1、大学英语六级模拟试卷 278 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 at least 150 words according to the outline given below in Chinese. 1. 有个国外的朋友来访，告诉他你已经做好安排。 2作了哪些安排。 3对来访表示欢迎 二、 Part II Reading Comprehension (Skimming and Scanning
2、) (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 the passage; N (for NO) if the statement contradicts the infor
3、mation given in the passage; NG (for NOT GIVEN) if the information is not given in the passage. 1 Whats a better teaching method? Jim Munchs experience LAST spring, when he was only a sophomore, Jim Munch received a plaque honoring him as top scorer on the high school math team here. He went on to e
4、arn the highest mark possible, a 5, on an Advanced Placement exam in calculus. His ambition is to become a theoretical mathematician. So Jim might have seemed the veritable symbol for the new math curriculum installed over the last seven years in this ambitious, educated suburb of Rochester. Since s
5、eventh grade, he had been taking the “constructivist“ or “inquiry“ program, so named because it emphasizes pupils constructing their own knowledge through a process of reasoning. Jim, however, placed the credit elsewhere. His parents, an engineer and an educator, covertly tutored him in traditional
6、math. Several teachers, in the privacy of their own classrooms, contravened the official curriculum to teach the problem-solving formulas that constructivist math denigrates as mindless memorization. “My whole experience in math the last few years has been a struggle against the program,“ Jim said r
7、ecently. “Whatever Ive achieved, Ive achieved in spite of it. Kids do not do better learning math themselves. Theres a reason we go to school, which is that theres someone smarter than us with something to teach us.“ The constructivist math Such experiences and emotions have burst into public discus
8、sion and no small amount of rancor(怨恨 ) in the last eight months in Penfield. This community of 35 000 has become one of the most obvious fronts in the nationwide math wars, which have flared from California to Pittsburgh to the former District 2 on the Upper East Side of Manhattan, pitting progress
9、ives against traditionalists, with nothing less than Americas educational and economic competitiveness at stake. In these places and others, groups of parents have condemned constructivist math for playing down such basic computational tools as borrowing, carrying, place value, algorithms, multiplic
10、ation tables and long division, while often introducing calculators into the classroom as early as first or second grade. Such criticism has run headlong into the celebration of constructivism by the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics and such leading teacher-training institutions as the Ba
11、nk Street College of Education. The strife has taken on a particular intensity here in Penfield, perhaps, because the town includes an unusually large share of engineers and scientists, because of the proximity(接近 ) of companies like Xerox, Kodak and Bausch its aggression. The PR agents who call me
12、David uninvited would never, if they could somehow get him on the phone, address press baron Rupert Murdoch that way. The woman at the bank who called me David would never first-name the banks chairman. Like the mock-cheery staff at PlaySpace, they are engaged in a smile-faced act of belittlement, a
13、n assertion of power disguised as good cheer. 63 “PR“ in paragraph 6 stands for _. （ A） personal request （ B） personal respect （ C） public relations （ D） public review 64 Which of the following statement is true according to the passage? （ A） The author is encouraging five-year-olds to address grown
14、ups by their first names, usually very formal and faithful. （ B） First-namers claim they are motivated by nothing worse than uncontrollably high-spirited friendliness. （ C） The author thought the secretary often dare not call their boss the first name. （ D） He finds the secretary is often unwilling
15、to pass a message. 65 The author felt _ when being called by the first name. （ A） cheerful （ B） friendly （ C） disrespectful （ D） light-hearted 66 The practice of first names, according to the author, is _. （ A） cheerfulness in appearance but mockery in reality （ B） out of fashion （ C） a well-accepte
16、d skill in public relations （ D） an act of outward warmth 67 The author apparently regrets _. （ A） having to take his children to PlaySpaee （ B） being first-named （ C） being approached so frequently by PR agents （ D） having to put on an adhesive label tag 三、 Part V Error Correction (15 minutes) Dire
17、ctions: This part consists of a short passage. In this passage, there are altogether 10 mistakes, one in each numbered line. You may have to change a word, add a word or delete a word. Mark out the mistakes and put the corrections in the blanks provided. If you change a word, cross it out and write
18、the correct word in the corresponding blank. If you add a word, put an insertion mark ( ) in the right place and write the missing word in the blank. If y 67 As good office secretary, Mary Smith knows that all phone 【 S1】 _. calls must be answered promptly and handled efficiently. She knows that a s
19、ecretary must be pleasant and helpful, no matter however busy she is or 【 S2】 _. what kind of mood she may be. She knows she must keep calm 【 S3】 _. if a caller gets impatiently or becomes angry; also, of course, she 【 S4】 _. knows she can never allow herself to lost her temper. If she does 【 S5】 _.
20、 not have the information the callers ask, she must know who 【 S6】 _. does have the information. Finally, she knows that one of her most important responsibilities is to “screen“ telephone calls and to know which calls to refer to her boss, which calls to refer to the other people, and which calls t
21、o handle herself. 【 S7】 _. A well-handling telephone call will give the caller a good 【 S8】 _. impression of the company he or she is dealing with. For that 【 S9】 _. reason, an office secretary who can handle telephone calls cheerfully, tactfully, and efficiently is a valuable asset to some 【 S10】 _
22、. organization. 68 【 S1】 69 【 S2】 70 【 S3】 71 【 S4】 72 【 S5】 73 【 S6】 74 【 S7】 75 【 S8】 76 【 S9】 77 【 S10】 四、 Part VI Translation (5 minutes) Directions: Complete the sentences in the blanks by translating into English the Chinese given in brackets. 78 Despite the actors wonderful acting,_.(这部长达三小时的电影还是未能吸引住我们 ) 79 _ , we should try our best to overcome them. (不管我们碰到什么困难 ) 80 _, they have done a good job.(考虑到他们缺乏经验 ) 81 The shortage of water_.(给当地人的生活造成了许多问题 ) 82 Male students_.(大约占全班人数的三分之二 ) 大学英语六级模拟试卷 278 答案与解析
