1、大学英语六级模拟试卷 527及答案与解析 一、 Part I Writing (30 minutes) 1 For this part, you are allowed 30 minutes to write a short essay on the topic of Poor Students Running Errands. You should write at least 150 words according to the outline given below. 目前有些大学 校园出现贫困大学生 “跑腿族 ” 1.对于这种做法有人表示支持 2有人并不赞成 3我的看法 Poor St
2、udents Running Errands 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 infor
3、mation 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 The Truth about Lying Ricky Gervaiss new film, The Invention of Lying, is about a world where lying doesnt exist, which mean
4、s that everybody tells the truth, and everybody believes everything everybody else says. “Ive always hated you,“ a man tells a work colleague. “He seems nice, if a bit fat,“ a woman says about her date. Its all truth, all the time, at whatever the cost. Until one day, when Mark, a down-on-his-luck l
5、oser played by Gervais, discovers a thing called “lying“ and what it can get him. Within days, Mark is rich, famous, and courting the girl of his dreams. And because nobody knows what “lying“ is, he goes on, happily living what has become a complete and utter farce (喜剧 ). Its meant to be funny, but
6、its also a more serious commentary on us all. As Americans, we like to think we value the truth. Time and time again, public-opinion polls show that honesty is among the top five characteristics we want in a leader, friend, or lover; the world is full of sad stories about the tragic consequences of
7、betrayal. At the same time, deception is all around us. We are lied to by government officials and public figures to a disturbing degree; many of our social relationships are based on little white lies we tell each other. We deceive our children, only to be deceived by them in return. And the averag
8、e person, says psychologist Robert Feldman, the author of a new book on lying, tells at least three lies in the first 10 minutes of a conversation. “Theres always been a lot of lying,“ says Feldman, whose new book, The Liar in Your Life, came out this month. “But I do think were seeing a kind of cul
9、tural shift where were lying more, its easier to lie, and in some ways its almost more acceptable.“ As Paul Ekman, one of Feldmans longtime lying colleagues and the inspiration behind the Fox IV series “Lie To Me“ defines it, a liar is a person who “intends to mislead,“ “deliberately,“ without being
10、 asked to do so by the target of the lie. Which doesnt mean that all lies are equally toxic: some are simply habitual “My pleasure!“ while others might be well-meaning white lies. But each, Feldman argues, is harmful, because of the standard it creates. And the more lies we tell, even if theyre litt
11、le white lies, the more deceptive we and society become. We are a culture of liars, to put it bluntly, with deceit so deeply ingrained in our mind that we hardly even notice were engaging in it. Junk e-mail, deceptive advertising, the everyday pleasantries (客套话 ) we dont really mean “Its so great to
12、 meet you!“ “I love that dress“ have, as Feldman puts it, become “a white noise weve learned to neglect.“ And Feldman also argues that cheating is more common today than ever. The Josephson Institute, a nonprofit focused on youth ethics, concluded in a 2008 survey of nearly 30,000 high school studen
13、ts that “cheating in school continues to be rampant (猖獗 ), and its getting worse.“ In that survey, 64 percent of students said theyd cheated on a test during the past year, up from 60 percent in 2006. Another recent survey, by Junior Achievement, revealed that more than a third of teens believe lyin
14、g, cheating, or plagiarizing (抄袭 ) can be necessary to succeed, while a brand-new study, commissioned by the publishers of Feldmans book, shows that 18-to 34-year-olds those of us fully reared in this lying culture deceive more frequently than the general population. Teaching us to lie is not the pu
15、rpose of Feldmans book. His subtitle, in fact, is “the way to truthful relationships.“ But if his book teaches us anything, its that we should sharpen our skills and use them with abandon. Liars get what they want. They avoid punishment, and they win others affection. Liars make themselves sound sma
16、rt and intelligent, they attain power over those of us who believe them, and they often use their lies to rise up in the professional world. Many liars have fun doing it. And many more take pride in getting away with it. As Feldman notes, there is an evolutionary basis for deception: in the wild, an
17、imals use deception to “play dead“ when threatened. But in the modern world, the motives of our lying are more selfish. Research has linked socially successful people to those who are good liars. Students who succeed academically get picked for the best colleges, despite the fact that, as one recent
