1、大学英语六级模拟试卷 97及答案与解析 一、 Part I Writing (30 minutes) 1 For this part, you are allowed thirty minutes to write a composition on the topic Competition and Cooperation. You should write at least 150 words, and base your composition on the outline(given in Chinese) below: 1. 现代社会中竞争无处不在； 2. 竞争和合作的关系。 二、 P
2、art 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 passage
3、; 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. 2 Sports and Education Sports Are a Kind of Education For many young people in my part of the world (suburban America), the first brush with organized at
4、hletics comes on a Saturday morning in early spring. The weather is getting warmer and the school years end is imminent, and moms, sensing the approach of summer vacation and too much free time, pile us into the backs of minivans and drive us to our towns local sports and recreation center. In my ho
5、metown, Egg Harbor Township, New Jersey, kids converge each year on the EHT Youth Organ Building, a cinderblock shack in the middle of a handful of baseball and football fields. There lines are waited in, forma filled out, birth certificates examined and photocopied, health insurance waivers furnish
6、ed and signed. At the end of the morning, kids are signed up for little-league baseball and an instant summer of activities has been created. Then its time to go to Burger King. For parents seeking productive ways to occupy their childrens time, summer sports leagues offer a convenient and time test
7、ed outlet for overabundant energy. In my case that meant baseball. Americas pastime: nine weeks of pitched fastballs and sore elbows, grounders up the, middle, digging it out to first base. Shagging flies in the outfield and swatting mosquitoes in the infield. Then, after six innings, back to Burger
8、 King. A couple of weeks after the signups at the cinderblock shack, we kids would be rounded up into teams and coached in the fundamentals of pitching, catching, hitting, and running bases. Wed be supplied with color-coded jerseys and mesh baseball caps, and then we would play a seasons worth of ga
9、mes against one another. Playoffs would be held and champions crowned. At the end of the season an ail-star team of the leagues best players would be assembled to play against the best teams from neighboring towns. Back and forth across the country this system repeats itself from town to town and sp
10、ort to sport with little variation. Some leagues have storied pasts: baseballs Little League or footballs Pop Warner League. Some are newer. In cities it is often the Policemens Benevolent Association or the YMCA that assumes the sponsorship role. Always, though, there is the underlying idea that or
11、ganized sport is a valuable and productive use of a young persons time. Sports, in short, are a kind of education, teaching important life .skills that cant be learned in school. Ideas about the educational value of sports vary widely. For some, sports foster the social development of young people,
12、teaching kids how to interact with their peers outside the classroom. Sports teach kids what it means to compote how to cope with losing, how to respond gracefully to success. Sports are about teamwork, how to work together toward a common goal. Sometimes theyre about developing a sense of self-este
13、em. Sometimes theyre simply about finding a healthy way to tire hyperactive kids out so theyll sit still in class or get to bed at a reasonable hour. Some bolder advocates claim that their games build character. Given the prevailing educational undercurrent, its no surprise that many kids second bru
14、sh with organized athletics takes place in a school. Junior highs and highs schools sponsor their own sports programs and field teams of football, basketball. soccer and tennis players. There the educational theme is given a more direct and tangible form as squads of student-athletes travel around t
15、he state representing their schools on the field, court or diamond. Yet here, strangely enough, is where a bit of the educational component begins to niter. High school teams are necessarily more selective than their youth league predecessors. Tryouts are held and less promising players are cut. Coa
16、ches receive salaries, and there is an expectation that the teams they shape will win. In sum, there is a slight change in emphasis away from education and toward out right competition. Competitive Sports Build Character Education is an important theme in youth athletics in the US. Young kids, energ
17、etic, rambunctious, cooped up in class, yearn for the relative freedom of the football field, the basketball court, the baseball diamond. They long to kick and throw things and tackle each other, and the fields of organized play offer a place in which to act out these impulses, Kids are basically en
