1、大学英语六级模拟试卷 169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 composition on the topic My View on Choosing the Right Career. You should write at least 150 words and base your composition on the outline (given in Chinese) below: 1. 选择适合自己的职
2、业的重要性； 2如何选择适合自己的职业； 3我的看法。 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 questions 1-4, mark： Y (for YES) if the statement agrees with the
3、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 Directions: In this part, you will have 15 minutes to go over the passage quickly and answer the questions on Answer Sh
4、eet 1. For questions 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 GIVRN) if the information is not given in the passage. For questions 5-10, complete the sentences wit
5、h the information given in the passage. What Will Be Weve now acknowledged some fundamental ancient human fumes and the ways they will affect and be affected by the Information Marketplace. It is time to consider the greatest changes that the Information Marketplace has to offer. To get to it, lets
6、reconstruct the key discoveries we have made, which together describe “what will be.“ We began with a simple but fur-reaching model of the future world of information as an Information Marketplace, where people and their computers will buy, sell, and freely exchange information. Our first discovery
7、was that this Information Marketplace can indeed be built on a technological foundation: the information system. We went on to explore the many human-ma-chine interfaces people will use to get in and out of this new edifice, from virtual reality and fancy bodysuits to the lowly keyboard, and singled
8、 out speech interfaces as perhaps the most significant and imminent. We explored the pipes that will carry our information and the ways we will bend them to give us the speed, reliability, and security we need. We also saw how a vast array of new shared software tools will evolve on this system, shi
9、fting the attention of the entire software business from individual to interconnected computers. The arrival of this foundation is certain, but it could be delayed by a decade or more if the key players continue their wars for control and their indifference toward the shared system they all need. We
10、 saw too that there wont be just a handful of winners that will survive these wars; the field is vast, rich, and full of challenges for almost every supplier and consumer of information to be a winner. Our second major discovery was that the Information Marketplace will dramatically affect people an
11、d organizations on a wide scale. Besides its many uses in commerce, office work, and manufacturing, it will also improve health care, provide new ways to shop, enable professional and social encounters across the globe, and generally permeate the thousands of things we do in the course of our daily
12、lives. It will help us pursue old and new pleasures, and it will encourage new art forms, which may be criticized but will move art forward, as new tools have always done. It will also improve education and training, first in specific and established ways and later through breakthroughs that are con
13、fidently awaited. Human organizations from tiny companies to entire national governments will benefit too, because so much of the work they do is information work. Putting all these detailed uses in perspective, we came to realize that they are different faces of two major new forces: electronic bul
14、ldozers and electronic proximity. Each has broad consequences for society. The electronic bulldozers effect is primarily economic, increasing human productivity in both our personal lives and the workplace. The rapid, widespread distribution of information in the form of info-nouns (text, photos, so
15、unds, video) and especially info-verbs (human and machine work on information) is one simple way in which productivity will increase. Automatization is the other powerful effector; machine-to-machine exchanges will off-load human brain work the way machines of the industrial Revolution off-loaded mu
16、scle work. We concluded, however, that to enjoy the productivity benefits we will have to avoid and correct certain technological and human mistakes. The second of the two major forces electronic proximity will increase by a thousand times the number of people we can easily reach and will bring peop
17、le together across space and time. Many social consequences, good and bad, will arise as this new proximity distributes powers of control from central authorities to the many hands of the worlds people. Groupwork and telework will further help improve human productivity. Democracy will spread, as wi
18、ll peoples knowledge of one anothers beliefs, wishes, and problems. The voiceless millions of the world will come to be heard and be better understood, provided that the wealthy nations help the less wealthy ones enter the Information Club. Ethnic groups may become more united, as people belonging t
19、o a certain tribe use the Information Marketplace to bind themselves together regardless of where they may be. At the same time, the Information Marketplace will help shared cultures grow in nations that thrive on diversity. And though we need not change our legal framework in any major way to accom
20、modate the Information Marketplace, different nations will need to cooperate on shared conventions for security, billing, and other transnational issues that will surely arise as shared information crosses international barriers. On another level, electronic proximity will foster a shared universal
21、culture, a thin cover on top of all the worlds individual national cultures. We hope that this property of the Information Marketplace to enhance the co-existence of nationalistic identity and international community will help us understand one another and stay peaceful. Given all these possibilitie
22、s for change, we considered what might happen when they meet the ancient human beings that we are and have been for thousands of years. Predictably, we discovered that we will have difficulty coping with the increased social and technological complexity and overload brought forth by the Information
23、Marketplace. Though we will be potentially close to hundreds of millions of people, we will be able to deal with only a very few of them at any given time. Yet we saw that we might be able to reduce some of these complexity problems by making the artifacts of the Information Age easier to use a prim
24、ary goal for the technologists of the twenty-first century. The Information Marketplace will make of us urban villagers half urban sophisticate, roaming the virtual globe, and half villager, spending more time at home and tending to family, friends, and the routines of the neighborhood. If our psych
25、es tilt toward the crowded urban info-city, we will become more jaded, more oriented toward the self, and more indifferent, fickle, and casual in our relationships with others, as well as less tightly connected to our families and friends. If we tilt toward the village, we may be surprised by a revi
