1、大学英语六级模拟试卷 545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 entitled On the Rich Second Generations. You should write at least 150 words following the outline given below： 1关于富二代的负面新闻层出不穷 2富二代身上的确存在很多问题 3我认为 On the Rich Second Generations 二、
2、 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 given in the passa
3、ge; 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 Global Migration: A World Ever More on the Move Gordon Browns rant about a “bigoted (顽固的 )“ voter sped his exit from the British prime ministers post
4、. What punctured his cool? His complaint about immigrants. When an earthquake shattered Haiti. Dominicans sent soldiers and Americans sent ships to discourage potential immigrants. The congressman who shouted “You lie!“ at President Obama was upset about immigrants. A Complicating Tide Perhaps no fo
5、rce in modern life is as everywhere yet overlooked as global migration, that vehicle of creative destruction that is reordering ever more of the world. Overlooked? A skeptic may well question the statement, given how often the topic makes news and how divisive the news can be. After all. Arizonas ca
6、mpaign against illegal immigrants, codified in an April law, set off fierce debates from Melbourne to Madrid. But migration also shapes the landscape beneath the seemingly unrelated events of the headlines. It is a story-behind-the-story, a complicating tide, in issues as diverse as school bond figh
7、ts and efforts to isolate Iran. Even people who study migration for a living struggle to fully grasp its effects. “Politically, socially, economically, culturally migration bubbles up everywhere,“ James F. Hollifield, a political scientist at Southern Methodist University, said. “We often dont recog
8、nize it.“ One realm where migration has particularly powerful if largely unstated effects is school finance. Political scientists have found that white voters are more likely to oppose spending plans when they perceive the main beneficiaries to be children of immigrants (especially illegal immigrant
9、s). The outcome, of course, affects all children, immigrant or 10th generation. “When you get increased diversity, you weaken support for the common good,“ said Dowell Myers, a demographer at the University of Southern California. Professor Myers studied Proposition 55, a 2004 ballot initiative in C
10、alifornia that sought $ 12.3 billion in bond sales to relieve overcrowding and upgrade older schools. Publicly, most opponents framed their concerns in economic terms, saying the government wasted money and ran unsustainable debts. Still, anger about illegal immigration was, as one opponent put it,
11、the “elephant in the living room.“ School crowding, he wrote in a letter to The Riverside Press Enterprise, was “solely caused by Americas foolish open-borders policy.“ Holding all else equal, Professor Myers found, voters who saw immigration as a burden were nearly 9 percentage points more likely t
12、o oppose the measure than those who called immigration a benefit. “Thats a big effect it was almost enough to take it down.“ he said. The measure squeezed through, with barely 50 percent of the vote. Profound Impact Immigration also quickened the bitter split in the American labor movement. In 2005,
13、 a half dozen unions left the venerable A. F. L.-C. I. O. to form a rival federation, Change to Win. (The dissident (有异议者 ) unions included the Service Employees International Union and Unite Here.) On the surface, the fight was mostly about the pace of organizing, with the breakaway group pledging
14、more aggressive moves to enlist members. But the dissidents also counted more low-wage immigrants in their membership. As Daniel B. Cornfield, a labor scholar at Vanderbilt University, said, the immigrants marginal (and sometimes illegal) status created a constituency for a more aggressive approach.
