大学英语六级模拟题

年12月大学英语六级模拟题

Part I Writing （30 minutes ）

Directions: For this part, you are allowed 30 minutes to write a short essay entitled Learn to Be Grateful by commenting

on the saying, “God has two dwellings, one in heaven, and the other in a meek and thankful heart. Being

grateful to others is a way to show your love.” You should write at least 150 words but no more than 200

words.

Learn to Be Grateful

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_______________________________________________________________________________________ Part II Listening Comprehension (30 minutes)

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 1 with a single line through the centre.

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1. A) Ordinary and poor guys.

B) Rich and special guys.

C) Thin and tall guys.

D) Rich and old guys.

2. A) He can do everything well.

B) He only knows something without mastering.

C) He likes doing housework.

D) He is popular in the neighborhood.

3. A) Continue working.

B) Go back home.

C) Meet his boss.

D) Stay up late for exams.

4. A) Improve his ability of endurance.

B) Enhance his interest in math.

C) Do it by himself.

D) Remember it forever.

5. A) She is a beautiful girl.

B) She likes miniskirts.

C) She has no idea of her own.

D) She has a special taste for fashion.

6. A) They can arouse public passion.

B) They can not educate the public.

C) They can shine as the flash.

D) They can not last for a long tin

7. A) Humorous

B) Boring

C) Knowledgeable.

D) Strict.

8、A) At the food fair.

B) In the hospital.

C) In the studio.

D) At school.

Questions 9 to 12 are based on the conversation you have just heard.

9 . A) About one summer.

B) About one week.

C) About one month

D) About one day

10. A) Canoeing

B) Swimming.

C)Hiking.

D) Cooking

11. A) He lost interest in camping.

B) He was drowned.

C) He was poisoned by food.

D) He was injured when running.

12. A) It is boring

B) It is just passable.

C) It is too dangerous.

D) It helps him to be mature.

13. A) The dog went to find the man.

B) The man stole the dog.

C) The man fed the dog.

D) A friend gave it to him.

14. A) It learns quickly.

B) It comforts its owner.

C) It barks loudlv.

D) It knows many languages.

15. A) He would get another one.

B) He would be heart-broken.

C) He would go with the dog.

D) He would be unconcerned.

Section B

Directions: 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 among 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 .

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Questions 16 to 19 缸e based on the passage you have just heard.

16. A) People regard nutrition as a priority.

B) People take more and more fresh foods.

C) People realize the harm of convenience foods.

D) People cannot take fresh foods totally.

17. A) 2 010. B) 2 100. C) 2 400. D) 3 600.

18. A) Fatness. B) Laziness. C) Malnutrition. D) Skinniness.

19. A) By reading nutrition facts instruction.

B) By tasting the food himself.

C) By consulting the authority.

D) By making scientific research.

Passage Two

Questions 20 to 22 盯e based on the passage you have just heard.

20. A) To make the school life interesting.

B) To motivate the students’ passion.

C) To punish the students who beha飞 J badly.

D) To control the students who scream a lot.

21. A) They think it will hurt the students’ hearts.

B) They think it is too wild.

C) They think it is too strict.

D) They think it cannot solve the problems.

Neutral. D) Indifferent.

Positive. C)

22.

Negative. B)

A)

Passage Three

Questions 23 to 25 are based. on the passage you have just heard.

23. A) Education wastes a lot of money.

B) Study needs money as foundation.

C) Study is not related to money directly.

D) Money can’t stimulate study.

24. A) A private company.

B)A state-owned company.

C) An international profit organization.

D) An independent nonprofit organization.

25. A) Widespread inflation.

B) Academic competition.

C) Political disagreement.

D) Increase in the number of students.

Section C

Directions: 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 with the exact words you have just heard. Finally, when the passage is read for the third time, you should check what you have written .

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A controversial new amendment by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences is raising some red flags with documentary filmmakers. The Academy announced that only documentaries ____26____ by either the Los Angeles Times or the New York Times would be eligible for an Oscar nomination. Many filmmakers have ____27_____the change, arguing that the new rule unfairly favors films with high budgets and elite PR teams, which really___28____the writers for the screen stories.

The Academy says that the change to the rules ______29_____ counteract the growing trend of entries circumventing （回避）the existing regulations. Currently, the rules state that to be considered in the documentary ____30_____，a film must show for at least one week in a theater , but some feel that studios can easily arrange a ____31_______ screening run to ensure their film’s inclusion.

