1、大学六级-537 及答案解析(总分：648.00，做题时间：90 分钟)一、BPart Writing(总题数：1，分数：106.00)1.1越来越多的大学生一毕业就迈入婚姻殿堂 2产生这种现象的原因 3这种现象可能带来的影响（分数：106.00）_二、BPart Reading (总题数：1，分数：70.00)BThe New Math on Campus/BBSexual Imbalance in Colleges/BAfter midnight on a rainy night last week in Chapel Hill, N.C., a large group of sorori
2、ty (女学生联谊会) women at the University of North Carolina squeezed into a basement bar. Bathed in a colorful glow, they splashed beer from pitchers, traded jokes and shouted lyrics to a Taylor Swift heartache anthem thundering overhead. As a night out, it had everything-except guys.North Carolina, with
3、a student body that is nearly 60 percent female, is just one of many large universities that at times feel weirdly like womens colleges. Women have represented about 57 percent of enrollments at American colleges since at least 2000, according to a recent report by the American Council on Education.
4、 Researchers there cite several reasons: women tend to have higher grades; men tend to drop out in disproportionate numbers; and female enrollment leads further among older students, low-income students, and black students.BThe Effects of the Sexual Imbalance/BIn terms of academic advancement, this
5、is hardly the worst news for women-its a sign of female achievement. But surrounded by so many other successful women, they often find it harder than expected to find a date on a Friday night. Jayne Dallas, a senior studying advertising who was seated across the table, complained that the population
6、 of male undergraduates was even smaller when you looked at it as a dating pool. “Out of that 40 percent, there are maybe 20 percent that we would consider, and out of those 20, 10 have girlfriends, so all the girls are fighting over that other 10 percent,“ she said.Needless to say, this puts guys i
7、n a position to play the field, and tends to mean that even the ones willing to make a commitment come with storied romantic histories. Rachel Sasser, a senior history major at the table, said that before she and her boyfriend started dating, he had “hooked up with a least five of my friends in my s
8、orority-that I know of“.These sorts of romantic complications are hardly confined to North Carolina, an academically rigorous school where most students spend more time studying than socializing. The gender imbalance is also pronounced at some private colleges, such as New York University and Lewis
9、men tend to drop out in disproportionate numbers; and female enrollment leads further among older students, low-income students, and black students.BThe Effects of the Sexual Imbalance/BIn terms of academic advancement, this is hardly the worst news for women-its a sign of female achievement. But su
10、rrounded by so many other successful women, they often find it harder than expected to find a date on a Friday night. Jayne Dallas, a senior studying advertising who was seated across the table, complained that the population of male undergraduates was even smaller when you looked at it as a dating
11、pool. “Out of that 40 percent, there are maybe 20 percent that we would consider, and out of those 20, 10 have girlfriends, so all the girls are fighting over that other 10 percent,“ she said.Needless to say, this puts guys in a position to play the field, and tends to mean that even the ones willin
12、g to make a commitment come with storied romantic histories. Rachel Sasser, a senior history major at the table, said that before she and her boyfriend started dating, he had “hooked up with a least five of my friends in my sorority-that I know of“.These sorts of romantic complications are hardly co
13、nfined to North Carolina, an academically rigorous school where most students spend more time studying than socializing. The gender imbalance is also pronounced at some private colleges, such as New York University and Lewis & Clark in Portland, Ore., and large public universities in states like Cal
14、ifornia, Florida and Georgia. The College of Charleston, a public liberal arts college in South Carolina, is 66 percent female. Some women at the University of Vermont, with an undergraduate body that is 55 percent female, sardonically refer to their college town, Burlington, as “Girlington“.The gen
15、der gap is not universal. The Ivy League schools are largely equal in gender, and some even has a few more males. But at some schools, efforts to balance the numbers have been met with complaints that less-qualified men are being admitted over more-qualified women. In December, the United States Com
16、mission on Civil Rights moved to check admissions data from 19 public and private colleges to look at whether they were discriminating against qualified female applicants.Leaving aside complaints about “affirmative action for boys“, less attention has been focused on the social difference. Thanks to
17、 simple laws of supply and demand, it is often the women who must assert themselves romantically or be left alone on Valentines Day. “I was talking toil friend at a bar, and this girl just came up out of nowhere, grabbed him by the wrist, spun him around and took him out to the dance floor and start
18、ed grinding,“ said Kelly Lynch, a junior at North Carolina, recalling a recent experience.Students interviewed here said they believed their mating rituals reflected those of college students any where. But many of them-men and women alike said that the imbalanced population tends to twist behavior.
