1、大学英语六级模拟试卷 211及答案与解析 一、 Part I Writing (30 minutes) 1 Directions: For this part, you are allowed 30 minutes to write a composition on the topic: Does Heroism Still Work? You should write at least 150 words following the outline given below. 1. 有些人认为英雄 主义已不适应新时代了 2 但是，当今社会里确有英雄主义存在 3 你的看法 Does Herois
2、m Still Work? 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 gi
3、ven 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 Part Reading Comprehension (Skimming and Scanning) Directions: In this part, you will have 15 minutes to go over the passage quickly
4、and answer the question on Answer Sheet 1. For questions 1 7, 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 que
5、stions 8 10, complete the sentences with the information given in the passage. Even as the economy improves, a jobless executive may face up to a year or more of unemployment. This is a lot of time, especially for hard-charging high-performers who are not used to having any free time. While some job
6、 seekers spend hundreds-even thousands-of hours discovering daytime television, others seem to thrive on activities that boost their professional careers or resolve family issues when they arent working. Having an extended period of free time in the prime of ones life can in fact be a unique opportu
7、nity to focus on volunteer service, professional education or personal growth. Community Involvement For Lisa Perez, the wakeup call was burned pork chops. An executive who previously hadnt been particularly interested in home and health had become obsessed with homemaking during a stint of unemploy
8、ment. She realized that cleaning and organizing her home wasnt helping her job search. Nevertheless, “I made lists of 50 things to do every day,“ says Ms. Perez, a political and public-relations consultant in Scottsdale, Ariz. “My house was spotless, just so Id have something to do.“ One day, her bo
9、yfriend didnt arrive on time for dinner because he had to work late, and her pork chops were ruined. She threw a fit. “I“ d never been a person like that,“ she says. “So I decided to stop feeling sorry for myself, and go out and do something productive.“ Ms. Perez, 35, resolved to become an active v
10、olunteer for the duration of her search. She gave her time to a health-care concern, a housing program and a political campaign. The work bolstered her self-confidence. “Volunteering takes the focus off you. One thing you have thats still valuable is your time. And, of course, you learn that there a
11、re thousands of people with a life thats much worse than yours,“ she says. Volunteer assignments are also great ways to meet powerful and well-connected people. Over a six-month period, her volunteering evolved into working as a paid consultant and then as a full-time employee, a job she still holds
12、 today. In all, she was unemployed for eight months. Before her job loss, she thought she didnt have time to volunteer while working. “Now, even though I have a demanding job, I still volunteer, because of what I got out of it,“ says Ms. Perez. Continuing Education Gene Bellavance, a 36-year-old inf
13、ormation-technology project manager, took another route during his unemployment. When he was laid off from a steel company near Cleveland, he knew his immediate prospects were bleak. He expected his search to take a year. He faced a decision., take a job that would set back his career or hold out fo
14、r an offer he really-wanted. Mr. Bellavance, single and virtually debt free, shifted his finances into survival mode. He cashed out his pension, sold his house, unloaded things he didnt need at garage sales, and rented an apartment with a roommate. Then, he says, “I signed up for every benefit I cou
15、ld find.“ But he wasnt just waiting out the year. He spent the rest of his search updating his skills, including becoming certified in new database and project-management software. “You have to invest in yourself,“ Mr. Bellavance says. “I estimated what technology was going to be the most beneficial
16、 and chose applications that were going to be pervasive, that were right for my market, and that were going to ensure top pay.“ In addition to income from the occasional IT-consulting assignment, he relied on a combination of displaced-worker-retraining grants and unemployment benefits. “I went out
17、and found the classes, submitted the paperwork, and dealt with the bureaucracy. You have to stay after them, keeping your benefits moving forward. Its up to you to make it work with your overall transition plan, he says. His job search was one month shy of the full year hed expected. He looked for w
