1、大学英语六级模拟试卷 682及答案与解析 一、 Part I Writing (30 minutes) 1 Directions: For this part, you are allowed 30 minutes to write a composition on the topic A Letter to a Schoolmate. You should write at least 150 words according to the outline given below in Chinese. 假设你是李明，你有一校友玩网络游戏成瘾，请给他写封信，劝告他戒掉这种游戏。 你的信应包括以
2、下内容： 1你得知他玩网络游戏成瘾的渠道及你的感受； 2过分玩网络游戏的危害； 3你对他的建议或忠告。 A letter to a Schoolmate 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, ma
3、rk： 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 The Growing Backlash Against Overparenting What parenting had come to
4、look like at the dawn of the 21st century? Overobsessed with our kids success. Demand that nursery schools offer Mandarin, since its never too soon to prepare for the global competition. Send high school teachers angry text messages protesting an exam grade before class was even over. College deans
5、describe freshmen as “crispies,“ who arrive at college already burned out, and “teacups,“ who seem ready to break at the tiniest stress. Just one more extravagance, the Bubble Wrap waiting to burst. So there is now a new revolution under way, one aimed at rolling back the overprotectiveness and over
6、investment of parents. It goes by many namesslow parenting, simplicity parenting, free-range parenting but the message is the same: Less is more; hovering (飞机盘旋 ) is dangerous; failure is fruitful. You really want your children to succeed? Learn when to leave them alone. When you lighten up, theyll
7、fly higher. Were often the ones who hold them down. How We Got Here Overparenting had been around long indeed. But in the 1990s it went way past the red line. From peace and prosperity, there arose fear and anxiety! crime went down, yet parents stopped letting kids out of their sight) the percentage
8、 of kids walking or biking to school dropped from 41 % in 1969 to 13 % in 2001. Among 6-to-8-year-olds, free playtime dropped 25% from 1981 to 1997, and homework more than doubled. The state of Georgia sent every newborn home with the CD Build Your Babys Brain Through the Power of Music, after resea
9、rchers claimed to have discovered that listening to Mozart could temporarily help raise IQ scores by as many as 9 points. Once obsessing about kids safety and success became the norm, a kind of orthodoxy took hold. Just ask Lenore Skenazy, who to this day, when you Google “Americas Worst Mom,“ fills
10、 the first few pages of resultsall because one day last year she let her 9-year-old son ride the New York City subway alone. A newspaper column she wrote about it somehow ignited a global firestorm over what constitutes reasonable risk. Skenazy decided to fight back, arguing that we have lost our ab
11、ility to assess risk. By worrying about the wrong things, we do actual damage to our children, raising them to be anxious and unadventurous. Reports From the Front Lines Fear is a kind of parenting fungus (真菌 ): invisible, and perfectly designed to decompose your peace of mind. Fear of physical dang
12、er is at least subject to rational argument; fear of failure is harder to hose down. What could be more natural than worrying that your child might be trampled by the great, scary, globally competitive world into which she will one day be launched? It is this fear that inspires parents to demand hom
13、ework in preschool, produce the snazzy bilingual campaign video for the third-graders race for class report, continue to provide the morning wake-up call long after hes headed off to college. Some of the hovering is driven by memory and demography. This generation of parents, born after 1964, waited
14、 longer to marry and had fewer children. Families are among the smallest in history, and we guard them all the more zealously. Therefore, helicopter parents can be found across all income levels, all races and ethnicities, says Patricia Somers of the University of Texas. Studies have reinforced the
15、importance of play as an essential protein in a childs emotional diet; were it not, argue some scientists, it would not have persisted across species and millenniums, perhaps as a way to practice for adulthood, to build leadership, sociability, flexibility, resilience. Dr. Stuart Brown, a psychiatri
16、st and the founder of the National Institute for Play recalls in a recent book how managers at Caltechs Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) noticed the younger engineers lacked problem-solving skills, though they had top grades and test scores. Realizing the older engineers had more play experience as k
17、idstheyd taken apart clocks, built stereos, made modelsJPL eventually incorporated questions about job applicants play backgrounds into interviews. “If you look at what produces learning and memory and well-being in life,“ Brown has argued, “play is as fundamental as any other aspect.“ Remember, Mis
