstate what we know. The good news is that this form of decision snobbery should not be too difficult to treat. Indeed, after reading this article you might already be cured.1. What does the author say about some experts?A) They are authorities only in their own fields.B) They aren’t easily fooled by the tricky tests.C) The mistakes they’ve made are inevitable.D) They sometimes fail to do well as claimed.2. What did the researchers do to participants in the experiments?A) They put on a magic performance to the participants.B) They diverted the participants’ attention and disrupted their choosing.C) They changed the things participants chose without their noticing.D) They added confusion to the two options the participants faced.3. What does the result of the face choosing experiments reveal?A) People could explain well why they made their choices.B) Only a few of participants had choice blindness in making decision.C) Usually participants were aware of the limits of their skills.D) Most participants didn’t realize that their choices had been switched.4. Change blindness refers to the phenomenon that ________.A) many people fail to notice the big change around themB) people tend to ignore the small changes in the surroundingsC) people’s choices can be easily interrupted by a big changeD) quite a few people do not have a good sense of directions5. What’s people’s tendency to do for their decisions?A) Refusing to admit they made wrong decisions.B) Trying to find reasons to explain the decisions.C) Changing the decisions on second thoughts.D) Seeking others’ advice when making the decisions.6. What do researchers think is the drive for many everyday preferences?A) The haste judgment. B) The mechanism of self-feedback.C) The interaction with others. D) The expectation for the future.7. What do we learn about the boundaries of choice blindness?A) The boundaries are impossible to be marked.B) It occurs only when decisions are not important.C) It could happen even in the significant events.D) Brides won’t have choice blindness in the weddings.8. In their latest tests researchers are investigating people’s decisions in the fields ofwith choice blindness.9. From the quiz researchers find that most people are quite confident about their feelings inthe .10. The volunteers were surprised at the fact that in everyday decision-making, people’s beliefs areoften .Part III Listening Comprehension (35 minutes) Section ADirections:In this section, you will hear 8 short conversations and 2 long conversations. At the end of each conversation, one or more questions will be asked about what was said. Both the conversationand the questions will be spoken only once. After each question there will be a pause. During the pause, you must read the four choices marked A), B), C) and D), and decide which is the best answer. Then mark the corresponding letter on Answer Sheet 2 with a single line through the centre.11. A) He admires Jean’s straightforwardness.B) He thinks Dr. Brown deserves the praise.C) He believes Jean was rude to Dr. Brown.D) He will talk to Jean about what happened.12. A) He stayed in a room on the third floor for an hour.B) He was absent when the discussion was being held.C) Nobody but the woman noticed that he was absent.D) He did not leave room 405 until an hour had passed.13. A) He enjoyed the paintings, too. B) He has to finish his term paper first.C) He can’t finish his term paper that day.D) He has learned something about the artists.14. A) Some people may not go on the trip. B) The transportation for the trip is free.C) Everyone in the class has paid the fee. D) The class won’t enjoy going on the field trip.15. A) In Atlanta. B) At a convention centre.C) In a hospital. D) At home.16. A) She has been at home.B) The new manager was not in the office.C) She hasn’t talked with the new manager yet.D) She didn’t want to talk with the new manager.17. A) He will see Steve soon.B) He is afraid the weather will not be clear.C) He is not sure if there will be enough space.D) He is not sure if he can find a room for Steve.18. A) He might move to another city very soon.B) The woman’s exaggerating the seriousness of the pollution.C) The air pollution is caused by the development of industry.D) The city was poor because there w asn’t much industry then.Questions 19 to 21 are based on the conversation you have just heard.19. A) Professor and student. B) Boss and employee.C) Interviewer and interviewee. D) President and adviser.20. A) It has 2 million dollars in capital.B) It has 50,000 people.C) Its products are marketed in the US only.D) Its products sell quite well in China.21. A) Organized and a good speaker. B) Enthusiastic and a fast-learner.C) Persistent and experienced. D) Capable and good at marketing.Questions 22 to 25 are based on the conversation you have just heard.22. A) Spending more hours on the Internet. B) Spending fewer hours on the Internet.C) The state of being on the Internet. D) Their brighter expectations not being met.23. A) The Net is healthier than TV.B) The Net is not healthy