1、大学六级-194 及答案解析(总分：710.00，做题时间：90 分钟)一、Part Writing(总题数：1，分数：106.50)1.Directions: For this part, you are allowed 30 minutes to write a short essay entitled Does City Life Bring Happiness? following the outline given below. You should write at least 150 words but no more than 200 words. 1“城市病”成为一个热词 2
2、越来越多的人感觉城市生活很烦恼 3我的看法 （分数：106.50）_二、Part Listening Com(总题数：0，分数：0.00)三、Section A(总题数：4，分数：106.50)（分数：35.50）A.American blog using.B.American Internet visits.C.American material life.D.American communication styles.A.The man can get through the exam with ease.B.The man performs better on exams when cr
3、amming.C.The man needs to change the way of learning.D.The man should have made better plans for the exam.A.Mike was sacked for yelling at the boss.B.Mike failed to cover the mistake.C.Steve fixed the problem for Mike.D.Steve reported Mike“s mistake to the boss.A.Eating garlic is helpful in curbing
4、global warming.B.Global warming is caused by various reasons.C.She doesn“t think these theories are correct.D.People should avoid obesity to reduce global warming.A.She should have been back earlier.B.She needs to take some medicine.C.He wonders when she can have a rest.D.She is not in good conditio
5、n.（分数：21.30）A.Get a new model of iPod.B.Enjoy some classical music.C.Play the music louder.D.Study in silence.A.The woman is lucky to be promoted.B.The woman needs to take management classes.C.The woman doesn“t have to change her job.D.The woman should expand her circle of friends.A.Recyclable cloth
6、es.B.Second-hand items.C.Courses on budget.D.Fashionable things.Questions 9 to 12 are based on the conversation you have just heard. （分数：28.40）A.Summer vacation internship programs.B.Employment opportunities provided by schools.C.Potential risks of working part-time.D.Importance of a clear and expli
7、cit contract.A.They are responsible for commuting students to the company.B.They are trying to strive for more benefits for students.C.They should have everything concerning their students“ rights in hand.D.They ought to gain a reputation for guaranteeing job opportunities.A.Students are unwilling t
8、o work overtime.B.Schools refuse to sign contracts with them.C.Schools don“t get a permit to organize interships.D.Training and insurance is a huge investment.A.Students find it hard to protect their rights.B.Students can complain to local education authorities.C.Companies act according to the agree
9、ment they signed.D.Schools accept unfair contract regardless of students“ rights.Questions 13 to 15 are based on the conversation you have just heard. （分数：21.30）A.A university tutor.B.An insurance adviser.C.An oversea study officer.D.A visa officer.A.It must be purchased in one“s home country before
10、 going abroad.B.It does not cover all the medical expenses.C.It only recommends doctors who speak one“s native language.D.It features personal paying first and compensation later.A.To consult other insurance companies.B.To buy the student health insurance.C.To get the international travel insurance.
11、D.To choose neither insurance since they are not necessary.四、Section B(总题数：0，分数：0.00)五、Passage One(总题数：1，分数：28.40)Questions 16 to 19 are based on the passage you have just heard. （分数：28.40）A.By borrowing money from the government and paying back after graduation.B.By loaning from the bank and paying
12、 back after graduation.C.By earning scholarship and getting interest-free loan from the government.D.By borrowing from parents and engaging in part-time jobs.A.They doubt whether it could change the current situation.B.They are glad to have it in order to ensure fairer university funding.C.They are
13、worried that it would make students“ burden heavier.D.They want to make sure the tuition fees would not go higher.A.Offering one-year degrees.B.Providing flexible and part-time courses.C.Financing students living at home.D.Cutting teaching grants.A.The hard economy and fierce competition in job mark
14、et.B.The high unemployment rate even for graduates.C.The fact that more people are applying for further education.D.The higher fees coming with the new scheme.六、Passage Two(总题数：1，分数：21.30)Questions 20 to 22 are based on the passage you have just heard. （分数：21.30）A.It makes buying easier since they n
15、eedn“t carry large amounts of cash.B.It is useful in times of emergencies like medical bills caused by accidents.C.It helps build a credit record for bigger purchases in later years.D.It offers additional protection if something they“ve bought is lost or damaged.A.A debit card that has a credit limi
16、t.B.A checking account.C.A credit card with low interest rates.D.A card with lower penalties.A.Writing and sending application forms to the bank.B.Checking the bank account to make sure your credit limit.C.Reading the agreement terms carefully and making a comparison.D.Searching the Internet for adv
17、ice from users of different cards.七、Passage Three(总题数：1，分数：21.30)Questions 23 to 25 are based on the passage you have just heard. （分数：21.30）A.The Era of Microsoft.B.The Epoch of iPad.C.The Epoch of Apple.D.The Era of iPhone.A.It has proved a huge hit to the young worldwide.B.It will become a victim