18、ork during his training and says he would have finished the certification programs even if hed been hired before completing them. “People should not feel guilty“ about accepting government aid, he says. “I saw this in a lot of people. They felt they were some kind of loser for taking benefits. My ad
19、vice is: Get all you can. Youve been paying for these programs in your entire career, and you may as well start to benefit from them.“ Family Matters In addition to pursuing training or volunteering, some displaced careerists use their time off work to attend to family matters. Many executives redis
20、cover their children or find time to help their parents. Stanford Rappaport held three jobs in San Francisco, including high-tech and teaching positions. When he was laid off from the high-tech job last year, he knew it might be a long slog before he could get another post like it in the Bay Area. “
21、I was able to do the math,“ says Mr. Rappaport, 46 . “The number of people laid off. huge; and the number of available jobs: miniscule. At the time, I thought it might be two or three years before the tech industry recovered.“ Mr. Rappaports remaining job, a part-time faculty position with City Coll
22、ege of San Francisco, didnt pay enough to support him. After a couple of months of searching with no results, he decided to escape the Northern California jobs meltdown. “My plan,“ he says, “was to get out of an expensive living situation, and either seek work in another section of the U.S. or overs
23、eas, for those two years.“ Mr. Rappaport, who speaks five languages, had worked overseas before. Before he found an assignment, his Arkansas-based mother was diagnosed with a serious chronic illness, and he was called into duty as a son. Mr. Rappaport was able to help his mother get her affairs in o
24、rder not to interrupt his search by using a San Francisco mail drop and cellphone. “I continued to look for work in California while I was in Fayetteville, Ark. , helping my mother through this crisis.“ He took his mother to medical appointments, made repairs on her house, bought her a better car, a
25、nd straightened out her legal and financial affairs. “I even got to go through my fathers effects, which in the five years since he had died were simply piled in boxes in his office,“ he says. Mr. Rappaports stay in Arkansas lasted six months. “Its amazing that at this stage I had the opportunity to
26、 spend a significant amount of time with my mother and improve her life and get a lot of things done for her. Most people never have that opportunity. Im very thankful that I had the chance. It was absolutely worth it,“ he says. One of the unexpected benefits was the huge boost in confidence he gain
27、ed from his role as caregiver. Hed been feeling depressed and defeated when he left California, but after returning, he felt renewed. He landed a job with a former employer after returning to San Francisco and remains a part-time faculty member. Discovery and Exploration Instead of spending time off
28、 lamenting your unemployed status, ask yourself: “Is there something Ive always wanted to do but havent because of the demands of my job?“ Felice Fisk, a 29-year-old in Seattle, recently left an account-manager position at a contract-furniture company. During seven months of unemployment, she took a
29、n interest in fine-art painting and completed 18 pieces before returning to work. “I found the art work, or some kind of creative outlet, to be really beneficial,“ she says. Shes now an interior designer for an interior-design firm. Michael Ross, 42, a former IT administrator in El Cerrito, Calif.,
30、recently spent his 10 months of unemployment playing guitar and exploring his lifelong interest in scriptwriting and the movie business. “After 18 years at my former employer and how hard I had worked, I knew I had to recover, to get restored,“ he says. “I looked at this as an opportunity, rather th
31、an a penalty. This was very much about clearing space for me.“ At the executive level, even a very efficient and successful job search may be quite lengthy. It makes sense to spend that time in an enriching and productive manner. These job seekers pursued service, continuing education and shoring up
32、 family bonds. How youll look back on a period of unemployment depends on what you do with it. 2 This passage mainly tells that being unemployed is not all bad. （ A） Y （ B） N （ C） NG 3 Unemployment means a lot of time, especially for those hard-charging executives who are not used to having any free
33、 time. （ A） Y （ B） N （ C） NG 4 Lisa Perez found a new interest in homemaking during the period of unemployment. （ A） Y （ B） N （ C） NG 5 Lisa Perez was always optimistic during the period of her unemployment. （ A） Y （ B） N （ C） NG 6 After she got a new job, Lisa Perez regretted that she had not done
