1、大学英语六级模拟试卷 173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 Competition and Cooperation. You should write at least 150 words, and base your composition on the outline (given in Chinese) below: 1. 现代社会中竞争无处不在； 2竞争
2、和合作的关系。 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 information given in
3、 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 Sheet 1. For questions
4、 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. For questions 5 - 10, complete the sentences with the information
5、 given in the passage. Sports and Education Sports Are a Kind of Education For many young people in my part of the world ( suburban America), the first brush with organized athletics comes on a Saturday morning in early spring. The weather is getting warmer and the school years end is imminent, and
6、moms, sensing the approach of summer vacation and too much free time, pile us into the backs of minivans and drive us to our towns local sports and recreation center. In my hometown, Egg Harbor Township, New Jersey, kids converge each year on the EHT Youth Organization Building, a cinderblock shack
7、in the middle of a handful of baseball and football fields. There lines are waited in, forms filled out, birth certificates examined and photocopied, health insurance waivers furnished and signed. At the end of the morning, kids are signed up for little - league baseball and an instant summer schedu
8、le of activities has been created. Then its time to go to Burger King. For parents seeking productive ways to occupy their childrens time, summer sports leagues offer a convenient and time - tested outlet for overabundant energy. In my case that meant baseball. Americas pastime: nine weeks of pitche
9、d fastballs and sore elbows, grounders up the middle, digging it out to first base, shagging flies in the outfield and swatting mosquitoes in the infield. Then, after six innings, back to Burger King. A couple of weeks after the signups at the cinderblock shack, we kids would be rounded up into team
10、s and coached in the fundamentals of pitching, catching, hitting, and running bases. Wed be supplied with color - coded jerseys and mesh baseball caps, and then we would play a seasons worth of games against one another. Playoffs would be held and champions crowned. At the end of the season an all -
11、 star team of the leagues best players would be assembled to play against the best teams from neighboring towns. Back and forth across tile country this system repeats itself from town to town and sport to sport with little variation. Some leagues have storied pasts: baseballs Little League or footb
12、alls Pop Warner League. Some are newer. In cities it is often the Policemens Benevolent Association or the YMCA that assumes the sponsorship role. Always, though, there is the underlying idea that organized sport is a valuable and productive use of a young persons time. Sports, in short, are a kind
13、of education, teaching important life skills that cant be learned in school. Ideas about the educational value of sports vary widely. For some, sports foster the social development of young people, teaching kids how to interact with their peers outside the classroom. Sports teach kids what it means
14、to compete how to cope with losing, how to respond gracefully to success. Sports are about teamwork, how to work together toward a common goal. Sometimes theyre about developing a sense of self- esteem. Sometimes theyre simply about finding a healthy way to tire hyperactive kids out so theyll sit st
15、ill in class or get to bed at a reasonable hour. Some bolder advocates claim that their games build character. Given the prevailing educational undercurrent, its no surprise that many kids second brush with organized athletics takes place in a school. Junior highs and high schools sponsor their own
16、sports programs and field teams of football, basketball. soccer and tennis players. There the educational theme is given a more direct and tangible form as squads of student -athletes travel around the state representing their schools on the field, court or diamond. Yet here, strangely enough, is wh
17、ere a bit of the educational component begins to alter. High school teams are necessarily more selective than their youth league predecessors. Tryouts are held, and less promising players are cut. Coaches receive salaries, and there is an expectation that the teams they shape will win. In sum, there
18、 is a slight change in emphasis away from education and toward outright competition. Competitive Sports Build Character Education is an important theme in youth athletics in the US. Young kids, energetic, rambunctious, cooped up in class, yearn for the relative freedom of the football field, the bas
