1、大学英语六级模拟试卷 713(无答案)一、Part I Writing (30 minutes)1 Spam Message1目前垃圾短信泛滥2这种现象产生的原因3如何解决这个问题二、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 questi
2、ons 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 Directions: In this part, you will have 15 minutes to go over t
3、he passage quickly and answer the questions on Answer Sheet 1.For questions 1 -4, markY( 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 pa
4、ssage.For questions 5 - 10, complete the sentences with the information given in the passage.Sports and EducationSports Are a Kind of EducationFor many young people in my part of the world ( suburban America), the first brush with organized athletics comes on a Saturday morning in early spring. The
5、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 hometown, Egg Harbor Township, New Jersey, kids converge ea
6、ch year on the EHT Youth Organization Building, a cinderblock shack in the middle of a handful of baseball and football fields. There lines are waited in, forms filled out, birth certificates examined and photocopied, health insurance waivers furnished and signed. At the end of the morning, kids are
7、 signed up for little - league baseball and an instant summer schedule 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 - tested outlet for overabundant energy. In
8、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 King.A couple of weeks after the signu
9、ps 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 games against one another. Playoffs woul
10、d be held and champions crowned. At the end of the season an all - star team of the leagues best players would be assembled to play against the best teams from neighboring towns.Back and forth across tile country this system repeats itself from town to town and sport to sport with little variation.
11、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 organized sport is a valuable and prod
12、uctive 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, teaching kids how to interact with the
13、ir peers outside the classroom. Sports teach kids what it means to competehow 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- esteem. Sometimes theyre simply about find
14、ing 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 brush with organized athletics takes place
15、 in a school. Junior highs and high 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 the state representing their schools on
16、the field, court or diamond. Yet here, strangely enough, is where a bit of the educational component begins to alter. High school teams are necessarily more selective than their youth league predecessors. Tryouts are held, and less promising players are cut. Coaches receive salaries, and there is an
17、 expectation that the teams they shape will win. In sum, there is a slight change in emphasis away from education and toward outright competition.Competitive Sports Build CharacterEducation is an important theme in youth athletics in the US. Young kids, energetic, rambunctious, cooped up in class, y
18、earn 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 encouraged, after all, to beat each other u
19、p 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 winning and losing. Teachers at least wa
20、nt 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 values like teamwork than about hard sel
21、fdiscipline 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 for emotional or spiritual growth.High scho
22、ol basketball or football teams are places where the ethos of competition is given still stronger emphasis. Although high school coaches still consider themselves educators, the sports they oversee are not simple extensions of the classroom. They are important social institutions, for football games
23、 bring people together. In much of the US they are events 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 big - name college and maybe, one day, a shot
24、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 be hard - pressed to show that major US coll
25、ege sports are about education. Coaches require far too much of players time to be truly concerned with anything other than performance in sport. Too often, the players they recruit seem to care little about school themselves.This was not always the case. UniversitiesPrinceton, Harvard, Rutgers, Yal
26、e 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 prominent figures traveled to Washington and argu
27、ed 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 tradition dating from ancient Greece, has evident
28、ly 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 Muhammad Ali and basketball star Charles Barkley,
29、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 probably hurt your street credibility.When I wa
30、s 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 anything important for Sunday? Youve got school the next day.Although I certainly
31、 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 pointless; the point, however, was that you were lear
32、ning 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 contagious. I still feel that way today.2 Sports, in
33、short, are a kind of education, which can teach important life skills that cant be learned in school. (A)Y(B) N(C) NG3 Generally speaking, young kids in America prefer taking part in sports to attending class. (A)Y(B) N(C) NG4 One reason that teachers would drive students to sports field lies in tha
34、t it will probably help to exhaust the children so that they can sit still in class. (A)Y(B) N(C) NG5 Todays U.S. athletes usually avoid being like a role model since that will ruin their reputation. (A)Y(B) N(C) NG6 Playing in the athletic fields, children still need _ so that the play time can be
35、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 an adult, sports in high school are actually_rather than simple extensions of t
36、he 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 build character has apparently_in todays U. S. Section ADirections: In this sect
37、ion, 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, you must read th
38、e four choices marked A, B, C and D, and decide which is the best answer.(A)Camp in the mountains.(B) Stay at his own house.(C) Write to his girlfriend.(D)Hold his uncles mails.(A)He doesnt understand his staff.(B) His computer doesnt work properly.(C) He doesnt know how to apply computer theory.(D)
39、He is unable to add the figures.(A)Cowardly.(B) Anxious.(C) Lazy.(D)Courageous.(A)She made a reservation for the 9:00 flight.(B) She changed the reservation.(C) She found they were late for the 8:00 flight.(D)She misunderstood the man.(A)He couldnt make any sense out of his course.(B) He hasnt taken
40、 more than one philosophy course.(C) He is a philosophy major.(D)He hasnt taken any philosophy course in that department.(A)A dentist.(B) A cook.(C) A dietician.(D)A twirler.(A)Go for a swim.(B) Make better use of time.(C) Follow the official procedure.(D)Watch television.(A)She doubts he makes much
41、 money now.(B) Shes surprised that he chose that company.(C) She doesnt know when her classes started.(D)She wonders why hes kept his job.(A)They hate each other.(B) They cherish each other.(C) The boy care about the girl very much.(D)The boy jokes the girl.(A)Red.(B) Black.(C) White.(D)Not all of t
42、he above.(A)The girls friend.(B) Their another sister.(C) The boys dream girl.(D)A pop star.(A)People have to wear face mask even indoors.(B) Chemical factories are the major source of pollution.(C) The air is polluted much more serious than the water.(D)Rapidly increasing car use affects air qualit
43、y.(A)Move out of the city.(B) Plant more trees in the city.(C) Find a warmer place to live in.(D)Improve the environment of the city.(A)Global warming is the same as greenhouse effect.(B) The use of air conditioners contributes to global warming.(C) Scientists have worked out ways to stop global war
44、ming.(D)Global warming brings a lot of natural disasters.(A)They welcome the increase in temperature.(B) They devote themselves to dealing with unfortunate situations.(C) They suffer from the influence of increasing temperature.(D)They are scared of storms brought by climate change.Section BDirectio
45、ns: 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, you must choose the best answer from the four choices marked A, B, C and D.(A)They think exactly the
46、same way.(B) They are not physically separated.(C) They share most of their vital organs.(D)They make decisions by tossing coins.(A)Few of them can live long.(B) Most of them live a normal life.(C) Few of them get along well with each other.(D)Most Of them differ in their likes and dislikes.(A)They
47、have a private tutor.(B) They go to a regular school.(C) They attend a special school.(D)They are taught by their parents.(A)They can live in meadows.(B) They can jump high to get food.(C) They can live off many different kinds of hosts.(D)They can survive without eating for many months.(A)A disease
48、.(B) A cause of fatal plague.(C) A substance in a fleas legs.(D)The substance that a flea lives on.(A)Rat flea.(B) Cat flea.(C) Dog flea.(D)Rabbit flea.(A)He rushed into a shop the last minute before it was locked.(B) He was locked in a store while the staff hurried home.(C) He received a lot of ano
49、nymous Christmas presents.(D)He beat the owner dead when breaking in the store.(A)He stole some cash.(B) He made himself at home.(C) He slept for 2 days.(D)He held a party for himself.(A)He laughed at the police.(B) He looked forward to going to prison.(C) He took his bottles with him.(D)He went with the police without a struggle.(A)The tramp had stolen nothing of value.(B) The store had profited by the incident.(C) The tramp had a happy Christmas.(D)The store was responsible