Martin Scorsese’s George Harrison documentary was intended primarily for HBO’S cable channel, but enjoyed a week-long Screening to____32_____for the Oscar. The adjustments are believed to curb such a nomination, but others see more problems than solutions.

“The changes do not_____33_____ the key problem, which is 99% of the documentaries being made are not released in theaters. So tightening up the rules for theatrical release just______34______, the issue all the more ，”two-time Oscar nominee Lawrence Hott told the Los Angeles Times . “I would prefer to see the academy ____35______ a way to get rid of the theatrical requirement and recognize the distinction. ”

Part III Reading Comprehension （40 minutes）

Section A

Direction: 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 bank is identified by a letter. Please mark the corresponding letter for each item on Answer Sheet 2 with a single line through the center. You may not use any of the words in the bank more than once.

The flood of women into the job market boosted economic growth and changed U.S. society in many ways. Many in-home jobs that used to be done 36 by women----ranging from family shopping to preparing meals to doing 37 work——still need to be done by someone .Husbands and children now do some of these jobs, a 38 that has changed the target market for many products. Or a working woman may face a crushing “poverty of time “and look for help elsewhere, creating opportunities for producers of frozen meals, child care centers, dry cleaners, financial services, and the like.

Although there is still a big wage 39 between men and women, the income working women 40 gives them new independence and buying power. For example, women now 41 about half of all cars. Not long ago, many cars dealers 42 women shoppers by ignoring them or suggesting that they come back with their husbands. Now car companies have realized that women are 43 customers. It’s interesting that some leading Japanese car dealers were the first to 44 pay attention to women customers. In Japan, fewer women have jobs or buy cars — the Japanese society is still very much male—oriented. Perhaps it was the 45 contrast with Japanese society that prompted American firms to pay more attention to women buyers.

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B）retailed C）generate D）extreme

A）scale

H）really

E）technically F）affordable G）situation

I）potential J）gap K）voluntary L）excessive

O）primarily

M）insulted N）purchase

Section B

Directions: 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.

Returning to Science

A) Teresa Garrett was working .part- time as a biochemistry postdoc （博士后）. She had an infant at home, and she was miserable. She and her husband were considering having a second child. She didn’t like leaving her daughter with a daycare provider, and she wondered if her slim income justified the expense of childcare. She decided to stay home full time.

B) It was a lonely but practical decision, she says. She hadn’t ruled out the possibility but she did not expect to return to science: Af ter all, the conventional wisdom would equate several years of parenting leave with the end of a research career. Garrett eventually had two daughters and spent their early years at home.

C) The challenge of managing a science career and personal family obligations is not a new issue, particularly for women. In a career where productivity and publications define your value, can you take a couple of years off and then make a successful return? When you do, will employers trust your devotion to your job?

D)For Garrett, the answer to both questions was “Yes. ” First , she found a short-term teaching tutor at Duke University, the institution where she had done her Ph. D. And then Christian Raetz, who had been her Ph. D. adviser , offered her a postdoc. The timing was perfect: She was ready to start a more regular work schedule, and her husband was interested in starting a business. Today, she is a chemistry professor at Vassar College. Garrett credits Raetz both for his faith in her abilities and his willingness to judge her contributions on quality and productivity and not the number of hours she spent in the laboratory. “People are always 'shocked to know that you can take time off and come back ，” she says.

E) Returning to research after an extended personal leave is possible, but it may not be straightforward. Progress can be slow and there may be some fallout from a break. The path back doesn't come with a road map or a timeline. Your reentry

will have a different rhythm than your initial approach because this time you have to balance your career with the needs

of a family. The uncertainty can make you feel isolated and alone. But if you are persistent and take advantage of the resources that are available, you can get it done.

Stepping Sideways

F) After time away from the work force, it’s particularly easy to underestimate your value as a scientist and--hence--to take one or more backward steps. Don’t, says Ruth Ross, who nearly made that mistake after spending 4 years at home with her children. A Ph. D. pharmacologist with industry experience, she applied for a technician job at the University of Aberdeen in the United Kingdom as she planned her return to science. She would have taken the job if it had been offered, she says, but “that probably would have been a bad career move. ” As it turned out, the university decided she was over-qualified.

