英语六级考试模拟试题及答案,精品资料

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英语六级考试模拟试题及答案，精品资料Part I Writing (30 minutes) 第1题：Directions: For this part, you are allowed 30 minutes to write a composition on the topic: Salary or Interest. You should write at least 150 words following the outline given below: 1. 如今的大学毕业生面临的职业选择：兴趣重要还是工资重要 2. 你的观点3. 结论Salary or Interest 【参考解析】：Salary or Interest Upon graduation, virtually all college students will confront the problem of choosing their careers. It is truly a tough choice. Students’opinions differ greatly on this issue. Some hold that priority should be given to their interest in the job, but others take the attitude that salary is

the most critical factor influencing their career choices. As for myself, I prefer the latter view. A well-paid job exerts a tremendous fascination on a great number of people, with no exception to me. Although it might be impossible to measure the value of one’s job in terms of money, salary counts most when I choose my future career. In my view, our career choices largely depend on how and where we have been brought up. I come from a poor urban family and my parents are both laid-off workers. In order to finance my tuition, they have been working hard over the past four years. As the only son in my family, I have to shoulder the burden of supporting my family. In short, salary is the first consideration in my choice of career. Part II Reading Comprehension (Skimming and Scanning) (15 minutes) 资料：Y (for YES) if the statement

agrees with the information given in the passage; N (for NO) if the statement contradicts the information given in the passage; NG (for NOT GIVEN) if the information is not given in the passage. For questions 5-10, complete the sentences with the information given in the passage. April Fools’ Special: History’s Hoaxes Happy April Fools’ Day. To mark the occasion, National Geographic News has compiled a list of some of the more memorable hoaxes in recent history. They are the lies, darned(可恨的) lies, and whoppers(弥天大谎)that have been perpetrated on the gullible(易受骗的)and unsuspecting to fulfill that age-old desire held by some to put the joke on others. Internet Hoaxes The Internet has given birth to a proliferation(增殖)of hoaxes. E-mail inboxes are bombarded on an almost daily basis with messages warning of terrible computer

viruses that cause users to delete benign(良性)chunks of data from their hard drives, or of credit card scams that entice the naive to give all their personal information, including passwords and bank account details, to identity thieves. Other e-mails give rise to wry(歪曲的)chuckles, which is where this list begins. Ban Dihydrogen Monoxide(一氧化二氢) City officials in Aliso Viejo, California, were so concerned about the dangers of dihydrogen monoxide that they scheduled a vote last month on whether to ban foam(泡沫)cups from city-sponsored events after they learned the chemical was used in foam-cup production. Officials called off the vote after learning that dihydrogen monoxide is the scientific term for water. \paralegal(律师助手)who did bad research.\ Indeed, the paralegal had fallen victim to an official-looking Web site touting the

dangers of dihydrogen monoxide. An e-mail originally authored in 1990 by Eric Lechner, then a graduate student at the University of California, Santa Cruz, claimed that dihydrogen monoxide \Styrofoam(聚苯乙烯泡沫塑料).\ Other dangers pranksters(爱开玩笑的人)associated with the chemical included accelerated corrosion and rusting, severe burns, and death from inhalation. Versions of the e-mail continue to circulate today, and several Web sites, including that of the Coalition to Ban DHMO, warn, tongue-in-cheek, of water’s dangers. Alabama Changes Value of Pi The April 1998 newsletter put out by New Mexicans for science and Reason contains an article titled \Associmated Press (sic) and told the story of how the Alabama state legislature voted to change the value of the mathematical constant Pi from to the round number of 3. The ersatz(假

的)news story was written by Los Alamos National Laboratory physicist Mark Boslough to parody(滑稽地模仿)legislative and school board attacks on the teaching of evolution in New Mexico. At Bosloug h’s suggestion, Dave Thomas, the president of New Mexicans for science and Reason, posted the article in its entirety to the Internet newsgroup Talk. Origins on April 1. (The newsgroup hosts a lively debate on creation vs. evolution.) Later that evening Thomas posted a full confession to the hoax. He thought he had put all rumors to bed. But to Thomas’s surprise, however, several newsgroup readers forwarded the article to friends and posted it on other newsgroups. When Thomas checked in on the story a few weeks later, he was surprised to learn that it had spread like wildfire. The telltale signs of the article’s satirical in tent, such as the April 1 date and misspelled \

Alabama legislators were bombarded with calls protesting the law. The legislators explained that the news was a hoax. There was not and never had been such a law. TV and Newspaper Hoaxes Before the advent of the Internet, and even today, traditional media outlets such as newspapers, radio, and television, have sometimes hoaxed their audiences. The deceptions run the gamut from purported natural disasters to wishful news. Swiss Spaghetti (意大利式细面条) Harvest Alex Boese, curator of the Museum of Hoaxes, a regularly updated Web site that also appeared in book form in November 2002, said one of his favorite hoaxes remains one perpetrated by the British Broadcasting Company. On April 1, 1957, the BBC aired a report on the television news show Panorama about the bumper spaghetti harvest in southern Switzerland. Viewers watched

