1、大学英语六级改革适用（阅读）模拟试卷 259及答案与解析 Section A 0 Aristotle defined a friend as “a single soul dwelling in two bodies“. Members of Facebook whose “friends“ reach triple figures may have a looser definition, but how many friends we have, and how easily we make,【 C1】 _ and lose them, has a significant impact o
2、n our【 C2】 _ well-being. Its no surprise, then, that friends can improve just about every aspect of our life. A recent study says that the recovery from a surgery included,【 C3】 _ , a reduction in the level of pain felt by patients with the most friends. Likewise, friends can protect us from the aft
3、ershocks of bereavement (丧失亲人 ) or【 C4】 _ . They dont even have to be great friends some of the【 C5】 _ effect is simply down to the company: have a pint with a mate and youre by definition not socially【 C6】 _ . We first recognise the importance of friends in childhood, when were not really sure how
4、to make them. While some of us may【 C7】 _ a few childhood friends, the biggest opportunity for friendship comes in higher education. A study of long-term friendships found that friendships formed during college years stayed close 20 years later, if they scored highly in closeness as well as communic
5、ation to begin with. These friendships【 C8】 _ great distances and an average of six house moves. “At college you can cultivate close friendships because youre in such close【 C9】 _ for sustained periods,“ says Glenn Sparks, Purdues professor of communication. “These relationships are【 C10】 _ and hard
6、 to replicate; theyre very unusual outside family relationships. Even when distance, jobs, family tended to pull them apart, these friends would say that once they re-established contact, they didnt miss a beat.“ A) positive B) suspiciously C) proximity D) retain E) submitted F) emotional G) divorce
7、 H) maintain I) sensitive J) rare K) survived L) reunion M) isolated N) ambiguity O) incredibly 1 【 C1】 2 【 C2】 3 【 C3】 4 【 C4】 5 【 C5】 6 【 C6】 7 【 C7】 8 【 C8】 9 【 C9】 10 【 C10】 Section B 10 Can Mix of Teachers, Computers Lead to Pupil Success? A When visitors to the Carpe Diem charter school see 17
8、5 students wearing headphones and staring into computer screens from small cubicles, principal Mark Forner is ready for a skeptical reaction. “Our critics say it looks like a telemarketing call center,“ he said, pre-emptively (先发制人地 ). “I tell people it reminds me of a university library.“ B The tig
9、htly arranged cubed seating in a large, open room isnt the only way Carpe Diem doesnt look like a traditional school. Theres also this fact there are only five teachers for 175 students. Thats a 35-1 student-to-teacher ratio, a little out of line for what many middle and high schools offer. Eventual
10、ly, the five teachers with the assistance of aides will be expected to educate 300 students as the school grows, creating a 60-1 ratio more common in Third World countries. C Thats because Carpe Diem offers a “blended learning“ curriculum. Its a cutting-edge and controversial concept that delivers a
11、 big chunk of instruction to students via computer at school and occasionally at home and mixes it with periodic small group discussions and one-on-one instruction. D Carpe Diem, which serves grades 6 to 12 with a 13-member staff, brought blended learning to Indianapolis for the first time last year
12、. Three more blended learning charter schools recently opened in Indianapolis Phalen Leadership Academy, Nexus Academy and Enlace Academy but the concept is only starting to ramp up. More than a dozen blended learning schools are planned to open here over the next five years. E “Our intuition is tha
13、t it does work,“ said Earl Martin Phalen, founder of the Phalen Academy charter school. “If you watch a two-year-old grab an iPad and flip through it, you see our kids are pretty adept with technology. We certainly understand it can be a learning tool.“ F Electronic instruction is hardly new online-
14、only schools have been around for more than a decade. But blended schools claim to have developed a hybrid they say is more effective for many kids. It allows students to work at their own pace to conquer concepts they can handle and consult a teacher or their peers when they need extra help. Learni
15、ng model or profit machine? G Critics of blended learning, however, lump this concept in with other online schools and say they have concerns about the quality of the learning experience and the true motivations of the purveyors (承办商 ) of electronic instruction. Some wonder if they care more about l
16、earning or profits. After all, it can be far cheaper to teach a student with a computer in a cubicle than with an actual person standing in front of the classroom. That, in turn, can free up dollars that can be paid out in profit that can go to school operators and the testing companies that make se