19、ketball court, the baseball diamond. They long to kick and throw things and tackle each other, and the fields of organized play offer a place in which to act out these impulses. Kids are basically encouraged, after all, to beat each other up on the football field. Yet for all the chaos, adult guidan
20、ce and supervision are never far off, and time spent on the athletic fields is meant to be productive. Conscientious coaches seek to impart lessons in teamwork, self- sacrifice, competition, gracious winning and losing. Teachers at least want their pupils worn out so theyll sit still in reading clas
21、s. By the time children start competing for spots on junior high soccer teams or tennis squads, the kid gloves have come off to some extent. The athletic fields become less a place to learn about soft values like teamwork than about hard selfdiscipline and competition. Competitiveness, after all, is
22、 prized highly by Americans, perhaps more so than by other peoples. For a child, being cut from the hockey team or denied a spot on the swimming is a grave disappointment and perhaps an opportunity for emotional or spiritual growth. High school basketball or football teams are places where the ethos
23、 of competition is given still stronger emphasis. Although high school coaches still consider themselves educators, the sports they oversee are not simple extensions of the classroom. They are important social institutions, for football games bring people together. In much of the US they are events
24、where young people and their elders mingle and see how the community is evolving. For the best players, the progression from little league to junior high to high school leads to a scholarship at a big - name college and maybe, one day, a shot at the pros. College athletes are ostensibly student- ath
25、letes, an ideal that suggests a balance between the intellectual rigors of the university and the physical rigors of the playing field. The reality is skewed heavily in favor of athletics. One would be hard - pressed to show that major US college sports are about education. Coaches require far too m
26、uch of players time to be truly concerned with anything other than performance in sport. Too often, the players they recruit seem to care little about school themselves. This was not always the case. Universities Princeton, Harvard, Rutgers, Yale were the birthplaces of American football and basebal
27、l; education the formation of “character“ was an important part of what those coaches and players thought they were achieving. In 1913, when football was almost outlawed in the US, the games most prominent figures traveled to Washington and argued successfully that football was an essential part of
28、the campus experience and that the nation would be robbed of its boldest young men, its best potential leaders, if the game were banned. The idea that competitive sports build character, a Western tradition dating from ancient Greece, has evidently fallen out of fashion in todays US. Educators, now
29、prone to see the kind of character shaped by football and basketball in a dark light , have challenged the notion that college sports produce interesting people. Prominent athletes, such as boxer Muhammad Ali and basketball star Charles Barkley, deliberately distanced themselves from the earlier ide
30、al of the athlete as a model figure. Todays US athlete is thus content to be an entertainer. Trying to do something socially constructive, like being a role model, will make you seem overearnest and probably hurt your street credibility. When I was a kid, my heroes played on Saturdays: they were hig
31、h school players and college athletes. Pro football games, broadcast on Sunday afternoons, were dull and uninspiring by comparison. After all, why would God schedule anything important for Sunday? Youve got school the next day. Although I certainly couldnt have articulated it at the time, I think I
32、must already have sensed that throwing a ball or catching passes was a fairly pointless thing to be good at. In the grand scheme, it was a silly preparation for a job. Yet playing sports was not pointless; the point, however, was that you were learning something a disposition, a certain virtue, a ca
33、pacity for arduous endeavor that might be of value when you later embarked upon a productive career as a doctor or a schoolteacher or a businessman. The optimism of those Saturday afternoons was contagious. I still feel that way today. 2 Sports, in short, are a kind of education, which can teach imp