15、 “I dont think it was a split about immigration, but immigration shaped the split,“ he said. Theorists sometimes call the movement of people the third wave of globalization, after the movement of goods (trade) and the movement of money (finance) that began in the previous century. But trade and fina
16、nce follow global norms and are governed by global institutions: the World Trade Organization, the World Bank, the International Monetary Fund. There is no parallel group with “migration“ in its name. The most personal and perilous form of movement is the most unregulated. States make (and often ign
17、ore) their own rules, deciding who can come, how long they stay, and what rights they enjoy. While global trade and finance are disruptive some would argue as much as migration they are disruptive in less visible ways. A shirt made in Mexico can cost an American worker his job. A worker from Mexico
18、might move next door, send his children to public school and need to be spoken to in Spanish. One reason migration seems so potent is that it arose unexpectedly. As recently as the 1970s, immigration seemed of such little importance that the United States Census Bureau decided to stop asking people
19、where their parents were born. Now, a quarter of the residents of the United States under 18 are immigrants or immigrants children. The United Nations estimates that there are 214 million migrants across the globe, an increase of about 37 percent in two decades. Their ranks grew by 41 percent in Eur
20、ope and 80 percent in North America. “Theres more mobility at this moment than at any time in world history,“ said Gary P. Freeman, a political scientist at the University of Texas. The most famous source countries in Europe Ireland, Italy, Greece, Spain are suddenly migrant destinations, with Irela
21、nd electing a Nigerian-born man as its first black mayor in 2007. Five Traits of Immigrants As heirs to an immigrant past, Americans may have an edge in a migrants age. As contentious as the issue is here, the Americans capacity to absorb immigrants remains the envy of many Europeans (including thos
22、e not inclined to envy Americans). Still, todays challenges differ from those of the past. At least five differences set this age apart and amplify migrations effects. First is migrations global reach. The movements of the 19th century were mostly trans-Atlantic. Now, Nepalis staff Korean factories
23、and Mongolians do unskilled work in Prague. Persian Gulf economies would collapse without armies of guest workers. Even within the United States, immigrants are spread across dozens of “new gateways“ unaccustomed to them, from Orlando to Salt Lake City. A second distinguishing trait is the money inv
24、olved, which not only sustains the families left behind but props up national economies. Migrants sent home S 317 billion last year three times the worlds total foreign aid. In at least seven countries, remittances (汇款 ) account for more than a quarter of the gross domestic product. A third factor t
25、hat increases migrations impact is its feminization; Nearly half of the worlds migrants are now women, and many have left children behind. Their emergence as breadwinners is altering family dynamics across the developing world. Technology introduces a fourth break from the past: The huddled masses r
26、eached Ellis Island without cell phones or Webcams. Now a babysitter in Manhattan can talk to her child in Mexico, vote in Mexican elections and watch Mexican television shows. At least one other trait amplifies the impact of modern migration: The expectation that governments will control it. In Ame
27、rica for most of the 19th century, there was no legal barrier to entry. The issue was contentious, but the government attracted little blame. Now Western governments are expected to keep trade and tourism flowing and respect ethnic rights while sealing borders as vast as the Arizona desert and the M
28、editerranean Sea. Their failures glaring if perhaps inevitable weaken the broader faith in federal competence. Still, rich, aging countries need workers. People in poor countries need jobs. And the rise in global inequality means that migrants have more than ever to gain by landing work abroad. Migr
29、ation networks are hard to shut down. Even the worst economy in 70 years has only slowed, not stopped, the growth in migration. And it is likely to grow, in numbers and consequence. 2 Global migration is a complicating tide in_. （ A） its prevalence but being overlooked by many people （ B） its creati
30、ve destruction that is reordering ever more of the world （ C） the debates from Melbourne to Madrid concerning illegal immigrants （ D） diverse issues beneath the seemingly unrelated events 3 Migration has powerful effects on many aspects, but its influence is largely unstated in_. （ A） political scie
31、nce （ B） economics （ C） culture （ D） school finance 4 What can we learn about Proposition 55, a 2004 ballot initiative in California? （ A） It demanded a tax increase on California residents. （ B） It met with harsh criticism from immigrants. （ C） It was approved with barely 50 percent of the vote. （
32、D） It discriminated the children of illegal immigrants. 5 What can be seen as one of the impacts of immigration on Americans? （ A） It quickened the pace of revolutionizing labor unions. （ B） It expanded the rights of American immigrants. （ C） It accelerated the split in the American labor movement.
