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1、大学六级-2 及答案解析(总分：712.00，做题时间：90 分钟)一、BPart Writing(总题数：1，分数：106.00)1.假设你是李明一名应届毕业生，在报纸上看到一则招聘广告，你想要到登广告的公司供职，请给该公司写一封求职信，内容应简要介绍自己的情况以及自己的经历等。（分数：106.00）_二、BPart Reading (总题数：1，分数：70.00)BDirections:/B IIn this part, you will have 15 minutes to go over the passage quickly and answer the questions on A

2、nswer Sheet 1. For questions 1-4, markY (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 sentence

3、s with the information given in the passage./IBAmericas Brain Drain Crisis/BBLosing the Global Edge/BWilliam Kunz is a self-described computer geek. A more apt description might be computer genius. When he was just 11, Kurtz started writing software programs, and by 14 he had created his own video g

4、ame. As a high school sophomore in Houston, Texas, he won first prize in a local science fair for a data encryption (遍密码) program he wrote. In his senior year, he took top prize in an international science and engineering fair for designing a program to analyze and sort DNA patterns.Kunz went on to

5、attend Carnegie Mellon, among the nations highest-ranked universities in computer science. After college he landed a job with Oracle in Silicon Valley, writing software used by companies around the world.Kunz looked set to become a star in his field. Then he gave it all up.Today, three years later,

6、Kunz is in his first year at Harvard Business School. He left software engineering partly because his earning potential paled next to friends who were going into law or business. He also worried about job security, especially as more companies move their programming overseas to lower costs. “Every t

7、ime youre asked to train someone in India, you think, Am I training my replacement?“ Kunz says.Things are turning out very differently for another standout in engineering, Qing-Shan Jia. A student at Tsinghua University in Beijing, Jia shines even among his gifted cohorts (一群人) at a school sometimes

8、 called “the MIT of China“. He considered applying to Harvard for his PhD, but decided it wasnt worth it.His university is investing heavily in cutting-edge research facilities, and attracts an impressive roster of international professors. “I can get a world-class education here and study with worl

9、d-class scholars,“ Jia says.These two snapshots (快照) illustrate part of a deeply disturbing picture. In the disciplines underpinning the high-tech economymath, science and engineeringAmerica is steadily losing its global edge. The depth and breadth of the problem is clear: Several of Americas key ag

10、encies for scientific research and development will face a retirement crisis within the next ten years. Less than 6% of Americas high school seniors plan to pursue engineering degrees, down 36% from a decade ago. In 2000, 56% of Chinas undergraduate degrees were in the hard sciences; in the United S

11、tates, the figure was 17%. China will likely produce six times the number of engineers next year than America will graduate, according to MikeGibbons of the American Society for Engineering Education. Japan, with half Americas population, has minted (铸造) twice as many in recent years.“Most Americans

12、 are unaware of how much science does for this country and what we stand to lose if we cant keep up,“ says Shirley Ann Jackson, president of Rensselaer polytechnic Institute and chair of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. David Baltimore, president of the California Institute o

13、f Technology and a Nobel laureate, puts it bluntly: “We cant hope to keep intact our standard of living, our national security, our way of life, if Americans arent competitive in science.“BThe Crisis Americans Created/BIn January 2001, the Hart-Rudman Commission, tasked with finding solutions to Ame

14、ricas major national security threats, concluded that the failures of Americas math and science education and Americas system of research “pose a greater threat. than any potential conventional war.“The roots of this failure lie in primary and secondary education. The nation that produced most of th

15、e great technological advances of the last century now scores poorly in international science testing. A 2003 survey of math and science literacy ranked American 15-year-olds against kids from other industrialized nations. In math, American students came in 24th out of 28 countries; in science, Amer

16、icans were 24th out of 40 countries, tied with Latvia. This test, in conjunction with others, indicates Americans start out with sufficient smartstheir fourth-graders score wellbut they begin to slide by eighth grade, and sink almost to the bottom by high school.Dont blame school budgets. Americans

17、shell out more than $440 billion each year on public education, and spend more per capita than any nation save Switzerland. The problem is that too many of their high school science and math teachers just arent qualified. A survey in 2000 revealed that 38% of math teachers and 28% of science teacher