34、volunteering work earlier. （ A） Y （ B） N （ C） NG 7 Michael Ross resigned and spent his unemployment time playing guitar and exploring his lifelong interest in scriptwriting and the movie business for he looked at this as an opportunity, rather than a penalty. （ A） Y （ B） N （ C） NG 8 Mr. Bellavance c
35、ashed out his pension, sold his house and unloaded things he didnt need at garage after losing his job in order to change his finances into survival mode. （ A） Y （ B） N （ C） NG 9 Being a volunteer is helpful because volunteer assignments can provide you with chances to meet _ people. 10 When unemplo
36、yed, some careerists take the opportunity to _ family matters in addition to pursuing training or volunteering. 11 The role as caregiver brought about a huge boost in _ to Mr. Rappaport. After returning from California, he felt renewed. Section A Directions: In this section, you will hear 8 short co
37、nversations 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
38、 and D, and decide which is the best answer. （ A） The woman doesnt like orange juice. （ B） The woman didnt come to see Everett. （ C） The man was in a car crash this morning. （ D） The man broke the container of juice. （ A） They are attending a concert. （ B） They are negotiating about a price. （ C） Th
39、ey are planning to go for a date. （ D） They are buying something for their firm. （ A） The two speakers are classmates. （ B） The man is majoring in elementary education. （ C） The woman is majoring in elementary education. （ D） The two speakers got to know each other in a class. （ A） 39. （ B） 35. （ C）
40、 4. （ D） 5. （ A） Unemployment. （ B） Family breakup. （ C） Mental problems. （ D） Drinking. （ A） He failed to finish the experiment what day. （ B） He hasnt had time to do the experiment. （ C） He did only part of the experiment. （ D） The experiment was finished with much time. （ A） To invite the man to
41、join them. （ B） To suggest politely that he leave. （ C） To offer to let him help cook. （ D） To encourage him to have another drink. （ A） He approves of the action. （ B） He feels sorry for those students. （ C） He considers the punishment excessive. （ D） He has no opinion about the action. （ A） He was
42、 looking for a job. （ B） He seemed to have many needed qualifications. （ C） He handed in his application earlier than others. （ D） He needed a position in the company. （ A） The company was a small, family-owned company. （ B） The company gave a lot of responsibilities to the employees. （ C） The compa
43、ny required the employees to be loyal and hard-working. （ D） The company would soon raise the employees salary. （ A） The woman was not Satisfied with the man. （ B） The woman would choose other candidates for the position. （ C） The man was very likely to be employed. （ D） The man was disappointed wit
44、h the company. （ A） They are talking about making the bed. （ B） They are doing a market survey. （ C） They are talking about reading novels. （ D） They are discussing about recent violence matters. （ A） Watch TV. （ B） Listen to the radio. （ C） Read novels （ D） Make bed. （ A） Counting sheep. （ B） Takin
45、g :sleeping pills. （ C） Drinking coffee. （ D） Drinking milk. （ A） Worry about his family. （ B） Cheek locks. （ C） Look after children. （ D） Have a look round. 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 pass
46、age 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） To estimate the extreme weather. （ B） To develop the satellite technology. （ C） To improve agricultural output. （ D） To learn how to change info
47、rmation to maps more efficiently. （ A） By turning the intensity of sunshine into maps. （ B） By analyzing the recent weather report. （ C） By capturing the microwave radiation from the soil. （ D） By analyzing information provided by ground observation centers. （ A） Acquire information from satellites
48、more efficiently. （ B） To realize full coverage of area the satellite passes over. （ C） Building more ground observation centers. （ D） Compare satellites information with those from ground. （ A） Types of Loneliness. （ B） Causes of Loneliness. （ C） Solutions to Loneliness. （ D） Loneliness. （ A） Sever
49、e loneliness. （ B） Situational loneliness. （ C） Chronic loneliness. （ D） Temporary loneliness. （ A） We need our friends to share similar interests and activities. （ B） We need our teachers to guide us. （ C） We need co-workers to help us. （ D） A lonely persons popularity may be increased with more social contacts. （ A） How to distinguish peoples faces. （ B） How to describe peoples personality. （ C） How to distinguish people both inward and outward. （ D） How to
