1、大学英语六级（阅读）模拟试卷 21及答案与解析 一、 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 info
2、rmation 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. 0 What to Do During Unemployment Even as the economy improves, a jobless person may face up to a year or more of unemployment
3、. This is a lot of time, especially for hard-charging high-performers who are not used to having any free time. While some job seekers spend hundreds even thousands of hours discovering daytime television, others seem to thrive on activities that boost their professional careers or resolve family is
4、sues when they arent working. Having an extended period of free time in the prime of ones life can in fact be a unique opportunity to focus on volunteer service, professional education or personal growth. Community Involvement For Lisa Perez, the wakeup call was burned pork chops. An executive who p
5、reviously hadnt been particularly interested in home and health had become obsessed with homemaking during a stint of unemployment. She realized that cleaning and organizing her home wasnt helping her job search. Nevertheless, “ I made lists of 50 things to do every day,“ says Ms. Perez, a political
6、 and public-relations consultant in Scottsdale, Ariz. “ My house was spotless, just so Id have something to do. “ One day, her boyfriend didnt arrive on time for dinner because he had to work late, and her pork chops were ruined. She threw a fit. “Id never been a person like that,“ she says. “So I d
7、ecided to stop feeling sorry for myself, and go out and do something productive. “ Ms. Perez, 35, resolved to become an active volunteer for the duration of her search. She gave her time to a health-care concern, a housing program and a political campaign. The work bolstered her self-confidence. “ V
8、olunteering takes the focus off you. One thing you have thats still valuable is your time. And, of course, you learn that there are thousands of people with a life thats much worse than yours,“ she says. Volunteer assignments are also great ways to meet powerful and well-connected people. Over a six
9、-month period, her volunteering evolved into working as a paid consultant and then as a full-time employee, a job she still holds today. In all, she was unemployed for eight months. Before her job loss, she thought she didnt have time to volunteer while working. “Now, even though I have a demanding
10、job, I still volunteer, because of what I got out of it,“ says Ms. Perez. Continuing Education Gene Bellavance, a 36-year-old information-technology project manager, took another route during his unemployment. When he was laid off from a steel company near Cleveland, he knew his immediate prospects
11、were bleak. He expected his search to take a year. He faced a decision: take a job that would set back his career or hold out for an offer he really wanted. Mr. Bellavance, single and virtually debt free, shifted his finances into survival mode. He cashed out his pension, sold his house, unloaded th
12、ings he didnt need at garage sales, and rented an apartment with a roommate. Then, he says, “I signed up for every benefit I could find. “ But he wasnt just waiting out the year. He spent the rest of his search updating his skills, including becoming certified in new database and project-management
13、software. “You have to invest in yourself,“ Mr. Bellavance says. “I estimated what technology was going to be the most beneficial and chose applications that were going to be pervasive, that were right for my market, and that were going to ensure top pay. “ In addition to income from the occasional
14、IT-consulting assignment, he relied on a combination of displaced-worker-retraining grants and unemployment benefits. His job search was one month shy of the full year hed expected. He looked for work during his training and says he would have finished the certification programs even if hed been hir
15、ed before completing them. “ People should not feel guilty about accepting government aid,“ he says. “ I saw this in a lot of people. They felt they were some kind of loser for taking benefits. My advice is: Get all you can. Youve been paying for these programs in your entire career, and you may as
16、well start to benefit from them. “ Family Matters In addition to pursuing training or volunteering, some displaced careerists use their time off work to attend to family matters. Many people rediscover their children or find time to help their parents. Stanford Rappaport held three jobs in San Franc
17、isco, including high-tech and teaching positions. When he was laid off from the high-tech job last year, he knew it might be a long slog before he could get another post like it in the Bay Area. “ I was a-ble to do the math,“ says Mr. Rappaport ,46. “ The number of people laid off: huge; and the num
