09年大学英语六级最后一周模拟题 4

　　Directions: 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 Answer Sheet 2 with a single line through the center.

　　注意：此部分试题请在答题卡2上作答。

　　Passage One

　　Question 26 to 28 are based on the passage you have just heard.

　　26. A) They were possibly caused by man.

　　B) They were mostly caused by volcanoes.
　　C) They were certainly caused by nature.
　　D) We know nothing about their causes.

　　27. A) Afraid. B) Exited. C) Curious. D) Indifferent.

　　28. A) Copper and iron. B) Copper and tin.
　　C) Iron and tin. D) Copper and zinc.

　　Passage Two

　　Questions 29 to 31 are based on the passage you have just heard.

　　29. A) The noises from the games. B) The possible environmental damage.
　　C) The overindulgence of their kids. D) The potential damage of the games.

　　30. A) Beijing Amusement Park. B) The National Amusement Park.
　　C) The International Sculpture Park. D) Beijing Sculpture Park.

　　31. A) Wear clothes made of filmy material.
　　B) Take off their glasses before enjoying thrill rides.
　　C) Wear slipper and casual clothes.
　　D) Eat as much as possible before coming.

　　Passage Three

　　Question 32 to 35 are based on the passage you have just heard.

　　32. A) For four months. B) For six months.
　　C) Until he finds the girl. D) Until the girl accepts the ring.

　　33. A) In a crowded bar. B) Outside a crowded bar.
　　C) In the book store. D) In the department store.

　　34. A) The man has fallen in love with the girl at the first sight.
　　B) The man and the pretty woman were attracted to each other.
　　C) The woman was single.
　　D) The woman was married.

　　35. A) He will ask the woman to accept the diamond ring.
　　B) He will accept the fact and try to forget the woman.
　　C) He will throw the ring away.
　　D) He will tell the woman he cannot live without her.

　　Section C

　　Directions: 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 fill in the blanks numbered from 36 to 43 with the exact words you have heard. For blanks numbered from 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 main points in your own words. Finally, when the passage is read for the third time, you should check what you have written.

　　注意：此部分试题在答题卡2上；请在答题卡2上作答。

　　Part Ⅳ Reading Comprehension (Reading in Depth) (25 minutes)

　　Section A

　　　　Directions：In this section，there is a short passage with 5 questions or incomplete statements. Read the passage carefully. 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.

　　Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates recently told the nation’s governors that America high school education is “obsolete”. He said, “When I compare our high schools to what I see when I’m traveling abroad, I am terrified for our workforce of tomorrow. In 2001, India graduate almost a million more students from college than the Unites States did. China graduates twice as many students with bachelor’s degrees as the US and has six times as many graduates majoring in engineering. America is falling behind.”

　　Gates was describing a global economy in which the chance to move up into a better economic life is slipping overseas, along with jobs that can be performed anywhere----manufacturing in China, technology support in India, online order fulfillment across borders. The Internet brings Bhutan and Bangalore just as close to our offices and living rooms as Boise. Maybe closer.

　　　　Our children’s competitors are not the other schools in the district or the state or even the nation. They are the technologically literate young people in Taiwan, India, Korea, and other developing nations. For today’s American students , learning and retraining will be a lifelong experience.
In The World Is Flat, a recent book analyzing the shift in the global economy, Thomas Friedman points out that the dot. com bubble inspired a massive outlay (花费) of capital to connect the continents. Undersea cable, universal software, high-tech imagery, and Google have erased geography. College graduates in Latin America, Central Asia, India, China, and Russia can do the information work Americans used to count on---in many cases better and in all cases cheaper.
We are burning through reliable careers for our young people at high speed as technology relieves us of the tedium of repetitive work. The robots that vacuum our floors today will be filling out teeth tomorrow. Even jobs at Wal-Mart are endangered. Have you seen the self-check-out lanes? No cashiers required.
To be competitive now, US students must develop sophisticated critical thinking and analytical skills to manage the conceptual nature of work they will do. They will need to be able to recognize patterns, create narrative, and imagine solutions to problems we have yet to discover. They will have to see the big picture and ask the big questions. How many high schools do you know that are nurturing minds like that?

　　Are we supplying the conditions in our schools to create a new crop of original thinkers? Are we making sure of our curricula and instructional programs are not relegated (降级) for repetitive practice, gathering and organizing information, remediation, and test preparation? Are we requiring all students to use their minds well to construct knowledge , to inquire, to invent, to make meaning and relevance out of their learning? Hardly.

　　注意：此部分试题请在答题卡2上作答。

　　57. Bill Gates believes that the American high schools are obsolete in than schools in many other countries

　　58. According to the author, the challenge on American schools comes from the progression of

　　59. By saying that “ Undersea cable, universal software, high-tech imagery, and Google have erased geography.” ( Line3-4, Para. 4), the author means that has enabled many jobs to be done anywhere.

　　60. In order to compete with overseas students, American children will probably have to strengthen .

　　61. The last paragraph calls readers’ attention to confronting the current American education system.

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