1、大学英语六级模拟试卷 175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 letter of application. You should write at least 150 words, and base your letter on the situation given in Chinese: 假如你是 David Yang/Mary Yang,是 U大学即将毕业的本科生，向某公司写一信求职信。先描述自己的一些基本
2、情况，包括学生、专业、在校学习成绩、英语水平、个人爱好、是否有相关的工作经历。然后描述你对将来工作的预期，包括工作职务和工资水平等细节。 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 (f
3、or 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 Until the nineteen sixties, black people in many parts of the United States di
4、d not have the same civil rights as white people. Laws in the American South kept tile two races separate. These laws forced black people to attend separate schools, live in separate areas of a city and sit in separate areas on a bus. On December first, nineteen fifty-five, in the southern city of M
5、ontgomery, Alabama, a forty-two year old black woman got on a city bus. The law at that time required black people seated in one area of the bus to give up their seats to white people who wanted them. The woman refused to do this and was arrested. This act of peaceful disobedience started protests i
6、n Montgomery that led to legal changes in minority rights in the United States. The woman who started it was Rosa Parks. Today, we tell her story. She was born Rosa Louise McCauley in nineteen-thirteen in Tuskegee, Alabama. She attended local schools until she was eleven years old. Then she was sent
7、 to school in Montgomery. She left high school early to care for her sick grandmother, then to care for her mother. She did not finish high school until she was twenty-one. Rosa married Raymond Parks in nineteen thirty-two. He was a barber who cut mens hair. He was also a civil rights activist. Toge
8、ther, they worked for the local group of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. In nineteen forty-three, Missus Parks became an officer in the group and later its youth leader. Rosa Parks was a seamstress in Montgomery. She worked sewing clothes from the nineteen thirties un
9、til nineteen fifty-five. Then she became a representation of freedom for millions of African-Americans. In much of the American South in the nineteen riffles, the first rows of seats on city buses were for white people only. Black people sat in the back of the bus. Both groups could sit in a middle
10、area. However, black people sitting in that part of the bus were expected to leave their seats if a white person wanted to sit there. Rosa Parks and three other black people were seated in the middle area of the bus when a white person got on the bus and wanted a seat. The bus driver demanded that a
11、ll four black people leave their seats so the white person would not have to sit next to any of them. The three other blacks got up, but Missus Parks refused. She was arrested. Some popular stories about that incident include the statement that Rosa Parks refused to leave her seat because her feet w
12、ere tired. But she herself said in later years that this was false. What she was really tired of, she said, was accepting unequal treatment. She explained later that this seemed to be the place for her to stop being pushed around and to find out what human rights she had, if any. A group of black ac
13、tivist women in Montgomery was known as the Womens Political Council. The group was working to oppose the mistreatment of black bus passengers. Blacks had been arrested and even killed for violating orders from bus drivers. Rosa Parks was not the first black person to refuse to give up a seat on the
14、 bus for a white person. But black groups in Montgomery considered her to be the right citizen around whom to build a protest because she was one of the finest citizens of the city. The womens group immediately called for all blacks in the city to refuse to ride on city buses on the day of Missus Pa
15、rks trial, Monday, December fifth. The result was that forty thousand people walked and used other transportation on that day. That night, at meetings throughout the city, blacks in Montgomery agreed to continue to boycott the city buses until their mistreatment stopped. They also demanded that the
16、city hire black bus drivers and that anyone be permitted to sit in the middle of the bus and not have to get up for anyone else. The Montgomery bus boycott continued for three hundred eighty-one days. It was led by local black leader E.D. Nixon and a young black minister, Martin Luther King, Junior.