18、ber of available jobs: miniscule. At the time, I thought it might be two or three years before the tech industry recovered. “ Mr. Rappaports remaining job, a part-time faculty position with City College of San Francisco, didnt pay enough to support him. After a couple of months of searching with no
19、results, he decided to escape the Northern California jobs meltdown. “My plan,“ he says, “ was to get out of an expensive living situation, and either seek work in another section of the U. S. or overseas, for those two years. “ Mr. Rappaport, who speaks five languages, had worked overseas before. B
20、efore he found an assignment, his Arkansas-based mother was diagnosed with a serious chronic illness, and he was called into duty as a son. Mr. Rappaport was able to help his mother get her affairs in order not to interrupt his search by using a San Francisco mail drop and cell-phone. “ I continued
21、to look for work in California while I was in Fayetteville, Ark. , helping my mother through this crisis. “ He took his mother to medical appointments, made repairs on her house, bought her a better car, and straightened out her legal and financial affairs. “I even got to go through my fathers effec
22、ts, which in the five years since he had died were simply piled in boxes in his office,“ he says. Mr. Rappaports stay in Arkansas lasted six months. “ Its amazing that at this stage I had the opportunity to spend a significant amount of time with my mother and improve her life and get a lot of thing
23、s done for her. Most people never have that opportunity. Im very thankful that I had the chance. It was absolutely worth it,“ he says. One of the unexpected benefits was the huge boost in confidence he gained from his role as caregiver. Hed been feeling depressed and defeated when he left California
24、, but after returning, he felt renewed. He landed a job with a former employer after returning to San Francisco and remains a part-time faculty member. 1 The author thinks a period of joblessness in the prime of ones life may be a good opportunity to_. （ A） enjoy the warmth of the family （ B） take p
25、art in occupational training （ C） make friends with well-connected people （ D） participate in physical training programs 2 When Lisa Perezs boyfriend didnt have dinner with her on time, she_. （ A） ruined her pork chops on purpose （ B） felt sorry for his missed date （ C） was extremely angry （ D） deli
26、vered food for him 3 What did Lisa Perez learn from volunteering jobs? （ A） Volunteering built up her confidence. （ B） Volunteering took much valuable time. （ C） Many people pursued volunteering. （ D） Different people had different lives. 4 Lisa Perez got away from her unemployment finally by_. （ A）
27、 a wakeup call from the burned pork chops （ B） doing homemaking during unemployment （ C） participating in volunteer assignments （ D） accepting a new demanding job 5 How did Gene Bellavance spend the duration of his unemployment? （ A） Working as a volunteer. （ B） Taking an odd job. （ C） Loaning from
28、bank. （ D） Renewing his techniques. 6 Gene Bellances main source of life was_during his unemployment. （ A） income of IT-consulting assignment （ B） government subsidy （ C） endowment insurance （ D） stock dividends 7 What did Gene Bellance think of accepting government aid? （ A） It was a shame. （ B） It
29、 was a charity. （ C） It was your duty. （ D） You deserved it. 8 Mr. Rappaport decided to leave Northern California because he thought the_ there was too expensive. 9 The role as caregiver brought about a huge_boost into Mr. Rappaport. 10 Mr. Rappaports story is a good case of taking the unemployment
30、time to deal with_. Section A Directions: In this section, there is a short passage with 5 questions or incomplete statements. Read the passage carefully. Then answer the questions or complete the statements in the fewest possible words. 10 Do you know when your spouses angry tirade(长篇的激烈言辞 )is actu
31、ally masking fear? Or how to handle a colleague who takes credit for your work? Are you comfortable confiding(倾诉 )in friends? Can you hold your tongue when under stress? If you answered no to the above questions, you might want to sharpen your emotional intelligence the ability to understand emotion
32、s and to respond to them effectively. Just 13 years after the term “emotional intelligence“ was coined, the concept has gained currency as being just as important as cognitive intelligence in determining success if not more so. Even professional bean counters are getting the message. The American In
33、stitute of Certified Public Accountants has adopted a statement calling emotional intelligence an extremely important skill for the profession. How so? Because good accountants must be perceptive(感觉敏锐的 ), persuasive and problem solvers all of which relate to facets of emotional intelligence. Researc