for people.C) The Net does not help with people’s communication.D) The Net does no good to people’s psychological well-being.24. A) They stay at home longer than before.B) They have more friends on the Internet.C) They give too much time to the Internet.D) They have less face-to-face conversations than before.25. A) The fast-developing technology.B) The people who design different applications.C) The way how people make use of the Internet.D) The increasing information and communication via the Net.Section BDirections:In this section, you will hear 3 short passages. At the end of each passage, you will hear some questions. Both the passage and the questions will be spoken only once. After you hear a question, you must choose the best answer from the four choices marked A), B), C) and D). Then mark the corresponding letter on Answer Sheet 2 with a single line through the centre.Passage OneQuestions 26 to 28 are based on the passage you have just heard.26. A) When they are with a baby-sitter. B) When they are with another baby.C) When they are with a strange adult. D) When they are with an elderly person.27. A) They show fear. B) They start to cry.C) They turn to adults. D) They reach out to touch them.28. A) Ask elderly adults to attend them.B) Hire an experienced baby-sitter.C) Keep them in family-based day care centers.D) Let them stay with their parents or teachers.Passage TwoQuestions 29 to 31 are based on the passage you have just heard.29. A) Historic significance. B) Splendor and peacefulness.C) Cultural appeal. D) Beauty and comfort.30. A) Visiting the capital of Salt Lake City. B) Visiting the Temple Square.C) Hiking through national parks. D) Hiking remote Indian reservations.31. A) All transportations during the tour. B) Three formal meals a day.C) Two nights’ stay in Salt Lake City. D) Equipment for the hiking adventure.Passage ThreeQuestions 32 to 35 are based on the passage you have just heard.32. A) Around 45%. B) About 50%. C) Less than 68%. D) Over 70%.33. A) What ingredient should a nutrition label list.B) How to get consumers to read labels more carefully.C) What food information should be provided to consumers.D) Whether it is necessary to put labels on prepared foods.34. A) Doubtful. B) Opposing. C) Supportive. D) Neutral.35. A) More detailed labeling. B) Simple labeling.C) Precise labeling. D) Basic labeling.Section CDirections:In this section, you will hear a passage three times. When the passage is read for the first time, you should listen carefully for its general idea. When the passage is read for the second time, you are required to fill in the blanks numbered from 36 to 43 with the exact words you have just heard. For blanks numbered from 44 to 46 you are required to fill in the missing information. For these blanks, you can either use the exact words you have just heard or write down the main points in your own words. Finally, when the passage is read for the third time, you should check what you have written.People born in the autumn live longer than those born in the spring. And they are less likely to fall (36) _______ ill when they are older, according to an Austrian scientist. The scientists at the Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research made such (37) _______ by using census data for more than one million people in Austria, Denmark and Australia. They found that the month of birth was related to life (38) _______ over the age of 50. (39) _______ differences in what mothers ate during pregnancy, and infections occurring at different times of the year could both have an impact on the health of a new-born baby and could (40) _______ its life expectancy in older age. “A mother giving birth in spring spends the last (41) _______ of her pregnancy in winter, when she will eat less vitamins than in summer,” said Gabriele Doblhammer, one of a team of sci entists who carried out the research. “When she stops breast-feeding and starts giving her baby (42) _______ food, it’s in the hot weeks of summer when babies are (43) _______ to infections of the digestive system.” (44) _________________________________________________________. In the southern hemisphere, the picture was similar. (45) __________________________________________________________. The study focused on people born at the beginning of the 20th century. “(46) _____________________________________________________________,” Doblhammer said.Part IV Reading Comprehension (Reading in Depth) (25 minutes)Section ADirections:In this section, there is a short passage with 5 questions or incomplete statements. Read the passage carefully. Then answer the questions or complete the statements in the fewest possible words. Please write your answers on Answer Sheet 2.Questions 47 to 51 are based on the following passage.After the earthquake, the text messages came streaming in to 4636 — reports of trapped people, fires, polluted water sources, and requests for food, water and medical supplies. Hundreds of volunteers translated them from Creole and French into English, tagged them with a