1、大学英语六级-72 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.私立学校的数量在增加；2. 私立学校的优势；3. 私立学校的问题Private Schools（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)(1).AHes glad he called the doctor.BHe wants to change the appointment.CHe cant come until 4:15.DHe misremem
2、bered the date of the appointment.（分数：7.10）A.B.C.D.(2).ANo one believes he won the scholarship.BHes surprised that he got the scholarship.CIt isnt true that he won the scholarship.DHes glad to award the woman the scholarship.（分数：7.10）A.B.C.D.(3).ADuring the economics class.BBefore the economics clas
3、s.CIn a few minutes.DThe next day.（分数：7.10）A.B.C.D.(4).ABecause he is not equal to the job.BBecause he is not well paid for his work.CBecause he doesnt think the job is challenging enough.DBecause he cannot keep his mind on his work.（分数：7.10）A.B.C.D.(5).AShe hasnt started working on the assignment.B
4、She worked on the assignment all night.CShe only studies at night.DShe doesnt plan to do the assignment.（分数：7.10）A.B.C.D.(1).AHe might go to the movies when he finishes studying.BHe doesnt know if he can concentrate on a movie.CHe needs to stop studying for a while.DHe cant think about anything but
5、studying.（分数：7.10）A.B.C.D.(2).AMr. Robinsons reason for leaving.BMr. Robinsons new appointment.CA vacant position.DHow to apply for a job.（分数：7.10）A.B.C.D.(3).ATheyll have to wait to get on the boat.BTheres plenty of room in the car.CThey were pleased to reach the head of the line.DItll take 40 minu
6、tes to get to the ferry.（分数：7.10）A.B.C.D.(1).AThey lived in caves.BThey traveled in groups.CThey had an advanced language.DThey ate mostly fruit.（分数：7.10）A.B.C.D.(2).AThey lived in large groups.BThey used sand as insulation.CThey kept fires burning constantly.DThey faced their homes toward the south
7、.（分数：7.10）A.B.C.D.(3).AGo to see his teacher with him.BLend him her magazine when shes done with it.CCome over to his house after class.DHelp him study for a test.（分数：7.10）A.B.C.D.(1).AAfter midnight.BAfter she goes swimming.CWhen shes bored.DWhen there is a good program on.（分数：7.10）A.B.C.D.(2).ABec
8、ause he lost his meal tickets.BBecause the cafeteria food was awful.CBecause he missed his favorite TV program.DBecause he had little sleep.（分数：7.10）A.B.C.D.(3).ABecause he wasted his time.BBecause he didnt understand the womans explanation.CBecause he watched only one program.DBecause he was so bor
9、ed.（分数：7.10）A.B.C.D.(4).APart of the brain requires more nutrients.BPart of the brain is not used at all.CIt takes longer to process visual information.DIt processes complex information less actively.（分数：7.10）A.B.C.D.四、Section B(总题数：0，分数：0.00)五、Passage One(总题数：1，分数：21.30)(1).ATo prepare students for
10、 the next reading assignment.BTo provide background information for a class discussion.CTo review material from a previous lesson.DTo prepare for a quiz on chapter six.（分数：7.10）A.B.C.D.(2).AInsurance companies.BSailors.CManufacturers.DMerchants.（分数：7.10）A.B.C.D.(3).AOnly four types of policies still
11、 exist today.BThey are cheaper than the ones in the Middle Ages.CThey include features similar to earlier policies.DThe interest rates are based on early methods of calculation.（分数：7.10）A.B.C.D.六、Passage Two(总题数：1，分数：21.30)(1).ATo emphasize the hazards of wooden buildings.BTo explain why certain bui
12、lding techniques were firstly applied in Chicago.CTo warn against building skyscrapers close together.DTo explain how Chicagos early skyscrapers were destroyed.（分数：7.10）A.B.C.D.(2).AIt was constructed without bricks.BIt was the tallest early skyscraper.CIt contained offices where victims of the fire
13、 could get help.DIt had an internal metal skeleton,（分数：7.10）A.B.C.D.(3).AIt was the first skyscraper with walls of glass.BIt did not have enough support for its height.CIt was not built by an architect from Chicago.DIt was the tallest skyscraper built in the 1800s.（分数：7.10）A.B.C.D.七、Passage Three(总题
14、数：1，分数：28.40)(1).ATo describe Twyla Tharps career.BTo introduce a well-known dancer.CTo provide background for a video presentation.DTo encourage the audience to study dance.（分数：7.10）A.B.C.D.(2).ABecause the dancers in the video had more experience with Tharps dancing design.BBecause twyla Tharp was
15、 the lead dancer in the video.CBecause the filming techniques made the dance easier to understand.DBecause the new musical score was more appropriate for the topic.（分数：7.10）A.B.C.D.(3).AJazz.BFolk.CClassical.DRock.（分数：7.10）A.B.C.D.(4).AWhat the pineapple symbolizes.BTwyla Tharps career in dance.CHow
16、 the video was filmed.DThe quality of the music in the video.（分数：7.10）A.B.C.D.八、Section C(总题数：1，分数：71.00)According to a new study, the more money a married woman earns, the less housework she will do regardless of how much her (26) earns.A researcher at the University of Massachusetts found that big
