1、大学英语六级模拟试卷 440及答案与解析 一、 Part I Writing (30 minutes) 1 Directions: For this part, you are all6wed 30 minutes to write a short essay entitle Video Game: A Blessing or a Curse. You should write at least 150 words following the outline given below. 1. 电子游 戏在学生之间享有很高的人气，很多人玩，尤其是大学生 2. 沉迷电子游戏对学生的影响 3. 如何解
2、决 “电子游戏热 ” Video Game: A Blessing or a Curse 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
3、 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 Part Reading Comprehension (Skimming and Scanning) Directions: In this part, you will have 15 minutes
4、to go over the passage quickly and answer the questions on Answer Sheet 1. For questions 1-7, choose the best answer from the four choices marked A), B), C) and D). For questions 8-10, complete the sentences with the information given in the passage. So Near and Yet So Far In many examinations, 90%
5、is an excellent score, deserving a prize and a handshake from the headmaster. In Geneva this week, only full marks would do, and the worlds trade ministers failed. No matter that they came closer to a deal than anyone should have expected. No matter that they stuck at it for nine days and several ni
6、ghts, in the longest ministerial meeting in the history of the World Trade Organization (WTO). No matter, too, that this time they parted in stunned disbelief, heads shaking, rather than in acrimony(刻薄 ), quarrel and spite, as at Cancun in 2003. They managed “convergence“ on 18 of the 20 topics set
7、before them by Pascal Lamy, the WTOs director-general, but they stumbled on the 19th, a device for protecting farmers in developing countries against surges in imports. They never reached the 20th, cotton. Failed. You can construct a plausible argument that the collapse of yet another set of talks o
8、n the Doha round, which is now coming up to seven years old, is of little importance. While the worlds trade ministers have alternated between talking and not talking to one another about Doha, the worlds businesspeople have carried on regardless: the growth of global commerce has outstripped the hi
9、therto (到前为止 ) healthy pace of global GDP. Developing countries in particular have continued to open up to imports and foreign investment. You might say that not much was on offer in Geneva anyway: one study put the eventual benefits at maybe $70 billion, a drop in the ocean of the worlds GDP. Globa
10、l stock markets, with so much else on their minds, either didnt notice or didnt care. On July 29th, the day the talks broke up, the S India, joined by China, wanted it low. Both developing countries, it is said, also wanted to be able to jack tariffs up above existing ceilings, not merely those set
11、in a Doha deal. After 60 hours of talk by Mr. Lamys count, there was deadlock; and that was that. Meanwhile, believe it or not, food is pricier than ever. Indias mountain ,Americas molehill You could call this “a collective failure“, as some ministers did. You could also be more specific. Indias wil
12、lingness to open its economy in reality is in lamentable contrast to its inability to commit itself at the WTO. Its stubbornness is explained by the ferocity of Indias politics on this subject and the desperate, even suicidal, poverty of many of its farmers. But it and China must have known that the
13、y were asking too much. America has some answering to do, too. It seems to have misread the big story: in the WTO, rich countries no longer call the shots, as they did in its predecessor, the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade. China and India, infuriating though they may be, are as powerful as
14、America and the EU. The United States also fumbled with the details. It might have tied up a deal on cotton, and left the Chinese and Indians isolated on safeguards. And the ultimate stumbling-block, though a mountain to India, was surely a molehill to a country of Americas wealth. America has 1 mil
15、lion farmers, India over 200 million. In the WTO, there is a saying: nothing is agreed until everything is agreed. But all the effort of nine days - or seven years - should not be lost. Mr. Lamy should publish what has been agreed so far. Ideally, the ministers would then meditate over the summer on
16、 what they have lost - and he could then ask for a final push. That, alas, seems a vain hope. With American elections looming, India heading for the polls by next May and a new European Commission due late next year, it may be 2010 before much can be done. There is a risk that by then, as Peter Mand
17、elson, the EUs trade commissioner, once put it,“ the caravans have moved on in different directions“. The world will have to wait for a Doha deal, if it ever gets one. After coming so close, it should not have had to. 2 The longest ministerial conference in the history of WTO lasts for _. （ A） nine