location and passed them on to aid agencies on the ground. Yet not one of the volunteers was anywhere near Haiti.The 4636 texting service is part of a new generation of web-based efforts to help disaster relief that has emerged from the revolution in texting, social networking and crowdsourcing. Its impact on the ground is tangible (确凿的). For example, a Haitian clinic texted 4636 that it was running low onfuel for its generator. Within 20 minutes the Red Cross said it would resupply.4636 is run by a small organization called , originally set up in Kenya to gather reports of violence after the 2008 election. Within days of the earthquake on 12 January that flattened Haiti’s capital Port-au-Prince and numerous surrounding towns, it had set up a Haitian operation and recruited hundreds of volunteers to help translate messages, many of them Haitians living in the U.S. The service is free, courtesy of Digicell, Haiti’s largest mobile network operator, which had 70 per cent of its network running within 24 hours of the quake.Nicolas di Tada, who helped set up 4636 on the ground in the first days after the disaster, says that was the easy part. “The challenge was making responders on the ground aware of us.” A stroke of luck made a big difference. One of the first texts was from a hospital which had 200 beds, and doctors, nurses and medical supplies on standby, but no patients, because hardly any relief agencies knew they were there. Forwarding that message on told a large number of organization about 4636. Now, radio stations help spread the word.As people generally don’t send messages to say their request has been fulfilled, Ushahidi has no way of knowing how successful it has been. Still, “the system is unprecedented,” says Christopher Csikszentmihalyi, director of the Center for Future Civic Media at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.47. Who tackled text messages on earthquake-hit Haiti that poured into 4636?48. The example of a Haitian clinic receiving response from the Red Cross suggests that the 4636texting service has .49. The original purpose of creating 4636 was to thatfollowed the 2008 Kenya election.50. According Nicolas di Tada, the difficult part of work for 4636 Haitian operationis .51. Ushahidi is not clear of the effect of 4636 since senders usually do not give a feedbackwhen .Section BDirections: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 OneQuestions 52 to 56 are based on the following passage.The 35 percent of African-American youth living in poverty are the most visible victims of what is often called the achievement gap. But black children of all socioeconomic levels perform worse on national tests and graduate in fewer numbers than their white middle-class peers. A 2009 study by the U.S. Department of Education’s National Center for Education Statistics found that African-American students scored, on average, 26 points lower than white students on their reading and math tests.Some say, as Harvard psychologist Richard J. Herrnstein and American Enterprise Institute political scientist Charles Murray did in their 1994 book, The Bell Curve, that the cause is genetic. And though The Bell Curve has been discredited in scientific circles, the idea that IQ is somehow linked to race has been slow to retreat.Others, like Cornell University researchers Gary Evans and Michelle Schamberg, believe that “physiological stress is a plausible model for how poverty could get into the brain and eventually interfere with achievement,” as they wrote in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Our best efforts at narrowing the gap nationally — think No Child Left Behind —haven’t worked.But locally, there are now signs of hope. At the Harlem Children’s Zone’s Promi se Academy charter schools, at least 97 percent of third graders scored at or above grade level on a statewide math test in 2008, outperforming the average scores of both black and white children in New York City and New York State.What the HCZ does is first recognize that the amelioration (改善) of poverty does not begin andend with an excellent education, but also requires a full belly, parental education, safety, advocacy, and the expectation that every student will succeed. “We help parents and kids through the system,” HCZ founder Geoffre y Canada says. “We get them past every hindrance put in their way, whether it be at home or with social services. We can advocate on a child’s behalf, whether it be at home or in the classroom or with the juvenile justice system.”Indeed, the HCZ starts early: it provides new parents with a Baby College to teach parenting skills during the crucial first three years of a child’s life and a preschool Gems program, where kids learn not only French and Spanish but healthy eating habits to combat childhood obesity.The Zone also offers the HCZ Asthma Initiative to provide medical care and education to families, thus drastically cutting down on the number of school days missed by students suffering from asthma (哮´). And it has a network of afterschool programs