1、大学英语六级模拟试卷 110（无答案）一、Part I Writing (30 minutes)1 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, mark：Y (for YES) if the stateme
2、nt 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.2 Is College Really Worth the Money?The Real WorldEste Griffith had it all figured out. When she graduate
3、d from the University of Pittsburgh in April 2001, she 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 book
4、s, groceries and other expenses. No labor union job 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.
5、Add another 180 a month to retire her student 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-hags( 自带午餐 ) her lunch and bikes to work. Above all, she fears shell never own a house or be able to retire
6、. Its not that she regrets getting her degree. “Bat 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. L
7、ike Griffith, theyre facing a one-two punch at graduation: hefty (沉重的) student loans and smothering credit card debt-not to mention a job market that, for now anyway, is dismal.“We are forcing our children to make a choice between two evils,“ says Elizabeth Warren, a Harvard Law professor and expert
8、 on bankruptcy. “Skip college and face a life of diminished opportunity, or go to college and face a life shackled (束缚) by debt.“ Tuition HikesFor some time, colleges have insisted their steep tuition hikes are needed to pay for cutting-edge technologies, faculty and administration salaries, and ris
9、ing health care costs. Now theres a new culprit (犯人): shrinking state support. Caught in a severe budget crunch, many states have sharply scaled back their funding for higher education.Someone had to make up for those lost dollars. And you can guess who-especially if you live in Massachusetts, which
10、 last year hiked its tuition and fees by 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 then 10 percent.One of those st
11、ates is California, and Janet Burrells 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
12、 tuition hikes, Californias community colleges are so strapped for cash they dropped thousands of classes last spring. The result: 54,000 fewer students.Collapsing InvestmentsMany families thought they had a surefire plan: even if tuition kept skyrocketing, they had invested enough money along the w
13、ay to meet the costs. Then a fanny thing happened on the way to Wall Street. Those investments collapsed with the stock market. Among the losers last year: the wildly popular “529“ plans-federal tax-exempt college savings plans offered by individual states, which have attracted billions from familie
14、s around the country. “We hear from 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
15、a market that may be slowly recovering, 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 v
16、anished when stocks want south. Nadine 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
17、 to do it differently,“ she says, “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.De
18、pendent on Loans and Credit CardsThe 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 loan
19、s, which Congress made more 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
20、they also borrowed 4.5 billion from private lenders in the 20002001 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
21、ago, according to a study by lender Nellie Mae, more than eight out of ten uadergrads 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.
22、 Some colleges ban or 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 card-a must-have for some students-a college department or association gets payments from the issuer. Meanwhile, from freshman ye
23、ar to graduation, according 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 sch
24、ool. Dont count on it, 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 bedr
25、oom, where his mother found him. ODonnell is convinced the money pressures caused his suicide. “Sean tried to pay his debts o12,“ she says. “And he couldnt take it.“To be sure, suicides arc exceedingly rare. But despair is common, and it sometimes leads students to rethink whether college was worth
26、it. In fact, there 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 cont
27、rollers and nuclear 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 2
28、0,000 in student 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 stude
29、nts, Mikhail 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
30、 worked for a firm that specialized in economic development in Washington D.C. because she needed money to pay for her debt.3 The only problem the students are facing at graduation is the dismal job market.4 One reason why colleges increase tuition and fees is that the state support is shrinking.5 N
31、early all the families can manage to meet the soaring tuition costs through various investment plans.6 According to Nadines calculation, she can pay off all her debt when she is _ if she can get a salary of120,000 a year fight out of law school.7 Students get money from not only federal loans but al
32、so_.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 that foregoing a college education is often not a wise choice because _ of the 50 highes
33、t 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 a public-interest attorney because she has to _.Section ADirections: In this section, y
34、ou 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, you must read the four
35、 choices marked A, B, C and D, and decide which is the best answer.（A）Robert survived the plane crash.（B） All the passengers were killed in the plane crash.（C） Robert was killed in the air crash.（D）Robert is a wonder-working person.（A）Because she feels very hot in the room.（B） Because she wants to a
36、void meeting people.（C） Because she wants to smoke a cigarette outside.（D）Because she doesnt like the smell of smoke inside.（A）He thinks David is not reliable.（B） Hes willing to trust David.（C） He has told his doubts to David.（D）He thinks David will benefit from this experience.（A）The man can have h
37、is pants at the end of the day.（B） Cleaning the pants will take longer than usual.（C） She doesnt think the stain can be removed.（D）The man should go to a different location.（A）The man should start running daily.（B） She also prefers to exercise in the afternoon.（C） Its important to warm up before exe
38、rcising.（D）The man should continue his exercise program.（A）The professor postponed the exam and will inform everyone later.（B） The professor phoned him about the postponing of the exam.（C） The professor canceled the exam.（D）The professor put off the exam.（A）The woman had been planning for the confer
39、ence.（B） The woman called the man but the line was busy:（C） The woman didnt come back until midnight.（D）The woman had guests all evening.（A）They should wait patiently.（B） They should ask that man to leave.（C） They should serve that man immediately.（D）That man is old enough to order things he likes.（
40、A）Because he cant find an ideal date.（B） Because he is too common a person.（C） Because he has failed to realize his dreams.（D）Because be is deceived by Mrs. Right.（A）Entering a large company without application,（B） Programming human feelings into machines.（C） Deciding ones best partner through inter
41、net.（D）Matching up people with questionnaires.（A）It isnt reliable.（B） It needs checking.（C） It is definitely trustworthy.（D）It wont hurt to try.（A）She needs some information,（B） She wants packing materials.（C） She is checking her package.（D）She is moving to California.（A）Fresh fruit.（B） A girl certi
42、ficate.（C） Homemade candy.（D）A wedding present.（A）The next day.（B） On Saturday.（C） In three days.（D）In one week.（A）Regular service.（B） Overnight express.（C） Same day delivery.（D）Priority service.Section BDirections: In this section, you will hear 3 short passages. At the end of each passage, you wil
43、l 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）The opening up of new markets.（B） The printing of high quality copies.（C） The increased use of the Internet.（D）
44、The rapid development of small businesses.（A）To plant more fast growing trees.（B） To find new materials for making paper.（C） To develop new printers using recycled paper.（D）To encourage printing more quality documents.（A）Because they see a growing market for printers.（B） Because small companies need
45、 more hard copies.（C） Because people are concerned about the environment.（D）Because printers in many offices are working overtime.（A）Nancy set up “Dress for Success“ to make money.（B） Nancys office gathers used clothes from women.（C） Nancys grandfather lent her the money to set up the office.（D）Low-
46、income women can get jobs at “Dress for Success“.（A）Because they like the design of the dresses（B） Because they like to wear different clothes（C） Because they prefer buying clothes at a low price（D）Because they need to look smart when looking for a job（A）That she got a lot of good ideas from Nancy（B
47、） That she is working happily at her present job.（C） That clothes from Nancys office helped to get her a job（D）That “Dress for Success“ has a good business relation with her firm（A）Foreign words are best suited for announcements.（B） The ideas expressed in foreign words sound new.（C） Foreign words ma
48、ke new subjects easier to understand.（D）The use of foreign words makes the media more popular.（A）They trust the media.（B） They respect experts.（C） They are willing to learn about new things.（D）They are good at learning foreign languages.（A）Foreign products and experts.（B） The interest of young Japan
49、ese.（C） Best-selling Japanese textbooks.（D）The media and government papers.（A）It sells very well in Japan.（B） It is supported by the government.（C） It is questioned by the old generation.（D）It causes misunderstanding among the readers.Section CDirections: 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 second time, you are required to