18、takes Are Good Many educators have been searching for ways to tell parents when to back off. Its a tricky line to walk, since studies link parents engagement in a childs education to better grades, higher test scores and better college outcomes. Given a choice, teachers say, overinvolved parents are
19、 preferable to invisible ones. The challenge is helping parents know when they are crossing a line. A guidance counselor at a Washington preparatory school urges parents to find a mentor of a certain disposition. “Make friends with parents,“ she advises, “who dont think their kids are perfect.“ Or w
20、ith parents who are willing to exert some peer pressure of their own. A certain amount of hovering is understandable when it comes to young children, but many educators are concerned when it persists through middle school and high school. Some teachers talk of “Stealth Fighter (隐形战斗 机 ) Parents,“ wh
21、o no longer hover constantly but can be counted on for a surgical strike just when the high school musical is being cast or the starting lineup chosen. And senior year is the witching hour, since for a lot of parents, a college admission is like their grade report on how they did as a parent. Many c
22、olleges have had to invent a “director of parent programs“ to run regional groups so moms and dads can meet fellow college parents or attend special classes where they can learn all the school cheers. What You Can Do? The revolutionary leaders are careful about offering too much advice. Parents have
23、 gotten plenty of that, and one of the goals of this new movement is to give parents permission to disagree or at least follow different roads. “People feel theres somehow a secret formula for parenting, and if we just read enough books and spend enough money and drive ourselves hard enough, well fi
24、nd it, and all will be OK,“ Carl Honore observes. “Can you think of anything more sinister, since every child is so different, every family is different? Parents need to block out the sound and fury from the media and other parents, find that formula that fits your family best.“ Kim John Payne, auth
25、or of Simplicity Parenting, teaches seminars. He and his coaches will even go into your home, weed out your kids stuff, sort out their schedule, turn off the screens and help your family find space you didnt know you had. But any parent can do it just as well. Payne says, the average child has 150 t
26、oys. “When you cut the toys and clothes back. the kids really like it.“ He aims for a cut of roughly 75%: only the classics that leave the most to the childs imagination and create a kind of toy library kids can visit and swap from. Then build breaks of calm into their schedule so they can actually
27、enjoy the toys. Finally, there is the gift of humility, which parents need to offer one another. Freakonomics authors Stephen Dubner and Steven Levitt analyzed a Department of Education study tracking the progress of kids through fifth grade and found that things like how much parents read to their
28、kids, how much TV kids watch and whether Mom works make little difference. “Frequent museum visits would seem to be no more productive than trips to the grocery store,“ they argued in USA Today. “By the time most parents pick up a book on parenting technique, its too late. Many of the things that ma
29、tter most were decided long agowhat kind of education a parent got, what kind of spouse he wound up with and how long they waited to have children.“ If you embrace this rather humbling reality, it will be easier to follow the advice D. H. Lawrence offered back in 1918: “How to begin to educate a chi
30、ld? First rule: leave him alone. Second rule: leave him alone. Third rule: leave him alone. That is the whole beginning.“ 2 A new revolution against the overparenting is under way by the names of slow and simple parenting and_. （ A） humble parenting （ B） successful parenting （ C） free-range parentin
31、g （ D） overprotective parenting 3 What did the state of Georgia do to encourage parents to invest in childrens education? （ A） It required parents to enter West Point to learn how to discipline their children. （ B） It demanded schools to have background check before admitting students. （ C） It sent
32、some books concerning boosting childrens intelligence. （ D） It sent families with newborn babies music CD of Mozart. 4 What can we learn about Lenore Skenazy? （ A） She is not a qualified mother in balancing her job and her son. （ B） She is an enlightened mom to give her son free-range education. （ C
33、） She is irrational trying to infantilize her son into incompetence. （ D） She is over-obsessed with her sons safety and success. 5 What drives parents to be demanding in childrens education? （ A） Fear of rational argument. （ B） Fear of failure. （ C） Job competition. （ D） Poor financial situation. 6