G) Instead of taking a step back, take a step sideways: If you left a postdoc, return to a postdoc, perhaps with a special career reentry fellowship. A faculty member at Aberdeen encouraged Ross to apply for a newly established career reentry fellowship from the Wellcome Trust. Funding from that organization supported her postdoctoral research until the university hired her into a faculty position in 2002.

H) After 2 years at home with her son and twin daughters followed by 3 years searching for project management jobs in the biotech industry, biochemist Pia Abola got wind of an opening at the Molecular Sciences Institute (MSI) . An MSI staff scientist needed skills like hers but lacked money, so the two applied jointly for an NIH career reentry supplement. She’s now a protein? biochemist and grant writer at Prosetta Bioconformatics.

Independence and Flexibility

I) Instead of stepping backward or sideways , physicist Shireen Adenwalla took a step forward. Instead of taking another postdoc, she set up an independent research program on soft money. Early in her career , Adenwalla took 15 months off , caring for her first child and then looking for another postdoc. When she and her physicist husband decided to move to the University of Nebraska , Lincoln-he had accepted a tenure-track position-Adenwalla turned down postdoc opportunities. Instead she arranged a visiting faculty position, followed by a post as a research assistant professor.

J) “I think that was a very smart thing ，” she says today. “Establishing an independent research program is very important. ”Her starting salary was just $ 15 000 , and she got just $ 5 000 in start- up assistance. She borrowed equipment, taught courses, took on graduate students, and published her research. She had a lab and an office, but both got moved around her lab three times , her office twice.

K) Adenwalla missed having real start-up money, her own equipment , and the institutional investment that comes with a tenure-track position. On the other hand, she was her own boss, so she was able to take 6 months off when she had her second child and work part time for a while after her third child was born. Eventually she was hired to a tenure-track post.

L) Flexible or part-time hours can smooth the transition back into the scientific work force. Some reentry fellowships specify a part- time option and most are accommodating, but even if you don’t have a fellowship you can ask for a work schedule that meets your needs. Ross, for example, took advantage of the part-time provision of the Wellcome Trust Fellowship. When Garrett took the position on the Lipid Maps grant , she negotiated a 30-hour-a-week schedule. Patience: an Essential Virtue

M) Two months before physicist Marija Nikolic-Jaric’s scheduled dissertation （专题论文） defense at Simon Fraser University , her husband was diagnosed with an aggressive brain tumor. Over the next 17 months, she focused on her husband and his cancer treatments. After his death , she moved with her little son to Winnipeg to be near family.

N) She tried to jump-start her thesis project several times, .the first in 1998, but she wasn’t ready yet and became discouraged. Eventually, she found the motivation to return. She started from the beginning, with a new approach. She finished her Ph. D. in 2008. Now a postdoc at the University of Manitoba, she has moved into a new research

area-biomicrofluidics. This year , her work is supported by an M. Hildred Blewett Scholarship, a career reentry grant from the American Physical Society.

O) Elizabeth Freeland, too, continues to work toward a permanent research position a decade af ter her return. When she followed her future husband to his postdoc at Brookhaven National Laboratory in Upton, New York , and subsequently to Chicago, Illinois, she wasn ’t able to find a compatible research opportunity. Since then , she has cared for the couple’s two young children, taught part time, and found a few short-term research opportunities, some paid , others not.

P) Like 、Nikolic-J aric, Freeland 也a physicist, and like that other physicists she switched fields. Freeland moved from condensed matter theory to high-energy physics. She scraped together two one-year postdoctoral grants, the first from the American Association of University Women and the second is a Blewett Scholarship.

Q) Unable to find a permanent position locally, in September she started a one-year postdoc at Vashington University in St Louis. τhe location is challenging, she says, but she is encouraged by the support of her mentors （导师） . And because her work is theoretical, she can spend alternate \i-ieεks at 且ome 飞.vith her husband and school-age children. It’s a great research opportunity , she says, one she hopes will someday yield a job closer to her family. She also runs a Web site for physicists navigating career breaks.

Finding Your Own Way Back

R) Though students sometimes see her as a role model, Adenwalla cautions that what worked for her might not be the best solution for others. “You have to find what ’s right for you ，” she says, and ignore those with different circumstances and needs. Her own journey was a tradeoff , she says. On the plus side, she was able to pick her children up at school every day. On the minus side, she says ,“there was a fear inside me that I would never make it. ”Garrett tells everyone about her journey ,even noting it on her Vassar Web site. “Both young women and young men who are coming up through their career path need to know about the different ways that you can have a good and satisfying career in science. "

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46. Shireen Adenwalla moved her lab and office frequently because she couldn't get abundant money.