18、 Duke University study found, as many as 90 percent of high-schoolers admit to cheating. Even lying adolescents are more popular among their peers. And all it takes is a quick flip of the remote to see how our public figures fare when they get caught in a lie: Clinton keeps his wife and goes on to b
19、ecome a national hero. Fabricating author James Frey gets a million-dollar book deal. Eliot Spitzers wife stands by his side, while “Appalachian hiker“ Mark Sanford still gets to keep his post. If everyone else is being rewarded for lying, dont we need to lie, too, just to keep up? But whats funny i
20、s that even as we admit to being liars, study after study shows that most of us believe we can tell when others are lying to us. And while lying may be easy, spotting a liar is far from it. A nervous sweat or shifty eyes can certainly mean a persons uncomfortable, but it doesnt necessarily mean they
21、re lying. Gaze aversion, meanwhile, has more to do with shyness than actual deception. Even polygraph (测谎器 ) machines are unreliable. And according to one study, by researcher Bella DePaulo, were only able to differentiate a lie from truth only 47 percent of the time, less than if we guessed randoml
22、y. “Basically everything weve heard about catching a liar is wrong,“ says Feldman, who heads the College of Social and Behavioral Sciences at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. Ekman, meanwhile, has spent decades studying micro-facial expressions of liars: the split-second eyebrow arch that s
23、hows surprise when a spouse asks who was on the phone; the furrowed (皱起的 ) nose that gives away a hint of disgust when a person says “I love you.“ Hes trained everyone from the Secret Service to the TSA, and believes that with close study, its possible to identify those tiny emotions. The hard part,
24、 of course, is proving them. “A lot of times, its easier to believe,“ says Feldman. “It takes a lot of cognitive effort to think about whether someone is lying to us.“ Which means that more often than not, were like the poor dumb souls of The Invention of Lying, hanging on a liars every word, no mat
25、ter how untruthful they may be. 2 What do we know about Mark in the film The Invention of Lying! （ A） He looks too thin for his date. （ B） He is the most honest man. （ C） Lying changes his life completely. （ D） He lives in a lying world. 3 According to Robert Feldman, the author of The Liar in Your
26、Life, Americans now_. （ A） regard the truth as very important （ B） tend to lie more often than before （ C） start a conversation with three lies （ D） hate to be deceived by their children 4 How does Robert Feldman see little white lies? （ A） They do harm to both people and the society. （ B） They are
27、more acceptable than habitual lies. （ C） They are necessary in the social relationships. （ D） They are good-intentioned and thus harmless. 5 The survey of the Josephson Institute revealed in 2008 that_. （ A） most students passed the examinations by cheating （ B） few students realized the harm of dec
28、eiving （ C） lying had become a habit of many students （ D） cheating was spreading unrestrainedly in schools 6 What did the survey of Junior Achievement show about the teenagers? （ A） Quite a few of them believe that cheating is genetic. （ B） Many of them see deceiving as essential for success. （ C）
29、Cheating occurs more commonly among them. （ D） They are the victims of the lying culture in fact. 7 When people manage to get away with lying, many of them_. （ A） are proud of themselves （ B） will make lying a habit （ C） feel ashamed and guilty （ D） are held in great affection 8 Feldman cited the ex
30、ample of wild animals to show that_. （ A） wild animals are good at protecting their life （ B） deceiving formed in the process of evolution （ C） human beings lie in the same way as animals （ D） modern people are more selfish than animals 9 Judging from Duke Universitys recent study, even students rec
31、ruited by top colleges seem to have_before. 10 Compared with being liars, it is_to detect a liar according to the study. 11 According to Ekman who studies micro-facial expressions of liars, a wrinkled nose probably shows ones_. Section A Directions: In this section, you will hear 8 short conversatio
32、ns 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, a
33、nd decide which is the best answer. （ A） The meeting is not on his schedule. （ B） He doesnt mind postponing the meeting. （ C） The meeting goes against his schedule. （ D） He doesnt mind having meeting ahead of schedule. （ A） It was just so-so. （ B） It was great. （ C） It was terrible. （ D） It was inte