17、 (27) equal less cooking and cleaning in a study of 918 women in double-income families.Married women who made 40,000 or more a year spent nearly one hour less on (28) per day than women who earned 10,000 or less, according to the findings (29) data from the National Survey of Families and Household
18、s.“Up to this point, people have thought that the important thing was how much money a woman makes (30) her husband. But the only thing that matters is how much money she earns,“ Kevin Smith, the studys author, said in an (31) .The study, which is published in the Journal of Marriage and Family, sho
19、wed that for every 7,500 in (32) a married woman earned, she performed one hour less of housework each week.Kevin Smith confirmed the (33) between money and domestic work in a separate study using data on nearly 2,000 couples in the United States and Europe.The average earnings of American women inc
20、reased by 6,200 between 1965 and 1995, according to the U.S. Census Bureau. During that time, the amount of time married women spent on weekly (34) fell by 14.6 hours.Since the husbands earnings had no effect on the amount of housework a woman does, the findings suggest women are using their own mon
21、ey to reduce their (35) work load such as ordering take-out food instead of cooking and hiring cleaners instead of doing it themselves.（分数：71.00）填空项 1:_填空项 1:_填空项 1:_填空项 1:_填空项 1:_填空项 1:_填空项 1:_填空项 1:_填空项 1:_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)Poverty exists because
22、American society is an unequal one, and there are overwhelming political pressures to keep it that way. Any (36) to redistribute wealth and income in the United States will (37) be opposed by powerful middle-and upper-class interests. People can be relatively rich only if others are relatively poor,
23、 and since power is (38) in the hands of the rich, public policies will continue to reflect their interests rather than those of the poor.As Herbert Gans (1973) has pointed out, poverty is actually (39) from the point of view of the nonpoor. Poverty (40) that “dirty“ work gets done. If there are no
24、poor people to scrub floors and empty bedpans(便盆), these jobs would have to be (41) with high incomes before anyone would touch them. Poverty creates jobs for many of the nonpoor, such as police officers, welfare workers, pawnbrokers (典当商), and government bureaucrats. Poverty makes life easier for t
25、he rich by providing them with cooks, gardeners, and other workers to perform basic chores while their employers enjoy more pleasurable activities. Poverty provides a market for (42) goods and services, such as two-day-old bread, run-down automobiles, or the advice of (43) physicians and lawyers. Th
26、ere is no (44) , conscious “conspiracy (阴谋)“ of the wealthy to keep the poor in poverty. It is just that poverty is an inevitable (45) of the American economic system, which the poor are politically powerless to influence or change.Adeliberate IcriticismBensures JrewardedCinvaluable KoutcomeDinevita
27、bly L) dubiouslyEendowed MfunctionalFinferior NconcentratedGjustifies OincompetentHattempt（分数：35.50）填空项 1:_填空项 1:_填空项 1:_填空项 1:_填空项 1:_填空项 1:_填空项 1:_填空项 1:_填空项 1:_填空项 1:_十一、Section B(总题数：1，分数：71.00)Eating Our YoungAAt Feltonville School of Arts and Sciences, a middle school in a poor neighborhood of
28、 Philadelphia, the school year began chaotically as budget cuts took effect. Lines of kids snaked out the door while a single school secretary tried to ensure the 600 or so students attending were registered. Classrooms were packed to their limit of 33; some even spilled over.BThis year, with the cu
29、ts meaning no school nurse or counselor, teachers fill the gaps, disrupting lessons to help students in distress. And the problems are not small: A boy was stabbed in the head with a pencil by a fellow student; a girl reported sexual assault by an uncle; another refused to speak after the brutal mur
30、der of a parent. And that was just the start of the school year.C“I had a kid in class today who threatened to slash her wrists with a broken ruler,“ said Amy Roat, an English as a Second Language teacher at Feltonville, “Most of us cant even prepare lessons because were using all our time counselin
31、g kids.“ To make matters worse, budget cuts are hurting essential academic programs. Feltonville eliminated two math teachers and two science teachers this year. Now many students who used to get 90 minutes of math instruction a day, only get half that.DAcross the United States, whether its schools,
32、 health care or entry-level jobs, the young are feeling the impact of government cutbacks. With debt and public spending at the top of the Republican agenda, with Grand Old Party members promising not to raise revenue through taxes in any circumstances, there has never been a worse time to need help