18、couraged, after all, to beat each other up on the football field. Yet for all the chaos, adult guidance and supervision are never far off, and time spent on the athletic fields is meant to be productive. Conscientious coaches seek to impart lessons in teamwork, self-sacrifice, competition, gracious
19、winning and losing. Teachers at least want their pupils worn out so theyll sit still in reading class. By the time children start competing for spots on junior high soccer teams or tennis squads, the kid gloves have come off to some extent. The athletic fields become less a place to learn about soft
20、 values like teamwork than about hard self discipline and competition. Competitiveness, after all, is prized highly by Americans, perhaps more so than by other peoples. For a child, being cut from the hockey team or denied a spot on the swimming is a grave disappointment and perhaps an opportunity f
21、or emotional or spiritual growth. High school basketball or football teams are places where the ethos of competition is given still stronger emphasis. Al though high school coaches still consider themselves educators, the sports they oversee are not simple extensions of the classroom. They are impor
22、tant social institutions, for football games bring people together, in much of the US they are e vents where young people and their elders mingle and see how the community is evolving. For the best players, the progression from little league to junior high to high school leads to a scholarship at a
23、big name college and maybe, one day, a shot at the pros. College athletes are ostensibly student-athletes an ideal that suggests a balance between the intellectual rigors of the university and the physical rigors of the playing field. The reality is skewed, heavily in favor of athletics. One would b
24、e hard-pressed to show that major US college sports are about education. Coaches require far too much of players time to be truly concerned with anything other than performance in sport. Too of ten, the players they recruit seem to care little about school themselves. This was not always the case. U
25、niversities Princeton, Harvard, Rutgers, Yale were the birthplaces of American football and baseball; education the formation of “character“ was an important part of what those coaches and players thought they were achieving. In 1913, when football was almost outlawed in the US, the games most promi
26、nent figures traveled to Washington and argued successfully that football was an essential part of the campus experience and that the nation would be robbed of its boldest young men, its best potential leaders, if the game were banned. The idea that competitive sports build character, a Western trad
27、ition dating from ancient Greece, has evidently fallen out of fashion in todays US. Educators, now prone to see the kind of character shaped by football and basketball in a dark light, have challenged the notion that college sports produce interesting people. Prominent athletes, such as boxer Muhamm
28、ad Ali and basketball star Charles Barkley, deliberately distanced themselves from the earlier ideal of the athlete as a model figure. Todays US athlete is thus content to be an entertainer. Trying to do something socially constructive, like being a role model, will make you seem overearnest and pro
29、bably hurt your street credibility. When I was a kid, my heroes played on Saturdays: they were high school players and college athletes. Pro football games, broadcast on Sunday afternoons, were dull and uninspiring by comparison. After all, why would God schedule any thing important for Sunday? Youv
30、e got school the next day. Although I certainly couldnt have articulated it at the time, I think I must already have sensed that throwing a ball or catching passes was a fairly pointless thing to be good at. In the grand scheme, it was a silly preparation for a job. Yet playing sports was not pointl
31、ess; the point, however, was that you were learning something a disposition, a certain virtue, a capacity for arduous endeavor that might be of value when you later embarked upon a productive career as a doctor or a schoolteacher or a businessman. The optimism of those Saturday afternoons was contag
32、ious. I still feel that way today. 2 Sports, in short, are a kind of education, which can teach important life skills that cant be learned in school. （ A） Y （ B） N （ C） NG 3 Generally speaking, young kids in America prefer taking part in sports to attending class. （ A） Y （ B） N （ C） NG 4 One reason
