1、大学英语六级模拟试卷 843及答案与解析 一、 Part I Writing (30 minutes) 1 For this part, you arc allowed 30 minutes to write a short essay entitled Craze for Regimen. You should write at least 150 words following the outline given below: 1有些人着迷于各种养生方法 2有些人反对这种做法 3我的观点 Craze for Regimen 二、 Part II Reading Comprehension
2、(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 (for NO) if the statement
3、 contradicts the information given in the passage; NG (for NOT GIVEN) if the information is not given in the passage. 1 On Friendship Few Americans stay put(固定不动的 )for a lifetime. We move from town to city to suburb, from high school to college in different states, from a job in one region to a bett
4、er job elsewhere, from the home where we raise our children to the home where we plan to live in retirement. With each move we are forever making new friends, who become part of our new life at that time. For many of us the summer is a special time for forming new friendships. Today millions of Amer
5、icans vacation abroad and they go not only to see new sights but alsoin those places where they do not feel too strange with the hope of meeting new people. No one really expects a vacation trip to produce a close friend. But surely the beginning of a friendship is possible? Surely in every country
6、people value friendship? They do. The difficulty when strangers from two countries meet is not a lack of appreciation of friendship, but different expectations about what constitutes friendship and how it comes into being. In those European countries that Americans are most likely to visit, friendsh
7、ip is quite sharply distinguished from other, more casual relations, and is differently related to family life. For a Frenchman, a German or an Englishman friendship is usually more particularized and carries a heavier burden of commitment. But as we use the word, “friend“ can be applied to a wide r
8、ange of relationships to someone one has known for a few weeks in a new place, to a close business associate, to a childhood playmate, to a man or woman, to a trusted confidant(心腹朋友 ). There are real differences among these relations for Americans a friendship may be superficial, casual, situational
9、 or deep and enduring. But to a European, who sees only our surface behavior, the differences are not clear. As they see it, people known and accepted temporarily, casually, flow in and out of Americanshomes with little ceremony and often with little personal commitment. They may be parents of the c
10、hildrens friends, house guests of neighbors, members of a committee, business associates from another town or even another country. Coming as a guest into an American home, the European visitor finds no visible landmarks. The atmosphere is relaxed. Most people, old and young, are called by first nam
11、es. French Friendship Who, then, is a friend? Even simple translation from one language to another is difficult, “You see, “ a Frenchman explains, “if I were to say to you in France, This is my good friend, that person would not be as close to me as someone about whom I said only This is my friend.
12、Anyone about whom I have to say more is really less. “ In France, as in many European countries, friends generally are of the same sex, and friendship is seen as basically a relationship between men. Frenchwomen laugh at the idea that “women cant be friends“, but they also admit sometimes that for w
13、omen “Its a different thing. “ And many French people doubt the possibility of a friendship between a man and a woman. There is also the kind of relationship within a group men and women who have worked together for a long time, who may be very close, sharing great loyalty and warmth of feeling. The
14、y may call one another copains a word that in English becomes“friends“but has more the feeling of “pals“ or “buddies“. In French eyes this is not friendship, although two members of such a group may well be friends. For the French, friendship is a one-to-one relationship that demands a keen awarenes
15、s of the other persons intellect, temperament and particular interests. A friend is someone who draws out your own best qualities, with whom you sparkle and become more of whatever the friendship draws upon. Your political philosophy assumes more depth, appreciation of a play becomes sharper, taste
16、in food or wine is accentuated, enjoyment of a sport is intensified. And French friendships are divided into categories. A man may play chess with a friend for thirty years without knowing his political opinions, or he may talk politics with him for as long a time without knowing about his personal
17、life. Different friends fill different niches(合适的地方 )in each persons life. These friendships are not made part of family life. A friend is not expected to spend evenings being nice to children or courteous to a deaf grandmother. These duties, also serious and enjoined, are primarily for relatives. M
18、en who are friends may meet in a cafe. Intellectual friends may meet in larger groups for evenings of conversation. Working people may meet at the little bistro(小酒馆 )where they drink and talk, far from the family. Marriage does not affect such friendships; wives do not have to be taken into account.
