1、大学英语六级模拟试卷 336及答案与解析 一、 Part I Writing (30 minutes) 1 Directions: 以 “新年决心书 “为题写一篇演讲稿，至少应包括以下两方面的内容 : 1. 总结自己在学习上的不足以及今后的打算。 2.在全面提高自身素质方面有什么打算。 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
2、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 information given in the passage; NG (for NOT GIVEN) if the information is not given in the passage. 1 Sug
3、gestions for Your Work Annie is a longtime secretary/receptionist for two senior vice presidents at a big company. They have been doing a lot of hiring lately, and almost all of the new middle-management personnel have been interviewed by one or the other of Annies two bosses, so naturally they come
4、 through her office first. Some of these people are unbelievably rude. Either they treat Annie like a piece of furniture (no hello, no eye contact) or they think she is their errand (差使 ) girl. Lately, Annies two bosses have started asking her for her impressions of job candidates. So far this week,
5、 two have been discourteous (失礼的 ) and dismissive, so Altair gave both the thumbs-down. Neither is getting called back for the next round of interviews. No one knows how common this is, but if you are job hunting, its necessary to be aware that the dummy at the reception desk may be anything but not
6、 “just a secretary“. Suggestions to Job Hunters According to Annie Stevens and Greg Gostanian, two partners at a Boston-based executive coaching firm called Clear Rock, its not unusual these days for a hiring manager to ask everyone who meets a potential new hire to give an opinion of him or her. “O
7、ne of the biggest reasons so many newly recruited managers fail in a new job is their inability to fit in and get along with the people who are already there,“ says Stevens. “So employers now want to get staffers impressions right at the start.“ Adds Gostanian: “A lot can be learned from how candida
8、tes treat receptionists. If the jobseeker is rude, condescending, or arrogant, this might be an indication of how he or she would treat coworkers or direct reports.“ Obviously, anyone looking for a new job would do well not to alienate the person who sits outside the interviewers door. Stevens and G
9、ostanian offer these six tips fur getting off to the right start: Introduce yourself as you would to any other potential new colleague. Smile, shake hands, and so on. It seems odd that this has to be spelled out, but apparently it does; and, besides being a matter of common courtesy, ordinary friend
10、liness offers a practical advantage. “Learning and remembering an interviewers receptionists name can only help as you advance in the interviewing process,“ Stevens notes. Dont regard a receptionist or other assistant as an underling (部下 ) at least, not as your own personal underling. “Always ask th
11、e interviewer if you need help from anyone else in the office where youre interviewing, instead of seeking this directly yourself,“ says Gostanian. In other words, if youd like to leave an extra copy of your resume, refrain from sending the interviewers assistant to the Xerox machine. Its fine to ac
12、cept if youre offered a beverage, but keep it simple. “Dont ask for particular brand names or expect to be brewed a fresh pot of coffee,“ Stevens says. And of course, need we add that dispatching anybody to Starbucks is out of the question? Feel free to make small talk, but know that anything you sa
13、y may well get back to the interviewer. “Dont ask probing questions about the company or offer unsolicited opinions,“ Gostanian advises. No matter how hideous the office door, endless the hike from the parking lot, or inconvenient the wait to see the interviewer, keep it to yourself. Plenty of time
14、for whining (抱怨 ) and grumbling after youre hired. Dont talk on your ceil phone in front of the receptionist, and try to put your BlackBerry aside. “If you have to make or take a call, leave the reception area,“ Stevens says. Preoccupation with wireless devices will mark you, she says, as “a cold an
15、d fixated person“. Dont forget to say good-bye. “Failure to say good-bye to someone youve just met reflects negatively on you,“ Gostanian notes. “Youll come across as impersonal and uncaring.“ Thats hardly the image any job hunter wants to project. How to Measure Your Work Any job, like any relation
16、ship, has its difficult moments. And with the job market heating up, the temptations to change partners are growing. As with any relationship, however, you really should assess the full value of what youve got before giving it up wholesale, because lets face it regret really is a waste of your time.
