2006年6月大学英语六级最新模拟试题.doc

2006年6月大学英语六级最新模拟试题Part Listening Comprehension (20 minutes) Section ADirections: In this section, you will hear 10 short conversations. At the end of each conversation, a question will be asked about what was said. Both the conversation and the question 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. Then mark the corresponding letter on the Answer Sheet with a single line through the centre.Example: You will hear:You will read: A) 2 hours B) 3 hoursC) 4 hours D) 5 hoursFrom the conversation we know that the two are talking about some work they will start at 9 oclock in the morning and have to finish at 2 in the afternoon. Therefore, D) 5 hours is the correct answer. You should choose D) on the Answer Sheet and mark it with a single line through the centre.Sample Answer A B C D1. A) At a bus station. B) At a railway station.C) At an airport. D) In a shopping center.2. A) Work on his paper after class. B) Postpone his meeting with Professor Green.C) Go swimming with his friends. D) Go to see Professor Green immediately.3. A) She would rather invite more people to come.B) They would prepare more food and drinks.C) The family members always eat a lot.D) There was too much food at a previous meeting.4. A) He wanted to change the appointment.B) He called Dr. Smith to confirm the appointment.C) He was confused about the date of the appointment.D) He cant see Dr. Smith until tomorrow.5. A) The man was mistaken. B) The woman wont have to wait for long.C) The woman has done a good job. D) The man doesnt work hard.6. A) Organize another activity. B) Choose another restaurant.C) Wear different clothes. D) Ask more friends to go together.7. A) He told her he would send postcards.B) It was difficult for him to have a holiday.C) He has already been to Venice for several times.D) He didnt want to go to Venice at first.8. A) Prepare for his examination. B) Go to the cinema after his examination.C) Ask the woman to help him with his study. D) See a film with the woman.9. A) Share the yogurt with the man. B) Ask the man to buy some yogurt.C) Go out with the man for shopping. D) Eat what she brought with her.10. A) The hotel will not be built in a short time. B) A good name hasnt been found for it yet.C) They have decided to phone the hotel. D) It hasnt been designed yet.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 you hear a question, you must choose the best answer from the four choices marked A), B), C) and D). Then mark the corresponding letter on the Answer Sheet with a single line through the centre.Passage OneQuestions 11 to 13 are based on the following passage.11. A) It created more job opportunities.B) It offered workers more chances for training.C) It allowed workers to live far from their jobs.D) It helped shorten the working hours.12. A) The lack of qualified personnel. B) A decline in the number of customers.C) Difficulty in finding suitable sites. D) Increases transportation costs.13. A) Prices are lower in downtown stores.B) Job opportunities are better there.C) Highway commuting has become unpleasant.D) Environmental pollution is no longer a problem.Passage TwoQuestions 14 to 16 are based on the passage you have just heard.14. A) Most are insomniacs. B) Most are teenagers.C) Most are easily cured. D) Most suffer from hypersomnia.15. A) During early childhood. B) In a persons teens.C) In a persons twenties. D) After a person turns fifty.16. A) Avoid social situations. B) Stop taking certain drugs.C) Take naps during the day. D) Sleep eight hours a night.Passage ThreeQuestions 17 to 20 are based on the passage you have just heard.17. A) Environmental protection. B) Pest control.C) House construction. D) Fire prevention.18. A) Its cheaper. B) Its safer. C) Its quicker. D) Its easier.19. A) To keep the heat inside. B) To prevent insects from escaping.C) To keep the wood dry. D) To reduce the danger of fire.20. A) To show that the technique will not cause fire.B) To highlight the dangers of the old method.C) To explain a step in the new treatment.D) To emphasize the uniqueness of the new method.Part Reading Comprehension (35 minutes)Directions: There are 4 passages in this part. Each passage is followed by some questions or unfinished statements. For each of them there are four choices marked A), B), C) and D). You should decide on the best choice and mark the corresponding letter on the Answer Sheet with a single line through the centre.Passage OneQuestions 21 to 25 are based on the following passage.In a few weeks, high school students face the prospect of taking the much-publicized new SAT Reasoning Test, which for the first time will require them to write a timed essay. Yet colleges continue to send confusing signals about whether students applying in the fall to attend college must take the new exam.Some schools, including Harvard, say they will accept scores from either the new test or the old SAT I, which was administered for the last time in January and did not contain a writing section. The University of Central Florida, for example, will require the new test, which will be given for the first time on March 12. Still others, such as the University of Virginia, strongly recommend that prospective applicants take the new test but under some circumstances also will accept the old SAT. A number of colleges are delaying a decision. The College Board, which administers the SAT, surveyed more than 1,900 four-year schools and has heard back from slightly more than 500. Of those, 81% say they will require the new test, including schools such as Harvard that are giving students a choice in what will be a year of transition.Anything