2013年6月大学英语六级模拟题

1、2013年6月大学英语六级考前全真模拟试题（1）Part Writing (30 minutes)Directions: For this part, you are allowed 30 minutes to write a short essay entitled Is It Appropriate for College Students to Rent Apartments Outside Campus? You should write at least 150 words following the outline given below:1. 简单说明目前大学生在外租房情况2.

2、对这种情况进行利弊分析3. 根据利弊分析得出结论，表明观点Is It Appropriate for College Students to Rent Apartments Outside CampusPart WritingIs It Appropriate for College Students to Rent Apartments Outside Campus?Nowadays, many university students do not like to live in a dorm in the campus, but choose to rent apartments outs

3、ide. If we want to know whether it is appropriate to do so, we should analyze its advantages and disadvantages.The advantages of living outside campus are obvious. Students who live outside can enjoy more freedom and have more independence. For senior students, they may also have more opportunities

4、for jobs. But there are also many disadvantages. For instance, they may have less time to know other students, they have to spend time traveling forth and back, their life may be less interesting, and it is obviously more expensive and less safe to live outside.Considering the advantages and disadva

5、ntages, I think students should decide according to their own situations. If they want to save money and have more time to study and more contacts with other students, it is better for them to live inside the campus. But if they value freedom and independence more than anything else and do not have

6、to worry about the costs, it is also appropriate for them to rent a room or an apartment outside the campus. Whatever they decide, their decisions should be appropriate for themselves.Part Reading Comprehension (15 minutes)Directions: In this part, you will have 15 minutes to go over the passage qui

7、ckly 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 passage.For questions 5

8、-10,complete the sentences with the information given in the passage.Reading for LifeToday is the first day of the rest of your life. How can reading fill it to overflowing with adventure, richness, and fullness?Your Pleasure-giving SkillSkills are skills. Pleasures are pleasures. But some skills ar

9、e lasting pleasures. Such is reading. Listen to Hazilitt-The greatest pleasure in life is that of reading. Or Macauly- I would rather be a poor man in a garret with plenty of books than a king who did not love reading. To them and countless others all over the world, reading is a source of the deepe

10、st and fullest enjoyment. Thats true from early school days to days of leisure and retirement.Your Fountain of YouthReading is more than that. It can be your fountain of youth. Virginia Woolf said, The true reader is essentially young. One of your major problems is how to stay alive as long as you l

11、ive. Some die at 30 but are not buried until theyre 70. With some, youth slips away before being properly savored. Reading provides a spring of living water, refreshing and life-giving. Stay young for life with reading.Your Dream-fulfillment AidPart of youth lies in dreaming-dreaming impossible drea

12、ms that you can sometimes make possible. Robert F. Kennedy said this, “Some men see things as they are and say Why? I dream things that never were and say Why not? Certain books push the boundaries of the human mind out beyond belief. After all, a little bit of greatness hides in everyone. Let books

13、 bring it into full bloom.Your Know-thyself AidWhats your most important quest? Finding yourself. Finding your own identity. The Greeks epitomized that problem in two words: Know yourself. Well, articles and books help in that all-important search. They supply assurance of the power and worth of you

14、r own life, a measure of your possibilities.To see yourself in proper perspective, you need detailed picture of real people in real situations. We need to see three-dimensional characters, with all the typical human fears and limitations. Then, and only then, can you begin to see and know yourself a

15、s you should.Your Vocational Counselor and ConsultantWhat about practical questions, such as those about your vocation? Will reading help you decide more intelligently what to do, how to prepare yourself and how to succeed on the job?To answer the first question, you have to know your own talents, a

16、bilities, and interests well. You must also, however, know the opportunities in the world around you. Some Bureau of Labor Statistics, for example, predicted a surplus of approximately two million school teachers. Still another source indicated that right now the health fields are the only fields in

17、 which we have shortages. Balance such information with self-knowledge and you have some of the ingredients needed to make intelligent, perceptive choices.Second, youve decided on a career. How and where do you get the required preparation? Again, turn to reading. Youll probably find a listing of sc

18、hool programs to choose from. You may even find them rated. If so, youll know exactly where to go for the best possible preparation.Third, dont stop yet. Youve selected a career and trained yourself. Learn on reading now to help you succeed on the job. A variety of magazines and books will provide g

19、uidance and help.But thats not all. The day of only one lifetime career may be almost over. All too often, change throws hundreds out of work. Change hits the aircraft industry, for example. Result? Hundreds of well-qualified engineers suddenly out on the street.If you manage things well, keeping a

20、close eye on changing conditions. You can avoid the pain of waking up to find yourself out of a job. Through reading develop some new skills and interests. Then if conditions change, you can slip with comparative ease from one field into another, hardly breaking stride.Most of the things taught in s