33、（ D） It improved the status of immigrants by an aggressive approach. 6 What is the difference between the movement of migration and the trade and finance of globalization? （ A） There is no global institutions to set global norms for migration. （ B） The importance of migration is often ignored by sta
34、te government. （ C） Migration is more personal-related and requires humanity. （ D） Migration is more disruptive but in less visible ways. 7 What impact does the immigration bring in Ireland, Italy, Greece and Spain? （ A） They restore their immigration censuring system. （ B） They turn from migrant so
35、urce countries to destinations. （ C） They reform their policies to absorb more immigrants. （ D） They witness the surge of immigrants in other European countries. 8 What sets todays migration movement apart from that of the 19th century? （ A） Its great capacity. （ B） Its global reach. （ C） Its econom
36、ic benefits. （ D） Its transnationalism. 9 Remittances from migrants totaled $317 billion last year not only sustains the families left behind but_. 10 When it comes to the impact of feminization, family dynamics across the developing world is being altered by_. 11 According to the last paragraph, mi
37、grants have more than ever to gain by working abroad because of_. 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 wil
38、l 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, and decide which is the best answer. （ A） Go to the supermarket to get the ingredients. （ B） Share with the man how she makes the food. （ C） Call the supermarket f
39、or the recipe. （ D） Go to the supermarket to buy a pencil and paper. （ A） It is out of work again. （ B） Its very old-style. （ C） It costs the woman $ 50. （ D） It cant tell the correct time. （ A） She is not in the place to judge. （ B） The man should blame himself. （ C） The business deserves the mans
40、waiting. （ D） She is not good at giving advice. （ A） Go to the online store to work for money. （ B） Go to the bank to cash the check. （ C） Go to his office to find the check. （ D） Try to find some cash he has misplaced. （ A） He will be too busy to help the woman. （ B） He is not sure whether he can h
41、elp the woman. （ C） He is supposed to know what he should do. （ D） He will help the woman. （ A） His watch distracted him. （ B） He almost missed the film. （ C） The film failed to arouse his interest. （ D） The film was too late to be shown. （ A） Rachel quarrelled with her husband. （ B） Its hard to kno
42、w what troubles Rachel. （ C） The man has got no chance to talk with Rachel. （ D） The woman knows what Rachel is thinking about. （ A） She had no time reading the project proposal. （ B） The mans proposal was terribly written. （ C） Its not her responsibility to help the man. （ D） Half a month was not e
43、nough to write a proposal. （ A） It aims at evaluating the ability of a candidate to handle stress. （ B） It demotivates candidates by creating a master-servant situation. （ C） It is deliberately planned and usually warns interviewees beforehand. （ D） It is regarded as an unnecessary tool for assessme
44、nt. （ A） Be cheerful even when you are provoked. （ B） Never seem to be nervous. （ C） Try to win debating points. （ D） Never say “I dont know.“ （ A） Make sure if the company is the one you want to work for. （ B） Respond with a smile and show your sense of humor. （ C） Confess your ignorance or frustra
45、tion straightaway. （ D） Maintain eye contact with the interviewer and keep answers brief. （ A） Summer-vacation internship programs. （ B） Employment opportunities provided by schools. （ C） Potential risks of working part-time. （ D） Importance of a clear and explicit contract. （ A） They are responsibl
46、e for commuting students to the company. （ B） They are trying to make students have a strong sense of security. （ C） They should have everything concerning their students rights in hand. （ D） They ought to gain a reputation for guaranteeing job opportunities. （ A） Students are unwilling to work over
47、time and report to schools. （ B） Schools refuse to sign contracts with them because of the strict rules. （ C） Schools dont get a permit to organize part-time work for students. （ D） Training and insurance is a huge investment due to limited work time. （ A） Students find it hard to protect their righ
48、ts. （ B） Students can complain to local education authorities. （ C） Companies act according to the agreement they signed. （ D） Schools accept unfair contract regardless of students rights. Questions 23 to 25 are based on the conversation you have just heard. Section B Directions: In this section, yo
49、u 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） Because she wants to mourn her daughter in a special way. （ B） Because she wants to serve it as a warning to teen drivers. （ C） Because she wants to get more money to support charity. （ D） Because she wants to receive some legal assistance. （