that teach media literacy, karate (空手道), and computer skills. It’s called the pipeline —once families enter, it’s hoped that they’ll stay until their child graduates from college. The idea is to create a safety net woven so tightly that kids can’t slip through.52. What does the author say about African-American youth as a whole?A) They have more graduates from community colleges.B) They score far below the average education level.C) They obviously are victims of the American education system.D) Their academic performances are worse than their white peers.53. According to the passage, the book The Bell Curve ________.A) has sparked a heated debate in the scientific fieldB) leads to the study on the link between race and IQC) states that intelligence has a lot to do with raceD) is against the idea that intelligence is decided by race54. Experts like Michelle Schamberg think that ________.A) the achievement gap can be narrowed easilyB) it is unreasonable to relate low achievement to povertyC) physiological stress works on achievement indirectlyD) it is impossible to achieve the goal of equal performance55. When it comes to fighting poverty, the Harlem Children’s Zone ________.A) stresses more on crime prevention B) emphasizes an all-around systemC) condemns parents as a hindrance D) sees excellent education as the sole way56. According to the passage, the purpose of HCZ’s black education is to ________.A) offer students an integrated systemB) reduce the number of asthmatic childrenC) get rid of poverty at the first placeD) set up a network to protect students from hazardsPassage TwoQuestions 57 to 61 are based on the following passage.Since Andrew Benton graduated from college less than four years ago, he has dropped out of a Princeton Ph.D. program in economics, moved to rural Georgia to start a Web-software company that he’s trying to sell, and now works freelance (自由职业) for a cloud-computing company in Silicon Valley. He buys his own health insurance and contributes to his retirement accounts; neither his policy nor his accounts receive corporate contributions. Does his job instability and lack of benefits worry him? Nope. The 26-year-old does not expect to hold a traditional 9-to-5 job unless he starts his own business again, and he is not overly pessimistic about the recession’s long-term effect on his career. “Idon’t pay that much attention to what is going on in the economy,” he says. “I just found stuff I was interested in.”Whatever you make of this attitude —smart, entitled, tech savvy(聪明的), risky, or bold —Benton is arguably the prototype(典型) of the new and perhaps ideal worker in the post-recessioneconomy.Still, this savvy demographic group isn’t immune from the career setbacks of the recession. Workers born after 1980, who are having a harder time gaining a foothold in the job market, may face lower earnings over the next several years of their careers.Those who opt for traditional corporate careers have had to readjust their expectations. For some young, well-educated workers such as 24-year-old Adrian Muniz, the recession has been startling. Muniz graduated from Brown University in 2007 and moved to New York City, expecting to easily find work at a magazine. Instead, he ended up working at high-end retail stores for the past three years and doing media internships on the side to build up his résumé.When the economy does pick up, experts warn that millennials, i.e. people born in or after 1980, may leave their companies for better jobs and higher paychecks. They will quit to travel the world, or simply because they did not like their boss. When more jobs become available, the millennials will use their tech savvy to promote themselves on Facebook, Twitter, and other social networks. They will have no problem accepting contract, short-term work in place of a steadier paycheck. “The economy is actually creating a type of work that suits millennials well and does not suit baby boomers,” says Karl Ahlrichs, a human-resources consultant. In part, that’s because the econom y is generating jobs in technology, computers, education, and health care that require serious technological, entrepreneurial, and creative skills as opposed to expertise in operations or management.Armed with their education, parental support, or savings, millennials seem to have plenty of answers when it comes to dealing with the current economy. Still, questions remain. In their 30s and 40s, will they start their own businesses rather than joining the ranks of middle management? Will their innovative and entrepreneurial streak survive as they move through adult rites (仪式) of passage such as buying houses, raising children, or caring for aging parents? Ask a millennial and they’ll tell you that they’ll find or invent new answers to such age-old questions.57. What do we learn about Andrew Benton’s work experience?A) He has now an unsteady job without corporate welfare benefits.B) Without a Ph.D., he was at a disadvantage when applying for job.C) He gave up the chance to take a traditional corporate job.。