17、 Similar protests were held in other southern cities. Finally, the Supreme Court of the United States ruled on Missus Parkscase. It made racial separation illegal on city buses. That decision came on November thirteenth, nineteen fifty-six, almost a year after Missus Parksarrest. The boycott in Mont
18、gomery ended the day after the court order arrived, December twentieth. Rosa Parks and Martin Luther King, Junior had started a movement of non-violent protest in the South. That movement changed civil rights in the United States forever. Martin Luther King became its famous spokesman, but he did no
19、t live to see many of the results of his work. Rosa Parks did. Life became increasingly difficult for Rosa Parks and her family after the bus boycott. She was dismissed from her job and could not find another. So the Parks family left Montgomery. They moved first to Virginia, then to Detroit, Michig
20、an. Missus Parks worked as a seamstress until nineteen sixty-five. Then, Michigan Representative John Conyers gave her a job working in his congressional office in Detroit. She retired from that job in nineteen eighty-eight. Through the years, Rosa Parks continued to work for the NAACP and appeared
21、at civil rights events. She was a quiet woman and often seemed uneasy with her fame. But she said that she wanted to help people, especially young people, to make useful lives for themselves and to help others. In nineteen eighty-seven, she founded the Rosa and Raymond Parks Institute for Self-Devel
22、opment to improve the lives of black children. Rosa Parks received two of the nations highest honors for her civil rights activism. In nineteen ninety-six, President Clinton honored her with the Presidential Medal of Freedom. And in nineteen ninety-nine, she received the Congressional Gold Medal of
23、Honor. In her later years, Rosa Parks was often asked how much relations between the races had improved since the civil rights laws were passed in the nineteen sixties. She thought there was still a long way to go. Yet she remained the face of the movement for racial equality in the United States. R
24、osa Parks died on October twenty-fourth, two thousand five. She was ninety-two years old. Her body lay in honor in the United States Capitol building in Washington. She was the first American woman to be so honored. Thirty thousand people walked silently past her body to show their respect. Represen
25、tative Conyers spoke about what this woman of quiet strength meant to the nation. He said: “There are very few people who can say their actions and conduct changed the face of the nation. Rosa Parks is one of those individuals.“ Rosa Parks meant a lot to many Americans. Four thousand people attended
26、 her funeral in Detroit, Michigan. Among them were former President Bill Clinton, his wife Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton, the Reverend Jesse Jackson, and Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan. President Clinton spoke about remembering the separation of the races on buses in the South when he was a
27、 boy. He said that Rosa Parks helped to set all Americans free. He said the world knows of her because of a single act of bravery that struck a deadly blow to racial hatred. Earlier, the religious official of the United States Senate spoke about her at a memorial service in Washington. He said Rosa
28、Parkss bravery serves as an example of the power of small acts. And the Reverend Jesse Jackson commented in a statement about what her small act of bravery meant for African-American people. He said that on that bus in nineteen fifty-five, “She sat down in order that we might stand up and she opened
29、 the doors on the long journey to freedom.“ 2 Rosa Parks is a pioneer in the fight for legal changes in minority rights. （ A） Y （ B） N （ C） NG 3 Rosa Parks enjoyed a carefree childhood. （ A） Y （ B） N （ C） NG 4 American city buses before 1960s didnt allow black people to sit in the middle of the bus.