18、days （ B） ten days （ C） eighteen days （ D） twenty days 3 What was the 19th topic related with on the ministerial meeting of WTO? （ A） Cotton importation and exportation. （ B） Protecting farmers in developing countries. （ C） The elimination of trade protection. （ D） Food safety and the environment. 4
19、 The S a full-time Professor gets $ 68,400 - roughly half the salaries of their U. S. counterparts. For Oxford, long the global epitome(缩影 ) of top-drawer education, the question is whether the universitys days as a bastion (堡垒 ) of world-class excellence might be over. Lately the issue seems to hav
20、e taken on a new urgency. Newspapers reported mini-scandal just last week that a 19-year-old deaf student, Anastasia Fedotova, failed to win place despite high exam scores. Chancellor of the Exchequer Gordon Brown criticized the admissions system as“ more reminiscent of the old boy network. than gen
21、uine justice in our society“. This highlighted just how vulnerable Oxford remains to charges of elitism. “More and more people are saying the only solution is independence,“ says classics professor Richard Jenkyns. In the end, Oxford may be hoping for some in-between solution. Since 1998 it has been
22、 pumping funds into a private company called ISIS Innovation, set up to commercialize researchers discoveries. Of a total of 28 fledging spin-offs, ail are still in business. While big payoffs are still a long way off, “that could quickly change“, says managing director Tim Cook, “if one of them hit
23、s the jackpot. “More immediately, Oxford bigwigs report that permission to charge the full cost of tuition will almost certainly be given in government report due this November. Oxford still isnt likely to let business interests run wild over its hallowed greensward. But it is learning that the acad
24、emic freedom it so prizes can be preserved only at a price. 53 We can learn from the passage that _. （ A） Oxford University will gradually become a private university like Harvard （ B） Oxford University is beginning to think of commercial ways to collect money （ C） the only solution to Oxford Univer
25、sitys problems is being independent （ D） the British government will offer Oxford University more subsidies 54 The major reason for Oxford Universitys lack of funding is that _. （ A） the idea of building of a business school has been rejected by the teachers （ B） the government is reluctant to let i
26、t charge the students high tuition fees （ C） it has to pay sufficient salaries to attract top teachers （ D） the government cant afford the high research subsidies 55 When mentioning the attitude of Prime Minister Tony Blair, some universities worry _. （ A） the future orientation of universities （ B）
27、 the financial problems of universities （ C） the influence of governments policy on universities （ D） the purity of universities in its field of academe research 56 The example that Anastasia Fedotova was rejected by Oxford University illustrates that the university _. （ A） has taken on a new urgenc
28、y （ B） holds a strong discrimination against the disabled （ C） is in favor of a network of older applicants （ D） puts too much emphasis on elitism 57 The phrase“ hits the jackpot“ in the last paragraph probably means “_“. （ A） get out of business suddenly （ B） be discovered accidentally by foresight
29、ed businessman （ C） make a lot of money unexpectedly （ D） prove to be very useful in daily life by chance 57 Naturally the young are more inclined to novelty than their elders and it is in their speech, as it always was, that most of the vocabulary changes originate. But listening critically to thei
30、r talk I hear hardly my new words. It is all a matter of using old words in a new way and then copying each other as they wish to speak differently from their parents. They want even more to speak like people of their own age. A new usage once took time to spread, but now a pop star can flash it acr
31、oss the world in hours. Of course, it is not only the young who like to use the latest in-word. While they are describing their idols as smashing, great, or cosmic (宇宙的 ), their parents and the more discriminating of the younger set are also groping for words of praise that are at once apt and fashi
32、onable. However, their choice of splendid, brilliant, fantastic and so on will in turn be slightly dimmed by over-use and need replacement. Magic is a theme that has regularly supplied words of praise (and the choice must betray something in our nature). Charming, entrancing and enchanting are all b
33、ased on it. So also is marvelous, which has been used so much that some of its magic has faded while among teenagers wizard has a great run. Another of this group, though you might not think it, is glamorous (迷人的 ), which was all the fashion in the great days of Hollywood. Glamour was a Scottish dia