Swiss farmers pull pasta off spaghetti trees as the show’s anchor, Richard Dimbleby, attributed the bountiful harvest to the mild winter and the disappearance of the spaghetti weevil. The broadcaster detailed the ins and outs of the life of the spaghetti farmer and anticipated questions about how spaghetti grows on trees. Thousands of people believed the report and called the BBC to inquire about growing their own spaghetti trees, to which the BBC replied, \ \really was like that at that time. The British have a tendency to be a bit insulated(绝缘的) and do not know that much about the rest of Europe.\ Taco Liberty Bell On April 1, 1996, readers in five major cities opened their newspapers to learn from a full page announcement that the Taco Bell Corporation had purchased the Liberty Bell from the government. The

announcement reported that the company was relocating the historic bell from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, to Irvine, California. The move, the corporation said in the advertisement, was part of an \ Hundreds of other newspapers and television shows ran stories related to the press release on the matter put ou t by Taco Bell’s public relations firm, PainePR. Outraged citizens called the Liberty Bell National Historic Park in Philadelphia to express their disgust. A few hours later the public relations firm released another press announcement stating that the stunt was a hoax. White House press secretary Mike McCurry got into the act when he remarked that the government would also be \the Lincoln-Mercury Memorial\ Crop Circles Strange, circular formations began to appear in the fields of southern England in the mid-1970s,

bringing busloads of curious onlookers, media representatives, and believers in the paranormal out to the countryside for a look. A sometimes vitriolic(讽刺的)debate on their origins has since ensued(跟着发生), and the curious formations have spread around the world, becoming more and more elaborate as the years go by. Some people consider the crop formations to be the greatest works of modern art to emerge from the 20th century, while others are convinced they are signs of extraterrestrial communications or landing sites of UFOs. The debate rages even today, although in 1991 Doug Bower and Dave Chorley, two elderly men from Wiltshire County, came forward and claimed responsibility for the crop circles that appeared there over the preceding 20 years. The pair made the circles by pushing down nearly ripe crops with a wooden plank suspended from a

rope. Moon Landing—a Hoax? Ever since NASA sent astronauts to the moon between 1969 and 1972, skeptics have questioned whether the Apollo missions were real or simply a ploy to one-up(领先)the Soviet Union during the Cold War. The debate resurfaced and reached crescendo levels in February 2001, when For television aired a program called Conspiracy Theory: Did We Land on the Moon? Guests on the show argued that NASA did not have the technology to land on the moon. Anxious to win the space race, NASA acted out the Apollo program in movie studios, they said. The conspiracy theorists pointed out that the pictures transmitted from the moon do not include stars and that the flag the Americans planted on the moon is waving, even though there is though to be no breeze on the moon. NASA quickly refuted these claims in a series of press

releases, stating that any photographer would know it is difficult to capture something very bright and very dim on the same piece of film. Since the photographers wanted to capture the astronauts striding across the lunar surface in their sunlit space suits, the background stars were too faint to see. As for the flag, NASA said that the astronauts were turning it back and forth to get in firmly planted in the lunar soil, which made it wave. 第1题：Some people have the age-old desire to put the joke on others. 【参考解析】：Y 根据题干中的信息词age-old desire定位到原文第一段，可知美国围家地理新闻整理了近期历史上让人印象深刻的恶作剧，这些谎言欺骗的是那些易受骗的、轻易信任他人的人，用以满足有些人想要捉弄他人的想法，故该句表述正确。第2题：According to the passage, the only form of Internet hoaxes is e-mail hoax. 【参

考解析】：NG 根据题干中的信息词Internet hoaxes定位到第一个小标题，可知互联网促进了恶作剧的增多，该部分接着介绍了通过电子邮件骗人的把戏，但并没有表明电子邮件恶作剧是惟一的网络恶作剧形式。第3题：Dihydrogen monoxide is a very dangerous chemical, which is often used as an industrial solvent. 【参考解析】：N 根据题干中的信息词Dihydrogen monoxide定位到第二个小标题，该标题下的第二段可知，所谓的一氧化二氢其实就是H?2O，也就是水。而关于水被用做工业溶剂的说法是吓唬人的，故该句表述错误。第4题：Dihydrogen monoxide can accelerate corrosion and rusting, and cause sever burns and even death from inhalation. 【参考解析】：N 根据题干中的信息词Dihydrogen monoxide定位到第二个小标题，再corrosion and rusting定位到该标题下的倒数第二段，可知爱开玩笑的人

