1、大学英语六级模拟试卷 154及答案与解析 一、 Part I Writing (30 minutes) 1 Directions: For this part, you are allowed thirty minutes to write a short essay based on the following news extracted from a newspaper, commenting on what had happened and giving your own understanding of it. You should write at least 150 words
2、and give your essay an appropriate title. 1. “香港著名影、视、歌三栖明星张国荣四月一日从香港某高层楼纵身跳下，自杀身亡 ” 新民晚报 二、 Part II Reading Comprehension (Skimming and Scanning) (15 minutes) Directions: In this part, you will have 15 minutes to go over the passage quickly and answer the questions attached to the passage. For ques
3、tions 1-4, mark： Y (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. 1 A Brief Introduction of Mark Twain Twain, Mark, pseudonym
4、(笔名 ) of Samuel Langhome Clemens ( 1835 - 1910 ), American writer and humorist, whose best work is characterized by broad, often irreverent(不敬的 ) humor or biting social satire. Twains writing is also known for realism of place and language, memorable characters, and hatred of hypocrisy and oppressio
5、n. Early Years Born in Florida, Missouri, Clemens moved with his family to Hannibal, Missouri, a port on the Mississippi River, when he was four years old. There he received a public school education. After the death of his father in 1847, Clemens was apprenticed to two Hannibal printers, and in 185
6、1 he began setting type for and contributing sketches to his brother Orions Hannibal Journal. Subsequently he worked as a printer in Keokuk, Iowa; New York City; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; other cities. Later Clemens was a steamboat pilot on the Mississippi River until the American Civil War (1861
7、- 1865) brought an end to travel on the river. In 1861 Clemens served briefly as a volunteer soldier in the Confederate cavalry. Later that year he accompanied his brother to the newly created Nevada Territory, where he tried his hand at silver mining. In 1862 he became a reporter on the Territorial
8、 Enterprise in Virginia City, Nevada, and in 1863 he began signing his articles with the pseudonym Mark Twain, a Mississippi River phrase meaning “two fathoms deep.“ After moving to San Francisco, California, in 1864, Twain met American writers Artemus Ward and Bret Harte, who encouraged him in his
9、work. In 1865 Twain reworked a tale he had heard in the California gold fields, and within months the author and the story, “The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County,“ had become national sensations. Years of Maturity In 1867 Twain lectured in New York City, and in the same year he visited Eu
10、rope and Palestine. He wrote of these travels in The Innocents Abroad (1869), a book exaggerating those aspects of European culture that impress American tourists. In 1870 he married Olivia Langdon. After living briefly in Buffalo, New York, the couple moved to Hartford, Connecticut. Much of Twains
11、best work was written in the 1870s and 1880s in Hartford or during the summers at Quarry Farm, near Elmira, New York. Roughing It (1872) recounts his early adventures as a miner and journalist; The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876) celebrates boyhood in a town on the Mississippi River; A Tramp Abroad
12、(1880) describes a walking trip through the Black Forest of Germany and the Swiss Alps; The Prince and the Pauper (1882), a childrens book, focuses on switched identities in Tudor England; Life on the Mississippi (1883) combines an autobiographical account of his experiences as a river pilot with a
13、visit to the Mississippi nearly two decades after he left it; A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthurs Court (1889) satirizes oppression in feudal England. About His Masterpiece The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1884), the sequel to Tom Sawyer, is considered Twains masterpiece. The book is the story o
14、f the title character, known as Huck, a boy who flees his father by rafting down the Mississippi River with a runaway slave, Jim. The pairs adventures show Huck (and the reader) the cruelty of which men and women are capable. Another theme of the novel is the conflict between Hucks feelings of frien
15、dship with Jim, who is one of the few people he can trust, and his knowledge that he is breaking the laws of the time by heping Jim escape. Huckleberry Finn, which is almost entirely narrated from Hucks point of view, is noted for its authentic language and for its deep commitment to freedom. Hucks
16、adventures also provide the reader with a panorama of American life along the Mississippi before the civil War. Twains skill in capturing the rhythms of that life help make the book one of the masterpieces of American literature. Turning Point In 1884 Twain formed the firm Charles L. Webster and Com
