1、大学英语六级改革适用（阅读）模拟试卷 173及答案与解析 Section A 0 Jason Braddock knew he had to pay for his college education, so he went to work. His first job was with his mother and aunt when he was 7 years old. They paid him $5 a night to do household【 C1】 _. When he was old enough to get a job on his own, Braddock work
2、ed for a【 C2】 _of fast-food restaurant chains, home improvement retailers and local movie theaters. In college, he【 C3】 _and worked as a computer tech on campus. Braddock is among the few college graduates who【 C4】 _earned a degree, without the help of student loans. Another job that will pay your t
3、uition: the military. James Kendall, 30,【 C5】_his bachelors degree in criminal justice using the GI Bill, which covers tuition, fees, books and housing. The Michigan native didnt know what he wanted to do after graduating from high school in May 2001, but quickly decided on a path. He【 C6】_as a Navy
4、 Seabee for five years of active duty service. During that time Kendall served two tours in Iraq and aided relief efforts for two【 C7】 _natural disastersthe Indian Ocean tsunami in 2004 and Hurricane Katrina in 2005. Kendall returned to Michigan in 2007 and earned an associate degree from Muskegon C
5、ommunity College before he【 C8】 _to Grand Valley State University. With his college and living expenses covered, he focused his attention on his school work and his daughter, who was in kindergarten at the time. Kendall volunteered in his daughters classroom when he wasnt attending classes himself.
6、He graduated last month【 C9】_debt-free. And his experiences in the military gave him a【 C10】 _and knowledge that most college students dont have. A)tutored B)completely C)financed D)proportionally E)catastrophic F)chores G)participated H)self-reliantly I)mutual J)transferred K)series L)accommodation
7、s M)enlisted N)perspective O)motion 1 【 C1】 2 【 C2】 3 【 C3】 4 【 C4】 5 【 C5】 6 【 C6】 7 【 C7】 8 【 C8】 9 【 C9】 10 【 C10】 Section B 10 Find Your Hearts Desire and Realize Your Potential AOne of the most wonderful and exciting facts about your life is that you already know a lot of the things you need to
8、 know to become the person you want to be. You have your “hearts desire“ deep inside of you. Theres something that you were put on this earth uniquely to accomplish. Theres something that you, and only you, can do. And when you find your hearts desire, youll have the key to unlocking your potential
9、in every other part of your life. Youll have the key to happiness, satisfaction, fulfillment and the joy thats your natural birthright. BTake some time to determine the kind of person youd like to be, and the kind of person youd have to become in order to live the kind of life that youd like to live
10、. Remember, you cant accomplish it on the outside until you become it on the inside. CTo unlock your inner potential, you must set very clear, challenging and, yet, realistic goals and then make plans to accomplish them. You need to work, step-by-step, every day, in the direction of your dominant as
11、pirations. You need to develop an unshakable level of self-confidence that makes you virtually unstoppable. Momentum is the key to long-term success. DThe momentum theory of success simply says that while it may take 10 units of energy to get you moving in a particular direction, it takes only one u
12、nit of energy to keep you moving once youre in motion. You have the principle of momentum working in your favor. EHow do you use the momentum principle in your life? Well, its simple. Lets say that your goal is to become financially independent. To do this, you have to pay off all of your existing d
13、ebts and build up a cash reserve of three to six months of living expenses. When you reach that point, your entire personality will change. Youll be more clearheaded, youll be more positive, youll be more determined, youll be more optimistic, youll be a finer and better human being when you absolute
14、ly know that youre not dependent upon anyone for your living expenses. Youll be able to choose the job you want to do and go to the places you want to go. You wont have to tolerate any situation that you do not enjoy or that you feel isnt the best use of your personal potential. FIf you simultaneous
15、ly work on strengthening your self-discipline and using it to achieve the goal of financial independence, youll become a better, stronger and more powerful human being. Youll cast off the bonds of helplessness and begin to feel that theres nothing in the world that you cant do or be or have. GWhen y
16、ou set clear goals or objectives for yourself, when you dream big dreams and then determine to become the kind of person whos capable of achieving the kind of goals that you want to achieve, you convince yourself, at a deep, subconscious level, that youre absolutely unstoppable. You realize at last