19、 In the past in France, friendships of this kind seldom were open to any but intellectual women. Since most womens lives centered on their homes, their warmest relations with other women often went back to their girlhood. The special relationship of friendship is based on what the French value most
20、on the mind, on compatibility of outlook, on vivid awareness of some chosen area of life. German Friendship In Germany, in contrast with France, friendship is much more articulately a matter of feeling. Adolescents, boys and girls, form deeply sentimental attachments, walk and talk together not so m
21、uch to polish their wits as to share their hopes and fears and dreams, to form a common front against the world of school and family and to join in a kind of mutual discovery of each others and their own inner life. Within the family, the closest relationship over a lifetime is between brothers and
22、sisters. Outside the family, men and women find in their closest friends of the same sex the devotion of a sister, the loyalty of a brother. Appropriately, in Germany friends usually are brought into the family. Children call their fathers and their mothers friends “uncle“ and “aunt“. Between French
23、 friends, who have chosen each other for the congeniality of their point of view, lively disagreement and sharpness of argument are the breath of life. But for Germans, whose friendships are based on common feelings, deep disagreement on any subject that matters to both is regarded as a tragedy. Lik
24、e ties of kinship, ties of friendship are meant to be irrevocably binding. Young Germans who come to the United States have great difficulty in establishing such friendships with Americans. We view friendship more tentatively, subject to changes in intensity as people move, change their jobs, marry,
25、 or discover new interests. English Friendship English friendships follow still a different pattern. Their basis is shared activity. Activities at different stages of life may be of very different kinds discovering a common interest in school, serving together in the armed forces, taking part in a f
26、oreign mission, staying in the same country house during a crisis. In the midst of the activity, whatever it may be, people fall into step sometimes two men or two women, sometimes two couples, sometimes three people- and find that they walk or play a game or tell stories or serve on a tiresome and
27、exacting committee with the same easy anticipation of what each will do day by day or in some critical situation. Americans who have made English friends comment that, even years later, “You can take up just where you left off. “ Meeting after a long interval, friends are like a couple who begin to
28、dance again when the orchestra strikes up after a pause. English friendships are formed outside the family circle, but they are not, as in Germany, contrapuntal to the family nor are they, as in France, separated from the family. And a break in an English friendship comes not necessarily as a result
29、 of some irreconcilable difference of viewpoint or feeling but instead as a result of misjudgment. where one friend seriously misjudges how the other will think or feel or act, so that suddenly they arc out of step. Conclusion What, then, is friendship? Looking at these different styles, including o
30、ur own, each of which is related to a whole way of life, are there common elements? There is the recognition that friendships are formed, in contrast with kinship, through freedom of choice. A friend is someone who chooses and is chosen. Related to this is the sense each friend gives the other of be
31、ing a special individual, on whatever grounds this recognition is based. And between friends there is inevitably a kind of equality of give-and-take. These similarities make the bridge between societies possible, and the Americans characteristic openness to different styles of relationship makes it
32、possible for him to find new friends abroad with whom he feels at home. 2 How does Americans living style of keeping moving influence their friendship? （ A） It makes Americans cherish friendship very much. （ B） It makes Americans always make new friends. （ C） It makes Americans emotionally independe
33、nt of each other. （ D） It makes Americans care more about family than friends. 3 Why do many Americans go abroad for holiday? （ A） To learn new languages. （ B） To learn more and relax themselves. （ C） To enjoy better climate. （ D） To see new sights and make new friends. 4 What is the main difficulty