17、pany to publish his and other writers works, notably Personal Memoirs (two volumes, 1885 -1886) by American general and president Ulysses S. Grant. A disastrous investment in an automatic typesetting machine led to the firms bankruptcy in 1894. A successful worldwide lecture tour and the book based
18、on those travels, Following the Equator (1897), paid off Twains debts. Twains work during the 1890s and the 1900s is marked by growing pessimism and bitterness -the result of his business reverses and, later, the deaths of his wife and two daughters. Significant works of this period are Puddnhead Wi
19、lson (1894), a novel set in the South before the Civil War that criticizes racism by focusing on mistaken racial identities, and Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc (1896), a sentimental biography. Twains other later writings include short stories, the best known of which are “The Man That Corrupt
20、ed Hadleyburg“ (1899) and “The War Prayer“ (1905); philosophical, social, and political essays; the manuscript of “The Mysterious Stranger,“ an uncompleted piece that was published posthumously in 1916; and autobiographical dictations. His Influence Twains work was inspired by the unconventional Wes
21、t, and the popularity of his work marked the end of the domination of American Literature by New England writers. He is justly renowned as a humorist but was not always appreciated by the writers of his time as anything more than that. Successive generations of writers, however, recognized the role
22、that Twain played in creating a truly American literature. He portrayed uniquely American subjects in a humorous and colloquial, yet poetic, language. His success in creating this plain but evocative language precipitated the end of American reverence for British and European culture and for the mor
23、e formal language associated with those traditions. His adherence to American themes, settings, and language set him apart from many other novelists of the day and had a powerful effect on such later American writers as Ernest Hemingway and William Faulkner, both of whom pointed to Twain as an inspi
24、ration for their own writing. Later Years In Twains later years he wrote less, but he became a celebrity, frequently speaking out on public issues. He also came to be known for the white linen suit he always wore when making public appearances. Twain received an honorary doctorate from the Universit
25、y of Oxford in 1907. When he died he left an uncompleted autobiography, which was eventually edited by his secretary, Albert Bigelow Paine, and published in 1924. In 1990 the first half of a handwritten manuscript of Huckleberry Finn was discovered in Hollywood, California. After a series of legal b
26、attles over ownership, the portion, which included previously unpublished material, was reunited with its second half, which had been housed at the Buffalo and Erie County (New York) Public Library, in 1992. A revised edition of Huckleberry Finn including the unpublished material was released in 199
27、6. 2 Mark Twains good education is mainly the foundation for his works. （ A） Y （ B） N （ C） NG 3 We dont know the exact number of Mark Twains works. （ A） Y （ B） N （ C） NG 4 Writers of Mark Twains time does not see him as highly as the later writers do. （ A） Y （ B） N （ C） NG 5 Mark Twain got his fame
28、by the work “The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County“. （ A） Y （ B） N （ C） NG 6 Mark Twain actually means_. 7 Mark Twain got married when he was_years old. 8 Because of his failure on business and the death of his family members, his works are marked by_. 9 Mark Twains Masterpiece is_. 10 Mar
29、k Twains language style is_. 11 In Mark Twains later years, what he mainly did was_. Section A Directions: In 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 an
30、d the questions 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. （ A） Buy something in the Bill supermarket. （ B） Get money to pay his bill. （ C） Check to see whether he ca
31、n pay in cash. （ D） Get a check for the woman. （ A） At class. （ B） Back at home. （ C） At work. （ D） In hospital. （ A） She will help him. （ B） She finished hers two days ago. （ C） She completed her work very quickly. （ D） She is still doing the project. （ A） Angry. （ B） Hungry. （ C） Tired. （ D） Dissa
32、tisfied. （ A） It is not theirs. （ B） It has some problems. （ C） It is out of warranty. （ D） It was stolen. （ A） She doesn t like picnic. （ B） It will be too hot. （ C） She will have an exam next week. （ D） The biology class will go to the beach next week. （ A） It does not concern John. （ B） John does
33、 not care about his car. （ C） John will help him fix the car. （ D） tie wants John to fix the car. （ A） 20 miles. （ B） 6 miles. （ C） 14 miles. （ D） 26 miles. （ A） A bear. （ B） A beard lady. （ C） How to shave beard. （ D） A beard man. （ A） More than 12. （ B） 12. （ C） 100. （ D） Not mentioned. （ A） 50 ye