18、s in grades 712 lacked a college major or minor in their subject area. In schools with high poverty rates, the figures jumped to 52% of math teachers and 32% of science teachers. “The highest predictor of student performance boils down to teacher knowledge,“ says Gerald Wheeler, executive director o

19、f the National Science Teachers Association. To California Congressman Buck McKeon, a member of the House Committee on Education and the Workforce, it comes down to this: “How can you pass on a passion to your students if you dont know the subject?“Perhaps its no surprise that, according to a 2004 I

20、ndiana University survey, 18% of college prep kids werent taking math their senior year of high school. “When I Compare our high schools to what I see when Im traveling abroad, Im terrified for our workforce of tomorrow,“ Microsoft chairman Bill Gates told a summit of state governors earlier this ye

21、ar. “Our high schools, even when theyre working exactly as designed, cannot teach our kids what they need to know today.“The Bush Administration has also proposed cutting the fiscal 2006 budget for research and development in such key federal agencies as the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administ

22、ration and the National Institute of Standards and Technology, the latter of which acts as a liaison (联络) with industry and researchers to apply new technology.“Funding cuts are job cuts,“ says Rep. Vernon J. Ehlers, Republican of Michigan and a member of the Science Committee in the House. Reduced

23、funding has put the squeeze on research positions, further smothering incentives (动机) for students to go into hard science.BWhat Americans Must Do/BAmericans have done it before: the Manhattan Project, the technology surge that followed Sputnik. Theyve demonstrated. that they can commit themselves t

24、o daunting goals and achieve them. But they cant minimize the challenges theyre facing.Americans need out-of-the-box thinking, of the sort suggested by experts in a report released in October called “Rising above the Gathering Storm“, a study group within the National Academy of Sciences, which incl

25、uded the National Academy of Engineering and the Institute of Medicine, came up with innovative proposals. Among them are: Four-year scholarships for 25,000 undergraduate students who commit to degrees in math, science or engineering, and who qualify based on a competitive national exam; Four-year s

26、cholarships for 10,000 college students who commit to being math or science teachers, and who agree to teach in a public school for five years after graduation; Extended visas for foreign students who earn a math or science PhD in the United States, giving them a year aftergraduation to look for emp

27、loyment here. If they find jobs, work permits and permanent residency status would be expedited.Many experts are also urging that non-credentialed but knowledgeable people with industry experience be allowed to teach. That experiment is already underway at High Tech High in San Diego. Conceived by G

28、ary Jacobs, whose father founded Qualcomm, this charter school stresses a cutting-edge curriculum, whether the classes are on biotechnology or web design. To teach these courses, the school hires industry professionals. High Tech High also arranges internships at robotics labs, Internet start-ups an

29、d university research centers.In just five years, 750 kids have enrolled, three classes have graduated and the vast majority of students have gone on to college. One of the success stories is Jeff Jensen, class of 2005, who was a decidedly apathetic (缺乏兴趣的) student before High Tech High. He is now a

30、 freshman at Stanford University on a partial scholarship, planning to study chemistry or medicine.IBM is one of the companies encouraging its workers to teach. This past September, IBM announced a tuition-assistance plan, pledging to pay for teacher certification as well as a leave of absence for e

31、mployees who wish to teach in public schools.The philanthropic (博爱的) arms of corporations are also getting involved. The Siemens Foundation sponsors a yearly math, science and technology competition, considered the Nobel Prize for high school research and a great distiller of American talent. Honeyw

32、ell spends $2 million each year on science programs geared to middle school students, including a hip-hop touring group that teaches physical science, and a robotics lab program that teaches kids how to design, build and program their own robot. “Weve found that if we dont get kids excited about sci

33、ence by middle school, its too late,“ says Michael Holland, a spokesperson for Honeywell.As important as all these initiatives are, they barely begin to take Americans where they need to go. Americans shortcomings are vast, and time, unfortunately, is working against them.“The whole world is running

34、 a race,“ says Intels Howard High, “only we dont know it.“ No one knows whether or when the United States will relinquish (放弃) its lead in that race. Or how far back in the pack they could ultimately fall. But the first order of business is to recognize whats at stake and get in the game.（分数：70.00）(