21、chool-typing, shorthand, key punching, language, farming, business management-are readily available in interesting self-help articles and books. Let them smooth your path in any new direction you decide to take.Your Experience ExtenderWhats the best teacher? Experience, of course! Its priceless. It

22、comes from what you yourself have seen, heard, tasted, smelled, and felt - what you yourself have lived through.Take a closer look. Look at our limitations. No wonder experience is so precious. We cant begin to get enough of it. We cant even experience again what we just lived through. Were not born

23、 with instant replay. We cant actually relive any moment. And, obviously, were limited to one lifetime.Space and time! How they limit us. Who has a time machine to carry him back into history? No one. Its the same with space. We cant literally be in two places at the same time. Right now you cant be

24、 sitting where you are and at the same time be strolling down the famed Champs Elysees in Paris.Heres where reading fits. It can bring us almost unlimited additional experience. To be sure, its secondhand experience. But its often so vivid that it seems firsthand, just as if were living through it o

25、urselves, being moved to tears, laughter, or suspense. That rich range of experience provides the ideal supplement to our own limited experience. In this way, reading becomes one of our most profound mind-shaping activities.Furthermore, all this experience is available when we want it. Books never i

26、mpose on us. When we want them, we reach out and pull them off the shelf or table. At our convenience we invite them to share their unbelievable wealth with us.Carlyle sums this all up nicely, All that mankind has done, thought, gained, or been; it is lying as in magic preservation in the pages of b

27、ooks. Help yourself! Make reading your experience-extender for the rest of your life.1. According to the passage, reading is the lasting pleasure.2. Reading provides all the people in the world with a source of deepest and fullest enjoyment.3. Reading is a fountain of youth in that one can always le

28、arn something new from books and never cease to be young in spirit.4. The passage explains how books help fulfill your long-cherished dreams.5. To find your own identity simply means_.6. To make an intelligent decision on what to do, you should have an adequate knowledge of your own _.7. According t

29、o the author, reading is even _ after you have selected a career and trained yourself.8. You should develop some new skills and interests with the help of books in order to prepare for _.9. Though our experience is limited by _, reading can bring us unlimited additional secondhand experience.10. Car

30、lyle calls on people to make reading their _ for the rest of their life.Part Reading Comprehension (Skimming and Scanning)1. Y本题的判断依据为文章第一个小标题下的第三、四句But some skills are lasting pleasures. Such is reading.(阅读能给人以持久的快乐。)由此我们可判定本句与原文所述之意相符。2. N本题的判断依据为文章第一个小标题下倒数第二句To them and countless others all over

31、 the world, reading is a source of deepest and fullest enjoyment.(对于他们和世界上无数其他的人来说,阅读是带给他们最大限度享受和快乐的源泉。)据此我们可知并非指世界上所有的人。3. Y本题判断依据为文章第二个小标题下面的一段。该段讲述了阅读犹如一泉活水,使我们精神振奋,给予我们生命,阅读能使我们终身保持年轻,由此我们可判定本 题的表述与原文所述之意相符。4. NG本题解题依据为第三个小标题下面一段。该段讲述了我们要敢于梦想不可能实现的梦想,因为我们阅读的某些书籍能引领我们去实现,但本段并未提及阅读的书 籍如何帮助我们去实现心存已

32、久的梦想。5. to know yourself 本题有关认识自我的问题，定位于小标题Your Know-thyself Aid第一段。答案是古希腊人给的两个字：Know thyself，意即know yourself。6. talents, abilities and interests 本题有关职业问题，定位于小标题Your Vocational Counselor and Consultant中。解题依据为该部分的第一段以及第二段第一句。7. indispensable 本题有关找到工作和经过训练之后的读书问题，解题的主要依据是小标题Your Vocational Counselor a

33、nd Consultant的第四段，该段之后的段落谈的都是读书对变换工作的重要性。另外本题的答案也可以是important, useful等。8. unexpected change 本题有关工作变化问题，定位于小标题Your Vocational Counselor and Consultant下的第五、六、七段，通读这几段，即可确定答案。9. time and space 本题有关读书有助于扩充阅历的问题，定位于小标题Your Experience Extender的第三段，该段的第一、二句就是答案的依据Space and time! How they limit us.10. exper

34、ience-extender本题提到的Carlyle出现在文章最后一段，根据该段的最后一句Make reading your experience-extender for the rest of your life.即可得出答案。Part Reading Comprehension(Reading in Depth)(25 minutes)Section ADirections: In this section, there is a short passage with 5 questions or incomplete statements. Read the passage caref

35、ully. Then answer the questions or complete the statements in the fewest possible words on Answer Sheet 2.Questions 47 to 51 are based on the following passage.For most people, shopping is still a matter of wandering down the high street or loading a cart in a shopping mall. Soon, that will change.