17、that nothing in the world can hold you back except your own thinking, and you dont even let your own thinking limit your potential. What beliefs might you have that are holding you back? HEach one of us has feelings of inferiority that are manifested in the conclusion that we are not good enough. We
18、 think that we are not as good as other people, and we feel that we are not good enough to acquire and enjoy the things that we want in life. Very often, we feel that we dont deserve good things. Even if we do work hard and achieve some worthwhile objectives, we believe that we are not really entitl
19、ed to our successes, and we often engage in behaviors that sabotage our successes. IThe fact is that you deserve every good thing that you are capable of acquiring as the result of the application of your talents. The only real limitation on what you can be and have is your absence of desire. If you
20、 want something badly enough, nothing in the world can stop you from getting it, if you are willing to persist long enough and hard enough. Over and over, we find that our beliefs, more than anything else, act as the brakes on our capacities. We have high hopes and dreams and aspirations, but we let
21、 doubts creep in and undermine our competence and effectiveness. JThe most harmful beliefs that you can have are what we call “self-limiting beliefs.“ These are beliefs about yourself, most of which are not true; but they hold you back nonetheless Sometimes you, or others, will say that you cannot a
22、chieve certain goals because you did not get enough education Sometimes you will say that it is because of your gender or race or age or the state of the economy. KThe starting point to change your beliefs is to get up the courage to question them seriously. Question your basic premises. Check your
23、assumptions. Ask yourself, “What assumptions am I making about myself or my situation that might not be true?“ LIts a fact that we fall in love with our excuses and our assumptions. We fall in love with our reasons for not moving ahead. Even if someone comes along and challenges those reasons, even
24、if someone tells you that you have the capacity to accomplish marvelous things, you will argue with him. If someone tells you that you can do far better than youre doing right now, you will come up with reasons to dispute this persons greater belief in your potential. Believing in yourself. MYour be
25、liefs about reality are based on a thousand influences, many of which began even before you were aware of what was going on. You have beliefs that are deep and beliefs that are shallow. Deep beliefs, with regard to your religion or your political party or your family, or especially yourself, are ver
26、y hard to change. Shallow beliefs are easily changed. And many of your beliefs are in fact very shallow. They have no substance to them whatsoever. If you challenge them hard enough, youll find that they are made of tissue paper. Theyll simply blow away. NYou can always tell what your true values an
27、d beliefs are by looking at your actions. It isnt what you say or wish or hope or intend that demonstrates what you really believe. Its only what you do. Its only the behaviors that you engage in. Its only the actions that you choose to undertake. Your values and beliefs are always expressed in your
28、 actions and behaviors. OOnce youve clearly decided on the person you would like to become, you are on the path toward developing new beliefs. You then discipline yourself each day to behave exactly as you would if you were already that person. That simple technique, the “act as if“ technique, is ex
29、traordinarily powerful. The more you act like the person you want to be, the more consistent your attitude will be with that persons. Your attitude will have the back-flow effect of affecting your expectations. Positive expectations will have the back-flow effect of building beliefs that are consist
30、ent with them. And your beliefs will exert an influence on your values. PPeople succeed not because they have remarkable characteristics or qualities. The most successful people are quite ordinary, just like you and me. Most of us start off poor and confused. We spend many years getting some sort of
31、 direction in our lives. But the turning point comes when we begin to believe that we have within us that divine spark that can lead us onward and upward to the accomplishment of anything that we really want in life. 11 It is difficult to change deep beliefs which are related with ones religion or p
32、olitical party. 12 Ones self-limiting beliefs would make him find excuses for his failure to achieve goals. 13 The key to happiness, satisfaction, fulfillment and joy is finding your own desire. 14 Lack of desire acts as the brakes on what one can be and have. 15 Outstanding characteristics or quali
33、ties are not the essential factors that contribute to ones success. 16 According to the momentum principle, to achieve financial independence, one should pay off debts and have savings. 17 It is ones actions and behaviors that indicate ones values and beliefs. 18 Influenced by feelings of inferiorit
