[外语类试卷]大学英语六级模拟试卷559及答案与解析.doc
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1、大学英语六级模拟试卷 559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 Should the Media Popularize Top Scorers? You should write at least 150 words according to the outline given below. 1现在不少媒体 对高考状元大肆宣传 2有人对此并不赞成 3我对此的看法 Should the Media Popu
2、larize Top Scorers? 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 informat
3、ion 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 Unpaid Intern, Legal or Not With job openings scarce for young people, the number of unpaid internships (实习 ) has climbed i
4、n recent years, leading federal and state regulators to worry that more employers are illegally using such internships for free labor. Convinced that many unpaid internships violate minimum wage laws, officials in Oregon, California and other states have begun investigations and fined employers. Las
5、t year, M. Patricia Smith, then New Yorks labor commissioner, ordered investigations into several firms internships. Now, as the federal Labor Departments top law enforcement official, she and the wage and hour division are stepping up enforcement nationwide. Many regulators say that violations are
6、widespread, but that it is unusually hard to mount a major enforcement effort because interns are often afraid to file complaints. Many fear they will become known as troublemakers in their chosen field, endangering their chances with a potential future employer. The Labor Department says it is crac
7、king down on firms that fail to pay interns properly and expanding efforts to educate companies, colleges and students on the law regarding internships. “If youre a for-profit employer or you want to pursue an internship with a for-profit employer, there arent going to be many circumstances where yo
8、u can have an internship and not be paid and still be in compliance with the law,“ said Nancy J. Leppink, the acting director of the departments wage and hour division. Ms. Leppink said many employers failed to pay even though their internships did not comply with the six federal legal criteria that
9、 must be satisfied for internships to be unpaid. Among those criteria are that the internship should be similar to the training given in a vocational school or academic institution, that the intern does not displace regular paid workers and that the employer “derives no immediate advantage“ from the
10、 interns activities in other words, its largely a benevolent (慈善的 ) contribution to the intern. No one keeps official count of how many paid and unpaid internships there are, but Lance Choy, director of the Career Development Center at Stanford University, sees definitive evidence that the number of
11、 unpaid internships is mushrooming fueled by employers desire to hold down costs and students eagerness to gain experience for their resumes. Employers posted 643 unpaid internships on Stanfords job board this academic year, more than triple the 174 posted two years ago. In 2008, the National Associ
12、ation of Colleges and Employers found that 50 percent of graduating students had held internships, up from the 17 percent shown in a 1992 study by Northwestern University. This means hundreds of thousands of students hold internships each year; some experts estimate that one-fourth to one-half are u
13、npaid. In California, officials have issued guidance letters advising employers whether they are breaking the law, while Oregon regulators have unearthed numerous abuses. “Weve had cases where unpaid interns really were displacing workers and where they werent being supervised in an educational capa
14、city,“ said Bob Estabrook, spokesman for Oregons labor department. His department recently handled complaints involving two individuals at a solar panel company who received $3,350 in back pay after claiming that they were wrongly treated as unpaid interns. Many students said they had held internshi
15、ps that involved noneducational menial (非技术性 的 ) work. To be sure, many internships involve some unskilled work, but when the jobs are mostly menial, regulators say, it is clearly illegal not to pay interns. One Ivy League student said she spent an unpaid three-month internship at a magazine packagi
16、ng and shipping 20 or 40 apparel samples a day back to fashion houses that had provided them for photo shoots. At Little Airplane, a Manhattan childrens film company, a New York University (N.Y.U) student who hoped to work in animation during her unpaid internship said she was instead assigned to th
17、e facilities department and ordered to wipe the door handles each day to minimize the spread of swine flu. Tone Thyne, a senior producer at Little Airplane, said its internships were usually highly educational and often led to good jobs. Concerned about the effect on their future job prospects, some
18、 unpaid interns declined to give their names or to name their employers when they described their experiences in interviews. While many colleges are accepting more moderate- and low-income students to increase economic mobility, many students and administrators complain that the growth in unpaid int
19、ernships undercuts that effort by favoring well-to-do and well-connected students, speeding their climb up the career ladder. Many less affluent (富裕的 ) students say they cannot afford to spend their summers at unpaid internships, and in any case, they often do not have an uncle or family golf buddy
20、who can connect them to a prestigious internship. Brittany Berckes, an Amherst senior who interned at a cable news station that she declined to identify, said her parents were not delighted that she worked a summer unpaid. “Some of my friends cant take these internships and spend a summer without ma
21、king any money because they have to help pay for their own tuition or help their families with finances,“ she said. “That makes them less competitive candidates for jobs after graduation.“ Of course, many internships paid or unpaid serve as valuable steppingstones that help young people land future
22、jobs. “Internships have become the gateway into the white-collar work force,“ said Ross Perlin, a Stanford graduate and onetime unpaid intern who is writing a book on the subject. “Employers increasingly want experience for entry-level jobs, and many students see the only way to get that is through
23、unpaid internships.“ Trudy Steinfeld, director of N.Y.U.s Office of Career Services, said she increasingly had to ride herd on employers to make sure their unpaid internships were educational. She recently confronted a midsize law firm that promised one student an educational $10-an-hour internship.
24、 The student complained that the firm was not paying him and was requiring him to make coffee and sweep out bathrooms. Ms. Steinfeld said some industries, most notably film, were known for unpaid internships, but she said other industries were embracing the practice, seeing its advantages. “A few fa
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