大学英语六级分类模拟题427及答案解析.doc

1、大学英语六级分类模拟题 427 及答案解析(总分：510.50，做题时间：90 分钟)一、Part Writing(总题数：7，分数：485.50)1.现在有不少大学生毕业后开始自主创业； 2. 分析产生这一现象的原因； 3. 我认为 College Students“ Starting Their Own Undertakings After Graduation（分数：106.50）_2.Directions : For this part, you are allowed 30 minutes to write an essay on inspiration and action by

2、referring to the remark “We should be taught not to wait for inspiration to start a thing. Action always generates inspiration.“ You can cite examples to illustrate your point and then explain what you will do to develop your inspiration and how you can make use of your inspiration. You should write

3、 at least 150 words but no more than 200 words. （分数：106.00）_3.Directions : For this part, you ate allowed 30 minutes to write a short essay entitled How Should College Students Relieve Stress? You should write at least 150 words but no more than 200 words following the outline given below. 1如今的大学生面临

4、着多重压力 2出现这些压力的原因 3为了缓解压力，我认为 （分数：20.00）_4.Directions: For this part, you are allowed 30 minutes to write an essay on the title Love and House: Which is More Important. You can analyze the reasons respectively why some women choose houses and others choose love and finally give your opinion. You shou

5、ld write at least 150 words but no more than 200 words. Write your essay on Answer Sheet 1. （分数：106.50）_5.Directions: For this part, you are allowed 30 minutes to write an essay on the title “How to Be a Civilized Tourist“. You can give some suggestions on how to behave properly when travelling and

6、finally call on people to be civilized tourists. You should write at least 150 words but no more than 200 words. Write your essay on Answer Sheet 1. （分数：106.50）_6.Directions : For this part, you are allowed 30 minutes to write a short essay entitled The Change of the Number of People Registering for

7、 State Civil Service Exam. You should start your essay with a brief description of the chart and write at least 150 words but no more than 200 words. Number of People Registering for State Civil Service Exam (ten thousand)（分数：20.00）_7.Directions : For this part, you are allowed 30 minutes to write a

8、n essay based on the picture below. You should start your essay with a brief description of the picture and then discuss whether children should be spoiled. You should give sound arguments to support your views and write at least 150 words but no more than 200 words. （分数：20.00）_二、Part Reading Compr(

9、总题数：0，分数：0.00)Should Single-Sex Education Be Eliminated?A. Why is a neuroscientist here debating single-sex schooling? Honestly, I had no fixed ideas on the topic when I started researching it for my book. Pink Brain, Blue Brain. But any discussion of gender differences in children inevitably leads

10、to this debate, so I felt compelled to dive into the research data on single-sex schooling. I read every study I could, weighed the existing evidence, and ultimately concluded that single-sex education is not the answer to gender gaps in achievement or the best way forward for today“s young people.

11、After my book was published, I met several developmental and cognitive psychologists whose work was addressing gender and education from different angles, and we published a peer-reviewed Education Forum piece in Science magazine with the pro-vocative title, “The Pseudoscience of Single-Sex Educatio

12、n.“ B. We showed that three lines of research used to justify single-sex schoolingeducational. neuroscience, and social psychologyall fail to support its alleged benefits, and SO the widely-held view that gender separation is somehow better for boys, girls, or both is nothing more than a myth. The R

13、esearch on Academic Outcomes C. First, we reviewed the extensive educational research that has compared academic outcomes in students attending single-sex versus coeducational schools. The overwhelming conclusion when you put this enormous literature together is that there is no clear academic advan

14、tage of sitting in all-female or all-male classes, in spite of much popular belief to the contrary. I base this conclusion not on any individual study, but on large-scale and systematic reviews of thousands of studies conducted in every major English-speaking country. D. Of course, there“re many exc

15、ellent single-sex schools out there, but as these careful re-search reviews have demonstrated, it is not their single-sex composition that makes them excellent. It“s all the other advantages that are typically packed into such schools, such as financial resources, quality of the faculty, and pro-aca