47. Before she switched fields, Freeland ’s former research direction was condensed matter theory.

48. According to the passage , Ruth Ross almost committed the mistake that she underestimated her ability.

49. Before Pia Abola got a position at the MSI. she spent five years at home.

50. When Garrett stayed at home, she was prevented from expecting to return to science because of her common sense.

51. According to Garrett , if young people want to succeed in science, they need to know about the different ways.

52. In 1998, N!kolic-Jaric failed her thesis project because of her lack of preparation.

53. When Garrett is a chemistry professor , Raetz judges her contributions on the quality and productivity of her work.

54. In addition to the one-year postdoc at Washington University, Freeland runs a Web site for physicists to navigate career breaks.

55. Marija Nikolic-Jaric ’s dissertation defense at Simon Fraser University was delayed because of herhusband ’s disease.

Section C

Directions:There are 2 passages in this section. Each passage is followed by some questions or unfinished statements. For each of them there are four choices marked [A], [B], [C] and [D]. You should decide on the best choice and mark the corresponding letter on Answer Sheet 2 with a single line through the centre.

Passage One

Questions 52 to 56 are based on the following passage.

Like most people, I’ve long understood that I will be judged by my occupation, that my profession is a gauge people use to see how smart or talented I am. Recently, however, I was disappointed to see that it also decides how I’m treated as a

person.

Last year I left a professional position as a small-town reporter and took a job waiting tables. As someone paid to serve food to people. I had customers say and do things to me I suspect they’d never say or do to their most casual acquaintances. One night a man talking on his cell phone waved me away, then beckoned (示意) me back with his finger minute later, complaining he was ready to order and asking where I’d been.

I had waited tables during summers in college and was treated like a peon (勤杂工) plenty of people. But at 19 years old, I believed I deserved inferior treatment from professional adults. Besides, people responded to me differently after I told them I was in college. Customers would joke that one day I’d be sitting at their table, waiting to be served.

Once I graduated I took a job at a community newspaper. From my first day, I heard a respectful tone from everyone who called me. I assumed this was the way the professional world worked — cordially.

I soon found out differently. I sat several feet away from an advertising sales representative with a similar name. Our calls would often get mixed up and someone asking for Kristen would be transferred to Christie. The mistake was immediately evident. Perhaps it was because money was involved, but people used a tone with Kristen that they never used with me.

My job title made people treat me with courtesy. So it was a shock to return to the restaurant industry.

It’s no secret that there’s a lot to put up with when waiting tables, and fortunately, much of it can be easily forgotten when you pocket the tips. The service industry, by definition, exists to cater to others’ needs. Still, it seemed that many of my customers didn’t get the difference between server and servant.

I’m now applying to graduated school, which means someday I’ll return to a profession where people need to be nice to me in order to get what they want, I think I’ll take them to dinner first, and see how they treat someone whose only job is to serve them.

56. The author was disappointed to find that _______.

[A] one’s position is used as a gauge to measure one’s intelligence

[B] talented people like her should fail to get a respectable job

[C] one’s occupation affects the way one is treated as a person

[D] professionals tend to look down upon manual workers

57. What does the author intend to say by the example in the second paragraph?

[A] Some customers simply show no respect to those who serve them.

[B] People absorbed in a phone conversation tend to be absent-minded.

[C] Waitresses are often treated by customers as casual acquaintances.

[D] Some customers like to make loud complaints for no reason at all.

58. How did the author feel when waiting tables at the age of 19?

[A] She felt it unfair to be treated as a mere servant by professional.

[B] She felt badly hurt when her customers regarded her as a peon.

[C] She was embarrassed each time her customers joked with her.

[D] She found it natural for professionals to treat her as inferior.

59. What does the author imply by saying “…many of my customers didn’t get the difference between server and

servant”(Lines 3-4, Para.7)?

[A] Those who cater to others’ needs are destined to be looked down upon.

[B] Those working in the service industry shouldn’t be treated as servants.

[C] Those serving others have to put up with rough treatment to earn a living.

[D] The majority of customers tend to look on a servant as server nowadays.