34、ortant life skills that cant be learned in school. （ A） Y （ B） N （ C） NG 3 Generally speaking, young kids in America prefer taking part in sports to attending class. （ A） Y （ B） N （ C） NG 4 One reason that teachers would drive students to sports field lies in that it will probably help to exhaust th
35、e children so that they can sit still in class. （ A） Y （ B） N （ C） NG 5 Todays U.S. athletes usually avoid being like a role model since that will ruin their reputation. （ A） Y （ B） N （ C） NG 6 Playing in the athletic fields, children still need _ so that the play time can be more effective and prod
36、uctive. 7 Of all people around the world, competitiveness is prized highest by_. 8 Denied a spot on the swimming team is a serious failure to a kid but it can also be regarded as_. 9 In the eyes of an adult, sports in high school are actually_rather than simple extensions of the classroom. 10 In col
37、leges, student - athletes are called so since the colleges intends to demonstrate that they _ between the intellectual pursuit and physical pursuit. 11 The traditional idea that competitive sports build character has apparently_in todays U. S. Section A Directions: In this section, you will hear 8 s
38、hort 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 must read the four choices marked
39、A, B, C and D, and decide which is the best answer. （ A） Flight 213 is preparing to depart. （ B） The man will have to stay in New York. （ C） The plane cannot land in New York because of bad weather. （ D） Three flights were cancelled because of snow. （ A） The new apartment is cheaper. （ B） She likes
40、to listen to the radio. （ C） The present one is too expensive. （ D） She needs a quieter place. （ A） The rain stopped. （ B） Both the rain and wind stopped. （ C） The wind stopped, but its still raining. （ D） Its still raining and the wind is blowing. （ A） Bob is too tired to study any more. （ B） He to
41、ld Bob not to study late at night. （ C） He had often advised Bob to study. （ D） Bob didnt hear the alarm. （ A） Not getting what he wants. （ B） A custom that is new to him. （ C） Calling up customer. （ D） Some of his good friends. （ A） Indifferent. （ B） Worried. （ C） Happy. （ D） Indignant. （ A） Becaus
42、e be reads too many books. （ B） To learn how to separate the important from the unimportant. （ C） To be well-informed. （ D） Because he always wastes his time. （ A） That Liz doesnt know them well. （ B） That hes the one to phone Liz. （ C） That she will phone Liz if he doesnt. （ D） That she doesnt know
43、 Lizs phone number. （ A） Final examination. （ B） Family education. （ C） Summer plan. （ D） Historic places. （ A） That she has never been to Yanan. （ B） That she is so interested in traveling. （ C） That she has finished her paper. （ D） That she doesnt know much about Yanan. （ A） The place she has visi
44、ted these years. （ B） The reason for quitting a summer plan. （ C） The number of times the man has visited Yanan. （ D） The historical facts she has learned in school. （ A） There will be a boom in housing. （ B） The house market will suffer depression. （ C） The bank will exert positive influence on hou
45、sing. （ D） It will hit a three-and-a-half-year low. （ A） The demand is met in the house market. （ B） The mortgage application gets more difficult. （ C） The mortgage rate is increasing. （ D） The houses are overpriced. （ A） He may buy a house at a low price. （ B） He may find it hard to borrow money fr
46、om the bank. （ C） The price of his house may drop dramatically. （ D） The value of his house may go up quickly. （ A） That more jobs are added. （ B） That there is job shortage. （ C） That companies plan for recruitment. （ D） That people get laid off. Section B Directions: In this section, you will hear
47、 3 short passages. 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） Speed control. （ B） The system “minigap“. （ C） The con
48、trol and the motorcar. （ D） Two of drivers problems. （ A） A car would be like a train. （ B） A car could be driven automatically. （ C） A car wouldnt run into another car. （ D） The speed of a car could be kept steady. （ A） The drivers could read newspaper in cars. （ B） The cars join. （ C） The drivers
49、switch over to Minigap. （ D） The car could leave at will. （ A） 170,000.00 （ B） 117,000.00 （ C） 100,070.00 （ D） 100,017.00 （ A） Sugar. （ B） Fat. （ C） Calorie. （ D） Protein. （ A） 60%; 30%. （ B） 16%; 13%. （ C） 60%; 13%. （ D） 16%; 30%. （ A） How Sony engineers improved sound quality. （ B） How a popular product was invented. （ C） How Masaru Ibuka made a design. （ D） How Sony stereos became a raging success. （ A） Playback parts. （ B） Recording mechanism. （ C） Speakers. （ D） Headphone