17、 Regardless of the main task of a job be it bond trading, teaching, balancing the books, or cleaning hotel rooms are there objective criteria that you can use to measure whether your job is wonderful or not? Workplace experts Marcus Buckingham and Curt Coffman have identified several. In their book
18、First, Break All the Rules: What the Worlds Greatest Managers Do Differently, they offer a useful guide in the form of 12 questions: Do I know whats expected of mc at work? Do I have the materials and equipment I need to de my work right? At work, do I have the opportunity to do what I do best every
19、 day? In the last 7 days, have I received recognition or praise for doing good work? Does my supervisor, or someone at work, seem to care about me as a person? Is there someone at work who encourages my development? At work, do my opinions seem to count? Does the mission/purpose of my company make m
20、e feel my job is important? Are my coworkers committed to doing quality work? Do I have a best friend at work? In the last six months, has someone at work talked to me about my progress? This last year, have I had opportunities at work to learn and to grow? Buckingham and Coffman picked these 12 que
21、stions after looking for patterns among the responses of more than 1 million employees to workplace questions posed by the Gallup Organization over the years. “We were searching for those special questions where the most engaged employees. answered positively, and everyone else. answered neutrally o
22、r negatively,“ they wrote. Their reasoning: they wanted to identify the key elements of a strong workplace that can attract and retain talent. Satisfaction with pay and benefits didnt make the list not because theyre not important. Coffman said, but because theyre important to all employees, whether
23、 theyre engaged in their work or not. So, assuming you feel youre paid the going rate for your job, answering affirmatively to ail or even most of the 12 questions can be an indication that youve got a great job that you should part with only for very good reason. And if job satisfaction is importan
24、t to you, then the promise of a bigger paycheck alone may not be reason enough. When Coffman is asked what percentage of companies he thinks actually pass the 12-question test, his estimate is no more than 15 percent. But within a company, he said, individual departments may meet the test, even if t
25、he company overall doesnt Why? The manager of a department makes all the difference. Coffman said when an employee quits, 70 percent of the time shes not leaving because of the job, shes leaving because of the manager. One cautionary note: your job may not be as wonderful for you as you think if you
26、 answer a majority of the 12 questions affirmatively but the few questions that you cant are among the first six. Thats because the first six questions make up the base on which job satisfaction rests, according to Buckingham and Coffman. If your current job doesnt meet the first six criteria, you a
27、re more likely to be disengaged with your work and less productive than you could be. Consider question three after all. Do you have the opportunity to do what you do best everyday? “If youre not able to use your gifts every day, youll be pretty frustrated,“ Coffman said. Of course, job satisfaction
28、 isnt a one-way street with a department either meeting your needs or not. In order to answer the 12 questions honestly, you need to know what it is that makes you tick and not blindly blame your department for any job dissatisfaction. Do you know what it is you like to do and what you do best? What
29、 kind of recognition do you like? Public or private? What are your values and do they square with your companys goals? How do you like a manager to relate to you? Otherwise, your career, like a string of bad relationships, can become a case of “different partner, same problems“. 2 When you go to a c
30、ompany for an interview, there is no need to care the feelings of the receptionists. （ A） Y （ B） N （ C） NG 3 According to Annie Stevens, many newly recruited managers fail in a new job because they cannot get along with their coworkers. （ A） Y （ B） N （ C） NG 4 If you want to get off to the fight sta
31、rt, you should treat the receptionists as your potential bosses. （ A） Y （ B） N （ C） NG 5 If yon fail to say “thank you“ to the receptionists, they will have negative impressions of you. （ A） Y （ B） N （ C） NG 6 If you want to give up a job wholesale, you should evaluate _ from it. 7 When you are meas
32、uring your work, you should consider that if there is someone at work who encourages your development and talks to you about _. 8 The question about satisfaction with pay and benefits is not included in the 12 questions because its important to all employees, whether _ or not. 9 Even if the company