34、lect form of “grammar“, which itself was an old word for enchantment (Grammar means the study of words, and words have always been at the heart of magic). The change from “r“ to “l“ may have come about through the association with words like gleaning and glittering. On the whole, when a new word tak
35、es over the old ones remain, weakened but still in use, so that the total stock increases all the time. But some that start only as slang and never rise above that class can disappear completely. “Did you really say ripping when you were young?“ my granddaughter asked me, rather than asking if I eve
36、r wore a suit of amour. Of course I did and it was no sillier than smashing, which some of her contemporaries are still saying. 58 What do young people like to do in their speech? （ A） Invent words that older people cannot understand. （ B） Use words invented by pop stars. （ C） Give words new meaning
37、s to mislead their parents. （ D） Copy the speech of their contemporaries. 59 Words of praise keep changing because _. （ A） they lose their freshness （ B） there are more words available in this area （ C） young people are becoming more discriminating （ D） older people try to avoid the in-words of the
38、young 60 The fact that magic is a frequent source of words of praise suggests that people _. （ A） lack linguistic originality （ B） have always been interested in magic （ C） are becoming more superstitious （ D） are interested in magic when young 61 To the authors granddaughter the word “ripping“ _. （
39、 A） has a clearer meaning than it does for the author （ B） is unacceptable because it is slang （ C） seems strange and old-fashioned （ D） means much the same as smashing 62 What is the authors attitude towards the young peoples inclination to novelty? （ A） Angry. （ B） Disbelieving. （ C） Objective and
40、 tolerant. （ D） Pessimistic. 三、 Part V Cloze (15 minutes) Directions: There are 20 blanks in the following passage. For each blank there are four choices marked A, B, C and D. You should choose the ONE that best fits into the passage. 62 Why work?【 C1】 _ you have periodically asked yourself the same
41、 question, perhaps focused on【 C2】 _ you have to work. Serf-interest in its broadest【 C3】_ including the interests of family and friends, is a basic【 C4】 _ for work in all societies. But serf-interest can【 C5】 _ more than providing for subsistence or【 C6】 _ wealth. For instance, among the Maori, a P
42、olynesian people of the South Pacific, a desire for approval, a sense of duty, a wish to【 C7】 _ to custom and tradition, a feeling of emulation (竞争 ), and a pleasure in craftsmanship are【 C8】_ reasons for working. Even within the United States, we cannot understand work as simply a response to【 C9】
43、_ necessity. Studies show that the vast【 C10】_ of Americans would continue to work even if they inherited enough money to live comfortably. When people work, they gain a【 C11】 _ place in society. The fact that they receive pay for their work indicates that【 C12】 _ they do is needed by other people a
44、nd that they are a necessary part of the social【 C13】 _ . Work is also a major social mechanism for【 C14】 _ people in the larger social structure and【 C15】 _ providing them with identities. In the United States, it is a blunt and【 C16】 _ public fact that to do nothing is to be nothing and to do litt
45、le is to be little. Work is commonly seen as the measure of an individual. Sociologist Melvin L. Kohn and his associates have shown some of the ways work affects our lives.【 B17】 _ , people who engage in self-directed work come to【 C18】 _ serf-direction more highly, to be more open to new ideas and
46、to be less authoritarian in their relationships with others.【 C19】 _ , they develop self-conceptions consistent with these values, and as parents they pass these characteristics on to their children. Our work, then, is an important【 C20】 _ experience that influences who and what we are. 63 【 C1】 （ A
47、） Unpredictably （ B） Undoubtedly （ C） Unfortunately （ D） unconsciously 64 【 C2】 （ A） whether （ B） why （ C） when （ D） how 65 【 C3】 （ A） sense （ B） definition （ C） meaning （ D） way 66 【 C4】 （ A） reason （ B） move （ C） principle （ D） stimulus 67 【 C5】 （ A） relate （ B） offer （ C） involve （ D） engage 68 【
48、 C6】 （ A） increasing （ B） collecting （ C） diminishing （ D） accumulating 69 【 C7】 （ A） conform （ B） confirm （ C） confine （ D） confide 70 【 C8】 （ A） another （ B） additional （ C） extra （ D） other 71 【 C9】 （ A） economic （ B） economical （ C） financial （ D） commercial 72 【 C10】 （ A） priority （ B） majority
49、 （ C） seniority （ D） minority 73 【 C11】 （ A） rewarding （ B） contributing （ C） astonishing （ D） interesting 74 【 C12】 （ A） what （ B） that （ C） which （ D） whether 75 【 C13】 （ A） mechanism （ B） construction （ C） fabric （ D） environment 76 【 C14】 （ A） putting （ B） placing （ C） pushing （ D） involving 77 【 C15】 （ A） in （ B） for （ C） as （ D） at 78 【 C16】 （ A） serious （ B） definite （ C） ruthless （ D
