1、大学英语六级模拟试卷 769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 letter. You should write at least 150 words according to the outline given below in Chinese: 假如你是李静，你想向校长申请参加 西部大开发，你要给校长写一封信，信的内容包括 ： 1. 表达自已想要参加西部大开发的愿望； 2. 简要说明自己的理由。 二、 Part II
2、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 passage; N (fo
3、r 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 Is College Really Worth the Money? The Real World Este Griffith had it all figured out. When she graduated from the University of Pittsburgh in April 2001, sh
4、e had her sights set on one thing: working for a labor union. The real world had other ideas. Griffith left school with not only a degree, but a boatload of debt. She owed $15.000 in student loans and had racked up $4,000 in credit card debt for books, groceries and other expenses. No labor union jo
5、b could pay enough to bail her out. So Griffith went to work instead for a Washington, D.C. firm that specializes in economic development. Problem solved? Nope. At age 24, she takes home about $1,800 a month, $1,200 of which disappears to pay her rent. Add another $180 a month to retire her student
6、loans and $300 a month to whittle down her credit card balance. “You do the math,“ she says. Griffith has practically no money to live on. She brown-bags (自带午餐 ) her lunch and bikes to work. Above all, she fears shell never own a house or be able to retire. Its not that she regrets getting her degre
7、e. “But they dont tell you that the trade-off is the next ten years of your income,“ she says. Thats precisely the deal being made by more and more college students. Theyre mortgaging their futures to meet soaring tuition costs and other college expenses. Like Griffith, theyre facing a one-two punch
8、 at graduation: hefty (沉重的 ) student loans and smothering credit card debtnot to mention a job market that, for now anyway, is dismal. “We axe forcing our children to make a choice between two evils,“ says Elizabeth Warren, a Harvard Law professor and expert on bankruptcy. “Skip college and face a l
9、ife of diminished opportunity, or go to college and face a life shackled (束缚 ) by debt.“ Tuition Hikes For some time, colleges have insisted their steep tuition hikes are needed to pay for cutting-edge technologies, faculty and administration salaries, and rising health care costs. Now theres a new
10、culprit (犯人 ): shrinking state support. Caught in a severe budget crunch, many states have sharply sealed back their funding for higher education. Someone had to make up for those lost dollars. And you can guess whoespecially if you live in Massachusetts, which last year hiked its tuition and fees b
11、y 24 percent, after funding dropped by 3 percent, or in Missouri, where appropriations (拨款 ) fell by 10 percent, but tuition rose at double that rate. About one-third of the states, in fact, have increased tuition and fees by more than 10 percent. One of those states is California, and Janet Burrell
12、s family is feeling the pain. A bookkeeper in Torrance, Burrell has a daughter at the University of California at Davis. Meanwhile, her sons attend two-year colleges because Burrell cant afford to have all of them in four-year schools at once. Meanwhile, even with tuition hikes, Californias communit
13、y colleges are so strapped for cash they dropped thousands of classes last spring. The result: 54,000 fewer students. Collapsing Investments Many families thought they had a surefire plan: even if tuition kept skyrocketing, they had invested enough money along the way to meet the costs. Then a funny
14、 thing happened on the way to Wall Street. Those investments collapsed with the stuck market. Among the losers last year: the wildly popular “529“ plansfederal tax-exempt college savings plans offered by individual states, which have attracted billions from families around the country. “We hear from
15、 many parents that what they had set aside declined in value so much that they now dont have enough to see their students through,“ says Penn State financial aid director Anna Griswold, who witnessed a 10 percent increase in loan applications last year. Even with a market that may be slowly recoveri
16、ng, it will take time, perhaps several years, for people to recoup (补偿 ) their losses. Nadine Sayegh is among those who didnt have the luxury of waiting for her college nest egg to grow back. Her father had invested money toward her tuition, but a large chunk of it vanished when stocks went south. N
17、adine was then only partway through college. By graduation, she had taken out at least $10,000 in loans, and her mother had borrowed even more on her behalf. Now 22, Nadine is attending law school, having signed for yet more loans to pay for that. “There wasnt any way to do it differently,“ she says