34、According to Dr. Stuart Brown, what did JPL do for job applicants? （ A） It tested their leadership, sociability, flexibility and resilience. （ B） It checked their grades and scores by problem-solving games. （ C） It contained questions about their play backgrounds in interviews. （ D） It observed thei
35、r performance in free playtime. 7 How do Stealth Fighter Parents educate their children? （ A） They rest assured when their children fail. （ B） They back off when they are not needed. （ C） They believe that children deserve to live their own lives. （ D） They show up and interfere in children on criti
36、cal occasions. 8 What is the misconception of many parents according to Carl Honore? （ A） They believe there is a secret formula for parenting. （ B） They dont need the advice from the so-called experts. （ C） They can try different methods and follow different roads. （ D） They neednt spend much money
37、 on parenting. 9 Payne suggests that to make children enjoy the classic toys, parents need to_into their schedule. 10 According to Stephen Dubner and Steven Levitt, most of things parents are worried now_. 11 D. H. Lawrence repeatedly stressed the rule that we should begin to educate a child by_. Se
38、ction 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 pause. Du
39、ring the pause, you must read the four choices marked A, B, C and D, and decide which is the best answer. （ A） Marys English teacher is Mark. （ B） Marys Chinese teacher is Mark. （ C） Mary and Mark are good friends. （ D） Mary and Mark are office colleagues. （ A） She feels that the man must go there b
40、y himself. （ B） She is complaining about the noise inside. （ C） She is disappointed that the McDonalds is always too oily. （ D） She feels that she cant stand the circumstance inside. （ A） She thinks the price is too high. （ B） She thinks the price is quite normal. （ C） She thinks the price could be
41、cheaper. （ D） She thinks the price is really low. （ A） Its a difficult job to teach a class of 100 students. （ B） The man gets a very bad cold. （ C） The woman has to teach 100 students. （ D） The man is the principal of the school, （ A） Tell the woman something about the car. （ B） Look for his wife.
42、（ C） Show the woman his wifes car. （ D） Ask his wife to answer the phone. （ A） The woman will reserve a restaurant for the dinner. （ B） Mary King will decide where they have their dinner. （ C） The man will decide where to have dinner with Mary King. （ D） The woman suggests that the man should ask Ma
43、ry King first. （ A） They dont enjoy swimming. （ B） They wont go swimming in the lake today. （ C） They dont know how to swim. （ D） Theyll swim in the lake tomorrow. （ A） He arrived at the theater late. （ B） He left his watch in the theater. （ C） The production seems much shorter than it actually was.
44、 （ D） He did not enjoy the production. （ A） Chinese. （ B） English. （ C） French. （ D） Italian. （ A） Students weight. （ B） Maturity. （ C） Wealth. （ D） Beauty. （ A） Expensive. （ B） Much lower. （ C） Everyone could achieve scholarship. （ D） Students parents dont have to be rich. （ A） A literature profess
45、or. （ B） An academic advisor. （ C） Dean of the English Department. （ D） A Doctor of Applied Linguistics. （ A） To inquire about switching majors. （ B） To find a helping supervisor. （ C） To make up the remaining credits. （ D） To apply for a masters degree. （ A） He cant catch up with his classmates. （
46、B） He finds the English course load too heavy. （ C） He is not interested in his present major. （ D） He is good at Applied Linguistics. （ A） Twenty-four credits. （ B） Twelve credits. （ C） Three Credits. （ D） Thirty-six credits. Section B Directions: In this section, you will hear 3 short passages. At
47、 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） To compete with online bill paying. （ B） To reduce the cost of printing 2-
48、or 3-cent stamps. （ C） To respond to the complaints about rising postal rates. （ D） To help save the consumers cost on first-class mailing. （ A） America will be the first country to issue “forever stamps“. （ B） 2- or 3-cent stamps will no longer be printed in the future. （ C） The design of the “fore
49、ver stamps“ remains to be revealed. （ D） The investment in “forever stamps“ will bring adequate reward. （ A） New interest will be aroused in collecting “forever stamps“. （ B） Postal workers will benefit most from the sales of “forever stamps“. （ C） The inflation has become a threat to the sales of first-class stamps. （ D） With “forever stamps“, there will be no need to worry about rate changes. （ A） To recite a lot of wonderful reading materials. （ B） To combine prefixes, suffixes and root