19、 “A lot of my friends will meet someone and go home for the night and .just hope for the best the next morning,“ Ms. Lynch said, “Theyll text them and say: I had a great time. Want to hang out next week? And they dont respond.“ Even worse, “Girls feel pressured to do more than theyre comfortable wit
20、h, to lock it down,“ Ms. Lynch said. And the university feels obligated to admit the most qualified applicants, regardless of gender, Mr. Farmer said. “I wouldnt want any young woman here to think that theres somebody wed rather have here than her,“ he said.The phenomenon has also been an area of ac
21、ademic inquiry, formally and informally. “On college campuses where there are far more women than men, men have all the power to control the intensity of sexual and romantic relationships,“ Kathleen A. Bogle, a sociologist at La Salle University in Philadelphia, wrote in an e-mail message. Her book,
22、 “Hooking Up: Sex, Dating, and Relationships on Campus,“ was published in 2008. “Women do not want to get left out in the cold, so they are competing for men on mens terms,“ she wrote. “This results in more casual hook-up encounters that do not end up leading to more serious romantic relationships.
23、Since college women say they generally want something more than just a casual hook-up, women end up losing out.“Women on gender-imbalanced campuses are paying a social price for success and, to a degree, are being victimized by men precisely because they have outperformed them, Professor Campbell sa
24、id. In this way, some colleges mirror retirement communities, where women often find that the reward for outliving their husbands is competing with other widows for the attentions of the few surviving bachelors.At colleges in big cities, women do have more options. “By my sophomore year, I just had
25、the feeling that there is nobody in this school that I could date,“ said Ashley Crisostomo, a senior at Fordham University in New York, which is 55 percent female. She has tended to date older professionals in the city. But in a classic college town, the social life is usually limited to fraternity
26、parties, local bars or coffee houses. And college men can be particularly unmannerly when the numbers are in their favor.Several male students acknowledged that the math skewed (倾斜) pleasantly in their favor. “You dont have to work that hard,“ said Matt Garofalo, a senior at North Carolina. “You mee
27、t a girl at a late-night restaurant. Shes texting you the next day.“BTradition Always Stands/BBut its not as if the imbalance leads to ceaseless bed-hopping, said Austin Ivey, who graduated from North Carolina last year but was hanging out in a bar near campus last week. “Guys tend to overshoot them
28、selves and find a really beautiful girlfriend they couldnt date otherwise, but can, thanks to the ratio,“ he said. Mr. Ivey himself said that his own college relationship lasted three years. “She didnt think she would meet another guy. I didnt think I would meet another girl as attractive as her,“ h