18、, “and Im not happy about it. Ive sat down and calculated how long it will take me to pay off everything. Ill be 35 years old.“ Thats if shes very lucky: Nadine based her calculation on landing a job right out of law school that will pay her at least $120,000 a year. Dependent on Loans and Credit Ca
19、rds The American Council on Education has its own calculation that shows how students are more and more dependent on loans. In just five years, from 1995 to 2000, the median loan debt at public institutions rose from $10,342 to $15,375. Most of this comes from federal loans, which Congress made more
20、 tempting in 1992 by expanding eligibility (home equity no longer counts against your assets) and raising loan limits (a dependent undergraduate can now borrow up to $23,000 from the federal government). But students arent stopping there. The College Board estimates that they also borrowed $4.5 bill
21、ion from private lenders in the 2000 2001 academic year, up from $1.5 billion just five years earlier. For lots of students, the worst of it isnt even the weight of those direct student loans. Its what they rack up on all those plastic cards in their wallets. As of two years ago, according to a stud
22、y by lender Nellie Mae, more than eight out of ten undergrads had their own credit cards, with the typical student carrying four. Thats no big surprise, given the in-your-face marketing by credit card companies, which set up tables on campus to entice (诱惑 ) students to sign up. Some colleges ban or
23、restrict this hawking, but others give it a boost. You know those credit cards emblazoned with a schools picture or its logo? For sanctioning such a carda must-have for some studentsa college department or association gets payments from the issuer. Meanwhile, from freshman year to graduation, accord
24、ing to the Nellie Mae study, students triple the number of credit cards they own and double their debt on them. As of 2001, they were in the hole an average $2,327. A Wise Choice? One day, Moyer sat down with his mother, Janne ODonnell, to talk about his goal of going to law school. Dont count on it
25、, ODonnell told him. She couldnt afford the cost and Moyer doubted he could get a loan, given how much he owed already. “He said he felt like a failure,“ ODonnell recalls. “He didnt know how he had gotten into such a mess.“ A week later, the 22-year-old hanged himself in his bedroom, where his mothe
26、r found him. ODonnell is convinced the money pressures caused his suicide. “Sean tried to pay his debts off,“ she says. “And he couldnt take it.“ To be sure, suicides are exceedingly rare. But despair is common, and it sometimes leads students to rethink whether college was Worth it. In fact, there
27、are quite a few jobs that dont require a college degree, yet pay fairly well. On average, though, college graduates can expect to earn 80 percent more than those with only a high school diploma. Also, all but two of the 50 highest paying jobs (the exceptions being air traffic controllers and nuclear
28、 power reactor operators) require a four-year college degree. So foregoing a college education is often not a wise choice. Merit Mikhail, who graduated last June from the University of California, Riverside, is glad she borrowed to get through school. But she left Riverside owing $20,000 in student
29、loans and another $7,000 in credit card debt. Now in law school, Merit hopes to become a public-interest attorney, yet she may have to postpone that goal, which bothers her. To handle her debt, shell probably need to start with a more lucrative (有利的 ) legal job. Like so many other students, Mikhail
30、took out her loans on a kind of blind faith that she could deal with the consequences. “You say to yourself. I have to go into debt to make it work, and whatever it takes later. Ill manage.“ Later has now arrived, and Mikhail is finding out the true cost of her college degree. 2 Griffith worked for
31、a firm that specialized in economic development in Washington D.C. because she needed money to pay for her debt. （ A） Y （ B） N （ C） NG 3 The only problem the students ere facing at graduation is the dismal job market. （ A） Y （ B） N （ C） NG 4 One reason why colleges increase tuition and fees is that
32、the state support is shrinking. （ A） Y （ B） N （ C） NG 5 Nearly all the families can manage to meet the soaring tuition costs through various investment plans. （ A） Y （ B） N （ C） NG 6 According to Nadines calculation, she can pay off all her debt when she is _ if she can get a salary of $120.000 a ye