33、overall cannot pass the 12-quastinn test, _ may pass it. 10 You should pay special attention to the first six questions of the 12 questions because they make up the base on which _. 11 If you want to answer the 12 questions honestly, you should know what makes you not blindly blame your department f
34、or _. Section A Directions: In 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 p
35、ause. During the pause, you must read the four choices marked A, B, C and D, and decide which is the best answer. （ A） Home economics. （ B） Business administration. （ C） Microbiology. （ D） History. （ A） She prefers the stadium. （ B） She agrees with the man. （ C） The light isnt bright enough. （ D） Th
36、e dining hall isnt large enough. （ A） A student. （ B） A teacher. （ C） A doctor. （ D） An optometrist. （ A） Go to the lab briefly. （ B） Cheek on whats for dinner. （ C） Go running before they eat. （ D） See if they have plenty of work. （ A） He needed an electrician. （ B） The water was running. （ C） He h
37、ad no hot water. （ D） There was no heat. （ A） He hasnt had time to find another apartment. （ B） His mother dusted her apartment the day before last. （ C） He hasnt cleaned the apartment since his mother visited. （ D） His mother was the last person to come over to his apartment. （ A） All the students
38、would like a formal ball. （ B） Raising money will be hard. （ C） The festival will begin the year nicely. （ D） The club needs some sports as well. （ A） Studying microbiology for a year. （ B） Teaching biology. （ C） Taking a nap. （ D） Taking a different course. （ A） To look for an aspirin for his heada
39、che. （ B） To find professor Steinfield. （ C） To look for past tests papers. （ D） To look for the woman. （ A） Learn from her since she took the class. （ B） Concentrate on the section on prostaglandin. （ C） Study the exam papers. （ D） Work harder. （ A） To study poetry together. （ B） To study Biology t
40、ogether. （ C） To tutor each other for the tests. （ D） To meet in the alley to study. （ A） His mother tongue is not English. （ B） His major is English. （ C） His major is math. （ D） His major is football. （ A） Less than one year. （ B） More than one year. （ C） Less than one term. （ D） More than one ter
41、m. （ A） You can just sit at home and read about it. （ B） You can not learn a language from the rules only: （ C） You must learn very complicated rules in language learning. （ D） You can just go to class, study and do your homework. （ A） You must join a football team to learn a language. （ B） Language
42、 learning is somewhat like playing football. （ C） In order to learn a language well you must have lost of practice on all the skills. （ D） You must talk with people a lot. Section B Directions: In this section, you will hear 3 short passages. At the end of each passage, you will hear some questions.
43、 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） They will find out what its people like. （ B） They will argue in favor of this country and the language. （ C） They will know the c
44、ountry and its people better. （ D） They will like its inhabitants and their language. （ A） It is from second-hand information. （ B） It is gathered from other sources than from its inhabitants. （ C） It is from the arguments about the country. （ D） It is different from what one had before the travel.
45、（ A） Differences between people will gradually disappear. （ B） Differences between people will not exist as one hopes. （ C） Differences between people do exist even though different nationalities behave exactly alike. （ D） Differences between people will always continue to exist and the world will b
46、e a dull place. （ A） They are delighted because they can enjoy the scenery while driving. （ B） They are frightened because traffic accidents are frequents. （ C） They are irritated because the bridge is jammed with cars. （ D） They are pleased because it saves them much time. （ A） They dont have their
47、 own cars to drive to work. （ B） Many of them are romantic by temperament. （ C） Most of them enjoy the drinks on the boat. （ D） They mod to be more friendly to each other. （ A） Many welcome the idea of having more bars on board. （ B） Many prefer the ferry to maintain its present speed. （ C） Some sug
48、gest improving the design of the deck. （ D） Some object to using larger luxury boats. （ A） Because the waves coming from the center of a quake can spread to these places. （ B） Because there are the thickness of rocks making up the earths crust. （ C） Because some parts of the earth are more likely to
49、 have quakes than others. （ D） Because mountainous areas are easy to have earthquakes. （ A） The most dangerous earthquakes will take place. （ B） Fires, floods and landslides will take place. （ C） The ground will open and swallow great numbers of people. （ D） Mountains will landslide and kill the rest of our lives. （ A） Floods often take place after earthquakes. （ B） Slides often take place after earthquakes. （ C） Slides do not often take place aft