33、 from the government.EThis year, the young and vulnerable especially have been hit hard through federal spending cuts to programs like Head Start, nutrition assistance, and child welfare. Financial crises in cities like Philadelphia and Detroit have meant another wave of school budget cutbacks. And
34、the weak job market is hurting the youngest workers most, with youth unemployment more than double the national jobless rate.FThis is not just an American problem. In Europe, too, austerity budgets (紧缩预算) are pinching even basic education and health needs. A decrease in the amount of money for funda
35、mental social programs that have been in operation since World War II is widespread across the developed world. As governments try to cover budget shortfalls and calm debt fears, the young are losing out. “Were underinvesting in our children,“ said Julia Isaacs, a senior fellow at the Urban Institut
36、e and a child policy expert. “Looking at future budget trends and the fact that Congress doesnt want to raise taxes, I can see childrens programs continuing to be squeezed.“GThat has implications for long-term economic growth. Cutting back on the young is like eating the seed corn: satisfying a mome
37、ntary need but leaving no way to grow a prosperous future. The debate on Capitol Hill, fired by Americans who have become skeptical of the value of federal spending, is all big-picture economics. It is a principled debate about where government starts and ends.HBut is America overspending on its you
38、ng? Public spending in the U.S. on children came to 12,164 per child in 2008, in current dollars, according to Kids Share, an annual report published by the Urban Institute. Of that total, about a third came from the federal government and two thirds from state and local governmentsICompare that to
39、what we spend on the elderly, which primarily comes from the federal government. According to the Urban Institute, public outlays on the elderly, in current dollars, was 27,117 per person in 2008, more than double the spending on children. The trend is the same across the developed world. Julia Lync
40、h, a political science professor at the University of Pennsylvania, studied 20 countries in the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development between 1985 and 2000 and found each spent more public funds on the elderly than on the young.JBut there were large differences among them. She found
41、 the most youth-oriented welfare states were the Netherlands, Canada, Australia, and in Scandinavia, while the most elderly-oriented were Japan, Italy, Greece, the U.S., Spain, and Austria. Somewhere in the middle were Germany, France, Belgium, Luxembourg, and Portugal. For all the talk about needin
42、g to cut spending to save our children and grandchildren from paying off our debt, in practice we are already ignoring our children so we may remain comfortable deep into old age.KSince the 1960s, federal spending on kids in the U.S. had been rising. That trend ended in 2011, when it dropped by 2 bi
43、llion to 377 billion. A year later the figure plunged even more-by 28 billion, or a 7 percent decline. And spending on kids is projected to shrink further over the next decade. The Urban Institute has forecast that federal spending on kids will decrease from 10 percent of the federal budget today to
44、 8 percent by 2023.LThat decline will occur even as federal spending is expected to increase by 1 trillion over the same period. In other words, kids are not expected to benefit much, if at all, from a big jump in federal spending forecast over the next decade. “Theres concern about the growing gap
45、between the rich and the poor,“ said Laurence Kotlikoff, a professor of economics at Boston University and co-author of The Coming Generational Storm, “But weve got another big problem: the growing gap in spending on the young versus the old.“MFederal spending has increased dramatically for the elde
46、rly-but not for the young. According to the Urban Institute, while the childrens share of the domestic federal budget has declined 23 percent during,the past 50 years, non-children spending on Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid has more than doubled. Today, an elderly person gets about seven fe
47、deral dollars for every one dollar given to a child. And while the elderly population is roughly half the size of all children in the U.S., taxpayers spend three times as much for them as they do on the young.NSo, what is the federal government spending on? The budget can be roughly divided in the following way: 41 percent goes to the elderly and disabled portions of Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid; 20 percent to defense; 10 percent to children; 6 percent to interest payments on the debt; and 23 percent to all other government functions. So if spending on kids does fall to 8