18、to a tougher economic climate.C.It now overtakes Microsoft in its market value.D.Its stock price has been soaring all the way.A.Development of global economy.B.Collaboration of all employees.C.Sound financial system.D.Intelligence of its CEO.八、Section C(总题数：1，分数：71.00)Have you ever been on a long-ha
19、ul flight? How did you pass the time? Perhaps you watched an in-flight movie or read a book. Well, it would have to be a very long book to keep you 1 for 520 days. That“s how long six men are going to be 2 from humanity in a warehouse in the 3 of Moscow from tomorrow. No, this isn“t another weird re
20、ality TV show, but an experiment from the European Space Agency and Russia“s Institute of Biomedical Problems to test the psychological 4 of a manned mission to Mars. The six astronauts will live in conditions approximating a real space mission. A 550-cubic-metre 5 within the warehouse includes an i
21、nterplanetary spaceship, a Mars lander and a Martian 6 . The group of six will work, relax and sleep in eight-hour 7 , take two days off a week and shower once every ten days. All communication, with mission control will be 8 a 20-minute delay to reproduce the effects of distance. After 250 days, th
22、e astronauts will divide into two groups. Three will move to the Martian surface simulator for a month while the rest will remain “in orbit.“ Then the six will be reunited for a 240-day return journey to the outside world. Throughout, the organizers of the project will use cameras to 9 everything th
23、at happens “on board.“ They will gather new information about personal stress levels, emotional well-being and group dynamics. Dr. Maggie Aderin-Pocock, a scientist with the satellite manufacturer EADS Astrium, believes that the experiment will be extremely valuable. However, she 10 that without the
24、 glory of being the first humans to visit the Red Planet, it could be hard for these pioneers to maintain motivation. （分数：71.00）填空项 1:_九、Part Reading Compr(总题数：0，分数：0.00)十、Section A(总题数：1，分数：35.50)Waffles? French toast? Bacon? Big breakfasts may be a thing of the past. According to the Associated Pr
25、ess, more Americans are consuming breakfast in stages thanks to on-the-go lifestyles and the belief that multiple, smaller meals are 1 than three large ones. Serial eating is only expected to increase in the coming years. The NPD Group, a market research company, 2 that the number of times people wi
26、ll snack in the mornings will increase 23% between 2008 and 2018, 3 with 20% and 15% increases in afternoon and evening snacking, 4 . Unlike their evening alter-egos, morning snackers tend to be more health 5 , looking for low-calorie foods with more fiber, antioxidants (抗氧化剂) and whole grains. For
27、instance, General Mills introduced its 140-calorie Fiber One bars in 2007, but recently added three more flavors as well as 90-calorie versions. This may be new in the US, but second breakfast is 6 in countries such as Germany. In Bavaria, a traditional second breakfast 7 of white sausages, pretzels
28、 (脆饼干), sweet mustard and, of course, beer. But snackers, beware: Though spreading calories across several meals is generally accepted to be healthier, it can actually cause people to over-consume and gain weight, David Levitsky, a professor of nutrition and psychology at Cornell University, told th
29、e AP. Maybe the trend toward portable, quick-hit breakfasts will 8 more people to eat in the morning. According to the Huffington Post, a 2011 9 by the NPD Group found that 10 percent of the US population, or 31 million Americans, 10 the most important meal of the day. A. compared F. estimates K. pa
30、rticularly B. connected G. healthier L. respectively C. conscious H. inspire M. skip D. consists I. made N. supervision E. easier J. necessary O. survey（分数：35.50）十一、Section B(总题数：1，分数：71.00)Why Can“t American Students Compete?Twice as many students in Singapore are proficient in math as in the Unite
31、d States.A. “We know what it takes to compete for the jobs and industries of our time,“ President Obama said in his State of the Union address this year. “We need to out-innovate, out-educate, and out-build the rest of the world.“ Yet despite the economic crisis facing the country, the US educationa
32、l system remains frozen in place, unable to adapt to contemporary global realities. B. As all schoolchildren know, water freezes to solid, barren, cracked ice at 32 degrees Fahrenheit (华氏温度). So maybe it is more than a mere coincidence that 32 percent of US public and private-school students in the
33、class of 2011 are deemed proficient in mathematics, placing the United States 32nd among the 65 nations that participated in the latest international tests administered by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD The United States ranks between Portugal and Italy and far behin