34、 in making friends across countries? （ A） Differences in expectations about friendship. （ B） A lack of appreciation of friendship. （ C） Communication obstacles. （ D） Differences in living styles. 5 What do Frenchwomen think of friendship between women? （ A） They agree that women cant be friends. （ B
35、） They think womens friendship is different from mens. （ C） Some of them believe in friendship between women. （ D） They believe that friendships exist only among the same sex. 6 In France, who undertake duties such as being nice to children or courteous to a deaf grandmother? （ A） Relatives. （ B） Fr
36、iends. （ C） Husbands. （ D） Colleagues. 7 Why did only intellectual women have friendship which was independent of their family in the past in France? （ A） Most women did not have a job. （ B） Most women did not appreciate friendships between women. （ C） Most women usually focused their lives on their
37、 families. （ D） Most women were dependent on their husbands. 8 Germans regard deep disagreement on any subject that matters to both of the two friends as a tragedy, because_. （ A） their friendships are based on common feelings （ B） they make friends just to enlarge their knowledge （ C） they consider
38、 friends the most important people in their life （ D） they cant tolerate any difference between each other 9 Due to changes in intensity of peoples life, Americans view friendship_. 10 The basis of English friendship is_. 11 Different from kinship, friendships are formed through_. Section A Directio
39、ns: 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. During the pause,
40、you must read the four choices marked A, B, C and D, and decide which is the best answer. （ A） It took a long time to finish the building. （ B） He was too busy to notice the opening of the hotel. （ C） He did not know the hotel had a restaurant. （ D） He would like to meet the woman for brunch next Su
41、nday. （ A） She admires Stevens relationship with his father. （ B） She does not know Steven or his father. （ C） Her daughter is older than Steven. （ D） She disagrees with the man. （ A） Buy stamps at the post office. （ B） Mail the womans bill. （ C） Drive to the womans house. （ D） Pick up a package fro
42、m the post office. （ A） She reads more slowly than the man does. （ B） She has a lot of material to read before she has coffee. （ C） The man does more work than is necessary. （ D） The man is taking a long time preparing for philosophy class. （ A） Hell move into his new apartment in a couple of months
43、. （ B） Hed like the woman to help him move into the apartment. （ C） He hopes Peter will move into the apartment soon. （ D） The apartment might be too expensive for him. （ A） Take a shorter route. . （ B） Buy new sunglasses. （ C） Drive on a different road. （ D） Consider using Route 27. （ A） They shoul
44、d turn left when they see a stop sign. （ B） He does not have the directions with him. （ C） He docs not see the stop sign yet. （ D） He does not know which way to go. （ A） The man and the woman use the same computer. （ B） The man can not help the woman. （ C） The woman can not turn off the computer. （
45、D） The man has helped the woman with her computer before. （ A） He wants to make a living by himself. （ B） He wants to get more work experience. （ C） He enjoys the fun of working. （ D） He intends to start his own business. （ A） Dealing with peoples questions. （ B） Taking bookings for travelers. （ C）
46、Editing the student magazine. （ D） Working in different factories. （ A） He can not drive. （ B） He can not use the computer. （ C） He lacks experience. （ D） He lacks enthusiasm. （ A） Boring. （ B） Interesting. （ C） Exciting. （ D） Disgusting. （ A） TV reports too much bad news. （ B） TV provides too many
47、ads. （ C） He has no time to watch TV. （ D） He considers it a waste of time. （ A） Newspapers that are interesting. （ B） Newspapers that report more good news. （ C） Newspapers that have less advertisements. （ D） Newspapers that agree with their political opinions. （ A） People are faced with too many c
48、hoices. （ B） There are too many banner ads. （ C） People have to spend more money. （ D） Its hard to learn to use the Internet. Section B Directions: In this section, you will hear 3 short passages. At the end of each passage, you will hear some questions. Both the passage and the questions will be sp
49、oken only once. After you hear a question, you must choose the best answer from the four choices marked A, B, C and D. （ A） Women spend less time on leisure activities than men do. （ B） Men spend shorter time watching television. （ C） It takes women longer time to meet friends. （ D） It takes men shorter to play sports they like. （ A） To mark the International Labors Day （ B） To tackle the gender equality gap. （ C） To claim more equal right for women. （ D） To make women work harder than men. （ A