34、hers agree that high achievers often are highly emotionally intelligent, particularly those in fields that demand keen insight into others motivations and feelings chief executives, salespeople, therapists and military leaders, for example. But theres disagreement over exactly what constitutes emoti
35、onal intelligence, how to measure it and whether it matters more than IQ. According to psychologists Mayer and Salovey, emotional intelligence is the ability to identify emotions in yourself and others and to apply the information to guide thought and action. Mayer and Salovey see emotional intellig
36、ence as a mental aptitude that can be measured using responses to specific questions and tasks. Howard Gardner prefers the term “personal intelligence“. In 1983, Gardner published his groundbreaking theory of multiple intelligences. He divides intelligence into seven areas: linguistic, logical-mathe
37、matical, musical, spatial, bodily-kinesthetic, interpersonal and intrapersonal. The last two constitute personal intelligence, which Gardner says is the ability to understand peoples feelings and motivations. High emotional intelligence can be an asset, even in fields that would appear to have littl
38、e need for it. For example, if company executives and their auditors disagree about the proper way to record a financial transaction, repeatedly reciting applicable accounting rules might not be enough to break the impasse(僵局 ). 11 Your emotional intelligence is _ if you feel uncomfortable confiding
39、 in friends. 12 Before the term “emotional intelligence“ was coined, people believed that_ largely determined ones success. 13 High emotional intelligence is necessary for a good accountant since he has to be_. 14 Successful salespeople make use of their high emotional intelligence to understand _an
40、d then find ways to sell products. 15 What does Howard Gardner believe emotional intelligence consists of? Section B Directions: There are 2 passages in this section. Each passage is followed by some questions or unfinished statements. For each of them there are four choices marked A, B, C and D. Yo
41、u should decide on the best choice. 15 Intelligence test scores follow an approximately normal distribution, meaning that most people score near the middle of the distribution of scores and that scores drop off fairly rapidly in frequency as one moves in either direction from the centre. For example
42、, on the IQ scale, about two out of three scores fall between IQs of 85 and 115, and about 19 out of 20 scores fall between 70 and 130. It has been common to associate certain levels of IQ with labels. For example, at the upper end, the label “gifted“ is sometimes assigned to people with IQs over a
43、certain point, such as 130. And at the lower end, mental retardation(智力迟钝 )has been classified into different degrees depending upon IQ, so that, for example, IQs of 70 84 have been classified as borderline retarded, IQs of 55 69 as mildly retarded, IQs of 40 54 as moderately retarded, IQs of 25 39
44、as severely retarded, and IQs below 25 as profoundly retarded. Labeling schemes like these, however, have pitfalls and are in some ways dangerous. First, the labels assume that conventional intelligence tests provide sufficient information to classify someone as either gifted, on the one hand, or me
45、ntally retarded, on the other. But most authorities would agree that this assumption is almost certainly false. Conventional intelligence tests are useful in providing information about some people some of the time, but the information they provide is about a fairly narrow range of abilities. To lab
46、el someone as mentally retarded solely on the basis of a single test score is to risk doing a potentially great disservice and injustice to that person. Most psychologists and other authorities recognize that social as well as strictly intellectual skills are important in classifying a person as ret
47、arded. If a person adapts well to the environment, then it seems inappropriate to refer to that person as mentally retarded, a term with inescapably pejorative connotations. Second, giftedness is generally recognized as more than just a degree of intelligence, even broadly defined. Most psychologist
48、s who have studied gifted persons agree that a variety of aspects make up giftedness. Howard E. Gruber, the Swiss psychologist, believes that giftedness unfolds over the course of a lifetime and involves achievement at least as much as intelligence. Gifted people, he contends, have life plans that t
49、hey seek to realize, and these plans develop over the course of many years. To measure giftedness merely in terms of a single test score would be, for Gruber, a trivializa-tion of the concept. 16 We can know from the intelligence test scores that_. （ A） only one out of 20 scores is 30 points higher or lower than the average IQ points （ B） only those whose IQ scores are over 130 can be called “gifted“ （ C） more than half of the people score higher than 100 （ D）