new goes through a special lens of evaluation, says Lee Stetson, admissions dean at the University of Pennsylvania, which judiciously will use results from the new writing section until officials have a chance to study the revised SATs predictive validity.A number of admissions deans are skeptical that the new exam will be an improvement. Charles Deacon, dean of undergraduate admissions at Georgetown University, says adding the essay will create more barriers to poor kids who are less well-prepared. The test was rushed to market because the University of California system, a major College Board customer, threatened to stop requiring the SAT, he says. The test was developed and marketed for all the wrong reasons. Deacon, who says he has been badgered by the College Board to endorse the new exam, has refused to do so.Some schools, including Georgetown, Iowas Grinnell College and Pennsylvanias Franklin and Marshall College, say that at least for now, they will not even look at scores from the writing section when making admission decisions. We have adopted a wait-and-see attitude, says Dennis Trotter of Franklin and Marshall.College Board officials counter that based on extensive field tests, they are confident the test is as reliable a predictor of freshman-year performance as the old SAT. Moreover, they say, well-trained scorers, many of them high school English teachers, will grade the essays, which student have 25 minutes to write.Amidst all the confusion, what should students do? Admissions deans and school counselors say to be sure to check with each college for requirements.21. If a student took the SAT in October last year, he has to take another test if he applies for .A) University of Virginia B) Georgetown UniversityC) the University of Central Florida D) Harvard University22. What does the article tell us about Harvard University?A) It will only accept the new SAT this fall.B) It has not made a decision on whether to accept the old SAT this fall.C) It will require scores from the writing section this fall.D) It will ask all applicants to take the new test a year later.23. An important reason for negative attitudes towards the new writing examination is that .A) the examination will add to the difficulty for those students from financially underprivileged familiesB) the examination was marketed much too quickly without careful considerationC) the examination will cause short-term confusion and lead to no long-term benefitsD) the examination was a product of the College Board and various universities24. According to the author, what should students do at the moment?A) Students should make clear which test is acceptable.B) Students should contact the university for the arrangement of the test.C) Students should ask the College Board for the latest information about the program.D) Students should get prepared for the new examination in less that a year.25. What can we infer from the passage about the test?A) Students who have taken the old test are strongly advised not to take the new test.B) As compared with the old test, the new one requires the student to write an essay in a shorter period of time.C) The College Board has decided to invite university teachers to grade the essays.D) The College Board has appealed to many universities to support the new examination.Passage TwoQuestions 26 to 30 are based on the following passage.Would George W. Bush have been reelected president if the public understood how much responsibility his administration bears for allowing the 9/11 attacks to succeed?The answer is unknowable and, at this date, meaningless. Yet it was appalling to learn that the White House suppressed until after the election a report that exposes the administration as woefully incompetent if not criminally negligent. Belatedly declassified excerpts from the 9/11 commission report, which focus on the failure of the Federal Aviation Administration to heed multiple warnings that Al Qaeda (基地组织) terrorists were planning to hijack planes as suicide weapons, make clear that this tragedy could have been avoided.For the last three years, administration apologists have tried to make the FAA the scapegoat for the 9/11 attacks. But it is the president who ultimately is responsible for national security.The terrible fact is that the administration took none of the steps that would have put the protection of human life ahead of a diverse set of economic and political interests, which included not offending our friends the Saudis and not hurting the share prices of airline corporations.The warnings provided by intelligence agencies to the FAA were far clearer and more specific than suggested by Condoleezza Rices testimony before the 9/11 commission when she reluctantly conceded the existence of a presidential briefing that warned of impending Al Qaeda attacks.Given this shocking record of indifference on the part of the administration, it is politically understandable that it tried to prevent the formation of the 9/11 commission in the first place, and then for five months prevented the declassification of key sections of the final report.Had the business-friendly administration put safety first, nearly 3,000 people might not have died that day. And had the president of the United States taken some time from his ranch vacation that August to order a nationwide airport alert, two bloody wars abroad probably would not have happened.Instead, an administration that resisted spending the tens of millions required to fortify airline security before 9/11 is nearing the $300-billion mark on Afghanistan and Iraq. And declassified documents have unmistakably said the latter