26、val of more closely knit families rooted in our tighter human bonds. Indeed, if we use it correctly, the Information Marketplace can be a powerful magnifying lens that can amplify goodness employing disabled and home-bound workers, matching help needed with help offered via the Virtual Compassion Co
27、rps, and helping people learn and stay healthy, among many other possibilities. The wise eye will also see that file Information Marketplace is much more influential than its parts the interfaces, middleware and pipes that make up the three-story building on which we stand. Once they are integrated,
28、 they present a much greater power the power to prevent an asthmatic from dying in a remote town in Alaska, to enable an unemployed bank loan officer to find and succeed at a new form of work, to allow a husband and wife to revel in the accomplishments of a distant daughter while also providing emot
29、ional and financial support. These powers are far greater than the ability to send an e-mail message, or to have five hundred TV channels. The Information Marketplace will transform our society over the next century as significantly as the two industrial revolutions, establishing itself solidly and
30、rightfully as the Third Revolution in modem human history. It is big, exciting, and awesome. We need not fear it any more or any less than people feared the other revolutions, because it carries similar promises and difficulties. What we need to do, instead, is to understand it, feel it, and embrace
31、 it so that we may use it to steer our future human course. 2 Electronic bulldozers bring us some trouble in the form of info-junk, gap and unemployment. （ A） Y （ B） N （ C） NG 3 The Third Revolution in modem human history will come in 2020. （ A） Y （ B） N （ C） NG 4 We are at loss what to do in the fu
32、ture world of information. （ A） Y （ B） N （ C） NG 5 The article demonstrates what will happen in the Information Marketplace through the discoveries. （ A） Y （ B） N （ C） NG 6 The information system is made up of _. 7 Humanity will be dramatically influenced because of _. 8 Many social consequences bro
33、ught forth by electronic proximity include _. 9 Peoples emotions in the physical world will not be substituted by _. 10 Human beings will be made _ by the Information Marketplace. 11 The author takes the Information Marketplace as _ to describe what our future world will be. Section A Directions: In
34、 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 and the questions will be spoken only once. After each question there will be a pause. During the pause, you mu
35、st read the four choices marked A, B, C and D, and decide which is the best answer. （ A） Surfing tile net. （ B） Watching a talk show. （ C） Packing a birthday gift. （ D） Shopping at a jewelry store. （ A） He enjoys finding fault with exams. （ B） He is sure of his success in the exam. （ C） He doesnt kn
36、ow if he can do well in the exam. （ D） He used to get straight As in the exams he took. （ A） The man is generous with his good comments on people. （ B） The woman is unsure if there will be peace in the world. （ C） The woman is doubtful about newspaper stories. （ D） The man is quite optimistic about
37、human nature. （ A） Study for some profession. （ B） Attend a medical school. （ C） Stay in business. （ D） Sell his shop. （ A） More money. （ B） Fair treatment. （ C） A college education. （ D） Shorter work hours. （ A） She was exhausted from her trip. （ B） She missed the comforts of home. （ C） She was imp
38、ressed by Mexican food. （ D） She will not go to Mexico again. （ A） Cheer herself up a bit. （ B） Find a more suitable job. （ C） Seek professional advice. （ D） Take a psychology course. （ A） He dresses more formally now. （ B） What he wears does not match his position. （ C） He has ignored his friends s
39、ince graduation. （ D） He failed to do well at college. （ A） Husband and wife. （ B） Boss and employee. （ C） Receptionist and customer. （ D） Waiter and guest. （ A） Stealing money. （ B） Misuse of the company car. （ C） Being late. （ D） Misuse of work time. （ A） Indifferent. （ B） Regretted. （ C） Excited.
40、 （ D） Angry. （ A） They are on business. （ B） They are working. （ C） They are on holiday. （ D） They have a rest at home. （ A） Sending e-mails. （ B） Learning things. （ C） Chatting in chat rooms. （ D） Collecting information. （ A） He will be too weak. （ B） He will be clever. （ C） He will be stupid. （ D）
41、 He will be crazy. （ A） She wants the man to stop using the computer. （ B） She wants the man to pay attention to her. （ C） She wants the man to pay attention to the outdoor chess game. （ D） She wants the man to have a walk with her. Section B Directions: In this section, you will hear 3 short passag
42、es. At the end of each passage, you will hear some questions. Both the passage 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） It tries to categorize the different kinds of sharks throughout the w
43、orld. （ B） It tries to warn humans of the dangers posed by sharks. （ C） It tries to describe the characteristics of shark teeth. （ D） It tries to clear up misconceptions about sharks. （ A） All sharks have teeth. （ B） A shark can have six rows of teeth. （ C） A shark can have hundreds of teeth. （ D） A
44、ll sharks have extremely sharp teeth. （ A） A person should probably be the least afraid of a dwarf shark. （ B） A person should probably be the least afraid of a tiger shark. （ C） A person should probably be the least afraid of a bull shark. （ D） A person should probably be the least afraid of a grea
45、t white shark. （ A） Because future shock is caused by greatly accelerated rate of change. （ B） Because future shock can not be predicated. （ C） Because future shock prevent people from returning to a more familiar culture. （ D） Because future shock cant be explained in words. （ A） The shock a busine
46、ssman feels when there is no room for bargaining. （ B） The shock Peace Corp volunteers suffered from in Borneo. （ C） The shock a traveler feels in a strange environment. （ D） The shock Marco Polo felt in China. （ A） The frustration bought on by inability of people. （ B） Tile earlier arrival of the f
47、uture. （ C） The disorientation caused by reality. （ D） The widespread disease prevailing in the world. （ A） Begging food from the tourists. （ B） Attacking the tourists. （ C） Dropping wastes on the tourists. （ D） Making loud noise to disturb the tourists. （ A） Broadcasting frightened sounds of the bi
48、rds to scare them away. （ B） Making shooting sounds to scare the birds away. （ C） Hiring special workers to drive them away. （ D） Capturing them and then transporting them away. （ A） To other European countries. （ B） To the remote areas and suburbs. （ C） To the natural parks for birds. （ D） Back to
49、their nests. （ A） France. （ B） Russia. （ C） Poland. （ D） Germany. 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 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