29、e said.Several male students from female-heavy schools took pains to note that they were not thrilled with the status quo. “Its awesome being a guy,“ admitted Garret Jones, another North Carolina senior, but he also felt sorry for a culture that fostered hook-ups over relationships. This year, he sa
30、id, he finally found a serious girlfriend.Many women eagerly hit the library on Saturday night. And most would prefer to go out with friends, rather than date a campus brute. “But still it causes girls to overanalyze everything-text messages, sideways glances, conversations,“ said Margaret Cheatham
31、Williams. a junior at North Carolina. “Girls will sit there with their friends for 15 minutes trying to figure out what punctuation to use in a text message.“ The loneliness can be made all the more bitter by the knowledge that it wasnt always this way. “My roommates parents met here,“ said Mitali D
32、ayal, a freshman at North Carolina. “She has this nice little picture of them in their Carolina sweatshirts., must be nice.“（分数：70.00）(1).What does the passage mainly tell us?（分数：7.00）填空项 1:_ （正确答案：D)）解析：定位 由题干可知本题考查主旨大意。由此定位到首段、尾段及其余各段的首尾句。特别是根据第一个小标题 Sexual Imbalance in Colleges即可得出本题答案。 精析 推理判断题考
33、频：9 。根据第一个小标题下的内容可知，从首段中纯女孩儿派对的无奈，到随后几段的具体数据和事例，可判断本文讨论的是有关大学内男女性比例不均衡的问题，故答案为 D)。(2).From the bar party in Chapel Hill. we learn that _.（分数：7.00）填空项 1:_ （正确答案：C)）解析：定位 由线索词定位首段。重点为末句 As a night out，it had everything-except guys 精析 细节推断题考频：16 。根据文中的 a night out可知这里应该是谈论大学校园的社交场合这一西方习俗，同时结合该句无可奈何的语气可
34、以推断，在这样的社交场合女孩们非常希望有男孩子在场，故答案为 C)。(3).Before Rachel Sasser reluctantly dated with him, she knew her boyfriend _.（分数：7.00）填空项 1:_ （正确答案：D)）解析：定位 由线索词定位第二个小标题的第二段末句before she and her boyfriend started dating，he had “hooked up with a least five of my friends in my sorority-that I know of“ 精析 细节归纳题考频：4
35、。本段开头指出。大学里女多男少的状况使得男孩子用情不专，后文提到Rachel Sasser在接受了这个男朋友之前，她就知道她的男朋友已经交往过五个女朋友。由此说明 Rachel Sasser的男朋友情感经历丰富，D)中的 rich experience with girls是原文内容的概括，故答案为 D)。(4).Some colleges admit less-qualified boy students over more-qualified girls in order to _.（分数：7.00）填空项 1:_ （正确答案：C)）解析：定位 由线索词定位第二个小标题的第四段第三句 Bu
36、t at some schools，efforts to balance the numbers have been met with complaints that less-qualified men are being admitted over more-qualified women 精析 同义转述题考频：45 。由本句中的 to balance the numbers可知，一些旨在平衡性别构成的努力招致人们抱怨差一些的男生挤掉更有资格的女生而被录取。由此可得，部分大学录取资格比女学生低的男学生的主要目的是 C)“消除性别不平衡”。(5).According to Ms. Lynch
37、, one of the most common ways that boys turn down girls is by _.A) running away（分数：7.00）填空项 1:_ （正确答案：C)）解析：定位 由线索词定位第二个小标题的第六段第三、四句MsLynch said，“Theyll text them and say: I had a great time. Want to hangout next week? And they dont respond.“ 精析 细节推断题考频：16 。由 they dont respond可知男生们不仅不按照一般的社交礼仪在见面后第二
38、天主动联系女生，反倒在女生主动发短信给他们后仍不理不睬，即通过 ignorance来表示不准备再交往下去。(6).The relationship between some colleges and retirement communities is _.（分数：7.00）填空项 1:_ （正确答案：A)）解析：定位 由线索词定位第二个小标题的倒数第三段第二句 In this way, some colleges mirror retirement communities, where women often find that tine reward for outliving their