16、demic culture, along with the family background and pre-selected ability of the students themselves that determine their outcomes. E. A case in point is the study by Linda Sax at UCLA, who used data from a large national survey of college freshmen to evaluate the effect of single-sex versus coeducat

17、ional high schools. Commissioned by the National Coalition of Girls“ schools, the raw findings look pretty good for the fundershigher SAT scores and a stronger academic orientation among women who had attended all girls“ high schools(men weren“t studied.)However, once the researchers controlled for

18、both student and school attributesmeasures such as family income, parents“ education, and school resources most of these effects were erased or diminished. F. When it comes to boys in particular, the data show that single-sex education is distinctly unhelpful for them. Among the minority of studies

19、that have reported advantages of single-sex schooling, virtually all of them were studies of girls. There“re no rigorous studies in the United States that find single-sex schooling is better for boys, and in fact, a separate line of research by economists has shown that both boys and girls exhibit g

20、reater cognitive growth over the school year based on the “dose“ of girls in a classroom. In fact, boys benefit even more than girls from having larger numbers of female classmates. So single-sex schooling is really not the answer to the current “boy crisis“ in education. Brain and Cognitive Develop

21、ment G. The second line of research often used to justify single-sex education falls squarely within my area of expertise: brain and cognitive development. It“s been more than a decade now since the “brain sex movement“ began infiltrating (渗入) our schools, and there are literally hundreds of schools

22、 caught up in the fad (新潮). Public schools in Wisconsin, Indiana, Florida and many other states now proudly declare on their websites that they separate boys and girls because “research solidly indicates that boys and girls learn differently,“ due to “hard-wired“ differences in their brains, eyes, e

23、ars, autonomic nervous systems, and more. H. All of these statements can be traced to just a few would-be neuroscientists, especially physician Leonard Sax and therapist Michael Gurian. Each gives lectures, runs conferences, and does a lot of professional development on so-called “gender-specific le

24、arning“. I analyzed their various claims about sex differences in hearing, vision, language, math, stress responses, and “learning styles“ in my book and a long peer-reviewed paper. Other neuroscientists and psychologists have similarly exposed their work. In short, the mechanisms by which our brain

25、s learn language, math, physics, and every other subject don“t differ between boys and girls. Of course, learning does vary a lot between individual students, but research reliably shows that this variance is far greater within populations of boys or girls than between the two sexes. I. The equal pr

26、otection clause of the U. S. Constitution prohibits separation of students by sex in public education that“s based on precisely this kind of “overbroad generalizations about the different talents, capacities, or preferences of males and females.“ And the reason it is prohibited is be-cause it leads

27、far too easily to stereotyping and sex discrimination. Social Developmental Psychology J. That brings me to the third area of research which fails to support single-sex schooling and indeed suggests the practice is actually harmful: social-developmental psychology. K. It“s a well-proven finding in s

28、ocial psychology that segregation promotes stereotyping and prejudice, whereas intergroup contact reduces themand the results are the same whether you di-vide groups by race, age, gender, body mass index, sexual orientation, or any other category. What“s more, children are especially vulnerable to t

29、his kind of bias, because they are dependent on adults for learning which social categories are important and why we divide people into different groups. L. You don“t have to look far to find evidence of stereotyping and sex discrimination in single-sex schools. There was the failed single-sex exper

30、iment in California, where six school districts used generous state grants to set up separate boys“ and girls“ academies in the late 1990s. Once boys and girls were segregated, teachers resorted to traditional gender stereotypes to run their classes, and within just three years, five of the six dist

31、ricts had gone back to co-education. M. At the same time, researchers are increasingly discovering benefits of gender interaction in youth. A large British study found that children with other-sex older siblings(兄弟姐妹) exhibit less stereotypical play than children with same-sex older siblings, such a