34、d South Korea, Finland, Canada, and the Netherlands. C. We became aware of the seriousness of the problem after we equated, with the help of colleagues, the test scores of the class of 2011 on the latest international test when this class was in 10th grade, with its prior eighth-grade scores on the
35、National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP), an official US test that both assesses performance of US students and sets the standard for “proficiency“. D. Linking these tests also allowed us to compare the performance of students in each state with that of students in other countries. The res
36、ults are scary. Even in Massachusetts, with its famous collection of public and private schools, students reach only the level attained by students in the entire nations of Canada, Japan, and Switzerland. Massachusetts, the only US state with a majority of students (51 percent) above the proficiency
37、 mark, trails well behind students in South Korea and Finland. E. The percentage proficient in the state of New York (30 percent) is equivalent to that achieved by students in debt-ridden Portugal and Spain. California, the home of highly skilled Silicon Valley, has a math proficiency rate of 24 per
38、cent, the same as bankrupt Greece and just a notch (等级) above struggling Russia. F. President Obama, to his credit, has highlighted the problem repeatedly. But too many state education officials have done their best to obfuscate (故意混淆) the low performance of their students. Under the educational acc
39、ountability rules set down by the federal law No Child Left Behind, each state may set its own proficiency standard, and most have set their standards well below the world-class level. As a result, most state proficiency reports grossly increase the percentage of students who are proficient, if we a
40、ccount for the fact that our students need to compete not just with others from the same state but also with those across the globe. G. When not obfuscating the problem, apologists explain away the results with misleading arguments. Some point to the country“s large immigrant and disadvantaged popul
41、ations, which, to be sure, do pose difficult educational challenges. Proficiency rates among African-Americans and Hispanics are very low (11 and 15 percent, respectively). But if one compares only the white students in the US with all students in other countries, the US still falls short: only 42 p
42、ercent are proficient, which would place them at 17th in the world compared with all of the students in other nations. The only positive sign is the majority of Asian students in the United States (52 percent) who score at or above the proficiency level. H. When our results were first released, one
43、school-board member in Loudoun County, a wealthy suburb of Washington D. C., explained away the results: “In many countries, poor-performing children are filtered out of high school, whereas in the US, we test all our students, both great and not so great. So the comparison is not on a level playing
44、 field.“ That might have been true some decades ago when only a few countries followed the United States“ emphasis on universal education and thus left many students out of school and unavailable for testing. But today the US actually graduates fewer students from high school than the average develo
45、ped country, completely eliminating any claim that the US is testing a broader range of the youth population. I. Some also take false comfort in the belief that it takes only a limited number of high-flying students to fill the jobs at Google, Facebook, IBM, and all the other businesses and professi
46、ons that need highly skilled talent. The United States is still great at producing the advanced students needed to power economic growth. J. Still others say the low math scores are offset by a better record in reading. Admittedly the proficiency rate in only 10 countries is significantly higher tha
47、n in the US. If not the world leader, the United States“ record is at least better than average. Nonetheless, the set of skills most needed for sustained growth in economic productivityand the skills in shortest supply todayare those rooted in math competencies. Our future scientists and engineersth
48、e engine of US innovationcome from those with high math skills. While Silicon Valley could possibly be fueled by importing skilled workers from abroad, we should not continue to count on this in today“s globalized world. Even if we could, it is hardly fair to our own young people to count them out o
49、f the country“s best jobs. K. According to our best calculations, the US could enjoy a remarkable increase in its annual per capita GDP growth by enhancing the math proficiency of its students. Increasing the percentage of proficient students to the levels attained in Canada and South Korea would increase the annual US growth rate by 0.9 percentage points and 1.3 percentage points, respectively. L. When translated into dollar terms according to the historical patterns, we see
