1、大学英语六级模拟试卷 596（无答案）一、Part I Writing (30 minutes)1 Directions: For this part, you are allowed 30 minutes to write ,4 Letter of Complaint. Suppose you rent a house through an agency. The hot water heater has broken. You phoned the agency a week ago but they havent repaired it yet. So you write a lette
2、r to the agency. You should write at least 150 words to explain the situation and to tell them what you want them to do about it.A Letter of Complain 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
3、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 contradicts the information given in the passage;NG (for NOT GIVEN) if the information is not given in the passage.1 Is
4、College Really Worth the Money?The Real WorldEste Griffith had it all figured out. When she graduated 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 boa
5、tload 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 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 solv
6、ed? 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 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
7、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 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 s
8、tudents. Theyre mortgaging their futures to meet soaring tuition costs and other college expenses. Like 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 chi
9、ldren to make a choice between two evils,“ says Elizabeth Warren, a Harvard Law professor and expert 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
10、 hikes are needed to pay for cutting-edge technologies, faculty and administration salaries, and rising 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
11、make up for those lost dollars. And you can guess who-especially if you live in Massachusetts, which 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-t
12、hird of the states, in fact, have increased tuition and fees by more then 10 percent.One of those states 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 colleg
13、es because Burrell cant afford to have all of them in four-year schools at once.Meanwhile, even with 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 the
14、y had a surefire plan: even if tuition kept skyrocketing, they had invested enough money along the way 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-e
15、xempt college savings plans offered by individual states, which have attracted billions from families 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 dir
16、ector Anna Griswold, who witnessed a 10 percent increase in loan applications last year. Even. with 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 colleg
17、e nest egg to grow back. Her father had invested money toward her tuition, but a large chunk of it vanished 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, Na
18、dine is attending law school, having signed for yet more loans to pay for that. “There wasnt any way 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 h
19、er 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 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 medi
20、an loan debt at public institutions rose from 10,342 to 15,375. Most of this comes from federal loans, 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 23,00
21、0 from the federal government ).But students arent stopping there. The College Board estimates that 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 direc
22、t student loans. Its what they rack up on all those plastic cards in their wallets. As of two years 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
23、marketing by credit card companies, which set up tables on campus to entice(诱惑) students to sign up. 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 stu
24、dents-a college department or association gets payments from the issuer. Meanwhile, from freshman year 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
25、?One day, Moyer sat down with his mother, Janne ODonnell, to talk about his goal of going to law school. 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 did
26、nt know how he had gotten into such a mess.“A week later, the 22-year-old hanged himself in his bedroom, 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 exceedingl
27、y rare. But despair is common, and it sometimes leads students to rethink whether college was worth 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 sc
28、hool diploma. Also, all but two of the 50 highest paying jobs (the exceptions being air traffic controllers 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
29、of California, Riverside, is glad she borrowed to get through school. But she left Riverside owing 20,000 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
30、her debt, shell probably need to start with a more lucrative(有利的) legal job.Like so many other students, 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 manag
31、e.“ Later has now arrived, and Mikhail is finding out the true cost of her college degree.2 Griffith worked for 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） NG3 The only problem the students are facing at graduation is
32、the dismal job market. （A）Y（B） N（C） NG4 One reason why colleges increase tuition and fees is that the state support is shrinking. （A）Y（B） N（C） NG5 Nearly all the families can manage to meet the soaring tuition costs through various investment plans. （A）Y（B） N（C） NG6 According to Nadines calculation,
33、 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 also_. 8 The college department or association can get payments from the issuer if it sanctions credit cards decorated with _. 9 ODonnell
34、 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 highest paying jobs require a four-year college degree except for air traffic controllers and nuclear power reactor operators. 11 Merit wi
35、ll 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, you will hear 8 short conversations and 2 long conversations. At the end of each conversation, one or more questions will be asked
36、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 choices marked A, B, C and D, and decide which is the best answer.（A）Its a waste of time.（B） It makes her restless.（C） It helps r
37、elieve stress.（D）Its a way to make friends.（A）Watching the football game on spot.（B） Watching the football game on TV.（C） Reading the comments on the football game.（D）Discussing about the football game they have watched.（A）He is too old.（B） He is too slow.（C） He is excellent.（D）He is careless.（A）It
38、is too slippery.（B） Its lawns are damaged severely.（C） It is uneven and its drains dont work.（D）It is covered with puddles of water.（A）To go to see and talk to a friend.（B） To go to cash his travelers checks.（C） To go to the bank and repair the computer.（D）To go to the bank and save some money,（A）He
39、 is from Germany.（B） He is from Europe.（C） He is from Britain.（D）He is from America.（A）Traveling around the world.（B） Having a rest after a days work.（C） Going on business trip.（D）Working in their company.（A）About the places where to buy beautiful clothes.（B） About the places where to have great foo
40、d.（C） About the places where to buy bus system.（D）About the places where to find expensive restaurants.Section BDirections: 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 yo
41、u hear a question, you must choose the best answer from the four choices marked A, B, C and D.（A）At about noon.（B） Late in the afternoon.（C） Early in the morning.（D）At dawn.（A）She meant to ask the crew where the ladies lavatory was.（B） She wanted to watch TV.（C） She took it for the ladies lavatory.（
42、D）She wanted to talk to the captain.（A）At the back of the plane.（B） Somewhere behind the pilots cabin in the front of the plane.（C） On the fight-hand side of the plane.（D）Close to the small kitchen.（A）To get a little exercise.（B） To take in some fresh air.（C） Hoping to get something to eat.（D）To vis
43、it the rich owner.（A）He had not expected such a bold question from Pat.（B） He wondered why Pat didnt run away.（C） Pat wasnt afraid of him.（D）Pat had a gun in his hands.（A）Ordered Pat out of the wood.（B） Warned Pat against shooting.（C） Left Pat alone in the wood.（D）Asked Pat to join them.（A）He is a c
44、ommercial diver.（B） He is an independent photographer.（C） He is a camera manufacturer.（D）Both A and（A）Michael has been diving for nine years.（B） Michael dives on holidays with his parents.（C） Michael loves diving ever since he first tried it.（D）Michael has never taken any diving courses.（A）Taking pi
45、ctures under water.（B） Connecting pipelines.（C） Planting seaweed.（D）Placing explosives under the water.（A）Because he was never afraid of anything.（B） Because he was protected by a special medium.（C） Because he had enough experience.（D）Because it was his job.Section CDirections: In this section, you
46、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 fill in the blanks numbered from 36 to 43 with the exact words you have just heard. For blanks numbered fr
47、om 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 29 Personality is to a large extent inherent A type parents usually bring about A type【B1】_ But the environment must also have a【B2】_ effect, si
48、nce if competition is important to the parents, it is likely to become a major factor in the lives of their, children.One place where children【B3】_ up A characteristics is school, which is, by its very nature, a highly competitive institution. Too many schools【B4 】_the win at all costs moral standar
49、d and【B5 】_ their success by sporting achievements. The current【B6】_ for making children compete against their classmates or against the clock produces a two-layer system, in which competitive A types seem in some way better than their B type fellows. Being too keen to win can have dangerous consequences: remember that Pheidippides, the first marathon runner,【B7】_ dead seconds after saying: Rejoice, we