还将加速腐蚀和生锈、严重烧伤、吸入致死等其他危险和一氧化二氢联系起来，结合前文提到的一氧化二氢就是水可知，这些不过是哄弄人的说法，故该句表述错误。第5题：The reason why the ersatz news that Alabama changed the value of Pi spread wildly was that ________ forwarded the article to friends and posted it on other newsgroups. 【参考解析】：several newsgroup readers。根据题干中的信息词Alabama changed the value of Pi定位到第三个小标题，再forwarded the article定位到该标题下第四段，可知有些新闻读者将文章发给朋友，还将其登在其他新闻版块中。再结合上下文可知，正是这些新闻读者的做法导致了那条虚假新闻的大肆传播。第6题：Traditional media outlets such as ________ may still hoax their audiences nowadays. 【参考解析】：newspapers，radio，and television。根据题干中的信息词

traditional media outlets定位到第四个小标题，可知在互联网出现之前，甚至是现在，报纸、广播和电视这类传统媒体有时也会捉弄公众，此可得答案。第7题：According to Boese, many people believed the report of Swiss spaghetti harvest because the British did not know ________. 【参考解析】：much about the rest of Europe。根据题干中的信息词Swiss spaghetti harvest定位到第五个小标题，该部分最后一段提到，Boese表示，英国人不太了解欧洲其他国家。再结合上文可知，这正是许多英国人相信瑞士的意大利面条大丰收的原因。第8题：According to a hoax announcement, the Taco Bell Corporation bough the Liberty Bell and moved it to Irvine to help ________. 【参考解析】：the national debt。根据题干中的信息词Taco Bell Corporation和Liberty Bell定位到第六个小标题，再Irvine定位到该标题下的第一段，可知一项公告

报道Taco Bell公司买下了自钟，并要将其挪到加利福尼亚的欧文市，该公司表示移动该钟是为了帮助缓解国家债务，此可得答案。第9题：The crop circles were thought to be the greatest works of modern art, the signs of ________ or landing sites of UFOs. 【参考解析】：extraterrestrial communications。根据题干中的信息词crop circles定位到倒数第二个小标题，再UFOs定位到该标题下的倒数第二段，可知有些人认为麦田圈是现代艺术最伟大的作品，也有人确信那是外太空通信的迹象或不明飞行物的着陆地。第10题：Some people thought that NASA acted out the Apollo program in movie studios partially because the pictures transmitted from the moon do not include ________. 【参考解析】：stars。根据题干中的信息词Apollo program和pictures transmitted from the moon定位到最后一个小标题下的第二

段，可知有人认为阿波罗计划是在摄影棚里拍摄出来的，他们指出，从月球传回的画面上并没有星星，这应该就是他们怀疑登月真实性的部分原因。Part III Listening Comprehension (35 minutes) Section A Directions: 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 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 center. 第11题：[A] She’s enjoying the music. [B] The music will keep her awake. [C] The music doesn’t bother her. [D] She

would prefer a different style of music. 【正确答案】：B 【参考解析】： B 综合推断题。男士问女士自己播放的音乐有没有影响到她的学习，女士回答说自己没有学习，但是自己想睡觉，结合选项推断，本题选B(音乐会让她睡不着) 第12题：[A] She will take the subway. [B] She will hurry to the conference. [C] She will skip the conference and go sightseeing [D] She will take a bus. 【正确答案】：D 【参考解析】： D 综合推断题。女士说自己不必在中午之前赶到会场，此推断，她并不着急，可能会乘公共汽车，所以D正确。第13题：[A] She thinks big parties are too impersonal.

[B] She would like to invite friends to a big party. [C] She feels she has to spend a lot of money in holding big parties.

[D] She would like to be invited to small parties. 【正确答案】：B 【参考解析】： B 信息明示题。女士说她想

举办大型聚会，以回报朋友的邀请，所以B正确。要注意的是，对话中的pay back意为“报答”。第14题：[A] It is quite unexpected. [B] She has already got the news. [C] She has confidence in the man. [D] It is not exciting to learn about it. 【正确答案】：C 【参考解析】： C 综合推断题。本题的关键是理解女士所说的deserve的含义，即“值得，应该享有”，此推断，女士相信男士的实力，所以C 正确。第15题：[A] He is not satisfied with the pay. [B] He is not able to enjoy paid holidays. [C] The job is not very challenging for him. [D] There is no hope of promotion. 【正确答案】：C 【参考解析】： C 综合推断题。男士表明即使有机会加薪，他也要辞职，因为他想找一份能充分发挥自己能力的工作，此推断，目前的工作对他来说缺乏挑战性，所以C正确。第16题：[A] He has to change the

topic for his composition. [B] He has fallen behind others in English class. [C] He hasn’t made up his mind as to what to write about. [D] The book he borrowed will be due tomorrow. 【正确答案】：C 【参考解析】： C 语义替换题。男士正在为明天要交的作文发愁，因为他还不知道要写什么，所以C正确。本题的关键词come up with意为“找到，提出”。第17题：[A] She is against the man’s plan. [B] She thinks it needs a lot of money. [C] They need some time to think about it. [D] It’s good for his career development. 【正确答案】：A 【参考解析】： A 综合推断题。女士认为他们已经为男士在该国的事业投入了很多时间和金钱，再结合她所用的比较生硬的语气Do I have to remind you…推断，她对男士的计划持反对态度，所以A正确。第18题：[A] She should present him a book on music. [B] The teacher has some