34、resting. （ A） He is as fat as a potato. （ B） He is fond of watching TV. （ C） He likes potatoes very much. （ D） He doesnt know much about TV. （ A） It has friendly folks. （ B） Its air is clean. （ C） It is quiet. （ D） It gives him a sense of freshness. （ A） A new fitness club. （ B） Doing exercise to ke
35、ep fit. （ C） After-work activities. （ D） Weekend plans. （ A） She likes Mexican food very much. （ B） She likes to go out dancing. （ C） She will celebrate his birthday. （ D） She accepts the mans invitation. （ A） He hasnt taken part in a debate this year. （ B） He believes the team was eliminated alread
36、y. （ C） He doesnt know if the team was successful. （ D） He is too busy to go to the competition with the woman. （ A） To tell him they are busy. （ B） To cancel an appointment. （ C） To send him a busy signal. （ D） To invite him to go to a film. （ A） Where they should move. （ B） How to negotiate with t
37、he landlord. （ C） How to fight the increase. （ D） Whether to accept an increase in rent or move. （ A） Stay and negotiate or move. （ B） Buy a laptop or accept the increase. （ C） Move closer to the school or the subway. （ D） They have no choice but to move. （ A） It is close to the school. （ B） It is q
38、uiet and good for sleep. （ C） It has convenient facilities. （ D） The rental agreement is good. （ A） Spending more hours on the Internet. （ B） Spending fewer hours on the Internet. （ C） The state of being on the Internet. （ D） Their brighter expectations not being met. （ A） The Net is healthier than
39、TV. （ B） The Net is not healthy for people. （ C） The Net does not help with peoples communication. （ D） The Net does no good to peoples psychological well-being. （ A） They stay at home longer than before. （ B） They have more friends on the Internet. （ C） They give too much time to the Internet. （ D）
40、 They have less face-to-face conversations than before. （ A） The fast-developing technology. （ B） The people who design different applications. （ C） The way how people make use of the Internet. （ D） The increasing information and communication via the Net. Section B Directions: In this section, you
41、will hear 3 short passages. At the end of each passage, 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） New drugs. （ B） Settled debate. （ C） Skillful
42、 surgeons. （ D） Advanced equipment. （ A） The shortage of willing donors. （ B） The obtaining of moral approval. （ C） The complex technical procedure. （ D） The rejection from the immune system. （ A） They are willing to donate their faces. （ B） They are concerned about moral problems. （ C） They would a
43、ccept the idea of face transplant. （ D） They have no clue what face transplant means. （ A） To show its new movies. （ B） To have more innovations. （ C） To invite more people to its parks. （ D） To give incentives and bonus to all its employees. （ A） He often attended television programs to propose ide
44、as. （ B） He invited over 40 people to show their ideas in a period. （ C） He would evaluate the ideas along with his top assistants. （ D） He devoted a day to listening to ideas every three months. （ A） They invite new ideas with great enthusiasm. （ B） They choose good ideas through a strict process.
45、（ C） They give quick reactions to proposals and ideas. （ D） They have no standard regulations on assessing suggestions. （ A） Foreign words are best suited for announcements. （ B） The ideas expressed in foreign words sound new. （ C） Foreign words make new subjects easier to understand. （ D） The use o
46、f foreign words makes the media more popular. （ A） They trust the media. （ B） They respect experts. （ C） They are willing to learn about new things. （ D） They are good at learning foreign languages （ A） Foreign products and experts. （ B） The interest of young Japanese. （ C） Best-selling Japanese tex
47、tbooks. （ D） The media and government papers. （ A） It sells very well in Japan （ B） It is supported by the government. （ C） It is questioned by the old generation. （ D） It causes misunderstanding among the readers. Section C Directions: In this section, you will hear a passage three times. When the
48、passage is read 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 th
49、e missing information. For these blanks, you can either use the exact words you have just heard or write down the 36 Dont worry, be happy and, according to a new research, you will also be healthy. It is estimated that over the course of one year, Americans suffer 1 billion colds. But new research shows that all it may take to【 B1】 _this common affliction is a positive and upbeat attitude. People who are happy, relaxed and【 B2】 _, are less likely