36、Electronic commerce is growing fast and will soon bring people more choice. There will, however, be a cost: Protecting the consumer from fraud will be harder. Many governments therefore want to extend high street regulations to the electronic world. But politicians would be wiser to see cyberspace a

37、s a basis for a new era of corporate self-regulation.Consumers in rich countries have grown used to the idea that the government takes responsibility for everything from the stability of the banks to the safety of the drugs, or their rights to refund(退款) when goods are faulty. But governments cannot

38、 enforce national laws on businesses whose only presence in their country is on the screen. Other countries have regulators, but the rules of consumer protection differ, as does enforcement. Even where a clear right to compensation exists, the online catalogue customer in Tokyo, say, can hardly go t

39、o New York to extract a refund for a dud purchase.One answer is for governments to cooperate more: to recognize each others rules. But that requires years of work and volumes of detailed rules. And plenty of countries have rules too fanciful for sober states to accept. There is, however, an alternat

40、ive. Let the electronic businesses do the regulation themselves. They do, after all, have a self-interest in doing so.In electronic commerce, a reputation for honest dealing will be a valuable competitive asset. Governments, too, may compete to be trusted. For instance, customers ordering medicines

41、online may prefer to buy from the United States because they trust the rigorous screening of the Food and Drug Administration; or they may decide that the FDAs rules are too strict, and buy from Switzerland instead.Consumers will need to use their judgment. But precisely because the technology is ne

42、w, electronic shoppers are likely for a while to be a lot more cautious than consumers of the normal sort-and the new technology will also make it easier for them to complain noisily when a company lets them down. In this way, at least, the advent of cyberspace may argue for fewer consumer protectio

43、n laws, not more.47. What can people benefit from the fast-growing development of electronic commerce?_48. When goods are faulty, who do consumers in rich countries tend to think that it is takes responsibility for everything?_49. In the authors view, why do businesses place a high premium on honest

44、 dealing in the electronic world?_50. We can infer from the passage that in licensing new drugs the FDA in the United States is _.51. We can learn from the passage that _ are probably more cautious than consumers of the normal sort when buying things.Section BDirections: There are 2 passages in this

45、 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).You should decide on the best choice and mark the corresponding letter on Answer Sheet 2 with a single line through the centre.Passage OneQuestions 52 to 56

46、are based on the following passage.Some people say that the study of liberal arts is a useless luxury we can not afford in hard times. Students, they argue, who do not develop salable skills will find it difficult to land a job upon graduation. But there is a problem in speaking of salable skills. W

47、hat skills are salable? Right now, skills for making automobiles are not highly salable, but they have been for decades and might be again. Skills are another example of varying salability, as the job market fluctuates. Whats more, if one wants to build a curriculum exclusively on what is salable, o

48、ne will have to make the courses very short and change them very often, in order to keep up with the rapid changes in the job market. But will not the effort be in vain? In very few things can we be sure of future salability, and in a society where people are free to study what they want, and work w

49、here they want, and invest as they want, there is no way to keep supply and demand in labor in perfect accord.A school that devotes itself totally to salable skills, especially in a time of high unemployment, sending young men and women into the world armed with only a narrow range of skills, is als

50、o sending lambs into the lions den. If those people gain nothing more from their studies than supposedly salable skills, and cant make the sale because of changes in the job market, they have been cheated. But if those skills were more than salable, if study gave them a better understanding of the w

51、orld around them and greater adaptability in a changing world, they have not been cheated. They will find some kind of job soon enough. Flexibility, and ability to change and learn new things, is a valuable skill. People who have learned how to learn can learn outside of school. That is where most o

52、f us have learned to do what we do, not in school. Learning to learn is one of the highest liberal skills.52. From the passage, we can learn that the author is in favor of _.A) teaching practical skills that can be sold in the current job marketB) a flexible curriculum that changes with the timesC)

53、a liberal educationD) keeping a balance between the supply and demand in the labor market53. The word fluctuate(Line 5,Para.1) most probably means_ .A) remain steady B) change in an irregular wayC) follow a set pattern D) become worse and worse54. According to the author, who of the following is mor

54、e likely to get a job in times of high unemployment?A) A person with the ability to learn by himself.B) A construction worker.C) A car repairman.D) A person with quite a few salable skills.55. According to the author, in developing a curriculum school should _.A) predict the salability of skills in

55、the future job marketB) take the current job market into considerationC) consider what skills are salableD) focus on the ability to adapt to changes56. We can learn from the passage that _.A) liberal arts education is being challenged nowB) schools that teach practical skills fare better during hard

56、 timesC) extracurricular activities are more important than classroom learningD) many students feel cheated by the educational systemPassage TwoQuestions 57 to 61 are based on the following passage.Over the past decade, American companies have tried hard to find ways to discourage senior from feathe

57、ring their own nests at the expense of their shareholders. The three most popular reforms have been recruiting more outside directors in order to make boards more independent, linking bosses pay to various performance measures, and giving bosses share options, so that they have the same long-term interests as their shareholders.These reforms have been widely adopted by Americans larger c