35、1).Kunz gave up software engineering mainly because he earned less than those in law or business field did.（分数：7.00）填空项 1:_(2).Only a small percentage of Americas high school seniors plan to major in engineering at college.（分数：7.00）填空项 1:_(3).If Americans arent competitive in science, they cannot su

36、rvive the severe competition between developed countries.（分数：7.00）填空项 1:_(4).College education is to blame for the failure of Americas math and science education.（分数：7.00）填空项 1:_(5).American high school students sink almost to the bottom in a survey of math and science literacy because too many of t

37、he high school _ in America are not qualified.（分数：7.00）填空项 1:_(6).Cutting budget for science research and development further smothers incentives for American students to _.（分数：7.00）填空项 1:_(7).One innovative proposal proposed by some experts is providing _ for 25,000 qualified undergraduate students

38、分数：7.00）填空项 1:_(8).At High Tech High, _ are hired to teach courses on biotechnology or web design.（分数：7.00）填空项 1:_(9).Many companies encourage their employees to _, with IBM one of them.（分数：7.00）填空项 1:_(10).Americans shortcomings in science are vast, and unfortunately _ is making efforts to defeat

39、 them.（分数：7.00）填空项 1:_三、BPart Listenin(总题数：0，分数：0.00)四、BSection A/B(总题数：3，分数：105.00)BDirections:/B IIn 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 qu

40、estions 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./IBQuestions 11 to 18 ar

41、e based on the conversation you have just heard./B （分数：56.00）(1). A. She went to the party without knowing it. B. She was invited to the party. C. She was present for the party. D. She was absent from the party.（分数：7.00）A.B.C.D.(2). A. Joan will give out the assignments. B. Joan will speak in the se

42、minar. C. Joan wont be present al the seminar. D. Joan wont sign the petitions.（分数：7.00）A.B.C.D.(3). A. Present a new theory to the class. B. Read more than one article. C. Read the book more thoroughly. D. Write a better article for the class.（分数：7.00）A.B.C.D.(4). A. Her back hurt during the meetin

43、g. B. His support does not mean anything now. C. She agreed that it was a very good meeting. D. The proposal should be sent back to the meeting.（分数：7.00）A.B.C.D.(5). A. The library is within walking distance. B. Tae streets are not in good condition. C. The man should get a car instead. D. The man s

44、hould exercise more.（分数：7.00）A.B.C.D.(6). A. Yes, she can study there if she is writing a research paper. B. Yes, but she needs to have the approval of her professor. C. Yes, because she is a senior student. D. No, its open only to teachers and postgraduates.（分数：7.00）A.B.C.D.(7). A. He decided not t

45、o cancel his appointment B. His new glasses arent comfortable. C. Hes too busy to get a checkup. D. He has to check when the appointment is.（分数：7.00）A.B.C.D.(8). A. His errors were mainly in the reading pan. B. It wasnt very challenging to him. C. It was more difficult than he had expected. D. He ma

46、de very few grammatical mistakes in his test.（分数：7.00）A.B.C.D.BQuestions 19 to 22 are based on the conversation you have just heard./B （分数：28.00）(1). A. Leisure sporting activities. B. Average age of athletes. C. Durability of sporting equipment. D. Peoples preference for sporting activities.（分数：7.0

47、0）A.B.C.D.(2). A. Jogging. B. Tennis. C. Cycling. D. Swimming.（分数：7.00）A.B.C.D.(3). A. Target the 18 to 26 year-old age group. B. Sell tennis rackets. C. Carry more athletic shoes. D. Work out a more appealing slogan.（分数：7.00）A.B.C.D.(4). A. They have more buying power. B. They have enough time to e

48、xercise. C. They tend to enjoy sports more D. They are very health conscious.（分数：7.00）A.B.C.D.BQuestions 23 to 25 are based on the conversation you have just heard./B （分数：21.00）(1). A. Because its a way of relaxing himself B. Because he has nothing else to do. C. Because sitcom is very funny. D. Because watching TV is his favorite acti