60. The author says she’ll one day take her clients to dinner in order to ________.

[A] see what kind of person they are

[B] experience the feeling of being served

[C] show her generosity towards people inferior to her

[D] arouse their sympathy for people living a humble life

Passage Two

Questions 57 to 61 are based on the following passage.

What’s hot for 2007 among the very rich? A $7.3million diamond ring. A trip to Tanzania to hunt wild animals. Oh, and income inequality.

Sure, some leftish billionaires like George Soros have been railing against income inequality for years. But increasingly, centrist and right-wing billionaires are staring to worry about income inequality and the fate of the middle class.

In December, Mortimer Zuckerman wrote a column in U.S. News & World Report, which he owns. “our nation’s core bargain with the middle class is disintegrating,” lamented (哀叹) the 117th-richest man in America. “Most of our economic gains have gone to people at the very top of the income ladder. Average income for a household of people of working age, by contrast, has fallen five years in a raw.” He noted that “Tens of millions of Americans live in fear that a major health problem can reduce them to bankruptcy.”

Wilbur Ross Jr. has echoed Zuckerman’s anger over the bitter struggles faced by middle-class Americans. “It’s an outrage that any American’s life expectancy should be shortened simply because the company they worked for went bankrupt and ended health-care coverage,” said the former chairman of the International Steel Group.

What’s happening? The very rich are just as trendy as you and I, and can be so when it comes to politics and policy. Given the recent change of control in Congress, the popularity of measures like increasing the minimum wage, and efforts by California’s governor to offer universal health care, these guys don’t need their own personal weathermen to know which way the wind blows.

It’s possible that plutocrats (有钱有势的人) are expressing solidarity with the struggling middle class as part of an effort to insulate themselves from confiscatory (没收性的) tax policies. But the prospect that income inequality will lead to higher taxes on the wealthy doesn’t keep plutocrats up at night. They can live with that.

No, what they fear was that the political challenges of sustaining support for global economic integration will be more difficult in the United States because of what has happened to the distribution of income and economic insecurity.

In other words, if middle-class Americans continue to struggle financially as the ultrawealthy grow ever wealthier, it will be increasingly difficult to maintain political support for the free flow of goods, services, and capital across borders. And when the United States places obstacles in the way of foreign investors and foreign goods, it’s likely to encourage reciprocal action abroad. For people who buy and sell companies, or who allocate capital to markets all around the world, that’s the real nightmare.

61. What is the current topic of common interest among the very rich in America?

[A] The fate of the ultrawealthy people.

[B] The disintegration of the middle class.

[C] The inequality in the distribution of wealth.

[D] The conflict between the left and the right wing.

62. What do we learn from Mortimer Zuckerman’s lamentation?

[A] Many middle-income families have failed to make a bargain for better welfare.

[B] The American economic system has caused companies to go bankrupt.

[C] The American nation is becoming more and more divided despite its wealth.

[D] The majority of Americans benefit little from the nation’s growing wealth.

63. From the fifth paragraph we can learn that ________.

[A] the very rich are fashion-conscious

[B] the very rich are politically sensitive

[C] universal health care is to be implemented throughout America

[D] Congress has gained popularity by increasing the minimum wage

64. What is the real reason for plutocrats to express solidarity with the middle class?

[A] They want to protect themselves from confiscatory taxation.

[B] They know that the middle class contributes most to society.

[C] They want to gain support for global economic integration.

[D] They feel increasingly threatened by economic insecurity.

65. What may happen if the United States places obstacles in the way of foreign investors and foreign goods?

[A] The prices of imported goods will inevitably soar beyond control.

[B] The investors will have to make great efforts to re-allocate capital.

[C] The wealthy will attempt to buy foreign companies across borders.

[D]. Foreign countries will place the same economic barriers in return.

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.

中医（Traditional Chinese Medicine）是中华文化不可分割的一部分，为振兴华夏做出了巨大的贡献。如今，中医和西医（western medicine）在中国的医疗保健领域并驾齐驱。中医以其独特的诊断手法、系统的治疗方式和丰富的典籍材料，备受世界瞩目。中国的中医事业由国家中医药管理局（State Administration of TCM and Pharmacology）负责。现在国家已经出台了管理中医的政策、法令和法规，引导并促进这个新兴产业的研究和开发。在定义上，中医是指导中国传统医药理论和实践的一种医学，它包括中医疗法、中草药（herbalogy）、针灸（acupuncture）、推拿（massage）和气功（Qigong）。