17、veral of the hot-selling software programs they buy. H Last year, the consulting firm The Parthenon Group did a study that aimed to estimate the cost of blended learning instruction compared with a traditional classroom model. It found the different could be as much as $2,400 per student below what
18、traditional public schools spend on instruction. Thats almost 25% less than what the typical traditional public school spends, the study said. I Phalen, whose charter school opened in Indianapolis this year, acknowledged that there are those who use online tools to cut costs. But he said his schools
19、 and others like them are trying to do what every business aims to do find ways to deliver services that are cheaper and better at the same time. Phalen Academy is not entirely a blended learning school but uses some blended learning techniques in its classes. J Rick Ogston, who founded Carpe Diem i
20、n Arizona, said cost-cutting was the last thing on his mind when he began experimenting with blended learning at his first school. His motivation, he said, was to find a way to tailor instruction to the point where it was personalized to each student. Personalized instruction K Carpe Diems Indianapo
21、lis principal, Mark Forner, is a former insurance agent who changed careers to become a teacher by joining Teach for America, a program that places new teachers in needy schools nationwide. Forner, 47, said he studied blended learning in graduate school. “The great thing about blended learning is no
22、 two kids move at the same pace,“ he said. “In traditional school if you are a kid who gets it, you have to wait until the next year to move up to the grade. Here you dont have to wait for the cohort (大部队 ).“ L Thats what brought student Sydney Pedigo to Carpe Diem from Western Boone High School las
23、t year as a l0th-grader. A math genius, she said she was often bored in math class. Even when teachers gave her more advanced work to do on her own she would often zip through it and be stuck waiting for the rest of the class. M Carpe Diems approach is sometimes called the “flipped“ classroom. Lectu
24、res that used to take place in class are instead routinely watched online on video. Students then work their way through exercises based on the lecture content and take a short quiz. A lesson typically takes about 40 minutes to complete. Then, when students go to class, their work is focused on disc
25、ussion, group work and individual help, said Liz Retana, the schools English teacher. So far, the results are impressive. N Most new charter schools start with low student scores, and the good ones raise them over time. In its first year, Carpe Diem saw 73% of its students pass English and math on I
26、ndiana Statewide Testing for Educational Progress, just a half-point below the state average. By comparison, Indianapolis Public School 27, which two years ago converted to the highly regarded Center for Inquiry curriculum, saw just 54.7% pass. The two schools have very similar demographics. Carpe D
27、iem has slightly more poor and minority students and slightly fewer students learning English as a second language or in special education. Moving too quickly? O Butler University education professors Shelly Furuness and Kelli Esteves, who have experimented with blended learning in their college cla
28、sses and support the idea, nonetheless worry about the workload for teachers such as Retana. P Furuness and Esteves have used blended learning for core foundation courses in learning theories, education concepts and educational history at Butler. Their decision to try blended learning was also influ
29、enced by the goal of individualized instruction. But the two were quick to point out that they co-teach a class with 25 students when they do blended learning a 12-1 ratio of students to teacher and only for select classes. The two are skeptical of blended learning as a central concept for a whole s
30、chool. Q Furuness said she worries when she hears about students who quickly complete high school courses by relying heavily on online tools. At college level, she said, students often struggle not because they havent passed tests on basic concepts but because they cant connect those concepts throug
31、h critical thinking. That sort of skill is typically polished up in conversation with teachers and peers. “Sometimes theyre collecting gold stars when they should be connecting dots,“ Furuness said. R Forner, Carpe Diems principal, doesnt disagree. “We are very clear with parents we are not an onlin
32、e school and that we have high-quality teachers,“ he said. “There are some things you cannot get from an online-only school that you can only get with a high-quality teacher. That includes real-world application. You can only get that from a great teacher down in the classroom. 11 Several schools wi
33、th blended-learning method have opened recently in Indianapolis. 12 For some visitors, Carpe Diem resembles a call center, even though the principal disagrees. 13 In Carpe Diem, its expected to offer only one teacher for about sixty students in the future. 14 Some teachers worry about the quick-lear