33、that teachers would drive students to sports field lies in that it will probably help to exhaust the children so that they can sit still in class. （ A） Y （ B） N （ C） NG 5 Todays U.S. athletes usually avoid being like a role model since that will ruin their reputation. （ A） Y （ B） N （ C） NG 6 Playing
34、 in the athletic fields, children still need _ so that the play time can be more effective and productive. 7 Of all people around the world, competitiveness is prized highest by _ . 8 Denied a spot on the swimming team is a serious failure to a kid but it can also be regarded as _. 9 In the eyes of
35、an adult, sports in high school are actually, _ rather than simple extensions of the classroom. 10 In colleges, student-athletes are called so since the colleges intends to demonstrate that they _ between the intellectual pursuit and physical pursuit. 11 The traditional idea that competitive sports
36、build character has apparently _ in todays U.S. 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 o
37、nce. 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） Husband and wife. （ B） Doctor and nurse. （ C） Sales clerk and customer. （ D） Airline agent and customer. （ A） A drugstore. （ B） The name of
38、 high building. （ C） The man who help him. （ D） The name of a street. （ A） All the dresses in that section have to be dry cleaned. （ B） She shouldnt try to wash the cotton dresses. （ C） She will have a problem finding a washable dress. （ D） The cotton dresses in that section are all washable. （ A） B
39、elow the house. （ B） Above the house. （ C） Near the house. （ D） Next to the house. （ A） He doesnt think they are allowed to speak. （ B） He doesnt know whats happening outside. （ C） He was only talking to himself. （ D） He thinks its too noisy to talk now. （ A） She doesnt like either of them. （ B） Joh
40、n copied it from Jim. （ C） Jim copied it from John. （ D） One is the copy from the other. （ A） She hasnt learned French. （ B） She can speak several foreign languages including French. （ C） She can speak either German or French. （ D） She speaks neither French nor German. （ A） Sams knee should be bette
41、r by now. （ B） This isnt good time for Sam to quit. （ C） The news about Sam is quite a surprise. （ D） Sam should have stopped playing earlier. （ A） Lawyer. （ B） Supervisor. （ C） Accountant. （ D） Legal secretary. （ A） Twice her present salary. （ B） Ten dollars more per week. （ C） The same as Snodgras
42、s, Ellington and Pitts. （ D） Ten dollars more per week than Snodgrass, Ellington and Pitts. （ A） She feels her value wasnt appreciated. （ B） She wants a more interesting job. （ C） Shes tired of working. （ D） She wants more money. （ A） Play basketball with friends from work. （ B） Try out for the comp
43、any basketball team. （ C） Get in shape and compete in a cycling race. （ D） Join in his high school basketball team. （ A） She is worried her husband will spend too much time away from home. （ B） She is glad to have a start player as husband. （ C） She is afraid her husband will become a fitness freak.
44、 （ D） She is concerned about her husbands health. （ A） He ought to eat more to strengthen himself. （ B） He should see a doctor. （ C） Her husband should start with a light workout. （ D） Her husband needs to visit a fitness trainer. （ A） It is good for improving muscle tone. （ B） It helps strengthen t
45、he heart. （ C） It helps develop mental toughness. （ D） It does good to his skills. 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 spoken only once. After you hear a question,
46、you must choose the best answer from the four choices marked A, B, C and D. （ A） Through the living-room window. （ B） Through the kitchen window. （ C） The door was unclosed. （ D） The neighbour gave him the key. （ A） The friend was very hungry. （ B） There are eggs and chicken in the refrigerator. （ C
47、） He would come late. （ D） The friend was good at cooking. （ A） The friend was expecting to stay with him. （ B） There was no key in the doormat. （ C） The friend had a wonderful meal in his absence. （ D） The friend got into the neighbours flat. （ A） Intellectual challenge. （ B） Social challenge. （ C）
48、 Physical challenge. （ D） Economic challenge. （ A） Building Pyramids. （ B） Exploring the space. （ C） Painting a picture. （ D） Making plans for transportation. （ A） They face them. （ B） They are interested in them. （ C） They accept and enjoy them. （ D） They ignore them. （ A） Which days people should
49、work. （ B） How the week is divided into days. （ C） Which day begins the week. （ D） How many weeks there are in a month. （ A） The weekend has decreased in length. （ B） The number of national holidays has increased. （ C） People work fewer days per week. （ D） People work more hours each day. （ A） It was six days long. （ B） It didnt include Saturday afternoon. （ C） It always included at least one holiday. （ D） It didnt allow the workers time off. （ A） It would make the work