32、s girls who like sports and building toys and boys who like art and dramatic play. Another study of high school social networks found less bullying and aggression the higher the density of mixed-sex friendships within a given adolescent network. Then there is the finding we cited in our Science pape

33、r of higher divorce and depression rates among a large group of British men who attended single-sex schools as teenagers, which might be explained by the lack of opportunity to learn about relationships during their formative years. N. Whether in nursery school, high school, or the business world, g

34、ender segregation narrows our perceptions of each other, facilitating stereotyping and sexist attitudes. It“s very simple: the more we structure children and adolescents“ environment around gender distinctions and separation, the more they will use these categories as the primary basis for understan

35、ding themselves and others. O. Gender is an important issue in education. There are gaps in reading, writing, and science achievement that should be narrower. There are gaps in career choice that should be narrowerif we really want to maximize human potential and American economic growth. But stereo

36、typing boys and girls and separating them in the name of fictitious(虚构的) brain differences is never going to close these gaps.（分数：25.00）(1).Hundreds of schools separate boys from girls in class on the alleged brain and cognitive differences.（分数：2.50）(2).A review of extensive educational research sho

37、ws no obvious academic advantage of single-sex schooling.（分数：2.50）(3).The author did not have any fixed ideas on single-sex education when she began her re-search on the subject.（分数：2.50）(4).Research found men who attended single-sex schools in their teens were more likely to suffer from depression.

38、分数：2.50）(5).Studies in social psychology have shown segregation in school education has a negative impact on children.（分数：2.50）(6).Reviews of research indicate there are more differences in brain and cognitive development within the same sex than between different sexes.（分数：2.50）(7).The findings of

39、 the national survey of college freshmen about the impact of single-sex schooling fail to take into account student and school attributes.（分数：2.50）(8).It wasn“t long before most of the school districts that experimented with single-sex education abandoned the practice.（分数：2.50）(9).Boys from coeducat

40、ional classes demonstrate greater cognitive abilities according to the economists“ research.（分数：2.50）(10).As careful research reviews show. academic excellence in some single-sex schools is attributed to other factors than single-sex education.（分数：2.50）大学英语六级分类模拟题 427 答案解析(总分：510.50，做题时间：90 分钟)一、Par

41、t Writing(总题数：7，分数：485.50)1.现在有不少大学生毕业后开始自主创业； 2. 分析产生这一现象的原因； 3. 我认为 College Students“ Starting Their Own Undertakings After Graduation（分数：106.50）_正确答案：()解析：College Students“ Starting Their Own Undertakings After GraduationA number of college students choose to start their own undertakings instead

42、of finding a job after their graduation. They make every effort to seek business and commercial opportunities to fulfill their ideals and dreams. This phenomenon has aroused great concern of our society. Why do so many college students make the choice of starting their own undertakings? Firstly, col

43、lege students are in face of the severe employment situation. Many graduates just can“t find ideal jobs, which forces them to make a hard decision to set up their own business and try their luck. Secondly, some ambitious college students are not satisfied with being employed by others. They want to

44、develop their abilities by starting their own undertakings. Thirdly, the government“s encouragement and preferential policies have stimulated their enthusiasm to try. Last but not least, the media“s reports on college student venture stars also have some effect. From my point of view, it is a good t

45、ry for college students to start their own undertakings and it will be a valuable experience. However, one should bear in mind that it is a very difficult cause, which needs firm determination, clear mind, a feasible project and ability to endure hardship. Therefore, think it over and make full prep

46、arations before you make a final decision to start your own undertaking.2.Directions : For this part, you are allowed 30 minutes to write an essay on inspiration and action by referring to the remark “We should be taught not to wait for inspiration to start a thing. Action always generates inspirati

47、on.“ You can cite examples to illustrate your point and then explain what you will do to develop your inspiration and how you can make use of your inspiration. You should write at least 150 words but no more than 200 words. （分数：106.00）_正确答案：()解析：“We should be taught not to wait for inspiration to start a thing. Action always generates inspiration.“ The inspiring .statement