34、ning speed in blended learning because students may not acquire the skills necessary at college level. 15 Even though blended schools appear later than online-only schools, they claim to be a more effective approach. 16 According to a study conducted by a consulting firm, the cost of blended learnin
35、g could be much lower than that of traditional public schools. 17 For the founder of Carpe Diem in Arizona, his motivation is to create a personalized instruction instead of cutting cost. 18 A flipped classroom consists of video-watching, exercising and in-class learning, which has excellent results
36、 for now. 19 For two schools with similar demographics, when it comes to the pass in English and math, the one with blended learning stands out. 20 Founder of a charter school admitted some schools try to cut cost through online tools. Section C 20 The 35-year-old Bering woman is watching an ad show
37、ing a giant television made by the Chinese company Haier. A stream of introduction for the television floats in and out of view, including one about receiving electronic mail over the tube. A surfer rides the waves between skyscrapers, his wash leaving an “ in the water. The ad is “too direct“, she
38、tells an interviewer. “There is this guy talking, telling me all about the product, showing me some images. We get it but we dont like it.“ Since a Shanghai television station aired Chinas first TV commercial in 1979, most have been the plain, straightforward, tell-the-name-of-the-product-and-what-i
39、t-does kind. Those started disappearing in the U.S. in the late 1960s in favor of more subtle pitches using irony and humor. Now a study says Chinese commercials dont have to talk down to consumers anymore either at least the one-third of them living in Chinas prosperous cities, and who most interes
40、t advertisers. Even the Western agencies that win awards elsewhere for hip, inventive commercials usually keep it simple in China. After all this country only began opening up 20 years ago and is fairly new to advertising. And to consumer culture, too. China is still a developing nation where an inc
41、ome of just $20,000 a year qualifies an urban household as middle-class. On the other hand, city people who once aspired to own the “big three“ a television, refrigerator and washing machine have already moved up to DVD players and mobile phones. And with a population of 1.3 billion, the worlds larg
42、est, China is a huge market. That is why the worlds largest companies, from Coca-Cola to Procter & Gamble, are battling it out in China. Advertisers spent more than $500 million dollars through the first half of the year, estimates market researcher, making China the largest advertising market in As
43、ia after Japan. The prevailing view of many of those advertisers and their agencies is that the Chinese dont yet get clever or subtle advertising and they prefer a straightforward ad with lots of information. But the April survey of almost 500 people in five Chinas largest cities discovered “a savvy
44、 urban population, tired of a diet of boring ads and hungry to be treated as the sophisticated decision-makers they are.“ In short, the Chinese appreciation of what makes a good ad is no different from their counterparts anywhere else in the world. 21 The 35-year-old woman is dissatisfied with the a
45、d of Haier TV because _. （ A） there is too much misleading information in it （ B） it hasnt given a thorough introduction of the product （ C） it is too difficult to understand （ D） it has been showed in a simple-minded way 22 By saving “Chinese commercials dont have to talk down to consumers“(Line 4,
46、 Para. 2), the author suggests that_. （ A） the plain and straightforward way of advertising should be abolished （ B） it is not necessary to take up irony and humor in advertisement （ C） advertisers are more interested in how to attract the high-class citizens （ D） those disappearing in the U.S. may
47、be just appropriate in China 23 What can we learn about the consumer culture in China? （ A） It is not as complicated as that outside China. （ B） It has not been fully understood yet. （ C） Its influence on advertising is still limited. （ D） It is one of the most important products of opening up polic
48、y. 24 The author agrees that Chinas middle-class households _. （ A） are interested in inventive ads instead of simple ones （ B） earn less than the overseas middle-class households （ C） contribute most to Chinas consumer market （ D） no longer aspired to own the “the big three“ 25 The passage mainly i
49、ntends to discuss _. （ A） the most effective ways of advertising in China （ B） the development of advertising styles in China （ C） consumers view on the ads in China （ D） a misconception on the ads in China 25 It is no good dwelling on the past. What existed or happened in the past may have been beautiful or exciting and may now bring profound and precious memories, but the past is dead, and it is not healthy for living s