39、husbands is competing with other widows for the attentions of the few surviving bachelors 精析 细节推断题考频：16 。原文以 mirror打比方说明两者有相似之处，即有些大学中与退休人群相似。女性发现自己比丈夫活得长的唯一“好处”就是只能与其他寡妇争夺那硕果仅存的几位单身汉的垂青，故答案为 A)。(7).A girl will text a boy the next day after meeting at a restaurant because _.（分数：7.00）填空项 1:_ （正确答案：B)
40、）解析：定位 由线索词定位第二个小标题最后一段第二句“You dont have to work that hardYou meet a girl at a late-night restaurant，shes texting you the next day.“ 精析 细节推断题考频：16 。本段的首句指出，男生们得知男女比例对他们有利，从后文男孩子的话语中也可得出。他们可以毫不费劲追女孩，女孩子自己会主动发短信联系，这也说明女孩非常希望有一个男朋友，由此可知答案为 B)。(8).What Garret Jones really wants is to _.（分数：7.00）填空项 1:_
41、（正确答案：find a serious girlfriend）解析：线索词 Garret Jones 定位 由线索词定位第三个小标题的第二段第三句 This year, he said, he finally found a serious girlfriend 精析 推理判断题考频：9 。原文中说，Garret Jones今年总算找到了对爱情严肃认真的女朋友。finally“总算”一词表明这是他长久以来的愿望。因此他真正想要的就是 find a serious girlfriend。(9).According to Margaret, when girls are anxious and
42、insecure, they tend to _.（分数：7.00）填空项 1:_ （正确答案：overanalyze everything）解析：线索词 Margaret 定位 由线索词定位最后一段第三句“But still it causes girls to overanalyze everythingtext messages, sideways glances, conversations,“ said Margaret Cheatham Williams 精析 信息明示题考频：3 。本段开头提到，(由于这种不平衡致使)有些女孩泡图书馆，有些宁愿找好友出去玩，但最通常的反应还是 It
43、 causes girls to overanalyze everything“把一切迹象都过度分析、患得患失”。题干中的 tend to是对原文 cause的同义转述。由此得出答案为 overanalyze everything。(10).Mitali Dayal thinks the last generations belief on how to get love _.（分数：7.00）填空项 1:_ （正确答案：must be nice）解析：线索词 Mitali Dayai，last generation 定位 由线索词定位到最后一段的最后两句“My roommates paren
44、ts met hereShe has this nice little picture of them in their Carolina sweatshirts：must be nice.“ 精析 细节推断题考频：16 。题干中 last generation实际上：是Mitali Dayal提到的 roommates parents那一辈人。结合原文可知，妈妈他们那一辈人印在北卡的运动衫上的文字。充分体现了他们那一代人的爱情信念。由此看出 Mitali Dayal非常羡慕这样的爱情，认为这非常美好，故答案为 must be nice。三、BPart Listenin(总题数：3，分数：10
45、5.00)（分数：56.00）A.Go to the supermarket to get the ingredients.B.Share with the man how she makes the food. C.Call the supermarket for the recipe.D.Go to the supermarket to buy a pencil and paper.解析：听力原文 M：Ive never tasted such tasty soupI wish I had the recipe and Id love to be able to make it mysel
46、f W：Its easy to make it as long as you get all ingredients in supermarket here. Let me get a pencil and paper Q：What will the woman probably do next? 答案详解 综合理解题考频：35 。由对活可知，男士想知道菜谱以便自己也能像女士一样做出这么美味的肉汤，女士表示只要从超市买齐调料，这道菜很容易做出来，接着明确表示要用笔和纸记下烹饪方法。由此可见，女士接下来要告诉男士如何做这道菜。故选 B)。A.It requires constant care.
47、B.Its very old-style.C.It cost the woman 50 dollars to buy.D.It cant tell the correct time.解析：听力原文 W：Thats a shame about your mobile phone. Talk about bad timing! M：Tell me about it. Just last Sunday，I put 50 dollars into it and I hoped it would make it through another year Q：What can be inferred ab
48、out the mans mobile phone? 答案详解 综合理解题考频：35 。女士说男士手机真是很差劲，上周日刚花了 50美元维修保养，希望它能再坚持工作一年。可见手机质量一直不过关，因此需要 constant care“经常保养”。女士话中的 bad timing意为“时机不凑巧”，容易造成干扰。男士话中的 Tell me about“意为“你说得对”。A.She is not in the place to judge.B.The man should blame himself. C.The business deserves the mans waiting.D.She is not good at giving advice.解析：听力原文 M：You wouldnt imagine how lo