34、ars old. （ B） 51 years old. （ C） 15 years old. （ D） Never stop. （ A） H.R. （ B） Manager. （ C） Junior secretary . （ D） Senior secretary. （ A） Gender. （ B） Ability. （ C） Experience. （ D） Age. （ A） The woman has known the man for a long time. （ B） The woman could not make a decision of the job. （ C） The
35、 woman is not satisfied with the man. （ D） The man has an appointment before he got to the office. （ A） Mill. （ B） Bank. （ C） Store. （ D） Not of above all. Section B Directions: In this section, you will hear 3 short passages. At the end of each passage, you will hear some questions. Both the passag
36、e and the questions will be spoken only once. After you hear a question, you must choose the best answer from the four choices marked A, B, C and D. （ A） Probing into the privacy of famous people. （ B） Short articles about less important events. （ C） Colorful pictures and smaller size. （ D） All abov
37、e. （ A） The Daily Star. （ B） The Times. （ C） The Daily Telegraph. （ D） The Daily Mirror. （ A） The Independent. （ B） The Financial Times. （ C） The Daiy Mirror. （ D） The Daily （ A） Life was easy and food was easy to find. （ B） People care more about how to survive. （ C） The people took care of each ot
38、her out of love. （ D） There are many developed individual monetary systems. （ A） This need to use the services of people who were not physically near. （ B） This need to have a common set of values. （ C） The fear of things that were more different than what people were used to. （ D） This need to stor
39、e wealth. （ A） How the survival skills of the early people influenced their diets. （ B） This need to learn how to save money. （ C） The increasingly complex relationship between values and the use of money. （ D） The difficulty of trading larger and larger amounts of good. （ A） How to distinguish peop
40、les faces. （ B） How to describe peoples personality. （ C） How to distinguish people both inward and outward. （ D） How to differ good persons from bad persons. （ A） To give an example that both human beings and animals can recognize faces. （ B） To tell how a skilled writer could describe all the feat
41、ures of different people. （ C） To indicate how pigeons and people look different. （ D） To show how faces are like fingers. （ A） Physician. （ B） Psychologist. （ C） Fictional writer. （ D） Historian. （ A） His physical appearance and his action. （ B） His way of speaking and behaving. （ C） His learning a
42、nd behaviour. （ D） His way of acting and thinking. Section C Directions: In this section, you will hear a passage three times. When the passage is read for the first time, you should listen carefully for its general idea. When the passage is read for the second time, you are required to fill in the
43、blanks numbered from 36 to 43 with the exact words you have just heard. For blanks numbered from 44 to 46 you are required to fill in the missing information. For these blanks, you can either use the exact words you have just heard or write down the 36 For years now, the worlds fastest trains, opera
44、ting in Japan and France, have been stuck at a【 B1】 _operating speed of around three hundred kilometers an hourin fact the latest Japanese bullet trains travel a bit slower than their【 B2】 _, the emphasis of the designers being more on 【 B3】 _and economy. Now JR East, the countrys largest railway co
45、mpany, has【 B4】 _ a much faster train, capable of【 B5】 _speeds of around three hundred and sixty kilometers an hour. The new train, which has been【 B6】 _in a dazzling color, looks very similar to the【 B7】 _ models already running on Japans high-speed railways, except for one unusual featureextra【 B8
46、】 _ brakes in the form of cats ears that rise from the roof of the carriagesthis, a response to the derailment (出轨 ) of a bullet train after an earthquake last year. 【 B9】 _ . Strictly speaking it isnt the worlds fastestthat honor goes to magnetically levitated trains which literally float above the
47、 track on an enormous magnetic fieldand yes【 B10】 _ . But only one maglev network is in operation today a German system, built in Shanghai and it only covers the thirty kilometers from the airport to the city.【 B11】 _ . 37 【 B1】 38 【 B2】 39 【 B3】 40 【 B4】 41 【 B5】 42 【 B6】 43 【 B7】 44 【 B8】 45 【 B9】
48、 46 【 B10】 47 【 B11】 Section A Directions: In this section, there is a short passage with 5 questions or incomplete statements. Read the passage carefully. Then answer the questions or complete the statements in the fewest possible words. 47 Liu Xiang Asias Gold Rush As Liu Xiang raced to victory in
49、 the 1 I0 - meter hurdles at the Athens Olympics, his legs pumping with flawless precision to clock a world record -tying time of 12.91 sec. The panic creeping into sports announcers voices was almost palpable (明显的 ). Even though China had touted the 21 -year- old Shanghai native as a medal hopeful, few in the West knew that China had a decent hurdler, much less a record - making one. Stunned by th