33、ar fight out of law school. 7 Students get money from not only federal loans but also _. 8 The college department or association can get payments from the issuer if it sanctions credit cards decorated with _. 9 ODonnell thinks that the cause of her 22-year-old sons suicide is _. 10 The author says t
34、hat foregoing a college education is often not a wise choice because _ of the 50 highest paying jobs require a four-year college degree except for air traffic controllers and nuclear power reactor operators. 11 Merit will have to start with a more lucrative legal job instead of her favorite position
35、a public-interest attorney because she has to _. 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 will be spoken only
36、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） The man does not seem to have a good sense of time. （ B） The man is a poorer driver than the woman. （ C） The man had to fix the car again
37、for the woman. （ D） The woman often misunderstood the man. （ A） Jazz. （ B） Classical music. （ C） Rock and roll. （ D） All kinds of music. （ A） He rejected their request. （ B） He accepted their request. （ C） He agreed to consider their request. （ D） He asked them to come with the others. （ A） Impatien
38、t. （ B） Serious. （ C） Enthusiastic. （ D） Nervous. （ A） Her name is on the top of the list. （ B） She is expecting a job interview. （ C） She will be the last to be interviewed. （ D） She must fix a date for the job interview. （ A） The husband went to the hair salon with his wife. （ B） The wife is annoy
39、ed at her husbands complaint. （ C） The husband is not usually so observant. （ D） The wife is going to the hairdressers. （ A） He must change the flight at Jacksonville. （ B） He has to change the flight at Albany. （ C） He will fly for two hours. （ D） He will fly directly to his destination. （ A） Its o
40、n time. （ B） Its crowded. （ C） Its empty. （ D） Its late. （ A） Ruined by file earthquake. （ B） Moved 3 meters. （ C） As good as ever. （ D） Unknown. （ A） It is tough. （ B） Someone was hurt by it. （ C） Moved. （ D） There were no cows then. （ A） Terrible. （ B） Shocking. （ C） unforgettable, （ D） Cherished.
41、 （ A） A reporter and the head of the Labors union. （ B） A correspondent and the head of WHO. （ C） Both staff members of the International Labor Organization. （ D） The correspondent and Ms. Linlyn from International Labor Organization. （ A） There has been definite progress in employment. （ B） They ha
42、ve entered preciously male dominated occupations. （ C） Their employment have not been matched by their remuneration. （ D） They share equal total work load with men. （ A） Preparing food, looking after children and other housework. （ B） Nursing, cleaning, mowing the lawn and car-pooling. （ C） Working
43、extra hours to help support poor family. （ D） Taking part in a sort of women liberation movement. （ A） Because they are lowly paid. （ B） Because they are docile. （ C） Because they are malleable. （ D） Because they are highly paid. Section B Directions: In this section, you will hear 3 short passages.
44、 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） To make a comparison between Dave and other films. （ B） To discuss the A
45、mericans ideas about the President. （ C） To tell readers about the American government. （ D） To introduce a new film to the reader. （ A） Sigourney Weaver. （ B） Bill Mitchell. （ C） Kevin Kline. （ D） Ivan Reitman. （ A） The speaker makes run of the President. （ B） The speaker thinks highly of the film.
46、 （ C） The speaker is a fan of Hollywood comedies. （ D） The speaker wishes to become the American President. （ A） They are used to earning their own money. （ B） They often live alone. （ C） They dont start conversation with men. （ D） They may ask men for dance. （ A） To ask if you may smoke. （ B） To go
47、 to special sections for smokers. （ C） To smoke before him. （ D） To offer him one before you light up a cigarette. （ A） Bring some gifts. （ B） Offer some help. （ C） Take your friend out to dinner at the end of your stay. （ D） All of the above. （ A） They only like themselves. （ B） They are not bother
48、ed by failures. （ C） They know how to become better. （ D） They can always make a difference. Section C Directions: In this section, you will hear a passage three times. When the passage is read for the first time, you should listen carefully for its general idea. When the passage is read for the sec
49、ond 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 the missing information. For these blanks, you can either use the exact words you have just heard or write down the 33 Americans are suffering from a serious sleep【 B1】 _ while also cutting back on【 B2】 _ activities as they spend more time at work. A world that “never goes to sleep“ off