had nothing to do with 9/11, while those countries that at least indirectly did have been let off the hook.Indeed, the 9/11 commission was not allowed to get near that story: The basic narrative on the tragedy derives from the interrogations of key detainees whom the 9/11 commissioners were not allowed to interview. Nor were they permitted to even take testimony from the U.S. intelligence personnel who interrogated those prisoners.As a result, the public is simply incapable of making informed decisions on the most crucial decisions we face-starting with whom we elect as our commander in chief.26. According to the author, who should shoulder the major responsibility for allowing the 9/11 tragedy to happen?A) Saddam Hussein. B) FAA.C) George W. Bush. D) Condoleezza Rice.27. What does the word declassify (Line 3, Para. 2) most probably mean?A) To hide the important details of B) To report or represent in a untrue wayC) To form a large group D) To become no longer secret28. What do we learn from the passage about Afghanistan and Iraq?A) Al Qaeda terriorists had gained support from at least one of the governments.B) 9/11 was the chief reason for the Bush government to initiate both wars.C) The two wars had already cost the Americans tens of millions of dollars.D) These two countries should be held responsible for 9/11.29. What can we infer from the passage?A) The Federal Aviation Administration was not to blame in this tragedy.B) Consideration of economic interests had hindered life protection.C) The Bush government had paid such a high price for poor information collection.D) Some government officials had been bribed by Al Qaeda terrorists.30. What is the authors opinion towards President Bush?A) He had been intentionally misleading as to the reasons of initiating the two wars.B) He had been late in preventing the attacks because of a personal vocation.C) He had done everything to help the 9/11 commission do a better job.D) He will have probably failed to be reelected if the public had been well informedPassage ThreeQuestions 31 to 35 are based on the following passage.Polls can provide important guidance for politicians, but there are times when it is foolish and dangerous to rely on a temporarily misinformed public for a political compass. The current debate over Social Security provides one of the most compelling examples in modern history of the pitfalls of poll-driven political strategy.Yesterday two leading Democratic strategists publicly took their party to task for theirjust say no approach to President Bushs program. To say there is no problem simply puts Democrats out of the conversation for the great majority of the country that want political leaders to secure this very important retirement program, they warned, Voters are looking for reform, change, and new ideas, but Democrats seem stuck in concrete.Stuck, indeed. To be more exact, they are holding their ground and refusing to surrender to a president who is once again manufacturing a crisis for a political purpose. And why should they do otherwise, when this strategy is clearly working?Lets start with the facts. According to President Bush, Social Security can pay all promised benefits for the next 37 years without any changes at all. Even if nothing were done by 2043, the program would still pay a higher real benefit than what people receive today.And even looking into the future of the 75-year planning period, the shortfall is less than what we fixed in the 50s, 60s, and 80s. In other words, Social Security is financially stronger today than it has been throughout most of its history.So this attack on Social Security has nothing to do with the solvency (偿付能力) of the program. Nonetheless last week, a Quinnipiac University poll found that respondents, by a 49 to 42 percent margin, believed that Social Security would not be able to pay them a benefit when they retire. But this is a ridiculous idea, based completely on misinformation. It is even more far fetched（牵强的） than the notion, which also commanded a majority before the invasion of Iraq, that Saddam Hussein was responsible for the massacre of 9/11.In the case of Social Security, there is no dispute about the facts. There are just a few cheap verbal and accounting tricks that have been used to convince the public that Social Security faces serious problems. These are easily refuted.The same Quinnipiac poll showed that 59 percent of Americans disapprove of the way the president is handling Social Security, with only 28 percent approving. It makes no political sense to pretend that this attack on our nations most successful and popular government program is actually an attempt to insure its solvency. Even in politics, there are times when honesty is the best policy.31. What can we know about the Democrats, according to the author?A) They want to help secure the retirement program.B) They refuse to admit that the Social Security program has been successful.C) They are making efforts to solve the crisis of the Social Security program.D) They organize polls in order to gain political interests.32. The author raise the example of Saddam Hussein in order to show that .A) the invasion of Iraq represented the wills of common peopleB) no evidence had come up to prove the relationship between Saddam Hussein and the massacre of 9/11C) sometimes the public without proper information will draw foolish conclusionsD) it was wrong for the government to rely on the public for important political decisions33. According to the author, which of the following is correct?A) There is no point in worrying about the solvency of the Social Security program.B) The majority of t