30、 （ A） Y （ B） N （ C） NG 5 Rosa Parks was the first black person to refuse to give up a seat on the bus for a white person. （ A） Y （ B） N （ C） NG 6 In 1955, a black woman named Rosa Parks refused to give her seat to a white person. This act of _ started protests in Montgomery that led to legal changes
31、 in minority rights in the United States. 7 Rosa Parks said that she refused to leave her seat because she was fired of _. 8 At the night of Monday, December fifth, at the meetings throughout the country, blacks in Montgomery agreed to refuse to get on city buses until the city buses removed their _
32、. 9 _started by Rosa Parks and Martin Luther King in the South changed civil rights in 10 the United States forever. 11 Rosa Parks was crowned two of the nation s highest honors for her civil rights activism, namely,_ and _. Section A Directions: In this section, you will hear 8 short conversations
33、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 A, B, C and D, and
34、decide which is the best answer. （ A） Shes going away for a while. （ B） She did well on the test. （ C） She worked hard and earned a lot of money. （ D） She didnt have to work hard for the exam. （ A） Susan is a fast worker. （ B） Susan did Jacks homework. （ C） Susan didnt to the homework on her own. （
35、D） Susan has not finished her homework. （ A） He read the cabinet report. （ B） He read the newspaper. （ C） He listened to a radio report. （ D） His secretary telephoned him. （ A） Hurry to the conference. （ B） Skip the conference. （ C） Take the subway. （ D） Take a bus. （ A） He is confident. （ B） He is
36、worried. （ C） He is bored. （ D） He is angry. （ A） He used to be a workman himself. （ B） He likes to do repairs and make things himself. （ C） He is a professional builder. （ D） He paid workmen to decorate the house. （ A） The woman doesnt like jam. （ B） The woman forgot where she had left the jar. （ C
37、） The man had art accident. （ D） The man broke the jar. （ A） Opinions about the book are varied. （ B） The man thinks the book is excellent. （ C） You shouldnt believe everything you read. （ D） The woman wonders which newspaper the man is reading. （ A） To choose a topic for a term paper. （ B） To type
38、some research materials. （ C） To find material not available at the main library. （ D） To learn to use the computers there. （ A） An analysis of early presidential elections. （ B） A comparison of political journals. （ C） The use of computers in calculating election results. （ D） The impact of televis
39、ion on recent presidential elections. （ A） It is quite general. （ B） Most of the information he needs will be found in newspapers, （ C） She thinks he should change it. （ D） It should take a very short time to find material on it. （ A） It has broken down before. （ B） She generally doesnt allow people
40、 to borrow it. （ C） She is trying to sell it, （ D） She bought it from a friend, （ A） It shouldnt cost a lot to repair. （ B） Its probably difficult to drive, （ C） The woman could probably fix it herself. （ D） Its rather small. （ A） He will probably overcharge her. （ B） He is one of her neighbors. （ C
41、） He only works on new cars. （ D） He has fixed her car before. （ A） Help the woman pay the mechanics bill. （ B） Help the woman fix her car. （ C） Take the woman to her home. （ D） Test-drive the womans car. Section B Directions: In this section, you will hear 3 short passages. At the end of each passa
42、ge, 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） About 45 million. （ B） About 5.4 million. （ C） About 50 million. （ D） About 4.5 million. （ A） The
43、 actors and actresses are not paid for their performance. （ B） The actors and actresses only perform in their own communities. （ C） They exist only in small communities. （ D） They only put on shows that are educational. （ A） It provides them with the opportunity to watch performance for free. （ B） I
44、t provides them with the opportunity to make friends. （ C） It gives them the chance to do something creative. （ D） It gives them a chance to enjoy modem art. （ A） They are usually more clever. （ B） They get tired easily. （ C） They are more likely to make minor mental errors. （ D） They are more skill
45、ful in handling equipment. （ A） It had its limitations. （ B） Its results were regarded as final. （ C） It was supported by the government. （ D） It was not sound theoretically. （ A） Their lack of concentration resulting from mental stress. （ B） The lack of consideration for them in equipment design. （
46、 C） The probability of their getting excited easily. （ D） Their slowness in responding. （ A） They were drawing pictures. （ B） They were watching TV. （ C） They were making a telephone call. （ D） They were tidying up the drawing room. （ A） They locked the couple up in the drawing room. （ B） They serio
47、usly injured the owners of the house. （ C） They smashed the TV set and the telephone. （ D） They took away sixteen valuable paintings. （ A） He accused them of the theft. （ B） He raised the rents. （ C） He refused to prolong their land lease. （ D） He forced them to abandon their traditions. （ A） They w
48、anted to protect the farmers interests. （ B） They wanted to extend the reservation area for birds. （ C） They wanted to steal his valuable paintings. （ D） They wanted to drive him away from the island. Section C Directions: In this section, you will hear a passage three times. When the passage is rea
49、d 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 use the exact words you have just heard or write down the 36 The Library of Congress is Americas national library. It has millions of books and other objects. It has newspaper