34、y, one tends to feel that he is not good enough. 19 If you want to change your self-limiting beliefs, you should start with challenging those beliefs. 20 Setting goals, making plans and building unshakable self-confidence enable you to unlock your inner potential. Section C 20 One of the good things
35、 for men in womens liberation is that men no longer have to pay women the old-fashioned courtesies. In an article on the new manners, Ms. Holmes says that a perfectly able woman no longer has to act helplessly in public as if she were a model. For example, she doesnt need help getting in and out of
36、cars. “Women get in and out of cars twenty times a day with babies and dogs. Surely they can get out by themselves at night just as easily.“ She also says there is no reason why a man should walk on the outside of a woman on the sidewalk. “Historically, the man walked on the inside so he caught the
37、garbage thrown out of a window. Today a man is supposed to walk on the outside. A man should walk where he wants to. So should a woman. If, out of love and respect, he actually wants to take the blows, he should walk on the inside because thats where attackers are all hiding these days.“ As far as m
38、anners are concerned, I suppose I have always been a supporter of womens liberation. Over the years, out of a sense of respect, I imagine, I have refused to trouble women with outdated courtesies. It is usually easier to follow rules of social behavior than to depend on ones own taste. But rules may
39、 be safely broken, of Course, by those of us with the gift of natural grace. For example, when a man and a woman are led to their table in a restaurant and the waiter pulls out a chair, the woman is expected to sit in the chair. That is according to Ms. Ann Clark. I have always done it the other way
40、, according to my wife. It came up only the other night, I followed the hostess to the table, and when she pulled the chair out I sat On it, quite naturally, since it happened to be the chair I wanted to sit in. “Well,“ my wife said, when the hostess had gone, “you did it again.“ “Did what?“ I asked
41、, utterly confused. “Took the chair.“ Actually, since Id walked through the restaurant ahead of my wife, it would have been awkward, I should think, not to have taken the chair. I had got there first, after all. Also, it has always been my custom to get in a car first, and let the woman get in by he
42、rself. This is a courtesy I insist on as the stronger sex, out of love and respect. In times like these, there might be attackers hidden about. It would be unsuitable to put a woman in a car and then shut the door on her, leaving her at the mercy of some bad fellow who might be hiding in the back se
43、at. 21 It can be concluded from the passage that_. （ A） its safe to break rules of social behaviors （ B） in womens liberation men are also liberated （ C） women are becoming more competent than before （ D） men should walk on the outside of a pavement 22 Whats the authors attitude about the whole ques
44、tion of manners and womens liberation? （ A） Serious. （ B） Critical. （ C） Joking. （ D） Satirical. 23 Ms. Ann Clark would most probably agree that_. （ A） Ms. Holmes opinions on the new manners are justified （ B） the author is a man with the gift of natural grace （ C） one should follow social custom in
45、stead of his own taste （ D） men and women are equal in most of the social events 24 By saying “you did it again“(Para. 7), the authors wife means that _. （ A） the author should have shown his politeness by pulling out the chair for her （ B） the author should not have sat down before she did （ C） the
46、 author should not have sat in the chair pulled out by the waitress （ D） the author should have walked behind her 25 Which of the following is NOT the reason why the author gets into a car before a woman? （ A） He intends to be polite to the woman. （ B） He does that by force of habit. （ C） He wants t
47、o protect the woman from hidden danger. （ D） He thinks women nowadays are as capable as men. 25 Testing has replaced teaching in most public schools. My own childrens school week is framed by pretests, drills, tests, and retests. They know that the best way to read a textbook is to look at the quest
48、ions at the end of the chapter and then skim the text for the answers. I believe that my daughter Erica, who gets excellent marks, has never read a chapter of any of her school textbooks all the way through. And teachers are often heard to state proudly and openly that they teach to the mandated sta
49、te test. Teaching to the test is a curious phenomenon. Instead of deciding what skills students ought to learn, helping students learn them, and then using some sensible methods of assessment to discover whether students have mastered the skills, teachers are encouraged to reverse the process. First one looks at a commercially available test. Then one distills the skills needed not to master reading, say, or math, but to d
